Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1932 — Page 2

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SELECTION, NOT CONTROL, SEEN AS BIRTH NEED Ablest Couples Should Have at Least Four Children, Scientist Says. liy Science Service NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—Birth selection, not birth control, is the great and pressing need of the human race today. The ablest and most intelligent people, who today are limiting their families to less than enough children to replace their numbers are the very ones who should be encouraged and enabled to have at least four children to the couple. Birth control should play only a subsidiary role in eugenics, for it is a negative rather than a positive factor. At present its social effects are distinctly bad, and even in the unlikely event that all classes were persuaded to practice it equally, its effects could be no better than merely neutral. This, in summary, is the central theme of the “keynote” address of the third international congress of eugenics, presented before its general assembly Monday night by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History and honorary vice-president of the congress. Follows Darwin Trend As the truth of evolution was impressed upon Charles Darwin by things he saw during a voyage around the world, so the need for population control by selection and encouragement of its fittest elements was impressed upon Dr. Osborn as a result of a world voyage which he completed recently. Everywhere, he said, he saw evidence of overpopulation, overproduction and unemployment—harbors full of empty ships in the South Seas as well as in the ports of Europe, and men standing idle In the market place all day long. As he analyzed the situation, it resolved itself into six “overs”: Overdestruction of natural resources, over mechanization of industry, overconstruction of means of transport, overproduction of commodities, overconfidence in future demand and supply, and overpopulation, with the consequent unemployment of the least fitted. Birth Control Not Remedy However, although he differed with some other scientists whose views he quoted, in regarding overpopulation as existing to a serious degree, even in the United States, Dr. Osborn refused to recognize birth control as a sovereign remedy. "Birth control, primarily designed to prevent overpopulation of the unfittest or dysgenic, may prove to be a two-edged sword, eliminating alike the fittest and the unfittest,” he said. “I have in mind the Frer.ch, among whom birth control has been practiced in the upper classes for centuries, with disastrous racial results. “My doubts about the present propaganda and purpose of the birth control movement are that they are so largely negative and death-dealing, rather than positive and birth-encouraging.” STATE NOT TO GET JOBLESS AID LOANS Counties Have Not Issued Bonds to Limit of Ability. Because counties to be eligible for loans from the federal unemployment relief appropriation of $300,000,000 must have issued relief bonds to the limit of their ability and none of the Indiana counties have ddne sv, there will be no such funds received in Indiana, according to Dr. John H. Hewitt, secretary of the state unemployment commission. Loans from the federal fund can be obtained only after local communities have done “everything possible to "raise funds for their own relief,” Hewitt says. . “Few of the counties have done this and many counties which have had the greatest relief program have no bonded indebtedness and therefore are not eligible for federal aid. "Th coal mining section of the state with few exceptions have done practically nothing in the way of furnishing public funds for relief and so they are not eligible for federal aid,” Hewitt said. MORE CREDIT DENIED: GROCER IS SLUGGED Golf Caddy Gets $1 and Costs, Ten Days for Blow. A grocer w r ho got tired of the “credit-and-carry” plan of merchandising under the present depression sent his customer to jail for ten days, Friday afternoon, in the municipal court of Judge William H. Sheaffer. Charles Freije, grocer, of 4102 Cornelius avenue, testified that Neville Dickerson of 4078 Rookwood avenue, golf caddy, struck him when he refused to give him groceries. "He owes me about S2OO, that is he and his family, and I can’t make any money that way,” said Freije. Dickerson charged the grocer had thrown a brick at him and chased him down an alley. Judge Sheaffer fined him $1 and costs and sentenced him to ten days in jail for assault and battery. TWO INJURED IITAUTO Cuts Incurred When Car Strikes Guard of Safety Zone. Cuts were incurred early today by two occupants of an automobile which struck a safety zone guard at Illinois and Market streets. Driver was Kenneth Smock, 32, of 5924 Central avenue, who was accompanied by Mrs. May Hobbs, 32, of 1916 Park avenue. Miss Marie Whitehead. 317 East South street, was bruised slightly when struck at East and Washington streets by an automobile driven by Ari Doty, 27. of 2446 West Sixteenth street. Doty was arrested on a charge of failing to give right of way to a pedestrian. Auto Crash Causes Death By l niteil Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Aug. 23. Injuries suffered by Kenneth Wister. Defiance, 0., when his automobile struck a bridge abutment on state road 6, caused his death here I last night.

