Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1936 — Page 14

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SPEEDWAY CLASSIC

CURRENT magazine article headed, “Death Takes the Wheel at Indianapolis,” describes today’s 500-mile Speedway race as a spectacle where the expectancy of sudden death “lends a terrifying #fascination.” The theme of 4he article is that the “thrill of tragedy is the chief drawing card. All too , Often death has taken the wheel at the Speedway. “But we can not agree that the huge crowd at the race today was attracted by the possibility of more ~gasualties, : As the race starts, there has nat been one serious _ accident during the weeks of tests and trials when the racing cars attained tremendous speeds. Drivers have lost control, and there have been several accidents which might have been serious in pre- - vious years. One reason for this safety record is the improve- : ment to the track, the widening of the inside curves, _ the changes in the retaining walls, the removal of . the overhead wooden bridge at the north end, and the smoothing of rough spots with asphalt.

: ” 2 ” . 1= Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials also should be commended for another safety measure. Most of the race fatalities in the past have involved: inexperienced drivers. Many of them were : ambitious youngsters unfamiliar with the track. Now “there are restrictions for new drivers-and new cars. "In the preliminaries, new drivers are required gradually to become accustomed to the driving conditions before they make higher speeds. Every part of the ‘machines is minutely inspected for mechanical flaws. ‘As the racers flash around the track today, the pllots face one of the hardest scientific handicaps «An the history of the race. This is the limit of 37% gallons of gasoline for the 500 miles. Last year, when the limit was 421; gallons, only ‘one car in the first 10—Floyd Roberts, who came in fourth—finished on 37% gallons. Kelly Petillo, who won, and the other leaders, would not have been able to finish under the new restrictions.

This year’s rule means the machines must aver- :

age 13 1-3 miles a gallon at speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour, or better than some of the larger “commercial automobiles can do. Engineers contend this fuel restriction will develop better carburetion and improved fuel mixtures. If. as they hope, this results in more economical operation for all automobiles, the saving to millions of American motorists would be considerable.

Va ” ” ” HEN automobiles dart around the brick track

at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour, “there is no guaranty against crackups, skidding and _serious accidents. . > We can not agree with the magazine writer, however, when he says the vast crowds “jam their way into the stands and crowd the infield waiting and . . ‘®Imost hoping for a crash.” We believe the thrill of the race is speed, the skill of the drivers, and their battle against physical strain, mechanical defect and a limitation on fuel that taxes the ingenuity of the racing car builders.

- TURN ON THE LIGHT

ROSECUTOR SPENCER and Police Chief Mor--_rissey are to be commended for their speed in taking hold of the investigation of alleged Black Legion activities here. Whether the Black Legion is actually operating Shere, and the extent of such operations, are questions which cannot be answered either by ostrich indifference or by sensationalism. The facts can come only from a patient, sober and fearless in- _ vestigation by law-enforcement officials. The three sets of alleged Black Legion documents . uncovered here by The Indianapolis Times may or may not be significant. Fortunately, Prosecutor Spencer and Chief Morrissey are the kind of conscientious public officials who are going to find out. Our local officials doubtless will receive help from the Detroit authorities. The latter already have evidence of Indiana operations of the Black Legion. They say that the notes found in Indianapolis apparently are similar to those found in Michigan.

2 » o vile doings of the Black Legion form another challenge to the United States Senate, which is being asked by Senator La Follette to authorize a thoroughgoing investigation into violations of civil liberties under the American flag.

~Here is an outfit that admits itself an outlaw. Its alleged murders, arsons, assaults and terrorisms ¥re «directed against such minority groups as Catholics, Jews, Negroes, Communists and others. While the Michigan police appear to be doing a splendid job of tracking down the actual criminals they probably will not learn all that should be learned of this d of human beings gripped by a. sadistic religion “of. hate. Rep. Dickstein’s proposal to investigate the Black Legion is, we believe, ill-timed. His ant{:Nazi and her investigations have not been particularly fruitful of results in unearthing significant facts. The La Follette investigation could be better financed d better manned. A House probe of a single phenomenon would not only be a duplicationn, but a dissipation of effort. The Black Legion's crimes are part of a larger picture of intolerance in America. They are cut m the same piece as teachers’ oaths, anti-red ys into campuses, vigilante and lynching mobs, ati-labor terrorism and the other manifestations of al interest racketeering wrapped in the garb of triotism. ,. dt is the Senate's business to light a lamp and garch these social rat-holes. If it fails to launch the Follette investigation and finance it with adefunds it will have failed in one of its most nt duties.

