Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1935 — Page 17

It Seems to Me HEVMIOII BROUN TJETSY ROSS in Heaven above must have occasional twinges of conscience. I rather fear that she murmurs on occasion, “Whatever did I do it for?” Asa sensible and practical patriot she must be disturbed by the fearful things which the hundred and ten percenters are doing to the lovely flag she made. Os late the lawmakers seem intent upon making the symbol of our land serve as a matador’s scarf. In many places Old Glory is being used by selfish

politicians as a means of incitement and punishment. I suppose the stupidest ordinance of the lot is that which has just been passed by a contemptuous crew in the New York Board of Aldermen. These worthies have flouted the fine traditions of our land and made the flag a plaything in order to please Mr. Hearst. Betsy Ross herself might possibly fall under the penalties prescribed. At any rate, if she were alive today she would have to take a tape and measure every banner which she made in order to ascertain that it was of legal length and breadth.

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And to be on the safe side she could use no material capable of shrinking. At every meeting, whether held in a public hall or private home, a flag must be displayed cut to meet the precise requirements of the aldermen. Most shamefully, all this is done in the name of patriotism. Obviously, it is quite the reverse. People who love the flag do not mock it by passing malicious ordinances to curb labor and progressive movements. Remember that under this brazen act of the aidermen the police could enter any man’s home and say, “I saw some people coming in here. I dropped around to see if you’re having a meeting and whether you've got a flag of the right measurements on display.’* tt tt tt What About Tain /teds? TP the aldermen have a right to tell the private citizen what size flag he must have on his wall, there is nothing to prevent these august fathers .rom making twin beds compulsory or ordering each citizen of New York to wear a red. white and blue necktie 26 inches by 3.127. When aldermen start to go foolish there’s no stopping them till they reach the bottom of the hill and plunge into the sea. It is well to remember that the flag ordinance was passed unanimously and that there was not a single member to stand up and protest against this unpatriotic and fascistic gesture. The word unpatriotic is used advisedly. A small body of dullwitted and timid men have had the unmitigated gall to set themselves up as destroyers of civil liberty. It will be of little use to require the aldermen of New York to go back to school and acquaint themselves with the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson respecting such matters. Some of our city fathers can’t do much with books except look at the pictures. I would not be in the least surprised to find out that some of them have a vague notion that Thomas Jefferson is a Hcarst editorial writer. it a Only One Satisfaction THE only satisfaction that may come out of the law is the hope that a number of the aldermen themselves may be arrested and fined under the stupid thing they call an ordinance. If the Mayor fails to veto this monstrosity I purpose to call up police headquarters upon the instant and suggest that a riot squad immediately be sent down to collar the Board of Estimate, which has been holding hearings in a chamber devoid of any American flag. It would be pleasant, too, to break into some back room and find a number of the boys discussing heavy politics without sanction of a flag of legal dimensions. The New York Board of Aldermen does not merit the good will of citizens. It never has. Indeed, all the best informed students of municipal problems think it should be abolished. But the present board, at least, has done something for which it should be long remembered. It has established anew and alltime low for stupid legislation. And when you consider some of the competition it has had recently that really is a record. (Copyright, 1935)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

MOST authorities are convinced that the average person should have at least 100 grams of pro- ' tein every day. This is about one-fifth of a pound. An ordinary glass of milk, which weighs 220 grams, contains about seven grams of protein. Since the minimum protein requirement of the human body, as i have previously told you, is 44 grams a day, the amount of protein in a glass of milk represents about one-6eventh of a person’s daily need. I have already shown you that the proteins are probably the most important food substances, because they build body tissue and take care of damage and repair. The proteins of milk are at the top biologically, which means that their usefulness in living tissues is greatest. The proteins of eggs come next, then follow the meats, kidneys ranking first, then liver, and then those of the muscle meats. After these come the plant proteins, such as the cereal grains, including wheat, corn, rice, peas, and beans. a a a FOR your guidance, I havp mad# up the following list of foods that are rich in proteins and those that are poor in proteins: RICH TROTEIN FOODS Beans, dried Gluten products Poultry Cheese Lentils, dried Shrimp Crab Lobster Soy-bean prodEels Meats ucts Eggs Nuts Wheat cereals Fish Peanut butter Fish roe Peas, dried TOOR PROTEIN FOODS Beans, string Fruit juices Refined carboCabbage family Honey and hydrates vegetables syrups Rhubarb Carrots Okra Salad vegetables Eggplant Potatoes, white Squash Fats and oils and sweet Tomatoes Fruits Pumpkin Vegetables juices Turnips

