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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Today Science
-BY DAVID DIETZ-

MORE medical care for mothers, both before and
WI after the birth of the child, would greatly
reduce the maternal mortality rate in the United
States according to DR.. Malcolm T. MacEachern,
associate director Of the American College of Sur
geons.
While DR. MacEachern thinks that comparison of
these rates here and abroad may be unfair to the
United States because of differences in the methods
OF compiling the statistics he says that there is no
denying the fact that the maternal mortality rate in
the United States is too high"
Last year" he continues, AN aggregate Of 1885
mothers died from causes associated with pregnancy
and childbirth In four years more lives have been
sacrificed as a result of childbirth in this country
than lost during the entire participation of the
United States in the World War.
"Sixty-fve per cent of maternal deaths are known
to be caused by factors which controllabe Eight
thousand women who died because of childbirth last
wear could be living today had they received proper
medical attention before at the time and after their
children were born.
Maternal mortality would be greatly reduced If
women would assure themselves of proper prenatal
care competent medical attention during labor. ade
ouate folow-up for six to nine weeks after child
birth"
DY prenatal care. DR.. MacEachern explains is
D meant 1.-THE supervision, care, and instruction
for the prospective mother during pregnancy"
Prospective mothers must realize the necessity
OF seeing physician as soon as conception becomes
known or is suspected" he says Monthly visits to
a competent physician are necessary for the first
seven months ofener If indicated by conditions and
every two weeks during the last two months.
ITO assure herself OF competent medical atten-
i ton during childbirth. the prospective mother
must choose her physician with utmost care DR..
MacEachern says.
She should select physician who is re-
putable graduate of medicine, one who has an NJ D.
degree and is recognized as in good standing.
And just the mother must choose her physi-
clan carefully. must she select hospital that is
prepared TO give the best possible care during the
most vital episode of her life Three national
carnations have done much TO make hospital care
safe and reduce maternal mortality These are the
American Medical Association, the American Hos
pital Association and the American College Of Sur
geons.
The American College of Surgeons conducts an
annual survey Of all hospitals in the United States
and Canada having IS beds or more and those which
desire approval must meet the requirements formu-
lated"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Hitler Still Seeking an Opening

A T least the hope is that Britain, France, Italy
IA and Russia agree sufficiently on some Euro
pean security and arms limitation scheme - war
rant putting it up to Berlin
Failure to show rearmed Germany at least some
degree of unity would admittedly give Chancellor
Hitler the very opening he is seeking with which to
split the former allies
A united front, however, will be difficult. The
British, who are taking the lead to bring Germany
back into the fold, unwilling for one, to pay the
price.
Herr Hitler among other things, demands the re-
turn of some of GermanyS lost colonies Britain fell
heir the lions share of these under the Treaty of
Versailles. Premier Macdonald yesterday indicated
that Britain hasn't the slightest intention Of handing
them back And so it goes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

touched" Mr.. Elliott would inau-
gurate a Thorough overhauling and
rebuilding" of constitutional ma
chinery.
only by a bold change from this
unavoidable and inefficient system
can we hope to make democracy in
the United States capable of the
task that lies ahead of it," asserts
the author
Another suggestion which seems
a bit dull after his first radical
explosions, is Mr. Elliott's belief that
the President should be given more
powers over Congress than he now
possesses"
Here, it seems to me-" says Mr.
Elliott, that the right to dissolve
the House of Representatives and
test public opinion by one general
election at the Presidents discre-
ton would be a more efficient
means of party control"
Lost motion" is the Harvard
professors most general criticism Of
the present Anticipated machinery.
1T makes" he says, for desperate
measures, conceived in the hysteri-
cal temper of crises, to push aside
unnecessary distractions. The New
Deal suffers, and must continue tt
suffer, from being forced to dc
sleight-of hand tricks with the ole
deck"
The book will be published today
by Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hil
Book Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

unused land as a guaranty it
would not be used for pasturage.
1t was from these plowed fields
that the wind whipped the dust.
This, of course, is only a par
tial cause of the dust storms.
Other chief cause is erosion. Re-
garding all these causes the RooSe-
velt Administration is just as wor-
ried as Northwest farmers. 1t
sees dust storms and desert con-
ditionS spreading to other areas of
the Midwest unless checked soon.
Experts in the Agriculture De-
partment claim that land between
the Tooth meridian and the Rock
leS-weStern Kansas, Nebraska and
the Dakotas-never should have
been hOmesteaded. 1t is too dry
to raise anything but cattle.
The President himself has this
problem very much at heart. He
has proposed that after the Co.
lumbia River and Coulee Dam
projects are completed, the farmers
of the arid Dakotas be trans
planted to the fertile valleys of
Oregon and Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Failure Too AWfuL to Ponder

