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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
A Day for Appraisal

Even the most cynical, the most scep-
teal. will find cause for glow of congratu-
lation. if not for gratitude, if he compares
the conditions under which he lives with
those which first caused day to be set
aside for thanks to a Providence for bless
ngs.
The Pilgrims had no doubts. They gave
thanks to God for saving them from famine
and hunger. They were grateful for the
prospect of a winter of plenty. They did
not credit themselves with the discovery OF
corn and its planting.
SO they frankly met, with prayer and
reverence, to give thanks to the Author OF
their welfare.
1t is we'll that the custom fingers. 1t
would be better if, perhaps, there fingered
also some of the reverence which gave it
meaning. Still better would it be if. there
remained more of the character and the
characteristics of those who founded this
day and helped to found this nation.
These were men, and women of sincerity.
They believed, and believing, were ready to
suffer, to meet hardships, to die If neces-
sary, to defend their beliefs and their con-
Victions.
There were men and women of firm
purpose. They had crossed the seas, not in
ocean liners, but in ships that would today
be barred by authorities as dangerous and
unsafe. They came because they rebelled
against any coercion of conscience. They
came in protest to escape from conditions
they found intolerable and were willing to
take all risks to gain their goal.
They met dangers, many of them.
Famine threatened. Sickness was ever pres
ent. Conditions of life were primitive and
hard
Fortunately, these dangers no longer
exist. Science has made famine an impos-
sibility. Invention has made food plentiful.
The physician has learned not only how to
cure, but how to prevent, illness.
For the one great fact that the mere
task of living has been simplified, every per-
son may give thanks. 1t is no longer neces-
sary to devote all of human energy and the
entire clock to the effort of remaining alive.
* Avenues and vistas undreamed of in the
Pilgrim days are open to all. These are the
days of soft living.
8 On this day of gratitude, there is room
for appraisal and inventory. Has the soften
ing of living softened the tenacity of purpose
and Iessened the courage which marked the
founders of this day?
Have you one belief, one firm purpose,
one basis of conscience from which you would
be ready to suffer and sacrifice and die?
If you,have, be doubly grateful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Biggest Part Omitted

XXTE have come to look at the
w Pacific coast as splendid
playground, as a wonderful place
for old men to retire and romr
through their declining years, as a
region in which golf can be enjoyed
in all seasons, while a five-acre
orange, grapefruit, walnut or prune
patch pays for the clubs and lost
balls, as the natural habitat of the
motion picture industry and other
similar enterprises of entertainment
all of which it is, but all of which
leaves out the bigger part fate has
ordained for it.
The Pacific coast faces lands
where two-thirds of the human race
live-landS of vast resources and
potential opportunities, lands that
produce much raw material we shall
one day need and that can be made
to supply markets for our manu-
featured products.
The Pacific coast, in short, Is
Americas gateway to the Orient
and from a potential standpoint the
Orient still is the biggest aggrega-
ton of men and materials on earth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Diseases Gain as People Live Longer

past middle life. This Is significant,
because cancer essentially is a dis
ease of middle age or beyond and
the reason there is more cancer is
people are living longer to have
cancer.
Another increase emphasized by
Dublin is that in diabetes. This in
crease may also be associated with
the fact that more people are living
longer and that the span of life has
increased greatly in recent years.
Wear and tear on the human sys-
tenn has definite part to play in
determining the length of life.
When the machine has lost its
power of repair and recuperation,
the less effort and stress placed
upon it, the more likely it is to sur
viYe for longer period of time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Operating
"OH," said the broker, "he cans

on" said the broker, "he can't
~ do that. He's a surgeon and
he's operating this morning, taking
out a mans spleen
Speaking of stocks, number of
readers have written to inform me
that R. j. Reynolds does not con-
duct a union shop.
In addition to being a member of
the American Federation of Labor
l am in complete sympathy with
the principle Of collective bargain
ing. and accordingly I shall sell my
ten shares for the sake of being
logical. There is also a small profit
in them.
If there Is anything wrong with
the labor record of Allegheny Cor
poration will somebody please tell
me now, before it is too late?
Copyright. 1929. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

