Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1949 — Page 33

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‘Identicals’ Found To Follow Similar Health Patterns

By ARTHUR J. SNIDER /|§§ Times Special Writer Pl CHICAGO, Feb. 19-—-Is aging|F® caused by wear and tear of life}

or does inheritance determine how long you live?

Two geneticists, again delying|

into the age - old question of) heredity versus environment, today pointed up the potential for long life that is wrapped up in| your genes. | They cited cases of twins, who although living apart all their,

ives, -came down with similar ¢ types of illmessses or died within | days or even hours of each ~

other.” oy ; Drs. Franz J. Kallmann and; Gerhard Sander of the Depart-| ment of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, followed cases of 933 twin pairs over 60 years of age.

SUNDAY, FEB. 20, 1040 .

! Public School No. 21 . . Pretentious Building Housing School 21 Grew (270s, Teel 10 Tome

From 1-Room Over-crowded Frame Structure [safety council.

NO STRANGER passing by the pretentious building of Public] School No. 21 would dream that the unit grew from a one-room, |

In one case, a twin was married overcrowded frame structure at 2530 Southeastern Ave. Only the barest of furnishings and needed equipment was In-

large family under tropical rural cluded in the small school which was situated in a district known conditions. Her sister was single, 35 Woodside. etait pega fe tm—

to a farmer and took care of a|

independent, and a dressmaker] in the city. Lives Were Similar Yet their clinical histories paralled each other to the extent

that both became totally blind; oy

and deaf in the same month and sustained massive cerebral hem-| orrhages with paralysis on the

day.

Older residents recall that the

|district took its name from a

woods which stood near the

school building. »

lights in the area in addition to {street improvements,

{ » | OIL LAMPS had been used to

tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail-|light some street corners and the|No, 21, though long out of servroad, not very far from the orig- roadways often became . SOEBY ice as a public school, has not voices|!n T

with mud after rain and snowfzall. During Miss Fay's administra-

» - IN THE EARLY days of No./tion the enrollment continued to

today, enrollment figures soared

. rooms were game side of the body the same 21: 8% in most ‘ public schools/FTOW 2nd four hew FooTS

added to the school in 1908. For five years thereafter, No.

Another pair died of similar upward, out of proportion to the|21 underwent little or no change.

natural causes the same day at byujlding accommodations. In 1888 But, in 1913, the original building Methodist

86. Then there was one pair who died only five days apart

at the age of 85 and another. .

pair who died at 69, only 25 days, apart. {

a second room was added to the school. ’ Indianapolis took over jurisdiction of No. 21 in 1880. Three years later Florence Fay, for

‘site was abandoned and a new {structure erected at 2815 English (Ave. : - Dedicated in November, 1914,

{it contained eight rooms in two

In the Journal of Heredity, the whom the school was named, stories. two_scientists broke their study joined the staff. . .

down further by separating the

Pupils who attended the school

= x = HOUSING TROUBLES for the

identical twins from the fraternal directed by Miss Fay remember| classes were not eliminated how-

twins_to see if there was any difference in aging and longevity. | The scientists found that the| average difference in longevity |

her as active in communi fairs as well as the functions.

With community leaders she

ty af- ever, for it was soon learned that] school the building constructed was too

{small from the beginning. Eight more rooms were added in 1922.

of. the identical twins was half| worked to get city water and! During the same year, school

that of the fraternals—about 37) months as compared with 78) As might be expected, they found that the aging patterns in identical twins was markedly alike. ’ Twins Remain Identical A typical case was a married country doctor living in New York Staté all his life and his brother, a bachelor and a western | rancher, When the two met after many decades of separation, they could not be told apart. The old superstition that one of a pair of identical twins may be doomed to sterility is seemingly borne out by the statistics. In 38.2 per cent of cases, one identical male twin was a father while the other was not. This wag true in only 20 per cent of fraternal twin cases. xk - But the genetictists said they are inclined to explain in on a psychological rather than a biological basis, “Marital disharmony seems to be particularly common in" the monozygotic (identical) category since their wives very frequently complain of having been unable to overcome the unusually close relationship between their respestive husbands,” the scientists 8 he

Russ Dash Ice On Icy Baptism In Frozen Volga

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MOSCOW, “Feb. 19 (UP)—The Communist organ Pravda today denounced baptism in the icy Volga as a “barbaric custom” and | reprimanded two Soviet officials for sanctioning it. Coo Pravda said the two officials should have forbidden the Rus-| sian Orthodox baptism ceremony at Saratov Jan. 19 “as other no less harmful rites have been banned in Soviet times.” | As result of the ceremony,’ Pravda said, a 55-year-old citizen contracted pneumonia and an old woman became deaf.

- ~ ~ - PRAVDA said the warmly clad: clergy compeled men, women and children to strip naked and] plunge through a hole .in the ice into the Volga whilé temperatures, hovered . around 14 . degrees Fahrenheit. ) “Not only the gods witnessed the baptismal ceremony,” Pravda said. “Lovers of pornography ap-| peared on the Volga bank. Photographers bristled with cameras shooting the more exciting moments, of the abolutions, later selling their pictuges at three rubles each.” -

Army Undersecretary

Quits ‘Little Cabinet’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UP) —William H. Draper Jr., resigned | today as Undersecretary of the] Army to return to private business, He leaves office Feb. 28. Mr. Draper was the third “little cabinet” ‘member in the national defense setup to quit in recent weeks. Mr. Truman last week accepted the. resignations of two assistant secretaries of the navy, Mark Andrews and John Nicholas Brown. All quit the government. to return to private business, : ———

