Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

Newspaper Without Inhibitions Is More Interesting to Ernie Than Ohio * Island's Publicized

: PUT-IN-BAY, 0., Aug. 2.—One of the reasons the boosters tell you to come to the ' Lake Erie Islands is to see their marvelous ‘caves. There are three of them, about a quarter of a mile back of the town of Put- - in-Bay. But I am forced to say, as a veteran of Carlsbad

Caverns and numerous pirate hangouts during my |

youth, that these are pretty poor caves. They are about five-minute caves. They are cold and damp. And all the stalactites were broken off and carried away by tourists before the owners actually started showing the caves as a budiness. Much more interesting than. the caves, to me at least, is Put-in-Bay’s funny little weekly newspaper. It is published by the men who own the Crescent Hotel, Herman's Bar, the bicycle concession, the park : penches and a few other things. = #454 The paper is fundamentally to pubMr. Pyle licize their business, but they cover the news, too, and sometimes riotously. For instance, down among the personal items, you'll suddenly run onto something like this: “The captain and mate of the yacht Sea Hag can usually be located sleeping on Roy Wepster’s woodpile.” Or among the ads: “Bicycles for rent. Special rates to drunks.” Some of the citizens of Put-in-Bay are afflicted with periodic bouts with demon wine. The local term for this affliction is “June bug fever.” So, frequently in the, columns of the Gazette you will read that “no cases of June bug fever were reported to the Board of Heéalth this week.” Or that “So-and-So (actually giving his name) is eating ice cream cones this week after a protracted case of June bug fever.” At just the opposite end of the scale of seriousness is a group of men on an island right inside Put-in-Bay harbor, not a quarter of a mile from Herman's Bar. , They are professors and scientific students at the Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, a division of Ohio State University. : They inhabit a romantic spot. It is the nine-acre island where Jay Cooke, the famous financier of the Civil War, spent a good part of his life. It remained in the Cooke family until 12 years ago.

A Job for Politicians

Then Julius Stone, a wealthy man of Columbus, O., bought it and gave it to the university. Here students and a research staff -work in a new laboratory, sleep in the great stone castle Jay Cooke built in the Sixties, and try to find out about fish. Lake Erie, they say, is the finest field for fishstudy in America. That's because most of its western half is seldom more than 30 feet deep.

The fishing industry here was once a thriving thing. And there are still plenty of bass for the sports fishermen. But the lake has been pretty well “fished out” as far as commercial hauls go.

So this laboratory has two purposes—to preserve ahd recreate fish life in the lake through scientific discovery; and to provide a laboratory where serious research students may do scientific probing in biology and entomology, while they work toward higher degrees. 3 There are two Government fish hatcheries within 100 yards of the laboratory, and they work in con- . junction. Sorry to say, they don't seem to be making an awful lot of headway in restocking the lake with waning types of fish. One of the laboratory staff says that if fishing could be stopped for two years, the lake could be re-

populated, even with fish now extinct in these parts.

But a scientist in a laboratory can’t stop all fishing in Ohio waters for two years. It takes a politician to do that. Yo.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Sees Three Objectives Of Any Long-Term Health Program.

ATCHOGUE, N. Y., Monday.—It is nice to have : your grandchild remind you of something you should have known. The other day, when I showed Sisty my piece of pottery from Ohio, I remarked that I saw no sense in its name, “Wifid in the Willows.” Whereupon she said: “Why, Grandmere, don’t you remember the book?” Faintly it began to come back to me, ail the little animals on the pottery are characters out of the book. : 1t is foggy and damp this morning and I fear that this is ideal weather for mosquitoes. They don’t bother me much, but one’s hosts always feel a sense of responsibility if the weather does not behave. I have had no mail for two days and as a result I have done much reading. First I finished “The Nutmeg Tree” by Margery Sharp. I'found it most amus- * ing and the characters well drawn. If you want something light, you can spend a pleasant afternoon with Julia and the other people who seem so lifelike as they move through the story. I've also read all of the report and some of the speeches made at the health conference, which was held at Washington during the third week of July. It seems to me that many points of view were presented but that it was perhaps too big a gathering for real discussion. I hope that before a five or 10year plan is adopted, we will all have our ultimate objectives clearly in mind. : To me there seem to be three main objegtives. Pirst—We must make medical care available to the low-income groups of the nation. Second—We must not retard research. Our ignorance in many fields is only fully realized by those who know the most and for that reason are able to gauge how little they really know. | Third—We must demand that continuous educaon be available and obligatory for all doctors.

