Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1939 — Page 17

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iran dy dope 8 little anxious about the answer we the answer was Jes. by all Hea do. “who Max Miller is. San Diego re-.

porter who wrote “I Cover ‘the

Waterfront.” And then did what ,all - newspapermen dream - of doing—left newspaper work and 3 okie up book-writing as a steady © Well, I can only say that if you're a -newspaperman youd petter not come past La Jolla and look -at Max Millers house, or you'll go home and mesdt-ax the city editor, bomb. the presses, murder the business manager, A : . and smear soap ‘on the. front : window. For, he has exactly the house you've always ‘had in mind but thought nobody else in the world would - Svat have sense:enough ta Junior, It is a perfect ouse.

1t sits 50 feet from the edge of the cliff. The cliff drops straight down for about 100 feet. At the-bot-tom of the cliff is the Pacific Ocean. You sit in Max Miller's yard and across the street is—China.' The house wanders, and angles, and twists. It is : of whitewashed brick, with dark slab’ shingles. Chim-

.-neys sprout up everywhere. It has three bathrooms.

na It has thousands of books

A Proli fic Writer

It has leather furniture and heavy wooden furniture. It has pictures by artist friends, and long low tables, and scattered old Navajo rugs, and cartoons on the wall, and sealskin throws from the Bering Sea, and wooden screens carved by Mrs. Miller. ‘It has a workroom that I personally cauld never write a line in, for all my time would be spent reveling. It has guest rooms, and longangling inclosed porches, and sun balconies, io gree. terrace where you

sit in the sun and ogle the

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Our Town

RECENTLY A LADY with a feeling for the past told me something I probably. should have known— that the oldest things anywhere around here, ‘even

older than the automobiles the Postoffice people use to pick wp their mail, are the six Babylonian tablets

tucked away in the vault of the °

Central * Library. The Library people keep ‘them wrapped up in cotton like football players. 5 "The tablets are made of baked “clay and look for the world like the Christmas . cakes called Springerle turned out by women of German extraction. They're every bit as hard, too. Clay, you'll remember—or do you?—was principally used by the Assyrians as their writing

of

: ‘material The impression made by the stylus upon ~ the soft clay has the appearance of a wedge, for ‘which ~ . the Romans had a word—cuneus; hence cuneiform

writing. You'll get to know everything if you stick around this column long enough, 8 8 8

Kept: Baked Records

Well, haying ‘clay and a wedge with which to write, it appears that ‘the Babylonians kept a baked record hes lid, an the looks ‘of ~ things they ha s littered with “practically a kind of legal and domestic contract imaginable—mortgages, bills of sale; promissory notes, commentaries, love letters, and even in one case the record of a divorce granted on the grounds of incompatibility ‘which, if properly deciphered, reads exactly like the trouble between Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson. I can’t make up my mind whether the Babylonians were smart.or not. Smart people, it strikes me, leave their imprints on the sand. At any rate, they know enough, fo keep their attics cleaned up.

Washingt WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—In a scarcely noticed speech last Sunday at Lakeland, Fla., Paul V. McNutt outlined his philosophy upon which he is askput him in the White House. Dealers still refer to Mr. McNutt as the “Hoosier Hitlér” and regard him as a dangerous potential Fascist. On the other hand, some conservatives, noting that he now holds the post of Federal Security Administrator under Mr. Roosevelt, put him down as a left-wing New Dealer. . Now we are able to see how Mr. McNutt himself states his political philosophy. He does not speak with glittering phrase, and ‘his prose does not swing with the pace that stirs lofty emotion. If is slightly : on the stuffy side.” If his thought is loosely expressed, . without the exactness that would give it more clarity, there is present the sense of beliefs solidly rooted in the man, and that often inspires confidence where more facile words fail.

Some ‘hostile Ni

The McNutt Philosophy

Democracy is not merely a form of government. Mr. McNutt sees it as a way of life in which govern=ment plays only a part, essential though that part be. The Democratic way of life recognizes the inherent’ worth of the common man, the dignity of his labor; and the legitimacy of his hopes and aspirations to —freedom to live his full life. Politically, emociary that form of government which: guaranyess- the conditions to the living Tree life.”

