Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1935 — Page 11

It Seems to Me HEYWDOD BROUN MIAMI. F*a . Jan. 3 —The first of my New Year's resolutions is not to write a column about resolutions. My second is not to make any. Os course. New Year's Day itself never figures in the swearoff of any sensible man. It is a little principality not unlike Monaco and wholly independent of the rule and the moralities of the neighboring states. But Jan 2 generally been a gloomy day in my life. At this particular spot in the turn of the year it has been customary to cast accounts and reach a

balance. And always I found that I had not accounted for those things which I owed to myself. And looking backward moved me invariably to a litany for in me there was no health. But I look back upon the year 1934 with no such sj irit of humility. Physically I am shot to bits and fear the worst. But the condition of my soul is quite a little better than my blood pressure. Please do not bring in an indictment for conceit upon this statement. If you knew my blood pressure you would accept it as a very modest statement. Naturally I would like to swagger up to 1935

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with a condescending eye. Say "gangway,” and put the fellow in his place right at the start. But modesty is a complaint not easily laid aside and it will take me at least another decade to reach a proper appreciation of my own worth. And even then I may not catch up with myself. a a a Relies on Cone Formula IN the meantime I recommend to you the system which I intend to use. It is the old Coue formula of self-hypnosis under the inspiration of repeating the sentence, "Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.” In my own case there is a slight postscript necessary in the use of the formula. It runs, “But be careful not to look at your columns after they are printed or it may break the spell.” To some extent. I must admit, the great gain which I made in 1934 was of a negative nature. I managed to whip up a lively disrespect for the sort of person I used to be. Today I would hardly care to be in the same room with the Broun of 1933. 1888, 1894. 1906 or any way station. The fellow would bore the life out of me. His sentimentious sentimentality, his posing, his mock modesty and his bourgeois bulk would sicken me. What could there be in common between me and a regular habitue the speakeasies and the night clubs? In him there was no purpose but to kill time with poker and puns. Wth my ovn ears I heard him talking over a radio hookup under the sponsorship of a laxative. TTure is a tumor that on one occasion he even lent his name to a blindfold test. And there w f as a time when he used to run to doctors and constantly feel his pulse because of a fear that his heart might suddenly stop. He could not seem to realize that if it did the mishap would be a matter of no importance to himself and still less to the world. He was, if I may put it bluntly, a sort of combination of good time Charlie, Nick the ; Greek and Alexander Woolcott. ana Object Is Not Mockery OF course in all regenerations there is a certain danger. A cleric once lay dying and he said: #?T have committed my sins and fallen short of my *'.uota. but now as I lie dying I can thank God that 1 1 never took a convert into the church.” The bungling zeal and the general tiresomeness of those aho arrive at the eleventh hour is a matter of concern in all good causes. Asa decidedly belated recruit in the labor movement I trust that I will have sufficient judgment to sit silent in the presence of those who have borne and are now bearing the heat and burden of the day. I can afford to put on airs and the odor of sanctity only in the presence of my previous self. One license should be granted to converts. There should be no reproach cast against any w T ho find great joy and exhilaration in a good cause. They should even be allowed to have fun. Things do not become wuong because you enjoy doing them. If anybody has read this far it may be that he will assume my object to be one of mockery and in this assumption he will err. To say that I have never been more serious in my life would hardly be a swinging statement. I will never be more serious. There abide these three, faith, hope and fanaticism and the greatest of these is fanaticism. Once again, however, I ask for license. Right now I am going to the opening of Barney Gallant’s new night club. But as it has been already stated New Year's Day doesn't count. (Copyright. 1935)

