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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-19
Your HeaIth
by Or. MORRIS FISHBEIN.

A FEW weeks ago an old man in Tennessee was
bitten by rat and shortly thereafter developed
rat-bite fever People generally were aStonShed that
the bite of rat could produce a definite disease
and also that such had occurred in the United
States
Actually, rat-bite fever is a we'll recognized dis
order Recently a good many cases were reported
among men who had been working in the sewers
III London.
When human beings are bitten by animals of the
rodent type including incidentally not only the rat
but the weasel, the pig and occasionally even the
cat. they sometimes infected with a peculiar
organism which produces disease of the whole body
THIS disease is characterized by short attacks of
i fever, alternating with periods without fever
and eruption the skin Such cases have been
known in the United States for century
There have been instances of children who have
been bitten by rats when left alone by their parents
particularly when they lived in basement homes or
poverty-striCkeR tenements. OF course cat may
become contaminated through its hunting of rats.
The doctor makes his diagnosis of this condition
not only by the symptoms that have been mentioned
but also by finding the germ which caused the dis
ease in the wound and examining material taken
directly from lymph glands the wound.
1t is customary to treat this condition with SAL
arSphenamine. Most patients quite
cured after two injections of this remedy.
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nF course, young football players are likely to be
" busy or otherwise unavailable for interviews
ana 1t may be that very often when they can be had
they turn out to be nartiCulate kids without spec
tacular personal traits which make for easy writing
and casual reading
Moreover, it takes deal of enterprise to 60 up the
country to some college town and put up in a
pltcher-and-boWl hotel for days at time to obtain
this sort of material. And the stuff when it is OBJ
tanned, requires more careful and tactful handling
and better writing than the night club type of sport
story, because the school boys have not struck the
pose OF fiction characters SO common in the figures
who sit around the night clubs and delicatessens
waiting TO be celebrated in print.
II L might offer an opinion it would be that the
reason for this new preference for the night side
personnel and the gin mill locale is two-fold the
one following the other the night the day First
many Of our sport Journalists have lost interest in
sport and taken to night life, and, second as a re-
suit of that, they don't know enough about sport
and sportsmen any more to permit even plausible
pretense.
lew years ago Whiff of the underworld was
interesting relief from the innocent heroicS and the
auStere virtue of fair competition between the 1.-the
lean bodies playing games sinely, in pairs and in
teams But like garlic, this element is something
which is most effective when used i'll moderation
Like garlic too, it is not enjoyable when taken
straight.
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old Grads Are FierceSt

OUCH investigators almost certainly would have
- come back to report that the fercest and most
partisan roofing was done by the old grads 1t has
hecn my experience that when the spectator just
Ehind me begins to break my hat in his eXuberance
over a touchdown he is almost certain to be re-
tired banker IS years of age living in EngeWOod N j.
The young fry in their turn invade the field
after the final whistle to demolsh the goal posts if
their side has won. 1t is held that they go through
their strange antics because they wish to have bits
of timber to display the walls OF their dormtory
living rooms. / doubt that any such ambition spurs
the young on to bloody fsticuffs. They perform the
rite of goal post destruction because they spurred
on by audience, and that audience is composed
almost entirely of old men of more than co. with
sprinkling of old ladies.
And why does the college half back who has
wrenched his knee insist that he will not leave the
game but must remain to die for Dear Old -?
There again. he is carrying on the tradition Of the
of 60.
OF late I've disposition among college stu
dents to take football with all the fervor which
surrounded it 30 40 years ago. On several ocCa
sionS undergraduate editor of a college paper
has blazed out with an editorial condemning the
overemphasiS of the game. Or it may be that the
student publication up in about the fact that
the team is paid by the state other lovers and pa
irons of clean sport And when such piece appears
upon the campus there is always hell to pay. The
fury and the tumult come from aroused alumni
body Merchants and lawyers and muscular Chris
tian Cereymen write in to the college president let
tiers beginning Are we mice or men?"
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Just Noted in PASSING

