Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1934 — Page 7

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h-Jeew io Me HEVWOOD BROUN PRESIDENT ROO3EYELTS vacation message to the American people seems to me one of the most persuasive public addresses which he has yet delivered. Hus device of propounding five questions to the ettiaen known a Mr You not only as effective, but also a fair and legitimate approach. My own impression is that there will be an overwhelming tide of aves in response to the query’, “Are you better off than you were last year?'' The in his speech promised to talk a little more fully later ;n the year about his plans for the future. It seems to me that this address ought to be tne most important communication in the history of this administration. The present report is admirable as far as it goes, but its major premise is not wholly sound. The reply includes only’ one set of critics. It is an answer based upon the assump-

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speech President Roosevelt will take up in some detail those toes which have not been stepped upon and offer promise of stamping yet to come or eloquent explanation for the exceptions. There are more doubting Thomases than the President is yet willing to admit. He mentioned just two classifications: First, those who seek special political privilege, and second, those who seek special financial privilege. ’’ By no means does that cover the complete ficid of doubters. 0 0 0 Just Some Pushovers GENTLEMEN such as Oeden Mills or Jim Watson are such obvious setups that there ought to be a popular clamor for anew lot of sparring partners. The reactionary opponents are a target for solid smashes to the chin. But some of us want to see what Mr. Roosevelt can do against an adversary who does not wade in with his chm. We are waiting to ascertain just what he can do with his left. Asa veteran ringside critic I have scored every round between F. D. and Kid 'Rugged* Individualism in favor of Franklin. His lead on points is enormous. But can he score a knockout? Time will tell. Kid 'Rugged' has no science at all and his punch is not what it use a to be. but in all fairness it must be admitted that the big bozo can take it and that he alwavs could. There's no jabbing him into a long count. Both the shoulders and the soul will have to go into the punch which puts him down and out. And when Kid <Rugged > has been disposed of anew challenger will vault over the ropes. Battling 'Permanent* Readjustment is eager to have a crark at the title As yet he is little more than a middleweight, but there seems to be ample promise that he will grow and fill out. What will the Roosevelt campaign be against this young and up-and-coming .challenger? In other words I doubt very much whether Americans are going to be long satisfied with the status of being better off than they were last year. That was not so hot an interlude. President Roosevelt's inquiry smacks a little too much of the dental interrogation which follows the injection of novocame—“do you feel anything now? ’ Every old toothache victim is likely to reply, "Sure I feel better for the moment, but when are you going to yank it out?" ana So How About It? IT is a useful job to indirate an infected area, but it is even more important that it should b? drained and obliterated. I think particularly that too many palliatives have been applied in the NRA offices. Johnson has pronounced doom over many a molar and then allowed the patient to get out with a little soothing syrup in the cavity’. The relationship between the workers in the heavy industries and the employers still remains unsettled A truce is merely a breathing spell and does not constitute a settlement. Having mopped up h° floor with his conservative critics I trust that in his next appearance the variously assorted radical and liberal groups will command the earnest attention of President Roosevelt. The old devil Clause Seven A of the national industrial act. still needs a vast amount of confirmation and clarification. The government, so it would seem, has very’ definitely established the theory that the right to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining through self-chosen representatives never shall be denied. The law as it stands i.s excellent, but as yet it is merely an experiment in slow motion. In the next address I hope and pray that Franklin D. Roosevelt will discuss not only the present situation of labor, but also explain in all proper specificity precisely what he intends to do about it. Copvriht. 1934. bv The Times*

