Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1934 — Page 21

Second Section

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun DID you ever see a goat walking! Well I did. It also was talking, and it seems to be the property of the New York Herald Tribune. President Roosevelt's executive order on the newspaper code and the letter which he sent to General Johnson at the same time seem to be the factors which have put the Herald Tribune in a tantrum. Even a careful examination of the documents from the White House affords no explanation for the pique of the publication. It is true that the

President spoke of the famous freedom of the press section (Article VII as “pure surplusage” and later on he added: “The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is freedom of expression, and that will be scrupulously respected—but it is not freedom to work children, or do business in a fire-trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness.” To this the Herald Tribune responds wildly and irrelevantly; that we already have known government by edict and that now we aro being subjected t 6 “government by insult.” But this is a piece of shoereaching if ever I saw one. a a a

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(ialahads in Business PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT did no more than state a perfectly familiar legal argument about the freedom of the press. Its freedom, of course, is not impaired by the fact that a newspaper plant is subject to building and fire regulations and other ordinances of that nature. The .Herald Tribune’s own lovely building, set down so conveniently in juxtaposition to Blake's, was not under attack, nor was there any executive intention, I am sure, to insinuate that Mr. Greeley's former sheet had turned obscene and lewd. No, the rage of the daily seems to have been started by a mild presidential suggestion that not all American newspapers are published by Galahaas and circulated for no other purpose than the proper spiritual maintenance of the noble army of saints and martyrs, whatever the expense. Such cynicism was enough to break the great heart of a noble journalistic institution. I have no doubt that the editor himself was too overcome with rage and grief to do much about it. The assistant editor who caught the signal to carry on was compelled to wave it off, for his eyes were also misted with tears. At length they found an office boy who said that by dint of great effort he thought he would be able to snatch the spaces between sobs and write a piece concerning that towering pillar of dust by night, which had made him everything he was or ever hoped to be. Accordingly, the following deathless sentence was set down: “That the newspapers of the country, by general consent, lead the world in enterprise, in public spirit, in fairness, in decency—that they use their Constitutional freedom with a high sense of loyalty and integrity—is passed by.” tt u u ,4 Fortunate Occurrence THERE is always somebody hovering about ready to spread leaves over any babes in any wood. The owner and the editors of the Herald Tribune actually believed the words which they set down through the first assistant office boy. He almost believed them himself, having forgotten his last pay check. Such newly hatched novitiates would have fared ill in the hurly-burly of a Washington code hearing, but as luck would have it the fate of the paper was placed in the hands of Elisha Hanson, a Washington attorney, who is said to be the only living twelve-minute egg Not that Mr. Hanson lacks a sentimental side. Any code provision which costs any client of his a nickel will make him blubber like a schoolboy. But Mr. Hanson has found that the best policy is to make the other fellow cry. It was my good fortune to be present when Mr. Hanson made the first of many speeches in defense of a boy's God-given right to work at selling or delivering newspapers. He pitched the poor, friendless waif almost alone in a big city, and then the happy day when he ran into a man who gave him a bundle of papers-to sell. tt a * The Xewsboy’s Friend • ”7* VERY circulation manager is the newsboy’s Cj friend.” cried Hanson. “When there isn't a ton of coal in the house, to whom does the newsboy come? To the circulation manager. If he needs piano lessons, where can he get them? From the circulation manager And if that dear little old lady at home wants to have her appendix removed, to whom can her son appeal?” By this time everybody in the big hall of the Commerce Building was weeping. Ed Angly, who sat next to me. rose to leave. "Can't you stand it, Ed?” I asked. "He'll be through in a couple of minutes.” “That's why I’m leaving,” said Angly. “I aim to beat the rest of this mob back to New York. I'm planning to change jobs. I'm only a reporter. I want that ton of coal and those piano lessons. Besides. my sister has bad tonsils.” This report of the speech delivered by Elisha Hanson is exaggerated. But very little. I am not exaggerating when I say that I watched the conduct of the newspaper publishers from the very beginning of the NR A hearings, and that their record was of a sort which would make “government by insult” a feat unparalleled in the entire history of lily-painting. (Copyright. 1934, by The Times'

