Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1934 — Page 11
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It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun ‘•'YTORK Pa—With the temperature at 10 degrees JL below zero the first robin of the year was seen in York today. It was found dead on Penn Common.” Call me an old sentimentalist if you will, but this seems to me the most tragic news note of the cold wave. I like people better than robbins, and there has been widespread and agonizing suffering. But,
you see, this was the first robin. He was by all odds the pioneer of his clan. He flew up from the south days, weeks and months before any reasonable robin weather was to be expected. Without doubt the rest tried to discourage him. They spoke of the best recorded experience of bird kind. “Rome wasn't built in a day,” some other robin told him. And no doubt he was advised that if he insisted on such precipitate action he would split the group and no good could come of it. Somehow I seem to hear him saying: “If ten will follow me I'd call that an army. Are there
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two who'll join up? Or maybe one?” a a a Keeping a Place in the Sun BUT the robins all recoiled and clung to their little patches of sun under the southern skies. “Later, maybe,” they told him. “Not now. First there must be a campaign of education.” “Well,” replied the robin who was all for going t i York, Pa., without waiting for feathery reinforcements, “I know one who'll try it. I’m done with arguments, and here I go.” He was so full of high hopes and dedication that he rose almost with the roar of a partridge. For a few seconds he was a fast-moving speck up above the palm trees, and then you couldn t spot him even with field glasses. He was lost in the blue and flying for dear life. “Impetuous, I call it,” said one of the elder statesmen while someone took him a worm. “He always did want to show off,” announced another, and everybody agreed that no good would come of it. a a a Right at First Glance AS it turned out, maybe they were right. It’s pretty hard to prove that anything has been gained when a robin freezes to death on Penn Common. However, I imagine that he died with a certain sense of elation. None of the rest thought he could get there. And he did. The break in weather turned out to be against him. He just guessed wrong in that one respect, and so I wouldn’t think of calling him a complete failure. When the news gets back home to the robins who didn't go I rather expect that they’ll make him a hero. The elder statesmen will figure that since he is dead his ideas can t longer be dangerous, and they can not deny the lift and the swing of his venture. After all. he was the first robin. He looked for the spring, and it failed him. Now he belongs to that noble army of first robins. a a a A Most Xoble Army MANY great names are included. The honors of office and public acclaim of ribbons and medals, the keys of the city—these are seldom the perquiste of men or birds in the first flight. These go to fifth, sixth and even twentieth robins. It is almost a rule that the first robin must die alone on some bleak common before mankind will agree that he was a hero. And sometimes it takes fifty years and often a hundred. John Brown. Galileo and those who sought goals before the world was quite ready are all in good standing. The man who says, “That would be swell, but, of course, you can t do it,” is generally as right as rain- but who wants to get up and cheer for frustration? In the long haul the first robin is more right than any. It was his idea. He softened the way for the others. And with him even failure is its own kind of triumph. a a a The Harsh Xote of Caution HE is not the victim of dry rot or caution or doomed eyestrain from too close an attention to ledgers. “Here I go!" he cries, and I wouldn't be surprised to be told that the first minute of flight Is reward enough, no matter what follows. And so in a metaphorical way of speaking I bare mv head and bow low in the general direction of the ice-covered plain which is known as Penn Common. And I think that the brief address should carry the statement: “You were the first, and after you will come others. Thev will inherit the grubs and the nests and the comfort. But yours is the glory. You are the first robin." Copyright. 1934. br The Time*)
