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It Seems to Me HEYM BROUN the first time In very many months I am In romplct* agreement with Mark Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan argues that the Democratic sweep In this election Is not clearly a mandate to Mr. Roosevelt to go radical This interpretation 1 accept. It seem* to me that the American voters have merely said. We leave It up to you. Make up your mind.' Os course I do not deny the significance of the *weep Franklin D. Roosevelt who came in on a landslide is now the appointed Jockey of a humcane. Within hts two hands there lies more power than the nation ever has ceded to ans President. Washington. Jefferson and Monroe were frustrated folk compared to him. Not Hitler, nor Mussolini, nor Stalin possesses greater command than has been won by the Groton boy who made
good. But It is interesting to speculate as to what he will do with this vast responsibility. From a narrow political view it could be argued that Mr. Roosevelt might say, "This is pleasant country around this spot where I stand now; why should I travel?” m m m They're Looking for More I THINK the President is smarter than that. The lesson of history has been that great majorities are unwieldy and carry within their or-
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ganism the seeds of their ow'n destruction. Practically all along the line the New Deal won. but that does not mean that Franklin D. Roosevelt now ran say. "111 coast along like any Coolidge.” I trust that he is sufficiently perceptive to know that the army with banners which followed in his train applauded him not only for his accomplishments, but in the lively expectation of new benefits to come. And already Franklin D. Roosevelt has reared up one uhost who may disturb his slumbers. I refer, of course, to the living dead man who has become the Governor of the great commonwealth of California. Frank Finley Merriam will cut across the rest of many more than the President of the United States. Certain writers and certain publicists wnll not sleep well for many years because of the scrunch of the hobnailed boots of thus disembodied stopgap. And behind the sump, stamp, stamp of Merriam s heavy tread there will come the lighter patter of one who now treads lightly because he has been for so many vears in jail. I am glad that I wrote no word or phrase which could be construed as favorable to jh<* election of California's safe and sane executive. 1 have no desire to be awakened by the never ending patter Tom Mooneys felt boots along the corridors of San Quentin. a a a I* led ye to Mooney TWF.NTY paces right ind twenty pares left and then right back again. It was a glorious victory. The motion picture studios will not be compelled to move to Astoria. L. I. Twenty paces right and twenty paces left. A safe man has been set in the ruling seat of the great state of California. Down and up and up and down the lifer walks his weary way. Big busim vs has been saved from the ravages which might have been imposed by a visionary Maybe Tom Mooney didn't do it, but why not be on the safe side and preserve the status quo. The prisoner looks out through a narrow grating upon a tiny vertical section of the land which bores him and if he is allowed to read the press of his homeland he may learn that all the editors are thanking God that California possessed the intelligence to save the union and to protect the lives of all who might be endangered if an old and weary labor leader were turned out into the world after years of oppression. As long as Mooney rots in jail you are not free and I am not. But I read that Sinclair who promised freedom to this prisoner of a prejudice and whim was a most impractical man. He was vague. He merely said that his first act as Governor would be to free Tom Mooney. And I have r.ad the brilliant material written by New York specialists who pointed out the absurdities of the EPIC plan. The things which they set dow r n were hilarious in the extreme. Sinclair was made to seem almost as comical as Gandhi of India. What is the matter with these visionaries? Cgn’t they see that this is a world which must be given over to the tender mercies of the Merriams? And yet I remain skeptic. I am glad I had no part in the campaign to preserve American institutions against the aggressions of Upton Sinclair. I will not have to wake and hear the steps down and up and up and down. The echo of an ancient wrong need not ring in my ear. I did not set that extra lock upon the door which fronts the veteran moulder. In fact I m ready now to join the cry. "Not any god nor devil nor Merriam can make this stick. Well get you out, Tom Mooney." •Copyright. 1934. bv The Time**
