Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1934 — Page 9

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It Seem to Me HEWOODMIN N'EW YORK July 31 So rw of the newspapers have Ixen pretty comical In commenting on the fact that a polo game was played In the suburbs of Moscow 1 have read that soon there will be a Ru.-sian town called Piping, Rocksi or Meadow Brookscow. I am not a polo enthusiast myself since anv personal participation tn the game would be unwelcome to me and to any three or four ponies which micht be nominated as my mount for a given chukker I also think that as a spectacle the game

is vastly overrated In my opinion it does not touch baseball in the matter of speed and infinite variety. And yet. I am glad to hear that the Soviet republics have extended at least a partial welcome to the sport. Indeed welcome all dispatches which oreak the notion that a cooperative commonwealth must of necessity be grim, puritanical, and forbidding. I think American paragraphers ought not to shoot from both sides at the same time. Whether it was accurate or not, an impression prevailed here for a time that the Bolshevik state, while it

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might be riecidedly prim. In all arn which was .supposed to be ineh ran. "But would you like to live Id is?" the best answer I could make was, "How do I know - ' rve never tried it." But within the jrar a good d*al of second-hand information and a jjttit first-hand experience has made me feel that I have a right to say, "Well, anyhow I'd like to make a visit.” just before the polo game there was a story that •ii re-established in Russia. To re, the Ind. not permitted, as I understand it. to go down into the ring and say, “I want to put five smackers on the nose of Garlic in the fifth race ” While I still am an individualist, though no* a rugged one. I can not say that this prohibition would be something over which I would be willing to bl) ■ and and d;e I may not know Russia, but I certainly know Garlic to my sorrow. I wish there had been some member of the secret police present on at lea.-t ten occasions in the year 1934 to tap me on the arm and >ay, “You are forbidden to indulge yourself in the luxury of the profit motive. You can not bet on Garlic That is the law." MB* A World Safe for Poker? THERE ought to be a law. although betting on Garlic has a very remote connection with the profit motive. I bet on him through stubbornness and sentiment. Well, stubbornness and sentimentality ,: e vices and I am not unwilling to let somebody else rule them out of my life. As I understand it. horses in Russia do not run for Damon Runyon. Kid Beebe or Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Each horse represents some association of workers. Thus, you micht have No Company Union running in the colors of the Newspaper Guild and I see no rr-ri on why I could not get up and root for that hors" just as violently as I ever did for any nag at Aqueduct or Belmont. And so. I return to the point that it is a little ie. s than fair to satirize Russia on the ground that its regime is too Spartan and to turn around the next day and makp fun of its customs because it has left the door ajar for some of the fleshpots. I have before me a letter from a radical friend in California who signs herself, "Yours for a world marie safe for poker." I can hardly deny that I have known radicals who seemed to be compounded out of Marx and C.ih in. I refer, of rourse. to John and not to Coolidce. But something must be said even for the more dour of the devoted revolutionists. It is one thing to say. "No more cakes and ale" and quite another to preach, "P.rst comes bread and raiment." a a a The Poor Old Worker ON th whole I think that many who urge that the world must be changed have understressed the end result and emphasized inordinately the grim requirements of the coming struggle for power. Too much of a deafeatist strain runs through the cartoons and the chronicles of the oppressed. That stalwart figure labeled "the worker" suffer:, almost the same tribulations as the meager little man identified as “the common people,” who used to run unhappily through the pictures drawn by Mr Opper. The Utopian is out of favor. The works of Edward Bellamy arc not highly regarded by any of the American radical groups. I do not understand this reluctance to allow the imagination to dwell on the bri-ht scenes which might be expected in an almost perfect state Perhaps I lack pugnacity, although I have been in fi:hts. But the thing which sustained me was never the joy of the conflict, but the feeling. "Won't it be pleasant when that big loafer (free transla-tion-Ed' can't continue to punch me on the end of the nose any longer." • CoDvrteht 1934. bv Th Times*

