Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1934 — Page 15

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun MIAMI, March IS.—Dear Managing Editor: This js entirelv conflden'ial and does not apply to the svndirate clients of this column, if any. But may J ask you .something ‘iff the record about your paper? You see, Ido not get the original down here for two or three days. and. if you don't mind my saving so, the layout looked a little peculiar. Your columnist was just a shade embarrassed. All over |hc center of the page was “The Life of Our Lord.” by Charles Dickens. “Published

now after eighty-five years,” and on either side was ‘Fair Enough” and “It Seems to Me.” Peg wa.s writing about saloons in Chicago and I was lamenting the fact that I could not win a net on a horse called Garlic. I'm all for contrast and balance, and it may be that you are trying to preserve the Goigothian tradition of a sinner on either side. And yet I feel that Dickens or Peg, or myself is not quite in step. Will you please speak to Peg or Dickens about it? I am more than ready to turn evangelical any minute.

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Asa playboy lam only a pretender. v a a find Weather IS nl Partial lOCUSTB and wild honey are rrry natural diet J and I have absorbed many moral lessons here tr the free city of Miami. For syndicate purposes ► ill you please begin with “I am morp than ready, ctr ?” One very simple thing has reaffirmed my belief in internationalism. Certain visitors from j* r York, Brooklyn and Flatbush have taken a keen delight in the reports from the north about, blizzards pnd hleak weather. The newsstand is thronged by citizens of the greater city dashing ofT postcards to snowbound friends and relations with the slogan “X marks ir.v bathing suit.” Asa person co-operatively minded I have taken no delight in stories of storms back home. In spirit, pt. I have shivered with all m.v friends and neighbors along Sixty-seventh street. And this has nothing to do with any peculiar sensitivity or group feelmg. It merely happens that I have observed the Undoubted fact that when it is damn cold anywhere Upon the globe the other spots are not so hot. A blizzard in New York meant mean and bleak U rather in Miami. We are again sleeping under blankets. This is a world made pretty much in one piece. It is a mistake to try to find pigeonhole prosperity or even pigeonhole temperature. Just so long as an ear is frozen I am not warm. But when the almost perfect state swims up above the horizon I am going to ask the commissars of the new day to listen to the plea, which I should like to make for the preservation of the long shot. jt a a pioneer Opportunities done I THINK that Americans never can be wholly content without some system under which a winper may suddenly surge ahead out of nowhere. I hoi>e that this belief is not based on the fact that I had Manual, who paid $69.30 to win the third race. I think the issue cuts much deeper. The pioneer was animated bv the fact that fur trapper became a king of real estate and a retired sea captain a merchant prince. Indeed, every little boy is told that one day he may be President. But in all fairness the teacher should quote the proper odds, which are at least twelve million, eight for place end three to show. I saw in Mark Sullivan's Washington report the other dav a long bleat about th p resignation of industry under the new deal and the right of every man to choose his own craft and prosper in it without outside interference. But it seems to me that the long-shot potentialities of America already have been deflated. I believe I can go any day into Mulberry street and pick up an infant an declare: “This child is not going to be at any time the President of the United States.” Once upon a time men who possessed nothing but audacity and unscrupulousness set out to lay steel rails across the prairies, and did not hurt themselves financially in the doing. But now stratification has begun. If you start dirt poor you have Hn excellent chance of finishing in the same way. The pioneers have become established and highly conservative influences. The game is done. Free land and easy opportunity are gone. ana Individualism and Percentage OX God's footstool there is no longer room to stake a claim. But I say that even in the most Utopian community some chance must be given to man's primitive and wholly natural desire to back a 100-to-l shot. I am not veering over to the gospel of rugged individualism, because it seems to me that this system attempts to palm off a slim million to one chance as a reasonable, fighting chance for every characterful person. I would have much more tolerance for individualism if the percentage had not been set so high against the individual. Once upon a time. I remember. I was interrupted in the middle of a Socialistic * speech by a spectator who said: “But I want to live in a worid where I can choose my own job. I don't want to be legimented under anv Soviet system." “What iob do you crave?'' I asked the disciple of individualism. T want to be a newspaper reporter,” he said. “Try to cet a .iob.” I told him. We live in a world in which a man may do anything he pleases. But if that thing is not shoveling pnow he has an excellent job of starving to death. And ihpre will be far more individualism under cooperation than we ever knew before. I believe with all my heart in the long-shot world. But look over any list of those who sit in the high seats and see, if I am not correct in my complaint that I am a little sick of seeing a short-priced favorite always bound down in front. iCopvneht. 1934. bv The Times'

