Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1935 — Page 19

MARCH 21, 1935

It Seems teMe Ural BROUN PLACE a rat within a maze and he will not remain forever fuddled. After he has scamdown blind alleys several times and come egainst dead ends he will begin to learn the lesson of the labyrinth and come at last into the way of freedom. Man does not show a similar aptitude. With brazen stupidity he insists upon a lacerating' Journey through the wire and into trenches where, the grass has hardly yet had time to heal the scars of shellfire. And he orchestrates his follv with a

roll of drums, the blare of bands, and patriotic speeches. Senators, great editors and holy rm-n who speak through radio pounce eagerly upon all existing international machinery for peace and cry that it should be scrapped because of its antiquity f.nd ineffectiveness. And yet these same men continually do cry for the modernization of every implement of war. I would not hold in my heart such bitterness for those who killed the League and later stabbed the court to death if any one of them had mentioned a single substitute for the devices which they so wan-

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tonly destroyed. To be sure they brayed of "isolation.-' but that is an alley choked already with the dead of 3*oung America. And "preparedness'’ was mentioned even in the very shadow of the white crosse* which bear testimony that here is one more dead end in the experience of the nations. When we scrap a battleship we lay two keels to take its place, but the demolition of any machinery set up for making international peace is accompanied with no new sowing. In those fair fields we scatter the ashes of lost ideals and sterilize the earth with such salt cynicism as, "Let them stew in their own juice.” a a a Horrid Magic in the Drums AND already the bitter broth begins to bubble and fills the corridors of the world with its deadly fumes. Oh yes, "let them stew in their own juice,” but that juice is the life blood of all mankind and it is thicker than the mountains and deeper than the seas, which are supposed to assure us a private prosperity and a separate peace. We are the chosen of the Lord and in our self anointment we dream that by the simple device of never lifting a finger for fellowship we can remain secure upon our lofty plateau even though the watch ires dance upon the rim of our horizon. Moses smote the rock before the waters gushed forth, but we are to be safe and sanctified through inertia and the grumbling negation of a Cain rejecting the responsibility of brotherhood. Look well you Coughlins and you Hearsts upon this world in which you ask us to disclaim all citizenship. Already the tramping of the millions across the sea sets up a tremor in the wheat fields of Nebraska. And we are to save the world from the great delusion by keeping our powder dry and training our youth in the art of war. I am told that in a prison a single inmate sometimes begins to pound a spoon against his metal dish and that presently the whole tier and then the furthermost corridors of the jail will be engulfed in the din as all within the walks are drawn into the mad rite not even knowing why. There is just 6uch horrid magic in the beating of a drum. m u u There Must He Some H aj/ THE League of Nations was a poor thing and the World Court represented little more than a feeble groping for some new way among the nations. It was easy to point out the flaws and even the dangers in this machinery of peace. Will Rogers was very comical and Father Coughlin very pious. We rejected foreign entanglements and pinned our faith again in Bethlehem. Pa. Down the blind alley of preparedness and selfsufficiency we scamper once again. The old roads have failed tragically and even so we have not yet set foot upon any new path to freedom. “New gas, new guns, new’ airplanes,” this is the inspiration of the statesmen. But let us cry "no.” If the old League was bad all the more must we set about the building of a new one. if the court could not function then we must create one which can. In time of war we must prepare for peace. There must be some way and it is not the way of the gunmaker or the manufacturer of munitions. Now. this very instant, we must join all the peoples of the world in raising a cry to build not ships or sheiks but some giant plough to furrow under the teeth of all the dragons. (Copvrißht. 1935)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN CHILDREN who do not hear well usually suffered previously from certain types of complaints, or were born with defective hearing. A child with defective hearing has great difficulty In adapting itself to conditions of daily life. It is likely to develop a sense of inferiority and depression. The common cold is probably one of the most prominent causes of defective hearing. You know the manner rfi which hearing is dulled by a severe cold. This is usually caused by a swelling inflammation of the tube which passes from the nose to the ear. After a real infection is set up in the ear, permanent damage may result. Before they are 12 years old. children acquire Infections of the ear more easily than do grown-up persons. The reason is that the lymphoid structures in nose and throat are greater in amount and become infected more easily. m a m CERTAIN types of infection, namely, those with the virulent germs called streptococci, are more likely to damage the ears than are others. Whenever a child has repeated colds, with enlarged adenoids and with difficulty in breathing through the nose, Infection of the ear is extremely likely. For this reason the specialist in diseases of nose and throat may recommend earlv removal of adenoids. Removal of the tonsils and adenoids at the right time is an exceedingly important factor in obtaining a successf!’ 1 result. The operation should not be done in the presence of an active infection, and it should not be done when the child is greatly run down After the operation, the child should be kept in bed for at least two to four days and, if recovery is not rapid enough, even longer. mm a MANY cases of defective hearing in children arc associated with common infectious diseases like measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and whooping cough. Children who have had tonsils and adenoids removed usually suffer less from complications affecting the ear in the presence of these infectious diseases. Os practical importance also in prevention of deafness is control of habits during swimming. The child with a cold should not be permitted to engage in swimming. Violent blowing of the nose after swimming may be serious. Children should not be permitted to swim more than 15 or 20 mmutes at a time. If they have a tendency to have trouble with the ears, they should never be allowed to practice diving. The child who complains of defective hearing or fullness m the head after swimming should give up this sport. Q—What is a poltergeist? A—A ghost or spirit that makes its presence known by any kind of a clatter, such as knocking, or moving objects around. Q—What is the salary of Harry Hopkins of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration? A—His base salary is SIO,OOO a year subject at present to 5 per cent reduction under the Economy Act. Q-Has there ever been an African Negro Pope of the Roman Catholic Church? A—Pope Victor (A. D. 189-199* came from Carthage. North Africa, but he was not a Negro.

