Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1934 — Page 17

It Seems to Me mil BROUN ¥ AM a great deal less than an expert on the words * and the works of Gertrude Stein. My slight acquaintance with her prose is limited practically to occasional excerpts printed in the papers and these never are used to her advantage. In addition to straight quotation. Journalistic commentators are fond of parodizing the style of the visiting author. The trick, they seem to feel, is nothing more than a repetition of some key word. Thus I read in a news account that a lecture audience went away disap-

pointed because. “Their education, their education had been sadly neglected. neglected ” I doubt if the cadences which Miss Stein seeks are quite as simple as all that. Nor am I disposed to believe that she merely is a literary freak whose claim to fame rests upon her verbal eccentricities. After all I am aware of the fact that Sherwood Anderson has acknowledged his debt to the school of Gertrude Stem and that other authors- who are accepted readily have been in some way or other influenced by her experiments. It may well be that pupils through

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eertain modifications have made more of the manner than their master. If Gertrude Stein's contention may be reduced to the argument that words have sound as well as meaning and that it is a worthy task to find sequences which fall pleasantly upon the ear then I can not see why anybody should hold this effort to be ridiculous. a a m Something Like It Seeded OF course you may say that sometimes sound and sense walk hand in hand like cross-country runners in a dead heat. But there surely is need in a world where Hemingways roar and Sinclair Lewises lurk to make some return in the direction of ornamentation. I would have no living author pitch his tent just across from the graveyard where Addison and Macaulay sleep. It is not well that ever again the writing of prase should be a slack wire act with balance as its major goal. But now and again the modern author justifiably might pay an annual pilgrimage to place a wreath upon the grave of some long gone fancier of tripping verbs and adjectives. There was a day when written and spoken English seemed as far apart as the languages of the mandarins. And when I read a book in which folk speak I like to find them using some of the humdrum expressions which would be their own in case they took on mortality and lifted up the printed page and walked. Still the great painter towers over the photographer by at least a cubit and the writer who can channel the common talk of men into small brooks and singing rivers is no mere fluff with laced sleeves and collar. Surely a literary reaction is not amiss in a world which tends to accept "Oh. yeah!” as an epigram and. "nerts” as a jewel of wit. In certain practical respects Gertrude Stein seems to me sensible enough. For instance, there has been scorn and laughter over her rule limiting an audience to five hundred Miss Stein has explained that she does not feel It possible to interest a greater number at any single lecture. a a a Hr nun Knotts, Too AS one used to the stump and platform I feel that this limitation is ambitious enough in all reason. The speaker who can interest ten or twelve generally is going pretty well. The best speech I ever made was delivered to an audience of three and even that fell far short of those soliloquies in which I sometimes indulge to lessen solitude. Chiefly I am moved to the support of Gertrude Stein because I bridle at the popular habit of making some member of a minority group a joke on no better basis than the lack of willingness to conform. The person in literature or politics or painting who goes off on a tangent is. of course, not necessarily right. He may be a genius or merely a little man following a whim. But even when his excursion is of no consequence I don't see him as funny. There is in my mind a definitely heroic quality in the individual who sets off to discover some new passage to the Indies. Columbus would have been a great man even if he had failed to find America and had dropped over the edge of a flat world kerplunk upon the back of some giant turtle. The logical butt of jokes and quips is the man who sticks with the herd for the sake of safety and eventually finds that his very faithfulness leads him to death through slow suffocation. But maybe that isn't funny either. That is still another side of tragedv. I wonder just what us funny. The list of things at which we laugh is much too lon f Ger *™*; Stem is by no means the only subject of newspaper ridicule whom I would strike off the list. In a world so full of aimless cackling and ancient wheezes I am all for a week to be devoted to enforcement of the slogan. Wipe Out That Foolish Grin ' (Copyright. 1934. bv Tne Tunesl

