Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1937 — Page 13
agabond FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
ANTA FE, N. M,, Jan. 27.—One of the things I like about being stupid is that there’s so much to learn. For example, it was interesting to find out how a sculptor goes about his business. ; Allan Clark was my teacher. Unlike many artists, he has a facility for granting your
ignorance of his world without looking down on
you for it. Allan Clark worked for 10 years before his first New York exhibition. That was in 1927. He had another in 1930. He has had none since. But he is now starting to prepare his third. And think of this: It won't come off for two years. In March he and Mrs. Clark leave for the Orient. They will do China, Indo-China, Java and the Straits Settlements. Clark will go into the markets, attend native festivals, trek back into the jungle, studying faces and postures and : costumes, looking for strong types. As he goes he will make many notes, and take many pictures, and sometimes do a little clay modeling .on the spot. At the end of eight months he will come back to his ranch, and then spend nearly a year and a half working up the material he has gathered. The whole product of this two years’ intense effort may not he more than a dozen pieces. He will show them in New Yerk to the tune of much acclaim and favorable criticism (he hopes) and then wait for the sales to roll in. Clark sculptures in three mediums—stone, wood and bronze. No matter which medium he is working in, he first models his figure in clay, clear down to ~ the smallest detail.
How He Works : ET'S suppose he is making an Indian head. He'll have an Indian pose for him, two and three hours at a time It may take half a dozen sittings before he is satisfied with his clay model. Then he starts. transferring it from clay into stone. He has a large block of red sandstone, imported from Scotland. He starts chiseling away. But he doesn’t chisel the face in stone just by looking at ‘the model. He transfers it by precision instrument. A quarter-inch crease around the mouth on the model becomes a -quarter-inch crease on the stone—all measured minutely by instrument. Clark says the original model can be transferred to stone within, I believe, a hundredth of an inch. But the sculptor’s work isn’t finished when the instrument work is done. It is the meticulous pointing up, the slight shading, the paper-thickness off here, the flick of the chisel in a stone eyeball, the subtle marshaling of character and personality and power into a face, all done free-hand from the sculptor's eye and heart—that’s where a man is a sculptor. Clark has an Indian head in his studio that he has just finished. It is in this red Scotland sandstone. It took him six months. He asks $5000 for it. It is the most grim and powerfully stoic face I have ever seen in flesh or stone.
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Gets $5000 a Piece DON'T know how much Allan Clark has made from 20 years of sculpturing. I do know he gets as much as $5000 a piece. He has a ranch house that cost thousands and thousands of dollars, even though he did much of the work himself-— And he has ser=vants, and doesn’t have to think about his pennies. _ He thinks it's all bunk that there can be no great art unless it's inspired by some social “cause.” He says it's what's inside you that counts, and that thing can be the feeling for a cause, or the feeling for character in a face, or the feeling for grace in a body, or any one of many things. He doesn’t have definite working hours. Some days he works, some days he doesn't. But when he starts in the morning he works all day. He says he is a methodical rather than an inspirational worker. In other words, he has a profession and he works at it just as a carpenter works at his profession. Ha doesn’t have to wait for genius to pop in the door. It all sounds so easy I have a notion to take up sculpturing myself—only I'll charge $10,000 a piece. .
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Two teas yesterday afternoon, and then I ran over to a small tea which our old friend, Bishop Atwood, was giving ior “his daughter, Mrs. Stephen Ives, who lives in Atlanta, 'Ga., but who occasionally comes up to visit her father. This was a congenial gathering but I could only stay for a short time as the usual amount of mail was on my desk waiting to be read and marked. Having no guests for dinner last night Mrs. Scheider and I worked all evening. The Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman and Mrs. Runciman returned to the British Embassy yesterday, but Mrs. Runciman attended my press conference this morning at which Miss Jane Hoey of the Social Security Board explained the care of the needy aged, the blind and the dependent children. Dr. Homer Rainey and Miss Gertrude Knott came in to see me to talk over this year’s National Folk Festival. The States now are developing these festivals and many are being held every year. Once a year a national festival is held. Last year it was held in Dallas at the Centennial. I think it of very great importance and interest, not only from the educational point ef view, but from an econpmic standpoint,
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THEY DIE BY THE THOUSANDS Philadelphia Tightens All Means of Defense Against Accidents
(Third of a Series)
HILADELPHIA is another city which awakened in 1936 to the nerveshattering realization that
very substantial numbers
of its citizenry were being ruthlessly slaughtered each year by automobiles. Within the last twelvemonth, it has made progress toward bettering its record, but it still has a long way to go. Automobiles killed 274 persons in the Quaker City in 1936, still a staggering toll despite the fact that it represents a reduction of 58 from the 1935 figure, which was 332. But more persons were injured last year—14,202 against 13,870 the year before—and the 1936 total of all accidents will exceed 16,000, more than half as many as occurred in New York.
