Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1934 — Page 21

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It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun Miami. March 9—Dear Managing Editor: Do you think you could use a permanent correspondent down here? I could furnish you with spot items, gossip, society news and fishing notes. This query was not based wholly on my own inclination. Many persons in New York are near and dear to me, even though they fail to send me picture post cards. But the financial situation is getting to be a little strained. I wonder whether the Pullman company or the railroads take I O U's from passengers who are New York bound. Please look

into vour late sporting final edition today, and if Garlic fails to win the seventh race please wire me to come home at once. Also wire me the money with which to come home. ana Issues Sharply Drawn YOU might use a code word which expedites identification. I suggest “sucker.” I hope you can see your way clear to wire this money if Garlic doesn't win. It seems to me that I am a better columnist in New York than in Miami. For instance, if I were home I could bat out eight, hundred words in

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a twinkling about the derision of the supreme court in the New York milk case. It was buried down at the bottom of a column deep inside here, because a prominent New Jersey realtor caught a five hundred-pound sailfish after a battle lasting several hours. There was a picture of the fish and of the man. But the supreme court decision really was more important than “Huge Monster of Deep Yields After Long Count.” It is probably just as vital to the new deal as was the Minnesota mortgage case. Under pressure the court is constrained to say that human rights are of greater moment than property rights. But this attitude was affirmed only by a vote of 5 to 4, which is much too close for comfort. I do not think the issue between conservatism and liberalism ever has been drawn more closely than it is right now in the confabulations of our court of final judgment.

Appointment System Dangerous AND it serms to me that danger lies in the provision that supreme court justices shall serve for life or at least through good behavior. We have men on the court who definitely and unswer\ ingly represent a political and economic point of view that has been repudiated by a vast majority of voters. The hand of Harding, the hand of Coolidge and even the hand of Hoover have not been wholly written out of the picture. It seems to me an utterly ridiculous situation in which a very small group of r drrly gentlemen left over from some discredited administration can have a vital say in the matter of acting as traffic cops to slow up or speed the blutAeagle. of the supreme court already are middleaged* or more when they are trapped. Their honesty i. 1 : admitted. I am speaking only as one who thinks '‘hat a judge should be a person capable of keeping up with current trends. He ought to know how to change his mind. He ought to be hail fellow well met. In other words, he should be familiar with life around him. But our curious custom is to take an old gentleman, wall him up in a pyramid and then assume he will understand completely and precisely what the nature of each new emergency is. a a tt Should Follow Lame Duck Precedent WE lean against the tomb and shout to the old men down in the cellar and ask them what they think of affairs which are being carried on in the great open and sunlit spaces outside. And if a majority of the interned ancients shouts up from the well that our way of life is all wrong we sadly shake our heads and say, "Isn t that a pity? It would be so much more simple to close the last remaining aperture in the pyramid and let the decisions of the court run for King Tut and for him exclusively. Verv rarely does a judge grow or change in any way after being appointed to the supreme bench. Charles E. Hughes is one exception, but it must be remembered that he was once let loose upon a vacation and returned to the Ark bearing with him a sprig of mignonette for remembrance. I say it is silly to repudiate utterly at the polls an economic and political system and then attempt to go happily upon your way under the guidance and counsel of men who were the very bulwarks of the repudiated rule. We have rid ourselves of lame duck congressmen. There is no reason why we should not do the same with respect to lame duck judges. I Copyright. 1934. by The Times!