A Question of Education

| We may find that health insugance partially.

answers our first objective, but it cannot answer the others. There were speakers at; the conference who seemed to feel that some system of insurance could be ised to give adequate medical care to all who need it in this country today. They forget, it seems to me, that health to some extent is a question of the education of every individual. Also, medical care is no substitute for adequate food of the right kind, decent housing, a fair wage, and the type of education which will make a decent standard of living possible. It is one thing to realize that you need an emergency operation, but it is quite another to be willing to pay even a small amount for preventive care, or to be willing to take the trouble to do the things which will keep a family well. ah No one plan goes forward alone and they all require an educated people willing to co-operate for the good of the whole people. 7 :

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 2—Sometimes I get kinda discouraged out here in Hollywood tryin’ to act like I know which fork to use and how to read French menus and all that. It sure is wearin’ on a fella. I like things homey and natural like they are down home. For instance like they are at the Van Buren Wholesome Eatery where my Uncle Hod is a waiter. Last time I was in there I called Uncle Hod over and says, “Where's the menu?” He says, “We don’t have any, but there's vegetable soup, beef stew, fried sole, corned beef and cabbage, spaghetti and a small steak.” I says, “My goodness—!

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Potent Magic of Liver Is Vital To Life (Fifth of a Series) By David Dietz Times Science Editor ” POTENT magic Mrks in liver. It is the power to stop the wasting away of the blood known to med- ' ical men as pernicious anemia. But this is not the the only magic in liver. In Japan it was found that many children suffered, from an inflammation of the eyeballs known as xerophthalmia. Medical men found that they could cure this by adding chicken livers to the diet of these children.

This second success was because the -liver is the great storehouse of Vitamin A for the body. In addition to Vitamin A and to the mysterious substance that cures pernicious anemia, liver also contains iron, which is necessary for the blood, Vitamin B1, which protects the nerves and prevents beriberi; and the Vitamin B2 complex which wards off the horrible red death of pellagra. There was a time—and not very long ago either—when the magic or liver was not understood. Those were the days when the butcher gave away a’slice of liver with every generous order meat, and people fed it to their pet cat. The world owes three American Nobel prize winners, Dr. George R. Minot, Dr. George H. Whipple and Dr. William P. y, an everlasting debt of gra itude for discovering the magic in liver.

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ECAUSE of their work, diagnosis of pernicious anemia is no longer a sentence of death. They provided medical science with the cure for another “in-

curable disease.”

It was highly appropriate that Dr. Minot should have been engaged in bringing the gift of life to thousands of his fellowmen, for he himself had received just such a gift at the hands of his fellowscientists. In’ 1921 Dr. Minot developed diabetes. That was before Banting and his associates had discovered insulin.

And so, Dr. Minot, devoting his life to seeking the cure for one disease, was given up to die from another: Then, a year later, the discovery of insulin was announced. Insulin restored him to health, so that he might go on with his studies of pernicious anemia. : Since his youthful days as an interne Massachusetts General Hospital®Dr. Minot had watched patients develop that pale lemon, waxy look that is the outward sign of pernicious anemia, grow weaker. and die. - He had studied their blood under the’ microscope and noticed, as other before him, that the disease was one of the blood. There was a shortage of red blood cells. The common theory of the disease was that some toxin, some poison of unknown origin in the body, killed these cells. : But he also noticed that. sometimes his patients had periods of temporary improvement. When this happened their blood stream showed the presence of baby red blood cells, freshly made cells just released from the bone marrow which is the body's factory for the manufacture of these cells.

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HIS gave Minot an idea — Might not pernicious anemia be a disease in which the bone marrow stops manufacturing red blood cells? : Perhaps it was his own experience with diabetes that made Dr. Minot begin to study the question of diet in relation to pernicious anemia. Examining the new medical literature, he began to note frequent reference to the importance of liver. Lion

The three American doctors Gustav of Sweden. Dr. George H.

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> ik who were joint winners of the 1934 Nobel Prize in medicine Whipple is receiving the medal from the King. Dr. William P.

obscured by Dr. Whipple. At right is Dr. George Minot.

cubs in zoos, failing to thrive on an ordinary meat diet, grew strong on liver.

Various other experiments were: recounted. Most important of these were the ones of Dr. George H. Whipple, dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. animals suffering from hemorrhage recovered most quickly and developed new red blood cells most rapidly on a diet of liver.

