Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1938 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1038

THE BOARD’S RESPONSIBILITY : E heartily second the suggestion made by the Indian- : apolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs concerning the selection of a successor to the late Alfred M. Gloss- : brenner on the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility board of

trustees. . : In its letter to the board, the Federation urges that

the person selected be “definitely comnitied to the principle of public ownership of utility services.” It seems to us equally important that the new trustee be, in addition, a man who regards a public utility as belonging to the public and one who is willing to take the public into his confidence about its operation. Unfortunately the gas and coke boards have not always remembered that public. business is the public's business. Since Mayor Boetcher must name Mr. Glossbrenner’s successor from a list of recommendations by the board of ‘trustees, the primary responsibility for finding such a public-minded person rests with the board.

MRS. BUCK’S PRIZE : a BESTOWAL of the coveted Nobel Prize in literature upon id Pearl S. Buck will be accepted by American readers generally as an occasion for sincere pleasure and congratulations. Mrs. Buck now is placed on a new, even if arbitrary, eminence alongside Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O’Neill, the two other Americans so honored since the award first was made in 1901. This recognition will accelerate the reading of her books throughout the world, and we are well satisfied to have so fine a work as “The Good Earth”—not to discriminate against her others—thus pointed to attention everywhere as an American book. Any award naturally directs the mind toward possible alternatives. It would be idle to say that our three Nobel winners are, in fact, the greatest Americans in letters. Equally idle would it be to dispute that assertion. Among contemporary and recent authors who haven't received the prize are Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Dos Passos, Ellen Glasgow and Edith Wharton. They also have written literature to be proud of, and the list is not exhausted. Their names make Mrs. Buck’s laurels all the greener.

THE SEAL CAMPAIGN N his latest series called “Uncle Sam, M. D.,” David Dietz, science writer for The Times, made this startling statement about tuberculosis: “Each year in the United States 40,000 young men and women between the ages of 15 and 45 die of tuberculosis. Yet, medical authorities everywhere agree that we know how to stamp out tuberculosis and end forever the terrible toll of this dread disease.” ‘The Marion County Tuberculosis Association is one of the organizations that has helped in the long fight on this disease and contributed to the knowledge of how it can be controlled. Last year, through its efforts,- the death rate from tuberculosis was again reduced in Indianapolis by 1 per cent. But, altheugh the 78 deaths per 100,000 compare favorably with other large cities, the rate is still too high. It can be still further reduced if the problem is Ygorously and intelligently attacked. The Association’s annual sale of Chrittinas seals, opening Thursday, permits all of us to enlist i in this great work.

REPRIEVE FOR MICKEY

ICKEY MOUSE, Donald Duck and Popeye the Sailor have received a stay of execution in Italy. The Fascist censors have exempted them, temporarily, from the ban on imported comics. We're glad that the children of Italy are to enjoy these cheerful visitors from America for at least a little longer. The children of Italy must be greatly in need of every bit of fun they can get. Even for the little people, life under a dictatorship is a pretty grim affair. And if the reprieves are to continue, as the Fascist censors say, until acceptable Italian substitutes are developed, that may be a long, long time. We wonder whether anyone -in Italy has enough lightness of heart left to animate such creatures of innocent whimsy as Mickey and Donald and Popeye.

A BOOST FOR BOOKS

x OR 20 years colleges, libraries, publishers, authors and I others have campaigned against what they considered unfairly high postage rates on books. Mailing books cost “from 7 to 15 cents a pound, depending on the zone of defife livery. oA five-pound package of Bibles mailed from New York

‘age. Five pounds of pulp-paper magazines could be sent the same distance for 8 cents. 3 Now, by an executive order, President Roosevelt has cut the domestic postage rate on books to a flat 114 cents a . pound. The reduction applies until the end of this fiscal ‘year, next June 30. It may surprise a good many people to discover that the President has, among his many powers, the power ‘to change a postal rate by a stroke of his pen. ~~ But this change, as the President says, should stimulate “cultural growth, education and development of the ‘American people.” Bibles and other books ought to ride ‘the mails as cheaply as “Sloppy Love Stories.” And so, even though the Post Office figures that it may lose $500,000 in revenue at the new book rate, we think it will be pretty enerally agreed that in this case Mr. Roosevelt has used his power wisely.

