Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1935 — Page 21

It Seems to Me DEMID BROUN A COUPLE ijf weeks ago I predicted that the Ta growth of the Townsend movement would embarrass the Republican Party in its plan to run a 3936 campaign based on a “strict economy” program. In this I was at least on the right track, for the power of the Townscnditcs is growing by leaps and bounds. And neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have as yet had any sufficient reply to the dedicated doctor. Asa matter of fact, the old-line politicians have tried to stem the tide either by

keeping complete silence or by dismissing the old-age revolving pension as something utterly fantastic and Jnpossibie. Neither method has been effective. Moreover, it is not honest to say that the Townsend plan is an utterly fantastic notion. There should be talk of compromise based upon an unbiased survey of qualified experts. It is not only possible but probable that the figure of S2OO a month is far too high an amount to set at the beginning. Nor is the figure 60 so sacred that it can not be dis-

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cussed. I think the retirement of unskilled manual workers ought to come at a much lower age, while in the skilled trades and the professions some men can and should go on longer. tt n n The Part of Wisdom TIUT I think that the people who pooh-pooh the Townsend plan as utter economic lunacy are accepting an arrangement with much slighter claim to sanity. It would seem the part of immediate wisdom to cut into the ranks of the unemployed by disqualifying certain groups which are now tolling. Surely it is illogical to have millions of the young and the aged in exacting tasks while healthy men and women of middle age stand by idle through no fault of their own. The Townsend plan, or some approximate of it, does not seem to me to be the complete panacea its adherents would have us believe. The Townsendites should enlarge their economic horizon. For instance, they should immediately tic their plan up with the passage of a child labor amendment so that it will be possible to remove workers both at the top and the bottom and thus make room for the unemployed. Naturally those who are taken out of the labor market must have security conferred upon them. It would be useless to extend the school age radically without making some provision for the support of the group involved. A school or college, like an army, must travel on its stomach. Already we have in many schools the ridiculous situation in which the teacher asks Johnny what would happen if his four loaves of bread were multiplied by three. There are too many Johnnies to whom the question seems academic, since they have no loaf at all and do not expect any. tt St tt Alliance Seems Needed ACCORDINGLY, I think the Townsendites ought to make a working alliance with all those who would take children out of the factories and mills and put them back into the schools. Again, I think that Dr. Townsend would do well to confer with the various forces which are interested in some form of constitutional revision which will abate the power of the Supreme Court to invalidate legislation. It is certain that the Townsendites will capture a number of seats in the House in the 1936 election, but this will be an empty victory if the court stands solidly against the sort of legislation which will be required for the launching of the plan. Os course, at the outset there may be political expediency in saying, “We have just one plank, in our flat form. The revolving pension fund will cure all the ills of America.” Such simplicity is not effective after a movement has been actually launched and is moving rapidly toward at least a partial victory. The doctor will find it impossible to go very far solely upon the impet us of 100 per cent Townsendites. He must also recruit the fellow travelers and the partially persuaded. There is a time to say “No compromise—the plan, the whole plan and nothing but the plan.” That time has passed. The stage has been reached where there should be a willingness to talk things over and broaden the base of the movement. (Copyright. 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ALONG with the proteins go the carbohydrates in your daily food. One is just as important as the other, in the maintenance of a healthy body. But while the proteins provide the tissue-building material, the carbohydrates furnish the necessary energy, in the form of sugars and starches. Carbohydrates are really sugars and starches. Tire sugars are the chief source of energy for the human body. A person rcquries a daily intake of from 350 to 500 grams of sugar a day. No one has found out the minimum amount of sugar he can take and still live, but in general it is believed to be wise not to reduce the amount of sugar below 100 grams, or about a quarter of a pound, daily for any length of time. Certain minimum diets taken by people contain very small amounts of carbohydrates, some as little as 35 grams of sugar daily. Anybody on such a diet should be under the constant care of a physician. a tt' a 'UNyHEN we eat carbohydrates, digestion of the V? starches is begun by the saliva and digestion of the sugars is completed in the intestines. There are certain sugars which apparently are not used by the body. But they may have some value in giving bulk to the diet or in promoting action to the bowel. Sometimes sugars are necessary to provide materials for organisms or bacteria which live in the bowel and which are useful to mankind. There has been some argument as to whether we should eat refined sugars or raw sugars, the claim being that the raw sugars have more food value because they contain some minerals. But since these mineral substances also are available in other ways, most authorities do not favor the view that the eating of refined sugar is in any way harmful. Some of the sugar we take into our body is changed into fat and stored in the body in that form. Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Astronomers are looking forward to that exciting moment when they will get their first look through the new 200-inch telescope. The day is probably a couple of years away, for it will take that long to grind and polish the big block of glass which has just been removed from the annealing furnace at Corning, N. Y. But, after the first thrill of looking through the telescope is over, astronomers will spend little time gazing through the big glass. Today, a big telescope ij really & camera. Most of the time the eyepiece of the telescope Is replaced with a plate-holder which contains a photographic plate. The astronomer looks through a little telescope attached to the side of the big one. This little telescope is known as the finder. a a a ACCURATE clocks and electric motors tuns the big telescope, but it is necessary to make the finest adjustments by hand to keep it accurately focused upon some object. Photography is so important because the photographic plate Is accumulative. A long time exposure shows many details which never can be seen with the unaided eye. Most of the photographs of distant nebulae show a wealth of detail which the astronomer never has seen with his own eyes.

