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The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
The Lac of Our Jungle

"TTNHE handspring of ambition" he said, has been
the fear Of want. CharlatanS miSlead the peo-
pie by promises Of ar abundant life obtained through
the magic of legislation They talk as though the
puny laws of could nullify the laws Of creation
which ordain that life is trial and struggle. The
struggle for existence is not a mere rhetorical
phrase but biological fact; the Creator meant it
to be. Why try to egislate against the Amightys
purpOscs?'
The kindly iurist went on to say that it was an
evil thing for government to try to protect children
or other citizens because it tended to "enfeebe"
them. He said that there will always be economic
lions TO beSet our path
This sounds to me like good Republican doctrine
simple, fortnight and StalWart Indeed, it seems
to me that Judge MaXey and Herbert Hoover are
really saying the same thing, only Mr.. Hoover is
CirCuitous. When the sage of Palo Alto speaks
of liberty 1 assume he means the liberty of the
lions In fac I feel that Mr. Hoover would have
every right to promise that shall have bigger
and better lions if he is returned to office
Indeed, if I switch animals I would like to
give him good slogan for the fight to preserve
rugged ndividualiSm against all cooperative inno-
vatons How about Vote for Hoover and put a
wolf outside every door?
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

lie with the airplane. The fault
is never with the tool, but with
its use.
The machine moves on, and we
with it. The reactionary, the con-
servative; the lover of the old,
slow ways and of a world un-
debated; may be impractical
enough to question the desira-
bility of placing the Far East
within three days of the Ameri-
can continent-but he will fly to
Macao, and like it!
The pioneers never question.
They did not question when their
sailing ships sighted the rocky
headlands Of New England
They hoped, in an unthinking,
accepting way, that the world
which they were to carve out of
the wilderness would be a finer
one than the world which they
had left behind; but their mind
was on the practical problems be-
fore them-on water, and crops,
and housing, and fireWood.
60 with the men who built the
~ 9000-mile-long bridge across
the Pacific.
So with the men who made
Wake Island habitable and con-
structed an air base on barren
Midway.
So with the men who drove the
exploring clipper westward on
her first experimental flights;
pushing her with mathematical
precision across the huge squares
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
A $50, 900, 900 Puzzle

WHY they built the Normandie at cost of about
w so million dollars when they could not take up
a little note for 10 million dollars interest on their
debt to the United States is puzzle less battling
than the why the British in spite of similar
embarrassments, went ahead with their Queen Mary,
which is about the size. The theory is that the
bigger the ship the greater the profit per passenger
but only beyond certain minimum number of pas
sengers which is not likely to be met much less
ceeded in the present state of the market.
And, anyway, the world is s crazy nowadays
with troops marching and swords ciankng every
Where-that all these enormous boats are at the
mercy Of any Wild-eyed nut who takes it into his
head to declare for himself To a torpedo or
bomb they are all delicate, and the bigger the ship
the harder it is to miss her.
In sense it is mistake to believe that the un-
fortunate European taxpayer is buying the expensive
caviar which had made such an impression your
correspondent After ALL these ships and their oper-
ating deficits represent money which they did not
pay the United States on account of the loans which
will have to be paid by the American taxpayers Per-
haps the American passenger is justified in calling
for seconds on caviar in the belief that in the long
run he will be the one who will have to pick up the
check.
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of the chart which separated Hon
olulu from San Francisco and the
islands of the ocean stepping
stones from one another.
They did not question Progress,
these men, they served her; as pi-
oneers and eXpolersr of an age in
which the greatest adventure is
the adventure Of material ad-
vancement, of speed
Less than five years ago there
was nothing. And now the great
clipper hurtles through the night,
charges along her aerial highway.
The radio officer stands by for
his radio compass bearing; the
navigation officer bends over his
chart; the pilot watches the COM
pleX instrument board before him;
the great motors roar in arrogant
assurance.
An hour, and the clipper has
traVerSed more distance than her
ancient namesakes of the gleam-
ing canvas and the towering maSUs
could cover, on the average, in "a.
A SYMBOL of our civilization,
L n civilization riding it's great
machine at breakneck pace
through darkness, were it not for
the fact that the crew of the
clipper are in no doubt as to their
destination.
Faster, faster dine off the
California coast, breakfast in
Hawaii, lunch near Midway. :.
And so the conquest of time and
space, a conquest which began
with the oXcart, continues. Upon
it, in our time, has been concen-
trated our keenest intelligence, our
most steadfast courage, our bright
est daring.
And yet we stand nearer the be-
ginning than the end, and we can
have no clear concept of that
end.
To the China Clipper, then,
whose solid commercial achieve
ment stems from the successful
completion of the century's most
romantic adventure; to our civili-
zation, racing down the years with
Wide-Open throttle:
Happy landings!"
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

