Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1934 — Page 15

It Seems to Me HEYM BROUN DISPATCHES from the coast announce that capital is flying from California in anticipation of the election of Upton Sinclair. There is at least a possibility that these rumors are designed for propaganda effort. but>?ven if the reports deserve to be taken at their face value I beg leave to wonder whether the Golden Gate will turn to brass in regret for the renegades. It is well to remember that if capital flees California some of the capitalists are likely to go with it. From the point of view of many in this sun-kissed commonwealth it might well be a consummation devoutly to be wished. The plain truth is that one of the most glorious sections of the whole United States has been sadly mucked up by man. California, in recent |ears, has become

America’s Ceylon's Isle. It is a land blessed by nature and cursed by native sons. The most fertile province of the republic is also one of the most backward states. It hardly can be sheer chance that everybody looks for the nearest exit when the stranger in the house announces, “I'm a Californian.” This is not said with any parochial prejudice of a resident of Manhattan. People of Indiana, Ohio and even little Rhode Island recoil when face to face with one of the professional, semi-professional or even amateur climate boosters. The native son adopts the tactics of the

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gridiron and assumes that the best defense is a good attack. And he has much to answer for. a a a In the Hands of Hobbits SOME explanation is needed for the fact that the richest and most bountiful farming land in all the world is also the scene of the most cruel and bitter exploitation. The Imperial Valley is the nearest thing to Eden which the modern world affords and it is also the scene of starvation pay and bitter labor disputes. Once upon a time, San Francisco was the most romantic and glamorous of all American cities. It was the center of a native culture which embraced the practicioners of every art. But in the streets of that town there no longer is even an echo of Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce. Only shot putters and high jumpers remain. The groves which were Bohemian have fallen into the hands of Babbitts bland and brazen. In all fairness, I must admit that large young men are regimented within the borders of the state into efficient football teams though even here it may be pointed out that little Columbia was able to slay the Giants by pitting intelligence against California brawn. The lovely meadows and mountains of the Pacific slope are dotted with colleges and universities and they are manned and headed by professors who can leap even more loftily than the high jumpers whenever a patron crooks two fingers into a tiny ring. nun “Here Are Your Hat and Cuffs ” ONCE upon a time California was the cradle of at least half the best newspaper men in the country but its press has fallen into decay inevitable in a craft which is forced to write no word or even think a thought without first facing San Simeon and bowing the forehead to the ground three times. California there she stands the land of vigilantes, kept papers, and kept professors. It is the state which applauded a corrupt Governor in his impudent statement that not one lyncher should suffer for his rape of constitutional law and order. It is the state in which Tom Mooney languishes in jail because its higher courts refuse to face the plain facts in the case and bury themselves in legal quibbles. It Is the state which thinks that Herbert Hoover is a statesman and Mayor Rossi a patriot. And the gentlemen who have thus diminished a promised land of fruit and flowers have the audacity to think that there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth if the carpet baggers of corruption pack up their goods and hie away to territories more hospitable. The sun shone brighter and there were more stars in the firmament at night before the invaders from lowa and Kansas swept locust-like across the borders of our fairest state. California is ripe for an experiment in radicalism. Here is the perfect spot where none should go parched or hungry and every man earn ease of body and mind through co-operation. Capital is fleeing California and if California is smart it will say to each hesitant exploiter, ‘ Mr. Moneybags, here are your hat and cuffs.” (Copyright. 1934, bv The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE earth is a tiny ship adrift in a cosmic sea where there are no fixed lighthouses to chart the course. There are light ships, but these are also in motion. The Einstein theory grew out of a realization of this fact and according to the theory of relativity it will never be possible to chart the absolute motion of the earth. Nevertheless astronomers are interested in fixing the earth's motions in relation to the rest of the visible universe and to date they have succeeded in detecting four such motions. They are now engaged in a search for a possible fifth motion. The earth’s first motion is the obvious one which you learned about in your geography class at grammar school. It is the rotation of the earth upon its own axis. The second motion of the earth is also one you learned about in grammar school. It was the revolution of the earth around the sun. a a a A THIRD motion of the earth, not so obvious to the layman, but nevertheless well known to the astronomer for many years, is the motion of the earth wuth reference to the stars. This is usually spoken of by astronomers as the motion of the sun with reference to the stars, but inasmuch as the entire solar system is carried along with the sun. the earth must share in any motion of the sun. Since all the stars possess random motions of their own, it can be seen that the determination of the sun's motion is not a simple one. Professor Henry Norris Russell has compared it to the difficulty of standing cm the fighting top of a battleship at night and attempting to infer the motion of the ship by observing the movements of the lights on the other moving battleships. The motion of the battleship would tend to make lights moving in the same direction seem stationary while lights coming in the opposite direction would seem to move faster than they actually were moving. A similar study of the stars makes it seem certain that our sun is moving in the general direction of the bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra with a speed of about twelve miles a second. a a a WE come now to the discovery of the fourth motion of the earth. This is a rotation of the galaxy as a whole. If we examine the distant reaches of space with a powerful telescope, we see other galaxies of stars like our own Milky Way. Many of these have shapes resembling the pinwheels shot off in Fourth of July celebrations. Immediately, one suspects them of being in rotation. Researches of the last few years have convinced astronomers that our galaxy is similarly shaped and so it was only natural to suspect that our galaxy also is in rotation. The great star cloud which tile telescope reveals in the constellation of Sagittarius is believed to contain the center of the galaxy. Recent researches indicate that the entire galaxy is in rotation around this center. Q—How many clergymen are in the United States* A—148.841. Q—Who is Ernest Bramah? A—An English author. <^—What is pecuniary wealth? A—The word pecuniary means of or in money. Pecuniary wealth la wealth in money.

