Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1937 — Page 13

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“led me to the perusal of one or two Iétters which have.

‘ terest, but suggested instead, that if I were interested,

“my living room. 3

‘This is now being published for the elementary grades

“all young people today. The discoveries and inven-

‘stupendous I think it well for us to review what has

“porn in 1910—refiects, not only the history of Balti-

- strengthened to fight its political and civic battles

endure their humdrum existence because all their

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By Raymond Clapper

Duke of Windsor Drives Through Vienna Without Drawing Crowds; Imagine That Happening in U..S.

VIENNA, Oct. 5.—Things to write home about from the capital of Austria: Grown men wearing leather shorts to work. s « « Decrepit cabbies cranking their rickety taxicabs. » «» . The endless chain elevator in

the United Press Building, where you hop onto a moving contraption which resembles a giant dumb waiter and ride up or down like a package on a vertical conveyor. . . . Those fancy garbage wagons with bright paint and shining aluminum bodies, whose patent covers make it possible for the garbage to be emptied into the wagon without the smell leaking out. The attendants remain spot-. less throughout their day’s work. The Duke of Windsor’s automobile parked in front of the Bristol Hotel with not a soul standing around to gape. Think of . taking the Duke for granted like that in America! ... handed Concession licenses anded Mr. Clap; down through families by inheritance. A physician, for instance, mdy own a taxicad license or a tobacco shop license, which he sublets. . .. The strict rule of the trade associations, under which a man can’t. start a new coffee shop without obtaining the permission of other coffee shop owners. One man who tried it was closed up because of the protest of a shop several blocks away. . . . = The way in which 700 coffee shops serve as the centers of Viennese life, supplying newspapers and reference books, serving as places for business and social appointments as well as flirtation markets. . . . The fact that everyone in the coffee shops is drinking coffee, although coffee consumption per capita among Austrians is one of the lowest in the world— because-of an import tariff of 75 cents a pound] cee

President Is Forgotten Man

The naughty Freudian sculpture on the great Cathedral of St. Stephen. . . . William Miklas, the forgotten man of Austria, who has been Presiden since 1928—through revolutions: and civil. wars—an is still President, with no date set for another election. They must have forgotten that he is still around. . . . The silent power behind the scenes, Kienbock, the Governor of the National Bank, who controls the ecdnomic policies of the Government and has manag to steer Austria through years of tumult without resorting to currency restrictions or to the trick money blockades used in surrounding counries. . . . The Hitler mustaches on 95 per cent of the waiters in the Grand Hotel. . . . The influence of the{ Catholic Church, which regards Austria as its Gov ernmental laboratory, the new constitution having been based on Pope Pius XI's famous encyclical of 1931, “Quadragesimo Anno,” and on a close liaison be tween the Government and the Vatican. . . . 3 The peasant leader, Joseph Reither, who is t leading agitator for restoration of the monarchy. . . . The persistent buildup going on here for Prince Otto as King of Austria, with some 1500 communities having elected Otto an honorary citizen.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Makes Early Morning Drive to Attend New York Forum.

N= YORK, Monday—I drove my own car from the country this morning at 6 a. m. and found little traffic on the road at that hour. I arrived at my New York City apartment in plenty of time to change and be at the Herald Tribune forum at the

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Mrs. Reid opened the forum in her usual charming manner. She was followed by the Mayor, who greeted the delegates and gave them a speech with plenty of food for thought in it. In any case, a forum which has as its subject, “The Second Discovery of America,” and at its first session takes up “A Generation Finding Itself,” and which actually lets young people talk on their own problems, is going to be an interesting forum. I particularly enjoyed Dr. Stringfellow Barr's talk on education. _ My day yesterday was spent largely in trying to go through the accumulated mail in Hyde Park and that

gone unnoticed for some time. One of these came to me from St. Petersburg, Fla. from Mrs. Edna Garland Hall who sent me her little book, “My Body,” with it.

