Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1936 — Page 11

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8 senior class at City

RY ELMER BARNE

Batting for Heywood Brous

YORK, June 30.—In the ebb a t of the current battle against

nected with the career of President

ck B. Robinson of the College of the | [ New York. Not since the old story of how

in Franklin leaned his dripping umbrella ‘the throne of George III—however apocryphal

—has there been anything more hilarious than President Robinson's lurch, umbrella in hand, against pacifist members of his student

v. There have been plenty of attacks upon President Robinson in and out of the institution, including a resounding condemnation by a committee of distinguished alumni of the college. Yet he continues to ride the storm and to confound his opponents. In his latest adventure into ' academic autocracy he may have Barnes skated onto more than usually thin ice. Prof. Morris P. Schappes has refused reappointment to the English departat City College. Considerable excitement has bTaging in this case some weeks past. previous dismissals of progressively inclined and active instructors President Robinson has able to offer in his defense at least some- ostenconsideration of personal inadequacy of scholastic ciency. But in the case of Prof. Schappes this lly seems to be the case. : ; ” ” ” Qualifications Unquestioned HE scholastic qualifications of the instructor in question can not be successfully assailed. He is id scholar and has also proved his capacity to 8 the English language intelligently in many arand reviews in a variety of literary publicaThat his literary achievements surely outdisthose of the president of his institution can be ascertained by any who will take the pains to

the critical chapter on President Robinson’s lit-

attainments by Robert Forsythe in his book, er Than the Rose.” over, Prof. Schappes is an excellent teacher, College this year voted him “the most popular and most respected” member } teaching faculty at City College. This was a indeed, for there are many able teachers in dtution, including the justly illustrious Morris And it was no half-baked judgment of imma-

Schappes has taken an important part in Anization of the Teachers’ Union and has f eriticised militarism and Fascism. Indeed, his of dismissal came to him on the day after the strike of students this spring.

” ” os ces Opponents on Spot WEVER much the facts may discredit President n in the minds of thoughtful persons, are likely actually to make his position more for the moment. He may be neither a great 4 nor 8 great educator, but he is an astute poli__He is unpopular with the student body, with majority of his faculty and with the alumni body. et President Robinson hangs on. And he does me because he is able to appear before the New York as the defender of his institution iL the inroads of Moscow. He has adroitly radical students and professors until they have to his trap and kicked over the traces. Then, of a plain academic autocrat, he has been able ge forth in the role of a valiant American stemthe tide of communism. 8 puts his opponents on the spot. They can OW him out without seeming to be agents of Until his opponents are able to puncture this President Robinson is likely to remain sitting 88 president of the College of the City of New

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

E PARK, N. Y, Monday—Such a bevy of eS as came up here yesterday to recuperate g convention! Mary Dewson; Mrs. Willlam H. Good; Mr. Henry Goddard Leach; Col. and Mrs. Frede from Albany; Mrs. Daniel O’Day and her , Elia; Mrs, George Backer; Mrs. Charles W. + of North Carolina; Miss Fannie Hurst, and not least, Miss Frances Perkins, who was too ed to get up early enough in the morning to for lunch, but who arrived in the afternoon in ) spend an hour with us all. 8 Cook was their hostess at the Val-Kill cotThey lay around on the lawn and some of ent in swimming. They all came over in a see the President, the rest of the time they t and talked. o'clock every one had gone home and my chile 50 weary they began to insist on going to 9:15. Even the President went to bed at 10:30. and I drove her husband, James and Betsy train at 7:45 this morming. Then we came back t out riding immediately. It was a grand time and a lovely, cool day, but we ‘talked so hard ide rather leisurely and came back reluctantly at $0 turn our horses over to the children. den I went to the cottage to put some rooms, we are using for guests this summer, in order. we drove up with a friend to see an old house he has bought and is doing over. nor Horner and Commissioner Murphy of ippines, together with two or three cousins, luncheon when I got home. “Late as usual,” chorus which greeted me. 8 afternoon my husband drove some of us, ing the two grandchildren, over some newly fin‘roads. He told John how he wished some of ji changed and where the new ones should be put These are dirt roads used for riding and as for getting into the woods. They are not for motors, but the President considers anyible for his car, "husband leaves again for Washington tonight know he regrets to take his departure from 1 spot. John and I are glad that we can

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New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS HILL, a brief first novel by Eleanor Green leday, Doran; $2) gives a word picture of ily picnic group against a background of sunset yinnie, one of the daughters, watches from a hilltop and reminisces about the lives of those

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Steel Industry Exhibits,

Horticulture Display Are Features.

