Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1931 — Page 13
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BIG BUSINESS SPLIT ON JOB SAFEGUARDS U. S. Chamber of Commerce Shows Sharp Division on Work Insurance. HAND IS BEING FORCED Leaders See Action as Soon Necessary, With States Taking Up Matter. By THOMAS L. STOKES t nited Press Staff Correspondent ATLANTIC CITY, April 30 American business, as renresented in the United States Chamber of Commerce convention here, found itself sharply divided today over unemployment insurance—most widely advocated remedy for the ills of depression. Some industrial leaders were outspokenly hostile and most advocates only lukewarm. But frankly facing adoption of such system by a number of states in the most radical form of state compulsory insurance, most business men hers seem to realize the necessity of meeting this movement. Consequently, a variety of plans for working out lief measures within the industry have been brought forward, some of them already in successful operation. .lob Plans Considered Accepting the unemployment problem as the chief concern of the annual meeting, the business leaders continued today to offer and inspect carefully numerous alternatives, which resolve themselves into these plans: Shorter working days and week, with retirement at an earlier age on pension to make way for younger men. Establishment of a reserve fund for benefits to unemployed for a certain period, such as the Rochester plan, which goes into effect in 1933, a modified employment insurance scheme. Stabilization of production, such as successfully achieved by the Procter Gamble Company, soap manufacturers. Creating of planning boards for each industry, to control production according to consumptive demand. Budgetary control through industrial units, by trade associations, and even on a national scale. Way Is Paved Occupational education of labor to train for new jobs when introduction of new machines displace workers. The variety of such plans and the general sympathy they have aroused here indicate that, industries may be expected gradually to evolve some such plans according to the individual needs of the particular industry. The wide divergence of opinion here is indicated in the flat opposition of such men as Rome C. Stephenson, president of the American Bankers’ Association, and the warning of Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, representative#of the liberal group here, that twenty state legislatures have pending before them state compulsory insurance proposals. Defends Instalment Selling Filene said he original opposed state compulsory insurance, but added he had little hope that industry would provide its own. He suggested a compromise optional proposal. whereby the state would enforce compulsory Insurance on industries which refused to adopt their own. There is considerable discussion under the surface here of the wage reduction controversy, but thus ar It has been kept out of the public meeting. Installment selling, severely criticised in an address last night by Stephenson, was defended today by Edwin C. Vogel, chairman of the investment committee of the Commercial Investment Corporation. He said instalment selling was sound and denied it had any part in bringing on the depression. SHEAFFER APPOINTS HIS COURT ASSISTANTS Kew Municipal Court Judge IV ill Take Bench Friday. Appointment of a bailiff and two assistants and a secretary-stenogra-pher has been announced by William H. Sheaffer, who Friday will succeed Paul C. Wetter as municipal judge. Sheaffer named Sam Rariden, juvenile court attache and former police station custodian, as bailiff. Assistants will be Dave Moriarity and Paul Taylor, police traffic department officers. Miss Marian Davis, graduate of Arsenal Technical high school and a former student at Franklin college was appointed secretary-stenogra-pher. AIRPORT SUIT IN COURT Stone Operators Ask $6,404 Judgment for Supplies. Municipal airport construction troubles lay in superior court' three today following filing of a suit Wednesday against the Commonwealth Casualty Company. Philadelphia. and Charles T. Colwell. Indianapolis. contractor, for $6,404.47 judgment on stone supplied Colwell for use on the airport administration building. The joint defendant with Colwell Is his bonding company. The complaint was filed by the G. Ittenbach Company, stone operators. 400 Expected at Dinner pfl Times Special ANDERSON, Ind, April 30.—A city-wide people’s banquet will be held at the First Baptist church, May 14. Arrangements are being made for an attendance of 400 persons. The dinner is being sponsored by the Youth’s Council of Religious Education.
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‘YOU’RE TO BLAME!’
