Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1936 — Page 10

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The Indianapolis Times (A SCniPPS-lIOWARD NEWSPAPER) ROT W. IIOWAKD ITeilrtfnt LU DWELL DENNY Editor EARL D. BAKER . ......... Boalncm Manager

Oir* l,i<jht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY. MARCH 9. 1936.

THIS COCK-EYED WORLD 'T'HE prospects for European or perhaps world war were bright enough last week. They are more than bright now—they are blinding. Germany has put a sizable force of her best troops on the River Rhine, in defiance of the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Treaty. Like Italy, Germany is now addressing the rest of Europe, gun in hand, demanding a readjustment of the conditions set up by the last World War. France and England, two of the principal beneficiaries of those conditions, are striving frantically to forestall the holocaust that war would bring. Russia and Japan, each also a beneficiary, though in a different way—Russia taking advantage of the outside confusion to build up anew and powerful nation, while carrying out simultaneously a great social and economic experiment; Japan seizing her recurring opportunities to expand territorially on the Asiatic mainland and commercially throughout the world. Russia and Japan are watching nervously the efforts of France and England. Lesser nations, including some we call powers, are involved in the mad mess. It may be one of these nations that eventually will touch the hidden or exposed nerve and cause their now jittery big brothers to fly at one another’s throats and so inaugurate the international" riot. tt tt u TT'S a cock-eyed world. Webster defines this slang as: “'Slanted or twisted awry; also, somewhat intoxicated.” It’s a cock-eyed world. Only the United States, among the great and powerful nations, can be said not to be slanted or twisted awry, internationally speaking. With some slight modification to take into account our stubborn conviction that we can sell our goods to other countries without buying anything in return, this statement will stand We were not beneficiaries of the late World War; we were merely among the victims; we have no gains to protect and we have not sought to avenge our losses. We have been disposed to be intelligent. That is to say, we have sought dilgently to keep out of any entanglement that might draw us into the disaster which had its beginnings in the peace of Versailles. That is true both as to those of us who favored tiirowing in our lot with a League to enforce world peace and those who have opposed this course; in each case the motive has been to promote peace for America. There is little good in recriminations. Most of the blame for the last World War has been placed on Germany. But it will not be so easy to blame Germany if the madness of ’l4-18 is repeated. In making the peace the Allies, despite the efforts of Woodrow Wilson, repudiated the terms on which Germany laid down her arms, and the conditions of the peace were such no nation could endure. They made the emergence of a mad leader, a Hitler, inevitable. Little by little those conditions have been removed by Germany. The last was removed Saturday when she asserted her right to place her troops where she pleases within the confines of the Fatherland. u n tt 'T'RANCE may fight and at-once. But her situation is precarious and she may seek other means of guarding herself against a now ‘‘somewhat intoxicated” Germany. If France elects to fight, few nations in the Old World will be able to avoid involvement. There isn’t room in this column to spell this ou<\ but suffice it to say that this opinon is held by every expert here and abroad. From the English Channel to the Yellow Sea this conflagration will rage before it burns itself out. What can America do to confine the flames to the Old World? Time will tell. But there is this hope: No one in this country wants any part of this Old World war. Every one in this country wants to keep out of it. We have recently enacted, in response to this sentiment, neutrality legislation designed to prevent our being drawn in. That legislation is not as complete as it might be; there are admitted weaknesses that can yet be repaired. To be certain that it is done in time, this should be done quickly. Let’s hear no more of the argument that our foreign office should have a free hand in order to use its best offices as opportunity occurs. The moves being made in Europe are coming too rapidly and the motives, in many instances, are too obscure to follow. On the other hand there will be profit—for a time —for America 'in a war across the sea. When that profit starts coming in. good temper and good sense are apt to be crowded out. Let’s do what we can do—now. Let's make our neutrality legislation as nearly foolproof as we know how. ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE THOSE Eastern men of money, who have more hate for Roosevelt than political savvy and who have been shelling out good cash for the “Talmadge for President” movement on the assumption that the Georgia Governor could split the solid South and thereby weaken F. D. R.’s chances of re-election—-what are they thinking today? The Democrats of Seminole County, Georgia. Governor Gene’s own back yard, voted five to one for the renomination of Mr. Roosevelt, over Talmadge. Will the campaign contributors sue the Kirby-Talmadge organization for obtaining money under pretenses, or will they forfeit and admit that , Barnum was right? HO HUM! IF President Roosevelt gets tired hearing himself called a dictator during the next eight months, or feels his blood pressure rising over it, philosophic consolation awaits him in old newspaper files. We recommend for his perusal, certain issues of the Aurora, which had this to say about George Washington: ‘‘The President has violated the Constitution ... He has thundered contempt upon the people with as much confidence as if he sat on the throne of Hindustan ” Then there is The Salem (Hi.) Advocate. Issues of 1862 had a great deal to say about Lincoln. For instance: “Old Abe has squelched the Judiciary.* He now

