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The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Study Of Polluted Potomac
A Real Public Service

The Public Health Service the request Of the District
Commissioners and the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission preparing to make thorough study Of the
polluted condition Of the Potomac River.
That is welcome news
The Public Health Service will determine to what the
river polluted whether the pollution constitutes
70 health and to what extent the river can be freed Of pOu
That should be- Of interest to the entire city particularly
those persons who live the river the river boat
on the river and Battle in the river It is assumed that no
one would dare DRINK from the river Even the most g
nOrant people now know better than to do that
"a similar survey was made by the Public Health Service
I've years ago. The report following this study made clear
"That the riOer Oithn the limits Of the District Is
j probably polluted at all times with seuUage to de-
: gree much greater than could be considered Gs al
IoVabIe ithout danger Of contracting seUags-bOrne
.disegses BY person: bathing IN the riDeT: ;,
That this condition probably exists in all periods
81 'eThat in periods Of lou riUer flouU beouU Long
s. Bridge there is pollution at times due to the
upstream floD of sewage from the AndcOsta riUer,
IDich times heGOy polluted, and possibly also
! from the main OutflOW.
THAT dbOOe Long Bridge there is less pollution
81 than beIOu this point during period of lou rOer dis
charge, although local summer rains wH cause
3 noticeable increase Of pollution"
This pollution is believed to be greater today than it
five years ago. due growth of the nearby Maryland and
Virginia communities that discharge sewage into the river
Pollution Of the river starts virtually at its source in the
Hue Ridge Mountains The river picks up pollution at
Cumberland Hapes Ferry and other points along its course
neSa ae seo eo om the river ' at Great r
water treated and purified and is PERFECTLY SAFE when
iE leaves the filtration plant.
But campers along the Potomac between the city and Great
rails should know that when they bahe in the river they
are running the risk of contracting SERIOUS DISEASES
District epies sewage the river just below Chain
Bridge Below the Francis Scott Key Bridge Rock Creek
es into the river its supply Of pollution gathered from
Kensington and other Maryland communities
Two sewers of considerable size empty sewage from
Badensburg and the District into the Anacoa River Down
near the old Naval Magazine the Districts sewage pumping
plant empties the bulk Of the cs sewage into the river
IF you want swim in this filth among these dangerous
bacteria you are at least FOREWARNED Of the danger
you are taken sick before long, DON'T BE SURPRISED
River water is not fit to drink not fit to bathe in
The Public Health Service will tell later whether there
q any FURTHER danger to health from this pollution.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
FIELD MARSHAL CHANG HSUEH LANG, FLIER-NO
SHAGGY" PONY FOR HIM
A Great Change Since Genghis Khan.

This picture for those that indulge in somewhat
usual exercise called THINKING"
shows his ExceIlency Field Marshal Chang Hsueh Lang
youngest governor in China who succeeded his powerful
father Field Marshal Chang SO Lin ruler Chinas
three northeastern provinces. <sa T.e~
The thinking part of this picture in when you
remember that there far than 100000 people in
China including of millions Of ready to fight and
Indifferent to death.
And those men are adopting Western methods
In old days when savage from the East Tartars pnc
pay marching against Europe under fierce leaders
Genghs Khan Tamerlane Attla and host Of others less
well known they slowly the earths surface, walk
ing with strange weapons bows and lances
jayelins their leaders and their best fighters riding shaggy
ponies
This picture shows that they again they will NOT
ponies foot they used to do eating the
countryside they advanced like cloud Of locus often
defeated by lack Of food and the slow resistance Of popu
tions conquered.
Asia marches against Europe again. IT'S FORCES
WILL. COME THROUGH THE AIR WITH FIGHTING
PLANES BOMBS, MACHINE GUNS AND HAVING STRUCK
THE GREAT CITIES THEY WILL GO THEIR WAY
That is the thinking part Of this picture
What is probable Of possible European invasion from
Asia is probable regards Asatc invasion, coming
over the Pacific Ocean against this country
In the picture you the Chinese ruler playing
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch