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE Dionne quintuplets will continue to be ft subject of vast interest to scientists throughout their lives Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, winner of the 1933 Nobel prize in medicine for his investigations into the functioning of heredity, believes that their lives will be of enduring importance to science. It is assumed by scientists that the quintuplets are identical, that is. that all five babies came into existence as the result of the partition or splitting up of one fertilized egg cell. If this is the rase, it means that all five have exactly the same physical inheritance. Speaking more technically, it means that all five have exactly the same complement of chromosomes. Dr. Morgan is the great pioneer in the study of the importance of chromosomes and it was for this work that he was awarded the Nobel prize. The researches of Dr. Morgan and others have revealed that the chromosomes, the little threads of protein in the nuclei of the egg cell and sperm cell which unite to bring the new individual into existence. are the carriers of heredity. Localized in the chromosomes are the factors which cause the various characteristics of the organism. These factors, whose exact nature is unknown despite the fact that the exact location of many of them in the chromosomes is known, are called the genes. a a a STUDIES in the past of identical twins have revealed the fact that they show similarities of structure down to the smallest details, even in such characters as their finger prints. The problem which biologists are interested in studying is that of the psychological nature of identical twins. They wish to find out whether or not such twins start in life with psychic equipment as identical as their physical equipment or whether the laws of inheritance are not applicable to the mental field. For this reason, biologists have been making great efforts to obtain records of identical twins who were reared apart. To date, the data collected have not led to any definite conclusion. a a m THE old argument about the importance of heredity and environment still gees on in the world of biology. A few years ago. Professor Watson, developing his theory of behaviorism, discounted heredity as having no bearing whatsoever upon mental development. His notion was that any child could be made Into a great violinist or pianist or trained for any other profession or occupation. He believed that early training—"conditioning,'' as he preferred to call it—told the whole story.

tion that the only possible criticism of the administration comes from those who feel and spar that present policies are too far-reaching and too radical. It is heartening to hear a national executive declare, “In the working out of a great national program which seeks 'he greatest good of the greatest number, it is true that the toes of some people are being stepped on and are going to be epped on. ’ But my own feeling is that certain of the little pigs who went to market have as yet been too carefully coddled. I trust that in the later

WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SEE

U. S. Relief Plans Revive Hope in Misery-Ridden Virgin Islands

BY RODNEY DUTCHER Timn-XIA Seric- Writer 'Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc). A\ r ’SHINGTON, June 30. The Virgin Islands, which Herbert W Hoover sorrowfully called “an effective poorhouse" when he saw them, are being converted into a subsistence homestead. President Roosevelt is about to see the beginning of the project—perhaps the most advanced piece of economic planning, paternalistic rehabilitation, and federal entry into business in his administration thus far. Every one agrees the Virgins have had a dirty deal since this country forced their sale by Denmark for *25.000.000 lest Germany grab them for a war-time submarine base. Mr. Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Harold Ickes and Undersecretary Rexford Tugwell have enthusiastically promoted the plan to make them content and relatively prosperous again. The government itself will revive the rum industry which once flourished. Prohibition, which went to the islands w’ith the flag, had much to do with their impoverishment. 00 000 POOR but beautiful, those islands. There are about fifty of them, all but three—St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John—uninhabited. When Columbus discovered them in 1493 he was so startled by their beauty and numbers that he named them after St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. Coral reefs, clear blue water, bold headlands, white beaches, palms, turquoise bays, and harbors lined with hills are part of the picture. Uncle Sam. drumming up tourist trade for the islands, has leaflets describing the Virgins as a marvelous vacation land and is building a handsome hotel at St. Thomas with PWA money.

There are only 22.000 islanders and but 2.000 of them are pure white. Os a working population of 8 000 about 5.000 have been on relief rolls or projects. With marriage licenses and wedding ceremonies often an unattainable luxury, 65 per cent of births are illegitimate. St. Croix is the largest island. It contains about two-thirds of the population, mast of the sugar canp and other agriculture. Mast of the land is now given to cattle grazing. The sugar market .slump and prohibition cut sugar acreage from 18.000 to 5.000 and the pink boll worm long ago wiped out a flourishing cotton business. 000 MOST of the St. Thomas people live in the big port of St. Thomas, whose bay is dotted with green islands. The port became a crossroads for the mariners who opened the new world, a point of transshipment. bunkering, and provisioning and for decades the wholesale center of the American slave industry. The coming of big, oil-burning ships with their own refrigeration. entry of wireless, development of other West Indian ports, and the sugar-rum-cotton collapse took most of the shipping away. Paul M. Pearson is the American Governor. He and his staff work under dirction of the Interior Department. The colonial councils of St. Croix and St. Thomas pass the island laws, subject to the Governor’s veto. The Governor may also issue executive orders tantamount to laws. 000 LIVING conditions among the rural people and the sugar workers usually are those of squalor. Cane workers earn from

