Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1938 — Page 9

Put-in-Bay, Once a Town of Swanky Hotels ‘and ' Flourishing: Vineyards, Now Lives Off City Excursionists.

UT-IN-BAY, O., July 30.—Put-in-Bay is the “capitdl,” you might say, of the Lake Erie Islands. This is where the stores are; life radiates from here.

It takes 40 minutes on the ferry from the

mainland to Put-in-Bay. You can bring your car dlong. There are 17 miles of roads on this island. ; The harbor is circular, about a quarter of a mile across, and the town stretches all around it. A road circles the little harbor. Put-in-Bay lives off wine and summer excursionists. It is a town of faded glory. Once it was a place of great exclusive hotels. Now it is bait for thousands of city excursionists who come for the ride and two hours of loud music. In the morning, things are peaceful and quiet. Ed Haas is up at 5 a. m. to help get the steamer Chippewa shoved off for Sandusky. Mr. Pyle But you never hear her go. fast you see only a few idlers on the park benches and a few people riding bicycles. Bikes are popular on the island. You really hardly need anything else. All forenoon, Put-in-Bay is peaceful. But all this'is broken by noon. The ferry brings in a few vacationists. So does the airplane. 12:15 the Chippewa is back from Sandusky with her load. Fifteen minutes later comes the steamer from Detroit, with hundreds and sometimes thousands of one-day excursionists. At 2:15 comes the big “Goodtime” from Cleveland. And then for about four hours Put-in-Bay be- ‘. comes the most awful caterwauling place you've ever seen. Hundreds are picnicking from lunchboxes .on the * park benches. Women sit on the stack of old can- * nonballs to have their pictures taken. Children ride “little merrygorounds, and cry. : Gay vacationists fall off tandem bicycles. Topdown taxis drive around and around the square, the drivers calling out their rates and sightseeing spots as they drive along. : Other thousands sit in the vast, quick restaurants, . ‘eating quick lunches, drinking quick beers or quick cocktails. Orchestras blare away in some. In others, music-boxes hooked to loudspeakers disgorge noise clear across the bay. Everybody Sings The crowds dance, and sing. The waiters sing. The chef behind the hot-plate sings. The cashier sways to the music. Everything is “good old days.” The songs are “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” «Beautiful Ohio,” “I - Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl,” “I'm Forever Blow"ing Bubbles,” “Smiles.” . After a couple of hours the crowds grow weary. . Spirits wane. Boat time comes. And suddenly, with the afternoon sun still high, Put-in-Bay slides back into. silence. Put-in-Bay has seen better days. Even before the turn of the century it was a place of magnificext old-fashioned hotels, of flashy teams and million- . aires and statesmen. But trends changed, and the hotels went through an orgy of burning down. Today there are only a

few comfortable places on the, islands to stay over-

night. Two other things—prohibition and the change in the younger generation—helped put the islands on _ the skids. Prohibition killed the main industry— grape-raising. Vineyards ran down, grew up with weeds, died from lack of attention. Since repeal they have not been fully built back up. For no longer do the young folks want to stay. It’s the same story the world over. The youngsters leave, go to school, yearn for the cities—and leave the peace and old pride of the grape islands for more exciting lives. The old folks shake their heads.

‘My Diary .By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Parent Wonders Whether Children Should Be Taught to Defend Selves.

H™: PARK, N. Y., Friday—Going over my accumulated mail, the other night, I found one letter which put a question extremely difficult to answer. My correspondent, a worried mother, said: «Should a mother teach a child retaliation for any attacks which are suffered at the hands of an older or bigger boy, thereby risking injury to life or limb, or should she teach him to refrain from putting his hands up in self-defense, to walk away and be called ‘coward’ and risk ostracism from his clique of young fellows?” i There is a precedent, of course, for turning the cther cheek if you are atfacked unfairly. But my experience, which is of course limited, is that the

bully who attacks younger and weaker children with-

out justification is usually disliked by the other boys. If it is clear that the one jumped upon has done nothing to bring it about, he will usually be helped out by his comrades. I do not think mothers have to teach their boys to defend themselves. Every boy worth his salt, if he feels that he is being unfairly treated, retaliates even though it looks as if the odds were against him. I think, however, that mothers should teach their children not to make nuisances of themselves to their playmates. There is a tyranny which younger, weaker children sometimes exert over those who are older and bigger. I remember very well a period when one of my young boys was just enough smaller than his next older brother for everyone to say to the older one: “you mustn’t hit your little brother. It’s unkind and not sportsmanlike.” As a result, the younger one would tease and take advantage of the older one and make himself so objectionable that it was all I could do to keep my hands off him. .

