Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1934 — Page 7

JUNE 25, 1934

H Seems io Me HOWTO MJN IN a recent fiehttng speech concerning the coming congressional elections Ogden L. Mills made a bitter attack on the emperor Diocletian. As the campaign waxes hotter e may expect the Republicans to include Constantine and work by easy • a res down to George the Third Give ary Republican orator a tyrant who has been dead for more than a century and he will make you one of the boldest and most forthright speeches you have heard. 1 once had the privilege of listening to a G O. P big gun on the subject of Nero and he polished tha* gentlemen off in such a way that the Roman received not a single electoral vote in the contest of that year. To be sure, Mr. Mills drew analogies. Diocletian, ro it cfm distributed bread and failed to balance the budget. The re ult was a business depression of

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Tt is difficult at the present age of the world to turn economic into an exact science. The materials at hand are too scanty. A scientist may say with some certainty what white mice will do under a given set of circumstances because he has the power to play God to numerous generations. Men cumber t;. ■,i 1 ng that even the most ancient inhabitant never sees more than a few divisions pass by the reviewing stand. Possibly some few things can be set down as axiomatic, but in the main the wise economist will be the one who says, "I think that this is a likely development." 800 Why Maine the War? TRENDS and tendencies can be marked. Certain prophecies upon the p3rt of wise men in the past ha%-e come true. Others have lagged and a few of the best formulated guesses no longer seem likely, i rise then not in any dogmatic spirit to deny that there are such things as "natural forces of recovery.” but I would like to hear in what way they have at any time been made manifest. A little evidence is better than none at all. Tt mav be pointed out to me that on numerous cyclical occasions America has fallen into periods of depressions and eventually crawled out into something a little better. But if there were a beneficence jn natural law we ought to find that these economic disasters came less frequently and with a marked decline in severity. That is not the fart. The earthquakes are spaced more closely and far more violent. In particular. the grow’h of unemployment throughout the world has been on a steady upeurve. One familiar excuse about our present woes has been to say. ’But all this is on account of the World war. It seems to me that the war was an inevitable consequence of the economic system. Let natuie under the present dispensation and there is an excellent chance of having another. Indeed. wars seems to be set upon a cyclical basis; just like panics. nan ‘Do Nothing at AH' IF I understand the political philosophy of Ogden Mills. America even now would be rolling in and plenty if the government kept its hands of! the American business man and allowed him to proeed in his Utopian way. quite free of codes, •collectivism.” and -regimentation.” This experiment within the vivid memory of all of us was tried during the term of President Hoover. Not only was no improvement noted, but on the contrary the economic situation w’as at its blackest w-hen the Republican leader quit office. I wonder whether Mr. Mills honestly believes that it would have been a good idea to leave the openin'* of the banks to "the natural forces of recovery.” He himself sat in conference at that time and I would be surprised to hear that his counsel was "do nothing at all.” Asa matter of fact. Mr. Mills and the other Republican orators have their own doubts about "natural recovery.” They have and always have had their own panaceas. There is that famous party axiom. "W’hen in doubt raise the tariff.” At the moment we will waive the question as to whether or not this counsel is sound, but I must insist that it is distinctly an interference with natural recovery. a a o Let's He Candid t WISH it were possible to have a perfectly candid 1 campaign. In that case the issue would be clear enough. We would have the Republican party standing for the retention of the old order; the Democrats under Franklin D Roosevelt advocating an evolutionary and decidedly curtailed movement toward modified capitalism by increasing governmental con,rol and Socialists and Communists advocating collectivism. The Republicans have a right to say that the Roosevelt program is more radical than their own. l)i.i it is perfectly silly for them to call it Communism. Socialism or anything of the sort. Nor is there any warrant at all to charge that the Roosevelt regime has endangered democracy. My own opinion is that President Roosevelt is on the point of deciding that the mass of Americans desire •; program far more radical than he has yet estab!>hed or even suggested. The mass of Americans rr.. v very well desire many things which would make lire hail of Ogden Mills stand on end like the fretu! porcupine. But in that case it will be the fulfillment and not the betrayal of democracy to raise a pompadour upon that noble brow.

