Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1936 — Page 18

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FROM INDIANA By ERNIE PYLE

ENVER, Oct. 1.—In this city by the mountains dwells a young man of five summers by the name of David. Even at 5 he can write his own name and my name, too. He is left-handed. He can tie his own shoes, and he loves spinach. He calls his father “Bit” and his mother “Mah,” as in “ah.” It was David's muscles that first brought him to my attention. Last spring we had been living in the

same house here in Denver, each of us going through the days without distinction for each other, when

suddenly he came up and told me

to feel his arm.

“Did you ever see so much mus- |

cle?” he said. I assured him that in all my experience. I never had. “I've got so much muscle I can't sleep at night,” he said. I am not gware how this phenomenon of the muscles started, because David is not a bulgy youngster, being rather on the slim side, and very blond and sensitive. And the truth is that his muscles actu- : . ally would fall somewhat in the same category ps my own, wiry and tough, but certainly not the type to get us into the strong man ads. But if a young man’s muscles keep him awake at night, who am I to doubt it? He leaps and runs and stomps. The excess keeps bulging out of him, and sometimes he walks back and forth across the floor like a nervous poet. Except -he doesn’t walk, he plunges with the weight of elephants, with his head high, surveying all about him, He shakes the house, and nothing can stop him.

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Noises Most Remarkable

PUT even more remarkable than David's muscles | and his astounding energy are the noises he

makes. They are of a quality and assortment never before heard on the American continent. Often, while he is eating, he will suddenly scream, or bark. His favorite sound, I believe, is just a plain old-fashioned yell, which comes right out of a clear sky and never interrupts by the fraction of a second whatever David happens to be doing at the moment. In fact, he doesn't even look up when he yells.

David Goes to School

1 WAS fortunate enough to be on hand the day David went to school for the first time. He was up earlier than usual that morning, and he was absolutely a wild man. His yells rent the neighborhood, and he stomped so hard I thought he would go through into the basement. We went to get him at noon. He was still enthusiastic when he got home. He said he had learned to skip, and to tap dance. He'd show us. But somehow he couldn't get started. He tried three or four times, and then began to get discouraged. We suggested that he didn’t have enough room. So we all adjourned to the side yard, where a long concrete walk ran alongside the house. David got clear to the end of the walk, hesitated to get his balance, like a diver] and started. But it was no go. He took three plunging steps, and then turned and put his arms up against the side. of the house and hid his face. He didn’t cry. But it was the nearest I have ever seen David to tears. We called the whole thing off. He said he'd practice by himself during the afternoon. At suppertime, he came to me and said he had it. . I said “O.K., shoot.” He squared off, took a [couple of swings with his arms, and began stomping up and down. I told him it was wonderful. He was beaming. He had it now, all, right. As far as I could see he had just learned to stomp in one place, instead of stomping as - he walked. But I couldn’t, of course, tell David so. It might have affected his muscles.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

LBANY, N. Y., Wednesday—I reached Syracuse late yeiserday afternoon and went directly to the President's railway car where innumerable Democratic leaders from various parts of the state were coming in to shake him by the hand. It was nice to see old friends. Before long our cousin, Mrs. Harry Roosevelt, came in to see us, and then an old friend we always see whenever we are in Syracuse, Leo Casey. : Suddenly I discovered that seven gentlemen, including the Governor, were dining on the train with my nusband, and it was apparent that ladies would be in the way. Fortunately I had been asked to dine at the Hotel Onondaga with some of the women leaders. so I hastily accepted and we had a very pleasant time. ee By 8:30 I went back to the train and drove to the convention hall with the President, Governor Lehman and Chairman Farley. Again the pleasant experience of recognizing familiar faces in the crowded hall and seeing banners with familiar county names. Off a little te the left, our own Dutchess County had a very active banner waving in the air. The hall was packed and every one seemed most enthusiastic. The usual pictures were a preliminary to the real opening of the session, and the Klieg lights, that always make a speaker hot no matter what the temperature may be outside, were turned on and off. I was rather glad I had had -no opportunity to read the speech beforehand. To me it seemed temperate, courageous and fair, but perhaps my judgment may be considered prejudiced. : At the end of the session the President left at once for Washington, and I went back to the hotel to talk ~ until midnight with Miss Perkins, Mrs. O'Day and various ethers, after which I took a train for Albany. I arrived at the De Witt Clinton Hotel this morning just as the last delegates to the Republican convention were leaving and several Landon buttons were conspicuous ir the dining room. At 10:00 I attended the opening of the first National Youth Administration conference in New York state. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