This is the second of two articles on the Great Lakes Exposition now being held in Cleveland.

(CLEVELAND, June 30. —The romantic story of iron and steel is a record of civilization’s advance, the visitor to the Great Lakes Exposition will learn as his interest is captured by the industry’s elaborate exhibits. The exposition, which opened Saturday,

~ continues to Oct. 4.

Iron’s progress from mine to usefulness, through the holds of steamers and roaring blast furnaces, is followed througn a combination of working models, dio‘ramas and immense photographs. Great European museums have contributed ideas for the displays, prepared by Dr, A. A. Bates of Case School of | Applied Science, and other technicians. . Because Cleveland is the geographical center of the “Ruhr of America,” the story of steel was chosen as the theme for the ex--position, and is told from the standpoint of history and from influence on modern life. The tedious processes by which a few pounds of iron were obtained 3000 years ago may be seen in contrast with a mode] of a continuous rolling mill recently built by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. Laboratories show fhe technical progress by which modern metallurgy surpasses the famed Damascus steel. Spectacular advance in the science has been made in the last three generations, Dr. Bates said. Until the middie ot Ye si eenth century there was general use the same type of crude “Catalan” furnaces devised by the Egyptians in the pre-Chris-tian era, and from which the Greeks and later the Romans learned to make .iron. » ® ” HE furnace, reproduced for the exposition, was merely a pit into which ore and charcoal were fired by a bellows. It took weeks to obtain the 30-odd-pound lump of iron to be found at the bottom of the pif. Never melted, the metal was hammered into the desired shape.

Some African tribes still use these furnaces, Dr. Bates said. The last known one in the United States was abandoned by a group of remote Tennessee villagers in 1890. They packed the iron in charcoal for weeks until it absorbed carbon and thus became steel. } The first cast iron appears to have been the result of the same sort of accident that taught the Chinese about roast pig. It was in Germany in 1840 that a particularly tall and hot furnace was built that melted iron for the first time. The idea is unaltered save for increased size and efficiency that brings the unknown German's ton-a-day production to 1200 tons daily in a single modern furnace. The melted iron was cast into “pigs” by being run into sand troughs. The term “pig-<iron” is an unrefined allusion to the likeness to a mama hog and her litter. From the wrought iron of the Catalan furnace, casting was a great advance, | although the health authorities today would certainly disapprove of the castiron cannon which came into use. In England, in 1750, was devised the puddling furnace. Cast iron was mixed with ore and remelted. The impurities burned out, the result was soft steel, Puddling furnaces were in wide use in America until a few years ago. A few still remain in Pennsylvania. |

2 N English watchmaker next hit on the idea of melting iron in a clay crucible, removing

TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936

A horticultural display on a scale never before attempted is a major attraction at the Great Lakes Exposition. It comprises this 315-acre outdoor garden, and the three-storied Horticulture Building for commercial displays and special events. .

the lighter impurities. It was crucible steel, a process still in use in England but dying out here since the war. Its merit is that

such small batches—100 pounds at a time—can be accurately controlled, and the resulting uniformity makes it suited for certain purposes, such as fine springs. This progress was highly serviceable, but nothing to base the modern machine age on. But in 1860-70 came two great inventions which paved the way for the industrial revolution. They were the Bessemer converter and the open hearth furnace. |

The Bessemer converter, the source of the awesome flares which light the steel mills, is simply a device for blowing air through molten iron to burn foreign substances. It treats a 20-ton batch in 15 minutes. The open hearth requires longer, turning out 100 to 400 tons in 12 hours. Ninety per cent of today’s steel production uses one of these methods. 3 The most recent improvement was the electric furnace, with close control of temperature, which has given impetus to the production of the alloys, chromjum, ‘ stainless steel. The modern innovations haye

DECEIVE each other more each other”?

GRESSIVE"?

THAT is a large order. I would say that in some things—Ilove, jealousy, hborhood gossip, etc.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

e———————8Y DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM— (1) | A group of college girls asks: “Do WOMEN

or less than men deceive

it (2) ' Are there more ADVANTAGES than disadvantages in being a member of a large family ?.

