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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ME rat is responsible for the spreading of much
disease 1t is noted particularly for its danger
In connection with plague rat eats anything that
1t can get and If 1t is hungry enough it will eat its
own young or members Of its own tribe
Rats carry not only plague, however, but also
typnus through the feas and lice which live on the
rats. They carry trench fever, infectious aundice
ratebte fever, foot and mouth disease and perhaps
certain forms Of animal influenza.
When they are hungry, rats will attack human
beings and large animals. In a large circus three
elephants had to be killed because the rats had
gnawed their feet. Rats have started many fires by
chewing matches In years of famine they make the
famine worse by eating crops.
Rats breed rapidly. 1t has been estimated that
one rat will do at least $3.50 worth of damage year,
and that rats cost England about S75 100000 annu-
ally. In the United States they cost about 1925
year person, or total of more than s400,000000.
THE battle between man and rats is Intending
i If they were not kept under control the rats
would soon destroy human cilizaton entirely One
Of the most potent ways in which the rat attacks
mankind is by aiding in perpetuating the infectious
agents of plague and typhus fever.
Typhus fever must not be confused with typhoid.
1t is an infectious condition with skin rash and
high fever which usually tends to terminate at the
end of the second week with either recovery or the
tinued and is caused by germ taken into the body
with infected food water.
Typhus invariably is spread by the body louise.
DLAGUE is spread not only by rats but also by
l. squirrels and similar rodents From the rat the
infected flea carries plague germs to other rodents
Two varieties Of rat are chiefly concerned in the
spread Of plague-the brown rat, which is the large
fierce sewer rat, and the black rat which is tie
smaller domestic type living near man and near
small stores Of food. The finding of dead rats is
always occasion for suspicion of disease.
The milder forms OF typhus fever seen in large
cities slightly different from the malignant types
Some years ago cases seen in New York by
physician named Brill were recognized as typhus
fever imported from Eastern Europe. This type Is
sailed Brill's disease.
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Just n Little Bit TwiSted

EORMER Assemblyman Henry J. James Of Hud-
son. chairman Of the legislative committee of the
state Publishers Association. expressed his pous
gratitude for this exception.
we are glad to have that statement on the rec
cord" ne said. We want to say. however. that the
time has come when there should be less invasion
OF the home by the state The newspapers of the
state doins a real Job IN the training of their
newsbOys for future positions n the business world
We feel that the home Is the proper place to train
children"
This. I must admit. leaves a little confused
Naturally, 1 have no doubt OF the good viii Of Mr.
James toward all adOlesCents. He never hears the
patter of little feet their way TO school without
thinking that army Of potential business men Is
passing by and that It Is pity they should linger
The Lady of the Lake or the plays OF Shake
speare when they might be out in the bracing
weather soliciting subscriptions
But it seems TO me that the thoughtful Mr.. James
I'm suggesting the newspaper as a moral equivalent
OF both the home and the school covers enormous
amount Of territory In breath he SAYS that
snv mature lad Of IL should be done with the frllS
and fads of education and back at his mothers knee
and in the next sentence he suggests that the knee
OF the circulation manager night be ever better.
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DidOeS in Hotel Lobby

A GROCERY boy who plays football on the high
L N school team slips an icy stoop delivering
a dozen eggs and falls Is inches. This does him
great bodily harm and his lawyer sues the owner of
the house for an endowment to see the young man
the rest of his way through life; not failing to
point out that he is the principal support of his par
ents and numerous brothers and sisters his SO a
week from the grocer
suburban lady comes staggering out of the
cocktail bar of a hotel which is making money be-
gins to yode and perform the split in the lobby and
is firmly but gently showed outside by the house de-
tecC1ve in the honest performance of his duty.
Two weeks later it Develops through the affdavts
OF friends who lushng with her at the bar that
the plaintiff drank nothing but mild nutritious
stlngers, prescribed by her physician a remedy
for anema, and that she not plastered but just
suddenly faint not yodeng but crying for help not
doing the split but Swooning
Therefore, she has been publicly Inundated To
an extent which can not be compensated for nickel
less than $4,000.
