Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1934 — Page 13

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun NEWSPAPER men have a habit of grumbling about newspapers, and one of the favorite complaints runs: “You can get almost any sort of story into a paper except one about reporters or a reporter. The Taxi Drivers Union gets just about twice as much space as the Newspaper Guild." As yet I haven't seen the complete survey on thus point, but I must admit that early this week I did observe evidence in contravention of the assertion. Two metropolitan papers gave a journalist a break

the like of which I have not seen since Benjamin Franklin struck electricity. At the top of a column I saw a head which began, "David Lawrence,” and naturally I thought to myself: "The poor fellow! And at such an early age!” * Then I noticed that the story turned into the next column, ancl I knew it couldn't be an obit. Dave Lawrence couldn’t get that much, not even on a Monday, by the mere fact of dying. tt tt tt Those Guessing Games I MADE a little game of it and folded the paper over so that I wouldn't see the whole head-

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linp until I had framed my guess. The problem was, “What on earth can Dave Lawrence have done to get a whole column to himself in a couple of sedate papers?" I called in a few collaborators from the other end of the bar. “My guess," said a sporting expert, “is that he was tossed from the top of Washington Monument and that Joe Cronin caught him on the second out of three tries." “No,” said a general news man, “it wouldn't be a column without some mystery in it. Depend upon it, Dave's dpad all right but what are the circumstances which make it a story? I’ve got it. The Jigsaw Crime. The body was discovered in a large cardboard box in the front hall of the Congressional Library. On the box was the label, “Twenty-four Pieces—No Sky, Clouds, or Horses’ Heads.’ “So far so good, but when the detectives start putting Dave together they find that the crime has been committed by jigsaw' fiends in human form. They have left out five pieces." “It could be much more simple," said a disciple of the outmoded man-bite-dog school of new's, “maybe it was nothing more than a case w'here Huey Long won the race to the towel rack." B a a Urging n New Party BUT we decided to ascertain for ourselves just what striking and contentious thing had happened. and imagine our chagrin and disappointment w'hen the unfolded paper revealed the headline by: “He Says Republicans Should Be Liquidated in Favor of Individualistic Group.” And later on it was revealed to a palpitating world that Mr. Lawrence thinks the new party should be called “Constitution Democrats” and the party at present in power call itself "Socialist Democrats.” Managing editors had better be pretty careful with me from now on when they turn hoity-toity and say: "But of course you're only a columnist. You wouldn't understand. Our chief consideration must always be, ‘but is it news?’ ” tt tt tt David Laurence in Person WHO is David Lawrence? you want to know. It seems like yesterday that he first arrived in Washington and gained himself a reputation as a correspondent. It was built to some extent on a rumor which went the rounds. Mr. Lawrence was a Princeton man. And. as it happened, so w'as Woodrow Wilson, then the President. What could be more natural than that President Wilson should consult his former pupil before taking any action on vital subjects. So the story went. David Lawrence never denied it. “It's too personal a matter to discuss,” was his answer. And now little David is killing off one of the major parties and founding another with a single stroke of his pen. I think it’s an excellent idea. I’m all for it, even though the "Jeffersonian doctrine of the Constitution” is not what Mr. Lawrence thinks it is. Jefferson advocated a complete revision every twenty years. Be that as it may. I don't think David Lawrence is quite big enough yet to swing tw r o major parties. I'm waiting to hear from Mark Sullivan before I'm willing to admit the thing is serious. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE average duration of life after discovery of cancer of the breast is thirty-eight months—a little more than three years. But the scientific treatment of this disease has advanced so far that a woman has a good chance of living for ten years or more, after treatment, if the disease has been discovered in its early stage and is confined to the breast. This shows the importance of discussing any suspicion of cancer of the breast immediately with a competent authority. In 1878. a famous German surgeon found that 23 per cent of the women upon whom he operated for cancer of the breast died and that less than 5 per cent lived for more than three years thereafter. Today the proportion of cases alive and well ten years after treatment while the disease is still early and confined to the breast is at least 70 per cent. Unfortunately, where women consult their physicians when the disease already has spread beyond the breast, only 5 per cent are alive after ten years. a a a PART of the advance has been due to a more scientific classification of these tumors, grading them according to extent of involvement at the time when they first are seen by the physician. Much depends on the nature of the treatment that is used. However early the case may be when seen for the first time, eradication of the' disease is dependent on using the right kind of treatment. The likelihood that any growth of this character will get well by itself is so remote that it is not even given consideration. In practically every case, if treatment is not provided, the patient is likely to die comparatively soon. ana MOST physicians believe that the best treatment for the majority of early cases of cancer of the breast is a surgical operation. In this operation various methods are used, but a recent innovation is the electric knife. In a great many places, such cancers are treated by the use of radium alone. Today, most doctors may want to use a combination of radium and surgery. In cases that are seen exceedingly early the surgical operation alone frequently has been satisfactory. The cases seen at all later stages of growth show very low survival rates when treated with surgery alone, without the use of radium. Statistics also show that use of X-ray, after the removal, definitely improves the chance of recovery. Careful studies through years of experience emphasize the importance of early diagnosis and treatment in competent hands. Q —Are the words sanitarium and sanatorium synonomous? A —According to the Standard dictionary' they are synonomous, with the exception that sanatorium is sometimes restricted to a place where hygienic conditions are prophylactic for the preservation of health as distinguished from one where therepeutic agencies are employed.