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

WASHINGTON, June 30.—N0 man in the New Deal is receiving such concentrated attention from Wall Street these days as the 35-year-old youngster who will play a big role on the new’ stock market board—James McCauley Landis. He has become the most carefully studied man in the capital. There is not a thing about him Wall Streeters have not investigated. They know he was born in Tokio, son of a Presbyterian missionary, inherits the hard-headed, scrupulous morality of his parents. They know that he is shrew’d at poker, is one of the best contract bridge players in the capital, that he worked his way through Princeton by selling published copies of his lecture notes to less brilliant classmates, that he holds his liquor well, loves to dance, and plays a fast game of tennis. They know also that he is one of the most indefatigable workers in the capital, frequently spends all night in his office, snatching only three or four hours of sleep on an office couch; that he wrote the securities act under similar pressure. All this and much more Wall Street has looked up. But what worries them most is Landis’ long association with Felix Frankfurter and Justice Brandeis. 000 000 AT Harvard Law School, Landis was Frankfurter's star pupil, collaborated with him in writing a book on the supreme court, and then became secretary to Justice Brandeis. It was through these two men that Landis was brought to Washington to w-rite the securities act. later received his appointment to the federal trade commission.

There is no question that Landis is one of the most hard-hit-ting young progressives in Washington. that he believes in ruthless surgery on the running sores of Wall Street. One thing about him, however, that pleases Wall Street, is that he is fair. He is rigid in his honesty. forthright, uncompromising —but he is fair. Landis has aged perceptibly during his year in Washington. Once a shy, somewhat callow youth, he is now a confident, sure-fire man. If he does not get an overdose of egocentricism toward which he already is veering he may carve out for himself a unique record for youthful accomplishment in government regulation. a a a "VTOT many know it, but General Johnson's health has become a source of worry to his friends. Twelve months of frenzied activity as boss of the NRA have taken a noticeable toll on the physique of the massively built cavalry' officer. To those close to him the telltale marks of this terrific tension are disturbing. Endless hours at a desk with no outdoor exertion, have added twenty pounds of weight. When Johnson went to the hospital after returning from West Virginia last week, he was put to bed with a fever. The doctors found that an old abscess had become active although not serious. A week, or two, of complete rest, they said, would insure recovery. But not for the general. A few days later he was back at his desk, not only up to his neck in work, but completing arrangements for a fifteen days’ speaking tour through the middle west. a a a THE effect of the long nervous strain also is worrying Johnsons friends. Naturally hair-triggered, he now is more so than ever before. The terrific load and staggering pressure have done things t* his temper.

30 to 90 cents a day when they can get work and one-room huts are the rule. The wealthier class is small and until subsistence homesteading arrived 80 per cent of the land was owned by fewer than a score of people. Despite poverty and squalor, the islands are almost entirely free of serious crime. For months they haven't had a man in jail. No one remembers when the last murder trial may have been. The three big islands get along with but thirteen policemen. Empty jails are in part due to Governor Pearson's policy of law enforcement by education, involving leniency for minor offenders and plenty of probation. Governor Pearson’s idea is to make the islanders one big happy family. Wealthy land owners dislike him because he is opposed to special privilege. 000 T'HE annual contribution by congress to meet the islands’ deficit has been about $350,000 lately. The first homesteading project began under Hoover in 1931, when $106,000 was appropriated for land purchases, including a site for a tourist hotel at St. Thomas. Recently the Subsistence Homesteads division here added $46,000 for housing, to follow the land program. Within the last year, about $500,000 in relief funds and sl,300.000 in PWA money has been allocated. Virgin Islanders will also be among beneficiaries of the AAA sugar control program. Homesteading has been so successful to date that more land will be acquired and subdivided. Homesteaders are reaping their first crops this year.

