Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1933 — Page 13

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The Wizard As you open the pages of *ln - door And Outdoor Plays For Cht!dr*n' b\ John Farrar, in walks the Wizard with a irolden rake and waterme pot,. aaa in UALTER I>. lIHKMAN HOW to supply children with beautiful makr-bohev® plays lor the four seasons of the year has bpen a problem that fathers, mothers and teachers have fared for years. It is not difficult to find games for children, because we all know how easy it is for the very little girl to pla\ house with her dolls. And I ean remember back many years even when crude mud-pies ceased to he wet dirt but became marvelous pumpkin pies like mother made for Thanksgiving. The thine we have all been looki£t for and you have asked me many times is for a collection of plays that the very young and th"> older young children tan act out of doors in summer and fall and in the living room in winter. Or a mother as well as a father mav sit down and read the plays to the children with ihe result that the children start acting before a chapter is completed. Alter years of hope and search I have found such a collection It is Indoor and Outdoor Plays For Children h\ John Farrer. published bv Noble and Noble. 76 Fifth avenue. New York City. Let us approach this human book lor children just as we did for Funda \ ' Farrar in his introduction Slates lhc sense of play-acting is developed very early in children and springs quite naturally from the sense of plav Thev enjoy their own mahe-up games and play themselves they enjoy acting them out for their elders." With the memory of his grandmothers costume-trunk in the attic. Farrer has written these simple play- that do not take much rehearsing. Even a virtrnla. as the author states may furnish the musical background. aaa BECAUSE of Farrar s fine understanding of what children like to do. he has "sprinkled rhymes along the way of dialogue," because children love to recite verse. And he has solved the cost time problem His words are—" For costumes'’ Simple or elaborate, as you w ish. It's extraordinary what effects ran be achieved with a scarf and a few flowers " The reason for writing these plays is given bv the author as follows: ‘Many of these masques were written some years ago in the Connecticut farm country for a group of us. children and their parents, too. playing through the summer time." And the author asks you to write to him when the plays are produced and he also says. “I should indeed like to be invited to a performance .’’ As for the book, it has been beautifully and individually illustrated b\ Winilred Rromhall and Mary M Ludlum The illustration showing imaginary unborn chtld-en trying to trot through a big gate so they may be born in February is a masterpiece The book contains the following plays The House Gnomes." a pla\ for a Christmas tree; "God Pan Forgotten, a plav for v. forest space; "The Kingdom of the Rose Queens." a plav for a summer garden the Magir Sea Shell." a play for the seashore; “Grandmother Dozes ‘ a plav for a winter evening: Birthdays Come *n February." a plav for birthdays -one of the sweetest in the book': Worship the Nativity a masque for Christmas; Swing High a plav for th garden. and • Sand Cas*le." a play for the sandbox on the lawn. a a a ATI7ITH such natural settings as a ▼ V living room in a winter evening a sandbox on the lawn, a summer rose garden and even a Christmas tree—well, ncarlv every home possesses some of these natural settings. Thr children mav ranee in age from six to sixteen and that is another accomplishment of the author because of the wide range The puolishers state—These plavs are fully protec-ed by copyright, but non-professional performances mav be given without fee. providing only the consent of the author is secured. w ho may be addressed in care of the publisher." As I understand ;t. any father or mother may take their children and the neighborhood children and produce these plays for their own enjoyment without any cost in their own backyards or house To me. that is one of the most wonderful things of this book You remember how we all raved over ‘ Funda.v" w hen I introduced that book to you. Well, you will rave as much over Indoor and Outdoor Plays for Children." It sells for 52. aaa there is anew edition com- . mg out of the late John Galsworthy's “The Forsyte Saga " Mrs. Galsworthy just has turned over to Scribners the manuscript of her preface for the forthcoming meinomi edition of "The Forsyte Saga.' 1 <