TINSEL DRAMA BECOMES REAL

Pair Who Write of Love Triangles Involved in One

This U the second of a aeries of six Stories detailing glamorous romances that have marked true love triangles of 1932. a subject made timely by the three-cornered Libby Holman-Bmith Rey-nolds-'Ab” Walker tragedy in North Carolina. The remaining stories will follow daily. By X E A Service BROADWAY’S brightest star,” who became the mother of the celebrated “Act of God” Baby— A Chicago newspaper reporter who rose to fame as a playwright, co-author of "Lulu Belie” and “The Front Page"— A girl movie critic on the same newspaper who was the playwright’s first wife and who now is suing his second, the actress, for SIOO,OOO, on the accusation that she is a “love pirate"— These are the three persons who stand today at the points of a real life “love drama” as intense as any footlight drama in which the famous actress ever appeared, which the noted playwright ever wrote or which the girl movie critic ever reviewed. Since these three principals have been connected with the theater, it might be well to introduce them to the reader in that manner and tell their story as it might be unfolded on the stage in a threeact play. Here is the cast of characters: The Girl Movie Critic. Carol Frink The Reporter-Playwright Charles McArthur The Actress-Love Pirate Helen Hayes Time: 1932, with earlies scenes going back to 1920. Supporting cast: Helen Hayes’ “Act of God” baby, newspaper workers, other playwrights, Broadway night-life figures, divorce attorneys, judges and a deputy sheriff who serves the papers on Miss Hayes in the SIOO,OOO suit. Now go on with the plot of this drama from real life.

ACT 1

IT is August, 1920, and the sefene is in a Chicago newspaper office. CHARLES MacARTHUR, the up-and-coming young reporter, and CAROL FRINK, an attractive girl reporter who occupies the adjoining desk, decide to do something they have been planning for a long time—elope to New York and wed secretly. They do, and CHARLIE’S father, the Rev. William T. MacArthur, performs the ceremony in a little church around the corner from Broadway. Perhaps CHARLIE and CAROL do not know—certainly, neither cares—that just then a rising young actress is playing in Mary Roberts Rinehart's “Bab” at the Park theater and getting her name in the electric lights for the first time. The latter is HELEN HAYES, who had been a child prodigy under Lew Fields, the comedian, and had played in “Pollyanna,” “Penrod,” “Dear Brutus” ahd “Clarence” with increasing success. The happy newlyweds return to Chicago, their marriage stiff a secret to their newspaper associates. Eventually, the secret leaks out. CHARLIE says they are “tremendously happy.” CAROL says the same. n n CHARLIE decides to become a playwright, Carol promises to help him. She will work and support them while he writes plays. t They are happy for a time and then Charlie grows irritable. . . . Carol grows irritable, too. Charlie becomes temperamental, declaring that he can’t write unless allowed to sit on the floor beside his wife’s bed and pound on his typewriter while she tries to sleep. Eventually he finishes writing “Lulu Belle” and departs for New York in search of a producer. Carol quits her job and goes with him, perhaps somewhat reluctantly, for (so she later declared) on the night of their wedding anniversary in 1922 he had attacked her with his fists because he didn’t like her dress and in April of that year had chased her out of the house at midniglit when she complained his bedside typewriter disturbed her.

ACT II

IT is September, 1923, and CHARLIE and CAROL have drifted apart. She is working on a Boston newspaper, he is meeting with increasing success as a playwright in New York and is * now a familiar figure in Broadway night life. CAROL returns to Chicago, where she files suit for divorce. The scene shifts now to the roof bungalow of Edward Sheldon, the invalid playwright who collaborated with CHARLIE in making “Lulu Belle” a success. HELEN HAYES, the actress, caffs with flowers for the afflicted author and there meets CHAR-

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LIE. He escorts her to her car. Romance begins. CHARLIE and HELEN HAYES are now seen together frequently. Helen hasTisen to stardom through Booth Tarkington’s “The Wren,” and such other plays as “To the Ladies,” “We Moderns,” “She Stoops to Conquer” and Dancing Mothers.” Just at present she is playing the slinky Egyptian to Lionel Atwill in “Caesar and Cleopatra” at the Guild theater.

