Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1939 — Page 15
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Our Town
Every once in a while somebody around here starts a panic by observing that Indianapolis has too many doctors for its own good. Well, I looked into that, too, and discovered thet When Dr. P. H. Jameson hung out his shingle i+ 1849, Indianapolis had exactly 25 : doctors to handle a population of 7000. Which is to say that every doctor had a potential practice of something like 500 patients if you figure in the tributary country. Fiffy years later that same Dr. Jameson was one of 300 doctors around here. The town had grown like everything—to 160,000 as a matter of fact. Curiously enough, however, the ratio of doctors to population remained the same. Believe it or not, it’s the same today. All you have to do is to multiply the number of doctors’ names in the telephone directory by 500 and you'll come as close to getting the population of Indianapolis as the Government will next year. If you're optimistically inclined, you'll include the names of dentists and
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An Epidemic of Doctors
I hope that ends the panic. It raises another uestion, however—that scared look Indianapolis doctors have when the subject of their competitors comes up. It's inherited, and to account for it you have to start with the beginning of things. Indianapolis started off without a doctor and got along surprisingly well. In the course of the next six months, however, it had five doctors and nobody knows how it happened or where they came from. They turned up all at once and they hardly got
(Ernie Pyle Is On Vacation)
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, July 7.—The New Yorker, a magazine, is so self-assured and Winchellwise—that it is comforting to find it has" a heel. Indeed, I had suspected as much. In a recent issue the weekly took a fling with a short piece on child psychology and fell upon its nose. If the old lady from Dubuque were only a reader the last laugh would have been hers. Granting the wit and wisdom of Manhattan's smart gazette, I sometimes find it not quite up to its usual standard at such times as it attempts to discuss labor, politics or the radical movement. But it ventures forth with even less impedimenta of information when it attempts to discuss babies—just babies. The average writer for the New Yorker marries only sporadically and leaves few hostages to fortune. Indeed, the latest statistics show that there is something less than one-third of 1 per cent of child per contributor, which leaves the sheet trailing somewhat behind the recorded fertility of old Bostonians and graduates of Vassar.
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Mother Knows Best
Imagine, then, my surprise at finding the leading item in a recent issue to be a purported transcript of a free verse poem made up entirely oit of the head of a 4-year-old boy. The mood of rebellion against parental authority is familiar enough and undoubtedly authentic. But I strongly suspect that the child's original chant has been vastly touched up by the doting mother—a literary lady, I assume—before she made a fair copy and sent it to the editor. Of course. it mav be that the infant in question is a prodigy or that he has been brought up wholly on “leaves of grass” instead of spinach. However, I ask leave to offer in evidence the first half of the poem as Exhibit A: He just do nothing at all.
Washington
WASHINGTON, July 7.—Tt's all right now, for President Roosevelt finally got his monetary powers extended. But during the last few days of suspense there have been some Administration officials who must have regretted the day nearly two years agi when they interfered in the Senate leadership fight and forced the selection of Senator Barkley of Kentucky over Senator Pat Harrison by changing one vote, From that time on, Senate resistance to the White House has been growing. Under every President, a struggle for power develops between the White House and the Senate, it already was under way when the White House forces aggravated it by forcing the Senate to set up Barkley as Majority Leader. Time and again the feeling has blazed forth, as when Senators caught the Administration secretly facilitating the purchase of airplanes by the French. Tt flamed out in the court bill fight and in the reorganization bill struggle. Last week it burned more fiercely than ever over the monetary bill—centering around the question of renewing the President's power to devalue the dollar. The issue In itself was not particularly momentous. Tn the present uncertain foreign situation, it seems the better part of wisdom to give the President flexible power over the dollar, but the point does not appear go be of overwhelming importance.
