Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1940 — Page 21
‘Hoosier Vagabond
He TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, March 7.—Honduras, » — @S a country, interests me more than any of the Others we’ve seen on this trip. Largely, I think, because it has so far to go—and it’s on its way at last. Americans who feel there is no land left to pioneer should just come down through here. ‘Honduras is almost a miniature United States in the -diversity of its character. It has isolated interior valleys so, fertile you can throw out a kernel of corn and it grows into two crops a year. It has endless. rich pasture lands in the mountains, but few cattle or sheep are there to disturb the silence. It has vast forests of timber that men have never set foot in. * It has rivers rich in placer gold, a and large hard-rock mines of “gilver. . And yet Honduras is hardly scratched. It seems ‘to me about as rich, and in about the same state of development, as our own West in the days of the ’49 ‘gold rush. The population is scant and the land is ‘Waiting. Everything lies ahead. + Honduras has 962,000 people. More than half of them are pure Indian. A great many have never seen
“®& motor truck. A half century of progress has utterly
passed them by, and they have leaped right from the bull cart to the airplane and the radio. We ‘in America hate dictatorships. But in these countries, where revolution instead of election is the custom, dictatorships seem’ compulsory. An honest man, just the same as a dishonest one, can keep himself in power only through force. 8 8. =»
An Honest, Sincere Leader
Today Honduras happens to have a ruler who is both honest and sincere. President Tiburcio Carias Andino is now in office until 1945, which will make him a total of 12 years. There has not been a revolution here since 1932. By a show of great force, such as the biggest Air Corps in Central America (about 30 planes, under an American), President Carias has brought peace to Honduras. And only in peacetime is progress made.
Our Town
. I WAS SOMEWHERE around 16 years old, I guess, when Conan Doyle came to Indianapolis to deliver 8 lecture in Plymouth Church under the auspices of the Montefiore Society, a group of enterprising young men who, back in the Nineties, disseminated culture around here in much the same way that ‘Mrs. Ed Bingham does today. The start of Mr. Doyle’s lecture was the slickest thing I ever heard. Right away he had me eating out of his hand. He said he was about 4 years old when William Makepeace Thackeray, then at the height of his career, came to call on his parents. The conversation was going fine when, all of a sudden, the great novelist spied little Conan, a forlorn forgotten figure, sitting on the floor. Forthwith he picked him up, placed him on his knee, and spent the rest of the afternoon bouncing him up and down. In a more - abundant age it was called “playing horsie.”
Dr. Doyle, I remember, dolled up the story with & lot of fancy details—at any rate, a lot for a 4-year-old kid to remember—and ended up with his mother’s observation that her little boy had sat in the lap of English literature. After that it was a foregone conclusion, said Mr. Doyle, that He was cut out to be an author. 5 #2 2 = Creating Sherlock Holmes
In support of which Mr. Doyle said that he began writing his first story when he was 6 years old. It was written on foolscap paper, four words to a line. The two principal characters were a tiger and a man. The two were separated at the beginning of the story, but became blended as soon as the tiger saw the man, Then and there, said Mr. Doyle, he first appreciated the ease’with which a hero could be gotten into trouble and how hard it was to get him out of it.
Washington
WASHINGTON, March %7.—President Roosevelt has thrown his support in favor of extending the Hatch act so that it would curb the political activities not only of Federal Government employees, as is now provided, but would extend those restrictions to state and local Government employees who are supported wholly or partly by Federal funds. Mr. Roosevelt's position is that, having applied limitations to one group directly on the Federal payroll, it is only fair to apply the same rule to those who are only indirectly on the Federal payroll—such as stale . highway employees who are financed cn a matching basis with both Federal and State Governments chipping in to foot the cost. Not only is there opposition in Congress to this extension but some attempt is being made to rip the existing Hatch act to ribbons. In fact, it came perilously close to success in the Senate yesterday. That piece of sabotage is led by Senator Miller of Arkansas. He would retain restrictions against political use of WPA and relief funds but he would take the halter off the remainder of the Government payroll. He says the Democratic Party will be ruined if the Hatch act is continued in a form that prevents political Scliviiies by Federal smpioyees,
They Have Work to Do Senator Miller sees no reason why a Federal District Attorney or an Internal Revenue Collector should be denied the right to play politics. There is plenty of reason why such employees should be taken out of politics. Why should a. District Attorney, who has
My Day .
NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.—I came to New York City yesterday morning in order to see my aunt, Mrs. David Gray, who is sailing this week with her husband, our new Minister to Ireland. I cannot say that I shall see them go very cheerfully, for I like to have them in this country. But Mr. Gray loves Ireland and I know will enjoy his time there very much. I had a few engagements in the afternoon and then went to the dinner given by the “National Sharecropper Week” and gave the prizes for essays writtent by high school pupils on the sharecropper situation. A few more appointments this morning and back to Washington I shall go by this affernoon’s plane. 1 must, however, tell you about a book which I finished on the plane last Sunday. The hook is called ‘Stricken Field” by Martha Gellhorn. Here is a Jorelgn correspondent’s story which could not perhaps be written for the daily newspapers, for the reason that the correspondent writing it would be thrown out.of the foreign country and would cease to have a job. This is a picture of stark tragedy painted by the use of simple. events in ordinary lives which ‘are important to the individuals concerned, but which count for little in history. This book is @ masterpiece as a vivid picture, If is not a
| bull cart.
The country’s entire revenue is about 10 million a
under such circumstances and to those other indi-
By Ernie Pyle |
Frequent visitors to these countries say they can
see an amazing difference here in just the last two years. Americans say another 10 years of peace will put Honduras on its feet. President Carias is very nationalistic, and distrustful of foreigners. He wants Honduras to lean on nobody but herself. One of his greatest delights is that next month Honduras will ‘make the last payment on her last foreign loan. Then she won't owe anybody a cent... Of course, businessmen say he should then turn around and borrow 10 million dollars from the U. S. and go at his program of opening up the country with a bang. But that is not his way. The No. 1 thing in Honduras’ program of develop-
ment is the building of roads. That's a good dull idea | 8
and won’t make any tingles go up your back. you were here you'd see how much it means. It means that those incredibly rich valleys, idle since time began, can thrive with grain and wealth, for there’ll be a way to get it out to market. ” » s
Future Looks Rosy
It means that those endless pastures and cedar-|.
wooded ridges of the mountains can swarm with cattle and sheep, for there’ll be trucks to haul them out. It has just opened a road to Juticalpa, the center
of that richest of all valleys in Honduras. Previously you could get there only by muleback—not even by
These are not our modern highways of the States.
They are dirt roads, but trucks and bull carts can get:
over them. Roads are No. 1, but there are other things, tao. School teachers are getting paid again for the first time in a long time. The streets of Tegucigalpa are torn up because they are being paved with modern brick. New parks are being built for the children. Honduras hasn’t much money to do all this on.
year. There has not been time yet to raise the living standard of the people. But if Honduras can stay peaceful, and the present program of honesty in high places continues, two more generations should see the stain of “backward” wiped from this country.
By Anton Scherrer|
It wasn’t until he was 19, however, that Mr. Doyle submitted a story for publication. For the next 10 years he wrote stories, but never made more than $250 a year. Then he realized that to make literature pay he had to write a book, if possible one with a brand new kind of hero. As a boy he had observed that the detectives de-
picted in novels invariably achieved their successes|
by nothing more than pure accident and that gave him the idea, he said, of creating a detective with a power of observation and accurate reasoning by deduction together with a fund of miscellaneous information which, when combined, must in the very nature of things spell success. This was his first conception of Sherlock Holmes. ; 2 2 ”
His Readers Displeased
The character of Holmes, he said, was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor of medicine at Edinburg. He was one of Mr. Doyle's teachers and had a singular talent for noting details which when piled, one on top of the other, formed a chain of circumstances so convincing that nobody could deny the logic of his process. If properly worked, there was no telling where a detective with Dr. Bell's habit of acute observation and accurate reasoning would land. It might even end with the reading public asking for more. Which is exactly what happened—to such a degree, indeed, that it got on Mr. Doyle’s nerves. Mr. Doyle confessed, I remember, that he killed Sherlock Holmes at the close of the 27th story because he was sick and tired of writing anything more about him. He wanted to write historical romances instead. His readers didn’t like the notion at all, he said, and kept on writing letters begging Mr. Doyle to find some way of bringing Sherlock Holmes to life again. One reader more realistic than the rest who accepted Mr. Doyle’s decision as final asked for a lock of the dead detective’s hair to remember him by. The old Montefiore Society never gave more: for the money than the night they brought Conan Doyle to Indianapolis.
