Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1936 — Page 9

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ROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

E, Oct. 31.—A lot of people in attle hate Dave Beck just as the ps hate Roosevelt. He knows it, of : But he says: ‘hey may hate me, but any business

this town will tell you that my word d as gold, and that the teamsters never vio-

Beck is head of the Teamsters’ Union. in

Washington State. But that isn't all. Not by a long shot. He's the No. 1 man in Seattle right now. Bigger than the mayor. Bigger than anybody. “I'm glad you came,” he said, “so you can see I haven't got any horns.” . Seattle is one of ‘the most thoroughly unionized cities in America. Not a single important group of workmen is left unorganized in Seattle industry. . You hear a lot of discussion about it, in Seattle and outside. You hear that Seattle is stifling g to death under the union grip. Fou ‘hear that business is fleeing, because of union 2 You hear, on the other hand, that the are helping business, because of more money 3 8’ pockets to be spent. You hear that the mngard of living in Seattle has been raised imBly by the unions. save Beck is 41. He is slightly on the heavy side. i MGS are freckled, his face is red and smooth, A i hair is almost gone, you can hardly see any "8yebrows. He looks like a laborer who has been - dressed up for 10 years. Which is correct, } ~ “My parents were miserably poor,” he says. “I * Can remember how my sister and I used to sit’ On the “the curb at 10 and 11 at night, waiting for my mother £0 come out of the laundry. She had gone-to work at 8 In the morning. : -

ne 2 = =» - First Impression REALLY think it was that first impression that

2 * put it into my head that something had to be ~ done for labor.” . Ab 16 Dave Beck quit high school and followed his mother into the laundry. Soon he was driving a deivery | wagon. The Laundry ‘ Drivers’ Union was da couple of years after Beck went to work. He 2 Wag ne of the leading spirits in the formation. ~~ « When the war came, Beck joined the aviation serv- . ice. When he came home on furlough he got married. Two days later he was on his way to France, ; an aerial machine gunner along the North Alter ihe war he went back to his laundry wagon. i Became very active in the union. In 1926 one of 8 national officers was in Seattle and asked him he'd like to devote his full time to labor work. 'sald he'd like it fine, gicite” . 2 = =

Organizer

iflonal Brotherhood of Teamsters, headquarters idianapolis. That is what he still is today. His covers the whole Northwest. He has never

i & cent from a union in Seattle. i has everything that even slightly resembles a ef. There are 8000 members in Seattle alone. 86 how Beck gradually rose to be the King Pin tile 1s too long to tell. But he is, and he's “the Who speak for labor, and labor is the big thing

o feamsters have never broken a contract,” he ald We will never go out on a sympathy strike if ‘have to break a contract to do it. There hasn't Nn & teamsters strike in Seattle since 1913. There * has been a laundry drivers’ strike. We don't

Ars. Roosevelt's Day © © BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT YORK, Friday.—Yesterday and today have il peaceful days. I had one amusing experierday when I came out of a shop and took , Whose driver was most talkative. The whole town he argued with me steadily on whether ‘right to keep a man out of 4 WPA job when i had some insurance and had struggled hard p it up. agreed with him that it was one of the rules | seemed very trying, but explained that if you rance you still had something on which you lize money, wheréas there were many, many

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1936

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(Fourth of a Series) .

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

I would be too much to say that the Comtesse Marie Jeanne Du Barry brought on the French

revolution.

But as she laughed and frolicked and intrigued and flung tax money .to the four winds with King Louis XV, she certainly did her share.

saw the tempest gathering and heard the ominous rumbling of the peoples’ discontent grow louder. “After us, the deluge!” laughed Du Barry. Louis XV died in time. But Du Barry lingered to be caught fair in the midst of the deluge, to be dragged screaming and disheveled from the tumbril to the guillotine. Maybe she thought then of the days when she was just Marie Jeanne Becu, a little milliner’s apprentice who sold hats at the Maison Labille in the Rue St. - Honore. Even that had seemed ~ quite an advancement for the girl born of uncertain ancestry to a poor woman of Vaucoleurs 16 years before. But Jeanne had beauty, a seductive and irresistible beauty that destined her for things quite different. After various adventures in the half-world of Paris, she was taken into the house of Jean, Compte Du Barry. But the Compte was not too dazzled by Jegnne's beauty to be practical. He ran his home as a high-class gambling-resort for the dissolute nobility and used Jeanne as window-dressing to help make it a pleasure for them to lose their money.

