Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1921 — Page 9

PETTY GRAFT FOLLOWS WAKE OF CRIME WAVE City Rube Is Found Just as Gullible as His Rural Relative. bHREWD SCHEMES USED NEW YORK CITY—The idea, usually so popular with city people, that all rubes live in the country, seems to lack force in New York this season. Too many people are being cleverly separated from their small change. For In the wake of the crime wave has come an epidemic jf petty graft, to which the ahrewd sophisticated New Yorker has succumbed ,s easily as he did to hist year's flu, [showing himself to be quite as gullible • s his rural relatives. Hardened shop-keepers of long city training have been buying fake furs and paste jewels with a reckless good nature that would astonish even a suburb, tnd thousands of canny Broadway resients have been contributing to fake causes with a sentimental abandon rarely t xhibited by the citizens ot small towns. I n spite of all the talk about money being tight, beggars and fraud speeial'ite are having a nicer time in New York 'his year than they have ever had before. Here is the sort of thing which is tonstantly happening to enliven the atmosphere along Broadway and Fifth •venue. The other night, a friend of the reporter. a shrewd young man in tVall street, was on his way home when be was accosted by a well dressed, wellI uilt strauger, who stretched forth a gloved hand in delighted recognition. “I don’t suppose you remember me,” ■aid the unknown one, with an admirable mixture of cordiality and reserve, ’’but I have seen you so often on the street. I’m employed In the next office building, you know. Here in New York we don't •peak to people so readily as we do in my horns town, but I’ve often wanted . Well, I'm awfully lucky to run Into you now. for I'm In need of help. Just had • n accident and bud to haul my car Into • garage about three blocks from here, and now I find I'm Just $5 short on i the repair bill. Worst of It is I promised i to meet my wife at the station this' afternoon. She’ll be loaded down with Christmas Junk and won't have a cent ] left. As soon as I caught sight of yon. though, it occurred to me that you might j be able to help me out."

MW METHOD OF FRAUD I'LENT GAIN. At this point the stranger drew forth his wallet and disclosed a fat roll of small bills. “I’ve got $53 here.” he smiled drolly, “but the repair bill Is $58.” Then with engaging frankness: ‘‘X am going to ask ..you if you can let me have the extra five until tomorrow morning. I can run right over to your office from mine In a few minutes and band it back to yon. “That's all right,” interrupted our friend uneasily, but agreeably, taking a live spot from his much smaller roll of bill*. “Glad to let you have it. I may need some help myself some time.” And that was the end of the Incident —except that the cordial stranger has never been seen since, and Inquiry In the next office bntlding revealed no information concerning him. But a few days later, the morning papers warned their readers about this particular form of “touch.” It Is extraordinary to what lengths the small fraud artist will gj to obtain a live spot, as the young assistant of a well-known woman philanthropist here can tell you. This young woman was quietly cataloging in her office, the other day when a nice-looking young man, with soft, brown eyes and neatlyeombed pompadour. late clothes, dashed ex ftedly In the door and asked to see Mrs. J„ the young woman's employer. “Where la she?” he demanded, his face Unshed apparently from the exertion of running. “I must see her at once. I ran all the way up here from the hotel down the block. Gone to lunch? Oh, I say, that's tough. Is there any way I can reach her Immediately—you see, I'm In a rather embarrassing predicament.” “I’m afraid I don’t know where she is,' said the assistant, “but she ought to be back In about an hour.” “What am I to do?” exclaimed the young man dramatically. “Perhaps you can advise me. You see. I’ve asked a girl to lunch, and when we were seated at the table down there at the hotel. I suddenly discovered I didn’t have a scrap of money on me. All in my other clothes, you know," he explained in evident embarrassment. “So, knowing Mrs. J. very well, I thought I could just run up here and get a loan from her, but I suppose It’s no use. I can't leave the young lady waiting for an hour.” IRA CD ARTISTS GO EXTREME LENGTH. The young assistant was sympathetic. She thought the young man looked very boyish and helpless, and she felt sorry for the damsel, who was about to be deprived of her luncheon with him. So she took the sls be said he needed from ter own purse and insisted upon his accepting it. lg perfect confidence that he would return it, as he said he would, the r.ext afternoon. But when Mrs. J. returned, the young assistant was dismayed to learn that that good lady had never heard of Gavin Courtney, the name the young man gave nor did she know any young man who arswered his description. A few days later, however, when she described him to the police, they seemed to be on quite familiar terms with him. One of the most expensive cases of fraud which recently occurred on Fifth avenue in the shopping district was one in which that most sophisticated of hn mans, a professional chauffeur, was hoodwinked. The man's employer, a very wealth) woman, had Just removed her $20,000 sable coat from storage in a farrier's shop and npon returning to the car, left It in his care while she continued bei shopping. As the chauffeur waited, a stranger sauntered up and engaged him in conversation about the town, the weather and about various makes of cars. Then he sauntered on and in a few sec ends another stranger on the block, staggering in an almost forgotten manner. The chauffeur found this second Iran so interesting that he failed to see the first stranger circle the car and calmly remove the sable coat. The flr.t he knew of the incident was when a pollceman came and informed biin that a bus conductor from his position on top oi an avenue bus had seen it go. While silght-of-haud work of this description is constantly increasing, it must not be supposed that New York has been free of petty fraud until this year. As a matter of fact. It has alw’ays suffered more than any other city In the United States from this evil, in a way. New Yorkers have become accustomed to it. a* they have to other metropolitan Inconveniences. There are the slot machines on the elevated and subway stations, for example, a slot machine is an Innocent apparatus in Itself, and Is a great boon to a gum-chewing public, but the slot machines of these stations are graveyards of ruined hopes. They arc supposed to contain chewing gum. and occasionally they do, but, ah, how often they don’t. Yet never are they empty oi nickels and pennies thrust in by trustful persons who sigh and swear and miss their trains in an effort to get something out. But perhaps the most suspicious estab-

