Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1933 — Page 3

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HIGH JEWISH CULTURE HELPS DEFEAT HATE Rabbi Steinbery Tells Why of Peoples’ Survival in National Magazine. A brilliant and searching analysis of the factors that, have enabled the Jew to survive through the centuries in the face of universal hatred and persecution is contained in an article by Rabbi Milton Steinberg Beth-El-Zedeck pastor, in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Rabbi Steinberg will leave Beth-El-Zedeck about June 1 to accept a call to the Park avenue synagogue, New York, this fall. Gentile and Jew alike will find absorbing Rabbi Steinberg's explanation of “How the Jew Did It,” for, as he points out, the typical, modern Jew is no more intelligently informed than his Gentile neighbor about the mechanics of his own survival. Jews.” he asserts, “either are resentful of their Jewish descent or incorrigibly sentimental about it.” Pattern Conduct for Centuries Summarized, Rabbi Steinberg’s articles finds these factors in the Jewish survival to be: A preliminary preparation, an ideological equipment, a social isolation and a compensating culture. For centuries, the Jewish people, he points out, have been evolving patterns of individual and group conduct. Consequently, by the time of dispersion, the process almost had reached completion and the Jew carried from Palestine a body of civil law, a sharply fixed ritual for synagogue and home, a clearly defined morality and definite forms regulating every phase of life. From his literal and vivid belief that he was a member of a chosen people, Rabbi Steinberg points out, the Jew derived a sense of importance and dignity, which more than atoned for his social insecurity and insignificance. History Plays Cruel Tricks “History, as has been suggested, has played many a cruel trick on the Jew,” the Rabbi Steinberg says in part, “but it did him the favor of allowing himself to prepare for his homelessness. By the time the eviction from Palestine was under way, the Jew already had evolved a technique of living as an unwelcome guest in other men’s homes. Early in bis history, he had become a skilled and inveterate alien. “The Jew deported by the Roman emperors Titus or Hadrian found a ready-made Jewish world already prepared in the land of his exile. Unbeknown to himself, he had built a bridge by which he might make a safe passage from Palestine to the world. He never had been forewarned—he accidentally was forearmed. “It is curious to note that, while the Jew claimed a monopoly on God's revelation, he did not claim exclusive possession of its reward. Asa matter of fact, he insisted that ‘Hie righteous of all peoples have their share in the world to come’. But for himself, his bliss lay only in his loyalty.” Hardness of Culture Rabbi Steinberg points out how segregation in itself guaranteed there would be no wearing away of Jewish loyalties, habits and ideas through attrition. The baptismal font always was waiting eagerly, but it had to be made in one leap, and that was too violent a step. Hardiness of the Jewish culture that managed to subsist on sterile soil and in an unfriendly atmosphere is attributed by Rabbi Steinberg to the two alternatives facing the Jew: He either must construct a compensating culture or go stark mad. Where with other peoples, culture was more of a by-product of normal living, an afterthought or an amusement for leisure hours, with the Jew it was a condition for sanity. Near the close of his article. Rabbi Steinberg writes graphically of the Jew's steadfast clinging to his own culture. He says in part: Explains Superior Feeling ‘ For all his social inferiority, the Jew felt superior to the Gentile. He entertained a healthy contempt for the violent militarism of a feudal society. "The armed chivalry of the middle ages was to him, barbaric. The Christian world was bloodthirsty, it laid none of his emphasis on learning, it was less temperate th<jn his, it did rot have his standard of family life. "This sense of moral superiority received occasional but forceful confirmation through a pogrom or massacre. It is easy to develop contempt for the man who. for no good reason except superior strength, plavs the bully and wields a cudgel. "Had their been no other restraining influence, the Jew would have found passage to the Gentile world difficult. It seemed to involve the painful exchange of a moral good for its ethical inferior.” WAGE SCALE CONTRACT VIOLATED. IS CHARGE City Council's Accusations at Ft. Wayne Are Denied. B■ r nit,'l Press FT WAYNE. Ind, May 26.—A bitter controversy over charges by the city council that contracts for construction of the new $1,000,000 filtration plant here were violated was forecast today with a general denial by members of the contracting firm. A hearing by the city board of works was delayed today by the illness of John C. Trier, chairman of the bo.trd. A resolution adopted by the city council charged that the Hipskind Heating and Plumbing Company here paid laborers at the plant as low as 20 cents an hour. The contract called for a minimum wage of forty cents an hour. J. Fred HipsKmd, member of the contracting firm, said the contract wage was maintained. Car Turns Over Twice; Unhurt Although his automobile turned over twice today in a collision. Robert S. Wills 21. of Oak Park, 111., escaped with a few scratches. The other car was driven by Mason Watkins, 52, Strayson county, Kentucky. The accident occurrred at Thirtieth street and Road 52.

