Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1933 — Page 3

DEC. 9, 1933_

BELT ELEVATION PLAN INDORSED BY CIVIC CLUB Walter E. Kemphill Named President Again by Enterprise League. Walter E Hemphill will continue as president of the Enterprise Civic League aether year as result of election held last night in the Rhodius Park community house. Other officers named by the group are Fred Brumit, first vice-persi-dent; Fay E. Rugh, second vicepresident; William C. Peacock, secretary, and Mrs. Mary C. Holsclaw, treasurer. The league was asked by Paul C. Wetter, Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs president, to support the federation’s campaign for purchase of the Indianapolis Water Company by the city. Addresses by E. H Wischmeyer and J. Ed Burk of the South Side Cine Clubs central committee, were followed by indorsement of the commtitee's campaign for completion of Belt railroad elevation through a $6,000,000 federal loan, and for an ordinance limiting freight trains through the city to fifty cars and forbidding trains to block crossing more than three minutes. LESS FOOD LENGTHENS LIFE, REDUCES PROGENY Results of Experiments With Small Water Animals Announced. By Science Service PROVIDENCE, R, I„ Dec. 9 Short rations enable animals to live longer, but cut their birth rate materially. This conclusion has been reached by Lester Ingle of Brown university, as the result of experiments on two species of cladocerans, small water animals related to shrimp and crayfish. Mr. Ingle reports his work in detail in the current issue of Science, noting that his results are in general agreement with those of Dr. C. M. McCay of Cornell university, who worked with rats, which are about as far removed from cladocerans as it is possible for animals to be. Mr. Ingle kept females of his animals separately in bottles. In one of the bottles he put the normal culture fluid diluted from twentyfour to thirty-six times with pond water, thus giving them much less to feed on. The animals on short rations lived nearly 12 per cent longer than did their well fed sisters, but produced far fewer offspring. FINE EASTERN TREES HAVE LIGHTNING ROD Unique Protection Is Devised for Historic Groves. B.y Science Service BALTMORE, Dec. 9.—Protection against lightning has been given to a number of fine trees in Maryland, some of them of historic interest, by equipping them with lightning rods. Success with this method over a period of seventeen years is described by Dean J. B. Whitehead of the Johns Hopkins university engineering faculty, in the current issue of Science. The equipment is quite simple. Seven-strand copper cable is led to the top of the tree, its end unbraided to give a number of free discharge points, and the lower end soldered to the top of an iron pipe driven eleven feet into the ground Some trees have been given several such rods. Several of the trees thus equipped had been struck by lightning one or more times before the installation of the rods, but since then no protected tree has been struck, though in some cases other trees nearby have suffered.

WARNED OF CLIMBING STAIRS: SCALES PEAKS Englishman Feels That Doctors Exaggerated Condition. By L'nitfd Pres s LONDON, Dec. 9.—The man who has climbed higher than any one else in the world once was told to be careful how he walked upstairs. He is F. S. Smythe. a member of the last unsuccessful Mt. Everest expedition. Although they did not reach the summit, Smythe climbed 28.100 feet. Doctors had told him to hang on to the banisters when he went upstairs. Smythe was invalided out of the royal air forces after a serious illness. It was then that the doctors advised caution. Smythe replied by climbing Mt. Kamet, 25.447 feet; the Jonsong peak in the Himalayas, 24.344 feet. and. without guides, Mt. Blanc, in the Swiss Alps. 15.781 feet, by anew and what was considered an inaccssible route. The reason for all this climbing is that Smythe has been trying to forget the doctors’ warning. “I think they rather exaggerated matters when they told me to go carefully.” is all he would say about it. MANY AMERICANS GO TO M'GILL UNIVERSITY Students from Twenty-Five States in Canadian School. By Vnited Press MONTREAL. Dec. 9.—Students from nearly even.' country in the world are studying at McGill university this year. The United States furnished the largest group with undergraduates from twenty-five states. Other countries represented include the British Isles. India, Rhodesia. British Guiana. Australia. Newfoundland. Bermuda, the British West Indies, France. Spain. Switzerland. Germany. China, South America. Hawaii. Porto Rico and Cuba. CLOCK IDLE 9 YEARS STARTS RUNNING AGAIN Load of Buckshot Sends Old Timepiece Back to Work. By l nitt and Prt fig HOUSTON. Tex., Dec. 9.—A grandfather clock rested for nine years in Charles Dalio's store, until its venerable peace was disturbed by a load of buckshot square in the face from an "uloaded' gun exhibited by a visitor. Then it started running again, its face bady disfigured.

