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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-28
Times Books

DHILIP GIBBS, who is reporter of more than
ordinary acuteneSS, has been wandering about
his native island trying to find out whether England
still stands where she did; and in England Speaks"
doubleday, Doran and Co., So, he reports that
there is good deal Of life in the old girl yet al
though she has fallen on villainously hard times
His book is made up of innumerable conversa-
tions-with cabinet members and men on the dole,
with jobless shpyard workers and coal miners with
panhandlerS the London streets and tlers of the
fat English SOIL with cigaret girls and policemen
and night watchmen and collegians and every other
kind of person Imaginable and from these talks
Mr.. Gibbs has drawn sundry conclusions about the
state of the nation
THE English, he remarks, frequently act in very
L. un-English way. They are Unconditional and re-
served but at King Georges jubilee they turned
loose vertable flood of sentiment; they are dis
cordant and full Of diverse fancies but in the recent
League Of Nations crisis they have shown an amaz-
ing soidity and unanimity; and as individuals they
have not after ALL changed much since Shake
speare's time.
He makes full mention of Englands troubles
Trade is bad, shipping is bad mining is bad the
end Of the dole is not in sight. Yet he finds his
Engllshmen are not discouraged
They still thank God they live in a free country
and they carry big stick for any one who wants
them to live otherwise and their character is still
a good bet to bring survival and revival in a world
uncommonly full Of difficulties
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Literary Notes

When V. F. Calverton was editor for Long 81
Smith, he signed contract with Walter Liggett for
book to be called Press for Sale Several chapters
them will appear in the next issue of the Modern
Monthly
H. L. Shapiro. curator of physical anthropology
at the Museum Of Natural History, has completed
book Pitcairn Island from where he has lust
returned. He calls it The Heritage of the Bounty"
Simon & Schuster will publish it. The other
Pitcairn Island books are all still selling. Last week
Little Brown reprinted 5000 each of "Mutny on the
Bounty" Men Against the Sea" and "Pitcarns
Island" This was the second printing since Dec
for all three titles This is the fourth season for
"Mutiny the Bounty" and second for the other
two. The total printings 10000 for "Nutiny
the Bounty" $1,000 Men Against the Sea- and
$4,000 "Ptcairn's Island"
William c. White. author of These Russians" and
Made in Russia is writing a series of biographies
called Makers of the Revolution" The first volume
Lenin will be published by Harrison Smith 81
Robert Haas in the spring. It will be followed by
others at sx-month intervals dealing with Trotsky.
Kerensky and Litvinov.
John Steinbeck's novel In Dubious Battle" which
Covici Friede will publish in January, has Cali
fornia locale like his previous novels. but this
is of serious nature. 1t is drama the attempt
of the migratory workers in CALIFORNIA; fruit coun-
try to organize and Of their defeat by vigilantes
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Just None of Their Business

THERE have been rumors of many Italians killed
or injured in motor transport accidents along
the mountain roads and OF hospital ships coming
back through the Suez Canal. But apparently the
patients never reached Italy and inqusitive people
get out their maps and speculate as to whether
MsSoni has set up his hospitals on one or more OF
the lnk-dotted islands in the Aegean.
Not even military observers Of foreign nations
have been permitted to look at the war It does not
follow that an army which is doing good job would
be glad to expose its secrets to military observers of
other nations but it certainly does follow that an
army which is doing bad job would prefer not to
reveal its mistakes.
The return of Marshal de Bono under conditions
which had the appearance of deliberate humiliation
casts doubt on his success commander n-chief
He was struggled home, and Marshal Badoglio went
out to relieve him.
MusSolini couldn't afford to bust De Bono be-
cause that would jar the peoples confidence
The marshal is regular army man, but a Black
Shirt and one of the four who led the march on
Rome. After that he was the head man of the
secret police. The prestige of the Black Shirt militia
was involved in his performance as commander-in-
chief.
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The Duce Gets q Break