An ordinary man long since would have collapsed. Johnson still drives - ahead, as unstinting of himself as ever. Twelve to fifteen hours still constitutes his normal day's w'ork. But he "blows up' ’on slight provocations. Johnson’s friends are urging him to take a month’s complete rest. They warn that if he doesn't ea.se up. not even his iron constitution can stand the strain. ana -p ALPH WILLIAM CLOSE, K. C., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Union of South Africa, with his wife, recently gave a tea. A number of members of congress with their wives were invited. Several backwoods congressmen did not go. The reason was brought out in an interesting conversation between their respective wives. Mrs. X: *By the way, are you going to the reception of the South African minister?’’ Mrs. Y: "Oh. no. we couldn't do that. It would kill my husband politically if it became known that he went to a colored reception.” Mrs. X: "But are you sure they are colored?” Mrs. Y: "Well, they must be. They are from South Africa.” Mrs. X: "That’s what I told my husband, but he said that as long as it was a minister from a foreign country it would be all right. But I don’t know.” Mrs. Y: "I wouldn’t go. You are sure to meet so many colored people there.” Note—The Union of South Africa. a part of the British Empire, has stricter Jim Crow laws than parts of the United States of America. a a a SENATE progressives are planning to give Wisconsin a big dose of campaign oratory this fall. . . .The entire group, led by Norris and Borah, will take the stump in the state on behalf of "Young Bob” La Follette, running for reelectoin on a third party ticket.

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But it was necessary to capitalize industry and agriculture, if a large, permanent relief problem were to be avoided. The answer to that is the Virgin Islands Cos., incorporated with $1,000,000 of PWA money to buy up the island's largest sugar plant —long abandoned acquire the necessary cane land, produce sugar and rum, and operate the new’ hotel at St. Thomas for tourists. tS tt tt ABOUT 4.000 acres of cane land will be bought and divided among hundreds of farmers on the subsistence homestead basis, the company to buy the crops. Farmers and factory W’orkers will be given a liberal .return and profits will be used for more homesteading, housing, and other phases of the social-economic program. The famous old St. Croix rum will be marketed again. Meanwhile, the St. Croix colonial council has forbiaden shipment of any green, cheap rum to the United States. Other features of the islands’ program includes slum clearance, old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, revival of cotton growing, improvement of the bay rum industry, crop diversification, educational extension, and fostering of handicraft industries. Next—The Canal Zone.

STREET TO BE WIDENED Plans Ordered Drawn for Thirtieth Street Improvement. Plans for the widening of Thirtieth street between the canal and White river were ordered yesterday by the works board, following a preliminary hearing. A. H. Moore, city engineer, said that the cost would be approximately $20,000 for widening the street five feet on each side. Spelling of Name Corrected The Times has been asked to correct the spelling of a name in the birth columns. Charles and Ruth Metzger inot Metzei) are parents of a baby girl born at St. Vincent's hospital Wednesday. . . . Keeping busy is one thing that does not bother Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkinds. . . Asked if he had been offered the directorship of the new housing program, he grunted: “Huh, it's not what you are offered around here, but what you are ordered to take.” . . . Henry Prather Fletcher, new Republican national chairman, is an enthusiastic fight fan, never misses a championship bout if he can help it. . . . Every senator, and most members of the house, have CWA paintings hung in their offices. . . . The paintings are government property, officially can not be removed.

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A gem in barbaric setting, St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, presents a scene of breath-taking beauty to the traveler entering its famous harbor . . . with its pastel-colored houses, red-tile roofed, its tropical flowers and palms, and the hills towering up from the water’s edge. A smile for every one has the cookie vendor, upper left, who carries her wares on her head through streets of St. Thomas . . . Upper right, a concrete and stucco house built with PWA funds near St. Croix, in the homestead campaign to replace one-room shacks like the one, center right . . . Below’, oxen doing duty in the isles’ agricultural comeback. This is the second of a scries of four articles on what President Roosevelt will see as he visits United States possessions on his way to Hawaii and after he reaches his destination.