I WOULD like to remark while on this subject that
Il one veteran sport writer of national prominence
who has remained strictly a sport writer hewing to
the line always is Mr.. Grantland Rice who has been
covering the athletes for more than g. years
Mr.. Rice seemed old-faShoned for while when
the vogue for underworld sport copy was coming
along because he continued to write about forward
passes, the new tackles at Illinois. Tommy Armour's
IRONS the swimmers archers, boxers and tennis ah-
leCeS strictly as athletes and let the night life of
sport alone.
But there is no man in the country now who
knows one-tenth as many actual players past and
present ana their records styles and prospects, as
well as the one man who has the greatest excuse to
be sick of the whole business
ind that my interest in band leaders, radio
artlSCS ana ladies' who do a kOOtch under another
name IN the night clubs has been more than served
by the minute reporting of the Broadway Journalists
When turn the sport page I have a wish to know
VINO won The ball game, how come and by how much
am not seriously annoyed about it all II is lust
something 1 thought I would mention
Copyright 1885, by Unite Syndicate 1ncl
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ

A TINY marine creature which has left the ocean
to dwell in the sands of the shore thus repeating
the process by which, in all probability life first
passed from the ocean to the land is described in
monograph just published by the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition
Strangely enough, these creatures known tech
nically the Sand-dwelling copepods although they
constitute large and important group of organisms
have been unknown TO science Their existence was
discovered few years ago by the late Dr. N A Cobb
of the United States Department of Agriculture and
their study has been continued by DR.. Charles B
Wilson, who is author OF the present monograph.
COPEPODS, known more Familiarity by the not
~ very elegant name of sea lice" are minute
cruSaceans which occur in the ocean in extremely
large numbers. Familiar examples of large crus-
taceans Holsters and crabS)
The copepodS make up large part of the plank
ton Of the ocean. The pankton are the sum total of
various minute creatures who compose the food of
many fish.
Dr. Wilson has found that the beaches along Cape
Cod and the Maine coast are literally teemne with
copepodS. They remain in the sand and mud after
the tide has receded. Some are found as far I'D on
the beach as the high water mark
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Literary Notes

In article on the job OF editor in the Octo-
Der issue OF The Writer. Edward Weeks Of the
Atlantic Monthly reveals that three books published
by MS house were each cut by total of between
10000 to 10000 words. He is commenting on manu-
scrps too long for their good and he says: IN
this case the eXtraneOuS flesh should be cut aWav
more often IN paragraphs than in pages and always
so as not to main arteries" The three books so
extensively cut were The House of Exile" Grand
mother Browns Hundred Years and 'Forty-Niners"
all $4,000 prize winners
Knight Enters the List is the caption on the
announcement of a new publishing house to be
called Knight Publications. Inc. Offices are at I18
E. 28th-st. New York The firm intends TO
publish vital non-fction of timely and compelling
interest written in style attuned to the pulse Of
the twentieth century"
J. B. Priestley is going 10 New Haven for the
tryout Of his new play. Eden End" and then he is
going to ranch in Arizona, where ne plans to
spend the winter with his family
Jules Francis Segal, formerly of the editorial
department OF Alfred H King Inc, is a victim of
the popular myth that authors first writing is
necessarily autobiographical He is taking all sorts
OF abuse because of his story in this months Voyager
called Woman Hater.'
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BY HUGH S. JOHNSON
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. i9.-Free-
L Y dom of the seas was one of
Woodrow Wilson'S fourteen points,
on the strength of which Ger
many disarmed to its enemies in
1918. Wilson dropped it deep in
the ocean on his way to YER
sailles. Maybe that was just as
well.
The development of sea borne
commerce literally created some
great nations out of little-the
British Empire. Holland and the
magnificent Spain Of Philip, and
before that, the Italian merchant
state and the League of Hanseatic
cities.
For such nations the inviola-
bility of their sea- going commerce
was life or death. Therefore, in
ternational law developed doc
trine that the commerce Of neu-
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Freedom Of the Seas Isn't Worth
War to United States, Says johnson

