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“Slow Up”’ A most significant warning concerning our health recently came from Dr. Morris Fishbein, writer for The Times, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and thus one of the foremost authorities on health in this country. He pointed out that while medical science had made many important discoveries which have tended to make the nation healthier, statistics show that people are not living longer. In recent years, some of the foremost authorities have predicted that advancements in medicine will make it possible to increase greatly the average longevity. But so far, there is little evidence of these predictions coming true. It is true that real strides have been made in combating infant mortality. Because of improved health standards and wider dissemination of knowledge concerning the care of children, their chances of living through infancy have been greatly increased. Also more lives of middle-aged persons are saved, due to remarkable operations and more skilled physicians. But the story is different when old age comes. Dr. Fishbein points out. The human body is a wonderful mechanism, but it wears out, and unlike our modern machines, parts of it can not be renewed. We live at a fast pace, and it is this fact that prevents the longevity tables from showing an increase compared with the advancements in medical science.. Too few of us slow down before the physician really can help us. Possibly this is due to the fact that we are placing too much reliance on medical science. We have heard of its wonderful progress and instead of watching our health carefully throughout life, possibly some of us are too inclined to let things take their course in the belief that any ill can be cured in this wonderful age. Too few of us have regular physical examinations snd too few heed the warning signals of nature. We try to keep the pace of youth. We do not guard our health at the very time when our strength must be conserved. We worry too much. We do not give medical science a chance to accomplish its wonders, and we forget that while it can do much it can not work miracles. In some of the more isolated sections of the country where the fast pace of modern civilization has not yet spread, people are living to remarkable ages. Although mortality rates among Indian children are high, many Indians are living beyond the age ot 80 years. These facts seem to add weight to Dr. Fishbein's conclusion that we are living too fast or worrying too much or working too hard and are not watching our health as we should. His warning is “slow up!” We all know he is right, but more of the American people should heed his advice. Hill Billy A bov has been found who never heard of Lindbergh. Only a genius could make such a discovery. It was Lindbergh himself who found that boy—Lindbergh, with the help of President Hoover. Ray McKinley strolled into the Hoover camp up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia on the President's birthday. With true mountain hospitality he brought a gift to the campers. It was his most treasured possession, a baby possum which he had caught. They talked with the boy, drew him out. No, he never had been to school, nor had any of his brothers and sisters. Pa and ma couldn’t read or write either, he said, but they were right smart. Yes, he could sing the hill billy songs. Which he did. Everyone laughed, including the colonel, when he answered that he never had heard of Lindbergh. He could not understand what was funny about that. Then he told something that seemed funny to him. His pa, to pay an election bet on A1 Smith, had to 9 climb a high hickory tree. And so the boy, leaning comfortably against a tree, talked away the morning with the President. Doubtless there are many morals that could be hung on this tale, especially for the edification of educators and newspaper circulation managers whose systems hwe not been able to reach Ray and his kind. We would be failing in our duty to the boy and loyalty to our profession and civilization if we did not suggest that he be reformed and educated by a course of reading in a daily newspaper. But apart trom duty, on this hot city day, we rather envy Ray his native poise and detachment, standing there in the friendly shade, calmly giving to the President of his wisdom cn such fundamental things as possums and hickory trees, and mountains.

What a ‘Hick Cop' Did We re ready to lead the cheering for Sheriff L. E. Alderman of Prowers county, Colorado. Sheriff Alderman, as you probably have read, is that six-foot, rough-hewed, two-gun guardian of the law in that remote Colorado county whose keenness in tracking down a gang of bank robbers puts 'fictionstory detectives to shame. A rural Colorado farmer until his election by his neighbors two years ago, he stepped into the case with all the sagacity and acumen of a trained sleuth, solved the baffling mystery. rounded up seven alleged members of the gang in various parts of the United States and has furnished police departments everywhere with photos and fingerprints of the alleged ringleader, who escaped him by only ten minutes in Peoria. 111. Which, we think, was a good job. The most amazing part about the whole case is how this ex-farmer, untrained in the ways of big cities and in the ways of criminals, succeeded where other officers, with more opportunity to know the devious ways of the underworld, had failed. It Icoks like a man who probably would be referred to in criminal parlance as a “hick cop" and sneered at by professional detectives has out-smarted one of the most daring gangs of desperadoes the southwest has known since the days of Jesse James and brought them to bay. Well, maybe Sheriff Alderman was “a hick cop : maybe he didnt know any more about criminology, or clews, or Bertillon photos, or blood tests and things like that until he undertook to solve this case. But the fact remains, he did it. It would be a good thing if we had more of these ' hick cops" in some of our big cities. They may be inexperienced and perhaps a little unsophisticated, but they are intelligent, upright, diligent and persistent. No thought of graft from bootleggers, no faar of political pressure sways them. a;3d they don't play politics for a current city administration.