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this looks to us mightily like approaching an executive dictatorship and an administrative despotism. Alas, unhappy country!” In another issue: ‘‘We saw the executive power grasp in one hand the sword and the purse of the nation, and in the other the legislative and judicial authority and hold them in a relentless grip to the complete annihilation of our constitutional rights. . . . W,e saw trade disordered, government finances ruined, an enormous debt piled incalcukby high, intolerable taxes. . . . We saw the superb Constitution under which our country has grown great and respected, tom in shreds.” It all has a very, very familiar sound. And that year Gen. George B. McClellan • ran against Lincoln on a “Save the Constitution” platform. It does seem that with all our modem progress we should be a little more inventive when It comes to political slogans. We ought to be able to think up anew one at least once in a hundred years. “WHY KEEP THEM ALIVE?” jDAUL DE KRUIF says the results of medical research are being denied to millions of children. Perhaps we’d better listen. Because de Kruif is a scientist in his own right, and has proved an able popularizer of medical and bacteriological research in his books “Microbe Hunters” and “Men Against Death.” His tales of the march of science brought hope to the sick and suffering. But a somewhat embittered de Kruif makes his appearance in his newest book, “Why Keep Them Alive?” He knew science was performing miracles. He set out to find what use was being made of these discoveries. He was aghast at his findings. “For 10 years now,” he writes, “I’ve helped to lure the maimed, the sick, and even those doomed, to this sideshow (of science) to see a tantalizing vision of themselves strong-limbed, long-lived, and more and more free from pain. . . .” But he found: There is a toxin to destroy diphtheria. “Yet last year this now needless contagion killed 5000 children in America and dragged 60,000 through torture.” There is a safe and powerful guard against syphilis, he says. “Yet this plague is on the increase. Children are blinded by it with no chance of this new help from science.” Tuberculosis can be made a cruel memory. Yet in many American cities right now, TB is on the up. “There’s insulin to drag surely doomed, comatose men, women and children back from the grave’s brink,” he writes. “Why is the diabetes death rate increasing?” “Pneumonia femains the most formidable killer at all ages.” But there are effective serums and treatments for all kinds of pneumonia. Why? We have facilities to fight disease. We have money. We have doctors. The case of the Dionne quintuplets, born in poverty, weak and tiny things, indicates what medical science can do when proper care is taken, he says. But ... we have poverty, he adds bitterly. We have unemployment, unequal distribution of wealth. We have the prostitution of science and scientists for private profit. “I know that the clever men who monopolized the common inheritance of science would never share it, fundamentally. I know that their greed, based upon fear, made them indifferent to a heartbroken child. ... If in war, there is always limitless credit to kill, so that no war ever stops for lack of dollars, why isn’t there limitless wherewithal to arm our science so that it will give life to all future heartwrecked children? ...” Yes, why not? , .„ j A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “-r >|Y mother has been a very beautiful woman,” IVI W rites Private Secretary, “but has grown quite deaf of late and is too proud to admit it. Refusing to credit the fact, she embarrasses us over and over. We dislike to hurt her feelings by referring to it but something must be done soon. How shall we proceed?” The first line of the letter explains the difficulty. Women who have never had a reputation for beauty are not apt to rebel at giving artificial aid to failing nature. Deafness is particularly hard upon those living with one so afflicted because it steals so slowly upon its victim that its results are almost imperceptible. The individual gradually withdraws into some inner place of peace. Noises recede. The sounds of life are muffled. Before long, we can imagine, the people about must resemble figures on a screen, gesticulating but silent. If Private Secretary would put the case up to her mother as frankly as she has put it to us, most of the obstacles which prevent a solution would disappear. Many mechanical aids for deafness are on the market, and lip reading has been learned by thousands. The plain admission that one is deaf is half the battle. It’s no good fooling yourself about the matter; you can not fool others. It is hard, of course, to look .\t unpleasant truths about ourselves. Life would of en be unbearable if we could not escape into our castles of fantasy where we imagine ourselves to be so much more important and lovely than we are. Such preoccupation, however, may be dangerous to ultimate peace of mind, for it is possible to delude ourselves into a state of false security as this woman has. To put it plainly, she regards herself as the center of the world; she fancies that everybody must be interested in her words, manner and opinions. There are so many beautiful things, so much kindness and love about us, and so many miracles to contemplate, that the loss of hearing need not be thought of as a major tragedy. It can even be an open sesame into other hearts. FROM THE RECORD T> EP. FORD (D., Cal.): Has the gentleman ever tried to trap a gopher? Rep. Faddis (D., Pa.): No; but I have trapped things that were a great deal harder to trap than gophers, such as fox, mink and otters. m a Rep. Wadsworth (R., N. Y.): I was interested in the observation of the gentleman from Colorado (Rep. Taylor) to the effect that the coyote is the most cunning and elusive animal and the most difficult to eradicate. It so happens I have had some experience with that particular animal in Texas. I can remember very well offering some small boys, averaging from 10 to 12 years of age, 50 cents a pair for coyote ears. They went to work in a range country, and at the end of two months I had to withdraw my offer. They brought in ears by the 4 . . . Rti • - Cal.): Mr. Chairman, it has been said that in order to trap a coyote, the trapper must be smarter than the coyote. That might account for the ease with which the people of New York catch their coyotes and the difficulties that we of the West have in catching the same animal. ... His (Rep. Wadsworth’s) igmarfcs are not applicable to the western coyote. The coyote is a sly, crafty, cunning animal. ; _

