Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1934 — Page 21

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Miami. March 16. —Dear Boss:—I will be back In New York for the Sabbath, which is the dull day down here, although I know a saloon where they will let you bet the horses in New Orleans. I find it just as easy to lose when you do not see the race, and you can do it without having to " e out in the opon air. However. I must admit that the rest and relaxation here have done me a great deal of good and my lungs are much better. You will see anew man around the office. I have lost two-and-a-quarter pounds, and

I am as brown as a pistachio nut. But you w-ill see me only on alternate Thursdays unless you can help me out with the income tax people. I learn from other members of the guild that they are not granting extensions this year. Good morning Judge! Good morning Mr. Mellon! How are you, Jimmy? Do you or do you not remember saying to me. “By all means stay and cover the Florida Derby for us on March 17"? The whole case may hinge on this. As I see the legal issue involved, it will get down to the question of whether or not I

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am a working newspaperman. And that's one of those things which might be decided either way. Can you get me Clarence Darrow? a a a Tapering-Off Rest Essential TELL the government that I will have the check in the mail the very first thing Tuesday morning. If they will only be patient I will premise not to make any attempt to write ofT items in the next return such as “acquiring local color and atmosphere at the Deauville Casino for literary purposes wrong dogs at the Kennel Club was an expense made necessary by my professional activities. Promise them anything, as I want to go on my vacation starting on March 26. After a good substantial rest like this there is nothing a person needs more than a little additional rest. I wonder whether I can get a cot in the Times Square subway station in order to obtair a little quiet for a contrast. You must have seen runners in a 100-yard dash and how they slacked speed gradually even after they have crossed the line. Anybody who stops suddenly is likely to tear a ligament. That will be my danger when I return. It will require at least a couple of weeks for me to get used to the slower pace of your big village. tt tt tt Sunburn in the Small Hours {''OR the first three or four days I fear that I may * be running down taxicabs. It must be something in the climate down here which keys the casual visitor up to such a pitch. It could be the Gulf stream, and it could be the ultra-violet rays. I have tried to mitigate these influences by not going far out after the big fish and by keeping indoors until the late afternoon. But the sun is so powerful here that I have been burned several times long after midnight. 1 am coming home without a sailfish. That can wait until next time. As far as I am concerned, it can wait indefinitely. Nunnally Johnson invited me to go on a trip tomorrow, but I knew I was going to say No'’ even before he told me that the party would gather at the dock promptly at 8 a. m. Why do fish have to be Ike that? I know, of course, that the sailfish is a fighting fool. The whole thing has been described to me. The man who has caucht. a sailfish acts exactly as if he were the last survivor of the battle of Bull Run. He takes it as a matter of course that everybody wants to hear his story. And all sailfish raconteurs use precisely the same model. a a a Mag He the Last Round-l’p THERE had not been so much as a nibble all day. The boat was about to pull up its anchor and go back home. Unfortunately the man who holds you with his skinny hand took one more cast. Suddenly Hell broke loose. The fish struck and ran for half a mile. After he was coaxed over to the side of the boat he ran again. And this goes on indefinitely until the listener can fight himself out of the clinch. I can’t see where the fun comes in. If I were hooked to a fish like that I would lean over the rail and talk to him quite calmly after the third or fourth rush. I would say: "You must be getting tired, and so am I. Can't we compromise this misunderstanding some way?" And I suppose he would say. "I want an extension." Do you think that we might make this Miami assignment an annual affair? I always say that travel broadens you. You don’t get any new ideas by talking to the same bartender every day. To be sure, I don’t know whether or not there will be any Miami next season. This may be the last round-up. I am just as convinced as I ever was that the world can not go along 5 per cent exploiters and 95 per cent exploited. And I don’t want it to. Just the same I must say I would powerfully enjoy saddling Old Paint just once more for a frolic. In other words. I wish Karl Marx would see his way clear to grant an extension. iCopvrißht. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN - TA/COST persons who pet measles recover from the 1 A disease, but in some cases complications set in. which are more serious than the original disease itself. Infection of the lungs and of the ears may be far more difficult to cure than the measles. Seventy per cent of the deaths from measles occur among children under 3 years old. These children. in most cases, are poorly nourished or sick with other diseases, and are among the poorer elements of the population. When measles break out in an asylum or foundling home, the death rate may reach as high as 10 or even 20 per cent. If the disease occurs among children in average homes, the death rate is much lower. Asa parent, you should be careful to prevent the exposure of infants and children under the age of 5 years to contact with other children having measles. After the fifth or sixth year of life, the dangers are much reduced. a a a MOST cases of measles get well with but little special attention. But you should put the child to bed and keep him in bed until well after the temperature becomes normal. Any delay about putting the child to bed as soon as the disease is discovered may aggravate the severity of the attack. There is no reason why children with measles should be kept in dark rooms. It is only necessary to screen the eyes, which are rather sensitive to light in this disease, from too much direct and bright light. a a a THE child should have plenty of fresh air in the room, but should not be exposed in any way to drafts of cold air or sudden changes in temperature. The physician who takes care of your child will watch particularly for signs of infection in nose and throat, and guard against it as much as possible. He can aid the child with an irritating cough by prescribing suitable sedative remedies. Proper attention to measles and the use of our medical knowledge on this subject should make it possible to prevent and to control most of the cases of th:a disease m the future.