PAROLE CRITICISM

‘business in general.

withou: the nesesary tnellgence of devotion to te public interest. Mr. Bates did not contend that the parole system is perfect, but he said there is nothing wrong with it when intelligently and fearlessly operated with sufficient financial backing. “It is not the system of parole that makes the trouble,” he said. “It is the discharged prisoner who must go out by one method or another. Parole should be regarded as a method of release and should not be confused with pardon or clemency. We should discontinue our criticism of it as a method of release and concentrate upon enforcement in its administration.”

THE ROAD TO WAR

T'S a long way to Cape Town, South Africa, where the British are building a new naval base to guard what would become the Empire route to India if the Suez line were severed. It’s a long way to Rome, where 831,000 Italian youths have just been inducted into or promoted in Fascist organizations, in a mass celebration featured by II Duce’s boast that Italy’s armies “will be invincible.” Yes, it is a long way to that point in the Mediter= ranean where the old British Empire and the resurgent Roman Empire lie athwart each other. And it is a long way to many other points of friction in the Old World. But it is not a long way to Chicago. And in Chicago thousands of Italian-Americans jammed into an armory witness a mammoth rewedding festival in ‘which 4000 daughters of Italy married their husbands at w, slipping their fingers into iron bands that took-the place of wedding rings which had been melted into gold to support the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia. It's a long way to the Old World. But the Chicago incident is another proof that our population brings the Old World close to us. And that is one reason why it will be hard for the United States to remain at peace if the Old World goes again to war.

WHAT THEY REPRESENT

DWARD A. FILENE'S criticism of the United States Chamber of Commerce strikes at a fault of a great many other organizations. The Chamber, sald Boston’s merchant prince in explainigg belatedly why he had withdrawn his membership, “is not an organization of business, but rather an organization of business men”; is not promoting the welfare of business in general, but rather is promoting “special views of certain promi nent people in the business world.” It will be hard for the Chamber to refute the charge. Over the last three years, the Chamber's name has been used in a campaign of propaganda, which certainly has been more representative of the views of cliques of business men than the views of Typical was the Chamber questionnaire polling members for Yes or No replies to questions on government policy—questions about as controversial as “Are you in favor of being struck by lightning?” The Chamber published the overwhelming “No” replies as an expression of sentiment against the New Deal. Similarly, the National Association of Manufac-

turers has devoted its energies not so much to pro-_

moting the welfare of industry, which would mean the building up of mass purchasing power to provide markets for industry's products, but to promoting political opposition to reforms which those in control of the N. A. M. did not like. In nearly all organizations it is the active vocal minority which seizes control and uses that control to its own ends. The great passive majority pays dues, stays away from meetings, keeps off the resolutions committee. The procedure is no less typical. of labor unions, which often become organizations devoted not so much to promoting the welfare of

labor as to promoting the interests of labor leaders. -

Our minorities would not get so far out of hand if we had more men of Mr. Filene’s caliber—men with the courage to “take a walk” rather than follow herd in what they believe to be the wrong direction.

CCC AND THE CAMPAIGN

NE phase of the New Deal is being spared the criticism of Republican campaign orators. That is the Civilian Conservation Corps, bitterly attacked when first organized but not since it began to turn in results. CCC men have built 1,963,500 erosion . control dams. They have treated 2,720,000 acres of farm land, which means, says Director Fechner, that “a real beginning has been made on the solution of the grave ‘problem of soil wastage confronting the nation.” They have planted 558,000,000 forest trees and improved 2,224,000 acres of forest stand, eliminating worthless trees and speeding the growth of healthy ones. Equally important is work done to control destruction of forests by fire. Important to flood control are the 1845 impounding and diversion dams built, and the 5090 miles of stream development to the credit of the CCC. Mr. Fechner estimates that forest and park development programs have been advanced from. 15 to 25 years by the CCC work.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson WO letters arriyed this morning from opposite ends of the cpuntry. One was written by a woman who has worked 10 years in the same office. Her salary is fair bug she feels that she has come to a dead end and, according to her confession, she is thoroughly miserable. The other letter comes from a married woman with three small children. She, too, has nothing definite to complain about, but her life is slipping away at an alarming pace and -to her it often seems unbearably dull. She longs for more excitement and romance, something besides the commonplaceness of

, every day. I wish I could «reassure them, but the chances are good that the stenographer will die at her post

while the housewife drags out her domestic existence to its inevitable end. Life just happens like that to most of us. It is not a wildly exciting procession of days but a series of small events, set in the flat surface of the unimportant, whose signifi-

