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Children Victims of Rheumatic Fever

specific remedy for its cure that
has been established scientifically
and when the disease attacks the
joints or some other portions of the
body, there seems to be no sure or
ready means for protecting the
heart.
Once the heart is affected, the
best advice includes clearing up of
infections in the throat; rest, in
deed absolute rest for as long a
period as possible; attention to diet
and general health, and a warm,
dry climate.
Even when everything possible
that can be done is done, there is
still a tremendous number of cases
of death and permanent Gripping
from rheumatic fever in the child.
Here is a disease which, more than
any other, demands intensive sci
entific research for its control.
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dren and compared them with
others not rheumatic. They failed,
however, to substantiate the belief
that the especially fair type of child
was more likely to have the disease
than any other.
Nevertheless, the occurrence of
rheumatic fever in families and the
development Of the disease at a
certain age in most of the children
in such families has caused many
observers to feel that the last word
has not yet been said on this subject.
So far as is known, the infection
in rheumatism is by an organism
of the streptococcic type, a small
round germ, occurring in chains,
which is also associated with st.
Vitus' dance, swollen joints, cry
sipeIas, scarlet fever and many
other diseases.
The exact cause Of rheumatic
fever is not known. There is no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
RaCketS Bob UD Again

Vt would be far easier to study the
l. problems of disarmament and in
ternational peace, If there were not
SO much trouble closer home, but
no sooner has one settled down to
their thoughtful consideration than
a crime, a racket, or a political
campaign scandal hobs up to inter-
rupt proceedings.
While President Hoover and Pre-
mier Macdonald were having their
nice, quiet confab on the log near
the Rapidan, New York was suffer-
ing from a veritable din of local
ills, imagined and otherwise.
Not only was the air filled with
political charges, but the courts
were smothered with preliminary
hearing, trials and reviews in con-
nection with one kind of racket or
another.
The poultry racket has brought
eighty-six defendants into court and
the milk racket promises to bring
fifty more.
The arson racket, which has been
getting considerable publicity of
late, suffered quite a jolt when a
boy of l6 confessed that he set ten
fires in the Bronx, and that his
only confederate was a boy of II.
The liquor racket, however, re-
gains some of it's old standing when
nine persons came up for trial on
the charge of making liquor of in
Secticide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
A Real Opportunity

Not often has a candidate for office the
same opportunity for public service that
would be his after his election.
Such is the happy predicament of Candi-
date Glossbrenner.
Unquestionably he desires, as do all good
citizens, that the schools be taken from the
grip of Coffinism and politics be eradicated
from them and their control.
UnquestionabIy, were he not a candidate
for office, he would be giving his time and his
money to that fine organization of citizens
which has named a ticket to accomplish these
purposes.
PROFESSIONALLY as a business man and a
bankruptcy which the control of the schools
by Coffinism has produced.
AS a candidate of the organization which
is relied upon by Coffin to deliver the votes,
Mr.. Glossbrenner has his real opportunity to
strike a blow for decency in government.
1t is very probable that the workers who
expect rewards of various kinds, ranging
from the envelope on election day to the
voorhees, job for the worthless man after
election, would think a second time before
they attempted to pull any rough stuff
against candidates supported by the man
they hope will be the next mayor.
By one single act, Mr.. ~Glossbrenner can
do more than any one man to insure the
divorce of the schools from politics.
A public announcement that he will com
pei his chairman, George Coffin, to name as
inspectors of the election, lists of citizens
selected by the Citizens School committee
would insure an honest count of ballots. 1t
would also go far to insure the election of
the five self-sacrificing citizens who have
been drafted to save the schools.
By taking such action, Mr.. Glossbrenner
would make the Endorsement unanimous.
The attitude of his opponent, Reginald Sulli-
van, has never been in doubt on such mat
tiers. He has always aided the forces that
nave worked for better things in govern
ment. He was trusted by the City Manager
League to secure an honest count of votes.
Standing at the side of Mr.. Sullivan in
the crusade to save the schools from Coffin
ism, whose evils and whose tyrannies must
be most obvious to his more recent knCwI
edge of the workings of the system, Mr..
Glossbrenner can save the schools, even if he
never holds public office.
And that would be really worth while.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
Mellon Will Remain

