Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1936 — Page 11
It Seems to Me HEWOOD BROUN ■fIITHILE I was in the deep South seeking to re- * * move my own insularity by brushing against another I ran into an interesting article in the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Grover C. Hall, the editor, undertook to outline certain things which are wrong with the American press. “The typical American editorial pages today,” he wrote, “are so chocked with bought canned goods that they have no more individuality than 4000 English soarrows or six tons of oily French sardines.
They look as uncomfortably crowded as flushed overweight octogenarians at a formal White House reception. There is no elbow' room. One can not squat with safety.” And at another point Mr. Hall hazardpd this observation concerning editorial pages—“ They print one syndicated article by a writing doctor; they have a Washington letter and perhaps a letter from Europe. They have a 'question and answer’ column, they have a syndicated inspirational essay. They have a New York letter—a newspaper today
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is not in the swim, you know, if does not have a New York letter. Frequently there is a letter from a science syndicate. . . . The editorial page is so chocked with canned groceries that there is no room for native eggplants, carrots, rutagabas, 'taters, green squashes and collards.” a a a A Sad Situation T AM in entire agreement with the man from Montgomery. The thing which makes me feel most forlorn when I am away from New York is the fact the newspapers of the smaller cities are so much more wooden than our own. Os native roots and semblance they have almost not a trace. Now, while there are many admirable things in Winchell, Brisbane and Lippmann, not forgetting O. O. Mclntyre, I wonder whether any one of the gentlemen, or, indeed, the entire combination, is entitled to be put forward as a sort of central nervous system of the entire press of America. There must be Lardners. Mr. Dooleys and George Ades somewhere upon the nation's far-flung line of publications. And how are they ever to obtain the chance to prove their worth as long as they are hemmed in by the mass of boughten columnists? tt a u Too Many Specialists TF I ever own a country or a small town paper (for which T am saving up), it will be my practice to buy one of the standard columnists. But cheek to jowl, I would print against my syndicated feature the product of some lad from our own city room. And I believe that the boy and girl might very well show up the visiting fireman. There have been laments of late that newspaper reporting is not lat it used to be. If there has been any falling o. . I attribute it to the growing influx of specialists. And even if every last one of them spoke with the tongues of angels, I think they are not good enough locally to compete with the newspaper man who has just returned to the office from a walk along Main-st. The practice by which Spokane and Spartanburg read the same thing on the same day seems to me unfortunate. Indeed, I should be inclined to call it regimentation. (Copyright. 1936, by Unitpd Feature Syndicate, Inc.).
Raskob Is Excluded From 'Happier Life' BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—For an Administration that is committed to the ideal of a happier anrl more abundant life for every one—well, for almost every one—the party is getting rough. At the very moment that the American Liberty League is busy stuffing A1 Smith and his brown derby into dinner clothes for a full dress attack on the New Deal here, the Administration hauls out the seven-year-old income tax returns of two of the
league’s financial pillars, Raskob and one of the du Ponts, and hints that it has just found—at this late date—that there is something wrong. This is represented as purely a Treasury affair, more innocent of political meaning than a Supreme Court decision on AAA. They’re good if they can sell that idea even to the Dionne babies. a a a Sunny Jim Farley has turned to scowling. In place of his usual good-natured indifference to his
enemies he is now out stumping with attacks on bankers and big business men whom he calls "unprincipled brigands" and "gangsters." And complaining as he goes that the opposition is dirty. * a a FURTHERMORE the Administration is not left in a very happy position by the row which Republican National Chairman Fletcher has kicked up over the difficulty of the Republicans in getting what they want on the air. Fletcher suggests that the “editorial judgment" of the broadcasting companies may be tempered by the fact that they operate on licenses from the Federal Communications Commission which must be periodically renewed. Gov. Talmadge of Georgia comes in with a complaint that his anti-New Deal movement is not being given the air by the broadcasting companies. Meanwhile Gen. Farley, beginning one of the roughest political speeches of the campaign thus far, pauses before the microphone to grease the broadcasting companies for their “fair-mindedness” to the Administration. All of this is doing its damage regardless of whether there is the slightest basis for the charge of favoritism. a a a THE mere existence of vast Federal power exposes the Administration to suspicion which can be avoided only by leaning backward. Roosevelt himself opened the way for such accusations when in his message to Congress he warned that it would be dangerous to permit the vast new Federal powers recently created to fall into the hands of the Tories. They must be kept, he insisted, in the hands of people who would not misuse them. In a campaign waged on an issue of hate and reprisals, it will be hard to convince the public that crackdown powers are not being misused, actively or potentially. That is why the party in power can not afford to be as rough as it was when it was on the outside looking in. The Supreme Court has just severely reprimanded an absent-minded Harvard professor who neglected to cash a check for $15.45 which he received from the court for services. The court was about to disbar him for not cashing the check so the clerk could ba’ance his accounts. But the professor apologised so abjectly that tho cov,rt let him off with a severe reprimand. Imagine it. Here was prooably the one man in the country who was not lying aw ike nights figuring how he could get his hand? on easy government money. And he is rebuked by the Supreme Court.