S>Se &SVOAS 40 A~@ASSAAg
People like to say-especially
EuropeanS-that we In America
are forever chasing the almighty
dollar, and that, in effect, we
are money mad"
Although this is q debatable
question there surely can be no
doubt but what too many peo-
pie do expend too much energy
in the mere accumulation Of
money-and that goes for Ell-
ropeans as well as Americans.
The trouble is that In these
United States, where millions
are talked of on every hand,
the average individual tends to
lose his sense of values and his
sense of proportion.
We read about millions and
we hear so much about millions
that, after a while, we think
only in terms of millions.
I hold no brief against the
desire to make money.
Making money for a decent
livelihood and to enjoy some Of
the comforts and even luxurieS
of life, besides putting enough
/, aside for that proverhial "rainy
day" and for old age, Is a
most laudable purpose.
But simply to pile it up and
try to outrival the Joneses is
a horse of quite a different
color.
It would be well If every.
body asked himself how much
he would like to earn. eventual
~ or save and why.
Furthermore, what money
cannot buy should likewise be
taken into account, for among
the finest. highest and most
gratifying values are those
which have no relationship to
money whatsoever.
Take health, for example.
You cannot buy that. no
matter which doctors you EN-
ploy or which hospitals you
enter. Besides, that poor man
can command equally as ex-
pert medical attention for
nothing, or practically nothing.
in our most excellent hospital
clinics everywhere.
Money cannot buy love.
either.
Yet love Is considered BY
many the greatest single asset
there Il. some even VaNuing iE
AboYa hath
The Washington times., 1930-08-21

It has been well said that
Galen was to the medical pro-
fession what Aristotle was to
the scientists. f4e represented
one, of the last survivalS Of
Greek culture at its highest.
IN genius and skill we may al
most think Of him as an equal
and contemporary" Of Roger
Bacon. Had not the thousand
years superven e d between
Ealen and Inoder =, times, Inedi-
cine today would be vastly in
advance Of its present position.
) Galen was born in PergamuS,
In Mysia, Of Greek parents,
About the year 1870 A. D. It is
probable that: he derived his
genius from his father, Nicon,
IN educated and cultured man.
: The profession of medicine
was chosen for young CIaudius
Galenus by his father: and he
began its study at the age of 16.
After studying in Smyrna, Co
Sintfl and Alexandria, he finally
settled down at the age OF 80
in Rome, where he lived for
the greater part Of his life.
Galen. was a swell" q nifty
dresser, and he became the
fashionable physician Of the
day.
But his success was founded
not on the fantastic prescrip-
tions and futile remedies of
the medical books Of the day,
but on his own studies Of
physiology and anatomy, backed
by common sense and an acute
power Of analysis.
!. He had only one master,
Nippocrates, but he was not
slavishiy. sAibservient even to
that great authority. When
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
A Medical Marvel
BIZ Archibald Henderson

he effected some remarkable
cures, his fame spread far and
wide. The wealthy and ariS-
tocratic sought his services, and
one rich lady paid him the
equivalent of $4,000 for two
weeks attention.
Today he would vie with the
Mayos, WEIGH, Kelly or Young.
The word arteries" means
"air carriers; and in Galen's
day the arteries were believed
to carry air from the heart to
the brain and other parts OF
the body. At that period, the
dissection Of the human body
was vigorously forbidden; but
Galen dissected monkeys and
other animals, including an ele.
phant.
BY opening an artery in q lfv:
ing animal he discovered that
it was filled, not with air, but
with blood. Yet we call these
blood vessels arteries Cor "air
carrierS") to this very day.
Galen was a most voluminous
writer. In all, he wrote Is books
and IA essays. midst a lot Of
fanciful theories and erroneous
notions, Galen accumulated a
great mass Of valuable knowl-
edge in physiology, medicine,
anatomy and therapeutics. He
made many discoveries regard
ing the nervous system, notably
that the sensatory nerves origi
nate in the brain, the motor
nerves in the spinal cord.
His knowledge Of the organs
Of chest and abdomen was ac-
curate and detailed. He is the
founder Of nervous physiology.
His name is immortal.
Copyright. 1880. International Fea-
ture Service. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

and another in poverty-and
another in grief-there is no
end to the cells which bar men
in. But each man knows the
shadow Of some bars across his
soul.
The goal Of a great life is not
to be free from shackleS-for
no man can hope for that
BUT TO BEAR SHACKLES
CALAMITY. To bear our
cells as o. Henry bore his. The
bars were always .there-but
through them he sent romance
and adventure, laughter and
bright impudence, into the
world. o. Henry was celled In
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. celled
in tuberculosis-Milton celled in
blindness-yet nothing could
keep them down. And the
greatest thing they gave to
other men was not the written
word-but the exhibition OF
courage which wrought those
words, in spite Of the dark
ness of a tomb.
For that's what your sad and
shackled fellow man needs
most-not your song, nor your
story, nor your spectacular
stunt BUT JUST A
HEARTENING PROOF THAT
A HUMAN CAN GET THE
BEST OF HIS CELL.
(Ccpyrisht, 1880. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1930-08-21

