Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1938 — Page 11

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie Discovers He Has Some Crazy |

‘My 43 Y

Ideas About Insanity, Which an Ohio Physician Clears Up for Him.

OLUMBUS, O., July 12.—There are so many types of insanity that a lavman is apt to go crazy just trying to remember which is which. And since | taking any such will confined For it new

am in chance, the

no position to be

these next few

articles he to insanity known as

dementia praecox 18

treatment of shock” having such success I'here is no absolute cure for insanity, and possibly never will be. But a big percentage of insane patients are actually turned out into a world again, sane people. insulin is now doubling that percentage

that the astounding

Insulin is known largely for its |

almost miraculous control over diabetes. But it has been only in the last five years that insulin has been used on the insane. It was brought to America only a and a half ago. Today it is used in almost every hospital for the incountry. Already, records show that

Mr. Pyle

ne in this has raised ym 10 to 20 per cent. And when used on brand praecox patients,

80 per cent

new dementia high as of a long session with physician at the Colum-

I had the privilege holas Michaels, assistant State Hospital for insulin work there, stage of instructing me on Dr. Michaels explained dementia praecox is

Ag the first this in-

eatmen

You see the words so often in the papers that I | i sort of tem- |

believed dementia praecox was a rarv del something akin to delirium treI thought

angement,

crazy, and that doctors didn't take it It is the most malighant of I'he most hopeless. The most

t progresses rapidly from one stage to a

entia praeccox cases occur during adoles-

bad family conditions, can't face things as they , and their minds snap off into an-

nourishment

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Dementia praecox is an escape. Dr. Michaels says I \ 1 us have all the elements of dementia we have enough will power to hold

mans nf hit that ou a

soother

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tough escape into a fantastic dream world of their

find life

Becomes Rarer With Age

ise older people have dementia praecox too. it is rarer as people grow older, four kinds of dementia praecox, ranging is known as “simple,” on up to the vilest anity, Dr. Michaels savs there are more es outside of asviums than there are in. exceptionally brilliant people break, to dementia praecox. But vou don't to become a dementia praecox get any type. Yes, even to you

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thousands of things have been tried both psychiatric and medical. have been experiments. The intreat the first thing the medical upon that is good enough to become d thing. And even insulin isn't the per-* 1=wer It does a lot of good But mavbe these days they'll find something that will do even more good But-—when a fourth of all insane people have dementia praecox, and when with insulin you ean cure 20 per cent of those, that's*at least making progress.

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Next—The Insulin Treatment,

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Cardozo Seemed a Lonely Person,

But Certainly It Was From Choice. |

YDE PARK, Monday—1It Mr, Just for granted that

Somehow, I had having come through the I am glad, howthe home of his dear friends, Irving Lehman, look at

ice Cardozo’s death

he was steadily improving hat he reached o and Mrs No nne ecoul 3

that

Justice Cardozo’s face and ever doubt I remember so well a dinner in AlMrs. Douglas Robinson, was I seated her next to the Justice they would enjov each other. They exchanged books of poems

rare spirit

when my aunt

corded to but few people. He seemed a lonely person, but it was certainly from choice, for there were many, many people who would have been glad to spend any amount of time with him had he given them the opportunity, I feel sure that he would rather have left this world th to have stayed on unable to work. His work always seemed the most important part of his life and without it I doubt if he would have wanted to linger on. I shall go to the funeral in Port Chester, N. Y. With Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau, and I shall not go feeling that I carrying out an official obligation. Ex since I first knew Justice Cardozo in Ale bany, I have had not only a deep and abiding admiration for him as a judge, but also a feeling of respect and affection for a man whose beautiful soul He deserves the homage of his

than

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shone from his face. fellow citizens Yesterday afternoon, my brother brought some friends up from New York City and my grandchildren came over to swim. We had a gay and decidedly noisy afternoon

Blue Heron Makes Usual Visit

After everyone had gone and quiet and peace had settled down upon us again, and the evening light making our little pond look vast and mvsterious I suddenly saw a blue heron fiy out of the marsh This is the first time I have seen him this vear. but he is an old friend and I think this must be a regular stopping place for a part of each summer. I shall watch for him now as he stands on his long legs and looks for fish, and hope he pavs us a lengthy visit, The season seems to be particularly favorable to game. We have seen one deer in our back woods. When I was riding the other morning, one deer was silhouetted against the trees near a large open field and another one bounded by within 10 yards of the horses, going to the shelter of the woods where both disappeared. The dogs were so surprised they did not give chase until both deer had gone. The rabbits are everywhere and you have to be careful as you drive through the woods not to run over them.