HOW THE QUINS PULLED THROUGH a a a a a a tt tt tt a tt a a a a Feeding and Medical Care Explained in Detail by Dr. Dafoe
How devoted core, medical skill, and meticslons attention to proper feeding brought the Dionne quintuplets through the perils that beset them in their first year to radiant health at 20 months is told in Dr. Allan R. D; foe's own words in this s’ory, part of 'he text of an article reprinted from the Canadian Medical Journal. BY DR. ALLAN R. DAFOE RETAILS of the birth of the Dionne quintuplets and their immediate care have already been recorded. To that report I would like to add some further history of the' care and feeding up to the age of 10 months. Shortly after birth the babies were wrapped in the only coverings available, placed on the bed, and covered with a heated blanket. Soon after this they were carefully tucked in a laundry basket and kept warm by blankets heated in the oven. Later in the day the nurse brought with her the first hot ivater bottle we used. On the third day an incubator was presented to us, and the three smallest infants were transferred to this. Within a week, a second incubator was obtained and then three more so a separate one was availaole for each child. The temperature of the incubators was kept between 87 and 90 degrees F. for the first few days, but this was gradually lowered and maintained at 84 degrees. Humidity within the incubators was measured and kept between 50 and 55 degrees with sponges soaked in hot water. a tt a A ROOM next to the mother’s bedroom was cleared and made into a nursery. By the end of the fifth day we had three graduate nurses, a cook-general, and an orderly, and for the first time we had a breathing spell. The babies were born about two months before full term and presented the typical appearance of premature infants, being b’uishblack in color, with bulging foreheads, small faces, wrinkled skin, enlarged soft “tummies,” flaccid muscles, and spider-like limbs. For days it seemed impossible that the tiny spark of life in each of their bodies would prove sufficient to produce continuous functioning of the body machine. The babies had to be watched every minute and stimulated frequently. Within the first week, cylinders containing oxygen 95 per cent, carbon dioxide 5 per cent, and fitted with a reducing valve and ordinary inhalator, were obtained. We used the gas mixture until the babies were 3 months old, and altogether depleted 14 cylinders, each one of which contained 80 gallons. a a tt FpHE babies were kept in the incubators until all reached the weight of six pounds. For the first two months they were removed once a day only, to be oiled. At the end of this time, the oil be.th was changed to a soap and water one. In the early fall of 1934 each baby in turn developed a severe type of intestinal toxemia as shown by high temperature, rapid pulse, abdominal distension and diarrhea, and they gave me many anxious moments. (Investigation showed that the most probable source of this infection was the diapers, which were improperly sterilized.) Opening of the hospital on Sept. 22, 1934, marked one of the most important events in the history of the babies. It gave me the first opportunity for unrestricted medical control. The Dionne house was a representative home of the backwoods, and offered the usual limited facilities of that country. The routine of family life was shattered by the various duties carried out by the three nurses, orderly and cook, which were nec-
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To a grownup, a spade’s a spade, and. a chair something in which to,relax. But to imaginative quintuplets—like all 20-month-old youngsters—a chair may be anything, even an aid to calisthenics or a ivhcelbarrow, as ivitness the quins at center and right. Like man, the Dionne tots want but little here belo ,, v, and horns, dolls, and topsy-turvy chairs apparently spell contentment.
