Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1939 — Page 16

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939

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Hoosier Vagabond

ST. PAUL. Minn., June 15—Since I've come all the way from New York to St. Paul without ever mentioning. how 1 got here, maybe I'd better throw in a few travel lines at this point. 1 didn’t come on a magic carpet, I'll tell you that. 1 traveied on modern, accepted forms of transportation, and found them quite dependable and satisfactory. First, I went from New York to Washington on an overnight train, I slept all the way and didn't speak to anybody. It was raining when I got to Washington. I got off the train at 7:30 a. m. and there was a pretty girl there to meet me. I kissed her and got lipstick all over my face. After that I went to the dentist. I had to go to the dentist anyhow. In Washington I “attended to some business,” as we big executives say, and tlie next evening I left on the C. & O. Railroad for Indianapolis.

In its advertising the C. & O. stresses the fine sleeping qualities of its trains. The C. & O. slogan is “Sleep Like a Kitten,” and it has a picture of a kitten in bed, with one eye shut. Four friends took me down to the station and went out to the train with me. They didn't really go to see me off. They went to see if they could find any kittens in my berth. There weren't any. My friends were disappointed. We rode all night. It's sure a mighty fine-sleepin’ train. all right. We had half an hour wait at Cincinnati the next morning, so I went into the station and bought my father a necktie, and 2lso bought John Steinbeck's “Grapes of Wrath.” 5 = 5 A Thrill for Uncle Oat Between Cincinnati and Indianapolis the girl across the aisle from me Kept dropping her handkerchief. I know that old gag. so I didn't pay any attention, But she was resourceful. When she saw that the handkerchief trick didn't work, she dropped her purse. I paid no attention. Then she hoisted her suitcase from the rack, and dropped that. I just cat there like a sphinx,

Our Town

Last Saturday night, just for practice, Don Campbell went into his back yard and, in no time at all, he had a tomato can full of night crawlers, He gloated over them as long as his conscience would permit, returned to the yard, and restored the worms to their native holes. The fishing season doesn’t open until tomorrow— see? Half of the fishermen around here do just as Mr. Campbell does. and capture their own worms. As for the rest, they depend on worm merchants. ndianapolis has two markets, one located in the rich deposits along the Pendleton Pike tracks and the other in the West St. district south of McCarty which still retains the virtues of good bottom land. Both markets are dependable. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely no truth in the rumor that worms will be sold by the dozen this year, much as the worm industry would like to have it that way. As heretofore, worms in Indianapolis will be sold by liquid measure and, following a time-haliowed precedent, the contents of a tomato can will continue to be rated as the equivalent of a pint. of worms. The worm merchants I interviewed are looking for a big year. Indeed, one merchant, more articulate than the rest, guessed that worms are due for a turn. Angle worms, he said, will start off somewhere around 30 cents a pint. net, which in the lingo of the trade Means without dirt. Red worms and night crawlers will, in all probability, command higher prices as the season advances. All sales are conditioned on cash in sand with no discount for quantity.

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Right here, it strikes me, I ought to record My. Campbell's observation that robins make the best catchers because they can hear the worths at work. The best a man can do in the same line is to catch the overtones in Debussy’'s music. Mr. Campbell also says that night crawlers grow to be 32 feet long in Australia. I thought you ought to know. I learned, too, that the local market doesn't fool much with hellgramites and blood worms. Theyre

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jun 15.—For a cheap tax-dodging performance you have to hunt a long way back to find ahything that matches the action of House members in passing an income tax law for the voteless District of Columbia and inserting an amendnent exempting themseives, as well as Senators and all Congressional clerks. It seems incredible that a grolp of public men would have the brass to pull this sort of taxdodge in broad daylight, But it was done right out in the open, though there was no record vote on the amendment. The District of Columbia has had no income tax law. Congress thinks very propevly that it shotld have one. So the House las passed a drastic schedule beginning at $2000, with a graduated scale of taxes ranging from 2 per cent to 7 per cent on incomes