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THE prominence of two famous star clusters in tbe night skies of February—the Pleiades and the Hvades. both high in the southeast sky in the constellation of Taurus—serves to focus attention on the general subject of star clusters. The subject is of particular interest to astronomers today for no theory of the origin of the universe or the evolution of the stars can be complete unless it explains the clusters. , . The Pleiades and the Hyades are two of the very few clusters which can be discerned with the unaided eye. “An observer who examines the Milky Way with a good field glass or small telescope finds his field of view' richly strewn with faint stars, and as he proceeds with his examination he occasionally comes upon a spot where the stars are particularly numerous." Dr. Robert J. Trumpler of the Lick observatory says. "The many formations cf this kind vary widely in appearance. Some are large, scattered groups of fairly bright stars covering an area larger than the disc of the moon: others are small, but densely filled with faint stars. "Many clusters are quite regular in structure, with a circular outline and a well marked center toward which the stars are concentrated. This suggests that they are not merely agglomerations due to chance, but local star systems built up and maintained according to certain general laws." a a a SOME clusters with numerous stars of the same brightness appear like a swarm of bees. Professor Trufnpler says. But he thinks that the most fascinating sight is offered by those clusters in which a few stars of sparkling brilliance are imbedded in a field of fainter ones. The types of clusters described by Dr. Trumpler are found within the belt of the Milky Way or near it. They are known technically as open or galactic clusters. Another type of cluster, which shows no preference for the Milky Way but is found by means of the telescope in all regions of the sky is the globular Cluster There are. as .heir names suggest, great globular structures. They are characterized by regular structure and enormous numbers of faint stars. The globular clusters are exceedingly remote objects. many of them more than 100.000 light year? away. A light year is six trillion miles. They contain enormous numbers of stars, ranging from 10,000 to as many as 100,000. The most interesting discovery of modern astronomy about these open clusters is that in each case an the stars of a cluster are moving In the same direction with the same speed. 9
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This is the second of a series of articles on “Hoosier Statesmen.” ana a a a BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer INDIANA has produced four Vice-Presidents. They are Thomas A. Hendricks, Schuyler Colfax. Charles W. Fairbanks and Thomas R. Marshall. Although jokes are historic about the Vice-President being obscure, they are particularly merited when the presidency is being held by a colorful character. Now it fell to the lot of Charles W. Fairbanks to be Vice-President under the late great Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt. The Vice-President proved to be as quiet as the President was noiSy. But he did his job so well that his party chose to nominate him again for the post when Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes ran for the presidency on the Republican ticket in 1916. Justice Hughes w-as defeated by Woodrow Wilson, but a Hoosier — Thomas R. Marshall—continued to hold the vice-presidency. Before becoming Vice-President, Mr. Fairbanks had served two terms in the United States senate, having been unanimously elected by the Republican members of the Indiana legislature.
He was a combination lawyer, politician and newspaper man. His ownership of the Indianapolis News was a secret for years, and when the government brought to light his interest in the paper, through the required circulation statements, it turned out to be astonishing and in some cases astounding to both News employes and friends of Mr. Fairbanks. A son, Warren, runs the paper at the present time. Charles Warren Fairbanks was a native of Ohio, but his career was carved out in Indianapolis. He was born near Unionville Center, 0., May 11, 1852, “a strong and vigorous youth with a predominating love for books,” according to annals of the period. a a a AT 15 he entered Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware and w-as graduated in 1872. With the help of his uncle, William Henry Smith, who was general manager of the Western Associated Press, young Mr. Fairbanks became the A. P. bureau manager at Pittsburgh and later at Cleveland. In Cleveland he studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar by the supreme court of that state in 1874. From there he came to Indianapolis and engaged in the practice of law and politics, being successful in both fields. He was a delegate to all national conventions of the G. O. P. after 1896, except in 1908 and 1916, when he was a candidate. Because he procured the Indiana delegation for William McKinley in 1896, he was requested by Mr. McKinley to be made temporary chairman of the St. Louis convention, where he deliv-
The Theatrical World Shortridge Pupils See Exhibit of Modern Art BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
