Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1934 — Page 11

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN nTHE traveler who enda his weary *ay in oteer- -■ vation car* or diners must be up on his geography. Ail the ay from Washington to the tunnel Sunday I regretted that I had not been a brighter pupil when I was in school. Naturally lam referring to those vestigial remnants of prohibition which are known as Sunday regulations. The day started all wrong in the nation’s capital. To me modem Washington is the most exciting of

American cities because it has taken on the function which once was assumed by the entire country. It ls the melting pot and the haven of refuge lor all oppressed peoples. At any average party along Dumbarton avenue you will find some professor who has lost his job because of the courage of his convictioas. a journalist or two exiled lor opinions sake, a political leader gone into the government's employ because he was a shade too left for his constituency and maybe a sprinkling of unfrocked clergymen. Give me New York for its scenic beauties. Miami for night life and

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Boston for broiled sc rod out for conversation I’ll take Washington every time. For the last year and a half it has become the debating center of all the world. In any home you can dig yourself up a first rate argument at the drop of a pin. If I were a young man bent upon specializing in economics I would not seeg college courses under Seligman or Tassig. I rather would hang around the dining tables of Washington. m m m .1 Change of I*are EVEN in the cases vou do not hear the customers talking about such trivial matters as the Harvard line or the Yale back field. Instead the regular says to the bartender. Make mine a Manhattan. Charlie, and tell me do you think the election means that President Roosevelt will go left or right and what are the chances for controlled inflation?” You mav think that this has nothing to do with the study of geography, but I am approaching that subject slowly. In Washington I never get to bed until the dawn becaues I always sit in rapt attention. while someone irons out the economic problems of the ages. Accordingly when I wandered out for breakfast yesterday I took a look at the menu and said. ’ Bring me a snapping turtle stew and a double martini.” The waiter jotted down the turtle, but the mention of a martini was greeted with a sorrowful shake of the head. He handed to me instead a card ominously labeled ’Sunday Beverages." I found that I could get a claret lemonade, a sherry cocktail or a port temptation, but these are not the reviving fluids one craves after hanging .he capitalist system in the mnromg. Steeling myself against compromise I decided to wait for the hospitality of the train. But this time I was aware of the restrictions of the district, but 1 remembered that Maryland was and is a free state. Unfortunately I dozed and when I woke Baltimore was well behind us. With a start I railed the porter and asked for a scotch and soda. Upon his face I saw to my horror that same bereaved and frustrating look which had animated *he waiter in Washington “I'm very 7 sorry, sir.” he said, "but we are just pulling into Pennsylvania.” nun Xot an Oasis in Sight IIfORN down by weight of woe. I weakened and W said. "Make it a sherry, dry and strong.” "Under the regulations of the control board in Pennsylvania no beverages of any alcoholic content whatsoever can be sold on Sunday or on election day. and I'm not sure about holiday.” In mv mind's eye I tried to picture the various state lines to be crossed between Philadelphia and New York. • How about Delaware?” I inquired. • We've passed that.” "New Jersey, then?” "That’s a little more complicated, sir. In New Jersey beverages may bo .sold on Sunday but only after 1 p. m. On election day the regulation is that j we may dispense nothing until the polls close. In some parts of the state the hour is 6 and in others 1:30. "Never mind about election day; when do we reach New Jersey?” "Almost any minute now. but we may not serve anything until 1 p. m According to schedule we should be leaving Jersey about 12:55.” Well. I took buttermilk; and when next I start j upon a journey I shall be equipped with a calendar, a chronometer, a handy atlas and a hip flask. iCwvruhl. 1934. bv The Timesi

