Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1938 — Page 9
pa Mr. Pyle
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From diana = Ernie Pyle
150 Girls, Using Paint of 1500 Hues, Color the Disney Movies: Filming Picture Is Tedious Task.
“HoLLYwoOD, March 1.—As soon as the artists finish drawing a sequence in’a
* Walt Disney animated cartoon, the sheets ~of pictures go to the inking and painting de-
And here is a strange little world. It is
peopled by 150 girls, sitting two at a desk with a _morth light over their shoulders.
These girls work on sheets of celluloid. The
sheets are the same size as the paper sheets the artists worked on. Every sheet of drawing paper or celluloid used in the Disney studic has two holes along the hottom. These holes are fitted over pegs on the drawing board, and this automatically keeps them in perfect line for tracing. A girl slips a picture over the pegs on her desk, then fits a sheet of celluloid over the pegs right on top of the drawing. Then with ink she traces that drawing—exactly—on the sheet of celluloid. She takes it off and lays it up to dry, and traces a new picture. All day long she does this. Part of these 150 girls do this tracing; the rest do painting. The painters take the dried tracings, “and put on them the vivid colors you see on the
screen.
Each girl has just a certain spot or two to paint.
4 Then the celluloid is laid up to dry. Later it goes to
another girl, who paints a different spot. A picture
. of a single character will require as many as 30 colors. = The studio uses nearly 1500 shades of coloring. . ‘buys raw pigment and does its own grinding and
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After these paintings (called ‘“cels”) are all fin- . ished and dried, they go to- the photo rooms. And * here is where my biggest surprise came. I had ‘supposed they pasted all these drawings together, got them onto some kind of movable rack, and ran
he “them upright past the camera in a long string.
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Cameras Resemble Canning Machines
:. No such thing. Every picture is photographed separately—as a still picture. It’s on a roll of movie . film, of course. But instead of starting the camera
* and running off many feet of film as in other movies,
* they just photograph one shot at a time. And eight
. feet an hour is good shooting for a Disney camera.
I've. seen whole rows of cameras here, but I've
“ yet to see one that even slightly resembled a camera.
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Most of them are great upright steel frame-. . works. They look like the factory machine that put
ids on canned fruit. An operator sits at a chair in
. the slot operating it. The camera lens points down-
ward. A little shelf lies a foot or two below the lens.
This shelf has two pegs. Then he fits one of the
2 =gelluloi sheets (showing Mickey running, say, on
, top of that. If there are other characters in the
. scene, he slips more sheets on top of these. They run "Wp as high as seven celluloids, each with a character
on it in proper position, to make one ‘still picture.
This is called a “frame,” and there are 16 frames
> to a foot of film.
by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
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- New Yorkers Suggest Manufacturers Sell Surplus Merchandise at Cost.
\JEW YORK, Monday—An interesting idea has - % been brought to my attention by a group of peoe in New York City. They suggest that manufacturwho are overstocked at the moment should sell
their surplus merchandise at cost and, in turn, the
* people who buy this merchandise from them should ~ sell it to the public at cost. In this way the purchas-
ing power of people with small salaries would be in_Creased, the manufacturers’ shelves would be cleared ‘and the wheels of certain industries Would begin to © turn again. - In looking over the studies which some economists made, I was interested to see the regular cycles through which many industries pass. A good period, a “saturation period, a bad period, and then a new start.
* Practically all industries apparently overproduce and
then have to stop. But the industries, which make
ey things which are used up most quickly have, of course,
‘the shortest period between the saturation point and (Be new starting point. Because foodstuffs are consumed so steadily, they
; seem to keep farming the only large industry which
x8 not go through some kind of a cycle like the
above. However, the farmer is affected by..other Shines. © My friends, who are suggesting this new plan, are frying to hurry the cycle in certain industries and thus on a production basis. To me, it seems good pn as well as a help to the consumer and to the _ people engaged in production.