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U. S. Writers

Award Prize

To Ezra Pound for Poetry

Winner Facing Charges of Treason

After Release From Home for Insane WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UP)—Ezra Pound, bearded broad-

caster for Mussolini charged with

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The fellows in American Letters of thé Library of Congress

treason and adjudged insane, was

‘awarded a top poetry prize tonight by a committee of leading Ameri-

gave Pound the first: $1000 Bollingen prize for his “Pisan Cantos,” 11

poems written while behind U. 8. Army barbed wire in an Italian prisoner of war camp... - The award was established only

last year by a grant from the|

Bollingen Foundation, an educational institution with offices in New York. It is to annually, : : The jury of literary lights, which included T. 8. Eliot, Allen

Tate and 12 others, was required

to pick for the prize ‘the highest achievement of American poetry” during 1948. It chose Pound's effort and said it had exercised “objective perception.” “The fellows are aware,” they said in a statement, “that objec|{tions may be made to awarding a prize to a man situated as is Mr. Pound.” Mr. Pound, now 64, is in St. Elizabeth’s Federal Mental Hospital here. Doctors said he has been unbalanced for ycars. Pound's Pisan Cantos are the latest in a long series of spluttery poetic comments upon life and politics. They .include lines in praise of Mussolini, for whose Fascists he broadcast from Rome during the war, and such items as:

“Oh to be in England now that Winton's out. “Now that there's room for, doubt, “And the bank may be the nation’s.” Mr. Pound was born in Idaho, lived mostly in Europe after 1907, settled in Italy in 1924, and there took up with the Fascists. He was indicted in July, 1943, while the war was still Bn, Captured, he was returned to his native land a tweedy, broken,

bushy-haired old man. His red

be awarded

beard was streaked with white. He was still loudly anti-capitalist. A federal judge committed him to’ the mental hospital. At St. Elizabeth's, doctors said he has been doing some writing, including translations from the Chinese, but generally spends his time in bed, thinking. He is not violent and has regular visitors, but has no special privileges. The treason charge, based upon the broadcasts, -is still pending. He will be tried if he ever is pronounced sane.

Health Insurance Is Town Hall Topic

National Health Insurance will be the subject of the Purdue | Town Hall's public meeting at 8 p. m.-“Wednesday in the Purdue; Center, 902 N: Meridian St. | Dr. L. E. Burney, state health! commissioner, will discuss “Gov-| ernment and Public Health” and | | Dr. W. Foster Montgomery, local physician, will present the educa-| tional needs and problems of training personnel. Loren Hess, asgistant professor lof social servi with Indiana { University, and Albert Stump, at-|

sociation, will discuss the advan-| tages and disadvantages of the proposed program for national health insurance. j Half of the alloted program time will be devoted to comments and questions by the audience. |

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The year 1936 brought more changes to Florence Fay School {with the addition of six other /classrooms. Previous to the 1936 |construction, two portable buildings had been placed at the rear lof the main structure to house overflowing classes,

" & ® THE ORIGINAL building of

lost the sound of children’s within its walls, Still standing, the structure has been remodeled, modernized and redecorated and serves as a Bunday School annex for Woodside Church at Southeastlern Ave. and Temple St. About {100 children attend -its classes. i . George Fisher, current princt-, {pal at No. 21, was assigned to 'his post in September, 1947.

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Stamp Notes

By MANUEL RABASA NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UP) Postmaster Albert Goldman #dvises that the 3-cent Minnesota territory centennial commemorative postage stamp will be piit on sale for the first time on Mar. 3, at St. Paul, Mina. The central design depicts a plo-| neer moving westward with a Red River ox cart. The stamp is arranged horizontally with a single line border. The bottom border is formed by a dark panel with the wording “3c. United States Postage 3c” in white Gothic. In the upper left portion, arranged in four lines of dark Gothic, is “Mimmesota Territorial {Centennial 1848-1949.” In the same {style in the upper right hand corner appears the lettering “Red River Ox Cart.” The stamp will be issued in| sheets of 50 and will be printed by the rotary process, electric-eye perforated. The color will be announced later. . Stamp - collectors desiring first day cancellations may send as many as 10 self-addressed envelopes to the postmaster at St. Paul, Minn., together with postal note or money order remittance to cover the cost of the stamps to

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tthe United States has treated us. [Their attitude on international

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“It pleases me to peint out that the danger of Communism Is very much less in the Middle East than in other parts of Europe and Asia. Moreover, there, is always time to put this part; of the world out of this danger in granting it, before it is too late, the economic aid which the western powers are now receiving . . . . “Communism exploits discontended classes. If big and small nations do not co-operate loyally

in striving to raise the standard of living, the danger will surely be inevitable.” Hadi sald Egypt's relations with the United States are good “but they could have been much| better.” | “Egypt had great admiration

“because this gréat power is the only one, which did not have imperialist aims and whose attitude toward all countries was based on respect ‘of the rights, liberttes and dignity of peoples. War Feelings “Egypt's feelings toward the United States showed themselves during the war in the way she treated American soldiers, political leaders and other person-

ages. “Look, on the other hand, how

affairs scarcely contributed to preserve our optimism, indeed it made us reserved.” Hadi said the United States had shown its political interest in the Middle East solely by supporting the Jews against the Arabs, American economic interest in the Middle East ‘is limited to “exploiting ofl wells,” he said. Hadl said Anglo-Eyptian relations are “more or less cold and stagnant” because of the conditions Britain is trying to fmpose on Egypt in a new. treaty of mutual assistance. He said it is up to Britain to dissipate Egypt's apprehensions.

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