Kirby’s Scarecrow Came in 1919, Saw Mad Years, Was Buried in 1933

The original cartoon by RolHn Kirby which appeared July 1, 1919, captioned “Your Carriage Awaits, cartoons showed the spiritual disintegration of “Mister Dry” until Mr. Kirby portrayed the demise and M’Lord,” fixed the characterization of “Mister Dry” in the public mind. As the years passed other Kirby j burial of his character last Nov. 9 under the title, “The Pallbearers.”

“IV/fISTER diedthe other and Rollin Kirby, his creator, was both elated and vaguely sad. The famous political cartoonist of The Times and other ScrippsHoward newspapers u 7 as elated because an era of hypocrisy and meanness was at an end. Rollin Kirby hates all hypocrisy and meanness with a fierce intensity. He was vaguely sad and because a good fight fin which he played a leading part) also was at an end, and because he never again would be able to make his

FEDERAL EMPLOYES RE-ELECnORTNER Local Union Holds Annual Voting Session. Members of Local 78, National Federation of Federal Employes, reelected George C. Fortner president last night at the annual meeting in the Lincoln. Others elected were Alfred F. Cowan, first vice-president; Lewis H. Moehlman, second vice-presi-dent; James O. Fly, third vice-pres-ident; Agnes K. Eddleman, secretary; Bettie Wolfe, recording secretary, and Agnes Hinton, corresponding secretary. $1,000,000 STUDIO IS TURNED INTO BREWERY Costly Building Was Erected by Wealthy Film Producer. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9.—The sl.000,000 building erected by Howard Hughes for a multi-color film laboratory has been transformed into the film capital’s first brewery. Herman Koch, millionaire brewer, purchased the building, long unused. and installed equipment which was put into operation in time to have beer ready when repeal became effective. The building, located near the Chaplin and United Artists studios, is one of the largest in Hollywood. It has two private theaters in it, which the brewer plans to use to project pictures showing how beer is made and eulogizing its benefits.

ELECTION IS DELAYED BY PRINTER'S MISTAKE Two Utility Proposals Were Stated as One Issue. By Vnited Press CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo.. Dec. 9. —An election to determine whether light, power and water franchises should be renewed was delayed here through a printer's error. Polls opened and voting began before a voter discovered that the light and power and the water company franchise questions were included together in one question. Approximately 3.000 correct ballots were available, but the election was delayed several hours while a check was made.

MANY 1933 TOURISTS THRONG GLACIER PARK 44 Per Cent Increase- Registered Over Last Year. By Vnited Press BELTON. Mont.. Dec. 9.—Glacier National park was visited by more people in 1933 than at any time in its history, complete travel statistics for the season showed. A total of 76.615 tourists registered at the park. This was a 44 per cent increase over 1932 and a substantial gain over 1930. the previous peak travel year.

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scarecrow puppet dance on the editorial page. “I guess I got to almost liking the bum as the years wentt on,” sighed the cartoonist as he fingered over his old cartooons in his office hideaway. “What a bum he got to be.” And then Mr. Kirby got to a point in a way that is typical of him. “But look here,” he said, “don’t give me the credit for this scarecrow. I drew him, but he would never have been possible but for Frank Irving Cobb, the editor of the old New York Morning World. There was the man who really started the fiht against prohibition. My cartoons were only a part of the campaign he launched, and he started fighting prohibition when the fighting was dangerous and unpopular. When the history of the fight against prohibition is written, Frank Irving Cobb’s name should head them all. He was one of the greatest and finest editors this country has produced.”

