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It Seems to Me HEVWOD BROUN SCRAM LODGE. Conn . Mav I.—Mv friend and associate. Joe Williams, th** 1 ports commentator, is largely responsible for th* place in which I find myself. It all began with his saying to me early one morning. ‘‘You know you're not the best writer in New York City, don't you?” I don t think that a difficult question should ever be answered hastily or impulsively and so I thought very hard for 15 seconds before I answered a shade evasively, "I don't suppose I am”

“You don’t suppose,” said Joe sneenngly. "You darn tootingly very well know Probably there are three or four thousand, maybe ten thousand, people in New York who write a good deal better than you do.” “There's no good in our losing our tempers or going into gross exaggerations,” I replied a little stiffly. “You don’t get me,” Joe explained. “All this is for your own good. Here in New York you're just a very small frog in a great pig puddle. What you say doesn't matter very much because so many people are saying the same thing

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and saying it better. You ought to find yourself a little bit of a puddle and then sit in it.” “If it were a very small puddle,” I replied with a good deal of dignity.” I couldn't sit in it. Or if I did nobody would notice the puddle.” Mr. Williams said that even a columnist ought to be able to recognize a metaphor whon one came up to bite him and proceeded to elucidate his theory. "Take any one of the homely philosophers.” he px.plain looking me straight in the eye, "What did v;verv one of them do?” ta. ‘He wrote hourly philosophy,” I ventured. Urt B B B coi dttle Puddle, Big Stone . . . course, of course,” said Joe, “but where did IIV-I he write it? On thp top of a hill, or beside a creek or from a little jerkwater town in Kansas.” “O. O. Mclntyre used to live at the Ritz,” I objected. ‘‘That's an exception,” admitted Joe, 'but Odd put alfalfa in his hair instead of vine leaves and managed to be bucolic even on Broadway. You couldn't get away with that. You don’t grasp what. I'm getting at. Here's the proposition. If you write a better mousetrap in the heart of a big city everybody will say. 'The man's a phoney.’ But do even a pretty good one in the heart of a trackless forest and somebody will come along and syndicate you. They'll begin to believe that you have a long white beard and that you get your stuff from the katydids and the crickets. ‘Put a date line like ‘Lonesome Valley’ over your tripe and people will begin to swallow it by the yard. You ear. get s' ay with murder. All you've got to do is to find some place so small that you're the best writer in the place. Just to be on the safe side it might be a good idea to find a spot where you’re the only writer.” I took Joe's counsel to heart and I’ve been snooping around all winter. Naturally, it took a good deal of sleuthing to find a spot which met the requirements. But at last I lit upon Scram Lodge. The man down the road told me that he was a carpenter in the winter time and raised garden truck in summer. Two miles north lives the shoemaker. That had me a little worried. Calvin Coolidge used to get a lot. of nis columns from a shoemaker friend who by a break in the luck happened to be a Congregationalist. Our Mr. Weber has quit shoemaking to run a filling station and besides he's a Baptist. a a a And T Vital a Splash! SCRAM LODGE seemed to be the spot, but into every Eden some serpent wanders. There was a knock on the door last night and it was the carpenter truck gardener. *T winder/’ he said, “if you could give me a little help.” “Sure.” I answered, “what can I do?” “Well. I wish you'd let me read you my second act. Mr. Weber says that thp peripety is wrong and that I've left out the obligatory scene. He thinks that I violate the unities when I have the countess suddenly recognize her lover as her half-brother. He says this ought to come in the penthouse scene. I'd like to get another opinion and I heard that you used to be a writer. There's no pleasing Weber. He thinks nobody has ever written a play since Euripides.” "I didn't know you were a writer,” I said in some consternation. “Why I thought I told you,” answered my neighbor from just across the road. “Oh yes. I'm a play carpenter for the Shuberts.” “It may be a little lonely for a literary fellow around here,'' the producer of garden truck continued. “until Ted and Red trnve.” “Ted and Red?” “Yes,” he condescended, “Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis.” (Coovricht. 1935)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

