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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
. DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Indigestion Often Is Puzzling Study

/ that it has become possible to pass
a tube through the stomach and
into the 'intestines, withdrawing
their secretions for study.
Only recently have methods been
devised for testing the rate at which
food moves along the intestines,
the bacteria that live there nor
mally and abnormally, the OBJ
structions, paralyses and many
other disturbances which mani
fest themselves by serious symp-
toms.
There are forms of constipation
due to interference with the diges-
ton in the intestine, other forms
which are due to disturbance of the
mobility in the intestine, and some
forms which are merely the results
of bad habits.
There are conditions in which it
is exceedingly dangerous to eat food
with too high an amount of rough
age and conditions in which an in
crease in roughage provides the
road to successful cure.
Within the last twenty-five years
methods have been developed for
changing the nature Of the germs
that live in the intestine. Metchni-
koff's original idea that the bacil-
lus bulgaricus was the normal in
habitant and that it's presence was
synonymous with long life has been
changed to emphasis on another
germ called acidophilus.
Attempts to implant the acido-
philus germ in the intestine
brought out the information that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Drought Relief


President Hoover has the confidence and united
approval of the nation in his efforts to handle the
drought calamity. There are definite limits to the
relief which the federal government, or any other
agency for that matter, can give. But within those
limits the White House plans. already in motion,
are encouraging.
First, any kind of relief depends upon getting the
facts of the situation In fortunate contrast to the
federal bungling Of industrial unemployment fact
finding. the agriculture department is getting the
facts in this emergency with minimum Of delay
and with no mistaken effort to underestimate the
seriousness Of the situation.
Second the President is providing for easy federal
credit for the affected areas it being impossible under
the law to make outright federal gifts.
Third he is cooperating with the individual states
and co-ordinatng their relief activities preparatory
70 the White House conference Of Governors
Fourth. he Is acting with the constant advice OF
the chiefs Of the three large farm organizations thus
providing effective teamwork between official and un-
Official agencies
Fifth. he has facilitated the lowering Of railway
rates for the transportation Of feedstus into the
drought sections and for getting starving livestock
cat Of those areas Speedy decision BY the inFsiate
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SCIENCE
Scientists Are Sharply d.
Uided Over the Subject of
Hon. Long a Man Can Live.
~ nAVID DIETZ-

THE visit Of FARO Agha Of Tur-
4 key to- America serves to focus
the spotlight Of attention upon the
subject of old age. FARO says that
he is 156 years old, that he never
has tasted alcohol, that he has out
lived eleven wives, that he became
a father for the thirty-sixth time at
the age of SO, and that he grew a
third set of teeth at the age of los
There is battle raging in scien-
tific circles today over the subject
of old age.
A minority, extremely forceful in
pushing its point of view, holds that
old age is pathological, that is, a
condition of disease, and that old
age can be STAYED off like any other
disease.
The majority of biologists, how
ever, feel that old age is physi-
illogical, that is. natural condition,
and that nothing is to be done
about it. This school feels that 1t
is as natural for man to grow old
as it is natural for an infant to grow
into an adult.
The first school feels that there Is
no reason why a man should not
live to be $50 or 200 or eventually
at some future time, 800 or 400 years
old
The second school feels that mans
life span is very likely to remain al
ways below or very near the CEN
tury mark.
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commerce commission has approved these rate reduc-
tons, which now are being made by the railroads
Finally, the American Red Cross has been ordered
to stand by for action
But nothing can save the nation from paying a
heavy toll for this disaster, which grows with each
succeeding rainless day. Though the farmers in
twelve states will suffer most and longest every one
in the country will be affected.
Not only viii the city populations in the end pay
more for milk vegetables and meat but the further
reduced purchasing power Of farmers will retard the
revival of industry and of industrial employment.
To argue as some do. that the loss of much Of the
corn crop viii help the farmer by raising the price
of the remainder is obviously short sighted. Two
thirds of the crop is marketed in the form of
hogs which means that it is the farmer himself who
must pay the increased prices. The fact that
some farmers can feed the wheat surplus to hogs does
not help much.
But however serious the situation, it is no worse
and indeed not so bad economic disasters through
which other nations and the United States have
passed before We fortunate in being the richest
country in the world, and the one most blessed by
nature and natural resources. And we are not with
out the courage and initiative which overcome
obstacles.
That being true. this is no time for dependency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
STEAM NAVIGATION
A.. -

