Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1932 — Page 15

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Francis Brett Young

Here is a drawing of Francis Brett Young, novelist, by Gilbert Spencer. It was drawn from life. Harper and Brothers have just issued Young's new novel, “The House Under the Water.” a a it BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. TJAVE been told by those who are close to what people read all over the country before election that books on economics, government, national and world-wide leaders and personalities were in great demand. Now we are turning to books that deal w>th the government heads that the newly-elected President of this country and his representatives must deal in the future. I have such a book before me. It is “Not to Be Repeated” and it might be called "The Merry-Go-Round of Europe.” The names of the authors are not listed by the publishers, Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. The book sells for $3. Some months ago when Ray Long went to Europe, he tried to get from the leading European countries a book that would honestly and clearly give the attitudes of those countries toward America. Long soon realized that this plan was impractical and decided to follow the plan used so successfully in “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” So Long arranged for a man who knew the inside politics of Germany to write a chapter on that country. The same was done in France, Itaiy and the others. The result is ‘‘Not to Be Repeated.” This book goes more completely into party movements in Germany, France and Italy than “Mer-ry-Go-Round” did. A movement in Germany and Italy of course reflects the power, ideals or ideas of the leaders who founded the movements and who are controlling them. And in this book you g~t very close to the merits and the faults of the leaders of Europe. tt a a Among the most tremendous chapters in “Not to Be Repeated” are those devoted to Italy. Here is one of the best closeups of the man as an individual and a leader that I have read in months. It is made clear at the very beginning, that “for ten years Mussolini has been sitting on bayonets.” Also, “paradoxically, or miraculously, the Duce is the only ruler who seems to have been strengthened instead of weakened by the world economic crisis.” The writer makes two startling deductions—" First, Italy is in a terrible economic state; second, official figures themselves disclose that the economic and financial battles fought by Mussolini from 1922 to 1928 and the victories heralded all over the world were largely bluffs.” Also you will find this very illuminating statement—"As least 100,000 of the best supporters of the regime were given employment to sustain the dictatorship itself in such jobs as militia officers, secret police, OVRA, podestas, corporation officials, etc. They draw two billion lire or more a year in salaries.” It will be interesting to read that unemployment “was kept down by a huge program of public works” We probably would call that a “pork-barrel" in our country. I haven't the space to go into more detail about this tremendously interesting and thoughtful book—“ Not to Be Repeated.” If you read it you will get a better idea than ever just what our new President will have to deal with. * a a Have just received from the Macaulay Company, New York, a copy of a novel, "Diamond Lil,” by Mae West. This is the same Mae who first wrote it as a play and made a fortune. This is the same Mae who acted in it often and faced police investigation because of her plays I haven't read it yet. but it will be on the marke* Friday. a a a Some years ago. I received a lot of verbal brickbats because I reviewed a cook book. I admitted at that time I was judging the merits of the cook book because the biscuits I made did not crack the plate when I put them on it. Well any way, Harp Yrs writes me that they will publish next Wednesday “The National Cook Book" by Sheila Send it on and I will determine what 1932 biscuits are. mum Have been interested for several months in a magazine callled “The Interpreter,” published at Kristenstad, Tex., and boasts that it is a magazine “of excellent things.' The boast of the publisher is more than correct. Read the first short article “A Religion the World Needs,” in the November issue. This article states in part: “ there is a need for men to learn to live in an ever-present consciousness than mankind's destiny i s on the earth, and their own individual lives can have meaning and value j only & relation to that destiny, and for this consciousness to motivate ! their living and engender a feeling \ and habit of loyalty to a degree that I may be described as religious.” |