Your Health - n\ UK MORRIS HSHBEIN

widespread has become the discussion rogardins sickness insurance that it is expected to come up for consideration even in the next session of congress, as part, possibly, of the New Deal program for the national welfare. Despite the arguments that have been presented in favor of health insurance, however, the medical profession generally, as represented by the American Medical Association, believes that stich measure would bring no improvement in sickness benefits over what is afforded to all classes todaj. Medicine today costs more than it used to cast, but it is worth a great deal more. Through the advancement of modern scicmtfic medicine, the expectancy of life at birth has moved up from thirtythree vears to almost sixty years. Infant mortality rates have been cut down so that todav onlv from fifty to seventy babies out of 1 non die in the first year of life, instead of from 2SO to 350 out of 1.000. which was the rate around 1890. mam THOSE Who have been studying the problems of medical care have found that the biggest difficulty todav is the question of distribution. Not everyone can afford large medical bills. Bv its elimination of a good deal of serious illness medicine has wined out the fear of d'sease and it is therefore exceedmclv difficult to make persons save against disease. Death they know is certain, but on disease many of them are willing to gamble. Many foreign countries have systems of sickness insurance controlled bv the state. The English and German svstems are examples. In brief, the** provide that workers who receive less than a certain sum of money annually shall have art aside from their wages a certain amount. The emplover and the state also contribute. This monev is then made available for the cate of most ordinary illnesses. 9 9 9 N'INFTY prr cent of the conditions for which most patients consult doctors can be diagnosed and treated by a good general practitioner with only the amount of equipment he can carry in a handbag Most persons do not worn- much about paying for that kind of sickness. In this country the bills that disturb them are those for the major illnesses and for onerations. Nevertheless in Great Britain the sickness insurance system does not provide for these major illnesses but only for general medical service. It has been a tradition of medicine that it always gives its service to the poor without question. Every year the doctors of this country give many millions of dollars' worth of service for the poor, getting in return for it only the experience and such prestige as comes from having one's name on the staff of a great charity hospital. | Questions and Answers Q—Does electricity in a wire travel as fast as light? A—The speed of light is 186 284 miles a second. According to the present theory , the speed of electricity in a wire is equal to the velocity of light. Q—Give the minimum age for United States senators and for a President of the United States. A— For senators, 30; President, 35. Q— How old u Queen WUheinuna of Holland? A— Fifty-lour.

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TVA Brings Happiness and Rate Slashes to Valley People 1

This is the srrsnd f six stories on what President Roosevelt will see when he stsits the Tennessee Volley. No. 1 soclsl-planning project of the New Deal. What has artaall? been done by eighteen months of work and spending? These stories tell yon. n an BY JOHN T. MOUTOUX Written for NEA Service KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. Nov 13.—Light and power bills of all users of electricity in the Tennessee Valley area have been reduced an average of 20 per cent, with a saving to consumers of about $5,000,000 a year, since the Tennesseee Valley Authority established headquarters here. The cuts were "ordered” by state utility commissions after the TVA announced a rate schedule averaging 50 per cent under existing rates. Its rates schedule covered power sold at retail, whether by the TVA itself or by municipalities. Thus the consumers "got a break” from the TVA project before it had built a mile of transmission lines or sold a kilowatt of power. The mere fact that the TVA was there, with money and authority to produce and sell power, turned the trick. When, last August, the North Carolina utilities commission ‘‘ordered'’ the cut, the Charlotte Observer noted that "The TVA yardstick has started working in North Carolina.” However, if the private companies lowered their rates to hold their customers, they soon found they had waited too long. In droves, cities, towns and counties went over to the TVA; more than 300 such governmental units in the valley have filed applications for TVA pwer. At present the TVA power supply is limited to that produced at Muscle Shoals, around 30,000 kilowatts. But the completion of Norris and Wheeler dams will multiply this ten times. Despite efforts of coal and ice interests to limit the power program of the TVA. the authority is in the power business. It is selling power in eight counties in northeast Mississippi, to Athens, Ala., to the IVA town of Norris, Tenn., and is providing current for the building of Norris and Wheeler dams. It has contracts to serve power to Knoxville, Pulaski and Dayton, Tenn., and is now running lines to the latter two cities. A line to

