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FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

T. WAYNE, May 18.—Looking back over

the state line toward. Ohio: Prices are terrific in the Buckeye State. Hotels and meals and car storage and all the little necessities of a traveler's life are noticeably higher. Both in Columbus and Akron a hotel turned us away because it was full. That has happened to us - only once before in two years of traveling.

And you don't get much of a dinner in the Ohio cities any more for less than a dollar. It's hard to take after last year in the West, where you could fill your gizzard very classily for 65 cents. And on top of it ali are those annoying . sales taxes on everything. = 4 " The colored attendant in the washroom of one of Cleveland's Mr. Pyle big hotel night clubs was telling , me about life the other night. He’s the boy who. fills the washbowl for ycu (as though you were-crippled) and hands you a towel and brushes you off when you don't need it, for which you overtip him. : : : He says he makes from $5 to $35 a night in tips. That $35 night isn’t unusual either. He's sure of that much on big holiday nights, or the last nights of conventions. He says the drunker men get, the more they tip (which is no original discovery, I guess). { ” n ”

‘I Hale Qhio’

HATE Ohio. (Now wait a minute, all you Ohioans). For it was in Ohio that the girl who rides with ie went in one direction, and I went in another, and fur trails will not cross again for many months™Just two people . . . saying goodby for awhile . . . as people are doing all over the world . . . but it seemed awfully important to us. . . . I don't know whether I can ever like Ohio again or not. There is a little boy of my acquaintance in Denver who says he can't sleep at nights because he has so “much muscle. And there is a little girl of my acquaintance in Ft. Wayne (she'll soon be 8) who couldn't sleep last night because she was so excited over me promising

to take her picture. ” ” "

Dreamed of Roosevelt

ND speaking of sleep, I can sleep all right, but I do have the funniest dreams. This one about President Roosevelt should give the psychologists Some fun. . I dreamed I was at my boyhood home in Indiana, and I went into my bedroom, and there was President Roosevelt lying on the bed. He was dressed, ‘but had a bathrobe over his clothes. He was lying with his back to me and was reading his annual budget report, which was as big as the Chicago tele-phone-directory. He turned and looked at me and said coldly, “How did you get in here?” So I said, “Why, your secretary said he didn’t think you were very busy, and it being just before lunch, he said for me to come right on in without being announced.” The President said that wasn’t the proper procedure. And I said, “Don’t you know me, Mr. President? Why, I was in your office three times last week and had long chats with you.” And the President said, still very coldly, “I'm sorry, but I don't remember anything about it.” The . dream sort of trailed off there. Don’t know why I told him we'd had three chats, for I've never talked with him in my life. But in the dream I thought I had. : :

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A note to the gal from Gas City, inviting me down to the glass woiks: ~ Thanks one and a half million. People who write such grand letters as that should sign names. Can't make it down there this trip, but sure will remember it. for some other time. Tl walk past and say “Howdy” when I come —E. P.

Mrs.Roosevelt’s Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

| /7ASHINGTON, Monday.—Yesterday afternoon I took a, very fascinating young namesake of

ming, Eleanor Cynthia Lund, who is about 19-months-old, out to visit the hardiest little 6-weeks-old twins I have seen in a long time. Besse Furman, a one-time Associated Press reporter, has acquired a new job, and these small twins of hers, born in her brother’s home in Nebraska, were brought iby motor from there to their home here in Washington. They held a levee yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Garner and I, and a number of other friends including several children, made their acquaintance and decided they were quite the most remarkable infants we had ever seen. They had stood their trip wonderfully and showed no signs of fatigue or irritation. For the first time in weeks, the family, consisting of my husband and myself, James and Betsy, and Elliott and Ruth, had Sunday evening supper by ourselves. I had to scramble so few eggs I hardly felt it was worth doing. At 9:15 this morning, my brother, my daughter-in-law, Ruth, and I, went to Washington airport. I was to christen a new plane which is inaugurating the “hourly service between Washington and New York. The wind blew and the position in which I stood was a trifle awkward. If I came out on the platform my skirt tended to blow above my head. If I stood inside the airplane door it was extremely difficult to break the bottle. In the interests of modesty I finally stood inside the door. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker finally helped me fo break the bottle which I could never have done alone. Once back in the White House, there was a press * conference and then a very charming woman, Mary Ames Cushman, came in to present me with her book of diaries written when she was a child in Europe. read a little part of the book, but its rm is very evident.

ery pleasant afternoon’s entertainment. There were several other appointments, and before they were over I was presented with another book which I can hardly wait to read. It is called “College Men, Their Making and Unmaking.”

