Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1931 — Page 6

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—The New Russia, No. 8 — GREAT MEDICAL SYSTEM BUILT UP JN RUSSIA Soviet Interested Mainly in Keeping its Babies in Best of Health. BY JULIA BLAN'SIIARD Staff Writer for NEA Berrlt, and The Time*, Sent to Soviet Raaaia Eoeciallj for This Serlea (Copyright. 1931, NEA Service. Inc.) If you were an expectant mother in Russia, it would pay you to be a factory worker. You would be entitled to four months off with pay when the baby was born. If you were a lawyer, teacher or clerical worker, you would get three months’ vacation from work—either two months before your baby was bom and one afterward—or one mefoth before and two afterward. You would have no worry over doctor's or nurse’s bills. You would be entitled to ten days free in the hospital. In overcrowded Moscow, you might get only three days, to make room for somebody else, but you would be sure of free care. The Soviet government has socialized the whole medical profession. All doctors are on the state pay roll, all workers’ doctor bills are paid by the state. Responsible for 42,000 Ohe day I visited a Moscow general dispensary located in an outlying district, where there are two huge textile factories and- one metallurgical and one chemical factor:/. This dispensary is responsible for the health of the 42,000 persons in this district. It handles 1,000 cases a day. Everything from a pair of glasses to a major operation is free. All the doctors, nurses, dietitians and other workers are government employes. Five lines of men, women and children waited in the hall, before the windows that registered patients. A huge wall newspaper, gaudily gotten up with colored crayon sketches and printing, cautioned patients to “talk only to the doctor about your sickness.” Russia’s medical care of its children is one of its most successful health programs. In the first years, after the revolution, the death rate was forty-seven children to every 1,000. Now nineteen to every 1,000. The American figure is fourteen to 1,000. Institute Is Responsible “The Institute for Mother and Child” is responsible largely for this health improvement. I visited the original institute in Moscow. Its huge gray stone buildings flank a spacious park with flower gardens and trees. Here an open-air nursery is maintained in summer which accommodates 350 babies. There is a museum of rudimentary child healthhow to wash a baby, dress a baby, prepare the baby’s formula and sterilize its bottle. A flaming poster of a militant little babies’ Soviet caught my eye. It read, “We demand protection from flies. We want clean, dry diapers and milk from freshly washed bottles.”

Extra for Home Calls Other graphic posters announce: “A closed window opens the door for the undertaker,” and, “Pacifiers kill more babies than cannons kill grown-ups.” You can get a doctor to come and see you at home by paying extra for him. He will be attached to/ some hospital and paid by the state but after working hours he can have private practice if he wants it. Unless he is a Communist, that is. No Communist can work for any private individual. I visited two of the “rest homes” near Moscow maintained by unions for their sick workers. They were sanitariums that, according to our standards, were none too comfortable. And This Is Heaven! But to Russians, never used to comfort, these homes with clean beds, comfortable deck chairs out in the sun, special medical treatment and nourishing food, were heaven! Down In the north Caucasus I saw an outdoor camp for tubercular children. Here the government sends children with slight defects, underweight tots, j with malnutrition or a touch of tuberculosis. Down In the Crimea the former, czar’s palaces are now sanitariums. All through Russia, old country palaces are being turned into government rest homes. In Khorkov I saw a huge new clinic of which the workers boast. It has some of the best modern electrical equipment in all of Europe. It has just been completed as part of this district’s “Five-Year Plan.” NEXT—Traveling in Soviet Russia .. . Sleeping on hard, bare shelves and keeping warm as best you can. . . . Privacy in a compartment occupied by both men and women, and all utter strangers. KNEW RIGHT ADDRESS Car Crashes Into Debris; Wrecked, It Lands in Junk Yard. By United Press WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 13. Richard Jure’s automobile ran off the road, crashed into several discarded boilers and was virtually wrecked. When the dazed driver regained his senses, he discovered that his car, appropriately enough, had ended its wild dash in a junk yard. PLANE INJURED’ BY ICOW Animal Strolls Away Uninjured After Landing Crash. By United Press COVENTRY, Vt., Nov. 13.—When Alfred Burkewitz, aviator, made a forced landing in a pasture, his plane struck a cow. A wing of the plane was damaged. The cow strolled away, unharmed. This Thief Will Suffer By United Press JACKSON. Mich., Nov. 13.—1 t will take a tough rider to handle the tricycle stolen from William Hunt. The only marks of identification on the weather-worn velocipede are three sails In the seat.

