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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
he Would Hare Missed II

NNTELL. II had gone 10 that ivory tower or 10
w that attic or garnet 7 would have missed on
he very same morning Ernest Hemingwav's attack
on me IN Esquire and Mike Colds swat at me in the
Daily Worker. Perhaps II isn't quite fair to refer to
nature Of q SOuthpaw compliment
Mr. Gold SAYS that Broun's economic beliefs are
about IS close 20 reality those of Upton Sinclair
and Father Divine. but he docs add. maybe there
is some hope for this eX-pal of Texas Cuinan and
Morris Hllquit" And that's some comfort.
Ernest Hemingway doesn't mention me but sup
pose have right 10 bow and blush when ANYBODY
writes Of The good gray baggy-pants of the col
umns-' I learn further that. 1t is not enough to
have a big heart. pretty good head charm of
personality. and a facility with the typewriter to
know how the world Is and who is making the
assists. the put-outs and the errors and who are
merely the players and who the owners Our favorite
never viii know because he started too late and be-
cause he can not think clearly with his head"
/ then discover that Mr.. Hemingway who lives
way of IN Cuba. thinks I'm a Communist
don't figure now that I'm going TO get to the top
~ any tower or ever the other side Of the moon
II can't be done with a two weeks vacation
Bitter grapes grow along the walls of the man.
SONS Of the isolated The towers are too tall and
their jewellers can't keep up with the things which
happen IN he alleys and the side streets Still some
times one OF the refuses writes lovely book like
a Farewell 70 Arms
I couldn't do that. It isn't that it's too late I
never had n IN me My possessions are a Job a
pretty eood head. an obligation and hair shirt.
'Corrrirht 1894 by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
LABOR SITUATION is
PEACEFUL IN INDIANA
Board Director Visits Local
Relations Office.

There is no major labor trouble
imminent in the district comprised
of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan, H. L. Mccarthy, national
labor relations board director for
that area, said today,
Mr.. Mccarthy, who is visiting the
local board, is a paradox in appear
ance. with an unruly shock of black
hair and a mild, soft-spoken man
ner. He aided in the settlement Of
labor difficulties in the violent labor
outbreaks in the model community
of Kohler, Wis.
The function of the labor boards
is to preserve industrial peace, Mr.
Mccarthy said. He declared that
both labor and industry are learn
ing to bring their problems to the
boards set up by the federal govern
ment.
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ACCOUNTANTS HEAR
FORMER AAA LEADER
Business Lacks Integrated Effort
He Asserts.

Business Lacks Integrated Effort,
He Asserts.
Government interference with
and RECOMMENDATION Of" business was
caused by lack OF an integrated and
cooperative effort en- the part Of
industrialists. Dr. Charles Reitel,
New York City, former chief ac-
countant for the agricultural adj
justment administration, told the
Indianapolis chapter, National As
ISOLATION of Cost Accountants. last
night at the Washington.
Dr. Reitell told the accountants
that American industrialists have
been too concerned with CODES and
too little with problems Of manage
ment. Codes will continue to oper-
ate, but control and regulation will
come in the future more through
trade associations and less through
government agencies, the speaker
predicted
A director Of the national organ
ization and a member Of Stevenson.
Jordan & Harrison, New York
management engineers, Dr.. Reitell
urged that industries should take
inventories Of their management as
well as their physical plants.
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J on Can't DO That

