Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1930 — Page 13
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CHAMPION OF LOST CAUSES FEARSCHAOS World Is Near Parting of Ways, in Opinion of Norman Thomas. ROBOT EPIDEMIC PERILS Working at Machines for Long Hours Assailed as Menace. BY HARRY FERGUSON lulled Press Staff Correioondent NEW YORK, April 17.—Norman Thomas, a man whose hair nas grown gray in the leadership of •'lost causes,” sees the world today at a point where it either can plunge into chaos or emerge as a well-ordered planet on which men live their lives according to some beneficent blueprint. One or the other will happen, he believes, within the next two generations. Thomas talked today in an interview with the United Press, of unemployment, of mergers, of the j dangers of mpn becoming robots—and he talked out of the richness of a career that has carried him irom the pulpit of an exclusive church to the slums of New York as a social workers and through a score of political campaigns, none of which he has won. He is a Socialist, and as such he j has been defeated for political offices from alderman to President oi f the United States. Thomas has | Known two Presidents intimately— j Warren G. Harding, for whom he! carried papers in' Marion, 0., and Woodrow Wilson, under whom hej studied at Princeton university. j Approves Some Mergers Asa Socialist, he approves of the merging of giant industries so long as it serves an economic purpose instead of ‘ being another method of racketeering." “The ideal situation would be,” lie said, ‘ to have government operation. By that I do not mean industry should be run by mayors, ; aldermen and congressmen. I mean j the government, as the agency of | the people, should have control and j then appoint experts to do the ac- i tual administering. “I think we are at a crucial period, and I think there Is a definite danger of men becoming robots un- j less we move out of the chaos that we are in. Why, just think how ridiculous it would be for a contractor to start putting up a building without having plans, and yet, the world today is running without a plan. Competition Is Cause ‘That is a fundamental, an underlying cause, of such evils as unemployment. The stock market crash last fall was only a superficial cause. Fierce, unthinking competition is contributing to the chaos.” Thomas, who has earned a reputation as a practical humanitarian, is more interested in the present than the future. He points out that ‘technological unemployment” is getting worse —that is, to some extent. men are being supplanted by machines. So he pleads for shorter working hours, so labor may be distributed among more persons. And he sees in shorter working hours the blessings of leisure, the chance for j men and women to cultivate their gardens and their minds after they 1 are through work. “Broadly speaking.” he said.; “technological unemployment will; solve itself in the long run. By j that I mean that If machinery is to play an increasing part in our j lives; if we are to have more ma- j chines, then there still must be men to manufacture the machines. Makes Robots of Men "What will make robots of men quicker than anything is to keep j them working at machines for long j hours each day until they go home at night so exhausted that they have no interest other than getting a night's sleep. “Let such condition continue, let the world proceed on its present hit-or-miss system, and we surely shall have chaos in two generations. “Wars and the fierceness of industrial competition so will reduce us that, in the words of J. B. S. Haldane, ‘man and all his works will go down to oblivion.’” River Gives up Body Km l nitril Prmf TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. April 17. The body of Edward Dwyer, believed accidentally drowned in the Wabash river, has been recovered. Absence of marks on the body led to the belief that the drowning was accidental.
CHURCH STRIFE IS CLEW IN MURDER
By Cnitetf Press SCOTTSBURG. Ind., April 17. Church dissension today was advanced as a possible motive for the murder of E. D. Pierson. 54. Negro. Chicago, whose bullet-riddled body was pulled from the Muscatatuck river at Scottsburg Wednesday. The wife in messages from Chicago said her husband was about to report to national officers of the National Baptist convention that a j 562.000 loan fund to the church at Nashville. Tenn.. had been exposed to discrepancies. Mrs. Pierson said the financial condition was uncovered by Pier-
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THOUSANDS TO HUNT BUNNIES Children Will Participate in Easter Frolics. Thousands of children will go in hot pursuit of the mythical Easter bunny Saturday and Sunday, according to announcements of committees totaling more than four hunched persons, co-operating with the city recreation department to make grand events of egg hunts in five public parks over the city. * Easter festivities will begin with a rush when “kiddies” gather at Riverside park and Fall creek playground at 3 Saturday for hunts. Sunday afternoon hunts are scheduled in four public parks— Garfield, Rhodius, Douglas and Brookside. Prizes await the victorious egg finders in each event. Entertainments will precede the egg search in each park under direction of the recreation department and committees appointed from civic organizations neighboring each park. Hunt Sunday at Garfield park will be preceded by an elaborate entertainment including a concert by the Police and Firemen’s band, and addresses by honoary guests. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney and Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell. JEWISH FEDERATION TO MARK ANNIVERSARY Samuel Mueller Is Chairman for Columbia Club Dinner. Arrangements for the silver anniversary dinner of the Jewish Federation and constituent organizations
at the Columbia Club, April 23. wdl be made by a committee of which Samuel Mueller is chairman. The federation was organized in April. 1904, and is the outgrowth of several small societies. Until ten years ago, it functioned as an actual relief agency, but as a member
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son when he audited the books of the church at Nashville. The wife told authorities she believed her ,husband was shot to prevent him from disclosing the irregularities. Pierson was found by J. H. Taylor and two boys who had gone to the river to examine their fish lines. Faint cries attracted them to where Pierson was lying in the water. After being pulled upon the bank, he died without giving any information of his assailants. Six bullets had pierced the body and it was weighted by two traveling bags tied arrtind the neck. Coroner Newel! H. Stewart said his verdict would be murder.