Boxing Gloves Used

It was good discipline for the older one, undoubtedly, but extremely bad for the younger one. I finally put boxing gloves on both and told the older one to give him a lesson. I think it is rather a good thing for all boys to learn to use boxing gloves. They cannot hurt each other very much, it is good exercise and, on the whole, fairly safe. I always loved Kipling’s story in “The Brushwood Boy” of the young lieutenant who took the troublesome battalions of men, who after all were only

grownup boys, out to a camp in India and returned .

them after a few weeks in which he taught them all to box. Every man was in excellent physical condition, under good discipline and none was under arrest. It is true that children often have a streak of cruelty in them. On the other hand, they generally are fair, They admire courage and they do not like bullying. They usually know more than the grownups, the real underlying reasons for what goes on among themselves. We had a very pleasant drive yesterday and returned this morning in time for lunch with my grandchildren. I am off this afternoon for a visit with a friend of mine on Long Island.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 30—There are two great forces that no one has ever been able to describe, electricity and love. Every writer who has tried to define love has contradicted every other writer. One of the finest woman writers out here said, “I know what love is because I love my husband . . . love is absolutely unselfish.” Not long ago, while her husband was in New York, "I met her on the street and she was all smiles. She said, “I just got a letter from my husband and he ‘says he’s miserable away from me and I'm the happiest woman in the world.”

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By David Dietz

Times Science Editor

The result is the frightful disease known as beriberi. This disease has long been recognized as one of the scourges of the crowded . Orient, of China where families follow floods, of

Japan where the population has outrun the supporting power of

and the Malay States. But recent researches have revealed the startling and ominous fact that beriberi is common right here in the United States. In the Orient, beriberi usually develops because the victims have been living on a diet consisting almost exclusively of polished rice. The skin and husks of rice contain Vitamin Bl. But these are lost ih the polishing and so the Vitamin Bl is thrown away with them. ” 8 »

ERIBERI occurs in the United States for two reasons. One is a faulty diet in which there is a shortage of Vitamin Bl. The other is a condition of health in which Vitamin Bl is not properly absorbed by the digestive tract.

Unlike Vitamin A which is stored in the liver so that a reserve supply can be built up in a few weeks which will last several months, Vitamin Bl is used up from day to day. Thus a shortage can develop in a few weeks. It is important to remember this and to remember also that a Vitamin Bl deficiency may not go so far as to give-all the symptoms of a full-blown case of beriberi. The first symptoms of beriberi are a feeling of heaviness in the legs and pain in the calves. In time the pains spread ito the arms. This is followed by a general feeling of weakness. If the disease progresses further, paralysis of the legs may set in. Along with the degenerative changes in the nerves, changes in the circulatory system cccur. In one form of the disease, known as the “wet” form, fluids. gather in the tissues, causing considerable swelling. ‘But in both this and the “dry” form, there is enlargement of the heart, particular-

At this stage, death may ensue with dramatic abruptness due to a sudden failure of the heart.

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UT when the deficiency of Vitamin Bl is moderate, the disease may not progress that far. Dr. Maurice B. Strauss of the Harvard University Medical School points out that it is possible for the disease to be arrested at any stage. The disease may go to a certain point and no:further because while the amount of Vitamin Bl in the dief is insufficient for recovery it is enough to prevent further regression. It is even possible to have so L- slight a Vitamin Bl deficiency that the only symptoms are a generalized feeling of “below par” L and a loss of appetite. The doctors have a name from the Greeks for loss of appetite. They call .it anorexia. : It is only recently that Amer-

the land, of India, Java, Siam

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Nerves Become Frayed When Diet Lacks Vitamin Bl, Found in. ts and Cereals.