AN investigation into the cause of tooth decay, financed by a grant from the Buhl Foundation, Is to be carried on at the Mellon Institute. Pittsburgh. Dr. E. R. Weidlein. director, announces. The research, under the direction of Dr. Gerald J. Cox and Mary L. Dodds, will seek to establish a theory first formulated by the two experimenters in 1934. In their work last year, the two believe that they found evidence that the presence of a factor in the diet at a critical period of tooth formation leads to the development of teeth resistant to decay. In their preliminary studies last year, they observed anew type of experimental dental caries—or tooth decay—in rats that seemed to be related to the diet of the nursing mother at the time of the formation of the enamel of the teeth of the offspring. The lesions or decayed spots first appeared as opaque areas which later became open cavities. They resembled dental caries in human beings in many ways. This led the two experimenters to suspect that further work might throw light upon the method by which dental caries arise in human beings. Further experiments showed that the appearance of the caries was greatly reduced when the diet was supplemented with milk or certain constituents of milk. B B * THE first line of attack in the new researches will constitute an attempt to confirm the existence of the suspected factor. Then, if it can be definitely shown to exist, researches will be undertaken to learn its nature, properties, distribution and extraction. The third line of attack will be an attempt to isolate the factor and identify its chemical structure. Meanwhile, another set of experiments will be got under way to determine all the physiological processes which are likely to influence the development of dental caries. Dr. Cox and Miss Dodds will be assisted in their studies this year by W. E. Walker. In addition, they will have the advisory aid of Dr. L. H. Cretcher. head of the department of research in pure chemistry at the Mellon Institute, and also the advice of the other biochemical, food and nutritional experts on the staff of the institute. B B DENTAL canes, like the common cold, is now recognized as one of the most expensive afflictions of cinlization. Almost no one is immune from its inroads. At the present time, the dentist is in the position of a repairman. He can deal with dental canes only after they appear. As yet he knows no way to prevent ticm Various conflicting theones have been advanced to explain the cause of dental caries. Some authorities would blame a specific germ. Others think the action is chemical. Still others suspect a combination of both while vet other authorities would blame nutritional deficiencies which pave the way for either bacterial or chemical attacks or both. Q —Name the states in which women have been hanged or executed in recent times. A—New York, Pennsylvania. Vermont, New Jersey, Virginia. Georgia, Louisiana, Arizona, and the District of Columbia.

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THE REIGN OF ‘GEORGE THE WISE’

Popular King Is Ruler Who Knows Place’ in Modern Government

Th* humanly and hiytoriralW intfrfstin* tor of the eventful 35-year reign of King George V, whose Silver Jubilee will be celebrated throughout the vast British empire beginning May 6. Is told in a series of three daily articles by Milton Bronner, veteran foreign correspondent of XEA Service. The first article follows. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent 'Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, Inc.) T ON DON, May I. George V of England will never go down in history as George the Great, hut it well may be that in future years he will be described as George the Wise. He has recognized the limitations placed upon his hereditary office by the advancing tide of democracy. So he never has taken sides with a former Prime Minister against the one in power, as did his grandmother. Queen Victoria, who adored Disraeli and hated Gladstone. Nor has he ever sought to be a royal ambassador, making tours of Europe as did his father, Edward VIII. And the reward for his calmness, urbanity and levelheadedness in a popularity that few English kings ever have enjoyed—a popularity that will be evidenced for two months, beginning May 6, when all parts of the far-flung British empire will celebrate the Silver Jubilee of his accession to the throne. a b n AFTER 25 years of a personally tranquil, but politically eventful reign, what sort of man is this 70-year-old monarch today? Physically he is rather on the smallish side with a tip-tilted nose and a beard which was once dark brown, but is now rapidly growing silver, due partly to age, but more, perhaps, to his serious illness of some years ago. His walk is measured and stately. He has never been a great reader. Most of his book knowledge is from volumes ivhich give him information about international politics, history and economics. Like many another monarch. £as learned more by meeting men of all nations who are leaders in their professions. B B B IN a country much given over to outdoor sports, the king never has been known for athletic prowess. But he likes a good canter on a horse and is still considered one of the best shots in England. Every year he goes out for a little hunting of grouse and pheasants. His voice, like that of President Roosevelt, is a pleasant baritone. In public addresses his enunciation is beautifully clear and his timing is excellent, revealing the practical speaker. Moreover, his last two Christmas messages—heard throughout the world—were quite different from the speeches that are usually put in the king’s mouth by his cabinet ministers. The words seemed to be his very own. the tone in which he read them seemed to come from the bottom of his heart: “Christmas Day, with its hallowed memories, is the festival of the family. I would like to think that you, who are listening to me now. in whatever part of the world you may be, and all the peoples of this realm and empire, are bound to me and to one another by the spirit of one great family. . . . May I very simply