Todays Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE Dead Sea, regarded for centuries to be as dead as its name implies, has turned out to be a veritable gold mine of chemical wealth and a health resort in the bargain. These startling facts were emphasized in a recent lecture before the Royal Society of Arts by Major T. G. Tulloch. A resume of Major Tulloch's lecture has been made available by Arthur D. Little, Inc., chemists. Cambridge. Mass. The level of the Dead Sea is 1300 feet below that of the Mediterranean. The sea is 47 miles long and nine and one-half miles wide at its widest part. Nothing is able to live in the sea because of the tremendous concentration of mineral salts in it. Legends grew up around the sea. It was said that birds which attempted to fly over it fell dead. Travelers reported that the climate of the valley in which the sea is located was unbearable and deadly. But it appears now that the Dead Sea was only “playing possum.” For Major Tulloch reports that “the Dead Sea today is a thing of life, pulsating with health and conferring benefits on thousands of human beings.” a a a A DECADE ago. Major Tulloch and his associates became convinced that the possibilities of the Dead Sea had been overlooked and that the sea constituted a vast potential source of ordinary salt, potash and bromine. Accordingly they organizedPalestine Potash. Ltd., obtaining a concession from the British government which holds the mandate over Palestine. Palestine Potash. Ltd., went to work in 1930. Its experts found that surface waters of the sea were diluted by the Jordan and other streams which poured fresh water into the sea. Deeper down, however. they found an increasing concentration of salts. This reached a maximum constant value below 200 feet. Consequently, a 30-inch pipe line, 2800 feet long, was laid out from the to this depth. Pumps connected to this line discharged the waters into an open canal so constructed as to encircle evaporating pans which covered thousands of acres. a a a THE hot sun and the steady breeze which blows all day from the south and all night from the north makes evaporation rapid. Sodium chloride, common salt, is deposited in the first series of pans, since it is the least soluble. In the next series of pans a double salt of magnesium chloride and potassium chloride, known as “eamallite” is deposited. Finally, magnesium bromide is deposited. During four years of work. Major Tulloch says, there have been no illnesses among the several hundred workers. And so a seaside and health resort, named Kallia, has been opened near the- company’s works. This has attracted hundreds of visitors since it was opened last April, he says, and on one occasion in the middle of July there were 2000 visitors who came to dance and to bathe by moonlight. Major Tulloch thinks that the fact that the atmosphere at 1300 feet below sea level is 6 per cent richer in oxygen may account for the healthful qualities of the place. Q—How often does the Ohio Legislature meet? A —Every two years. Q —Are proof coins now issued by the United States Government? A—No. *

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Uauptmann on trial j [ The Courtroom Cast ———

jpAUNCHY, ruddy-faced Edward J. Reilly, a deepvoiced, green-eyed fellow who somehow resembles a retired policeman with a flair for clothes, moved into the Hauptmann case as he has moved in on more than 1500 others —bannt flying, band playing. It wasn't long before the gentlemen of the prosecution realized that they were dealing with another sort than the gentle, quiet, almost shy James M. Fawcett, who (on tiptoe) had piloted the defense through arraignment and extradition. There is nothing quiet about Mr. Reilly. The defense began making statements. Hauptmann was “an innocent man, in jail for nothing at all.” The body found in the woods near the Lindbergh Hopewell home was not that of the aviator's child. Lindbergh himself, by his interference w'ith police activities, had thwarted the arrest of the real kidnaper and murderer. Nor was Mr. Reilly the man to overlook the possibilities in Mrs. Hauptmann and baby Manfried. The Bronx carpenter’s wfife spoke over the radio on her husband's behalf, it w’as announced that she had abandoned “domestic duties” to act as chief investigator for the defense. All these moves represented the application of an aggressive technique perfected in 25 years of murder cases during which the w-ords "not guilty” have fallen from the lips of jury foremen with an almost monotonous regularity. Mr. Reilly knows his business. Born in Brooklyn’s old Fourth Ward, the chief of Hauptmanns counsel was educated in parochial school and Boys’ High. He got a job with a life insurance company, studied law nights at St. LawTence University. In 1904 he was admitted to the bar and almost at once began to specialize in criminal law. an a “T HAVE,” he remarked recently JL with jovial complacence, “defended every woman accused of murder in Brooklyn with two exceptions and have won acquittals in every case.” Married, Mr. Reilly maintains home and offices in the borough of his birth. He once ran as an independent candidate for Supreme Court Justice, but was defeated. He belongs to various legal organizations, Derr ocratic clubs, is a World War veteran and a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. In the courtroom he will undoubtedly keep things exciting for jury, spectators and Atty. Gen. David Wilentz. His presence in the case is a guarantee of drama and oratory. In his long career he has saved from the electric chair such celebrated defendants as Cecilia McCormick. William McDermott, George Small, Olivia Stone, Winifred Ankers. Invariably he carries the attack to the prosecution, and always he has a surprise or two up the sleeves of his cutaway coat. Frequently, in a burst of oratory, he will accuse the state’s chief witness of the crime charged against his client. Already, in the Hauptmann case, there lias been

