Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1938 — Page 9
agabonc From Indiana — Ernie Pyle All Disney Animators Are Men and
They Work to- Radio Music in Small Offices Amid Full-Length, Mirrors.
| {ouLYwooD, Feb. 28.—The 250 artists in the animation department of the Disney ‘Studios are a crazy lot. + Often one will putter around for three weeks, after a sequence of 10 film-feet is given him to draw, before he actually gets started on it. But.this is all right with Walt Disney. You can’t create eight hours a day, and Disney knows % Before. an: animator can begin work on's new
oughly acquaintéd with him. He must live with him and think about him until the character, even if it's a pig, becomes a real personality. There are no women snimators in Disney’s studio. Nope, no prejudice. Seems theyre just not creative enough. Almost every creative step in the making of a fairy- : landish Disney picture is taken by : big, strong men. / : 1 The animators work at tilted : drawing boards in cubbyhole offices. Mr. Pyle ‘The board is of frosted glass, and underneath it is an electric light. Thus, when they fit a blank sheet on top of the rough background sketch, they can see right through ng know exactly where to place Mickey. The animator’s assistant sits across the aisle from him, at a similar desk. ‘The office is littered with thrown paper. In fact, it looks very much like the floor of a newspaper city room. : A radio plays soft tunes from the corner. This impressed me very much—soft music to charm the creative ability of the artist—but one animator withoub a soul told me they had it on mostly to get the race results from Santa Anita. In each cubbyhole office is a full-length aitbror. I had heard that they had these mirrors, and that the artists made. faces and silly postures in front of them ands then put these whimsies down on paper. I thought it was just a ljttle press-agent drama. But it’s true. They really do. Animators at Disney’s make anywhere from $150 & week (minimum) to $25,000 a year. Most of them are quite young. Seems as though an animator, like an aviator, can’t do it much past middle age. The young apprentices—the “in-betweeners”’—make down to $30 a week.
Gets Chance in ‘Snow White’ ~ Real animators are as scarce as hen’s teeth. So when the studios find an artist who is: outstanding along one special line, they hang onto him until some use for him comes up. A few years ago a fellow showed who was a whiz on drawing animals. Not caricatired animals, like Mickey Mouse, but straight beautiful animals. Well, they weren't using straight animals then.
“And they found this fellow couldn't do regular run-
of-the-mine animation at all. ‘So they shifted him around to all the other art departments, but he didn’t do much good. And then along came “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” which is full of “real” animals. And did this fellow go to town! He created all the animals in “Snow White,” and as you'll see, or have seen, the animals are wonderful. I asked one of the Disney men where animators came from in the first place. ‘Practically everywhere,” he said. “One of our best ones was repairing storage batteries in an alley garage when we picked . him up. If we'd all go to a costume ball, dressed as whatever we were before we came here, we'd be a funny looking sight.”
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady Is Surprised by Beauty Of Indians’ Handiwork for Fair.
ASHINGTON, Sunday.—Yesterday morning I saw the model for the American Indian section of the Federal exhibit for the San Francisco Fair, and found it most interesting. -. I am sure everyone who can plan to visit the San Francisco Fair in the summer of 1939, and then . see the New York Fair, will have a stimulating experience. The first deals with the background of our country, the second deals with today and tomorrow. The idea of showing the Indian crafts and arts ern surroundings is to prove that primitive nod are ‘still closely Sllied with all that is fundamentally good in art today. Some Indian work for the exhibits already has been collected. I was surprised at the beauty and the quality, not only of the basket work, but of the silver, leather, silk applique and bead work. Some of the legends which go with Indian possessions are interesting. For instance, the bangles always come in pairs because they are made to carry out a vow. When the thing for which the vow was « made-is an aecomplished fact, the two. people involved each retain one of the bangles.
Sil. y From Same Firms
ther startling thing for the white man to reanize} is that the really good and expensive things made by Indians are usually sold to Indians. inally, certain tribes bought the materials for their blankets from some English traders. It was very fine cloth costing as much -as $25 a yard. Those tribes still buy from the same firms in England. They beautify the blankets and a blanket will go down in a family as an heirloom. We probably would never dream of pase the price for the original material which they 1 think the exhibition of this Indian work is going to open the eyes of many of us to what they are capable of doing as artists and craftsmen.
