Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1936 — Page 9
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By ERNIE PYLE *
J [EADVILLE, Colo., Oct. 5.—Big Jim McDonald is 72 now. He is, they say, worth $100,000. He has never had an ache "nor pain in his life. He has never been hurt. And never married. He has no regrets. He
loves Leadville. He came to this romantic old silver camp, two miles above the sea, when both he and Leadville were young. They have lived 52 years. together.
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HEN he was young, Big Jim used to dance all night in Leadville’s wild west dance.halls, and . then work in the mine all day, without ever going to bed. He could do that till he was 50 years old, he
I like him.
Big Jim
came West from Halifax, Nova Scotia. For 10 years he worked in: the silver mines—for wages. He socked away every penny back into leases-of his own. Nothing came of them—for 10 years. And then he hit. * : He doesn’t have to worry about money any more. Hasn't had to for 40 years. But he still likes to see new mines come in, Mining is his whole life. Big Jim is Scotch. His house is a small but comfortable one on the hill, His clothes are ordinary. He wears a cap all the time, even in the house. He lives all alone. He
keeps a loaded rifle by his bedside, and nobody .
In .fact, nobody ever has bothered him. He is too big.” He is a whopper of a man. ¢ year ago he weighed. 335 pounds. and he's down to 265. He eats meat only once a day, and keeps a bag of oranges around to nibble on. He goes to bed at 9:30 and sleeps like a log and at 7. He never worries, he says. ’ | Big Jim’s main strength stunt was tug-of-war. He ' used to pull eight men down as easy as pie. he was 52 they put on a big tug at a celebration here
Six feet three. A But he diets now,
gets up
When
“It was all'T could do to hold five men,” Big Jim “That’s the first time I realized I was going down the other side of life. war since then.”
I've never pulled tug-of-
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For 30 years Big Jim was in the mines, everything from mucker to superintendent. ~ smelters and ‘managed mine properties for 18 years He quit work four years ago. .He enjoys not. doing anything. erable property to look after, and he sits around
Then he. ran
He has consid-
town and chats, and reads the papers and National Geographic, and sits in his front door and looks out al the mountains. He is very happy.
Takes Annual Trip
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NCE a year he takes a trip. “I can stick a thousand dollars in my .pocket and start out,” says Big Jim, “and have a thousand dollars worth of fun.” He used to go back to Nova ‘Scotia évery seven years. . But his mother died, and he hasn't been there for
20 years now.
Last year he did the West Coast, clear ‘from Tia Juana to Seattle. He was tickled to-get back to Lead-
viile, though.
Big Jim took his first airplane flight a year ago. $aid he'd done everything else, now he wanted to
try that. killed.
His friends were terrified, and said he'd b2 “A man born to be hung never gets drowned,”
said Big Jim, and flew away to Albuquerque.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I'YDE PARK, N. Y., Sunday.—We have had two perfectly glorious days. As we all went to church
this morning I felt
e magic of autumn; with all
its variegated colors on the Hudson River. When the leaves begin to fall in November there is a certain sadness that comes with the feeling that summer is gone, and that all things have to go to
a temporary rest.
But at this time in October there
is just a riot of color and joy in the brisk autumn
air."
1 could not help smiling to myself over a headline
-in the paper.
As we were driving to church my hus-
band was sitting beside me without a coat, ‘while the rest of us had pulled our coats around ourselves closely. The headline read: “His mollycoddle philosophy is called typical of
Roosevelt.”
The Roosevelt, of course, is my husband.
In the
article, his philosophy of security and so-called popularization of dependency and an easy life, was contrasted with Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of the
“strenuous life.” could make that contrast.
No one who really knew both men Theodore Roosevelt al-
. ways preached the strenuous life—to keep yourself fit physically, mentally and spiritually—but above everything else the ultimate object was to make the
home secure.
In Theodore Roosevelt's mind, the first
duty of every man and woman savas this security of
the home.
