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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-20
Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ'

1.-TWO thousand of the nations leading chemists
Il will undertake to cheer up your Uncle Sam
when the American Chemical Society holds its an
nual meeting in Cleveland from Sept. 10 to a.
Chemistry catalyzes commerce" will be the key
note of the convention according to DR.. Charles L.
Reese of Wilmington DEL president of the society.
This is good alliterative slogan even if it will
cause some business men to make rush for the
dictionary.
catalyst is a substance which speeds up a
chemical reaction. group Of chemical elements,
for example, ordinarily be formed into desired
compound only with the greatest Of difficulty, the
expenditure for example of intense heat. In the
presence of a catalySt, however the action takes
place easily and quickly.
The point which DR.. Reese seeks to make is that
chemistry speeds up the reactions of commerce and
industry. Speakers at the convention will stress
how chemists have carried on during the depression,
making phenomenal advances in many fields Of
knowledge.
CHEMISTRY holds out particular promise for
~ agriculture by pointing the way to the CONVEX
sion of waste products into useful products This it
is expected, will eventually bring the farmer
wealth and make him less dependent upon the sea-
sonal vagaries of crops.
According to present plans the convention will
open in Cleveland on Monday Sept. 10, with an adj
dress by Professor Robert E. Swain Of Stanford uni
versity upon Chemistry During the Depression"
j. c. Hostetter of the Corning Glass Works,
Corning, N Y. is scheduled to address the conven-
ton on THE Technique of Making Large Telescope
Mirrors" This company recently poured the eighty
inch mirror for the telescope for the Mcdonald
observatory in Texas The telescope itself is being
built in Cleveland by the Warner & Swasey Com
pany and the grinding of the mirror will take place
in Cleveland.
The Corning company also poured the mirror for
the 2O0inch telescope for the California Insti-
tute of Technology.
T FADING educators will take part during the
L. Cleveland meeting in a symposium on Mod
ernzing the Course in General Chemistry" This
symposium will be sponsored by the socety,s divi-
sion of chemical education of which Professor r. A.
Baker of the College Of the City of New York Is
chairman
There has been a feeling among educators for
some time that courses in general chemistry should
include discussions Of present-day chemical
practices, the more important chemical processes
used in industry, and the relations between chem
lStry and industry.
Another important symposium, arranged by the
division of gas and fuel chemistry, will discuss the
properties of coal DR.. Harold j. Rose OF the Mellon
Institute of Pittsburgh is chairman of this division
The division of agricultural and food chemistry
will hold point symposium with the division OF bio
logical chemistry upon the subject of the Chemistry
Of the Engines"
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in similar "purging"-as they
called it-of their party.
The grizzled old orator, how
ever, declined the honor.
There is plenty to do cleaning
up the Republican party" he
told them laughingly, without
taking on yours. Why don't you
do it yourSelves?"
I'VE don't dare" was the an
swer. The President wouldn't
like it,"
IN the last minute rush Of max
i ing a dozen excellent appoint
mentS, Roosevelt put across one
which is coming in for lot of
criticism"
The appointee is James A. Mof-
felt, heavy contributor to the
campaign, close friend of Roose-
welt, even closer to jim Farley,
and an OLD deal Democrat in
every way.
He was put in that all-impor-
tant Observation-Disclosures Of the
housing program.
This is Moffett's second trip to
washington. The first, as
member of the NRA industrial
advisory board and later the
petroleum board, was not sue
cess.
At that time there was ire
mendous uproar because Walter
c. Teagle, head Of Standard Oil
OF New Jersey, asked Moffett to
give up his 100000 salary as vice.
president. Democrats accused
Teagle, a stanch Republican, of
forcing Moffett out because Of his
New Deal tendencies.
Teagle worked with the NRA
labor board, proved himself more
liberal to labor than labor repre-
sentatives. Moffett went back to
New York.
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by Ken Maynard that he visited
relatives in Columbus, o., just so
he might catch a glimpse of the
coWbOy-actor.
But all he got to see was Ken
Maynard's alrpiane as it flew over
the CITY," Bonnie Van Treese, his
9-year-old sister, lamented.
Il like Tom keenan, next to
Ken Maynard, she added.
Loyalty to Dick Powell, one of
indianapolis own sons, was shown
by Martha Dawson, 10, of 5123
East North street. Il like the pic
lures he's in. And 1 like Janet
Gaynor, too," Martha said.
Buck Jones was the choice of
Bernard Johnson, II, of 1927 North
Gale street, and Bob Soudriette,
10, of 745 North Linwood avenue.
Bob, who wore a toy pistol in a
holster at his side, stopped in the
midst of wild game of Cow
boys and Indians" to cast his vote
for Tom Mix and Buck Jones.
Ann Simmons, IS, of 80 North
Ritter avenue, confessed that she
still liked cowboy pictures, par
ticularly those in which Buck
Jones plays.
Il like Janet Gaynor best of
any of the actresses" she said,
because she's always so sweet
DEITY FODDRILL, 9, of $3.50
ID East st. Clair street, doesn't
know the names of her cowboy
favorites, though she has her
father draw pictures of cowboys
for her entertainment.
Her first choice of movie en-
tertainment, however, is an ami
mated cartoon, featuring Mickey
Mouse. She also expressed en-
thusiastic enjoyment of the
Three Little Pigs" movie.
Ginger Rogers was the Selec-
ton of Phyllis Adams, IL, of COL
North Gray street.
Il like her because she's pretty,
can act, has good voice and
sings WE'LL" Phyllis said with a
sophisticated air And 1 like
Bing Crosby, because 1 like to
hear him sing"
Children, even sisters, differ in
their likes and dislikeS of movie
stars. Caroline Cohen, 10, of 1925
Brookside avenue, likes Joan
Crawford, because she likes the
kind of plays in which she is
shown. Her sister, Betty Joan
Cohen, u, likes Barbara STAN
wyck.
Beneath the cool shade of huge
trees, in sedate Woodruff Place,
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Make Ne as Good as That

