Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1934 — Page 9

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun I THINK that the air mail controversy is only incidentally concerned with aviation and the postal service. It is the first pood opportunity which big business and the Republican party have had to make a drive all along the line at the new deal. The object of the attack is to hammer home the point that the government is always ineffective in business and that all key industries must be left in the hands of private management and ownership. I have seen it stated that the air mail is a service vital to national recovery. That is, of course, preposterous. If not a single letter were carried by plane in the next five years, life would go on about the same as usual. But aviation is_ still dramatic

and romantic. Army fliers have been killed in flying the mail, and certain gentlemen who were quite dry-eyed about the wholly useless death of American marines in Nicaragua are ready to weep now about the fatal folly of the government trying to mix in private enterprise. a m tt An Eagle Quits His Perch "PERSONALLY.” said Colonel X Lindbergh. "I am opposed to bringing the military into commercial life.” That is mrrply another way of saying that the air must belong to private corporations. And yet there is a distinct flaw

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in the argument that flying can be properly conducted only by Wall Street manipulators. The air mail contracts which were awarded by the last administration were subsidies pure and simple. In other words, private capital is saying to the administration: " You'are not competent to carry on this difficult task. Pay us sufficient sums and we will show you how efficient rugged individualism can be. But. remember, all we want from you is money. We will brook no interference." "Does a nation need a subsidy? ’ asked Senator O'Mahoney. ■ ‘ Personally." answered Colonel Lindbergh. I am opposed to a permanent subsidy. I feel that American aviation can still be encouraged for a few years. I think in a few' years aviation companies can exist on their passenger and express business and then aviation will go ahead rapidly. v tt Case History of Infant Industries OUITE obviously Colonel Lindbergh is more familiar with the technical aspects of aviation than he is with the history of subsidies and tariffs in the United States and all other lands. The colonel Is too young to remember the piteous pleas which were made for "infant industries" as far back as 1892. If only the government would extend a helping hand for a little while those worthy tots would grow and gather strength and stand on their own feet. But in forty years it has not happened. Sugar and steel and aluminum still have to grasp the hand of Uncle Sam in order to toddle across the room to play with their dividends. Private capital is always hugely successful when it can get the government to hoid the bag. , "A few years.” savs Colonel Lindbergh. How* many rears is "a few." and does the first aviator of his day actually think that the time will ever come when a single kept company will come forward and say, "We no longer need the subsidy you have so generously bestowed'on us—our profits are now sufficient to enable us to decline all offers of assistance? No, the very best the government can hope for is the day when the subsidized concern may say: * Uncle, you have supported us for many years. Now go out and support yourself." tt * An Error in Time IT may well be that the administration picked the wrone season of the year - for the switch. It seems evident that more time should have been spent in preparing the armv fliers for their new duty and in providing necessary equipment. But sooner or later the break had to come. This country went through a decade of rulership by ™oads simply because it allowed manipulators to build the lines which should have been governmental projects from the start. If our future lies in the air we should not be content to mortgage it to the mercies of the Wall Street crowd. , A . Lindbergh flew gallantly from New York to Paris, but if he had flown from New' York to Singapore he should not be heeded when he is pushed forward as the spokesmen of men and companies motivated by nothing but avid self-interest. "It is contrary to American liberty as anything I have ever seen.” said Lindbergh in response to a query about the pending bill. Earlier in the hearing the colonel identified himself as "a technical expert.” I hold that he should stick to his field. He has allowed himself to be used by extremely reactionary forces. Colonel Lindbergh has not qualified as an expert on American liberty. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health -"T DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN i-—. YOUR community officials can protect you and your neighbors against amebic dysentery in serveral different ways. Much depends on having a properly guarded water supply, a proper disposal of sewage, protection of food from flies, and suitable examination and treatment of waiters, cooks, dishwashers and other food handlers in public eating places. Chlorination of water will sterilize it against bacteria, but it takes 100 times as much chlorine to kill the cysts of the entameba histolytica as it does to kill bacteria in water. In fact, the addition of this amount of chlorine would make the water unfit for drinking. Therefore, whenever water is contaminated heavily with entameba histolytica, the only way to make it safe Is to boil it. obviously a difficult matter for any city water supply. a a a IN controlling food handlers, they should be examined at fairly frequent intervals, and their ex--cretions should be tested in the laboratory to rule out. the presence of the organism. Following the outbreak which occurred in Chicago. most large cities developed a series of rules regarding examination of food handlers. Fortunately, several methods of treatment have been established as useful in controlling amebic dysentery. All the remedies concerned are powerful. Therefore, they are dangerous if taken in excessive dosage, and never should be taken except under advice and control of a physician. ana AMONG the remedies most commonly used today. and proved to be valuable, are chiniofon. carbarsone and vioform. These remedies will control the entameba and eliminate it from the body. The drug called emetm. which is much used in this condition, is especially valuable in controlling the symptoms of the disease and usually is given early to bring about prompt recovery. Since the diagnosis of this disease is made with certainty only after the excretions have been examined under the microscope, to determine whether entameba histolytica is present, it is not safe to make the diagnosis until such microscopic study has been made. At the same time, the man who makes the laboratory study must make certain that the ameba is the real entameba histolytica and not a form of the other amebas that live in the bowels without causing symptoms. He also must distinguish between the dysentery caused by the ameba and the dysentery which follows infection with certain bacteria.