Your Health ■by ik. .morris hshbeiv

\rOU may feel quite safe when you eat oysters, I because Uie oyster industry’ Is fairly well under control from a health standard. But beware of the kind of mussels you choose, for so far little consideration has been given to the problem of poisoning from the eating of this type of shellfish. Mussels are found in most inland streams in the United States and are eaton frequently by persons who have no knowledge of the danger. In the summer of 1933. there were at least fifteen cases of severe poisoning in California and Oregon after the eating of mussels One man died in less than three hours after eating such food, but the others were saved by prompt medical attention. In an epidemic of such poisoning in 1927 in San Francisco. 192 cases occurred. No case of mussel poisoning ever has been reported during the cold months. ana ORIGIN ot the poison in the mussel has not been definitely established But it is believed to be similar to the poison found in certain mushrooms. Symptoms are about the same as those which follow mushroom poisoning, with paralysis, unconsciousness, and death. Os course, there also is trouble with the stomach, such as vomiting and irritation of the bowel In a few cases, tire nerves are affected, with itching and eruptions on the surface of the body. You should not eat mussels or any other food from a stream without knowing that the material is safe State boards of health repeatedly have issued warnings against use of mussels as food In summer the danger seems to be much greater than in winter. a a a THE trouble is that no one seems to be able to tell the poisonous mussels from the safe ones. The facts have not been worked out in regard to this type of snellfish even as well as they have been worked out regarding mushrooms The poison m a mussel is not one that can be destroyed by heat, for cooking does not stop action of the poison The poisoning is. however, controlled to some extent by adding a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda to each quart of water in which the mussels are cooked. The safest rule is not to eat this type of shellfish under any circumstances, because there is no control over it and the danger of sudden fatal poisoning is too great

Questions and Answers

Q— Name the capita] of Bolivia. A—Sucre is the capital. Out La Paz is the actual seat of the government. Q—Has German and Russian money, issued before the World war. any value now? A—No Q —ls Samuel InsuiJ an American citizen? A—He was born in London. England, and was naturalized in the United States.

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Here, where the mighty Columbia rushes down through the Grand Coulee, is rising the second of the great dams that are to make this river the servant of man and help to create among these barren hills anew and fruitful garden spot like California's Imperial Valley.

This is the second of four stories on the treat power, irritation and navigation projects of (he Northwest, to be inspected bv President Roosevelt on his return from his Hawaiian journey. These treat dams are to create new “inland empires,'* comparable to those in the Tennessee and Colorado valleys. BV WILLIS THORNTON NBA Service Staff Writer. SPOKANE, Wash., July 31— In the broad bottom of the Grand Coulee, a deep gorge where prehistoric glaciers once gouged and scoured their way, lie more than 1,000.000 acres of fertile farm land. They are rich with a volcanic soil. But they are almost useless. Without water, ■they produce little. Though vast amounts of electric power will be produced at the Coulee Dam, the principle objective here is to provide the water by irrigation that will make these barren acres blossom and produce. Is it silly to spend millions to irrigate such land while there is overproduction of farm crops already? The government doesn’t think so. For with this goes the program for buying up and for-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP nan u a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, July 31 —President Roosevelt will return to the mainland to find at least one vexing problem farther from solution than when he went away. This has to do with price fixing. For a year NRA has turned from one formula to another trying to avoid evils' of price cutting and evils of price fixing at the same time. None of them have worked and in the last six weeks it has been changing formulas faster than ever as the problem became more acute.

