Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY. APRIL 25, 1938. WEST SIDE PARK r J''HE West Side long ha been neglected In the matter of park and .creational facilities. We boast that the 3000-acre Indianapolis system of 29 parks ranks high among the larger cities. We are justifiably proud of the six municipal golf courses. A dozen of our parks are large ones. Yet the West Side, which needs such facilities as acutely as any other section of the city, has suffered for lack of adequate parks. That situation now Is about to be remedied. The City Park Board is pushing negotiations to acquire more than 100 acres adjoining the present 26-acre Little Eagle Creek Park. Tentative plans call for using part of the tract as a playground for 2500 West Side children who now have no place to play. Picnic sites and a bathing beach along Big Eagle Creek also would be included. The West Side Federation of Civic Clubs is renewing its plea for a boulevard along Big Eagle Creek. It would be part of the system of beautiful boulevards, bordered by trees and lawns, maintained by the Part Department as an adjunct to the city’s parks. The dream of West Side civic leaders appears near realization. The Park Board has budgeted $35,000 for the project. We hope the board is able to get th needed land at a fair price and proceeds at once to make this farm land into one of the city’s most attractive playground and recreational centers. “ONE HELL OF A BUSIN ESS” 4 LL seven members of the Senate Munitions 1X Committee seem to agree that the American munitions salesman operating in South America spoke truthfully when he admitted he was “certainly in one hell of a business.’’ All seven Senators agree that, “almost without exception,” the American munitions companies investigated have resorted to what amounts to bribery to sell their wares to foreign governments. They agree that munitions makers have resented and in many cases have thwarted efforts to promote peace and disarmament, in secret defiance of announced national policies. They agree that munitions representatives have intermeddled with the politics of our government and with the politics of foreign governments; that they have promoted war scares in our own country in order to promote huge military appropriations; that, by collusive bidding, they have exacted indefensible profits from our government; that, especially in South America, they have conspired with foreign munitions concerns in pitting one country against another to boost armament sales, and have divided markets and exchanged patents and shared blood profits; and that insiders of our War, Navy, Commerce and State Departments have abetted this malodorous traffic. All seven Senators agree that something must be done. But they disagree as to what. n a a A MAJORITY Senators Nye, Clark, Pope and Bone—thinks that the government should acquire facilities adequate for peacetime “construction of all warships, by the Navy Department, also all gun forgings, projectiles, and armor plate, and of facilities adequate for the production of powder, rifles, pistols, and machine guns necessary for the War Department." (The government services already manufacture half the Navy vessels, their guns, their rifles, their ammunition and naval powder.) The majority thinks also that adequate funds should be provided for the War Department “to acquire the jigs, tools and dies necessary for installa- • tlon in private plants in time of war.” This, the majority believes, would assure ample equipment in case of an emergency. The minority—Senators George Vandenberg and Barbour—contends that nationalization of the munitions industry would result in higher costs, would sacrifice the reliance which the government now has on private manufacture, and would create “inevitable local, political pressure to maintain these (government) plants at full capacity production regardless of actual defense needs.” It recommends, instead. “rigid and conclusive” control of private munitions manufacture. There is. we believe, some substance to all of the minority's arguments, but it is at least doubtful whether they outweigh the majority's contention that regulation would prove ineffective in stopping outrageous profiteering, the peddling of American military inventions to potential enemies, and the sinister political war-mongering of private munitions manufacturers here and abroad. Certainly the minority’s last argument (political pressure inherent in government manufacture) sounds rather specious in view of the unanimous findings of the whole committee, that private manufacturers make free and effective use of political pressure in promoting bigger and more expensive armament programs. M * T TNTIL these rival recommendations are drafted into legislative form we are disposed to withhold judgment. But it is pertinent to note at this time that a recent nation-wide public poll indicated that the American people are 4 to 1 in favor of government munitions manufacture. If they want to win public favor, those who favor continuance of private manufacture had better draft a regulatory bill after the pattern of the perfect pasture fence, “horse high, bull strong and hog tight,” PLAY BALL! /”VRGANIZED sandlot baseball celebrates its silanniversary here today as four leagues of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association line up on 11 diamonds in city parks. More lea rues will swing into action tomorrow. Soon the parks will be thronged with visitors who go out on Sundays to see the Indianapolis sandlotters in action. The teams will play through the season to determine the r/mmpinrvjs fry the citv tournev nlnv

