Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1938 — Page 13

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'agabon From Indiana = Ernie Pyle "William Green Visits His Home in

Ohio Often, but Gets Little Rest: ‘Madhouse Restaurant Now Closed.

LEDO, 0., July 28.—Coshocton, in east central Ohio, is the home town of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. er happened to stay all night in Coshocton.

‘ Next morning I heard that William Green was home, so I went out to see him.

He’ was very nice. ' He loves Coshocton, even

though it is now all split up between A. F. of L. and

C.'1. O. He has never considered any other place his real home. All during his 14 years in Washington he has lived in a hotel. Mrs. Sresn never did move to Washingn The Green home in Coshocton is a beaufiful three-story red brick, six years old. It. is three blocks from the main street. Behind is a three-car garage, with servants’ quarters above. The house is cone * ventional inside and out. Absoiutely conventional—like - William Green himself. - Jy Pyle .. . Mr. Green gets home quite cften. "At least every six weeks for a week-end, and two or three times a year for a whole week. He's very proud of his 20 years in the mines around here. When he is home he walks downtown every

‘morning, meets old cronies, and they stop and talk about old times. Sometimes his old mining-day

: friends come out to the house.

Of the Greens’ six children, only one daughter, Claire, is left at home with Mrs. Green. The cthers are scattered through: Ohio and Indiana, but they make it home frequently. When he’s in Coshocton Mr. Green tries to get away from the turmoil of national labor leadership. But it can’t he done. His telephoning and telegraphing from Coshocton is prodigious. And he never knows .what minute he’ll be called away. When he is through with public 1life, William Green will ‘'g0. home for good to ‘Coshocton. In his “unemotional way he Mves that town probably as much

Note. of Sadness: You may remember Bud and

: ,Luke’s restaurant in Toledo, which 1 wrote about once.

The nutty place where the waiters polish vour bald

head, throw the silverwareat you and occasionally

toss a customer into the street. Well, the place is closed. The employees struck —not, for more pay, but for a closed shop. Bud .&-Luke decided not to reopen.

‘Bricks for Throwing, Not Roads

: If there’s anything in this world devised to give a motorist the flibbertijibbets, it’s ‘an old, worn-out, patched-up brick pavement. For some reason, Ohio is filthy with them. A ir Ohio boasts of its good roads. d it has lots of them, but it also has too many of these hippety-hop, swaying old bricks—where your. tires scream like a noon whistle, your car jolts and shakes till the license plates ¢ome loose, and if you drive over 40 youre liable to-take a header into a whestfield. "Bricks are very useful for making chimneys and They should be kept in their place.

I wish some of Ohio’s economists would explain this to me. All through southern Ohio, -both in cities and towns, prices are reasonable. I don’t remember better meals at cheaper prices anywhere in the U. S. than in Cincinnati, Columbus and Chillicothe. .. But in‘northern Ohio—Akron, Cleveland, Toledo— -prices are so high you get indigestion eating your meal. Hotels are up, too. It is my impression that more eople are out of

~- work, hence poorer, in northern than in southern

Ohio.: I'm sure these’ prices must make their lives Fun fuller.

.. My Diary

. By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Help of Every Individual Needed

To Make WPA Program Successful.

EW YORK, Wednesday—I wish I knew what \ sources the newspapers have for discovering my movements! I left Hyde Park yesterday morning, having only telephoned my son, Franklin® Jr. the pight before that I.would go to Philadelphia yesterday. ‘I had only three-quarters of an hour in New York City, so I went to the women’s division of the Democratic State Committee and asked a friend to take my colamn and file it for me. Then I went straight to the Pennsylvania Station and boarded the train for Philadelphia.

When I reached Philadelphia, the news of my arrival had preceded me. Franklin Jr. told me thet the ‘photographers had greeted him, on his val at the hospital in the morning, with the cemént that they knew I was coming! Here io I, thinking I was going to make a quiet call on my new grandson and his mother! On the train I sat at lunch with a gentleman who told me of a place in Wisconsin where labor had been needed for improvements on a plant and they

were unable to get it, because people refused to go

off relief. 1 asked, of course, if this had been reported. Much effort has been made recently to make it possible for people to go off relief rolls for temporary jobs and get back without the old time delay. Formerly a man with a family did not dare take a job unless it looked reasonably permanent. He was afraid his family would starve before he could obtain possible additional necessary relief for them. I was very glad to know of this instance and I shall certainly follow rt through and find out the reason. I wish every citizen would report to Washington anything of this kind _that comes to his attention. Only with help from individuals can a program of such magnitude as WPA be sure of working efficiently.

