Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1937 — Page 15

. | From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Unalaska, North Pacific Crossroads Spot, Most Lively in Aleutian Isles; - Social Whirl Lasts Till September.

[UNALASKA, Oct. 1.—Unalaska is genuinely the crossroads of the North Pacific. This metropolis of the Aleutian Islands is a town of about 200, and it is about 153,000 miles from nowhere. And yet living is pleasant here. It seems to me the most liveable place in western Alaska. There isn’t a tree within hundreds of miles, yet .the Aleutians are anything but bleak.

They are immensely mountainous. I've heard it said there isn't a spot in the entire 800-mile Aleutian chain level enough to lay out a baseball diamond. The days are dark and misty, and the mountain tops are hidden in fog, and a chilly wind blows, and it’s altogether dismal weather. Just around the bend from Un-

alaska, about a mile away, is the |

town of Dutch Harbor Dutch Harbor is a ghost town. ; There used to be lots of whaling, Mr. Pyle and somé gold digging, and Dutch Harbor was the center for things + then. ; But now there is neither whale nor gold,: and Dutch Harbor lies there, empty.

But here at Unalaska there is a big hospital, and two churches, and a school, and a couple of stores, and the Coast Guard's Bering Sea headquarters.

There are often as many as 500 officers and men in here at the same time during the summer, so the Coast Guard has arranged ways for them to kill time. There are billiard and table tennis rooms. And card ; tables, and magazines. Ana two concrete tennis courts.

Life is not dull at Unalaska in the summer. You ¢an walk a couple of miles up a beautiful mountain stream and catch three dozen ‘trout in an afternoon (if you know how). You can take four men and a boat and a seine, and come back in three hours with a thousand pounds of salmon. You can hike a mile from town and see the ruins of ancient villages, recently excavated by Dr. Hrdlicka. And if you're not tog tired in the evening, you can go to a party.

The Boats Come Often

Dr. Les White, who runs the Government Hospital, and his wife, are grand people. They are both musicians, and theyre bringing up a new piano soon. They have more time for reading and keeping up with things than their friends in the States do. ; Hardly ever do more than four days go by without bringing a new ship, with new faces. Every time a new boat comes, or an old one leaves, there is a party. The social tempo of Unalaska is set by the Everett Pedlars. He is the Alaskan manager of the Northern Commercial Co., which has the big store and the fueloil tanks here. The Pedlars give rather formal dinners, and at leas one party a week which is definitely not formal. But the social whirl begins to slow up in September, and by late October the last Coast Guard boat leaves. And the Pedlars leave, too. Then Unalaska settles back to being a small town, and the mail boat from Seward comes only once a month, -and you have lots of time to read, and you know all about your neighbor’s business. And he, alas, knows all about yours.

By Mrs.:Eleanor- Roosevelt

First Lady's Arrival in Seattle Seems to Her Like Getting Home.

7.7. 8. S. PORTER, Radioed via Puget Sound, Wash., : U Thursday. —Since reaching Seattle, I have had a curious feeling that I have returned to one of my ‘homes. I suppose I will always feel that way about a place in which my daughter and son-in-law live. Seattle is a friendly town, as was demonstrated by the welcome which it gave the President in spite of the fact that it was nearly 10 o'clock when we reached the city Tuesday evening. Anna and John live some distance from the station and during our drive through the city proper the people expressed their welcome to the President in no uncertain terms. * James and Betsy came out. by train and got to Seattle earlier in the day, so they were all settled and had used their time well. James was able to tell his father many things on the way out, which even I, who had spent several days there, might have been somewhat uncertain about. For the first time, I realjzed James had inherited some of his father’s powers of observation, for he certainly missed nothing along the road between Anna's house and the railroad

station. Day Set Aside for Family

At my husband’s request, Anna and John kept Wednesday, as far as possible, a peaceful family day. He has so little opportunity to enjoy what any father and grandfather would like to do, that it is

nice when he occasionally can do certain things which -

are usually blotted out by official duties. In the morning each of us did a certain amount of necessary work. I must tell those who have been kind enough to write me on this trip that if they do not get an immediate answer they must not be surprised. We lunched and dined alone and in the afternoon, without telling anyone except the Secret Service, we drove past the grandchildren’s school so that my husband might have a picture of where they spend a good many hours.

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READING water Henry Preston Standish watched

By David Dietz

Times Science Editor

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secretes another hormone, cortin.