When Jack Dempsey heavyweight champion
of the world he was sued for 100000 by the father of
a little girl who was said to have been snapped at
by a dog which wandered onto premises which
Dempsey had rented for his training.
When Gene Tunney heavyweight champion
he warned not to possess drive any automobile
because an ordinary hub scrape with $50 fvver in
traffic jam would develop into shambes with
dead and wounded strewn over wide area by the
time the plaintiffs got to court Nobody sued a
poor man for breach of promise or alienation.
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The Good old Cash

IT may be that Mr.. James himself was one of those
who had the advantage Of such practical training
81 an early age for he seems to be little dim the
elementary problem in physics that body not
occupy two sets of space at the ssme time. Even an
agile lad not cover newspaper route while
sitting at home absorbing parental training.
Nierwin W. Morrison Of the Buffalo Evening News
was equally solictiOus about the sad fate Of New
York lads who might be compelled to continue their
education into the senescence of 10 He too felt that
the higher learnngs should be in the hands of the
men n the counting room. His paper, he announced.
runs apparently without any charge. school for its
1000 new shows In order TO make 1t simpler for the
lads there is only one subject in the curriculum. They
are taught SalesmsnShip.
Gov Lehman. as the leader OF the states Democ-
racv Is in honor bound TO put pressure on the err
ing members of his flock in the matter Of the child
Amendment. And likewise. hope the liberal news
papers Of the state will continue to point the finger
Of Scorn at such journals who insist upon the re-
tention OF child labor for the sake Of increased profit
Copyright. 1885,
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Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE eighth annual meeting of the Metalurgical
Il Advisory Board Just held at Carnegie Institute
Of Technology. Pittsburgh. serves TO emphasize the
existence Of two types OF scientific research and the
differences between them.
one might be called the "rule-of- thumb"
search This Is the sort that goes on. not only in
every steel plant but N practically every business
esf abIiShm mt. The company may be making carpet
tacks or automobiles. Constantly the question is
being asked:
How can We improve the product and cut the
eost2 And so various experiments are tried.
The other type Of research Is fundamental re-
search II Is not concerned with immediate produc-
ton or casts at all. Its and only aim is 10 get
~ the facts II researches Of this sort that we're
reported 70 the Metslurgical Advisory Board by DR..
Robert ?. Mehl and his associates Of the Metals Re
search Laboratory Of Carnegie Tech and by DR..
Charles H Hertv Jr- who conducted for the board
an eght-vesr study Of the deONdation OF steel One
who reads the history Of industry with under
standing eve Will discover that in the end 1t Is the
fundamental type Of research which does the most
TO improve production and cut costs.
HITHEN Fsrsday was discovering the basic facts
w OF electricity. MANY industrallsts were tinker
ing with the machinery then in use. No doubt what
they were doing seemed much more practical ana
important 70 them than what Fsrsday was doing.
AL Fsraday was doing was laying the fOunda-
tons Of the age Of electricity
No one is able 10 predict wf1en tremendously
important application Likely TO develop from
riece Of pure or fundamental research.
A good example Of this can be seen IN the work
Of the Metals Research Laboratory. This laboratory
Is concerned with the study OF the arrangement of
crystals in metals and the arrangement OF the atoms
in those crystals. II is studying what happens 10
these arrangements when metals are hammered or
rolled or heated or otherwise changed. II is not
working on any such practical" problem how to
make q better razor blade a better automobile
axle.
But ore OF the things discovered in this labora-
tory has been that when steel is rolled the crystals
which ordinarily pointing haphazsrdly in all d-
rectionS tend 10 line themselves UP that they all
point IN the same direction.