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MY RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE

Frnm her emphasis upon (he right direction of thought in the preceding article, Miss Pickford turns now to the extent of the effects of thought. . ..n tt tt tt CHAPTER IV LISTEN to what science says about the power of thought. Every time you love or pray or hate or curse, the brain moves. That movement communicates itself to the ether all around you; the ether carries it on to the Universe and there it waits to strike on a mind in sympathy with its ideas and to become a part of that life. Remember that the joyful news of a gold strike will set the whole country to booming! Or how the fearthought communicates itself in a financial panic! Then can’t you see how virulent thought of doubt and grief can be? And how important it is to keep our minds from either broadcasting or receiving such thoughts? Everything that ever was or ever will be was originally created by thought. God thought; and a universe was set in motion! A universe was set to vibrating. Breath-taking, isn’t it? That means, then, that everything—every thought, every word, every person, every star—everything, is a rate of vibration; that is, some form of motion. And all these various rates of vibration have two aspects, visible and invisible, one you can see and one you can’t. It’s like this: Everything we see in this world is an objectified thought—a thought with an overcoat on. Take a tuning fork as an example. You can see only its overcoat. But you can’t see its invisible vibration, the one that is intense enough to extinguish a candle if pointed toward the flame. Wo know that a column of inarching men must break step when crossing a bridge if their invisible vibration is not to destroy the bridge. It was the vibration of the trumpets that toppled the walls of Jericho. Caruso could sing a tone that would shatter a glass. Our bodies are objectified thoughts; they are simply the objects we dangle in front of other people to identify ourselves. It is as if every personality in the universe—those on this plane and on ail the other planes that exist

Move Now Afoot in Congress to Take West Point and Annapoiis Appointments Out of Politics, Put Selections on Open Competition

BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—The conviction of a California congressman and his son on charges of conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for SIOOO has prompted Rep. David J. Lewis (D„ Md.) to propose anew system of choosing candidates for the military and naval academies. Mr. Lewis said he was planning to introduce a bill requiring competitive examinations for wouldbe cadets and midshipmen before they can be designated by Representatives or Senators. Two of his colleagues supported the move. At present, the War and Navy Departments can not question the selections made on Capitol Hill. While a congressman's nominees are supposed to be residents of his district, no investigation is made. Hence it is a simple matter for a congressman to name a candidate from another district or state.

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Take a tuning fork: You can't see its invisible vibration, intense enough to extinguish a candle.

INSTANCES are recited of candidates establishing residence in a congressional district between breakfast and lunch. Mr. Lewis said much of the chance for abuse would be cut off by a requirement that congressmen select their candidates from young men of their districts who have made the best marks in open competitive examinations. He would have the Civil Service Commission conduct the tests. Under his plan, appointments to West Point and Annapolis would be automatic. Favoritism on political or other grounds, such as the occasional practice of congressmen naming their own sons for a four-year higher education at public expense, would be prevented. Rep. Robert L. Ramsay (D„ W. Va.) indorsed Mr. Lewis’ idea, and said he would favor adding to it a requirement for strict physical examination of candidates in advance of appointment. He said

