Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1935 — Page 13

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN MIAMI Nov. 12 The rr.an who sat across the . table In the locker room suddenly switched the corv.ei atiot from golf to war He was reminded by something which was said about a tournament on Armistice Day. ”1 didn't play.’ he said. “Two days a year I reserve for getting tight no matter what the temptation mav he to stay ober. I keep my birthday ant Armistice Day sacred ' "You see." he continued. “I was in the Marines, and 'lie day the news of the armistice came I was

drilling men Good soldiers they were. too. But when the word came I told 'em to break ranks, and 1 went and lay down on mv cot and I made a vow Id drill no men any more. The captain told me the next day that we must on as usual, but I said to him. Ive drilled five companies that went to France, and almost all of them are dead. My job Is done.' And that's why I get drunk on Armistice Day. I never want to talk or hear of war again.” The lieutenant certainly chose a good spot in which to keen his

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vows. I was suddenly reminded of •he fact that for an entire week I have not heard a -ingle soul mention either Italy or Ethiopia. Roosevelt's New Deal and England's traditional naval supremacy are eoually out of mind. The local pmss plays up Florida sunshine and the local football team -omewhat. tactlessly nicknamed the Miami Hurricanes, above world politics. a a a Hr mm, Tlml ft real Old dolfer SPOR I and the talk of sport seem to bp the opiate of Ihp leisure classes. If Ponce dc Leon had only been -tirewd enough to quit looking for water and lake his Scotch neat, he might have renewed his lost youth bv listening to some athlete describe the precise manner in which he got his three at the eleventh hole. I moved away from the ocean front because I found the waves too noisy and took up residence at the edge of a golf course, which was a sort of frying pan leap. Still I must admit that I have found the chatter of the golfers more soothing than the roar of the Gulf Stream. I have even bought myself a niblick, and almost any morning now I intend to play a, hole. The one just outside the door is 500 feet .long, and so if I can make it and get back again I wiii have walked something more than a mile, which v. ill do well enough for a beginning. Nor will I be disappointed to get a 10 or 11 for a starter. 1 have been talking to Sam Parks, the Open champion, and he assures me that he showed no particular promise in his early days. He built his game tip gradually, gaining a little more prowess each year. To he sure, he started at, the age of 12, while 1 ain just a shade more tardy. Still I see no reason why 1 should not be playing a rattling good game in the low seventies by the time I am in my middle sixties. Sarazen was the pro who taught young Parks, never dreaming, T suppose, that some 13 years later his pupil would top him in the Open. * a u Hobby .lanes, dear,(jia Hurricane BU’l some of the golfing masters showed genius at the very start, according to the anecdotes 1o which I listened. Kerr Petrie remembered Bobby •tones whpn he first went North to play in an amateur championship at the age of 14. He was playing Ed Byers,” Mr. Petrie recalled, when I first caught sight of him. It was at the Merion Cricket Club, and he was bunkered in that, deep (tap—at, the fifth hole, I think. The top of the pit, was well over little Bobby's head. I couldn't see him, but I did catch the flash of his niblick as he lore into the ball and shot it out kerplunk against the pm, And I said to myself. "Some day that kid's going to make a pretty good golfer or I nnss my guess.’ Mr. Petrie did not miss his guess, but, he admitted that the career of tlie man who later made the golf grand slam may have turned upon a single episode in that same tournament. Although the 14-year-old boy eliminated the veteran Byers, it was a ding-dong match, in which the youngster lost his temper sufficiently to hurl two clubs into the rough as if they had been 16-pound hammers. Alter the second cyclone Mr. Adair, who was acting as mentor (or his son and Jones, came over and said sternly. “Bobby, this tournament can get along very nicely without, you, and if you so much as wave another club I'm going to snatch you right off the course, rto matter how the match stands, and ship you home to Georgia.” That frightened Bobby Jones so much that never again in his long tournament eateer did he ever hurl an iron. I know the story isn't new. but it has an excellent moral value. And if anybody asks what 1 am doing in my old agp writing ancient golf ancedotes foi purposes of uplifting the general public. I can only reply that it must be the Florida climate. iCopvrieh’ ioa s •