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Gen. Hugh Johnson with his mother, Mrs. Samuel Johnson of Okmulgee, Okla. . . . Both remember the “covered-wagon days” of the last frontier.

IN the last push into new, unopened land of the plains region, the Samuel Johnstons were among those who still sought “something better” in the west. Samuel Johnston was a small-town lawyer in Illinois. The family was of north-Irish stock. Country law practice in Illinois, however, yielded no great satisfaction, either in money or otherwise. It was in Pontiac, 111., that Samuel Johnston changed his name to Johnson. There was another lawyer in the town by .he same name, a Negro, and mail for the two was constantly being crossed up. So Samuel became Johnson, and his son. Hugh Samuel, bom at Ft. Scott. Kan., Aug 5, 1882, always remained Johnson without the “t.” The Johnsons were living in Wichita when the word came to Samuel Johnson that he might get the appointment as postmaster in the new town of Alva., Okla., a community barely laid out by the military in the “Cherokee Strip,” and consisting of the rawest sort of shanties and board shacks huddled in the dust. a a a 'T'HE Johnsons set out immediately. Hugh, then 11, followed later, making part of the trip from Wichita in an old-fashioned covered wagon. Mrs. Johnson, who still lives in Okmulgee, Okla., recalls how she tied her sunbonnet to a stake as a claim for a lot, only to discover that the family w r as ineligible, being “sooners.” or people w r ho had come to “the strip” before it was opened. In Alva, then, in the rough surroundings of “the last frontier,” Hugh Johnson was to grow up as the son of the local postmaster. Everybody rode horseback, and this youthful training was to serve the boy well later on when he became known as one of the best horsemen in the Army—“not the fanciest, perhaps, but able to stick on anything in horsehide.” Hunting, and rough games, and watching the trains stop to take water at Alva were most of the boyhood amusement of Hugh Johnson.

DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON, March 21.—The NRA has anew boss. He isn’t listed as such on the rolls. He is not even a member of the Blue Eagle board. But he is top man, notwithstanding. The new generalissimo is tali’, sallow-faced W. Averell Harriman, socialite, polo player and multi-millionaire. By inheritance he is head of the Union Pacific Railroad and a director in many corporations.

Officially, Mr. Harriman has the title of executive officer, and as such is nominally subordinate to the NRA board, by whom he was appointed. Actually, he is the whole works. Few outside the inner group of NRA executives know it, but Mr. Harriman hr-.', been presiding over NRA board meetings for some time. With the retirement of Chairman S. Clay Williams his grip on the Blue Eagle doubled. Shy and ill-at-ease in public, Mr. Harriman assiduously courts the background—although, privately. he would like to be summoned before the Senate Finance Committee, whose members know nothing about him. But everything that transpires in the NRA passes over Mr. Harriman's desk. And when it comes to speaking for the Blue Eagle, it is Mr. Harriman who does the talking. Even’ afternoon at 2:30 he holds a press conference. Mr. Harriman likes to consider himself a liberal, but his theories of what should be done about the NRA have a decided pro-indus-trial slant. At one of his press conferences Mr. Harriman proposed that the NRA should be rewritten to eliminate the famous collective bargaining Section 7-A. and to give industry a larger measure of •’selfgovernment.’’ m m m CONGRESSIONAL mail has its sorrows and occasionally it joys. Recently Philadelphia’s Representative Frank Dorsey received a letter from a constituent demanding that he vote against the World Court. At much pains. Rep. Dorsey replied that such matters were not subject to House action, but were dealt with solely by the Senate. He even included quotations from the Constitution in his letter. A few days later. Rep. Dorsey received the following answer from the voter: "So that's the kind of a man we elected? Afraid to express the will of the people because of a few cockeyed rules. Why in hell don't you go over to the Senate and tell them what we voters want done?” m m m THOUGH Jimmy Moffett’s Housing Administration is equipped for high-powered pub-

licity, his latest move is being kept carefully out of the headlines. It is a move to put 200 men into the field to work with Chamber of Commerce canvassers in a door-to-door sales campaign for home renovizing. Reason for the hush-hush is that FHA wants no deluge of job seekers for the new posts. Their files already contain enough applications to fill the 200 jobs fifty times over. Instead, they want to parcel the new jobs out among Senators as political plums. Most patronage having been exhausted, 200 plums at $2600 will be welcome on Capitol Hill mum -p ICHARD WHITNEY, facing rebellion in the ranks of the New York Stock Exchange, is considering withdrawing as a candidate for re-election. The chief complaint that Wall Street critics are making against Mr. Whitney is of an involved nature. It is contended that he has failed to build, up ‘ good press relations” for the Exchange. What they really mean is that the brokerage business is dull and they believe it is due to the lack of the right kind of publicity. The public, brokers agree, could be brought back into the market if the right kind of ballyhoo was conducted. Mr. Whitney, pompous and ponderous. they demand be replaced by a breezier figure. Their candidate is Charles Gay. head of the brokerage firm of Whitehouse & Cos., and a present member of the board of governors of the Exchange. m m m IT mill be months before the United States Board of Tax Appeals hands down a decision in the Mellon tax suit. After the three members now sitting as a special court in Pittsburgh have completed taking testimony, the evidence mill be reviewed by all the sixteen members of the board and a verdict reached by a majority vote. Saengerband to Meet The Indianapolis Saengerbund Singing Society mill give an entertainment and dance Saturday night at their hall, 49 '■ S. Delaware-st. Selections by a mixed chorus will feature the program.

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Huey Long in one of his earliest pictures, when he was just emerging from life as a farm boy in a log house to life as a traveling salesman.

