Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1939 — Page 19

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“.iFrom Indiana = Ernie Pyle

He Almost Has a Blowout, Thereby Fulfilling a Prophecy, but It Gives Him a Good Laugh on Tire Thief.

(CHICKASHA, Okla, April 21.—You remember not long ago a column from San Antonie about a tire testing crew? And I didn’t take a ride with them because they said they couldn't promise me a blowout ingide a week? And I said phooey, I might have one sooner than that myself? Well, it just goes to show you shouldn't dangle We didn’t actually have a blowout. But we sensed it just in time. And I had to buy a new tire and throw the old one away. We were on mud roads in south Oklahoma, and it was one of those all-day deluges of rain. The sky was ominous and black and you felt the world was coming to an end. We noticed a rhythmic thumpthump in the car. Nothing very pronounced. I couldn't tell whether it was an engine bearing, or maybe a rear wheel bearing. I wouldnt know even if I got out and looked, so I didn't look. We stopped in a little town for gas, and started on again, without looking. But, a mile sut of town, the thump-thump Lecame so marked that the books back of the seat were jumping up and down, steadily.

like valves in an engine. We turned around and went back to town and |

. into a garage. The men jacked up the back wheels. |

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and started them spinning. And there on the | inside of the left hand tire, were two separate knots ; as big as your fist. | We took the tire off. Only a thin wall was still | holding. It certainly would have gone out in another | five miles. And us on mud roads. pouring rain, ana | with a skiddy machine. Fate takes care of little boys like me. The tire had gone 17.000 miles. The last set of | tires I had went 26.500, and were still good when we changed them. | The garageman said the trouble probably was caused by running over a rock when the tire was | brand new. But if running over rocks will ruin tives, | I'd have to carry a trailer full of tires behind me. Why, out West we've driven for days over nothing | but rocks. | There i§ just one thing about this blowout | which makes me laugh up my sleeve. You might | remember how, last fall, somebody stole our right | rear tire off the wheel, and put on an old second- | hand one in its place. Boy, I was mad when I | discovered it!

He Keeps a Secret

But this tire that went to pieces vesterday was the | mate to that stolen one. I just have a feeling that that stolen tire. wherever it may be. has long ago hlown itself up at 80 miles an hour, and wrapped the | thief around some nice New England maple tree. And that poor old tive which the thief gave me in | exchange is still on our wheels, whirling and whirling | elong, and getting stronger every day. It gives me the | smirks. I know of a wonderful stary here in Oklahoma, It's | shout a man who used to be a train robber 40 years | ago, but reformed ana is a respectable citizen, and only | three people in all the world know he used to be a | Four, now, counting me. The fellow who told me suzgested I might go to | see this man and get a story from him. It would make | I'll say it would. Will vou now all close vour eves, and try to picture me walking up to a staid citizen of 40 years standing | and saving “Good morning. Mr. Train Robber. you. I | know ail about it. So just sit down here and tell me, so T can publish it in newspapers all over the country.” | Did vou picture it? That's fine. For thats the phly way you'll ever see me doing it. =» =» = Note on joyous spring: I've got my high-topped overshoes out of the back of the car, and am wearing | them for the first time in a year and a half. |

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Why Old-Age Assistance Is Not Solution to Recovery Problems.

ARGO. N. D, Thursdav.—I left Seattle last night | and was glad to be able “to stay through Curtis’ His greatest jov was a new bicyvele which |

¢ he had to try out when he came hore for luncheon |

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I have been receiving a great number of letters | from people who feel that old-age pensions are one |

I am beginning to wonder if people who have lost | sight of the fact that until thic care for the aged | ceases to be old-age assistance, which is a direct tax on every taxpaver to support people wii have ceased | to produce, we cannot consider this a productive ex- | penditure of money. | When this actually becomes a pension to which | people have contributed during their productive years, | we will be on an entirely different basis and people will be entitled to receive a sum in proportion to what | they produced during their working years. At present, old-age assistance is in no way differ- | ent from WPA. In fact, WPA actually produces much | more in return for what is expended and can, there- | fore, be considered as a far better productive expendi- | ture than any plan at present for the assistance of the | aged. We must consider old-age assistance purely as | a charity to which we should be glad to contribute | because these people have often lived hard-working, | useful lives. However, not their savings or the results of their own work are being spent on them, but'a tax | which must be carried by the community.

