Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1937 — Page 17
“Vagabond
FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
SANTE FE, N. M., Jan. 22.—Sante Fe is only the length of Washington Monument lower than Mexico City. It’s 7000 feet up and a newcomer has to gasp for breath the first few days.
It gets very cold in winter, and there is . Snow. But in summer it’s cool, and people come here and pay $200 a month for a house that goes for $40 in winter. The climate is fine for tuberculars.
Yet you don’t feel a “sanitarium town” atmosphere. Sante Fe is the second oldest city in the United States, coming next to St. Augustine, Fla. Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico. It is worse than Indianapolis for politics and has more artists than Greenwich Village, It has shops that are the finest between Dallas and Los Angeles. It has some that are the worst. But there’s one thing you can’t argue about in Santa Fe—and that is the view. I don’t know of a town in America that has such astoundingly long unfoldings of nature as you see from just outside Santa Fe. The town lies in a wide valley. Close by to the east are mountains. Far off to the west are mountains. Sometimes you can stand in the bright sunshine of Santa Fe and see not five miles away an ominous blackish-gray snowstorm swirling down upon the mountain ridge. Or if you visit'a friend who lives but four miles out of town you can sit in his library and look northwest through the big window and see a vastness of valley and mesa and far-off mountain chain that almost drives you crazy with its immensity.
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Mr. Pyle
City Is Unique
AS for the city itself, there isn’t anything in America that looks like Santa Fe. The business section will disappoint you, in case youve heard too much about the beauties of Santa Fe. For it has a lot of old 1890-type brick buildings, oozing tastelessness. But scattered through are the soft lines of gray stuccoed abode in the new Santa Fe architecture. And the streets are narrow and twisty as of old, and you hear as much Spanish on the street as you do English, and when you get out toward the edge of town among the poorer people the houses are a solid gray wall, flush with the dirt sidewalk, and you're right down in old Mexico. : Some of the bigger buildings are in this perfectly blended Sante Fe style—the art museum, the postoffice, the La Fonda Hotel.
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OST of the new building is now being done in M this new style which is known only as “Santa - Pe architecture.” And in my capacity as an expert on all things I hereby pronounce it the most beauti- * ful architecture in the world. If I were dictator _ of Santa Fe I would not allow even a doghouse to be put up in any other style, and in 50 years we'd have the most charming city on the continent. The architecture is simply a modernization and softening of the age-old Pueblo Indian style of building. . Outer walls slant slightly inward as they go up, second stories (f any) are always set back, you don’t see any roofs, coiners are rounded, poles ‘stick out of the adobe at the ends of buildings. The houses are made of adobe bricks and covered with smooth mud-colored stucco. : Fireplaces are in corners, and are the shape of onefourth of an orange cut off at the bottom. Wood is set on end: to burn, not laid flat. Ceilings aren’t quite level, all main rooms have beams carved in oid wood, hallways and stairways twist a little, nothing is square, nothing is sharp. .
i Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Thursday—Like any other housewife after a busy day, I have been taking stock of yesterday’s activities. I wrote yesterday's column just before I went out to the parade. Luckily this parade was primarily a military parade, though the Governors in their cars, the CCC boys and the National Youth Administration with its floats reminded us of some of the other phases of Government. 1 was proud, indeed, of the services as they marched by in the rain, everyone in fit condition, looking smart in spite of the weather. West Point, Annapolis, the Coast Guard School and the regular Army, Navy and Marines. These services and the men who compose them deserve our gratitude and our respect. They give service which can never be paid’ for in money. ; ; ~ '- We pray that it may never be war service, but the world is not safe as yet from this spirit of madness and, while the United States of America is the greatest peace-loving nation in the world, her first line of defense, both in peace and in war, are these men who belong to what are rightly termed the services of the United States. Seven hundred and ten people lunched here and. 2700 came to tea after the parade was over. When everyone had been received at tea, I went, with some trepidation, into the East Room and the State Dining - Room, to make sure there was still some food for late comers. To my joy there was plenty. We were 16 at dinner and I went over to the inaugural concert where the artists, Miss Kathryn Meisle, Miss Susanne Fisher, Mr. Hans Kindler, Mr. Richard Bonelli and Mr. Richard Crooks donated their services. Finally I sat in my room and thought gratefully of the people who had made it possible for . everything to go so smoothly during the day. First of all, the Inaugural Committee and all those making arrangements at the Capitol and for the parade were more than kind. Then in the White House itself, Mr. William Rockwell and his assistants in the social bureau, the ushers, the military aids, the chauffeurs, Mrs. Nesbitt, the housekeeper, and all the domestic staff in the kitchen, pantry and the house itself, co-operated and worked together as a team to make everything move with ease. I went about today thanking everyone I could find. While I have always admired the spirit with which the work is done in the White House, I don’t think it ever came home to me with more force than yestery day.