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nu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind„ April 17. This city’s telephone rate controversy probably will be heard in superior court during the June term, with the litigation complicated by a claim that charges even higher than those objected to should be fixed. Judge Linus A. Evans has expressed a desire several times that preliminary moves in the case be speeded up with a view to disposing of it on its merits at the court term next month. 2" to Be Graduated at Upland UPLAND. Ind.. April 17.—Twentyseven graduates of the Upland high school will receive diplomas at commencement exercises to be held Monday evening, with Professor Barton Reese Pogue of Taylor university here, as the principal speaker. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered Sunday by Professor Arthur Howard of the university. 400 Chicks Die in Fire NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 17. A brooder house on the Glenn Miller farm near here caught fire from an explosion of a coal oil burner used for heating and was destroyed, 400 chicks dying. Thieves stole 300 chicks from a brooder house on the Walter Trietsche farm in northern Hamilton county. Diplomas to Be Given 27 MIDDLETOWN, Ind., April 17. Diplomas for the twenty-seven graduates of the Middletown high school, thirteen girls and fourteen boys, will be awarded at commencement exercises the evening of May 15. Purdue to Enroll 750 LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 17. More than 750 students are expected to attend the eighteenth annual summer session of Purdue university which will open June 12 and continue through Aug. 13, according to Dr. G. C. Brandenburg, director of the session. Flight Effort Is Failure Ty Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 17.—A record non-stop flight from Burbank. Cal., to Ft. Wayne was refused recognition by officials of the National Aeronautic Association because the plane used was heavier than 881 pounds empty, set for light cabin planes. Baseball Pools Under Ban GARY, Ind., April 17.—The baseball season no sooner opened than Captain Frank Roach of the Gary police department warned “There will be no baseball pools in Gary this season.” Administration Is Legal Target ANDERSON. Ind., April 17.—A petition filed by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company asks Judge Carl F. Morrow to revoke letters issued to Liva E. Toon, Indianapolis, to administer the estate of his sister, Mrs. Leora Brough, who died here April 6. Lawyer Will Face Trial HAMMOND. Ind., April 17.—C. B. Tinkham. Hammond lawyer, will be tried in city court at Calumet City, 111., Tuesday on charges of causing an accident and damage to property. Oldenburg Population 619 OLDENBURG. Ind., April 17 This is the first town in the sixth district in which census taking was completed, the count showing a loss of nine as compared with the 1920 total. The population now is 619. Couple Hurt in Car Crash LEBANON, Ind., April 17.—Serious injuries were suffered by Mrs. S. H. Birdseye, 35, and her husband, Lafayette, sustained minor cuts and bruises, when their automobile turned over three times on State Road 52 just out of the city limits here.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930
GIANT MERGER IN MAIL ORDER FIELDJNTED Union of Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward Is Reported Brewing. N. Y. PARLEY RUMORED Officials of Both Firms Are Reticent; Opposition Is Scented. Pi/ United Prriiit CHICAGO, April 17.—The Chicago Journal of Commerce said today that principal stockho ders of Sears, Roebuck & Cos., and Montgomery Ward & Cos. are seeking a satisfactory basis for merger of the two giant mail order and retail chain systems. Officials of both firms in Chicago denied knowledge of the project and expressed belief it might be another of the many rumors of consolidation linking the names of the companies. The Journal of Commerce story declared, however, that it was learned “from a source whose reliability is above reproach” that some of the most important stockholders in Montgomery Ward & Cos. had approached leading Sears, Roebuck stockholders wtih the proposition and “had found them in a receptive mood.” Negotiations were declared to be proceeding in the offices of J. P. Morgan & Cos in New York and that company was characterized as a principal factor in Montgomery Ward. Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck, left for New York Tuesday and the Journal of Commerce professed to see a possible connection of his visit with the projected merger. At the offices of that company here it was declared his trip was for an entirely different purpose. The story pointed out that comment in financial circles has been to the effect that now would be a favorable time for such a merger. At present market prices two shares of Montgomery Ward stock would balance with one of Sears. The principal sources of opposition were seen as the farmers who have patronized the big houses generously for years and the federal government, which might hold such a consolidation in restraint of trade.