Balance Is Essential

Especially in localities where the general finances | have not been well administered, a very high con- ! tribution for the care of the aged may mean that other necessary Government functions are neglected. ! The other day I read of one state where the regular institutions are not sufficiently well supported and, in some instances, insane people are being released from the asviums. In another state, schools are

peing curtailed on account of old-age assistance. |

This seems to me extremely costly management and ! means less opportunity for the children in the future. | We want to provide adequately for old people, but! we must not let young people suffer. A balance | must be kept. | There is a program being carried on over the

program” Stories of those who need jobs are Broadcast and employers who have openings listen | in and tell of possible employment. I think this | tight be developed to far greater usefulness in every community and might even find temporary employment for some of the older people.

Day-by-Day Science

B+ Science Service HILE the giant atom-smashing cyclotron &ppaV ratus of the physicists is primarily designed to study the structure of the atom it is rapidly being | turned to more practical ends which have direct appli- | cations in the animal and human body. One of the mysteries, which the cyclotron atom smashing is helping to scive, is the role of the chemical known as glutathione in the human body. 'This chempal is a pulphur compound apparently composed of own amino acids—-glycine, cysteine and glutamic

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acid. But every effort so far to produce glutathione thetically out of its parts so far has failed. Yet owledge about its role and a method of synthesis | are vitally needed because glutathione controls the behavior of important enzymes in the celis of the A Newest feat of scientists at the Biochemical Re- | search Foundation of the Franklin Institute in Phila- | delphia is to create radio-active glutathione. This is | done hy growing yeast cells in a synthetic medium in which radio-active sulfate (obtained by cyclotron | pombardment) is the only source of sulfur,

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(Last of a Series)

Corn Produces Motor Fuel and Many New

By Paul Friggens

NEA Service staf? Writer

HERE is prosperity ahead for the American farmer, but he is going to get it only by turning his crops into

new industrial products.

Such is the contention of the chemurgists who have already developed an amazing list of uses for practically every crop from corn to soy beans, The chemurgists, moreover, have “just begun”

to work.

Thus you can picture the possibilities: The Southern farmer will be raising sugar cane for building insulation and air conditioning and very likely the beet sugar grower will be utilizing the same outlets. The Midwestern corn raiser will turn his erop into automobile fuel and glycerin for explosives and carbon dioxide for dry

Dr. Barnards gihle uses.

ice, to mention only a few of the 100 posPotatoes will be grown for

their starch, oats for cosmetics, soy beans for paint, plastics and upholstery, wheat for the wheat germinal oil, among other uses. The limitations ave only the limitations of chemistry itself and science practically recognizes none. So in time, perhaps only a few years, according to Dr.

Harry E. Barnard, research director of the Farm Chemurgic Council, a whole new field will be opened to

an ailing agriculture that is now leaning almost wholly on legisiation for relief.

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TILIZATION of many farm products in industry is already under way, in fact, and increasing Haily. the story of sov beans for example. Research has proved soy beans in building houses and automobiles, as a rubber substitute, a material in paint, ink, linoleums, glues, adhesives, and scores of other products. Just a few years ago the soy bean was considered only a substitute crop. In 1930. for instance, the United States produced 8.000.Last year nearly £0.000.000 bushels were raised and today the soy bean is accepted as one of the crops holding greatest chemurgic drought possibilities. It drought resistant, is practically immune to pests. Illinois heads the production list with 31000000 bushels and Indiana, Towa and Ohio rank next, respectively. The crop is finding increasing acreage in the South as well. As the cotton acreage is reduced in the South, it is confidently expected that sov beans

be new |

with minor changes, turnea to processing crop. Meantime, the soy bean is going into the production of hundreds | of thousands of motor cars an- | nually. Thirty-five per cent of | the enamel on many autos is soy | bean. Soy beans are used in the | foundry and in plastics as an ef- | They are used in gaskets, paint, and | newest research has aeveloped a | spinnable fiber from the soy bean protein.

may this

& & # HE average protein content of | the soybean is 40 per cent. It | is important then in coating and

| izing paper, in making glues and

adhesives. in plywood manufaclinoleum,

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in celluloid, glveerin, oil cloth, ink. Here is chemurgic crop. But the same is largely true of | corn, which has been found use-

| ful as a motor fuel; for starch and

plastics, and for scores of other products. Only about 9 per cent of the annual U. S. corn crop, aggregating almost 3,000,000.000 |

| bushels. is now used in the indus- |

trial field, and one-half of this | enters the food market and one- | fourth goes back to the farm in | the form of food. So you can | visualize the opportunities for pro- | duction. Agrol. or the fuel alcohol from corn, was one of the first developments ol chemurgy. It is used

| as un 10 per cent blend with gaso | | line and a plant to produce it was |

Kas, more than two years ago. That plant, incidentally, uses barley. rye, wheat, grain sorghum, artichokes,

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sweet potatoes. and molasses to achieve the most efficient fuel.

