Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1935 — Page 9
It Seems to Me HEWOD BROUN r T''HE attitude of Mr. Hearst toward education grows more singular with every edition. In th beginning I had assumed that he was on the warpath against teachers whom he suspected of favoring Communism in their classes. But from certain recent editorials it would seem that he wants a ban, even in the colleges, framed along the lines of Tennessee's anti-evolution law. The very mention of Marx is to be prohibited. At any rate he wants Chicago University investi-
gated because somebody is said to have told Mr. Walgreens niece that the world has known other economists than her uncle. At least here is the case for an inquiry as presented by a Hearst editorial writer. “Mr. Walgreen was obviously not actuated by caprice or by mere hearsay information. It happened that his niece, for whose advanced education he was providing financiallyw was a Chicago University student, and Mr. Walgreen performed the sensible duty of ascertaining the kind of education that was being imparted to the girl.
..
Hrywood Broun
Thus, he learned, according to his written complaint, that Communist was being surreptitiously filtered Into her young mind. Reporters discovered her with a book entitled 'The Meaning of Marx’ when they called to ask her about her late alma mater. 'I suppose,’ she told the newsmen, ‘that it is one of the best places to learn Communism if you want to.’ ” May I ask in some bewilderment, “What could be fairer than that?” If the young lady had desired to major in the history of comparative religions I assume that there would be some course in which she could study the tenets of Buddhism and Shintoism even though the holders of these faiths are regarded as heathen by vast numbers of Americans. a tt tt He's (rood Enough for Brisbane IF her inclination were toward economics she could hardly be expected to understand modern trends without becoming acquainted with the writings of Marx and of Lenin. Arthur Brisbane serves as a preceptor for many more pupils than attend the University of Chicago. Mr. Brisbane has read Karl Marx. I have even seen the man mentioned in nis column. If the famous German economist is good enough for Brisbane why shouldn't the niece of Mr. Walgreen in her own quiet way learn the meaning of Marx? A closer study of the principles of Socialism might make her even more inclined to say “How right you are. Uncle Wallie?” whenever Mr. Walgreen discusses labor problems in her presence. Then again, of course, it might not. But I gravely doubt whether any sound theory of education can be built upon the principle that it should never disturb the status of a drug store king in his role as Solomon among the nieces. I gather from the editorial comment that the young lady whose curricular activities constitute a Chicago issue was an advanced pupil. Even though reporters came to call she could not with any dignity have posed while reading “Six Little Peppers and How- They Grew.” I am assuming that she is quite a big girl now. tt it tt Classroom or Street Corner 1 WOULD be delighted to find either of my nieces engrossed in some such serious book as “The Meaning of Marx.” Indeed, although my son is only 17, I would like to surprise him poring over “Das Kapital” rather than have him look up from sheets of green and pink to say, “Daddy, put a couple of dollars for yourself on Lady Federal in the fifth at Arlington. I’ve got five smackers myself right on the nose.” I’m afraid that the belief of Mr. Hearst and Mr. Walgreen in the cloistered kind of education has already suffered a grave rebuff. It just doesn’t seem to work. Let us consider again the case of Mr. Walgreen's niece merely on the facts as presented. He snatched her out of Chicago University lest her innocence should be ruffled by hearing any such searing phase as “the class struggle.” Obediently enough she returns to the sanctity of the home, but not to immolate herself in the current “cosmopolitan.” Instead she holds within her hands “The Meaning of Marx.” And so it was with Bluebeard's wife and every enterprising woman. A locked door constitutes a challenge and she must break it down even though on the other side finds old wives or new “masses." After all. Mr. Hearst, Isn't it better to have a girl or boy learn these things in the classroom rather than have him pick them up from street companions? (Copyright. 1935)
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ
ANEW type of metal radio tube has been developed by the engineers of the General Electric research laboratories at Schenectady. It is claimed that the new tubes are superior to the familiar glass tubes in mechanical strength and electrical characteristics. In addition, they are much smaller and so should make more compact radio sets passible. Because they have an all metal shell, they do not require metal shields such as are used in most radio sets today with the ordinary tubes. The metal shell acts as its own shield. Since this shell has to be grounded, the tube has one more prong on it than the ordinary type of tube. The metal shell radiates heat away faster than does glass and so the tube stays cooler. The engineers say that the new tubes are particularly advantageous in the field of short-wave reception. The new tubes are cylindrical in form, some of them tapering toward the top. Certain ones, such as the radio-frequency amplifier, have a terminal at the top extremity. Each lead-in wire enters the tube through a tiny bead of special glass which is fused within an alloy eyelet. This eyelet in its turn is welded to the metal shell. m m m IN general, the new metal tubes are about half the size of their counterparts in glass. Because of the fact that shorter and stiffer supports are used for the elements within the tube, there is less mechanical vibration. In the glass tube, it is necessary for all leads and supports to enter through the glass ‘ pinch seal.” Since this has been eliminated, it is passible to have each lead or support enter directly at the point where needed. The base pins have likewise been located where they make direct and logical connections with the electrode structure. m m m ANEW method of fitting the tube into the socket lias also been developed by the General Electric engineers. The present radio tubes have base pins of various diameters and it is necessary to match these prongs to the proper holes in the tube socket. In the case of the new tubes there is a longer insulated keyed pin under the center of the tube. This pin is first inserted in the center hole of the socket. The tube is then rotated until the key slips into its groove. All of the pins then slip directlv into the proper holes. The General Electric engineers expect to applv the all-metal decign to other vacuum tubes than thase used in radio. This will include the large rectifiers, shield-grid thvratron used for timing electrical welders, and other tubes for which industrial uses have been found. In putting the new tubes together electric welding is employed to obtain air-tight seams. Q—Was President Andrew Johnson impeached? A—lmpeachment was voted by the House of Representatives in 1868. and was acquitted by the Senate acting as a court of impeachment. Q—What is the goose-step? A—The straight-legged, stiff-kneed, parade step formerly used by the German infantry. The name was given to it by the English and Americans.
Full Leased IVlr# Service of the United Press Association
U. S. FLEET GOES INTO ACTION
Greatest Armada Since 1918 to Participate in Pacific Maneuvers
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Service Writer PEDRO, Cal., April 22.—The greatest fleet since the World War is today assembled in the Pacific for the maneuvers in the North Pacific between May 3 and June 10. Awaiting the call of “anchors aweigh” are 177 surface ships, four carriers of 477 planes, and nearly 55,000 officers and men. That’s greater than the renowned Spanish Armada of 1588 by 46 ships and 28,000 men. The maneuvers, aimed at working out “Problem XVI,” will spread over 5.000,000 square miles of seaway in the California-Hawaii-Alaska triangle. They will be confined rigorously to the American side of the Pacific, at no time coming closer than 2000 miles to Japan, nor within several
hundred miles of waters which are to be covered later in the summer *by maneuvers of the Japanese fleet. During the American maneuvers, the Asiatic fleet will pay the usual courtesy calls at the Japanese ports of Yokohama and Kobe. “Problem XVI” is believed to hinge somewhat on showing the increasing value of the air arm and the manner in w-hich it has brought Alaska within hours of California instead of days. tt tt tt "W/E want to get acquainted Secretary Swanson’s answer to a question on the purpose of the maneuvers. He has repeatedly denied that there is any reason for apprehension in such far-flung Pacific maneuvers, plans for which were drawn more than a year ago, before Japan had denounced the Washington treaty. With immobile marines on guard in the white corridors of his flagship, the battleship Pennsylvania, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves has been holding highly secret conferences with his aids on the working out of “Problem XVI.” Sixty-two-year-old Admiral Reeves is one of the busiest men in the world as the zero hour for the war games draws near. This famous sailor, towering 6 feet 3, and 42 years ago a star football tackle at Annapolis, is spending 16 hours a day makifig lightning decisions on highly technical questions of naval tactics, strategy, ships, guns, planes and men. nan r I 'ALL, distinguished in appear- -*• ar.ce, and as erect as a cadet on parade, Admiral Reeves is a suave, polished gentleman w-ho, it is said, knows his job like no other man who has preceded him. He has been an engineer, a gunnery expert, a strategist, and is an outstanding authority on naval aviation. His whole being is devoted to the Navy.
