Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1935 — Page 9
It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN /"'•ORAL GABLES Jan 9—Sometimes I wonder whether I am precisely the proper guardian for a growing boy There is no lack of good intent upon mv part and I do rr.y best to sit up with him. But youth is exacting At 16 one to see not Just a night club, but the whole collection within the evening’s span. We older ones are content to sav. "There will be another day." It is the lads who act as if each 24 hours might be the last. These hoarders of time are
the very ones who possess the greatest stores of it. but perhaps it is the follv of age and not its wisdom which inspires us ancients to say. “That can wait." Surely there is a certain recklessness in postponing potential dates so long as Samara always waits. So if I say, “Let’s not go to see the floor show at the Ambassador tonight." the risk is mine for I may not come to Florida again or watch once more the lady who does the slow, strip tease. And even if I do return a year hence or a decade it may well be that in all frankness I shall be compelled to say to the per-
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former Do not bother to agitate yourself for somehow it seems my thoughts are wandering to political economy." Accordingly I can not quarrel violently with the philosophy that man should live as if each dawn were the end of the world. But in practice it hasn't turned out that way. I mean thus far. And there have been times along toward 5 m the morning when I would gladly have exehanged a ton of slightly faded rosebuds of my own gathering for seven hours’ sleep. B B B Ponce Hr Leon W ns Right XTOR is my nightly vigil _done when we have 1\ visited the last blame night club which the beach affords. There is then the suggestion that we go somewhere to eat. Even at 16 one learns that the kitchen in a night club is just a gag. After that there is the suggestion, which so far I hav fought off, that we drive out to the track to w'atch the early workouts. Ponce de Leon was no sap when he hoarded up that spring and utterly refused its waters. He had seen one dancing girl too many and maybe heard excessively the din of some ditty in his day. Like the Spanish explorer I am appalled and a little alienated bv the loyalties of youth. "Stay As Sww * As You Are,” is a pretty melody but when it is started for the seventh time in any single night. I could scream—and not “encore.” In the beginning of this holiday I had a fear that the slightly younger Broun was somewhat lonely for the comradeship of people of his own age. After all there has to be somebody around to listen with interest to the story of how good the school football team was. And so my idea of introducing him to some of the Earl Carroll girls in the floor show at Palm Island was logical enough. But now the loneliness is mine. I can not seem to interest any one of the young ladies in my theories of readjustment and recovery. Only last night a starry-eyed miss broke through a lull in our conversation and said, "you know this is a great treat to me. I mean talking like this to a man of your age. I’ll be 18 my next birthday and you. I suppose are about 56.” Well. I’m not 56, but it was the tenth time the man had come out to sjng, "Woman Is Merely a Question of Light.” which introduces the amber tableau, the scarlet tableau, the white tableau and the dance of the black butterflies. a b b Candid Opinions Available XTATURALLY from my scat on the substitute’s 1 i bench I keep a fairly watchful eye on the slightly younger Broun At onp resort the captive dance, has been thought by som r ' strict observers to be in somewhat questionable taste. So when it was about to break I said. "Bea good bov and run out to the bar and have a brandy and soda while this act is on.” “Why can t I have my brandy and soda here,” he answered. I would be false to the truth if I cave the impression that a growing boy is w’holly a liability and a burden on a vacation trip. There is nothing a columnist needs more than an occasional candid opinion. And if want candor the place to shop is among the 16-year-olders. Let me see. was it last night or the night before when I had my brief moment of triumph? It might have turned my head quite dangerously. After the third cocktail she said. “There is something about you which appeals to me strongly. Don’t ever leave me.” I am fat and a little over 40 and was this romance suddenly springing out at me from behind the moon? I mentioned the matter in a somewhat offhand way to the slightly younger Broun in the taxi. "That was a rather pretty girl I was dancing with." I suggested. "I mean the black haired one in the yellow’ dress.” "Moderately,” he answered, “but isn’t it a pity that just one cocktail goes right to her head?” iCoovright. 19351
Your Health -BY DK. MORRIS FISHBEIN
THERE are times when vou don't notice a pain until U.ng after the cause is gone. Psychologists attribute this to some form of hysteria or to changes brought about bv strong emotions.