The Indianapolis Times (A BCMIPPH-HOWAKD NEWSPAPER) Owned end nubllshed daily (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., Owned ana 4. P jSo w Msryiand Street, Indianapolia. Ind. Price in Marion County 2 centa—lo cents a week: elsewhere. Is cents—l 2 cents a week BOYD GCRLBT BOY W. HOWARD. FRANK G. MORRISON. 801 Editor President Business Manager rHOXE — Riley 5651 WEDNESDAY, APO. 14. 1929. * M.mher of United Pres#, Scrlppa-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise AssoMember e^ipat>er information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.’ 1

Labor Gains Half a million wage earners won the five-day week in 1929, according to President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who is meeting with the executive council of the organization at Atlantic City to prepare a report to submit to the annual convention in October. This is only one item of cheering news, according to Green. The federation has increased its membership. and many of its unions have won wage increases for their members—more money, as Green reminds us, to flow into the channels of retail trade, and thereby stimulate production and employment. But one question even the president of the country's largest and most powerful labor organization could not answer: Just how many people are out of work. Aside from the fact that unemployment seems worse in the smaller towns than in the cities, and that it does not seem worse than usual, he confessed the same ignorance as the rest of us. It is a good thing for the country that the forthcoming federal census will, for the first time, be used in an attempt to determine this very important question. Green himself is on an advisory commitlee which is helping the census officials. Labor at Atlantic City is to draft a series of questions for the census takers, which will determine just who is an unemployed person, and how many there are. Mexico Learns Mexico is considering seriously abandonment of capital punishment. Its president, Portes Gil. favors this action, and will ask the national congress to approve it. This information has a strange sound in the United States. Here in the north we think of Mexico as a land with little regard lor human life. We think of it as a country where summary military executions are the rule rather than the exception. In contrast, we consider ourselves more civilized and more careful in the preservation of human rights. Yet this country still takes the lives of men and women it finds guilty of certain crimes, though this practice has been abandoned in many parts of the world, and many times has been shown to fill no purpose as a deterrent of crime. Our hot-blooded neighbor is setting us an example of clear-headed thinking which we well may ponder. No study of law enforcement can be complete unless included in it is a study of the number of guilty men who escape punishment yearly because of the horror jurors feel of the death penalty, and a study of the effect the government's example as a killer has upon its citizens. The New York Merchants’ Association is trying to discover the seven wonders of Manhattan. We have a hunch these might be found among the night club customers. A New York wopian writer says the modern girl is incapable of a blush. With present ideas in makeup prevailing, how did the writer ever find that out. One of the Chinese generals is named CheuCheou. They must have hay fever over in that country, too. Governor Roosevelt says he is not a candidate for President. That's the first intimation we've had. anyway, that the Democrats might nominate again. The ladies are not the only ones who appear scantily clad. How about a bald-headed man in a rumble seat? £. The Graf Zeppelin stowaway celebrated his eighteenth birthday shortly after his arrival in this country. Maybe he's old enough to know better now. There's one satisfaction for the fellow who hurries in order to be on time for a date with his girl. He can sit down and rest, while waiting for her.

-David Dietz on Science.

Plant Repairs Itself

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TWO important advantages which living organisms possess over machines are contained to the functions of assimilation and growth. Assimilation is the technical term for the organism’s ability to effect repairs in its tissues. An engine or any other mechanism can not repair itself. But a living organism such as a plant is con-

The cells which compose plants are very delicate and very complex. The protoplasm which constitutes them requires constant repair. Assimilation is the technical knowledge by which the food products, chiefly the proteins, are built into new protoplasm. Within the cells are tiny bubbles known as vacuoles. These contain what is known as the cell sap. This is chiefly water. Dissolved in it, however, are sugars, mineral salts and acids. These vacuoles are the reservoirs or supply houses of the cell. The cell secretes ti'e substances mentioned —sugars, mineral salts and acids—into them. Then when the cell needs these substances for the repair of its protoplasm, it withdraws them from the vacuoles. Os course, it must be understood that the whole process is purely automatic. An extremely delicate balance of chemical substances and electrical forces as well cause the secretion of these substances into the vacuoles. Changes in the protoplasm upset, this balance so as to cause the materials to flow from the vacuoles back into the ceiis. The processes which go on in living cells are exceedingly complex ind often hard to explain. But the more modern science discovers about them, ‘.he more our respect ana appreciation of the processes of nature are increased. From an understanding of cells, we come to the realization of the complex activity that is continuously going on within every growing plant. We have discussed two ways in which the plant utilizes the loodstuffs—the carbohydrates, fats and proteins—which it manufactures within itself. The process of growth will be considered next.