Your Health BY l)K. MORRIS FISHBEIN

BEFORE you go swimming, in a pool or at a bathing beach, this summer, especially where many others use the same facilities, you should see that proper sanitation exists. This is a vital factor in maintainmg your health and the health of your children. To keep public pools clean and free Irom infection. certain rules usually are enforced, and it is important that these who use these pools abide by the rules. Swimming is one of the most enjoyable and healthful sports. Under proper conditions, it is stimulating and agreeable. However, under improper conditions it may develop into a real menace. Many swimmers doubt the safety of added chlorine or copper sulphate which are necessary for destroying germs or molds of various kinds. Occasionally if the chemicals have not been properly mixed with the water, an excess may slightly irritate the eyes and nose. However, this seldom is sufficiently irritating to produce permanent trouble of any kind. a a a SWIMMING is not a healthful exercise lor sick persons. It is strenuous, so that those who suffer from heart disease or disabilities of any organs should not undertake swimming without proper medical consultation. The diseases most commonly spread through swimming pools are those affecting the skin and the nose s.hd throat. To avoid skm diseases the body should be washed thoroughly in a sho r bath with soap before the swimmer enters the water. The bathing suit should r.ot be on at the tune. To walk through p shower with a bathing suit on is no help to the elimination of skm diseases. The bathing suit should be thoroughly washed and sterilized after each time that it is used. Boiling and hanging the suit in the sunlight to dry mil accomplish the purpose.

1.200 y*ars. the Republican party not yet having beer, founded. But, in mentioning the matter it seems to me that Mr. Mills acted unwisely. As I land Republican doctrine the charge always is made that the present administration is impeding “the natural forces of recovery.” But I never have had these forces clearly defined for me. Indeed. I doubt their existence. If 1.200 bad years followed the excesses of Diocletian it hardly would seem that the natural economic tide toward bettermen- was in any sense a rip current.

GREAT BRITAIN WALKS IN FEAR

Europe Calls, But England Is “Rudderless” in Grave Crisis

Thi ii the lat ot a aeries of five atoriea jivinr the British viewpoint on the eriai* faeinf Europe, with the Geneva arraa parley a failure, Germany rearming, and war cloud* thickening. a a a BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) lONDON, June 25.—At Europe’s most critical hour since 1914, with i all eyes desperately looking to Britain for leadership, Britain herself is more nearly leaderless than she has been in a generation. Old world chancelleries are asking if Sir John Simon. British foreign minister, is not destined to prove an even more tragic figure than the late Sir Edward Grey (Lord Grey of Fallodon), “the man w-ho might have prevented a world war, but failed.” With Britain thus in a position where she might well turn the scales. Sir John remains the same vague, timid, hesitant body he has been since he helped toss a monkey wrench into the world peace machinery by his lack of support during the Manchurian crisis of 19311932 By taking a firm stand at this time. I was told again and again on the continent. Great Britain has it within her power to head off another European war. * But, these same leaders added with grave faces. Sir John Simon, like his famous predecessor, Sir Edward Grey, may—and apparently will—delav doing anything until it is 'too late.

Before 1914. it was recalled, Sir Edward was always careful to remind both French and Russians that Britain’s hands were free. Nevertheless, he somehow- allowed both countries to believe that Britain would be on their side if and when the showdown came. a a a SIMILARLY, Germany was convinced up until the very last moment that Britain would not come into the war. And Germany did not find out her error until the mobilization order had been given and it was too late to turn back. Today, the writer was told repeatedly in France and elsewhere on the other side of the channel, Sir John Simon's attitude, with reverse English, is leading to a similar state of affairs. While participating half-heart-edly in the disarmament efforts, it is observed, Sir John managed to convey to Europe the impression that Britain is prepared to retire to her island and let the

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, June 25.—Pennsylvania's Republican senatorial primary held last month shortly will be subjected to critical congressional scrutiny. If there is any substance to the secret charges made to Washington authorities, the state is in for another sensational campaign expenditure scandal.