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CHAPTER THE TENTH AFTER a short time, Peter and another Disciple took heart, and secretly followed the guard to the house of Caiaphas the High Priest, whither Jesus was taken, and where the Scribes and others were assembled to question Him. Peter stood at the door, but the other disciple, who was known to the High Priest, went in. and presently returning, asked the woman, who kept the door, to admit Peter too. She, looking at him said, "are you not one of the Disciples?" He .said "I am not.” So she let him in; and he stood before a fire that was there, warming himself among the servants and officers who were crowded round it. For it was very cold. Some of these men asked him the same question as the woman had done, and said “are you not one of the disciples?” He again denied it, and said “I am not." One of them, who was related to that man whose ear Peter had cut off with his sword, said “Did I r.ot see you in the garden with him?” Peter again denied it with an oath, and said. “I do not know the man.” Immediately the cock crew, and Jesus turning round, looked steadfastly at Peter. Then Peter remembered what He had said—that before the cock crew, he would deny him thrice—and went out, and wept bitterly. Among other questions that w-ere put to Jesus, the High Priest asked Him what He had taught the people. To which He answered that He had taught them in the open day, and in the open streets, and that the Priests should ask the people what they had learned of Him. One of the officers struck Jesus with his hand for this reply and two false witnesses coming in. said they had heard Him say that He could destroy the Temple of God. and build it again in three days. Jesus answered little; but the Scribes and Priests agreed that He was guilty of blasphemy, and should be put to death; and they spat upon, and beat Him.

When Judas Iscariot saw that His Master was indeed condemned, he was so full of horror for what he had done, that he took the Thirty Pieces of Silver back to the chief Priests, and said. “I have betrayed innocent blood! I can not keep it!” With those Words, he threw the money down upon the floor, and dashing away, wild with despair, hanged himself. The rope, being weak, broke with the weight of his body/and it fell down on the ground, after Death, all bruised and burst—a dreadful sight to see! The chief Priests, not knowing what else to do with the Thirty Pieces of Silver, bought a burying-place for strangers with it. the proper name of which was The Potters' Field. But the people called it The Field of Blood ever afterwards. tt tt tt JESUS was taken from the High Priests to the Judgment Hall where Pontius Pilate, the Governor. sat, to administer Justice. Pilate (who was not a Jew) said to Him. “your own nation, the Jews, and your own Priests have delivered you to me. What have you done?” Finding that he had done no harm. Pilate went out and told the Jews so; but they said “He has been teaching the People what is not true and what is wrong; and he began to do so, long ago, in Galilee.” As Herod had the right to punish .people who offended against the law in Galilee. Pilate said. “I find no wrong in him. Let him be taken before Herod!” They carried Him accordingly before Herod, where he sat surrounded by his stern soldiers and men in armour. And these