Heads Alumnae m > £ V ''' jpr MISS HAZEL WANN. Among the various sororities carrying on philanthropic work is Pi Beta Phi, which organization supports a settlement school In Gallatin, Tenn. The local alumnae club which is headed by Miss Hazel Wann, today entertained with a benefit card party in the Woman’s Department Club parlors for the benefit of the local fund for the school. Over one hundred and fifty guests were present. The committee in charge of arrangements Included Mrs. T. A. Stroup, chairman; Mrs. XV alter Hilton, Miss Edith Harshman and Mrs. Clifton Ferguson.

llshments in New York are the hat-check-ing parlors, where surprising frauds of one kind and another are always coming to light. Xlost astonishing of these was one discovery recently made when a couple of hut check boys got into a fight. When the guests rushed into the checkroom and succeeded in separating the irate principals they found that the cause of the hostilities was a spool of white thread. By degrees the story came out. It seems that when a stingy dancer or diner refuses to tip for an unnecessary bru*nIng off he is permitted to get Just as tar as the door. Then a boy politely requests him to stop. Rushing up to the guest’s back the boy begins to brush off a cluster of white raveling*, conveying at the same time his keen distress that such a well-dressed gentleman should be so careless. This is where the white spool of thread comes in, and also its Immediate result—a dime. Always a dime, and sometimes, If the guest Is min-h embarrassed, a quarter. Thus, don't be too impressed when you hear about the sagacious invulnerability of the New Yorker. 1,1 ve here for a few months yourself and you will find him out.

