Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1934 — Page 11

Second Section

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Brouru IN the modern world the assertion “Now you're talking emotionally" is considered a reproach. It is used after the manner of Please be sensible." But I have not been wholly converted to this school of ultra-realistic thinking. I believe that there is a monster at the bottom of Loch Ness and I think that each of us houses within his own subr conscious mind some ancient sea serpent whose presence is made manifest only by ripples on the surface By an act of will and desperate rationality the amphibian can be kept off

the roads at night and made to linger at the bottom of the lake —but he is still there. Not all your rationality or wit can cut from him a single coil. I believe that the best way to handle your personal sea serpent is to give him every now and then a lump of sugar dipped in rum. I'm not going to get him sore by pretending that he does not exist. And so when anybody cries out. "Why. man <or maybe, ‘you utter idiot !, don't you realize that you are allowing your emotions to influence your judgment?” I purpose to reply:— "I do. So what?” ana

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The Tenant in the Basement EVEN among the realists it seems to me that at times I have detected the top of a dark fin moving most rapidly across their conversation. And so I have my doubts when anybody tells me that he became a Republican or a revolutionary through a process of pure intellectual reasoning. As Henley riidn t quite say i*. ‘ Or ever the knightly years were gone we were all babes in Babylon. Lenin was conditioned to his wisdom and Napoleon to his folly, and they both had comDlexes. \Viio am I to deny that in certain important questions I am merely following out some decision which I made before I was 6 years old? Or possibl\ it would be more accurate to say that maybe it was made for me. I am a pacifist not so much because I saw a little of a large war but rather from the fact that almost my first playthings were medals which my father won for shooting. I don't mean to say that I gashed my thumb upon a silver bar inscribed “Sharpshooter" and at that moment cooed angrily, “No more war!" On the contrary, my brother and I had a lot of fun with the medals. It was easy to arouse the envy of the other boys on the block by wearing them. a a a The Shaw Their Medals THE trophies were scattered all around the house. My father was one of the greatest target shots of his day. He went to England, and toured the United States on national guard teams. He was a colonel and at one time New York State inspector of rifle practice. But I must have received very early the impression that these medals gained for skill in hitting the bullseye had no real value. Certainly my father set no great store by them. Any of us was free to dip into a great, big box and take away a handful. I remember I traded a gold one signifying the championship of New Jersey for two uncanceled Abyssinian stamps. And there were shotguns and rifles and revolvers all around the place. But with these we were not allowed to make free under any excuse whatsoever. I suppose when I was very young I must have heard my father say a hundred times: —“Never point a gun at any one. Never pick up a gun at all.” He had in mind, consciously, at least, no more than the tragedies of the I-didn't-know-it-was-loaded sort. But naturally this repeated injunction was translated in my mind into the feeling that there was something sinister and evil about firearms themselves. And if I made that decision when I was 6 years old. I think I was a very smart child. At any rate. I still think weapons are malignant. nun Ximrod for Fire Minutes ONCE I fired six shots at some glass balls in a booth at Atlantic City. I guess my conscience warred against even that excursion into the field of militancy and I hit nothing. In the last thirty years I have not touched a trigger. And I've always wondered why mighty hunters are so anxious to make converts. Once I visited a man who was great on killing ducks. I had to argue for hours to convince him that I didn't want to kill any ducks. I finally dissuaded him by explaining that if I fired a shotgun I was much more likely to blow off somebody's ear in the boat than to hit a duck. And, besides. hunting ducks seems to be something that you have to do at 4 o'clock in the morning. Os course if I were much more logical I wouldn't ever eat a wild duck, and I've eaten a lot of them. And maybe somebody will ask me whether I would not have taken up arms against the Indians if I had been with the crowd at Plymouth Rock But the answer to that is simple. If I had a blunderbuss and I was aiming at an alert Indian with a pretty good bow and arrow, how would you bet on the final score? And so it seems to me that problem is academic. And. besides, mavbe more Indians and fewer Brouns wouldn't be a bad idea. iCopyright. 1934. by The Times!

