Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1934 — Page 21

It Seems to Me mod BROUN • A MERIC A forget* too readily its native heroes. I am not referring to Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln who are honored annually in our oratory. I have in mind a countryman of rather later vintac**. To me he always has seemed the perfect revolutionist. Although he never compromised or gave an inch he still managed to go along without getting very sore at any individual. Naturally, I refer to Art Young, who will be a great man when he has been dead a hundred years. It is rather a pity that both America and Mr. Young should yait so long. Like most efficient radicals Art Young is utterly conservative in one respect. I refer to his art. The subject might be provocative and wholly distasteful to standpatters, but the line which he drew was tight and stern and as ruggedly individualistic

as mind of Herbert Hoover. Young, I think, ranks with our greatest draftsmen but modern art never so much as rumpled his hair. He drew the most shocking and scandalous cartoons all done in the samewhat nostalgic manner of one who had been frightened by a wood cut in his early life. At a distance an Art Young drawing suggested the illustration for some moral maxim. Closer view revealed the fact that he was saying that every exploiter should fry eternally for his sins. Hell and trees were his favorite subjects. But though vast and elab-

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orate tortures were being practiced upon the people whom he didn't like there was somehow a lack of venom in Art Young's inferno. There w’as a childlike quality in the fantasy. Even the gentleman who was pictured as being tormented by seven devils could take no great offense because it was quite evident that Art did not believe in hell. a a a Even the Trees del You ON the other hand he was the only artist I have ever known who could make trees serve as agitating influences. When in the mood he could do you a maple which was ready at any moment to drop a bomb upon the head of any passing captain of industry. As to the precise position or “line” which Young establishes for himself I never have been quite certain. It is my belief that he is always out on the most leftward limb. But I rather fear that he lacks a little of the components of blood and iron which go into the composition of the Lenins and Stalins. I hate to level a nasty accusation at an old friend, but I gravely fear that there is concealed in the heart and mind of Art Young something of the utopian heresy. He never has quite abandoned hope of those brands which are in any reasonable radical ideology already last and burning. Possibly I am unfair to the old warrior because in action he never bent or manifested the slightest desire to compromise, no matter what the compulsion. During the war he was one of the four editors of the masses who were placed on trial on the charge that they had conspired to obstruct the draft. It was his impulse to get upon the stand and say that of course he hated war and that he had done everything he could to stop America’s participation. Counsel for the defendants advised that the case should be conducted in a somewhat different manner and after that Art lost all interest. nan A Trial on Trial TO the lawyer he was a greater trial than either Jack Reed, Max Eastman or Floyd Dell, who, as I remember, were the co-defendants. The potential penalty was something like life imprisonment. Possibly all the men involved could have been taken out and shot. In 1918 almost anything could be done under the law. Young made it difficult for his lawyers, not through any outbursts in the courtroom, but through a characteristic inattention. He wasn’t interested. He had done that which he felt he should do and the reaction of the rest of the community was none of his business. Accordingly he came each morning to the prisoners* dock and fell asleep. While passionate arguments were going on as to whether or not he should be committed to jail for life, Art Young was snoring. Thus limited the gestures of the lawyer for the defense. He could wave only one fist in the face of the jury. He had to reserve the other to wake up Art Young for the peroration. Os late I have seen very little of Art Young in the papers or magazines. The publishers make a great mistake. Here is one of the very vital figures of our generation. Here is a native son of this country who stems as directly from our own soil as did Gene Debs. tCopvrißht. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science BV DAVID DIETZ

