Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1936 — Page 26

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FROM INDIANA 5 By ERNIE PYLE

ORT PECK, Mont, Sept. 18.—This is

going to hurt me more than it does you. | But my beautiful honesty compels me to say |

that I can’t see Fort Peck dam at all.

It hurts, because in the last couple of | years I have worked up a sort of mania for |

big dams under construction. So most of the government's big construction jobs have been cursed with my nosing presence.

seen mighty Boulder in the West, —and poor Passamaquoddy on the Eastern shores, and the ill-fated Florida canal, and_ Norris and - Wheeler and all the TVA dams, and have sat around construction camps in Illinois and Texas and Arizona. And so now, Fort Peck, but I can see less justification for building Fort Peck than any of the others. . Fort Peck dam, by the time it is finished, will have cost a hundred million dollars. Its sole purpose is to make the Missouri River : navigable from Kansas City to Sioux City, Ia, and to provide flood control. I will admit that navigation of the Missouri, and flood control, are far more important than they sound o to the layman's ears. : But a hundred million dollars is a lot of money, and when it is all finished—well, IT wonder if a hundred smaller dams at a million dollars apiece scattered over the country wouldn't do 20 times as much good.

Mr. Pyle

2 sn n ” Largest Earthen Dam

ORT PECK is the largest earthen dam ever built. Four times as big as any earthen dam ever buils. And yet, just by the nature of the job, it is the least " spectacular of the big dams I have seen. It is so scattered, you can nat see it all at once. It lies across a wide valley, in flattish rolling country. There is no deep chasm, no lofty rock wall to make the sightseer catch his breath. There is no great concentration of force or bulk of concrete. The spectacular part gomes when you just sit down and think about it. Here it lies, a thousand miles from any big city, 20 miles from any little town. Out here on the bare roliing plains of the old cow country. They have built 57 miles of railroad to get their stuff into Fort Peck dam. They have built 100 miles of paved highway. They have thrown up a beautiful model city of nearly 7000 people, with 4000 more. in little towns nearby.

Whatever the justification for the dam, you've got to praise the Army engineers who are doing the job. |

Lige all Army engineers I have met, these men here seem to me above the dverage of mankind.

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Burden of Justification

Larkins, the engineer in charge of Fort Peck. - He arrived here one blasty fall day three years ago, his blood thinned from long service in delightful New Orleans and Vicksburg. It was inhumanly cold. here. had to bring their own axes.

And there was nothing

He dragged logs by

truck and horse 20 miles over the frozen mud from |

Glasgow. That's how he started. And today he can look around him and see a city of his own creation, and thousands of men and machines all working smoothly, and look back on crises he has met and defeated, and see the biggest earthen dam in the world rising at his feet. The engineers doing the Fort Peck dam are all . immensely proud of their work. Any man would have a right to be, for as big jobs go, it is a colossus. But I do believe that the weight of building it and of justifying it, too, might be too great a burden for one man’s shoulders.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ASHINGTON, Thursday.—For the first time in - many years I had to give up doing something which I had agreed to do, and I find myself not exactly a willing prisoner in what Stevenson called “the land of counterpane.” Every one who is sent in to make a test, or find _ out what is the matter with me, goes away saying that as far as his particular branch of medicine is concerned I am a perfect specimen. Yet, they won't let me get up, nor do I feel that I want to do so, for whoever the little bug may be, he is doing-a pretty good Joh in temperature. If I believe in the old: Irish fairy tales, I think in the intervals of sleep last night some little Irish gnome came and played chop-sticks on my rips and up the back of my head. : : It is so unusual for me to be in bed that each new rson arriving looks at me with a more concerned J than the last. Even my brother, who is very much the way I am and who thinks things are better downed afoot than abed, comes in to.give me a worried once-over twice a day. : I am quite sure that if I kept going as I did until Tuesday I could not feel worse than I do now. I feel ~ I deserve little crowns of glory for doing exactly as I. - am told, though down in my heart I know that I could not very well do anything else. It is funny how long the nights are, even though one sleeps most of the time, It seems they never come to an end. I am very happy that I usually sleep very well. Ordinarily I do not even mind lying awake, except at such a time as this when there isn't any particular way one can lie in bed and be comfortable. When-“you are ill you begin to notice many things in a room which you do not think much about the rest of the time—the scratches on the furniture, faded spots in the hangings, the peculiar angle at which Some pictures hang. I have many photographs in my bedroom of pecple of whom I am really fond and I am apt to think about them and go back over pleasant times together and make plans for the future. (Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936

