Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1936 — Page 11

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FROM INDIANA

. By ERNIE PYLE

CHALET, GLACIER PARK, Mont., Sept. 15.—The experiences of Rollo, the City Softie, hereinafter related, . are in nowise to be considered remarkable. But since the world is full of City Softies like Rollo, who have unremarkable experi-

ences, it may be justifiable to record here for their benefit dhe slight adventures of our hero.

Rollo went into the high mountains alone, dressed

only in his city clothes, with a new $1.50 canvas knapsack on his back. In two days he walked 26 miles, climbed with his own city muscles from 3000 feet back down and up again four times; walked along the shores of high hidden lakes; strode like a small boy in a fairy tale along narrow paths in the tall thick forest; learned not to jump at every crackle in the bush; saw shaggy mountain goats standing 2 on ledges at 7000 feet: discovered Mr. Pyle was sick from exhaustion, above ah, experienced the powerful expansive inward glow that can come only to a tramper as he stands. miles away from any other human, in the cold wind on an 8000-foot pass and looks about him at the immensity of peak and chasm. £ . "x a

Lungs Are Weak HE sun was shining brightly and it was very warm and a quarter to. 9 when Rollo said good-by and strode away from the sophisticated shores of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

A man directed him to the path that led into the | He entered and kept walking, and so tall

forest.

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what it is to toil upward until he | and, |

was the forest that for two hours he did not see a |

méintainside, or hardly even the skv. Rollo learned that though soft city hearts may have ‘courage, soft city lungs are weak. He learned this from much gasping for breath, and pounding in the head, and sudden incapacities in the joints. stopped to rest. ~

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Rollo climbed for two hours through the forests.

It was a steep climb all the way." An auto would

have had to go into second gear, although an auto |

could not have gone where Rollo went.

inally the timber began to get shorter and thin- | ner, and Rollo could -see the stin, and occasionally a

mountainside across the through the timberline, : He came out above it, out among bare rock. stopped to look around.

” n n So Near, Yet So Far AR below he could see the lake he had left. It was a long way down, but not half as far as it seemed to Rollo it should be. Mountain then were on each side of him, and

valley.

ahead was a deep valley, and up above, on a ledge he canyon, he discovered the chalet which was. his destination, Z “Ah, good boy!” thought Rollo. “How fast T have There's the chalet and I'll be there in 15 minutes, Six miles this morning. And they said it ‘would be a tough pull” pin turns, and Rollo discovered that instead of just fhimbing up a mountain, he was walking back and forth across the side of a mountain. It was a mountainside switch-back, designed, for .propelling one’s self up a grade that is too steep for human legs to scale straight up. | After infinite toiling, and frequent resting, Rollo. gained a level space, and sat down for a final look at his goal before the race up the stretch. You can imagine then with what a shock his city eyes perceived that the chalet was still as. far away as it had been half an hour before, _ Rollo reached the chalet an hour and 15 minutes after he caught the first glimpse of it. He stopped behind a tree for a final rest, a hundred feet from the door, so the people would not find him: out of breath. ’ >

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT N= YORK, Monday.—We drove to Albany this morning a little after 8 o'clock, giving a last affectionate look at the creation of our hands. We felt that sense of satisfaction that people have who have done something entirely different from their evervday occupations and found that they could do it moderately well. eT . We reached Poughkeepsie’ and my son John met us in his roadster. So many and varied were our “bags that I wondered how he could ever get them He drove us to the cottage and “in the lane I met my granddaughter Sistie on John’s

® hunter, looking like a peanut on such a big horse.

| The trail began to get steeper, and to make hair- |

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“With her was one of the grooms and, unfortunately, |

our setter dog, Jack. >

We speeded ahead to shut up the police dog who |

was apt to quarrel with the setter. Sistie was serenely

confident because the police dog had been shut up the |

day before and she thought that he would be today.

| However, he was out and for one moment I thought

we would have a tremendous dog fight. Instead, there were snarls and much noise and John shoved Jack into his car where he day peacefully and repentant while the police dog disappeared. When all this excitement was over John changed _ places with the groom and rode off with Sistie, leaving the groom to drive his car back so he could take us to the station. ! : After this Mrs. Scheider and I were confronted with two desks simply covered with mail.