FIVE cents a month on the part of about two thousand students at Shortridge high school brings the accomplishments of the greatest artists within touching distance of every one in the school. This 5-cents-a-monthplanisnot compulsory, but the loyalty and interest of many makes possible the Fine Arts Association of Shortridge. If the 5 cents is not forthcoming, no questions are asked, but the opportunity to witness great art is denied nobody at the school. This week the walls of one of the well-lighted corridors reflects a magnificent exhibition of modern art sent on tour by the museum of modern art of New York City. The other morning when I made a visit to the school I found many boys and girls of the art classes, sitting on the floor of the corridor or standing along the walls making sketches of the exhibit. Others as they passed to and from their classrooms paused to examine, study, and discuss modern art. To me this corridor suddenly became a gateway into the land of art. Here young men and women introduce themselves to the works of Camille Corot. Honore Daumier, Edouard Manet, Claude Monay, Edgar Degas and August Renoir. The same collection gives the student an opportunity to acquaint himself with the works of such Americans as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Albert Pinkham Ryder. THIS same exhibit no longer makes just a name out of Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh and Odilon Redon as they too are represented in this circulating exhibition of color reproductions of modern painting. Hour by hour as the Shortridge students pass this exhibit they are becoming acquainted with some of the most interesting contributions to modern art. The work of the Fine Arts Committee of Shortridge, headed by Mrs. Carl Watson, a member of the faculty, can not be overestimated. Only a few of the pupils who see this exhibit will ever see the orignals, but they have had the opportunity to see at first hand what modern art really is. a a a ROUAULT, who as a member of the “Wild Animals,” a group of “wild” painters in Paris, is responsible for such comment as his 'Shrieking Woman,” with its grotesque head, certainly is wild. With each picture is information stating why the artist and the picture has a certain rating and the observer is called upon to note the method of expression of the artist and how he accomplished certain things. Pablo Picasso is represented by at least two reproductions which shows the various moods or pechanged. “Absinthe Drinker” is considered one of the best examples of Picasso during the “Blue Period.” This one was painted at the beginning of his career before he invented Cubism. f|
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ered the “keynote” speech of the famous “full dinner pail” campaign. Previously, in 1892, he had led the fight against “free silver” and placed Indiana Republicans on record as opposing it. On Jan. 20, 1897, Mr. Fairbanks became a senator and strong supporter of President McKinley up to the time of the latter’s assassination. a a a HE was chairman of the platform committee at the Philadelphia convention of 1900, where Mr. McKinley was re-nominated and later re-elected. On Jan. 20, 1903, he was reelected senator from Indiana by the largest majority, but one, ever given a candidate for the office in the history of the state. At that time the legislature made the choice. In the senate he served as chairman of the committee on immigration and the committees on census, claims, geological survey, public buildings and grounds and the judiciary committee on the Pacific islands and Puerto Rico. During the debate on the Panama Canal expenditures, Senator Fairbanks offered the amendment to issue bonds and spread the construction costs. His personal friend, President McKinley appointed him on the joint high commission of 1898 for settling the Alaskan boundary dispute and other matters of difference between the United States and Great Britain. In the Republican party convention of 1904, Mr. Fairbanks was unanimously nominated Vice-
Picasso’s “Mother and Child” was done during his “classic” period and as pointed out illustrates “Picasso's ability to take over certain elements of a past style as Roman sculpture and transform them into something new.” To increase the interest and reaction of the students to modern art, the committee is receiving written comment from the students concerning whether they think modern are is modern art. Regardless of the verdict, Shortridge is in touching distance of modern art this week. a a a Kate Smith Booked Here ON the eve of the opening of “The Student Prince” at the Indiana theater tomorrow comes the announcement from I. M. Halperin that the Indiana has booked Kate Smith, in person, and her Swanee Music Revue for the Indiana stage starting Friday, March 2. Mr. Halperin says that for her Indiana engagement the popular radio songstress will bring with her a company of thirty, including Jack Miller’s band, Don Cummings, the Reilly Kids and Steve Evans, and will present and hour’s stage entertainment, in conjunction with a first-run screen attraction to be announced later. “The Student Prince,” which opens tomorrow, will run a week at the Indiana, in conjunction with “Hi, Nellie,” starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell. On Friday, Feb. 23, the Indiana will open with a double feature program, consisting of Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe in “No More Women,” and Euster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong and James Gleason in “The Search For Beauty.” The Kate Smith show will open a week later.