picture cards? Deuces can be just as important as aces. More points are lost in bridge through carelessness than through lack of knowledge. You can get a lot of fun out of bridge if you will just try to figure out a few if the simple problems. I will admit that, if you give this hand to a half dozen of your friends, they probably all will play the diamond suit wrong the first time. Why? Just because of carelessness. While six no trump can be made, of course, it should not be bid. In the first place, declarer is lucky enough to find the king of clubs in the East hand. Then again, if a heart were opened, you could not make six-odd. However, with a spade opening, the first trick is won by declarer with the queen. He now wants to get into dummy to finesse the club. But he should not lead the deuce of diamonds. He is hoping that East holds the king of clubs. If East has three to the king. South has to have another entry in dummy. He must

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935

...by MARY PICK F O R D —were attending a great university. In this university are many schools of experience; and in the school of this plane, your physical body and mine are the uniforms by which we recognize each other. * tt tt tt DO we really have another body besides this material one we can see? Metaphysicians and religionists think so. And so do philosophers and psychologists and even scientists. But since it is a spiritual body, it has a higher vibration than the physical; so when it graduates into a higher plane, it discards our school uniform and is no longer evident to our earthly senses. We understand this better W'hen we consider how even earthly things can become invisible before our very eyes. I caught a glimpse of this when I was crossing the continent by airplane recently. I was looking out at the scenery ahead when suddenly I realized that I was gazing right through the giant propellers. I knew that they were there; I had seen them when the plane was at rest; but now those enormous metal blades were whirling at such terrific speed that I could not see them! As another example, look at the slow-motion pictures and rheir revelation of how much the human eye misses even of the things we think we can see. They prove how much is hidden from us when they slow down motion so that we have the time to take in what is actually happening. Not a vibration, not an atom in the universe is lost

he knew of many instances in which young men had passed the scholastic examinations for Annapolis and West Point without difficulty, and had later been cruelly disappointed upon failing the strict physical tests applied by the academies. tt ss tt THE LEWIS PLAN was backed also by Rep. Fred J. Sisson (D„ N. Y.), who said he would go further and take away all the ap-

Despite Cluttered Desks, President, Aids Have Affairs Well Under Control

BY' HERBERT LITTLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Three toy donkeys, a blue rooster, a squirrel and an elephant. Four miniature ship-wheels. Six or seven ashtrays. Cigarets.

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lead his queen of diamonds and overtake with the king. Now he plays the queen of clubs and East covers the third club lead with the king. South wins with the ace, cashes his ace and jack of diamonds, and now the deuce of diamonds is played and overtaken in dummy, so that the two good clubs may be cashed. 1535. m Service. IncJ

for an instant. And so why should we suppose a personality—the most precious vibration of all—can be lost? tt a tt AFTER all, it wasn’t just a physical body that made my mother who and what she was. It was her courage and love, her tenderness, her humor and generosity and patience and understanding. The endearing and lasting part of Jack's personality was made up of his gaiety, his charm and kindness and affection. These qualities with many others were the essence, the spirit and life in my dear ones. And not only do they continue to live on this plane in memory, but as a necessary part of God’s universe—and in their unique combination of qualities which make up a particular personality they go on, forever imperishable. Life can not be destroyed. A body is put off, but that is all that happens. That is why suicide is such a foolish business. A visible body can be discarded; but the invisible essence of it, the living personality, will only find itself faced wdth the same problems it has attempted to escape. It is as if a person tried to sneak into a higher grade in school without having finished the lower grade. If he hadn’t learned his multiplication table, how could he expect to work an algebra problem? We can’t dodge life. And so we had better face and master it. Each of us is really immortal and perfect, right this minute—only some of us are ignorant of the fact. But we are spiraling toward an understanding of our perfection. Every one oi us who is looking for the truth about life is a mental explorer. When we find out that death is only life progressing beyond our physical senses, it doesn't take long for us also to realize that, no matter where we find ourselves, we think our way into ali the heaven there is and we think our way into all the hell there is—in other words, that they are states of mind and not localities. TOMORROW—Reaction to Experience. Copyright, 1935, by the Fickford Corp. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate.)