Today s Science . BV DAVID DIETZ - .=

TEMPERATURES may be low and the snow may linger in many places, but the wheeling heavens proclaim the approach of spring. For one who knows the majestic procession of the constellatons the promise of warm breezes and the gentle fragrance of the apple blossoms is already in the skies. Not only in the stars, but the sun as well speaks of the approach of spring. Each day the sun rises a little earlier and sets a little later. Each day it is a little higher in the sky at noon. On March 21, at 2:28 a. m.. the sun in its journey across the bowl of the sky will reach the vernal equinox, the point where its apparent path, the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator. Three constellations in the eastern night skv herald the approach of spring. They are Leo. Virgo and Bootes. Each season of the year has its own constellations. Orion, the mighty hunter, and Taurus, the celestial bull, dominated the winter night skies. Leo, the celestial lion, low on the eastern horizon during the winter months, has not climbed to the place of eminence in the southern sky formerly held by Orion, while over the eastern horizon. Girgo and Bootes have now made their appearance. To flind Leo. look in the southern sky. rather high above the horizon, for a group of stars which resemble a sickle. The end of the handle of the sickle is formed by a very bright star. This is Regulus. The sickle forms the head of the lion. A little to the east is another bright star. This is Denebola which, with several nearby faint stars, is supposed to for the lions tail. B 8 B TO the east of Leo. low on the eastern horizon. is the constellation of Virgo, or the Virgin. On ancient star aps she is represented as a beautiful young girl with angel-like wings sprouting from her shoulders. The constellation is identified in ancient mythology with Ceres, the goddess of the harvest. It might seem strange at first that a constellation whose appearance in the sky heralds the approach of spring should be identified with the goddess of the autumnal season. The point is that this constellation, which appears in the east in spring, travels across the heavens during the summer and disappears below the western horizon in autumn. We will look near Virgo for that other herald of spring. Bootes. The name is pronounced in three syllables. 80-o-tes, all of the vowels being given the long sound. You will find Bootes equally low on the horizon, but to the northeast of Virgo. The brightest star in thia constellation is Arcturus. An easy way to find Arcturus is to continue the curve of the handle of the Big Dipper until it almost touches the horizon in the northeast, it will lead directly to Arcturus. The Gig Dipper with the faint stars near it forma a constellation known as Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. Since Bootes lies immediately behind the Great Bear, it is natural that Bootes should be known aa the ‘’bear-driver.”

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"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD" T jr ... , _ The Manuscript Kept Written by C HA r LES DICKENS Secret for 85 Years

CHAPTER THE FIFTH ONE of the Pharisees begged Our Saviour to go into his house, and eat with him. And while Our Saviour sat eating at the table, there crept into the room a woman, of that city, who had led a bad and sinful life, and was ashamed that the Son of God should see her; and yet she trusted so much to his goodness and his compassion for all, who having done wrong were truly sorry lor it in their hearts, that, by little and little, she went behind the seat on which he sat, and dropped down at his feet, and wetted them with her sorrowful tears; then she kissed them and dried them on her long hair, and rubbed them with some sweetsmelling ointment she had brought with her in a box. Her name was Mary Magdalene. When the Pharisee saw that Jesus permitted this woman to touch Him, he said within himself that Jesus did not know how wicked she had been. But Jesus Christ, who knew his thoughts, said to him, “Simon”—for that was his name—“if a man had debtors, one of whom ow'ed him five hundred pence, and one of whom owed him only fifty pence, and he forgave them both their debts, which of those two debtors do you think would love him most?” Simon answered, “I suppose that one whom he forgave most.” Jesus told him he was right, and said, “As God forgives this woman so much in sin, she will love Him. I hope, the more.” And he said to her, “God forgives you!” The company who were present wondered that Jesus Christ had power to forgive sins, but God had given it to Him. And the woman thanking Him for all his mercy, went away. We learn from this, that we must always forgive those who have done us any harm, when they come to us and say they are truly sorry for it. Even if they do not come and say so, we must still forgive them, and never hate them or be unkind to them, if we would hope that God will forgive us. nan \ FTER this, there was a great feast of the Jew's, and Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem. There was near the sheep market in that place, a pool, or pond, called Bethesda, having five gates to it; and at the time of the year when that feast took place great numbers of sick people and cripples went to this pool to bathe in it; believing that an angel came and stirred the water, and that whoever went in first after the angel had done so, was cured of any illness, he or she had, whatever it might be. Among these poor persons. was one man who had been ill thirty-eight years: and he told Jesus Christ (who took pity on him when he saw' him lying on his bed alone, with no one to help him) that he never could be dipped in the pool, because he was so weak and ill that he could not move to get there. Our Saviour said to him, “take up thy bed and