"Tj ISING before the sun, we toiled until dark, after which we did nothing except eat’ supper, listen to the whippoorwills, and go to bed.” That description, by Huey Long himself, of the barrenness of his early life, may explain much—his love for crowds, attention, band music, and hullabaloo in general. He was born Aug. 30, 1893, on the farm of his father, Huey P. Long Sr., near Winnfield, in north-central Louisiana. Nine children were reared there in the Longs’ four-room log house. Cotton, corn and potatoes were raised; the children helped work the fields. But it was not a poverty-stricken family as such things went in the time and place. Huey's older brother Julius has publicly resented implications of want in the family, saying that Long Sr. was a progressive and successful farmer, and that the children always had plenty to eat and wear. It wasn’t a stimulating life, however. Four times to church on Sundays (the Longs were Baptists) with Wednesday prayer meeting and occasional funerals. Like all ambitious youngsters, Huey was to leave this drab life and strike out for himself at the first opportunity. a a a ' THE Longs were respectable people, of position in the community. Huey’s mother, Caledonia Tison, was the daughter of a prosperous farmer and stockman who had owned slaves in former days. Huey’s father, now 83, still lives on a farm near Alexandria. The Long nationality Is mixe.d to an extent that permits one to say only that they are rather typical American stock. There are traces of Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, Irish and French, all so intermingled that they are lost in the blanket designation, "American.” It is the “hill-billy” stock of northern Louisiana rather than the “Cajin” of the South, those romantic descendants of the Acadians deported with Evangeline from Nova Scotia to Louisiana. It is all there: the log cabin, the poor-but-hoiest parents, the ambitious son. The stage is set for Horatio Alger, or for life.

1100 FORMER RUSSIAN LEADERS ARE EXILED Passport Violations, Anti-Govern-ment Work Charged. By United Press MOSCOW, March 21. Nearly 1100 surviving leaders of Czarist days were on their way to exile in Eastern Russia today pn the charge they violated strict internal passport regulations. An official announcement said that some were charged with activity against the government in favor of an unnamed foreign government. The exiles included 41 former princes, 33 former counts, 96 former barons, 35 former factory owners, 68 former landlords, 19 former merchants, 142 former courties, 547 officers who held high posts in the czarist army and 113 high czarist gendarme and secret police officials.

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Father Coughlin with the parents who still attend him in his work at Royal Oak, Mich., living close to his Church of the Little Flower.

PATRICK COUGHLIN, great-grandfather of the “Radio Priest,” swung a lusty pick on the Erie Canal as it inched its way westward to link the Hudson and the Great Lakes. For 100 years the descendants of Patrick Coughlin have lived and worked in the Great Lakes region. His son, Daniel, was a Buffalo carpenter, and his son, Thomas, (father of the radio oracle), was a stoker on lake boats. But Thomas took typhoid fever and was hospitalized by friends at St. Catherine’s, Ont. It is to this accident tljat Father Coughlin owes his Canadian birth. Thomas got a job as sexton at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Hamilton, and it was while working there that he met and married Amelia Mahoney, a seamstress. She was the daughter of a recent Irish immigrant, and thus the family was as completely Irish as any to come out of Cork. Though Coughlin drew small pay as sexton at the Cathedral, he was frugal and saving, and owned his own comfortable home. He worked for a time as a foreman in a bakery. The home, standing In the very shadow of the cathedral, was a deeply religious one, and when the son, Charles Edward, was born on Oct. 25, 1891, it was almost inevitable that he would be trained for the priesthood. Much is made by Coughlin's biographers of the fact that the year of his birth was also the year of publication of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical in which His Holiness expounded the views of the relations of capital and labor which Father Coughlin claims to be the basis of his exhortations. It was a pleasant childhood, w’ith an unusually strong lo.ve between parents and children, marred only by the death of a younger sister, Agnes, leaving Charles the only child. There was baseball to play with the neighborhood kids, and fishing in nearby Burlington-Bay, and all the quiet pleasures of devoted family life in comfortable though modest circumstances. . Charles was an aitar and choir boy in the cathedral, and when the time came, he took up the education that leads to priesthood.