2 8 s RODUCTION of corn for starch looms particularly ime portant. Since each bushel of corn produces 30 pounds of starch,

chemurgy believes this can be utilized more widely in textiles, paper. explosives, confections, and scores of products. At the same time chemistry would utilize the sirups, the oil, dextrose. Latest research has proved corn feasible for making plastics and plastic laequers. ' Chemurgy sees the greatest starch production, however, in potatoes. Two plants have been built recently at Houlton, Me, and another is in operation in Aroostook County, pointing the way to increasing domestic production. and development of new products such as potato dextrins and soluble starches. Laurel. Miss, has a large sweet potato starch plant. Sweet potatoes are being considered as a source of alcohol for blended motor fuel.

Likewise alcohol has been obtained from oat hulls, the chemists have developed a facial from oatmeal. That is the trend of chemurgy. In sugar cane bagasse scientists have found a fiber ideal for building and insulation such

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They Call It Chemurgy

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as needed in air conditioning. It is extremely resistant to decay. So you might expand the list of crops that chemurgy is beginning to utilize in industry. 4d 4 8 UNG OIL has been imported from China for many years, approximately 135 million pounds annually. It was found the crop, however, could be grown successfully from Texas to Florida. So large scale plantings were begun. Today the first fruits of that experiment marshal impressive figures. Mississippi has become a leading tung oil producer with some 90,000 acres of trees in production. Thousands of trees are producing in the extreme southern parts of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Texas as well, about 175.000 acres in all

im the tanning industry

Tung oil is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, waterproofing

materials and many other produets., It is the best of the drying oils. Upwards of $20,000,000 worth is imported annually. Likely to take a position along with the tung trees is the castor bean plant with which experi« ments have now been made in 32 states. There are more than 2000 species and ‘types of the castor plant but through interpollenization five new types have been developed. They have been found commercially valuable for oil, inseeticides. rope and bagging, fertilizer and finally for paper and rayon. Chemurgists see a potential need for 1.500.000 acres of castor plants.

In Relief and

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

American Institute of Public Opinion EW YORK, April 21.—The

resent public attitude to- | p p gEtitge | expenses — and

ward the issue of Federal spending—an issue which Congress is now wrestling with and which

campaign—is

ducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion. For more than three years Institute surveys have found that the public favored decreases in

| Government spending. Advocates | of spending have wondered what | specific items the public wanted | eut.

Senator Harrison (D. Miss.) has suggested a blanket reduction of 10 per cent in all expenditures, The current study shows that

prove such a reduction in all items, but

10 per cent cut in three important branches of | spending. majority favors

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First, a large

| reduction in the ordinary operat- |

ing expenses of the Government—

| an item which totals more than a

billion dollars. Second, a 10 per cent cut in relief expenditures is

works. The Institute survey listed six

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be the dominant factor in | | the next political

| tion in . shown in a national survey con-

benefits or social security grants, | 1 but in the other |

| three, as follows:

| Army and Navy | Farm Benefits ........ 38 62 | Relief seve 3% 43

| Public Works ...... veo 83 0 the voters | would not ap- |

would favor a !

| serve Board chairman, | declared that although he himself

Demand for

Cut

Public Works Costs

| large items of Government spend- | ing—national defense, farm beéne-

fits, relief, old-age pensions, public works and ordinary operating asked voters throughout the country whether they favored a 10 per cent cut in each item. The majority wanted no reducnational defense,

favored cuts

“Do you think Federal spending

| should be reduced by 10 per cent

on: No

Yes 19%

Operating Expenses ,. 69 3 Old Age Aid 86

The spending question is one which has agitated statesmen and business leaders for many years. Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Rerecently

favored continued spending, he felt that public opinion was in favor of retrenchment and that the public's wishes should be carried out. Senator Harrison's view

is that while complete balancing

of the Federal budget is out of the

| question for the present, a ‘‘start” approved, and third, a 10 per cent | q p &

cut in the spending for public |

or “approach” should be made. The Institute survey reveals for

| the first time where the public

wants such a start to be made. It

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—-Name the first woman aviator who flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 2—With what sport is Gene Mako associated? 3—~Name the great river of northern India, formed by drainage of the southern Himalayas. 4—How many cubic feet are in a cord of wood? 5—~What are pelagic animals? 6—Name the capital of India. T—What is the correct pronunciation of the word Bedouin?

