Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1936 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEYM BROUN QTAMFORD, Conn., May 18.—As the primary results continue to roll in 1 become more and more interested in the personality of that mysterious individual known as "Light Vote Harry.” The first information I received about the political career of Col. Henry Breckinridge was contained In a headline which said

"Big Breckinridge Triumph in Maryland.” I turned to the article in some surprise and read that Roosevelt had defeated his rival by “only six to one.” At the moment I was wholly unfair to the newspaper and to its correspondents because I had not followed closely the fortunes of “Whispering Henry,” the protest man, and six to one seemed to me quite a sizable licking. I did not know then that the Colonel generally loses by 20 to one or even 30. To him the Maryland vote was truly a terrapin dinner. “Light Vote Harry” seems

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to me unique in American political history. Others have gone down to crushing defeat with gallantry ar.d good grace, but I have known not one to revel in a trimming after the manner of Col. Breckinridge. a tt Very Familiar Type IT sounded very strange to me, and I was almost minded to set the colonel down as just another pistachio in politics, but, fortunately, I ran into a psychiatrist who set me straight on the subject. I described the symptoms to him. and to my surprise he said, "That’s not abnormal. The type is very familiar, particularly among graduates of Harvard University. Is the colonel a Harvard man or is he preparing to go to Harvard?” "Judging by the primary returns, he isn’t going anywhere,’’ I answered. "Then the best I can do is to give you an imaginary case history,” continued the doctor. “Os course Harvard is only a secondary factor. The particular mental type with which we are dealing is invariably conditioned in very early youth. Medical men call it, for want of a better name, Galloping Amateuritis. Usually the father is at. fault. Remember, the brief life history of ‘Light Vote Harry’ which I am about to give you is wholly imaginary, although I believe it will be faithful in spirit. I can not guarantee the details. When the colonel w a s 5 years old he came home crying because he had a bloody nose. His father, a great sportsman, met him in the hall and asked, ‘Why are you crying?’ ‘ Because a big boy hit me,’ replied the little colonel. ‘He took my ball away, and I tried to make him give it back.’ “ You were quite right, son,’ said Breckinridge, senior. “The ball was your property, and anybody who tries to disturb property rights is very wicked. You did the best you could. I want to congratulate you and give you a motto to follow all the days of your life: Tt doesn’t matter whether you win or lose —it's how you play the game.’ ” tt tt tt The Rest Is Inevitable can make up the rest of it for yourself,” X continued the psychiatrist. “Next day little Henry went out and got another bloody nose. He was always getting a bloody nose. He took up baseball and became the man to strike out gallantly in the ninth inning with the bases full; he muffed the punt and drove out of bounds on the nineteenth hole. You see, he'd get it into his muddled little head that there was something immoral in winning. It was something a gentleman didn’t do. “I see it as vividly as if I were there —I mean the day he came back from Cambridge after the Harvard-Yale game. ‘How was the game?’ his father asked. ‘Great,’ said Col. Henry Breckinridge. ‘Yale only licked us 68 to 0. It was one of the most marvelous moral victories in the history of Harvard.’ "Personally,” said the doctor, “I envy the Light Vote Harrys of this world. I like to call it the Prince Charlie complex. Os course, the Bonnie Prince is always beaten, but look at the satisfaction he has. The man who licks him is always a dirty Roundhead.” (Copyright,. 19361

