Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1934 — Page 7

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It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun EMMA GOLDMAN is coming home. Die state department has agreed to admit the old anarchist for a three-months visit on the condition thPt she “shall not engage in any political activity." This provision seems a little unnecessary, tor Emma is 63 ana the cause ■which she espoused is at the moment dead beyond the hope of resurrection. Miss Goldman seems to me a very gallant figure but

also a futile one. She was cursed by a temperament with a fatal defect. She just couldn’t compromise. Curiously enough, mankind is fond of using the adjective “uncompromising” as a word denoting great strength and vigor and carrying the connotation of assured success. It just doesn’t work out in that way. Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.” Darwin was right. The life force itself will not permit such inflexibility. Growth comes through selection, adaptation and the happy miracle of accident. Anarchists have gone the

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way of antediluvian mammals. They lacked mobility and have become extinct. nun He'd Change All That OF course, if I had everything to do with the Tuning of the life force Id change all that. In principle and emotion I’m all for Emma and against Charles Robert Darwin. The only trouble is that he happens to hold all four aces. No political and economic ideal has ever been as pure as that which Emma Goldman advocated. Every man in his inmost heart wants not liberty but license. may respect laws, tradition or custom, but we do not love them. However lightly worn, any restraint constitutes a chain which may snap us up short at the moment we least desire or expect it. The human animal, at any rate, is by his very nature anarchical. The life force gave as an instinct and then proceeded to hedge it around with the high containing wall of circumstance. Emma Goldman was always a plump hausfrau type of person, but she was for going up to every wall and over. But the best which could be written on her tombstone would be, “It was a good try.” She got nowhere. nor did she advance the fortunes of mankind as far as I can see. Although of foreign birth. Miss Goldman’s happiest days were in capitalistic America. Here everything was wrong, and the light of battle shone in her eyes continuously. Great wealth and abject poverty presented a situation in which Miss Goldman could make many converts in her cry against the regimentation of the human spirit and the human body. nun A Giant Turns Over THEN up rose Russia and destroyed private capitalism. Emma Goldman applauded this vast earthquake, but she made the mistake of visitthe land of the Soviets. She should have known better. Russian radical leaders did make rather considerable compromises here and there, but in the main they were faithful to their program. The only trouble was that their fundamental objectives were not those of Emma. When Emma Goldman spoke of revolution she meant the changing of human organization utterly. She meant the complete swing around the circle. Os course, she found regimentation in Russia. She found a highly centralized government which exerted great pressure upon the individual. His home, his job and even his life were at the disposal of the ruling class. “But don't you see." I suppose they told her, “that this is a different class which is doing the regimenting and exerting the pressure? The workers are in command. This is the dictatorship of the proletariat. We are in a transitional stage. Before we can abate restrictions and be done with courts and jails and any sort of compulsion we must first root out the old order and the old psychology. Restriction can cease only when the whole world has become proletarian. Then these things to which you object will slough off.” a a a An Impatient Revolutionist BUT, as I have said. Emma was an anarchist, not an evolutionist. While there was a soul in jail she was not free. An army was an army, though it was now red instead of cossack gray. She was never one for sloughing. She wanted to go after the economic order of the world, much as Carrie Nation attacked a saloon. You took an ax and chopped the world into the proper shape. That was your revolution. You didn’t wait for things to drop of their own weight. You knocked them down. And so Emma Goldman and the Communists didn’t hit it off She is'an old woman without a country, a party or a following. Capitalism is wrong, and so is Communism. The same goes for the Roosevelt readjustment and for the fascism of Hitler or Mussolini. There is no regime to which Emma Goldman can give approval. But she has her dream and her integrity Radicalism in this country used to be far more violent than it is today. And. in addition to being far more fierce. I think it had. perhaps, a greater measure of dignity. If Emma Goldman happened to pick up the Daily Worker of yesterday and chanced to see a dandy little essay on the second page entitled “In Defense of Ping Pong.” it may have helped to console her a little for the fact that she didn't compromise. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health i ' ■-Rv DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN; -j J THE most wholesome single food you can give your children is milk. Milk has been called the most nearly perfect food because it lacks only a few elements to make it a complete provider for the human body. It is one of the few foods available to the young. In the early stages of life it is the only one available. The chief values of milk reside in its proteins. Its minerals, especially calcium and phosphorus, and in the easily digested fat. It is a fair source of some vitamins. Unfortunately, through the methods of preparation of milk, it sometimes becomes contaminated. Milk can be contaminated with germs from two sources—first, the cow; second, human beings who handle the milk. Os all conditions which may affect milk, bovine tuberculosis is among the most significant. * m # MOST of our states, particularly those with a large dairy industry, now have laws which make it necessary to give the tuberculin test to all cattle used for supplying milk and to eliminate those that are diseased. In England, it is estimated, about 2.000 deaths occur annually from bovine tuberculosis and these are largely in children. While tuberculin testing of cattle and elimination of those with tuberculosis Is valuable in stamping out be vine tuberculosis in human beings, a more important step is complete pasteurisation of milk Another condition spread to man through milk is undulant fever Here again the chief method of prevention for mankind is pasteurization of the milk supply. The final danger from milk results from organisms like the streptococci which yield septic sore throats Here, however, the disease may be put into the milk by those who handle it. Sometimes the milker Infects the udder of the cow and the infection then reaches the milk. Here, too. efficient pasteurization is the most important step a a a THERE are various methods of pasteurizing milk. In practically all communities there are ordinances which demand that the milk be brought to a certain temperature and held there for at least one-half hour, to make certain that the geims are destroyed. There also is possibility of contaminating the milk with germs capable of causing disease. Conditions which lead to dirty milk, therefore, are also conditions which lead to contamination by germs. Clean milk ia not necessarily safe milk.

‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’ Bea Burgan, Who Didn't Know the Way to Police Court

Thi* is the trnth of a series of articles about members of The Indianapolis Times’ editorial staff. Today’s article is about Beatrice Burgan, Times woman's pare editor. n n n nun BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor SLIM, little Beatrice Burgan sat on the edge of her chair wondering when the city editor would condescend to hand her an assignment —her first one. by the way. It was her first day at work in the office of The Indianapolis Times and she was growing a little disappointed with the glowing dreams of adventure and excitement that she had painted for herself. Finally, the city editor did deign to notice her. He scratched his head skeptically. “Say. Miss Burgan,” he called, “trot on down to municipal court and see if you can dig up a few features.” Miss Burgan smiled sweetly and “trotted” down the stairs. Out the door and down the street she tripped, blithely, humming to herself.

Suddenly she drew up short and nibbled nervously at the end of a finger. Her foot tapped a tune on the sidewalk as she pondered her predicament. “I wonder,” she said aloud, “if I should have asked him where the municipal court is.” 9 0S Little miss burgan. we’d like to add, stopped at the nearest drug store and inquired her way. Os course, she didn’t tell them she was a reporter. What kind of an impression do you think that would have made? Fortunately, “Bea” Burgan found an interesting story at municipal court. So the second day she was sent to the courthouse to find another feature. She did, and from thence onward “Bea” Burgan wrote features and general assignments. “Bea” came down with tonsil trouble a year ago last April, and on the day she went to the hospital for a tonsilectomy she received word that she was to be transferred to the society department. Miss Burgan admitted that she quaked with fear lest the job be filled, but the post was held open for her and she became assistant society editor when she left the hospital. After several months of training she was promoted to woman’s page editor, and since last April has been writing a daily column on the hobbies and doings of society. 0 9 0 VERY slender, very feminine, Bea Burgan combs her hair into a long, low knot at the back of her neck. She flares into anger when somebody calls her “skinny” and insists that she’s merely “slim.” She is secretly ambitious to be carefree and giddy, but she can’t help being serious and impressionable. And she hates being called “naive.” She loves dogs and will practically weep over some frightened

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TOMORROW night in the auditorium bf the Kirshbaum center on North Meridian street, the Pals Club will present their “Show of Shows.” The visiting guest artist will be Morris Perlmutter, violinist and musical director for station WHAS in Louisville, Ky.