Old-Time Minstrels Lose Pal; Joe Elliotte’s Dead

Sad-Eyed Widow Recalls Trouping Days of City Locksmith. Oldtime minstrels and vaudeville performers will miss Joe Elliotte of blackface fame. But a sad-eyed woman in black, who Wednesday removed a small red sign reading “back soon” from the door of the blacksmith shop at 215 Indiana avenue is irreconcilable. Today Mrs. Emma Elliotte, widow of the old minstrel, stood in the tiny store and surveyed the hundreds of pictures of her husband's friends of trouping days. Clowns with wide, grotesque smiles, grinning, blackfaced minstrels, scowling villains, looked down on her from their frames. “Joe used to greet them in the morning like old friends,” she said. ‘He’d say hello there, Billy Doss’ or 'howdy, A1 Fields’ just like that, as though they were in the room.” She pointed out autographed pictures of “Young” Stribling, Eddie Ross, George Hess, “the banjo king;’’ Benny Rubin, now in the movies; ' Sugarfoot” Gaffney, Paul Hubbard, “the magic man,” and hundreds of other thespians of a forgotten era. "Indianapolis children will miss him, too,” she said. “For six years he played Santa. Claus at L. S. Ayres department store. He loved children and we never had any.’’ Mrs. Elliotte picked up the red, ' back soon” sign hanging near the door. . “Joe was ft locksmith in Atlanta before he went on the stage. He started out with a small shop and played in amateur shows at night. Then he did a year in vaudeville. We decided to settle down any number of times, but never did until

Proves Poison Ivy Must Be Touched to Hurt Skin

Plant's Toxin Does Not Fly Through Air, Says U. S. Chemist. J’.y Science Seri ice WASHINGTON. May 27.—Poison ivy can not reach out and catch you at a distance. Its toxic principle does not float through the air, even to the most susceptible skin. The weed has to be touched to be dangerous. This was among the points on poison ivy and its evil activities brought out in a discussion by L. E. Warren of the United States department of agriculture here recently. The actual poison of poison ivy and poison sumac, chemically isolated after many years of bad guessing. proves to be a resin-like stuff related to carbolic acid. It is not at all volatile, and so can not act through the air. Persons who get poisoned in spite of careful avoidance of poison ivy probably pick up the toxin by handling garden tools or other objects that have been in contact with the plant, Warren suggested. And, of course, there is always the possibility that in spite of the susceptible one’s vigilance he may have brushed against the leaves in an unguarded moment. In spite of all the remedies that liave been proposed, Warren held that the best thing to do after contact with poison ivy is to wash the exposed pars with alcohol or “straight” gasoline, either of which is a good solvent for the poisonous priciple. Be sure not to use ethyl gasolines which contain lead, as lead poisoning may result. This should be followed with another washing in water, with liberal use of soap. Os the strictly medicinal remedies. Warren suggested several as having been recommended by considerable numbers of physicians. Among them was the solution found successful by Dr. James B. McNair of the Field museum: Five per cent oi ferric chloride in a 50 per cent solution of alcohol. Warren made his talk under the auspices of Science Service, over the network of the Columbia broadcasting system. PLAN DE MOLAY DANCE Candidates to Be Honored at Affair Saturday Night. Creath Smiley, president of the fourteenth anniversary class of Indianapolis chapter of De Molay, is