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74 SEVEN HO By Dawid Diets DEATH

Times Science Editor Tuberculosis Is the Great Killer of Youth in the Nation but Medical Science Knows Enough to Eradicate It From the Land; Adequate Public Support Will Turn the Trick.

(Fifth of a Series)

RASS had grown once upon a time in the narrow strip between the

sidewalk and the curb. But it had given up long ago under the heels of the children who had no other place to play. A crowd of them were there now, engaged in a noisy game of marbles. Anna leaned over the rickety fence in front of the little house and watched them listlessly. Lately, she had been listless about everything she did. She was tired in school. Teacher scolded because she didn’t get her lessons, but even that didn't seem to matter. At recess she just stood around in-

stead of joining in the games. David Dietz Lately, she had been complaining of a husky throat and had coughing spells frequently. She felt one coming on now. This was more severe than she had experienced previously. She coughed up blood and the spell left her hanging pale and weak against the fence. The children, alarmed by the incident, ran for Anna's mother who got her into the house. When the doctor arrived, he took her temperature, listened to her heart and lungs with his stethescope and then called the mother to one side. “We'll have to send her to the hospital for an X.ray am very much afraid that Anna has tuberculosis.” Tuberculosis is still the greatest &

examination of her lungs,” he explained. “I

of time.

If you have an opportunity | I/think you will find “She Wrote It All Down” a |

killer of youth in America. Old age is the chief ally of most of the horsemen of death. Heart disease, kidney disease and cerebral hemorrhage are conditions which develop when the arteries have hardened with the passage Cancer, likewise, is a disease that develops most often in old age. But tuberculosis is the greatest menace to young people between the ages of 15 and 24.

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HIS is a double tragedy for, Tie accidents, tuberculosis is preventable. Medical science does not know how to arrest the subtle changes in the arteries which pring on heart disease, kidney disease. and cerebral hemorrhage. It does not know how to stop the transformations in the tissues ‘which inaugurate the growth of a cancer. But medical science does know what to do about tuberculosis. For tuberculosis is a germ disease and therefore a contagion. Every case of tuberculosis begins by contact with another case. The danger of catching .the disease by casual contact with a person who has it is slight, but repeated close contact is almost certain to bring on the disease. Marvelous advances have been made in arresting the spread of tuberculosis. The death rate from the disease is steadily declining, but it is still high enough to constitute one of the seven chief causes of death.in America.

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ECAUSE the disease can be eradicated, the battle against it should be carried on with renewed vigor. The time has come, as Dr. Thomas A. Parran Jr., surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, says, to stop talking about the control of tuberculosis and to begin talking about the eradication of tuberculosis. Early diagnosis is the primary requirement. It is for this reason that the National Tuberculosis Association stages an “Early Diagnosis Week” each year to arouse public interest in the matter. In many cities, such as Cleveland for example, a year-round effort at early diagnosis is made in the public schools. Children-in the first grade are given a tuberculin test. This consists of the injection of tuberculin, made from

" dead tuberculosis germs, into the

skin. If a red spot devglops it means that the child has #lready contracted the disease. If no spot develops, the child is in good health. Signs of tuberculosis in a child of this age usually are not revealed in any other way. At that age the child shows no great ill effect and the recovery. of the child 1s usually a simple matter with proper attention. But the presence of T. B. in so young a child is almost positive proof that some adult in the family has the disease.

MORE BABIES FOR BIGGER ARMIES IS CRY OF HITIsER AND MUSSOLINI

The doctor looked grave as he examined little Anna, for in her condition he detected

the signs of tuberculosis.

HE test is repeated when the children have reached the age of 12. - If children at this age show a positive test, the matter is more serious and it is advisable that the child be examined by means of the X-ray for signs of lung damage.

The treatment of tuberculosis in infants or young children is usually accomplished by fresh air, proper diet, adequate rest and plenty of sunshine or ultra-violet light treatments. The germ of tuberculosis was discovered 55 years ago by Robert Koch on March 24, 1882. Koch, along with Pasteur and Lister, founded the modern science of bacteriology. It was hoped that his discovery of the germ would be followed by the discovery of a potent serum or antitoxin for its treatment. But none such has ever been found although many experts are still working upon the problem. ie The first great important contribution to the treatment of

{ tuberculosis was made by Dr. Liv-

ingston Trudeau, a young New York physician, ‘who went to Saranac Lake in 1873, expected to die from tuberculosis.

