Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1938 — Page 14

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938

FOR A TRAFFIC ENGINEER HE City budget now awaiting the Council’s approval contains one item we hope will not become the victim of partisanship or politics when it is considered. That is the $2500 request of Police Chief Morrissey for employment of a full-time traffic engineer. : : A graduate civil engineer with specialized training in traffic engineering, this expert would be hired by the Safety Board and would be responsible to it. He would conduct _a survey of the entire city, making a complete study of traffic accidents, their cause and cure. In addition to submitting recommendations to the Safety Board, he would consult with the City Engineer and Works Board with a view to safety on proposed street improvements. It has been shown that in a city this size the traffic

problem is so complex that no accident prevention program.

that overlooks the engineering angle ‘ean be thoroughly effective. The only progress we have made along this line has been through the part-time efforts of police officials. Certainly $2500 is a modest sum to pay for a scientific ‘ ‘safety attack when one considers that 106 were killed and 2486 injured by automobiles here in 1937 and 40 killed and 1094 injured so far this year. -

OHIO CLEANS HOUSE HIO’S Democratic voters did a good day’s work when they refused to back Governor Martin L. Davey for _ another term and nominated Charles Sawyer to succeed him. Tree Surgeon Davey has given Ohio two terms—four - years—of bad government. He is a grand-standing poli- ~ tician, in whom we have never been-able to see any evidence _ of sincerity, and his administration has been marked by "some particularly sordid scandals. His machine resorted to indefensible methods to win him another nomination, "and his action last year in using state troops to break the “little steel” strike won him a good many votes among "rural Ohioans; who are hostile to the C. I. O. But he was : defeated, and we are glad to see him go back to his tree- ~~ doctoring business. ; Mr. Sawyer, a Cincinnati attorney and a member of the . Democratic National Committee, has served his state ably as Lieutenant Governor. John W. Bricker, who.was unopposed for the Republican nomination, has been Attorney General of the State. Both are honorable and decent citizens and, no matter which wins in November, Ohio seems assured of a return to honest government. : £4

OTHER ELECTION RESULTS

HE renomination of Ohio’s New Deal Senator Bulkley

‘was expected. So, too, the renomination of New Deal

Senator Caraway in Arkansas. : ~The only upset was the defeat of New Deal Senator Pope. in Idaho. That was accomplished in part by Republicans who chose to vote in the Democratic rather than “in their own primary—something that is apt to happen whenever-oné party becomes too dominant. . Mr. Pope, in our opinion, has been an exceptionally good Senator. There has never been anything provincial or sectional in his approach to the nation’s problems. His thinking has been national and international. He has been a strong supporter of Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade program and of the Administration’s “good neighbor” policy. We regret his untimely removal from the Senate chamber.

PIONEER = :

DB. FREDERICK TILNEY, who probably knew as much

about the human brain as any man that ever-lived, is dead in New York.

He spent 30 years of a long medical career in intensive study of neurology, became one of this country’s foremost specialists in that field, and never ceased to wonder “that man has shown so little interest in his brain, which controls his work, his happiness and perhaps his salvation.”

One brain institute, Dr. Tilney once said, would be of greater benefit to civilization than a fleet of battleships— might do more to bring about world peace than all the diplomats. He denied that the brain disintegrates with age, and contended that mankind has learned so far to use only about one-fourth of its potential brain power. .. His theories seemed to find strange confirmation in + his own life. Thirteen years ago, at the age of 50, he suf- : fered a severe apoplectic stroke, of a kind from which few . victims recover. Yet Dr. Tilney fought determinedly to “overcome the paraylsis, and survived with sharpened intellect to do his most brilliant and useful work. : We hear it said that there are no more frontiers to con- _ quer. It is not true. Dr. Tilney typified those modern .. pioneers: who have pushed forward a little way into un- :* known territory which, when more fully explored, may be . found to hold a new and different and better world for -- humanity.

_ CORRIGAN’S IDEAL GIRL

A YOUNG man who has flown the Atlantic Ocean by mis4 take must naturally be regarded as an authority on ‘every subject. So it was inevitable that Douglas Corrigan .-should be asked to describe ‘America’s ideal college girl,” ..which he did, as follows: ; > aa ; “The ideal American college girl should not try to ‘emulate movie stars, or anyone else, for the everyday : American college girl is the most beautiful girl in the world, ‘>and she should always look and be her own sweet self. The only ideal a girl should try to emulate is her own dear mothe. An American girl should make use of her education, not for an outside career, but to become a better wife “and mother.” = Su Sls - Nice sentiments, those, even if not startlingly original. ‘Mr. Corrigan has denied that romance has a place in his ‘personal plans. We recall, however, that he also denied intending to fly to Ireland. We shall wait with interest to see whether Mrs. Douglas Corrigan—when, as and 'if

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musicians, who come next.