Once he was known only as
Number 30,666. Just another
prisoner in O cell.
Ever been in a cell? Ever see
the bars closing on you-ever
hear the silence thudding
around you-ever feel all that
had made you a man, instead
of a number, oozing away?
How can a man live on, walled
like that? Only God knows
God who gave us the makin's.
But Number 1855 lived on
and lived OUT. And pres.
emily there was q great stir.
ring and thrilling in the free.
world. Some one was writing
short stories as they had never
been written before e-with such
fire and dash that they took
one by storm. Writing as
though no bars Of convention
could hold him-as indeed they
couldn't. For Number 30,666
was o. Henry, and every word
that he wrote broke through
the bars Of his cell.
Now, another prisoner, Ollie
Meloay, Number 52,607 Of the
Ohio penitentiary. tells the Sc
quel in The Writer. o. Henry's
battling spirit broke down
more than his own bars. It
broke a trail for other men-a
trail by which spirits might go
free even though their bodies
stayed in cells. Today. in the
same prison where he spent
terrible years. 80. other men
are seeking the release he found
in writing. They may never be.
free men-in the flesh. But
they have found the secret Of
all liberty-they have learned
how to live above the body
and the things that harasS the
bdoy. Though they are mum.
bered criminals, they are really
as free as any men ION earth.
And now, in memory Of the
man VINO CaugnG Cnem Gne way,
they wish to do a strange and
moving thing.
'It is urged" says Ollie Mel.
Gay, ''that the cell o. Henry
once occupied be removed from
this prison, taken out body and
soul, garhed in its gray paint
and flattened bars, its cold
gray tagging and low frcwn-
ing roof. and placed where men
may see and pause and won
der at the amazing courage Of
the Prince in Gray"
o. Henry in the Ohio Peni-
teniary-you and I on Main
Street-1ot such q great differ
ence after all. For each man
lives In q cell. No two cells are
alike. One man is Gagged in
fear-and another In hate-and
and smother in greed -and
another inf conceit-sand an
other in lies-and another IN
AkunatR-and another in pain
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Hearst Papers Advocate

/. "Peace and Gnity aOith all nations; entanglirg
alliances a0itb a,one," ADVOCATED By George
Washington.
2 Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than ta0o Senator's
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
pos'tionment IN the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army, of the NGVy
and of the Ar Forces, all united under Secre-
:,.-,t tasy Of National Defense. !
a. Federal action to the limit of Federal poaoeys to
abolish ihterdcy IN the United States Wnder
Secretary of Education.
s. Installation of the President on the first of Jan
Ndfy fOlloaOing NoOember election.
6. SeEectiVe immigration to admit only those suited
E, for American citizenship
2. Deportation of undesirable aliens.
3. Complete publicity for income taEes.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21

child's hand and you have o
dangerous situation which
might prove fatal; put the same
match in a grown-up's hand and
it serves q useful purpose. The
same is true of the airplane.
Hoover Field has flown over
$4,000 people since its incep-
ton. It was the first airpIane
ride for SO per cent Of these
people. We, therefore, correctly
think that we have sent out
$4,000 people throughout the
country as missionaries who
will tell the rest Of the people
that the airplane is a safe and
sane vehicle, a means Of trans
portation quite safe if properly
handled and more pleasant
than any other man has here
tofore known.
JOHN S. WYNNE
General Manager
International Airways. Inc.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

these officers that could have
been avoided had their period
Of training been a little longer.
AS. for spending the peoples
money, let me say this, II
think that the American people
are more than satisfied with
the returns that the Army is
giving them, perhaps more than
you gave in 1918"
WORLD WAR VET.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Hoover Field Manager
Stresses Plane Safety

Editor, Times:
Constructive mention Of avia-
tion gets the public thinking
along the right channels. The
big Job in aviation is to inform
the business man that flying is
not dangerous If properly
handled. Put q match In q
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Defends Married Women
Who Stick to Their Jobs

