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Vagabond!

FROM INDIANA ERNIE PYLE

LEDO, May 14.—Doc Millard skippered tugboats on the Maumee River for better than 30 years, I guess. Up until six years:ago he had probably towed every cargo ship on the Great Lakes, and he knew every captain by name. But he’s a big executive now, and leads a sort of double life. When he’s uptown he does civic things, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and I believe he goes to Sunday School. He's an all-round leading citizen. But get him down on the waterfront and he talks river talk. He can still, out-cuss any tugboater on the Maumee. He is

large and hearty, with a body like a bull and legs like an athlete, and he does a lot of laughing. He's the Toledo manager for the Great Lakes Towing Co. He thinks = they made him manager because Mr. Pyle ne knows so much about tughboats. : Tnat's a joke on him. They really made him manager because he knows so much about men. He's a natural born getter-glonger with people. Doc Millard was born in Toledo. He has never sailed on anything but tugboats. He started out to be a doctor, and went to medical school for a year. That's why they call him Doc. His real name’ is Ralph. But medicine couldn’t keep him. The river got him, and he wound up on tugboats. His medical education gave him class, though. He. was the first tugboatman on the Lakes who could cuss out a man in scientific terms. Such as “You blangkety blank amoebic dash dash you.” Some say Doc Millard is the champion icebreaker of the Great Lakes. Every spring for more than a quarter of a century he has been out butting and ramming at the Maumee River ice; and every fall he plows out into the lake to pull out some tardy freighter captain who tried to stretch the season too far. Doc says a tugboat can plow through ice three Inches thick and just keep right on going. After that, you have to back off and take runs at it. I always thought that when a tugboat was breaking ‘ice it just crashed through as far it could go and then tried again. Bus that isn’t it. 2 =n Tug Slides on Zop HE bow of the tug is built so that when it hits the ice the whole tug slides upon on top, and then the tug’s weight crushes the ice underneath. Doc’s main interest in life right now is getting a big ship-mooring basin for Toledo. At present there’s room for only 90 ships to lay up here for the winter. They'd like to make room for 150 more. . That would mean, Doc says, that the coal stored “during the winter could be moved out two weeks quicker .when the ice breaks, because enough ships would be right here on hand to carry it. Doc has a little office under the end of one of the bridges. When I went down to see him I thought

they might have a tug going out and I could catch

a trip.

” Went for Joy Ride LL the tugs were'in for the day, but that didn’t make any difference. Doc just trotted out one and we went for a ride anyway. Just for the fun of it. The skipper was Capt. Frank Wiglon, and when Doc introduced us he said, “If you think I'm an 21 timer just look at this withered-up old 180 years old if he’s a day.” They are old cronies. i The river was so high our tug wouldn't clear some of the bridges, so Capt. Frank would blow his whistle and they'd swing the draw for us. It sure gives a fellow the Napoleon complex to be sitting there in the pilot house of a little old tugboat and looking up at all the autos lined up on the bridge waiting for us to ge} past, and all we're doing is just taking a joyride. We steamed up the river a few miles, and then we turned around and came back, and they had to open all the bridges for us aga. Doc and Capt. Frank got to laughing and reminiscing on the way back. But Doc said, “Don’t get this old to telling stories or we’ll be here all night.”. Which was what I tried to do, but we got back to the dock and had to get off.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EW YORK, Thursday—One thing always amuses me very much! Whenever I leave a public building or a shop in New York City, someone is sure to ask me, “May I get your car?” and they always look somewhat surprised when I explain that I am walking or taking a taxicab. Yet, this is one of the things which gives me a little thrill because it proves that we are really a democracy. When I am in Washington or other parts of the country doing official things, a certain amount of Government formality is attached to my existence. After my broadcast last night, I dined at a restaurant near the broadcasting studio with a friend before going to the theater. I am having an orgy of theater going this week, for I have seen very few plays during the winter. “You Can't Take It With You” gave us a most amusing evening. I wish I could feel that when the authors connected my name with Cleopatra's in the identification of a mask, they were not drawing an invidious comparison. I have never liked snakes so I am glad I was not Cleopatra. “ For a second time, an appeal was made against the Dunnigan bill, pending before the Governor of New York, which gives the license commissioner here the power to close a play he considers immoral. I am not familiar with all the arguments for and against this bill, but it seems to me that the surest way to remove really undesirable plays from the stage is for the public to refuse to see them. Censorship by law has always seemed to me too difficult and complicated where art of any kind is concerned. We certainly are becoming more conscious of the results of reckless driving in every state. This morning I noticed an article in the newspapers noting the increase of accidents in one state.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— HE exultant call of ‘Pay Dirt’,” says Glenn Chesney Quiett, “has depopuldted cities, made 10,000 lights to twinkle in remote mountain canyons almost overnight, turned the tides of empire to the unknown and unpeopled frontier.” With this cry as its title, PAY DIRT (AppletonCentury) offers a picture of gold and silver mining in North America, from the time of the Forty-Niners’ mad scramble to California up to the present, when - Jack Hammell and others are developing mines with the aid of airplanes and the most intricate of machinery. The history is one .of excitement, of ubliation and heartbreak, of sudden riches and equally sudden poverty. “ “Wide open” boom towns flourished to the tune of six-shooters, exuberant gambling, and skyrocketing prices, only to become silent and empty when the rumor of richer mines drew the men away. The feeble arm of the law could not check banditry and murder. California, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota, Alaska, New Mexico—all prospered and suffered during this anarchic chapter of our pioneer history.