New Books _ PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
POET of the Middle West who leaped into sudden
fame some years ago with his “Spoon River Anthology,” has a yew volume of verse. POEMS OF PEOPLE, by Edgar Lee Masters (Appleton-Century), "dedicated to H. L. Mencken, to whom, Masters says
in his new autobiography, “Across Spoon River,” he’
owes much for his friendship and understanding. Fifty-five poems in various verse patterns range in subject matter from the Catullus of classic inspiration, to homely pictures of a Michigan hotel, the moving “Fall Plowing,” “Bill Schulz,” and such historical figures as Jefferson and Daniel Boone. Masters’ inter-
est in people is enormous; his indignation against"
hypocrisy, monotony, and waste, dynamic. He phil osophizes and moralizes on bits of personal drama, material for novels if presented in their entirety. It is 4n such poems that the vividness of his “Spoon River
“Anthology” is recalled. : 2 8 '»n
AISY, Princess of Pless, was an Edwardian beauty of international fame. As an English woman married to a German prince, she knew every one of importance in the world of international society. She knew four Emperors and their wives; she was a close friend of the Kaiser's sister and of his daughter-in-law, the Crown Princess. Daisy of Pless corresponded all through the war with Eitel Friedrich, the second son of the Kaiser. She seems to have corresponded < with all her friends and acquaintances and never to ‘have destroyed a line. In her last book of memoirs, ‘WHAT 1 LEFT UNSAID (Dutton), _tinues and supplements. her other books, “Daisy, " ‘Princess of Pless,” and ‘Better Left Unsaid.” In this ‘book the gossip is more infimate and the letters
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the Mellons.
have substantial invest-
ments of Ball money.
When you shop, you can scarcely miss the largest complete department store in town, the Ball Stores, Inc, or the Banner Furnture Co., both in large part controlled by members of the Ball family. Probably you have a daughter attending the Ball State Teachers’ College, its pretty, wooded campus adjoining the city’s outskirts. Most of its buildings are Ball benefactions. : That time mother was sick, she naturally went to the Ball Memorial Hospital, an impressive structure near the college, built by the Ball family as a memorial to Edmund Burke Ball. And on the way to visit her, you must have noticed the statue of a mounted Indian which also recalls the memory of the departed Ed-
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HOULD one of the children be sick, there is a good chance that you would send him to. the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Children, in Indianapolis, also a beneficiary of Ball philanthropy. Should any of the children attend Indiana University, at Bloomington, they would find that George A. Ball is president of the board of trustees. If you deal with either of the town’s principal banks, you touch the affairs of the Ball family, for they are heavily interested in both. If your children belong to either the Y. M. C. A. or the Y. W. C. A., you will learn that Ball contributions helped materjally to erect both their modern buildings. And if you should go to a lecture or concert at the Masonic Auditorium you might know that this widely used hall was a Ball benefaction. The Jewish Temple was another beneficiary. Should you take a plane from the splendid modern airport, you might recall that the younger generation of the Ball family was instrumental in it8 building. Like most Muncie people, you would probably call Minnetrista Blvd simply Ball Blvd., automatically and without a smile. That's because the staid homes of five of the Ball family stand in a row on this street, bordering White River. t 4 z ”
EAST pretentious of them all, 4 8 comparatively small shingled house, is the home where George A. Ball lives with his wife
and only child, a daughter Elisa- ~ beth. The house, undistinguished
Second of a Series
' By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent
UNCIE, Ind., Jan. 22.—While the country is just waking up to the rise of the Ball fortunes to a class approaching those of the Mellons and the du Ponts, residents of Muncie long have been just as conscious of the Ball family as Wilmingtonians of the du Ponts or Pittsburghers of
Suppose you belong to an average Muncie family. If one of your family is a factory worker, there is at least one chance in six that he works for Ball Bros. Co., the great glassware plant that grinds out, day and night, the famous canning jars and other bottles. Or maybe he works at the Warner Gear Co., or the Kuhner Packing Co., or at the Durham Manufacturing Co.,
making metal furniture. All ¢
on the outside, is distinguished within by a certain elegance recalling more leisurely days of 1900, with heavy carved walnut and ornate French clocks.