A football player is unconscious of bruises or ether injuries until after the same. Soldiers in a rharge during a battle may be unaware that they have be*-. hit until they see blood flowing from the wound. Likewise, persons do not perceive pain during periods of exaltation or ecstasy developed by religious evangelism: neither ao so-called mediums seem to experience pain when they throw themselves into a trance. a a a THE most conspicuous examples of inability to perceive pain are seen among idiots, imbeciles, and the insane. Similar conditions occur also among persons who have recovered from inflammation of the brain. Doctors occasionally see instances of malignering or voluntary production of injuries to the skin and the body in which apparently the persons concerned do not experience pain. These, however, may be examples of a mental disorder. Thus, it is known that less pain is felt in one part of the body when the attention is directed elsewhere. One form of quackery rests on the pinching of the toes to take the mind away from a painful toothache. a a a , THERE are persons whose anxiety and fear are so great, when going into a dentist's office, that they feel less pain the closer tne> approach the place in which they are to receive the dental ministrations. The sense of pleasure you leel when a pain disappears is difficult to describe. There is the story of the man who was pounding his head against the wall. When asked why he was doing this, he responded by saying that he felt so well when he stopped. There are also forms of mental and sexual perversion in which pain is actually enjoyed. In such cases, however, the pain itself is seldom intense and the emotional ouiburst associated with the pain is exceedingly pleasurable.
Questions and Answers
Q —Who wrote the song Hot Potato,” sung by Jimmy Durante :n 'Strictly Dynamite"? A—Durante wrote it. Q —How do Japanese and American men compare in average height? A—One authority says tha' the Japanese soldiers in the Wor’d War averaged 63.24 inches and American soldiers averaged 67.51 inches. Another authority give 6 the average height of American males as I feel 8 inches, and Japanese 5 feet 1 ’rich.
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THE PROBLEMS OF CONGRESS
Labor to Wield Great Power in Coming Legislative Conflicts
Thi* i* th* third fa series of four stories in whith Rodney Diitrher, MA Service and Times Washinjrton eorrespondent, tells what may be expected of Congress in the coming session. a a a BY RODNEY DUTCHER (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inn WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.—The 74th Congress will provide a great battleground for the conflicting demands of industry and labor. The National Industrial Recovery Act and the NRA are to be made permanent. And a question of great import in the nation's future economic history is whether NRA is to be machinery of self-government for industry or a form of government supervision over industry. Closely allied are the issues raised by the demands of labor organizations lor further legislative aid in their ancient fight against unemployment and subservience to the employers. This Congress is more pro-labor than most. Left to itself, it would pass a 30-hour week law' and the Wagner bill which would virtually outlaw company unions. But Roosevelt holds the scales and is almost certain to prevent such extreme action. NRA has been in the throes of reorganization and reorientation. Order has begun to emerge from its chaos. The new' National Industrial Recovery Board has attacked and is threatening to remove two of the sorest, weakest NRA spots—price-fixing and failure to enforce compliance with codes. Although many have considered NRA a dead duck, the Administration will be able to show Congress a more effective, efficient organization there than has existed at any time
previously and to obtain congressional sanction for preservation of wage and hour standards and fair practice provisions which would otherwise vanish with expiration of the NIRA in June. B B B A/'OU may anticipate with virtual certainty that the new Congress will answer the demand of many business interests for “less government interference” wi h a law which will provide at least as much Federal supervision as the present NIRA. The actual administration attitude is that unregulated selfgovernment of industry would simply mean industrial chaos. Legislation will follow the lines of administration policy. Industries which sought the privilege of fixing prices and controlling production in return for acceptance of minimum wage and maximum hour standards have found the going rougher of late. The Administration has learned that it must try to protect the consumer as well as the laborer unless such artificial methods and resultant higher prices are to choke off recovery. n n u IT has become startlingly clear that Roosevelt means to keep a whip-hand over industry and to crack his whip w'hen he considers it necessary. Industries which accepted codes have had those codes changed by the president after periods of operation convinced officials that parts of them were not working out in the public interest. Thus the 36-hour week was imposed on the cotton garment industry and its chief code authority officials were summarily removed when they helped organize a court fight against the order. Price-fixing has just been thrown out of the lumber code by the NLRB. And Roosevelt has just
—Th< DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Hi) Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen -
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The new strong man of the Administration—in a very quiet and dignified way—has turned out to be Francis B Biddle, hawk-faced chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.
