Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1937 — Page 12
Vagabond
FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
ANA, March 20.—In the last few years we've heard a lot about the “good neighbor” policy as a theory for nations. But to me, and 1 suspect to most of us, “200d neighbor” has become a mere academic term. We who live in cities have almost forgotten what a good neighbor is. people know.
ago, and maybe 100 years ago. Let me tell you:
My mother was stricken with |
paralysis on a Thursday night. By Friday morning the whole countryside knew about it. I am sure at least 1000 people, in town and on farms for miles around, had got the news. Word travels tast among the neighbors of western Indiana. Ny The help began to roll in instantly. The strongest man in the Be : neighborhood came, without being % i { asked, to help lift my mother in yu 8 her bed. The women came, to ’ help my Aunt Mary with the move washing and housework. Others came, and others called, to see what they could do. Mrs. Goforth baked two butterscotch pies and sent them over. ( and she came twice to help us with the work. Hattie Brown cooked a roast, with dressing and everything, and sent it up steaming hot for our Sunday dinner, Cousin Jediah Frist, who will be 80 his next birthdrove down from town in a sleetstorm to see if Nellie Potts brought flowers She is Lou
day he could do anything clear down from Newport. sister. Mrs. Bird Malone brought a When my mother had her first stroke a year ago, Bird and Mrs. Malone started cver to see her. On the way, the car door came open and Mrs. Malone fell out and broke her arm, at the shoulder. She was in a cast for three months. She still can't close her hand. I told her she was pretty brave to start the same trip over again this time,
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Sends Fresh Sausage
beautiful hyacinth.
But the country | It's the same thing it was 30 years |
Lou Webster sent up an angel-food cake, |
Webster's |
LL POTTER'S mother sent a whole basketful of
fresh sausage and pork tenderloin and a peck of apples. the poorest people in all our neighborhood. were just up from the Kentucky hills, and we thought they talked funny, and never smiled. worked out by the day for farmers.
When I was a little boy, the Potters were |
Dan Potter |
But the Potters toiled, and saved their money, and |
all their bovs grew up to be workers. in a nice house and have a fleet of cattle trucks, and the whole country admires them for the way they've raised themselves by the bootstraps. It Potter who sent the whole basketful of stuff.
Now they live |
was Mrs. |
Mrs. Frank Davis, the new neighbor just up the |
road, brought over freshly butchered pork ribs. My Aunt Mary said it was good of her, she not knowing us very well, Mrs. Davis said that
once when she |
was sick over in Parke County people were mighty | good to her, and she told them she didn't know how |
she could ever repay them, but
they told her she |
didn’t need to repay them personally, just so she did |
good things for other folks And that's what she was doing.
when they needed it.
My Uncle Oat Saxton brought over a freshly butch- |
ered side of a hog. My Uncle Oat keeps batch, and re is the laughingest man in Vermillion County. He laughs at everything, and especially himself,
and |
when he laughs it is like the clear melodious peal of |
a cathedral bell. It helped ease the strain to have him come and sit in our kitchen, and take off the
lid and spit in the stove, and tell stories and laugh at |
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38 People at House p
N Sunday there were 38 people at our -# We couldn't let them in the front room, and at
one time the kitchen and dining room were so full |
half of them had to stand up. Anna Kerns was one of the 38, and when she left didn't say, “Now if there's anything at all I can do . . .’ She said, “Mary, I'll. be here at 7:30 in the morning to do the washing for you.”
she
Knees and oiled the linoleum, and then sat all afternoon with mother while we rested.
Bertha and Iva Jordan came twice for half a day
each. They brought two pies the first time and a
house. |
And | she was, too, and stayed all day, and got down on her |
cake the second time, and they did the washing and
ironing.
Iva Jordan was my first school teacher. She is
gray-haired now, but she is still pleasant and soft- |
spoken, as she always was. She wore an apron and a dust cap while she did the ironing in our kitchen.
