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It-Seem to Me hewood’bmun T IQW red is red? This question is going to play an important part in your life and mine in the months to come. The "onfuMng factor is that the doctrine of state's rights is being applied to this matter of color identification. Thus an amiable and doddering old dodo suddenly may find himself a revohr the not too difficult device of traveling from New York to California. And he

need not always travel so far. Speaking of amiable oki dodoes, reminds me of the fact that almost anywhere below Fourteenth street. Manhattan, lam listed as a bourgeois sentimentalist. In Staten Island I am greeted as a dangerous alien agitator. Naturally that makes me like Staten Island. Who wouldn't rather be an agitator than a dodo? Os course Staten Mand agitates rather easily, but who am I to complain? But for the case of the entrance requirements I might have lived and died without ever having achieved my am-

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bition of heme arepted as a radical. For a full forty-five years man and boy I was considered harmleu And I am not referring merely to my political and economic beliefs. In my early youth my blood used to boil when mothers said to their daughter * Why, of course, dear you can go around the corner to the saloon as long as Heywood is your escort. He's so well brought up.’’ a a a Just Xot the Type I HAD a grim and sneaking ambition in those days to fool some of those complacent mothers bv betraying somebody. Somehow I never got around to if I blame this either on indolence or the fact that I was not the type. On< night at a theater party I pinched the young ladv entrusted to my care severely and in the right forearm. * Don't show that mark to your mother when you get home." I said with an evil leer. “Dou’t worry about that." replied the young lady, “mom knows that I bruise easy and anyhow I’ll tell her you were the feller. She trusts you.” The years went on and leaves turned red but I could not At times I lashed out savagely and said that capitalism must be destroyed. The best that I could get in my notice was ' playboy turns pink." In desperation I ran for congress on the Socialist ticket. This was several years ago when the Socialist party was considered way downtown. I w'orked mv fool head of! and made ten or twelve speeches every night. “Column wit out for a lark" was the best the commentators would give me. Indeed so corrupting was my reputation as a mere tripper looking for copy that I even dragged down my associates. One year after I joined the Socialist party “The Literary Digest" printed a picture of Norman Thomas as its rover and Princeton made him an LLD. Against mv hopes and desires I found myself associated with an organization all bound up in the heavy woolens of respectability, it is useless now to debate whether the fault was mine or that of Mr. Thomas. Even Morris Hillquist who came to be in later life, at any rate, one of the most conservative of radicals high-hafted me by saying in a public address Heywood Broun to whom Socialism is such a delightful novelty!" a a a Art mils He's Hnnyerous IN convention I stood up with no more than sixteen other associates to vote that we ought to use the word "confiscation " in our platform. The sixteen were attacked bitterly as militants but I was left out in the cold as a mere piece of windowdressing. Intensifying mv efforts I was arrested twice during labor disputes—once by a cop and once by a whole squad of soldiers. It did me no good. In the first instance the Communists circulated the ugly rumor that I had paid the cop SlO to take me into custody. It isn't true although I will admit that I had to give him quite an argument before he was willing to pinch me. The militia incident was entirely on the level and you can imagine my resentment when one of the radical journals referred to my “arrest." It was as bona fide an arrest as anybody ever achieved and some day 111 make somebody swallow those quotation marks. But Staten Island solves everything. It would be improper for me to go into any detail as to the issues involved. Suffice it to say that a certain publisher who seeks to make that garden spot in New York harbor a sort of Ceylon's isle is on record as believing that I am a dangerous alien agitator. I think he really means it. I hope he does. If not I onlv ask for time in order to prove my point. Upon many things we do not agree but I wish to compliment him on his acumen. He and I are right about one thing concerning which everybody else I is in error. We share a joke. The point of the joke is that I really aiti a dangerous agitator. • CopvriKht. 1934. bv The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

