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The New York herald., 1921-11-20

hour three or four times day. is part Of
true health programme. IT will have to be
learned and practised If this great American
race fulfils It's highest destiny"
AT the Neurological Institute it was said
that undoubtedly fully one-half of the pa
tients accommodated there suffered from ills
brought on by a too rapid kind of living
IT was explained that the term rapid was
not used in the sense of fast, for work car
ried on too strenuously and without ade-
quate rest periods between made patients for
the doctors to cure If possible. A few cases
of locomotor ataXia had been perceptibly i'm
proved at the hospital by a rest cure even
more than by medicine, and these cases after
leaving there might progress to complete
recovery if they were accommodated to a
simple, easy life free from rush
DR.. Frederick Peterson was emphatic In
what he had to say about the way we have
lived for good many years and are still
living. Said he:
Everybody would live longer if they'd
just stop the unnecessary hustle. I'm aware
that it requires earnest attention and strict
following up to succeed in any business
profession to-day. and 1 would not advocate
a race of do-nothings. But do say that
good many people make their lives harder
than there is any need
Elimination is a splendid thing. Suppose
every woman who finds herself driven by
thousand petty things she calls duties would
sit down calmly and cross off all those which
have been wished on her by her position in
society or by any other cause Suppose she
should say to herself: Whatever calls are
made my time by duties to my house
hold, my husband and my children, I shall
give up two hours of every twenty four to
myself In those two hours will not sleep,
unless that is my only cure, but shall rest
my mind over a good book or simply by
sitting still and thinking quietly and sanely
of pleasant things
THAT woman, I submit, would never have
occasion to consult a neurologist
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
A TYPICAL FOCH DAY
NOVEMBER 10.

Meeting at Columbia of the acade-
mics of three continents. Marshal Focb
representing the French Academy. a
world celebration.
A visit to the France-America So
ciety.
Marshal Foch laid the cornerstone
of the new home of the Academy of
Arts and Letters.
Returned to Columbia, where a de-
gree was received by the Marshal as
Envoy Extraordinary of French Art
and Letters.
Marshal Foch honored guest at din
ner of the France-America Society.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Supposed Home of Communism
As Joyful as Any Place

Later on the Marshal was led through the
Homestead steel mills near Pittsburgh How
many times have we been told that these
steel workers were disciples of Communism
and what not? Think OF the stories to the
effect that these hus<ies were yearning 10
sec the Red flag take the place OF the Stars
and Stripes and longed for the opportunity
of sneering at representatives OF the old
order of things
Well. you should have seen the big boy
who had been feeding a furnace back away
from his fiery door and salute the Marshal az
he went by. and you should have seen the
puddlers swinging their long iron rods in
time with their cheers They didn't have 10
YOU know. And there was no cheer leader
TO instigate a demonstration II was
wholly spontaneous.
Youth. youth" said the Marshal re-
poatedly You have youth on your side
YOU Americans and youth will always pre-
vail. II has no enemy strong enough to
cope with IT, Your country Is young your
old people are young: your ideals are those
~ the clean minded youth You have bound
less energy. Whatever you do you do with
all the vigor OF the youth II was that
youth and freshness and vigor and the
courage of the young man who has never
been afraid that carried your soldiers
through TO victory"
This argument that America is still
America may suffer lapses from logic. II
may not run true to the rules of sociology
IL there be arbitrary rules And it may
cause the singers OF the "Internationae" TO
snicker a bit.
But after all it's not an argument II is
merely a recital of commonplace facts
things that happened while Marshal Foch
was going to Kansas city and coming back.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Tends to Shorten Life Surely.
Asserts NeuroIogist Flatiy