We talked about my first year in school, and we both |
hated to realize it was more than 30 years ago. Jennie Hooker came and stayed all day. She is the mother of my closest childhood chum, Bill and Beatrice Bales came and sat up all night, and ran innumerable errands for us in their car. Rema Myers, the doctor's wife, came one afternoon and did the ironing.
got the giggles so bad. Rema still gets 'em. She is the prettiest girl in our town. Uncle John Taylor (he is mother’s brother) came and sat up two nights, and would have stayed every night if we had let him. his truck and drove nearly 20 miles on a snowv day to get a hospital bed from Earl White's, north of town. Other people did things, and brought things, and called up, but I can't remember them all now. For 40 years my mother was the one who went to all these people when thev needed help. They haven't forgotten, ang now they're coming to her in droves. Indiana farmers know witat a “good neighbor” policy is. It's born in them.
Claude Lockeridge got out |
When we were high-school age, Rema | and I never dared go anywhere together, we always |
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
[oss Friday—Mrs, Kate Galt Zaneis, president of Southeastern Teachers’ College welcomed us
warmly in Durant, Okla. and made every arrange- |
ment for our comfort in her home. 1 left Scheider to an afternoon of work while I spoke to a packed auditorium of young people. A' 8 o'clock TI spoke to an audience composed largely of citizens of the vicinity. As we went to President Zaneis’' office after the lecture, one of the young press service reporters told me of the horrible tragedy at New London, Tex. where a gas explosion had blown up the high school and caused the death of many teachers and students. In this part of the world, where heating is done largely by natural gas and every house seems to have it, one cannot help wondering whether in a building such as a school, it would not be possible to make frequent check-ups to obviate the danger of gas accumulation causing an explosion. President Zaneis told me that a similar explosion had occurred in the A. & M. College in Oklahoma, damaging the building but fortunately not causing any loss of life. One cannot bear to think of the fathers and mothers searching for their children in the ruins of this school. All one can hope for is that some way will be found to prevent a recurrence of a tragedy of this kind. We took the train at 8:35 this morning. Some of the students of the college were down at the station and put 54 boxes of flowers on the train.
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the saucy Chihuahua at the beginning to the silken
Yorkshire terrier at the end. :
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The Indianapolis Times
Second Section
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1937
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QUINS CAN LAUGH AT SMALLPOX
Dr. Dafoe Makes Sure That No Scars Will Mar
Their Beauty
By ALLAN ROY DAFOE, O. B. E, M. D. (Copyright. 1937. NEA Service, Inc.
ALLANDER, Ont, March 20. — The Dionne quintuplets never will have smallpox, but neither will they ever reveal the disfiguring scar on the upper arm that used to be the mark of smallpox vaccination. Some time in the future, when the occasion arrives for them to wear formal party gowns, the girls will appreciate that their vaccination marks are registered on the left hip, invisible in the wearing of any sort of party gown that the designers have as vet introduced into the world of fashion, All five vaccinations “took” nicely, and yet the daily routine and play periods of the girls were not interrupted. In fact, they were all intensely interested in the procedure, and evidently keen to see what it was all about. The same curiosity, interest, and total lack of fear that has characterized their dental inspections, was notable in the vaccination routine. After each little girl, had
her puncture, she proudly showed the mark to the others.
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on that term ‘‘puncture,” you will guess that our procedure is somewhat different from the one with which you are probably familiar. The old-fashioned method, as many of you will no doubt vividly remember, called for a scratching of the skin, which often left a heavy scar after the healing. The modern method, and the one used in the case of the little Dionne girls, is that of a clean puncture which is made neatly and without drawing blood, the serum then being applied in small, completely - sterile tubes. The children were then kept quiet for a time until the serum dried on the clean white skin, without any covering during the process. Ten days after the vaccination, a fine scab formed, and this did require a loosely-applied protec tion to prevent premature removal of the scab. It was evident that the vaccination had been a complete success in every way.
n u 3 RDINARIL., it best for children to be vaccinated before they are a year old. When they are so young, there is practically no visible effect, though of course the protection is just as complete. In the case of the quintuplets, the process has been delayed this long because of their premature birth, and since we did not feel that it was as urgently necessary as in ordinary cases, because of their isolation from germ-carriers and the unusually hygienic surroundings of the nursery. Isolated as these children are and have been from contact with the public and even from germcarrying associates, we nevertheless felt vaccination would be best. Not only will it protect them against the possibility of contact with smallpox later on, but it serves as an example to children all over the world of how modern medicine can protect them from the chances of catching communicable diseases. This treatment supplements the anti-diphtheria toxoid administered to the children in December of 1935, making them immune from two diseases which used to be dreadful scourges in this vicinity as well as all over the world.