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CITY INDUSTRY PLEDGES HELP TO ROOSEVELT C. of C. Head Declares All Business Leaders Will Aid Recovery Plan. KINGAN’S TO BACK MOVE Indorsement of Program Is Given by Furniture Plant Owner. Declarations of willingness to cooperate m the industrial recovery program announced Thursday night bv President Rooseveit were made bv officials of leading Indianapolis businesses todav. We will give fullest co-operation," declared Louis J. Bormstein, Chamber of Commerce president. “We pro;>ose to get into the spirit of this thing as the President appeals to us. and follow the administrations program " He declared he believed it would be the policy of Indianapolis business leaders to follow the administration s suggestions as to wages and working hours, "cheerfuliy and wholeheartedly." Working on Codes Borinstein has attended several trade association meetings where employers have been working on codes. I hav-p found." he said, '’a very favorable reaction at such meetings, a strong desire to cooperate with the federal government. "If all business men do wholeheartedly what is asked of them, it undoubtedly will bring results." Officials of Kingan Ar Cos., packers, explained today that they had not vet received official notification regarding the plan, but would cooperate with the administration. "It is very hopeful, but its ultimate working out is more or less problematical. At least, it promises the best chance of bringing about quick and permanent results." C H King, vice-president of the rompany. declared regarding the act.

Adjustments Necessary ‘We will have to make adjustments in our own industry. The act offers some difficulties, but I don't suppose they are insurmountable “We will co-operate fully with Ihe administration. American meat packers are negotiating now with regard to a rode and we are awaiting word as to details of the plan." hr said. Unqualified endorsement was voiced by John J. Madden, president of the John J Madden Manufacturing Company, furniture manufacturing firm. "Although I’ve read ihe program very hurriedly. I'm for it and we expect to get in line as fast as we can.’ Madden said. "Naturally, there are a lot of details to arrange in any program so sweeping as this, but we expect to be on the new basis before the Sept. 1 date that has been set. Hits at Cut-Throat System "Cut-throat competition on labor scales has hurt working conditions in tjie furniture industry and the President's order ought to whip a lot of concerns in line "We’ve already made one wage increase and promised another, but if some furniture manufacturing firms, particularly in the south, raised wages ioo per cent, they’d still be behind Madden's and similar concerns whose consciences won t let them pay starvation wages. "I welcome the presidential decision—we've got to get things rolling." Mallory Meeting Called Officials of the P R. Mallory Company were to meet today to discuss the executive order, and J E Cain, treasurer, said he "felt distinctlyl that the President's program is the onlv wav to get things started. ’ Otherwise." Cain asserted. thered be too much delay." Ayres’ Officials Meet Officials of L. S Avres A: Cos. are in session for the purpose of discussing possible changes under the new code Louis Wolfe, of the H P Wasson Company, stated this morning that so far as he could determine at the present time, no change would be necessary at the Wasson store. Wr never have cut wages.” Wolfe said. Our wage scale now is above the minimum set forth in the code and we do not feel that it will be necessary to make other chances However, we will abide by the code, of course." Radical changes in all stores were anticipated by M S. Block of the William H Block Companv, although he feels that the extent of these will not be known until the code is received More Jobs Forecast He feels that it will mean the employment of more people and the raising of wages. The only statement that I can make at the present time is that the William H Block Companv will abide by the code that is given it " Block said It was reported unofficially that ’h** National Dry Goods Association • s working on a code for department stores J S Watson. Link Belt Company •".ce-president, had no details to announce concerning plans of his company. but said "it will co-operate with the administration." Inquiries directed to several other companies brought the response that more time would be needed for study of the program before any announcement of detailed plans could be made. In the field of public works. James Adams, state highway commission chairman, stated that the code woiiid effect only road maintenance workers. He pointed out that short hours and a minimum wage already are in effect on roads built in Indiana with federal aid. The work is thirty hours, with a minuow wage of 35 cents an hour.

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CELLOPHANE-YOU FIND IT EVERYWHERE

Long Years of Experiment by Chemists Bring ‘Wonder Product’

This is the second of William Enzie * nw series of dramatic conouests in the realm of practical science. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Special Writer THE young man punched on the lights, and in the long room a thousand things from the ends of the earth glistened as though they had been lacquered with sunshine. It was cellophanes show in the Du Pont museum. Here were assembled specimens of the host of goods that go to the citizenry in transparent jackets of evergreen spruce. Here was a tall tree's answer to the ancients’ call for something new in fiber. The oldsters had to look to plants and animals and insects for fiber. China had the shrouds of the silk worm; Greece and Rome had wool; Egyjlt, flax, India, cotton. It was the development of "mechanical pulp ' the reduction of chunks of wood to tangled webs, that let paper supplant cuneiform tablets, papyrus and parchment This wood pulp was an omen, too. that some time things would come to such a pass that. Ballyhoo* editor. Norman Anthony, would be wrapping himself inside it. getting himself photographed bundled in cellorhane.