” ir 4 2 HE former milliner was such a success at this that Du Barry.aimed higher. He decided that if he could make Jeanne the mistress of Louis XV, a grateful King might show his gratitude. Before she could be presented at court, however, it was necessary that she have a title. So Du Barry’s unmarried brother Guillaume accommodatingly stepped forward, married Jeanne, and then even more obligingly stepped out of the picture entirely. It worked. Not long after her presentation at court, the Comtesse Du Barry became the official mistress of the king, and queen in everything but name. There was nothing particularly shocking about this in the days of Louis. It was just an old French custom. Louis XV had been to a great extent ruled by a succession of wives and favorites, the gentle de Lavalliere,

Yes, they laughed while they.

Louis XV and Marie Jeanne

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crafty de Montespan, and the able de Maintenon. Some were bad, others worse, but all combined to

Sincrease the expense and dissipa-

tion of the court, which was finally to grow so rotten as to be a pushover for the revolution. Louis XV started off well, and carried his early career to such success as to have won military glory and become known himself as “Louis the Well-Beloved.” But he, too, began choosing mistresses, most famous of whom was Madame de Pompadour. She clung to. the powerful position until her blond beauty faded, mixing directly in politics and administration quite freely and with the most disastrous results. When she died, seated rigidly in her full court regalia and with a contemptuous smile on her pale lips, “the Du Barry” was ready to take her place. ” ” ” O the little milliner’s apprentice moved into the palace at Versailles, occupied a suite almost adjoining those of the King’s own daughters, and slept in a $10,000 bed with a coverlet of 1000 ermine skins. All paid for, of course, by the taxpayers. They didn’t like it. Du Barry’s power became almost absolute with the King, and she made and broke ministers and generals at will. She even succeeded in driving from the court the powerful Duc de Choiseul, and in preventing almost single-hand-ed a war between France an England. *

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

the United States National Park Service, the state of Utah and the

EW YORK, Oct. - 31.—Statesmen and soldiers will not have a monopoly on mountainside sculp-. ture when a new gjoint project of

Sculp Mighty Dinosaurs on Mountainsides in Utah Park

certainly go out into the desert, there to behold and wonder over this vivid presentation of the story of tie giants who were once on our earth.

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Bacteria Killer Makes Some

There in the gilded and mir-

rored (but cold and insanitary)

galleries of the palace of Versailles, “the Du Barry” ruled like a queen not only Louis, but all’ France. The court had to bow, but the people didn’t: like it.- Lampoons and bitter verses on “the Du Barry” circulated freely, and on her - powdered head was poured the hatred of a nation. For while

Louis amused himself with Du

‘Barry and the other favorites of

the court, the machinery of gov- .

ernment was falling to pieces beneath him, eatenaway by crookedness, inefficiency, disloyalty and sheer inertia. The water of indignation was rapidly being stored up for the deluge that the King was to escape, but that was to sweep Du Barry away. §

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FeS& the King died, two years before the outbreak of the American revolution, and 15 years before revolution was to sweep away monarchy. Smallpox, whose deadliness is only a legend today, carried him off while a terrified court gingerly avoided ‘the sick room where “Louis the Well-Be-loved” lay dying.

Du Barry did not give up her |

position without a struggle. But with the arrival at court of Marie Antoinette, the Austrian Princess, to be Queen of Louis XVI, Du Barry was gradually frozen out of any position of influence, and driven from the court. After a year of imprisonment in the Abbey of Pont-aux-Dames, Du Barry managed to win back at cards most of her lost fortunes, and to live in luxury with a series of other lovers. : Then came the deluge over which she and Louis had laughed together. When the revolution of 1793 broke out in gll its fury, Du Barry had been long away from the court or active participation

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Her irresistible beauty made Marie Jeanne Du Barry (above)

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

MAYBE you won't believe it, but the earli«

est American airplane song originated in Indianapolis way back in 1891. } I am talking about heavier-than-air songs, of course. If 1 were talking about something else, you could depend on my telling you that the very earliest air song came from London sometime around 1782 and was called “The

. Balloon Song.”

