Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1935 — Page 17

It Seems to Me HEYDOD BROUN RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 11.—This seemed to be a curious city in which to hold one of the early test cases under the Wagner-Connery Labor Disputes Act. But there it was over in the Courthouse, where A. L. Wirin of the Labor Board counsel, was arguing that the Friedman-Hairy Marks Clothing Cos. had discharged workers because of their union activity in the Amalgamated. And Leonard Weinberg raised both hands above his head to cry aloud that the Friedman-Marks Cos. would fight up to the Supreme

Court all efforts to cause unrest among their workers. Robert L. Morgan, an armhole presser in the plant, testified chat the foreman had asked nim to sign a paper saying that all the employes were contented with their jobs and did not want to be annoyed by union organizers. He said he refused to sign because he wasn’t contented and then he got fired. I say that Richmond seemed a curious city in which to light upon a skirmish line of the new economic warfare because it is so

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filled with the ghosts of ether days and other battles. When Weinberg declared to high heaven that he would fight for employers’ rights up to the very threshold of th< Supreme Court the long shadows of John Marshal’s house were already inching down the street toward the Courthouse lawn. And the church where Patrick Henry made his rhetorical choice and defied the crown is just around the corner. And I think that it was in that same church that Jefferson Davis was praying when the messengers came to say that Grant had reached the defenses of the city. a an 7 he Rebels and the Fighters ON a powdery blue afternoon Lee, from the eminence of his pedestal on Monument-av, might have seen the distant hills at the far rim of the horizon. Lee gazes south because they say his heart was always with the homeland. And at the other ond of the street Stonewall Jackson, in implacable bronze, looks north, but if you ask an explanation they will tell you that, it is because he never turned his back upon the damn Yankee armies. And so I wondered what the shades would do if Robert L. Morgan, the armhole presser, blew l upon a silver bugle and summoned back to life the rebels and the fighters from two ancient conflicts. Marshall, of course, may be wiser now\ but lam afraid he would handle a living case in the terms of stuffy legalisms. But I would have hopes in Patrick Henry and even in Lee and Jackson. Naturally, it might be well to give them some part of the background before asking their assistance in a specific case. I think it mignt be possible to convince Patrick Henry that the National Association of Manufacturers has taken over rather extensively the. function of his foe, the late King George. I would cite for the dead patriot the fact that these industrialists in convention assembled hailed a visiting speaker as discourteous because he dared to plead for the right of workers to organize. B B B The Proper Approach A ND I think that Patrick Henry and all the other ■FV dead revolutionists of Virginia might be interested in hearing about the speech delivered at the same convention in New York by S. Wells Utley, president of the Detroit Steel Castirigs Cos. “He suggested,” I read, “with particular emphasis that employers assume political leadership of their employes. Properly approached, he said, 90 per cent of workers would follow their employers ’to the end of time.’ ” This, I believe. Mr. Utley identified as “the American system.” And so I wonder how Patrick Henry would construe the phrase “properly approached,” and whether he would favor a system of democracy under which the worker was to live and vote and cat and die' only by the permission of the employer. Was this in the mind of the grim -faced orator when he made his public choice of liberty or death as preferable to despotism? Perhaps it is quite fitting that Richmond should again be the cradle of the fight to organize and as Morgan, the armhole presser, gallops into battle maybe he will hear beside him the clank of ghostly cavalry in the blue gray twilight as the Morgans of Virginia rise up from their graves to ride once more into the thick of the fight for human rights and freedom. (Copyright. 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

