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fatal Experiment

TINE next night she was to dine
l. with me at my bachelor apart
ments. The task of marketing for
this meal was too delicate to in
trust to my faithful Jap, Toto.
I went myself and bought a f1let
mignon, but before I left the store
made the shopkeeper prepare it
with the backbone of a sturgeon,
the scales of porpoiSe and the
fins Of shark. 1t was served with
a sauce Of cod liver oil.
Here's your fish" L cried. gaily,
as Toto placed it on the table. tits
fllet mignon I hooked for you
with my own hands"
I was rewarded as I watched the
doubt die out from her eyes. Ever
since the walters scornful words
she had worn an uneasy expression.
But now she was herself again.
This was the real Magnolia. There
was no expression on her face
whatsoever. 1t was the happiest
moment of my life.
ana, yeJ, WILdG d JdOe u 4dCt!
Two minutes later, Magnolia lay
dying in my arms. She had choked
upon one of the sturgeon bones.
Just before she died, she MUIR
INJURED in a feeble, wheeling whis-
per: I'll tell the cock-eyed world
flet rnignons is fishes"
"Buckwheats" she gasped, and
was no more.
Copyright 1890. By The Times
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Lenten Devotion
Tuesday, March 1S

OUR UNPUBLISHED SELVES
Read John 3:1-6. Memory verse
Man looketh on the outward ap-
pearance, but God looketh on the
heart" Il Samuel 1877.
MEDITATION
BY looking on the heart God sees
what men do not see. Every man
likewise, sees within himself what
no other man can see. For he sees
his unpublished self that eludes the
public eye. Down under our COM
monplace, conventional selves, are
selves that are not commonplace
There are hidden glories in a mar
that he has not yet revealed. He
walks among men a prince in dis
gllise. He is better than any mar
knows. This knowledge of what he
is and strives to be gives him cour-
age and self--eSpect and satisfac.
ton. The final basis for self-ac.
ceptance is mistaken confidence II
ones own integrity and endeavors.
PRAYER
o Lord, we thank thee for The
ideals and purposes that thou has
implanted in our hearts and tha'
make us better than We appear u
be. Make us loyal to the inne1
voices, give us the joy of a gooc
conscience and the comfort which
belongs to those who have striver
to be true. Amen.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the poisonous effect on the body
manifested by the symptoms.
When a person has a uremic at
tack, he becomes very weak and
drowsy and his eyeSight begins to
fail. Sometimes there are convul-
sions, difficulty with breathing, Sc
we're headache, twitching OF the
hands and face, and even paralysis
of portions of the body.
The breathing is interfered with
so seriously that it has a Kissing
sound and there may be bleeding
from the gums. The heart fails,
fluid collects in the lungs, and the
results, as can be seen, are exceed
ingly serious.
The prompt diagnosis of ure1nia
is exceedingly important if the pa
tent is to be saved. Hence the APP
pearance of any of these symp-
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Rouucinq Reds from the School System