Granting what DIR. Peterson said as having
a root in facts, the worst consequences might
not be unavoidable. He was questione1
about this point in this way Does the
swiftness of our people to do things and to
do many things at once shorten life?"
"Indubitably" was his reply How can 1t
be otherwise? Nature is our creditor, just
but severe. To rush our lives and 70 crowd
two lives into one is to borrow of her, and
she will demand payment, as she always
does"
This subject figured among those dis
cussed during the recently held Health
Fortnight" and held a prominent place in
the health message" to the public given
out by the conferees. In brief. it was by
elimination of useless time-killng things
working earnestly when he worked and rest
ing and playing as earnestly when he did
these things, man could prolong his days.
In a member of the committee i'm charge
OF the Health Exposition there was found
living Illustration Of this dictum in the
person of Dr. Stephen Smith. Although in
his ninety ninth year, DIR. Smith took an
active part i'm the proceedings. The history
of this centenarian is interesting beyond the
plain fact of his having lived so long. He
founded the American Public Health Asso-
citation and conducted investigations into
sanitary conditions in New York city more
than half a century ago. His influence was
important in procuring the legislation which
created the Health Department of the city
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

It will thus be seen that health conditions
among the wage earning groups of the
United States and Canada were the best
that have ever obtained during this season
OF the year. The marked Improvement seen
in the first three months of this year over
the same three months of 1920 was due to
the absence of influenza. which in 1920 was
epidemicN A high pneumonia death rate
also was reported in 1920.
Health conditions in the general popua-
ton of the country throughout the summer
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Rest and Cultivated Placidity
Work Wonders With Nerves

'Rest and habit Of cultiyating placidity
work wonders. Better than restless, dis
turbed sleep, It knits up the tangled skein,
and there will always be found time for 1t
by the seeker who recognizes its impor-
tance
THE whole world is suffering from this
lack of elimination. 1t is absurd to confine
these bad habits to our country In Eng
land where the people have always prided
themselves on taking life easily, the pace
which prevails here has latterly been
adopted. France itself isn't free from these
disastrous encroachments. The worldly set
there live rapidly as the worldly set
anywhere.
Perhaps among the bourgeoise he habit
still prevails of taking a true rest in the
middle of the day, when merchants 90 home
to meal which we would call dinner, it is
so abundant, but this is being dropped by
the class above them. and it is likely to be
dropped by all classes Of society. There is
more excuse for the French thar for us.
because every man of that country for the
next generation will have to exert himself
doubly in order to aid in bringing his country
back to normal conditions.
THAT is a provision for a crisis and if /.
does not become a universal habit, crowding
out others centuries old. 1t will not work
any great or lasting harm. For strange
provision Of nature makes it po ssible for
people to go a tremendous pace for time
without harm. The mind realizes that it is
only for time and that things will go back
to normal when the crisis is past. And SO
the mind inspires itself to redoubled effort
with the knowledge of rest ahead.
Here unfortunately, however tie thing
began, hurry and a crowding together OF
dissimllar things have become national
characteristic. I deplore it as an evil thing
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
How Foch's Trip Revealed Pure Americanism

American men stood their women folks car
rying children-and the children waving
flags They didn't have to pay any attention
They had no chance of seeing Foch. They
had waited for an hour or more for the train
TO pass. Those men didn't have to stand in
the rigid position Of the soldier. They just
did it.
And that's going to require lot of eX-
planning from the folks who go out among us
with typewriters and adding machines TO dis
cover for us that the country is bound for
Bolshevism and that men and women to-day
are sneering at old fashioned 'you-may- fire
when you re ready Gridley' patriotism or
Americanism or whatever you call it.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Woman Gave a Geranium
For Sons Grave in France