His accompanist will be Miss Rose Bein Lerner, well known in Louisville music circles. Among local entertainers taking part on the program will be Libby Maurer, Louis Kaseff, Lela Lepsky, Seymon Brodsky, Sid Haase. Irving Arnold, Roy Kies-, mer, Joe Bernstein and others. One of the features will be Henry A. Arnold and his Russian mandolin orchestra, singers and dancers. Dave Haase is general chairman of the show. Sam Herwitz directed and Henry A. Arnold and Dave Klapper assisted. Mrs. Jeanette Herwitz is pianist for the show. The proceeds from the show will be given to the Jewish organizations, including Beth El Zedeck Temples, the Talmud Torah, the Jewish Old Home, the Jewish National Fund, Gimiles Chesed society and Kirshbaum Center. a a a Tire entertainment committee of the Hoosier Athletic Club announces that a “Darktown Strutters Ball” will be held tonight at 10 o'clock. ‘Shorty” Phillips and his boys will furnish the music. Dancing will be held nightly next week in the Green Hat. except Monday, a a a LEN BOYD of Paramount’s publicity staff in New York has sent me the following data of local interest: Russell Powell, actor-singer, who once established a record at the San Francisco opera house by appearing in 800 consecutive performances of ‘‘The Chocolate Soldier,” is well on his way to piling up a similar record in Hollywood films. His assignment yesterday to the cast of Paramount’s ‘ The Man Who Broke His Heart,” marks his twenty-seventh film role within a year. And that is a large record, any screen actor wall admit. Son of the late General George Powell, prominent Indiana political figure. Russell Powell began his stage career thirty years ago in the city of his birth—lndianapolis Ind. In Seattle. Washington, he was established in stock companies for several years, starring in one for a period of forty-seven weeks. His greatest success, however, was in Victor Herbert’s “Madcap Duchess." produced on Broadway, New York. In “The Man Who Broke His Heart,” Powell enacts the colorful role of Greasy along with such players as Victor McLaglen. Dorothy Dell. Preston Foster, Mischa Auer and Alison Skipworth. a a a \TO word has been received JL w from Arthur Oberfelder by Vincent Burke, manager of English's. regarding the reopening of the Oberfelder circuit in this city, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas City. Oberfelder suspended operation of his circuit after presenting eleven shows, most of them are now or have been on Broadway this season. The plays did not have the attendance that they deserved. Other cities seem to have acted the same way. When he closed his circuit, Mr. Oberfelder stated that he hoped to reopen in the near future. w

stray pup. And she’ll drive all over the street—add the sidewalk to that—to avoid striking a dog. Bea hopes some day to be able to outgrow blushing. She’s not what you would call exactly crazy about golf, and there's a very good reason, too. Her mother is Mrs. Charles A. Kelley Jr., former president of the Indianapolis Woman’s Golf Association, who has won prizes in so many state and city tournaments that she can’t even count them. Bea has heard golf morning, noon and night. She has played about two games in her life, and isn’t anxious to play any more. After all, any one soon would tire of anything as a steady diet. And imagine eating golf for breakfast, luncheon and dinner! ft U tt BEA BURGAN came to Indianapolis from Terre Haute (being a Hoosier like most everybody else in the office), and entered Arsenal Technical high school here. She worked on the Arsenal Cannon with Elizabeth Carr, now assistant woman’s page editor for The Times (you’ll hear more about her later); won a year’s scholarship to Indiana uni-, versify extension, but decided, instead, to attend Butler university. She kept up her journalistic endeavors, working on the Butler Collegian, still with Miss Carr as a colleague. Bea was a member of the sophomore, junior and senior honor societies, a member of Kappa Tau Alpha and president of Theta Sigma Phi, woman’s professional journalistic sorority. She is a member of the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana. She worked on the Drift, junior yearbook, and in her junior year was chosen by that publication as one of eight representative junior and senior students. She also was a member of Pi Beta Phi, social sorority.

DEMOCRATIC WASTE CHARGED BY MARTIN Former Judge Is Speaker Before p. O. P. Veterans. Waste of public funds by Democratic state and county administrations was charged by Clarence R. Martin, Republican, former supreme court justice, at a meeting of the Marion county chapter, Republican Veterans of Indiana, last night. An appeal for harmony in Republican ranks was made by Raymond S. Springer, Connersville, 1032 G. O. P. candidate for Governor. DECLAMATION CONTEST DATES ARE ANNOUNCED Church Federation Sponsoring the Prince of Peace Tourney. Regional contests in the Prince of Peace declamation contest of the Church Federation of Indianapolis will be held on or immediately following Feb. 11. Congregational contests may be held at any time prior to Feb. 11. The Rev. Herbert F. Weckmueller is chairman of the committee of arrangements in charge of the congregational and regional contests.

