Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1934 — Page 5

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It fee/m to Me HEYMI® BWN YORK, July 16.—‘ Our people must be fed and clothed; they must be afforded tire opthese thhy *v an dm r - sary for the;r health and comfort.” It seems to me that Angelo J. Rossi, San Francisco's mayor, does not quite get the Idea. A general strike is a trial by fire. It is a sort of warfare. If the community is able to go along unhampered in its access to both neces'ities and comforts there would be no logic whatsoever tn a general strike. It o .ght to be noted that under the stress of conflict the union members and their wives ar.d children are subjected to precisely the same strain which fails upon the rest of their fellow citizens. As far as I know, there is no feasible way atf getting groceries exclusively to those

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who are on the side of labor. It comes down to tins: The union members say in effect, “We arc so convinced of the righteousness and justice of our cause that we will go cold and hungry and uncomfortable under the conditions of a general strike in order to prove our sincerity. We feel that we will be fed by our enthusiasm, warmed by our realization that the weapon we have taken up wa.% inevitable and rendered callmu.s to discomfort by the thought that only through this strife can equity be obtained We can

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take it. We doubt if our enemies are equally equipped in the matter of clear conscience.” A general .strike, of course. Is a cumbersome weapon of the blonder bus variety. Certain wholly Innocent bystanders are certain to get Hiit. Yet. at the moment it is hard to think of any substitute arrangement which will test as scanrhingly the merits of the controversy between the workers and the employers. j mam Find n True Sen trail UNDOUBTEDLY the argument willibe raised that the union men should have submitted their to arbitration. On this point it is well to note the fact that in the matter of the "hiring halls” the steamship owners first refused arbitration and then, most belatedly, consented. But I am willing to go further than that. I think trad* -union men arc justified in ttieir strong susp i ion that arbitration in reality in much less fair than it may sound in theory. The general formula is that tlie union shall have its unit of representation, the employer an equal voting strength, and that the parties shall mutually agree upon a third so-called neutral, or disinterested, person who is to hold the casting vote. That sounds as right as rain and as fair as a and . but the setup is worthy of examination. In the first place the true neutral is one of the rarest animals which walks the earth. Any lawyer, or anybody Who has ever served upon a ;rv. can tr.tify that once deliberations begin it will be revealed that the twelve impartial citizens i ho.-en for the task ride along immediately upon their preconceived notions. Every one of us is filled with prejudices and emotional commitments which he can not shake of! at a moment's notice no matter how hard he may try. The .©-called neutral on a labor arbitration board generally is a di tmeuishcd citizen, chosen because he is a liberal in politics and a fair-minded man in practice. In cases of monstrous abuses he may come through and decide for labor. But if the employer . much as a single leg to stand on in his contention your neutral arbitrator is ever so likely to supply the missing limb for the side of capital. mom Sot n Theory , n Fact IAM not arguing a theory. I am pointing out a fact whit n has been made palpable in hundreds of controversies. These disinterested functionaries are not rascals nor villians. Like the piano player in the venerable anecdote they are doing the best they can. And so I would not shoot them. I just wouldn't have them around. Few men, if any. can understand the point of view of groups with whose problems they have had no personal experience. Sirpposc, for instance, some highly respectable lawyer is chosen to have the vital say in a dispute between ship owners and memin question never has been engaged in either pursuit.-but the language and the psychology of the employing group is so much closer to his own than that offered by the workers that he is likely to decide against them. It may be that A. Lawrence Lowell, the former president of Harvard university, had an entirely clear conscience after he had decided against the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler. But he ,-t didn't know what they were all about. Possibly lus failure was not one of heart, but actually was a defect in mental alertness. The president of Harvard university was not sufficiently educated to pass properly upon a case involving two workers. I ine that the trades unionists of San Francisco And themselves in a situation in which they feel that they must say. "This is not an issue for neutrals.” I think that they are right. tCep' right. !Mt. bv The Times!