Their final goal is the'trip to Cleveland to bid for national honors. To hundreds of amateur ball players, the sandlot season offers an excellent avocation. It means wholesome neighborhood rivalry and exciting free entertainment for thousands of Indianapolis fans. AN UNWISE TAX BILL A FTER as careful study of the new tax Dill as we *ar; capable of making, we find ourselves unable to defend anything about it except its general objectives. The measure's announced purpose of subjecting stockholders’ corporate income to the same graduated rates of tax to which other income is subjected is one we heartily indorse as extending tax visibility and the principle of ability to pay. Likewise the bill’s purpose of raising additional revenue to finance the farm program and the soldiers’ bonus is, in our opinion, undeniably sound. But our concurrence with these general tax objectives does not oblige us to take for granted that the present measure, with its convoluting schedules and algebraic formulae, will accomplish the objectives. Certainly the Ways and Means Committee majority report, which is supposed to present the arguments for the bill falls short of convincing proof that the measure will correct more inequities than it will create, or that it will raise anywhere near the amount of additional revenue claimed. Indeed there are grounds for doubting that the new taxes will produce even as much revenue as the $1,100,000,000 now produced by the taxes which the bill will wipe from the books. And with the government’s budget in the shape it is in, this is no time to swap off a certain for a doubtful yield. If this were the only possible approach to the tax and economic objectives professed, and if business were such that private industry could take such abrupt experiments in its stride, we might agree that it would be worth while to gamble on the revenue. But there are other and more simple approaches which the committee did not, explore. One obvious method is that sponsored by Senator La Follette, broadening the base of the individual income taxsystem, bringing more taxpayers under its provisions, and graduating the rates from a small tax on small incomes to the maximum tax on the highest incomes. The same extension could be applied to estate taxes, also sponsored by Senator La Follette. Not only would the La Follette plan provide considerable additional revenue for the present emergency; it also would build up a dependable source of government income for the years ahead, and might prove the means in time of enabling Congress to eliminate the invisible nuisance and sales taxes, which bear dowhi most heavily and mose unfairly on the poor. If this were not an election year, the Ways and Means Committee might havg considered this alternative. But it being an election year, the 'committee seems to have spurned this direct approach and to have sought shelter behind a smoke-screen which the average voter can not penetrate. WORTH TRYING TT 7E congratulate Police Chief Morrisseyyy on his * ’ effort to promote traffic safety by having crosses painted at 31 intersections where deaths have occurred this year. The scheme reveals a sense of showmanship in providing Indianapolis drivers with a constant reminder of the mounting death toll. We do not know what effect, if any, these crosses will have cn the accident rate. But it is an attempt to do something—to apply psychological brakes to careless drivers. We favor trying any and all methods that hold some promise of reducing the tragedy of unsafe streets. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ' I 'HE general tone of Esquire, the magazine by, of J for men, gives me a sickish feeling sometimes. Not that it isn’t a slick publication, ably edited, and crammed with clever contributions. The trouble is it always is just a little too clever. Do you suppose it really represents the attitude of intelligent American man toward women? Does its spirit of defeatism actually prevail in our most fortunate social group? If so we are in a bad way, for, according to its doctrine, passion is always brief, love false, and marriage a snare and a deceit. Men and women are engaged mainly in the business of betraying each other; there is no loyalty between the sexes under the sun. One searches vainly for a few grains of idealism and finds them too seldom. It is all Realism with a capital R, and mighty sorry feeding for either heart or brain. Moreover, it us filled with the kind of smut that little boys used to write on the back of the livery barn in my home town—just plain dirt which the oafs and loafers enjoyed when we were young. This is very disillusioning. It hardly seems possible that those smartly dressed men in Esquire’s fashion pages, those efficient business and club gentlemen in their cultured surroundings who only drink the best brand of whisky, could enjoy the same type of wit that appealed to the guttersnipes in 1900. One expects men to outgrow the vulgar tastes of untutored lads who in our presophisticated era sneaked off with the last Montgomery Ward catalog to pour over the women’s underwear section. But evidently we hope for too much. Anyway the decent countryman of those days who dragged the washtub into the kitchen on Saturday nights for a weekly bath could boast a cleaner mind than many a modern gentleman who treats himself to two tubs and a shower every day, if we judge him by Esquire’s standards. HEARD IN CONGRESS OENATOR HASTINGS (R., Del.): There are about 100,000 members of the American Liberty League. A few of them are rich men, but 99 per cent are just plain, ordinary folks. (Laughter in the gal-' leries.) a an Senator Hastings (R., Del.): Mr. PresidentSenator Robinson iD.. Ark.): Oh, no! sit down and take your medicine. The gall of the Senator who asked another Senator dozens of questions in his speech and then refused to permit an answer, and then, when the other Senator waits until he has his own time, immediately begins trying to heckle him! nun Senator Hastings (R., Del.): The Senator from Arkansas not only asks a question but he then proceeds to answer it himself. Senator Robinson (D., Ark.): No one else can answer it so well. (Laughter.) tt tt tt Senator Robinson (D.. Ark.): Mr. President, what is it that has made the Senator from Delaware angry? Senator Hastings (R., Del.): Oh, I could not be angry with the Senator from Arkansas if I tried. Senator Robinson: Why all this storm? ... It is just ft brainstorm.

