Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1934 — Page 9
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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun IF I were Broun's managing editor I would be looking over his stuff today and saying in a firm and executive voire: ‘ What 'hat young fellow needs is a vacation. Or. if not a vacation, at least a change of scene." And to continue the fantasy, I would call him up on the telephone 'not before noon, of course) and say: ■Hello, Heywood. This is Mr. Wood speaking. No offense, old fellow, but I think you need a rest. I understand you've had the grippe. Nasty thing
for columnists of your age. You don't seem to be recupeiating any too rapidly. "That flu is treacherous for overweights and moderate drinkers. I wouldn’t like to see anything happen. I don't know how we could get along with only eleven columnists. And while I don't want to flatter you. there are three or four I could spare ahead of you. Yes, they re in excellent health. 000 A Slave to Duty “T REALIZE your devotion to X duty, Heywood. You feel that you ought to stay on the job and take a few cracks at Lucius
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Boomer. You want to keep on saying that the hotel employes ought to win their strike. But couldn t you say that even if you went away for a wnile? “Mv suggestion—in fact, my executive order is this: Catch the first available train for Miami. Sit out in the sun and get the roses back into those cheeks again. ‘‘You say you can't afford it? Heywood, I’m surprised at your bringing up a point like that. Aou ought to know better. What are a few paltry dollars compared to the health and strength of a veteran employe? Charge it all up to the paper. Take a girl with you. Take a couple of girls. I understand your aunt isn’t feeling so well. What’s an expense account for? "And remember, Heywood. when you travel you are representing a great metropolitan paper. The best is none too good. Always try for the imperial suite. Don't let anybody get the idea that you are some sort of sociologist, like one of Rockefeller’s grandsons, traveling in search of local color. “Be up to the minute in fashion and style. As a matter of fact, dress just as you do in New York. "What was the name of that biography written around the founder of this chain of newspapers? ‘Lusty Old Mr. Scripps.’ wasn't it? That's not exactly the title, but it conveys the general idea, and we expect you to live up to the best traditions of the paper—grippe or no grippe. 000 The Columnar Conscience “/AF course, you may protest again on the ground V-/ that if you leave right now it will be necessary for you to get up three or four columns in a hurry. I wish you weren't so conscientious, Heywood. It makes us no end of trouble down here at the office. I mean it gets a little tiresome having your copy come in right on the dot every morning. “And when I said I thought you needed a rest I didn't mean to take any particular crack at the quality of your work. We can't be good all the time, can we? Nobody expects that of you, old fellow. I’ve had the flu myself, and I know what it does to the creative instinct. 11l bet there have been a lot of mornings lately when you didn’t even aspire to so much as a single epigram, let alone a masterpiece. Don’t you worry about your stuff since your illness. We’re not worrying. We know’ it s sure to get better or something. a u n The Easiest Way “ \ ND when you get on that train for Miami tox\. night or tomorrow, just leave behind you two or three old clippings out of your scrapbook. Don't bother to rewrite them. Nobodv'll notice. I don't think you've used that Dare Devil Oliver piece now for five or six months. You used to submit that to us after every all-night poker game. It isn't a bad piece, at that. I liked it quite well the first two or three times I saw it. "Any old junk will do. It always has. Forget everything else and get well. Take it easy at. first. Just lie in the sun or make an arrangement with the Phillies over in Winter Haven to be allowed to play shortstop for them in their practice games. “Don't forget to come back eventually. Come back with your shield or without it. Take a rest. You need it. So do we." (Copvrieht. 1934. bv The Times'
Today's Science ; —— BY DAVID DIETZ