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

• 'OR some limp now vou may have read about the ■ use of high fever for treatment of all sorts of diseases Many machines have been developed, and these are distributed widely through hospitals, and through the medical profession. So rapid has been the growth of this treatment that doctors recently held a conference on the subject, to get some line on development of the method and its actual usefulness. Fever treatment first was introduced because it was found that certain germs could not live in high temperatures. It was recognized that the fever reaction of the human body is an attempt by the body t get rid of disease. 9 a a '"■MIE conditions most seriously studied during reJ. cent months have been rheumatism in its various forms, which do not yield to other methods of treatment: casts of asthma which are difficult to control, and a number ol other serious types of infection. Out of 129 patients, with chronic infectious rheumatic diseases, who were treated with the fever method, less than 10 per cent became free of their symptoms and only 30 per cent received some lelief. In general, the results have been disappointing with chronic rheumatic disease, and a little better in the acute or early cases. Many rases of asthma treated with the high fever method have seemed to be benefited, at least for a time but none apparently was completely cured. Cases of epidemic sleeping sickness and of shaking paisv have been treated without any ip?l success.

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\N invisible foe may prove th* moat dangerous - for the Italian forces in Ethiopia. Bacteria, rather than bullets, may make things most difficult for the soldiers of Mussolini. That is the opinion of Dv. .T a. Douli. professor of hygiene and public health at the Western Reserve University Medical School. Malaria and various intestinal diseases are nigh■v prevalent in Ethiopia. Dr. Douli believes. Other diseases which must be reckoned with in his opinion are cholera, bacillary dysentery, amebic dysentery, blackwater fever, typhus, relapsing fever and a variety of skin infections such as the tineas, scabies and impetigo. If the Ethiopian campaign should continue longer than a year, he believes that the Italian commanders will be fortunate if fewer than 10 per cent of the troops are attacked by malaria a a a THE "unseen allies of Haile Selassie" i what Dr Douli calls the disease germs in a contribution* 'o the bulletin of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland. In militarv campaigns, casualties from infectious disease usually far exceed those due to engines and weapons of war," he says. This is more conspicuously true when the contested area is the tropics and it is significant that under these circumstances the invading foice. if white, is more affected ” Little is kniwn of the extent to which specific diseases prevail in Ethiopia. Dr. Douli says

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Old Indian Game of Archery Comes Into Its Own in Indiana

BY lOE COLLIER Tim * <ta ff Writer COMEWIIERE IN BROWN COUNTY, Ind., Nov. 12. Rabbits in this part of the country are having bow-and-arrow trouble for the first time since the Indians left, but they don’t seem to be losing any sleep over it. Between b 0 and 30 archers are in the 1300-acre preserve set aside for their personal hunting, stalking all open-season game. Most of them have agreed, after the first two days of hunting, that it might lie well for them to have a Pilgrim or so to brush up on, but there is some confusion about the law on Pilgrims, and besides there are no good healthy Pilgrims around the country, according to old and trusted inhabitants.