Piano Sales Are Up
~The slogan they suggest for this campaign is ®people come before profits.” A good slogan, and a
wise man knows that only when you think of people
first, ‘can you ever make profits. My congratulations good wishes to those who are making this effort. & As long as we are thinking commercially today, snother interesting point has been brought to my attion. The country as a whole, partly because of
radio and partly because of WPA art projects, is be-
‘coming “art minded.” The added interest in music is showing itself in dollars and cents to the manus of musical instruments. In 1937 the public ht 106,009 pianos as contrasted to 27,000 in 1933.
sale of piano-accordions has gone up greatly, the |
r has come back to its own, and even band inuments show an increase in sales—so education pay commercially! I never thought of this before. It is a good point » remember when we are trying to gain greater supfor adult education and the widening of horizons individuals, so that life may be more worth living.
ew Books Today
/EADERS in national .and state government, religion, education, the arts and sciences and ‘professional fields from Colonial. times to the ent are listed in the revised edition of WHITE'S SPECTUS OF AMERICAN BIOGRANY. x While the Conspectus was com rom the Naof American .Biography and all nces given are to the biographies in the cyclothe data in the Conspectus are so comprethat it mhkes a handy reference volume
Other features of the Conspectus are a list of aties negotiated between the United States and countries, with the American signers; a colof pen and sobriquets, and a calendar Sand other Boleverihy events in Ameri-
ee. WONDER BOOK (Halcyon House), Henry
attempts to sum up in one thick volume -
-of mankind, its evolution and its progress. ‘author highlights the evemts of history, literaphilosophy, science, art and nature in readable Style. He seeks to pack into his book ance and drama behind these stories, yet his facts so they are quickly available for
(Editorial, Page’ 10) By Lowell Nussbaum
Times Staff Writer BACK in the Gay Nineties, Indianapolis
from its clean linens; and vowed it would do something about the smoke nuisance. So it got busy and, in 1898, passed a law to abolish smoke. And that was that. Today, 40 years and several laws later, begrimed citizens still are coughing and choking, and wishing something could be done
about “this awful smoke.”
Forty years is a long time to tolerate an ‘evil so costly to life, héalth and property. Why has a city as progressive as Indianapolis been unable to rid the air it breathes of noxious and health-destroying wastes? g » f J = BSERVERS offer two obvious reasons:
1. Its citizens became so accustomed to breathing foul air, peering through murky smog and.
homes, that most of them bécame apathetic to the problem. 2. Those. who suffer are also’ among the culprits. They would like: to see something done about their neighbors’ smoke, but as to their own—that’s different. “Lack of understanding, and indifference”—that’s the way Roy O. Johnson, Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League general manager, sums it up. 2 8 2
AN anything really be done about : it?
With a city-wide program of education in proper stoking of furnaces, adequate city funds for more full-time smoke inspectors, vigorous enforcement of existing laws, Indianapolis could rid itself of 50 per cent of. its smoke in 12 months; 75 per cent within the span of one City Administration, Mr. Johnson believes. A large share of the lack of success is ‘attributed to apathy of City administrations—past and present—their failure to appro--priate sufficient funds or to enforce the City Smoke Code. City officials, weather eye cocked in the direction of the next election, are reluctant to do anything that would outrage the voters, observers explain. . And that’s exactly what they fear strict enforcement of antismoke laws would ‘do—at least until the benefits in health, clean-
choked, gasped, flecked soot
fighting to keep %o0ot out of their -
‘ever with a
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1938
If all the soot which fell on Indianapolis during October, November, December and January were collected in one spot, it would make a pile roughly the same dimensions as the Indiana World War Memorial shaft. During the four-month period, 3937 tons of soot was blown
ing bills and fuel savings became apparent. ® » 8 HE Indianapolis Smoke-Abate-ment League was formed in 1929 by a group of citizens, weary of slow suffocation, and determined to save the city its six and one-half . million-dollar annual smoke loss. This followed some previous unsuccessful -efforts, half-hearted. and ‘ ineffective. : At first their pleas fell on deaf
ears. Then they won a measure of official co-operation; but it ‘was ineffective.
A full-time combustion engineer was appointed. A survey, with WPA aid, was begun last September to determine the City’s worst soot ‘centers. The survey, virtually halted in December because of lack of funds, is getting back in full swing now under a new WPA appropriation. But, although the smoke ordinance, adopted in 1925, is patterned after those of other cities ‘which . have been upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, there have
By David Dietz Times Science Editor ; ASHINGTON, March 1—An eight-point program to reduce the number of highway accidents in the United States is proposed by Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Everyone looks forward to the conquest: of heart disease and cancer and the other diseases of old age. Yet'if the death rate from accident continues to increase, it may some day cause more deaths than these dreaded conditions. Mr. MacDonald’s program includes the following proposals: 1. Uniform state motor vehicle traffic laws. 2. Skilled investigation of traffic accidents. 3.:The establishment of a uniform system of accident reperting. 4. Establishment of an adequate highway patrol including the official inspection of vehicles. 5. Establishment of complete and final authority over the issuance and revocation of drivers’ licenses. 6. A highway improvement program.