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Our Town By ANTON SCHERRER

j TpASHION NOTE: We couldn’t help noticing that the showwindows downtown are pushing . “summer prints” for ladies’ wear, it’s all right with us, even if some do look like typographical errors. 808 Avery definite urge to learn the time oil thg D. A. R.’s national convention—never mind why —led us to the year-book issued by the local Caroline Scott Harrison chapter. Sure, we found it. It said: | “Continental Congress, Washington, D. C. Week of the anniversary of ! the Battle of Lexington.” Nothing more; indeed, nothing less. This strikes us as pretty cute. In another mood it might have struck us as a high-handed attempt to kick up our I. Q. Anyway, we’re going to keep it in mind and the next time a D. A. R. asks us when we had our last haircut we’re going to retort in kind and tell her it was some time during week of the anniversary of the opening cf the Brooklyn Bridge. tt tt B LIBRARIAN LUTHER DICKERSON, who is a bachelor and a prize catch at that, received an invitation from a group of women to deliver a talk on the | rudiments and refinements of jhousekeeping. Alive to the opportunity, Mr. : Dickerson fixed up an exhibit of | books, the backbone of which conI sisted of a choice collection of farmers’ bulletins issued by the Federal government. For the more esoteric items like the emotional behavior of internal plumbing, the atavistic instinct of termites and the aspects of dry cleaning and every other kind of cleaning including the modern habit of “flicking” which, for some j reason, is enjoying a present boom, i Mr. Dickerson relied on a set of ; authoritative textbooks. You’d be amazed to know what | Mr. Dickerson knows about books about housekeeping. You’d be dumfounded, too, to learn how many ! were written by men. Mr. Dickerson packed up the exhibit and dispatched one of the brightest women on his staff to deliver the books .and the talk with instructions to limit the performance to 30 minutes. It wasn’t near enough time. Finally when everybody thought the subject exhausted, an earnest little woman cleaned up the bases with: “Now will you plqase tell us something about humanism?” tt u b IT is the unshakable creed of most business men and bankers that physicians, by and large, know mighty little about business. We know better and we have documentary proof for it. A prominent Indianapolis merchant intent on a trip abroad, and fully aware of the vicissitudes of time and space, deemed it wise to clean up his desk before going. He went to his physician and asked for his bill to date. “It is SBB including this visit,” said the physician.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

IF you want to be up to date in this modern world of science, you will have to learn all about spinors. Prof. Oswald Veblen, one of Einstein’s colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, told all about spinors in a recent address. “The theory of spinors,” Prof. Veblen explained, “had its origin in the search for a suitable mathematical tool to use in the extension of the quantum theory to the field of relativity. It grew out of the attempt to reconcile wave mechanics with the relativity theory.” The quantum theory sets forth the notion that light and other forms of energy exist in the form of little bullets or bundles known as Quanta. But at times energy does eem, nevertheless, to behave like waves. What is even more remarkable electrons, which are particles of matter, appear at times to j behave as waves. An attempt to reconcile these J conflicting facts in a mathematical i theory led to the development of I wave mechanics. Wave mechanics, to quote Dr. Veblen again, “describes the motion I of a particle by means of the con- i cept of a wave.” tt tt tt WHEN attempts were made to fit wave mechanics into the frame of relativity it was discov- I ered that additional mathematical j tools were needed. A great many years ago mathe-! ; maticians had developed a branch | of their science called vector analyI sis. A vector is a line which possesses direction as well as position. Then came the thiory of relativity and for it, the theory of tensors was developed. A tensor is defined by the dictionary as “a generalized concept of a vector.” Recent developments of wave mechanics brought physicists to the conclusion that electrons were net merely points but were spinning or rotating like the earth. Until the spinning electron was developed, mathematicians had believed tensors sufficient for all purposes. * j “Now,” says %rof. Veblen, “comes anew kind of a physical quantity which is not a tensor and jet has to be taken into account. It has something,to do with a spinning electron. So physicists decided to