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‘INDIANA’S GIFTS TO GOVERNMENT’

Thi* is the seventh and final of The Times’ popular Hoosier Statesmen aerie*, and concerns Senator Arthur R. Robinson. a a a BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer SENATOR ARTHUR R. ROBINSON has been chosen for this, the last of the Hoosier Statesmen series. By that token, we do not mean that he also might not be the least. Dye to the dearth of Republicans and the pre-occupation of most congressmen and senators with the big job of recovery, Senator Robinson has become noticeable in the national scene. He -is the man who criticises President Roosevelt and tries (vainly) to hamstring the recovery program. Roosevelt is a dictator and the economy bill “the most brutal and indefensible ever passed by a cowardly congress,” to hear "Robbie” tell it. His forensic efforts from the senate floor have won for him the title ‘Lil’ Arthur. So far they have failed to rally either support or enthusiasm from his G. O. P. colleagues. It was Senator Robinson who eulogized prohibition at its bier, as the beer bill was passed. He has been silent on that subject since and when last interviewed by this writer, urged that it not be mentioned. He wanted to talk about “freedom of speech” instead. That and "freedom of the press" enters into his anti-dictatorship speech against the President.

His biggest play for votes, however, is directed at the ex-service men. He doesn’t confine himself to the World w’ar, but has become a sort of “professional veteran,” spokesman for veterans of all wars and the organized auxiliary bodies. Another distinction falls to the now senior senator. He is the outstanding statesman elevated during the Ku-Klux Klan era in Indiana who w T as not indicted, never went to prison or resigned his office to escape such fate. a a a HE was originally appointed to the senate by former Governor Ed Jackson, who pleaded the statute of limitations to avoid standing trial on the charge of conspiracy to bribe another former Governor—Warren T. McCray—who served a federal sentence. Both Governor Jackson and Senator Robinson were backed in their political aspirations by D. C. Stephenson, then grand dragon of the K. K. K. and now serving a life sentence at the Indiana state prison as a murderer. “D. C.” was credited with getting the Governor to appoint Mr. Robinson to the senate, upon the death of Senator Samuel Ralston, a Democrat. Many had expected the Governor to name former Senator Albert J. Beveridge to the place, since he had been the Republican nominee defeated by Senator Ralston in the previous campaign. Governor Jackson himself was said to have favored still another to fill the vacancy, until “Steve” changed his mind. At any rate, Senator Robinson got the senatorship and has held on to it through two elections. This fall he is scheduled for a third test, provided the Republicans renominate him in convention. If he fails he will have memories of world travels as one of the consolations of his career to

‘I Was a Spy’ls Best War-Time Movie Ever Produced by British; Realism of Screen Play Is Staggering , Times Critic Finds

AFTER reading and hearing so much in praise of the Gaumont British-produced war movie, “I Was a Spy,” I asked the Fox exchange here to give me a private screening of this picture the other afternoon. On several occasions I have become so excited at picture shows that I have eaten my fingernails, but this is the first time in my life that I became so excited that I broke the shoestring on my right shoe. I wanted to see ‘T Was a Spy" to compare it with "Henry VIII” and also to study American and foreign methods in making spy pictures. “Maedchen in Uniform” was and is a German masterpiece, and "The Life of Henry VIII” was voted one of the ten best of last year by critics all over the country because of the magnificent performance of Charles Laughton as the much-married monarch.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Suppose I told the captain why I’m always late. A It would sound silly.”