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WHEN a circus came to town years ago, the children asked their father: “When does th-; circus train come in?" That was a command veiled in a question that thousands of fathers answered and prepared to take the children to the railroad yards to see the circus unload. j

It is different nowadays because the Sam B. Dill circus with Tom Mix and Tony as the stars drive over the same highways that father does with his family. The Dill circus this season is moving from town to town as a motor caravan of 107 large motor cars and 68 trailers. The stars travel on specially made “bungalows on wheels.” Tom Mix's “palace on wheels” is

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said to have cost $40,000 and has everything from a bath up to an ultra-modern icebox. This is true of many other bungalow homes with tne Dill circus. Others prefer to travel in their own motor cars, staying at hotels. According to Dan Pyne, press representative, the performers like the bungalows much better than Pullmans and predicts that in time all circuses will travel by motor. Tony Sr. and Tony Jr. travel on a special truck with the Mix bungalow following. An attendant is with these priceless horses all the time. More than seventy horses are carried by the Dill circus on special trucks. The Dill circus will be in the city next Friday and Saturday. a a a THE PLAYERS DE MILLER are a group of players originating from a play production group at Butler university in the summer of 1933. Mrs. Eugene Fife was the teacher then and has been the moving spirit since that has kept this group from disintegrating. Besides building up the players, the group also has built a theater in the basement of the home of E. Pierre De Miller, 6039 College avenue. Their plan of production has been based upon mutual work and having as broad a field as possible. So far, they have produced a different type program each production. "The Marriage Gown.” an Indiana play, will be given for the play production and selection groups tonight. This will be done in a rather unique fashion in order to demonstrate the proper use of lights, sound effects, music, and acting in order to accomplish a mood progression. “Ghosts,” an Ibsen play, is now being cast under the direction of H. Coucheron Aamot, and will be given this fall. Any one interesested in trying out for this play can do so at this time. The Theatre De Miller is exceptional inasmuch as they have accomplished a complete theater set-up in the basement so that an idea can easily be worked out. The small space, instead of being a limited feature, as one would expect, is a definite advantage, ___

Fdir Enough MM* MB! NEW YORK. N. Y., June 30.—A1l roads lead to Newport. R. I. where John Jacob (Jack* Astor, stepson of Enzo Fiermonte, the fighting pugilistic idol of sunny Italy, marries Ellen Tuck (Tucky) French, daughter of Francis Ormond iTaxii French, the old-time Broadway hackman. this afternoon. The match, hailed by the fans and critics as a perfect “natural," promises to be the matrimonial sensation of the summer season and the crowd is expected to roach bumper proportions.

No estimate on the attendance could be secured from the management, but shrewd wedding fans and experts who have been attending such affairs for years look for the biggest turnout of dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts since the first marriage of Cornelius (Scoop) Vanderbilt Jr., the daredevil reporter, whose exclusive stories on the intimate life of his own family have won him a place in journalism. In fact, the management seems to have underestimated the drawnng-powers of today's attraction for the wedding is being held in Trinity church.