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> . B n n . HEN a critic of the drama with a name as well known as that of George Jean Nathan writes his first play, the theater-going and play-reading public may expect something unusual. These expectations are fully justified by THE AVON FLOWS (Random House). Drawing for his material on three of Shakespeare's

plays—‘Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello,” and “The Tam-"

ing of the Shrew”—Mr. Nathan has made a ‘‘Comedy of Modern Madrriage” out of two tragedies and a comedy. A great many of the lines are Shakespeare's and a few are Mr. Nathan’s. The characters are %ll Shakespeare’s, but some of them have changed their names; for instance, Romeo takes the place of Othello, Juliet of Desdemona, Tybalt of Iago, and so on. The result is a very amusing and original experiment in playwriting. ;

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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937

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The SEVEN HORSEMEN ¢/

By David Diety

Times Science Editor

DEATH

Heart Disease Appears to Strike Suddenly With Stabbing Pain and Choking

Sensation but Often It Has Been Stalking Victim for More

Than a Decade.

Second of a Series :

ET out!” Face red, eyes glaring, hands clenched, he shouted the words at the startled office boy who dropped the sheaf of papers on his desk and fled from the room, hastily closing the door upon which were emblazoned the words, “President and General Manager.” The president pushed the stock of reports to one side and rang for his secretary. She appeared at the door almost instantly. That was

David Dietz

one of the things he demanded: Instant attention. He had started in the business as a stock boy, working from 6 in

the morning to 6 at night. From the start he had driven himself and today, at 55, he was the head of one of the largest manufacturing companies in the state and still arlyire

his employees and himself. He was built ruggedly, tall

and broad-shouldered. Within the last seven years he had put on a little too much fat but he was active as ever. He did everything with the same blustering, driving spirit. When he played golf it was 36 holes. He worked hard, played hard, ate heartily, and on a party drank as heartily. Lately he had been feeling pretty tired toward the end of the day and giving away to explosive outbursts of temper. His secretary recognized the signs of another outburst and waited apprehensively. He grabbed the reports with an angry gesture, started to say something and stopped. A look of apprehension and agony crossed his face. He became intensely pale and beads of perspiration gathered on his forehead. He dropped the papers, clutched at his heart, half rising from his chair. Then he fell with a crash upon the desk top, upsetting the telephone and the thermos jug of water. He lay very still, while the water made a little pool beside his head and trickled down the desk top. The secretary screamed and ran for help. When the doctor arrived there was nothing more to do. The doctor noted his ashen color, felt for a pulse that was no' longer there, and spoke briefly to the secretary. “He went quick,” said the doctor. “It was his heart. Coronary disease. He drove himself all his life, and for what? For death.”

” » = JEART disease is the name of the first horseman of death. He seems to strike suddenly—a stabbing pain, a choking sensation, the quick coming of death. But often he has been stalking his prey for a decade or more. Doctors are seeing more and more cases of heart disease. Deaths from it are rising. Not infrequently, the victim may have imagined himself in the best of health. He spent the day busily at the office, came home and ate a hearty meal. During the evening he was suddenly taken ill. The doctor may or may not arrive before death overtakes the victim. To understand what has happened, we must take a look at the heart and the blood system of the body.

He fell with a crash upon the desk-top, upsetting the telephone.

The heart is a pump whose duty is to keep the blood supply moving through the body. = The average man’s heart beats about 72 times a minute when he is lying down at ease. The beat is faster when he sits up, still faster when he walks. With added activity, the beat is still quicker.