QADOGLIO is not Black Shirt, and one of his
- first orders after he reached Asmara was to
stop the personal ballyhoo for Mussolns two boys,
Vlttorlo and Bruno, and his son-in-aw Count
Cano.
Badogllos order proved to be a lucky break for
Mussolini's family, because a few days later the
Italians bombed hospital at DeSsye. Under the
new system it was consistent to ignore names en-
trely But there is reason to believe they were not
involved, because the flight covered 900 kometers
at high altitude and called for expert pilots
The officers of the regular army have to take an
oath to Mussollni as we'll to the king, but they
are primarily for the king, who is soldier himself
and respected as such. The Black Shirt militia is
a separate organization, but of its officers,
like De Bono, from the regular army
The militia is primarily for MuSsolini The pres
tge OF the militia undoubtedly has suffered by the
withdrawal of their man from the post of command
er-ln-chlef and the substitution of a kings man.
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ca in that both its ends stand on
United States military reserva-
tons, the famous Preside and
Fort Baker, parts of the harbor
defense plan.
The problem of keeping the
Preside in condition for it's func-
lions as headquarters of the Ninth
Corps area was solved by a sue
cesSion of grade separations en-
abling traffic to approach the
bridge without interfering with
Preside activities.
TINE financial challenge was
l. met by organizing San Fran
cisco County and five Redwood
Empire counties into Golden
Gate Bridge District, authorized
by law to build and operate toll
bridge. After small tax assess
ments to pay preliminary costs, a
$35000,000 bond issue was sold,
and the bridge cost held within
that figure.
Both Army and Navy authori-
ties have been satisfied that the
bridge is so built that even its
destruction by an invading force
would not cripple the Army posts
nor would its Wreckage bottle up
the harbor to stop access to the
navy yard facilities within.
The lighthouse and reduction
In ferry traffic will both be navi-
cation aids, and mobility Of the
military forces will be increased,
an important item in national
defense.
The catWalks now stretch across
the Golden Gate, and steelwork-
ers skip back and forth as the
job of cable-spinning takes the
strands of wire the length of the
bridge in thousands of trips
Traffic should begin to flow in the
spring of 1887.
Slowly and steadily rises struc-
ture breath-taking in its bold ap-
plication of advanced engineering
to architectural beauty. creating
bridge attuned in design, form,
and even color to its unique loca-
ton.
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Charles A. Beard
Is Appointed to
Commission

Scripps-Ho,card Newspaper AHianc
WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
President Roosevelt's ap-
pointment of the noted
historian, Charles A. Beard,
to the commission in charge
of the sesquicentennial cele-
bration of the Constitution
in 1887 met with approval
of liberals today but some
what dismayed conserva-
tives.
Prof. Boards concept of
the Constitution is that it is
a dynamic instrument of
government which can be
made to meet the needs of
modern times, as opposed to
the static ancestral master
piece apostrophized by
James M. Beck and other
Liberty League lawyers.
An inkling of Prof.
Boards attitude toward the
Constitution was contained
in a recent article by him
in the Virginia Quarterly
Review.
There he declared that
the old conception of states
rights" is forever outmoded
and warned that the
United States can not 90
back to 1923 or 1889 any
more than a grandfather
can recover his boyhood."
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swapping of payments between
pensioners will be a temptation
which few will resist. 1t will re-
quire an army of inspectors to
make sure that the endowed
brethren are not merely swap
ping payments.
The Townsend plan would be-
come, in practice, the greatest
corruptor of American life ever
devised.
The chief article of faith IN the
Townsend credo lies in the as
sumption that the spending of this
money-about billions month
will, in the language of the off,
cial pamphlet, create purchasing
power so that there may be ma
ton wide prosperity"
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the same way as any other pur-
chaser of bread, meat and cloth
ing. The Townsend tax will take
away half of his $2400
1t is at this point that the
prophet of the Townsend religion
introduces his chief article of
faith, Under the terms of the
plan every 60-year-old must spend
the entire 5000 by the end of the
month in which he receives it. For
example, the 5000 received Jan. 1
must be spent by Feb. l. Not a
dollar must be left in his hands
at the end of the month.
This provision furnishes the
greatest appeal to self1shness to
which our human weaknesses
have ever been exposed. The
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by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