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NSTEAD, his health grew better and out of his own experiences he founded the first sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. This was located in a little red cottage which became famous in

medical literature as the “Little Red.” Its picture appeared upon the Christmas Seals in the year

. 1935, which marked the 50th an-

niversary of the founding of the sanatorium.

Today the treatment of ad“vanced tuberculosis is in the hands of the surgeons. A lung cavity one-third of an inch in diameter, formerly a certain death warrant, is today the signal for the doctors to get busy. : The surgeon’s knife has taken the place of “watchful waiting” in the treatment of tuberculosis. The treatment of tuberculosis has passed through three stages. The first stage was the ‘pest house” stage. In those days the diagnosis of T. B. was a death sentence. The only idea in the minds of public officials was to lock up the victim so that he couldn't infect others. Unfortunately there still are communities whose thinking has not progressed beyond the “pest house” stage. The second stage was inaugurated by Dr. Trudeau's “Little Red.” This type of treatment is still in use and works if the disease is caught in the earliest stages. The third stage is that of active surgical intervention and is known to medical science as ‘collapse therapy.” ” 2 2

HE germs of the disease eat holes in the lung tissues creating what the medical men call lesions If the lesions are small, they heal, but if they are large,

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By MILTON BRONNER . NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ONDON, May 18.—“Italy must have more babies,” the warning cry uttered by Dictator Benito Mussolini, who himself is married and has young children, is matched by, “Germany must have many more babies,” spoken by bachelor Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazified Deutschland. : In both cases, the complaint in past times has been that the Germans were too crowded in the territory they possessed and that the Italians were too cramped in their peninsula. Both nations, it was maintained, ne2ded colonies in which to expand. Both needed colonies for raw materials. Then comes the paradox—this insistence upon more babies, this alarm at the small families. On form, the dictators, worried about the millions of their countrymen being cramped within too small a space, should have been very pleased that the growth in population was slowing up. Instead of which, they are both embarking upon campaigns to.speed up production of larger families. The reasons are:

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the work started by the present generation,

2. A surplus population to do Italy's work of colonization inibya and Abyssinia and to do Germany's similar work when and if she succeeds in getting her former colonies back. 3. Biggest reason of all—cannon fodder. It is a modern axiom of

‘realistic dictators that a country is

only really a great power when it has a large population because a large population means the possibility of a great army and a great army means the use of the threat of great force. In Germany the “more babies” campaign was started almost as soon as Hitler got in the saddle in 1933. To encourage young .people to marry, the state made them loans to help them set up housekeeping. For every child born to the marriage, part of the loan was remitted. Such marriages also had another effect in Germany. Women were taken out of employment and the vacant places were .filled by unemployed men. But, despite all this encouragement and despite the fact that over 500,000 of these Hitlersubsidized marriages have taken place, the birth rate has not risen as the Nazi masters hoped.

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OSEPH GOEBBELS, Minister of Propaganda, who can always be

Nazi angle, says that failure to have children is a crime against the Nazi state and a sign of distrust of the

Fuehrer. Special provisions of the new German penal code are being prepared for punishment of sexual immorality, thus encouraging more weddings. There is to be greater tolerance for illegitimate children.

It is being borne in upon Germans that once marriage has been concluded, they must have as many children as possible. Families of four children are to be considered a minimum. In Italy it is declared far too many babies have died of infantile diseases, and young children have succumbed: to typhoid fever. The Fascist Grand Council has decreed that henceforth fathers of large families will be given preference in employment. There will be a policy of family wages, making income proportionate to the number of children the wage-earner has to support. Marriage loans and dowry insurance will be arranged for new-ly-wed couples. Districts where there is no marked increase in babies will be partly deprived of government- support for hospitals and other public benefits.

The Council put things in a nut shell when it said more babies were needed for military power, economic

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expansi the secure future of relied upon to give anything a fresh | I Ie nf ahY ° :

the distention of the lung tissue caused by breathing prevents them from healing

The ‘remedy is to collapse the lung and give it an opportunity to heal while at rest. In its simplest form, the treatment consists of inserting a hollow needle in the chest wall and pumping air into the space between the lung and the chest wall, Increasing the pressure here causes the lung to collapse. The patient breathes with the other lung only or perhaps with a small portion of the collapsed dung also. In still other cases, the phrenic nerve, the nerve which controls the diaphram, is cut. This permits the diaphragm to rise up, collapsing the lower part of the lung. In the most serious cases, it is necessary to collapse a lung to the

- greatest extent by removing several ribs. : : Amazing results are being -obtained today in hospitals by the surgical treatment of tuberculosis. Here then, is one horseman of death who can be routed. It means more attention to public health, more attention to adequate hospital and sanatorium facilities. And becalise T. B. is a disease which gets its surest foothold in surroundings of poverty, it means more attention to general welfare. But the battle is worth winning. The stamping out of T. B. will _ save countless lives, spare many people great suffering and. save the millions of dollars now expended in the care of the victims of this disease.

Next: The challenge of pneumonia.

Clapper Urges New Deal Get Intelligent Tories’ Support

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, May 18.—The morale of New Dealers has freshened up like wilting flowers after a spring rain with President Rcosevelt’s reassurance as he returned to Washington that he would continue to press toward the objec-

tives of the New Deal. Still more pickup would occur if there were a more definite idea of how these

% objectives should be reached.

How does the Administration propose to deal with child labor? With wages and hours? With prices? With monopolistic controls? With taxes? With relief? With further steadying of agriculture? Morale within the New Deal has suffered chiefly because programs for dealing with these matters are meager or. unborn. After more than four years in office, after all of its experience with NRA, with PWA bidding, with the Federal Trade Commission, the Administration still is no more certain than a Chinaman as to how to deal with the monopolistic price situation. Morale has withered for lack .of specific nourishment. It cannot subsist indefinitely upon! beaming generalities. This sag 1s particularly embarrassing to the New Deal because bounding recovery is running away with the show and is spreading indifference toward Washington and impatience toward any action at all. Rising profits are encouraging pressure against stabilizing interference: by Washington. There is developing the same short-sighted, don’t - crab - the - party psychology which wound up in the cold dawn of the present decade with such a terrific headache.

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EN who look a little farther ahead know that such a policy of drift and let-’em-run-loose will be fatal again as it was before. Various groups, Secretary ‘Wallace says, are rushing in to get theirs in a

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“ill-fare.” preferring that the Government stay out now even if it has to function again some day—during the early Forties, he would guess— as an “economic salvage crew.” Even outside the New Deal is a body of intelligent conservative opinion which can be appealed to for support against this drift of affairs. If given decent encouragement and half a chance to function, these intelligent conservatives might do a useful missionary job for long-range stability among those powerful economic royalists who are in a position either to contribute usefully or to sabotage. Their potential nuisance value alone makes it

worth while to try to win their co-’

operation. The New Deal's job is difficult enough at best.

- Instead of goading economic royalists into fury—which is good campaign stuff but worse than useless when you are trying to make government work—the Administration might find unexpzcted assets among them, as John L. Lewis and his C. I. O. found in Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel. It can’t be all barren ground when you have men talking as Will H. Hays did at a Red Cross luncheon here. Mr. Hays may have been prodded by movie strike trouble, but he was chairman of the Republican National Committee in Warren Harding's campaign and became his Postmaster General. Obviously he is not a New Dealer,* yet listen to him: ” 2 n 4d UR social system * must con- : tinue further to enlarge the ways and means by which the prod-ucts-of hands and brain are equitably distributed. Public leadership must provide the bases and formulae for the settlement of economic, industrial and labor questions. “It is eas, to view as a ‘battle’ every adjustment that should be and must be made in meeting the problems of a highly complex industrial age. Easy to view as -a ‘war’ every clash of ideas and ideals

that marks the progress of a young:

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ur Town By ANTON SCHERRER |

SUPPOSE there are several ways of gete ting to Miss Margaret Ryan's home cn E. Merrill St. Like a good many other things in this world, however, the longest way round is the best. At any rate, that's the way I went. Ph I entered Merrill St. at Delaware St. and turned east. It would do your heart good to see how little the old thoroughfare has changed. John L. Ketcham's

brick house with the four big chimneys and the big wide porch and the sturdy.stone wall eut in front is still there, just as it was when I was a boy. And so is the Davis gabled cottage, a little farther east. The present postman knows the Ketcham house as No. 315, and the Davis house is now 345. Just across the street is the Catherine Merrill School,” which used to be old No. 25. It marks the site of Samuel Merrill's cold home. Originally, it occupied the center of Mr. Mere rill's tract of 20 acres which reached from. South to McCarthy and from Alabama to New Jersey Sts. Mr. Merrill, lest we forget, was State Treasurer at the time of the removal of the capital from Corydon to Indianapolis in 1824. Time was when Merrill St. was a lane with a stile at each end, and you have no idea how it's all tied up with the story of Mr. Merrill's daughters. For example, just about a hundred years ago Mr. Ketcham fell in love and gparried Jane, oldest daughter of Mr, Merrill (and Mrs. Merrill, too, of course) and that was the start of No. 315. To teil the truth it wasn't really the start because Mr. and Mrs. Ketcham lived first at South and Dela« ware on the site of the old St. Vincent's Hospital, and then; I believe, they moved to a farm where Garfield Park now is. After that, however, they moved to Merrill's Lane. When they got there they found Mrs. Ketcham’s sister, Julia, mother of Merrill Moores, in a house of her own. Apparently, Mr. Merrill subdivided his whole property to have his daughters near him, : :

