Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1933 — Page 13
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11. S. LAUNCHES EPOCHAL TEST IN ECONOMICS Roosevelt Will Keep Firm Hand on Helm of New Organization. CODES READY SOON Plan for Fair Competition May Be Prepared Before Week-End. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 14.—The United States started today toward its greatest economic experiment—an attempt to substitute planned economy for economic individualism. President Roosevelt, through a cabinet committee consisting of the secretaries of labor, commerce, agriculture and interior, will direct policy and maintain close supervision over the industrial recovery organization, which is to be headed by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. This was disclosed following a conference late Tuesday night, called by the President at the White House and attended by Secretaries Perkins, Roper, Wallace, Ickes, At-torney-General Cummings, Budget Director Douglas and General Johnson. Actual signing of the bill, which congress sent to the President Tuesday. May be delayed until the organization is perfected and the President is ready to announce the personnel, including the two advisory committee representing capital and labor. Code Soon Ready Before the week is ended, the first of the codes of fair competition which are the basis of the new deal for labor and business may be ready for approval. Importance of the new r experiment was emphasized today by those who supported it and those who opposed it, as final steps were taken to make it law. By both groups it is considered the most farreaching measure enacted at a session which has broken all records for the number of major issues dealt with. "We have enacted twentieth century law to help solve twentieth century social and economic problems,” Senator Robert F. Wagner iDem., N. Y.), one of those most active in framing the bill, said in an address delivered soon after the final legislative red tape had been disposed of. “I believe the depression occurred and was prolonged unduly because we were trying to meet new issues with outworn remedies. Wrecked Trade, Commerce "Today we have learned that enforced planlessness disorganizes and even wrecks trade and commerce. , . . We are going to develop a scientific technique of planning in industry which will equal our technique of producing goods. "We are going to solve the economic problems of today with the same realism and directness which we applied to the problems of the past. . . . We shall move a step nearer to the social and economic justice which we always have professed to approve.” Senator Wagner predicted that the public works to be constructed under the bill will provide a pay roll for 3.000.000 men and women ‘‘which, will be translated into a rapid demand for consumers' goods. Some Disappointment Voiced The recovery bill becomes law with tax provisions disappointing in some respects to liberal members of the senate and house of representatives. A final attempt to write compulsory publicity for income tax returns into the law failed in the senate Tuesday afternoon by a close margin, when administration leaders rallied their forces to try to bring about quick adjournment. Equally unsuccessful were attempts to force taxation of taxexempt securities, to forbid price fixing, and to require that the government set a maximum profit for producers along with prices. The measure, as finally approved, was almost exactly as prepared by the administration. OFFERS GROUND AS" SITE FOR NEW SCHOOL Board Takes Donation Under Consideration, Pending Survey. Offer of nearly an acre of ground at Twenty-first street and Riley avenue to the school city as a site for anew school building was submitted to the school board Tuesday night. This donation from Mrs. Joseph Leach Espey, with provision that a building be erected within five years, was taken under consideration by the board until its next meeting. . School officials will survey the property which is to be given on condition the school erected be named the Susan Rowe Leach school, in memory of the donor's mother. The board approved expenditure of $11,671 for improvements to schools 27, 67, 9. ”6, 12 and 55. FIGHT ALABAMA CASE Indiana Joins to Halt Checkmating of New Prison Goods Law. Every effort will be made by At-torney-General Philip Lutz Jr. to prevent the state of Alabama from checkmatin'- the Hawes-Cooper bill giving the state power to ban interstate shipment of prison-made goods, it was announced today. Twelve states are joining with Indiana to prevent the case from being accepted by the United States supreme court, he said. pecision to fight against Alabama was reached at a meeting of attor-ney-generals from eighteen states in Chicago last week.
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WOMAN SCOFFS AT PERILS OF AFRICA
Jeers at Wild Conceptions of Dangers Lurking in Dark Continent
In this third of six articles on women whose work has taken them to Interesting places and through exciting experiences Earl Sparling discusses Miss Caroline Singer, a writer of charming travel books, and wife of the prominent artist C Leroy Baldridge. Mr. Sparling previously has interviewed Mrs. James L Clark and a group of airplane hostesses BY EARL SPARLING Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 14.—Adventure, the kind with a big A, leaves Caroline Singer cold. Stories of hairbreadth action in strange lands bore her. She knows most of the strange lands of the world, knows them rather intimately, and she knows the kind of romantic traveler who bumps into danger at every border and escapes death constantly. Adventure? Well, she and her husband, C. Leroy Baldridge, the artist, trekked through Africa for thirteen months in 1926-27. Trekked is the proper word. Sometimes they had litters along, but they let the black porters carry them empty. Nor did they have a weapon of any sort during the entire trip. Nor did they wear any of the regulation regalia in which adventurers are supposed to do Africa. "There is no such misunderstanding about Africa,” smiled Miss Singer, sitting comfortable on the back terrace of their apartment looking not at all like a woman who would court hardship. “It is perfectly absurd to carry guns. The natives are the most hospitable people in the world. “As for wild animals, they are not nearly so dangerous as the black water fever and the yellow fever. “If you are the kind of person who wants to bring trophies home, you can buy a. lion skin nearly anywhere for 75 cents. You can buy any kind of a live animal you want. A baby chimpanzee costs a shilling. You can buy anything from a baby rhino to a baby gorilla, and if you want something that isn’t already in a pen all you have to do is to # post a notice and some native will bring it in. For a hundred dollars you could get a menagerie. So why be myterious about Africa? a * tt “T TOW is one to say what is 11 dangerous? Are a couple of leopards more dangerous than a couple of taxi drivers? Os course, there are leopards. Many a time we’ve heard them rumbling in the scrub as we moved along. We didn’t bother them and they didn't bother us. “If you are traveling in Africa with the intention of understanding the country and its people, you soon learn to pay no more attention to such things than the natives do. “I was told an ' amusing story about lion hunting. I don’t know whether it is true, but they said that one way lions are hunted is to kill a zebra and poison the meat.