Naturally, that means an easy and de-
pendent life for the youth in that home. ~ No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism, to physical, mental and spiritual strength and activity, can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy. My acquaintances who exemplify the philosophy of ' asdN® mollycoddle are not among, those to whom my usband is trying to bring greater security and ease of life. Most of my mollycoddles have had too much ease, too much dependency, too much luxury of every
kind.
For instance, there is a lady who has complained sadly to her maid that she must close up one of her five estates and give up the support of a hospital she
had subsidized, because of her increased taxes.
The
maid reflected, and later imparted to me the fact that out of her reduced wages she had to support five people during the depression instead of her customary
two.
(Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
‘Daily New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— _
It the year 1787, in the city of Philadelphia, a group of 55 men, representing 12 of the 13 states, assembled for the purpose of making a few minor changes in the existing Articles of Confederation. With these men lay the responsibility of deciding whether or not a “national government with teeth” was to be substituted for the Confederacy which was ' generally acknowledged to be incapable of |controlling a growing nation. Strange as it may seem, the
Fathers of our Constitution feared the
Its of a
democratic form of government and these fears oc-
casioned long and heated debates. Absolu
secrecy
was the rule of the convention. There were no news-
paper reporters, no “radio speeches,”sno
tors in
the House. Even the official minutes of the meetings did not record the arguments or opinions advanced. The only authentic etalle hits Ne are the notes taken by James Madison as the discussion Plogressed
Fred
Rodell's book,
FIFTY-FIVE MEN (Telegraph
Press; $2.50), is based .on this daily record, and is enlivened by many delightfully’ humorous incidents. How the present elaborate system of government under which we now live was evolved from the simple plan suggested by Edmund Randolph makes engross-
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rpms is no better preparation for aft understand-
- A ing of the New England atmosphere which is be- : ing revived in our literature just now, than THE ' SELECTED POEMS: of Wilbert Smow (Mitchell:
$2.50).
The sea at peace, the sea in fury; its pro.coves, the men who Wrest a living from it
id the women who keep vigil because of it, all are . The villagers, too, in sharp, unforgettable understanding
i" To read the a seacoast town, and jus
of behavior.
n blue volume is like a sojourn in
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"MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936
WHAT DOES A DOLLAR BUY NOW?
(Third of a Series) |
BY JOHN T. FLYNN | (Copyright, 1936. NEA Service, Inc.) |
‘EW YORK, Oct. 5.—I1t is hardly fair to talk only of rises in prices without observing also that earnings, too, have increased. The earnings of the workers are wages and wages constitute a part of
cost and hence an element of price. be sought is to try to raiss wages without raising prices.
In 1933 sa! the low point. the average factory wage in the United States was $17.71 a week. Now it is $22.92. That is an increase of $521 or a 29 per cent rise. In the same time, the cost |! of living has | increased 20 per cent. Hence it will be seen that, . so far as those factory workers who are employed are concerned, the rise in living costs has not been as great as the rise in wage costs. This is true as to factory workers. But it is not wholly true of clerical help or of workers in the construction industries or government workers. It is difficult to say, therefore, just how it affects the population as a whole. The danger lies in the grave possibilities of continuing rises in the future when the equilibrium between wage and price rises may be destroyed. Now what are the causes of these price increases? As usual there are various factors at work. First and most important is the increase in the amount of purchasing power which has been created and put into the hands of the people. = ” ” E have been increasing the production of goods but the increase of puichasing power has been greater. Production has increased about 35 per cent. Production of purchasing power may he measured in two ways: First, by national income. In 1933 it was 45 billion. In 1935 it
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Wages Gain 29 Per Cent as Costs Rise but 20, F lynn Claims
“People . . . are disposed to spend more freely, and we see increasing crowds in stores and places of entertainment throughout the country.”