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

IF you have been confused by the recent pronouncements of Jeans and Eddington, if relativity and quantum theory are still disconcerting names to you, and if you feel the need of a firmer foundation in the scientific realm, then you should read ' Science, a New Outline.” Its author is J. W. N. Sullivan, a British journalist, who writes with great directness and fluent ease. Here is a book written deliberately for the beginner in science. Chapters are short, some of them only two or three pages long. Tne whole book runs to no greater length than the average lightweight novel. tt o a A CTUALLY. the book is not an outline of the -f*- whole fiel<fc of science. Some 25 pages upon the earth —its dimensions, constitution, motion and ongin, are followed by a splendid discussion of the fundamentals of physics. In the realm of physics, Mr. Sullivan discusses gravitation, atomic structure, light waves, electricity and magnetism, the nature of radiation, quantum theory, wave mechanics, relativity and theormodynamics. A large part of this discussion consists of things which you were taught in your high school course in physics. The remainder of the discussion on physics include things with which your son--if he is of high school age and interested in physics—is probably quite familiar.

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MY RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE

Assailing the bugaboo of death, Miss Pickford yesterday began an account of her visit to a friend prostrated by the sudden loss of her mother tt tt tt CHAPTER 111 T ENTERED to find her in a frightful state. And as I A looked at that poor moaning huddle on the bed, I realized for the first time the folly of grief. I saw then how badly I myself had acted during my own trouble. And though I ached to put my arms around her and sympathize with her, I knew that it would only send her into worse storms of weaping. I knew she must be startled out of her misery. And so I steeled myself to say, “Ann, can you stand a good hard smack? Because that’s what I’m going to give you.” She stopped moaning; and she opened her eyes and looked up at me. And then I said, “This is one of the worst cases of self-pity I ever saw in my life! The idea of your taking on like this because your mother has gone and left you. You're spoiling her happy home-going, that’s what you’re doing! You should be ashamed to hurt her like this!” That surprised her. After a moment she sat up. “Do you really believe that, Mary?’’ she demanded. “Do you actually believe that my mother could be happy and all right somewhere?” I sat down beside her then, and told her how powerful our thoughts are. And that even if her mother were not able to see us—and I was not saying she couldn’t—the thoughts of grief and sorrow we were broadcasting might easily be strong enough to make her utterly miserable. Ann agreed that if her mother were starting out on an earthly journey she, Ann, wouldn't ruin her trip by constantly sending her radiograms of reproach and despair at the parting. And soon, 1 could see that the idea was helping my friend to get hold of herself. Finally, I said, “Why, Ann, your mother won’t be alone. Your brother is there to greet her. And many more of your family and old friends will be waiting to welcome her.”

Fates of Europe and Ethiopia Rest Upon Delimitation of Hazy Boundary Lines, Which So Far Have Not Been Defined Clearly

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripns-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.— The fates of the British and French cabinets, the League of Nations, the throne of Emperor Haile Selassie and the power of Benito Mussolini today hang upon the delimitation of hazy African frontiers. The exact whereabouts of them has been a mystery for 7000 years. The Franco-British peace plan, calling for cession of part of the province of Tigre, and rectification of the Danakil line and of the borders between Ogaden and Italian Somaliland, deals with territory which has been a sort of no-man's land since before King Solomon. The Ethiopian emperor claims descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba But Sheba's country nev'er has been bounded accurately. Today no one can say with absolute certainty where lie the frontiers over which European governments yet may fall. Skipping the first 70 centuries and coming down to comparatively recent times—lßl3 —we fail to find what is now called Ethiopia at all. One Sahale Selassie then ruled over what is now the Province of Shoa—the country around Addis Ababa—and the adjoining country called Wassen Seged. a a a AN imperialist of sorts, this gentleman proclaimed himself King of tfat, Shoa and Galla, Which is far from being all of Ethiopia. After a long and reputedly wise rule, he was succeeded by his oldest son, Haile Melikot. Over in Galla, about this time, was Ras Kassa. Haile Melikot, apparently a dark-skinned Mussolini, invaded Kassa’s area and war resulted. Melikot died in 1855. but the war went on just the same between the Ras and King Melikot's 11-year-old successor, Menelik. Kassa—who called himself King Theodore—defeated Menelik and made the young ruler a sort of glorified slave. At first Theodore made a pretty good king. But he, too. tried his hand at conquest, and success

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went to his head. So much, so that in a moment of folly he vexed the British Empire by making captives of two English engineers, and in the “war” which resulted “finis” was written after his name. During King Theodore's troubles, however, Menelik saw his chance to escape. Making his way back to ancient Shoa, he was declared Negus of that province in 1865. Shoa is merely a fraction of what the maps of today color as Abyssinia or Ethiopia.

