Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1934 — Page 9

JAN. 27, 1934-

It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun I SAW the hammer and the sickle hanging beside the Stars and Stripes in the grand ballroom of the Hotei As tor. Recognition makes strange bedfellows and our red. white and blue has consented to come in friendly contact with the red on several occasions within the last few weeks. But even so, the presence of these somewhat different banners still suffices to make wire walkers out of after-din-ner speakers. I sat at the banquet given by the American Russian Institute in honor of “Hus

Excellency, Alexander A. Troyanovsky, ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United States.” And that in Itself, you see. is rather a long-winded way of saying ’Comrade.” Our bowing acquaintance with Russia is of such brief duration that as yet the greeting is extended a little self-consciously. Almost w’e seem to say:—"The face is familiar, but I can't quite seem to place that nine millionotld square miles." a a a Walking a Little Warily AND so not one of th e speakers touched upon the obvi-

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ous economic contest inherent in the confrontation of the flags. Alexander Woollcott, so it seemed to me, never spoke more brilliantly, and, even so, he did not more than hint that Russians were devoted to a life not very similar xo our own. William C. Bullitt, our own ambassador, avoided all issues by saving he was sure the audience wished to hear from the Russian representative. He thereupon sat down and threw his colleague, Alexander A. Troyanovsky, to the maws of the microphone. The Communist from the land of the Communists was very mild compared to the comrades I have heard in Union Square. Possibly recognition itself is a damper. Or it may be that no good revolutionary speech has ever been made by a man in a tail-coat. It is not easy, I imagine, to stand up in tne middle of the grand ballroom of the Astor and cry ou t—-Workers of the world, unite!" From the standpoint of a diner it might even be dangerous. If the appeal were eloquent enough all the cooks and waiters and bus boys might walk out to join their fellows of the Waldorf. a a a Keeping It Friendly. BUT “His Excellency" Alexander A. Troyanovsky did not make a radical speech. He spoke in friendly fashion of President Roosevelt, for which he may get hell in the Daily Worker tomorrow. He gave us some school statistics and pretty much perfuncturated (v.t. Rare) through a written speech somewhat misted over by the fact of accent. All the gentlemen and ladies who had an opportunity to speak confined themselves to applauding the fact that cultural relations between Russia and the United States have again become possible. One might almost think that Litvinoff and President Roosevelt got together in firm conference for the sake of making it possible for Harpo Marx to do his ten-minute turn in Moscow’. I am informed by no less an authority than Harpo himself that Mr. Marx wps a sensational success on the Soviet circuit. Perhaps this is enough to justify recognition. Harpo's triumph is our loss, for now we are committed to give the warmest sort of welcome to a couple of Volga boatmen and a tall, dark soprano who will ask us if we have ever heard the Russian song which, if freely translated, would be "Black Eyes” in our language. I waited all evening for somebody to point up to the neighboring flags and say, "There they fly. They can't both be right. What w’ill be the decision of the next century. Or, for that matter, of the next ten years?" a a a Some. All or Xone. I KEPT thinking as I locked up, “We can take all of that hammer and sickle, some of it. or none at all." But surely that decision must be made by the next generation of Americans if not by the present. It is my guess that the second alternative is the way it will work out. In fact, that isn’t altogether a guess. It seems to me that we have taken some of it already. The decsion to eschew everything in the Russian scheme now seems to me not only undesirable but absolutely impossible. As for all. how can I tell? That depends upon what more moderate measures may bring us in the way of happiness. But as I looked at the hammer and the sickle and the Stars and Stripes I felt that there was more in this than met my eyes or ears. It isn’t just a cultural arrangement. It will go well beyond the exportation of Harpo Marx. Indeed, if and when the revolution comes it may be that Harpo will be made compulsory. And so, as I have already said. Tm in favor of moderation. (Oopyriaht. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