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The Treasury has a big tax surprise up its sleeve. Despite all pooh-pooh talk by the Old Guarders. Young Henry Morgenthau and his advisers are harboring a secret program for drastic tax revision at this session.

Three of the most important features of the plan are: 1. The principle that only an arbitrarily fixed amount of wealth may be inherited. The “ceiling” that Morgenthau and his advisers have agreed on is a closely guarded secret. But they want the principle written into the law on the theory that once it is fixed the “ceiling” can be raised or lowered with greater ease. 2. A tax on dividends. 3. Increase of the capital stock tax. The program is the work of a group of young economists whom Morgenthau has had studying the tax question for many months. They recommended that the Administration delay no longer in fundamental tax reform, that it begin by tackling the problem of great inheritances. This plan has been provisionally approved by the President, but will come before him in final form before it is decided whether to submit it to Congress. a a a T ABOR SECRETARY PERKINS not only is the closestmouthed member of the Administration where news is concerned, but she also acts as a press tutor for the rest of the Cabinet. One day she was leaving a White House conference, together with Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Relief Administrator Hopkins and Interior Secretary Ickes —all three believers i:i co-opera-tion with the press. White House scribes gathered round, they asked Morgenthau: “Can you give us any idea of what was discussed?” “Well,” he began, “we talked over the questions of—” Bui he got no farther. With complete finality, Miss Perkins broke in: ‘ There was really nothing at all under discussion. We were just having a friendly little chat. The secretary (Morgenthau) has nothing he can give you just at this time.” And Morgenthau. Ickes and Hopkins, somewhat flabbergasted, murmured in chorus: ‘‘Yes—er—of course. Nothing at

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talk about “third degree methods” in the best Reilly manner. “You never get much help talking to a defendant,” he remarked soon after entering the Hauptmann case: “Your help comes from knowing the weaknesses of the other side.” No effort is too great for Reilly if it helps to ascertain these weaknesses. In the Ankers case he studied chemistry for months, won freedom for a girl accused of murdering nine babies by administering oxalic acid. Twenty-one years later the woman turned up again, charged this time with possessing a revolver. Reilly defended her. a npHERE will be for this veteran at least one touch of novelty about the Flemington trial, however. Most of his previous homicide defenses have been made before metropolitan juries, and Hunterdon County’s good men and true are anything but urban. To offset w’hatever of handicap may lie in this fact, the Brooklyn attorney will have as associ-