: Of Wat Jee Mr. McNutt speaks of freedom, he means

. city of Umma in Central Babylon, 2400 B. C.

«Max Miller Tike +I like it because § it, Hobody, gave graph, an other words, he- y raed fs ii oT Bart lie ie bid in Ply that make life good—good. looks, good. mine, deep interests, rare personalities, Max Miller is going on 40, and is a tall, tanned and handsome ‘man. Since that day seven years ago when “1 Cover...” set everybody daydreaming, the books have rolled and rolled out of his typewriter. - There have been 10. in: print, he has: ‘Just finished - another, and the 12th is on its way.

And he doesn't slave at his work, either. He writes] * §

when he feels like it.

"He doesn’t set himself any|

certain. daily amount to do, or any certain hours to} -

spend at his typewriter. ‘The result is that he feels free—and i consequently gets a lot done. $$ 88

He's an Early Riser

"He gets up at five in the morning. If he feels like it he works all forenoon; at his typewriter in the big workroom on the second floor. Between:13 ad 3 he'13 “out”—tnat is his own: time. He. goes swimming, o. . rides his‘surfboard, or roams the beach hunting itt : wood, or just walks alone. a ‘There are three fireplaces in the house. Sometimes they're all going, for Max hates furnace only the fireplaces. . He has never bought any wood, or hired anybody to bring it. ‘He gathers it himself— great gray logs on the beach —chops ft with an ax, and throws it in the back of his Pontiac convertible. * He is a superb swimmer. He can go three miles out and: back. He plays tennis, goes to parties, loves foot-

ball games, and gets animated—alfost excited—when ;

a conversation interests him. .

We have been fortunate enotigh to: spend two x

afternoons with the Millers. In the years ahead,

when we sit in Managua or Orlando or Terre Haute or |.

Bisbee. wondering where it would be nice to be right now, 1 am sure we can think of nothing finer than sitting on Max Miller's terrace, looking out to sea, just

sitting there in peace,. watching the sun slide down tof:

China.

_ +. By Anton Scherrer)

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The Babylonian tablets at the Library were picked up during the pontificate of Charlie Rush and put in the vault right away. They are hrought out only occasionally, like the flag on the Court House steeple. Which is why you'll never know anything about them unless I tell you. Tablet No. 1 of the collection was found in ‘Drehem, a suburb of Nippur where there was a receiving station for the temple of Bel. It represents-a bill for 45 she ‘goats. 59 sheep, 19 lambs and six kid goats delivered on the 19th day of some month in the year 2350 B, C. ‘Which puts it in the dynasty of kings (2400 to 2100 B. C). : No. 2'is a record of the receipt of ‘two fat sheep delivered to a temple on the 16th day of a month in the year 2350 B. C. It was a year of big Business. en

Are You Surprised? No. 3 was found at Jokka, the tuin of the ancient

No. 4 was found at Drehem. It represents an offering of three sheep, 13 rams and two large kid goats. Date somewhere around 2350 B. C. No. 5 was found at Senkereh, the ruin’ of Elassar. Sure. the same place mentioned in Genesis 14:1. It is a large contract tablet or business document. dated 2000 B. C., involving’ the payment of four manag of

silver. There's: no mistaking ‘the authenticity of this| : specitien because: it’s. covered with crystals of saltpetery: = Bet you!

which is common : in the seil of : Babylon, never knew that. po No. 6 was picked up in Babylon. It’s a Jate or neoBabylonian contract dated in two lines: e month Elul, of the day 30, the year two of Nabonidds, King of Babylon.” - Nabonidus, King of Babylon from 555 to 538 B. C. was the father ‘of Belshazzar—ithe very man who saw the hand-writing on the wall (Daniel 5:21), and boy, oh boy was he scared! I guess .that ought to put you highbrows in your proper place.

