Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1936 — Page 13

FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE -

AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18.—The day we came into San Francisco, crossing: over from Sausalito on the ferry, we passed within good seeing distance of Alcatraz Prison. It sits out in the bay about a mile froin &'n Fraocisco. It's en island, you know, about the ge of three city blocks, and it’s pretty lofty, and looks lke solii rock. The prison covers the whole thing.

Honestly, it gives you the creeps to look at it. I knew there wasn't any use trying to get a story out of Alcatraz. Bul we called up Warden Jimmy Johnston anyway, and hs said to meet him at the San PFrancisco postoffice. Warden Johnston certainly isn’t what I expected the warden of Alcatraz to be. He is very cordial; a nice-looking man, about 55, white hair, wears glasses, dresses in good fashion. He could easily be a business man or a college president, (I learned later, in one of these surprising confirmations of your own surmises, that Johnston really is a San Francisco banker when he isn’t in prison work.) One of his biggest jobs is saying “no” to news--paper men. He's good at it. He doesn’t beat suavely around the bush; neither does he stiff-arm you. He starts right off telling you that he simply isn’t allowed to talk, and hopes you won't misunderstand. He says the Attorney General and the Director of Prisons decided that since they were setting up a place to incarcerate the very last tail-end of society, it would make it easier not to have the inmates getting into print all the time. It causes Warden Johnston a lot of grief, but he agrees with the policy. He'll answer general questions about the prison, but won't go into details. And the main thing, he says, is not to let anything be written about any of the individual famous characters in hock at Alcatraz.

Al Capone

T that instant a reporter from the Chronicle came into the room and asked if Al Capone was out of the hospital yet. Warden Johnston laughed: “You sure make it easy for a fellow, don’t vou? Asking that when I've just been telling Mr. Pyle we won't talk about individuals.” And then he said: “You know very well he's been out for months.” Johnston stays on the island all the time, except that on Tuesday and -Friday afternoons he comes over to the city to transact business. He has a’ desk in the office of the Parole Board in the postoffice. There's one thing about the government's policy of secrecy that Johnston wishes didn’t exist. And that’s the general belief that things are so bad they're afraid to let the world know.

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” E haven't anything to conceal,” he says. “That isn’t the idea. I'd like to take you over right now and have you stay all night. We're not ashamed of anything. It's just that we don't want the inmates publicized.” He also believes that the public feels they're ‘much tougher on the inmates than they really are, and that the public thinks, “Fine, it's good enough for the so and sos.” He 1s grieved by such attitude. “We're strict, of course,” he says. “But we don't neglect the humanities. Our job is confinement.”

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEAN ROOSEVELT

i Eh Co - ETROIT, Mich., "Tuesday As I stepped’ off the train in Detroit at 7:50 this'morning Mrs. Stringer, under whose auspices I am speaking tonight, completely took my ‘breath away by telling me that 300 young people had come down to greet me and were waiting outside the station. The mere thought that that number of youngsters had bestirred themselves at such an early hour to have nothing more than.a and a good morning. from. me, was too appalling. {od a I discovered. that in actual fact there .were only about 30 Boy and Girl Scouts lined up to present * me with a beautiful bunch of flowers. I wish I had time to see all the interesting things “which people are so anxious to show me. There is at Albion, some hundred ‘odd miles from here, quite a " remarkable school for boys. It is not a reformatory but a school, and is run by a Mr. Starr who started it on his own initiative and has gradually interested other people in his work, - The boys may be difficult boys, but the training they receive has been successful so far, for many have become good citizens. After a very pleasant lunch with some friends, to which Mrs. Scheider and I were taken by my brother, I returned to the hotel to be whisked off by represent- ' atives of the Youth Administration. They are doing an exceptionally interesting guidance and placement * project in co-operation with the public schools and the United States Re-employment Service. In the United States Re-employment Service they are placing about 125 young people a week, many of “ whom have had no previous experience. In their office here they use abgut 75 young people who in this way receive training which makes them eligible for: tter jobs. ue 4 nice when our breakfast was brought in this morning to see a familiar and smiling face. It was the same waiter who had greeted me the day that my husband was here. In explanation of the length of time we had to wait for our order that night he had

said: “The President is in town and nothing can move

. as expeditiously as usual.” When I got out of Lhe car to enter the Hotel Statler this afternoon an elderly man grasped me warmly by

the hand and said: ! “God bless you, Mrs. Roosevelt. How is the

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 19%

“Tigre as Second-Class

MANCHOUKUO F IVE YEARS Mukden Teems With J. apanese Consolidating Nippon’ S FB oothold

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(Second of a Series) BY JACK FOSTER ]M UKDEN, Manchoukuo, Nov. 18. — How the good-time life ‘of this old

city has changed! For the

foreigner, 1 mean.