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

to tournament bowlers: No matter what score you make, the alleys are right. There aren’t any dents in them. They are level, and they are finished right. Personally, I wouldn’t know about this if I hadn’t talked to William Slaughter, Chicago, who put them in. He’s been in that business for the last 28 years. a a tt TV/TR. SLAUGHTER is a heavy man, and seems to be always smiling. Nothing ever goes wrong, least of all bowling alleys. And bowling alleys are composed of more single pieces of wood than a shipment of jack straws games. The alleys themselves are made of maple and southern pine. The maple is at head and foot of the runway and pine is in the center. Pine takes a curve better than maple. The alleys are leveled with mechanical sanders with 44-inch drums that cover the entire width at once. They are covered with a Japanese shellac that comes at SI.BO a gallon. The gutters, built for the booster teams, are made of fir. a a a THE lumber altogether costs about 10 cents a running foot, which is a good deal because there are a lot of running feet—about 40 miles if it were all laid end to end. Pin boys follow the tournament year after year and make 7 cents a game, which is good wages. Each team gets anew set of pins, costing $9 a set. There wasn’t any special problem installing the alleys in the Coliseum, Mr. Slaughter said. u a tt NO matter how bad things get, don’t ever turn into a postoffice pen. Things would be worse then. That’s what Fred R. Long says, and he ought to know. He’s a uniformed watchman in the main corridor at the central postoffice, and he ministers to the pens. Mr. Long, who has had the job 16 years and thinks people in corridors are interesting, says that folks steal pens—about five a day. If they don’t steal them, he says, they jab the points in wood. If they don’t do that, they splatter ink on the marble wall. And if they don’t ruin the pen, they stand for hours drawing pictures on money order application slips. One man, he said, walked briskly to a desk the other day, figured on money order slips for about an hour, and left. Mr. Long went over and found a complete financial statement—looked like one for a company, he said. Some folks come in regularly and fill their fountain pens from the ink wells. While he personally wouldn’t recommend that kind of ink for fountain pens, Mr. Long doesn’t object. He said he asked a couple of them why they preferred the ink. They told him that it was government ink and ought to be better than they could buy. a a tt " , T'HERE was a man,” he said, A “who was WTiting a card on one of the desks here and had his umbrella hanging at his side on the desk. When he got through it was gone. He came up to me and said: “ ‘Well, my umbrella’s gone.”, “I told him that if someone turned it in he would find it at the lost and found department, but that if it had been stolen he probably never would see it again. “He told me he lost lots of them; never could keep them. He said he thought the street cars got more, though, than corridors. a a tt in a while we get some VJ one who gets high strung when he finds that the stamp selling window is closed. He always takes it out on us—says he will see to it that it is opened for longer hours. Important-like, you know.” “What do you do with them?” I asked. “We treat all customers the same,” he said solemnly. a tt tt “'T'HEN there was another man A who used to come in with his overcoat pockets filled with newspapers,” he added. Seemed like he read them all the time. “He would walk up the entire length of the corridor and then back again. Then he would ask for mail at the general delivery window. He would always ask for mail but never got very much. Wrote a lot of cards, too. I never could understand it. “He didn’t have an overcoat this winter.”