Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1937 — Page 9

bY 1 F.Vagabond

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

VW ASHINGTON, March 1.—Pierre Benard was born and raised in Paris, which to a great many people is just like the Garden of Allah. But M. Benard doesn’t want to go back

to France at all, either for a visit or to live. Maybe he will when he is older, but I doubt it. He likes to live in foreign cour tries. He hopes to live in a lot of different ones before he dies. He hasn't anything against France. Far from it. He likes France. But he feels he knows France about as well as he can know it, so now he wants to go on to other lands, living and learning. Pierre Benard is the youngest of the foreign correspondents in Washington. He is 29. He is one of three men representing Havas, the French press association, The others are Americans

—Drew Pearson and Henry

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Mr. Pyle : If you walked in, a stranger, and tried to pick the Frenchman out of a group of

newspapermen, I doubt that you would have picked

Benard, He is indistinguishable, by racial characteristics. from any of the American reporters. He is a little above medium height, has black hair and a full face, and for breakfast eats two fried eggs. This, I am told, is certainly not a French habit. He speaks almest perfect English. school, in Paris, took up English seriously when he visited friends in Washington five years ago, and has been speaking it regularly since he came to the U. S. to live three years ago. Benard has never really worked on a newspaper. He worked a year in Paris for the Agence Economique et Financiecre, a financial sheet. Then he went with Havas, spent a few months in New York, and has been down here about a year and a half,

n = = Married in Quebec

WO years ago his sweetheart came over from France, and they went up to Quebec and were mantied. His mother came over too (his father died three years ago) and she lives with them. She doesn't

He studied it in |

speak English, and that makes it sort of hard for her. |

His wife speaks it, though Benard is crazy about modern art, and his apartment is full of it. He doesn't paint himself. to play golf; didn't miss a day last summer, cool him off, he says.

| His greatest yen, outside of his work, is for travel-

ing. He wants to go everywhere. Last sumaumer he drove all over the United States and had a great time. He especially likes it in the Southwestern desert country. He thinks deserts are wonderful. He did his French military service in Morocco, 18 months of it, and while in Africa he made a trip into the heart of the Sahara. Our little stretch of “American Sahara” in southern California, where the sand is yellow and drifts into dunes, that's just nothing compared to the Sahara, he says. » 2 2

Son of Banker

ENARD is a banker's son. He doesn’t like business, however, Would rather be just what he is, | a newspaperman. He enjoys being around where big things are hap- | pening. He finds American politicians and statesmen easy to talk with. Benard was 6 vears old when the World War started. He doesn’t remember a great deal about it. His father was in the war. Young Benard got his university education in Paris, and then lived several months in England. He. | speaks a little German. He likes Washington, but he | hopes his employers won't forget to move him on to | some new land one of these days.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

VY ipamotor Sunday.—Friday night Martha Graham of New York came down and danced for us after dinner. I asked her afterward if it did not require the most tremendous amount of training to keep her body under such perfect control. | She told me she had to work four hours every day, and |

Miss |

thet if she took six weeks off in summer it took her |

two months to regain what she had lost. How few of us realize when we watch a performance that what may interest us for a short time requires so much hard work and devotion on the part of the artist. Miss Sidney Thompson did two of her sketches in

costume, one from Balzac and one from Guy de Mau- | passant. The combination of the two artists was quite |

delightful for it brought the old days, in the person of Miss Thompson, in sharp contrast to probably the

most modern expression of the dance we have, in the |

person of Miss Graham, I went over to the Y. W. C. A. vesterday afternoon to meet the Girl Reserves from 11 nearby cities who are holding a two-day conference here. I think girls who live near Washington are very fortunate, for thev have an opportunity to come in contact with a number of people who can give them really interesting experiences. For instance, yesterday Mrs, O'Day was in and gave them a talk on her trip to Buenos Aires. My husband took all the gentlemen, including Franklin Jr's. and John's friends. who are staying in the house with them, to the White House correspondents’ dinner. It was most kind and hospitable of this group of correspondents to include so many of our guests. I was much interested to hear today the comments of the younger members of the household who seem to have had the time of their lives. Young and old were happy for mv husband said to me as he went out, “This is a nice evening. I don't have to make a speech. I just enjoy myself.” My mother-in-law arrived yesterday afternoon and after dinner she went with Mrs. du Pont to see Ethel at the hospital. Mrs. Scheider dined with us and then worked while Lady Willert, Miss Fanny Hurst, Mrs: Leach and I had a grand evening of talk.