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON. May I.—The President has been scanning a lot of candidates .o head his rural electrification program, without much success. It is one of the toughest work-relief berths he has to fill—chiefly because both the farmers and the power companies have their expectations sky-high.

The farmers are counting not only on free transmission lines being run into their homes plus free lighting fixtures, but many of them also are counting on free current afterward. The private companies, on the other hand, are counting on taking over the lines after the Government erects them, then charging the farmer their own set price. Both interests are doomed to disappointment. Farmers are going to have to pay for part of the construction of power lines either in cash or in labor, while the Government plans to curb the private companies, make them keep prices down. How far these plans will be carried out remains to be seen. So far they have not got beyond a very nebulous stage. And the chances are the 5100.000.000 for rural electrification will not be spent until after 1936. tt * B THE President's granddaughter, Eleanor iSistie) Dali, was lying on a cot during the rest period at school recently engaged in a pastime that attracted the teacher's attention. She was sticking out her tongue, and curling it upward diligently. The teacher approached her. “What on earth are you doing that for. Eleanor?” she said. "I'm trying to touch the end of mv nose with my tongue.” she explained. “Mother can do it, and grandmother can do it. and grandfather can do it, and I'm practicing so I can do it, too.” BBS THE chances are good that despite tie fact it was sent back to committee, the Bankhead billion-dollar farm tenant

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and sincerely add that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five and twenty years.” B B B THE simplicity of this and the feeling for the family are characteristics of the monarch. He is pre-eminently a family man. When he has no public engagements, he likes nothing better than to sit in slippered ease by his own fireside. Philately has fascinated him from his earliest youth. He never accepts gifts of rare stamps for his vast collection. He either pays or them in cash or in kind. By the same token he and the queen never accept any favors from tradesmen. They are good customers because they pay promptly and on the nail. Unlike his cousin, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who always liked to don gorgeous clothes, the English sovereign only wears these when he must. If he opens parliament in state, he wears his robes and ermine. If it is a military or naval occasion. he wears the uniform of the army or the navy. But on all ordinary occasions he dresses like any other well-to-do, well-bred man. B B B EXCEPT for state dinners, the meals at any of his palaces are quite simple and very British. The purity of his court and his

will come back for discussion this session. Ordinarily, when a measure is returned to committee death is certain. But there is a very potent reason why the tenant bill will return. Senate Democratic Floor Leader Joe Robinson comes up for reelection next year. The Arkansan faces a hard fight. Huey Long is after Joe's scalp; and the Kingfish has a large following among Arkansas’ farm tenant and sharecropper population. So it is a safe bet that Senator Robinson will not allow the Bankhead bill to languish and gather mold in a committee pigeon-hole. b b a THE two men whom Huey Long privately admires most in the Cabinet are Secretary of State Cordell Hull and. strangely enough. Harold Ickes, the “Chinch Bug of Chicago." “it's a wonder Cordell Hull stays in the Cabinet,” says Huey. “He's so sincere most people won't pay any attention to him. I used to sit in the Senate and listen to him talk on tariffs when every one else had left the floor. I wanted to learn. “As for the Chinch Bug of Chicago. I think that's a swell name. But lekes is all right. The President just makes him do all these things against me.” nan SO seriously do fellow publishers take # the candidacy of Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News for President, that during the publishers' convention in New York wherever he moved became an impromptu "Knox Headquarters.” To fellow publishers, he expressed willingness to do anything possible to stop this “Butty New Deal.”