PAD your hips and shoulders well, if you want to participate in some of the more strenuous winter sports, such as hockey, skiing and sleighing, without being hurt seriously. For you'll find that the hips and shoulders have to bear the brunt of most accidents that occur in these sports. Other winter sports, like curling and ordinary skating, are not so dangerous, but they have their peculiar kinds of accidents. In bobsleighing, you ride at terrific speed and a spill, or sudden turning over of the sled, may throw you on either your shoulder or your hip. A record of a large number of such accidents shows that the injury most peculiar to this sport is a fracture of the head of the large hip bone. The hip bone, called the femur, is so powerful that great force ordinarily is needed to break it. Sometimes, however, it will break because of a sudden severe force thrown upon it. • um A CASE is known of two expert skaters who. accustomed to falling without hurting themselves, were standing on skates when another skater suddenly ran mto them. Apparently all that happened was that they sat down quickly, but in each case the neck of the femur was fractured. jJVhat happens in such instances is that the s are taken off their guard and suddenly rfmf Into powerful action fn an attempt to counteract the fall. While these muscles still are contracting. the bone is jarred by hitting the ground and in this way subjected simultaneously to a blow and to violent muscular twisting. Any fracture of the hip joint, or of the bones concerning it. is likely to be a serious matter, demanding prompt medical attention and. in most cases, a long sustained period of quiet. m m m IN curling, a sport indulged in largely by older men. the motions chiefly involved are stooping, swinging and rising. The same movements are used in bowling. The result of this is the development of a painful back which may. in some instances, be relieved only by wearing a permanent brace or corset. In other instances, relief may be secured by application of heat and light massage. * Other conditions, from which the ski runner particularly suffers, are dislocations of the hip and fracture* of the ankle. The ski runner also is likely to suffer frequently from loose cartilage of the knee joint, a form of injury regularly associated with football. Almost any type of Injury may happen to a skater who attempts speed skating or figure skating, or who participates in ice hockey as the modern game is played. He may be thrown off balance in any position, and as a result sustain almost any kind of injury to the bones and joints.

‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’

‘lbby’ Carr —A Handy Young Lady —\Vith Red Hair to 7op It Off

ThU ts the sixteenth article of The Timex’ popular xeriei on members of its editorial staff. To Aar's article it aboot Mias Elisabeth Carr, assistant womans pare editor. a a a a a a BT NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor LIKE all redheads. Elizabeth Carr, assistant woman’s page editor, has a temper. But like few redheads, her tepiper rarely shows. She doesn’t mind being called “Red,” even though few do call her that. “It’s obvious, isn’t it?” is her only comment. The daughter of the late Charles C. Carr, one-time manager of the Indianapolis baseball club, and later manufacturer of sporting goods, Elizabeth has inherited from her father an alert business sense, a trait of leadership, and the blessing of self-control. She is “fbby” to the office, a ridiculous sort of name for a tall, very attractive redhead, whose determined-looking chin makes you think first of something more fitting, like “Miss Elizabeth" for instance. "Ibby” Carr was born right here in Indianapolis.* Her mother was a Canadian and her father a Quaker. She was christened Ethel Elizabeth Stewart Carr and confesses that during different stages of her life she has dropped one or another of her names.

"I can’t use them all, so I show no partiality,” is her partiality,” is her explanation of the strange proceedings. She has a sense of humor that almost brings to mind that very trite remark: “Lady, you slay me!” Droll, she can think of ridiculously non-ensical things to say, which, coming froh re,, are screamly funny. Quick with repartee, she dosn’t have much chance to use it in the office, partly because she’s always busy, and partly because she’s almost too quiet for a newspaper office, and some of the people around here haven’t yet found time to get properly acquainted. a a “TBBY” attended grade school 66 where she revealed her first flair for journalism—reporting for the Cobum Chronicle. She went to Technical high school for three and a half years, reporting band concerts and class plays, reading proof on copy, and finally writing editorials for the Cannon.” From there she went to the Ward Belmont School for Girls in Nashville, Term., where she continued to work on the school paper, played baseball, hockey, water polo, and attended classes six days a week. She was elected to the student council, and what was only natural, elevated to the position of president of the “Titians.” Then she decided on Butler university, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was elected to Scarlet Quill, Theta Sigrpa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha,

