Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1934 — Page 15

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN '"T'HERE Is no record. I believe, of Santa Claus ■*- ever crawling down the chimney of a moving locomotive. When this column appears I expect to be speeding southward. Accordingly it is fair to assume that the returns are all in and that it is not too early to make a recapitulation on Christmas day. The tokens are numerous enough and friendly but ninety-nine and a half per cent pictorial. Not that I am cynical about cards of greeting. They sefm to me perhaps the most appropriate

sort of present., I like the spirit more than that embodied in my own all too familiar practice of saying to some friend or loved one. “here s a dollar and a quarter. Go out and buy yourself a present.” That always has seemed to me a little mercenary. After all a simple gift from a full heart is more than a lavish one in which the donor did no more than dig down into his treasure. Os the more substantial remembrances received by me I note with jov a number of neckties. It is unfortunate that the comic papers have so grossly maligned this particular sort of giving. I would not

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take the bread out of the mouth of any comic artist but I deny with vehemence that holiday neckwear is invariably atrocious and a burden to the recipient. The legend goes that female relatives are in the habit of giving outlandishly loud cravats to their men folk. Asa matter of fact. I never have seen a necktie too brilliant in hue for me to take to it most eagerly. n n m He Wants Them Loud INDEED on numerous occasions I have argued that men should seek some return to the rainbow-. I deplore our feeble forays into suits timidly piped with white or green or scarlet. If I had my way I would emulate the turf and the hunting field and walk boldly forth in ruddy raiment. Being a somewhat timid pioneer I conform as far as coat and trousers go and limit my rebellion to some splash of color around the neck. - Anri in saying splash I mean precisely that. None of your black ties with tiny dots of pink or purple for me. I want bright and fast colors so slung together into harmony or even dissonance that the passer-by is moved to remark. “I wonder where on earth that man got that tie.” Naturally one likes to fc-1 that he is breaking new ground and rousing his fallows to emulation and imitation. If I have asserted that Santa Claus is not my favorite mythical figure I did not set down this belief in any terms of cynicism. Christmas spirit seems to mp a most desirable commodity. My lone regret is that it comes infrequently. For here is one day devoted to at least a groping for human fellowship and brotherhood. It is essentially a holiday dedicated to the theory that man can and will prosper through his ability to enter into organization. When another Christmas rolls around I would like to see a huge parade of the harrassed professionals who don false w’hiskers for the season and on the front and back of each Kris Kringle there might well appear a sign. “Christmas is unfair to Santa Claus, Local Union No. 1 of St. Nicholas impersonators.” a a tt The Rest Is Necessary AND so you sep I am not truly unfriendly to Santa Claus. I think he ought, both as a myth and in his valid replicas, have better wages and much shorter hours. And as I go over the gifts of Christmas 1934 I would put at the top of the tree the greatest boon the year has brought me. That would be an inkling of the values which come from the close association of newspaper men. A year ago I was a fat columnist grinding out my stuff in comparative isolation. I am still a fat columnist but I am not isolated. By now- through very many contacts I have an honest right to say that once more I belong to the fraternity of newspaper men. I can think of no brighter gift on any Christmas Day of all that 1 have known. Os course somp of these contacts have had their embarassing features. It is a little difficult for me to reconcile myself to the fact *hat almost all the active work of getting newspaper material together is performed by men who seem to be not more than 21 or at the outside 25. Possibly I underestimate The age of many of thp striplings. On the other hand they overestimate mine which makes the gap even greater. A few of the lads behave as if I were Horace Greelev returned from the grave. Almost any minute I am fearful that somebody will ask me what Lincoln really looked like. It has put a certain strain on my constitution. I have been compelled to imbibe more freely than is my custom just to show that I am not the ghost of Greeley. When I was last in circulation I was moved to get mp to an ivory tower tierau.se many of the boys had formed the habit of calling me “Uncle Heywood.” Now that I am back among my fellows all that is changed. They rail me “Pop." And that is why lam sure I need two weeks of rest and quite a little sunshine. iCopvrish*. I!>34>