TT is difficult enough for the average persons
Il stomach to digest the fats of the foods that are
eaten as necessary as they are but sometimes poor
cooking make such digestion even difficult.
OF course you needn't be reminded that taking
too much fat will cause digestive disturbance Foods
that are excessively fat stay longer in the stomach
than do those which not so fat
When foods cooked in fat, the fat forms
coating other foods and thus delays action on
these substances of the fermentS and engines which
necessary to digestion.
On top of all this. if fats are overheated in cook
ing, substances develop that may irrtate the lining
of the stomach and of the inteStineS. Dietitians
point out that this is not the fault of the food but
of the cook who does not know how to prepare or
use fats properly.
1t is safe to say that as many digestive troubles
caused by bad cooking as by improper foods.
The most easily digested fat next to that of eggs
is that of milk This is because the fat in milk is
pended state. In addition milk fat generally con-
tainS vitamin than any other common food
fat.
A MONG the common food fats are those of but
ter. eleomargarine, lard, cottonseed, and other
vegetable oils
Butter provides most vitamin from natural
halibut or cod, are especially rich in vitamin and
far richer in vitamn D than any natural food sub
stance.
Nevertheless nutritional authorities are convinced
that the Ytamln d in butter is factor of real i'm
portance for ordinary health
Simply because of these facts nutritional author
tiles are likely to look askance at any attempt to
substitute artificial substances for the natural fats
which have been mentioned
1t is interesting to know that the fat of beef con-
tanS fair amount of vitamin A. although it does
not provide significant amounts of B, and D.
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BUST HAND MAKES GAME!

thought the bidding was I'M
usually interesting. East's pass Of
one spade is a trap pass, hoping
that North and South will get
themselves into trouble. Norths
opening bid of one spade, Of
course, is a psychic. South, not
knowing this, is justified in jump
ing to two no trump.
When East doubled, Hall IN the
west decided to bid his lowest five
card suit, to avoid as many
pitfalls as possible. Naturally,
when his partner showed no will
ingness to play the hand at dia-
monds and went into three spades,
West was correct in taking out to
four hearts.
The Play
The play was just as interesting
as the bidding. North's opening
lead was the ten of clubs, which
was won in dummy with the ace.
The ace Of Spades was cashed and
a small spade played and trumped
by West with the three of hearts.
The next lead was a diamond,
which was won in dummy with
the ace.
Now, declarer played the queen
of spades from dummy. South
ruffed this trick with the nine of
hearts, so West discarded his los
ing club.
South returned the king Of
clubs, declarer trumping with the
four of hearts. A small diamond
was ruffed in dummy with the
deuce of hearts.
At this point declarer had to
return club from dummy, and
not a spade. If he played a
spade, South would discard the
king Of diamonds. but when the
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BY DIR. HENRY S. PRITCHETT

CANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec. %.
~ There was something very
appealing in the gathering of
1000 adherents of the Townsend
plan in Chicago a few weeks ago.
1t was a company of believers
sincere, earnest, wistful
The assembly resembled those
gatherings of AdventistS that were
common in the Middle West so
years ago, when bands of sincere
believers gathered at dawn, on an
appointed date, to greet the resur-
rection morn-that never came.
For the Townsend plan is not a
plan. 1t is a religion. 1t rests on
a simple faith in the prophecies
Of the good DR.. Townsend, Who
like may other prophets, brushes
aside the plain facts that stand in
the way of the realization of his
faith.
These facts can be stated sim
ply, and they do not require a
trained economist to understand
them, What We once called horse
sense is all that is needed.
Under the Townsend plan every
60-year-o old man or woman will
automatically go on the pension
list and receive 5000 month, or
S2400 a year, from the government
OF the United States. AS there are
about 10i2 million 60-year-olds,
these pensions will cost 25 billions
of dollars a year, increasing as
population rises.
This tidy sum has to be paid
out of the income of all the peo-
pie, the payment to be effected by
a sales transaction tax that will
reach everybody. Every time a
housewife buys a loaf of bread or
a pound of bacon or a calico dress
she will pay a sales tax to carry
the Townsend pensions. Every
man, woman and child must
contribute to the Townsend
pensions in proportion to his an
nual expenditures.
NOW the total income of every
l. Y body in the United States last
year, according to a government
report recently issued, was 40 bill
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lion dollars. This income is, in
the main, in the hands of persons
of moderate or small means, liv-
ing on day wages or monthly sala-
ries. Laboring men will be called
on to pay the bulk of the Town.
send pensions, because they re-
ceive and spend the bulk of the
national income.
1t certainly looks a bit doubt
full when the average man is
asked to lay down half his in
come, collected by a sales tax, in
order to pay the Townsend pen
sionS!
No notice seems to have been
taken of the fact that Townsend
pensioners would be affected by
the Townsend sales TAX in quite
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BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT

GAN FRANCISCO Dec 28--The draughtsmen engi-
neer brawny seelworkers and concrete pudders work.
ing together the Golden Gate bridge producing
thing Of beauty worthy of it's unmatched location.
Two-toned paint schemes for structures harmonizing
with the cliffs either shore Gold paint for the huge
cables. Modernistc seppedback towers of skyscraper
STYLE with transverse bracing eliminated Design harmony
between portals, towers and plaza creating vertical
line effect Sightseeing elevators. Use Of the towers
a lighthouse
With these and other innovations, the Golden Gate
bridge will set mark in art for mammoth engineer
ING project.
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tHat ms knOWIedge OF human re-
lations, particularly those between
employer and employe, is that of
a Woefully ignorant man.
When I am told not to quarrel
with judicial decisions because the
only thing at stake is strictly
legal problem I can afford to dis
sent, since so much eXtraneous
matter is forever being dragged
into decisions.
I wish it we're a common prac-
tice for lawyers to leap up and
say, Your honor, I object to your
remarks on the ground that they
arc incornDetent and irrelevant "
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feet below the surface, bolted them
together in place.
Concrete filled the boxes, and
the strange looking well grew
from the bottom to Is feet above
the water.
IN the quiet water within this
l. well" workers excavated fur
Their and set their concrete pier
for the tower, one of the largest
masses of concrete man has ever
thrown together. Measuring 80
by 1875 feet at the base, the pier
rises IA feet. On its top poises
the graceful steel south tower of
the bridge.
The bridge is unique in Ameri-
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Must Hare Read Speech bH HOOrer

I SUPPOSE anybody who said that in open session
Il could be cited for contempt Of court. Fortunately
such punishment does not extend beyond the borders
OF the room where the trial held; otherwise the
JalS of America would bulge indeed
am cbiecting to the fact that Merrill E. Otis in
striking severe blow at the of labor undertook
to indicate that he protecting the worker. Some
time or other he must have read one Of Mr.. Hoovers
speeches on RECOMMENDATION and muddled it even
little more in his mind
Specifically, Judge Otis said of the Wagner Labor
Act that 1t deals with an individual employee "as an
incompetent He referring to the provision Of
the statute which undertakes to insure the right of
collective bargaining. The learned jurist continued
to speak Of the worker and cucumber him with pun
1shng aid and comfort Rejecting what he conceived
to be paternalism Merrill E. Otis offered the of
labor the loving Of a Stepfather.
Referring to the individual employee under the
Wagner Labor Act Judge Otis said, He is the ward
of the United States to be cared for by his guardian
even II he were member of an uncivilized tribe OF
Indians or a recently emancipated slave" 1t might
be pertinent to ask the judge just when that emanc
patton of which he speaks occurred.
1t is absurd to say, the judge continued, that
the refusal of the of flour mill to bargain
collectively with his employees directly affects CON-
merce among the states How does it affect it?"
/ think the judge need only wait until some
rouslng strike occurs and then he will get his
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Haywood BR0UN

on A TRAIN, Dec. 28.-Unlike the good lady Of
~ the song, Judge Otis seemingly does not regret
that many are unable to lunch today. His decision
IN regard to the Wagner Labor Act is harsh blow
TO trade unionism. Indeed the attempt to protect
collective bargaining seems the very phase of the
measure which inks the learned iurist most.
Now, as an old Republican wheel horse III the
Federal District Court it is entirely possible that
Merrill E. Otis knows his law. But it is palpable
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Solution to PreUiouS
Contract Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY

T HAVE selected today'S hand as
l. one of the most interesting
played at the recent national
championship tournament in Chi
cago. Some players might become
discouraged with what is known
as a bust holding.
However, when Charles A. Hall,
of Cincinnati. picked this hand up
in the team of four championship,
he realized that the fewer high
cards he held, the more his part
ner was likely to hold.
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Townsend OAge Pension Plan Asaed by Education Religion
Which Is Based Simple Faith in Founder and Not Facts

Editors Note; The Indianapolis
Times, which has printed the views of
various authorities both pro and con on
the Townsend plan, presents herewith
an attack on the plan by Dr. Henry
Smith Pritchett, educator, astronomer,
mathematician and former president of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching)
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But simon-pure engineer
ing has won its share of
triumphs, too. The engi-
neers are building the
worlds longest slngle-span
suspension bridge.
They have conquered tide, wind,
and open water that many other
engineers said couldn't be beaten.
And they gaze up at two towers,
each nearly as tall as New York
City's Woolworth Building, from
which will hang span three
times the length of the Brooklyn
Bridge.
THIS bridge is being flung
n square across the narrow en-
trance to San Francisco Bay
known in song and story as the
Golden Gate.
Running between the two mill
tary reservations of the Preside
in San Francisco and Fort Baker,
the span connects the city with
the fertile Redwood Empire re-
gion to the north.
The northern Of the lofty 746-
foot towers rises from a rocky
base on the Marion County main
land. But the southern tower rises
from the Golden Gate itself 1900
feet off the San Francisco shore,
the first bridge tower ever built
in the open ocean. Between those
towers, held up by two 361a inch
cables will hang 1900 feet Of bridge,
the worlds longest span.
The Single-deck bridge floor,
with its six traffic lanes, will be
900 feet above mean high tide,
ample clearance for any vessel
af1oat. A commanding view may
be had from the towers, and even
from the bridge itself.
BUILDING that one pier in 100
- feet of ocean water, with
seven mile-an-hour tide churning
in and out of the gate, was stag
gering task. Joseph B. Strauss,
engineer-builder of more than 500
bridges, met the challenge.
After submarine blasting leveled
the pier site, a gigantic concrete
fender" hollow inside, elliptical
in shape, and $50 feet in circum-
ference, was built in the channel.
Huge steel forms, each fitted to
pattern, were lowered into the
sWirling waters, where divers,
working in complete darkness 100
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aIZnough
BY
WESIBR0OK PEGLER

d ONE, Dec. 28.-Sometnes it takes firm effort
IN of will to maintain a straight face when a WE'LL
fed Black Shirt politician gets to beating his chest
and decaiming about the success of the AbysSnian
campaign and the boundeSs enthusiasm of the COM
mon people for this war In such moments I have
to suspect that the Black Shirt is singing for his
supper, because there is nothing bashful about the
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not be a bad idea to add And pretty silly, too"
In the instance of Merrill E. OTIS functionng
currently in Missouri there should have been a
voice heard when he began to talk about the trade
union principle It would not have been amss if
somebody had said, Sir, with all due Difference,
may point out that you either speak from a highly
prejudiced position from the complete ignorance
OF a backward pupil in a fashionable finishing
SCHOOL,"
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retlcent about the details of the
war if it has been going so we'll.
Furthermore. although my &C
quaintance among the common
people necessarily is limited.
have discovered a woman who is
almost crazy from worry about her
son, who was picked up and
shipped away to a God-forsaken,
diseased land three months ago
and hasn't been heard from since.
She doesn't know whether he is
dead or alive, sick or well. And
she is afraid to ask too insistently.
Mussolini does not publish
casualty lists or hospital statistics.
and the whereabouts of the sick
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ana injured IS mystery. So lar people know.
hospital cases not being cared for in Itav and
the silence regarding the health of $50 600 men who
were shipped 5000 miles from home is more difficult
to bear because Abyssinia has been described as a
land OF eprosy malaria and quaint tropical diseases
which cause elephantine SWeings and kill white
men overnight