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THE MONUMENTS OF LITERATURE

This Is the flrst of a series of articles written exclusively for readers of The Times and delving into all the forms of classical literature. Today’s article discusses the works of the Greek dramatists. BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer AS the victory fires leaped high, as the frenzied chorus sang moving chants for the triumphant warrior, Agamemnon, w'ho had destroyed Troy, the gods demanded their inevitable vengeance. Agamemnon was murdered by his queen, Clytemnestra, in the very hour of his glory. More exciting and stirring than a sensational murder case or brutal warfare is the dramatic trilogy about Agememnon by the Greek, Aeschylus, written long before the time of Christ. Yet Greek tragedy is so written that the characters assume tragic and noble proportions. They concern the magnificent clash between kings and gods. What gave nobility to Greek drama was the continual and imminent conflict against nemesis, or the fate that overtook those who displeased the gods. , Tragedy is defined by critics as the annihilation of the material against the supremacy of the soul. While the gods destroyed kingdoms, dealt miserable blows with fickle humor, the final scene of Greek tragedy was a noble outburst of triumphant ideal. While the gods thundering from Olympus always had the edge, nevertheless, as commentators of the modern temper have pointed out, it is far better to know that you have lost to a god than a Freudian tennant, an irate boss or a piece of machinery. No Greek dramatic character ever died of old age, but rather by a magnificent coup de grace of the gods.

Culture has never attained the peaks of the age when Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes wrote. Scholars gathered to study under Plato and Aristotle. Art created then was of flawless beauty. Reflected in Greek drama, which has remained an almost unaltered pattern through the centuries, are the ideas created and practiced then. War, corruption and false standards were pitilessly attacked. An undercurrent of Greek drama is the strain of fatalism — the inevitable nemesis. The Agamemnon trilogy best evidences that. mm m '"["'HE story, as is recounted in Moulton's ‘‘The Ancient Classical Drama,” is that Agamemnon, fretting at the contrary winds w'hich delayed his fleet, was persuaded to slay his own daughter. Iphigenia, to appease the deities. This was the initial sin that doomed his line to destruction. Her mother, Clytemnestra, treasured up her hate through the ten years’ w'ar and killed Agamemnon on his return home. She then reigned in triumph with her paramour until Orestes, her son, who had been rescued as an infant when his father was slaughtered, returned and slew the guilty pair. "I medicine my soul w'ith melody,” are words given to a watchman in “Agamemnon.” It is the universal cry of Greek civilization engaged in the eternal human

The Theatrical World Lawrence Tihhett Will ,uing at Murat Sunday BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