Nevertheless, the archers are out in force in this preserve, quiet as mice, looking lor rabbits, and hoping that before they return to their offices they will have shot one, dead, for picture, conversation, pride and epicurean purposes. At least one rabbit has bitten the dust, but it bit it, alone and in solitude Sunday, and the archer wh(s hit it couldn’t prove a thing in the noonday court around the open fire grill that reeked with steaks. tt tt tt HE was Virgil Healy of South Bend, state champion archer and president of the state association for next year. He reported to the “court” that he had shot an arrow clear through a rabbit which was in such a hurry that it apparently didn’t stop to notice. Mr. Healv retrieved his arrow and then started looking for the rabbit but never was able to locate it. Fur and blood stuck to the arrow, so it probably went through the little rascal, but it had time to get somewhere to die alone. This action of the lone rabbit victim was regarded by the archers as an idea of what they are going to be up against so far as the attitude of the game is toward them. Maybe, they reason, things will get better as the game gets more used to “arching.” tt a a ANYWAY, when all the archers gathered at, the stunning new shelter house the State Conservation Department built for them at the entrance to the reservation. they exchanged stories of the chase that the gun-and-dog boys never hear of. To be an archer-hunter, and be serious about it, you must try to find rabbits who haven't the slightest notion you are away from home at all. much less around there. An archer gets his best shot when the rabbit is sitting. Even with them still, a champion archer can be no more than 50 per cent deadly on a sitting rabbit at 20 to 40 yards. When they are running only luck can score for an archer. As for birds, they are pretty safe any time, because if they get into the air an archer is apt just to waste an arrow. What archers want is an open season on all game for them from Nov. 1. and they ran prove that the life expectancy of the game would be just about the same as always. tt tt tt BOW and arrow hunting is an expensive proposition. Arrows cost not less than 50 cents each. Most of them cost sl.

Machines That Think Quite a Big Noise in the Government's Affairs and Ernie May Rent One to See How Much Work They Do

RY ERNIE PYLE Times Staff Writer Y Y TASHINGTON, Nov. 12. VV Somebody told me the Federal Housing Administration had a machine that could think So I went over and asked them, and they said they weren't sure about that, but they did have a lot of people who couldn't think. Which, even if it is a good crark, didn't seem to get us anywhere, so we went rummaging around up on the top floor till we found this machine. Not only one machine, but a whole room full of them, busy thinking away and adding and multiplying and figuring up interest and mortgage dates all over the place. I couldn't exactly understand the machines, but I did gather that thev aren't anything new, that they've been in use. as a matter nf fact, for 45 years, and that every other department in the government, except the State Department, has them. And here I had never heard ot them. Which just goes to show that vou can go to college and travel and have all the advantages and still not find out much about life if you have a natural bent for being dumb. Ban , 'J''HE machine was invented beT tween 1880 and 1890 by Dr Herman Hollerith, a native of Buffalo, who was a tabulator m the 1880 census. He saw that with the population growing the way it was. the job of tabulating the census by hand in another 10 years was going to get clear out of control. So he rigged up this machine, in two parts. The first part simply punched holes in cards. The second part sorted the cards. These cards were ruled in cross columns, with each square meaning a certain thing. The punch operator would transfer the information on each individual's census schedule—whether the man was white, married, ill, his age, occupation, how many mules he owned, and all that stuff—to the card, by punching a hole in a certain spot. Then say, for instance, they

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Y r ou can put as much into a bow as you want to. but not as little. They cost money, because they are made of unusual and expensive woods. Most of the archers make their own bows and arrows, each according to his own idea of just how much a rabbit can take. Hunting arrows usually are tipped with metal, sometimes in the form of a conventional Indiana arrow head, but mostly smaller and deadlier. A hunting arrow would go through you like a bullet, at 20 yards if it were twanged from a reasonably strong bow? by a capable shot. Archers are much more careful about pointing their drawn Arrows at someone else “just in fun” than are people who handle guns. It may be that they are more sensible, and it may be that you can’t plead that you didn't know a bow was loaded. Anyway, they don't do it. a a a MOST of the archers are staying here for from three days to two weeks, and appear to have enough arrows to last the time out. If they hit a tree, stone, stump or slab of Indiana limestone the arrow is likely to be ruined. They lose a lot of them, too, and their rule is this: It takes an hour to make an arrow, and it is worth your while to look an hour for a lost arrow. The preserve itself is dense with second growth timber and beautiful in its solitude. It is hilly, and safely removed from the gun preserve—and vice versa. The hunt for the preserve itself is as gamey as the hunt for rabbits. There are at least three or four bewildering forks in the park trails that would put an Indian on his mettle. The conservation department has all archers register when they enter and when they leave the preservation. The department also counts all game taken. This is a, test year. If the preserve is well used, it will be continued. If not. it will be discontinued. tt tt tt SOME of the archers wear clothing that makes them look like Robin Hood. Some of them just wear any old thing. In general. the male archers are more gaudy in their -dress than the female archers. Nobody seems to know just why this is. There are archers registered from as far north as South Bend and as far south as Evansville. Appropriately enough, there are signs with arrows bounding the preserve. Incidentally, best authorities say the present-dav archer is much more accurate, deadly and expert, than the Indians ever were with bow and arrow. They also have better equipment. This mixes up a lot of people about the whole thing.

