Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1934 — Page 13

HJeem io Me .MOOD BW N r EW YORK July 19—In the early days of NRA, General Hush Johnson made a famous remark in regard to the equally famous section 7A. A' one of hi press conference* a reporter mentioned 'he fact that a certain coal operator had expressed a w to bargain with hitmen, but an unalterable re*oivr never to confer with John L Lewis, the prr dent r* :he United Mine Workers. ‘The la-e is plain." snapped the general "It says rer-csrntatives of their own choosing’ If the mine

workers chose the devil himself to baigain for them the rmplovers would have to deal with Old Nick." Many months have passed and at this distance it seems as if the general has had a change of heart. If I interpret his San Francisco remarks correctly the rule which holds good for the devil does not apply to members of the Communist party, or even those who are suspected of being Communists. For instance, I read in the New York Times: General Johnson declared his belief in unions and in collective bargaining, but he de-

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the activity of Communists within labor rank, ’is a blow at the flag of our common country and it has got to stop.’ ” On very many occasions the general has said that the government could not interfere or even advise wn -.f. as to what tone or setup their organization >v , and tak<\ I happen to know from personal expen ne that once he rebuked a subordinate who suegc ted that influence might be brought to bear to prevent the election of a certain individual in a lab': croup whose radicalism might be embarassing. On that occasion General Johnson told the deputy arim r.curator not to meddle and that the radicalism or hek ol radicalism on the part of any labor leader was none of the government's business. nan 'Protecting Life, Properly' IT is not my custom to point to previous columns . and note the fact that the march of events has ju-'Mfied certain predictions. I seldom do this because so many of my guesses turn out completely wrong But I cio want o call attention to the fart that only a few days aeo I suggested that the chief danger in San Francisco was the growth of Fascist practice and performance. I meant the word Fascist literally then and I mean it literally now. Yesterday the newspapers carried accounts of raids made by “vigilantes” upon Reds and "suspected Reds.” No precise definition has even been given for a Red and a suspected Red can be anybody from Stalin to Fiorello La Guardia. Indeed the best definition of a "suspected Red” ought to be, ‘ some employe the employer doesn't like because of his activity in organization.” I insist that here is a clear case of the beginning of a Fascist movement in America. The owners of the steamship lines deliberately invited a general s;rike bv their original refusal to arbitrate the mattrtr of the hiring halls. With the coming of the general strike the Governor of California called out the national guard on the plea that the presence of the troops was necessary to protect life and property. * a * A Fascist Reign of Terror IT seems to me pertinent to ask: “Just which lives and whose property are th? police and the soldiers supposed to protect?’’ If they are to form a screen for vigilantes to punish ail aggressive labor leaders on the ground that they are protecting thcmselevs against, ’the Red menace” I say that this is the way other Fascist movements have begun. It seems to me that Gen. Johnson's encouragement of these tactics warrants his immediate removal from federal office. Do not assume that the mere fact that you are not a Communist will be any protection when the Red baiters take up arms against democratic procedure as they have in San Francisco. Nobody will be safe. Only last night an employer's representative asked me in all seriousness whether it was not a fact that I belonged to the Communist party. I will try and hold out against the vigilantes on mv account for a little while longer, but in all seriousness I suggest that President Roosevelt ought to come back from his vaca’ion in order to quell the brown shirt rebellion of employers and their agents, who are trying to impose upon San Francisco a Fascist reign of terror. • Convricht. 1934 bv The Times!