TTERE is the possibility Of direct practical appli-
II cation. For example. in making automobile
Tenders the sheet Of steel can be so rolled and so
employed the making OF the fender that its great
est strength lies IN the direction where II Is most
useful
Another important thing which is coming out OF
the work Of the metals research laboratory and
similar institutions IN other parts OF the world is
new point o. view. AS fundamental facts are dis
covered the engineers and metslurgiSts working di
rectlv on production able 20 do th<-r thinking in
terms Of the new facts. The result Is and
better foundation for 'rue-ofthumb experimenting.
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It was specifically stipulated
that the United States reserved
the same rights and advantages
which the allies claimed for them
selves in dealing with the German
colonies, the military naval and
aerial limitation clauses, prison.
-ers of war, reparations, financial
clauses, economic or commercial
relations, aerial navigation rights
over German territory, port, water
way and railway rights, and guar
antees - the right to occupy
bridgeheads, etc, along the Rhine.
#'#
THE only important parts of
Il the Treaty of Versailles which
the United States scrapped in its
separate peace with Germany
were the Covenant of the League
of Nations and participation in
the spoils left by Germany in
China, siam, the Pacific Ocean,
Africa and elsewhere.
Plainly, the United States made
itself a party to the limitation on
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months our outposts have been
attacked, our colonial troops
maSsacred.
Our protests against maraud-
ing bands-regulars as we'll as IT.
regulars-have been received with
deaf ears by the Abysslnian gov
eminent. We shall get satisfac-
ton. We can not permit our
frontier to be violated.
II
WHAT Pierre Laval and Benito
w Mussolini agreed to only
time will tell. But. the conjec-
lures of experts on foreign affairs
seem to be significantly uniform.
William Philip Simms, foreign
editor of the SCripps-HoWard
newspapers, sees the Rome az
cord as "a policy of cooperation
in northeast Africa, where both
have colonies, and in Abyssinia. "
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On LibeLinq Prizefqhters

A PRIzEFIGHTER who would be honored by the
name Of thief and racketeer sues for 100000 on
the ground that his dying old mothers heart was
broken and her demise fastened by article in the
paper, which she could not read suggesting that the
young man did not put forth his best efforts in his
latest fake
The brutality of the hit-and-run driver might be
explained to some extent by the fear in the heart
or every driver that no matter how carefully and
we'll henriveS his car, accident which is imposed
on him by the victims own recklesSness must in
evitably involve him in litigation and might cost him
everything he has if he mas the decency stop and
give assistance.
Your correspondent is aware of a case in which a.
child sliding on sled on public highway broke
his nose against car which parked compliant
to the law and then brought suit against the car
owner and even the owners employer, though the
mlshap occurred on the owners day off.
IhlS is by no means rare caSe but such a one
as every one encounters in the daily routine who has
any business around the courts. 1t was settled for
$500.
Inc vast profuSion of lawyers with nothing much
TO do Tor eating doubtless accounts for much Of this
abuse but the psychology of the citizens themselves
is an important factor since the people began to
become acutely aware of their legal rights.
Copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate 1nc)
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ish her people. We must expand
or explode. 1 do not feel myself
authorized to believe in the hu-
manitarian idealism of the
pacifists."
But Mussolinis foreign expan-
sion policy has been at stand
stin ever since 1919. The main
obstacle to expansion has been
France.
France dominates E r p e.
France is an ally of Yugoslavia,
which owns the beautiful Dalma-
tian coast. And, above all, France
controls the region where Italian
expansion is most feasible; name
ly the African sectors of Tangler,
Morocco, Syria. and French
Somaliland, at the head of the
Gulf of Alden.
ITO force France to make terri
j torial adjustments has been
Mussolini's goal. II Duce can not
do it with force for he knows full
we'll that with all his Swashbuck-
ling it would be remarkably easy
for the powerful French army to
wipe out his forces.
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So Mussolini has played willy
politics. But the French are a
canny people. They do not give
away anything for nothing.
1t has taken Hitler to bring
France and Italy together.