Deal Crude, but Bold
However it was seized upon as the vehicle of a fight te lay a heavy blow on Mr. Roosevelt. The Senate would take away one of his powers in a spectacular way that would show the country whe was boss. Anti-Roosevelt Democrats were glad to participate
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Thursday —VYesterday afternoon, Miss Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Gray and I went up for a little while to the old house at Tivoli, N. Y, then on to a friend's house for a swim and dinner. Earl» this morning, at 7 o'clock in fact, T left in my own car for New York City and went straight to my mother-in-law’s house to go with her to the steamer. I always like t6 go on board to see where my family is going to be ensconced during a trip of any kind, but I never like to stay to see the steamer actually leave. Even when people are going for pleasure and you want them to go, the actual moment of parting is never very pleasant and T much prefer not prolonging it by watching ‘either a train or steamer pull out. I left. Mrs. Roosevelt about 11 o'clock and went down to mv apartment. From there 1 went to see a verv dear friend whe has heen ill for some time. As it was my first visit in many weeks, 1 was very happy to feel that he was able again to enjoy seeing anyone Then an hour with the dentist and a drive ‘out to the World's Fair. Mr. Grover Whalen had arranged that the Encviopaedia Britannica Tnc., would present a set to the Arthurdale, W. Va.. scheol, and they asked me to veceive this set, which I was very
By Anton Scherrer
settled when the big epidemic hroke loose. To this day nobody knows for sure whether the epidemic was the cause or the effect of their coming. Be that as it may, the epidemic started that scared look. As a matter of fact, it started the day Dr. Jonathan Cool got Dr. Isaac Coe's goat. Dr. Coe came here in May, 1821, loaded down with a big supply of Peruvian bark and several barrels of rich ripe wine which turned out to be exactly the kind of medicine his clientele needed. 2 2 »
Drastic Action Indicated
At any rate, Dr. Coe's practice got to be bigger and bigger and it drove Dr. Cool to the point of composing a cruel couplet which, unlike poetry of the time, had the merit of coming to the point quickly. Said
Dr. Cool to Dr. Coe: “Oh Dr. Coe, oh Dr. Coe, What makes you dose your patients so?” Its effect was immediate and so demoralized the profession that it moved Dr. Samuel Mitchell to act at once. Dr. Mitcheli, the acclaimed dean of the profession at the time, said Dr. Cool’s behavior came perilously close to violating the Oath of Hippocrates, to say nothing of the Biblical injunction. And anyway, it was rotten poetry, said Dr. Mitchell. Which was why the Indiana Central Medical Society was organized in 1823 with Dr. Mitchell as president and Dr. Dunlap as secretary. It was & purely self protective measure and spend most of its time looking for poets in the medical profession. For fear that a poet may yet turn up among the doctors, Indianapolis physicians still maintain a society. Tt meets once a week which is why it's next to impossible to get hold of an Indianapolis doctor after 8 o'clock on Tuesday nights.
By Heywood Broun
He will just sit there in the noonday sun. And when they speak to him he will not answer them. Because he does not care to, He will stick them with spears and put them in the garbage. When they tell him to eat his dinner he will just laugh at them. And he will not take his nap, because he does not care to. He will not talk to them; he will not say nothing. He will just sit there in the noonday sun. Upon this evidence I will rest my case that the New Yorker has been hornswoggled and done to a turn. One of the great giveaways is the sudden introduction of the double negative in the eighth line. Up to that point, young Walt Whitman has been grammatical to the point of prissiness. You get “will not” instead of “won't” and “does not’ instead of “doesn't” or the much more natural “don't.” = 2 »
A Tragic Misconception
Moreover, “sitting in the noonday sun” is decidedly a literary phrase, even though it did once appear in the lyric of a popular song called Lazy Bones. And here the error is not only one of expression but even more tragically and fundamentally a misconception of the behavior pattern of male infants. There is no rebellion in the announcement of a desire to sit in the sun and do nothing at all. Any parent on the face of God's green footstool would gladly compromise with a child on that sort of conduct. When a 4-year-old child wants to sit quietly and do nothing the time has come to call the family physician. At that age he wants to beat his blame drum, eat popcorn. stick pebbles up his nose or ask fool questions. Children are not escapists. Never does a boy pine to live in an vary tower until he gets old enough to be a New Yorker editor. And before the magazine prints any other hright sayings of tiny tots I think it will be well advised first to submit the material to Papa Dionne or the old lady from Dubuque for comment and criticism.
By Raymond Clapper
in this and Republicans took the initiative in making the deal with the silver Democrats, voting them a fat slice of bacon by boosting the price of silver. Thus, sturdy old hard-money boys like Vandenberg of Michigan and Austin of Vermont were at one and the same time demanding a return to sound money and voting an additional Treasury grab for the silver crowd. It was a crude deal, but a bold one, so transparent that they would hardly have had the nerve to attempt it against an Administration leadership that was on the job. Senator Barkley, it is said, was oblivious to what was going on in the cloakrooms until only a few minutes before the vote. Even then "he may not have realized the extent to which the
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By Lee G. Miller
Times Special Writer
ASHINGTON, July 7. —The Free City of Danzig is overwhelmingly German in population. Tt is of lessening economic importance to Poland, which in the last 15 years has built on Polish soil nearby the great and growing port of Gdynia. Its people unquestionably are pro-Nazi. Then what is all the shooting for? Why is all Europe, and perhaps the world, threatened with a war over this little area which, if the right of self-determination were acknowledged, should properly be handed over to Germany? An answer is available in the words of Adolf Hitler himself. “We start anew where we terminated six ‘centuries ago. We reverse the eternal Germanic migration to the south and to the west of Europe and look eastward. . If we speak of new soil, we can but think first of Russia and her subject border states.” And the road to Russia's grainrich Ukraine lies across Southern Poland. If Herr Hitler got Danzig, and annexed it to East Prussia, that province would be separated from Germany proper by a mere 15 miles at the namowest point of Pomorze—the Polish corridor. German artillery on ‘German soil could then rake every inch of that Polish bottleneck and of Gydnia. Poland's strategic position would be desperate. Herr Hitler told the Reichstag in April that he sought from Poland only the return of Danzig and “a German route through the corridor,” in return for which he would agree to freeze the Polish-German boundary and sign a 25-year nonaggression pact. » n ”
E described this offer as “the greatest imaginable concession in the interests of European peace,” and called Poland's rejection of it ‘‘incomprehensible.” But the Poles might have reminded him that last Sept. 26 he said: “I repeat here that if this problem (Sudetenland) is solved,
sound-money-silverite deal had reached. Tf he had, he would not have allowed the Senate te vote at that time, but would have sought a delay in order to break up the combination. * » %
Well, It’s ‘a Free Country
Furthermore, during debate Barklay played into the hands of the wrecking crew by stating that if the powers were not extended by midnight on June 30. they would expire and completely new legislation would be required. Later, after the deadline passed without action, he was compelled to reverse himself and to take exacily the opposite position, namely that Congress could | still vote a continuation. This involves a question of legality which may be & subject of prolonged controversy.