A PINCH of salt, ordinary table salt, spells the
L n difference between life and death. One of the
startling facts brought to light by recent medical
research the importance Of sodium chloride, the
chemist calls it, in the human system
1t is maintained in the body at very constant
level and is the most essential factor in controlling
the water and chemical balance DR. Thomas G. Orr,
professor Of surgery in the University of Kansas
School Of Medicine, says. The average adult body
contains chlorine equivalent to about 300 grams Of
sodium chloride"
Three hundred grams is approximately 10
ouncesD
It may be some deep-seated instinct instinct
half billion years old, older than the human race
itself which makes crave salt in our food. For az
DR. Orr points out, life as we know it, is impossible
without salt.
CLOWLY through the early ages of earth history,
- the rain dissolved salt out of the rocks Rivers
carried it down the ocean Life arose perhaps in
some tidal pool only when the concentration of salt
sufficient.
For ages, life existed only in the ocean-the saline
sea.
From the beginning of history man seems to have
had instructive appreciation of salt. Dr. Orr calls
attention to the fact that ancient times salt was
rare in inland countries and looked upon as great
delicacy.
Often, in China salt became government
monopoly. Wars were fought for the possession Of
salt deposits and salt given a religious signf-
canoe
Homer called salt divine Plato said it was "a
substance dear to the gods while Moses warned the
children Of Israel not to forget include salt when
making meat offering to God.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
EVERY TRICK NEEDED IN DUPLICATE

so the rules give a premium OF 300
points for game contract when
declarer's side is not vulnera ble,
and 500 points when declarer's
side is vulnerable.
In rubber bridge 100 points are
awarded for a two-game rubber
and 500 points for a three-game
rubber. Honors are not scored in
duplicate.
To the real bridge fan duplicate
is the game, as all tables play the
same hand The bridge theoTist
can determine whether his meth
ods are winning over some one
else
Strangely enough, great dupli-
cate players are not necessarily
good money players, while some Of
the best rubber bridge players ace
poor duplicate players.
However, there is one outStand-
ing man in the country who plays
both games equally we'll. He is
Howard Schenken, New York, who
is one of the contestants in the
national bridge tournament beng
held in the Stevens Hotel, Chi
cago, this week.
Mr.. Schenken'S advice to the
duplicate player today is, try to
get every possible trick out Of the
hand.
Against the four heart contract,
West opens the queen of CLUBS,
which is won in dummy with the
king. Two rounds of hearts are
taken, leaving East with the high
heart, the queen.
The ace of clubs Is cashed
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

flood control and navigation, he
pointed out. Private companies
are not interested in flood control
and navigation, but in the devel-
opment of power for profit. Nee
essarily, he explained, there is du-
plication of their equipment in
the competitive race for markets,
which means higher cost for
power to the consumer.
Senator Norris would have the
government own the transmits
sion lines.
He believes that if people
throughout the Mississippi Valley
could see the blessings of IVA
they would force much sooner the
development along similar lines of
government power projects in
their own sections. He believes
the idea will spread, perhaps SLOW
ly, but inevitably.
The Senator has just returned
from a visit to the Tennessee VAL
ley project.
4 went into the home of
farmer down there" he said.
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and small club ruffed, stripping
declarer and dummy of clubs. A
diamond is played to dummy's
king and now three rounds Of
spades are taken.
Oeclarer should note that on the
king of diamonds, East's jack
dropped, so now the ace of dia-
mondS is played and, when the
queen drops. declarer can see the
possibility of making a slam.
A heart is led, throwing East in
the lead and he now must return
either a spade or a club, which al
lows declarer to discard his losing
diamond from one hand and ruiz
in the other hand. thereby giving
him six odd.
tcopyright. 1885. EEA Service. Iac.)
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
Norris PuHs Pipe and Tells of 10OYea Dream Of Power
for Mississippi Valley to Rival IVA; Laughs at Bio Interests

wanted them saved for the gov
ernment and all the people.
They laughed at him in those
days. But the dream came true
with the election of President
Roosevelt.
So it was with his constitutional
amendment abolishing the So
called lame duck session" of Con-
gress. So it was with his anti
injunction bill outlawing the ''yel-
low dog" labor contract.
Talking of his new dream, the
veteran Senator explained that
the way has been paved already
with the preliminary surveys made
by Army engineers throughout
the Mississippi River system in
connection with flood control and
navigation on scores of rivers, big
and small.
n
HHE government, he said, is
l. the only agency which can
realize this vast project, for it re-
quires coordination. The govern
ment already controls rivers for
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