By Raymond Clapper
discretion to Ghose which prosecutions shall proceed and which shall be dropped, who determines whether an indictment shall be sought or not, be playing politics? Why should an Internal Revenue Collector, whose business is to handle income-tax and other Federal coll ions, be playing politics? The further from active politics both of those offices are kept, the better. Neither is it desirable that the ranks of routine employees, clerks, janitors, stenographers and field workers, engage in campaign organization work. 2 ” ”
Roosevelt Goes Further
Those questions were settled with passage of the Hatch act last summer, placing the whole Federal service in conformity, so far as political work is concerned, on the same basis as the civil service employees. They are not restricted in their right to vote, or to have political opinions, or to express such opinions, but only as to active organization work. In approving the Hatch act, President Roosevelt suggested that it be extended further to cover state and local government employees. He indicated that he thought Congress could constitutionally prevent all of them from participating in political aciivity in Federal elections. “Senator Hatch is restricting his praposed extension to such employees as are supported entirely or partly by Federal appropriations. He is keeping well inside the apparent constitutional boundaries. Probably some 500,000 state and local employees would be subject to these restrictions. Nobody expects the Hatch “clean politics’ legislation to produce clean politics. After all, you can’t ask for miracles. Purity in politics is, as 4 famous Kansas Senator once said, “an iridescent dream.” Besides it ‘would be terribly dull. The trick is to keep the heat on.
- By Eleanor Roosevelt
novel, it is just daily life under the kind of circumstances which, thank God, we do not know in the United States. It is important to us, every one of us, to understand what happens to the individual forced to live
viduals who, through force and fear, rule people in such a manner. If we lack ihis knowledge We cannot understand what is happening in Europe today. I strongly recommend the reading of “Stricken Field,” not for pleasure, though it is very well written, but because you will know vividly the fear -of the little people: all over the world. Yesterday I was unable to finish telling you about the other things which happened on Monday, so I must go back and say that in the afternoon I visited the crippled children’s unit at Gallinger Hospital where the Twentieth Century Club has equipped a room for occupational therapy and has also installed 8 library. On the way home I stopped at an art exhibit which is being held at the Mayflower Hots! by Princess Guerilli for the benefit of the Polish Refugee Fund. In the evening we had our annual dinner with the Cabinet. They always have a delightful dinner for us, and Mr. Eddie Dowling again brought down the entertainers. As usual, when the party was over, they all came over to the White House for a very light
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“This is the story of one of the world’s great pharmaceutical lab-
- oratories, its beginnings, its growth, its accomplishments. This is the
third of a series of five articles.
u Joe Collier
(Copyright, 1940, by The by The Indianapolis Times)
T almost any hour of the day you can see trucks, large
and small, being loaded at the Eli Lilly and Company platform with thousands of packages, destined for a doctor’s medicine case or the home medicine chest. The Lilly company knows that each medical item is
made correctly, that each package contains the right medi-
cine, that it is labelled correctly, contains no faulty merchandise and contains the proper amount: Behind the certainty is what they call the control
haired man with sparkling blue eyes, the control laboratory is responsible for so many things it would take a volume to explain them all.
