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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1938.

“SOUND OUT OF PLACE”

TOISE has been defined by science as being sound out of place. It may be a symphony concert, but if it's at 3 a. m. and you are trying to sleep, the sound is hoise. Even musicians and lovers of opera and goncert, who like organized sound, have a. ‘thorough dislike for unorganized sound, or noise. - - Instruments now measure noise in sound units, or “decibels,” and the progress of antinoise drives in other cities is scientifically gauged by noise-meters. = | ~The Mayor's committee on city ordinances Is studying the anti-noise laws of other progressive cities with the idea of an ordinance to control excessive noise in Indianapolis. © Eventually—t¢ keep pace | physically with the noise-bringing progress | we have made mechanically—we will “adopt a sane -measure of this kind. | So watch your decibels!

SMOKE SURVEY

be LAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

NDIANAPOLIS, heir apparent to the title

“Smoky City,” faces a challenge in the “task of reducing excessive smoke. . The smoke nuisance is estimated to cost Indianapolis an unnecessary $5,000,000 annually in destroyed property, trees and plants; in extra cleaning and washing bills, in depre-

ciation of store merchandise, in increased doc-

tor bills and rising fuel costs. The intangible costs in injured ‘health and the city’s physical appearance can not be estimated. The request of George R. Popp, city building commissioner, for 10 WPA engineers to conduct a five-month survey of smoke hazards is an important step that should be taken. The engineers would be trained in. smoke control before starting the study. The city, its property owners and other residents will reap dividends if this project goes through, and if a comprehensive survey is followed by intelligent enforcement of smoke abatement ordinances.

A BREAK FOR NEWS READERSJudge Goodwin Knight of the Superior Court at Los Angeles we feel a debt of _ gratitude. “Go back to your offices,” said Judge Knight to the attorneys for both sides in the case of Mary Astor vs. Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. “Prepare this case as a child custody case and not a retrial of the divorce of the two participants. Prepare it so that the matter can be cleaned up in a day and a half, or three days at the most. You are wasting too much time.” We have been printing some of the not-too-pretty details of this trial. We haven't really relished ‘the job. But newspapers have a certain - compulsion, call it. public duty or competitive necessity, to print the news about public’ figures—be it pretty or not. And we will be glad to be relieved of this particular chore.

FAT YEARS, LEAN YEARS FEW years ago, because it was cheaper than coal, farmers were burning: 10-cents-a-bushel corn in their stoves. Today, because they can’t afford to feed dollar-a-bushel .corn, some of these same farmers are rushing their pigs to slaughter. A few years ago, the United States was trying to persuade other wheat-producing countries to co-operate in cutting down the great price-depressing world wheat surplus. Today, the United States faces a shortage In certain types of wheat, which will have to: be imported at high prices over a high tariff from Canada, where the drought has been even ‘more damaging. ’ Next year the law of averages may bring us boom crops of corn and wheat that will send prices plummeting downward. These violent fluctuations in crops and prices vitally affect American agriculture and American living. They bring on speculative Fises and falls in farm land values. They cause an uncontrollable shrinkage and expansion in the food budgets of American families, For a country such as ours, which in normal ‘years can easily produce more food than it needs, it should not be difficult to maintain t all times an adequate supply of basic food‘stuffs. A constant supply, keyed to. demand,

‘Would mean stable prices, which in-turn would : give stability to land values and take much |

of the gamble’ out of faning-—nd eating.

HIS was the solution envisioned in Secret

tary Wallace's “‘ever-normal granary® plan, toward which the original AAA was’

working. But when the Supreme Court struck [| .. |

down the first AAA law it declared that the Federal government could not directly or: indirectly control farm acreage. _ And, obviously, ut. some control over acreage, the gov-'

Yorgettable film. showing how s verdant 40.- i : ee I

valuable documentary picture, “The

Pie That Brose tae Piaiae has been barred |

by the big theater. chains of the country on e ground that jt is New. Deal propaganda. er Indianapolis theaters were umable to the film because of its length, which is I fe Om “short” and too short for a regular feature. | You have read of dust storms and drought, oods and erosion, on the Great Plains. Here, 30 minutés Bf simple, Araphic pictures, you foo 106 U8 46008 of fie doses wich vs rn thousands from the farms and set thegn adrift on the highways. It is a dramatic tory of land, with people as a background. n is realistically - historical, brilliantly photofrapher : If there be any ‘propaganda in this ‘objec. 5 ive portrayal, it is propaganda against a odigal land policy that has brought neardisaster to the plains country. America’s hope o salvaging that vast stretch of territory Sepeas partly on educating. people to the dangers of the devastation.

