Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1936 — Page 14

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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8. 1936. PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE ADVANCE in medical science is a gain for everybody. Keeping step with medical progress, many Indiana physicians are back in school this week at the postgraduate clinics of the Indiana University Sohool of Medicine. Nearly 400 doctors, some from as fpr away as Texas, are here for the intensive course offered annually at the Indiana University Medical Center. The State Medical Association is co-o jerating. Ihe doctors are hearing heart disease, cancer and other problems discussed by national specialists. They also are visiting the various hospitals of the medical center and observing treatments involving the latest scientific advances. At the Riley Hospital for Crippled Children, for example, the Indiana University faculty emphasized that the field of treatment for communicable diseases of children still is “wide open” to experiment. Preventive serums have helped in the fight against deformities, but much remains to be done. The school makes no charge for registration and conducts the course with cases especially chosen from among the hundreds in the university hospitals. The doctors meet their own expenses. The public will benefit from their efforts to keep abreast of the times. JUDGES CAN HELP TWO cities have found an effective method to help curb traffic law violations. The method, used by Louisville, Ky„ and Evanston, 111., involves careful preparation and presentation of evidence by law enforcement officers, and the arousing of public interest. The idea is based on the fact that traffic violations flourish because of too much leniency and too many suspended sentences on the part of judges, according to a report to the Public Safety Institute of Purdue University by the Louisville Safety Council. Lieut. F. M. Kreml of the Safety Institute found that speeding, reckless driving and other violations in Louisville were resulting from the fact that many yiolatdrs were escaping legal punishment. The judges frequently had an “out” because of faulty pie'cntation of evidence. The first step was to line up air-tight cases, with no technical errors by the prosecution. When light fines, suspended sentences and dismissals of influential offenders continued, leaders of the ParentTeacher Association and other civic groups agreed to appear in court and watch the performance of the Judge. A body of 25 or 30 appeared in court when persons of known "influence” were involved in traffic cases. The court's attitude toward offenders abruptly changed. Leniency and politics in traffic cases ended, and Louisville reported a decrease of 23 per cent in violations. The same method brought similar results in Evanston. BENIGHTED HEATHEN “TF a worker develops tuberculosis or silicosis in A the mines he is given a pension.” We came across that sentence in an article written by a Scripps-Howard roving correspondent. From where do you suppose he was writing? From what enlightened state or country? Not from West Virginia, where it has heen charged that hundreds of men died of silicosis after helping bore a huge water-power tunnel through a mountain. And not from any of the 30-odd states which make no provision for compensating industry’s silicosis victims. No. The dateline on the article was Johannesburg. South Africa, where the natives who work the gold mines apparently get more decent treatment than thousands of Americans who risk this insidious Lndustrial malady. We hope the word from Dark Africa doesn’t miss the ears of Rep. John J. O'Connor of New York, whose House Rules Committee is still withholding action on a resolution to permit completion of the House investigation of silicosis. GET ACQUAINTED AT a time when distrust and misunderstanding among nations is so prevalent, the people of Indianapolis have a fine chance to get better acquainted with Finland. Any one interested in glassware, wood blocks and handicraft, or in the everyday life of the people of a foreign land, will enjoy seeing the Finnish exhibit of more than 10.000 individual pieces at William H. Block & Cos. this week. This interesting collection of industrial art is touring the United States in the interest of better international understanding. It will be here through April 15. FREEDOM PENDING in the Senate is the La Follette resolution calling upon the Education and Labor Committee to investigate “violations of the rights of free speech and assembly and undue interference with the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively.” A subcommittee this week is holding preliminary hearings to determine whether such an investigation is Justified. We believe the subcommittee will find that it is. And we believe the Senate should then provide its committee with authority to discover the extent to which the American people and, particularly, minority groups, are being looted of the liberties guaranteed undu the Constitution and the laws. We believe that this should be a courageous, full-sized and nation-wide study. From Washington and from every comer of the republic come disquieting stories indicating a waning faith in our democratic processes. A Supreme Court majority charges that executive bureaucrats are invading personal rights. The Black Lobby Committee is charged with infringing a publisher’s rights. A member of the President’s Cabinet, in answer to widespread whispers, finds it necessary to announce ilHtt she Is not a -*wess. District of Columbia school teachers are required to swear they have not taught communism before they may draw their sal-