wanted to find out. how many white males of 52 had bad hearts and raised wheat, they’d just sgt the sorting machine, feed in the cards, and it would automatically tabulate them. ff a a HPHE principle is about the same as that of a player piano. Little brushes, each connected with an electric wire, rub over the cards as they go by. When the brush comes to a hole it drops down and completes the electrical circuit, and the fact it registered on the counter.

Baldwin Faction Is Losing Power as Election Nears

1 ONDON. Nov. 12.—The op- ■*“' position's chances to cut deeply into the present majority of the National government appeared to be growing brighter today. Leader? of the Baldwin-Simon-MacDonald national coalition redoubled their efforts to get out a big vote in the election Thursday of anew Parliament. The government has expected from the beginning of the campaign that labor would make gains, but in the last few days fear has been growing that these may be uncomfortably large. With Sir Herbert Samuel’s libeials now opposing the government, small majorities in some constituencies easily might be turned into defeats. One significant indication of the government's pessimism over the size of its majority— not even the laborites expect the government. to be defeated—was the trend of betting odds. When betting opened last Tuesday. even money was offered that the government's majority would be 200. By Saturday, this prospective majority had dropped to 170. For example, a client buying at 200 for ten shinnings would receive 10 shillings for every seat

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935

Stalking game with the bow and arrow. Indiana archers this year are combing a 1500-acre preserve m (he Brown County State Park marked off for them. Upper. Mrs. Jane Lincoln (left), wife of VV. B. Lincoln, 3507 N. Pennsylvania-st. and Mrs. Anne Healy, wife of Virgil Healy, South Bend. Mr. Lincoln is this year’s president of the Stale Archers Association, and Mr. Healy is the state’s champion areher and next year’s association president. Lower (left! is Tom Hprron. Evansville, rooking a steak (row’s) for luncheon at the shelter house after a morning hunt, and (right) Mr. Healy. stalking game.

When it’s all over, the machine adds up its figures, prints them, rings a bell and hands you a cigar. In 1890, in a contest, Hollerith's machine worked eight times as fast as any other system, so the Census Bureau rented his machines. That was the beginning of what they now call "business machines." the machines that think, and although improvements have been as great as in the automobile, the principle is still exactly the same. Hollerith sold his patents to

over 200 in the government's majority and pay in shillings for every seat under 200. Sellers operate similarly, with the latest quotation 160. meaning that they believe the government majority will be 160 or less.

LOWER PRICES PUT PORK BACK ON MENU

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer. TX.WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. —Pork chops are Vt sizzling again in the family frying pan and ham, bacon and sausage may soon be restored to the daily breakfast menu. For the fall pig crop is now being harvested and prices are dropping all the way along the line from farmer to consumer. Retail prices for fresh pork are considerably below 7 those of the summer, anci a drop in smoked meats is expected to follow according to Agriculture Department marketing experts. A threemonth "time-lag’’ causes the difference in the price levels between the fresh and cured meats. Sales of pork chops, loins and spare ribs are two or three times greater now' than in August, when chop? were being retailed around 40 to 47 cents a pound. They can now be had at 29 to 32 cents, and some pork cuts are as low a? 22 cents. A vear from now the prices will be even lower, it is predicted. Increased production and not thp so-called ‘ buyers' strike" is causing this change, according to Don Montgomery, AAA consumers counsel.