It must see, first of all, that the raw materials which have been delivered are of the quality and quantity represented and ordered. Samples are taken, for example, from every single barrel of a shipment of as simple a substance as granulated sugar. The shipment must stay on the unloading dock until the control laboratory certifies that every barrel meets specifications.
An “O. K.” sign is stamped on each barrel, signed by an official, and it moves into the plant and is taken to storage rooms.
The standards by which these materials are accepted or rejected are set up by the control laboratory and apply to all incoming materials, including even filter papers.
HE botanical laboratory, for instance, is ringed with hundreds. of bottles containing up-to-standard herbs for comparison purpose. Witch hazel leaves coming into the plant must meet the comparison with the
SAYS EXPERTS BAFFLED BY TAX
George Olive Asserts Levies Now Most Important Item in Business.
The tax situation in the United States is so complicated that even tax experts have a hard time keeping track of it, George S. Olive, Indianapolis accountant, told Kiwanis Club members yesterday at their Columbia Club meeting.
He cited the widening sphere of Federal spending: during the last eight years as the principal reason for increased taxes and resulting complications to businessmen. “The statement of tax expenditures in any business is now about the most important of any single statement appearing on its books,” he said. “Taxes per share of, stock have about doubled and have outstripped -wages paid.” - He said in 16 companies surveyed
'|in Indiana that did a yearly gross
business of about $33,000,000. “During this period,” he said, “taxes have increased in those businesses by 66 per cent, while wages went 1p only 13 per cent. » Mr. Olive said in his years of experience as a tax expert he had met
only about a half-dozen persons|
who wrongfully tried to evade payment of taxes. He advised his listeners to “play fair with the Government.” At the speakers’ table with Mr.
‘Olive were John. Dowd of Chicago,
formerly with the FBI and a guest of Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey, also at the speakers’ table; Charles Gaunt; Joseph Mattingly; Harley L. Horton; Charles Coates; Arthur Holt, club president, who presided; Henry IL. Dithmer; Clarence E. Durnell, and Ernest Morris.
YOUTH JOINS NAVY
Arnold Lee Patterson, 22, of 1300 N. Pennsylvania St., enlisted-in the Navy this: week as one of Indiana’s March quota of 20 recruits. Other Hoosier recruits this week were Lloyd Leroy Loudermilk, 20, of Jasonville; Tdell Reid Foster, 19, of Wabash; Thomas Fredrick Dorraugh, 21, of Linton; Henry Oliver
supper and a glimpse of -the house which, to some of them, was a new experience. wit
Sayre, 24, of Anderson, and William Clemens Meith, 20, of Selma.
laboratory. Headed by W. J. Rice, a round-faced, white-
witch hazel leaves contained in the laboratory. It is an interesting commentary that despite this rigid care, Lilly’s has, at various times in the past, paid drug prices for the following items that were concealed in packages to make them dishonestly heavier: A belaying pin, two paving bricks, a fireplace-sized log, a sizable assortment of cobble stones, and some graceful machetes.
After the storeroom force has: weighed and measured the ins. gredients ordered for the manufacturing processes, and the orders
"have been delivered by the spiral
mechanical conveyors, another check is made by the control laboratory—this time to see that the proper materials and amounts have been delivered to each de-
partment.
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SSURED of that, the manuturing work begins. But at arbitrary and crucial points of the manufacturing process, the operation stops and samples of the product are taken to the control
. laboratory. There the samples
are tested and not until these samples are pronounced correct
and the work ticket signed by an. .
examiner, can the process con=tinue. There is no appeal. trom. the control laboratory,
Release Wagner -
Opera Preludes|
Preludes to two of Richard Wagner's operas will be released Saturday through the Indiana Music Appreciation Campaign. The cost will be $1.59, as in previous cases. The preludes are those to “Die Meistersinger” and
“Parsifal.” Mrs. Lenora Coffin, supervisor of music in the public schools and Mrs. E. J. Ellsworth, a member of Phi Beta, musical and dramatic sorority, heard the records of the fourth album yesterday. Mrs. Coffin lectured on the symphonies already released in . connection with a concert this week at: Arthur Jordan Conservatory. - She played some of the " records while her listeners followed a Goetchius two-hand piano score. ;
CHURCH REPORTS BIG LOSS IN CHINA WAR
“EL PASO, Tex. March 7 (U. P.). ~The Southern Baptist Church has lost more than $600,000 worth of property ini China as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, Dr. R. S. Jones, of Richmond, Va. home secretary of the Baptist ‘Foreign Mission Roard, said yesterday. “But our missionaries still are there, working, and they report that there ‘were more baptisms in 1939 than in the history of our work in
that country,” Dr. Jones said.