U. S. Road Chief Proposes Accident Control Plan
7. A plan of state and: Federal
safety organization adequate to secure on a wide scale the adoption and enforcement of the action program here proposed. 8. A national education. program. » ” » first recommendation Mr. . MacDonald says, can be carried out by adoption of the five uniform motor vehicle acts prepared by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. Mr. MacDonald emphasizes the need for skilled investigation of accidents as an essential prelude to an intelligent and efficient police enforcement program. A uniform system of accident reporting is : recommended in order that statistics may be complete and accurate. + Adequate highway patrols and official inspection of vehicles ‘is regarded as necessary since the most complete code means nothing unless it is properly enforced. - Regarding the highways, Mr. MacDonald urges such: improvements as longer sight distances, safe curves and grades, and widths sufficient for safe passing. °
Side Glances—By Clark
been no prosecutions under it in the last dozen years.
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ITY officials question its enforceability. Yet, twice in the last year, Council unanimously has rejected amending ordinances designed to strengthen it, make it more workable. The first proposed amendments were killed in September, 1937. Last December, another set of amendments was submitted. One provided for use of the Ringlemann Chart, a relatively simple device bearing variously shaded drawings with which smoke can
be compared to determine its {
density. Other amendments defined the point where . smoke becomes a nuisance, :amended previous locomotive smoke regulations,” and - prohibited use of any but smokeless fuel in wategjheaters, garbage burners and artical portable boilers without adequate devices to prevent smoke.
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HE proposals - were voted : down unanimously by -Councilmen with such explanations
as “We don’t want to discourage industry from coming here.” “They didn’t enforce the old one (ordinance), so why bring the new one in.” “There doesn’t ‘seem to be any demand for more smoke control . from anyone except the Smoke Abatement League. It's just a small group of people doing all the kicking.” ; “They said the chart would be _ Placed in the hands of police“men, firemen or anyone, and that is a dangerous thing.”
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NDISMAYED, smoke control advocates have continued their fight, urging an appropriation by Council sufficient to increase the City’s smoke inspection staff from the present one to full ordinance strength of six full-time ‘employees. The league is campaigning to obtain lower prices for coke, a practically smokeless fuel, and to prevent any coke manufactured by the Citizens Gas Utility from being sold to plants outside the city, in an’ attempt to make a reasonably priced supply of the smokeless fuel available to more Indianapolis residents. Thirdly, through the Combustion Institute begun Saturday at Hotel Washington, the league is attempting ‘to carry its: message of
A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE Government owes me $35, according to its own bookkeep-
ing. i Exactly one year ago the Govern-
| ment wrote me a letter explaining
that I had not paid enough tax into one fund and had paid $35 too much in another. . Would I kindly sehd in my, check. at once, and after the proper procedure I might expect: to receive theirs for the amount due me. I complied. That was in March,
1937. The amount due me is yet to :
arrive.
Toni. 16. will come ote day:T am)
perfectly sure, but what I'd like to know is why it takes so long: for our public servants to get thefr work out! There are multiplied ' millions of
them, ‘They are providedwith every
kind of pd iy both human and machine, that enybody could
bly use. ‘And yet, their work is done |
in slow motion.
~ Now I am aware that my measly ; g little $35 is like a drop in the ocean 1
compared to the vast sums . over which these public . servants wor Nevertheless I'd like to have Sa
The other day I . the
question with 8 man who has charge 5 of several defunct banks. He is paid
a decent salary, but he can’t turn Ris hand without
men it couldn't trust tine
@
from ashington about the. ‘most trivial | } details of his job. 2 Now no corporation would hire
A 40-Year-Old Nuisance
Indianapolis’ First Antismoke Law Was Passed i in 1898
\ Entered as Second-Cl at Pastoffic, Indians
from the City’s residential and indusirial chimneys, the City Smoke Survey revealed. With soot weighing an estimated 4 pounds to the
cubic foot, this is the equivalent of 1,968,500 cubic feet of soot.