Your Health r.Y UK. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IDON T believe it is necessary to remind you how important it is to have real physical education to be healthful and get the most work and pleasure out of your body. Bv physical education I mean not only calisthenics and muscular exercise, but also instructions in the ways of health and indeed everything that relates to the body. As I have mentioned many Himes previously, a high percentage of our children ic the public schools suffer from defects that are easily correctable, such :v„ . riti .. bad teeth, infected tonsils ar.d aricv fective vision and hearing!* and occasionally licart disease and tuberculosis. If you can uncover these-diseases early and take all possible proper steps toward corncctmg them, or overcoming them, your children' should benefit enormously. a a a \ PHYSICIAN in the Pittsburgh public schools observed the 14 and 15-year-old bwys and girls, over a ten-year period from 1923 to 193d. and found that their average weight increased five pounds and thirteen ounces, and their average heiglat increased two-tliirds of an inch. This may be taken as a general effect of the application of new knovuledge regarding health and physicial education. While the middle-aged person of today breaks down because of overwork of the heart, kidneys, and circulation of the blood., this Pittsburgh physician believes that the present generation when greyvn will suffer less from such breakdowns, because of better preparation through the means of modem liealth education a a a \S a result of proper attention to correctable de- . sects through tiie teaching of good hygidme habits and by use of suitably organized physical training, the adolescent of today will develop strong musculature, co-ordination of movement, and a better balanced nervous mechanism. From what we know of the causes of breakdown in middle age. the removal of diseased tonsils, and the building of greater resistance to infection must influence favorably the incidence of generative disektes.

WINE, WHISKY—AND THE WOMEN!

Fairer Sex Can Outdrink Mere Males, City Bartenders Testify

BY GRENVILLE MOTT Timet Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS men carry their liquor better than they did before the dry era—and Indianapolis women carry their liquor better than Indianapolis men. Such is the verdict of local barkeepers who again ply the trade they followed before the dark days from 1919 to 1934! - First to be interviewed was a young bartender of pleasant demeanor who had broker, into the business in a speakeasy. "Trade,” he commented, “is swell.” "The boys and girls have plenty of money and they spend It. Very few of them get objectionably drunk.” "What do you do when they do get drunk?” “We stop selling to them,” was the reply. “Doesn't that make them sore?” he was asked. “Not often,” replied the barkeeper. “Os course, occasionally a drur.k gets tough. One pulled a gun on me when I refused to sell him the other night,” he continued reflectively. “What did you do?” “I took it away from him.” answered the barkeep as he measured the lime into a Tom Collins for a thirsty customer. Have him pinched?'’ asked the reporter while he listened to the gin splash into the lime juice, and contemplated the wonders of

a speakeasy school for barkeeps. “Naw,” was the reply. "He came and got the gun next morning when he was sober.” “Oh,” said the interrogator; and then, “What's your best selling drink?” “Old fashioneds,” was the answer. “Any on the house?” “None on the house.” "I'll be seeing you,” said the reporter. mam THE next barkeep was concocting a whisky sour which the reporter eyed thoughtfully. "Before prohibition I worked twelve years at the Denison bar and then at the old house and the Brevoort. Now we sell little but mixed drinks. There’s a reason, of course,” he explained. "In those days the whisky we dispensed went down like velvet. This stuff.” he continued, gazing dourly at the bottle in his hand, “has to be disguised. It'll be a long time before we sell much straight whisky again.” “Looks all right to me.” said the reporter pointing at the bottle in his hand. “Forty cents for a sour,” stated the barkeeper. “Never drink on duty,” said the reporter quickly, and then, changing the subject. "Do you have many funny customers?” “Not near as funny as they think they are.” observed the bartender. "Os course there were the tws guys who insisted they w r ere

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ww rASHINGTON, July 16—The money situation in the joint ReW publican congressional campaign committee has become extremely precarious. In fact, the committee is broke. Organized last winter for the purpose of waging a militant drive lo wrest congressional control from the New Deal in this year’s elections, leaders of the movement began with high-flown campaign schemes. A war-chest of $500,000 was to be raised to finance their operations. Months have passed, and the exchequer is emptier today than when they began. Not only have no funds been raised, but considerable debts have been incurred in salaries, rent, and other expenses. The committee is so hard up that it is making piteous appeals to Republican senators and representatives for donations to meet office costs.

