Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1937 — Page 9

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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Workers Alliance Factor in Keeping Best Type of Reliefers on WPA Jobs, One Nebraska Official Complains.

NORTH PLATTE. Neb.. Nov. & —The reliefers of Lincoln County, Neb., just like their big brothers in the East, have a branch of the Workers Alliance. It small, but carries considerable weight. It has around 135 members, out of some 1100 heads of families on relief; its chief work a sort of “shop committee” between rerelief directors. Mrs. Fern Jones, County relief director, told me that such a thing can work both ways. She always tries to straighten complaints out if she can, she says. On the other hand, there was a case one day where sht got temporary jobs for five members of the alliance. But they wouldn't ake the jobs. So she called in the allinnce's grievance committee and said. “Now, how about this?” She doesn’t know what the committee did, but the five men showed up for work next morning. Another relief official told me that he was a strong believer in s and the to strike, but that the Workers ce was taking the best thinking-power in the ief group and misdirecting it. rule. members of the alliance are members » more initiative and ‘get-up’ about he said. “They have a certam directing abilitv which they could to lift themselves above the average run, are using that ability merely to be allowed to drift permanently,

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pier of the alliance is headed hh a aving man named Cecil Middleton. I he were satisfied, or would rather be off independent again. I'd rather be independent.” he said. of stories about how people on rehef 't take outside jobs. but they're usually twisted around. 1 don’t know of a one who wouldnt rather 1 supnose there are a few who won't just drift along satisfied with what they've and they're the ones always used as examples, few around here.” 1 asked Mn “ic ddleton what he thought would hapI relief were suddenly cut in half. He said: I think have the greatest crime wave in And thousands of people would actually to death. It wouldn't be that bad mn a town ise it’s small and people still help But in the big cities it would

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My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady's Arrival in Delayed by Trouble With Train.

~NHICAGO. Sundav—Two such full days that 1 C scarcely know what to choose to write about. We were due in Chicago vesterday morning at 7:30. While hot-box on one of the cars during the night and routed out and transIn the morning

believes

we slept peacefully. a to drop it were berths on the train. thev told us r sad tale and apologized for the fact that we would not be in Chicago until after 10 o'clock. for all the people we heard complainbecause they had missed a train an important appointment. My only was with Mr. Campbell, the National y istrator here. He very obligingly waited for me and we spent an hour and a half visiting some very interesting projects. Thev are taking advantage of all the co-operation from private agencies and other Government agencies thev can get here and this has given them an opportunity put through an extensive program. I attended a class where voung peopie are being given information on various types of work. If they show anv particular type, there are other they can get some practical experi-

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aptitudes for classes where These classes are available at 20 different places n Chicago. 1 was particularly impressed at the 3 every inch of space had been used ir a Negro bovs. They had reconditioned the themselves and were using it as a wood-work-ing shop.

See Fish Scale Art

In the afternoon Mrs. Scheider Madison. Wis., for an evening lecture. back in Chicago this morning and, at the suggestion of a friend, I had a teacher from one of the public schools here bring me an exhibition of the work she doing. I was told she had developed a method

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bv which totallv untrained voung people could make | a variety of saleable articles by hand at practically |

no cost for materials and with real artistic value. When Mrs. C. Rosenberg Foster I could hardly believe my eves. corn husks. bits of rags, grasses, feathers, and kind of waste material, she has in her classes, which average 120 to do some interesting work. It may but it has color and charm and is

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The Indianapolis Times

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 8§, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis. Ind.

at Postoffice.

Scientists Study the Quintuplets

Birth Handicaps Conquered, Children Now Above Honyage

(Last of a Series)

By Bruce Catton (Copyright. 1937. NEA Service. Inc.

TORONTO, Ontario, Nov., 8.—The Dionne quintuplets have at last overcome the handicap of premature birth and are physically normal. They came into this world under appalling disadvantages, weighing about 215 pounds apiece and measuring hardly more than a foot from the crowns of their tinv heads to the curled tips of their toes. Today their average weight is slightly above the average of a normal child of their age. Their height is a little under normal— but only a little. Their sturdy little chests exceed in measurements the chests or normal children of the same age. They have at last caught up with the procession.

This news is revealed in a comprehensive study of the quintuphysical welfare, based on daily observations since the girls’ birth, and compiled by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the quins’ physician, and his brother, Dr. William A. Dafoe of Toronto.