Today s Science bt DAVID DIETZ " ■v T ATIONALISM and internationalism fight for suM premacv in the mineral world. There is between the two tendencies what Professor C. K. Leith raiTs a battle roval.” Stated more exactly, it is a fight between mtemational integration and national “"ftTSII fact that has led many American setenlists and economists to feel the need of a mo clearly formulated mineral policy for the United b Step* have been taken in that direction with the organization of the mineral inquiry bv American institute of Mining and Metallurgical Dr Leith, who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, is chairman of the inquiry. The purpose of the inquiry is set forth as to make factual studies of the Mineral resources of the United States and the world in their political and international relations." a a a PROFESSOR LEITH points out that there has been a tendency toward specialization in the mining industry. ' ••The United States, for instance, he savs. nas led the world in the production of oil and copper, and great industrial combinations have been built up Experience, organization, money and technical skill thereby mobilized are projected into copper and oil industries in all parts of the world, with the result that the United States has become the world purvevor for these commodities. , . . “In a similar wav Great Britain has dominated the tin industry and Germany the potash industry " The upshot of all this is that a world in which economic nationalism us stronger than ever before, a world which in the opinion of many observers has passed from a post-war to a pre-war frame of mind, faces the important question of who shall ultimately own the world's minerals. B M * SPECIALIZATION has had a political as well as an economic effect. Professor Leith points out. “As minerals have come under fewer and larger commercial units there has likewise been a concentration of political control." he says A large part of the earth's minerals has come under the political influence of the British empire and the United States. ... . “Even where minerals are in widely scatterea commercial units, they may have a common background of political affiliation, as in the case of the world s gold. 70 per cent of which is owned commercially by British interests, or the world's copper which is dominated by American interests. Questions and Answers Q—Which screen actors died about the same time that Lew Cody's death occurred? Was Richard <Skeeta> Oallagher one of them? A—Cody died May 31. 1934 On June 8, Dorothy Dell was killed in an automobile accident. Alec B. Francis and Harry <Snub> Pollard both died on July 8. Richard iSkeeU) Gallagher is living.

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RESTORING LIFE TO THE DEAD

Dr. Cornish Explains Steps He Would Take If Given Chance

BY DR. ROBERT E. CORNISH (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc. I Berkeley, cal., Nov. 8 When is a man dead? I recently asked the governors of three far-western states for permission to attempt resuscitation of convicts legally executed by lethal gas There are four essential requirements in the methods I would employ: First, removal or neutralization of the agent originally causing death. Second, artificial respiration. Third, starting the heart. Fourth, nursing the patient back to health. Professor George Hughling, swimming instructor at the University of California, has devised a method of resuscitation from drowning which promises to save many lives. He has demonstrated that it is passible to give artificial respiration while wading through the surf and carrying the body over his shoulder. Professor Hughling can even give artificial respiration while swimming and towing the body, if the water is not too rough. In an actual case in France, he had to carry an apparently drowmed man a considerable distance through the surf to get him rshore. By using the accepted carry, the victim’s heart well might have stopped during the carry, so that Mr. Hughling might have applied artificial respiration ashore many hours without avail. But the man soon started to gasp and then to talk before Hughling even had him ashore. Professor Hughling's method ignores the difficult third and fourth requirements, but secures maximum saving of time in the first and second. These two or ordinarily adequate, if continued long enough, and if started before the heart has stopped.