ariee. Congress toys with war-time sedition laws ! and harsh measures against a few scattered aliens. Most alarming are against labor, ] political dissenters and racial minorities in the states. We hear of labor spies and of private armies, out- j fitted by munition-makers for strike-breaking purposes. We hear of flogging and murder in Florida, of j lynchings, of martial law in Indiana, of vigilante j raids in California valleys. We hear of enforced I teachers’ oaths and of impudent invasions of the nation’s campuses by patrioteering and Journalistic We hear of secret race-hating organizations, reviving old and discredited K. K. K. methods. We hear of movie and radio censorships, of menials of the right to assemble and petition. tt a a TT7E need to make an intelligent study of these ’ * manifestations. Are they merely the flotsam of bitterness and violence brought to the surface by six years of suffering? Or are they related to the antidemocratic reaction in Europe that swept Hitler, Mussolini and the lesser dictatorships into power? Or are they r’gns of a real sickness In our own body politic? Os a relinquishment of the old American faith in the people? Os a fulfillment of the Marxian prophecy of an inevitable class struggle? Os the spread of a moral disease that causes us to justify any means to gain a selfish end? We know that we have come to a time when we* must exchange a certain amount of personal freedom for the larger social security. We believe that this can be done without trampling on the fundamentals of popular government. And we believe the Roosevelt Administration is trying to effect this delicate exchange, just as England's government is doing. We may be able to make the social changes needed for a well-ordered and secure commonwealth. We may not. If we ao we must halt these fascistic tendencies now. And preliminary to that we should know the depth and extent of their existence. The people's Congress has no greater duty before it than to guard the civil rights of the people. IRAN IRATE TRATE over action of two Maryland cops for arA resting its minister, Ghaffer Djalal, for speeding, Iran (Persia) just about has broken off diplomatic relations with the United States, closing its legation and padlocking its consulates. Secretary of State Cordell Hull has apologized and Maryland has amputated the two brazen limbs of its law from their lobs. Everything within the limits of national honor has been done to show Iran we’re sorry. Displeasure continues to reign in Teheran. War, however, does not seem to be imminent. BIG AND LITTLE FARMS TT7HILE agreeing completely with Senator Van- ’ ’ denberg that the AAA crop benefit payments should be made public, we can’t agree with the inference that there is something wicked about making large payments to large landowners. There is, it seems, such an inference in the Senator’s suggestion that the publicity be limited to crop checks of SIO,OOO or more. But, after all, what were the purposes of the AAA program? They were to wipe out price-de-pressing crop surpluses, to regulate production so as to maintain an even balance between supply and demand, and to build up farm purchasing power. In those objectives the AAA succeeded. How' By making individual contracts with individual lardowners to co-operate in a national program of production, whereby each landowner agreed, to limit his own acreage in certain surplus-afflicted crops. For example, a farmer who had been planting 40 acres in cotton agreed to cut his production 25 per cent. The AAA agreed to pay the farmer $8.60 an acre on the 10 acres taken out of cotton production. Farmer’s benefit check, SB6. A big landowner—say an insurance company—cultivating 40,000 acres of the same type of cotton land entered into the same type of agreement with the AAA, taking 10,000 acres out of production for the same sß.i i-an-acre stipulation, and received s. benefit check totaling $86,000. That’s 1000 times as much as the small farmer got. But how could it be otherwise? The big landholder’s 40,000 acreage was capably of producing 1000 times as much cotton as the small farmer’s 40 acres, capable therefore of adding 1000 times as much to the surplus; and his agreement to co-operate was worth 1000 times more to the success of the balanced production program. Publicity on the larger crop benefit checks should be very helpful in showing how far the process of bankruptcy had gone in concentrating land ownership in the hands of banks and insurance companies. But it is no fault of the AAA that, when it started to deal with the farm surplus proolem, it found small farmers already squeezed out and the mortgagehandling agencies already in control of big blocks of land. As the AAA moves to its new soil conservation program, the big landholders will continue to get the big checks. It can’t be otherwise. For misused land will erode just as fast, whether it is owned by a Wall Street bank or a one-mule farmer. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson 'T'HE redbud blooms again. Down In the hollow ■*" near our window' stands a small, sturdy tree. Each spring we have watched the first blossoms ap pear, and always they come when the landscape is only dusted with green. Stark, grim, cold, with as yet no hint of the fierce life within, two giant elms guard the redbud, who flaunts her new dress like a little girl running beside austere elders. It seems strange that the redbud could be alive when so much of the world is dead. “¥6l, from this time, its flowering will have a special meaning. It will speak of the undercurrents of goodness that flow’ beneath all our comings and goings, and of the tenderness which lives under the cover of our selfishness and strife. There are seasons when the best instincts of the heart burst into life, triumphant as the blooming of the redbud. As our tree grew vivid this spring, letters have come from every corner of the country. From old friends and from new’, from happy people and miserable people, and from men and women upon whom our eye3 have never rested but who will now be a part of us because across the miles their thoughts have enfolded us for a little while. Surely the sustaining power of loving kindness is great. “Courage,” others cry to us, when we most need courage. And so we set ourselves to learn the hard lesson, since somebody expects us to do so. We can not let down those who believe in us. But oh, my friends, never stay your heart or hand from writing words of comfort to the stricken. From every name inscribed on the briefest message, there comes a strength upon which the selfishly sorrowful fasten and feed. Life is so short and we could make it so lovely; there is so little time to be kind. Even in these drab days then, our hearts rejoice like the redbud tree because there are so many, many people who have taken tune to express the tendvr sympathy they feel for suffering. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

