Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1936 Edition 02 — Page 9

'ft Seems to Me NEWoll BROUN MILWAUKEE, April 18.—Chicago's election turned out to he more exciting and instructive than I had assumed, and several things were settled. It looks very much as if Senator Borah were not going to run for anything this year and that he will have to wait for 1940 or 1944. And, even so, the primary produced no clear mandate from the people for Col. Knox. That I

had anticipated after a prelimininary survey of the Chicago situation. I was in Chicago only two days before the balloting, and I called at the Hotel La Salle, where the Colonel’s headquarters are situated. But the hostelry was almost deserted, and I went into the cocktail bar to see if any politicians were lurking there. I was the only customer. A waitress apt oached, and after she had fc :id what brand of mineral waver I wanted I asked her where in the hotel I could find the Knox headquarters. “Who?” she said. “C >l. Knox. .... -

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I repeated. “He publishes a newspaper here, and he’s running in a presidential primary.” “I think we’ve got. a party of that name." she said a little vaguely, “but I'm pretty sure he hasn't been in today. I'll ask the cashier." They went into a lengthy huddle. "He says." she confided, that, there used to be a man something like that on the fifth floor, but, he thinks he moved out last year." I have a strong feeling that if the Colonel can not carry the La Salle Hotel the chances are against his sweeping the country. u tt tt “Every Knox’* n Roost" AT that, the Chicago publisher made a pretty good showing when one considers the whispering campaign against him. The undoubtedly legendary story which was confided to me concerns the Colonel and the brash elevator operator. Oh, I forgot to say that the elevator operator was slightly inebriated and that he worked in the Chicago Daily News Building. Col. Knox works there, and one bright day as he stepped into the car the operator said, "Good morning. Col. Boost.” The publisher looked at him severely and replied. “Mv name is Col., Knox.” “But,” said the elevator operator in high glee, "every Knox's a boost.” It was the kid's last ride. Still there was something in what the elevator man said. That was illustrated in the remarkable showing made by President Roosevelt in the primary. He was unopposed, of course, but the vote rolled up seems significant. Mr. Roosevelt's indorsement was achieved in spite of the opposition of all the important papers in Chicago. Col. Knox, Col. McCormick and William Randolph Hearst have been hitting the President with everything but the lost and found ads for the last two years. It has been an unbroken attack both in the news columns and the editorials. And yet the vast .majority of th* citizens of Chicago went out and voted for Roosevelt just the same. I would not argue from this that the power of ♦he press is exaggerated, but I think it is safe to say that there is such a thing as a saturation point and that it has long since been passed. Any newspaper or group of newspapers which undertakes to blast a man in public life by swinging constantly from the floor will meet with disappointment. After a time the general public says, “Oh. he. can t, be as bad as all that,” and. disbelieving the worst, they are inclined to believe the best. tt tt tt It's Helping Roosevelt THIS is of more than local significance. Such a heavy percentage of the American press is so violently anti-Roosevelt that lhe President is beginning to benefit, by a strong tide in his favor. Although Knox's victory has not enhanced his own chances particularly, the result is interpreted generally as pointing the way to the Republican decision in the Cleveland convention. Most of the newspaper commentators in Chicago insisted for days in advance of the primary. “A vote for Knox is a vote for Landon.” It looks like Landon. It also looks as if the Republican nomination can hardly do much for any candidate except give him a chance to get out in the open air. A limited edition of 5000 copies of the Chicago Daily News will go into the list of collectors’ items. Right beneath a four-column head, "Dirtiest Election in Years.” an absent-minded makeup man inserted a two-column cut of Col. Knox casting his ballot. The Colonel was not amused. The elevator man and the makeup man agree that he has no sense of humor. (Copyrißht, 1936) New Deal Frowns on Naval Building BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. April 18.—A slight lack of coordination appears to have developed between the Administration and Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee, which involves the understanding between Che United States and Great Britain over naval rivalry. The House naval leader wants to start work immediately on two battleships, on the ground that because of the tense European situation. Great Britain may have to expand her navy considerably and that this makes it advisable for us to build also. President Roosevelt prefers to delay battleship construction for the present. And the last thing the Administration wants to do in any case is to predicate a building program on any ground that will suggest a naval race with Great Britain. tt a a THE story behind this Administration policy reaches deep into the conversations held between American and British officials during the recent Naval Conference in London. Chiefly because of Japanese opposition, naval limitation by ratios was dropped from the new treaty. Whereupon Capt. Anthony Eden. British foreign minister, and Norman Davis, American ambassador-at-large, agreed that their two governments, as the chief naval powers of the world, should not build against each other and that the rule of parity between them should continue. This understanding was reached in an atmosphere of mutual friendliness warmer than has existed in many years. Both governments realize that the failure of the London Naval Conference to continue naval limitation by ratios among the powers leaves the situation wide open for a free-for-all race. a a a ANYWAY, the Administration is not anxious to start any more naval building until after the London Treaty is ratifit-d. It may not oe sent to the Senate until next wintftr. This ti-eaty is regarded widely as a face-saving failure and hardly worth ratifying. How enthusiastic President Roosevelt is about it has not been revealed. However this government, while disap--1 pointed over the abandonment, of naval ratio limi- [ tation. realizes that this system attempted to freeze certain nations into positions of permanent inferiority of tonnage which they refused to accept, much as Germany is trying to break through the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty which sought to hold her in an inferior status. On the other hand, something was put in place of the discarded ratios—the requirement for four months’ notice by any signatory before it lays down a keel. This means that when notice of a building program is given by any government, there remain four months in which other powers can bargain and negotiate, giving notice of what they might feel compelled to build unless plans are changed. Existence of such assured intervals automatically will aid in restraining hasty impulses to build. That is the theory, whether it works or not.