UTO SHOW NOTE

NCREASING automobile sales indicate the average citi2 - zen has discovered international crises and doom appear Sepia | if the upholste 5 corlan Pp ry is wap...

to San Francisco, for instance, required 65 cents in post-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

The Game Is Pretty Much the Same, but Sad Change Is Noted In Other Matters at Yale Bowl EW YORK, Nov. 22.—In some ways it was like

old times at the Yale Bowl Saturday afternoon and in other ways it wasn’t.

Of course it rained, and that was like old times,’ but the football game itself was so much like the

games that Harvard and Yale played yesteryear that Rl ‘might have been yesteryear for a fact. The Harvards did a rugby trick consisting of a forward

pass to a man who ran until he was tackled, and], ‘then, with a Yale embracing his knees, tossed the

ball to another man who stretched the gain until he was knocked outside. The Harvards used to do that yesteryear, catching the Yales flatfooted, and this seemed to be a revival of an old reel out of the archives. After this gain the Harvards lose the ball on downs, and Johnny Garvey of Yale resumed his attacks at the line. Garvey gains four yards in a cutback off tackle. Second down, six. ‘It's Garvey off tackle again for three yards. Third down, three. Garvey picked up another yard off tackle. His intereference interfered with him very nicely there, and it is now fourth down, two, and Yale punts to Harvard’s 45. ” ” ”

OME on, Garvey,” your correspondent yelled at i one point, and an old Yale Blue sitting in the" row behind poked your correspondent between the shoulders with the stem of his pipe and said, “That isn’t Johnny Garvey. Garvey passed into the drifting mists of time 10 years ago.”

“Well, it certainly looks like Garvey,” your correspondent said. “Well, it isn’t Garvey,” the old Yale said. Yale, rah!” “But what about that Harvard rugby thing?” your correspondent asked. “That was French-Guarnaccia, wasn’t it? Don’t tell me that wasn’t French to Guarnaccia.” “No,” said the old Yale, pulling a bath towel from under his neck and wringing a quart of rain into the cuffs of his paints. “No,” he said, “it wasn’t French to Guarnaccia. It was Harvard. Ruh! ruh! ruh! Haw-vud. Haw-vud.” “Now,” said your correspondent at the intermission, “we will see the Yale drunk’chase the squirrel across the field and score a touchdown with his hat.” “No,” the old Yale said. “I am afraid you won't.”

“No? Did he grow up?” ‘8 ® 8

1 afraid not,” he said, “They never grow up. They grow -old, but not up. Sir, you have the honor of addressing the Yale varsity drunk of 1927, a year of tough competition, as you will remember, I caught the squirrel in my varsity year. I have old clippings from the Herald-Tribune to prove it. It bit me and I bit it back. But other times, other ways. Where have you been keeping yourself, anyway? The position of Yale drunk was abolished when repeal came in.”

It seemed a great pity, nor was that the only change, although the fundamentals, such as the character of the play and the informal straggling of the bands remained the same. The old Harvards and Yales used to crowd the bowl come fair weather or foul. But now both ends were vacant and one could only indulge in melancholic speculation whether they now had too little money or too much sense to sit in the autumn rain at the game of games.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Policy Sound, but Reciprocal Trade Treaties Will Not Work Miracles.

TEW YORK, Nov. 22 The reciprocal trade treaty with Great Britain and her self-governing dominions and her 50 colonies is rather too lengthy and is sprung upon the public in too much of a lump to enable commentators to make any just appraisal of it.