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE continued craze to get thin now has focused attention on a remedy for weight reduction. It has been mentioned in various ways, and there already are on the market several patent medicines containing this drug, known as dinitrophenol. A few years ago some investigators found that this drug, when taken by a human being, would speed up greatly the metabolism, or chemical action going on in the body. In fact, a large dosage of the drug in the end would produce a very high fever. For this reason, the medical profession has been experimenting with the drug for several years before even mentioning it to the public. u a a IT has been known for some time that extracts of thyroid gland, when taken into the human body, also speed up the metabolism, and in this way thyroid extracts reduce weight. However, it also has been established that the thyroid extracts speed up the heart and in other ways upset the body, so that they must be taken with great caution. It is obvious that a drug which would reduce weight, without having the side effects that thyroid extract has. might be useful. Now it has been found that small doses of this new drug, called dinitrophenol. can speed up the metabolism as much as 40 per cent above the normal and keep this up for several weeks. When the drug is stopped, the metabolism drops to normal in three.or four days. By this time several hundreds of cases of people who are overweight have been treated with the drug and its virtues established. However, it also has been shown that an overdosage is exceedingly dangerous. One man in California actually committed suicide by taking so much that his fever went very high.

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This i* the second of The Time*’ new series on “The Horrors of the Next World War.”

BY DAVID DIETZ SrrippA-Howard Science Editor THE rising sun reveals a swiftmoving swarm of steel monsters. roaring and clattering across the country-side. Some rush swiftly along the roads. Others move cross-country over hills and through valleys, dodging trees, sliding over ditches. Small slick monsters hurry along the road with the speed of racing automobiles, all details of their smooth sides and tops obliterated by their speed. The larger monsters move more slowly and a better view can be had of them. There are portholes in their sides from which protrude the muzzles of machine guns. Some have revolving turrets upon the roof from W’hich project machine guns or heavier artillery pieces. Most slowly of all move the giants of the swarm. Veritable steel fortresses on caterpillar wheels, with guns protruding in every direction. Despite their size, they move with comparative ease. Their caterpillar treads have “knee action,” and the great monsters take ditches, boulders, tree-stumps and all sorts of obstacles with remarkably little pitching or tossing. In the sky above, leading the w’ay for the swarms of monsters, flying to the right and the left, are a hundred airplanes, trim, speedy, pursuit planes. This is the advance unit of an invading army, entering the enemy’s territory. It is sunrise on the first morning of the Second World war. The war began last night with a terrific aerial bombardment of one of the enemy's principal industrial cities, hundreds of miles inside of the frontier. For hours, the big bombers dropped high explosives and gas shells upon the city. The pursuit planes flew low, using their machine guns upon the people who sought tc flee from the city. a a \ ND now with the first faint signs of the dawn, as the airplanes were scurrying back home from the scene of death and destruction, the first unit of the invading army is crossing the frontier. The sight differs from any to be seen in the last w r ar. The long lines of marching infantrymen with their rifles and packs are nowhere to be seen. The slow-moving motor trucks, carrying supplies, slow-moving because they could move no faster than the long lines of tramping soldiers, are nowhere in sight. Missing also are the horse-drawn artillery. This is a mechanized army, an army of tanks. There are big tanks and little tanks, and armored cars of every description. Speeding along the road are armored automobiles. Each one carrying one or two men and equipped with machine guns. The larger tanks carry heavier armament and more men. Bringing up the rear is anew type of artillery. Big guns built upon tank-like mountings so that each big gun has its owm built-in motivepporer.w r er. a a u THIS is a new’ kind of invading army, an armored, protected army, one that fights behind moving walls of armor plate. A twentieth century army which combines a maximum of protection.

Constance Bennett Climbs to New Heights in Moulin Rouge’; Takes Rank as Fully Developed Actress , Walter Hickman Says - BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Hollywood stars to be successful these days must be accomplished actresses, not merely clothes racks upon which to hang, marvelous clothes. The day that just a pretty face or figure, or a person sponsored by an “angel” can succeed on the screen is gone forever. In the last five years, many men and women who were pros-

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actress of charm, power and understanding. After several unfortunate vehicles and even careless work at times on the part of Constance Bennett, she comes back solidly in ‘-Moulin Rouge” as a good character actress as well as a pleasing singer. Miss Bennett must have studied herself and decided that she had to go to work, to study, to master voice as well as characterization. The day had arrived that Constance had to make a decision. She made it in the right way and went to work improving her own talents. The result of this study and work transforms Miss Bennett into a fully developed actress, a w oman capable of registering every emotion. I was thrilled and suprised to see that she could put over a dramatic song of a woman who had become just a woman of the streets, but one who retained the memory of better days. This number is a production number and Miss Bennett has the assistance of many clever people in making this number the song climax of "Moulin Rouge,” but in fairness to her, it must be said that she does a splendid job.