ROUNDING ROUND r T A T7'O 0 WITH WALTER I 1 JI/IVO D. HICKMAN

Young people in the churches of the city are making splendid progress in music in many branches. Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 and tomorrow night at 8:15 in Holy Angels hall, Twenty-eighth and Northwestern avenue, groups of young people will give a sacred concert. The program is under the auspices of the Young Peoples Sodality. Edward La Shelie is the director. The accompanists are Bonnie Blue Brown and Alberta Faulstich. The program is as follows: “Unfold Ye Portals” Chorus •'Glory Road” Edward La Shelie ‘ A Little Bit of Heaven” "Bv the Waters of Minnetonka” Mrs. William J. Goory “OMaria” Boys’ Choir Kerrv Dance” Boy's Choir "That's Why Darkies Were Born” Carl Lauber "Rhapsody in Rhythm”... Young Ladies • Machusla" Max Fentz Quadrille” Young People "Jesu Bambino” "Land of Mine" Men and boys. Closing Chorus —Stephen Foster Medlev. a a a The Indiana chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Mr. Cheston L. Heath, dean, will give a service organ recital in the Woodruff Place Baptist church. Monday evening, Jan. 29, at 8:15 o’clock. Norah A. Hunt, organist, will play the recital. She will be assisted by the choir of the Woodruff Place church, under the direction of Miss Jeanette Vaughan, organist. The following program will be presented. Invocation by Dr. L. C. Trent, pastor. • Praeludium” W. R. Voris Miss Vaughan. "Beside Thv Cradle Here I Stand" Johann Sebastian Bach "Bless the Lord. O My Soul" Woodruff Place church choir. Fugue in A Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach Norah A. Hunt "Bv Babvlons Wave”. .Charles Gounod Wood Place choir. "The Courts of Jamshyd” (From Persian Suite* R S. Stoughton "Andante (From Organ Suite).... Homer N. Bartlette “Nocturu in A flat Ferrata In Springtime” Ralph S Kinder Hosannah!” Theodore Dubois Norah A. Hunt. a a a Lum ’n’Abner. radio stars who appeared for many weeks over NBC and locally from WKBF on the ‘’Ford Dealers of the Air” program, will appear at the Circle theater in person, starting Friday, Feb. 2. for an entire week, in conjunction with "Convention City” on the screen. Lum ’n’ Abner are on “location” in the mythical town of Pine Ridge, where they kinda run the general store, postoffice and everything. A few months ago they left their local surroundings and went out presenting a number of “sociables" in the various big centers of the country. They will be remembered as appearing at the Cadle tabernacle here in Indianapolis. Lum 'N Abner make an ideal team. As the usual rule radio teams are brought together later in life through radio contacts. However, in the case of Lum and Abner they have been close friends for years. They are fraternity brothers, Lum having attended the university of Arkansas and Abner the university of Oklahoma. They are decidedly opposite types. Lum being over six feet in height, slender of build, black hair, dark complexion, while Abner is short, stocky, and blond. their interpretations of small community life as found in the more rural hill and dale sections of the country, they carry a note of authenticity because they re- : member well the habits, conversation and modes of living of