Today s Science Bt DAVID DIETZ
wm 7EATHER conditions in the stratosphere will W be explored by scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before the end of the year with the aid of thirty-five sounding balloons equipped with sensitive recording instruments. Plans have been completed to send the balloons up from Lambert Field Airport. St. Louis. A successful investigation of this type was carried out by the institute last February. Larger balloons will be used thus time than were used last February and it is hoped that many of them will rise to heights of fifteen miles or more. Each balloon will rise until the expansion of the gas within it causes it to burst. Attached to each balloon is a set of specially designed recording instruments weighing only a few ounces. Encased in a shock absorbing frame, these instruments will begin their descent to earth when the balloon bursts. An identification label offering a reward for safe return to Professor C. G. A. Rossb.v. director of the division of meteorology at institute will be attached to each set. a a a PROFESSOR ROSSBY plans to have the present I exploration carried out during a period of active storm conditions. When conditions are of the type he wants investigated, he will telegraph his assistant at St. Louis to release the first balloon. Thereafter, a balloon will be sent aloft every hour until all thirty-five have been released. It is hoped that most of the instruments will be recovered and returned. St. Louis was chosen as the starting point because of its inland location. It is feared that if the balloons were released in Cambridge. Mass, most of them would drift out over the ocean. In the experiment last Febniary thirty-eight balloons were sent up. likewise from St. Louis. Thirty-six were found by residents of southern Illinois and returned. Professor Rossbv said that the study of the data collected then is just being completed and that a brief summary would be sent to each of the persons who returned a set of 1 n*truments. a m a EMPHASIS during most of the stratosphere flights of the past has been placed upon the cosmic ray recorders. These investigations are of the utmost scientific importance and great general interest. but it is probable that weather investigations in the stratosphere may prove of more immediate utility. In the past there has been too great a tendency to treat weather conditions as surface phenomena. Now actually, the atmosphere is a great turbulent ocean of air. This fact has been recognized with the development of the newer methods of "air mass" weather forecasting which seek to interpert the meaning of the motions of large masses of air.
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RESTORING LIFE TO THE DEAD
Saving Sanity Provides Great Handicap for ‘Resurrection
BY DR. R. E. CORNISH (Coprrlghl. 1834. NEA Service, Inc.) SUPPOSE a man were executed by lethal gas, and revived as explained in mv preceding article; How should one proceed to nurse him back to health, and how assure complete return of mental powers? It is known that the brain is sensitive to failure of its supply of oxvgenated blood. Thus Stewart and RogofT showed with animals, that if blood supply to the head were cut off more than ten or fifteen minutes, without heart or breathing ever stopping at all, release of the arteries 10 the head might then result In considerable gradual recovery, but not in complete return to sanity. In man, because of lower metabolic rate, this time m'.gnt conceivably be extended to thirty minutes. But in the canary, with its heart rate of 1.000 beats a minute, and its otherwise rapid pace of life, obstruction of the brain circulation for more than two minutes might well cause permanent mental derangement. . , In our resuscitated dog “Lazarus IV. for some weeks after his re* vival his improvement was striking and rapid. For several days his nourishment had to be given by injecting glucose solution under his skin, but soon he was able to swallow liquids from a tube. * Today he eats brisklv from a dish by himself.