m a a FOR the third requirement, starting the stopped heart, there is no satisfactory method in general use, and present methods for the fourth leave much to be desired. This may involve a condition similar to the dreaded ana deadly "surgical shock.” If the patient remains long in severe “shock,” he is likely to be partly insane after he recovers, if he is fortunate enough to do so. In case of the convict executed by inhaling hydrocyanic acid fumes, the first requirement would be partly met by John Finn Jr. (a gas mask engineer), who would be ready, wearing a gas mask. He would enter the death chamber as soon as permitted after the prisoner was pronounced dead by physicians. We would quickly remove the prisoner, and we would lay him on our teeter board and immediately inject methylene blue into his veins. This was shown to be an antidote for cyanide poisoning in rats, by Dr. J. C. Geiger of San Francisco. Methylene blue neutralizes cyanide, but wxll not restart either the heart or breathing, according to Mrs. Brooks. Therefore, immediately on laying the dead prisoner on the board, artificial respiration would be started by hand. In a few second-; the man would be tied to the board, and teetering started immediately, following the methylene blue injection. H. J. Henriques and I have shown that teetering not only produces artificial respiration, but also considerable artificial circullation of the blood. The arterial blood would quickly become saturated with the lifegiving oxygen. Also, by means of a mask held over the face, or perhaps preferably with a rubber tube put in the patient's windpipe through the mouth, the patient’s lungs would be supplied with nearly pure oxygen, containing about 5 per cent carbon dioxide. PROFESSOR YANDELL HENDERSON of Yale university found this mixture remarkably effective in starting breathing in new-born infants, or in other victims of asphyxia. Such gas mixture is now used by most fire department inhalator squads. The teetering and giving of oxygen would continue several minutes, with the board six to eight seconds irt each end-posi-tion. Although the blood is circulated. we find this ifiethod alone will not start the heart of a dead sheep or dead dog. However, with a stethoscope, or better, the very sensitive “electrocardiograph,” we w r ould watch for the slightest sign of heart action. Ringer. Sollman and others showed fifty years ago that the isolated heart, removed entirely from the dead body, may be started beating many hours after death. Thus Langendorf started the removed heart of a child dead from pneumonia, twenty-two hours after the child’s death. It appeared t .at starting of such heartbeats required not only injection or saturation of the arteries of the heart with a proper flulfl. but also production in the heart’s arteries of actual pressure at least equivalent to a column of water fifteen to twenty inches high. It is borne out in clinics that when the arterial pressure of a patient falls below this point, the heart stops in aeath. Soilman was even able to produce several beats in a heart by injecting its (coronary) arteries with mercury and. e., quicksilver, the liquid metal) if the proper pressure were used. Now where the dead prisoner is being teetered, the nearness of his heart to one end of the body, and the large legs as compared with the small arms, might well allow sufficient pressure to be developed in the head-down position to ertable the heart to start without external injection. a a a THE prisoner would be closely observed for any sign of heartbeat. Yet as there might be none, my surgeon, V. M. Margutti,

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The teetering process is begun by Mr. Finn, as Dr. Cornish and Dr, Margutti stand by the subject’s head to observe progress in restored circulation and respiration. The position of the teeter is alternated at six and eight-second intervals, and Dr. Cornish believes that enough blood flow can be stimulated to restart the heartbeat.

would be disinfecting the prisoner’s left arm, which would be extended to one side, so the teetering would not, interfere unduly with the surgeon. Hq would as quickly as possible expose a large artery in the left arm. requiring from one to two minutes. If the heart were not yet started, he would proceed at once to inject a fluid into this artery under pressure, toward the heart. Such a fluid injection method was first used by Dr. George Crile of Cleveland. As carried out by him in ten human cases, it - usually was possible to restart both heart and respiration, but all ten later died. In most cases the second death came in six to twelve hours, without the patient ever regaining consciousness. Our fluid would differ from that of Dr. Crile in consisting principally of human blood, and also in containing heparin, a certain liver extract, for preventing clotting. As the fluid was injected, epinephrine, a certain extract of adrenal glands, would be added to constrict the small arteries of the prisoner, so as to be better able to produce the necessary arterial pressure. While the fluid is being injected, it would be desirable to apply intermittent smart pressure over the heart. Brief blasts of oxygen blown into the lungs are

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valuable in “bunting” the heart. Since the heart would be still stopped, these blasts would be very brief, with about a second’s interval. If overdone, the pressure and dilation in the lungs apparently compress the fine capillaries of the lungs. This would squeeze out the capillary blood, almost completely blocking any possible flow of blood through the lungs. But if the whole process were properly done, the heart would soon start to beat strongly. The injection then would be stopped, but artificial respiration would need to be continued until the prisoner began to breathe by himself. NEXT: Nursing the patient back to health and treating him to save his sanity. HONOR ROLL PUBLISHED 43 Seniors on List of “Tor Ten” at Manual Hip Forty-three senior I h school students at Manual Tra mg high school are on the Top Ten list for the present marking period. Two girls, Freda Brill and Frances Snoddy, tied for first place on the girls’ honor roll with 34 points and Charles Goebel and Angelo Angelopolus headed the boys’ list with 31 points.

