Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1933 — Page 5

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—Dietz on Science —

TINY MICROBES' POWER SECRET IS IN NUMBERS Bacteria Thousands Could Be Placed in Line One Inch Long. BY DAVID DIKTZ Srripin Howard Scirnrr Editor Every one knows that microbes Bre very small, but it is doubtful if many have any notion of their exact SiZC. Bacteriologists, to simplify their statistics, have invented their own standard of length for measuring germs. It is known as the micron.” and in scientific literature is indicated by the Greek letter “mu." the equivalent of our "m." An average sized bacterium is about one micron in length. A micron. we should hasten to add. is approximately 1-25.000 th of an inch. It is exactly 1-I,oooth of a millimeter. However, microbes vary greatly in size. Professor Stanhope Bayne Jones points out in his newly published “Man and Microbes” that there is far greater variety in size among microbes than human beings. Marvel at Smallness “Giant and pygmies are more I nearly of a size than some of the j giant microbes and their tiny associates," he writes. “Every one who has worked with ! microbes has marveled at the small- j ness of their size and has tried to compare familiar objects with them. “This usually leads to the ridiculous use of figures which once ended with the statement that if all the statisticians were laid end to end it. would be a very good thing, indeed.' Nevertheless, Professor BayneJones proceeds - to give us a statisical comparison himself. He asks us to imagine 25.000 soldiers drawn up in a single rank with an allowance of eighteen inches for each man. This would form a line about seven and onefourth miles long. Equals Weight of Water “Suppose next,” he says, “that some omnipotent general officer from headquarters should command 'Dwindle' and that, at the word of command, each soldier would shrink to the width of an average bacterium, one micron, and close up to his neighbor. “Their line would then be about one inch long. “Twenty-five thousand typhoid germs could lie comfortably side by side in an inch.” In general, a microbe weighs just B little more than a drop of water of the same volume, Professor Bayne-Jones continues. This means that it would take 823,000,000 microbes each with a volume of one cubic micrort to weigh one milligram. This number would have to be multiplied by 28,300 to get the number of bacteria needed to weigh an ounce. (There are 28,300 milligrams in an ounce.) Microbes weigh so little more than water because about 80 per cent of the bulk of a microbe is made up of water. It, is astonishing, Professor Bnyne-Jones tells us, how - little solid matter there is in a microbe. “The figures show' that a living germ is not apt to need a great bulk of food,” he adds, “and they give us a hint that microbes must depend upon numbers to do the tremendous thing they accomplish.” LENTEN SPEAKER HERE Evanston Minister to C onduct Services at Christ Church. Noon-day Lenten services this week at Christ church will be conducted by the Rev. Harold L. Bowen, rector of St. Mark's church. Evanston, 111. His first sermon will be given Tuesday noon. He will speak each following day cf the week except Saturday.

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LABOR SLOWS RAIL SCHEMES Protests Against Throwing Men Out of Work by “Economies’ Score. BY MARSHALL M'NEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 3—Labor’s protests against “economies” that would throw' more men out of work definitely have slowed down the President’s railroad conference which resumed its session here today. ft appears that the final plan to be submitted to President. Roosevelt and by him to congress will revolve about the appointment of a federal co-ordinator whose business will be to eliminate wasteful services and practices of the carriers. But such a plan will be unsuccessful and actually detrimental, railway labor has told the President and his conference, unless rehabilitation of the railroads themselves, and a large public works program are undertaken simultaneously. It reliably was estimated today for the first time that 800 million dollars to one billion dollars could be spent by the railroads in deferred maintenance and general rehabilitation to bring their plants up to par for safety and efficiency. Tue conferees today, headed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, railway operators, economists and bankers. Dr. W. M. W. Splawn of the house interstate and foreign committee, labor representatives, and L. F. Loree of the Delaware & Hudson. were to discuss again the plans before them. There seemed slight possibility of a final agreement soon. MAKES TWO ENDS MEET Gunman Robs Two Street Car Men at Both Terminals of Line. Nineteen minutes sufficed for a Negro gunman to rob two IndianaColumbia avenue street car operators Sunday night at both terminals of the line. Boarding an inbound car at West and Thirtieth streets, the Negro menaced William Croswell, 921 Highland avenue, operator, with a gun and relieved him of approximately $25 and his money changer. Nineteen minutes later the Negro entered an outbound car at Columbia avenue and Twenty-third street, and again using a handkerchief mask and his gun, robbed operator Earl Ritter. 1434 East Eleventh street, of S2O.