MOTHERS’ COUNCIL AT BUTIER SETS MEETING Second Annual Session of Parents to Be Held Saturday. Butler university Mothers' Council is sponsoring the second annual mass meeting of parents Saturday night in the Arthur Jordan Memorial hall. Jack Carr, Utes Club president, and Elbert Gilliom, Blue Key president, have charge of a tour of inspection. Following the tour Dean Albert E. Bailey will lecture on •Kipling's India.” A reception at which faculty members will be introduced will close the program. WOMAN HURT IN CRASH Driver Refuses to Name Friend; Arrested for Vagrancy. Following reports that a woman had been injured seriously in an accident at Tenth street and Massachusetts avenue, police investigated and arrested Lewis Reilly, 30, of 850 College avenue, on charges of vagrancy and no driver’s license. Reilly refused to name the woman and claimed that she was injured only slightly and had been taken home. The car struck a telephone pole. *l,
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Distinction of having been both senator and Vice-President fell to the lot of Charles Warren Fairbanks. A life-long and extremely ardent Republican, he was Vice-President during the Roosevelt administration— Theodore Roosevelt. But he didn’t follow “Teddy” into the Progressive ranks.
President and the running mate of Theodore Roosevelt. a a a FOUR years later he was being mentioned for the presidency, when “Teddy” chose Mr. Taft and the nominations were closed. After his retirement from office, Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks made a world tour. In 1916 he again was nominated for Vice-President. He
STATE REALTORS MAP LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Bills of Aid to Home Owners Will Be Introduced. Bills which will be of aid to real estate owners will be introduced at the next session of the Indiana legislature. Plans for their introduction were made yesterday at a meeting of the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate Association at the Washington. Resolutions and a taxation program will be drafted by a special committee, named by Albert E. Uhl, president of the association. Members of the committee are A. H. Schaaf, Ft. Wayne; William H. Surbaugh, Anderson; D. C. Johnson, Terre Haute; Frank J.Murry, South Bend; Gavin L. Payne, Indianapolis; Eli G. Huber, Evansville, and James R. Cullen, Michian City. RAP IDINROADSMADE IN STATE CORN FUNDS §20,000,000 Indiana Allotment Being Absorbed, Director Says. Rapid inroads in the $20,000,000 alloted Indiana for corn loans from the Commodity Credit Corporation are being made daily it was reported today by Martin Lang, state food and drug commissioner, who has charge of crib sealing. Largest loan to date was made yesterday to a farmer in Benton county. He had 62,364 bushels of com sealed in the crib to guarantee a loan of $28.63.80. Loans now are pending action in twenty-five counties, including Marion, Mr. Lang said.
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died at his Indianapolis home, June 4, 1918. Mrs. Fairbanks was the daughter of Judge P. B. Cole, Maysville, O. She was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and an active worker in affairs of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being national president two terms, 1901-1905. She promoted the Junior Re-
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White House Door Knobs Like Coffin Handles, Says Garner, Angered by Cold Weather.
BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Vice-President Jack Garner was suffering from the cold wave and fellow citizens of Uvalde, Tex., were writing him sympathetic letters. Bundled up agaisnt the chill breezes, “Cactus Jack” arrived at the White House for a cabinet meeting, the tip of his nose and one pink ear alone emerging from the top of his overcoat.