all. We were just having a pleasant little chat.” Note—They had spent an hour discussing relief and PWA appropriations for the new budget. a a a PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT came near losing his Steel Labor Board en masse. It happened this way: For weeks there had been strenuous behind-the-scenes efforts to bring steel operators and union leaders into agreement. The negotiations got nowhere. Labor leaders insisted on recognition of the principle of majority rule. Employers refused to yield on their demand for minority representation in plant councils. Finally, the Steel Board proposed a three-point formula: Factory elections to be suspended for six months. Employers to deal with all union groups. The Steel Board to be recognized by both sides as arbiter in complaint cases. The plan was submitted inforaally to representatives of the warring groups. The operators signified their approval. The Steel Board received what it considered similar authoritative assurances from the unionites. Elated, the board informed the President of its success. To give the matter an imposing setting he summoned labor leaders and employers to a White House conference. The confab began most auspiciously. The operators said that while the compromise was not all they wanted, they would accept. President Green of the A. F. of L. declared that the workers insisted on elections, but did not oppose the board's proposal. But when President Roosevelt called upon 77-year-old Mike Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, he blew the conference sky high. Members of the Steel Board were terribly embarrassed. They had assured the President that the stage was all set lor agreement.

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ates men to whom Flemington is home territory. * C. Lloyd Fisher, for one, w r as born in Flemington, w-ent through the public schools there, returned after law school to hang up his shingle on the town’s main street. His firm represented John Hughes Curtis, the Norfolk ship builder and self-styled intermediary in the Lindbergh kidnaping, W'hen Curtis was tried in 1932 on a charge of obstructing justice. Another associate counsel is Robert Rosecrans of Blairstown, N. J. Mr. Rosecrans has a reputation of his own in the field of criminal law. Recently he won the acquittal of Carlton Clymer, charged with murder in Warren County, and twelve years ago defended the accused in Sussex County’s picturesquely named “Cat and Swamp” murder cases. A fourth member of Hauptmann’s counsel is Frederick A. Pope. Incidentally, there will be local talent at the prosecutor's table, too. Anthony Moffatt Hauck Jr., “Tony” to most residents of Hunterdon County, is the county’s

TECH TEACHER NAMED JOURNALISM DIRECTOR Miss Ella Sengenberger Appointed to Board of National Association. Miss Ella Sengenberger, 3609 Car-rollton-av, journalism teacher at Technical High School and sponsor of the school’s prize-winning publication, The Arsenal Cannon, has been made one of six national directors of the National Association of Journalism Directors of Secondary Schools, it was announced today. Miss Sengenberger represents the east central section of the association.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Eyery day you want to work overtime! What th'heck—- . are you inspired, or something ?” *

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A master of courtroom drama, paunchy Edward Jay Reilly, chief defense counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, will make the Lindbergh baby murder trial abundant with intense moments. Attorney Reilly has a long record of acquittals won in 25 years of defending alleged murderers.

prosecutor and will assist Wilentz in presenting the State’s case. Hauck, 33, fives with his wife and tw r o sons in nearby Clinton. Another associate prosecutor will be George K. Large, born in Flemr'.ngton and a former Common Pleas judge. It-will be interesting to see how so staid a court as Mr. Justice Trenchard’s reacts to the Reilly pyrotechnics. The chief defense counsel has nettled many a jurist. Only a few months ago County Judge Franklin Taylor, witnessing the acquittal of tw r o tough young Brooklynites accused of a craps game killing, sputtered to the jury: “Gentlemen, the same lawyer defended both men. Gentlemen, two murderers have been let go.” tt n a MR. REILLY did not mind, concealed a half smile behind a cupped hand. But he would not shake the hands of the pair he had freed. Counsellor Reilly’s entrance into the case was undoubtedly a good

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

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—The age-long dream and yearning of Jews for a homeland freed from the shackles of the Ghetto has now come to pass.