Six or seven years ago Mukden, in a lusty frontier way, was one of the lively spots in northern Asia. The old Chang and his young boy, Hsueh-liang, had plenty to spend. Business was thrive ing; money was coming in; for‘eigners were doing very nicely for themselves. But this buoyant spirit has gone. Activity by foreign outfits is sluggish; such houses as the National City Bank of New York and Standard Oil have locked their doors; the old Mukden Club," which must have been a whirligig, now has less than 50 members, and its card room looks like a monument to solitaire. Don't take this picture to mean that Mukden is on the down grade. ‘Far from it. Construction is booming and its neatly kept streets hum with motorcars. But this construction is being done entirely by Japanese, these cars are taking the qccupants to Japanese offices. The day of the “white man’s” position in Manchuria began to fade when five years ago last month a bomb exploded at a rail point near here, the Japanese army on its own initiative moved in to “protect Japanese interests,” and bespectatled Henry Pu-yi, late of Tientsin, ‘was brought to a hastily created dragon throne to be.the emperor of the Manchous,

- not to mention the Chinese.

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APAN expected much from Manchuria | five - years ago. She hoped’ that under .her guidanes it would become an increasingly great market for her goods. This has been realized to a good extent. As her imports from other countries have shaded off, Manchoukuo’s purchases from Japan have swelled until they reached 254 million yuan ($7,620,000) in the first half of this year. She hoped that it would become a wide source of raw materials. Thus far she has found coal in good quantities; possibilities of extracting oil at great expense from shale ‘and coal; iron, gold, and ore for lighter materials .in unknown and probably not extensive deposits. She. hoped - that it ‘would be-

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will—up to a point. by no means the final answer to her’ population problem. She hoped that it would blossom in the northern stretches as an agricultural country, and this, to some extent, it will: when that desolate - earth begins to feel the effects of ‘scientific farming and dogged perseverance. All of these hopes for Manchoukuo have been fulfilled, you see, in part—none of them completely: The expenses have been vast. The returns have far from balanced them.

But there is one expectation

that the Japanese much more definitely have realized. They have established on the Asiatic continent a strong, soldier-con-trolled, orderly state that will

act as a bulwark against Soviet -

Russia.

w ” ” VERYWHERE you see, evidences, of Manchoukuo strengthening itself. Railroads push outward, motor roads are

President Means to Reorganize Government, Sullivan Declares

BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON, Nov. 18—In the seething that goes on as the sitting of Congress comes near-

er, a certain amount of pattern is

beginning to emerge. In the pat-

“corps rides forth to the Fomotest

‘ mands that matter!

3G 1. Mongol woman.

2. Mongol festival celebrator in typical Oriental mask and garb.

3. A palace at Ksinking, Manchuria (Manchoukuo).

4. Trumpefers in a Mongol festival toot ‘big horns.

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corner to battle plague. And Japan’s position increasingly is being unified, even though the whole setup appears to he a bit eccentric. A .double set of ministers—Chinese and 'Japanese—with the Japanese doing all the important work! A double staff of officers | in the Manchoukuoan army with the Japanese giving the only comAn emperor and a general, with. the general on the throne. You'd think that after five years the Japanese might dispense with the comedy of manners and declare Manchuria to be a colony. But no! The official attitude— that Manchoukuo is free and independent, ruled by its own leaders with Japanese aid—is the same as it was at the coronation, - Perhaps this is the Eastern way. When you're in China or Japan A’ you'll notice there's usually an extra lad besides the taxi: driver, “What's he here for?” I asked a friend one day.

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coming to Washington with a business about concrete for roads; would find that some roads are administered by the Department of Agriculture, others by the War Department, others by the Interior Depart

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ply. “But he ne dbes adiything except open the door,” I added. DN evanelons, my friend 'ingisted, “he’s the assistant.” There's a parallel between taxis

and empires.

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T the time of Manchoukuo'screation the Japanese were deeply wounded becguse the world, led by the United "States, refused to tender r Iepgnition, This feeling, except as an old hurt, has disappeared. Mention of Secretary He 1. Stimson’s name draws - Indifference nowadays rather” than a grimace. : a matter of fact, every counthat has a consul here in ef‘fect recognizes the, state. When a question involving mutual. in““terests arises,” when ‘a national is in distress, the consul goes, of course, .to the local authorities.

