Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1921 — Page 9

PROBE INTO CITY HEALTH SEEMS SURE Recent Council Flare-up Gives Residents Inkling of Unsavory Conditions. CITIZENS LOSE PATIENCE By VOLNEY B. FOWLER. Men who have followed the ups and downi of movements for the improvement of public health in Indianapolis for many years regard the present situation growing out of an awakening to serious sanitary problems in several neighborhoods as the finest opportunity for a general clean-up the city has had or probably ever will have. If the city administration as a whole will awaken to the facts as they have been uncovered by the city health department. prodded l>y citizens who stood for nauseating conditions until they finally refused to refrian from public protest longer, splendid sanitary achievements may be realized, persons interested in the problem say. Failure to grasp the opportunity to clean up once and for all so as to accomplish such results as the removal from Indianapolis of the stigma of having the second highest death rate from typhoid of any of the cities of more than 200.000 in the whole United States, would be neglect of duty of the worst sort, they add. AGITATION HAS BEEN BREWING. The present agitation has been brewing for several months. Indications are that it has not reached its peak nor will It until the results of a complete sanitary survey of the entire municipality ‘s made public. The city health department, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan. secretary of the board of pnblic health, has made such an investigation, the findings of which probably will be given out within the next month. Meanwhile, a suggestion has been made that the city have the United States public health service make an impartial study of the problem. Then, and only thou, it is argued, will full realization of the seriousness o' the city's plight be attained. So vast and technical are many phases of the situation; sanltarv authorities say. that it Is Impossible for the general pub 11c to grasp any but minor details of it unless It Is analyzed and presented in an Inteligible way. To illustrate, the cltl-si-ns of the south side have complained repeatedly for the last four years of odors emanating from Pleasant Run and Bean Creek. It was the popular opinion that trade wastes from the Citizens Gas Company and the American Creosotlng Company were responsible. When the health department started making a survey of the scream banks, however, it was discovered that the trade wastes, containing considerable coal tar. in reality acted as a disinfectant for human sewage which was Cowing into the water and causing the odors. The south siders are doing what they can to comply with orders to connect with, sewers and Install septic tanks.

WOMEN GET INTO ACTION. It was a year ago when the Sooth Side Women's Club began Its movement to have the street cleaning and garbage and ash hauling mules moved from the city barns at 1134 Shelby street that the first wedge was driven to lift the cover concealing the city's sanitary mess. Tbe women hammered away at the board of public works and city council until they got a promise that the mules wolud be moved The municipal servants worked overtime making promises, but nfver have made a serious attempt to carry them out. Continued stirring of the issue by the south side organization finally bronght prominently to light the intention of the Jewett administration to build the municipal yards at Kentucky avenue and Drover streets and house the animals there. It had been the Intention of the city to build the yards there for two years or more, but the fact that the mnles were to be housed there had not been made so much of before West Indianapolis meanwhile had beer, able to get in position to take concerted action on civic matters through a fight in the city council to get an ordinance passed to prevent the establishment of a slaughter house practically In the midst of the residence •ection. RATTI.E AGAINST SLAUGHTER HOUSE. The section, through the Enterprise Civic I.eague, formed to conduct thebattle against the slaughter house, contracted the habit of making Itself heard now and then. The league kept the plant it considered objectionable from locating In Its midst and when the municipal yards scheme began to be talked of It took up the cudgel anew. Led by the Rev. Joseph F. Weber, rector of the Church of the Assumption, 110.3 Blaine avenue, and officers of the league, a delegation of citizens called upon Mayor Jewett, Just before the municipal primary election, and demanded that the city put a park instead of mule barns at Kentucky avenue and White River. The mayor stated that he felt the same way as the citizens did about it and was going to see If be could not give them what they wanted. It turned oat, however, that West Indianapolis did not vote so solidly for Thomas C Howe, the mayor’s favorite for the Republican nomination for mayor as had been expected and subsequently the chief executive made moves which lead the leaders of the league to believe he wanted the barns located there. The movement for the diennnexatlon of West Indianapolis was the result. This had no sooner gotten under way than conditions at Sellers farm, where the city garbage reduction plant and much talked of tight soli dump began to be aired. The mule bams became a secondary Issue. West Indianapolis not only wanted to prevnt the establishment of a fresh nuisance but It also got nerve enough, after some forty years of ratlent I<>factory suffering, to demand that it bo rid of some of the prevailing evils.