= = = D® WILLIAM A. DAFOE, prominent . obstetrician anda member of the faculty of the Torontd University School of Med:cine, has collaborated with his brother in the care of the quin-

tuplets in a number of cases, and

frequently discussed with him the routine which brought the quintuplets out of an unusually frail infancy into a robust and healthy childhood. That this routine has brought excellent results can be seen by a glance at figures about the sisters’ weight and height. = = = IRST, look at their Figures compiled at pital for Sick Chiidren, in Toronto. show that the average 9-month female child weighs approximately 7 pounds 2 ounces, at birth. The heaviest of the Dionne quintuplets—Yvonne—came into this world weighing several ounces less than 3 pounds; the tiniest of the five, Marie, weighed less than 2 pounds. Glance. now, at the weighy record as expressed in charted curves. From the first, the quintuplets gained in weight at a rate equal to the rate by which a normal baby gains. Despite the almost unimaginable anxieties of those first few months. when the fiame of life was fickering uncertainly, the quintuplets put on weight just as fast as ordinary girl babies do.

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DAY three of the sisters-—-Yvonne, Annette and Cecile— actually weigh slightly more than girls of their age usually weigh. Emilie is just at the normal level; Marie, who started under the greatest handicap.-is still approximately two pounds below normal. It is much the same in the matter of height. The normal girl baby is about 20% inches tall at birth; the quintuplets were just about 13 inches. They gained in height, however, faster than ordinary children do; at the age of one year they had made up all but about 1': inches of their deficiency, and at 18 months three of them were actually slightly above normal height. Today they are, roughly, about an inch below the normal height for girls of their age, with Yvonne coming the closest to normal and little Marie missing it by the widest margin. The following just compiled table gives the height and weight of the quints at the end of Oc-

, producing | Tabasco, {under contract to a subsidiary of {the Standard Oil Co. of California, | have reverted to Government con- | trol under a decree signed by Presi- | {dent Lazaro Cardenas. {

They were tiny and weak when they

came inte the world—but hy

the time they reached their third birthday thev were robust and strong.

tober, 1937. with the changes over the previous month: inches 35% same . 3615 1 inch . 361; 1, inch 361: 14 inch on S812 15 inch Ibs. change in lbs. Marie ...... 29% same Emilie ...... 32 4 Cecile 321; a Annette 33 Bs Yvonne ..... 33 1 » 5 » XAMINATION of the quintuplets’ special senses shows their ears and noses to be normal. With their eves. the case is slightlv less satisfactory. Yvonne, Annette and Cecile have eves that are far-sighted but perfectly normal. Emilie has a little astigmatism in both eves, but may never need to wear glasses. In the early stages she showed a tendency to cross her eves, but this had entirely disappeared by the time she was a year old. A slight inco-ordination of her eve muscle Mas also cleared up. Marie has a somewhat more pronounced inco-ordination of the eve muscle—she does not always use both eves equally well in looking at things—but the doctors feel that this, too. can be corrected. = » »

HE girls’ teeth were definitely later than usual in making an appearance. Their first teeth came on the scene from three to seven months after the maximum time limit for normal children. The general alignment of teeth in all the children is good, the teeth are hard and free from decay, and from present indications none of the girls will need the corrective services of an orthodontist, At intervals, ever since their birth, the quintuplets have been given careful physical examinations. The one completed at the end of their third vear shows these findings: Good general condition and color, firm tissues, clear lungs. with abdomens, hearts and nerve reflexes normal. Their bodies—build. posture, muscular and bony development—appear to be normal.

change Marie Emilie Cecile Annette Yvonne ..

See this page tomorrow for "PSYCHOLOGISTS START TELEPATHY BOOM."

Here they are, completely normal in every respect;

Yvonne, Cecile, Annette and Marie,

WEIGHT

DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

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of Toronto, brother of the guins’

how completely the five sisters have overcome the handicaps which were theirs at birth.

physical

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physician, show normal

Hore are the ‘men who made the painstaking survey of: the iin

tuplets’ physical welfare—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe Dr. William A. Dafoe of Toronto.

cian, and his brother,

(left), their physi-

A dis-

tinguished obstetrician and member of the medical school faculty

at Toronto University, Dr.

William Dafoe has often contributed of

his tile and skill to help the quintuplets win their battle for health.

Mexican Government Rescinds Lease

For 350,000 Acres of Oil Land

EXICO CITY, Vast tracts of potential oilland in the states Campeche and Chiapas,

The decree actually rescinds an | original contract made between the Government and Gen. Fortunato

Side Glances—By Clark

"Tell the teacher to find some reason to keep him. in after school.

