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/ (mer (he World WM PHILIP SIMMS 117 ASHINGTON April 12. Britain as well * ~ as Nazi Germany today is on the spot at fc’resa where, on the "beautiful isle," world-famous figures are enacting one of the most tragic and amazing paradoxes of all time. The S’resa parley was called to consider what is to be done by the former allies as a result of Germans s refusal to honor her signature to the armslimitation section of the treaty of Versailles. Quixotically enough, success or failure at Stresa

hinges almost entirely upon whether the leading member of the allied group namely Britain, intends to honor her own signature to another part of tnat same treaty. Rome, Paris and Moscow are convinced an explosion in Europe is certain unless London forms a united front with them under the wings of the league of nations in order to hold Berlin in line. Fundamentally what they want is s collective security arrangement into which the can invite Germany. They want to get Germany back in the League and the arms limitation conference. Failing that—if Germany scorns

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the invitation—they want the other major powers, particularly Great Britain, to go ahead w-ith the collective security plan just the same, leaving the door open for Germany to er.cer later on if she cares to do so. BUM II I* a Collective Pact r T''HE covenant of the League, which Britain and the other powers involved have already solemnly signed, is just such a collective pact as that w'hich is now proposed. • In effect, w'hat Fiance, Italy and the other powers Interested at Stresa are asking for is some fresh assurance that those who have signed the covenant will not go back on their word. They are seeking a new pledge guaranteeing to live up to the old pledge If Germany should start an aggressive w-ar, for example, they would like some assurance that Britain, first, of all. would honor her signature to Articles in and 16 of the covenant. The one binds all to help preserve the status quo. the other binds them o consider an act of war against one as an act of w-ar against all. Every member of the League has signed this pledge, including Britain and Germany. Further signatures would not seem necessary. The trouble, however, is that the same powers now calling Germany on the carpet for violating one section of the Versailles Treaty have not lived up to this particular part of it themselves, 0 0 0 Bring Hack Germany, Plea BOTH China and Japan were members of the League and signers of the covenant. Yet w-hen Japan invaded China and seized four of her richest provinces, Britain. France and Italy failed to Invoke Articles 10 and 16. Russia was not then a member of the League. Hence a restatement of the sanctions clauses of the covenant is deemed imperative. Failing this, anew system of collective security is desired which will pin each participant down. Britain's opposition to committing herself beyond the covenant, ihe Kellogg pact and Locarno —which makes her a guarantor of the status quo on the Rhine—is expected to lead to a desperate endeavor to bring Germany back into the fold.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ANEW phenomenon, showing an unexpected relationship between radium rays. X-rays, ultraviolet light, and visible light, has been demonstrated by Dr Otto Olasser and I. E. Beasley of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The work of the Cleveland experimenters represents both a confirmation and an extension of experiments first reported in Germany by Dr. W. Kudrjawzewa. The new phenomenon takes place in crystals and may, it is hoped, result in new knowledge of the atomic structure of crystals as well as the interaction of light and atoms. The two experimenters treated various crystals, about 25 in all with either X-rays or radium. Subsequently. these crystals were found to become fluorescent and give off ultra-violet light. This, of course has been done before and was expected. Such fluoresrense is due to the absorption and re-radia-tion of energy. The new discovery, however, consists in the fact that when a beam of visible light, as for example from an electric flashlight, was permitted to fall upon the irradiated crystals, the production of ultra-violet light was vastly increased. Dr. Olasser states that he has no theory as yet to offer for this great increase of the production of ultra-violet lieht but that he believes it is due to the arrangements of the atoms in the crystals of the irradiated material. * M * IT is not possible to evaluate the importance of this type of discoverv at the beginning. In this connection, it is mteresting to remember that the “Compton effect." the discovery by Dr. Arthur H. Compton that the wave length of X-rays changed in reflection from crystals, won him the Nobel prize and helped establish the quantum theory upon its present firm foundation. Dr. Glasser reports in the current issue of the Physical Review that the new phenomenon occurs most strongly in the case of crystals of common salt, potassium chloride, rock salt, and fluorite. a a a IN their experiments. Dr. Glasser and Mr. Beasley made use of a Geiger-Muller counter such as is used for recording cosmic rays. This device is connected to a radio loud peaker so that the entrance of rays into the appara T us is recorded by sounds in the loud speaker. Each ray causes a "thud" in the speaker. They found that when the irradiated crystal was made the target for a beam of visible light, the ultraviolet production went up so fast that the resulting sound in the loud speaker was like the roll of a drum. M the present time, they are engaged in making exact measurements of the wave lengths of light involved. and the intensity and the duration of the phenomenon in different types of crystals.

