Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1938 — Page 2

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‘FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS URGED

Blood Treatment Would Cut Congenital Cases 90 Per Cent, Says Harvey.

Declaring all expectant mothers should demand a blood test, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Director, today said if this procedure was followed and if treatments were given to those infected, -congenital syphilis could be reduced 90 per cent. : Meanwhile, the = State Health Board asked organizations in every community in the state to join in the antivenereal disease drive. Plans also were being made for the appointment of a technical subcommittee to draft proposals to be considered by Governor Townsend’s committee of 50 studying In- . diana marriage laws. The Governnor’s committee is to report to the 1939 Legislature.

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Dr. Harvey reported that a large |.

increase is expected in the number of blood tests for syphilis made by

public and private laboratories and.

hospitals during the ensuing year. Disease Can Be Curbed

“There is no reason why America cannot duplicate the experience of the Scandinavian countries in driving out syphilis,” he said. “The

cause of this disease is known, and the value of present day treatment has been demonstrated. “It remains only for us to find existing cases and bring them under treatment either by private physicians, or, if they cannot afford private care, in clinics and hospitals. “Women’s clubs, parent-teacher _associations, church groups, youth serving agencies, civic clubs, welfare organizations, city and school officials are being asked to join health officers and county medical societies in directing attention to the syphilis control movement.” Dr. Harvey said the increase in the number. of blood specimen ex.aminations expected this year indicates that people are awakening to ‘the dangers of this plague and not that the disease is increasing.

Many Youths Are Victims

“More than 500,000 new syphilis infections are brought to the attention of clinics and physicians throughout the United States each

year,” Dr. Harvey said. “Of these, one in five is'*found among boys and girls under 20 years of age. Many are congenital cases, infections which are passed from mother to child. “One month of prenatal treatment of syphilis is worth a year of treatment after birth. When it becomes generally known that physicians can reduce this avoidable toll in infant syphilis, expectant mothers will insist upon the test.” Dr. Harvey declared syphilis is ‘more prevalent than scarlet fever, twice as common as tuberculosis and a hundred times more frequent than infantile paralysis. . He said the disease accounts for 15 per cent of all blindness, 15 per cent of all heart and blood -vessel diseases and 10 per cent of all insanity. : :

BABY’S DEATH IN BED LAID TO SUFFOCATION

Dr. Hugh Thatcher, Deputy Coroner, today declared suffocation caused the death yesterday of Annabelle Doughty, 2% - month - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doughty, 2727 N. Dearborn St. He said the mother fell asleep while nursing the child in bed. The parents and two small children survive.

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Irvington Republican Club officers right) Dr. W. C. Roland, first vice president; Ralph Scott Ging,

Organization, Founded Year Of Woman’s Suffrage, Bars All Women.

Every Monday night for 22 years the Irvington Republican Club has

met, in fair weather or foul, no matter what administration was in power. ; That makes approximately 1144 consecutive weekly meetings, to which, at 7 p. m., may be added to= night’s session. . Some of the Monday nights also have been Christmas Eves, but the club met. Seme of them have been on nights of prize fights that had the rest of the.country radio goofy, but the club met. It may have been 18 degrees below zero, or sweltering; the Republicans may have been out of office for so long that there was not a jobholder in the club—no matter! The Irvington Republican Club was in there talking serious politics every Monday night.

Claims Club Is “Unique”

“It’s the most famous political organization in Indiana,” Ralph Hamill, club president, says. “It's unique. “Not only that, but it is strictly a men’s organization. No women are allowed. Women take their politics to the telephone and never ' forget what's said.” By a coincidence the club was founded in 1916, the first general election in which women could vote. But Mr. Hamill says that the club is by np means opposed to women's suffrage. No indeed. The club, Mr. Hamill says, just “understands” women, bless ‘em.In 1916 Indiana went Republican while the nation went Democrat with Wilson. Mr. Hamill said the club. believes that the Republican Party has “always been progressive as distinguished from radical.” “We are now placed in the false position of being called . conservatives,” he said. And, hoping to clarify this matter, the club has asked Glenn Frank, chairman of the newly organized Policies Committee of 100, to come down and talk to it next September. Many politically important persons have journeyed to Indianapolis for the sole purpose of talking to the club. Called for “Funerals”