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Second Section

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WAR CLOUDS HOVER OVER RUSSIA

(First of a Series)

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Sept.

18. — Special agents whose job it is to know

what is taking place behind the heavy curtains of world diplomacy are now betting the Soviet Union will soon be at war—probably within

24 months.

Germany and Japan, they say, will be the spearhead of the attack. They will do everything they can to make it appear a “holy war” against bolshevism. Both countries now are said to be convinced the other great powers would stay out and that the war would be a short one. From France, the one European power which might join in on the side of Russia, they anticipate little trouble. They look for two things to hold her in her tracks. One is Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland, forming a wall

| separating France from Central

and Eastern Europe. The other is the essentially bourgeois character of the French population. It is not believed, therefore, that a foreign war in support of communism would receive wholehearted national support. Great Britain always has wavered between a lukewarm attitude toward Soviet Russia an out-and-out hdstility., The tories now in power at London recently won an election by holding up-a Bolshevik “bugaboo. Today, London

! is opposed to any very close tie

even with France because of France's new alliance with MosCOW, : ” » » ASCIST Italy, scarcely less hostile to bolshevism than

| Nazi Germany, might be counted HINK of the enthusiasm that must be Col. Tom |

upon to observe neutrality—perhaps a benevolent neutrality—and Poland, fearing to be the loser regardless of which side might win, would move heaven and earth to keep from becoming involved. As for the United States, Germany and Japan would expect us to take to the woods with the first crack of a gun and remain there until ft was all over, helping neither side. The World War was precipitated

: in 1914 instead of earlier or later,

military experts tell us, for two

! reasons. First was the belief in-the

inevitability of war. Second, that being the case, it was the German general staff’s desire to strike while the advantages were in their favor, Russia's new strategic railways were not yet ready. Nor were her new mobilization plans. She was thus caught in mid-stream. France's new three-year military service law had been passed but had not yet become effective on the battlefield. Britain seemed on the verge of war with Ireland. Today's situation is very similar. War again is seen as inevitable. Again the general staff is said to believe Germany must strike before existing advantages turn against it. : A decade hence, great, slowmoving Russia stands to be invincible. At present, however, Germans do not believe her huge army and, above all, her industrial and other behind-the-lines organizations, would function smoothly under war conditions. Later, perhaps, but not now. 2 ' a2 2 N the other hand, small, compact, alert and efficient Germany can, within a very short time, bring her machine to the

A striking panoramic view of Red Square in Moscow d onstration. At the right is Lenin’s tomb and the Kremlin wall.

peak of perfection. Meantime, in the Far East, Nippon is ready and raring to go. Night and day, for three years, Japanese industry has been busy equipping the army, and the army itself has been undergoing rigorous training for a campaign in the snow. Neither Germany nor Japan could stand a long war. But none knows this better than they. Both,

Electricity Consumption Rises as Rate Is Cut’ Figures Show

BY SCIENCE SERVICE Naaaka FALLS, N. Y, Sept. 18. —Taking advantage of the presence of distinguished foreign power experts who came to the United States to attend the World Power Conference in Washington, members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers are holding a three-day meeting here. In the heart of one of the nation’s greatest areas for power generation, the engineers naturally directed their technical papers to a discussion of power. Two facts of major interest to the layman who may not know a turbine rotor from a sluiceway, but who has to pay his monthly electric bill, are: 1. Since 1914 the annual domestic electric bill has risen from $22.25 to $33.85. : 2. The annual domestic consumption of electricity has risen in the same years from 268 to 673 kilowatt hours. #® ” o N presenting these figures, Prof. A. G. Christie, Johns Hopkins University, pointed out that while yearly cost increased some 52 per cent, the annual consumption increased 151 per cent. Thus electricity is cheaper. Since 1920, Prof. Christie also showed, the use of water power to generate electricity has shown a consistent upward frend. The figures for 1935 indicate hydro-electric power supplied 40 per cent of the national total—an all-time high. In 1920 water power supplied only 16 per cent of the total. There is a general demand of the