lL Inspecting empty finished gelatine capsules.
2. Close-up of an automatic capsule machine,
. 3. Rows of revolving copper pans for sugar-coating pills and ‘tablets.
“You . can always argue,” said _one manufacturing executive, “but that’s all you can do. Their word is law. If tests show that the
‘batch of whatever-it-is is not according to thelr specifications, out it goes.”
‘All of these Sliecks are recorded and filed. If one had, say, a bottle of Lilly medicine that was 10
years old, or even more; and the serial number on the package was sent to the company, the records would show who made, it, who inspected it, when, whether the in‘spector was. married, how many children he had at the time, etc, ete. "= . 8.8 8 NE of the simplest of the Lilly operations is the filling of capsules with quinine. They know the quinine is ‘pure because it has been tested. It has to be mixed with nothing else. The only prob-
PAVING SUBJECT OF CIVIC GROUP
Bel-Rose League Invites City Engineer to Meeting : ‘At School 91.
City Engineer M. G. Johnson has been invited to discuss unpaved streets and the need for sidewalks in the area covered by the Bel-Rose Civic League at the Monday meeting of that group at.School 91. League members believe that paving of many of their streets may be impossible bécause of the lot valuation in the community but sidewalks “are needed and a possibility,” Mrs. Allen Martin, secretary-treasurer of the group said. Marcy Village tenants have been invited to join the league and the response is “very satisfactory,” Mrs. Martin said. Mr. Johnson, married several moths ago, is a Marcy Villager: -. At’ Monday's meeting, to start at 7:30 p. m., the 1940 officers are to be elected, Present officers beside Mrs. Martin: are ‘Paul Webster, president, and C. Titus Everett, vice president.
BREAKS ARM IN FALL
Mrs. Clara’ V. Horn, 65, of 848 N. Sherman ‘Drive, received a broken arm and head injuries today when she fell down a stairway at her home. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital.
It's Tree Planting Timer State fo Set Out 986, 000
‘Tree planting time is here again in the Hoosier National Forest. During March and April, 986,000 trees will be planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the WPA on nearly 1000 acres of (Government land, according to R. H. Grabow, Forest Supervisor at Bedford. Species to be planted will be shortleaf pine, Virginia pine, pitch pine, white pine, black locust, white ash, yellow poplar, red oak, white oak, red maple, red Ba, sycamore, chestnut oak, pin oak and silver maple. A
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The stock, one and two years old, was grown at the U. S. Forest Service Nursery at Vallonia. The Vallonia Nursery also is shipping 2,349,000 ‘trees to the Shawnee National Porest in Illinois and 949,000 to the Wayne: National Forest in Ohio. The tree nursery, started in 1936, is not yet in full production but will produce : 11,000 s in 1940,
Since 1936 the Forest Service has|
supervised the planting of 3100 acres of publicly owned lands within the Hoosier: National Forest, :
lem is to fill the proper capsules with: enough quinine and to get
them into the right packages.
Yet there are more than 15 checks between storehouse weighing and package acceptance. These - include frequent capsule weighings, further chemical analysis, periodical check counts, checks on those check: counts, weighings and, finally, package inspection for label, neatness and so forth. “We all: remember,” said one of the control laboratory staff, “that each package may land in our own medicine chest at home.” All ‘through the manufacturing laboratories there are representatives of the control staff who are not occupied: in -any way with
direct production. About one in
‘every 10 employees is so occupied. 5 ® 2 2 O THE visitor, ‘it seems that most medicine begins in a kettle or percolator. There are percolators two floors high, into
Summer Note:
which herbs and leaves feom far=off places sre measured and poured to be treated -a good deal like you treat your breakfast cotfee.