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

may submit yourself to massage treatments. X if you want to use that method for reduction of superfluous fat and for hardening of relaxed tissues. But be careful how. or by whom, you have this done. Massage, really, is a two-edged sword that may do harm as well as good. Chief purpose of massage seems to be to aid the tissues in removing accumulations of waste products by increasing the blood flow, and thus stimulating movement of lymph. But these changes are temporary. While the massage Is going on. there is an increase in the oxygen consumption of the body, but this returns very rapidly to normal. In fact, massage does not influence greatly the metabolism or chemical changes of the body, so that it can have little importance in reducing weight. However, by adding tone to the tissues, it does seem to harden those tissues that are relaxed. a a a THE rubbing of the human body, manipulation of muscles and tissues, and tapping, which are some of the chief motions used m massage, have been practiced in some form or another m most countries of the world since the beginning of man. E\en Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recommended massage for treatment of stiff joints. Among the ancient Hindus and ..mong the Chinese, as far back as 3.000 B. C.. massage was used. Among the savages of the East Indies and among the Hawanans. there is a system of massage which begins with the head and works downward over the whole body, manipulating even- muscle until, after a half hour, weariness seems to disappear and the body is soothed. Massage fell into some disrepute when it became associated with public and 'when it was practiced for purposes of pleasure rather than for purposes of health. a a a MUCH of the massaging today is done by technicians who are trained only in the methods of massage and not m the physiology of the body. Neither have they any definite conception of what la to be accomplished. Careful experiments have been made to learn whether massage of the abdomen would tend to reduce or spread the fat. These studies show that the fat really is not reached by the massaqp and there tana good, evidence that any lat ia removed.

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Lowell B. Nntsbaom. assistant cite editor of The Indianapolis Time*, today takes the spotlight in this, the thirteenth, article of The Times' popular series on members of its editorial staff. BY NORMAN ISAACS Times News Editor BACK in 1921, while working on the Chronicle, his home town newspaper in Marion. Ind.. Lowell Nussbaum asked for a week off so that he could be married. The office refused, so Lowell very calmly quit. He got married, took a two weeks’ honeymoon, and then wandered back to the Chronicle office and inquired mildly if they still wanted him. They welcomed him with wide-open arms. Mr. Nussbaum’s successor, it seems, couldn't figure out the office "morgue” filing system. Neither could anybody else. Mr. Nussbaum had attended to that, guessing wisely that his services would be necessary in a short while. That, it could be said, was a real big-city-slicker stunt coming from a young man who spent a few years of his boyhood as an Indiana farmer. His youthful days saw him the sole director of a twenty-four-acre "ranch.” which boasted two pigs, one cow, one pony and several dozen chickens.

And Lowell hates pigs to this day. Perhaps it came as a result of chasing Abelard and Heloise, his two juvenile porkers, through cornfields and trying to coax them with sticks, stones and words into the insecure pen he had built for them. ana BUT Lowell Nussbaum—"Nuss” to half the office, “Lowell” to the other half—bears no traces of his farming days, unless it is his tall, rambling frame. Despite his six feet, he looks slightly frail, but in reality he is as powerful as a young ox. His is the most tractable disposition in the office, and he easily wins the laui°l for being The Times’ most conscientious writing man. Not a go-getter by any means. Lowell nevertheless is the office handy-man. If therm is a job he can not do, he has yet to meet it. Mr. Nussbaum first gained office fame through “alleged'’ fast driving of what he called his “hootenanny.” Mr. Nussba urn's colleagues insist that he was guilty of driving at speeds not conducive to good health and some have been so unkind as to suggest that he would have made a better race driver than an assistant city editor. Mr. Nussbaum denies all vehemently. He points to his spotless record as a motorist, not even a fender dented in more than four years, and alleges that most of the humorous asides cast In the office resulted from the condition of his “hootenanny,” which, he asserts, rattled and groaned so much that it always seemed in imminent peril of accident, whereas, he declares that, to the contrary, the vehicle was the safest thing on the streets—while in his able nands, at least. ana PERHAPS because of these calumnious reports, the word was wafted to the city editor that our Lowell had a madcap strain in his blood and one day back in 1928. the city editor called over to Mr. Nussbaum. “Nuss,” he said, “have you ever ridden in an airplane?” “Once,” said Lowell. “Then you're the new aviation writer," said the city editor. Get busy.” Grudgingly, at first, Lowell took on the added task, soon grew intensely interested, and as local aviation interest began to grow, he covered several widelyseparated air fields almost daily. He took a flying course, writing daily stories of the lessons, and then finally soloed before a