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Male tlour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to £SO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt BELIEVES WATSON HAS INDORSED LUDLOW By George Gould Hine There was an interesting announcement in Sunday’s paper. It concerns the candidates for Congress from this district—all of them. It particularly concerns the friends of the President. / The announcement comes from former Senator James E. Watson, Indiana representative of the Old Guard Republican machine. The intent of Mr. Watson’s remarks is unmistakable. The Old Guard will discharge its obligations to Louis Ludlow. , Mr. Watson first lays the proper foundation for his suggestions. He states in effect that the old party labels are meaningless. He then announces the Old Guard plan of battle as follows: “Our fight is not with those Democrats in Congress who voted against fantastic New Deal ideas. Republicans have no quarrel with them.” Mr. Watson is too subtle to openly indorse Louis Ludlow by name. Democrats would notice that. The friends of the President would scratch Mr. Ludlow.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN QOME changes which take place in the body of the prospective mother may cause her concern far bej'ond their actual importance. Os course, the growth of the child causes changes in the mother’s body. Frequently, after the first few months, the breasts may secrete a thin milk known as colostrum. This continues until the time when milk itself appears. Its appearance need not occasion alarm. During the first few months the skin changes little. Later it becomes thinner, and slightly bluishpink streaks may appear. After the child is born, these streaks become smaller and light in color. They are caused merely by overstretching of the skin. Many preparations are sold, which are supposed to be rubbed into the skin to prevent appearance of these scars. They are of no value. Sometimes small colored spots will appear on the body, including even the face or neck. These are termed “liver spots.” They represent deposits of pigment. They have no special significance and usually disappear later. Occasionally the fingers tingle and sometimes they swell during the day. Real swelling of the legs or of the hands may be significant and certainly should be called to the attention of the doctor. Slight swelling, however, is merely a sign of a change in the circulation and need not produce alarm. Deposits of fluid in legs, face, end hands is associated frequently with inability of the kidneys to eliminate fluid satisfactorily.

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PREPAREDNESS

“I want to commend those Democratic members of Congress ‘who have voted against the New Deal,” says Mr. Watson. "There likely will be Republicans who will vote approval of the comparatively few Democratic Congressmen who have stood out against the New Deal.” Friends of the President, if you do not know what this means, look at the roll calls in Congress. They show that there still is someone attached to the President’s coat tails that ought to be flicked off; someone who expects another ride into office on the strength of the President’s popularity, only to hamstring him at every turn, when safely elected. As for the other candidates who are wasting their time, unless the President’s coat goes to the cleaners, we can offer them only our sympathy. They are up against a combination that can’t be beaten, unless the friends of the President wake up. SUGGESTS TRIMMING RELIEF ROLLS By J. B. P. Here’s some more advice for Roosevelt which, of course, he won’t take. Kick the riff-raff, the dead-beats, the shiftless incompetents and the professional gimme-guys off of the PWA and relief rolls and the cost will be cut in half. There is a breed of gentry in these

SOMETIMES, during child bearing there may be destruction to the return flow of the blood from legs to heart. This blocking of the veins will result in swelling of the legs. To prevent swelling resulting merely from mechanical causes, raising of the legs from time to time is helpful, and it may be useful to sleep with the legs slightly elevated. Use of elastic stockings or supports fairly high up also will be helpful in easing pressure, on the veins. Sometimes swelling of the limbs will occur in hot weather and be absent in cold weather. Severe rubbing or massage is not advisable and should never be used without the doctor’s instructions. The usual length of time for childbirth is 270 to 280 days. Ocasionally the period is somewhat longer. Sometimes children are bom before the seventh month. The causes of such variation will be discussed in later articles. Bear in mind that the right time to consult the doctor is, first, immediately after marriage, to know whether everything is satisfactory for childbirth; second, just as soon as the mother suspects she is going to have a child; and thereafter at regular intervals of at least three weeks up to the later months, then every two weeks or oftener. Especially important is a record of the blood pressure. This should be, for a woman between 20 and 40 years of age, somewhere between 100 and 140, with an average around 125. Any sudden rise in pressure shout and be taken as a warning that something is wrong and the utmost consideration given to discovering cause of the difficulty.

ing voting and holding any office, including the presidency. Q—Name the airman who shot down Baron Manfred von Richthofen during the World War. A—Capt. Roy Brown of the British Royal Air Force. Q —Who was the King of Persia when that country was conquered by Alexander the Great? A—Darius 111. Q—Which official of the Post Office Department has supervision over the rural mail? A--The First Assistant Postmaster Gereral. Q—How many times doss the word “God” appeaf in the Bible? A—According to Strong’s Concordance, 4371 tlmea <

