Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1935 — Page 17

It Seems to Me rail BROUN T HAVEN'T reached the country yet, but I've been to the Jamaica race track twice and it's pretty rural out there. The skies are so blue and the grass 1* so green. 1 suppose that's the reason I go. As one of the bookmakers was saying to me only the other day after the big race, “The grass is green and so are you." Another reason why I like to go to Jamaica is that. I love horses. I don't mean that I want to sit down and sob and sing that I am saddling Old Paint

for the last roundup. Even the first time would be too much and if I did saddle Old Paint and then got on him it would be the last roundup for him or any other pony. The fun is in seeing horses run. Sometimes they come down the stretch like a squad of cavalry'. They flash across the line noses apart. A blanket could cover them. But there ls always one who has kicked off the bedclothes. He is a rugged individualist and won't be regimented. It is his pleasure to pretend that he isn't with the others at a!L He is the horse I'm betting or.. The chart says simply, “Buster

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Boy had no speed." and the man who told me to bet on him explains: “I guess he needed a race under his belt ” If Buster Boy were mine I'd give him a belt on the nose. But I iove horses and perhaps I should never bet on them. It can lead to misunderstandings and hard feeling. nan *Damn the Torpedoes' BUT I suppose I should not complain. The opening day at Jamaica was laspnrne in the evidence n. offered that humankind is tenacious and not to be thwarted of its objectives. Thousands and thousands had come to Jamaica intent upon losing their shirts and they would not ue denied in spite of difficulties. This spirit of sacrifice was infectious. Usually I am indolent and non-aggressive. The shed where the bookmakers are herded was about half a mile from the inclosure to which I had been admitted. Between me and this haven lay the lawn covered with a sea of riowTiturned faces. Nevertheless, like Farragut, Columbus or Marco Polo, I clutched my two-dollar bill and said: “Damn the torpedoes.” Then I went ahead. For the most part I used a straight power play between guard and center. Naturally the defense tightened as I neared the goal. Sometimes I was held for no gam or temporarily thrown back. And yet there was no diminution in my determination to bet two dollars on Chin Up, a 2-year-old which, had never started. Nobody had told me about Chin Up. I had never heard of him before and I don't care if I never hear of him again. But I have always wanted to have a race horse named after me. a a a It's Great to Lose “r'OR God, for country and good old Chin Up,” I Jr said to myself each time I lowered my head and tried to split the line. Just as I reached the high stool where Rogan sat the crowd was so great that it knocked him from his perch. He was annoyed and announced that he would take no more bets for the present. He was prepared to deny the milling throng the privilege of going to bed without its supper. Then he spied me and we have been friends for years and so he made the supreme sacrifice and took my $2 on Chir Up. I worked my way back to civilization just in time to see the horses crossing the finish line. Chin Up was not among them. Like myself he is just an old nature lover and he was out merely to get a good look at the blue skies and the flowers. I have no int -ntion of condemning the betting system which prevails at Jamaica. In fact I think it is most ingcnioa lv contrived to temper the wind to the shorn lamb. All the poignancy and bitterness of losing has been eradicated. I remember saying after Gay Monarch was nowhere in the Paumonok. “Thank Heaven, my horse didn't win. Now I won't have to go back to that madhouse to collect my money.” (Copvrieht. 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN-

