Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1934 — Page 11

Second Section

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun THIS^, columnist is not anxious to rush in with some of the senators and representatives In commenting on the President's monetary message. He would like a little time to think it over, read several standard works on currency and consult his lawyer. The best that I can say is that a preliminary survey seems to show most of the honors in the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Editorial and congressional comment is for the

most part favorable. Walter Lippmann is almost persuaded, and a Republican senator from Delaware says, “Robbery!" Another promising symptom is that Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, is in opposition. “Humanitarians.” he is quoted as saying, “can find some excuse for a man who steals whfen he has to, but what excuse is there when there is no need?” I think somebody should pick up the venerable statesman's ear trumpet and inform him that there is still a lot of need going about. I don't think anybody should keep secrets from Senator Carter Glass. B B B

Ilevwood Broun

Some Publishers Placid OUT I would like to leave the stabilization policy for the moment and concern myself with quite another problem. May I ask leave to print a dispatch from Lake Placid which reads as follows: ‘ Basing their action in ‘behalf of the boys and girls of America and their parents,’ the New York State Publishers’ Association today had ready for presentation a resolution asking the legislature not to ratify the federal child labor amendment to the Constitution. . . . The resolution expressed opposition to the broad grounds of the amendment on the basis that it ‘disputes the principle of state rights because the development of youth is geographical, environmental and broadly controlled by heredity.’” I do not understand precisely what that language means to convey except that the publishers’ association is desirous of availing itself of cheap labor wherever possible. As to geography, environment and heredity, that is merely anew version of the familiar comforting thought that the fish doesn't feel the hook. Os course, nobody ever stopped to ask the fish. a a B Making Special Exceptions T ASSUME that we are asked to believe that Mexican childien working in the beet sugar fields do not mind the toil or the cold or the damp. They’ve never known anything better. They’re used to it. And if boys and girls are still bootlegged into mills in spite of NRA the plain fact is that this is environmental and for all I know it is controlled by heredity. Does anybody sitting in a pleasant place twentyfive stories from the street ever hear the cry of children who are oppressed and exploited? Apparently most of us don't. But I have known a few who did. I have known those who asserted with utter sincerity that on a still night they could hear a moan distilled not from the city’s sound or any vagrant breeze or traffic hum. And they have said to me that it was the sound of those who do down to the mills and market places to sell the helplessness of adolescence for skimmed pottage. "I think,” said a solid man in a drawing room, "every child should have the right to work. This should not be denied him. That is the way men'are made.” "Yes,” said another, ‘‘and now look at the damn things.” Rich man. poor man. beggar man, thief! All have come up from the ranks of those who toiled before their day with dolls or drums was done. *'l went to work when I was eleven.” says the successful head of some big industrial concern. ‘And I was ten,'’ replies a man in Dannemora. And there are many others who make no reply at all because they can not, life being done with them almost before it began. BUB The Wag to Ret YOU never can tell for certain, but how would you bet? Is there a single reader who would say: "Oh. yes; I'd like my child to be up and coming and selilng papers on the street before he turned twelve?” Indeed I think the greatest failures in all the sorry list of the victims of child labor are to be found in the rather scanty list of those who gained success. The man who beat the rap wears on his face the hard lines of those who must eventually be revenged. “This happened to me.” he thinks to himself, ‘‘and what I suffered must be visited on the children even unto the third and the fourth generation.” “It made a man of me.” says he. and even the wrecked and maimed and misfit have a right to arch their eyebrows and reply: “Really, sir, are you quite sure of that?” (Copyright, 1934. by The Times)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX

ONE of every 1.000 persons in the United States is a victim of drug addiction, and there are four times as many cases of addiction among men as among women. Moreover, there is much more of this condition in large cities than in country districts. The drugs, or narcotics, include not only opium and cocaine, and their derivatives, but alcohol and tobacco as well. The ‘ popularity" of each drug seems to van’ among the different countries. For instance, in Egypt and the far east. thre is much addiction to h hish or hemp, or to the drug called cannabis ir In some places there is more addiction t ine than to opium. In the Uni* - cs the drug called heroin is so well cont* serious a problem, whereas in foreign countries it may be the most serious of all. In Egypt there are addictions to this drug among children 15 years of age and among persons more than 65. It is found among all classes. a a a PRACTICALLY all these drugs are used in medicine and the amount of addiction is determined in some cases by finding out how much more of the drug is produced than actually is used in medical care. _ For years there has been a great deal of research on the nature of addiction, with a view to its prevention and to finding out methods of cure. Once a person has become addicted to some of these drugs, he can take immense doses which would kill an ordinary man: he develops what is called a tolerance to the drug. This tolerance seems to be associated in some manner with a change in the cells of the body and particularly with changes in certain glands. When the person is taken suddenly off the drug, he suffers unusual symptoms. For this reason control of the condition and attempts to cure those who are addicted are exceedingly difficult. m a a ALL authorities agree that the basis of most narcotic addiction is mental and that some kind of treatment of the mind is necessary to bring about permanent recovery. Obviously, then. It is exceedingly important to discover tha reason for which the patient first began taking the drug regularly. Sometimes this is for rlief from pam. but in many more instances it is i 'r relief from some m°ntal strain or in relationship to aome maladjustment in marriage or •ex life.

Toll Le***<! Wlr Rrlce of (he rnltd Press Association

This Is the eighth of s series of articles about the men and women who make yoor newspaper. Today's artlc'.e tells of Tristram Collin, reneral assignments reporter for The Indianapolis Times. BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor ,|Y day is ruined,” said Tristram Coffin wistfully as the office IVI mail was distributed. “No rejection slip today. What luck!” Dejected, he stared out of the window. • “Well,” he brightened up, “there may be one this afternoon.” For, in addition to covering the “general assignments” run for The Indianapolis Times, Tristram Coffin has a hobby, a hobby of collecting rejection slips from magazines for material lovingly created. # ‘‘General Assignments” is a job which expresses little, but means much. At 8 in the miming, Tris Coffin rr/v find himself answering telephones on the city desk, at 9 dashing off with a photographer to an accident scene miles from the office, at 10 interviewing some visitor to the city, and at 11 writing a feature article about some local event. And so goes the day.

But Tris Coffin likes to work. The only word which could possibly describe him is “prolific.” For young Mr. Coffin is a prolific writer, if ever there was one. He writes for the love of it and amidst all the day’s work oftentimes will knock off two shortshort stories, just for the fun of it. Tris is a cub, a tall, slender young fellow with a shy smile who wears a slouch hat and puffs nervously at cigarets. B B B MEMBER of a well-known Indianapolis family, This Coffin is a Hoosier who wasn't bom in Indiana. He entered the world on July 25, 1912, at Hood River, Ore. He is the son of Clarence and Lenora Smith Coffin and the grandson of Charles S. Coffin, treasurer of the Indianapolis Star. Tristram’s parents moved back to Indianapolis before he had time to ride bucking bronchos, or to develop bowlegs or a hoss puncher’s drawl. He went to School 45, where he was the literary editor of a school newspaper devoted to poetry contributed by the pupils. Ruthlessly encouraged to write poetry, Tris shudders of the time when one of his poetic efforts was printed in a daily newspaper, illustrated by a picture of the juvenile poet arrayed like little Lord Fauntleroy. He spent his high school days at Technical and Shortridge writing short stories and coy love verses. The verses, he fears, are kept today as gleeful mementos by many young women. While at the Culver summer school, he was literary editor of the Culver Vedette and was given an extra beating as a plebe for writing a story about two burly upperclassmen upsetting their lady loves on the placid calm of Lake Maxinkuckee. 808 HE served his first cub apprenticeship on The Times before going to De Pauw university. Characteristic of cubs, young Mr.

