Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1934 — Page 13

h'Seemsio Me HMOODMIN 'T'OLEDO, 0., May 30.—Dear Syndicate Manager: When you first suggested to me a tour of your country you mentioned eight weeks as the possible minimum of its duration. As I remember, I drawled: “Why, really, old chap, I can’t possibly stay out in the sticks that long. The tedium of it would be ghastly. Two months in the hinterland? Don’t be preposterous.” I still think eight weeks is much too long, and I can’t stand it, but for entirely different reasons. This is only my third day in Toledo, and already I have been gassed four times, arrested once and lost the seat of my brown suit. Fun's fun, and Td die for Dear Old Scripps-Howard and all that, but what do you think I’m made of? If the hinterland bites a New York columnist I

don’t suppose that’s news, but it’s decidedly awkward when you have only the gray suit left. It was the new gas the national guardsmen are using which cost me the seat of the brown suit. I don’t mean to suggest that it is quite as powerful as all that, so I will have to describe the circumstances. a a a Caught in Blind Alley RAY WILLIAMS, of the News-Bee, and I were down in the strike zone, and, in accordance with my usual custom, I said: “Don’t let’s get very far away from the head of this alley.”

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Things seemed quiet enough, but by now I have learned my own special technique for. reporting strikes. Not many bricks were flying, but suddenly everybody started to run. And they were running toward the soldiers. The guards had sneaked in at an open end of the street and were driving everybody toward their own lines. We were caught, if I may coin a simile, like mice in a mangier. I already had started to run down the alley even before I heard the sound of the gas guns. Only it wasn't a hale and hearty alley. It was a blind alley. A high wooden fence, with spikes on the top, barred further progress. In the race to the fence I won by almost ten yards, but I never would have entered the competition if I Jjad known it was to be a steeplechase. I’m a flat runner. “This is the new gas they’re using,” said Williams. “Do you think you can get over that fence?” “Os course,” I said with great courage, although as it turned out the answer should have been “Yes and no.” When I lit on the other side I found that I had left the seat of the brown suit behind me. By now the presence of the gas was palpable. “This,” explained my guide, “is the kind that is supposed to make you sick to your stomach.” I smiled brightly at this cheerful information and said: “In that case we might as well go and get a drink. And please don’t tell me that all the saloons in Ohio are closed on Sunday.” “They are,” answered Williams. tt tt tt Fantastic Humor Tinctures Tragedy T THISKY, with a beer chaser,” he ordered, ’ Y and I followed the custom of the country. The man brought us two generous portions of liquor and a cquple of huge seidels. I gulped down both antidotes as rapidlyvis possible and then asked how much we owed. “Thirty cents,” said the waiter. For the second time that evening I felt a sinking sensation. If I ever had a seidel of beer worth at least 10 cents that was it, which left an allotment of 5 cents for the whisky. “I’m afraid,” I remarked, “that we have destroyed all the scientific value of this experiment which we are conducting as to the value of this new gas,” but I was wholly unfair to that liquor. The gas may be all they claim for it, but the whisky ate it up completely. For 30 cents I procured myself a quart and now fear neither chlorine nor mustard. In fact, I have even conquered my ancient fear of snake bite. Bring on your cobras. And now may I add that I know perfectly well there is nothing fundamentally funny in this situation. At the moment of writing the day has been one of marking time, and I am doing the same Yet even in a desperate and tragic state of affairs there are fantastically humorous phases. tt tt a Communists Get Unintended Help ONE of them is the “red menace.” I think I may devote an entire column to this tomorrow, but I want to get it on record that I am well informed on this phase of the strike and that the Communists have no more than one toe in the whole proceedings. Neither credit nor blame attaches to them. The violence is not of their making. Asa matter of fact, their comparatively small delegation has been advising against warring on the soldiers, on the ground that they are potentially fellow workers. The Communists get a great leal of help from outside sources. I am not refer? ,ig to Russia. This help comes unwittingly from some of the business men of Toledo. There are a number of individuals here who know only Republicans and Democrats. If you are not to be identified under either of those labels you immediately become a Communist and a dangerous agitator. If Golden Rule Jones rose from his grave and came back to Toledo there are many eminent citizens who would immediately call him an “outside agitator” and urge that he be sent back where he came from. Just now there seems some possibility of peace. I hope it will be a settlement and not merely a truce. If a successful agreement is not reached it will not be the fault of the unions. Or of the “red menace,” either. And not really of Charles Taft, 2nd, who is an earnest and hard-working young man doing his very best in ihe face of great difficulties. But he is, after all, only a mediator—not an arbitrator. He has, in my opinion, one dangerous handicap in addition to the limitations of his post. Mr. Taft is a conservative who thinks he’s a liberal. (Copyright, 1934, by The Times)