essary for the welfare of the babies. a a a Furthermore, we found that proper isolation measures were impossible to carry out in the home, and black flies, mosquitoes and other insect visitors evaded our vigilance. All these troubles ended, however, when the babies were transferred to their new residence, about 100 yards across the road from their house of birth. It contains a large, bright, •wellequipped nursery, four bedrooms, a bathroom, dining room and kitchen. After the babies arrived at the hospital they were introduced for the first time to the northern sun and the invigorating outdoor air. Commencing gradually, they soon began to spend hours under warm wrappings on the veranda, and this was continued throughout the winter. They immediately began to show definite improvement. In the country where I live, physicians have a very limited chance to follow carefully the early care of infants. The grandmothers, mothers, and midwives carry on with those duties shortly after the babies are bom. We are usually called for serious illnesses only. nan COMPLETE control of the care and feeding of the quintuplets gave to me the greatest pleasure of my life. I feel that I have learned a great deal in the last year and a half regarding infant care. My education has been further aug- • mented through the medium of an international correspondence course in medicine, pediatrics, bacteriology and therapeutics. My preceptors in this course have been varied, and included Christian Science followers, astrologers, chiropractors, veterinary surgeons, nurses, fathers, mothers and maiden ladies. a a a THE reported onset of intestinal toxemia produced an avalanche of letters, all of which contained suggested measures of treatment. Watermelon juice, infusions of blackberry root, horsetail plant, sassafras and knot weed were said to have produced spectacular results in similar cases. During the first day the babies were fed on warm water with an eye-dropper every two hours. It was only possible to get them to
“For four years I sang ‘ ’Round and Around’ and nobody would publish it,” he mourned. “Then some New York people heard it, got it copyrighted and, to avoid a lawsuit, cut me in for a third of the royalties when the tune suddenly ’took.’ “I’m supposed to get 1 cent for every copy sold and all I have received is SIO,OOO. Do you think that’s fair, your honor?” Judge Braude, who has a radio, winced. “It is not fair.” he ruled. “But since you already have the SIO,OOO, I order these defendants to pay you 2 cents more, after which they will be placed on probation.” .
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take about 10 to 15 drops at one time. On the second and third days they were given 30 to 60 drops of a mixture containing seven ounces of milk, 13 ounces of water and one ounce of corn syrup. The milk and water was brought to a boil and the corn syrup gradually stirred into the mixture. A few drops of rum were added to all feedings for the first week. a a a the fourth day we were receiving enough mother's milk from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, to meet all necessary requirements. The amount of breast milk was gradually increased from a drachm per feeding upward, but the babies were three weeks old before they were able to take one ounce per feeding. The breast milk was used from the first at full strength, and it remained as the entire source of milk supply until the babies were nearly four months old. The daily supply of milk increased from 30 ounces per day in the first two weeks to nearly a gallon by the end of the fifth month. A Breck feeder was substituted for the eye dropper on the sixth day, and at two months of age the babies were all taking their food from an ordinary feeding bottle. Feeding intervals were
Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
TTTASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Ap- * pointment of Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn as commander of the United States Fleet culminates an ancient and at times virulent feud between him and Rear Admiral Joseph Reeves, who retires as fleet commander. It began when they were both young naval officers, it continued when they went as naval experts to the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927, where Reeves worked against an agreement and Hepburn for it. The feud reached a climax during the Pacific maneuvers last summer—the greatest peacetime maneuvers ever held. Hepburn commanded the scouting fleet in Alaskan waters which attacked the defending fleet around Hawaiian waters. The defending fleet was commanded by Reeves. Hepbum maneuvered all around Reeves, scored important hits, theoretically “sank” 1 several of his vessels. The referees decided that Hepburn, representing the enemy, won the day, could have invaded the shores of California. It was largely on the basis of this feat that Hepburn secured his present promotion to take Reeves’ place. a a a Not “Killed" After All ONE incident occurred during the Pacific maneuvers that so far has been a strict secret. Theoretically, Admiral Reeves was “killed.” His flagship, the Pennsylvania, clashed with Admiral Hepburn’s flagship, the Maryland. And the captain of the Pennsylvania (who, some naval officers suspect, did not like Admiral Reeves) marked down a hit for the Maryland on the Pennsylvania's control room. Theoretically, the control room