Questions and Answers

Q—Who wrote -100.000000 Guinea Pigs ’? A—Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink. Q—What is the average weight of cork life preservers? How much weight will a cubic foot of cork support in water? A—Life preservers contain about s>j pounds of cork. Cork weighs 16 pounds per cubic foot and water weighs about 62 pounds per cubic foot. Consequently. one cubic foot of cork will support about 46 pounds. Q—When was the song ’ Break the News to Mother” published? A—ln 1898. Q—Who was the author of the phrase: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute"? A—lt is from a toast by Robert Goodloe Harper, delivered at a dinner given by Congress in Philadelphia in honor of John Marshall. June 18. 1798. on his safe return from France. Charles Coatesworth Pickney. to whom it is frequently attributed, said only. “No. no. not a penny.” in answer to a demand for a bribe of $250,000 on behalf of Tallyrand. Oct. 26. 1797, at the time of the Jay Treaty with France. Q—What does the name Purnell mean? A—lt is a British family name, derived from the Tttach, and means a gossip or chatter*

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THE ‘MIRACLE’ IN ENGINEERING

Man's Genius and Daring Built in Every Block of Vast Project

A hard*. (itTrnlnrnv* br*ed of men i that whirh has arhto*M Ihr miracle that la Boulder Dam. This stor*. fifth In the aeries of six. tells of the tono workers who ha*e reared this freatest of modern wonders. BY OREN ARNOLD NEA Service Special Correspondent gOULDER CITY, Nev., April 12.—1 tis not a sideshow or a carnival in any possible sense —but, gee, what a lot of fun the people have had in building Boulder Dam! Any truly creative work, big work, is pleasure. And so tremendous a project as this, with the lives of 60,000 or more people immediately and intricately involved, was bound to have its excitement, its comedies and tragedies,

and all the human things. Fine, co-operative workmen, who would otherwise have been unemployed, have built Boulder Dam. With their families they live in a story-book town, so clean and picturesque is this Boulder City. It is not inaptly called “the best town in America,'’ because through its Federal management all unemployed, all bums, beggars, and other undesirables are instantly escorted out. What a Utopia! The town might have been named Hoover City, because the dam itself was onre called Hoover Dam. But circumstances does queer things with the popularity of human beings. 000 AWHILE back Hoover came to Bowlder City, and—so the workers here tell—fully 200 people w-ent to hear him talk. But when Mae West came in. 3000 men “laid off - ’ work to join her audience! Question Number 1 that tourists at the dam ask is. "How- high is it?” The second usually is. “What did it cost?” And the third is. “Say, has anybody been killed on this work?” Yes, somebody has been killed. Not one, but more than 100 lives have been sacrificed that Boulder Dam might begin rendering its incalculable service to humanity. But—the proportion of lives lost here is much less than on the average construction project. Boulder Dam is just bigger than anything else of its kind ever attempted before. 000 ONE poor man slipped and fell seven feet and was killed. But another workman lost his footing on a cliff edge, slipped, skidded, scrambled, tumbled, rolled, and “fell” a total of 700 feet, and kept right on working! Great cables cross the canyon and drop hooks down 800 feet to hoist or lower machinery and men. Men dangle that distance out over the rocks with ’utter nonchalance, where one slip would mean death. On one lifting unit some wag has painted "Flying Trapeze.” A man was riding on it one day, hundreds of feet up, when a fel-

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

WASHINGTON. ADril 12.—Those in contact with Ihe Navy these days note the same change which comes over many human beings who come suddenly into easy money. During most of the years since the World War. the Navy has had to fight for every dollar it got from Congress. Asa result it made every dollar go a long w-ay. During those years, the Navy had an enviable reputation for economy and efficiency. Its officers w-ere on