Today's Science

BY DAVID DIETZ

THREE weird creatures, as startling as the product of a nightmare, have been added to the known world by the Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition. They were dredged up from the ocean depths off Puerto Rico. Nature has turned out many fantastic creatures in the world of insects and of reptiles, but nowhere, perhaps, has she created such grotesque figures as in the great ocean depths. The three new creatures are described by Dr. George S. Myers, assistant curator of the division of fishes of' the United States national museum. One of them has been nicknamed the “big-eye fish.” Its scientific name is “Johnsonina eriomma.” This name was chosen as an honor to Eldridge R. Johnson. Philadelphia, who financed the expedition. The big-eye fish has eyes which are about onefifth as long as the body of the fish. On the same ratio, Dr. Myers points out, a man would have eyes one foot long and eight inches high. In addition ot these two huge eyes, the fish has two false eyes situated on either side of its tail. These false eyes are of practically the same size, pattern and coloring as the real eyes. They are, however, merely spots of color, enemies. a a a THE big-eye fish was caught at a depth of between 150 and 300 fathoms. This is just above the borderline of that region of the sea where eternal darkness reigns. In the region of dim twilight, fishes have developed in two directions, Dr. Myers says. One is toward enormous eyes. The other is toward very small ones. Development in the first direction represents a struggle to overcome the dim light of the region and to compensate for the lack of light by means of eyes of increased area. The second trend represents a defeat, the giving up of the struggle fojt sight.

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THE WORLD’S BIG SHELL GAME

Legislators Turn Inquisitive Lyes on Armament Manufacturers

Great munitions firms—potent political and economic forces upon which European governments heavily lean—are described today in the last of three articles on “The Big Shell Game.” BY MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer T ONDON, May 30.—Europe is armed, and armed well. Let there be no doubt of that. With one of the biggest armament firms in the world, with the biggest chemical trust in the world and with three or four of the biggest airplane industries, Great Britain is sitting pretty if it ever has to go into another war. Vickers Limited is one of the four greatest armament makers on earth. It will sell you anything from rifles to heavy guns and howitzers, from submarines to battleships. Its chairman is the Honorable General Sir Herbert Lawrence, a man with a distinguished military career behind him. Just the other day General Lawrence presided over a meeting of the shareholders of his vast concern. He told them that, while the profits for the year 1933 were below what they might reasonably have anticipated under normal conditions, nevertheless, the result was quite satisfactory. In fact, they had made $70,000 more profits than in 1932. They totaled something like $2,700,000. u a a JUST as Vickers Ltd. dominates the private armaments field in the British empire, so the Imperial chemicals Industries Ltd. towers above all other chemical combines in the entire world. The magnitude of the concern is indicated by the fact that its assets are about half a billion dollars and its issued capital shares total $385,485,000. It holds in its reserves $72,500,000. In its report, just issued, it is shown that its profits for 1933 were $23,645,360, compared with only $6,362,665 in 1932. It makes alkalis, general chemicals, explosives, fertilizers, synthetic ammonia and nitrates and dye-stuffs. It is claimed England now leads the world in the manufacture of military aircraft, particularly in heavy bombers, great seaplanes and very swift scouting and battle planes. The half-dozen firms which specialize in these things have increased their capital and have shown increased profits. The attacks made by British pacifist and anti-war organizations upon the makers of arms and munitions have had some striking results in recent months. Following publication of their names as owners of shares in companies making war material, two members of the present British cabinet disposed of all their holdings.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May 30.—An army scandal about which the public has heard little is ready to pop soon from the hands of South Carolina’s Angus McSwain, tireless chairman of the house military affairs committee. Without samng much about it, McSwain has been plugging away at an investigation of the Newark (N. J.) army base leased to the Mereur Corporation on a cost-plus basis. The government was supposed to get the major profits after the company had paid expenses, but it somehow happened that the expenses ran up so high that profits were almost nill. McSwain has now dug up evidence showing where some of the revenue went. A group of army officers supervising the lease charged up to “expense” such things as world’s series baseball games, theater tickets and airplane junkets. In one case world series tickets cost $590. Tne total bill which the government unwittingly footed was SIO,OOO. Incidentally, McSwain s investigation cost only about S4OO, in return for which he thinks he will recover about $135,000 for the government. tt tt tt tt tt tt ARTISTS who see a chanc.3 for personal publicity have attempted to make a field day of the special Mother's day stamp, issued by Postmaster-General Jim Farley. They say it lacks artistry, each new painter adding his word in order to get his name in the papers. But what they don't know is this:

Postmaster-General Farley and his department aids, whom they blame for the stamp, were not responsible for it at all. Farley conceived the idea, had some of his stamp artists work on a drawing for it, but they couldn’t seem to get anything that would click. No one could think of a picture that was appropriate, so they took it over to the President. He grinned, took the drawing-board and the partially completed drawing and said: “Pshaw! That’s easy.” And therewith, with a pencil, he drew in from memory the complete figure of Whistler’s mother. You didn’t know the President was an artist? Neither did Jim Farley nor the rest of the amazed aids standing around. But the original of the Mother’s day stamp, on which he displayed his talents, proves him to be so. a a a NOT all the blue eagle’s critics are by any means outside itS organization. There is much muttering going on within the family circle. Particularly are the younger executives disgruntled. Chief among their grievances is the complaint that the NRA is loaded down with so much pettifogging red-tape that they are unable to get to General Johnson directly. Intimation of this feeling reached the explosive ex-cavalry-man recently, and he moved to bring the matter into the open. He summoned a staff meeting of administrators, and other executives in his office. When they assembled, he gave them a typical Johnsonian stare and barked: “I’m told that some of you are bellyaching that you can’t get in to see me. Who couldn’t get to me? Speak up!” Dead silence. Not a word from any one. There were plenty there who had shuffled up and down the corridor in front of his office protesting their inability to get in. But Johnson’s top-sergeant tactics awed them. The general snorted in disgust. “Now get this,” he said, stabbing at the crowded room wj£h

IN France when one says “armaments” one automatically says “Schneider-Creusot.” The firm might almost be called the “hyphen firm.” It has a hyphen which ties it to the Comite des Forges, the powerful union of French iron and steel manufacturers. It has a hyphen which ties it not only to some of the greatest and most influential banks in France, but to financial institutions in Europe and Japan which supply the foreign loans with which various countries then in return buy the products of Schnei-der-Creusot. It has still another and very significent hyphen—the one which ties it to some of the most esteemed and widely-read and quoted papers in Paris. Which may account for the attitude of those same papers when anything like disarmament is discussed. Schneider-Creusot has delivered armaments to Mexico, Yugoslavia, Greece, Japan, Rumania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain and litaly. This latter is especially interesting because in the past few years there have often been serious tensions between France and Italy.

