Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1936 — Page 11

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FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.—There seems to me no good reason why, in this troubled world of daily journalism, a reporter should not record some of his failures as well as his successes. So I shall write about of couple of failures. Both were in San Francisco. One was my failure to get a story on famous Alcatraz Prison. So today, nothing on Chinatown. Tomorrow, nothing on Alcatraz. It having been arranged, I showed up at 7 p. m. sharp in front of Mr. Toy K. Lowe’s jewelry store in Chinatown. It looks like a jewelry store anywhere else. Mr. Lowe was at a rolltop desk in the back. He shook hands and spoke in perfect English. He was tall and well proportioned, a little under 50, wore glasses and a dark suit. During the evening Mr. Lowe took me to the Chinatown telephone exchange, to the headquarters of his club, to dinner, and to Mr. Pyle a Chinese movie. Mr. Lowe said he was sorry to have to do these things, but he really didn't know of any gambling houses or opium dens. We ate in private (as you do in all Chinese restaurants) at a round table in a small second-floor room. We had many strange things, the strangest being shark's fin soup and—snails. After the snails and two kinds of tea, Mr. ‘Lowe and I just sat and talked. He was born in Chinatown. His grandfather came to America during the gold rush. He was a seasick man, and when he got here the back of his head was worn off, Mr. Lowe said, from just lying sick in bed. The Chinese, as he recalled, are famous for suckIng at their food with a loud noise. He has the origin of that figured out. China, he says, has always been very unsanitary. It wasn't safe to eat food until it was hot enough to kill the germs. So most everything a Chinese eats is served hot, and he eats it right away. It's so hot he has to suck on it to cool it.

‘ 2 = = Big Man in Politics

R. LOWE is a big man in Chinatown politics..He is, I am sure, quite well to do. It is his ambition to retire, leave his four children enough to get them started, but not spoil them, give the rest of his money to the Masonic Lodge, and then spend his life sitting around a table talking with amiable friends.

We got to speaking of the subtlety of the Chinese mind, the beauty of their imagination. Mr. Lowe took the Chinese lottery as an example. As bart of his hospitality for the evening he staked me to a shot on the Chinatown lottery. I selected 10 characters, which turned out to mean such things as “earth,” “river,” “moon,” “tree” and so on. We didn’t win anything. But here’s the point:

» » » Invented by Wise Scholar

R. LOWE says the Chinese lottery was invented a long time ago by a very wise scholar. He knew that numbers were definite, that mathematics is an exact thing. He knew you, could take any set of numbers and figure exactly how many combinations they could make. But the Chinese, being subtle, decided to use words instead of numbers. That's a much more elastic field. With 100 words the gambler might almost go crazy trying to figure what the lottery man was going to say with those words. That's the basis of the Chinese lottery. Mr. Lowe and I became very amiable, and we paid each other high compliments on our good manners and our subtle minds. Mr. Lowe apologized repeatedly for not being able to get me a good story out of Chinatowngso.l told him to forget it, that I couldn't Be lucky enough to get a story ‘every time 1 started out.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

HICAGO, Monday.—I thought I had seen every type of Works Progress activity that we had in . this country, but I had reckoned without Chicago. I have just come back from*'the Field Museum. Never having been there before, the museum itself would have been an exciting experience for me, particularly as I entered through the rooms where Malvina Hofl- : man’s work shows us the development of the human race and all the different types to be found through the world. I wanted to spend hours there instead of a few minutes. I came away with the feeling that I had seen art used in combination with science to the advantage of both. We really went, however, to see what the WPA people were doing, and I came away tremendously proud of the contribution which these workers have made, not just to the museum, but to the taxpayers of the state of Illinois. ’ + Here is a group of people—able, industrious, intelligent, with skills of their own—not able to find work. In the museum they have adapted these skills, under the patient direction of the museum director, Mr. Sims, and developed new skills in a number of extremely technical .occupations. ) A beautiful doorway is being reconstructed from tiny fragments, foliage is being made for museum groups, the mending of vases and the practical reconstruction of fragments of old pieces of pottery are under way. Miss Warren is using remarkable skill to mend old mummy cloths, Persian mattresses and other beautiful pieces of material. These are hung on the wall when not in use as a decoration t There is an increased force in the print shop and the binding of pamphlets is going on. Men and women are cleaning and preserving the skeletons of all Xinds of animals. As I walked along I said: “Will you be sorry, Mr. Sims, to part with your WPA workers?” He replied: “Sorry? They are practically indispensable. They have expanded our possibilities for usefulness and I have even filled vacancies on my staff from their ranks. . There isn't any houndegeling in the . Field Museum.”