There is precious little logic in the present hys-
terical effort to throw adolescent Communists out
of schools and colleges Of the New York area II Is
the function of the schools to give out impartial ana
unbiased information If the youthful Communists
are warped in their judgment and inaccurate in their
information then the very place for them IS IN Che
schools and colleges which supposed to give pose
and balance.
If the Communist youngsters can not be con-
WINGED of the error of their ways IN the Schools
then this very fact is reflection on the SUBJECT
matter taught or the pedagogical methods 1oAo"eo'
To throw the Red youths out on the streets Is
to deprive them of their only chance 10 near tiie
other side of the question or to be exposed 10 Ceach
ines which are assumed to set forth facts IN nom
nartisan fashion. Ejecting these young communists
only confirms their judgment OF capitalism ana ol
education in a capitalistc order
If teachers with the dice all loaded in their 1aVor'
can not compete with Communist propaganda ailols
.tudents such a state of affairs is confession Oh
weakness on their part. To throw the Reds out Is
an admission of defeat. We doubt II, upon second
Thought the school authorities OF New YORK ClIy Will
care to let any such impression get ABROAD
Looked at calmly from the standpoint Oh tle @7S'
~ the game. it would seem desirable to nave
.rrtnkIinp of Reds in the schools. few ReoS III
hioh school class in civics inevitably would MAKE
the educational enterprise far more hVeV ana
interesting. , Ito 80
II would do no harm for high school senior u
t..-, that there is such country as SOVIET FEuSS'
~ that IT is not run on the precise model Oh our
tadsroI government at Washington The more the
nr.covit experiment is discussed in the classroom
49,, oo+er the opportunity for the teacher to lnol-
cate its weakness and limitations
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T WONDER if I can induce the
l. reader to remember all the way
back to 1924. I find that illness and
isolation make me grow reminiscent.
When one has the grippe his whole
life passes before his eyes, as it Is
said to do in the case of drown
ing man, but much more languidly.
Six years ago the nation was
engrossed with etiquet. Now it's
Communism. One of the popular
ads of the day pictured a tinid,
young woman in large and fash
ionable restaurant, regarding the
elaborate menu with CONSERVATION.
And the caption ran, "Filet Mignon,
pleased" and she thought it was a
fish.
I forget now whether the sad
fate of the culprit was intended to
interest the reader in some book OF
social usage, or to spur him on to
learn French in twelve easy lessons
sent by mail in plain envelopes.
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Smugne8S Our Failing

II. G. WELLS says that we never
l. Il will get anywhere in our eff
forts to end war until we scrap the
idea of perfervid nationalism.
When you think of the smugness
which dominates our attitude to-
ward other people and their GUS
toms, you are not sure but he is right.
We regard the Spaniards as fun
damentally different because they
like to see a skillful swordsman kill
bulls, while we prefer to see men
maui each other in the ring, or on
the football field, and we find 1t
difficult to believe that the Mo-
hammedans are truly religious be-
cause they pray to Allah, while we
call him Jehovah.
Keeping in mind that one mans
opinion is often better than an
others, it is interesting to note that
George w. Wickersham regards pro-
hibition as fairly well enforced.
He quotes "a prominent investi-
gator as declaring that prohibi-
ton is enforced better than any
other federal law, which can be
taken either as most optimistic
view from the dry standpoint, or
a most pessimistic one from gen
eral standpoint.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ---------
Quick Relief Is REQUIRED in Uremia

toms, particularly in a person who
has suffered with a kidney disease,
demands immediate attention.
The physician, when called, en-
deavors to do everything possible
to permit the excretion from the
body of the excess fluid and OF the
poisonous materials.
1t is customary to cause intense
perspiration by the use OF hot packs
hot air baths and similar measures.
Fifteen minutes in hot pack is a
considerable strain on the body. and
hence it is necessary to have the
patient watched constantly to pre-
vent collapse.
Uremic attacks have occurred in
people without very much advance
warning and the disease Is listed
among the causes of sudden death.
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So Big

EVERYTHING is in readiness to begin the national
census The enumerators' pencils are sharpened' ule
government is spreading its instructions and organ
izations are explaining to citizens how to answer
questions.
statisticans are rubbing their hands in glee over
the prospective figures which will be used to prove
everything and nothng-as figures have way oil
doing.
Put IN the average city. the census means only
one thing: See how big we are. see how we nave
grown in ten years! If city has grown more
ran,dlv than its neighbor, that is matter Of great
nride And the smaller neghbor is cast down IN
shame.
How do We get that way? What is it that makes
us weigh all things in terms Of bigness? IhlS town
with its highest building in the state? Ihat Town
With the biggest lodge? The other town with It's
biggest movie? Another with its biggest golf courseF
Vy1,v do we get such a kick out Of size as such3
Some say it is geography. Our values are cohoIoleu
bv the great stretches Of our country. Others say
it is our youth nation Lacking any oVher SENSE
Of discrimination, the child always grabs for the
biggest apple, however sour it may be- Whatever
the cause this size mania is getting to be disease
with us
The value of a city is to be measured not by the
number but the character, of its population; not
bv the quantity production Of its factories out by
the quality; not by the extent Of its pay rolls Dut
by their adequacy; not by the size OF its business ana
banking mergers but by the profits to both manage
nnent and labor Not by the number Of its churches
schools and libraries but by the kind OF religion
education and culture which those institutions pro-
duce in the daily life of the city.
What this craze for size is doing to us is making
all our cities alike-yvth mass production mass dis
tribution. mass thinking, mass feeling.
Nothing good can come out Of worship Of big
ness. There is only one answer to the city or any
thing else that boasts Of its size: What OF 1t?
What has bigness got to do with the older Amer
lean ideal Of life liberty and the pursuit OF happeSSF
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Wickersham Propaganda