INN Aug. II, 1907, Robert Fulton
~ won recognition as the first
man to make steam navigation COM
mercially successful when he sailed
his steamboat, the Clermcnt, up the
Hudson river from New York to AL
bany, a journey Of $50 miles.
Ir the presence of thousands Of
astonished spectators, the Clermont
started on it's epochal trip, making
an average speed of five miles an
hour, which was considered a great
achievement. 1t took tl1irty-two
hours to reach Albany.
When Fulton first proposed the
idea of steam navigation he met
with rebuke on all sides. AS he
himself said: when / was building
my first steamer in New York the
work was viewed by the public
either with carelessness or contempt,
as a useless scheme.
my friends, indeed, were civil. but
they we're shy. AS I had occasion
to pass daily to and from the build
ing yard while my boat was in prog
ress, I often loitered unknown near
idle groups Of strangers, and heard
them scott and sheer and ridicule.
My work always was spoken OF
as Fulton's folly"
Though he had great success I'M
the construction of steamboats,, vari-
Gus lawsuits in which he was en-.
gagged ia reference to the use Of
some Of his patents, prevented him
from ever becoming wealthy. :
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certain types of food we're neces-
Sary to secure success inplants.
At the lower end of the intestine
the development of varicose veins,
commonly called hemorrhoids, rep
resents an extremely disturbing
modern condition.
Fifteen years ago only quacks at
tempted to treat this condition by
injective method. Their methods
were found to be dangerous and in
frequently fatal.
Continued study over a period of
twenty-five years has developed
several methods of injection, and
particularly safe methods of prompt
operation.
The hemorrhoids now are re-
moved under local anesthetics with
prompt healing and with the loss
of only few days from work.
They can, moreover, be removed
by electrical desiccation, as well as
by injection methods, various ply
sicians using various methods &C
cording to their experience.
Among the unsolved questions Of
modern medicine is relationship Of
obstruction of the bowel to the de-
velopment of serious symptoms Of
shock; the exact relationship of
putrefaction in the bowel to the
onset Of various degenerative
diseases, and particularly the con-
troll of infestation of the intes-
tines by worms, conditions which
are extremely common in tropical
and oriental countries, but which
now only are beginning to be found
in increasing numbers in this coun-
try,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
NLI AOO4N Lands