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE New York elevator strike is serving to remind a great many people in a personal and direct way of two important subjects which have given savants much cause for thought in the last few years. The first is the dependence of modern civilization upon machines. It is not merely that . modern civilization uses a lot of machines. It is a much more complex and involved state of affairs than that. Modern civilization is impossible without the machines. The New Yorkers are a race of cliff dwellers, inhabiting cliffs of steel and brick that rise to vast heights. These cliffs aren’t practical without one form of machine, naidtely the elevator. Earlier in the week I attended a dinner given for Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the quintuplets' doctor. Seated next to me was New York’s commissioner of health. I listened to him detai.' the difficulties of getting medical service to sick children and adults m these cliffs without machines—here a child with measles on the thirteenth floor of an apartment house, there a case of influenza on she twentieth floor and so on. As readers know, an arrangement was quickly made to permit doctors to ride the elevators. But the point I am making here is the impossibility of modern city life without its machines. It is not only the elevators, but every form of power application—the street cars, the automobiles, the heating appliances, and so on.

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

(Times readers are invited to express their vieivs in these columns, relioious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 tcords or less. Your letter must he sUijried, hut names will he withheld on reauest.) tt a tt FAVORS OLD-AGE PENSION OF S3O By Mrs. Alta Alter—Clark's Hill I think we should have an old-age pension of about S3O a month to all people over 60 years of age. If it is given to all, then there is no stigma attached to taking government help. Even a wealthy man might take grim pleasure in paying this tax if he knew that it was safeguarding his own old age and that of his loved ones, if he lost his possessions. Call it old-age insurance if you wish. We would each pay our own in taxation in our “good years.” tt tt a THINKS WHOLE TV A IS CONSTITUTIONAL By B. C. It has been widely stated that the Supreme Court’s decision in the TVA case was incomplete; that it upheld only part of the program, and that we shan’t know whether the plan as a whole is constitutional until some new decision is handed down. In the Tennessee Valley itself, people don’t feel that way about it. There they point out the following: facts: That the great Wilson Dam, hearo of the entire project, has been unqualifiedly declared constitutional; that the government has been given the right to make and sell power generated there; that it can acquire transmission lines and seek a wider market for sale of this power. In other words, Congress now has full authority to acquire land and build a dam for purposes of* flood control, improving navigation, or national defense; it can use the energy of falling waters thus impounded to make electric power; and it

