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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tack of measles, scarlet fever, or
some other acute infectious dis
ease in childhood may decrease the
resistance greatly and that a sud-
den intensification of the tuber-
culous disease after such infections
is not unusual.
Authorities are also agreed that
much may be accomplished in con-
trolling tuberculosis by detecting the
manifestations in the child at the
earliest possible moment and by Civ
ing suitable treatment at that time.
For this reason the growth
throughout the world of preventori-
ums for children in what is called
the pretuberculosis stage has been
tremendous, and the publication OF
studies of cases from such preven-
forums may be cited as evidence
that they accomplish good work.
The child who is about to have
tuberculosis often manifests symp-
toms of the impending danger, but
these are usually so transient and
so uncharacteristic of any special
disease that they are usually over
looked.
Frequent attacks of colds, in
fiuenza, disturbances of digestion,
regularly recurring fevers, and per-
haps general lassitude are among
the most common of these synp-
toms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
In All Fairness

AS matter of abstract justice, it
is not right for the government to
compel those engaged in a par
ticular business to do things which
make it harder for them to meet
foreign competition, unless it makes
up the difference. AS matter of
common sense the government can
not attain the end it seeks, unless
it does so.
Thus far We have accomplished lit
tie through our shipping regula-
tons except to destroy the pros
poets of such a merchant marine
as this country deserves.
1t is not only right. but sensi-
BILE, for the American people to in
sist that American ships shall be
superior to any in the world. and
that they should be manned by a
superior personnel. That is the only
way they can hope to prevent sea
disasters.
But so long as other countries
fail, or refuse to meet similar re-
quirementS, and so long as the COM
petition of those countries is of
such a character that our ship own
ers and operators can not meet it
successfully, the American people
must share the cost if they expect to
keep ships afloat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

Members of congress from states which profit most
from the protective tariff are clamoring for prompt
revision of the tariff by which of they mean
revision upward This was to be expected following
"a campaign in which the tariff was stressed as
major factor in prosperity.
Representative John O. Tison of Connecticut goes
ESQ far as to express the opinion that the principal
business of the projected special session of congress
should be the tariff, rather than the adoption of
blanket program of farm relief.
Tilson is Republican leader OF the house, and his
opinions are therefore important He is one of small
cotere which practically dictates the of the
dover chamber
Tilson apparently believes farm legislation be
enacted piece-meal; that various laws on different
phases of the farm problem which there is agree
ment can be adopted from time to time.
There is no way of knowing if Tilson speaks for
any considerable number of his colleagues 1t is to be
hoped that he does not For any effort to sidetrack
farm relief in favor of general overhaung of the
tariff would betrayal of the farm belt by the Re
publican party.
Farmers voted for Hoover and returned the
party overwhelmingly to power in congress because
tthey believe the platform pledges and the promises
of Herbert Hoover Senator Curtis Senator Borah and
other leaders that farm relief legislation would be
adopted without further delay.
Congress has discussed the farm problem for seven
years and has done little except to ease credit 1t is
hardly conceivable that information of i'm
,por.ance can be adduced. Farm leaders know how
Ear controHng elements of the party willing
Ito go in extending government aid
Il. The equalization fee has been abandoned. and
Headers seem nearer agreement the form the
Legislation should take than at any other time in
Eyears. Further delay cannot be justified.
True, the farmers have been promised greater
tariff protection agricultural products and while
this is of doubtful value it is integral part of farm
relief Doubtless also certain industries in real
need of higher schedules
The plight of the farmer, however. should not be
seized upon as an excuse for general tariff raid
with the farmers left out in the cold, as they have
been so often.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
PrgUent07iun1 Aids Tuberculosis Wan"

Not infrequently there are asso-
ciated with these conditions under
weight, coughs persisting for six
weeks or longer, periodic swelling of
the glands of the neck, and fatigue.
Not infrequently, there are also dis
turbanceS of the bone formation.
Modern scientific medicine checks
the relationship of these symptoms
to tuberculosis by the use of skin
tests with tuberculin and the use
of the X-ray.
If there are areas Of tuberculous
Inflammation in the lung, the X-ray
will indicate these areas through
through shadows on the plate.
In the preventorium it is possible
to study the child under controlled
conditions, to make regular obser-
vations, and indeed 20 give the
child before it has tuberculosis the
same type of scientific study as is
given to a person with tubercu-
losiS in a sanatorium.
AS a result of studies which he
made, DR.. I. D. Bronfin of the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital in Denver
is convinced that preventoriums for
the observation of children who
have been exposed to tuberculosis
and for treatment for tuberculosis
in children are needed as urgently
as sanatoriums for the treatment of
adults with tuberculOSiS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

