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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-08
They're All in Training

THE motor train went down the Post road way,
u then turned off on a road to Bear Mountain
Bridge and over the Hudson to the mountain where
Major WEIGH the superintendent climbed in with
the boss and led the way up the road to the
top The view from the top of the Bear is very
beautiful although typical of Green mountains and
the people all seemed most impressed by the fact
that such wild country full of deer beaver and fish
exists close to Broadway and Fortysecond street.
Up on top lot of men were building stone
tower which will be used for weather and fire OBJ
Servation and many of them were naked to their
belts. 1t noticeable that they stripped like
athletes in training, being lean in the ribs, fiat
in the belly and tanned the color of gravy They
seemed to like the Roosevelts real well, but though
most of them leaned their tools briefly to look
them over, they did not knock off work to do any
cheering
That came later down at CCC camp where
lot of men, mostly young and also athletes, are
making lake which will be called Becky pond.
At the pond as the President rolled in through lane
in the trees they came arunning to look him over
and snpe camera shots of him. Work didn't quit
entirely however,
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN :

HARDNESS of hearing has long been recognized
L L as almost inevitable in old age, but you can
foresta it considerably by eating properly and keep
ing your system in good condition
Hardness of hearing in old age appears in two
varieties. The distinction depends on Wnether the
changes that have taken place In the tissues aIecI
the middle ear or the internal ear.
the ear and the organs associated with hearing
actually include three parts The external ear which
is everything outside the eardrum; the middle ear
which includes certain little bones associated WIN
transmitting vibrations from the eardrum 10 the
internal ear; and the internal ear, which includes
the very fine organ and nerve endlngs associated
with the sense of hearing.
Hardness of hearing associated with old age usu-
ally comes on between SIS and IS. One ear specialist
says it is characterized by lowering OF the upper
tone limit of hearing.
A PPARENTLY the human being makes little use
N his sense of hearing for the very high tones
of sound, and that perhaps explains why the sense
of hearing for these very high tones Is the rst 70
disappear.
hardness Of hearing IN the aged is associated with
disturbance of intestinal digestion.
The person concerned feels particularly that more
careful attention to the food taken and to regular
elimination of the bowels would prevent onset OF
these difficulties of hearing.
There also technical methods which can be
used by. the specialists in diseases OF the ear and
which are helpful to such patients. These 1nclude
regular clearing of the entire hearing tract and
of mechanical devices for stimulating the organs Of
hearing.
TN many instances proper attention 10 the diet ana
hygiene Of rather elderly persons who have lost
part of their sense of hearing and proper scientific
medical attention have resulted in considerable i'm
provement. Many of the elderly persons who come
for such help satisfied If they helped enough
so that they can hear the bidding at bridge.
It is rather well known that the health and vital
ity Of the tissues depends good blood supply and
on adequate use. An organ a tissue that is not
used sufficiently tends to wear out its ability.
Hence, any method Of treatment shat viii I'M
prove the nutrition Of the tissues and stimulate them
to activity is likely to bring about general improve
ment IN their functoning.
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ing the dog eat up the last of the
back-seat cushions.
After Tom cooled off, it was
decided that the dog wouldn't to it
again, and it would be murder
to leave him on the desert.
TINE dog behaved beautifully
i until he was locked overnight
in a tourists cabin. The dog
then developed a passion for all
the curtains over the windows.
Still, there was no place for the
dog and he went merrily (but in
bad social standing) to Hollywood,
where Tom decided to give the
dog to Dick Powell, so Dicks po-
lice dog would not be lonely.
A hitch came in the delivery Of
the puppy and in desperation De-
vine gave the dog to pet shop
owner in Los Angeles.
Il hope" signs Tom, that the
fellow who buys him hasn't cur
tains in their home or an auto"
ONE point that Dick Powell
~ made clear to me when was
flying with him to Chicago the
other afternoon was that hard
work and lot of it is the price of
success in Hollywood.
