Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1935 — Page 7

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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN FROM sermons and editorials and interviews I Rather that there is a growing body of opinion which holds that marriage in America is suffering from an excess of freedom. And it is said that young people are taking thh gi •• c -*ep too lightly. I d l ' - sent in my diagnosis. Marriage is still maned chiefly by those who take it too seriously. There is small hope of happiness for any young man and young woman who gaze at each other mournfully, and say before they embark upon the adventure. ' This is a

terrible responsibility.” Mind you, I am making happiness my test of the success or failure of any given marriage. Communities grow enthusiastically sentimental everv nnw- and then about some dear old couple who are about to celebrate a golden wedding. I do not think that there should be public dancing in the streets over the anniversary, unless there is reason to believe that the dear old lady and the dear old gentleman have achieved something more than a feat of infinite patience. I think a certain reckless gusto becomes marriage. Romeo and

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Juliet. I should say. made a success of theirs, although thev never did reach so much as a wooden wedding. Their only anniversary was moonlight, which is to all spiritual intents more weighty than wood. Not even the wisest of the world can tell how any marriage will end. but thr beginning is within the fashioning of those who voyage. And so let. them make thr first stage of the journey without misgivings, good resolutions and heavy vows. In particular, vows are clumsy luggage and they are not apt to grow lighter. A young man and a young woman are pretty sure to promise ea"h other a number of things which arc not likely to be kept. No great harm is done by that. People of any shrewdness know that there are moments when men and women are ready to promise anything. an a It's Nobody's business IDO think it monstrous that the community should sit in on the exchange of vows and be ready in later years to shake accusing fingers at the two who broke them. Properly speaking, marriage is nobodv's business except that of the two people concerned and, incidentally, of the minister or magistrate. If there must be an additional witness he ought to be blind and dumb. In so far as it Is possible, marriage should be kept, secret for the first year a<. any rate. Or even if it isn’t precisely secret, why on earth does everybody for miles around have to know about it? And this is not Greenwich Village or the younger generation speaking. Nature has sanctioned discretion and privacy for animals of a lower order who are not supposed to be any more sensitive than human beings. Again and again in “advice” columns I find young husbands and young wives informed that they must not. do something or other because “it will cause gossip among the neighbors.” Now? there is no reason why man or woman should assume new and complex responsibilities to the whole community the instant they marry. I even think the responsibilities they assume toward each other should be rigorously limited. Marriage is not a miracle. Neither party is transformed by the ceremony and so there should be no expectation in any quarter that the lives of the two concerned will be radically different from their previous course. The man who enjoyed poker before he fell in Jove will discover, unless I am much mistaken, that the urge remains. And if he swears off < poker I mean’ he does a foolish thine. By so doing he makes his wife a stymie instead of an adored object. Marriage to be any good must not be allowed to become a symbol of duty. o a a The Impossible: A Perfect Union AND it should stop short of complete Communism. Let us consider this formula: A. a man, falls in love with B. a woman, and they get married. The result of the equation remains A plus B and not AB. As Chesterton might put it. there can be perfect union only where there is perfect separateness. No two people may thoroughly understand each other until they know that there are things which they will never understand. It is not glamorous for any individual to be known by someone else up to a complete 100 per cent of liis mental content. If any two people were so well acquainted as all that, conversation between them would languish and die. There would be no element of surprise. A rational being must inevitably flee from anybody w’ho agrees with him completely. Some sharp edge of dissent is necessary to keep a mind awake and in action. A man will love a woman who knows him a little better than the rest of the world and sympathizes with him a little more. The world, perhaps, misjudges and misunderstands him two out of three times. And she, the adored one. comprehends him at least half the time. That is enough. It should not be much more. He hardly knows himself any better than that. There are little kingdoms in his mind through which he has never traveled, or. if at all. only after twilight. These must not be found and charted before the time conies. It is only because of these shadowy lands that any man may cling o hope. From out of these undiscovered fastnesses will come some day the cores to lift up his visions and make good his dreams. (Coovricht. 1 <^3s l