Your Health “BY UK. MORRIS EISHBEIN

MOST of the blows you happen to set on your body may merely leave black marks, or even none at all. and are forgotten easily. But there are occasional bruises that require more than merely passing attention, for under the black and blue mark on the skin may be some serious complication, affecting a more tender part of the bodv. Any injury to the surface of the body caused bv a blunt object that does not break the skin usually results in a bruise. If there is breaking of the skin and bleeding outside the surface of the body, the condition is usually called a laceration. You should be well acquainted with most causes of bruises. They result from actual blows with blunt objects, such as clubs or rubber hose or w hips. They mav result from bumping into corners of chairs or tables, or from falls, or you may get them when struck by falling objects. 8 B 8 It is important that you make certain that a bruise you get is merely a surface injury and that It has not involved seriously any of the internal organs. such as brain, liver, spleen, bladder or similar organs. Instances are known in which the bladder, filled with fluid, has ruptured following a blow which seemed to cause only a bruise of the surface. In many instances the skull itself does not appear to be broken by an injury which severely bruises the scalp, yet there may be a severe concussion of the brain causing less of memory for a while and even unconsciousness and deterioration. 8 8 B CEASES are also on record of slight ruptures of A thp aver following a bruise which seemed merely to injure the surface of the body. A gradual bleeding trom the broken part of the liver eventually resulted in so much loss of blood that the victim became unconscious and died. For tins reason, if ever you sustain a severe blow on the surface of the body you should make reasonable certain that the damage does not co below the surface before undertaking any strenuous physical activity.

Questions and Answers

Q—Where are the United States nan- yards located? A—Washington. D. C.: Boston. Mass.; Cavite, P I: Charleston. S. C.; Mare Island.. Cal.; New York, N. Y.; Norfolk. Va ; Philadelphia. Pa ; Portsmouth. N. H . and Puget Sound. Wash. Q— How many memoers has the United States house of representatives? A—Four hundred thirty-five. Q —Who invented the Diesel engine? A—Dr Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer, in 1892. Q—Where are red skinned bananas grown? A—ln the West Indies. Central America and Colombia. Q —What is a "nom de plume?’’ A—lt Is a French phrase, translated “pen-name'* and 1* Rn assumed name, which a writer uses to disguise his identity. Q—Where and when was the first school in America established? A In 1633 at New Amsterdam, now New York City, a school’ was opened by the Dutch West India Company with Adam Roeiaauen as the first master.

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THE WORST CRIME—POLLUTION

Indianapolis Waters Contaminated by Wastes, Savvey Proves

BI ARCH STEINEL Timet Staff Writer THREE of the four most populous river and creek beaches in Indianapolis are contaminated by sewage wastes and bacteria to the extent that they are distinctly ’ unsatisfactory" and "unsafe” for aquatic sports. Eagle creek, at the Pennsylvania railroad bridge, is the Abou Ben Adhim leading all the rest in the number of sewage bacteria found in water in which young and old skylark, dive and mud-crawl. Eagle creek has 8.000 sewage bacteria a 100 cubic centimeters. The Indianapolis Times laboratory test of the creek and White river beaches showed that Eagle creek's water was not only a haven of disease and spawning place forsummer infections, but that the water would not pass United States standards for drinking purposes even with post-chlorma-tion. At the time the test was taken Eagle creek was jammed with bathers. A busy, self-appointed concessionaire was taking dimes for the privilege of parking your car and permitting you to disrobe therein and dive from the homemade spring boards on the creek bank. Babies, still in their crib days, waded and splashed in the bac-teria-la den water. tt tt tt M CLURE beach on White river, at Twenty-sixth street, was second to Eagle creek in sewage bacteria with 2,500 each 100 cubic centimeters. Safe swimming water has been held at not more than 100 B. coli • sewage bacteria) per 100 cubic centimeters. Ravenswood beach showed 500 sewage bacteria for each 100 cubic centimeters, but had a total number of all types of bacteria equal to that of Eagle creek with 18,000 per cubic centimeter to Eagle creek’s 18.500. Warfleigh, with but 250 sewage bacteria per 100 cubic centimeters, was termed “doubtful” as to intestinal wastes by C. M. Palmer, Butler university bacteriologist, who conducted the tests for The Times. Speaking of Warfleigh, the laboratory expert says: “It contains apparently very few sewage bacteria and also the lowest number of all kinds of bacteria. The tests indicated that this water would not be desirable as drinking water until treated.” Conditions of the stream and the lack of swimming at Warfleigh when the sample was taken is said to have possibly played a part in the low bacteria count. a a ANY one swimming below the city’s sewage disposal plant at Sunshine Gardens is definitely placing himself in the hands of a doctor. The Times’ bacteriological test showed 100.000 sewage bacteria per 100 cubic centimeters with a total of all bacteria at 1,400.000 per cubic centimeter. The test at Ravenswood beach showed the water with a strong odor while that of other beaches was slight. The odor strength of the water at Ravenswood was almost on a par with a sample taken of raw' sewage at the disposal plant. The raw sewage sample was termed “very strong” by the Mr. Palmer. Rivaling Terre Haute as polluter of rivers, our "No Mean City”