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

DR Z C DICKINSON. professor of economics in the University of Michigan, is a man of great courage. In a report to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the professor states that women employes invariably submit lar fewer ideas for improving manufacturing, production, or management methods than do men. Prof. Dickinson bases his statement upon a survey of the operation of “suggestion systems" in 29 establishments. He reports that there was "a very marked difference between the sexes as to both quantity and quality of suggestions." The percentage of suggestions submitted by women is invariably much lower than the percentage of women among all employes: and in most cases a smaller percentage of the suggestions from women win prizes than is the case among the suggestions from men. Charting the volume of suggestions per employe in these plants. Prof. Dickinson finds that it increased in 1930 over 1929. but that it fell in the years front 1931 to 1933 Whether or not this represents a psychological effect of the beginning and then the continuance of the depression, he does not say. * Among the plants which he studied is that of the Eastman Kodak Cos. at Rochester. F. Y. earn THE amount of reward given for suggestions at the Eastman plant roughly approximates 10 per cent of the savings made during the first year that the suggestion is adopted. Suggestions received cover a wide range of subjects he says. These are quoted: “One was that stuffed owls be put in the ivy covering many of the buildings to keep the sparrows out. “Another was ihat an outside hatch be installed to facilitate getting heavy grinding wheels into and out of a basement. A third was that refrigeration be discontinued as unnecessary in the conditioning of certain products." ** * \ THE first of these three suggestions was ignored. The second won its maker $25. The third earned its originator SISOO. Apparently the system works as 88 per cent of the signed cuggestions submitted in 1933 were adopted. Most of the unsigned suggestions received are of a trivial nature. Prof. Dickinson says that in general suggestions concerning the comfort or convenience of the employes themselves are few in number. A large percentage of the suggestions are aimed at new types of business for the firm, new products, and ways to get new customers. Q —Can aliens, resident in the United States, be deported for failure to become American citizens? A—No. There is no law 'ompelling aliens to become American citizens. Q—Whit date in 1893 was the ninth day of the month of Elul m the Jew n calendar? A—Aug. 21.

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QUINTUPLETS’ FIRST CHRISTMAS!

Dionne Babies Today Witness the Wonders of Santas Visit

- UPPER LEFT —Five little stockings, all in a row! It still seems a miracle to Mama Dionne, as she gazes at them, while little Emelie’s eyes stray away from the display. LOWER LEFT —There never was a Christmas like this one at the Dionne home! Just see the multitude of gifts that Santa showered from his bulging pack for the quintuplets, viewed by Nurse Yvonne Leroux, left, Mama Dionne, and Nurse Louise De Kiriline, as they hold the wondering tots at their first Yuletide celebration. LOWER RIGHT —Who else would be Santa but Dr. Dafoe? He's getting the thrill of a useful lifetime in playing the jolly Saint role, with his pack overflowing with toys.

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

WASHINGTON. Dec. 25 Not many people know it but the Senate Munitions Investigation Committee is flat broke. It has spent every cent of the $30,000 allotted to it, and its investigators have been working without pay for some weeks. This is why its members have been so irate at the move of the President appointing his own committee to take the profits out of war. The Senate committee planned on the day after the Senate convenes to ask for $50,000 additional to carry 7 on the investigation.