or SON ) OIdVe IN rance
And there was the woman at the station
platform in a little town in Indiana. She
had managed to get away up front near the
observation end of Foch's special train. The
train paused less than a minute. But she
rushed past the policemen and the secret
service men TO thrust into the French SOL
diers hands a potted geranium.
My boy died near scissors" she told the
Marshal, will you plant this flower when
you get back home? He was a gardener and
raised beautiful geraniums"
That night some one moved the geranium
into the baggage car. Foch missed il in the
morning and made inquiries.
Fetch il back" he ordered, when in
formed that it had been taken out of his way.
Il shall attend TO 1t myself because intend
keeping it alive and planting it in my own
garden for that woman's boy"
He didn't say this to reporters. None Of
his staff came running back 10 the cor
respondents car to tell them how thoughtful
this Marshal was. The incident over
heard inadvertently. The professional press
agent would have sown the story in every
state in the Union.
OF course IL is more difficult to ASSAY the
worth of the demonstrations I'm the cities
These demonstrations were organized. They
had been worked up for days The Gov
ernors of States and the Mayors Of cities
took part. There were great parades and
fiery speeches. Policemen herded the
crowds back and forth. To repeat it was
difficult to weigh the sincerity of such well
comings.
But the crowds in Cleveland didn't have
TO stand for hours in the rain to get
glimpse of Foch. And the shivering crowds
who couldn't even get near the curbs weren't
led in their cheering away back there whore
they couldn't see his automobile. And the
men and boys who belong to no military or
ganization now, and who had not been asked
TO march in the parade did not have 10
resurrect the old army breeches or the bat
tered overseas cap and wear them just for
the day
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Nations Mad Rush, Commented Upon by
Famous Visitor, Subject of Grave Con-
Germ to Neurologists and Public
Health Advocates
\ ENGINEERING the solemnity which
attends a voyage" from Paris to
London the long preparations the
BY WILLIS STEEL.

* attends a voyage" from Paris to
London, the long preparations the
prolonged farewells the will making and the
appointment of a personal agent necessary
before Frenchman takes his life in his hand
and boldly crosses the English Channel, one
may in part appreciate what the Distin-
guished Stranger, guest of the nation, feels
as he is whsked from one side to the other
of this broad continent. 1t is like kind of
prolonged vertigo that only strong con-
stitution survives.
To take petit dejeuner in New York and
dejeuner in Washington appears to a for
eigner like a marvellous feat, while to dine
one night in the capital and the next in
Pittsburgh is to write for ones self new
thousand and second night.
Marshal Foch is our most recent guest to
wonder at the swiftness of America. His
days and nights of travel, his brief sojourns
in various cities for banquets, receptions
and other events of which he has been the
shining figure, must appear to him in retro
spect a kind of wild phantasmagoria. He
has described it as such though not in so
many words. And what appears to him
more strange is that we Americans take this
"tohu- -bohu" as a matter of course.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Opinion Based on Own Practice
Where Consequences Are Apparen

Are these deductions made from your
own practice?"
Largely and naturally so, but not wholly
so. | think from my common observation of
the man in the street | would hold them. 1t
ia certainly brought home to me by my
patients: / aim to minister to minds dis
eased. and in diagnosing these | find most
generally that harm has been wrought to
that mystery. the human brain. by false
living. This is true in many instances
that I am tempted to apply 1t generally.
The great majority of mental patients have
brought disastrous consequences on them
selves by thoughtless use of life by burn
ing the candle al both ends to use familiar
expression.
sometimes they were unable to live diff
ferenty; conditions were such that they
we're plunged in spite of themselves into a
vortex combining business and pleasure or
what the world calls pleasure There they
were whrled round and round until the bal
ance was destroyed. equilibrium of brain
and body gone and they had to stop or die.
"Ths sort OF thing is not TO be excused or
palliated: II IL reckless dealing with
mans body and soul. society that de-
mands such recklessness is In need of
reformation.
YES the pace II too rapid we try TO do
too many things at the same time Men try
To succeed in business and TO rule or lead In
politics: some aspire while working hard In
an office all day TO be at night social leaders
Women are even worse, and being the
weaker in bodily structure their failure to
survive the tremendous strain is 10 be ex-
pected.
I'VE ought 10 slow up take more time TO
live. In the ordinary matters OF eating and
relaxation we go too fast. In the season, too.
many persons make kind of quick lunch
ont of their dinner. which should be eaten
slowly in pleasant surroundings and accom-
panied by cheerful conversation. Instead,
because they do not wish TO be late at the
opera or some function people rush their
meal and get very little good out Of IT,
True Relaxation Is Uncommon
Among the American People
True relaxation also is not common with
us Americans II ought to be learned, for l.
is a part Of the science of life. To clear
the mind of worries, TO talk easily, slowly
and pleasantly Of some interesting topic 20
rest the nerves and body for a quarter Of an
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

life in England and in this country has been
extended by ten years. An actuary- of
Kansas City was able from tables compiled
in his Office to predict that man might ulti-
mately come to live 10 be as old as Me-
thuselah.
The figures showing an extension in the
span of life in England have the advantage
of being presented every year, while in this
country they are drawn from the census,
with a decade OF time between the reports.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
How the General Public Health
Has Improved in Three Years