Melodrama Is Dominant in ‘Bedside,’at Indiana

MOVIE producers lately have turned their attention to melodrama and many recent pictures have been melodramatic in theme as well as treatment. To such a classification “Bedside” belongs because realism has been thrown to the winas and melodrama injected into every scene which is not comedy. In “Bedside,” Warren William is cast as a medical student who

Mr. William

nicely played by Jean Muir, gives him her savings to go back to medical college. He gets mixed up with card sharks and he is cleaned nicely. By letters, he keeps up the deception that he is in school and Will be able to practice soon. The nurse believes his letters and joins him in another state to be his assistant. She discovers that the doctor suddenly had become a "big shot’’ with a stately office and a tremendous staff. Then things begin to happen. I will not tell you the rest of the story because the doctor had bought his diploma from a once great surgeon who had ruined his career with the use of drugs. Here is exciting melodrama. The main character, the doctor, is one ihat you will hate and want to hiss. Mr. Warren does a splendid job as a cad. If you like exciting melodrama, well acted and with lots of suspense, then "Bedside” will more than fill the bill. Now at the Indiana. a a a Noble Sissle Coming NOBLE SISSLE and his orchestra are coming to the Indiana roof for a one night engagement Sunday, Feb. 4. Sissle. of Sissle and Blake fame, will bring his dance-orchestra here from the College Inn of the Hotel Sherman at Chicago, where they are playing now. Noble Sissle was bom in Indianapolis in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher and a vocalist and elocution teacher. He lived in Cleveland during his public and high school years, and then spent two years touring the Chautauqua circuit before entering Butler college. While on the Chautauqua circuit he played with the Redpath “Jubilee Quartet” and later joined the Lyceum circuit with the Harm Jubilee Singers.

The Indianapolis Times

‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’

T ris Coffin —Writes Features —and Gets Rejection Slips

Coffin arrived at De Pauw with yards of enchanting tale§ about his newspaper work. He claims he deceived a few gullible friends into believing he was not only the star reporter, but confidential adviser to the editor. Aside from a rather quiet and demure freshman year, Tristram developed into somewhat of a roistering and unruly student Romance pushed its head into Tiis’ affairs early in his college days, however, and he started writing love notes in chapel and handing them to a young lady friend on the way out. All was well, until the young lady’s heartless roommate made some of the notes public. The student population, it is to be feared, did not appreciate true poetry. Independent thought was beginning to take a hold on Mr. Coffin and he became the stormy petrel of many a class. Wherever there was a debatable point, classwork stopped until Mr. Coffin was satisfied with the explanation. Classrooms often were turned into two-man debating circles with Tristram and the professor battling out the disputed point. To Mr. Coffin’s credit, it may be added however, that he carried off his part with exceptional grace and he earned the respect of his professors rather than inciting irritation. B B B BY his sophomore year, Tris had won an Albert Beveridge scholarship for his high grades and kept it throughout his school course. He was working on both the De Pauw, the student newspaper, and the Yellow Crab, humor publication, and he rose successively through the stages of reporter, copy editor, sports editor and associate editor. Besides this, he made Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity; Blue Key, senior honor society, and Tucitala, society for those of literary merit/ He also was the editor of the' Hee-Haw, a publication which satirized the school and the sac-

■The Theatrical World

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

His college course was cut short w’ith the death of his father in 1914. Then he joined a jazz band traveling eastward through Indianapolis, and it was while playing with this unit that Sissle met a young piano player, Eubie Blake. The team of Sissle anl Blake, formed soon after, wrote and composed their way to international success. Outstanding among their compositions were “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” “Love Will Find a Way” and “Bandanna Days,” all hits of “Shuffle Along.” After “Shuffle Along,” Sissle organized the dance orchestra which he will bring to the Indiana roof. The original Cotton Pickers and Sue Parker’s Chocolate Box Revue are the roof’s current features. u u a In City Theaters 'T'OMORROW is an important A day at Loew’s Palace because Eddie Cantor’s latest musical comedy, “Roman Scandals,” opens a one-week engagement. I will have a lot to tell you about this picture soon. Other theaters today offer: Roy Cummings and other acts on the stage at the Lyric; “Let’s Fall in Love” at the Circle; “Century of Progress Revue” on the stage and “Fugitive Lovers” on the screen at the Palace; “Frontier Marshal” at the Apollo, and burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial. CORRECT NOMINATION OF NATIONAL PARTY Mrs. Sterns Is Chosen to Run for State Secretary. Mrs. Lillie M. Sterns, 1460 East Troy avenue, was nominated for state secretary on the National party ticket, and not for Twelfth district representative, as previously stated, it was announced today by John Zahnd, national chairman. Mr. Zahnd said Arthur Crane. 1045 Orange street, was nominated for congress from the Twelfth district. Samuel M. Duffey was elected to succeed Fred H. Kendall, Shelbyville, as state chairman for 1934. CITY MAN GIVEN POST James Morrison to Head New York Convention Bureau. An Indianapolis man, James Morrison. has been selected to head a department of the New York Convention and Business bureau, and will begin w'ork at once, according to word received here. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. William H. Morrison. 3601 North Pennsylvania street. Mr. Morrison was graduated from Shortridge high school in 1926 and received his degree .from Cornell In 1930. Mr. Morrison will serve under Lincoln C. Dickey, former Indianapolis resident. The New York bureau recently was organized under the auspices of merchants and hotels.