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HORRORS OF THE NEXT WAR

Mechanized Army to Start Next Invasion With Speedy Tanks

perous and popular in the silent days have passed out of popular fa vo r altogether, or are extras trying to keep the wolf from the door. Greta Garbo in "Queen Christina” established beyond any doubt that she is not only an unusually fine actress, but an in t ell ige n t

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This mechanized, motorized army moves swiftly and does terrific damage as it goes. Ordinary defenses can not stop it. It smashes through fields of barbed wire. It batters down obstacles of all sorts. Protected by its heavy armor plate, it fears neither the rifles nor the machine guns of the enemy. Its speed makes it a poor target for artillery. The idea that such an army of tanks will be the first to take the field in the next world war is not the dream of novelists and short story writers. It is the judgment of the best military strategists. It has been preached ever since the close of the last war by such eminent authorities as Major-General J. F. C. Fuller of Great Britain, who took part in the last World war; Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, famous British military critic, and others a a tt 'T'HE strategists of all nations dream of a quick, smashing, brilliant victory. They wisfy to avoid the long drawn-out stalemate of the last World war. Whether or not they can do so is another question. But they are all going to try. Consequently they preach continuously the need for mobility and speed, the need for surprise attack. And that is why many authorities think it possible that a nation may throw all international obligations to the winds and begin the next war without declaring it, begin it with a surprise aerial bombardment and a surprise invasion by an army of swift-moving tanks accompanied by speedy combat or pursuit planes. The first World war, in the opinion of the strategists, taught the need for new methods. In fact, these methods developed as the war progressed. And so you find the authorities of all nations repeating a significant phrase: The next war will start where the last one left off. a tt AS MAJOR GENERAL FULLEN points out, the aim of the great masters of war in the past from Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Scipio, to Frederick the Great and Napoleon, was based on the theory of “hold, move and hit.” The infantry was used to “hold” the enemy, to form defensive lines w’hich kept the enemy in one spot. Then the cavalry did the moving and hitting. It outflanked the enemy and attacked him from the side or rear. But the development of the rifle bullet made this practice increasingly difficult and the invention of the machine gun made it impossible. Nevertheless, the World war began without any clear realization of these facts. “The w’ar opened with the old infantry idea of assault.” writes Major-General Fuller. “The great German armies, it was thought, by sheer weight of numbers would, like an inflowing tide, sweep all before them. The French armies were to cut this gigantic German phalanx in half, and destroy it as Alexander the Great destroyed the hordes of Darius. Nevertheless, every tactical idea was soon proved to be bankrupt, and the autumn and winter of 1914 saw the bursting of the most gigantic military South Sea bubble which the history of wars bears record of.”

it seems that she will grow in song and soon will be able to get deeper into melody. This accomplishment proves that she has been studying and working. It also shows she has a pretty level head on her shoulders. Miss Bennett might have been on the downhill grade many fa-

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“Don’t you-remember? We sat next to each other during our sophomore year.”

IN 1915, he tells us, anew tactical theory was propounded. It was, “Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.” The role of infantry was now to follow in the wake of artillery barrages and the casualties on both sides were heavy and terrific. The great artillery battles of 1916 and 1917, he says, were “a grim and costly failure.” The war was now a stalemate with the troops “dug in.” Had the belligerents been able to withstand the loss in manpower and financial strain, the war might have gone on this way for 100 years, he says. But the tanks broke the stalemate. The first tank action on Sept. 15, 1916, was the beginning of a new method of warfare. The great

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mous women of the screen have discovered they are on. In many instances these women, if they had been serious and would have improved themselves to meet the new demands of the day, would be with Miss Bennett today. She still is a leader.

By George Clark

“This is the advance unit of the invading army.”

tank battles which followed, such as the battle of Cambrai on Nov. 20, 1917, and that of Amiens on Aug. 8, 1918, revolutionized the methods of war. Aug. 8. 1918. according to Von Hindenburg, was the “black day” of the German army. And General Von Zwehl said: “We were not defeated by the genius of General Foch, but by General Tank.” Lieutenant-General von Metzscn, a member of the German general staff in the last war, looks also to the use of great fleets of swift-moving tanks in the next war. He says that the immediate objective at the outbreak of the war will be to carry the fighting into the enemy’s territory. “The speed and efficiency with