was

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 12.—I suppose I've done about H as much huntin’ as the next one, but since I've started studyin’ the lower forms of life, I'm gettin’ so I can’t even kill a bug. Why, some of the wildest animals are pret near human in their actions. The other day out at the 200, I saw a pair of wild tigers in a cage and they looked so much alike, I hac’ta ask the keeper which one was the male. The keeper says “The one with his hair pulled out and his face scratched up is the male.” (Copyright. 1030)

on dementia praecox | “insulin

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year |

the discharge rate for insane patients | the cures have run | Dr. |

the Insane, who is in charge |

in detail |

if vou had dementia praecox you |

voungsters who, hecause of over- | or |

But the people who can’t pull themselves together, | 10 they just go to pieces and |

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938

Entered as at Postoffice,

ears as a Democrat’

Latest Chapter of VanNuys’ Political Story Being Penned at Convention

HEN the shouting dies down at the Fair Grounds Coliseum this afternoon, Senator Frederick VanNuys is expected to have added another important chapter to his life story, “My 43 years as a Democrat.” Threatened with ejection from his party for opposition to several New Deal projects and differences with the MeNutt-Townsend organization in Indiana, he has made his peace and is expected to be renominated

by acclamation today. After months of warfare and threats, leaders of the McNutt, VanNuys and Townsend groups got together, and ironed out the trouble. Senator VanNuyvs, who had turned down suggestions that he become the Republican nominee because “it would be inconsistent with my record as a Democrat,” hastily dropped his plans to run as an independent for re-election in November, Although Senator VanNuys first held public office as prosecuting attorney of Madison County in 1906, he has been an active Demoerat since he reached voting age, which was 43 years ago last April. Both he and President Roosevelt, whom he has opposed on three important pieces of legisiation, are of Dutch descent.

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A\ENATOR VANNUYS traces his S ancestry to Johannes VanNuys, an immigrant from Holland who came to America and settled on Long Island, New York, almost 300 years ago.

The Hoosier Senator, however, is a native of Indiana. He was born in Falmouth, April 16, 1874, and always has called this state “home.”

« He studied to be a lawver, and used his profession as a steppingstone to public office. He has returned to law on several occasions since, during gaps in his public career, He was graduated from Barlham College in 1898, and from Indiana University Law School, in 1900. Last month, Barlham presented him with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He held his first public office, as Madison County prosecutor, for six vears, from 1906 to 1010. He was elected to the State Senate in 1913 and was named Democratic leader. He declined to run again, after two terms, and moved to Indianapolis, where he opened his law office in 1815.

IS counsel was still valuable in party circles, however, and in 1920 he was elected Democratic state chairman. He went back into public office when President Wilson named him U. S. District Attorney, but returned to private practice at the expiration of his term,

was a shock to read of |

here was a man of fine sensibilities |

He ! Il on her in New York City, a rare

He became a partner in the law firm of Ralston, Gates, Lairy, VanNuvs & Barnard, with the late Samuel Ralston, U. S. Senator and former Governor, as senior partner. This firm dissolved in 1924 and Mr. VanNuys became a partner in a new firm of VanNuys, Barnard & Walker, This association was continued untii Mr. VanNuvs returned to public office nine years later, as U. 8. Senator in 1933. He had defeated the veteran Republican Senator James E. Watson in the fall of 1932, by a vote of B70.053 to 661.750, and he went to Washington hailed as a progressive, He was granted several important Senate posts and took an active part in his new duties.

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ECAUSE of his reputation as a lawyer, he was named to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which later wrote the famous report on the President's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court. He also was named to the im-

Before the break . .. Senator Minton, Governor Townsend and Senator VanNuys enjoy a lively conversation,

portant Foreign Relations Committee, in which capacity he has becoine an outstanding opponent of U. S. entanglement in foreign wars, As a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department, he has become an advocate of governmental thrift. He was also appointed to the Senate Steering Committee. He served as subcommittee chairman on hills passed to provide for corporate reorganization, and the municipal bankruptey hill. He fought the latter on the grounds that it was unconstituional, a view later upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, Senator VanNuvs, who considers himself prolabor, believes that his law practice as well as his public career substantiate his claims. He represented labor in the case of the Bedford Stone Co. vs. the Stone Cutters of America, and won the case through an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.

