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The Indianapolis Times (A SCnIPI'S-HOffARD NEWSPAPER) ROY W HOWARD Brepld^nt LrnWELT, DENNY ’ Editor EARL D. BAKER ......... Butines* Manager

Give l,i(jht nnrt the People Wilt Hn< l Their Own Way

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13 1336

THE REAL ISSUE "ITUTITH his special genius for clearing aside col- " " lateral matters and getting at the heart of a problem. Senator George Norris yesterday turned the Senate debate away from quibbles about how the substitute AAA measure should be written. He centered attention on the real issue—the power of the Supreme Court to upset the law after it is enacted, regardless of its wording. And what he said applies alike to other acts of Congress. As to agriculture—the problem which has plagued every national Administration since the World War, Harding, Cooliagc, Hoover, as well as Roosevelt—he warned that the problem must be solved if the country is to live and prosper. He said in effect that the national government had reached a stalemate; that Congress knew certain economic and social reforms were necessary to continuance of the republic, but could not act with any feeling of confidence because of fear of a court veto. Therefore, he reasoned, the logical thing for Congress to do is to exercise its constitutional authority in the matter of the judiciary. The particular method he proposed calls for a legislative stipulation that no act of Congress may be invalidated except by unanimous vote of the Supreme Court. There have been other proposals to curb the courts, most of them calling for constitutional amendments, which the Senator believes impracticable. He bases his proposal on that part of the Constitution which says "The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” As laymen, wc find no legal flaws in his plan. Maybe there are some. If so, they should be brought forward. The issue is there, and can not be shushed away. B B B UNDER the present system, the President, a majority of the Congress and a preponderance of the people of the country may want a law. But if five of the nine justices of the Supreme Court don’t like the law, it goes out the window. One man can hold control. The Norris plan would end these divided opinions which have plagued the court. It is interesting to see how this w'ould have worked in recent cases. The NRA would have fallen anyway, because all nine justices agreed it was illegal. So would the old Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium law. Monday’s Louisiana free press decision, affecting a state law, likewis# was unanimous. The AAA decision would have been upheld, because in that case three justices dissented. The railway retirement law, which was knocked out on a 5-4 decision, would have been sustained. And there would have been the same difference in respect to those two setbacks to civil liberties—the 5-4 decisions in the Bland-MacKintosh oath-to-bear-arms case and the prohibition wire-tapping case. an b ON a basis of the majority opinion in the AAA case it is possible that the justices themselves might not oppose such a unanimity requirement. For the majority, Mr. Justice Roberts said; "Every presumption is to be indulged in favor of faithful compliance by Congress with the mandates of the fundamental law. Courts are reluctant to adjudge any statute in contravention of them. . . . When such a contention comes here we naturally require a showing that by no reasonable possibility can the challenged legislation fall within the wide range of discretion permitted to the Congress.” Vet in this case there was so much of a "reasonable possibility” that three Supreme Court justices disagreed with the six others. A unanimous agreement, therefore, might seem a logical requirement to dispel reasonable doubts. Such a solution as Mr. Norris proposes might in fact forever quiet the issue of Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional, for it is certain that public sentiment would sustain the court in any judgment wherein all justices agree. The Norris plan therefore can not be attacked as an effort to abolish the court or wreck the Constitution. The effect, might very well be to strengthen the court in public esteem. a a a THERE are other ways as well as this to get this issue before the people. And the sooner that is done the better. A principle vital to self-govern-ment is at stake. And some method should be worked out to oermit. the people to decide. For in a democracy the people, not the courts, not Congress, not the President, are the source of all power. It may be that a majority do not want to change the present system. We do not know. But it is time to stop pussyfooting and to give the people a chance to come to grips with the question. RAILROAD REFORM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S pre-election program for solution of the transportation problem remains far from realization. It is unlikely that Congress, aiming at a May 1 adjournment, will heed the general reform advocated by the President or the more specific recommendations of his chief transportation adviser, Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. Mr. Roosevelt's many-sided program, built around the idea of national planning for all forms of transportation, was given to the country in his Salt Lake City campaign address of Sept. 18, 1932. He followed It with messages to Congress, and last Juno he implored that body not to delay consideration of the major objectives beyond the present session. Congress, however, has contented itself with adoption of the emergency act of 1933, which created the co-ordinator's office, and with passage of two of the nine measures proposed by Mr. Eastman. These established Federal regulation of motor carriers, and extended protection to ports and gateways against preferential freight rates. Mr. Eastman, meanwhile, is playing a lone hand in attempting to carry out the program mapped for him in the emergency act. He has had little success In persuading the railroads to effect economies through terminal unifications; he is getting little support from the Interstate Commerce Commission; organized labor is hostile to his consolidation plans and to his proposals that workers who lore their

