Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1936 — Page 13

"FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

ENVER, Sept. 30.—Looking back, over the little things. Funny how you don't think about them at the time, but later on when you're lying in bed or driving silently along and thinking, they come snapping into

your head, and make you chuckle, or want to

cry. Just little things. , . In Rapid City, 8. D., the other day, we happened to run smack into President Roosevelt's drought party, week-ending there. We were in the same hotel, and our fourth-

floor room looked right down upon .

the hotel entrance. Sort of a grand stand seat for the President’s arrivals and departures. It was Sunday,rand the street

had been roped off, and a large’

crowd of Rapid Cityans had gathered by 11 o'clock to see the President leave for church. They were held back by ropes, on the opposite sidewalk. They cheered him as he drove away. Mr. Pyle Then I lay down for a nap, and was presently awakened by clapping in the street. It was the President returning from church. An hour had gone by. The crowd was still there. I watched from my grand stand window. Now there have been, out of what I have always felt to be a fine sense of consideration, few mentions in print or in picture of the President's partial paralysis. But it seems to me there can be no violation of good taste in relating anything as beautiful as what happened at Rapid City that day. The crowd stopped clapping, and stood silently watching, as the car stopped at the hotel entrance. It was a seven-passenger touring car, with the top down. The President's two sons and his daughter-in-law got out.-ahead of him. #2 #5 =» Reaches for Seat = while everybody waited, the President reached for the spare seat, and pulled it down in front of him. Then he reached to the robe rail, and with his powerful arms slid himself forward on to the spare seat. Then he turned a little, and put his legs out the door, and over the running board, with his feet almost to the curb.

Gus Gennerich, the President’s bodyguard and personal assistant, stood ready to help. But he was not needed. You could almost have heard a pin drop. The President put both hands on one leg, and pushed

downward, locking the jointed steel rate at his knee. |

He slowly did the same with the other leg. Then he put his. hands.on the side of the car, and “with his arms lifted his body out and up and on to his legs. He straightened up. \And I have never seen a man so straight. 8 a =» | Crowd Applauds | A T that moment the tenseness broke, and the crowd applauded. The President's back was to the crowd, and he did not look around It was brief and restrained applause. I don’t know, but I doubt that that has ever. hap- . pened to the President before. It was the tenderest, most admiring tribute to courage I have ever seen. It was such a poignant thing, so surprising, so spontaneous. It was as though they were saying with their hands “We know we shouldn’t, but we've got to.” When I turned from the window there was a lump in my throat, and there would have been in yours, too.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK, Tuesday.—I came to New York late Monday afternoon in order to attend the opening of Todhunter School Tuesday morning. Since my first association with the school I have never missed the opening day, and I was particularly anxious not to miss it this year on my small granddaughter's account. If children know that you have an obligation, .I think they are very quiok to sense whether you make _an effort to carry it out or not. Since I first became a part of the management of the school there have been one or two amusing incidents in connection with my being there on the “opening day. For instance, in 1928 I was at the state convention at Rochester, N. Y. At that time I was supervising work for the Democratic National Committee, women's division, under Nellie Tayloe Ross. Gov. Alfred E. Smith was running for the presidency. At the state convention there seemed to be a deadlock on the nomination for Governor. If I was to be at school for the opening I would have to leave on the midnight train. All that after“noon and evening Mr. Raskob and Gov. Smith had tried unsuccessfully to reach my husband by tele- - phone in Warm Springs, Ga. Finally they put it up + to me to get him. I felt they really had a right to taik to him, regardless of what his final decision might be. Fifteen minutes before my train was leaving for New York City, I reached my husband and turned the wire over to Mr. Raskob. I made my train and never knew the decision which had been made until I got off the train in the morning in New York City and bought a n€Wspaper which reported that my husband had agreed to run for Governor. It is interesting to see a group, ranging from little girls up to young girls in their last year in school, starting out on a new school year. Some of them come back reluctantly, regretting losing the freedom of summer; some of them get a certain excitement out of starting something new, . As one looks at them, one hopes. that the next year will bring them the realization that the benefit of whatever we do lies in the effort we put into it, and that all achievement is really measured by our own effort. Now I am starting for Syracuse. I am too late to Join my husband’s-train in Poughkeepsie, but I will be in Syracuse by 5:41, where I will join him on his car and be at the evening session of the convention. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

FJ HE dead end of a river-front street within whose 4 narrow confines you can almost see the whole pattern of New York life is the scene for Sidney Kingsley’s play, DEAD END (Random House; $2). There is a white iron gate leading to a green terrace and the back of a towering garden apartment; a tall red tenement falling to decay, but swarming with people; and across the wharf, in imagination, hundreds of sewers emptying their refuse into East River.

