The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-13

Toms Cabin" This firm. putting on
what James Whitcomb Riley called
Its literary overalls," published ev.
cry book the famous Hoosier poet
ever wrote, and all without ever a
written contract! 1t introduced Har-
old MacGrath to the world with
The Puppet Crown" and Meredith
Nicholson with THE Main Chance"
and THE House of a Thousand Can
dies"
Other titles are remindful Of days
gone by. Here Brand Whitlock
brought THE Thirteenth District; ;
Emerson Hough his Mississippi
Bubble; Anna Katharine Green,
THE Filigree BALI; George Ran
dolph Chester, Young Walling-
ford; Zona Gale, Romance Is
land"; George Ade, THE Slim Prin-
cess; Earl Derr Biggers, Seven
Keys to Baldpate"; Ring Lardner,
"Gullible's Travels; and Irving
Bachelor. 'The Light in the Clear
ing"
Because Of its early conspicuous
success with fiction, fiction especial
ly is associated in many minds with
the publishers. But its contribution
in other lines, aside from its law
and educational publications, shows
scores of titles on subjects from
Backward Children" to 1.-THE Chi
nese"-too many to list here.
Great Chemical Laboratory.
Carved on the stone front of a
great laboratory at Indianapolis are
the same chemical symbols used
by ancient alchemists-who took
them from the Chaldean who
thought the earth's metals were re-
lated to the planets! Hence such old
planetary names for drugs as lunar
caustic and saturnine poison.
Yet look into this plant and see
what incredible strides chemists
have made since the dim, distant
age of alchemy, quackery. and
philosophers stonesl
In this temple of scientific re-
search and in the giant production
plant attached to it, where machines
roll 5000 pills a day and grind
tons Of strange things, from dande-
lions to bovine stomachs and iv-
ers, you meet thinking brigade Of
chemists, pharmacists, bacteri-
ologists, and medical investigators
representing the best scientific
brains of many lands. from Eng
land to China.
How to turn new ideas, theories,
and discoveries about medicine into
practical use is the business of this
vast industry. 1t worked with the
Toronto Insulin committee and with
the Harvard Pernicious Anemia
committee to put their drugs quick
ly into doctors hands.
Here is not only pure research in
many things, from toad poisons to
Chinese herbs, but such mass-pro-
duction problems as packing mil
lions of doses Of ground liver in cap
sules instead of vials.
In plain English, here in Indiana
is an astonishing example of how
highly organized, efficient business
takes up where science leaves off.
Jenner learned long ago how to
vaccinate against smallpox, but it
takes huge capital and infinite skill
to make enough vaccine and supply
it fresh to the whole world, when
and where needed.
You can think of many such ex-
amples, from common diSinfectants
to diphtheria antitoxin.
But for such mass production Of
drugs, chemicals, and medicines.
we could not check or control in
fectious disease and epidemics, de-
spite the great discoveries of Koch,
Pasteur. Lister, Sir Ronald Ross,
Schaudinn, Won Wassermann, and
Ehrhch.
Nor could mankind benefit from
the findings of Hopkins, a Mendel,
or an Osborne as to vitamins, nu-
triton, and the prevention of nutri-
tional disease, nor dare to hope in
face of tetanus. diabetes, and ane-
mia.
Look at all the live animals on
which tests are made; look at ali
the strange weeds, plants, roots,
that come to this busy place-and
look at the endless barrels, boxes,
jars, and bottles of mysterious n,ix-
lures that issue from it, and are
shipped to drugstores, hospitals,
armies, navies, and to doctors all
over the world, and you walk out
with this thought:
What good is any discovery in
medicine-no matter how great its
potential value-unless some indus
try exists like this one, able to make
the new serum, vaccine, drug or
tissue product in big lots, and then
send it to places where people need
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