Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1934 — Page 11

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN MIAMI, Dec. 31.—1 t would probably be a slight exaggeration to say that this city is all agog over the football game which Miami University is to play here in the Orange bowl against Bucknell tomorrow. But it is being just as agog as it can because it wants to show up the Sugar bowl encounter which Huey Long is pulling on the same day in New Orleans. To me this n?w development of bowl encounters

bit confusing. The fan doesn’t quite know whether he’s going to a football game or a blue plate dinner. It seems to me that Yale ought to stage a post season contest in her own saucer which was the first model of the sort. This would be known as the Bowl bowl game and might tend to end all the semiglobular nonsen^. But I must say for the Miami University team that it has adopted a type of training brand new in the annals of the sport. Red Grange, as everybody knows, delivered ice all through a gruelling summer in order to complete his education and

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develop his shoulder muscles. The extra curricular activities of the Miami Hurricanes are far more imaginative and the entire country should watch the result of the Bucknell game with interest. I do not refer to fans. Just what title the boys are playing for is shrouded in mystery. lam calling attention to the fact that the game on New Year’s Day in the Orange bowl Cif you must have it) will be one of the most important tests ever carried on in this country as to the power of mental suggestion. The news of what is going on first came to me at the end of the ninth race at the dog track. a a a A Brilliant Training Scheme EACH dog is led to the starting kennel by a groom brightly attired in blue or yellow coat and red pants. I mean of course that they all wear the same colors on the same night and all change together. As I remember it’s blue for a Monday and yellow for a Tuesday and so on. The young men who led the dogs seemed a rather stalwart lot, but I paid no particular attention since they were not running for anything and there was no way of betting on them. Besides all uniformed attendants seem a little dim and pallid to any one who had the privilege of seeing the original Roxy ushers. But as they lined up before the judges stand preceding the ninth race the announcer suddenly called the attendants to public attention. “These young men,” he said, “who lead the dogs to the post are all members of the Miami football team which meets Bucknell here in the Orange bowl on New Year’s Day. “New Orleans has its Sugar bowl game and I even understand that out in California they are going to have a Rose bowl game. I ask you all to give our local athletes a fine hand and wish them well in their encounter with Bucknell.” Everybody applauded dutifully and I was struck immediately with the brilliance of the training scheme Here it was well along toward midnight and many would have said that it was time for football players to go to beddv-bye. But considered they were not staying up with loose companions, with cards, or with those beverages which blight the bram. They were staying up with greyhounds. tt a a They May Be Fooied X7'OU get the idea. /Jmost unconsciously the impressionable boys were soaking in the psychology of the animals which they piloted about the track each night. I don’t mean, of course, that any member of the Hurricanes had quite come to the point of beginning to bark or to wag, but the boys did have something of the greyhound look. The greyhound has a small brain and that is very useful. It permits him to concentrate. He thinks of just two things—speed and food. Accordingly he becomes an expert in one thing and that is chasing the mechanical rabbit. How many things do you think of, dear reader? Maybe as many as three of four. That is why you are not an expert in any one line and why you are no great shucks in chasing anything. The fact that one student on a team may be a fatal flaw has been demonstrated on scores of gridirons. Players have been known to run the wrong way and do other extraordinary things just because they insisted on individual cerebration which is fatal to any system. The Hurricanes will gallop out on the field on New Year’s Day imbued with the idea of speed and that alone. After their nightly comradeship with the greyhounds, even the fastest back on the opposition will seem little better than a dachshund. Os course the visiting team may fool them. It is just barely possible that nobody on the Bucknell eleven looks like a rabbit. (Copyright. 19341