No over the hills to the ~poorhouse for Andrew w.
Mellon. The White House says he can have his job
till the administration goes out.
Time was when that announcement would have
stirred up the voters in the doubtful states, Unkind
critics would have recalled that, as one of our richest
men, his power in the Harding and Coolidge admin
istration usually was on the side of the vested in
terests.
There was that matter of secret tax refunds to
corporations and open insistence that the poor be
taxed as much as possible and the rich as little as
possible.
There was the governments failure to prosecute
vigorously the Mellon aluminium trust and the gov
ernments alscrity in pushing the Mellon Gulf Oil
Companys alleged case against Colombia.
But Hoover never has seemed impressed by Mel
ions millions, nor awed by Melons financial genius.
And he has no political debts to Mellon, who opposed
his nomination.
Hoover already has reversed various Mellon
policies, publicly and with gusto. That was the case
when the President decided for publicity on tax re-
funds. Also he has ignored several Mellon patronage
pleas.
No. Mellon is not the power in Washington he
used to be.
Then why has the President decided to retain him,
even though Mellon now apparently is willing to take
all his policies from the White House?
one answer is that Mellon is to be Hoover's sop
ITO Wall Street. The street likes Mellon and doesn't
IKE Hoover, whose nomination it fought. The street
thinks Mellon is an emergency brake on the admins
tration.
That remains to be seen. So far Hoover has not
been stopped by Mellon on tax, or oil conservation,
or on anything else that is known. If the secretary
does get too influential again, Couzens and his other
critics can be depended upon to make things awfully
hot.
Meanwhile. 1t is just possible the President can
use Mellon. Some day there may be a showdown with
those New York bankers who have been sabotaging
the federal reserve boards efforts to restrict specula-
ton. When that day comes, Mellon could be useful
in halping to bring Wall Street to time.
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Editor TRANSPORTATION is rife
at the present anent the results OF
Ramsay MacDonald's visit to these
shores. One is tempted to wonder
just what good, if any, will flow
from the conversations" The os-
tensible reason of the visit is very
fine but has it not occurred to some
of us that there may be an Interior
reason as well?
The premier says his only concern
is to help promote a lasting peace
between the United States and
Great Britain, and then incidentally
to force the rest of the world into
permanent tranquility. Also, he
wants to discover some way conso-
nant with the honor of both coun-
tries to arrange a sort of naval
parity. This is all very fine, OF
course, but is this all?
Knowing the history of England
as 1 do, I venture to say unhes1tat-
ingly that there is a good deal more
than appears on the surface. Is 1t
possible that 1.-THE Mother" is try
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On Practical Basis
puts the program on

THAT puts the program on a
u practical basis.
When the boys meet in London,
they will know why they are there,
and what they are going to talk
about.
This is one time when they won't
be able to get off in a corner by
themselves and mess up the con-
ference by s%pringing some propo-
sition that nobody expected.
Neither will they be able to create
any great amount of friction be-
tween England and the United
States, with both countries virtually
committed to parity.
y II n
The proposal to abolish sub
marines is likely to meet strong, if
not successful, opposition.
In spite of all they suffered
from submarines during the war,
France and Italy seem to have con-
tracted an incurable case of
affection for them.
Submarines are comparatively
cheap, and it is only natural that
they should appeal to governments
which r not in a position to build
big navieS.
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IRON the national headquarters
l. of the w. C. T. U. I am in re-
ceipt of a letter written by Mary
Frances Greene, of the chief
workers in the cause.
Herbert Hoover "a not be dis
torted into an advocate Of the liquor
interests by any rum hound on any
newspaper" writes Miss Greene.
The w. G. T. U. is an organization
devoted to what is rather humor-
ously called Temperance"
AS a matter of fact, I do not
remember that any comment in the
metropolitan press construed the
presidents message to the white
ribboners as a defense of liquor.
But Hoover did say that Amert-
cans were too ready to tackle a
problem by passing a law. If this
rebuke was not wide enough to in
clude the w. G. T. u, 1 am at a
loss to understand for whom it was
intended,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
Subs Are Dangerous
VKTITH an effective fleet of SUI