Your Health L BY DR. MORRIS KISHBEIN— . ■f OOK out for measles at this time of year. J.-> Late winter and early spring is the season for the disease, so it requires special attention by parents and city health officials. Recently, it has been rather well established that measles can be prevented, when cases occur in schools or in families, by injecting the remaining children, who have been exposed, with the serum or fluid matter taken from the blood of those who have recovered from the disease. The best time to take this serum is from seven to nine days after the temperature of the sick child has become normal. B B B ONE of the latest pieces of research in modern medical science is an attempt to develop a dried serum which will have the necessary powers for preventing measles, and which can be kept easily available for use. It seems likely that such a product will become available in the near future. There were, in the past, very few persons who grew up without having measles. Apparently only about I to 2 per cent of us seem to be naturally resistant to the disease. Infection rarely occurs among infants, because they have some natural resistance which they get from their mothers. However, as the child grows older that resistance disappears. * a a RARELY, indeed, can you have the measles twice. because once you have recovered from the disease. you seem to have in your body a great deal U&£ jtttAUaci

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"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD"

CHAPTER THE NINTH THE fpast of the Passover being now almost come, Jesus said to two of his disciples, Peter and John. “Go into the city of Jerusalem, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him home, and say to him, “the Master says where is the guest-chamber, where he can eat the Passover with his Disciples? And he will show’ you a large upper room, furnished. There, make ready the supper.” The two disciples found that it happened as Jesus had said: and having met the man with the pitcher of Water, and having followed him home, and having been shewn the room, they prepared the supper, and Jesus and the other ten apostles came at the usual time, and they all sat down to partake of it together. It is always called The Last Supper, because this was the last time that Our Saviour ate and drank with his Disciples. And he took bread from the table, and dispensed it, and broke it, and gave it to them; and he took the cup of Wine, and blessed it, and drank, and gave it to them, saying “Do this in remembrance of Me!” And when they had finished supper, and had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

There, Jesus told them that he w’ould be seized that night, and that they would all leave him alone, and would think only of their own safety. Peter said, earnestly, he never would, for one. ‘ Before the cock crows,” returned Our Saviour, “you will deny me thrice.” But Peter answered “No Lord. Though I should die with Thee, I wall never deny Thee.” And all the other Disciples said the same. Jesus then led the way over a brook, called Cedron, into a garden that was called Gethsemane; and walked with three of the disciples int-o a retired part of the garden. Then he left them as he had left the others, together: saying, “Wait here, and watch!” —and went away and prayed by Himself, while they, being weary, fell asleep. ana \ ND Christ suffered great sorrow and distress of mind, in his prayers in that garden, because of the wickedness of the men of Jerusalem who were going to kill Him; and He shed tears before God. and was in deep and strong affliction. When His prayers were finished, and He was comforted, He returned to the Disciples, and said “Rise! Let us be going! He is close at hand, who will betray me!” Now, Judas knew that garden well, for our Saviour had often walked there, with his Disciples; and. almost at the moment when Our Saviour said these words, he came there, accompanied by a

The Theatrical World—--4 Death Takes a Holiday ’ to Be One of 1934’s Best BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

A MOVIE that is a compliment to the film industry is "Death Takes a Holiday” with Fredic March in the feature role. As things stand now, the honors among filmland's males for the outstanding performance of the year rests between Mr. March in this picture and Will Rogers in

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ings fear him. To accomplish purpose, he takes on human form and makes himself an unvited truest at a week-end party being given in the great villa presided over by Sir Guy Standing. Death demands that his hast keep his identity secret, promising he will not harm any member of the group and even declares a threeday vacation for death the world over. During that brief period, a vessel sinks at sea and all aboard are saved. Even the flowers do not die. Death did not understand what love was in his kingdom, but on earth he longs for a beautiful girl, played with splendid sympathy and understanding by Evelyn Venable. He weaves his spell so successfully around this lovely girl that she wants to accompany Death back to his grim kingdom when his time is up. The struggle of her parents, lover and friends to persuade her not to go with Death makes one of the most dramatic and tragic

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“David Harum.” Seldom has the photography in a movie reached the dizzy heights of beautiful accomplishments as in “Death Takes a Holiday.” On the stage, it was a dignified and a brilliant discuscuslon of a unique theme. Death decides to come to earth for three days and nights to find out why human be-