In 1926, Jim Reed's famous committee rocked the country with its disclosures of huge slush funds in the Republican senatorial primary. Asa result. William S. Vare was branded the successful "bidder,” and ousted from his senate seat. The records of the committee showed that the Vare forces had spent not less than $1.C00.000. Now comes Senator David Aiken Reed, Andy Mellon ally and victor in last month's primary. He is the object of the latest accusations. Officially, he reported an outlay of only a few hundred dollars. But it is- being secretely charged that hundreds of thousands were spent in his behalf. One figure submitted privately to the senate's campaign fund investigating committee places the sum as high as $400,000. Governor Pinchot is the source of these accusations. In 1926, as now, he was defeated in seeking the senatorial nomination. The 1926 probe brought to light that over a quarter of a million had been spent

for him. Charges against Reed originally were made to the President several weeks ago. The investigating committee, at that time, had not been authorized, although the resolution to do so was pending. The President got in touch with floor leaders, informed them of the charges laid before him. urged them to have a potent investigating committee appointed. His injunction was followed to the letter. Not only was the committee created, but at the head of it was South Carolina's wiry Jimmy Byrnes, liaison man between the senate and the White House, one of the ablest in either branch of congress. 8 8 8 THE home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired justice of the supreme court —93 years old and just as delightful as ever—continues to be the mecca for those jurists and friends privileged to know him. Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo, his particular friends, drop in to see him almost daily. Not long ago Justice Stone was telling his aged colleague of a violinist he had heard at a concert of the Philadelphia orchestra. In glowing language, the younger jurist told how Yehudi Menuhin. a gangling youth of 17, had come before the audience, awkward, ill-at-ease, had lifted his bow and at once had held the audience spellbound. “Ah." said Holmes with a sigh, after Stone had finished. "What a triumph! I sometimes think that I would give ten years of my life to be able to play -ike that." "Yes.” replied Justice Stone, "but some of us would give ten years of our lives to be able to write opinions like yours.” Justice Holmes brightened, showed that even he enjoys praise. Then after a momen t pause, he said: "My boy.”—Stone is only 62—"God sees through all this modesty.” 8 8 8 MEMBERS of congress, homeward bound, pay for railroao tickets at the rate of 3.6 cents a mile islightlv less to points south and west). Adding Pullman costs, they pay roughly 5 or 6 cents a mile. Uncle Sam pays them 15 cents a mile. The biggest hand-out is to the two resident commissioners from the Philippine Islands, who each get 51.500 t 52,000 prior to the economy act), whether th£v go home or not. 8 8 8 THE NRA consumers’ advisory board slowly is making progress in its protection of the American public. It has not succeeded as yet in putting requirements for proper grading into a human food code. But in the dog food code it has just scored a signal success. The code contains not only specific prohibitions and penalties for short measure and deceptive containers, but the industry is required to set up strict standards of quality based on physiological values, and also must establish the machinery to see to it that these regulations are enforced. 8 8 8 ONE congratulatory message received by Henry Fletcher, following his election as Republican national chairman, was from an old Democratic friend. Frank Polk, secretary of state under Wilson.

nations of the continent stew in their own juice. a a a THIS attitude, it is charged, has led Germany to believe she can go the limit in rearming and Britain will not interfere. And if France occupies the Rhineland, or otherwise resorts to force to stop Germany, Britain will let them fight it out between themselves. This Britain could do, despite the Locarno agreement, by claiming that France, as well as Germany, was the aggressor and that the treaties, therefore, no longer bound her to come to the aid of the victim. France, on the other hand, more and more convinced that she may bs left to face her rearmed and aggressive neighbor alone, is on the point not only of strengthening her fighting forces, but is already reinforcing her ring of alliances about Germany.