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ete. oo. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES —— ‘1 Married an Angel’—By Talburt °

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler is

After the Doctor Does His Stuff And Perhaps Saves a Life, Often The Patient Calls_Him a Burglar.

EW YORK, Aug. 11—The problem of medical

and surgical treatment for the masses is cluttered.

with undeserved pity for people who have convinced themselves that they can’t pay the doctor for easing pains or saving their lives, but could do so if

more free goods off their shelves than the members of any other profession, including the actors and They have their gyps and rotters, their publicity-crazy hams and ignorathey do more good for suffering humanity in critical moments than the members of any other calling. : } 2 Of course, it will be argued that they should do this because they are in a position to. That is their job. But the fact is, nevertheless, that they do give this service, and it is a further fact that society doesn’t appreciate the good they do. People overemphasize their mistakes of judgment or negligence, forgetting that a doctor's mistake is more likely to have fatal or, anyway, dreadful con-

sequences than a mistake by a plumber, a grocer or |

a journalist. 8 ® »

HERE are many phases of the question, but I mean to stick to this one for today’s lesson. I am thinking of those who think that $200 is an outrageous price to pay for the removal of an appendix

which has developed the menacing nature of a bomb in the patient's interior. The surgeon gets the victim into a hospital as quickly as possible, gives him a jab of something to relax him and in a very short time is delving around in his giblets without 50 cents on the line to pay for laundering his smock. So the patient gets well, and when the bad news comes he forgets that feeling as of a litter of porcupines frisking about in his abdomen, forgets how scared he was and his alarm for the security of his

dependent family, and calls the doctor a burglar.

Why, he makes only $25 a week, and so, instead :of paying the doctor a dollar a week, as he would pay the installment man for the radio or sewing machine, his policy is to skip it entirely. He forgets, also, that if the surgeon hadn’t done his stuff promptly and well, specialized stuff that nobody but a surgeon could have done, his family would be on the town right now. A Hn : . ee : : I a patient can pay small amounts to a co-operative over a spell of years for treatment which he may need in the future, he can just as well pay a doctor a stated amount each week over a long term for treatment which he has already received. But in

too many cases he just won't, and the doctor is ac--

cused of bearing down on a man who can’t afford to pay for the saving of his life but can manage somehow to come up with the price of many nonessentials. Many doctors nowadays serve patients in the public clinics who are able to pay reasonable professional rates for their treatment. In this way the doctor is

compelled to rob his own family of the just rewards

of his work so that other men’s families may deadhead it. | Patients lie about their income and pretend 'to be in tatters who ought to be told to decide which they value more, their money or their lives. And the ethics of the profession and sentimental sympathy for the invalid are such that if the patient were asked to stand for a frisk to prove his inability to pay, that would be a callous. outrage. : There is more or less larceny in all the human race, and this problem of medicine for the masses would be less difficult if those who can pay were preverited from appealing to public sympathy at the doctor's expense by mingling with the ‘truly destitute.

Business By John T. Flynn If New Deal Can't Cure Depression

It Should Not Impair Bank System. |

EW YORK, Aug. 11.—Two weeks ago Mr. Jesse

Jong of the RFC told the banks they would be. damned if they.didnt loosen up and lend out the

idle billions piling up on their books, He accused them of being too cautious, : Now Mr. Leo Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. warns them that they’ll be damned if they get careless and make loans which are risky. Of course Mr. Crowley is right and Mr. Jones is wrong. Banks hold in trust the money of their depositors. The worst crime they can commit is to grow careless with those funds. There are about 10,000 banks under the sod because they “loosened up” too much between 1920 and 1933. : _And all the evidence that comes along seems to prove that not only is Mr. Jones wrong,\but that apparently he knows he-is. For instance, a leader in the Small Businessmen’s Association which has kicked up so much dust about the plight of their kind, informs me that in the last three months over 6000 applica= tions for loans have been made to the RFC through that organization. These were applications from small businessmen who, presumably, could not get the loans from banks or thought the Federal Government would be a more amiable creditor. . Yet to date the association has not only gotten no action on these Jeans but hasn’t even heard a word from the RFC on them. :

Alibi Sought

The importance of reporting these things is, of course, not to defend the bankers. They have their shortcomings in sufficient abundance. The important thing is not to be deceived by the Government's attempt to create an alibi, to attempt to excuse the failure of its own policies to produce recovery by throwing the blame somewhere else. Mr. Hoover did that. He sought always to show that the great depression originated in Europe. Now Mr. Roosevelt would like us to believe the cause of

the depression is the refusal of bankers to lend and employers t6 hire men. The truth is that while.

neither Mr. Hoover nor Mr. Roosevelt caused the de< pressions of their respective Administrations, neither of them cured the depressions. Their fault lies not in

their failure to understand the causes of the depres-

sions and to do anything effective about them. But if the Administration cannot do anything to

cure the depression it ought not do anything to im--

pair a banking system which is already bad enough.