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ELECTRIC currents of more than 100.000,000 amperes, currents strong enough to light all the electric lights of a big city, flow in the atmosphere, some 60 or 70 miles above the earth’s surface. Scientists have conferred the name of the ionosphere upon this electrified layer of the atmosphere high above the stratosphere. It is from this electrified or ionized layer that radio signals are reflected . The existence of these powerful currents in the lonosphere has been demonstrated by the scientists of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, who find in them an explanation of the behavior of the compass. Several decades ago, the Carnegie Institution organized its department of terrestrial magnetism to study the behavior of the compass. Magnetic stations were established in many places, one of them in the Australian desert. A non-magnetic yacht, a yacht built without iron or steel, was equipped to study magnetic phenomena upon the high seas. For many years, scientists have been aware of the daily variations of the compass needle. At sunrise, anywhere above the equator, the compass needle swings a little to the east. A few hours later it begins to swing back to the west, continuing this until about 1 p. m. when once more it swing toward the east. Below the equator, the motions are just the opposite. Scientists have long sought to explain this behavior of the magnetic needle. nan IT is obvious that there is some connection between the behavior of the compass and the sun. But scientists could see no way in which light as such could effect the compass needle. Within recent years it has been demonstrated that sunlight causes the electrification or ionization of the upper atmosphere. More exactly, it is the ultra-violet portion of the sunlight which does this. The Carnegie scientists have decided that as each portion of the earth swings under the sun and the ultra-violet light comes down through it, this electrification takes place. The result is the formation of gigantic electric currents which surge through the atmosphere, affecting the state of the earth’s magnetism below and hence the behavior of the magnetic compass. u n u THESE recent studies at the Carnegie Institution are but one more item in the vast amount piling up to show the way in which our earth is influenced by outside forces. The tidal pull of the moon and sun, the ultra-violet of the sun, the electron bombardments from sun-spots, the cosmic rays from the distant reaches of the galaxy, all have their effects upon the earth. It is these facts which recently led Dr. Harlan T. Stetson to suggest the formation of anew branch of science for which he proposed the name of cosmecology. This would be ‘‘cosmic ecology,” a study of the earth’s relationship to its solar and galictic environments

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Hauptmann on TRIAL The Courtroom Cast By Sutherland Denlinger

J.JE is a brisk, cocky little man, and to see aim standing on onfe of the shrubbordered paths surrounding the Trenton State House, huge cigar tilting outward from the left-hand corner of his lips at the most raking of angles is to be reminded fantastically of an English sparrow with a twig in its beak. If you did not know that David T. Wilentz was New Jersey’s Attorney General, director of the prosecution in the State vs. Richard Hauptmann you might guess that he had something to do with Broadway, was, perhaps, one of those wise, hard-bitten guys who hang out at Lindy’s. Like them, Mr. Wilentz, is a natty dresser, and there is no Trenchardian about the knees of his breeches. His crowning glory is his hat, a sassafrascolored creation of light felt with a high crown and the floppiest of wide brims. He wears it with a careless jauntiness so effective as almost to seem premeditated, and it is seldom removed save in court, on which occasions his shrewd, thin features are topped by a patent leather covering of slicked black hair.

The Attorney General is barely 40 and lives with his wife and three children, two boys and a girl, in one-half of a two-family house at 71 Lewis-st, Perth Amboy, from which he commutes every working day to Trenton or Flemington, as circumstances dictate. He was born in Perth Amboy and went through grade and high school there, developing a good deal of his time in the latter to the management of athletic teams of one sort or another. After graduation he got a job as reporter with the Perth Amboy News, going from that journal to the Plainfield Courier-News. a tt THE more usually remunerative fields of politics and the law attracted him. He quit the Plainfield paper to take a law course at New York University. The war, during which he served as a lieutenant, interrupted his studies only temporarily. Graduating, he returned to Perth Amboy and plunged into his twin occupations with characteristic zest. He became City Attorney of Perth Amboy and held minor political posts, including the Democratic chairmanship of Middlesex County, but did not emerge from comparative obscurity until Gov. A. Harry Moore appointed him to his present position. He had appeared often enough in criminal cases, but never before as a prosecutor. Or, as he him-

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

TI J ASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—While Homer Cummings was busy taking V ▼ bows before his Crime Conference trouble was accumulating for him in other directions. One of these was in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It involves the Quapaw tribe in northeast Oklahoma which owns valuable lead lands exploited by the Eagle-Picher Lead Cos. on a royalty basis. A group within this tribe is suing the company alleging short measure in weighing ore and for non-payment for amounts realized on sulphur.