Thirty minutes last Tuesday
night before Powell hoped off
for Chicago in an airplane, he
finished retakes at Warmers studio
for Filtration Walk"
Prior to that, he had finished
Happiness Ahead" with jose
phine Hutchinson. After three
weeks of personal appearances in
the east, he will start work on
"Golddiggers of 1885"
Haven't had a day off for
three months" Powell Told me. L
work both day and night when
necessary"
In addition to his movie work,
he will begin series Of national
broadcasts.
It seems that there is nothing
but work ahead for Dick Powell
this winter.
-
A SECOND performance Of
n the pageant Christian Fell
lowship." will be given tomorrow
night at the Lawrence Qnd) NJ. z.
church at 7:30.
The first performance was given
Aug. 19 and was received so ia
vorably. that after many requests
for a second performance it was
decided to comply with the re-
quests.
There are approximately 1l2
people participating. The pageant
was written and directed by Mrs.
Helen Mowrey with the assistance
of twelve others as episode direc-
tors.
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Today S Science
= By DAVID DIETZ

THE necessity of revoiutionizing the methods of
Il teaching elementary chemistry in the nations
schools will be of the subjects under discussion
when the American Chemical Society begins It's
eighty-eighth meeting in Cleveland on Sept. 10
Leaders of the socetyls division Of Chemical edu-
cation believe that the curriculum of elementary
chemistry has Jagged far behind the recent spec
tacular advance OF science and that there is cry
ing need for new types Of textbooks
The division. according to its chairman, Professor
Ross A Baker of the College of the City of New
York has accepted the challenge to reorganze the
elementary chemistry in the nations schools.
A symposium Will be held during the Cleveland
meeting outline the minimum essentials of the
newer chemical knowledge and to illustrate how they
can be presented to the beginning student in
chemistry.
PROFESSOR BAKER has some critical remarks
L to make about the textbooks now in He
says:
1t has been the common practice Of textbook
writer's 70 treat new theoretical developments sim
ply as sddenda instead Of integratng them with the
whole. AS matter Of fact, the majority Of text
books OF general chemistry the market today are
but gorified editions Of famous works which first
appeared fifty seventy-ive years ago. 1t is diff
cult 10 find really up-to-date text"
In this Connection is interesting to note that 1t
is only recently that many schools have gotten
around 70 mentioning the existence Of the electron
their chemistry classes Despite the fact that such
subjects vslence and the periodic table can not be
adequately explained without recourse TO the cleo
tron instruction proceeded practically on the basis
Of the old notion Of the indivisble atom nine
teenth century notion
UNDOUBTEDLY. it was felt that mention Of the
- slectron would have made the subject more
complicated. But the fact is that the student was
left with adequate picture Of why chemical ele-
ments combined into compounds or what the nature
Of the bond between atoms in molecules was whereas
all these things could be pictured simple fashion
with the aid Of the electron
TIE same things may be said for many other
things. ISotOpes. for example. can not be made in
tellgible without some discussion OF the construction
OF the nucleus OF the atom.
The Cleveland symposium. Professor Baker says.
viii try 10 reach agreement upon which of the
older views should be retained and which should be
discarded
For example" he says. 1t is no longer possible
20 maintain the simple mechanical conception of
matter and radiation We are prepared. If neces-
sary. 10 recommend a complete reorganization of,
and an entirely new approach TO- the study of gen.
eral chemistry"
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people at Work" 1.-THE attitude
of the public toward industry and
the worker has changed. Wage
earners occupy today a more i'm
portance and strategic place in
society than ever before"
That is true. Not only for its
own sake must labor go forward,
but we at last realize that I'M
less it is prosperous, no one can
be prosperous.
With this greater Importance
goes greater responsibility. In
countries where labor has been
handed over to single organi-
cation, as in Russia, Germany, or
Italy, it has been necessary to
restrict it's activities, to protect
the public.
In Russia, a strike of power
plant employees in Moscow is I'M
thinkable, because it is a strike
against the state-counter-revo-
luton. In Italy a strike of steel
workers is unthinkable, because it
is a strike against the state
treason.
But even free labor, as it grows
powerful, must accept response
bility for it's share in the national
picture. AS Secretary Perkins says,
"It is important to think of this
country as one large unit. only
part of which gets its living in
factories.