YoU GET FOUR GUESSES [ANOTHER breath-taking chapter has just been written to that thrilling mystery tale called, “Who Is the American Liberty League For?” : The léague dupontifically announces that it will indorse no candidate or party in the presidential campaign. But as in all good: ‘mystery stories there's Just the suggestion of a clew. / | “Certainly the league is not. an- gdjunct: of the New Deal Party whieh for the. moment has usurped eontro} of the party of Jefferson, Jack--son, Cleveland and Wilson,” says the statement. That seems to let out Franklin Roosevelt. | - So now the Jucky man must be one of four— . William Lemke, Norman Thoras, Earl Browdet: or Alf Landon. We have an idea which of the four it is, but: since the league wants it kept secret we won't tell. We'd like to give him a fair start.

_ ALDRICH ON JOB INSURANCE ET us drop the coercion of states in the matter of unémployment insurance,” says Chairman Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, “though we should encourage the states to develop the system of Raemploymens insurance. ” | Thus, in: one ‘nar,’ pietientar, does. Mr. Aldrich express. views. “which” seem to be an.

elaboration of thé: ‘Republican platform's oF I ing

cial security plank.’ G. O. .P. platform, the states and terrft tical measures fory unemployment ins “The issue seems

We propose,” says: ‘the , “to: courage adoption by | Lh onest and praj-:

main he problems’ gE.

Fen

lip-service

dorsernent of the principle, Aersus the mote

practical type of persudsighiiwhich the Roose. velt Administration is (ising: + . The 1932 Democratic. national platform ad-

vocated unemployment insurance laws by |

states, Three years: ‘passed,’ at the end of which time only three’ states—Wisconsin, a, and Utah—had unemployment insurance laws on their books. Then the Roosevelt Administration stepped in with the Federal Social Security Act, containing a national plan for raising revenue to finance state unemployment insurance. In the few months: that have elapsed since, 12 other states have bestirred themselves and ‘passed unemploy--ment insurance laws, Today, the laws of those. 15 states, including Indiana, are designed to. protect approximately 7,500,000 industrigl-work-ers, which, we submit, is a_ pretty good; Job of t. nslating a platform promise into a: heat, ce.

eral compulsion—there is little hope of widespread and effective unemployment insurance through the independent action of individual’ states. | It is true: for the same realon that states couldn’t do much to protect workers by milni-_ mum: wage and maximum hour laws, even if |

: the Supreme Court would let them. Like wage

and hour sta ds, unemployment ‘insurance is a charge against industry which affects production costs, and shows up in prices. An Indiana factory, operating. under one set of laws, might find it impossible ‘to compete in : same market with a Kentucky factory, op-.. ating under less adequate laws.. And neither. could compete with a Mississippi factory, op: lie under no laws at all, :

' ELMER HAD THE ANSWER -

I Western Pennsylvania a congressman ts

fighting for his pclitical life and the: fight”

concerns all of us." It involves the question ‘of |

whether the people shall control their own government, or whether the control shall be taken from them by forgery and fraud. | The congressman is Dennis J. Driscoll, the \n Who exposed, humiliated and frustrated . h utility interests in: the session of 1935. Now. ‘these utility interests, ‘working: through - \ Grundy's Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ ciation, are after Driscoll’s scalp. | Driscoll, you remember, received 1300 teleAish one town in his district, demanding

he: vote against the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. |

oo letters to some of the constituents names were signed to the telegrams, and réplied that they had not seen or signed messages. He gave the evidence to the

ro Committes, which disclosed that |

youl find around Indianapolis kitchens nowadays. ‘out; it- and: Walter Borns. uses it to

seems fo care what comes of Nobody, except Mrs. Parker, of course. She puis a quarter of a teaspoon of ginger with a

tablespoons of-shortening and a teaspoon of salt. That’s Exhibit A. Exhibit B is a cake of yeast dissolved in a

Cis 3 cups of flour. ® 8 pou

OW you're ready to work: and lke as not it’s around supper time." Nevertheless,

body's business and let the result rise one hour.