Newport, which has a limited seating capacity compared with some of the big wedding arenas in New York. This underestimate probably is due to a mistake in judging fan psychology. The match originally was to have been between Jack and Miss Eileen Gillespie of New York, but there was a disagreement involving financial terms and other matters. The deal was called off and Miss Gillespie's father, in the role of manager, held up Jack's forfeit, a diamond ring worth SIOO,OOO, until he apologized. For a time it looked as though Jack would not get married at all this season, but Tucky agreed to meet him at the church and the management decided to go through with the wedding with this substitution. 0 0 0 Fans Greet Substitution ORDINARILY, a substitution tends to dampen the interest of the fans, but in this case the ballyhoo built up tremendously. Thanks to Miss Gillespie's father, who issued a series of ringing publicity annour cements, the present match now’ promises to outdraw the original. The fact is that, notwithstanding the belated showmanship of Lawrence Lewis (Pa) Gillespie, the French family has much stronger drawing powers. Pa Gillespie's contribution to the excitement w’as unintentional, but Francis Ormond (Taxi) French, the old Broadway hackman, is a master of ballyhoo and has co-operated w’hole-heartedly in the publicity. He has taken a block of tickets himself, inviting Putzy Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler's man, for one of his guests, and will be present in person exerting that sure-fire personality which won him columns of publicity as the society hackman in New’ York. Between them. Taxi and Putzy are a combination who undoubtedly will draw many fans. From present indications it does not appear that Jack’s stepfather. Enzo Flermontee, will be present. He is reported to be feeling depressed at this time ■ because the New York prize fight commission refused to permit him to fight Mr. Slapsie Roscnbloom for the light heavyweight championship of the world. This ruling generally is regarded as class discrimination and there is a spirit of revolt in Newport, Bar Harbor and the Long Island Hamptons as a result. 000 Slapsie’s No Better STRICTLY speaking, Slapsie Rosenbloom is no better than anybody else and the prize fight commission's un-American decree is regarded as another blow’ to the constitutional rights of the rich. Efforts now are being made to enlist the aid of the Civil Liberties Union to enjoin the commission from interfering with John Jacob Astor's stepfather’s right to fight Slapsie Rosenbloom. In view of the rather strained situation Slapsie Rosenbloom will not be among the wedding fans in Newport, either. Nevertheless, the attendance is bound to establish a record for the depression and possibly might exceed some of the great turnouts of the old days in New York. Not only has the interest practically doubled since Pa Gillespie’s ringing announcements turned a comparatively routine Astor wedding into a major attraction, but the value of the SIOO,OOO ring has doubled, too. The ring is now’ described as a $200,000 ring and, although none of the fans has been allowed to view it, this estimate is taken in good faith by the public. 6 Your correspondent had hoped to attend the wedding but that looks impossible now 7 as the only journalists who will be accredited are certified society reporters. Your correspondent had hoped to crash carrying the water bucket, for John Jacob Astor’s the puguistic (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN \\f HEN you get to the period we call middle age, there are two systems of the body w-hich demand your special attention-the circulation of the ' blood and the nervous system. These two systems are most directly affected by diet and exercise. They are, therefore, the ones with which you should best assure yourself better health and greater freedom from pain and disease. As I have frequently said, the human body is built with a great many factors of safety. These are especially important in relation to the circulation of the blood and the breathing apparatus. If your heart breaks down, it is possible for it to recover and to become compensated. By "compensated,” I mean, able to do the work that it is called on to do. Even with a loss of a considerable amount of lung area, because of disease, many people live perfectly normal lives. a a a r F'HUS a person with organs that have been damA aged may yet be considered a healthy human being. When, however, the reserve power of the organs breaks down, the situation is serious and demands attention. One of the most important changes brought about by modern civilization is the development of systems of transportation which have greatly lowered the amount of exercise available to most people. Fifty years ago people walked a great deal. Today the motor car, the street car, elevators, trains and other means of transportation are making walking a lost art except for those who play golf. A reasonable amount of exercise is beneficial for health. People whose occupations or the routine of whose lives are such as to interfere seriously with their getting any ordinary exercise, should arrange to walk a little each day to keep their organs at a higher functioning condition. a a a WALKING in the open air is best because most of us, especially those who live in cities, do not get enough fresh air. One of the chief values of moderate exercise is to maintain the circulation of the blood and the elasticity of the blood vessels. An old proverb said, "If you rest, you rust.” Modern knowledge of diet makes it possible for any one with reasonable intelligence to assure himself of the daily consumption of all the foods that are necessary to maintain the best of health. These foods include enough fresh fruits and vegetables and enough milk, meat, and eggs to provide the body with suitable nutrition. Moreover, knowledge of calories has become so widespread that any intelligent person with sufficient will power can control his weight. The spread of information concerning these simple facts of hygiene is certain to add to the S efficiency and usefulness of life during middle age.

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