Lean't k: home fill 5."

Nov. 8 (U. P.).—

of |

to be met. | rior intelligence; that is to say,

| the house. | She was dependent on the kindness | | of her daughter and

Zuazua, defeated candidate for the | Nuevo Leon Governorship, and a contract with the Mexico Diversified

|land company provided for exploi- | {tation of 100,000 acres.

Land Co. However, both had turned |

their contracts over wo

the Rich- | {mond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, a |

Mexican subsidiary of Standard Oil |

of California.

The original contract provided

[Senor Zuazua would exploit 250,000 acres of land. giving the Govern-

ment 10 per cent of the profits, if

any. A similar contract with

company was developed by Frank

A. Lillendahl, now retired and in California. The Cardenas decree broke original contracts and turns the land over to the petroleum administration. No oil has yet been found on these lands.

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DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

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weight records shows three of them above (represented by height record reveals that they have made equally rapid progress in this field also.

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Second Section

PAGE 9

In Europe

By Raymond Clapper (Substituting for Anton Scherrer) Soviet Has Out-of-Date Bombers, But Modern Parachute Tactics; Russia Is Air-Conscious Nation. OSCOW, Nov. 8.—The Red Army’s air

force is estimated to consist of 3100 first-line planes and 1500 older planes in re-

serve.

Its reconnoissance planes are several

| years old, many of them five years old. They | are neither speedy nor very efficient, when compared

with the newest types, but the Red Army has a great many of them. Its pursuit planes are largely new,

very efficient, speedy, powerful and highly maneuverable. But the heaviest reliance is placed in the bombers, which include large long-distance craft with four motors and a lighter, faster type of two motors which is highly satisfactory. An effort is being made to redesign the heavier bombers in order to increase their speed, Aircraft production has been a trying problem in the Soviet Union. Russian engineers originally worked with German and American assistance, but several

A Mr. Clapper

| vears ago they dropped this outside help. They grad=

| ually realized. however,

that they were falling behind in the development of the latest types, and according=« ly they have begun calling in foreign technical assist« ance again. Most of the airplane designs in use here are copies,

| but there are some of Soviet design.

Because of the great distances in the Soviet Unicon,

| the air force is the cardinal feature of the national defense.

| rear.

The Soviets have developed unique tactics with parachutes which military men all over the world are watching with the keenest interest.

Develop Parachute Attack

They began working on this three vears ago, first developing a parachute attack deep In the enemy's Thev have been able in maneuvers to land

| at least 2200 men simultaneously behind the enemy

| training of the youngsters is going on.

| with parachutes. i training of 150,000 reserve pilots. | least 20,000 cadet pilots now

lines. The method contemplates dropping several thousand men armed with rifles and machine guns as much as 300 miles behind the enemy line. Such a force would seize and defend any small Yocal position such as crossroads, a hill, a village, or a telegrapn station. It would clear a field for airplane landings so that more froops could be flown in, together with light tanks, field guns and small armored cars, all strapped under huge planes. The Russians are air-conscious, and extensive The Park of Culture and Rest here has a parachute jumping device by which boys and girls jump from a high tower The objective of the Army is the It probably has at in the preconscript age

| and about 10,000 Arse Hine military pilots.

lief for the American motorist | | on one of the toughest year-round |

trips in the country—between Harrisburg and across the Allegheny is now under way.

Pittsburgh directly | Mountains— |

Imagine a super highway through |

this rugged country for 125 miles will be line, averaging only one mile. and with no grade cent.

straight

greater than 3 per Seven miles of the mountains will save the torist 10,000 feet in climb and wherever

in a|

pos- |

165 miles, |

tunnels through | mo- | accumulated |

| sible the highway runs on the south | side of mountains to facilitate win- | | ter-time travel.