large package of the balance to take back to Washington. oo . Sistie and Buzzie came over-for a brief visit, but this time without any dogs! At 12:30 John was back. We left two bags but we had accumulated two bundles, so the rumble seat was as full as ever. 5 On the train Mrs. Scheideg and I went into the buffet car for-something to } and found ourselves very close to a table full of ndon-button-wearing

. #men, very prosperous looking busihess men. If I had

been sure of their sense of humor I should have passed out a little pamphlet gotteniout by the “Business Men's League for Roosevelt,” Which tells of all ‘the good things that have happened to business since March, 1933. I was afraid they might not see it my

way, so I restrained this mad impulse. - {Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) >

Daily ‘New. Books

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Amateur Broadcasters Often Real Heroes in Times of Disaster,

BY ALLAN KELLER

Times Special Writer

HEN manufacturers added a few more feet of wire,

two or, three more gadgets and a new quadrant on the dials of radio receiving sets they subjected the listeners to a new form of mild insanity. : Out of the loud speakers came the apparently mad cross-country chatter of the amateur radio broadcasters— the “hams”—those starry-eyed eccentrics who want to

talk’ with other amateurs

in

Nome and Patagonia, in

Punxsutawney and New Bedford. Before a month had passed hitherto normal citizens who had been content with the throaty crooning of Bing Crosby or the hysterics of Candidate Witherdash were

turning to the shorter wave lengths for their amuse-

ment. It didn’t make sense, but it was good fun. . And it was, as a matter of fact very simple. The new calibrations on their dials had merely made it possible for them to listen in on the broadcasting of 60,000 men and women scattered about the earth who use the wave lengths not needed by the commercial stations to ‘chew the rag” with one another. They had been doing it for more than 20 years, but the public—with radio receivers limited tp the commercial broadcast band—knew of them only when some disaster left cities without communication other than that made possible by the “hams.”

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N any normal night a twist of the dial to the shorter wave lengths will give the listener a seat in the front row of a play that uses the whole world as a stage. Act X, Scene 62, may sound like this: «“yO1l, VO1I, VOI1I. This is W2BNL, W2BNL, as in Boston, Nevada, Louisville. This is W2BNL, Staten Island, New York. Hello VOI1I in St. Johns, Newfoundland. This is W2BNL standing by.” There is a pause and then: “W2BNL, W2BNL. Hello, W2BNL. This'is YO1I in St. Johns standing by.” . Another brief pause: “Hello, VO11. This is W2BNL, fine business old man, ‘Your signals are fine and strong, about RS.

| There's a little QRM from so-and- | so out in Red Bank, but your sig- | nals are spreading very little. Fine

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business. How's the weather up in St. Johns? It’s been very hot down here. Come back on the same wave length, please.” This is W2BNL standing by.” It goes on like tnat for five or 10 minutes, perhaps, and then the voices coming in from the ether agree to sign off and each says “73” to the other. To get an idea of what went on the listener would have to go to

the home of Edward C. Wilbur, field engineer of the National Broadcasting Co., an outstanding radio technician, who, after long hours at the radio station, takes a “postman’s holiday” at his home in West New Brighton, Staten Island, by chatting with other hams anywhere he can find them in the wave bands left open to the amateurs. i 8 2.»

PSTAIRS, in a little- room he has convinced his wife she does not need, Mr. Wilbur has built his transmitter and his receiver—a mass of coils, dials; filter transformers, quartz crystals, amplifiers, tubes and other “gadgets.” Anything that can be

moved is a “gadget” to the ham,

His radio room, whether it’s in the cellar or in the attic, is his “shack.” Using the same current that lights his lights or runs his wife's” vacuum sweeper, Mr. Wilbur, and other amateurs, talk over thousands of miles. That conversation that sounded like a cross between a child memorizing the alphabet and a broken phonograph record came "about like this: "i Mr. Wilbur, tuning his receiver to a certain wave length in the amateur band, picked up his microphone and called the call letters of Oscar Hierlihy, 38 Mul-lock-st, in St. Johns. He repeated them frequently, hoping the other would be listening, and he. res peated his own station signal to identify himself. Once: Hierlihy answered the contact had been made and the chat was on. These men, who have never seen each other, talk about their sets, the' strength with which words are coming over the ether, and always of the weather. There is little else to talk about when you're strangers. All hams are “Old Man” to each other or “Old Woman” unthis is rather rare— y 2Y. L's” or young ladies. Abbreviating wherever they can, they say “73” for goodnight and less frequently “83” for love and kisses.

