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_ up into clouds within five minutes. For a few minutes .see-only the wing tips. Then gradually the mist would

- Panagra ‘does not allow smoking on its planes, and * that drives you nuts the first day or two. But even

out, and the passengers stand around the station and

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. cabinet members and so on.

: fact, all the passengers > world.

flown with have been swell people. :

. times at 5 and 6 o'clock. Yet it is a nice experience

~My Diary

‘By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

* gether, for I feel sure there are many things she

- ing fo reach me, because it was very doubtful whether ‘the plane could leave and they had therefore taken

Bob Burns Says—

HouLxwoon. Nov. 21.—It looks like everybody

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

South American Air Lines Operated Efficiently and Passengers on Long Flights Soon Feel Secure and Safe.

ANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 21.—Pan-Amer-ican-Grace Airways is known as Panagra. It is that part of the International PanAmerican Airways System which- flies from Panama, down the West Coast to Santiago,

and on across to Buenos Aires. They used to use flying boats, and land only at port cities. But now they use only land planes—the same big silver-colored, all metal, two-engined monoplanes that most of the airlines in the States use." i I am no student of the intricacies of airline operation, but I know that you feel a great security flying on Panagra. They do everything for you, without being ostentatious about it. Things run smoothly. There is no jerkiness of operation, , no confusion. After a few days, flying becomes habit. If you start with a sense of uneasiness, it is soon absorbed into a routine. Despite all the flying I have done, there are times and days pie when I am unhappy in the air. But there has not been an instant of that feeling since we left Miami on this trip. | : Panagra planes fly at around 10,000 feet. We have been as high as 12,500 to get a favorable wind. But at ‘no -time, except for climbing and descending, have we flown at less than 10,000, It is usually chilly in the cabin at that altitude. About a fourth of our entire trip was made above clouds. It became routine for us to take-off and pull

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we would be sealed in by: thick white mist; you could

become whiter and whiter, the cabin would grow lighter, and suddenly we would pop out on top with the sun shining brightly. Then we’d go on up and up, until: the cloud floor lay a mile below us, and only the taller peaks of the Andes stuck up through.

Our shortest flight since leaving Florida was an hour and 15 minutes; our longest was four hours.

I got used to that. | At every stop, the plane is. on the ground at least 15 minutes. The motors are stopped, everybody gets

smoke. At every airport, Panagra has a beautiful little station. Sometimes it is the only flowery oasis in hundreds of miles of pure desert. :

Native Stewards on Duty

Although Latin countries require that a certain percentage of the employees be native, this does not apply to the pilots. |All pilots are from the United States. | The purser-steward is always a native of the country over which you fly. These are boys of exceptional background and education; all of them speak at least two languages; most of them speak

Our passengers have been about evenly’ divided between North and South Americans. We have carried German and French businessmen, and any number of high Latin diplomats—ambassadors, ministers, * / There have been no Indians in ponchos riding the planes, as someone told us there would be. In seemed pretty high up in the

And without an exception, the Americans we have

And another odd thing. Outside of That Girl, there has been only one woman on any plane between. Miami and here. And she was the wife. of & Panagra pilot, coming back from vacation. The worst part about flying is the early gettingup. Twice we have risen at 3:30 a. m.,, and other

at that—to see the sun come up over the mountains of Colombia, or watch a flock of burros vanish into the half-dawn.| There's nothing like a flock of vanishing burros to set a man up for the day.

Visited by First Lady of Nicaragua; Attends Children's Fair in New York.

ASHINGTON, Sunday.—Friday afternoon I-had a most interesting visit from the wife of the President of Nicaragua, Senora Somoza. It means so much to people from the mountainous Central American countries to be able. to travel by air. A trip which might have taken weeks in the old days can now be accomplished in two or three days.