TT w’as late the other night and Irwin Cummings, who lives on Maple-rd, was driving up Meridianst on his way home. He had just left the Athletic Club. Mr. Cummings had driven about four squares when, he said, “an arm began to violently wave right in front of the radiator of my car.” After suffering chills, and visions of a mangled somebody on the front end of his machine, Mr. Cummings stopped and with a short prayer rushed to the front. There on the bumpers reclined a unshaven individual, unhurt, apparently sober, but more than a little surprised. Before Mr. Cummings could assist his shabbily dressed passenger into less dangerous surroundings, the stranger, too surprised to speak, got up and walked away. Mr. Cummings, too disconcerted to say anything, stood and watched his rider disappear down the dark street. The man had been on the bumper ever since the car left the Athletic Club. a a r T"'HE son of a fellow I know has a habit of listening with great interest to radio programs and trying to imitate both singers and radio announcers. Anew, or maybe it isn’t new, song was being sung over the radio. It went something about a fellow who “wooed and wooed a girl” from manly 18 on up to past his 80’s and near the 100 mark. He was unsuccessful. And as the boy sang the song today it was “and he mooed and mooed her.” n a u 'T'HE same boy awakened his parents the other night, long after he was supposed to be asleep, by chanting: “American Can, 121, % off; U. S. Steel, 71 Vi; General Motors, etc., etc.” He was ordered to cease and desist. He signed off with a “good night.” He is only five. My friend says this sort of thing must stop. a a A T a S. IHinois-st spot the other -*■*- night, a very bushy-haired boy and a girl with a doll-like face were doing some fancy steps. They flipped their heels, and the boy whirled the girl about, Apache-like. A little bored with themselves, the people at the tables began to take notice of the couple and applaud them. Neither changed their placid, set expressions, but whirled on as if they were absorbed in counting the steps under their breaths. One onlooker, who had seen the best and the worst of dance hall gavots, named the dance the “sandpaper shuffle.” It was an unusual crowd there, one that could be found only in a tavern, the poor man’s club. There were old couples, smiling at each other and nodding to the blatant music, girls who should have been at home with their school books, men in overalls and flashily attired clothing store clerks. The strangest guest was oblivious to it all. He was a midget, who spent all his time playing the marble game.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