Chief blame for this sad state of affairs is placed on the pudgy shoulders of roly-poly Senator Dan Hastings, head of the senate division of the committee. On the basis of seniority, and past party activities, the place really should have gone to lowa's statuesque Senator Dickinson. He was very eager to have it. But Hastings, coming from Delaware, where rules supreme the mighty House of Dupont, put forward the claim that he could produce largess from his political overlords. So Dickinson was pushed aside and the job given Hastings. To date he hasn’t produced a thin dime from the Duponts, or any other big money source. He has made a number of frantic fund-seeking trips to New York, and other centers, but all in vain. Unless a sugar daddy is found quickly it is not unlikely that the committee will pass out of the picture as far as an active role in the congressional campaign is concerned. This will bring no tears to the eyes of the reviving Republican national committee. 808 THE' new securities exchange commission received a snappy lesson at its first meeting on how to stop gambling. While the five members of the agency were deliberating who would be chairman of the body, a group of correspondents covering the story started a brisk craps game. Conducted on the front stoop of the temporary war building, which houses the federal trade commission. the game became so exciting it disturbed the conference that was going on just inside. Youthful Jim Landis, brain trust member of the commision, stuck his head out of the window. Just as he aid so an outraged Washington copper swooped down on the crap shooters, snatched up the dice and several dimes, issued a threatening warning, and stalked off. •Ha. ha!” gibed the grinning Landis. “Let that be a lesson to you!” 1 "Yes. sir,” batted back one of the scribes, "and let that be a lesson to the commission on how to stop Wall Street gambling if it really wants to.” a a a SOME people thought that Andy Mellon, aluminum king of America, was a potent influence in the Harding-Coelidge-Hoover administrations. Unquestionably he was. But his influence has not waned. It is just as strong under Roosevelt. Take the case of the NRA code for the aluminum industry. It is a story every household should know. Just one year ago, the Mellon aluminum company, which controls raw aluminum, proposed a code to General Johnson. Parts of it were opposed by the small manufacturers of pots and pans. They have to buy raw aluminum from Mellon. So they proposed: 1. That the Mellon giant be required to charge its fabricating subsidiaries the same price for raw materials that it charged competitors.

Paul Revere. They mounted the bar and kept shouting, ‘The red coats are coming. To arms, embattled farmers.’ We had to embattle ’em out of here. “I heard later that they went to another place and mounted the bar there, too. They were having the Kentucky Derby this time. But the one behind got sore because the one in front always came in first. Claimed he was cheating and the race was fixed. Almost ended in a fight, but they got pinched, instead.” mam THE next bartender had worked in the Hoff bra u House in Ft. Wayne, prior to prohibition. He repeated a statement the reporter had heard at every previous bar. “The men behave better now that the women are in the saloons with them,” he said, reaching for the vermouth. “They don’t swear and they don’t holler and they don’t tell dirty jokes any more. No more fights, either.” he continued, as he poured in the rye and began shaking. “It’s a great improvement.” The thirsty reported gulped as he watched a cherry slide to the bottom of the Manhattan. “Most of the gals,” he continued, “can drink better than the men these days. Why, I have seen women come in here and have a scotch highball, a martini, a sherry, some ale. a side-car, a gin fizz, a sazarac, and top them all