and worked for the Butler Collegian. She served as reporter, wrote headlines, edited copy, and finally was named news editor. Following her graduation in 1931, she entered her father’s office. a a a MRS. CARR died in January of 1932, and her father in November of the same year, and upon Elizabeth’s shoulders fell the task of being mother and father for her 13-year-old sister, Mary Jane, who just is entering high school. You can depend upon it that Elizabeth Stewart Carr wouldn’t, for the w r orld, show her sentimental side to the office, but she does a grand job of mothering her little sister. She joined The Times on Jan. 2, 1933, starting immediately on the socieety desk. Like every other desk in The Times’ office, there is more than one phone handy, and it took "Ibby” six weeks to tell what phones were ringing—and when. At any rate, the habit took hold and now she answers all the phones at the same time. a a a LAST year, on an assignment from the city desk, she dressed up in her old clothers and joined forces with the jobless. Many of you doubtless remember "Ibby” Carr’s great series on her jobhunting exploits. For two weeks, "Ibby” made the roimds of factories and foundries standing in line at each one. One morning, she w’alked into the employment office of a west side plant to seek her “job.”

their neighbors and friends of yesterday. a a a Because “Brief Moment” has been playing to obsolute capacity at the Playhouse since it opened, it has been decided by the Civic Theater to extend the engagement up to and including tomorrow night. A performance will be given tonight. a a a 'T'HE Indiana is going to change its policy again. Next Friday, this theater will offer two full length movie features with two or three short subjects with no increase in prices. The policy now has been a split week policy, one feature opening on Sunday and the other on Thursday. Under the new double feature policy, the program will last a week. The first double feature program will consist of Wheeler and Woolsley in “Hips, Hips, Hooray” and “Eight Girls in a Boat,” with Kay Johnson. Other production to be seen soon at the Indiana under its dou-ble-feature policy include: "The Meanest Gal in Town,” with Zasu Pitts, El Brendel, James Gleason and Pert Kelton; George Brent in “From Headquarters”; “The Search for Beauty,” with Buster Crabbe, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason and Ida Lupino; “Man of Two World's,” which will mark the screen debut of Francis Lederer, famed for his sensational success in “Autumn Crocus” on the New York stage; “Richard Barthelmess in "Massacre,” with Ann Dvorak: Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray in “Once to Every Woman.” John Barrymore in “Long Lost Father,” the current picture at the Indiana, will run for five days, closing next Thursday night. 7 DIRECTORS ELECTED BY CONVENTION BUREAU New Members Are Named for Three-Year Terms. Seven directors were elected for three years at a meeting of the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau yesterday. Those named were H. S. Morse, Harry S. Hanna, Mark Gray, William C. Kassebaum, Dr. Edmund D. Clark. Wallace O. Lee and Dr. F. S. C. Wicks. Holdover members are Clarence E Crippin, Walter B. Smith, George Cunningham. P. E. Ruprecht, S. B. Walker. W. H. Wells, George Vonnegut, W. A. Atkins. William Behrmann. L W. Homing, J. N. Lemon. Samuel Mueller, W. O. Wheeler Harry E. Wood. Officers will be elected at a meeting Thursday. EDWIN FAUST WILL EDIT HOOSIER FARMER Hancock Man Named Successor to James R. Moore. Appointment of Edwin Faust, Hancock county, as editor of the Hoosier Farmer, to succeed James R. Moore, was announced today by William H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., president. Mr. Moore resigned to become editor of the Ohio farm bureau publication Feb. 1. For several years, Mr. Faust, who lives near Greenfield, has been organization director for the Central States Grain Association,

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Here’s Ethel Elizabeth Stewart Carr, assistant woman’s page editor of The Times. A redhead, she shows no partiality between her names.

There in front of her stood an old family friend, “Why, Elizabeth Carr, what are you doing here?” explaimed the friend. Our red head drew a deep breath, blinked, and then managed to stutter: “Why, I’m looking for-er-a job.” No, she hadn’t had any experience; yes, she had finished high school; yes, she would fill out the applictian blank. But, Elizabeth didn’t go back. a a a “TBBY” is a sort of handyman A around the society desk. She answers the telephone, accompa-