International Business Machines, and made a fortune. He died in 1929, and his family still lives here. The company now has machines thinking in 44 countries. tt * a r I ''HE machines are manufactured in Endicott, N. Y., but all the cards for them are made right in Hollerith's original workshop here. They make millions of cards a day. They also maxe AAA farmers' checks. This is the only government paper that passes for money that is not made in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. So the Treasury keeps. * man at the card plant all the time. International Business Machines doesn't, sell these machines. It rents them out by the month. It has them in 50 separate divisions of the government here. In some it has only a couple; in others dozens. They rent i om S5 to 5350 a month. Mechanics are on hand all the time to keep them running.

There is no evidence that the high perk price;; brought any permanent change in diet habits, he says. With the lower prices pork is again a leading item on the all-American menu. What the future holds for the hog market was outlined by a group of experts meeting here and forms a chapter in the department annual called "The Agricultural Outlook for 1935-36,” now in process of publication. They found that the down trend of hog production ended last spring. Production is now- increasing and this will be reflected in increased slaughter supplies next summer. These supplies are expected to fall off between now and April, compared to the same period a year ago. but they are expected to increase thereafter to the end of the season in September. Hog prices between now and npxt September are expected to average higher than in 1934-35. but they will not be as high as last summer's peak. Continued increases in production in 1936 and 1937 are in prospect.

The Census Bureau rents some, but also owns some, developed there after Hollerith's time. The census people say it isn’t so much a matter of saving money; it simply w'ould be a physical impossibility, no matter how many thousands of people they had working, to tabulate the present census by hand. By the time they were finished w'ith the 1930 census, the 1940 and 1950 censuses would be piled up waiting for them. At one time, the Census Bureau had 1500 girls operating the card punch machines. It has got to be such a big thing that secretarial schools are offering courses in it. But it seems to me one of the worst possible ways of making a living—punching holes in cards all day long. The Census Bureau has more than 300 million of these cards on file. Federal Housing has 400 million. If you want to find how many cards ail of the bureaus had you'd have to rent another machine to add them up.

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Fair Enough WESUMPEGLER C” 1 ENEYA. Nov. 12.—0n all sides in Geneva fasT cinating stories arc to be heard of fabulous graft which is received by European newspaper publishers and by some of the writers from various govCMiments which desire to create public opinion in otner nations. This can hardlv be true for German. Italian and Russian journalists in the present state of affair-, because journalism is extinct in those countries No paper is permitted to print anything which is not approved by the dictatorship.

and writers, under such conditions. are not worth the price ot a subsidy or bribe, however small. Propaganda is all they have left of a proud old profession. This must be a deep humiliation to the craft of journalism, in Germany, at least, because Germany in other times possessed some strong, honest newspapers directed by courageous editors with the assistance of good newspaper men. The British and Americans