—The—
DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Prof. Raymond B. Moley, one-time right bower of the Brain Trust, has just published what he calls an "extraordinary” book. It ic published privately and circularized only among a very limited number of people, chiefly members of the Moley Dinner Club or of the Cabinet. Cabinet members have their names stamped in gold on the green leather cover. Lesser lights have their names stamped only in silver. The volume is interpreted by Mr. Moley’s friends as subtle propa-
ganda by big business for a Fascist government with the professor at the helm. To appreciate properly this "extraordinary” document, it is necessary to know its background. Not long after Mr. Moley became a victim of Cordell Hull's feudist instincts and resigned from the State Department, he inaugurated the now r famous Moley dinners in New York. Reason for them was most mysterious. Seme said they were to win subscribers and advertising for Mr. Moley’s magazine. Today. Others said they were to win business converts to the New Deal. Whatever may have been the original purpase, the dinners developed two definite goals. First, they became glorification parties for Raymond Moley. Second. they were occasions at which the guests could expound their own pet theories in front of Mr. Moley and kid themselves with the idea that these were immediately relayed to the White House. m m m PRESIDING at the dinners is always Allie S. Freed, head of the Paramount Taxicab Cos. Other executives are Andrew J. Maloney, head of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Cos., and George M. Verity, head of the American Rolling Mills Cos., director of Westinghouse Electric and various banking institutions. At these dinners Mr. Moley usually arrives late. Chairman Freed arises to announce in solemn tone that the professor is en route from Washington but will arrive shortly. Guests exchange awed whispers: ‘‘Conferring with the President.” The professor finally makes his appearance. It is the cue for all guests to arise and applaud. After dinner the professor always makes a speech. After he has finished others speak. Many guests tell the success story of their struggle up the ladder of business life. Sometimes Mr. Molej- will interrupt, shake his finger, take violent exception to a speaker's economic thesis. Thus functions the "Committee for Economic Recovery.” It has been a much-debated question in Washington whether the old head of the Brain Trust was dissei/unating more New Deal ideas to Big Business, or Big Business disseminating more ideas to Mr. Moley. The elegant new green book answers this question. Prof. Moley has gone over to Big Business—and in a big way. The book is an exposition of the
The Indianapolis Times
Upon the broad shoulders of Admiral Reeves, or rather in his brilliant mind, rests success of the maneuvers. He must see that the fleet's absolute maximum offensive power is delivered against the theoretical “enemy” at exactly the right moment. The entire force, from great battleships to swift planes, will be bent to his will through an invisible but constantly alert network of communications. tt tt tt r T''HE maneuvers will begin with a sortie from the San PedroSan Diego area on April 29. Most combatant units of the force will go to San Francisco, whence they will sail for the Hawaiian Islands. Others w-ill go direct from this area to Hawaii. Subsequent operations will be conducted from the naval base at Pearl Harbor, where 20-odd auxiliary ships of the fleet train will be stationed. They will probably include establishment of a temporary advanced base at Midway Island, 1200 miles northwest of Hawaii. Participating in the maneuvers will be 14 battleships, 14 heavy cruisers, 32 submarines, four aircraft carriers, nine light cruisers, 56 destroyers, nine mine layers and 39 auxiliaries. The submarine flotilla will include six giant world-range cruisers with their tenders Bushnell and Holland. The games will end with the armada’s return to San Diego on June 10. uu n y npHE visit of the fleet to the Hawaiian Islands, in the war games, follows announcements of large improvements to the defense there. These developments include the programmed expenditure of $15,000,000 on the Navy yard and submarine base at Pearl Harbor, and construction of permanent airports, under naval jurisdiction, on Midway and other Pacific islands for the new commercial trans-Pacific airline.