But the lesson of the economic
depression is clear; there is no
problem that confronts us that is
not impregnated with the prob
lens of labor in industry and
trade"
THE END.
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He's in the Liberty League

DUT the same newspapers which made this play
- upon the Governors word carried smaller items
saying that at this mill the other strike breakers
had been sworn in as deputies and provided with
arms and one company was brutaly frank enough to
admit that it was importing one hundred and fifty
deputies" from New York to protect its property.
It seems to extremely arrogant for the Gov
ernor Of Massachusetts, to call upon the president
OF the textne union to preserve the peace while ne
himself is Winking at the employers hiring armed
thugs who Will dispute the legal right of picketlng
Governor Ely is prime mover IN the Liberty
League which has but recently announced that prop
ertv rights and human rights are practically the
same thing. I wonder whether the Governor can
not grasp the conception that there is property
right in a job itself? To me a man who steals an
other fellows Job is a peculiarly contemplate sort
of thief I would not have these sO-caled loyal
workers" torn limb form limb. To that extent am
against violence. There are even occasions when
the use Of troops may be indicated as useful But
the troops should be used not to escort strike breakers
into a plant but merely to chaperon them out and
then keep them out.
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ton. This union also proposed
a tax on new machinery to help
support the men displaced by it.
The legal implications of union
ism are growing more complex.
There is widespread irritation on
the part of employers because the
laws sets up many things they
may not do, but places almost no
restrictions on unions.
The National Association of
Manufacturers is reported to be
planning campaign to put labor
organizations under codes" of
fair practice similar to those I'M
der which employers are now
working.
THE Shoe and Leather Work
l. ers' Industrial Union has been
sued by twelve shoe companies
for 100000 in damages for inter-
ference with their business by
pickets in an alleged strike.
This is similar to the famous
Danbury Haters' case, and in
wolves the question of legal re-
sponSibility of unions for dam
age to business.
Stiff fines were recently paid
by former officials of the National
Shoe Workers Union for violat-
ing an anti-strike injuntion at
Lynn, Mass, showing the whole
matter of labor injunctions is still
far from settled.
On the other hand, unions were
upheld in Hartford Comm SUI
perior court in a case of a former
member who had been suspended
from the union. He claimed that
since the labor organization had
secured contracts with employers,
he was unable to get a job, and
sued the union for damages.
The court ruled that the unions
actions were not unlawful and
the resulting damage, if such fol-
lowed, as an incident unfortunate
but unactionable
CTRONG efforts have been made
~ by the A. F. of L. to eliminate
the jurisdictional disputes which
have helped prejudice employers
against it.
Three major units have finally
united with the building trades
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has proceeded so fast that leader
ship has not been able to keep
pace. either within the A. F. of l..
or in any other labor ranks.
The Cleveland Citizen, labor
paper, reported that 1T is physi-
cally impossible for union officials
to respond to all the calls for
trained men and women to adj
dress meetings"
Many new union members have
never been instructed in the BAR
est principles of union organiza-
ton. The last convention of the
A. F. of L. belatedly took up the
speeding of this work, which is the
strongest forte of CommuniStic
labor organization.
This lack of new trained leader
ship. plus a certain amount of dry
rot among the long-entrenched
old-line leaders of the past, is
what has given an opening for the
rise of frank and file" leaders who
shoot up like meteors to challenge
or grasp leadership.
Impatience of younger leaders
with slow, conservative methods
has brought them even to Selling
power, as in the threatened steel
strike of last spring.
This surging pressure from be-
low is being felt throughout or
ganized labor, from the oldest or
CARNATIONS to the new and unsea-
soned ones.
TINE ultimate place of organ
Il lied labor in the social
scheme is at stake. Labor Secre-
tary Frances Perkins wrote in
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department-the electrical work
ers, carpenters and joiners, and
bricklayers, masons and plaster
ers.
That means that these three
unions, with the other sixteen
which already belonged to the de-
partment, will abide by its de-
cisions as to who shall do what
work.
Private industry has sweated
under these disputes for years.
