Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1936 — Page 11
Vagabond FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE
PERRY CHALET, GLACIER PARK,
Mont., Sept. 16.—This is Episode. 2 of |
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Rollo of the Rockies, or The Saga of a City |
Softie. : Rollo was resting in his chalet bedroom, 6600 feet above the level of the sea. had just eaten lunch. Before that he had climbed ‘six miles, and his legs were beginning to pull inside. It was hard to fight off sleep. Rollo drowsed, and
Jumped up. He took his sweater from his knapsack,- rolled it and tied 'it around his waist, took his leather glovés and his little field glasses and started out for the glacier. ‘He thought they were lying when sthey showed him the trail. He followed it with his eye, around the valley, across the face of the immense slide; back and forth up the steep slope to the pass so very far up there, and then it disappeared. The afternoon sun became hot as he toiled around the rim of the deep circular valley, climbing always. The trail "was just a couple of feet wide, and below him it slanted off sharply.
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Rollo puffed and toiled and leaned far over. and i
gave his arms long rhythmic swings to help him - along, rest, He looked up once or twice at the trail switching back/ and forth across the face of the frighteningly steep pass above him.
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Rollo Gels Light-Headed
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iA T the turns Rollo, being a city softie, walked
close to the inside. He felt sort of light-headed. A gale was blowing around him now. He grew cold. When he stopped to rest now. he’ just peeked over the edge.a little bit. He could see the switch-back “trail so plainly below him, back and forth a dozen times, like an eternally diminishing letter Z, for a quarter of a mile down, From there on he climbed without looking. He curved slowly around the mountainside and then he could no longer see the valley nor the chalet, and suddenly he achieved to his surprise a high, fairly level ground. This high level ground was another valley. It had tiny rocky-shored lakes in it, and the ground was strewn with great square rocks, as big as a room. Rollo walked slowly toward the far end of the high valley. It was dammed across by a high straight wall of solid rock.. There seemed no way out. No glacier was in sight. And then suddenly Rollo saw what he had to do. He had to go up over that
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Sneaks Up on Glacier
TT" trail-builders had blasted an almost vertical step-ladder up the stone. Rollo doesn’t know yet how he had the courage to go up. It was 50 or 60 feet. The wind blew upward through the cirque with a shrick. . Rollo crawled out on top on his hands and knees. He stood up a little at a time. The wind whipped at him, and he felt light,. and imagined he was swaying. He managed to look around. And there he stood, on top of the world. He stood on a miniature plateau of rock, scarcely a hundred feet wide, sheer fall behind him, the long gradual slope of the glacier in front. He had sneaked up to it from behind. Rollo had never seen a glacier before, close up. He wasn't, even sure it yas the glacjer. It looked just like a lot of dirty snow. He walked gingerly out on it. It was hard and slick, and he knew it was solid ice underneath. Its face was in thousands of gently und declivities, about the size of a washpan. Rollo pped from one to the other. He could see deep crevfsses not far over, and hear the trickle of melting snéw water through them, and he could even see small snow caves here "and there. " He eased back off the edge of the glacier, and on to the sheets of solid red rock that formed the mountain top itself. Huge red rocks lay tumbled every which way, left like that by the glacier meltings of other years.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day |
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Tuesday—At 6 o'clock Monday
night I walked into the Colony Club in New York with a sinking heart and that peculiar feeling one sometimes gets in the depths of one’s anatomy when about to do something one dreads and wishes ‘one had never promised to do. In a moment of enthusiasm my secretary told the publisher of Martha Gellhorn's book, “The Trouble I've Seen,” that when I read the first story aloud at my home, the listeners wept. He jumped to the conclusion that this was a tribute to my reading, whereas it was a tribute to a very remarkable piece of writing. He asked if I would read that story over again to _ some friends of his. I agreed wiih alacrity, for it was little enough for me to do, net only for. a friend, but
for a book which I feel on its own merits should be
read by many people in the next few months,
But, as the day drew nearer, my terror grew | greater. Why had I ever been so conceited as to think f I could read aloud to a group of critical, really critical, |
and erudite people?