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ITALY ‘THROUGH’ WITH HITLER

Fascism and Naziism Now Go Their Respective Ways Alone

BY MILTON BRONNER NFA Service Staff Correspondent J ONDON, Oct. 4. —Benito Mus- ' solini, dictator of Italy, has Adolf Hitler’s number. And no matter whether you say it in Italian, English, German or French—all of which the Duce speaks—the answer is the same: goose-egg. alias zero, alias nought. All of which means thPt Germany under the Nazis is more isolated in the world than it w r as when it fought the World war. Then at least it had allies in the shape of Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. Holland, Switzerland and Spain were benevolently neutral and Sweden more so. Today Nazified Germany has not an ally in the world and not a country that is benevolently neutral, unless it be Japan, which is too far off to do Hitler any good in Europe At the beginning his best chance seemed to be Italy. Hitler had copied Fascism slavishly. For the fasces he substituted the swastika; for the black shirts, he substituted brown shirts. He copied the Fascist system of private armies. Attaining power, he aped Mussolini by making his brown shirts a pillar of the state. Imitation seemed to be the sincerest form of flattery. Also it suited the Duce s purpose in world politics to play Germany against France. a a a BUT soon Nazidom aroused the Duce’s opposition. Hitler oppressed the Jews. Mussolini took them within the fold, making Signor Guido Jung of Sicily his minister of the treasury. Hitler started a fight on the Catholic church. Mussolini composed a difference of sixty years’ standing between the state and the Vatican. Hitler’s racial theories made Italians sore. The Nazi drum-beat-ers spoke of the Aryans as the greatest of human races, the Nordics as the greatest of the Aryans and the Germans as the greatest of Nordics. Italians resented that. In great historic figures they

DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Roosevelt’s reorganized NRA has been functioning less than a week. But already its structure has become representative of the conflicting forces within the country today. The national industrial recovery board, in charge of administrating the fJRA, is dominated by business. Its slant is conservative. The industrial emergency committee, which defines policy for the NRA, is dominated by some of the most liberal members of the Roose-