This setting forms the background for the action.

of the gang of boys who swim in the sewage-strewn river and terrorize the passersby with speech that is a shocking jargon. The play is simple, direct, and rather heartbreaking, giving a realistic picture of the environment out of which emerges the gangster. 2 2 2 HE book, MURDER ISN'T EASY (Putnamgp $2) is the new opus by Richard Hull Sampson, that mystery story writer whose first work, “Murder of My Aunt,” was characterized by Christopher Morley as “the most viciously humorous detective story of recent years.” The same might be said of Mr. Sampson's latest, which relates the great trouble each of three partners

351 44Y Crise Mee Ak Xan am any out murder of his two associates. Naturally each

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTENGER a, 1986 = =

POLLUT ION DRIVE FINDS AN ALLY

Plant Improven ents to End Dumping of Sewage Into White ¢ River

Additions to the city sanitation plant are expected to increase its capacity from 65 per cent to 100 per cent. Emptying sewage into White River is to be discontinued when additional units are placed in service. Constructed at a cost of approximately $530,000, the new plant provides Indianapolis with one of the most. modern sewage disposal plants

in the world, officials claim.

1. The sanitation power plant in the background and aeration tanks. 2. Construction is almost comple ed on the new. aeration tanks

shown here.

Social Ills Need Scie entific Approach, Says Prof. Millikan

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

LEVELAND, Sept. 30.—The fu- | | ray, scientist:

ture of mankind depends on

man’s learning to use the method | the scientist uses in solving his | loons carrying instruments with very | exact recording mechanisms. These

problems. This was the message of physics

to medical X-ray science as con<

veyed by Prof. Robert A. Millikan, California Institute of Technology head and noted cosmic ray investigator, at the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society here last night.

“Man must learn the scientific

mode of approach before he will ever solve the worst: of his social or governmental ills,” Prof. Millikan declared.

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OF. MILLIKAN surveyed the, field of radiation and described the ranges of particular interest to medical men. Among these is the whole range of X-ray and gamma | the main use of which is “combating mankind's most |

ray frequency,

terrible scourge, cancer.” This runs from a frequency in electron volts of about 12,000 up to 1,200,000 electron volts, which is the highest frequency which has been generated by an X-ray tube and used continuously for cancer treatment. 2 = = HESE high potential X-rays are particularly appropriate for deep-seated cancers, . Millikan reminded the doctors, the low poien tial tubes being successfully used to treat superficial cancers. “With the range of about 2,000,000 electron volts we end the high-

ROF. MIL.LIKAN briefly summarized for the doctors and Xthe latest advance in these rays obtained by the stratosphere bal-

knowledge of sending into

balloons reached up to 98.3 per cent of the top of tli: atmosphere at an altitude corresponding to 92,000 feet. Important ; fact learned from the balloon _Obse: vations, just made this last summer, is that at the latitude

worked with, at San Antonio, Tex., the cosmic rays reach a maximum

tintensity at an altitude of about 68,-

(00 feet and then decrease in intentity as higher altitudes up to 92,(00 feet are reached. The complete interpretation of these observations can not be made until similar flights and readings tiave been made nearer the equator, Prof. Millikan said, adding that he and his colicagues are now trying Lb obtain such Rights.

A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson

: ‘The frustration of women deprived of mother= hood is universal. Most of the strange neuroses which afflict our society have their basis in this

CONOMIC conditions must be adapted to motherhood, not motherhood to economic

conditions, says Dr: Louise London physician.

care of 65 per cent of the disposal. will make the plant 100 per cent effective. 6. Putting final touches on the settling basins which are to be in : service soon.