some conservative Republicans are going to have to explain why they were caught in cahoots with silverprice fixers, the Administration leadership of the Senate has barely squeaked through after a humiliating experience, the silverites managed to trade all around the place and grab another half a loaf out of the confusion, and Mr. Roosevelt has retained the powers as asked. This certainly is a free country, all right.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
glad to do. Then T proceeded on my way, back to Hyde Park for supper with my guests, whom I had deserted for the whole day. A set of the encyclopaedia has also been offered for the White House Library and word has been sent to the President. Someone in Washington will be ready to receive it. I was tremendously interested yesterday to read the resolution passed by the American Youth Congress. The ‘effort which has been made to brand the Congress as Communist-controlled and the final effort which was made to stampede them inte doing something which would have been completely undemocratic, ‘has been, 1 think, wisely handled. On the whole, the leadership of the Congress seems to me to be very sane. Tt may be a little idealistic, but then if we can't have ideals in our youth, what will happen to us when we are old? The Congress may have hopes for accomplishments which may not be realized. but without hope and faith in the future, we would ail of us die. T hope that the action now taken, and the ‘evidence of sincerity which these meetings have shown, will bring to the American Youth Cengress and the various groups which ‘constitute it, not only the support of youth, but the support of many older people. My husband and T were both very much grieved to receive the news of the ‘death of Mr. T. Jefferson Newhold of Boston, who was one of our oldest friends. He was somewhat veunger than the Presi- | dent. and he and his parents were our next door | neighbors in Hyde Park. {
anniversary founding of the city of Whiting.
GIRL AT VALPARAISO
IN MUSIC FESTIVAL
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VALPARAISO, Tnd.,
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(Gladys Makovsky, daughter of Mr. land Mrs. Joseph Makovsky and a! junior at WValparaise High School! will sing music festival, Aug. 5-6,
in the Calumet district
The festival is part of the 50th celebration of ‘the
f » +The net of a week of schoolboy politics is wx CONNERSVILLE GETS
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CONNERSVILLE, Ind, July 7.—
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lL (3) prin Times-Acme Photos. 1. An aerial view of the Free City of Danzig, focal point of the latest European crisis. Hitler is reported planning a trip to Darzig between July 20 and 30, a visit that is expected to he the forerunner of new demands for return of Danzig to the Reich, 2. Carrying banners displaying the swastika, and extending arms in the Nazi salute. Nazi Storm Troopers march before Albert Foerster, Nazi leader, at Tiegenhof, Danzig, July 2. Tt was at this gathering that Foerster said that Danzig wanted to return to Germany and would do so. 3. A view of the famous old slave-worked ‘crane (right) in the the Free City. Poland, backed up by Britain and France, is reported ready to oppose return of the city, fearing ultimate dismemberment if Germany ‘gets a tochold ih the Polish corridor. : 4. Particularly sighificant in view of the threatened coup by Hitler are these Nazi swastikas flying from the ancient Danzig Rathaus (City Hall). Construction of the building was begun in 1378 and it is notable for its tower which houses a ‘carillon.