The industrial department of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company shows the
death rate per thousand in specific months
(six) of 1919, 1920 and 1921 as follows:
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Mad Dash From City to City
Seems a Strange Occupation

Life in railway train, even the most
luxurious, offers no charms to the great
French strategist. To dash from city to
city, to sleep in different hotels on successive
nights, even to hurry from one section or
quarter to another in a town without pause,
without relaxation, seems to him extraor-
binary occupation, especially in times OF
peace.
And his wonder grows when he hears that
there are Americans who spend their lives
doing something like this. Evidently they
impress Marsha Foch ike a strange species.
1t is the exceptional, of course. that stran-
gers always see and on which they write
their singular Impressions du U0yd0e We
Americans are not always on the go, al
though all of our passenger coaches going
anywhere seem always to be filled. There
are individuals who hurry back and forth
between New York and Los Angeles with no
inpe1hng reason of business or even inclina-
ton, but they are not representative. A
good many of us--a majority-"stay put" in
either place If it happens to be our home.
Yet in the exaggerated idea Of American
restessness, American hustle and swiftness
carried away by foreigners who do not, as
IS Marshal Fochs case, speak our language
there is considerable truth. We are rest
less. unquiet, hurrying people
We run the pace that kills.
Is this true?
Is the American pace too swift and we
damaging health by keeping 1t up?
Let us ask some authorities who should
be In a position to know. Let us ask first
Of all some famous neuroogsts.
DR.. Bernard Sachs Is a neurologist re-
markable among other things for the
servative cast of his mind. He is not an
alarmist in his wide practice and he studies
new symptoms. theories, condi
tons very carefully before uttering an
opinion on them. Evidently he had thought
of the question which Marshal Fochs OBJ
servation brought up for he said promptly:
"I agree with any one who says that we
live too hard and too fast. Our rapid ways
are not beneficial to the individual and the
race. We ought to slow up"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02

RICKEY-Jessie B.. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs J. Y. Hickey. 2301 y. New Jersey.
passed away Wednesday. June l, 4:S0 a m
Funeral notice later.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
COUSIN EVERETT"
DESIRES NO JURY
Man Who Claims Kin to Hard.
ing Goes on Trial.

CHICAGO, June Everett Harding.
SELF styled cousin of President Harding,
did not want jury when he came to
trial before Judge Lands today.
Everett is charged with passing himself
off as the assistant secretary of Prest-
dent Harding and thereby defrauding the
Pennsylvania Railroad out Of the pass
Of a special train to the Inauguration.
Everetts first plea was mot guilty"
He said he wanted the judge to be the
jury.
Lands ruled that the defendant would
have to change his plea to guilty" be4
fore the jury could be dispensed with.
The judge agreed not to let the plea emf
ter into his weighing Of evidence.
Joseph Schulman, photographer, was
the first witness. He said he ac-
companied the party to the inaugura~
ton.
Excuse me, I'm going in and get his
ExcelleDcy, the President to swear ma
in as assistant secretary Schulman
testified Harding told some Of his guests
at the inauguration.
Schulman testified he had taken pfc-
lures Of Everett and HIS sister Pearl, ''the
baby Of the White House"
81 4 want them in a hurry to send to
Cousin Warren" Schulman reported
Everett as saying.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
Decide State Must
Refund S11, 800 Taxes

The five Superior Court judges. sitting
as a State Court of Claims, recently de-
cided that the State must refund to the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
the sum Of S11.3O0 as excess taxes paid
by the company under protest in 1916.
1917 and 1918.
The court announced today that yes
terday the company fled a motion ask
ing the court TO include in the Judgment
rendered in favor Of the company the
interest amounting to $3.50. This the
court overruled.
Both the company and the State asked
for a new trial and the court at oncs
overruled the motion. Both parties noti-
fed the court that appeals would be-
taken to the Indiana State Supreme
Court
The State contends that the company,
although mutuaIzed is required to pay
taxes on dividends declared to policy
holders.
The company will appeal to determines
whether it is or is not entitled to interest
or money paid a State officer under pros
test
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
Greencastle Banks
Form New Company