Wired Polk: "You are just the man for the place. Your experience in Mexico untangling revolutions ought to help you a lot in this new job.” . . . The morning after the senate agriculture committee’s interrogation of Professor Rex Tugwell was a sad occasion for "Cotton Ed” Smith, who had led the hue and cry against the young brain truster. . . . "Cotton Ed” read every morning paper he could lay his hands on, and what he found turned his heart to stone. ... To a visitor he cried bitterly: “The press of the country has gone to the dogs. These stories are a mass of inaccuracies. Why, the biggest event of the hearing, the applause that greeted my speech, is completely suppressed.” ... If only Uvalde. Tex., could see VicePresident Garner's new official limousine! ... Anew super-stream-line rfiodel; long, slinky, and as shiny as a rew dime, it is the last word in "class.” .. . When the stocky little VP settles back in its luxurious cushions, he is practically lost to sight. The new- membership drive pamphlet of the National Republican Club is one of the most effective political documents put out by any party in a long time. . . That perennial juvenile "Young Teddy” Roosevelt, "distant cousin” to F. D. R. (according to Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth), is author of the booklet. . . . Miss Frances (Robby) Robinson, secretary to General Hugh Johnson, continues to dazzle feminine Washington with her attire. . . . Her latest is an ensemble, obtained in New York, consisting of a red hat, white jacket, candy-striped blouse (that looks like crepe paper, but isn’t), navy blue skirt, and blue-and-white shoes. 'Convricht 1934, bv United Featun

Syndicate. Inc.t PLAN WORLD’S FAIR TRIPS FOR CITY BOYS Tour of Chicago Also Included in Y. >l. C. A. Itinerary. The first of a series of boys’ trips to A Century of Progress, Chicago, under Y. M. C. A. sponsorship, will start tomorrow with V. D. Parker, boys' secretary, in charge. The trips, similar to those inaugurated by the association last summer. take the boys first to the Hyde Park Y. M. C. A., where they will reside while in Chicgao, and provide. in addition to tours of the fair, a planned recreational program and visits to points of interest in Chicago. A group of fathers and older brothers is accompanying the first boys’ group. Reservations will be accepted until Monday noon. ENTERS DRAMA SCHOOL Former Manual Student Awarded Scholarship at Cincinnati. Art Reiser. 1316 Union street, has been awarded a scholarship in the Schuster Martin Dramatics school, Cincinnati, it was announced today. Young Reiser was graduated from Manual Training high school two years ago. He was prominent in elocution and dramatics in school and has appeared with amateur groups here.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The late Sir Edward Grey, who carried the reproach, “He could have stopped the World war. but didn’t.”

A STRONGER, bolder leadership in Great Britain, it is felt, might head off the impending armaments race, which, by universal consent, can hardly fail to wind up in another Armageddon, out of which, despite her efforts to isolate herself, Britain can not hope to remain. “The blame for lack of direction of British foreign policy, however,” Wickham Steed, former

PROGRAM COMPLETED FOR BUTLER INSTITUTE Religious Symposium to Be Held July 3 to 5. Final arrangements for the annual midsummer institute, July 3 to 5, sponsored by the Butler university college of religion and the Indiana Christian Missionary Society, have been made by Dr. Frederick D. Kershner, college of religion dean. The program will consist of discussions by ministers and laymen, principal lectures being given by Dr. A. T. Robertson, Southern Baptist seminary president, Louisville. The institute will be open without charge to all interested ministers and laymen. ■DADDY' BROWNING IS DYING IN NEW YORK Famed Realtor-Lover of Front Pages Is Paralyzed. Uy United, l’ress NEW YORK, June 25.—Edward B. (Daddy) Browning, 60, whose platonic and not-so-platonic love affairs made front-page news for years, was reported dying today, victim of a cerebral hemorrhage. None of the young women he beneficently daddied through his flush years as an elderly man-about-town, not even Frances (Peaches) Browning, was present at the hospital door to inquire as to his chances of living. Physicians said that his left side is paralyzed, and held out no hope of recovery.

Indianapolis Tomorrow

Prohibition party, Twelfth District, Berea Church of Christ, 2 p. m. Purchasing Agents, luncheon, Washington. Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool. Gyro Club, luncheon, SpinkArms. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club Architectural Club, luncheon, Architects and Builders’ building. American Chemical Society, luncheon, Severin. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Phi Delta Delta, luncheon, Columbia Club. Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority, Claypool, all day. Variety Club, luncheon, Claypool.