creed that the government should meddle with no phase of private industry unless that phase of industry is unable to make a profit. Then the government is permitted to hold the bag. Mr. Roosevelt is championed, personally. But everything he stands for is condemned. m m m 'T'O get the full perspective of Moley’s right-about-face, it must be remembered that he was once hailed as the dangerous liberal of the Administration. He was the man to whom Felix Frankfurter turned when he wanted to plant ideas with the President. He was the leader of the camp which claimed that reconstruction and reform must come ahead of recovery. Now, however. Mr. Moley maintains: "We should put on full steam toward recovery and relegate everything else to a position of secondary importance.” Apparently forgetting that he helped goad the "Frankfurter boys” into writing the Securities and Stock Exchange Acts, Mr. Moley now claims that they are throttling private capital and must be amended. Warning of the danger of Father Coughlin. Huey Long, Upton Sinclair and Dr. Townsend, Mr. Moley calls for better education of newspaper editors and radio broadcasting stations in order that damaging information shall not be issued by them. Finally he calls for a program by which eight million people shall be employed by private industry at the rate of 1,000,000 a month, beginning June 1, 1935, and exhorts: "IT CAN, MUST, AND SHALL BE DONE. PLAN OUR WORK, THEN WORK OUR PLAN.” Many people attribute Mr. Roosevelt’s growing trend right to the influence of Mr. Moley. CHURCH HEADS TO MEET Vacation School Leaders to Outline Organization, Financing. The first session of the Institution for Vacation Church School Leaders will be held at the Y. W. C. A., 329 N. Pennsylvania-st, at 2 Saturday afternoon. The second session will be held May 8. Organization an dfinancing of the church schools and the outlining of projects will be discussed at the first meeting.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1035
* i ’
With Admiral Reeves’ pennant fluttering at the main truck, the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, shown in the foreground in this photo of a battleship column under way, will be the center-point of this summer’s maneuvers in the North Pacific.
Admiral Joseph M. Reeves
With the new aircraft carrier Ranger in use for the first time, the naval aviation units will be given their most extensive test. A thousand aviators will be with the fleet, and 85 giant long-radius
40 ENTRIES FILED FOR PUPPY MATCH Scottish Terrier Club to Sponsor Show. Forty entries have been received for the first annual puppy match of the Scottish Terrier Club of Indiana, Miss Martha Engle, club secretary, announced. The match will be open to any pure bred Scottish terrier, from 2 months to 1 year old, and it will be held next Saturday afternoon and evening in the Plaza Bldg., 635 N. Pennsylvania-st. Entries for the contest dose today. A total of 75 dogs are expected to compete. Stowell C. Wasson is chairman of the show committee, and John W. Hillman is president of the club. G. O. P. Leader to Speak Virgil Sears, Danville, Republican chairman of Hendricks County, will discuss "Political Conditions in Rural Indiana” at a meeting at 8 tonight of the Irvington Republican Club at 5446 Vz E. Washington-st.
SIDE GLANCES
ini 'A "7
“It may be the primitive man in me, Martha, but, by George, I’m going to remove my coat!”
wHi i ja\ \ x L r '■ CVWw:. i \ \ Mcmav x , i "I \ \ * V /3. \*\SiIAWAIIANIS \ \ |||
The “San Francisco-Hawaii-Alaska triangle,” scene of the largescale naval maneuvers of the JLnited States fleet this summer. Over this vast 5,000,000-square-mile seaway, new vessels and tactics will be tested in the greatest naval concentration since the World War, The main body will sail from San Francisco to Hawaii, and operate from the Pearl Harbor base in fleet problems between there and Alaska, returning after more than a month to Southern California.
seaplanes under Rear-Admiral Alfred W. Johnson will be given a chance to show what they can do at long distances, operating with the 350-odd shorter-range planes. Other new naval types will be
RELIEF FACTORIES OF STATE SHOW RESULTS Mattress and Comfort Plants Turn Out Supplies for Needy. The Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission announced today that the nine relief mattress factories, 13 comfort factories and 85 sewing centers in the state have produced 26,727 mattresses, 85,192 comforts, 182,984 face towels, 140,246 bath towels, 139,907 pillow cases, 30,071 single sheets and 57,677 double sheets. These household supplies are made by relief workers from material provided by the Federal Surplus Relief Corp., and are distributed among families on relief in Indiana. SCOUTS TO GIVE DINNER Parents of Troop 3 to Stage Benefit Supper Tomorrow. The parents’ council of Boy Scout Troop No. 3 will give a supper at the Irvington Presbyterian Church at 6 tomorrow. The troop orchestra under the direction of Mrs. James A. Matthews will play. Proceeds from the supper will be used to send boys of the troop to the Scout camp during the summer.
