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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-07
HooYer's Homecoming

Hoover is back from his very successful good will
tour of Latin America. The friendly frankness
and independence of Judgment which smoothed his
path abroad now must be put to use at home.
Patronage panhandlers, politicians ano the Iknew-
hin-when boys are after him. Every one is ready to
tell him how to pick his cabinet and what position to
take on pending legislation. Some are trying to en-
barrass him by the reminder that Coolidge still is
President and that he must talk softly and step
lightly until March 4
Fortunately, there is no prospect Of misunder-
standing over presidential precedence. Coolidge was
agreeable to Hoovers sudden decision to return tenn
porariy to Washington before Inauguration. Only an
unwise and costly modesty can prevent Hoover from
giving his opinion when sought matters vitality af-
fecting his administration. And several such in
the balance now.
The immediate foreign problems relate to repara-
tons and the Kellogg atiwar pact Hoovers support
is needed for immediate and unqualified ratification
by the senate ON that treaty His advice needed in
selecting unofficial American delegates to the new
reparations commission, whose work will influence
fotation of German bonds in this country and the
larger question of debts.
Parker Gilbert. American agent general of repara-
TONS has returned from Berlin tc Washington partly
to talk with Hoover.
Domestic issues are equally urgent. The divided
is to be an extra session of congress after Inaugural
ton, originally contemplated by the President
elect. If Hoover does not intend to call such spe-
cial session. immediate steps must be taken to put
through farm relief bill at this short session.
1t would seem that the farm organizations are
wise in insisting special session to enact the
promised Hoover relief program The present session
has time to give only partial relief, like the Nc
Nary bill. If Hoover is satisfied with that BILL rather
than the more comprehensive program generally ex-
pected from him. it is important that he take the
sponsibility.
Other pending and disputed measures affecting the
new administration include the cruiser and reappor-
tionment bills
AS for Hoover's hardest job, that of selecting a
cabinet, we are inclined to believe he can do that
better in his contemplated Florid2 retreat any
other faraway place
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Heart Disease in Children Studied

been made in England, where ire
mendous studies were undertaken
under the auspices of the medical
research council.
Not only is heart disease a fire.
quent accompaniment of rheumatic
fever, but also disturbances of the
kidneys and the condition called
chorea or st. Vitus' dance.
1t is impossible to realize that
more than half of the children con-
cerned in this investigation had
tonsilitis of a serious character,
that in many of them the joints
were involved, and that for this
reason acute rheumatic fever must
be considered one of the most Sc
rious diseases that can possibly af-
f1ict mankind.
1t must also be realized that ton
sililectomy alone will not cure rheu-
matte fever, but that the condition
represents a seriousness in which
the best art of the physician may
be required to secure a favorable
result.
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Kellogg Pact Foes