On going in the first person I saw was my old |
friend Mrs. Percy Pennypacker, She gave me a sense |
of reassurance at once. I talked to her for a few minutes and when the time came to start, I began somehow or other, and then the story got me just as it had the first time. The description of the old woman, as one of the gentlemen present said, “is something like ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,’ 1936 style.” The humor in the book is so closely tied to the tragedies of life, and the bits of characterization are very vivid. Before I knew it the first part was ended and it was 7:30. The American edition of “The Trouble I've Seen” will come out on the twenty-third of this month. I can not tell you how Martha Gellhorn, young, pretty, college graduate, good home, more or less Junior League background, with a touch of exquisite Paris clothes and “esprit” thrown in, can write as she does. " She has an understanding of many people and many situations in this country of ours, and she can make
them live for us. : (Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— HE popular expression “reaching for the moon” has been taken quite literally by P. E. Cleator “in his book, ROCKETS THROUGH SPACE (Simon and Schuster; $2.50). : Mr. Cleator, founder of the British Interplanetary Society, finds plausible and scientifically sound the possibility of future travel in ships propelled by rockets over properly charted courses to the moon, or to Venus or Mercury. * One reads with amazement and excitement of efforts now being made by the rocket societies of the United States, England and Germany to overome engineering difficulties, which seem within reach of solution; of the probable experiences one would have on a voyage through interplanetary space; of navigation problems on such a trip; and of what manner of man one may find on other worlds than ours. J ® = = ¢ TALE of simple Georgian Negroes is DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN, by Minnie Hite Moody (Julian Messner; $2.50). > 7
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Second Section
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Amateurs
Puzzle
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Friends,
Irk Wives, But Have Aided Science,
BY ALLAN KELLER
Times Special Writer | THE birth of amateur radio was attended by the midwifery of humor. There was about its early days something of the same mad essence that makes Joe Cook's infernal machines work. Art was at the bedside; so, too, was technique; but a certain drollness sat on the footboard, rocking back and forth with glee,
Today, even though ham
into the vast realm of the
short wave and the ultra
high frequency, there is still something humorous about the men who, ignoring their wives, bridge parties and the leak in the bathtub, flee to some attic nook and there stab the ether with code or telephone messages, hoping that other amateurs, equally irra-
_ tional, will hear and answer.
There are 49,000 men and women, boys and girls in the United States alone who held amateur licenses on the first of July, and new sets are crowding the broadcast bands more and more, attesting the hobby’s popularity. In the earliest days, only a few enthusiasts had what it took to monkey with the forerunners of the modern vacuum tube sets in an effort to make a friend hear a few miles away. "Hertz had propounded the theory that electro-magnetic waves were in complete accordance with light and heat waves, thus establishing the principle on which all radio was made possible; Marconi had worked with the longer wave lengths and a few other. outstanding figures had sought to answer the mysterious questions posed by the necessity of sending the human voice through the air without wires. In America boys and young men raced with one another to perfect apparatus and to open up new channels. Some worked with knowledge of what others had done, some worked by a rule of thumb and an. innate inventiveness that was to astound them all. When commercial stations were using mile-long antennae, amateurs were struggling to get results without spending much money. A lot of words have gone over the air since that time, but other’ boys are still experimenting on the frontier of radio knowledge. The frontier moves out and out but has not yet shown any signs of having limits. : 2 8 @
HE young radio amateurs who were playing with the littleknown theories of sound propulsion a score or more years ago’ asked their professors about the shorter wave lengths. The instructors all said there was “no use going below -200 meters, because Prof. G. W. Pierce's classi cal text stopped at that point. And today research men in amateur laboratories are studying the possibilities of one-meter broadcasting and there is a whole school of enthusiasts working with the two-and-a-half-meter
Decline in Birth Rate Traced to Higher Standards of Living
radio has pioneered the way |
—World-Telegram Photo. -
Jean Hudson, 8, of Laurel, Del, youngest person in the United
States to win an amateur radio
license, taking a code speed test.
band. Amateurs are doing what the commercial stations of 20 years ago did with 400,000 watts and a mile-long antenna. The short wave broadcasters are sending longer distances and clearer messages. The amateur has not done all the pioneering. The large broadcasting companies have spent untold sums in research and have worked hand in hand with the amateurs and the government. But the ham has done his experiment-
"ing with an average investment of
$250 and an annual upkeep expenditure of from $100 to $150. It was the ham .who moved down to the 160-meter band and then to 100 meters only to find that 80 meters could be con-
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BY SCIENCE SERVICE
PB 4c=roo, England, Sept. 16. —Inducements toward a more luxurious standard of living are
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greatest on the day-side of the earth.
ya» A fs world is poorly mapped, Dr.