This is the situation today. A dozen or more industries are asking permission to fix minimum prices during ninety-day emergency periods. Where industries have been allowed to do this, individual firms are complaining more loudly than before. A Brooklyn retail coal dealer says NRA is trying to make him raise prices above the point at which he can make a fair profit and he refuses to do so. Code proceedings have been started against him at the instance of his competitors. Republican orators have seized on his case and are making much of it in campaign speeches. nan IN St. Louis retail coal dealers think they should be allowed to charge more than NRA will peimit.' Prices fixed by the divisional code authority have been refused approval by headquarters here. Meanwhile, the Lackawanna Coal Company of New York has won the first round in court action designed to prevent NRA from “interference" with its prices in any manner. In this dilemma NRA just has informed all divisions of the retail fuel industry that no more emergencies must be declared and no more minimum prices must be fixed without advance approval from Washington. The new review division established to hear such cases is going to have its hands full. When NRA first announced that price fixmg would be allowed for emergency periods it said this policy was intended to "halt destructive price cutting, protect small enterprises, curb monopolistic tendencies or maintain code wages or working conditions." This was at the beginning of the summer season when business was falling off and a competitive scramble was under way. It also was designed to check price cutting undertaken, in a few industries. to drive out of business new competitors trying to break into the field. a a a BIG ana uttie ousmess concerns both have been dissatisfied with the policy. Ones with a high cost of doing business find that while it may keep them out of the red it lets their more efficient competitors increase their profits. And while efficient companies make more per job. they believe their net incomes could be increased even farther if they were allowed to lower prices and compete, increasing their volume of business. NRA has begun another experiment in the tobacco and cigaret industries, by attempting to fix prices at every change of ownership which takes place during distribution of products from wholesaler to consumer. This experiment follows lines proposed in the Capper-Kelly bill for resale price maintenance which the federal trade commission fought during the many years it was pending in congress. President Roosevelt's order allowing 15 per cent cut in prices

esting millions of acres of poor land that can’t produce its taxes. A farmer might get a better living on twenty acres of irrigated farm land at the Coulee than on 160 acres in the barren, dustswept lands of the Dakotas. a b n SO, irrigation it is, and a big start already has been made at the $63,000,000 Grand Coulee project under direction of the bureau of reclamation. It is hoped that this work will eventually pay for itself through sales of power to industries and farmers expected to move into the valley. The President will find more than 3,000 men at work where they have been for months excavating and stripping the site of the dam. Soon that number will rise to nearly 10.000 men, for contracts for actual construction of the dam have been let to three companies at about $30,000,000. At present the dam will be built only 145 feet high, and the first power units installled will generate less than 500,000-horse power. But the construction will be such that later the dam can be built up to 370 feet in height and

offered in government bids has been interpreted so many times during his absence that he may not recognize it. He announced that when a,bidder cut prices 15 per cent to secure a government contract, the public was to be given advantage of the cut as well. NRA issued an interpretation denying that the cut applied to the public. Another interpretation exempted the business furniture industry from quoting governmental agencies’ prices and terms as favorable as those permittting commercial buyers. The problem has broken out in anew place with discovery that the automobile retailing industry, denied by its code the right to increase used-car allowances in slack seasons, has found anew route to the same end by inducing manufacturers to declare models obsolete and reduce prices on them. Some of the discounts have applied locally, some generally, and the result has been different selling prices in different parts of the country for identical cars.

HOOSIERS’ LIFE SPAN IS 60. SAYS REPORT Wisconsin Has Highest Average for Longevity. Average length of life for white males in Indiana is 60.04 years, according to statistics made publictoday by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The figures were compiled for the period of 1929 to 1931. The highest average for longevity was found in Wisconsin, which the statisicians attributed to the high ! proportion of rural population. The | average length of life for white males in Wisconsin is 61.51, with xemales in this state having a record of 64.60. NEW MARKET OPENED Standard Starts Service at Drive-in Grocery. The Standard Grocery Company has opened a modern drive-in market at 2824 Shelby street with a 250car parking space. The market is equipped with new methods for food protection includI ing electric refrigeration for meats, fresh fruits and vegetables and with sanitary shelving and perfect ventilation.

LIPPMANN ON HOLIDAY Walter Lippman. whose articles appear four days a week on this page, has begun his vacation. He will take a holiday of two months He plans, at the end of that period, to travel in the Orient to investigate political conditions there in relation to world events. His articles will be resumed in The Times about Dec. 1.