chairman of the committee making arrangements for at "De Molay Candidates Dance,” to be held tonight at 8:30 in the De Molay chapter house, Tenth street and Broad way. Others on the committee include Douglas Rane. Ben Olsen, Mar ge 1 Crickmore and Robert Pratt. Other officers of the class are Wil-

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liam Spakey, vice-president, and Margel Crickmore, secretary-treas-urer. Music will be furnished by Morton Davidsons Shortridge high school orchestra. KICK ON NUDE BATHERS Residents Protest Because Boy Swimmers Are Not Modest. First complaints of the season regarding boy swimmers who scorn bathing suits were received by police today. Complaints were from residents near a railroad water tank at Massachusetts and Tacoma avenues and Bertha street and Big Eagle creek. From the weather this spring, it is predicted that army worms will be flourishing in grain fields this summer.

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we came to Indianapolis six years ago. “Just as he'd get nicely started in business he'd feel the urge to go on the road. He’d take this ‘back soon’ sign, hang it on the door, and off he'd go, trouping for two or three years. He traveled all over the world before we were married. Vaudeville was good in those days. Mrs. Elliotte pointed to a photograph of Jack Crawford, famous vaudeville actor "When Joe was buried Monday at Crown Hill,” she said, “I came back to the shop and looked at these pictures. Life's funny. Look what Jack wrote.” Scrawled beneath Crawford’s picture was written. “To Joe Elliotte. Here’s hoping you will live always, and I may never die. A pal and trouping friend. Jack Crawford.”

EN-AV-ANT CLUB TO GIVE SPEEDWAY DANCE First Fete of Season to Be Given at K. of C. Auditorium. Dance on the eve of the Speedway race, first of the season by the En-Av-Ant Club, wall be given at the Knights of Columbus auditorium Monday night. Music will be provided by Paul Barker and his

band, featuring Mari Lee, blues singer. John O'Connor, club president, has appointed the following as committee members: William Eich. Edward Feeney, Lawrence Feltman, Edward Green, Harold Finnegan, Francis McCarthy, Joseph Metzger, William Schantz, Dr. Edwin Mc-

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Shay, James Custard, Francis Miller, Joseph Sexton, Urban Renner, Joseph Roseman, Edwin Schrantz, Kenneth Schilling, Clarence Wetzel, Walter Lauer, William Green, Bernard Breinlich, Leo Clouser, Dr. John Parker, Trey Gatti, Robert Monahan and James McGovern.

Puzzled Bloomington Man Doubts Official Can Vote for Repeal.

r T''HE Rev. Paul D. White of A Bloomington is in a quandary. He cannot figure out how anyone can take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and then vote to repeal the Eighteenth amendment. So today he sent a letter to Lieutenant Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who will preside at the delegate convention on repeal. He wants to know if delegates must take an oath and the answer is “Yes.” Townsend reported. He wrote a further explanation that the method provided is in the Constitution itself and therefore no repudiation of it.

Memories Devore Rides ‘soo’ Bricks—Billy Is Mechanic.

THE memory of a famous racing name hovers over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway these days and the 500-mile race on Tuesday will find one of racedom’s most famous names back in action. The name is DeVore. The man who won fame on the race track —Earl DeVore—died in the S. S. Vestris wreck in 1928. Billy DeVore. son of Earl, and who can’t be told apart from pictures of his father, is a riding mechanic—the way his father broke into the game. Billy is riding with Wilbur Shaw in the Mallory Special, which qualified Thiusday. And they’re both wearing those British-type pith helmets. . . . For your information, motorcycle crash type helmets. . . . And they look like big game explorers. They are. too. Anew method of destroying insects and their eggs in raw materials is to expose them to a mixture containing ethylene oxide gas and carbon dioxide.