New Books Today
was the story of Stanley's search for Livingstone : that sent Marius Forte, a 19-year-old Ifalian orphan, to seek his fortunes in East Africa. There he found his boyish dreams of romance and adventure fulfilled and decided to adopt, without reservations, the new language and new land. “The account of Mr. Forte’s years among the natives and the dangers and situations he encountered as he traveled and established trading posts, is related in his autobiography, "BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL (Bobbs-Merrill.) He writes simply and sincerely of the natives’ life and customs as they were in the days of the early the anite. as they are now under the exploitation of hite men. He effectively recreates the atmosphere of the country. BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL is a record of a full and: exceptional life and not just an account of a few sensational experiences. The author employs no lit- ~ erary artifice in telling his story; neither does he al- += Jow himself to be carried away by hysterical senti-
'N' the day the vast army of caterpillars waged its fiercest battle on Carveth' Wells’ Connecticut garden, there came by mail from a factory in De“froit & catalog of covered wagon trailers, and by the same mail there came a magazine in which there was ‘a description of the new Pan-American Highway to City. A traveler and explorer of note, Mr. ells had little difficulty in gnding commissions which
consisted of author, wife, daugh- " official tographer, and Taffy the dog, went Hoon New York through the canal and up to Mazatlan “boat; ‘ahd thence to Mexico City, Cuernavaca, axto : Acapulco, and other points by trailer de luxe— 0 “not always by roads de luxe. The ascent of 0 's 18,000 feet (the trailer takes them 0000 makes the reader pant in sympathy. a Sls has 3 reparighie way of Shing up
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(Editorial, Page 10) By Marshall McNeil
* Times Special Writer
VWASHIN 'GTON, Feb. 28. A conviction that the new tax bill will materially ‘ reduce the burdens on business under the undistributed profits tax was expressed today by Rep. Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.), regarded as the foremost tax expert in the House. - Rep. Vinson is chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee which started studying tax revision last Nov. 4, and whose new tax bill will be favorably reported this week by _ the full committee. House debate on the measure will begin Wednesday or Thurs-
day. The who will step up to a place on the U. 8S. Circuit ‘Court. of Appeals here as soon ‘as the. tax bill is passed, explained the .complex measure - by answering : questions submitted to him. The ‘questions and ‘his answers foliow: @Q—Does the new.bill repeal the undistributed profits tax? . Rep. Vinson—No; the principle of the tax has been .retained, but the burden has been: materially reduced. Q—Will these changes, in your opinion, meet. the majority of the protests mage JSgaing this tax?
A ~Yes;: 4 legitimate protests. But: of course there: will .always be protests’against ‘any tax of whatever character. Q—Does the bill put any material ‘obstacle in the way of a corporation spending its returnson necessary expansion, or for
a8 reserve? A—No. - Q—Just how does. the ‘tax apply under the new bill? A—As for the undistributed | profits tax, it does not apply at | all to corporations with . net in-| comes of $25,000 or less. Q—What taxes do : these corporations pay? A—Flat corporation taxes. On their first $5000 of net" income, after allowable deductions, they pay 121; per cent tax; on the next $15,000 of net income they pay 14 ° per cent, and on the last $5000 of net income they ray. .16:per cent. This makes an ective rate of 14.1 per cent on a net income of $25,000.
" » 2 —What istributed - profits taxes are levied in the new bill on corporations with incomes. of more than $25,000? A—A rate ranging from 20 per cent to 16 per cent, according to the distribution of dividends. With no dividends paid, the rate is 20 per cent; with all net income distributed, 16 per cent; with 50 per cent of net income distributed, 18 per cent. So a premium is given to corporations in direct relation to the way they distribute their earnings. Of the 200,000 corporations showing net income, 199,500 are covered by this provision and by the provision affecting corporations with less than $25,000 net income. Q—In the recommendations of your subcominittee made some weeks ago there was a provision for high taxation of closely held corporations, which aroused no little protest. Has this . been changed? A—Yes, it has been changed. This is the so-called “1-B” group, the family-owned or closely held corporations. M uch misunderstanding exists relative to our tax treatment of this group. However, the bill has several material changes from the recommendation of the Pilicommitise. £ ®
: J be subject to the “1-B” tax a corporation must have a net income of more than $75,000 must be family-owned or closely held as defined in the statute, and must pay out much less than
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inson Explains Tax Revisio Congressman Holds Measure Will Rediice Burdens Under Profits Levy
the ‘average dividends for corporations of .all classes. Only between - 300° and : 600 corporations, according to Treasury studies, will pay- this ‘added tax. But:a very large sum of net income will be affected. In computing the tax there are certain exemptions which reduce the base to which the tax is applied. First, the 20-16 per cent - tax is deducted from net income; then there is deducted $60,000, or 30. per cent of the adjusted net income, or moneys used or set aside to. pay debts incurred prior
to Jan. 1, 1938, whichever of e
items is the greatest. Then from
this remainder all dividends paid It is pon this
The Story of
From The Longmont (Celo.) Times-Call
VER so often there is written an editorial contribution which “goes the rounds.” Below. we print one of them, written ‘by Phil Braniff, first appearing in ‘a periodical called The Insurance Field.. We do not know Phil, or whether he really has a little girl, but he has written a good and wholesome piece, and here it is:
“Dear Driver: Today my daughter, who is 7 years old, started to school. She had on black shoes and wore blue gloves. Her cocker-spaniel whose name is Scoot sat on the front porch and whined his cane}! belief in the folly of educat: she waved ‘goodby’ and stafted off to the halls of learning.“ “Tonight we talked about school. She told me about the girl who sits in front of hér—the girl with the yellow curls—and the boy across the aisle who makes funny faces. She told me about- Her teacher who has eyes in the‘ back of her head—and about. the trees in the school yard— and about the big girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus. “We talked about a Iot-of things —tremendously vital unimportant things—and then we studied spelling, reading and arithmetic—and then :to bed. She’s back there now —back in the nursery—sound asleep —with ‘Princess Elizabeth’ (that’s a doll) cuddled in her right arm. You guys ‘wouldn’t hurt her, would you?