was too lazy to work and complete his course. He had a fine co 11 ec t ion of weaknesses, such as a passion for strong drink, blonds and cards They just will not mix with business. Finally, when he realizes he has no future unless he gets his diploma and license to practice, a nurse,

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934

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Sitting at his typewriter in The Times’ office, Tristram Coffin is preparing to write a feature story. It’s apt to be about almost anything, but more likely to concern one John Dillinger.

ulty in much the same manner of the famed Harvard Lampoon. The Hee-Haw was so well done, it seems, that it was considered a dangerous precedent for the students, and was dropped. Purnished with fifteen other staff members, Tris was removed from the editorship of the student newspaper for some dubious humor he had written for the Yellow Crab, humor which met with the frank disapproval of the faculty. He turned columnist and conducted a column, “The Simple Life,” in which he continued his

DESPONDENT, BAKER PUTS END TO LIFE Body Is Found Hanging by Rope From Garage Rafter. Despondency over finances was blamed for the suicide last night of Robert Augustin, 43, of 25 North Wallace street, whose body was found hanging by a rope from a garage rafter by Mrs. Augustin. Born in Germany, Mr. Augustin came to Indianapolis from Egypt in 1914. An expert pastry decorator, he had been employed part time in a downtown department store bakery department. Besides the widow, Mr. Augustin is survived by a son and daughter, two brothers and a sister. PASTOR TO BE FETED New Eighth Christian Minister to Be Paid Honor. The Rev. Glen W. Mell, new pastor of the Eighth Christian church, and his family will be honored with a reception at 8 tomorrow night in the church, Fourteenth street and Belle Vieu place. Ministers from neighboring churches will be present and will speak briefly. Several musical selections will be included in the program. The church Calendar Club will serve refreshments.

\V i m.u.ft.PAT.orr. V V C 1 >34 BY WEA SCftVICC, WC.

“WELL, I SHOULD HAVE IT IN THE MAIL ANY DA NOW-. I’M WORKING ON THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS.

SIDE GLANCES

satirization of both faculty and students. He started to write a novel, but he never completed it, perhaps because he fell in love with a lovely young lady of similar tastes, whom he married in July of last year, a month after his graduation from De Pauw. The young lady’s name was Margaret Avery. B B B HE joined The Times a month after his marriage, spending his first few month on “the street,” then serving a brief apprenticeship on the copy desk,

Bloom Beams And Well He Might Because Italian Government Has Honored Him for Washington Service. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Effulgent Representative Sol Bloom of New York, has finally been awarded the order of the grand officer of the crown of Italy for assistance rendered Italian authorities in their co-operation with the George Washington bicentennial celebration. Sol worked like a dog for the success of the bicentennial. He distributed posters, made speeches, launched campaigns, attended dinners

and traveled hundreds of miles. Stories about his zeal are countless. The ceremony took place against a background of rich Venetian tapestries, immediately preceding a luncheon distinguished by Milanese, Risotto and Chianti. Sol was a picture of dignity in his black braided morning coat, pince-nez dangling from a thick black ribbon, shoes brightly shined. “I have the honor of presenting you with the order of the Grand officer of the crown of Italy,” smiled Ambassador Augusto. Sol arched his breast proudly. Wits suggested Bloom’s next award should be the Order of the Garter. When he travels to New York or back, Sol carefully removes his garters, tucks them in the side of

By George Clark

and then being transferred to general assignments. He has a trait of studying abnormal psychology and he draws upon sociological principles and his own personal theories to explain the conduct of criminals. Suggestive of this train of thought have been his articles on John Dillinger and on the Michigan City prison break. Whatever his reasoning, he at least is entertaining. And, anyhow, they’re good for one rejection slip anyway. Next—The Clothe-a-Child Man.