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| scientist from the Bureau's labora- | tories in Minneapolis, Minn., the | precipitation of chimney smoke by

| St. Clair filled a five-inch diameter

| which patents have been applied

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WORLD PEACE AT CROSSROADS Tranquil Eva Forecast If War Can Be Checked This Summer

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Times Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, March 1.—If the world can somehow get by this summer without war breaking out, jittery diplomats are saying, the chances are against war for at least a

decade. The reasoning is convincing. Since Italy annexed Ethiopia and took her place among the “haves,” only two major powers remain among the “have nots,” namely Germany and Japan. Unless a conflict is started by one or both of these it is figured, there will be no conflict. Britain, France and the Soviet Union are exerting every ounce of influence at their command to head off war. All of these are among the “haves.” Each has everything to lose and nothing to gain by conflict. All are now arming as fast as their financial, industrial and

human resources permit in a race to make themselves so powerful no would-be aggressor would dare start anything. Unless overtaken by some internal upheaval or other unpredictable disaster beforehand, these three peace-minded powers Will be so strong by the summer of 1938 that neither Germany nor Japan would likely invite a showdown on the battlefield. = ” =

HEN there is a fourth and more uncertain factor to be taken into consideration. I mean China. China has 450,000.000 people—more potential manpower than any other country on the globe, When weighed in the scales of Mars, however, she has been up to the present an almost negligible quantity. Her nearly 2,000,000 soldiers have been mostly in the service of provincial war lords. Ragamuffin mobs, poorly armed, poorly trained and worse equipped, they have spent most of their time fighting each other or deserting, en masse, to become huge bandit gangs. Food and loot have been their chief objectives. The nation has meant nothing.

" 2 3 OW all this is changing. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, China's strong man, is making a nation out of his country. He is instilling the idea of unity and patriotism into the popula-

| tion, curbing the war lords and

disbanding or “armies.” In their place he is building a

absorbing their

Chiang Kai-shek

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national army, drilling and equipping it in the modern manner— from shoes to walk in, to airplanes from which to drop bombs. Latest indications are that even the Chinese Communists, in arms against Chiang for nearly a decade, are joining hands with him to resist foreign invasion, If Japanese militarists intend to carry out their reported plan to take over most of China, therefore, it begins to look as if they would have to move soon or it may be [orever too late.

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SOMEWHAT similar situation is to be found in eastearn Siberia on which, Moscow is convinced, Nippon has long had her eyes. The Soviet Union is fast colonizing Siberia, from Lake Baikal to the Pacific, with a view to making it capable of defending itself without having to depend on the railways leading out of European Russia. The necessary industry and agriculture to suport a Siberian army in the field are part of the plan. Still the agonizing question now is: Will Germany and Javan wait until Britain, France. Russia and China complete their present intensive preparations? A parallel situation confronted Europe at this period of 1914.

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Then, as now, diplomatisis were talking of the “inevitable” war. Then, as now, France, Russia, Belgium and Britain were fever-

ishly adding to their armaments or reorganizing their military establishments.

CONTROL OF SMOKE BY SOUND MAY SOLVE OUR SMOG PROBLEM

By ROBERT D. POTTER | (Copyright, 1937, by Science Service) | ASHINGTON, March 1.—-Un-fortunately the smoke-belch-

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return of prosperity.

| by renewed industrial activity is un-

| sprinkled

EMEMBER the long glass tube on the inside of which you that yellowish, brown powder.

\ HE St. Clair experiment with . smoke precipitation uses this

|long-known phenomena except that | the standing sound waves run ver-

In actual

fortunate; only the fuming chim- |created a shrilling sound of high|out at the top, also on the side.

nevs. All too little realized still is the | fact

also be a mark of business and that [up and down in the tube and grad- |

pitch.

And al] the while the sound waves

Immediately the brown powder— bounce up and down in the stack

that smokeless chimneys can it was probably cork dust—danced to precipitate out the particles.