William Bowie of the United
responsible for falling population | States Coast and Geodetic Survey
such as has occurred in the last decade in England and Wales, Dr. E. P. Poulton of Guy's Hospital, London, charged before the physiology section of the British Association for the Advancéement- of Science here.
The urge toward a rise in standard of living increases the stramn of modern civilization, in his opinion, and causes potential parents to forego children in order to live more easily and luxuriously. The year 1925 was the last time
| lation. The latest analyzed figures show that three-quarters of the { necessary number of births occur {to keep Britain from a state of
| dwindling population.
Dr.’ Poulton
{ explained that “the average family { must contain 3.1 children of both
| so high in pitch that human ears
sexes to make a stationary Population.”
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(= 2RATION of air wates of high frequency and large power was demonstrated to the British Association here by Dr. J. Hartman of Copenhagen'’s Institute of Technology. He predicted that his acoustic air-jet generator would open up a wide field of
tions. These intense and ultrashrill air waves are really sounds
i can not hear them. :
Eenie, the central character, is the daughter of a |
village preacher. goes to live in her own little cabin, life seems good; but trouble soon follows. Weaver is kicked by a mule, and there develops a misery in his side which only good corn liquor can ease. One night he knifes a man and he and Eenie flee to the city. . From then on he spends most of his time getting into scrapes, and Eenie must become both home maker and bread T. Yet in spite of all her troubles she is able p | ria E10 » :
When she marries Weaver and |
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| ness of the aurora or northern | lights, Dr. L. Vegard of the Uni- | versity of OsM told the psysicists. { Prominent red lines in the auroral
spectrum are enhanced when the atmosphere producing the aurora is sunlit. ' One type of red auroras is
explained by the presence of ozone,
| scientific and technical applica- |
told the British scientists. Although certain countries, notably Great
Britain, have had good maps for
years, the United States is only 47 per cent, covered with topographic maps and even many of the existing maps are inadequate because made so long ago. “There are portions of many other large areas of the world where maps of modern types do not exist,” Dr. Bowie said. “This is true for the greater part of Canada and for all of the Latin-American countries.
| Then in Africa, Australia, eastern
Europe and much of Asia there are large areas for which there are no maps of a high type. Of course there are maps of some kind for practically all areas. Many of them were prepared by explorers and by others who merely wished to show routes of travel for crossing deserts, mountains and rivers#
trolled and 40 meters, too. Then one day the 20-meter band was tamed and boyish, eager’ voices talked with others as excited in the ‘Antipodes and in Far China and Japan, and were too flustered to repeat Samuel F. B. Morse’s astonished message when the telegraph was invented: — “What hath God wrought?” They fought for what they got, those early hams, By 1921 they had whipped some high frequencies into submission.
: 2 # = Y 1926 the amateurs and their homemade, economical sets bridged the uttermost distances of the earth. Now down the street from anybody's home there may
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Our Town
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Short-wave radio is now recognized as invaluable in maintain-
ing
communications
between
fighting forces and G. H. Q. Photo shows West Point cadets ‘using
a modern sending set.
The man
at right is “bicycling” a generator.
be a ham who has “worked all countries,” or in layman's language, has carried on a two-way conversation with amateurs in every other country on the face of the globe. : With the conquest of space via the ether there has grown up among the hams a group devoted to long distance “rag-chewing.” The amateurs in this class are the “DX” hounds. DX is just another abbreviation the amateur broadcaster has developed. It means “distance” in plain Eng-
' lish, but only the ham who has
caught scraps of international code from some other ham in the steaming jungles of Siam or the sub-zero, snow-swept steppes of Siberia can really hope to understand what DX means. Tonight and every other night in the year hams sit through the long hours turning their dials, watching the current meters, checking their transformers, waiting to catch some signal from half way around the world: CQ—VRA ...orZL...or U « « 7 which translated means: “Any one who hears please answer. This is a station from the Solomon Islands.” Or New Zealand, or the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. After the letters signifying the country from which the call is emanating (W for the United States, VRA for ,the Solomon Islands), there “will be individual call letters assigned to the amateur calling.