Give Your Children Good Books
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President Hoover has set aside Friday. May 1, as National Child Health day. In all parts of the country it will he observed by programs on various phases of child care, education and training. With the attention of the entire community centered on child care on that day, it is appropriate to stress the mental life of the child, and Booth Tarkington, distinguished novelist, playwright and author, has here written for
BY BOOTH TARKINGTON TT is a little startling to hear that the average American spends less A for books than for greeting cards, buys but two books a year, in iact, and borrows less than three from public libraries; yet the information seems well-founded, for it comes from the American Child Health Association. It seems reasonable to conclude that when the average American ctfild decides to spend an afternoon or evening at home with a book he isn t going to be much bothered about his choice of material. However, in most parts of the country if he has a dime or two he can go to the shop- on the corner and select something congenial from rows of magazines bearing titles like “Gun Janes,” “Parisian Sex,” “Gang Molls,” ‘ True Gun Play Stories,” “Photo-Models,” “Hot Tales,” and “Racketeers’ True Confessions.”
If he is dimeless he may be able to borrow one of these periodicals from a friend, or, possibly, find a copy or two about the house, since it is probable that magazines of this type are not all bought by children. a a a f I ''HE White House conference -*• on child health and protection has also reported that in 1929 9 per cent of the books published in the United States were intended to be read by children. This seems to mean that the child desirous of spending a few hours at home with a book, and searching the house for what he wants, would have less than one chance in ten of finding a book suitable to his age. That is to say, our children who read books not used in school have to interest themselves mainly in what is called adult reading. Quite a little “adult reading,” lately, oughtn’t to be left about the house, but usually it is. Away from his school work, a child reads for entertainment. He goes to movies for entertainment. He gets his impression of life from his own observation; but these two forms of his entertainment strongly affect his observation. tt tt u THIS is to say that his reading and what he gets from the theater do something to his character. A book will naturally do more to it than a movie-drama will, because the reading of a book requires much more time concentration, and the book can be read over at will. The movies are said to present a /distorted picture of ’ife, and probably the stories they tell are much more unlifelike than are the stories told in books. The conclusion seems inevitable that the future character of Amercans ought to depend more upon the books the children are reading now than upon the movies they see. It’s an old thought that a man is made by his heredity and by the people he has known and by w r hat he has read. His reading still seems to come third, in spite of the movies. Probably it’s true that his most formative reading is done in his earlier years, even before he reaches the age of 17. tt tt tt IN our country we offer him yearly, for his pliable age. 9 per cent of two purchased books and of not quite three borrowed from the library. Os course, we also offer him “Gun Janes,” “Parisian Sex,” “Gang Molls.” “True Gun Play Stories.” ‘Photo-Models,” “Hot Tales,” “Racketeers,” “The confessions” and copious “adult reading of the type young reviewers love to call “stark realism.” not to speak of torrential crime and scandal photogravure. The White House conference on child health and protection reported 200,000 delinquent children, and 675,000 who present behavior problems not confined to the home. Altogether, it seems that conference pointed cut some need of ours to improve ourselves and the reading we are offering our children. $20,000 Loss in Fire By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 30. Approximately $20,000 loss resulted from fire in the Oriental shop, a rug store. Hoosier Plays for Royalty By Times Special WASHINGTON. April 30.—Miss Mildred Dilling, harpist, native of Marion and former resident of Indianapolis, played Wednesday night for President and Mrs. Hoover, and their guests, the king and queen of Siam.
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N’EA Service and The Times some of his impressions of what sort of mental diet we are feeding our children. As the “father” of Penrod, author of “Penrod,” “Penrod and Sam,” and “Penrod Jashber,” as well as “Seventeen,” and other works concerned with children, Booth Tarkington has proved that he knows the American child. His concern for the mental future of ail our Penrods is worth reading.