OWN to the very bottom of the South American continent went an author to get the story of an outlaw who believed that his life merited a biography but who by his own admission had neither , the education nor the ability to write it himself. ~The author's name is Herbert Childs and the book he brought back with him was EL JIMMY; OUTLAW OF PATAGONIA (Lippincott; $3). The story of Jimmy's life is a saga of one of the last frontier countries left in the world. Born in England, he shipped to South America at an early age and wandered eventually to Patagonia, where by training and acquiring horses and working on the sheep ranches he became a true Gaucho. Running afoul of frontier justice, he escaped from jail and earned the name “El (the) Jimmy” to distinguish him from the many law abiding Jimmys living on this edge of civilization. The story of his life is not in itself important, but as a picture of a little known section of the world it is absorbing reading. ® = = p= FELLOWS early. learned all the ways in which a small boy could get free tickets to the And when, as a slightly older boy, he got his. job as circus press agent, he had found his que niche in life. : THIS WAY TO THE BIG SHOW (Viking 50) by Dexter W. Fellows and Andrew is the story of his life and, , of the Fellows has traveled with Buffalo Bailcy and Ringling Brothers. He ~ develop from the small show which

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WELCOME,

Harry Colmery

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1936

¥ntered as Second Class Matter at i‘ostoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

—By Willard Combes

X-Rays Cure Gland Disease Attecting Girl's Personality

BY SCIENCE SERVICE LEVELAND, Oct. 1.—How X-ray treatments to the pituitary gland lying deep within the head transformed a - fat, weak, bearded, sexless person into “an active, at-

tractive, wide-awake young woman” was reported by Dr. Merrill C. Sosman of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, to the American Roentgen Ray Society here. This patient and two others reported by Dr. Sosman were suffering from a rare disease known as pituitary basophilism. - The disease, discovered by Dr. Harvey Cushing, noted brain surgeon, is caused by a tumor affecting certain cells of the powerful pituitary gland. Because the pituitary is the leader of the endocrine gland orchestra; disease of the pituitary affects all the other glands and causes striking disorders and changes throughout the body and in the personality. Other tumors -of the pituitary gland are not so rare and are more easily detected than this particular one, Dr. Sosman pointed out. In fact, the symptoms of this disease are so many that disorder of a number of other gland® may appear to be the cause of the patient's illnessy If further study shows that X-ray treatments will cure or relieve the conditions, as Dr. Sosman's results

the hands and fcet and particularly in the face, which becomes so swollen and red that it “seems about to burst like on overripe tomato”; weakness, becoming so bad the patient is bedridden; high blood pressure, sometimes resulting in a fatal hemorrhage into the brain; and a low basal metabolic rate. Sexual clipnges may also occur.

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Trees Around House

Save Fuel Costs V ASHING TON, Oct. 1.—If you : own a home, trees. can be something more than a source of firewood . or shade. They will save on winter fuel if used as a windbreak, reports W. K. Williams of the United State: Forest Service here. When cold winds reach a velocity of more than 20 miles an hour it ds

found that an unprotected house nezds three times the heating requirements of a tree-protected

home.

POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER. ASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—It is not. a new. idea, but still good .—that capitalism is so often its own worst enemy. ;

Harold Laski has just written a book ‘which argues that capitalism carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction, meaning that em‘ployers fight against making any concessions .to labor and. in the grim competitive struggle grind down their employes to the point where mistreatment provokes revolution.