ini is :ne scoria or enz:<►. 1 _ .. ~ series of rtramzne conouests in the t - ’Wt e:m of practical science | \ ' Times Special W'Viler ' f THE young man punched on the lights, and in the long v a oom a thousand things from the ; x’V V\ / * nds of ihe earth glistened a ~~~~ — \\" _ ’jL hough they had bec-n lacquered \ nth sunshine I> was cello- I y wL mane s show m the Du Font \ * nuseum \ .... ’ Here were as.somb.ed specimens \ * •f the host of goods that go to the \ f- , ltizenry in transparent jackets of \ vergreen spruce. Here was a tall . \ -fßfc to ‘he ancients' rail —" SWjL or something new ,n fiber V g&L . ML \\ ilanis and animals and insects 'y \ or fiber Ci :na had the shrouds \ ' ar.d WKStR, \ \ ’ y tome had wool. Egvfit flax. • Jk It was the development of "me- Below Is ama Wf!| " hat in paper supplant cuneiform | rhine ' t one of I , i j \ ablets, papyrus and parchment many In a factory M \ ' jf*': This wood pulp was in omen h h t f .■ *./ \\^ W I mMBI I A model demonstrates a eelli - ,|M| - A^^^ 3j l|il^\\ x phane parasol. complete the disintegration oi Wk % . Under pressure, 'hrv force -hi liquid through a narrow A, slit, it comes out not as a potentia tit / ct'' '‘fc JBMjKtßji „' / sheet of cellophane, but as thread; \ n ... Y ’imWFtwiWrmirw of ra von 1 • |My T nPaiii 1 fSjttffwiiJjmMHMl If ' ana "over yy bleach :.t and wash . *p heated rolls that dry it. it emerge. l y ready to be wrapped around anyj thing from rattlesnake meai ~ i tthat is one of ita uses) to indooi

But the omen was unnerceived for a long time after wood pulp, or cellulase, first was turned into newsprint; yet cellophane is made from the same basic matcial. Call it wood or call it cotton, it is cellulose—the tangled web of thin, white fibers left after wood or cotton is digested m alkali —that is. broken down to a thick and viscous liquid. Cellophane, prodigy of the depression. did not burst upon a waiting and expectant world. It only seemed to. That vas after the Swiss chemist, J. E. Brandenherger. trying to find a solution that would bring out the brilliance of cotton fabrics’ designs, came upon it in his obscure laboratory in the Vosges. m a a A THOUSAND other chemists. working across the hundred years before that, each in his way, brought the bright wrapper's heyday nearer. Item—John Mercer. He was the humble Lancashire calico printer who in 1844 found that by passing cotton cloth through a caustic soda solution he shortened and strengthened the fiber. That, long after he did not care, gave "mercerized" cotton to the mauve decade. Item—Count Hilaire de Chardonnet. He was the Parisian professor of the Polytechnic school, who spent his life and fortune trying to perfect, "artificial silk," trying to make wood pulp into something lustrous. Item—The Vereinigte GlanzstoffFabriken. It did what the count could not do. It was the biggest "artificial silk" 'now it is rayon> manufacturer in the world before the war. It made Germany first in attiring shopgirls as lustrously as debutantes. They, and other chemists untold. pioneered the wav for rayon and cellophane, for both are made in precisely the same manner up to the last few operations, when the wood pulp syrup comes out

PERU FLOOD CONTROL DATA IS ASSEMBLED $18,000,000 Federal Project Information Gathered By Mayor. B'J t nit"i Prrt PERU. Ind . July 21.—Data showing how land in the Peru area would be benefited if 518.000.000 of federal emergency funds were converted into flood control work along the Wabash river was being assembled by Mayor John E. Yarling today. He agreed to gather the information at the request of army engineers studying proposals of Representatives Virginia Jenckes and Glen Griswold that the Wabasn river flood control project be handled by the federal government. Mayor Yarling has contended that the work here is not imperative and that an adequate flood control system was constructed three years ago. PREDICT RECORD SALES *OO Croslev Dealers Are Optimistic in Meeting Here. Record radio sales were predicted at a meeting of 400 Cros.Yy dealers at Municipal Gardens Thursday night. Advanced models of the Croslev radio were exhibited, a line of twenty-eight different receiver*, one with rqmote control. The meeting was a farewell for C. Q. Mathews, head of the Kiefer-Stewprt Company radio department. He will become affiliated with a radio tube company, f * *