knead. After which you can go to bed because it takes all the time you're sleeping for the thing to rise. The longer you Sleep, the lighter the batch. Next morning, everything is ready to form

inp’ rolls. Mrs. Parker uses a pinching process

to ‘get what she .talls “clover leaves.” There is no law. ‘against your trying some other shape.

again. "That makes three risings—four, with your own. It’s now ready for baking, which ought not: take over 20. minutes in a hot oven. . Parker uses up close to 10 hours, counting all the ‘time it takes to stand, stir and sleep, to ‘make her Parker House rolls. .There doesn’t seem to ‘be any other way out of it, although it has come fo this department’s notice that Miss Alice Mueller can do the trick in five hours. —. Miss Mueller’s Parker House rolls have no ginger in them, however, .

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what I think of. biologists.

tend to, trace. heredity ‘by looking at people’s faces. when, as a matter of fact, they ought to be looking at people’s backs. At any rate, in Indianapolis a person’s back reveals a person's gait, and a person’s gait, I have discovered, reveals enough’ biology to last any .one a lifetime. Take the Ruckelshaus boys, for. example. They walk just like their father. 1 like to cite

Indianapolis who walks just like John C. Ruckelshatus. Nobody else has that nonchalant weav‘walk—exceut his sons. : . All the Alig boys—Greorge; Clarence; Delos— have. inherited their father’s walk. Bill Jungglaus Rants his dogs just the way the old man

of does.

Even the Frenzel boys—John and Oito— dividuhlistic as they are, can’t get away from {i fhther's gait. Nobody can. J6beedy, excépt the girls. Sometimes, but v, a girl inherits her father’s walk. And oe thing—and I pride myself on this discovery—no Indianapolis mother has ever been

{able to transmit her gait to her daughters.

Heaven only knows where the girls pick it up.

August 12th IN INDIANA HISTORY | mmo BY J. H. J.

UG. 12, 1810, the inhabitants of Vincennes were surprised and somewhat “startled by the sudden appearance among them of the Shawnee war chief, Tecumseh, with 400 armed warriors. ’ Tecumseh had ‘come for a gonlerence with Gov; William Henry Harrison. Harrison recently had ‘concluded a deal with the Miami Indians at Fort Wayne whereby the whites acquired 3,000,000 acres of land at the ridiculous price of one-third of a cent an acre. Tecumseh and his { brother, the Prophet, objected to this, holding

{land to. be “commion hunting ground: and the | Miamis: ‘without. the authority to sell.

| Without Federal: sthninrds and’ Feéral f suidance—or if you wish to call- it that,’ “Fed-' 7

» Vincennés citizéns were terrified until it be{cams plain that Tecumseh’s intentions were peaceful. The chief: made ‘a dignified speech, settifig forth his plan of drawing the Indian nations into a confederacy and his intention of Killing the chiefs who had ‘made thé Fort Wayne treaty. There could be no’ peace, he said, until the land was ceded back to the Indians. Gov. Harrison in reply pointed out that the

"Gréat ‘Spirit would have given the Indian na-

tions one language instead of a score had he intended them :to be united. He ‘also said that the Shawnees had no:claim on the land since it od the. Miamis who had owned the land and i {Hafrison’s reply sounds suspiciously like sophistry today and so did it to Tecumseh. An “im ed gesture he made in denying Harrison’s statements was ‘mistaken .by the interpreter: for: a signal for violence and only the calmness of the two leaders preveniad. ‘blood - shed: Anyhow, the dotiterence: was resumed for sev-

~feral days but nothing came of it, which reminds

oné ‘all too sharply of modern. peace conferences.

1A ‘Weoman’s ‘Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON \NE reason why women have so little real fun out of life is because they are forever dressoe up for the occasion. Half the joy of swimming is lost to us if we haven't a fashionable suit to put on. We can’t go fishing without, the latest costume designed for the business by the modistes. . How much unadulterated joy we miss can only be realized by somebody who has watched the men at play. wants to fish—and the devil

Sports are phonies. It ddesn’t come quite nat-

disreputable.

That why we miss the shill of sports,

it is surprising, nevertheless, how little ginger | To'pe sure, the Wilbur Peats are never with- 30% help lord a| German pot roast, but outside of that notody |:

pint of scalded milk, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 3 |

quitrter of a cap of TukeWarm ater. EXD,

keep going. Beat Exhibits A and B like no-|’ Don’t fudge. Add the flour (Exhibit C) and]

That’ settled, you let the blamed thing rise|

Vy leaves me just enough space to say |

I have no special quarrel with biologists ex- . | cept to say that they aie a queer lot. They pre-

this case because there isn’t another man in.