A Woman's Viewpoint ;

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

ee her death, I hadn't thought about Pearl ' White for years. Yet I say.goodby to her with sorrow. The passing of the greatest heroine of thriller

film serials reminds us again that nothing is certain p

save change. .

Her name conjures up memories of a lost world, world in which men and women were divided sharply into two classes—the good and the bad; in which the hero held the villain in unspeakable contempt, and fete Was no possibility of mistaking the one for the otner, : ! . : :

A sweet nostalgia creeps over me as'I recall the

Pear] White of those days. The smells, the noises,.the

sound of the raucous mechanical out

nical piano banging .those forgotten tunes in the old nickelodeon are vivid- |

ly with me. : oe I remember how I used to sit rigid on the edge of the seat while Pearl dared every danger to avoid the black-hearted wretch who had designs on her virtue

and how, with the last minute help of the hero, she

would emerge triumphant from every peril. = '. How funny they are, how funnier the ideals that made them popular! And how strange to think that With a bump I come back to remembrance of long forgotten things. Goodby, Pearl White! Goodby to the you represent. Goodby to the ethics and principles of the past. Goodby to the theory that a Jans word once given, s better than any legal bond that: spiritual

THURSDAY,

~The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. -

SUGGESTS IMPROVEMENTS FOR INSANE HOSPITALS By Informed Citizen :

During the past few weeks we have read columns of malicious Republican propaganda designed to mislead the public concerning the administration of Your of our five state institutions for the insane. Two of the'institutions are headed { by superintendents who held positions through Republican administrations and two during McNutt’s term. This organized campaign of professional Republican politicians to smear the professional Democratic politicians should not for one instant fool the public-minded citi-

_| zens interested in good government.

“It has been stated that before the

"| Democrats instituted the patronage’ system our hospitals for the insane |"

ranked with the best in the nation. “The truth is they do and aiways have compared with the worst and will continue to, so long as they remain the football of partisan { politics and politicians have the power: to dictate their administration... The incoming Democrats found the buildings in a bad state of disrepair. ' The institutions as a whole were in deplorable condition’ and

| still aré, although to not so great

an extent. Few buildings were erected by former Republican authorities although ' the need for them was great. : Ninety-five per cent of the em ployees at the end of the Republican regime were of that party. The personnel of these institutions has been greatly improved during the last two administrations. Jobs during the past few years have been scarce and the State has been able to -secure a much ‘higher type. of employee ‘for the wages paid than .l'at any other time during the socalled period ‘of prosperity. Few of -the present employees would remain if business conditions improve—so the depression and not the Democrats are responsible for. this, Claims Food Is Poor

Some of the institutions are filthy, with the exception of the few clean wards that are kept so for the benefit of the: visiting public. The food is poor and ill-prepared. ‘Inmates afflicited with disease are employed in some’ kitchens. The much abused attendants are forced to eat this food prepared ‘under such conditions as part of their meager wage. No provision is made for the attendants injured by attacks from patients. Some of them have been killed and seriously injured by insane patients suddenly gone amok. No money is paid as wages when attendants are laid up because of such injuries. If an attendant is killed in the line of duty his fam-

_|ily receives not one cent from the

State and are forced to bury him ‘at their own expense. An average

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con- " troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can , have a chance. Letters must ~~ be signed, but names will be . withheld on request.)

13 hours of continuous duty a day is performed by attendants who must be on their wards by 6:30 p. m. and sleep amid the stench and ‘odors of the wards with cockroaches for bedfellows. This schedule is seven days a week. Is it any wonder an attendant wanders off ‘occasionally? : : Many of our former fellow citizens unfortunate enough to have become inmates of ‘these institutions are sorely in need of medical and surgery service, for which no provision is made by the State. There is only one doctor .to an average of from 300 to 500 patients.