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1—Amelia Earhart Putnam. 2—Tennis.

ocean, 6—New Delhi. 7—Bed'-00-in or bed'-00-en; not bed'-win, . s . # ASK THE TIMES

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farm |

also shows that not all items. in the Government's spending program are disapproved at this time. » ” o HE mixed attitude toward spending extends into the rank and file of both parties. Not

all of the New Deal spending pro- | gram is disapproved by Repub- | licans, and, on the other hand, not

all of it is approved by Democrats. A majority of Republicans (17 per cent) want reduction in re lief. whereas Democrats are about evenly divided. Democrats oppose reduction in farm benefits, but Republicans favor it. There is also a sharp difference of opinion by parties on public works spending with Republicans overwhelmingly (80 per cent) in favor of a cut and Democrats opposed to a cut. But the rank and file of the two parties unite in approving two forms of spending referred to in the survey—national defense and old-age pensions. In view-of this uniform sentiment, it seems unlikely that any concerted drive will come from the public for reduction in those items. The survey results likewise emphasize one fact which earlier Institute studies have many times revealed. The drive for reduction in Government spending comes chiefly from the upper and middle incomes voters, while spending in all forms — and especially for relief—is approved by the lower income voters.

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Uses Are Found for Soy Bean

Corn “‘oasoline’ runs autos The plant is important as ‘a weapon against insects and pests. ” » ”

HEMURGY has introduced other drying oils which might also become important crops in time Such as perilla and chia. They are both essential to paint and varnish products. Experimen= tal plantings of perilla have been made in nearly every state and large scale plantings have veen made in South Carolina, Georgia,

Even more extensive plantings are contemplated for 1939.

Chemurgy is alsa pushing ex= perimentation with several fiber crops such as hemp, jute, ramie, and long staple cotton. It is testing flax for new uses in the textile industry, for oils .and other uses. Such fine wrapping papers as cigaret papers have recently been made from flax straw. - Ramie is said to be the most durable, strongest vegetable extant. It is eight and one-half times stronger than. cotton, six times stronger than silk, and four times stronger than flax or hemp. It is less crushable than linen. It produces a superior paper. It may be dyed in all colors and used for tablecloths, napkins, plushes, upholstery, cur=

tains, carpets, dress and knit goods. ” ” ” NTIL recently, there was no process for removing the gum from the fiber. This has now been accomplished with the result that ramie may take an important new place in the textile industry. If it does chemurgy will have moved another step ahead.

Not so important but likely to

prove practicable on countless farms are such specialized crops as pyrethrum whose flowers are used for insecticides: licorice. hel« ladonna, tragacanth and gentian for use in crude drugs; artichokes, dahlias, chicory and the other root crops from which levulose sugar is produced. The possibilities are endless so far as chemurgy is concerned. That is why four great regional laboratories were provided in the 1938 Farm Act. They will be devoted exclusively to the finding of new uses for surplus farm products. The laboratories of the colJeges and universities and those of private industry will be tackling the problem as well. Thus it is not too much to expect a new era for the farmer; an era of prosperity flowing from a test tube. Chemurgy, as a matter

of fact, believes it is here now.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Hair Pin Had Many Uses in Mother's Day and Even the Children Found It an Implement of Great Utility.

NOTHER phenomenon that might reward study is the hair pin, a feminine tool that contributed as much as anything to the excitement of my boyhood years. So much so that I have nothing but pity for

youngsters of today whose mothers wear bobbed hair, Poor kids, they know nothing of the zest of living; much less of women, and their une believable ingenuity in licking the problems of life with the simplest tools at hand. Primarily, the hair pin was designed to hold a lady’s hair in place. As such, it did its work well, but that was the least part of it. The hair pin had a hundred other functions, and even more if the woman had imagination. Like Mother, for instance. Armed with a hair pin, Mother never hesitated to tackle anything in the realms of the possible, and even the impossible, it seemed to me. Mr. Scherrer And it didn't make any difference whether it was in or outside the house. Mother could be caught struggling with her gloves, miles away from home without a button hook in sight when suddenly, as if inspired, her fingers would seek the recesses of her back hair and the whole problem was solved. For that matter, she could button her shoes with a hair pin, too. And when she was out shopping. I still recall her way of bending a hair pin and turning it into a carrier for light packages. The top bent portion of the pin fitted over the index finger as neat and slick as if made for the purpose. It was inside the home, however, that Mother did her best tricks with the hair pin. In the culinary department, it served as a nut pick, and when it came to scraping the innermost recesses of the big black kettle or the waffle iron, there wasn't a tool on the market that could compare with a hair pin. It was the best tool, too, for trimming lamp wicks.