Daily New Books

ONT let “Zionism” remain a term in your mind / for a vague movement, as long as there is a book like Abraham Revusky’s JEWS IN PALESTINE : to make the term clear, . The author begins

less attached to the land of his origin than liberal and frankly skeptical descendants of to-

Second Section

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER he 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter " at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

MANCHOUKUO FIVE YE.

RS AFTER Japanese in U. S. Urged to Settle. in Nippon's New Possession

(First of a Series)

BY JACK CK FOSTER Times Special Writer

DAREN, Manchoukuo, Nov. 17.—“Why should the Japanese farmer remain in the United States where he is not wanted?” asked Yosuke Mafsuoka in an interview here. “Let him come to Manchoukuo. Here he will find opportunity and welcome.”

Mr. Matsuoka is the eloquent diplomat who in effect advised the League of Nations not to interfere in Asiatic matters and thereupon led the Japanese delegation from the sacred groves of Geneva, The source of conflict then was the Manchoukuoan issue, and since that time Mr. Matsuoka has become the foremost spokesman for the new state. The army, it may be true, holds the reins of power. But the South Manchuria Railway Co. has the most money, and Mr. Matsuoka is president of that company with . all that this implies—the control of rail lines, hotels, mines, factories, a hundred and one ventures. ” » »

S he considered today the progress made by Mane choukuo in its five-yeer-life he was amazed, he said, that so much had been accomplished— the partial suppression © of banditry, the mushroom construction . of buildings, a sound budget and firm eurrency, the development of Hing and agriculture. Immigration, he continued, was the immediate problem. When in this connection Mr. Matsuoka refers to anti-Japanism, he speaks from first-hand observation. For he lived many years in West Coast America, where that emotion has a special hold. “There is a great future in northern Manchoukuo,” he said, puffing at a pipe that sent blue wreaths across his round bespectacled face. “Here we hope to induce some of ‘the best Japanese farmers in the United States to come .and make their home. . “In a way, the anti-Japanese feeling in America may prove. a blessing after all. I know many cases where the Japanese have be-

come disgusted with it and - ‘pulled

up stakes. “They turned to Manchuria, but under the old regime they had trouble about leases. Naw, .with a sound government, this danger no longer exists. ; “It was the power of Providence, I like to believe, that put those Japanese in your 'country. .They learned a great deal about farming. We are thankful for these lessons. But now why should they remain in a country where they are not welcome?”

” ” N fiorthern Manchoukuo, Mr. Matsuoka tells you, the immigrant will find possibilities of

1. Culture for Manchoukuoan children. . . . They play outdoors,

enjoy healthful outdoor games and sports. 2. Yosuke Matsuoka, president of South Manchuria Railway Co. ° 3. Hsinking Municipal Hospital in course of construction, 1936. 4. A modern, American-like home in Hsinking’s newest residen-

tial section.

wheat-growing as great as Canada’s and of grazing as vast as America’s. Besides, there are the forests for staple fiber. He says these trees are better than those in America, “In time,” he foresees, “it is

possible that 'Manchuokuo - will not have to import one your of cotton of woel.” =

"Japan “alfeady has’ “tatineeh 4 a good-sized ° colonization = project.

In 20 years it proposes’ to move 1,000,000 farming families from

the island empire to its Manchou- 3

kuoan possession.’ Over-popula-tion is, of course, one of the prob--

lems facing Japan—1,000,000 new

mouths. open ‘every -year—and Manchoukuo, it is" hoped, will ac-" commodate a part of the hordes waiting to be born. One of the chief obstacles clouding this hope-is -the ‘severity of th€ north Manchurian climate. Most Japanese like: mild tempera.tures. The prospect of living .on desolate ‘prairie stretches with

~ mid-winter.. Hundfeds o

-the: mercury at 40 elo Zero # :

- terrible fo.contemplate, # 8's UT Mr. Matsuoka is optimistic. “We have proved,” he said, “that the Japanese can live in cold climates. During these first few years the South Manchuria Railway has outstripped everybody in the world in ‘eonstruction, and: much “of this: has: beer

rail have been laid at. 40 below Z€ro. “At the time’ of the: Mukden in-.

cident there were not :more than ~ 200,000 Japanese ; This number .has ‘been increased to half a million. Of course, many |

in ‘Manchuria.

of these have come as office workers, railway employes - and shop keepers. But ‘we. feel sure that’ others will settle as farmers. “We expect to bring . many - of them from the colder parts’ of Japan, especially. from northeastern Hokkaido. Those who have come already are happy.:

: They. find that there is not “one-

done .in. |" “miles of . |

tenth- as much snow here as in their old home.” "Mr. Matsuoka received the correspondent in his large office in the heart of this thriving capital of Japan’s first continental pos= session—the “Kwangtung Leased Territory,” torn from. the Russians in 1905. ” # ”

E spoke in clear-cut ‘American. He: had ' studied 'Man-

would ' succeed. "So much, he said, had been

achieved already — especially in |

coping with the bandit scourge. Manchuria has always been: a breeding place for bandits. They" ‘have pillaged villages, wreck trains and burned farm houses. -+“In three-and-a-half years,” he said, “our army has assisted Man-

‘choukuo in: practically - clearing |

the country of bandits. The Yalu River district, it - is. true, ‘is still infested with them. But I passed through the worst section a few: days ago and didn’t see a: bandit. .

churia, sifiée he was a young man, : and he knew that this” ‘Veriture 5

- right.