By Raymond Clapper

a ‘hall. He includes economic freedom and freedom from the fears: arising out of economic insecurity, iil health and its attendant privations, fear deriving | from ignorance and lack of cultural advantage. For, explains Mr. McNutt, when faced with unemployment, illness and old-age insecurity, men’ do not solve - political ‘problems with wisdom. Goaded by fear of .want, they ‘do not listen to the voices of moderate* men. . In such circumstances the demagog obtains full sway. Mr. McNutt must have been thinking, for example, of California Ham and Eggs. ’

2 8 = NES Duty of Démocrdcy ie, :

Much of - the foregoing language: is actually Mr. McNutt’s and here I quote directly: “To avoid disaster, democracy must afford relief by extending political freedom to include, so far as possible, economic freedom by enlarged -opportunity. The" necessary steps in the process are: First, to ‘provide guarantees of minimum security and, second: to extend facilities for the. individual to help himself. ‘Government cannot make all men: equal. It ‘can, however, make even the distribution of political power and establish standards of security within the limits of the nation’s resources .and technological facilities. = It is perfectly * feasible to establish an economic floor below which no American citizen, however otherwise unfortunate, can fall. The ultimate success of democracy - will depend upon the maintenance of such a foundation. By these protections, by these cushions under | the individual, democracy as Mr. McNutt understands it, is able to ‘dissipate most of the paralyzing and unnerving fears which beset individuals and to give them a release of the spirit so that from that point on, each may go forward according to ‘his talents and, one should add, his luck. : The place which Mr. McNutt sees for capitalism in democracy. ‘will be described n a second dispatch. |

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How Germany Made a Martyr For r England

pee "(Second of a of a Series)

By George Britt mes ‘Special Writer

“The'story of the cruci-

| fied Canadian was entirely

lacking in proof—so British staff officers told the inquiring American, Frederick

cellent effect -on. Canadian

recruiting.” The story of the. Belgian child

after 25 years, utterly unverified. The German propaganda agencies,” however, have matched it within the last two months with a German child said to have been simflarly ‘maimed in Poland and capped it with another story about

were nailed to a table.

weeds during that heated August, 1914, from the soil of invaded Belgium. And Harry Hansen, now ‘book columnist on the World= Telegram, was one of a gallant littie group of war correspondents who spoke up. to give even the ° German his due. Mr. Hansen, Irvin. S. Cobb, James O'Donnell Bennett,” John McCutcheon and Roger Lewis were eyewitnesses in Belgium. . “In spirit ‘faltness,” they said i

as — able to ; spending two weeks: with German army, accompanying troops upward hundred miles, we unable’ report single instance unprovoked reprisal. *. .:. ‘Numerous investigated. rumors. proved groundless.” This telegram was for the record only. At the moment it produced no effect. “The atrocity stories continue. ‘War itself is such an - atrocity that little retouching is.’ required. upon. casual incidyhps,

BISHOPS CLOSE

Drs. Batdorf, id Speak. at Closing . .. Sessions Here."

Addresses by United Brethren Bishop G. D. Batdorf and Methodist. Bishop U.- V. W. Darlington today ended a week-long series of United Brethren meetings here. The final session this morning was! devoted principaily to the repurt of the ‘business and’ finance committee to ‘the board of. administration, The first: meeting, beginning last Tuesday, was. on the commissions on. church union of the United] Brethren and Evangelical churches. The Rev. Virgil G. Hunt, White Rivgr U. B. Conference superintendent and a commission member, said that “every matter of difference|: in the policy and government between the two churches. was arbitrated in ‘such @& manner that it seems that. ‘without doubt the next general ‘conferences ‘of the two denominations will pass favorably

JEW. YORK, Nov. 16.—"

whose hands weré cut off remains’ . .

German : children whose tongues. - 7 Horror - stories sprang up like . |

“U. B. MEETINGS]

Times Special

| nors” said.