Baby Shows Temper

A crowd waited for me outside the Philadelphia hospital, just to say good morning. Then I went up to meet a young gentleman who seems already, at one week old, to have a decided personality. He shows clearly when he does not like anything. But he opened his blue eyes and lay in my arms veryconteniedly and went to sleep in the way all babies should, after his first show of temper. His mother looks and seems very well and I stayed until after

dinner with them. I arrived back at my apartment here a little after 10 p. m. ‘This morning my brother came to breakfast with me on my porch. I have done some shopping today and, in spite of a lazy streak which has been asserting _itself this summer, I am going up to our old house in 65th St. to straighten out some of our belongings, which sadly need attention. At 1 o’clock'I will be at Delmonico’s to preside over

a luncheon given by several women’s organizations in -

honor of Miss Kerstin Hesselgren, a member of the Sweden tercentenary delegation to America and a member of the Swedish Parliament. She is also a member of the League of Nations Committee on the Legal Status of Women.

* Bob’ Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 28—If you want anything to H go unnoticed, put it right out in the open. - If you hide it, every thief din the country will start lookin’ for it. If you walk boldly down the street, nobody’ll pay. any attention to you, but if you sneak up an alley, everybody’ll see you and wonder what you're up te. The other day, on the set I heard a fella tell a gl, “All that stuff I told you the other night about past life is a secret—I hope you didn't tell any The gi says, “Oh no—I didn't ell it: io, a.

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Moderate Deficiency in Vitamins Causes Millions to Suffer From Minor Ailments.

(First of a Series)

By David Dietz

Times Science Editor

LONGER, a Reber and a Healthier life lies iin the reach of every person who, will take the: trouble to learn the fundamental facts of nutrition and apply them

to the business of: living.

There are millions of men, women: and children in the United States today who are failing to reach the pitch’ of radiant health ‘that nature meant for them because

of malnutrition. Included in that number are thin and fretful babies, whining without apparent cause, pale, pigeoh-breasted children whose legs -are . bent: with rickets, high school students who lack the energy to keep up with their classmates in the study hall or on the athletic field, clerks and salesmen and business exectitives who wonder why they are so - gired at the end of the day, why they are so constantly susceptible

to minor ailments, why they have so little zest for work or pla.

There are all degrees of malnutrition, reaching their terrible cli-

max in such dreadful diseases as *

scurvy, polyneuritis and pellagra. Stunted growth, twisted bones, weakened eyes, blasted nerves, retarded minds and ruined person-

alities—these are the monstrous -

exactions of malnutrition that is severe. But a mild malnutrition may be just enough to lower efficiency to the point where failure: replaces success in the world of business, and the joy of living that is the birthright of every individual

turns into a dull despondency. » » 8

ALNUTRITION is most severe when there is an actual shortage of food. .Discussing the children of many families on relief, Dr. Richard A. Bolt, former medical director of the American Child Health Association, says— “When we see their flabby, pale faces, we do not need to put them on the scales to know they are victims of ' malnutrition. They haven’t actually had -enough to eat for five or six years, and now it is far worse. We are seeing a gradual breakdown of health com-

World War.” But it is important to realize that malnutrition is not merely a matter of having enough food. It is possible to suffer. in the midst of plenty. Fresh air, exercise and plenty of food are not enough for good health. With all three it is possible” to sicken, grow weak and die. Sailors did just that for many centuries. - Not only upon the sea, but wherever men were

. parable to that in Europe in the

‘

“forced fo subsist upon a a Fesiricted

diet,; as for example, in times of war, dreadful diseases broke out. The sailors upon the sea in the

days of the old sailing vessels ' faced an invisible. foe more dead-

ly than roaring winds and raging seas. The soldiers upon the bat-

- tlefield were confronted with "a ‘menace as.great as the .weapons

of their enemies. That foe: was ignorance of certain factors without which health is: impossible. " Today we know what most of those factors are, although we are certain that more of them exist than have been isolated and identified. Chief among them are the vitamins, those complex chemical substances which are present in

our food in almost infinitesimal - quantities, but whose presence is ‘ absolutely essential to health and

life. Without them the ‘vitamindeficiency diseases develop. 2 8 8. 4 EDICAL men are beginning L to realize that vitamin-de-ficiency diseases are far :- more widespread than was previously supposed. They are recognizing moreover, that in addition to the cases of full-blown disease, there are millions of people who are suffering from mingr ailments or

.who are just below -par-in- their

health as a result of a moderate vitamin deficiency. Meanwhile, the researches going on in medical and biochemical laboratories all’ over the country are revealing new. and amazing facts about thé-.roles which vita-

mins play in.the scheme of life.

and are holding out new:-hope for

healthier lives for those who:take

advantage of this information.