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‘Lil’ Arthur Robinson —Criticises Roosevelt, But Who Cares?

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934

date. Asa member of the senate committee on insular affairs he has visited the island possessions and Alaska on official junkets between congressional sessions. He also toured the Orient, visiting China and Japan, which brings to mind that another point in his present program is opposition to Russian recognition. tt tt tt SENATOR ROBINSON was born in Pickerington, 0., March 12, 1881. According to biographers in one of the reference works, which praises everybody: “His boyhood was one of selfdirected effort and industrious plication toward the goal of a better education and the opportunities of a professional career.” It says that in 1901 he was graduated from Ohio Northern university and “subsequently took up sales management and publicity work.” After he removed to Indianapolis in 1905, he completed a law course at the Indiana law school. Admitted to the bar in 1910, he became a member of the firm of Robinson, Symmes & Maish. now Robinson, Symmes & Melson. In 1914 he was elected a state senator and became Republican floor leader and for a time president pro tern. “He became a pronounced advocate of prohibition, and is one of the staunch drys in the United States senate,” his biographer says. During the World war, he was a first lieutenant in the Three hundred thirty-fourth infantry, later being promoted to captain. He sailed for France Sept. 1, 1918, was transferred to the Thirtyninth infantry and promoted to major. He spent eleven months with the army of occupation on the Rhine. When he returned. Governor McCray appointed him judge of the Marion county superior court to

After seeing “I Was a Spy,” I am willing to go on record as saying that it ranks as one of the ten best foreign-made films I have seen in the last, two years. Hollywood can learn a lot (something that seldom can be done from the average Britishmade picture) from Gaumont’s production of “I Was a Spy.” I missed a private screening of “Catherine the Great,” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elizabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, and others. According to reports this picture has made Fairbanks Jr. a British favorite and he may remain in British-produced pictures for some time. a a a THERE are many reasons why “I Was a Spy” is an important picture. In the first place, the story appears to be based upon actual happenings during the World war. The spies are made human be-

Senator Arthur R. Robinson, product of the Ku-Klux Klan period in Indiana, still represents the Republicans in the United States senate. AVith the dearth of minority members in the upper chamber, Senator Robinson has become nationally prominent through constant criticism of President Roosevelt’s policies.

fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Clifford. His senate appointment came Oct. 2, 1925, nan A MONG other little known achievements of Senator Robinson is his authorship of a book. It was published back in 1912 and is entitled “Memory and the Executive Mind.”

The Theatrical World

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

ings who fall in love while they are risking the firing squad in getting information. Some of the spies are well trained and others are just patriotic volunteers. One of these patriotic volunteers who aids her native Belgium while the Germans occupy the country is Marg Knockhardt (played by Madeleine Carroll). Marg was not trained the espionage system when she started her career. She was acting as a volunteer nurse in a hospital that treated wounded of the enemy as well as her own people and allied soldiers. While nursing Germans, she comes in contact with the German surgeon in charge of the hospital, as well as with the commandant of the area. The real authentically trained spy is that of the German hospital attendant, played by Herbert

STATE LEGION SETS WASHINGTON PARLEY Annual Event to Be Held at City Ballroom. American Legionnaires will hold their third annual celebration of Washington’s birthday at the In- ; diana ballroom Saturday night. The ! event will be held under the aus- ; pices of the Forty and Eight. Delegations of legionnaires from : Anderson, Frankfort, Terre Haute, Vincennes, Connersville, Richmond, Newcastle. Muncie and Lafayette will attend. Charles Crippin, general chairman, announced. The grand march will be led by V. M. Armstrong, state legion commander, and Laurence E. Clift, Terre Haute, grand chef de gare of the Forty and Eight. STORM SAVES THREE FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR Boston Men Granted Day of Life When Execution Is Late. By United Press BOSTON, Feb. 21.—The storm which brought death and suffering along the eastern seaboard, gave three young men scheduled to die in the Massachusetts electric chair last midnight an unexpected lease on life. Robert Elliott, executioner, was unable to reach the prison here because the storm disrupted train traffic. The executions were put off ; unti£ midnight tonight. !