On Jan. 20, therefore, “Palestine Day” will be observed throughout America for the first time and annually thereafter. Thus is founded a sort of Jewish Thanksgiving Day “to commemorate the heroic zeal and

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deal of a shock to the amiable Mr. Fawcett, who for a time withheld papers in connection with the af- * fair in an effort to collect a fee from Mrs. Hauptmann. Reilly, seated beneath the etching of Napoleon in his Court-st office, said bluntly: “Mrs. Hauptmann's friends and people suggested that she get a man who is familiar w r ith criminal law. “Then she began making inquiries and found I had tried all these cases, especially many murder cases in New Jersey, and I w r as no stranger there. She came to see me, and after I heard her story I took the case immediately. That was the first time I ever saw her.” Mr. Reilly expects to be paid for his sendees, but says it will be “a very small amount.” He has tried vainly to free Hauptmann funds tied up by the state. The defense has concentrated on an effort to break down the story told by Millard Whited, Sourland mountaineer who identifies Hauptmann as having been near the Lindbergh home shortly before the crime. Scores of Sourland mountain residents have been questioned in Fisher’s Flemington law office. Pursuing his policy of aggressiveness, Reilly will call Colonel Lindbergh as a defense witness, will ask him to repeat his statement, made at the Curtis trial, that he believed the kidnaping to be the w r ork of a gang and not, as the prosecution now charges, of one man. Other things may come up while the Colonel is on the stand. “I don’t know what Colonel Lindbergh’s idea was,” said Reilly recently, “but I know that solution of the crime within 48 hours of the arrival of the second ransom letter, the one mailed from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by a former New Jersey carpenter, who moved to that section just prior to March 1, 1932, was frustrated by interference with police efforts in New York City.” There is no question but what there will be plenty of fireworks in Flemington Courthouse. And the outcome? Counselor Reilly was asked to turn prophet. “Modesty,” replied Mr. Reilly, with a grin, “forbids.”

spirit of idealism that motivated the thousands of men and women who went to Palestine to lay the foundation for the renaissance of the Jewish people.” For centuries individual Jews and groups of Jews have hoped that some day they would cease their wanderings and not only have a nation of their own, but that Palestine, their fatherland, might be theirs again. This hope is described by the term “Zionism.” Circumstances over which the Jews had no control, however, prevented any effective steps toward realizing their dream. It was not until about 40 years ago that Theodor Herzl, a Jewish writer, assumed the leadership of a movement to make it come true. The present Nazi drive against Jews is nothing novel in their history. Practically every nation in Europe, at one time or another, has persecuted them. a a a THE first Zionist congress was held in 1897 at Basle, Switzeralnd. Representatives from many countries were present. There they laid down a program. "Zionism,” it said briefly, “strives to create a legally secured, publicly recognized home in Palestine for the Jewish people.” It was not merely “a” homeland, but “the” homeland, that the Zionists wanted. And it was this feeling which led them, in 1903. to reject Great Britain s offer of Uganda, South Africa, as their nation. But insurmountable obstacles seemed in the way of a return to Palestine. A number of colonies had been set up there as part of the Jewish project, but Turkey was sovereign and the Turks naturally had no thought of transferring the region to any other people. Then came the World War. Anxious to have the co-operation of Jews everywhere. Lord Balfour, British foreign secretary, wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild in 1917: "His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.”

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Fair Enough PHiLSR WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 3.—One great embarrassment to a President or other statesman in resisting such a scheme as the Townsend plan is an exaggerated popular regard for old age. as though there were something meritorious in the mere feat of living for 60 years. There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind and also pathetic. There is also a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-

around uselesness of which they may have been guilty, to the detriment of the state, while they were putting in their time The Townsend plan makes no discrimination. It would pension at the rate of S2OO a month a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn their room on earth at any time in their lives. They would be treated on equal terms with the up-stream types of similar age who find themselves broke at 60 due to no fault of their own. These are harsh words only