Knoxville already is available. Purchase of distribution systems m Tennessee and Alabama are being held up by hearings brought before the utility commissions of those two states by the ice and coni dealers and by preferred stockholders of the selling companies. Only in Mississippi has the TVA been able to go ahead—Mississippi has no utility commission to hear complaints from opponents of the TVA. The TVA is able to sell to Athens, Ala., because that city has its own distribution system and does not depend on approval by the Alabama utilities commission. An important part of the TVA power program is to bring electricity to the {>eople who live on the farms. Most of the farm houses still are lighted with kerosene; spring-houses serve as refrigerators; and farmers’ wives are without labor-saving electrical devices taken by granted by housewives in the city. Fewer than 5 per cent of the farms of the valley are served by electricity. BBS PRIVATE power companies passed up the farm homes except where the farmers were willing to pay for the extension. Few could. The TVA has a different policy, ftural electrification is one of the key points in the program for improving living conditions of the people of the valley, most of whom live on farms. Already it has built lines from Muscle Shoals to counties in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama and is selling electricity as cheaply as it is to the people in the towns and cities. The TVA’s wholesale rate schedU le_what it charges municipalities and counties by the kilowatt hour is as follows: kwh P pr KWH First 100.000 J mills Next 200 000 3 mills Next 700.000 2.5 mills All over that 2 mllls The TVA does not stop there. To make sure that the low rates will be passed on to the consumers, it fixes the price to be charged for retail power. A city, county or other agency buying power from the TVA must abide by this schedule. The retail price is divided into three groups: residence, commercial and industrial.

-Th< DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien —

WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.—The President has been spurring his inner council of advisers into acute activity on unemployment. Recently he startled two of the group by brushing aside their lengthy reports on routine affairs, and demanding what plans they had to suggest for getting idle back on jobs. At a meeting of the national emergency council he called for "plain talk” on the unemployment Apparently he got it. For. as FERA s outspoken Harry Hopkins emerged from the session, he remarked to a colleague; ' If the President had

thrown us out, I wouldn't have blamed him.” The Democrats may be rolling in campaign funds, as claimed by Republicans, but the newsstand outside Democratic national headquarters says the committee hasn t paid its paper bill for months . . . Officials of the Folger Shakespeare library insist that the statue of Puck in front of their building just across from the Capitol has no significance. The inscription on the statue reads: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!” Puck's arms are stretched toward both houses of congress. MISS FRANCES (ROBBY) ROBINSON, secretary to the erstwhile NRA boss, has been offered $1 a word for three 1.000word articles on her experiences with General Johnson and the Blue Eagle. "Robby” is telling friends she would like to accept the proposition, but is having a hard time finding sufficient leisure to do the necessary writing , . Morris L. Cooke, national authority on water power, has compiled a comprehensive plan for rural electrification which has been laid on F. D R.'s desk. It is Cooke's hope that the program will be included in the new public works legislation that the President will ask of the next congress . . . Birth control advocates, this time backed by an imposing committee of prominent physicians, are preparing to reintroduce their bill liberalizing the laws on dissemination of contraceptive information. The measure was actually passed by a vive voce vote last session by the senate. but was returned to the calendar half an hour later when Nevada's portly Senator Pat McCarren demanded a record ballot. ana officials are agog over a major relief scandal in Callorrua. Apparently some £igh-

