Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1931 — Page 20

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LEADERSHIP IS REDS' PROBLEM, ASSERTS STALIN Technical Schools Working Overtime, Turning Out Half-Baked Students. BY EUGENE LYONS, United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 27.—When Joseph Stalin spoke recently at a conference of business men and industrialists, he waved aside tha fact that the first two years of operation under the flve-ygar plan gave the union an aggregate production of 3,500,000,000 rubles—l,ooo,ooo,000 more than the plan called for. Nor did he mention the fact that 6,500,000 peasant farms had been merged into collectives. Instead, Stalin emphasized the failure of RuSsia to attain the 32 per cent production growth planned for 1930, and riveted attention to the difficulties to be overcome this year, which are many and enormous. The growth for 1931 had been charted at 43 per cent. In Soviet parlance, the difficulties are called “narrow places.” The term evokes an image of a nation striding forward with giant steps into its future, but obliged to negotiate narrow, dangerous passes. Narrowest of these is the shortage of qualified human material for the collossal Job on hand. Unavoidably the Bolsheviks depend in the carrying out of plans, and in much of the primary planning as well, upon non-Bolshevik specialists. The recent trials of Professor Leonid Ramzin and others demonstrated clearly how unreliable are many of the specialists. Sabotage of the costliest kind was conducted and doubtless still is operative throughout the Soviet apparatus, not excepting the very highest councils and commissions. Even aside from the question of their loyalty, the available mechanical leadership is too small and inexperienced. Foreigners Are Imported Thousands of skilled foreigners, Germans and Americans, have been imported to cover the shortage. Technical schools are working in several shifts to turn out as many young technicians as possible. They emerge half-baked and inefficient, but at least loyal and ardent. Stalin touched the sorest spot in the Soviet economic anatomy when he called upon the 2,000,000 Communists and 3,000,000 Communist youths to “take possession of the technique, economy and finance of factories, plants and mines.” To the end of the five-year term the personnel problem will interfere seriously with the work ahead. • The problem, in fact, is larger than that of technical leadership. It extends to the whole millionfold body of old and new workers, unaccustomed to machine labor, to the speed and pressure of modem mass production.

YOUTH DEFENDED BY FAMOUS DETECTIVE “Better Than Parents,” Is Opinion of William J. Burns. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. Young men and women of today are better than their parents were, in the opinion of William J. Burns, nationally known detective. “I am a great believer in the goodness of the rising generation,” he declared. “Young men and women are being slandered too much.” He explained the reason for the increased number of youthful convictions was Improper home training. Burns expressed himself as very much in favor of capital punishment for first degree murders. PHOTOGRAPH SOUND OF BELL AT COLLEGE Professor Says 9,650 Millionth of Second Required to Make Tone. By United Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 27.—How long does it take to strike a bell? Anywhere from 96 millionths to 700 millionths of a second, according to Professor Arthur T. Jones of the physics department of Smith college, who has made a study of the subject with the aid of electric current and photographic film as measuring devices. Vibration curves made when a clapper strikes a bell have been photographed by the professor, showing that the fifth partial is the most prominent just after the bell is struck.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Thursday’s Times: Helen Fox, Basketball Star of Fort Smith —Helen Fox of the St. Scholastica Academy team, Fort Smith, Ark., holds two world’s records in basketball. Her high game score record for girls was made March 20, 1930, when she made 120 of her team’s points against Fort Smith high school. Her high score for season’s record was made 1929-30, when she scored 621 points in seventeen games. Reference: “All Sports Record and History Book,” by Frank G. Menke. The Front Door of the White House—ln a letter written by Abigail Adams, first mistress of the White House, to her sister, she says: “The President’s house is in a beautiful situation, in front of which is the Potomac, with a view of Alexandria.” President Jackson had an entrance made on the Pennsylvania avenue side of the White House, which has been called the front door ever since. Saturday: “The Man Who Ate. a Pound of Opium a Day.” Truck Driver Killed By United Press TOLEDO, 0., March 27.—Albert Hines, 1905 Harrison avenue, Ft. Wayne, Ind., was injured fatally here when his truck crashed into the abutment of a railroad subw r ay. He died two hours after the crash.