With
proper furnace firing, most of this costly waste could be eliminated.
smoke abatement into the homes, blamed ‘ by authorities for about half the City’s smoke. The other half is attributed to factories, apartment and office buildings, and the railroads. Every organization in the city has been invited to name delegates to attend the Thursday and Saturday sessions of the institute, hear combustion experts tell how to fire furnaces to avoid smoke and soot, and then to carry the message back to other members of their organizations. # #2 nn
N this way, the league hopes to win the co-operation of from 75,000 to 100,000 householders. ~ Rome. wasn’t built in a day. Nor will Indianapolis succeed in ridding itself’of smoke in a hurry. Back in the days when the auto
was a novelty, there wasn’t much of a traffic problem except for runaway horses frightened by the chugging horseless carriages. - Motorists could drive pretty much as they pleased. Then came thousands, and millions of autos on the highways. Fenders crashed. Pedestrians feared to cross streets. Millions were injured and killed. An aroused public, motorists and nonmotorists alike, demanded action. In response fo that demand,
‘ public officials are making a de-
termined effort to reduce the alarming ‘traffic toll. Smoke control adVocates believe that public opinion just as surely will force official action to rid the city of all unnecessary smoke.
NEXT: Is “Smoke, ra Sign : of
Prosperity?
By E.R. R. ASHINGTON, ' March 1. — Some of the battle lines that will be drawn when the Congress is called upon to act on a new
cal year were clearly foreshadowed in the debate that preceded passage by both Houses of a joint resolution increasing the 1937-1938 relief appropriation by $250,000,000, as requested by the President. The Senate completed action on the bill on Feb. 23, whereupon it went back to the House for concurrence in minor amendments. The bill is expected’ to reach the President -for signature early this week. Republican orators in both Houses took occasion during the relief de-
“Roosevelt depression,” but neither chamber displayed any real reluc-
propriation. The debate and such record votes as were taken indicated, indeed, that the Congress is almost unanimously of the opinion
volume must be continued, perhaps indefinitely. The ~ joint - fesolution .brought three record votes in the Senate, the first being on an amendment by Senator Bone (D. Wash.) to increase the extra amount from $250,"000,000 to $400,000,000. This was
relief appropriation for the next fis-
bate to comment at length upon the:
tance to approve the additional ap-
that work relief in considerable.
Hoosier Senators Soin in Pushing Relief Bill
defeated, 22 yeas to: 53 nays, when the sponsors of the resolution quoted WPA administrators as asserting that the $250,000,000 would be enough to keep all the 1,720,000 now on WPA rolls at work through June 30, and would permit the employment of 500,000 more. Senator Minton (D. Ind.) voted against the Bone amendment. Senator VanNuys (D. Ind.) was not recorded.
8 » 8 PROPOSAL by Senator Bailey (D. N. C.) to require local sponsors to post at least 25 per cent of the cost of projects, unless; exempted by Presidential order, was defeated, 25 yeas to 47 nays, a vote which certainly does not accurately reflect the temper of the Congress with. respect to an eventual requirement of this sort. Numerous Senators who asserted they favored the principle of such an amendment voted against the ‘Bailey proposal on the theory that no great harm would be done by
allowing the status quo to prevail
for the few months remaining in this fiscal year. Neither Senator Minton nor Senator VanNuys was recorded on the Bailey amendment. On final passage, the Senate voted the extra appropriation : almost
unanimously, Senator Bailey casting
the sole opposing vote.
Jasper—By Frank Owen
her.
Inflation has hit the European card
Second Section:
Matter Ind.
Our Town
ly Anton Scherrer A Disciission on White Rats—or White Mice, if You Will—Recalls «+ The Many Pets Children Once Had.
PROPOS of nothing ‘at all, Mrs. Simon Baus started talking about white rat S
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the other night.
“You mean white mice,” said T butting ix “I mean white rats,” said she, with 3
finality which I have learned to recognize 2
the particular gift of women, Well, it seems that once upon a time, the vounger
ahi of the Bauses wanted a pair of white Tag
ore than anything else in the world. She had her’ way, too. The were kept in a nice white-
rats a box, said Mrs. Baus, and
everything appeared O. K. until one day the family had reason to believe that the box needed a general housecleaning. Mrs. Baus not only cleaned the box, but whitewashed it again. And what do you think happened? The very next day there were nine (9) little rats in the box in addition to the initial investment. The little Baus girl took the nine little while ts to school and sold them for a nickel apiece, which hasn't anything to do with the story. | Well, that moved Anns Hasseiman to tell what she knew about white rats. | “You mean white mice,” said I. | “I mean white rats,” said she. Miss Hasselman, it turns out, also wanted a pair of white rats when she was a little girl. Her father kicked like everything: wheén he heard of it, and
Mr. Scherrer |
said he didn’t want a pair of anything around the
house. Miss Hasselman kept after him, however, and finally gained her point—at any rate, one-half of it. She said her father compromised, and let her ‘have one rat.