I WAS mad AZ tho paper which employed me The
issue involved did not concern any ma or point Of
political or economic belief There was no crown Of
thorns handy and shaped 70 my head Call it tenn
per. II y0u like Call Il temperament Call II Jack
and Charlie But just tho same / was good and mad
NJ impulse vas 20 60 of ia q high dudeeon into an
even taller tower II took NE only SIX wears find
out about Santa Claus and almost four times as long
IN discover that not every newspaper publisher
variably perfect. I mean m agreeing with me
And 50 I was going 10 SIT IN my tower far from
the maddcnIng grind. and write that novel and the
book about POntius PLATE. and the play built around
ST. Peter and Johnny Boyle. I was going to starve
and slave and be completely my own master Caugin
OF jeremiah or Elmer Rice or something like that
went down 10 sec Carl. who Is now a close friend
and associate When came I also found Lily
ana jim II was the same crowd which had run me
ragged az Barnevs Just TO make the pattern COM
pete and far too perfect for fiction. Barney himself
happened IN TWO minutes later.
spread my story. I told them that I was through
with newspaper work for five years forever I
was going of on my own 10 be beholden to no one
was going 20 stand with the guinea pigs the saints
and The martyrs And Jim struck that same fore
niger under my nose and said You can't do that"
Who says I Cant2" I answered belligerentlv
You've got 20 get back that Job" jim insisted
II you don't fulhn your contract you're a faker and
a trimmer and traitor TO the newspaper guild"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
BY WILLIS THORNTON
CHAPTER FOUR

II they're going the posoce week
down the headlines the
paper this last believe that
building
building
haved IN
postofhce, chimed John That
old dated back the Civil and looked it. And
help.
thing PWA-you something
money"
Yes responded John Jr part Of the public works
height with than 100000 working directly
supplying these jobs directly working
them pretty 100000
PWA
the absolute OF
obId think where be right without
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sistance to Washington dowagers
with eligible daughters Two
other bachelors come to the SEN
ate: Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsyl-
vania, and Lewis B. Schwellenbach
of Washington. Harry Hopkins
didn't want the phone call charged
Or his own bill when he was call"
ing San Francisco from his home
the other night. so he told the
operator he was Director Hopkins
of the emergency relief But he
got no emergency relief from her.
Only, I'm sorry, sir, but you will
have to get authorization from
your office" Eventually, a night
clerk in the FERA building gave
his chief permission to make the
call.
Copyright 1894. by United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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~ s4O0OOOOO a week from tax
payer to workman"
THE PWA now has decided on
i the spending of S3.700,O00,-
OOO And here is an idea of where
some of the money went: For
Ito street and highway jobs,
about S540000,00O. For utilities,
such as sewer and water systems,
about S3OO,O00,00O. For $3.50 build
lngs schools. hospitals, municipal
and federal buildings S362,000,-
600. For some 200 reclamation
and flood control projects, $780,
100000. For navigation aids
dams, canals. seawalls, light
houses, some S17O,OOO,O0O.
The navy got S238,OOO,0OO for
new ships, and the coast guard
about S24,000,00G.
The CWA was operated last
winter with PWA money at a cost
Of S400,000,000, and the CCC has
taken so far about S47O.0O0000. IN
GLIDING some money spent to buy
waste land
The housing division was given
$127, $4,000 for slum clearance
and low-cost housing. Odd tens
Of millions went into such things
as viaducts, wharves, swimming
pools and other recreational
equipment, airports and landing
fields, plant disease campaigns.
More than half the schools be-
ing built today are being financed
through the PWA. The fund is
about exhausted.
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II ADMIT it's better to spend
j all that money and have
something to show for it in the
form of dams and channels and
lighthouses and roads and sewers
and even battleShips-than it is
Just to pass it out for nothing
at ALL" meditated Pa Jones.
But, gosh! Pretty near four
billion dollars is lot of money
to blow inside of two years time.
You can't keep that up forever.
You can't even keep it up for
more than a few more years."
1T hadn't ought to be neces-
sary," retorted John Jr. you've
got to assume that sooner or later
private industries are going to
open up jobs for most of these
men. You've got to assume that
houses and buildings are going to
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need rebuilding and that their
owners will replace them by them
selves.
You've got to assume that
states will get on their feet and
start carrying their own weight.
mo plan will succeed perma-
nently if that doesn't happen.
Besides, some of that moneys
coming back into the treasury"
"How's that?" Pa Jones queried.
It's spent. isn't it?"
Certainly. And the money for
battleships, and federal postof1ces,
and the CWA and CCC is just
spent. But a lot of the rest was
loaned
Usually PWA said to a city:
Wen give you so much outright
and loan you so much at per
cent if your plan looks sound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
SHIP COLLISION PROBED
L. S. Inquiry Opens; Is Rescued, 4
Killed in Crash.

