Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1934 — Page 15

It Seem to Me HEYWOD BMUN HORATIO ALGER JR. was a gentleman who lived by many years too soon. If this amiable chronicler of the careers of newsboys and bootblacks were alive he might quite readily coin a fortune. His .simple tales of honesty triumphant would fit precisely the requirements, of a much harassed motion picture industry. In not one of his many hundreds of books did a single stray suggestion of evil ever creep in. Indeed I am reminded of a remark once made by Jem Gutnail in one Os her night clubs w hile introducing a dancer. And this little girl." said Texas, "hasn't a single *vil thought in her head, or any other for that matter. ’ But possibly I have been a little unfair to Alger. When his stories are taken up for screen adaptation, as I feel sure they must, I shall go with great interest. During several of my more formative years Alger was my favorite author. Perhaps I might add that It? did not have so very much with which to compete for I was brought up to she

age of 16 or 17 exclusively on clean books. Sometimes I wonder whether I am really a useful exhibit of the result of such a system of reading. Naturally I readily might be jnore moral. Again I could b* much less so if it were npt for a constitutional timidity. An earlier experience with the more candid chronicles might have made or marred me. B B B He'd Try Again PERSONALLY I would be willing to do it all over again, if that were possible,

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and take the risk My trouble lay in tne fact that the fictional characters whom I tried to emulate se* standards which were impossible of achievement. Even before I came in contact with the sophistication or Horatio Alger I had found a well beloved book It was called "Six Little Peppers and How The} Grew. Just now it ought to be superb material lor Metro-Goldwyn's next super-super picture. , At any rate from the age of 8 until almost 18 my ambition 'consisted of an ambition to grow up and be at least one Little Pepper. In my freshman year at college I suddenly realized that I never could make it.. Instead of doing the next best and patterning a fter Richard the Lion-Hearted, who was a hot second choice, I merely sulked and refused to play the race at all. Since I couldn't be a Little Pepper I refused ya lift as mucti as* a finger to become Richard. I just decided not to be anything. And if a man ever fulfilled an ambition this was a goal mast definitely attained. Being a # city lad it was not quite passible for me to be protected completely. A few hints of ev.l filtered through, but at least I never was exposed to motion pictures. The process had been invented but nothing like the modern movie house was available in these lorgotten years. I was well out of knee pants—and into long ones of course—before I ever was permitted to attend the cinema. b u n They Were Pirates Then IT was at the Old Eden Muses and consisted of a series of episodes from the Bible. The producer failed to select the best episodes. Gangster stones and gangster films did not exist and if they had I would not have been allowed to go. Yet at the school which I attended we did go in for fantastic imitation of romantic villains. We didn't play gunmen. I ll admit, but we went in for being pirates in rather a big way. All of us had wooden daggers and mine was stained with red paint. Mv name was Teach ialias* Blackbeard. In recess we had duels and marooned each other. Pi et tv nearly next best to being a Little Pepper was the life of a pirate. And this sort of daydreaming arose as far as I can remember practically spontaneously. The more savage play of the modern child always is attributed to the influence of the motion pictures. I have my doubts. I rather think that the very young accept the role of being villains just out of natural deviltry and depravity and aside from any outside influence whatever. Mostly they outgrow these moods. I never did become a pirate and probably it is much too late to start now. • Copyright. 1934. bv The Tiniosl