DECLARES 8,000 VETS HAVE NO HOPE IN FIRE (Continued l-’rom Fage One.) •bled soldiers and the House Committee on Public Buildings has reported a measure providing for an appropriation of $15,000,000 for the same purpose. Apparently there is a good chance for this bill becoming ft law. “The public health service needs an appropriation of $11,000,000 for constructing hospitals and for providing other ae-comus~-t:ions for the care of soldier patients,” Laporte declared. Music Notes A program of special Interest will be given Monday evening at the Athenaeum. This will be the first appearance of the recently organized women's chorus. The chorus will sing “The Swan” (Saint Saens). Accompanying this number; will be Mrs. Christine Roush, pianist; Miss Ruth McClure, violinist, and Mrs. Franc Wilhite Webber, harpist. Arthur Kraft, tenor, will be the guest soloist. The men’s chorus will give a group of numbers. • • • The College of Music and Fine Arts will give a students’ recital on Friday evening. Those who will appear oc the program are Barbara B’.att, Elsie Smith. John Morgan White, Jr., Helen Schulmyer, Pauline Hacker, Catherine Straffa, Katherine Calwell, Ailen* Beaumont, Bernice Xfyers, Florence Efroymson, Vivlsn Lucas, Dolores Malnard, Mary Esther Lawler, Louise Martin, Nellie Stellten, Marjorie Hufferd, ETaline Hufferd. Maurice Pyle and Maurine Jaqulth. • • • John L. Geiger, instructor in music at Indiana University, will offer an extension course in nineteenth century opera in Indianapolis, beginning Friday, Feb 11. Mr. Geleer will give au analytical and appreciative study of the types of the nineteenth century opera ; of the lives of the composers, and of the plot, style and motive of the operas. The work will be conducted by means of lectures and rendition on the phonograph of the best selections from each of the following operas: Cadman, Shanewis; XX'aguer. TannhaOser; Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel; Verdi, Aida; Puccini, Madame Butterfly; Leoncavallo, Pagllacci; Bizet, Carmen; Gounod and Faust. The class will meet at Shortrldge High School at 4 o’clock on Fridays. • • Miss Hester Bailey, instructor of Inter pretlve dancing at the College of Music and Fine Arts will present her pupils in recital tonight in the auditorium of the Masonic Temple. Solo dances, ba'let and classical dance pantomime will compose the program. A ten-piece orchestra, under the directlou of Miss Olive I*iler will play the musical settings and interludes. Detective Kidnaps Man Wanted for Fran ST. PAUL, Feb. s.—Defying an order of the Minnesota Supreme Court, a Chicago detective sergeaut late today was speeding over country roads In a big limousine with a handcuffed prisoner wanted in Chicago on a charge of obtaining a SIO,OOO loan on worthless securities. The prisoner is Frank Netnic. former president of the United Theaters Company of America. The detective is Sergeant Bullard. School House Near Shelbyville Burns i Special to The Times. SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Feb. s—The Union Township sehoolhouse, seven miles southeast of this city, wss completely destroyed by tire yesterday, causing a loss approximately $3,000 The fire 1supposed to have started fro man overheated stove. The school buildings was of the oneroom type. Many of the books left In the room by the pupils were destroyed.

POLICE BUREAU FOR NATION IS TIMELY MOVE Crime Wave Has One Good Result in Awakening Interest in Proposal. TO IDENTIFY CROOKS By FREDERIC J. HAS KIN. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The proposed national police bureau at Washington supjjorted by the Federal Government for the identification of criminals, is the one constructive suggestion which has come forth as a result of the crime wave which is sweeping the country. The present reign of banditry has had at hast one good effect in that it has awakened the American people to some extent to the fact that their police sye terns are utterly inadequate. That major crimes such as murder and robbery arc many times as prevalent in the United State as in any of the principal European countries; that life and property are today less safe in some of our principal cities than they were in the far West in pioneer days, are unsavory facts which are just beginning to come home to us. There are a number of reasons for this. One of them is undoubtedly the fact thut our statute books are cumbered with unenforceable laws which bring all law Into contempt and which tend to make of the policeman a sort of moral censor instead of a criminal catcher. Another reason Is that we have a heterogeneous and shifting population, which presents one of the most difficult police problems In the world. But one of the most Important reasons U that we have always put up with Inefficient police forces. They are largely dominated by politics and are usually run by men who have no training as police executives, but ure chosen for reasons of political expediency. Furthermore, these men usually hold office only for brief periods, so that they have no opportunity to learn by experience the difficult profession which they approach without training. Finally, there is little cooperation between the various police departments, and it Is this lack of cooperation, of any national system for combatting crime, which the proposed Federal Bureau would seek to remedy. TRAVELING YEGG NOW TYFICAJ*.