velt family. Its slant is pro-labor, pro-farmer, pro-social reform. One group is balanced off against the other. Whether this setup is efficient remains to be seen. But that it accurately represents the growning conflict between labor and industry, is certain. This has become the biggest problem of the administration today. Sitting as chief co-ordinator between these two conflicting groups is the man who next to Roosevelt has made a record for co-ordination—Donald R. Richberg. a a a IN military terms —here is how is how he fits into the revised NR A picture: Commander -in - Chief The President. General Staff—The industrial emergcny committee. Chief of Staff—Richberg, director of the industrial emergency committee. Brigadier-Generals—The NIR board, in charge of NRA administration. Sometimes working behind the scenes, sometimes out in front, Richberg actually is running the show. One year ago knowledge of this would have made business goggeleyed with horror. Richberg would have been branded as a dangerous radical, an ardent labor enthusiast, an advocate of Moscowism. But in the last year Richberg has changed. One change has been his increasing closeness to the President. He was reasonably close before, but in recent months he has gone in and out of the White House almost constantly. The second change has been Richberg's gradual conservatism. All things are relative. The man now chosen to guide the NRA once became disgusted with Big Business. threw up a profitable Chicago law practice, dedicated his life to the progressive movement. He prosecuted Sam Insull when the rest of Chicago was worshiping at the shrine of Insull's opera house. He hammered at public utilities when it was considered personally dangerous to lift a voice against them. He championed the railway brotherhoods, became the leading defender of labor in the United States. a a a TODAY Big Business, one-time attacker of Richberg as a wild-eyed assailant of the country’s economic structure, no longer looks upon him with bulging eyes. They have found him temperate. considerate, understanding. Simultaneously, Richberg's old labor cronies have been bitter in their disappointment. They hold him responsible for company unions, the steel code, the muchcriticized aluminum code. Actually Richberg still is much more liberal, much more progressive than Big Business. Fundamentally he is a “left of center” man. And probably nowhere in the United States could the President have found any one who more closely duplicates his own personal views. In making Richberg NRA chief of staff therefore Roosevelt—more

MINISTER' OF MINISTER OF MINISTER OF VAR FOREIGN AFFAIR? PUBLIC IVORKS —; If It they beat the German ell hollow. In literature a Dante far hr > v outweighed a Goethe. f In music, whereas Wagner was V* i something of a cult and acquired minictpd of %.nictcp ac ! '~ taste, all the world flocked to ° Italian opera because all the world loved melody. world's masterpieces in painting In the arts Germany had no and sculpture were the products world figure, whereas half the of Italians.

than most people appreciate—will be running the NRA himself. (Copvrißht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

POLITICAL FREEDOM FOR TEACHER URGED Citizens Candidates Heard at Two Meetings. Keeping city school teachers free from political interference, through election of the Citizens School Committee ticket, was urged last night by Carl Wilde, federal bankrutpcy referee and candidate for school commissioner on the Citizens ticket. Mr. Wilde and the four other candidates on the ticket, Mrs. Mary D. Ridge, Alan W. Boyd, John F. White and Earl Buchanan, spoke at meetings at the Christamore Settlement house, 502 North Tremont street, and at the home of H. P. Willwerth, 2171 East Riverside drive. John L. Niblack, managing director of the school committee; Mrs. George Horst, who presided at the North Tremont meeting, and Mrs. Letitia Hall Carter, leader of the Riverside drive meeting, also spoke. V. OF^rwTaPPROVES BUTLER CENSORSHIP Talk May Have Offended Mixed Audience, Is Verdict. By United Press' LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 4.—The Veterans of Foreign Wars approved today the action of radio station WAVE and the National Broadcasting company in cutting Major-Gen-eral Smedley D. Butler off the air, while the fiery former marine asserted that the speech which offended was addressed to men “who don’t wear ruffles.” The veterans said in a resolution that “this convention thought that General Butler's language was in no wise objectionable to the veterans. but may have been so to a mixed radio audience.” 600.000- D R SEIZED IN NEW YORK Huge Illicit Liquor Source Is Closed by Police. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 4.—The taps were closed today on New York City’s main source of illicit liquor as the result of police seizure of an unlicensed still capable of producing 600,000 drinks a day. The still was operating full blast when police, accompanied by federal agents, smashed into the premises in mid-Manhattan and arrested eleven men. The apparatus occupied two adjoining buildings and part of a third, which were fitted with all sorts of alarm systems. FEDERAL CLERK ROBBED House Thief Robs U. S. Employe of $44 in Cash. A thief with apparently no respect for the majesty of federal courts last night entered the home of A. C. Sogemeier, 140 Blast Pleasant Run parkway, federal court clerk, and stole $44.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934