mam “T AZARUS V,” also dead four I j minutes, showed faster improvement, due perhaps to better nursing immediately after revival. He also, after a month of nursing, eats alone and will probably be soon walking, although it is difficult to teach walking to Lazarus IV. It should be remembered that experiments such as those of Stewart and Rogoff do not in any way demonstrate that, by proper nursing, complete revival of the brain might not be obtained, even if circulation through the brain had stopped for many minutes. In the first three dogs resuscitated by us. gradual return of the reflexes and of the senses, such as hearing, was noted for several hours, after which a regression seemed to take place. A second and final death followed in from six to twelve hours after revival. In each case the heart had been stopped from three to eight minutes. The most active period during the "second life" was usually characterized by considerable aimless activity. There might be a mechanical sort of barking, intervals of aimless jerking of the legs, panting, etc. Os interest is the "pseudaffective" state recently produced in animals by Cannon and Britten, by removing only the highest part of the cerebrum, or seat of intelligence of the brain. ana SUCH animals showed extreme nervous activity of a mechanical nature, and so wore themselves out in a few hours. The heart beat very fast, but could not keep up the blood pressure. The fast heart rate could be prevented by suitable means to reduce the excessive adrenal gland secretions, but the blood pressue was low just the same. There was still the reduction in volume of blood, so that the blood stream becomes partly "dried up." just as in the dreaded “surgical shock.’ Norman Freeman found that the fall in blood pressure and in blood volume of the “pseudaffective" state may be largely prevented by injecting a certain extract of the fungus “ergot." The resurrected dogs Lazarus IV and Lazarus V maintained a very low blood pressure for several days after their "revival.” The temporarily poor circulation from
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a a a a a tt By Ruth Finney
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan heir to all that remains of Republicanism, surveyed his kingdom in lonclj
triumph today. If his party survives there seems little doubt that it will shape itself about this good-natured, selfconfident newspaper man from Grand Rapids. If it enters the presidential race in 1936 he probably will be its candidate. In any case he will share with President Roosevelt and potential left wing leaders responsibility for rewriting party principles and revising pary lines in the next two years. Vandenberg was the only Republican senator to campaign on a platform of half-and-half approval of the New Deal. He won handily and pulled his party’s candidate for Governor of Michigan along with him. On the other hand his two fellow survivors, Austin of Vermont and Townsend of Delaware, got through with dangerousiy small majorities. His most aggressive rival lor control of the party. Senator L. J. Dickinson of lowa, saw the Democrats tighten their grip on his state. Herbert Hoover’s loss of prestige was emphasized by the futility of his election day appeal for Republican majorities. Left to his own inclinations. Senator Vandenberg probably would doctor up the Republican party into a mildly liberal affair. Alexander Hamilton is his hero—he has written two books about him—but he has no patience with die-hard Toryism. He spends most of his time in the senate reconciling divergent points of view. He is a bank director but he voted for the administration's gold reserve bill. He opposed CWA appropriations but he voted for restoration of veterans’ benefits and government salaries. a a a HE opposed the Roosevelt AAA program until the sugar bill came along, and that he supported. He is 50 In his youth he studied law:, but soon deserted it forjoumalism. never losing his eloquence. however. Above all he is a smart politician. and whatever he does to the Republican party will be influenced by any New Deal trends which seem to promise development of a sizable opposition. If President Roosevelt chooses to make the unwieldy body he now heads into a moderate, mid-dle-of-the-road party—and if events permit him to do so—two things may happen. The Republican party, reorganized on Vandenberg lines, may drift along as indistinguishable from the Demo-
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this cause might well account for the present mental deficiency of these two animals. Use of the ergot extract might have prevented such permanent brain damage. o a a IF such animals can be kept alive a week, the crisis will have passed. The "pseudaffective” excitement disappears largely in a few days. "Physiological salt solution." or the "gum arabic solution” of Bayliss, help keep the blood stream from drying out too much. Both solutions are invaluable in sustaining “revived” dogs, but neither will prevent death from exhaustion of the heart during the first twenty-four hours. Something else is needed. The excessive heart rate in "revival shock" is probably caused partly from excessive adrenal gland activity, just as in the genuine "pseudaffective” state. This may be controlled by morphine, but adequate doses are likely to stop the breathing and heart. In “Lazarus V” better results were found with a less poisonous compound, such as barbital. It is of interest that during the few hours that the revived heart is gradually increasing in rate, a dose of barbital is able to check further increases, but does not seem to slow the heart. Hence to prevent heart exhaustion, the sleeping compound must be given promptly. Avery unfortunate circumstance is that the epinephrine used in the injecting fluid for starting the heart may in itself produce some of the symptoms of shock, so that after the heart has started the situation is much worse than if damage had come from asphyxia alone. 