Finds Book Interesting

Unlike many authors who come my way, she did not ask for an indorsement of her work in her own in-

perhaps I would think the book worthy of being presented to the Parent-Teacher Association. I do not feel I can judge books for anyone but myself and so, long ago, I gave up doing anything more than telling people in general when I read something which 1. think worthy of mention. I like this little book an I think I would like the woman who wrote it if we happened to sit down over a cup of tea by the fire in

As long as we are talking about reading matter for young people, I should like to mention that I enjoyed the magazine Junior Scholastic which was sent to me.

in exactly the same way that Scholastic has been published for many years for the older grades. I was interested in this publication because it touches on subjects which strike the imagination of

tions that have come to us in last few years are so

gone before and then to realize what extraordinary things we have had to feed our imaginaticu in the last

50 years. :

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

N Masxch 17, 1837, Arunah 8S. Abell and his associates published the first issue of the Baltimore Sun as a penny paper, thereby doing some pioneering in the penny field and attempting to set a standard of nonpartisanship. The story of THE SUN PAPERS OF BALTIMORE (Knopf) is told by Gerald Johnson and Hamilton Owens, two members of the present staff, and Frank R. Kent and H. S. Mencken, the whole edited with spirit by Mr. Mencken. A history of the papers—the evening paper was

more and of Maryland, but the progress of the whole country. During the Civil War the Sun almost went under, but struggled through that tragic experience, |

and to maintain the idea of its founder. That this ideal has not been. forgotten, claims the editor of the Evening Sun, is evidenced by tHe fact that last fall the paper announced that it could no more advocate the election of Alfred M. Landon than it could the re-election of President Roosevelt.

“o~NOME to Camp Kare-Free where dull care and trouble quickly vanish ‘neath Nature’s magic spell.” To thousands of young shop and office employees in New York words like these bring a picture of life, adventure, joy, rest and, perhaps, romance. For 50 weeks of the year these young people

ho are centered in these magical two weeks of vacation. In a new play, HAVING WONDERFUL TIME (Random House), by Arthur Kober, a group of young people from the Bronx gather at Camp Kare-Free to try to capture a brief moment of hapess in the midst of their uninspiring struggle for existence. Among them are Teddy Stern and Chick Kessler, who are a little more intelligent and sensitive than the others. Their story follows the old formula of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy forgets girl.”

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By Daniel M. Kidney

Times Staff Writer

that farm income this year will total about nine billion dollars—highest since 1929 —the search for a perma-

nent program continues. The searchers, in addition to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and his associates, the members of a Senate subcommittee who are making a $10,000 tour of the nation witl® instructions to report to Congress a week after the next session begins.

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plan for crop insurance and an “ever-normal granary” will be enacted. But while the Senate committee is especially instructed

to study this plan, there is considerable opposition in Congress

it. As explained In Mr. Wallace's report to the President— “In years of surplus a part of the crop would be drawn off the \ market and put into storage—the amount so drawn off being regulated by the predetermined insurance rates based on actuarial calculations. : “In years of crop failures the stored commodities would be re“Neased, the amount being automatically determined by the amount of indemnities necessary as defined in the insurance contracts. “Singe the plan would operate \auoriatially, with the commodiies being released from storage only in case of crop failure, the commodities in storage would not be a potential supply on the market tending to depress the price. “During surplus years the removal of the excess commodities from the market would tend to support the price. . . . Under this plan the farmers who lost their crop would be indemnified, while the farmers who produced a crop would get at least average prices.”

HE success of the New Deal relief program to date can be measured by that nine billion dollars which the growers will receive for their various products this year. : At the outset there was plowing up of cotton, when people needed clothes; there was killing of pigs, when people needed food; and there was taxation of city folk, through the processing taxes on major agricultural commodities, lo pay the farmers for raising

ess. Rural mailboxes yielded benefit

By Science Service ASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Spectacle lenses produced at a /rate of 1500 an hour instead of being ground slowly and laboriously by hand, are only one possibility of the new transparent resin- molded lenses now being exhibited in America by two British inventors. Eye glasses for all who need them at a cost measurable in cents instead of tens or twenty of dollars may some day be the result of thus achieving a

long-held dream of molding optical lenses instead of fashioning them tediously by hand. . Good quality lenses on low-price cameras and binoculars are another rossibilitv already realizéd on a small scale. The entire® important movement, of copying the world’s scientific and historic literature on