PETITION FILED FOR BUS LINES Operator Would Put Fare at 7 Cents. Petition to operat two 7-cent fare bus lines in Indianapolis was filed by Logan J. Smith, bus line operator, today before the works board. Smith is seeking to operate a North Capitol avenue line that would run from the Circle to Capitol avenue, north to Thirty-fourth street, west to Graceland avenue and north to Hampton drive and west to Sunset avenue. The other route would go from the Circle south on Meridian to South street, east to Fletcher avenue to State avenue and south to Naomi street. The works board petition, on which a hearing will be held May 15, was filed after John McCardle, chairman of the public service commission, recommended the action, following filing of a similar petition with the commission. V. F. W. Indorse Oxnam By United Press GREENCASTLE. Ind., April 30. Veterans of Foreign Wars in Greencastle have added their indorsement to the growing list supporting Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam of De Pauw university, against charges by W. P. Evans. Indianapolis, that speakers he has chosen for the school have leaned toward “sex, sovietism and socialism.”
MOTHERHOOD, CAREER COLLIDE
Stage Star Hires ‘Specialist’ for Her ‘Act of God’ Baby
By United Press CiHICAGO, April 30.—Helen i Hayes, the blonde actress who was the heroine of the offstage “act of God” controversy over the birth of her daughter, has decided that parenthood should be a separate profession, attempted only after thorough, compulsory training. “I feel that every mother should have specialized training in the case of babies,” she told the United Press today, “or else should leave the care of her children to someone who does.” The “act of God” baby. Mary, now 14 months old, is being reared that way, Miss Hayes said. Mary’s birth stopped the play, “Coquette.” in which Miss Hayes was starring, and when other members of the cast sued Jed Harris, the producer, he declared he couldn’t fulfill their contract, because an “act of God” had intervened. a a I WOULD not think of caring for Mary myself without specialized study,” Miss Harris declared. “All
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INADEQUATE’ IS QUIZ BRAND ON JUVENILE HOME National Probation Survey May Bring Demand for Action. OVERCROWDING CHARGE Commissioners’ Clash Puts Improvement Move in ‘Ash Heap.’ BY SHELDON KEY I Possibility that juvenile detention | facilities of Marion county will receive a very low rating on the recj ords of the National Probation As- | sociation appeared today as an exi pert from the association continued ! a survey of local detention methods. | Although Miss Florence L. Sulli--1 van, field secretary of the association, who has been in the city several days studying conditions, has not made any detailed announcement on her findings, it is expected by juvenile authorities here that “unsatisfactory conditions’’ at the detention home will not be overlooked in her report. “After six days’ survey, it appears county commissioners ought to act immediately to change detention facilities here,” Miss Sullivbn said today. Herding a Blot “I am merely making a fact-find-ing study,” she stated further, “and wish to say that detention authorities are getting along beautifully with the few facilities they have at their command,” One blot expected to be marked against the county’s detention home, is that juvenile delinquents, both very young and older children, are being herded into limited quarters of a former apartment building for which the county spends $3,600 a year rent. Charges that detention facilities in the county are of a fashion used fifty years ago probably will be leveled at the local situation. Proposal for anew detention home, which has been sought for several years, was dropped by the board of county commissioners last year. Disagreement of commissioners over a site, when a SIOO,OOO bond issue was proposed two years ago by the county council for a location, threw hopes for better detention facilities into the ash heap. Under present financial straits of the county, because of poor relief and other demands, plans for a newhome will not be considered according to present county commissioners. Lauds Management The juvenile home at 223 East Michigan street, already pitifully is overcrowded, an unofficial survey has revealed. Two year-old babies are being housed in the same rooms with 12-year-old boys where there practically is no ventilation at all. There are no outside windows in the dining room where the children eat. Authorities also have found that many of the boys and girls, detained there while awaiting action of the juvenile court, talk too much about their troubles. The lack of proper facilities, including those for recreation and schooling, is one of the home’s worst features, it is said. Unliealthful sleeping conditions also are known to exist. The beds ! are entirely too close together, one detention authority stated. “Despite the unsatisfactory conditions, work of juvenile directors in the county is of the highest type,’’ Miss Sullivan declared. “Miss ! Susanna Pray, detention home su- > perintendent for the last twentyi five years, is one of the kindest and best home directors I have known,” ishe added.
