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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
Today S Science
-RY DAVID DIETZ-


TINE rapid accumulation of medical knowledge to-
Il day and the changing tempo of life resulting
from the Machine Age, confront the medical pro-
feSsion with new problems and call for new tech
nique DR. Hugh Cabot, senior consulting surgeon of
the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Mimi, declares.
DR.. Cabot sets forth his views in THE Doctors
Bill" a new book just published by the Columbia
University Press
larger number of specialists and more init
mate contact between the general practitioner the
medical laboratory, and the specialist, are required
today Dr. Cabot says
The old idea of the family physician that
he would have the care and oversight of a family
group over a considerable period of years.
This was undoubtedly true so years ago." DR..
Cabot says, but the development of modern indus
try, with its tendencies toward concentration and
then dispersion, ard probably more important, the
extraordinary development of means of transporta-
ton, have rendered this conception largely sterile
DR. CABOT is careful to emphasize the fact that
- he does not think the general practitioner
be replaced with specialists.
There is" he says and far as one can foresee
must continue to be a large group, probably con-
shutting majority of the medical profession, who
must have a broad and comprehensive view based
upon fundamental medical training, and enhanced
by daily contact with varieties Of ailments"
But, DR. Cabot thinks the general practitioner has
been left in too isolated position, partly mat
ter of pace and partly as matter of economic
change"
"The well-equipped younger man spends half his
time waiting for patients" he THE less we'll
equipped older is driven by sheer necessity to
snap diagnosis, hasty treatment. neglect of labora-
tory studies with which he may have not
bowling acquaintance. He is caught in the dilemma
that unless he sees and treats large number Of
individuals, he may be unable to pay his monthly
bills.
IF, instead of perpetuating the dogma that the
isolated general practitioner can care for 80 per
cent of disease" DR.. Cabot states. I'VE would give
attention to the possibilities Of bringing to his
sstance the laboratory and the consultant without
at the same time menacing his livelihood, success
would be likely to attend efforts.
THE day of the isolated individual in the practice
of medicine whether he be generalist specialist is
approaching its close if indeed it has not already
reached it.
'The greatest weakness Of the present offering Of
medical service not only in this country but else
where is the lack Of close, intimate and probably,
daily contact between the general practitioner and
specialist in various fields"
Dr. Cabot expresses the opinion that 1t IS impos-
sible for one man to keep abreast of all the new
knowledge in all the fields Of medicine.
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that the Brain Truster was not
sore. When he got home he die
tated a formal letter, the entire
text of which read:
Il was glad"
In reply he received a letter
from DR.. Tugwell which read:
80 was l."
A T no time since the career
IA diplomatic clique ruled the
state department under Calvin
Coolidge have the career boys had
such a field day as at present.
They are appointing themselves
to all the rlpest and juiciest diplo-
matte posts. A long list of these
is in the works. It includes:
George Gordon, now counselor
of the American embassy at Rio
de Janeiro, who will become
American minister to Paraguay.
Leo j. Keena, now consul
general in Paris, who is to be
American minister to Honduras.
Norman Armour, to be minister
to Canada.
Hoffman Philip, now minister
to Norway, to be American am
baSsador to Chile.
The only political appointment
IN the lot is that Of j. Anthony
DreXel Biddle of Philadelphia,
who contributed $4,000 to the
Democratic campaign in Pennsyl-
vania and who after turning down
various other posts, at last will be
made minister to Norway.
CHAIRMAN AMBROSE KEN
~ NEDY of the House claims
committee has a way all his own
for putting a quietus on over
Jealous rookie colleagues.
AT a recent meeting of the COM
mittee, Philadelphia ambitious
newcomer, j. Burrwood DAILY,
spoke long and loud on the legal
aspects of a number Of bills under
consideration.
Mr.. Kennedy listened patiently.
When Mr.. DAILY finally concluded
fdr. Kennedy gravely moved that
thereafter all claim cases requir-
ing legal opinion be turned over
to the Philadelphian for a writ
ten report.
The motion passed unanimously
and Mr.. DAILY was preening him
self on this unexpected recogni-
ton when Mr.. Kennedy quietly
observed:
The distinguished member will
be pleased to know, 1 am sure,
that we already have 1400 cases
on file awaiting his learned at
tenticn.7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23

