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Hospitality of English and Greek Hotelkeepers on Island of Hawaii Is Something Unusual, Ernie Finds.

KILAUEA, Hawaii, Jan. 28.—On the Island of Hawaii I've run onto two hotelkeepers who are exceedingly out of the ordinary. The first is George Lycurgus, Who owns Volcano House—the resort hotel which sits on the very rim of Kilauea Crater. You've read about the great New York hosts—the

Pierre's and Alphonse's and so on—but never have

I seen a professional host with the dignity and cosmopolitan ease, and above all the undeniable air that he owns the place and is entertaining you personally, that is displayed by George Lycurgus—bald, 70 years old, and a Greek. His Volcano House has been going, in various forms, since 1865. Naturally he hasn't owned it all that time. The original one was a grass house. There have been several successors, on the same spot. The one today is oldish but comMr. Pyle fortable. : Each successive one had a fireplace, and the fire was always transferred to the new one, so that the log fire in the Volcano House has been burning for 65 years. And maybe you don’t think it feels good, too, up there at 4000 feet on a rainy, pea-soup night. George Lycurgus loves the rim of Kilauea more than any place in the world. Loves it so much that it is part of his daily pleasure to guide his guests around, explain the volcanoes, and brag about the weather up there, which in my estimation isn’t much to brag about. The other hotel man I'm writing about is George Cherry, manager of the Kona Inn here on the Kona Coast. Mr, Cherry is an Englishman, He has a sense of caustic humor; never bothers his guests unless they start a conversation, and makes the great Kona Inn, which might be as stiff as a shirt-front, one of the easiest places to relax in all Hawaii. Which is all merely a buildup to a little incident I witnessed one morning sitting on the porch of the inn. The semiweekly boat had just come in from Honolulu. Mr. Cherry came back out on the porch to talk to me.

Youth Wanders In

And just then a dark-skinned cross-blood boy wandered in. He was about high-school age, and carried an old suitcase. He looked like a nice boy, but hardly at home in the Kona Inn. I wondered how Cherry would handle the thing. He started talking: “How long you plan to stay? Two weeks, eh? On vacation? Could I see your boat ticket? Oh, you're so-and-so’s son in Honolulu. No? Oh yes, I see. You better let me put your money in the safe, so you won't lose it. You go on down to your room and rest awhile, and then come out and make yourself at home.” Mr. Cherry didn't say he wouldn't want the boy to stay. Maybe he would for all I know. But it was my guess the boy would feel lost here, and would faint if he knew the price. “I'll let him wander around and get the feel of the place,” Mr. Cherry said later, “and then tomorrow I'll talk with him again. He'll probably want to stay somewhere down. the line.” When I think of some of the haughty clerks I've run into, and then think of the tact and sensitiveness used toward this untraveled hoy by the manager of a famous and fashionable inn—it makes me think there should be more people like George Cherry in the world.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Woman Who Organizes Radio Posts

In Mountains Has Many Namesakes.

INCHESTER, Ky. Thursday.—We left the Lexington station at 7 a. m. and Mrs. Morgenthau said she wondered why she chose such energetic friends. I think, however, every one of us is glad we were energetic enough to take this trip. The purpose of our journey to Jackson, in Breathitt County, was to dedicate a high school. Mothers, fathers and officials of the Government have struggled and sacrificed to insure, through this school, hope and opportunity to the children of the county. At the exercises I was introduced to a little boy, whom I had met in the art room. His achievement was 8 model in clay of his own cabin with his family sitting on the steps. He was 16, but looked 12. Every day he walks six miles from his home to the road where he takes the bus and drives 15 miles to school— a 12-mile walk daily while school is in session, A look at these children’s faces made me understand a young woman whom I met yesterday and who seemed to me, at the time, quite unique. Perhaps there are more like her living in the mountains. If so, the future of America looks distinctly bright. She was introduced to me thus: “Meet the young lady, Mrs. Roosevelt, after whom more children in the mountains are named than any other person.”

Walked 19 Miles

I looked at a slender, dark haired, intelligent looking young woman who was well dressed in a black fur trimmed suit and a smart little black hat. She organizes the radio listening posts for the University of Kentucky. She goes into the communities, makes friends with the people, tells them about programs, gets them to come in and listen. and guides them in their choices. “I walked 19 miles last week to reach one of the ts,” she said. A little aghast, I murmured, “How do you usually reach these communities?” “I go as far as I can by bus or train, and then I ride or walk. I did the 19 miles in a day.”