You.see, I'm her daddy. When her
doll is brcken or her finger is cut —or her head gets humped, I can fix ‘that—but when she starts to school—when she walks across the street—then she’s in your hands.
Clark
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base that a: rate of 20 per cent is applied. In the case of a corporation with $100,000 net income meeting the: “1-B” tests, if it distributed 20: per cent in dividends, the 20-16 per: cent tax would be 19.2 per cent or $19,200, which. subtracted from the $100,000, leaves $81,800. Of course $60,000 is greater than 30 per cent of this sum. So we subtract $60,000 from the $81,800, leaving : $21,800. Then deduct: $20,000 paid out in dividends and you have a tax bhse of $1800. ‘Apply the 20 per cent to this, and you have a “1-B” tax of $360, which is just about one-third of 1 per cent of the ret income. Any corporation distributing
Phil and: His
“© HE'S a nice kid—she can run like a deer and darts about like a8 chipmunk. She likes to ride horses and swim and hike with me on Sunday afternoons. But I can’t be with her all the time—I have to work to pay for her clothes and her education. So please help me to look out for her. Please drive carefully— please drive slowly past the schools and intersections ~— ahd please remember that children runi from behind parked cars. “Please dons fin over my little girl. PHIL.”
+ Now, for our part, we do not propose to waif, breathless, to find out what Phil may write, say, 10 years from now, if his soulful appeal to drivers is heeded and his little girl keeps out of their way. If little girls do not change much in that decade, we imagine it will be something like this: : : “Dear Pedestrian: Today, my daughter, who is 17 years old, is out
with my car. What she is wearing I do not know, but it is not much, and is designed to catch the attention of one or more boys slightly older than she and who may be in the car with her. “Before she took the car out, we talked about several things, but not about where she was going, with whom, or what they would be doing. She is reticent about such matters, and also she seemed to pay scant attention to several suggestions : of mine about the care of the car, or to RE mother’s admonition to be care
A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson REDDIE BARTHOLOMEW
touched millions of hearts in his role of:little David Copperfield.
How we wept over the plight of the
sad child of long ago! But ‘if Charles Dickens were on earth he would very likely be doing a novel
in defense of the rights of all the Freddies of our ‘time. The sordid accounts of the grownups surrounding‘ him - would turn
— |: | Mr. Dickens as sick as he undoubt- | ‘} | edly was over the inhumanities to
the children of his day. ; Freddie Bartholomew. is a Nchang and
| & very unfortunate little boy. Last
year he was subjected to the experience of looking on while his next of kin wrangled through the courts for guardianship rights over him, which rights carried with them the privileges of spending his money. Today hordes of stiomeys sur
‘round him. Besides his firm of re- | tained specialists, he has his agents and other personal aids who draw|
large fees for sundry jobs. Then there are the barristers employed ‘by ‘his English like very: much: to get Freddie back
| under their
wings. And with all this array of legal tiously explains that little Freddie himself is not go-
‘and the gas tank filled,
dnpde be siutled-e is allowed but | : spending That |
57.6 per cent in dividends is ex.empt from the “1-B’ tax. The 10-year averagé for dividends
prior to the undistributed-profits
tax of 1936 was 75 per cent.