~EGttOfS ItnteS.
This c. w. Parks who writes
to you requesting that your
paper be the one to start bet
tering the unemployment situa-
ton by placing employed mar
ried women out on the streets,
certainly must have forgotten
woman suffrage" and q sec
tion Of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence that states that all
people are created equal,
Perhaps Mr.. Parks has for
gotten that in this modern day
women are what Is called on a
par to men. In other words,
women have equal rights as to
their male companions. mar
riage holding no discrimination
to those rights.
He holds as an example a
story Of a man and his wife
who both work, earning, as he
claims, an enormous salary be-
tween them. A great deal more
money than they need, says MIR.
Parks, enough to SQuander on
such luxuries as a radio. auto
mobile and perhaps an extra
suit of clothes or dress.
In contrast to that he tells
of the unemployed man who
has a family to feed. Does not
Mr.. Parks realize that If the
woman of the family is put
out OF work in perhaps . major
ity Of cases the husband viii
not be able to clothe and feed
the family on what meager
wages he earns every month.
In those cases it is work fifty
fifty and keep from starving.
Now tell me what betterment
would the Nation get out OF
putting the married women out
Of work to make room for the
unemployed males? Pr. F..
ANTI Military" Called Fool
ish BY World War Veteran
Editor, Times.
/ have always made it a
point never to argue with fools,
but when a fool becomes dan
gerous and starts throwing mud
on thousands of our best citi-
zens who are giving their all
and even their lives if neces-
sary for their country I think
it is time to say something.
I have served in the United
States Army for fourteen years
and have found the officers all
gentlemen of the highest type
who are always ready to help
their men in any way possible.
Most of the officers that I
have served under have been
graduates Of West Point. Ask
any soldier who he would rath-
er soldier under and he will
pick the West Pointer every
time, because he knows he will
have a better chance Of getting
back to home and mother when
the battle is over. We would
not have to send so many War
Mothers to France II we had
had more West Point officers
during the World War.
I am not trying to knock the
emergency officers because most
Of them were fine officers. but
you can't make q soldier in
ninety days. There were many
mistakes that FsEa maAA hx
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21
USED FOR SHARK
BAIT, SAYS Wife
Mate Tried Novel Murder
Methods, She Asserts.

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-Accu-
sations by Mrs. Maize Creighton
Bulloch, that her former husband,
George Bulloch Jr., attempted to
feed her to the sharks" at Homo
lulu, were considered today by Su-
perior Judge J. L. Price, along with
Bulloch's petition for custody of his
5-year-old daughter Elaine.
Mrs. Bulloch, whose marriage to
Bulloch was annulled in May, 1925,
testified that her former husband
had admitted that he killed another
wife, Gladys Lawton Bulloch, for
a $4,000 insurance policy.
She said Bulloch took her to Ha-
wall and made her swim in the
ocean because he had heard there
were sharks there. Later he at
tempted to electrocute her in a
homemade chair, she said
Bulloch denied the charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21
RICHMOND AND
MARION ACTING
TO MAKE JOBS
Bids viii Be Received
Dec. 10 for $4,000
Bridge in Former City.
PLANT TO BE REBUILT
Roller Mills Company Will
Spend $50, 900 Repairing
Plant Damaged by Fire.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Building and public improvement
projects designed for relief of I'M
employment were noted at Rich
mond and Marion in a business and
industrial survey of Indiana for the
week ended today
Officials of the Richmond Roller
Mills, the seven-story plant of which
was damaged by fire to the extent
Of $4,000, announce rebuilding will
be started soon. Bids will be re-
ceived Dec. Is by Wayne county
commissioners for construction of a
South G. street bridge which will
span Whitewater river 1t will be
725 feet long and the estimated cost
is $272,000 Enlargement of four
school buildings is also being con-
sidered.
At Marion it is proposed to spend
$4,000 in levee repair work and
Identification of the river banks. In
all projects which would entail an
outlay Of 100000 are under consid-
Grafton.
New Plant at South Bend
A $4,000 plant will be built for
the South Bend Current Controller
Company.
In general, building continues in
the slump which has been in effect
throughout the year. A survey Of
twenty Indiana cities shows that
building during October this year
was approximately $2,600,00O under
that of the same month in 1929,
and $760,O00 less than in Septem-
Der this year.
Cities which showed gains in
october as compared to September,
we're Gary. Logansport, Marion,
Michigan City, Mishawaka, Muncie,
Terre Haute, Vincennes and Whit
ing. Those with a gain in October
over the same month last year were
Logansport, Marion, Michigan City,
Terre Haute and Vincennes.
Hammond Company Fails
Failures during the week included
that Of the Warmer Malleable Cast
ings Company of Hammond, and
the Niemann Furniture Manufacture
ing Company of Bluffton. The Wan
ner plant has been operating on
greatly reduced schedule since sum-
mer, but about 100 men are working
at the Niemann factory and it is
said enough orders are on hand to
insure steady operation until Jan. l.
B. Sherburne, receiver for the Lee
Trailer and Body Company at Plym-
outh, announces that prospects are
good for keeping the plant in opera
ton through sales arrangement
with H. B. Blasingham and Glenn
Whistler of the Indiana Truck Cor
poration, Marion, to take the en-
tire output of the Plymouth factory.
Sherburne said he expects the
to become effective
Dec. l.
Conditions in various Indiana
cities are shown in the following
Bremen-Through efforts of local
business men, the American Radia-
tor Company factory, which it had
been announced was to be moved,
will remain here.
LoganSport-A new three-Story
brick and concrete factory building
of Associated Apparels, Inc, was
opened here this week.
ClintOn-The Vermillion mine,
which was recently reopened, is pro-
viding employment to 800 men, and
more may be given work soon.
EvansvilIe-Increasing of the force
of Servel, Inc, will be started Dec. 1,
it is announced by Frank Smith,
president. A goal of 5000 employees
by summer has been set.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21