A never-failing source of won-

der ‘is .the microscopic amounts of vitamins needed. - Suppose, far example, that the vitamins contained in one day’s food of a person whose diet met ‘with complete medical approval, were isolated. in absolutely pure crystalline form. How big a heap of crystals would you have? It would amount to

about one-tenth. of a .gram, or,

in our more familiar system of weights, about. - three one-thou-sandths of an ounce—the:equiva- ’ lent in:size of a pinch of salt

such as you might. pick up with.

the point of a knife-blade. And yet this tiny pile of rcrystals spells the difference between exultant life and painful: death.

If all the necessary vitamins could be obtained in pure . crystalline: + form, a heap no larger: than - the crystals held on the -knife-point above: would nourish ‘satisfactorily for a day the healthy little girl at the: about three one-thousandths . of an ounce.

a are lly the ‘ABC's of life, for life is impossible without ‘the vitamin alphabet. -

‘If Vitamin A is missing the

membranes of the eye become dry

and inflammation of the deeper

structures of the eye sets in. The amazing condition known as night ‘bindness, an inability to .see. in

that degree of darkness-in which

normal eyes function, may develop. ; » » s IF Vitamin BI is missing, ‘nerves

become sick, resulting -in neu- -

ritis and inflammatory changes in the nerves. A creeping paralysis

may attack the legs, ending in the dread disease of beriberi. If the -

associated ‘group of ‘vitamins known as the B2 complex is miss-

ipg, the skin grows" reugh .and

scaly. the ‘mouth and tongue be-

come’ inflamed, and finally pells- ‘

gra sets in.

If vitamin C is missing, “mus cles grow weak, the teeth become

loose, and scurvy occurs. If Vita-

min D is missing, the ‘bones. grow

soft, the legs curl like barrel hoops, and rickets set’in. Growth is impossible without. all ‘these vitamins - and reproduction requires adequate amounts of Vitamin A:and E. *While it is natural for us to focus our -attention upon. vi

when considering the’ “problem of

nutrition, we will make a serious error if we consider them to the

exclusion of all other factors. .

‘There. is, . for example, the socalled “extrinsic and intrinsic factors of Castle.” . The intrinsic factor is manufactured in the stomach, but the extrinsic factor is some substance, not. yet ‘completely indentified, which oc--curs in’ ‘certain foods, among them meat. If one or the other

is absent, a strange, melting away

of the.red blood cells occurs. The

‘result is the. disease known as

pernicious anemia? / Food also contains. _sinipler cheniical compounds which are ry to health and life. “Some of these are so simplé that we are likely ‘to forget about their importance. Yet life is. just as

impossible in "their absence as it

would be without the. vitamins. Ordinary table salt is ‘one of them. The .chemist calls it. so-

dium chloride, for it is a com-

pound of® sodium and chlorine. There are small amounts of other salts: which the & have. The proper funé¢tioning of depends upon ne. proper balance of sodium, po

assium ‘and calcium in the’ ood

“stream. ‘manufacture’ the

‘proper "attention to.

y. must:

Chlorine is. “neetied’ ‘to hydrochjorie acid of the stomach. x 2» “a "HE bones require both calcium and phosphorus. Rick-

ets is not only- a‘ vitamin-defi-ciency disease. It may occur be-

cause - there is a-lack of calcium: or phosphorus in the: diet. The amount -of calcium and phos-

- phorus in the blood is likewise ex-

tremely important. The “cal-

¢ium level,” as thé medical man

calls it, has marked ‘effect- upon nerve irritability, muscular. con-

“trol, and ' the tone of the blood

vessels.

The" blood needs its: Hons. The amount -of iron needed daily ‘iS

"extremely small, about one .one“But - "without it. the red blood-cells

thousandth - of an ounce.

cannot manufacture the pigment

“ which gives ‘them their color. ~This pigment, hemoglobin, is an . iron compound: So various types of anemias develop in _ the _ab- _. sence of iron. :

-Anether “chemical” ‘element of vast importance to human life: is

‘iodine. The yearly requirement—

not the daily—of iodine is- about

: “one ‘ six-hundredth of ‘an otince. . Yet without this/jamount the thy‘roid’ gland ‘becomes’ deranged and . . gaiter develops, In“ certain re- : ' gions, such as’ parts of Switzer- = land, where the-soil and drinking ‘water are lacking in’ iodine, chil-

dren: are born with shrunken and atrophied thyroid glands. Such children, known -as cretins, grow: to be hopeless idiots unless treated early enough with thyroid extract. ‘Since most of these necessary substances are required in such tiny amounts, the layman might wonder how it is possible for people who can afford plenty of food to suffer from the lack of: any of these things. There are several answers to this question. - The first is ‘lack of knowledge.