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the cortex to an overproduction of cortin, then difficulty likewise arises. If the victim is a man, his masculinity becomes overemphasized to a pathological degree. If the yictim is a woman, she appears" to be changing into a man with the symptoms already described. Fortunately such tumors frequently can be removed and the disease arrested.

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ROM the study of this disease and from experiments with animals, medical men are beginning to fathom the complex role of cortin in the delicate chemical balance of the hormones. Cortin, however, is not the most important of these hormones. It will be recalled that the ovaries produce two hormones, theelin and progestin. These, as was set forth in yesterday's article, play a dual role. They stimulate the uterus, preparing it as an eventual home for the embryo. As a result of this, they bring about the monthly menstrual cycle. Their second function is to initiate the changes which take place at puberty when a girl blossoms into womanhood. One of the hormones, theelin, is now available to the medical profession and is finding much use in the treatment of various disorders. But even greater medical triumphs may be expected in the future from a 20th Century discovery about the ovaries. Two groups of investigators, Dr. Philip E. Smith and Dr. E. T. Engle, working at Columbia University, and Dr. Selmar Ashheim and Dr. Bernhard Zondek, working in Europe, made the discovery. They discovered that the monthly cycle of the ovaries was under the control of another gland, namely, the pituitary. This tiny gland, which grows downward from the base of the brain, is no larger than the kernel of a hazelnut. It hangs beneath the brain, snugly protected by the walls of a bony depression into which it fits. Nature, wise in a thousand ways which man does not yet understand, has given the pituitary this strategic and well-protected position because it is the master-gland of the body. It secretes at least 11 different powerful hormones. One of them is the growth hormone. Too much of this hormene produces the giants you see in the circus sideshow. Too little of it produces the dwarfs. Two others are the hormones discovered by Smith and Engle, and Ashheim and Zondek. These are the sex hormones of the pituitary and have been named Prolan A and Prolan B. Just what they do in the male body is not yet entirely clear, but in the female it is well established that they control the production of the ovarian hormones. Prolan A stimulates the production of theelin. Prolan B is responsible

Side Glances—By Clark

"FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937

OMETIMES a strange malady overtakes a woman. The

normal curves of the feminine body begin to disappear and change to the more angular masculine type. It is not merely a matter of growing thin. The whole contour

Facial features become coarser and a beard begins to 2 : The voice grows deeper in pitch and loses all its feminine qualities. Slowly but surely the woman turns inte the caricature of a man. The dis-

ease may progress to various degrees. In its extreme form it produces the bearded lady of

Today, for the first time in history, medical men understand the disease and know how They know that it is caused by the overactivity of certain ductless glands of the hody. It is an extreme example of the damage which re- - sults when these glands go wrong. The disease is known to medicine as adrenal virilism since it concerns the adrenal glands, two tiny triangular glands situated one over each.kidney. Research has shown that each adrenal is constructed like a choco-late-covered cherry bonbon. The interior or medulla of each adrenal secretes one hormone, adrenalin. The covering or cortex of the gland

Life is not possible without cortin. When some disease, such as tuberculosis, destroys the cortex of both adrenal glands, Addison’s disease develops. The skin turns bronze in color. Muscles grow weaker Soon death ends the picture. But if a tumor grows upon the cortex of qne adrenal, stimulating

for the production of progestin. For this reason, medical men have called the pituitary “the motor of the ovaries.” Now when the ovaries fail to function properly, they suspect that the trouble is with the pituitary. These pituitary hormones are difficult and expensive to prepare, but it is easy to see that new medical miracles may be expected as they come more widely into use and medical men learn more about their uses. 2 ” 2

I= will be recalled that during pregnancy, the production of theelin ‘increases and that this fact was utilized by Ashheim and Zondek as a test for pregnancy, the best test now in existence. As one might expect, there is present at the same time, increased amounts of the sex hormones of the pituitary. During pregnancy, the pituitary seems to be stimulated to increased action. As a result, it sometimes produces larger amounts of the growth hormone than it should. This explains why some women find that they must wear a size larger glove or shoe after their baby arrives. Their hands and feet have grown a bit larger. Another gland which must be watched during pregnancy is the thyroid. This gland is also under the control of the pituitary and if the woman has a tendency toward goiter—which is an enlargement

Why Women of Today Live Longer— Out of Balance Ductless Glands Wreak Havoc on Health

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The bearded lady in the circus depicted here is so beautiful that she is obviously a fraud. The glandular changes which cause a woman to grow an actual beard also distort her features and figure into the caricature of a man.

of the thyroid—it may become aggravated during pregnancy. The thyroid plays a role in the

general glandular equilibrium of the body which is not yet completely understood but there is sufficient reason to believe that it plays a definite role in connection with the sex glands. Occasionally a woman who is childless is found to be suffering

from a thyroid deficiency. When the thyroid balance is - brought back to normal, it is sometimes

found that the woman is also enabled to have children. The pituitary and thyroid are also important to women because of their relation to body weight. Certain types of obesity are the result of the wrong functioning of one or the other of these glands.

