Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1936 — Page 14

FROM. INDIANA ! By ERNIEPYLE (CARMEL, Cal, Nov. 20.—Carmel, you

know, is the famous West Coast art | colony. The “Greenwich Village of the Pa- ]

cific,” or something like that. br It is a town of 8000, some 125 miles

south of San Franeisco. It is right on the

ocean, and it is a charming place, Great writers and artists have lived here. And still do. Carmel is, at least in dreams, the town of the intellectual thought and’ the creative instinct and the informality of genius. But—if you were a Carmel storekeeper with inclinations for Roosevelt, you kept your mouth shut this fall. And even worse, liberal thinkers here were amazed when I said there was probably no other town in America where that was true. Carmel in most ways is delightful. It is slow and quiet and

Mr. Pyle

= The beach is white and smooth, the town | rolls up from it; ev 1g is under pine trees and

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behind thick manzanita bushes. You never see a whole house.: Just angles and slices—appealingly through pretty gardens. The architecture is a. pleasant hodge-podge. Private homes are New England farm houses, and low English cottages, and beachy places, and jutting Pueblo Indian, and there’s the. Mexican theme, and even straight Hollywood Spanish, : Carmel was started in 1903 by a San Francisco

lawyer—one of those poets at heats who was frus--

‘trated by Peing a fine business m Fred Bechdolt was one of he. ly gang. He has lived in Carmel for 30 years, and he isn’t old yet. He writes for magazines, and calls himself a hack. He sat all afternoon and talked about: the early days. 8 ” ®

Carmel’s Great Years

"™ARMEL'S great years, he says, were ‘07, '08 and 00. “You had to come from Monterey and buggy, the road was so terrible. The only nongeniuses in town were the storekeepers. Such genuine people of letters as Mary Austin and George Sterling. Mary Austin wrote in a crazy platform built high up in a tree. George Sterling’s fireplace was the mecca of all the spirits of Carmel, and the fountain of Sterling’s own despair. People thought what they thought; and nobody cared. ‘The artists and writers worked three hours a day, and just lived the rest of the time. : Jack London came and weént, and Upton Sinclair. Harry Leon Wilson came, and is still here. Carmel has been host to great people. Robinson Jeffers, the poet, is its present celebrity.

. » a's Artistic Rich Came : RA

HEN, just before the war, a different class 'started coming in from San Francisco. The artistic rich —the men with dough who had always wanted to paint, you know. ~~ The war was the end.of old Carmel. :After the war, the people who. retire on permanent incomes got next to Carmel. Living was cheap here, the spot almost idyllically beautiful, the climate nice. . Today ‘they have about taken Carmel. ‘It's a shame. And the silly part of itis, they're nice people. I met some of them, and they're grand people, except—they think the way people think, who have Just .enough steady income to. insure them nothing to do from now until death. (P. S/~Carmel da go Demograti€ this year, by ; the skin of its tee but: only & few will admit their yo! es.)

“Mrs. Roosevelf. s Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Fu, Mich., Thursday. —Befére we had finished our coffee this morning, two long-suffering ladies from Flint telephoned up that they were downstairs waiting for me, They said they would be glad to have a cup of coffee if I was not ready. As my own was still untouched, I was delighted to have a few minutes of grace. We drove from Saginaw over a very good, wide concrete road, and in’ less than an hour we were in Flint. There was time to unpack and tidy up before the members of the press came for their interview. After this I started out to see some of the work done by the Youth Administration. They have done a remarkable job of co-ordinating in Flint. Their community plan co-ordinates all the various community fofces—industrial, social, philanthropic, recreational and educational. So it seems natural that the Youth Administration, the WPA, and ‘all other government agengies have done a .Co-opera-tive job here with the city. The outstanding’ factor in'their program is the use of schools. Instead of closing them ‘at 4 o'clock, they remain open and become community centers. Classes of every description go on ‘just as they do all day and recreational programs are carried out. They are trying out-of-door recreation for every child in the city. They showed me a park that had been made from a dump. A public-spirited citizen has contributed some very good tennis courts which are going to be sprayed and used as a skating rink this winter. Some one else has donated the money up a building where they will have showers, ts, a game room and a stage where they can rehearse their plays. There is to be an outdoor theater in the park next. summer and some stone: fireplaces are to be built for picnics. ~Another public-spirifed citizen has paid the teachers who stay overtime to teach in the schools. Last summer every one who had a backyard, vacant lot: or field which+could be used as a playground, was asked to fix it up and open it for.the neighborhood children. The result is that the Boy Scouts ‘and Girl Scouts are putting a. course of training as leaders in these playgrounds into their program this year.

~ Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— RECENT addition t the rowiz sumer of plays: iis

by Horse

HOW SOCIAL SECURF

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26, 000, 000 A: re A fected

hia aitiele on. Tn. wiekie-of is Beli Becky Taw 1s, intadugiony to. soviet of 18 Sie heist avtieles WAiek WHI SSSWSE GuSatiuE sone most frequently asked.

hy those coming unde the aet’s Brovisions.,

i BY RODNEY DUTCHER * (NEA Service Writer)

VA ASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—You might, but shouldn't, be pardoned for supposing that Congress had met secretly in the woods at night to pass the Social Security

Act and that the President upon tucking the law into a

furtively signed it, thereK drawer, where; it Te

mained until it was dragged. out. as a red-hot? "campaign |

issue.

Requests for information seep pouring into. newspaper

offices and the headquarters of ‘the Social: Security Board

(SSB) in Washington.

Immediate interest is especially aroused by: he contributory old-age benefits system, which goes. into effect Jan. 1 for an estimated 26,000,000 people and is designed

to give them something to

live on after they are 65

‘years old, Getting the news around to that 26,000,000 and mak-

ing them understand what the plan is all about is one of the great information-spreading tasks of history. Cataloging those men and womien, seeing that they and their employers all pay the sums required to finance the scheme, and then seeing that each beneficiary gets what’s coming to him is a job the magnitude of which exceeds anything of the kind ever under-

- taken.

It’s a job, incidentally, where the biggest and hardest part will have to be done before the United States Supreme Court decides whether it’s all constitutional.

8 # # . AIN features of the Social |

Security ‘Act are the follow-

ing: : Divide the program into its three main phases and you’ll find it easier to comprehend. 1. Old-age benefits through an employer - employe contributory system. 2. A Federal-state employment

-compensation - system.

3. Public assistance through grants to states for aid to persons over 65, the needy blind, and” dependent children: - ‘The end of this month will find

‘those 26,000,000 workers in: fac-

tories; mines, stores, offices and - other business and industrial S,

must, be filled out and given to

Each blank is an application

for assighment of a number to the individual's “social seccurity account,” which is kept: by the Social Security Board.

Beginning Jan, 1 the .govern-

receiving from their em--ployers application blanks which |'3

“plank from

ment will collect a tax from bots employers and ‘employes on the . workers’ wages 2! io: S00. a year.

The I Who the money involved in the. contributes a sum equal to all the taxes his employes pay. What the worker: Analy re-

ceives- in - monthly benefit -pay~ {--

ments as a result of these contributions after he is 65 depends

monthly payment is $10 and max--imum $85, since, for purposes of the act, earnings $3000 a’ year aren't counted "as “wages.” 2 il owt

XAMPLES: Worker who earns an average of $30 a week, or $1560 a year, for 30 years after 1936 before he becomes 65 will receive government checks of $50.75 a month for the rest of his life after he is-65. If he ‘dies before receiving any monthly payments his family will ‘receive 3% per cent of these wages; Or:$1638. ‘If -he works but 10: years: at an average of $30 weekly before reaching 65, his monthly check will be $25.50 and the death payment would be $546. Ten: years’ work at $15 a week would njean $19 a month.after 65. benefits will come out -of the 4 Treasury's “Old Age Reserve. Aggaunt.” ” Lamp sums Siivalent to

your : employe around for orie at the 3 ostoffice

bla tts Proved to Be Twice

as Efficient as ‘Gas Engines

BY SCIENCE SERVICE HICAGO, Nov. 20.—Hearts are efficient machines. In fuel economy they are twice as efficient as modern steam ‘or gasoline én-

gines. A healthy mammalian heart

can convert 20° per ‘cent of the

energy latent in its supply of food |:

fuel into useful work. The best fuel efficiency ‘of a steam engine ‘is! 10 or 11 per cent; under ordinary king

jury was located ad the rear of the h hypothalamus, the

animals could not compensate for cold, and data: thus far accumulated seem to

indicate that they are also unable to protect themselves against heat- | iS They have become in effect, Sola-hiconed animals, like reptiles