G, 0. P. SCORED BY JUDGE FRANK BAKER Party Carrying On Campaign of Hate, Says Jurist. Warning that failure to vote for the Democratic ticket is a step backward toward the Hoover hard times of 1932, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker last night addressed a Democratic rally at Missouri and McCarty streets. The Republican party is engaging in a campaign of hate and playing on the prejudices of the voters, Judge Baker said. He ridiculed Senator Arthur R. Robinson for his alarmist views about America being headed toward a dictatorship. Other speakers at the meeting were Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for mayor, and Otto Ray, sheriff nominee. Judge Kern also spoke at a Democratic rally at Michigan and Patterson streets. SALES CONTRACT wfLL DISPOSE OF C. E. R. Treaty Impassible in Transfer of Road of Manchoukuo. By United Press TOKIO, Oct. 4.—The newspaper Nichi Nichi today said that the document transferring full title in the Chinese Eastern Railway to Manchoukuo will be a simple sales contract instead of a treaty. This arrangement will be made, the newspaper learned, because the Soviet, which is selling its half share in the road, does not recognize Manchoukuo. One ot the principal remaining questions deals with Manchoukuo's ability to fulfill financial obligations of the agreement, which is said to provide a payment of about $50,000.000, one-third in cash and the balance in goods.

SIDE GLANCES

“I’ve rewritten this chapter twenty-three times, and it *UU reads as if I had labored on in”

T>UT all these things weighed as dust in the balance compared with the question of Austria and, incidentally, its little Chancellor, the late Engelbert Dollfuss. Mussolini and, with him, all Italy, was bitterly opposed to any destruction of Austrian independence. Italy could not tolerate an annexation of Austria to Germany, bringing the Reich to Italian frontiers at the Brenner Pass. Nazi broadcasts from Munich attacking Dollfuss, Nazi harboring of refugee Austrian Nazi legionaries and chieftains, Nazi subsidies to Austrian terrorists—all these things made bad blood. It was then that Hitler sought his famous interview with Mussolini. It is now no secret that Hitler got nothing out of Mussolini save an admonition to let Austria alone and a firm statement of Mussolini’s determination to stand by Austria and its chancellor. Shortly, thereafter, there followed the assassination of Dollfuss. Mussolini esteemed the dead chancellor. At the very time he was brutally shot down, Frau Dollfuss and Donna Rachele Mussolini, the Duce’s wife, were sealing a firm friendship on the sea-sands at Riccione. Not far away little Ivi and Rudi Dollfuss were playing with their good friends, little Anna Maria and Romano Mussolini. a a a WHEN the Mussolinis saw Frau Dollfuss off on her way to the bier of her murdered husband, the Duce choked up and Donna Rachele burst into tears. That choke and those tears were one of the worst day’s work in the history of Nazidom. This was made apparent a few hours later when the Duce dispatched 120,000 Italian troops to the Austria-Italian frontier, ready to march in if the Nazis at-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP tt tt tt tt a u By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The latest shift in the New Deal’s lineup left employers and workers wondering today if it foreshadows a change in signals on labor disputes. Employers who don’t want to engage in collective bargaining hope that when Lloyd K. Garrison leaves the national labor relations board next week, precedents he established

gradually may be pushed aside. Organized labor is watching the situation just as closely and hoping that recent policies will be unchanged. The fact that the change coincides with President Roosevelt’s proposal of a labor-industrial “truce” and also his mention of labor dispute settlements as one of the proper functions of NRA’s proposed judicial branch have led to a belief that new machinery may supplant the Garrison board In the near future. The board was created by executive order last July. It can be abolished in the same way. a a a WHATEVER its fate, it will go down in history as one of the most effective agencies of the New Deal. As its chairman, Garrison has crowded more action into a three month period than any official except General Hugh Johnson. Labor troubles were flooding in on the administration from every side when Garrison took office last July. He rolled up his shirt sleeves and began work quietly and rapidly. A month later he reported to the President that his board had disposed of the ninetytwo cases it inherited from the old labor board. At the end of the second month policies had been formulated to end conflict between different branches of the government handling these matters and a reorganization of regional labor boards was under way. Also recalcitrant employers had learned that the board meant business, and one of