A blue-blood of Philadelphia blue-bloods, Washington first sized him up as an easy-going aristocrat, sure to be pliant to White House will. He has turned out just the opposite. He talks little, thinks fast, acts faster. When he does talk it is straight from the shoulder, with no ifs. ands or buts. He has stepped on a good many toes, including Miss Perkins’, Donald Richberg’s, and even the President's. But he doesn't seem to care a snap of his fingers. Probably no New Dealer ever has quite put the White House in such an embarrassing position as Biddle did in the Jennings case —the reporter discharged from the San Francisco Call-Bulletin but ordered reinstated by Biddle's board. Biddle decided the ca.se strictly on what he considered its merits, with no regard for the test case which it placed on the doorstep of the White House in regard to the newspaper publishers of the country and the entire NRA. And having made his decision, Biddle prepared a request to the NRA that the Blue Eagle of the Call-Bulletin be removed. But in order that he would not step on White House toes too hard, he first called up Louey Howe, closest adviser to the President. Louey asked that the letter to the NRA be held up one week. • All right.” replied Biddle, "I'll hold it until next Wednesday. And if you should decide that you want a little time belond that, let me know. Otherwise I'll send the letter.” Wednesday 9 a. m. arrived. No word from the White House. Biddle waited not a minute more. He shot his letter to the NRA. A few hours later Louey Howe telephoned. •By the way,” he said, "you'd better hold up that Jennings case move a little longer." It was too late. As between the publishers and the NRA. the White House had been put on the spot. a a a jr NOWING a young lady who is a guest at the White House has its thrilling aspects for any young swain, but for one abashed college lad. home for the Christmas holidays, it also has its bad sides. The young man. Harvard classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.. was spending the holidays with his family here when his most beloved came to Washington as one of about 40 young girls who were White House guests just after Christmas. He called the White House, asked for his fair damsel, finally heard a feminine voice say:
promised to impose a code on the recalcitrant telegraph industry. * These developments are samples of a definite increasing trend toward Federal supervision of industry which Congress will abet rather than abort. Roosevelt and Congress also will see to it that the Government retains its position as an umpire in industrial disputes. In legislative collective bargaining and other rights for labor, Congress may even pass more drastic laws than Roosevelt wants. 800 THE present situation with respect so collective bargaining and Section 7-A of NIRA is badly muddled, with industry in open revolt against decisions of the National Labor Relations Board—w'hich in turn is sometimes in conflict with NRA. Roosevelt, however, isn’t disposed to make much change in the present labor relations set-up. He doesn’t w'ant either capital or labor to be given “too much advantage.” But Senator Wagner of New York, a strong Administration man, is again introducing his anti-company-union bill, which would reinforce and continue the NLRB as a supreme court for labor and enable it to initiate negotiations to end disputes, subpoena witnesses, and compel submission of records. Wagner may even ask to have the majority rule principle set up by NLRB established in law'. n b a OF course, the bulk of industry w'ill bitterly fight the Wagner bill. Officially, it favors a policy of collective bargaining only when agreeable to both sides, which means when labor, without the assistance of Government, is able to w'rest that right. Leaning toward the industrial
“Hello? Whom do you want?” “Is Miss X there?” “I don’t know wno’s here,” came 1 back the answer. ‘‘There are so many of them I can’t tell them apart. They’re all over the place. | Good-by.’’ Abashed, the young man hung ; up. Later, he found the lady of his life and demanded with some dignity: “Who was that snooty ” man who answered the phr-,. “That.” informed his lady coldly, i “was Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali, and I don’t blame her at all. For two hours all she had been doing ; was answering calls from college i boys who wanted a thrill from l talking to the White House. I “She couldn't even sit on her own bed for the suitcases and guests.” FILLING STATION UNION INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS Organization to Consider Publication of Monthly paper. Plans to publish a monthly newspaper will be discused at a meeting of Filling Station Union No. 18990. next Monday night. A tentative staff consisting of W. L Burkdall. managing editor; B. S. Gantz, business manager, and J- J Coyne, state editor, will repoit on their findings. Newiy installed officers who will be in charge of the meeting are O. B. chambers, president; R. H. Kimmel. vice p’esident; K. M. River, secretary; L. E. Brown, recording secretary; A. R. King, treasurer, and J. Curran, sergeant at arms. C. McDonald is guide and B. S. Gantz, executive board chairman. DENTIST CRASH VICTIM DIES AT ST. VINCENT'S Dr. Philip A. Keller Was Injured in Auto Accident. Funeral sendees for Dr. Philip A. Kelier, a dentist, who died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital of injuries suffered in an accident last Thursday, will be held in his home. 3525 Balsam-av. at 2 tomorrow. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Dr. Keller was struck by a taxicab at the corner of College and Fair-field-avs as he was crossing to board a street car. His death is the second traffic fatality in Indianapolis this year. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Anna E. Keller: his mother, Mrs. H. G. Springer. Santa Monica. Cal., and a brother, Ellis E. Keller, San Fran--4 cisco, CaL
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935
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Where labor centers faith in its fight for more rights.
