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knowledge showed its necessity.
The chief campaign for the pro-
motion of iron was the famous
raisin campaign or eat more iron
campaign. It is true that raisins
are relatively rich in iron, but they
also contains considerable amounts
of seeds, pulp, peel and stems, max
ing up what is commonly called in
digestible residue.
People who ate several small
packages of raisins each day sue
ceeded in supplying themselves not
only with iron, but also with large
amounts of irritating indigeStible
material.
If they had only known that all of
the iron they could possibly need
was to be found to much better adj
vantage in liver, in muscle meats,
in wheat germ, in celery, in dried
fruits and nuts, in salt water fish
and in the dark meat of poultry,
they would not have needed to
abuse their Stomachs by an over
dose of indigestible materials.
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FIXING COAL PRICES

Aug. IL
ON Aug. u, 1917, the United
~ States government fixed the
price of anthracite coal at $5.85
to $605 a ton f. o. b., Jersey City.
The price Of bituminous coal was
fixed at So a ton at the mines in
Pennsylvania.
Coal prices thus fixed by the
government were contested by the
mine operators and a diminution
of output followed, with some dis
organization Of the industry.
Gu Aug. % President Wilson
signed an executive order ap-
pointing DR.. Harry A. Garfield.
president CT Williams college. fuel
administrator. This was done under
the authority conferred upon the
President by the act of Aug. 10.
which provided for the control of
the distribution of food products
and fuel.
Garfleld's duty was to regulate
retail trade in both bituminous and
anthracite coal with authority to
use drastic means to protect con-
sumers from exploitation.
One Of Garf1eld's most important
moves was to issue an order on Oct.
l stopping. temporarily the ship
ment of coal into Canada from the
lake ports.
In this way, it was hoped to
divert large quantity to the north
west, where the need for immediate
supplies was being felt acuteIy,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Rapid Discovery

IF vitamins possess excess energy,
i it seems likely that they would
give it off in the form of radiation.
Consequently it looks as though the
recent European experiments sup
port McCollum's suggestion.
So rapid has been the discovery
and naming of vitamins that the
average reader perhaps has lost
track of all of them and has only
confused notion of the various ones.
Indeed, their discovery has been so
rapid that scientists have not yet
been able to analyze them ade-
quately.
It may turn out that all vita
minis are not alike and that it would
be better to use different names for
different ones since their compost
tions or behaviors may be entire
ly different.
Perhaps a brief summary Of the
known vitamins, their composition
and function would be in order at
this time.
Scientists now recognize the ex-
istence of vitamins A, B, G, D, E
and G. That, it will be noticed, is
a total of six. The absence of a
vitamin F also will be noticed.
Scientists have decided to drop
the designation F because it was
originally used in two or three diff
ferent instances and it is felt today
that any attempt to use it would
merely lead to confusion.
Vitamin A, the oldest-known Vi
tanlin, was discovered independent
ly in 1918 by McCollum and Davis,
working at the University of Wis
conSin, and Osborne and Mendel,
working at Yale. Lack of vitamin
A in the diet leads to a general
weakening of the body and an in
crease in susceptibility to disease.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BE9GS

VIRTUE, good health, efficiency
and all the other subjects
which are served up in the num-
berless thick volumes with a pur-
pose seldom seem desirable when
the propagandist has finished his
say about them.
For instance, I began the day
with a firm determination never
to smoke again and then I hap
pened to pick up an old book called
Efficiency Through Concentra-
tion," by B. Johnston.
Since reading it I lighted the new
cigaret from the dying emberS of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Plans and Leaders

VOU hear people wonder how
L Mussolini can hold on, or why
Bolshevism hasn't gone to smash.
It's because they have a plan, a
well thought-out scheme of opera
ton
Given that, any people can forge
ahead, no matter how poor, or han
dicapped. Without it, progress is
impossible, no matter how great the
resources, or apparent the oppor-
tunities.
Leadership, which means organ
lied, directed effort, always has
spelled the difference between sue
cess and failure, and always will.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
World BeWiIderod

IF anything, the world faces
L more difficult problem today
than it did in 1914.
Though mistaken, the world knew
exactly what it wanted then, but
now it is hopelessly bewildered.
The so-caned victory has not
turned out as expected in any one
particular.
AS whole, humanity lacks peace
and prosperity.
Outside of Russia, France and
Italy, not one great government has
a well-organized program.
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How About CONGRESS-

governor ROOSEVELT does
" not hesitate to call special
session of the New York legis-
lature, though it is controlled by
the opposition party and though it
will be devoted to helping an in
vestigation which may hurt mem
bers of his own party.
He is willing to risk that much
for the sake Of decent government,
and he is to be commended for it.
But if the situation in New York
City warrants a special session of
the state legislature, doesn't the sit
uation throughout this country war
rant a special session of congress?
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