Merchants Even Kept Them
| Like the Baus family, Miss Hasselman also kept her rat in a whitewashed box, and one day she, too, had reason to believe that it needed another coat of whitewash. Sure, it. got it. And what do you think happened? The very. next day there were eleven (11) new little rats (in the box. | Miss Hasselman thought it would upset her father, but it didn’t at all. He took it good-naturedly and said he guessed his daughter picked the wrong kind of rat to start with. | I bring up the/subject of white rats (mice) at this time because if there is anythihg that makes the kids of today different from those I.was brought up with, it is the matter of household pets. The kids of today don’t have anything like the number of pets we used to have. We ran the whole gamut—dogs, cals, pigeons, rabbits, white mice -and once I remember a boy traded his bicycle for a monkey. Even the merchants around here went in for pets when I was a boy. The “Original Eagle,” the clothing Store Arthur Strauss” father used to run, always had a live eagle in its window, and Schrader’s china store, I remember, had as fine a collection of gold fish as any I've ever seen. There was a drug store, too, on E. Washington St., that used to keep a pair of raccoons out in front, and Henry Schwinge always had a lot of canaries in his grocery. Why, just the other day Guy Montani told me that once upon a time he
saw Mr. Schwinge pull $500 in bills out of his pocket,
and ‘when asked what he was going to do with the money, he said he was going to buy canaries.
Jane Jordan— | Write and Express Your Feelings,
Wife Wanting to Rejoin Mate Told,
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 24 years old and was married for five years to a very nice fellow. I was a good housewife and my husband and I got along nicely ‘until he became jealous over nothing at all. I gave him no reason to be jealous. He nagged til I started going with a fellow older than myself. This fellow is nice looking and nice to me, but I on’t love him. My husband and I separated and he went out of town to live with his relatives. Recently he got a divorce. I am still in love in him. 1 know never would have happéned if we had talked ngs over and seen our faults. I never hear from him but I know I won’t be happy unless I get him back. Should I write or try to see him? UNHAPPY.
Answer—You have discovered that hindsight is better than foresight. But unfortunately we.cannot retrace our steps to the point where we turned in the direction and proceed as if nothing had hap< bi. | The past cannot be wiped out. Even if you ed in getting your husband back, you will have a different set of circumstances to face, Lost cone fidence is not easily regained. You went with another man in order to punish your husband. As soon’ as your purpose was accoms= plished you no longer longed for the man. I do not know whether your husband will consider trying marriage with ‘you again or not. If he does, you have not only the same old problems that you failed to solve when you lived with him but a new problem as well—your husband’s | ‘mistrust founded on fact instead of fancy. | In other words, it is now your husband who feels the need to get even. If he marries you again he has it in his power to make you more miserable than before. A man seldom gets over the indignity of his wife’s unfaithfulness. . Your husband was a jealous man even before you gave him cause. What will he pe like now aftes so. much heartache and bitterness as passed between you? If, after you have faced the extra difficulties you have made for yourself you still want him back, all ou do is to write and tell him how you feel. You Jo get a slap in the face for your efforts. On the Qther hand you may get another chance. Who knows.
” ” » EAR JANE JORDAN~I am a girl of 16. About six months ago I met a boy of 18. We went
together for a while but not steady. A little more than a month ago he stopped coming to see me. He
3 Tiendly UL het I think I am in love with
and I can hardly stand to see him act as if we were merely acquaintances. There is nothing so wonderful about him, He is nice looking but not handsome, and he is somewhat bossy. Will I ever forget him? PUZZLED.
1 Answer—Fret not. You will forget him as soon as nother nice looking and somewhat bossy lad takes his place. It is impossible for a 16-year-old girl ta on yearning for a boy who pays no attention to Almost every girl has had the same experie e at some time or other. I am sure your discome is temporary. - JANE ‘JORDAN.
Put problems tn & Jefer to Jung Jorden, whe will | daily. i
; an 8 Joue problems. in this column
ternal politics, and now Ler headache has by the introduction of five-suit Bb dge. tables, and
e old-fashioned deck of 52 is being discarded for .
“& new one of 65. It’s a all surprising when rth
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