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home life, contrasting with that of many monarchs of the past and even some of the present day, has given him the whole-hearted respect of the middle and working class of Britain, whether Catholic, Church of England or nonconformist. Despite this, King George has not escaped the shafts of libelous tongues. There used to be a legend that he liked strong drink, until his illness revealed that the extent of his liquor was a small glass of wine, often diluted with mineral water. But* there was gossip far more scandalous than that. For years it was gossiped that the king, when a naval officer and with no thought of being the heir to the throne, had contracted a morganatic marriage with the daughter of an English admiral. Just as Theodore Roosevelt bided his time until he could sue somebody and thus forever disprove the story about his drinking habits, so the king quietly waited. BUB HIS chance came in 1911, when a man was caught distributing a newspaper printed in Paris and was brought to England. It contained the old charge. The man was promptly haled into court for criminal libel. The prosecution presented an air-tight case, forever destroying the gossip, and the jury promptly brought in a verdict of guilty. The accused went to prison. The king fully understands the uses of publicity and is, therefore. kind to the newspaper photographers, who desire to satisfy the public's interest in their sovereign. King George has not the great number of intimate friends that King Edward had. Many in his chosen circle are men with whom he served in the navy. Among literary men, Rudyard Kipling has been admitted to his friendship. Among diplomats, the late Paul Cambon, so long French ambassa-

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'The Queen and r These new portraits of King George and Queen Mary of England specially posed for the forthcoming Silver Jubilee of the king's reign have just been received in America. King George “is prettily deferential to his wife,” tv rites Milton Bronner in the accompanying article. The phrase is always “The Queen and IP

dor, and the late W. H. Page, American ambassador. an u ALTHOUGH much of his ancestry is German, the king has always felt himself all British. As much as a monarch can, he seeks to identify himself with the joys and sorrows of his people. During the war, when it became necessary to safeguard food, he at once announced that food restrictions would be observed in his home. When the drys were advocating

MAY DAY CELEBRATION ARRANGED BY KIWANIS Local Club to Mark 19th Anniversary of Founding. A special May day party will be held by members of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club in the Columbia Club ballroom tonight in observance of the 19th anniverary of the founding of the local organization. The weekly luncheon will not be held today. Dinner, which will be served at 6:30, will be followed by vaudeville entertainment, card playing and dancing. Arrangements for two floor shows have been made by Mrs. Russell J. Spivey. Members of the general arrangements committee are Frank J. Argast, Briant Sando, Emory R. Baxter, Dr. Russell J. Spivey and Alex Corbett, Jr. MORTICIANS TO MEET Herbert Wald Heads Committee Arranging State Session. Herbert R. Wald, with Wald Funeral Directors, has been named chairman of the general committee for the Indiana Ffineral Directors’ Association 55th convention. it was announced today. The sessions will be held May 21. 22 and 23 at the Manufacturers’ Building, Indiana State Fairground.

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that war-time prohibition be enforced., the king announced that for the duration of the war no liquor would be served in his palaces. No public subscription for any great cause is ever opened without a check promptly coming from the king. And he is prettily deferential to his wife. The phrase is always, “The queen and I.” NEXT The eventful early years of King George’s reign.