SAFETY. EDUCATION

Council was to meet this afternoon at the World War Memorial. ©.

for» “the safety: programs. The October acci-. den sep report ‘was to be given.

school saf c safety shown with: The Coun

‘Palmer—but “it had an ex~

430 Masefield or an “Alfred ron reading his own poems. for an evening - at a fresh water college, was more valuable to the Allied cause than all the issues of = George Sylvester Viereck’s Father= land were to Germany. © ° 8 # ®

YT was this social Iobby, as Prof, Lasswell has pointed out, “the

personal conversation and the cas.

The funeral of Niirse ‘Edith Cavell, shot by Ger many as & spy, but made : martyr by England ad

mourned all over the world. At upper left, Miss Cavell, and upper right, Sir Gilbert Parker, who directed the English propaganda drive on America during the World War. :

‘and under the general incitement ’

to sadism, deeds of purest savage ry, of course are committed by individuals of all armies. Ral ee. 5 grisly ‘recounting of ‘old - horrors will nof ‘be inflicted upon readers of ‘this story. Every one ‘sufficiently old’ remembers the

“thrillers with. which. America was

regaled—murder; rape, ‘mayhe arson and, pillage,” babies Spitted on bayonets and the corpse factory in which dead soldiers were rendered -into soap. : And since the German telegraph cables were cut the: day after

* Britain declared war, these tales

all; ‘cleared. through ‘the. a Ag

g ; oondots N No. German: literature

ro an a ver ables comgn petition * De were brought Home and nailed down past dispute by the great authority of the Bryce Commission Report of May, +1915, a shivering anthology eof hetror, backed by. the honored‘ name of Viscount Bryce, ‘the former -Ambassador to erica. No fiendishness was: omitted.” The . British : propaganda office. was. preparing

it for publication ‘when’ the Lusi~ tania was sunk, and by night work it -was rushed tirough> -to appear

) 0g Passes Up Poisoned Meat |

MARION, Ind. Nov. '18 ~ Train ‘your dog. well and you need not .| have any fear of him’ being ‘poi- : soned by “cranks "Billy Connors, Marion theater mapager, advises. Twice, Mr. Connors explained, someone placed poisoned meat in the compartment of his cor whare. his dog, a Great Dane, rides. The. animal refused to touch it. he has béen taught to accept only that food which is given him by members of the family, Mr. Con-.

COUNCIL CONVENES

ht Yadianapotis Safety, Education

A “committee was to be appointed to set up standards and progedures ‘entire: elementary “school

;pictures. ‘of this year’s patrol camp were to be | e camp staff as guests:|

plans to meet régu-

five days later—efTectively pilirig shock on shock. In the calmer post-war ‘years

, the Bryce report has been refuted

almost in. toto, and the charitable view is that Lord Bryce himself - was unscrupulously imposed on. “The recent volume ‘“Propagahda for War,” by Prof. H. C. Peterson, bluntly calls it “in itself one of the - worst atrocities of the war.” But even during the war the propagandists reached. a practical, limit on atrocity: stories. The British Ministry’s confidential interoffice “American Press Resume” made the pointed observation that “the American mind shows signs of being almost surfeifed ‘with atrocities.” » ’ ® 2 8 TE American mind received special care from the very’ be; g of ‘the war, and in that bes British easily were the most attentive. Charles F. G. Masterman, member of Parliament and former cabinet minister, was authorized by the Foreign ‘Office. ‘to -set up a ‘propaganda. bureau in ‘September, 1914.: ‘Sir Gilbert

Parker, the: Canadian novelist, was .

placed in-charge for the United States, and his - staff grew: from nine men in 1914 to 54 in 1917. 2 “I. need hardly. say. that: the

STATE LEGION

DRIVE MAPPED]

Department Wants to Rank ‘Among Big Ten in Nation. by

The Indiana American Legion will seek ‘a place among the “big ten” departments of the national Legion with a one-day state-wide membership drive: Sunday. About 5000 Legionnaires repre- " |senting . 332 posts in the state will

take ‘part.