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Jobs in co-ordination projects be given dismissal compensation. The President’s program as outlined in 1932 favored continued government lending only insofar as loans were sound and would enable the roads to pull themselves out of the mire. He added that they should be made contingent on the readjustment of top-heavy financial structures. "Government credit,” he said then, "is largely wasted unless with it there are adopted the constructive measures required to clean house. Lending is all right if you can put the borrower in a position to pay it back.” B B B TY ECORDS of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., show that $161,799,750 has been lent to the carriers during the Roosevelt Administration, compared with $325,417,074 under President Hoover. Os these sums $393,661,969 is still outstanding, $73,378,871 having been repaid under Mr. Roosevelt and $20,175,984 under the preceding Administration. Nevertheless, 93 railroads are in bankruptcy or receive p. These involve 65,272 miles of road — more than 26 p>r cent of the total mileage. The Presidents program also called for elimination of wasteful competition with public protection from monopolistic practices; consolidations with safeguards to workers, investors and communities; regulation of holding companies; revision of receivership laws; formation of a national transportation plan, and relaxation of Federal control “with encouragement and co-operation substituted for restriction and repression.” The emergency act extended ICC jurisdiction over holding companies which had been formed to circumvent ICC powers over consolidations, repealed the law for recapture of excess earnings, and gave the co-ordinator power to order unifications with a view to eliminating wasteful duplications. Nearing a showdown on continuation of his office, Mr. Eastman is preparing to invoke his powers of ordering terminal unifications in instances where voluntary action has been refused. Even Mr. Eastman has some doubts of the constitutionality of this power, and unless his office is given new life there is little chance that the consolidations will occur. The emergency act expires in June and the coordinator has asked that his office be continued for at least five years. That is a reasonable request. It should be granted. “COIN” HARVEY THE death of William Hope Harvey in Arkansas deprives America of a colorful character traditional to her politics for five decades. "Coin” Harvey's 85 years of living illustrated what William James taught, that a man’s life is significant by reason of his enthusiasms. It doesn’t matter so much what stirs us so long as we are deeply and sincerely stirred. "Coin” Harvey was moved all his life by a sort of religious zeal for bimetalism. He fought with Bryan 40 years ago for free silver. He wrote “Coin’s Financial School,” of which millions of copies were sold. He studied and criticised the Roosevelt money policies until death closed his failing eyes. He was of that passionate school of thinkers who believe that all our economic troubles can be cured by monetary reforms. In the Elmer Thomases, Wright Patmans and the other "inflationists” on Capitol Hill his soul goes marching on. In many ways "Coin” Harvey’s life was ironical. Althought claiming a panacea for all civilization’s ills, he had become convinced that civilization would soon perish. As the Thibetan monks in Hilton’s "Lost Horizon,” he had started building a treasury house for our doomed civilization’s records—a huge pyramid at his Monte Ne home in Arkansas. Like his dream of “sane money” the pyramid remains unrealized except for its stone base. VIRTUE IN RAGS TT'OR years California has advertised for tourists of the better sort, millionaires preferred. Come, beckoned the land of sunshine, fruit and flowers, and disport with the bathing beauties where "life is better.” Since the depression began, tourists of another kind have been pouring over her borders—the dispossessed, the flivver tramps, the new hoboes. And these were just what California boosterdom didn’t want. Believing in direct action, Los Angeles’ police chief sent his strong-arm men to the borders and set up a “border patrol.” They arrested the shabby tourists, finger-printed them as vagrants and turned them back to Nevada and Arizona. It was a neat, if unconstitutional, sort of trick. The other day a man wearing old clothes tramped across the Colorado River bridge at Yuma to be met with the usual reception. He was taken to the fingerprinting stockade to be given the bums’ rush. To the horror of the police he was recognized there as Georgs Holmes, discoverer of a $3,000,000 gold mine at Mojave, on a stroll to visit rich friends in Winterhaven. The police released him with profuse apologies. Now he may sue the Los Angeles police chief for false arrest. But those other victims, the flivver tramps, can’t afford a lawyer. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ‘TI THEN the high tide of life is past and the chil- ’ * dren are married and gone, what is left but work?” This remark was made to me by a successful business man. It voices. I think, the sentiment of all his kind. Without some task on which to spend himself, some quest to pursue, some adventure to excite him. a man is a lost soul. The average person admits this. In the United States he is extremely proud of his passion for "push.” He regards with disdain the fellow who is content to waste his time aimlessly, accumulating nothing and getting nowhere on the road to success. Now you would think, wouldn't you, that individuals who so loved work, putting great faith in it as a way of conquering life, would have sympathy for those who had no such means of finding happiness. But such is not generally the case. Instead, many men find it amusing when they are told that women whose children are married and gone long for a job. They appear to think that those of us who have spent years managing large households and caring for several children ought to be content after 40 just sitting around waiting for their husbands and for death. I’ve known men of unusual intelligence to express astonishment at the news that unoccupied women were dissatisfied with their lot. They resent the restlessness of the modern type. Surely they are convinced we are made of different cloth from our brothers, whose dearest boast is a passion for labor. Something like passionate anger rises within me when I hear men poking fun at the bridge-playing matron, the clubwoman, the crusader and the mis-chief-making flirt. Such jokes are made to cover up lack of thought on the seriousness of feminine problems. For arid wastes as wide as the Gobi Desert confront millions of middle-aged women nowadays. It’s true they are protected, sheltered, loved perhaps —but they are just marking time until the end, and what man could endure that without complaint?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