the increase in bank time deposits. In 1933 they- were (for Reserve banks) 12 billion. Now they are 20 billion. This is an increase of 8 billion or 66 per cent. The rise in purchasing power, however produced, has spread its influence over our whole economic fabric. But there are other factors at work. For instance there is the psychological factor. People believe things are getting bet-
is estimated it will reach 63 billion. Here is an increase of 43 | percent. Second, we can measure it by
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ter,. Hence they are more disposed to spend freely, ahd we. see “ins creasing crowds in stores and places of entertainment through-
the country. Secondly, the President has preached that high prices are essential to recovery. The usual resistance to price raising, therefore, has been to a very large degree broken down. ”n ® ” T= there are special rea- : sons in special cases. In the case of food, the drought and the Administration’s program of curtailment have tended to raise food prices higher than others., !
In the case of rents, prices are now beginning to be. affected by
the slowly developing shortage of housing facilities at the same time that people, more generally employed, are moving back into independent homes again, while the population is rising. -
The price of gas and eleetric- .
ity has been lowered chiefly because of widespread drives against utilities to force concessions to their customers. . Up to now these price increases, sa 8 in~the case of food, have not: been serious. But’ they: threaten to become so. Inquiry ameng.food
dealers reveals that still higher prices are expected this winter. In fact, many think the full force of the upward price surge has not yet been felt .in this field. Hence the problem of the Administration has now shifted very materially. Whereas in 1933 and 1934 it was interested in getting prices up (“if we can not get them up one way we will do it another,” said the President), the problem now is to control them to prevent further dangerous rises.
BY SCIENCE SERVICE i JprEiADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—Seven | hours of treatment with intense | sound vibrations—having the impact of mechanical blows—will pro- |
duce a whisky equivalent to one | aged four years in the wood. The | result of this research was announced by Dr. Leslie A. Chambers of the school of medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. This was only part of the research conducted by Dr. Chambers in the realm of pressure pulses, and the result of his research indicate that they will have their greatest use in the preparation of serums. Dr. Chambers’ research on the effects of intense mechanical vibrations in the artificial maturing and blending of alcoholic beverages was
Pennsylvania, but at a commercial laboratory in Boston, while he was on leave from the University. The results, however, were highly satisfactory when checked by analysis. The aging of whisky has to do with’ the esters and higher alcohols, as well as other factors which produce the taste and other features sought by connoisseurs. Tests showed that the whisky exposed to the pressure pulses produced these features in seven hours against four years in the wood.
TT sound vibrations used by Dr. Chambers are of a frequency of 1200 cycles per second, some two octaves above the middle “C” of the musical scale; but their intensity is equal to 100 times that of the entire Philadelphia Orchestra playing together. These vibrations are produced. by oscillators and kindred devices. It has been found that when fluids are subjected to these intense vibrations various changes are induced and accelerated. Particularly useful and interesting is the effect on milk. When milk is subjected to this treatment it is homogenized,
not conducted at the University of |.
Whisky Aging, Process Seen as Useful in Preparing Serum
a strong tail that drove it through the water, and long legs that were
most ‘useful in swimming: but could also be used on land. It probably
| lived most of the time in the sea,
but came ashore to take sun baths and: to lay its eggs.
The skeleton now at the University here was sent in by Dr. 5S. H. Knight, director of the Wyoming Geological Survey. It was found near Casper, Wyo. by Don Allsen, University of Wyoming student. It is the first skeleton of its kind to be found in America, all * previously known specimens
having been reported from Europe. " o 8
Device Opens Book,
Turns Pages ASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Presivice which opens a book -to any page desired and runs pages one by one, without human hands touching the book is described in a new patent (No. 2,045,804) granted Lo three Canadian inventors, M. Rosenthal, R. D. Delamere and H. M. Rutter of Toronto. - Where a valuable book is inclosed in a glass case, claim the inventors, their device will turn the pages as though it were in the reader’s lap by the mere turning-of two
knobs.