Though realizing they are beaten,
opponents of the Kellogg pact con-
tinue to waste time in talk. They
seem to think that delay is better
than nothing, and that if they can
postpone the vote for a few days
longer they have accomplished
something to make the talk worth
while. Abandoning serious argu.
ment, they crack jokes, try to ar
range compromises, introduce much
extraneous material and draw their
pay.
Senator Mclean describes the
pact as like throwing a paper wad
at the dogs of war. Senator Swan
son, though having little faith in
it, believes it should be adopted, lest
it's rejection be misunderstood. Sen
ators Reed and Moses persist in
their efforts to weaken the pact
with interpretive resolutions on
the theory that it threatens the
Monroe doctrine which must be
salvaged at any price.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Sician could hear when he examined
the heart.
In the majority of the cases the
patients did not become worse even
after long periods of time.
The average age at which the
child became subject to the rheu-
matte symptoms was Tx years. In
more than one-half of all of the
children studied, the condition first
occurred between the ages of 6 and
9 years.
AS an indication of how serious
chronic infections, and particular
ly rheumatic infections, may be in
relationship to heart disease, it
should be pointed out that three
fourths of Alb children with rheu-
matte history developed heart dis
ease, and the remaining one-fourth
were considered as potential heart
disease patients.
In practically every case of rheu-
matte fever, the heart is involved at
the time of the first infection and
sometimes injured permanently.
These observations made in New
York agree with those that have
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from the body of the cell.
One of these, referring to Fig 2, is long thread
like fiber This is called the Going the other
directions number of short rods. These the
dendrons.
The other nerve cells neurons, they called,
shown in the illustration more complicated But
in each the general organization of axon,
cell body and dend-ons can be distinguished.
In Fig. g. for example, the can be extend
ing downward from the cel-body while the dendrons
extending above represent highly complex and in
voved organization. Still different details to be
seen IN 81" and a."
The nerves or nervous tissue of the human body Is
made up of millions of neurons.
The various parts of the brain are simply comp-
Gated and delcately organized masses of neurons.
Inside the spinal column is the SPINAL cord which
out from the brain. This also consists of millions of
neuronS
These neurons in the cord organized into
masses called the ganglia.
Running out from the spinal cord are nerve fbers
which run to every part of the body.
When We come to study this system IN detail We
ind two general types of nerves. One the Sensory
type carrying sensations from the skin and sense
gans inward The other, the motor nerves, carry
impulses to the muscles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-07
The Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe doctrine is getting to
be an excuse for good many things
which its originators never expected.
Nothing much can be proposed
these days affecting our interna-
tional relations but what some one
trots out the Monroe doctrine as the
all-important factor to be consid-
cred.
This doctrine was designed to keep
European nations out of the western
hemisphere. 1t was arbitrarily es-
tablished by the United States to
prevent the holy alliance from COM
ing to South. America and restor-
ing monarchical rule in group OF
weak and newly formed republics.
The holy alliance died aborning
100 years ago. The weak republics
have become strong enough to take
care of themselves. The Monroe
Doctrine, however, pursues its merry
course as though these and other
important changes had not taken
place.
Unwilling to abandon the Monroe
Doctrine, and unable to employ it
for the original purpose, since that
purpose has practically disappeared,
we find ourselves making far differ
ent uses of it, than were ever in
tended.
Instead of keeping Europe out Of
South America, it now keeps the
the United States out of Europe.
Instead of being of being guaran-
tee by which the United States pro-
tects her weaker neighbors it be-
comes an argument for her right to
interfere with their affairs.
The result is that nobody on
Gods green earth likes the Monroe
doctrine except us, and nobdy sees
much use for it. Even we would find
difficulty in seeing much use for it,
if we did not persist in thinking in
terms and conditions of 100 years
ago.
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N. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
Nobody on Gods Green
Earth Likes the Monroe
Doctrine Except Us, and
Nobody Sees Much Use
for It,"
SAYS:

CHICAGO people are talking
~ about super government" for
their city-a committee Of experts
and business men 10 restore order,
eliminate graft and, above all else,
straighten out the financial tangle.
This is of more than local sig
nif1cance. If Chicago can get in
such mess and consider such a
remedy, so can other communities.
The problem raises the question
of whether democratic government
as practiced in our cities is ade-
quate.
The people of Chicago have not
been deprived of the r liberties. 1t is
impossible to trace their troubles to
any interference with the rights of
citizenship.
If the Thompson regime came
into being, it was through their
sanction at the polls.
If needed improvements were not
authorized, it was through their de-
liberate refusal.
If public pay rolls were padded, if
racketeers took command of the
town, if the city treasury was
drained and if the schools were
threatened with suspension for lack
of funds, it was because the people
failed to take the interest they
should.
Politics, whether in a village, a
city, or the nation, demands some
thing besides system. 1t is not
enough to establish regulations, to
grant men and women the right to
vote, to make officials elective, to set
the stage for campaigns at stated
intervals. Back of it all there must
be a certain degree of civic con-
sciousness, a certain element of
common sense, a certain willingness
to subordinate personal interest to
the common good.
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I Z
SEEMS
TOME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