Mae West Coming Back; She y s Booked at Apollo BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

TJERE is a movie menu that's a menu—“ She Done Him Wrong,” “Carolina" and “Alice in Wonderland.” The chief dishes on this menu are supplied by Mae West, Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore and by Charlotte Henry.

This menu makes up the next three movie offerings of the Apollo theater. Kenneth Collins, manager of the Apollo, where this

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one of the ten best pictures, we feel that it is opportune to return this feature to Indianapolis." said Mr. Collins. "We have received so many requests to bring ’Lil' back to a local screen, we are opening it Friday. We will follow that with Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore in 'Carolina' and as soon as that closes we will give Indianapolis its first opportunity to see Charlotte Henry, the 17-year-old wonder girl of the movies, in Paramount's production of 'Alice in Wonderland.’” In my own vote in Film Daily's national yearly poll. I included "She Done Him Wrong,” in my list of ten best. "Carolina" is a story of a sleepy Carolina plantation with Mr. Barrymore as a southern gentleman. "Alice in Wonderland.” as far as bookings are concerned, has had a funny career in this city. It first was announced as the Christmas attraction at the Indiana and then canceled. Later this theater surrendered its contract rights and finally the Apollo took it. This department has received more letters and telephone inquiries concerning when and where “Alice” is going to be shown than any picture in the last two years. “Alice in Wonderland" definitely ha& been at the

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‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’

Lowell Nussbaum —He Can Handle Anything —Anytime

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dish will be served, maintains each one will be a banquet in itself. In bringing back Mae West in her first great hit. Mr. Collins says he is answering requests of his patrons. “Since movie critics all over the country voted She Done Him Wrong’ as

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934

crowd of several hundred wellwishers. Lowell looked askance at the crowd and called them evil-wishers. Os course, he saw a few pals’ faces—his office pals. But Lowell fooled the boys, made a perfect three-point landing. and then swaggered off nonchalantly. He was bitten by the aviation bug badly and he chased around the country to various air meets and shows, becoming one of the first aerial hitchhikers, sometimes thumbing his way to shows in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. He has met and has interviewed most of the nation’s aviation celebrities, including Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the latter probably a dozen times. He obtained one of the first interviews in the country with Lindbergh following the Colonel's triumphal tour of the country. ana LOWELL was born in Marion on Nov. 6, 1901, and went to school there until the eighth grade, when his father bought a small farm near Ft. Wayne and moved there, 'sending Lowell to a nearby one-room country school where he was the only eighth grade pupil. He must have had a grand time reading about Diamond Dick and Nick Carter, because when it came time for Lowell to go to Ft. Wayne and take a written examination for his graduation, he discovered that he didn’t know all the answers. So he took the course over in Ft. Wayne school next fall and so went to high school. He ran the farm because his father was away except for two nights a week and Lowell picked up a rather extensive vocabulary pursuing the aforementioned Abelarde and Heloise. Lowell returned to Marion following the death of his father and promptly started to establish himself as a promising young business man. He bought a morning newspaper route for S4O, paying for it with small weekly payments. When he had it paid for, he rented the route to another youth and started buying, carrying and building up another route. He kept up this practice until he had a small corner on the newspaper route market and a steady income from his invested capital. The newspaper thought so much of his business acumen that he was given a job as circulator, counting out the papers and directing the carriers. While he was doing this, he obtained an-

‘Easy to Love’ Due Here “ F ASY to Love,” the Warner *- / Bros. picture which opens tomorrow at the Indiana for three days only, is said to be a revelation in marital mixups dished out in a hilarious vein. There is a quadrangular love tangle in which a husband and wife, whom their daughter and her swetheart believe to be an idealistically happy married couple, are mixed up with affinities in the persons of each other’s best friend. The strange and complicated situations that arise when the wife learns that her husband is maintaining a love nest and he suspects her of having an affair lead to some laughable scenes, it is said.