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The Residential Schedule KWH Per KWH First 50 3 cents Next 150 - ? cents Next 200 1 cent Next 1000 • 4 m !'s s All over that ”va mills The Commercial Schedule KWH Per KWH First 250 3 cents Next 750 ••• 2 cents Next 1000 1 cent Between 2000 and 4000 8 mills The Industrial Schedule KWH Per KWH First 10.000 10 mills Next 25.000 6 mi s Next 65.000 4 Oil s Next 400,000 3 mills All over that ...2.5 mills It will be noticed that the rates are especially favorable to residences. This is because the first interest of the TVA is in the people of the valley as a whole rather than in the large commercial or industrial users who up to now have been favored by the private companies. The practice of the private companies has been to charge small users of electricity around 8 and 10 cents a kilowatt hour while charging the large users, especially the mills and factories, only a small fraction of the rate. ‘n n n AT that, the TVA commercial and industrial rates are lower than those of the private companies. In Knoxville, for example, the largest user of electricity is charged around 9 mills while under TVA rates it would pay only 2.5. In general the TVA rates mean a saving of around 50 per cent. This saving has resulted in increased consumption wherever TVA power is sold. In Tupelo, Miss., for example, first city to buy TVA, consumption increased in six months by 126 per cent. One factor in this jump in the use of power is low cost electrical appliances made posible through a TVA subsidiary, Electric Home and Farm Authority, which was organized last January to bring electrical refrigerators, ranges, and hot water heaters within reach of the many people who could not previously afford them. EHFA was capitalized at sl,000.000 from funds of the national industry recovery act and was given a credit of $10,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The two main duties of EHFA were to bring low-cast appliances

up New Deal politicians did not keep their skirts clean. So far the whole thing has been hushed up. . . . The President has been more regular recently about taking time off to swim in his beautifully tiled green-and-blue swimming pool. At one time he scarcely went in it, but since his Pacific cruise when he gained nearly twenty pounds, he has been more conscientious about exercise. Now he takes a swim at about 6 p. m., then gets a brisk rubdown before dressing for dinner. . . Despite all the hullabaloo about big quotas for South American wine, importations from the two chief countries —Argentina and Chile —have been insignificant. Argentina got a quota for 150.000 gallons during the first month after repeal but exported only 6.604. Succeeding months have been less than 1.000. The postoffice department is planning to crack down on the sale of sweepstake tickets in the United States. Postal inspectors claim to have made fifteen arrests, confiscated more than 200,000 tickets on the last race. . . . At last the half nude, twenty-ton statue of George Washington done in Italy on a commission from the American congress, has found a resting place. When first unveiled almost a century ago its Roman toga brought gasps from a notable assemblage. Twice since 1841 congress has appropriated *5.000 to find a suitable resting place. Now the statute reposes in obscure corner of the Smithsonian Institution behind some printing presses. iCoDvrleht. 1934 hr United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i Snow. Sleet Sweep Buffalo BUFFALO. N. Y.. Nov. 13 —Sleet and snow swept through Buffalo today, driven by high winds. Visibility was poor, streets slippery and automobile driving hazardous.

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Primitive ways of living are passing in the Tennessee valley before the march of New Deal progress and standards of life beyond their dreams are coming to the hill folk. Upper is a scene in the home of Fletcher Cardon, which will be removed in clearing the Norris town site, with the mother and five of their twelve children before the fireplace as the father mends shoes. Lower is the living room in one of the modern homes being erected for workers employed at the Norris dam. Note the grillwork at the side of the room, where an electric heater is built into the wall.

on the market and to finance their sale at a low rate of interest. EHFA officials told electrical manufacturers that if they produced low-cost refrigerators, ranges and hot water heaters that met EHFA specifications, they could be assured of a ready market. Mass production would lower manufacturing costs and cheap TVA power and EHFA low-cost financing would open anew and large market. Some sixty manufacturers submitted designs and prices satisfactory to EHFA. They represented a saving of 25 to 50 per cent. EHFA is not in the merchandising business. The appliances

NEW MEMBERS ARE WELCOMED BY CLUB Columbia Group Holds Annual Stag Party. The Columbia Club welcomed its new members last night with a dinner and floor show lasting until midnight. John C. Ruckelshaus, club president, was the principal speaker greeting the guests and explaining the club facilities to them. After dinner a floor show with singing, dancing and acrobatics was staged in the ballroom.

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are handled by regular dealers. All EHFA does is promote the wider use of electrical appliances and put up the cash for the purchaser who wants it, taking notes for the price of the article, the same as any other credit agency. 8 St St THE mass-purchasing of the appliances assured the manufacturers has been more than realized. This will increase as the TVA extends throughout the valley its cheap power. The driving force behind the TVA's power program is the youthful, dynamic power director of the organization, David E.