ALTHOUGH doctors are divided over the cause of kidney stones, they’re agreed about one thinp—that mere removal of the stones is not enough to cure the malady. To prevent other stones from forminp. even after removal, every tiny piece of pravel that may be present must be cleaned out, because these may develop into larper stones. Furthermore, if infection is present, that must be cleaned up before the operation can be regarded as completed. If there are any obstructions in the urinary tract or kinks of various kinds, these should be straightened out, and any other constructing points should be eliminated. Stones in the kidney can be discovered easily by use of the X-ray, after which surgery can be employed. *r * n AFTER an operation of this kind, the doctor should study the diet of his patient, and arrange for suitable foods, with plenty of vitamin A, that will help prevent recurrence of this ailment. This is the generally accepted procedure in the case of kidney stones, though the medical profession is divided over causes of the disease. One group of investigators believes that the stones are the result of infections and that the invading organisms are the center around which the stones form. Another group is convinced that stones form because there are obstructions to the free flow of fluid from the kidney and that obstructions of the passages at any point set up conditions in which infection Is simple and formation of stone likely. * a A NUMBER of investigators feel that errors of diet are primarily responsible, particularly a deficiency of vitamin A. The idea is that this deficiency brings about a weakness in the tissues lining the paths in the urinary tract, and that portions of tissue which slough off form the center for the stones. There are others who believe that the stones are caused by abnormal products developed in the excretion from the kidney. Some feel that formation of stones in the kidney is related to disturbances of the actions of various glands which are involved in the manner in which the body takes care of calcium and phosphorus in the diet. This is particularly true of the parathyroid gland. Overaction of this gland will withdraw calcium from the bones. Underaction leads to a wrong use of calcium by the body. Questions and Answers Q —How can copper coins be prevented fropi tarnishing? A—lt can be prevented for some time by coating the coin with spar varnish, or a good hard lacquer. Q—ls Fredi Washington, who played the role of •Tcola" in ’lmitation of Life," a Negro? A—Yes. Q—Name the author of the old song, "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree.” A—Music by Egbert Van Alstyne and words by Harry H. Williams. Q —How much damage does soil erosion cause In the United States? A—Based on studies made by H. H. Bennett, director of soil erosion work in the United States Geological Survey, the annual monetary loss in productiveness (fertility) is about $400,000,000; and more than 3.000 000.000 tons of top soil are washed off cultivated land. Approximately 300.000.000 tons are dumped in the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River and about 100.000.000 acres of formerly cultivated land have been destroyed for practical purposes of cultivation, and 125.000.000 acres are on the verge of essential destruction. Q—What are the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes? A—They are lotteries, usually held about three times a year, the winners being decided by the running of some important horse race in England.

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NEW HOPE FOR U. S. HOMELESS man a a a a a a a a a ‘ ana Hundreds Throng to ‘Transient Cities,'Thrive on Wholesome Work

By SEA Rrrrica WASHINGTON, April 25. Maybe you’ve never &°pt in a hobo “jungle” Oi made a meal off “mulligan” stewed up in an old tin can. Maybe you’ve never been “on the bum.” If not, then it’ll be hard for you to appreciate what the government has done and is doing for the men and the women who have been made homeless by hard times. The “hobo jungle” and the “Hooverville” shack town are on the way out, thanks to government activities on behalf of transients, in the course of which 260 suburban camps and 280 city transient centers have been built. They have come close to eliminating the floaters and “wild boys of the road'' who swarmed the country in 1932. Nearly 316,000 people were being helped by these transient centers on Feb. 15, the date of their last “census.” By far the largest part of these are unattached men without families or homes, but 40.000 families are being so helped, and more than 4500 women. a a a THE age of those “disinherited" begins at 16 and the number and percentage of the whole rises rapidly until the ages from 25 to 34 are reached—and within those ages are 24 per cent of the total. What status the transient camps will have under the new workrelief program is uncertain. All energies have been bent toward improving the physical plant of the camps during the last few months, installing better sanitary and cooking equipment, and relieving overcrowding. Possibilities in such camps, properly run and equipped, are well shown by a visit to the two newest “cities” in the United States. One is Clyde, Cal. The other Is Transient City, Va. They are the pride of the whole system of camps for transients. Both these “cities" are built on the ruins of war-time projects of 1918. a a a AT Clyde, the government constructed a “barrack city” during the World War to accommodate men who were working at the Bay Point shipyards. When the war ended and the need for ships ended with it, Clyde became a “deserted village" of weed-carpeted and cracked pavements, dried-out stucco bungalows. Now 500 men and their families, under direction of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, are working together to brighten up Clyde into anew city, and brighten their own futures at the same time.