Mr. St. Clair's method of smoke

it is not necessary to pollute the air | ually settled into certain spots just | particle precipitation is completely

man manufacturing. Dr. E. R. Weidlein, president of | the American Chemical Society and |

dustrial Research in Pittsburgh, Pa. has said: “One of the biggest problems we are facing is the smoke nuisance. Smoke does not have a single sav-

It is injurious to health. |

It is expensive in that it means|

[fuel waste, high laundry bills, de- | | facement of expensive buildings and | | lessened working capacity.

Experts | declare that throughout the United

| standing | bounced back and forth in the tube |

and became rid of the dust.

| have been tried out in Germany in

¢ In that experiment, whether you the past year or two. director of Mellon Institute for In- |yemember it or not. you generated | y & 8

waves of sound that

from one end to the other and cre-

| ated regions where there was a | maximum amplitude of sound wave | | vibration called antinodes and then, alternately regions where there was called |

a minimum of vibration,

nodes,

The experiment showed that the| and protection runs into money) has |

HIS well-known and widely

used technique, developed by the noted scientist Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell of Washington uses a powfield to attract

| erful electrostatic

| the particles in the smoke which it |

is desired to remove. But its sizable cost of installation | (getting proper electrical insulation

States smoke costs each inhabitant {dust was kicked out of the antinode | limited the number of Cottrell units

$16 annually.” Dr. Weidlein ought to know, for | his laboratory was the source from |

| which has sprung the newly or- | ganized Air Hygiene Foundation |

which is now in the forefront of | smoke fighting in America.

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ECENTLY the U. S. Bureau of | Mines in Washington demon- | strated a method of ridding chimneys of dust and smoke particles by the use of sound waves. The development, because of its cheapness, strikes at one of the most potent sources of industrial smoke —the small factory. Developed by H. W. St. Clair,

sound truly works a seeming miracle. ' In his recent demonstration Mr.

glass tube with thick white smoke. Then he turned into the tube the! sound waves of a high pitched note of T000 vibrations a second. And at once the smoke particles began to cluster in striated levels down the length of the tube and wandered off to the walls and fell to the bottom. Idea behind the method, for (to be turned over free for the benefit of the public), is the simple experiment which everyone who has ever taken a course in Hust)

must have performed.

areas and deposited in the region.

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Filled with smoky white vapor (at left) is the experimental tube of the new Bureau of Mines system of smoke precipitation developed by H. W. St. Clair. At right, Mr. St. Clair starts his high-pitched that collecis the dust

sound bottom of the chamber.

in layers, which eventually fall to the

Y 1915 they stood to be vastly stronger than they were, or would be in the summer of 1914. So, the chancelleries were say- | ing, if Emperor William I1 in- | tended to cut his way out of the “encirclement,” he would likely | do it that year or abandon the | idea until further notice.

The United States, of course, is | rated on the side of peace. | And, neutrality law or no neutrality law, Europeans insist we

cannot help being a major factor | in any world conflict to come. | But in this pre-war maneuver- | ing we count for little or nothing.

Sullivan Reproves Indiana

Legislator

By MARK

ASHINGTON, March 1. — A member of the Indiana State | Senate, much excited about President Roosevelt's court proposal, is {reported in newspapers as saying: “The President says the Supreme | Court docket is crowded. That'is la damned lie.” Tut, tut, Senator. If you're going to remain in public life, or do any good in the world, you must learn the vocabulary of urbanity. Yes, I understand, I cherish forthrightness and straight shooting as much as you do, but still I tell you vou must not use that word. You don't need to, there are plenty of | synonyms—you can find them in any newspaper. Our best professional writers have no trouble in expressing themselves more forcibly [than you can, and they are able to do so without using offensive words. Because I write books of history | after the events are over and passion has died down, I preserve newspaper clippings about current commotions. As I look over the bunch I have collected about Mr, Roosevelt's court action, I am struck by the repetition of a single note, expressed in a group of words having roughly the same meaning. In the following quotations, the emphasis of course, is mine: on s 2 i ISLEADING,” says Walter Lippmann, and in another | passage, “too hollow” to impress anyone. The New York Times | (which supported Mr. Roosevelt in | the recent election) speaks editorial|ly of the President's “political sharp | practice. His action leaves him | fairly open to the charge that he is | endeavoring to do by indirection | what he cannot do directly; clever- | ness and adroitness in dealing with | the Supreme Court are not qualities | which sober-minded citizens will