their mettle, generally considered more efficient than the Army. Now the situation is reversed. At no time since the war days has the Navy had so much money to spend. And at no time, not even during war days, has the Navy been 30 close to the White House. It has become most axiomatic among New Deal truisms that the Navy is the President's pet. What it wants, he gives. The result is more waste in the Navy than ever before; more cocksureness on the part of officers, less efficiency. One bureau u’here the new flood of money is most apparent and most amusing is in Naval Intelligence. Here the funds for espionage suddenly have been increased. with the result that espionage now is being carried on even in Great Britain—though this undoubtedly will be denied. Results of this espionage for the most part are ludicrous, especially in Japan. But the Japanese are getting a great kick out of them. a a a WHEN the Navy Department was strapped, it got naval intelligence without charge from American business men in Japan who could speak as real experts on social, economic and political conditions within the country. Now with money to spend. Naval Intelligence is able to employ Japanese agents. This is what gives Vie greatest kick to Japanese government officials. For the agents, always loyal to the emperor. immediately report to their own officials and feed back whatever information the latter want given out. Once a Japanese agent turned in a blue print of anew gun allegedly just invented for the navy of Nippon. American Naval Intelligence officers, greatly pleased, sent the blue print over to naval ordnance experts. They declared the gun could not be manufactured. The Japanese apparently had a sense of humor. They put a curve in the gun. * am THE office of blind Senator Thcmas P. Gore of Oklahoma is unlike other Senate offices. It has no desk. The Senator sits in a big leather chair with books balanced on the arms and tucked away in the upholstery. More books are piled up on other chgira.

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low workman several feet above him suddenly fell. With amazing presence of mind, the worker below swung out on a rope and caught him, saving his life. Just like a circus stunt. A few people cheered the spectacle, but it was all in the day’s work; most residents there now don't even recall the two men's names. 000 TWO other men, really good amateur trapeze artists and full of daring, did a little impromptu stunt on the cable hoist one day, as they w-ere being lifted from the powerhouse to the canyon rim. Just risked their lives to give spectators a thrill. But their boss calmly awaited them on the rim. paid them off, and told them they were "fired.” Most of the workmen wear metal helmets, similar to those of soldiers. One day Frank T. Crowe, general superintendent for the construction company, was struck on the head by a rock that fell some 500 feet. Normally it would have torn right through his skull and brain, but he pointed to his helmet and smiled, “That's why we wear 'em.” Four workmen, deep underground. suddenly broke a wall of rock one morning and let the water from the Colorado above them come rushing in. They w-ere hundreds of yards from safety, and death gushed at their heels. One of the men. furthermore, was past 60 years of age. “But he outran me by 50 feet!” says Charles Taylor, who was one of the party and who is aged 29. “We all set speed records and no harm was done.” 000 IT is a fact that either of the tw o great spillways of the dam if filled would float the largest battleship, and tourists usually are told so. “My, my!’ squeaked one kindly but serious old lady. “Whatever will they do with a battleship away up here?” You just can't build a thing like Boulder Dam without a lot of drama and adventure and fun. The true stories like those go on and on endlessly, settling now into the permanent folklore of the region. NEXT—The miracle. Finishing the job. The dream fulfilled. The promise for the future.

His secretary would like to put the room in better order, but Senator Gore will not let her touch the books. He knows where each one is. The furniture, as well as the books in his office, must remain undisturbed. He moves about the room unguided. ana TTENRY I. HARRIMAN. president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, is also a leading water power magnate. But he was a bitter disappointment to Republican members of the House Interstate Commerce Committee. The big business chief appeared before that committee to give his views on the utility holding corporation bill, pet project of the President. All other power witnesses had heaped fire and brimstone on the measure because of its provision requiring the dissolution of holding companies within a period of five years. Mr. Harriman, while urging certain modifications, expressed no objection to the fiveyear death sentence. Republican members of the committee, who have been waging bitter war on the measure, were so outraged at this “apostasy” they literally sputtered. (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.i SLAYER’S HUSBAND IS GIVEN DIVORCE HERE Woman Convicted of Killing Now in Illinois Reformatory. Claude O. Sandstrom. 2031 Broadway, yesterday was granted a divorce from Anne (Daisy K.) Sandstrom, now serving a sentence of from one to 14 years in the Illinois State Reformatory for Women. Mrs. Sandstrom was convicted on a manslaughter charge for the killing of Carl Thompson, Indianapolis casket salesman, in a Mattoon fill) hotel last summer. According to her attorney. William Remy, she is eligible for parole in June. Mr. Sandstrom was given custodj of his son. John. 15, with the provision that the boy he allowed t< visit his mother and his aunt. Mrs William Lacker, 1400 N. La Saile-st

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935

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(Photo by Margaret Bourke-White; Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, Inc.) Against the background of leaden sky, only a tiny mark in the immensity that is Boulder Dam, man surveys his handiwork and finds it a marvel, the most colossal engineering wonder in history.