INTEREST in the concert of Lawrence Tibbett, grand opera baritone, at the Murat at 3 o’clock next Sunday under auspicies of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters is not confined merely to Indianapolis, but is state wide. Reports show that he is singing to capacity audiences every place he appears between appearances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and there is every indication he will sing to a standing-room audience here. Mr. Tibbett believes that “Americans do not hear their language sung sufficiently. They need only to hear it oftener to respond to it and to sing it themselves.” Mr. Tibbett will live up to this convicition Sunday as many of his songs will be in English. a tt Choir to Sing Requiem The volunteer choir of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue, on Friday night at 8 will present the entire Mansoni Requiem. which is one of Verdi’s great works. Fred Newell Morris is the director of this tremendously important composition. The soloists will be Mrs. Walter E. Wallace, soprano; Parry M. Rush, tenor: Miss Patra M. Kennedy. contralto, and Vaughn Cornish, baritone. Paul R. Matthews will be at the pipe organ. The program is as follows: "Grant Them and Kyrie” ißequieme Kvrie> Soprano, contralto, bass and chorus. "Day of Anger" 'Dies Iraei Chorus. "Hark, the Trumpet” (Tuba Mirum) Chorus. "Now the Record” (Liber Scriptus) Contralto and chorus. •What Affliction” (Quid Sum. miser) Soprano, contralto and tenor "King of Glories” (Rex tremendae) Quartet and chorus. "Ah. remember” ißecordare) Soprano and contralto. "Sadly Groaning, Guity Feeling” (In- , gemisco) Tenor. "From the Accursed” (Confutatis) Bass. "Ah. What Weeping” (Lacrvmosa) Quartet and chorus. "Oh. Lord iDomine Jesu Offertory for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass. "Holy” 'Sane us) Fugue for Two Choirs. "Lamb of God” (Agnus Dei> Soprano, contralto and chorus. "Light Eternal” (Lux aeternai Contralto, tenor and bass. “Lord. Deliver My Soul” (Libera me) Soprano, chorus and final fugue, sos Sacred Recital Announced A SACRED recital. “Christ and the Pine Arts.” will be given Friday night at 7:45 at the Central Christian church under auspices of the Business and Professional Women's Guild of the church. Miss Cynthia Pearl Maus will be the reader. Miss Irene Bishop will be the marimba soloist and Mrs. James H. LowTy will be the soprano soloist. The program will portray the life of Christ in story, poem, music and stereopticon-story interpretato's c' Treat masterpieces of religious art. The program is as follows: —lntroduction— “Christ and the Fine Arts” Miss Maus Marimba accompaniment, "We Would See Jesus” Miss Bishop PART I. "The Birth of Jesus.” tai Poetic Prelude: "The Door” — Wickenden Miss MauS (With Marimba accompaniment). (b) Marimba Interpretations: “It Gama Upon a Midnight Ciaax”

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Greeks Gave World Pure Foundation for Present-Day Drama

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934

struggle to make life more livable. Greek drama was built around the joyful Dionysos, god of wine and lust. The choruses, which give such a wide sweep of pow'er to the play, represent the voice of the people and sometimes nemesis itself. Joseph Wood Krutzch, literary critic, has said in "The Modern Temper” that no author today is capable of writing tragedy. Life does not have the power and glory. He contends that the antagonists in the modem struggle are too petty. Perhaps today if some farmer, fighting the eternal and constant, elements, in a lonely place could form his own ethics and morality and find the power to create strong cadent poetry, tragedy could be written. m m tt UNLIKE later imitators, whose passion and emotion are unstable, Greek drama has a timeless, firm feeling. The world today has probably changed to a point where a sympathetic understanding of Greek tragedy is almost impossible. Scholars, who bury their heads into past glory and fire, alone are capable. From Sophocles have come the psychological terms "Electra complex” and "Oedipus complex.” Sophocles treated the same theme as "Agamemnon,” in which the wrath of the gods against the death of Iphigenia brings the terrible degeneration of the family. Electra is the sister of Orestes, sworn to slay his mother, Clytemnestra. and a strong bond exists