One point is important to keep in mind. The British make much of what they call the political side of the pact. They are justified, after a fashion, for the American Government set the stage to encourage this interprefation. But this is a mistake. This is merely one of 19 reciprocal trade treaties—with Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and many Scuth and Central American countries. There was no political significance in these other treaties. There is none in this one. The second point has to do with agriculture. We will have to hear from the agricultural interests before we can form an unbiased view of the effects of the treaty. The most striking feature .at first glance is the abolition of Britain's duty on wheat. But only at first glance. - It will probably make no very great difference. Various wheat-raising countries—Argentina and Canada chiefly—have immense wheat surpluses as we have had and have been dumping wheat on the British market.. We have been dumping too, selling wheat below the world price in England and subsidizing our wheat farmers on that dumped part of their surplus.

Corn Growers Should Be Helped

The treaty will aid corn and fruit growers. much, of course, remains to be seen. It will be interesting to watch the effect of the reduction of tariffs on textiles upon our cotton growers and producers. The argument for admitting British textiles is that they are limited to very high grade

“It is

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L cotton fextiles which do not come into competition

with our lower-grade goods. This part of the treaty will doubtless not affect so severely Southern cotton textile plants, but it may be rzasisted by New England plants which go in for the higher grades. A third point is this. There is no sound argument that can be made to the principle of reciprocal trade treaties. Even the most confirmed tariff advocates have been for reciprocal duties for years, William McKinley, for instance. The whole idea is sound. What is dangerous is to delude the people into supposing that the economic effect will be greater than it

can hope to be. The actual effect of the treaty upon

the trade of both countries will not be very great— beneficial but not commanding.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

F I'D ONLY KNOWN THAT AT EIGHTEEN” is the title of an article by Helen Hulett Searl in the current Independent Woman Magazine. It presents interviews with notable women who voice regrets over some form of ignorance in youth. ! It’s a fascinating question to ask oneself, and might hold the makings of an entertaining evening for a group of friends—in case you're looking for new ideas for a party. Confidentially, I wish I had known enough at 18 to realize that only today belongs to us. Thousands of times I had read the sentence, as well as pages discussing it, yet never in the least was I able to comprehend its meaning. Like most girls of my time, I went around in day dreams, wishing for some beautiful tomorrow, expect= ing a miracle to happen that would open for me some fairy world in which I would exist happily all the remainder of my days. Long after maturity the habit continued. Perhaps it goes on in everyone—the same sort of wishful thinking, the same disregard for reality. As for me, every morning I had all the materials for complete happiness right within reach: A loving husband, three healthy children, a comfortable home, pleasant work to do, friends, books, sunshine and butter for my bread. Yet, looking back, it seems to me I spent entirely too much [time fretting about nothing at all, hoping that something more wonderful would happen to me tomorrow, when nothing more wonderful could happen.

You know—all that silly repining over nothing. And now, after Death has come in at my door, taking my dearest happiness, I look k, wondering ‘how I i so blind.

— Gen. ; oh 2,

| =—Happy Chandler, ‘country would do well to keep eyes on that young gent.

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: . > The Hoosier Forum disagree with what you say, but will ¢ defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

URGES MORE WOMEN ON LOCAI: SYMPHONY

By William H. Davis Jr. The old photograph of the first

‘Indianapolis Symphony which was

reproduced in The Times recently, with the article by Mr. Thrasher, interested me greatly. As a member of the younger generation of music listeners, having consistently followed good music for at least 20 of my 26 years, I was interested in Mr. Thrasher’s tale of the vicissitudes of various Indianapolis symphonic groups in the days before my time.

Even today it is far from an easy matter to establish a symphony, despite the very sizeable increase of interest in orchestral music which has occurred during the past few years in America,

tbut the building of the new Indian-

apolis Symphony Orchestra. is testimony to the fact that many of the obstacles which presented themselves in former days have been overcome.