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

—By L)reiv Pearson and Robert S. Allen—

WASHINGTON, July 19. The much-vaunted reciprocity trade treaties, upon which Cordell Hull has set his heart, are in danger of being completely undermined. An illustration of how easy it is to undermine them has just been given by the Chilean government. That country has orders from American breweries for Chilean malt. The orders are ready to be shipped, but there is one drawback. The International Brewery Workers of the A. F. of L. refuse to handle the malt. They require certification that Chilean malt is made by unionized labor. The Chilean embassy has cited reports made by Miss Perkins’ labor department showing that Chilean malt workers belong to a union far older than that in the U. S. A. But the brewery workers here will not yield. The same is true regarding Czechoslovakian beer barrel staves and Yugoslavian malt.

In other words. Secretary Hull could give various countries various concessions on importation of its products here, but organized labor could completely nullify his concessions. The state department has protested repeatedly to the International Brewery Workers without results. Apparently they are more powerful that Secretary Hull. B B B GRAVEST problem of the u. S navy at present is not the 1935 naval conference, but how to break the fishing jinx aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia. White House yacht, being used by Navy Secretary Swanson for the summer. Swanson dyed-in-the-wool angler. decided to do President Roosevelt the service of killing the jinx while the chief executive is on his Hawaiian trip. For three consecutive week-ends he and a small party journey down the Potomac to famous fishing grounds. Fishing in Chesapeake bay is better this year than at any time in the last three decades. All around the Sequoia, fish were being pulled in until fishermen were all but prostrated. But aboard the Sequoia there was little success. On the third week-end. the navy secretary tried it for a half hour, then gave up. In disgust, he spent the afternoon reading, went to his stateroom shortly after dinner. In his place he left faithful secretary Archibald Odin. He fished all night, all the next morning until time to depart. All along Chesapeake bay were being reported record catches. But when the Sequoia lifted anchor to return to Washington, the navy's fishing lines were still baited. Note—The fishing jinx on the Sequoia is a very snooty one. It only operates when high officials

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pours upon its neighbors on White river below town he equivalent of 40 per cent of its sewage. The present disposal plant can not treat adequately all of the city’s sew age. It is estimated that approximately $2,962,000 will be needed for plant additions and interceptor sewers to send the water into the river with 98 to 99 per cent of sewage bacteria and sludge removed. To handle the estimated 50.000,000 gallon daily sewage of the city, the disposal plant treats all of the sewage but gives it only 60 per cent of the necessary time to clean the wastes that it would if the plant was built to take care of the present industrial as w'ell as residential population. a tt JUST to show' the good effects of the treatment of all sewage partially. The Times took a comparative test of the water as it left the plant, after it had been in the river, and as it came to the plant raw* from the sewers. The bacterial tests demonstrated that the process of the plant, by introducing oxygen in the water, increased the harmless bacteria and decreased the sewage bacteria from 1,000,000 per 100 cubic centimeters as the sewage entered the plant to 100.000 tw ? o miles below the plant after treatment. Excessive bonded indebtedness up to this time has been the bunker in the way of obtaining additions to the city disposal plant City officials desire the extension but see no manner in which it can be financed and meet the approval of the government whereby a loan can be obtained under public works. The city is fortunate in that its industrial sewage load is tw:othirds less. than that of Terre Haute if Terre Haute's factories are operating full-time. It is estimated that the per capita sewage places the population of the capital city at approximately 750,000 with all plants operating. Terre Haute's sewage load, mostly industrial, in prosperous times can mount to that of a city of 2,500,000 persons. an tt Backwardness and lack of modernity in Indianapolis is apparent when city sewage disposal officials point out that approximately one out of every ten families still depend on the “Chic” Sale catalog reading rooms.