his forefinger. “I’m here to see anybody on anything. Anytime any of you have anything to say to me, sound off. I’m not asking you to agree with me. “Hell, speak up. If you believe you are right, stand up and fight for your ideas.” Again, complete silence. But in the corridors and washrooms resentment against the father of the blue eagle continues. a a a ROOSEVELT has learned his lesson from the “lawyerlobbying” activities of his own Democratic friends, and now is taking no chances regarding another scandal on his front doorstep. This time he is not waiting for congress or the press to do the main exposing. When it leaked out that the office of the collector of internal revenue at Detroit had tried to shake down motor manufacturers for Democratic campaign contributions, there was a prompt clicking of wheels. Horatio J. Abbott, collector-in-charge in Michigan, was summoned forthwith to Washington, For three hours Abbott and Secretary Morgenthau were closeted behind locked doors. Morgenthau then hurried over to the White House. Twenty minutes later he emerged from a talk with the President, went into his office, announced the “resignation” of Abbott. But that did not end the matter. A little later Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of internal revenue, was called to the treasury. His instructions were specific. Every internal revenue office in the country was to be quietly checked up for similar activities, and prompt reports submitted. The same peremptory punishment meted out to Abbott is ready for any other collector who comes under suspicion. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30,1934

ORDERLY ROWS ... of shells (at left) stacked in a European munitions plant . . . and of simple white crosses (right) over soldiers’ graves in Belleau Wood .. . write a grim and graphic record:: “SHIPMENT RECEIVED!

ANOTHER of the great armament firms of the world is Czechoslovakia’s Skoda. In Pilsen it makes cannons, munitions and tanks. It has a testing ground at Bolovec. It makes airplanes at Prague. It has an arsenal at Brno, employing 10,000 men. It has nitrogen works at Merienberg and Asce and chemical factories at Olomouc. It also has branch plants in Poland and Rumania. The great firm is linked up with SchneiderCreusot by the investment of French money. Together they have armed the land forces of the French allies in eastern Europe. In 1931 Czechoslovakia exported some four million dollars worth of arms and munitions. In Germany, the great Krupp works at Essen have had such a satisfactory year that they have employed 14,000 more men. The I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German dye trust—of Frankfurt-on-the-Main has declared a 7 per cent dividend and employed more people.

NORMAN THOMAS BOOK AT BUSINESS LIBRARY Socialist Leader’s New Work Is Prophecy on Future. “What lies ahead? The long agony of recovery and the disaster of anew w r orld war?” Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President in 1932, discusses the possible course of America in the near future in his latest book, “The Choice Before Us,” received today at the business branch library. Other books acquired by the library are “The Menace of Recovery: What the New Deal Means,” by MacDonald; “Better Banking,” by Kniffin; “Methods and Procedure in Federal Purchasing,” by Monteith & Burack, and “Stock Market Control,” edited by the Twentieth Century Fund. MUELLER RESIGNS POST Democratic Sergeant-at-Arms in Secretary of State Race. August G. (Gus) Mueller, Democratic candidate for the nomination for secretary of state, has resigned the post of sergeant-at-arms at the Democratic state convention June 12. Omer S. Jackson, state Democratic chairman, • said anew ser-geant-at-arms would be named in a few days.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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The Westfaelisch-Anhaltische Explosive Manufacturing Company, one of the biggest firms making explosives in Germany, has declared a 9 per cent dividend and increased its working forces from 200 to 5,200 men. In German papers one could NOT read the following: The new Hitler budget provides $58,250,000 for the navy; $161,750,000 for the army; $52,000,000 for the air force. This is a total of $272,500,000. The increases over the preceding year are $12,000,000 for the navy, $43,750,000 for the army, $52,500,000 for the air force —a total of $108,750,000. This, by a country which declares itself so poor that it says it can not allow private German firms to pay back to American and other creditors either the principal or the interest on the huge loans they obtained in the past. a a a KRUPPS after the war were compelled by the allied commission to change over their vast

TODAY and TOMORROW a a tt a tt By Walter Lippmann

YESTERDAY, in discussing the labor problem, it was suggested here that experience shows that unrest tends to become acute at the end of the depression and in the beginning of recovery. I then urged first, that the unrest signifies the attempt of labor to participate in the recovery; second, the amount of unrest will depend on whether employers are willing, and are able to demonstrate that they are willing, to have labor participate in recovery promptly and substantially; third, that the settlement of labor troubles does not involve great principles, because there are as yet nuo great principles in this field, but that it calls for what is essentially diplomacy, that is, the attempt to make workable adjustments by compromise.