“America needed hundreds of years to subdue the redskins. Manchoukuo has achieved virtually the same end in less than five.” 4 2 : AP Whit. he was asked, about the issue of non-recognition? Mr. Matsuoka smiled. “A puppet state!” he exclaimed. “We'll show the world by deed that we meant Manchoukuo to be an independent state. 'It is

an «independent state. It-is an-

: independent; state. in. which ‘five races ‘have. joined: harmbiroasty:

No doubt the Japanese ‘will play *f

a leading role, but why ‘should they be blamed? All have an equal chance. Even in this company we have -high Chinese. “Refusal .to recognize Manchoukuo! =~ If you. would refuse to recognize Japan I'd say all In either case you would to acknowledge a fact. “And Manchoukuo is a fact. A ‘thriving, prosperous fact that. is here to stay.”

Next: Mukdeén under the new | order,

be refusi

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Late returns, just coming in from: lower Manhattan, indicate that Roosevelt carried not only 46 states, but Wall Street as well. Numerous boards of directors of large corporations have been voting during the last few days and the results point to a landslide of wage and dividend increases. These corporations may have .been acting partly under pressure of the surplus profits tax. Partly they may have been trying to take some of the wind out of labor organization drives. But whatever the motives, the effect is in conformity with a fundamental of New Deal economics—that there must be a broader redistribution of income. . » » 2 United Press reports that corporation : dividend disbursements this year will exceed those record-breakers of 1929. Wage bonuses and special payments to employes, it is also reported, are likely

Clapper Sees a Landslide of] Increased Wages and Dividends

boom too much money was ‘piled up in corporation reserves and either held sterile or dumped into

‘the .stock ‘market to.aggravate ‘the

boom, instead of being passed on to

consumers. to be used to buy more: goods, and thus increase production. Not only have Néw Dealers held

this view but many. more orthodox economists have agreed, although differing about how to bring about a broader distribution. ~ The Brookings. Institution, in-its study, “The Formation of Capital, > says: “The.rapid growth of savings as compared with consumption in

the decade of the twenties: resulted

in a supply of investment money

quite out of proportion to the vol-

ume of securities . . . while at the same time the flow of funds through consumptive channels was. .inadequate to absorb—at . the prices at which goods were offered for sale— the potential output of our existing

productive capacity. The excess savings which ‘entered the investment market served to inflate the

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS . The Merchants’ Association of * Indianapolis, organized in - 1898, is the "oldest continuous ° organization of retail business men in the United States. It x8ls0:1 is one of the. most. agtive.:

consumptive. channels ttior’ than more abundant savings.”

® & =»

EW DEALERS have been seek-

- ing to. force such redistribution through heavy taxation, with the government then: distributing the money through its spending policy. Indeed the spending ‘policy was prompted not only by the de-

‘mands of relief and of hard-pressed | farmers, but also by the belief that

it was up to the .governthent ‘to dump. money .wholesale into the hands of as many people as: possible to give purchasing: power ‘a shot

in the arm and keep it going until |,

private industry could : provide it.

prices of securities and to preduce | ward

financial instability. A larger relative flow of funds through. con-. sumptive channels would have led

George Washington's Teeth Are Exhibited to Doctors

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

ALTIMORE, ‘Nov. 17. —A set of bone and ivory teeth ‘worn by George Washington and: the modern. methods - ‘of preventive dentistry which today aim to save the natural teeth will be shown to members of

the Southern Medical Association

when they meet here this week. The demonstration of the old and new in dentistry is to be seen in an exhibit of . the Maryland = State Health Department and the University. of. Maryland - Dental School. This school, organized as the Maryland Dental College in 1839, is the world’s oldest school of’ dentistry. ‘Side ‘by side’ with the brutal and

uncertain turnkey used ‘by one of | the founders of the dental school to |

extract teeth is a demonstration ‘of methods of the state health department for protecting the teeth of the future generation of : Mary

