Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1937 — Page 11
From Indiana — Ernie Pyle
U. S. Coast Guardsmen Tried— But All They Did Was to Give
Our Hoosier 'Sailor' a Bouncing.
PDUICcH HARBOR, Aleutian Islands, Sept. | 29.—No one can say we didn’t try. The Pribilof Islands are world famous. They hold the biggest herd of fur seals in the world. The annual slaughter conducted by the Government is a sight worth traveling thousands of miles to see. : : And for 48 hours we lay at anchor a mile and a half offshore from the Pribilofs, with the wind biow- : ing 50 miles an hour, and the rain pouring down so fiercely and so cold it seemed like sleet, and us lying there rolling around on the anchor chain. We never did get ashore. Capt. - Zeusler was very patient with tbe weather. But finally he said nuts to it, and we pulled ancaor aud * made a run for Dutch Harbor : Then ensued the roughest 24% © hours at sea I have any desire to put in. We came like a cork ail the way. The old Northland was rolling up as high as 47 degrees by the official rollometer. Do you realize that a deck slanting 47 degrees is more than halfway to being straight up and down? It was 4 o’clock in the morning when we upped anchor at the Pribilofs and headed south. At least they said it was, but I didn’t wake up till about 6. What woke me was that my two chairs went slamming across the cabin floor into the door, a traveling bag piled up on top of them; six drawers beneath my bunk flew open and whammed out their full length, the bottles in the toilet shelves stacked up with a great glassy bedlam; I reached out from my bunk just in time to save the typewriter as it was going off the table; and down on my head from the shelf came a tumbling assortment of pictures, carbon paper, chocolate bars, sacks of tobacco, carved ivory elephants, playing cards and magazines.
He Kept to His Bed
I was down there amidst that prowling furniture in a hurry. You had to keep dodging, to keep from getting hurt. I got the drawers shut first, and found each one had a little catch that would hold it. Then I got some twine out of my bag, backed the - chairs up against the bunk and tied each one tightly to a drawer handle. Then I tied the traveling bag to the leg of one chair, and my wrapped bundle of sealskins to the other chair, I stayed in bed most of the way to Dutch Harbor, largely because there simply: wasn’t any sense in being up. If you got up, you couldn’t stand up. You couldn’t sit in a chair. You couldn't walk without being hurled against something. You couldn't read because your eyes bulged every time the book moved. Also, you can’t sleep in a sea like that. No matter how you lie, your position changes about every five seconds, and it changes no matter how rigidly you hold yourself. I suppose all you sadists want to know whether I got seasick or not? Well, let’s put it this way— 1 didn’t miss any meals. .
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Mr. Pyle
How a Reclamation Project Redeems
Desert Lands Amazes First Lady.
ONNEVILLE, Ore., Tuesday — Yesterday afternoon we had an extraordinarily interesting drive through 14 miles of a reclamation project. I wonder if this means as little to any of my readers as it did to me before yesterday afternocn. If someone had said to me that at one moment I would see a desert with sage brush the only visible vegetation, and the next moment some of the best farming land I have seen anywhere, I would have thought he was telling me a tale. As I looked more carefully, I saw the irrigation ditches with their companion draining ditches. When I was told that the water in some places cost $4 to $8 per month, I could hardly believe anyone could make a living on the land. However, Congressman Pierce assured me they had no trouble paying, because‘ of the productiveness of the soil once they had water. He also said that, in another part of the state, not very far away, the original outlay for providing water had all been paid and when that was accomplished here, the cost of water would be negligible. . : Many of the people in the areas which we went through, were people from the dust bowl who had arrived with practically nothing in the way of material goods. Some of the houses do not look very habitable as yet, but the crops and cattle and, above all, the children, léoked in very good condition.
Personality in Furniture
The other day my attention was drawn to the fact that we are beginning to have weeks commemorating different activities in such great numbers that: shortly the 52 weeks in the year will be preempted for some particular activity. We have Safety Week, Fire Prevention Week and this week I was particularly interested to see we have Purniture Week. Just why we should have a furniture week and not at the same time have a week which covers all the other things which go into a house, I do not know,” but being very deeply interested in furniture I am glad we do draw the attention of our people to the importance of the furniture which they put into their homes. I long ago made up ny mind that the most attractive housfs were those which expressed the personalities of the people who lived in them. The choice of furniture is one of the ways in which we all express our personalities most effectively. I hope our taste will gradually become so well educated that we will demand usefulness, good workmanship and beauty in all the furnishings of our homes.