The Theatrical World . Spencer Tracy Shines in New Film , e The Show-Off 9 1 ■BI WALTER D. HICKMAN-

' I 'HE kitchen, the dining room, and even the front porch are coming back into the movies in the new idea of bringing everyday people to the screen as characters in screen stories. Several years ago on the legitimate stage. “The Show-Off” was among several plays that did glorify the things that happen on Main Street.

‘•The ShowOff" was healthy entertain m e n t and it did much to make the stage a place where every-day folk looked at one another. On the screen, these same attributes of real theater have been carried with telling effect. The movie version sticks close to the original

idea, although there are several changes to be found. These changes in no way destroy the sweet and natural attributes of the original. ’The Show-Off" on the screen shapes up as human and decent entertainment. Spencer Tracy is cast as the hot-wind gentleman, who invents more fiction than Thomas A. Edison made inventions. Mr. Tracy, as the "show-off" gentleman, gives one of those human and intimate performances which will be remembered for a long time. The ’show-off" is not fundamentally bad. He is just cheap because he thinks lies and mere words can keep the wolf away from the door. To make the story good, this “show-off" is so consistently wrong that when the story is nearly over his most serious blunders turn into success. There are at least two outstanding performances in "The ShowOff." They are contributed by Mr. Tracy and by Madge Evans who marries this high-pressure faker. Both get right into the heart of the characters. Both are pitiful at times as they face reality. Both are magnificent when they catch the> reality of just being married. It's simple and honest acting, natural, sweet and all of that. The work of Grant Mitchell as ♦he father of Miss Evans is small town acting that is just right. Mr. Mitchell never overacts. When you forget some of the sensational pictures of the last three years, you will enjoy going back in your memory box and thinking of "The Show-Off." It opens today on the screen at Loew s Palace. Morton Downey and his revue

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laughed at Jesus, and dressed him, in mockery, in a fine robe, and sent him back to Pilate. And Pilate called the Priests and People together again, and said “I find no wrong in this man; neither does Herod. He has done nothing to deserve death.” But they cried out, “He has. He has! Yes. yes! Let him be killed!” Pilate was troubled in his mind to hear them so clamorous against Jesus Christ. His wife, too, had dreamed all night about it and sent to him upon the Judgment Seat, saying “Have nothing to do with that just man.” As it was the custom at the feast of the Passover to give some prisoner his liberty, Pilate endeavoured to persuade the people to ask for the release of Jesus. But they said 'being very ignorant and passionate, and being told to do so, by the Priests) “No, No, we wili not have him released. Release Barabbas. and let this man be crucified! ” Barabbas was a wicked criminal, in jail for his crimes, and in danger of being put to death. nan PILATE, finding the people so determined against Jesus, delivered him to the soldiers to be scourged—that is, beaten. They plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and dressed Him in a purple robe, and spat upon Him. and struck him w'ith their hands, and said. “Hail. King of the Jews!”—remembering that the crowd-had called him the Son of David when he entered into Jerusalem. And they ill-used him in many ways, but Jesus bore it