GENERAL acquaintance have told me that be-
- tween haircuts I look good deal like William
Jennings Bryan. II seems to that the relationship
ends at the BARRIERS chair. Mr.. Bryan made
eloquent plea that no crown of thOrns should be
placed upon the brow of labor Even in the most
authentic garb hardly could pass as a convincing
symbol of the working man. but in the last week
so my fingers have been itching for that crown of
thOrnS.
Once upon a time I had martyr complex and
a cure was effected The cure was not permanent.
Or, possibly, have caught the ailment all over
again. That seems natural enough for in recent
weeks have been in places where heard men and
women say, To hell with my job my livelihood, my
chance of advancement. I'll scrap all those for the
chance 10 do the thing which seems to right and
necessary" There is a cOntagion in that attitude.
think my temperature has shot up at least little
normal
William Lloyd Garrison in the year 1881 said, Il
am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not
Cuse-I Will not retreat single inch and will be
heard"
And so I pray, "Oh Lord give me the ability, the
resolution and the nerve to be as good that"
Copyright. 1884 bv The Times
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Questions and Answers

Q-what is the Magma Carta and when was it
signed? Is the original in existence?
A-King John Of England signed the Magma
Carta June IS. 1915. az Runnymede 1t is a scroll
which embOdieS a code OF laws having two prin-
cipleS; First such limitations Of the feudal claims
o. the king as would prevent their abuse; second,
such specification g the general rights of all free
were derived from the ancient laws of the
realm; however these rights had been neglected or
perverted. -Four originals exist. the cathedral
churches IN which they were deposited origi-
rally. Lincoln and Salisbury the other two in the
British museum. The Lincoln charter was con-
S.oered the most perfect and was reproduced in the
statutes Of the realm in 1910
G--Wns: are the commercial uses of sulphur?
A-The more important uses are the manufacture
OF supAuric acid and sulphurous acid black powder
matches. o.Sinfectants and insecticides Il also is
used as bleaching agent.
Q-Is the sun nearer to the earth in summer or
IN winter?
Ain winter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-20
! Must Learn to BE TOugE