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Miss Beatrice Burgan, woman’s page editor of The Times, as she enters the Times building. Miss Burgan is the young lady who didn’t know the way t o police court, and wouldn’t —or didn’t ask the city editor.

Soon after her graduation from Butler, she joined The Times. She works her head off when she’s enthusiastic about something and Just; recently her enthusiasm and fervor in working for the saddle horse roundup brought her election as an honorary vice-president of Indiana

M’NUTT TO BE ‘SILENTGUEST’ Governor to Attend State Women’s Session —But Won’t Speak. Governor Paul V. McNutt, whose services as a public speaker are in great demand throughout the state, will get a “break” Monday noon when he attends the Indiana Women’s Democratic Club midwinter meeting in the Clay pool. Club officials explained today that the Governor and Dr. Carleton B. McCullough will be present as “silent guests,” in as much as it is the custom of the club to have only women speakers. Speakers for the luncheon will be Mrs. Cecil Cantrill, Lexington. Conferences will be held in the morning by Democratic county and district vice-chairmen. Rumored lack of harmony between the club and state administration became more noticeable several weeks ago when Pleas Greenlee, the Governor's patronage secretary, was active in boosting a rival women’s clubs. % STEAL POOL BALL SETS Youths Alleged to Have Tried to Sell Loot. Two youths today were being sought for theft of three sets of pool balls, valued at $25, from the garage of John Sullivan, operator of a pool room at 818 Ft. Wayne avenue. Mr. Sullivan told police last night he learned the boys tried to sell the balls to another youth for 6 cents.

By George Clark

Saddle Horse Association, and her selection as associate editor of the Hoosier Equestrian. And the funny part is that she hasn’t been on a horse since she was about 12, when she jumped from a pony cf which she had lost control. A “Republican-by-birth and he-

Capital Capers Flowers for Bullitt U. S. Envoy to Russia Accepts and Admires Gift But Is Puzzled as to Unknown Donor.

BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—8i1l Bullitt, American ambassador to Soviet Russia, was sitting quietly at home poring over plans for his embassy in Moscow when the bell rang. A servant brought in a magnificent basket of lavender orchids and pink and white carnations, tied with several yards of gold ribbon. Bullitt tore open the accompanying card which inclosed the message. “Best wishes for your success.” He glanced at the signature, scratched his head, sniffed at the flowers, puzzled. “Who are they from,” inquired a visitor. “I don’t know,” admitted Bullitt. “I never heard of this person before . . . “But I’m very appreciative,” he added. Plans for the Moscow embassy are temporarily relegated to the background, while Bill Bullitt muses and ponders about the mysterious gift of orchids and carnations. a a a THE smile of Minister Michael Mac White of the Irish Free State is growing broader each day. Reason: The Irish Free State is completing plans to transfer the bulk of its trade with Great Britain to the United States. This action is being taken partly out of gratitude for the generous whisky market this government gave the Irish Free State and partly because the Irish hope for concessions on their goods. An industrial trade totaling $22,500,000 and most of the Irish coal trade is being transferred across the Atlantic. Minister Michael next week welcomes to Washington John Leydon, secretary of the department of industrial commerce of the Irish Free State, who comes here to talk turkey. a a a CUBA’S deposed provisional president, Carlos Hevia, was in Washington last month studying sugar problems and calling on old navy classmates. Incidentally, he's the only Cuban to be graduated from the Annapolis Naval academy. In appearance, Carlos is short, swarthy-complexioned, with coal black hair, dark eyes and a toothbrush mustache. Unlike many Cubans, he is a careless dresser. His trousers bag at the knees and his business suits are not of the smartest cuts. His smile flashes alert and quick, as he talks rapidly In perfect English. At the Lafayette hotel where he stopped his hospitality became proverbial. “Have a drink,” was frequently his opening remark. And usually more than one drink was consumed before the caller departed. a a a ALWAYS accompanying Carlos is his fascinating, blond wife, a capable and clever woman who speaks English with a slight and becoming Spanish accent. When Hevia (he pronounces it like “Heavier” without the “H”) spoke to American friends here he minced no words but discussed the political situation with apparent frankness.

redity,” she admits that she voted for Roosevelt. Bea loves books and music—even though she can’t carry a tune to save her life. And she can’t cook or sew. Isn’t that just like a society editor! Next: Meet Off-the Backboard.