Report ‘meetings will be held inl’ leach district Sunday night. These meetings will be at Indianapolis, Gary, Winamac,; Monticello, South ‘Bend, Ft. Wayne, Wabash, Craw- “| fordsville, ‘Bloomfield, Jasper, Seymour, Rushville and Alexandria; * Department .- Commander Ravel mond B. Townsley and Adjutant W E. Sayer will: report campeign results at a national conference .of department commanders Bete. ‘Monday.

OFFICIALS SEE RED “AS NEW FLAG FLIES,

«» visit America. persons of title came on ‘social

sobpe ‘of’ my department was very extensive and its activities widely

* ranged,” Sir Gilbert has written. "In “addition” ‘to direct use of

newspapers, pamphlets and moving pictures, he ‘tells that: “We advised and stimulated many people’ to write articles: we utilized the friendly services and assistance of confidential friends; we had reports from important Americans constantly and estab=

lished association by personal cor:

respondence with influential and eminent people of every proféssion in the United States, beginning with university. and college presidents, - professors and = scientific

men and running through all the ' rangés of the population.

“We asked. our friends and correspondents. « to. arrange for speeches, debates and. lectures by American citizens, but ‘we did not encourage: Britishers to go to America and preach the doctrine of entrance into the war.” ‘ Many Britishers, of course, -did: British and French -

visits and enjoyed brilliant seasons in: New York, Palm Beach and elsewhere. Scholars and writers, who were household names in‘

ual brush which forged the " strongest chain: between America . and Britain, iH ‘German “trighttulness” was no longer ‘stressed, other strings - were plucked: with fervor. Dozens

“the. ‘approaches—the: rape of Belgiym, the burning of Louvam, the “scrap of paper,” the Kaiser's upturned mustache, the goose

Step, war guilt, “the ‘Hun, ” militar- / 4

ism, Edith. Cavell: and “blood is thicker: ‘than water The final | oo a Edith Cavell © + seems t6 have been expressed most ‘neatly by the English publicist, ‘Sidney Rogerson, in his remar “I never. pass the statue in Tra falgar: Square to ‘Nurse Cavell ‘witholit reflecting ‘that after the n,: gat “is not \D! ' added, ‘Propa-

rificial triot, but, there is little contrad ~nowadays- of the point; that legally her execution ‘was altogether regular. She had committed offenses which under “the code are: labeled spying. The Germans were guilty of no crime

“in In nels dealing ‘with her—but of x

of . They made A mi don mattyr

ropagan : Shortly after the furor over Miss

* Cavell the French quietly executed two German nurses. under approx= imately the same circumstances.

An American reporter in Berlin -

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asked what the Germans were go= ing to do about that. Nothing at all answered a routine legalist “The French had a: Peutesi right to shoot tem?” Gil

America, léctured on cultural sub--.

jects. It isa fair assumption that

NEXT German Ee upapada

Name Cancer Clinic Head To Correla te Trea tment

City ‘Hospital is ready to make its final move: in the local fight on

21 5Dr. Ben Peli, formerly resident | ; in radiology at" Cincinnati General

Hospital and University of Cincinnati Medical School graduate, has been put in charge of the hospital’s cancer clinic. It will be his job. to | treatments used against cancer. The ‘clinic was founded about a year ago with funds provided by E. Le J Patrick, Indianapolis business-

nti the ‘appointment of Dr. Fel‘son, caneer treatment at City Hospital had not been. sufficiently correlated to provide absolute tests as to .the value of treatment, Dr. Charles W. Myers, City Hospital superintendent, said. today.

Doctors were assigned to cases for

.|a-short period of time. ‘Each 'doc-

tor had many patients and each pa-| tient ‘had several doctors. "However, there was’ little attempt made to}

formally discuss each case, nor were | the doctors in all cases familiar with | ie treatments applied, Dr. Myers| d. This will be Dr. Felson’s job. “He holds a fellowship in cancer research, the funds for which have been supplied by the

late and evaluate all]

resources available tor a larger nume

ber: of Indianapolis’ residents and to increase the personnel. he

are now: about 40. beds available,

vel Hoy a pure and. sace 3

The ‘clinic. now has about 270

milligrams - of ° radium. Dr. Fe

said this was enough for the hos

all cancer cases has not been covered but that improvements radiating ‘the disease. with X-F and radium und ‘improvements surgical technique are leading to cure of many more cases formerly. He said thers was no. doubt ‘the earlier the treatment the mol chances there: were for r the Paden recovery.