pointment privileges of congressmen postmasterships and all other jobs as well as academy berths. Congressmen would be happier and freer for their delegated duties if they had no patronage to worry about, he said. Army officers said the military academy probably would welcome a rigid competitive system for congressional nominees, because it would reduce the number of failures at West Point. These officers said, at the same

Pencils. Matches. Water-jug. Three books. A financial journal. A junk-shop? No, just the President’s desk on a busy morning, and only part of the strange collection on it at that. A red toy automobile, a radio, two packages of chewing-gum and two “flat fifty’' packages of cigarets, both open. These are some of the things on Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau's desk. Four hand phones, a statuette of Paddy pushing a wheelbarrow, four fountain pens and a marble clock which is stopped, are the high points of Postmaster General James A. Farley's desk. But to give a proper picture of these important government rectangles a more complete census is necessary. All three, despite the jumble of playthings, give an impression that things are under control. Documents are neatly stacked and basketed. it tt tt HERE is the president's desk in detail: Brown desk blotter; thermos water-jug, and four glasses; flat modernistic desk-lamp; one basket full of letters and documents; a big black-bound report with three books on top of it, one of them the Congressional Directory’; a big marble desk-set with two pens and two small metal ship-wheels mounted on it; a big glass vase wdth a dozen roses in it; two other small ship-w’heels, one of them fashioned into a cigaret-lighter: a big brass ashtray and a half-dozen chromium, ones; an opened, pack-

time, that the West Point appointment system has worked well in general and has been democratic because it has brought in boys from every geographical and social area. They feared that if a single country-wide examination were held, candidates from the expensive preparatory schools would have a great advantage. Mr, Lewis, however, said his plan would call for separate competitions in each congressional district.

age of cigarets; several penny boxes of matches; an upright leather picture-frame, on which the day’s appointments are listed; scissors and letter-opener; a halfdozen pencils; a stray clipping tucked partway under the desk blotter, and the following menagerie: White cloth elephant, lying on its side; gray velvet donkey, also capsized; a very small burro; a gayly painted flat wooden mule; a small metal squirrel, and a blue china rooster with a long flowing tail. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President to have a phone on his desk. tt tt it SECRETARY MORGENTHAU’S big flat glass-topped desk is lighted from above, and his phone is on a table behind him. A small desk radio is the most noticeable item, but a bright red toy automobile of the latest strearhline type also draws the eye. A picture of three persons on horseback confronts him in a desk frame. Other items: Two packages of chewing gum, two big boxes of cigarets, a desk clock, a thermos water-jug with one glas3, e glass dish full of rubber bands, a hand-blotter, eight or 10 pencils, a paper knife, two fountainpens in a desk-set mounting, four New Y'ork morning newspapers, two of them financial; many memoranda, scattered on the desk blotter; three wooden letter-bas-kets and two or three paper weights, one of them fashioned out of two silver dollars fastened together with a nugget of silver on top of them.

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Fair Enough VHMPEGLER ROME, Dec. 19.—There are quite a few foreigners in Italy who are going through the motions of kicking themselves in the trousers because they permitted themselves to believe that if Italy didn't get what she wanted in Ethiopia Mussolini would kick up a war with Britain, beginning with an attack on the British fleet with his airplanes and submarines. Mussolini got away with it because the British backed down, so there is no way of knowing whether he was willing to take a desperate chance or was

only running a bluff. He has made some very desperate remarks in his orations since his heart was touched by the plight of the slaves in a land 3000 miles away, including one to the effect that it were fitting for Italians to live one day like lions than a hundred years like sheep. And there is no doubt that he was up against it. because, having taken a long chance in Abyssinia, he couldn’t hope to pullout his army; otherwise he'd have to call home the unemployed Italian soldiers and civilian laborers for whom freight tolls had been paid