United States with no respect for themselves or any one else. They will not work. The world owes them a living—and their one aim in life is to collect it. Ninety per cent of them are on government relief right now. Instead of saving these gents from industry, Roosevelt would do much better if he would only save them from themselves. tt tt tt QUERIES SCHORTEMEIER ON G. O. P. POST By Warner Jewel If Mr. Frederick E. Schortemeier has “no desire to be county chairman of the Republican party,” as he is quoted in The Times, why doesn’t he repudiate those who are circulating the petition among the Republican precinct committeemen of the county in his behalf? The secretary of the Republican Central Committee is said to have asserted that the petition is not being circulated at the instigation of the central committee. But he didn’t say whether or not Cap Coffin has anything to do with it. We believe that Mr. Schortemeier is highly regarded in Marion County, but if he wishes to warrant that same high regard in the future, why doesn’t he say something more than merely that he has no “desire” to be the Republican county chairman? What about it, Mr. Schortemeier? UNDERSTANDING BY GEORGIA MEDLEN If we could penetrate the veil Behind each other’s lives; Understand the soul and spirit, Know each heartache, grief and strife: We would not be quick to censure, To judge or to condemn, But would have an understanding For our friends, our fellowmen. DAILY THOUGHT And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.—Genesis, 28:22. IF gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.—H. Ballou.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

“I once lived in the city, Mrs. Bundy, and I know how hard it is lor, a young fellow to find time to write”

/APRIL 25, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—This revinc reporter for The Times roes where hs pleases, when he pleases. In search of odd stories about ifcls and that. npAXCO, Mexico, April 28—Last night I went to a Mexican circus. It was all right. I didn’t enjoy it as much as ours, but I enjoyed it. It was a little circus, {flaying three and four-day stands in small towns. The tent was a pretty goodsized one, but round instead of oval. Outside, a four-piece band kept playing to draw attention, and now and then a young fellow would yell something through a megaphone. I handed the ticket seller a peso note, and got 70 centavos change. That gave me the best seat in th® tent for about 8 cents, our money, The cheapest seats were 10 centavos (less than 3 cents), with children at half price. About 20 Americans were there, all in ringside seats because they didn’t know how to ask for anything else. There were four rows of benches around the single ring. Slat benches—the most uncomfortable seat ever devised for man. Behind these was an aisle, and then the regular raised board seats, where the “hoi polloi” sat in more comfort than the ringsiders. 808 ABOUT a thousand people were there altogether. They kept coming in till after 11 o'clock. I'd always been told that Mexicans went to bed at dark. It isn’t so. The show was supposed to start at 9:30. I got there at 10. Tho first performer came out of the dressing tent at 10:25. The crowd didn’t get impatient. While we were waiting there were two dog fights in the tent, and some untrained fleas put on a circus of their own around my ankles. The first thing was a dog act. Three little rat terriers. They didn't do anything unusual. In fact they wouldn't do half what they were supposed to do, and that made a better show than if they had. The crowd roared at every mistake. Then there was a man who stood on one arm on top of a high pedestal; and a trapeze performer who was fair; and a tight-wire walker, who put on a drunken act on the wire that was the best thing of its kind I have seen. tt b tt npHERE was a clown act between -*■ every regular act. This (judging from the crowd’s enthusiasm) was the best part of all. The clowns came out in pairs, and there was long dialogue, as in vaudeville or burlesque. About the same type of gags, too. A young Mexican from Mexico City sat next to me and told me what they said. There were a lot of burlesque gags about Taxeo not fixing up ita cobblestone streets, and funny references to neighboring villages. Their clown clothes and faces were just like those of our burlesque funny men—baggy pants and collapsible umbrellas —and there was much slapstick and tripping ancf hitting each other. tt tt Toward midnight two little girls came out and did tumbling acts. And then a little boy. He must have been no more than 3; Dressed in a Japanese costume. He was sleepy, and he couldn't keep his balance. He'd try to turn a somersault, but he’d fall over as he finished. He tried four or five times, and then he started to cry. But he kept on trying. Finally the crowd started throwing money. I saw poor-looking Mexicans throw out peso notes, and a peso is a day’s wages here. . I thought his act was a setup (I would, crass Americano) but the boy next to me said it was real; that the kid was just sleepy. It was nearly 12:30 when the show ended. They had already started to take the tent down, for it was the last night. I spent about half my time watching the audience during the show", I was disappointed in myself. I guess I’m not sensitive to contrasts, or can’t dramatize people, or something. Because this crowd here in faraway Taxeo seemed to me (with the exoeption of brown skins and strange clothes) exactly like every circus crowd I’ve seen since I first went to Ringling Brothers in Terre Haute in 1908.