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) j'X fi|y one trip of many. Ever since they r^^Ba^^^Sil^''^aii) ; . -.'lftr ? were married these two have been t Jjg*// _jfX .JL roaming about, the earth. Leroy A Baldridge making sketches at vCffiPry y*f/| V every stop, his wife writing words y' <M! |\ to accompany the best of them in 0 . wy n Jp|| \ i~Tf /I;|<-| some Os the most delightful travel 1 ■| / *Xjf. ll| jjji books that have ever been pubMs \ France and northern Italy. In 1923-24 they spent thirteen The lion comes up for his feast. “TT‘S astonishing how much the months in China and Japan and hen he is groggy from the A white people in Africa fear the 23HMP|||W 'ykj ■■ Jt witnessed three successive military • th h d 111 vp hunter ad sun - We met one man who wore a *nf ill occupations of Peking, ison. the de luxe hunter ad- pith helmet even at night t 0 pro . fL* - * nces and kills him. The most tect himsefl from the reflection of "X Wva & ''JlvW oimnnce vealing story we heard about the suns rays by the moon. iIEK/ '?%< |Jf# iirjfjl T s OSE that would seem ms was in Dar-es-Salaam on the “We went bareheaded most of •J'P®’ ' W “sjSecfalfy. ItTas st coast. A German couple ran the time, as the natives do. gi| Ji \ErjH%fi. just a matter of new sentries hotel there before the World “Adventure? Well. yes. they did rHH? !. I? rm V standing around with meat cleavir when the region was a Ger- have one bit of adventure in At- |M , * 1 \ , # era. in possession. They had just ]. ica . L s< . mvnpH hv c V rians LJ| V “Once you know the stability tten the hotel back a bit before found bus e . y > ’ tffy H f lLi && of Chinese, military occupations ■ arrived. runnmg between the native vil- J 1 seem less important. The capacThe woman told me the saddest lages. They chartered a bus and , v M ityfor survival of the Chinese ing about the whole war from started taking on P assen S e s | V* . jJaW never will be upset by any revolt her^ifon^ 5 "5? took natives everywhere. L*lJ F f . lution or any army '” ' She hfd raised him from a cub. The first day the driver cheated us | J H^avelS* 1 was full crown bv the time The bus was full all the time, but I wond, taking then time, traveling e war started. He ran loose there didn't seem to be any ftJL x I in their own fashion, lingering for out the hotel like a dog. Then money. The second day I did the £ ir j a months in Persia. There Mr e British came and the German collecting. We made all our ex- Baldridge made the first portiaits uple had to flee with the rest penses from that time on. —— - W&i — — J' \ e Yf secuied of Persian women
The lion comes up for his feast. When he is groggy from the poison, the de luxe hunter advances and kills him. The most revealing story we heard about lions w-as in Dar-es-Salaam on the east coast. A German couple ran a hotel there before the World war when the region was a German possession. They had just gotten the hotel back a bit before w f e arrived. The woman told me the saddest thing about the whole war from her standpoint w r as that she had lost her pet lion. “She had raised him from a cub. He was full grown by the time the war started. He ran loose about the hotel like a dog. Then the British came and the German couple had to flee with the rest of their compatriots. And before they departed they shot the lion. They told me with tears in their eyes that they were afraid the British might mistreat him.”