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strong guard of men and officers, which had been sent by the chief Priests and Pharisees. It being dark, they carried lanterns and torches. They were armed with' sw’ords and staves too: for they did not know but that the people would rise and defend Jesus Christ; and this had made them afraid to seize Him boldly in the day. when he sat teaching the people. As the leaders of this guard had never seen Jesus Christ and did not know him from the apostles, Judas had said to them, “The man whom I kiss, will be he.” As he advanced to give this wicked kiss. Jesus said to the soldiers “whom do you seek?” —“Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “Then,” said Our Saviour, “I am He. Let my disciples here, go freely. I am He.” Which Judas confirmed, by saying “Hail Master!” and kissing him. Whereupon Jesus said, “Judas, Thou betrayest me w’ith a kiss!” The guards then ran forward to seize Him. No one offered to protect Him, except Peter, who, having a sword, drew it. and cut off the right ear of the High Priest’s servant, who was one of them, and whose name was Malchus. But Jesus made him sheath his sword. and gave himself up. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled; and there remained not one—not one—to bear Him company. (Continued tomorrow) (Copyright for North and South America. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.; all rights reserved.i

scenes ever witnessed on the talking screen. Weird effects Death takes on his right makeup have been accomplished by the photographer and cameramen. The tremendous acting of Mr. March, Miss Venable, and Sir Guy Standing is simply spellbinding. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks of All Souls Unitarian church after seeing a preview of the picture said from his pulpit that it was a revelation to him. The Rev. L. C. E. Fackler of St. Matthew Lutheran church, after seeing the movie, wrote the writer that such pictures deserve support. Here's a tip. “Death Takes a Holiday” will be on my list of the ten best for 1934. It will open tomorrow at the Circle. u tt n Authority to Speak T>AUL ROMAINE will be the principal speaker at the John Reed memorial meeting to be held tomorrow' night at the John Reed Club hall. 316 Columbia Securities building. He will trace the literary works of John Reed against the background of a most interesting life, and describe his influence on American writers. Asa publisher and a student of the theater. Mr. Romaine has had a wide variety of contacts in the world of books and the drama. At the age of 19 his interest and experience in the theater drew' him to Europe where he traveled and studied under such men as Pitoeff. Gordon, Craig and Max ReinhardtFresh from his training in the French. German and Italian theaters, he returned to New York where he was told that he was ‘‘too young” for directing in the commercial theater. After working at a number of makeshift jobs, he finally got back into theatrical work. When the Chicago Producing Corporation was forced to close, Romaine opened a bookshop in Milwaukee, w'hich became very successful, and later went into publishing the works of promising young writers. About two years ago he organized the Milwaukee John Reed Club with Michael Gold and a few others and has devoted a great deal of time to it ever since. The meeting will be held at 8 . o'clock, and will be open to tne public. n n ts On View in Local Theaters INDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: “Nana.'’ at Loew's Palace. “David Harum.” at the Apollo; “The Meanest Gal in Town” and “The Ninth Guest.” at the Indiana: “Mandalay.” at the Circle; “Broadway Revels” on the stage and “Ever Since Eve” on the screen, at the Lyric; Buddy Kane at the Rialto and burlesque at the Mutual. Ford Raises Canadian Pay By l nitrd Pret* WINDSOR. Ont., March 13.—Following the decision of the Ford Motor Company in the Unitd! States to raise wages, the Ford Mo- j tor Company of Canada. Ltd., has announced restoration of the $5 a day minimum wage throughout

FLOOD RECEDES: QM*O FERRIES RUN AGAIN Rapid FaH in River’s SBss Foot Stage predicted. Bt / Untied. Prets EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 15. Ferry service over the Ohio river was expected to be resumed today as the river receded from flood stage reached earlier this week. Thousands of acres of low farmland have been flooded, but weather bureau officials predicts a rapid fall in the river from the 38.5 foot stage reached yesterday. MODEL HOUSE WORK GETS UNDER WAY City Builders Co-Operate in Exposition Feature. Construction of the model house at the thirteenth annual Home Complete Exposition will begin at 2 today. Complete co-operation of all members of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association with other organizations sponsoring the exhibition was pledged last night at a meeting of the association at the Washington. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan has been invited to take part in the ceremony today when construction of the model house is started. The home show will open April 6 ’in the Manufacturers building at the state fairground.

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y Ccvpvfcil Gapers 1 Service With a Smile Guest at Obliging German Official's Party Asks for Sherry but Gets Cherry—on a Spoon. BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. March 15.—Foreign embassies and legations show no effect of suffering from lack of popularity, despite the new freedom which Americans have acquired with abolition of the Volstead act. Nevertheless, amusing mishaps about liquor continue to occur. Captain Robert Witthoeft, Germany’s bald-headed naval attache, gave a party at the Mayflower hotel—a vast and glamorous party at which everything was served and “everybody” was present.