Side Glances—By

F Mr. Wallace has his way, his

‘equipment.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1937

VV ASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—The fifth year of the New " Deal finds the Administration and Congress still searching for that political and economic will-o’-the-wisp, a permanent and foolproof formula for farm relief. Having tried to buy scarcity, paying for it with taxes on consumption, having seen the Supreme Court kick this . out as unconstitutional, and the droughts make it dangerous, the New Deal turned to another formula for curbing: production—the soil conservation program. J “But now, with enormous crops, and despite the fact

payment checks from Uncle Sam,

and there was much joking—some of it grim—about being paid for . not raising this and that in a world that contained so many millions who were in need. But the farmer gladly took his money and the city folk didn’t complain so: loudly. Farm purchasing power was restored; the farmer bought the goods of industry. and industrial workers were able to buy more of the fruits of the farm. The circle —once vicious—was turning beneficent. ae

N 1933 rental and benefit payments of $208,416,236 were made on cotton, wheat and tobacco. Sugar and corn-hog payments were added in the 1934 program, and the peak of $636,351,721 was reached. Rice and peanuts were added in 1935.

Then, in 1936, came the Supreme Court decision, and the shift to the Conservation Act. Under this new dispensation the farmers received 400 million dollars from the Treasury in a year, without the benefit of processing taxes, for taking land out of production or for raising soil-building crops. Thus the total payments under AAA and the Soil Conservation Act had reached $1,755,000,000 in round numbers- by last June 30.

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N addition, the Commodity Credit Corp. had been formed and was functioning under Agriculture Department auspices to make loans on crops harvested and held by the farmers themselves. The corporation has made loans totaling 445 million dollars, including the present cotton loan of 30 million dollars at 9 cents a pound. Much of this has been recovered and all of it is considered recoverable. The largest lending, however, has been done by the various services assembled in the Farm Credit Administration under Governor W. I. Myers. This consists of new and old agencies, such as land banks, co-operative banks, intermediate credit associations, and so on. Here the grand total of all loans made from May 1,. 1933, through July 31, 1937, amounted to $4,468,626,975. Of this, $3,399,630,234 is outstanding.

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microfilm and making it cheaply available to anyone anywhere, is also closely hound up with securing an inexpensive optical viewing device which one could carry in the pocket or Keep in a desk drawer.

” ” 8 HE molding of lenses has intrigued industry, governments, scientists and engineers for years. Glass, with its high melting point and other characteristic properties has been abandoned as a likely molding material for any but the

cheapest and poorest kind of optical But ever since the discovery of the chemical plastic materials the dream of molding lenses has seemed nearer. The color and nontransparency of the plastics prior to a year ago wi: s a hampering aspect. » In America, in England and in

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rcs JVC Res. . OFF.

Mr. Kober succeeds in creating, with great sympathy, characters who are real people and, although they are

all Bronx dwellers, have the problems and hopes of

~ young men and women the world over.

"I made out that check for only $86.45. You forgot to allow me a : . nickel for a ginger. ale bottle | returned." =

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Barren of all vegetation, its fences buried in dust, this farm of A. C. Witt, near Stratford, Tex. was

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By Anton Scherrer

Belgian Hare Craze of Nineties ‘Was Social Security Plan Itself, At Least on Mathematical Basis.

THE Belgian hare craze hit Indianapolis some time in the late Nineties. By 1900, it was going like a house on fire. Men, women and children dropped everything to go

{into the business, and’ even women’s clubs

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crop failures in succession had rewarded the owner’s labors, leaving him arid, sand-swept acres like this.

typical of the desolate dust bowl areas in 1936. Six Then a soil program was started.

The same farm, the same field, the same. house,

_just a year later, aré shown in:

Witt terraced his land to conserve moisture and stop

Tugwell’s administration, came to the aid of those who could not qualify for FCA, with loans, grants and debt adjustments. RA also spent 85 million’ dollars buying up submarginal land. Families were moved from these tracts, which were then turned into wild-life preserves, recreational areas or forests. RA has been scrapped now. -Its

other countries plastics of remark-) able water-clear transparency have been achieved. Now from England come lenses of a transparent plastic known abroad as perspex. 2 LJ ” 8 HE transparent resins have one natural disadvantage compared with glass for the production of lenses. They ‘scratch relatively easily and probably have nowhere near the lasting qualities of glass. But as one skeptical scientist at the National Bureau of Standards in

Washington said, this shorter life | in

can be tolerated if the cost is very much less. : sr For military optical instruments— binoculars, periscopas and such—the life of the device is short at the best, so that the British army, in particular, is interested in the new development.