The secretary

In a day spent in bed, the heart does an amount of work equivalent to carrying a man weighing 150 pounds up a hill 500 feet high. ” ” ” 3 N a day of moderate activity, the heart does enough work to

carry the same man up a hill 1000 feet high. =

NUMBERS RACKET NOT STRONG HERE, CHIEF MORRISSEY CLAIMS

HE “numbers” or “policy” rackets, prevalent in one form or another in almost every city, “is being carried on in Indianapolis but is not widespread,” Police Chief Morrissey declared today. These rackets, which demonstrate more clearly than any other American phenomenon what many students have called‘an inherent instinct for games of chance, have not been able to get a strong foothold here, the Chief said. “There have been no reporis during the last eight months of policy games,” he said. “Two men, one from New York and one from Ohio, came here some time ago and tried to organize games but we caught them and nipped the racket in the bud.”

n u 2 HE Chief added that occasional

reports were received that

drawings were being held on Indi-

ana Ave, but as yet the police had been unable to locate the drawings.

“It can be said that Indianapolis from the

is comparatively free ‘numbers’ or ‘policy racket’,” Chief Morrissey said. Trailing in its wake a record of murder, hi-jacking and other acts of violence, the “nuvimbers” racket continues to defy regulation in most cities, flourishing openly and with the apparent approval and connivance of the public. For this form of gambling unques-

tionably is popular, possibly because it offers a theoretical chance at large awards for the investment of only a penny or two. The monster “take” (in New York City it is estimated at $50,000,000 yearly) is made up almost altogether of pennies,

nickels and dimes.

For obvious reasons, any estimate of the national “take” would be little

more than a poor guess. There seems small doubt, however, that it

1uns into the tens of millions, and the racket: probably is the largest single source of “slush” money for

organized crime. It maintains elab-

orate headquarters, hires thousands of employees, entices millions of cus-

tomers with the juiciness of promised payoffs ranging usually in the neighborhood of 500 to 1.

2 ” ” VERY so often (as happened recently in New York) authorities

step in and show the players what.

is their actual slim chance of receiving such promised riches. A special prosecutor in Manhattan raided headquarters and division offices of a major ring whose payoff was cal-

culated on pari-mutuel race track figures. It was shown that the numbers operators maintained extensive office staffs which daily calculated the numbers on which the “play” was heaviest, and that the parimutuel figures were “juggled” so that such numbers almost never won. Negroes are among the heaviest “numbers” players, and the New York investigation showed how the racketeers keep track of “dream book” and other tipsheets, again arranging the winning numbers so that losses (for the operators) would not be heavy. Specific example: No. 711 (combining the “naturals” of craps) is a heavy favorite in Harlem. Over a period of months, neither this number nor any com-

bination of two “1s” and a “7” ever paid off. : In Columbus, O., last year (April 11) even major houses found themselves in trouble when for some not

very clear reason “310” was widely played. By a mischance, it won, entailing prospective losses variously estimated at $100,000 to $250,000. Some houses openly welched; others paid off at greatly reduced - odds. The public took it on the chin—and next day came back for more. It is this penchant of the public for .repeatedly “taking it on -the chin” that enables such a lottery to flourish in open defiance of universally - hostile laws. Police drives against the “numbers” have a tendency to be unpopular—and certainly they are ineffective. No city in the nation, so far as available records show, has been able to stamp out this racket, which is petty in its individual dealings, vast in its cumulative winnings.

ARMY MYSTERY TANK

Jealously guarded by the 2 Avy are the secrets of its ts novel doublebarreled tanks, pictured here for the first time. Sixty ofthe mobile forts, whose armaments are shrouded in mystery to all except the Tank Corp personnel, fesently were transferred from Ft. Benning to

Ft. McPherson at Atlanta, G.

screamed for help.

The heart pumps the blood into the big artery known as the aorta. This branches into smaller arteries which in their turn branch into still smaller arteries. arteries keep getting smaller and smaller but their number and their total cross-section keep getting larger and larger. Finally the arteries end in the tiny little blood vessels known as the capil-

laries. From these it flows into

the veins and so finally back to the heart.

The aorta is about one inch in diameter. The blood pressure in the aorta is about four pounds to the square inch, a pressure considerably in excess of that maintained in the steam pipes that heat most big office buildings. Now the walls of the arteries are elastic, expanding with each spurt of the heart, as you can easily prove to yourself by feeling your own pulse. And therein lies the crux of the whole matter. It has been said that a man was as old as his arteries. It might as truly be said that his age is in inverse proportion to the elasticity of his arteries.