ROADS White Jacketed Savant Insures the Future of Aviation; He’s as Romantic a Figure as the Eagle-Eyed Pilot. BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor planes taking- off in the bright sunlight, flashing sih er streaks against the blue of the sky. Sleek, powerful racers doing 300 miles an hour. Gigantic clippers headed for Central America or boldly striking out across the Pacific. These ships and their pilots, keen-eyed, stalwart, alert young men, compose the picture of aviation which the average person has. This is only natural. In the theater, it is the action and the actors which hold our attention. We are likely to forget the playwright, the director,

the stage manager, the scene painter and the other men whose work went into the making of the play. And so we are likely to forget that behind the swift-flying planes and their courageous, attractive pilots is an army of scientists, inventors and engineers. Savants studying the effect of the shape of a wing upon the distribution of stresses. Meterologists engrossed in the behavior of the upper atmosphere.

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Radio experts testing anew beacon aerial. Metallurgists trying anew alloy for engine pistons. I wanted this "behind the .scenes” picture, so I called on Dr. George W. Lewis, director of aeronautical research of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Dr. Lewis’ office is located in the Navy Building, Washington, D. C.

The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics is the answer to why American aviation leads the world today, why Europe is copying American methods and buying American airplanes. i GREATEST LABORATORY committee maintains an A “Office of Aeronautical Intelligence” at Washington. At Langley Field, Va., it maintains the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Named after Sampel P. Langley who. as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, pioneered in the development of the heavier-than-air flying machine, the Langley laboratory is the finest and biggest laboratory in the world devoted to aeronautical research. Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics on March 3. 1915. It consists of 15 members who are appointed by the President of the United States and who serve without pay. Members include two representatives of the Army air force, two of the Navy air force, the heads of the Smithsonian Institution, United States Weather Bureau. United States Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Air Commerce, and seven members chosen from private life. Included at the present time are Orville Wright and Charles A. Lindbergh. Dr. Joseph S. Ames, famous physicist and president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, is chairman of the committee. The committee co-ordinates the research needs of aviation and carries on fundamental investigations, the results of which are made available to the Army, the Navy, the United States Department of Commerce, the aircraft industry and others concerned. These researches, centralized at the Langley Field laboratory, have led and are leading to material improvement in the performance, efficiency and safety of aircraft. Three hundred and twenty people, about half of them research engineers and the rest of them mechanics and clerks, are employed at Langley Field by the government. The equipment includes a fullscale wind tunnel, the only one in the world in which tests can be made upon an actual full-size airplane. The theory of the wind tunnel is known to most readers. Its purpose is to find out the behavior of various types and models of airplanes. The other tunnels in exist-