By George Clark

TANARUS, Y _ ; :'U Hjh*. *

DER FUEHRER , . , resented by Italians.

tempted a coup in Austria. So far as Mussolini is concerned, Hitler is “through.” If any further evidence is needed, the press supplies it. The newspapers of Italy, like those of Germany, say only what the masters of the state want them to say. The Messagero, a semiofficial Italian paper, said: “Since months Italy has insurged against this system of battle that no civilized people can consider without horror. It is why it is useless today to deny a responsibility which is clearly defined. “To strangle a little people, big Nazi Germany has gone so far as to daily incitement to assassination ... One does not treat two times with those who have given proofs of their disloyalty.”

them, the Houde Engineering Corporation, had decided to go to court about it. a a a GARRISON is the youngest man to hold a key position in the New Deal. He is jTlst 37. Old dealers smile when he is identified with the Roosevelt administration, because he was called to Washington to do a special job for the government during the Hoover administration, also. He was made special assistant at-torney-general to help frame a new federal bankruptcy act, because of his work during New York's investigation of bankruptcy procedure. Before and after that service in Washington Garrison practiced law in New York. For two years he has been dean of the law school of the University of Wisconsin.

JAPAN UNMOVED BY MITCHELL'S VIEWS Officials and Newspapers Refuse Comment. By United Press TOKIO, Oct. 4.—Japanese officials and newspapers refused to take seriously today the recommendations made by Brigadier-General William Mitchell, U. S. A., retired, for construction of a dirigible fleet powerful enough to reach and attack Japan. Government officials were not perturbed by Mitchell’s testimony before the federal aviation commission in the United States. The Japanese language newspapers refrained from editorial comment. They consider Mitchell a “propagandist” and a “visionary,” and his testimony was regarded as “relatively unimportant.” WOMAN’S ASSOCIATION WILL MEET MONDAY Dinner Will Be Addressed by Mrs. Florence Thacker. “Woman and the New Era” will be discussed by Mrs. Florence Thacker at the National Association of Women dinner at 6 Monday night at the Washington. The legislative committee will meet at 7 for a discussion of probation led by Miss Laurel Thayer, municipal court probation officer. Hostesses will be Mrs. Nancy Shelby, MLss Thelma Henry and Mrs. Hilda Kendall. Music will be provided by Mrs. Mary Chandler and Miss Louise Swan. BOMBING ROCKS HAVANA Terroristic Activities Keep Cuban Authorities on Alert. By United Press HAVANA, Oct. 4.—Terroristic activities here and in three provincial towns kept authorities alert today, as labor and other opposition elements showed restiveness. Twelve bombs exploded in Havana during the night despite unusual police and army vigilance, and heavy firing in Central Parte sent noripstriana running

Second Section

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/ Corer she World WM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—President Roosevelt's silver policy, despite the best of intentions, threatens seriously to cripple China, a friendly power. Unless the two countries can find a way to reconcile their conflicting interests, China may be forced to abandon her present system in favor of a manager or gold-backed currency, or, failing that, sometliing more experimental. As the President reduced the gold content of the American dollar to cheapen American currency and boost American

commodity prices, his silver accumulation program is making China's dollar dearer and her commodity prices lower. Old Cathay is feeling the pinch. China’s position foundamentally is this: China has one-fourth the world's population, but only onefiftieth of the world's trade. She exports less than $1.35 worth of goods and imports less than $1.70 worth per capita per annum. Accordingly, China is far more concerned with domestic markets and conditions than with world markets. For her, cheap silver means high commodity prices and