PORT HURON, Mich, Nov. o.
Collision of the freight steamers
w. C. Franz and Edward LOOMS,
resulting in four deaths and the
sinking of the Franz, was investi-
gated today by the federal steam
boat inspection service.
The LOOMS docked here last night
with the sixteen members Of the
Franz crew which it rescued after
the collision yesterday morning.
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land, laid the American arms con-
troll plan before the leagues dis
armament body yesterday, the
Russian turned it down. He pro-
posed instead that the disarma-
ment conference be Scrapped and
a permanent peace conference be-
gin to function.
1t is pointed out here that the
thing which saved the Washing
ton naval limitation conference
of 1921 was the Pacific and Far
Eastern conference which, in eff
feet, preceded it. Before Britain,
America, Japan, France and Italy
came to an understanding on
battleships, they reached a politi-
cal agreement purporting at least
to safeguard the peace of the
Orient.
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN =

THERE was q time when between $50 and 300
i babies out Of every 900 born in certain large
cities of the United States died before they we're
year old. With the advance Of modern medical SCI
ence these rates have BEEN greatly reduced, so that
the average rate for 985 cities in 1888 was 57l
Since the previous year cities Of Texas and South
Dakota have been added TO the birth registration
area If only those cities which were IN the birth
registration area in 1882 are compared with those for
1888 the rate for last year is 559-the lowest ever
recorded in the history Of this country.
This is highly significant, because the period vas
one of financial emergency and financial depression,
with many persons on relief
Furthermore. health authorities believe that the
infant mortality rate IS a good measure OF medical
and public health effort II means that even during
the financial depression. medical and public health
officials have held their own the battle against
disease.
IT is Of great significance 10 realize that Portland,
i 9 .; Seattle Wash. and Oakland. CAL have for
severai wears been among the first with the lowest
infant mortality rates In 1888 the rate for Portland
was 80. and for Seattle and oakland. So
Smaller cities such as Fl Wayne, mo- Long
Beach. Cal. and Tacoma Wash, report rates OF 80
and s. Among cities Of $4,000 to 100000 population,
Berkeley Cal and Newton, Mass have oeatn rates
Of 81 and San jose, Cal. rate Of %
In contrast with these enyiaole records. Memphis
Dallas and Atlanta have the highest rates among
cities Of more than $50 600 namely, H. 90 ana oS
FL Paso. San Antonio and Chattanooga have the
three highest among cities from 100000 10 @oOVoV'
namely, 1875, 1l5 and SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
SCIENCE TEACHERS TO
HEAR PARK DIRECTOR
Central Association to Hear L. S.
Official Nov. 80.

Dr.. Harold c. Bryant, Washing
ton. department of interior national
park service assistant director, will
be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the Central Association
Of Science and Mathematics Teach
ers. Friday. Nov. 30, at the Lincoln
Conservation of plant and an
imal life will be discussed by DR..
Bryant at the morning session in
an address on The Conservation
Policy of the National Park Serv-
ice" In the afternoon he will de-
scribe the objective. means and
methods of the naturalist program
in the parks.
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Today S Science
p by DAVID DIETZ =