When a man goes fishing he | take his clothes! Nine out of 10 women who go in for outdoor | This

ural to them. From the very beginning play |¢ means different. for little girls who always want | % to dress for it while little boys prefer to look

is rather sad; come ‘to think of ‘it. how |: greatly women are preoccupied: with hemselves. |

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you. say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are. invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter

short, so all can have a chance. Letters

‘must be signed, but names: will be withheld on request.)

2 = = : SCORES PARTIES’ FAILURE TO SPEAK ON LIQUOR EVIL By H. 8. Bonsib

Both old parties are responsible for the condition, depression, as the G. O. P. made the toboggan slide and the Democratic Party finished the job. i Here is what Col. Knox said: - “Here we have the issue that must ve decided next November. It is whether the American people shall have an orderly ald economic government recognizing the limitations of Federal power or a government determined to reqrganize the Ameriean economic’ "by experiment. We know ‘what the decision will be. The people’ want recovery, not rhetoric. ‘They want economy, not waste. They want work, not relief. They want co-operation among the partners in production, not industrial strife. They want order in economic life,, not an occasional breathing spell. ‘They want dignity in government, not a merry-go-round.” = We have had the merry-go-round of both old parties too long, but the real issue both:old parties ignore, and cowardly sidestep, is the bodydestroying, soul-damaging, economic waste of the liquor traffic. Why are they silent on this evil? The old parties are faflures :

CALLS ON WORKERS FOR AWAKENING By a Constant Reader. In France workers strike to better their conditions, but they say in the shops and factories, stores, or on ships, or where ss may be, and keep with them ‘their employers, in ‘many instances.

Your Health

° BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the: Journal of the American | lion. : Medical

+ . i n. HE first step in overcoming a kidney disorder is to determine the cause of the trouble, and the next is to reduce as much as possible the amount of work that the kidney has to do. In seeking the cause; the doctor

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They do not picket, they. do no damage to properties, ‘they do no

fighting against scabs or the po-|

lice, they just stay. idle on:the job

‘1 and see“to it that no one comes to |

relieve them of their place of work, and thus they win. The French workers got: wise

overnight, and they have elected’

city, province, and national administrations that protect their. right to earn a living wage and not the right of the employer to work them as long as he pleases, pay them as much as he wants, and lay them off when he sees fits, + What happens in France can happen in Indiana and in the United States only when the American worker wakes “up from his long sleep and elects city, state and ‘natfonal } Ram Socialist administrations that protect. his rights, enab him to. live as a real American citiz Until then he will have ow wages, long hours; or no hours: and ‘no wages; and he gets bullets and lockouts in return, not, only by the employer’s thugs, but also from the administration he has so far chosen to elect. As minds change so conditions change. /The economic ‘conditions in the Unifed States are the results of the American workers’ political stupidities. Ah! American - workers, when will you wake up from your. thargy?

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SAYS GOLDEN RULE

APPLICATION LACKING By P. Tedro By reports of our church membership, if numbers indicate an) we are an overly churched nat on. The Catholics claim approximately 25.million members, all of the Protestant groups 35 million. membership oF ear one-half of our total

Despite these huge claims. and figures, we must be the most law-vio-lating group of all the nations, with

perhaps more crimes than half a|And

dozen countries of Europe. I have even read reports giving Chicago credit for more major crimes than the whole empire of India, with a population of 400 mil-

When the World “War came we found churches of our land even making recruiting bases out of church Mar in the most devastating war in all of the ‘world’s More were slain, more

history. | wounded and there was more finan-

‘Brazos River”;

cial loss: than i all of the wars of

civilization. The Golden Rule applied is the only lack in the world today, . ” ” ” CO-OPERATION IS URGED BETWEEN PARTIES By Jimmy Cafouros

It will be a great day for polities whens the two major parties that represent the positive and negative viewpoints of the people cease to attempt to ‘destroy each other. Even if one does destroy the other, as has occurred before with the Whigs and the Federalists, only the name will be destroyed. Another party will erop up with the same general view point and a different

The positive party—call it the “ins” or the Democrats or what you will—an@’ the negative party-the “outs,” the Republicans or what have | you—sheula realize that that is just what they are and that it is just

a question of time till their positions:

are reversed, so that what is a ground wire today will be a live wire tomorrow, and vice versa. When these gentlemen come to realize this they will cease trying to destroy each other and may coOperais as all the parts of a circuit 0 A ground wire is just as important as'a live wire, because without the ground wire the live wire is useless.