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Public Library Presents—
N the wake of the sudden surge of interest in cooperatives which was evident in America last year, the President sent a commission to Europe to study co-operative enterprises there. The present volume, REPORT OF THE INQUIRY ON CO-OPERATIVE ENTERPRISE IN EUROPE, 1937 (Government Printing Office) is the result of investigations by this commission in several countries. The findings include explanation of the methods by which the co-operatives work and consideration of the relations which they bear to the Government and to politics, of their function in educating the people for democratic government, of their part in price regulation, and particularly of their development in the fields of housing and rural electrification. Perhaps of greatest interest to most readers will be the sections in which the writers discuss the place of the co-operative in America, its probable future, and the problems peculiar to this country which a strong movement in this direction will have to face. x ” » # IFE in England in the Hays of Queen Elizabeth was a combination of merrymaking, coarse, careless living, intrigue, and danger. It was a time when all men feared their neighbors and dared put no trust even in a friend; and a time when each man carried hig sharpwmed sword with him when he went out upon the streets. The scholars, the gay young blades, and all wayfarers of the road frequented the inns of town and country, and there heard the latest court gossip or political plot, fought their duels, and had their fun with the barmaids. It was a fast life and a tragically short one for many a young gallant. In MERMAID TAVERN, by George Cronyn (Knight), we are given a picture of those glamorous days, as told in the story of Christopher Marlowe, the poet. It is a story full of the excitement of adven‘ture and love, and it presents to the reader an un-
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Why Women of Today Live Longer—
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937
~The Indianapolis Times
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at Postoffice, Indian:
It’s a Boy!’ But From the Delivery Room Comes a Greater Story
(Third of a Series) By David Dietz :
Times Science Editor RESOUNDING smack, followed by a plaintive but determined wail, broke the stillness of the hospital corridor. Nurses, hurrying along the dimly lighted passageway, smiled broadly at each other. They recognized the sounds which signalized the entrance of a new citizen into the world. Garbed in white jacket and rubber gloves, and perspiring profusely, the o b stetrician . stuck his head out of the door of the delivery room and beckoned cone of the nurses. “Tell Mr. Blake it’s a boy,” he said.
In the waiting room at
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~ Blake ceased Mr. Dietz his pacing back and forth as the nurse entered. A dozen halfburned cigarets in the ashtray on the table bore mute testimony to the fact that Mr. Blake had spent a restless and uncomfortable two hours waiting for this moment. He turned to the nurse with a look that combined nervous apprehension with lively hope. But the look turned to one of pure joy as he heard tHe nurse's message. : Meanwhile, in the “white room,” the white-walled delivery room,. one nurse was giving the squalling infant its first bath. The ob-" stetrician had returned to the mother’s side and was counting her pulse while a second nurse, quietly and efficiently, went about
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struments that had been used. 88 : ERHAPS you have wondered why so frequently the obstetrician greets the new-born infant with a none-too-gentle slap on the buttocks. It is nol to give him a preliminary taste of a tough old world in which slaps and kicks abound aplenty. “The obstetrician acts for no symbolic reason. There is good medical experiences behind his behavior. With birth, there comes a whole series of violent changes in the life
of the infant. Until that time, he has led an aquatic existence, living
within the fluid that filled the so- |
called amniotic sac, the membranous sac inside of which the embryo exists within the mother's uterus. Both nourishment and oxygen have come to him by way of the umbilical cord. His lungs have not yet functioned. . But when he emerges into th world, he is on his own. Now for the first time his lungs begin to expand and contract. He must get his own oxygen from the atmosphere. This is a crucial moment in the life of the child. Failure of respiration at this point would end his career before it had begun, And so, if respiration appears slow in starting, the obstetrician with one hand grasps the baby by both feet and holds its head downward. With the other hand, he gives it a gentle slap. Normally this is sufficient to start the breathing process at once. : Very frequently, the new born infant begins to breathe without assistance from the obstetrician. On rare occasions, the situation is much more serious, requiring more prolonged measures. The value of the modern obstetrician lies .in the fact that he is prepared by training and experience for emergencies. The maternity wards are so equipped that the necessary instruments and appliances are at hand when needed.
This photo was taken in
Cleveland.” It shows a Caesarian section being pe
Caesar was born in this way.