ODDLY enough, one of the ef-
" fects of long range aviation
transport may be to increase Sec
tional isolation.
In the embryonic days of such
tranScontiental roads as the Lin
coin Highway the main streets of
such pleasant Jersey towns as
Princeton were streaming with
autos, noisy with the rumble of
trucks. Later great express routes,
built for speed, bypassed these
villages and they regained meas
ure of peace and remoteness.
The long distance airlines of
the near future, flying land and
sea courses as straight as that
drawn by the Russia czar who
routed his railroad from Moscow
to st. Petersburg with the aid of
a ruler, may have much the same
effect as those express highways,
and on larger scale.
The planes will grow bigger and
faster, capacity for passengers and
cargo increase. Other methods of
transportation, it is not unlikely,
will slowly decay.
TT. G, WELLS, writing of THE
IL Il Shape of Things to Come"
has pictured such a world as
might evolve were aviation prog
ress not complemented by prog
reSS in the social sciences and an
abandonment of the resort to war.
1t is not altogether a pleas
ant picture, but the fault does not
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
Times Books

Il HERE is fine fare TO be found in The SuIlen
l. Sky Mystery" by H. c. Bailey Crime Club So
This story reintroduces that old Engshman Joshua
Chunk, sanctimonious little shyser lawyer who goes
about humming hymns confounding Scotland Yard
and solving abstruse murder cases, and an engaging
figure ne is.
We have corpse found on a beach an ex-con-
vict IN position of deep suspicion and high
powered shenanigans by Mr. Chunk The tale IS
highly satisfactory from start TO finish.
For Sax Rohmer fans, mention must be made OF
"The Bat Flies Low" Crime Club, So. Here Mr.
Rohmer brings eligible New York bachelor into
juxtapostion with lovely descendant of Cleopatra,
mixes in a suitable amount OF ancient Egyptian
menace, and lets the fur fly.
If you go for Sax Rohmer you'll find him pass
ing oe his standard brand OF goods here. tBy
Bruce Catton)
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

the change can be made with
completely safety.
To a lesser extent, of course,
Inauguration of the Speedier
schedule is dependent upon public
demand, but of this there is little
doubt.
Today with the China Clipper
taking mail to Honolulu which
had cleared Newark Airport only
40 hours earlier, Pan-American
has on file more than 800 appli-
cations for tickets from persons
anxious to make the first passel-
ger flight.
A ND so soon, possibly before
L n 1886, has dropped below the
horizon, it will be possible for
New Yorker travelling across con-
tinent and ocean by plane, to
reach Canton, 10000 miles away,
in a little less than four days.
Where, then. the laurelS of such
outmoded vessels as the Nor
mandie?
AS matter of fact, such Allan
tic greyhounds as the big French
liner will probably be CHALLENGED
on their own ocean before long by
the exploratory seaplanes of
Britains Imperial Airways.
In an earlier article of this
series it was explained that the
English, emulating the Pam
Americans Pacific pioneers, plan
TO build a bridge from Europe TO
America, using the Azores and
Bermuda as bases.
The world, for good or i'll, is
shriveling. Today it is smaller
than it was yesterday and within
the next decade-unless ciyiliza-
ton comes a complete cropper
it may we'll be possible to circle
the globe in what a trifle more
than century ago was good time
for a trip from New York to AL
bany. 1t may not be better
world, it certainly will be a diff
ferent one.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

too, to run the water for his
stock.
He said to me- 'Sena tor, I
used to hate you when you we're
trying to keep Henry Ford from
getting Muscle Shoals. But you
were right all the time-and I was
wrong all the time
And are those fellows for
RooSevelt?"
He smiled.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
Literary Notes

College Humor, which was purchased some months
ago by Ned Pines publisher of II other magazines
is back on the newStandS with the January 1886
issue. The magazine has new format and slant
and the price has been reduced to Is cents Among
the contributors TO the first issue Haywood Broun
Paul Calico, Rolf Armstrong, Harlan Ware John V.
A. Weaver. Jefferson Machamer and Ely CubertSon.
In the editors chair is the publishers brother Robert
a. Pines.
All in one week Gerald Breckenridge signed con-
tract with Doubleday Doran for two novels one of
which is already completed got ioh> in the New
Esquire
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
MEETING OF STUDENT
HEALTH GROUP FIXED
20 Expected to Attend Session at
Greencastle Saturday.