public everywhere for lower electric power costs, said James A. Powell

of the E. M. Gilbert Engineering

Reading, Pa., in his repo is sed, said

Powell, by the governmental attempts to create “yardsticks” for the electric utility industry by means of projects like TVA which do not include cost elements which any private industry would encounter in a similar project.

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OUNTERBALANCING, to some extent, these lower cost demands is also the demand for less smoke and noise in power generation by steam and burning coal. Special equipment to avoid such complaints is adding to the original cost of the plants, Mr. Powell said. One method now being used to cbtain lower power generating costs in plants using steam turbines is to back the turbines in tandem and let the exhaust steam from a high pressure turbine operate another turbine at lower pressure. E. H. Krieg of the American Gas and Electric Ceo. described how changes in existing power plants would permit this economical practice. :

therefore, are staking much on the mobility of their military machines. The German army particularly is geared to move fast, infantry, artillery and supplies being capable of 40 miles an hour. Everything is mechanized. Chemistry and airplanes are emphasized. Russia’s position would be criti-

Germany and Japan May Strike Within 2 Years, Observers Say

cal in the event of war on the two fronts. She would be caught between the hammer and anvil of superlative armies. Despite her standing army of 1,300,000 men, her frontiers, 5000 miles apart, would be difficult to defend. Japan almost certainly would seek to cut the country in two around Lake Baikal. European Russia

uring a military parade, a feature of a gigantic dem-

would then have to fight as a separate country while Siberia, like a new, huge and unwieldy empire, would face Japan alone.

Alone, that is, save for China. That sleeping giant, in such a war, remains probably the greatest unknown factor.

Next—Poland and Hitler's plans.

Election Trend in Maine Shows Tide Is Running Republican, Sullivan Says

BY MARK SULLIVAN

(Mr. Sullivan Writes Thrice Weekly.) ASHINGTON, Sept. 18—In the old and comfortable days, before statistics and graphs and charts had been elevated as gods of the machine and reduced human beings to statistical digits— in that more easy-going time, the rule about the Maine election used to be expressed as a rule of thumb. If in the September election Maine went Republican in a way that made Republicans cheerful, the Republicans became cheerful about the approaching presidential election in the nation. It was never a case of “As Maine goes so goes the nation.” Maine in September must do more than merely go Republican. It must go Republican by a sizable majority. The question then is, what is a sizable majority? : To answer this question and reduce it to mathematical exactness, a small library of computation has grown up in recent years. Preceding this week's Maine. election, a business advisery service put out a pamphlet of intricate calculation about how the outcome should be interpreted. = 8. 8 ‘ HIS pamphlet seemed to indicate that the Republicans must get 62.7 per cent of the September

vote in Maine in order to carry the nation in November. That inference can hardly be correct. On several occasions the Republicans have got much less than 62.7 per cent of the Maine September vote for Governor, but: yet have carried the nation in November. In this week’s Maine election for Governor the Republicans got about 56 per cent of the total vote. If that figure stood alone, the Repub1i sould be cheerful. It would sugge., a fairly close presidential election, with the Republicans having a slight advantage. But must we qualify the Republican vote for Governor in Maine by the light of their vote for United States Senator? ‘The Maine senatorial election was won by the Republicans but only by a narrow squeak—they got barely 50 per cent of the total vote.

Perhaps a comforting way for Re-.

publicans to look at it is by comparison with the 1916 election. In the 1916 September election for Governor in Maine, the Republicans got 54 per cent of the total. Two months later, in November, the Republicans lost the presidential election in the nation, but lost it only by an extremely narrow margin.