opens today at the Palace on the stage. tt u a Great Work Announced T/’ERDIS “Manzoni Requiem,” which it has become tradition for the Metropolitan Opera Company to give duiing the Easter season, will be presented by the Tabernacle Presbyterian church choir, under the direction of Fred Newell Morris, March 23, in the church auditorium. "This oratorio is one of the finest ever written, ’ said Mr. Morris. “it is of the Aide period, which era is regarded as having produced the greatest music of all time.” The opera “Aida” is Verdi’s masterpiece. Verdi wrote the Libera Me,” or last Part of his “Requiem” at. Rossini's death; one of thirteen parts written by as many composers, which was to be Rossini's requiem. The ensemble, however, was so inconsistent that it was abandoned. When Manzoni, Verdi's frifcnd. died he was urged to compose a requiem, which he did, using his "Libera Me” as the finale. The Chicago Symphonv orchestra. together with the Apollo Musical Club, gave Verdi's "Requiem” last month at prices up to $2. This peiformance, however, is free and open to the public. It will be at 8 p. m. The soloists are: Vaughn Cornish, baritone; Miss Patra M. Kennedy, contralto; Mrs. Walter E. Wallace, soprano, and perry M. Rusli. tenor. Accompanist, Paul R. Matthews. a u On View Here Today OTHER Indianapolis theaters today offer “She Made Her Bed and "Once to Every Woman” at the Indiana; "David Harum” begins its third great week at the Apollo today; Arren and Broderick on the stage and ' Love Birds” on the screen at the Lyric; “Death Takes A Holiday” at the Circle: Buddy Kane at the Rialto and burlesque at the Mutual. •OFFICIAL BLESSING' IS GIVEN TECHNICAL TEAM Mayor Sends Letter to School Wishing Green Success. Technical high school's basketball team will enter the state basketball , * tournament this morning with official, as well as student, support. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today dispatched a letter to De Witt Morgan, Technical high principal, wishing the Green and White success in its cage title quest.

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patiently, and only said “Father! Forgive them! They know r not what they do!” . Once more, Pilate brought Him out before the people, dressed in the purple robe and crowm of thorns, and said “Behold the man!” They cried out. savagely, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” So did the chief Priests and officers. “Take him and crucify him yourselves.” said Pilate. “I find no fault in him.” But. they cried

JONES APPROVES BILL ON CITY 'BANKRUPTCY’ Municipalities Enttiled to Relief, RFC Chief Says. By Scripps-Howard Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 16.—Expressing belief that hard-pressed American cities should have the same relief avenues in their financial difficulties as private business and industry, Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the reconstruction finance corporation, has declared himself in favor of the Sumners-Wilcox bill now before the senate. The bill, known as the “municipal bankruptcy act,” would allow cities to refund their past obligations after 30 per cent of all bond holders had signed a petition seeking such action and 66 per cent had approved the petition. It was passed by che house last spring. City Is Without Poor By United Press BOLIVAR, N. Y.. March 16. Scout Troop 39 of Bolivar did its best to comply with President Roosevelt’s suggestion that Boy Scouts find needy families in their communities, but a canvass of the entire city revealed that there just aren't any needy families here.

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out, “He called himself the Son of God; and that, by the Jewdsh law, is Death! And he called himself King of the Jews; and that is against the Roman Law', for we have no King but Caesar, who is the Roman Emperor. If you let him go. you are not Caesar's friend. Crucify him! Crucify him!” When Pilate saw that he could not prevail with them, however, hard he tried, he called for water,

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Latin American Republic Appeals to U. S. for Revision of Canal Treaty of 1903. BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 16—Laboriously carrying two huge books ornamented with green leather covers and gold letters. Dr. Jose Guillermo Lewis, physician and patriot of Panama, visited the house of representatives and the White House. To speaker of the house Rainey, and to President Roosevelt he pre-

sented one of the books. “This,” he informed them, “I present on behalf of the people of Panama to the people of the United States. It is an appeal for the revision of the canal treaty of 1903 and contains the signatures of more than 50,000 persons.” White-haired Speaker Rainey fumbled with his artistic Windsor tie, slow'ly thumbed the giltedged pages of the book. “Well, I fought for some of these things myself,” he assured Dr. Lew'is. “I am naturally impressed.” President Roosevelt also seemed

and washing his hands before the crowd, said, “I am innocent of the blood of this just person.” Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified, and they, shouting and gathering around him, and treating him (who still prayed for them to God) with cruelty and insult, took Him away. (Continued Tomorrow) (Copyright for North and South America 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc., all rights reserved !