The suit was sponsored by the Indian Bureau under the Hoover Administration and was pushed even more vigorously by the same bureau under President Roosevelt. Tn fact it was pushed so vigorously that the Eagle-Picher Lead Company retained two of Washington’s most accomplished lobbyists, Phil Campbell, venerable exCongressman from Kansas and J. Bruce Kremer, pachydermic Democratic National Committeeman from Montana. Kremer’s lobbying activities have since forced his resignation as national committeeman, but have not interfered with his close personal friendship with Homer Cummings. When Mr. Cummings first came to Washington he lived at Kremer’s home, took his advice regarding the early organization of the Justice Department. It was in his friend Homer’s department on Dec. H, 1933, that Kremer staged a hearing on behalf of the Eagle-Picher Lead Company, urging that the suits against it be dropped. Representatives of the Indian Bureau, as guardians of the Quapaw tribe, were present and opposed. They wanted the Justice Department to push the case. tt tt U SEVERAL months passed and nothing happened. Then in May, 1934, Homer Cummings’ agents in Kansas City, where the suit was filed, moved that it be dismissed. Shortly before this, as if it knew favorable action was impending, the Eagle-Picher Lead Cos. quietly removed its offices from Kansas City. After that the Quapaw Tribe could not sue in Kansas City. Attorneys of the Indian Bureau and the Interior Department were indignant. They had received no advance notice of the intended dismissal. So they prepared a long brief, vigorously upholding the Indians and claiming that their case was valid. Kremer, questioned by the writers regarding his part in the case, said that he had not made any use of his friendship with Homer Cummings, that he had been retained only because of his knowledge of mining law, and that the Indians had a poor legal case. * But members of both the Sen*

David T. Wilentz, New Jersey’s Attorney General. He suggests a Broadway character.

self put it in the interview which preceded this sketch: “I’ve helped to send a lot of people to state prison before this, but it was always an assist. This is positively my first appearance on behalf of the peepul.” The fact that so few persons were aware of his identity might have feased a less self-possessed fellow than David T. Wilentz. When he appeared with Col. Schwartzkopf and then Police Commissioner O’Ryan at Green-wich-st police station on the evening of Hauptmann’s arrest his name had to be spelled out for the reporters, and there was a

ate Indian Affairs Committee and the Indian Bureau remain unconvinced. Their opinion is prompted not merely by the close friendship between Kremer and Cummings, but by the fact that Cummings appointed as assistant attorney general Henry W. Blair, former attorney for the Eagle-Picher Lead Cos., who took the oath of office just 17 days after Kremer laid his case before the Justice Department. The case comes under Blair’s division. He has taken no actual part in it. CHESTER* DAVIS* administrator of the AAA, recently was asked the reason for Secretary Wallace’s present enthusiasm over the Bankhead cotton restriction act. Originally Wallace had been lukewarm. “Sometimes,” replied Davis, “babies are not planned for, not even welcomed. But we grow to love them just the same.” >*■ a THE biggest problem of Oklahoma’s rookie Congressmen is what to do with the ten-gallon hats. Not only Percy Lee Gassaway, but also two other Oklahomans— Josh Lee and Fhil Ferguson—are ranch owners who did their campaigning in cowboy regalia. “The dapper cowboy” is the name won by Josh Lee. Actually his effectiveness derives chiefly from powers of elocution. He became an orator not through chanting “Git along little dogies,” but through teaching oratory to students of the University of Oklahoma. With a sharp wit and command of colorful figures of speech, Democratic committeemen regard him as a second John Sharpe Williams, have used him widely outside his own state. He is short in stature, dapper, handsome, 40 years old, and a teetotaler. n n n IN the files of the Tennessee Valley Authority is an exhibit highly prized by its executives. The exhibit consists of fullpage articles bitterly assailing the TVA, while defending the service and rates charged by private power companies. articles are identical in