OUEEN MARIE strode into the Indianapolis Public Library in 1926 and ruined a borrowed pen slashing her signature on the guest book. There it is today, centered on a whole page, and strutting. All it says is "Marie.” There, too, are arrogant little ink spots flipped from the pen point when she bore down too emphatically. The pen belonged to a library employe, and hasn’t been the same since. They recall at the library that she signed the baok either just before or immediately after she was given, with some ceremony, a pair of golden hose for her own little tootsies. One school of thought insists that had something to do with it. I wouldn’t know. B B B OOUND in brown, and nicely decorated, the guest book is a beautiful thing. Inside it is interesting, too. On one page, for instance, Christopher Morley wrote; "Os all the Aryans the nicest are librarians. "Impromptu announcement.” Then he signed his name, in a quiet, tailored script. Immediately below, although two years later, William McFee signed. He is the big-boned writer of sea adventure stories who recently was described by a reviewer as one writer of he-man tales who hasn’t a -false hair on his chest. He wrote this: "The above remark merely confirms me in my belief that my friend Morley would make a pun under the very gallows.” And in a nor'easter gals of ink marks he signed his name. aaa WELLS, the explorerwriter, signed his* name and drew a cute little elephant under it, as if to support it. Will James drew a picture of himself, in western dress, and Smoky, his horse, above his name. There are the signatures of Padraic Colum, Thornton Wilder, Kin Hubbard, Meredith Nicholson, Harriett Monroe, editor of Poetry; Henry Seidel Canby, editor of The Saturday Review of Literature; Honore Willsie Morrow, w'riter of historical novels and the Lincoln trilogy. Hugh Walpole wrote his name and a quotation no one can decipher, and Gilbert Parker scribbled something, goodness knows what. Hugh Lofting drew a sketch of Dr. Doolittlepretty good, at that. There are signatures of people from England and Mexico and France. Some of them are writers, some librarians and some notables on tour. For most of them the staff of the library gave a late afternoon tea, after the very best literary tradition. a a u JOAN LOWELL, the gal who wrote a sea story that had the book world in a spin, wrote her name, drew a picture of a small child in pajamas and wrote: "I view the world from a porthole at the age of four.” Research into her juvenile life later failed to disclose any maritime experiences. Zona Gale wrote, over her flowing signature: "Life is something more than that which we believe it to be.” She is remembered as a gracious guest, who took lemon in her tea. Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote an entirely illegible signature and statement. Whenever any one is looking over the book and a hurry call, "Who is it?” goes out, a secretary to the librarian in another room calls back, without moving from her desk, "Minnie Maddern Fiske.” At the time she signed the book Mrs. Fiske was waging a one-lady campaign against trapping furbearing animals. She wore only cloth coats, and she was furiously zealous. Below her name, just as illegibly, she wrote: “The trap must go.” u u 'T'HEN there is the name, Clara Laughlin. Miss Laughlin wrote those travel books entitled, "So You’re Going to Italy,” "So You're Going to Spain,” etc., etc. When she was in Indianapolis she told Librarian Luther L. Dickerson this story: She was in Spain to write a book about th?t nation. She saw and chattel with King Alfonso. It was such a pleasant talk that Alfonso subsequently did everything a monarch could do to make Miss Laughlin’s way easier in his country, which was plenty. "When she returned, she and her publishers decided to do something nice for the King. Th*>y printed specially, and bound gorgeously, a volume of the Laughlin book that was just coming off the press. They, sent it to him, but before it could have arrived he had abdicated and fled to London. They .don't know whether he received it or not. It would have been such a help, too, for it was the book entitled: | "So You’re Going to London.”