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"Dago Lawrence” Mangano, (above) a Capone lieutenant, was held by Chicago police following a raid instigated by Alexander O. Jamie (below), chief investigator for the “Secret Six,” Chicago Association of Commerce committee on crime. Mangano and five of his henchmen were arrested as members of a kidnaping ring which is believed responsible for more than 100 kidnapings in the middle west.

GUNS PROTECT U. S. AIR MAIL Woman Pistol Champion Is Pilots’ Instructor. Six-shooters were the weapons of Uncle Sam’s guardians of the mails back in pioneer days, the pony express riders, as they raced across the plains, facing death from hostile Indians and bandits. Uncle Sam’s winged mail carriers, pilots of mail planes, also must carry weapons for defense of the mails, ready to shoot it out with bandits in the air or on the ground. In order to become sharpshooters, mail pilots of the Embry-Riddle division, American Airways, are taking lessons from Mrs. Grace McClelland Riggs, formerly woman pistol champion of Texas. Mrs. Riggs, wife of a pilot. Russell Riggs, and herself a novice flier, has set up a pistol range on Lunken field, Cincinnati, where the popping of the pilots’ forty-fours and thirtyeights rival the roar of the motors above. Airways officials have just one complaint against her. She is teaching young unmarried girls of the office force to shoot. They think this is a bad omen for prospective husbands. Short Naughty Jokes Best By United Press MADISON, Wis., Nov. 13.—Jokes please most when brief and obscene, according to findings of Lucien M. Hanks Jr., graduate of the University of Wisconsin, whose senior thesis recorded the response of students and faculty members to various humorous stories.

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Saturday, the Last Day of the “Super Value” Sale! Superheterodyne Radios HFull Size Console Silvertone Equipped With Silvertone Tubes Complete—Delivered and Installed Also Sold on jl H 0 AJ* Easy Terms— > IUA $5 Down, Then s / ksjf c Plus . a See We believe this is without doubt the outstanding Listen to any other make of radio costing $75 to SIOO, then come and hear this marvelous Silvertone, take the dial, note the ease with which stations are “cut out”—try the wonderful tone-con-trol, see the beauty of the rich walnut veneered cabinet, and you will be amazed at its volume and Saturday Ends the Sale of These Fine Radios at This Super Sale Price! Sold With Sears* Guarantee, \ “Satisfaction or Money Back" —Sears’ Basement.

Guaranteed Elgin Watches for Men and Women Half Price! Less Than Half Regular $25 and $27.50 Sears’ paid cash for 15,000 of these fine 7-jewel Elgin Watches.! Every Watch new, first quality and guaranteed. —For Christmas Gifts ■—For Graduation Gifts —For Yourself! A small down payment will hold one of these Watches for you. Choose Saturday. —Sears’ first floor.

Saturday—Last Day of the “Super Value” Sale! Oriental Reproductions 9x12 Seamless American Orientals These rugs of heavy weave are outstanding values in our f fl • Super Value Sale. M I The rich, glowing colors of the Far East J „ . are lavishly used in these exact copies of Priru priceless Oriental rugs. Purchased to fill an Increasing demand for “color-on-the- . floor,” priced amazingly low for Super Vlaue Days. Seamless, fringed and closely woven of blended yams. Woven on Axminster looms. The colors go through to the back and will give years of lasting service. And Here*s Another Marvelous Value! Seamless Axminsters Standard Quality — 9xl2 Feet Another wonderful “Super Value” offering. Per- fig feet quality seamless Axminsters — all wool, * B iß*—Bh Jr choice new patterns in Persian and Chinese B BL—■— l effects. The quality for which one usually pays B Cash $21.50 or more. WL Price Fine Royal Wilton Rugs Beautiful 9x12 all-wool rugs of superior ft PJB f quality. The new Persian and Chinese patterns are unsually attractive and . JW' ’B CMh , rich in their new color combinations. pri ce Ask About Our Easy Payment Plan! —Sears’ Second Floor

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For Saturday—The Last Dayl* These Big Aluminum Roasters IBV2 Inches Long 11 Inches Wide * 7 Inches Deep M Just the right size for a nice, plump, 10-pound turkey orroast. Self-basting cover, cooks to a delicious golden brown and retains all the flavor. Serve Delicious Coffee The Dripolator Made in a dripolator, your coffee will be a rich, amber | QQ color with all of its natur- *** I al aroma. 6-cup size. JL 6-Qt. Cookers • It's really amazing that one may buy a fine alumi- f-wrv num cooker with steel base Ip I UU and inset pan at this price. jp Saturday only. —Sears’ Basements .