MYTH an effective fleet of sub
w marines, a government could
proclaim a theoretical blockade
against its enemies and launch a
campaign of wholesale destruction.
Though that was denounced as
barbarous in the case of Germany,
it seems to linger in the minds of
certain statesmen as quite legiti-
mate for the future.
The basic question, of course, is
whether theoretical blockades should
be allowed, and what freedom of
the sea" really means.
Il y y
The sea has become a common
highroad for mankind, and, as such,
should be kept open.
While a nation should be left in
absolute control of the waters adj
jacent to its own coasts, and while
it should be permitted to blockade
the ports of an enemy if it can do
so effectively, the idea of drawing
imaginary lines around extensive
areas, and warning all ships that
they are liable to destruction If they
enter those areas, seems at variance
not only with civilized ways, but
with ordinary sense.
If they are not permitted to do
this, however, the submarine ceases
to be Of primary importance.
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mouthed and hypocritical manner.
Herbert Hoover can not be dis
torted into an advocate of the liquor
interests by any rum hound on any
newspaper"
st am not referring to you when
7 use this term" Miss Greene adds
graciously.
I woundn't have minded in the
least, but I do get bored with the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
WhirIpooIS

ONE of the greatest accomplish
W ments of DR.. Hale was his re-
search upon the nature of sun
spots. This neve would have been
possible without the greater tower
telescopes.
Because of the size of the i'm
age of the sun obtained from them,
it was possible to analyze with the
sp~ectroscope the light from any
particular portion of the suns sur
face. This is accomplished by
bringing the image of the sun to a
focus upon a tabletop with a
movable slit in it.
The slit is arranged then so that
the light from any portion of the
suns surface is permitted to pass
through to the -spectroscope. In this
way it is possible to analyze the
light from sun-spots and compare it
with the light from other portions
of the sun.
The spectrum of the is
crossed with tiny little black lines
known as Fraunhofer lines. Now a
German scientist, zeeman, had
shown that when a source Of light
was subjected to the influence of a
powerful magnet, the lines in the
spectrum were split into double
lines.
When DR.. Hale photographed the
spectrum of a sun-spot he found
that the lines in it we're doubled.
This could mean only one thing:
that each sun-spot was a huge
magnet. Subsequent work by DR..
Hale and others have verified this
conclusion.
A magnetic field is created by
the flow of an electric current
through a coil Of wire. DR.. Hale
suspected that the magnetic field Of
a sun-spot was due to the whirling
around of electrified material in 1t.
Work with the s~pectrohelio-
graph confirmed this theory, and 1t
known now that each sun-spot is a
great whirlpool in the gaseous sur
face of the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
Powerful

THE first of the two solar tower
l. telescopes erected at Mt. Will
son is seventy-fve feet high. This
worked so we'll that the second one,
$50 feet high, was put up.
In each case, the tube of the tele-
scope runs down the center OF the
tower from top to bottom. This
means that the one telescope has
a focal length of seventy-hve feet
and the other one of $50 feet.
This is what gives these telescopes
their power, for the longer the focal
length OF the telescope, the larger
the image it gives.
Astronomers do not always study
a celestial object directly. One Of
the most powerful means of study
is an analysis of it's light. This is
accomplished with the spectroscope,
a series of prisms which splits the
light into a rainbow or spectrum.
So powerful is the 150-foot tower
telescope, that it is possible to get
a spectrum Of the sun eleven feet
long with it.
But the towers were made still
more powerful by another attach
ment, also the invention of DR.. Hale
This is known as the spectrohelio-
graph. The spectroheliograph is a
combination Of prisms and moving
shutters OF, Sits, so arranged that a
photograph of the sun can be taken
in a single wave-length of light.
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~%ZL1N$&@
If I517HeH
ANNIVERSARY