The reasons for this change
were that under the modern prin-
ciple of "the nation in arms"
practically everything is a NUM-
ton Of war
The extension of the radius of
action of modern navies is such
chat they can put an actual block
ade on large areas Of the high
seas. Finally, submarines and air.
planes can't visit. search and con-
voy captured vessel to a prize
court.
Thus the reasons for the old
rule are weakened. In modern
war, no great belligerent, fighting
for its life, can accede to the
doctrine of freedom Of the seas.
Can a great neutral insists upon
it to the point of war?
Not unless its own life depends
on it-and ours does not.
Copyright, 1885; by United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.l
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trail nations must not be OBJ
Structed by belligerents on the
high seas. except for peaceful
goods sailing under an enemy
merchant flag (Which could be
captured but not sunk), or for
munitions of war shipped under a
neutral flag (Which might be taken
by visit and search, but not by de-
struction of neutral ship, or for
actual blockades of enemy ports
(but not blockades of whole sea,
areas by proclamation).
THE doctrine went to smash IN
l. the World War. German sub
marines destroyed neutral ships
not running any actual blockades,
and destroyed enemy merchant
ships without capture. England
continuously gave us as great
causes for war as Germany did,
and actually blockaded the port of
New York.
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TINE old grads would not have the rigors of foot
Il ball abated by an ounce or atom And yet can
not carry this conception through to its seeming
logical result. We have heard great deal about the
theory that old men make and young fight
them. The prediction of the Federal board on the
face of would seem to be fatal to the hope of peace
I'lt at this point must desert my allegiance with
the young and 60 over into the group of the middle
aged where will not properly belong for months to
come. 1t has not been my experience that age is
necessarily warke and youth pacific 1t is true there
has been college movement against war; but to some
extent its actvating force has from men of so
and more.
1t isn't always true that we grow more conserva-
tive and reactionary the years pile upon us. I
could mention quite number of elderly people who
moving to the left with all the speed of Sprnters
If the old grad yells himself hoarse about the bloody
ARRAYS of the gridron it may be that this is his form
OF release. Quite possibly he is an entirely peace
loving person except on the annual afternoon when
Yale meets Harvard.
Even the aged and infirm capable of learning
They may be particularly of a class to which l be-
long. We who are bound to matricuate into carpet
slippers and place before the fire have heard a
great deal about the Stodginess of Old men, We are
forewarned and forearmed 1t is our intention to
fool them.
fCN I
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Times Books

VOU go on a hinge Of bayouS bravado board
IL fences, and freshly cleaned boas in valiant Is
the Word fer Carrie" by Barry Benefited (ReynaI 81
Hitchcock; So.
Valiant in all its romantic meaning is the only
word for Carrie Snyder she mothers knee
trouSered little man who dotes on alley-cas and his
groWn-up brothers who sail cocktail boats on
Sazerac seas.
The charm of the SOuth's chinaberry trees follow
Mr. Benefields latest first person confessional and
yet II one takes handspring back to the hammock
where his successful THE Chicken Wagon Family"
first was read one will find that book lingering with
him as Carrie Snyder performs.
Carrie kldnarS and participates in prison deliv-
cries for boy who grew into and did not
realize it.
HE adoleScent romance Of "Addie" and Jim" Of
- the "ChickenWag Family is projected in new
garb into Mr.. Beneields latest novel
When Carrie Snyder pleasures" in her suffering
the reader pleasures too. and winccs only when
reminded that Carrie is a carry-over from the
"Chicken-Wagon Family" and a competent feminine
counterpart of The earlier novels vaant-Jim a
tramp newspaper man.
But Carrie shows a more matured Benefited who
would have liked to have let her ride the Chicken
Wagon tome if he had not been under the compul-
sion common among former newspaper men to write
of his late craft.
The book is for those who like artsanshp a bit
OF believe and is splendid andote for blase
ones who still believe heroines suffer with
out whimpering about it. (By Arch Stencil
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WESIBR0OK PEGLER