c O.l aiuxic ciiicigiiig uvm me t-up “Br-rr-r-rr!” shivered Jack. “I’m cold.” He turned to Lieutenant Larry Semon of the White House police and bantered: “Why the hell don’t you change the knobs on the White House door? They remind me of the handles on a coffin.” a a a ONE effect of the cold wave on cabinet members was to resurrect the raccoon coat of Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. a a a KEEN-WITTED, eagle-nosed Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, Japan’s new envoy here, rolled into town on a 4 o’clock train, and was greeted by about forty persons at the Union station. Easy in manner, informally dressed in a dark coat, fedora hat and carrying a stick, the youthful black - mustached ambassador skipped all formalities. “I shall probably remain three months in Washington before I go
public movement and was prominent in benevolent activities. She died in 1913. Among the predecessors and contemporaries of Mr. Fairbanks In the United States senate from Indiana were Daniel D. Pratt, Joseph E. McDonald, Daniel W. Voorhees, David Turpie, Benjamin F. Shivley, John W. Kern and Thomas Taggart.
to Japan for a conference with my government,” he smiled in answer to questions. His sharp eyes darted here and there among the crowd, as he shook hands with well-wishers. Lapsing into American slang, he observed; “I shall keep my eyes open while here.” They were wide open as he spoke, missing no detail of what was going on. Counselor Taketomi of the embassy presented staff members, who clicked heels and bowed. American friends hastened up. Tactful Mr. Saito had the right expression ready. “I am delighted,” he beamed, return to this charming city.” Mme. Saito, in furs, and two little daughters the elder muffled in a squirrel coat and the smaller clutching a big doll smiled and nodded. Ambassador Saito settled his gray silk i.iuffler about his throat and. with his entourage, was whisked to the embassy for a sip of saki wine.
Minister Charles daVILA of Rumania, who is considered by some of the bestgroomed diplomat in Washington, read with interest the list of the world's best-dressed men, as published in the newspapers. The name Davila did not appear. "‘Hum!” remarked the envoy, adjusting his perfectly knotted cravat. “The writer of the article was possibly a trifle nearsighted.” STATE ICE INDUSTRIES WILL ELECT OFFICERS New Leaders to Be Named at Session Here Today. Officers for the year were to be elected this afternoon at the fortieth annual convention of the Indiana Association of Ice Industries. The convention is being held in the Severin, and will close with tonight's session. Reports at yesterday’s meeting revealed that ice consumption has been increased by the return of beer. AIR EXECUTIVES WILL HOLD MEETING HERE Midwestern Officials to Convene March 9 and 10. A convention of mid-western state air officials will be held March 9 and 10 in Indianapolis, according to an announcement by the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau. More than twenty-five air executives will attend the conclave, which will hold its sessions in the Severin. Floyd E. Evans, Michigan aeronautical director, will preside.
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Fair Enough j •By Westbrook Pegler THIS is the time of the year when I begin to appreciate the southern part of Florida, a fascinating country, where riches and poverty, security and peril are as close together as fingers in a mitten but where the sun shines on one and all and the people get more ease and less grief out of life than the inmates of any other sections I have seen. It says in the dispatches that Miami is ciowded again which I do not doubt at all. for Miami was crowded last winter even when the banks were
closed, and people had a premonition that things were going all to smash. Many of the customers had pulled their savings out of the banks before the moratorium and now they headed for Florida, spending raw money right off the hip as though they reckoned that they might as well buy some frivolity and fine living with it before it spoiled on them entirely. The money didn't spoil after all. but the customers got action and though some of them probably did overspend in their enthusiasm not to be caught with any when doom happened, maybe the fun and the feeling of extravagance after long economy did them some good inside.