- cance we do not understand until we look back

upon them. Like so many others, these women evidently lack the capacity to enjoy life. It would be safe to bet they might be set down in some other part of the world, in any strange or romantic situation, only to discover they suffer the same discontent. Tt isn’t what happens around us that makes life

rich, full and exciting. It is what happens within

us, the way in which we react to the pancrama of ordinary events. = There is romance and wonder and beauty everywhere, but too few eyes have to see. In our sad re-

_ flections about what we have not, we overlook -the glories we have. Open your, eyes, sisters. Get ac-

ualnied with the people around you_ Yhiere is un

Our

Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

Y only reason for going into 4 this subject so thoroughly today is to help our musicians find a way of doing something with their hands while singing. At any rate, something outside the thing they are doing now. The situation in Indianapolis is acute. Sopranos and contraltos are the worst offenders and a soprano is, if anything, worse than a contralto. It seems practically impossible for a soprano, for instance, to let go of her voice without striking a series of aftitudes, resembling on the one hand the Nuremberg Madonna and, on the other, Rossetti’s paint-

ing of Proserpine—the one repre-!

senting a state of supplication, the other representing nothing as far as I can see except what can be

conveyed by the unctuous rubbing |:

of two hands. I have always been wary of persons who rub their hands unctuously and I see no reason—not yet, anyway—why I should make an exception in the case of our sopranos. ? » » = F course, we have. to be reasonable. The toying with the handkerchief in the hands of a soprano will probably always be with us. I wouldn't mind it if singers could learn to stop there. -- It’s when they strike the attitude of supplication, with or without a handkerchief, that I become thoroughly aroused. And it's not because I have anything against the practice of supplication, either. Properly handled by a painter or a sculptor, it has its place; but its place, it strikes me, stops there. Anyway, it takes a mighty fine pair of hands to represent a state of supplication and sopranos don't, as a rule, have them. If they did, they would be playing the cello. » ” ” HERE are several ways out of the dilemma and they are known to everybody except the singers themselves. The first thing to do, therefore, is to rouse the singers, even if we have to do it at the risk of discovering that it wasn’t worth it in the end. Once aroused, the singers might be induced to do something about their hands. At any rate, something different and less conspicuous:than what they are doing now. In the end, they might even be induced to suppress their hands altogether. It’s expecting a lot, I know, but it’s the real solution. To suppress . the Iasi: is easier than most singers think. If sopranos’ gowns were provided with pockets the way baritones’ and bassos’ are, a lot of the present trouble could be obviated. As it is, I always put my bet on a baritone who sings with his hands in his pants pockets and it’s a wonder the sopranos haven't caught on. ” ” 8 ITH the hands stored out of sight, it gives the chest just that much more room to work in: and of the two, I'd rather see a mediocre chest working than a fair pair of hands in a state of supplication. Anyway, that’s the trouble with most singing around Indianapolis. The precious habit: of nibbling all around a tone before a singer makes up her mind to hit it could be remedied with a little more emphasis on the chest and a little less on the hands. The simplest way, of course, is to do away with the hands altogether and clasp them in the small of the back. Nobody—Ileast of all, a soprano—has thought of that. : It’s the real solution and it does away with the necessity of pants pockets.

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Q—Can a person not a citizen enlist in the United States’ heme

A—No. Q—What are the Nimes of the daughters of Eddie: Cantor?

A—DMarjorie, Natalie, Edna, Marilyn and Janet.

Q—What is the middle name of John D. Rockefeller?

A—Davison,

Q—What are garter snakes? A—The name is applied to any of the numerous harmless viviparous American snakes of the genus Thamnophis, having more or: Sisinet dude longitudinal yellow s on the back.

Q—Where is the United States Patent Office?: A—The Department of Commerce building, 14th and E-sts, N. W. Washington, D. C. : Q—Does the wiuniber. of Sustices of the United States Supreme Court vary from time to time? : _A—The number is fixed by Act of Under the present law there is one chief justice and eight associate justices. Q—What was the exact date and Bou of death of King George V of Great Britain? A—Jan. 20, 1936, at 11:55 p. m. © Q—What are the names of the Mills Brothers,

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2” 2 2 URGES GREATER UNITY OF ACTION IN U. S. By Frank L. Martine The time of a new era is here and its shining arrow points toward prosperity and to complete return of normal times. My reason in making the above statement is based on the following facts: 1. Because the two leading political parties have settled their respective issues, announcing their decided planks and platforms, thus appeasing-the minds of the people. 2. Because of the solidity and soundness of the United States of America. 3. Because we. have: learned ‘a great lesson and we are now ready to work harder with a greater unity of action. 4. Because, with a determination to succeed, we must have commercial relations with foreign countries, and think of them not as “foreigners,” but as commercial friends,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