“Fine business” is one of the

Importance of Correct Diet Stressed at Harvard Meeting

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

OSTON, Sept. 15.—Eating to live, to live abundantly. and healthily, was the central idea of a symposium by members of the Harvard Medical School faculty here yesterday as a part of Harvard's celebration of its three centuries of educational work in America. The announced topic was “Nutrition an the Deficiency Diseases.” . Dr. George R. Minot, who presided over the symposium, reminded his hearers that interest in right diet has been on the Harvard campus since the very beginnings of Harvard College. One of the books from the John Harvard library, forming part of the original endowment, was a popular text on nutrition; and a magistrate had to hear the wife of the first professor accused of not feeding the students well. enough. Mention of nutrition probably conjures up visions of ‘solid food” in the minds @f most of us; but the foods we assimilate would do us no good if they were not transported about the body in fluid state, and if wastes were not removed. The wateriness of the human body is proverbial. For this reason, perhaps, the sym=posium started with a discussion by Dr. J. L. Gamble of the extra-cellu-lar body fluids. One-fifth of our total* body weight consists of fluids outside the living cells. Of this fraction, one-fourth consists of the

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The mineral salts in these important body fluids are kept in proper balance by the kidneys, ‘while the carbon dioxide is maintained at the proper level through the action of the respiratory apparatus.

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OT being red-blooded is more than a moral or social taunt, from the medical angle; it may mean a very serious lack of health. Several things can cause deficiency of hemoglobin, which gives blood its red color, said Dr. Clark W. Heath: Iron demands for growth, the even more imperious demands by a child on its mother both before birth and during nursing, or the outright loss of blood through a wound. One type of extract has been found useful in correction of this deficiency, also minute doses of copper and possibly the therapeutic use of chlorophyll and bile pigment. Protein deficiency amounts to a serious diseased condition, Dr. Ches-

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vide enough meat, eggs, and milk, is a tragic cause. Less inexcusable are. such derangements as malabsorption, diabetes, nephritis and several other internal diseases. Defective function in the digestive tract is a frequent cause of failure to digest and absorb food. Dr. William B. Castle explained some of these conditions. treme cases, the inner surfaces of the organs may be simply too sore to work; as in pernicious anemia, pellagra and several other ailments. Thus the luckless patient is caught in a vicious downward spiral of malnutrition. = ” ”

HE role of Vitamin C as a bonemaker is familiar, but bone is not the only tissue with which this food element is concerned. Dr. S. Burt Wolbach, speaking at the symposium, told of others: Cartilage, certain types of connective tissue and the enamel of the teeth. In general, Vitamin C conducts its business not in the cells but between them, for all these tissues are classed as “intercellular.” Dr. Kenneth D. Blackfan emphasized the desirability of careful diagnosis, by means of newly de-

veloped chemical tests, for the early.

recognition states.

of vitamin-deficient

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—World-Telegram Photos Edward C. Wilbur, radio technician and amateur “ham,” transmitting over his short-wave station on Staten Island. :

commonest phrases in the game. Hams use it constantly to indicate clear, strong sending and equally constant, non-fading reception, 2 ¥ 3 HE early days of radio, like the early days of other arts and sciences, were marked by fumbling and uncertainty. Commereial stations used mile-long antennae and tremendous wattage to send sound impulses out over the air. They used long wave lengths and their corresponding low frequencies and even then were able to push sound only a few hundreds of miles. In 1912 the first Federal radio laws gave the commercial com-

panies their present broadcast

bands and limited the amateurs to the bands below 200 meters or over 1500 Kkilocycles. The hams were banished to the high frequencies—then deemed worthless —and in the decade that followed they showed by persistency and sheer inventive genius that the high frequencies hold the hope of the future and opened the way to short-wave police communication. ship-to-shore relays, .and that dream that grows more tangible every day—television. It was the hams who first solved the mystery of “skip” in radio— that. phenomenon that made it possible to talk on some wave lengths with China but impossible to talk with Gary, Ind, They learned that the electrical impulses generated in their sets sent out “sky-waves” which went 100 miles into the sky and were then deflected by ionized strata of atmosphere—the Kenelly-Heaviside layer. The angle of deflection varied with the wave length. Now the most casual of the hams knows what wave length to use for any desired distance. They learned that certain shortwave, ultra-high frequency impulses’ were reflected by tht atmosphere less than 6000 feet up— where planes fly with ease—but ‘that is another story.