By George Clark
getting their first maneuver tests —the world-cruising submarines, new heavy scout cruisers, anew type of destroyer, and the new Ranger.
U, S. AUTO SALES SHOW HEAVY GAIN March Figures Are Highest Since 1930. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 20.—March factory sales of automobiles reached 429,830 vehicles, the highest figure since April, 1930, when 444,024 units were sold, the Department of Commerce reported today. March sales consisted of 361,813 passenger cars and 68,017 trucks. The month's total compared with 340,544 in February, 338,434 in March, 1934, and 115,272 in March, 1933. The March sales brought the total for the first three months of the current year to 1,063,139 vehicles, far above the 724.356 for the same period last year and 349,544 for the three months in 1933. DANCING MASTERS TO HOLD PARLEY IN CITY Louis Stockman to Be Host to Teachers From Six States. Demonstrations of the stage version of "La Cucaracha” and other well-known dances will be features of the sixth annual six-state consolidated meeting of the Fifth District of Dancing Masters of America and the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters, which will be held next Sunday in the Antlers. The meeting is sponsored by Louis Stockman, fifth district governor for Dancing Masters of America and regional director for the Chicago Association. Mr. Stockman will entertain attending teachers with a studio party Saturday night preceding the opening of the meeting. Indianapolis Tomorrow Architectural Club. luncheon. Architects and Builders Building. Gyro Club, luncheon. Spink-Arms. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Rotary club, luncheon, Claypool. Purchasing Agents, luncheon, Washington. Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Washington. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Sigma Delta Kappa, luncheon, Washington. Past Worthy Grand Matrons and Worthy Grand Patrons of the Order of Eastern Star, dinner, Claypool. National Canary Breeders Federation. 7:30 p. m., Claypool. Marion County Women's Democratic Club, 8 p. m., Claypool. Daniels Back; Gives Views By United Press NEW YORK. April 22.—The Mexican people would resent United States’ intereference in the Catholic church controversy, said Josephus Daniels, United States Ambassador to Mexico, who arrived here yesterday.
Second Section
Entered s Second-Class Matter at rostoffiee. Indianapolis. Ind.
Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLCR IS this Mr. Hoover of Palo Alto. Cal., who has been -*■ poking his head out of the house lately and wetting a finger to see which way the wind is blowing, the same Mr. Hoover who was President of the U. S. A. a few years ago? If so, thei would be the man who thought prohibition was an experiment noble in purpose, but kidded the citizens by calling for an investigation of the whole subject which he then repudiated because the finding didn't verify the nobility of the amendment. Yes. that would be the
same man. Would you have imagined after what happened to hint and his experiment in the fall of 1932 that he would ever have the nerve to offer any suggestions again? Conditions under Mr. Hoover's favorite experiment were so wild and crazy that it is now hard to believe that they ever existed. But memory distinctly says they did. Memory recalls that in the state of Ohio, the state where the disease set in, there was a time when the country constables were smashing into the homes of the citizens.