ACT 111

IT is the autumn of 1928. Carol’s suit for divorce, filed in 1923, has been a long way through the courts. In June, 1926, CAROL’S decree was granted, but afterward she insisted that it was entered against her will and over her objections. In July, 1927, the appellate court sustained CAROL’S effort to have the decree withdrawn; but in August, 1928, this verdict was reversed and ultimately the state supreme court upheld the divorce. The divorce at last final, CHARLIE begs HELEN HAYES to marry him. She is starring in “Coquette,” at the Maxine Elliott theater. HELEN accepts CHARLIE’S proposal and immediately after the ceremony is performed by a New York magistrate, HELEN goes back to the theater to play her role as the little southern flirt who, in the final scene, kills herself off-stage with a pistol. HELEN HAYES goes on tour in "Coquette.” Ultimately, her career in this play is interrupted by the approaching arrival of a baby. HELEN breaks her contract to go back to New York and the show closes. She justifies the breaking of the contract by contending that the birth of a baby is “an act of Gcd.” n JED HARRIS, producer of the play, tries to tell the other per-

Inhaling Carbon Dioxide Aids in Whooping Cough

Relief Found in Paroxysms by Use of New Treatment. Bn Science Service NEW HAVEN. Aug. 23.—Inhaling carbon dioxide, diluted in air or oxygen, has been helpful in relieving the paroxysmal or whooping stage of whooping cough, Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale univercity reports to the American Medical Association. Th treatment was given successfully to ten children, ranging between nine months and seven years of age. In all of them, after three or four days of inhalation, the paroxysms were lessened considerably in severity and frequency, and by the eighth day the coughing became so infrequent that the treatments could be stopped. Between 6 and 7 per cent of the carbon dioxide mixed with air, or a mixture of 7 per cent carbon

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formers the same thing when they demand the customary extra pay for two weeks upon the sudden closing of the show. The performers appeal to the Actors’ .Equity Association; the association decides that the birth of HELEN HAYES’ baby is not an act of God, so Producer Harris has to pay. After the birth of her baby, HELEN takes a turn at the movies and stars in “The Sin of Madelon Claudel” and other pictures. The final scene in this drama of real life finds HELEN HAYES playing in "The Good Fairy” in Chicago, just recently. One night as she leaves the theater a deputy sheriff serves her with papers notifying her that she has been made defendant in a SIOO,OOO damage suit filed by CAROL. The charge is that the actress stole CHARLIE’S affections, says

Congress ‘Swindle Sheet’ Exposed in New Book

How Lawmaker Works, Not How He Tells About It to Voters, Related. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Corresnondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Those folks who learn about the government from books will have to read another book. “Washington Swindle Sheet,” by William P. Helm, tells how a congressman actually works—not how he describes that alleged process to his constituents. This Washington correspondent tells how the government spends $lB a day to furnish fancy bottled min-

dioxide and 93 per cent oxygen, was used. The mixture was inhaled through a mask attached to a standard anesthesia machine. A small tent having a capacity of about one cubic foot was used for some children who did not like the mask. The tent apparatus was left in the home and used by the nurse or mother. The child inhales the gas mixture for ten or fifteen minutes twice a dhy, either just before a meal or two hours after the last meal. If the child starts to haxe a paroxysm of coughing at the moment the mask is put over his fact it is best to wait until the spell is over before giving the treatment, Professor Henderson advised. Use of carbon dioxide inhalations for. whooping cough grew out of the similar treatment found successful for treating certain stages of pneumonia and for other lung diseases in infant. In whooping cough, the idea is not only to prevent development of pneumonia, but to lessen the whooping stage.

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Attorney Gerald P. Wiley, representing CAROL.

EPILOGUE

CAROL’S SIOO,OOO “IOVe piracy” suit awaits trial. CHARLIE and HELEN are still happy, so far as the latest accounts go. And MARY HAYES MacARTHUR, the “Act of God” baby, is now a chubby little toddler who looks for all the world like her famous mother, who has made millions of theater patrons and movie-goers alternately laugh and cry. Next—The triangular love affair of: 1. Aimee Semple McPherson, famous evangelist. 2. David L. Hutton, 223-pound Romeo and business manager of her Angetus temple. 3. Myrtle Joan St. Pierre, comely Los Angeles nurse, who says Hutton jilted her for the evangelist and thereby gave her a $200,000 heartache.