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IT’S astonishing how' much the white people in Africa fear the sun. We met one man who wore a pith helmet even at night to protect himsefl from the reflection of the sun's rays by the moon. “We went bareheaded most of the time, as the natives do. “Adventure? Well, yes, they did have one bit of adventure in Africa. Along the Gold Coast they found bus lines, owned by Syrians, running between the native villages. They chartered a bus and started taking on passengers themselyes. “We took natives everywhere. The first day the driver cheated us. The bus w'as full all the time, but there didn't seem to be any money. The second day I did the collecting. We made all our expenses from that time on. “Travelling in Africa is not difficult at all. There is plenty of transportation, trains, river boats, busses, but sometimes you will have to wait two weeks to get it. We
waited nineteen days at one place for a boat which had sunk. Often it is easier to than to wait.” The African expedition w'as only
Caroline Singer in her 12th St. Studio below. Sketch by C. Leroy Baldridge, made on one of their journeys,
one trip of many. Ever since they were married these two have been roaming about the earth, Leroy Baldridge making sketches at every stop, his wife writing words to accompany the best of them in some of the most delightful travel books that have ever been published. In 1922 they bicycled through France and northern Italy. In 1923-24 they spent thirteen months in China and Japan and witnessed three successive military occupations of Peking. tt tt tt “T SUPPOSE that would seem x exciting,” said Miss Singer, “but it wasn’t especially. It was just a matter of new sentries standing around with meat cleavers. “Once you know the stability of Chinese, military occupations seem less important. The capacity for survival of the Chinese never will be upset by any revolution or any army.” In 1931-32 they went around the world, taking their time, traveling in their own fashion, lingering for nine months in Persia. There Mr. Baldridge made the first portraits ever secured of Persian women with their faces unveiled. He got the pictures after Miss Singer, accomplished in. the art of winning the confidence of native peoples, had spent weeks making
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friends with the women, their husbands, brothers and fathers. Some 400 of the sketches the artist brought back with him are now T on exhibition at the Beaux Arts hotel. A choice collection of them will be included in another Baldridge-Singer travel book, on which Miss Singer is nowbusy. It was in Persia the travelers had what might be called a real adventure. They started out across the Syrian desert, Bagdad to Jerusalem, themselves in one rattletrapp Ford, another party in an accompanying car. So treacherous is this desert that the government never allows one car to attempt it alone. A few weeks before two lorries filled with Frenchmen had lost the trail. an n “AS we dropped Bagdad out of A. sight a third car anpeared suddenly out of the des#t and joined in line. It was filled with an ugly-looking crew of men and it soon developed that w'e were supposed to supply them with water, gasoline, food, whatever they needed. “It wq,s apparent they were bound on some illegal errand—opium smuggling, perhaps —and had been unable either to make preparations or secure proper papers. They just demanded what they wanted without even a thankyou. “This kept up until after nightfall. Then I decided we had had enough of it. Our driver had been complaining of a headache. I gave him ten grains of aspirin. It knocked him out like that. We turned off the lights and got the car a few yards off the trail. “The front car kept on going. The other car—the one that had joined us—was some piece behind. It went by without seeing us. That gives you an idea of how black the desert night is. “Our driver slept for hours. He was pretty mad when he woke up, but anyw-ay we had gotten rid of our friends.” “Did you know the aspirin w-ould knock him out?” “Well, I suspected it would. You have to know a few things Ike that.” Next: Gloria Hollister. PROPOSE RELIEF WORK New Castle Officials Confer on Utility Expansion Plan. New Castle city officials Tuesday submitted to the Governor's office a proposal to spend $500,000 for city water and electric utilities improvements as part of the $50,000,000 public works-unemployment relief program throughout the state. Funds are to be procured through bond issues sponsored, and 30 per cent paid for, by the federal government.
U. S. TO SPURN ‘DIME FOR sl' DEBT OFFERS Roosevelt Will Let Europe Default Rather Than Approve Plan. WILLING TO NEGOTIATE President Ready to Start Discussions After July 4. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS SrriDDa-Howard Forelsn Editor WASHINGTON. June 14—Repudiation of Europe's $11,000,000,000 war debt to the United States now is definitely in sight as the alternative to sweeping reductions. But that is only half the picture. The other half is that the United States almost certainly will let Europe default rather than accept anything like the 10-cents-on thedollar settlement which the principal debtors indicate they plan to offer. President Roosevelt, it is understood, will begin new debt negotiations with Great Britain and other countries shortly after July 4. He expects to be back in Washington then. President to Decide Upon the outcome of these negotiations, in a large measure, w ill depend the success or failure of the epochal world economic conference. The first 48 hours of the London parley decidedly have not lightened the President’s task. Congress, which alone has authority to change the terms of the existing debt settlements. has, rightly or wrongly, been given the distinct impression that a European bloc has formed for the purpose of stampeding the United States into unconditional revision. And congress will not be stampeded. It is on record against reduction, cancellation, or revision. Opposed to Cancellation The President specifically reserved for himself the job of negotiating anew debt understanding with Europe. President Hoover wanted 1o revive the world war foreign debt commisson, upon which congress w'ould be represented. But President Roosevelt objected. He held that the President has ample authority too carry on such talks, and this he proposes to do here, and through diplomatic channels in London and Paris. President Roosevelt, however, no less than congress, is against cancellation. He has not even promised revision. All he has done was to offer to sit down and talk things over with the debtor nations.