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NEWTON BAKER TO VOICE PLEA iN FINAL DRIVE Former Secretary of War Will Speak at Meeting to Start Campaign. BAXTER SOUNDS APPEAL Goal of $1,052,632 Is Held to Be Minimum Need for Relief. “If you have a job, help those who need.” This appeal of the Indianapolis Community Fund welfare and relief mobilization will be sounded by 3,000 volunteer workers Tuesday, as they start out pn their mission of raising $1,052,632.00, the goal set for the campaign. The opening gun in the campaign will be fired Monday night at Cadle tabernacle, when Newton D. Baker, former war secretary and head of the nation-wide relief drive for 1932, addresses a mass meeting at 8. The public is invited and it is pointed out that there is to be no admittance charge and no solicitation of pledges. “Every citizen interested in the welfare of Indianapolis should hear Baker Monday night,” Arthur R. Baxter, campaign chairman, declared today. “Baker is not only one of the nation’s greatest platform orators, but he is in a position to know the true conditions of the present time. His committee is non-political and its members are devoting’ their time and efforts in the interest of relief and human service.” Speaks Here Only Baker has been making numerous radio talks in the interest of the nation-wide volunteer campaign, but Indianapolis is the only Community Fund city where he will address a public meeting. Leaders in the Indianapolis drive point out that the goal of $1,052,632 must be raised if the city is to take care of the mounting relief and human needs. They state that the figure represents the “bare-bone” needs of the community and that it carries no cushion of estimate relief needs. “The Community Fund has shouldered its largest burden in twelve years,” Arthur R. Brown, president, says, “yet the coming winter is going to tax every agency to the limit. Many Given Help During the year, 37,500 individual homeless men were cared for; 11,500 individual families were provided with service and care; more than 7,000 families had their rent paid; nurses made 57,500 free visits to the sick and the injured, and 160,000 free quarts of milk were distributed. “The responsibility is ours and we must shoulder it if we are to take care of our less fortunate citizens this winter.” Brown declares that the Fund plan enables the average citizen to help in a small way, many causes that appeal to his sympathy instead of being able to give only to two or three. Save on Overhead He also stresses the fact that, prior to the fund plan of raising and disbursing money for welfare and relief, it cost each agency from 25 to 40 per cent for expenses alone, while the complete “overhead” of the Fund this year was less than 7 per cent. "In other words,” says Brown, this represents a savings this year of more than $250,000.” J. K. Lilly is honorary chairman of the Community Fund campaign, Hugh McK. Landon heads the special gifts division, Stowell C. Wasson is chairman of the branch house groups, Samuel Mueller, chairman of the individual gifts division, and C. C. Winegardner heads the employes’ division. SECOND HAMILTON TRIAL OPENS MONDAY Prosecutor Wilson Makes Final Plans for Case at Lebanon. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson made final plans today for the second trial of Louis E. Hamilton of lola, Kan., charged with the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store operator, which starts Monday in the Boone county court at Lebanon. A Boone county jury is expected to try Hamilton, despite plea of his attorney, Ira Holmes, that the venire be drawn from Montgomery county. Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton circuit court will preside. A jury failed to agree on a verdict at the first trial in July, after balloting more than twenty hours. Hamilton's alleged accomplice in the murder, Charles Vernon Witt, was convicted and awaits death in the electric chair at Michigan City, next March. Jackson was wounded fatally in the main Indianapolis store of nis large grocery chain in May, 1931, by two bandits. Accused of a Criminal Assault Accused of a criminal assault upon Mrs. Ruby Hittle, 24. of 546 Fletcher avenue, Ray Wilson. 32. Beech Grove, is held today on a vagrancy charge.

SOCIAL SPLASHES TO BE FEW, FAR BETWEEN UNDER ROOSEVELT-GARNER REIGN

BY RAY TUCKER Tim** Staff Writer TTrASHINGTON. Nov. 11.—An ™ V era of social simplicity exceeding even the bread-and-but-ter hospitality of the Calvin Coolidge regime is probable for the capital after Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner take over the government March 4. The next President and VicePresident, as well as their wives, are people of simple, if not austere, tastes. Both Mrs. Roosevelt and 19

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TIDY BUSINESS IS BUILT ON MUSHROOMS

Christian Hansing and His Family Smother Steaks for You

BY ARCH STEINEL MEET the Mushroom Magnates! Over every steak smothered with the delicacy in hotels, restaurants and homes in Marion county and many other sections of the state hovers the hand of the family of Christian Hansing Sr., Edwards avenue arid the Three-Notch road. A father and his three sons, with the aid of their wives, literally control the mushroom business in Indianapolis. They have an eight-month business that keeps their bank account in good order for one year's time. Eighteen thousand pounds of these juicy edibles are sold to city commission houses and those in nearby cities. With four houses growing the mushrooms throughout this season at a wholesale price rate of 35 cents a pound, the depression can’t ghost the Hansing farm. Nor do the hard times, when steaks seem to be of more importance than their side-kick, dent the market. The Hansings can sell all the mushrooms they can bring to market. n a tt JUST six years ago this job of raising mushrooms instead of corn and wheat began on the Hansing farm. Leonard, one of the sons, went to the mushroom kindom of Pennsylvania to learn how it was done. He absorbed the art of making mushrooms into money. He came home and the father, with Leonard and the other two sons, Christian Jr. and Ernest, formed a family partnership and built four mushroom houses of concrete, with ten beds for the plants in each house. Spawn, at the rate of 80 cents a bottle, was purchased from a Pennsylvania company. Fort Benjamin Harrison provided the tons upon tons of compost necessary for the growing and the mushroom manufacturing plant opened for business. For a sideline the Hansings grow hothouse lettuce and other vegetables to keeep the dull seasons of the year occupied. tt tt u "V FEARLY they change the compost in the beds and purchase 100 bottles of the spawn for planting. “The formula for making the spawn is a secret. If we knew it, or any other mushroom grower knew it, it wouldn’t be necessary to pay the manufacturer 80 cents a bottle. It takes approximately twenty-five bottles of spawn for one house,” explains Leonard Hansing. Mushrooms mature in sixty days’ time. They must be picked within a few hours after they attain their full growth. They are packed by the Hansing family in boxes or baskets lined with paraffin paper and taken to the commission houses. HOT weather kills them. “The temperature must be kept below sixty degrees. Freezing doesn’t hurt them, but extreme