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ACKS to the wall, the Allies in 1915 were depending in . large measure upon food and other supplies being purchased in then neutral America and shipped across the Atlantic. But for every So many ships that reached safe harbor in the British Isles and at the French maritime ports a transport was being sunk by German U-boats. Convoys of destroyers took freight ships across on routes unknown until sealed orders were opened eight hours’ steaming out of New York and Baltimore. Still the submarines were breaking through the out-riding battleships and sinking the supplies. The Allies were convinced that secret information on the sailing dates of the convoys was reaching the German high command. A German subsidized radio station at Sayville, Long Island, was suspected, but Navy censors were unable to detect secret messages. The toll of sunken ships grew, the life blood of the Allies was stain-
South Sees Its Democratic
Fading Under New Deal,
(Mr. Sullivan Writes Thrice Weekly.)
BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The Baltimore's Sun declaration against Mr. Roosevelt must cause an increase of troubled thinking throughout the South. Much of the press all through the South takes its tone from the “Sun-paper.” It is a very able newspaper and it has long been an exponent of sound Democratic thought. All over the South, editors and other leaders of thought have been increasingly disturbed by what the New Deal has done to the Democratic Party. So far, however, most of them have been held loyal by the power of tradition. Yet they realize that nearly everything giving reality to that tradition has disappeared. The South has been Democratic because Democracy was the party of states’ rights—but now the New Deal is making a direct attack on states’ rights. The south has cherished for a century the rule in Democratic national conventions which gives to one third the power of preventing a presidential nomi-
nation, and hence gives the “soli¢:
South” that power. But in the recent Democratic convention in Philadelphia the New Dealers repealed that rule, . ” ” » HE South has been Democratic because the Democratic Party discouraged Negro voting, while the Republicans encouraged it. Yet the South now sees the Democratic na« tional organization energetically encouraging the Northern Negrpes to vote and urging them to vote Democratic. With the Democratic national organization committed to recognition of Negro voting and officeholding, the South faces what it must feel to be a serious situation. The Republicans have always held that Negroes should vote. If, in Congress, there is introduced a measure to guarantee Negro suffrage in the South, upon-whom will the South rely to prevent enactment? In the early decades following the Civil War, the Republicans and
A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson
JE=ica DRAGONETTE, radio singer, says in a magazine discussion of careers vs. marriage that, although a New Woman has evolved in our
generation, there is no New Man.
I think she’s wrong. Fundamentally perhaps neither men nor women have changed. Only their surroundings have altered so that: both have had to adjust themselves to new ways of
living. Out of this adjustment
born a new man as well as a new woman. In _ some respécts he is an improvement over the oldfashioned sort; in others, he's only a poor imi-
tation.
For example, the modern man regards his women as human beings, capable of getting along
without him, whereas Grandpa of Grandma as a mere adjunct
relict. ‘be a ©
of himself. In life she was spoken of as his helpmate, and when he died her identity Was entirely lost; she became his
Having built himself what he thought was to ‘brave, world,”, a world of mech ;
own ‘anmbitions.
there has been
always thought
So far as
Yes, there is a New unable to cope with the set- into motion, must let if the two are to maintain the cheapest imitation en if he had the moral courage to boss his females, his financial situation makes the feat impossible. ters nowadays; it's what he can get. daily more effeminate because of the life, he is wholly unable to manage his own menage. He lacks the will to do so. This new man is more he is often more affable hi there can be no doubt that many a New Woman E yearns consciously or
gant, masterful, do-as-you’re-told type. their domestic
of a home. Ev
Becoming softness of city
tions, modern man finds he has overlooked the home in his vast caleulations. Inevitably women, too, have been drawn into the whirligig of big business. Thus man becomes the victim of his
Man. The fellow who, economic forces he has his wife go out to work
It isn't what he wants that mat-
tolerant than the old; and But for arro-
jJrrangements are
ing the dark waters of the Atlantic. Seated at his little home-made set in Westfield, N. J., Charles Apgar, one of the early hams, practiced translating the messages sent out from the Sayville towers. Night after night, from 11 to 2 o'clock in the morning, he listened in on the talk, the dots and dashes of the International Code. William J. Flynn, chief of the Secret Service, was seeking to trace the messages he knew were breaking the neutrality of the United States. When he sought advice from radio men he was referred to Apgar, known as havIng one of the most powerful receiving sets in the country. They planned together and then Apgar made phonograph records of every signal sent out of Sayville for two weeks. These records were taken to Washington, where they were decoded. .