THIS CURIOUS WORLD + By William Ferguson

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ence are of such a size that when complete airplanes arc to be studied, models must be used. A propeller at one end of the tunnel draws a stream of air through it. The model is mounted in the center of the room upon rods so connected to scales that the pressure is pounds can be measured at various points —on the wings, the tail, etc. From this, it is possible to predict what the behavior of the plane will be in the ait. The full-scale tunnel at Langley Field is housed in a structure 97 feet high, 434 Vi feet long and 222 feet wide. The test section.is 60 feet wide and 30 feet high. The air stream can be given a velocity of from 25 to 118 miles an hour with the aid of two propellers 35 feet 5 inches in diameter.

SMALLER TUNNELS USED

THIS big tunnel is supplemented by smaller ones including a variable-density tunnel in which an air pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch can be obtained. This last tunnel is inclosed within a steel tank whose walls are two inches thick. In the variable-density tunnel small models may be used to obtain full-scale results. The purpose of compressing the air to to have the same mass of air passing the model per second as would pass the fullsize plane in actual flight. Another tunnel at Langley Field is the high-speed tunnel, so located that it makes use of the jet of air from the variable-density tunnel. Still another is the refrigerated tun-

TTTASHINGTON, April 13. ▼T Federal Reserve Board insiders predict an early increase in bank reserve requirements from 25 to 50 per cent. They hint that the move will be made as a warning against a runaway stock market. . . . The next big date on the Labor calendar is May 2, when the executive council of the A. F. of L. convenes in Washington to decide whether to talk back to John L. Lewis and his militant industrial unionists or wait for a showdown At the national convention in the fall. . . . Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald was the possessor of a prized London-made top hat.

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nel where low temperatures can be obtained in order to study the formation of ice on wings and propellers. A fine spray of water is injected into this tunnel when the temperature is at or near the freezing point to obtain the formation of sleet ice. One of the big, important improvements which the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics developed at Langley Field is the low-drag N. A. C. A. cowling for aircooled engines. Perhaps you can remember when the cylinders of the engine were exposed, forming a sort of elaborate and complicated rosette behind the propeller. Now the engine is hidden from view in a smooth, cylindrical jacket. That is the N. A. C. A. cowling. “It is recognized the world over as an outstanding achievement in aeronautical research,” Dr. Lewis

Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

When he wore it to a Washington reception for the first time in several years, someone filched it out of the check room. . . , The Securities-Exchange Commission recently denied an aviation firm the right to sell stock. It had built but one plane in four years, The SEC reported: “On an attempt to fly the ship, it was brought safely to the ground after rising eight feet on a ‘flight’ of about 150 feet.” a tt o Lieutenants of Gov. Aif Landon say their biggest problem is to restrain big business leaders from shouting their support from the house tops. The Landonites feel that exultant right-wing backing would be a serious campaign handicap. This explains their ill-disguised pleasure at reading recent new:- stories that Hoover was miffed with the Kansas Governor. ... A significant indication of strained relations among the nine members of the Supreme Court is the 15 split decisions this term, nine of them by a 6-to-3 count. For one term, this is an unprecedented number of dissents. . . . The National Resources Board, headed by Frederic A. Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt, has drafted Clarence Dykstra, Cincinnati city manager, to direct its survey of American municipalities. . . . The annual report of the Securi-ties-Exchange Commission is proving the best seller among government publications. Already it has run through several editions, and sales still are mounting. . . . The WPA is investigating reports that -foreign-bom work-relief recipients are sending a portion of their relief piiy to relatives abroad. In one case a relief worker was discovered sending half of his check to Italy. u tt a JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, ex-chair-man of the Securities-Ex-change Commission and financial reorganizer of Radio Corporation of America, will return to Washington to take a leading role in the Roosevelt re-election drive. . . . Illinois’ bewhiskered Senator J. “Ham” Lewis believes in taking credit where credit is due. Said Senator “Long Tom” Connally of Texas: “The Senator from Illinois is an eminent constitutional lawyer. ...” Interjected Lewis: “I could not deny that, sir.” . . . Prof. John Dewey and Rep. Thomas Amile of Wisconsin have evolved the “American Commonwealth Plan,” under which every family would receive a SSOOO---year income; believe it will push tfce Townsend plan into the