One of the smallest shortwave transmitters in the world and (right) a giant output tube used in short-wave transmission.

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Now of an evening James C. Mohnton, the blind amateur of Mohnton, Pa., spins his dial, gives his station call letters, W3CKD, and converses with Staten Island or St. Johns or any other ham who feels the urge to go on the ‘air. It was Mohnton who, talking over three or four hundred miles of intervening space recently with this writer, summed up some of the lure and romance of short wave radio. “We don’t limit ourselves to technical discussions,” he said, his voice coming in clear and wellmodulated. “It's opened up a new vista, We've a camp up above here and we often have the boys come in and talk to relatives long distances away. A neighbor of mine keeps in touch with his son in a divinity school in Rochester. ;

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“Ur FOUND my wife over the ether.” The blind man laughed and it.sounded as if he were chuckling in the same room. “We got acquainted over the short wave and don’t you know,” he said, “it wasn’t long until the wedding.” Mohnton told of the change amateur radio made in the life of C. T. Henry, an invalid of Millersville, Pa. Other hams built Henry's set, taught him to use it and helped him to get his license from the Federal Communications

Commission. Now, although bedridden, this man talks with friends far beyond the tragic confines of his own sickroom. Amateur radio has many uses. One of these comes to light when tragedy stalks abroad. Battering winds blew over lonely San Nicolas Island, 70 miles out in the Pacific from Los Angeles Harbor, not long ago. In a little home on the island, ‘Edna Agee, 4 months old, lay dying, no ‘medical aid nearer than the mainland. Sheep ranchers athered in the beating rain, visted the Agee home and prayed that the fever might abate in the little body. As twilight came L. P. Elliott, owner of ham station W6JLF, called for aid from Los Angeles. Another ham at Redondo Beach picked up the message and notifiled the Los Angeles police, who sent a squad car racing to the © home of Dr. William E. Brown. Another message went to the Coast Guard and when Dr. Brown reached the pier a Coast Guard cutter was waiting. Eight hours later,” as the. sun shone pale through the fog and low scudding clouds, the physician jumped ashore at San Nicolas Island. The fever was checked, the baby lived and amateur radio —ham radio—chalked up another mark on its record of mercy.

Next: Radio pioneering days.

Gov. Landon Into Roose

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

ORTLAND, Me. Sept. 15.—As some one here said, it is too bad for Gov. Landon that he can't

have his speeches delivered for him by President Roosevelt. Place one of the Landon manuscripts in Roosevelt's hands, give him a microphone, and the average listener would think he was hearing the authoritative wisdom of the ages. Landon is less glamorous as a political personality than even Coolidge was as Vice President. His speaking style is worse—no it could hardly be worse, than that of the early Hoover. Yet, through these impediments, is emerging a personality of integrity and determination, of calmness and reason, and of fairness, which is likely to take clearer form and become more obvious as the campaign continues. The most striking thing about Landon at this time is his refusal

The Broun, Pegler,” Johnson and Merry-Go-Round columns have been moved from this page to the Editorial Page (Page 12). :

Refuses to Be Stampeded

to be stampeded into the extremism, say of the Frank Knox variety. ” ” ” 3 : O one except Landon knows how great the pressure has been for him to sink into the bitter end type of statement in which many of his Republican colleagues are indulging. His advisers are yelling for blood. They say he is too gentlemanly and too reasonable. They want him to promise an end of everything that Roosevelt has done. Many of them would like to go back to the Hoover policies.

_ This had become something of an issue in Republican councils and

when Landon said he was coming.

to Maine to make a fighting speech, they took it that he would get down to real Roosevelt-baiting. But he doesn’t give in. He comes here and warns against undue centralization of government. But he is not so simple to: believe, nor so dishonest as: to pretend, that the states can settle everything. He recails how the Federal government,

.as conditions grew more complex,

became more active in protecting the economic freedom and welfare of citizens through laws concerning puse foods, public health, banking,

‘transportation, workmen’s compen-

sation, safety appliances, monopolies, unfair trade practices and

A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson

: / WE got out of Colorado with only a slightly That, considering the traffic, was a miracle. A constant procession of tourists crawled over the highways. No mountain peak was too inaccessible, no road too rough, no nook too hidden but you'll find some

dented fender.

tourists there.