K. OF C, TO STAGE DANCE ON APRIL 22 Victory Ball Committee Is Announced. The Knights of Columbus Easter Ball April 22 will be designated as the Victory Dance because of the success in the Roman Catholic action drive, it was announced today. Committee chairmen for the affair are William Greener, general chairman; John Blackwell Jr., cuisine; Dr. Gerald Kiley, entertainment; T. H, Barrett, entertainment for visiting guests; Jack Langan, reservations; John Rocap, music; Bob Minta, arrangements; Edward Stapleton, decorations; Frank Langsenkamp, reception, and Arthur Irwin, tickets. O. E. S. Arranges Easter Event Prospect Chapter No. 452, Order of Eastern Star, will meet at 7:45 Monday night in Prospect Temple, Prospect-st and State-av. Miss Ruby Davis will take the leading role in an Easter program. Mrs. Georgia Hoffman will be soloist.

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Strictly Family Affair

Blind Tiger Report Brings Police on Run—lt’s Just Man’s 24 Children, They Find.

IF the old woman who lived in a shoe resided in Indianapolis she would have the police all over the lot. you can fake it from John

COMPANY OFFERS STOCK IN NEW PLANE VENTURE Craft to Be Made in City, Says Joe Rand Beckett. A corporation has been formed in Indianapolis for the sale of stock to construct anew type of highwinged airplane. Manufacturing headquarters will be in Indianapolis and the company is to be known as Skycraft, Inc., with temporary offices at 303 Peoples Bank Building. Joe Rand Beckett, realtor and attorney, who is president, said the new plane will be of cabin construction seating two passengers. Other officers are Robert E. Kirby, secretary - treasurer; William B. Guthrie, Turkey Run hotel owner, vice president, and Finley D. Henderson, director.

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Gamble. John lives at 316 E. Souih-st, and his neighbors, who don’t seem to be able to get relatives straight, called police and told them they were sure he was running a blind tiger. The police responded. “People keep going in and coming out,” the neighbors said, "and just an ordinary home wouldn’t be run that way.” So police went to see John. ‘‘Blind tiger, my eye,” said John, gently. “It's this way. I am the father of 24 children and some of them are married and have children of their own. They come to visit me very often, and we all like a snifter now and then. “But as for a blind tiger—say, can’t a man raise a family?” SWIMMING CLASSES OPEN AT ‘V MONDAY Grade School Pupils of City Invited to Get Instructions. The twenty-fifth annual series of free “Learn to Swim” classes conducted by the Y. M. C. A. will begin at 3 Monday afternoon. The classes will be open to all grade school boys older than 9 who do not know how to swim. Schedules have been arranged so that boys from each school will be in the same swimming class. Each class will remain in the poo! 20 minutes. All applications will be made through local grade school teachers and must be signed by the boys’ parents. Each boy learning to sw-im will be presented with an emblem pin and those passing a 50-foot swimming test will be awarded certificates. POETRY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD BY COLLEGE Indiana Central Students to Give Speaking Program Tonight. The annual poetry speaking festival of Indiana Central College will be presented at Kephart Memorial Auditorium tonight. The theme is “Music of Poetry and Poetry of Music.” Miss Leora Weimar, college speech department head, v-ill direct the program, during which the college string trio will assist. Students taking part include Rairh Eaton. Louise Eickman, William Sale. Ruth Jordan. Kenneth Dorton. Rh*a Stephens Karl Pipes, Helen Martin. Jarvis Gamble, Wilbur Wilson, Charlotte Esmon, Paul Lawson. Elizabeth Bosworth. Oakley Ricketts. Anita O'Dwyer. Dwight Patterson and Grace Noblitt. Ralph Eaton will be master of ceremonies.

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Fair Enough HMiMt \ORK April 12.—At least one fine result of the panic in this country is the total abrogation of priggiohness in certairi forms of public entertainment, notably the revue, the burlesque show, the night club floor show and the performance of the so-called intimate comedian who sits at the piano in the. stylish bar of an afternoon or evening and prattles humorous lyrics which, in a previous day, would have caused him to be tossed out of any dive in the land for offending against the moral tone of the place.