STATE ABLE TO FIGHUEPROSY $2,500 Fund Ready to Care for City Victim. Indiana has a fund of $2,500, residue of an appropriation of SIO,OOO made in 1920, with which to care for Mrs. Angeline Wade, native of Hawaii, who was found to be suffering from leprosy at city hospital Thursday. Efforts to have the woman cared for by the United States public health service will be continued, but the state fund will be utilized if necessary, Dr. William F. King, state health director, announced today. The fund was appropriated when a railroad worker was found suffer-/ ing from the disease. After three years’ treatment the worker was cured and returned to duty on the railroad. Mrs. W&de Is the widow of an American soldier and has two children in the soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans' home. She has another child, a year and a half old. born since her husband died, state health authorities say. Members of the family will be examined closely to determine whether they show any signs of the disease. Due to her marriage to an American, the woman, as an American citizen, can not be deported to Hawaii but may be sent to the federal leper colony at Carville, La. ANDRY TO REPRESENT BUTLER IN CONTEST Finalist in Oratory Competition Entrant at De Pauw. Robert Andry of Huntington, who defeated Henry Burt in finals of the
Butler university oratorical Constitution contest, will represent the university at De Pauw the first week in May. The contest will be held open at that time. Professor Claude Sifritt, Mrs. Eugene Fife and William Hen derson judged the elimination contest, Andry is a member of the Tau Kappa Alpha
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debating fraternity and of Kappa Delta Rho. AIDS OWN RESCUE; DIES Caught in Concrete Mixer, Man Directs Efforts of Fellow Workers. Bu United Press NEW YORK. April 17.—Although injured fatally when his right leg caught in a concrete mixer. Salvatore Motto remained conscious and directed the efforts of fellow’ workers who were extricating him. When they finally had succeeded, he died.
Harley Clarke ; Indianapolis Power & Light Chief Work's to Make Movies Educational
Man Who Ascends Throne of W. A. Fox Was Moved to Action by Interest of Son in Films. BY GILBERT SWAN N'EA Service Writer NEW YORK. April 17.—Nine years ago Harley L. Clarke, a young Chicago utilities magnate, who controls the Indianapolis Power and Light Company and who had made his first million and a dozen more before his fortieth birthday, found himself pondering the problems of modern education. His interest in the matter was personal. He had children of his own. Clarke noticed that one son, in particular, was enthusiastic over things learned from watching educational movies. The boy seemed never to forget anything he had learned from the screen. Clarke, an engineer by profession, and a man with an inquiring mind, began a survey of educational films as they existed in this country at that time. Takes Fox Throne This investigation was motivated entirely by his interest in his son. He had no idea that it was to lead him along a strangely twisted trail and through an unusual set of circumstances to an outstanding position in the motion picture industry of this country. But that is exactly what happened when, just the other day, he took over the throne of the vacating veteran, William Fox, president of the Fox Film Corporation. So interested did Clarke become that he organized the Visible Educational League, tossed a couple of million of his utilities millions into it by way of showing that he meant it, and thus started a picture-study movement throughout the country. Clarke wanted these pictures in his home so that his own youngsters could derive benefit from them. He bought a projector and, with his children, ran off many reels of educational films. His engineering training, however, led him to decide that the projector wasn’t just right. It ought to be better. Bought Tottering Concern Having decided that improvement was necessary, Clarke set out to accomplish the task. He bought a tottering concern that manufactured projectors, and added it to his already vast public utilities undertakings. Then finding the general projector business in none too prosperous a condition, he took over a number of concerns and finally founded the General Equipment Company, definitely linking himself with- the theater. Clarke, quiet and pleasant spoken, is still a young man. He was graduated from Michigan with an engineering degree. Independent, a man who likes to “do things on his own," he became his own boss for the first time when he bought a utilities property in Vincennes, Ind. Later he branched out into other sections of the state, securing control of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Buys in Indianapolis He went to Illinois and increased his interests until he is generally credited with being the controlling interest behind forty-three utilities companies. Despite the amount of work he has accomplished, Clarke has found time to play. He is a man of many hobbies. The theater, for instance, has been one of his chief hobbies. A profound student of