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drevj Peat son and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, April 25.—Two years of close contact with people on relief have given some very definite ideas to Harry Hopkins’ FERA workers regarding the growth of radicalism in this country. Their conclusion is emphatically to the effect that radicalism has won an army of converts during the depression, that a large number of the 1 1 per cent of the population now on relief would rebel if funds were withdrawn. \

This was confirmed in a recent meeting of FERA regional directors. Several stated that if relief were abolished in their district there would be revolution within a few .weeks. This also is the private view of Harry Hopkins. And there is no question as to where his sympathies lie. Recently he said: "Our work is a process of education. showing the indigent needy that they ha>e a right to a decent subsistence.” And at a recent conference of FERA leaders he added: “Unless you realize that this is a fight between the ’haves’ and the ’have-nots,’ you do not belong at FERA headquarters." u n u PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT almost got a note at the recent Gridiron Club dinner that would have intrigued him considerably. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was a guest at the dinner, and during the course of the evening asked a waiter to deliver a note to Maryland's tall, white-crested former Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, who was seated some distance away. The note read: "Dear Governor: Sister Alice (Mrs. Alice Long worth) is giving a little party for some friends after the dinner. She does this after every Gridiron dinner and would like very much to have you come.’’ Mr. Ritchie wrote the following rely: "Dear Colonel: Please tell Alice I will be very glad to join her after the dinner.” The waiter who had delivered "Young Teddy's" note had departed and Mr. Ritchie beckoned to another. "Do you know Col. Roosevelt?” he asked. "Yes, sir." "Give him this note, please.” The waiter took the note and started to move away when Mr. Ritchie stopped him. "You are sure you know Col. Roosevelt?” "Oh, yes, sir.” was the confident reply. -He is the President.” * a a THE far-famed company unions with which certain industries hoped to break the back of Section 7-A seem to be having trouble. It develops that some of these

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Honest recreation takes the place of the street corner gang and the hobo jungle at the FERA’s Clyde transient camp.

The same story is being told at what used to be Ft. Eustis, Va. Here is a division of 30,000 soldiers trained during the World War. And after that the government used Ft. Eustis as a prison camp for Federal prohibition law T violators. ana WITH repeal, Ft. Eustis was abandoned Deterioration set in. Rust and weeds began to assert their claims. Six months ago the FERA took it over, and now nearly 2000 men are rebuilding it into Transient City, a great experiment in helping men to create for themselves a life worth living. Let's first look over the ground at Clyde. Here the FERA has taken over its 60 vacant bungalows and its 175-room hotel. The shovel, mattock, hammer, saw, and paint brush have already transformed the seedy “ghost town” into a bright, active community. Land has been leased nearby, and spring gardening plans are under way to supply Clyde with its own vegetables this summer. A nearby 2000-acre ranch will supply meat and milk.

made-to-order unions are refusing to “stay hitched” to the companies which mothered them. Some have even become more militant than the old-line organizations. Chief among these is in the steel industry. Although Mike Tighe, 77-year-old head of the A. F. of L.-affiliated Amalgamated Association of Steel, Iron and Tin Workers, has been busy expelling insurgents within his ranks for demanding aggressive action, company unionite? have taken the offensive against the employers. In one plant, government officials hear, the company union submitted a demand that its representatives be given a place on the firm’s board of directors. Even more dramatic was the revolt of the company union established by the New'York Telephone Cos. Employes were asked by the company to approve a disguised wage cut. This the union flatly refused to dc* Moreover, it struck back with a counter proposal for an increase in pay. It claimed that undiminished dividends paid "stockholders throughout depression years at the expense of the employes” warranted such a raise. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) EVANGELIST TO SPEAK “What the Bible Has to Say About the Depression,” is Topic. Evangelist Wade House will speak on "What the Bible Has to Say About the End of the Depression" tonight at Cadle Tabernacle. Speaking last night on "Backsliding,” Mr. House said, “The reason so many church members backslide is that they are looking for something easier. The trouble is that we want to play at religion and are not willing to pay the price.” VETERANS TO GATHER Rainbow Division Group to Hear Talk by Maj. Davidson. The Rainbow Division Veterans’ Association will meet in the Washington tonight tonight. Maj. J. H. Davidson will speak on "Current Affairs in the Far East.” Arrangements will be made for the decoration of graves Memorial Day of 50 veterans buried in Marion County,