WHENEVER think i'll Of any
w of the later work of Sinclair
Lewis I gire the man break by
going to the bookcase and looking at
"Arrowsmith." When Lewis is gone
this novel may survive. 1t is a
better bet than Main Street" or
Rabbit" Elmer Gantry," heaven
be praised, is gone already.
The life of modern books is much
too short. When a good novel comes
out, it has its time of triumph which
seldom lasts beyond a year. After
that j. falls out of discussion and
instead of regiments of readers there
are none at all.
In July 100000 people may be
seeking a book and talking about it
and even reading it and then with
the first frost the matter is dropped
entirely.
And so, as penance for short
memory, 1 have been reading Gar
rowsmith" again. 1t contains a
generous amount of sloppy work.
Even more than main Street" the
story fairly whinpers for conden-
Sation.
The cutting need not be in any
sense ruthless. Much of the slash
ing might be well plain and simple.
Often the satire is diSgracefully
heavy handed. Now and again the
narrative limps when it should run.
And it is one Of the finest novels
written by any American in our
own day.
"Arrowsmith'' has quality which
is neither main Street nor Dab
bitt."
And this factor is enough to make
it a book beyond all else that Lewis
has written, for this time he has
captured full and complete the fer
vor of human beings.
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WE SHOULD DRIVE
ALL THE LOBBYISTS
OUT OF WASHINGTON

the foolish contributors who enable
the counselors of folly to live in ele-
gance at the national capital.
It II 4
No representative and no SEN
ator should be sent to Washington
unless he pledges the people who
send him to listen only to them and
to show all lobbyists the door,
whether they be rich or poor
The federated lobby at Washing
ton makes a mockery of free gov
eminent and mere red caps out Of
those who are presumed to be indie
pendent representatives of the
people.
Il
The next time anybody asks you
to contribute to maintain a flock
of parasites at Washington, wish
him a Happy New Year, but keep
your hands on your pocketbook.
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SynnDathotiC

Mot all the creed of Arrowsmith
In is alien to me. One particular
sentence leaped out of the book.
Lewis tells of the manner in which
Arrowsmith knelt and prayed, God
give me strength not to trust God"
l wrote some such prayer myself
in a recent column about Harry
Elmer Barnes. Until I reread
"Arrowsmith" I had no recollection
of the source of the petition.
The modern heresy known to its
opponents as fundamentalism has
done vicious violence to the self
reliance explicit in the teachings of
the Bible itself. These new-fangled
preachers such as John Roach
Straton and the rest would have
man grasp Gods coat tails.
They keep telling him that he is
not sufficient in himself and that
salvation lies only in the surrender
OF his will and strength.
1t was not always so. David, be-
fore he was king. slew Goliath out
Of the strength of his own back and
shoulders. And there was in David
something of the spirit which ami
mated Martin Arrowsnith, standing
as he does in the novel as the por-
trait and symbol Of the true scien-
fist.
In the first book Of Samuel it is
related that when David was about
to go forth against Goliath, Saul
armed him with his own helmet and
coat of mail and then the story says
significantly; "And David said unto
Saul, I cannot go with these for
I have not proved them And David
put them off him."
And here was the great ancestor
Of Darwin and Pasteur and Koch.
These were not men content to wear
any hand-me-downs Of human
thought no matter how they gilt
tered. Like David, proof was more
to them than the ar1nor for a king.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-07
Other Folks Feelings

Senior Salvador De Madariaga,
former director of the disarmament
section of the League of Nations and
professor of Spanish at Oxford
university, hardly went too far when
in addressing the Foreign Policy AS
ISOLATION last Saturday he described
the Monroe doctrine as an obsolete
dogma" and whether he did, he ex-
pressed the attitude of thousands of
Latin Americans.
In South and Central America
this doctrine no longer is looked
upon as a needed guarantee. Much
as We may delight in playing the
role of big brother, the PEOPLE down
there take it with q keen sense OF
humiliatioa 1850.
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From Bible