Shakespeare, a couple of years ago he decided that Chicago should become a sort of Stratford-on-Avon. He underwrote a civic Shakespeare Company with Fritz Lieber at its head. Quite recently he backed a Lieber tour, which involved several weeks’ run on Broadway. FINED FOR OPERATING STORE MINUS LICENSE Jack Bernstein Found Guilty In Circle Floral Case. Jack Bernstein, 36, of the SplnkArms, was found guilty by Judge Clifton R. Cameron in municipal court today of operating a temporary store without a license and was fined $lO and costs, being given a similar fine, suspended, on charges of being a transient merchant without a license. Charges against Bernstein arose from his operation of a floral store at 113 Monument Circle without a license. It was shown in evidence that he has, for a number of years, opened a floral shop shortly Easter, discontinuing business after Eastei. Charges of obstructing the street were held in abeyance by Judge Cameron. CHAMBER ASKED TO AID IN TAX SURVEY Unified Action by Business Groups in Levy Matters Proposed. Plans for unified action by Indiana business groups on taxation matters was recommended to the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today by William Fortune, chairman of the chamber’s civic affairs com-, mittee. In a letter to Paul Q. Richey,! president of the Chamber of Commerce, he urged that a committee j representing the organization be present at hearings of Governor i Harry G. Leslie’s tax survey committee, beginning next week, to make recommendations and present c.pin-. ions to the committee.
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Harley L. Clarke, pictured above, is the man who succeeded William Fox as the head of a great film organization. Clarke, a wealthy man at 40, was led into his present business through his son’s interest in the movies.
TOUGH ON TUMMIES
Fat Is Put to Rout by Machinery
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 17.—The only lazy man’s gymnasium in America, where machinery does all the work and the tired gymnast merely stands or sits on the apparatus, as the case may be, has opened formally in Chicago. The institution, known as the Swedish Zander institute, looked like a crass between a machine shop and a torture room of the Spanish inquisition. Gustav Flinck, hereinafter referred to as the professor, said it cost $52,000 to import the equipment from Sweden, where such gymnasiums, he said, were common. One pert Miss Parke, called the nurse from here on, said the machinery did wonders for the patients. The writer, hereinafter termed, accurately or not, the patient, because he was used for the riemonstrat-
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tion, came into more or less violent contact with every one of the fiftyfive whirring, clanking contraptions. The nurse first put the patient In a breathing machine while the professor turned the switch. The patient found his arms and chest being pulled up gently by an appartus of pulleys which forced him to breathe deeply whether he wanted to or not.
Next was an electric camel, which bucked so vigorously that the patient nearly fell off. “Good for your hips,” said the nurse. The patient yelped and the professor threw off the current. The nurse looked at that part of the patient’s anatomy which she respectfuly called his abdomen. She led him to what looked like a comfortable green plush coach and strapped him on it. She should have gagged him, because rollers, very ticklish ones, too, began to vibrate under the deceptive plush. “Reduces the biggest abdomen,” said the nurse. The professor smiled. The patient, naturally tickled anyway, giggled. The patient got up, but the nurse still was gazing pensively at his stomach. So she pushed him into another seat and then began to manipulate a lever which brought a quartet of wooden wheels in contact with the patient’s vest. Suddenly the wheels started to race around in a circle, nipped off two vest buttons and dug into his,
ah, abdomen much like a breadmixer wallops into dough. “Your abdomen will be sore for the first couple of treatments,” said the nurse, upon noticing the pained expression in the patient’s eyes. “Let's try the leg-stretcher." The patient sat on another plush seat, put his feet into a pair of stirrups and shut his eyes while the professor snapped the switch. The patient’s legs went up, they went sideways, they went down, they got into positions which made the patient’s optics bulge when he dared to open them. The nurse couldn’t keep her eyes off the patient’s abdomen. It fascinated her to such an extent that she placed him in a chair covered with copper plates. “This also is good for the abdomen,” she said, while adjusting a damp towel and an electrical contact on the patient’s abdomen. Again the switch was snapped and the patient felt electricity coursing through him from front to rear and maybe back again. There followed for the patient demonstrations of machines which stretched, pulled, pressed, pounded, vibrated and massaged every part of his anatomy with the possible exception of his toes. The patient put on his ccat. “Crme back again,” said the professor.