(Third of a Series)

ERVES can become frayed, literally, like old electric wires from which the insulation has been worn off. That is what happens when the diet lacks Vitamin Bl. The fatty sheaths that cover most nerve fibers, known as the myelin sheaths, serve the same purpose that insulation does around an electric wire. missing from the diet, the myelin sheaths degenerate and break up into irregular beads. Sometimes they disappea entirely, leaving the nerves bare and exposed. :

When Vitamin Bl is

ican doctors: hdve realized that they have been seeing an increasing number of cases of Bl deficiency and beriberi during the last few decades. During that time they have seen an increased number of ‘conditions marked by degenerative changes in the nervous system. ' These have been

: known by a variety of names,

most of them suggesting only the origin of the complaint. Among them have been alcoholic polyneuritis the toxic polyneuritis of pregnancy, diabetic polyneuritis, and so on. : That word, polyneuritis, .is not so formidable as it looks. A neuritis is an inflammation of a nerve. Poly is the Greek word for many, so that a polyneuritis is an inflammation of many nerves.

: NW beriberi is just that.and,

as Dr. Strauss points out, beriberi remains beriberi no matter hos’ you contract it. In the case of the chronic

. drinker, beriberi begins to develop

for three reasons. One is that because of the drinking of alcohol the need for Vitamin Bl goes up. Researches have definitely established that a normal intake of vitamin Bl becomes insufficient when alcohol is added to the diet.

The second is that the steady drinker satisfies his appetite with liquor. Consequently he cuts down on food and so restricts his intake of Vitamin Bl when he steady - drinking causes changes in the digestive tract so that Vitamin Bl, even when present, is not properly absorbed. : A number of other gastro-intes-tinal disorders that interfere with the absorption of Vitamin Bl may lead to the symptoms of a de- .

_ ficiency.

. Fortunately, the treatment of beriberi in any of its stages is a fairly simple matter. It consists ok the administration of adequate amounts of Vitamin Bl. When this’ is done, the swellings of the wet form of beriberi melt away like snow in the sunshine. The heart returns to normal size. Legs regain their vigor. The appetite ‘returns. Life becomes living once more. sia, ® x = : N cases where’ the vitamin is not properly absorbed in the

' digestive tract, physicians can

now administer the vitamin with a hypodermic needle. That Vitamin Bl should play so important a part in the health of the nervous system becomes all the more amazing when it is realized that it.is present in human tissues only to the extent of about one part in a million. The foods that are richest in Vitamin Bl -only ‘contain about 40 parts in a million. That is, an ounce of such food contains "40 millionths of an ounce of Vitamin Bl. . The fact that a shortage of Vitamin Bl has its most pronounced effect on the nervous system at first obscured. the role which ‘this vitamin ‘plays ims the rest of the body. But it now

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and Its Uses in Medicine.”

seems probable, as Dr. Robert R. Williams, of New York, points ‘out, that every cell in the body requires the presence of Vitamin Bl in order to ‘function adequately. Dr. Williams, the man who first identified the chemical formula of Vitamin Bl and prepared it synthetically in the laboratory, is one of the nation’s chief authorities on the subject. ‘When there is a shortage of Vitamin B1, Dr. Williams believes" that it -is the weakest organ in the body which shows the effects first. This would explain why medical men have found lately that many diseases respond favorably when increased amounts of Vitamin Bl are used as part of the treatment. : ; But whatever the explanation, the fact is that medical men are finding an increased use. for Vitamin Bl in the treatment of disease. Thanks to.the work .of Dr. Williams, synthetic or artificial Vitamin Bl can be prepared easily in large quantities. This is fortunate, for the task of extracting . the vitamin from natural foodstuffs is-a long, difficult and expensive process.

» 2 ” OME success has been obtained in treating certain forms of arthritis with Vitamin Bl, but it ‘would be a mistake to believe that all forms of arthritis will yield to it. Similarly it must be remembered = that neuritis is not beriberi. There

are other causes of inflammation

of the nerves.

"In the treatment of certain dis-

eases medical men have recently tried shooting Vitamin B1 directly into the spinal canal with a hypodermic needle. Several reports have been made of the use of: this procedure in the treatment of Von Recklinghausen’s disease, a malady of the nervous system which is accompanied: by excruciating pain.. It is too early as yet, however, to pass final judgment upon the worth of this treatment. ‘The work of Dr. Williams and

other investigators has begua to

throw light upon the ‘role of vitamin Bl in the human body.