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generate 2.520,000-horse power, the largest power plant yet built or proposed. It will take thirteen years to finish it and total cost may reach above $170,000,000. The present phase of the building should bt completed in 1937. * 808 CONTRASTING with the wooded cliffs of the Bonneville section, the Coulee Dam is in the midst of a barren, almost desolate part of the Eastern Washington Plateau. It is 100 miles from the nearest real town. So building roads, a town for workmen, and establishing a postoffice called Coulee Dam were just part of the preparation. Three schools, two newspaper plants, and a church have already been built. If the development proceeds as expected, this should some day become a permanent city, as industires and farmers begin to be attracted to the region by cheap electric power. The Coulee Dam is expected to be able to generate power cheaper than any other site in the world.

HUNT FOB DILLINGER TIPSTEIUBANDONED Captain Leach Back From Mysterious Trip. Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana state police has abandoned a' contemplated investigation to find out who “put John Dillinger on the spot.” The captain returned last night from Chicago where he conferred with police Sunday and yesterday. Although he started liis probe without knowledge of his superior, A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, Captain Leach reported to his chief on his return. “It’s none of our business, after all, who ‘tipped off’ Dillinger," Mr. Feeney said. “Everybody—state, federal and city enforcement officers—.wanted the No. 1 bad man caught. He's been caught and that ought to be the end of it." Captain Leach explained that his chief business in Chicago was to “pick up some loose ends" on John Hamilton, a Dillinger mob member still at large.

ACTING REGISTRAR IS SELECTED AT BUTLER Mrs. Martha Envart Named to post for 1934-35. Mrs. Martha Bebinger Envart will be acting registrar of Butler university for the 1934-35 school year, according to an announcement by administrative officials. Mrs. Enyart is replacing Dr. Ernest L. Bowman, who served as registrar and examiner during the 1933-34 term.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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The huge lake which is to be backed up behind Coulee Dam will reach 151 miles up the Columbia all the way to the Canadian border. At least three more dams are to be reared between the border and Portland along the Columbia to complete the control projects if the first two prove as successful as is hoped. 808 THEN the northwest, the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and western Montana will be another island empire with a water outlet to the sea down which to send its apples, wheat, truck and salmon. President Roosevelt probably will get a peculiar pleasure out of the thought that it was Thomas Jefferson himself who made possible the development that is going on today in the valley of the Columbia. It was in 1804 that Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to make their way to the Pacific, claiming land in the name of the United States of America. Near the very spots where the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams are rising,

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

WASHINGTON, July 31.—The extent to which the administration is concerned over the vice-like grip of the drought on the middle west scarcely can be exaggerated. There has not been much publicity about this concern, but in the interior department, in agriculture and in the FERA, a great deal of searching study is being given to the problem of that vast area between the 100th meridian and the Rockies ■which perennially lacks a sufficient amount of rain. Some of these studies were transmittted to the President before he left, other summaries of what is happening have been radioed to him on the Houston. And this is one reason he is going out of his way to visit Devil’s lake in North Dakota on his return trip across the continent.

Devil’s lake shows the extent to which all water in the great northwest has deserted the subsoil. Gradually the lake is disappearing. Once a sizeable body of water, it has fallen thirty feet, losing 60 per cent of its volume. ’This illustrates what has happened to the northwest wheat crop. Ordinarily the Dakotas, western Nebraska and Kansas get only from ten to fifteen inches of rainfall a year. This is not enough for diversified farming, but in a nondrought year it is sufficient to permit a good crop of wheat, planted in the spring, with a growing season concentrated immediately after the snows melt. a a a Northwest wheat draws its moisture not so much from rain, but from tthe accumulation in the subsoil. Its roots penetrate four, five, sometimes six feet. But now five years of drought have completely depleted the subsoil. No matter how deep grows the wheat roots, moisture is almost nonexistent. This is why wells, once sufficent

once gleamed the campfires of Lewis and Clark, explorers in a wilderness. A hundred thirty years after them now come the engineers who are putting to work the magnificent river the adventurers explored in birth-bark canoes. Every engineer since Lewis and Clark's day who has looked on the Columbia has dreamed of its vast possibilities These may be gauged by the fact that it has a steady low-water flow of 60,000 cubic feet a second, as compared with 14,000 on the mighty Colorado. In 1922, Colonel George Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, said that development of the Columbia river was "as much of a national project as were the Panama canal and the Alaskan railway," and that it would add more to the wealth of the country than either. But it is only now that the dream is beginning to come true. NEXT—Ft. Peck, the greatest earth-fill dam in the world, which will create another mammoth lake with a shore-line longer than the entire Atlantic coast.