President Roosevelt has sought to use the public authority to check such tendencies. He sought in NRA, in the Guffey Coal Act, and in.the Wagner Labor Act to insure protection to labor in collective bargaining so that employes would be assured of the opportunity to obtain fair wages and working conditions. ” ” 2 GLIMPSE at the other side of picture has been offered by Senator La Follette, who has bzen conducting an investigation of tactics used against labor In some of the blue ribbon industrial plants of the country. /

of business known as ‘industrial service”—a perfumed name for: the practices of planting spies among employes, of sending agents into union meetings: to provoke: disorders and thus bring in the police, of using live steam and electric wires to drive back strikers. These “industrial service” -concerns have salesmen in industrial localities. If there are no labor troubles, the agents create some. It makes business. One salsman of such an “industrial srvice” company writes in to his manager that he hopes a strike will get under way, “we need the money.” Another salesman writes in that the strikes in his territory ‘“are all too peaceful to suit me.” Gas is sold by these companies, delivered to local’ police officials, and paid for by industries threatened with labor trouble, n » F 3

(oNcERNS exist, and they too are -enjoying recovery, who supply strikebreakers- or = “finks,” company guards or “nobles,” inside spies, and trouble-makers. They sell gas, bomb throwing equipment, will organize a company union fér you, ‘will create a red scare or a communist plot, will smear your house with

He has been investigating the type

‘red paint so as to'make labor ap-:

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

“YAJE live in a world: of madmen,” says Ray ¥ Murphy of the American Legion. This is a much exa:gerated statement, although at first

glance it ears the appearance of truth. What 7¢e do live in is a world ruled largely by

a few mimen, and a few run loose very long, can to less et: zy individuals. The ni: fons

of peoplé in every 1 experiences, are amiable,

madmen, if allowed to do a great deal of harm

And what do these sane little usuaily get from their men ? War, war, always and forever, war. Moreover out of all

madmen rulers? War,

pear guilty of vandalism, will send men to call on strikers’ wives. and frighten them. = | : : They not only will do all of this. They have done it, according. to sworn testimony: of some of the-per-petrators. - t ; 5 One salesman wrote to his’ “inial service” company that the strike ‘clubs he had sdld to San Francisco police were unsatisfactory. “These cops,” he complained, “when they hit a man over the head ‘are not satisfied unless he goes down and a good split occurs. Our clubs are too: light for: this :purpose. Should you contemplate making them heavier, please advise.” The club business was going to a’competitor. : : 8g 8" THESE “industrial services” are hired by some of the best known concerns in the country, those owned and manned by persons usually described as. our: best citizens, - : : ‘ The executive of one of these industrial service companies, eompleting his testimony before the La Follette committee, said regretfully as he rose from his chair: “I am sorry there are Communists in this

Reporters ‘at the press tables|

hooted.. The. gentleman swung

| sharply on them saying: , “You're just a bunch of blank, blank ComImunists” + cw C0 GE AGT

br 8 8: : PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, is try- ~ ing to save capital from the con-

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Our Town

I» my own stuffy way I am something of a student of royalty, and there is nothing 1. should like better today than to tell you about the Indianapolis girls who married

| titles, like Princess Diana Eristavi-Tchitch-

érine ‘(nee Rockwood), for instance, or Con. tessa Edith Visconti (nee Fairbanks) or Princess Marian Rospiglivsi (nee Snowden). Thésé charming ladies deserve a column apiece and no doubt they will get it one of So :

‘these days, if I have my way. But

not today, because today I propose starting at .the beginning, for two reasons: (1) Because it is: the prerogative of stuffy students to start at the beginning, and (2) because the beginning will show that the first person around here to become involved in foreign .alliances wasn't a woman at all. It was a man. - His name was Christopher Harrison, and he came to Indianapolis in 1821. Before coming here, he : had lived in southern Indiana and previously in Marylgnd. In fact, he was born in Maryland, and it was there he ran across Miss Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore. Miss Patterson was precociously proficient ih a number of things, and it wasn’t long until she had Mr. Harrison calling her “Betsy.” About the same time, too, she began calling Mr. Harrison “Chris.” Ani after that, of course, they became engaged. : Everybody said it was a match made in. Heaven, and nobody was more convinced of it than Betsy's father, who was a wealthy merchant in Baltimore, Indeed, Betsy's father had everything fixed to make Chris a_ partner in the business and, to start things off, sent him to Europe on an important mission. On his return, Betsy and Chris were going to get married,