Venezuela Stands Out Today as a Nation Turning From Fascism to Democracy

ARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—As most of the countries of the world today are being ruled under Fascist, semi-Fascist or other types of dictatorial regimes this South American republic stands out ‘in assuming a definite trend toward democratic government.

Following more than a third of a century of life under a political dictatorship in its most despotic and absolute form, first with the late Cipriano’ Castro as President, and later under Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez, the people of Venezuela today are being encouraged to assume the responsibilities of self-govern-ment by their new President—new at least under oid Venezuelan standards—Gen. Eleazer Lopez Contreras, who is serving for the elechve term which “expires April 29, Many who had viewed Venezuela’s future, at the time of the death of President Gomez nearly two years ago, feared that some new “caudillo” would seek to fit himself intc the Gomez shoes and perpetuate the dictatorship. Now they admit that Lopez Contreras has given all indication that he is bent on restoring self-rule to his compatriots and, with the close co-operation of the

Congress, applying modern social and economic reforms, eliminates ultraradical . political activities. The President appears eager to steer the middle -democratic course. 5

. ® E 4 2 . OMEZ allowed no free choice of public officials, but now the people vote for municipal councilors and state legislators at direct elections. These bodies, in turn, choose

the national deputies and senators, respectively, and Congress elects the President. Five years ago, during the Gomez regime, the people were thoroughly suppressed by a political espionage system, not daring to. converse on political matters or affairs of state, which had so long been administered by a single man. But today open political discussion in the press, in the plazas and cafes, is a general thing, and it is encouraged by the Government. The jails have no political priscners. No one languishes in dungeons and chains. Only advocacy of the overthrow of the Government

by force or the promulgation of

communistic and radical doctrines.

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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NMOLESTED transit of the country’s highways is . permitted. During the Gomez regime, policemen posted at intervals on the roads, stopped all vehicles and took the names and addresses of travelers. The site of the notorious Rotunda Prison, in midtown Caracas, is a vacant lot now. When Gomez died, mobs started razing the prison walls, and the destruction of Venezuela's bastile was completed as a government public works project. : The iron shackles of the Gomez prisoners, probably literally tons of them, lie rusting at the bottom of the Caribbean; where they were dumped by mobs. Although President Lopez Contreras still generally is accompanied by a bodyguard, nothing like the elaborate precautions which Gomez took to safeguard his person are ohserved today. Venezuela has liquidated not only its foreign indebtedness, but its domestic debts «s well, and its na~ tional income is sufficient to balance a budget of more than 80 million dollars annually, and to amass g iSeasury surplus. The country es on a pay-as-it-goes basis.

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Much remains tobe discovered about the glands. Medical men particularly would like to .know what controls the normal: rhyth-

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82-2 2 A WORD of precaution should be spoken before leaving. this. subject of the ductless glands. The functioning of the glands is a very precise matter and, as already stated, each gland has a delicate connection with others. The use of glandular extracts and hormones, therefore, is not a matter to be entered upon carelessly. An overdose may do great harm. Their use, therefore, should always be under the:expert guidance of a competent physician.

It should also be understood

that most hormones function only when injected into = the blood

- stream. Taking them by mouth is

useless because the digestive juices destroy them. This explains, for example, why the diabetic must use a hypodermic needle for his insulin. If he took insulin by mouth, the digestive juices in his stomach would destroy it and render it useless. There are, of course, some exceptions to this rule. One is thyroid extract, which can be taken by mouth: In some cases, physicians prescribe the use ‘of thyroid extract to reduce weight. This is all right if the physician finds its use advisable. But no woman should ever attempt to take thyroid extract upon her own initiative. The dangers of overdosage are too great. It is possible to upset the nervous system, weaken the heart, even to develop all the symptoms of Graves’ disease.

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of Cancer.