and "Silent Night” ..Miss Bishon (c) Story: "Angel and Shepherd Scene’—Ben Hur . .. Miss Maus (and) Art Appreciation with stereopticon. view—- “ The Arrival of the Shepherd's”— Leßolle. Marinwba Accompaniment—"O Little Town of Bethlehem”..-Miss Maus (e> Marimba Interpretation "Joy to the World”—Watts- Handel Miss Bishop PART II "His Childhood and Youth:” (ai Poetic Interpretation with Marimba accompaniment—- " The Song of Joseph”—Whitslde. "Judean Hills Are Holy”—Stidger Miss Maus (bi Marimba Interpretation: "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus” — Parker-Challinor ... Miss Bishop (c) Art Appreciation with stereopticon view: "Repose in Egypt"—Merson. Marimba Accompaniment—" Tenderly Sleeping” Miss Maus (and) Solo; "1 Tnink When I Read Tnat Sweet Story”—Luke Mrs. James Lowry —PART III—(a) Marimba Interpretation: "Saviour, “Like A shepherd Lead Us” —Tnrupp-Bradbury ...Miss Bishop Lb) Story: • Jesus, as Seen by Mary Magdalene” —Gilbran Miss Maus (c) MarimDa Interpretation: "Open the Gates of the Temple”— Knapp Miss Bishop Accompanist, Mildred Hume. (and) Story; "Jesus as Seen by Johanan, the TaxGatherer —Gibran.... Miss Maus <e) Marimba Interpretation: "The Beautiful Garden of Prayer”— Fillmore Miss • Bishop (f) Art Appreciation with stereopticon view: "The Last Supper”—Davinci.. Miss Maus Marimba accompaniment: "Break Thou the Bread of Life” and "Abide With Me.” —PART rv—"His Arrest and Trial.” (bt MarimDa Interpretation: . "Ere You Left 'iour Room This Morning” Miss Bishoo tb) Art Appreciation with stereopticon view: "Christ in Gethsemane”—Hoffman. MarimDa Accompaniment: "In the Garden” Miss Maus (c) Marimba Interpretation. • O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” —Matheson-Peace ... Miss Bishop <di Story: "Jesus as Seen by Filate - * —Gilbran Miss Maus l) Art Appreciation with stereopticon view: "Christ Before Pilate”—Munkacsy Marimba Accompaniment: "In the Hour of Trial”—Lane.... Miss Maus PART V "His Crucifixion” is i Marimba Interpretation: "In the Cross of Christ I Glory” and "Beneath the Cross of Jesus” Miss Bishop <b( Art Appreciation with stereoptiview: "Christ on Calvary"—Munkacsv. Marimba Accompaniment: "Where You There When Thev Crucified My Lord” (Spiritual! . , Miss Maus (cl Marimba Interpreation—“Going Home” Miss Bishop id) Story: "Jesus as Seen by Susanne, a Neighbor of Mary of Nazareth" —Gilbran Miss Maus <e > Marimba Interpreation "The Largo”—Handel Miss Bishop ifi Poetic Interpreation: "The Cross Was His Own”—Anonymous. Marimba Accompaniment: "The Wav of the Cross Leads Home” and "Near the Cross” . Miss Maus PART VI. "His Resurrection.” iai Marimba Interpretation: Spiritual—"Up From the Grave He Arose” Miss Bishop (b) Story: “The Resurrection”— Arnold Marimba Accompaniment: "The Palms” and I Know That Mv Redeemer Liveth” Miss Maus (c) Marimba Interpretation: "The Holy City”—Adams Miss Bishop Accompanist—Mildred Hume, id) Art Appreciation: "The Light of the World”—Hunt. Marimba Accompaniment: "O Jesus Thou Art Standing” and "There’s a Stranger at the Door” Miss Maus (e) Solo: "The Stranger of Galilee” Mrs. James Lowry Stereopticon Slide "The Nazsrene"—Todd. Marimba Accompaniment—Miss Bishop Young Hague Is Improving B'j United Pret * LEXINGTON. Va., March 21. Frank Hague Jr., son of the Jersey City mayor, was reported by his doctor today to be making “very satisfactory” progress in his recovery from severe injuries suffered in a motoring accident Sunday.

ipillll rast ;• into modern form. The WS&A Electra mmplcx, framed into a. / f Wmwl noble play of mortals struggling acninsr a sin that, crushes them, f lives aeatn in the somber "Mourn"k ... ing Becomes Electra.”