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League BRIDGE fans who contemplate traveling to the warmer states for the winter will find exceptionally fine contract played in the South and also along the Pacific Coast. The American Bridge League has planned a number of important tournaments in both these sections of the country'.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1935

... by MARY PICKFORD “/'"VH, Mary, wouldn't that be wonderful!” she said. V-/ “And maybe your mother is with her, too.” And then Ann made the first gallant step toward conquering grief. For she smiled and said, “I’ll wager the first thing your mother will say to mine is, ‘Linda, you should be ashamed of yourself for not saving a fortune from Ann’s earnings and leaving it in trust for her.’ And I can just hear Mother saying, ‘Mind your own business, Charlotte. We had a darned good time spending it!” Laughter is a wonderful medicine. After all, wouldn't Heaven be a sad place without a sense of humor? The moment Ann could hope, she could smile. After that her thoughts turned from herself, and guessing that I had probably hurried there without my breakfast she insisted that I must have something to eat. Presently she decided she must stop letting her emotions literally tear her to pieces; and that she would cease from poisoning the atmosphere for the friends who had come to help her. So she got up and dressed and went about facing her trying experience with courage. “Do you really believe she could be happy and all right somewhere?” Ann's question is one we all ask. Well, do you believe in God, that tremendous force who is present everywhere? When we came into this world He provided gentle hands to welcome us; and when we progress into the next, we will still be in His loving care. God wouldn’t make each of us a unique personality—as distinct from each other as your finger-rrints are—just to wipe us out in a few brief years. He wouldn’t

TOUT Menelik was ambitious, no less than II Duce. So he pushed his frontiers northward toward Tigre—the very same Tigre mentioned in the AngloFrench peace proposal to Italy. There he encountered a chieftain called Johannes, or King John—and, at the same time, his Waterloo. Only the timely intervention of Egypt saved him from complete destruction. He even lost Shoa. It was about this time—in 1878 —that the Italians were begin-

Jack Feagin, a young Macon (Ga.) attorney, sent me an interesting hand that was played in the last Georgia state tournament. Mr. Feagin sat in the South. His partner’s bid of two hearts, over his original bid of one club, is a slam demand bid, provided, of course, that South has not opened with a psychic, which would be shown now with a bid of two no trump. But when South bids three diamonds, the partnership agrees to go to a slam. This is the convention generally adopted by the tournament experts and advocated by the Four Aces system. The Play The opening heart lead was won in dummy with the queen and then a small diamond was played. West showed out, discarding a club, and South won with the king. A nice example of trump management was now given by Mr. Feagin. The ace of clubs was cashed and then a small club led. West followed and declarer trumped in dummy with the seven of diamonds. The ace and the king of hearts were cashed from dummy and declarer discarded a spade and a small ' club. A small heart was ruffed by declarer with the three of diamonds. The queen of spades was won with dummy’s ace. A small spade was returned and trumped with the six of diamonds.

destroy the loving work of His hands. That horizon we label extinction is a thing we only imagine—any horizon is a place we never reach. a tt tt WHY can’t we think of God as a kind and wise Father who has a wonderful and loving plan worked out for each of us? Even in these topsy-turvy times when the whole world seems in such a muddle, we discover that He is Good. There has never been so much of everything for our use: great catches of fish from the sea; the earth producing huge crops; so much, in fact, that we, His children, are short-sightedly destroying His gifts instead of sharing them. Don’t blame God because we don’t know how to use what He has provided for us. Don’t blame Him for our shameful lack of love and consideration for our brother’s need. When we stop running around in circles and turn to Him for guidance, when we start thinking kindness instead of hate, He’ll show us how even this economic confusion can be harmonized. If we don’t believe this, we have only to look at the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into by thinking greed and selfishness and wars. Those destructive thoughts are what cause depressions. And nothing else! Wars in themselves are bad enough. But aside from the murder and maiming and waste and horror let loose, it is the hatred they set vibrating through the universe that generates the greatest harm. Where do you suppose that mysterious influenza epidemic cameffrom during the World War if it wasn’t nature answering man’s demand for destruction? Even isolated persons having no contact with the outside w'orld were stricken. When nations let loose their greed and hate the whole world must suffer. By the same token, when the people of all countries have good will toward one another the entire world will benefit. TOMORROW —The Radiance of Thought. (Copyright, 1935. by the Pickford Corp.) (Distributed by United Feature Syndicate)