MORE than one thousand scientists from universities and colleges, state and federal laboratories. and industrial organizations, are expected to attend the eightv-seventh meeting of the American Chemical Society, to be neld in St. Petersburg. Fla., from March 25 to March 30. Subjects under discussion will range from "heavy water.” the latest discovery of "pure” science, to the development of a vast number of chemical products which promise increased activity and new markets for the chemical industries. "The society has passed through four years of serious financial depression with flying colors says Dr. Charles L. Reese of Wilmington. Del., its president. ant’ the retired chemical director of E. I. Dupont de Nemours A' Cos.. We go forward into the next year with confidence.” The expansion of chemistry in the next few years will play a specially important part in Florida and the southern United States, leaders of the society say. m * u THE discovery of heavy water was made by Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia University and Dr F G. Brickwedde of the United States bureau of standards. Its existence is due to the fact that there are two kinds of hydrogen atoms, one twice as heavy as the other. Heavy water consists of water whose molecules contain only the heavier hydrogen atoms. Asa matter of fact, there are also three kinds of oxygen atoms. Therefore, it would be possible to obtain water of various molecular weights, depending not only upon which hydrogen atom was Dresent but also which oxygen atom. The three oxygen atoms, however, are all so close together in weight that they do not make the striking difference in the molecule that the two kinds of hydrogen atoms do. Both Professor Urey and Dr. Brickwedde will participate in the symposium on heavy water which will take place on March 27. Other speakers will discuss the preparation and behavior of other chemical compounds containing the heavy hydrogen atom. Among the compounds to be discussed is deuterium iodide. Deuterium is the name now in fairly general use for the heavyhydrogen atom. M M M OTHER symposiums scheduled for the St. Petersburg meeting includes one on naval stores and citrus fruits. These will be under the direction of the society's division of agricultural and food chemistry of which Donald K. Tressler of the New York state agricultural experiment station is chairman. Florida for many years has been one of the largest producers of naval stores in the United States. About SO per cent of the industry is engaged in producing gum turpentine and gum resir by the distillation with water of the resin or gum obtained from longleaf and slash trees. The other 20 per cent of the industry is engaged in obtaining turpentine and resin, or pine oil. pitch, tar and charcoal from wood. The products are estimated to be worth $11,000,000 annually. Growth of the Florida tung oil industry will also be described at the meeting. The oil now is obtained chiefly ftotn China and is used in the manufacture of paint, varnish, oilcloth and linoleum. The United States uses about 13,000,000 gallons a year, most of It from China. *,
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This Is the fourth article of David Diet*’ series, written exclusively for The Indianapolis Times. Today’s article discusses the danger of death plagues. 0 0 8 BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-How ard Science Editor AN enemy airplane appears over the city at dawn. It drops no high explosives, no gas bombs. Without apparent reason, it climbs back up into the sky. By now the alarm has been given. A squadron of fighting planes leaves the airdrome and take up the chase of the enemy plane. But it is already speeding swiftly away, running away from encounter. The squadron returns to the flying field. The pilots exchange comments upon the seemingly senseless incident. What was the lone flier up to? They shrug their shoulders. One hazards the guess that he must have been stunting to win a bet. Three days later there is a terrific epidemic of typhus in the city. The hospitals are crowded. The death toll is mounting. There is hardly a street on which the disease has not broken out. No section of the town seems safe from the epidemic. Suddenly it is remembered that the enemy aviator made a power •live over the town's water reservoir. At once a test is made of the town’s water supply. It is found to be swarming with typhus bacteria.