” ” ” OF night Apgar noticed that when the station finished its official business the operators of the two stations, one in Long Island, the other in Germany, chatted a while before closing up. They talked shop, Apgar sat forward in his chair. Something was wrong, he didn’t know what, but he made records of these office chats and sent them each morning to the Secret Service headquarters. The experts in Washington took the messages and the chatter apart, put it together again, backward and forward, until they found the secret. Then they put the wireless operator in 2 dismantled the station and the sinking of ships by, U-boats fell off sharply. Apgar was only a ham, an amateur playing with a home-made set, using the native intuition that sometimes makes for genius. There were others like him, well trained in the sending and receiving of radio signals. When’ the United States entered the war the Army and Navy communications services were short-handed. Plumbers and paper hangers, no matter how willing, took long months of training before they could hg#hdle messages. Into the breach stepped 4000 self-taught hams, who in 60 days reinforced the enlisted personnel of the communications branches so ably no further recruiting was necessary for the duration of the war,
THE END
Traditions Sullivan Says
others who spoke for the freed slaves proposed force as a guarantee of the colored man’s right to vote in the South. Repeatedly there were introduced in Congress measures providing for Federal troops at the southers polls. i 2 2 =n ATER proposals took the form of reducing the South’s representation in Congress. As it is, representation in the lower house of Congress is based on total population. On that basis, South Carolina has six members of the House. With representation in Congress goes power in the election of President, and South Carolina has eight members of the electoral college—one for each member of the House and one for each Senator. Yet South Carolina’s total vote in 1932 was 104,325. A small northern state, Vermont, casts more votes, 135,250 in 1932. Br And Vermont has only one representative in the lower House of Congress and three votes in the electoral college for naming Presidents. » 8 = ; HE commotion arising out of the new policy of the Democratic national organization about Negro voting is likely to cause spokesmen of the Negroes to revive proposals which have long been quiescent. It is likely to be proposed either that the Democrats in the South shall permit Negroes voting as the Democrats in. the North encourage it, or else that the representation of the South in Congress and-the electoral college be reduced in proportion to the number of persons who vote in the South.
in Atlanta,
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By ANTON SCHERRER
Y this time I know a lot more about Nielg Jensen, the sailor who was trapped in the Battle of Jutland and lived to tell the tale, I told you all about it the other day. This time, Sailor Jensen was somewhera along the coast of Ireland when, all of a sudden; he had the same funny feeling that came over him before the Battle of Jutland. And so coyld anye body else in the same fix, because, right before his eyes, Sailor Jensen spied ‘an immense monster lying in the water. The rest of the crew saw it, too, and rightaway everybody thought it was the Irish sea serpent that gets into the papers every year. Sailor Jensen knew better, because, - once upon a time, he was a torpedo man in the Danish Navy. Sailor Jensen was sure that what he saw was a torpedo, because it. had that kind of belly. Moreover, it had four vicious looking horns around the head and three propeilors around the tail and he knew durn wéll that sea serpents didn't come that way, not even Irish ones. E The only thing Sailor Jensen, couldn't get through his head was the immense size of the beast. It was at least 25 feet long, with a gjrth the size of the biggest automebile made. ;
Mr. Scherrer
ann $60,000 Worth of Torpedo ’ ; P to that time, the biggest torpedo Sailor Jensen had seen was about four feet long, and he ree members that this size costs about $3000, because that is what you are supposed to know in the Danish navy. Putting two and two together, Sailor Jensen figured that the big torpedo he saw cost $60,000 if it cost &
cent, and-that only the Germans could have pulled off such a trick. " §
Well, when the skipper heard that it was a German torpedo, and that it was worth something like $60,000, he was all for bringing it on board. Anyway, the skipper was a Scotchman, says Sailor-Jensen. : Sailor Jensen, was of course, the logical man to bring in the torpedo, and I don’t’ have to tell you that it was a ticklish job, because you're smart enough to know that there is no telling how or when a torpedo will go off. With three other men, Niels Jensen was lowered in a small boat and together, on the high seas, theywent after that torpedo. Sailor Jensen had it figured out that if he could get near enough to pull out tha pistol without touching the horns, the torpedo, like as not, would be whipped. A torpedo’s pistol, it appears, is the rod that goes in at the snout back of the horns and extends down to the explosion chamber. Any kind of an impact touching the horns would ba transmitted to the pistol, and, once there, is bound to get te the explosion chamber. Anyway, that's what Niels Jensen learned in the Danish navy.