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“Now that we've got snow, what do we do with these funny slats?”
little Cecile wants Dr. A. R. Dafoe
to tell her. Only Annette (right)
doesn't seem to take any interest in the business of skiing, fearing, per-
haps, that her feet would get ali balled up if she ever got on the boards, Marie calmly waits for instructions from Dr. Dafoe while Yvonne and
Emilie (center) crowd around him,
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“Aw! Don't kid us. seem to say.
Nobody could walk on these things,” they They can't be blamed, of course, for until you've used
them, snowshoes look like the least useful of implements. Cecile’s little
O ONE who has seen the sort of ravages which smallpox used to inflict on people, could hesitate in regard to providing the best protection against it which science knows how to give. Smallpox used to be quite common in the north country, and the scarred faces of older people are a reminder to those who do not remember the disease itself, as many do not who have been reared in communities where protection is universal. Modern methods of preparing | rerum practically eliminate any |!
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chances of infection, a danger of the earliest days of vaccination. But doctors like myself, whose practice goes gack 30 years, remember smallpox all too well. During an outbreak of the dreaded disease, I useq to take the parish priest along with me on my rounds of the patients, for in many cases his presence to administer the last rites was more necessary than my own. We had not then the weapons which science has given us for the fight against smallpox, now so near to a complete victory.
IOWA COMMUNAL LIVING PLAN GOES CAPITALISTIC AND MODERN
By NEA Service
of a modern generation, and the music,
strange music for the
MANA, Towa, March 20.—Sing- | Amana administration was changed | Amanas.
ing wires which brought elec- | to a capitalistic corporation. tric current here for the first time | munity to | were abandoned.
days ago, also brought
major change in 90 years, Established in the middle of the 19th Century by the forefathers of
the present residents as a purely | change in living. Women who had | construction of the Amana power | pounded and scrubbed clothes for | line, but only $25,000 was needed. decades saw the marvel of a plun- | Each occupant of the 233 homes and ger-equipped washing machine. Heat | shops paid for his own wiring. The for a shiny iron came through a | colonies’ simple cord. A turned dial brought | back the U. S. loan.
communistic enterprise, the colonies lived and prospered on their 2600 acres. With the third generation there came unrest, the slow infusion
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Men who had plied hand tools in
kitchens, barns and labor | patient toil saw power-driven ap- | pliances
shape their handiwork
faster and better. Electricity lighted |
| | their homes, their streets. I that move represented a change |
The Federal Rural Electrification
in ideals, electricity represents a4 Administration lent $37,000 to finance
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living. At left Mrs. Yohn Ni iron. The other picture
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experiment proves that the shoes are nearly as big as she; and Marie, Emilie, Yvonne and Annette (reading from left to right) show every
sign of issuing rainchecks for their snowshoes lesson.
HILE it is true that smallpox has been fought to a
standstill, and no longer constitutes the menace it used to be, still it crops up often enough to make protection distinctly worth while, and unusual emergency conditions may occur at any time that would start an epidemic if protection were not instantly available. Knowing that the Dionne quintuplets are now immune from both diphtheria and smallpox makes all of us breathe easier at the hospital, for despite ail our
precautions against infection being brought in from the outside, there is always such a possibility. From such dangers, we now may be sure the quins are just as safe as medical science can make them. Surely we could do no less than that.