® ” 8 HILE biologists were. thus discussing the mechanisms - of life, an almost-living electrical mechanism was being described by

"Oithe . ‘two. astronomers who are its

creators, Drs. A. E. Whitford and

1G. E.'Eron of the Washburn Ob-

on | servatory, University of Wisconsin,

Their device is designed to per- |; form. one of the most precise; exacting and wearisome - tasks that ‘at present burdens some. of: the most skilled eyes, nerves and - Angers in : great:

-{ the world—k

VAGES yo 11 million Dene |

*May be eligible for

: 1. ‘*Federal Old-Age :

Bs: Unemploy me it 2. - ‘Compensation. . | : ‘Maternal and | 3. Child Health «Services. vars q; 'Publi¢ Health ; “Services. : . Vocational Reha- : bilitation

Blind.

to Needy |.

ADULTS NOT WAGE-EARNERS

‘8 ‘million meh 31 million women

*May-be eligible for

1. Aid to the Needy 1. Aged. Aid to the Needy

Maternal and Child - Health Services. . ‘ “Public H' ealt h : 3 : Services. : -- Vocational Reha- a ay bilitation. ; ge

! GmLogEN ot Under 16 years).

"19 million boys. 19 mi.lion girls |

May be eligible fog

Aid to Dependent: ; ~Childrén. 2. Maternal and’ Child Health Services. | Fat 3. Services to Crippled Children. '4.:Child Welfare | Services. 3 blic He a ith’ TVvices.

4 S ‘8. Aid to Aged, - 7. Aid to. Needy "Blind ~

Source: 1930 (Consus?

With ‘some exceptions. Only enefit. federally ‘administered. = #*Includes nermally employed, now jobless.

16 you want to figure out what

your monthly benefit. will be after 85, estimate your total wages. (not above ‘$3000 annually) between now and your sixty-fifth birthday.

The percentage

of benefit will be one-half of 1 per cent on the first $3000, plus one-

he ext

of those ' total wages payable as the monthly rate |

KNOW oR i INDIANAPOLIS

Meat packing and: slaughtering firms: here turn out. products valued at more than $100,-

and F. Hilgemeler & Brothers.

000,000 annually. They include || Kingan & Co., Armour:& Co. ;

ter the: Star. on. the knife reduce the flickersio zero.

Generator for Treating: Cancer. Announced

LEVELAND; Nov. 20—An elec-| Itis® trostatic generator capable of | 0"

producing ultra-powerful X-rays

a potential of one million volts, ex-{pleased them. “Prec pected to be the most powerful tool | tion, their hope science has for cancer treatment, | was announced before the American |

and

{ers of the Dem “| miore cheerful and confident, a : hive, more gases of mind than at." yy

tic service, casual labor, public employes, and non-profit organizations. So much for the old-age pension

” ® ® HE ‘unemployed insurance pro. ~ visions are something else

= states and th District : 2h e

cial: provisions for another 10 weeks. Employers “contribute from 0.9 ‘per cent of pay rolls on a tising scale to 2.7 until 1941, where= after credits are allowed to employes who’ have had ile or no unemployment.

» # he nce ‘provisions, fore - ‘than: 1 000.000 poor and aged. persons are now receiving cash allow‘ances. About $80,000,000 has been ‘paid out in Federal funds since February, to be matched at least ‘equally by state funds for old age assistance, plus more than $3,000,000 for the needy blind and $8,000,000 for ‘dependent ‘children. Forty-two states have approved plans for helping the aged poor -and 27 for the blind ‘and the dependent children. Only about 180,000 persons were receiving state old-age pensions in 1934 and total , payments to the needy aged are eight times as much today as was available from state and local sources two years ago. For old-age doles, the Federal government contributes half the payment up to a Feteral-state - total of $30 a’ month. The highest average old-age payment is $32.50 in California and the lowest is $350 in Mississippi. Other phases of the Social Security Act cover grants to states for helping meet costs of materi health, child welfare, rippled children services,’ Xe — extension of public health Jueational repabifition