000 Norman freeman found that his extract of ergot would also prevent these serious effects of epinephrine. Prompt inhalation of amyl nitrate appears to somewhat counteract the epinephrine shock. Slowing of the circulation introduces a danger besides death of the intellectual brain—clotting of the blood. We find that during the first few critical days, injecting some of the anti-blood-clotting heparin under the skin every eight hours
crats as the two old parties were when both were conservative, or it may disappear. If the President swings decidedly to the left, it would have a chance to refurbish its old doctrines and bid for conservative support, but even here it would have to compete with the American Liberty. League which, just now, seems better organized as well as being in a position to absorb right-wing Democrats who never would consent to wear a Republican label. On the other hand if President Roosevelt concentrates on knitting to himself business and financial support the future seems black indeed for Republicanism. His skill along such lines has been demonstrated in the last few months. The stock market reacted upward on news of the sweeping New Deal victory. The Republican party hardly could be made, overnight, into an opposition from the left. a a a IN similar situations in the past, party realignment has depended on the skill with which diagnosed causes /or their failure and the wisdom with which winners exercised their sweeping powers. The Federalist party did not survive its defeat at the hands of Jefferson. On the other hand, the Republican-Democrats, though ( overwhelmingly successful for a time, were torn apart by internal conflicts. The Democratic party never has disappeared entirely, because since the Civil war. it always has had the solid south on which to rebuild. No other party has been able to rely steadfastly on any section of the country and the Republicans can not do so today. The foundation already is laid for an opposition party to the left of the New Deal. The La Follette Progressive party, sweepingly successful in Wisconsin, stands for a government-owned central bank, and public ownership of electric utilities, railroads and munitions manufacture. Robert M. La Follette’s platform declared that “our industrial plants should not be used solely for profit, but primarily to provide useful employment for those willing to work.” The Farmer-Labor party, victorious for the third consecutive time in Minnesota, now is on record for public ownership of all factories, mines, water power.
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With remoial nr neutralizing of the death agent and renewal of respiration, the next step in bringing the dead to life is starting the heart. For this purpose a fluid is injected, as shown here, with Dr, R. E. Cornish giving artificial respiration and John Finn, left, and Dr. V. M. Margutti assisting.
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W’ith circulation anti respiration resumed, and the patient’s heart again beating, following teetering and an injection, the resurection subject, still strapped to the teeter board, is moved to the oxygen chamber for the next step in the life restoration process, As Surgeon Margutti stands at the subjects feet and Mr. Finn at the head. Dr. Cornish proceeds with his work. By means of a mask held over the face, or sometimes through a rubber tube in the windpipe, the lungs are supplied with nearly pure oxygen, containing about 5 per cent of carbon dioxide. __
will retard or prevent clotting, due to slowed circulation, although the brain is still liable to asphyxiation from inadequate blood supply. But this is a genuine life-saving action in "shocked” animals. Now
transportation, communication banks, packing plants, insurance companies and textbook publishing companies. In other parts of the country followers of Sinclair. Long and Bilbo probably could be enlisted in support of any such program.
CITY STUDENT HONORED Alpheus Robbins on Dean’s List at Drew University. Alpheus Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Robbins, 1034 East Market street, has been named to the dean's list at Brothers college. J Drew' university, Madison. N. J., the university announced today. Mr.; Robbins, one of the few freshmen to be so honored, is a member of the University choir and an active participant in the college's weekly forums.
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Another step in restoring life to the patient apparently has been successful here. Through teetering, artificial respiration and an injection, the heart of the "dead" patient evidently has started to beat again as Dr. Cornish raises his hand in signal to his aides, Mr. Finn, left and Dr. Margutti.