And I could go right on teiling you about the first American balloon song, too, which turned up sometime around 1870. It was “Nineteen Hundred,” and predicted by way of words and

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virtual Queen of France after Louis XV moved the pert little milliner’s apprentice to the great palace at Versailles. :

in public affairs. But the public had not forgotten her. To them she was a symbol, justly or unjustly, of all the rottenness of the old regime. 2 8 8 N Englishman, Grieve, said to have been a disappointed suitor, accused her before a revolutionary court. She was charged with having tried to sell in England some of the fabulous jewels Louis had given her, with having conspired against the revolution, and with having “worn for the tyrant.” i

mourning |

The trial, like all those during the Reign of Terror, was a farce, but the charges themselves were

quite sufficient to insure conviction, which came on the morning of Dec. 7, 1793. That same evening, “the Du Barry,” now 350 years old, her legendary beauty destroyed by time and terror, was dragged screaming and crying to the guillotine. The deluge had engulfed the little milliner who had laughed when she saw it rising.

NEXT—The whirlwind royal ro-

mance of wayward Lola Montez.

POLITICS AS CLAPPER

SEES IT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—In 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt led the progressive, Bull Moose revolt against the blind reactionary leadership . which had : fastened its clammy hand on the Republican Party, young Alf Landon, then in his twenties, enlisted in the cause.

Now, nearly 25 years later, mem-

memorable about the colonels remark, which makes the fact that it was remembered a quarter of a century all the greater tribute to the vitality of Roosevelt’s personality. It was that vitality which enabled

Roosevelt to translate his political

ideals from the stuffy language of a stump speech into a warm popular impulse, without which there is no

‘action.

ories of that youthful allegiance are’

Why don’t the Republicans let the

a long day on the road, what doubts arise in his mind, I do not know. But he does leave the impression that behind his words is a belief the fight can be won." Gov. Landon’s advisers, however, do not seem nearly so confident as he does. In talking with them one senses an undercurrent of anxiety. It is not fair to expect them to say anything that will injure the Governor's chances, and they are

.Jet’s get going. The earliest Ameri"me, was “The Air Ship Waltz, for Piano or

date every one would be traveling

_ by “steam balloon.” It left every-

body in the air as to the details of ‘the thing, but that’s the way poets and musicians have. So much for balloon songs. Now, Mr. Scherrer ‘can airplane song; take it from | Oygan, composed by Isaac Doles, and dedicated to the Mare ried Ladies’ Musicale, Greensburg, Indiana.” Mr. Doles came to Indianapolis from Greensburg,

his birthplace, which explains how the Married Ladies’

Musicale got into it. He was living at 23¢ W. Michigan-st when he

. thought up “The Air Ship Waltz” and, as near as I

can figure out, had only four years’ practice come’ posing songs before he tackled the air ship. At that, it went over pretty good. : Mr. Doles continued composing for the next 368 years and had a lot to show for it. He composed “The Knights of Pythias March” and the “Odd Fellows Grand March” and they were used in ceremonies all over the country. Even the Canadians got next to them. He also wrote a number of children’s songs and many popular airs of the ballad type, his last being “Indianapolis,” which was significant enough, o ” s

Greatest Hit R. DOLES’ greatest hit, however was “My Sweete heart of Long Ago,” which was comiposed somee time around the turn of the century when everybody was supposed to be traveling in “steam balloons.” “My Sweetheart of Long Ago” was played by bands all over the country and was so popular that it was on the program eight times in succession for one series of concerts. Thus showing that the practice originated long before the radio came in. Mr. Doles composed all of his songs for piano and organ, and “The Air Ship Waltz” was no exception. That's because he thought everybody could handle the organ the way he could. Mr. Doles was one of the few musicians aré6&nd here who knew anything about the old-fashioned parlor organ. He had two in his home. I don’t know why. ® 2-88

No More Air Songs $

R. DOLES didn’t composed any more airplane songs after his first attempt but that didn’t dise

courage, other musicians. In 1908, Anna Held -sang

“We Two in an Aeroplane” and the next year Blanche

Ring came around with “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine.” J After that, of course, everybody wrote Lindbergh songs. Lindbergh arrived in Paris May 21, 1927, and Isaac Doles died May 1, 1927, which explains why Mr, Doles didn’t get around to it. Just: now it appears that we are in for a run of stratoSphere songs. The Germans already have a “Hogh Piccard” song. The Swiss have a “Professor Piccard . March.” Depend on it, we will come to

it, too.

Hoosier Yesterdays T= Fifth Indiana Regiment embarked from Camp

~ Clark, near New Albany, Oct. 31, 1847, for service in the Mexican War. It was the last Indiana regiment to be assembled. It was organized at Madison fole lowing Gov. James Whitcomb’s receipt of a requisi« tion from the Secretary of War for more troops from this state.