'3.. Part of the agitating mechanism in one of the new settling basins. 4. On the left are air lines which force“sewage to rotate in the aeration tanks. Air is forced through apertures in the floor and through the sewage which is treated in four similar tanks at the plant. : 5. Final settling basins now in use. These basins have been taking Additienal basins being completed

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN

SEES IT

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Mr. Roosevelt's speeches this week may permit the campaign to become one of major issues. Not that Mr.

‘Roosevelt wants the campaign to be

on major issues. As a matter of strategy it is not up to the President in office to put forth the major issues. His role is defensive, and it is to his advantage if he can confine the necessity of defense to merely minor matters. It is up to Gov. Landon to set up the major issues; and to atfack. So far, Mr. Landon has done comparatively little in the way of strong assault; he has mainly’ éxpounded | policies of his own. As for Mr. Roosevelt, he has practiced a most adroit strategy of ‘making attack upon him difficult, of offsetting attacks before they come, and, generally, of keeping the campaign on a minor key. ” ” 2 HE counfry gets stirred. up about reduction of food supply, high prices for food, and import of food from abroad. Thereupon the Administration becomes very much concermey about the drought. It is

, well-known

Some day, and soon, the United States will listen to lier opinions, for without doubt many

thousands of married women in o

deprived - of the right of cause of cconomic conditions.

the drought, and only the drought that caused it. plowing under, and the paying to not raise crops, and the slaughter of young pigs—all that must be forgotten. The country must be made “drought conscious.” Mr. Roosevelt - makes a trip :into the drought territory. He calls a conference of Governors of drought-smitten states at Des Moines. And william Hard declares that a drought report by a committee of Administration officials was written, mn substance, before the committee departed from Washington. = ” ” HAT drought conference at Des Moines made the country think of drought, took the country’s mind away from Triple-A. And when Mr. | Roosevelt invited - Gov. Landon to attend, he achieved the further advantage of making it difficult for Mr. Landon. to attack him very heavily.

that a forthcoming speech by Gov, St EE re By surance for farmers—and two days: before Mr. Landon’s date for speak-

ing, the Administration gives out a

Triple-A, and the

It is suggested in the newspapers |

plan of its own for crop insurance. Newspapers state that Gov. Landon is going to advocate a cure for farm tenancy—and one day before Mr. Landon ‘makes his : speech Mr. Roosevelt writes a public letter to Speaker Bankhead of the House, telling him to get busy with a New Deal remedy for farm tenancy— although the House does not meet till next January, and although con-

Speaker and conceivably Mr. Roosevelt may not be President. ” s "R. ROOSEVELT oars that Mr. Hearst is going to print articles charging him with having the. support of Communists—and Mr. Roosevelt, a day in advance of the anticipated publication, gives out through his secretary a statement that the expected charge will be “conceived in ‘malice and born in" political spi And if there is’ public Bi that the -Administration may be too intimate with

|the greatest anti-New Deal Demo-

of all, Sen. Carter Glass, to ‘the White House. S0rs of til, the strategy of the campaign so far, withublic realizing how it was

s Second-Class Matter at. Fostoftice. Indianapolis, Ind.

¢eivably Mr. Bankhead may not be |

ted the atmos-{

Bice

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

T'S rank apostasy to claim that the summer of Anno 1936 was mostly a matter of tragedy. Of course, we had the heat,

drought and locusts, but to even up matters

we also had a kind of humor—grim, to be sure, but nevertheless funny enough to make our summer what it was. For example: On Sunday, Sept. 13, J. Edward Clemens, favorite son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. George

Strassner, sat on their front porch in Princeton-pl, discussing this and that—I haven't the least idea what —when along came a big black crow and perched itself on the porch railing. The crow surveyed the intimate family group, lit on Mr. Clemens’ knee and started acting mighty familiar-like. Pretty soon it spied a gold-headed pencil in Mr. Clemens’ coat pocket. Sure—the crow grabbed the pencil and headed straight for Crows Nest. Item II: On Wednesday, Aug. 5, or thereabouts, Mrs. Anton Vonnegut decided te give a waffle party, which means just what it says, namely, that everybody was going to eat waffles. Mrs. Vonnegut remembered a certain restaurant somewhere in town which made the best waffles she had ever tasted and so she set about to get the recipe, The restaurant people were very nice about it but said that under no circumstances could they give their secret away. Said the recipe was patented or some-

Mr. Scherrer

thing.