Today s Science BY DAVII) DIETZ

JULY was ushered in with unusually warm weather in most sections east of the Rocky mountains and with many areas still in serious need of rain. In this respect, the early days of June marked a continuation of the June weather. June was marked by a deficiency of rainfall and an excess of warmth and in many localities ended in a blaze of heat. The United States weather bureau says that a pood many stations reported new records for heat Murine the closing days of June with maxima of 100 decrees or higher rather general in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, northern Missouri. lowa, southern Minnesota. most of Wisconsin and the central plains states. Beneficial showers fell during the first week in July in the southeast, the Atlantic coast states, the Appalachian mountain sections, most of the eastern Ohio \alley and parts of the lake region. However, the weather bureau says that high temperatures over the interior of the country and the absence of heavy rams took a considerable toll of ihe scanty soil moisture. Rain is badly nested still over large areas, especially the great plains and the southwest. "In the interior valleys cultivated crops, lv corn, still arc progressing satisfactorily.” J. B. Kmcer. chief of the division of climate and crop weather, says, "but pasture lands are suffering in many places as the June rainfall has not been sufficient to re-establish good grass-growing conditions. In the southwest, even most cultivated crops are suffering." a a a RAIN is needed Dadly in eastern Montana, most of the Dakotas, southern Minnesota, parts of lowa, rather generally in Missouri, northern and western Arkansas, and from Nebraska southward and southwest ward. Mr. Kmcer says. Regarding crop conditions, he says. "In the Ohio valley cutting winter wheat has extended to the northern portions, under generally favorable conditions with thrashing begun in more southern secions Thrashing has also commenced in lowa, while it is general in Missouri. Kansas and Oklahoma. The harvest is advanced in Nebraska with condition generally very poor, but more of the crop than expected. "Spring wheat is heading very short generally and is not filling well. In lowa oats are long enough to bind only on about half the acreage in the northeastern part, with little that can be cut for grain in southeri and western sections. "In the Atlantic area, the lake region, the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys, and some northwestern localities, corn is making satisfactory growth and is mostlv clean and well cultivated, but in the pnncips’ producing sections the crop is very uneven because of unfavorable weather during the germinating period.” • 9 9 9 REPORTS for the first week o! July from the . cotton belt indicate that temperatures were only moderately high, but decidedly above normal in northern sections. There was considerable rainfall in most places from the lower Mississippi valley eastward. "In general the cotton crop was not seriously affected by prevailing weather conditions, although ram is now badly needed over a large western area,” Mr. Kmcer says. Regarding rainfall in June, Mr. Kmcer says: "June had much more rainfall than May over the drought sections of the country except m west Gulf area. Arizona and New Mexico. • But at the same time the monthly totals were below normal rather generally except irifthe southeast, the extreme northeast and the more northwestern states.’*

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DOCK STRIKE NRA ACID TEST

Bitter ‘Closed Shop’ Battle Costs $1,000,000 a Day

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—The national recovery act is the football as Pacific coast maritime employes and employers struggle to see who gets the New Deal. While capital and labor quibble over Section 7A of the NRA and stay deadlocked over hiring halls: Approximately 300 cargo vessels swing idly at anchor, millions of dollars of cargo in their holds. Thirty thousand members of striking crafts are out, with thousands of others affected. Business interests find production, volume bank clearings, and operation curtailed. After bloody rioting in which gunfire has claimed heavy toll, armed militiamen now patrol the San Francisco waterfront. General strikes are being considered by unionists in San Francisco, Portland and other bay cities. Th? closed shop is the issue. Control of the hiring hall—whence men are called as jobs be under union control under the closed shop. And Section 7-A of the NRA is cited by each side as its authority. ,