the medicinal leech has an anticlotting substance, hirudin, in its saliva, and perhaps the former general use of leeches in all kinds of sickness had some real basis. Hirudin under these conditions would be absorbed into the blood
■The— DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND B]) Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Probably even today, gangling Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, does not know what was in store for him at the hands of the Roosevelt administration had he not bolted the New Deal. A life-long friend of the Roosevelts, Pinchot was considered more a Democrat than a Republican. His work for Roosevelt during the 1932 campaign was sincerely appreciated. And knowing that Pinchot's term
as Governor expired in January, the President was planning a reward. And then Gifford spoiled it. In the middle of the hottest senatorial fight in years between David Reed, arch-Republican senator, and Joe Guffey, Democratic, boss of Pennsylvania, Pinchot
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stream over a period of twelve to twenty-four hours. We thus see that the science of resuscitation invades the whole science of medicine and most of the other sciences as well. (THE END)
threw his weight against the Democratic candidate. So the vast forest shelter-belt to be built the width of the United States as a drought remedy for the midwest probably w’ill not be directed by Gifford Pinchot. That was to have been ward. Asa tribute to a man who probably is the most outstanding forester in the country, and in recognition of his support for the New Deal, Roosevelt had planned to give Pinchot direction of this highly important program. a a a THERE was a day when the acceptance of a lecture fee by a cabinet member caused a terrific reverberation throughout the nation. In fact, the reverberation was so great in 1914 that it virtually stopped William Jennings Bryan from completing his Chautauqua lecture tour. That day is over. Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, now- is on a midwest lecture tour and getting away with it. Furthermore, she is getting much larger fees than the goldentongued orator from the River Platte. Whereas Bryan only charged $250 and didn't insist on that if he didn't draw the gate. Miss Perkins’ asking price is a flat SSOO. Incidentally, the Great Commoner's daughter also has blossomed forth again on the lecture platform. As minister to Denmark. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen found expenses higher than she expected, got the coast guard to send a cutter to bring her home via Greenland, and now is lecturing on its charm and wonders. The staid old state department is holding up its hands in holy horror. NOTE: Greenland, as part of Denmark, is a part of the area to which Mrs. Owen is accredited. Briton to Address City Group The Indianapolis Theosophical Society will have T. R Critchley. London. England, as speaker Monday night. The meeting will be held in the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter house, 824 North Pennsylvania street.
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Entered as Seeen<l-Cl*s Matter at Posfoffire. Indianapolis, Ind.
Fair Enough WESMM tfflflt JT is easy to sympathize with the 3.000 New York JL dress models who complain that the competition of the debutantes is driving them to dinner with gentlemen with whom they would not consent to dine if they had any choice in the matter. However, workmen, or artists, in so many other lines are beset with similar competition that the dress model hardly can be said to constitute a special case. Speaking for his own profession or trade or whatever they finally decided to call journalism, if they ever did make up their minds, your correspondent
will say that the intrusion of the nonprofessional is an old story. In this connection it will be understood, of course, that the term nonprofessional does not mean amateur. The amateur is one who does something for the fun of it. The professional is one who does it as a vocation. The nonprofessional is a class between the amateur and professional groups. The nonprofessional is one who does it for what there is in it but doesn't know how 1 . In journalism the non professionals are draw-n largely from the baseball and intercollegiate football industries in their respective seasons.