TINE moral of the Vestris' wreck
L is more American ships, with
American captains and American
crews for the benefit of American
trade and travel. Such q conclu-
sion carries with it no reflection on
the ships and sailors of other ma
tions.
We showed what we thought of
their methods when we adopted the
seamens' act.
That act was not for the sole pur-
pose of raising wages, though some
have argued that it was. Its real
object was to create better mer-
chant marine in the interest of
safety and reliability. It's immedi-
ate effect, however, was to subject
American ship owners and operators
to a competition which put them
at disadvantage. When we COM
PEELED them to pay higher wages
and provide better accommodations
than their foreign rivals, We made
things harder for them by the ex-
ercise of arbitrary authority.
Our action should have been &C
companied by such assistance as
would have equalized the difference
thus created.
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mercial possibility.

merclal possibility.
The first photograph was a crude machine, though
its essential details fundamentally those still in
today.
Instead of record. however "a grooved brass
cylinder covered with tnfoil was used.
The needle, which was attached to vibrating dia-
phram of parchment pressed against the tnfoil. The
brass cylinder was turned by hand with a crank.
When person spoke into the horn, it caused the
parchment diaphram to vibrate These vibrations in
turn caused the needle to vbrate and depreS-
sions were cut into the tinfoil
When the record was run second time the de-
again. This in turn set the diaphram in vibration
and the original sounds were reproduced
1t must be remembered of course that sound con-
sists of mechanical waves or vibrations in the at
mosphere
Edison's first photograph created great sensa-
ton
When it was first exhibited before the French
Academy of Science, one prominent member accused
the demonstrators of having hidden ventriloquist
in the ROOM
He refused to believe the photograph was real
until he was allowed to take to his own labor
atory and to perform experiments with it.
We have said that Edison's achievements up to the
invention OF the photograph would have constituted
career in which many could take exceptional pride
The photograph would have constituted a great
climax to such a career.
But before the of the year-1877-Edison was
already hard at work the incandescent electric
light.
AS we shall see Edison not only developed the
electric light bulb but made vast Improvements in
methods Of generating and distributing electric cur
rent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
Hoover'S on His WayI

Ordinarily, We wait four months
to find out what a President-elect
intends. That is not Herbert Hoo
ver's way. No sooner is he sure Of
the job than he begins to work at 't
Two weeks after the election find
him sailing toward South America
on mission which promises to clear
up one of the sorest spots in our
foreign relations. Not only that. but
they find him offering a plan to
safeguard the country against I'M
employment which promises to b.
of equally great benefit.
Now that they have been
launched, both the South American
trip and the idea of creating a great
reserve fund for public work in dull
times, seem both sane. and simple.
Still, no one undertook to give them
practical expression.
Lots of people have voiced the
opinion that some one ought to visit
South America and straighten
things out. SO, too, lots of people
have said that it would be a good
idea to build streets and postofflces
when work was slack.
1t took Hoover to give both
schemes vitality. No better ex-
ample could be offered of his fit
ness to be President of the United
States at this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
Speedy Justice


Filling brief before the supreme court IN the case
of John Duval once mayor of this city and under
sentence for his methods of obtaining Office suggests
that the constitutional guaranty of speedy justice re-
quires some definition.
At times when the prison authorities are asking for
huge sums with which to build larger quarters for
prisoners with the whole Fabric of society asking
what can be done to curb crime with social ptilos
ophers disturbed at the apparent growing disrespect
adjudication of appeals may have some bearings.
Every person accused of crime is assured, under
the Constitution, of a speedy trial.
Society it might seem, should have some similar
safeguard if it is to protect itself.
And speedy trials ought to a final decision in
the case to the end that the guilty may be punished
and that society be vindcated.
More than year has elapsed since Duvall con-
.yicted by jury, left the Office of mayor.
Whatever benefit there may come from warning
to others is vtiated to some extent when sentences
that are imposed by courts delayed until the
man on the street forgets the name. the Office and
the offense of those branded as violators OF law.
If the courts are clogged that decisions not
be rendered until years after the appeals made
the next legislature should try to find some remedy
If the rules of the courts are such as to permit at
torneys who may desire delay more than verdict,
they should be changed.
Justice swift sure, certain and even handed, is
ideal that is apparently at the present time far from
attainment.
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Just Common Sense