Dr. Minot decided to try liver on his pernicious anemia patients. He enlisted the aid of young Dr. William P. Murphy at the Peter nt Brigham Hospital in the

“project. °

In 1926 the two doctors were ready to make the announcement that subsequently brought the Nobel prize to them and Dr.

~Whipple.

But it was necessary for the victims of pernicious anemia to eat half a pound of liver daily to benefit by the live-giving substance within it. This was a difficult task, even though it meant life itself. In time the stomach begins to revolt. > So the next trick was to isolate the potent substance from liver. The first liver extract - was made by Dr. Edwin J. Cohn, of the Harvard University Medical School. Others improved upon the extract. Finally Dr. William B. Castle developed a purified extract so potent that it could be injected into the blood with a hypodermic needle like insulin.

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ERE then was the treatment for pernicious anemia, but

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Decline in Retail Sales Here Less Than Average Loss in State, Report Shows

nicious anemia and what mysterious factor was' that cured. it still remained as much of a mystery as ever. Dr. Castle unders= took to study the problem further. Hydrochloric acid is present in the stomach of normal individuals. It is missing in pernicious anemia. The liver extract did everything for the patient except restore the hydrochloric acid of the stomach. Dr. Castle concluded, therefore, that pernicious anemia had its inception in the stomach. From a long series of experiments Dr. Castle concluded that there were two factors involved

-in the prevention of pernicious

anemia. One which he called the intrinsic factor is present in the

normal stomach. The other, the

extrinsic factor, exists in many foods, among them meat. The two acting together, form the an-

' tipernicious anemia factor which

is stored in the liver. Dr. Castle proved his thesis by showing that when normal gastric juices were mixed with raw meat in a test tube, a substance formed which had the power of curing pernicious anemia. Just how the antipernicious anemia factor acts on the bone marrow to keep the process of manufacturing red blood cells going is not yet known.

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The moral of this story for those who do not have pernicious. anemia is that the body ‘is a very complicated machine indeed and that it depends upon many factors and substances in the diet to keep it going properly. Vitamins, while much in the public eye today, are only a part of the story.

HE average person knows in a general way that the three chief constituents of the diet are carbohydrants, fats and proteins. The carbohydrates and fats provide the fuel which in ifs turn provides the body with its energy. Some protein is also burned up in this fashion, but the chief purpose of the pyotein is to replace the worn out proteins in the cells of the body. = . It is highly important, therefore, to realize that all proteins are not alike. Each variety of protein is formed from the combination of a number of simpler -compounds known as amino-acids. When proteins are eaten, they are broken down into amino-acids by the digestive process and as such circulated through the body by the blood stream.

Each tissue then extracts from

the blood stream the particular amino-acid which it needs for its own cells. Medical men have demonstrated the existence of 21 amino-acids. There is some evidence for the existence of a few additional ones. Animal experiments have shown what happens. when there is a shortage of some important ami-no-acid in the diet. Thus, if young

rats are given a diet that is normal in every respect except that it contains only one protein, namely the protein known as gliadin which occurs in wheat, they fail to grow normally. This is because gliadin does not contain the important amino-acid, lysin, which is necessary for animal tissues. When casein, the protein of milk, is given these rats, they grow normally. ‘A number of similar experiments can be performed with the aid of other proteins that are short in some necéssary aminoacid. The result is always trou‘ble. :

AR-TIME experiences have confirmed these animal experiments. During the French Revolution, gelatin was substituted for beef as the result of a _shortage of food. But gelatin. does not contain the necessary aminoacid known as tryptophan. Widespread ill health was the result. During the World War, the peasants in many parts of Central Europe were deprived of meat and forced to live on a diet lacking essential proteins, These poor people developed swollen and. bloated tissues as a result. | Individuals given to food fads are in particular danger of suffering from a protein shortage because the proteins of greatest value are contained in foods of animal origin, namely, milk, eggs, meat, fish and poultry. . As Dr. Henry C. Sherman of Columbia University, points out, the protein problem is more acute in the case of growing children,

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are shown receiving the award from King Murphy is in the background, his face partly

expectant mothers, and individuals convalescing from wasting diseases. For these individuals are concerned with the problem of building up additional amounts of proteins in their tissues. It will be seen that as is so often the case in dietary matters, the best rule on proteins is the rule of variety. Do not.depend upon one food or one class of foods for your protein. Get your proteins from a variety of sources. In that way you can be certain that you get all the essential amino-acids needed for the proteins of your own body cells. A word should also be said upon the subject of fats. While