Huge G. O. P. Rally to Start Campaign BY RAYMOND CLAPPER CLEVELAND, May 18.—To get the Republican campaign off to a flying start, preparations are being made here for what is expected to be the biggest political rally ever held in this country. It is to be staged in the open air stadium on the lake front, just a step from the convention hall, either Friday or Saturday night of convention week, the second week in June. Convention managers expect to pack 125.000 people into the stadium. Excursions are being organized from all surrounding states. The program will be broadcast nationally. Defeated candidates for the nomination will be asked to appear and pledge their support to the party’s nominee before this vast audience. That will put it up to Senator Borah to say at once what he will do with that bolt he has carried around in his pocket. The only trouble is that convention managers don't know whether Landon. if nominated, will appear. He wants to have an old-fashioned American notification ceremony at Topeka later in the summer. However, some party leaders feel that the campaign can not wait and should go into high gear immediately after the nomination is made, while national interest is keyed up. On the other hand, they agree that Landon should have time to prepare his acceptance speech since it will be the key utterance of the camp.'ign Landon does not intend to attend the convention, although his father and daughter Peggy will be here. If nominaUd. he probably would have to fly to Cleveland to get here in time for the rally. Convention leaders would be satisfied with a compromise; that is, having Landon appear to say a brief word of greeting, pledge himself t :• the platform, and perhaps outline his general philosophy, but reserve detailed discussion of the issues until later notification ceremonies. Yet that would tend to make the trip of a large, solemn, plug-hat notification committee to Topeka some weeks later, and the candidate’s equally solemn acceptance, look a trifle farcical. a a a ANOTHER reason party leaders want Landon, if he is nominated as they expect he will be, to come personally to Cleveland is that they have some important business to talk over with him. It relates to the national chairmanship. John D. Hamilton, aggressive young red-headed Kansas national committeeman, is Landon’s preconvention manager. He has driven his Landon organization work with the energy of a Kansas bull. Some of the older heads on the national committee have been knocked around in the rush and they are nursing bruises. They won passing revenge a few weeks ago when they combined to plow under Hamilton’s candidate for keynoter, and substituted Senator Frederick Steiwer. Now some of the Eastern party leaders, like Charles D. Hilles of New York, are apprehensive as to whether Hamilton may not be biding his time to take a turn with the razor-strop. It is recognized that Landon, as the nominee, could scarcely do other than name Hamilton national chairman. National committee members will unanimously elect any one Landon suggests. But what some of them want is to persuade Landon to pick a board of strategy, officially or unofficially. Th* matter isn’t very serious in itself, but it might easily become so. Senator Borah and others are complaining that Landon is being backed secretly by the same old crowd which always has tun the Republican National Committee.

America Goes Electric

Fate Gives Westinghouse the Stage at Thrilling Moment. This year, the Westinchoase Electric end Manufacturing Cos. is celebrating its golden Jubilee, the fiftieth anniversary of its founding by George Westinghouse. In many ways the story of this company’s rise is the story of America, for Westinghouse and his associates pioneered in the development of many of the things that are the foundations of preient-day civilization. David Dietz. Science Editor of the Scrions-Howard Newspapers, tells the exciting and dramatic story. This is the first of a series. BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor '’J'VHERE was the wild clatter of horses’ hoofs, the banging and scraping of wagon wheels upon the railroad tracks, the terrifying roar of an approaching train, the piercing screech of the locomotive whistle. Tugging at the reins and swinging his whip, the frantic driver rose to his feet. A lurch of the wagon and he was thrown to the tracks. The train was less than 1000 feet away. Suddenly there was the shrieking protest of steel against steel as the brakeshoes ground against the wheels of the cars and the train slid to a stop, the nose of the locomotive less than four feet from the body of the man across the tracks. A life had been saved. But more than that, the start of a career had been forged. A man of destiny had been given his cue to walk upon the American scene and play his part, a part that was to influence and change the life of thq whole world. In the instant that train quivered to a standstill, fate gave the stage to George Westinghouse, for that sudden stop was an unforeseen, dramatic, and irrefutable demonstration of the value of his newly invented air brake. The scene was Pittsburgh upon a September day in the year 1888. Only a few years before, the Civil War had drawn to a close. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was still fresh in the minds of the people. Indians roamed the Western plains. The nation was still predominantly rural, lit by coal oil lamps and candles. Travel was by horse or by railroad and railroads were unsatisfactory because of the lack of adequate brakes. tt • tt tt tt THE old brakes were hand operated. They were slow and unwieldy and difficult to apply. In an emergency they were utterly useless. Asa result, trains had to be restricted to a few cars and wrecks were all too frequent. The train which stopped so unceremoniously when the drayman fell upon the tracks was the first in the world to be equipped with air brakes. They had been put on the train, which belonged to the Panhandle Railroad, by young George Westinghouse and his partner, Ralph Baggaley, at their personal expense. Until the directors of the Panhandle decided to make the test, Westinghouse had not been able to get a railroad official to take the slightest interest in his invention. But now the situation was changed. A few months late-, in 1869. the Westinghouse Air Brake Cos. was organized with Westinghouse as president and a board of directors which included Bagga-

