Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1938 — Page 13

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle -

Some Patients Say They're Helped

By Dr. Locke's Unusual Treatment; ~ Others Say It Does Little Good,

LIAMSBURG, Ontario, Aug. 19.— For three-quarters of an hour today I stood and watched the “miracle” treatments of Dr. M. W. Locke, the famous Canadian foot manipulator. It was, in a way, one of the most fantastic rites I have ever witnessed. ~ In those 45 minutes he treated about 85 people.

Each one paid him a dollar. He did not speak. ‘o

more than 10 of them. I mentally “held the watch” on some of them,

- and their treatment was over in |

five seconds. With one exception, no person, received more than 30 seconds of the doctor's time. " ‘By 9 a. m. a couple of hundred patients are waiting around the “pavilion” next to the doctor’s » house. Many are in wheel chairs. Many come on crutches. Many can walk, limpingly. Many appear outwardly to be perfectly all right. They bring folding chairs and Mr. Pyle camp stools, and just sit around 3 : chatting as though it were a picnic. This pavilion is probably 30 feet square. It has a roof, but no sides. The floor is wood. From the outer edge, 11 chutes lead toward the center. The chutes are made of ordinary inch-piping, forming railings. . At the inner end of each chute is an ordinary wooden chair, for the patient. The 11 chutes do not quite complete a circle. There is a blank space left, .big enough for three wheel chairs. Early patients have filled the first spaces. Suddenly the doctegr appears from the house. He walks to the center of the circle of patients, and sits down in his swivel chair. _ There are no preliminaries. Dr. Locke says _ nothing, takes the first extended foot on his knee. He does- no exploratory feeling around. Quickly he places his thumb on the inside, presses, gives the foot a twist, then bends the toes down, and pushes hard. He, reaches for the other foot, ard does the same. A couple of feet behind him, his son Parker works. Parker takes the patients’ dollar bills and stuffs them in his dad’s hip pockets. _ ‘Before I left at the end of 45 minutes, Dr. Locke had to stop and empty his hip pockets. Those who are badly twisted and drawn get more than just the foot twist. Occasionally Dr. Locke ‘will take a hand, bend and twist the fingers. Then Parker will take a forelock on the patient's shoulders and elbow, and Dr. Locke will apply pressure—trying to straighten the bent, rigid arm.

Few Complain of Pain

' Occasionally a patient will give a little cry of pain. But that comes usually from those not in such bad shape. You never hear a sound from the wheel chair patients, who suffer the most. That is what touched me most during those 45 minutes—the casual stoicism of the people. They are here with their last grain.

of hope. Just in those 45 minutes I saw" people of every class and description, all brothers under the skin of pain and last hope. There seemed to be more women than men. There were & few real old ones, and a few little children. But the majority were of middie age. 3 Dr. Locke told me about a third of his work is charity. But of the 85 who received treatment while I watched, there wasn’t a single one who didn't pay. "While standing in the chute watching, I talked with a boy whose mother was next in line. She had had the fin, and it left one leg stiff, and without cirelation.» They had -heen here a week. The boy said his mother seemed improved. : A few minutes later I stepped into a nearby drug store. Two women patients were passing the time of day. One of them said, “I’ve been here a week, and he hasn't helped me a bit.” That's the way it goes.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Forgets to Stop for Toll Collector on New York Bridge.

EW YORK, Thursday.—Mrs. Scheider and I left Hyde Park yesterday afternoon a little after 4 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Gray left us just before this to go back to our old home in Tivoli, N. Y., for a few days. 1 would have felt very sad to see them go if they were not returning on Sunday to spend a little more timz with us. | The drive down was very pleasant and we made good time. But, as we neared the city and I saw the lines of traffig going out of New York, I realized it would not be well to leave the city at the hour when most people were leaving their work for the day.

This was the first time that Mrs. Scheider has been in New York City since early June, so when we crossed the Henry Hudson Bridge she noted the fact that it was now a two-way proposition. I was so busy talking that I went by the toll official and she wasn’t able ta drop her 10 cents into his hand. I had to back up to pay the toll. The official looked a little annoyed and I did not blame him, for I realized that I had treated him very much the same way we used to treat the rings we caught as we went by on the merry-go-round. I thought we might be tempted to go to the theater last night but it was so warm that after dinner on the porch I did a little writing before going to bed. It seems cooler today and I think it will rain.