Pacific coast ports for years have operated with "company unions” in stevedoring. Late in 1933 the International Longshoremens Association, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, began organizing on the west coast. In district convention here in February the unionists voted to support a San Francisco strike for union recognition, increase of 15 cents an hour and a thirty-hour week. The regional labor board, then headed by George Creel, opened hearings. Section 7A was booted around by both sides. The unionists cited its provision giving employes the right to organize and bargain collectively—and removing company union membership as an employment condition—in their closed shop demand. Also, the unions insisted that San Franciso employers, representing most of the major steamship lines, sign an agreement covering the entire coast. B B B THE employers refused, declaring they could act only for San Francisco. They, too, cited Section 7A. declaring the closed shop would violate the act because other workers would be coerced into joining the union. Mr. Creel’s committee could reach no settlement. President Roasevelt delayed the strike through wires to union leaders to wait until a fact-find-ing committee could report. The regional labor board heads of the Pacific coast conducted hearings —unsuccesfully. . May 9. the strike went into effect from San Diego to Puget Sound. Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor, and Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Lon gs h oremen's Association, came w - est for more conferences. Many meetings brought forth a tentative agreement, but the longshoremen voted it down. Mayor Angelo J. Rassi of San Francisco called conferences, but they. too. failed. With Pacific shipping paralyzed. business interests appealed to President Roosevelt. His first appointment under the recently enacted labor disputes act was the national longshoremen's board. Archbishop Edward J. Hanna is chairman. O. K. Cushman. San Francisco attorney, and McGrady are its memebrs. 808 CARGO worth approximately $80,000,000 has been tied up.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. July 13.—Enforcement still is the overshadowing problem of the NRA. At General Hugh Johnson's code authorities congress last winter the predominant note was the general outcry against noncompliance, the failure of authorities to do anything about it. In his desperate efforts to still this chorus of criticism Johnson thrice has overhauled the Blue Eagle's enforcement machinery. But to no avail. . Complaints are as numerous and widespread today as they were last February. When NRA rulers are not denying the existence of these charges, they have an elaborate variety of explanations. But the record of the Harriman Hosiery Mills case, lately in ihe headlines, affords ample evidence that the real trouble is tack of decisiveness. There is a lot of talk about "cracking down,” but no action. Toothpick waving and not big stick clubbing is the rule. The Harriman company, which runs the little town of Harriman, Tenn., iike a federal barony, was months ago accused by the national labor board of violating the collective bargaining provisions of the NRA. The specific charges were interference with attempts at unionization. plus discrimination against union workers. Seme 300 of the latter lost their jobs because of union membership. After months of mysterious dallying. Johnson finally “jerked” the rontpany’s Blue Eagle. It set up a great howl. and shut down its plant, throwing 650 employes out of work.

In the recriminations that followed the amazing fact came to light that Johnson, far from being hard-boiled or drastic, almost had been tender in his dealings with the company. He had offered to beturn its “bird" if it woul H agree to reinstate only fifty of the 300 discharged strikers. The other 250 Johnson was willing to sacrifice in order to avoid a fight. It was small wonder therefore that, after this pussyfooting, when Attorney-General Cummings announced he would not prosecute, the die-hard mill operators sat back and thumbed their noses. Ruffling the blue eagle's fathers had proved about as dangerous as whistling to a canary. B B B SLENDER Mrs. Jim Landis believes in keeping family secrets. Following the appointment of her serious-minded husband to the new Securities Exchange commission. she was visited by a staff writer of a nationally known magazine. He explained that he was seeking •personality" material. ‘‘You know, Mrs. Landis,” ne said, “up in Wall Street they speak of your husband in fear and trembling." “Really?” “Yes. indeed, he is bad medicine to those boys. What is there about him that should frighten them so?” “Well.” w’as the smiling reply, “if that is the way they think of Jim up there I certainly do not

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BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT Times Special Writer

Another $50,000,000 is estimated lost through cargo diverted to other transportation. Wage losses are estimated at $4,000,000 a month. Los Angeles, after ten days’ tieup, has been handling cargo and moving ships with fair regularity. Cargo, passengers, and tourists, as a result, have been routed through there—with a loss to business elsewhere. , A certain amount of cargo was moved in San Francisco by strikebreakers, but teamsters refused to handle this cargo. It regained in the piers. The Industrial Association, San Francisco open shop organization, made plans to "open the port” by moving piled-up cargo from the docks, and operating with nonunion crews. July 1, the industrial association began movement of this cargo, after asking police protection. The first day, strikers and sympathizers took the few movements of trucks in a spirit of levity. The second day, they directed attacks toward the warehouses where the moved cargo was stored. Fights raged over a wide area. San Francisco harbor is stateowned and operated. Besides the vast piers over a three-mile area, the state owns the State Belt Line railroad, serving the piers. Engine crews were threatened—and quit. After a rest over July 4 fighting broke out anew July 5 between strikers and police. Two were killed and twenty hurt by gunfire, and scores suffered from beatings, rock cuts and other wounds. Before nightfall, the national guard was mobilized to protect the state railroad and piers. Nearly 2.000 took stations overnight. Fighting between strikers and police stopped, and all became quiet on the waterfront. BUB WE can't fight police’ and bayonets and machine guns,” declared strike leaders. Their strategy turned to another effective weapon—the general strike. The matter was put up to the San Francisco labor council, representing twenty-nine unions. , A council committee is meeting with the maritime strikers’ committee. In Portland, business agents and representatives of eighty unions voted to name a committee to consider a general strike. Normally, 1.000 longshoremen are employed in San Francisco. The I. L. A. rolls carry three or