set out on the trail. And that,
dear motorists, is what caused all
the hullabaloo on the country
roads. But, hist!
Il
CHERIFF SHANE also wired the
~ Indianapolis police. And Lieu
tenant M. F. Morrisey and his
squad dashed out this morning
looking for Johnny Dat, too. They
were talking to Edgar Corringer,
At, who lives at local livery barn,
when they heard little squeak.
And what do you think they saw?
Yep, little Johnny Dat was
sticking his head right out of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21

ming the roadbed under the glare
Of searchlights, can rest assured.
The Searchers we're police Off
GERS. They we're looking for a
oat. Or should it be an oat?
The trail of this fugitive oat
might yet, indeed, become an epic
of modern police methods. For
were it not for that oat-well-
This little oats mother had
tucked him into his bin in the
Elmer Thorp livery barn at Agnes
and New York streets, last night,
and, we suppose, had kissed him
goodnight, after telling him what
a bad boy he had been all day. So
little Johnny Dat went to sleep,
and dream what a big oat he was
going to be some day.
lust then came a noise. The
- little oat awoke, all quaking.
Surely the breakfast food people
wouldn't come at that time of
night and pick on poor little oat
like him?
But the barn door opened, and
in came a team of horses and d
wagon and two big men who
talked in sinister, stealthy whis-
pers. Little Johnny Dat quaked
some more, and soon was quak-
ing so fast that he jumped right
up on top of the bin.
Then the two men took a scoop
and shoveled all the other squeak
ing, screaming oats out of the
bin and into sacks and put them
in the wagon.
Then our little oat got angry.
And he jumped right of the bin,
children, right into the right shoe
of one of the men. And there
he lay until the right time came
to itch.
THE horse and wagon and the
i two men started out Of the
barn. And-juSt then, police
officer yelled: Haiti
The horse halted and the wagon
halted and the oats halted and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-21
SIX BANKS IN
STATE CT OSED
Louisville Failures Have
Effect in Indiana.

Six southern Indiana banks we're
closed today, following failure Of
several Louisville banks in the past
week, the state banking depart
ment announced.
They were: Liberty State bank
and American Trust Company, at
New Albany; Crawford County
State bank, English; Leayenworth
State bank, Leavenworth; Jackson
Township State bank, Corydon
Junction, and the Old Capitol Bank
and Trust Company, Corydon.
All were closed voluntarily by di-
rectors, Luther F. Symons, state
banking commissioner, said.
Capitalization of the banks are:
Liberty State, $4,000; American
Trust, $350,0OO; Crawford County,
$4,000; Leavenvorth, SIS, OC0: Jack
son Townships $4,000. and Old
Capitol, $50, 900.