Despite the frequent warnings-on . the subject issued by. the medical - profession and. others, there are "still many people unaware of the

basic facts of nutrition. . rea. : 2: ‘SECOND factor - is: careless- : -ness. People- fail to pay the ‘their diet. They develop certain food: habits. They have their likes and dislikes.

“The result is-that they never take _ the trouble to. analyze their diet - from the standpein *pleteness in the. Tight of ‘modérn dietary knowledge. :

t- of ‘its com-

Factor” number ‘three. 151 allergy. : A | person ‘may find, that certain’,

items of food must be ruled from his: diet ‘because of an allergy. Where this is the case, special care must be taken to see that

' deficiencies in the diet are not

created. ‘A fourth factor is the menial one: ‘A man suffering from nervous indigestion believes that cer-

* tain foods disagree with him. He

eliminates them from his diet. Because he is missing certain essential food factors, he feels worse... He attempts to meet the situation by dropping more things out of his diet. In this way he completes the vicious circle a nd goes from bad to worse. ‘A fifth factor—and one of the most’ dangerous of all—is unwise attempts at weight - reduction Every day. one hears of ‘some new

" diet” which is supposed to work

like magic. Most of them, according to legend, originate in Hollywood. ~*~ Many :of these diets are so: unwise that they amount to voluntary ‘starvation. In addition, they

may lead to serious : deficiency

diseases. One recent example will suffice:—The . wife of .a. wellknown surgeon in ‘the Middle West begain to develop symptoms

"which seemed suspiciously like

those ‘of brain. tumor. Her hus-

‘band, worried’ by these’ symptoms,

sent :her. to the family. physician for examination. The doctor dis-

covered, ‘in the course of con-

versation, that she had embarked upon a stringent diet which was woefully deficient in Vitamin A. With the addition of foods containing Vitamin A to her diet,

the symptoms disappeared.

Lean i. INALLY, there are those peo-

L"~ ple whose diet contains the necessary vitamins, but who are

' not able to utilize them because

‘of some diseased condition. IF is possible, for example, to have an ‘adequate intake of Vitamin Bl, but to suffer a Bl deficiency because the vitamin is not properly absorbed -by the digestive system. Such persons need -the advice of the family physician. In the succeeding articles of this series I want to. discuss the vitamins’ and related food factors from three points of view:— First, ‘their place in the normal diet; secondly, their place in’ the treatment of disease, and thirdly, the amazing discoveries that. are being made about the actual role of ‘the vitamins in the function-

‘ing of the human body. -

'NEXT—Night Blindness and Vitamin A. :

Josper—By. F rank Owen

Side Glances—By Clark

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| KNOWLEDGE

11s the District of Columbia. a ‘state or territory? ‘2=Who was the first. Admiral of. ‘the U. S. Navy? =

~.3—Which has the. highest freez-

ing point, f salt wate 4—Who were th starting ers’ in ‘the ‘recent League, All-Star game?

g +n term is commonly -used

in zoology: to denote all those

‘6—=Name the second largest ‘of _ the Great Lakes ‘of: “North - America. : 2 2. 8 Answers

1+Neither; it is ® Federal Dis--triet.

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By Anton Scherrer

Letter in the Hoosier Forum Takes Your Columnist Out to Interview ~The Politest | Traffic Policeman.

EVER since I' read the letter written by “ a pleased taxpayer, it’s been on my mind | to tell you something about the policeman at the corner. of Ohio St, and Capitol Ave. The letter apeared in the Hoosier Forum of The

Times and pointed to him as the politest traffic’ cop in Indianapolis, . For some reason, though,

| the pleased taxpayer never went to the trouble of

‘learning the policeman’s name; a defect Iam Prepared to rémedy today. The name of the: ‘politest cop inh Indianapolis is Fred Starks—sure, the same Fred who, 30 years ago, ran one ‘of the elevators in the Indiana Trust Building. Harry Nichols ran the other one. He landed prett soft, too. Got a Federal job run ning an elevator in the Postoffice. Fred was polite even as an elevator boy, and for that matter so was Harry. Il have to drop Harry, though, because I have all-I can do to handle Fred today. Fred stayed with The Indiana Trust Co. nine vind and recalls that back in those days the Pressley bicycle shop occupied the basement of the bank. You into it' by way of an area stairway on Washington St. ‘Along one side of the stairway ran an inclined trough, a slick ‘ contrivance designed to slide down thes bicycles.” The only one like it left in Indianapolis is t one in the Athenaeum which, if you know anything about archaeology, is sufficient to. put you wise to the fact that the Athenaeum was built back in the hioyele days.