side in this conflict will be “Assistant President” Don Richberg, who admittedly favors the Section 7-A which he once wrote for NIRA and which was kicked out the window by Congress. The Richberg wording, its enemies charge, would have legalized company unions and failed to prohibit employers from coercing and intimidating workers. It said that “existing satisfactory I'bor relationships shall not be disturbed.” The pressure of winter strike threats may figure in ultimate decisions. Labor also has its ideas as to revision of NRA. It would give NRA power to impose labor codes on industries which don’t present acceptable codes, establish separate minimum wage scales for semi-skilled and skilled workers, strengthen labor representation on code authorities, provide for inspection of employing establishments instead of the system of simply investigating complaints, reopen codes on petition of the Labor Advisory Board and make amendments where justified, and give a government agency power to collect detailed data on costs and profits from each industry to aid in long-range planning.
CITY FLORISTS LEAD INDIANA IN AWARDS Greencastle Man to Head State Group. Indianapolis florists led in awards made at the 48th annual meeting of the'State Florists’ Association of Indiana at t-he Severin yesterday. Winners announced by Edward C. Grande, retiring president, were Bauer-Steinkamp, certificate of merit on new carnations, King Cardinal (red) and Rose Charm (pink); Teo Rickenbach, trophy for sweet peas; Joseph H. Hill Cos., Richmond, trophies on carnation and roses; Irwin Estate, Columbus, begonias; Marmon Estate, pot of orchids, begonias, cyclamer- and cineraria; Ladywood School campanula and other rare plants; J. K. Lilly Jr., lachenaliafeudula: Edward C. Grande, euphorbia, and Brandlein’s, Inc., and Joseph H. Hill, Richmond, carnations. Jacob Eitel. Greencastle, was elected president.
SIDE GLANCES
' BY ME* SEPVttE. IHC. TANARUS, M C£C- U. %. VT. O>T.~
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THE 30-hour week bill probably will be defeated by Administration opposition. But it will be one of the real fighting issues in this Congress and vigorous support by the A. F. of L. may result in compromise legislation as to w’orking hours. Senator Black is reintroducing his 30-hour measure w'hich passed the Senate by a 2-to-l vote in the last Congress ana was pushed out of the picture only by development of the NRA, which was supposed to achieve a similar result in spreading employment. The new bill will be more flexible. providing for a Federal board to pass on individual exemptions from the 30-hour limit. Black is supported by Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee, who insists the measure would re-employ 4.000,000 persons. Spokesmen for industry, however, insist the average working week—because of curtailed production—is now but 33.3 hours and that a 30hour law' wouldn’t give new jobs to more than 700.000. ' Gen. Johnson has said that such a law would bring “a depression that'll turn your hair gray.” B B B Roosevelt is said to have been contemplating a compromise measure of some sort with
IN OLD NEW YORK By Paul Harrison
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—There’s a story in every old building In Manhattan. And Manhattan has a lot of old buildings. You can select them practically at random.. Any one of the office buildings along Broadw'ay is full of glamour and the spice of show business and the dust of vanished dreams. Every dingy office has been a citadel of great ambition; every corridor a scene of the mingling of famed stage and musical names of one generation or another.