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-Th e DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Bu Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—Behind the naval negotiations now under way in London is a lot more than a mere matter of Japanese tonnage. No matter what tonnage or ratio the Japanese get, they will still pursue their militant policy ih the far east. But what is much more important—though not admitted by the state department—is the question of British and American co-opera-tion. The United States and Great Britain together can block Japanese aggression. Singly they can’t. So far co-operation between the two countries has been nil. The alleged “alliance” so acclaimed at the time Herbert Hoover

and Ramsay MacDonald sat on their log on the Rapidan, has disappeared in smoke. It evaporated not long after the British Labor government was replaced by the present Tory regime. During the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Britain and the United States worked at complete cross-purposes. When Henry L. Stimson sent a note of protest to the Japanese foreign office, the British ambassador went through the same notion. But afterward he would call to say that his protest actually meant nothing. During those days the old Anglo-Japanese alliance was as effective as if it never had been abrogated. 'a a a SINCE then, there has been a certain shift of British sentiment. Lancashire textile interests have wakened up to see their markets invaded by Japanese goods. In India, a bitter trade war has been waged over Japanese exports. In Siam, Japanese are stirring up dissension against British domination over King Prajadhipok. That is one reason he is on the way out. The Japanese want control in order to build a canal through the Isthmus of Krim, thereby nullifying Britain's great Far Eastern stronghold the Singapore base. The British also have received intimations that the Japanese have their eyes on Hongkong and that wealthy British sphere of influence, the Yangtze valley. To thwart this, Field Marshal Allenby and British admirals held an important conference on a warship off Singapore, and have sent more vessels to the far east. But despite this British fear, there has been no definite indication that the British would work with the United States rather than with Japan. State department officials have searched for it—would welcome such a sign. But there is nothing concrete. Britain's game seems to be that of playing Japan off against the United States. In London the conferences are three-cornered the Japanese with the British, the British with the United States, and the United States with the Japanese. No one knows exactly what one side says to the other. In such an atmosphere nothing beyond publication of pious platitudes can be expected. a a a OUTSPOKEN Leon Henderson unwittingly almost precipitated news stones of a serious rift

in the NRA board, of which he is a member. As the board assembled for a meeting the other day he bustled into the office of Chairman S. Clay Williams with the loud outburst: “Say, I’m getting tired of being shoved around here.” At that moment a secretary closed the door on a group of reporters, who overheard the startling remark. The newsmen started a frantic search to run down what appeared like a “hot” story. In the midst of the chase Henderson emerged from the board room. Buttonholed, he laughingly explained that there was no quarrel, he had merely joshed his colleagues about members of his staff being shunted from office to office. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Incj HOPKINS COMFORTS REPUBLICAN BROTHER, BEATEN FOR CORONER By United Press TACOMA, Wash., Nov. B.—ln the words of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, the nation “lost a good coroner on Tuesday.” Mr. Hopkins probably wasn’t surprised that his brother, Dr. Lewis A. Hopkins of Tacoma, was defeated for the post of Pierce county coroner. Harry predicted the defeat all through the campaign. Brother Lewis ran as a Republican; Brother Harry is one of President Roosevelt's stanchest New’ Deal Democrats. “One nice thing about this election—it preserves Harry’s job for another two years,” Brother Lewi3 said today. The winner, by a 5.000 plurality, was Dr. T. H. Long. He wired Mr. Hopkins, in Washington, today: “As one good Democrat to another, I want to thank you for the support you gave me in the campaign. Your brother Lewis was on the wTong side. With your permission, I will now’ hold that autopsy on the Republican party before it is completely buried.” Postal Employes to Elect Local No. 78, National Federation of Postal Employes, will nominate officers tomorrow night at the Lincoln, President George G. Fortner announced today.

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Fair Enough WESINM fffiLER NEW YORK. Nov. B.—Not many citizens of the United States will realize what an influence John (Figger-head> Heydler. the retiring president of the National Baseball League, has exerted on the mental habits of the present breed of Americans. Mr. Heydler is a bom and incurable statistician, who, many years ago, began the queer American mania for reducing all manner of performance to comparative statistics in four decimal figures for ihe quick and final settlement of barber shop disputes.

Mr. Heydlers own interest in unimportant information impelled him. in the season of 1903, to keep a record of the batting, fielding ard pitching averages of all the players in the National League. He was a young government statistician at the time, daily intent upon the fascinating numerals of mean average rainfall, carloadings and the mileage obtainable from a $2.50 pair of shoes by a letter carrier weighing 175 pounds under full load, with due allowance for the gradual diminution of the w r eight of the pouch as the postman progressed along the rounds. He kept his baseball statistics for