Petticoat Influence Has Capitol Worried

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 21.—Two women who tip tea-cups frequently at the White House, who know Mrs. Roosevelt as “Eleanor,” are causing no little consternation at the Capitol by taking issue with vital aspects of important pending measures. One is Secretary Frances Perkins, the other, Rep. Isabella Green-

way (D., Ariz.). Hard-boiled congressmen, who can't take the petticoat influence in politics gracefully, have been somewhat baffled by Miss Perkins’ insistence that her department have supervision over two major functions currently proposed. She would bring within her domain both the administration of the proposed social security program, embracing unemployment insurance and old-age pensions,

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and the permanent national labor board proposed in the Wagner Labor Relations bill. Neither the sponsors of these measures, the committees in cnarge of them, nor the President, as far as can be learned, agree with Miss Perkins that she should boss so much of the social reform machinery. tt tt u AS proposed in Congress, the social security board and the new labor board would be independent agencies, attached to no existing department. Miss Perkins is rather determined, in her New England manner, on this subject. And so is Congress. Senator Robert F. Wagner (D., N. Y.) has no intention of letting the labor board become a wing of the Labor Department. Likewise the men on the House Ways and Means Committee have rejected her advice on social security administration. But now they are up against another lady, and this . time she is a colleague. Before House leaders knew what was happening, the charming and disarming Mrs. Greenway had induced 24 members to sign a petition for a party caucus to discuss bringing out a separate bill for old-age pensions—leaving to a later measure the unemployment insurance and annuity features now included in the omnibus till. This was in direct conflict with President Roosevelt’s plans. Accordingly, House leaders got busy and persuaded Mrs. Greenway to withhold her petition until the Ways and Means Committee reports its bill to the House. mum THE congresswoman indignantly denied she was trying to wreck the social security program. Significant perhaps are reports that she is under pressure from her state for the Townsend old-age pension plan, which is so distasteful to the Administration. But Mrs. Greenway would shed no light on these reports today. Neither would she state her position on the Townsend plan. The Ways and Means Committee intends to report the security program next week. The Senate is waiting on the House. Some doubt about its enactment at this session exists unless the President gets behind it in earnest.

I (beer the World WMPHIUP SIMMS WASHINGTON, March 21—Some high officials here believe that within a fortnight or so the world arms conference may be revived at Geneva with Germany prepared to sit in. Chancellor Adolf Hitler has burned his bridges behind him. He must make good his defiance of the rest of Europe and push forward his plan of armament. To hedge now would doom his leadership of the Nazis. Great Britain, France. Italy and Russia, therefore, today face the momentous decision

whether or not German armaments shall be regulated or left to mount without limit. The United States is vitally interested in the answer the other powc-rs make to this question. An armaments race in Europe means increased armament here. War the on.y outcome of such a race, barring - a miracle —would almost certainly involve this country. Washington will not commit itself in the matter, at least until after Sir John Simons visit to Berlin Sunday. Until the first smoke of battle clears sufficiently to make the positions of the parties to it discernible, the State Department will follow a policy of watchful but anxious waiting.