The Herr Kaptain proved a perfect host. He bowed—Prussian fashion—over the ladies’ fingers; helped to serve chocolate meringues; ordered' music and wine for all; clinked importantly about the loaded buffet table, barking orders in his best German. It happened that one lady— Mme. Jean Dellatre-Seguy wished a glass of light wine. Not finding it immediately, she asked her escort: “Do you think you could find me a glass of sherry?” A head waiter overheard and promptly exclaimed: “I shall at once get it for Madame.” He presently returned, to Mme. Dellatre-Seguy’s great astonishment, proffering a marischino cherry in a teaspoon, like a doctor. “Here, Madame, is the cherry—if Madame will be good enough to open her mouth.” After she had swallowed the cherry, the waiter placed a bottle of cherries conveniently at hand and added:

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“If Madame wishes more she has but to ask.” Guests agreed that Captain Witthoeft had perfect service. tt tt a TWO diplomats are being congratulated on their promotion. Senor Eduardo Vivot, crack pistol shot of Buenos Aires, has been made first secretary of the Argentine embassy and Don Ruy Barbosa, who once broke the bank of the Rio Casino, has been made first secretary of the Brazilian embassy. Both Ruy and Rubio fas Vivot is known to friends) have long been career men. Ruy served in Buenos Aires, Paris, London and other capitals. Rubio is internationally Known as a sportsman and diplomat. A recent motor accident has not injured his right hand, with which he mixes excellent Martini cocktails and shoots match boxes off a dummy’s nose at fifty paces. COLONEL CHARLES LINDBERGH has apparently become used to cold weather as a result of his sub-Arctic flights. During the cold wave here, the young aviator blithely dashed about town without hat or overcoat. He wore a light gray suit, soft white shirt and blue polka-dotted tie as he greeted Secretary of War Dem. He had just come in out of the snow storm and nonchalantly brushed the dry flakes from his sleeve. “Good Lord! Won’t you catch cold?” said fatherly Mr. Dern. surveying him with some alarm. “Oh, no!” replied Lindbergh, smiling. Among those on hand to greet the Lindberghs was the attractive Helen Woodring, wife of the assistant war secretary. She’s always on hand to welcome arriving aviators and adds to the picture. Previously, she has shaken hands with the two Polish ballonists, the fliers from Havana and several other celebrities. CHINESE PIRATES LOOT NORWEGIAN STEAMER Bandits Silence Ship’s Wireless: Escape With Hostages. By r 'nitcd Prn SHANGHAI. March 15—Chinese pirates looted the Norwegian steamer Norviken, after silencing its wireless by throwing the equipment overboard? it was learned today. The Norviken was en route from its home port here to Swatow, when the ingenious pirates, disguised as passengers until the time came for their pillage, took possession of the boat. After overpowering the crew and pitching the radio equipment into the sea, the twenty-two despera l)es in the pirate eband steereed the steamer to Chilang Point, where they put their loot ashore, took ten Chinese passengers as hostages Efid. Returned the boat |o the crew*

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Fair Enough By / Westbrook Pegler NEW YORK, March 15.—1 do not tike crusader* because crusaders are awful bigots, even in the cause of liberality, but I feel a strong rooting interest in the work, of Clarence Chamberlin as a member pf the board which is going to investigate the army’s adventures with the air mail. I assume that as soon ps he finds himself speaking for an official government record. Mr. Chamberlin will pop off very frankly with his charge that certain aerial passenger lines

do not buy the safest ships that are to be had in the open market because they find themselves balled up with plane manufacturing subsidiaries which turn out and sell them inferior ships. If this is so, Chamberlin should be able to prove it in open meeting and if he does that, there will be much indignation you may be sure. He may be able to show, also, that the army's trouble with the air mails was due, in some degree, to the starvation of the army air corps at the time when private companies, which now preen themselves on their superior efficiency, were developing their efficiency on government