Recently the government sweated
some in its public building pro-
gram here, and was believed about
to compel submission of such dis
putes to arbitration.
That spurred the federation to
create its own court" to. settle
such disputes. Strenuous efforts
are being made within the feder-
alton to create an authority that
can eliminate these disputes, set
U111lS I1lClI W1bAA1I1 1oOOl dA4hO OO-
fore they start.
The federation also has bu-
reau devoted to wiping out rack
eteering in local unions and city
centrals. This has always been a
hard job because local or inter
national unions, once chartered,
are almost independent of the
federation in conducting their
own affairs.
A LII these complications only
L n. serve to make clear the cry
ing need of organized labor for
better leadership. Organization
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ton. NRA secretaries play up to
her because she is powerful in
personnel matters. But she has
few close friends. Miss Perkins
resents her constant presence
during conferences with johnson
while Mrs. Roosevelt is slightly
aloof-though Robby is invited to
all of the White House hen"
parties.
NTHEN the final story of
W General johnson is written
and the NRA chapter is almost
finished-Little Robby will oc-
cupy an important part. Her
part of the story will be that of a
small-town girl from the middle
west who shaved for a man and
cause she believed in.
She shaved sixteen hours a day.
And with ali her aggressiveness
and mannerisms, she has done a
difficult job. She has a great
capacity for detail. She is high
ly efficient secretary. And no
matter how late the general rowed
with the steel workers or at what
time of the night his hoarse voice
would yell "Robby!"-she was al
ways there.
And if Robby had one real fault
it was not her Shrill voice or her
love of the limelight, but the fact
that she "yeSsed" johnson, at
times egged him on.
But Robby has had swell time.
To use her own words:
It's wonderful to meet all the
great men of the country. I'm
getting a great kick out of it. But
after all this is just another job
for me-"
Copyright. 1884. by United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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Fair Enough
By
WESTBRO6K PEdLER

DOUGHKEEPSIE N. Y, Sept. 8.-Presdent Roose-
welt, Mrs. Roosevelt and party Of about fifty
went a picnic yesterday The expedition was
supposed to start rolling at II in the morning and
everybody was out in the automobiles lined up on
the Albany Post road in front of the Old Nelson
House time. The Boss-people in this circle often
refer to Mr.. Roosevelt as the Boss-dd not show up
until about II 20, however. BY that time there
a small and mildly curious gathering along the curbs
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on both sides of the street
waiting to have a peek at him.
Mr.. Roosevelt, being one of the
locals in this region. does not
draw such crowds hereaboutS
as he does on his travels else
where in the country.
Presently his car. a big open
job with the top down, came
rolling into town from his
estate up at Hyde Park, fol-
lowed by another one like it
in which the secret service
detail were riding. Whenever
the train slowed down the
secret men were out on the
running boards and whenever
there was a full stop they
were on the ground and stand
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The company union problem re-
mains unsolved. Labor's effort
failed to get a law definitely de-
claring such unions illegal. But
in the meantime the nature of
company unions themselves is
changing.
What is a company union? OBJ
viOusly. one that is supported
and dominated by the company.
Originally they were just that.
But as they have developed un-
der the strain of the last year,
they are becoming something else
again.
IF a company deducts dues for
Il an employees association from
a workers pay, does that give it
domination over the union? Min
ers who have the checkoff do not
think so.
Railroad shop workers are now
trying to merge the company
unions of thirteen roads into a
new national labor organization,
independent of the A. F. of l..
A movement is under way to
unite similarly the company
unions of several auto plants, to
form an independent auto union,
the Associated Automobile Work
ers of America, outside either the
A. F. of L. or the Mechanics Edu-
cational Society. 1t would be
based on what we're originally
company unions.
None of these moves has gone
far, but the germ is there for
transformation of the local COM
pany union into independent
national unions.
NEW forms of labor contracts
~ are appearing. The Machin-
lists Union is experimenting with
a contract with press-builders in
which the wage scale would vary
according to volume of business.
The Amalgamated Clothing
Workers has an agreement with
several firms providing return to
the workers from profits of wage
reductions made in 1888.