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lAs John Morris Dorsey points out in "The Foundations of Human Nature," after a psychoii ogist has developed a good general picture of a person’s personality and shows him his real traits he usually gets what psychologists call “the analytic shock.” He says in surprise “Why, I never dreamed I was like that ” Most people know very little about their real selves. 2 In a paper entitled, “Where are the Marriagable Men?” Dr. Paul Popsnoe, noted authority on marriage, says “After 35 it is probI able there are—statistically speak-ing-very few men who have never married and who are yet worth marrying. The single males of 35 1 and up comprise a preponderance of mental and physical defectives, : homosexuals, incompetents and derelicts, of men who have been prevented from marriage by venereal or other diseases, or whose outlook is so warped, infantile or egocentric that even the most, optimistic maiden, willing to marry a man

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The drayman tugged at the reins, the engineer blew the whistle, yanked at the handle of George Westinghouse’s new ’ air brake.

ley and a number of important railroad men. The Westinghouse star had risen. The company which was to revolutionize the railroad industry of America and the whole world, the first of many successful ventures to be launched by Westinghouse, had made its bow to the world. At the time, Westinghouse was 23 years old, a tall, broad-shoul-dered young man of dynamic personality, iron will, and stubborn persistence. His dogged, tireless battle to make the railroads recognize his air brake was typical of the first 23 years of his life. It was to be typical of all the rest of his life, a tt tt EORGE WESTINGHOUSE was born in the village of Central Bridge, N. Y., on Oct. 6, 1846. Ten years later his father moved to Schenectady, where he founded the firm of G. Westinghouse & Cos. to manufacture farm machinery and small steam engines. As an infant young George knew what he wanted. When he didn’t get it, he would bang his head on the floor or against the wall. This iron determination never left him. In the last decades of his life, he said one day, "I had a fixed notion that what I wanted I must have. Somehow, that idea has not entirely deserted me throughout my life. I have always known what I wanted, and how to get it. Asa child I got it by tantrums; in mature years, by hard work.” Asa boy he was interested only in tinkering with machinery in his father’s shop. He had no interest in his schoolbooks. He had none in working for his father. He was a born inventor. At the age of 14, he got ready to run off to join the Civil War, his father pulling him off the railroad train a few minutes before it left the station. At 17, he enlisted. Back home from the war, he convinced himself in a

to reform him, would recognize this particular job as hopeless. I have yet to find a person who could not count on the fingers of one hand all the single men of his acquaintance over 35 years of age who are really good prospective husbands from every point of view.” Dr. Popenoe is speaking of averages and this prominent man may be the re exception that makes the rule, but, girls, better give even him more than a once over. 3 He is bluffing. True, one may not care much for what the person he is speaking to thinks of him but he is persisting in what he is doing because he does want to win the approval of somebody somewhere. We all want deeply to get along with other people. It is the deepest desire within us. And you can do it if you go at it scientifically, with definite psychological rules of procedure. \ Tomorrow: How and Why Do You Choose Your Friends?

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few months that college held no interest for him and went back to his tinkering. He made his first successful inventions in 1866. These consisted of a device for replacing derailed cars upon railroad tracks and a reversible steel railroad frog. His father declined to finance him, declaring he knew nothing of railroad matters. Westinghouse found two partners in Schenectady. t? tt THE following year he married Margaret Erskine Walker. He met her upon a railroad train, managed to get her into conversation, and determined to himself, then and there she would some day be his wife. A few months later she consented to become Mrs. Westinghouse. In 1868 he and his bride moved to Pittsburgh where, as already related, the air brake was successfully demonstrated and the air brake company organized. The invention of so successful a device as the air brake would have satisfied many a man. But George Westinghouse was not that kind of a man. The air brake was merely a spur to his inventive genius. Having successfully sold the air brake to the railroads of America* Westinghouse was off to England to stage the same long battle all over again with skeptical railroaders of Great Britain. Then back to the united States he came and began to turn his attention to improving the air brake and to inventing other things. An amazing restlessness drove him on, seemingly tirelessly, from one thing to another. The success of the air brake encouraged him to work on other devices for the railroads and he began to experiment with switching and signaling devices. In the years between 1880 and