. Mr. Pressley did a landoffice business parking bie "cycles back in ‘those days, and among his best customers were Ray Bronson and Jack Dillon, two of our most promising professional prize fighters., One day, Mr. Bronson bought an Indian motorcycle (the first in Indianapolis) and Fred got so interested in the machine that Mr. Bronson, out of the goodness of his heart, let Fred take it out for a ride. Fred took too long a ride, however, and when he got back, Mr. Bronson was so mad that he lit into Fred and cut him into ribbons. Right on Washington 'St., too. Fred remembers that Joe Kealing and Elliott Hooton, two tenants of the Indiana Trust, saw the fight and tried sthieir level best to get Fred to swear out a warrant for the prize fighter’s srrest. It would have been the easiest. thing to do, says Fred, because Mr. Hooton was County Prosecutor at the time. Fred decided to drop the matter, however. :

He Was Cited for Bravery

After Fred left the Indiana Trust, he went with the Frank Bird people and stayed two years, after which he got a job in the City Garage. That brought him in touch with the City Administration (Charlie Jewett), and sure enough in 1920 he was made a cop. To start off, he was given a beat in Pat Ward's Bottoms, at that time a pretty tough assignment at 11th and Brook Sts. At 11:30 one night a bullet Whizzed over his head within an inch of his hair. Fred never learned where it came from. + In 1931, Fred was cited for bravery. That was the memorable night John Love, ‘a burglar, murdered Jack Warner, a pawnbroker, on Indiana Ave. Mr. Love had pumped one bullet into Mr. Warner and was just about to repeat the dose when Fred Starks, : the politest policeman in Indianapolis, jumped in and wrenched the gun from the murderer's hand. Fred has always regretted that Ray Bronson wasn’t presen; to-see him do it.

Mr. Scherrer |

should write a letter to The Times and pick him as the politest policeman in Indianapolis. He says all he does is to smile at everybody and answer questions pleasantly. The most frequent question people ask him is: “Where is the State House?” Fred says it makes him feel kind of foolish to point at the building at his corner. -

Jane Jordan— "Believes Selfish Husbands Often

Haven't Outgrown Bachelor Habits.

D2 JANE JORDAN--My husband and I have been married for two years. He is kind to me but lately I'm not sure he really loves me. Nearly every Saturday evening he and a friend of his go out

I stay at home with his friend’s wife and our baby. He always promises that he won't go out again but always does. He says he never does anything wrong. He just drinks a little, which is sometimes too much. I know his friend is untrue to his wife, though. Nearly every night during the week he plays baseball, He knows I hate it but I go with him and don’t say much about it. He also plays ball on Sunday afternoons but takes me to a: show Sunday evening if he can choose the picture. Then he sleeps through the picture. If I take the baby for a walk or if 1 go downtown with mother, he says he wishes I wouldn't chase around so much. But I seldom go anywhere without him. Don’t you think that if he loved me he would be more considerate. | NINETEEN. > 8 nn : Answer—My guess is that your husband loves you well . enough, but that he simply hasn't outgrown his bachelor habits. When he was living at home he was free to flit wherever he chose while his mother, if he had one, stayed home without complaint and made things comfortable for him. Many men regard their wives either as an embodiment of their mothers or as an extension of them- » selves instead of a new and separate individual with tastes and desires which they do not wish to share. A man who has had good training at home in co-opera-tion adjusts himself to the new situation. He expects his wife to share his hobbies and pastimes, but in return he makes a sincere effort to share hers. Well, you will have to stand up for yourself. If your husband sleeps through a show he may as well sleep through one you like as one you don't like. If you: go to the ball games with him often, surely you rate your choice of a show. -Like many wives you are probably too dependent upon your husband’s companionship. You lead a dull life during the day time and live for his presence in ‘the avening and on Sunday. ' When he disappoints you, you have nothing to fall back on. I suggest more friends anu activities of your own which wil? occupy you pleasantly during the day. Then when an eve ning. falls flat you won 't feel so frustrated. ” JANE JORDAN. -

put bless in’ a steer to 3 Jordan, whe will answer a in this e umn daily

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