= age benefits for ' retirement an--nuities differ from aid to those

JSewsaged and, needy. LE

S| President’ 5 Attitude Pleases

+ Party Leaders, Sullivan Says

BY MARK SULLIVAN. - af the :

"ASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The atmosphere that = has developed in Washington between the election and - Mr. ' Roosevelt's parture for South America,’ Sumumied up by Saying-that the lead-

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at the White House today than at

any time since Mr. Roosevelt took |.

office. They anticipate Wak My. Mr.

de-| 1 can be ot

the. sense of Jacksonian Democratic, and this is completely Satisfactory |

ok , Ser

the act's: public assist

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; By ANTON SCHERRER ANYWHERE } between four and six o’ in the evening wag a mighty good Hm ’ to drop into Bryce's Bakery at 14 E. Sout! st. ‘1 say “drop in” advisedly, because he exactly what you did 50 years ago. Mr. Bryce, for some reason had his s room five feet below the street level, Nobody)

why, but to us kids it appeared a very sensible Spesred 3 fomanic tine

moment the door was closed, the

. way other bells did. It made you

feel sort of welcome after you got : into the place. But even better than the bell the heavenly smell that met the nose when Sie’ do was opened. Of course, the other bakerigs ¢ ‘ town had the good smell, toa, but Mr. Bryce's sm was better because he knew enough to confine. baking to bread and butter crackers. Mr. Bryo smell wasn’t contaminated with the sweet smells cakes and ginger bread. : Mr. Bryce didn’t stop with satisfying the nose because besides the smell, there was always & | to see. The counters were piled high with loas of bread, all with the same consistency of c They were ail cut to one pattern, too. Thdeed. Bryce'’s products were so uniform that you could ha

N picked your purchase blindfolded and beefi none ft

worse for the experience. : "n » Kept in Open Barrels. HE butter crackers “were kept in open ‘grouped. picturesquély around a base-burner. a know the barrels were open because I often helped myself to a cracker. Nothing was ever. said about ELS and I rather suspect that Mr. Bryce not only expects us boys to help ourselves, but would have offended if we hadn't done so. Mr. Bryce was that way. He was a Scotsman v the most magnificent white beard I ever say. Anye way, his beard was. distinguished enough to get him elected to the City Council. Mr. Bryce was the couns cilman of our ward and was so busy with this city jo! that you never would have guessed that he also ran steam bakery with 25 employes and seven Wwagor Mr. Bryce had over 300 customers daily and there a rumor in our neighborhood that he used 200 ba. of flour a week, Mr. Bryce also owned the prettiest team of ho in town for his private use. Sometimes, if you lucky, you could see the horses hitched to a s outside the bakery, It was a pretty good sign Mr. Bryce was inside the bakery. - I remember such an occasion. I had gone into bakery and helped myself to a cracker tory making my purchase when I saw two little kids in .the place crying gs if their hearts would break. V had happened was that they had Jost the money which to buy bread. 8 8 » {40

‘Children Tell Story rapes. hi was at this point that Mr. Bryce entered the and before I knew what was going on, he had 4 children tellihg him the whole story. It was a sord story, as I remember, of a father out of work and mother taking in washing and of a brood of chil

1 at home with hardly enough to eat.

Well, the next thing I knew, Mr. Bryce loaded rear seat of his surrey with bread, after which he two: of his men to roll out a barrel of crackers. two men, I recall, had a hard t ime getting the kb into the surrey. Then with fhe kids beside on the front seat and the rear seat loaded down good things to eat, Mr. Bryce drove off triump behind his wonderful team of horses. : I went home that evening Wondering: why children have all the ‘luck.

Hoosier Yesterday:

: NOVEMBER 20 IXED to the bullding on the northeast corner Meridian and Maryland-sts, $3. Indianapolis, "bronze plaque’ bearing ‘these words: “The Army of the Bi. Tat ta Derek April 6, 1866, held its first National Encampment ii “the Morrison Opera House on this spot Nov. 20, 186

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