sun ‘of our mational life,” Presi=dent Moscicki of Poland said last week. In short, the Poles do not honor the word of Herr Hitler, and even
there will be no further territorial problems in Europe and Germany.” And he told Neville Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, according to Mr. Chamberlain, “that after the Sudeten German if they did they would not want to question is settled, that is the end cede any part of their sovereignty. of Germany's territorial claims in " uw 0»
Eve. NGLAND and France are not
S50, the Poles ask, what good is : . a promise that Danzig and a cor- going to bat Tor Poland be cause of any sentiment], ideo-
ridor-across-the-corridor would allay rather than whet the logical or idealistic reasons. Poland is a dictatorship, it is often
Fuehrer's territorial appetite. They ask also what good a non=- gyijty of mistreatment of Jews and of other minorities, and it
aggression treaty would do. Herr Hitler signed a 10-year one with g : . 2 ri d . is not above a bit of banditry of Poland in 1934, but tore it up this its owh=witness (he seizure ©f the Teschen area during the
year, Pomorze and the ports of GAY- preakup of Czechoslovakia. The interest of the western
nia and Danzig are ‘the air and democracies is ‘entirely in the
| balance of power—or rather the | correction of the imbalance cre- |
ated by Herr Hitler's swift terri= torial and military expansion. Appointment of Herbert Wilson and Enos Dowling to the Butler
If Germany were handed Dan=zig and the corridor, as she was handed the Sudetenland, the eventual demolition of all Poland would follow as surely as did the University College of Religion staff | partition of Czechoslovakia, in was announced today by Dr. Fred-| the opinion of Herr Hitler's [erick D. Kershner, dean. critics. a : [ Mr. Wilson will have charge of The mires and industries © alumni and placement work, aiding | Polish Silesia with their French[students find preaching appoint-| financed railroad to Gdynia; the ments. He was graduated from oil of Polish Galicia; the path= (Butler in 1937 with a bachelor of [arts degree and was awarded his divinity degree last year. He is doing graduate work now. Mr. Dowling is to have charge of
way through Poland's restive | the College of Religion library, He
Ukrainians to the Soviet Ukraine and the Black Sea—these would | graduated from Hanover College in [1929 and received his divinity ‘de-
be too much to expect Herr Hit= [gree at Butler in 1937.
"TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE
School City will supervise the area. | 207 W. Washington St., announced
velop it. The School City could not, | however, because the land was not |
available,
37TH PARLEY SET
An ordinance annexing land west of |
here on Road 44 near the Frazee C00 ENROLLMENT Home for Children has passed the | City ‘Council under suspension of A SET FOR JULY 20 The three-acre tract is being ac- Sn cepted by the City from Mr. and : % | es nrollment this Mrs. L. A Frazee and the County |, ThE Seco = Conservation Sn Commissioners, under a CONUINUINE | gi]] be held July 20 to fill vacanoies grant, and will be used for a recre- in Tndiana camps, the Marion ation center and playground. The County Unemployment Relief office, Work on the tract was begun | Mics Helen Lowell, State OC
last fall with the participation of | ; : : : ’ selection officer, said 150 were to the National Youth A ministra- oo been hos auly 3 but the ton. The land first was given 10 iota was hot filled, recessitating the ‘Commissioners and it ‘was bie . © la second enrollment. Those eligiPlanted to have de School City ae- re are vouths between 17 and 23
[unmarried and not attending school within the limits and no funds were | regularly.
NEC DESIGNATION CHANGED TO OGR
BY RURAL POSTMEN The National Emergency ‘Council
lin the Chamber of Commerce build= Times Speci ling is mow known as the Office of LA PORTE, Tnd, July 7.—The T- Government Reports, Clarence diana Rural Letter Carriers’ Asso- | Manion, state director, announced
ciation will hold its 87t . | today. RE Ba ie | The change was made in accord-
vention here Sunday, Monday and ynee with President Roosevelt's secTuesday ond reorganization plan which alse More than 500 are expected to at- transferred to the executive office tend, according to Walter ‘C. Stoffer, the functions of the Bureau of the La Porte, association president. The Budget, National Resources Comauxiliary will convene at the same mittee
and ‘Central time, Board,
Statistical
1—Of which State is Olympia the capital? 2-— Whom did Joe Louis defeat to win the worlds heavy= weight title? 3=—Where is the Aistre River? 4—What does the Trish phrase “Brin go bragh” mean? 5—Should olives be eaten with the fingers or a fork? 6—Are Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. required to be lawyers by the Constitu= tion or by statute? 7—Who won the 1939 National Open Golf championship? ® ® 0» Answers
1—Washington. 2—James J. Braddock. 3—Northetn France. 4—Treland for ever. 5—With the fingers. 6—No. 7—Byron Nelson. ” ® »
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ler to resist, once his foot was in the door. ® * =» ND where the loss of Czechoslyvakia cost the anti-Ger=-man bloc a splendid little army and air force, the crushing of PoTand would wipe out a powerful army of perhaps five million men under arms or in reserve, plus something Jike 2000 first-line planes,
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—_— If Germany is to be stopped at all, the Anglo-French strategists reason, she must be stopped while Poland is still ‘here to fight. And so they regard Danzig as not simply a fine old city and a
splendid harbor, but as a key to the whole balance of power in Furope, a balance which they are straining everv sinew to tip back in their own direction.
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