Some excerpts from the book appeared recently in a magazine in which Senator Robinson was dealt with as “A Study in Vacuity.” “Be intensely earnest,” the senator said in his book, “and as sure as you live you will possess it (personal magnetism) in just the same ratio that you are earnest. Always remember, however, that

Marshall. The German commandant is played by Conrad Veidt. These principals give you one of the strongest first line dramatic casts seen on the screen in several years. All are expert performers. The story is not one-sided because Marg causes tremendous slaughter of wounded Germans. The commandant is guilty of cruelty in dealing with spies before giving them a trial. a a a IT is this balance of alleged acts of loyalty which puts so much strength into the story and gives it a degree of realism which is staggering. My shoestring broke after the army bombing planes had swooped down on a peaceful gathering of wounded Germans from a hospital attending a religious meeting on a secret from Marg. The work of Miss Carroll is fine, both from a mental and spiritual

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The little girl who plays Queen Christina when she was a very little girl in Greta Garbo’s ‘•Queen Christina” is Cora Sue Collins who is only 6 years old. She has “doubled” for two great stars—Norma Shearer and Miss Garbo. You may see her latest doubling in “Queen Christina,” now at Lowe’s Palace. Hitler Talk Is Scheduled “A Critical Examination of Hitlerism” will be the subject of an address zy Dr. E. G. Homrighausen at a dinner of the Professional Men’s Forum at the Columbia Club today. Attendance is by invitation. John K. Ruckelshaus is forum president.

personal magnetism never shows till earnestness has reached the intense point. You must be intensely earnest in order that you may be conspicuous for the possession of magnetic power.” Another bit of advice toward being successful offered by the book was as follows: “Take your bath regularly and do not permit your face to go along for days without shaving.”

standpoint when she understands what war and death really mean. Thousands of the enemy were killed by her patriotic tips and as many were mowed down by the guns of the enemy. You can easily see that this story is a strong one anji makes no compromise. There is only one slight weakness to the story. It is a Hollywood ending done in England. Marg is not shot by a firing squad as Marshall takes all the blame of making her a spy. The photography and sound is the best I have encountered in a British-made movie. We excel in photography and sound, but the British have the realism which we seem afraid to photograph. My suggestion is that you watch for "I Was a Spy” when it is shown in your neighborhood theater. Its first-run showing here was at the Ambassador in January.

CATTLE RAISERS TO MEET HERE MARCH 2 Jersey Breeders Will Gather for Annual Meeting. Cattle raisers from many sections of the state will attend the annual meeting of the Indiana Jersey Cattle Club, March 2 at the Washington, Dr. R. F. Hester, Scottsburg, president, announced today. Speakers for the occasion include L. W. Morley, New r York, secretary of the American Jersey Cattle Club; H. E. Dennison. East Lansing, Mien., and Dr. J. M. Evans. Russiaville, Indiana Guernsey Breeder’s Association president. NUDISTS BARRED FROM ART CLUB BALL MASQUE Some Sort of Costume Must Be Worn, Committee Rules. By United Pres* CLEVELAND, Feb. 21.—Complete nudity is not a costume, it appears, even to those of such liberal views as members of the Qokoon Art Club here. t When a group of twenty nudists applied for a block of tickets to the Qokoon's annual ball masque, officials of the organization at first were inclined to grant them. But when the nudists admitted that they intended to attend the ball strictly as nudists, the costume committee demurred. “You’ve got to wear something,” was the ruling. “It needn’t be much. But how are we going to judge costumes unless you wear a little [Something t”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler 1 WOULD like to be able to string along with some colleagues of mine who are incensed over the decline of the prize fight in Madison Square Garden, but it was my idea throughout the boom in pugilism that the stifling elegance with which Tex Rickard invested the carnage at his place was artificial, unseemly. and contrary to the true spirit and best interests of the sport. I always thought that millionaires had no legitimate business at the ringside, and that if their ap-

parent enthusiasm was real and not an affection they had no right to be millionaires, but ought to be poor and wear sweaters and caps. That was in a day when the citizens still had a proper respect for the millionaire. To me. the millionaire was a superior creature and I was disillusioned to find him apparently wrought up inside over the spectacle of one total stranger flogging another total stranger on the ears and liver and vice versa. This was the sport of rough, unrefined people, generally described as the lower classes, whereas the millionaire, as I had seen him depicted on the stage, was ad-