‘It is necessary for the proper

utilization of carbohydrates, the: sugars and starches we ‘eat. When Vitamin Bl is missing the utilization of these foodstufls is not complete and an intermediate product called . pyruvic acid is formed. : The presence of this acid affects the nerves in

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such a: way as to prevent them from getting an adequate supply of oxygen. The degeneration that results in beriberi follows as a result. * 2 8 8 R. WILLIAMS has shown that Vitamin B1 is composed chemically of the four common elements found in all living tissues, namely, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, plus ‘one more, namely, sulphur,

Since life is impossible without Vitamin Bl it may be truly said that life is impossible without sulphur. For this reason Dr. Williams has suggested the name, . thiamin, for Vitamin Bl. The thi comes from the Greek word for brimstone or sulphur. The amin is the end of the ‘word vitamin.

What has been called Vitamin

Bl in this article is sometimes referred to as Vitamin B. The term, B1, however, is less confusing, because" the substance which was called Vitamin B some 15 years ago is now known to have been a- mixture of many vitamins. In subsequent articles in this series we shall have occasion {of speak of Vitamin B2, B3, B4, etc. There is a wide distribution of

Vitamin Bl in nature, but man °

loses much of it by refining and cooking his foods. Thus much of the beriberi in. the Orient is due to the practice of polishing rice. Similarly much of the Bl content of wheat is lost in the process of making white flour.

Times Special -TASHINGTON, : July 30.—ColV lective bargaining is but the first step toward: recognition .of labor’s rights in a democracy, Rep. Finly H. Gray: (D. Ind.) declared today in a post-session edition of the Congressional Record. =~ “Laboring men must win still other reforms before they are made

equal with other men,” he said. . “Laboring men must live during the whole year. They must pay rent

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buy food and clothing the whole year. They must provide their sup-

pott the whole year and they must

have pay for the whole year. “Labor is as necessary -in: industry as capital is in production. Labor can do something without cap-

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XCELLENT sources of Vitamin Bl are dried brewers’ yeast, certain types of bakers’ veast, unpolished rice, whole wheat, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, whole cereals, oranges, prunes, cantaloupes, nuts, liver, kidney and heart. The foregoing list contains only the best sources of Vitamin Bl. There are numerous other foods which are fair sources of Vitamin Bl. More will be said upon this subject in the final article of this series, which will deal with the formation of adequate diets. Fortunately, a number of focds are rich in several vitamins and these can be given pre-eminence in . planning diets, particularly

be considered. : It will be seen at once, however, that a diet built on white bread, meat, potatoes and. sugar is going to be deficient in Vitamin “Bl. To,such a diet it is ‘necessary to add fresh fruits, green leafy vegetables, whole grain cereals, milk and eggs. .. In specific conditions the physi‘clan may wish to supplement a diet normal in its Vitamin Bl content with additional amounts administered in concentrated form. This must be decided from a study of each case on its individual merits. :

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without labor. Labor is an indispensable element in production and must be.so recognized in industry and given an equal status with capital in production and in the conduct of all industrial operations. “Labor is entitled to a share of the earnings and income from industry, to be fixed as’ certain and positive as the dividends to be paid

on capital. : “To this end of sharing equally with capital, labor is entitled to representation on the board of directors of industries wherever la-

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penses ings are for capital and labor.”

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By Anton Scherrer = _ Mr. Suthefland Gave. Indianapolis + Hs First Nickelodeon Although He Preferred to Call It the ‘Bijou.’

“| QOMETIME in 1906, Charlie L. Sutherland,

~ eoming from goodness knows where, blew ‘into Indianapolis and registered at the Hotel

‘English. “After getting a shave and a shoe-

Shine, he spent the rest of the day sizing up the town. : He spied a vacant storeroom on ‘the north side of Washington St., between Pennsyl-

“vania and ‘Delaware Sts, and thé more he looked at ‘it, the better he liked it for.