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson EFECTIVE hearing is a handicap suffered by many people. Time was when the affliction was regarded as a visitation of God, and

nothing: was done about it except to feel sorry for the afflicted. It is different today. There is a growing awareness of the need for remedial work and much is being done effectively. It’s astonishing how brave deaf people often are. Let me tell you the story of a woman who began her business life as a journalist and seemed to be doing fine when her hearing began to fail. The doctors held out little hope for. improvement or cure, and the day came when she faced the realization that, it was no longer possible for her to continue the newspaper job. She took up dancing. For many years she has been ‘a successful teacher and now has a permanent business, housed in a building of her own. Because her- ears had failed her she was obliged to keep an assistant, who remained in constant attendance at the studio to answer telephone calls and deal with patrons. By and by this, too, became & nuisance, so our undaunted heroine called telephone engineers into consultation. She had to have amplifiers; she had to have a switchboard that would enable her to change from an outside to an inside call at a moment’s notice; she had to have signal lights so she could tell when the phone was ringing. The telephone company spent three weeks perfecting her system.

soil-blowing. ‘picture; Farmer

successor, the Farm Security Administration, is taking care of the loose ends inherited from the former Tugwell agency, and in addition is launching the fight to curb farm tenancy, which Congress authorized this year. - But. those things . are details: The. real story of thé New: Deal - program _ for farmers. was. told briefly by Senator Barkley (D.Ky.)

HE accuracy of molding in the new plastic lenses is reported to be 1/500,000th of an inch, by independent and reputable measurement. This is sufficient for any but the finest and most expensive of optical instruments, state scientists. In fact this is much better than the accuracy required for spectacle lenses although this should not be considered too impressive since the human: eye is notoriously a poor optical instrument of itself.’ Spectacle lenses reite an accuracy of 1/50,000th of an

One use suggested for the new molded lenses in the spectacle field is to supply all ‘school children with free glasses if they need them. Among adults, too, it is estimated that two people out of 10 wear glasses but.that seven out of 10 need them.

His work produced this field of unbelievably verdant grain sorghum—and this fall he can plant wheat.

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«majority floor leader, in a Senate speech Aug. 20, which began: “Farm cash income up 85 per cent; farm prices up 75 per cent; forced farm sales cut in half; farm wage rates up 75 per cent, and farm real estate values up - 16 per cent.” NEXT—The New Deal and Labor. ;

New Transparent Resin Plastic May Permit Production of Lenses For Spectacles at Speed of 1500 an Hour and at Low Cost

HERE the high (but justified) V cost of spectacle lenses is a factor, the advent of low cost glasses should materially aid this problem of better vision for the mass of the population. The high cost of pres-ent-day spectacles lies mostly in the often multiple grinding and polish-

ing of the glass surfaces to fit in-

dividual prescriptions. Since the new molding process will form both spherical and nonspherical surfaces the convex and concave sides of the resin lenses could ' be molded separately and joined. Thus 10 molds each for the front and back of a lens would yield 100 combinations of lenses. A hundred such molds would provide 10,000 possible combinations and only 500 different mold forms, with their 250,000 possible combinations, would probably provide for almost every possible individual need of the human

eye which might be encountered.