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ABOR backed him Senate, and until continued to support him. He took labor's part in voting for payment of prevailing wages on relief projects, in the Relief Bill, a provision later stricken out. But he voted against the Court plan, and labor has opposed him for this. He voted for the Wages-and-Hours Bill, which had laber support, Senator VanNuys has differed with the President on four major issues, First, he voted for the prevail ing-wage clause in the relief program; second, he voted for payment of the soldiers’ bonus, and voted for it again to override the President's veto: third. he opposed the Court enlargement plan; fourth, he opposed the Reorganization Bill He was one of seven Democrats and three Republicans who sighed the historic Judiciary Committee report in which the proposed increase in Supreme Court membership was attacked as an effort to “pack the court” with New Deal supporters,

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HE smoke of battle had not yet cleared away when Governor Townsend, standing on the steps of the White Mouse in Washington, criticized the Senator for his failure to support the President, and predicted that Indiana Democrats would not renominate him this fall. A few months later, in a talk

“to the public service, and not to building up a personal or party machine.” Today he declares he has kept his campaign pledge.

The Indiana Democratic machine, however, charged that he did try to build a personal “machine,” and indicated this was chiefly responsible for opposition for his renomination, Immediately after defeat of the Court Plan, it was said President Roosevelt would ask the political retirement of those Senators who opposed him on the measure, but later Postmaster General James Farlev denied this, and said nobody harbored any grudges, President Roosevelt himself indicated similar sentiments in a recent fireside chat. Preceding the recent Republican state convention, there was some talk of Republicans nominating Mr. VanNuys for the Senate, but he said he would not accept the nomination if offered him. Prepared to run as an pendent, necessary, he

before the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association in French Lick, the Governor again denounced “opponents of the President.” The Senator's answer was that he would run as an independent, and in February he wrote letters to more than 100,000 Indiana voters, asking their support. Meanwhile, in Washington, Senator VanNuys was making friends with Senate conservatives due to his Court fight, including several Southerners. He is reported to have lost some of these new-found friends when he helped sponsor the antilynching bill, and then he was criticized in sections of the Negro press when he failed to support the bill in speeches from the floor In justification of this last action, the Senator's supporters have pointed out that he is not given to making speeches. ” ” ”

HEN Mr. VanNuys was seeking election in 1932, he declared he would devote himself

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if en-

trained for Walloon Lake, Mich,, to await developments, They were not long in coming. ® 8 =» PPARENTLY fearful of a Democratic split that might hurt former Governor McNutt's Presidential aspirations in 1940, party leaders held a series of conferences to talk the situation over, Then on July 4 Governor Townsend sent a ielegram to the Senator containing his “invitation to be a candidate.” Senator VanNuys cut his vacation short and returned to Indianapolis. But the senior Senator has said he will not change his mind about New Deal legislation “which threatens constitutional govern ment.” In that, he includes the Supreme Court and Reorganization bills. He hopes the Democratic stata platform will be consistent with these views.

Gliders, Taken Out of Toy Class, Play Vital Role in Aviation Today

By NEA Service MPROVED ships and Increased | | Dimer N. Y., July 12.—Soaring | skill and knowledge on the part | gracefully as hawks above the | of pilots are taking the sailplane | hills, delicately wrought | out of the toy class and making have set new American |it a real adjunct of aviation. the sailors of the ekles | The art of sailplaning might be | to shoot at next year, {called the art of delayed descent.

| * » » « formances at the Ninth Annual! think of it this way. Gravity pulls | downward anvthing launched into