-- She left me a most exquisite sample of needlework. I wish we could have had a longer time to-

would have told me which would have been of great interest to the women of the United States. Later I drove over to Baltimore to give a lecture and then took the night train to New York City. Yesterday morning I attended the Children’s Book Fair, whieh is held this year in the auditorium in Wanamaker’s. Mrs. Rhode, who met me there spoke very charmingly and told a story of her own imaginings which I feel sure appealed to the childrem present. Uncle Remus and his animals were beautifully associated in her tale with the pearly gates.of Heaven and, as I looked back on my own youth, I remembered how blissful it seemed when characters as familiar as Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox could be attached to anything as unfamiliar as the streets of Heaven. I did some Christmas shopping, tried on some winter clothes for the dast time, and entered the Hotel Astor at 12:40 to lunch with the New York Association of University Women. =

Reads New Thomas Mann Book |

It had been gray in the morning and the rain had gradually settled down to a steady downpour, so it occurred to me that I had better find out if the plane on which I had intended to fly back to Washington was scheduled to leave. I called the air line and a very polite voice said that they had been try-

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8 seat for me on the 2:30 train to Washington. This sounded simple, but my heart sank, for I knew that I was expected to speak at the luncheon and might easily be the last speaker. Mrs. Ogden Reid, who is a very good toastmistress, managed to let me speak in between courses and I only hope the guests did not object to having their luncheon interrupted in this manner. At 2:10 I was on my way to the Pennsylvania Station and settled myself on the train to catch up on some reading I had been neglecting. : One little book by Thomas Mann comes out: tomorrow. It is called “This Peace” and, though it is evidently written under the strain of recent events, there is much in its 36 short pages which will be interesting reading even to those who may not agree with his’ point of view. :

: that’s got anything to sell out here in Hollywood figgers the same way. If they can get a moving picture actress to use it and vouch for it, they’re made.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1938

Uncle Sam, M. D.

‘cal profession,

. One actress out here had a little dog that'd lost his appetite so she took him to a veterinary. The veterinary got out a box of dog biscuit that he was | puttin’ on the market and he says “Now you feed these to your dog and you'll find out that he'll love ‘em; and if it does bring back his appetite, I would

like to have a testimonial from you.” . One week later the actress called the veterinary and says “I just want to tell you how hungry my dog is. He broke in my'kitchen and ate up everything!” erything?”. and. she but the dog biscuit!”

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Sound Doom

For Era of Pesthouse

(Third of a Series} By David Dietz

Times Science Editor SQMALLPOX is no respecter of persons. An epidemic that breaks out on one side of the railroad tracks isn’t likely to stay there. - It ‘soon finds its way all over town. It doesn’t even skip the big houses ‘on the hill.’ The same’ thing is true of numerous other infectious diseases, whether spread by direct contact, infected food supplies, or polluted

water supplies. It is for this reason that everyone has agreed for more than a century upon the necessity of one kind of socialized medicine or state medicine or whatever you may choose to call it. Even before Pasteur and Koch had established the germ theory of disease, medical men had noted the connection that existed between disease and such things as bad ‘sanitation, filthy conditions, and the like. Thus contagions were early recognized as constituting a domain of public health and boards of health were created to cope with the situation. By 1848, numerous cities had well organized boards. The first state department of health, that

of Louisidna, was created in 1853. ~

With the establishment of the germ theory of disease in the

880’s, public health work began

o progress from the “pesthouse” stage to its present state. But that progress had been uneven. The resident of a city such as New York or Cleveland, which prides itself upon its health cepartment, has no notion of what conditions are like in some parts of the nation. Many areas are still in the pesthouse stage.

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+A N amazing lack of public health safeguards in many areas of the United States has been revealed by the National Health Survey: conducted by the U. S. Public [Health Service. It is upon these findings tha f item in the medical program to be submitted to Congress this January is based. This is the expansion of state and local health departments and public health services. >t Since all intelligent citizens, both inside and outside the medihave long been agreed upon the necessity of adequate health departments to supervise sanitation, food inspection, the control of contagions, and the like, there seems little reason to suppose that this move will receive any opposition unless an unreasonably large sum is proposed for it. Unquestionably the picture of the situation set forth by the Technical Committee on Medical Care will come as a distinct shock to many citizens of the land who had imagined that public health protection was being vigorously prosecuted everywhere. “Unfortunately,” says the committee, “the existence of a health department does not always indicate that the community has a complete or adequate health program. For example, less than a third of the counties and even a Shaler proportion of the cities employ full-time, professional

" health officers.