When similar protection is
available to every child in the world, as I hope some day it will be, then we can all feel safer and be glad that we have at least done what we know how to do to insure life and death for the world's babies,
Sullivan Ponders Giving Executive More Power
By MARK SULLIVAN
\ ASHINGTON, March 20.—It seems likely there is ahead of us a new development in the course | of America toward whatever is to be its destination, President Roosevelt, in his radio address advocat- | ing his court proposal, said, “The dangers of 1929 are again becoming | possible, not this week or month perhaps, but within a year or two.” Ahout the same time a Senator | who had been undecided about the | | court proposal and had talked with | Mr. Roosevelt announced that he! | was going to favor the proposal, for | the reason that he apprehends the danger of a disaster “within 20 | months.” From these utterances, and from much other evidence, it seems probable that Mr. Roosevelt will soon put his pressure for a change in the Supreme Court on the ground that with the coming of the economic emergency he predicts he will need drastic powers to deal with it. Probably the argument will be that Congress will be willing to give him these powers but that he must have a Supreme Court that will sustain them,
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BOUT the form a crisis, if it comes, will take, there are two theories. The overwhelming mass of informed opinion thinks it would express itself in inflation, an extreme rise in prices. A smaller section of informed opinion holds stubpornly that the crisis would express itself in the form of a drastic drop in prices. As to the point where the crisis emerge, there are two nervous spots, One lies in the atmaintaining of a parit
of for goods
the dollar, the pound, and the franc. For supporting this parity
the American, British, and French | Governments entered into an agree- | President his disposal a |
ment some time ago. Roosevelt has at
‘stabilization fund” of two billion
dollars with which to make such | purchases and sales of currencies as | he may deem necessary to support |
the parity.
Recently, it has seemed to many | well-informed persons that the par- |
ity can haraly be sustained, for the reason, among others, that the French franc seems disposed to change in value in relation to the other currencies. If the parity should be disrupted and each of the three currencies seek its own level, explosive consequences might follow.
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HE other nervous spot lies in the value, or rather the quoted prices, of United States Government bonds. Within two weeks there have been flurries of selling. suggesting the possibility that the quotations might fall to a materially lower level. Of course, no one is selling Government bonds because of any faintest fear that the Government might not pay the principal or interest when due.
The selling comes from a quite | It comes from a |
different motive, fear that the thousand dollars represented by a Government bond might come to have a seriously lower purchasing power by the time the Government pays. This fear is the same thing as the fear of inflation, of drastically higher prices
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By ANTON SCHERRER
Tk most exciting thing around town just now is the caduceus on the Eli Lilly building down in Alabama St. You'd never think—-at least, 1 didn’t—<that a caduceus
| could be a casus belli, or even the subject of | a controversy, but that's exactly what has
happened. A caduceus, I don't mind saying, is two (2) snakes twisted about it, the whole surmounted with a pair of wings like the West-
a wand with
( ern Union boys used to wear, and
| the stickless snake with the other, | to this small but lusty group, that's what the Liily
| a topic we could agree upon,
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still do, for all T know. It was a gift, I'm told, given to Mercury for thinking up the lyre of Apollo, and was supposed to calm pas= sions and still quarrels, Which is why it was sometimes used as a symbol on very old court houses The purists in the present quarrel insist that's where the caduceus helongs—-on court houses, and not on pill factories, Indeed, 5 ; they go even further, and say that Mr Scherrer it has nothing whatever to do with medicine. What's more, they deplore the dereliction of the Lilly people in the matter, Some of the more mild-mannered purists are mora compassionate, however, and suggest that maybe the Lilly people went wrong on their diagnosis, and picked the wrong kind of snakes, The right snake to use in connection with medicine, according to the mora compassionate purists, the one that coiled itself around the staff of Aesculapius, the Greek god of physicians, Aesculapius, to be sure, had still another snake
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| that followed him around on his professional visits,
but it never got on his stick, Photographer of the old boy, this class of purists points out, show him holds ing the single snake stick in one hand, and patting And if we listen
people should have used on their building, leaving
| the caduceus for county commissioners,
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N the other hand, the realists in the present quars rel contend that the Lilly people have every right to use the caduceus if they want to, because it 1s a replica of the insignia used to identify the medical corps of the U, 8, Army. To which the purists retort that it isn't the first time the Army has been known to go wrong. And there the matter rests as we go to press,
” »” ” Flag Causes Complication
LL of which leaves me space to tell what haps pened at the Herron the other day, It's exciting, Loo. Maybe you don't recall it, but ever since the Dutch show started up there, Wilbur Peat has had the American and Dutch flags flying side by #ide on the facade to indicate the nice relations of the twe countries. The American flag was on the east side of the entrance, and the Dutch flag on the side, Well, all that has been changed, because some patriot called him up and said that it was a penis tentiary offense not to have the American flag on the right side. Mr, Peat thought, of course. that he had it on the right side all the time. but the right side in the case of the Herron turns out to be the west side. Seems that you have to be on tha inside of the building and look out to orient a flag, It's all very complicated.