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times sealeri are invited to express their views in these columns, reliaious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) n a a PERHAPS THEY’LL CHANGE PARKING PLACES By Observer Just at dusk, a few’ minutes before 5, I was driving south on Capitol at Market-st, and visibility was poor. A large truck was following a light sedan ahead of me. Both stopped to make left turns into Market-st. I swung to the right to pass them and had to apply the brakes as did those following me, for there w’as the Governor’s bullet-proof Airflow?, uniformed chauffeur, No. 1 star license and all, parked on the crosswalk inviting accident. No one was getting in or out. It W’as just obstructing traffic. It w’ould seem that with the whole north side yard of the Statehouse available for parking space for Statehouse cars, this is wholly unnecessary. I learned that the Governor himself W’as out of town, as usual, at that time. Next day I was crossing Market at the east side of the Circle and noticed a Lincoln sedan double parked, obstructing traffic for pedestrians and vehicles. I watched it for five minutes and it w’as still there W’hen I left. Later I discovered the No. 24 license belonged to the Mayor. And some people wonder why Indiana and Indianapolis rank far above the average in auto accidents. It seems the privileged few park W’here they please as long as they please. BUB CHANGE IN ECONOMIC STRUCTURE URGED By H. L. Seejar If in 1937 the Russian experiment of production for use creates a higher standard of living for the common people than can be found in any other nation, the “backward nations’’ will have difficulty in maintaining production for profit. It is not the communist agitator in capitalistic countries who is a menace to production for profit, but the 160 million communists working together in the Soviet Union to create anew social order, with visible results in constantly rising standard of living. A debate on the merits of communism will not settle superiority of either capitalism or communism; but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. Every one is permitted to make a personal contribution in mental or physical labor toward lifting the standard of living there. That system of production has

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-eent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Timet Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W.. Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. O—ls there any heat in the moon’s rays? A—Moonlight is reflected lig’ i from the sun. Rays of the sun falling on the moon sets up heat there, which is immediately radiated away into space, because the moon has no atmosphere to hold the heat on its surface. The reflected light reaching the earth as moonlight does set up some heat on the earth, but the amount is so small that it can only be detected by delicate instruments. Q—What is a "’4-year-old gelding?” A—The expression is used to designa*. a race horse 4 years old that has been gelded. Q—What does the term, “world tolerance, for arsenical residue,” mean? A—The provisions of the Federal Foods and Drugs Act of 1906, as administered by the United*States Food and Drug Administration, and as accepted by most public health authorities, do not permit an arsenic residue ot more than one one-