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Rayburn Leads Fight

Note this. When the bill was presented to the House, the tax was ta begin at the $10,000 income level. It was frankly indicated in the debate that the purpose of exempting income up to $10,000 was to enable Congressien to escape the tax. But other members argued that it would Iock bad at home to be letting Washington off with so high an exemption. So the bill was changed by lowering the exemption to $2000, No allowance was made for a married man or for children, as is done in the Federal law and in practically all state income tax laws. But an exemption of only $2000 would catch Con-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday —I finished unpacking yesterday and set to the work on the mail. I hardly

dare look at Miss Thompson, for envelopes from Washington roll in, However, we are going to try to keep this summer fairly peaceful and not get that feeling of having more work to do than we can possibly accomiplish before the next appointiment. If we once catch up on what has been neglected during the last few days, I feel sure we can do this. f ath going to make very few appointments and enjoy the rare privilege of being able to do things without planning them months beforehand. This will be a novel experience!

After supper last night, Miss Thompson and I took a walk and visited our three nearest neighbors. Unanimously, they voiced approval of Their Majesties, and then Wwe switched to admiring babies. ere are always babies to be admired in our neighborhood. One of them kent oh insistent when she was not noticed anf kept on complaining until we paid ate 3 3

By Ernie Pyle

As a last resort, she got up. stepped out, and fe down in the aisle herself. She was still lying ther when I got off at Indianapolis. The sun wa shining. From Indianapolis to Dana I went on the dail choo-choo. which is now a part of the B. & 0. bu used to be the C. H. & D. and will always be th: C. H & D. to nme, Just after we crossed the Wabash River and ap proached Dana, I got awfully nervous. I don’t know why, but I always do. My father was at the depot to meet me. He knew me right off, When I left Dana, my father and Uncle Oat Saxton drove me back to Indianapolis, to the Municipal! Airport. When we got there, a little red plane was practicing landings and takeoffs. Uncle Oat said. “Is that the plane youre going on?”

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Off for St. Paul

Uncle Oat had a surprise when my plane came through. It was a big silver Douglas of American Airlines. . He had never seen such a big plane. Neither had my father. “I wish I could take a trip on a plane like that,” my father said. The Chicago Airport is so trafficky around noontime that it gave me one of the biggest aviation thrills I've ever had. Just in from Los Angeles; just leaving for Ft. Worth; plane from Salt Lake now eight miles west of the airport, will land in five minutes; The Mainliner now loading for New York; The Flagship now landing from Cincinnati; The Sky Chief now taking off from Albuquerque; Eastern Airlines now loading at Gate 5 for Atlanta and Miami; Northwest Airlines plane ready at Gate 2 for St. Paul, Fargo, Billings and Seattle. All aboard. . That last one’s mine. It was a silver-colored 10-passenger Lockheed. We flew from Chicago to St. Paul in an hour and 45 minutes. airplane. Some trains take 12 hours. Less than three hours from Indianapolis to St. Paul. Thats travelin’. I didn't speak to anybody on the way. * In St. Paul I ran onto A Girl I've seen before somewhere. I've been sitting talking to her for quite a while, and I'm trying to place her. Whoever

she is. she sure looks mighty good. We're waiting]

now for a bus to take us down to Lake St. Croix. 1 expect everything will turn out all right. Isn't life wonderful, sometimes?

By Anton Scherrer

used mostly for salmon and tarpon fishing which is probably why they're referred to around here as “imported” worms. Reading, Pa, has a rich deposit of hellgramites, but beyond that I didn't learn anything about them. Fact is, the worm men appeared to be bored when I brought up the subject. I guess I forgot to say that the worm merchants around Indianapolis are mostly natives of Kentucky and Tennessee, and easily bored. The subject of fly fishing bored them, too, I discovered. I didn't get to first base with that until I was just about to leave when a Kentuckian ventured the opinion that, maybe. fly fishing was all right if you reinforced it with worms. He said that is what most casters Cv if the truth were known. The biggest single worm transaction ever pulled off in Indianapolis was that of a North Sider who bought his entire supply for an eight weeks fishing trip. He figured that he would catch fish at the rate of a gallon of worms a week. The bill was $32, and they're still talking about it in the 8. West St. district. The worm man I talked to doesn’t look for anything like that this year. Calvin Coolidge has come and gone, he said. u 2 n

Concluding the Report That's about all I have to report on the worm industry, except that I do want to tell you about an experience Mr. Campbell had one year. Seems he was riding aroud Riverside Park very late (11:45) one night when he spied a lonely woman heading tor the Emtrichsville Bridge. He stopped and asked her whether he might give her a lift. (Oh, that was years

before Mr. Campbell was married. And, anvway, the woman was everv bit of 63 vears old.) The woman accepted Mr. Campbell's gallant invitation and when asked where she wanted to go, she said Speedway City. On the way out, the motherly old soul wanted to know what Mr. Campbell was doing out so late at night. He explained that he was looking for night crawlers.