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 880 8 8 8 By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—While President Roosevelt has been conciliating business, two other governmental bodies have laid the groundwork for new regulatory legislation which promises to make securities and stock market acts seem conservative. The senate banking and currency committee suggested some time ago, in its Anal report on stock market practices, that the only way to cure abuses may be to force interstate corporations to obtain a federal charter. , , , . TnHav thp fpHpral trnnp rnm-

By George Clark

Lilienthal, who came to the TVA from the Wisconsin public service commission. In Chicago, as a law partner with Donald Richberg, and in Wisconsin on the utilities commission, Mr. Lilienthal learned something of power company methods and how they fight when those method are interfered with. He is making use of that knowledge and experience with the TVA. (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) NEXT—How the Tennessee Valley has been made a workman’s paradise, with short hours, good pay and living conditions, and a chance to get ahead.

Today the federal trade commission placed before the senate the strongest weapon yet forged for use in behalf of such a measure. It has prepared data showing the omissions and inadequacies of state corporation laws, and showing, also, everything that Igas been said for and against federal incorporation during the thirty years it has been under discussion. The President's views on this matter have not been disclosed. If the committee and the commission are sounding out sentiment with his consent they have given no hint of it. But, in any case the proposal already has rolled up enough support to make certain a scrap in the coming congress. ana THE trade commission reports that when federal incorporation last was being considered seriously, about twenty years ago, a number of large industrialists favored it in order to do away with the nuisance of conflicting and varying state laws. Other groups favored it as a means of regulating business. This is the present situation as to state corporation laws. Twenty-eight states and three territorial possessions have made holding companies legal within their borders by permitting a corporation to hold stock in other companies. In twenty-five of these jurisdictions no control over holding companies is provided. All but six of the states and territories permit no par stock. Most of them permit directors of a corporation to take money received from purchasers of no par stock, designate it as capital surplus, and make it available for distribution of dividends. The trade commission found this being done in some of the utility companies it investigated.

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Fair Enough HMPEGIfR NEW YORK. Nov. 13.—A little over a year ago, Lou Goldberg, a moving picture press agent, then handling the publicity for Damon Runyon'i show. "Lady for a Day,” thought it would make a fine human interest story to dig up a real Apple Annie, plant her in a big hotel, hang a lot of expensive clothes on her. throw a few hods of caviar and duck into her and, in general, show her a time

for one day only. Mr. Runyon’s piece was another splinter off the inexhaustible Cinderella block. The Apple Annie who finally was selected by Mr. Goidberg from her regular pitch in Shubert alley was named by rights Mrs. Ellen McCarthy. She and her husband, both about 70, were found dead together Friday in their little room on Eighth avenue. She had given up the apple business and they were living on relief up to the time when the wind blew out the gas heater. Apple Annie never knew r it but she was only one of about fifty Apple Annies. Apple Marys and Apple