! = ” » Chickens Are Exciting : I DON'T want to keep you in suspense any longer, Sailor Jensen got hold of the torpedo without touching the horns and pulled out the pistol. It
. measured four feet in length and Sailor Jensen could
hardly believe his eyes because, if you remember, that was the over-all measurement of a whole torpedo in. the Danish navy, After that, everything was easy. The torpedo, dead as a door nail now, was lifted on the tanker and carried down to England. Before he got to .
England, however, the skipper wired the British navy ~**"
to ask whether they wanted-iq.see-a- real. torpedo. They sure did, because when they arrived in Enge land, there was the whole British navy to receive them. Sailor Jensen says the British navy was scared as everything when they saw the torpedo, because they couldn’t understand why the blamed thing didn’t: go off. They didn’t know, of course, that Sailor Jensen had removed the torpedo’s pistol and had i hidden in his bunk.- Sailor Jensen finally handed over the pistol, because he knew that if he was ever caught with it, he would be' shot as a spy. Asked whether he finds Indianapolis exciting enough after that, Sailor Jensen said. “Sure, my 200 chickens out in Irvington are plenty exciting now.”
Hoosier Yesterdays
SEPTEMBER 16 BY J. H. J. URDUE UNIVERSITY'S first class was comprised . of 39 students who entered the institution Sept,
16, 1874. 3
For 25 years a battle had raged in Indiana over whether the state should or should not have an agricultural college. The Morrill Act of 1862, passed by Congress, provided land grants for each ‘state, the land to be sold and the money used to start at least one university to teach branches of learning related to agriculture and the industrial arts. Indiana's land grant amounted to 350,000 acres, Then a new battle started over the location of the School. Many communities offered inducements, and the atmosphere of the location fight, historians say, recembled that of an auction sale. ; John Purdue, wealthy Lafayette merchant, finally settled the argument by offering $100,000 for the school if located in Tippecanoe County and named for him. He finally offered $50,000 more, the county ‘offered $50,000 and land and buildings, and the Lege islature approved the West Lafayette site. President A. C. Shortridge and six professors wera the faculty the first year, by the end of which 64 students were enrolled. ‘Curiously, not a single agrie cultural student appeared during the first term,
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal
AMONG the greatest blessings of mankind are those drugs and preparations which either come pletely deprive a human being of consciousness op temporarily inhibit it so that he becomes insensible to pain or to outside stimuli. Only in modern centuries, however, have we been
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able to develop a great number of such’ drugs and
Preparations, varying in strength from those which act for only a few moments and produce slight degrees of insensibility to those which may cause complete unconsciousness for long periods. : : ~~ All such drugs are poisons if taken in large quantities. They should, therefore, be used with utmost caution, preferably never except on advice of & physician. ; The family medicine chest is better off without preparations of this nature. If, however, they have been prescribed by the doctor for use, according to his directions, they should always be kept safely, to avoid any possibility of error in their use. So Among the oider sleep producers are the ‘bromides, now ilable in many forms. They are used chiefly to quiet the spasms and convulsions associated with epilepsy, but the doses and the intervals of taking ‘them must always be regulated by the doctor. dy Today most patent medicines sold for that pupose Sontain a derivative of barbituric acid called pheno= rbital.
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