“It must be terrible this year,” said the woman, “I|

understand all the police are out looking for them.” As for the lady's being out so late at night, she was the matron of the old McClure Beach on the river, and I hope to Heaven that clears up everything.

By Raymond Clapper

gressmen’s $10,000 salaries. Sam Rayburn, Democratic Teader of the House, vowed he never would vote for a local income tax on himself and his clerks. His fight cahised the exemption to be written in, boldly creating a special-privilcged class. The theory on which Congressmen declare themselves out is that they are not legal residents of the District of Columbia. Well, Government offices are full of employees who are not legal residents here. But they will all be taxed. Thousands of them live in Virginia and Maryland. Many others keep their voting residences back home. Those who pay state income taxes as do Washington employees who live in Virginia and Marviand, may deduct, their state taxes from the tax due to the District of Columbia. gd & @ 4 Cun Cod Explaining the Anciety If 4 Senator or a Representative or a clerk in Congress pays an income tax back home, he ceuld deduct that from the tax due here. But that ish’ enough. Furthermore 18 states do not have state income taxes. Texas has none. That means that Majority Leader Rayburn would get no state offset against a tax here. Neither would his clerks. Hence the anxiety of members from states having no income taxes of their own to be exempted entirely. Senators and Representatives are here to work, as are the President, the Vice President, Cabinet mempers and all other officials who will have to pay the local income tax. They all draw Government salaries, are paid here and their work is supposed to be here. ff Congressmen manage to knock off some time back home each year, that's just so much chiselied out of working time here. If they can get done work and go away, fine, but nobody else is exempted from taxes if he manages to get vacation with pay for several months a year,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tention to her. She is pretty and bright and, I am sure, sone day will be the belle at patties! It rained all night but it is gradually clearing up now. The weather is so much cooler that it is

actually chilly sitting outdoors in a thin dress. Riding through the woods this morning under the low hanging branches was a little dampish but quite delightful. Then I went to see my mother-in-law and Frank: i who has come with his nurse to stay for a V! e, I have found ah extremely comfortable garment for summer wear. “ft is made out of hand-blocked cotton material, has a halter around the neck and ties around the waist apron-faghion. A little jacket goes With it, so I ean really wear a bathing suit under it and still looked clothed. This will obviate having to dress and undress so many times a day. I have missed the flowering of our lilacs and lilies of the valley here, but our pansies are still in bloom and the syringa bushes are most luxuriant and very fragrant. Tomortow we are going to New York City for the day, for a regional congress is being held there by the Democratic women of several states under the

auspices of Mrs. Dorothy MeAllister, vice chairma Dooce oom, aman

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| (Second in a Series) By Norman Siegel

Scripps-Howard Radio’ Writer EW YORK, June 15.— Outdoor programs and broadcasts of public events will be the “music” of television. Just as miisic has been the backbone of the sound radio schedule, so | will telecasts of special events from the scene of action be the standby of

sight broadcasting. England has discovered this through its public television demonstrations of the last two and one-half years. American experimenters in the newest of radio entertainment fields were aware of the fact after their preliminary program studies. And now that television is being offered the public on a regular program schedule in the New York area, they are convinced of the importance of this type of show to television. It was strikingly illustrated on the first day television was intro- | duced here. The scheduled sight | broadecastings were launched abt the opening of the New York World's Fair with a telecast of | the dedication ceremonies. The audience which saw that program in the Greater Manhattan area was thrilled with the fact they were witnessing a scene that was | taking place many miles away. They were thrilled at being able to see President Roosevelt, Goverhor Lehman, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Grover Whalen deliver their talks at the Fair grounds. Here was something worth seeing; something worth buying a set to obtain. However, following this opening program the rest of the first-day schedule was filled with motion pictures. They were travelogs and commercial films. And the interest of the audience dwindled.

| The broadcasters know this and already are concentrating on a schedule of special events. C. W. Farrier, NBC television co-ordi-nator, who clearly understands the problems of television, places

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outdoor events first in the program list. Studio broadcasts by noted personalities as the President, are second, according to Farrier. Drama is third; movies, fourth, and music at the bottom.