RLINKING stars are the lighthouses which guide
- astronomers upon their Journeys through the
depths Of the universe Stars whose brightness
changeS IN regular CyCleS-knCWn technically as var-
able Stars-have made possible the major contribu-
tons 70 our present day understanding of the galaxy
How variable stars have enabled astronomers TO
ascertain such things as the diameters and masses
oi stars as well as their distances from the solar
system was explained II a recent address By Dr. S
Jacobsen. professor Of astronomy at the University
~ Washington.
Variable stars. Dr. Jacobsen points out NAV be
divided INTO Two classes long-perod varables which
repeat their light changes somewhat irregularlv in
cycles from hfty 20 six hundred DAYS and short
period VariabieS which fuctuate with remarkable
precision IN cycles Of less than fifty DAYS
These short-period variableS must in their turn
- divided INTO two classes each one Of which has
lis own particular message for astronomers. They
are the CcpSinC bnarieS and the Cepheid variableS
AS ITS name indicates the eClpSinc binary really
double star. Actually neither star varies in light
intensity The change IN light occurs when the dim
mer Of TIE Two componentS gets Ii front Of the
brighter one. eclipsrg rs light
EVEN The telescope fails 10 reveal the eclipSing
l. binary 3 double star The Spectroscope. how
ever. gives away the secret for the bnaryS spectrum
IS double one. containing the lines Of both stars.
The spectrcScOpe reveals the temperature and
chemical composition Of the component stars. the
period q rotation Of the two stars. and their mo-
ton n the line q sight. For this reason. eclipsing
binaries are the astronomers best source for data
or stellar masses and denSiteS.
The star concerning which astronomers know more
than any other star IN the heavens Is eclipsing
binary, the bright star Capella This star has not
only been studied with the SpectroScope but with
the Nicholson lnterferOnleter a. Mt Wilson Sir Ar
thur Ecdngton mace use OF this star in working out
his theory Of The internal constitution Of stars.
The Cepheid variabieS are true variable stars. in
dividual stars which grow brighter and then DINNER
THE Cepheid variables get their names from the
Il fact that the typical ones first studied were IN
the constellation Of CepheuS. II was the study OF
stars of this type IN the Mageanic Cloud which led
70 the discovery 81 the most important fact about
them This the so-caed period luminosity curve
formulated hy Or Harlow Shapley the director OF
the Harvard Observatory
This discovery that there an unfailing re-
aionship between length Of the period OF variation
and the absolute or real brightness OF the star The
Cepheids OF longest period are. the average fifty
times as bright those Of shortest period and 20
600 times brighter than our own sun.
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auZnouak
WESIBROOK PECLER

WITH little sense of regret your correspondent
W reports that he finally has dug up the vanish-
ing football hero of Kansas university who helped
Kansas through the first a-vctorious season in the
history Of the school in 1899 then disappeared
abruptly and became a legend. The story had given
pleasure to the football G. A. R of the middle
west for many years and had acquired new sort Of
interest as Fielding H. YOSt gradually from
the status of Carpetbageing coach and OCCASIONAL
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The public works administra-
ton is the practical working out
Of the idea that when private
capital is not spending and build
ing. then Is the time for the gov
eminent TO do it. This keeps
people able to buy things when
they otherwise couldn't. and helps
keep all industry going as a re-
sLlt"
TINE PWA program began soon
I after the Roosevelt Inaugural
ton, added young John, and the
secretary of interior was placed IN
charge. II was very slow in NOV
ing of, because of Ickes' care in
giving out money from the So
100000 900 fund that was placed
at his disposal
Naturally. the pouring out of
any such huge fund into public
works was bound to bring a swarm
OF dizzy ideas. such as to dredge
Goose creek for ocean vesselS-in
shOrt-p0rk.
Somebody really suggested
building a 10G0-bed maternity
hospital in a crossroads town, and
somebody else the rearing of a
circular tower in the Nebraska
prairies so autos could climb to
Tue top and their occupants ad-
mire the scenery.
out of all these brainstorms,
Ickes had the awful job of sitting
the sane ones. So the start of
tire program was much delayed.
and reaches its peak now only
after two years. pouring out near
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
THREE OUT OF FOUR
VOTERS GO TO POLLS
Indiana Cast 1,442,565 Ballots,
Statistician Announces.