TEARS VEIT* OFF BAD CONDITIONS. While all this was going on a third organization pare the veil covering rotten sanitary conditions another vigorous tug. This body was the Belt Elevation League of the south side which came before the c-lty council, and got a special hearing from the public health committee upon the pollution of Been Creek and Pleasant Run. At this hearing l>r. Morgan unburdened himself o>f some Information upon general sanitary conditions which he said he had been longing to get at for a number of years. The council committee arranged only for the board of health and board of sanitary commissioners to get busy on cleaning tip the two streams. Last week tbs health department sent an ordinance to the council granting authority for a temporary loan of $-00,000. A enrt letter was all the explanation which accompanied the ordinance The epistle asked for auspension of the rules and immediate passage of the measure. Councilman Gustav G. Schmidt, who his foungbt for three and a half years to convince other officials that they should regard the council as a body of intelligent men who desire Information upon which to base their Totes, particularly when a department wishes a measure rushed through undet suspendid rules, refused to vote for Immediate passage of the temporary loan bill and it was left In committee until last Monday evening. DR. MORGAN AT LAST PRESENT. Dr. Morgan was present this time. Mr. Schmidt and Councilman Lae J. Kirsch

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St. Joan of Arc Church. One of the important additions to religious circles in Indianapolis is the new church of St. Joan of Arc, whirl lias been erected at Forty-Second street and Park avenue. Tha structure, w filch is only temporary pending thi erection of a larger and finer one. is of early Spanish architecture and is an Important addition to that section of th< city. The church was dedicated Inst Sunday. The Rev. Alphonse Smith is pastor of tile church Work will be pushed on" the school building, which will be located in the rear of the church and which will face Forty-Second street, li is planned to have the school ready for occupancy by the second semester next winter.

had made a trip to Sellers' farm on the previous Friday and the former had become personally interested in the sanitary problem. Mr Sch idt sailed into the question in very plain language, which he has become noted for employing. He not only cited Sellers' farm, but a stench which causes persons in his own neighborhood, around Twenty-Sec-ond street and Capitol avenue to spend sleepless nights during hot weather, conditions which he thought ought to be remedied and remedied at once. The councilman s vigorous language was tho signal for I>r. Morgan saying some of the things he left unsaid during the Pleasant Run and Bean Creek pollution hearing, he disclosing that nt the direction of the mayor he has had the complete sanitary survey made. Mr. Schmidt announced that be will present a resolution calling for a councilmanic probe at the next regular meeting. Here are th* makings of a first class movement: The South Side Women's Club, the Belt Elevation, League of the South Side, the Enterprise Civic league, all In action, and Councilman Schmidt asd Dr. Morgan thoroughly aroused and Mayor Jewett and the sanitary board at least in position to get some information. A thorough sanitary survey by both the city health department and the Government ought to be the matches which finally set. off the dynamite which will blw the lid clear off, public health enthusiasts believe. $250 to Threaten His Former Wife William H. Surface. 1128 Darker avenue, atrested on a warrant sworn to by Anna E. Surface, 833 West Drive Woodruff Place and charged with drawing deadly weapons, was fined s2aO and costa by Reinster Bingham, Judge pro tem., In city court yesterday afternoon. According to testimony, Surface drew a revolver on Mrs. Surface June 11, at | her home. It was brought out surface | and Mrs. Surface were divorced in 1 Noblesville Jast March and since that date, Mrs. Surface said, he has annoyed her.

ie You Have Neglected Your Kidneys! ’ }

T HAT'S why you are tortured with that dull, all-day backache! It's the reason for that lamenesfi, soreness, and those sharp, rheumatic pains! And It's due to neglect of these early warnings that we find so many people with gravel, dropsy, hardening of the arteries and other serious kidney ills. To be well and stay well you must watch your kidneys. You cannot afford to Ignore even the slightest symptom of kidney weakness. That nerve-racking backache, those

ihese Indianapolis people speak:

MRS. E. H THOMPSON, 1205 Ca houn St.. savs: “I suffered terribly with, my kidneys and bladder was inflamed. I had a steady ache across iny back and it interfered with my rest at night. I could hardly turn over in bed. My eyes would get puffy underneath and I had pains in the back of my neck. My system was run down generally until I got two boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Miller’s Drug Store. It was not long before I was cured. Since then I have been free front kidney trouble."