intend saying anything that would change their minds.” a a a NOT long ago Interior Secretary lekes went over to the White House and presented to Roosevelt the name John W. Finch as director of the Bureau of Mines. Dr. Finch had a notable record. He had done geological work ir China. Siam. India, Africa. Turkey, once was mining adviser to the Governor of Yunnan. He served as State Geologist of Colorado. is dean of the University of Idaho School of Mines, also director of the Idaho State Bureau of Mining. The President looked over Finch's record and told Ickes: "He looks all right, if you want him.” So Ickes gave the word that Finch was to be sworn in. The ceremony was scheluled for last week. Everything was set—until at the last moment, the interior department could not find Finch's commission. This is a document signed hy the President certifying the appointment. Word was rushed to the White House. Still the commission could not be located. The President had sailed. Finally Marvin Maclntyre, presidential secretary', unearthed it. It was not signed. But attached to it was a memo, which read: “Appointment disapproved by General Farley.” Note —Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, is now asking whether

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Flowers and a tragic legend in chalk mark the spot where two men died in the San Francisco dock riots. Strikers paid tribute as they passed the place where blood had stained the stones, an American flag waving in the midst of the floral offerings.

four times that number. Employers declare this means the communistic and radic - -! elements joined up, took over the union, and are running it for the sake of causing trouble. Union men counter with the charge that the employers filled the organization with their own men. Ten or twelve liners—with cargoes for San Francisco, Seattle or Portland—are tied up in Los Angeles. Otherwise, that port is busy. Five President vessels ordinarily plying between Seattle and the Orient are tied up at Seattle, with twenty-six other cargo carriers, w - hile Washington’s lumber industry is prostrate through lack of ships and shortage of fuel oil. Os forty-one ship.? in the Columbia and Willamette rivers, only four, at Portland, were working cargo, with 1,000 longshoremen and 300 marine workers out. Many factories w'ere idle ' '.d grain harvesters in eastern Oregon and Washington were laid off because no wheat can move. B B B UNION longshoremen, the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, Marine Cooks and Stewards of the Pacific. Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders of the Pacific, the Masters, Mates and Pilots, and the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association joined the teamsters and the welders, machinists and boilermakers who walked off the ship jobs. About ten crafts are out. with at least two cities facing complete tieups if the general strike succeeds. / Against this depressing background, President Roosevelt’s national longshoremen’s board is working zealously. It is conducting public hearings in San Fran-

he or Jim Farley is running Democratic politics in Idaho. His colleague. Senator Borah, Republican, thinks it’s a great joke. Appointment of the Wagner labor board was obscured in the excitement over the stock exchange commission. Now, however, the board is emerging as one of the most potent in Washington. iCopvrisht 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) 127 DROWNED IN JAPAN Property Damage Reaches Millions in Disastrous Floods. By Lulled Press TOKIO. July 13.—At least 127 persons were drowned and property damage of millions of dollars was done by disastrous floods in three Japanese prefectures, the home ministry announced today.

SIDE GLANCES

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If it’s to be war, the cameraman is ready for it. With steel helmei and gas mask, Charles Doherty, photographer for the San Francisci News, goes forth to the San Francisco waterfront.

cisco, both sides given opportunity to present evidence. Similar hearings will be held at other Pacific coast ports. After heavy rioting, nonunion trucks are rolling out of militiaguarded San Francisco piers. Stored cargo thus is being moved.