N so far as possible, however, the obstetrician plans ahead so that there shall be no emergencies. It is for this reason that mothers
should consult their family physician or obstetrician as soon as they suspect a child is on the way. . The most serious cases seen in any maternity ward are those which have had no previous medical care and are rushed in at the last moment when a crisis occurs. Conditions which are easily remedied or controlled during the ‘early months of pregnancy become serious later if neglected. Some conditions, if neglected until the time of childbirth, are inevitably fatal. It is for this reason that the mother should make arrangements with her - obstetrician as soon as pregnancy is suspected. The obstetrician will begin by asking for some facts of family history. Has the family a record of twins? What has been the childbirth experiences of other women in the family? These
the operating room
things give the obstetrician a hint
of what to expect. Next, he will make a thorough physical examination, for childbirth is an experience which exacts its toll from every tissue of the body. Too many women complained in the old days, “My health has been poor ever since Johnny was born.” The duty of the obstetrician is not merely to deliver the child, but to preserve the health of the mother as well. For that reason he is particularly concerned about {the condition of the heart, the possibility of tuberculosis, and so on.
AX important part of this first J physical examination is to measure carefully the size of the pelvic bones and to: make sure that there are no deformities such as might have occurred from rickets in childhood or from a broken hip. For when the child is born, it must emerge through the rigid ring formed by the bones of
the pelvis. All during pregnancy, the obstetrician must be certain that the baby’s head is not going to be too large to emerge through this ring. If the baby grows too large, there are only two courses open. One is to induce labor prematurely. The other is to wait and perform g Caesarian section. The obstetrician will ask the expectant mother to come in for an examination every three weeks during the first months of pregnancy. During the last three months, he will want to see her every two weeks. One of the things he will watch carefully is the mother’s weight. She should .gain two or three . pounds every three or four weeks. A sudden gain in weight—seven to nine pounds—may indicate that excess fluid is gathering jin her tissues. This may be due to kidney failure and requires careful attention. There are certain symptoms which must be watched for with great care. A combination of
Breakdown of Famous ‘Roosevelt Luck’ Traced to Introduction of Packing Bill
Times Special ASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The revelation of Associate Justice Hugo Black’s life membership
in the Ku-Klux Klan completes the puckish picture of the first jinx to break the famous “Roosevelt luck” —the = President’s Court-packing misadventure. Up to Feb. 5, 1937, when the Judiciary Reform Bill emerged suddenly and full-blown from the White House, the Roosevelt rabbit foot had never failed to do its trick. Fortune didn’t smile, it grinned, as its hand seemed to turn every event to the President's advantage. It confounded his enemies from the Liberty League to Father Coughlin. But from its very beginning the Ashhurst bill has brought the President nothing but grief. At once an almost solid Democratic backing in Congress began fo crack. Not only Southern conservatives but Western liberals denounced the plan. Senator Ashhurst, the bill's sponsor, saw his former strictures on Court packing come home to mock him. Friendly néwspapers opened fire. In his March 9 fireside talk
the President was, for the first time, on the defensive, : 8 ” » N March 22 Senator Wheeler read into committee records a letter from Chief Justice Hughes, indorsed by Justices Brandeis and
Van Devanter, denying the President’s claim that the Supreme Court’s dockets were overcrowded,
claiming that more justices would |b
hamper rather than speed up justice. = A week later the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 decision, reversed ifs Washington Minimum Wage Law opinion of 1923, unanimously upheld the Railway Labor Act and the rewritten Fraziér-Lemke Mortgage Moratorium Bill. Court packers started deserting in larger numbers. On April 12 this new majority upheld the Wagner Labor Relatidns Act and on May 25 it upheld the Social Security Law. Instead of hailing these opinions as substantial victory over judicial reaction, the President continued to press for passage of his packing bill. Desertions increased. On May 18, several hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee
voted 10 to 8 against the proposal (7 Democrats voting against it),
Mr. Justice Van Devanter an-|
nounced his retirement from the bench, giving the President a chance to name another liberal.
2 n 2 N June 25, following the Jefferson Island “love feast,” Senator Burke (D. Neb.) announced the Senate evenly divided and promised a protracted filibuster to kill the
ill. On July 2 Majority Leader Robinson introduced a “compromise” plan. Chairman Sumners (D. Tex.) of the House Judiciary Committee came out against any Court packing, and the House wildly applauded. On the morning of July 14, Leader Robinson was found dead in his room. The retreat became a rout. Vice President Garner returned from Texas to negotiate the Administration’s surrender. On Aug. 12, as suddenly and unexpected as he had introduced his Court measure, President Roosevelt named Hugo Black to succeed Justice Van Devanter. Then on Monday, Sept. 13, the hoodoo stalked again. Justice Black’s membership in the Klan was
exposed.