Boiled down, if ‘a person ‘an-. swers ‘one question affirmatively
..the “1-B” tax can well be justi-
fled. That question is: “Should the same amount of net income dollars in the hands of a closely held corporation and a: widely held corporation: pay substantially the same number of tax dollars into the U. S. Treasury?” 2 8 = F a widely held corporation dis-
tributes, it pays a corporation tax and individuals pay surtaxes
Little Girl
‘ME daughtér is a nice kid, and not~addicted to worry. If I have taken precautions to have the
car in good mechanical condition,
properly lubricated, the fires safe she will have no trouble, barring accidents. She knows enough about the car to start it, steer it and stop it, and has heard that there are men who make a business of fixing automobiles when things go wrong. She probably thinks that such persons inhabit filling stations, but she will be set right when she inquires, “But she knows that when she steps on a cerfain knob with her right foot, the car will whizz along at 60 to 80 miles per hour, and she believes that the knob is placed
there to make it do so. That is the
only way she knows how to drive it, and that is as fast as it will go. “So, please, Mr. Pedestrian, do not le} my little girl run over you. You will know her by her happy look, her blond hair and her red hat. She may be smoking a cigaret and the boy beside her m#y be hugging her, so that she may not e you her attention if you are in her line of driving. . You had better wait until she gets by, or dodge. “If you get in her way and she runs over you it may cause her to lose control of the car, she may go through the windshield and scdr her pretty face, or she may get tangled up in the steering wheel and need to go to the hospital. Even though she escapes and you don't,
| she will come home and cry.
“So, please, Mr. Pedestrian, do not get run over by my little girl. 6 PHIL.”
-ment in this bill will,
as
on the dividends. The “1-B” tax endeavors’ to- collect substantially the same number of . tax dollars from closely held corporations with a tax upon the corporation if it does not distribute or, with distribution, upon both the corpora-
. tion and shareholders as in other
corporations.
Q—Another tax against which :
there has been much protest is the capital gains and losse§ tax. What has been done to. ARis tax in the new: hill? jot
A—The major- ¢hange from existing law is” ‘the introduction of more certainty as to the amount of tax“tuipon capital gains. As it works out, the maximum tax on
a long-term gains ranges from 32.9
per cent to 16 per cent, according to the length of time the capital asset has been held. The taxpayer
can pay these rates or include the
capital gain in his ordinary ins come. The short-term gains, as now, are taxed as ordinary income. This bill introduces a carry-over of capital losses to be applied to capital gains of like kind in the following taxable year. The treatin my opinion, accelerate transactions and relieve legitimate grievances.
Q—Since this is known as a general revision of the revenue laws, have any -new or higher taxes, been levied on individual income tax payers? A—No. 8 8 = —Since relatively few persohs pay income taxes, and since the Government needs revenue badly, why does the bill not levy higher -incomes taxes in the socalled middle brackets? A—Undoubtedly much revenue could be procured by increasing the rates in the middle brackets. We did not have as an objective the raising of additional revenue; our objective was to relieve against hardship and inequities and come out with about the same amount of revenue. We are told by the Treasury that we have done this. - Q—Does the new bill affect any of the nuisance taxes? “ A—Yes; it repeals the taxes on matches, toilet: soap, toothpaste, dentifrices; athletic supplies, furs, cameras, phonograph records and chewing gum. It also repeals certain purely regulatory taxes. The yardstick here was cost and difficulty of administration, coupled with smallness of yield. The total tax repeal is about $25,000,000.
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9 10 ur Town ‘By Anton Scherrer
* The Montanis Had No Small Task Keeping the Crowd in Refreshments The Day Blaine Came to the City.
THE biggest crowd Guy Montani ever saw on Washington St. was back in 1884 when James G. Blaine, a Presidential candidate, showed up in Indianapolis. Mr. Montani knows what he’s talking: about because
he was 15 years old at the time, and helped his father run the fruit stand at the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian Sts." His father's: name . was Ferdinand, and his mother’s Isabella—just one of
those funny things that happen in ‘some families, says Mr. Montani. Mr. Montani remembexs that the lerowd was big that day that he had to e ‘three trips to H. H. | Lee’s tea store. He brought back | a dollar's worth of powdered sugar each trip. The sugar was used to sweeten the lemonade. > tani also remembers that they sold | almost as many milk shakes that : | day. That’s how thirsty the crowd my. Scherrer was. Besides that, the crowd : cleaned them out of apples and peanuts, which was going some, because the Montahi fruit stand was the
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| biggest of its kind at the time. Indeed, it was so big
| that it had to have two awnings. I can explain that, too. The fruit stand turned the corner and caught the Washington St. trade as well as that coming up Meridian St.—see? Well, with political parades and everything else coming their way, the Montanis began to expand, and opened a grocery--first on Massachusetts Ave. and then on N. Alabama St. By that time, too," thay got around to having a stand on the City Market. I couldn’t believe my ears when Mr. Montani said that this year marks the 38th anniversary of their Market stand. That's a long time, said Mr. Montani. Long enough, in fact, for a whole new generation of customers to grow up, and that’s exactly what's happened because today Mr. Montani is doing, most of his business ‘with the descendants of those'who at tended the opening of his Market stand.