Westbrook Pegler: An Impression BY KATHERINE BRUSH

Author of "Red-Headed Woman," "Young Man of Manhattan,” etc. Written for The Indianapolis Times, to which Westbrook Peeler returns as a columnist. IN the first place, he has a becoming modesty. When you tell him his stuff is good—which is putting it as mildly as you can—he perspires gently, grins enormously and shuffles like a sophomore. He can even these eyes have seen him do if. He is temperamentally unable to believe that he writes superlatively, or to do any more than hope that maybe he writes pretty well. He sees a nonexistent justice in the occasional heckling letters that his journalistic vali an c e inevitably brings forth. When they are personally unflattering, he thinks they’re probably right. He enters into communion with his typewriter by swinging one long leg over the back of the straight chair that sits before it, and settling slowly down; and his sojourns at las machine are blue with cigaret smoke, and sulphuric with profanity, and attended always by the wholesale destruction of quires of copy paper. He is the only writer of my acquaintance who can invariably rip —not roll—a sheet of paper out of a typewriter without tearing the paper (until afterward). This takes practice—years of practice, and a fine artistic passion to be rid of written lines that are unworthy. n a a HE proves the adage that hard writing makes easy reading. I don’t know everybody, but if he isn’t one of the three most conscientious workmen in the business, I don’t know anybody at all. I have seen him spend three or four hours on a newspaper story, finish it, file—making his paper's first edition by the skin of his teeth— and then rewrite the stoiy completely for the later editions, for the simple and, to him, sufficient reason that it didn't suit him. Enthusiastic telegrams received from his chief in the meantime make no difference. He is his own critic, and for severity, and for selfpunishment, he is so-and-so. He lives in the country in Connecticut. The city irked him, and he built himself a picturebook Bavarian-Alpine cottage on a high ridge overlooking a wooded valley. Furthermore he bought himself a pair of formidable knee-boots, a baseball glove and one for whomsoever will play with him, and an unclassifiable, raffish, little dog called Annie Laurie. He takes a feverish joy in all these things. He is a reformed hypochondriac, and to this day he interests himself in the rate of speed at which his heart, known as his ticker, may be moving. To this day he dresses for November press-boxes as if for igloos and sits writing in them, bundled like Admiral Byrd. Almost certainly it is a snuffling cold he dreads—an inconvenience—not a fatality. He drives his car as if there were no death. He also runs for the trains—ticker or no ticker—and he is an ecstatic prac-

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MR. KIRBY tells the story of the birth and death of “Mister Dry” in the current issue of Vanity Fair. In that article the cartoonist pays his respects to the drys: “They were jubilant, hypocritical, smug and, above all else, insolent. They combined what they considered to be virtue with a thin-lipped savagery.” All of that the cartoonist tried to express in his renowned figure of prohibition—the ludicrous, funeral-coated, black-gloved, slop-py-shoed, long chinned scarcecrow which became as familiar a piece of Americana as Mickey Mouse and the Stateue of Liberty. “Mister Dry” was born the morning of July 1, the day that wartime prohibition fell like a shadow upon the land. No one expected the.wartime measures to last more than a few months. The general attitude was one of amused bewilderment rather than alarm. The figure created by Rollin Kirby that momentous day reflected the national sentiment.

titioner of the manly art of you-hit-me-and-I’ll-hit-back. The dependable referee, however, is his sense of humor. His rages have a certain splendor, but they do not last. tt n a HE is six-feet-something. He stands somewhat straighter than a monument, and he looks rather like a faintly freckled Viking. He has one of the superb wives of the world, and is aware of it. Since what I seem to be writing is the private life of Pegler tne only, I may as well add that he calls her his bride, after eleven years. It is slang, but he means it. I may as well add also that they met as reporters on the doorstep of Joseph Bowne Elwell, who had just been murdered, and that they were married just in time to go honeymooning on the Halls-Mill murder case.

Going Up; 100 Is Near; YOU—Clothe a Child

Clothe-a-Child donors forged toward the One Hundred mark today. The Indianapolis Times drive to clothe the needy school children of the city will last until the night of Dec. 23.