to fight a war of liberation and admit that he was licked. Italy would have been worse off than ever if he had done that, and a dictator has held his power by always going forward and never giving an inch. Still, if he had tackled England the Italian task would have been just too big, and the Italian people probably W’on't realize for some time what a beautiful lavor the English did them when they decided that the issue wasn’t worth fighting for now. England's tase is the old story of the racketeer who got his and tried to turn square but wasn t allowed to. Now the British are involved in the Abyssinian job as deeply as their old partner, for they have undertaken to do by diplomacy precisely the same thing in principle what the Italians set out to do by force. Jt’s just as bad to steal one acre in Abyssinia by diplomatic action as to steal a whole country at the point of a bayonet, even though the bayonets may be carried by hired African troops and Italian liberators may generously remain in the rear permitting them to reap the honors. a it a End of a Beautiful Principle NOW that the British have kindly offered Mussolini certain portions of Negus, the beautiful principle for which the League of Nations was willing to start a world war is repudiated. And Mussolini, having been offered so much, couldn’t strain the principle any worse by demanding more. Certainly these days in Rome have been a wonderful demonstration of the art of ballyhoo and controlled public emotion, amounting at times to hysteria. The Italian press got orders to give the English hell—a system which permits one nation to heap foul insults upon the people of another without putting them down in diplomatic correspondence and without accepting any responsibility for them. The wedding ring and old gold propaganda was beautifully handled and the firm hand of coercion remained invisible, though suspected throughout the collection. Os course, all wedding rings were turned in voluntarily—the most solemn sacrifice that an Italian woman can make for her country next to the gift of her son or husband—but those who remember the subtle insistence which characterized the Liberty Loan campaigns in the United States will appreciate the force of neighborhood opinion on any woman who didn’t much care to give up her ring or the priest who would have preferred to keep his gold chain. There is a curious conflict in the propaganda which is heard on every side in Italy regarding the character of the Italian people. They are, on the one hand, a kind and friendly lot with pride in their hearts but no trace of arrogance, who greet a stranger with courtesy and music and would much rather be a friend than a foe to any man. These characteristics are not mere inventions, for a stranger in the land encounters them on every hand, except in the unfortunate moments when he speaks American and is mistaken for an English pig. tt tt a Patriots Explain a Mystery THE gracious and orderly behavior of the people is in such sharp contrast to the occasional recurrence of Italian names in the criminal records of the United States that the difference in character is a puzzle until the Italians explain that in the years gone by for a long time they had regarded the United States tsa sort of Botany Bay and shipped us thousands oi their worst characters along with the honest laborers who were to lay railroads and build bridges. But, then, having explained how warm-hearted they are, the Italians go on to insist that they are also, in their new character under the Duce, a warlike people, with great national ambitions, who will fight any one who tries to interfere. There is evidence of this, too, and no doubt the martial spirit extends in diminishing degree down into the poor neighborhoods, but the fury of patriotism it hottest, as always, among the class which produces politicians. officers and petty executives of state. In Rome, the capital, where the bureaucrat naturally thrives, this ferocity of the white collar element is very impressive, and that probably is why so many foreigners were convinced that Italy, though broke, wouldn’t hesitate to fight all comers in Europe while carrying on another major campaign 3000 miles from home. If the Duce was bluffing, he certainly kept his nerve up to the final instant, when a flicker of doubt in his voice or eye might have ruined him at home and abroad.

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THE hardy pioneers were doughty folk whom neither natural obstacles nor human cussedness could daunt; but—if you take Mari Sa:.doz’ word in “Old Jules” (Little, Brown & Cos., $3) they were sometimes a pretty cantankerous lot with whom it was mortally hard to live. “Old Jules” is the SSOOO Atlantic Monthly prize book in which Miss Sandoz writes a biography of her father, a hard-bitten young Swiss who setteld in the sandhills of Nebraska some 50 years ago, stayed there in spite of hunger, storms, droughts and thieving cattlemen, and finally turned a semi-desert into a fertile garden spot. tt tt a THIS book (which should have been called to your attention earlier) is an exceedingly readable study of the pioneer, with all his virtues and all his faults. Old Jules was tough, dictatorial, selfish and dirty —he had a positive aversion to baths—and he married four times before he could find a woman who would put up with him. But he w’as full of determination and no one could frighten him, and nobody was ever better fitted for the job of turning wilderness into settled farm land. The book makes an engrossing picture of pioneer life, with all its squalor, its disappointments, its tragedies and its barrenness. It helps you to understand that old saying, that we should honor th Pilgrim Mothers most highly, because they had to put up with the Pilgrim Fathers on top of everything else. But it also gives you anew admiration of the tough pioneer spirit. (By Bruce Catton).

Literary Notes

Norman Bel Geddes, producer of “Dead End,” invites novelists and short story writers who have unpublished plays in the bureau drawer to send them to him at once, at the Belasco Theater in New York City.

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