| approve.” | “Not forthright, not candid,” says | Dorothy Thompson. Indignantly | she cries “no human being can be- | lieve in the sincerity of this proposal. Must we examine every message from whether there is a trick in it somewhere?” “Tricky,” says one of the most libleral newspapers in the United States, the Baltimore Sun, and The Sun adds some synonyms; “Devious,” “deceptive,” “an intent to mislead which is not attractive in a

| President of the United States.” To | which the strong Democratic Rich-

mond (Va.) Times Dispatch adds an amen: “Guilty of a k of frank-

ness which does him little credit.” “ and forthright,”

the President to sce

for Word Use

SULLIVAN

echoes Mr. William Allen White. He speaks of Mr. Roosevelt's “instinctive indirection.” on on n VEN the Scripps-Howard newspapers, ordinarily strong supporters of the President, print an editorial including “our first reaction when we read the message was that the plan was just too { clever... Having spent nearly every | waking hour since, studying it. and hoping to find a way to like it, we are still of the same mind.” And Gen. Hugh Johnson, once No. 2 man to President Roosevelt and loyal to him as a good Army man is to his commander-in-chief— Gen. Johnson supports the President's proposal, but as to the President's method, Gen. Johnson says: “The President's only mistake was the adroitness and dexterity of his approach. There is sometimes such a thing as being too clever. The argument about making the Court larger so that it could work faster didn’t check out either in logic or in fact—and it gave opponents something to jump up and down about. Wouldn't it have been better to say ‘Here's a plan to check the Court?” In another article Gen. Johnson uses the phrase “slick trick.” Scripps-Howard commentator John T. Flynn is deeply disturbed by the President's action, but in his comment retains the manner of an old-fashioned gentleman. After reciting the President's argument for his court plan, and after pointing out that the principal part of it is incorrect in fact, Mr. Flynn lives up to the code which says that a President, like a King, can do no wrong —the President must have been misled: “This is a most unfortunate part of the message. I wish heartily the President could have left it out. It makes him appear as trying to deceive Congress and the people. Of course we know the | President must depend on others for | his facts and unquestionably he has been imposed on.”

HEARD IN CONGRESS

Senator Ashurst (D. Ariz): The best thing to do with reference to newspaper articles is to apply the principle of the Stoics. I thank the newspapers for not printing all they know about me. I am not worried about publicity. I think a great many men in public life overestimate publicity and seek it on oc-

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

ODAY I want to get to the bottom of pipe-smoking in Indianapolis. Which is by way of saying that I'll probably get around to Brandt Steele, Alfred Brandt, Stephen Noland, Kurt Vonnegut, Walter Bonns, George Buck, Albert Reager, Adolph Schell-

schmidt and, maybe, George Calvert. Offhand, you wouldn't suspect that a crowd like that has much in common. As a matter of fact, it

hasn't. But even so, it's more than you think. Three of the group, for instance, wear flowing ties, and it's just enough to make me suspect that maybe there is some connection between flowing ties and pipes. Indeed, the more I think about it, the more it warrants the belief that every pipe-smoker has a secret and suppressed desire to wear a flowing tie. Which, of course, brings us to the fundamental fact that pipe smoking is a matter of temperament, and that the actual art of handling a pipe, like that of wearing a flowing tie, is more or less of a gift. Either that, or it's an endowment. Come to think of it, maybe “endowment” is the better word, because when you get right down to it, intelligent pipe-smoke ing isn’t like anything else in this world, unless, per= chance, it is something like charm and graciousness of manner, And, certainly nobody in his right senses would ever think of classifying charm and graciousness as gifts, They're endowments. All right then: Intelligent pipe-smoking is an en= dowment and not a gift, if for no other reason than it is an exceptional power bestowed by nature. Which is equivalent to saying, of course, that good pipe= smokers are born that way.