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time in his Trenton offices when even the stenographers didn’t know him. But everybody soon found out. “Gov. Moore and I have never been associated, except politically. Oh, I’m a regular organization Democrat, right enough, make no mistake about that. I’m one of Frank Hague’s boys, all the way through. “But that isn’t going to make a bit of difference on this case, understand? There’s no politics in my office. Everything will be fair and straightforward, and I’ll use only my own assistants.”

wording, although the country weeklies from which they were clipped are in widely separated sections of the Tennessee Valley. TVA authorities know the ' “puffs” are paid propaganda, emanating from a common source. This is the reason why: Publishers of the papers overlooked a certain little job of editing, with the result that, as printed, the articles carried these words: “Editors, note; Insert the name of your city in this space.” Ash Collections Scheduled Truly Nolen, superintendent of garbage and ash collections, has announced that regular collections will be made tomorrow despite the New Year’s Day holiday.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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Att. Gen. Wilentz confers with Gov. A. Harry Moore on the Hauptmann prosecution.

HT'HE Attorney General was equally definite in confirming his adherence to the Orthodox Jewish faith, and the interview concluded with the statement, its vigor enhanced by furious flutterings of the captive cigar, that “I’m a firm man, you’ll find me a firm man. “I may be wrong sometimes,” he admitted in a tone which hinted this to be a most unlikely contingency indeed, “but you’ll always know where I stand, and you’ll always find me firm.” Among newspaper men working on the Hauptmann case Mr. Wilentz has acquired a reputation for fair dealing, and they attribute the fact that he meets them more than half way, keeps his promises, to his early training in Plainfield and Perth Amboy. Asa family man he was genuinely shocked by the Lindbergh kidnaping, and his intense preoccupation with the case is evident in the zeal which he has brought to the effort to convict Hauptmann. On the job he is unmistakably boss; Hunterdon County Prosecutor Hauck has taken a back seat in the counsels of the state since his advent. All of the voluminous records in the famous kidnaping mystery are at his command, either in the vaults of a Trenton bank, or those of lesser value, in the files at state police headquarters in the squat little red brick building across from the capitol. While the press, and even many citizens of Hunterdon County have cast aspersions upon the evidence which New Jersey has amassed against the rough-hewn German carpenter, Wilentz himself expresses such supreme confidence that; one is almost convinced, without seeing the ace up his sleeve, that it is there. “The case of the state of New Jersey,” he says, chewing upon the unlighted cigar, “is complete.” And that, take it or leave it, is that.

I COVER THE WORLD a a a a a a By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The world today again was brought face to face with the perils of a newly unbalanced situation in the Pacific and Far East.

At half past ten, Nov. 12, 1921, the five great sea powers met in Continental Memorial hall here to start off the conference that was to ■ limit navies and banish the spectre of uncertainty, and perhaps war, in the Orient. Now one of those powers, Japan, has formally notified the United States and the others—Britain, France and Italy—that so far as she is concerned the epochal treaty of Washington is dead, after the prescribed two years.

WHEN he is with defense attorneys he displays a spirit of comraderie which is no doubt completely real. He is anxious that the defense get its share of favorable personal publicity, just as he is anxious that his own “boys” get their. pictures taken occasionally. During the period preceding Hauptmann’s arraignment at Flemington and while the trial date was under discussion he appeared one morning with his arm around James M. Fawcett’s shoulder and announced that on that day the defense lawyer “has the advantage of me.” “I didn’t get any sleep,” he went on. “I decided that it was about time that I took my wife out for a good time, and so we went night-clubbing together." With women he is extremely chivalrous, always ready with a cigaret or a light, a chair or first access to the elevator door. The Attorney General is much in demand about his home territory as a political and after-din-ner speaker and his appointment last February has interfered with such engagements. Especially galling was this just before the elections. > I don’t know whether I can talk or not,” he'remarked, brows knit. “This business certainly has cramped my style.” He is careful to consider the rights and prerogatives of other office holders, even when these office holders are outside the Democratic pale. When a group of photographers approached him for permission to snap Hauptmann “through the bars” he sent them straight-off to Sheriff John Henry Curtiss, a Republican, at Flemington. “You’ll have to take that up with the Sheriff, boys,” he said, genially. the Sheriff says goes.” There are those who say that Mr. Wilentz has gubernatorial ambitions. And, after all, why not? There are few limits to the posibilities awaiting a firm man. NEXT—The Sheriff.