ONE “system” of diet that has been widely advertised is named for a Dr. Hay. who was graduated in 1891 from a New York college. He has been associated at various times with sanatoriums in which most of the emphasis is placed on diet. Finally, he wrote a book called “Health Via Food," which is mostly misinformation concerning what food will actually do in the human body. In this book the author talks a great deal about acidosis and deficient drainage. This system really consists of a few simple pieces of advice about diet. One is that you eat sparingly and only when you are hungry; two. that you eat foods that are nourishing; and three, that you avoid eating at the same time two foods which can not easily be digested together. Every one will agree that it is inadvisable to overeat, and every one will also agree that it is well to eat foods that are nourishing. That part of the system which says that proteins and carbohydrates and starches can not be successfully digested when taken at the same time, and that eating them together results in acidosis and all sorts of insulting disease is, as I have already explained in this series of articles, absolutely without any scientific foundation. a a a r rO prove that there was no foundation for these A ideas. Dr. Martin A. Rohfuss of Philadelphia tested the diets on 200 normal men. He also tried them on a great many sick people. Some were fed mashed potatoes and chopped beef together, as foods which represented concentrated starches and proteins. Dr. Rehfuss discovered that it took only three minutes longer for the sick people to digest the beef and potatoes together, than it did to digest the beef itself. This system of diets also leans strongly on mixtures of salads of vegetables prepared according to fancy formulas, such as “Fountain of Youth Salad.” “Pale Moon Cocktail.” “Easter Bunny Salad,” “Startled Chicken,” and “Parcel Post Asparagus.” There are all sorts of directions for torturing carrots into funny shapes. These diets, of course, are relatively harmless, except that it it a nuisance to eat them. The worst difficulty is that the person who is sick will try to cure himself by using only these diets, without finding out what is really wrong.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

JT has long been a tradition of Great Britain that the eminent scientist should spend some of his time making himself intelligible to the general public. Perhaps it started with the great Faraday who instituted the annual lectures for children at the Royal Institution. Faraday, and others after him. at Christmas season. gave a course of lectures for children. In recent years similar lectures have been given by Sir William Bragg. Sir James Jeans, Prof. A. V. Hill and others. a a a ANOTHER part of the tradition has been the writing of books for the general public The name c of past and present scientists come to mind —Huxley. Tyndall. Kelvin. Lodge. Eddington, Jeans and Bragg. It is not surprising, therefore, to find an astronomy for laymen from the pen of tire astronomer royal of Great Britain. The book, just published, is "Worlds Without End.’’

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Arc flkrcn Killings Justified ? rson the right—ethical, moral or religious—to end another’s life om before the time of Hippocrates the question has troubled the ... . I . i M .. . .i. I . ( "*"**?' can but little, and withal. be surrounded by ' V AT THAT life is he does not kn< prevent error and £ if/ • ".' ' f Jit/****® W what life after death m L ‘ 1 *• ,-• J q be is not in the concept of I * * •V?' S IlllMP ' 1 % professional ken. ignified by the in- * While he must thus stop short of the famous Brit- jk ' V $ that * y Eut o han e as k ia°Le n gal- S ’ ' Iki, As no biologist has ever bet y ” the question it- *• 0 ” able to demonstrate that Intel ff terms of matter, are we to ca the father of med- ' %t ” ,v aside the teachings which deseri

Has ons person the right—ethical, moral or religious—to end another’s life of suffering? From before the time of Hippocrates the question has troubled (he minds of men, and now. at the close of 1933, it is more alive than ever. The Times herewith presents the first of a series of vital opinions. a B B BUB BY FREDERIC E. SONDERN President Medical Society of the State of New York. JAM opposed to what so frequently, of late, has been termed “mercy killing”—the painless killing, on request, of patients suffering from incurable disease. When is a disease incurable? How sure are we that a patient is not suffering from a momentary desire to die? These and many other questions instantly arise to disturb the conscience of the physician when he is asked to put an end to life. Every physician in the routine course of his efforts to relieve suffering and save life meets with a smaller or larger number of patients who are in his opinion incurably ill. Nevertheless, constant effort is made to save their lives by the use of every known medical art and unhoped for success is now and then had.

Among these persons are, however, a certain number of whom the physician has what he considers positive knowledge of incurability. When this is associated with a long period of mental and physical discomfort, or suffering, the question which is the subject of this discussion may namely: Shall the deliberate taking of life be made legal? It is self-understood that such action would be surrounded by safeguards to prevent error and crime. n b b TTTHILE dignified by the inVY tention of the famous British surgeon. Lord Moynihan, who founded what is to be known as the “Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society,” the question itself is as old as medicine. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 2400 years ago, imbued with the grand spirit of Pericles, inculcated the rational principles of investigation, and separated medicine from jugglery and priestcraft. Thus the art of Aesculapius became the science of Hippocrates. Renown and respect were his rewards. In his concept of the ethical physician, and the ethical practice of medicine, the Oath of Hippocrates was evolved—an oath subscribed to by the graduated physicians of today. They have sworn by Apollo, the physician, among other things, thus: “I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one, if