INDIUM, a chemical element hitherto considered of no commercial value, may find use in coloring glass yellow. This is revealed in researches just reported to the American Chemical Society by William S. Murray, chemist, of Utica. N. Y. There are ninety-two chemical elements known to scientists. The recent discovery of an element 93 still is somewhat in doubt as to proper interpretation. Some of these are exceedingly rare in nature and usually met with only in the pages of a textbook. To date, indium has belonged to that class. The production of yellow glass has depended to a considerable degree on compounds of uranium, cerium and titanium.” Mr. Murray says. • So far as has been determined, indium sesquioxide gives a more intense yellow color than any of the other oxides used One-half pound imparts a beautiful yellow to 1 000 pounds of glass-forming materials. This amount is about one-seventh that of the metallic oxides previously used for coloring glass yellow. The color is progressive from light canary to dark tangerine-orange.” u u m OTHER recent developments in industrial chemistry include the perfection of anew machine for manufacturing casein from skimmed milk in one continuous process. * Casein finds a great many uses today. Its chief use is in the paper industry and about 80 per cent of the casein consumed in the United States ann’ ally is used to glaze paper. Recent demands for fine printing have required better paper and variations in the quality of commercial casein have caused almost endless trouble to the paper manufacturers, according to Dr. Richard W. Smith Jr., of the University of Vermont. • The paper industry which must produce, practically by the square mile, paper whose printing characteristics are perfectly uniform, requires a casein of rigidly uniform properties.” he says. •‘ln the ne\u process, developed by F. L. Chappell of Hobart. N. Y . the milk is run through rapidly in ribbon-like streams, each step being accomplished automatically by the machine. Acid is mixed instantaneously and uniformly with the milk in a stoneware cylinder containing baffles.'' a a a A NORWEGIAN correspondent of the American Chemical Society reports that the catching season for whales has been advanced to Dec I in order to protect whales from serious depletion by floating factones. operating chiefly in the Antarctic ocean. These factones are. of course, ships. They are equipped with the machinery necessary for removing the whale oil and utilizing other portions of the ananal. New Norwegian regulations require that the whale bodies shall be utiliz'd completely for the production of oil and eventually for fodder stuffs and fertilizers. Co-operation of other nations will be sought in enforcing the restrictions Latest reports from the Antarctic indicate that the supply of whales is beginning to show a marked decrease.

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Dr. Beebe Finds Amazing, Sights in Trip to Ocean Depths

by DAVID DIETZ Srripp*-Howrd Srlence Editor THE surface waters of the Atlantic are a deep blue beneath the clear Bermuda skies. The waves gleam with a silver luster as they dance in the sunlight. But half a mile down there is no sunlight, no color, no motion. It is a murky, gloomy world of eternal silence. In these strange, somber depths swim monsters stranger than their surroundings, monsters so weird and bizarre that they resemble creatures out of a nightmare. Into this fantastic world Dr. William Beebe, who lives the life of adventure that other men dream of. has descended. He has come back with tales of its inhabitants and plans for additional and deeper descents. The bathysphere is a great steel ball with walls ’--inch thick. Thprp is room enough within for two men. They can not, however, stand erect. They sit upon the curved sides of hard steel. It would not be safe to upholster the bathysphere as the occupants must be ever alert for the first seepage of water into the sphere. At the depths to which the explorers descend the pressure is 980 pounds a square inch, more than sixty-five times as great as the ordinary atmospheric pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch. a a a THE bathysphere has three portholes fitted with windows of lused quartz three inches thick. The three are close together, in a row, all pointing in the same direction. Powerful search lights are arranged to shine through the two end ones. The center one is used for visual observation and the making of motion pictures. In the bathysphere with the two observers are the search lights and motion picture cameras, telephone equipment for communication with the boat from which the bathysphere is lowered, oxygen tanks, and pans of chemicals for absorbing the carbon dioxide and moisture from the air. After the two observers enter the bathysphere through an opening on the top, a door weighing 400 pounds is screwed into place and bolted down tightly enough to seal the bathysphere with an air-tight joint. When all is ready, the boom from which the bathysphere hangs is swung out over the ship's side. The engines are started, and the big sphere begins its descent. Dr. Otis Barton takes charge of the electric search lights, the telephone line, and the oxygen tanks He watches the sides of the bathysphere for the possible seepage of water. Dr. Beebe takes his place at the motion picture camera. a a a AS the bathysphere splashes into the water, the two observers can see the weaves dashing upon its portholes. Soon they are below the waves and can see the keel of their ship above them. Very quickly the keel fades from view. The water grows darker. It is like the coming of twilight. But it is a strange tw-ilight, of luminous blue. Dr. Beebe has described it as resembling no other color he has ever seen.

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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Mention of the name of Senator Harry F. Byrd to any administration leader these days is like waving a red flag before a bull. The ensuing snorts are loud and disdainful. Cause of the antipathy are certain recent Republican activities on behalf of the plump-cheeked. anti-New Deal Virginian. Virginia's Republican organization recently announced that in view of Byrd's hostile attitude toward the Roosevelt regime. Republicans were entirely satisfied with his representation and would put no candidate in the field against him.