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either as fine, white thread or as thin, colorless sheets. aaa BUT Brandenberger. the Swiss. forever experimenting, forpver with his fingers stained by chemicals and his eyes glazed by mighty hopes, was the one who actually made cellophane a present to a planet that at first was apathetic and by-and-by clamorous. He was trying to make cellulose solutions impart a sheen to cotton print goods; and he did; but he found then that his shimmering fabric was so stiff a lady could net sit down in it. Then, doing thus and that with the cellulose, starting over time and again, he hit upon a thin, strange film. He applied it to the cotton goods. The results were not any better; a mademoiselle might as well have worn isinglass. But in the failure to make for her a shining and pliable gown he introduced the earth to one of its most astonishing newcomers. HLs thin film, devised from cellulose. was cellophane. What to do with the illegitimate child he did not know. But he

‘Goodbye,’ Wails Suicide Note; Wife Is Skeptical

TWO street car conductors returning from work early today found a bottle of poison and a note threatening suicide, on the guard rail of th* Illinois street bridge over Fall creek. Police said the noto was addressed to Mrs. Alice Foreman. 113 North Noble street. It road: “To whoever finds this hat spnd it to above address and tell Alice I said goodby. Hope she will be happy. 'Signed' W. R. F." Polic® hurried to the North No-

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wondered a good deal, and presently in his mind he was perfecting designs to produce it experimentally; presently he was making the machines commercially. aaa 'T'HAT was slow going. Twelve years went by before he was able to supplant the original heavy, brittle sheet with the thin, tough sheet much like the sheet of today. , Now. with the pioneers and pioneering long gone, it is magnificent routine. Up in the Kipawa country of northern Quebec. 5.000 cold, square miles of spruce timberland stretch, horizon to horizon. Those trees are tough, for they have to rear skyward sometimes when it is 50 below zero; so cellophane is tough. The lumberjacks of International Paper push them over, though, dexterously as if they were old telephone poles; float the hard, white logs to the mill, leave them there to become a little later sheets of cellulose. At the cellophane factories f hey put the cellulose sheets in presses and steep them in a caustic bath. They shred them to a fluffy mass.

ble street address and awakened Mrs. Foreman. She was unperturbed. Admitting that the note was written by h°r husband, Walter Ray Foreman. 25. who recently lost his job in a cleaning establishment. she said that he had writen several other notes threatening suicide. They had quarreled, she said, because he wanted her to move to Ft. Wayne to live with relatives.

A model demonstrates a cello phane parasol. They mix in carbon bisulphide to complete the disintegration of the fibers. Then they have a sticky, amber liquid. Under pressure, they force the liquid through a narrow slit into a chemical shower, which instantly solidifies it into a thin film. 'When they force it through tiny holes instead of the slit, it comes out not as a potential sheet of cellophane, but as threads of rayoni. ana PIN ALLY they pass the film over a series of rolls. They bleach it and wash it. They give it a bath in glycerol to make it soft and pliable, and from the heated rolls that dry it. it emerges ready to be wrapped around anything from rattlesnake meat <that is one of its uses) to indoor radio antennas ianother'. In its commercial beginning it was La Cellophane—no less—and retailed on the swarming little Rue de la Chausee d’ Antin in Paris as a luxury product, costly, and not then even dreamed of as a jacket for a grocer's rasher of bacon or a Grand Central Terminal apple. America got. it moving. E. I. du Pont de Nemours bought the North American rights, and in 1924. with production under way at Buffalo the first ambitious drive for recognition by big business' "idea men" was opened. The "idea men" were deaf ones. For cellophane was $2 65 a pound then, and it would have cost more than two cents to wTap a loaf of bread. Boxed candy was the first product to go cellophane-wrapped to the stands. Then, as tne price w as reduced, cakes, cookies, bacon,