THERE is far too much patience
IL with stupid people. Literature,
the law, the judgment OF the COM
munity all are cushioned for the
congenial idiot. He did his best
according to his lights" we say, and
make it sound as if this we're high
achievement.
Folly might we'll be an inalienable
privilege if it were only the practice
of the foolish to live alone with
their ridiculous notions behind
locked doors.
This is not the custom. Braying
is almost without exception an &C
tivity which takes place in thronged
streets and before large audiences.
Take, for instance, an organiza-
ton like the Ku-KluX Khan. Not
its meanness nor its lawleSsnesS
arouse me so much as the idiocy OF
it all
To be sure, am, at the moment
grateful to the khan because in a
recent issue of its official organ
Oswald Garrison Willard and were
mentioned as two of the most dan
gerous men in the United States
This is a promotion.
I am quite ready to be convinced
that many kIansmen are wholly
sincere and utterly persuaded that
the objects for which they work will
save the nation. What of it?
Where on earth did the notion
ever arise that sincerity is a sort of
police card which should admit the
bearer through all restraining lines
and permit him to pour kerosene
upon the conf1agration?
Critics talk of the sincerity of a
playwright or a novelist as if in
itself it should be enough to enlist
attention. But would you have your
appendix out at the hands of a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Want to Be Branded?

IN an ancient number of the
Il American Journal of Surgery I
came across a suggestion which
should be of interest to the grow
ing crop of autograph hunters. DR..
Evan Kane wants. surgeons to sign
their patients. He feels that they
have as much right to a signature
as sculptors or painters.
However, he is content with some
thing less than a full name and
urges no more than the letter K,
using the Morse alphabet, which
consists of dash, dot, dash. DR..
Kane is a little sorrowful about this
moderation which he has imposed
upon himself.
His own plea for the more ex-
tended signature is persuasive. DE
spite this objection" he says, speak
ing of the unfortunate habit which
some patients have of coming out
of the ether before literary sur
geon has quite rounded out the
sentence, 1T is Of advantage to read
near ones patients scar the ap-
proximate date Of the operation
without having to refer to notes. 1t
saves time and obviates the risk Of
being thought unduly forgetful."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

treme old age than they used to,
but a great many more people live
to middle age and beyond, SO that
the average length of life is length
ened.
According to Dublin, there are
about 5000 people in the United
States out of a total of 100000
who claim the distinction of being
100 years old or more, but he says,
as most statisticians think, there is
good deal of poetical license in
this claim.
Raymond Pearl found thirty peo-
pie out of 100000 lived to the age
of 10G, and of these, twenty were
women.
Since 1921 the death rates for
heart disease and cancer have been
definitely on the increase in people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
A Great Day Ahead

GONE day we shall do more bust
- ness with Asia than Europe, be-
cause there are more mouths to
feed, more bodies to clothe, more
men to step on the gas. more women
to use vacuum cleaners. more ears
for the radio.
Some day Asia will demand our
machinery, though it refuses our
religion, because it is waking up to
the fact that it can not live without
modern tools, because human ma
ture is much the same. regardless of
the color of the skin, kind of
traditions or form OF government.
Some day we shall be visiting
Canton as we now visit Paris. look
ing for art and curios. satisfying
our morbid appetites and getting
acquainted Win another aid just
as interesting side OF human
progress.
When these things take place, as
they surely will, San Francisco will
be another New York, and Los
Angeles will have moved closer to
the coast and ceased to talk so much
about the movies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

ESPITE the marvellous advances
~ of science in the last few dec
a6es. the scientist is in no danger
of growing conceited. For in every
direction that he turns, he finds
batting mysteries still awaiting
solution.
one of these lies with the human
body. 1t is the spleen, which Dr.
William Inflow, well-known surgeon,
characterizes rightly as IAN organ
of mystery"
The spleen is a small, rather oval
shaped organ. weighing about six
ounces. 1t is in the upper left abdo-
men. hidden under the margin OF
the ribs between the stomach and
left kidney.
In youth, the spleen is cherry red
in color, in middle age it is blush
red, in senility it is dark blue.
A large artery supplies blood to
| the spleen. The artery is Surpr1s-
ingly large considering the small
size of the spleen. The spleen does
not remain quiet, but contracts
rhythmically. 1t is known techni-
cally, therefore, as a contractile
organ. The size Of the spleen
changes also. 1t is largest at the
height of digestion.
Surgeons, as DR.. Inflow points out
| have removed the spleen with inn
punity. The question before Scien-
lists therefore is: What is the func-
ton of the spleen?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Spurious

TINE opinion that the spleen
l. serves no useful purpose is one
of the oldest ideas of mankind, 1t
can be found in the oldest litera-
ture. DR.. Inflow has collected much
data about it.
In ancient Persia. it was CUSTOM
airy to remove the spleen of horses
which carried the kings messages,
under the impression that it made
them more fleet
Aristotle called the spleen a spur
ious liver and suggested that it had
been placed in the human body
merely as a sort of ballast in the
left side to match the liver on the
right.
Many not only felt that the spleen
was useless. but that it actually was
harmful. Plato calls it heap
of impurities, purgations and Off
scourings. AS result, the medical
men of the ancients sought means
Of eliminating it.
Vitruvius tells of drug known as
scolopendris. which was made from
a herb. This drug had the effect
of reducing the size of the spleen.
Coming down through the ages,
We find no better appreciation of
the spleen.
William Stukeley, in the eight
zenith century, considered the
spleen sort OF sponge which
soaked up excess blood and then
gave it back TO the liver when
needed. He also considered it a
sort Of warming pad, designed to
keep the stomach warm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