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

WASHINGTON, May 18.—GBoss J. Edgar Hoover has been advised quietly by an authority in a position to give such orders, to stop criticising other Federal detecting agencies. Hoover’s recent crack that the Postal Inspection Service had given him no aid in capturing kidnapers, stirred up a hornets’ nest of indignation behind the scenes including the Cabinet. Not only is the Postal Inspection Service one of the oldest and most efficient police forces in the government, but postal agents aciually were responsible for J. Edgar’s capture of Alvin Karpis. G-men had hunted futilely for the gunman for months. Then, several months ago, a train was held up and robbed at Garrettsville, O. Postal inspectors were called in and a few days later picked up the trail of Karpis, who had led the band of robbers. Working on the theory that the members of his gang would get in touch with him sooner or later, the postal agents did not arrest Karpis, but kept him under scrutiny as he traveled across country to New Orleans. There he was joined by a henchman and a woman, later captured with Karpis. When the time came to “make the pinch” the postal agents called in the G-men, told them where Karpis could be found and allowed them to close in. The reason they did so was that the penalty for mail robbery is 20 years, whereas kidnaping, even if no injury is done to the victim, carries a maximum of 63 years’ imprisonment. So that the more serious charge might be lodged against the outlaw, the postal inspectors qu etly stepped aside and permitted Hoover’s men to make the arrest—and get the glory. a a a MOST Republican leaders still cling to June s—a Friday—as the day of Congress adjournment. Their convention opens in Cleveland the following Tuesday, June 9. Democratic leaders lack Republican optimism. They think Congress might drag on till June 15 or 20. Their convention opens in Philadelphia, June 23.

1890 he took out 134 patents, at the same time organizing new companies and venturing into new fields. In 1880 he organized the Westinghouse Machine Cos. to build high-speed engines which his brother had designed. tt tt tt IN 1881. he organized the Union Switch and Signal Cos. to manufacture the pneumatic, interlocking switching and signaling apparatus which he had invented for use on railroads. Two years later, attracted by the fact that natural gas had been struck in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Westinghouse started drilling operations in his own back yard and struck a well which came in with such violence that it occasioned a considerable explosion. He entered the natural gas field now with all the intensity and belligerence which had marked his battles in other fields. Purchasing the charter of an existing company, the Philadelphia Cos., he proceeded to invent a system for the piping and metering of natural gas. At first Westinghouse was chiefly interested in the distribution of natural gas for industrial rather than domestic uses. It was this early industrial use which attracted the steel industry to Pittsburgh and made of that city the great steel center which it is today. Meanwhile, anew industry was appearing on the horizon, the electrical industry. In Cleveland, 0., a young inventor, Charles F. Brush, had perfected the arc light and developed a dynamo to furnish current for it. The Brush Electric Cos. made a contract with the Westinghouse Machine Cos. to obtain engines to drive its dynamos. v Westinghouse, about the same

AS Justice Mcßeynolds was about to enter his suite of offices in the new Supreme Court building, he noticed that a set of numerals —128 A—had been placed on his door. The Tennesseean, noted for his hair-trigger temper, glared at the figures for a few moments, then beckoned to a nearby guard. “What's that for?” he demanded. “That’s your room number, sir!” “I know that. What's the ‘A* for?” “That’s the serial, sir. That's what the plans call for. Each office has a serial letter.'’ “Have it taken off—at once. I don’t want any of this alphabet stuff around me!”