The Theatrical World Weirdness of ‘The Ninth Guest, 9 Showing at the Indiana, Has Radio and Shock That Will Lift You Out of Your Chair — BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

SOME years ago in New York, I saw a leading actress at the close of the play turn on a gas stove as she inhaled the deadly fumes. As the curtain slowly came down, smelly but harmless fumes began to fill the theater. That was the limit in "realism.” The limit in realism on the

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current causes his body to sizzle before it crashes to the floor. Safely on the other side of the gate, the hero and heroine steal away from the ghastly scene. This is the extreme in the realism of thrills and shocks on the sound screen. This is one of the highest powered death movies I ever have seen. At least seven people are killed before your very eyes. An unknown host sends mysterious messages to eight prominent men and women in New York City and invites them to a great penthouse. Each guest has something to hide from the others and several are well-known political enemies. The surprised guests suddenly hear a voice over the radio telling them that unless they outwit the voice all will be dead before midnight. Escape is impossible because all the doors and widows are charged with a death dealing current. The first one who tries to escape perishes as did the villain at the end of the story. When this mad party is over, six of the guests have been killed or have killed themselves. The voice doing all of this killing is telling his victims who will be next. The story, of course, is farfetched and terrifically unreal. It is melodrama of the most lurid school. The photography and direction are all right. The object is to shock you out of your chairs and •The Ninth Guest” did that to “• a

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go aw'ay.” And he went away quite well. Many Jews saw this; and when they saw' it, they hated Jesus Christ the more: knowing that the people, being taught and cured by him, would not believe their Priests, who told the people what was not true, and deceived them. So they said to one another that Jesus Christ should be killed, because he cured people on the Sabbath day (which was against their strict law) and because he called himself the Son of God. And they tried to raise enemies against him, and to get the crowd in the streets to murder Him. But the crowd follow'ed Him wherever he w'ent, blessing him, and praying to be taught and cured; for they knew He did nothing but Good. Jesus going with his disciples over a sea, called the Sea of Tiberas, and sitting with them on a hill-side, saw great numbers of these poor people w'aiting below', and said to the apostle Philip. “Where shall w'e buy bread, that they may eat and be refreshed, after their long journey?” Philip answered, “Lord,

Whether you like “The Ninth Guest,” now one of the features on the new double movie bill at the Indiana, depends upon how strong are your mental shock absorbers. B B B IN “The Meanest Gal in Town,” the other feature on the new double bill at the Indiana, is a weak comedy which has the services of Zasu Pitts, El Brendel, Pert Kelton, James Gleason and “Skeets” Gallagher. Brendel is harmless and not suggestive as he often nas been in the past. He is cast as a Main street barber who wants to marry Zasu,

screen has been reached in the movie version of a play, “The Ninth Guest.” As the movie comes to an end. the villain calmly turns on an electric switch which sends a deadly current to a great gate at a door. The villain ca 1m ly touches the gate and the deadly sputter of the elec tr i cal

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Jesus Walking on the Water—By Gustave Dore.