“NOMANS LAND

BY JAMES ‘D. ROTH In the center of our street Is ‘a spot like No Man’s Land, Where neighbors never meet, Nor take you by the hand.

We i them: in the distance: “over ere,” We love Gre i A know they're quite safe ere.”

And if ry ig should meet resistance, They uld- offer their assistance, ould march through No Man's Land, from “over there.”

"DAILY THOUGHT He will regard the prayer of the

destitute, and not despise their 3

prayer.—Psalms 102: 17.

simple’ heart that freely. 3

asks in love, obtains.—Whittier. so

COMMON ERRORS Never say, “They located on the

SIDE GLANCES

the hole.

say, “settled.” . 4

By George Clarke| °

Vagabond

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| Indiana

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

IBBING, Minn,, Aug: 13~If I were ‘a betting man, I wouldwager a round sum that if you stopped 100 people on the street 89 -- could not answer the following: ques. tions: 1. Where is the greatest: op min. ing region in the world? HT op ST

3. What color is iron ore? 4 Is iron mining romantic? So you don’t know, eh? And you a high school graduate. You ought to be ashamed. Oh well, I suppose | I'll have to tell you. Here they age. 1. You go about 60 miles north of '

| Duluth, and then the Iron Range |runs northeast for about 25 miles, .

and southwest for about 150. And it’s only a mile wide. 2. It looks like an immense hole in the ground. : 3. Red, black, gray, purple, pin blue, clay-colored, i practically any color YOu. van think of at different places on range, - = 4, No. » » os

S northeast Minnesota coun- | try is a land of small lakes’ and great forests. There was a time" when the pine trees stood 50 and 60 feet high. Then came the lumbermen. They slashed’ and whacked and ruthlessly shaved this country of trees, with- ~

{out replanting. Even today the re-

growth is only a stubby one. ’ Then in 1865 iron ore was dis-" covered. But it was 20 years before they got around to mining it and ‘shipping it out. For 20 years after that, surveyors and geologists * swarmed over the country. Today engineers say there is not an un< discovered foot of iron ore’ in Min- - nesota. or There are three ranges: Vermillion—On the . east end of the iron formation. It's only about ° 25 miles long. It was the filst range °

| discovered.

Mesaba—The greatest 6a range in the world. Starts just a little south of the Vermilion range, and runs southwestward for 125 miles. Nowhere is the “vein” more than a mile wide. It contains (here at ~ Hibbing) the largest open-pit fron mine in the world. Cuyuna—A smail range, about 30 miles long, starting 75 miles straight

| west of Duluth and running souths -

westward. It is the newest of the ' ranges, opened in 1911. : These three constitute the Iron Range. Half the iron ore" in the world comes from the Range. They've taken out about half of the ore in the 50 years xince they started. The rest will last 40 years or so.

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PAVED highway runs the length of the range. Towns are frequent. ' The map shows a concentration “of : villages S this long narrow strip. =" But on either side, the map shiows almost nothing. The few side rodds are gravel. © The country is still a wilderness; filled with. little lakes and youthful, tender trees. Although it's called the Iron Range, there are no mountains here, It's just rollng land. You know when you get into the fron’ country.” Farms disappear. The vegetation changes.to pine. You see railroad sidings, with ears full of red earth. | You see far-off, neatly graded piles of brown rock. They're called stock ‘piles. This is ore not rich enough in iron for shipping, so they" pile it up in case future generations learn how to use it. Once'in a while you can see great holes in the ground — the mines

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‘| themselves. Ordinarily from ‘the

road you see only long, high piles of discarded earth along the edges of the pit, “you have ‘to drive’ off the road a piece to look: down ‘iif

There is no smoke anywhere. And no grayness. And only now and then do you see a hint of the telltale red dust that marks: the iron regions. Mostly it is green, and rolling, and very sparse,

Today’ S Science: BY SCIENCE: SERVICE

and dale, golf sometimes appears to be hard work. And from the widespread publicity which is aroused