TWO-CENT POSTAGE
Ocf IN

Oct. 10
~LIMAXING a century Of postal
" progress, the rates on letters
was reduced to 2 cents in the United
States on Oct. 10, 1888.
The first federal law on postage
in the United States was passed in
1892 and set the rate at 6, 8, 10, Ia,
IT. 20. % and 25 cents for distances
of 80, so, 100, $50, 200, $50, $50 or
400 miles, respectively, for single
letters. The law defined a single
letter as a single sheet or piece OF
paper. ;;
The earliest letters consisted OF
single sheets of paper folded and
addressed upon the sheet. An en-
velope would have subjected them to
double postage. =.
Posta. stamps first were issued at
New York in 1s47; stamped en-
velopes first were used in 1859; let
tiers first were registered in 1855;
free city delivery was established in
1868. and money orders first we're
issued in 1864.
Two years after the 2-cent let
ter postage went into effect, the
postofice department inaugurated,
the special delivery system. and
rural delivery first began in US
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Times Readers Voice Ve10S

ing by this method to inveigle us
into the League of Nations?
We have refused repeatedly to
have anything to do with Europe
and its ~quarrels, but you know old
Mother Brittania is very wise, and
If she can't coax her daughter
into the league one way, she is very
capable of trying another.
Let's hope for our national safety,
as well as our peace of mind, that
should the lion lie down with the
lamb, that we will see to it that he
doesn't lie down with the lamb in
side of him. Yours for America.
P. H. TRAVERS.
SAG East Ohio street.
Who played the part of the board
ing house keeper in the picture
"While the City Sleeps?"
Polly Moran.
Where Is Cardinal Richelieu bu-
ried?
In the Church of the Sorbonne
in Paris, France.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HT BFo0E

continual talk about the liquor
traffic and the whisky ring" and
the beer barons" and all that sort
of business.
1t would be entirely possible to
abolish the liquor traffic and still
remain less than bone dry. The
sale of beverages under government
supervision works we'll or i'll as you
choose, but it is certainly an effec-
tive way of ending the liquor traffic.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those CT
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude cf
this Dauer.-The Editor.
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MORE and more, both in this
I'VE country and abroad, physi-
clans are becoming concerned Seri-
ously by the apparent increase OF
attacks of rheumatic fever affecting
children.
The great danger of rheumatic
infection is it's spread to the heart
and the permanent Gripping or
early death of the child that may
be attacked.
Several physicians have felt that
a certain type of child, particularly
those who are fair, with red, sandy
or auburn hair, was more likely to
develop rheumatic fever than any
other.
The British physicians have re-
Gently studied 562 rheumatic chill
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NJ. E.. Tracy