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Testing a full-size airplane in the Langley Field Wind Tunnel.

told me. “The saving to the government and to commercial operators from this one research would exceed the total cost of all the researches by the N. A. C. A. for several years.” Tests showed that when the engine was exposed, its irregular shape greatly disturbed the air flowing by it, creating a high drag, or air resistance. The cowl was so designed as to smooth out the air flow and create a low drag. It was found that when an airplane with an uncowled engine was going 200 miles an hour, it took 266 horsepower to overcome the air drag, but only 160 horse power with the cowled engine. All modern multi-engine airplanes, both military and commercial, reflect the results of the investigation conducted at Langley Field which determined the best location for the engines in the leading edge

background. Commonwealth clubs are to be organized all over the country. . . . Tourists crowding the Capitol last Tuesday to see the Senate and the House in session found that both had adjourned to see the opening baseball game. . . . John W. Studebaker, commissioner of education, has written a book. “Plain Talk,” which deals with dictatorship in the United States as follows: “These are children’s dreams, Hollywood revolutions, hardly deserving of more than amusement.” ... In the mail of Henry Wallace came a letter reading: “Dear Sir: Would you please let me know how to make whisky, how to mix it and so on, with what-all.” a t> n ANOTHER departure is about to be added to the long list of executives who have thrown up their jobs under Secretary Dan Roper. The latest to give exit notice is Chester H. McCall, Roper’s assistant. (Copyright. 1936. by United Ffature Syndicate. Inc. \

GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichty

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of an airplane wing. This is another outstanding achievement of the committee.

WINGS ARE IMPROVED

THE present demand is for improved efficiency „ greater economy and higher speeds,” - Dr. Lewis said. “In the last five years the speeds have been increased 100 per cent. “Airplanes are now wanted that can do 250 to 300 miles per hour as a regular performance. These speeds will be obtained by improved aerodynamics, increased horse power and increased propeller efficiency. “Improvements in wing designs are now coming and we have anew wing w r hich has a higher efficiency than any now in use. “The problem with high-speed aircraft is to provide better landing and better take-off characteristics. This is being obtained by the use of flaps on the wings. The split flap increases lift 100 per cent and drag 100 per cent. It is good for landing but not for taking off. The newer high-lift flap is good in both cases. “The N. A C. A. has investigated several high-iift devices to determine whether or not such devices might also serve to improve take-off performance. The results indicate that substantial reductions in takeoff distances are possible.” Other researches at Langley Field include investigations of the Diesel type engine for airplane use. Dr. Lewis is optimistic for the future of aviation and sees many improvements coming that will increase the speed and efficiency of airplanes. So enlarge your picture of the romantic side of aviation. Beside the stalwart, heroic pilot, place an equally alert young man who wears the white jacket of the laboratory and works with slide rules and delicate measuring instruments. He will m3ke possible the planes to travel the sky roads of the future. THE END

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGIER JJEW YORK, April 18.—Mr. Ford Frick, president of the National League, recently issued an order forbidding members of rival ball clubs to shake hands, exchange visits between dugouts and otherwise fraternize in the sight of the customers under pain of a $lO fine for each offense. The second day of the season, Dick Bartell of the Giants and Van Lingle Mungo of the Brooklyn Dafflness Boys got

into a fight and got themselves fired out of the game for disorderly conduct. Somewhere between the two extremes lies the ideal competitive disposition for employes of the National League and we can leave them with their problem to consider the wiser system which governs the relations of the wage slaves in other lines of work. I am more familiar with the newspaper business than with any ether trade and I distinctly recall that when Mr. Frick . was packing his little portable writing machine around the circuit he