Broken down by the Accident Prevention Bureau of the Department of Public Safety, the Philadelphia statistics show some interesting facts:
1. Seventy-three per cent of all fatal accidents involved automobile vs. pedestrian, not automobile vs. automobile.
2. Fifty per cent of the dead were 50 vears of age—or older. 3. Fifteen per cent of drivers caused 85 per cent of all accidents.
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HILADELPHIA found—as have other cities—that in congested areas where police control is concentrated numbers of fatal and near-fatal accidents followed a definitely declining curve. Philadelphians, in other words, were safer in streets packed with downtown traffic than in their own neighborhoods. Intersections — especially those downtown—were shown to be comparatitely safe, only one-fourth as many accidents occurring at cross streets as in midblock. The reason—opersistent “jay-walking,” and. in quieter residential districts, children and adults suddenly walking out from behind parked cars. The 21 per cent reduction in auto fatalities in 1936 was recorded in the face of ~ 14 ~~r cent increase in the number of motor vehicles registered. It was accomplished by a drastic tightening of all means of defense against accidents —stricter enforcement, heavier penalties and intensive, city-wide campaigns of education, in which the American Automobile Association, the Keystone Automobile Club, the Philadelphia Safety Council, the State Highway Department, other interested agencies and all the newspapers co-operated. Mayor Wilson led a year-long campaign. April 15-May 15 was “Safety Month,” marked by traffic demonstrations and lectures. November was “Safety for Pedestrians Month,” with further emphasis on educational phases of the problem, and about this time the State Liquor Control Board made an important contribution with a widespread poster campaign against drunken driving.
Result of a moment’s carelessness.
Police used psychology in dealing with the jaywalker downtown. At the height of the safety drive, amplifiers were installed at certain intersections. Booming police voices addressed the crowds: “Will the lady in the green hat please step back to the curb?” That worked, too!
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HE courts stepped boldly into the picture, and it was announced in October that one motorist out of every eight in the city had received a traffic summons during the year. The drive netted $160,000 in fines, incalculable educational advantages. Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt was one of the first to impose a stern object lesson upon careless motorists involved in minor accidents—he sent them to. the city morgue to view the broken bodies of traffic victims. Philadelphia’s traffic problem is complicated greatly because many city streets are narrow; traffic signs are to some. extent antiquated and lack co-ordination. Various changes looking toward a unified system of signal lights have been effected, and near the end of 1936 Federal funds were obtained to make possible such a unified system on most main arteries—estimated cost, $287,000.
: 2 2 nn N 1934 Pittsburgh had 107 traffic
deaths and was the “second safest city” in the nation, population
considered. Today Pittsburgh has .