A Woman's Viewpoint—Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Ff EousanDs of new Bibles are being placed in hotel bedrooms by the Gideons. This eustom has called forth many a jest from the flippant. But how few think of the number of lonely individuals who glance through their Pages when stranded in strange cities, or find comfort gpa dark moment or courage for 8 new endeavor from these modest books, most of which accumulate "dust on liguor-scarred tables. The only Bible which many Americans know e small volume put out by the Gideons. Thousands of families have none in the home and often so-called -educated individuals are wholly ignorant -of Hebrew history, of Old Testament ; Jegend, ot New Zosiament, love; They have never

ades aloud or

to its age-long

which ingly senseless

the ‘Proverbs or loved the prose poetry of the Songs of Solomon. : 1 Yet men never appear so small as when they are deriding the Bible. Their trivial lives seem more than ever trivial when we compare them

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endurance -~ Although they may be masters of science and _ wizards at weaving words together, whatever they have to say has always been better said in the Old Book. And in spite of progress, life itself is still incomprehensible as it was to Job and the people of the earth. Now and then amid days, one likes to think of the Gideons distributing their Bibles. It demonstrates the stability and lies behind so much of the seem-

the hurly-burly of our

1== present year the Republicans get 56 per cent of the Maine vote for Governor. That is more than they got in 1916. They might reasonably infer that the rise from 54 per cent in 1918 to 56 per cent this year would carry the Republicans comfortably over the line of success in November. But this hope would be reduced if the vote for Senator be taken into account. One phenomenon is abundantly clear. Maine shows, and every other indication shows, that a very strong tide is running away from the Democrats in favor of the Republicans. The question is whether this tide can in some six weeks go fast enough and far enough to elect a Republican president in November. We can summarize very briefly what has happened during the last eight years. In 1928 there was a Republican high tide. In that year the electoral majority for Mr. Hoover was the highest either party had ever had in a two-party election, and the Republican elected a large majority of Congress.

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TATELY it bezan to run in

favor of the Democrats, By two

years, by 1930, the Democrats elected a majority in the House of Representatives. Two years later yet, in 1932, the Democratic tide elected Mr. Roosevelt by an enormous electoral majority. For yet two years more the Democratic tide went higher. Following that, the tide began to run away from them. If first expressed itself in a bye-election fora congressional seat in Rhode Island. There, in ‘August last year, the Republicans reversed a 20,000 Democratic majority into a 13,000 Republican one. The new Republican tide showed- itself further in some local elections in November, 1935. It now shows itself very strongly, indeed, in the Maine election, where the Republicans win back the gov-

Srprsip. hold the senatorship and win back two congressional seats,

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Qur Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

R. (ROBERT HEGER-GOETZL, who is ,

going to lake charge of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory theory department, is quite sure he is going to like Indianapolis. At any rate, that’s what Music Reviewer Thrasher of The Indianapolis Times disclosed

last week. : : It didn’t surprise anybody. What did surprise everybody, however, was Mr. Thrasher’s discovery that Dr. Heger-Goetzl is going to like Indianapolis because of its proximity to St. Meinrad’s Abbey and the famous Gregorian choir down there. . “St. Meinrad,” said Dr. HegerGoetzl, “is the only truly American art center, and it is even more famous in Europe than it is in this country.” : I'm glad Dr. Heger-Goetzl brought up the point, because it gives me a chance to tell another story about St. Meinrad, a story which is also better known in Europe than it is here. My story goes back to the very fouridation of St. Meinrad—back, indeed, to the fantastic fact that, originally, it was conceived and built as a refuge for the Benedictine monks of Eine siedeln, Switzerland, in the event of a crack-up over there.