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938

Entered a at Postoffice,

Men Against the Maiming Death

Science Is Ready for Field Trial of New Paralysis Preventive

(Second of Two Articles)

By Paul De Kruif

NEA Special Writer

T was one of the most hope-arousing events in microbehunting history—the discovery, late in 1936, that monkeys can be solidly protected against attack by infan-

tile paralysis virus.

Now the “men against the maiming death” in their laboratories, and our public healthmen, were faced with a key question: Are these means of monkey protection safe enough and simple enough to test in the field, against infantile paralysis threats to America’s children? Right now the answer is yes and no. Zinc sulphate is safe enough, but you cannot hope to guard a human being from the attack of infantile paralysis, unless the zinc sulphate nose spray or nose wash thoroughly covers the endings of the nerves of smell. Then there is a complete loss of the sense of smell.

Dr. R. Sterling Pentecost of Toronto has proved that when you run the zinc sulphate solution in with a rubber catheter, immediate loss of smell occurs in all the children — and this means that endings of the nerves of smell have been

completely covered. Now that sure ways of covering the nerves of smell with zinc sulphate will be at the disposal of our physicians in the summer of 1938, when the next epidemic threatens, this question awaits its portentous answer: Will this truth that guards the lives of monkeys guard the lives of mankind?

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HIS hunt for truth is going to be a stern and difficult one and the coworking of all the people alone can make it possible. The physicians of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—the cream of American nose and throat specialists—have volunteered to take the lead in a giant field trial of the zinc sulphate preventive next summer. But the truth hunt cannot succeed unless the whole people get behind their front line fighters. For infantile paralysis epidemics explode with great rapidity. This makes it necessary that our healthmen have the means, the organization, to throw open clinics for mass application of the zinc sulphate preventive instantly. Ld » 8

O mobilize this army for the coming giant human experiment, there must be wherewithal. We need physicians to apply the zinc sulphate, nurses to assist them and nose specialists to see that the preventive is surely applied to block death's gateway. But we cannot ask these soldiers of health to serve, unless we pay them decent livings for so doing. They will have to take time off from their practices, and this endangers their livelihood, ” o ” A> money will have to be available, too, to pay the experts needed to analyze the results of the field test. The hoped-for preventive must be tested upon thousands of human beings. The zinc sulphate nose wash is not the only death-fighting weapon our searchers are toiling to forge. In many another laboratory— thanks to the money provided in 1935 by the people to the President's Infantile Paralysis Research Commission—the keenest virus-fighters in our country are dredging up other truths about infantile paralysis. At Long Island Medical College, veteran searcher S. D. Kramer is perfecting—upon monkeys—a curious new nasal vaccination. Dr. Kramer sprays into healthy monkeys’ noses a mixture, an extract of the pituitary gland plus adrephine which is a shrinker of nose mucous membranes, Then, four hours later, he pours a load of infantile paralysis virus into those sprayed simians. Tt is a dose that is invariably fatal to healthy, not-sprayed monkeys. But their gland-extract-sprayed comrades—seven out of 10 of them--are now proof against the death. And not for a week or

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month, but they have become vaccinated, solidly immune,

” ” ” HIS nose-vaccination of monkeys is surely not ready for practice; and Dr. Kramer would

be the last to advocate glandspraying children, and then treating them with dangerous infantile paralysis on the chance that they might become immune instead of paralytic or instead of dying. But the line between so-called “pure” science and science ready for practice is a delicate one. And the searchers whose work is supported by the President's Commission have lee-way to dig into any corner of the unknown of the mysterious sickness. What is it that makes such a large majority of children, and almost all grownups, resist infec tion during epidemics? It does not seem to depend upon the power of a human being's blood to fight the virus. What then is the reason? Dr. W. L. Aycock of Harvard has found the hint of a new truth that a human peculiarity may doom certain people to paralysis or death when the virus invades their nostrils, Dr. Aycock has discovered that, if he emasculates monkeys—which upsets not only their reproductive ability but also their other glands of internal secretion—the mucous membranes up inside their noses become much thinner. And, at the same time, it becomes much easier to infect such simians with infantile paralysis when you drop it into their nostrils. ” ” »

OT only so, but when Dr. Aycock administers concentrated sex hormone to these monkeys which have been emasculated, in a short time the mucous membranes of their noses thicken again, And again it becomes more difficult to infect them, Is some glandular peculiarity at the bottom of human susceptibility to the paralytic sickness? Will Dr. Aycock find it possible to attempt to thicken the mucous membranes of children’s noses— by injections that would change their glandular machinery? Deep down below all these laboratorial truth hunts lies this enigma--what exactly is this virus of infantile paralysis? In the past two years a most fantastic discovery has been made about other disease-producing vie ruses, They can actually be crystalized, like ordinary chemicals.