lost that distinction. For two years
.holes. there has been intensive emphasis
it has watched with mingled consternation and alarm the slowly mounting curve of a bloody toll of motor deaths. Here is the Pittsburgh trail of death since 1930, when traffic fatalities reached an “all time high” of 198: 1931, 172; 1932, 131; 1933, 121; 1934, 107; 1935, 133, and— 1936, 145, or 2.16 in every 10,000 population (1930 census). The Pittsburgh Better Traffic Committee ascribes the rise during the last two years in the city's record of death and mutilation to three fundamental causes: Swifter motor cars, more automobiles and and increased public tendency toward careless operation. Pittsburgh experts think the sion driver” was more more thoughtful, saner. But—all these factors apply i other cities. Why is the death curve mounting in Pittsburgh while it is declining elsewhere— New York, Philadelphia, Wash=ington, San Francisco, Boston? Pittsburgh does not know the answer, ” ” ” OR one thing, Pittsburgh has had no major change in its traffic code since 1932. Some other cities have been modernizing, expanding, plugging loopIn Pittsburgh recently
on education and publicity. But even this program has been largely stymied by meager depression funds, which have not been increased (so far as appropriations
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are concerned) since recovery began. Pittsburgh in 1937 will bear down even harder on the educational campaigns pegun last year. These campaigns centered in schools, and were bolstered by radio, newspaper and billboard advertisements. The latter were aimed at older, more mature drivers. : Late in 1936, Pittsburgh followed Chicago’s example and incorporated driving courses in the curricula of several high schools. Every public school student kept a traffic scrapbook. In summer, safety instruction was given at playgrounds. On the publicity side, every accident story through the year in one newspaper (the Pittsburgh Press) was accompanied by a death's head sketch showing the city and county death tolls to the date of publication. In the schools, traffic authorities organized 125 patrols, made up of students who studied traffic safeguards to instruct other students. One Pittsburgh traffic officer devoted his entire time to addressing safety meetings.
”n ” 2 ITTSBURGH, like every other major city, has a critical traffic control problem, involving parking and other forms of congestion, - especially in downtown areas. Observers admit freely that the 1936 death record may be partially ascribed to the fact that police and other enforcement
agencies paid more attention to ~
traffic jams than to human safety. But toward the end of 1936—so appalling was the mounting toll— this leniency was somewhat reversed; police began to concentrate on one especial phase— drunken driving. The campaign against drunken drivers achieved wide publicity, for it had as its focal point a forceful, colorful and vivid official — Common Pleas Judge Michael A. Musmanno. Judge
Musmanno put on virtually a one-
man show,
Between Sept. 1, 1936, and Jan. 1, 1937, Judge Musmanno sentenced 308 persons to jail for drunken driving. It is a matter of record that not one guilty driver, regardless of position, escaped a jail term. Judge Musmanno pursued ho hit-or-miss method. If a defendant admitted he was drunk he got 30 days provided there had been no accident. If he (or she) denied the charge—and subsequently was proved guilty—Judge Musmanno said six months. Judge Musmanno would hold court at roadside accident sites, would order cars in which persons had been killed exhibited publicly, acted even as his own examining physician to pronounce drivers drunk. On New Year's Eve the name of Judge Musmanno was a bogey at more than one celebration, but, afterwards, police announced there had been fewer holiday accidents than ever before.
NEXT—Boston.
LOCAL PERSONALITY
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G. M. Sit-Down Strikers Are
Trespassers,
Sullivan Says
By MARK SULLIVAN
ur Town
ESTERDAY’S cavalier treatment of Jeremiah Johnson didn’t permit me to tell you that, besides being our first humore ist, Jerry was also our first jailer. Jerry had been in town just about six months when he observed that Indianapolis needed a jail more than anything else. He had his way, too, because in 1822, Noah Leaverton, our leade ing contractor, got around to it. It set us back $313,
but nobody kicked. To be sure, a couple of highbrows thought the new jail looked more like a respectable residence than anything else, but nobody paid any attention to them. Even as far back as 1822, it was generally known
‘that a highbrow is a person who
doesn’t know what he likes, but knows an awful lot about art. The place picked for the jail was the northwest corner of the Courthouse Square which was better than the present location, because it had the merit of making it more convenient for everybody concerned. Be that as it may, our first jail was a cabin 14 feet square on the inside, two stories high with ceiling heights of six and one-half feet between floors. The hewed logs were 12 inches thick and 14 inches wide with two rounds of logs under ground. : A ladder on the outside led to a door in the second story and the only way to get to the first floor was by means of a trap door in the floor of the second story. I hope to goodness that's clear, because the denouement of today’s piece depends on your getting
it straight. Anywa , the lower floor “dungeon.” y was called the
Mr. Scherrer
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Wel as I said at the start, Jerry was our first jailer and he held the Job long enough to learn that he who laughs last, laughs best. Anye way, in the summer of 1833, a Negro came to town,