CANCER cells are new types or species derived from normal cells through the action of various agents or environmental influences. That is the opinion of Dr. Warren H. Lewis of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Lewis has devoted many years to comparing normal cells with those of cancer and other malignant diseases. “Some authors consider malignant cells as sick or diseased cells but to me they seem to be extraordinarily healthy and vigorous,” Dr. Lewis said. “They pile up in the blood supply and often die there in great numbers, probably from the injurious effects of their own waste produces and from lack of oxygen. “The most characteristec property of malignant cells is their uncontrolled multiplication in the body. All normal cells are under control of some sort. The nature of the control mechanism is obscure but fundamental for all multi-cellular organisms. It begins at the two-cell stage and continues throughout life. It is inherited. “New types of cells like the malignant ones have no natural place in the animal organization, hence it is not surprising that they are not subject to the same laws of control as normal ones.” Dr. Lewis points out that the most serious objection to his point of view arises from the opinion that cancer cells harbor viruses or other agents, either living or chemical, w’hich multiply as the cells multiply and therefore are responsible for all the peculiarities of their behavior. If this Is true, he adds, then cancer cells must be regarded as diseased cells and not healthy ones. However, he does not think it is. SPRING BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Oh, it’s such an ugly day. Everywhere it's brown and gray. Lawn and street and barren tree Mirrors some drab destiny. Chill and wind sweep through my heart. Moves there anywhere an art To dispell the winter's sting? Then a robin chirps, “It’s spring.”

‘IT AINT THE MONEY

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The Hoosier Forum 1 disapprove of what you say- -and will defend to the death your l ight to say it. — Voltaire.

<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25’ words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a a a MORE HUMOR FOR 1936 CAMPAIGN By Hector, Crawfordsville Imagine a citizen saying, “I gave that fellow a job because he always spoke to me on the street and several times handed me a cigar.” Yet they used to select congressman for no other reason. Every crooked politician gets his start from voters who don’t think straight. Speakers who prate of the vaunted American standard of living never mention the amount of the installments paid on it. A really vote-getting pension plan would leave off the age limit. Citizens with identical interests in indus ,ry, business and agriculture some day may vote as though their political interests are identical, too. Rugged individualists can do a lot of whining. a a READER LAUDS EDITORIAL ON HAUPTMANN Bq T. D. Danataer I’ll say “Good for you!” Your Hauptmann editorial in Saturday's Times was both philosophic and scholarly. I don’t believe it possi-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN WHEN you eat vegetables, nowadays, you have a wide choice in meeting the demands of appetite, decorative appeal, food qualities, and many other factors. When you remember that the average person used to be satisfied with potatoes and an occasional green vegetable, and that today there Is such a tremendous variety of vegetable substances, you can see how important it is to have a proper understanding of what the various food substances contain. The vegetables you eat represent different portions of the plant from which they come. Some are roots of the plant and grow beneath the ground, such as potatoes. Others are stems of the plant, such as celery and rhubarb. In other instances, the leaf is involved, as in the ease of spinach and lettuce. Sometimes the flower is eaten, as cauliflower and broccoli. Tomatoes, of course, are the fruit of the plant, and beans and peas represent seeds. The vegetable industry provides rather inexact reports on consumption and total value of the products concerned, but figures indicate that we eat about 260 pounds of fresh vegetables and 40 pounds of canned vegetables, per person per year, in the United States.