Early donors to the campaign are listed below and late donors on Page One. Transit and Proof Department, Indiana National bank, three children. Mutual Benefit Association, Leader store, boy and girl. Knight Klub, one girl. Sammie Rice and Laura Kibler, boy. | Business office of Indianapolis Times, boy. Girls of Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, girl. Mrs. Santa Claus, boy. Employes of Wadley Company, cared for three children. One Who Likes Antiques and Hobbies, child. Employes of United Mutual Life Insurance Company, boy. Twenty-three Painters Who Work Now, boy and girl. Employes of State Auto Insurance Association, child. Fish and Game division, Statehouse, boy. Mrs. East Maple Road, two boys. , M. G. O. and C D. 0., boy. Group of Girls. Indiana Trust building, second floor, girl. Mrs. Okay Clothe-a-Child. boy. Miss Vera Holstein, girl. Mrs. E. S. Barber, girl. Group of Girls, office, G. & J. Tire Company, two children. Just Another Santa Claus, girl. A Sunday School Class, girl. I Want Two Again, boy and girl. In Memory of Dorothy Helen Farber, boy. Little Girl in Irvington, girl. M. and Mrs. Eddie Meyer, two girls. Mr. Woodruff Place, girl. G. C. Welch, boy and girl. Mrs. H. R. A., boy. Mr. and Mrs. John Newlin, girl. Mrs. North Alabama, girl. I Want Helen, giri. Mister Nira, boy. Indianapolis Times—Editorial department. two children; Girls of Times, girl; Mailing Room, child; Advertising Department. child; Composing Room, child; Circulation Department, child; Engravers and stereotvpers, child; Pressroom, child. Job's Daughters No. 11. girl. Mrs. G. 8., boy. Mrs. Central avenue, boy. Building Department. City Hall. girL Craig's confectionery. No. t, 40 North Pennsylvania street, boy. Irvington Santa, girl.

The clerical figure was more comical than grotesque and savage. Its fade was drawn in more of a smirk than the smug grim lines of hypocrisy. The figure retained those characteristics for more than a year —a clown rather than a villain. Then, in December, 1920, came national prohibition by amendment of the Constitution. From that time on the cartoonist began to drawn hi sscarecrow in earnest. a a a THE face lengthened. The hair grew longer and more dark. The very shoes, flat-footed and ill-fltting, spoke of something unpleasant. “I tried to combine in one figure all the meanness and hyprocrisy $ had ever bumped into,” explained Mr. Kirby today. “He developed gradually as time went on. At first he was dour and snug, but respectable. His linen was clean. Gradually he got more

There are no indefinite words for Westbrook Pegler; no equivocal descriptives. He is one thing, or he is the other; he is a top-notch columnist—that you know; he is a terrible dancer, he will not play cards at all, considering them a waste of time; he is the best listener I have ever met, and he learns from everybody, and he remembers everything. He is a famous raconteur—socially, as well as professionally. He has great admiration for worth, great sympathy for the under dog, and a great deal less than no patience whatever with humbug. You have gathered that, who have read him—he hates hypocrisy only a little less violently than he deplores stupidity—his mind is ceaselessly excited. It is a crusading mind. It is excited, and it is exciting. You will see. (Copyright, 1933, by The Times)

Robert Glover, girl. Mrs. Frank Lindner, girl. Mrs. S., a girl. Mrs. E. J. M., girl. Mrs. East Michigan, girl. White Castle System, four boys and three girls. Senator and Mrs. Jacob Weiss, boy and girl. Cynthia, girl. Mrs. East-side, twin boys. A Lecturer, boy. BILLION SPENT FOR ADVERTISING IN U. S. Huge Price Paid for Sppce in 20,143 Publications in 1933. By Vnited Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.—The American public during 1933 paid approximately $1,000,000,000 for advertising space in 20.143 publications, according to figures on file today at the federal trade commission. Os the total number of publications, 2,249 are daily newspapers, and 544 are Sunday papers. The commission estimates that there are 1,389.000,000 copies of newspapers and magazines published in the United States monthly. FINALLY GETS CARD Postal Mailed in 1910 Delivered Nov. 21, 1933. By Vnited Press KOKOMO, Ind„ Dec. 9.—A post card mailed Jan. 1, 1910, by Mrs. W. J. McElwaine to Mrs. Ella Hill, a friend living less than a mile away, was not delivered until Nov. 21, 1933. No reason for the delay was given by postal authorities.