ELABORATE blueprints are in existence to con-
- vert the Paris subway system into gas-and-
bomb proof shelters in the of air attacks and
In case of necessity, the entire civilian population
could be evacuated-removed to the country-via
these channels.
Throughout Europe similar projects under way
ready to be put into execution Winston Churchill,
former British cabinet member holds that London
might have to be evacuated in wartime to prevent
wholesale massacre.
The British delegates said to be determined
to do everything in their power tomorrow at StreSa
and Monday at Geneva, to turn the tide Failure is
too terrible to contemplate.
Germany therefore, will almost certainly be in
vited to general conference this spring summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

THERE are BUSES at Boulder
i Dam to haul workmen from
their homes in Boulder City, that
car1y $50 men each. A 40-pas-
senger bus was a huge one hereto
fore.
Across the great canyon in
which the dam is built are cables
that easily carry things weigh
ing 400, 900 pounds-cables strung
between steel towers or anchors
On opposite canyon rims, sky
ride that makes the one at Chi
cago's Century of Progress re-
semble a toy.
Buckets of cement as big as
your bedroom move rapidly from
the mixing plant out on to this
sky ride cable, then drop zoo, 400
or 300 feet as necessary, to be
quickly poured.
A short time ago a special
machine lowered a gate at Boulder
Dam that weighed 3,000,0 900 pounds.
1t took only few minutes, but it
began forming the biggest artifi-
cial lake in the world.
=
NNE youthful engineer at the
" dam designed a machine
which put 48 compressed air drills
into operation at once, instead of
one. With it, operators can "eat"
into a rock wall almost as if it
were cheese.
There are dozens of such I'M
precedented machines, tremendous
IN size, but delicate and sensitive
in operation. The workmen call
all the big machines "jumbos."
The whole project has literally
been an engineers paradise, with
unlimited money and materials to
tinker with, with bosses and a
public urging him on. This is why
mechanical miracles have been
performed.
The construction work at Boul-
der Dam has many mere conve-
niences which would themselves
be major engineering triumphs
anywhere else in the world.
Next-The materials that went
into the dam. Building a city to
house the men who built the dam.
Three hundred carloads of sup
plies every day, to maintain the
schedule of construction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

He calls for a constitutional con-
vention of 1887" to force his ideas
into effect because 1T is too much
to expect Congress to alter its pres
ent powers to make itself more re-
Sponsible to truly national opin-
ion"
Declaring that "the states have
ceased to represent areas of eco
romic reality" Prof. Elliott recon-
mendS that they should be sup
planted . by geographically appro-
pirate regions" These regions he
calls "commonwealths," and indi-
Gates that he would favor the use
of the Federal Reserve districts with
perhaps the addition of one more
, district.
Such commemorative" would ere
vive our dropping federalism and
stay the present march of centrali-
cation in Washington" according tt
the Harvard pedagog.
Claiming that the real issue TO-
Cay is not whether the Constitution
vii! be touched, but how it will b.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
WIDER OWNERSHIP
OF PROPERTY URGED
Economist Outlines Steps to
Recovery,

Wider ownership of real property
with shop owners, farm owners and
artisans Independently earning
their living by selling only the sur
plus, was urged as the keystone to-
ward economic recovery by Herbert
Agar, noted economist and Journal
list, at the Rotary Club luncheon
yesterday.
Mr.. Agar, the author of the 1888
Pulitzer prize winning book, "The
Peoples Choice" returned six
months ago from England where
he was literary editor of the Eng
liSh Review.
He praised President Roosevelt
and his New Deal advisers, but
warned that the gigantic govern
ment spending must end. He urged
that permanent, lc time pro-
grams for agricu' al and indus
trial development Je substituted for
temporary New Deal agencies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

Machines - wheels and
cables and engines and gears
and pulleys and belts and
chains and rails. At Boulder
Dam, as never before anywhere
else in the world, construction
machinery has reached impressive
efficiency and size.
Many of the machines there
not only were especially built for
this size job, but we're especially
conceived to meet the unique
problems there. They are great
cold masses of cement and metal,
inhuman and inanimate, yet con-
stantly performing miracles at the
touch of a human finger or hand.
Human genius frozen in steel.
From the tourists Lookout
Point, you can see little" hook
on a wire" reach deep into a can
yon, pick up a railway locomotive
and set it on another track 300
feet above.
WYATT around a bit and you
w may see machines pick up a
suspension bridge, and move it
nonchalantly to a more convenient
river crossing. say 200 yards away.
Or down the road beside you
may come on one man carrying"
a section of water pipe. But the
material in this one is rot quar-
ter-inch lead.
1t is ga Inch steel, shaped in
the dams especially built steel
plant, and it is big enough in
diameter to encompass your en-
tire cottage home, with the garage
thrown in! The man will be driv-
ing an especially built conveyance.
Yep" he'll say to your ques-
ton, shes 80 feet across, and she
goes in one of the tunnels down
yonder a thousand feet"
They have machines to lower
and connect it almost as easily as
your plumber repairs a leaky sink.
BacL; at the steel plant on the hill,
they weld the pipe sections with
electricity.
Then a doctor" carefully pho
tographs every weld with an X
ray machine, hunting for flaws.
He will have used about % miles
of film when he is done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Your Health
-RY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