THE latest, chapter in man's battle against yellow fever, dreadful scourage of the tropics, has been written by a Frenchman, Dr. Jean Laigret of the Pasteur institute of Tunis. It is reported from Dakar, French West Africa, that he has successfully inoculated 3.000 persons against the disease with a serum made from the brains of mice infected with the disease. In the ranks of those who have fought the battle against yellow fever is a group of civilization’s greatest heroes. There were Major Walter Reed and his associates who proved the correctness of the theory of old Dr. Carlas Finlay that the mosquito was the carrier of the dread disease. There was Colonel William C. Oorgas who stamped yellow fever out of Cuba by eliminating the breeding places of the mosquitos and then made possible the Panama Canal by repeating the performance in the canal zone. There was Tvdeyo Noguchi, the Japanese soldier of medicine. who sleeps today in a grave in Woodlawn cemetery in New York. a a a IN 1900, the American soldiers in Cuba were dying by the thousands of the ‘•yellow jack." as they called it. It was proving more deadly than the bullets of the Spanish. On June 25. 1900. Major Reed arrived in Cuba as head of a commission to study the yellow fever problem. He had been professor of bacteriology in the army medical school. Other members of the commission included Dr. James Carroll of the United States army, and Dr. Jesse Lazear and Dr. Aristides Agramonte of Cuba. Major Reed gave ear to the theory of Dr. Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor. Dr. Finley was an old man with mutton-chop whiskers, who had been asserting for a decade that the mosquito caused yellow fever. a a a BUT the work of Major Reed and Colonel Georgas by no means completed the battle against yellow fever. Stamping out the mosquito was the way to prevent the disease. But it offered no cure for any one who contracted the disease. It offered no protection to any one entering a region where the stegomia mosquito still existed. And so others have carried on the battle. One was Noguchi, who spent the last ten years of his life investigating obscure diseases, among them Rocky Mountain spotted fever, infantile paralysis, trachoma. rabies, kala-azar and yellow fever. In 1918 he went to Guayaquil. Ecuador, as a member of the Rockefeller Foundation commission to study yellow fever. He made three subsequent expeditions to South America and in October. 1927, sailed for Africa to compare African yellow fever with the South American variety. He became ill in the spring of 1928, a victim of yellow fever, and died on May 21 at Accra. Q —What is sabotage? A—Malicious injury done by an employe to the industrial establishment of his employer. Q- What is the timber-line? A—lt is the upper limit of tree growth on mountains; of greatest height in the tropics, and gradually descending in the north and south hemispheres and also toward the seacoast. In the Himalayas the altitude is about 11.800 feet, in the Alps 6.400 feet, and in the Rocky Mountains from 9,000 to 12,000 feet.

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WORLD’S GREATEST AIR ADVENTURE

11,323-Mile London-Melboume Race Lures Pilots of 16 Nations

BySF.t Srmet LONDON, Oct. 19.—Across sixteen different countries and over open seas, roaring through the hot blasts of deserts and skirting lofty mountain peaks, about sixteen planes manned by the world’s crack aviators soon will be winging on the greatest race in aviation's history. Although nearly a score of Americans originally were scheduled for entry in the 11.323-mile London-Melboume derby, the hope of the United States now centers on one plane and its two celebrated pilots—Colonel Roscoe Turner, holder of records for transcontinental dashes, and Clyde Pangbom. round-the-world flier and the first to span the Pacific nonstop. They’ll get away tomorow from Mildenhall Aerodrome, the Royal Air Force base near here. Flying steadily, it i believed likely that the winning craft will land at Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth day. To the victors in the main event, a rontest of pure speed, will go $50,000 posted by Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candji manufacturer. Another phase of the same race will be flow'n under handicap conditions which take into account the planes’ relative efficiency. A first prize of SI,OOO will go to the ship which performs best according to weight, wingspread, power and pay load. a a a THUS there really arc two separate races with separate prizes, though they’re run concurrently. For the main feature there are no restrictions about flying at night or refueling in the air, no time allowances, no limitations on fuel, power or numbers of crew. The idea is to get from here to Australia as quickly as possible, providing only that all ships must land for certification at five control points along the y. In such a free-for-all race, it may be that the winner will be a tricky racing ship, impractical for ordinary commercial flying. That is why the handicap feature was added—to reward the craft which may be a little slower but more valuable to the aeronautical industry. American aviation is vitally concerned in the handicap race as well as the speed contest because at least three American-built planes, two of them flown by foreigners, have been entered. Colonel James Fitzmaurice, who flew westward across the Atlantic on the Bremen in 1928, is to pilot a specially-built Bellanca. And the Royal Dutch Airline has purchased and entered an American Douglas transport ship, to be flown by the Holland company's chief pilot, K. D. Parmentier. a a a THE only all-American entry is the big all-metal Boeing, with Turner and Pangbom as its