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

Arsenal Technical High School is one of the largest high schools in the. country. It has an attendance of more than 6000. Indiatrapolis also

schools. . More. than 90 per cent of all local. eighth-grade

has five other public high |

When, for . example, Father Burns, a Maryknoll priest, was “captured by Manchurian bandits - last February, the American rep- . r'esentatives here appealed to the .local Japanese genarmerie for help, and they were cordially received. What else were they to do? A life ‘was (and still - is) © at stake. To deny that the Japanese were in control of the country would have been nonsense. The Japanese believe Germany will be the first great power to

: tender formal recognition.

® » ” ANCHOUKUO: is flat, - dry, ‘dull, ‘uneventful = country. The most interesting . city is, I - suppose, Mukden. ‘This is-the old capital of the Manchous, who. wandered down into Peiping and were swallowed up, and it: bears a number of reminders of them. But there is one place above all others that must be seen. This is

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the arsenal of the old war lord Chang Tso-lin, “the greatest arsenal in the world.” On the train

. I'd read -about it.. In a South .

“Manchuria Railway booklet I pursued the story of its passing. “It went dead,” said the booklet, “the instant it fell in Japanese hands. This fact has never been put ‘before the eyes: of the American and European public in letters an inch high. © It should ‘have been, if there ‘is such a ‘thing as fairness in these tangled days of high civilization.” . The only trouble with that paragraph is that it’s a bit optimistic. Old Chang’s arsenal, as I discovered when I tried to inspect it and ‘couldn’t, is running full blast. It’s making so many shells and. rifles that some military experts believe part of them are: actually ‘being exported to Japan... :

NEXT: Hsinking, the new. capi= tal of Mauchuokue.

Infections

~ Combated by New Chemical

BY SCIENCE SERVICE « (Copyright, 1036, by Science Service) ALTIMORE, *~ Nov. 18.— First American use of a new chemi-

| tried other related chemicals. Chemists will know them as para-amino-benzine-sulfonamide and certain of its chemical derivatives.

2-8 8 chemicals do not’ kill the

Indianapolis. o. Ind.

By ANTON SCHERRER

SPENT most of my time at last night's

I symphony concert watching the tympani, triangles, xylophone, tambourines, glock spiel, castanets and cymbals. Which is say that I concentrated on the percussionists,

most familiarly known around here as Hers mann Rinne, John H. Goll and Glenn Buchanan, As usual, nothing happened. I have been a consisten scriber to the symphony since its inception, hoping that, sooner or later, the percussionists would be given a chance to show me what they could ‘do, but somehow, they never get around to it. Somebody in ‘a burst of enthusiasm once ventured the observation that everything comes to him who waits, but he didn’t know anything about the plight of our percussionists. The percussionists, to be .sure, * are more sanguine of the future Mr. Scherrer than I am, for I have noticed that they bring their tools to every concert, blissfully hope ing that they may be allowed to strut their stuff, They lay out their tools and .occupy more stage-room

than any other three musicians, patiently waiting to

be called upon. For some reason, nobody ever thinks of calling on them. After: the concert, they pack up their tools and return home to practice for the next concert.

¢ and conscientious subs

Apparently, they are always in the pink of condia \

tion and in the best of training, but for what purpose Heaven only knows. In the meantime, the strings and brasses and wood pipes hog every fat part of the program and get away with it, too. : » ” »

It Isn’t Right

T isn’t right. What's more, it’s wrong, and it leads me: to inquire whether the plight of: our percuss

sionists can't be solved on moral grounds. Of course it can. The way to get the percussionists to go to work is to give them some work to do. The highs powered. people who think up the symphony prograhs probably never thought of that. Well, it’s the truth. The literature of music » chock-full of ways to get the percussionists back to work. Take Ravel's “Bolero,” for example. It's as good a start as any because from the beginning to the

end of its 339 measures there isn't a second that the :

snare-drummer hasn't something to do.’

I for one, am willing to endure the insistent, itis

credible repetition of the “Bolero’s” ryhthm (and its ostinato tonic chord, too) if it will put our snare drummers back to work. Indeed, I will do anything = if it’s for the good of our percussionists.

Must Start Something 4 R, if that is expecting too much, let's de up “Till

Eulenspiegel” and “Don Quixote.” One is worked with a rattle, as. I remember, and the other with-§ wind-machine. It isn’t much, but it's something anys

way. The point is that we've got to start cooing something. And then there are the last two bars of Debussey’s “L’Apresmidi d'un Faune.” They really should be struck with the cymbals buf anybody's lucky to hear them done on the Xylophone.

is depleted. There are hundreds of other examples, too, like the celesta in some of Tschaikowsky and the

in “Parsifal,” but I think I've said enough to show

the way. The fact of the matter is that there reussionists to

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them.