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eliminated the terrific w’aste of duplicate capital investment, equipment and labor found in our privately owned production and distribution system. The Soviet system w?ill produce abundance for distribution. Our system must depend upon a scarcity production of manufactured goods and food to insure a profit to the producers. Our system works only for the producers—the consumers are only incidental in the scheme. Can we reverse our economy, to make it operate solely for the consumer, as is the case in the Soviet Union? Not unless profit reaches the vanishing point. The private profit system is a loss in more w’ays than on. Businss losses for five years past have been more than 26 billion dollars. Failure to operate our industrial plants at capacity has produced a loss of 275 billion in new’ products, which we could have made and consumed in these five years. Does that show’ intelligence or superiority? If w ? e are to survive at all, w’e must modify our economic structure, by eliminating the waste of duplicate capital investment, useless labor, and produce an integrated system of production through co-ordination and co-opera-tion. It may be possible to transform the present system into such by using income bonds to acquire title to this physical property for production, as we used to acquire title to the gas company plant. No confiscation is necessary to make our system w r ork solely in the interest of the consumer. We lack balance in our economy. B B B SELLERS IS FLAYED FOR TOWNSEND ATTACK By a Subscriber, Noblesville I suppose nearly every one who takes The Times heard the Townsend-Sellers broadcast. Sellers, like the other peanut politicians and yes-men, seems wedded abjectly to the fallacy that a starving population, fed, clothed and housed a$ it has a right to be, would not create more work and more pay. He does not seem to remember when we w’ere all working and supplying ourselves with about onethird'of w’hat w’e could have consumed; that the money w’asinmany hands and circulated freely. We had then what we now refer to as prosperity. And Mr. Sellers need not worry about our faith in Dr. Townsend and our dimes and quarters. If he will notice closely he will see that we who are supporting this movement are not entirely broke. And w’e most willingly contribute to this cause, even if only to educate the people and make them think and understand w’hv this nation is in its present condition. Mr. Sellers laid great stress on the fact that Dr. Townsend was

hundredth grain of arsenic, in the form of arsenic trioxide, per pound of fruit. This limit is commonly called the world tolerance for arsenic residue. Q —What are anemometers and how are they constructed? A—They are instruments used to measure the velocity of the wind. The best known form is the hemispherical cup anemometer invented in 1846 by Robinson. It consists of four hemispherical cups which rotate horizontally with the wind, and a combination of wheels which *> cord the number of revolutions in a given time. Q—What species of birds make the longest flight? A—The golden plover that fly from Nova Scotia to South America. and In fair weather cover the distance of 2400 miles without stopping, probably making the trip in 48 hours. M ist migrant birds fly at night and rest in the daytime, or vice versa, but the plover fly both day and night. Q —What are dingoes? A—Wild dogs of Australia. They are very destructive to sheep. Q —How many auto accident fatalities occurred in New York and Pennsylvania in 1934? A—New York had 2790 and Pennsylvania had 2571. - - ■ >■ -