Bowers to Speak at Lieber Bust Dedication

Famed Historian Will Be Principal Talker at Turkey Run. Claude G. Bowers, former Hoosier and famed historian, will be principal speaker at the dedication of the bust of Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department, at Turkey Run state park Sunday. George Ade, humorist, will preside. it was announced today by Howard M. Meyer, president of the Indianapolis chanter of the Izaak Walton League ’i and chairman of the program sponsor,'-. Dedicatory services will start at 2 p. m. The Lieber bust, executed by E. H. Daniels, Indianapolis sculptor, will be presented by Tom Wallace, Louisville, Ky., editor and conservationist. It will be accepted on behalf of the conservation department by Chairman Stanley Coulter of the

commission and for the state by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Boy Scouts will conduct services and singing. Organizations sponsoring the program include the following: Nature Study Club of Indiana: Indiana Audubon Society, Ten-Year Conservation Plan committee of the Izaak Walton League of America. Indiana Fish. Game and Forest League Indiana Division of the Izaak Walton League, Indiana Academy of Science. Indiana Federation of Clubs, Indiana Teachers Association, Indiana League of Women Voters American Legion—lndiana Department. Indiana District Rotary International. Indiana District Kiwanis International. Junior CathSLEEPS SHOWER Tired Salesman Snoozes for Honr as Water Splatters. By United Prts* BOSTON. Nov. 11. —A traveling salesman stopping at the Hotel Statler dozed while taking a shower bath and slept more than tivo hours with the water cascading over him. according to desk clerk Joseph F. Conlon.

Mrs. Garner are working women, the first as keeper of a furniture store, a school teacher, and magazine editor, the second as her husband's secretary. The various candidates for Speaker as Garner's successor prefer their own living rooms, or those of every day friends, to the dowagers' and diplomats' drawing rooms. Roosevelt does not like ceremonials, even eschewing evening clothes when he can. As he did away with a formal notification

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—Photos by Dick Miller. Times Staff Photographer. Mushroom raising is a science and a family affair at the farm of Christian Hansing, southeast of the city. And the Hansings say there’s no depression in their business.

heat does. Some mushroom raisers have cooling systems, so that they can raise them the entire year,” Leonard says. Well, Leonard likes his with egg and milk. Ernest, another son, is no slouch at walking down a bed

Claude G. Bowers

olic Daughters of America. Marion County Fish and Game Protective Association, Indianapolis Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, Indianapolis Council of Camp Fire Girls. Boy Scouts of America. Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council. Indiana Association of Park Departments, the Old Post Association of Vincennes. The Service Club of Indianapolis, The Tourist Club of Anderson and The Marshall-Turkey Run Community Club"

Trio of Frenchmen Last to Die on Nov. 11, 1918

By United Press PARIS, Nov. 11. —Three French soldiers—Corporals Rene Beaufils and Jean Ducrccq and Machine Gunner Pierre Seyler—were the last three lives sacrificed in the World war, historians have reported fourteen years after the armistice. The three victims fell under fire just a minute before the bugles sounded “cease firing’’ at 11 o’clock the morning of Nov. 11, 1918. The same historians found that Pierre Scellier officially sounded the last bugle order which ended the war. The last artillery bombardment took place at 10:45 o’clock on

ceremony, so he is expected to carry’ on the tradition of no inaugural ball. Almost alone of the dignitaries assembled at the Hotel Biltmore to hear election returns did he come in a plain business suit. K U U TTE is a family rather than a ■■■ social man. He is expected to reduce formal White House entertainment to a minimum, even though his cousin, Warren Delano Robbins, jiow heads the

and just plucking them and eating them raw. While Christian Sr. and Junior and other members of the family swear that there’s nothing like a good thick steak smothered, by Mrs. Hansing Sr., in the Hansing family’s mushrooms.