The building the board now &C.
cupies is IL years old. 1t is neat
and cool and clean and it is sur
rounded by well-groomed shrub
berry. Inside it has the delightful
odor of fresh broomcorn, and in
the factory blind men operate4na-
chimes that cut and sew and bind
the broomcorn into broomS. They
are operated with remarkable eff
ficiency. Foremen who have their
sight supervise the work.
In addition to the work at the
factory, the board sends into the
field three teachers who go all
over the state helping newly blind
people to adjust themselves to
their loss.
THEY teach them to read by
i the embossed (Braille) sys-
tenn, and Mr.. Chadwick says that
younger persons, who begin to
learn the system early, can read
as fast, and with as much under
standing, as persons who read
with their eyes. The sense Of
touch develops astonishingly.
Taking a picture of one blind
girl. the photographer noticed
that she jumped at the time the
bulb flash, noiselessly exploded.
He told Mr.. Chadwick, who had
not appeared to notice the flash,
and Mr.. Chadwick seemed puzzled
because, he said, he knew the
girl was totally blind.
Later, when Mr. Chadwick him
self faced the camera, he smiled
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aUEnough
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

THE War and Navy Departments have been giving
u the moving picture companies a rather free
hand in the last few years and plays depicting the
glamor of life in an Army post at Columbus, o. in
August. or tied up at a dock in Philadelphia in
February believed to have had stimulating ef-
feet propaganda.
The Department Of Justice, however though by
means reticent to the small-arms phase of its
work, has been neglecting an excellent chance TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
PRESSES TURNING OUT
SAN DIEGO STAMPS
Farley F1ips Switch to Start New
Issue for Exposition.
By Jntted Prcss

WASHINGTON, May 23.-Post-
master General James A. Farley
late yesterday pulled the switch
which started double size three-cent
purple postage stamps rolling from
the presses in COMMUNICATION OF
the San Diego (Cal) Exposition
The California congressional dele
CATION, lacking Senators William G.
McAdoo and Hiram Johnson,
watched Mr.. Farley's act.
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promote good behavior among the
citizens by its persistent refusal to
reveal any glimpses of reality at
Alcatraz, Leavenworth and Atlanta.
1t is your correspondent notion
based on no more intimate expert
ence than a few brief visits 10 in
StitutionS of this kind, strictly in
the interests of journalism, that
such a drama or a series of such
plays would have a much more de-
sirable effect on persons who are
inclined to err than all the releases
which have been given out in
mimeographed form by Mr.. Homer
Cummings. the attorney general.
r,-l,C
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an understanding smile after the
bulb had flashed.
Nov 1 know" he said, "why
she was startled. She didn't see
anything-she felt the heat of
the flash bulb on her face, that's
what frightened her"
Most of the work done by wom-
en- is done in their homes. The
board buys and furnishes them
with the material, they make the
garments, the board, through the
club federation, undertakes to sell
the finished products. The profit,
often not handsome, goes to the
worker and it means, generally,
the difference between a pride
intact and pride wounded and
food for bitterness.
nURING the last fiscal year,
- the boards income was de-
rived, besides the state grant, as
follows: broom department, $59,-
435.75; needle craft department,
$4651.89; garment department,
$173846; canning and rug depart
ment, $165583, and field depart
ment, $26.03. The total, SGT ,507 90.
Wages paid to blind people totaled
for the year $24,196.62.
Included in the operations of the
broom department is a chair can
ing department. Here blind
threaderS eXpertly cane chairs
with the finest cane obtainable
and at reasonable costs. The
board arranges to pick up chairs
and to deliver them.
The Governors Commission on
Unemployment Relief reported
that there is not provision in the
law under which Federal relief
money is distributed in the state
for the establishment or mainte-
nance of project designed for
the states blind.
Inc commission SAID 1t had
tried, On one occasion, to enter
some of them into the broom
manufacturing business but that
it had found the cost of broom
corn prohibitive. The only solu-
ton the commission has for the
problem of the INDECENT blind is
dole relief.
The broom capacity of the
boards factory is rs dozen a day.
Current output is about As dozen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23