IF YOU have never known the feeling Of being nerv-
Gus or mentally i'll, and you always feel adequate
TO every situation in which you find yourself you may
discover it is difficult to understand the significance
of the condition called nervous breakdown"
In fact, you may even argue with the person
who suffers with this condition and may try TO make
him feel that it is all his own fault You may say
if he will only buck up or just think right ne VIII
feel right.
Actually, however the combination Of physical
and mental circumstances is such that the person
with the nervous breakdown simply can not get his
powers together for the purpose Of "bucking up
and thinking right.
TODAY we know that development of such situa-
i ton demands a complete study of the physical
condition Of the person concerned OF his personality
of the environment in which ne lives ana Oh the
persons who surround him.
Il nervous breakdown represents a variety OF
conditions. 1t may be just case in which the per-
is unable to sleep gets tired easily, and is unable
to concentrate
Next it may be form of hysteria, with inability
to perform various functions, simply because the
person concerned is convinced in his own mind that
he not do
Third. it may be a nervous condition in which
anxiety the chief symptom with fear palpitations
of the heart restlessness and lack Of power TO
make decisions.
DEYOND these forms of nervous conditions, there
ID are various forms of insanity and finally, actual
changes in the nervous system. with paralysis, in
hammation Of the brain, and such disorders.
The average who talks about nervous
breakdowns usually means the condition first de-
scrbed in which the loss of sleep, easy fatigue, in
ability to concentrate, and lack of power to make de-
cisions the most significant factors
Nervous breakdowns are not limited altogether
to hgh-powered business rGen, to clubwomen u.der
strains with activities, TO social leaders, or
to statesmen A child in school may have nervous
breakdown. may also retired millionaire with
nothing 10 do
The lazy. delicate and refined person who enjoys
poor health or the eccentric musical genius. as well
as the tramp, the drunkard or the drug addict may
be victims Of nervous breakdown
Ordinarily all these cases represent what one
leading authority in diseases Of the mind has called
human nature working under difficulties
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Questions and Answers

Q-whose portrait is on the Heligoland postage
stamps?
A-Queen Victoria.
Q-Give the population of Washington. D. c., in
1888.
A-The estimated population was 4e5 OOo
(Which states have Negro National Guard
units?
Anew York. District of Columbia Ohio Massa-
chusettS, Maryland and Illinois.
Q-Is there any difference in the weight of 1882
and 1884 quarter dollars?
A-No.
Q-What is psychologists?
A-That branch of psychology which deals with
responses of the mind 10 physical stimuli and
especially the icea Of physical magnitudes The term
Is sometimes used Of the relation of the mind to the
physical body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

During the World War this writer witnessed the
exodus Of French citizens from cities in northern
France night came on to take up quarters in dug
outs at the edge of town where they and their
children would be comparatively safe from air
raids.
Prime Minister Macdonald officially stated yes
terday that the advisabty of removing number
Of Britans naval and military stations to less vul
nerable zones under active consideration II is
known, too that the removal of British arsenas to
safer places is being discussed, while plans for
shifting certain war industries from congested areas
are being drawn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
No ShuckS at Spending

THE only other one as cold Mr.. Mellon, and as
Il consistent about it to the end of his life that
your correspondent can think Of was Frank Mum
sey the publisher, and he was poor man by COM
parison. There nothing soft about Mr.. Mum
sey. He had thrown thousands Of newspaper hands
abruptly out of work in his time and thrown terror
into many humble homes, and softer man might
have left phrase two in his will to ease the old
hurts and perhaps take the curse of. But he left
fortune to art and went to his grave without
weakening
Mr. Mellon said it his desire to see to it,
while he still lived that his two children AilSa and
Paul, were we'll provided for but even he can hardly
have thought that it would take S40000OOO each to
see them the rest of their way. The annual inter-
est on that much money even in these days, and in
the lack of his genius, would amount to at
least 100000 each, which would be S250.000
month or S62 900 week.
1t is doubtful that the daughter and son Of An
drew Mellon could spend that much. even if they
devoted all their time to the spending OF money.
They would have to buy whole countries and races
of people and kick up for themselves in order
to keep with their income.
And anyway the MELONS were very great
hands at the spending of money. The MELONS have
been more proficient in the other branch Of the
game Their speciality has been getting it, and the
daughter and have no worthwhile training IN
the art of shooting the works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
PLAY AIDS ARE NAMED
Manual Seniors to Give Quality
Street" April 25-26.