<-,,,or wickersham of the Hoover law en-
- commission reported to a secret session OF
~.,,o+e judiciary committee Monday that one OF
HI. exnerts had found prohibition better enforced a'i
., ether law He gave out much to the reporters
with all due respect to Wckersham, that Is nonsense
But we are not so much concerned az Iile iiOiei,'
with the truth or the untruh of the statement aS VIII
vbv Wickersham made it. The net effect Is 10 "ii'e-
wash or attempt to whitewash' the enforcement IAN
ire Was that Understands purpose?
We we're under the impression that the commits
-. - which he is the head was fact-hndng rather
thar a nartisan political body. The impression was
.o,,,orne+ shaken three months ago, when the COM
mission succumbed to dry administration pressure oy
making half-baked recommendations before It's sup
uosedly scientific study well was begun
And the impression that the commission Is ABOVE
tical motives now is almost destroyed by the WICK
ersham propaganda Of Monday
II is true that the administration is in jam over
the enforcement collapse That may be too bad or
NAV be all to the good But either way we Tall 10 see
that such political mess is any business OF an indie
pendent fact-fnding commission
II Is true that administration leaders are trying to
block the proposed enforcement investigation demand
ed bv the dry senators. Norris and Borah, on the
ground that such expose of enforcement failure Woua
enbarrass the President. We can't that it would
hut whether it would or not that is not Wickershams
business.
II the commission wants its work to have any value
whatever it must begin to walk straight line 1t
must stick to its own job-a very difficult job, by
the way-and stop worrying about what Hoover thinks
or what the senate thinks, what the country thinks
Its lob is to complete as soon as possible an OBJ
eciiye scientific substantiaed report separating fact
from fiction on the most controversial and muddied
ns,bc issue When it completes that factual report
It should speak Until then it should keep its mouth
shut
Either the statement that prohibition is better en-
forced than any other Law is shs conclusion 0f the
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ANNIVERSARY
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CLEVELAND'S BIRTH

0N March 10, 1887, Grover Cleve-
" land, twenty-second and twen-
ty-fourth President of the United
States. was born at Caldwell, N. j.
When his father died soon after
the family moved to New York
state, young Cleveland was induced
by an uncle to make his home in
Buffalo Here he studied law and
in 1859 was admitted to the bar.
Four years later he became assist
ant district attorney for Erie county.
Subsequently he became sheriff OF
the county. mayor OF Buffalo and
Governor of New York.
In each of these offices Cleveland
demonstrated such good judgment,
frmness and independence that he
was easily the outstanding Demo-
cratic candidate for President IN
1884.
Elected after a hard campaign
against James G. Blaine, Cleveland
showed the same vigor and spirit
that characterized his earlier offices.
The creation of the interstate
commerce commission and the adj
mission of four new states were the
outstanding measures OF his first
administration.
His second term proved to be one
of the most remarkable in Amer
lean politics, and an event which
helped make it so was his Vene-
zuelen message sent to congress In
1895.
Great Britain, which for long
time had been encroaching on the
territory Of Venezuela, refused to
arbitrate the subject.
Cleveland's impulsive message
limited war, and England, thorough
ly upset, accepted the arbitration:
This was called the most signal
victory of America diplomacy IN
modern times"
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Metals