Glorious Apollo, the god who meddled in human love affairs and wrathfully changed the affairs of men w’hen they displeased him. Athena, goddess of wisdom and an inspiring .spirit to Greek dramatists. In Greek drama the gods .shift men about as they w’ould chessmen.

between the daughter and brother and daughter and father. Euripedes, another Greek dramatist, is best known for his "Medea,” in which Medea, fleeing with Jason and the newly captured golden fleece, cuts up her brother and throws the pieces into the water one by one to slow the pursuers. Medea is the woman, who, infatuated by Jason, succeeded in stealing the golden fleece for him against Herculean odds. Those long years ago Euripedes presented the modem conception of woman as merciless, clever, scheming, a tigress when motivated by love or desire for power, Man is the mere physical instrument of woman, according to Euripedes. Jason was bold and handsome, in the fashion of an athletic star, but it was Medea who provided the ingenuity and cunning without which Jason

HUSBAND QUESTIONED IN DEATH OF WOMAN Theory Advanced Negro Was Hit by Automobile. Police today were investigating the death of Mrs. Cora McMillan, Negro, 35, and questioning her husband, Edward F. McMillan, 28, of 2452 Martindale avenue, regarding three life insurance policies taken out by him before her death. Police said one policy was for SI,OOO. The body of Mrs. McMillan was found yesterday in a driveway of her home west of Speedway city. Blows from a club are believed to have caused her death. Police probed one theory that she was struck by a motor car. DEC ITrE sToaTs”c OST TAXPAYERS NOTHING Portland Cement Association Head Addresses Rotary. Citing figures to show that America’s road systems do not cost the taxpayer anything, by saving waste, but in reality pay for themselves and return to the motorist a profit upon his annual payments in license fees and gasoline taxes, Edward J. Mehren, president of the Portland Cement Association, Chicago, spoke yesterday to members of the Indianapolis Rotary Club. Children’s Coats Stolen Theft of two children’s coats, valued at S2O, from a delivery truck, parked at Meridian and Washington streets, was reported to police yesterday by the Fashion Dry Cleaners, 1901 Central avenue.

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would have been a foolish young adolescent. tt tt SATIRICAL Aristophanes, writer of comedy, is sophisticated and very readable. Many jokes, which draw iaughs for their originality on the stage or air today, date nack through hundreds of years to the author of "The Frogs,” in which Aristophanes makes light of his studious, serious contemporaries. The first line of “The Frogs” is, "Master, shall I begin with the usual jokes that the audience always laugh at?” A vehement passion is described as "a moderate little passion.” As one character tries to make a serious study of his feelings, another character interrupts with "Were you ever seized •with a sudden, passionate longing—for a mess of porridge.” Hundreds of years later Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, resurrected the Greek drama, and

Hi-de-Hol—lt’s Ha rlem They Laugh and “Go Gay” by Night, But the Dawn Paints a Tawdry Picture.

BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, March 21.—T0 most New Yorkers Harlem Is less a locality than a state of mind—a kaleidoscope, of shadowy glamor and primitive rhythms, of hi-de-ho and cafe-au-lait chorus girls, of good fried chicken and bad corn whisky. And something to be avoided after 3 o’clock in the morning. Visitors expect to find a vast cauldron of Nubian hilarity with the entire populace tap-dancing on the street corners and adding a few choral frills to the song called “That’s Why Darkies Were Born.” But Harlem isn’t much like that. Outwardly its existence is “dry long so” —a peculiar expression which means ordinary or uneventful. A fellow might say, for example. “We was jest settin’ there, dry long so, when in come all them big po-leecemen . . Anyway, that’s how it is in Harlem —placid on the surface. The cuttings and shootings, the gambling and dope dipping, the voodoo and vice, are secrets of the bleak tenements and seldom amount to more than a brisk notation on the books of the district station or charity hospital. New York newspapers don’t even at-

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east it into modern form. The Electra complex, framed into a noble play of mortals struggling against a sin that crushes them, lives again in the somber "Mourn-* ing Becomes Electra.” The Greek unities of time, place and action w'ere preserved by generations of playwrights until they were shattered by Ibsen and the Elizabethans. The Greek chorus, once a potent agent for describing the moving mob spirit, has degenerated into single characters typifying the attitude of the man of the street. The chorus has meandered from the dramatic stage and found its place in music. The swelling melody of the oratorio and the light-strained tune of the musical comedy chorus are of the same ancestry. The musical comedy has merely followed the voice of Dionysius and the oratorio the wailing intonations of the suffering mortals. The importance of Greek drama is not disputed. Without it, after a seige of barbarians wiped out ancient Greece, there w'ould have been no pure model for drama. Either that or literature would have been forced to turn to the Orient for guidance and the very mode of life today would have been changed. Next: The Old Testament,