What we need in our political life
is not theories, but some one who
can translate practical ideas into
action
If anything, we have had an
overdose of theories and suggestions.
What we have not had is a sensible
application of ordinary, everyday
knowledge To governmental prob
lens.
Hoover tackles the Latin-Amer-
lean problem in the same way that
he would tackle a real estate deal
with some of his neighbors-and
why not? What difficulty does it
present, except the establishment
of confidence. where suspicion and
distrust have created a bad situa-
ton? He tackles the. task of pro-
viding work in dull times the same
way that Gamers provide fruit and
vegetables out of season-and again.
why not?
If the citizen should save up
something for that proverbial rainy
day. why shouldn't the government
save up a little work?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
Business in Cold Storage

The real strength of civilization
consists in the way it steadies
things.
System, order and regularity spell
the real difference Between us and
the Caveman.
What we have gained is the as
surance that we can plan to do a
certain thing a week, a month. or
even a year in advance. The steady
flow of transportation. the steady
supply of those products we need,
and, above all else, the steady job
makes this possible these things
have come about through CO.
op -rative efforts.
The factory whistle would not
blow each succeeding morning, if
people has not learned to act in con-
cert with one another.
The elimination of seasonal effects
on food and work, of poverty
through death and disease and of
periodic depression has been, and
still is the most worthwhile object
OF human effort
Creating q public reserve for con-
struction work whe' business Slumps
amounts to little. but applying the
tin can or cold storage method to
our economic problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
The Solution

THIS problem is very easy
4 when you get it. The author
has seen more than one good player
announce the solution in less than
a minute-but the ~ong solution.
South leads the jack of clubs,
which East wins with the queen.
If East now returns his seven of
clubs, South plays the eight and
North the nine.
North then wins his spade trick
and leads a club, which South wins
with the king. If East returns the
ten of clubs at the second trick,
South plays the king and then leads
the eight, which North wins with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
Reason

| CECRETARY KELLOGG had a
- financial expert investigate Mic
acargue's condition. and the expert
now advises that we loan Nicaragua
$12,O0O,000, take charge of her bud
get. let American financiers gain
control of her national bank, then
keep the marines down there to sit
on the lid.
In other words we are to take
over the government of Nicaragua.
All of which is none of our buSi-
ness.
We have a right to be interested
in Nicaragua'S financial condition
only if she fails to pay a foreign
debt. and the foreign creditor tells
us that we must make Nicaragua
pay. because, under the Monroe
doctrine, we won't let the foreign
creditor enter Nicaragua and col
lect the debt himself.
This is the beginning and the
end of our right to intervene in
Nicaragua, and Secretary Kellogg
should dismiss his financial expert
and wish him a Merry Christmas.
tt
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
confined to his Washington home
by slight cold, is the Grand Old
Man of America, and the proprietor
Of the supreme courts most
progressive mind.
He is past 81 and could have
retired long ago. but he doesn't be-
lieve that one as young as he feels
should loaf.
His present ambition is to hold
Office until after March 4 to keep
Mr.. Coolidge from selecting some
reactionary as his successor.
The collapse of this platform in
Athens during a great celebration
of the Greeks reminds us of the
time when Roosevelt campaigned
Ohio against Taft, seeking the dele
gates to the convention of 1912. The
platform from which he was seek
ing crashed, taking down forty or
fifty people, but Teddy was up and
at his speech again while most Of
the others were untangling them
selves.
The frequency with which our
bank presidents are being locked in
their vaults by bandits should lead
them to see to it that the vaults are
furnished with all the comforts of
home.
r y
This American widow. worth eight
million dollars, who looked over
Eitel Friedrich. second son of the
former kaiser, then decided to take
him on would have done much bet
ter, had she put her money into
General Motors.
n Il n
Henry Ford has just bought for
his museum a sled that's 100 years
old, but if he wants some real an
tiques he should get some of the
promises the government has been
handing the farmers.
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what win we Do About It2

Now That everyone is fairly well agreed that the
Vestris none too seaworthy to begin with and
that Captain Carey waited too long to call for help,
what of it? The captain the ship the victims are
gone; the public has responded emotonaly and Is
Beginning forget What going to do about 1t?
The two hearings drag along.
Later the London investigation will get under way.
Maybe Congress viii start an inquiry Finally there
win be long technical reports
Perhaps one or two officers or inspectors will be
made the goats. And that will be the end of it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
NONE OF OUR BUSINESS
THE GRAND OLD MAN
WHO CARES A WHOOP!