THE estate of the late Chauncey M. Depew has
i been valued at $16O00O00 for purposes of tax
alton, Mr.. Depew having made his fortune as re-
suit of being connected with the New York Central
railroad
But this connection cost Mr.. Depew something
which he wanted more than all the money on earth,
the presidency
It put him out of the running in the national
Republican convention of 1888, the result being the
nomination Of Benjamin Harrison OF Indiana.
Mr.. Depew had another handicap almost as seri-
Gus and it was his reputation wit.
No matter what ability he displayed In other
directions he could not escape being catalogued as
an after-dinner speaker, and nothing more.
IT'S service as a senator from New York was ster-
i lie, much to the surprise of those who thought
he was statesman of high order. but he seemed to
be oppressed by the fame his evty had brought him.
The gift of humor must be handled with care if one
would go far in politics. many truly great statesmen
having learned this to their sorrow, the most disttn
guished Of them being Thomas Corwin of Ohio.
Thomas B. Reed of Maine was as great wit as
ever served in public life, but he able to make ii
him nightly in the rough and tumble Of political
strife.
IN every field ven in writing humor must be kept
L in the background. or it viii prove liability
We remember what the late Alfred Henry Lewis
famous in his days the foremost skinner of public
men, once said about it.
OF you would survive as a writer" said Lewis
never permit the public to regard you as a funny
man. If you do. the people will expect you to be
Sde-splitting every time you write, and nobody can
measure up to this"
Just be known as writer and now and then
throw in a funny line as it comes along and people
will say: Why this man is not only great writer;
he Is a marvellous hunoristI'"
SO, we would say. If you>have the humor, don't walk
arm in arm with il; make it come along half block
behind YOU
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TN many cases of indigestion it is
Il extremely difficult to make
certain whether the patient is suf-
fering fro a disease Of the stom-
ach, disease of the gall bladder
an inflammation of the appendix
or a nervous disorder without
manifest changes in the stomach it.
self.
There are people who find it i'm
possible to eat or to swallow their
food without any definite change
being visible in the esophagus, the
tube which carries the food to the
stomach, or in the stomach itself.
In such instances, the internist
must apply all methods of exam
nation that he knows in order to
give the patient a certain diagnosis
because the correct treatment can
be given only after a certain dag
noSis has been made.
There still are many unexplained
conditions demanding research by
the medical profession for their So
luton. There are instance in which
the stomach fails to supply the
proper secretions, and the reasons
for this failure are unknown.
In the laboratories of physiology
throughout the world today scien-
fists are making such studies to aid
further the happiness of mankind.
The procedures that apply for
study of the stomach apply also
for study of the intestines. How
ever, it is only within recent years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Competent CITY Meets Job Crisis

II * conceded generally that Cincinnati is one OF
the most competently governed Of American cities.
II ouerates under the city manager PLAN the adop-
ton OF which was due in no small part to years oil
agitation by the Cincinnati Post, scripps Howard
newspaper.
In the National Municipal Review is an article
bv City Manager Sheriff. and Director Of Public Wei
fare Hoehler describing the manner IN which Gin
cinnati met the unemployment crisis of last winter
This shows pretty conclusivey that city which is
we'll governed politically will take enlightened and
effective action toward its social and economic obi
cations Just how did Cincinnati approach the prob
lem Of unemployment?
In the first place It was taken automatic that
periodic unemployment crises are inevitable under
our present economic system. Therefore, permanent
machinery for dealing with the problem had been
set up before any emergency arose standing
committee on stabilizing employment was created to
deal with general and special phases Of the unem-
ployment problem.
subcommittee were created to handle particular
phases Of the subject One Of these was fact-hnd-
ing committee which took frequent employment CEN
suses Of Cincinnati. AS early as May 1922 it found
that only 80 per cent of the employabe citizens were
employed regularly.
This permanent committee on Unemployment
worked with the employers of the city endeavoring
70 get the 10 POilOASo
regard to stabilizng employment Educational work
was conducted to the disastrous results Of IN
employment to the economic life Of the city at large
AS a result many Of the larger business firms of
Cincinnati voluntarily had adopted schemes for
stabiizng employment before the crash came in oc-
tober and November.
When the crisis arose the already existing and
smoothly running machinery was put into more &C
tive operation. Employment staggered to avoid
complete laying off any larger number Of men.
Public work begun in vigorous fashion. Never
before was so much executed in the winter Of
1929-3O An employment committee took up the prob
lem of getting temporary jobs for the unemployed
The department of public welfare and the COM
muny chest subsidized useful jobs for heads of fam
lies in public and semi-pubc institutions. special
committee dealt with unemployed transients treat
ing them as an issue aside from Cincinnatis per-
manent unemployment problem.
All these policies and acts did not, of course, keep
the current depression away from Cincinnati But it
did help enormously reduce the personal suffer-
ing and economic generalization which otherwise
would have existed. And this is about all that one
can ask of city government today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Diplomacy and Drugs