IN an address before the American
L Public Health Association, DIR.
L. I. Dublin emphasized the differ
ence between the expectation of life
and the span of life, so people
might have a more clear under
standing of what science has &C
complished in improving the former
without changing the latter.
The great gains that have been
made in increasing life expectancy
have been made by overcoming in
FAINT mortality, the infectious dis
eases of youth and the great
plaques.
People do not live to more ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter
esting writer's. and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

How many patents have been
granted by the United States patent
Office?
Up to Aug. 20 1929, 1.725,742.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
DAILY THOUGHT

They are vanity. the work OF
errors; in the time of their vista
ton, they shall perish.-Jeremiah
51:18.
When men will not be reasoned
out of a vanity, they must be ridi-
culed out of it.-L'EstEsnge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Selfish

DR. KANE'S surgical memory
IL book is entirely for his own
perusal, as I understand it. The use
of code seems to me just a bit
selfish.
Just as long as he has the will to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Questions
and AnSzOers
Where is the wax in the ear Sc
GREETED and for what purpose is it.:

Where is the wax in the ear Sc
creted and for what purpose is it:
Cerumen or ear wax is a yellow
oily secretion from certain glands
lying in the external auditory canal
It's function is to render the skin of
this, part pliable and to entangle
dust, ETC., which may enter the
canal. Its bitter taste and sticky
consistency are repellent to insects
which might seek to enter the audi
tory canal.
How much larger is the sun than
the earth?
The United States Naval Observa-
tory says that the suns mass, de-
termined from the acceleration In
the earth's motion produced by the
suns attraction, is about $4,000
times the earth'S mass. If it were
possible to weigh the sun at the
earth's surface, its weight expressed
in tons, would be two, followed by
twenty-seven ciphers.
What is catnip?
A European perennial plant Of the
mint family, which frequently oc-
ours in this country as q weed in
gardens and about dwellings. 1t has
long had popular use as a domes-
tic remedy. Both leaves and flower
ing tops find some demand in the
crude drug trade. Catnip oil is eff
fective as a lure for all the cat
family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS

The Pacific Coast, q Lalsty
Youth, Really Is Setting the
Pace for American CiUili-
cation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

sincere surgeon or ask a passionate
architect to design the foundation of
your cellar?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
SCIENCE
By DAVID DlETZ :

Spleen Is Organ Of Mystery
IN Human Body; Scientists
BaHed After Long Expert
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
BY DIR. MORRIS F'ISHBETN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Evening star., 1929-06-27

. VERY public links player with
- scoring aspirations apparently
is looking toward chance to
rafarasanf Washinuknn In the
Evening star., 1929-06-27
CABIN JOHN PLANS
TO PLAY SATURDAYS

AL Sadtler, business manager of the
Cabin John Junior Order nine, is plan
ming the organization of a base ball
team to play Saturday games, his OBJ
ject being to give players who are not
now playing Saturday ball chance to
do SO anr give those who are per-
forming only on Sunday a chance to
get In some good practice by playing
Saturday.
He hopes to be able to send the
team into action for the first time
Saturday, and he wants the following
to call him at Bradley 201 FILA in re-
gard to joining the team:
Wengel Hamilton and Hoffman Of
the Ku Klux Klan team; Terrett, Show
and G. Brown Of Independent A. c.;
Lyons. Edinger and E.. Wesley Of Eas-
tern A. c.. Dingler Of Addison A. G.
and any other players Of their caliber
who are interested.
Jones, w. Higgins, w. Davis, F. Hill,
G. Morgan and A. Sadtler are players
who have already signified their inten-
ton of signing.
Evening star., 1929-06-27