Where, What and When Loews Palace “Roman Scandals.” Eddie Cantor at his best as a Roman citizen clad in a toga in ancient Rome. At 11:40 a. m.. 1:40, 3:45. 5:50. 7:55 and 10 p. m. Apollo—"I Am Suzanne.” The best marionettes the screen ever had are in’' this movie. At 11:27 a. m., 1:29, 3:31. 5:33. 7:35-and 9:37 p. m. Circle—“ All of Me.” Cast headod by Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and George Raft. At 11 a. m.. 12:50. 2:40, 4:30. 6:20. 8:10 and 10 p. m. Indiana "Son of Kong.” Cast headed by Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack. At 11:10 a. m.. 1. 2:40 . 4:40, 6:30. 8:20 and 10:10 p. m. Lyric "Cross - Country Cruise” on the screen. Romance and tragedy found on a cross country bus. At 11:40 a. m.. 2:20. 5:18. 7:58 and 10:38 p. m. On stage. “Frivolities of Today.” At 1:10. 3:50, 6:48 and 9:28 p. m. Playhouse—“ Brief Moment,” sophisticated stage comedy. Presented by the Civic theater. Curtain at 8:30 p. m.

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Here’s Lowell Nussbaum going through the daily assignment book, which tells him what every reporter is doing today. Mr. Nussbaum is assistant city editor for The Times.

other part-time job on the same paper, reading proof from 6 to 11 p. m. Mind you, he was going to high school all this time. ana BUT the business world lost a potential genius. Lowell got the newspaper idea. He couldn’t get a job in Marion, so he sold a dilapidated car given him by a relative, using the money to go to Chicago, where he obtained a position on the Journal. He said he had two years’ experience behind him (he didn’t say it was carrying papers) and that he knew Chicago. Lowell kept his own counsel and asked no questions. When given an assignment he just walked to the nearest traffic policeman who soon became so accustomed to the idea that he took his street guide out of his pocket as soon as he saw Lowell coming. It didn’t take the Journal long to find out that Lowell’s reportorial experience had been a bit overrated and two weeks before he had to return to Marion

CITY GIRL SCOUTS TO GET SERVICE STRIPES Seven to Be Honored at Courts for Five Years of Duty. Seven silver service stripes, representing five years active service in scouting, will be presented at Girl Scout troop courts to be held throughout the remainder of Janutry. They will be presented to Betty Pierce, Betty Hammerstaclt, Marylynn Knowlton, Margaret Wilcox, Eileen Westover, Martha Cassell and Marjorie Miner. Troops 34 and 41, led by Mrs. Lewis Willsey, will hold court in the form of a Valentine tea tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Clayton Ridge will speak on “Mothers and Daughters in Scouting." Mrs. Walter Horn and Mrs. Hayden Smock are in charge of arrangements.

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to go back to school he was given the yellow slip. Back in Marion once again, he had the necessary reputation as a reporter and he subbed on both papers by playing truant. Oftentimes he substituted for reporters on both morning and afternoon papers on the same day. This naturally created some confusion on beats and many of the gentlemen Lowell had to see, often asked bewilderedly: “Which one are you working for right this minute? I don’t want the Chronicle to have this. I promised it to the Leader-Trib-une.” Lowell worked on the Huntington Press on one of his summer vacations from the University of Michigan and later started working full time for the Chronicle, coming to The Times in July of 1927. a a a IN his long experience as a reporter, he has covered the federal building (when things

Spats in White House They Were Light Gray and Adorned Feet of a Certain Congressman Who Fled Official Reception. BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. —The White House reception for the senate and house of representatives presented so many contrasts it is impossible to write about them all in one column. A certain congressman, who vanished in the crowd before his name could be learned, appeared wearing light gray spats. There was at least one pair of high shoes and many soft frilled shirts and a few black ties.

