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ministrator, may be Of the party.
President Roosevelt is planning
to 60 but no date for his visit has
been set.
Charles Taussig of the brain
trust. and his very charming wife,
are going on the same boat with
me. 4-e's going down to handle
the rum industry for Uncle Sam
and generally turn things topSy
turvy.
1 wired Charles and asked him
where his stateroom was going to
be on the Georgia. He wired back
I'll let you know as soon as 1
know myself" He hasn't let me
know yet, so my guess is that he's
lodging me. But I'll probably
corner him in the bar sampling
Jamaica or Cuban rum.
Some diplomats are also sailing
on the Georgia. So far, I only
know of the financial counselor Of
the Rumanian legation and Nine.
George Boncesco, but there may
be others. Nine. Boncesco is
bringing her monocle on the
cruise, and George plans to study
Rumanias internal condition-un-
less a rough wave or so should
render internal conditions on the
boat too disconcerting.
When I bought my ticket to st.
Thomas. the girl who sold it re-
marked:
$50 you are going, too. You
are about the tenth person so far
who's bound for the Virgin islands.
That man in the gray suit who
just went out is a st. Thomas
passenger also"
who is hep" I asked.
Some one said he was a detec-
tive.
IRON the islands, after a per-
Il sonal investigation of the
qualities of st. Croix rum, I ex-
pect to take a steamer or plane to
Puerto Rico, and thence to the
Dominican republic and Haiti.
Just how things will work out
in this itinerary, it's hard to tell.
But it should be interesting writ
ing about the people, politics,
sunshine, scenery and so on.
There will be little attempt at
conference (no-cohesion is what
I mean in the column, but it will
ramble on about whatever seems
to present itself.
Which I hope sincerely will
prove of interest to Washing
ingtonians during the Lenten sea-
son.
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The author senator himself is
the subject Of an American bio
graphical-historical classic written
by another famed Hoosier, Claude
Bowers, ardent Democrat, now
neaW deal ambassador to Spain.
Beverage and the Progressive
Era" was the title chosen for the
Bowers book, which became a
best seller upon publication.
A LBERT JEREMIAH BEVER-
IA IDGE was born in Highland
county, Ohio, Oct. s, 1862. His
father served in the union army
and at the close Of the Civil war,
the family removed to Sullivan,
H.
Through the roles of plough
boy, railroad laborer, teamSter and
logger, he made his way through
high school and De PAW uni
verSity, where he graduated in
1885.
The college graduate then be-
came a cowboy, but a year in the
west was sufficient and he re-
turned to Indianapolis to study
law in the Office Of Mcdonald and
Butler.
De PAW had discovered that
the future senator was an orator
and this gift caused him to rise
rapidly in both his chosen pro-
feSsiOn and c. o. P politics.
He was in demand as a popu-
lar speaker throughout Indiana
and in 1896 attracted national no.
tice by his reply to a speech by
Governor Altgeld of Illinois.
TOUR formidable candidates
4 confronted him in the sena-
torial election of 1899. and the
politicians freely predicted that
the young man with his gift of
OratOry had little chance.
But. as sometimes happens, the
politicians were wrong.
Not only was the popular, young
orator elected to the United
States senate, but his splendid
record there gave him the re-elec-
ton in 1908.
Climax of his early political ca
reer came in the year 1912. 1t
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"Hi-Nellie" is not realism of the
city room on a great city paper.
1t is melodrama and mighty good
theater at that.
Nellie is the name of the sob
sister who writes the daily
answers to the heartbroken of the
large city. Nellie goes stale and
her editors know it.
Paul MUM is cast as the man
aging editor of the sheet. 1t is
or the up and up and has faith
in a man accused Of causing a
great bank to close with a ire
mendous shortage.
For that reason, MUM plays the
story down and his boss, the
editor. calls him and tells him he
is a fool to muff such a story.
MUM is canned, but maintains
WI that he has a $4,000 year
contract and he will stick. The
boss cOnSultS his lawyers and finds
that Mum must stay on, but he
can assign MIN to any job from
copy boy up.
The big boss nurses his grudge
and puts Mum in the chair of the
heartbroken editor. MUM goes On
a rampage and finally settles
down in Nellie'S chair. Every place
he goes, Mum is hailed as Hi,
Nellie
I know that no managing edi-
tor would dare to talk 10 his
editor and publisher as Mum does.
I know that the city room is no
picnic ground. I know that peo-
pie on the staff Just don't go
visiting as they DO in this movie.
And yet all of these violations
Of the rules Of a city room help
TO put punch, speed, suspense and
theater into the yarn.
Mum first rebels and finally
learns that hundreds of people
are taking his column in earnest.
He sees the light and goes to work
making his department the sem
Sation Of the paper.
A Ii the time he is working
N with his reporter pal, played
by Ned Sparks in his best frozen
face manner, on the disappear
ance of Garfield, an honest law
yer whom politicians were trying
TO make the goat in the bank
crash.
One day, a girl comes to Mel
lie" for advice and the address
of her sweetie is the same that
Garfield gave his wife on the
night Of his disappearance.
Then things begin to happen.
Mum, after a series of tight spots,
learns that Garfield has been
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(OT Is IL alligator pSdAoo
In any event, there is little
doubt that the Virgin islands are
the land of promise, to judge by
the crowd of passengers now en-
route to that part of the world.
First Of all, Governor Paul
Pearson of the Virgin islands,
who has been in Washington on
official business, flew back to st.
Thomas on Tuesday night.
"Why are you taking a plane,
GOVERNOR" I asked.
so I can meet you with a brass
band when you arrive" replied
the kindly Quaker.
I thought there was a twinkle
in his eye, but couldn't be certain.
Anyhow, if the brass band doesn't
show up, my readers shall hear
Of it.
A DISTINGUISHED visitor to
N the islands in the very near
future will be Mrs. Roosevelt, who
is taking lot of people with her.
My guess is that Oscar Chapman,
assistant secretary of the interior,
and Harry Hopkins, federal adj
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BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY
Times STAFF Writer


Albert Beverage whose middle initial
stood for jeremiah
Of the century his
the recalled
the Coolidge P.
still power.
another Roosevelt the party
the trick
the Bevedge passed
His literary fame enshrined
Of Marshall which made that
than when supreme
and nodded destiny
Author Beveridges second masterpiece THE
published pOshumousy
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TodaY's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

A CHILDS toy Is the champion detective of the
universe. Probably every reader at some time
during his youth. possessed a little glass prism
which. when held up TO the sunlight, split the light
of the sun into a tiny rainbow.
similar glass prism is one of the most useful
tools possessed by the scientist Astronomy geology
physics. chemistry and even the biological sciences
have all benefited by its use In fact. the technique
Of its use constitutes branch Of science all by itself
and the experts who practice it are known by the
rather formidable name of SpectroScopists.
y carefully ground prism. or a series Of them.
equipped with some auxiliary telescopes constitutes
what the scientist calls spectroscope The little
rainbow formed by 1t he calls spectrum
The science Of SpecroScopy is the science Of spec
trum analysis. Like the chap in the song the spec
troSCopiSt Is always chasing ralnbows. But unlike
the chap IN the song. he gets results Much Of our
knowledge about the sun is the result OF studying
the suns spectrum
THE innermost secrets OF the sun have been I'M
Il locked through the study Of the suns spectrum.
II Is Of interest therefore TO trace the origin and
development Of spectrum analysis.
II al began with an attempt by Sir Isaac Newton
to improve telescopes. Astronomers in his day
bothered by the fact that their telescopes did not
give perfectly sharp images Instead the images
possessed fuzzy boundaries rnged with the coors of
the rainbow
occurred TO Sir Isaac that the difficulty did not
the telescope lens. but in the nature of the
4. Sir Isaac. therefore, perfected a telescope
IN used q mirror instead of a lens This type OF
day. the worlds largest telescopes being Of this type.
The difficulty with the other type known the
reiractOr later solved by employing lenses COM
posed Of two kinds of glass but that Mr.. KiplIng
would say Is another story.
Sir Isaac by means OF a glass prism. established
definitely that white light a composition OF al
the cOlors OF the rainbow and that what the prism
did 10 split beam Of white light into its COM
pOnent colors.
THE action Of the prism is easily understood if wei
l. keep in mind the nature Of color. Sounds differ
from one another in pitch because they consist Of
sound waves OF different lengths. Long waves con-
sttute the OF low pitch. Short consti-
tute those Of high pitch.
IN the same way. the color of light depends upon
its wave length. Red light is composed Of the long
est Violet light Is composed Of the shortest.
OF course. light waves not waves in the air,
are sound waves, but waves in the ether OF space.
White light is a bundle of waves, including all the
wave lengths from red to violet.
Nov when light passes through a glass prism it is
bent The technical word for the phenomenon is
didraction- But the amount that a beam OF light is
bent or difraeted depends upon its wave lengths.
Consequently. when a beam Of mixed waves goes
through prism, it is sorted out into band
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-17
In the Air and on the Earth

NTHEN the Lone Eagle came back from France
w with the ice hardly melted from the wings of
his plane he might have been in democratic America
a dangerous rival for any man. The colonel has
gone on since that day to establish himself over
and over again brilliant flier The science of
aviation owes much TO him and always Will.
But Mr. Lindbergh has no equipment al all to
argue such questions When does an infant in
dustry come Of age?" or When is a subsidy not
subSidy?" The cOlOnel'S economics in the last few
years have been the economies of his rich friends
and associates. In the air Indy is still king, but
with his feet upon the ground he loses his sense of
balance and proportion.
He Will not serve a serious critic of the PreSi-
dent Of the United States.
6CopvriCht 1884 by The Tines
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lmousines lined up in the Plaza as there were in
the time of Jimmy Walker and John O'Brien al
though there still too many. at that when YOU
consider that private employers don't feel called
upon to furnish hmousines for their hired help
If a visiting dgnitary is a real dignltary he can
arrange to see the mayor for minute but Mr. La
Guardia will just shake his hand and explain that
the bunting and music and keys to the city have
been abolished in the interests of economy and add
that anyway they never did mean any more than
the brief, personal welcome which he is now ex-
tending
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was then that he mad an out
standing contribution to Ameri-
can politics through his efforts to
get the Republican party to adopt
platform upon those broad and
vital issues which represented the
progressive ideals of the nation"
Failing to convince the conserv-
ativeS, Senator Beveridge with
drew with the first great Presi-
dent Roosevelt and accepted the
nomination for Governor OF Indi-
He was chairman of the Pro-
gressiVe national convention in
Chicago, where the movement for
a better day in American politi-
cal life took on all the fervor of a
religious meeting.
In the course of one of his
speeches in that campaign, Sen
ator Beveridge, in arraigning the
subtle and corrupt influences that
so often perverted and Stultified
the old political parties, coined
the phrase concerning the power
of "the invisible government"
A rare, descriptive choice of
words, the phrase entered the po-
litical language and still is heard
today
How true it could become, in a
very literal use, was later demon
strated in his own state during
the era Of Ku-Klux Khan DONNA
ton of the G. o. P.
An old warrior, he entered the
lists against this foe.
ONLY once more did he run
" again for public office, how
ever. That was in 1920, when he
sought the senate seat, only to
lose to former Governor Samuel
M. RalSton, who had defeated
him for the governorship in 1912
on the Democratic ticket.
Tall and handsome, the aging
Senator Beveridge retained all
the vim and original viewpoint of
his precocious youth. He was a
publicist Of renown, as we'll as
one of the outstanding public
speakers.
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ALL CWA PAY ROLLS
WILL Be met HERE
No Shortage of Funds,
State Officer SAYS.

All civil works administration pay
rolls will be met today and there
will be no shortage of funds, as
occurred last week, it was announced
today by T. A. Dillon, state CWA
diSbursing officer. Mr.. Dillon was
informed by wire from Washington
that more than 100000 has been
transferred to the Indiana account.
Marion county CWA pay roll is
around $175,000 to $18oOOO monthly,
Mr.. Dillon said.
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murdered and buried under a
fictitious name.
Then the weird trip to the
cemetery and Muni'S lunch is
proven. Of course the ending is
Hollywood with Mum going back
to his job as managing editor.
Glenda Farrell does a striking
job of the original Nellie who got
fed up on the job. Mum is melo-
dramatic theater all Of the time.
1t is his overacting that keeps
'Hi-Nellie" in high gear all the
time.
Now on the screen at the In
diana.
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN=

~AN you see at night? If not you may have what
~ was recognized as an unusual symptom tnou-
sands of years ago.
In the time of Hippocrates, the great Greek who
founded the modern science of medicine, the TAX
ing of liver and honey found to be cure
Within recent years, the definite relationship OF
the disease to certain errors of diet has been estap-
Iished and the condition can be controlled
definitely. This condition is the earliest sign OF
a deficiency of Vitamin in the diet.
When the deficiency is complete and long con-
tinued a serious condition OF inflammation OF
the eyes develops called xerophthalmia. This con-
dition is however extremely in the United
States.
In Europe, particularly after the World war.
when there shortage Of butter and fresh fats,
xerohthan;a occurred frequently both in adults and
children.
UOUR body may develop deficiency Of Vtamin
i A in a variety Of ways.
First the vegetables and fats known to contain
this substance may not be included in the diet;
second there may be some disease Of the intestines
which prevents Vitannin being absorbed from the
food and from being stored in the liver third there
are periods in life during rapid growth or during
the infectious diseases when the vtanins are used
up rapidly.
Recently case has been recorded Of a civil
engineer who developed a disease Of the bowel
which made it impossible for him to absorb food
suitably.
He had developed night blindness. the first sign
Of which ne noticed when the street lights appeared
amber-colored and dim.
He noticed also that when coming from out
doors into the house he would be unable to see
details for five or six minutes. The condition
CURED every two three days.
THIS patient was given a generous diet which
L contained reasonably large quantities of milk.
butter, and fresh vegetables He ate large amounts
of these and yet did not recover from his night
blindness.
Eventually however, ar operation per-
formed TO take care of the bowel condition and after
this he was able to absorb sufficient amounts Of
the@min and was cured
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army of the unemployed. Occu-
pied with serious business Of the
country as a member Of con-
gress, he forgot to attend to his
baby-kissing at campaign time
and was voted out of Office.
But now Mr.. La Guardia has
the second greatest job in the
United States as mayor Of a city
of 1000 900 people which spends
almost $2,0O0OOO a day on its
government. There are $4,000
employees under him and he is
engaged in a fight for the au-
thority to fire the political loaf
ers among them and to reduce
the cost of running the city.
The city hall is much
changed nowadays.
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This Way Out, Please

4 ND this way out please
1t is hard to explain change in atmoS-
phere, but in Jimmys time the atmosphere was
one of hippant cynicism, and in poor John
OBrlens time it of the foolish pathos
just now there is an air of belligerency and
OF he'll being raised.
Perhaps by the time Mr.. La Guardia's term
runs out he will not have enough political friends
left to carry a precinct for him. But he had
something to say in a speech to a lot of bust
ness men today which suggested that either he
doesn't care what happens to him four years
hence or hopes to build up a sufficient personal
following Of genuinely grateful voters to swing
another election for him without an organized
machine. He said office holder could not do
justice to his job if he went at his work thinking
of reelection.
He may be too shrewd to place any conf
dence in the gratitude or the intelligence of the
voters. 1t was the voters who didn't send him
back to congress and the voters did elect Walker
and OBrien I do not think man Of Mr.
La Guardias experience would be likely to en-
terrain any sentimental ideas about the voters
Most likely, bold truculent and seIf-confident
as he is, Fiorello isn't bothering about his flu
ture. He always make living anyway and
from the look of him in his black suit and black
hat, which might be his one and only black suit
and hat, you would gather that he is a man who
can get along on very little.
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PegIer

MOT for a long time viii you be seeing any pic
~ lures in the news reels Of a troupe OF vaude-
Vile Indians hopping around the steps of the New
York city hail. jngling sleigh bells and hollering
Wah-Hoo Wah while the chief jams lot of poul-
try feather on to the mayors brow and inducts him
into the tribe.
The current mayor OF New York, Mr. La Guardia,
has more important business.
A year ago Mr. La CTuardia was member of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-17
NOTED DRAMATIST DIES
Sewell Collins Passes Suddenly, But
Show Goes On

Sewen Collins Passes Suddenly, But
Show Goes On
By United Press
LONDON, Feb. 16.-SeweIl COL
Inns, So, American theatrical pro-
Queer, dramatist and newspaper
man, died suddenly at luncheon
yesterday.
His wife, Margaret Mofat, true
to tradition, played last night her
usual role in the comedy The Wind
and The Rain" without revealing his
death either to the audience or to
the cast
Mr.. Collins, native of Denver and
student at Notre Dame university
and West Point, was first cartoon
ist on the Chicago Tribune, then
dramatic critic of the New York
Journal. Later he was war cor
respondent and magazine writer.
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Stretching 1t
Breaks Own Neck While
Sleeping.

bW HIIfU EFtks
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. l7.-Jack
Dennis. film pubiciSt. carried his
neck in a plaster cast today after
learning TO his amazement that
he had broken it while sleeping.
Despite pains which first stabbed
him on awakening one morning,
Dennis worked for three days be-
fore he consulted a physician and
learned that his neck was. broken.
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He was in the midst Of his second
volume on Lincoln when he died
at his indianapolis home, follow
ing a short illness.
Political, social and literary
leaders bowed in grief at his
grave. His shining example still
beacons to bright young men who
read his books and that of his
friend, Claude Bowers.
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Of Local Interest

BECAUSE of the illness of
ID Dusolina Giannini, the singer
will be unable to appear with the
indianapolis Maennerchor Mon
day night at the Academy of
Music.
Instead, Elsa Alsen, dramatic
soprano of the Chicago Opera
Company, will be the guest artist.
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far and wide, with the 1884 title
Pass Prosperity Around"
Years of patient research were
spent by the former senator in
gathering material for his MONT
mental two-volume work on JUS
tice Marshall.
He Immediately won fame as a
competent historian and was a
prominent figure at historical
gatherings throughout the nation.
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Why Waste Time?

LIS obsession is to reduce the city's running
IL expense of almost 100000 day and if there
is vindictive joy in his way of going about that
can be understood 1t must be fun at that for a
man to walk on a gang of burglars and heave them
out the windows and possibly Jail up few Of them.
Mr.. La Guardia yet might be able to jail up a few,
although that is something which seldom happens
in American cities and, in the long rum he probably
will have to be content with the satisfaction of Just
showing them up throwing them out and saving the
money which they have been paying themselves.
He saves time too. They were discussing some
bill the other day and there seemed to be no dis
senting voice so Mr.. La Guardia suggested vote.
But then one man said he wanted to discuss
certain phase, which is a weakness of statesmen
everywhere.
Are you for it or against it?" Mr.. La Guardia
asked.
Il am for it," said the statesman Out"
But nothing" said FiOrelo. IF all for
il, let's pass it and not waste time talking"
Bob Miner, the Communist, came in with dele
cation of three Negroes and another white man to
complain that a police captain punched him twice
in the center during the around the Austrian
consulate. Mr.. Minor is getting along in years and
he can't take them down there any more He wanted
his rights he had called around to take up the
time Of a good man who is just as warm pal Of
the workingman he is and lot more effective,
to enter one Of those complaints.
Well Mr. La Guardia told him he would have
somebody look into it and Mr.. Minor went away
still upset and still around his center and still
determined to kick up all possible nuisance in
city which has troubles Of its own over something
which happened to the Socialists in Vienna.
Copyright. by United Feature Syndicate Inc1
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Tracts for the times early drew
his attention and in them he
dealt with such subjects as 1.-THE
Young Man and the World, 1905;
The Bible as Good Reading, 1908;
The Meaning of the Times, 1908;
Work and Habits, 1908, and Amer
leans of Today and Tomorrow,
1909.
Back in 1912, he delivered a
speech, which later was published