Committees to assist in the pres
entation of the Manual Training
High School senior class play,
Quality Street." April Is and IS,
were announced today by Miss Lola
I. Perkins, director.
The committees include Phairy
Queener. Theresa Winzenread, Mel
velyn Basham, Mary Colligan, Gen.
eva Rednour and Cynthia Kitchell,
costumes, and James Miller, James
Snyder, James Piepenbrock, William
Presecan, Oliver Castleman, Arthur
Lindgren, Robert Hall and Roscoe
Miller, stage crew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
Does He Want 1t All?

DUT while Mr. Mellon was in Office, living up to
ID Alexander Hamilton, it is charged by attor-
neys for the government that he had his Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue draw up memorandum
outlining nine methods by which millionaire could
avoid paying his income taxes and still remain in
side the law. This might have been done IN order
that the best secretary since Hamilton could plug
the holes and prevent such evasions by other mil
lonareS
But when Mr.. Mellon came to court in the gov
ernments attempt collect back taxes he was forced
to confess that himself had taken advantage of the
loosely drawn income tax law to avoid paying some
of his taxes CHEEKY bit of testimony to people who
were harassed and threatened aid forced to shower
down 81 more under threat of terrible punishment,
when he Secretary of the Treasury.
However, that part of it is all known now and
one more dark doubt is cast upon the plous state
ment of Mr. j. P. Morgan before the Pecora COM
mittee that integrity and trust the foundation
stones of big business. Trust in Andrew Mellon for
instance?
But anger and disgust explain nothing
What is in the mind of Andy Mellon any,
way? Does he want it all?
Copyright by Unit ed Feature Syndicate Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
TECH LEADERS NAMED
Lewis Bose Selected Commander Of
Campus Legion.

Lewis Bose has been named COM
mander of the Technical High
School Legion by virtue of having
the highest number Of merit cita-
tons, it was announced today. Lor-
tia Hastings is lieutenant command
er. The captains are Alice Heine,
Jeanette Robbins. Harold Calbert.
Mary Jane Wade. Mary Mae Endsley
and Sterling Meier.
The legion was. formed by Prin-
cipal Dewitt S. Morgan in order TO
recognize pupils who are outstand-
ing in citizenship AMI personal
worth a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

the rack and that in that hour he will stand
naked and as poor as some bum found dead under
viaduct? Doesn't he get afraid and think of
giving some away as old Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr..
Carnegie did when they mad built their fortunes up
to certain height and began to hear the rustic Of
these wings at night?
Most millionaireS show reaction at some stage
of their fortunes. Some get silly and pull away
from their old wives to take up with sharp little kids
who pick them up in night clubs or on trains and
call them daddy. Some go IN for heavy spending on
luxuries Others endow hospitals and schools and
libraries
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
SHAW CASE Is HEARD
Judgment Withheld When Alleged
Victim Refuses to Testify.

When Miss Virginia Dunn refused
to testify as a complaining witness,
and Attorney Lawrence Shaw re-
fused TO offer any defense testi-
mony. Howard Bates, municipal
judge pro tenn. withheld Judgment
yesterday on charges that Attorney
Shaw assaulted and beat Miss
Dunn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

Wise nave had 70 contribute 70 the
upkeep of the country which made
him so rich can never be solved.
Mr. Mellon is the only one on earth
who knows. and he will never tell.
What do you suppose goes on
inside a man of 80 years, with two
hundred millions already, who
wants to add to his pile? How much
money does he consider to be
enough? Does he hope that some
day he, or his heirs, will achieve
the ultimate and acquire all the
money in the world? Does it ever
occur to such an old man that the
time will soon come when he will
l,n,.n "a nut oil hiS clnncES hack IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
FAIR Enouah
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK. April lot seems too bad that
IN the government, with all the experts which it
commands can not conduct a scientific study Of the
mind and soul of Andrew Mellon
The government has experts who can record the
emotional experiences of potato bug and weigh
the soul of a gnat But the fascinating mystery of
the gaunt old man who studied income tax evasion
from the inside and hired a government expert TO
help him retain some money which ne might other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10

OF NdAlDtlS next week dl OtiltFdt
slam the door in the Reich's face.
The British government is said to
be convinced that failure Of Stresa
and Geneva TO pave the way for
some sort of understanding with
Germany. even if only a truce for
limited number Of years, would be
virtually tantamount to fixing the
date for the next war.
An already seething Europe would
speed up its preparations for the
coming conflict. A sort Of terror
would grip the inhabitants. Their
everyday life would be changed as
vast metropOlises like London. Paris
and Berlin, and the great inou trial
centers. accelerated their prepara-
tons to meet attacks from the sky.