INDIANAPOLIS,. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935

Furnishings for the buildings have been built on the ground, or supplied from other relief centers. Long-idle schools are being opened for the children of the 500 families. Community entertainment and games round out the working days. a a a THIRTY hours’ work a week brings food, shelter, and clothing, some amusements, and residents may stay as long as they like, provided they do their share of the community workThe men and boys eat in the dining-room of the abandoned hotel. Families draw their rations from a community storehouse. Bread for the entire village is baked in the hotel kitchens, where student bakers learn the art from those already skilled. Life has become worth while for these 500 families. On an even larger scale, the same thing is happening across the continent at Transient City. Here are no families, but only men and boys, selected from the most able and best-fitted residents of other transient camps. Here are no problem cases, no physically handicapped men, but

LOWELL THOMAS ON PROGRAM AT CADLE Veteran Correspondent to Talk Here Tomorrow. The only man living who was with Gen. Edmund Allenby when Jerusalem was taken from the Turks, Lowell Thomas, veteran foreign correspondent, will speak at Cadle Tabernacle at 8 tomorrow night. * Mr. Thomas is coming to Indianapolis under sponsorship of the Cadle Tabernacle choir. He was appointed by the President to bring back pictorial records of the World War and in this capacity was attached to various allied armies during the conflict. The title of his talk tomorrow night will be "Adventures Around the World and on the Radio.”

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The shacktowns of 1932 are gradually giving way to clean modern camps where a man may build back to anew start.

able citizens whose only handicap has been unemployment. They have whipped abandoned old Ft. Eustis into a bustling community. There is a telephone system and exchange, a steam laundry, a fire department and patrol system, a bakery, dairy, shoe shop, central heating plant, and shops equipped for woodworking, furniture, sheet metal, plumbing, tinning, and clothing repair. a a a A LANDSCAPE gardener who F*- came to the camp transformed the grounds about the main buildings, and a natural amphitheater is being converted into an outdoor auditorium. A movie theater seating 2000 shows pictures three nights a week, with self-made entertainment, boxing, wrestling, on the other nights. There is a 12,000-volume library. Transcient City has what amounts to a city government. The men are divided into companies of 60. Each elects a captain. Every morning at 10 these captains meet with the camp director to thresh out any problems that may have arisen.

MISSIONARY SOCIETY WILL HOLD INSTITUTE All-Day Event Will Be Held at the Third Christian Church. The Indiana Women’s Christian Missionary Society will hold an allday institute tomorrow in the Third Christian Church for officers, counselors and superintendents in the Indianapolis area. The principal speaker will be the Rev. Virgil E. Havens, a missionary from Africa. Other speakers will be Mrs. O. H. Greist. general state secretary, and Mrs. D. O. Cunningham, state secretary of children’s work. Major Kennedy to Speak Major S. Y. Kennedy will recount his experiences in the Hawaiian Islands tonight to members of Calvin Prather Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, 42nd-st and Collegeav. Master Mason degree will be given following the banquet.

By George Clark

The men work 30 hours a Week, with half of Saturday and all Sunday free. They are housed, fed, and given work clothes and $1 a week. They come and go at will, and may leave at any time. Few do. a a a "T VOCATIONAL training is largely informal, though it is planned to have more formal classes later. Among the residents are many men skilled in diverse lines of work, farmers, tradesmen, concert tenors, college graduates, blackface comedians, saxophone players—practically every line of endeavor is represented. Those who have skills are assigned to the work that they can do. Those who have not are assigned to help them, and they learn in the most practical of all schools —experience. Thus, in these two newest “cities,” experience and experiment, plus intelligent government backing, are laying out the lines for hundreds of the other Federal transient camps which are the government’s effort to bring hope to the wandering men who were beginning to lose that last and most essential human possession.