ItHfs Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 3. -
More than 10 college and university
physicians, hygiene professors and
physical education instructors are
expected here Saturday for the fifth
annual meeting of the Indiana
Student Health Association.
Speakers scheduled to appear in
clude DR.. Delbert Oberteuffer, Ohio
State University; DR.. Walter H.
Mytinger, Lafayette; Homer Allen,
Purdue; and President C. Bromley
Oman, DR.. c. B. O'Brien and Miss
Kathryn Davenport, all of De Pauw.
Association officers are Dean Louis
H. Dirks, De Pauw, president; Prof.
M. L. Entorf. Hanover, vice presi-
dent and Prof. H. G. Nester, Butler,
secretary treasurer.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
Fair Enough
By
WESTbR0OK PEd[ER

nN BOARD ITALIAN STEAMSHIP REX. Dec. g.
~ Among the privileges which are enjoyed by
citizens OF certain European countries is that Of
paying considerable share of the cost of luxurious
steamboat ride for passengers ships of this kind
Food on the Rex, the lie de France includes
that big gray AStrakhan caviar type of French peas
which cost $40 pound at refined deLcateSSenS in
New York and So treatment in restaurants
Although the English newspapers which we're
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

when I got inside I was amazed.
Everything was operated by elec-
tricity.
They had lights, of course, and
an electric stove, electric refrig-
erator-and, of all things, an cleo
trio churn. The churn was Just
like the one had to work before
1 went to school back in Ohio as
a boy-eXcept all you had to do
was to turn on switch.
The farmer turned on a switch,
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03


and all its tributaries to carry
cheap electricity into that vast ex-
panSe, the Appalachians and Al
leghanies on the East and the
Rockies on the West, to harness
those rivers which swell every few
years into devastating floods. and
to open their channels still further
TO navigation.
He is considering a bill for this
vaSter project to substitute for the
bill he introduced last session for
a IVA in the Missouri River val
ley, in itself a commanding enter
prise.
1t would take a long time,
wouldn't it?" he was asked.
oh yes-a hundred years may
be, y he replied causually and then,
enthusing over the idea as if it
might be realized tomorrow, he
told of the possibilities.
GEORGE NORRIS, now "a. is
NJ patient reformer. He thinks
and plans and dreams in terms
not of days or weeks or months.
but years. Stubborn persistence is
the secret Of the many successes
he has achieved despite the fact
he has always been an irregular
in politics, who has fought the
bosses and the interests" and. in
the end. has rallied slow moving
public opinion behind him.
So it was with IVA.
For a dozen years he held at
bay the great private groups,
with Henry Ford in the van, who
were trying TO lease the giant
Muscle Shoals properties, then de-
scribed as a white elephant. He
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

using it to trace
diagrams on his
desk, the veteran
Republican sup
porter of PreSi-
dent Roosevelt
revealed his new
idea of duplicat-
ing IVA on a
grand scale to
e m ra { e the
W h ole MisSiS-
sippl River sys-
tenn.
His eyes alight,
he envisaged a
project that
would utilize the
father of waters
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

received at Gibraltar reported
that the Italian people were TAX
ing up their belts and observing
meatleSS days, among other
forms of self-denial reminiscent
of the war to end war. the menu
on the Rex has not been edited
as yet.
First-claSS fare from New York
to Naples or Genoa is s262. and
there are about 35 first class
passengers on this voyage of the
52,000-tOn steamship.
So the trip is something on
the order of a yachting party, eX-
cent that the olleStS have r,nOre
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
BY THOMAS l.. STOKES
Times Special Writer

NTASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Sen-
w ator George w. Norris of
Nebraska, who dreamed into
reality the gigantic Tennessee
Valley project, is dreaming an
other dream of staggering pro-
portions.
Sitting today in his office, now
pulling on a Stubby pipe and now
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
0. K. APPLICATIONS
IN 7 LIQUOR CASES
New Issuance and Transfers Get
Commission Approval.