w 11 natu xu in iumiju l The mystery of the lone flier is solved. He was no foolhardy youth winning a drunken bet. He was a grim messenger of death. In that dive he dropped a bomb more deadly than high explosive or poison gas. It was a little glass vial containing billions of typhus germs. A simple mechanism opened the vial as it struck the water. At once the whole water system of the city became a conduit of death, its maze of pipes running to every corner of the city became the tentacles of the plague, reaching out to kill men, women and children. 8 0 0 SUCH a thing may happen in the next world w r ar. It did not happen in the last World war. But there is fairly good reason to believe that it was being discussed in the last year of the war. It may even be that somewhere plans were being made to try it. There has been sufficient talk about it since that war to induce the study commission of the League of Nations on chemical warfare to investigate the subject. The opinions of various authorities upon the subject differ. Many authorities think that it will be tried and that its results will be terrible. They envisage the spreading of typhus, typhoid fever and cholera germs from airplanes. Other plagues may be spread by loosing pest-infested rats upon cities. They also think it likely that airplanes may be used to scatter insect pests to destroy crops. Other authorities are divided into two camps, one group believes that the possibilities of such epidemics and plagues spreading over the whole w’orld are so great that no nation would dare try them. A great plague loosed in one nation of Europe would be no respecter of boundary lines. It might come home to the nation that launched it, a terrible boomerang. a Frankenstein monster that destroyed its own creator. The other group points to the fact that germs are not so easily transported in large quantities. Its members doubt that such bacteriological attacks would be very effective. 0 0 8 BUT the talk that goes on about bacteriological warfare is just one more symptom of what the next world war will be like. It will not be the fight of one army against another. It will be what the military strategists call ’’total warfare." It is important to keep this fact in mind. "Total warfare," in the words of General Requin, a member of
George Raft Meets Every Demand of Real Hoofer in ‘Bolero Words and Music', Now at Lyric, Takes Rank as Top-Notch Show BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
MALE stars as well as leading female stars are learning new tricks. "Bolero” exploits George Raft as a hoofer and as such this vehicle meets every demand of
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ners when they want to become more than just business partners. Os course, for the sake of the story he has to weaken when Carole Lombard as Helen Hicks becomes his dancing partner. At the height of his professional career after he had discovered some secrets about Helen, the World war breaks out. Our hero, by tying to cash in on the war, finds that he must serve. Mr. Raft gives a splendid performance of the hoofer who is caught in the web of his own egotism. He does some ‘Bolero" hoofing with shaded and bright lights which gives the impression that he is both good theater and a good dancer. Sally Rand and her fan dance prove a washout. The story is worked out pretty cleverly. Now at the Circle. a a a Here Is a Real Show and Music.” stage W offering at the Lyric this week, is a grand and glorious variety of some of the best acts seen on a vaudeville stage in years. The entire show, however, gives more the idea of a musical comedy than cf vaudeville. That’s how nicely the separate acts work together. Lester Cole and his “Soldiers of Fortune.’’ often heard on radio, stand out as a fine chorus of male Vvoices, and they sing a wide variety of numbers. Mr. has
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HORRORS OF THE NEXT WAR
Planes May Spread Death Plague Microbes to Cities
Marshal Foch’s staff in the last war, is the "form of warfare which absorbs and transforms the activities and resources of an entire people as a fighting machine.” It is "a war of nations in arms, turning to account the whole of their resources, both human and material.” The problem of every nation in the event of war, therefore, is to transform, as rapidly as possible, all its resources, its men, its industrial machinery, its raw materials, its money, into a real and effective armament. Every nation is thinking today in such terms. Mobilization plans no longer include merely the massing of the fighting troops. Everything must be mobilized for war, the railroads, the ships, the factories, the chenVcal plants. Machine shops must turn out the parts of guns and shells. Dye and perfume factories must convert their chemical equipment to the manufacture of poison gases. Let no citizen in any belligerent nation think that he will have any choice about taking part in the next war. Even if he refuses to take part in it as an active participant, he will find the enemy bringing the war to him. "No part of any belligerent’s territory will avoid, or is likely to avoid, feeling the effects of war, that is to say, the direct force of the enemy’s arms," says Lieuten-ant-General Von Metzsch of Germany. 0 “'T'HE range of modern arms A already exceeds the territories of many European states and moreover is continually increasing.” There will be no distinctions between civilians and military men when the next war breaks out. Those civilians whose training makes them of special value in the immediate fighting force will go into it. This will include commercial airplane pilots and other men whose peace-time duties make them useful on the battle front in airplanes, tanks, motored vehicles of various sorts, or immediately behind the lines as mechanics, repair men or members of the service of supply. Others will take their place in munitions factories and the like. For the task today is not only to supply ammunition, but to replace fighting machines. This, as General Requin points out, is anew phase of warfare, which was ushered in by the last war. "Formerly a w r hole campaign was carried out with the same