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INDIANA SWINE VALUES SOAR IN 90-DAY_PERIOD Price Gains Add Millions to State's Livestock Worth. BY JOHN T. HAWKINS Times Financial Editor Since'March 1 a total of $8,438,990 has been added to the value of livestock on Indiana farms, not including horses and poultry. The steady upswing in prices starting with advent of the Roosevelt administration at Washington has lifted swine values $2,500,000 during the three-month pe;iod. With an estimated 2.000.000 hogs on farms in Indiana, the price has risen from $3.75 to $5.10, the present price for top quality porkers of 250 pounds. Cattle show a gain of $5,409,990 during the period. This is based on an estimated 1,081.998 head on farms. The top price has risen from $6.75 on March 1, to $7.25 today. A dollar rise in sheep prices has brought the value of this branch of livestock up $529,000 since March 1. It is estimated that there are 529,000 sheep on hand.

Eggs in Two Baskets While Waiting for Chickens to Hatch, Rural Thieves Steal Harness.

WHAT do rural robbers do before the chickens are hatched? They steal harness. At least so Chief A1 Feeney of the state safety department was advised in a long letter today. It came from friends of farmers who want state police to stop such depredations. The letter declared that while waiting for chickens to hatch, or grow big enough to be worth stealing, thieves take harness from farmers' barns.

Nothing, Sir! Honorable Mister Chief Judge Dashes Hopes to Share Estate.

AN American court is not susceptible to European flattery, a Yugoslavian cousin of a. former Indianapolis resident has learned. Mile Tge, of Phrilep, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, wrote Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers a most gracious letter, asking for his share in the estate of a cousin, Resto G. Ivanoff. Tge also wrote Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, addressing him in honorable and flattering terms. Today, Chambers sent a strictly formal, American business letter to Tge. saying: “Credits in your cousin’s estate were $727; charges totaled $727.25. Final report shows there is nothing left from his estate. The funeral director, with a bill of S7OO, was paid only S4OO after other claims and court costs were paid.” “Some title,” Judge Chambers commented, in referring to the one by which Tge addressed him: "The Honorable Sir, Mister The Chief Judge of the Probate Court of Indianapolis.” WOMAN LABOR CHIEF SENDS PROBERS HERE Three Representatives Work in City by Miss Perkins’ Directions. Activity of Mrs. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, has been reflected at the statehouse this week by visits from three women investigators from Washington. On Monday a woman appeared as representing Mrs. Perkins to conduct a survey of labor employment bureaus. Then Miss Katharine F. Lenroot appeared as Mrs. Perkins’ representative to lecture regarding children and labor laws. She also reported she was making a survey. Today Miss Mary E. Skinner, veteran labor department investigator, appeared at the state industrial board. She, too, was on an inspection tour, but said any statements must come from Mrs. Perkins.

BROAD RIPPLE BANCE OPEN SUNDAY, MAY 28 with JACK BERRY and his orchestra 8:30 to 11:30 4 - All Evening A and Every Night Except Sat. and Sun.—lsc Monday Only 10c I Tues. Night Only 10c Speedway All Night I Gala Fun Festival Dance-Frolic | Games, Contests, Prizes

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WOMEN WORK TO ‘GET OUT THE VOTE' FOR REPEAL

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Left to right—Mrs. Frank Gritt, Mrs. Slyvester Johnson Jr.. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., Mrs. Edgar S. Gorrell, Mrs. George Denny Jr., and Miss Edith Anne Stafford.

With June 6, date for the wet and dry special election nearing, the women workers of the Marion county non-partisan repeal committee are speeding plans for the repeal vote. They are working from downtown headquarters in the Pettis building on East Washington street.