The village and township health officer more often than not is some local ‘lay citizen who takes time out from ‘his other work to inspect nuisances or tack up quar-

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|“States’ expend through their health departments on the average 11 cents per capita, while some state appropriations fall as low as 3 [cents. Many local official health oreanizations have budgets which figure out to be no more than a few cents per capita.

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The above scenes illustrate the activities of a city health department.

Upper Left — A visiting nurse makes a call.

Upper Right—The kitchen table is this baby’s nursery.

Lower Left—A health officer inspects insanitary premises.

Lower Right—A technician studies cultures to determine the presence of disease germs.

EALTH departments are fairly high on the scale when their annual appropriations reach 50 cents per capita, while the few organizations, mostly large city health departments, having budgets that approach $1 per capita are fortunate indeed.

“With budgets of this low or-

der, health departments are ex-

pected to provide service in laboratory diagnosis, communicable disease control, maternal and child hygiene, protection of food supply, environmental hygiene, and to discharge 2 that may be placed on this agency. A preventive program designed to reach any reasonable degree of intensity obviously is out of the question under such limitations.” The committee points out that a start was made toward remedying this situation under the authority _of. Title VI of the Social

‘Security Act ‘which ‘made rela-

tively smali sums of Federal money available for the use of state and local health departments. Emphasis has been placed on helping the. rural areas. Whereas in 1935 there were only three states in the nation in which every county was served by a fulltime health administration, that number of states has now been brought up to eight. That leaves only 40 more to go! In addition, residents of wellserved cities must not get the impression that the rural areas constitute . the whole problem. The situation, says the committee, is almost as bad in many of our smaller cities and some of our larger ones. “There are numerous urban communities throughout the country,” the committee states, “in

- which health activities today are

under the direction of part-time physicians engaged in private practice or lay health officers, neither possessing training in modern public health administrative practice. ! :

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“YN some of these communities, such health protection as has heen afforded has been largely incidental to improvements instituted for economic or aesthetic reasons, or to ready access of the population to good medical care, rather than to the activity of the health department. In many of our cities the principal health department activity still consists in the inspection of private premises for nuisances having little bearing on public health, and in an attempt to control communicaole diseases by quarantine procedure— a method admitted by leading

health workers to be of little avail in reducing the incidence of communicable diseases. “More specifically, many of the milk supplies for urban communities are still far from being as safe as they should be, and the unsightly, open-back insanitary type of privy still exists in the outlying sections of most of our small cities, with the result that typhoid fever is rapidly becoming

other responsibilities ~ more prevalent in towns and small

cities than in the rural areas.” What President sevelt’s advisers hope Congress will do about this situation is clearly set forth in the committee’s report as follows: “The technical : committee recommends that primary consideration be given to the development

of local health organizations with “t§pecial “reference” to units: _for- - ‘counties and large cities, and to

the provision in the State and Federal agencies of consultants who are equipped to serve the local departments. Local health services will be directed by fulltime health officers who will have as assistants an adequate staff of trained public health workers. The maintenance of facilities for the training of additional public health personnel and allied professional workers should continue. “To further the development of a basic health department structure for the nation, the committee recommends the addition of not less than $23,000,000 to the amount now available from ‘all sources—Federal, State and local. This would be utilized largely for providing = additional full-time health officers, epidemiologists, public health nurses, sanitary enginers, sanitarians, laboratory technicians and other personnel.”

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T= committee quite clearly recommends that this be done “through increased authorization for grants-in-aid to the states.” Congress would be asked to supply half of the $23,000,000, providing this maximum figure was agreed upon. States and local governments would have to provide the other half. Direct “action by the Federal Government would enter this field only,to the . extent of adding additional experts to Federal services who would be available fo the state and local health departments for consultatioy. Such expert consultation is already available through the U. S. Public Health Service and other channels. As already mentioned this pro-

gram may be opposed by those

who do not wish {to see any in-

crease in expenditures by the Federal Government, but it does not seem that organized medicine will object. Meeting in Chicago on Sept. 17, the House of Delegates of the A.