Last fall Rep. Hamilton Fish ‘R. N. Y.) came all the way from New York and told the packed club room that the Republican Party needs

more “prominent funerals.” Everybody laughed. ) However, not all of the speakers at the Irvington Republican Club are Republicans. The Club prides itself on its “unique” practice of holding “open season” for Democrats between campaigns. For instance, Curtis Shake, Democrat, iow associate justice of the State!Supreme Court, once appeared to defend his party. And Thomas E. Garvin, former Municipal Court judge here, a Democrat, was heard. The club has boosted its members to political posts as high as U. 8. Senator and has healed some factional disputes. It has played host to every Republican state chairman since its founding. ' Persons who like color in their politics still remember the statewide rally of the Irvington Republicans ‘in 1932, The torchlight parade with elephants and ox carts led 7500 .cheering spectators to the bandstand before . Senators James Watson and Arthur Robinson, the late Governor Harry Leslie and Raymond Springer, later a gubernatorial candidate.

Roof Leaked in Old Days

In the early days the club’s meeting place was an old storeroom with a leaky roof. The members sat on pine plank benches around a stove. " Since then the group has moved to more sumptuous quarters at 54461 KE. Washington St. Attendance increased so sharply this year that Glenn Funk, club press agent, was made rehabilitation director, with instructions to enlarge the rooms at 54461% E. Washington St. by removing partitions. But members insist that although the club may change its quarters their politics “remain unchanged and unchangeable.” 3

SHOT ‘BY ACCIDENT

James Curtis, 28, of 214 S. Summit St., was at City Hospital after being shot accidentally in the foot. Police said a shoigun which Lorenzo Skervin, 2490 S. State St. was inspecting discharged as he placed it on the floor of a poolroom at 1620 E. Washington St.

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are (left to Hamill, president; Arthur F. Eickhoff, treasurer; secretary, and Samuel G. Campbell.

FLAYS NEW DEAL TACTICS, POLICY

Head of S. A. R. Urges Quick Return to Ideals of ‘Individualism.’

Om———— New ‘Deal legislation today had been attacked by Messmore Kendall, New York, president general of the Sons of the American Revolution; as “challenges to American individualism.” He scored pending legislation as “designed to deprive you of your liberties” in an address last night at the annual dinner of the Indiana Society of S. A. R. at Indianapolis Athletic Club. “American individualism is being called a detriment to progress. In reality, individualism is so bound up with the Constitution that killing one means extinguishing the other.”

CASS COUNTY GIRLS WIN LATIN CONTEST

LOGANSPORT, Feb. 28. — Alice Crane, Lucerne, and Marian Hyres, | Logansport, today had been named | winners of Cass County Latin contest held here. They will compete for the district title at Peru in March. ’

JKORAN CIRCLE TO MEET Koran Circle 3, Daughters of Nile, is to meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow al Hotel Lincoln to - elect officers. Mrs. Maggie Hubbard is to preside.

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Superintendent of Central Hospital Marks 40th ‘Year of Work.

By JOE COLLIER

Dr. Max Bahr, Central Indiana Hospital superintendent, today celebrated 40 years of service to Indiana’s mentally ill by looking 10 years into the future. “By then,” he predicted today, “preventive psychiatry will be used by the State, through the hospitals |; for the mentally: ill, to discover incipient insanity and treat it so that |: the person involved never loses his usefulness to society.” : i Dr. Bahr said that departments should be established in hospitals ': for the mentally ill, for persons not committed but needing treatment. “A great variety of problems can be presented to the out-patient department,” he said. “Between the infant about to be adopted who is brought for examination, and the discouraged elderly individual who still is on the job, and can be helped, are patients of all ages and both sexes who would bring their probleras to the department.

Three Services Outlined

“The department would perform three types of service: One of a medical and psychiatric nature, a psychological service, and a social function. It would not cost much, and the mumber of persons that could be restored to the community without commitment would represent a financial saving well worthy of the consideration of economists who have never sonsidered seriously the purely humanitarian aspects of this important problem.” Dr. Bahr today also advocated the establishment of a diagnostic clinic. “This would have three functions,” he said. “It would give proper and temporary care prior to commitment to the general wards of the institution, It would give early and intensive treatment to a number of patients during the incipient period of the illness and avoid committing them to general wards. And it -would provide for the investigation of clinical material for teaching of pyschiatry.” Those are the present plans of the young man’who 40 years ago entered a field of science that was hardly a science then at all. Today he is ‘widely known in that science. Webster defines psychiatry as “the treatment or study of mental diseases.” When Dr. Bahr started, it was mostly study, little treatment.