We can proceed, I think, to a fourth point, which is that recovery itself is the immediately effective remedy for libor disputes of the kind now prevailing. It is true, of course, that unrest itself hampers and retards recovery. But that means simply that while pursuing a policy of diplomatic compromise, it is is necessary to step up the positive forces which produce an expansion of production, employment, profits, and wages. The matter can be put in another way by saying that labor can not obtain satisfaction, that industry can not obtain order, through strikes, resistance to strikes, or conciliation alone. The essential thing is better business carrying with it more work at

plant from war to peace purposes. Instead of making cannon and shells, they made locomotives, machines, agricultural implements. Now the bureau of the machine industry of Germany not long ago reported that, while internal business had increased, export business had decreased. It also stated that the machine industry was only working to 39 per cent of its capacity. Yet Krupps have added thousands of employes. Wherefore in Europe the suspicion that the famous firm is probably making guns, howitzers, tanks and armored cars. In peacetime dyes are mainly used for coloring the products of textile mills. The textile industry of Germany reports increased internal business, but decreased export business. The German Dye Trust, likewise, reports increased internal business but decreased external business. Yet the dye trust has taken on more men and shown handsome profits. The suspicion has been aroused that it may once more be making the materials for explosives, poison gas and chemical warfare.

higher wages. On a low level of economic activity labor can not reach the standard of life it has learned to expect and unrest is cumulative and inconclusive. an. b THUS it is the recovery program itself—particularly the part of it which stimulates activity —that the real remedy is to be found. The monetary reflation, which is well under way, the public expenditures, and above all the revival of private investment, the opening up of foreign markets through a rise in world prices and the reduction of trade barriers—these are the activities which have to overcome labor troubles. Insofar as their effects are delayed or are inadequate, there will be unrest for which there is no solution except to allay it as much as possible by reasonable compromise. All of this, however, leaves out one thing which is of the highest importance. It does not take account of labor's deepest grievance, which is that the modern wageearner is insecure. Underneath all the arguments about unionism, about collective bargaining, about Section 7-A, and the rest, there is the profound realization of wageearners that they are the most exposed, the most vulnerable, the most insecure group in the nation. Who can deny it? Who can fail to recognize that for their sakes, as a matter of social justice and social decency, for the sake of the nation as a whole, the modern state. must assume the obligation to overcome this insecurity. B B B _ FOR that reason this is the proper time to take a national commitment to establish protection against the hazards of unemployment, of sickness, old age, of technological displacement, of sweating and exploitation. No doubt it is true that industry as a whole is at the moment not able to meet the costs of such protection. But to admit that is merely to say that the operation of a system of protection should be delayed until recovery is greater. However, since it will take a long time to work out such a system, it is not one minute too early to begin laying out the plans for it. Apparently this is what the President has in mind. If it is, it is one of his wisest and most farsighted decisions of policy. Nothing could be more desirable than to initiate the movement now to let the people pass on it in the autumn elections, and to begin setting up the machinery during the winter of 1935. (Copyright, 1834)

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Fdir Enough IMOOKPMER NEW YORK, May 30.—1 t is a small reward for so much suffering, but one good result of tha great readjustment which has been going on since 1929 is the almost total disappearance from print of the vicarious author who used to sprawl over a great expanse of good, white paper and crowd the regular members of the writing staff into cramped quarters among the obesity cures and learn-to-be-a-detective advertisements. This has been accomplished without any interference from the federal trade commission or any formal action on the part of the newspaper guild. It would be hard to say just what has been the reason for the withdrawal of the mock-author and his spook with him after years of collaboration in their amusing affront to the in-

telligence of the newspaper reader. Possibly the customers began to have doubts for themselves after the practice had been exposed and their gullibility pitied for ten years running. It may be, too, that, what with codes and regulation and all, this kind of make-believe began to take on the color of illegal or unethical business practice. a a The Right of Illusion THE federal trade commission has not hesitated to interfere with less obvious