her life she has been under the care of a competent nurse. “I know many mothers will criticise me. arguing that only a mother can care for a child properly. That may be true for primitive women. But we have become so civilized that Mother Nature simply can’c get to us. “Besides, in an age when we spend long years of training to be doctors, lawyers, or actresses, why should we think the mere process of bringing children into the world automatically should fit us to minister to their physical needs?” No one, Miss Hayes believes, can develop properly both a career ard a child. Speaking of her own career—she is the star of “Petticoat Influence,” now current here—and that of her playwright-husband, Charles MacArthur, she said. *e want Mary to develop naturally. We won't mind if she never has a ‘career.’ She will make her own decisions. No one has the right to interfere with another individuals life. Guidance, yes—that is good, but not bullying or domination. ’ tt a tt “npHERE are four cardinal sins,” X she said, “of which thousands of parents are guilty.” These four sins, as Miss Hayes listed them, are: Injuring children’s physical and mental development through ignorance of proper upbringing. Pushing children at a rate beyond their natural mental progress. Talking “down” to children—especially the use of baby talk, “which probably disgusts even babies.” Mistaking maternal vanity for maternal solicitude.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931
Fire Takes Life of *Old Fred 9 and Sorrow Grips I)river-Pal
DING-DONG! Ding-dong! . . . Any bread today, Missus? .. . Ding-dong! . . . Gid-dap, Nick. . . . Any bread. Missus? . . , Gid-dap ah. . . . Ding-dong-g-g. Customers who heard the doleful sounds of the bell on the bread wagon of Carl Kuehr, 623 Orange street, in the vicinity of West and Ray streets, today, or heard Carl’s cries of ‘‘Any bread?” knew something was wrong. For vivid in Carl's mind was the picture of an early morning fire today that destroyed the stable in the rear of the bakery, 1048-1050 South East street, caused $20,000 damage and the loss of his bread-wagon “hoss” Fred. But let Carl tell it. 8 8 8 “T CAME to work at Gutzwiller A & Sons bakery at 4:15 this morning. I saw through the bakery doorway the reflection of fire in the stable. I called Joe, the stableman, and told him to get the six horses out and Fred, my bread-wagon horse,” he hesitated to get the facts. “Then I called the bakers to help fight the fire and turned in tjie alarm. Joe, the stableman, says all the horses are out. I saw Fred. He was safe. I helped" get the wagons out. I went in the alley and—and—there were only four horses. Fred wasn’t there. ‘I went back in the blazing stable. We found Prince, another horse dead, and then we came to Fred. Fred and Prince had run back in. He was down. Firemen helped me get him out. I put. him in a garage and they called a
HOOVERS HEAR MUSICALE BY BOY BLIZZARD HERO
Colorado Lad Entrances White House Children With Harmonica. by paul r. Gallon United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 30.—An after-breakfast musicale on the Harmonica was staged in the White House today by Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old Colorado school bus tragedy hero. The event was arranged impromptu by young Untiedt as a surprise for the White House grandchildren, Peggy Ann, 6, and Herbert 111, , after he had sat on the White House steps and watched the President play medicine ball. The strains of “The Lone Cow-
BLAZING OIL WELL DEFIES FIRE SQUAD
Crews Clad in Asbestos Fail in Attempt to Curb Flames. By Times Special GLADEWATER, Tex., April 30. A great pillar of fire roared toward the sky today from the No. 1 Cole oil well, marking the vicinity where eight men had been burned to death, and beating back asbestosclad firemen who braved the intense heat in an effort to snuff out the flames with an explosion. Veteran oil field workers held little hope of extinguishing the 200foot pillar of flame within two days. It fed on oil spouting up at the rate of 18,000 barrels daily, supplemented by strong gas pressure, from the Sinclair company well. Under supervision of M. M. and Harry Kinley, famous oil field firemen, the crews, swathed in asbestos suits, started clearing away the
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veterinarian. Fred was burned bad and now—now you say they shot him because he couldn't live!” He coughed from the smoke he had inhaled. a a a his new bread-wagon JAI horse, sneezed too. Maybe it wasn’t only from the smoke they inhaled in that stable.