RABBIT SEASON ON; SNOW AIDS HUNTERS Bunnies Will Be Fair Game Until Jan. 10. Bunnies ducked into dry weeds covered with a light snow today and hunted spots where they could snooze in peace, but their sleep was broken by the tramp of many shoes and the roar of shotguns as Indiana hunters opened the rabbit season. The bag limit is ten rabbits a day and the season continues through Jan. 10. Quail hunters opened their season Friday and will keep up the kill until Dec. 20. According to state conservation officials, birds and rabbits are more plentiful this year than in the last two or three seasons. Heads of unemployed families with the money to buy a few shells for their shotguns were busy bringing new food to a table fare of pork and beans.

armistice morning, when a battery of German 150 MM. guns let loose a torrent of shells on Dom-Le-Mesnil, a little village on the the Meuse. France today paid tribute officially to these heroes and commemorated the beginning of the fifteenth year of peace by observing the traditional minute of silence at 11 a. m. President Albert Lebrun, accompanied by Premier Edouard Herriot, all members of the cabinet and diplomatic corps, reviewed picked troops of the French army as they marched before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

protocol and ceremonials division of the state department. Under Roosevelt and Garner, the chief of this office will not be called on to decide who sits at the head of the table, and why. Garner is even less given to ostentation. He boasts about his social and sartorial plainness. For one thing, he is an 8-o’clock-to-bed man, as the nation learned one historic evening during the Chicago convention. He breaks this rule only twice a year, once for the white House

Upper Left (Inset) —Here’s the “and” of the “steak and—” in a one pound box of mushrooms held by Christian Hansing Jr., of the “Mushroom” Hansings near the Three-Notch road. Upper Center—The mushrooms being sorted and placed in boxes by Mrs. Christian Hansing Sr., and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ernest Hansing, in the basement of their home.

Corn Shucking Crown Is Won by Illinois Husker

36.91 Bushels in 80 Minutes Is Mark Hung Up by Farmer Champion. By United Press GALVA, 111., Nov. 11.—For eighty furious minutes Thursday afternoon Carl Seiler tore ears of corn out of their husks. Thereupon he tried to be nonchalant while 40,000 citizens ate doughnuts for the two hours the judges spent tinkering with a cranky scale before they could weigh his corn. They finally decided that young Seiler, a native of Illinois, had husked 36.91 bushels, establishing anew record and making him grand champion of that greatest of rural sports—corn husking. Seventeen other state champions competed in the cornfields of farmer Robert Peterson, near here. Walter Johnansen of lowa was second with 35.02 bushels and Clarence Maley third with 35.14 bushels. The judges explained that although Clarence had husked more com than Walter, he hadn't been careful enough with the husks. Ted Balk of Minnesota came in fourth with 35.1 bushels. Ha was nTz n more careless than Clarence, said the judges. A boom of guns sent the overalled huskers into the fray. Their husking hooks worked like engine pistons. Over the shoulder of each a steady stream of golden ears plopped into farm wagons. The rules were complicated. Each contestant had to remove the corn from the stalk and then remove the husk from the ear. He couldn’t leave any corn behind and he couldn’t leave any husks on the ears. The judges plodded behind like gleaners, counting the overlooked j ears. Then they sifted through the j contents of each wagon and put j down a black mark for each shred of husk they found.

reception and once for the gridiron dinner. As the administration's official diner-out and prince of Wales. "Jack” will be a social groundhog. tt m m S"* ARNER’S pastimes of an evening are of a Jacksonian brand. When he lived at an ancient inn across from the house office building, he and his congressional cronies gathered after dinner each evening in a room known as “Dinty Moore's.” There they reminisced about

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Upper Right—Bringing in the mushrooms with Ernest Hansing, one of the three sons, manning the baskets. Lower Left—One of the four concrete houses where dollars pop out of beds at the rate of 35 cents a pound. Lower Right—Christian Hansing Sr., clamping handles on sales baskets.

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Although one of Indianapolis’ youngest radio artists, she just celebrated her twelfth birthday, Betty Larramore’s voice already gives promise of becoming one of the Hoosier state’s bluest of the blues singers. During a recent radio contest conducted by The Times and WKBF Betty was persuaded to enter her name by neighbors. Radio fans immediately expressed their approval of the "Baby Kate Smith” with a flood of fan mail and requests for favorite indigo numbers. Connie, Lawrence Connaughton, whose band stirs the ether nightly from WKBF, may be credited with Betty’s discovery, for he was the first to present her to Indianapolis listeners. Miss Larramore attends School 21 and lives at 423 South Harlan street. She is heard mostly on the Uncle Connie and Aunt Dessa programs over WKBF on week days.

politics, sang, swapped jokes and long-haired Representative Edgar Howard of Nebraska, erstwhile secretary to William Jennings Bryan, often obliged with a song or a jig. Sometimes Jack's falsetto broke out in a Texas ballad. Now and then they indulged in the favorite sport of the present and next vice-president—poker. If Garner can find time for evenings of fun, it is probable he will return to scenes like this rather than take a turn in the social whirl of formal Washington society.