for families and livestock, now are completely dry. Soil experts of the agriculture department estimate that it will take years for the subsoil to recover its moisture in certain parts of the middle west. Some of the land, they think, may never be reclaimable, due to the fact that the wind has scooped the dry topsoil up in dust storms and unloaded it in places least appreciated. a a a A S a result of these studies, the ■**■ administration is working out a drought rehabilitation program, which although not yet complete, is taking four general lines. 1. Conversion of large areas of wheat land to pasturage. This would curtail erosion, cut down dust-storms, create a better soil surface for holding moisture. 2. Instill a system of reservoirs. 3. Transplant families to areas enjoying better rainfall. 4. Break prairie winds by the erection of the President's shelterbelt. This also would help to retain moisture. Administration experts admit frankly that much of that vast, arid corridor running down through the Dakotas, western Nebraska, western Kansas to the gulf, never should have been homesteaded. They have be?n consistent in this view. As far back as 1873 the Geological Survey reported that no part of this area could be “cultivated.” One solution, therefore, is emigration—the moving of entire blocks of families—through the help of subsistence homesteads—tc more arable land. But the original homesteaders of the west come from pioneer stock. In the early days they fought Indians, wolves, the buffalo. Now’ they fight drought, cyclones, sub-zero weather. They were born fighting and they will die fighting. And so far not many have shown any intention of leaving their arid acres.

FISHERMAN IS DROWNED Six Rescued After Giant Wave Sweeps Boat. B'j I'nited Prett NANTUCKET, Mass., July 31. One man was drowned and six rescued when a giant wave swept seven men from the thirty-five-foot powerboat Northern Lights during a blue fishing expedition between Medaket and Tuckernuck Island. The victim was James H. Dennis, 68, veteran Nantucket fisherman. Hit-Run Car in Crash A hit-run motorist Sunday crashed into a car driven by Joseph Temple, 37, of 2406 Brookside avenue, at Pine and Michigan streets, injuring Charles Tyron, 40, Dearborn hotel, a passenger in the Temple automobile.

Fdir Enough ME Ml NEW YORK. July 31.—1f they do have war in Europe it will be a wise idea for the American correspondents who rush over there to cover the story to remember that they can not beat the censorship. By using the mail, a reporter may lick the censors ove, just as a horse gambler beaus the races, once. But beating the censorship, like beating the steeds, does not consist of just one coup. Over a

spell of time the censors, and the horses, are bound to win. The one scoop that may be mailed out to a neutral country for cabling to the United States is not worth the price to the journalist The New York consul representing the country which is affected adversely by the piece will snap it up and cable it back to his government. Thereupon the correspondent either will be deported, as many were in the war to end war. or harassed so badly and hampered in his work that his usefulness will be destroyed. When the censorship sets in