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Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. Advertising Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Alliance Francaise, 8; 30 p. m., Washington. American Business Club, luncheon. Indianapolis Athletic Club. City Firemen's Auxiliary, 8 p. m., Washington. Caravan Club, luncheon, Scottish Rite. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade. Indiana Retail Coal Merchants’ Association, all day, Claypool. Indiana Canners’ Association, 2 p. m.. Claypool. Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon. Washington. Real Estate Board, luncheon, Washington. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Nu. luncheon. Washington. OREGON SENATOR IS INVITED TO DANCE Frederick Steiwer Asked to Attend Sigma Nu Kallv. An invitation to attend the Sigma Nu state rally and dance, to be held at the Columbia Club Saturday night, has been extended to Sena or Frederick Steiwer, Oregon, it was announced today by Malcolmn C. Sewall, national secretary of the fraternity. Senator Steiwer. a member of the organization, will be in Indiana over the week-end and he promised to attend if possible. James W. Noel, Indianapolis attorney, will be the principal speaker, and David C. Pyke will act as toastmaster. Approximately 150 couples are expected to attend the dinner. JUDGE COX DISCOVERS TERPISCHOREAN TALENT Relates Characteristics of “Buzzard Flop,” a Kentucky Carioca. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox revealed today in conversation with court attaches that he is a profound student of the dance and that his research on this subject has discovered ‘the shakingest dance ever seen.” This dance, according to the jurist, is the “Buzzard Flop” and is practiced in the dim recesses of kentucky. It resembles a combination of the rumba £nd the carioca, in the opinion of Judge Cox.

POKE IN NOSE COSTS NEW AUGUSTAN S4OO So Superior Court Jury Decides in Award to Mrs. Frankie Bowman. The cost of poking another person in the nose is exactly S4OO, a Superior Court jury decided yesterday in awarding damages iO that amount to Mrs. Frankie Bowman, Brown County farmer. Mrs. Bowman charged in her complaint that George W. Watkins. New Augusta, struck her in the nose during an altercation over the mortgage on the Bowman home held by Mr. Watkins. She asked for $2500 damages. The jury was out only ,an hour.

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Fair Enough WBIBROOK PEGltt JACK DEMPSE\ is currently engaged in a line of work known in the sport industry as fronting. That is to say. Mr. Dempsey has his name up in electric lights over a big. new restaurant just across the street from Madison Square Garden and is. for public purposes, the manager and proprietor of the place. The name and fame of Mr. Dempsey and the freedom of the sports writers to name names in his copy have created much free publicity for this res-

restaurant. Asa restaurant man, however. Mr. Dempsey starts cold, never having fired a cook or stretched a kettle of soup with another dipper of tap water, under professional conditions, in all his life. About all the technical knowledge that he had of the restaurant business up to the time of the opening of the doors was a vague and. possibly, untrue report that the late Fred Harvey, the founder of the Santa Fe chain of eating houses, called his sons to his side as he lay on his death-bed and took leave of them with a solemn admonition to slice the ham thin, boys.