I expect to spend a good part of the day going through the things which we have in storage with’ John and Anne, in the hope that they may find some things which may be- useful to them in furnishing their apartment. : : : A pathetic letter has come to me dealing with the conditions of workers who harvest and can fruits and vegetables up and down the West Coast. Of course, _ these conditions are not confined to the West Coast —they exist wherever we have migratory workers who follow the crops through the different seasons.

Familiar With Problem

This letter points out the fact that housing conditions are bad, that the children have little opportunity for schooling and that wages are not of the best. - I do not need this letter to point out these

conditions, because they are already familiar to me. The problem is a very difficult one. The nature of | the industry makes it necessary to have a migratory

population of workers, and yet I do not feel that the industry itself has ever made a concerted effort to get these workers together with the owners and work out some .plan by which housing, schooling, health and general living conditions could be safeguard

.

* 1 realize that this is not easy, but it would be far easier if there were more organization and good will on both sides. In certain places the Government has

taken some steps to help improve housing for these :

groups. I do not know whether it should remain a Government function, for the only way really to deal with industrial questions is to“have the industries and workers co-operate, and only ask such help of Government as may be found necessary.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.—There’s an old sayin’ that lL it takes two to make an argument.and I've always found that one is jest’ about as much to blame as another. : I use’ta live with an aunt and an uncle till he started arguin’ with her and it got so noisy, I had'ta move out. rt : time later I met my uncle on the street and asked him if the argument was still going on over at his‘ house and ‘he says, “No—the argu- : all over | with—I'm: back to 1 ’ again.”

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“Bad luck,” they said, has caused the problem to become acute during their term of office. Until recently, officials said they were reluctant to take steps to correct the situation because of the additional expense which

would result.

Street Commissioner Fred K. Eisenhut said he had planned to request more men and equipment but had been advised by Mayor _Boeteher not to do so. However, the, closing of oné bathing beach and reports of pollution in several other = locations. caused Mayor Boetcher to include a request for $15,803.50 to hire 13 more men and purchase two new trucks in the budget. ® 2 = T= City Council at its first hearing on the proposed budget “tentatively” approved the

tion. “Indianapolis sewers are in

terrible shape,” City Engineer Henry B. Steeg told the Council. “We have 260 miles of sewers and we are in for a large share of ‘trouble. Sewers here have been neglected 20 years. and the increase in the number of air conditioning systems aggravates the situation. plant now is pumping 20 per cent more than it did last year.” Paul C. Wetter, Indianapolis ' Federation of Civic Clubs president, and Toney Flack, West Side civic leader, termed the Administration’s past policy “shortsighted.” Mr. Wetter urged the building of separate storm and sanitation sewers. “If the men now employed were hired on a basis of efficiency, they could clean out the sewers without the help of additional men,” he said. “But if a half-cent increase in the tax levy is needed to take care of the sewers properly, I don’t believe the Administration would be criticized.” The $15,000 request would bring 2 one-third cent increase in the evy.

Side Glance

item subject to further investiga-

The sewage disposal

The : City's :

Granting of Budget Req

This storm sewer empties into Fall Creek near Balsam Ave. It was dry foday, as it should be during dry weather. But when rain falls, the theory behind the “combination type” sewer breaks down and sewage is spilled over the interceptor dam into the Creek. .-City officials said this is a frequent source of stream pollution, but to eliminate it would

"THE pollution of Marion County streams, which health and civic leaders charge is a menace to public health, will be alleviated partially by the inclusion in the City’s 1939 budget of funds to hire more men and buy additional trucks for the Street Department, City officials said today. While two civic leaders said the present situation is the result of “short-sightedness” by the present Administration, City officials blamed excessive rains this’ year and poor sewer planning of previous administrations.

OST of the vast sewer mnetwork .that honeycombs Indianapolis was built many years ago, Mr. Steeg explained. The sewers, many of them large enough to hold a team of horses, carry both storm and sanitation water, he said. Dams have been built into them so that the heavier sewage waste drops to the bottom and into a pit, then into another sewer known as an interceptor sewer. From there, it is carried to the $3,000,000 sewage disposal plait at 2300 S. Harding St., treated, and the clear excess water passed off into White River. wri $y ;

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mat sewer con tinues beyond the dam, which d verts the sewage into interceptor

sewers. : The theory of the combi-

nation sewer is that it will be dry beyond the dam'in dry weather, Mr, Steeg said: Then when a storm strikes the ‘city, the sludge will sink to the bottom and fall into the interceptor sewer, while the storm water flows over the

* dam and thence into a creek.

That is the theory. But in actual: practice, storm water kicks up sludge to such an extent that some of the sanitation waste inevitably is carried over the dam and into the creek, Mr. Steeg said. This is one source of pollution.