Tarkington's Coffee Unchanged
Even more surprising is the fact. that the second generation asks for the same things their mothers used to buy. Booth Tarkington, for instance, insists on a blend of coffee composed of Brazilian Bourbon and Medellini Bogota with just a suspicion of selected Buck from Colombia, which, as near as Mr. Montaini oan gempmber, is exactly what his parents used to The subject of coffee (and tea, too, for that mate ter) is something right up Mr. Montani’s alley. He still likes to think that almost eve he knows ‘about coffee he got straight from Henry Schwinge, a competitor who used to run a fancy grocery on N. Pennsylvania St. And the joke of it is,.says Mr. Montani, that everything Mr. Schwinge knew about coffee he got straight from H. H. Lee. | Well, the secret of Mr. Lee’s good coffee (transmitted to Mr. Schwinge and Mr. Montaini) was that you mustn't use «too many dead beans, Grade II has the least number; Grade III more, of course; and I'd hate to tell you about Grade IV. There isn’t any- Grade I. A dead bean isn’t of any more use than a dud in a bunch of Srevrackes, says Mr, Montani.
Jane Terdan—
Women Not Always Happy With Husbands Who Are Good Providers.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young man of 20, There is a certain girl whom I am crazy about, but she goes with another boy of 22. He doesn’t like to work and he does like to drink. The girl's parents do not want him to go with her. I asked her many times for a date but he was always ahead of me; but finally I was lucky enough to get one. [I asked her to marry me but she wouldn’t answer. She said she had another question to answer, too, and didn’t know which one of us to take. She told her mother about it and her mother told her to take me as I knew more about making a living than the other boy. Still she tries to make love to both of us and won’t answer my question. Should I wait for an answer, or just get another girl and forget ahout her? I have seen her about 14 times since I proposed. . ROYAL ,
Answer—In my opinion it is a mistake for a young man to pursue a young lady who shows so little enthusiasm for his suit. Since I do not know the people involved, I can’t be sure; but it looks as if the “girl knows intellectually that you are the better man but that her instinctive urge is for the other suitor. The instincts, unfortunately, will not always obey the dictates of the intellect, particularly in the matter of love A girl can’t decide to love a man because her mother thinks he will make a good living, or because she knows him to be reliable. She can’t decide not to love a man because he drinks and is unreliable, She can decide not to marry the unreliable suitor and trust to time to cure her; but until she is cured of her infatuation she will not make a good wife for another man. The fact that this young lady does not love you spontaneously is no reflection on your attractions, which may be much more readily appreciated by It simply means that for some reason you do not meet her instinctive requirements in love. There are plenty of other girls, and among them, doubtless, there is one who would respond to you in a more satisfactory manner. Look for her. EJ # » ie : EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 22 years and have been married for six months. We were separated for a whole month shortly after we were married, and we don’t get along together now. I have worked. every day in trying to make a home, but I have found this to be impossible. I am not happy. My husband brings home money, but money is not everything in life.. I try to please him, but it seems impossible. Should I try to live with him or not? LONELY.
Answer—I do not know. You haven't given me the slightest inkling of what your trouble is. It may be that the two: of you could get along nicely if you understood each other better. I can’t advise you te leave your husband when I don’t know.whether he is a hopeless case or not. I have used your letter for the benefit of “Royal” to illustrate the fact that a woman ‘is not always ‘happy with a man who is a good provider and generous with his money. She wants more than support. I wish I could help you, but I haven't enough ine formation to know what to say. JANE JORDAN, \
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will , answer your questions in this column daily.
Walter O ‘Coelol-
OLLYWOOD, Feb. 28—The ‘Washington social season held -one of its biggest coming out parties the other night:for Paul McNutt, the first debutante to step into the limelight for the Presidential nomis : mnt ding rent ob of tig en velt is a great job of f the man in the street, but Mr. McNutt knows that be-
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