It was with no light heart, therefore, that State Secretary Hull and other state department officials received the death warrant of a hope born with so much promise. I have seen many international gatherings but none more dramatic than the first session of the session of the Washington naval conference —the conference whose far-heralded work has been tossed into the scrap heap. Long before the gavel fell the hall was packed. People were thick about the doors and in the park opposite. A cold wind was blowing but nobody heeded it. They seemed to sense that something epochal was about to take place. tt tt tt STATE SECRETARY CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, chairman-to-be, arrived and took his place on the stage. Lord Balfour, of the British delegation followed, and after him Elihu Root, Premier Briand, Viviani, Senator Lodge, Admiral Kato, Prince Tokugawa, Admiral Beatty, Senator Schanzer and the rest. In the balcony sat members of the diplomatic corps, officials of the United States and other nations and their wives. In the press section were distinguished writers from all over the globe—among them William Jennings Bryan. Lastly came the President, Warren G. Harding—one of the handsomest figures ever to occupy the White House—and Dr. Abernathy of the Calvary Baptist Church, offered the invocation: “Almighty God,” he began, “We thank Thee for the coming of this eventful day. May it bring untold blessings to a troubled world . . . the cries of multitudes of widows and orphans have come up before Thee, oh God . . . out of the depths we cry unto Thee: save us or we perish!” President Harding reached the high point of his career that day. Only the day before he and the distinguished foreigners had gone to Arlington to bow before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He now called on those present to think of the sufferings of a war(weary world and strive to bring to mankind anew order of peace and understanding.

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Fair Enough HIM PEW qpwo uniformed policemen in New York have A been locked up for burglary and much horror has been expended on them by the brass hats of ' the police department. It is easy to concur in this loathing because the gallant officers, when they stooped to mischief, showed a deplorable lack of vision, ambition and class. They appear to have stolen nothing more important than 109 boxes of candy valued at $1.50 each.

By comparison, consider the career of another public guardian of a nobler sort, who died recently in retirement in Long Beach, Cal., after living 31 years as the guest of the New York taxpayers on a pension of $2,500 a year, a total of $77,500, not counting the compound interest. This was Elias P. Clayton, a former inspector, who once was able to scrape up, somehow SIO,OOO to bet on the Jeffries-Corbett prizefight at Coney Island at a time when he was commander of the Coney Island district. The obituary remarks about the late officer recalled that Coney