gradually increased, until at 10 months they were fed four times a day. The breast milk was changed on Oct. 19 to a mixture of cow’s milk, water and dextri-maltose. We used the cow’s milk for only a few days, because we couldn’t depend upon it, and an evaporated milk was substituted. This formula, with the addition of lacto-bacillus acidophilus, was used until the infants were a year old. a a a FROM one-half to one ounce of tomato juice or orange juice was administered daily as an antiscorbutic to each baby, starting on July 9. Later the orange juice was increased to three to four ounces a baby and used thus for its cathartic value as well as for its vitamin C content. On July 28, when the infants were 2 months old, vitamin D was given daily, first in the form of viosterol and then of cod-liver oil. At the end of 10 months each of the babies was receiving two drachms of cod-liver oil a day. Prune juice was given from Oct. 12. The first solid food was used on Oct. 26 in the form of a precooked base-forming cereal and this was given daily from this date. Assorted vegetables, cooked and strained, were added on Jan. 5, followed by egg yolk on Jan. 12,
was blown up. Admiral Reeves was in the control room. Theoretically, therefore, he was killed. The admiral was quite indignant about this. He did not like the idea of being killed, especially on his own flagship. However, the captain of the ship said he had been killed and there was nothing much Reeves could do about it. But when the umpires checked the reports of the two battleships they found that the Maryland theoretically had fired no shots. Therefore, the control room was intact, as was also the bristling beard of Admiral Reeves. NOTE—Hepburn is considered one of the most brilliant strategists in the Navy. Relatively young, he favors a revolutionary cleanup of Navy personnel, is not popular with the older seadogs. a a a Excellent but Futile /''VNE unnoticed highlight of the White House reception to the judiciary was Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, immaculate, tall, straight as a ramrod, talking to Joseph B. Keenan, No. 3 man in the Justice Department. Said Justice Roberts: “I thought the arguments of the government were excellent, especially those of the Solicitor General.” Just three days before, he had handed down the famous AAA opinion knocking those arguments into a cocked hat (Stone, Brandeis, Cardozo dissenting). a a a RFC Questioned TN view of the Supreme Court’s banning of the entire AAA although only the processing taxes were directly before it, much official conjecture has arisen regard-
and on Jan. 19 by cooked fruit pulp (apples, apricots, prunes). On May 29 (second day of life) the combined weight of the babies was 13 pounds 6 ounces, but on June 4 the total weight of the five was less than 10 pounds, and Marie weighed only IV 2 pounds. The weekly weight charts for the first 10 months present a very steady upward trend, with the two smaller babies showing a somewhat slower rate of gain. After 10 months the weights continued to increase, so that at one year each had gained about one pound over her weight at 10 months. a a a T7VERY care has been taken t*o prevent exposure of those babies to infection. Almost the only people in direct contact with the babies have been the parents, the nurses and myself. Gowns and masks are used by all attendants. In spite of these precautions, each of the babies during March, 1935, developed an upper respiratory tract infection which extended to the ears. It was necessary to perform paracentesis on both eardrums of Marie. They all recovered somewhat slowly without further complications. The hemangioma on Marie’s thigh required during the year three doses of radium emanations before it was obliterated.
ing the fate of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The giant government lending agency—whose billions of public funds saved hundreds of banks, railroads, insurance companies and industries from collapse—is indirectly involved in an unnoticed case pending on the court’s calendar. The immediate parties to the suit are the Baltimore Trust Cos. and the Maryland Tax Commission. The point at issue is whether the RFC must pay state taxes on bank stock it has purchased. The Maryland Tax Commission claims that the RFC is subject to the state tax just as any other stockholder is. But the bank claims that a state can not tax Federal holdings. As “a friend of the couvt,” the RFC has filed a brief supporting the bank’s position. Lawyers think it highly unlikely that the Supreme Court will use . the case to pass on the legality of the RFC. But if it follows its policy in the AAA case of going beyond the Immediate question and ruling on the constitutionality of che whole law, then it may very well call the turn on the RFC. a a a Very Inconsistent A MONG the hundreds of per--(V sonal messages received by the President congratulating him on his message to Congress was one from Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. As one of the New Deal’s most caustic critics recently. Johnson’s telegram was particularly appreciated by the President. He singled it out for special mention to close friends. But in his daily newspaper column several days later, Johnson characterized the address as a “rabble rouser,” staged in an atmosphere resembling “the French revolutionary convention before the tribunes of the Terror.” (Copyright. 1936. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i.
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Fair Enough WHMPEGIHt "PARIS, Jan. 15.—Your correspondent spent a quiet hour the other day, attending the trial of Mme. Arlette Stavisky, the poor little widow woman who is accused of having squandered her self-respect on a dishonest man. Mme. Stavisky's husband was Monsieur Sacha Stavisky, a Russian boy who under the name of Serge Alexandre Stavisky ran a municipal pawnshop in the city of Bayonne and swindled citizens of France out of several hundred million francs.