The dozens of rehearsal halls have resounded —and still and the thumping of tiny pianos, the howls of directors, and the clattering feet of panting chorus girls. Many a hit show, assembled on a shoe-string, has been whipped into shape in one of these Ulventilated practice parlors. And in the dance studios at one time or another have kicked nd shuffled the nimble neophytes whose names later were to go up in stellar lights. “One, two, three, four, five, six . . . Hey, you in the blue, this ain’t no funeral march! . . . One, two, three, four, five, six . . . Now into a charge break, an’ then the Maxey Ford . . . Rotten! Try it again . . ”
By George Clark
which to meet the Black-Connery forces. Several other emergency agencies—PW A, *FERA and CCC among them—and the RFC lending powers will expire in 1935. The Administration will have Congress renew them. RFC still has a couple of billion dollars to lend and plenty of busted banks and railroads on its hands which may need further aid. As soon as the HOLC stopped taking applications for home loans, foreclosures increased and a flood of letters here make it almost certain that Congress will vote another billion dollars for home loans. As Congress meets, there seems to be less organized howling from the farmers than in any recent year. Presumably this is due to benefit payments and higher prices for farm products under the AAA. But the farmer lobbies will be on the job—which means both the real dirt farmers and the organizations which pretend to be farmer organizations, but. are really working for the interests which exploit the farmer's products. f B B B THE AAA will encounter the second of those lobbies when it seeks passage of amendments which will strengthen its power over industries handling food products. It’s at this point that the cry of “regimentation” rises. Farmers themselves don’t mind regimentation. They seem, in fact, to just love it. The Frazier-Lemke bill will be up again—not the farm bankruptcy one passed last year, but the so-called “mortgage write-off” bill, under which the Government would take over about $9,000.000,000 worth of mortgages and against which the Farm Credit Administration was a compromise set-up. Chairmen of both Senate and House Agriculture Committees— Ed Smith of South Carolina and Marvin Jones of Texas—have declared for a separate Government banking system for farmers, which probably will be preferred by Congress to the Frazier-Lemke act, since the farm situation has been eased by the FCA and higher income. The idea is to set up a permanent farm credit system "as powerful as the Federal Reserve” and free from private profit. Farmers would receive credit at cost, plus a small fractional charge for reserves. The system would issue currency as the Federal Reserve does and save interest charges of bond financing, with a probable loan interest rate of 3T4 per cent. This proposal is worth watching. It may develop an enormous backing. NEXT—Bonus, Inflation. Banking. Taxes, War Profits, and National Defense.
THERE'S the Strand Building, theatrical from cellar to roof, and probably the world’s only office building in which the elevator boys present gifts to the tenants at Christmas Some of them, anyway. It’s the haven of the wash-ups, the last stand of the despairing, the springboard of the hopeful. Smallest of the small-time agencies occupy some of the divided and subdivided offices on the upper floors. Many a down-and-out nerformer has slept in those cubbyholes. The public telephone booths in the lobby are used as offices by the theatrical agents who can't afford to rent any space at all. nan HOP up to Sixty-fifth Street and Broadway and look at the Lincoln Arcade. Seems a pretty dreary and undistinguished old shell. A mortgage recently was foreclosed on it. The office directory lists a spiritualist, a health faddist, a school of jiujitsu, and so on. Yet this used be the city’s principal art center. A literary Bohemia, too. Two novels —one by Owen Johnson —have been written about the Lincoln Arcade and the life there. Wood Cowan, the cartoonist, tells me that he and Rolf Armstrong and Ross Santee and Dean Cornwall, Craven, the critic, and a dozen others whose names you know had studios on one floor. Rosa Ponselle and her sister were residents, and Neysa McMein, in the days when she thought she’d be an actress instead of an artist. Sometimes most of the building s occupants would pool their money and have parties.
Indianapolis Tomorrow
Indiana General Assembly, all day, Statehouse. Advertising Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. —American Business Club, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club. Acacia, luncheon. Board of Trade. Caravan Club, luncheon, Scottish Rite. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade. Public Health Nursing Association, luncheon, Claypool. Real Estate Board, luncheon, Washington. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Washington.
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. Fair Enough HIM PEGIBt WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 9. When Mr. Roosevelt speaks of money, he deals in such big. fleshy figures that, say whatever you will about him and his schemes, nobody will ever call him a piker. Mr. Roosevelt's budget message, read out loud to the statesmen of Congress, asks for $8,500,000,000 for another year’s expenses of the Government. He expects that by June, 1936. when the money has been
spent, the country will owe itself about 34 billion. These are light-year figures, formerly used almost exclusively by astronomers in the Sunday mazagine pieces to make people realize for a moment that they are only very inferior bugs crawling around on the hide of a very small apple, that everything will be over in a minute, anyway, and that it doesn't matter much what happens to whom or how soon. It, is a thought which would be a great consolation in a time of seasickness if one could only remember. Until a few years ago. such figures were not applied to dollars.