IF YOU CAN’T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inclose a 3-eent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst. N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —What price did the United States pay to Russia for Alaska? A —57,200,000. Q —What was the average yield of wheat in bushels per acre in the United States and Canada in 1935? A—ln the United States, 12.1 bushels, and in Canada, 12 bushels. Q—ls it true that Henry Ford is offering anew Ford automobile for a Lincoln head penny dated 1922? A—lt is not true. Q —Does voice training greatly improve the singing voice? A—Nearly all music critics at once recognize the difference between a trained and an untrained singing voice. The trained voice is essential for most kinds of professional

ble to have the matter handle more capably. Excuse me if I take one slight exception. In your paragraph which runs as follows: / “But the fact remains that Hauptmann motivated by an overweening desire for money in a world which he had some reason to think excuses everything in those who have money.” I’d be inclined to think that the word “country” substituted there for the word “world” would be better. In your same issue you have another editorial headed “Taking A Walk” and down under is some sarcasm aimed at A1 Smith. Now I don’t believe that is fair to Al. Os course you must know that Al is a real Democrat in the true sense of the word. Al never took a walk from Democracy or principle no matter what courage was necessary to uphold them. ’Tis true you might say that he threatened to “take a walk” but that, as you know, only meant severing his services from the renegade section of his party which was weak enough to forsake a platform constructed on purely Democratic lines. tt a u READER OF BROUN REPLIES TO FISH By James A. Skelton In rv-ply to Representative Fish: I believe Heywood Broun is sincere in his belief and that he writes his honest opinion for the benefit

A GREAT deal of the increased use of vegetables has depended on the development of methods of canning and shipment. Thus we learn that shipments of green peas increased in 12 years from 691 to nearly 5000 carloads a year, and shipments of lettuce from around 14,000 to 56,000 carloads in the period from 1920 to 1930. There can be no doubt that this increased use of vegetables has been beneficial to the nutrition and health of the American people. Vegetables now are available not only in fresh and canned form, but also dried and frozen. Moreover, the canned vegetables are modified in the manner of preparation, so that they may be served whole or in slices or finely pulverized, as in sieved vegetables for invalids and children. Obviously, If we are to eat these foods with a clear understanding of their uses in the diet, it is important that we have some knowledge of w r hat they provide when fresh, canned, cooked or prepared in other ways. In general, however, vegetables are used primarily for their carbohydrate and mineral salts, the vitamins and the cellulose or fiber that they provide.

Q —How long is the Volga River? A—lt is 2325 miles. Q—What is the name of the song sung by Lily Pons in “I Dream Too Much,” while riding on the carrousei? A—‘ Little Jockey on the Carrousel,” composed by Jerome Kern. Q —How many United States soldiers were executed by firing squads during the World War? A—There were 10 such executions. Q—What is the title of the wife of an Earl? A—Countess. Q —Did the son of J. P. Morgan have active service in either the Army or Navy during the World W'ar? A—Junius S. Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan, was in officer on board a United States destroyer patrolling the British Channel for submarines during the World War. Q —Where are the headcuarters j of the American Medical Association? A—535 N. Dearbom-st, Chicago. -

of all the people and not for some political party. I believe the best way to fight communism is to produce a government that works better. You can take history and prove to yourself that capitalism has lived by inflation and wars, which are increasing our public debt. It’s funny that with all the arms Russia has I never hear in public when they are going to start a war with us. You should join the All-Ameri-caft Pick and Shovel Gang of about 3,500,000 and exist on what they get—which is more than it was a few years back. I expect you would have a change of mind. Speaking of the Republicans, they are human the same as the rest of us. I don’t consider riding into office with any party machine an honor, for you owe your allegiance to that machine. Me for the Braintrusters in preference to politicians. Some may not have practical experience* but they know things. The trouble here is that we are living under too many illusions. You might pick out a Democrat, Republican, and a Communist and the Communist might be the best citizen. I’m not interested in party names, but in the best government we can produce with the smallest amount of restrictiona a COMMENDS FLOOD NEWS. By S'.. A. Nelson We commend our radio stations and our newspapers for their time and space; giving information regarding the late flood. Much heroism and splendid aid has been and is forthcoming. Much has been said about Johnstown, Pa., which as well as many other cities suffered much from the flood. But courage, co-operation and good will is sure to make Johnstown, Pa., a better Johnstown. And how can it fail when such fine cooperation and aid is sent from this city. DAILY THOUGHT The fool foldeth his hands together, a*i eateth his own flesh.— Ecclesiastes, 4:5. VANITY keeps persons in favor with themselves, who are out of favor with all others.—Shakespeare.