Wise County Is Filled With and Ernie Hints That It Gets

BY ERNIE PYLE WISE, Va.. Dec. 11.—The people of Wise County, which is Edith Maxwell’s county, seem so proud of their community and what they have been able to make out of it, that I went and looked them up. They have been rassling with nature down here since before the Revolution, and it has been a pretty rough rassle. and I think the people have done pretty well. White man first looked upon Wise County in 1751. Os course it wasn’t Wise County then. A fellow named Christopher Gist was leading an exploration party sent out by the Ohio Company of Virginia. It took Gist 13 days to cross what is now Wise County. The first night here, he killed a bear and a buffalo. Gist wrote in his diary that the rocks, mountains and laurel thickets made it tough going, and that it was the worst traveling he ever saw. Nobody bothered with Wise County for 20 years after that.

Problems in Contract Bridge

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League HOW often have you heard a person at the table say, ‘•Well, that is a free double.” There are no free doubles in contract. Just because a man has bid seven-odd is no reason why you should double. This point is well brought out in today's hand, which is the second in a series of grand slam hands sent to me by Earl Bryan of Cleveland. It is true that East holds the king-queen of hearts and the

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asked, nor suggest any such counsel.” B B B THUS has every physician sworn not to take life. Based on the knowledge of and experience with the science and art of medicine, it is their opinion, by and large, that this oath is even at the present time both just and wise. The greater the experience a doctor acquires the more he comes to realize how much more there still is to learn and withal how much more there still is to know. In a patient he sees a disease wdth which he has had experience in many ether patients, and yet he finds anew personality, anew reaction, anew response different from all others, which requires that his art be flexible to meet unpredictable situations, and in

when a man named Hamilton came in. Nobody knows whether Hamilton killed bears, or beai’s killed him. That's the last we hear of Mr. Hamilton. But we do know what happened to Mr. Prince, the next man who arrived, in 1778. He ate too many chestnuts. He had 500 acres cf chestnut trees, and he loved chestnuts, so he partook of so many so fast that he lay down and died, in considerable pain. Not long after that came the Bollings. They say this family is the same one that produced the wife of President Wilson. a a a Benjamin bolling came here from Noah Carolina, made a clearing and built a cabin. One morning when Mrs. Bolling went to the spring for a bucket of water, a panther leaped out of a tree and started eating her. Mr. Bolling killed the panther, traded his claim for a rifle and two hound dogs, and went back to Carolina. But he changed his mind and

king-jack of spades over North’s heart and spade bid. It looks as if it is almost certain that East will get a heart or spade trick. But just go back over the bidding. South opened the contracting with two clubs, which is a guarantee that he is going to take 11 tricks in his own hand. Now can’t you see the foolishness of doubling seven? All North has to have is two aces and that adds up to 13 tricks. Again, let me repeat, to. defeat any seven contract is bound to give you a very fine score. You need not double. The double, in mar.v cases, is the very thing that allows declarer to make the hand, as it locates the missing high cards. iCopyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.)

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the end he sees what he has not experienced before. The instances are few r in which the physician can say definitely, positively, when death with no easing of pain will be certain. Almost every doctor has seen what he might consider as. miracles happen before his eyes. Patients in prolonged and supposedly hopeless suffering, kept under the influence of drugs, or who may pray to be killed for relief, suddenly and for unknown reasons are in comfort and enjoy a relatively long respite before death. BBS OTHERS supposedly doomed to die, and who may beg for similar relief, have been known to recover and live for years. The recollection of but one single experience of this kind will

Bollings, Coal Mines and Traditions; So Cold That Even Byrd Couldn't Take It!

came back next year, and the Bollings have been here ever since. They have multiplied and multiplied. They say there are 1500 of them in the county now. Part of them are still the very top of society here. And part of them are the very bottom, too. The county police records are splattered with Bollings. The early settlers were most all English, Scotch and Irish. Again and again the people here will say to you, “We’ve got the clearest strain of Anglo-Saxon blood in this country.” And I guess it’s true. You see some mighty fine looking specimens around here. There was some degeneration from intermarriage in the early days, because there wasn’t any way to get anywhere to meet any new girls. But