ID ESEARCH in the problems OF
N metallurgy is particularly val
liable to progress in the United
States DR.. Gillett points out.
"Metallurgy is a key industry" ne
writes. "Of the ten leading indus
tries from the point Of value OF
manufactures, eight are metal
working and metal-using industries.
Gwen those industries which do
not directly make metallic products
are highly dependent upon them.
The food industry needs agricul-
tural implements and tin cans; the
lumber industry, saws; the chemical
industry, tanks and piping, and so
on down the line.
"Transportation-by railway.
steamboat, automobile and aircraft
is today in vehicles that average
some 80 per cent or more metallic
Water, gas, electricity and tele-
phone and telegraph messages are
transported by metallic pipes or
wires; even the radio waves depart
from, and are collected by, metallic
apparatus.
"a normal household uses alloys
of at least twenty different metals.
One finds them from the bathroom
to the kitchen, on his person, IN
his mouth, and in his automobile.
I'm his daily work and his daily
life every one Is served by metals
and is benefited by the search for
better and cheaper alloys"
The major problem in metallurgy
is furnished by the constant battle
to defeat corrosion, DR.. Gillett says.
He says that there is also great
demand for alloys which will re-
sist stress and oxidation at mgh
! Temperatures.
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Laws Poorly Enforced

A S a matter of common knoWl-
N edge, we seem to be suffering
from a collapse Of law enforcement
all along the line.
Some say this is because we have
too many laws. Others say that
bootlegging has taken virtual COM
mand of crime and vice.
Still others say that the trouble
is postwar restlesSneSS.
No doubt there is a certain de-
gree of truth in all these eXplana-
tions. but the fact remains that
though our prisons are overcroWded,
and our court dockets congested,
we appear to be making poor head
way in the suppression OF anti
social activities.
In this connection, "the racket
is worth passing thought.
While we have always suffered
more or less from organized vice,
gang rule and systematic blackmail,
especially in our larger cities, the
racket, as now in vogue. is rather
new. Where did it get its start,
It's foothold, and, above all else,
it's revenue? In what particular
field did it make its first appear
ance. and acquire that prestige
which popularized it in other fields.
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WITH Rivera dead, and Sydney
w Franklin gored, Spain re-
sunes her place on the front page.
Most every one laughed when the
report came out that Rivera had
resigned because of failing health,
but even dictators can be sick.
So, too, most every one laughed
when Sydney Franklin. the Brook
Ign boy, set forth to become a great
toreador.
1t all goes to show what sus-
picious breed we are, particularly
toward men who hold views or
choose trades not in keeping with
our own ideas.
We are against dictatorship, though
We approve baseball and movie
czars.
And it delights our hearts to think
that though a dictator may possess
some ability, he is bound to be ma
licious, dishonest and insincere.
AS to bull fighting, we pretend
to regard it as an example of utter
depravity, though we seldom fail to
attend whenever we are in countries
where it is permitted. Don't enjoy
it, of course, but always ready to go
again if the arrival Of some friend
or acquaintance gives us an excuse.
Couldn't think Of our own boys
entering the bull ring, but rather
proud of the fact that an American
could show the Dons a trick or two.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FTsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

a PERSON with Bright's disease
L \ or Inflammation of the kidneys
in an advanced stage, or with g
severe Inflammation of the kidneys
due to a poisoning of some sort,
finds it impossible to get rid of the
secretion of the kidneys and devel-
ops a serious condition called ure-
mia, leading toward death.
Apparently the damaged kidney
not only allows material to be ex-
GREETED which it ought to retain. but
causes the body to retain products
which should be eXcreted.
These retained products produce
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
SCIENCE
Great Corporations No10 Find
That They Need Services Of
Many Scientists for Re
search Work.
BY DAVID DIETZ