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

WASHINGTON, Oct 19.—Northern defenders of the Negro are quietly looking around for a good liberal southern Democrat with an Anglo-Saxon name to take over the defense of the seven Negroes in the Scottsboro case. The defenders, tired of supporting lawyers with Communist affiliations or foreign names, have made up their minds to get someone with the standing of John W. Davis. What has brought this decision is the arrest of the two defense lawyers for alleged attempted bribery of Georgia Price, a white woman

who accuses the seven Negroes. The two lawyers are supposed to be affiliated with the Communist party, which unquestionably has used the Scottsboro case for its own ends. It is not supposed to be known, but some members of the supreme court would be glad to see a final test of whether Negroes shall be permitted to serve on juries; therefore would have welcomed a review of the Scottsboro case with the issue unclouded by extraneous matter like the bribery charge. a a a JIM REED, once a doughty liberal, now a millionaire, dislikes the NRA even more than the New Deal. Jims recent bride, the former Mrs. Nellie Donnelly, owns and operates the Nell Don Dress Manufacturing Company. Her dresses come under the jurisdiction of two codes: cheaper grades under a sub-code of the cotton garment industry, more expensive gowns under a code of their own. The Nell Don, and a number of other concerns, make dresses that overlap both codes. So after much debate the NRA has promulgated anew order, designed to settle these jurisdictional questions. Jim, accompanied by his handsomely attired wife, appeared at the NRA hearing. He acted as her counsel on the proposed ruling. And in the words of an old master, he made his "presence felt.” On one occasion, chewing an unlighted cigar, he stalked into a busy office. ‘ You'll have to clear out ot here.” he barked at the startled clerks and stenographers. "There is too much noise and confusion. I want to do some work.” a a a A LOT of people have wondered at the spectacle of genial George Akerson, Hoover's ex-sec-retary. receiving an appointment under the New Deal. And if they knew the whole story they would wonder more. The not generally known fact is that Akerson came within a htur's breadth of getting a job with the Republican national committee, was rescued by the New Deal when the G. O. P. walked out on him. Four years ago Akerson left Hoover and the White House for a fat salary with Paramount Pictures. But his contract expired just as Roosevelt came into office.

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The peril-fraught 11,323-mile route of the forthcoming London-to-Melboume air race, with the official stopping places and the distances of each stop, are shown on the map above. Colonel Roscoe Turner (upper right) and' Clyde Pangborn (upper center), crack American pilots, have entered the great race with their low-winged, all metal Boeing transport monoplane (directly above). At the right are some of the other outstanding pilots of many nations who will be in the competition. crew. It’s a low-winged, twinengined transport monoplane, with geared engines and a top speed of more than 200 miles an hour. Other facts about the ship are impressive: The 550-horse power engines are supercharged, and the propellers are of variable pitch. It can climb 1,000 feet a minute from sea level, and will carry a load to an altitude of 21,400 feet. In ordinary commercial service, such planes accommodate ten passengers, two pilots, a stewardess, baggage and cargo. On the coming flight, Turner

Another Hoover secretary, Walter Newton, was taken care of by Roosevelt as a favor to the departing President. But Akerson was out of luck. tt tt n HOWEVER, there is a camaraderie among White House secretaries, and Steve Early, Roosevelt assistant, looked around for a comfortable place for George. Everything was taken. There were too many Democrats and too few jobs. So Early got some of Akerson’s old news cronies to take the matter up with Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Republican national committee. At first Fletcher was favorable. But two things happened. First, he discovered that a Democratic administration, through Steve Early, was trying to dictate who should work for the G. O. P. Second, he decided the hiring of an ex-Hoover secretary would brand the committee with a definite Hoover label, arouse the wrath of anti-Hoover Republicans. So Akerson remained out in the cold. In the end, Early had to brave Democratic wrath by offering his secretarial friend a job on the veterans’ appeal board. Then the appointee decided the job of passing on veterans’ compensation was too full of political dvnamite for him. So Akerson turned it down for a post as secretary to the code authority for the paper distributing trade. 'Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Ihc. i GIRL SCOUTS ARRANGE WINTER CAMPAIGN TRIP Troops to Make Trail Map Tomorrow at Camp Dellwood. First Girl Scout winter day camping program will be held tomorrow. Mrs. Herbert T. Wagner. Girl Scout camp committee chairman, announced today. Scouts from Troops 6. 16. 23. 43. 46 and 47 will go to Camp Dellwood to make a two-mile trail map. under the leadership of Miss Mildred Jenkins, field captain. Banks' Position Praised BALTIMORE. Oct. 19.—Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told state banking supervising authorities today that the nation's banking structure ‘‘is in a stronger position that it has ever been before.”