And today she is able to carry on

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stopped prying into the private life of Rob« ert Browning to. discuss breeding and scoring points, And no wonder, because when you examine the thing for what it’s worth, a pair of Belgian hares cere

tainly has its points. For one thing, it has Mr. Roosevelt's Social Security Act backed off the boards. An accommodating doe, for instance, will produce as many as 72 offspring a year. It will even begin producing when 6 months old. That’s all you have to know to start with. After that, it’s a case of plain arithmetic. At the end of one year, the offspring from one pair of hares figures up to 566; at the end of the second year it increases to 16,336. And at the end of the fifth year, without any effort on your part, you have exactly 4,305,181,682 little rab bits running under your feet. No fooling. That's as far as you have to carry it, because translated into social security terms at a dollar a

Mr. Scherrer

| pair, or even a penny a pair, it’s more than enough

to retire on. At any rate, that’s the way everybody had it figured out at the time. And I mean everybody, because I never saw any thing, not even the chain letter racket, take hold of Indianapolis the way the Belgian hares did. I can explain that, too.

Movement Started at Wabash

It was because we were in on the ground floor, Which is another way of saying that we were within 80 miles of Wabash. That's where the craze started. Seems that the Beitman boys up there, and a felt manufacturer by the name of Louis Meyer saw a foreign paper one day and read about some people who started with $4 worth of hares and ended up with appalling results. : Well, that gave the Wabash people the idea that maybe the rabbits would do as much for them. Anyway, they started negotiating and got 220 hares for their pains. That's when all the trouble started. It is generally believed that the Wabash hares were the first to be brought to America. I believe it all right, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn some day that California disputes the claim. The original intent of the Wabash people was

to raise the hares for their fur, but they never got

that far because as soon as they were ready to skin a rabbit, somebody came along and offered them $100 for jt alive. Sometimes they got as much as $250 for a good Rufus Red buck. The more red he had on his feet, and especially on his hind feet, the more they got.

Well, the enthusiasm for Belgian hares finally reached the point that people were willing to sell their souls. for a pair of Rufus Reds. Maybe it wasn't as bad as that, but actually it did reach the point where an Indianapolis man put an ad in the paper offering to trade his grand piano for a pair of Bele gian hares.

Jane Jordan—

Accept Responsibility for What Happens in Your Life, Wife Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—What is to be done about a man who drinks and gives his money away to anybody but his family? When drunk my husband brings home strangers off the streets and gives them our best room, food, cigarets and money if he has it, but is cruel to the ones whom he loves. Slot machines are his hobby. Even if he wins he will put the money back and beg, borrow’ or write checks for more. I want to live a Christian life and bring up my five children the way they should be. I used to be what he called a good sport. I smoked and drank and went with him because he wanted me to and because the wives of the fellows he worked with

were good sports; but where has it got me? I am old-looking before I am 30, have ruined health and can look back with shame. He is the best father and husband in the world when sober and broke. I say slot machines, money and drink causes all evil, What we women should do is have a war against taverns, road houses and slot machines, and have churches where we now have these places of sin. ANGUISHED HEART. $2.8" Answer—I believe taverns, slot machines and liquor are effects instead of causes. Even if you cleared them all away, unless you were able to cerrect the condi-

tions that cause people to seek them, nothing would

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Each of you must learn to accept the full responsie bility for what happens to you. You behave as if both good and evil came from the outside without your having anything to do with it. Neither of you seem to realize that it is up to yourselves alone to make or mar your lives. I honestly do not know what you can do with your husband except stop scolding him. When he is sober, and sorry, perhaps by kindness you can get him to agree to turn over part of his earnings to you, leaving him the minimum for his sprees. In order to put him

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plan, perhaps you would do well to try being a good sport again so that all of his pleasures would not be taken apart from you. It is fine for you to try to lead a better life, but wise not to force your way of life on your husband. Try to regain your influence over him and avoid things which widen the breach between you. It isn't easy, I

“know, but what else can you do? ~~ JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter te Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.

Walter O'Keefe — Duke and Duchess of Windsor are coming to America for a visit. Wallie wants to show off her

“young man” to the home folks. They say the Duke is worried about what kind of a

| reception hell get in the States. Listen—if only the

members of the “I-Danced-With-the-Prince-of« Wales-Club” show up, it'll be a& honey. Now that he’s married, I hardly think that the membership of the “I-Danced-With-the-Duke-of« Windson-Club” will be as large. . : He is anxious to return here because he had such a grand time in 1924 on his visit. Well, your Royal Highness, everybody was having a good time then, bug things have changed. Recently the Duke entertained 1600 gues in Austria, but it’s hardly probable that