He was always willing to talk even at 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. He seemed never to sleep, often receiving visitors and making phone calls in the “wee sma’ hours.” A son of Colonel Aurelio Hevia, patriot of the Cuban war for independence and an excellent politician (still alive), Carlos is a sugar planter and particularly interested in the sugar situation in his country. He was for years a political exile in New York and was one of the leaders of the 1931 revolt against President Machado. NEW ELECTION IN LOUISIANA PROBABLE House Committee to Refuse Candidates, Is Report. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—House Majority Leader Joseph W. Byrns said today he had been “informed” that the elections committee considering the Kemp-£r*nders election contest in Louisiana would recommend seating of neither contestant and calling of anew election. LEGION MEMBERSHIP SHOWS 65,000 GAIN Pennsylvania Leads in Drive for New Members. Membership in the American Legion today was 65,000 more than the same day a year ago, it was announced today at national legion headquarters here. Pennsylvania has spurted ahead in leading the “big four” departments, with Illinois second, California third and New York fourth, it was reported. Illinois, home state of Edward A. Hayes, national commander, has been leading the 1934 membership contest up to today. NAZI ACTIVITIES FLAYED House Committee Scores Hitler for Propaganda in U. S. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Bitter resentment against Nazi activities in the United States was expressed today in the majority report to the house of the immigration subcommittee. The subcommittee charged the Hitler regime in Germany was making every effort to popularize its program throughout America. PROBE ASSAULT CASE Victims Taken to City Hospital for Treatment. Complaint of George Scanlon, 33, Harbour hotel, that he was assaulted by an unknown man as he walked past an alley, today was being investigated by police. Sixteen stitches were taken in his neck and cheek at city hospital, where he was taken by Edward Steiner, 32, of 511 North Illinois street, also injured. Both were ordered held on vagrancy fharges.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler MOSCOW. Jan. 20.—There is considerable alarm in Russia at this time as a result of the recognition of the United States of America by the Soviet Union. Comrade Hamilton Fish, one of the foremost Russian statesmen of the present time, has been making speeches to the citizens denouncing the recognition of the United’ States on the ground that American agents soon will begin to invade the country and spread destructive, radical propaganda among the people. Comrade Fish particularly is

aroused over the radicalism of the American form of government, but he also is concerned over the immorality of the Americans in both their commercial and private life. He foresees, with considerable alarm, a time when, with free intercourse between the two nations. the Russian people will be polluted and dragged down to the level of the people of the United States. “This is the time,” Comrade Fish said, “to defend the Russian ideal and the sacred heritage, which all true Russians hold dear, against the deadly poison of that which the Americans call their civilization. Ours