CERTAIN constitutional limitations I never will
~ conquer. 1 refer to my own gandular scheme
and not 10 the one inspired by Alexander Hamilton.
With all the good Will in the world I never am going
10 be able 10 look anybody straight in the eye and
say, L think you are one Of the most spurious and
tWO-tming rascas I ever met in my life and want
no further conversation with you"
Upon at least three recent occasions I was in a
position where some such speech would have been
perfectly proper And yet couldn't make it, Twice
said. I'm pleased TO have had the chance to talk
70 YOU which wasn't what 1 meant at all
Before die I must learn to be tough and it is
terrific assignment One of my close associates said
not so very long ago. "BrOun all right in prelim
narieS, but for heavens sake let's send him out of
the room when get down to cases. because he's
always going 10 say, Why sure, we won't insist on
that OF course, il can be compromised
This isn't wholly true, but unfortunately there is
in II sufficient basis TO make FESTIVE and in
Clined to look over the chips in my bureau drawer
1 am looking for which will balance neatly upon
my shoulder
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-20
Perhaps We're TactIeSS

IT is much more subtle and touching just to send
l. some significant token which would create an as
ISOLATION of ideas in the American mind and leave
it to them to do the honorable thing.
Perhaps tactleSsness has been an important fac
tor in the trouble which the United States has en-
countered in its attempts to collect something on the
debt. Mr.. Coolidge said in his blunt, New Eng
land way They hired the money, didn't they?"
When it might have been more effective to send
mission to Paris to exhibit the American deficit as
a reminder of the loans.
Possibly the French have forgotten this matter
in their excitement over the bankruptcy and suicide
of L'Oncle Stavisky the pawnshop keeper who dis
appeared abruptly from his little still If the French
have money with which to send a mission to the
United States to exhibit reminder of the debt of
gratitude they might have used it a payment
toward their debt of cash money.
The cost of the mission may not have been more
than S5OO0 for the French do not overtip the stew
ards and walters on their travels. This would make
appreciate dent in the debt of cash money. But
it would at least pay years salary for Senator Wild
Will Lyons or Ex-Governor Bilbo of Mississippi, two
sterling statesmen, who helping the country to
struggle back to its feet by keeping scrapbooks and
other constructive works in Washington, D. c.
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Marguerite Geider, II, of 1888
East Tenth street, and Roberta
Wells, 10, of 974 Middle drive,
Woodruff Place, paused in
strenuous tennis game to voice
their opinions. Both agreed
that they thought Fredric
March was "the best actor"
Il liked him in all of his pic
lures, but best in Death Takes a
Holiday" Margie said.
ID OBERTA likes Joan Crawford,
IN though she wishes the pro-
dUcers would place her in differ
ent kind of pictures.
Il liked her in Dancing Lady, "
Roberta said, but I saw her in
Sadie Mckee and I don't like the
pictured"
Both girls were emphatic in
their dislike of Greta Carlo. But
Carlo had a champion in Marie
Mocas, 10, of 2015 Adams street.
Il like her best in AS You De-
sire Me-" Marie said.
And the weary questioner, stuff
ing notes away, took tip from
Carlo.
Il tank I go home" she said.
There didn't seem to be much
to be worried about. indianapolis
children still like to play ball, to
run, to shout, to swing and to
play, in spite of the dangerous
movies"
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to float new issues.
Wall Street planned to starve
the securities act out, demonstrate
to Roosevelt that the rigid regu-
lation by Jim Lands was retard-
ing recovery. The scheme was
Allotted by the fact that the pub
lie was not ready to buy any way.
But now the boycott seems to
be over. Wall Street realizes that
the securities act has come to
stay. Big companies have been
coming in with big bond flota-
tons.
The same thing is happening
here that happened in England
after the passage Of its securi-
ties act many years ago. The old
slogan Let the Buyer Beware
was changed to Let the Seller
Beware
In the end Wall Street probably
will find the securities act as big
a blessing as the federal reserve
act which it once sought to
strange.
lust before Senator Bill Borah
j departed for his home in
Boise. Idaho. he received an in
teresting suggestion.
Several Democratic senators
proposed that he issue a public
call for a fund to pay of the
s35 600 campaign debt which the
Democratic national committee
owes sandy-haired Joseph P. Ken
nedy. chairman of the new securi-
ties exchange commission.
Borah. it will be recalled,
started such a fund when the
senate's Teapot Dome committee
unearthed the fact that oil-mil-
iionaire Harry F. Sinclair had
contributed a large sum to the
Republican national committee.
On the basis of this record,
Borah's Democratic colleagues
wanted him to take the initiative
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-20