Striking feature of the device is its dextrous, mechanical fingers. One knob is turned so that a pointer indicates the page at which the book is to be opened. The second knob, when turned, slips mechanical fingers in between the pages, and turns them up and over. One page is turned at each revolution of the knob. = ‘While the invention might be used on rare volumes, it is primarily intended for suth books as are kept by churches and institutions in which are inscribed the names of famous personages, records of their achievements and contributions.
as it were, and the cream will not again separate. from it. The milk is also more digestible because of the effect upon. the curds. = The research in the field of nedi-
research in the field of infense sounds will undoubtedly lesd to wide use in the sciences and indus-. try, especially in the field of medicine.
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Pacific Once Extended Over Wyoming ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. 5.—
Pacific Ocean waters extended over| Wyoming, some 26 million years ago, |
minute, fans!
ties, > The unconcern of parents on
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"POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT
BY MARK SULLIVAN
ASHINGTON, Oct. 5—President Roosevelt in his Pittsburgh speech denied the charge, made some weeks ago by Republican vice presidential candidate Frank Knox, that “no life insurance policy is secure, no savings account is safe.” And at Pittsburgh on the .same night Col. Knox repeated the charge, amplified it, insisted the charge is true. - As in many cases, the difference of opinion hangs upon particular words. The words used by Col. Knox, “secure” and “safe” are not the right words. These words, as commonly used, imply in their denial danger of bankruptcy, danger that the life insurance companies and savings banks may fail and close their doors. There is no such danger, and Col. Knox did not mean to say there is. He explained, in his repetition of the charge, ‘that this’ is not what he means. The real danger is inflation. I hope the reader will not stop at that forbidding word. For what I hope to do is to explain; in part, what inflation is. Col. Knox last Thursday night used a more apt word, “dilution.” “Dilution of the dollar” is an accurate description of what the Administration is doing. “Dilution” means watering the milk. ® x 8 : WHAT is the fiscal practice of the Administration that dilutes the dollar, and thereby causes peril to life insurance policies and savings banks accounts. President describes what he does as “borrowing.” Strictly, it is not borrowing at all. If it were borrowing in the ordinary sense, it would be less dangerous. Mr. Roosevelt wants ‘some ‘more money. He wants it to spend on
“Quoddy,” or for relief or what not. There is not as much in the Treas-
mages and
this subject is
remarkable, all things considered. We go into conniption fits over the sanitation, lighting and comfort of buildings: We get gray hairs worrying gbout the management and the teaching staffs of our schools. Mothers of the P.-T. A. meet, agitate and work themselves into strings setting up the right sort of scholastic standards in the community. : of dollars on our high schools, “and other millions on our colleges, while ard agonize over questions pertaining to the physi
ury as he wants. He sends for Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. “Henry,” says Mr. Roosevelt, “I want another billion.”
“Okay, Chief,” says Mr. Morgen-|
thau. Mr. Morgenthau calls up the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. “Print a billion of short term bonds,” says Mr. Morgenthau. Now, essentially, what . happens? The Treasury takes a piece of paper costing a fraction of a cent. It takes some ink costing another .fraction of a cent. On this piece of paper, with this ink, the Treasury prints the word “bond,” and the figure “$1000.” It is now a $1000 government bond. ko £ nn a
HIS bond Mr. Morgenthau takes 4 to a bank. THe bank accepts ¢he bond. In return the bank credits the Treasury with $1000. “Credits” is the technical term. The bank now says that the United States has $1000 on deposit in the bank. The bank does for the government the same thing that it does for a private citizen when the citizen brings a thousand real dollars to the bank. , & Against this so-called “deposit” of the government, the Administration draws checks. These checks the government passes out to pay for “Quoddy,” to pay relief workers, or what not. There is now another $1000 in circulation. = : It is all that simple. That is th way the government “makes” dollars. If not too much of it is done, there is nothing irregular about it. But the reader will see it is very different from the way he himself “makes” dollars. The average man makes. dollars only by work, by producing goods or dealing in them. For clarity, let ‘us say the dollars of the average man are “earned”