We Americans Face a Great
Emergency, bat We Haze
Not Concentrated on 1t,
Much Less Formulated
Plans for Meeting 1t.
NEW YORK, Aug. l2.-New
~ York faces the prospect of a
special session of the legislature,
called by a Democratic Governor to
help Republican committee inves-
tigate a Democratic city admins
tration.
If it sounds complicated, it also
sounds nonpartisan.
Just the same, there is room for
dynamite in it.
With 1882 just around the cor
ner, you can't ignore the element of
practical politics.
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In Normal Diet
B, discovered by

n 4
' mann and Hopkins, is required
only in very small quantities. 1t is
present in the normal diet and re-
quires no special concern under Or
binary circumstances. It's absence
leads to a nerve disease known as
beriberi, at one time very common
in the Orient. Vitamin B has been
isolated as crystalline salt with a
heterogeneous base.
Vitamin G is known as the anti
scorbutic vitamin because its abb
Sence causes Scurvy. Recent expert
mentS have led many authorities to
believe that vitamin c plays an i'm
portant role in the normal growth
of children.
Vitamin D is the one which pre-
vents ricketts,. It has the same &C
ton upon the individual that ade-
quate sunshine or ultraviolet radi-
alton has. Cod liver oil derives its
Importance from the fact that it is
rich in both vitanins A and D.
Vitamin E, when first discovered,
was called vitanin K. It is known
as the anti-sterility vitamin. Recent
experiments, however, have shown
that vitamin A Is fully as important
as E in this regard. The normal
diet contains sufficient vitamin E.
Vitamin G is necessary for nor
NAL growth.
So much for the vitamins. Now
many people wonder whether they
are getting enough Of them.
Most authorities agree that a diet
which is normal and high In va
riety, containing fresh fruits, fresh
vegetables, butter and milk, will
supply the normal person with his
full quota Of vitamins.
The ideal meal, DR.. McColluIn
once said, was the French table
d'hote dinner because Of its great
variety
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Shifting at Health

4 MOTHER oId-timer is a health
IA book by Thomas r Gaines
which promised "a sound and Ger
tain way to health, a cure for
fatigue, preventive for disease and
one of the most potent allies in the
battle of life against old age"
The book is called 'Vitalic
Breathing" and the Introductory
note went on to say that the sys-
tenn suggested was easy to practice
and cost nothing. Only when I
came to facts did the new guide to
health fail me, for then I read:
"Vitalic breathing means inhal-
ing in shifts and forcibly exhaling."
No actor could afford to follow
such a system. He would be hurled
from the stage on the suspicion that
he was kissing his own show.
Vance Thompson's advice in Live
and Be Young" is. no easier. "The
best is none too good for you" he
writes graciouSly and continues:
Whether it is the country or the
village or the city, the men and
women you want to know are the
best-those who are getting the best
out of life, those who have beau
tiful homes and social influence,
those who play games and make an
art of pleasant things-in a word,
those who are smart. . Rich
people are, nine times out Of ten,
,oIoo y7+oY. LrjndIie1. halter bred and
less selfish than poor folk"
No, after mature elaboration 1
think I would rather try the sniff
fling and forcibly exhaling method.
I would even prefer to concen-
trate and give up tobacco.
Addition never was one Of my
strong points and Thompson's adj
vice is not for me. I would have
terrible time in finding out whether
they really were rich enough to be
Of any use to my arteries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

T hose PerpleTing Vita
Minis. A Normal, Varied
Diet WI Supply Them All.
TTITAMINS a and B possess an
' action somewhat similar to
radium, giving of radiations which
register on Photographic plates in
the same way that x-rays or
radium rays do, according to reports
from London and Paris.
The new experiments were per-
formed by two women scientists.
Sophie Botcharsky of London and
Anna Fceringer of Paris. They re-
port the result of their experiments
in Nature, the official journal of
the British world of science.
If further experiments verify
their results, it would seem that
they would go a long ways to estab-
lish theory advanced some years
ago by DR.. f. v. McCollum of Johns
Hopkins university, one of the pio-
one OF the discoveries Of vitamin A.
The work on vitarnins has shown
that a variety of serious diseases
may result even when diet pos
SeSses a sufficient amount of carbo-
hydrateS, fats and proteins, if one
or another of the vitamins is absent.
DR.. McCollum suggested that the
important thing about a vitamin
might not be its chemical compost
ton. but the fact that it possessed
an excess store of energy.
He pointed out that the digestive
process involved many chemical re-
actions which could not be repro
duced in the chemical laboratory
without the aid Of high tempera-
ture or other energy soures. The
vitamins by supplying energy would
make these reactions possible in the
course of digestion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Mobilization Needed