maximum purchasing power at home where these things count. Cheap silver likewise acts as a fillip to her exports, reduces imports and helps give her a favorable balance of international trade. a a a Dear Silver Knocks Bottom Out AMERICAN silverites urge that rising silver adds to the purchasing power of the Chinese masses and so spurs American trade with that country. But the Chinese say that dear silver tends to knock the bottom out of commodity prices. The things which the Chinese masses produce and sell bring in less silver with which to buy. So instead of it being easier for the average Chinese to raise his $1.70 with which to buy foreign-made goods, it takes more work or commodities. It is just as logical for dear silver to hurt China, the Chinese observe, as it was for dear gold to paralyze the rest of the globe. If the United States drains China’s silver, it must react on that country in the same way that the clamor for gold hurt other lands. a a a Lapse of Gold Hurt China INDEED, it is claimed, the effect of steadily appreciating silver must be even more marked in China because her population are mainly peasants. It is the sale of their commodities which makes or breaks China’s domestic purchasing power. China does so little world business that the world depression had been on two full years before 6he felt it. The reason was silver. Silver (in terms of gold) depreciated and, within China, commodity prices not only did not fall (as they did throughout the rest of the world), but actually rose almost up to 1932. And, as Chinese products were cheap, measured in gold, her exports thrived. She did a good business, therefore, at home and abroad. It was only after the British pound, Japanese yen and American dollar went off gold that the world depression seriously came to China.

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

WHEN germs invade your body, they release poisonous substances. These poisonous substances, it is believed, may affect a certain portion of the brain which acts as a human thermostat and controls heat of the body, or tissues damaged by the germs may produce the poisonous substances that affect this heat center of the brain. Asa result, you have fever. Experiments have shown that injury to the brain of an animal, in one of Its sections, is followed by a disturbance of the body temperature, most often a high rise, such as occurs in fevers. As further proof of the presence of this center in the brain, it has been established that hemorrhage into the brain at this point is usually accompanied by a fever. The heat of the body is controlled by radiation of heat from its surface. A sudden dilation of the blood vesels on the surface of the body will radiate more heat and bring down the temperature. The body also develops heat through the kind of food that is taken. Failure to handle sugars properly may result is development of increased heat. a a a IN fevers the nervous control of the temperature is altered. A sick person is affected more easily by heat and cold than a healthy person. Even when there is fever, the variations In temperature, which make it lower in the morning and higher in the evening, continue to take place, but at a higher level. In certain kinds of diseases this is reversed, with higher temperature in the morning and lower in the evening. Manner in which the regulating system works is indicated by the fact that heat production is increased from 200 to 300 per cent during muscular exercise and only from 20 to 30 per cent in fever. a a a A FEVER or a rise in the temperature of the body speeds all its chemical reactions. It has been calculated that a patient with a temperature of 105 degrees has an increase of 50 per cent in the speed of his chemical reactions. For this reason, persons who have fevers lose a great deal of weight and tend to waste away. In typhoid fever, with a continuous high temperature, the loss of weight may amount to four or five pounds a week, even though the patient is at rest in bed. Loss of weight which occurs represents the combination of loss of protein material from the body and the effects of loss of appetite and diminished intake of food. During the fever there may be loss of water from the body. For this reason it is exceedingly important that plenty of water be given to those with fever, and that they have enough food to take the place of broken down tissue.

Questions and Answers

Q —Name the capital of Ireland. A—Dublin is the capital of the Irish Free State and Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. Q—What was the United States public debt at the close of the fiscal year 1934? A—On June 30, 1934, the gross public debt waa $27,053,141,414.48. Q —How many Indians and Negroes are there in the United States? A—The 1930 census enumerated 11.891,143 Negroes and 332,397 Indians. Q—What is the name of the association that selects the Wampas Baby stars each year? A—The Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, popularly called Wampas. Q —What is time? A—The general Idea, relation, or fact of continuous or successive existence; or the abstract conception or duration as limitless; capable of division into measurable portions, and essentially comprising the relations of present, past and future. Q —ls there a verse In the Bible that reads, “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything?" A—lt is in Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9. Vena 5.

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