2. That the Mellon subsidiaries not be permitted to sell their pots and pans at cutthroat prices. For eleven months the battle raged. No other code consumed half so much time. Finally, just a few days ago, the Blue Eagle hatched the aluminum egg. It was an addled product. Point No. 1 was granted. Mellon's firm was required to charge the same price to its own subsidiaries as to competitors. But point No. 2 was not. There was no provision that the Mellon trust could not cut prices under the little fellows. B B B SIMULTANEOUS with Roosevelt’s visit in the Virgin islands, native high school teachers were using Mrs. Roosevelt's book, “It's Up to the Women,” to make three meals for six people at a cost $2. . . . The American embassy in Berlin has reason to doubt that the telegrams alleged to have been sent by Hindenburg supporting Hitler at the height of the latters “purging” were ever seen by Hindenburg. . . . Brazil has finally sent an efficient envoy to the United States. He is charming Charge d'Affairs Cyro de Freitas Valle. His colleagues resent the fact that he gets to work before noon. iCopvrisht. 1034. bv United Feature Syndicate Inc.t cure Ton bottles is EFFECTIVE ON AUG. 1 Government to Certify Liquor Containers on Drive. By Cnitrrt Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—Government control over manufacture, sale and use of liquor bottles as another step in curbing bootlegging will become effective Aug. 1, the treasury department announced today After that date liquor bottle manufacturers will be required to obtain a government permit. They will not be permitted to deliver liquor bottles to distillers, rectifiers, importers or wholesale dealers unless buyers have been certified by the treasury department. HITLER WRATH FALLS ON 3 NAZI TROOPERS Severe Penalties Given Trio for Beating Man to Death. By Unitfd Press WIESBADEN, Germany, July 16. —Three Storm Troopers were the first victims today of Chancelor Adolf Hitler's decree that punishi ment of Nazis for law violations must be more severe than that of J non-Nazis. The Storm Troopers drew sentences of ten, seven and six years' imprisonment for forcing an inhabitant of Idstein, accused of embezzlement, to wear a placard denouncing himself as a betrayer of the people and beating him so badly that he died in hospital. Eight other persons implicated in the affair were given sentences ranging from six months to four years.

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Obviously delighted at the advent of anew era, Tiff Hessling, barkeeper at the Claypool bar in the Coffee shop, pours three beers for satisfied c ustomers. Mr. Hessling is a veteran of the preprohibition era. and before “the drought” served successively at the Denison, Frank Walker’s, and the Brevoort, all bars of distinction twenty-five years ago. He can tell you more stories than you can shake a stiek at.

off with some champagne and walk out feelmg as good as you would with that much water in your stomach.” The reporter patiently, hopefully and firmly explained that that much water in his stomach was not calculated to make him feel good at all. “Well,” said the barkeep. “we sell all kinds of first-rate drinks here.” *.* a a r T''HE proprietor in the next place also was acting as one of the barkeepers. He was not in a happy frame of mind. “Our margin of profit is the smallest of any retail trade in the city,” he groaned. “It’s terrible. And now they’re threatening to set Morrissey and his Cossacks on us. I’m about ready to hang up the ‘closed’ sign.

CITY DIRECTORY CITES INCREASE 1934 Indianapolis Figures Show Population and Business Gains. Increased population and greater diversity of business activities are indicated by the 1934 city directory, just published by the R. L. Polk & Cos. An increase of approximately 10,000 names, bringing the total adults listed to 209.248, has resulted in a substantially larger edition of the book. Features of the directory are an extended history of Indianapolis with new illustrations, lists of government officials, a householders’ guide, and a name list providing the only “who’s who” of all adults. "Beer,” “Brewers,” “Liquors” and “Wines” once more are to be found among the business enterprises as listed in the 1934 edition. Beech Grove, Broad Ripple, Speedway City, University Heights and Woodruff Place are included in the directory as usual. There will be the customary distribution of the new edition to free directory libraries in all leading cities of the United States and Canada, the publishers said. OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY REPUBLICAN CLUB E. M. Tuffcr Elected Head of Ninth Ward Group. E. M. Huffer has been elected president of the Ninth Ward Republican Club. Other officers are: Mrs. Walter White, first vice-president; Harold Eastman, second vice-president; Frank McKinzie, third vice-presi-dent; John Lowry, recording secretary; Harry Henschen. treasurer; W. H. Skinner, corresponding secretary; William Smith, sergeant-at-arms, and Sidney Horn, parliamentarian.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark 7VR^,:.S:' A'' f. f /* <CJE <*ic U 5 VC**e r f* ? Y