M. A, the governing body of the association, went on recard as favoring the establishment of a U. S. Department jof Health with a secretary, who shall be a physician, sitting in the President's Cabinet. The House of Delegates also voted at this meeting in favor of the extension of public health service. They added, however, “but not under partisan political control.” So there is still room left for the development of differences of opinion and some resultant argument. Five committees, set up to study various phases of the Government

program, reported at the meeting.

Dr. A. A. Walker of Birmingham, Ala., whose committee was charged with studying this phase of the subject, said that his committee was in favor of the expansion of the public health service, but added that funds for this extension should be expended by the states with the approval of local medical associations.

” 2 2 T is easy to see-the advantage which would accrue to the nation from a well-developed network of efficient, well-adminis-tered health departments carry-

ing on vital functions in every city and county with the work coordinated by an equally efficient state department in every state. At the center of this network—

" not to manage and control it but - to serve it—would| be the Federal

health services, ready to aid with expert advice and counsel or more tangible help when the occasion arose. In this c :edbion, it is well to point out inhat the U. S. Public Health Service is internationally famous for its integrity and its ability. This service is the oldest social service agency in the United States and one of the oldest in the world. | It reached the age of 141 on July 19 of this year. It was organized nine years after the formation of the Federal Government,! when on July 16, 1798, Congress authorized the President to furnish eare through a Marine Hospital Service for sick and disabled seamen. In 1892 its name was changed to the Public Health and Marine Hospital Serv-

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ice.. The present name adopted in 1912. ” "8 T the present time the U. S. Public Health. Service has a budget of $14,000,000 a year and employs 7000 people. It is charged with the management of about 25 hospitals and 131 relief stations for the treatment of sick and disabled seamen of the American merchant marine. It also super-

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vises national quarantine stations,

and local quarantines when required. It is further charged with the investigation and suppression of plagues and epidemics. Its field

~ officers and laboratory research

workers risk their lives in the combat of such diseases as bubonic plague, typhus, Rocky Mountain fever, parrot fever, tularemia, ete. Its other duties include services ranging from the collection of mortality statistics to the examination of immigrants, under the law excluding those "with" contagious diseases. Sih Side by side with the expansion of state and local health departments, the Technical Committee has also recommended intensive drives against certain specific diseases. These drives would be conducted by both the U. S. Public Health Service and the state and local ‘health departments. I want ‘to discuss this item in the program next. 1

NEXT — Halting unnecessary

Civil Service Gains Noted

By E. R. R. NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—“Although no new states were added to: the Civil Service column during the past year, . foundations have been laid which may result in real progress in the near future,” says the National Civil Service Reform League in its annual report, ~ Civil Service bills have been drafted for introduction at the forthcoming legislative session in

Alabama and ‘Minnesota. In New Hampshire, where. such a bill was defeated last year, enactment of a Civil Service law was pledged in the Republican platform. The American Bar Association at its annual meeting in Cleveland last summer, urged extension of the merit system to all except policydetermining positions in Federal, State and local governments.

Side Glances—By Clark

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Movies—By Wortman

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5—In liquid measure, how many fluid drams are in one pint? 6—Where is Old Faithful Geyser? : 7—What is the name of the small reptile that can change its colors?

Answers i—Lead. 2—The barograph. 3—Central Asia’ 4—James A. Farrell. 5—128. . 6—Yellowstone National Park. T—Chameleon, 2 ” 2

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Our Town

~ | By Anton Scherrer

~~ Chief Hyland's Definition of Muscle : ~ Dance Solved Serious. Problem in 1912 and Has Stood Test of Time. 3

DOUBT whether adequate analysis has : been made of a precedent established in 1912 when Chief of Police Hyland not only ©

sensed the difference between an oriental |!

dance and a muscle dance, but actually des

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Up to that time most people around here couldnt | sense the difference, let alone define it. Even a man = ||

with the Oriental experience of D. O. Hibbard thought i the two dances were one and the : J same thing. He said he ought to know because of his long residence in the Orient before coming to Indianapolis to act as secretary of the Y. M. C. A. :