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time, engaged an electrical engineer by the name of William Stanley who had invented a selfregulating dynamo and an electric lamp, to join the staff of the Union Switch and Signal Cos. u tt tt SOON Wesinghouse was in competition with the company of another inventor, Thomas A. Edison, who had organized the Edison Cos. This interest of Westinghouse s in electricity was to prove as revolutionary in the electrical field as his air brake had proved in the railroad world. For Westinghouse was soon convinced of the limitations of direct current which was then in general use and the advisability of employing alternating current instead. Every big city is today a monument to this decision upon the part of Westinghouse. It will be found that the downtown areas, where electrification goes back to the end of the last century, employ direct current, still employ it because of the expense which would be involved in a change. But everywhere .else m theujqity, alternating cUrMit is used; - It was in 1885 that Westinghouse began his work with alternating current, purchasing important patents abroad, improving upon them Ly his own work and surrounding himself with a brilliant group of engineers which included Oliver B. Shallenberger, Nikola Tesla and others. In 1886 he organized the Westinghouse Electric Cos., the name of which was subsequently changed to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Cos. This year, the company is celebrating its golden jubilee. TOMORROW Lighting the Columbian World’s Fair.

TT7HEN the Pan-American * ’ Peace Conference first was proposed it had some earmarks of a political move to aid Roosevelt’s re-election. But at that time the League had not failed in Abyssinia. With the League's failure, emphasis on the Pan-American Congress has increased 100 per cent. League prestige in South America is at its lowest ebb. PanAmericanism is riding high. That is the reason for the change of conference date from July to November. It means Roosevelt wants to make proposals which might be risky if made during the campaign. In other words, there is a definite chance of a united American front against the old world. (Copyright. 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.l

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Liberal Side by HARRY ELMER BARNES (Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation.) marked revival of sentiment for President Roosevelt is being widely deplored by some friends of the Administration. The argument is that strong and vigorous, even menacing, Republican opposition is desirable. Unless this is the case, Mr. Roosevelt may fall into a dangerous lethargy and become a do-nothing President in his second term. He must

be put on his toes by the threat of defeat. If re-elected, he should have to fight hard for all he gets through in his second term. There may be something to this line of argument, but there is certainly another side to it. It seems to me that this contention rests upon the major premise that President Roosevelt will have to be scared into any worth-while policies. If one can assume that Mr. Roosevelt has any well-thought-out body of principles for the continuance of the New Deal, it would

appear that the greater the evidence of public confidence in his Administration the greater the probability that he may do something about them in his next term. tt tt n No Threat From Left Tj'URTHER, if Mr. Roosevelt is to be scared by opposition, it will have to be a fright conjured up by the opposition from the right. There is no radical or third party threat of any significant proportions whatever. A threat from the left, nowever, would be the only type of opposition which might scare Mr. Roosevelt into more constructive and determined policies. Any real challenge will actually come only from reactionaries. Such a challenge would, in alf probability, lead Mr. Roosevelt to play safe and to stress his moderation and the absence of any menace to the capitalistic system in his policies. Moreover, strong opposition to President Roosevelt hardly could exist without cutting down his majority in Congress very markedly in next fall’s election This would mean that he could not do very much, even if he were ever so sincerely committed to a real New Deal. He would be in an even worse position than Theodore Roosevelt was in his second term, w'hen the “Square Dealer” could make little headway, even against the reactionaries in his own party. Further, he would be slowed up for fear that he might lose his majority in the congressional elections of 1&38. I am willing to concede that there is some justification for having lost confidence in Mr. Roosevelt’s intention of doing anything conclusive with respect to transforming our economic system. But, if one does retain confidence in the President, I believe that it is most logical to wish that he shall receive an overwhelming victory at the polls in November. tt tt u He Could Do Something TF Mr. Roosevelt were given a vast popular manX date and also freed from worry about re-election, he could do something if he really wants to. It would then be up to him. He veritably would be on the spot with respect to proving his progressive tendencies. He could espouse the doctrine of the "economy of abundance.” He could make good his promise to labor and actually insure the legality of collective bargaining. He could put through a real program of security legislation—social insurance and the like. He could bring about a redistribution of ihe social income which might give capitalism another real lease on life. He could curb the flossy financial gambling and thievery. He could pursue a sweeping and consistent policy against parasitical holding companies., In short, he could give us the New Deal that he promised in 1933. The great danger of a landslide for Roosevelt would be that the present business and financial opposition would turn coat, climb on the bandwagon, caress and cajole the President and try to keep him "safe and sane.”

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