What Will Britain Sag? A NUMBER of crucial questions remain to be answered: 1. Now that Germany, by an audacious stroke, has seized the right to arms equalty and announced her intention to build up to, or beyond it, what will be her price for returning to Geneva? 2. Until Britain received her terrific scare over the discovery that Germany was in a position to wipe out London from the air, she openly sympathized with the Nazi demands for equality of armaments. If Herr Hitler offers Sir John guarantees covering aerial armaments, what will be Br tain's next move? Will she still stand by France, the Soviet Union and Italy? „ 3. Should Herr Hitler promise Sir John to return to the League and the disarmament conference on a basis of accepted arms equality, what would Sir John reply? And again what would France, Italy and the Soviet Union do? 4. Will the determined efforts of Herr Hitler to lure Britain away from the Biffish-French-Soviet-Italian bloc prove successful? If so. what effect will the breach in the ring around Germany have on the other three? These f.nd similar interrogation points will have to be changed into periods before this country takes any definite stand. nun Believe Path Will Appear WASHINGTON is hoping for a break which will pave the way to an arms limitation agreement. It hesitates to press the point now, however, lest it become involved in a fundamentally European quarrel. Washington is probably more genuinely alarmed than it has been since the armistice. Should Sir John Simon's visit to Berlin result in British neutrality, France, Russia and perhaps Italy would deem it tantamount to betrayal. With Britain and Poland neutral, and Japan armed to attack Russia In the Far East, Russia would consider her position precarious and would still further arm herself accordingly. A triple alliance of the Soviet Union, France and Italy would likely follow, bolstered up by France’s ties with the Little Entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.) Because the alternatives all seem so fraught with danger some of the best informed diplomats here believe a w&y may be found for anew world arms conference this spring with Germany sitting in.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ TWO worlds exist side by side, the world of our senses and the world of reality. We know the world as it filters into our minds through our senses. We are familiar with light, sound, heat, cold, and so on. But science tells us that what exists in outer world are light waves, sound waves, molecular vibrations, and the like. What we identify as the beautiful tones of an opera singer’s voice, becomes a series of numbers to the scientist—sound waves, vibrating a certain number of times a second and comprising a certain amplitude. The more deeply scientists penetrate into the nature of the universe, the wider becomes the divergence between the world of the senses and the world outside. This is what makes it so difficult for the layman to follow the very latest scientific theories. Sir Arthur Eddington, famous astronomer of Cambridge, England, one of that eminent group which includes Prof. Albert Einstein and which has been engaged in forging the present-day scientific picture of the universe, recalls these facts to our minds in the opening pages of his new book, “New Pathways in Science,” published by the Macmillan Cos. at $3. m m tt THIS is not Sir Arthur’s first excursion into a popular exposition of scientific theory. The reader may be acquainted with his “The Expanding Universe,” “The Nature of the Physical World,” “Science and the Unseen World” or his older “Stars and Atoms.” , The present volume is Sir Arthur’s first book since 1929 with the exception of his slim volume, “The Expanding Universe.” It is based upon a series of lectures which he gave at Cornell University in April and May of last year. The reader may recall that the newspapers carried many articles about these lectures at the time. Sir Arthur states that he could not bring himself to go over material which he had included in his previous books. Consequently, this one starts where they left off and therefore is deficient for the needs of the reader who wants a complete compendium of modern views in one volume. n tt tt MY own opinion is that Eddington does not make as easy reading as that other famous British popularizer of science, Sir James Jeans. The reader who has read Sir James with ease may find Sir Arthur hard sledding. But the reader who wishes to keep abreast modem scientific views will do well to read both. The subjects discussed by Sir Arthur in his new book include science and experience, the end of the world, the decline of determinism, indeterminacy and the quantum theory, probability, the constitution of the stars, sub-atomic energy, cosmic clouds and nebulae, the expanding universe, the constants of nature and the theory of groups. Questions and Answers Q—Has the United States a national flower? A—ln a nation-wide contest for the selection of a national flower conducted by Nature Magazine, in which more than a million votes were cast, almost half of them were for the wild rose, but none has been officially designated. Q —What was the population of the United States in July 1934? A—lt was estimated at 126,425.000. Q —How much of the national paid-out income of the Unjted States in 1933 was applied to salaries and pensions? A—The total paid-out income was $46,800,000,000, of which $29,300,000,000 was for salaries, wages, compensation and pensions. Q—What is Latin America? A—lt is the collective name for the American nations south of the United States, whose people are mostly descended from a union of the so-called Latin races of the Old World, and the native races of the New World.

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