Who had absolutely nothing left. Therefore | American Museum of Natural His- Germs More Dangerous recalled when Gov. Landon, as the careful to let no pessimistic word bones of Theodore Roosevelt alone? p

) pple came first. mM that he waxed eloquent over foreigners who

tory is completed. Much earlier inhabitants of America than any Rev-

AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31.—-Bac-teriophage, an ultra-microscopic

presidential candidate of the Re-

publican Party, pay§ a visit to the

The Republican Party wouldn't have him when he was at the peak

drop from their lips. Still, they do not act and talk like men bursting

Arriving at Vera Cruz Nov. 24, after experiencing a severe squall on the gulf en route from New Orleans, the Fifth Regiment soon went into action for the

Out their first papers and then never proceeded olutionary or Civil War notable will | bacteria killer, can change the germs Roosevelt grave and calls at Saga-|.¢ pio strength. The Republican | With the confidence of victory. You

ie next steps in their citizenship. I suggested that in the past, when we were glad to acquire 0r in this country, we had neglected the edu‘of Immigrants, and possibly some of these 8 Who had only taken out their first papers § have been ignorant of the further steps to He had evidently been reading much propa-

also have their carven places in the rock strata of the West. This new project will have the added distinction of presenting not merely lineament in stone, of originals who lie buried elsewhere, but

of typhoid fever so that they will do some of the things that make those of scarlet fever and erysipelas so dangerous, Jeanette D. Taranik of Stanford University has discovered. One of the most dreaded and dan-

more Hill, the family home at Oys-

Party was so reactionary in 1912

ter Bay, Long Island. You youngsters can skip this. To you, Sagamore Hill and Oyster Bay and Theodore Roosevelt dare merely names vaguely remembered from a

that Roosevelt left it. It is so reactionary now that it should blush to mention the Roosevelt of 1912,

3 td ” » OV. LANDON comes back to the

| know they are sure.

dead and buried prewar America. |

But to many of us old grayheads,

Roosevelt shrine as the titular

notice the difference after traveling on the Roosevelt campdign train. On the Roosevelt train you just On the Landon {rain they seem more to be striving to keep up a brave face against growing apprehension. When any visitor aboard the

duration of the war. : The first three Indiana regiments were formed simultaneously upon an order of the Secretary of War dated May 16, 1846, just three days after the ° declaration of war. They left Camp Clark the fol lowing July, arriving in Mexico in August/ The Fourth Indiana Regiment was organized June 186, 1847, and left. New Albany June 27. By July of the

j Against the foreigner, and though I had a feelIreland was not very far in his background, rh have much sympathy with any foreign

head of a party that even yet repudiates the progressive program which. it spurned in 1912. Theodore Roosevelt believed, as Hamilton did, in a strong Federal government, and scorned the “old flintlock, muzzleloaded doctrine of states’ rights,” -which Republicans have caught on the rebound from the Democrats. He thought Federal regulation should be jmposed on interstate industry similar to that which had been imposed on the railroads. He wanted both Federal ‘and state social legislation and was alert to what he called the “human waste” in industry, which was depleting the fiber. of ‘our population as we were

Landon train expresses the opinion that Roosevelt will probably be elected, he is likely to encounter not an argument, but a question, - He will be asked: “Then how do you explain the Literary Digest poll? It has never been wrong yet.” The Digest poll is the chief saurece of such hopes as still survive aboard the Landon train.

3 ” ” » | addition to this, Gov. Landon receives naturally a rather onesided - picture of conditions. Few visitors care to give him unfavorable news. Almost invariably they minimize the unfavorable aspects

to many past 40, those aré names which even now still pulse with life and force. Once they were in every newspaper, ev day, in news, editorial and cartoon, firing the imagination of millions in a political revival which swept the nation and which seemed at the time to have awakened forces destined to realize what was then called “the promise of American life,” the prewar ancestor of “the more abundant life.” Theodore Roosevelt, as the leader of this movement, was the political hero of many of us of that period. Those in high school and college then remember him as clearly as if

same year all five Hoosier unifs had seen active service on Mexican soil. A year later the Indiana regiments had returned, having acquitted themselves with distinction durihg the course of the war. A season of festivities followed and the battle flags were presented to the state amid solemn ceremonials. \ ‘ : Indiana had promptly furnished a ‘small army of 5000 men who marched. and fought creditably in the service of their country.—By F. M. ;