are aboard. It bothers not with small fry. A cabinet officer, or the chief executive can’t catch a minnow, but once they stay ashore, things change. A dozen times this season, when the boat was anchored in the bay during the week, with only the officers and crew aboard, large catches have been made. B B B A MBITIOUS Governor Gifford 1 Pinchot lost his fight for Pennsylvania's Republican senatorial nomination, but he is far from out as a guerilla warrior. Friends are whispering the exciting news that the grizzled old battler is planning a sensational coup. At the psychological moment, he is to declare for hard-hitting Joseph F. Guffey, good friend of President Roosevelt, and the Democratic senatorial candidate. Pinchot is determined to leave no stone unturned to defeat Senator David Reed. Mellon-allied old guarder. and Pinchot’s inveterate foe. Reed, running on an outright anti-New Deal platform, trounced Pinchot by a margin of 100.000. For rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania this is a narrow squeeze. b a a IN federal reserve quarters Senator Elmer Thomas’ bombastic charges that George L. Harrison, governor of the N. Y. Federal Reserve bank, is in Europe framing a secret dollar stabilization scheme are raucously pooh-poohed. Harrison. it is declared, is conferring with British, and other bankers, on how to put the screws on the Nazis so as to compel them to- pay their debts. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934

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Upper Left—Mother told this daughter not to go near the water, and that's why she is obeying the mjunetion at Warfleigh beach. But mother did not know how near right she was from a bactcnai stand- ** Upper Right—Johnny is the best mud-crawler at McClure beach, but he is mud-crawling and doesn t know' it—ln a bacteria count of 2,500 B. coli. . . Lower —Spillways of the Indianapolis disposal plant, as they pour clearer, if not clear, water into White river.

It is estimated that with 90,000 families in the city, approximately 10.000 have vaults oh their premises. Tlie part industries play in the city’s sewage problem is reduced to such simple quantities as each hog killed at Kingan & Cos., is equal to the wastes from four homes populated each by five persons. The Beveridge Paper Company, if operating at the rate of fifty tons of paper processed daily, is equivalent to the per capita waste of 100 persons or a town of 5,000 population. A check made of Van Camp's Inc., pork and bean packers, shows that on an April day, pork and beans to the extent of 150,000 pounds were packed. Wastes from that pack are equivalent to fifty persons a 1.000 pounds, or the wastes from a city of 7,500 residents. All industrial wastes of a detriment to White river go through the city sewers and receive treatment at the disposal plant. One main exception is that of certain wastes of the Beveridge Paper Company. The sanitary department of the city has refused to permit 'that paper company to dump its pulp wastes into the sewers because of the already overloaded condition of the waste carriers near the plant. The result is that wastes from the paper, which are known by engineers to be destructive to river oxygen and harmful to fish life, flow into the river. Discoloration of the river near the plant is frequent from dyes and pulp wastes. Company officials have told city sanitary engineers that they de-

SIDE GLANCES By Gsorge Clark

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sired to find a media of handling the wastes to prevent river pollution, but have not been able to do so. City industrialists pass the buck of polluting White river upon the city disposal piant with, “They handle our sewage and it’s up to them.” The plant was designed in 1920 to carry a population and indus-

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

IN a foreword to that admirable collection of Alexander Hamilton's papers w'hich the Columbia university press has published. Elihu Root has stated more cogently than any one else has stated them the great constitutional issues which the American people must decide in the near future.