boy,” “Turkey in the Straw” and other western tunes# drifted up the marble staircase to the second floor and attracted the attention of the President, Mrs. Hoover and others who came down to listen. Bryan has developed quite a romance with Peggy Ann. Since his arrival, she has followed him around, taking in everything he says with wide-eyed admiration. When breakfast was over, she questioned him about life in the Colorado countryside, where he distinguished himself in an effort to save seventeen children marooned with him in a snow-bound bus. “Wait till I show you something,” the youngster said, dashing off to his room. Peggy Ann and her brother were delighted to see Bryan reappear
molten metal and other debris at the mouth of the gusher. Nitroglycerin will be set off in the red hot maw, in an effort *to drive the gas and oil down into the well, severing it from the fiery spiral. The fire hazard removed, there will remain the task of bringing the wild gusher under control. John L. Keys, 34, crew worker of Oklahoma City, was the eighth victim. He died late Wednesday night. Another worker, Frank Feiock, Woodville, 0., was in a critical condition today. The dead are George Albright, Carnegie, Pa.; Roy Blankenship, Seminole, Okla.; Virgil Woltz, Hunter, Okla.; W. H. McCaslin, Winona, Okla.; W. H. McCaslin Jr., his son, also of Winona; Robert Murdock, Orlando, Okla.; William Harroun, Canadian, Okla. Bodies of the last two have not been removed from the derrick pit.
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“I was afraid they'd have to shoot him,” muttered Carl as he gathered up the reins of the bread-wagon and, “clucking” to “Nick,” continued his “mourning” round with: Ding-dong! ding-dong! , . . Any bread today, Missus? Giddap, Nick!”
shortly afterward with and oldfashioned mouth organ, which he brought from his home on the journey to Washington. He knew none of the modern jazz tunes, but all the old songs of the west, particularly cowboy melodies. While Peggy Ann looked on in wonder, he tapped time with his foot on the glassy hardwood floor and played all the songs he knew. The President and Mrs. Hoover remarked that he had unusual ability in a musical line for a lad of his year. Bryan, as far as is known, is the first person outside of members ot the medicine ball group and the White House staff ever to have seen the morning game which gives the President his daily exercise. Bryan did not participate. He sat on the White House steps, however, and enjoyed, as only a boy of 13 might enjoy, the spectacle of President Hoover tossing the heavy ball to Associate Justice stone of the supreme court; Stone throwing it vigorously into the waiting arms of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke; and Jahncke hurling it to Lawrence Richey of the President’s secretarial staff. Then he gathered in the breakr fast room with the medicine ball players and had toast and a cool beaker of milk with them. The others drank coffee. CLUBWOMAN DIES Mrs. Emma C. Barringer Was Long City Resident. Mrs. Emma Copeland Barringer, wife of Samuel Barringer, died Wednesday afternoon at her home, 2535 South Meridian street. She had been ill several months. Mrs. Barringer, a resident of Indianapolis for sixty-five years, was active in club work. She was a member of the Tuesday Club and other social organizations. She was a member of the Cosmos Sisters, the Eagles’ Auxiliary and served as trustee of the German Protestant Orphans’ home. She was affiliated with Zion Evangelical church. Mrs. Barringer was born in Raleigh, N. C. She is survived by her husband; a son, Samuel Barringer Jr., Los Angeles; a daughter, Mrs. Elmer Behr, Indianapolis, and a niece, Mrs. Margaret Brannon. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. U. S.-SPAIN LINK SEEN “Folloxved Example,” Says Republic’s President Over Radio. By United Press MADRID, April 30.—An “eternal link ’ will remain between America and Spain, regardless of the future course of the two republics, Nice to Alcala Zamora, provisional president of Spain, said last night in a radio speech which was rebroadcast in the United States. Alcala Zamora, who remarked just before he faced the microphone that he had “no idea what to say,” told American listeners that Spain has been the “most American country in Europe” for the last nine years and that she followed the example of the United States in setting up a republican government. PEGGY JOYCE IS SUED Named Defendant in $50,000 Case in New York Federal Coart. By United Press NEW YORK, April 30.—A process server who vainly hunted Peggy Hopkins Joyce for several days, today had achieved his purpose through appointment with her attorney. They met, very cordially, in the lawyer’s office, and Peggy as cordially accepted the paper which makes her defendant in a $50,000 federal suit concerning some jewelry she brought into the country in 1922. The suit Is all a mistake, Peggy said.