Almost all the time of two of the

four doctors at each institution is

‘taken up meeting the visiting mem-

.bers of patients’ families, advising ‘them as to the patients’ conditions and progress, which means only one doctor to an average of from 600 to 1000 patients. No Surgeons Employed . With fully equipped hospitals where surgery could be performed, not one surgeon is employed by the State in these institutions. A patient must await his turn on the long waiting list to be committed to the Long Hospital. In some cases,

years pass before the much-needed ‘surgery is secured. |

The present complimentary trustee setup should be abolished. Each trustee collects $25 per month from phe State for his or her presence for a few hours at the institution. The following is a list of sugges=tions which if carried out will eliminate most of the evils responsible for present conditions: 1. Divorce the present Welfare

A PICKET FENCE By VIRGINIA POTTER She always admired a picket fence, Painted white, around a home; To her.it seemed a paradise That quelled desire to roam.

So he built for her a picket fence, And bought a house and lot, But by the time he understood her

dreams, she had forgot. DAILY THOUGHT He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.—St. Matthew 11:15.

OD offers io every mind its choice between fruth and pose.—Emerson,

Department and complimentary

trusteeships from the management .| of ‘these institutions.

2. As the welfare and health of the inmates of these institutions is a doctor’s problem, appoint a board of 10 doctors selected from the A. M. A. directory and give them com-

‘| plete authority over. the operation

of these institutions and allow them sufficient salary and expenses to interest doctors of ability. : 3. Grant the superintendent of

each institution full authority to

operate it as he sees fit and hold him responsible for its operation.

4. Increase the wages and shorten |

the hours of attendants. 5. Appoint a jury of citizens to Sheek their operation from time to me; Wr i This letter is written solely in the interest of good government and the welfare of the patients. The writer has first-hand knowledge of the operation of these institutions.

PUBLIC WELFARE DIRECTOR GIVES HIS VIEWS ; By Thurman A. Gottschalk, Administrator, Department of Public Welfare - - = - After reading the above letter, I will say that I cannot agree with all of the statements, yet I am of the opinion that the writer is more or less familiar with the operation of our state institutions. I think that without exception our institutions are kept immaculately clean. There is need for a study of | the dietetic problems in each of our hospitals and I am sure that some correction can be made. We are planning to do this at the present time. The writer. is absolutely correct in his statement that our attendants are underpaid. and work too many hours. We cannot have. intensive, complete supervision when the attendants must work 14 hours ouf of 24 and be on call the other 10.

- Our building program was. started

with funds provided by the last General Assembly and most of you know that the special session that has just adjourned has made provision for new buildings at practically all of our hospitals, and I think that when these are completed we will have corrected th overcrowded conditions. : These institutions belong to the people of the State of Indiana and

I only wish that the citizens of the |.

state: would take more interest in them and take just a little time to

make a personal visit and see for |.

‘themselves what the State of In-

- diana is trying to do for its un-

fortunate wards. : We have a program of medical care outlined that should bring Indiana to equal, if not surpass, the care and service of any other state. Whether this program can be placed into effect will depend upon the action of. the Legislature in ap-

ree

propriating sufficient funds, -

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EXPLORE YOUR MIND

_By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

8 EY THE STORY OF HEREDITY . }. OULD i

| NERE beau | IN YOUR WIVES IT > je J SNA THE | | the homell {Eni | | ned ELSE.

INYHONEL 1 up, better

Jobs. - : Alt ) : SE

2 WE DON'T have to choose between beauty and ‘brains be-

| cause’ they.

heredity.

looking than stupid people. : rE

|| 3 THE LATE J. David Houser | &) shows that workers of all

grades rate “money” far below the

ne | | “desire for being understood and|

now called “emotional adolescents.” | The ‘world is full of fools of this| +4 | kind. They have plenty of “intellech | { tual development” but are babes in | the woods looking . helplessly for |.

UG. 11, 1938

BEACH, Del, Aug. 11—This is a “guest

| B columnist” deadbeating stunt. In his field my

commentator was the greatest who ever lived. He is dead now. He wrote this in 1919. We are being told that colossal debt, taxes and spending are blessings and that Government can do for people what the old copybook maxims said they must do. for theme selves. My guest doubted this. He pretends here that he was reincarnated in all geologic ages and always found men breaking those copybook axioms—and suffering for it. By “gods of the market place” he fears | white rabbit - artists—like some third New

i A°® I pass through my incarnations in every age . .and race, . = wo ds sil I make my proper prostrations to the gods of the market place. ’ Peering through reverent fingen: I watch: them flourish and fall, Sel And the gods of the copybook headings, I notice, oute last them all, : . i