two hundred pennyworth of bread would not be enough for so many people, and w'e have none.” “We have only,” said another apostle— Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother—“five small barley loaves, ai.d two little fish, belonging to a lad who is among us. What are they, among so many?” Jesus Christ said, “Let them all sit down!” They did; there being a great deal of grass in that place. When they were all seated, Jesus took the bread and looked up to Heaven, and blessed it, and broKe it, and handed it in pieces to the apostles, who handed it to ihe people. And of those five little loaves, and two fish, five thousand men, besides w’omen and children, ate, and had enough; and w'hen they were all satisfied, there were gathered up tw'elve baskets full of what was left. This was another of the Miracles of Jesus Christ. nun OUR Saviour then sent his disciples away in a boat, across the w'ater, and said He would follow them presently, when He had dismissed the people. The

who runs a small town department store. He will not marry Zasu until he gets a second chair in his barber shop and there are many difficulties when she buys him the second chair. A smart Broadway manicurist arrives on the scene and makes a petting parlor out of Brendel's barber shop. This man never has been funny to me and probably never will be. That states my position clearly. The director apparently has prevented Miss Pitts from using her hands in the nervous way for which she is noted. Just why the

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people being gone, He remained by Himself to pray; so that the night came on, and the disciples were still rowing on the water in their boat, wondering when Christ would come. Late in the night, when the wind was against them and the waves were running high, they saw Him coming walking towards them on the water, as if it were dry land. When they saw this, they were terrified, and cried out, but Jesus said, “It is I, be not afraid!” Peter, taking courage, said, “Lord, if it be thou, tell me to come to thee upon the water.” Jesus Christ said, “Come!” Peter then walked towards Him, but seeing the angry wavps and hearing the wind roar, he was frightened and began to sink, and would have done so, but that Jesus took him by the hand, and led him into the boat. Then, in a moment, the wind went down; and the disciples said to one another, “It is true! He is the Son of God!” Jesus did many more miracles after this happened and cured the sick in great numbers; making the lame walk, and the dumb speak, and the blind see. And being again surrounded by a great

director made this change is beyond me because Zasu is not at home unless she is “talking” with her hands. Near the end of the story, the movie becomes melodramatic for no reason. To my way of thinking this is a mighty weak comedy from a story standpoint. b n n Quartet Announces Program THE Musical Art string quartet will play three quartets for its program Monday at 8:15 at Caleb

MUSIC SCHOOL TO DEDICATE ORGAN Jordan Conservatory Sets Special Program. Dedication services for the new pipe organ recently installed by the Arthur Jordan Concervatory of Music will be held next Tuesday night at 8:15 in the Odeon, 106 East North street. Installation of the new instrument was completed a few weeks ago by the Kilgen Organ Company of St. Louis. Donald C. Gilley, head of the conservatory organ department, will play and a special cantata will be sung by the conservatory choir un- | der the direction of Max T. Krone, j Numbers for the dedication program have been selected from the works ; of John Sebastian Bach. Soloists for the cantata will be Donald Ratcliff, tenor; Virgil Phemister, bass, and Elizabeth Knollenberg, soprano. The complete dedication program is as follows: i Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor . Bach j Chorale preludes from the "Orgelbuechlein” .... Bach j Toccata in F major Bach II Cantata—“ Christ Lay in Death's Dark j Chamber” Bach PROFESSOR TO TALK ON MOTION PICTURES E. L. Yeager Will Appear Before University Women. ‘ Motion Pictures and the Community” will be the subject of a talk Tuesday night by Professor E. L. Yeager of the Indiana university’s psychology department, before the Indianapolis branch of the American Association of University Womer^

crowd who were faint and hungry, and had been with him three days eating little, he took from his disciples seven loaves and a few fish, and again divided them among the people who were fourthousand in number. They all ate, and had enough; and of what was left, there were gathered up seven baskets full. He now divided the disciples, and sent them into many towns and villages, teaching the people, and giving them power to cure, in the name of God, all those who were ill. And at this time He began to tell them (for he knew what would happen) that he must one day go back to Jerusalem where he would suffer a great deal, and where he would certainly be put to Death. But he said to them that on the third day after he was dead, he would rise from the grave, and ascend to Heaven, where he would sit at the right hand of God, beseeching God’s pardon to sinners. (Continued tomorrow) (Copyright for North and South America, i934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.; all rights reserved.)