MANUAL ALUMNAE TO HOLD ANNUAL REUNION Meeting to Be Held Saturday at Garfield Park. Annual meeting and reunion of the Masoma Alumnae Association of Manual high school was to be held today at 3:30 at Garfield park. Miss Teena Postma is in charge of an entertainment program to be

offered. A business meeting will be held and officers for the coming year will be elected. A picnic supper and entertainment will follow. Present officers of the association include Mrs. Helen Neale, president; Miss Postma, vicepresident; Miss Gertrude Meidema Williams, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Hill Weeks,

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treasurer. Miss Daisy Harmening, registrar in the office at Manual, is permanent secretary of the organization. Mrs. Homer Shull, dean of girls at Manual, is sponsor of the active Masoma group, which numbers more than eighty girls.

23 TO BE GRADUATED AT PHARMACY SCHOOL Commencement Exercises to Be Held at 8 Wednesday Night. Twenty-three seniors will be graduated from the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy at commencement exercises at 8 Wednesday night in Cropsey auditorium at the public library. Candidates for a pharmaceutical chemist degree include: Albert Bailey, Phlip Bell, Kenneth Bogart, Harley Chastain, Amon B. Cox, George Ginther, Royal Gould, Harlow Hancock, Marion Hodson, Horace G. Jackson, Bernard T. Kearns, William Mann. George Reimenschneider, Ledgar Shank and Lionel Takiff. Bachelor of science candidates include Homer Daubenspeck, Bruce Dodd, Robert S. Hutto, P. G. Kern, Maurice Korshak, Richard Oehler, Edward K. Schmidt, Furl P. Van Deventer.

Mrs. Frank Gritt is handling volunteer motor cars and assigning volunteer drivers to each precinct. Miss Edith Anne Stafford is assisting her. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr. is state chairman of the Indiana unit of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.

22 CONVENTIONS HELD IN CITY DURING MAY Increase in Attendance at Parleys Here Is Reported. A total of twenty-two conventions were held in Indianapolis during May, Henry T. Davis, secretarymanager of the Indianapolis con-

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Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr. is secretary of the Marion county repeal committee, and Mrs. Edgar S. Gorrell and Mrs. George Denny Jr. are assisting with publicity. Marked ballots are being distributed pointing out that the voter must vote “For Ratification” to cast his vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment.

vention and publicity bureau, said today. Os these conventions, fourteen were held by organizations which met in Indianapolis last year, and the other eight were new ones. Attendance at the conventions showed a 33 per cent increase. Gold leaf of great delicacy was made by Egyptian artisans almost 4.000 years ago.

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CITY BARS FIRM FOR STARVATION LABORER WAGE Contracting Company Not to Get Business, Rules Works Board. Paying 15-cent an hour wage to laborers probably will eliminate the contracting firm of Abel Brothers, 8 East Market street. Room 109. from further participation in city street work, it was indicated Friday at the office of the works board. Ernest E Frick, board secretary, today made public a letter to the firm stating that an investigation has proved the truth of a charge that the 15-cent wage was paid laborers engaged in the improvement qf South New Jersey street in the vicinity of the south side market. In the letter Frick calls attention to establishment of a 30-cent an hour wage as a minimum more than a year ago. TREE CHAIR HAS RIVAL’ Captain Ed Helm’s Phenomenon Not So Much. Thinks City Woman. Police Captain Ed Helm, who talks about his leaf-bearing chair whenever the tree in the courthouse tower at Greensburg is mentioned, has a rival. Mrs. Ruth Fields. 1313 Tecumseh street, also has a leaf-b?aring chair, and not even a coat of shellac and stain prevented it from doing its stuff. Helm's chair is in the natural state, without shellac or stain. ADS PLACED before 11:15 Saturday morning will appear in home edition and also be listed in Rental Guide if inserted for four or more da vs.