But about the same time the war profits commission appointed by Roosevelt expects to report out certain legislation for the mobilization of industry in wartime. This legislation is already drafted. In fact it w’&s drafted long ago. It takes the form of eleven bills which the War Department whipped into shape in 1932-33. It includes even the licensing of newspapers. Roosevelt’s appointment pf Barney Baruch and General Johnson on a special war profit' commission. therefore, is regarded by the Senate Committee as mere window dressing. All they will do is lend prestige and force to the war department's prepared legislation. This will give an excuse to Senate die-hards to block further funds to the munitions committee. A knock-down and drag-out fight may result. nnu JOHN BOETTIGER. reported fiance of Anna Roosevelt Dell, was The Chicago Tribune star reporter on the mystery murder of Jake Lingle. For approximately one year he was assigned to the case, later wrote a book called “Jake Lingle.” Previously, he wrote a series on sewerage conditions in the Great Lake cities, depicting some cities, particularlv Cleveland, as depending in part upon scavenger birds along the water-front. During the campaign in 1932. Boettiger was assigned to the Roosevelt trein and it was here

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that he first met Anna Dali. They became friends during the trip, and afterwards Boettiger was assigned by his newspaper to cover the White House. In Washington, Boettiger has been an intimate friend of the Roosevelt family and frequently rode with Mrs. Dali on the bridle paths of Potomac Park. He is 34 years old and was divorced from his wife about six months after his transfer to Washington. In 1927 he was assigned to the D. C. Stephenson case in Indiana. a a a DURING the closing days of the Civil War. William Hull, father of the Secretary of State, was captured by three Yankee guerillas in the Tennessee mountains. They beat him. shot away the upper part of his nose and one eye, threw him over a low T bluff of the Cumberland River and left \ him for dead. Mr. Hull, senior. revived, crawled into a nearby cornfield, and later learned who his assailants were. Several years later, having fully recovered. Mr. Hull got on his horse and went to look for the man who had taken the lead in mutilating him for life. He followed this man over 3000 miles, through Texas, through the sparsely settled Southwest and back to tile mountains of East Tennessee. Finally lie found

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ttigj!!!S If HTHE- wonder that is mirrored in a child’s eyes 1 Taw Wm only once in its life—the wonder of the first • \ mßt Christmas—here comes to Marie Dionne, gazing j liMHi* MlllllS \ wjf 'jMffl in rapt interest at her little Yule tree, a mite fright- U Mm IJIII oned. perhaps, by this new marvel, but entranced % VMmtm AM&m 111 by its shining beauty as it is held before her in v \'' ' 1r N \ w (Copyright, 1234, NEA Service, Inc.) . u*,.

assailant, gave him time to make his peace with God and killed him. ana VERY little appears in the press about it, but the controversy between Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and George Peek. President of the ImportExport Bank, continues to be the hottest of the many feuds raging within the administration. Last week it looked as if Peek was on top in the foreign trade see-saw. He had negotiated a deal with Germany whereby she bought 500,000 pounds of American cotton and paid for it, 25 per cent in cash and 75 per cent in German goods. But now the see-saw is reversed. Peek is at the bottom again. Without saying anything about it. Cordell Hull went over to the White House and got the Presl-* dent to veto the German barter plan. Three things were behind the veto. l One was Hull's good old Jeffersonian theory that trade should flow on broad lines, unhampered by quotas, high tariffs and bartering agreements. Another was Chile's protest that the Peek-German plan meant the dumping of German nitrates in the United States undercutting both the Chilean and American nitrate industry. Finally, Hull pointed out that in deference to the United States Brazil had vetoed cotton credits to Germany only to turn and find the United States negotiating the same deal behind her back. In the end. Cordell Hull, like his father, got his man. (Copyright, 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Averages Show Drop The investment companies common stock index declined with the general market last week, as evidenced by the averages compiled by Distributors Group. Inc. The average for the common stocks of 10 leading management companies, influenced by the leverage factor, stood at 10.19 at the close of Dec. 21, pared with 10.66 on Dec. 41