general strike successful.
They did not attempt to para
lyze the city, to starve and ter
rorize the people or to make the
government helpless. Not being
revolutionists they recoiled from
the logic of the general strike.
They did not "mismanage" the
general strike. They never in
tended to go through with it.
Once the general strike commit
tee showed that they we're not at
tempting to stop those vital serv-
ices which would be the first and
the principal object of attack in
a genuine general strike, it was
evident that they had blundered
into a certain failure.
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Please Return Our Doodle

A MOTHER critic has written your correspondent
4 n in connection with the same essay which sug
geSted that the nations might relieve themselves of
much impedimenta by returning the trophies or
Doodle, which they picked up in various wars. ~
Perhaps we ought to begin by giving California
back to Mexico" writes Thomas Lempertz of St.
Petersburg, Fla, although that might be construed
as deliberately unfriendly act to noffensive
neighbor.
Few Americans know that the old fortifca-
tons at Quebec still retain the brass which
the British took from US at Bunker Hill. Soldiers
stationed at the reservation assure me that the
Americans learned about this only during the
existence of prohibition when they fled to Canada
for an occasional escape from that liberty which the
embatted farmers fought for at Bunker Hill.
1T would be very humane act our part to
take this cannon back, even if had to fight the
Canadians for it. The unfortunate trooper who
showed it to me assured me that he and his bud
dies had to shine it up with brass polish until it
shone like bar rail every morning"
Copyright, 1884, by United Feature Syndicate,
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took it nome with him along
with hum along with 100000
and tie deed to a township of
land which were awarded to
him by the American people as
the first installment on the
debt Of gratitude. 1t has been
a French treasure for a long
time with a sentimental value
to the French comparable to
the American regard for the
hair-combings of departed
statesmen and General Grants
corkscrew, as preserved under
glass among the domestic me-
mentOes of this country.
The sword happened to be
in America because the French
cont II q fart vyaokc onO "y1ri N
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terms. I don't care very much
about the objections Of other
people. Fundamentally l have to
answer myself. And 1 want TO
be able to win that argument"
And naturally enough, 1
went away worried. Increas-
ingly I am asking myself Did
you say precisely what you
think and did you say it just as
hard as you cOuld?" And on a
good many afternoons I am
compelled 10 hang my head
and make the weak rejoinder,
Well, maybe YOU did enough
10 hold the franchise. but you
certainly pulled a couple of
those punches which started as
knockout u-a1fcrl- IN tho cbfr, -
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HJeemc TO Me
b.
BROUN

NEW YORK. July 2O-Tm beginning to worry
~ about my immortal soul And if by some
chance 10 surprises me and turns out to be finite
I'll still be worried. The matter has been hanging
around the ringes Of my mind for quite while, but
10 vas called into the foreground by a speech Of
young newspaper man whom heard the other night
IN a suburban community.
Somebody asked him. Well what grievances have
sou got?' And he answered. Not many but silly
sentimental as 10 may sound. I'm thinking about
nv soul. When I become convinced that I have a
right 10 makes me mad to have anybody tell me
that can't use II whether It happens to benefit me
not. Somehow I can't surrender even on good
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II is difficult TO make excuses for charging half
way up hill and then calling it a day. It would be
spacious for me to argue that there is a utility in
sneaklng up on people and attempting 10 estab-
lish your point Of view in a somewhat stealthy way
1 don't believe that any more. I have become con-
WINGED that even the shrewdest propagandist runs
the risk Of being sneaked upon while ne is sneaking
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBRO0K pEd[ER

NEW YORK N Y, July 2O.-It turns out that
~ your correspondent was a slovenly reporter in
writing that the sword Of General Lafayette, which
was returned to France recently by guard of Amer
lean soldiers in full dress uniforms, was one which
the general happened to leave in an umbrella stand
in this country when he over here running up
the great American debt of gratitude.
The sword not left in any umbrella stand nor
was it left behind by General Lafayette at all. He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-20
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
he
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON July 2OThe muchmalgned securities act has
w And gradually there
the wilderness of Wall Street that
is S after all
In fact securities despite all the hue and
against it. thing Wall Streetreesablsh in
vestm confidence
many the securities act treated by brokers and
cholera Only gold mining ventures beer and
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suitable pomp" as your correspondent is advised in
connection with the Lafayette celebration, which
now is going in France
1t barely is possible that in doing this the French
people had some idea of dealing the Americans
tactful reminder that some recent inStallment on
the gratitude due and unpaid. The French are
noted for their poeneSS and they never would re-
sort to the gauche American method which is to
send bill with the notation: please remit
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

AR BRIDGES reported
V1 strike failed because of mismanagement
gasoline
line.
failure the general strike They
Francisco
which onclsiey could have made
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60 they did not PROSTATE the
~ city. They annoyed it. They
did not paralyze government. They
aroused it. They did not over
whelm the public. They provoked
it. They raised up forces against
themselves which were infinitely
greater than any which they
could master. From the moment
the general strike order went
into effect their problem was
not how to win the strike, but
how to call it off before it de-
stroyed their own leadership and
the solidarity of their own Or
CARNATIONS.
To say that the general strike
has failed is to mean that they
unable to dictate the terms of
settlement. It's appeal for gen.
eral arbitration is a recOgni-
ton of the fact that IN practice
the general strike is disintegrat-
ing rapidly, and that by implica-
ton they disavow it.
In these circumstances the po-
sition taken by General john
son, Mayor Rossi and the board
is the only one that public Of
ficials could take-"the federal
government can not act under
the continuing coercion of a
general strike" Desirable as it
is to settle the specife issues or
the San Francisco waterfront,
no government that intended to
maintain public respect could
permit itself to appear to be
compelled to act under the
threat of a general strike.
In the specific dispute of the
longshoremen and the seamen
there is ample room for COM
promise. But on the issue of
the general strike itself, the
government can not compromise.
THE leaders of the sympathetic
l. strike, as distinguished from
the particular strike, must take
this attitude, why mayors and
governors, and the President of
tie United States, while recogniz-
ing the justice of the proposal for
arbitration, have to insist that the
general strike be called off first.
1t is to recognize the fact
now demonstrated beyond ques-
ton, that once the authority of
free government is undermined,
all liberties, foremost among them
the liberties Of labor, are imper-
lied.
Free institutions are not safe
if they are not strong. Once they
show signs of weakness in the
presence of compulsion they are
infected with disease which may
easily prove fatal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-26
ANNUAL LICENSES DUE

According to legal notice in The
Citizen, the occupationaI licenses and auto
tags Of the City Of Key West are due and
payable on October 1.
Failure on the part of anyone en-
gaging in trade or conducting a business
without obtaining license will be guilty
Of misdemeanor, so the legal notice reads,
and upon conviction before the police JUS
tiee shall be punished by fine not to ex-
coed $3.50 or in its stead by imprisonment
in the city Jail for period not to exceed
60 days.
This action of the city council is just
and fair. if carried out impartially, pro-
vided the assessments are correct and just.
An effort to make it so is apparent in the
Instructions given the tax collector that be-
fore issuing license he is to require of the
person applying for such license to file I'M
der oath a statement Of the value of the
property or the amount of the capital
stock. The license fee is to be based on a
proper valuation of the stock, capacity of
production or other contingency How
ever, it is going to be difficult matter to
base the amount of the license on these
stipulations as the capacity of production,
if determinable, is not criterion on which
to base a license and the word contingency
takes in lot of territory.
But there is no doubt that if differ
ences arise they will be smoothed out to
the satisfaction of those concerned.
suggestion has been made in which
The Citizen concurs heartily that those
persons or firms to whom the city is not in.
debted be the first required to pay their
licenses. 1t also appears business-like that
the city first pay its own obligations be-
fore threatening to fine or incarcerate
those persons to whom it is indebted, or at
least credit the account with the amount
of license due.