Maggies whose poverty was exploited similarly to make a human interest piece and publicity for the show in various cities of the United States. They did the same thing even in Sydney, Australia. BBS One Dag Turned to Three THE one they dug up in Boston came out of an old people's home and Mr. Goldberg, who went up to Boston to handle that job in person following his big success with the New York Apple Annie, got the fight of his life. The Baston Apple Annie was so old and frail that when they moved her into the Ritz-Carlton and the photographers began flashing their lightning bottles at her, she got sick. So, instead of moving her out of the Ritz-Carlton and back to her wonted surroundings in the course of a thirtysecond blackout on the stroke of midnight with the orchestra playing "This Is the End of a Perfect Dav.” Mr. Goldberg had her on his hands for,threfe days. This rather marred the poetic symmetry of the story, but Mr. Goldberg was relieved to get a receipt for her just the same. The Apple Annie of Boston was the mast difficult old lady of the lot. When Mr. Goldberg, with a generous flourish asked her if there was anything else her heart desired for her one great day, she said that, well, yes, she would like to have anew set of teeth. He had to go shopping around and make good and he says your correspondent never will know anything about the difficulties of shopping until he tries to buy a set of ready-to-wear teeth for another person. The New Haven Apple Annie was a practical little soul. It was coming on toward winter and, when her day was done, she brought back all the net and lace gowns and gilt slippers and so forth which had been lavished upon her by the local department stores, which were eager to cut themselves a slice of free publicity, and traded in the lot for some w'arm winter clothes. In Detroit, the one they selected first came down with temperament and jumped the show on them so they had to rustle up a pinch-hitter at the last moment. In New York, Mr. Goldberg nearly made an embarrassing mistake. It didn't occur to him that the role of Apple Annie on the big time would call for a good trouper, so he was going to take the first Apple Annie or Mary or Maggie he encountered. Ben Atwell, a man of long and varied experience, found Mr. Goldberg on the point of entering into a flirtation with one who was not the type. Mr. Atwell warned him to lay off that one as she was a terrible old harridan, who would get soused on him and probably start a fight and ruin the act. And sure enough when Mr. Goldberg did lay off and picked up Ellen McCarthy, instead, the first one raged around, cursing and howling and threatening to sue for breach of contract and infringement. B B B Out Like a Light MR. GOLDBERG is not cruel and it didn’t occur to him that there was heartache in his idea until along toward midnight of the Ellen McCarthy premiere. They had planted her in the Waldorf, crowded her with rare viands and exotic delicacies, as the saving goes, and now were bringing her up to the climax. She had met Miss May Robson, the lady who played the part in the movie and had conducted herself very well but, coming on toward midnight, with the photographers and reporters all present and the orchestra ready for the black-out, old Mrs. McCarthy began to believe it was all real. She had danced several of the old-time Tammany waltzes and nibbled off several good-sized slabs of rye and wanted to go on being a lady indefinitely. “I felt rotten about it,” Mr. Goldberg says, “because I could see that miserable little room the poor old soul was going back to, but the whole gag depended on that moment when the lights went out and the orchestra played ’the end of a perfect day.’ We had to work fast. “But she was a grand old trouper. So at midnight she grabbed up a quart which I had given her for herself and her old man and when the lights came on again she was gone.” (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science 1 BV DAVID DIETZ THE unrestrained actions of wind and rain and flowing rivers is building an empire of worn-out wasteland within the borders of the United States. So says H. H. Bennett, director of the soil erosion service of the United States Department of the Interior. Unrestrained soil erosion, he says, is costing the farmers and ranchers of the nation $400,000,000 a year besides the enormous damage done to highways and railroads and the costly silting of reservoirs, streams and ditches. Three billion tons of soil material are washed out of the fields and pastures of America every year, he says: "To load and haul away this incomprehensible bulk of rich farm soil would require a train of freight cars long enough to encircle the earth thirty-seven times at the equator,” he adds. nan THE sendiments carried into the oceans represents only the smallest fraction of the soil washed out of The fields, Mr. Bennett says. "The greater part is piled up along lower slopes." he says, "where it is not needed, or it is deposited over stream bottoms or laid dowm in channelways and reservoirs. “Once the soil leaves a field, it is irretrievably lost as if consumed by fire, in so far as pertaining to the field from which it is washed. It can not be economically hauled back, even when temporarily lodged not far down the slope. "This appalling wastage is speeding up with the washing off and blowing off of the absorptive topsoil, and the exposure of less absorptive, less productive, more erosive subsoil ” a a a THE nation has already permitted the destruction of an area of land, once under cultivation, greater than the combined area of Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut, Mr. Bennett says. This is the equivalent of 220.000 farms of 160 acres each. . , , , . _ "In addition.” he says, “this washing of sloping fields has stripped off all or the greater part of the productive topsoil from 125.000.000 acres of land at present in cultivation; and now. wind erosion is rapidly developing other enormous areas of poor land, as well as destroying land in our semi-arid belts.” , , . In many places, farmers have been lowered to the discouraging level of cultivating land whose productivity has been reduced from two to ten times by the tragic wastage of erosion.

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