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX-

STAINS cn your tooth rosult from a variety of causes. In most cases such stains are derived from the food that you oat and from permitting food debris to remain in contact with the teeth. Most dentists recommend that these stains be removed by use of a mixture of two or three parts of water with hydrogen peroxide. Os course the dentist. at the time when he cleans your teeth, mayscrape away deposits on the enamel at the place where the gums join the teeth. Most tooth pastes now available are quite satisfactory as an aid in cleaning the teeth. Probably results just about as good can be secured by using a toothbrush with a little soap or with a little salt water. But mast persons prefer the pleasant taste and the feeling of cleanliness that comes with a properly flavored tooth paste Children particularly are likely to clean the teeth much more regularly and often if they are provided with a pleasant tasting tooth paste. nun THE argument goes on constantly as to whether a tooth paste is better than a tooth powder or vice versa. The chief argument in favor of the tooth paste is ease of handling the less wastage. Furthermore, in the tube the material will keep a pleasant appearance and a uniform composition. Some persons prefer powders because they think they get a better abrasive effect. Some dentists object to tooth pastes because they feel the paste may be left in the mouth and actually form a place in which germs may multiply. Os course, no tooth paste is actually antiseptic. Not one of them will really destroy the germs of tooth decay. A powder that contains gritty materials may scratch the teeth or injure the delicate membranes of the mouth. a a a NOWADAYS, tooth pastes and tooth powders may be purchased at reasonable prices. However, some persons may prefer to make up their own preparations for keeping the teeth clean. Several mixtures m ty be used in this way. Table salt is a useful substance which has a stimulating effect on the gums. Willow charcoal also is useful when applied once or twice a week on a neurly dry brush, especially to brighten and polish file teeth. Sodium perborate, which is now available in several different forms, when properly flavored, is an agreeable dentifrice with slightly antiseptic qualities, ar.d is perticularly useful in preventing trench mouth rx Vincent’s angina.

WAR-AND ‘THE DOLLARS OF DEATH’

U. S. Urged to Pay as It Fights and Put Halt to Profiteering

Th* hut* flnanria’ burden of war and present le£ilative attempt* to take the profit* out of mar are dencrihed in three penef’atinc article* which John T. Flvnn, America* foremost iournali^t-economf*t. has written for The t ”*dianapoli* Times and NLA Service. This is the second article. tt r B u B U BY JOHN T. FLYNN (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) T_¥ERE is a strange story of human folly. In 1793 the 1 French cut off the head of their king. Then they threatened to send their armies into Belguim. England was as terrified at the “reds” of that day seizing Flanders fields as she was when the Germans of 1914 overran them. She joined in the war against France. In the nine years after 1793, England borrowed nearly $1,400,000,000 —a huge sum in the values of that day. That was 142 years ago. But that debt was still due in 1914 when the Great War broke over Europe. Os course, in appearance it was paid, but merely by substituting new bonds for old.

In those 142 years England has fought many more wars against Napoleon, against America in 1812, against Russia, against the Boers. In the long years of comparative peace from 1815 to 1855 and then in the 41 years following the Russian War, England kept paying off yearly large sums on those debts. But the best she could do was to settle her bills for old wars from 1768—over 110 years before —down to 1793. In other words, in 1914 about the last war she had paid for was the American Revolution In 1914 she owed over $3,00C.000.000—almost every penny of -t contracted to fight battles/all over the world during the preceding 120 years. Then in 1914 she began to pile upon that another THIRTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLAR debt. In the last 15 years she has paid off some of these charges. But she still owes $32.000.000,000. How long before that century-old career of war and conquest will be paid for? At the end of the Great War the United States owed over TWENTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. With the exception of a small sum—perhaps two or three hundred millions, it was all owed for three wars—the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the Great War. n tt tt THIS is the history of nearly every government. From 1768 to 1900—a period of 132 years —Great Britain had borrowed only about $80,000,000 in peace times. The balance of her vast debt was the fruit of wars. Now if you want to know what mainly produces those dangerous storms and currents, referred to in the last article, in our economiic life during wars—and after them —there is the answer. War borrowing. The Senate bill to take the profits out of war is a plan to prevent financing wars out of ioans. The House has passed a. measure called the McSwain bill, which is based on a different theory. It proposes to take the profits out of war by attempting to keep prices down. It is based on Mr. Bernard Baruch's recommendations. Mr. Baruch was chairman of the War Industries Board during the Great War. And in that job Mr. Baruch formed theories about the problem of war profits which are found in the McSwain bill. Mr. Baruch's theory is that the way to stop profiteering is to restrain prices. Mr. Baruch saw prices soaring in the last war. These outrageous price rises resulted in big earnings, swollen dividends, high wages and the whole inflationary movement

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON. April 27.—Increasing criticism of the Administration has caused Big Jim Farley to send his undercover agents to various sections of the country. Bull-necked Emil Hurja. Farley’s man Friday, has just returned from a transcontinental trip. Inside whisper is that some of the scouts’ reports are far from cheerful, finding widespread Huey Longism in the South and West and much Father Coughlinism in northern industrial centers.