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of Maternity Hospital, one of the units in the University Hospitals, rformed. This operation gets its name from the legend that Julius
headaches, swelling of the face and ankles, high blood pressure, and albumen inthe urine, indicate toxemia. This is easily treated if recognized. If ignored, the mother may die in convulsions.
2 a" ” HE obstetrician must also be on the lookout for painless bleedihg. This is usually caused by the condition known as “placenta previa,” which is due to a wrong attachment of the placenta. This condition can be extremely
serious and may require Caesarian section or other surgical treatment. In cases where everything is normal, the exact method of delivery will depend upon the judgment of the obstetrician and the routine which is followed at the particular hospital. A form of twilight sleep is used ‘some obstetricians today, usually a combination of nembutal and scopalamine. The obstetrician is not anxious to produce deep anesthesia. This tends to interfere with the progress of natural delivery. He must also guard against an anesthetized baby. He is seeking, however, to obtain amnesia. If the mother sleeps between her pains, she reaches the final stage of childbirth without exhaustion.
In the last stage of delivery,
ether is usually administered -if forceps are necessary. Many obstetricians prefer to use forceps in any event if it is the woman’s first child. In such a case, there is always danger of the tissues tearing. For this reason, many obstetricians prefer to perform what is known technically as an episiotomy. The birth canal is enlarged by a small incision. This is done to prevent tearing of the tissues. Even if there is further tearing it will occur along the direction of the incision and thus do less damage. Such an incision is more easily sewed up than are tears. There is a difference of opinion among obstetricians as to whether tears and lacerations should be repaired immediately after delivery or at a later date. With the delivery, the obstetrician is charged with the care of i patients—the mother and the child.
NEXT — The role of the hormones.
usually vivid portrait of the unhappy young poet and playwright whose short life was lived in those hazard-'
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A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
«yT'S like coming from Hell to : Heaven,” said a rabbi who had just arrived from Poland. His story of the oppression suffered by his people and the horrible conditions under which the working classes live made me ashamed of how little the average citizen like myself appreciates his Heaven. A warm glow floods your heart as you realize that you are a little part of what has made this nation a haven for the oppressed. This country has not grown great on self-praise, but because every citizen has been given the right to criticize. The men and women who actually directed its destinies have been those brave souls who, in spite of the self-satisfaction of the masses with the status quo, had the courage to point out mistakes and to fight for great principles in the face of overwhelming opposition.
When Joseph Smith and Brigham |
Young turned their backs upon Illinois persecution and marched. into the desert, they were laying some celestial cornerstones. When a handful of Abolitionists flayed the slaveholders, and only a few statesmen held grimly to the idea of a
united nation while all around them | 14 men were shouting for division, they | ‘built the tallest skyscraper in many-|
towered Elysium, =. © ‘Criticism on intelligent, well-informed opinion is the highest form of patriotism. Our nation
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ur Town By Arion Scherrer
Tip to Today's Political Leaders— Bald Headed Glee Club Assisted Parties of Old to Elect Their Men.
Just to get today’s column going, let's assume there’s something the matter with the Republican Party—it’s a lack of integration, for example. : _ All right, if that’s the case, maybe it's not amiss to suggest that what it needs is a Bald Headed Glee Club, like the one which flourished in Indianapolis when I was a boy. Come to think of it, it might help the Democrats, too.
Be that as it may, the old Bald Headed Glee Club won more victories for the Republican Party than all the orators put together. To be sure, it didn’t look so good in the beginning when it traveled over Indiana with Blaine and logan, but it made up for it later when Harrison was up for election; It turned the trick for McKinley, too. : The Bald Headed Glee Club, I remember, looked like 100 men Mr. Scherrer | the first time I saw it. Now that : I think about it, however, I wonder whether a dozen wouldn’t be mearer the right figure. Anyway, there was Dave Wallace, Harry Adams, Doc Woodward, Burgess Brown, M. D. Butler, S. G. Woodward, J. C. Slawson, John G. Blake, O. D. Weaver, George Macy and, of course, Bill Tarkington. Just as I thought— hardly a dozen, if my figuring is right. Stranger still was the fact that most of these men had hair on their heads in the beginning. To be sure, George Macy was a real-for-sure baldhead from the start, and so was Dave Wallace, but certainly two bald heads don’t make a Bald Headed Glee Club any more than two swallows make a summer. Why, even Mr. Tarkington had enough hair on the side of his head to comb over the top.