Frances 45-year-old Premier
Pierre Etienne F1andin is a reallSt.
He sees danger in Hitler and his
unruly Nazis. So fast-moving
Pierre Flandin has cemented his
alliance with MuSsolini by giving
Italy tacit approval to use the
surgeons knife on AbySsinia to
cure her ills. France will make
no great-to-do about the CORY
scenes to come to Ethiopia.
Britain, genuinely alarmed by
the Nazi threat, is standing by
France. France gains her great
point-security. Italy gets foreign
expansion. Britain hopes to rest
easier. Adolf Hitler stands
hemmed in on all sides, circle
of steel around his Nazi Germany.
But Abyssinia? Where does
Abyssinia come in? Abyssinia is
to pay the penalty for the adroit
political moves of Halle Selassie
I, the king Of kings"
A BYSSINIA is a feudal gov
L n eminent, one of the three
independent nations in Africa.
The other two are Egypt and Lii
IBERIA. 1t was Halle SelaSSie's
grand-uncle, Menelek, who COM
manded Abyssinia's forces when
Italy's army went down to that
crushing defeat in the waning
days of the nineteenth century.
Menelek was a wise old ruler.
He reigned from 1899 to his death
in 1913. From 1918 to 1928, his
daughter ruled with her nephew,
Ras Taffari. In 1928, Ras Taffari
assumed the chrome himself, pro-
claimed himself Halle Selassie I,
king of kings, Conquering Lion
of Judah, ard Emperor of Eth
opia," in addition to a few other
fancy titles.
No fool, Halle Se1assie has
bested many a sleek European
diplomat in the game of politics.
Ethiopia--the official title of the
nation-has remained independ-
ent.
Frontier tribesmen constantly
have harrassed both French and
Italians along the colonial from
tiers. Sayings have been fire.
quent and a spokesman for Mus
solini now proclaimS.
The present situation can not
be exaggerated. The government
has been extremely calm and has
carried patience to the limit. For
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Mr.. Simms bluntly expresses
the opinion that the bloodShed
on the African continent will
have incalculable consequences
on the two continents. Even the
future of Benito Mussolini IS in
volved," he says.
Mussolini, then, is Ringing his
future on the success Of his policy
of p expansion. Off to war are
marching $4,000 of his best fight
ing men.
High over the AbysSinian border
roar Squadrons of Italian bombing
planes. Each carries a ton or
more of DEATH dealing explosives.
Plummeting to earth. they will
bring terror, destruction, misery.
Does NGussolini's future hang in
the balance?
TOmorrOw-H Duce in Africa.
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BY NORMAN Z. ISAACS
Times News Editor.

THE tramp of marching
l. feet and the rumble Of
the armOred tanks echo once
again in Italy today.
Italy is going off to war
and the world sits and
watches, for Abyssinia is
about to be crushed under
those marching feet, the
penalty for having violated
Italy's colonial frontiers"
Benito Mussolini's call to the
colors Of $4,000 picked men from
his mechanical military units
was swift in coming. Just three
weeks ago, Pierre Laval. foreign
minister of France. and Mussolini
sat with their heads together in
Rome.
Laval was understood to have
given Italy discreet leave to pitch
into AbysSinia. France never
bothered to deny the report, italy
was too busy getting ready. And
now it comes mobilization.
war. partition of Abyssinia.
Just so years ago this coming
March, Abyssinia humbled Italy
on the bloody field of AdoWa. 1t
was the most humiliating defeat
IN modern Italys history and The
Italians haven't forgotten.
1t was in 1885 that Italy en-
barked on a career of foreign ex-
pansion. Rear Admiral Caimi.
with 1000 men, went colony hunt
ing in that part of Africa now
bordering AbysSinia. The Italians
had bitten of more than they
could chew. The 1000 were mas
sacred.
Such an uproar arose in the
homeland that war was declared.
Of to Abyssinia marched $4,000
troops. They met 100000 Abys-
sinians on the field of Adowa.
