Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1929 — Page 17

FEB. 15, 1929.

U. $. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE TO 8E JARRED AWAKE Hoover Studies- Plans to Stir State Department Out of Lethargy. Bl" WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Iloward Foreign Editor WASHIiN GTON, Feb. 15.—A thorough reorganization of the state department and its field force, the foreign service, likely will be among the first housecleaning jobs Herbert Hoover will undertake after he enters the White House three weeks from today. Responsible as no other single agency of the government is reponrible for maintenance of peace and amity wtih the rest of the world, those who know the inside workings of the department admit it is so handicapped by a lack of iuncLs and oy faulty organization and administration that it is utterly inadequate to carry on its stupendously vital job. Not so long ago, it is observed, the foreign affairs of tire United States were not very important. The country was pretty much isolated and self-contained. Suddenly, however, it has become the richest, the most envied, the most powerful and potentially, at least, the most influential nation on the face of the -lobe, with interests reaching into every nook and comer of the earth.

Like Stage Coach And yet our foreign office, charged with looking after these complex affairs, remains like an old-fash-ioned : tage coach tiding to keep up with the Overland Limited. That a complete overhauling of the stare department and the foreign service lias become imperative looms like a house afire, in a coldly analytical report made public here today by the Foreign Policy Association, the work of William T. Stone, its Washington representative. "The department of state, with I its ‘field force,’ the foreign service,” j the report begins dispassionately, “proifldes the official contact between the United States and other governments of the world. It supplies the expert advice and information cn which important deci- ( sions affecting our relations with I other nations are based. By its handling of a critical situation it j may decide the issue of peace or 1 war.” Therefore, the report goes on to state, proper functioning of the department should “constitute a first charge on the political consciousness as well as the purse strings of the American people.” Situation Held Dangerous Otherwise, if the department is not properly staffed and efficiently managed, “it constitutes a danger of \ ital concern to the American people.” Nevertheless, the document con-

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It looks like the Bellanca monoplane Roma, which has been groomed for many important flights that never took place, may leave the ground at last. Diego Arzeno, left, Argentine commercial pilot, and Lieutenant Claudio A. Mejia, head of the Argentine pursuit squadron, pictured here in the cockpit of the plane at Newcastle, Pa., are preparing for a hop to Buenos Aires. From there they’ll try an eastward hop over the South Atlantic to Seville, Spain. They intend to pick up a navigator arid mechanic in Buenos Aires.

rtinues. the department's own spokesmen admit appropriations have not j been nearly large enough to meet i its needs. The budget bureau has j pared down estimates “almost to j the danger point and seriously ham--1 pered the effective operation of the field force and the staff in Washington.” During 1928, it is shown, thirtyone consulates were in charge of mere clerks. Earned promotions were denied because there was no money to pay the increased salaries. Experienced men, therefore, are leaving the department and their places are being filled by inexperienced substitutes. Os 110 important high officials holding key positions in 1924, in 1928 only thirty were still with the department. Girl to Occupy Pulpit B;i Times IS lie rial GREENSBURG, Ind.. Feb. 15. Miss-Ruth Morgan, Butler university student, will take the place of her father, the Rev. I. B. Morgan, in the pulpit of the Adams Baptist church. Sunday, preaching her first sermon. She is a graduate of Greensburg high school and while a student here, won several honors in oratory. Bar Priests From Rotary IV' Vnitcd Press ROME. Feb. 15.—The consistorial congregation, replying to the inquiries of several bishops, has decided that ecclesiastics must not join Rotary Clubs or attend meetings of Rotary Clubs.

HAND BURNED FOR $5 Petersburg Man Saves Paper Money From Fire. B>j Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Feb. 15. Edward Scales, former Pike circuit court clerk, has $5 worth of burned right hand. While Scales was tossing some old papers from a pocket of his clothes into a fire, he saw one-dollar bills go into the flames. He grabbed for the money and succeeded in saving bits of each bill, but burned his hand. Numbers remained on portions of the money not burned and were redeemed by a bank with whole bills. FALLS FAR AND GRINS Tiny Child Is Uninjured in Plunge of Three Stories. IV/ United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 15.—Some people can fall a foot and break both legs and others can fall a mile and still smile. Helen Gershberg, 3’a years old, fell out of a three-story window and didn't get a scratch. Her mother had placed some pillows on a window 7 sill to sun and the little girl climbed up on them and slid out the window. Water Is Too Cold CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Julius Bukowski tried ix> commit suicide byjumping in the Chicago river. The water w-as colder than he thought it would be, so he called to a tug to drag him out.

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SEEK REASONS . FOR DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATION Scientists Set Out to Find Causes for Disappearance of Maya Empire. Bp Science Service WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Whether disease or war or famine primarily caused the downfall of the great Maya empire has never been satisfactorily determined. Now an expedition of doctors and public healt hexperts is setting out for Chichen Itza, famous capital city of this old American civilization to find out, if possible, whether it was disease that ruined it and if so, what disease in particular. The expedition is from the department of tropical medicine of the Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health of the Carnegie Foundation at Washington.. It is in charge of Dr. George C. Shattuck and includes Dr. Joseph C. Bequaert, entomologist; Dr. Jack H. Sandground, parasitologist; Dr.

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Kenneth Goodner, bacteriologist, and Byron L. Bennett, laboratorytechnician. Nothing is left of beautiful Chichen Itza but ruins. However, in some of the neighboring villages the population consists of practically pure-blooded Maya Indians. A study of the diseases that -ffiict these people now may throw light on the diseases that their ancestors suffered from. Such is the object

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and hope of the present expedition. The case for disease as the destroyer of this famous old civilization, which collapsed about the time of the Spanish conquest, is particularly good when one considers what a hothpd of disease Middle America has been, so far as our knowledge of it goes. The various fevers carried by parasites and insects may or may not have existed before the white

; man came to America. Os course, if ; they did, the Indians probably had acquired an immunity to them, in which case the downfall of the Mayas probably resulted from wars with other tribes. Yellow fever and syphilis are now generally accepted as being of i strictly American origin. On the I other hand, smallpox, measles, ma- • laria. hookworm. Asiatic cholera 1 and trachoma, all of which have

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been wry deadly for the red man, were introduced by the white man. Whatever the cause, it is generally conceded that the Mayas were already greatly weakened before the Spaniards arrived. This accounts for their rapid downfall, the Spanish conquest. We get sugar essential to our needs from bread, starch and natural foods.