TWO POLICEMEN STRUCKBY CAR Injured Officers Taken to Hospital; Two Negro Youths Held. Patrolmen Harry O’Mara and Oren Mangus were injured last night when they were struck by a car as they stood between their police car and another automobile, the driver of which they were questioning. The accident occurred in the 1400 block west Michigan streetFour Negroes fled from the third car, later found to be stolen, when it collided with the police car, two being captured by Sergeant William Marks and patrolman G. Sansome of the same squad. They gave their names as McKinley Mayweather, 17 of 1721 West Vermont street, and Peeriess Miller, 18, of 520 Agnes street. Both were held on vagrancy charges. The injured officers were given first aid treatment by the fire department rescue squad and Sergeant Timothy McMahon and were sent to city hospital in an ambulance. The driver the officers were questioning when injured, Robert F. Wirsching, 28, of 1933 Central avenue, was not detained. CWA PAY TOTAL -ESS Workers Divide §187,348, One-Fifth Under Previous Week. Marion county civil works employes today received checks totaling $187,348 for this week, the total being one-fifth less than the preceding week because of reduction in working hours from thirty to twenty-four a week.

SIDE GLANCES

**U It because Fm not wealthy, Harriett?^

nies the photographer on picture assignments, writes dozens of stories a day, and tracks down “tips” galore. She loves baseball, and is especially proud of the fact that her father was manager of the Indians when they won the pennant back in 1908. She has seen three world’s series and, if she could, she would see them all. She likes books and reads a great deal, and she likes the drama. Her judgment on both is reputed to be excellent. And “Ibby,” too, is quick at

SEVEN ALLEGED HOUSE WRECKERS ARRESTED Nearly 100 Negroes Flee Building Upon Police Arrival. Nearly 100 Negroes, who were busily engaged in wrecking an empty hous e at 967 Coe street yesterday, took to their heels when a police squad under Sergeant Fred Hague drove up, all but seven escaping. Those held gave their names as Abe Hines, 52, of 614 Hiawatha street; Frank Cunningham, 35, of 1039 Co e street; Will S. Hart. 43, of 1023 Colton street; Alex Clark, 27, of 728 Locke street; Clarence McCoy, 23, of 833 Coe street; Richard McCurry, 33, of 907 Locke street, and Oliver Lewis, 24, of 624 West Eleventh street. SUE 5 STOCKHOLDERS State Seeks to Collect Liability From Defunct Bank. Five stockholders of the defunct Aetna Trust Company were sued yesterday by the state financial department in an effort to collect stockholders’ liability. The bank is in process of liquidation. Those named in suits were James J. Fitzgerald, $3,000; Orpha A. Wiley, $500; Frank W. Alvis, $200; H. T. Wagner, S2OO, and Paul Junerman ,SIOO. CARLOADING ON CLIMB 60,876 Increase Over 1933 Shown for Week Ending Jan. 20. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The American Railway Association announced today carloadings of revenue freight for the week ending Jan. 20 totaled 560,430 cars, an increase of 4,803 cars over the preceding week and an increase of 60,876 abovo the corresponding week in 1933.

By George Clark

making up her mind. Often, for instance, she will decide in fifteen minutes to go to Chicago to visit her sister, Mrs. Lee Hickox, formerly Lally Margaret Carr, and there make the round of the theaters. “Ibby” almost invariably wears brown, and occasionally green. Ethel Elizabeth Stewart Carr is a conservative and sincere young woman. She is a very handy person to have around—a cheerful young Titian with a heavy, sound head on her shoulders. It’s an attractive head, too. Next —The markets desk.