often fraternized with the employes of other publishers in and out of working hours. Mr. Frick was a Hearst man, but he would draw up a chair in the press-coop, crack peanuts, borrow and lend cigarets and even drink soda with men who worked for Ochs. Cox, Scripps-Howard, Curtis or McCormick. At night on the trains he would sit in at the bridge games with rivals in the craft and because he was a fast, glib writer with plenty of words in his finger tips he always could be relied on to make literature for any erring brother who had swooned away for any reason. nn U • Where Did He Get the Idea? THIS sort of thing, by the code of conduct which Mr. Frick now lays down for the athletes, was a betrayal of his employer’s property rights in him. but we didn't have that code in the press coops and I can t understand how one so amiable as Mr. Frick acquired his present ideas. There have been some city editors in New York who held the same views that he now' applies to the sweaty artists in the pads and flannels, but somehow they never could make their orders stick. Outside the office a man is on his own and who can tell, when he phones in his piece for the papers, whether he was personally present when the district attorney thundered “Crime must go,” or stopped in at another shop to ask about a better job and thus arrived late and caught the prosecutor's ringing declaration on the bounce? The fraternal spirit and practice among the New York journalists always Is a marvel to boys and girls newly come to town prepared to fight hard for fame and fortune against appalling odds. The greenest hick from Omaha who doesn’t know his way to Brooklyn, much less how to get back, discovers himself drifting along with the men who are his enemies and when the hour comes to sit down somewhere and divvy up street numbers, first names and what the suspect said to Inspector Ciancy, he finds that the stars have been working for him. Thus initiated into the fraternity of enemies he develops the proper spirit and so. when he has learned his way around the town, he in turn breaks out his old envelope and reads his notes out loud for the goggle-eyed cub from Billings. a a tt ft's Different in Chicago NOW. in Chicago, the practice is different. Somehow', in Chicago, the boss-man's grudges and interests are injected into the views of the staff and reporters scheme and worry in household groups to scoop their rivals and get them in Dutch and, if possible, get them canned for falling down. Mr. Frick, however, was not a Chicago journalist so his decree against the fraternal handshake between employes of rival firms can not thus be explained. Professional football players, like the New York reporters, regard themselves as working men with jobs to hold and fraternize in such a way that they seem to be milling around in the most ferocious combat. But they seldom bear down on a crippled man and often help him up. The fellow feeling is not the only reason for this. If you do bear down on a cripple until he can’t get up any more, the other side then takes him out and puts in a sound man who can play a better game and might cripple you back. (Copyrißht, 1936)

Gen. Johnson Says—

WASHINGTON, April 18.—“ I-am-a-good-neig-hbor.” That's a fine international slogan. But maybe it really is, “I-am-a-big-sap.” If you want to read something really starry-eyed, go back over our international relations since 1917. We took sides in a war in which both belligerents had kicked us around the lot as no neutral ever has been kicked. From the moment we got in, we just opened our Treasury to all of them. They never asked for a dollar they didn’t get. They foxed us in every trade. If anybody in Congress protested, he was howled down on the floor as a pro-German. We paid for the trenches in which we fought, the damage our guns did to land where the Germans fought, and the graves where we buried our dead. At the end of the war. we took nothing, but gave up our defenses in the western Pacific. They took everything there was to take. tt a AFTER the war we began lending money to these bankrupts to buy our goods. We financed our entire increase in export trade. We loaned the Allies enough to pay interest and principal on their debt to us. Finally, we began to lend Germany almost enough to pay her reparation jti the Allies. For a while we were paying the cost*: he war to both sides. When we stopped that, the., .pudiated and the world collapsed. Then we started all over and devalued the dollar, which gives them a 40 per cent cut under our own people in payment of debts and purchase of our stocks and industrial products, and makes British gold mining doubly profitable. They use the money owed us to arm and balance their budgets while ours remain haywire. We are lowering our tariff without a quid pro quo and surrendering our century-old markets for farm products. For 18 years we-have-been-a-good-neighbor—and a Christmas tree. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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WALTER S. MASTERMAN is one of the aces of detective story fiction. Os the school which uses Scotland Yard as the centerpiece and Hyde Park as the site of a lurid crime, Mr. Masterman is nonetheless a unique story teller. In “The Rose of Death” 'E. P. Dutton; S2L Mr. Masterman produces an exciting mystery story into which is woven a love story, or rather a series of love stories. A mysterious man falls dead in Hyde Park at the feet of a London bobby. There the fun starts. A youthful band of amateur detectives. Hugh Marston. Dr. Dick Forbes. Jack Davey, and pretty Betty Millard play leading roles in the drama. P’ortunately for them, however, Sir Arthur Sinclair, famous Scotland Yard manhunter, is on the job and it is he who finally traps the murderer. It is recommended to all thrill-lovers. tßy N. E. I.).

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