NEEDLE dip and needle
DART
The needle dips in utter
darkness at $50 W. 30th-st.
It darts precisely at the bid
ding Of one-not two-of
the senses. And it works to
an economic advantage for
those who have been used
to no advantages at all.
suppose that you should sud-
denly lose your sight! Suppose
that pfffffftl you should, in
wink, be blind! If you are an Of
fee worker, what would you do?
If you are a worker with machines,
how would you keep from being
injured? If you are pedantic how
would your rehabilitate yourself?
The Board of Industrial Aid
for the Blind, drawing 100000 a
year from the state and not
cent from the Federal government
tries to nave an answer for you.
In its building at 536 w. 30th-st
the board tries to answer what
seems subjectively to the afflicted
person to be unanswerable.
TWENTY years ago some one
Il decided to start neat ana
orderly solution to the problem Of
Indiana's 1855 blind. G. D. Chad
wick. who had been rendered blind
by a shotgun explosion when he
was 10. was in the real estate
business in Indianapolis and they
chose him as executive secretary
of the newborn institution.
Now he is 81 years old, and he
still heads the board. In his shop
there are about 80 blind employed.
But there is room for so many
more. The drought has hurt the
blind. One of the chief indus
tries for the blind is broom max
ing. But the drought has raised
the price of broom corn to an al
most prohibitive price. Broom
corn to be good must be moist.
The blind will explain to you
that prison labor, contracted for
in Indiana prisons at between ID
and 20 cents a day, has been re-
sponsible for the slack in their
industry. How can the blind, they
ask, who pay for their food and
rent, compete with people who
work because they have to work
anyway, and who merely want
change for cigarets and whatever
incidentals are necessary in a
prison?
WET, the blind will tell you,
Il prison-made brooms are driv-
ing the deserving blind, who have
no other recourse except charity,
to starvation or involuntary de-
pendence. The blind men must
find something else or ask for re-
lief.
The women. however. are taught
needle work. In their homes they
are encouraged to sew neat pieces
for people who can see the dis
plays they buy. Most of the dis
plays have been sold in the last
several years by members of the
Indiana Federation of Women's
Clubs, now meeting in annual con-
vention here.
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Farley. Host was Pennsylvania S
bachelor Senator Joe Guffey.
Up to the cigars and coffee, the
dinner was no different than any
other social get-together. But the
rest Of the evening was very diff
ferent. There was plain talking
about personal and party matters.
MIR. Garner did not speak. But
Big Jim Farley and Floor Leader
Joe Robinson made up for him.
Joe charged fatty that Ger
tain radical Democratic Senators"
were secretly allied with the Re-
publican party in an effort to de-
stroy the Administration. The
Arkansan mentioned no names.
But his listeners had no doubt
about the identity of at least one
man-Kingfish Huey Long.
Joe concluded on a personal
note: las floor leader of our
party in the Senate I have been
the object of bitter attack from
certain quarters. 1 want to say
TO you gentlemen that I am pre-
pared to relinquish my post free
ly and willingly any time my COL
leagues desire me to do So"
This declaration aroused a dra-
matte response. Those present
rose to their feet as one. cheered
and applauded their floor leader.
Big Jim was no less frank. II
have been around quite a bit in
recent weeks" he Said And.
just between US here in these four
walls, there is no question that
the Administration has lost some
ground. That means we must
close up our ranks, cut out this
pulling and hauling and pickering
among ourselves.
You gentlemen have been tax
ing it on the chin. Well. I too
have been getting plenty of ham,
mering. And I don't mean only
on Capitol Hill. Some of nv
colleagues are a bit remiSS when
1t comes to cooper ION. But I'm
not complaining. The President is
boss and he is the man I'm serv-
ing"
THE record for the shortest
Il letters exchanged between
Congress and the Cabinet IS held
by Texas pungent Maury Nave
lick and Agriculture's Undsrsec-
rotary Rex Tugwell.
They met by accident in
Washington restaurant. after Mr.
Maverick had written DR.. Tugwell
m plain terms about a speech of
the latter and what DR.. Tugwell
should do to improve the next one.
On meeting Dr. Tugwell, Mr..
Maverick was surprised to lad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23