On the other hand, they said they'd he more than willing to meet her half way and give her all the waffle batter she needed—tor nothing, of course—if Mrs. Vonnégut in return would . tell her guests the source of her inspiration. What's more they delivered

it, too. ” = ”

Party Huge Success

ELL, Mrs. Vonnegut’s waffle party was a huge success. I'm dying to tell you where Mrs, Vonnegut got her waffle batter, but it wouldn’t be ethical. Anyway, you know if you went to Mrs. Vonnegut’s party. Item III: On Wednesday, July 15, the druggist in my neighborhood stocked up on Gibbon’s the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” On Saturday, July 18, it became pretty evident thak Franklin Roosevelt was going to run again for Presi= dent. The very next day, which was Sunday, the wells on the South Side took a turn for the worse and decided to run dry. Garbage collections on the North Side had been running low for a week or more.

{ 4 ” 8 Pour Water Into Tree

N Monday, July 27, Luthz2r Dickerson, with all the resources at his command called up frantically to find out what in heaven's name was the matter with the tree in Mrs. Louis Levey’s front yard. Seems Mrs. Levey’s gardeners were working day and night— in shifts, of course—pouring water into the tree. It had everybody guessing, even the water come pany. I put all the botanists to work for me and didn’t get to first base because the botanists couldn’ even agree on the kind of tree Mrs. Levey was trying to save—let alone anything else. And anyway, Mrs, Levey was oui of town. On Friday. Aug. 7, a chewing gum manufacturer took over the “March of Time” and the same night the word “audition” became an intransitive verb. On Thursday, Aug. 20. the day everybody's tongue was hanging cut, Indianapélis women got interested

* in’ furs. Sr

On Friday, Aug. 21, Miss Grace A. Speer bought a

= pair of skiis.

Hoosier Yesterdays

SEPTEMBER 30

N the late 1820's and early 1830's, northern Indias was in the process of settlement. Hundreds 6¢ people passed through Indianapolis and other towns on their way to the Wabash country. “Nothing 1s more common,” wrote the Rev. Geo Bush, Indianapolis. corresponding secretary of Home Mission Society, in the fall of 1826, “than to see 15 or 20 wagons passing in a single day, each carrying the little belongings of the family that trudged along by its side. ‘Indiana is now teeming with the hordes of immigration. As many as 30 wagons camp together for the night.” About 200 families, it was reported, passed through Centerville for the Wabash country in September and - October, 1827. From 1829 to 1835 the immigrants poured along the roads that passed through Indianapolis. Leaving Indianapolis, they proceeded. along the Crawfordsville, Logansport or Terre Haute trails, The movement to build canals, bégun in 1827, ine creased the crowd. Sales'of canal lands along the route attracted speculators, city builders and settlers. Lagro, Peru, Miamisport, Pittsburg, Logansport, Locks port. Lafayette, Williamsport. Eugene, Attica, Coving= ton and other towns sprang up almost overnight. = The Rev. Bush, who was something of a booster, wrote in the Indiana Gazette in 1827: “Their (the settlers’) destination is the Wabash above Terre Haute. We wonder why a merciful providence ke this country hid from civilized man, or why he did create an especially gifted race for its occupation.” By J. H. J.

Watch Your Health.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal i : Wen a wound is infected, the physician will opeft the abscess, if he is able to find one, to provide |

.drainage of the pus or infectious material that is res -

tained in the tissues. If, however, the infection is not localized—that is, not accumulated as an abscess in one place—it may not be desirable to open the area. The care heyy 3 after such a wound has been opened and drained, of the greatest importance. If the hand or leg is held motionless in a bad tion for too long a time, scarring may take place will make it impossible to move the finger~ or toes,

and may perhaps cripple the infected individual.

Abscesses affecting the lips and nose are now somes

. times treated with the X-ray.

Small wounds are usually treated in the home with

Other antiseptics include the saturated solution of boric acid, and solution of metaphen, in addition {5 the solution of chlorinated soda and cresol. Very

advice of a doctor.

, in putting a bandage of ad limb. Make certain that the circul