“For the avowed purpose of dealing with an emergency,” says Mr. Root, "many pow-ers have been assumed and exercised by our government which the people of the country never had thought of granting. The people generally, however, have felt that an emergency did exist in the stagnation of business and in the lack of employment for millions of workers of all kinds and they desired the success of the administration in its efforts to produce activity in business, general reemployment and renewed prosperity, and although many Americans have doubted the wisdom of the authority of some of the things that have been done, there has been a general unwillingness to undertake active opposition to particular acts lest such opposition might tend to retard or to

trial load up to 1930 with recommendations that additions be built in 1930. Depression pounced on the city. Tho&additions were not built. And the answer out-state to every query as to river or lake pollution is, “Why doesn't Indianapolis stay at home and clean up its own backyard?” Next: What Doctors Say About Swimming In Polluted Waters.

show lack of sympathy with the general efforts the administration was making.” This surely is an accurate account of the mood in which the country has assented to the vastpowers conferred upon the President. It is also an accurate account of the ways in which the responsible leaders of the Republican party have behaved. They have dissented on this or that policy. But they have not obstructed the passage of the legislation or the administration of the new laws and the Republican members of congress have at no time presented a united opposition. tt ;< MR. ROOT then goes on to say that “it now' has become evident that there will be a strong effort. both in and out of office, to continue beyond the period of the emergency and make permanent some broad powers of government w’hich have been exercised heretofore upon no claim of justification except as temporary experiments to meet the emergency. “Many of these powers affect materially the scope of individual liberty, especially in business, the obligation of contracts, and the security of property as well as against government as against other individuals. The question whether the American people are willing to include in their permanent system a giant of such pow - ers and to subject themselves permanently to such government control has never been really considered or discussed.” Mr. Root concludes this passage by saying that “it is no party matter. It is not to be determined solely or chiefly by immediate effects. Our future social organization and the permanence of our national union may well be at stake, for the proposal appears to involve an abandonment of limitations on official power, which, rightly or wrongly, we have considered essential to our free government.” Surely it can be said of Mr. Root's own statement what he himself says of Hamilton's great state papers, that in its spirit and tone tnere is “freeooflf from personal rancor and prejudice,” that there is a “considerable appraisal and respectful treatment of opposing arguments” and "the constant test of proposals by fair recognition of the working of human nature among the interests and prejudices and habits of the people to be specially affected.” IN SETTING the stage for the debate on the question of how many and which of the powers of the New Deal are to be made (Tarn to Page Fifteen)

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Fdir Enough WEMMffi NEW YORK. N. Y., July 19.—There is much indignation in the state of Connecticut over an order issued by the liquor control commission, censoring the radio programs which the drinkers, serious and otherwise, may listen to as they take their ease at Ye Waffie Shoppe. Bill's Eatery and other characteristic New England licensed premises. The commission has ordered all tavern-keepers to keep a vigilant ear and exclude all musical programs which a jury would regard as entertaining.

The order permits the customers to listen to baseball scores, sermons and lectures as they sip their ale or wine and they are given specific permission to tune in on religious music which appears not to be the commission's idea of entertainment. This puts it up to the proprietors to mind the radio with constant vigilance for at the first sob of the saxophone, which is the commission's idea of entertainment, the local constable or state trooper may enter the place, silence the instrument and place the management under arrest.