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New Church Ornament to City

DEMOCRATS PLAN PICNIC EVENT Will Meet at Home of Former Governor S. M. Ralston. All Democrats and those who wish for Democratic success in the city election this full were invited today to attend a picnic supper at the country home of former Governor Samuel M. Ralston, Forty-Eighth street and the Michigan road, next Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock. The Seventh District Democratic Women’s Club Issued the Invitation. Miss Julia Landers, president of the club, will preside. Speeches will be made by Mrs. W. n. Bobbitt, Mrs. Lillian McKenzie. Mrs. Jacob P. Dunn. Mrs Harry Comlnsky and Walter Myers. The former Governor’s homo may be reached over tho Lafayette division of the Terre Ilauto, Indianapolis A Eastern Traction Company. The Northwestern avenue street car lino runs to within a mile of It. Leaves $200,000 for Orphan Boys’ Home DECATUR, 111.. July 23—Carter R Serogg-in, prominent fanner and stockman. who died Wednesday at bis borne near Ilarristown 111. left hi* estate estimated to be worth approximately S2OO- - for the founding of a home for orphan boys The will written several year# ago, provides that the estate shall be ndmin istered by three trustees, the income going to Mr. Seroggln's widow until her death, when the home is to be established on the Serngglri homestead farm. Tho fnmi includes 1.200 acres, located twelve miles from the city of Decatur. TOUT II II ELI) TO JURY. Kenneth Clark, 19, 1148 Knox street, was bound over to the grand jury under SSOO bond on a charge of grand larceny by Remster Bingham. Judge pro tem. In city court yesterday. Clark was arrested ty Detective Radeniaelier, The detective alleges he stole S7O from Mary Hartman, 1118 Knox street, his grundi mother.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921.

REAL ESTATE GOSSIP By REALTOR. “Bill” Krongh.

Bill Bridges sort of got his tonguo : twisted around his eye tooth at the last meeting. He seemed to think he was in Chicago yet and was describing a house as having a long bedroom instead of a long living room. Some very interesting reports of the convention were given last Wednesday by Challle, Ivin near, Stackhouse and Bridges Every realtor should try Ms j be-t to be present next Wednesday be-, cause there will be some more very In- ■ teresting reports given. It Isn’t every realtor that can attend 1 a convention and upon returning homo close two very large extraordinary denis, 1 such as Bill Brennen did. 110 leased the Deschier cigar store site on Pennsylvania and Market streets and United Cigar Store site on Pennsylvania and Wsshlngp'r. streets. They will be occupied by Hook Drug Company. If you see a realtor whom nobody criticises, he will have flowers on his j chest and he will not be standing up Charles P Ho.'naday and C. 41. Barnes ! have moved their office from 201 Pro- , pies Bank building to <507 < f the same ; building. Wo hope to see Emerson Chatlio at i noxt year’s convention, as he seems to be i quitu regular when convention time j conics around. Even though it is hot, plenty of people I hare Ice In their shoes when it comes to ! buying a home. A soft answer saveth many a wallop, j Don’t know why It is. bnt ever since ] the convention J. Edward Robtns has been nicknamed ’’Judge." E. W. Carroll suggests that if people can’t find housing they can always sleep on real estate hunk.

knife-like pains, those headaches, dizzy spells and distressing urinary irregularities, while easily corrected if treated promptly, may prove serious if neglected. Don’t be discouraged! Use common sense and take things easier for awhile. Cut down your meat. Drink plenty of pure water, get lots of rest and sleep and help the weakened kidneys with Doan's Kidney Pills. This old, reliable remedy has a world-wide reputation and is recommended right here at home by scores of your friends and acquaintances. Ask your neighbor!

OMAR TUTTEROW, corner Twcnt;-tix.h and riirgton t eeta, says: ‘‘l had a bad attack of kidney complaint. 1 was in misery with my back and my head ached. X had dizzy spells and such a thing as work was out of the question. My kidneys didn't act regularly and X was In bad shape until I got three boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills and began using them. They cured me up in good hape and I have never since had a return of the trouble."

Three Motorcycle Riders Injured

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Machine Overturns When Driver Swerves to Avoid Striking Auto. Jasper Clark, 40 years old, and his wife. Bose Clark, 34 years old, 1517 Montcalm street, were injured and John Wooldridge, 32 years old, also living at the Montcalm street address, was shaken and severely bruised Sunday afternoon when a motorcycle driveu by Wooldridge, with a sidecar attached in which Mr. and Mrs. Calrk were riding, overturned at Massachusetts and Commerce avenues. Clark was crushed about the chest and cut and bruised about the head and body and Mrs. Clark suffered cuts and bruises about the head. Both were taken to the city hospital. According to witnesses, Wooldridge was driving the motorcycle southwest on Massachusetts avenue rapidly when an automobile driven by James E. McCammon, 011 North Tuxedo street, drove out of Commerce avenue directly in his path. In an effort to avoid striking the automobile, Wooldridge swerved his motorcycle, side-swiping McCammon’s automobile and overturned the motorcycle. Both the automobile and the motorcycle were damaged. Motor Policemen Finneran and Seifert investigated.—Reprinted from Tuesday's paper.

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