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mean and furtive. His face took on the gleam of insanity. Then, as people came to their senses, the flow of gold into the coffers of the Anti-Saloon League began to dry up. As that happened the scarecrow began to drop into sniveling beggary. He got to be such a complete bum he was almost admirable.” Called into the fight, other cartoonists adopted Mr. Kirby’s scarecrow figure as the symbol of prohibition. Year by year the figure became better known, until finally it took on commercial value. Manufacturers began putting out metal and porcelain reproductions. There were novelties showing “Mister Dry” expiring on a gallows or riding in a hearse. He

Waterworks Officials Pledge Pollution Fight

State Society to Carry On, City Man, New Chief, Tells Group. Pledge to continue the fight against stream pollution was made by William C. Mabee, chief engineer of the Indianaoplis Water Company, who today ( was elected president of the Indiana section of the American Waterworks Association. “Our Indiana group of waterworks officials will continue its cooperation with the state board of health to improve health conditions as influenced by stream pollution,” Mr. Mabee told the men attending the annual convention of waterworks superintendents yesterday in Ft. Wayne. C. K. Calvert, head of the Indiapolis sewage disposal plant, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Indiana section. C. C. Foutz, La Porte, was elected vice-presi-dent, and.- B. H. Jeup, Indianapolis engineer, was chosen as assistant secretary. For the last year, Mabee had served as vice-president of the Indiana group and his election in Ft. Wayne yesterday came in recognition of his work in helping to carry out federal recovery programs as sponsored by waterworks officials.

EMPLOYES ARE GIVEN HUGE DAIRY BY OWNER Texas Man Builds Plant to Largest in South, Retires. By Vnited Press HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 9.—M. C. Oldham, whose dairy business grew during twenty years from a onewagon system to its claim of the largest in the south, has achieved his life-long ambition in turning the business over to its 250 employes. Without ceremony, Oldham presented the company to his workers under a provision whereby they will absorb the capital stock at less than half he was said to have been offered. ‘‘My wish has always been to build up a business to a position of leadership, then turn it over to the employes who helped to build it,” Oldham said. “I am doing this with the same feeling I would experience if I were trying to set my own children up in business,” he explained.

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was modelled in soapstone, clay, bronze, glass and even appeared in the form of a rag doll to frigten children. Forecasting what happened on the Nox. 7 election, Mr. Kirby officially buried his puppet in a cartoon Nov. 9. “I’ll have to find some other figure to play around with now,” he said—and there was just a touch cf regret in his voice. “I thing it will be “The Old Order.” I’ve been experimenting with him. I want him to express every kind of reactionaryism. I've used him for a long time as ‘The Old Guard’ and ‘G. O. P.’ But he is developing now. I’ve put him in 1830 clothes—velvet collar, flowered waistcoat. As the times change he will change too.”

WITH HER FATHER

Miss Jane Thurston

One of Howard Thurston’s chief workers in his magic show now at the Indiana is his daughter Jane. She performs many tricks and illusions by herself.

MINISTER PURCHASES DRESSER; IT’S A BAR Dealer Removes Pre-Prohibition Fixtures. By Vnited Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 9.—An Oklahoma City minister recently objected strenuously when he bought a second-hand dresser, discovered he’d purchased a genuine anti-Volstead bar. The furniture dealer removed the bar from the piece. A copper container, set in behind the mirror, with the spout at the bottom, could be filled and the liquor drawn at the spigot.

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LATE DR. HENRY TO BE HONORED ON DEATH DATE Portrait of Noted Foe of Tuberculosis Will Be Given to Hospital. Portrait of Dr. Alfred Henry, Indianapolis tuberculosis specialist who won national fame for his work, will be presented to city hospital Tuesday in a ceremony on the first aniversary of his death. The presentation will be made at 11 by Dr. E. M. Amos. Marion County Tuberculosis Association president, to Dr. Charles W. Myers, city hospital superintendent. Organizations represented at the ceremony will include Sunnyside sannitarium, Sunnyside Guild. Sunshine Club, of Sunnyside. Indianapolis Flower Mission, city health board, Indianapolis Medical Society, Indiana university school of medicine. Rotary Club. Indianapolis fresh air school system, state health board, Indiana State Medical Association. Indiana Tuberculosis Association and others. Speakers will include Dr. Stanley Coulter, euberculosis seal sale state chairman, and Dr. M. Joseph Barry, health board president. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, and other officials ■will attend. POLICE CHIEF LAUGHLIN OF FT. WAYNE IS DEAD Heart Disease Ends Life of Official in Post Three Years. By Times Special J FT. WAYNE. Dec. 9. Police Chief Michael J. Laughlin died yesterday following an attack of heart disease after being in a hospital several days for observation. He was named chief three years ago, after having served as detective sergeant. Chief Laughlin was an ardent horseman, being a familiar figure at race meets throughout this section of the country. There are approximately 32,500,000 telephone subscribers in the world.

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