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impressed. He promised the Panama physician to give the matter his careful attention. The text of the appeal is headed “A Message from the Panamanian People to the People of the United States,” and covers three closely printed pages, citing a long list of alleged abuses and injustices in the present management of the Panama Canal by the United States government. State department officials said fchey had no protest to make about the appeal. The Panama legation quietly expressed its approval of Dr. Lewis’ energy in fighting for the cause of his country. What Panama particularly wants is some share in the profits of the canal trade, as well as the right of imposing import duties or tax on the multiple commercial activities of the canal zone. Satisfied that his mission w'as well done, Dr. Lewis adjusted his diamond tie pin, prepared to sail today on the steamship Pennsylvania for a cruise to Venezuela and Panama. With him will sail members of the Panamanian Society for International Action, sponsors of the appeal. n n tt WHITE gloves tucked under his gleaming Sam Browne belt, boots brightly shined, wearing a gold-tilted sword, Colonel Tsi-Ming Chow, newly appointed military attache of the Chinese legation, called yesterday on Secretary of War Dern. The Chinese officer spoke per- ' feet English with a slight lisp, peered eagerly through his glasses while Secretary Dern welcomed him to Washington. Colonel Charles Burnett < whose wife writes Japanese poetry) prtsented him. * Someone wished to speak to Secretary Dern, while he chatted with Colonel Tsi-Ming Chow. “Oh, you can t come in,” warned a friend. "The old man is talking to a Chinese war lord.” Despite pressing army air mail problems. Dern took time to pose for photographers with his visitor. Scandalized aides noted that the "Chinese war lord” a most unmilitary fquntain pen in the pocket of his khaki uniform. Saw Through Drifts By United Press BARRE, Vt.. March 16.—After a heavy snow storm, drifts froze in the streets so solidly that tractors or plows couldn't get through, so some of the townsmen cut the snow with cross-cut saws.

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F.ntered aa Second Cln Matter at PostoFlce, Indianapolis

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler THESE dispatches recently advised young men with a leaning toward pugilism and baseball to bear in mind that the incumbent heavyweight champion of the world is a bankrupt and that the salary of the greatest baseball player now in practice, Babe Ruth, is only $35,000 a year. Persons in the writing trades, on the other hand, have been earning, even during the time of the great panic, as much as $200,000 a year, and many of them are just now in the throes of computing

and paying income taxes on $75,000 or more for the year 1933. In fact. I recently have been told of a conversation among a roomful of prosperous authors based on New York in which some of them very solemnly vowed that they would produce less copy and earn less money in 1934 because they were beginning to note, with pain, that one word out of every four or five which they were writing nowadays was written for the United States treasury. It is not possible to write just little nickel words for the treasury and big, expensive words for one's self, either, when an auth-