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400,000 Home Owners Seek Financial Support Opening of Congress Will Be Signal for Requests for Additional Funds. By Scrippa-Ff award Xewspaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. Dec. 25.—Four hundred thousand distressed home owners whose applications for Federal refinancing have been pigeonholed are conducting what appeared today to be a winning fight for ex-

tension of the mortgage relief program. The protesting group comprises those whose applications passed preliminary examination and then were disqualified by a blanket order of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation last month limiting future aid to applications which have reached the title examination stage, one of the final steps in the long process of granting loans. The HOLC, the White House and offices of Senators and Congressmen have been deluged with protests from home owners w r ho claim to have been treated unfairly. Many have offered evidence that their applications have been on file ! since the HOLC was established 18 months ago. but due to the lack of influence with local officials and for other reasons they have been forced to wait, while others, filed later, were speeded through. The order limiting loans to applications in advanced stages and ! shutting off new applications was issued when the HOLC's resources began to run low and loan requests exceeding lending power by more than two billion dollars. Many of the 400.000 disappointed applicants say they are unable to get private refinancing and will lose their homes unless given Govj ernment aid. To extend the program to care for this group would require congressional action authorizing the HOLC to issue additional bonds of about *1.250.000.000. Several bills already are prepared for introduction on the opening day of congress, providing additional

! funds of from one to three billions. Senator Wagner iD.. N- Y.) has announced he will press for an addi- ■ tional billion. The HOLC has taken no stand on | additional aid, although Chairman I John H. Fahey has said that i mortgage lending* should be turned ! back to private institutions as soon las possible. HOLC economists are making a study for President Roosei velt which will show the extent to : which private lenders are able to ! take over the task. A similar study j is being made by the President's special committee on Federal lending activities headed by Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. The following figures, taken from the latest HOLC report, show the status of applications: Utal filed 1,742,097 Rejected and withdrawn in preliminary examination 397.183 Net applications 1.344.314 Granted 695,351 Total pending 649.563 Pending in title examination departments 234.783 Pending in earlier stages 414,775 The 234,788 which have reached the title examiners are the only | ones eligible for loans at present and will absorb most of the 5900,000,000 remaining. Th * 695.351 applications granted represent disbursements of $2.103.000.000. _____ Huge Mustard Plant Raised R’J 1 nitfd Pm STUTTGART. Ark., Dec. 25. A stalk of mustard which covered four square feet of ground and had leaves 214 inches wide and 25 inches long, was found by Joe Highsmith, farmer east of here.

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Fair Enough WEMOOK HOUR THE pure, undying love of a beautiful woman, even on a short-term basis, appears to deserve rating as one of the most precious commodities on earth. A handsome young woman, known as Miss June Knight, a musical comedy actress with moving picture tendencies, recently gave her heart to a man named Paul Ames of New York, described as a broker and said to have an income of $2,400 a month. Married one day in Chicago, they were paited within two weeks and the disillu-

sioned bride entered suit for a divorce in Los Angeles, demanding $1,200 a month for herself and $5,000 for her attorneys. Presumably. Miss Knight desires the $1,200 a month for herself until further notice. In that case, assuming that she should enjoy a long life of sorrow, say 40 years of solitary pining for what happiness which might have been but. due to no admitted fault of her own. never could be, the bill to Mr. Ames would be $576,000. There is, of course, no way for one to know, until a jury has studied the values involved, whether Miss