F the formula for the baby is made up at home, all materials used, as well as the bottles and the nipples, should be washed thorough1y and boiled daily. e top of the bottle in which the milk is delivered should be washed Fuh bjled water and wiped off with cotton The DS dient: should be mixed and measured ‘in sterilized vessels. The bottles into which the formula is poured should be washed thoroughly and boiled, and they should be closed with nonabsorbent cotton or sterilized rubber, or cork stoppers. It is much better to pour the mixture for the baby's food into individual bottles than to keep it all in one big bottle, and measure it out into | smaller bottles as needed. The wise mother always will make one extra bottle for the 24hour period, to provide for accidents, such as dropping the bottle or contaminating it in some way. After the individual bottles have been filled and stoppered, they may be kept in the ice box. Nipples should be made of thin rubber and should be washed thoroughly and boiled before using. All nipples may be washed and boiled at one time and kept in a covered dish ready to put on bottles as they are used. As soon as the feeding is ended, bottle and nipple should be washed in cold water. The bottles may be filled with water and left standing until ready for Preparation the next day.

HE ‘person who I is to give the feeding should wash her hands thoroughly before handling. the bottles. In picking up the nipple, it should be touched only at edge and, if possible, not at the part that goes into the baby’s | mouth. Just before tesding, the bottle of milk chould be placed in water

| heated to about 100 -degrees, Fahr-

enheit, which is just a little more than the temperature of the body. Never put a bottle which has been

in the refrigerator into a- vessel |

boiling water or very hot

€SS | water, as the bottle probably will break.

When the milk seems to be warm enough, a drop or two should be tested on the inside of the mother’s wrist. This part of the skin

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treating them as we would expect them to treat us. 5. Because capitalists and manufacturers are more eager than ever and desirous of starting factories in operation before their funds are ex-: hausted. 6. Because the European and South American countries have, more than ever a sincere desire to deal with us, due -to our facilities, to buy our goods and products, providing we will meet them on true, friendly terms, as we, ourselves, would expect them to do. Now fellow-citizens and friends, let us have a greater unity of action; let us continue to be good citizens, and let us, above all, be true to God, to ourselves, to our families, our neighbors and to our friends, and let us be true to the ideals for which this great country was established by our forefathers. - Remember, that “United we stand, but divided we fall.” In everything is some truth. Let every one be heard. “ 2 ” ” SCIENCE MAY EXPLAIN STAR OF THE EAST By Dr. Max L. Galerman = Modern sciennce now adds realism to the biblical story of the Three Wise Men and the sacred Star of the East. The new Rosicrucian Planetarium, being rushed to completion in San Jose, Cal. the fourth in the United States, will reveai astronomically the heavens as they were at the time of Christ. The apparatus being installed will proJect mechanically on to a huge 50foot dome the positions of the stars, planets and constellations as they were more than 20 centuries ago. Materialistic: astronomers contend that the biblical phenomenon was due to the rising of a heilcal star. Helical stars are only periodically visible, and derive their names from

the fact that they rise or set near the sun. Helical stars of centuries

previous are now discernible regularly in other areas of the heavens.

The astronomical projector of this

unique planetarium will make possible a probable identification of the Star of the East. The lecturer, it is’ said; will manipulate the movement of the planets, sun and moon by ‘a keyboard operation similar to that of a modern organ. In addition to demonstrating the Copernican theory of cosmology now generally accepted by sciefice, the ancient geocentric and Ptolemaic theories of the structure of the universe will be exhibited. The planetarium will be officially dedicated July 14 on the ocgasion of the an-

nual convention of the AMORC Rosicrucian Order.

2 8 2» BOOSTS MERIT SYSTEM IN GOVERNMENT By Mrs. Grace M. Showalter

There has been for the last few months before the people of Indiana a question of major political importance. It has been brought before them in newspaper articles, in talks before clubs and in questionnaires. It is the question of the merit system which is advocated over the old spoils system. Eighty-six per cent of the voters of the state have indicated their desire that this system be adopted in place of the present widely known and skilfully used patronage system, which can only lead to inefficiency and waste in public office. With the present high and burdensome rate of taxes our people have at least the right to demand that the money takén from them be spent wisely and by persons who have had some previous training in the jobs for which it is used. Yet in the face of this economic crisis and widespread demand. not one of our known candidates for Governor, either Republican or Democratic, has as yet made any statement on this subject, either for or against it. Is it merely an oversight on the part of these candidates or does their silence signify their unwillingness to adopt and put into practice a system whereby merit is the only requirement for certain public positions? An inquiring voter would like to know.