The traveling criminal has become the typical one in this country. The really enterprising burglar operates not In one city, but in three or four. He travels freely by rail and dashes across State lines In high powered motor cars. He has associates and hangouts in all of the points on his circuit. The criminals have taken full advantage of modem rapld-truuslt facilities and of the possibilities of cooperation it opens up, but the police have done nothing adequate to checkmate this development. There la no other Important country, whether its police system consists of a national organization or of a series of local ones, that has not at least established a national bureau of Identification. Even Canada leads us in this respect. In this country the need for such cooperation ha* long been felt and some efforts have been made to meet the .need. ! n California there Is a State bureau ot Identification and a nnmber of the Western coast cities have a voluntary rooperrtlve organization by they ex change identification data. Finally, a national bureau of criminal Identification was recently established in Washington by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, un-d it la hard at work today gathering Identification data. it Is sound In principle and useful, but It Is merely a private enterprise which can not command adequate support. It provides the nucleus for s national police department, such as has been recently suggested in authoritative quarters. It has been suggested that such a nation::! organization might be anew Government department with a Cnbinct member at It* head or else It might b merely a bureau of the Department of Justice. A man of large caliber, with a scientific knowledge and practical experience of police methods, such as Arthur Woods or Raymond B. Fosdlck. would be placed at the head of It. NOT TO BE FEDERAL POLICE FORCE. This department would by no means constitute a Federal police force. It Is recognized that, especially In this country, the police problem is a local problem. The national organization would be primarily an Identification bureau—a clearing house by which the photographs, finger-prints and Bertillon measurements possessed by each police department would be available to all. It would also probably catalog descriptions of stolen property and distinguishing characteristics of various major crimes, so that a criminal would be recognized by his work whenever he committed a crime. It is evident that such a bureau could do an Immense amount of good without in the least interfering with the autonomy of local police forces. For example, today many of our smaller police forces have two systems of identifying criminals—the finger-print and the Bertillon measurement. Furthermore, In many of the smaller cities, neither of the systems is correctly used—there is no one in the force who understands them. The national police bureau could see to it that one standard system was used everywhere and that in every police force there was a man who understood the making and keeping of these records. This one comparatively inexpensive move would do much to mnke life harder for our leading criminals. The dangerous professional criminal who finds It too hot for him in his favorite large city, such ns New York or Chicago, is now very ant to rusticate for a while in some smaller town in the knowledge that he Is probably quite safe there. If the police do take him up on some minor charge the chances are that they will never find out who he Is. He mat get into Jail on a vagrancy charge and stay there comfortably, with little chance that he will he sent back to New York to face the major charges against him. When New York had a brief reign of police efficiency a few years ago the small towns In -New Jersey were deluged with criminals who gave the feeble loca, police forces a hard life. The criminals were merely rusticating for a while, uutil conditions should become more favorable to their profession In the metropolis. They did not have long to wait. All of this easy system of escape by travel would become Impossible if we had an efficient national bureau of identification. And this bureau be expanded in a good many ways. It might, for example, make a study of Euroepan police systems and help American cities to install new and nseful methods. It might also easily esatdish a training school for police executives. In a word it might bring our ragged and various collection of police forces up to some uniform standard of efficiency. Joy-Fez Will Extend Over Monday NigKt Newsboys and their friends to the number of about *,OOO were guests at the Coney Island Joy Fez last night and hud tfie time of their lives. The little fellows went wild with delight. The Newsboys’ Band gave a concert and made the biggest hit of the season. Tonight Is Mardi Gras night and the management is preparing to handle enormous crovJs. The entire show is up to the minute. The Joy Fez has been extended to Include Monlny night. Proceeds are to be used in the erection of a summer cottage at Fairview Park for the orphans and widows of World War Veterans.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1921.

Local Dancers to Be Seen Sunday at Englishes Theater | - ■ M1.1.E. THRO HI-IVES, One of the features of a program of fourteen ballets and divertlseuienta to be given by Mile. Hewes and hex company of 100 at English’s Sunday night, will lie the baby ballet, composed of nineteen children. Raymond S. Drexler will conduct a Philharmonic orchestra of twenty-five pieces. MUa Ilewes will be surrounded with many local dancers who have been under her training.