What interested mie most in this article was discovered after a careful perusal of the picture ‘of the 1896 orchestra. As well as I can make out, there were at least a dozen women musicians in this orchestra of 60 players. This is, indeed, something to note well! It sets one in wondering why, some 20 years before women won the right to vote, there were more women in an orchestra of 60 than are employed in our present Indianapolis Symphony of 80 players. It has been some 20 years since women won the vote, but apparently the right to play in an orchestra has been samewhat abridged. Perhaps there were not enough men available in 1896, but certainly there. are many, many more women musicians, of high professional standard, available today than in the past.

I know it has not been. the rule

1for most of our best orchestras to

employ women, but a few have already seen the light, notably the Detroit Symphony, and have begun to add women string players (not just harpists) to their orchestras. This year our local orchestra will have fewer women than ‘last year. Certainly the supply has not been mysteriously cut off. I hope I am not correct, but it certainly appears to me that Mr. Sevitzky has allowed some of the ideas on the status of women of old to creep into his mind when selecting players for his orchestra.

Indianapolis has a new and successful orchestra. I believe I am expressing the feelings of many Indianapolis citizens when I say: Mr. Sevitzky, give your orchestra a new spirit; give our accomplished wonien musicians a<*chance!

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Make - your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

LAUDS DELEGATION TO PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY By Pedro A. DeLaCruz

At this time when the European countries are still suffering from the reactions of a war nightmare, when the totalitarian countries continue preying on the weak and indefensive countries, when their propaganda agents are striving to set up their political and economic views in Latin American countries, our President shows again his wisdom in choosing a delegation of great Americans, irrespective of their political affiliations, who will represent our country at the PanAmerican Conference at Lima. Among the delegates headed by Cordell Hull, our Secretary of State, are Alf M. Landon, Mr. Roosevelt's opponent in the 1936 Presidential campaign; the Rev.John F, O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Miss Kathryn Lewis, daughter of the labor leader, John L. Lewis; Dan W. Tracy, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Steinhardt, American Ambassador to Peru; Norwek, American Minister to the Domini-

WEALTH By HAZEL TROUTMAN HORICK

There’s molten gold on a maple sea, And silver streams from a tall birch tree. The sumac bush has garnets rare, And emeralds shoot from a pine tree there. | : An old stone wall is now complete In a scarlet robe of bittersweet, ¢ Near by an oak in russet gown Is nature’s queen of great renown, And at her fee in clusters blue Wild. grapes as sweet as honey-dew Drip nectar fit for gods to sup From silver urn or acorn cup. Riches like these we all may see In autumn’s wealth of majesty.

DAILY THOUGHT

One generation passeth away, .and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever.— Ecclesiastes 1:4. |

HAT must be shall be; and that which ‘is a necessity to! him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

—Seneca.

can Republic; and other well known Americans. Furthermore, President Roosevelt took a broad step across the Caribbean Sea, and named Emilio. del Toro Cuevas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. -

This action on the part of our President is most commendable, hecause in sending such a delegation to Lima, he did not have in mind his political party, but the interest of the American people. Latin America will be pleased and honored, especially with the representation of two illustrious and eloquent orators, Father O’Hara and Emilio del Toro Cuevas.

Pan-Americanism is a doctrine of vital importance to the people of the United States as well as to the people of Latin American countries. It behooves us to think and act in terms .of cordiality and friendship toward our South American neighbors. Peace, happiness and prosperity in this Western Hemisphere will be accomplished by means of Pan-Americanism. The rich and fertile countries of Latin America offer great opportunities to the youth of the United States of America. Let us build the link that will connect the chain of our mutual future peace and happiness in this hemisphere.

: » » » CRITICIZES WPA WORK AT RIVERSIDE PARK By Park Enthusiast

As a long-time champion of conservation, why doesn’t The Times send a representative out to Riverside at once and see what depredations are going on through WPA and if ‘possible help Indianapolis citizens stop this destruction of one of Indiana’s most beautiful parks and golf courses? A movement is starting early next week by golfers and other park enthusiasts to see if this terrible thing that is happening to beloved Riverside cannot be blocked, even to the extent of a court injunction if necessary. Won't you please put your shoulders to the wheel and help?