Few Men Haze the Stamina
to Dig out knowledge by
Themselves, But They Gen.
eralIy Can BE Depended on
to Make Good Use Of 1t.
DREMIER MACDONALD gets a
L degree from George Washing
ton university. He could get one
from a dozen others if he had the
time.
Even so, the honor would be theirs
rather than his.
1t is a case of the educational Sys-
tenn paying homage to a man who
acquired an education without its
helpEa feat which still is possible,
though one never would guess it
from modern chatter.
Premier Macdonald never attend
ed a university. Neither did Ben
jamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln,
Al Smith, Thomas A. Edison, or
Henry Ford.
Few men have the stamina to
dig out knowledge by themselves,
but they al generally be depended
on to make good use Of it.
= + =
Put briefly, Great Britain's invita-
ton to the naval parley suggests:
First, parity with the United
States in all classes of fighting ships
by 1896.
Second, abolition of submarines.
Third, reduction of ~battleShipS
through revision of the replacement
program agreed on in 1922; and a
greatly reduced quota for all other
types of vessels.
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1t may be hard for the scrub to sit on the side
lines, but he might console himself with the thought
that the regulars get all the breaks.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Great Mechanical Eyes Re-
zeal Long-Hidden Secrets
of the Sun to Observatory
Watchers.
ON the domes atop Of Mt. wilson
~ observatory two mirrors, con-
trolled by delicate clocks and cleo
trio motors, follow the sun in his
daily journey across the sky.
And since these two great me-
chanical eyes have taken to watch-
ing the sun, more has been learned
about it than was known in all the
preceding centuries.
1t is just a quarter century since
work was started at the Mt. Wilson
observatory. Twenty-Five years ago
when the Carnegie InstiCu-."<A OF
Washington vas entering the Held
of scientific research, it began the
task of building the observatory and
organizing its staff.
DR.. George Ellery Hale, one OF the
worlds greatest astronomers and tina
genius who had organized the great
Yerke's observatory, was chosen to
direct the work. Today he is hon.
orary director of the observatory.
The two great towers are solar
telescopes, the invention OF DR.. Hale.
At first, the observatory was called
the Mt. Wilson Solar observatory,
but it soon became evident that
many of the problems OF the sun
also were problems of the stars and
that both had to be studied to ar
rive at an understanding Of either.
Accordingly great telescopes for
the study of the stars, first the
sixty-inch and then the l0O-inch,
the worlds greatest telescope, were
added to the observatory equipment.
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Future in Doubt

PROHIBITION is the most out
L standing example of a national
attempt to regulate private behavior
by public legislation. We have I'M
dertaken to say that it is criminal
to drink.
A very large number of people do
not believe this. At the moment l
will not contend that prohibition
is a failure. 1t may prove, in time,
an effective method to end or greatly
diminish the consumption of alcohol.
But it is silly to pretend, as the
w. c. r. U. does, that there is no
other way. Customs and traditions
can be changed by education and
propaganda.
Temperance, or, to be more pre-
else, abstinence, won many converts
long before Volstead decided to draft
us all for the mourners' bench. 1t
is not inconceivable that a COM
munity might be bone dry even
without the assistance of so much
as a local ordinance.
The W. G. T. U. is trying to ride
two horses. 1t undertakes to carry
on compulsion and persuasion at
the same time. This seems to me
all but impossible.
Should" and must" like oil and
water, do not mix. 1t is estranging
to say to any individual, IF you
break the Volstead act you will be
sent to Jail for as much as ten years
and now let us sit down and talk
in sweet reasonableness while I ex-
plain why you should turn abstinent
on your own volition."
. q
Hypocrisy
A GAINST the newspapers Of
IA New York Mary Frances
Greene brings the charge of hypoc-
risy. Granting that many Of the
drys are well qualified to at as
experts on this commodity, I sS:ll
feel that my client has not made
good her charge.
"This country struggled along with
the LIQUOR traffic for lit years or
there about" writes Miss Greene.
THE liquor traffic never obeyed any
law and as far as I can find out no
metropolitan newspaper ever at
tempted an advocacy of the kind Of
temperance that you all now seem
to advocate In a rather mealy
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Daily Thought

When / was a child / spake as a
child. I understood as a child, i
thought as a child; but when /
became a man, j put away chill
dish things.-I Corinthians 1871.
= q .
Youth changes its tastes by the
warmth of its blood; age retains its
tastes by habit.-La Rouchefou-
cauld.
When, where and how did Theo-
dore Roosevelt die?
His death occurred at his home
at Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long
Island, N. Y, on Jan. 6, 1919, as he
slept and was attributed directly to
embolism, a form of apoplexy. He
Is buried at Oyster Bay.
What is the record for throwing a
baseball?
Sheldon lie Jeune threw 426 feet
9h inches, at Cincinnati. o. Oct.
u, 1870.
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By DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine,