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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

Z VERY one is familiar with the COW as producer
II of milk. But most persons will be surprised to
learn that the COW is also the worlds champion pro-
Queer of buttons
1t is a fact however that the COW helps to pro-
ouce three-foTths of the worlds buttons. buckles
ana other dress decorations These products are
made from caSein protein found in milk
When the ice cream industry expanded some
years ago, there was a great demand for cream and
a consequent residual Of skim milk Chemists got
busy to find ways to keep this from going to waste.
The result was the development of many new uses
Tor casein and the manufacture of so-called casen
plastcs which include buttons buckles combs foun-
tain pens, mechanical pencils and all sorts of similar
small objects.
There are three principal methods for preparing
the casein. One is to add a little sour milk or a
culture Of Tactic acid bacteria to the skim milk
The second is to precpitate the casein with the
ald OF acid In the third method, rennet, engine
obtained from the lining of Calls stomach is used
to precipitate the casein
CASEIN finds many uses in the paper industry
~ Paper wrappings cups bags and other paper
objects can be made waterproof by treating them
with solution of casein and then exposing them to
formaldehyde vapors
In the making of fine grades of paper casen now
Is generally used instead of animal CLUES for the
coatngs. A solution of case<n, boraX. water, and
small amount Of ammonia is used. This solution is
tnen mixed with china clay, satin white some
other white pigment. The mixture is applied to the
paper and allowed to dry
The first casein plastics were manufactured in
Germany where the substance was known as milk
stone For several years the process was kept
deep secret and American research chemists had to
discover the method independently.
ME caseln industry is but of many developed
u by the chemist in his attempt to put waste
products to work Two things characterize modern
chemical endeayor one. the turning of waste prod
ucts into by-products and two the DEVELOPMENT Of
synthetic chemistry.
The chemist no longer is content to use materials
as ne finds them in nature He syntheszes or puts
together new ones
Another type of plastics developed by the modern
chemist are the so-caled celulose plastics. Radio
fans who made their own sets few years ago be-
came extremely well acquainted with yet another
type the phenol pastics, made through the action
of formaldehyde on phenol or carboc acid. These
included the familiar bakelite-
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

THERE is one form of stoutness which snoulo
i warn you quickly of a dangerous condition in
YOUR system. That's dropsy, which is an accumuia-
ton of fluid in the abdomenal cavity. Its medical
name is asciteS.
In some cases. fluid accumulateS not only In the
abdomen but also in tissues of the hands the feet
the face and other portions of the body. But the
most usual form confines itself to the abdomen.
The characteristic sign of dropsy is gradual
enlargement of the abdomen not eXpanabe by other
causes AS this enlargement continues, there is a
fiattening out of the skin which becomes tense.
The doctor determine the presence OF fluid
in the abdomen by putting one hand on one side OF
the abdomen and giving the other sharp tap on
the other side When he does this, he can feel
a wave Of the fluid strike his hand.
THERE other ways in which he finds out that
fluid Ia present. including actually feeling of the
abdomen and the movement of the fluid to one
SPOT or another.
OF course certain diagnosis is made by putting
a needle into the abdomen and Withdrawing the
fluid This procedure is commonly called tapping
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06

Because of the direction. the
suspense, the dramatic cruelty of
death, and the acting of McLag-
len, and others, The Lost Patrol
is one of the four most interesting
pictures of the month.
The theme of The Lost Patrol
is no cream puff. 1t is stark
drama with nearly everybody being
lost and killed in patrol on
desert duty.
Sand, heat, thirst, hunger and
death are we'll known to these
men as they become lost on duty.
This picture is unusual because
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Likes the .Sideiines VieW

CTILL there is the thought, Why should fellow
~ give up his lifes business at this time when
there seems to be very definite upturn in what is
called prosperity?
Mr.. Gallant processes to give general answer
to this question. Who knows what is going to hap
pen? Certainly do not 1 am in favor of radical
experiments, and I prefer at the moment to be on
the sidelines and watch what happens"
To me that seems fair enough. Who knows pre-
cisely what is going to happen in any business?
There two things to do in business today.
One to say THE hell with it," the other is to say,
I'll try to see it through" Mr. Gallant has decided
on the former. Just Waiting along that would seem
to be the easy way.
Whether it is not, your correspondent does not
know. What he does know is that Mr. Gallant has
said to his head Arnold if you make
anything out of this business go to tit is yours
There must be many business people in the coun-
try today, small and large, like Mr. Gallant. MY
business is going to pieces. am not sure what to do
about it, Here Arnold, take the whole ball of
See what you do with it. It's all yours"
At the moment it is great social question as to
whether the fellow who the place Or the fellow
who works for the place is the oppressed person.
put it on the ne-to him the business today means
nothing. who wants it? Is there head waiter
sround?"
Mr. Galant's business is not very important so far
as it affects the national aspects He insists upon
calling himself barkeeper He is anything but that.
Not that I have anything against barkeepers But
Mr.. Gallant is something of an institution in the
metropolis He is just much of Greenwich Village
as Washington Square.
And so when he takes off his white apron, yawns
and says, I'm through it means something. 1t
means that Mr. Barney Gallant is leaving the VII
lage and when Mr. Gallant leaves the Village some
thing very vital has left.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XX7ASHNGTON April 6After year specta-
w ular pioneering work Washington
En- Hugh Johnson about to shake the dust
from his feet
There have been reports that the high
eagle summer
that he had dehnethough emporary-break President
This time the general will step out he finally
entirely for of his
First Of ALL he is tired He has been working
morning has kept up this since the NRA
heavily
men salary Finally he admits that perhaps
trial ef-goVernment possible o
therefore
ny alone probably after adourns this
pete caStng OF the whole NRA has progress
pyroechnc Of labor strikes and
largely have obscured this but the
chnery OF the NFA today vastly month ago
Instead of everything the blue
eagle boss has decenaed power
OHNSONS RECOMMENDATION comesWl
a the administration Roosevelt probably genuinely loyal
and devoted supporter than his chieftain.
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BIZ NEA Seruice
NEW YORK, April 6.-Seven-
~ teen years ago today, when
this country entered the World
war. our allies took one look at
reports of our understood and ILL
equipped offensive forces and dis
consolately agreed that about all
they could expect from America
was money, food and raw ma
terials for war manufactures.
But if another such emergency
should arise today the situation
would be much more encouraging,
in spite Of the fact that we now
have a slightly smaller navy and
regular army than on April 6,
1917.
The important difference is that,
on paper, the United States is in
fnitely better prepared for war.
If 100000 men now were to
spring to arms overnight, authori-
ties would know exactly what to
do with them, where and how to
train them, and could assign them
at once to companies, battalions,
regiments which already exist in
skeleton form There was no such
organization scheme prior to the
national defense act Of 1920 and
the four army plan of 1888.
u
MORE than 10000 officers and
1V1 men of the national guard,
we'll trained, uniformed and fairly
we'll equipped, would be immedi-
ately available for action. In 1917
most of the national guard was
not subject to the call of the PreSi-
dent. and its organizations were
broken up by the drafting of its
individuals.
A mobilization would bring some
10000 reserve officers from civil
life to take up military duties
which they have trained and
studied to perform. There was
no organized reserve in 1917, and
no plan, as at present, for train
ing civilians for reserve commits
SiOnS.
The United States ranged be-
low the British Empire and Ger
many in tonnage of fighting ships
when we entered the war. We
now are second only to the Brit
ish Empire, and Germany is out
of the picture.
In 1917 we had neither combat
airplanes nor pilots. Today we
are third in the world in number
of war planes. However, accord
ing to Major G. j. H. Mackenzie
Kennedy. British pioneer in avia-
ton development. we are sixth in
number Of factories making fight
ing planes and motors.
And the machines we have, he
calculates, are so low and inef-
ficient that American air forces
theoretically could be defeated
even by the tiny Belgian armada,
or by 30 per cent of the British,
20 per cent of the French, or so
per cent of the Italian, Russian
or japanese air forces. Of course
there are many American experts
who disagree.
THERE are other unfavorable
l. aspects of the comparative
picture.
At the time of our declaration
of war the total strength of our
army was 90,000-less by $4,000
than the peace time armies of
Italy or Japan, and about one
fourth the size of the British,
French or German armies, before
they began fighting.
Today the United States has a
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appropriated S20,OO0,OOO Tor army
mechanization projects.
ON April 6, 1917. the United
~ States had about 100000
Springfield rifles, model of 1908,
for its fighters. Government
arsenals could produce only TOO a
day. and actually had no speci-
fications and blueprints which
could be turned over to private
manufacturers. SO we had TO
depend on Enfield rifles which
were being made for the British.
We also had to depend on the
allies for machine guns-the
Chaut-chaut automatic rifles of
the French, the Lewis gun and
the Browning machine gun, both
the latter inventions of Aperi-
cans.
We had no 81 nm. guns, infan-
try howitzerS or trench .mortarS
worth mentioning. For field ar
tillery we had few 1-inch pieces
of German manufacture!
These proved unsatisfactory
anyway, so we bought the famous
French 75'S. We had absolutely
no medium or heavy mobile artil-
lery, no practical instruments for
indirect fire.
We had some motor transport
facilities, thanks to General
Pershing's truck supply trains
used while chasing Villa in Mex
leo. But we had no air service,
chemical warfare or tank corps.
NATURALLY the picture is
~ quite different now. Techni-
clans have developed armor pierre
ing bullets, better machine guns,
Seni-automatic shoulder arms
which probably will replace the
speedy tanks, and Spotting and
range finding instruments and
anti-aircraft artillery which con-
ceivably may erase the threat of
any serious offensive from the air.
1t is possible only to speculate
on the new horrors our chemists
have brewed against any future
enemy.
These and many other things
have been developed, but that
doesn't mean our army has been
equipped with them.
For example, complete me-
chanization of cavalry units has
been a cherished plan of the army
almost ever since the war, yet ap-
preparations have been so small
that to date there is only one
regiment, at Ft. Knox, KY,
which has even begun the trans
formation.
Americas preparedness lies
largely in its establishment of a
huge skeletonized organization
into which readily may be fitted
millions of new men, and in its
far-f1ung plan for the mobiliza-
ton of industry.
Some 1,700 leading manufacture
ing concerns have been surveyed
to determine which war materials
they best could make. Cash reg
lister factories can, and in an
emergency must, turn out shell
fuses. artificial silk plants, explo-
SiveS; steel mills, guns; auto
plants, tanks and trucks, and so
on.
Minute specifications have been
worked out for each product, and
even the necessary machine tools
have been provided. Another war
would find American industry
ready and able to melt its plough
shares into swords.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06
Rae SamueI's Schedule

A DVANCE interest being mani
"a tested in the engagement Of
Rae Samuels, famous singing
Coincidence who is starring in her
own musical revue, Cocktail
Hour" now at the Lyric, has been
so pronounced that the Lyric
management has arranged for the
presentation of five complete stage
performances on both SATURDAY nd
Sunday.
Stage shows are scheduled to-
morrow at l, 3;16, 5;24, 1882 and
$40 o'clock.
On Sunday they will be given at
lao, 3:44, SAB, 1852 and 9:56
o'clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06

In the case of a heavyweight
champion in training, the daily
bulletin reports that he engaged
in three rounds of boxing, three
rounds of shadow boxing and
one round of calisthenics and, in
the evening. rescued a young
woman, preferably a socially ex-
elusive debutante. from drown
ing in the nearest lake or creek.
The news of Mr.. Roosevelt to
date has been mainly that he
has not caught many fish. There
also was a story of his decision
to stay afloat a little longer than
he originally had intended, but
that is a sensitive topic with the
corps of White House correspon-
dents who are exposing them
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plains Of the Rio Grande valley.
Says he:
When I get through with all
this, that's where I'm going. Down
there where the owls make love
TO the chicken, and it is starry,
and quiet, and peaceful"
Perhaps it is to the land of the
owl and the chicken that Gen.
eral Johnson is going when he
leaves the land of the blue eagle.
Copyright, 1884, by United Featur.
Syndicate. Incl
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there is mt a woman in the cast
and there is no sex but only some
conversation and longing on the
part of doomed men.
From a scenic standpoint, this
picture is a wonder. 1t is filled
with tragic and solitary beauty.
The ever changing effect on the
minds, temperament and suffering
of the men as the sand changes
form and outline against the sky
is gripping theater.
MCLaglen has a fighting role
which gives him masculine quail
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maximum military strength of
100000 more than half reserves.
France, and Italy each have tif-
teen times that number, counting
trained reserves, and Japan five
times as many. Even Germany,
with treaty army of 100000 has
an additional trained reserve Of
100000,
Our 100000 still may seem like
lot of soldiers, but the figure
is less impressive when whitfield
down to available uniformed
troops.
Our regular army numbers H.
900 officers and 117000 men, but
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

A Mr.. Roosevelt hobs around on the Atlantic in
"A Mr. Astors yacht the detachment of White
House correspondents who covering the Presl-
dental vacation by remote control are managing to
bear up in Miami under a schedule of one hours
work and twenty three hours worrying day. Cover
ing a President vacation seems to be something
like the assignment to the training Of heavy
weight champion of the world
There is 20 news beyond the daily bulletin.
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terial, General Macarthur has
said: That most of the armys
present motor equipment was built
during the World war and is OBJ
solete as we'll as largely worn out.
That except for about half a
dozen machines, every tank in the
army is of World war manufac-
ture. inadequate in number, OBJ
solete in design, and useless for
modern warfare.
That the United States has
spent about 100000 since 1920
for experimental and develop
ment work in mechanization,
while within four years England
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The personification of two
listed, hell-roaring action, John
son also is a man of extraordi-
nary intellectual caliber, a genu-
inc scholar, lover Of poetry and
fine literature, an unusually tai
ented writer and stylist,
Johnsons youthful soldering
days along the Mexican border are
very dear to him When in a mel
low mood he speaks with deep
tenderness Of the great chapperaI
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On View Here Today

OTHER indianapolis theaters
~ today offer: Rae SamuelS in
her own revue on the stage and
The Countess of Monte Cristo,"
on the screen at the Lyric; David
Harum," at the Apollo; "Spitflre,
at the Circle; Men in White,
with Clark Gable and Myrna 10y
at the Palace; The Road to
Ruin" at Keiths, and burlesque
at the Mutual.
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Inc explanation was not
wholly satisfactory. When you
added it up it did not seem TO
make much sense.
As I got it. all that Mr.. Gal
liant seemed to say was: Please
do not put me down as a Com
munist."
OF course, I do not know what
a Communist is. To me it is just
another word. 1 do not even
know what a Socialist is. Or, to
go further, a Liberal. 1t seems
to me that there never has been
coined phrase for what 1 think
is the best of all such general
-classiflcation-which in a broad
sense means, Lets all be bud
dies"
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many are stationed in the terri
tories. In the continental United
States, aside from soldiers as
signed to schools, CCC camps and
the like, there are only $500 Of
ficers and $4,000 men scattered
about the country in nine skeleton
infantry and three skeleton cav
airy divisions.
skeleton" is the right word,
too; General Douglas Macarthur,
chief of staff, has declared that
in many cases there is but one
officer on duty with an entire bat
talon.
AS for ordnance and other ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-06
Makes snow-Going Auto

An ingenious Canadian made his
automobile a snow-going vehicle by
attaching three tires abreast to each
rear wheel for extra traction and
fitting runners inside the front
wheels.
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But despite The close friend
ship between the two men, de-
spite the all-important place
johnson has held in Roosevelt's
scheme of things, the unacceptable
fact is that Ride En- Hard"
Hugh basically is alien to the new
deal.
Between the Presidents funda-
mental economic philosophy and
Johnsons there is a wide chasm.
Roosevelt is inherently a liberal.
Johnson is not.
Roosevelt, for instance. APP
proaches the root problem of gov
eminent and business from the
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Ii Seems TO Ne
By
Joe Williams
Pinch Hitting for Hey10ood Broun

7 AM making a quick getaway to Washington on
mysterious call and on my way I meet Barney
Gallant. He is supposed to be the squire of Wash
lngton Square. l am interested in Mr. Gallant for
several reasons One is that he is business man in
the metropolis who has decided he no longer wants
to be in business. So he up and gives his business
away. He gives ii to his head waiter. The head
walters name is Arnold Rossheld.
Why did you do that" I asked Mr. Gallant
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Roosevelt or Nothing

TINE actors now will have to continue their
Il preparations until the President returns, unless
they to go ahead and hold their entertainment
without him. That is something which they not
likely do because without the Presidents presence
the gridiron show would be just much amateur
theatricas.
Possibly the poStponement will add to the social
and business problems of the periodical actors be-
cause there is always great demand for tickets and
the members sometimes under great pressure to
obtain them explain why not After all super
journalist is only super journalist as long he
can maintain relations with pay roll and if the
boss desires to attend the gridiron show and bring
some important advertiser magnate it is very
tactful idea for the Washington correspondent to
dig up the tickets.
Otherwise it might seem that he is lacking in
influence in Washington.
description of the ticket problems which afflict
the members Of this distinguished body of journalists
would go to show that membership in the gridiron
entails its worries as we'll as it's honor
Students of journalism porting over their text
books IN the colleges may be attracted by the job Of
a White House correspondent even though this is a
reporting and nonthinking type of work. In cover
ing presidential vacation from Florida the Jour-
nalists wear tropical equipment and carry bathing
trunks and golf implements
They do not have much actual work to do but
they devote the rest of the time to worrying whether
anything has happened to President who is off on
boat. 1t is not often that anything happens to a
PRESIDENT, but anything which happens to him is
likely to be very big
Copyright, 1894 by The Tines
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never come about. Mr. Gallant seems to think he
has started an individual movement which will bring
this 10 eventuaty. He says it will meet with
much antagoniSm and that in the end the big,
vicious powerful people will win and he will wind
up as just A so-and-so.
Your comment that naturally is Amt that
too bad? And what do about it?
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---The Theatrical World--
McLagIen Takes Rank
as TOp-NOtch Actor
by WALTER D. HICKMAN


never would admit that until him in
AS sergeant
thirsty Arabs all about Magen heights
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He's Chief Attraction

THE incumbent President always is the guest of
honor and the principal attraction at the grid
iron dinners. and. when the Ciridiron Club adj
vised that he would not be able to attend the
date originally set the journalists of the Gridiron
though they remote from the yacht
than the White House correspondents. concluded
that he had decided to prolong his vacation.
This deduction passed along to the corps Of
White House correspondents in Coral Gables and
they much embarrassed you readily may
imagine. 1t made the super journalists of the grid
iron seem even more superior than usual and the
general run of Washington journalists do not like to
acknowledge the normal superiority of the
amateur actors of the gridiron I do not know
whether there any members of the Gridiron Club
among the White House detachment in Florida but
it seems unlikely that there The Gridiron is
composed in the main of thinking journalists dis
nguished from the kind who go in for reporting and
straight news matter. Straight reporters are not
supposed to think They are supposed to know.
The postponement of Mr. Roosevelt's return prob
ably will have domestic consequences in Washington
because the actors of the Gridron cast always have
to spend many evenings away from home for weeks
in advance of the amateur theatricalS. trying on
their false whiskerS and rehearsing their parts in
their little comedies and dramas