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editor of the London Times, and one of the keenest observers :n Europe, "can not justly be laid entirely at the door of Sir John Simon. "Sir John is a lawyer and a good one. But he needs a brief. And none has been given him. “Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and the rest of the cabinet must oe blamed along with him. They have all followed a policy of drift, from the Manchurian quarrel down through the Lytton report to the present disarmament fiasco. "They have followed a policy of wait and see, only to be surprised at last by whatever turned up.” tt tt tt r T' , HOUGH leaders in Britain are split widely about what can be done to stop it, they agree that the next major war will see vast industrial centers wiped out and cities filled with unarmed civilians destroyed. They also agree that the only thing that will prevent such a conflict is a world peace organization so strong that a would-be aggressor will not “aggress,” for the simple reason that he knows he can not win. But while Sir John wavers uncertainly, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou goes touring the Balkans. Hardly had be unpacked his valise upon his return from Warsaw and Prague than he set out again for Geneva to discuss with his colleagues Germany’s rearmament. Back to Paris for a fresh supply of linen, he entrained almost at once to drop in on Premier Mussolini in Rome and Prime Minister MacDonald in London. Denied elsewhere the security which she has been demanding for years, France seems on the point

Bravery Is Lauded City Man, Gunner’s Mate, Commended for Saving Seaman’s Life; May Get Silver Medal.

VIRGIL SMITH, son of Samuel I. Smith, R. R. 3, Box 768, and a gunner’s mate, third class, on the U. S. S. Texas, has been commended officially by Colonel Henry L. Roosevelt, acting navy secretary, for saving a shipmate’s life under dramatic circumstances.

•JOHN DOE’ IT IS TO AT LEAST THREE STATE POSTMASTERS

Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker, usually gentle and placid, tore his hair in despair today because of several rural postmasters who took his instructions too literally. Sending out questionnaires to obtain information about money order' policies in small-town postoffices, Mr. Seidensticker advised them to sign the form. "John Doe, postmaster.” Three of his questionnaires were returned with no other name attached than “John Doe, postmaster.” CITY MAN IS HONORED Laurence Wingerter Named Director of Junior C. of C. Laurence A. Wingerter, 27 West St. Joseph street, is one of twentyfour men named to the board of directors of the Junior Chambers of Commerce of America. Mi-. Wingerter’s selection was announced by the national convention of the organization at Miami Saturday. Mr. Wingerter was president of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber ol Commerce when it was re-estab-lished in the spring of 1933. PLAN SCOUT FUN FEST Troop 69 Will Hold Carnival to Finance Headquarters. The annual Boy Scout carnival and fun festival of Troop 69 will be held July 21 at the southwest corner of Thirty-eighth and Meridian streets. Plans were completed at a meeting of the parents’ council of the troop last night in Utley hut, troop headquarters. Froceeds from the celebration will be used to finance the troop headquarters.

By George Clark

of bringing together the most powerful coalition Europe has seen since the alliance against Napoleon. a a a WHEN M. Barthou calls on Messrs. MacDonald and Mussolini he will likely be able to speak, in effect, not only for France, but for thfc'Soviet Union. Poland. Czechoslovakia, Rumania. Yugoslavia and Belgium. Such is the roster of the entente now in the making. The attitude of Britain in the face of the new lineup now forming on the continent has yet to be divulged. It was to find out and. if possible, to outplay the French and Russians that Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler made his spectacular flight to Venice to confer with Signor Mussolini. An understanding between Germany and Great Britain would go far to counterbalance the FrancoSoviet entente. But there seems little likelihood of that coming about so long as the present regime lasts in Berlin. Britain and- Italy are between the devil and the deep sea. Both dislike to see France too strong. Until Hitler came along, both were showing increasing sympathy for Germany. But now they are scared. At present they are pretty well convinced that, given the power, the Nazis might try to sweep Europe, whereas Fiance merely desires to preserve the status quo. When it comes Foreign Minister Barthou’s turn to visit London and Rome he will almost certainly emphasize that point. He will probably say, in effect; “Support France and Russia and have peace, or support the Hitlerites and have war. Messieurs, take your choice.” It’s up to Great Britain. THE END