IN “Moulin Rouge,” Miss Bennett plays dual roles. You first meet her as the stage careerhunting wife of Franchot Tone, a writer of musical plays. Hubby is old-fashioned when it comes to his home life. He thinks that his wife should stay at home. He maintains that a wife’s job is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job. The wife thinks differently. They separate. The wife has a chance to impersonate a famous French music hall star who was brought over to play the chief role in Tone's musical. From then on, you are interested and held fascinated in the way Miss Bennett impersonates the French star. The story is slightly naughty when Miss Bennett discovers that her own hushad fallen in love with the character she is impersonating. She knows deep down in her heart that it is legal, but his kisses are different when placed upon the lips of the Moulin Rouge actresses. Constance plays these scenes in both a high comedy key as well as with a strong dash of the tragic. “Moulin Rouge” is going to do a lot for Miss Bennett. I consider it as a guarantee of bigger and better things from her. ' The Boswell Sisters have one song number, ’’Coffee in the Morning, Kisses at Night.” nun IN connection with the opening of “Moulin Rouge” today at Loew's Palace, a number of Hollywood stars and lesser lights arrives to assist in the opening. A bus caravan arrives in town shortly after 3 this afternoon, carrying John Hundley, Mary Carlisle, Ben Turpin, Anna Q. Nilsson, Creighton Halex, Roscoe Ates, Jack Muihall, Nancy Welford, Dorothy Dunbar and Antonio Moreno. These stars and a number of young ladies of the chorus will be the guests at a supper-dance at the Columbia Club tonight at 6:15. Shortly before 9 the stars will appear in a parade, arriving at the Palace at 9 o’clock. They will be introduced as they leave the bus.

which troops are moved and put into action will far exceed anything that was done at the outbreak of the World W’ar in 1914,” he says. Strategists emphasize again and again the need for getting the jump on th® enemy, of carrying the war ifito his territory, destroying his towns and farms and crops. “If a belligerent succeeds in establishing a suitable base of operations in the enemy’s country, he can then systematically proceed with his own war organization with no danger of enemy attacks, unless it be from the air,” General von Metzsch says. Tomorrow: Poison Gas and the Next World War.

From 9:30 to 10:15 they will make a personal appearance on the stage at the Palace. After that they return to the dance at the Columbia Club. nun In City Theaters 'T'ONIGHT at 8:30 at the Murat, Booth Tarkington, Indiana's noted playwright and author, will be honored by the Civic theater when his play, “Seventeen,” will be given before a distinguished audience. Other theaters today offer: “Bolero,” at the Circle; “No More Women” and “Search for Beauty,” at the Indiana. “Palooka,” at the Apollo, and “Advice to the Lovelorn,” on the screen and “Words and Music” on the stage at the Lyric.

POLICY HOLDERS PAID $255,977,48-3 FOR ’33 Year’s Financial Position Outlined by New I'ork Life. Payments to living stockh ders, beneficiaries and annuitants i the New York Life Insurance Com any totaled $255,977,483 in 1933, it vas announced today by the local office. Assets of the company amounted to $2,010,943,112 on Dec. 31, 1933. After making a provision for all liabilities. totaling $1,896,651,321, the company's surplus funds reserved for general contingencies amounted to $114,291,791. PLAY READINGS LISTED Walter Pippert to Entertain Martha Club Tonight. A reading, “The Two Homecomings,” will be presented by Walter pippert, 1106 North Temple avenue, tonight before the Martha Club in St. Peter’s hall. Temple and Eleventh streets. He also will appear in a farce, ’Finance for Fanny.” other members of the cast will include Charles Litz, Walter Denser, Raymond Lammert and Alfred Braun.

Second Section

Entered ss Second-Class Matter at PostofTice, Indianapolis

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler IHOPE the cross words of Mr. Roosevelt and General Johnson, and the apparently genial, but actually unkind cracks of Donald Richberg regarding the press of the United States will not arouse the citizens against us. Up to now, in our business, we have enjoyed some pleasant special privileges ,and a rather romantic status. We have been permitted to pass the firelines and ogle the casualties on the floor of the drug store, and we get free tickets to the prize fights and ball games and some of the nr- ”, and plays, although we do not get as many 1 people think.