1t may have been either viii Rogers or Haywood
Broun who first said that "a diplomat is fellow who
can refuse without declining"
The latest activities of the League of Nations ad-
visory committee on opium point the wisdom OF that
observation.
Since 1922 the committee has been charged With
the task of curbng the illicit international trade in
harmful narcotics. AS long ago 1928, it formally
accepted lin principle the declaration of the United
states that effective control could be established only
through drastic limitation of production.
But after formally accepting the principle, the
powers represented on the committee developed the
theory that the growing of peoples and coca-the
basis of all narcotics-was "a domestic question"
1T was evident that the producing nations either
we're unable unwilling to limit the production
of opium and leaves that there would be no
surplus available for purposes not strictly medicinal
or scientific" the United States delegation reported
following its withdrawal from the Geneva conference
in 1925.
The delegation had been authorized to come home
whenever it concluded that the European powers would
not bind themselves to effective control measures.
But no nation had declined to accept The central
measures. They merely had refused.
Last year the league council again suggested the
projected limitation conference be held in December
$780, providing however for postponement should any
De
data on its legitimate requirements. Through this
device some of the powers once again have refused
to move-without, however declining.
Great Britain and others have advised the commit
tee they will not be ready for the proposed meeting.
The whole problem thus is thrown back upon the coun
Gil Two years delay. at best, thus is achieved.
Meanwhile traffic universally condemned by en-
lightened opinion expands in every quarter Of the
globe Writing and ground down by curse from
which they powerless to free themselves China and
India wallow in political and social chaos. More
advanced nations pay ever-mounting toll in the
atrociouS crimes conceived by drug-crazed minds
Victims walk the streets Of every American city
by the hundreds
Thus does the neatly turned phrase of the diplo-
matte gentlemen. who can refuse without declining,
help weave new chains for the ensavement of human
ity Against such cleyerness. American opinion in
stinctively rebels.
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Rate

IDR. EUGENE LYMAN FISK,
- medical director of the Life
Extension Institute, summed I'D the
situation as follows:
In the last 100 years nothing has
been added to the life expectancy
of men of So and beyond. To be
exact, science has given the man of
30 just one more month of life since
1885,"
DR.. Guy L. Kiefer, public health
authority, says, while the child
death rate is falling, the death rate
from the diseases that play great
est havoc during the working span
of life has been increasing. Death
rates from diabetes, nephritis, and
heart disease have been mounting
steadily"
A new and interesting view upon
the span Of life has been suggested
by the researches of DR.. Raymond
Pearl, famous biologist of the Johns
Hopkins university.
DR.. Pearl thinks that each person
is born with so much life energy,
as it were. The actual number Of
years which the person lives de-
ponds upon the rate at which he
lives. He can burn up his energy
slowly or quickly, but he is finished
when the energy is gone.
In conclusion, perhaps it should
be stated that scientists generally
discredit the claims of FARO Agha.
They feel that all such claims at
present are the result of faulty
memories or faulty records.
The New York Life Insurance
Company states that in it's own ex-
perience it never has found salts
factory proof of claims of similar
nature.
"Our actuarial department has in
vestigated many persons who claim
to have lived ITO years or more and
in no case could find any adequate
proof" the company states.
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ing activity there are about ten
beats a minute more than when the
body is at rest.
From what is birds soup made?
From the nests of a species OF
swift or swiftlet, of the Malay
archipelago. 1t is a great delicacy
in China. The nest has the shape
and size of a half teacup, and the
appearance Of fibrous gelatine. It
is composed of mucilaginous sub
stance secreted by special glands,
and is not, as was formerly thought
made from Seaweed.
In which book Of the Bible is the
story of Tubal-Cain?
Genesis 4:22.
How many persons were killed in
the San Francisco earthquake and
fire in 1906?
Four hundred and fifty-two per-
SONS were killed; 266 by collapsing
buildings. 1T by fire and 9 by inci-
dental causes.
Who wrote the book called "The
Hole in the WALTZ"
Frederick ]. MacIsaac. an Ameri-
can.
Has the United states government
ever issued 500 gold piecesg
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Advances
THE first school points