Business men about Muncie like to say, “Oh, yes, he's just ‘George’ to everybody ~ around town!” - But a moment later you will notice a respectful “mister” creeping into their conversation. The fact is, that despite the utmost simplicity of living, and a natural shyness and dislike of publicity or prominence, the Ball family has been elevated by rising fortune into a position of leadership in the community. Every civic undertaking, all public affairs, feel its influence.
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HERE were five Ball brothers originally, sons of a northeastern Ohio farmer. Nearly 50 years ago they moved to Muncie after an initial business venture in Buffalo, and started the glass business that was the foundation of the family fortune. : Of these five brothers only two survive today. They are George A, the newly prominent Van Sweringen “heir,” and Frank C., who is president of Ball Bros. Co, and who at 79 appears daily at his office at the plant. The two brothers are closely linked in financial affairs and philanthropic ventures, an association that recalls similar close ties between Andrew and the late R. B. Mellon.
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HE second generation is taking each year a more and more active part in affairs. George A. has no son, and his daughter, a quiet-spoken and retiring woman of 37, takes no part in business. She devotes herself to philanthropic and civic works, and to the reflective hobbies of gardening and bookbinding. Mrs. Bail, too, is a patroness of the arts, and has helped many a young artist in whose work she noted promise. E. Arthur Ball, son of Frank C., energetic, pleasant and able, is treasurer of Ball Bros. active in Democratic local politics, chairman of the local WPA, and a factor in all local civic affairs. Three sisters of Arthur, one of whom is the wife of Alvin Owsley, minister to the Irish Free State, carry on this branch of the family.” The Frank Ball who dicd in the plane crash was also Arthur’s brother. Edmund Ball, son of late Edmund B., is becoming increasingly
“prominent in the Ball organiza-
tions and in civic affairs. He is in charge of production in the vari-
GEORGE A. BALL—MODEST HOOSIER
Family Influence a Factor in Every Activity of Muncie, Home City
In Muncie, Ind. knows the Ball family. Reminders are on every hand. Left, the tall stack of the Ball Bros. Co.
fruit jar plant dominates one end
of town. Center, the quiet campus of the Ball State Teachers College, top, many of whose buildings, like the Ball gymnasium, below, are benefactions of the family. Downtown, the principal department store again reminds the visitor of the Ball name.
everybody
ous Ball industries. William H. Ball, son of the late William, issecretary of Ball Bros. Thus there are plenty of second generation members of the clan coming along to take, in time, the places of their elders. :
George Ball has been for years a leading factor in Indiana politics, latterly as publican national commiiteeman from the State. Nobody was surprised, therefore, that practically all Ball Bros. employees wore Landon buttons during the 1936 campaign.