Mr. Scherrer

” un u Agree Only on Briar

LL pipe-smokers will agree to that. After that, they won't agree on anything, unless, maybe, that a briar pipe is the best smoke. I gather as much, anyway, because having everything from meerschaums to corncobs to choose from Indianapolis pipe-smokers stick to briar as a rule, That's as far as they'll go, though. After that, they're as kittenish as philatelists or print collectors, than which, of course, there isn't anything more hopeless. For, if the truth be told, I never saw two Indiane apolis pipe-smokers who could agree on the grain of wood, weight of pipe, or sanitary plumbing without which it isn’t possible to buy a pipe nowadays. Indianapolis pipe-smokers are just as squeamish about processing their pipes, too. Sure, they all agree that a pipe has to be processed, but that's as far as they'll go, because after that they all go their own way. I never saw such a whimsical crowd. Mr. Bonns, for instance, rubs the inside of the bowl with honey; Mr. Steele, with rum, and Mr. Brandt, who wears a flowing tie, with rum and honey. The heat carbonizes the sugar and starts a premature cake inside the bowl, like beating the red traffic light—see?

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Bathes Bowl in Oil

R. VONNEGUT goes even further, because, bee sides processing the inside of the bowl, he also takes care of the outside with alcohol, after which it gets a bath of olive oil. It's supposed to give it a patina, as if nature wouldn't do it if you give her time.

Shucks! The best pipe-smoker I know is an old Alsatian on the West Side, and all he does to get a patina is to rub the bow! regularly on the right side of his nose. What's more, he buys his pipes at the 5-and-10-cent store and smokes them, without clean= ing, until theyre strong enough to run away under their own power. Either that, or he waits for them to fall apart. Then he buys a new one and starts all over. That's the way all the old-timers did, and you can bet your sweet life that they got results. It's funny that we are sure of nothing of which our ancestors were dead certain.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HE things that are expected of women! Sometimes the enormity of cur duties overwhelms me. Let's list just a few of the jobs wished on our sex. If married, we must— Excel in domestic works; be agreeable to all, especially the in-laws; bear, rear and educate fine children; be a chauffeur for the family; understand the peculiar nature of the male, child psychology, and the arts of interior decorating, entertaining and bud-get-balancing. If unmarried, we must— Show stability, honesty, patience and a tireless in= dustry, to say nothing of a willingness to work at a lower wage than men receive; be interested and sprightly around all males, but not act overanxious to own one; never encroach upon the domestic pre= serves of the married woman; be smart, but play dumb; work like Hades and let the men take most of the credit for our accomplishments. And whether married or single, working or idle, we have certain additional responsibilities. For ine stance, we must: Have good taste in dress, with a special aptitude for sprinting ahead of the seasons. Go shampooed, manicured, well-gowned and silke stockinged, no matter how small our wage or allow= ance. Be good, but not priggish; chaste, but not standoffish; know how to laugh at smutty stories although remaining pure in mind. Keep up with current affairs, educational policies, fashicns, fads, club work, religious trends, economia change, moral movements, cinemas, radio programs and the comic strips. Play a good hand of bridge, exercise regularly, cold= cream and massage our faces, necks, arms, shoulders, legs and hands every night of our lives; be mentally alert, and morally invincible; understand politics and purify them, and keep America out of war. I could go on like this all day—hbhut we must stop somewhere.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal

ERMAN MEASLES is scientifically called Rubella —a word seldom or never used by the public, It is a contagious condition which spreads from one person to another, taking anywhere from a few to 21 days to establish itself in the body. "The usual period is 14 to 21 days. German measles strikes usually in the winter or spring. Babies under six months of age seldom have it. While it resembles measles or scarlet fever, it does not seem to be in any way related to these diseases because persons who have already had either of them are attacked by German measles. A person coming down with this ailment has for about half a day, mild symptoms such as those of a very slight cold with, occasionally, severe headache or dizziness. Then eruption begins. This is usually the first symptom that attracts attention. Most frequently it appears first on the face and then spreads rapidly over the whole body, reaching the legs last. The eruption is of a pale red color. Sometimes, on the face, the small spots join to make large, irregular blotches. The eruption usually looks like that of measles but occasionally it may be sufficiently red to resemble scarlet fever. The eruption commonly lasts about three days, occasionally two, and sometimes only one day. One of the most interesting symptoms of German measles, and one which enables doctors to distinguish it from other diseases, is the fact that the lymph glands at the back of the head and neck swell and lafee bumps which may be felt under the skin, ar J —