Almost ree-quarters Of m
dianas registered voters exercised
their franchise in the recent cleo
ton, it was announced today by Al
bert Dickens. state accounts board
statistician.
Votes cast totalled 1.442,565 out
of a possible 1,954.199, total Of 1913
per cent. With the United States
census showing 2,OO3.091 persons 81
or older in Indiana. the registration
figure means that 976 per cent Of
eligible voters are registered.
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TRIO GETS 10 YEARS
FOR HUNGER THEFT
Oaktown Youths Are Convicted Of
Stealing Load of Corn.

81 HitfG Press
WASHINGTON. Ind, Nov %
Three young Oaktown men. who
blamed hunger for their crime, were
under sentence of three to ten years
each today on charges of stealing a
load of corn.
The prisoners. Clarence King.
Glen Feltner and Carl Stepro, said
they planned to sell the corn so
they could buy provisions for the
winter. They were captured as they
left the farm of their victim east Of
here.
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MDIVANI LEFT AT DOCK,
BARBARA u. S. -B0UNO

Departure Unexplained as Heiress
Sails for Home.
BIZ UHitCd Press
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 22.-Prin-
cess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, heir
ess to the Woolworth millions, took
leave of her husband, Prince Alexis,
today and sailed for the UniteS
States aboard the S. S. Europa.
The prince and princess arrived
from London by automobile few
minutes before sailing tine. They
explained they had missed the boat
train. Princess Barbara did not dis
close the reason for the separation.
She babe her husband hasty fare
we'll on the dock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22

D0lel as Wei as duloDlO8fdpnlcal-
About TWO years ago fat columnist
and three acquaintance sat in Bar
nev Gaiiants place on Washington
square The fat cOlumnist was on
the pan Jim and Carl ana Lily
called him faker and a trimmer
I defended myself as best 7 could
and asserted that what I wrote. hot
OF cold. represented what I thought
I thought Naturally no man wants
70 20 20 The length q saying that
never did he pull a punch IN this
vale or frau mortality about the
most which should be required Of
any contender is that he might be
% there TRYING
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player to his present reverend posi-
ton of athletic director of the Uni
versity Of Michigan and bishop, as it
We're of football
Many times in recent years Mr..
Yost, a pious man in matters of
football ethics. has decried and de-
plOred the practice of recruiting,
prosecuting and substituting foot
ball players. But always in foot
ball season, in those gatherings on
the road, with fatted heroes of
other years perched on the foot
board Of somebody's bed or Squatted
on the musty carpet, coddling sweaty
one would remember Nh YOst.s wear
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pearing tackle
The name of the man was George r. Krebs and
skepticS who have rfled the old newspaper files in
Kansas City finding no mention of any hercics per-
formed by him in 90 might have done better if they
had borne in mind that the football ringer like men
in many other lines Of deceitfu practice prefers to
operate under an alias.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-CO-ROUND
BIZ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

VXTASNGTON Nov 22The but firm hand of Secre
NNtary potent backstage admins
councils
President of
the Craftsmanship of Henry coordinate federal
responsible
keeping filled will also big how the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22
By William Philip Siums

XXTASHNGTON Nov 22A hope of early disarmament either
w land, in the air has been abandoned by practically all
high officials until the
inclined with
Livnof When Wilson United
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22

Money Is Well SPENT Young John Informs His Father

You give US bonds for the loaned
part. So PWA has some $780,
100000 in bonds that its holding
as security for loans.
Now the law provides that the
RFC can buy some of these if it
wishes and # they seem good
risks. It's done that with millions
Of dollars worth. SO PWA has
that much more money-which 1t
can lend, but can't spend out
right
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-22

TODAY, the practical school of
Il diplomats here, both Ameri-
can and foreign, agree that the
whole postwar peace structure is
a shambles. Since the political
pacts signed at Washington have
been scrapped, it is only natural
that Britain, America and Japan
have not made an inch of progress
since they began talking naval
tonnages weeks ago at London.
Litvinof himself is held up as
as example of the present drift.
A decade ago he startled Geneva
by proposing that every nation