‘ persons on diets are inclined to

eliminate fats from their diets, they can carry this entirely too far. © For the body cannot get along without some fats. There is also the danger of eliminating all the sources of Vitamin A along with the fats. ; Dr. Jacob Buckstein of New York points out that the person who eliminates all fats from his diet may be laying the foundation for gall bladder disease. : It is a well-known fact that fats cause the gall bladder to-empty. A shortage of fats, therefore, may lead to a sort of stagnation of the gall bladder. The medical men call it stasis of the bile. He also points out that with, complete elimination of fats, hunger returns so rapidly and -persistently as to make dieting a matter of undue unnecessary misery. :

NEXT—How to plan your diet for maximum health,

NDIANAPOLIS’ retail sales by independent stores dropped less in June than .the. average loss for stores in other cities of the state, according to a report issued today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. In Indianapolis, 77 stores reported June dollar volume 19.5 per cent less than for June, 1937, while the average decline for the state, reported by 593 stores, was 24 per cent. : 0 . The smallest decrease in sales volume for the month was reported by Michigan City, with 11.7 per cent. Gary was highest with 53.5 per cent, South Bend being second with 42 per cent. : Dollar volume of the 77 Indianapolis retail stores fell from $2,280,100 in June, 1937, to $1,836,200 for the same month this year. The volume reported for May was $2,007,400. ; For the 593 firms in the State reporting, the dollar volume dropped to $5,554,100 in Juhe, as compared with $5926,100 in May, 1938, and $7,311,300 in June last year.

HE average decline in June under a year ago for cities with more than 100,000 “population was 25.7 per cent. ‘ Besides Indianapolis, Gary and South Bend, these cities are Evansville, 23.5 per cent, and Ft. Wayne, 25.7 per cent. Hammond reported 37.7 per cent drop; Terre Haute, 12.8; Michigan City, 11.7; Muncie, 22.1. Average declines by population groups included: Cities of 10,000 to 24,999—23.2 per cent; 5000 to 9999—16.3 per cent; 2500 to 4999— 16.3 per cent, and areas of 2499 and less—17.3 per cent. The report, which covers the larger independent stores, represents 92 kinds of business. No adjustment has been made for seasonal influences nor for the number of working days in the months. The bureau reported heaviest loss —46.7 per cent—by motor vehicle dealers. The smallest—7.6 per cent —was experienced by shoe dealers. Percentages of loss for other types of stores were: : Drugs, 8.5; jewelry, 12; dry goods

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and general merchandise, 12.3; department, 12.7: combination grocery and meats, 12.8; total grocery, 13.1; filling stations, 13.4; restaurants, 14.8; country general, 15.3; grocery without meats, 15.9; family clothing, 17; women’s specialty shops, 20.3; total apparel, 20.8; average for State (total sales), 24; men’s and boys’ clothing,” 25.6; lumber and building materials dealers, 27.2; hardware, 27.6; furniture, 39.8, and totel furniture and household appliances, 41.8.

SO THEY SAY—

Harry Hopkins and I don’t allow people to shop back and forth between us.—Harold L. Ickes, PWA administrator, on applications for grants.

T think the best thing for me is a long prison term, so that I can educate myself enough to earn an honest living and prove I'm worthwhile before I get out.—Melvin

Spencer, Philadelphia, pleading

guilty to larceny.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In what river are Muscle ! “Shoals? : 2—Which country lies Belgium? : : 3—Name the U. S. Secretary of the Interior. : '4—Who took the championship ' boxing title away from John . L. Sullivan? 5—What body of water encircles the North Pole? : 6—In what war was the Battle: of Five Forks? Pode 7—Is a child born in China of of the U. S.? : : . . Ei !