the only thing to do is to become a propagandist, which is a type of prostitute, and forget such matters as self-respect, journalistic honor and the ideal of the truth in reporting. B B B Codes Are Out THE late Bill Shepherd, one of the great field correspondents in the early days of the big war, had scooped the world on the landing of the United States marines in Vera Cruz. The New York office of the United Press deciphered the case and reported that the marines had landed. They had censors in Mexico, too, but Mr. Shepherd did not have to worry about them because he knew he was on his way to England. When he arrived in London he called the boss aside and handed him a code which he had devised with the idea of beating the English censorship, too. The boss took the code from Mr. Shepherd and, to his great chagrin, walked over to the coal-fire in the grate where a pot of tea was generally brewing, and dropped it in. He then warned Mr. Shepherd never to write any more codes or carry any document in his pockets or Jis baggage which even could be mistaken for a code. The United Press had to continue to do business in the allied countries and could not afford the risk of being ruled out. B B B They Became Propagandists correspondents, the papers and the news ■ services all were in the same fix and this meant that they were shoving through news which was flavored to the taste of the allies. That is not exactly the way to put it, either. It was not so much that they demanded the breaks. They were more parieular to prevent the escape of news regarding breaks which were going against them, especially on the home front. In this they were very successful and the correspondents formed a habit of ignoring such material and becoming propagandists by training. The handouts which w*ere distributed at the close of each conference became popular material with the American papers and news services. In the first place they were free. They also were good writing. Two of the writers, Pat McGill and "Sapper," became very well known in the writing business after the war. The French have a great asset in the little 75-cent medal attached to a cent’s worth of red ribbon called the Legion of Honor. Americans go to their knees for the Legion of Honor and the French may keep an American journalist on probation, so to speak, for three or four years, watching his stuff all this w'hile to make sure that he is a true friend of France. When the censorship sets in initiative is a fault' in a correspondent abroad, as it is mistaken for nosiness and espionage. In the war the bureau chiefs constantly were unteaching their bright young men from this side of the water the initiative and dash which had been taught them in the city room back home. And the correspondents who got in trouble were those who could not resist the temptation to tell a good story which was kicking around under foot pleading to be written. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science

BY DAVID DIETZ PROVERBS about the weather can be divided into two classes. Those that are trustworthy and those that are not. The trick is to know which proverb to trust. Weather can often be forecast a short time ahead from the observation of clouds. This is natural since the height, extent and shape of clouds depend upo’t the temperature, the humidity, and the air currents. Asa result many w’eather proverbs have grown up which are based upon observation of the clouds. These are fairly accurate and usually to be trusted. One of these states: “The higher the clouds, the finer the weather.” It is a fact that when thin cirrus clouds are observed and these clouds do not appear to be growing any thicker, that fair weather can be expected for the next twenty-four hours. On the other hand, when the cirrus clouds grow thicker and develop into heavier types of clouds, rain may be expected within twenty-four hours. The cirrus clouds are tiny wisps of cloud which are frequently seen very high in the sky. One form of cirrus cloud is known popularly as "mares’ tails.” When cirrus clouds begin to thicken they develop into small rounded masses of clouds known as cirrocumulus clouds. A sky filled with these clouds is popularly known as a ‘mackerel sky.” a a a \ N old w’eather proverb recognized the fact that t \ a mackerel sky may bring ram. It says: • Mackerel scales and mares’ tails Make lofty ships carry low sails.” The fact that large cumulus clouds, great puffy billow’y clouds, precede a thunderstorm are noted in a proverb which goes: “In the morning mountains, In the evening'fountains.” A fair day usually follows if a fog clears up early in the morning. But if the fog hangs on, rain usually will follow’. This is implied in the proverb which says: "Mists dispersing on the plain Scatter away the clouds and rain; But when they hang on the mountain tops They’ll soon descend in copious drops.” Another w-eather proverb which is pretty accurate goes as follows: “Evening red and morning gray, Help the traveler on his way. Evening gray and morning red. Bring down rain upon his head.” a a a THE significance of the color of sunrise or sunset comes from the following facts: * When the sun reddens the western sky at setting, it means that there are no clouds for a long distance in the west. Since stormy weather usually sets in from the * st, this indicates clear weather. However, the a site signs indicate clouds to the west and clear 1 her to the east. This means that rainy weath{ robably is moving in from the west. \ * One class of W ther proverbs to beware ot are those which attem. i to connect weather with the moon. A good provirb to remember in this connection, says: “The moon and the weather May change together. But change in the moon Won’t change the weather.” This proverb is quite correct. The moon goes through its phase regularly month after month. Weather is continuously changing from fair to stormy and back to fair. It is obvious that there will be coincidences. But such ideas as the one that the full moon drives the clouds out of the sky have been shown to have no basis whatsoever in fact.

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