dollars, while the dollars of the
government are “made” dollars. ‘Now, what is the effect of all these
. : ’ * ® . . gy ] A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson ID you know that 100,000 boys will be injured this fall on our football fields. Now, wait a Not I, but Bob Considine, famous sports writer, is authority for the statement. However, as one who has long been angry over the senselessness of this business, I am glad to see a few men at the head of athletic associations who show signs of wishing to put a stop to the casual-
te games; that we
intercollegia permit without protest the continuance of what. has be- . come a huge, competitive business to be maintained on our campuses? 3 : I.think football should be taken out of the
government “made dollars”? What is the effect of the average man’s “earned” dollars, and on life insurance policies -and savings? #2. 2 = 3 N the banks, in trade, everywhere, a government “made” dollar is precisely the same as the citizen's “earned” dollar. Every government “made” dollar, introduced into circulation, mingled with all the “earned” dollars, is a kind of watering of the milk. Anybody can see how it works. Every time the Administration creates a dollar in this way it takes a tiny fraction off the purchasing power of every other existing dollar. If it goes on long enough, every dollar will be so reduced that it will take a whole dollar to buy a pound of coffee or a pair of socks. Col. Knox is quite certain this will happen. He said the condition I have described is a “simple fact.” He said it “steadily eats away the value of the dollar.” He said inflation ‘is inevitable.” Col. Knox said this on Thursday night. That was after it was known that Mr. Roosevelt had entered into a stabilization agreement with France and Britain. Some persons think that stabiliration abroad will help, mildly at least, toward averting inflation in America. Others, and apparently Col. Knox is among them, think the stabilization agreement will not avert inflation of the dollar. It is true that stabilization™can at best only help, and help but faintly. The only real safeguard against inflation is for the government to stop “making” dollars in the way I have described. That means the government must stop spending more dollars than it has, must keep within its income. ' 2 ” s R the distrust which many feel about” - the Administration’s fiscal “practices, there is one reason easy for the average man to grasp. The country has seen Mr. Roosevelt appoint many fiscal advisers and officials—and has presently seen those fiscal advisers resign. The list includes Mr. James P.
| Warburg, who resigned and has
written books and articles declaring that President Roosevelt's fiscal practices are dangerous to an extreme -degree .
_ The list includes Mr. Lewis Douglas, whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed the budget, who rewho has since written as Mr. Warburg has.
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By ANTON SCHERRER
T was Clifton Wheeler who once observed that you have to make a lot of coffee at one time to make it taste right. Nothing less than enough for 50 people, he thought. After which nothing else matters. :
In support of his theory, Mr. Wheeler
cited the fortnightly Portfolio suppers which never have been kndwn to use the same brand of coffer two nights in succession, or the same crew of cooks, for that matter. Thus verifying what Cg William Blake once said—that the . artist sees through,-not with, the eye. I bring up the subject at this time, not because Mr. Wheeler happens to be right about the - coffee but because, so very often, he happens to be just as convincing about other things as well. In proof of which, it is my turn to cite his one-man show of paintings now on view at the H. ‘Lieber Gallery. : The painting of Clifton Wheeler : strikes me as tremendously important and I can't imagine any better time to recognize it than righ! now, It is important because it is genuinely simple, ° honest and direct. Indeed, it is so direct tiiat I suspect Mr. Wheeler of laying himself up against a ; landscape that attracts him and licking it into “hape, + It is for all the world like a heavyweight hoxing match—the landscape is eventually overcome on 1oints and sometimes it even goes to a knockout. Or even two knockouts, for it's a long time since T've seen nature give in to a painter the way she has in the “Edge of the Wood” and “Ohayo Moun-
tain,” two of the loveliest examples of Mr. e ’ art now on view at Liebers, P Whetlers
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Wheeler Not Pugilist
I DON'T want to convey the impression that Mr; Wheeler is a pugilist or that his painting: look anything like the result of a fight. Quite the cone trary, . because what impresses me most abou! Mr.