And we were fortunate to be there late in the season. At least that’s what we were told by the thin little man who runs a vine-clad . filling station and sells chewing gum and pop. “A good third of them’'s gone,” he said, speaking as impersonally as if he had been talking about a plague of grasshoppers. “But how on earth did they manage to “The roads are so congested now you can't get up any speed.” His expression was gleeful. “They just stayed in line and liked

travel?” we gasped.

“Well, ladies, they didn’t.”

education.

I told mama, this has been one of the most entertaining summers I've ever put in. I reckon I've seen every make of car and every make of mortal in the last three months. It's beén real

“And don’t let anybody tell you we're see-

ing hard times in this country, sisters. No

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it. I tell you I ain't seen so many people in all , a

my life as I've seen just setting here this

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Business has been fine for everybody. And look at them cars. Only one in five is more than two years old. The factories had to work overtime to turn out all them shiny new models, let me tell you. And folks never looked more sassy or pleased with themselves. It's beyond me how anybody can complain. Colorado has had the biggest tourist year she ever saw and the folks that come out here—well, they've got to have enough to buy food and gasoline. So far as I can judge this is prosperity, ladies —and any Republican that says different is

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regulation of public utilities and issuance of securities. ¥ = 2 ” HESE, he says, “habe marked America as a progressive nation.” Every one of them, he emphasizes, was designed to‘ protect the public welfare and ‘preserve equality of opportunity. Although he recognizes that these laws were not all perféct and have not all been enforced as they should have been, nevertheless they were based, he says, on the philosophy of economic freedom. None weakened the fundamental character of our government. In other words, Gov. Landon gives his full indorsement to the principle of Federal regulatory legislation. He does object to NRA, which a good many within the Administration now regard as a mistake. He objects to that and to features of AAA; he objects to measures which» went beyond regulatory functions

and by executive order mixed prices, |

wages, and in some industries, attempted to entrench existing monopolies. No exact line cah be drawn, for there is a twilight zone between practical regulation and infringement upon personal liberty which costs more socially than it is worth. Landon says Roosevelt has gone too far. But he by no means indorses the Tory dream of reducing the Federal government to nothing except the Army and the Navy. He would simply shift the New Deal's center of gravity somewhat more to the right than Tugwell would place it.

” 2 = O matter the result in Maine, Landon has an uphill fight. It is more to his credit then, that he keeps a cool head, and refuses to jump overboard. : He knows that capitalism is its own enemy, that in its present reaction from the New Deal it is inclined to swing back to an extremely reactionary position which in the end would bring new troubles down upon its head. Roosevelt is so at odds with the business world, such an intense emotional opposition to him exists now, that it is a question whether they can become reconeiled. In such a situation, Landon fulfills a mission as a man who believes in the capitalistic system, and who would on the one side protect it from excessive encroachment by government, and on the other

side, induce it to accept with good

grace those regulatory

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER :

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I» DIANAPOLIS citizens old enough to recall the Johnstown flood can remember the Bierbower family who lived in Belle-fontaine-st. There were four]. of them. The father’s

name was John E., but his pals called Him

Jack. Mother Bierbower was known as Jane to her friends and” everybody called the baby Elsie. I've forgotten the name of the son, and it doesn't much matter because today’s column is mostly about Elsie Bierbower, anyway. Everybody in the neighborhood was crazy about Elsie Bierbower, because she had everything a little girl has a right to have. And then" some. She was as pretty as a picture, and she had a lot of pep and personality—at- a time, too, when little girls were supposed to be seen and not heard. Old-timers still recall her as the cut-up of the neigh-

borhood. Mr. Scherrer

Mischievous Elsie Bierbower robabl school at No. 27 or, maybe, it ay 10, Stared can' make up my mind which it was, and maybe it doesn’t matter because the way things turned out, it was pretty plain that the Indianapolis public school system never was designed for Elsie Bierbower. 2 = 3 :

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Mo == BIERBOWER knew it from the stairty It was not for nothing, for instance, that Elsie could mimie, dance and sing as soon as she was old enough to walk. And so it came to pass that Mother

--Bierbower took Elsie’s education into her own hands.