Mills hall in the third of the Civic Music Association concerts. The program follows: “Quartet in D major, Opus 64, No. 5“ Haydn Allegro moderato Adagio cantabile Menuetto: Allegretto Finale: Vivace “Quartet in C minor. Opus 51, No. 1” Brahms Allegro Romanze; Poco Adagio Allegretto molto moderato e comodo Finale: Allegro “Quartet in F” Ravel Allegro moderato. Tres doux Assez vis; Tres rhythme Tres lent Vis et agite Guest cards good for single admission for nonmembers of the association will be on sale at Caleb Mills hall the night of the concert. an a Concert to Be Given Tonight 'T'ONIGHT at 8:30 at the John Herron Art institute, Jane Johnson Burroughs, soprano, will be heard in recital. Walter Whitworth will be the accompanist. The program is as follows: “With Verdure Clad”—“Creation”... „ Haydn O Mv Dear Heart” Van Denman Thompson “Christ Went Up Into the Hills” Hageman “Bois Epais” Lully “L'Heure Exquise” Hahn “Sais-Tu?” Fontenailles “Mon Desir” .• Nevin “Endymion”—Vocal E'-ena” Longfeliow-Lehman ' Zueignung” Strauss “Du bist wie einie Blume” _ , Alice Menniger Stempel “Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet” _ Alice Menniger Stempel *Die Lotusblume” Schumann “Verborgenheit” Wolf I “The Salutation of the Dawn” I Mary Turner Salter Silver" C. Armstrong Gibbs i "Joy” Charles Wakefield Cabman “Reverv” a. Arensky | “Winds” Marguerite Lawrence Test B B B In City Theaters Today RATHER theaters today offer: j Nana Sten makes her local debut in “Nana,” at Loew's Palace; “Broadway Revels” on the stage and “Ever Since Eve,” on the screen at the Lyric; Will Rogers in his second week in “David Harum” at the Apollo; Kay Francis in "Mandalay” at the Circle, and burlesque at the Mutual and Rialto. Runaway Boys Seized Here Three runaway youths were seized by railroad detectives in the Baltimore & Ohio railriad yards late yesterday and taken to the Marion county juvenilt detention home. They are William Jackson, 17, Nashville, Tenn., and Robert Vestie, 14, and Leo Larrance, 15, both of Alexandria.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler THE employment section of the NRA meetings Is being held in the auditorium of the department of commerce building. The department of commerce building is a magnificent block of stone and bronze gates which was built by Mr. Hoover in a time of great optimism. Its corridors would be suitable for indoor-distance running if the turns were banked, and the office-numbers run up into four figures. The lobby is big enough for a hockey rink and the auditorium which occupies a comparatively small space off the lobby

is a rectangular room as graceful as a crate with seats for about 2,500. paneled with wood half-way up. Until the days of the NRA the commerce building had a rather stately and luxurious atmosphere, but nowadays the walls of the corridors are smudged and there is great traffic to and fro. People drop cigaret butts on the floors and stamp them out as they do in county courthouses and the press section kicks out pounds of mimpographed bulletins and statements. are placed in neat stacks on a big oak table in the press room for the convenience of the