Charles Edison, son of the famous inventor, has been recommended as Federal Housing Administrator. to succeed Jimmy Moffett. Mr. Edison is president of Thomas A. Edison Industries and head of the New Jersey National Emergency Council. Mr. Moffett, however, is recommending as his successor his present assistant, Stewart McDonald, former head of the Moon Motor Cos. Enactment of the Administration's social security bill—already passed by the House —will far from end that matter. Experienced politicos are freely predicting that the Townsend old-age pension plan, to a lesser extent, the Lundeen unemployment insurance plan, will be major issues in next year's elections, and will cost more than one seat in Congress. . . . The coming of Spring and the flow of tourists to the Capital—particularly school children—has given members of congress and government executives anew worry: Kow to dodge autograph collectors. Most obliging of the celebrities on Capitol Hill are Vice President Jack Garner and Senator Bill Borah. Most difficult to waylay is Virginia's peppery Carter Glass. ana SENATOR ARTHUR VANDENBERG. Michigan's “favorite son’’ for next year's Republican Presidential nomination, is viewed with disfavor by Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.—if that means anything. However, it is a safe bet that if “Young T. R.’’ could get the Vice Presidential nomination he would run with Mr. Vandenberg or any one else. The A. F. of L. executive council meeting convening in Washington next Monday will see some sharp undercover warring between John L. Lewis and the clique of Old Guard leaders. The United Mine Workers chief is charging the latter with secretly trying to undermine his organization by urging miners to join craft unions. Craft-unionists, oh the other

which cursed the country. Mr. Baruch therefore concluded that the prices caused the inflation. Therefore, the way to check the war inflation and its profits and maladjustments is to check the high prices. The way to check the prices is to forbid them. tt tt tt MR. BARUCH is quite right in believing that the government must exercise some control over prices. But after all the government can not work miracles. It tried to check prices in 1917. But the prices went up just the same, and the government had to acquiesce in the rises—even issue orders authorizing them. The high prices, of course, as any economist —old or new school —can tell you, do not produce the inflation. It is the inflation which produces the high prices, the high profits, the high wages. And what produces the inflation? The inflation is caused by the sudden unloosing into the market of vast new floods of purchasing power. The instant war is declared millions of men arc summoned into the armed forces. There at a stroke is the biggest kind of big business. But these three or four million men can not go to war barehanded. They must have uniforms, shoes, helmets, gas masks, guns, powder and ball, cannon, shells, ships, airplanes on a gigantic scale. This means another five or six or more million men to make these things. tt tt tt IMMEDIATELY these millions of soldiers and employes in the war supply plants are being paid with government funds —new money—fresh supplies of income —new purchasing power which they carry over into the peace time market to buy luxuries, amusement, clothing, furniture and necessities on a more elaborate scale. The peace time industries are soon short of men because millions are drawn into the war industries. Presently we have a strange, sinister, evil kind of prosperity which results from the fact that the nation is at war and must spend countless billions to fight its battles. You are now near to the answer to the question. The inflation consists in the great flood of new spending power. Where does this flood come from? In a war it invariably comes from one source —borrowed funds. In the last war the government spent $33,000,000.000. Os this it borrowed $22,000,000,000. Out cf every ten dollars we spent for the war we borrowed seven. When the government, pours $22,000,000,000 of borrowed money into a great new war industry and these billions are taken out by the war workers into the peace time industries spent there, no amount of government control can keep prices from rising.

hand, are sore at Mr. Lewis because his lieutenant, Phil Murray, was made a member of the "NRA board. First question asked by Oklahoma's booted Representative Percy Gassaway following his performance before a newsreel camera: “Did I swear too much, or not enough? . . . Big Jim Farley has his übiquitous thumb in many pies all over the Capital, but there are three places he shuns: the Federal Alcohol Control Board, the PWA and the Internal Revenue Bureau. He knows their executives are too strong for him. a a a THE order of activity that has been worked out on the $4.800.000.000 relief front follows: First, CCC camps, next highways, grade crossings, and last public works, slum clearance and similar projects. Plans are ready and waiting for the immediate undertaking of work on more than 1000 grade-crossing elimination jobs. Government experts privately estimate that approximately 60 per cent of the work-relief fund will go for material and equipment. Unless the President can work the necessary congressional magic to save them, the amendments desired by AAA moguls to strengthen and broaden their licensing powers are doomed. The vehement attack launched by Pennsylvania's Renresentative Bob Rich against the Administration's social security bill proved a dud. In the midst of his harangue, members burst out laughing over the appearance of a placard in the front of one of the galleries that read: "Louder and Funnier.” Georgia’s violently anti-Ad-ministration Governor. Gene Talma dge. has privately,intimated to henchmen that he plans to run against pro - Administrationite Senator Dick Russell next year. (Copyright. 1935. ay tinned Feature Syndicate, lac.j