It has been the privilege < our business, also, to scold a: admonish or approve in matte of minor and national government, and to walk in on pubhc officials who might not even see us in our private, capacity and demand how about it, all in the name of the public. I hope nobody is going to challenge my right to represent the public in this way after all this time, because after more than twenty years of getting away with it I am not sure what ever did become of my original credentials if I ever had any. a a a

Reform Is Xeeded THE current booing of the press by the President and General Johnson and the light sneers which were fetched our way by Mr. Richberg at the meeting of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago will test whether our business, which has been dishing it so long, can also take it. It is anew experience, but it may do some good, because the general's allusion to the keyhole school of journalism points out something which needs a little reforming. The trouble about that is. however, that under former Presidents, including Mr. Wilson, the Washington journalists were put under so many false restraints that there came a time when celebrated statesmen were getting away with major jobs of larceny which should have been reported currently in the papers. The keyhole and rumor journalist may b( offensive, but he is more likely to keep the statesmen honest than the kind whose ethics make him censor as well as reporter. It is by no means unthinkable that some of the statesmen of the present administration need to be kept honest, for with so much money being spent against time, the same temptation exists just now which lured so many associates of Mr. Harding into sin. a tt tt The Funnies Are Ahead AND, moreover, the general's reference to this type of journalism somehow recalls to mind that Mr. Hoover was the victim of a regular campaign of such material throughout his presidency. I do not recall that the Democratic national committee ever denounced any of the anti-Hoover propaganda. Mr. Richberg delivered a sarcastic reference to the comic strips, and there, I think, he overspoke himself, because any circulation man will tell you that the first interest of the greatest number of subscribers is not anything which General Johnson, or even the President, has to say today, but what is happening to little Dopie Doodles, the waif who drags out his mournful existence in the funnies. (Copyright. 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate, inc.)

Today's Science ■ BY DAVID DIETZ

A BOUT once a year, some extremely dim star A suddenly flares up with new brilliance. The star which turns the trick is christened a “new star” or “nova.” (“Nova” is the Latin for “new.”) Occasionally a nova becomes sufficiently bright to be visible to the unaided eye, but such occurrences are rare. The behavior of all novae is similar in one respect. They flare up to their new brilliance with great suddenness. Then they begin to fade, returning to their old state of brightness in about a yeer. Studying the heavens with his telescope, the astronomer notes millions upon millions of stars. But here and there he sees something else, great luminous masses of cloudy stuff. These are called nebulae. Nebulae is the Latin for clouds. Often a group of stars seem intertwined with a great nebulous mass. This is the case, for example, with the constellation of the Pleiades. But. in addition, the astronomer also finds about 150 unusual objects. These have been named planetary nebulae, perhaps an unfortunate name, since they have no connection with the planets. Each one consists of a central star surrounded by a ring of nebulous material like a great smoke ring. nun EACH planetary nebula looks like the result of an explosion, as though the great smoke ring had been blown out of the central star. Many astronomers today are of the opinion that such is the case and that the planetary nebulae represent old novae. Each time a nova or “new star” flashes into the sky, they think it is another planetary nebula in the process of formation. The planetary nebulae are still the subject of intensive study upon the part of the astronomers of the world. There are still many mysteries connected with them. But astronomers have also succeeded in finding out a great deal about them. This knowledge is summarized by Dr. Donald H. Menzel of the Harvard Observatory in a bulletin of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The best-known planetary nebula is the so-called ring nebula in the constellation of Lyra. Dr. Menzel points out that it is difficult to see the central star in this nebula through the telescope, but very easy to photograph it. This is because the central star is exceptionally rich in ultra-violet light. The star is extremely hot, having a surface temperature of about 120,000 degrees Fahrenheit. an a DR. MENZEL says that recent measurements of the diameter of the ring nebula in Lyra shows it to be about 40,000 times the distance from the earth to the sun. That distance is 93,000,000 miles. The diameter of the nebula is about forty trillion miles. This is about 1,000 times the distance from the sun to Pluto, the outermost planet of the solar system, a distance of 4.000,000,000 miles. Other planetary nebulae are similarly large. The tiny central stars are, perhaps, no larger than the planet Jupiter, which is about 80,000 miles in diameter. They are, to quote Dr. Menzei’s phrase, “as lost in the vast sea of surrounding nebulosity as a football would be if adrift in the middle of the Pacific ocean.”

Questions and Answers

Q —Who is the king of Italy and of what royal house is he? A—Vittorio Emanuele, the third, of the family and house of Savoy. Q —What was the Stone Age? A—The age of man. distinguished by the making of stone tools and implements that preceded both the bronze age and the iron age. There are three divisions of the Stone Age, the Eohthic, Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Q —How long was Joseph V. McKee the acting mayor of New York? A—From Sept. 1, 1932 to Jan. 1, 1933. Q —Are the canals of Venice deep enough for a person to drown in? A—The depth of the canals and lagoons of Venice varies widely, due to the ebb and flow of the tides. At high tide some of the canals, including the Grand canal, are deep enough for a person to drown in, and at low tide some of the smaller canals are mere mud fiats.

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