Mme. Stavisky was a clothes model when they met and her chassis is still as symmetrical as it was in the day when she was winning prizes in elegance contests at French resorts. Even before the trial entered its last week she was certain to go free, because the prosecutor, with a chivalrous gesture, admitted that the republic of France did not wish to imprison the po’ little widow beyond the 10 months which she had already spent in jail awaiting trial. Mme. Stavisky and 19 males were on trial simultaneously,
charged with receiving money from M. Stavisky which he had obtained from citizens of France by various means, all of them unlawful. Among defendants were a retired general of the French army, a publisher, three editors, one of them a Negro, and three lawyers, one a former member of the chamber of deputies. The retired general, Bard de Fourtou, not having given bail, was compelled to stay in the inclosure with a policeman on each side of him. He is a little man with a sharp face and a sad look. a a a Unlike 'Sobbing Sam ’ STILL, unlike “Sobbing Sam” Insull, the late general did not shed a tear. He merely sat there blinking, thinking of the days when he used to issue snappy commands to the likes of the men sitting in the jury box and wondering whether they would bear down on him now that they had their chance and, if so, how hard. The defense attorneys were taking turns at explaining just how each of the unfortunate defendants happened to be placed in a false position through an ill-advised trust in that rogue, Stavisky. They would rise one by one, spread their arms. Their little white bibs fluttered as they heaved and swelled with their passion for Justice and the gentlemen of the jury sat drowsing, wondering how much longer this sort of thing had to go on. They had been in court since Nov. 3 and had conducted a successful strike for a raise in pay from 15 francs, or SI, to 50 francs, or about $3.30, a day. Six men sat on the bench in scarlet robes. Two of them with frowsy ermine trimmings, and occasionally one or another would rise and stroll outside. The courtroom was murky and dusty and the celebrated “Affaire Stavisky,” which infuriated the French people to the point of revolution, was obviously approaching the point of a washout. ft tt St Why Americans Seem at Home STAVISKY was dead and buried and so were those who fell under the fire of troops. The widow plainly had no legitimate role in the cast of defendants, and there had been so much lying and double-crossing that by this time it seemed pretty plain that the principal conspirators had never even been indicted. Their procedure is different, but at heart the French have so much in common with Americans that it is really no wonder Americans get crushes on France and feel as much at home in Paris as in New York, Chicago, Miami, St. Paul or any other center of crime and corruption. Their public officials are grafters and thieves. They can not trust any one and they dodge theb; taxes in the reasonable belief that they are only stealing back money which already had been stolen from them. They also fly into great furies over spectacular revelations and finally they permit lawyers to stall* for delays mitil there is no hope of convicting the right man and very little of convicting an innocent goat by way of consolation.
Gen. Johnson Says—
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—“ We had to build, you in Congress and I as executive . . . now, after 34 months of work, 've contemplate a fairly rounded whole.” But do you s/>ell it that way? Isn’t the result now more like what is surrounded by a doughnut? No President ever tried harder to use the lawmaking power to raise the condition of a whole peopl® to an endurable existence. No President was ever more completely frustrated. Ninety per cent of the proposed New Deal consisted in three great principles: (1) Conservative fiscal policy as its center; (2) Farm relief (AAA) as its right wing; (3) Unemployment relief (NIRA) as its left wing. The fiscal policy was side-tracked by the Administration itself. The two wings were crumpled up by the Supreme Court. The courage of the President is like that of Foch at the First Marne. “My left is destroyed. My right is crumpled. I am attacking with my center,” a a a BUT look at the center. The budget is no budget at all. It doesn’t include relief requisitions which hitherto have asked for as much as all the remaining cost of government. It does include revenus already invalidated. It omits to consider the bonus. Like Hoover budgets, it is based on a prophecy of 20 per cent increase in revenue, which would require more than a 20 per cent increase in business. , It is no budget at all. Yet “we approach a balance of the national budget.” It is all like a legendary warrior-king—unhorsed and hacked red. pointing a desperate remnant to victory with the broken haft of a glorious sword. Say what you will about the policies, associates, mistakes and shortcomings of Franklin Roosevelt, he deserves the palm for a number of merits—courage, loyalty, determination, leadership and (what Americans love most) unrelenting fight, scorning compromise, against threatening odds. (Copyright. 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.).
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One of the last novels written by Arthur Somers Roche will appear for the first time late this month vith the Dodd Mead imprint. “The Star of Midnight” is the title, and the plot deals with the disappearance of a Broadway prima donna and the murder of a popular gossip column conductor on % New York paper. mam William H. and Kathryn C. Cordell, editors of “The Pulitzer Prize Plays,” which Random House published, are starting an annual essay anthology from American magazines. It will be publisned by Doubleday Doran under the title “American Points of View.” In connection with the book three prizes will be awarded for the best essays of the year. • am Philip Van Doren Stem, head of the Simon & Schuster manufacturing department, has written a mystery story which that houaa will bring out.
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