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HREE of the seven horsemen of death find their chief ally in hardening of the arteries, known to the medical profession as arterio-sclerosis. Let us look at the records of these seven horsemen. Mortality statistics reveal the following figures for the deaths they causé per 100,000 of population: Heart diS€ase scssessssess 239.9 Cancer «.seesosessssseses 106.2 Kidney disease ccsossseess 84.2 Accidents 79.9 Pneumonia 79.4 Cerebral hemorrhage .... 77.3 Tuberculosis 66.6 fThe two causes of death, in addition to heart disease, which begin with hardening of the arteries, are kidney disease and cerebral hemorrhage. These three together account for more than half of the deaths caused by the seven horsemen and about one-third of all the deaths from all causes in the United States. The trouble begins when the blood pressure starts to rise. High blood pressure is followed by permanent changes in the arteries. Their walls grow thick and they lose their elasticity. The inner surfaces of the arteries, once smooth and glistening, grow rough and corrugated. Blood clots begin to form on them, narrowing - still further the spaces through which the blood must flow. The last act in the drama depends upon where the breakdown occurs. The first arteries to branch off the aorta are the coronary arteries, These go immediately into the wall of the heart and furnish blood to the wall or muscle of the heart. Trouble in the coronaries is so serious be-

esses ecscsnssse

cause it shuts off the heart's own

blood supply. .

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He lay very still and his face was ashen gray.

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F the closure is gradual the result is angina pectoris. A disease marked by terrific pains in the chest. Any sudden exertion or excitement puts a strain upon the weakened heart which it cannot stand and brings on a painful attack. The end is death.

When the coronary artery is |

blocked off suddenly, the result is sudden death. Coronary thrombosis is one such sudden end. The point of greatest damage, however, may not be in the coronary arteries, but in the arteries of the kidneys. When that is the case, death is due to kidney disease, a slower and less spectacular death but one whose arrival the

medical profession is unable to

stop. If the breakdown occurs in ihe

brain, a small artery bursting in|

the brain, the result is cerebral hemorrhage, or apoplexy, poptlarly known as “stroke.” I{ may cause paralysis, the extent depending upon where it occurs in the brain, but it causes death with sufficient frequency to be the

sixth most important cause of

death. " 2 n EDICAL men are hunting for the causes of these diseases and for ways to. prevent them. Meanwhile they can give people good advice. That advise in five words is “Learn to take it easy.” Part of the increase in these diseases is due to the fact that more people are living past 50. Since fewer people die of contagions in youth, more people must die of the diseases of old

© age.

But even so, too y people die in the 50’s. Medi men blame the hectic tempo of modern life. They believe that if people stopped wearing out their nerves and depleting their energy by the furious pace they insist on going, there would be fewer cases of high blood pressure. A special word should be said to two classes of people. One is that given to too much worry about their health. This minority differs from the great majority of people who give all too little attention to their health. Excessive fear of heart disease is foolish: There is a form of neurosis known as cardiac hysteria in which the patient, despite the fact that his heart is perfectly healthy, develops all the symptoms of heart disease. Fear does the trick.

The other class consists of those |

who have had nonfatal heart attacks. The great Sir William Osler once said that the life of many a

man had been saved by a heart.

attack. What he meant was that the man who had thus been warned of a weak heart might live

‘for 15 or 20 years providing he

took care of his health and confined his activities within the range permitted by his weakened heart.

. NEXT—The War on Cancer. |

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

IN case you share the general impression that everything is going to the bow-wows, you had better go down and see the four (4) sets of twins at the Nathan Morris Kindergarten. You'll be the better for it. The

easiest way to get there is to take the S. Meridian St. trackless trolley, get off at Morris St, and walk west. It isn’t far. Like as not, youll only see three sets when you

get there, because Mary and Marion Mobley are down with the mumps at present. Nothing serious, of course, but it: keeps them at home. That leaves Paul and Pauline Byers, however, and Max and Bobby Calderon, and Morris and Rachel Meshulam. Maybe you won't see Max and Bobby, either, because they've just graduated from Kindergarten. They're: 6 years old and go to public school now. = They hang around kindergarten a lot, though. All the rest are 5-year-olds. That's the only thing they have in common, however. Morris and Rachel, for instance are tall and thin, whereas Mary and Marion are ‘short and blond. Fact is, they're tow-heads. On the other hand, Max and Bobby have very black hair. Paul and Pauline are chubby. Dif= ferent as they are, though, their weights are normal, I don’t know whether you know it or not, but measured by modern methods, a kid’s poundage is 0. kK. if it’s more or less in relation with his height. Anyway, that’s what Mrs. Lucretia Saunders says.