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BE feels that music is distinetly a sound medium and that the picture of an orchestra or singer adds nothing to the program. In fact, he feels that it detracts, because the audience socn tires of looking at a musician or group of musicians performing before the microphone. The British through experience have found practically the same thing. 80 you can look forward to the television camera taking you out {fo the ball game, prize fight, hockey match or any other sporting event into which it can get its cameras. NBC already has televised a baseball game, the six-day bike race, some prize fights and a track meet. These programs have been picked up by the station's mobile transmit= ter, employing only one camera. The equipment used for this type of program cost NBC more than $150,000. It consists of two mobile vans, each about the size of a large bus. One of the vans contains the apparatus for picture and sound pickup. The other contains a transmitter operating on a fre-

Japs’ Siege Challenges British Sway in China

‘By Robert Bellaire

| united Press Staff Correspondent

HANGHAT, June 15—The determination of the Japanese army that Britain must conforin to its thesis that Japan now is the dominant power in East Asia is the real cause for the Japanese block|ade of the British concession in the |great North China port of Tientsin, geat of international friction since the days of the 1800 Boxer rebellion. An analysis of the course Japan has followed since the start of the Chinese-Japanese conflict at Lukouchiao, outside Peiping, the night of July 7, 1937, shows that Nipponese policy steadily has converged along these lines: 1. A determination to draw all China into a gigantic new political and economic orbit—Japan, China and Manchukuo—in which Japan will be the dominant power. 2. An effort to make the great powers — Britain, France, Russia and the United States—accept at least tacitly the Japanese contention that the new East Asia aggroupment marks the beginning of an era inh which the Orient shall play an equal role in world politics with the Oceldent. To enforce that policy Japan has occupied all of the chief cities and communication lines of the eastern half of China, has seized the strategic Chinese island of Hainan which commands the sea approaches to French Indo-China and nullifies the importance of Britain's fortified South China colony inh Hongkong, and has occupied the Spratly Island reefs in the Manila<8ingaporeHongkong triangle as an advanee submarine and airplane base. From a military viewpoint the Japanese consider that the Chinese war is won and that their problem now is to consolidate a military vies

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It is in that effort that the Jap= anese have come into the most dan= gerous collision with the British that they have experienced in their meteoric rise from a hermit nation into the status of a great power. Britain for more than a century was the dominant power in China. Her domination was based oh the same method of operation used by the Japanese—the seizure of strategic bases and communications lines. Those bases, when the present gonflict started, included Hong Kong and the delta of the Pearl River up to Canton, the Internas tiohal Settlement at Shanghai, the British Concession in Tientsin and railways and waterways in the Tientein-Peiping-Shanhaikwan area and Hankow and the Yangtze River.

British banks, trading and manu= facturing companies, shipping lines, and British-controlled railways op= erated from these bases and enabled Britain to have her way. It Was for this reason that the great antiBritish boycotts, staged by the Chinese Nationalists during the revolution which led to establishment of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-8hek's dictatorship, were carried out. Japan now has more than 1000. 000 soldiers in China, and her entire Navy is stung along the east Asian Coast, and how Britain or any other Occidental power ean challenge this overwhelming con: centration nobody here is pre pared to guess. And it is admitted that a Japanese victory in Tientsin well may mean that an early effort will be made to gain control of Bhanghai's great International Settlement and the French concession. Such victories unquestionably would tend to weaken Nationalist China and might foree Chiang Kai

shiek to, make peace With Nippon,

quency of 177,000 kilocycles. The camera and microphone are linked to the transmitter truck by a coaxial cable. From there the signals are relayed to the station's Empire State Building transmitter for rebroadcast to the home sets. NBO received this equip= ment last spring and already has found it inadequate.

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HE mobile studio now carries one camera. It can be mounted on top of the truck to piek up pictures, or moved with= in a distance of 500 feet from its base. At the opening cere= monies of the World's Fair the camera was located on the news= veel stand about 50 feet from the spot where the President spoke. This was found to be too great a distance for clear definition of the objects on which it was fo= cused.