Island at that time was known as‘the Metropolitan *.*onte Carlo and that his police administration there was heartily criticised by the clergy and others. The critics charged that faro, roulette and all-night poker games were permitted to operate in Inspector Clayton s command. * tt a He Finished in Style ’ A SUSPICI °US nature might have detected some . *- smister connection between the state of things in the metropolitan Monte Carlo and the policemans ready possession of SIO,OOO to bet upon the T p C Zt °f i he However > a r.d fortunately, bU J k * I ? f people seem to have taken a broad hi r,r V m °* c "’ s affairs and to have decided that he probably had saved up the SIO,OOO out of his hard-earned salary bv dint of self-denial and thrift. So, when his time was up they rewarded him with an annuity of $2500 and he went away to stretch his life at the public expense. nf h,? SSI , bly ’ “ two J° un g Patrolmen accused °l,^ S l ary h u and been more bigMy Placed, they, too, would ha\e busied themselves with projects more prosperous and much more in keeping with the dig*mty of the department than the alleged theft of 109 boxes of candy valued at $1.50 each. If, bv chance they had been high officials of the department as recently as the prohibition era they might have discovered opportunities to enforce the law with that remarkable discretion, tact and efficiency which dur* ing that time enabled some of the most notorious criminals in the lively criminal history of the United States to operate night clubs and other dives in the Broadway district. Os course, prohibition is past now but it is not so long past but that those high officers of the department who suffered the traps to operate in such profusion might still be asked to explain how come. bank accounts, brokerage accounts, real estate holdings and other affairs, considered in relation to the night club and speakeasy business of those recent days, might disclose a fascinating example of cause and effect. tt tt n They Kept on Walking ONE thing is certain anyway, that many New York streets were notorious, with unlicensed saloons standing shoulder to shoulder for whole blocks and that the common* cops were obviously under instructions to keep on walking and not meddle with a condition which did not concern them, but was the business of the high command. In all that time, nobody ever heard of a policeman’s being disciplined for neglect to kick in one of the late Larry Fay’s stick-up parlors. But it would have been, on the contrary, a grave mistake for a conscientious and literal-minded cop to close a place whose proprietors had made the necessary arrangements downtown. The stealing or graft this fine forbearance made the 109 boxes of candy look very paltry, indeed, and that may be the very reason why the error of the two young patrolmen today is looked upon with such shuddering abhorrence. The crime alleged tends to cheapen the dignity of the police department and, on that ground alone, should be sharply rebuked in order that the common cop may keep his aim at the stars. It was the New York commissioner, Mr. Valentine himself, who recently said in a public address that Dutch Schultz, the No. 1 public enemy, could not have escaped arrest so long if he had not had protection. But, protection, in the last analysis, depends on the police. Mr. Valentine didn't finish his story. Indeed, the common cop should not burgle any candy stores. That is a crude and petty operation and he who does such shows that he is not the type to bet SIO,OOO on a fight or come on up through the grades to the command of a thousand speakeasies, each one paying regular dues on a dough-day. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

WE used to have a great many notions about the kind and amount of food athletes ought to eat. Certain foods, for instance, were said to be good for runners, and others were said to be bad for the wind. With development of our modern knowledge of diet, we realize that it is not possible to give a distance runner endurance by any special food, or to make a hammer-thrower or football player stronger than he really is by feeding him raw meat. All foods are made up of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts and vitamins, and must be taken in relationships to the various proportions of these constituents. Liquids ai/e necessary to life and have to be taken by every one to preserve health. There are trainers who try to restrict the fluids taken by athletes to the barest amounts' consistent with living, and by such action seriously injure the health of those whom they would benefit. nan THE best food is one which is easily digested. The accumulation of undigested material in the bowels is harmful to health and will interfere seriously with any physical effort. Furthermore, accumulation of undigested material in the bowels results in diversion of blood and the energy of the body toward the handling of that food, when they may be required elsewhere. If large amounts of material in the form of food, fluids, or gas collect in the stomach and intestines, the diaphragm may be forced upwards, interfering with breathing and with action of the heart. Because overcooking may harden the fibers of meat and make it difficult to digest, some trainers have gone to the opposite side and have fed raw meat, which is just about as difficult to digest. nun THE athlete should not be forced to eat beyond the requirements of his natural appetite, regardless of the strange notion of some trainers that some people should eat enormous quantities of food and then exercise to work the material into their bodies. Strength can not be automatically acquired from food in this way. The athlete requires protein for repair of his tissue. Furthermore, proteins and fats will give energy as well as carbohydrates. Individual requirements for food must be taken into account in relationship to all training. In general, athletes are urged to abstain from smoking and the drinking of alcoholic liquors. The uses of alcohol in every day life are sometimes as a stimulant to the appetite, sometimes as a Sidative to overstrained nerves. The healthy athlete, with the effects of fresh air and does ndfc require alcoholic assistance for his bod* activities.

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