farther and straighter and with d
Bob is the one player in the field
Iintroubled by the one-Sot holes. his
nreference in short holes is for holes
that demand a stif shot, he mas
thrown away more shots IN open cnam-
pionshipS on one-shotters ca!lng 1oI
a mashie niblic or spade masnie snot
than he likes to remember.
Lost on Short Ones.
It was his inability to make par on
abbreviated holes that lost Bobby the
championship at Oakland Hills, Wor-
chester and Olympia Fields and II
was the short ninth at Scioto Valley
that almost robbed him OF victory IN
1926. So the Georgian Is well pleased
with the short one at Winged FOOT;
During the practice rounds close
check was made on the play OF the
short holes and the number OF players
reaching the greens in one shot aver
aged only one In four. There Will be
fewer twos made in this championship
than any in history and more tours
and fves than pars registered by these
golfing molochs.
AS the championship started George
Won Elm, the blonde Detroit amateur,
and Billy Burke, the Portchester pro-
III.
the favorites. Won Elm is playing mag
nificent golf and possesses the faculty
of keying himself to keen edge for q
championship better than almost any
one In the game. Burke, who won the
New York open last week, is an unor-
thodox player who rocks and sways at
the top of his swing, but always scores
well. Macdonald Smith is playing well
enough to make him one Of the feared
players and there is slight chance that
the veteran Scots search for the open
championship that began at Scarsdale In
1910 may come to an end here. Harri-
son johnson of st. Paul Is also hitting
the ball well, but so are two dozen
others.
Diegel Handicapped.
An attack of lumbago made 1t vir-
tually impossible for Leo Diegel to be IN
his best form and the stocky pro is
playing entirely on his nerve.
Johnny Farrell, the defending cham
pion, played wretchedly during his prac-
tice rounds at Winged Foot, but many
of his rivals declared the title holder
was playing possum and shooting fine
golf over Quaker Ridge, his home course
Just across the road from Winged Foot:
But there is more gossip around golf
championship than in the east wallop
sewing circle and nothing can be proven
until night fall.
Everything points to a great cham
pionship and surprising championship
with much hanging on the stars ability
to get home In one Of the four short
holes that will furnish material for
locker room and fairway agossip for
many months to come.
(Copyrieht. 1927
Evening star., 1929-06-27
National Public Links Tourney
Reveals Much An,bitiOn Here

from each park to qualify for the team.
Ties will be played OF.
At a later date the four men will get
together and play for the captaincy Of
the team, which will be tantamount to
the Washington municipal links cham
pionShip. Leoffier will put up the
money-approximately $125 apiece
for each contestant to play in the ma
tional championship at the Forest Park
Golf Club of st. Louis on August 6, z,
8, and TO-. Entries for the Washing
ton elimination contests close tomorrow
at the two parks, and the fight for the
four. places promises to be a rough,
tough affair.
Two familiar faces will be missing
from the list Of contestants this year
those of Charles w. r. Cole, jr., and
John r. Miller. The rule in national
public links golf is that when a con-
testant joins a private golf club, he is
no longer eligible as a public links
championship entrant. Cole, who has
been captain OF the Washington public
links team for the last two years and
city municipal links champion for the
same length Of time, became a member
of the Indian Spring Golf Club during
the Spring. Miller, who was the inter-
departmental champion last year and
has been member of three Wash
ington teams in the national public
links event, has become a member of
the Beaver Dam Country Club. It
seems to be the ambition Of the public
linksmen to join private clubs as soon
as they have acquired degree of pro-
ficiency, and they could have no better
ambition. Many of the best golfers
around Washington started their
careers on the public links and several
of them have been leading contenders
in the national championship.
Some Star Products.
Such fine players as Harry @. Pitt,
Al. L. Houghton, John G. Shorey, George
j. .Voigt, Page Hufty, and Earl McAleer
learned virtually all they know of the
Evening star., 1929-06-27

What is worse than spelling holiday with
tire trouble?
After day ofrecreation the homeward trip
starts-the roads hot and dusty you are
physically tired, hurrying toward restful
sleep. Then-BANG- goes worn.out tire!
A "Perfect" day is spoiled!
Experienced motorists will take advantage
of our special tire sale and stop trouble be-
fOreit happens. Prices are down ON Goodrich
Silvertowns, Cavaliers, and Comm ande era
Evening star., 1929-06-27
yicu One7Sho Holes Loom Bgaboos Mgest of Links

game on the wind-swept reaches Of East
Potomac Park or the cloistered fairways
Of Rock Greek Park.
Granted that human beings are al
ways trying to better themselves, why is
1t not perfectly logical that the leading
players of the public links join private
clubs? There can be no doubling the
fact that the graduates Of the public
links have contributed large share Of
the drama and romance In the golf
events about Washington, and tnat
without them the competition would not
be nearly so keen as 1t is now.
So the event on July 8, which will
find upward Of 10 golfers struggling
among themselves for four places will
doubtless be productive Of some fine
competition and some good scoring, even
though Washington never has been for
tunate enough to produce q national
public links champion nor even a near
champion. AL Houghton has the best
record, for he went to the semi-final in
the competition at Salisbury in 1925.