A WINNER JAMES D. ROTH Cheer that winner to his goal. He wears the truest heart and soul;

Deserves a notch for victory, And leaves behind his history.

Preparation his foresight, Put forth with manly might, Enabled him to lead the pack, . He tarried not upon the track.

One thought, one aim in mind, To win with fairness; but be kind To losers straggling from the path, Than him, more glory no man hath.

DAILY THOUGHT

HERE is just as much reason why schools should train boys to be efficient plumbers or bricklayers as to offer them courses in medicine, law, or the other professions. — John W. Studebaker, United States education commismissioner.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

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Vagabond from

Indiana

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, im search of odd stories about this and that. 2

RT WORTH, May 30.—Oh, yes, Fort Worth is going to have a Centennial show, too. You know how it is between Fort Worth and Dallas. The same as -between cat and dog. Fort Worth couldn't let Dallas walk off with all the Centennial glory. So Fort Worth hired Billy Rose from New York, and told him to go to the limit. He has. “Dallas has all the historical * stuff,” Billy says, “so we don't have to worry about that. We can just show the folks a good time.” The day Billy Rose was hired, three months ago, he thought up his slogan: “Dallas for education; Fort Worth for entertainment.” The Fort Worth show will cost about $5,000,000; Dallas’ is costing $25,000,000. Fort Worth’s Centen= nial grounds will have about 60 buildings; Dallas will have more than 200. Fort Worth’s show wil} be a Broadway-Texas entertainment extravaganza; Dallas will bs a world’s fair, with lots of serious Texas history. The Dallas exposition opens June 6, but Fort Worth can't be ready before July 1. I have tried to visualize, as best I can after seeing some half-finished buildings and some artists’ sketches, and hearing some word pictures con= sisting mostly of the adjective “big= gest,” just what Fort Worth's “Frontier Centennial” will look Bea to visitors. 2 2 2 T will take two days to see it. If consists of four main attractions, each of which will require a whole afternoon or evening. In addition, there will be 30 or 40 side attracs

tions. The “Frontier Centennial” is on a commons, three or four minutes from downtown Fort Worth. We go in.through an entrance gate of

logs, made like a stockade. . We ‘look ‘down a street, about a block and a half long, and we see it lined with weather-board shacks just like the pictures of pioneer Texas cow towns. Inside these ‘buildings will be cers. tain calm and immobile Texas his« torical exhibits, presented by the patriotic women of Fort Worth: = - At the end of this first street is a building, ‘and Billy Rose doesn’tt know yet what it’s going to be, so we’l]l just go around the corner and up the next street. : ” # i ? Fem AT the ‘end of this street is. tha “Jumbo” building, put up especially to house Rose’s big Sixthav. sensation of last winter in New York, the musical circus, “Jumbo.” “Jumbo” will -be brought intact from New York, and will show twice a day at $1 and $1.50. : From “Jumbo” we cross the street to the “Last Frontier.” This is No. 2 of the four big attractions. It is a big three-sided grandstand, like a’ ball park, with real buffalp’' and Ing dians wandering around. Now comes another Broadway ex travaganza. It'll have the lifetime drama of Texas for a plot, but it'll be put on with Broadway technique. You'll see the Indians, and then the conquistadors coming over the hill, and then the covered wagon trains, and the stage coaches and pony exe presses, and then the cattle and ihe cowboys. 2 ” » ry HE other two big events we'll have to leave for tomorrow, But there are two smaller things which we ean work in today. : One is Sally Rand. Billy Rose is building her a special little the« ater on “Frontier-st” and up over it is painted in crude letters “Sally Rand’s Nude Ranch.” It is first painted “Dude,” you see, and then the “D” is crossed out and an “N” painted up over it. Nobody can get out of Billy Rose Just. what Sally's show is. to be, The women’s clubs here are worrye ing. The: other. thing is the Wesh Texas Chamber of Commerce Build= ing. Each of the more than 100 counties in. the West, Texas Chams=. ber of Commerce area. will exhibi§ its products here—corn, wheat, cote ton, alfalfa and meat. : “

Today’ S Science *

BY DAVID DIETZ ; INCINNATI, O., May 30.—Pel= tier’s new comet, the first comeé to appear in 1936 and the fifth comet to be discovered by Leslie Peltier, the amateur star gazer ‘of Delphos, O., promises to become visible to the unaided eye within a few weeks. This is the general opinion of astronomers who now have it under telescopic observa tion.

Present indications, however, seen to be that it will not prove a truly