eral water to senators. It pays for replating their nickeled bottle openers. The government buys them snuff —which nobody uses—and sand boxes for the senators’ desks just because there was no such thing as blotting paper a hundred years ago. Start Out With Swindle It supports a private restaurant in which eighty-eight waiters and helpers are carried on the government pay roll—almost one for each senator. The free senate barber shop, to which senators only are admitted, equips itself down to three blackhead removers at 15 cents each, all out of government funds. “Every senator starts his public career by perpetrating a petty swindle upon the people of the United States,” Helm says on his first page. “The cheating begins when he hurries for his train to Washington, before he takes the oath of office. “It consists of his taking from the treasury, to cover his irip, a sum approximately four times as much as his actual, necessary traveling expenses. He calls it mileage.” Tells of Mileage Graft The book lists senators who took mileage for the special senate session in 1930, when they did not leave Washington. It fails to mention, however, the case of Senator Smith W. Brookhart. He was out on Chautauqua tour throughout the entire session, and galloped into Washington on the last day to qualify for his mileage. The senate committee on wild life is described hard at its researches with rod and reel, buying bicarbonate of soda and fishing bait, hiring boats, taking out fishing licenses, hiring wranglers on dude ranches, and spending 15 cents for a notebook—all at government expense. In an appendix, the list of congressmen who have practiced the family pay roll racket is published.

I‘ROLE BY PROXY' IS CRY AGAINST MA FERGUSON Million Texas Voters Will Go to Polls Aug. 27 in Runoff Primary. B;/ United Press AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 23.—The House of Ferguson will make another bid for political supremacy in Texas when approximately 1,000,000 voters go to the polls in the state’s second Democratic primary, Aug. 27. Opposing the return of darkhaired, brown-eyed Mrs. Miriam Amanda (Ma) Ferguson to the executive office is Texas’ 250-pound Governor Ross S. Sterling. “We must have good government in Texas, not proxy rule,” urges Governor Sterling as he tours the state making six and sometimes thirteen speeches a day. “Let them howl about a proxy Governor,” retorts Mrs. Ferguson from another stump. "I know that you, the people, had ten thousand times rather have a proxy joined to me by the laws of God and man and sealed by the affection of man and wife, than to

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have a proxy Governor who has no tie but that of greed and gold ” The Fergusons’ offer of “two governors for the price of one” stands today as it did in 1924 when formqr Governor James E. (Farmer I Jim) Ferguson first coined the slogan for his wife’s campaign. If Mrs. Ferguson wins, she will enter the White House of Texas for the third time. Her husband served as Governor from 1915 until he was impeached in 1917. “Ma” was elected in 1924. but p'Uod to win in the 1926 and 1930 elections. In political “off-seasons” Mrs. Ferguson is quite a homebody. When the voting season opens she joins her husband in a campaign tour of the state. In the first primary last month she piled up a lead of 105,000 votes over Governor Sterling. The political unknown of the runoff campaign is the 220,000 block of votes polled by Tom F. Hunter, independent oil man, who ran third in the first primary. A majority vote is necessary to nominate in Texas. Jim Ferguson's attack on Sterling's “businessman administration” of Texas affairs has centered on the state highway commission. Meanwhile, Republican forces in Texas, strengthened by the Democratic bolt to Hoover of 1928, quietly prepare their plans to put a Republican in the Governor’s chair for the first time in Texas history. They nominated Orville Buffington, Wichita Faffs oil man, as their candidate, and are confident of victory if “Ma” Ferguson becomes the Democratic Aug. 27.

2ATJG. 23, 1932'

RAID ALLEGED BEERPARLORS Four Gallons Whisky, 268 Quarts Brew Taken. Four gallons of Jasper county red whisky and 268 quarts of home brew were seized by police Monday night in two raids on alleged beer joints. The whisky was found in a suit case carried by William E. Dooley, 45, as police searched him as he returned to his home at 1906 East Washington street from a motor trip, they reported. A search of the house revealed 150 quarts of home brew hidden in a basement room fitted with small tables and with the windows curtained in blue chintz. Police said Dooley admitted operating the beer joint, and that he had recently operated another at a different location. He was arrested on blind tigr-r charges and held under SI,OOO bond. At the apartment of Miss Helen Weyland, 31, 709 North Capitol avenue. Apt. B, police found 118 quarts of home brew and eight persons said to have been drinking in the place. Miss Weyland was arrested charged with operating a blind tiger. •