an excellent voice and his supporting members give well-drawn interpretations of the different numbers. In one Instance they have combined three songs. “Just an Echo,” “By the Waters of Minnetonka” and “The Last Roundup” in a pleasing operetta type of piece. Harman Hyde rivals Joe Cook with a host of musical instruments which he plays normally for a
the musical and dancing world at the present writing. This film is a story about a conceited chap who imag in es he will become one of the worlds greatest dancers along demonstration cabaret. night club, and ballroom lines. He changes female dancing part-
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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cannons, merely replacing losses,” he says. “Nowadays all artillery material is renewed in the course of a W’ar, sometimes of a single battle, when it lasts several months like the battle of Verdun. “It is not only destroyed cannon w'hich have to be replaced, but cannon worn out by the shells fired. We need only recall that, to meet increasing demands, the production of ‘7s’ shells in France had to be increased from 13,000 to 250,000 a day, or about twenty times as many at the end of the was as at the beginning. “Far from escaping this law, aviation material is subject to so much w r ear that military airplanes in service wall probably have to be renewed within three or four months, the monthly replacebeing 25 to 30 per cent.” 0 8 0 WAR will be waged in every possible way with all possible energy. “In total warfare,”
while and which suddenly fall apart or give off some unexpected explosion. Barr and Estes, comedy dancers, do some excellent soft shoe eccentric dancing. Their rhythm is almost perfect and their movements co-ordinate exactly until the effect is that of pupp-ts acting and dancing under the guidance of one hand. The show is enhanced by the
“In total warfare, the use of land, sea and air forces is simultaneous and combined.”
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General Requin continues, “the use of land, sea and air forces is simultaneous and combined. None of these forces can suffice by itself without the help and support of the other two. “The land army, even seconded by air forces, can only fight if it is constantly provisioned and if the life of the country is assured. And it is the naval forces which guarantee the freedom of the seas which enable the people to receive what is indispensable to their existence and to the fight which they are sustaining.” The general objective of total warfare is to “break the enemy's will to war.” “The strategic objective of a future war will not be exclusively the enemy's army, his population, or any important center either from the point of view of supplies
interpretative dancing of June Worth and the singing o? Sally Burrill. The ensemble numbers, presented by the Chester Hale girls are beautifully staged. The costumes are especially well done. The picture on view at the Lyric is “Advice to the Lovelorn,” featuring that spit-fire. Lee Tracy, in another of his fast-moving pieces in which he portrays the part of a newspaper reporter who is given the job of writing the lovelorn column of his paper as punishment for his tardiness at the time of disaster. The picture moves at a furious pace, with Tracy in one of his best characterizations. Os course, there is a girl, Sally Blane, who wants Tracy to give up his wild and uncertain life and go into the garage business with her father so that the two can get married. But circumstances alter cases and the girl just doesn’t understand poor Lee, so things go from very bad to much worse. But heroism will out and with the closing curtain comes certainty of happiness if not complete physical comfort for Tracy, who has just emerged from a battle royal with the cops. There are no dull moments in ‘‘Advice to the Lovelorn.” Now at the Lyric. 'By the Observer.) BUM Looking Over Two Movies WE are now looking over two movies—"No More Women” and "Search for Beauty.” First, we w-ill look at "No More Women,” which has the fighting services of Edmund Lowe and Vic-
tor MacLaglen. These two birds are always fighting over a skirt. This vehicle is a poorly written thing. Both are cast as deep sea divers from rival salvage boats at the start of the picture. Being on rival boats, the author finally decides to put them on the same boat so
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they may fight and argue about women during all their spare mo-
or demoralization,” says Lieuten-ant-General Von Metzsch. “It is a waste of time to discuss w’hich is the most important. They will all be attacked. The general objective will be so seriously to damage the enemy's war strength that his will to war will be broken. “In one case the destruction of an important center of supplies may be more effective than the defeat of the enemy’s army; in another the demoralization of the enemy’s army may do more to decide the w r ar than the demoralization of a thickly populated industrial area; or the dislocation of the country’s administrative system may be of greater advantage than the disorganization of his general staff and military command. The strategic aims will therefore vary according to the object of the war.” TOMORROW: Will the next world war be long or short?