Jdsper—By Frank Owen

" this time, and a band which led

Our Town ‘By Anton Scherrer

President Cleveland and His Bride Greeted Here 50 Years Ago Today; Luckily the Parade Beat the Rain.

OHN P. FRENZEL was the first to greet Grover Cleveland and his bride when they stepped off the train at Noble and Washington Sts. 50 years ago today. Mr. Frenzel had every right to because he was chairman of the executive committee, and had everything clicking that day like nobody’s busie ness. As a matter of fact, Mr. Frenzel relieved the President of everything, and escorted Mrs. Cleveland to her carriage. The parade got off to a dandy start, I remember, with the booming of. 21 guns, which somebody said was the President’s salute. It also started with a detachment of mounted police who had all they could do to hold their horses. They were followed by Chief Marshal General Fred Knefler and his staff plastered full of badges. Then : came some more police, on foot Mr. Scherrer up to the Indianapolis Light Infantry commanded by Capt. McKee. It was a grand buildup for the carriage containing #e President and Mrs. Cleveland, and including ex-Senator McDonald and Mayor Caleb Denny. Immediately following the Presideni’s carriage came the executive committee in charge of Mr. Frene zel, and it was the biggest surprise of the day, because believe it or not, Mr. Frenzel made his committee walk like the most ordinary people. : They had to walk all the way. from Noble St. to the State House. That took them past the Model Clothing Store, and it was worth while, too, because the Model people certainly spent a pile of money decorating their building for the occasion. Not only was their building a mass of red, white and blue bunting, but they also had a life-size wax figure of Grover Cleveland®out in front. “For some reason, the Model people shared Mr. Frenzel’s enthusiasm, because besides spending all the money they did on fixing up their store, they also gave away lithographs of the President and his bride—at any rate, with every purchase made at their place.

President Parades Again

Well, after the reception at the State House, the President started parading again. This time, however, Mr. Frenzel had Senator McDonald's place in the carriage. I can explain that, too. That was because the Senator had to be at home when the President called on him. I know it sounds kind of funny after the two had been together all morning, but that’s the way Mr. Frenzel said it had to be done, The President also called on Mrs. Hendricks, which of course, had a little more of the surprise element. By this time it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and all that remained fer Mr. Frenzel was to put the President and his entourage on the train for St. Louis. By this time, too, everybody called it a day, but it wasn’t done yet, because that night at 10 o’clock we had a heavy rain accompanied by a strong wind. Next morning all the decorations of the Model, including the wax figure of Grover Cleveland, were floating in the mud of Washington St.

Jane Jordan—

Avoid Quarrels With Prospective Mother-in-Law, Young Woman Told.

Pras JANE JORDAN—We have-been engaged for three months, but my friend’s mother and I can’t get along. We quarrel over the least things. She criticizes me, my clothes, my manners, my friends, my relatives. I try to get along with her, but I guess she is naturally stormy-tempered. The other day I

saw her trying to smoke a cigaret and I told her to /

her face that any woman who has no more selfrespect than to smoke cigarets can ill afford to find fault with others! This brought on another scene. Now should I run the risk of marrying a boy with a mother like that? He and I are devoted and his dis position is kindly. MADGE.

Answer—The young man’s disposition will not ree main kindly for long if you two women continue to fight. It is too bad that a man’s wife and his mother cannot join each other in love for him instead of contending for his favor. Back of his mother’s criticism of you is the wish to turn her son against you so that she can retain her place as the first woman in his life, Back of your delighted criticism of her is the wish to belittle her in her son’s eyes the better to outshine her in his estimation. es Unless you learn how to handle your fiance's mother the prognosis for a happy marriage is not good. After all a man’s tie to his mother is a strong and powerful influence in his life. You may succeed in turning him against her only to find that he has turned against you also. If you love the man and want to keep him, don’t tamper with his feeling for his mother. I do not mean that you have to let her walk on you, You safely can be firm in your refusal to be imposed upon; shell respect you for your strength. You safely can answer her critical jibes if you're kind and reasonable instead of tart and spiteful, I do not see why you had to discomfit her by come menting on her smoking. What she does is none of your business just as what you do is none of her business. You can’t train her to keep out of your affairs unless you set the rigid example of keeping out