A ND he took his staff in his
IA hand" says the Bible, "and
chose him five smooth stones out of
the brook"
And then he went out to face the
Philistine. The big man roared at
David. He was loud and imposing
for in addition to being a Philistinc
he was fallacy and it WIS his
custom to conquer many merely by
the din he could create.
"And David put his hand in the
bag, and took thence a stone, and
slang it, and smote The Philistine In
his forehead, that the stone sank
into his forehead and he fell upon
his face 10 the earth"
The foreheads of Philistines and
fallacies are invariably softer than
hard and polished stones, it was
then an excellent principle upon
which Sinclair Lewis proceeded
when he wrote "Arrowsmith." He
got his fingers round his fact and
then he slung it.
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Inferior Nations?

The nations of the world have
formed league, but we ara not in
it. The nations of the world have
formed a world court, but we refuse
to join, without making reservations.
The nations of Latin-America,
would like to deal with each other
and with their neighbors across the
sea with as great an independence
as the United States exercises, but
feel that they can not.
In each instance, it is the Mon
roe doctrine, more than anything
else that stands in the way, that
dissuades us from assuming. the
part we ought to play and humili-
ates other countries in this heni-
sphere by implying that they must
play inferior parts.
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BurIeSQue
TNHE revolt to- which Gan

TNHE revolt to which Carol Ken
l. nicott committed herself in
Main Street" thinned to burlesque.
Rabbits" brief heresy was pitiful,
but it never had the strength to
reach tragic dignity.
But the fight of Martin Arrow
smith gives to the reader a true
and convincing picture of strug-
Gle which forces the hero to call
upon the last cubic inch of his Sec
ond wind.
1t would be a surprising thing
today to come upon any reader en-
gagged in the perusal of main
Street" Rabbit" remains in the
language, but I doubt if the book
still walks the world.
But if "Arrowsnith" has gone to
its eternal rest I'm sorry. For one
thing the problems which it pre-
sents have not in any way stalled.
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Reason

TIME Rev. Golightly Morrill,, who
Il died recently in California and
left his alarm clock to the Mime
apolis police department, should
have left it to the sleepy shepherds
of the national defense at Washing
ton, who have been pounding their
ears ever since the Washington
naval conference. Much OF our
record of economy is due tc letting
the army and navy go to seed,
relying on the belief that the one
legged civilization which limped out
of the World war was gorged with
combat and harmless for a while.
Now that the followers of common
sense propose to repair this neglect
and give us a reasonable defensive
power, the Amalgamated Olive
Branch Waivers, consisting of an
archists, dreamers, international
free-lovers and pious frauds, pro-
pose that we lapse into utter de-
fenselessnesS to prove our faith in
the Kellogg treaty and lead the
whole world to the altar of peace,
Notwithstanding the fact that the
other parties to the kellogg treaty
constantly arm themselves.
These evangels of American help
lessness are greater enemies of their
country than the most crimson
communists and they are also the
largest nuts that have fallen from
the tree of life in modern times.
To say that any foreign power
buys one gun because it fears Amer
lean aggression is to say that which
is obviously idiotic, for we are
known around the world as the
great sentimentalist.
When we went to war with Spain
and made Cuba free, the other pow
ers regarded us as silly; when we
lavished millions on the Philippines,
instead of exploiting them, the rest
of the world thought we needed a
guardian; and when at the end Of
the World war we refused to take
one dollar or one inch Of ground,
it was agreed by everybody outside
of the United States that we were
the prize Puddin' Head of all his
tory.
e r. g.
Far from casting a sinister
shadow across the fireside where
the nations sit in family session, we
are known as the SOLDERING sister
of that family, as the hopeless,
chattering mush-face who makes
the hard boiled tired.
SO for these pacifists at Washing
ton to say we should not build ships,
but should beckon all nations to the
millennium, is to confess disloyalty
or mental incapacity: to say Eng
land. Japan, and France array
themselves in steel because they
fear US, is to say the burglar GU
Christmas eve carries his automatic
because he lives in dread of Santa
Claus and his candy canes
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When the World war ragged, the
people of this country vowed that
never again would they be found
unable to take care of themselves,
but as we lapsed into helplessness
after every previous war, so did we
become paper-backed after the
armistice. a
This crowd which now would
have its country become China's
twin brother in worldwide weak
ness should be ignored by our
statesmen, and this crowds source
Of sustenance should be ended by
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that Declarer draws the three cut
standing hearts, ext.austing oppo-
nents of trumpS.
Then he plays ace of clubs and
king of clubs, re-entering the
Dummy by playing of hearts and
overtaking with the of hearts. The
queen of clubs now wins a trick,
making total of ten.
Successful finessing in spades
might have resulted in a total of
eleven or twelve tricks, but it is
poor policy to take such chance
to sacrifice game.
The Principle-Do not take any
unnecessary illnesses if game may
be endangered thereby. Draw
trumps.
Copyright, 1929, Ready Reference PUB
HehiT3O C0no0anuf
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David Dietz on Science
Millions of NerUe Cells
No. 253