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the Pullman seat. As the train nears its destination, he removes the garters from their riding place and replaces them on his shapely calves. # n n SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MORGENTHAU smiled wanly at a cartoon, drawn by a newspaper man and circulated through the treasury department. The caricature represents Morgen thau and Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, engaged in an absorbing craps game. Morgenthau remarks to his playmate: “Snake-eyes, what do you say we let the price of gold go unchanged today?” Amused by the drawing, an admirer posted it on a w r all not far from the Morgenthau sanctum. Newspaper men “covering” the financial run, received a cordial invitation to be dinner guests of the secretary of the treasury. a a a YOUNG Lieutenant Tom White, U. S. A., is being congratulated by friends on his appointment as military attache of the United States embassy in Russia. Tom is enthusiastic about his new job. and is getting ready to leave almost immediately. He is used to foreign posts and growing restless at his enforced stay at Bolling Field. The son of Bishop John Chanler White of Springfield, 111., Tom was graduated from the military academy in 1918 and shortly after his marriage to lovely, dark-haired Rebecca Lipscomb here in 1927, he and his bride w r ent to China. They remained in Peking four years. CWA SCHOOL OFFERS VARIETY OF SUBJECTS Art Classes a Feature in Adult Training at Settlement. The American Settlement, 614 West Pearl street, is conducting a series of free classes for adult education, the faculty of which are all CWA employes. The classes are held in the afternoon and evening, and cover a variety of subjects, including English, citizenship, cooking, dressmakng, hygiene, bookkeeping and music. One of the features of the course are the classes in commercial and fine art, held from 7 to 9:30 every Monday and Friday nights. Both living and still life models are used. Teachers are Miss Ethel Means, Miss Alice Carroll, Kenneth Coffin, William S. Bacon and William F. Kaeser.

Second Section

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Poatofflee. Indianapolis

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler IN the sports business, I had the advantage of considerable observation of those young people who are lumped together under the name of youth. 1 am unable to understand just what is desired of them by persons who think youth ought to take a more influential part in tne running of the country and I do not believe youth gets the idea very clearly, either. I wonder how youth would go about it, anyway.

considering that most of this element is less than 21, and. therefore, ineligible to vote or hold public office. Yet it does seem that if intelligence is so important in citizenship as to warrant the great expense of pouring so much education over so many young people, then youth could be allowed to do some voting and not be stood off and treated, so far as the franchise goes, like imbeciles felons and foreigners until they reach the age of 21. Who was it, anyway, that got up the idea that youth automatically undergoes some marvelous change at the precise instant of the iast hour of the