CC1ENTIFIC research has become
~ one Of the great industries OF
the United States. This is the con-
clusion to be drawn from a survey
made by DR. H. w. Gillett. director
Of the Battelle Memorial Institute
Of Columbus. O.
The United States now has 1000
research laboratories employing the
services of $4,000 workers and ex-
pending annually about $210000000
Dr. Gillett writes in Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry. official
journal of the American Chemical
Society.
These figures, DR.. Gillett explains.
are exclusive of the hundreds Of
college, university and government
laboratories. The figures also ex-
clude control or testing laboratories.
They represent only the industrial
laboratories engaged in actual re-
search.
DR.. Gillett further Classics his
figures as to the work in fundamen-
tai science problems, so-called
pure" science, and the applications
of science to industry, or applied
science.
He estimates that there are 5000
workers in pure science in these In
dustrial laboratories, spending about
$1O000,000 a year in their work. The
other 10000 workers, prosecuting re-
search in applied science, spend the
other $200,0O0000.
AS a sample of the scale on which
research is going on. he points out
that the Bell Telephone laboratories
employ 5000 people and has an ar
nual appropriation of Sl9,O00000.
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RacketS Everywhere

WE have all kinds of rackets-
w milk rackets, poultry racketS,
dyeing and cleaning rackets, song
racketS and so on.
Originally, there was one--the
beer racket, which came into
existence shortly after the advent OF
prohibition.
Just now the music publishers OF
New York are asking Police Com
missioner Whalen to help them
fight the song racket, by which they
are threatened with an annual loss
of several million dollars.
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EinSteill

TINE number of men and the
L amount Of money devoted to re-
search in pure science is particu~
larly significant. Such large COM
panieS as the General Electric Com
pany, American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, Eastman Ko-
dak Company and others have
considerable number of men de
voting themselves to such problems
as one might expect to find under
investigation at a university.
A generation ago university pro-
fessors were occupying their time
with such problems as the behavior
of gases when electric currents were
passed through them. At the time
this study seemed to have no di-
rect bearing upon the world OF in
dustry.
It was those researches, however
which led to the development Of
the vacuum tube, which is used to-
day in radio and in long-distance
telephony.
It would be easy to multiply this
one example by a thousand. Wise
leaders of industry realize today that
any piece of fundamental knowl-
edge about the universe will some
day prove useful. That is why they
are financing research in funda-
mental problems as well as in APP
piled science.
Today the big research laborato-
ries watch the colleges and universe
ties for promising men. They want
graduates who have specialized in
higher mathematics and in funda-
mental scientific problems.
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ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Magnolia and Me

A r any rate, the advertisement
N involved me in one of the most
tragic and romantic incidents OF my
life. Poor little Magnolia! VIII /
ever forget her? I will not. I have
never known woman Of greater
charm.
Her vocabulary was largely linz
tied to two current phrases of the
day: 80 is your old man" and
''Buckwheats." There was one other,
but its connotation was just shade
risque, and I always believed that
the dear, little thing did not fully
realize its import.
1t was fascinating to observe the
way in which she could express
every shade of emotion, even the
most subtle, by some simple melodl-
Gus variation of her three stock
phrases.
She read with difficulty, If at all,
for In the Businesses of the hills,
where she was reared, little atten-
ton was given to learning.
Instead, she had sat at her grand
fathers knee and learned plain
mending and the purity OF Ameri-
can womanhood.
I read the menu to her in the
center of that great blazing restau-
rant where she sat, all in white
like a little fritiIlary hemmed in by
orchids.
When I got to the "f1let mignon,
she said: ''Tell the man to bring
me some of that" When the waiter
lifted the silverware cover OF the
dish, she exclaimed, in evident sur
prise, and in her own naive way
Gee, that amt no fish,"
mo, madam" said the serVltor
insolently, "only on Fridays.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HE FEU4%

! regulation, I soon had distanced
PUrsuerS.
But I was not yet done with the
| incident.
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commission or it is not. If it is then Wckersham
should be made to present it formally and bring out
the alleged facts to support it.
If it is not the commissions conclusion, then Wick
ersham Willingly or unwittingly has been guilty of
political maneuverng and propaganda unworthy of
the alleged purpose of the commission.
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SAYS:

We Seem to Be Suffering
From a Collapse Of Lam
Enforcement All Along the
Line.