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‘the broad hulk of the Arabella draw slowly but inexorably away until she was a mere speck on the surface of the blue Pacific. Always a man of purely conventional reactions, this gentleman’s first thoughts upon slipping accidently from the deck of his Pan-ama-bound steamer were those of simple annoyance. *_I6 just simply wasn't done! To find himself alone in heaven knows how many fathoms of water somewhere between Hawaii and a speck which was the rather slow but comfortable steamer—rather laughable, yes— the story would make a good yarn to tell the fellows at the club. But the day wore on and the Arabella

WH the advance of October there will be a gathering of the disciples of culture. Millions of women will resume their club routines. Neatly printed little programs will be passed around. Each 1 |will have its motto, its colors and -lits flower, in the manner of| a college fraternity. At one meeting Mrs. A will read a paper on Peru or

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\ Nn \ \ with your mother-in-law, you run no risk. But if NN Ne | you just can’t resist your opportunities to tear down IR her self-esteem and lower her in her son’s opinion, you're flirting with danger, for the most insidious and formidable enemy a wife can make is her husband's mother. If you can’t get her fighting for you instead of against you, you can at least deftly sidestep fame ily quarrels instead of inciting them.

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didn’t come back; the slowly rising sun beat more and more hotly down on Henry Preston Standish, and for hours and hours there were just the blue expanse, with its slightly perceptible swell, and the blazing sun, and between them, floating ever so slightly with the drift, was Henry Preston Standish, fighting a rising panic. And the reader of GENTLEMAN OVERBOARD (Viking Press) by Herbert Clyde Lewis, struggles also; he strains mentally toward that broad hulk steaming on, unconscious of its missing passenger; his nerves tighten, his ¢hroat is dry, and his hands go limp and pallid with the feel of salt water. And it's very, very hard for him to go to sleep that night. : 2 8 un =» N India different from that familiar to Kipling , readers, but one equally interesting is brought to light by LILLIAN LUKER ASHBY, fourth generation "of her family in the country, in her recollections of 50 years which she calls MY INDIA (Little). The author’s father was stationed in many different parts of India during her youth. Her marriage to Sergt. Robert Ashby, military telegraph master and later inspector of police, meant residence in various other provinces. Many times there were few or no Europeans with whom to associate, but Mrs. Ashby writes sympathetically of brown and white alike. Chiefly a narrative of the personal life of one of a small and unassimilated group, the author’s reminiscences ultimately carry her to her retirement with her husband to a quiet life in California near her children and grand-

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Egyptian Art, at another Mrs. B will discuss the condition of Euro-

pean culture during the Renaissance, | or Mrs. C will review one of the

season’s best sellers. : To be sure, it's harmless, but where do we go from here, ladies? I know one group that has met to-

gether every autumn for 15 years to |. study Browning. The daughters of the founders are now going through the same routine, culling gems of philosophy from the great English poet. The point is that nobody ever

graduates. \ Church groups go . through the same thing. They invite somebody

to give them a book review or lec-|

ture. The talent they get is usually second-rate and probably the information is erroneous. It's a system

of spoon feeding warranted to dis-|

courage individual thinking. Yet

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talent. Each possesses a few members who could direct discussions that would stimulate thought and self-expression, the only way for

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DEAR JANE JORDAN—The other night I was in 8 group of four. A poy and a girl were on a date. They hugged and went on so that it. made me sick to watch them. Are all boys like this? I haven't started having dates yet but can when I'm 16. If all boys are like this how can you prevent them from behaving so when with you? ANXIOUS.

Answer—All boys like hugging the girls but some

boys have the good taste not to do so in public. I do

not Vink it will be hard for you to keep a well-bred m hugging you in public. would object to it in private? JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. «

Waller. O'Keefe

R months it has been rumored that Jim Farley is going to leave Washington to work for an automobile concern. : It looks as if Jim can make a fortune just selling automobiles to Democrats who want to get away from each other. Mr. Farley must have decided that he would like the automobile business better than politics. He feels that when you lift up a hood you should see the ene gine instead of a judge.

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I just hope -he doesn’t make too much money, be= cause when Jim has to pay taxes like the rest of us

hell probably sour on the New Deal. :

getting new vitality into club and| "All right, all right, you can be a lumberjack when you grow up— church programs, now as dead a as). ap Sali i ; . op qn 2 unleavened dough. “+l. butright now. Mama has to roil some biscuits!"

"Your brother would make an interesting speaker at our club if we could get him to leave out some of those cuss words."

children. Here she says, “We settled down in a new land where I had startling things to learn—how to use | abroomt* a :

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