GREENCASTLE, Ind, June 2.-An-
nouncement was made here today by of
fcials of the First National Bank that ar
engagements have been completed by which
the First National obtains control of the
Citize, Bank and Trust Company, an In
stitut on chartered in 1914
Stockholders of the latter organization
will retain their stock and transfer it to
the new bank, the resources of which
will approximate 100000.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
Telephone Co. Merger
Bill Passed by Senate

WASHINGTON, June 2-The Senate
today passed a bin authorizing the con-
solidation Of telephone companies where
in the interest of better or cheaper service
such consolidation is advisable. The
bill passed the House yesterday. 1t
gives the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion supervision of the consultations.
The bill was introduced to meet con
ditions in Illinois, Ohio and other States
where consultations are desired.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
Farmer Attempts
to Commit Suicide
Special TO The TimAs

KOKOMO. Ind. June 2-Walter Kerk1
Off, 81, a farmer living near Kappa Cor
ner, is in a serious condition as a re-
suit of an attempt to end his life by
a shot from a revolver. bottle of
orange extract was near him in the hay
loft where he did the shooting. He is
said to have been Respondent over the
Illness Of his wife and baby.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-02
LEGAL NOTICE.
SCHOOL HOUSE

SCHOOL house
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed Trustee Of Wayne School Township,
Marion County, Indiana, together with the
Advisory Board of said township will un-
I'll the hour of 10 a. m. Thursday. June
10Th. 1921, at the office of said trustee,
in the Town OF Ben Davis. Indiana, in
Wayne Township. receive sealed bids for
the construction and completion OF a two
story brick school building, being a four
room and basement addition to the present
old building, and such remodeling in the
old school building as specified and shown
on plans which is located on the south
side OF the National Road in Fleming
Garden Place Addition in Wayne Town
District School No. IA and at the same
time and place will also receive bids for
the heating and ventilating and plumbing
and sewer work, and electric lighting and
fixtures for said building according to the
plans and specifications prepared for said
work by Charles II. Byfeld Architect
No. 923 Peoples Bank Building. Indian
apolis. Indiana.
Said plans and specifications together
with the drawings are now on file at the
Office OF said trustee at Ben Davis, In
S23 Peoples Bank Building, Indianapolis
Indiana, and also at the office of the
diana. The estimated cost OF such work
Is Fifty Thousand $3.50, 10000 Dollars.
Bids win be received according to tho
following classification and the alternate
/. Bid for the construction and COM
pletion of the building, including the cleo
trio wiring and fixtures shown by plans
and specifications, and exclusive OF the
heating and ventllating, plumbing and
sewer work.
2. Bid for the completion Of the heat
Ing and ventilating system.
g. Bid for the completion OF the plum
ing and sewer work. =
Each bid shall be on the proper forms
prescribed by the State Board Of Ac-
and Tnuqt ne accommodated nv a
certified check of per cent of the gross
amount of bid submitted. These checks
must be made payable to the trustee of
said Wayne School Township Marion
County Indiana, and will be held by him
as guarantee of good faith that the
bidder or bidders will enter into con-
tract and execute bond for the full
amount of his bid approved by the trus-
tee for the due performance thereof IL
his bid or bids are accepted. Checks of
the unsuccessful bidders will be returned
to them when the contracts have been let.
Should the successful bidder or bidders
fail to enter into such contract and exc
cute such bonds, then he or they shall for
felt the amount of said certified check as
lfuuidated damages for such failure for
he use and benefit of the proper fund of
Wayne Township. Marion County, Indiana.
All branches and the whole of said work
herein mentioned contemplated must be
completed on or before September 10. 1921.
The trustee reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
Dated this 26th day of May 1921.
JOSEPH NJ HILLMAN, Trustee,
Wayne School Township.
CARL H. WEYL,
Attorney for Trustee.