ROAD PAVEMENT WORKJOSTART West Sixteenth Street to Be Bridged Over at White River. Preliminary work on the opening of West Sixteenth street from West street to White river will begin early next week, the works board announced yesterday. The board confirmed the property owners’ assessment and authorized purchase of eleven pieces of property at a cost of $23,000 for the right-of-way. CWA workers will start the ninefoot fill-in of the river bottom next week as preliminary work on the project. This will be doije at no cost to the city. Using money from the public works administration appropriation, the state highway commission will pave West Sixteenth street after the road bed has been laid. Ground for the right-of-/way has been donated to the city by the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel Company, the Indianapolis Water Company and by Norman Perry. SPRINGER RENAMED BY GRAIN DEALERS Officers' Choice Concludes Annual Meeting in City. Annual convention of the Indiana Grain Dealers Association was closed yesterday with re-elec-tion of W. D. Springer, Indianapolis, as president. Other officers named were: T. C. Crabbs, Crawfordsville, vicepresident; R. B. McConnelll, Indianapolis, treasurer, and Fred K. Sale, Indianapolis, secretary. New directors named were: C. C. Barnes, Winchester: J- L. Blish, Seymour; Max Sellers, Forest; Carl Menzie, Indianapolis, and Walter Penrod, Medaryville. HEAVY GAIN SHOWN IN STATE GASOLINE TAX Collections Indicate Business Is on Upgrade, Auditor Claims. That business is on the upgrade is proven by heavy increase in consumption of gasoline in the state, Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, asserted today. Mr. Williamson said gasoline tax collections for December, still incomplete, are $74,113 more than for December, 1932. Jantiary collections last year (for December purchases) were $1,173,974, while already this month the total is $1,248,088. OTHNIEL HITCH NAMED ON ELECTION BOARD County Clerk Appoints Democratic Commissioner for County. Othniel Hitch, attorney, has been appointed Democratic member of the Marion county board of election commissioners by County Clerk Glenn B. Ralston, it was announced today. Mr. Hitch, who succeeds Alan W. Boyd, was recommended by H. Nathan Swaim, Democratic county chairman. The retiring Republican member of the board is Walter Pritchard, prospective candidate for mayor.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler I HAVE stood about as long as I care to. the miscalling of the device which is made with a big. wide, rubber band, a piece of string and a sort of pocket, cut from the tongue of an old shoe and which is used to shoot little rocks. Every time there is occasion to mention this weapon, as in the case of the raid on the prison at Welfare island where a number of such were found, I see it called a slug-shot or a slung-shot. Well, it isn’t a slug-shot and it isn’t a slung-shot, either, and anybody that

ever owned and used cne can tell you that it is a sling-shot. There are still some artists in the business, too, who peisist in drawing quilted pads on the shoulders and elbows of football players and a few so out-of-date that they even draw rubber nose guards on their athletes. This is something else which I think ought to be attended to in the course of the general cleanup which is now going on in this country. I am quite a hand to get around where football is rife in the fa 11-time and I haven t seen upholstered pads worn by a football player in, it must be, ten years. The last time I did see