There are smaller percolators on an endless belt. There are large vats, mechanically stirred, and steaming with their mysterious brews. You feel like a dwarf in a giant's kitchen when he is preparing for a banquet. The modern pill-making device, so far as production is concerned, is a one-machine pharmacy col=lege. It rolls more pills better by a complicated system of multiple knives and rotating belts than a dozen old-time chemists could in twice the time. Sitting at each machine is an operator whose business it is to see that the machine rolls these "pills perfectly and, if it slips up on one, to discard it. From there the pills go to be coated in hright copper keftles that are. mounted diagonally on machines which turn them around and around. The coating of these pills consists of elaborately tested gelatins and sugar syrup. . ; ” s # ABLETS, on the other hand, are not rolled.”. They are punched. The ingredients, moist= ened to the proper consistency with alcohol, are placed in the hopper of a machine and out the - inspection line comes the little punched tablets, ready for packaging. Packaging and labeling are, for the most part, done by machine, “That’s the bar,” smiles wypur host as he takes you through the large cafeteria and you see a group of employees and company officers seated ut tables drinking soft drinks vended from an electrical refrigerator. As you walk through you notice that you are scarcely ever out of sight of one. “We have them all over,” he says, “because a cool drink every once in a while is a relaxation to the man who is 0 is working. »
Next: Research—More Research.
Leaf-Eating
Worms Are Coming Back
Along about last June, many Indianapolis residents found that tiny measuring worms. were eating all the foliage off the trees on their properties. Literally hundreds of trees were stripped of their leaves, and in some sections whole neighborhoods were shadeless and, in addition, very uncomfortable about the worms as
such.
These worms were cankerworms, and it’s a pretty sure thing they will be back this ‘year in approximately the same localities, eating the leaves off shade trees starting about June.
Frank N. Wallace, state entomol-|
ogist, said the worms laid their eggs onthe bark of the trees last fall and that when the little worms hatch they will begin eating. Later on, after the worms have fed, the leaves.will come out again. The females of the species have no wings, which prevents them from traveling far fo deposit their eggs. That's why, Mr. Wallace says, there will be little variation in the infested spots this year. He said that all persons who asked for control measures last years were told to put a band of fly paper around the base of the trunks of the infested trees. This would stop the worms. when they started back up to deposit their eggs. If they didn’t do’ that, then there
YOUNG REPUBLICANS TO GIVE F. D. R. SKIT ‘An Evening at’ the White House |can with Frank and Eleanor” will be
presented to the Washington Township Republican Club, tomorrow at
8 o'clock at the Sixty-First St. and |
College Ave. clubrooms. The Young Republicans of the Township will have charge of the program. “Francis Hughes will be the pants in the skit. s is Addison | ard,
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is no economical way to stop the leaf feasting, because it would cost too much to spray, he said. Best bet is to put a band of fly paper around the base of infested trees next fall to reduce foliage damage in 1941.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which actress was recently divorced and married again within 15 minutes? 2—Name the President of Argentina. 3—What portion of the world’s habitable land surface does the British Empire occupy? 4—-Was the Circus Maximus in Rome, Athens or Alexandria? 5—What American-born person with .a Spanish father and Irish mother became Prime Minister of a foreign country? .
6—Name the publicity chiefs of the Republican and Democratic parties.
T—Have three, twelve or six Popes been named Pius?
8—What are ‘the pigment primary colors? ’ 8's 8
Answers
1—Edna Best. 2—Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz. 3—About one-fourth. 4—Rome. 5—Eamon de (Eire).
6—Frankiyn. Waltman, Jr., Republi ean; Charles Michelson, Democratic.
7—Twelve. S-Yeliow, blue and red. Sn 8 &
ASK THE TIMES
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