EOR a year and more, we have
l. tried to evade the issue by tell
ing ourselves that nothing much is
the matter and that before long
everything will right itself and we
can begin where we left off in 1929.
That's a cheap alibi, and it won't
work.
We are up against problems which
call for an immediate mobilization of
the country'S resources and in
telligence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Courage Lacking

VXTE can't do things as usual and
w get out of this mess, any more
than man with typhoid fever can
play golf, or put his feet under the
table three times a day.
We're sick and we've got to do
certain things to get well.
Necessarily, some of those things
will be different, which does not
mean that they will be permanent.
We are plagued with fear-fear of
abandoning old presidents on the
one hand, and setting up new ones
ON the other.
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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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Americas Emergency

T IKE the rest of the world, we
IL Americans face a great emer-
gency, but we haven't even gone far
enough to concentrate on it, much
less formulate plans for meeting it.
BY and large, our thought is that
we must cling to certain traditional
policies and methods, regardless of
what happens.
Those policies and methods were
not designed to meet emergencies,
as is proved every time we wage
war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
A Breathing SPACE

THANKS to the Hoover morato-
Il rum and last Sundays plebis-
cite, Germany was able to celebrate
her twelfth birthday as a republic
with comparative enthusiasm.
It's only a breathing space, how
ever, not for Germany alone, but for
all Europe.
The plot Of debt which was
Matched at Versailles is grinding to
a conclusion.
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represents the interests of the Cuban people who
have been so cruelty exploited by local politicians
and American capitalists.
Menocal seems merely to be taking advantage Of
the popular reaction against Machado terrorism and
the sugar depression.
But if we keep hands off completely the Cubans
will have chance to get rid of the Machados and
also the Menocals. The Cuban people have the same
rights of revolution which the American people once
exercised in overthrowing tyrants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12

George M. Cohan has written song about George
Washington. Well, that's about the only thing that
hadn't been written about him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12

Where is the LebaneSe republic
and when was the Republican form
of government adopted there2
1t is in Syria, and was proclaimed
a republican state on Sept. l, 1920.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
Professor Miller INDICATED

There was surprise last spring when the trustees
Of Ohio State university gave as one reason for the
dismissal of Herbert A. Miller professor of sociology
the fact that he had made speech in Bombay India
which "incited the Hindus to civil dsobedience"
Now comes the report of the investigating COM
mtee of the American Association of University Pro-
fessors that Millers remarks were harmless and a
legitimate expression of opinion The committee was
unable to find evidence of complaint at Professor Mil
lerS alleged radicalism social and racial matters
His discharge rather was described as the result of
personal animus" of one or two members of the
board.
Moreover, the Miller incident was grave violation
of every essential safeguard" in preserving free
speech and directly opposed to sound public policy
to good educational practice and to long established
university ideals"
The investigating committees report will not re-
store Professor Miller to his post, 153 members
Of the unversitys faculty have demanded But in the
future the trustees of Ohio State and other uni
versities may be a little more hesitant about dis
ciplning educators who have the temerity to have
opinions of their own
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

EulLOr, journal OF the american Medical
Health Magazine.
THE interesting part of the as
Il ISOLATION of calcium with
phosphorus is the fact that four
ffths of all of the calcium in the
body is associated closely with
phosphorus.
Mothers milk contains a very
small amount of this substance, as
does also egg white and wheat germ,
but the amount that they contain
is not insufficient, because the
amount needed by the body is not
evidently great.
Phosphorus enters into the de-
velopment not only of bones and
teeth, but also tissue of the nervous
system.
The old notion that fish is a brain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12

1t has just been declared Illegal to ride bicycle
while intoxicated in the city of ST. Paul The city
should now pass blanket ordinance making any form
of suicide felony
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Rome is bothered with grasshoppers, too, we hear
MuSsoni should speak to them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
How Much

TT MIGHT be easy to ask non
4 chalantly, How much income tax
did you pay this Year," But after
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Daily Thought

Verify, verify, / say unto you,
The servant is not greater than his
Lord; neither he that is sent
greater than he that sent him.
st. John 1916.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12
HEALTH
Iron Is Essential to Proper Dieting