is a state in w’hich the citizen works for the state. In theirs the state undertakes to support the citizen. This dangerous, radical theory is inimical to Russian institutions, and I call upon our citizens to report to the nearest policeman any American agent who undertakes to spread American theories of government and conduct and to inculcate in us the loathsome American concept of morals. "The founding fathers of the Soviet Union will have suffered and died in vain if we now betray the sacred trust reposed in us by compromising with the ticious ideas of America. 000 Good-by, Five-Year Plan “IYyCY friends,” Comrade Fish continued, “do you IVA realize that under the American system of government the citizen is paid to refrain from tilling his fields? If a citizen, having been paid not to work, shall cultivate those fields by stealth he is deemed to have violated the law and may be sent to prison. “Oh, my friends,” Comrade Fish exclaimed. “I pray to Nicolai Lenin that we may reconsider our foolish action and set our face once more against this radical canker which is skulking about our doors, seeking to stifle in its slimy coils the flower of our civilization. “Do you realize, that if we welcome Americanism to our shores we shall have to say good-by to our five-year plan and the ideal of industrial efficiency to which we have dedicated ourselves and embrace a theory that the punk workman, the lazy and incompetent hand, is the superior citizen because he does not hog the work, but leaves some work for others to do? “Isn’t it plain that, once this radical American plan has been Imported to our fair country, with its pernicious and false theory that dearth makes prosperity, but that plenty makes poverty and want, we shall find ourselves again reduced to the faminine conditions which ravaged us in 1919?” At this point, Comrade Fish paused to fan a dish of tea and proceed to the subject of American morals. 000 We're a Bunch of Whiners “TYTE are dealing,” he said, “with a lawless counVV try. over-run by brigands and abductors who prowl the land in defiance of the police, firing ma-chine-guns, bombing, abducting and robbing. It is a land, my friends, in which the artistic ideal is expressed by a man with the smile of a chipmunk and the whining voice of a lovesick sophomore whose sniveling about love captivates millions night after night for years and who is regarded, on the basis of recognition and reward, as the greatest artist that the United States of America has ever produced. “It is a land, my comrades, in which, as you would find, if you could but interpret its songs, the whine is the native cry of the people. They whine that nobody loves them, they whine that they are all alone by the telephone, they whine and sniffle and moan that some lady forgot to remember or that they otherwise have been unfortunate in affairs of the heart which to our people would be regarded as matters of the most intimate privacy and, moreover, of minor consequence. “And do you realize, oh, my comrades, that if we do not repel this American civilization, we may one day find ourselves compelled to live together, man and wife, by the requirements of law, in a state of immorality most shocking to the Russian character, unless we wish to stoop to the degradation of perjury? Man, do you want your sister compelled to live with a man against her will?” Comrade Fish popularly is regarded as a bit of an alarmist, but many Russians believe there is much in what he says. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science ONE of the most typical developments of the twentieth century is the industrial resear .1 laboratory where a group of scientists, experts in many different lines of endeavor, work co-opera-tively lupon the problems of commercial concern. How ideas are sometimes originated and developed in such a laboratory is told by Oliver Ajer of the General Research Laboratory, who describes the history of anew electric razor blade sharpener. It began when one of the research fellows of the laboratory was traveling in Italy. He suggested to his companion that they review their daily routine and see if there wasn’t something in it that could be motorized. The day started for them when the alarm clock rang. Electric alarm clocks were already on the market, so there was no use giving that any thought. Next came the tooth brush. Dentists use attachments upon drills when cleaning teeth that might be regarded as motorized tooth brushes, but the notion didn’t seem very promising. Accordingly, they passed up the tooth brush. Next to engage their attention was the safety razor. They spent several minutes each day turning by hand their razor stroppers. That seemed a good field, so they wrote a letter to the director of the laboratories suggesting a motor-driven razor sharpener. a a a THE laboratory chief knew that one of the research men, a metallurgist, had a hobby of razor blades. So he called in this man and read him the letter. The metallurgist was interested and agreed to undertake the problem. Next, they sent out for as many different kinds of hand-operated stroppers as could be found and subjected them all to analysis. This was to find out what the motor-driven stropper would have to do. Finally, they set about to design a motor-driven one and concluded that they wanted to build one with four rollers, two for each edge of the doubleedge razor blade. They decided to wrap a narrow strip of leather in a spiral around each roller. The surface of this strip was to be coated with some abrasive. This spiral wrapping would give the same diagonal stroke that a mechanic gives when he sharpens his edged tools with a circular motion. Tungsten carbide, an alloy hard enough to cut glass and almost as hard as the diamond, can be made in the form of a powder. One of them, while examining various samples of leather, noticed that as he bent them he could distend the minute hair follicles so that they appeared like tiny pores. “It occurred to him that nature's way of holding hair in the hide might be a good way of holding tungsten carbide in the leather,” Mr. Ajer says. a a a HE accordingly made a mixture of benzine, Damar gum and tungsten carbide and applied it to stretched leather. He found that when It dried thoroughly and the benzine evaporated that parI tides of the tungsten carbide were held firmly. AnqJJier problem which the laboratory investigated was the problem of what makes a blade sharp. 4

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