DEGREE GIVEN SIAMESE KING BY UNIVERSITY Monarch Praises American Institutions in Speech After Ceremony. QUEEN GOES ON TRIP Guest of Mrs. Hoover on Journey to Old Home of Washington. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD WASHINGTON, April 30.—King Prajadhipok of Siam today paid tribute to American methods and institutions in his first public address in this country. He spoke after the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by George Washington university. The eastern monarch said American methods, institutions and resources had played “a considerable and significant” part in the advancement of modern Siam. Prajadhipok is known a.s an advanced and enlightened ruler, who has shown keen interest in western institutions. The degree was conferred upon his majesty before a gathering in the Pan-American Union building of high American officials and representatives of several of the larger American universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Virginia'. Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago. Places Hood on King’s Head The degree was conferred by President Heck Marvin of George Washington university, who, as he placed the academic hood over the head of the monarch, hailed him as ‘ beloved ruler of an independent people, defender of a faith, gifted in rare taste, and using singular endowments in the education of a people.” A diploma then was handed his majesty, who addressed the gathering. As the king walked upon the platform, a flourish of trumpets and ruffle of drums sounded. As his majesty reached the station assigned him, the marine band played the Siamese national anthem, which has been heard at nearly every formal occasion during the king’s visit here. Given Messages of Greeting The provost of George Washington university’called the names of other universities represented and scholarly men from each then presented scrolls to his majesty bearing messages of greeting. A message from William John Cooper, United States commissioner of education, was read to his majesty, extending to him the felicitation of school teachers and pupils of the United States. Queen Rambhai Barni changed the program for her Washington visit so that She might visit Mt. Vernon, the home of George Washington today. Prince and Princess Svasti, parents of the queen, went to Mt. Vernon Wednesday. On their return they were so enthusiastic over what they had seen that the queen herself wanted to go. At the state dinner given by President and Mrs. Hoover, last night, her wish became known. Makes Trip on Boat So this morning, it was arranged that she would go to Mount Vernon this afternoon as the guest of Mrs. Hoover. The tender Sequoia a rugged 100-foot inspection boat of the department of commerce, will become the royal barge, and the twenty-mile trip down the Potomac will be made by water. ' Tea will be served aboard the Sequoia. Only Mrs. Hoover, the queen, Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr., Captain Russell Train, naval aid to the President, and Colonel Campbell Hodges, military aid, will go. A tea which their majesties will give President and Mrs. Hoover this afternoon was postponed from 5 p. m. to 6 p. m. to permit the excursion to Mount Vernon. BACKS BIBLICAL TALE Remains of Ancient Sodom Support Story, Says La Gorce. O’/ United Press NEW YORK, April 30. —Remains of the ancient city of Sodom tend to substantiate the biblical story of the destruction of the ancient and wicked city by fire, John Oliver La Gorce, vice-president of the National Geographic Society, said today when he arrived on the Leviathan after several months in Europe and Asia. La Gorce was shown over sites of Gomorrah by scientists from the Pontifical museum of Rome. He said that four cities had been built, one on top of another and that “the terrible conflagration had forged downward to the first city.” HOLD SCULPTOR AGAIN Nison Tregor Is “In Dutch” Once More Over Hotel Bill. By United Press * DETROIT, April 30.—Nison Tregor, noted Russian sculptor, was In trouble again today—and again it was over a hotel bill. Tregor was arrested Wednesday on a body attachment warrant, growing out of his alleged nonpayment of a $350 bill owed the Royal Connaught hotel at Hamilton, Ontario. He recently settled with a Pittsburgh hotel after similar action had been taken against him. New C. of C. Secretary By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., April 30.—E. O. Hackett, secretary-manager of the Springfield (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce, has been elected to a like position in Hammond, succeeding R. G. Brusch, who died recently in Florida.