Thirty-four billion is so much money that if Mr. Roosevelt were somehow to search everybody on the streets, raid all the banks and cash registers and pari-mutuel rooms in the country and rake in all the printed cash now in existence, there would still be a deficit of 20 billion. It is so much monly that there isn’t that much money. In fact, it isn't, really money. They only call it money because that is what it would be, if it were. B B tt Might as Well Double l( NOBODY seems to give much thought to the question whether it is ever going to be paid and if so how. Nobody now living will live to see the day when it is paid, for the debt is going to be bequeathed, with best regards, to posterity along with a system of bridges, motor highways, model tenements, electric bedwarmers and eggbeaters, trees, custom-made lilyponds and paintings of cows in the meadow eating buttercups. It can only be reported that in Washington just now, where the figures are housed, nobody any longer feels any pain. There are about 90.000 Government employes in town, many of them with two jobs to a family; rents are up and apartments scarce; theaters, night clubs and the Washington equivalent of the old-fashioned saloon are doing very well; pay day comes regularly and the $7 steak has been discovered on the menu of the Mayflower hotel, hewn, perhaps, from the carcass of Ihe sacred cow. There is something about the atmosphere of Washington which deadens the nerves and makes everything seem all right. The statesmen long ago gave up trying to appreciate the immensity of the bill which is being run up. It hurt to think about it. They are doing all right. They eat, they drink, they are housed and clothed, there is nothing that they can do about it all now and, anyway, if you owe already more money than there is, why, haggle about owing twice as much? B B B There's Xo Pain A CURIOUS thing about all this is that the citizens are regaled with these magnificent figures at a time when they are very low in money themselves. When the citizens had most their imagination fiddled around with such petty items as the $3,000,000 gate at the second Tunney-Dempsey fight; * million dollar days at Churchill Downs; $15,000 golf tournaments and Babe Ruth’s salary of $85,000 a year. They thought these were fairly robust sums of money. But now that a dollar is hard to catch up with. Mr. Roosevelt reports, with a note of almost apology, that he over-estimated his spending capacity and is compelled to turn back $800,000,000 appropriated last year which he wasn’t able to get faded, so to speak. The $800,000,000 was just the change out of the bill, but it is $150,000,000 more than the entire cost of the government in 1910 when the tab came to $648,000,000. Breathe easily, breathe deeply, and keep on saying over and over, “thirty-four billion; thirty-four biilion.” No pain? No pain. You don’t feel a thing, do you? (Copyright, 1935, bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ
WILL 1935 see the recovery of gold from sea water placed on a paying basis? That is the question which chemists are asking themselves. If the event occurs, statesmen, economists and bankers will have something to worry about. Gold was recovered from sea water in 1934 at the plant of the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Cos., Kure Beach, 20 miles south of Wilmington, N. C. The cost of getting the gold exceeded its value, but there is no reason to suppose that this will always be the case. For more than a century, chemists have realized that the oceans, covering almost three-fourths of the earth's surface, are vast storehouses of mineral and chemical wealth. But while the amount of various chemical salts in the ocean as a whole is immense, the amount in a gallon of sea water is very little indeed. Hence scientists, while realizing the value of the materials in the sea, despaired of the invention of processes which would make their removal sufficiently easy and cheap to justify it. The first successful “mining operation” in the ocean is that of the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Cos. Although the amount of bromine in sea water is about 70 parts in 1.000.000, this plant has succeeded in making the removal of bromine a paying venture. It extracts about 15,000 pounds of bromine daily. a a a THE present bromine plant occupies a nine-acre tract. A huge intake leads the sea water into a pond from which is is pumped into a reservoir by two centrifugal pumps. From the reservoir it flows into two great towers where the bromine is extracted. The bromine is set free by mixing chlorine and sulphuric acid with the water which sprays down from the top of the towers like a shower bath. Strong fans blow the bromine gas out of the water spray into an other shower of soda ash solution where it is captured in the form of sodium bromide-bromate. a a a THERE is far less gold than bromine in sea water. The gold is estimated at a few parts in a billion. Nevertheless, the Ethj •Dow experts estimate that at least SIOOO worth of gold is in the sea water that passes daily through the bromine plant. In other words, an economical process would extract SIOOO worth of gold a day, 5365.000 worth a year. Thus it is apparent that the ocean would supply a source of gold which would make all the gold mines jn the world seem'unimportant by comparison. Q —Where L; the Lotiore waterfall? A—Near the head of Derwentwater, in Cumberland, England. Q—Who were the winners and their jockeys, In the 1922 Kentucky Derby and Freakness races? A—Both races were run on May 13. Morvich, 6-to-5 favorite, ridden by A. Johnson, won the Derby, and Pillory, Jockey L. Morris up, won the Pveakness. Q—Name the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic states. A—Middle Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; South Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia (not a state), Virginia. West Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroline, Georgia and Flo’ida.
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