ments. Here is more cheap burlesque. Starred in "Search for Beauty” are Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong and Gertrude Mitchell. Somebody got wise and decided to put both men and women with finely developed bodies in sport suits. Knowing that'matinee audiences are mixed with both men and women, the director of this one decided to go as far as possible in exposing both male and female forms. This is done in a legitimate manner as most of those revealed are athletes. These are the contest winners of the best athletes both male and female in the leading countries of the world. The grand finale with the marches and drills have been well done. Now at the Indiana. b a a Looking Over ‘Palooka’ OWDY fun can be dirt and that is the way “Joe Palooka" has been brought to the talking s~reen. Those responsible for this film permit Jimmy Durante to dish
out the dirt in a way that becomes indecent. When you take a story that can be off-c olor, all that’s needed to put it in the gutter is to put Durante into the cast. If cheap burlesque comedy ever existed, it comes in this film. It is about as cheap a thing I have seen on the scree:-
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Some of the fight shots in the ring between Stuart Ewing and William Cagney are interesting, but much cheap theater also is mixed up in these scenes. Majorie Ramoeau is cast as the mother of Joe Palooka. She brings many of those wise gestures for which she is noted. Yet her performance is not outstanding until the end of the picture. It’s at the Apollo.
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Entered as Second (’!a* Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler THERE is a fellow here in Chicago by the nam of Scott Stewart, or William Scott Stewart, as they call him in the papers, who has come along to be the great mouthpiece of the hoodlums. Tins Stewart is a man of about 44, standing about fivenine who states that he picked hunks of coal off the railroad tracks by hand for fuel for the family stove when he was a boy. More often, says he, they were not hunks which he picked, but just little grains and pebbles of coal.
He worked his way through high school as a child laborer for a neighborhood grocer, going out on the route at 7 a. m. with his order book to visit the customers. turning the order book in at the store before 9 and returning after school in the afternoon to fetch the flour and beans and such-like around to the kitchen doors. He has a red complexion, tending toward purplish His nose is curved like the prow of a Dutch skate, his lips are thick and curve up at the corners and his eyes, which are gray, are half-shut in a squinting laugh most of the time. Deep laughing wrinkles, also up-
turned. radiate from his eyes and he might lead you to believe, with his what-the-hell manner and his genial countenance, that he would never do you anything sinister. But Mr. Stewart is like certain little creatures and dramatic cirtics. If you wish to be happy, do not not get him on you. Tricks? Mr. Stewart can do more tricks with ten words of testimony or a misplaced comma in an indictment than a litter of monkeys with a ten-pound wad of chewing gum. Things are coming to such a pass around there that they may yet have to elect him judge to get him back on to the right-minded element’s side of things. He is a great nuisance. Not often does the law succeed in housing up a client of Mr. Stewart and when this does happen, the chances are about nine to one that he will go down to Springfield and sing the big judges a song about a technical abridgment of his client's sacred constitutional rights and sing the client right out again. 0 0 8 It W 7 as Drawn Illegally THEY convicted three of his clients the other day on a charge of kidnaping Jake Factor. This was their third trial this winter for kidnaping. Up in St. Paul, he had wiggled them off the hook in the Hamm case. They were then brought down to Chicago and tried for snatching Mr. Factor. The jury disagreed in that one and Mr. Stewart’s clients were rushed right back to court, and, this time were convicted. They got ninety-nine years each. Then what happened? Well, before Mr. Stewart could get around to the composition of a simple affidavit, three newspaper reporters called him up at his office from three different shops to report that the supreme court had just given a decision which apparently