The CigarTnakers' International
offered cigar advertising fund of
$4,000 in return for a promise
not to oppose complete unioniza-
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VI VI AAASAAAS AZ AAOSOA ICY.
Other StenographerS and her
women friends in the NRA know
little about her. The personnel
Office has no file regarding her
past experience. 1t is known that
she worked in the New York Of
flee of the Radio Corporation of
America. then joined Democratic
National headquarters. Finally
Bob Straus. son Of Mays am
baSsador to France, brought her to
Washington. installed her in Cen
eral Johnson's Office when they
still were writing the NRA act.
CHE remains the mystery wom-
- an of the capital
But no matter where she came
from. there are few women who
have worked harder for Roose-
welt recovery. welded more power
within the NRA. and have flashed
more Spectacularly across the
headlines than Miss Frances
Robinson.
She has sat in conferences with
the barons Of big business. She
has been a frequent visitor at the
White House. She is called
~Robby" by the President of the
United States. She has travelled
10000 miles in army planes. And
she draws $4,000 annually for be-
ing secretary and shadow to the
man who for more than a year
has attempted to rule American
industry.
There are many women Secre-
taries in Washington who play
powerful role. But most of them
work behind the scenes. They are
quiet. efficient, loyal They con-
tribute materially to the success
of the official whom they serve
but to the general public they are
unknown.
II TITLE Robby has all of these
l. qualities save one. She chose
not to remain unknown.
Unqrestionably. this was the
harder role. for it has opened her
to attack. No woman. no matter
who she is. can play so important
a role in the machinery of the
most dynamic agency of recovery
and play it publicly-without
arousing the interest of nation.
And this part Little Robby has
accepted as hers.
She has. beyond any doubt. tht
nerve of a brass monkey. She is
equally at home in strengthening
the tie Of a newspaper man. bawl-
out office boys. attending a stag
party unlimited. or talking to the
President.
Probably it is natural that
Robby, should not be popular with
other women in the administra-
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
Sept.
MA Service STAN Writer
~ q Tho turmoil nf lal

WASHINGTON Sept of labor today has
w poets the rights offered by the
legal and practical problems knitted with it,
living advances
in the long is How shall
shall fit itself into the national
responsibilities how shall shoulder
Between these near detectives job
itself
really problem The questions union
collective coercion by employer union
relations
simply brought them into the foreground
laws inevitable this winter For the NRA expires next
something in the meantime
decision Of the National Labor Relations Board
employees organization
majority decision the Houde Engineering
the break unionzed labor has had
began. further organized labor
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MILLIONS ARE GAINED
FROM TEN CENT SALES
Three Dime Stores Report Climb in
August Sales.


August Sales.
By Times Special
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-Sales Of S. S.
Kresge Company for August were
$10,252, 1853 as against $9,920,933 in
the same month last year, a gain Of
33 per cent. For the first eight
months of this year the sales ag-
gregated $83,O16,109, or 12.1 per cent
above the 1888 figure of $74,O53,822.
F. w. Woolworth Company re-
ports August sales of $20,794,945 as
compared with $2O,357, BIT in August,
1898, an increase of 81 per cent.
For the first eight months of this
year the sales aggregated $164,135,-
972, a gain of 1912 per cent over
the $148, 844,7 1876 reported for the cor
responding period a year ago.
Sales of G.. C. Murphy Company
for last month are reported at
S2,11S,O51, compared with $1,903,139
a year ago. Total for eight months
is s16,472 .568. against So, 1872, los for
the same period last year.
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After a motor trip to Reno,
Devine, his wife and children
were far from being in high spirits
until their eyes fell upon a mar
velous police dog puppy.
The pup seemed to like the car
and the occupants. The dogs
owner wanted to be friendly and
he insisted that the Devines take
the pup as a gift.
Tom wanted to buy the dog, but
the owner refused. So when the
Devines honked out of Reno for
Los Angeles, the police dog was a
member of the party. Miles later,
the party felt the need of food.
Dogs were not permitted, so the
pup was left in the back seat.
When Tom returned to the car,
he found a crowd calmly watch