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and Pangborn will carry only fuel, and the required radio. There are faster planes in the race, but it may be that they will be handicapped by shorter cruising ranges. England is entering anew De Haviland Comet, details of which have been kept secret. But it is reported to cruise at 221 miles an hour. The entry of Colonel Fitzmaurice may have an even higher speed, and tremendous range. a a u OF course, almost regardless of equipment, human skill and

$20,829 COLLECTED FOR HOSPITAL FUND Contribution From Legion Post Acknowledged. Contributions to the Flower Mission Tuberculosis hospital fund, which has a goal of $54,228, have reached $20,829.25, it was announced today at campaign headquarters. Fifty dollars was donated yesterday by American Legion Indianapolis Post 4, first Legion organization to enter the campaign. The Irvington Social Study Club and the Wednesday Afternoon Club have donated to the fund. SLOT MACHINES SEIZED Restaurant Proprietor Held After Raid by City Police. Continuing their activities to wipe out the slot machine racket from the city, police last night raided a restaurant at 626 Madison avenue and seized two slot machines. Webb Hestand, proprietor, is held on charges of keeping a gaming device.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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endurance may decide the race. Pangborn and Turner expect to keep going night and day, with no more than the five required stops. And since the withdrawal of the Australian, Sir Charles Kings-ford-Smith—who won't be able to reach London in time for the start —the Americans loom as the most experienced .of all the fliers. The first stop, from London to Bagdad, is 2,540 miles and the greatest distance between control points. Turner and Pangborn expect to fly it nonstop, while

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a a a n a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—On the theory that business and employment can be improved through operation of a social security system, the administration may propose immediate enactment of a broad, rather than a limited program along these lines. A decision has not been made. The various committees and technical advisers now exploring the subject are not ready to report. It will be at least six weeks before they do so. However, their studies are not being confined to a small field. They include health insurance, survivors’ insurance, a permanent public

works program, special measures for the economic security of children, and special measures for security of farmers and agricultural workers. In charting the relationship between individual security and business improvement, the committees are taking into account the possibility that individuals may spend more for goods and services if they are freed from the necessity of saving money for possible catastrophe. For instance, money put aside to guard against illness might be released if health insurance programs were put into

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many competitors will be forced to land to refuel. From Bagdad to Allahabad, Singapore, Darwin, Charleville and finally to Melbourne the distances between required landings are progressively less. But there still remain formidable stretches of sea and desert and dense jungles. There are dust storms and typhoons and hostile natives along the wayall making this race the world’s greatest adventure in the annihilation of time and space.

effect. This would apply to families fairly high up in the income scale. a a a UNEMPLOYMENT insurance and old age pensions continue to head the list of security measures likely to receive attention this winter. Definite dates may be fixed for putting other measures into effect a little later. On the other hand, it may be decided to leave health insurance to private non-profit groups and to leave special protection of children to states, forty-five of which now make payments to widowed mothers who would otherwise be unable to keep their children together in their own home. These are among the questions still to be decided. Unemployment insurance is being studied with a view to including in its benefits only those who are now working. This is the only basis on which such insurance can be made actuarially sound, it is indicated. If a nationwide system should be found most suitable, it might be established by means of a federal corporation. This would eliminate the necessity of ratification by state legislatures. If it should be decided to to let states administer their own systems, the federal government might contribute to the overhead costs. It is probable that workers and employes will be asked to contribute to the insurance fund, on a basis of wages and pay rolls. The group of mayors which visited President Roosevelt at Hyde Park recently urged that an “extension’ system be adopted to cover men and women now unemployed. They urged that even if the federal government bore the entire cost of such a plan, less money probably would be requirer than is used now for work reliefCHESS PLAYERS ELECT Sam LaMar Is Named Leader by Tech Club. Sam LaMar has Been elected president of the Chess Club at Technical high school, it was announced today. Other officers of the club are: Virginia Paden, vicepresident; Geneva Senefeld, secretary, and Jean Baker, sergeant-at-arms. Miss Gertrude Thuemler is sponsor of the group.

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Fair Enough HMPMEK A LL kind hearts will go out to Thomas H. Robinson Jr„ the young man who is being pursued in the Louisville abduction case. Mrs. Alice Stoll was beaten on the head and. in the words of an agent of the department of justice, was handled brutally a couple of times but the same agent concludes that she was “treated pretty decently” after all. The abductor’s humane restraint in the manner of beating the woman on the head and in confining his brutal handling of her to “a couple of

times.” should tend to endear him to the citizens and make him the most popular kidnaper in the country. It is pleasant to find an agent ot the department of justice so quick to perceive the good in a man who entered a home, slugged a woman in a firm but gentlemanly way, and held her captive for a week. The expression comes just when the department was on the way to develop a bad name after the recent brutal assassination of John Dillingcr, the famous claustro-