BRITAIN KEEPS BIG SHIP IDEA Doubts Air or Undersea Craft Can Displace ‘Backbone' of Navy. LONDON, Feb. s.—lt can he stated authoritatively today that the British admiralty regards the capital ship as tne backbone of the navy. In an interview an official of the admiralty office declared the "British have long believed the big ship can not be dlaplaced now by air or undersea craft." The admiralty. In announcing its budget, is exp-'eted to ask appropriations for capital ships, although the building program Is a carefully guarded secret. ITALY ANNOUNCES A AVAL BUILDING ROME, Feb. s.—ltaly’s naval program, for which contracts wero placed during the war, was announced today by the ministry of the Navy. The program calls for three 2.2<X-ton scouts of the Leone class, five 900 to destroyer*. eight 900-ton destroyers six 250-ton gunboats, one river gunboat and several auxiliaries. Keels to be laid this year will include eight 800 ton mine layers, one 7,000 ton naphtha tank steamer, fifty-four submarines averaging (i'K) tons, two 000 ton scouts and four 900 ton destroyers. JUDGE LINDSEY TO GET NO FAVOR District Attorney Says His Case Same as Any Other. DENVER, Feb. 8.--District Attorney Phillip S Van Ctse said today it would be several weeks before the case of Judge Ben B Lindsey, under sentence for contempt of court, comes to his office for attention, "but when It does this office will act us in any other case.” "Because Judge Lindsey is mixed up In It, doesn't mean It will receive either more or less attention when the time for final notion comes," Van Oise said. Judge Lindsey was adjudged lu contempt of court for refusing to betray the confidence of a 12-year-old boy. Van Oise, commenting on a statement by Lindsey, declared that if the assertion made by Lindsey that on.y he aud the boy knew who kilted the lad’s futher, then the Judge ought to go to Jail. Referring to this particular declaration Van Oise declared Linds')- defeated ths whole purpose of keeping the boy’s confidence. The boy’s mother was tried on the charge of murdering the father, but was acquitted. The boy told Judge Lindsey who did the shooting but he has refused to tell what the boy said.

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HOUSE BILL TO OUST SERVICE BODY IS KILLED (Continued From Cage One.) has championed the commission ever since It first came under fire. The vote on the motion to strike out the enacting clause follows: AYES. (Republicans.) Abrams Humphries Ahlgren ITumrichouser Anderson. Jinnett barker of Boone Kingsbury Benedict Lafuze Iteyler Leer duller McClure Calef Mann Coaustlck Mllten burger (loppock Myers Da Is of Hendricks, Nelson Davis of Jay Noll Day Osborn Dean Overmeyer Fifield Phillips Filbert Rulo l’lesher Sohurmeler Gaesser Sherwood Glbbens Shultz Oivan Sieg Hare Sims Haworth Willis of L)e Kalb Iloffntan Wlnesburg llolnian Youae (Democrats.) Cooper Cronin NOES. (Republicans.) Redsrood Lydy Boner Mnlott Cox Miller Delaplane Morgan De. Long Newman Freeman Rich Grayson Richardson Hansell Ross Harlan Rowbottom Harrison Shugart Hughes Smith James Tilden Johnson of Monroe Tucker Lowe Willis of Bteuben (Democrats.) Barker of Posey Gottschalk Benz Hall Curry tiougham. Erni Not Voting—Clapp, Dailey, Dufendach, (Sill, Hannberg, Harris, Jameson, John son of Morgan, Johnston, Kamrnan. Karas, Knapp, Matthews, Southard. Watters. When the hill came out of committee with a majority report favoring indefinite postponement the House accepted the minority report, favoring passage by a vote of 52 to 4(5. “RAILROADING" TACTICS CHARGED. C! argon of "railroading” and unfair tactics wete made against both the Speaker of the House and the opponent* of the bill br the authors. It was changed, and the Speaker admitted, that the bill had not been announced, accord lug to a House rule, as being ready for second reading on Friday. It was also charged that Information that the bill would be handed down had leaked out over the State to various public utilities:, whereas the authors and friends of the bill were entirely unaware that it was to be considered at that time. Representative Claude A. Smith led in the attempt to have the bill held over when he declared It had not been on hu desk for the required twenty-four hours The clerk of the House said the hills sere distributed at 11 o'clock Thursday and that they therefore, were ready fop action. Representative R. tJ. Barker then declared that Inasmuch as the Speaker had fulled to announce the bill a one of the number tflnt would be considered for second reading Friday tnat It appeared as If there was an attempt both on the part of the chair and the opponents of the measure to railroad the measure. Representative Russel K Bed good. Tippecanoe County, declared the Speaker was acting wholly unfair by insisting on having the bill acted on when he had violated a rule of the House by not an pouncing It before the House adjourned Thursday evening. Ail of the please of the authors of the bill were disregarded by the Speaker. Every member of the House was listening intently to the debate on the questlou of whether the bill should be considered. Representative Henry L. Ilutiiricbouser of Marshall County moved the previous question, that of striking out the enacting clause of the MU. This motion was opposed by the opponent* of the bill, but was carried by a vote of 41 to 32. Friends of the bill and opponents of the measure were then rounded up from the halls for the aye and no vote, demanded by Representative Bedgood, on the Davis motion. SPECIAL MEETING CALLED. The Friends of Irish Freedom will hold a special meeting at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at Hibernia Hall, West Washington street.