CATHOLIC WOMEN TO HOLD MEETING HERE

Daughters of Isabella to Convene May 4. The annual state convention of the Daughters of Isabella will be held at the Claypool May 4 and 5, under the direction of Miss Mary I. Gilhooley, state regent. Features of the convention will be a mass at St. John's Roman Catholic Church at 7:30 Sunday morning, a visit to St. Elizabeth’s home, and a banquet in the Claypool Sunday night, at which Dr. James C. Carter, Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker. Entertainment of the visitors and delegates will be directed by the Mother Theodore Circle, of which Miss Hanna C. Dugan is regent. State officers include Miss Gilhooley, Mrs. Dorothy Louis, Princeton, vice-regent; Miss Ruth Kindler, Huntington, secretary; Miss Minnie Ryan, Gary, treasurer, and the Rev. Walter J. Cronin, Rich- : mond, chaplain STODDARD ON PROGRAM National Education Association Head to Give Talk. A. J. Stoddard, Providence, R. 1., president of the department of ; superintendence of the National Education Association, will speak Wednesday night at the meeting of I the Indianapolis School Men's Club in Caleb Mills Hall. Preceding Mr. Stoddard’s address ! there will be a dinner at 6:30 in Shortridge High School, followed by a program. MAXWELL BOOMED Former Safety Official Likely to Get Liquor Job. It was reported today that Bruce j Maxwell, who recently resigned as inspector of the bus and truck di- ; vision of the state department of safety, will be appointed to a post \ in the excise enforcement unit and j will have charge of liquor law enj forcement in the southern half of i the state. CLUB TO HOLD DANCE Traffic Group to Stage Ladies' Night Event Tonight. The Indianapolis Traffic Club will hold a "Ladies' Night” dinner dance tonight at the Columbia Club. Card playing also will be provided for guests. The committee in charge includes O. G. Hagemann, chairman: B. M. Angell, W. J. Hanley, Guy Weathers and E. P. Costello.

Second Section

Entrd an Second-Clan* Mitter at Foatoffice. Indianapnlia, Ind.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER TF it isn t too soon to be asking, would some representative feminist be willing to take the floor some time soon and give an accounting of the great improvement in the politics and morals of the country which was sure to follow the emancipation of the enslaved sex? Is the political improvement to be seen in the record of the late Tammany administration in New York or the reign of Big Bill Thompson in Chicago, in Huey Long's dictatorship in Louisiana or James A. Farley's practical spoilsmanship in Washington? Is the moral uplift

to be discerned, perhaps, in the growing popularity of sexual degeneracy as a humorous theme for comedians on the stage and in the cocktail rooms in the large cities? It is vour correspondent’s recollection that the ladies, with their superior decency, their shrewd intelligence and their pure patriotism were going to make this in all respects a better country to live in when they acquired the right to vote. This promise was held forth at a time when the males of the country had little to boast of in the way of political cleanliness and