dicted to much more elegant pleasures. He yachted or shelled the grouse in Scotland or went bouncing over hill and dale in a red jacket and plug hat hollering “yoicks,” which seems to be the refined equivalent of “cripes,” whenever his blisters touched the saddle. And now. in response to Mr. Rickard's suave and flattering invitation, we found him crowding the natural prize fight customer out of his home at the ringside and heard him yelling “in the belly kid” in slightly refined accents, to be sure, but yelling it nevertheless. a a a Millionaires Leveled Themselves NOT even Ferd Pecora down in Washington hag done more to discredit the millionaire and leve* him down to size than the millionaire did himself by his attendance at the brawls where his conduce presently convinced the lower classes, relegated to the galleries for the time being, that the only difference between a rich man and a poor one was money. Madison Square Garden, especially with the best people clotted around the ringside to the exclusion of the indigenous types, never has been sufficiently rich in prize fight smells.', And, though the temph* has been going shabby in the last few years, it still is not grimy enough for the purposes of pugilism. There should be wooden partitions around the place and broken chairs and peanut litter and a standing population of frowsy, stuttering hulks who have been punched back into infancy and left rocking on their heels. There should be draughts sailing through the arena from broken windows and skylights and dirt in the corners and old placards peeling off the walls. And if I were assigned to create a fight-club atmosphere I would abolish plush ropes and bar-rail ringposts with their permanent receptables for water bottles and substitute old fashioned lynching rope, pine posts, and the bucket and towel which always imparted homely charm. I also would bar all females from the prize fight game because, even though certain of these ladies are practically shock-proof and place no real restraint upon the boys, still a male does not enjoy the loose, stag feeling when they are present which permeated his being when he was positive that the spectacle was something for the gents only. aan Maybe It's Not Too Late I HAVE noted an encouraging development of shabbiness and grit around Madison Square Garden, and the place yet may take on the true appearance of a prize fight arena. But more encouraging than this is the shoving around of the once sacred Tunney-Muldoon monument, the symbol of the heavyweight championship. This little statue, surmounting a stone column, for which the late Ernie Schaaf provided the figure and the stance, was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies one wintry afternoon a few years ago, and I recall now that Tommy Loughran, then a lightheavyweight, with bold affrontery and gross irreverence, walked up to it when the rites were over and, with a pencil, wrote his name by hand upon one of the bronze plates reserved for the names of future heavyweight champions. I foresaw at the time that it would become a nuisance and a problem, and would be eased gradually out of the center of things until one day it would disappear behind a pillar and finally into some storeroom. I found it behind a pillar last week. It has a little farther to go now to reach a nook in the furnace room, and I would suggest, in all piety, that they load it on a truck one day as soon as the frost is out of the ground and place it on the grave of old William Muldoon, who believed in the beauty, nobility and glory of pugilism. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Xnc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

r I s WO professors at the University of Heidelberg A in Germany gave the world the key to the secrets of the universe. By reading the meaning of the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun, they accelerated the progress of science and so hastened the march of our civilization which today rests in large part upon a foundation of scientific achievement. Joseph Fr&unhofer, famous instrument maker of Munich, had shown in 1814 that when sunlight was passed through a prism and the resulting rainbow of spectrum examined with a little telescope, the magnified spectrum was seen to be crossed with hundreds of black lines of varying thicknesses and intensities. He found these same black lines in the spectrum of moonlight and the light of the planets, light which, of course, is reflected sunlight. Many astronomers and physicists immediately took up the study of spectra. But for almost half a century the mystery of the dark lines in the spec-'*' trum of the sun continued to elude the grasp of those studying them. Then in 1859, the two Heidelberg professors solved the mystery. Their names were Kirchoff and Bunsen. 808 FIRST o.' all, Kirchoff and Bunsen demonstrated that when the light from a solid source, as for example that from a glowing piece of iron, was examined with a . spectroscope, as the combination of prism and little telescopes was named, the resulting spectrum was a continuous band of colors. They also showed that a similar band, known as a continuous spectrum, was obtained when the source of light was a glowing liquid, for example, molten iron, or a glowing gas under very high pressure. They showed next that the source of light was a vapor at low pressure, as for example the vapor formed by putting a little sodium into a gas flame, the resulting spectrum was a series of isolated bright light spectrum. They showed further that each chemical element had a distinctive bright line spectrum which always served as a positive means of identifying it. Here was a tool of immense value to the chemist. Amounts of a chemical element too small to be identified by ordinary chemical means, could be traced instantly with the spectroscope. a a THEY showed that when the light from a solid source was allowed to pass through a gas before reaching the spectroscope, the result was a spectrum like that of the sun, with a continuous band of colors by dark lines. w

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