‘ever, issued: conferring the

Greenwood wrote that he was re-

turning two sets of teeth which he had’ repaired - at a charge of: $15. He also gave directions for the ‘care of the teeth. The Father of His Country was warned, in this letter,

that port wine, being sour, would

take off all the finish of the teeth,

land he was advised to remove them

after dinner and put them dn ’pure

‘water. He was also told - that he

might - soak the teeth in broth or

‘pot likker, but not tea ‘or acids, if ‘he wanted them more yellow in

color, and that porter would. ulso deepen the color, but would ‘not hurt them but help to preserve them.. Other ‘items .of historic interest in the. exhibit are the rss diploma “degree of

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Our Town

T gave me a bit of a turn to learn from my vis-a-vis at lunch the other day that Indianapolis had done more than her part in ; the development of the bathtub. vi My vis-a-vis was W. Earl Russ, the architect. (By this time it must be evident to habitual readers of this column that most of my writing is postulated on the view that the reader knows nothing.) Be that as it may, it was in 1908; according to Mr. Russ, that Henry Lawrence conceived the idea of supplanting the old Bates House with a new hotel. He was going to make everybody's eyes pop, he said, and among the revolutionary ideas at the time was the one of providing every other room with a bathroom—not every room, mind you, but: every other one. When Frank Andrews heard of: it, he was completely taken off his Mr. Scherrer feet but he tried not to show it. Instead, he told Mr. Lawrence that nothing like that had ever been tried in America, or any other place, for that matter. And it was a fact, too, because Mr. Andrews got around quite a bit in those days and knew what he was: talking about. "Mr. Andrews was the architect selected for the job. He was also the one-time husband of Pauline Frederick, the movie actress. Maybe you didn't know that, either. Well, Mr. Lawrence wouldn't be talke out of the notion—least of all by an architect—and that's why Mr. Andrews started work on, designing a bathe

. burdened hotel, the like of which bad never been

seen before. ” # #

Secret Leaked Out R. LAWRENCE'S idea was to be kept a secret to knock everybody down when the hotel opened, but the idéa was too big to be .kept in an architect’s drafting room. Anyway, it leaked out. The news hardly had time to reach Chicago when Col. Kaufman of the Congress Hotel showed up in Indianapolis to confirm the rumor. Col. Kaufman wouldn’t believe his ears when he heard the whole story. He implored Mr. Lawrence to listen while the listening was good if he didn’t want to be the laughing stock of the world.. Col. Kaufman didn’t: scare Mr. Lawrence a bit. Col. Kaufman had hardly left town when George Boldt, owner of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, turned up. He, too, was considerably excited and predicted the complete . démoralization of the hotel trade if Mr. Lawrence didn’t stop his nonsense. Mr. Lawrence got rid of Mr. Boldt, too. Well, that’s the way the whole thing started, and, of course, everybody knows how it ended because when the Claypool Hotel opened it became a Pats tern for other hotels to follow. » ” ”

More Bathrooms XACTLY 10 years after Mr. Lawrence had his hunch, Mr. Russ was called in. That’s why he knows so much about it. This time, Mr. Lawrence commissioned Mr. Russ to build a 200-room addition to the Claypool with orders to provide every room with a bath. Mr. Russ not only did what Mr. Lawe

“tional bath-rooms in the 10-year-old part for good measure, Nobody questioned Mr. Lawrence's judge ment, this time. They knew better. The only other thing I know about bathtubs around Indianapolis is that the first plumber came here in 1853 to werk on the Bates House. It wasn’t until five or six years later, however, that John H. Vajen got the notion of installing a bathtub. in his residence. It was the first of its kind here. Legend has it that its interior was made of sheet lead, its ‘exterior of mahogany. The next thing that confronted Mr. Vajen was a law forbidding him to go to sleep in his bathtub.

Hoosier Yesterdays . LTHOUGH Indiana can not claim George Rogers Clark as a native, it does claim him as a hero and did, for more than 20 years, claim him as a citi= zen. He was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, on. Nov. 19, 1752. At an early age he moved westward into. Kentucky, where he surveyed lands and where the frequent conflicts with the Indians gave him ex= perience*that was invaluable to him in his later career as a soldier. i When the Kentuckians organized their county gov ernment he represented it in the Virginia Legislature, In December, 1777, he laid before Gov. Patrick Henry ga plan for conquering the western outposts of the British. It is to his credit that he not only recognized 3 the British as instigators of the Indian devastation of the frontiers, but that he laid plans to capture them. In fact, he grew to be recognized as the protector of ‘all the early settlements in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania. In that same year, 1777, Clark was appointed a lieu~ tenant colonel of militia and raised a small force with which he guarded the frontier, harassing the Indians and burning English forts. During the winter of 177 1779 a, British expedition from Detroit recovered number of their own and French posts, including Vin~

“rence asked him to do, but put in a hundred addi= oy