There is great indignation, but it seems to bo mixed indignation, though practically unanimous. The religious element is not pleased by the proposal to substitute religious music for dance music in the roadhouses, many of which are more or loss reformed speakeasies. There are objections also to the phraseology which groups the sermon with the baseball scores and there is a feeling also that the saloon, the modified Connecticut type, does not offer the correct atmosphere for a sermon. a a Tough Life Anyicay THE customers, on the other hand, have a feeling that it is hard enough to be Connecticut Yankees, amid the bleak and rocky fields of their native state, without being denied the solace of the saxophone as they make the best of the alcoholic beverages w r hich are allowed to them. Under the Connecticut regulations, the opportunities for serious drinking are restricted seriously at best. The regulations permit the serving of beer, ale, and wine, in public premises, but forbid wholesome, nutritious highballs and fizzes. It is a w'ell-known fact that beer and ale tend to produce a melancholy feeling on the subject. Hence the phrase "He wept into his beer.” It is a serious matter to be a Connecticut Yankee in a typical Connecticut restaurant on a diet of beer or ale, even with dance music coming out of the radio. The wine concession in the Connecticut regulation does not mean anything. The wine is no good and the citizens wouldn't know: it w'as good even if it W'ere. t So, as matters stand just now, the only escape for the Connecticut Yankee is to buy a quart of nutritious whisky or gin at the drug store, take it out in his automobile and turn on the radio in the dashboard. Up to now' the liquor commission has not attempted to enforce the radio censorsnlp in automobiles. n a a ft Might fie Lively THERE is some hope, of course, that the term “religious music” will permit of some lively entertainment. The musical programs wlr l Billy Sunday used to produce were classified as religious, but they hart other possibilities. One of Mr. Sunday’s favorite hymns was the one which said “the brewer’s big horses won't run over me” and the journalists who used to cover his revivals did very well with that one in the saloons neighboring his tabernacles in the old days. Mr. Sunday also had an interesting experience in Boston. In this case, the manager of a musical comedy company adopted Mr. Sunday’s favorite song, “Brighten the Corner Where You Are,” changed the tempo slightly and introduced it into his show as a shimmy number, performed by forty ladies of the ensemble. Mr. Sunday was able to stop that one, but only on the ground that the musical comedy w'as infringing on the copyright. "Brighten the Corner Where You Are” w'as the private property of his show'. Properly treated, some of Mr. Sunday’s old songs might bring some lay of joy to the Connecticut Yankees. But it is just a long chance. Being a Connecticut Yankee is a grim business. (Copvrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc )

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE United States may be off the gold standard, the Milky Way full of cosmic fog. and the universe exploding in accordance with the Lemaitre theory, but the good old solar system is still ticking away on schedule. Encke’s comet has just returned. This comet, most frequently returning of all comets, comes back to the neighborhood of the sun every three and a third years. It just has been spotted, on schedule, by Dr. Hamilton M. Jeffers of the Lick Observatory in California. Encke’s comet has an orbit smaller than that of any known comet. A group of about fifty comets are known as the Jupiter comets. This is because one end of their orbits goes around the sun while the other end is in the neighborhood of the orbit of Jupiter. But Professor A. C. D. Crommelin, famous British authority, doubts whether Encke's comet can be classed in this group. This is because the farther end of this comet’s orbit is about 90,000,000 miles inside the orbit of Jupiter. tt tt a RETURNING to the neighborhood of the sun so frequently seems to wear a comet out. When a comet begins to approach the solar neighborhood, it does not have any tail. It appears in the telescope merely as a fuzzy spot of light. As the comet draws nearer to the sun the tail begins to develop. The tail at all times points aw-ay from the sun. It is now believed that the tail is a stream of gaseous material continuously driven out of the comet's head by the action of the sun and continuously dissipated into space. This view l is supported by the fact that the tails of comets are not quiescent. In some cases, great envelopes of material have been observed to break away from them. Dr. Crommelin gives 200 years as about the average life for a Jupiter comet. A number of Jupiter comets have been known to break in two and disinA good example is Biela’s comet, first observed‘in 1772. In 1846 it was seen to grow pearshaped and split in two. The twins w’ere seen in 1852. Neither has been seen since but the meteoric shower known as the Andromedes occurs each year when the earth cuts across the orbit in which Biela's comet once moved. tt tt tt THERE are other families of planets besidps the Jupiter family. Samrn has a family ci only two comets. One of them, Tuttle's comet, takes thirteen and three-fourths years to go around its orbit, and is due back in 1940. The other, Peter's comet, was discovered u 1846. Computation of its orbit showed it to be a Saturn comet, but astronomers have never been able to find it since. Uranus has a family of two comets. One of them is Tempers cornet which is associated with the famous Leonid meteors. The Leonid meteors are at their best every thirty-three years and Tempers comet has a similar period. It is thought that both the comet and the meteors are the remnants of a once imposing cornet. The other Uranus comet i3 Stephan's comet with a period of forty years. Neptune's family of comets includes the most famous of all, namely Halley's comet. This comet returns to view every seventy-five years and is paritcularly important because it is always a brilliant object, easily seen with the unaided eye. It made its last appearance in 1910 and is due back in 1985.

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