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EORGE BALL, who hates speechmaking, even broke his own rule and made a short speech introducing Governor Landon at a meeting in Indianapolis. He also issued statements flaying the Roosevelt economics and fiscal policies. ® But the Republicans somehow lost Delaware County in November, Roosevelt carrying it by 4841, and local and state candidates by from 2320 to 3100 votes. There is some ground for believing that George Ball will withdraw from politics and perhaps other activities, as his new duties as head of
TIRED SCHOOL MARM CHUCKS JOB, WORKS WAY ‘ROUND WORLD
By ASA BORDAGES - Times Special Writer . EW YORK, Jan. 22 — Gwen Van de Kik, a comely young school teacher, the quiet and retiring type, decided one morning that if she had to spend one more day in Los Angeles trying to pound dramatic art into her pupils’ heads she would. drown the little dears and maybe cut off their ears. So, at 22, she chucked her job, bought a -steerage ticket on an immigrant ship for Japan and set out with three grips, a portable typewriter and $15 cash to work her way around the world. “I wanted to see what made the wheels go round,” she said. “We'd made such g mess of our world I wanted to see what was wrong with us, anyhow.” She was the only white person among 300 in steerage when che sailed, Dec. 28, 1934, the others being Japanese immigrants returning from Brazil. She was one ot 30 men, women and children who slept on sheetless bunks in a single cramped and fetid room. “It was also difficult learning to eat raw fish,” she said. “Did you ever eat a raw fish? Oh, yes, you would. You'd be surprised what you'll eat if there’s nothing else. “On New Year's Eve, though, an Englishman in first class gave a champagne party, and the purser invited me. I met a Brazilian who wanted to improve his English, so he paid me to talk to him a few minutes every day. That-gave me enough money to move up to third class. There were only 16 in this room, all women. “We didn’t have raw fish, but we did have the lady missionaries’ underwear. They all wore long, heavy underwear, and they insisted on washing it in the basins and hanging those horribly sensible;garments all over the room to dry. The evaporation of the water from the underwear made the place a refrigerator.” The Englishman was writing a book; so he gave her a job as his secretary, salary to start in Kobe. But after she spent her last yen to
| her new. employer had miost. incon
aay £22
get from Tokyo to Kobe, she found |
siderately died of heart trouble and too much liquor. So, even though she didn’t speak a word of Japanese, Miss Van de Kik rounded up some Japanese bankers and convinced them they wanted to learn English from her.
“It was just as easy to convince bankers as anybody else, and bankers would be able to pay higher fees, wouldn't they?” she explained. She had a stenographer’s berth for a while in an export office, taught children of wealthy Indians and then made 30 to 50 yen a night singing in a cafe. : She had $30 and not a word of Russian when she reached Vladivostok. Not wishing to pay foreigner prices, she put a kerchief on her head and pretended to be Russian with the few words she’d picked up from a British sailor in a store. She bartered face creams and other cosmetics to Red Army soldiers for food, and sold her clothes and cosmetics to the Russian girls.
“What the girls wanted most was mascara,” she said. “They had lipstick, but they couldn't get any good mascara. It smudged on them.”
She made her way lecturing on poetry in the Scandinavian countries, free-lancing as a Writer in London, singing, broadcasting and doing recitaions. She lived on bread and cheese in Paris for a week, covered Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland as a free-lance correspondent, began a book she’s just finished, and walked from Paris to Geneva “just to take a look at the League.”
She found the Scandinavians were “the ideal women,” possessing “wit, charm and indulging in everything of interest.” :
As for the thing that set her wandering over the globe, her desire to find out why the world was in such a mess, she said: “The trouble is ‘Buy British,’ ‘Buy American,’ ‘Buy Japanese'—blind nationalism, That sort of nationalism is international stupidity.”
caution Mr
Mr. Ball and his rail magnate p \itner, George A. Tomlinson
the Van Sweringen system will be ‘very demanding. Whether the affair be a community sing, a philanthropic venture, a concert by an ‘imported singer, a political rally of either party, a Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club luncheon, you are apt to find one or more members of the Ball family present and carrying considerable weight. Their adherence to Muncie and its local affairs is remarkable. All the younger sons and daughters, though some of them were edu-
ated in the East, married local aoys or girls, few coming from {grther away than Indianapolis. . Few of the great “financial {lans” of America have remained tn» intensely and .completely “lo¢al,” or remained so closely iden‘fied with their origins, as the Gall family,
NEXT—The Ball interests, which began with a local factory and now spread across the United dtates. What they are and how they are managed.
Sullivan Sees Inflation as
Only Danger to Recovery
By MARK ASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—President Roosevelt and the country have working for them the enormous force of economic recovery. It is at work here and it is at work throughout the world. Its operation within our own borders will make us more comfortable here, and this condition at home will be further fostered by economic recovery abroad. We shall be economically more comfortable, and ‘because of that, politically more serene. It is most doubtful if a Hyey Long or a Father Coughlin can arise among us during the coming few years. They were
pression just as “Gen.” Coxey and | grill get them by a process that the
his army were of the depression of the early 1890s. The next crop of agitators, and the next condition in which they incubate, ought not to come within Mr. Roosevelt’s present term, for
if this period of economic recovery
is average in length, it should last beyond 1940. The principal threat that might bring disaster before Mr. Roosevelt’s present term ends, and therefore the thing he has most to fear, would be inflation. Prevention of inflation is to a large degree within the President's power. It will take political courage, but a second term is favorable for the exercise of courage.
” ” ” NE of the controversies most expected during Mr. Roosevelt’s second term, and one most wished for by those who blow the bellows of commotion, is strife about
the Supreme Court. It is tenable to:
doubt whether this will come. Two
called at the White House.
* The circumstances gave rise tao newspaper surmise that the Presi- | dent favored the legislation his | caller is identified with. Promptly | the White House/issued a correction. | degree of |
The action suggests the Roosevelt:
Vie HCIDE
SULLIVAN {bout the Court, his preference for Amity. Statements by White House ‘allers are usually permitted to pass iy this Administration, though Mr. 1oosevelt often must have the feeling that other Presidents have had ibout use of the White House door{ilep as a springboard for ideas held by callers. Had Mr. Roosevelt been iiss careful in his attitude about the tiourt, he might have let the inident “ride” as a trial balloon to ‘ind out how the country feels. i 2 2 : ! R. ROOSEVELT will get his i objectives—minimum standards of wages, prevention of child
fruit of the national mood of de- |['C0f Prevention of other sweat-
shop conditions in industry. But he
Supreme Court can approve. The separate states will write laws tetting standards = appropriate to local conditions, and forbidding the sale of goods made under conditions
that violate the states’ standards. iI These laws if gvritten carefully hy
the light of recent decisions of the
jjupteme Court, will be held valid. |/At the same time Congress will tnact laws forbidding transporta-
tion into a state of goods made
{linder conditions which the state ‘{lisapproves. The validity of such laws is practically assured by the Court’s recent unanimous decision {lin support of a law forbidding shipiinent of convict-made goods into a
state having a statute which out-
Laws such goods. '! The probability of some such ap-
proach as this is indicated by
‘several signs. It would achieve Mr. Roosevelt’s objectives without change
bf the power of the Court and with-
‘out change of the Constitution. days before the inauguration, a |
Senator favorable to the idea of re- |
quiring seven justices to concur in | a decision of unconstitutionality,
KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS
More than 600 men comprise the Fire Department, which has 70 pieces of motorized equipment in active service and 14 in reserve,
Qur Town
By ANTON SCHERRER
T may surprise you to learn that Indian apolis, back in the Eighties, had its Wall Street, its Bowery, its Bridge of Sighs, its Dogberry Row and its Whitechapel. I knew it when I was a boy, but I had to dig it out for myself, because I remember that I got no help whatsoever from father. This always struck me as strange because, as a rule, father told me everye thing he knew. For some reason, however, he always
tried to shush me when I brought up the subject of the curious nicknames around town. I finally put it down that father had some funny notions about nicknames, too. Well, as I was saying, I dug out : the information myself. Wall Street was the nickname for the north side of Market St. between Illihois St. and Capitol Ave., before they put up the Traction Terminal Building. It was a square of notorious gambling houses and dens, but nobody would have guessed it looking at them from the outside. They were all dolled up to look like honest offices and would have fooled anybody. The district got its name from the fact that most of the business was done on “mar= gins” which was supposed to be the fanciest kind of gambling known at the time. : The Bowery was in Pearl St. in the neighborhood of New Jersey St. and the Bridge of Sighs was the one on Noble St. crossing the Cincinnati Railroad. It was so named because of the many accidents to railroadmen when freight trains passed under it.
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Father Shut Up
HE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, I remember, started me in my study of nicknames, because I recall that when I ran across the strange name in a newspaper I asked father about it. Father immediately started a long dissertation about something over in Italy, which was interesting enough, but had precious little to do with the subject in hand. When I tried to pin him down about the horrible accident recorded in the newspaper, he shut up like a clam. Father was reticent, too, about Dogberry Row, except to say that it was something else that ought to be wiped out. Well, it turned out that Dogberry Row was nothing but that part of Delaware St. opposite the Courthouse where the petty lawyers of the town had set up their offices. It surprised me, I rememe ber, that father should feel that way about lawyers.