Key

| South Penn Railroad which was laid

out some 50 vears ago and then abandoned with its nine tunnels

| half finished. Still in excellent con-

| dition, | through and ventilated for

the tunnels will be drilled motor vehicle traffic. Tunnel Highway. as the road will

[ ve known, will have no major high- | ways or railroad crossings at grades. | There will be ramp entrances to the

highway. curves, low grades and great sight distances it is anticipated that

| speeds of 50 and 60 miles an hour | It is |

four lanes of traffic

| will be provided, two in each direc-

the |

| tion, with a planted center strip

providing permanent separation of traffic in the two directions.

to the project “ts the old

Because of the broad |

All parts of the right-of-way are | above the highwater mark of even |

such floods as that of March,

‘A WOMAN'S VIEW | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

RECENT magazine article entitled “I Am a Mother-in-Law | in the Home” is worthy of wide | attention. The anonymous writer begins by saying she had always feared being

| a dependent in the home of her

That situation finally had She met it with inthe

children.

stead of thinking about how

| family would behave toward her, she

put her entire attention upon her own conduct. First she considered her status in She was the interloper.

son-in-law. What was more sensible than for

Jasper—By Frank Owen

| her to feel that upon her, and upon |

her alone, devolved the major re-|

| sponsibility for the success of their | | life together?

Realizing this truth, she knew she |

must keep busy, but with what? might degenerate into meddling: not | with social affairs, for those might interfere with the family routine. The main idea was to find something which could interest her.

So she studied music, art, typing and horseback riding.

The gist of her idea, as you gather, |

misery which older people inflict upon younger relatives. That on-the-shelf sensation is the basis for much of the misery felt by those whose major jobs in life are finhea, Being miserable, they fret their days away, becoming a bur-

den upon the active persons in the

Not housework. Too much of that |

| |

was that idleness causes most of the |

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Cepr. 1937 by Univea Feature Syndicate, tne.

"Last time it was you who ran away from home—remember?"

1936. |

Vane Jordan—

Opinions on Significance of Term Lady Differ Radically, Men Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—What is your opinion on this question: “Is the term ‘Lady’ with all its significance in danger of passing out of use?” The topic came up recently when a group of men were talking together. B. B.

ANSWER —TIt all depends upon what you mean by the term “lady.” If you simply mean a cultured woman who knows how to get along pleasantly with men. and who is able to identify herself with the lives ot others in a helpful way, I think we always will have ladies. In answering your question IT am handicapped because I do not know what vou include in the phrase, “with all its significance.” 1 waited to answer your question until I had heard the speaker before the Contemporary Club last Friday night whose subject was “Should the Lady Disappear?” As she pointed out almost everyone has accepted the classic definition of a gentleman as “one who never willingly inflicts pain” but opinions differ radically on what constitutes a lady. According to this speaker a lady is a cultured woman who does not, or should not, earn money. She is a woman who marries, devotes herself to her home, husband and children, and does not care to compete with men in business. The speaker cited the Southern woman before the Civil War as America's nearest approach to the lady. She catered to men, taught her daughters charm, ran a large house and managed a crew of servants. The term lady is synonymous with leisure in the minds of many; yet such a lady led a pretty full life after all. The speaker's contention was that a lady simply could not do justice to her home and children and earn money at the same time; that she was a valuable member of society in her profession of lady and should not disappear. In my opinion we will have ladies who do not earn money but who do contribute other values for some time to come. 1 hesitate to say “always” for I do not know what changes will take place in our culture.

| Already many changes have been effected which have | deprived the lady of her job. Under present economic

conditions not many men can afford big establish ments, many children or many servants. The lady is a luxury which he cannot afford.

Another significance that many people attach to the term lady is ignorance of the harsher realities of life. In the Victorian era, our ladies were frail creatures who screamed at the sight of a mouse, who fainted at the drop of the hat and who never admitted that they knew the facts of life. Such ladies were expected to be immune from the desires of the flesh, were thought by men to be pure as the driven snow, and exacted worshipful servitude from men. I believe that this concept of a lady has done a great deal of harm and has been the cause of many serious psychological conflicts. Fortunately, such ladies have almost disappeared though we find traces of them here and there working mischief in the lives of men, If you will write again and tell me what the term lady means to you and your friends, I will reply more fully and be giad to publish the letters of others who have opinions on the subject which they would like to express. JANE JORDAN.

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

Walter O'Keefe—

HE Duke and Duchess of Windsor aren’t coming over and by now His Royal Highness must be al= most crazy trying to solve his own personal “housing problem.” Of course the reason given for the cancellation of his plans is a diplomatic one. The ‘real truth of the matter is they were just too tired to move after packe ing 78 trunks. Honestly, fate seems to have been a little too tough on the Duke. Imagine going through life with the restriction that the only one you can visit is Hitler. Pretty soon Wallis will be like every other wife and say, “Oh, you never take me any place!” The erstwhile ruler of the British Empire is rapidly becoming John Bull's most, difficult problem child. I agree with the Duke that it’s his own ht to pick his wife, but apparently he still needs the tish “Cabinet {p pick his friends.