some they were worn not for protection but with intent to deceive a lot of nice, innocent boys whom A. A. Stagg brought on from Chicago to play the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin field. These wads consisted of large patches of brown leather sewn to the elbows of the Penn players’ jerseys, and, whenever the ball was snapped, the Penn boys would run off in all directions with their elbows held together in front of them. The brown leather patches were the same color as the football and Mr. Stagg’s Chicago boys put in a most distressful P. M. chasing these phantom footballs and tackling everybody on sight amid derisive cries of “Wrong guy! Wrong guy!” They were tackling even the center and the guards, and the thing finally became so pathetic that people who, at the beginning had thought this was a pretty smart trick of the Penns, came around to the idea that there was something just a trace dirty about it. a a a Rules Are Deceptive Things AS to whether the rules-people ever decided to forbid such deception thereafter I don't rightly remember and, being no law’yer, I never can tell what a rule means by what it says; so it wouldn’t do me any good to look it up in the revised football statutes. Anyway, such wads are not worn any more and the only type of nose guards which I have seen on the field in the last twenty years is a kind of iron mask which rests against the forehead, chin and cheek-bones, and which is supposed to protect from further injury a nose which already has been broken. That doesn’t do much good, though, because if the man with the broken nose is a pretty good man and the other team wishes to get him out of there, the boys contrive to hit him a bust from the side which dislocates the mask and rakes it across his face and lames his nose all over again. The only safe way to protect a broken nose is to put it in a sling and keep it out of football games. I know these are little things w’hich might not matter much fifty years from now, but small irritations mount up and up, and it is almost enough to drive a party nuts to see pads and nose guards on the football players in the pictures year after year, and see the sling-shot still referred to as a slug-shot or slung-shot. There are two kinds of sling-shot. One is made with a little fork off a tree, something like those peach-tree forks with which people w’ho are thinking of digging a well go walking around the field looking for the place where the most water lies closest to the top. The fork, or crotch type of sling-shot is cumbersome and rather difficult to conceal in school, whereas the simpler model can be tucked away in very small compass in the pants pocket and can hardly be detected by a teacher unless a party carelessly lets the rubber or the string dangle out. In that case, of course, it is Just too bad, and one has to stay in till 4 o’clock every night for a week and listen to a lecture on how wrong it is to shoot birds. a a a But the Birds Were Safe Enough BUT that just shows how little a teacher is likely to know about the facts of life. If she really knew the subject of sling (not slug or slung) shots, she would know that a whole gang could spend a whole day in a gravel pit, taking free shots at a stuffed owl at thirty yards and never hit anything but a lot of store window’s. Even if there weren’t any store windows within miles, they would hit a lot of store windows. That is all they ever have been known to hit. Store windows and the glass globes of lamp posts. I never knew any one to hit any of our furred or feathered friends with a sling-shot of either type. Close sometimes, maybe, but close “ain’t is” as we used to say. Maybe those weren’t sling-shots at all which the raid uncovered at Welfare island but a type of blackjack made with a few ounces of shot sewed up in a cloth or leather pouch. But if so, w’hy not call them right? Those aren’t slug-shots or slung-shots. This device is called a sock br jack. But slug-shot and slung-shot and wads and ncseguards on football players! You would think conditions were tough enough without seme people going out of their w’ay to make life more miserable for other people. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science ■■ BY DAVID DIETZ =====

Henry Stephens Washington is dead, and now it is possible to say the many nice things about him that one would have liked to have said while he was alive. Then, however, it was not pjssible, for it would have made him very angry. He died at his home in Washington, D. C., J.m. 7, after a long illness. Dr. Washington was one of America's most brilliant scientists and one of the nation's most p cturesque personalities. A long beard which gt ve him a patriarchal look, made him a figure which attracted attention in any group. His personality t as as pleasant as his erudition was deep and he v as one of the most active members of the Cosmos C:ub in Washington. Best known to the world as a geologist and more particularly a minerologist, he was known to his friends as an authority upon a wide range of subjects that ran from archaeology to cooking. He was born in Newark, N. J., on Jan. 15, 1857. He received his A. B. and M. A. degrees at Yale university and continued with postgraduate studies at Leipzig and the American school of classical studies in Athens. He spent a number of years in archeological research in Greece and then returned to Yale to become an instructor in physics and minerology. From 1906 to 1912. he was engaged in professional work as a mining geologist. In 1912 he joined tht staff of the Geophysical laboratory of the Ci rnegie institution of Washington, continuing with that organization until his death. a a a DR. WASHINGTON, in time, became one of the most skillful analytical chemists in the world and the side of geology which interested him most was one which made the greatest demands upon hi* skill, namely, the chemical analysis of minerals. The book which he wrote upon the subject, “The Chemical Analysis of Rocks,” went through several editions and has become the standard authority upon the subject. A number of years ago, he undertook the gigantic task of assembling from geological literature all rock analyses that were worthy of attention. From his knowledge of the subject, he was atie to group these as superior or inferior. The United States Geological Survey published this monumental work In 1917 In a quarto volume of 1,201 pages. The study of volcanoes also Interested Dr. Washington and his travels took him to Greece. Asia Minor, 1 aly, Hawaii and South America.

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