Wheeler's show is the quiet. n 1 Wheelers quiet, near impeccabilily of At the same time it may not be amiss to ; po out that important art like Mr. Wrens ho 2 i : certain hardness—not in- the picture to be sure. but At any rate, it’s been experience that all good artists are hard. Jif The fallacy that artists are a soft and mollycnddle lot persists largely, I believe, because of a belief that
pretty emotions evoke pretty pictures—the te emotion, the better the picture. Softer le
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JE Morons are important, I suppose, but it is not until they acquire a hammered hardness that they bear looking at as pictures. The truth of the matter is that most of us never get beyond a glitter
ing emotion which, when all is said and do ’ 1 is x nothing more than an unrelated u il g: muddled experience. * Snsonirolley ang pe. Below the emotion of the artist, however /t i ! y Tr, 5 th i moves an intellectual force and a power of SDDTAlae | gual which is essentially cold, calm and critical, and Is this power, as much as anything, that & the, making of great art. : go ne OW else can we explain the fact that a disci; 1i artist is more often right than wrong? Or, Baa knows so much about the making of good coffee?
October 5 THE fist Governor of the vast Northwest Terrie tory, aristocratic Maj. Gen. Arthur st, Clair,
lived to see his glory forgotten and his mansion sold by the sheriff, | i
One hundred forty-nine years ago today. Gi Clair was appointed Covernor of tin aye ms Rogers Clark had snatched from the In brilliant military stategist, Gen. St. inusied aid of George Washington. ! was Gen. St. Clair who held together the 3 t Pennsylvania line by loaning gis ree ea 2 from his own purse. He was president of the Continental Congress in 1787 when the ordinance creating the Northwest Territory was passed. f : The territorial law upheld those fundamental principles of American democracy, absence of slavery, right of habeas corpus, protection of private property ang Hight of representation. » unt-spoken, Gen. St. Clair ruled the with a firm hand after his inauguration July very He frequently traveled through what is now Indiana on his trips across the Territory. In the bloody battle at Fort Recovery, O., Nov. 4, 1791, St. Clair’s troops were slaughtered by gn enraged army of Indians, The General's horse was shot from under him four times. Although Gen. St, Clair was exonerated by a congressional inquiry, his repu=— tation was shaken by the incident. : During a political fight in Ohio later, Gen. St. Clair was removed from office by President Thomas Jefferson. The country’s war time debt to the gale lant general was never repaid, and his fortune dwindled. ie Once the ruler of a vast territory, he eked ous a meager existence by selling supplies to travelers in Pennsylvania. He died in 1818. . | As historians recreated his life, many Heosier ors ganizations have felt that his memory should be hone ored, and three years ago the Indiana Historica! Soe ciety petitioned Postmaster-General James A. Parley for a St. Clair stamp issue.—By T. C. i
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ; Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal w= you get something in your eye tha: does not belong there, you notice it immed ately. Foreign substances in the eyes are annoying. If the eyeball happens to be scraped by a coat slecve, a piece of paper, or other substance, the irritation is extreme. ' The eye responds immediately by pouring out fluid to lessen the irritation. If, however, the eye becomes inflamed, exposure to light is p:inful, causing constant blinking. 2 If a small cinder or bit of dust or glass gei: into the eye, it may become lodged on either the ¢veball - or eyelid, and the longer it remains, the more painful and irritating will be the disturbance. ek ] With experience, it is possible to locate such foreign substances on the lower or upper lids and then res. move them with the point of a clean pocket hande kerchief or with a clean piece of gauze. :
Hf Indians. A Le Clair was a
Next, he should take a small match stick, a it across the upper eyelid. As the patient looks : ward, the attendant grasps the eyelashes the eyelid upward so that the inside of the 1d
comes visible, and can be examined caref
mixture is stirred until the boric a