And the Republican national committee is printing thousands of copies of Byrd's attack on the AAA. and distributing them throughout the west for the fall congressional election battle. Is 'General" Farley sore? Woof!!! a a a MOST unique incident on Pres- \ ident Roosevelt's entire Hawaiian vacation was when a delegation called upon him in Honolulu and asked that one of the navy's new submarines, now under construction be named in honor of the islands. It seemed like a reasonable idea to the President, but he reminded them that all new submarines are named after fish. Ah. yes. they replied, they understood that. They had chosen the name of a fish—a staple food fish of the island, upon which much of Hawaii's existence depends. "And what is the name of this fish, for which’ you want us to name anew submarine?” inquired the President. "Humuhumunukunukau-apua'a” was the reply, as the President almost fainted. The weight of the paint he figured, would be almost enough to sink the boat. a a a THE President is quietly preparing to apply the pulmotor to the NR A. Advisers have told him that it is long overdue. That the morale and administrative disintegration within the Blue Eagle roost have reached such a stage that heroic restorative measures are desperately called for. That all is not well with his "bird” finally has percolated to the cranium of General Johnson. Tall, canny Barney Baruch, his former boss, helped him to come ! to this realization. Before the Wall Street operator sailed for Europe some six weeks ago. he told Johnson that he ought to get wise to himself. In their private opinion, John- i 0

Gradually the blue twilight grows deeper and deeper. Finally it fades into perpetual darkness. The quiet descent in the bathysphere nevertheless is an exciting one. Dr. Beebe has told how, on their first descent, a tiny trickle of water came in through the bathysphere door. All the way down, they turned their attention again and again to that trickle. It did not. however, increase. At a depth of 1.000 feet, as far as they went upon the first trip Dr. Barton pulled a palm leaf fan from a wire rack in which it had been placed. Dr. Beebe, at the time, was watching intently a school of fish through the porthole of the sphere. The sudden rasping sound, in the intense quiet of the sphere, sounded to Dr. Beebe like the caving in of the door. After that, he says, they were more carefyl of each other s nerves. ana DR. BEEBE has described the types of life seen on the bathysphere descents. At a depth

son has done his job. They believe that as long as he remains with the NR A his domineering and irrepressibly flamboyant temper makes a real overhauling impossible. a a a THE MAIL BAG R. V. D., Indianapolis—The wooden gun of John Dillin-. ger's was really wood, as was related by Basil (Red> Gallagher of The Indianapolis Times. New Orleans. La.—Both the senate and house can expel one of its members for any reason by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership. T. W., Columbia. S. C.—Senator Jimmy Byrnes unquestionably is headed for Democratic floor leadership of the chamber. If Floor Leader Joe Robinson should leave the senate for any reason. Byrnes would be the White House candidate for his place. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i CATHOLIC CHURCH TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY West Side Parish to Hold 3-Day Lawn Fete. The Church of the Assumption will celebrate its fortieth anniversary with a lawn fete and social tomorrow, Friday and Saturday in honor of its pastor, the Rev. Joseph F. Weber, founder of the parish. The social will be held in the 1100 block. Blaine avenue, where the church is located and will feature dancing. amusements. German bands, refreshments and horse racing. Mrs. Martha Claus and Frank Callahan are co-chairmen. There were only sixteen families in the neighborhood when Father Weber started the west side parish. Now approximately 1.600 persons live in the vicinity. Father Weber is assisted in his work by the Rev. Joseph Laugei.

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Strange fish with luminous organs are shown surrounding Dr. Beebe’s bathysphere in the large sketch. The method of lowering the bathysphere from the boat is shown in the little sketch.

of 200 feet, large jelly fish of many sorts were encountered. At 300 feet, he says, the bathysphere was sinking through “a mist of shrimps.” They were of various sizes and proved to be the dominant form of life in the lower depths. Pilot fish, white with bands of black, were frequently noted. At 400 feet, Dr. Beebe noted lantern fish, known scientifically as myctophids. It still was sufficiently light in the water, however, to hide the luminous spots upon these fish. When 700 feet was reached, the bluish blackness of the water had increased so that the luminous fish then shined forth clearly. The trail of each fish was not a path of fiery light. The shrimps encountered were marked with luminous spots of silver and green. The fish likewise gleamed with silver and green lights.

LOVER IS GRILLED IN WOMAN’S DEATH TRIAL Defense Dissatisfied With Man’s Account of Time. /?i/ United Press COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Aug. 22. —Rigid re-cross examination today faced dapper Harry Nabinger. lover of blond Mrs. Eva Coo, roadhouse mistress on trial for murder of her crippled handyman, Harry Wright. Defense counsel sought to have him account for his actions during one hour of June 14, the day Wright was killed at the “haunted house" on Crum Horn mountain. “I am not satisfied with Nabinger's account of what he did during that hour,” Defense Counsel James J. Bvard said, “and I'm going to find out where he was—drunk or sober.”