THE cells which make UP the tissues of the
Il nervous system of the human body are in many
ways the most highly developed cells of the body The
accompanying illustration shows four types of such
cells. The first one, labeled ~ is from the BRAIN It
is known giant pyramid cell.
At "2" is shown a motor nerve cell. At IS" is
another cell from the brain. At "a" is sympathetic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-07
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TITO obtain some idea of the prev
4 alence and causes of heart dis
ease in children, physicians in the
department of diseases of children
in the Cornell university medical
college have made a study of 500
cases over a period of ten years.
In four-fifths of the cases the par
ents had had rheumatic infection in
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nerve cell. Each
nerve cell really
consists of three
parts. These are
most easily dis
t i n G uis h e d in
Fig. Q.
First there is the
body of the cell
itself which, like
other cells, C o n
tains a nucleus,
The thing which
dis tin cuisines q
nerve cell from
other types of cells
are the processes
which grow out
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This Date i'm
u. S. History

Jan. 2
1779-Lafayette sailed from Boston
to return to France.
1889 First presidential election
held.
i86s-Federals and Confederates
fought at Springfield, Mo.
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Dividing Up Congress

The house of representatives has taken first
faterng step toward restoring repr sentative gov
eminent in the United States
1t is high time. No more fragrant example of Of
fetal disrespect for law exists in the country than
that of which congress has been guilty in the last
eight years in refusing reapportionment required
by the Constitution.
little group of men in the house, whose states
would lose seats if fair apportionment were made
the basis of population has blocked action in the
past The majority of both houses, acquiescing has
violated the fundamental principle of govern
ent and left thousands of citizens without adequate
representation in Washington.
Only by seven-to-six vote has the house census
committee succeeded in reporting out reapportion-
ment BILL But now that it has been reported, its
passage be assured by Republican leaders, if they
see fit
Action must be prompt if the bill is to get through
the moving senate before adjournment. Another
failure to act would be inexcusable.
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The Bidding-South bids four
hearts and obtains the contract.
A novice might bid only three
hearts, usually not sufficient to
shut out bidding. If you decide to
pre- empt, bid the limit.
Deciding the Play-West leads 3
of spades. Should Declarer play
ace, queen or 10 of spades from
the Dummy?
The Err0r-Declarer decides TO
finesse and plays queen of spades
or 10 of spades and loses game as
opponents make king Of spades
and three diamond tricks.
The Correct Method-Upon the
exposure of the Dummy, Declarer
notices four possible losers: one
trick in spades and three in dia-
monds. Declarer also observes the
sure tricks: six tricks in hearts,
three in clubs and one in spades.
Instead Of following the natural
inclination 60 finesse. Declarer
does not endanger the opportunity
of making game and plays the ace
os spades ca the first round After
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childhood associated, of course, with
diseases of the throat.
In many instances the only evil
dence of the disturbance of the
heart was murnur, which the ply