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more than fill with remorse any honest physician who ever gives serious thought to a procedure so contrary to his every normal precept. Incurables who are sick in body, particularly if there is added discomfort, or actual pain, are sick in spirit as well, and the wish for death is often not real, but only the expression of a transient intolerance of discomfort or of a spell of depression. Medical science has made great strides in recent years in the easing of pain and the amelioration of discomfort. In the presence of death the doctor is face to face with the great mystery which all this art and all his skill can not fathom. He knows much about the external signs of life, of disease and of death, but no one knows its internal meaning. He can cure many,

there isn’t much of that any more. Less than 10 per cent of the county’s population is colored. I haven’t seen a Negro since I came here. Life in Wise County in 1856 was plenty tough. All people could do was hunt, trap and do a little scratchy farming of corn, sorghum and beans. Even to this day only a fifth of the county is tillable. The rest is rock, hillside and forest. a a a THERE weren’t any roads then; just a few ungraded cart trails. They used ox-carts. Nearly everything was made at home. There were only 4000 people here when the county was formed. Today there are 60,000. Things began to change in 1890. Two railroads came in then, and

he can help more; for some he can do but little, and withal, at last, at long last, he stands helpless before that solution of life which is dissolution. At that time he can but be guide, philosopher and friend. BBS WHAT life is he does not know, what life after death may be is not in the concept of his professional ken. While he must thus stop short of the soul, are not the arguments that a soul exists to have any consideration? As no biologist has ever been able to demonstrate that intelligent activity can be explained in terms of matter, are we to cast aside the teachings which describe the two principles in man, his body and his soul? It is not my purpose to invoke the tenets of religion, nor is sufficient space available for this, but it is definitely my opinion that, as we have no conclusive proof that man is but a physiological entity, fundamental law would rule that he is not the sole arbiter of his own destiny. The moral and ethical right to destroy a thing belongs only to the one who has exclusive dominion over that thing. To cut the thread of life which holds the soul to earth, be that thread ever so tenuous or ever so painful, will never be assumed as a responsibility by any considerable number of physicians, no matter what civil laws permitting it may be enacted. Tomorrow—Mercy killings from another viewpoint.

so did outside capital, to bore open the mountains that were full of coal. With industry, of course, came better schools, roads, and all that goes with a little more wealth. Coal mining is the principal thing down here. They figure there’s enough coal here to hold out through 1100 years of steady mining. Four large coal companies own more than two-thirds of the land in Wise County. There are about 20 towns and settlements in the county, ranging from 5000 down to 100. Such famous men as John Fox Jr. and C. Bascom Slemp came from Wise County. The coldest ever recorded here was 26 below zero. That was a mere frost compared with night before last, when I had to go to bed with my overcoat on.

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Fair Enough WESIMWk FEGIfR TT OME. Dec. 11.—With due allowance for all the highways, public buildings and railway stations which Mussolini has built and for his feat of teaching ignoramuses to read and the whole Italian nation to hate Englishmen, there are still some phases of life in Italy which might deter even the most piteous American tax slave from renouncing his citizenship and filing an application in Romo. The beautiful highways are closed to all but official motor traffic, because the

leader who built them also built up a war which is consuming all available fuel. Public buildings are full of officeholders, including the same proportion of deserving party members that are to be found in New Deal offices in Washington. The Italian tax slave is paying bills even as his brother in bondage on the other side of the water. And though education is indeed a wonderful thing in the case of the humble shepherd on the hillside, who now reads newspapers instead of drowsing the hours away, this huddled figure.

as ignorant as his own sheep, is less triumphant on • closer consideration. c tt a Ah, Those Flashing Eyes IN the days before Mussolini he was without pride of race or interest in current events. Now ha walks erect, with fire in his eye. valor and patriotism in his heart and a confused jumble of hatreds in his brain. There are 50 hatreds in all. beginning with England and continuing down the list of nations which voted sanctions against Italy. True he reads the papers now instead of snoozing in the folds of his cape. But they are Italian papers which are censored and deliberately calculated to impose on his new intelligence, to increase in his mind the importance of certain issues and events. It would be foolish to deny that it is a great spiritual pleasure to hate the English. Americans have done this and found it good fun, from time to time, ever since Bunker Hill. Germans a few years ago could hate the English from a standing start with a fury which makes the present Italian wrath seem quite mild distaste, although the Italians are picking up speed and style in their hatred. Those ardent party members whom it has been my privilege to observe belong to the very comfortable class who doubtless pay the taxes they are unable to avoid, even as the American tax slaves. They have jobs and money to spend, and it is much more prudent and profitable to belong to the party than to be excluded from it. B B B Fll Still Take America BUT granting all these great improvements. Italy still is no better off in these matters than the United States with its noble institutions, graft and incompetency. It can not be claimed that Italy has as much education as w r e. America's democratic highways are as good as Mussolini's dictatorial roads, and there are more of them. American public buildings are bigger, more numerous and equipped with deserving party members just as regular in their way as Fascisti are in theirs. And the American public debt, like American education, is bigger in gross figures, though possibly not as large per capita. Mussolini has rallied Italians together, with certain exceptions, and made them ambitious for their country. Americans, on the other hand, agree among themselves that their country is in terrible shape. At worst she is better off than Italy at the best. There is one phase in which the American situation is distinctly preferable. Although the Democratic Party holds office, Republicans still have certain legal economic rights and may not be put away on an island merely for speaking out of turn. It is not treason to the state to call Mr. Roosevelt a spendthrift or even a crackpot, and certain Republicans have availed themselves of that right frequently in the last few years. No member of the opposition party would even consider such desperate folly in Italy. But then there is no opposition party.

Times Books

IT is the fashion nowadays to deride Rudyard Kipling as the spokesman for blind nationalism and stupid imperialism; and certainly no one who reflec s on the horror which those two forces have loosed on the world of late can swallow some of Kipling’s preachments with the easy complacency of days gone by. But when ail is said and done, the fact remains that this same Kipling is one of the most preternaturally gifted story tellers that ever drew a breath, and this, the seventy-fifth year of his life, is made the occasion for bringing out anew compilation of some of his greatest tales. a a a 'T'HIS book is called “A Kipling Pageant” tDoubleday. Doran; ($3). It contains some of the finest stuff; excerpts from the “Jungle Books,” and “JustSo Stories,’ tales about Mulvaney, Ortheris, and Learoyd; “The Brushwood Boy” and “The Man Wno Was,” “Drums of the Fore and Aft” and "The Light That Failed,” together with a good selection of his verse. And whatever you may think of Mr. Kipling s insular faith that England rules by divine right, you must admit as you read these stories, that he can give modern short story writers cards and spades and beat them to a frazzle. A short story, to Mr. Kipling, was not a “slice of life,” a sketch, a study in despair, or a bit of character analysis; it what its name implies, a short story, and he saw to it that it held your interest all the way. Well worth owning, this book. (By Bruce Catton.)

Literary Notes

HE begins with the most difficult problem of all, the creation of the universe. He tells us that we have our choice between the ‘‘concertina universe” and the ‘‘explosive creation universe.” Other problems discussed by Mr. Haslett include the problem of life on other worlds, the origin of the continents, the mysteries of the weather, cosmic rays, the origin of man, the famous old question of. Is man a machine?” the nature of the atom and “the riddle of sex.” Reading Mr. Haslett’s book. I am reminded of a sentence from Bertrand Russell: “We know very little. and yet it is astounding that we know so much, and still mere astounding that so little knowledge can give us so much power.” We recommend Mr. Haslett's book to you as a suitable Christmas gift for a scientifically inclined friend. MacMillan publishes it at $2. In the next issue of the American Magazine, William Seabrook. author of "Asylum.” will tell some of the provocative experiences that have resulted from the publication of his best-seller. The American Criterion, a newcome - in the magazine field, is seeking contributions written in a liberal vein on either literary or political topics. The December issue, its second, has just appeared on the newsstands. It contains a letter. Please, Mr. Ernest Hemingway”; an article by Silas Brent called “Is the Supreme Court Unconstitutionala piece called “Walter Lippmann, Our Humpty Dumpty.” by Herbert R. Mead; two short stories, poems, book and play reviews and an essay on columnists by Arthur Gordon The magazine is edited by Lester L Doniger and is published at 148 W. 23d-st, New York.

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