It says, also, in the dispatches that roulette and ail such table sports are running again and there you have a clue to the queer character of the community considering that they moved a law-enforcing sheriff out of office a few months ago because he refused to do any business with the gambling men last year. No man with a square business ever claimed that the hit-and-run gambling men ever did a town any good and I gathered last winter that the business people rather liked this sheriff because he held the gamblers at bay over the county line, thus enabling them to work out on the wintering spenders. a a, a Miami Beach and Outlaws 'T'HEY had had a bad experience with a former -■- sheriff, who w-as a hick with major league delusions. In trying to conduct himself as a major leaguer he let in A1 Capone, and in a very little time Miami and the beach became the winter capital of the underworld. The United States government helped solve the local problem by sending A1 Capone away, and when the citizens chose their next sheriff they selected a church-going party who pledged himself not to allow sinister characters to come in from the outside and set their laws at naught and debauch the hearth and home of Miami. But now’ this sheriff has been removed on It charge of misappropriating a few' cans of tomatoes intended for the guests in the local jailhouse, and the gambling men are back and games of little or no chance are grinding the bones of the customers again. This is no criticism of their way of doing down that way. They have their little peculiarities, as what community does not, and they manage to rock along year after year and make a big industry of pleasure, almost always in bad times. They had their local panic years before the national panic and that one merged into the big one, but still the customers came to them in the winters, hollering, “Hey, here’s money.” The solicitude for the prisoners in the jailhouse whose tomatoes w r ere supposed to have been diverted somehow is amusing if you consider it in relation to a little piece printed in a Miami paper a little while ago. This item said the police had bought a pair of bloodhounds up in Georgia for use in tracking criminals, and added: “Prisoners in the city jail who nearly have finished their sentences will be freed, according to Chief McCreary, and the dogs set on their trail. If they elude the dogs they will be allowed their freedom.” But, if caught, they would be subjected to some practice crunching by the hounds. tt tt tt Stories of the Pioneers THE dark, malignant wilderness which lies a few miles inland from the shore is the most mysterious territory in the United States now. It is full of game and fish but it also is crowded with snakes and alligators, and the hunting type of man who enjoys to draw beads on the deer and wildcat has shown no stampeding eagerness to plunge in there and shell them. It isn’t safe. One year, after the great hurricane which killed more people around Lake Keechobee than the public ever had imagined, I went into the glades to catch a glimpse of this pioneer life on a frontier about which the country knows almost nothing. Some of the pioneers told stories of how the moccasins driven to the high ground of the dike around the lake where the people were taking their last refuge before the flood, disputed this haven with the people in the da’k and fanged them or drove them back into the water. But Florida people are sensitive and proud of their country. They are even touchy about the good name of the cotton-mouth moccasin because I got a letter some time later claiming that the moccasin was not a deadly snake. Well, he might rip you some if you stepped right on him and if he did that you might feel somewhat sickish but the bite wouldn’t kill unless you happen to have the “flu” or some sickness of your own along with it. He is just a real nice snake. (Copvrleht. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
IF you are a normal person you perhaps realize that there are all sorts of causes for headaches, and you undoubtedly know many methods of treatment. The majority of headaches are not extremely troublesome. They come on suddenly, last a short time, and go away. There are, however, some forms, known as migraine, which hang on and which are associated with such a sense of sickness that they incapacitate you wholly for comfortable and happy living. Migraine headache seems to run in families and to be associated perhaps with structural defects of the brain. For this reason it is diffcult to promise an absolute cure in any case. Many of these patients think the disturbance is connected with digestion, and go to a specialist in diseases of the stomach, with the idea that he will find the seat of the disturbance in some disorder of the stomach or intestines. a a a OCCASIONALLY cases seem related to the eyes, and the proper fitting of glasses brings some relief. In women, changes which take place periodically may seem to be the basis of the attacks. These women frequently go to bed for a week because the combination of conditions is too much for them. Although it would seem that anything tending to increase the irritability of the brain will bring on an attack. Overwork, excitement, worry, loss of sleep, fits of anger and maladjustment in domestic relations frequently are responsible. What the patient needs under these circumstances is mental rather than physical attention. In some cases a special sensitivity to some food seems to be responsible. In these cases, the victim should stop eating these foods. a a a SOMETIMES a complete change in the habits of the person is helpful. More rest and recreation, more physical work and less mental work may be the formula needed. One observer says, “A healthy, happy rancher is better off than a headache-ridden professor.’'
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