At various times of the year pugilism contribute* some conspicuous mock-journalist and there is always a threat of nonprofessional competition from the courts where women defendants in murder cases or inveterate divorcees of the type of Miss Peggy Hopkins Joyce are induced to write their messages, sometimes with a note of warning, to the young girls of America. t* tt tt She's a Journalist, Now IN a current example, a young California woman is authoring literature of the type known as the stark human document apropos her husband’s trial on a charge of murder. It appears that the young woman and a male poet were being swept away on a tide of emotion when the husband happened along and eradicated the poet. Up to that time, the woman never had any experience in journalism, but with the beginning of the trial she turned more or less belles lettres and has been authoring an exclusive piece every day dealing with the state of her private feelings. The managers, or attorneys for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the prisoner in the Lindbergh kidnaping, have been strangely bashful up to this writing. but it hardly is likely that Mr. Hauptmann actually will go through his trial without composing his memoirs. He need not author them by hand. The Dean brothers. Dizzy and Daffy, and many prominent football coaches, or wizard mentors as the trade term calls them, could advise Mr. Hauptmann regarding the painlessness of nonprofessional or vicarious journalism. They could tell him something of interest regarding the profits, too. The theatrical profession has suffered equally, if not more so. It was the late Oscar Hammerstein who hit upon the current notion that the citizens were not quite bright and more morbid than artistic in their tastes. Accordingly, Mr. Hammerstein once imported from the south a young woman who had been publicized the country over as the cause of it all in an uncommonly ripe murder case. The woman packed his house with customers. Hard upon this artistic triumph, Mr. Hammerstein hired two young women who had shot the late W. E. D. Stokes, but, with deplorably trivial results, due to their own poor marksmanship and Mr. Stokes’ refusal to hold still and co-operate. Mr. Hammerstein billed his discoveries as the shooting stars. 0 0# Some Don't Have a Chance SINCE then, not only prominent fair defendants but a large class of other nonprofessional, but by no means amateur, talent has maintained a punishing competition with the professional actors, acrobats and jugglers in the show' business. Long before the 3,000 dress models of New' York began to find themselves compelled to dine with strange gentlemen through no choice of their own, hundreds of professional show' people had found themselves standing along the curbs of Broadway with no gentlemen to ask them out, while their rightful places on the stage were occupied by artists who had never taken a lesson in their lives. Even the humble pi'k-and-shovel Negro of the Florida road gangs was feeling the pressure of this competition last w-inter. Pick-anti-shovel work with the road gangs long had been regarded as the special profession of the humble Negro. He was excluded from all the skilled trades throughout the boom when the white man was commanding sls a day lor snipping the strings on bundles of lathes in a highly skilled manner. But with the full development of the national panic, or depression, the skilled string-on-bundles-of-laths snippers flocked to the road building and maintenance profession. And the humble Negro was compelled to retire to the canal bank, being careful not to step on the cotton-mouth moccasins, and fish for his dinner. There were no visiting buyers willing to invite the humble Negro to dine. One woman spokesman for the 3.000 dress models sounded a tragic note when she said that crowdedout models, accepting invitations to dine for the dinner’s ow'n sake, might nave to pay for their $1.75 table and hotes, complete with choice of red or white wine, with that w'hich is more priceless than pearls. This is deplorable if only because there again you would have a case of unfair competition with the members of an old established profession. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Your Health -BY l>R. MORRIS FISHBEIN
EVERYBODY knows that sleep is necessary for the human body. It is the time when the cells recuperate from the wear and tear that goes on during the day. So widespread is the use of artificial light for all sorts of purposes, that it is exceedingly difficult to obtain places for sleep in which there is complete darkness. Even a ray of light may in some cases serve as an irritating stimulus to awakening. Quiet is even more difficult to obtain because of the motor car and the radio. We have in this country one motor car for every four to five persons, and at least one radio for every family. a a a BECAUSE of the wav in which our large cities are constructed, the rattle of the cars on the street and the sounds of the radio in adjacent apartments and homes are factors which keep persons awake. In addition, there are the noises from railroad trains, elevated trains and of steamers when homes are near navigable waters. Beside the irritations which come from these sources of noise, there are conditions which have to be overcome, such as the use of bed clothing that is either too heavy or too light. a a a SOMETIMES sleep is prevented merely by the fear that one won't be able to sleep. This is one of the fnost difficult causes of insomnia to overcome. It tends to develop a vicious circle'leading to greater and greater difficulty in falling asleep The best advice to those who find sleeping difficult is, first of all, to develop a regular sleep habit, selecting always a certain hour for going to sleep and holding to it as much as possible; second, developing the optimum coruitions for sleep and obtaining these in a routine manner Once you convince yourself that you will be able to sleep without too much trouble, you will find yourself able to fall asleep more readily, and the sleep far more refreshing than formerly. There are hundreds of proverbs to indicate the recognition given to sleep over many centuries as one real panacea for an overstimulated, fatigued or disordered nervous system. In all the category of hygienic measures, sound sleep should probably lead the rest.
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