Blame It on Damp Churches !
Now that I know more about it, I can clear that up, too, even if it has all the signs of an anomaly. It was because the Glee Club didn’t get its name until sometime around the turn of the century, which was all of 16 years after it organized to lick Grover Cleveland. And, of course, I don’t have to tell you that a lot can happen to a man’s head in that length of time. Well, to return to the subject in hand: The Glee Club got its name sometime around 1900 when it sang at a reunion of soldiers at Memorial Presby= terian Church. Somebody, it appears, asked Mr. Bute ler how he should introduce the club, and right off the bat, Mr. Butler said: “Call it the Bald Headed Glee Club.” The name stuck. . After that, of course, the' Glee Club had to live up to its name and explain how it got that way, «It was sitting in damp churches so much when we were boys that made us bald so early,” said Mr, Tarkington.
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Jane Jordan—
Let a Pretty Girl Friend Teach Your Husband to Dance, Wife Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN—My husband and I have been married four years and have two children. Here is my problem. I have danced for 12 years, but had to quit. when my children were born. Now. they are old enough that I can get an older woman to watch them while I go, but my husband dances only when .he is drinking. Then he thinks he is dancing, but he just walks on my feet. Every time we go riding he is always flirting with other girls and I don’t like to ride any more because of it. I _ think a lot of him, but he seldom takes us anywhere. He goes any time he pleases, but wants me to stay, home or go to shows. I am tired of movies and want to dance, but he thinks when a man dances with a woman he wants a date with her. I always go to dances by myself and come home with mother on the trolley. He is awfully jealous. If some one I know speaks to me he thinks I am in love with him. I hate to take my children away from him, but I can’t stay home always with no enjoyment, . DISCOURAGED MOTHER.
ANSWER—Your husband would be glad enough to dance if he could dance well. He knows he is clumsy and awkward and he hasn't the courage to try except when his judgment is clouded by drink. He knows full well that he walks on your feet and that you scorn him for it. No wonder he is unwilling to make a monkey of himself on the dance floor. Would you? 2 Every thing you tell me about your husband shows that he is a person doubtful of his own worth and thirsting for approval from his environment. His flirting with other girls reveals that he seeks constant proof of his attractiveness. His wife thinks he is a big ox, but other women are not so critical, perhaps,
Again he is afraid for you to go to dances alone, afraid to trust you with other partners. What does this mean? It means that he is so thoroughly cone vinced of his own unatt-activeness that he can’t imagine why anyone should love him. In your place he fancies that he would fall for almost any fellow on the dance floor. The only thing he knows to do to prevent the disaster is to forbid your going. of course he may try to cover up his anxiety about hime self with plenty of conceit, but don't let it fool you, This man needs building up. He needs more approval than the average. He needs to be convinced that he is a great fellow and could do anything he put his mind to, even to managing his feet. In your place I would get my prettiest girl friend to teach him to dance. By, flattering and cajodng and with patience and practice, I would build up his ego and loosen his feet. I repeat, he’d be glad enough to dance if only he knew how.
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EAR JANE JORDAN—Last summer I met a young woman whom I was expected to date because of family friendship. We were together a few times during vacation. Now she calls incessantly. I make excuse after excuse but realize in the end that I shall have to tell her straight one way or the other, She is simply impossible. She-is one of those female Amazons, smokes cigarets and the like. How can 1 make her understand in as kind a way as possible? I did not in the least lead her on. =x V. M.D.
ANSWER—I do not think she is very sensitive or she would not be so forward. What would hurt you in her place will not hurt the young lady. A good dodge is to tell the young lady you are too busy to make dates or to talk on the telephone and excuse yourself in five seconds every time she calls up. : wii JANE JORDAN.
| Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. J
Walter O Keete— 1 the Duchess of Windsor went shopping AW in P yesterday the Duke was mobbed by admirers ané had to take refuge in a Turkish bath.
. This is the hottest spot he’s been in since Stanley Baldwin turned on the heat and then massaged him
right off the Now Ee ells is taking a “Windsor bath.”
They say Edward is no longer important, but any0 e who can start that vogue in France is a man
* Rumors persist that the royal couple will come to America. If they want privacy this would be an ideal time. Every in America probably will be busy dor weeks trying to track down Justice Black. |
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