Richard C. Dupont of Wilming- | the a we (lle It 50 Cesifntd mt ton, Del, broke his own American | 8 FS y My Mery slowly, or glide record by reaching 6700 feet, | downward, just as you see an ordiLieut. Robert M. Stanley, while|, avy airplane do when its motor he failed to set a new distance | ;. chut off record due to the technicality that | But the glider is so lightly built he just missed beating last VEArs| and delicately designed, that its record by the required 5 per cent, “sinking velocity” is very low. That | soared 225 miles from Elmira toc it plides downward more slowly Washington, D. C. [than a heavy airplane. The very | Peter Riedel, the great German [slightest descent will serve to keep | sailplaner, duplicated Stanley's dis- | it gliding. tance feat, and rose to a height of | |

| rolling | gliders marks for

Soaring Contest here,

Say that, gliding slowly down- [ 8600 feet, but he is not eligible for | ward, such a glider meets an air | the American record. | current in which the whole of the | The fact that motorless gliders, | surrounding air is rising twice a: | rising from a low 800-foot hill, have | fast as its own rate of descent. { become able to rise a mile and a | While the glider is theoretically | half in the air, or travel hundreds | “descending” with regard to the air |of miles to land at an announced |in immediate contact with the destination, brings soaring sharply | wings, “descending” enough to keep into the forefront of aviation news. | it afloat, the whole air current is

rising, so that it is actually gaining altitude with relation to the

earth, y ao »

INDS, when they come to an obstruction like a hill ridge, must rise to get over it. So, close to the surface of the earth, there are always variations in the wind that are like waves of the sea. But there are also areas of rising and falling air that the great ocean currents, The trick, then, iz to ride an ascending air current until. your forward progress has brought you out of it, and then to find another such rising air area before your downward glide has brought vou to earth. Given ideal air conditions, there fs no theoretical reason why a glider should not stay in the air, or rise, indefinitely. What happens, of course, is that sooner or later the pilot runs into an area of still or descending air out of which he has not time to

[run before his constant downward

glide has brought ‘him to earth. Forty gliders were entered in various competitions in this year’s Elmira meet, showing how the art is “taking on” with a constantly increasing number of pilots.

Second-Olass Matter Indianapolis.

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Side Glances—By Clark

TRAVEL BUREAU

"That's where we vacationed last year. Theres were about 10 girls to every man."

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

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"Wrong again! Duck back inte that smoke and try to get the

beans this timel"

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-Who laid the cornerstone of the main building in the group of Federal structures planned for the New York World's Fair? 2—What is ising'~ 5? 3—In what year was Spanish-American War? 4—From whom did James J. Braddock win the world’s heavyweight boxing championship? 5—What is the largest inhabitant of the oceans? 6—Who is Governor of Wisconsin? T7—How many moons has the planet Mars? » ” »

Answers

1—President Roosevelt. 2—A pure form of commercial gelatin obtained from the swimming bladder of several species of fish. 31898. 4—Max Baer, 5—The whale, 6—Philip F. LaFollette. T—Two.

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

The Divine Healer Did Wonders in Denver, Chicago and London, but He Went Hitless in Indianapolis.

ODAY, if only for a moment, I want to dip into that narrow margin between the incredible and the merely inexplicable where everything is possible, including even a personage as strange and fantastic as Francis Schlatter, the world-renowned divine healer. As near as I recall, Mr. Schlatter picked a Sune day in the spring of 1900 to visit Indianapolis. The lilacs were in bloom, I remember. The sycamores in Armstrong Park, where Mr. Schlatter had pitched his tabernacle, were far enough advanced, too, to cast the pattern of their leaves, provided, of course, the sun was out to do its part. That was the trouble with Mr. Schlatter’s debut. The sun wasn't out. It rained like everything that Sunday. At that, there were more than 500 people present. They came from all parts of the state, from places as far away as Rockville and Mishawaka. all hopee ful that Mr. Schlatter would live up to his reputa= tion. In his line Mr. Schlatter had a reputation as big as that of Bob Fitzsimmons, who had just fine ished off Jim Corbett with a solar plexus, the first of, its kind (St. Patrick's Day, 1897). At any rate, back in those days Mr. Schlatter made the front page as often as Mr. Fitzsimmons did. In Denver, for instance, he had been known to cure 3000 people in a day, and once he had allowed himself to be buried 40 days and 40 nights. In London, he brought to life four dead; in Chicago, three. All of which, of course, got into the papers. I don’t know whether it was the rain that Sunday, or whether Mr. Schlatter had an off-day, but the way things turned out his first performance here wasn't anything to brag about. The woman from Rockville (internal hemorrhages) said Mr. Schlatter hadn't done her a bit of good, and neither could any=body see any change in the man from Mishawaka (hip and joint disease). That was nothing, though, compared to what happened to Mr, Schlatter the next morning, He had hardly finished his breakfast (Enterprise Hotel) when a man from Kokomo turned up. He looked exactly like Mr. Schlatter—long beard and everything—and that was the point of his coming, too. The Kokomo man said he was the original Mr, Schlatter, and had come to Indianapolis to show up the imposter,