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN PEOPLE used to think that high blood pressure might be controlled by changing the diet. One popular notion was that elimination of red meats would lower the pressure. Nowadays we know that this is not true, and that a person with high blood pressure may take red meats if he requires the protein. Eskimos live almost wholly on meat, and do not suffer any more from the condition than do people in the temperate zones. Apparently pressure may be lowered by living for a long time on a diet low in' proteins; but there occurs at the same time an anemia and physical weakness w T hich are probably related to the reduction, and which do more harm than the high blood pressure itself. You should b3 exceedingly careful in taking any kind of diet that harms formation of blood cells. It is fairly well established that people with high blood pressure frequently are overweight. Therefore, they should cut down on fats and carbohydrates in their food.

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COMING OUR WAY

can sell that power over its own transmission lines under the broadest of terms. The Tennessee Valley folk would seem to be right. Not only is the TVA experiment given a green light; the legality of any similar undertaking is also, apparently, placed beyond question. a tt LAUDS SAFETY DRIVE BY JUDGES By C. H. S. Announcement was published March 4 of a drive to cut the auto toll renewed in our city. These judges are to be commended and supported in their efforts to curb the careless traffic menace; the heavy-footed daredevil that the civilized motoring public has to contend with and all the campaigning precautions and safety devices we have at our command are not as effective as a judge that will administer the law of his power. The drunken driver and the traffic bulldozer, the ones that have caused and will cause the most of the accidents, as soon as they get into a jam with the law begin to pull political strings and put up some hard luck stories that they only think of after they get in trouble. When our enforcement officers make the reckless driver recognize his duty to his fellow citizens, we will have less accidents. So I say, charter a course of enforcing the laws we have and stick to them until results are obtained. The public is handicapped if enforcement officers show partiality and favoritism. tt tt tt POINTS TO POTENTIAL MARKET IN U. S. By \V. Williams, Columbus step—find markets for surplus goods. When you get to a place where you see 125 million people rearing to buy everything in sight, that’s it. When you find no money in their pockets you have the

ANOTHER belief used to prevail that cutting down of fliftds would help lower blood pressure. Careful studies, however, show that this is without scientific foundation. The effects of salt still are being debated. Some investigators found that a diet free from salt would aid reduction. Yet others insist that a salt-free dietary is not effective in the absence of complications affecting the heart. Therefore, the current view holds that salt in the diet may be diminished when there is weakness or disease of the heart muscle, but that otherwise salt may be included in the diet. The diet for a person with high blood pressure should be one which will enatfle him to maintain his normal weight, by eliminating excess of carbohydrates and fats, and which will, at the same time, maintain the red blood bells and hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, of the blood at the normal level. Tea, coffee, and condiments are permitted, but not in excessive amounts. *

husband of one’s wife’s (or husband’s) sister. • Q —What does the geological term dendritic mean? A—The word means treelike or like a tree and in geology, a region underlain by horizontally bedded rock, having valleys extending in many directions without systematic arrangement, are described as dendritic. Q —How is non-shafterable or safety glas. made? A—Two .'at sheets of plate or window glast are placed in a steamheated press, with the laminating material, usually pyrolin, between. The two sheets adhere to the pyrolin and will not break away from it, so that although the glass itself may be broken, it will not shatter or fly. Another form of this glass is the ’riple-deck sandwich, which if moderately thick is bullet proof.