Hoosier Yestordays

NOVEMBER 18

IFTY-THREE years ago today, at noon, Indiana’ railroads, public officials and practically all busts ness adopted “standard time.” The old sun time was discarded Nov. 18, 1883, and it was a question of 16 minutes for Indianapolis. This was the difference between the local mean time and “standard,” or the time at the ninetieth meridian, which passes 15 miles east. of St. Louis.

By the sun, when it was high noon here the Courts “house clock and a thousand others pointed to 11:44 a. m. It was all very bewildering. Great confusion

reigned among the passengers at the Union “Depot,” and there was much comparison of chronometers and

checking of time-tables. Bets were waged whether

the next train would be fast or late and arguments became so involved that it was practically a matter of police versus slide-rules. The change generally was unpopular. In some pére sons’ minds it was easily settled. Current opinion said, “When it is noon in Indianapolis it is noon: If for covenience the railroads wish to say, arbitrarily, that for them it shall be one time from New York to Cins Cinna instead of half a dozen different times, very we the time of the people is reckoned from sun to sun.” And again: “It is noon here several minutes before it is noon in St. Louis, and before it is noon in San Francisco. But there is no logic or obligation that shall make the people of Ine dianapolis say it is 11:45 o'clock just because the rails roads wish it.” Others, while not altogether took a more philosophical attitude. was that “it was an innovation of the ‘railroads also a revolution in its way, but we will all come to Because 3% is a good, thing» —y > M.

That's how far the percussionists have sunk. - Even their rolling stock =

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coccus infections, ranging. from septic sore throats to scarlet fever, erysipelas and puerperal fever, was. reported at the meeting of the Southgn Medical Association: here yesteray. Successful results of the treatment in 17 out of 19 patients and sonvincing Jgboratary Ss | son, Dr. Long pointed out, the futile. : Perrin H. 1 Long an Ee A. Bliss chemical treatment can not be exAs Mr. Roosevelt. approaches the pected ‘to succeed in patients very task, the same old kind of opposition | School. near death fromthe infection. The \ chemicals must have at least 36 hours to work in, and the patient must have enough fight left in his body to destroy the germs after| the chemicals have: (damaged: them and checked their growth. Theoretically the chemical treat‘ment should work In: any. disease

President?” It's a friendly world, isn't it? (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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HE melodrama of the old West comes alive again in the saga of Sam Bass, gambler, highwayman and train robber de luxe, who rode into Texas from Indiana in the seventies. The West was wide open; Sam was “rarin’ to go"—and he didn't lack company. “The exploits of jthis “Téxas Robin Hood,” who r robbery with a flourish of gun shots, has been told by Wayne Gard in SAM BASS (Houghton; $2.50). ‘Sam clinched his reputation by taking $60,000 in gold in a daring holdup of a Union Pacific express train. From that time until he was betrayed to Texas Rangers wb Jim Murphy, dubbed a “six-gun Judas”

dangerous streptococcus germs. But they check the growth of the germs and damage them 5 that they. become ready prey ‘to ‘the dis-ease-fighting ‘white blood cells’ of the patient’s body. For this rea-

tern’ one detail stands out conspicuously. President Rooseveli intends to bring about reorganization of the government departments and functions, with a view to consolidations, efficiency and economy. Persons who have talked with him say he understands the need perfectly and has complete and detailed knowledge of what should pe done. It is a highly important project. ‘Mr. Roosevelt can do it. No other President has ever been able to do it. And if Mr. Roosevelt does not do it, it may never be dcne.. When “became President he stated publicly, and confided to many privately, that his principal ambition, the thing he hoped would give him distinction in history, was ‘to bring order into the sprawling mass of government functions and

ment, and yet others by some four {| Sraduates enter high school

other government agencies. Harding perfected his plan, solicited public support for it, sent it to Congress and put his mild kind of pressure behind “it. It got nowhere; congressmen’ just smiled. As I remember, the plan never got out of the committee on to the floor of Congress.

regard to party affiliation; or they have a political support important to congressmen. The aggregate of this pressure upon congressmen has always made ‘hope of reorganization

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

OST dangerous of all eye infections are which cause ulcers on the eyeball. The : forms are those due to the germ which causes pneuts monia, the pneumococcus, and that which causes gonorrhea, the gonococcus. There is also, of course, the danger that results from infection by the organism that causes When the ulcer begins, it is a small spot on surface of the eye which tends to heal as does other limited type of infection. Severe infections, ever, do not heal spontaneously and must have ade«

8 8 = HE reason for this and every other failure is ‘readily -identified. In every department, bureau and division of the government, are ‘ernment officials and employes, elevated and minor, who apprehend that reorganization might cost: them - their jobs, or reduce their elevation, or at the least change the familiar offices | de to which they cling like limpets. | These officials and employes have | 5s ‘of GS ito: et :

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