Heard in Ceingress—

Senator Reynolds (D. N. C.): Mr, President, I think that in Europe today a lot of horseplay is taking place. I think that in Europe today there is a great deal of brandishing of weapons and display of armament for the purpose of bluffing.

Senator Chavez (D. N. M.): Does the Senator mean that they are playing a little “bluff poker’?

Senator Reynolds: They are playing bluff poker, absolutely.

Senator Russell (D. Ga): My, President, will the Senator from North Carolina explain what he means by that expression?

Senator Reynolds: TI shall be happy to do so, and to give Senators an actual demonstration of it immediately after the adjournment of the Senate. (Laughter.

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The man of medicine puzzles: Where—and whom-will the invisible terror strike next?

They appear to be molecules of protein, very closely related to the protein stuff of the plants and animals that they sicken and kill.

IGHT not the infantile paralysis virus be only some mysteriously, very slightly altered nerve tissue of human beings? Various searchers are now hard at work to purify, to refine, to de-

Side Glances—By Clark

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson AYBE I've just happened to miss them but I find very little in the public prints which leads me to believe the Younger Generation is panting for battle, Editorials in many dignified dailies and passionate passages in certain monthly journals are a little misleading on this question, . Run them down to their source and you will discover that they have all been written or spoken by gentlemen well over the draft age. Patriotism seems to increase with the blood pressure, The older the man the more likely he ls to denounce pacifist propaganda and to tenet the dangers of national timidy. Only one drawback appears. If the worst comes to the worst these belligerent men can't go out and fight. Somebody else will necessarily hurl the bombs they long to throw, and other hands must jab the bayonets into enemy intestines. That's precisely why their patriotism to me is as flabby as their flesh. Their words have a hollow sound, for who among them is a patriarch who would march like some Moses through the dangers they profess to see around them? “The old men dream dreams” How apt the line fits our case, for with strength ebbing no doubt many of our middle-aged get vicarious thrills from the thought of battle hymns and conquests, But when one of them begins to flail the air, as he orates about defense and na-

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“Deep down below all these truth hunts lies this enigma-—what exactly Is this virus of infantile paralysis?”

termine the exact chemistry of the infantile paralysis virus, And they are beginning to make progress. And if they succeed in crystallizing it, then there is hope

that the murderousness of these almost -living, self -multiplying crystals can be suppressed by chemical means, And what does this mean, for mankind? Just this: that the

cure of infantile paralysis, that its obliteration are not beyond the reach of science. ” u 8 HE searchers who have been assisted by the President's Commission's funds are marking time now. Its available money has now been entirely appropriated, and most of it has been spent. For two years now a far-flung group of the most able virus spe= clalists in the United States have had a chance at untrammeled hunt for truth, The work has been carried on with the utmost economy, With a single exception, the universities have furnished all the facilities needed for the investigations. Most of the workers have been paid ali their salaries, too, by their own institutions, The four scien= tists of the advisory medical com= mittee of the President's Come mission have served free of charge, The overhead of this new cooperative effort against infantile paralysis has been minimal, The money has been devoted to pur chase of animals and scientific materials, Had it not been for the money furnished by the American people in 1035 to the President's Ine fantile Paralysis Research Come mission, the great progress in this hunt for truth, here recorded, would have been impossible. Now again—unless the people jqin in the support of this hopeful fight—the battle must languish, Because there is an acute starvation in respect to money for the one indispensable weapon in this hunt for truth. ” ” ” HAT one weapon is the monkey. For the infantile paraly= sis virus is extremely choice about his victims, He is an aristocrat, this murderer, and must have monkeys or children, So now, in

their new, co-ordinated hunt for truth, our searchers must have monkeys, in companies, regiments, armies, There are unlimited millions of monkeys in India, and there are the ships and men to bring them to our country. But each moi'key costs $8. So here is a truth for our people to foce: that our searchers’ lack of requisite dollars is the one thing that will stop the battle,

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By Anton Scherrer

Pupils in the Old Seminary Wers So Hungry for Knowledge That They Demanded Analytical Geometry,