phobe, whose only real fault was a dread of being locked up. Mr. Dil-

linger's old father and others who knew John Dillinger, the man, knew lovable qualities in him which were ignored cruelly by the officers who shot him down without consideration for the more kindly phases of his character. tt tt U He Was 111 , That's All FORTUNATELY, in the present case, a policy of moderation seems likely to guide the prosecution. Dillinger's claustrophobia was ignored and he personally was held responsible for the death of various persons who got in the way of his guns u'hen they were popping off. But Thomas H. Robinson Jr. has documentary proof on the records of the state of Tennessee that he is suffering from an illness which relieves him of personal responsibility. The Robinson boy was put away in an asylum for a time as one who could not resist the temptation to commit crimes. This is a delicate mental condition, calling for kind and understanding treatment. Persons who can but will not resist temptation come under another classification. They built up Robinson's resistance in the insane asylum and presently let him loose to try again. Then there came the temptation to beat Mrs. Stoll on the head and hold her a week, handling her brutally a couple of times during that period. The boy fell and it was plain that he was not bad but ill again. This probably is not a case for prosecution and punishment but another of those instances in which the subject deserves scientific treatment and, in time to come, another chance. There is no way of telling whether his resistance to temptation has been restored again except to turn him loose in a lew years, or less, and see how he performs under pressure. The next time, to be sure, he may forget his gentlemanliness and the lady who serves as the guinea-pig in the experiment may lose her life. van We'll Have to Take It BUT all right-minded ladies with a real social consciousness will be glad to take the risk rather than let it be said that society failed in its duty toward one of its unfortunate members. It is just about time that society was checking its brutal course in the treatment of the normally unwell and getting back to the beautiful principles w’hich were laid down by Clarence Darrow in the case of Leopold and Loeb and by the attorneys for Harry K. Thaw. But for Mr. Darrow and Mr. Thaw’s attorneys, three young men might have been put to death in a horrible legal mockery of justice and humanity. Leopold and Loeb, being spared, there is always a possibility that their resistance to temptation will reach par, whereat there will be no point in keeping them confined any longer. Mr. Thaw was morally ill tflen morally well in New York. Then he was morally ill in Pennsylvania for a time but, happily, made another remarkable, and expensive recovery in court. He is legally well at this time. If he ever kills or tortures anybody else that merely will signify a relapse and he will have to be treated again. That is his right as a member of society and society can not afford to deprive any member of his rights. It degrades society. Os course, Mrs. Stoll was deprived of some rights when she was slugged in a kindly way and handled with tactful brutality. But that is something that can not be helped. The protection is for the weak and morally unwell. More fortunate members of society have to learn to take it. (Copyright, 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

IF there is any one form of cancer in which real hope ought to be offered, it is cancer of the lip. Usually cancers on this spot are less malignant than those elsewhere in the body. However, as with all cancer, the mere presence is a constant menace to life. There are cases on record in which there has been a cancer of the lip for ten years or longer. Average length of time is two or three years. Once started, these ulcers occur, and the person may die, due to spreading of the cancer to the lung. Fortunately, it is now possible to treat cancers of the lip by early surgical operation and by use of radium and X-ray, and to offer a hope of recovery in the large majority of cases. For example, out of fifty-two cases treated by surgery in one clinic, thirty-three, or 63 per cent, were found to be quite well two or more years after the operation. a a a IN a large clinic in the United States cures were obtained in ninety out of ninety-eight cases of cancer of the lip. in all of which not only was the cancer removed, but also the glands nearby. If, however, the patient with a cancer of the lip waits until all glands of the neck have been enlarged, the chance of recovery is much less. Radium seems to work particularly well in many cases of cancer of the lip. There are records of eleven recoveries bv use of radium in twenty-six cases in one English clinic. a a a AT the International Conference on Cancer, in 1928. records were collected of 525 persons with cancer of the lip which had been treated with radium. Os these, 115 were dead, 202 lost sight of. and 208 made completely free from the disease. Os the 208 cases, seventy-four were well from five to ten years after the treatment with radium, and thirty-five were well from three to five years after similar treatment. It is also possible to treat the glands first with the X-ray and afterward with radium. A few generations back, cases of cancer of the lip were treated by cancer quacks with all sorts of pastes and ointments containing corrosive chemicals. We now know that kind of treatment is dangerous and should never be used, whereas the operation, radium and X-ray offer considerable chance of complete recovery.

Questions and Answers

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