Trust Company Named Executor
The Fletcher Trust Co. has been
named executor in Probate Court
of the will of Malinda Krull. She
died Saturday. The estate is to be
divided among six children and two
children of a deceased daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drev Pearson and Robert S. Allen

VXTASNGTON ga dinner the capital
w other night did
and for good
The gathering affair attended
Senator'S plus Vice President Jack Garner Postmaster General
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
o-How much do channel catfish weigh7

A-The general range is from three-quarters 10
three pounds and specimens 10 pounds are con-
sidered very unusual. There is a record OF one
weighing Is pounds
Q-How many persons transported by buses
in the United States annually?
A-'Bus Transportation" estimates that approx
mately 4O5 100000 passengers we're transported IN
inter-cty buses 1884; city buses handled l64O-
100000; suburban service carried 12l.20000O; and
Sightseeing and livery services handled l500O.Oo0.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23

The COMMISSION, Which VIII hold
its third meeting June 3, has been
preparing model bills for projected
consultations to be presented at a
possible special session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
The eight counties are Marion
Lake, Porter, Benton, Wabash, Tip
ton, Hamilton and Vermillion. Of
the 129 townships with less than
100000 valuation, all but nine are
below the National-rd, the COM
mission discovered.
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suspect 10 is. this string Of G melodramas is
very likely to have important by-product. A
vast mass Of propaganda is being oosed to convince
the American public that agents Of the Department
OF Justice invariably brave never cOTruptble and
always right II hold to that thought it may come
70 Go US lots Of damage
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O0d IS housing no IeSS tnan Y
projects for pictures built around
the activities Of agents Of the De-
partment Of Justice. Why this
plethora OF course there's money
in IL and 80 a sure device TO throw
mud in the eyes Of the censor. BY
making your hero a government
man II becomes possible to have all
the gangsters, stabbings and shoot
ings you please. It is no longer bad
for the young In the very last reel
the Federals win out and the boy
in the balcony goes away having
learned that crime never pays.
But whether it is in anybodys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
Q-what Is the climate OF srria7

A-'She same other Mediterranean countries
At Beirut the mean annual temperature is 66 degrees
r; az Jerusalem. 626 degrees F. The rainfall is
scanty. occurring in winter. Beirut having the
heaviest with rapid decrease south and east. The
springs are short and the summers long dry and
hot Snow falls in winter and there is often severe
cold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23

claim to know the mind of the hayward youth that
he is more likely to be stimulated than deferred by
scenes of gunfire in which the fugitive goes down
shooting it out against superior numbers and by
word-pictures in the papers of his lively career.
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Haywood BROUN

CTAAIFORD. Conn May 23.-Now that I'm back
- on the farm again gravely fear that was film
TANNED when last I ventured into the city. It
wasn't New York exactly. but only Larchmont but
that seems like metropolis to me. At any rate I
was induced TO zee film called Omen" and Of my
own free viii wrote about it as lively melodrama.
That is still true but this cy.Umnst overlooked COM
ment which would have Deen much pertinent.
I am informed thst at the present time Holly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
Only 8 Counties Have
100000 Townships
Scarcity of Wealthy Governmental Units in State Is
Revealed in Report of Tax Commission.

There only eight Indiana counties having townships with ST.
5000 valuation the legislative commission
after exhaustive study consolidation townships
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-23
BLIND FIND NEW LIFE IN WORK
BY JOE COLLIER

NEEDLE dip and needle
DART
Evening star., 1935-07-06
MILLIONS ATTEND
|. HOUSING EXHIBITS
Planned Interiors and New
Equipment Shown as
Accessible.