Mr. Scherrer

The Denver “Sleeper”

Well, it was a terrible mixup and when (things got more or less unraveled, it turned out that our Mr. Schlatter’s real name was Dr. Charles McLean. But even so, he crossed his heart and hoped to die if he wasn't the original Mr. Schlatter. He said the Germans of Denver had given him that name. First they called him Schlaefer, he said, which is German for “sleeper,” and that it ended in the corrupted form of Schlatter, Which, of course, only made the Kokomo Mr. Schlatter laugh, This so enraged our Mr. Schlatter that he promised to raise the dead before he left Indianapolis. As far as I know nothing came of it be~ cause that same night under cover of darkness both Mr. Schilatters slipped out of town. I never did find out who was the real Mr. Schlatter. All I know is that our Mr. Schlatter didn’t measure up to my idea of a man gifted with divine powers. That Sunday in Armstrong's Park, for ine stance, he kept referring to our town as Minneapolis, and besides he wore spectacles. It struck me that a man endowed with the powers Mr. Schlatter was sup= posed to have might have fixed up his own eyes he= fore tackling other people's troubles.

Jane Jordan

To Improve Behavior of Husband, Object, but Don't Nag, Wife Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a married woman of 31 and have been married 15 years. I have five children. I have been happy until the last two years. My husband has been running around with othee women, He always says he wasn't with other women, but two times I have made him admit he was. I forgave him when he told the truth and asked him not to do it any more. I love him and my children and they try to do everything to please him. All I ask is that he let other women alone. He asked me to stop smoking and I did stop. I smoke, however, when he isn’t home. He says he loves me. but I don't feel it in my heart. He never shows his love to me What can I do? I don't want to leave him because of the children, M. H. B. on ” ” Answer—Your husband may not be madly in love with you after 15 years, but it is obvious that he has a certain feeling for you. He is not indifferent to what you do. For example, other women may smoke but not his wife. It is true that he doesn’t care to make romantic love to you any more, but it isn’t true that he cares nothing for you whatsoever, To break up your marriage because your husband isn’t in love the way he was 15 years ago would be folly.

The most unfair thing your husband does is to take his diversions apart from you. I believe that all he wants is a little fun now and then and when you object he thinks you're a kill-joy. Yet if you claimed a little of the same kind of fun for yourself he would put up a terrific roar. The worst of it is that I don’t know what you can do about it. You can't make him stop by scolding or looking hurt and crushed. Such behavior only furnishes him with more excuses for seeking diversion with women who laugh instead of cry. On the other hand, there's no sense in your pretending that what= ever he does is quite all right. Object, but don’t nag. Don’t break your neck to please him when he does nothing to please you. A firm consistent attitude of “you do your part and I'll do mine” will bring the best results. I expect that you will have to give up the hope that he ‘will fall in love all over again like a sweetheart. A good working agreement backed by mutual respect and affection is about all you can ex« pect to accomplish, JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

F= a thrill of sheer horror, and incidently foe an actual acquaintance with the magnitude of Europe's preparation for the “next war,” read, if you can bear it, THE CAISSONS ROLL, A MILITARY SURVEY OF EUROPE (Knopf), prepared by Hanson W. Baldwin,

“Factually, objectively, technically, comprehensive ly”, the author presents his statistics of the army, navy, and air forces of some 29 principal nations of Europe, and succeeds in his attempt to integrate his information with the political and economic life of the countries. The author predicts the probable use of the modern and ancient routes of invasion, and the hereditary or potential alignment of nations rationalizes them. Over the great works of Skoda which is arming Central Europe, on the practically impregnable fortifications of France's Maginot Line, in plans for Britain’s 13 depots to be established for the storage of 30 million gas masks, over the massed thousands of Germany's and Italy's regimented fighting men, over Poland's new wonder city of Gdynia, her seaport on the Baltic, in the keen eyes of boys piloting Europe's