This was announced today by the local naval recruiting station, which also revealed that Colonel Roosevelt had recommended Mr. Smith for the treasury department’s silver life-saving medal. Mr. Smith enlisted here Sept. 9, 1930. The rescue occurred Feb. 16, 1934. when Mr. Smith ajid seaman W. E. Baker, also of the U. S. S. Texas, were thrown into the sea from a launch. Seaman Baker was half-dressed in a heavy diving suit. Weighted down by this. Seaman Baker would have been drowned had not Mr. Smith wrapped his legs around Seaman Baker’s waist in a desperate scissors hold, clinging with his hands to a projection on the side of the U. S. S. Texas. A boat from the U. S. S. Oklahoma, anchored nearby, came to the aid of the two men. At that time Seaman Baker's waterlogged diving suit made him so heavy that he could not be lifted into the boat without its being emptied. "Your conduct in disregard of your own personal safety is in keeping with the best traditions of the naval service,” Colonel Roosevelt wrote to Mr. Smith in his recommendation. RETRACTS THEFT STORY Truck Driver Admits Sl5O Robbery Tale False, Police Say. Howard McKinzie, 20, of 1442 North New Jersey street, truck driver, has a brilliant imagination, police claim. After an hour’s grilling by detectives last night McKinzie is said to have broken down and admitted that his dramatic story of being robbed of $l5O of company funds was untrue. McKinzie had told police that a Negro woman had picked his pocket. Detectives were unable to locate the woman. LUTZ, COY TO PARLEY State Officials to Explain Dillinger Case to parole Officers. Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general, and Wayne Coy, secretary to Governor Paul V- McNutt, will be speakers tomorrow and Wednesday at a conference of central states parole officers at Chicago. Mr. Lutz will discuss various phases of the John Dillinger case and Mr. Coy, in charge of state penal affairs, will tell the story of Dillinger’s parole. PR E mTeR~fTc ES~CO U RT Canadian Official Charged With Seducing Stenographer. By United Press EDMONTON, Alberta, June 25. John E. Brownlee, 50-year-old prime minister of Alberta province, faced a judge and jury of six men today, charged with seducing Vivian MacMillan, 22-year-old stenographer formerly employed by the govern- | ment. WOMAN, 105, IS DEAD i Injuries From Fall Prove Fatal to New England Resident. By United Press RIDGEFIELD, Conn.. June 25. Mrs. Elizabeth Gage, who wanted to rear a large family and die young, is dead at 105, as a result of a fall. She never had seen a motion picture or ridden in an airplane and said she had never tasted water or liquor. She always drank tea. Woman Hanged in Bermuda By United Press ' HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 25 The first woman to he hanged in Bermuda since 1719. was executed today. She was a Negro who had i killed her husband with a hatchet.

Fair Enough MKIW New York, N. Y., June 25. United States Steel Corporation, 71 Broadway, New York, N. Y. GENTLEMEN— I have to do quite a bit of gettingaround in my business and I wonder if you would be good enough to visa my passport and grant me a safe conduct past the properties of your corporation, such as your plant at Gary, Ind„ where my friend, Talcott Powell of Indianapolis, was picked

up, detained, deprived of his private papers and bossed around a guard room by a detachment of your company's army a few days ago. I do not wish to go on your company's property at all, but, like Mr. Powell, who was standing some distance oft making some notes preparatory to covering a war between your army and the steel laborers, I might find it necessary to pass close. In view of the delicate military situation which exists between your company's army and the people of the United States, such as Mr. Powell, I would like to