his purpose, Charlie gave the place a new A coat of paint, installed a battery of ‘mirrors for decorative effect along: with a couple ‘of hundred cheap chairs, and stretched a white muslin curtain: on’ the north wall of the room. On the south side of the room immediately over the entrance he built an elevated platform which was so private and Secluded shat | the only way to get was use . a stepladder. Tucked away in the improvised Mr. Scherrer gallery was Charlie’s big secret, a machine called the “kinemetograph” which was so, slick, said Charlie, that it could project photographs in such rapid succession that it fooled the eye into believing that it was a continuous representation. Sure, moving pictures. What's more, the first moving pictures to be shown in Indianapolis. ? : To start off, Charlie called his place the “Bijou.” Two years later, he changed the sign to read “Bijou Dream.” * Nobody knows why. As a matter of fact, nobody knows why Charlie called it the “Bijou” in the first place. If Charlie had followed the natural trend and been a copy-cat, he would have called his place a “Nickelodeon” because that was the name New Yorkers gave that type of theater at the time. Maybe Charlie didn’t know what they were doing in New York, and then again, maybe he did and wanted to show that he didn’t approve of everything that came out of the East. Whatever was the reason, it remains a historical fact that Charlie Sutherland gate Jndiansiolis its first Nickelodeon without callR at. / :

A Big Nickel’s Worth To convey the idea that it was a nickel theater

and not get the Greek language mixed up in it,

Charlie had the painter design a second sign to read: “Now Open, Always 5 cents,” which when you come to think of it was a lot more to. .the point. In return for the nickel Charlie presented pictures of prize fighters in action,”horse races and perhaps best of all, the New York Fire Department tearing down . the street. Charlie did a good business and, things being what they are in this world, it wasn’t long after he got started that he had competition. The second moving picture house was the one in the old Occidental. Hotel at Hook’s corner of Washington and Illinois Sts. It was run by Mr. Gillihan who, ap‘parently, knew what they were doing in New York and approved of it because he called his place the “Nickelodeon.” It didn’t faze Mr. Sutherland in the least. He kept right on calling his place the “Bijou Dream.” As a matter of fact, the old Bijou kept going (without Mr. Sutherland’s help, however) until about 15 years ago when it was torn down to make way for the building now occupied by the Security Trust people. Res LANE :

Jane Jordan— Seek to Solve Problem of Parental

Control at Home, Girl, 19, Told.

FAR JANE JORDAN—My problem is the old problem of a parent who is too strict. I am 19 years old and have been working for more than a year. My brothers and sister and I always have had all the affection we could desire, but there have been several occasions when my father has become very angry at my wish to have boy friends. He is always ready to criticize anyone whom I might date, and I was not allowed to have dates at all until after my graduation from high school. I know that this attitude is purely one of protection on his part, but I do be forbidden the harmless companionship that he would deny me. Do you think this problem is serious enough to justify my leaving a home where everything else makes me happy? The situation is apparently settled now, at least to father’s satisfaction, but I know that this same trouble ‘will come up again. He does not want me to care for any= one. Can you help me? | TROUBLED ME.

Answer—I think you should try to work out your problem at home first since everything else is so favorable. : After all you are only 19 and as you grow older the chances are you'll be given more freedom. It is hard to keep a girl in her twenties in a childish position and more parénts give it up. However, if it doesn’t work out this way and your father still tries to keep you away from men, you'd be smart to leave, A good way to leave home with the minimum of hard feelings is to get a job out of town and give a better business opportunity as your excuse. I imagine you're afraid of your father. He's always been able to intimidate you and bend your will to his. You're older now and you have the advantage of knowing that he is dead wrong in interfering with your adjustment to the other sex. Stand up for yourself. Insist on your rights. You don’t have to get mad about it. In fact anger weakens your case because it shows that you still aren’t entirely sure of yourself. What you need is a cold, inflexible purpose which will not yield to unjust parental domination. Your father is bound to be impressed when he en=counters such an attitude, His affection for you will arouse the fear that he will lose you if he doesn't loosen the rein. ’ »

» » EAR JANE eae: am a boy 19 years old, J Because 1 was out of work last fall I stopped sees, ing my girl friend. Later I found out she really cared for me. 1 want to know whether or not I should go back to see this girl and try to patch things up. She feels that I owe her an explanation. Her parents treat me as one of the family but now I wonder what they would say if we should go together again.

Answer—By all means go after the girl again, Why didn’t you tell her why you quit coming in the : first place? lain your predicament. She will be glad to hear that it wasn’t lack of interest in her that kept you away. JANE JORDAN. Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, who will answer your guestions in. this column daily.

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