We were living in trees when they met us, They showed us each in turn . That water would certainly wet us, as fire would cer- : tainly burn : : But we found them lacking in uplift, . vision and ; breadth of mind, ] : So we left them to teach the gorilla while we followed . the march of mankind. :

We moved as the spirit listed. They never altered their pace, . : : Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the gods of the market place, : ti But they always caught up with our progress, and S presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome. . . « :

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N the carboniferous epoch we were promised abundance for all, : By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Pauly But, though we had plenty of money, there was noth "ing our money could buy, = And the gods of the copybook headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

Then the gods of the market tumbled, and their | smooth-tongued wizards withdrew, fa And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe if was true : That all is not gold that glitters, and two and twa make four 1 And the gods of the copybook headings limped up to + explain it once more, ;

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of man--There are only four things certain since social proge ress began; ‘ ‘That the dog returns to turns to her mire, And the burnt fool’s bandaged back to the fire; -

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins Le g When all men are paid for existing and no man must : pay. for his sins, As surely as water will wet us, as surely as fire wil burn, .. 3 mh : The gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return!

Of course, the “guest columnist” was Mr. Kipling,

It Seems to Me ‘By Heywood Broun 7

. Propaganda Gets Your Columnist All Excited Over Cochrane Affair,

NEV. YORE, Aug.:11. ~The Daily Worker has gone :\ to bat upon the case of Mickey Cochrane, of the Tigers. I picked up a copy of this radical sheet by mistake in the subway yesterday. : : " The sport page featured a column “On the Scoréboard—By Lester Rodney.” Imagine my surprise and horror to ‘discover that the baseball expert of the Worker was using the summary dismissal of Mickey Cochrane as a text to question the gratitude of big league magnates. Ls : “It’s a thankless task, this working for millionaire owners like Briggs and Wrigley, who sit in their front office and play with the jobs of their men as the whim strikes them,” whined this outside sports writer, According to Rodney, of the Worker, Mickey Cochrane took a laggard team in 1934 and won the pennant. The next season he added a World's Series victory, and in 1936 and 1937 he brought his team home in second place. In the latter year he kept on catching while he was sick and was beaned and almost killed. Now he is tossed out without notice. Mr. Briggs builds auto bodies, and maybe he finds it difficult to distinguish between a dented fender and a ball player with a fractured skull. Scrap iron is scrap iron in men or materials. :

Let's Get This Straight Sg

But hold on. What's happening? Those last tw sentences weren't in the Worker at all. I made them up right out of my own head. That's what ‘propaganda will do to you if you don’t watch out. Ahashed and repentant at being taken in by the sihooth words of Rodney, the Red, I jumped out at the next subway station, and procured a copy of the New York Times. To my surprise I found that his facts were correct. It was only his implications which were wrong. John Kieran in the Times stated the sound position which every rooter should take. “The Detroit ball club,” he wrote, “is the property “of Mr. Walter O. Briggs, the big body man, and nobody should try to tell him how to run his business, He hired Gordon Stanley Cochrane, He fired Gordon Stanley Cochrane. That's his business.” It is disheartening to learn that when Cochrane was asked if he intended to come back as a baseball manager he said: “If those things can happen to you, then that kind of job is not for me> = Where's his gratitude?” When he lay at the door of death after his skull was fractured in a ball game, . Mr. Briggs paid all his hospital bills. ie

his vomit and the sow re~ finger goes wabbling

| Watching Your Health.

By Dr. Morris Fishbein a HE human being is normally slightly alkaline in L his reaction. The secretions of his stomach are rarely abnormally acid. When they are, it means that he is suffering with diabetes, Bright's , or poisoning 6f one kind or another. et The stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin for digesting proteins. When the amount of free hydrochloric acid in the stomach is higher than nore ‘mal, the condition is called hyperchlorhydria, =. “Even in normal persons there are great differences in the amount of free hydrochloric acid that is poured out by the stomach. It is said that about 4 per cent

1 of people do not have any hydrochloric acid in their

| gastric juice, and that as many as 10 per cent of peo ‘ple have less than average. So | + Therefore, while an excess or a slightly

“amount of’ hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice may

be considered as of interest, it is not necessarily a

{ symptom that something very serious is wrong.

Usually, excess acid in the stomach is associated with excessive work, excessive worry, imperfect choice oof food, ovérindulgence in tobacco or alcohol, in spices OE oe sua] 000. inguin the agid saBienkot Sometimes there is a change in the acid confent.c the gastric juice in conditions like appendicitis or in- ‘ flammations of the gall bladder. IER a

th| Before doing anything, however,

inthe stomach, it is well to consult a-doct