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

gerous of all disease germs is ‘the variety which attacks blood corpuscles and destroys them. It is this kind which is responsible for a whole host of diseases, including scarlet fever, a kind of blood poisoning that is particularly dangerous, a kind of meningitis, and a particularly virulent variety of peritonitis. Its chief characteristic is this breaking down of red blood corpuscles. Most other germs do not have this ability, but a particularly resistant form of typhoid bacterium which

will show the originals themselves, in stone, in the place where they have lain buried for almost unimaginable ages. The subjects of the new mountain-sculpture are the. mighty dinosaurs that ruled the American West during Jurassic times, 140,000,000 years- ago. Their fossil remains cram the rocks of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, like raisins in a pudding. Already the project is well advanced inte the roughing-out stage Under the direction of scientists of the American Museum of Natural

48 & funny thing how hard it is to see the other OWS point of view. I remember serving on a mmittee of the Women's Trade Union League, where much time explaining to foreign women what i to do to become citizens. I even accom“some of them on their errands when they ‘ got their papers. so confusing to me that I wondered how whose knowledge of English was limited ever jh. So perhaps I have a little more patience Ay people who have never been through the 8 of acquiring citizenship papers, even for

| I came out of a Fifth-av shop this mornt: was crowded. I was walking fast when ‘was thrust out at me. Almost un iously to take it, and glanced at it. It was a Lanwith a Landon button. The two ladies, standSide handing them out, had Landon butMr copts. It struck me as so funny that I ‘with a smile, and as I walked along, looked my shoulder to laugh at them. ill looked absolutely solemn. I don't know

History, various groups of emergency workers have carved a great cut into some of the most promising strata. The excavating work has now been taken over by the National Park Service and will be pushed to conclusion as rapidly as possible.

f 8 » EJ the rock layers contain-

Miss Taranik produces, has. She

reports to the Journal of Bacteri-

ology that she fed bacteriophage on

typhoid bacteria, until most of the germs had been killed and “eaten.” Then she grew the few germs which remained, to find that they now had not only all their old virulence, but also this new ability of destroying

he were here now. A fellow correspondent was talking about it as we walked around the peaceful grounds at Sagamore Hill where Theodore Roosevelt gathered up the inspiration which awakened the idealism of a whole nation.

subject to the general right of the community to regulate its business use as the public welfare requires. Those were his words.

has allowed Cousin Franklin to steal

depleting our soil and other natural resources. Wealth, he said, is held

The Republican Party, foolishly,

anion omy CAN remember the’ first time I . Rs be . .

of the situation and dwell upon the:

more favorable ones. No presidential candidate is able to get a true picture of the campaign for that

{reason. Hoover, it is said, fully

expected to be re-elected in 1932. Landon is inclined to be objective and realistic about himself, but it would be asking too much to ex-

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal HE danger of botulism from, factory-canned foods has been almost eliminated. Up to 1933, however, more t 100 deaths had been caused by bacillus ‘botulinus contamination of persimmons, string beans, beets, celery, sausage, and various vegetables canned at home. To avoid this danger, non-acid foods should be

er they knew to whom they were trying to pdon button. 2 :

ily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— (the lover of the old and romantic side of his-

don might have prevented it. But he didn’t. He falls in with a party dership that is looking back to Hoover—if not further; that brags about Theodore Roosevelt and at- | temptsito scuttle what he fought for.

Landon’s campaign “train, my.

pect him to have a cold-blooded size-up of the situation. Most newspaper correspondents aboard the Landon train, despite the fact that they have lived

red corpuscles. , saw Meanwhile, Dr. Sophie Spicer of the New York Board of Health, who specializes on the red-blood corpuscle destroyers, has done the exact opposite of Miss Taranik’s experiments. She exposed some of her erysipelas and scarlet fever organisms to high heat, high acidity, or small amounts of chemicals, and was able to make them less able to destroy red blood corpuscles.

A Womaris Viewpoint...Ves. Wale

canned’'under steam pressure. They can not be processed in hot water bath or oven with the assure

ing the dinosaur bones have been suitably exposed, museum specialists of the American Museum,

eague said. . He

display of his fruits or vegetables at a county fair | takes chances in sterilization, with resulting danger

‘to health and life. Ln only learn never to taste spoiled

citizen holding another” American If ew | destroy the food without

citizen in his arms, I know he is all

d food, but to tasting promptly of the contents of suspicious the number of cases of botulism

(OY Nor. 3 Oregon will vote on a proposal to by k