by contrast with the songwriters’ conception of old age and the character of old people which has received unearned acceptance by the race. For a President to admit, however, that such a thought had crossed his mind would be to arouse the phoney fury of all the mammy-singers in the country and bring down upon himseif the accusation of slandering every man's dear old mother and dad. The opposition, therefore, must deny itself the use of a very important point in the argument. a u n Age Brings Respectability 'T'HIS, of course, is quite aside from the fact that S2OO a month per head would be a far better income, to be received in many cases by undeserving pensioners, than might be earned by diligent effort on the part of those who would be elected to provide the money. The Townsend plan would present the spectacle of many thousands of life-long whiners and veteran sufferers from chronic fatigue tooling over the country in luxury at the expense of younger people who would be working hard for less money. Every one has seen certain individuals reach the age of 60 who never did care much for .steady w T ork and whose present character is no more admirable than it was before. The years went by, the flu aidn’t get them, the motor trucks missed them and presently they were 60 and therefore venerable, though still lazy, dishonest and sore on their luck. If the scheme is adopted there should be one important amen : nent in the interests of another class of citizens also generally held to be pathetic. These are the unfortunate orphans. The term poor orphan is generally held to mean only juvenile orphans, but the Townsend plan would work a serious injustice to many poor orphans of mature years. Under the Townsend plan a diligent shirker with a living mother and father, both 60 years old or more, would be able to retire permanently and support his own rising brood of Government guests on the monthly income of his old parents which would amount to SIOO a week. His wife, too, might have living parents, also receiving their S4OO, and on SBOO a month the old people would be able to do very well for themselves, their children and their grandchildren. a a Tough on the Orphans this pension would tend to promote J respect for old age and the tenderest sort of care for the health of the pensioners lest something happen to curtail the monthly income. In time, of course, the old people w'ould be gathered to their fathers, but by then their offspring w'ould be nearing 60 themselves and anticipating pensions of their own on which to support their children until they, too, were 60 and eligible. But the orphans of, say 40 years, with a family to keep, a job to hold and taxes to pay for the Townsend pension to support his neighbor and the neighbor's children, would be out of luck. With no mother or father to put in for the S2OO r month, per head, the poor orphan would be the one to give the party. If the Townsend plan goes through there should be a special clause to provide pensions for orphans. That would seem to cover the entire ground. Then nobody would have to work. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l

Your Health —BY 1)R. MORRIS FISKBEI."

YOU will find many varieties of delinquent children. They include those who are not able to hold their own in groups of children; those who are unruly and who refuse to submit to the usual customs of school and community; and those emotionally unstable, who have neurotic tendencies. When studies are made, it is found that delinquent boys and girls live in general about the same as other boys and girls in the public schools. They come from middle-class homes and poor homes, but occasionally from homes of the well-to-do. On the other hand, when the occupations of their fathers are considered, it is founo that delinquent children come more frequently from fathers who are unskilled laborers and who have not themselves approached higher education and the higher professions. In the main, the proportion of delinquent children from any social-economic class is equal to the proportion of that class in the population. a a a ALTHOUGH there may be a slight tendency for more children from poorer families than from well-to-do families to become delinquent, the economic picture is not the dominant one in causing delinquency. The questions of heredity and of home conditions are most important. Broken homes are more prevalent among delinquent children than among children generally. When the home is broken up by the death or the desertion of a parent, delinquency is more likely to occur. Forty-nine per cent of delinquent girls and 37 per cent of delinquent boys came from homes in which one or both parents were dead. In general, public school children are found in only 17 per cent of cases to come from homes in which one or both parents may be dead. Homes broken by separation of the parents are also much more prevalent among delinquent children than among public school children generally. a a a MOREOVER, these homes are sometimes disturbed in other ways. The mothers of 50 per cent of delinquent girls were found to be employed outside their homes, and the mothers of 43 per cent of such boys also were employed. Roomers lived in 19 per cent of homes of delinquent girls and in 23 per cent of homes of delinquent boys. You can see from this that the conditions in the homes are of greatest significance. Delinquent children are on less sympathetic terms with their parents; they confide in them less, they receive less information about the fundamental facts of sex than do children w ho are in the public schools generally. When parents can observe the amusements of the child, supervise its leisure time and its choice of friends, take care of the question of staying out late at night and look after many other interests of the child concerned in the question of delinquency, they willdo much to keep the child from becoming delinjuent. *

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