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You might as well keep on pouring water into a bowl and then try to keep the bowl from overflowing by regulation and making rules. The way to prevent the bowl from overflowing is not to pour the water in. How, then, is the war to be paid for? The Senate committee has decided that we must pay for it as we go along, out of our current revenues. We must pay cash for the next war. And the government must get the cash by taxing. BUT if the government collects billions in taxes and spends them, will this not produce war inflation just as if we spent borrowed money? When you spend borrowed money, you add money borrowed to the existing income and swell the expendable funds of the nation. When you tax, you merely shift existing income from peace purposes to war purposes. In the Great War the inflation began before we entered the war. As Germany crossed the Belgian frontier, every boat that landed here from Europe brought the purchasing agents of the European war machines. They came with cash at first—money drawn from their own people by taxes and borrowing. Then they began to borrow from us. In 1915 England and France borrowed $250,000,000 through the Morgans. Thereafter, and before we began to fight, England borrowed another billion dollars in this country and France borrowed $436,000,000. Russia borrowed $102,000,000. Canada borrowed $110,000,000 from our people. a u A LTOGETHER before we entered the war, European and other governments raised $4,300,900,000 here. They borrowed $2,400,000,000 on bonds. They recaptured $1,900,000,000 by selling American securities owned in Europe. All of this and much more was spent in this country. When we entered the war the inflation was in full blast. Gur $22,000.0000.000 piled on that olew us up to the bursting point. The full fury of the pre-war inflation came in 1916. In fact prices had risen so high then that very soon they began to fall of their own weight. Steel prices had risen 370 per cent. They were actually falling when the government began to try to check prices. It has been charged that the government really kept steel prices from going lower. We tried price fixing during

SiDE GLANCES By George Clark

“Her imitation of Joe Penner’s laugh isn*t bad. Aside from that she hasn’t much personality.”

War .... The Biggest Boom.

the war. In view of the enormous rise which had already taken place, it should have been easy to check the rise, if such process were feasible at all. But the prices continued to soar. In many lines the highest prices were reached after we began price fixing. Cotton goods were at a price index of 181 before price fixing. After price fixing they were 255. Coal at 160 before price fixing soared to 207 a full year after. Wool was 208 before price fixing. It reached its highest point after at 290. These are but a few instances. tt tt tt MT'HE men who managed price fixing were criticised. They certainly might have done better. But they were really helpless. It was like trying to hold back the sea. The billions kept pouring in. They disrupted, upset, twisted the whole labor and profit factors so hopelessly that the government was powerless. Mr. McSwain and Mr. Baruch hope to prevent a repetition of this by putting a ceiling over all

CODE NOTICE GIVEN ON RELIEF TRUCKING Bidders Must Have Blue Eagle, Is Warning. Hundreds of dump truck operators. throughout Indiana will be affected by the requirement making it necessary for all trucking concerns expecting to bid on Federal public works to comply with the trucking industry code. Announcement of the requirement was made today by Ed J. Buhner, chairman of the Indiana State Code Authority for the trucking industry. Passage of the $4,880,000,000 appropriation for Federal public works will bring in bids from hundreds of trucking firms in the state. The executive order covering the trucking specifically states that no bids will be accepted unless accompanied by a certificate of compliance with the code. Failure to live up to these agreements makes violators subject to prosecution, with a penalty ranging up to a SIO,OOO fine or imprisonment up to 10 years, or both, Mr. Buhner said. Code violators also will have contracts cancelled, he announced, and the government reserves the right to refuse to accept any further bids from the violators.

prices when the war starts—prohibiting any prices from rising at all unless specifically permitted by the government thus doing away with price control. However, the Nye bill proponents think there is but one way to meet this problem. It is to begin at the beginning—to prevent the inflation by avoiding the thing that creates the inflation. This can be done by taxation—severe taxation. Drastic! Yes, but war is a terrible thing. Drastic! Yes, but not as drastic as knocking on a man's door and summoning him to the trenches to be killed or used up. From the last war we have left a debt of SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS. For this depression we will have piled an another EIGHTEEN BILLION DOLLARS by 1936. Are we prepared to venture into another war and to pile on top of this staggering mountain of debt a still higher one of forty or fifty billion?—for thp next war will be the costliest of all if we do not restrain the profiteers. Next—The war on war profits.