or has written himself up into the expensive income brackets. The government averages up the words and takes for its own from 20 to 25 per cent of the net labor of those unfortunates whose plight. I am sure, will awaken the pity of all humane citizens. The government does not take any consideration of the many thousands spoiled or rejected words which an author writes down, one after another, in the course of a business year. The government is no partner in the breakage or deterioration of a writing man, a a a W e’ll Take Some BUT a number of yc iths in school or not long out have misunderstood me to say that this sort cf earnings were being made in the newspaper branch of the writing business and have written to inquire about the hours, the working conditions, and the chances of advancement. And whom do you have to know to get one of those jobs which pay from $75,000 to $200,000? But the newspaper branch of the writing business is not like that. In the newspaper business, mostly, people write by the day for a flat salary. At that, some of the writers make more money in the course of a year than the average major league ball player because the major league’s average at present is not more than about S7O or SBO a week. There are only 400 or so players employed by the majors leagues at a given time, too, which means that for every young man with a major league job, there are at least ten who must work in the minor leagues, which pay smaller salaries, or can’t find any baseball work at all. These are my own, home-grown statistics. And the ball players, even in this state of affairs, are considerably more fortunate than the pugilists. Remembering the era when Dempsey and Tunney were paid in excess of a million dollars for a maximum of thirty minutes’ exercise under formal conditions and little nonchampions of the smaller sizes were able to pick up $50,000 here and there this may be hard to realize. But. after all, the heavyweight champion of the world is bankrupt and the profession is suffering severely from the competition of the amateurs. There are many pugilists who are good workmen at their trade who can not majee any dollars whatever, and the one who can collect S4OO once a month, clear bf his expenses and his manager's percentage, is doing a very prosperous business for the tim<=c a a a W orld’s Worst Fight SO maybe the young men to whom I addressed my suggestion would do better and last longer even in the newspaper business than they could in baseball or pugilism. There is no amateur competition anyway, because writers go by a rule tnat price is the measure of merit. To give one’s stuff away is to admit that it is just no good and no literary man will admit that. In pugilism the route works the other way at present. The amateur fights are the best and the recent bout for the heavyweight championship between Primo Camera and Tommy Loughran, consistently, was one of the worst fights ever presented. I have been unable to advise any of my young correspondents how to go about getting a job on a newspaper. Most people get them by just asking, but this doesn’t always work. There was a fellow once who tried a spectacular way. He sent a note to the city editor saying, “I am down to my last half dollar. If you do not give me a job. I will buy poison and kill myself.” The city editor sent back another half dollar with a note in reply which said, “Take a double dose.” I don't put much faith in the story, although it has been told around the business a long time about various city editors. I don’t think a city editor would toss his money around that carelessly. Maybe somebody just made it up. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.).

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ A FAMILIAR figure, used by astronomers for the last two decades, has been d%carded during the last year. It. is the figure for the number of stars in our galaxy or Mi'ky Way. Until this year, the number of stars in the galaxy was placed at forty billion. Astronomers are now convinced that the figure was too small. The new figure, more easily remembered, is two and a half times larger. It is 100 billion. "A good round figure." Dr. Otto Struve, director of the Yerkes observatory, called it. Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard observatory, also thinks that 100 billion is about right. The general opinion today seems to be that there is enough material in our Milky Way to make about 170 billion stars, but that the extra material is condensed into the gaseous nebulae and scattered generally throughout the galaxy in the form of the cosmic cloud. This cosmic cloud is extremely thin, so thin in fact that it is thousands of times nearer a perfect vacuum than the best so-called vacuum we can produce in the laboratory. The cloud probably consists of only an atom or two to every cubic yard oi space. a a a NOT only have astronomers revised the number of stars in the ga’axy during the last year, but they have also revised the size of the galaxy. It is now assumed that the galaxy is smaller in diameter than previously supposed. The galaxy is only about a half or a third as large as various previous estimates made it. The new figure for the diameter of the universe is also a "good round number," easily remembered. It is 100,000 light years. Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton university is inclined to give the universe a slightly better break. He places the figure at 120,000 light years. A light year is six trillion miles. It is the cosmic cloud which is responsible for cutting down the dimensions of the galaxy. Dr. Joel B. Stebbins, carrying on observations at Mt. Wilson with photoelectric apparatus attached to the gigantic one hundred-inch telescope, proved that the faint stars were not as far away as previously supposed. They seemed fainter because of the obscuring effect of the cosmic cloud. a a a THESE questions of the structure of the galaxy came up for discussion the other noon when I lunched with Dr. Struve, who is also director of th new McDonald observatory of Texas, and C J. Stilwell, vice-president, and E. P. Burrell, director of engineering c>f the Warner & Swasey Company, which is building the new eighty-inch telescope for the McDonald observatory.

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