Mr. Scherrer

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NDEED, by the time the Civil War: was over, three generations of the Merrill family were living in Merrill St., because by that time, F. A.. W. (Billy) Davis spied and married Elizabeth, the daughter of the Ketchams. Which accounts for the house at 345. I don’t know why Tm telling you all this because, really, it hasn't anything to do with Miss Margaret Ryan. My reason for calling on Miss Ryan was not to see Merrill St., but because somebody told me that Miss Ryan is the woman who remembers seeing and touching the first piano in Indianapolis. It turns out to be the truth. The first piano in Indianapolis was brought here in 1831 by James Blake when he moved and brought his wife (Miss Eliza, Spoule of Baltimore) -to‘ Indianapolis. Apparently, the old piano was still going good in the late Seventies, because that’s when Miss Ryan saw it. She’s sure of it, because she remembers going to the Blake house with Kitty Clay. If Kitty were here, she'd prove it, says Miss Ryan. n 2 »

Piano Inspired Poem

ISS RYAN says that Mr. Blake's piano was the talk of the town and inspi the best poem that Dan Paine ever wrote. It wads 12 stanzas long, and was supposed to picture the lovely Mrs. Blake sitting at the keyboard:

“She sat at the old piano. Her fingers thin and pale Ran over the yellow keyboard The chords of a minor scale.”

Other pianos followed this one—plenty of them— and in 1843 Mr. Parmalee actually started a piano factory here. ‘He turned out a good piano, but he didn’t make any money. Later on, Traeyser and Robinson tried the same thing, and, curiously enough, their factory was also in Merrill St.

A Woman's View

‘By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON F it's a love story youre looking for, Eric Re= marque’s “Three Comrades” (Little, Brown) is the book for you. It'is an exquisite tale of a man’s love

. for a maid and of that rarer emotion which binds

men. in a friendship when they have shared hardship, tragedy and anguish of soul together. It dces not have a happy ending, in the sense that we have been taught to think of happy endings, put what real love story ever had? Yet it kindles within the sensitive, reader a terrible glory—the white. flame we feel when we realize that there is a love which transcends .self and can triumph over death, How hungry the world is to hear about such love! For 20 years now we have been stuffed to repletion with sorry stories of passion that cannot outlast the year; we have read of lust parading under a

better name, until we are almost persuaded that man

is not capable of any nobler emGtion. Eric Remarque, who emerges from the great crucible of war holding aloft his golden beliefs, writes here such perfect limpid prose that the words like little fingers tighten themselves around your throats and bring tears springing to the eyes. For he convinces us once again that life does hold beauty and that man is good. ; Not that one ever forgets the war When Mr, Remarque is writing. It is always there in the background, gross, evil, responsible for the undernourishment and death of the lovely Patricia, responsible for the poverty of our comrades and for the drab existence of workers and prostitutes and all the grim procession of sorrowing humanity passing through ils pages.

Your Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal

T is important to know about the pain of angina pectoris, because it is the most significant symp- . tom of the disease. Pain in angina pectoris is usually under the breast bone just to the left of the upper portion. It may radiate to the shoulder or down the arm, sometimes to the left side of the neck or to the pit of the stomach. 2 Most important of all, it is a short pain. The best advice that can be given is not to eat when tired, not to eat heavily at any time, not to take any exercise within a half hour after a meal, and always eat slowly. The food selected should be easy to digest. ; Here are 10 commandments applicable to those with angina pectoris: 1. Do not subject your heart to sudden, strenuous or prolonged physical exertion. 2.-Eat regularly, slowly and temperately. 3. If you are excessively overweight, seek sound counsel as to how to dispense with this heart handicap. . e 4, Try to avoid physical activity for at least 30 minutes after eating. 5. Avoid emotional stress and strain. 6. Keep your body as free as possible from ine fection.

7. Regular intestinal elimination is highly ime

. portant.

8. Average not less than eight hours of sleep in & room abundantly supplied with fresh air. 9. Perennial health demands a proper balance between work, play and rest. 10. A periodic examination may often reveal defects of which you are:unaware.

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