knocked the whole proceeding into the creek. The supreme court had ruled that the type of grand jury which indicted his clients for kidnaping Jake Factor was drawn illegally. "My God.” one of the reporters yelped at Mr. Stewart over the phone, “Why don't you plead those bums guilty of walking on the grass in Lincoln park or take the show out on the road? This is getting tiresome. "My dear friend,” Mr. Stewart said, with a very roguish smile, "the ends of justice must be served, better that a thousand guilty should escape the penalty of the law than that one innocent, homeloving boy of the type of Roger Touhy should be wrongfully convicted and marked with the indelible brand of the felon. My friend ” The journalist now called Mr. Stewart a playful name and slammed up on him. "How can a lawyer conscientiously go into court and argue that a man is not guilty when the man has confessed his guilt to him?” Mr. Stewart said. "Well, the law says he must be proved guilty. The prosecution doesn’t concede the defendant anything. Why should the prosecution need any favors then? And, maybe the defendant isn’t really guilty of anything after all. 0 0 8 They Always Lose “SUPPOSE he say, ‘I am guilty as all hell. A man killed a man and I saw him running away and hid him in my house. That makes me accessory.’ But then you ask him, ’Who is the man who shot the man?’ He says. ‘lt’s my brother,’ If it’s his brother, he isn’t guilty of anything. The law says you can’t convict a man as accessory for helping his own brother to hide. “Hoodlums aren't all alike, but most of them aren't bright. They think they are very smart, but they wind up loser in time. The law gets them for one thing or another and their records will show you that they spend a lot of time in prison. “Take that young Basil Banghart, who testified for Touhy and the boys. A young fellow, about 35, and he has been in prison for years and he owes enough time now to keep him busy paying off as long as he can hope to live. That isn't smart. A smart one wouldn’t go in for stickups and all such muscle-work. The smart one is the con-man. All the muscles and punks look up to the con-man and hope to get into the con some day. “But they steal a little money and start waving it around like children, advertising. "Trouble with the law,” Mr. Stewart said, “is that the law always wants the difference. The law slaps you into some police station and hides you away and kicks you around a room contrary to law. Then the law runs some unimportant witness out of town and squawks to the papers that you have reached a key witness. “Don’t I know what the law does? Wasn’t I prosecutor myself? That's the way to train for criminal law—prosecuting. Then you know what to expect from the prosecution.” (Copvrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
VALUE of water, used internally and externally, in hygiene and in the care of disease, has been established by thousands of years of experimentation and practice. Externally, you use water principally to affect the temperature of your body. Hot water causes dilatation of the superficial blood vessels. It has a relaxing effect. If the heat is intense and long continued, all the functions of the skin are stimulated and there is profuse sweating. The chief standby in the treatment of rheumatic conditions at home is the hot water bath. In taking a hot water bath, it is best to begin with the temperature around 98 c egrees and then to increase it to not higher than 115 degrees, Fahrenheit. A cold bath is of value in conducting heat away from the body. It is used particularly to lower temperature in fevers and in general as a tonic for nervous persons. a a a THE chief value of a tonic bath for the ordinary man is a stimulating effect that can be developed early in the morning by a quick shower or plunge. The quickness of the bath is important to get the stimulating effect. Sudden changes in temperature produce sudden contractions of the blood vessels, with a subsequent reaction. You can determine for yourself how much of a bath and how much of a reaction you want. After a quick bath in the morning, particularly a cold shower, you should rub yourself with a fairly rough towel. Some authorities, out that nobody should take a cold bath lit N morning unless he enjoys it.
Your Health EY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
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