In the past 10 months millions Of
citizens have attended SGT better
housing expositions, exhibits and
building shows that have grown out
of the better housing program Of the
Federal Housing Administration.
During the same period elaborate
exhibitions OF educational value to the
general public have been held in AZ
Of tho leading trade centers through
out the country, where thousands OF
people attended daily.
New York led in the number Of
exhibits held In one State during the
l0-month period with . total Of IS;
Iowa, second, SO; Michigan, third, 80;
Illinois and Ohio tied for fourth
with 50.
Model homes, planned interiors, and
new equipment that can be purchased
with funds obtained from lending in
stitutions operating under the modern
ization credit plan and the mutual
mortgage insurance plan Of the Fed
eral Housing Administration were in
cluded in these exhibits, which ranged
from huge expositions housed in large
auditoriums to small individual booths.
Distribution of housing literature,
lectures on better housing, poster dis
plays, and other features were part
Of the exhibits in every State.
Actual attendance figures for 20
exhibitions show that approximately
2.5oo,0 900 persons attended during the
periods of showing.
Evening star., 1935-07-06
Lou Costs Urged as Aid
To Boom for Better Homes
Prefabricated Houses Too High for
Lo,o-Income Groups, Say
Building Experts.

recently made by the Government in
dicates that IT'S per cent Of all urban
tenants pay less than $50 q month
rent. Assuming that a gross Of 8 per
cent on real estate is fair return,
more than three-quarters OF the popu-
lation cannot afford to rent or main
tain houses valued at more than
$4,000.
Well Housed in 1929.
considering specifically the market
for prefabricsted housing, Robert L.
Dawson, director Of reasearch Of the
John B. Pierce Foundation. recently
made the following statement:
1.-The upper income groups were
fairly well housed in 1929. These
groups have been materially reduced,
leaving On oversupply Of houses for
these income groups. Since houses
may be had for half what they sold
for in 1929 it would be difficult to
produce q new house In this price
range which could compete with this
distress property. On the other hand.
there Is not an excess Of suitable
housing for the average income.
The lower one-third In income of
our population pay an average Of $14
o month rent or rent equivalent. Un-
less the prefsbricated house can be
built on very low cost basis there
is no chance Of reaching this lower
third. They must live In tenth-hard
houses.
Taking all factors into considers
ton the conclusion to be drawn from
studies, both before and after the
Evening star., 1935-07-06
LARGE L0W.RENT
PROJECT DEDICATED
2,4O0 Families in New York to
Be Housed in P. w. A.
Enterprise.

The Governments place In the low
rent housing field in the New York
section Of the country was definitely
established last week with the dedi-
cation of Hillside in the Bronx and
Boulevard Gardens In Queens, next to
Knickerbocker Village, on the lower
East Side section of Manhattan, the
largest model apartment projects
financed by Uncle Sam under p. w. A.
legislation. They will provide apart
ments for close to 2,400 families at
an average rental Of s11 room a
month.
More than 10000 families made ap-
plication for admission to the two
houses. Some Of these may be sue
cessful in securing places in the Will
liamsburg project, which has just been
launched. It is the largest low-rent
housing undertaking in the country
so far financed with P. w. A. funds.
The undertaking will cost $4,000, 900,
cover about IL blocks and provide
modern and sanitary housing for $500
families at a rental of from IS to 81
q room, which, according to real estate
men, social workers and low-income
families, comes closer to solving the
housing and rent problems of limited
salaried families than any other
project which has been advanced in
the New York area.
Evening star., 1935-07-06

depression, would be that the market
is for q dwelling and lot selling for
under $2,500. One might not reach
this ideal to begin with, but this
must be the objective.
ITO date none Of the manufac-
turers Of prefabricated houses has
succeeded In reaching this low-cost
market. The nearest approach has
been made by American Houses, Inc.
which does produce one model within
the reach Of the $50 rental class. An
approach to the low-cost field has also
been made by General Houses, Inc.
Of Chicago, which offers Q five-room
house fully erected in the New York
area for $4,625, excluding the price
Of the lot. The Henry Ford Of the
building industry has not yet appeared
to place modern housing, prefabricated
or otherwise, within the reach OF
those having an average or slightly
above average income"