MYTH puzzled interest I have observed in the
w last few years the development of style
and interest in sport writing which indicates
that the playing fields of the United States of Amer
lea have been moved indoors and that the leaders
of the world of sport are not active athletes but pro-
feSSOnal gamblers press agents ticket spectators.
politicians, Spendthrift scons of the idle rich whis-
pering smut singers meat show dancing ladies' police
characters and common barflieS These are charm
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the Battle of Adowa took place
the commanding general had re-
ceived orders relieving him of his
post and informing him that his
successor was on his way out from
the home country to assume COM
mand.
The relieved general, bitter and
Infatuated, decided to try to
achieve one spectacular victory in
order to confound those who had
taken his post from him. So he
rushed his troops madly into
Adowa and was slaughtered for
his foolhardineSs.
On the other hand, the Abys-
sinias have been unfairly ma
ligned by good many high mill
tary officers of the general stats
of the world, by being refused due
credit for defeating the Italians
at that time on their own merits.
The truth is that a large num-
Der Of AbySSinian warriors poured
a most accurate and vicious rifle
fire into the Italian ranks-and
this was responsible chiefly for
the European troops initial con-
fusion.
Il
a ND here rises the question of
L n the Ethiopian equipment.
They haze only old rifles, of pat
terms discarded by the leading
powers. Many are new, more are
old.
And SO the Ethiopians have a
difficult ammunition supply prob
lem. They must equip themselves
with so many different types of
cartridges as to cause confusion
and delay.
But this has resulted in a Pc
culiar condition. The tribesman
who has rifle, cares for it as
though it were his most treasured
possession.
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ing people. to be sure. and this
note on a new phase in our life is
submitted in the best of temper
merely as a marker along the
path of progress. 1t is a never
ending pleasure to study the per-
sonality of a nightside character
who made fortune laundering
linen for his fellow-man and
often threatens. on good white
newSprint, to buy a major league
ball club with some of it. I am
convulsed by the dry humor and
dialect of the former pants press
er who became a bookmaker and
have enjoyed a thousand whim-
steal items about a number of
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men whose pedgreeS may be found al police head.
quarters but Yale even in the bulky files OF
the A. A. U.
Yet there is something lacking from the sport
pages these days, and think that what refer to
Is an occasional mention of competing athlete
couched IN the language of sport 1t would be a
pleasant change of pace to come upon a personal
piece about football player or golfer or even a
figure skater written in terms which need not be
uttered out OF the side of the mouth
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A DMITTEDLY the British, alongside the Dutch are
perhaps the worlds greatest colonizers. The British
had had many years of colonial military experience as
precedens upon which to proceed in South Africa They
had great military machine, plenty of guns plenty of
munitions.
Something of parallel to Ethiopia and Italy, you say?
Yet, the Beers, with only $4,000 still in the field
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OTItS Tie COInInlLL3e PROCEEDS 70
outline certain results which seem
to me debatable
Life so the committee says,
will be marked by changes to
quieter forms Of recreation and
there will be greater stability in
occupation and in existence gen.
orally"
But this overlooks the fact that
when these 60-year-oldsters are
more numerous they may also grow
far more lively by process of mu-
tual encouragement And even
now it is not quite obvious that the
quieter forms of recreation make
fnn nrnotnrt nrnfAnn1 To tho ntNn1nrofc
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The National Resources Committee, realize, has
studied immigration statistics and watched the birth
rate curve fattcn out and turn downward But
want to know they sent any Of their scouts and in
vestigators to the college football games throughout
the country.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BR0(JN

| AM very pleased to read that a Federal commits
sion is predicting that in 1860 there will be twice
as many citizens above 60 years Of age there are
now. In 1860 I will be Just barely in this group my
self, and l wouldn't want to lack company.
An additional finding Of the National Resources
committee is that in this year to come youth will
play smaller part in the affairs of the nation 1t
seems that youth will represent decreasing proper
ton OF The population. Out Of these facts and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-19