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“We sell plenty,” was the explanation, “but we don't make anything on it. “The greatest thing that ever happened to us,” continued the proprietor more cheerfully, “is this drinking sitting down. In the old days they stood up and had one or two shots and left. Now they come in an sit down for one drink. A friend sits down with them. The next thing they know' they have downed ten or twelve, and four hours later, most of their dough is gone.” Most of the gloom had been dissipated during this recital of glad tidings. It seemed that running a saloon could not be so bad after all. “What do you sell the most of?” “Soft drinks,” was the reply. “Nuts,” said the reporter. “Well, maybe that isn’t the pre-

TEN BUTLER U. FUNDS TO FINANCE STUDENTS Six Endowments, Four Scholarships Cited in Catalog. Six endowed loan funds and four scholarship funds amounting to $63,000 are available to aid deserving students at Butler university, according to the catalog being sent to prospective students this week. These include the Edward W. Sawyer bequest of $50,000 for junior and senior men, the $5,500 Mrs. Ruth French fund for women, the Arthur Baxter $1,200 fund, the One hundred thirty-ninth field artillery fund of $930, the $531 Philo Sherman Bennet fund and the Miss Roda. Selleck fund of $2,500 for art students. FERA AID FOB I. UNDENTS 471 at College to Benefit by Part-Time Work Authorization. Authorization of federal emergency relief administration funds for providing part-time employment for 471 Indiana university students during the coming school year was announced today. The university’s quota is based on a maximum of 12 per cent of the full-time enrollment, the maximum rate to each student so employed to be sls per month. Anew provision in the student relief regulations is that at least half the funds must be alloted to students who were not registered in any college or university on Jan. 1, 1934. This will encourage entrance of more new students. An important requirement is that routine work that would have to be carried on anyhow shall not be financed from FERA funds. Violation of the spirit of this provision shall be cause for withdrawal of the school's entire allotment.

cise truth,” said the proprietor, “but we do sell lots of it. Some of it goes at lunch time to people whose bosses won’t let them drink during working hours; and then you'd be surprised how many people bring their own jugs and put a slug in a soft drink because it’s cheaper. We charge them 10 cents for the drink and let it go at that. Actually, I suppose, we sell more beer than anything else.” “Ever any on the house for weary representatives of the press,” asked the reporter, reverting in desperation and without subtlety to a subject very close to his heart. “Give the gentleman a bottle of soda pop, Oscar,” said the proprietor. “What the—,” gasped the despairing reporter fishing a dime from his pocket, “Gimme a beer.”