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MURDER VICTIM TO BE EXHUMED Mrs. Phillips Poisoned First, Clews Indicate. ¶ Clews indicating that Mrs. Mary J. Phillips, 64, of 1337 South Meridian street, may have been poisoned before she was found clubbed to death in her home, Jan. 16, were to be traced by medical experts with issuance of an order for exhumation of the body by Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. Results of the autopsy will lay the foundation for the state’s case

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against the woman’s husband, Alva J. Phillips, 58, charged with first degree murder in conection with the death, Wilson said. ¶ “We have reliable information that the woman may have been given poison before she was struck on the head, and for that reason we are preparing to exhume the body,” Wilson explained. Phillips is at liberty under a $10,000 bond, on orders of Judge Frank P. Baker. Lootless Safe Stolen ¶ JOLIETVILLE, Ind., March 27.— Robbers hauled away in an automobile the safe from the office of the Goodrich grain elevator here. The safe was not locked and contained only books of the company according to Harry McVey, manager. The safe has not been found.

PERFUME MADE HUOE FORTUNE FOR FRENCHMAN Coty Is Believed to Have Displaced Rothschild as Nation’s Richest. This is one of a series of articles on the World's Bichest Men. BY RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 26.—The richest man in France used to be Baron Rothschild, regent of the Bank of France. It is not certain that he still is, because while the Rothschild fortune is now divided among a large family, French industry has been producing industrial magnates, like Andre Citroen and Louis Renault. In the mind cf the average Frenchman, Citroen, who is. the Henry Ford of France, has the biggest bank balance, but Renault, who made munitions and tanks during the war and now produces high and low-priced autos, is certainly wealthier. There is another industrialist, however, who probably is wealthiest of all—the Corsican perfume manufacturer, Francois Coty. Coty has been making perfume and money for forty years, ever since the day when 18 he went into a country drug store on the Riviera and smelled a rare concoction on which the druggist was working. Journalism Ambition The youth, whose ambition until ! then had been to become a journalist, thought he would find more artistic satisfaction in creating rare perf tunes. He obtained the druggist’s recipe, took it to Paris, made the perfume and hawked it from store to store. In those forty years, Francois Coty has become both a financial and political power. Extent of his fortune is not known and may never be, no more than the exact extent of his huge gifts to charity, which are believed, however, to amount to much more than $5,000,000. It has been estimated that he made $50,000,000 from perfume and this is not his only business undertaking, since he has large newspaper publishing interests as owner of the Figaro and two of the best selling daily newspapers in France—the Ami du Peuple (Friend of the People) and the Ami du Peuple du Soir; both half the price of any other French newspaper. All Save Carefully To be the richest man in France with a fortune of $50,000,000 —which may, in fact, be considerable more —may seem astounding to American ears, but men of money on the scale of Rockefeller and Ford are unknown in this country, where even the humblest peasant Is rich on a small scale, because of his careful savings. That very fact of money being so well distributed and retained among the population prevents the amass-

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MODERN CITIES j WILL 'BLOW UP,'! SAYS AUTHOR Eventually Will Wipe Out Its Inhabitants, Asserts Dr. Paton. By United Press BALTIMORE, March 27.—The modem city with its concentration of humanity, has become a breeding spot for criminals, insane and neu- i rotics, and a Frankenstein, which | will eventually destroy Its Inhabitants unless something is done about it. This is the opinion of Dr. Stewart

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Paton, inte .nationally known author and psychiatrist, now connected with the Johns Hopkins university, and formerly lecturer at Yale, Harvard and Columbia universities. The situation in the cities, as Dr. Paton sees it. is more than serious—it is dangerous and menacing to each individual inhabitant. “The present arrangement of things in cities can not be long continued,” declared Dr. Paton. ‘The structure will blow up. “The individual has become submerged in the great machine. He spends his days in huge buildings of steel and stone, working under artificial light. He walks through great canyons that are called city streets. He rides homeward through the gloomy underground tunnels like a rat in his hole. “All this has a profound, if unobserved effect upon his whole mental and physical makeup. He becomes emotionally repressed. He loses faith in himself. Soon his feeling of inferiority asserts itself, with its attendant train of evils.”