journalists, although it seems impossible for any one man to read and understand all of this matter and get any work done in the course of a day. It would be very depressing to Mr. Hoover to walk through his beautiful commerce building nowadays and notice the change. The auditorium has a big, square stage with an art-map of the world painted on the three walls above the wood paneling. There is a row of expensive, blue-leather conference chairs along the walls and in the middle of the stage are two tables with microphones on them. Robert W. Lea. the deputy administrator, sits at one of the tables and runs the meeting which is attended by a full house. Smoking is permitted so the atmosphere is stuffy and some of the business men seem drowsy ac they sit and listen to a continuous tale of woe. a a a Some Wisecracks , Too ONE brisk young man hops up on the stage, stretches out his neck toward the microphone and explains that it is just impossible to guarantee any wages at all to the kind of sales-peopie who peddle goods in the house-to-house line because so many of these people work only in their spare time and so many of them also handle half-a-dozen kinds of merchandise. Yet, other firms employing outside salesmen who make a regular business of selling and handling only one line, are asked to guarantee their men a minimum wage. So you have one of those jams right there. If you compel our bustling young friend on the platform to pay his part-time sales Deople a minimum wage you will put his kind of business house out of business and that, he adds, with a snort and a glare out over the crowd, is precisely what the big retail dry-goods people want to do! “What kind of merchandise is he interested in?” “I am,” he explains. “Ralph E. James of the corset and brassiere code authority,” and a snicker runs over the attendance, interspersed with whispered exclamations of “O, Boy!” and “No wonder they work for nothing.” Then another one gets up and hollers murder because the government wants the construction business to raise wages and reduce the hours at the same time that the government is carrying on construction work at short wages and inferior pay. nan They Can't Pay Anything THEN a dark gloomy business man takes a yank at his necktie and orates into the microphone that the sand, gravel and slag business can’t raise anybody's pay now because they depend on the construction business which is virtually out of business. Why, they can't even go on paying their present fixed scale. Because, he says, they are paying these present fixed wages out of their rapidly depleting capital. Everything sounds very discouraging and a party feels like chucking the whole business and wrapping up a bunch of sandwiches and just going off fishing somewhere to get away from it all, when a cynical young man at the press table grinds his cigaret out on Mr. Hoover’s expensive hardwood floor and says, “throw that poor employer out, he is busting my heart.” The employers sitting around are not the coun-try-club type of American business men, but the baggy-suit kind, with scrubby mustaches and neckwattles and pouches under their eyes. They have more the small town, Lion’s Club appearance than the well-pressed, whisky-and-soda outwards of the high-power executive. Well, there was one little bunch of the prosperous, close-barbered kind sitting together amid the jumble of worrying business men, looking very expensive and confident, aid they were pointed out as the textile people, the kind who work the child labor. But they keep on grinding along, hour after hour, knowing, of course, that the best business man is the one who makes the most money out of the people who work for him and asking themselves not to ; make so much money so that the people who do this work will have more money to spend for the stuff they have to sell. It is like asking a man in a fight not to hit too hard and the result is a feeling of puzzlement and doubt. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

npHE tobacco you smoi e may not affect your health in the least, >ut before it reaches you the same tobacco must go through a long series of purifications, not only for your benefit, but for the benefit of those men and women who work in this ndustry. The modern manufacturer in the tobacco industry protects the worker by a number of simple procedures. In the first place proper exhaust devices withdraw' the poisonous dusts from the air. Employes are instructed to wash their hands before and after handling the tobacco, so as not to carry around the dusts upon their fingers. In many plants the employes wear clean smocks or gowns each day while at work. With such oversight ever the health of the employe, it is possible in mosc instances to prevent any permanent damage to health. B B B MILD tobacco contains about 1 to 2 per cent of nicotine, and strong tobacco from 6 to 10 per cent. Workers in the tobacco industry, therefore, are exposed constantly to the danger of contact with this substance. The persons who raise tobacco do not suffer from nicotine poisoning, because the nicotine is liberated from the tobacco only by fermentation. The people who sort the tobacco leaves may inhale the dust, and during the fermentation tomacco they breathe injurious fumes. The skin and the mucous membrances of the body, when in contact with wet tobacco, develop an irritation. Although workers in connection with dusts from lime and sand may develop irritations of the lung, and although workers in coal develop black conditions of the lungs, there is no evidence that workers with tobacco suffer any more from tuberculosis and other diseases of the lungs than do worokers in any other trade. a a a THOSE who contract poisoning from tobacco may develop a sudden form of intoxicaton with nervous symptoms, pains in the heart, disturbances of the bowels and congestion in the brain. Sometimes they have an irritation on the back of the hands. Sometimes the fingernails come off and #ie edges of the nails become very thin. t i

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