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GROWTH SHOWN IN HOSPITALS FOR POOR IN U. S. Dispensaries Increase From 150 in 1904 to 3,000 in 1920. DOCTORS GIVE SERVICES NEW YORK CITY- What does the dispensary do for the health of the city, and what more could It do? These are the questions which the public health committee of the New York Academy of Medicine recently has sought to answer by an extensive investigation of New Y'ork dispensaries and the people who patronize them. t The growth of the dispensary during the last twenty years has been phenomenal In 1904 there were only 150 dispensaries In the United Strtes, whereas today there are at least 3,000. From a few dingy rooms, prosified over by a couple of doctors whose chief duty was the vaccination of people against smallpox, the dispensary has developed into a modern, well-equipped, small hospital, where the poor receive almost free of charge the same treatment for which the wealthy pay large sums. In New York there are now 153 dispensaries. In this number are included twenty-one tuberculosis, eight dental, ten eye aud three rabies clinics of the department of health, and six school clinics maintained by the Children's Aid Society. Os the 105 remaining, sixty-five are out-patient departments of hospitals, thirty-four are detached dispensaries and six are connected with colleges. In addition the health department maintains twelve venereal disease clinics (all but two advisory only), three oecupational clinics and sixty baby health stations. Several private agencies also maintain an additional number of milk stations. The average number of persons treated annually In New York dispensaries has been one and a quarter million for the last five years. Over 2.000 New York physicians are giving their services to this cause, in tho majority of cases absolutely without compensation. Thus, New York is plentifully supplied with dispensaries, hut the public health committee believes that their quality could be Improved upon, rAULTS OF DISPENSARIES. “Os late the dispensaries have taken on function* along the line* of preventive medicine and public health, but this development 1* still in it* infancy.” is the committee's first criticism. “The great opportunities of the dispensaries in the field* of both curative and preventive medicine have not as yet been fully grasped by the Institutions, nor have their sorts! responsibilities been clearly realized.” In other words, the committee find* tile dispensaries quite efficient in the tr-aiinent of specific ills, such ns an abscessed ear or a broken leg, but they do not give complete physical examinations to determine the general health of a patient; they do not go In for educational work, such a* the teaching of good health and habits, and they do not hßve the time for the tort of follow-up work that would make them ono of the greatest social Influences In the community. Only a few of the dispensaries, as yet. have well organized social service departments. THO THINGS NEEDING CHANGE. Twu things that also need Immediate amelioration In clinic procedure, It says, are the reduction of waiting time before admission and the method of assignment of patients to denies. l'atients are made to wait unduly long periods of time, which Is a hardship for most of them If they are employed, or, as In the case of mothers. If they have domestic duties Tl committee believe* that this could be obviated to a lnrg* ext>nt by a system of appointments, as 1* customary in private practice. Such a system la now proving very successful at the Mayo clinic at Rochester. Then. In most dispensaries, the symptoms of the patients are recorded by a lay registrar— the clinic zecreary—who makes a rough diagnosis aud assigns the pot ent to the particular de pnrtment of the clinic which w 11 take care of him. But often, after hours of