MAGAZINE ‘NATION' IS PURCHASED BY BANKER Militant Liberal Organ Sold By Villard; Brown on Board. B// United. Pres* NEW YORK, April 27—The Nation, oldest American weekly journal of opinion and organ of the militant liberal, ‘has been sold by Oswald Garrison Villard to Maurice Wertheim, international banker, w’ho has established an independent foundation to assure perpetuation of the magazine it was announced today. Th& journal will continue to be published by the present staff. Under the plans of the foundation, control of the weekly will be given to a board of directors as yet incomplete. Those already named to the board are Joseph Wood Krutch, member of the editorial board; Freda Kirchwey, Heywood Broun, and Alvin T ohnson. a director of the New ol for Social Research. $26,517.25 STREET REPAIR IS ORDERED Market-St Improvement Is Given Approval. The Board of Works passed a resolution yesterday for the improve- ; ment of Market-st, from West-st to Blackford-st, at an estimated cost of $26,517.25. Estimated cost a lineal foot was $16.49. Petition for the opening and extension of Riviera-dr, from Cor-nell-av around the west bank of the White River to 63d-st, was refu ;ed. Parents of Washington High School pupils presented a petition to the board today asking the widening of W. Washington-st 16 feet from Shef-field-av to Tremont-st, and the addition of two protected loading and safety zones. 1000 AT RITE DANCE Dinner Event Closes Organization’s Social Season. A dinner dance last night, attended by 1000 persons, closed the social season for the Scottsih Rite. Frank Ij. Moore was chairman. Dale W. Young was organist; Alice Rayburn, pianist. Miss Eileen McDargh. violinist; Mrs. Robbye Cook Ridge, soprano; Mrs. W. j. Goorv, contralto, and Earl Davis and Miss Sarah Lucille Reeves, vocal soloists. CLUB PICKS SECRETARY Don Campbell Reappointed by Optmists; Delegates Named. Don Campbell was reappointed secretary by the Optimist Club yesterday at the Columbia Club. Gordon Mess, V. Ernest Field, C. O. Gooding, Dr. J. E. Holman, J. Harry Holtman, C. E. Hunter, Clarence R Irish. W. J. Pan-, E. S. Liffler. J. E. Shewmon. A. E. Smith. Mr. Campbell and Carl McLear were elected ►delegates to the Fifth district conyention in Dayton

Fair Enough nmin THIS new and sedate Babe Ruth who stays home in the evenings doing the cross-word puzzle, saves his money, and keeps out of trouble with Judge Landis and the police is not much like the young man of the same name who was trying to swallow life at one bite 10 or 15 years ago. They say he is the same Babe, now grown frugal, conservative and responsible, but. if that is so. may he be forgiven his humdrum habits and grave deportment out of consideration for an uproarious past. He was no

quiet, suburban neighbor then and. for every night that he is to be found safe at home these days, pulling taffy cr playing bridge with mother and the girls, witnesses for the defense can testify to half a dozen nights in the years of his youth when home was the last place that any one would have looked for him and the last stop on his rounds. Frugal now*, is he? A saving man who puts aside something on the first and fifteenth every month and has to ask for a dollar with wh'ch to buy his hot dogs and beer and his can of snuff when he leaves