19-GUN SALUTE FOR GOVERNOR McNutt to Get Military Reception at World's Fair Fete. BY MRS. MAURICE MURPHY Times Special Writer CHICAGO, July 16.—A military reception by the army, navy and marines, stationed at Camp Franklin D, Roosevelt, on the exposition grounds, will be given Governor Paul V. McNutt, upon his arrival at the world's fair Thursday. A nineteen-gun salute will be fired as he enters the court of honor by way of the Fourteenth street entrance to the fair. Following the ceremony, Governor McNutt and his party will be greeted by Rufus C. Dawes, president of the exposition, and other world’s fair officials. They will be honor guests at luncheon in the trustees’ room in the Administration building. After the luncheon there will probably be an informal tour of the exposition grounds. The party will include the Governor and Mrs. McNutt, and daughter Louise, Thomas Taggart, Miss Lucy Taggart and Dr. Carlton B. McCullough. They will stay at the Blackstone hotel. BUDGET DATES LISTED BY TAXPAYERS’ GROUP Citizens Advised to Scan Estimates Closely This Year. A calendar of dates when local budgets must be prepared and advertised was made public yesterday by the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. Accompanying the calendar was a warning that taxpayers should make a careful study of requests for money because “of the tendency to spend ourselves back to prosperity.” Preparations of estimates by township and county officials are to be made before Aug. 9. with first publication of budgets to be made on or before Aug. 17. Annual meeting of the county council to discuss the budget will be held Sept 4. CROW-KILLING CONTEST IN STATE ENDS TODAY Sanborn Club Apparently Has Safe Lead for Honors. The crow killing contest sponsored by the conservation department, was to close at noon today. Winners will be announced as soon as final tabulations are complete. The Sanborn Conservation Club, Knox county, held an apparently safe lead at the last report on Saturday with 17,298 crows’ feet to their credit. The Rocklane club was second with 14,612. and the Frankfort Gun Club was third with 13,790 feet. Each of the ten high clubs will receive cash awards and the four high counties will be given pheasants for liberation in suitable cover. 3 KNIFED IN BRAWL; SUSPECT IS ARRESTED Altercation Over Nurse Ends in Bloodshed. Police today were investigating a stabbing affray that occurred yesterday at 519 West Washington street. Claude Murphy, 28, of 935 West j Pearl street, is held in connection I with the brawl, which resulted in knife injuries for Harley Goble, 22, army private, Ft. Benjamin Harrisen; Mike Strader, 40, of 426 West Pearl street, and Waneta Mayer, 21, of Lawrence, Ind. The injured were treated at city hospital and taken home. An altercation over a nurse is said by police to have caused the fracas.

Fdir Enough WESTBROOK PEdLtR NEW YORK, July 16.—There was a licensed liquor store across the street and, as we sat in the restaurant near the window, drinking iced coffee in the middle of the afternoon, people went past the liquor store but nobody went in. Nobody even stopped to ogle the beautiful bottles in the window display. Inside the store, the young man in charge of the place was unpacking a crate and shoving the bottles into the blanks in a honeycomb rack which covered the back wall of the room.

It was a liquor store somewhat on the order of those in Havana which the American tourists used to crowd into as soon as they could unload themselves from the dry' American boats and wiggle through the customs. It was not much different from the quay-side liquor stores in Bermuda in which the American tourists used to go shopping just before they shoved off for home. Then they would worry all the fun out of the return cruise, thinking of the dreadful hour to come at the United States customs and jumble up their baggage, trying to hide bottles