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By Anton Scherrer | lt Was Feared for a While That From Ever Obtaining ‘a Postoffice.

about anybody around here who has blue blood coursing through his veins that you

while I tell you about Herbert Foltz. Believe

it or not, his name is really Von Foltz. His grandfather, Frederick, dropped the Von when he came to Indianapolis, and nobody of the Folts family has had the nerve to pick it up again. Maybe, I shouldn't say that ; Grandfather Foltz dropped the Von, As a matter of fact, he stopped just ° short of that. He shortened the Von to V. Anyway, back in the Fifties, the sign on the wagon shop at the southeast corner of Penns sylvania and Market Sts. read “Frederick V. Foltz.” Apparently nobody at the time asked what the hs stood for, aha that’s why it’s ; up to me after hese years (80) to clear up the mystery. Mr. Scherrer Grandfather Foltz ran his wagon shop on that corner until some time around 1856 when the United States Government came along and picked his property for the site of the Indianapolis Postoffice. If was’ a peach of a property, nice location, level as a billiard table and just the site for a heavy monumental building. That's the way it looked on the surface, anyway. On May 2, 1857, the contract for the building now occupied by the American National Bank was let. .Edwin May was appointed superintendent of construction and inside of a month he had his hands full. So much so that on June 20 it was announced that work on the building had stopped. All sorts of wild rumors were floating around, some even to the effect that the contract might:be abandoned. "This apparently occurred because three months later it was announced that s new contract had been made, this time with a “Mr. Agnew of Baltimore” who said he was going to do all he could to push the work. But on Jan. 8, 1858, it was announced that the subcontractor for stonework had chucked his Soniact, leaving the Postoffice abandoned for a secon e. :

| Costigan Tackles the Job

The trouble right from the start was the northwest corner where they ran into quicksand which, apparently nobody knew how to handle. Nothing was done for the next three months and then one day (April 24, 1858) Francis Costigan turned up and said he was going to tackle the job. He said he had just returned from Washington and had a contract for the erection of the building in his pocket. He was tickled pink, he said, because his reputation as an architect and builder had reached Washington, and that’s why they had given him the work. What Mr. Costigan meant, of course, was that he had had a hand in building the Bates House, the School for the Blintl, the Insane Asylum and the first Odd Fellows Building, to say nothing of his magnificent work in Madison which included the Lanier home and the Shrewsbury Hotel. Well, Mr. Costigan evidently knew what he was talking about and his success in disposing of the quicksand is shown by the absolute soundness of the building today. . Shucks, I thought I'd have time to tell you what Grandfather Foltz did with the money he got for his property.

Jane Jordan—

Revenge Motive May Explain Wife's Infatuation Decade After Marriage.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am 35 and have been J married for 10 years to a man whom I respect and admire. I have a very comfortable home, nice . clothes and sufficient means for some little travel each year. However, during the past five years I have been infatuated, or in love (I do not:know which) with another man inferior to my husband in many respects. This man seems to hold a great attraction for me. During these five years I have broken with him time after time, only to back, hating myself each time a little more. I have tried to interest myself in outside matters, books, lectures, charity affairs only to find myself growing more irritable and unreasonable with my husband and my home life, until finally it seemed impossible to stand the strain any longer and I go back to the other man, I realize that I am being unfair, and as I have said I dislike myself tremendously, but on the other hand I do not want to divorce my husband. I suppose 1 want to eat my cake and have it, too. What advice do you offer such a selfish person? : THIRTY-FIVE. ’ ” ” 2 : Answer—There isn't enough information in your letter to enable me to make any but the wildest guess. You have declared your admiration and respect for your husband but I suspect that you have a deepseated antagonism against him. Perhaps you keep this pretty well hidden from yourself because you're so convinced that you ought to admire and respect him; whereas in fact you do nothing of the sort. Perhaps you married the man because he had qualities that you lacked in yourself but thought you ought to have. After vainly trying to like the missing. characteristics which you married to supply, you failed miserably. In choosing his inferior to love, could it be that you were revenging yourself on the man for whom you have admiration and respect but no ‘ine stinctive kinship? If he knew of your infatuation he would be seriously huhiliated. - You haven’t the nerve to tell him, but still you know that you've secretly ‘struck’ at him in a vital spot. Your guilty feelings and self-condemnation are intense enough to cover up whatever satisfaction. you feel. : : I do not know what your youth was like. I do not know how much your parents opposed you in the things you wanted most to do.

sacrifice of their energies and ambitions. More rebellious types break ouf; in later life, as you have done. The solution to your problems I do not know. you understood your own motives you could gain more intellectual control over your conduct. As it is you succumb blindly to impulses which you do not in the least understand and consequently suffer considerably from self-condemnation. One answer to one letter Lis an extremely inaccurate and ineffective way of - Consult a psychiatrist if you can. JANE JORDAN.

Put -your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your "questiony in this column ally.

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