money. Mr. Chamberlin said it was no great wonder that the army had trouble flying the mails in the w’orst winter in many years because the military fliers ha (e been restricted to a few hours’ flying pay and fuel each month under the economies imposed during Mr. Hoover's presidency and. naturally, preferred to put in that little time in friendly weather. u a 9 A Lot of Gall THEN, he said, even with their subsidies from the government, some passenger lines bought their equipment exclusively or almost exclusively from builders whom they controlled, or vice versa, at prices which enabled the builders to pay dividends even though they might have bought, safer ships from independent manufacturers. If that is so. and Clarence Chamberlin can prove it in Washington, naming names as frankly as he named them to me, the citizens will conclude that some of these pas-senger-carriers had a lot of gali to lure the passengers into their ships. Asa flier of long experience. Chamberlin told me ne w?#; scared stiff one day on a flight, as passenger in a ship operated by one of the busiest lines in the country because he knew it would have to flop dow’n if either engine failed on the takeoff, whereas any bimotored plane operating in the passenger service ought to be able to rise and fly on one engine. Then, speaking of another big carrier, which goes in for ornamental uniforms and deep upholstery in the cabins, he said he wouldn’t get off the ground in one of theirs, much less fly their it'hole route unless ™ ip s , uch a desperate hurry to get somewhere that he had to take a dangerous chance. Mr. Chamberlin is a flier who has not been heard Os much because he speaks only when he has something to say, and it strikes me that he wouldn’t nave said these things aboit companies u’hich are carrying great numbers of passengers if ne hadn’t felt, as an expert, that they were taking an unfair and cold-blooded advantage of their passengers But oH Sa T d + £ aS ? en !. ers were being used for guinea pigs, and I think the passengers should be allowed to read m the papers the names of those lines W’hich he accuses of treating them so. * x Takes a Chance? r T HEY may do this, however, only if Chamberlin * puts + h ,! S rharges and the information on which he bases them into some official record which mav of libef PnntPd fre6ly m thC papers Wlthout any risk lih Pr Q r j aps a PUbhsher ought to take the chance of libel and print Chamberlin's story anyway, as a public service but if you did that some aviation company might haul off and sue and come around and grab your typewriters, your delivery wagons and nnfninn 1 d ii ng i ° n the ground that 7°u had printed an tions° n WhlCh you couldn ’t P r( >ve under legal condi- .. P! , ™ ay noticed that papers do not crusade as light-heartedly as they used to, but like to get some congressional body to do it for them. No pappr r^°o and h9Ve pUt A1 Wiggin on the witness stand ' PeC °u a dld l l }. Washington, for instance, and e cn though a publisher had known all that, Mr Pecora proved, he would have taken a long chance puwfc n record he Story before 11 a matter of . t-’hctmberlin is speaking from mistaken opinshnnlrihLP!hienf CaiTierS Whom hn has accused ' b ” udbe able to disprove what he says and vindirimfht Sa^' V ° f their ships as Prominently as he doubts it. True, if he can make his charges stand whichfhe 1? hUrt the Passenger business of the firms which he has m mind. But in that case they ought ot be run clear out of the passenger business (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Todays Science ■ by DAVID DIETZ - TANARUS“ profession of a chemist seems at first glance to be a. hazardous one—he works with poisonous gases, dangerous acids, high explosives. Yet statistics just collected by the American Chemical Society concerning its honorary members and past presidents seem to indicate that one way to insure a long life is to be a chemist. Os fifty-nine chemists elected to honorary membership in the society, forty-two died at an average age of 75.5 years. The other seventeen, still living, have an average age of 68.4. The average age of the past presidents of the society is 73. The record is held by Michel Eugene Chevreul vho died in 1839 at the age of 103. According to Dr. Hai rison Hale and Lesley Kile of the University of Akron, who made the longevity study for the society, M. Chevreul was born at Angers, France, in 1786 and educated at Paris. He began his work in a chemical laboratory at the age of 17. He was just 98 years old when the society made him an honorary member. His 100th birthday was publicly celebrated in Paris. Dr. Charles Frederick Chandler, sometimes called “America’s first and most distinguished Industrial chemist,” was elected an honorary member at the age of 85, He died in 1925 at the age of 89. nut* ERNEST SOLVAY of Belgium, inventor of the Solvay ammonia process for manufacturing soda, was 82 years old when he was made an honorary member in 1920. He died two years later. Ira Remsen. past president of John Hopkins university and the founder of the American Chemical Journal, was 80 when he was elected. Sir William Crookes, whose work with vacuum tubes, the .so-called Crookes tube, paved the way for Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, was elected to membership at the age of 66 in 1898. He died in 1919 at 87. Professor Edward William Morlev of Western Reserv* university was made an honorary member in 1900 at the age of 62. He had distinguished himself by his work in determining the atomic weights of various elements and for establishing the ratio of hydrogen and oxygen in water. In conjunction with Professor Albert A. Michelson, he conducted the interferometer experiments, the so-called Michelson-Morley experiment, upon which Einstein later based his theory of relativity. Dr. Morley died in 1923 at 85. n n u DR. HALL and Mr. Kile also have some interesting statistics about the age of honorary members at the time of their election. The average age of the fifty-nine at the time of election was 62. The average of those elected between 1876 and 1906 was 60. But between 1906 and 1927, the average age was 64, the age apparently going up as the twenties century progressed.

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