TEST Yo u R -KNO A LEDGE

1—Into what body of water: Hos Columbia River flow?

2-With which’ ‘major league b ihe Indianapolis) ; fo

something more than free speech, the right to hire upon the merger with but. few if

rE |any dissenting votes.” .. ee “The U. B. board of Christjan‘edu-| | cation met: Monday and heard reports of a met gain of 15,000 in. av=|

HAYS, Ks. Nov. 16, @. P)— City offéred. $100' reward

Foundation. er for information leading to the|: PSHOR. anil bis bilinediate: ; oband conviction ‘of the person | jectives were :to make ‘the: hospital

who raised the red’ SALTONSTALL GIVEN

month the third Tiusday of each, City ball team does Joe Sargon ‘play month. “op

2 WOMEN w STALLED 3

My Day

LOGAN, W. ya. Wednesday.—The drive from Lancaster $0 York, Pa. yesterday afternoon was lovely and “through rich farming country. Mr. Laucks had asked us to stay and, since that was impossible, we drove up. ‘to his place and I had an opportunity to walk around the grounds. From the terrace there is a most beautiful view of the Susquehanna River. Mr. William Adams Delano, who built ‘the. house, has given it the atmosphere of intimacy, which to me is the most charming thing about a French House. As you come in, the wall around the courtyard seems to shut out the outer world, One stout and ageing Scottie accompanied his master around and two young and vociferous Scotties were chained up near the stable. jumped in their efforts to get free , since 1 can never Tesist tties, 1 them. : of a Japanese iden; very ; on a hillside with a tiny

By Eleanor Roosevelt

kind which gives an Sppartunity for real bEees management and yet has great beauty. Mr. Laucks kept telling me how much he wanted the President to come to see it. I know the President would enjoy it, but I fear this visit will have to walt, until Washington days are: over. In York we passed through. some interesting streets. I was much interested in a bit of history which I probably should have known, namely, that York was the seat of the first meeting of the Con-

giving Day was proclaimed here by George Washington after the battle of Saratoga. No one seemed to know exactly what date this was.” Perhaps that year Baa Some of the Sifcultios Wak We are BSVID this

nos i th hotel we had tw minutes to npack tecy : largely of!

old} ance, meeting

erage Sunday school attendance, a net gain’ of $37,100 in total giving a U. B. churches during the year and {a net ‘gain of $9432 in benevolences. The board re-elected Dr. J. Gordon. Howard of Dayton to a 12th term ‘as general director of young peopie’s work. and stewardship: edua Northwest | e wes ‘Regional Gonger- | Tuesday, church affairs In the Central Westem states under the presidency of ‘H. H, Fout of ‘Indianapolis, senjor. United Brethren bishop. +; “The board of admin tion,

Mrs. G Rhinebarger, 12, both of Peru, were killed". yesterday whieh iiely ghey were THeing. road frussiig

CAR DIE AT CROSSING

A ——————

PERU, Ind. Nov: 16 (U. Pra ladys Vanator, 33, and Betty | pole

when the car iniDsy. stalled on af.

persons: > of © communism’ above | he

was struck.

‘building. _ The ‘United States flag had been. taken down and the communist flag raised : sin fe place. The flag} 0 American Legion | post Dost Bete, was fedigated Armistice

Painted on th

Oma | were the buy “May Zhe rivers h >

“TRIBUTE. BY. INDIANS

BOSTON, Nov. 16° (U.P) —The|! og

¢ FN alate

Young I / Democrat Officers

Sosed. in a letter from Dr..

bas s’Hiuhush | association, it