frauds in other lines, the trade commission interfered with a moving picture drama about a year ago in which native American Negroes, hired through a theatrical agency, attired themselves in nose-rings and leopard-skins and pretended that they were African savages. The moving picture firm pleaded dramatic license, claiming that the art of the theater was the art of illusion and insisting that under this ruling the count of Monte Christo would be compelled to perform three actual homicides at every performance. The producer claimed further that the chariot race in the circus which the lady driver always wit-s would have to be brought under the regulation of the federal trade commission if this interpretation of the law were allowed to stand. Nevertheless, the United States government required that the African savages in the jungle film be billed as imitations and that the jungle be accredited to the florist who had furnished the potted palms. It was a great victory for the truth, though a blow to the box-office and the pleasure of the customers who probably would have been no better off if they had been allowed to believe that they were peering at reality. The American Negroes were not taking any jobs away from deserving Africans. In the first place no African is deserving where an American job is concerned and furthermore experience had shown that the African African is not the type for African jungle films. Altogether this was a deception which the government could have allowed to pass unchallenged but for the jealousy of another producer who had invested his money in an expensive expedition to the jungle and realized that his drama was less convincing than the one which was made in Hollywood. tt a a Not a Fair Chance T>UT the vicarious journalist was a menace to the livelihood of the American journalist, the dignity of a noble profession and the faith of the American citizen in his free press. The sweaty liberati of the ring, the ballyard, the tennis court and the football business were producing literature by remote control in such quantities that the journeyman sport writers found himself covering sandlot ball clubs when he otherwise might have been watching the world series or the regular Friday night show of the Pastime A. C., when his rightful place was at the ringside of the heavyweight championship production. If there was any room left in the paper after Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey or Gene Tunney or the syndicated football coaches got through saying their say as prepared by the spooks in the New York office, then he might be allowed to fudge in a few quick paragraphs under the heading of “Grid Iron Grist” or “Strikes and Spares.” Some authorities like to think that the art of spooking reached its highest point the time that Luis Angel Firpo dictated a graphic description of his fight with Dempsey while he still was unconscious. But your correspondent’s favorite is Babe Ruth’s account of a world series ball game in Cleveland while he was playing an exhibition game in Perth Amboy, N. J. However, this is not to sneer at the achievement of Mr. Andy Cohen, a minor league ball player who broke in with the New York Giants as Rogers Hornsby’s successor, won a ball game in his debut and, within a few days had three autobiographies running in as many journals, no two alike. Mr. Cohen was the greatest writer of them all but he was strictly a sprinter. When he went down to the minors again he dropped out of print and never authored another line. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

'BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN"

YOU may call it “barber's itch,” when you see an infection of the skin in the region where the beard is distributed. But to your doctor it can be one of many sorts of conditions, such as an infection with the pus germ called staphylococcus, infection with ringworm, or even a mild form of tuberculosis. The doctor distinguishes between these various forms of infection, because the method of treatment depends to some extent on the nature of the germ that causes the disease. For instance, the remedy that might be particularly suited to the pus germ might not be the proper remedy for attacking the tuberculous germ, and an entirely different type of remedy would be used for the ringworm. The three conditions have this in common—they may be caused by insanitary conditions while shaving, either alone or in a barber shop. The pus germ causes a tmy blister which soon becomes filled with matter and bursts. When that occurs, the spot is covered with a crust. The pusinfected material spreads and the infection spreads with it. a a a MOST infections of this type will clear up with mild treatment by ointments of ammoniated mercury. In more serious cases, it may be necessary to use stronger antiseptics, which a doctor will prescribe according to the nature of the infection. The chief way to get results in this type of infection is to treat each one of the eruptions the moment it is found and to be careful not to spread the infection with fingers, towels, or razor. In fact, it is better to stop shaving while the infection is on. When the infection goes deep, the situation may be much more serious, resulting perhaps in small abscesses. The ringworm is more likely to involve the neck and is seldom seen on the upper lip. This form occurs in well defined patches and is not likely to be irregularly spread throughout the beard. When the condition is found to be ringworm, the treatment involves the use of remedies particularly adapted to attack on this organism. In this condition, also, it is necessary to stop shaving and to pull out infected hair roots each day to aid healing.

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