M. E. Tracy

As Long as Two Out of Three Murderers Escape We Shall Make Little Headway by Treating a Few Severely. BUFFALO. N. Y., Aug. 14.—According to a survey by the New York Telegram only three out of ten murderers are arrested in the greater city. This is sgnificant because of what it implies regarding the other seven. As long as such a condition prevails, it is useless to argue about the effect of prosecution or punishment. As long as two out of three murderers escape without the slightest inconvenience, we shall make little headway by treating a few severely. tt tt tt Skyscraper Diplomacy THE French government will erect a fifty million dollar skyscraper in New York. The skyscraper will be sixty-five stories in height, and will be devoted partly to a twelve hundred room hotel, partly to offices for the French consulate and other official agencies, and partly to exhibition rooms and studios designed to promote French art, commerce and industry. One could ask for no more vivid illustration of how definitely business is coming to dominate international affairs. tt tt ts International Trade NOT only France, but several other European nations are awakening to the possibilities of international trade. Further than that, they are advertising their resources and product in a most effective way. Germany has constructed the fastest ocean liner, the biggest airplane and the most successful dirigible. Who supposes that her efforts in this direction are not designed to promote trade? Even though deprived of her colonies, Germany remains undiscouraged. If she can not produce the freight, she still hopes to carry it. tt tt tt France's African Empire THE bulk of Germany’s former colonial possessions in Africa went to France. Together with those previously acquired, they constitute an empire larger than the United States not only in area, but resources. It is with a view of exploiting this empire that France etsablishes trade and commercial agencies throughout the world, and that she takes up the long deferred project of a railroad across the Sahara. The Sahara separates the French colony of Algiers on the Mediterranean coast from the vast and fertile area of central Africa, just as our own great desert once separated the east from the Pacific coast. The problem of constructing a railroad across the Sahara is much like that which faced American engineers when they started to run rails from Missouri or Texas to the Sierra Nevadas. It is just a great waste, transversed by high barren mountains with a few water holes around which center nonsequential tribes of fierce natives. Its main rails are marked by the bones of camel and man, just as tlr ~e of the west were once marked by the bones of horse, ox and man. u tt a Crossing the Sahara CARAVANS can cross the Sahara in six or eight months, if they have good luck. Four specially designed tractors were driven over it five years ago in twenty days. Pioneers have erected 'white walled block, houses, where the traveler can find rest and protection. • The journey, however, still is dangerous. not only because of natural hazards, but because of the native tribesmen. tt tt tt Railroad in Desert BEYOND the Sahara lives a vast and fertile region where cotton and other sub-tropical crops could : be easily produced. A modern railroad would bring this region within three days of the Mediterranean coast, which is only twenty-four hours from France, and from "which all the world can be reached by water. It requires no great imagination to write the rest of the story, or perceive the possible effect on international trade. Neither does it require any great imagination to realize that France gains something stupendous by way of reparation w'hen she was given the lion’s share of Germany’s African territory. it tt tt War Reparations TTE7HETHER deliberately or not, W the reparations problem has been discussed in such a way as to leave the impression that nothing counted except cash, or commodities which Germany produced. Asa matter of record, millions of square miles of land were taken away from Germany and parceled out "among the allies, with France benefiting most. The fact that much of this land is worthless today does not mean it always will be. nor does the fact that "it was taken over under a mandate of the LeagiJfc of Nations mean that it will be given up. Leaving out the other allies. France gained from Germany an area which promises as much a century hence as did the western half of the United States a century ago.

tinuously doing so. As we already have seen, the food products manufactu red within the living plant are utilized in respiration to furnish energy. Only a portion of them, however, are oxidized or burned up in the cells to supply energy. Another portion is used in the process of assimilation.

Daily Thought

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, whose habitation is high.—Obadiah 3. a a a PRIDE is of such intimate connection with ingratitude that the actions of ingratitude seem directly resolvablle into pride as the principal reason of them.—South.