Knight's asking price is a trifle high. Her attorneys, being attorneys, should be in a better position to judge. They undoubtedly based their asking price on some knowledge of market conditions, prices and precedent. Love is a wonderful thing, but vsterious and fragile, so any appraisal in dollars and cents must be arbitrary. The NRA has avoided the problem. but the divorce attorneys have established a scale of their own which seems to operate rather well. n tt tt Beauty and Comedy — Which? MISS KNIGHT is a well-favored young woman, being tall, symmetrical and agreeablp to the eye. It is possible that an index figure might be found in the normal box office charge for gazing at her. This comes to $4.40 a head for about 30 minutes of gazing in a New York theater. However, there are many other factors to affect the calculation. For example, the box office price must be divided by the number of other persons in the cast, including comedians. There is no accounting for tastes and some people would rather look upon a comedian than Miss June Knight. Perhaps Mr. Ames, himself, discovered that he liked comedy better. But then, in a theater, at $4.40 a head, the customers do not have the exclusive privilege nor. unless they have seats in Row- A, the proximity. Certainly there should be an extra charge for exclusiveness and proximity. So the financial formula for the appraisal of Miss June Knight’s society for 13 days begins to go beyond any earth-bound, ex-pense-account mathematical limitations. I hesitate to consider the equation from the standpoint of the disillusioned bride. The feminine psychology is different and she may feel that her shattered dreams are dirt cheap at $1,200 a month or S3OO a w-eek, until further notice. The trouble is that there is no set term in the transaction. Being symmetrical and generally agreeable to the masculine gaze. Miss Knight might meet another wondc boy within the very year. Friendship ripening into love, she might marry him and let Mr. Ames off at one year's indemnity or $13,400, which wxwld not be exhorbitant. n tt a When Love Is Pure YET, when a woman is receiving $1,200 a month for life, she might have an involuntary tendency to set herself against an onslaught from anpther quarter. Th° new suitor might be a poor man. unable to give her anything but love, and this could make a difference. The deterrent, is. in such a case, that if the woman should be disillusioned again, she would have no practical recourse. Women know this. Nobody ever loses a poor man $1,200 a month’s worth and the attorneys fees down the lower brackets sometimes are as low as $25 a divorce by contrast with the asking price of $5,000 in the present instance. Your correspondent devoutly hopes that Miss Knight gets every dollar she earned in one day less than two weeks as the loving and loyal helpmate of Mr. Ames. No doubt she will. tcc. The honorable courts have many duties and not the least dignified of them is that of deciding how' much a man ought to pay. in proportion to his fortune, for short-term enjoyment of the most precious privilege on earth, the pure, undying love of a beautiful w T oman. (CoDvrisrht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

ONE of the greatest benefactions you can make is a contribution to the national endeavor toward reclamation of the physically handicapped. In a few weeks, the nation will again join on the birthday of President Roosevelt in a great effort to raise funds for rehabilitation of the crippled. Social service is finding that it is more valuable to help a disabled person obtain work suitable to his disability than to carry him along on charity. The fact that a person is physicially deformed should not depreciate from his opportunities in life. Robert Louis Stevenson had a fragile body afflicted with tuberculosis, yet he contributed marvelously to letters. Sir Walter Scott was crippled from youth by infantile paralysis, yet his name is one of the greatest in English literature. John Milton was blind, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the girl whose life was dramatized in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street." suffered from a spinal affliction which kept her almost permanently in bed. The secretary of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Assn., Professor W. A. Puckner. carried on his work, though blind, from the time when he was elected to the position. ana QTEINMETZ. a poor, grossly deformed boy, beO came a great scientific genius. One of the most noted authorities on cancer in the United States suffered from youth with an unsightly deformity on the skin. America suffers today with a burden of handicapped whom, nevertheless, it endeavors constantly to reclaim. There are 75.010 blind; 45,000 deaf mutes; 43.000 feeble-minded; 90,000 epileptic; 268.000 mentally deficient; 78.000 paupers and dependent aged, and 700.000 crippled. Throughout the world today, famous institutions are being developed- in which those deformed or handicapped have opportunity to take up studies leading toward a successful career. The great Smouse Opportunity School in Des Moines, left as a memorial to that city by a physician, gives vocational education under beautiful surroundings to the deafened, the crippled, and those handicapped in other ways. In Chicago, the Spalding and Christopher schools take care each day of thousands of crippled children. awn AT the head of all the causes of crippling of children is infantile paralysis. Thereafter come two other diseases which are. perhaps, much more frequent—tuberculosis and rickets. For these conditions, however, the extent and seventy of the cnppling is much less. Following in order come accidents of various types, particularly such as occur in the home, with special emphasis on accidental burns that are multilating and that result in deformities and senous scars. Today, most of the bone and joint tuberculosis that used to develop in the past is prevented by proper tuberculin tests of cattle and pasteurization Os milk

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