ning to put in their appearance along the Red Sea littoral. History records that Menelik came back, defeated King John, also the Italians—in 1896, at Adowa, which place the Italians insist upon retaining to help wipe out that unforgettable humiliation—and died in 1913, leaving his throne to his grandson, Lij Yasu. Within three or four weeks there was a revolt, led by Taffari Makonnen, who ousted and imprisoned Lij, married Menelik's daughter, became regent and

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This left West with the jack-ten-eight-five of diamonds; the dummy held two spades and the ace-nine* of diamonds, and declarer, the singleton queen of diamonds and the king-eight-six of clubs. < At this point the king of clubs was led and West was helpless, if he trumped with the ten of diamonds, dummy would overtrump with the ace. and lead back a spade, declarer trumping with the queen of diamonds. West, of course, would have to undertrump with the five and could not prevent dummy from making the nine of diamonds, which gave declarer six odd. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.)

finally Emperor Haile Selassie. Lij died strangely a month ago, some say one thing, some another. So always has been Ethiopia—vague in extent, now gallantly expanding, now contracting almost to nothing; sometimes made up of several independent “kings,” some times having a “king of kings” to whom all others had to knuckle. Such, too, is the land over which the proudest nations of Europe are now in ferment, their cabinets in danger.

HOSPITAL ANTICIPATES GAIN IN TAX REVENUES Wing is Refurnished Preparatory to Reopening at Shelbyville. Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 18 Closed since 1932 because of insufficient funds from tax revenue, the east wing of William S. Major Hos~pital here is to be reopened soon under the direction of Dr. Paul Tindall, City Health Board secretary. The wing, remodeled to provide a superintendent’s office and waiting and reception rooms for physicians, has been refurnished. Its operation and the addition of two staff members have been authorized in anticipation of increased tax collections next year. , Assisting Dr. Tindall in an advisory capacity will be the two other board members, Dr. Samuel Kennedy and William A. Yarling, attorney. 3 HOOSIERS PLEDGED Honored by National Scholastic Fraternity at Illinois. Times Special URBANA, 111., Dec. 18—Pledging of three Indiana students to the Illinois University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary fraternity, was announced here today. Those pledged are Elbert P. Carter, Muncie, engineering; William S. Fishman, Princeton, liberal arts and sciences, and Marlin T. Leffler, Liberty, chemistry.

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Fair Enough WESWMPHiLBt T> OME, Dec. 18.—Here in Italy, my colleagues in journalism, is a paradise for ink-stained wretches of the Fourth Estate. In Italy, a journalist receives 13 months' pay for 12 months' employment, a month's vacation with pay and two days’ extra pay for working on Sunday, his traditional day off, even though he works only a half hour on Sunday or merely answers the phone. The thirteenth month's pay is a sort of Christmas present.

In addition to all this he can not be fired without six months’ pay in one lump sum and an additional month's pay at the current rate for every year or fraction of a year he has worked for his master. Nor is that all. In Italy the pride and honor of the journalist are deemed to have such value, gauged by his rate of pay, that if his editor takes him off the courthouse run, for example, and sets him to cutting paper dolls at the exchange desk as a disciplinary measure he may file a claim with the magistracy of labor for damages to his prestige. In that