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This is the first of two articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein in which he discusses the cause and effect of defective vision among school children. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. AT the recent meeting of the American Medical Association in Portland. Ore., Dr. Lloyd Mills called attention to the importance of the eyes in education. The excessive speed of modern civilization demands rapid mental adjustments which sometimes children are unable to make because of ocular deficiencies. The nervous reactions to educational strain include irritability, fatigue, restlessness and emotional disturbances. Doctor Mills is convinced that ocular adjustments to educational

HERBERT HOOVER had a birthday over the week-end at his Virginia camp and In commemoration of the event a surprise party was given. Usually a surprise party is socalled because it is a surprise to one. In this instance the news dispatches reveal the inspiration was Mrs. Hoover's and in arranging the delightful little affair she enjoyed the assistance of Mrs. Lindbergh, who together with the Colonel, was a guest. Mention is made of the fact that all the presents were commonplace and of an inexpensive nature. I take this to mean that the guests presented the chief executive with miniature law T n mowers, corn cob pipes, mouth organs, large sticks of peppermint candy with appropriate views and a box of trick matches, which when struck produce a gaseous cdor and an effect faintly suggesting an immature bang. Admitting that there is something praiseworthy in the simple and democratic spirit thus expressed, one is distressed to reflect that even the grave dignity of a President is not immune from the clownish touch. Be assured this sort of stuff will get us nowhere with Buckingham palace, no matter how enthusiastically it stirs the emotions of the peasantry. a a a Good, Ciean Fui* STILL, Hoover does not seem wholly unresponsive to the urge of good, clean fun and innocent recreation. Much of his time in the summer camp is devoted to erecting small dams in the rapids in the river to prcvide cools into which trout may go. It is told how Hoover and some of his guests don hip-boots and wade into the waters carrying heavy stones, happy, carefree and buoyant. At times one feels sure the lilt of song must enliven the presidential ladders, and certainly there must be at intervals a modicum of chaste persiflage. Old Man River will make a suitable theme song. It is far too fantistical to imagine that the distinguished dam builders of the Rapidan are familiar enough with the classic harmonies of old John who toils all day for the Lackawan to make any r -o-c°lled use of them. m a a Concentration HOWEVER, even this warming picture of domesticity and humanness is not wholly sufficient to obliterate the disturbing news that Mr. Hodver does not say gooc morning to the attaches of the White House. It is explained that Hoover does not me an to be discourteous to any one. even to the hired hands, but that the practice of saying good morning is a good time-waster and a deterrent to concentration. It is conceivable that a great deal of immediae misery and depression I

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forcing produce weakness of the eye muscles and eye strain through prolonged overattention. He believes that the curriculums of study are so intensive nowadays that the physical cost of this type of training yields questionable profit when balanced with the efficiency produced. “The world does not require faster and more neurotic persons,” he says, “but urgently needs more accurate and more dependable ones.” There Is a definite limit to the amount of words that any reader can see at a single glance. The attempts to force the vision to see more and comprehend more in a short space cf time is likely to produce strains resulting in serious incapacity. Doctor Mills recognizes. the fact that many people are able to read

BY JOE WILLIAMS

may grow out of the President’s grim devotion to efficiency and the nation’s problems. tt a a Surprise Party ALL details of the President’s surprise party were not disclosed in the public prints, but very likely the conversation between Hoover and the missus ran something like this: “Herbert, do you know what day this is?” Well, let’s see. yes, its Saturday. August the 10th.” “No, no, not the date, what day is it?” “You don't mean to say it's Aunt Emily’s anniversary?” “Os course not. Guess again.” “Is this the day Babe Ruth hit his 48th homer in 1921?” “Now you’re just trying to josh. You know perfectly well this is your birthday.” At this Hoover breaks down and confesses with a great big boyish smile, the presents are brought in and given to him, and President admits that they are just what he wanted. tt o tt Speed the Day AND yet the time may come when the world will acclaim Hoover for his courage in flaunting the social amenities. Perhaps nothing more than a pre-

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THE BOXER UPRISING Aug. 14

UNDER shot and shell from Chinese troops for eight weeks. 500 foreigners who had sought relief in the British compound in Peking were saved by an American relief expedition on Aug. If 1900. The legationers were victims of the Boxers, who had started a campaign of extermination to rid China of foreigners. On June 14, the Boxers assailed the foreign legations in Peking and during the next two months they blocked the relief of the beleaguered Occidentals, who gathered in the British compound to defend themselves. The foreigners' ammunition was scanty and their provisions insufficient. Sixty of them were killed and 120 wounded by the attackers. Many children became sick and the besieged men and women were forced to live on half rations of horse flesh. For weeks. United States government officials were unable to communicate with their representatives in the legation and the world had begun to believe the Boxers had captured the legation and slaughtered all the foreigners, before the relief 1 expedition arrived in Peking. ' .