the morals of the big cities were decidedly unsanitary in certain segregated sections. There were crooks in public office, taking orders fnm corrupt bosses who needed to be driven out and such festering spots as the San Francisco Barbarv Coast and the Chicago Line were a constant menace to the moral and physical health of the children of the women. When the women got the vote they were going to see to it that their children received decent government from their masters and vice, the monster, was going to be seriously disabled if not slain, n n a Just Another Politician UP to this time the woman who is active in politics has seemed to be pretty much the same sort of politician as the man, and the enfranchisement of the the women appears only to have created that many more ordinary Republicans and ordinary Democrats. In Washington, the woman politician demands her job as a reward for having played the same sordid political game that the men play and in the wards and precincts she is distinguished from the gents only by her sex. Certainly she has taken no leadership with the single notable exception of the fight for the repeal of prohibition in which Mrs. Sabin made good the promise in a limited way. then to retire abruptly as though the whole job of woman had been done. The lady job-holder, as every politician and reporter on the political run is aware, is animated by the same cheap, greedy personal ambition that controls the actions of the abominable males and the lady precinct worker’s sole motive in politics is to deliver the vote, elect the ticket and get what is coming to her. If there has been any change in the way of sanitation that is something which only an expert and an optimist could point out. The ladies voted for Jimmy Walker along with the men. they voted for Thompson in Chicago. Long in Louisiana and the local crooks in Miami. Fla., who have made the city the winter quarters of the underworld. a a a It’s Dangerous for Dogs TN the moral tone of the country the influence of woman, now that she is a full partner, has achieved no improvement which is perceptible to the naked eye or ear. On the contrary, it might even be argued that far from elevating the world the girls have been contaminated by their contact with it. Certainly they do a lot more swearing than was considered decent when they were yearning for equal standing at the polling places and the heartiest appreciation of the dirtiest songs and repartee of the most depraved entertainers in the polite resorts is pixhed in the shrill, alcoholic cackle of plastered, but respectable womanhood. At the time when the girls w r ere campaigning for the ballot, this sort of humor was considered to be something for the gents only and any male who had told or sung any such tale in the presence of the girls would have Deen put down for a cad and, more than likely, for a casualty. This is becoming serious because a man wishing to drop in some place for a little stimulant nowadays can never tell but that he will stumble into a roomful of the girls having an afternoon out and hear something that will cause the blush of embarrassment to mantle his cheek. Probably they ought to put signs over the ladies’ saloons “For Ladies Only.” Then, if a man should insist on going in, he would have only himself to blame if he heard language unfit for male ears. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today s Science

'T'HE creation of more wants, which will create A more jobs, is the path to recovery, Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Cos., the nation’s largest chemical concern, told the American Chemical Society at its general meeting in New York yesterday. Du Pont, one of the leaders of American industry, was one of the speakers in a symposium on ‘Chemical Industries.” His subject was “Human Wants and the Chemical Industry.” “The immediate job confronting us as chemists, business men and citizens,” he said, “is to apply our energy, ingenuity and skill to the promotion of national recovery, which in plain language means creating more wants and thereby more jobs. Emphatically, it docs not mean the destruction of wealth, arbitrary control of prices, class subsidies, and other measures contrary to principles established after generations of slow, painful experience.” No direct reference to the present national administration or any of its policies appeared in Mr. du Pont s prepared address. The chemical industry, he indicated, is ready to do its share in the creation of new wants as the result of intensive research carried on during the last five years. a a a HE divided the growth of the American chemical industries into three periods. The first period represented the growth of that part of the chemical business concerned with supplying industry in general with such necessary’ materials as sulphuric acid and the like. The second, ushered in-by the needs of the World War and President Woodrow Wilson’s decision to sell the German-owned chemical patents to the Chemical Foundation, represented the growth of the synthetic organic chemical industry. “The third phase of the development of the chemical industry in America covers the progress that has been made by research in the creation of new materials and new markets for chemicals,” Mr. du Pont said. Du Pont emphasized the importance of the chemical industries in time of war and in time of peace. n m m Regarding peacetime industries, Mr. du Pont said: “The automotive industry, in the fabrication of a car, uses, directly or indirectly, almost every product made on a large scale by the heavy chemical industry. The great industries such a textile, petroleum. paper, glass, mining and leather, are assured of an uninterrupted and complete supply of important raw materials.” Other speakers at the symposium included William B. Bell, chairman of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp.; Prof. Alfred H. White of the University of Michigan: Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of the Ethyl Gasoline Corp., and Dr. Roger Adams, president of the American Chemical Society.

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