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GREEN DEMANDS MINEJFOE QUIT Union Head Calls on Illinois Leader to Resign. Resignation of John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, has been demanded by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, for his leadership in action against the United Mine Workers of America officials here announced today. A letter from President Green of the American Federation of Labor to Thomas Kennedy, secretarytreasurer of the United Mine Workers of America here, sets out that Green wrote Walker that his resignation waa “both inevitable and necessary.” Executive council of the American Federation of Labor supported the action of Green, according to information sent United Mine Workers of America officials here. At the recent convention of mine workers here. Green assured the organization that American Federation of Labor officials would recognize only the Indianapolis organization and would give no recognition or support to Illinis and Kansas mine leaders who formed a dual mine organization in convention at Springfield. Alexander Howat, elected president of the dual organization, has resigned as first vice-president of the Kansas State Federation of Labor, Green notified mine officials here.
Probation Period Over ; Man Beats Wife Again
pu Time* Sverinl TJ'AST CHICAGO, Ind., April 17.—John Rapli, with little knowledge of English, has full respect for the majesty of the law, so when a year ago he was placed on probation in East Chicago city court, where he w>as charged with beating his wife, he bought a calendar. The probation period was one year. Rapli carefully checked off the 365 days as they passed. When the time was uo he is alleged to have celebrated by again beating his wife, Mrs. Mary Rapli
G. 0. P. SPLIT LOOMS OVER JUDGEPARKER Senate Leaders Are Striving to Prevent Threat of Party Break. SECRET SESSION LIKELY Opposition, Gaining Power, Causes Worry for Political Bosses. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 17—So embarrassing politically has become the opposition to Judge John J. Parker as a supreme court justice that two alternative plans of preventing an open Republican party break are being arranged by senate leaders. If they can, the leaders will hold the nomination in the senate judiciary committee indefinitely, in order to prevent a discussion of the issues raised by the nomination on the senate floor. Failing in that, and they fear they will fail, they will try to make an agreement for a closed executive session of the senate to consider the nomination. It would be the first secret session of the senate since the rules were changed last spring, after the United Press published the secret debate and roll calls on the Lenroot and West nominations. Telegram Arouses Comment Under the change in rules a majority of the senate must be lined up in favor of the secret session before the doors can be closed. Some such step seems necessary to the leaders since publication of a telegram sent to Senator Patterson (Rep., Mo), by B. G. Voorhees, Republican state chairman of Missouri. “In my judgment the confirmation of Judge Parker means that the Republican party might just as well say good-by to Missouri for the next two or three elections at least,” Voorhees stated. “It will be the first great affront given by a Republican President and a Republican senate to the Negro race since the days of Abraham Lincoln. “It was a long, hard pull to put Missouri in the Republican column. It seems a pity that the fine results achieved through many years of unremitting effort in Missouri on the part of the Republican state organization should be thrown away in two short years.” Senators Arc Alarmed Similar sentiments have been voiced privately by some of the leaders from other so-called border, states of West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. They have caused alarm to tho senators from these and other states who must decide whether Judge Parker shall be confirmed. These include such stalwart Republicans as Goff (W. Va.), Robsion (Ky.), McCullough (O.), Robinson and Watson (Ind.) where there are 120,000 Negro voters, and Glenn (111.). These senators, along with the farm bloc members who are opposing Parker because of his “yellow dog contract” decision and a few Democrats, are the only ones now listed in the opposition camp. The attitude of some of these still is doubtful. Parliamentarians believe Parker would be confirmed if the vote is taken in executive session without open debate and the inevitable airing of the union labor and Negro issue. DONALD DYNES DEAD AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS Pneumonia Victim to Receive Rite* on Saturday. Donald Le Grand Dynes, 25, off 1131 Leland street, died this morning after a brief illness of pneumonia. Bom in Indianapolis, he had been connected with the mechanical engineering department of the Big Four Railway since Oct. 3, 1922. He was a graduate of Purdue university. His widow, formerly Miss Florence Apple; a son 3, a brother, Kenneth L. Dynes, and his mother, Mrs. Walton L. Dynes, survive him. Funeral services will be held at 10 Saturday morning at the Hisey <Se Titus funeral home, 951 North Delaware street, with burial at Crow* Hill cemetery.
Brought into court again, Rapli was asked by Judge Michael Havran: “Haven't you been here before on this charge?” Rapli unhesitatingly said he had been. He told how dutifully he had checked the calendar, to make sure he obeyed the court’s order to refrain from wife beating for a year, and expressed an opinion that he was entitled to celebrate. Judge Havran will hear the case Friday. His efforts to effect a reconciliation of the couple have failed so far. They were married thirty-five years ago.