Nevertheless, the restaurant known as Jack Dempsey's Place seems to be doing somewhat better than all right The reason I mention the subject is that it arouses an old curiosity, never satisfactorily answered in the course of some years in the newspaper business, as to why it is that we lavish free advertising on certain groups of people, even when we know they are imposing on us, and strictly exclude from our news columns the particular mention of responsible, permanent business houses, such as department stores, which spend millions of dollars with the newspapers. Mr. Dempsey has never laid so much as a dime on the counter of an advertising office and neither has the industry with which he was formerly connected. Yet Dempsey and Madison Square Garden, the New T York Giants and hundreds of other individuals and soulless corporations having stockholders, can command space next to reading matter almost, at will. a a a Just a Publicity-Maker IN the particular case of Mr. Dempsey, the restaurateur. an advantage is conferred over the proprietors of other restaurants who have been dealing them off the arm for many years, some of whose customers nowadays are being directed to Dempsey’s place by this publicity. The customers wish to shake the hand that put Gene Tunney down for the count of 14 and talk with him. personally, and come away with his autograph on the menu. It can nardly be argued that Dempsey is a sporting figure and thus a subject of sport news in his new environment because he hasn’t had a fight since and never will fight again. In fact, not only Dempsey, but many another figure of the type called the celebrity, has frankly sold out as a publicity-maker to promotions of various kinds, from real estate developments to patent medicines. They know they can create publicity, sometimes merely by their presence, so they hire out to promoters and exploiters and the papers permit their columns to be used to advertise free the business projects of those who engage them. On the other hand, it is a rule of the newspaper business to avoid the particular mention of stores and trade-markpd commodities which advertise widely. Such mention is known as the sneak ad and is avoided unless it is justified by some actual news. That is fair enough, to be sure, because it would not do to have the news columns salted with sneak ads disguised as news, but if it is fair for the advertisers who support the papers it should be fair for a retired prize fighter, for example, who hasn't made any news for years when he associates himself with a restaurant, a haberdashery, a cigar store or a line of sporting goods. B B B Ah, That Christmas Rush IHAVE seen frequent mention of Mr. Dempsey’s restaurant but none of it, except, perhaps the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone, which were attended by the mayor, would have been considered worth-while as news if it had related to any other restaurant. For that matter, even in their sporting environment, these champions who make this news as we call it, are business men r s certainly as any department store in the country which buys its advertising at the rate of so much fer so many lines. Dempsey was no amateur in either Philadelphia or Chicago and is neither an amateur nor a sporting figure today. Yet, for years to come, writers who are getting into their memoirs will recall his business transactions in those two cities on days when there is nothing more alive with which to fill a column. I do not expect to see the day, however, when a reporter on the news side, having nothing better to do, writes himself a long piece and gets it into print recalling the stirring scene of a Christmas rush or the memorable white goods sale at the leading department store some years back. I hope I am not putting ideas into the heads of advertisers who are in the habit of paying cash for their space. Dempsey never will or can pay for his and it would be inconvenient to place the advertisers on the same footing with him. Perhaps it is something which I shouldn't have mentioned at all, but should have just continued to wonder about, privately. / (Coovright. 193 C bv Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN YOU can enjoy any of the fruits that appeal to you. and at the same time get most out of them in the form of vitamins, if you will remember that various processes to which fruits and vegetables are subjected have significant effects upon the vitamins. It is known, for instance, that oxidation will destroy vitamin C. and that action of certain chemicals will have deteriorating effects upon other vitamins. It is important to know this, since vitamins have been found to be essential factors in our diets, in addition to the proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral salts. Recently, investigators of the University so California made a study of the amounts of the variqps vitamins in a certain variety of seedless grapes and in the raisins made from them. BBS MOREOVER, this destruction of vitamins seems to be progressive. Sun-dried raisins, for example, show only a slight trace of vitamin A. whereas dehydrated raisins, including those treated with sulphur, appear to retain the full vitamin A content of the fresh fruit. Natural sun-dried raisins were found to be wholly lacking in vitamin A. and two soda-dipped products retained only 15 to 20 per cent of the vitamin value of the fresh fruit. As far as Vitamin C is concerned, none of the raisin products was found to be able to protect animals against scurvy- It was found, moreover, that grapes, whether in fresh form or in the form of raisins, were not especially rich in vitamin B. Vitamins A and C are known to be destroyed readily by the oxidation processes and. therefore, would be prohibited by a sulphur process. On the other hand, vitamin B would be injured by the same process. BBS FOR this reason, the California investigators are inclined to say that there is no single rule which embodies the best practice in drying methods for all fruits or for all vitamins. Thus, peaches and apricots are the best sources of vitamins A and C and quite poor sources of vitamin B, and should be sulphured. Raisins and prunes are good sources of vitamin B and poor sources of vitamins 4, and C. and shoulcf not be sulphured. <.

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