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|NOTE FROM A NOT TOO

FOND ADMIRER By W. A. Poe In regard to your editorial in the Nov. 17 Times, ‘Business Stays Better” . . . Yes it does. In spite of the rotten Scripps-Howard outfit, the rotten National Administration, the rotten State Administration, the rotten City Administration. This is one time the “Russian” Times spoke the truth. That ’s a rare occurrence with such papers as are in the Scripps-Howard outfit of demagogs.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

YOUR OPINION —

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ing to do with the speech organs.

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organs as anyone but have fears and inhibitions which interfere with easy speech. Parents and teachers are believed to cause stuttering very often by scolding and ridiculing. 2 » 2 ON THE WHOLE I should think adaptability, because, if one has the adaptability to make good on a job, he usually has the ability to-do so. Many a man who

‘has more ability than the job re-

quires fails because he cannot adapt himself to his fellow workers or to the boss. ” ” ” NO. Poetry has no definite “aim” except to express the truth, goodn wonder and beauty of the world through the soul of the poet. The ditch-digger, mechanic, farmer and scholar alike seldom

realize that they get most of their|

world-wisdom, their deepest conceptions of life and its meaning, from

‘| their national poets. When as chil-

dren we read the poems in our school books we were learning unconsciously the deepest and highest conceptions of life that men have taught each other — its sweetness and sorrow, comedy and tragedy, defeat and. glory. This is the mission ‘office, Butt not: the aim of poss

Says—

Happy Chandler, Kentucky's Young Governor, a Man to Watch Despite His Defeat by Senator Barkley. EW YORK, Nov. 22.—On the train returning from

Chicago to New York, I ran into an old friend Governor of Kentucky. The

He ran for the nomination of Senator against “Dear Alben” Barkley. This Administration had forced on a reluctant Senate the election of Senator

‘Barkley as Democratic Party leader after the death of

Joe: Robinson—and got by over the Senate’s real choice, Pat Harrison, by only one vindictive vote. It simply could not afford to have any Young Turk in Kentucky oust Senator Barkley in his native state. First, the President asked Happy not to run—said he was young and “would be taken care of” later. Happy replied-that it was advice the boss, himself, had never accepted and he respectfully declined.

So the Administration proceeded to shoot the works to defeat Happy. It poured $375,000,000 of relief and other funds into Kentucky, added 100,000 to the payrolls and in various other ways forced politics into relief and Federal expenditures in a way that shocked the country.

Happy Chandler lost the election. But he gained millions .of dollars worth of advertising and became a national figure. 2 #8 =» : “UE ENATOR BARKLEY was forced into opposition to a bill to bar politics from relief and, in that argument, to utter words that probably ruined forever any chance that he may have had for any Democratic nomination for the Presidency—except a forced nomi=nation. The 1938 elections seem to show that any

dictated nominee is a defeated nominee—from the

very start. -

Happy made a spectacular campaign, six to eight speeches a day on a plan to “shake hands with every voter in Kentucky.” In the midst of that fight he was poisoned—arsenic—there is no doubt whatever about that. It is probable that, except for the obvious charge that this was a publicity stunt, he would have won. He sang and he smiled and he back-slapped and shook hands. But there was nothing artificial about this. The Governor has always loved to sing and he has a sweet and mellow voice which makes everybody like to hear him sing. He smiles because his heart has always been gay. But he neither back-slaps nor shakes hands with enemies—he fights them. 8» 8 LL the trainmen and all the station attendants in New York flocked around him admiringly. People everywhere now know him affectionately. That counts for any young man trying to get along in politics. On the administrative side, he has been a good Governor. That is hardly contested by anybody. He found his state with a debt of 29 millions. It has been reduced to six millions and Kentucky is living within her income. The state will be out of debt next year. That also counts in this country today. I may be prejudiced in Happy’s favor. Largely through his efforts and those of Bob Vaughn of Louisville, NRA was made a splendid success in Kentucky. But I have also long greatly admired my friend, Senator Barkley. There is no longer any competition be tween them except as 1940 looms and so this piece isn’t personally partisan, It is only written to suggest that Happy Chandler may be an important figure in the future-it not in 1940, then later.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ‘Rumor of Grid Strike in Pitt's Cathedral of Culture Jarring Note,