No appearance, no’vever spectacular, equaled the record of Joseph (Tieless Joe) Tolbert, Republican committeeman who—as

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were humming), the city hall, general assignments, and has worked on the copy desk. One day in federal court, the prosecuting witness in a “white slave” case was asked by the judge to pick out the erring criminal. The witness looked around and the eyes stopped on Lowell. “That’s him, Judge,” came the identification. The whole courtroom, judge and all, burst into a roar of laughter. Lowell’s face, he admits, was as red as the Soviet flag. Summing Lowell Nussbaum up, you’d just have to say he was a very mild mannered young man, very gracious, too darned obliging for his own good, and almost too dependable. For the office slogan, when anything difficult looms, is: "Let Lowell do it.” That’s one way of saying: “Let’s get it done right.” Next—The managing editor.

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his name indicates—used to arrive at the Hoover parties in evening dress, but minus a tie. o a a MRS. OSIAS, wife of the resident commissioner of the Philippines, appeared with her husband, wearing a costume of pineapple fiber called “pina,” fashioned after the Filipino mode, with high starched collar and long, full skirts. The dress of Mrs. Osias was of brilliant orange hue and looked Elizabethan. A friend, Mrs. Quirino, wife of the speaker of the Philippine senate, wore a similar dress of gold colored material. Up to these charming ladies ambled Representative Sol Bloom of New York, a white carnation in his coat lapel, pince-nez on his nose. Sol was enchanted with the bizarre costumes and said so. Hitherto, the New Yorker has been more concerned with George Washington than with Filipino affairs, but his attitude changed at the instant. “If this is a sample.” he exclaimed, ecstatically, “I’m going to the Philippines.” a a a SENATOR TOM CONNALLY (of Texas, suh!) seemed his usual debonair self. “You look splendid,” commented a friend, "after all that excitement?” Connally was puzzled. “Why, the Louisiana election,” chirped the’ friend. a a a Robbie Toasted—Not Roasted MRS. MARY RUMSEY, NRA consumers' chairman of the advisory board, was hostess at a surprising party at which the guests were the seven congresswomen and—Miss Frances Robinson, secretary to General Hugh Johnson. Tpasted in champagne. Robbie (alias Miss Robinson) was the hit ptJfee SQtiS* '*

Second Section

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler IDO not wish to hurry the pitcher's wind-up when he is going along so well, but I hope Mr. Roosevelt pretty soon will get around to the subject of those attorneys-at-law who told the larcenous bankers how to commit the acts of indoor banditry against the people and the United States government which he referred to in his address to congress a few weeks back. The bankers had fine natural talents for their work and I would not want to be understood as low-rating their highwaymanship

in any way. But. just as a fine natural football player needs coaching in the fundamentals, and schooling in the wiles of the sport, so. too, it takes a corporation lawyer with a heart for the game to organize a great stock swindle or income-tax dodge and drill the financiers in all the precise details of their play. Otherwise, in their natural enthusiasm to rush in and grab everything that happens not to be nailed down and guarded by shot-guns, they would soon be caught offside and penalized and some of the noted financiers who are now immortalized as all-time