far more rapidly than others and to comprehend what they read more rapidly. He recognizes also that much of this ability rests in heredity and is perhaps a form of genius. Intellectual capacity is practically determined at birth and gains only by proper training. There is a definite and individual limit to the speed of correct recognition and perception of objects and of words, and if this limit is exceeded, there is a penalty represented by lessened accuracy, poor memory and inhibition of associative values which are important in learning. The tests that have been made indicate that the most rapid readers can do at best a page of solid reading in a minute and that this speed seldom can be maintained with any usefulness for more than half an hour at a time.

Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, is “batting for Heywood Broun” while the latter is enjoying a vacation.

cedent is .to be. when the person bristling with health, bursts in on you and with a booming voice demands to know “how are you this fine morning, old scout?” Obviously it can be only one honest answer. “Who wants to know?” (Copyright. 1929. for The Times)

Questions and Answers

What is the meaning of the expression “Che sara sara”? It is an Italian expression meaning “What will be will be.” Can an alien seaman who deserted his ship and has been living in this country for five years be deported? Can he take out citizenship papers? On March 21, 1297, Federal Judge William Bondy of the southern district of New York handed down a decision to the effect that an alien seaman who deserted his ship in the United States, and who has been living in this country-unmolested for more than three years, is no longer subject to deportation, but he can

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.'AUG. 14. 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis-

Because the Money of the Country Is Being Spent for Speculation, Honest Business Is Without Funds. ITS a shame to see the lambs lose their fleece, particularly the little lambs in little towns, but it was time for the Federal Reserve Bank to curb wild speculation by increasing the interest, rate. Because the money of the country is being used in speculation, honest business is without it and borrowers are paying 7 per cent insfead of 6. a a tt It would be a blessing to small speculators if they could lose all they have bought, if that would j cause them to forget the stock mari ket. for the virus of stock gambling j is spreading over the land as never | before. Those to whom stocks used to be jas mysterious as the inscription I upon a Babylonian brick now talk j glibly of "General Motors" and | "Alice Chalmers." Gambling is financial hydro- | phobia. tt a e The expert ancestry pickers are debating as to whether President Hoover's folks came from Germany or from Switzerland, but we will bet the President is far more interested just now in determining whether to use grasshoppers or artificial bait. tt a THE manufacturers, designers and retailers of ladies' attire inform the world that in October skirts will fall three inches below the knees. Which means that despite all nature can do, autumn scenery will bo disappointing. a a u New York sculptor just has made a bust of Vice President Curtis, and when the next social season opens In Washington, Alice Roosevelt Longworth will try to make one of Mrs. Gann. o a a The Chinese war between the On Leongs and the Hip Sings is not surprising. for it's only natural for a Chinaman to reach for a gun when he thinks of his name in hot weather. tt tt a Jean Assolant. French pilot of the Yellow Bird, which tried to fly to Rome, is to divorce his American bride because he can’t understand English and she can’t connect with French. When they sit down to eat. he is utterly lost when she asks him to pass the prunes and she is completely at sea when he asks her to pass the horseradish. tt tt e THE papers have said a lot about mysterious conferences between Mr. Coolidge and Julius Rosenwald, but they probably mean that Mr. Coolidge has been buying his wooden minnows from Montgomery Ward and Mr. Rosenwald wants to get his trade for Sears-Roebuck. tt tt a This charge that the great forest fires were started by cigarets may be true and again it may be just propaganda circulated by the candy people. a a a Wayne Allen, 12-year-old boy of Summitville, Ind., found a S4OO pearl in a mussel shell, which is a lot more than Uncle Sam has been able to get out of Muscle Shoals. tt a a The first large flock of birds goes south just as the first large flock of hay fever victims goes north.

not, in the opinion of the court, become an American citizen. What birds protect trees from insets? Seven species of birds that protect trees are: The hairy wood-pecker, downy wood-pecker, red-headed wood-pecker, flicker, white breasted nut hatch, brown creeper, blackheaded chickadee. What state produces the most sheep? The largest sheep producing states are Texas. California. Wyoming, Montana. Utah. New Mexico and Oregon, in the order named.