Commission Approval.
Issuance or transfer of seven IL
censeS was recommended yesterday
by the Marion County Alcoholic
Beverages Commission.
Applications of the following were
approved; Bamboo Inn Inc, SO
Monument Circle, beer and wine;
Lewis M. Tomush, 839 Fort WAYNE
av, liquor and wine; Annie K.
Koehler, ITO Prospect-st, beer; Ar
thur S. Sahm, Churchman-av,
Beech Grove, beer; Hotel Riley
Liquor Store Inc, 157 w. 16th-st.
liquor and wine; Tony Murello and
George T. Jenkins, transfer of LIQUOR
and wine permit from Lawlis and
Jenkins, IA S. New Jersey-st, and
Ruth Nolan, transfer of beer and
wine permit from Jennie Goldsberry
and Minnie Singer, 1926 E. Wash
ington-st.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03

-IE'"--EFt u ~
that there are many, many varying
definitions current as to the mean
ing Of liberalism. And so l hold
that the picture of the method of
procedure is far from clear when
Mr.. Hoover says:
"A distracted people has been led
to assume that American ideals Of
liberty are p1Werless to protect
them from the growth Of private
privilege and private exploitation.
The spirit of liberty needs to be
written in the halls Of its business
chiselers in as vivid letters as it is
written in the halls Of government" "
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what precisely, does it mean? Does Mr.. Hoover
purpose to write in the halls Of the chselers with
soft lead pencil hew into the masonry itself? 1t
makes a difference.
I am extremely doubtful that Mr. Hoover or
anybody else can change any of the current in
scrpuons which stand upon the temple wall OF the
money changers without using methods which Mr.
Hoover would call regimentatlonal or couectVlSt
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER
Times Special Writer

Times Special Writer
NIGHTLY now, on the
two lonely mid-Pacifc
atolls called Wake and Mid
way, the great revolving
lights of airport beacons
send their beams far out
over the sea. They serve,
these recurrent rays which
wheel slowly over the iron
wood scrub, over air base
buildings and seaplane
float, over the coral rock
and the white sand, over a
heaVing darkness that
stretches for interminable
leagues, no useful present
purpose. A fascination for
the gooney-fowl, a bewilder-
ment to the moaning birds,
they are beacons of proph-
ecy, and they mount guard
for the future.
The future against which these
aerial lighthouses we're erected
and placed in operation-and it is
not far aWay-Will see night flying
along that portion of Pan-Ameri-
can Always transoceanic route
west of Hawaii
When that time comes, the swift
schedule upon which the China
Clipper winged toward Manila on
its inaugural commercial flight
will seem slow and halting; San
Francisco will have become a bare
three days distant from the Far
East.
OUCH service, in truth, could
~ be placed in operation now
were it not for the fact that PAN
American does not do things that
way.
Juan T'rippe, its president;
Andre Pliester, its chief engineer;
Col. Lindbergh, its technical ad-
wiser, never once leaped into the
dark during the four years in
which the tranS-Pacific airline
was developing from dream to re-
ality.
A step, and they stopped to test
their footing before the next for
ward movement, and so it is to be
now that the China service is an
actuality.
In December the line win be
pushed to Macao; a few weeks
later the ship will be carrying pas
sengers as well as mail and ex-
press And still the stages west of
Hawaii will be flown during the
daylight hours, with overnight
stops at Midway, Wake, Guam
and Manila.
HOW soon the through day
- and night schedule to China
will be put into effect depends
primarily upon how soon Pan
American experts feel that they
have learned all that there is to
learn from the leisurely flight
program now in force; become
Convinced that the period of test
and ton is over. that
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
LIONS TO HEAR WRITER
Embalming Expert to Talk at
Luncheon Tomorrow.

Prof. G. F. Galloway, writer, lee
turer and demonstration is to speak
at the Lions Club luncheon tomor-
row at the Washington. He is an
instructor in embalming at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and director of
research in embalming for the Un-
dertakers Supply Co., Chicago.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-12-03
HEYW00D BR0Uk|

HERBERT HOOVER seems TO have swapped
ghosts while crossing stream. His speech
before the Junior Chamber of Commerce contained
not single nifty. This, 1 believe is an advance
but there still remain too great vagueness and
vamping in the pronouncements of the California
candidate.
Mr.. Hoover speaking as he has many times
before, against RECOMMENDATION" and "coiectvism."
He advocated true American liberalism" but in the