reason why the goods in the market don’t sell. Seeing those 125 million people in need of everything that is littering up warehouses and stores and rearing to buy everything in sight, it gives you an idea of the wonderful potentialities of that market. In fact, it’s the greatest market ever discovered. Better still, a market right under our noses, and best of all it doesn’t require missionaries and Marines to open it up. It’s here, right here in our own beloved U. S. A. Talk about epoch-marking discoveries! Why, it’s like falling through the floor of a soup kitchen and waking up in Paradise. And nothing to do but let all those people go back to work, turn out goods and pay them enough for all they produce to buy it all back and there you are: Presto, no more depression. Now a few words about what Abraham Lincoln said about classes: “I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work he would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if he had ever made another class, that he had intended should do all the work and none of the eating he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.” OLD FRIENDS BY JAMES D. ROTH When we think of childhood d*ys, Memory quickens in many ways. Where are our friends of yesteryear? Some have vanished; some are here. Some are rich and some are poor. Ah! Some—the earth now tread no more. And some are in the hall of fame, While others are defiled with shame, I’ve drifted to no certain fate. For fame and fortune I just wait; There’s ample time, I’ll reach the crest, You see—l’m younger than the rest. DAILY THOUGHT Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from use.—Psalms ii, 3. THE cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground, by and by it will be a common gain to all who desire it.—Kossuth.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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MARCH 9, 1930

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

SANFORD, Fla., March 9.—Well, should the Florida Canal be built or shouldn't it? You’ve got me there, brother; I don’t know'. And the worst of it Is, I don’t know how to find out. 'When informed men on one side say yes, and informed men on the other say no, I see no possible way for a layman to judge what is the truth. But here are the two sidessummed up. You can take your" choice. a a OPPOSITION to the canal comes from four sources—the railroads, the shipowners of South Florida. the farmers of Seminole County, and the cities of Miami and Tampa. The railroads are accused of being the real big money and big noise behind the fight. They control many Florida newspapers, and are reaching the public that way. The railroads always fight any new transportation route. The shipowners are fighting it because they say the canal will run one line out of business. Also, it will cut down the mileage of other lines, which carry mail, and since their mail subsidies are based on mileage, it will cut down their subsidies. The cities of Tampa and Miami think they’ll be ruined by diversion of traffic from South Florida. That seems to me an entirely groundless ‘ fear. Tampa isn’t very far from the west end of the canal and it appears the canal should help Tampa. As for Miami, ships that want to go there will go anyhow. Ship captains don’t put in to Miami for a swim, just because it happens to be on their route. a • a THE fight of the Sanford farmers seems to me a more legitimate one, and does raise a debatable question. They say that if the Ocala limestone formation is cut, as it will have to be for this canal, Florida’s underground water supply will turn salt, and run the farmers to the poorhouse. The 250 truck farmers around Sanford raise a fifth of all the celery in the United States. They do it by irrigation. Their land is worth SIOOO an acre now. If the water turns salt, their land won’t be worth a nickel. I talked with Fred Dorner, a tanned, middle-aged farmer who is chairman of the anti-canal committee down here. He said: “We've taken too much. We were hit by the Florida boom. We were hit by the depression. We were hit by the Mediterranean fruit fly. We’re not going to be hit again, I’m telling you that. Not if we can help it. “They say the railroads are backing us. That isn’t true. Some, of our members wanted to ask the railroads and steamship companies for money, but we voted it We’ve never been approached by any railroad men. We’re standing alone, and we re sincere and we’re scared.” Farmer Dorner convinced me of his sincerity. a tt tt THE pro-canalers have headquarters at Jacksonville. They have money, and they have political power. They also have most of the geologists on their side. The pro-canalers say 11.000 ships a year will go through the canal.. It will take about 25 hours to make the trip. The saving ranges from 35 hours, from Norfolk to New Orleans. They say the cost of operating an average Gulf vessel is S3O an hour. They figure an annualsaving to ship owners of $6,500,000. No tolls will be charged. The canal, they say, will bring a reduction in freight rates for Florida’s fruit shippers. But the main argument, and even the anti-canalers don’t turn up their noses at this, is the spending of $143,000,000 in Florida in the next six years. That’s just like Old Man Prosperity himself sticking his head around the corner. a a tt SINCE there is such a bitter fight, it seems to me that before the canal goes any further Senator Vandenberg should go througn with his inquiry in Washington. He’ll hear one side say the canal is the greatest blessing to the American people in a century. He’ll hear the other side say the canal is a curse, and will ruin Florida’s farmers and fruit growers. After that, Senator Vandenberg lean go out behind the Senate Office Building and toss a coin to decide whether they should go ahead with the canal or not.