tempt to carry a list of the previous evening’s events, BY day Harlem sprawls in a vast maze of big tenements and tawdry little shops. Over the sidewalks before the scores of night clubs bright canvas canopies look wierdly incongruous in the drab scene. Pushcarts piled with everything from yams to second-hand shoes ply through the side streets. Coal oil and charcoal, for light and heat, are sold by cellar merchants. Now and then you see a woman walking with a bundle of boxwood or washing balanced on her head. Baby carriages, some remodeled from coaster wagons, impede sidewalk traffic. Older children are everywhere, many of them “latch-string” kids put out on the streets for the day when their mothers go to work. They’ve learned not to cry. Pawnshops, second-hand stores, fish markets, pharmacists. “Sale of Reconditioned Clothes.” “Hog May, 10 Cents.” “Madame Quinine's Beauty Parlor, Skin Lightening, Hair Straightening Guaranteed.” “Herbs Compounded for All Troubles.” “Temple of Truth. Come in & See the Helpful Prophet.” “Hog Snouts and Pig Tails.” “Doctor Mortinus Morter, M. D.— All Ailments Cured on Credit.” tt a tt EVENING softens the dreary scene. Lights cheer the tenements and theater marquees are bright. Loungers in pearl gray and bright blue suits take up their stations before the restaurants and pool halls. They cheer a saffron lass in bright red costume, even to her shoes. She smiles back. Laughing couples stroll on Seventh and Lenox avenues. Music comes from a thousand open windows. Outwardly Harlem seems an Eden compared to the utter squalor of New York’s lower East Side, yet it actually is the hungriest, unhealthiest and most de-pression-ridden section of the city. It keeps its face washed and its stomach empty. Hasn’t forgotten how to laugh, though. No. suh! Laugh and dance and buy a shorty, (half pint) of corn whisky, and turn over its remaining pennies to the racketeers of the “numbers” lottery. Go “gay” and stay up all night; ain’t much work to do tomorrow anyhow. For of the quarter-million Harlemites only about 12,500 are employed. FEW visitors see the district afc dawn. The weary entertainers, shorn of finery and spangles, walking to their chilly little flats. The gamblers and racketeers and flashily-dressed men of no known occupation gathering in the allnight restaurants for braces of pork chops. The streams of workers, men and women—elevator operators, maids, day laborers, dishwashers—scurrying into the subway kiosks on the way to their jobs downtown. Punhcart men plodding to the markets. Taxidrivers yawning, drunks, reeling, musicians straggling from the “hot-spots.” There's no song, no laughter, now.

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Fair Enough By i Westbrook Pegler JT was very punk stage management to put Clarence Chamberlin cn the witness stand on the same day that Colonel. Charles A. Lindbergh was invited to speak his piece in Washington, and I am surprised that such handy free-style politicians, as those who are running the New' Deal,, should have let a hostile witness smother their man. Mr. Chamberlin was there to nake some remarks which, with correct timing and exploitation, would have commanded consideration. But some people have color and some are Clarence Chamberlins and they let Lindbergh take the play away from them with his lean-jawed young Americanism, while their own little fellow sat there with his rather mousey personality and his faltering man-

ner of speech, getting himself forgotten. It isn't that Chamberlin is any less lean-jawed or American than Lindbergh, either. Chamberlin is all right and a good flier, but he isn't a picture-man and, even though he had a better piece to speak and spoke it, too, he was bound to be played down in the body of the story, and was. Actors and publicity men and most politicians know how this is-and that is why I ran’t. understand their running in Chamberlin on the same card wath Lindbergh. He should have had his own day and the benefit of