twenty-first year and ceases to be infantile and becomes mature? I am fond of the idea that there are many kids in second-year high school who, on any basis of reckoning which you would care to select, would make better and more conscientious voters than an equal number of selected citizens of much greater age. They might sometimes even sacrifice selfinterest for a principle in marking a ballot because the young ones seem to be gamer and more daring and to have more interest in their convictions than personal consequences. B B B They Might Go Astray THEY are impressionable to be sure, and subject to' enthusiasms which might lead them astray. But there were no youths below the age of 21 among those who elected Jimmy Walker twice mayor of New York or Mr. Thompson three times mayor of Chicago or Len Small or Tony Cermak, and I wonder who will undertake to argue that a class of voters of senior high school or college age and intelligence could be regimented to worse purpose than large blocks of citizens who vote according to dumb, party instinct or the instructions of precinct committeemen or their own business interests. Youth is not allowed to buy a drink in licensed premises or dispose of property freely, and it is the prerogative of people who have passed the age of 35, and have, in many cases, failed of conspicuous success in life, to deplore the shallowness and heedlessness of youth. Shallowness and heedlessness, hey? Weill, who was shallow and heedless during the years of the gorgeous and goofy era of prosperity in the United States when the manufacturers of Ohio were voting for prohibition because liquor was bad for the working man and then proceeding to Florida in the winter to load up their trunks with Scotch brought in from the West Indies and ship it back to their cellars in East Liverpool, Alliance and Canton? I met some very substantial business men in Florida in those days who regarded themselves as important citizens and well qualified to decide what was good for the working man and the country. And were those people youths, or were they elders, who were standing around the gambling tables in Saratoga, Louisville, Atlantic City, Palm Beach and Miami, tossing off enough pleasure money in one night to support a working man’s family a year and blabbering, solemnly, when you let them, about conditions? What conditions? Just conditions. B B B They Won; Nobody Lost THEY loved to talk about conditions in their dull, dumb opinionated, prosperous way. Conditions were fine and getting better all the time and Mr. Coolidge was the greatest President since Washington and always would be possible to call up the broker and bet SSOO and win $3,000 between morning and night, with nobody ever the loser. That wasn’t youth. I was taking some pretty close squints at youth all that time and they were nosing into their books pretty steadily right along and firing furnaces and shoving trays of dishes around to pay their way through school. Youth can hang for murder for there is no law which says that a boy of 19 or 20 is too young to pay off when he is taken in the crime of homicide. And in time of war he can carry a musket or fly a plane but he is too young to be trusted with the solemn responsibility of voting against someone who has been selected in a back-room as the people’s choice for mayor or President. Although that is not beyond the capacity of the citizen voter who, in forty years’ residence in the United States, barely has learned to read so much as a ribbon strip across the top of the five-star sporting final. This seems to bring me to the point of suggesting that when they are smart enough they are old enough to vote and that many a man and woman arrives at three score years and ten without reaching the age of citizenship. (Copyright, 1934, by Untted Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

THE eclipse fare for 1934 is a meager one from the standpoint of American astronomers, both professional and amateur. Although four eclipses, the average number for any year, will take place, none of them will be visible in the eastern half of the United States. Asa matter of fact, the year’s eclipse schedule is unsatisfactory for the world in general, for only one of the four eclipses is a total one, and it is only total eclipses which hold any very great interest for astronomers. On Jan. 30 there'will be a partial eclipse of the moon. This will be visible in the northwestern part of North America, including Alaska, the western coast of Canada and perhaps the states of Washington and Oregon, the Arctic ocean, the Pacific ocean, Australia, Asia, the Indian ocean, the northeastern part of Africa, and Europe. A total eclipse of the sun would occur on Feb. 13, but unfortunately the track of this eclipse is in a most out-of-the-way pait of the globe. The path of totality extends from the island of Borneo out acrosa the Pacific ocean, ending in longitude 140 degrees west and latitude 50 degrees north. The path is entirely over the ocean, crossing only three small islands, Losap, Oroluk and Wake, all in mid-Pacific. In Borneo, the eclipse will occur at the time of sunrise, when, of course, the sun is too low on the horizon for scientific observations of any value. a a a JAPANESE astronomers, it is understood, are making plans to observe the solar eclipse in February. Invitations to take part in the expeditions have been extended to American observatories, but no announcements of American participation in the work have been rfiade. The third eclipse of the year will be a partial eclipse of the moon on July 26. This will be visible in most of that part of the United States which is west of the Mississippi river. It also will be visible generally throughout the western half of North and South America, the Pacific ocean, the Antarctic ocean. Australia, and eastern Asia. The last eclipse of the year will be of the sun on Aug. 10. This Will be of the sort known as an annular eclipse. THE eclipse toward which astronomers are looking with high interest will occur on June 8, 1937. Calculations show’ that the eclipse of the sun which takes place on that date will have a period of totality of seven minutes and seven secondi. This ii five or six times as long as the usual length of totality. Accordingly, it ought to be possible to make finer observations than are usually made.

Today's Science

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Westbrook Pegler