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/ . A Woman's View
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
WENT over to the State House on a matter of importance to me,” said the Man Next Door, “and asked to see Mrs, C- , who was the only pers son in the department who seemed to know anys thing about its affairs, But she had been fired. they said, because she was one of the more recent ape pointees and was the logical one to go. 1 exploded, It's a pity we can't keep a few people in office jobs who are able to answer plain questions and give the taxpayer some simple information when he wants it.” “Bravo!” 1 cried, pleased that we had at last struck
Having only that day talked with a girl who had lost her job with the Community Fund, I had some fuel to add to the flame
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| of his wrath. Her story was equally disturbing.
“I know I did good work,” she had told me. “but unless you have a pull with certain city politicians you can't get or hold a job.” S0 the Man Next Door and I fell to discussing the haphazard way in which much of our public business Is run. For once he confessed that if we could replace our political leeches with a few conscientious women, we might pet better service—and save money, And doesn't it seem a pity that some of our pas friotism can't be used on municipal and state matters instead of having it all poured out upon vaster and more distant concerns? During the last month the clamor over the Supreme Court matter has Leen deafening, Several men
| hereabouts have come to the verge of cpoplexy just
talking about it, and indignation has run high in both directions. There has been a tremendous amount of declaiming as to what the opinion of our dear old forefathers would have been, Ringing in the forefathers seems a favorite ruse to avoid meeting the real issues. One thing is sure: The forefathers didn’t regulate their ideas according to precedent. They dealt as wisely as possible with the problems before them, and if they were con= cerned over us at all IT imagine they would view with the greatest alarm the general apathy of our citizens to the way that those who are paid to serve the state manage to serve only themselves and their sycophants, If our country can survive the present bunch of incompetents in hundreds of state offices, no Suprema Court mandate can wreck it. The Man Next Door agrees with me. Isn't that something?
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal YPHOID fever germs are spread from sick persons to those who are well by soiled food and clothing, contaminated water and milk. The disease also is spread largely by human carriers—persons who have recovered from typhoid, but who carry in their bodies germs capable of giving the disease to other people, It is therefore obvious that the way to avoid typhoid fever is to assure a safe milk and food supply and to control typhoid carriers. About 33 per cent of those who have had typhoid fever will continue to dise charge germs from their bodies for three weeks after the beginning of the disease, and about 11 per cent will continue to give off germs after 8 to 10 weeks, Then, 2 to 4 per cent of persons who have had typhoid fever, and recovered, continue to discharge the germs indefinitely. Women are more likely to become care riers of typhoid than are men. Typhoid fever may be spread by either direct or ine direct contact. The indirect method is through water, milk, oysters, and other foods; by flies, or by the fine gers of people infected. Since the introduction of chlorination and filtras tion of water supplies, there is little danger of typhoid fever from these sources The disease may appear, however, when a city water supply becomes contami nated by river water or sewage. Ice from contami nated streams sometimes is used to cool water for the table, and may cause infection. Freezing will not kill typhoid germs, although their numbers diminish in frozen water. Milk is not a dangerous source of typhoid if it is properly pasteurized and distributed. Exactly as milk itself may be infected, =o also may milk products such as cream, ice cream, butter, buttermilk, and fresh
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