an examiner who would have drawm him out on his expert, conviction that some of the passenger-car- • Tiers in the airplane business are shipping their '.customers around and about in ships which ought to be and could be safer. tt * * He Drew the “Ads'* ON a fair day, with Lindbergh off the page, Chamberlin could have led the papers all over the country, but w'hat happened? Lindbergh gave his ideas on some matters on which he is no recognized expert, such as the sanctity of contracts and government competition with private business, and Chamberlin, who was full of expert criticism, and would have gone deep into particulars about the ships which carry passengers, was shoved over on to the ad pages. Do you think this disadvantage is unimportant? Well, do you know that people always read Page 1 first rr.d that Page 2 is a less prominent position than Page 3 because, in turning the pages, people always look to the right? In the sport business, one year, we had a Chamberlin for American open champion. He was a little, commonplace sort of fellow, very polite and quiet and a great golfer, but a Chamberlin all over. His name was Cyril Walker and, though he. won the American .open championships in hard and fair competition against some of the greatest players that ever flogged a meadow, he dropped out of sight a couple of days after the tournament ended. So he was, for the year of his championship, just another forgotten man, while such people as Hagen and Sarazen and Tommy Armour were taking bows all over the country, although he had licked them. Well, I still think Mr. Chamberlin’s story is worth big telling because he is ready to talk about flying and to explain that the army fliers were starved • for flying time and experience while the commercial companies, which have beeen crowing over the army m a sympathetic, pitying way, were flying on government subsidies. 6 * tt * Much More Interesting. ■? TTE should have been allowed to say that on a X X day when Lindbergh isn’t all over the papers. I think that, is a much more interesting and important story than the opinions of Colonel Lindbergh on the interests of the aviation firms or the relations of the United States government to private business. This belief may be involved in some way with the fact that I don’t much like the colonel’s opinion on this matter. It seeemed to me that he was down there in Washington to sing for his supper and it is mv hope that someone will pop off without delay to the effect that the government already is involved in the farming business, the railroad businew, the power business, and many another business and point out that the aviation business is no’ sacred cow. Anyway, they are all losing track of the original idea, People are forgetting the testimony of men vh° p U t up a few nickels in cash in an industry which was being promoted with taxpayers’ money and ran their nickels up into millions of dollars. d ° n fc . wh ether Mr. Roosevelt made a political mistake or not, but I can’t quite picture the common man breaking down and bawling his heart out over the horror of it all if the horror of it all just means that the army’s own fliers are going to be allowed to sit in for some flying experiencf at n° P V P H rn r nt u X 2f nse ’ ™ed it but they wouldn’t need it so badly if they had had as much flying money out of the public treasury as the companies for which Colonel Lindbergh is so solicitous. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Todays Science J-J = BY DAYTD DIETZ /"\N Sunday at the Corning Glass Works in Coming N. y„ the worlds greatest eye will take a P e - On that day twenty tons of special pyrex boro-sihcate glass will be poured into a gigantic mold to form a, mirror almost seventeen feet in diameter, the mirror for the proposed 200-inch telescope. When completed, this telescope will be the largest in the world, twice as large as the 100-inch powerful at Mt ' Wilson and ’ Perhaps, ten times as aRO thR Corning engineers cast a m dlampter ' twenty inches greater than the Mt. Wilson mirror. This was a “trial glass,” cast to give the engineers opportunity to test their theones and perfect their technique. Whereas the 100-mch mirror at Mt. Wilson is a solid block of glass, a great pancake of glass with a curved, polished top. the 200-inch mirror will be a thinner pancake of glass supported on a complex nest of glass nbs. it will, of course, be cast ajl in one piece Giving the mirror a hollow back has two advantages. It reduces weight and it simplifies the task of mounting the mirror. Ladling molten glass from a huge furnace with the aid of ladles bigger than washtubs. it will take ten hours to fill the seventeen-foot mold. a a a IF the huge mass of mol ton glass were allow-ed to cool quickly in the open air, the top wouid solidify first. Then as the interior began to harden, stresses and strains would be set up which would crack the surface in a dozen places. The molton glass must be cooled slowly. To accomplish this, the mold Is placed within an annealing oven kept at a constant temperature by electric heaters. Each day for ten months, the temperature will be reduced a little. Only at the end of that time, .will the great glass disk' be ready for removal. Then the big job begins, the task of grinding the surface of the mirror. The surface must be ground to an accuracy that seems almost unbelievable to those who have not had astronomical experience. The deviation from the prescribed curvature for any spot on the mirror must be less than one-tenth of the wave-length of a beam of light. It is expected that grinding and polishing the 200-inch mirror will take about two years. a a a \V THEN completed, the 200-inch telescope will be VV administered by the California Institute of Technology in co-operation with the Mt* Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington,

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