the house to pull on his overalls at the baseball plant. Well, if so. he can remember when a big. burly young ballplayer of the name of Ruth who was tearing around the American League with crumpled wads of coarse money in his pants pockets and checks of all colors stuffed away in his clothes, some of them to be forgotten until the presser frisked them; how he ever computed his income tax in those days is a matter between him and the collector. Maybe they each thought of a number and split the difference. n b u Ah, That B ns the Life CERTAINLY there was a spell there during his first two years or so with the New York Yankees when he had no more idea how much he was collecting, or from whom, or for w r hat, and what became of it than the bewildered young woman who was then his wife. There were checks for his work as an absentee author, an actor in the silent drama, for personal appearances and for indorsements of various articles of masculine frippery. He was a nobed weight-lifter in those days, often picking up the bill for an all-night song-service in some little parlor which would have strained the generosity of the half-wit scion of an industrial emperor. The Ruth who is under discussion knew only this about money: That it was good to spend and that there was more where that came from. One winter he went to Havana and went broke gambling at the Casino and the horse-park. Landis fined him his w’orld series purse and a month’s pay for telling him to go jump in the lake. Jake Ruppert fined him SSOOO for trying to feed a Pullman towel, seasoned with ketchup from the diner, to little Miller Huggins, a dyspeptic, as the ailing manager, a dying man even then, lay twitching in his berth on the train, beset by troubles, the greatest of which was Ruth. tt tt a A Novelty for the Babe ANEW YORK magistrate lost patience with that Babe Ruth who was thrilling to the feel of a fast car underfoot and sentenced him to a day in jail for speeding. But it was only a nominal term behind figurative bars. The Jail-birds’ day. like the school-kids’ day. ended at 3 in the afternoon and Ruth arrived at the ballyard by taxi in time to take a turn or two at bat. Memory doesn’t say whether he hit a home run but he probably did. He almost always smacked 'em when the drama was on. Other athletes tried to match strides with him socially and came down with chronic hangovrr, one by one, to be traded away and eventually waived out and forgotten. His chassis seemed ill suited to the sort of life he led for he was inclined to bulge in the center and his ankles were very small. But though he fell sick of mapy ailments, including a scare of heart trouble, and was horizontalized for long periods, sometimes for operations, he never broke a leg. And his talents have lasted him eight, ten, a dozen years after his old playmates of the night shift became mere names opposite dead statistics in dog-eared record books in the sport departments of the newspaper shops. So if it is true that he stays home nights and always counts his change at the news-stand now, consider that this was the only novelty left in life. Everything else there is to do he did years ago. (Copyright. 1935. by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.i

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE electric eye of photo-electric cell, whose industrial uses range from burglar alarms to devices for automatically turning on lighthouses in foggy weather, has become the latest tool of the physician and surgeon. Anew device, the photelometer, employs the electric eye as a means of diagnosing jaundice and other ailments of the liver and gall bladder. It was described before the American Chemical Society meetin in New York by its inventor, Dr. Arnold E. Ostcrberg, chief of the department of clinical biochemistry at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Osterberg explained how the electric eye is able to see the amount and nature of liver damage, things which hitherto have been hidden from the eye of the medical man. and how it enables the doctor to keep exact check on the patient's progress. These things are read in the photelometer upon an electric meter, not unlike the ammeter upon an automobile's dashboard. 000 IN jaundice and certain other biliary diseases, the bile pigment, bilirubin, collects in the blood stream. This pigment is manufactured by the liver and concentrated in the gall bladder, from where it enters the intestines through the bile duct. In onp form of jaundice, there is an obstruction of the bile duct due to a stone. This causes the pigment to accumulate until it gets into the blood stream. In other forms of jaundice, associated with various types of anemias, there is a splitting of the red blood cells as well as the appearance of the bile pigment in the bloodstream. In this case, however, it takes a slightly different chemical form. 000 CHEMICAL methods have been known in the past which reveal the presence of these two forms of pigment in a sample of blood by converting them into a red dye. What Dr. Osterberg's machine does is to determine the exact amount of each form of the pigment present. Researches have shown that the deeper the color of the dye. the greater the amount of pigment present. In the past, medical men have had to guess from the color how much pigment was present. In the photelometer, a light shines through the blood sample into a photo-electric cell. An electric current is generated which is proportional to the amount of light which gets through. This current registers upon the electric meter. Dr. Osterberg said he anticipated that the instrument would be applied also in making other clinical determinations, as for example, the amount of sugar present in the blood in diabetes, the amount of creatinin present in the blood in Bright's disease, and the amount of uric acid in cases of gout.

Questions and Answers

Q —Whit is the food value of whole cow's milk? A—Three hundred and fourteen calories a pound. Q —Can lirplanes rise above storms? A—Sorre:imes they can. if the storm clouds are not too high, and the motor is powerful enough, and they carry sifficient gas and oil. Q—What Ls the tonnage of the aircraft carriers Saratoga, Lixington. Ranger and Langley? A—The i-angley has a standard displacement of 11.500 tons the Lexington and Saratoga are 33,000 tons, and tie Ranger is 13,800 tons.

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