As a matter of fact, it was Secretary Hibbard who brought the issue to a head. He had heard about the “Incomparable Zallah” at the Empire Theater, and went over to see what it was all about. In a professional capacity, of course. The : old Empire, I hope I don’t have to tell you, was a theater dedicated to tired businessmen who assuaged' their cares by looking at scantily clad chorus ladies. Mr. Hibbard reported that what he saw was awful and told Chief Hyland that for the good of Indianapolis boys, he ought to do something aboug it. That moved Chief Hyland to send Lieut. Barme fuhrer to see the show. As a result of the policeman’s

Mr. Scherrer.

visit, the Oriental'dance was st@pped, but the muscle

dance went right on playing to‘capacity houses. Well, that moved Mr. Hibbard to have another look at the muscle dance. As luck would have it, he got there just in time to see the start of Zallah's act. He stayed to see it through and reported that it was practically the same dance he had complained about except that a few “extras” had been added in=stead of anything being eliminated.

Such cryptic language couldn't be ignored, of course, and that brought about the famous confer= ence between Mr. Hibbard and Chief Hyland, the purpose of which was (1) to decide what dances should be barred from the Empire, and (2) to estabe lish the difference between an oriental and a muscle ance.

To establish the difference, Chief Hyland invited Miss Zallah to be present (in person). She testified that there is a world of difference between the two dances; that the muscle dance is art and that people - who find anything objectionable in it are either looks ing for it, or don’t know what they are talking about, Which, of course, was just as cryptic as anything Mr,

Hibbard had said. |

Things were in a terrible state when all of a sude Le J

den Chief Hyland had an inspiration to hand down |. a definition which, apparently, has stood the test of time. He said that as far the muscle dance wasn't a dance at all. It was an acrobatic act, something that didn’t have anything to do with man’s conception of right or wrong, 3

Jane Jordan—

Girl, 6, Tries to Act Like Brothers,

But Only Makes Herself Unhappy, J

PFAR JANE JORDAN—What shall I do about my little 6-year-old daughter who is picked on and teased by everyone in the neighborhood? She is rough -and tomboyish because she has been reared in a fame ily of boys, but is very sensitive to the least bit of criticism. She becomes very self-conscious which

spoils her good times and play completely. Her father: ; 3

has very little patience with her and criticizes her when the girls will not play with her. I am sure she is far too unhappy and miserable for a child of 6, How can I help her? "MOTHER OF FOUR.

Answer—Sometimes a girl reared in a family of ° boys comes to feel that the boys are accorded privileges which she does not have, and sometimes she is right about it. Many parents unconsciously favor the boys and impose certain restrictions on the girl because of her sex without providing compensations for these deprivations. Most women do envy men and Deafly sina Lo Ie traced to some childhood site ch as Ss where the little girl though the boys got all the breaks. 8 gat thas

Brothers usually regard their sisters as a nuisance because they can't fight, play football or excel in comparable activities. They make fun of a girl’s dolls, dishes and playthings, and turn up their noses at her girl friends. In one way or another they make the little girl feel inferior and people who feel inferior are self-conscious and miserable. One reason that I feel this may be the case is that your little girl has tried to compensate for her feminine limitations by imitating her brothers. She is rough and tomboyish, but she can never excel or even equal her brothers in their own field. A girl who tries to be like a boy has chosen an impossible Soa! and i JOrsoomed to failure. Already your child €ls her defeat which accoun gli i ts for her sensitiveness This little girl needs more approval from her - ents. _ She needs opportunity to succeed in DE feminine role for which she is biologically constituted, Criticism for her failure with other girls simply will not work. From her mother she must learn respect; for the role of wife and mother. If her mother is a success as a woman, she will feel that she, too, can succeed. - Her father’s attitude 1s extremely important, He should praise her feminine virtues and make her aware of the importance of being a woman. Try to awaken his interest and gain his co-operation in make ing her feel that it is worth while to be a woman,. thereby reducing her envy of the masculine sex, Further light on this subject is to be found in a book called “The Art of Being a Woman,” by Olga Knopf, As your daughter grows older give her biographies to read which show the influence for good which women have exerted on the lives of men. ;

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New Books Today

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