THE first school points to the
wonderful advances which have
been made in increasing the span
of life of the average man.
In the sixteenth century the ex-
pectancy of life at birth was 81. In
the seventeenth century it had in
creased to rs. The eighteenth cen
tury brought it up to "a.
Since then the advance of med
zeal scence and sanitation has made
a marvellous showing. In 1890 the
expectancy of life was 43. In 1897
1t was As. In 1900 it was 40. In
1910 it was 81. Today it is So.
In other words, the span of life
has been increased 81 years during
the last four centuries. Certainly
this looks like a bright and Won
derful record.
Members of the second school do
not disagree with the foregoing: but
at this point they sound a note of
peSSinism.
They point out that most of the
gains have been made in the saw
ing of infants and young people.
The gains have been made through
the conquest of plaques and cpl
denies and particularly the cpl
aemlcs and other diseases of child
hood.
On the other hand, they point to
the apparent increase in heart dis
ease and other so-called degenera-
tive diseases, which are due to the
breakdown of some vital organ,
such as the liver or kidneys and
such diseases as cancer.
They do not think that there is
an actual increase in the preya-
lence of these diseases or that the
human race is becoming more sus-
ceptible to them, but merely that
We are saving more young people
from death by the disease of child
hood. Consequently, they live to
90 or 70 or 80 and then succumb to
the diseases of old age, the degen-
erative diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Drop That Conceit

DR. JOHN M. THOMAS, presi-
IL dent of Rutgers university, adj
vises men and women who will en-
ter college next September to 'leave
their conceit at home" He might
have gone farther and advised them
to leave their conceit on the cam
pus when they are graduated.
Conceit is not an affliction pc
culiar to youth. The idea that
creased pants go very far is all
wrong, as DR.. Thomas points out,
so IS the same idea with regard to.
degrees and Greek letters.
No one can afford to rest on his
laurels, whether they come from a
haberdasher, a football coach. a
fraternity house, o. a faculty.. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Hide Behind Barriers

TT is an easy step from local pride
1 to demands for protection, the
men who consoles himself with, the
thought that his children have only
the measles while his neighbors'
children have the smallpox soon
howls for a quarantine. BY the same
law of logic, we find statesmen ev-
erywhere advocating higher tariffs.
In other words, the idea that one
country can be made prosperous at
the expense Of others, that domes-
tic trade can be isolated from for
eign trade, and that people can
serve one another best by walling
themselves in is growing danger
ously popular.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
TT SEEMS TO ME BY H BEoSS

Somewhere-'' Beautiful. Maybe
Berlin wrote it. No. Fellow named
Leslie.
Funny how these beautiful trivali-
ties in music are suggestive of Ber-
lin. Perhaps it is in the atmosphere.
From Niger Mixes to the Wander
horn Club is a long jump, but it's
on the same line.
Ten years from now some crooner
will run away with a pedigreed
Park avenue heart and metropon-
tan city editors will send up to the
library for clips on the Mackay-
Berlin romance, yellowed and ro-
mantle with age.
Agile-minded rewrite men will
distill yarns with nimble fingers on
how Cupid did it again all over
against new and different back
ground.
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Reed Gets Cheerful

A PENNSYLVANIA farmer caught
4 A with two stills in his spring
mouse says it isn't true. He couldn't
have violated the law, he says. be-
cause the spring has gone dry
The stock ticker crowd has gone
to reading crop reports and grain
quotations, which seems to .disprove
the old adage that "a burned child
fears the fire"
- Ex-S Senator Reed of Missouri, who
hasn't seen anything bright or
cheerful in existing conditions for
the last twenty years, takes Ger
man mike to inform humanity that
the depression" soon will be over.
This drought certainly is getting
serious.