(8) | Does every one really like to be thought “PRO-

ee ves ses

educate each other—in housekeeping, manners, social-mindedness, mutual helpfulness, ability ‘to think clearly in friendly discussion, and in democracy. In my judgment nothing knocks democracy into a youth's

been in mechanical operation, sheet, rolling and continuous fabricated product. America has

a dozen large mills, Dr. Bates said, any one of which can turn out

STUDIES ROOSEVELT

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, June 30.—Mr. Roosevelt sees his right wing departing in the form of those conservatives who follow ex-Gov. Smith and his associates, those who supported Col. Henry Breckinridge’s “protest” candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, those who are alienated by Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward the Constitution and the Supreme Court, those who are alienated by the threat of credit inflation which would “reduce purchasing power of savings and life insurance policies, those who are’ disturbed by Mr. Roosevelt's lemperamental zest for being surprising, for the novel. In sum, Mr. Roosevelt is losing practically all the conservative Democrats. To say “practically all” the conservative Democrats is not an exaggeration, if we omit the South. In the el s only those will work and vqte for him who have a specific nal stake which is greater than ir general conservative interest, meaning the officeholders who wish to continue to be officeholders. No conservative Democrat will support Mr

Roosevelt on principle. 5 2 also

Mr. Roosevelt sees departing

the extreme portion of his left |

Coughlin third party. Substantially all these will be a subtraction from Mr. Roosevelt.: there will be is a question which will be answered by Mr. Roosevelt's strategy in the campaign. That he will try to hold as many of the radicals as h

Just ‘how many |

more steel in a day than the entire production in England.

CURRENT Tevolution is taking place in which the scientist, working with X-ray, test tube

ber of officeholders that any party ever had. At the Democratic convention I was told that some one who had made a careful investigation found that 64 per cent of the

delegates were officeholders. The Federal officeholders have been enormously increased by the new agencies of government set up by the New Deal. One whole new army of officeholders co of those in charge of relief. is not merely the Federal officeholders. In addition to these the number of Democratic officeholders Jn states, cities, counties and smaller units of government is larger than either party ever had before. The Democrats won so many local elections in 1932 and 1934 that perhaps four-fifths of all local officeholders everywhere are Democrats. All these, Federal officeholders and local ones will:be hard at work to re-elect Mr. Roosevelt. ; To this statement there is one possible exception that may arise. Local officeholders in cities and

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and microscope, is supplanting the old-time steel expert whose work was an art. The latter is passing, * along with the generation of fire~men who scorned thermometers and told the firebox temperature by spitting on the door. The exposition display includes full-sized models of the Catalan furnaces (so-called because they were thick in Catalonia), the German stuckoffen of 1340, and, a puddling furnace. ; A working duplicate of a modern iron and steel plant shows all the operations of rolling and fabricating; how steel is drawn, hammered and forged. In the laboratory, the visitor sees how steel is ‘tested and the conclusions that can be drawn from the way a bar breaks. To those from the Great Lakes area, Dr. Bates forecast, the show will be an illuminating insight into one of its greatest assets, and to those unfamiliar with the industry a fascinating and impressive story from the history of mankind. 2 ” ”. : ARDEN lovers and those whose interest is casual will alike be captivated by the magnificence of the horticultural dis-

play. | af Wd aE eo ome oo Amid an ever-changing series of special events, there are rock gardens, cactus gardens, oldfashioned gardens, gardens of roses, perennials, annuals, gigantic color fountains, together with a vast collection of the curiosities and wonders of the plant world. On the lake shore near the Stadium is the new Horticulture Building, - three stories "in “height.

forward deck of an ocean has 20,000 square feet of space devoted to flower shows. + From the decks may be seen a vista unique in America, 8 series of gardens covering an entire hillside and built at a cost of $200,000. Combined with the thousands: of industrial, amusement, educational and scientific features, the displays are expected to make Cleveland the mecca for visitors from all parts of the country.

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counties are concerned with holding their own local Jobs.

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R. ROOSEVELT’S body of support includes also the beneficiaries of the billions and billions of relief money. It is commonly a$sumed that these will vote for Mr. Roosevelt. Yet is that sure? There is a Missouri Republican Congressman who has hope. Rep. Dewey Short has a Republican campaign speech which he makes to beneficiaries of relief: “Take the money,” he tells them. “It’s public money; it’s méant for you; take as much as you can get of it from the Democrats. But when you go to vote in November, show ’em you can’t be bribed.” The advice may appeal to many. To a great extent, the beneficiaries of relief may .at the polls this Year divide in whatever proportions they would divide normally. In practically all discussions, the relief vote as a Democrat asset is seriously exaggerated. 7X

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

Bulls to fesemble the Stresmiined |

by Lichty|

Sir Ronald Lindsay came down to the State Depart

tered as Second-Class Matter I ostoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

NEW YORK, June 30.—In 15 years of sports writing your correspondent had:

~ many opportunities to study the breed of

champion-chasers, a parasitic form of insect life who aré attracted to success as the

moth to the flame or the house fly to the sugar bowl. All champions suffer from this plague, Jack Dempsey was pestered and bitten by a large following of fair-weather pals who drank his hootch, ate his food and borrowed his money for keeps. Gene Tunney, - despite his austerity which repelled the lop-eared types, nevertheless was undble to escape the nuisance. He was pursued and caught up with by a more genteel variety of t, outwardly different but of the same general breed. Max Schmeling, however, is the first winner in sport to discover among the cooties in the seams of his shirt a ruler of a world power. - When Schmeling last winter |; Seoepiod the fight with Joe Louis, Ado itler let it be distinctly un- r le derstood that the prestige of the Westhrook Pep iit Nazi state was not at stake, Through the propaganda mill of Doktor Josef Goebbels, the Reichsfuehrer ‘dis avowed the enterprise. Schmeling had not been too -successful in the ring and had brought humiliation on the race of supermen when he forgot to duck a

right swing to the neck thrown by a California Jew, Max Baer. : ~

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» » ” Nazis Cold Before Fight

. A T no time during the months when Schmeling Was preparing to fight Louis-did the Nazi ove. ernment accept any responsibility in the matter, Schmeling did not then enjoy the status of official patriot and representative of Nazi manhood. He was absolutely on his own, because there seemed an excellent chance that having already been knocked out by a Jew he would now be stretched in the resin at the feet of a cotton-field Negro. But before the night was aver Schmeling had become a great German patriot, and his unexpected conquest of the Negro boy had been taken over as a triumph for Adolf Hitler and his government. Hitler, himself, who had nothing to say while doubt existed, cabled Schmeling “Most cordial felicitations on your splendid victory” and sent flowers to Schmeling’s wife. - Goebbels now perceived ifi.a prize fight, which had been of no significance to the Reich, a splendid patriotic achievement and cabled Schmele ing “We know you fought for Germany.”

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Bet After Race Is Over

TE farce of the German elections, in which it is = forbidden to vote “No,” was so infantile that the civilized races of the world were only amused,

But the spectacle of the front-running chancellor chasing after a winner. whom he had previously disavowed, and yelling “Atta boy, champ, I was with you all the time,” is the cheapest display of ki-yi sportsmanship in all the history of sport. Moreover, the mere fact that the Nazis can celebrate a prize fighter’s victory as a great national triumph is a fair indication of the character of the regime. The heavye weight championship of the world has been an Amers' ican monopoly for many years, barring a few brief and. highly questionable intervals, t. the American state has never dnterpreted anything that happened “in the ring as a national achievement. The conduct of Hitler's Goebbels and the Nazi government, however, in waiting to see how the fight turned out and then acclaiming their hero, inferentie ally, themselves, is equivalent to placing a bet on the winner after the horses have finished. The Fuehrer, who stands as guarantor of the sportsmanship of the Nazi state in the impending Olympic games here, betrays a complete ignorance of the meaning of sport.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, June 30.—With Congress and the conventions out of the way, the President is expected to give some quiet study ta the international field, especially to the Far East and a common policy _ With Great Britain. This was the principal subject of discussion during the recent conference between Roosevelt and Frank Murphy, high commissioner to the Philippines. Not much is being said about it, but the situation in the Far East is anything but cheerful for the United States. Smuggling of Japanese goods into China under protection of Japanese gunboats threat ens to ruin completely American exports. The highe

"handed treatment of Americans in Peiping by Japa«

nese troops recently provoked a ‘strong protest by the State Department. : Meanwhile, Murphy reported, -there has been an increasing influx of Japanese goods and nationals into the Philippines. The entire situation has been ag-

.gravated somewhat by the Los Angeles indictment of

a Japanese lieutenant commander for obtaining naval secrets from an ex-petty officer in the United States Navy. 2 Roosevelt has told several who have conferred with him recently that he expects. Japan, sooner or later, to take all of China. oe This also is the tune the British have been hum« ming in his ear. It is why the British have off all kinds of inducements to get United States naval support. Even the much-prized Singapore has ‘been put at the disposal of our warships. However, the President got himself into a slight hole the last time he co-operated with the British,

ment after the conquest of Ab: that

secretly urged e United States stand with Britain in retain-

. ing the embargo. London wanted a united froht

-against Italy. ; . The State Department acquiesced. Then, withe out a word of warning, London newspapers announced that the British were reversing their policy, remov~

This would ‘have put Roosevelt in the position of his arms embargo only after Britain and the League said it was O. K. Republicans could make a lot of capital out of that. :

s. It came after the British decision on sanctions, but at least it was ahead of the League. . 2 All of which is why the President is looking extra Exitiously ai the British proposal of co-operation 1,