5 Anyway, when she was ‘8 years old, or just about the time other Indianapolis kids wer i Second Reader, Elsie Bierbower Ee anihing ie Charity Ball” in New York. The next year she was in vaudeville and it was good. for a five-year contract In 1904 she was starred in “The Belle of New ' York” and later appeared in “The Fortune Teller” and “The Duchess.” Two years later she scored her big hit in “The Vanderbilt Cup.” It ran two years. That was just about the time of the sheath skirt, the. Merry Widow hat and Charles B. Dillingham: Mr. Dillingham took Elsie Bierbower under his wing and starred her in “The Hoyden,” “Fair Co-ed” and “Slim Princess.” As near as I can recall,” that was the occasion of Elsie Bierbower’s last *visit to Indianapolis. Anyway, it was the time a lot of us old-timers went back-stage to see what she looked like.. She looked as good as ever. Te

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HEN came the war. Peppy Elsie Bierbower went with the American Expeditionary Force to help cheer the soldiers. She gave 610 performances in 15 months in France, and but for her cheery help, maybe we'd be fighting yet, : Last month, Elsie Bierbower got on the front page again. Apparently dejected by the death of her mother, Miss Bierbower (now Mrs. Gilbert Wilson) announced her intention to carry out literally Christ's command, “Go and sell-that thou hast and give to the poor.” What's more, she threatened to hold an auction and dispose of everything she has, including a 1l5-acre estate, for the good of charity. ; ‘And sure enough, last week the auction took place, leaving Elsie Bierbower only an iron bedstead. By this time, no doubt, alert readers will be wise to the fact that Elsie Bierbower’s life parallels that of Elsie Janis. I can explain that, too. Elsie Biere bower and Elsie Janis are one and ‘the same person, Mother Bierbower’s first name wasn’t Jane at all, Her real name was Janis E. Bierbower. See?

Hoosier Yesterdays

SEPTEMBER 15 : BY J. H. J. >

OF Sept. 15, 1799, the first Legislature of the Northe west Territory was in session’ at Cincinnati. John Small, Knox County, was the only Indiana Representative in the Legislature of 22, the rest come ing from the more thickly populated eastern counties of the territory, or what is now Ohio. The Legislature nominated 10 men, of whom five were chosen by the President of the United States, to act as a Legislative Council | for the territory. Henry Vanderburg, Vincennes, was named president of the council, ! William Henry Harrison was chosen by the Legis lature to represent the territory in Congress. Harrie son immediately resigned as secretary of the territory and hastened to Philadelphia where Congress was in session. He was instructed to urge Congress to set aside one-sixteenth of the land in every township for support of schools. iy Most important work of the Legislature was the enacting of 39 new laws and the repeal of many old ones laid down in the Ordinance of 1787. The body also showed the position of the territory on slavery by rejecting the petition of some-Virginia planters who wished to move in with their slaves.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

ESIDES laxatives the preparations found most . commonly in the family medicine chest are those used to relieve pain. Human beings dislike and fear pain, and will try almost anything to avoid it, Few persons are capable of suffering pain in silence, although there have been people, such as the ancient Stoics, who believed that training to endure pain is

valuable mental discipline. Headache powders, pills, and solutions have been

used for many years and have been widely promoted

as patent medicines. x: There is, moreover, a tendency to develop a habit from taking such preparations. Once such habit is formed, the person concerned is apt to over= look the great value of pain as a warning of danger. After all, most real pains indicate changes in the tissues or in the activities of the body. Most pains are distinctly warning signals. : Besides those associated with headache, there are other common pains such as toothache, earache, neuralgia, neuritis, and pains of pe rheumatic type which the sufferers themselves frequently attempt to control. 2 = It should be borne in mind that a toothache may be caused by an abscess at the root of the tooth, and that the way to end the ache is to relieve the tension in the abscess. : : An earache is due usually: to an infection in the internal ear or to an abscess in the external canal, and the only way to treat such condition is to find the cause and to treat it accordingly. Neuritis has many causes, including lead poisone ing, infection at any point in the body, or poisoning by food. Here again the only correct procedure is to determine and attack the cause. There are innumerable cause of rheumatic disorders, as will be pointed out in later articles in this series; and every patient with rheumatism or arthri tis should be studied, and the nature of his dition determined. a ] The general pain reliever most commonly used acetylsalicylic acid, known as aspirin. It should b pointed out, however, that one type of aspirin is about as good as another, provided it is up to the st