This is the thirteenth of series of
twenty-six timely articles by DR.. Morris
Fishbein on Food Truths and Follies."
dealing with such much discussed but
little known subjects as Galleries. vita
minis. minerals, digestion and balanced
diet
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the old. The passage which en-
ragged me most occurs in chapter
called Personal Habit" in which
the author writes:
eff you are gentleman, always
ask a lady's permission before
smoking, and if you find that her
statement that it is disagreeable to
her is a disappointment to you and
that observance of her wishes
causes you real discomfort, then
you may know that the time has
come to give up the habit entirely"
Il u
To the Ladies
TITO be sure, Mr.. Johnston does
L not specify whether "the habit"
refers to smoking or to the lady, but
later it is made clear that he seri-
ously suggests that smoker should
change his whole mode Of life to
suit the whim of LADY" who is
otherwise not identified in the book.
Nor later was I much moved to
strength of will against nicotine
by the authors advice, eff self-con-
quest seems difficult brace yourself
up with the reminder that as heir
of the ages you sum up in your
self all the powers of self-restraint
by your innumerable
ancestors"
To me that makes but slight ap-
peal. After all, the ancestors most
celebrated for self-restraint were
those that didn't have any descend
ants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-12

All men by nature are equal.
made all Of the same earth by one
Workman; and however we de-
ceive ourselves, as dear unto God is
the poor peasant as the mighty
prince.-Plato.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-17
Peculiar Form Of Oath
Taken by Manx Official

Manxmen mind their deemsters.
Obsolete except on Great Britain's
minute Isle of Man, deemsters are
medieval judges-of-all-work. They
hear actions and criminal cases Of
every sort and preside over Manx
grand juries.
Manxmen gathered recently to hear
the swearing-in of Deemster Steven
son More. A great and respected
veteran Of the Manx bench, Mr..
More has been in retirement for ten
years. He has now been installed as
sole deemster Of one-half Of the Isle
of Man, upon taking the following
mouth-6lling Manx oath:
"By the wonderful works that God
miraculously wrought in between
heaven above and the earth beneath
in six days and seven nights, 1 swear
to execute the laws of the isle justly
between our sovereign lord the king
and his subjects as indifferently as
the behring's backbone doth lie in
the midst of the fish,"
A Nlanx elder explained: 1.-THE
backbone of a herring lies 'indtlfer-
ently'-that is without any differ.
ence' or deviation to the right or the
left-in the fish. Our ancient deem
ster's oath is a constant reminder
that herring was once almost the only
food of Manxmen."-Time Magazine.
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Unhappiness in Letting
ChivaIry End at Altar

eff men would treat their wives
with the same thoughtfulness and
chivalry after marriage as they did
prior to It," remarked Bernal Dyas,
II think the family circle would be
happier. The trouble is that too
many men look upon courtship as a
sporting event, successfully climaxed
at the altar.
Eyes, a lot of men are like friend
Of mine who went home one after
noon with a limit of trout. AS he
stood gloating over them his wife
remarked:
"'That's all very fine for you, but
how about me? You never bring me
candy, the way you did before we
were married.
CTS that So drawled the husband,
regarding his trout limit complacent-
~. swell, you never heard of fish
erman feeding bait to fish after
he'd caught it, did you?"- An
geles Times.
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BY FRED MCLAUGHLIN
Author Of ''The Blade of Picardy''
Copyright by Bobbs- Merrill Co.
(WNU Service.l
THE STORY

In the city of New Orleans, in
1921, Loren Garde, recently an
oflcer under General Jackson, Is
surprised by the appearance of
three figures, In ancient Spanish
costume, two men and a woman
whose beauty enchants him. Re-
senting the arrogance of the eld- +
er Of the two men, Garde fights
q duel with him with swords,
and wounds him. He learns his
opponent is Adolfo de Fuentes,
colonel in the Spanish army In
Venezuela. Gards overhears
plot to overthrow Spanish rule
in Venezuela. Discovered, he
fights, but is overpowered. Garde
nnds himself a prisoner on the
arms and ammunition for the
Venezuelans. On board are the
conspirators, the lady of his love,
her brother Polito, and De Flu
entes. From the girl, Garde
learns her name is Dulce Lamar
tina. He loves her, but does not
reveal his love. The vessel Is
wrecked and Garde reaches the
Venezuelan shore, alone. He en-
counters a stranger and sees
Dulce with De Fuentes and Po-
Tito. Learning his history, the
stranger, who is Captain Mona
han of the British legion under
Bolivar, urges Garde to join the
Venezuelans, but his mind is set
on again seeing Dulce. Monahan
directs him to friends in Caracas.
There Garde, supplied by Mona
han with the secret sign of the
patriots, is welcomed at the rev.
dictionary headquarters.