enjoy an honorable reputation still, but it is a strange experience to observe possibly as many as 200 gentlemen of the press m a bit < fa press room and adjoining lobby in the temporal’. Palace of Peace, to hear snatches of conversation in many tongues and to wonder what well-poisoning they are up to. And it is no wonder that officials of the League of Nations are genuinely worried over Mexico s offer of the artistic services of Senor Diego Rivera, the revolutionary artist, to adorn with appropriate murals the great new press room of the great permanent Palace of Peace. Senor Rivera is more a political and social cartoonist than a conventional mural artist, and his satire is bold and contemptuous, • tt tt tt Why ( ompliment the Hays? AS an admirer of Lenin. Rivera might find it difficult to extol the slave press of the Soviet Union while condemning on the same wall the journalism of Germany and Italy for its submission lo similai slavery. That would be his problem, however. But dictators pass, and presumably the time will come when papers now controlled by force and the threat of prison of death will revive and regain their self-respect and that of the world. True, it will be necessary to have anew breed of journalists, anew profession of journalism in such countries, because the old hands will have died or entered into other lines cf work. That will take more or less time, ae,cording lo the character of the country. Germans should rebound more quickly than others. But a press which bears the notorious reputation of French journalism has no such excuse. Barring a few decrees of expediency designed to prevent impetuous and possibly corrupt, papers from balling up delicate international negotiations or causing trouble by insulting foreign nations. the French press enjoys complete freedom and yet has managed to discredit and disgrace itself. The suggestion was instantaneous when Senor Rivera was nominated that he portray the French Press as a street walker plucking at the sleeve of a munitions magnate. But the world has a certain sentimental pity for the unfortunate ladies of th<? pavement which would hardly apply in this picture. tt tt tt Xo. 1 Enemy of Eeace T AM not intimately familiar with the subsidies to A the French press, but there are exceptions. These men and women stick out. and common honesty earns them the distinguished regard of the British and American members of the corps. Under the circumstances it would seem that the press of the world does not deserve the honor of a huge press room in the new Palace of Peace and is not worth the bother of the controversy which the Senor Rivera cartoon is reasonably certain to arottsp. To be sure, the murals, if they are sufficiently’ savage in their indictment of the craft which will work in their accusing presence, will briefly call the world's attention to the degradation of journalism, but that would not cure it. I do not know what was the condition of journalism 25 or 50 years ago. but as a world institution it rould hardly have been anything more foul than it is today. The institution which is to enjoy the prerogatives and the convention of the new world press room in the great Palace of the League of Nations must b regarded as the tool of world politicians and itself an enemy of peace.

Added Defense BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 12.—This is the third answer to Scripps-Howard editorial criticism of my Cabinet articles. As to Danny Roper. I was more gentle than th® editor. I only called him a “political expert." The editor went a step further. Let’s both tell the truth —he is a political gunman. But the editoi had his tongue in his cheek when he said that Gerard Swope and other "luminous figures” on Danny’s Industrial Committee put business in touch with this Administration, and that Danny's counsels in the Cabinet take care of the business viewpoint. The committee are just plumes on a hearse and Danny is deadwood in any Cabinet conference. They, at least, have his number so well that he doesn’t count. I had said that there is a wholly unnecessary, growing, bitter hostility between business and the President which may defeat Roosevelt. That would be a catastrophe—as bitter to the editorial part of the liberal Scripps-Howard papers as to me It tvas Danny's business to prevent that because there is no such hostility in the President's mind. The reason he didn't do it is not the point. The fact that he didn't justify what I said. tt a a ON this trip I have talked privately to hundred? of people in Cleveland. Detroit. Chicago. Kansas City, Amarillo and Dallas I have exposed myself to tens of thousands in audiences, in mast of these places and begged them to take off the gloves and ask questions—which they gleefully did for hours on end. My conclusion so far i= this: Substantial recovery is under way. Detroit is actually happy. Conditions are better in Cleveland than at any time in the depression. Chicago lags but is on its way. Every index in Kansas City points upward. Dallas is and has been ahead of all other sections and even the hard-hit Panhandle is coming strong. Invariably the reaction is that there is no hope for employment unless some form of NRA returns. It is coming as sure as Christmas. I crossed the trail of Stuart Chase, who once condemned it. and found that he had preached it with the fervor of a new crusade. Franklin Roosevelt is as much of an idol as ever, but the very men and the very things I have criticised have bewildered the nation. They are to the President like the old man of the sea on Sinbad's shoulders. They can lick him and. if they are not piped down, they will The most naive responses to tnv criticisms were Harry Hopkins' to the effect that it was cockeyed" for me to be for the President and not for all of Harry's works; and Henry the Morgue's suggestion that, I am double-crossing the President because I criticised him. That expresses the whole trouble. These people are either for themselves or for som® private phantasy. before evervthing—the Democratic Party, the President, the people and this country Some of these vagaries have grievously hurt the President and if they are not taken in hand, they may lick him. (Copvrleht. 19J5. by turned Feature S-r.dieate Inc >

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