” » 2 ' : Jerome Bonaparte Appears

RUT “hat do-you suppose happened during Christ absence? You'd never guess.’ Jerome Bonaparta, the kid brother of Napoleon, turned up in America, He turned up with his whole entourage or what was left of it after the disastrous cruise in the West Indiés in 1803. : : Well, Jerome also ran across Miss Patterson and soon he, too, was calling her Betsy. On first thought, Joud think that would complicate things, but not for etsy. Fa] ] Betsy not only untangled herself but handed down a nifty that has become a classic ever since. Said: Betsy: “I would rather be the wife of a. Bonaparte for

one ‘hour than the wifé of any other man for a ° lifetime.”

3 ome and Betsy were married on Christmas Day,

Mr. Scherrer

” » ” Napoleon Hits Ceiling AFOLEON hit the ceiling when he heard of is ‘X. He ordered Jerome to return to France immeti= ately or be arrested as a common deserter. What's more, he ordered his brother to leave his American wife ‘where ‘he found her. ‘ ; Maybe the mail service was at fault or something, but whatever it was, Jeromé stuck around Baltimore unti: 1805. At that time, he and Betsy took a boat for Lisbon. When théy got there, the ' authorities wouldn't let Betsy off the ship. Jerome went around to see his big brother, buf uf didn't do any good. Napoleon was still mad. Betsy was hustled off to England, where a soh was barn, July 7, 1805. Two weeks later she returned to Bal more and lived to a ripe old age. x oe 2 ‘nn =» Jerome Marries 5

AA FFER that, Napoleon forced his kid brother t& marry Sophie Dorothea, daughter of King Frede erick I of Wurtemberg. They had three children. ; After that, too, Bachelor Christopher Harrison struck out for the West. He was the man who laid out Indianapolis, platted it (by way of Engineer RL ton, of course), and. conducted the first sale of lots, “He did a good job, but it’s a matter of common knowledge that he was sour all the time he was here,

r Yesterdays

OCTOBER 1

Hoosie

Tr the 1850’s a trip on one of the score ‘of élegant

side-wheelere plying between New Albany. and New Orleans was just about as close to Heaven: as a Hoo« sier could get on earth. : oC : . And greatest and grandest of all craft ever to sail on Western waters was the Eclipse, built in 1851-32 in New Albany. Shé was 363 feet long, topped all bthér river boats in dimensions. Her smokestacks measured 85 inches in diameter and towered 86 feet above thé hurricane deck. - . ; The carpet in the first passengers’ salon cost $5000 and had been woven in Brussels to original designs and specifications sent from New ' Albany. piece of chinaware was made from special patterns by the Haviland potteries at Limoges and marked in gold with. an E or the full name, Eclipse. A flying golden eagle surmounted this as a crest on all tall ware, such as tureens. Needless to say, the silver was all sterling, Added to this magnificence, the gold leaf used in decoration cost $4875. : : ose Capt. E. T. Sturgéon commanded the crew of 120, The Eclipse was the fastest long-distance boat on the river and her race in 1853 with the A. L. Shotwell was a memorable event. With a fime of 4 days 9 hours and 20 minutes, the Eclipse beat the latter boat from New Orleans to Louisville by one hour. The boats were in sight of each other much of the way and thousands of dollars changed hands on the result. a Reading the menu of an ordinary day's dinner showed where the money went, a historian reports, “since Lucullus himself could only with ulty have designed a more elaboraté banquet than ore beginning with ox-tail soup, going through barbecued bass and sheepshead to six varieties of boiled and three of cold spiced meats, with choice of 10 side dishes, before tha actual meat course was reached” Then followed eight kinds of roast, “all vegetables of the season and 33 kinds of dessert.”—By J. H. J. aE

Watch Your Health

¥ * BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN i Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal L/HAT do you do when some one suddenly fairits or becomes unconsci - Most people do the