NOTHER is the age of the sewers here. Many of them are falling in, Mr. Steeg said. If a cavein occurs in most parts of the sewer, the only result is a stoppage which causes water to backup into basements, Mr. Steeg explained. But if the cavein occurs at a dam, it causes a clogged condition which prevents sanitation ' waste from falling into the interceptor sewer. Instead, the sewage flows over the dam and on into the creek, Mr. Steeg said. : A third source of pollution is the sewage disposal plant itself, according to Donald Bloodgood, plant superintendent. During heavy rains, the plant is unable to handle the vastly increased flow which enters it, he said. 5 For not only does some sewage go into streams during storms, but

‘some storm water accompanies

sewage to the disposal plant, Mr.

‘Bloodgood explained. As a result,

the surplus flow, containing raw

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This is another Indianapolis storm sewer. Like e one shown above, it should be dry during dry the But while workmen were . repairing a broken sewer caused by an underground river that

weather.

Concealed deep in a thicket-grown field near Grande Ave. and W. Vermont St., this sewer mouth spews forth all the untreated sewage and storm water from Speedway City. The waste flows about 200 yards through a ditch, then empties into Big Eagle Creek a short distance downstream from a swimming beach. O. R. Mann, Speedway City Town Board member, said no plans are being made for a disposal plant. .

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_ Aves, they were forced fo divert sewage as well as spring water into this storm sewer. “Here the diverted waste flows into White River. City Engineer ° termed the amount of sewage thrown

caved in 58th St. between Carrollton and Guilford into the river here “negligible.”

sewage is diverted without treatment into White River, he said. These are three sources of

. pollution that exist normally with

the combination type of sewage system. But in emergencies, such as that which arose recently, the situation is aggravated greatly. 8 lightning struck the ¥V pumping station at Meridian

‘St. and the Canal, which pumps

sewage from the lowlands over a rise of ground and thence to the disposal plant, the pump was put out of commission for. about 20 hours, Mr. Steeg said. As a result, all the raw sewage from the area was dumped into White River. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, ordered the 26th St. Municipal bathing beach closed. Laboratory tests have disclosed that some typhoid fever bacilli exist in the water—enough to lead health officials to order the beach to remain closed while more tests are made. : The stream was polluted further

by diversion of sewage from the

58th St. sewer, broken by a surge o water from an underground

Pollution has forced City officials to forbid swimming in Fall Creek for many years, Dr. Morgan

Oscar F. Smith, Triangle Boulevard Civic Club president, declared that Fall Creek pollution has low-

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JDOGUE'S RUN has been termed

“an open sewer” by Carl Kortepeter, Marion County WPA director. Property owners asked the Works Board recently fo enclose the stream. 8, Stewart Imhoff, Isaac Walton League White River chapter president, said he probably will suggest- that his club map an antipollution program this fall and carry its protest fo.health and planning officials. He declared the rigid State antipollution law has not been enforced vigorously enough here. . Possible solutions to the problem are two, City officials said: 1. Complete revamping of the City’s sewer system to separate sanitation and storm water. 2. Repair of the present sewer and employment of enough men to keep them cleaned properly. Either of these, Mr. Steeg and Mayor Boetcher said, virtually would eliminate both * pollution

and backing up of water into -

streets and basements. 2 8 =

. STEEG dismissed the first possibility with the comment, “It would cost millions of dollars.” He said it would entail “double-tracking” practically the entire sewer system. , “1 have been catching the heat

for a sewer system I inherited,”

he said. “Double-tracking to separate sanitation and stormwater would practically stop

pollution, and it would eliminate

water backing up. ’

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“The City sewers 'were built years ago, before the City began to grow. Note that most complaints come from the East and North Sides—those. sections which have grown the fastest. The best we can do is to repair our present sewers and keep them cleaned out? - The Mayor said he would seek additional WPA aid for sewercleaning. Mr. Kortepeter said he. has men available but that the City has not asked for them. He added that many of the sewers are so clogged it’ is no ‘longer possible to drag them clean but that men

- must go down into them with

wheelbarrows to clean them. g Mayor Boetcher “declared that part of the clogging which results

in pollution and flooded basements is the fault of citizens who throw {rash into gutters. » # 2 help correct deficiency of the sewage disposal plant, the City is to uction immediately of two additional settling tanks. = . However, Mr. Bloodgood said, the City never will expand the plant to eliminate completely source. : Streams polluted by City sewers are White River, Fall Creek, Pogue’s Run and Pleasant Run.