not on the platform to oppose him. We, the Townsend people, were not disappointed. The doctor does not claim to be an orator. And he is not a young man any more. We want him to conserve his strength that he may live to see the fruits of his service to mankind. We realize that such taunts and ridicule as Mr. Sellers indulges in are disconcerting to a man of Dr. Townsend’s type. A sincere, sympathetic and honest man, not educated in the art of debating, is at a disadvantage when faced by the subtle insinuations by such able masters of the art as Mr. Sellers. Mr. Sellers’ attack was typical of all the opposition. It resorted to ridicule, made statements, proved nothing, and steered clear of existing conditions. B B B MINTON’S REPLY TO RASKOB WINS SUPPORTER By a Factory Employe, Newcastle Why didn’t I vote for Sherman Minton for Senator? Well, I w’asn’t a Democrat and besides I thought he w’as just another office-seeking law’yer. I'm still not a ,Democrat but regardless of party affiliations I am sure that any Hoosier who has read Senator Minton's reply to John Raskob’s invitation to join the A. L. L. should feel proud to call him our Senator. In that answer he gave conclusive proof as to whom he represents and that he has the courage of his convictions, plus a conscientious regard for his con- j stituents. Should the opportunity again present itself I will back the truly honorable Sherman Minton. BRIGHT THOUGHTS BY JOSEPHINE MOTLEY Give me bright thoughts, For they are harbingers of Spring; j Like small wild flowers unfolding When first the blue birds sing. Too much of life , Is dull, monotonous and cold; Yet when deeds are good and thoughts are bright. The heart seldom grows old. DAILY THOUGHT And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God—St. Luke 9:62. THE wavering mind is but a base possession.—Euripides.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Thanks, grandma! I probably won’t need more than half this. Some of the girls pay their own way on dates, . • nowadays.”

FEB. 13, 1936

Your. . . Health By dr morris FISHBEIN

OLDER people must be careful not to overeat. Persons over 55 years of age, in fact, should eat and drink a little less every year. Moreover, they must choose food that is easily digestible and does not disagree with them. All foods likely to cause indigestion, such as rice and highly spiced dishes, should be avoided. Since the teeth in old age are not what they were in younger days, the food eaten should be well sieved, or strained. There are two periods of life in which the stomach and intestines do better with hin and soft foods —first and second child.hood. Older people should consider whether they do better with five small meals a day than with three larger ones. Large amounts of food, and, particularly, the wrong kinds of foods, may put a burden on the heart. Many people with weakened circulation of the blood have circulatory accidents immediately after eating a large meal. Old* people suffer, too. from disturbances of digestion because of the changes that have taken place in their body secretions. And they have difficulty in keeping infection away from their teeth. The principal meal of the elderly person should be taken near the middle of the day; and may include soup, a small portion of meat, chicken, or fish, two well-sieved or broken-up green vegetables, and a little stewed fruit, with a small amount of tea, coffee or milk, according to individual preference. BBS \ S the older person tends to be overweight, he should avoid excessive amounts of sugars and starches. He should sidestep cereals, potatoes, macaroni and spaghetti, except in small quantities. An excessive intake of water, in-cident-ally, throw’s an unnecessary extra strain on the heart. The bowels in old age are not as active as they were when the person was younger. In many instances, aged persons escape constipation by using mineral oil. This serves the purpose of softening the nutritional mass and making elimination easy. Mineral oil is practically harmless and adds years of health to many older people. And though, as mentioned previously, teeth grow less efficient with age, modern dentistry has made it possible for old people to chew steaks or vegetables with considerable fibrous content. For this reason, many an older person w’ill try to handle foods with w’hich the rest of his body may have difficulty. Thereafter, he may resort to lax- , atives or cathartics to rid himself of accumulations of foods w’hich In never should have eaten.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

ONE hundred and fifty of the nation's leading experts on alloys are co-operating with the Engineering Foundation of New York in a project which aims at assembling the world’s knowledge of steel, alloy steel, alloy iron, cast iron, How extensive this body of knowledge is, can be gleaned from the fact that the foundation's committee has already collected and classified abstracts of 15.300 scientific papers. Chairman of the committee is Prof. George B. Waterhouse of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The committee has already published six monographs. Nine more are in preparation and five more are planned. This project is of immense Importance to the whole nation as well as to the steel industry because steel and its alloys are the foundation of modern industry. B B B NEW uses are being found continuously for stainless steel and other varieties of alloy steels, the so-called "tailor-made steels.” Dr. Alfred D. Flinn, director of the Engineering Foundation, recently announced the appointment of three new members of the committee which is known as the Alloys of Iron Research Committee. The new members are Dr. John Johnson, director of research of the United States Steel Corp.; Wilfred Sykes, a director of the Inland Steel Cos., and James T. Mackenzie, metallurgist and chief chemist of the American Cast Iron Pipe Cos.