Mr. Scherrer

” » ” Immigrants Streamed In 1834, when Simon Gabriel Brute was appointed

N II first - bishop of Vincennes, his jurisdiction ex‘tended over the whole of Indiana

and one-third of Illinois. 1

There were indications that a period of rapid growth was at hand. Irish and German immigrants arrived in great numbers, and as many could speak neither English nor French, Bishop Brute made: ef« forts to secure for them priests svho were familiar with their language and manness, His call was answered in Hungary by one Joseph Kundek, who came to America and settled in Jasper, Dubois County. He established parishes, founded churches, and in 1840 laid out the town of Ferdinand, The stream of immigration was increasing so rapidly, and German-speaking Catholics were settling in southern Indiana in such numbers that no one priest could handle the job. It was at this point that Father Kundek decided to give his congregation into the hands of a religious order. He tried to interest the Redemptionists, but without success. He next turned to Europe. This time he tried to interest the Benedictines and went straight to their stronghold in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, which was the very seat of culture ag the time. He failed again. By this time it was 1851,

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AlfeosT a year after this failure, Father Kundek again tackled Einsiedeln. This time he arrived at a more opportune hour. At any rate, things had happened since Father Kundek’s earlier visit. For one thing, the Swiss government had just confiscated the two-century-old Benedictine college at Bellinzona. For another, there was no telling whether Einsiedeln might not be next. This action brought home ‘very forcefully to the Abbot of Einsiedeln that religious orders in Switzerland were in a precarious position. Would prudence, therefore, not dictate provision betimes for the worst? Was it not possibly a sign from Providence that just when the Abbot had the fathers of Bellinzona on his hands such an earnest request should come from America? - Certain, no place offered so secure a refuge and no place such a harvest of good. : The upshot was, of course, that the Abbot of Einsiedeln yielded and gave Father Kundek two Benedictine fathers, Ulrich Christen, Swiss, and Bede O'Connor, a Londoner of Irish descent. On Dec. 22, 1852, the two attended mass in the Chapel of Einsiedeln and departed for America. } On Feb. 17, 1853, they arrived in Vincennes. That same year they set out on horseback in search of hills that might in some way remind them of Switzerland, They found them in Spencer County, and that was the start of the powerful Indiana monastery which Dr. Heger-Goetzl says is now the art center of America,

Hoosier Yesterd SEPTEMBER 18 BY J. H. J. : FEELIN COLLEGE, under the name of the In diana Baptist Manual Labor Institute, opened Sept. 18, 1837. The manual labor part of the name was no joke, for the first students had to earn at least part of their tuition by working. Wood-chopping was the chief form of labor required. The first college building, a frame structure 26 by 38 feet, was built in 1836 at a cost of about $350.

It is Franklin's boast that it was the first college in

the state to admit girls on an equal basis with men students. This was in 1842, the same year the name was changed to Franklin College. First courses in the school were taught by the Rev, A. B. Hinckley, Franklin Baptist pastor. Pay of the president was $600 a year, and tuition was $12 for a year’s instruction in the three R's, English, grammar and geography. Higher English courses and foreign languages could be had for $4 more.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN . Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

ESIDES the drugs already mentioned as being suitable for the family medicine chest, it is well to have available a small bottle of glycerin. This is useful for many purposes. Most commonly, a few drops of glycerine, warmed

so as not to burn when tested on the inside of the

wrist, are used in the ear as a comforting application in earache. Bicarbonate of soda is useful in many ways. When added to the bath, it is helpful for itching of the skin, For a’ greater number of American business it is the common accompaniment of a quick lunch for the relief of what they call “sour stomach.” ‘Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that the regular treatment of this condition with bicarbonate of soda is a dangerous practice, since the pain and the belching of acid material after eating may be the signs of a beginning ulcer of the stomach. The use of bicarbonate of soda under such circume stances is like pouring water on a firebell to put out a fire. Aromatic spirits of ammonia is a home remedy ‘useful in bringing about recovery after fainting spells, It may be inhaled or taken internally, one-half tea spoonful in water. Remember, however, that a fainting spell may be a sign of a weakened heart or a serious change in the circulation of the blood, and is not fo be cone sidered lightly. ; ;

pele gl od ong peneil, 3 ve a e or, better still, a styptic powder, which is applied to ple Dow eh

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