holding up cars along the roads, even walking right into hotel rooms with pass-keys and going through peoples’ baggage like customs inspectors, searching for liquor. If a man and the loving old lady happened to be sitting around the kitchen taole of an evening, gnawing at a couple of drams of sileage-water, the constables would kick in the door, toss the furniture hither and yon, punch them around somewhat, and then yank them down the road to a prohibition court where they would be fined for violating the United States Constitution. The constables got a cut out of the fines. tt a tt A Snootful of ‘ Medicine ’ TNDIANA was even worse. In Indiana they had a law whereby a man could be sent to jail or prison if some enemy was willing to swear that he had smelled liquor on the defendant's breath. They had an amusing time of it in Indiana when an old parson who had worked hard for the passage of this law was shown to have used in his household a medical prescription which had the power to create in the patient an effect which, in any one else, would have been called a snootful. In the parson's family they called it stimulation. Going through Indiana. Ohio and. for that matter most of the other states, on a railroad train, the passengers used to pull down the blinds of the Pullman compartments so that the constables on the platforms at the whistle stops couldn’t see the beverages in the glasses and wire on ahead to have the train halted and the criminals arrested. Coming up from Florida it wasn’t anv use to carry any supplies in the baggage. Some of the baggage men and the express men had skeleton Jceys anc L u ed to spend their leisure time on the long haiffe between stops searching the trunks for liquor. The passenger had no comeback. If he carried a crate of liquor in his hand-baggage he didn't know but that some sheriff or constable or maybe a Federal agent would go through his stuff, drag him off and prosecute him or. more likely, shake him down for all his ready money. a u tt Anything Could Happen IfNDER Mr. Hoover’s experiment almost anything > could happen and the people had to take it although it can hardly be said that he ever made them like it. In Michigan, two people, a man and a woman, were sent to prison for life for having a few little slabs of liquor in their possession, and in Kansas there was an epidemic of paralysis which left a lot of people wasted and crippled like the children at Warm Springs, Ga., due to a shipment of bad ginger known as jake. The country, with fine good humor, referred to this paralysis as jake leg. Thousands of citizens lost their lives or their eyes under the tyranny. But none of this altered Mr. Hoover's opinion that the experiment was all right. The government was put in the position of defending murderers when Federal agents lost their tempers and shot innocent citizens on the false suspicion that they were running liquor. In Washington, a United States Senator was shot through the head by a prohibition agent who was shelling a petty bootlegger in the streets, and died a horrible, lingering death, but Mr. Hoover’s conviction was firm. The emancipation proclamation was shouted by Mr. Roosevelt in the Democratic convention in Chicago. It consisted of just a few words. “From this hour,” he hollered, “prohibition is doomed.” And within his first year as President it was wiped out. Remember Mr. Hoover? And Prohibition? (Copyright. 1335. by Uniteed Feature Syndicate Inc.)
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN
VARY your daily diet to cover all the usual foodstuffs eaten by human beings, and you will have the necessary substances for health and growth. This is the important conclusion made from recent studies of foods and nutrition. It is doubtful if any desire of mankind is greater than the necessity for alleviation of hunger. Hunger, however, is satisfied by almost any food that is put into the body, whereas the maximum nutrition is gained only by the right foods taken in the right amounts. Primitive men depended on their instincts and appetites for the choice of the right foods. We know today that these instincts and appetites can not always be trusted. They are much less to be trusted, however, in our modern times, when the choice of foods is so tremendous, when foods have been sophisticated to a great extent, and when the advertising appeal is added to the normal appeal of hunger and appetite. • • • IN a recent survey, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who some years ago was awarded the Nobel prize for his work in nutrition, points out that our real modern knowledge of nutrition begins with the work of Leibig in 1840. Leibig is credited with having established the view that the proteins of food when eaten are easily, directly, and almost unchanged built into the tissues of the person who eats them. On the other hand, the fats and carbohydrates, or sugars, represent fuel which is burned in the body and supply heat and energy. Since the time of Leibig, some of our views regarding the usefulness of proteins and carbohydrates in the body have changed. Today we know that there are several types of protein wnich differ in their chemical organization and in the manner in which the body may use them for its own growth and for repair of tissues. * * * THE proteins in food which can be used to the greatest value by the human body are those which contain all of certain essential substances called amino-acids in such relative proportions as correspond most nearly with the proportions required by the tissues of the consumer. These are tailed first-class proteins and also proteins of high biological value. The animal proteins are those which rank highest in such values. The average human being needs from 80 to 100 grams of protein a day to remain in health and in a satisfactory state of nutrition. As to the fats and the carbohydrates, we now know that both are required by the human body in certain proportions, and we know also that eash class among foodstuffs has special functions. r H|e fats are not properly used by the body in the absence of carbohydrates.
m 'Jyf
Westbrook Pcgler