of curacao and Scotch and brandy and such trifles as strawberry'and banana liqueur among their laundry. The stewardesses would confide to the lady passengers that they had special form-fitting aprons , for sale, with pockets in them to be worn underneath, suitable for the concealment of six flasks. The gents sometimes came ashore, wearing golf bloomers, of all things, and the customs people would nudge them and the bottles would clank faintly. Then it was “step this way, please, and remove your bloomers,” and when the passengers had all cleared and the fines had been paid at $5 a bottle, regardless of size or contents, the customs men would smash the treasure against the sides of the ship. At any they would smash enough of it to make a loud clatter and a showing. a a m Remember the Old Days 1 SUCH bottles were jewelry then, but now the Americans, on the own home grounds, were walk- \ ing quickly and unconcernedly past the wundow dis- j play and paying no more attention than they would have paid to so much ketchup. Moreover, there was a bar next door to the restaurant where w’e sat drinking iced coffee and w r ith Americans by the hundred thousand from whom to draw patronage, the bar had no quorum. Nobody sang "Sweet Adeline,” which was the alma mater song of the American tourists in the days when they pigged it at Sloppy Joe’s. What on earth do you suppose has ever become of all those private bars w'hich the citizens were builc.ing into their new homes in the suburbs in those days. The private bar in the home was a greater problem than people thought, because it involved a con- ’ tinuing obligation to keep a stock on hand. Not only of the homely essentials, which are whisky and gin, but also of alcoholic fancyw'ork such as creme de menthe, sloe gin, rum and a few bottles of champagne for important guests who might decide to place a big order w'ith your firm. It also tended to establish the home as a sort of roadhouse and brought friends dropping in, gay and expectant, at inopportune times. a a a It’s Strange Story at That THE carpenters working on suburban dwellings learned many sly tricks of concealment. They could fix you up a loose board in the staircase which swung free if you pressed a jigger and revealed a cache big enough to accommodate six cases of Canadian pints, or you could have a trick panel in the wall, adapted from the old King Brady mysteries, which would open on hinges if you jabbed a special nail into a special nailhole, releasing the catch. Then you saw shelves of beautiful liquor which filled the guests with awe or set them to bragging of their own supplies. In some cases the treasure was walled up completely in the structure of the house, like documents in a corner stone against that final, terrible day when prohibition, at last, would become absolute and there would be no more current supplies for sale. This story has no moral and gets nowhere. It just seemed strange to be sitting there over iced coffee, peering at the store across the street, the realization of a beautiful dream and years of fighting and longing, and at people hurrying by and nobody even pausing to flatten a nose against the window and exclaim: “Oh, liquor.” (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THERE are so many things to be considered in seeking a remedy for inflammation of the intestines that a careful study of every case is essential. Unless your doctor, in this way, determines the causes that are to be eliminated, there is a tendency in some types of cases to become chronic. This is particularly true in cases associated with a wrong diet, especially when the diet contains too much sugar and starch. If the trouble continues for a time, or becomes chronic, there is great loss of weight, with changes in the reaction of the body, and with other complications. You can easily recognize the griping colic, which doubles a person over, as a symptom of inflammation of the intestines. Along with this symptom, however, there is headache, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, and, because of the pouring of water out of the body, intense thirst. The exceedingly numerous actions of the bowel and their watery character is a conspicuous symptom. Incidentally, a great deal of gas forming in the bowels tends to cause bloating and pain. a a a FROM the nature of the symptoms, certain simple treatments are apparent. Rest of the bowel by control of the diet is necessary. Rest of the whole body is also desirable. If you will go to bed and apply some heat to the abdomen in the form of an electric pad, a hot water bag, or any other method, you will experience a good deal of relief. It is not well to drive the bowel with strong cathartics until possibilities of appendicitis or peritonitis have been definitely eliminated. It is not, therefore, safe to take castor oil or any similar strong cathartic when suffering with intestinal pain. In many instances, washing of the bowel from below by an enema of slightly warm salt solution is a comforting measure which can do little harm, but even this simple measure should not be employed if there is the slightest doubt of an infection of the appendix or any other infection within the abdomen. B B B DOCTORS who take care of babies usually stop all food for twenty-four hours in the presence of symptoms of this condition, but see to it that the child has a little unsweetened tea or other fluid, such as barley water or rice water. After the symptoms have disappeared, the diet is expanded by a little gruel, toast, gelatin, or soft boiled rice. Then skimmed milk can be added, with perhaps a little white meat of chicken, and finally a smooth diet is taken, including strained vegetables and similar soft food substances. Many drugs can be prescribed in such cases to control action of the bow-el, but it is not safe to take any of these drugs except under the advice of a doctor who understands the condition.

Questions and Answers

Q —Where is the source of the Hudso- River and how long is the river? A—The source is in the Adirondack mountains near Newcomb, Essex county, in fourteen small lakes, 2.000 feet above tide-water, and 6,000 acres in area. The Hudson flows generally south and empties into New York bay, distant about 250 miles in a straight line and about 315 miles measured along the river course.

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