The advance of Itely into Ethiopia and the
mounting tension Europe Britain glowers
the puts added emphasis this
enthralling inside story of the Ethiopian
The Times today presents the ninth instaIlment of
Boake Carriers gripping book, BLACK Shirt, Black
skin"
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A RMORED tanks can't race
n over a country similar to our
own Colorado-yet far worse,
where there are no roads, but
there are tangled brush, forests
and no means of keeping me-
chanical equipment in repair.
Gas is good for trench warfare
and large bodies of men, but not
for native warriors scattered all
over the landscape in small, swift
ly-moving bands.
Italy has one of the best
equipped air corps in the world.
It's fighting planes are among the
fastest, and its bombing pilots
among the best in the military
business.
It's fighters and pursuit ships
may play havoc by the ola World
War tactics Of ground-Strafing-
diving upon detachments of troops
moving across open ground and
Notwithstanding them from 25
or so feet. But this can be done
only in open country.
The country through which the
Italians must campaign if they
are to take Adds Ababa, is noun
famous, over and around which
treacherouG air currents flow.
THE United States Marines
Il wrote a brilliant aerial COM
bat chapter in Nicaragua-an-
other mountainous country with
few landing places in cases of
emergency.
But didn't SANDING run the
Marines ragged for three or four
years. and in the end SANDING was
murdered by one of his own men
after the Marines had left the
country
If the Italian bomberS destroy
the one railroad, they will be do
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Copyright, 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.l
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Copyright. 1885
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-19

whirred inside Mark Hanna's
head.
This man knew how to carry
West Virginia? Send him speak
ers or money to hire them. Crowds
in California liked lot of music?
Give it to EN-"
Some Republicans objected to
Mark Hanna's activities. Theo-
dore Roosevelt said, He has adj
vertised Mckinley as if he were
patent medicine"
This" comments Beer, was
Mr.. Hanna's crime. He had open
ly made use of the full powers of
propaganda. He had dealt with
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politics as if the birth of a COM
pany was being arranged. He had
thrown a hundred thousand tons
of advertising into the nation,
against Mr.. Bryan's voice, bad
logic and good intentions.
The East and the moneyed in
, terests everywhere we're whipped
into frenzy by terror" says James
Truslow Adams in The Epic of
America" Il we'll recall the men,
bers Of the Stock Exchange
marching in body up Broadway,
and the general sense of untold
horrors overhanging the whole
country if Bryan were elected
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The fight, she said, was CON
Quoted by trained and experience
ed and organized forces, with
both hands full Of money, with
the full power of the presS-and
Of prestige-on one side; on the
other, disorganized mob at first,
out of which burst into sight,
hearing and force-one man, but
such a mani
Alone, penniless, without back
ing, without money, with scarce a
paper, without speakers, that
man fought such fight that even
those in the East can call him a
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Bulova Commodore
-. the watch whose
f a m e h as b e e n
broadcast to mil
lions. Round, white,
rolled gold plate
case
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SHORTRlDGE WINDOWS
DECORATED FOR YULE
Christmas Spirit Typified in Display
at City High School.

Two large decorated windows at
Shortridge High School typify the
Christmas spirit.
A tall tree, shrubbery and a
snow. swept field occupy first floor
window, which was decorated by
Theodore VanVoorhees, art instruc-
tor, and Druley Barker, chemistry
instructor.
The second floor window includes
a tree and display of Christmas
gifts made by pupils, The window
was decorated by Misses Dale
Waterbury and Velma Mayer and
Mrs. Florence Porter of the home
economics department,