riding a mean-looking buffalo. You heard me. Nobody could mistake the rider—even if the buffalo wasn't around—for he wore a black cap with a red leather band, and in this band were stuck two turkey feathers which had a funny way of nodding to one another every time the Negro talked. Everybody called him “Buffalo Bill.” That's why everybody was suspicious when an imposter bearing the same title turned up here 50 years later. Well, Buffalo Bill hadn't been in town a week when he was arfested—larceny, I guess—and put in Jerry’s jail. In the dungeon, as a matter of fact. ” o t 4
Buffalo Bill Escapes
bi is knows how he managed it, but that night Buffalo Bill set fire to Jderry’s jail and escaped. The hole in the ground where the two lower courses of logs had lain was visible for 20 years. And what's more, Bill took the buffalo with him, although the buffalo was locked up tight in Jerry’s stable. Jerry stuck pretty close to home after this happened and couldnt be seen or talked to when the reporters came around. He emerged finally to announce that Mr. Leaverton’s jail wasn't what it was cracked up to be. =
I ype A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
T= quest for contentment goes on forever. Today it is our Holy Grail. How badly we want secur= ity, happiness and peace is best proved by the vast numbers of books which try to teach us how we may find them. : Among the best of the new ones on this subject is Marjorie Barstow Greenbie’s “In Quest of Content ment” (Whittlesley House). . I liked especially what she says about love. For example: “Only three things a man may love safely and with his whole heart—his human mate, his work, and that ultimate ideal which may ‘be called God. Only thres groups of people may a man love happily—his parents, his children and his friends. And there are three subJects which a man loves always at his peril—himself, his past, and his dreams.” The last fault, I regret to say, is more inherent in modern woman than in man, Partly because of the pressure of hastening events, partly because there is so little physical work for many to do, hordes of wom--en exist only in their dreams. They think of themselves as the central figures in some huge moving-pic-ture drama. Reading avidly the story of a Mrs. Wallis Simpson, they invent similar Cinderella tales, putting themselves in the heroine’s place. Moving continually in a half-world created by their imagination, actuated by childish whims and impossible desires, they end up* by being no good to any one and least of all themselves. For this practice, if carried on long enough, always has the same end. The dreamer forever imagines herself to be the recipient of some enormous good fore tune and is embittered when it does not materialize,
And to her, romance does not mean loving but only being loved. : I dare say the greater part of modern unhappiness can be traced directly to this bad mental habit. For the person who is concerned only with getting love and never with giving it is well on the way to madness. Why is true mother-love so beautiful and so utterly satisfying? Because it is the outpouring of a heart's devotion and has in it no trace of selfishness.
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn, Journal
NE of the purposes of the blood is to circulate through the body as a whole various chemical substances, glandular materials, and fluids carried by the body. The blood constitutes about one-eleventh of the whole body weight, and a normal human adult has a little more than six quarts of blood in his body: The volume of the blood is important, because any lessening in its quantity will at once lower the pres= sure and interfere with the supply of blood received by the organs. Any sudden loss of a large amount of blood may be fatal, whereas a gradual loss is not, because the body can compensate gradually for its #ick of oxygen and fall of blood pressure. In certain diseases the volume of blood is lessened and in others increased. In certain forms of kidney disease, for instance, the total volume of blood is reduced because of the decreased number of red cells, In uremia, it varies rapidly because fluid is lost by vomiting and bleeding. Frequently it is necessary to restore the volume of the blood to overcome shock. This is done by free drinking of water, by injection of saline -solutions directly into the blood or under the skin, and by means of blood transfusions. Certain conditions are associated with convulsions, headaches, and mental symptoms in which there is pressure, due to an overaccumulation of fluid in the brain. In such cases, it is customary to decrease the volume of the blood by giving large doses of salts or hy introducing large amounts of salt solutions into the bowel. 7 Whether the blood is acid or alkaline, or tends toward acidity or alkalinity, also is important. In certain diseases, reaction of the blood may vary . considerably. Acids are constantly being formed in the body as a result of digestion. During activity, lactic acid is formed in the muscles. Alkaline sub= stances are taken.in large amounts in the diet, and the body disposes: of the excess amounts to keep
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as there are many people who may supplement their income through folk arts. Miss Emily Bates, who went abroad on the President’s co-operative committee to study co-operatives in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, came in and gave me some of her impressions. The trip has been of great value to her and can be helpful to our co-oper-atives throughout this country. Her interest is largely in what the co-operative can do for women. While she realizes there must be emphasis: placed on the economic and business phases of co-operatives, she agrees with me that ~much can be done through co-operatives on educational and recreational undertakings which will make a great difference in the lives of the people concerned.
ASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — If Secretary of Labor, Perkins brings the strike leaders and the General Motors officials together, it will be interesting to observe what happens about one point, The beginning of everything is the stipulation of General Motors that there must be evacuation of the “sitdown” strikers from the plants as a condition precedent to any negotiations. Whatever attitude Miss Perkins takes on this point will be inferred to be the attitude of the national Government. And the attitude of Government—national and, State and local—on this particular point constitutes the most - deepreaching element in the whole situation. the sheriff read the writ to the sitThe strike has .two aspects. In |down strikers, and they ignored it. one, it is an ordinary industrial 7 8 = conflict. But the: injection of the | _ : : ) ; SE HEN a sheriff or other officer - io : sit-down feature raises an additional of (he. court Anas Dimeeir
: SS hoe question which goes to the heart of |. 8 3 Pe ree n= | ESS 57 GT a i fe iin more aims of communica- NER 277 RB / wi , society. po Bh ph oC tion—to stand well with other people, to impress them -_— \ A EF 2 ? : of Soe Lo existing state of law | Ordinarily reports the condition to favorably, to avoid awkward situations, to draw atten- {and in the existing American con- {the court. At that point the court tion to oneself. : ception of society, the sit-down | Would nominally appeal to the GovIn contemplating these goals he dwells upon the strikers are trespassers on privately | érnor of i Bint for ausilance, art of conducting a tete-a-tete agreeably, of leading a owned property. . Some’ strike lead- If the sit-down ri os, 2 er regeneral conversation gracefully, of developing the gift ers claim the Michigan .law con- | sistance to ejectment by law, of repartee, of telling 2 story dramatically. tains a feature which exempts the [Succeeded in exacting a price before Though Mr. Wright's point of view and that of the sit-down. strikers from the status of | Withdrawing, something new will be essayists who have sung the praises of good talk may trespassers. They say that when established. Apparently the Si differ in some respects, they agree in finding that the +a man goes on another's property in | €rs in the ‘beginning Sugces & L n secret of good conversation lies in a genuine apprecia- | response -to invitation: by the latter, | eXacting a price. Genera fotors tion of the other person and an ability to listen well. the visitor does not become a tres- | agreed to negotiate the other issues 2 x =a passer when he reins. Whatever 2 the oily It aie ish . ; the Michigan law may be, the com=- | Mere agreeme: > je Tooimis Om, 3 sor of Slorified » ny ‘| mon state of law everywhere, and [course a small concession. But the ny. STAGE DOOR © Fo Dc : 4 by Ed » "| the common point of view of every- | making of any concession is a price te oe i George Koyiman nas tions body familiar with American usage, | pRig; and matings Of ne price goes er = not reduce the breach o : girl from the Middle West gets an opportunity to go : e ; p
would undoubtedly regard the sitinto the movies, but refuses it for love of the legiti-
after showing that there is trespass in the legal sense— if in such a situation the agencies of law do not eject the trespassers, the condition is in effect a breakdown of the machinery of law. To what extent this now exists in Michigan is not fully clear from the dispatches. Apparently, General Motors applied to the courts for what amounted to a writ of ejectment. The writ was issued. At this point the strike leaders showed that the judge issuing the writ was a stockholder in General Motors. This was unfortunate. Practically every lawyer would say that the judge should have remembered his relation to one of the parties and should have declined to act. Apparently in the present case,
: 5 4 ZA. (8 AN ARDENT FOOTBALL FAN «HE IS = PHI GAMMA DELTA, DEMOERAT, PRESB. , ASON AND A MEMBER OF INDIANAPOLIS New Book S HLETle eLUB « MARRIED BERNICE WINN - Poon ROSE INDIANAPOLIS AND HAS ONE SON, PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— NORE ms oo N Wor ve Tin of) N studying THE ART OF CONVERSATION, AND 1 ; ”, 7: Y/ HOW TO APPLY ITS TECHNIQUE @McGraw- | | ‘di NREL 22 7 J Thom | Hill) Milton Wright leaves the once highly cultivated EERE p v /
exchange of ideas to such devotees of that art as i
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