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In the lower depths, the strange subterranean creatures which nature has created for this environment were encountered. These fish are fashioned to withstand the tremendous pressure of the depths. Brought to the surface, their blood pressure causes them to explode. a a a IN these lower depths. Dr. Bebee has said, the water has the blackness of night. Here were the strangest creatures of all, huge fish with great gaping mouths and sharp, spiny teeth. Along the sides of these fish were rows of spots that reminded one of the portholes of a ship at night. But instead of shining all with white light, tfley were many colors. Some of the luminous spots were green, others violet, still others blue, crimson or ruby-red. Other fish had stalks growing out of their noses with large lumi-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP aaa a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Lower natural gas rates will join lower electric rates in the Roosevelt utility program, according to present indications. . ~ The federal trade commission plans to devote most of the tunremaining for its study of utilities to investigation of natural gas production and natural gas pipe lines. , ... ... The new power policy committee is discovering also that this rapidly growing industry is an important factor in plotting the power

future of the country. The trade commission already has learned that the natural gas output in 1930 was six times the total production of electricity in potential heat units, and that the

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nous organs on the end. Each fish looked as though it had an electric light hung above its nose on a little step. These lights, likewise, exhibited all the colors of the rainbow. Huge creatures often were seen, only darkly, great gray masses which could not be identified clearly. But now and then a great cuttlefish came by, its gray-gray envelope and waving tentacles marked with luminous spots. Great lobsters and prawns were encountered,. their legs and sides and claws marked with luminous spots. Laboratory of some of these creatures caught with dredge nets has revealed that these luminous spots are often very complicated organs, equipped with lenses on the order of those found in the eye. Structures which act as reflectors are often found behind the luminous tissue. The exact nature of the electrical or chemical processes which make these spots luminous is not yet understood.

known supplies available run into the trillions of million cubic feet. In 1930. the country used 1.942,000.000.000 cubic feet of natural gas, an increase of 150 per cent from 1919. Eighty per cent of it was used in industry. 20 per cent in homes. In both fields the use has increased greatly in the last four years. REGULATION of gas rates has become an interstate problem even more recently than regulation of electric rates. In 1928 the first long distance gas pipe line was laid. Now every eastern state, except in New England and the Carolinas. is traversed by pipe lines. A 900-mile line connects Texas fields with Chicago. One of the most important facts disclosed by William T. Chantland. attorney for the trade commission, in preliminary inquiries into the great new utility has been the concentration of control over it. Four large companies now control most of the known supplies and most of the network of pipe lines transporting it to markets. The four are Standard Oil of New Jersey, Columbia Gas and Electric Company, Electric Bond and Share, and the Cities Service group of companies. The commission now w'ants to know what effect this joint control of electricity and gas has had on preventing competition between the two services. State utility commissioners have suspected for some time that gas rates are high because holding companies in control wanted the public encouraged to use electricity instead. Though forty-three states have provided for gas regulation little progress has been made in drawing a fair rate schedule, partly because of rapid development of the industry and partly because the courts have denied until recently the right of commissions to inquire into the fairness of charges paid by local distributing companies to parent corporations for gas delivered across state lines.

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Entered * second Ctaa* Matter • t roatolTlee. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fdir Enough WESTBROOK Pt© NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22—The unfortunate truth about the armed dictatorship of Huey Long in Louisiana is that one side is just about as crooked as the other. With few exceptions, the politicians of the opposing side are cheap, ignorant hacks who could be bought over to the dictator's side at any time by a few jobs to their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Men put themselves forth as candidates for the legislature and other public offices without the faintest idea of serving the state, but with the sole thought of collecting the pay of $lO a day which the job affords and such other money as they may be

able to pick up by w ay of graft. It may sound a bit naive to suggest that any politician should have a decent motive any more, but some people like to believe that there are some who consider the welfare of the count ry. In Louisiana, however, it is a good idea to get rid of any such innocent motions and to understand that the government is a strictly predatory institution. It robs the people of their taxes, it blackmails the big industries with threats of ruinous legislation and it gives no account of its revenues. The purpose of the government is