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Whitechapel Surprise
HE biggest surprise, however, was Whitechapel. It. was the old Circle Hall that stood in W, Market St. facing the Circle. Originally it was Henry Ward Beecher’s church, after which it was the reputable home of art and music schools. After that, for some reason, it became a hangout for shady characters, and somebody with a lot of, but not. enough, imagination christened it Whitechapel, It wasn’t enough imagination, because later when I learned better I discovered that the real Whitechapel in London wasn’t a building at all, but a whole district. It relieved me a lot because I always knew that Jack the Ripper had to have more room than a building to work in.
A Woman's View
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON RNEST SIMPSON, ex-husband of the famous Wally, got pretty mad all of a sudden. He filed a slander suit against Mrs. John Sutherland of Lon- - don, merely because during the great international gossip fest she let fall the suspicion that maybe Mr, Simpson was getting a little cash consideration for letting his American wife divorce him. Our sympathies will be with the defendant. You know how it is, girls. One little remark always leads to another, and suppose one of us did suggest such an idea—well, all we know is that if Ernest Simpson collects from everybody who hinted at the same thing, he will certainly be in the big money. It looks now as if Mrs. Sutherland might be the goat in the King-Commoner scandal, and we fly to her defense. Doesn't the plaintiff realize that material for such heated tea-table talk bobs up only about once in a blue moon? To ask women to refrain from leaping - upon it with every claw unsheathed for deep digging asks the improbable, nay, the impossible. Some people seem to have no consideration for the public good. Mr. Simpson, for example. Here was his case, offering opportunity for innumerable surmises, continuous argument, and the most delectable play of fertile fancy. ' It bubbled over with romance, presenting vicarious excitement and- thrills to millions of women apron-stringed to the humdrum. Amid all the chatter and babble was it reasonable to suppose that every clacking tongue would stick to the strict facts? : Mrs. Sutherland, or so we surmise, felt no more malice than Sarah, the Negro maid, who made this announcement. on the subject: “1 shore do feel sorry for Miss Bess. She’s de president of our Ladies Aid but she ain’t had no chance to speak a word for de Lawd since dem .scandulous carrys-on across the waters. What do you reckon ails dem Simpsons? Ain’ dey got no respect for de Kingship?
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
HENEVER there is a shortage of platelets in in the blood, bleeding will occur almost spone taneously, particularly from the mucous membranes in the nose and mouth as well as elsewhere in the body. There will also be bleeding underneath the skin, giving the appearance of bruising. . Certain forms of this condition are of definite origin. They are known, for example, to be associated with poisoning by certain drugs—of the benzol type—or with poisoning that results from the action of certain types of germs, such as those of diphtheria, tuberculosis, and occasionally the streptococcus. Sometimes such cases follow poisoning by tha drugs used in the treatment of syphilis. Occasionally, also, the number of platelets will be decreased as a result of some action on the bone marrow, in which the cells giving rise to the platelets are formed. Thus, a lessened number of platelets may be due either to a retarded formation of the cells or a toxic action which destroys cells too rapidly. One of the reasons why platelets are associated with the control of bleeding is tbe fact that their number tends to increase whenever a slight heme orrhage starts in the body of a normal person. : If there has been an extensive attack on the blood-forming organs, the decrease in the number of platelets is associated with the lessening of the number of red and white blood cells as well. There are many instances in which reduction in the number of platelets occurs only at intervals, so that, between these intervals, the bleeding does not occur. Many different methods have been discovered for treating such patients, with a view to helping, if not curing, them. One of the simplest methods is the ine jection of blood directly into the body; sometimes into the veins, sometimes into the mus:zies, or under the skin. Use of the venom of the moccasin snake also has been found to be of value in some cases where previous tests were made. In severe cases, removal of the spleen by surgical operation has been shown to be of value and the operation has been used -in hundreds of cases, apparently to advantage in most instances. Still other memthods involve the taking of large amounts of vitamin C and the feeding of a high vita
Mr. Scherrer
min diet generally,