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waiting, when he arrives at this department, the diagnosis turns out to be in; correct and he has to be transferred to an entirely different department—some- : times to an entirely different clinic, i The committee believes that this evil | could easily be corrected If each clinic j had a diagnostic division, where patients with chronic diceases or with not easily recognizable maladies could receive au I examination by a group of physicians representing the various departments of i the dispensary. Because you have kidI ney trouble. It Is not to be supposed j that you have nothing else the matter | wdth ou. A general examination may dlsi close other ills that need attention. ! MANY SEEN IN WAITING LINE. At an afternoon clinic recently visited by the reporter, over fifty people of tho bard-working type were waiting for their registrations aud first treatments. Soma !of them were obviously suffering, but j they continued to sit patiently on a row Ic t hard, wooden seata as the afternoon ! wore on and only a third of their num- ! her had reached the front office. In the front office, where one patient was admitted at a time, all was confusion. Doctors rushed in and out, hunting lost records, the telephone interrupted every other second, and the young lady who was attempting to take down the patient's history wore a dazed expression “Do you wonder that I sometimes get 1 the people mixed up?” she asked wearily, as the <;lock pointed to five minutes aftet j the clinic’s closing time, and the procession of patients still kept on. j “But think of them,” she added sympathetically, "some of them sitting there all *ftornoon waiting for their turn and now having to go home without getting any attention at all.” The committee has a remedy for this evil, also, however. It believes that this waiting period of the patients could easily be used for educational purposes. Moving picture* dealing with certain health aspects, it says, could be shown, j large posters concerning health matters j could be placed on the walls of the dispensary, where they could be read from a distance, and other methods of health education employed. Dietetic demonstra flops, it believes, would also be of great vßiue In this connection. When not in use during clinic hours, the dispensary might also be used for lectures, classes in dietetics, corrective gymnastics and the teaching of hygiene. In other words, it suggests, the dispensary .should strive to become the health educational center of the neighborhood. CLINICS VARY IN FEES ASKED. In the matter of fees, the clinics vary widely. No effort has been made to

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standardize charges. Usually, the charge is very low, although in some dispensaries the registration fee is as high as one dollar. Municipal hospitals charge no fees whatsoever in their ont-patient departments, but payments are accepted in such hospitals for the maintenanc* of patients in the wards. The committee believes that a standard charge for treatment, as well as for medicine, dressings and electricity, among all the dispensaries, wouid be expedient. Prlmurily, of course, dispensaries are for the poor. In fact, the New York law provides that no person who is able to pay a private physician can be treated in a dispensary, and the dispensary registrars are instructed carefully to question all applicants on this point. Investigation has shown that only a very small percentage of people apply for dtspens-ry aid when they can afford to consult a physician, but recently the percentage has shown a perceptible rise. Ths knowledge that the same specialists who charge $lO aud S2O per visit to their private offices, are often found strewing their pearls of wisdom about certain clinics, has led many persons to pretend excessive poverty during the p s* two years, SLIDING SCALE OF CHARGES. A few clinics in New York, including notably the Neurological Institute, are open to the public upon a sliding scale of charges, fixed in accordance with each person’s income, but the pay clinic is a comparatively recent development here. Usually it is opposed on the grounds that it interferes with the business of private practitioners, which the committee finds regrettable, inasmuch as there Is an urgent need for dispensary treatment among the middle classes. Because he Is not rich enough, the man of moderate income cannot afford private consultation* with high-priced specialists, end because he is not poor enough he is denied their aid in the clinics. For with all their faults, as the pnblle health committee secs them, the dispensaries of the better type provide the poor of our big cities with practically ths same medical aid that the rich receive from prominent specialists. If they can do so much under their present physical and financial restrictions, how much more could they do with more money aud equipment? And should they not be open to all who cannot afford the services of specialists?

FORECAST U. S. MEXICAN STAND Harding Sources Say Policy Will Demand American Rights in Republic. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Presidentelect Harding’s Mexican poiicy will demand that the Obregon government enter an agreement with the United States guaranteeing American rights In Mexico, It wa* indicated here today in sources close to the 1 resident-elect. In this respect the attitude of the incoming regime will coincide with the recently adopted policy of the present administration outlined In Secretary Colby's letter suggesting a treaty between the United States and Mexico. No one doubts in Washington but what Senator Fall of >jew Mexico will wield considerable influence in determining Harding’s views on Mexico. “While I don’t want to speak for the President-elect,” Fall said today, “personally I Indorse Secretary Colby’s letter Insisting that Mexico put her prom, lses on paper before her government la i recognized by the United States. Colby’s position Is almost Identical with the recommendations made by the Senate sub-committee which investigated Mexican affairs." CASS COUNTY FARMER DIES. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. s.—William Osborn Bliss. 08, one of the most prominent and well-to-do farmers of Cass County, is dead at his home in Boons Township where he was born near Royal Center. His death is believed to have resulted from heart disease. He had Just returned from a trip to Logansport, where lie entered the house, staggered to a chair mid died Instantly. No direct heirs survive. F ;neral will be held Monday at Royal Center,

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