1t was a slaughter and Abyssinia
ACld4Altu HeT independence.
ITALY has remembered all these
Il years. And Benito Mussolini
hG5 cast covetous eyes on Africa.
He is about to reap from what
he has sown.
The driving motive CT Italian
foreign policy is lana hunger.
italy can not support her popu-
lati0n. The coWltry's natural re-
sources are poor and the facili-
ties for irdustriali5ation are
limited.
MusSOlini knows the axiom that
a superior population imposes
itself upon its neighbors. He mas
made few bones about his mill
tarization policy.
We are obliged to fight our
soil, too small for our growing
population. for every grain of
nutritive substance" he said only
two years ago. Despite all sci
entif1c effort. Italy can not nour-
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time IL was decided That the rights
of three groups within the ma
ton must be reSpected-the
farmer, the consuming public. and
the professors who acted as mid
dlemen.
It was proclaimed the duty of
the AAA to get a fair deal and
reasonable price for all three.
But soon it became apparent
that a large profit was the lot of
the professors. a much lesser
amount was trickling down to The
farmers, while the consuming
public was paying the bill.
Against this. certain members
of the Consumers Comedian
organization setup for consumer
protection within the AAA-ob-
jected vigorously. Jerome Frank,
cruSading head of the AAA legal
division. and Rex Tugwel. under
secretary. supported them in this.
So did Henry Wallace.
A BITTER cleavage developed
"a within the AAA. A large
group. among them Chester Davis.
AAA Administrator, leaned to-
ward the big professors. adopted
a public-be-damned" policy to-
ward the consumer.
The result was compromise, at
times Stagnation.
When the tobacco marketing
agreement came up, Wallace took
it to the White House, pointed out
il gave tremendous benefits to the
big tobacco companies. relatively
little TO the tobacco farmer. The
President replied:
Were fighting on too many
fronts. Henry. Let's yield on this
for three months and then revise
it."
But when the three months ex-
pired, no revision was made.
THERE was trouble with the
Il Gamers. AAA liberals in
sisted on protecting the consumer
by requiring the Gamer to print
the grade and standard Of his
product on the outside Of his can.
Conservatives within the AAA
stood up for the Gamers. A leader
among these was Alfred Stedman.
an assistant administrator. AS
one Of the leading newspaper men
in the Capital, Stedman had been
fortnight. at times radical.
During the early days Of his Of
fetal career he drafted for Sec
tary Wallace a smashing attack
on the milk distributors.
Distributors maSquerading in
overslls" was what he called them.
But the toga of public Office
worked a transformation. Soon
Stedman was referring TO the milk
distributors as so necessary We
can't play ball without them"
And it was Stedman who re-
fused to let the remarks of the
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FAIR Enouh
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

IN deporing the ethics of the legal profession
l. sport at which your correspondent admits mod
est proficiency, it is customary to overlook the fact
that large proportion of the citizens have become
shyster- minded themselves and go through life hop
ing to be flicked on the flask by rich mans linn
CUISINE disappointed in love, thrown out OF solvent
hotel insulted hbeled, frightened Inundated or
barked at by a dog whose owner lives in big house.
Quite aside from the small criminal element of pro-
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the other reducing the weekly hours OF work for boys
between Is and l8 from 81 to AZ hours predicted
In Albany Feb. s. after public hearing
The bills are backed BY the State Labor Depart
n1ent the State Federation Of Labor and the Child
Labor Committee. Those advocating passage Of the
measures said that one of the best ways TO reduce
delinquency among youths was 70 keep them IN
school for two wears longer than Al present.
-Rcprescntativcs Of the New York State Pub
fishers Association and the associated daies went on
record IN opposition the bills particularly the one
increasing the schOOleavng age. but they we're told
b. Elmer r Andrews industrial commissioner. and
other supporters that the measures Will not in any
way affect newsboys or other minors employed by
newspapers"