I¥ the kids of Indianapolis think they have a kick coming, they ought to be told what the boys of the Old Seminary had to put up with. You won't believe it, but it's a fact that the old school had a course in mathes matics which took in everything from alge« bra and Euclid to the differential calculus and Mce Laurin's theorem, That was pack in 1838 when the Rev. James 8, Kemper ran the school. As a matter

of fact, one year (1843) the kids of Indianapolis were so hungry for knowledge that they wanted even more. That was the year Mr. Kemper gave them analytical geometry including a course in conic sections, a phase of higher learning which deals with the eccentric and wholly unpredictable behavior of circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperboles, Mr, Kemper was almost caught napping when the kids cried for conic sections, because there wasn’t a text book on the subject in Indianapolis. To get around it. he used a manuscript treatise prepared by Prof, Mitchell, a celebrated astronomer at the time, Mr, Kemper didn’t limit himself to mathematics, however. He brought the classics to Indianapolis and steeped the kids in the atmosphere of Greece and Rome, He also divided Gaul into three parts. With the help of his brother he taught the boys to sing. The curriculum called it “music.” He also taught French, German, for some reason, was never taught at the Old Seminary. As a matter of fact, it wasn't taught in Indianapolis until sometime around 1848 when Prof. Samuel K, Hoshour, afterward president of Butler, formed a German class here. Mr. Kemper's administration lasted from 1838 to 1845, the longest reign of any principal of the old school. Tn many respects, it was the most important, too. Anyway, it was during Mr, Kemper's reign that people outside of Indiana began talking about the school's reputation, So much so that pupils from other states began coming to the Old Seminary.

Alumni Group Formed

More important, however, than Mr. Kemper's scholastic attainments was the fact that he had the kids eating out of his hand. The truth was that the boys loved him, and it was this feeling, more than anything else, that moved the grads to form an organization to hold annual reunions in Univer sity Park, the site of the old school. They called themselves the “Old Seminary Boys” and had their first meeting in 1878, more than 40 years after the school was started. Mr, Kemper was present, and it surprised him to learn that most of his boys had turned into grandfathers. The “Old Seminary Boys” were a precocious bunch, you het, Well, T guess that finishes the piece I started yesterday about the tombstone in University Park,

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Jane Jordan—

Allow Boy to Make Declarations Of Affection, Jane Advises Girl

EAR JANE JORDAN--I am almost 18 and Tom goon will be 21, We went together about four times a week for nine months, Then suddenly he stopped. He only spoke of his love three or four times but I didn’t think anything about it because he was always showing his love by his actions, 1 got a job for a few weeks and he went out with another girl, I was broken-hearted. Then I realized that ft was I who had confessed my love for him and he who only had asked if TI loved him, He seldom told me that he loved me. Tom's father is dead and he is the only means of support for his mother and brother, Could she have influenced him to quit going with me? On Halloween he took me to a party where a girl I did not like was sure to be, 1 was embarrassed because I did hot know the host ess and was forced to try to enjoy myself among strangers and people I did not like. Tom's sister was there and I heard that she did not blame Tom for quitting me because she said I hardly looked at him all evening, He took me home from the party and was supposed to come down the next evening to go to another party but he never came. I haven't seen him since. Have you any idea what I could do. I can't forget him. Do you suppose any other girl feels like I do? Please don’t tell me to go out with other boys. I have and they only make me

feel worse, KATHERINE, ” ” ”

Answer—But what else can I tell you? 1 can't tell you how to win the boy back for I do not know, 1 cannot tell you to retire into your grief for that would give your first love Aisappointment more importance than it deserves. Your best hope of recovery is to mingle with other boys until you find a substitute, Yes, lots of other girls have felt as you do and lived to laugh and love again, Few girls have been lucky enough to get through life without a few dents inh the heart and almost nobody married her first, love, Your case is painful but not unique, To take the attitude of “him or nobody” is to court defeat, One reason that you do not enjoy the company of other boys is that you are afraid of another defeat, You do not realize yet that you s fler from wounded pride as much as from wounded love and do not want to risk another blow, If you are not careful you will use your obsession with one idea as an excuse to shut out another. Let your experience be a lesson to you and do not be so open in your declarations of love for the next boy. A too-easy conquest is seldom to a boy's liking. His interest is kept alive longer by the girl who keeps him on the anxious seat. It is a very human trait to work hard for the unobtainable and to overlook what is easy to get. Let your boy friend make most of the declarations of devotion while you make just enough to keep him hopeful, JANE JORDAN,

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer your questions in this column dally,

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, Jan. 28.—Lou Gehrig, the Yankee ball player, is out here making a moving picture, and the New York fans hope that the kleig lights will not affect his batting eye, It would be awful if the movies softened up the iron horse. Imagine Lou knocking a home run and then having a “double” running the bases for him, It is a good thing that Lou is playing in a Western Instead of that Tarzan role he was slated for. The only thing he has to lay bare now fs his heart. Lou has one distinction in Hollywood. He is ons leading man who doesn't wear a toupee, and on a windy day he doesn’t have to chase his hair down the screet. This will change the ballyhoo for his future salary disputes, Instead of talking about his batting average or home run record he'll demand more money because he was in a four-star picture and won the 8 4 fo of