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sausages fell in line. Then the candy bars. aaa Meanwhile Dr wuuam Hale Church, chief cellophane research chemist, after 2,000 experiments in the laboratory, turned out moisture-proof cellophane. and the field was immediately widened. The era of foil-wrapped cigars was at its height. The new mois-ture-proof. transparent jackets became to supplant the foil. The big cigaret companies accepted the inevitable and followed the cigars’ lead. Camels, with sound and fury, arrived in the "humidor pack" Lucky Strikes, no more quietly, came out with the “Lucky Tab." The others capitulated. But in some of the most recent uses the success of the wrapping has been most phenomenal In retail store tests sales of tea. wrapped in cellophane, jumped 42 per cent, sales of crackers wrapped in cellophane, rose 55 per rent; gum drops. 54 per rent; coffee. 89 per rent; beans. 28 per cent; noodles. 89 per cent: handkerchiefs. 94 per rent; stationery, 165 per rent; shirts. 333 per rent; peanuts. 766 per cent: marshmallows, 1,000 per cent This year cellophane is beginning to do well by the bread industry. Bakers began to try the moisture-proof wrapper on special breads which theretofore had had limited sales, such varieties as rye, raisin, pumpernickel, rimnamon and cranberry. In various communities five, six, ten times more shoppers bought the odd brands than ever before. aaa FRESH vegetables, the du Pont, people said today, offer another vast and promising field, and wrapped tomatoes have set pace. They are making cellophane ribbon now, printed in colors; cellophane wrapping paper in colors and decorated; and lamp shades, belts, bracelets, necklaces and wall covering. Cellophane laminated to scrim or gauze becomes a tablecloth or an apron. It is a government chemist., though—R. M. Reeve—working in the top-floor laboratory of the Army Medical Museum here, who has achieved the most spectacular of cellophane feats. He is using it in his photographic darkroom, making threecolor photographs with it that are so vividly accurate in reproduction that they look like water colors. He exposes panchromatic plates in his camera. One records yellow, another green, the third purple. With each he makes a print on chemically treated cellophane sheets, puts the sheets, still wet, together and he has his picture. So the potentialities still are the lure the cellulose chemists heed. Where they may lead they do not know. Meanwhile, they are filling some more test tubes. Next—The Romance of Chromium. A geologist points to the need of a durable, transparent waterproofing substance to protect Greek temples and other famous stone ruins from the disintegrative action of water.

OUTLAWS JEER • AT U.S; SHOOT OUT OF TRAPS Federal Agents Start on Trail of Clyde and Ivy Barrow. KILL PEACE OFFICERS Make Escape in Speeding Auto. With Machine Guns Blazing. PjJ I hi ltd Prcut KANSAS CITY. Mo July 21 Federal agents today took up the trail of Clyde and Ivy Barrow. Texas outlaws who have flouted the laws of several states and are alleged to have killed peace officers in three of them The United Slates bureau of investigation b-’gan its quirt search for the bandit pair and two women accompanying them after it was learned that a Browning automatic rifle and nine pistols left behind by the quartet after a battle with police near Platte City early today bore the marks of the government. It was believed the guns had been stolen from a national guard armory, the location of winch has not been determined This development put federal agents on the trail of practically every notorious bandit gang in the southwest. The government already is after Charles t Pretty Boyi Floyd. Verne C Miller. Harvey Bailey and mast of the other machine gunners of the southwest, following ihe massacre of four officers and a government prisoner at Kansas Cirys union station. Sroff at Authorities The Barrows, objects of the latest search, have only laughed at local authorities who chased them At Joplin. Mo . they are alleged to have killed two policemen; at Ft. Worth. Clyde is charged with the death (f a city detective; at Alma. Ark., they are accused of killing a city marshal. Today, however. their status changed. Instead of combating local police, they now are '.he prey of the federal government In method, the Barrows work similarly to Floyd. They allow themselves to be entrapped, then roar away in a high-powered car. machine guns blazing as they go But while "Pretty Boy usually is accompanied bv one companion, the Barrow brothers generally have two women with them. One of them. Bonnie Parker, writes underworld poetry of a sort, which has earned her the nickname of Suicide Sal." Shooi Way to Safety The quartet's latest conflict with the law occurred Thursday, when officers, tipped that Uv> Barrows were in a cabin near Platte City, surrounded the place. The banditti opened fire from Ihe windows, then dashed to their automnoile and roared away, the women attired in their nightgowns The police returned the fire, but two machine guns which they held refused to work. "Bulletproof" glass also was shatteied and a policeman behind it was shot in both knees. One of the bandits fell three times, but one of the women got him into the car. The officers believed the woman also was wounded