Old Ideas Dominated

“Then,” Dr. Bahr says, “the old ideas of mental illness which had dominated so long, were still in existence. Patients were either ma-

{ niacal or melancholic or demented.

Mental examinations consisted of undirected conversations with the patients, followed by brief notes written in ponderous case books in longhand. : “There was little, if any, sugges-

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Former: Indianapolis Editor Was Once Secretary-to President Harrison.

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LEONIA, N. J, Feb. 28—Col.

| Elijah Halford, former editor of the

old Indianapolis Journal and secre-

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Dr. Max Bahr .

tion tHat the mental symptoms had

any meaning back of them; that the psychosis was a reaction to the organism in any way, defensive, compensatory, or otherwise. “The whole situation was: looked upon as pretty much of a mystery, and there was hardly any light to be had on these questions from any source.” ' Only the labor of many pioneers, among whom was Dr. Bahr, makes that 40-year-old picture square with plans for preventive psychiatry. “In those days,” Dr. Bahr continued,” paresis was only occasionally diagnosed, but there was no more than a suspicion that there was any connection between it and syphilis.” The Central Hospital pioneered in malarial treatment of paresis, now in general use throughout the world. Before that treatment was perfected under direction of Dr. Bahr, a paretic rarely lived more than three years. No paretics who have received the malarial treatment ever die of paresis, Dr. Bahr said. Dr. Bahr today predicted further growth of the science. He said: “Psychiatry has finally emerged out of its shell and is now extending and exerting itself also into many extra-mural activities. “psychiatry during my period of 40 years presents in its development the results attained by man in his efforts to understand himself and as such bids fair for some time to come to present in its results some of the most important and significant additions to scientific knowledge.”

ALUMNI TO MEET

Indianapolis Theta Chi Alumni are to meet tomorrow night at the home of K. G. Baker, 1151 Epler Ave.

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son, who died here Saturday is to be buried at Crown Hill in Indianapolis Thursday. He was a close friend of Gen. John J. Pershing. He was 95. Services are to be held here at 8 p. m. after which the body is to be sent to Indianapolis. The body is

‘to arrive at Indianapolis at 5:45

p. m. Wednesday. Col. Halford, who had lived here since 1913, was born at Nottingham, England. He came to this country in 1849 and spent his early years at Hamilton, O., then at Cincinnati, where he learned the printing trade.

Was Reporter in Indianapolis

He located in Indianapolis in 1862

and became a reporter en The Journal. He remained in Indianapolis 10 years. He was a reporter on the funeral train which bore the body of President Lincoln through Indiana. Col. Halford went to Chicago in 1872 to become managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. : Having become interested in Republican politics he made that paper one of the leading Republican organs in the Middle West. He returned to Indianapolis in 1874 to become The Journal's editor. He assisted Benjamin Harrison in his campaign for the Presidency and became his private secretary.

Appointed to Army Post

Col. Halford was appointed a major in the paymaster division of the U. 8. Army in 1893 and later served as disbursing officer of the Bering Sea Arbitration Commission. He became a lieutenant colonel and deputy paymaster general in 1906 and was retired from active service the following year. Col. Halford, active in Methodist affairs, at one time was vice chairman of the Interdenomination and chairman of the Methodist Lay-

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was a member of the Y. M. C/A. International Commission. * = ° Survivors include two grandchile dren, Dr. Halford Hallock, New York City, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwell, and a niece, Mrs.

President ‘Roosevelt.

PASTOR WILL SPEAK : TO UNIVERSAL CLUB

The Rev. Arthur: W. McDavitt, Muncie St. John’s Universalist Church pastor, is to speak before the. Universal Club at its luncheon meeting tomorrow at the Columbia Club. s . CRT His subject is “The Mighty Bare num.” Mercator Club members are to be guests. Ike Riley, Universal Club president, is to preside.

JAMES GENDERS TO TALK

James Gendefs will address the Indianapolis Amateur Club meeting Wednesday night at the Indiana World War Memorial on “Present ing the Finished Film,” cid ee ees seem —————

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