SIDE GLANCES

“In good condition? Why, a spot of paint here and there, and anew bathtub, and you’d think it was built yesterday^

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—ThI roring rrportrr for Tba Time* goes where he pleeiei, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that. MONTERREY. Mexico, April 8 Most people who drive to Mexico in future months and years will be in a hurry. Fortunately. I am not. So I came only as far as Monterey on the first day toward Mexico City. Monterrey is only 145 miles from Texas, and the road is good. I left Nuevo Laredo at 9:10 r. m.. drove slowly, stopped an hour for lunch, and was here at 2:20. Here’s what the trip was like: You drive straight south through Nuevo Lerado. You're out of town in five minutes. You haven’t gonefive miles before you pass a herd of goats. A few miles farther the road straightens out and streams away over a scrubby desert for what they say is the longest absolutely straight stretch of road in the world—47 miles without a kink or bend. You’re conscious of being in a foreign land, although physically it differs little from southwest Texas. The country is slightly rolling, the ground is gray and rocky, and is covered with a rather thick growth of bush, about shoulder high, astonishingly green. a a a YOU meet quite a few cars, Mexican and American. On the day’s drive you pass 20 or 30 gangs of men working on the road—resurfacing, or digging along the edges. Many of the men wear no shirts, for it’s hot. Some have red bandanas around their heads. They seem to be working harder than American road gangs. A few miles out of Laredo a strong wind came up from the west. After a while it brought the dust. Gradually the whole sky filled with y°llow-gray sand. By noon the sun 'jegan to fade, and by 2 o’clock there was no sun, only dust in the sky. It was in your eyes, your hair, your mouth. You could see only a mile or two. The road to Monterrey is not new. It has been traveled for many years. Os the 145 miles, half a dozen stretches are being worked on. This is covered with loose rock, and 20 miles an hour is all you can do. These rough stretches total about 20 miles. a a tt THREE new bridges are being built, but you circle them in 30 seconds. The rest of the road is smooth macadam, and you could do 70 if you wanted to. It is level, all except five or ten miles through Mamulique pass, about 40 miles from Monterrey. This is twisty, but not steep, and closely resembles the approach to the Skyline Drive in Virginia- You take it in high, at .3 miles an hour. You can easily make Monterrey on one tank of gas. I drove all day in my ;hirt sleeves, and was comfortable. During the day we met four men riding horses along the road. They looked like the pictures of Mexican bandits. All their belongings were strapped to their saddles, and they led two other horses. They wore big straw hats, with strings under their chins. They had long mustaches. They waved as they passed. There are no bandits on this highway. a a a WE saw two rattlesnakes lying in tlie road, freshly killed. One as big as my arm, which isn't very big for an arm, but mighty big for a rattlesnake. We met a gracious little boy in overalls on a back street in Sabinas Hildalgo, who showed us his school books. The town is just a bunch of gray stone and adobe square houses, covered with dust. You wouldn’t imagine anybody there could read or write. The boy’s book was beautifully bound and printed. It was a volume on botany, in Spanish. We saw tractors and yokes of oxen, plowing in the same field. We saw burros near Monterrey, stacked so high and co wide with stick-wood that their ?pindly legs seemed about to break under the loan. But they dog-trotted along, with their heads down, looking not at all unhappy. O tt tt MONTERREY is a large city, the metropolis of northern Mexico. It has been a resort haven of travelers from the States for many years. It is picturesque, and very beautifully placed, too, with saddleback mountains on three sides. You stop in a modern hotel.

By George Clark