Mrs. Saunders gets in‘today’s column because she’s been running the Nathan Morris Kindergarten for the last 10 years. This is the first time, however, that she’s -had four sets of twins in her class. The best she could do up until now was one set at a time, ny # I Rule of 87 Governs Twins

RS. SAUNDERS says you have no idea what fun it is, once you get studying the subject of twins. It’s all mixed up with permutations, complexes and mathematical combinations. Even rules, she says. Maybe you don’t know it, but the Rule of 87 governs the coming of twins. For example, one twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births; one triplet to about 7563 singles (87 squared); one quadruplet to about 658,503 singles (87 cubed), and one quintuplet to about 57 million singles (87 to the fourth power). ;

” ” ” Sextuplets Five Billion to One

HAT’S as far as anybody has carried it today, but if you hear of a set of sextuplets, you can bet your last dollar that it represents one out of five billion chances (87 to the fifth power). Mrs. Saunders is sure of it. Maybe you'd like to know how this checks up with poker playing. Well, I can tell you that, too. The chances of getting a straight flush is one in 62,000; of getting four of a kind, one in 4000; a full house, one in 600; three of a kind, one in 50, and two pairs, one in 20.

It’s wonderful what you can pick up in a kindere garten.

Mr. Scherrer

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A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ERCHANTS, hotels, chambers of commerce thrive on conventions. Much of their energy is used up every year trying to foax big and little organ | izations to visit their cities. When the men move in, armed with Corkeorais

. and bottle openers, the barkeepers and liquor dealers * prepare to be vanquished with profit.

And they are seldom disappointed, because one of the duties of the convention male is to drink up all the whisky in town. When that is done he knows the affair has been a great success, and goes home to recover. It’s the florists who make money when the ladies arrive. A woman's convention brings them more business than Mother’s Day, at least if the corsages in evidence are reliable proof. I shall never forget my one attendance at a national D. A. R. meet, for the Daughters certainly know how to “say it with flowers.” Although many of us regard their platform as rather moth-eaten and their principles as old-fashioned, their bouquets are right up to the minute. On this particular occasion the place was cluttered with flowers. Each officer had her page and each page went loaded with blooms, scattering rose leaves, so to speak, before her mistress’ feet. At intervals during the session the double doors would open and here would be another van load of blossoms. They came in baskets, in vases, in jars, in tubs, and every’ good-sjzed bunch was surrounded by groups of little bougaets precisely as little chicks surround the mother ens. A few of the ladies wore wreaths in their hair, giving them the rowdy look of Bacchus votaries (which I assure you they were not). Blossoms vied with diamonds on every bosom. Waists and wrists were bound with nosegays. - Altogether it was an impressive spectacle, and since then I have. been corsage-conscious at every convention. Instead of listening to the instructive remarks, I find myself trying to estimate the: cost of the flowers, and unvariably end by envying the

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor. American Medical Assn. Journal

MPORTANT in the treatment of tuberculosis is supervision by a competent doctor. It is not safe to tell a person with this disease to go off to a farm, live out of doors, drink a lot of milk, and eat plenty of eggs. Proper supervision of exercise and rest, selection of a suitable diet, care of the.digestion, treatment of complications, and careful study of the progress of the disease are of the utmost importance. Only by such careful observation is it possible for the doctor to time the various steps in treatment. Rest, as has already been mentioned, is probably the most essential single factor in the treatment of tuberculosis when the disease is active. This rest, however, can be anything from absolute and complete rest in bed to a few hours in a reclining chair. Whenever he has fever, the tuberculosis victim should be in bed. In any event, over a period of several months, he will want to be in bed or on a reclining chair much of every day. There is no advantage to lying in bed, however, if a patient's ~ mind is disturbed and if he nervously tesses abotit. He must learn the ‘methods of relaxation, both physical and ‘mental. While the patient is resting, he may, if overfed, gain in weight. With an excess amount of flabby fat, he may have more than usual difficulty in recovering. Graduated exercises, therefore, are proe i just as soon as the patient is able to undertake em. The amount of exercise that each person can do varies according to his individual condition. Thus, the patient’s exercise may begin merely with sitting up in a chair. He then walks about, being able eventually to drive or to take trips in a motor car. Later on, he may do light manual work and, if the institution with which he is associated has a _ department of occupational therapy, he may indulge in that. Still later, he may consider golf, horseback riding or even skating.

glso.be arperion of rest.

Whenever. there is a period of exercise, there ‘must

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