THE NORTH ATLANTIC is the only area w'here icebergs offer a serious menace, although a few Antarctic bergs do invade the ship lanes on the western side of Cape Horn, South America. In the North Pacific few icebergs ever get to the open sea, most of them breaking up in the bays where they were set adrift. NEXT—What bird sits down? There are about 217.000 Indians in the United States.

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PARTY SOLIDLY BEHIND REPEAL M’NUTT ORDER Every Loyal Democrat to Back Platform Pledge, Governor Declares. “Both the state and national Democratic platforms called for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and it is logical that the party or- : ganization should work for that end.” That is the program laid down by Governor Paul V. McNutt, who has established a unique record by forcing the legislature to carry out every platform pledge. Perhaps for the first time in Indiana political history, a party enacted its platform into law r , it is pointed out. So, when Arthur Branam, Monroe county Democratic chairman, charged Sunday that he was ousted as automobile license plate distribu- j tor because he was working against l repeal, he w r as telling at least a “half truth,’’ McNutt forces admitted today. Tlie other half is that Branam I was an appointee of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., is charged with failing to keep a promise made to the McNutt faction and forced to pay the penalty by forfeiting all patronage. Branam joined forces with the Republican county chairman to work against repeal. Dr. William Low r e Bryan, president of Indiana university, where McNutt w'as dean of law r , is to be one of the dry delegates. The regular Democratic organization is expected to oppose election of all drys and back the wet side in the election, set tentatively for June 6. It is this “party responsibility” that also is being used to explain why the monopolistic imported beer

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Walter J. Cummings, Chicago utilities magnate, is under consideration for the post of assistant secretary of the treasury. There are three such posts, each in charge of important functions of the department. permits have been awarded as Democratic plums. One of the McNutt leaders explained it this way: “Although the Republican party platform in Indiana called for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, j the politicians in their campaign fell back on their old dry support—the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U„ and the like. "The 'huge Democratic majority j in both houses repealed the Wright ‘bone-dry’ law and passed the beer control bill. They kept their platform pledge and assumed responsibility. “Isn’t it logical, therefore, that since they are taking the blame for making Indiana wet, they should receive any benefits which might occur? “If they turned the control over to Republicans, they might purposely mess it up so that they could blame the Democrats and w'in the next election.”

WAR VETERAN CUT SCHEDULE AWAITED HERE Ale Unable to Determine Effect Until Study of President's Order. Until the entire text of the veterans "economy" edict if the President is in the hands of John H. Ale. manager of the regional division of the United States veterans' bureau, he will not be able to determine the effect on the local hospital or affairs of the regional office. Tire hospital and office are on Cold Spring road. “The new' rating schedule for disabilities, hospitalization and pensions should arrive from Washington by Wednesday or Thursday. It will be Monday before w'e wall be able to put the new r ratings into effect to determine their meaning to Indiana,” Ale said. Any order to close the local hospital is not expected for several months. “The Washington offices of the bureau will want time to study the economy act before closing hospitals.” Ale said. The Cold Springs road hospital - is

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WOMAN KILLED IN MYSTERIOUS BLAST Rear of Portland Home Is Demolished in Tragedy. Hi/ l niled F’>a>i PORTLAND Ind . April 3.—Mrs. Clara Gregory. 55. was killed instantly early today when a mysterious gas explosion demolished the rear of her home here. Relatives found the body clothed in a night dress. They were unable to explain her presence in the kitchen long before her usual hour for arising.

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