to provide phoney positions for politicians to support their relatives and political helpers at good pay. Nobody has any right to demand an accounting of the state funds and there is no way of guessing how much money has been collected and how much of it has been stolen. ana He Can Out-Think Them DER KINGFISH, being a native of Louisiana and the smartest man in the state, knows the low quality of politicians on the opposing side. He has demonstrated time and again that he can out-think his opponents and out-vilify them in the amazingly coarse rough-and-tumble of the political campaigns. He calls people fighting names, including the fightingest name of all, and. instead of taking the matter up in the manner which is poetically supposed to be the tradition of this part of the world, they only try to think of dirtier names to call him. This is impossible, however, because when dirtier names are called Huey Long will call them. The mayor of New Orleans. T. Semmes Walmsley, is doubly unfortunate in that he is first of all no leader and in addition to that a dude. Mr. Walmsley is a member of the local aristocracy. He played football at Tulane. the regional Princeton or Harvard, he lives in a nice part of town and his manners are against him in any contest with Huey Long for the approval of the rabble. Mr. Walmsley would not wipe his knife on his bread or fan soup with his hat, but witnesses will swear that Huey reached out, grabbed a fistful of broiled rice and stuffed it into his mouth at a public banquet for the football team of the state university. Mr. Walmsley is a pathetic figure in this fight. He is the mayor of a town which always has been “wide open,” and Huey has put him in the false position of defending prostitution and gambling. That isn’t the case at all. New Orleans in the matter of prostitution and gambling is more like a Central American banana port than an American city. Public opinion always has tolerated these little conveniences and Huey tolerated them for years himself. In fact he still tolerates them in two parishes or counties adjoining New Orleans in which his dictatorship is established. a u a U. S. Is Only Prober Left BUT he “closed up” New Orleans as a campaign move to put Mr. Walmsley in wrong and now he is proceeding to hold a Seabury investigation, which will inquire what became of the graft which is always paid by prostitution and gambling. But there is no power in the state except the federal grand jury which can inquire into the graft received from prostitution and gambling in his parishes or graft exacted from paving and building contractors and lobbies. He does not put his money in banks and his political treasurer keeps no accounts at all. He lives like a king and owns a mansion, although his present job of United States senator, at SIO,OOO a year, is the best he ever held. The mayor, though not unpopular, is simply no leader and there is no leader on the opposition side. There are a few decent men, but they do not lead. One of them is Mason Spencer of Tallulah, a member of the legislature. He is a planter. He is big, independent and a fighter, but too lazy or too disgusted to take command. Mr. Spencer is a sophisticated man, a friend of Irvin Cobb, who sometimes hunts with him, and one of the few men in the state who might lick Huey if he would take the trouble. Norman Bauer is another. His speeches in the legislature were the only intelligent remarks heard in the recent special session. He dealt with the issues and fought hard, but realized that to argue with his colleagues against their graft was a good deal like trying to appeal to the better nature of a highway robber. George Perrault also suffers from decency and was so unpopular on the closing night of the special session that he carried a gun in his clothes and was prepared to shoot his way out if the dictator’s secret policemen, who swarmed through the legislative halls, made a false move. ICopvriKht, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health ■—Bl’ DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

MOTIVES for adopting babies usually are highly idealistic and excellent, but in some instances, of course, other motives may supervene. Cases are actually known in which women have adopted babies with the idea of passing them off as their own to obtain inheritances. In other cases, children have been adopted with a view to training them into illegal occupations. For this reason, every agency which has children for adoption, if it is a modern agency and properly condijpted, looks very carefully into the kind of persons who want to adopt children. It is also, of course, the duty of the agency to make certain that the child given for adoption is suitable in every way possible. Definite investigations must be undertaken before the child is turned over to its new' parents. a a a SOME conditions of the nervous system are believed to be transferable to some extent to the child. Among these are forms of idiocy, mental deficiency, epilepsy and alcoholism. There are also common laboratory tests for venereal disorders which should be made not only of the child, but, if possible, also of the parents. Dr. R. L. Jenkins also recommends a study of the behavior of the child as to its aggressiveness or timidity. its sociability or exclusiveness, its adaptability, emotional stability and response to discipline. If possible, it is well also to have the child that is to be adopted looked over by a specialist in psychology or a physician familiar with mental studies to make certain that it is of normal intelligence. a a a AUTHORITIES in this field are inclined to advise a probationary period of perhaps a year or more in each instance to make certain that everything is satisfactory before the adoption is legally completed. Such period gives opportunity for study of the situation in the home and the extent to which the child can be adapted suitably to life in the home. In other w ords, the placement of a child for adoption is a highly individual matter and can hardly be successfully handled on a routine basis. It is necessary to adapt every child individually to its new surroundings. $

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