The need for more cameras to cover an outdoor event also is voiced by Burke Crotty, NBC tele= vision program director in charge of mobile broadcasts. My. Crotty, who was in charge of the photographic department of the NBC press department be= fore he was transferred to tele= vision, supervised the telecast of the Prinecton=Columbia baseball game a few weeks ago. This was the first attempt ever made to broadcast a ball game. Due to the fact he only had one camera ab his command, he was greatly hampered in following the action. “Phe events we are attempting to cover outdoors are difficult to pick up with one ecanera,” he said. “When we get two, we will be in a far better position to do an interesting job. We can then give the viewer a variety of angles — everything a newsreel can de=—and still put it on the air While it is happening.” Another problem that

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Crotty is the lack of {ime now afforded him in checking pro= gram material before the begin= ning of the broadcast. First the engineers must check their equip= ment and make such changes as will assure a strong sighal for re= lay to the Empire State trans= mitter, Then in the few mo= ments before the start of the event to be broadcast, Crotty has to set up his camera at the spot he thinks will be most advans tageous for the pickup. For the first baseball broad= cast, he set it up at the left of home plate and the operator at= tempted to follow the action from there. As a result, he lost most of it. The camera was trained on the piteher as he wound up. Then it switched to home plate to catch the batter. When the batter hit the ball, it sailed completely out of range of the camera, unless it wag a grounder to the infield. and even then it often got lost. On a safe hit, the camera attempted to follow the player around bases. At present, prizefights are the pest sports medium for the tele= vision setup. The action is confined in a comparatively small area of space and can be closely followed with one camera if neces= sary. ® 2 » rR. CROTTY believes that the dialer’s interest in the tele= vision is 70 per cent in the picture and only 30 per cent in the sound that accompanies it. As a result, “studied silence” will play an ims portant part in the sight broads= cast of the future. Silence only becomes annoying in television, aceqrding to Mr. Crotty, when ib is spread over too long a period of time. in sound broadcasting, the an-

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trucks that comprise NBC's mobile television studio. One of them houses the camera and sound equipment and the other contains the trans mitter which relays the program to the NBC transmitter on the Empire State Building, from where it is sent to the home receiver. This mobile equipment costs $150,000, and is the only unit of its kind in the country today.

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public or outdoor event describes everything in sight. His voice has

to be the listener's eyes. In television, the dialer can see for hime gelf. He doesn't have to be told, for example, what the crowd at a football game 100KS like. He'll be able to see that crowd. As a result, radio announcers who have worked television shows since NBC started its regular pro= gram service ih the New York area a few weeks ago have dis= covered that it's now their duty to be selective, rather than in= clusive. Through experience, announcers are learning to work more smoothly with the camera. Many of the difficulties encountered on the inaugural program of the opening of the World's Fair are peing eliminated. Announcer Bill Farron, a radio veteran of 10 years who handled the mike on the inaugural broads cast, often found himself broads casting one thing, while Camera= man Richard Pickard was teles casting another. Farron could nob always see what the camera was picking up for the television sereen. As a result there was & lack of synchronization between sight and sound, and at times the broadcast resembled an early sound movie in which the records ed portion got out of line with the picture. Profiting from that mixup. the cameraman now follows the de= scription hroadcast by the ane nouncer, changing Scenes when he does. ; Eventually, what we will find in this type of television broadcast= ing will he teams of announcers and cameramen, who through re= peated assignments together will be able to sense each other's moves, thereby eliminating some of the conflict between sight and sound that now exists. This multiple camera system 18 now being used effectively in studio broadcasts. Three cameras are employed to pick up the studio action, with the images recorded on a series of screens in the cone= trol room. Warren Wade, assistant to Thomas B. Hutchinson, NBC tele vision program director, has found after almost a year of experi mental broadcasts that dialog is incidental to pictures, even inthe telecasting of drama. He cone tends that it assumes the same position that sound effects do with respect to dialog in current broadcasting. So television, which has often been referred to as the talking pictures of radio, is in reality just the reverse of the “talkies.” The emphasis in “talkies,” of course, is sound. In television it is pictures, which talk ior theme selves, ! NEXT-Studio programs and the many problems that confront this type of television show.

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