make all the necessary diplomatic arrangements beforehand. For example, I might some day have to go down to the customs house in New York to see a man about my income tax and the route would bring me pretty close to your office. I do not want to have any trouble, gentlemen, so I would be grateful if you would let me know what streets I may travel on my way past 71 Broadway and at what hours of the day in order to avoid being picked up and detained, as Mr. Powell's captors put it. 800 Just a Suggestion T THINK that Is a nice way of putting it, at that, gentlemen. It sounds much nicer and more in keeping with the prestfge of your company than to say slapped into the boob or tossed into the can. It is not up to me to make suggestions to the army of the United States Steel Corporation, but I wonder if you would take it amiss if I should propose a plan which might promote the convenience of both your ahny and the people of the United States. I would suggest that your company turn out a colored rn’ap showing the national boundaries of your company’s territory and its provinces and principalities with a wide border in another color denoting the zone of operations in w ? hich American citizens might encounter your patrols. As matters stand, if I should go down to the customs house to see the man about that income tax. I might be picked up a mile from your office and detained. How do I know what they might do if they should pick me up as they did my friend Powell, on American territory, rush ms over the national border into your territory and talk about locking me up overnight? If they can lock me up overnight maybe they can shoot me, and I am writing to you to avoid all trouble. Just tell me where American citizens may go. -Also, now that I am pouring out my soul to you, I wish you would tell me how a fellow goes about it to get permission to keep a private army in this country. I always thought the United States army was the only army that was allowed to operate in tire United States. But I am not very bright and I learn something new every now and again. tt tt tt How About His Army IF you are allowed to keep an army with the right to "grab American citizens out of American territory and boss them around, maybe I could get permission to keep a Tom Thumb army in the cellar of my house and snatch citizeps within a radius of a block. Or do you have to have the excuse of labor trouble to keep an army? But that would be easy. Every time a farmer has to fire a farmhand or a suburban housewife has trouble with a maid, that is labor trouble. Is it legal, under those circumstances, to put in an army and shoot the farmhand or the maid and kidnap American citizens out of American territory? People keep telling me that your executives are grand fellows, personally and socially. But do you know what I say to that, gentlemen? I say it is no more fun to be grabbed and bossed around by a nice fellow’s army than by Adolph Hitler’s army. I am not interested in you personally or socially, but in avoiding trouble with your army. Not knowing how much territory your army does take in, I must say that I think it is pretty nice of you to let us continue to live in the United States, That shows that you are good fellows with hearts of gold but I do not want to get sentimental. I just want you to tell me what I have to do and where I am allowed to be to avoid capture by your patrols. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

CHEMISTS have just completed a study to learn what metals may be safely used for wine-mak-ing equipment. The tests were conducted to find the most useful alloys for modernizing wineries. In the course of the tests, 125 brilliantly clear samples of sauteme, port and claret were innoculated with the citrates of seven different metals to determine the influence of metal wine-making equipment on the color, brilliance, flavor and bouquet of the wines. Four hundred and three tests were made to determine the corrosion rates of various metals. Results of the tests have been reported to the American Chemical Society by H. E. Searle and F. L. Laque of the International Nickel Company, New York, and R. H. Dohrow of the Canadian Wineries, Niagara Falls, Ont. Nickel, the three investigators report may be used throughout the winery without affecting the color, flavor or bouquet of the wine. It may be used safely for bottling tanks, juice tanks, mixing tanks and open fermenters. These deductions are coiroborated by the fact that nickel is now in successful use in a number of wineries. 8 8 8 AN alloy known as inconel, consisting of 80 per cent nickel, 6 per cent iron and 13 per cent chromium is also adequate for all winery equipment according to the report. Another alloy known as 18-8 alloy, consists of 8 per cent nickel, 18 per cent chromium and 74 per cent iron. It is sufficiently resistant to corrosion for all stages of manufacture except storage and possibly fermenting and blending. Aluminum, copper or monel metal, an alloy which incudes 29 per cent copper, 68 per cent nickel and 1.5 per cent iron, may be employed in equipment in which the liquid does not remain for long periods, such as juice tanks. Many wineries now use copper,* copper alloys,. aluminum and monel metal in pipe lines, pumps, filling machines and the like The use of iron, steel and tin was dscouraged in the report. "Wine will tolerate c:ily small quantities of tin,” the report says, "and the metal has a comparatively high corrosion rate. It is self-evident that plain iron and steel are dangerous materials to use for any winery purpose that involves contact of these metals with wines that are being processed. Small quanties of iron induce turbidity or cloudiness in white wines, and react with tannin compounds in red wines to make them dark.” 808 BRILLIANCE of the wine, an important item for marketing purposes, was effected by amounts of metallic citrates too small to influence either the flavor or the bouquet, the experimenters found Iron made port pale, while tin gave it a purplish, cloudy cast. Claret became dark and muddy in the presence of iron and iron and tin caused sauterne to become pale and turbid. In the past wood, particularly oak, has been the favorite for winery equipment. Oak. it is believed assists in aging and processing the wines.

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