The citizens yearned to know the facts of life and something about physiology, anatomy and degeneracy. For a long time their masters, the police, the papers and influential public opinion, denied them what they wanted The restraint was weakening when the New Deal came in but, with the repeal of prohibition and the final rout of the clerical super-govern-ment which used to sit close to the capitol in Washington, the last restrictions crashed. Thpre are no mysteries left now. At the present time, the citizen

with tne filthiest mind in the United States may wallow and muck around in filth and mb it in his hair to his heart's content amid refined surroundings in some of the most expensive hotels and night clubs in the country and in the company of those whom the late Tex Rickard used to designate the very best people. It is a famous victory for liberality, although there are some old-fashioned reactionaries who believe that certain matters should be discussed only with a physician, and certainly never sung about, by a professional entertainer to mixed company in a place of public resort. 000 Buzzard Is a Prude A LTHOUGH the repartee of the burlesque comedians is undoubtedly the vilest as to undisguised filth, the polite, murmuring comic of the hotel cocktail room is a more important artist in the new entertainment. He plays to the mink and sable trade. This gives the new school a prestige, whereas the burlesque theater always has been regarded as depraved and has been a good hunting ground for the police when in search of peepers and rippers. It is an achievement to draw a crowd of women in expensive regalia, including many of the middleage and beyond, to a half-lit bar in the afternoon and hold them until evening, cackling and shrieking with michievous mirth and growing more plastered by the minute, with a repertoire of songs w-hich would drive a buzzard out of a boneyard. The buzzard is a prude. When he thinks of sex, he means honest sex. It is interesting, moreover, to observe that lovely woman seems more appreciative than the males, who are outnumbered, incidentally. and that the shrillest laughter is reserved until the droll young man at the piano gives his keyboard the final tinkling lick and lets go with the dirtiest filth he knows, which he has been saving lor his climax. The break-through occurred at the Chicago World Fair. There in a frank bid for touiist business to stimulate trade in the hotels and store and advertising in the papers, it was decided not to be too strict about the entertainment. That was the beginning of the meat show, in w-hich nonchalant females were permitted to stand before the customers as naked as the palm of your hand. Nothing happened beyond a few routine summonses. and a taste in entertainment, was established which is now being catered to on Broadway. 000 See One You See All TT has been discovered, however, that once a customer has seen one such performance, he has seen them all. The artists are pretty much alike and rather impersonal about it ali, too. like ticket sellers in a railroad station dealing so much for so much. Better entertainment value seems to exist in the dirty blackout in the revue, in the repartee having to do with degeneracy, and in the low-voiced discussions which are carried on with a small sound of piano in the background. This, my friends, as Mr. Roosevelt used to say, is entertainment now that the prudish restrictions of the bluenoses and wowsers have been beaten dow-n. It is a matter of no little pride, too, to a journalist, to realize that the appreciation of the new art was fostered to some extent by the printing during the last few years of a gradually more liberal type of repartee. And that at present the dirtiest comedians and performers receive high appreciation in the papers which report their successes, hail their popularity, and advise of changes of location. There is an old superstition that great nations before they fall get rotten in their morals. But in the enjoyment of a freedom newly won, to see and hear corruption in the theater and public restaurant only a sour-piss would take time out to view with alarm. Take the adolescents to see the naked women and hear the foul-mouthed pianist sing his songs. This is liberality at last. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate Ine.>

Your Health -Bi' DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IN the typical case of nervous breakdown, you see a man of average intelligence who has prospered in business. He is high-strung and worries about iittle things. After a while he begins to worry about his health. On several occasions in the last few years he has been away from his work for short periods because he has had influenza or extraordinary fatigue. Gradually he finds that he is irritable, can not sleep and also is unable to concentrate. He may complain of feeling pressure on the top of his head or tightness around the temples By this time also his food begins to disagree with him and he tries all sorts of cathartics to relieve constipation. nun WHEN you question him as to the cause of his depression, he is likely to say that too much has t ’cr put on his shoulders in his work or his business, and that all the bad luck has concentrated itself on him. When you begin to inquire very carefully into his history, you find that he has had a serious quarrel with his partner in business, or that his wife is driving him and nagging him at home. This man is not seriously sick in the sense of one who has an ulcer of the stomach, an inflammation of the gallbladder, or a tumor of the brain. He does require, however, the right kind of treatment to recover from his condition. U M • FIRST step in that treatment is recognition of the cause of the condition. It is sometimes possible to make adjustments in business to overcome difficulties, and it is occasionally possible to influence those surounding the individual at home to bring about a lessened irritation from such causes. Os course, a change of scene. Indulgence In some sport or outside interest which particularly appeals to the individual, may build up both his body and his mind to a state where the irritations and stimuli have less effect. It is especially necessary in such cases to restore the habit of sleep and also the normal nutrition Without sleep and rest, recovery is difficult, if not impossible. Suitable control of eating habits and digestion of the patient is necessary lor comfort and freedom from distress.

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