case there’s the chance, of course, the employer will win th ovgsitnent, but you may judge what a fat change that is from the fact that no journalist has ever lost a case before this court. The journalist also receives a 70 per cent discount on railroad fares. Truly, Italy is a paradise for my colleagues of the Fourth Estate. The law under which these benefits were conferred on Italian journalism was drawn by a journalist and approved by Benito Mussolini, who used to be a journalist himself and who desired, on his succession to power, a sympathetic corps of newspaper reporters and writers. It’s a retroactive law, ignoring all divisions between the era of Fascism and the times which went before, and thus guarantees to men who have been employed by a paper for 25 years a cash award of 31 months’ pay at the scale which he is receiving at the time of his discharge, to say nothing of certain other cash benefits which he and his lawyer might think of in going back over his career. tt tt a It’s Quite a Dilemma SO, taking one consideration with another, the Italian publisher often concludes that it will cost him less to keep an old-timer on the pay roll, even though he spends most of his time talking shop and praising II Duce down at the case than it would to get rid of him. I would not go so far as to say that a publisher, when he goes to his knees at night, includes in his pious petition a request that half a dozen of his oldtimers may be knocked over by taxicabs, but knowing the tendency of publishers to give advice to administrations, no matter what administration, I would not put it past them to slip in such a recommendation. When the owner considers that it may cost him three years’ pay to fire an old hand, even though the old hand has gone lazy on him under the protection of the Syndicate of Journalism, he is bound to entertain the thought, not to say an earnest hope, that angels may come along and whisk the subject away to eternal peace in less than three years. It’s a gamble either way. These provisions have produced a touching devotion to the Fascist regime in the corps of journalists in Italy. In the first place, in order to become a member of the Syndicate of Journalists—indeed, before a man can hope to gain employment at all—he must avow his allegiance to the crown of Fascism. Having joined, his own interests and press discipline forbid him to entertain thoughts, much less commit them to paper, which oppose Fascism. n tt tt And Are the Boys Loyal! T TNDER these circumstances journalists of Italy are absolutely loyal to Mussolini and his administration, and papers always present a beautiful chorus of praise for him from whom these blessings flow. Bribery is an ugly word, and I would not use it, not wishing to give offense, but I am groping in vain for a pretty word. On the other side of the problem publishers are cramped nowadays by restrictions on the size of their editions, imposed by the regime to economize tonnage and to make shiproom for more urgent necessities of the country, which was more or less blockaded by economic conditions long before the League of Nations adopted sanctions. The publishers are not amateurs, after all, and can hardly be expected to assume the expense of all these benefits to the slaves of the press without some compensating benefits to themselves. Nobody has been able to tell me what these benefits to publishers are, but, then, in Italy there are many intimate matters of government finance which are considered to be nobody’s business. The fact that newspapers continue to appear would suggest, however, *that the owners themselves, for their own great patriotic loyalty to the regime, are protected from undue suffering. Italian journalists resent any suggestion that they are not a free press. They are free to praise Mussolini and Fascism, and this is their constant desire. If it were not they would not be journalists. I never saw it in that beautiful light before.

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THE “Seven League Boots” of Richard Halliburton return home, mottled with travelers dust from four continents—dust dating from current times back to the days of the Minotaur. (Bobbs-Mer-rill.) Assigned to go wherever he pleased for his material. Mr. Halliburton has chosen for the most part less-known, less-traveled places of historical and legendary interest. The fate of the czar and his family (as revealed in a startling manner to the author) is. if one prefers not to question the reliability of a delirious and dying old Russian’s story, one of the high points of interest in the book. And whatever the reader's reaction to the material as an assassins confession, the old Bolshevik's story is fascinating and plausible. The chapter on his visit to Crete, to the excavated ruins believed to be the actual labyrinth which Greek mythology describes as the prison of the Minataur, and to the probable dungeon where John the Baptist was beheaded as a reward to Salome for her famous dance, are little less thrilling tnan the reader's personal visits there might be. a a a ONE of the most interesting persons described ia the Empress Josephine’s little-known cousin, Aimee Debuc de Rivery, who was kidnaped, sent to the Turkish Sultan's harem, and who, from behind her veil, may have been an important factor in Napoleon's fates. Western hemisphere sketches are of Fort Jefferson, the now abandoned island fortress where for many years the physician who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg. broken in flight after the assassination of Lincoln, was imprisoned for conspiracy; the preposterous citadel of Henfy Christoplfe, Haitien tyrant; Admiral Hobson's strategic feat of sinking the Merrimac to block the escape of the Spanish ships from Santiago harbor; and the controversy over the bones of Christopher Columbus. Halliburton's stunts—riding an elephant down the Champs Elysees and through the St. Bernard Passwill appeal least to many readers, for the book contains so much of genuine interest, written with grace and charm, that escapades become unnecessary to enliven the book. (By Ethel Collier.)

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