Predecessor of the Belt Pin

I remember, also, that we kids always called for one of Mother's hair pins when it came time to cut the pages of St. Nicholas. We had a perfectly good paper cutter somewhere around the house—one we picked up at Niagara Falls as a souvenir—but some= how it was easier to look for Mother than go in search of the paper cutter, Besides, the hair pin worked better. Mother also had a way, I recall, of using a hair pin to run tape into her curtains, thus rendering herself independent of a bodkin. And all the handpainted plates on the walls of our dining room were hung on ‘They never showed any signs of giving It was Mother's se#test triumph, I do believe. I remember, too, the picnic at Hammond's Grove It might have ended disastrously except for the aid of a hair pin. I wouldn't have mentioned the incident except for the “belt pin,” a slick contraption invented to hold a woman's skirt and shirtwaist together which turned up vears later. Believe it or not, the belt pin, a miracle of efficiency, was designed on the very same principle Mother thought up in Hammond's Grove that day.

Jane Jordan— Unhappy Wife Is Warned That Her New Romance Spells More Trouble.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am very much in love, He has been married and has two children whom he supports. He is getting a divorce. He tells me he loves me and wants to marry me. He is a different man since we have met. He does not get drunk or go in for rough company any more. He says he is happier now than he has been in a long time, I, too, am married. My husband loved to argue all the time until I could not stand it any longer. I asked him to leave, but he would not. Everywhere I went he always said I was with another man. He never let my friends come to my house.

After five years of living with a jealous husband I met this other man and he has been very kind to me. But it would take me at least three months I have a good home

not stand this nagging. I have helped in acquiring all we have, and kought my own car. I am not well enough to work every day any more. Will my husband have to support me? The other man has only part time work at present, but says he will get steady work. I am not the fickle type. I just want peace and happiness. Pleace advise me as it means very much to me. LONELY MARY.

Answer—It is perhaps a fortunate thing that you are so tied that you can take no immediate steps. An unhappy woman is not apt to have very good judge ment in the moves she makes. It is so easy for her to overestimate those who treat her kindly. Now this man maygbe all you think he is, but the fact remains that he is not yet divorced, has two chil dren to support, and has only part-tiilne work. At

he alreadly has and cannot afford to incur others.

It is against him that he drank to escape his trou= bles. This indicates beyond the shadow of a doubt that he does not bear responsibility well and is apt to buckle under a strain. The fact that he has improved since he found a sympathetic woman does not mean that he wouldn't revert to his old habits. It won't be easy to extricate yourself from your present situation. Your husband doesn’t want a divorce; all you have against him is that he is jealous, argumentative and inclined to nag. These complaints do not entitle you to divorce or to alimony. If your husband contests the divorce you haven't a chance, On the contrary, the fact that you are in love with another man entitles him to divorce, it he can prove it. There is trouble ahead. Your health isn't good. And all you have to lean on is a man who goes on a bender when things get too tough. The outlook isn't good. It would be hetter if you were able to work and support yourself. JANE JORDAN.

Put vour nroblems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.

New Books Today

Public Library Presenty—

“¥T's all Greek to me.” In fact, a great deal of our language does come from the Gireek—such words as economy, electricity and telegraph, for instance. There's Latin, too, for a background, with some AnglcSaxon, Persian (magic, lilac, lemon) and a bit of Sanskrit. With unassuming scholarship and quiet humor in THE WONDER OF WORDS (Appleton-Century) Isaac Goldberg outlines various theories of the origin of language. Do you prefer the “bow wow” theory? Are you an Analogist as opposed to an Anomalist? In either case, it may surprise you to know that there exist dictionaries of animal words. WR : More important, however, than the beginning is the development of speech, when sound has become sense. Shaw in his preface to Pygmalion says, “The reformer England needs today is an energetic pone ith siast.” America may need one also. Gén r philologers (Greek again) like Mr.

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