TODAY and TOMORROW tt u a tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

THE exciting political events which have their center in Germany but involve the ivhole of continental Europe, are not merely a spectacle, melodramatic on the surface and profoundly tragic underneath. an occasion for wonder and fascination as to how the story will work itself out. These events affect the future in the United States, and it sos the utmost importance that'we should appraise them properly in their bearing upon our own national policies.

This is a difficult thing to do, because the whole European situation is incredibly complicated and obscure. Nevertheless, we are compelled to ask ourselves: What are the immediate practical conclusions which we can draw as a guide to American action in the next months?

By George Clark

to make room for cargoes on vessels. More than $1,000,000 a day is checked up as lost to Washington, Oregon and California through the strike—and anything can happen, either for good or for bad.

We must assume, it seems to me, that the general world recovery which began in the summer of 1932 will at least for the present be retarded.. It is difficult to see how the terrible ungettlement can fail to be deflationary in Europe. Whatever may be the next phase of the political revolution in Germany, the economic outlook is very grave indeed. Something might happen to change it. But that something is not now visible, and in any detached view of the probabilities it has to be assumed that the German crisis will become more acute as the winter approaches. tt tt tt ZT'HE Italian position, while it is politically more stable, is deteriorating economically. The French position, though it is strong fundamentally, is not one of which it could be said that France has found adequate policies which use her strength to promote her own recovery. The effects of the continental deflation inevitably involve Great Britain to some degree. All in all, no prudent estimate of the immediate future can escape the conclusion that we must look upon Europe as a negative force in the general recovery of the world. Last year, when we had sunk to our lowest depth, we undoubtedly were assisted in our own recovery from those depths by a considerable recovery in Europe, but now we have, it seems to me, to take the view that for the time being we must rely largely upon our own efforts to help ourselves and to offset the destructive effects of the European situation. It is reasonably clear what the American policy ought to be. It can be stated in simple terms by saying that we must prime the gump vigorously with government expenditures and let the pump work by encouraging private enterprise to take hold. (CoDyrlght. 1934!

Second Section

F.nterefl a* Second-Cla# Matter at Foatoffiee, Indfatiapoll*. Ind.

Fdir Enough nwH New YORK, N. Y., July 13.—50 now it states in the papers that the forces of right are determined to pick up their marbles and go home unless the moving picture magnates agree to fire their czar. Will H. Hays, the living moral standard. They have monkeyed around with Mr. Hays for all these years and he has promised, but still moving pictures continue to issue from Hollywood. Cal., in which male and female are divorced from one another, in accordance to the statutes of the various

American states, and proceed to marry other persons, according to life and the statutes of the various states and their mutual preferences. Hoodlums have continued to rob and shoot citizens of more or less law-abiding character in the movies. And. in some of the scenarios, the hoodlum has been ennobled inferentially by comparison with the genteel brigand of the gold coast. It is very wrong to present the criminal hoodlum in a sympathetic light in the movies and show how kind he is to his family and friends