ITTSBURGH, Nov. 22.—“Oh, Harvard was old P Harvard when Yale was but a pup.” This is the first line of an old college drinking song. At least it has always been my stanch position that all college songs are drinking songs. They sound flat if done on water and with premeditation. But this year I did not sing. There is no solace in solitary singing. - For the.first time in many seasons it was impossible for me to be physically present at the battle between the Blue and Crimson. So, sitting in a steam-heated room, I heard the broadcast. But, in spite of the skill of many radio commentators, I am always let down when the expert at the mike describes a beautiful formation and relates in detail just who did it td whom, only to end up, “From where I sit I think the ball has been advanced half a yard.” My feeling of loneliness is further increased by ~ being for the moment resident in Pittsburgh, the home of the University of Pittsbugh, in which all the liberal arts are housed in one great skyscraper. Hereabouts this vast, high pressure, scholastic experiment is known as “the cathedral of culture.” And so I am a little startled to read that the finest freshe man team which any educational institution ever pos« sessed is about to go on strike. My first impression was that the lads intended to picket on the proposition that a good tackle deserves a living wage. That is. less than accurate.

It Seems Quite Complicated The quarrel, as far as I can gather, is somewhat:

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more complicated. Each member of the expert fresh

man football squad, including one basketball player, paid off. the bursar with a promissory note for $150 upon matriculating. This was the first installment upon the modest payment asked for education.’ But now the freshman football schedule is almost over, and the bursar is saying, “How about a little dough?” The boys are both startled and indignant. 0 mass strike seems about to burst under the slogan, “Quit your kidding.” The man who made five touche downs thinks he has paid his Latin hill. If I can interpret the revolt I think it might best be expressed with the, remark, “Why should we pay for the blue-plate educational luncheon when we have been so busy with our gridiron duties that we haven't had a chance to munch a scholastic olive?” Accordingly, I sit at home, glum but hopeful, and say to myself, “Hold ‘em, Harvard!”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein :

RE z4renLy it has been stated that chilling of the human body is bad for health. Apparently ‘the human being is comfortable with a constant average temperature of 98.6 degrees F. Any deviation from this temperature for a long period will bring aboyg" serious changes in- the body. y Some Florida investigators, including Dr. BTaylor, have made some studies to determine ex.’ the effects of long continued swimming in cold w: on the occurrence of infections in the ears and in i sinuses. An attempt was made to determine the e fects of chilling on 250 children under 13 years of ag whose temperatures were taken before and after period of 45 minutes devoted to swimming in an in door pool with the temperature of the water at 73 degrees F. Only 30 of these children were able'tp main« tain a normal temperature. All of the others de-

| veloped a decrease in the body temperature.

Experimental studies were made to determine the effects of such chilling on the blood and the ability of the person under such circumstances to resist ine fection. Muscular activity carried on during the chilling process helps to prevent, infection. When, however, the body is chilled without exercise, there is a tendency for the number of White blood cells ta be steadily diminished. The white blood. cells are important in relationship fo the prevention of infection. In general it is believed that chilling of the body is much more serious for those with chronic infections of the nose and throat than for a person who is in an excellent state of health. | People who are susceptible to chilling should avoid the wearing of low shoes with thin stockings. These people will suffer even after having a haircut, after washing the hair, after ‘being sul ect to the coolness ol me alr, -