TINE newspapers say that Jeffer-
Il son E. Crane of the National
Cash Register Company caught The
whooping-cough while going TO Eu-
rope, then gave it to the members
of the American social colony in
Paris, but who cares a whoop if he
did!
Il
Mrs. Dwight Morrow flew over the
crater of Popocatapetl with Indy,
but she probably wouldn't do it if
Indy married into the family. At
least, very few mothers-in-law
would trust their sons-in-law to
take them over a volcano.
II
North Carolina didn't mind her
earthquake much, coming as it did
right after the Hoover landslide.
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RRED6EI%!8Btfuf

the nine. North then takes the final
trick with his spade.
If East leads a spade at the second
trick, North wins and leads the club,
South taking the two final tricks ~
finessing through.
OF course there is the possibility
that East will play low on the
opening trick. In that case, South
then leads the king of clubs followed
by a small club, forcing West to lead
a spade.
But it is imperative that South's
opening lead be the jack. Any other
lead will give East and West two
tricks.
Try it and see!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
This Date i'm
u. s. History

Nov. 23
1513-Florida named by Ponce de
Leon.
1682-New York and Connecticut
agreed on a boundary line.
Birthday of Franklin Pierce,
former President.
Domestic postal rates extend
ed to Porto Rico, Guam and
the Philippines.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygiea, the
Health Magazine.
IT is we'll established that tuber-
1culosis infection starts during ear
ly infancy and that from so to 80
per cent of all children by the time
they have reached 10 years of age
have the organism of tuberculosis
in their bodies.
Only a few actually succumb to
the ravages of the disease. There
fore, obviously, the human body
has in it factors which aid in over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

THOSE four communists who
l. raised the rumpus at Palo Alto
when Mr.. Hoover went away were
superb judges of publicity and their
crimson brethren doubtless are en-
viOus.
But how strange that these reds
denounce imperialism" all the
time.
It would be much more effective
if they should denounce rheuma-
tism, for so many more people
have it.
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recalls the start
O t h e phono-
graph.
1t was in 1877
that Edison in
vented the pho
nograph. He al
ready had begun
Investigations in
TO the field of
un d. having
patented earlier
in the same year
the carbon tele-
phone transmit
ter, the trans
m i t t e r which
made the tele-
phone a COM
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Questions and
AnS1OeTS

You can get an an, answer To- any answer
Editor The indianapolis Times wash
ington Bureau. 1922 New York Ave-,
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cordially invited to make use Of this
What causes an eclipse of the
moon?
The shadow of the earth falling
on the illuminated disc of the moon
when the earth is between the sun
and moon.
How many public school teachers
are there in the United States?
There are 617078 elementary pub
lie school teachers and 144,230 public
high school teachers, according to
the latest available figures.
What is meant by dead pearl?
In the jewelry trade a dead"
pearl is one that has lost its luster.
What is the oldest known calen-
dar?
The oldest calendar known to
man came from Egypt. julius
Caesar introduced it into the Roman
empire, and Pope Gregory XIII re-
vised it somewhat in 1882 since
when it has been used throughout
nearly all Christendom.
Did Babe Ruth make a home run
in the last game of the 1927 world
series?
Yes, in the fifth inning
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Ph0nograbh Used Tintoil
30. 215

DHONOGRAPHS have become so much part of
modern life that young people, at any rate, are
very likely to take them for granted. They forget
that there was day when Photographs did not
exist
The recent awarding of the United States Con-
gressional Medal of Honor to Thomas A. Edison
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Daily Thought

They all hold swords. being eX-
pert in war; every man hath his
fear in the Embellishments
Song S;S.
TITO fear the foe, since fear OPP
Il presseth strength, gives in
your weakness strength unto your
foe.-Shakespeare.
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Question - What is Gre
tiniSm?

Answer-Cretinism is usually
the result of inactivity Of the
thyroid gland, particularly in
several generations of mothers
living in a region where such
inefficiency of the thyroid
gland is common. The child
who is a cretin fails to develop
either physically or mentally
III a satisfactory manner.
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coming tuberculosis IL the large
majority of cases.
The experience of many physi-
clans indicates that a severe at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

Perhaps what is lacking in solving the traffic these
days is a little horse sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
David Dietz on Scienc'

Speaking of modern collegiate degrees, bachelor
just has to have arts these days
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23

Henry Ford has just bought for
his museum sled that's 100 years
old, but if he wants some real an
tiques he should get some of the
promises the government has been
handing the farmers.
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until another preventable Vestris disaster and more
hearings, and fresh public indignation petering Out