in his sentimental moments, but strictly o. k. to hire press agents and expensive lawyers to create publics opinion in favor of an accused financier whose operations have cast the frugal and industrious citizens a billion dollars in savings. There is a difference between operations and depredations. Operations are classified as honest mistakes and though they may destroy the labor and savings and the life-long plans of many honest people and drive them to suicide, prostitution or banditry themselves, they still are distinguishable from the w - orks of the criminal low-life. B B B Wrong Charge Against Hays IT violates your correspondent's sentiments to defend Mr. Hays, the living moral standard, because your correspondent do>'s not like czars or persons who are smug enough to set themselves up as moral yardsticks. But it does seem that the forces of the right waited much too long to attack Mr. Hays’ qualifications for his position and. when they did get around to it, attacked them on the wrong charges. Mr. Hays was the man who was mixed up with the Harding administration which was the dirtiest political administration and the most expensive and destructive, in all respects, to the American state, since the country wiggled itself loose ffom the British empire. The Harding administration was even dirtier than the administration of General U. S. Grant, because it Occurred at a time when the United States thought and hoped that it had progressed a long way from the simple, clumsy larceny of the reconstruction. Yet the record shows and always will show that Mr. Hays was, in a manner of speaking, one of the payofr men for the Harding administration. Do you want to- be reminded of what the record shows as to Mr. Hays’ part in the administration? The record shows that after the Harding administration turned Teapot Dome over from the navy department to the interior department and the interior department turned Teapot Dome over to Harry E. Sinclair oil company, Mr. Hays “accepted” a “loan” of $185,000 in Liberty bonds from Mr. Sinclair on behalf of the Republican national committee. A group of rich Americans then were approached with the proposition that if they would contribute sums of money to the Republican national campaign debt, they would be given bonds of equal sums to the amount of their contributions. B B B Mr. Hays Wasn't Asked IN 1924, Mr. Hays was asked upon his oath how much Mr. Sinclair had contributed to the Republican party and replied that Mr. Sinclair had given $75,000. Four years later, thanks to no help from Mr. Hays, the investigating committee had obtained further evidence and called on Mr. Hays to say whether Mr. Sinclair also had posted the "loan” of $185,000 in government bonds. Mr. Hays then told the story and explained that he never had mentioned the bonds before because nobody had happened to inquire, specifically, about the $185,000 in bonds. The Harding administration, in which he was implicated, did much more harm to the morals and welfare of the American nation than the moving pictures have in holding their blurry mirror up to nature since he became the czar. Were the forces of right tongue-tied in thase days? (Copvrißht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health DK. MORRIS FISHBLIN

YOUR skin gets the nourishment necessary for its life from your blood, exactly as do other tissues of your body. You can't feed the skin very well from outside. For this reason, everything called “sk n food" is wrongly named. There are no more special skin foods than there are special brain foods. It is true that some foods contain more of certain ingredients of the brain than do others, but it is up to your stomach and intestines to digest and deliver the essential substances to your blood supply. They are then carried to the parts ot the body that need them. Condition of your blood, therefore, is of the greatest importance to the health of your skin. If the blood is deficient in red coloring matter, if it is full of poisonous waste products that should be eliminated. this condition is promptly reflected in condition of tilt skin. BBS IF tne liver fails properly to get rid of the bile, the bile gets into the'blood. The skin, as a result, develops a yellow tinge. Moreover, an excess of bile is followed by severe itching. In diabetes there is too much sugar which can not be properly used by the body. Asa result, the skin is lowered in its resistance and boils multiply. The perspiration is modified so that it favors the growth of germs. Secretions of the body are irritating to the skin with which they come in contact. Asa result, the skin becomes inflamed and is easily infected. For this reason, particularly, absolute cleanliness of the skin is essential to a diabetic. BUB ANOTHER condition which seriously affects the skin of the body is constipation. If the bowels fail to eliminate waste matter, toxic substances are discharged into the blood and, on reaching the skin, damage its condition. Therefore, chronic constipation is frequently associated with appearance of pimples. One way in which yeast sometimes relieves cases of pimples and blackheads is to encourage action of the bowels, and in this way to keep the poisonous materials from reaching the skin. While there are not specific skin foods, the health of your skin can be improved by limiting the number of bacteria that live on it. This, of course, is accomplished by frequent bathing. The bath, particularly when a good soap suitable to your skin is employed, keeps germs off the surface of the body. Women with abnormally dry' skins can not tolerate soap at any time. Their skins become scaly. Itch follows the use of soap. In these cases use of a cleansing cream is warranted. If you have an exceedingly greasy skin, however, you should avoid cleansing creams. Your skin is best cared for by regular washing with soap antj hot w&tcr. Use of cold water after hot water has a tonic effect on the skin and stimulates it. - Allltlvl n ■ ,

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