all-America larcenists never would have risen beyond the level of the petty thief or short-change man. In my essays on football I always tried to make a fair division of the credit between the coach and the players, admitting, however, that I did feel partial to the athletes themselves because the best coach on earth could not produce a great team unless his men had a joyous feeling for football. Similarly, I have to insist that no man could have brought off some of the miracles which were disclosed in Washington and referred to by Mr. Roose,velt unless he had larceny in his soul and the true pickpocket instinct. I do not think, for instance, that, the greatest lawyer that ever lived could have perpetrated such magnificent swindles if he had nothing but honest men to work with. They would have balled up their signals and crossed their interference and most of the time they would have been running toward the wrong goal because an honest man has a dumb instinct for the honest way of doing and no coach in the world can reverse him. a a a Financiers Needed Lawyers' Help SO let it oe understood that I give all due credit to the innate thievery of these financiers before proceeding to acknowledge the greatness of those forgotten men, their lawyers, who taught them the fine points of the game and elevated robbery from a rough, rowdy thing, practiced with blackjack and gun to a beautiful science, and moved it out of the alleys into the great marble temples where stocks are traded. Does anybody suppose, for instance, that any band of financiers, however clever, would have dared to undertake some of the beautiful jobs which were put over on the citizens during the boom without first calling in their attorneys to study matters out and tell them just how much they could get away with and how to go about it? That is where the coach enters the scheme and I think that any fair estimate of the feats to which Mr. Roosevelt paid tribute ought to devote at least a few paragraphs to the counsel without whose guidance and instruction the financiers would have been just so many simple penny-matchers sitting for suckers around the union depot. , The lawyer was the genius who spent his night poring over the laws and discovered that they would be perfectly safe in shoving their bum securities with no intent in the world but to steal the money from the investors because, by a curious oversight, the country had plumb forgotten to define this form of stealing as larceny under the law. The lawyer did this with the highest ethics in mind because, in corporation law, as in football, it is the duty of the coach to discover every advantage which the rules allow. His duty to his client requires him to ferret out'ambiguitiec and oversights and exploit them until they are plugged up. nan Income Tax Loopholes Unearthed IT was the lawyer, too, of course, who analyzed the income tax laws so keenly as to discover, in time, that some of the greatest financiers of the boom time in America were not obliged to pay any income taxes at all, provided they moved their income from one pocket to another, or wrote it over to their loving relatives. The financiers were quick to do this, of course, and I am withholding no recognition for their alertness under instruction. But no financier, just by himself, ever would have made these interesting discoveries and some of the classic frauds of all time would never have been executed. I know Mr. Roosevelt has plenty to do, but it just occurred to me at the time when he was discussing these swindles and immortalizing the financiers that, in fairness, he should have spared a few words for those noted and wealthy members of the American bar who made their robberies possible. There is loathing enough to go around. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

METEOROLOGISTS are seeking a master key to the weather of the world. To the average layman, weather is a matter of local interest. He is interested in whether it is hot or cold, sunny or cloudy in his particular locality. The meteorologist, however, notes that weather travels. The cold wave experienced in northwestern Canada this morning may move down to the upper Great Lakes region tomorrow'. In another day, it will hit the lower lakes regions and then go sweeping across the St. Lawrence valley. The weatherman sees upon the American continent as the result of a series of atmospheric disturbances, areas of low pressure or high pressure which move eastward across the continent. Greater masses of air flow from the “highs” into the “lows” and thus determine the picture of the weather map. The master key which meteorologists seek is the mechanism behind this moving pattern of highs and lows, in other words, the mechanism which controls the circulation of the earth’s atmosphere. Undoubtedly, the shape of the earth is one factor. The earth’s rotation on its axis and its revolution around the sun are other factors. a a a • DR. C. G. ABBOTT, secretary of the Smithsonian institution, has been a pioneer In the attempt to connect weather on earth with fluctuations in the sun’s radiation. Lately he has put forward evidence to show that weather everywhere on earth repeats itself in a twenty-th.-ee-year cycle, keeping step with the Hale twenty-three-year magnetic sun spot cycle. Another pioneer in this type of study has been H. Helm Clayton, who has been associated with Dr. Abbott in a number of his studies. Mr. Clayton calls attention to the fact that there is something in common in the weather in widely separated parts of the earth, even in countries on opposite sides of the earth, as for example the central United States and Australia. “Changes in rainfall in central North America show a similarity to changes in central South America,” he says. "Changes in pressure in the Indian ocean show similarities to changes of temperature on the coast of Chile.” Mr. Clayton suggests that these common features are brought about by changes in the intensity of the circulation of the earth’s atmosphere. In support of this view he points out that there are .periods lasting for several years when the pressure gradient between the equatorial region and the colder regions in high latitudes become greater than normal and succeediq&dmgit jscfipg ifigs

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