Speedway City, without any sew-

age disposal plant, dumps its en-

tire sanitation waste into Eagle -

Creek directly across the stream from a swimming beach, O. R.. Mann, town board member, said.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

~ 1—In what year was the capital

of the U. S. moved to Wash- :

ington? : 2—_For what invention is EH Whitney famous? ex 3—What is. the name’ of the’ science which treats of coins and metals? Lon 4—Does Maine extend farther Borth shan the State of

ly 2? : 6—Will a body weigh ‘the sam at the equator as at- the poles? 1° : co "7—In - which country ‘is’ the beautiful Loch Lomond? 8—Which is the lightest metal?

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Nashington By Raymond Clapper European Situation Has Reached a

Point Where It ‘Is Impossible for The U. S. to Conceal Its Anxiety,

- (Anton Scherrer Is on Vacation)

VV ASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—It is no longer. i possible for officials of this Governe ‘ment to conceal their grave anxiety over the situation in Europe. The situation has - reached the point where they feel impelled

- |: to make public efforts to try to hold the sit-

uation in check. , President Roosevelt's significant address at E

“| ton," Ontario, was preceded by an equally strong

.warning to dictator countries from . Secretary of State Hull. Also significant is the unannounced departure for Europe this ° week of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. This will be publicly spoken of as his regular summer . vacation trip to Europe. Buf this year it will be far more than that. Mr. ‘Welles, the most astute career diplomat. in the State Department, . & veteran of years’ service, will provide Wi with the most re‘ilable estimate of the situation in A Europe that it is possible to obtain. rorya scares have been coming Mr. Clapper )m_ Europe so long that we in this country ha become’ inoculated to alarming headlines hey it Ne e here to appreciate the tension which exe

ists in Europe at this moment. :

Private reports from Central Europe tell of the most elaborate preparations going on arin News dispatches describe how the German Army mobilization for maneuvers is being accompanied’ by the unusual mobilization of ' civilians . for emergency work, construction of fortifications and the like. All of this as the. crisis over Czechoslovakia approaches with the forthcoming report of Lord Runciman. at Kingston, President Roosevelt made hie SAoeguonally Significant staisment: } you assurance t the le of United States will not stand idly by De tile i Canadian soil is threatened ‘By any other em

A Suggestive Effect The pledge itself has long-range significance but it is intended to have suggestive effect upon the ime mediate European situation. There is no prospect in the foreseeable future that any other empire will attempt to take Canada away from Great Britain and dominate it. But Mr. Roosevelt, by. building his address around such a pledge, gives warning ‘to nations which threaten the peace of the world—which already have broken it with regional wars—that the United States stands strong to defend the Western hemisphere. It is possible that the President’s i : sufficiently comprehensible to give iS nga ll ve repeated warning that international iawlessness should doin a Bo o T weigh the words of other Den a x Toe of military force. Advice is recognized as good only when it comes from a source qualified to speak—and the primary qualifications to take the floordlepends on the armament which the speaker carries in his hip pocket. It's a crazy world but try to get out of it.

Jane Jordan—

Girl Shouldn't Object to Fiance's Casual Date With Somebody Else,

EAR JANE JORDAN--I am a girl of 16 and I am very dissatisfied. I met a boy about three months ago whom I loved at the time, but my love for him is failing now. My parents, who think a lot of this boy, have told me that if we quit’ I couldn’ have any more dates, and that they wouldn't take me

any place. Do you think my parents have’ the right attitude? PEGGY.

. Answer—It just isn't in the cards for a girl to love a boy forced on her by her parents. At 16 a girl wants to be respected and treated as an adult. Unless her parents recognize this fact, she is apt to revolt against their authority. Your boy friend has made a mistake in getting the family lined up on his side. Mf he was smart enough to incur its disapproval, you'd probably fina him more attractive. _ = : . . Of course your parents won't deprive you of other dales if you quit this boy. This is only a useless threat and an untenable position which they could not possibly hold for long. If you don’t like the boy, quit him by all means and your parents will get over it in e. 3 3 ® ® 2

T\EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been going with.a fellow for three months and I am very much

| in love with him. Ws were planning to get married.

“Then after he left on his vacation, a very good friend

came to me with the story that she had seen him with another girl. Should I tell him I found this out or should I go on with him as if nothing had happened? Should I believe him or my friend? Please help me out. . BEWILDERED.

. Answer—Is this such a serious problem? If your ‘boy. friend is still devoted and wants to marry you, why: should you object to a casual date with another

incident and don’t be upset j . She isn’ really in

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer yur questions in this column daily.

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