pleasure in his spare time, a fact which will suggest what manner of man Mr. Heydler is. Being summoned to higher duties in the baseball industry he presently was compelled to give over the detail work involved in the practice of his vice. The result to date is a terrible accumulation of columns of statistics of thousands of ephemeral ball players who have come and been and gone in all the baseball leagues, minor as well as major. Nor is there any end in sight. a a a Ghosts in the Closet 'T'HESE heirlooms in the archives of the baseball business have become a sacred treasure in the trash closet of the American nation and will continue to accumulate as long as the industry- endures, each season adding its quota to the mess. By now they have been elaborated and analyzed and cross-figured and there h*ve been times when the solemn officials of the industry have traveled thousands of passenger-miles to deliberate upon a thousandth of a point in the hitting averages of two players involved in a contest for the batting championship. Mr. Heydler is fond of passenger-miles, manhours and per capita customer response, too. One of his fondest pleasures for many years as president of the National League was to withhold until the end of the annual midwinter business meeting and then hand out to the baseball journalists a manifold statistical table revealing how far the ball clubs had traveled during the season, how many baseballs were fouled into the stands and what became of the taxpayer’s dollar. These tabulations seldom broke into the newspapers and Mr. Heydler ahvays put them down to bad journalism. It was Mr. Heydler, way back in the first place, who established in the American mind the figure .400 as a mark of outstanding success. And it was he who infected the national temperament with the notion that almost any line of human endeavor can be statisticated and the success or failure of the subject determined by averages based upon the proportion of achievements to opportunities. a a a He Admired Baseball’s Beauty THE baseball system of computation has been used in schools, with modifications, but in the same spirit, to stimulate the pride of students who find themselves impervious to knowledge. It has been used in business offices to inflame competitive zeal between red and blue teams of salesmen and clerks. The baseball figures, however, represent the statisticians’ ideal. They are provable to the tenthousandth, or, for that matter, to the ten-billionth of a point, forward, backward, sidewise and upside down and Mr. Heydler never has been upset by the inevitable fact that when the entire record of all the years is added up the final answer is “so what?” It is my suspicion that Mr. Heydler quit his job in an injured spirit because the baseball industry resented his espionage during the final week of the last season when the Cardinals were winning the pennant from the Giants. He always has taken a sensitive, innocent pride in the beauty of the baseball industry and notwithstanding his own close involvment in what might be called the sordid financial details, has continued to think of professional baseball as a sport. The industry had more reason to approve than resent the recent snoopery of Mr. Heydler’s shooflies. They had one scandal in the business in 1919 which was traceable directly to the stingy treatment of the White Sox by Charlie Comiskey. Coming down to 1534 the celebrated Dean brothers of the St. Louis Cardinals found themselves notoriously underpaid and with nothing but their own pride and self-respect to deter them from throwing the ball over the grandstand in critical moments. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN MOST of the iron in your body is found in the blood. It is there as part of the hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Its purpose is to help the red blood cells carry oxygen. Iron is found also in muscles, liver, spleen and kidneys. However, the total amount of iron in your body is not great. There are various ways in which the blood is badly affected in relationship to the iron that it contains. In ~ome cases an insufficient amount of iron is being supplied by the diet to replace the daily loss of iron from the body. In other cases, due to a large hemorrhage, considerable amounts of iron associated with the red blood cells may be lost from the body. Therefore, ib cases of anemia due to bad diet or to the loss of blood through hemorrhage, the feeding of extra iron in the diet is a useful measure. a a a IT has been estimated by various authorities that anywhere from six to sixteen thousandths of a gram of iron are lost from the body daily, and that therefore every person ought to take in an extra fifteen milligrams, or fifteen thousandths of a gram, of iron each day, to make up for the loss and allow something as a factor of safety. Foods vary as to their content of iron. Lean meat supplies considerable iron and J taken once daily will help make up the iron loss. An egg yields about one-tenth of all the iron needed by the body. Dried fruits are a good source of iron. Among the leafy vegetables, parsley contains most iron, but is seldom eaten as such. The green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and leaf lettuce, contain more iron than celery, cabbage and head lettuce. a a a MILK, which has been called the most nearly perfect food, contains about one and one-half milligrams of iron in a pint, which is less than a tenth of all the iron required by the body daily. A growing child requires more iron than an adult. When children are bom, they have a small reserve store of iron in the body. This is gradually used up, however, so that children occasionally develop a form of nutritional anemia which is an indication for the provision of extra iron. A woman who Is about to give birth to a child needs extra iron to take care of the needs of the baby, and the woman also requires extra iron at such times as she may be undergoing IO6S of blood through her periodic functions.

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