SUBSIDIES FOR FARMER, PLAN OF ROOSEVELT Allotment Scheme Is Given Approval of Agriculture Leaders of U. S. STABLE PRICES SOUGHT System Designed to Make Tariff Effective on Soil Products. To the millions of Americans who live on farms, or whose livelihood depends on farm products, what Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt Intends to do for the farmer is the mst important phase of the political situation. The United Press herewith presents what it believe* is the correct answer to millions of querrles. (Copyright IMS by United Press) CHICAGO. Nov. 11.—A legislative program for farm relief which amounts to a subsidy for the nation's farmers has been approved by Franklin D. , Roosevelt, the United Press learned today, and one of the early incidents of his administration will be a conference with farm leaders looking toward its adoption. The plan, drafted by a coalition of farm leaders, economists and experts on agricultural problems, is known as the “voluntary domestic allotment plan.” That plan, its proponents admit, amounts to a subsidy for farmers at the ultimate expense of the consumer. It provides for an excise tax on farm products in which there are exportable surpluses, to be paid by the manufacturer or other processor who prepares the commodities for human consumption and a contractual agreement by the farmers to limit production of those commodities. Subsidy for Farmer In a booklet outlining the plan, its supporters state: “In a legal sense, the allotment is a subsidy. For this there are numerous congressional precedents, notably the merchant marine. At one time farmers were paid a subsidy to raise a specied type of horse for the army. Farmers have been given subsidies to induce them to engage in forestation.” The idea, originated in the department of agriculture several years ago and modified repeatedly since by economists and agricultural experts, is expressed by proponents of the plan as intending “to make tariffs effective on farm products and to stabilize prices by control of production.” Based on the theory that protective tariffs are not effective on Important farm products, the proposal would seek to stabilize prices at approximately pre-war levels by limiting production and to reimburse the farmer by handing back to him his share of a tax on his wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, or rice collected from the miller, the slaughterer, the cigar manufacturer or the textile manufacturer. Five Products Specified Only wheat, cotton, hogs, tobacco and rice are named in the bill as subject to the tax, since they are the only important farm staples in which an exportable surplus now exists. The rates provided are: Wheat, a tax of 42 cents a bushel; cotton, 5 cents a pound; hogs, 2 cents a pound; tobacco, 5 cents a pound, and rice, one-half cent a pound. An estimated $600,000,000 would be collected each year, to be portioned out to states by the federal government and finally to the growers, through a system of local bureaus in counties. Each farmer wdfild share on the ; basis of his average production of a given product over the last five ■ years. Only those farmers would ■ share in the allotment who had 'signed agreements to limit pioducI tion to a total established by a j supervisory committee. The farmer I would be left free to market his product wherever he pleased. The tax would be collected only on the portion of the various products used for domestic human consumption. An estimate of the percentage of the total crop so used would be utilized as a basis for distribution of the fund. Specific Case Given Farm groups hitherto following many contradictory policies, are known to have neared agreement on the voluntary allotment plan. In a specific case, it was explained, the plan would work out as follows: If farmer Jones in South Dakota raises an average of 1,000 bushels of wheat a year, he would receive an aliotmeni 0 f 42 cents a bushel on 600 bushels from the government, since domestic human consumption normally uses 60 per cent of the total wheat production. That would amount to $252 he would receive over whatever he got for his wheat at the elevator The miller or processor would purchase at the world price. The federal government would collect from him the tax” of 42 cents a bushel. POLICE TO ENFORCE DRY LAW, SAYS MAYOR Indianapolis Will Not Follow Chicago Plan, Sullivan Decides. Indianapolis police have not and will not be instructed to shut their eyes to liquor violations as result of impending dry law repeal, said Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today. The statement followed announcement by Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago that Chicago police no longer will enforce the dry law so far as beer is concerned. John W. Morrill, deputy dry administrator for southern Indiana district, said his agents will concontinue to enforce the dry law. Chief Mike Morrissey Thursday said that he “would like to follow Cermak 3 plan, but that the department U duty-bound to enforce the law.