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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-29
He's Not POkey in the Head

THE stamp nut, of whom there are 100000 in
this country alone figure based on the circu-
lation of the collectors magazines and the sucker
lists of the dealers, is curious piece of work. He
belongs to the same general family as the birds
egg and the souvenir spoon collector and the man
who flies felt pennant in the rear window of his
automobile signifying that he has just visited the
Mammoth cave.
One sheet of the Mothers Day freak which
turned up in Norfolk, Va. for appraisal has been
quoted at from $4,000 to $4,000, but no sale has
been reported If the minimum figure adopted
and applied to all seventeen freaks Mr.. Roosevelt
Mr.. Howe and Mr.. Farley each would have $4,000
worth of stamps. Mr.. IckeS would have 100000
worth. But, of course, if all these rarities we're
dumped into the market at once, each would dam
age the value of all the Others
This thought offers a graceful, though perhaps
Disappointing solution to the problem confronting
Mr.. Roosevelt and his Administration. AS a stamp
collector, he quite likely to have known that
the freaks which Mr.. Farley was sending him were
not ordinary, face value postage stamps. Mr.. Far
ley being no collector, did not know at first. But
Mr.. Farley is by means pokey in the head and,
1t may be assumed that he very soon learned what
sort of stamp collection he storing away for him
self and his heirs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-29

NVER this issue France and
~ Britain are now at odds. Each
has a plan, but they do not dove
tail 1t is to make them dove
tail, if possible, that the Franco
British conversations are to take
place this week.
Britain today is almost as afraid
of Germany as is France. Britain
knows Germany is rearming at a
terrific pace-particularly in the
air and chemically-and wants
her stopped To stop her, the
British propose to legalize Ger
many's rearmament where it is
now, and lure that country back
into the League of Nations and
the disarmament conference.
With Germany back at Geneva,
Britain reasons, some limit may
be put on her armament. AS long
as she remains outside, account
able to no one, only the sky is
the limit.
Such is the proposition Sir John
intends to put to the French.
THE French on their side
= likewise would like a halt in
Germanys war preparations.
Probably not since the late
Aristide BRAND tried to make
friends with Germany a decade
ago has France been more sin
cerely DESTROYS of a rapproche-
ment.
But Herr Hitler is hard to deal
with. He vows he will return to
Geneva if and when Germany
has been accorded full equality, in
ornaments and otherwise, and
not moment before. And equal
ity nfust be at the start, and not
the end, of negotiations.
BY equality Hitler means France
must even dismantle her chain of
Notifications along her eastern
frontier, or let Germany build one
like it on the other side of the
Rhine. And this France, with her
40 million inhabitants, beside
Germany with her IS millions, will
never permit. She does not dare.
The help of Britain is pretty
nearly vital to the French plan.
1t is vital to any plan to safe
guard European peace, regardless
of the stand Germany may take.
And France knows it. AS long as
Britain and France hold aloof
from one another, French states
men contend, Germany will con-
tinue to hike her demands menac-
ing both of them and the rest of
Europe
But the British government
seems unable % make up its mind
1t is aware that the continent at
any time may blaze up in a new
war, but fears to do anything def
mite about it. Sir John is timid
Others in the cabinet are hesitant.
if not jittery. Yet on their deci-
sion, perhaps this week. depends
the peace Of a continent.
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human element. Despite the ire
mendous mechanization of the
postal system, it can not function
efficiently without efficient, willing
workers. And jim has ground his
postal employees down TO such a
point that they have gone sour on
him.
Typical of Jim's postal admins
tration was an incident which &C.
CURED in the National Emergency
Council. The Postmaster General
complained that government de-
partmentS we're misaddressing
mail, that his department had to
spend much time readdressing.
The President asked Jim to
bring in ? report Jim did. And
obviously reading it for the first
time ne bluShed, stammered and
topped. Then, continuing to the
end, he revealed that his own de-
partment was the worst offender.
Copyright. 1885. by United Featur
Syndicate, Inc.)
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day the foreign debtors are pay
ing the same number of dollars
but they are equivalent to only
8,763, 429 ounces of gold.
THE American investor receives
l. only 59OS cents of gold for
every 100 cents of gold he lent
abroad. But that is only part of
the story. The real value of a
dollar is It's purchasing power.
And within this country the
5906 cents Of gold are today worth
$160 in purchasing power as COM
pared with the 100 cents of gold
that we're lent. The index of the
dollars purchasing power at
wholesale averaged 1882 from
1919 to 1929 during which period
most of the money was borrowed.
The index today stands at about
76.7.
From the standpoint of the for
eign borrower, the 59.06 cents of
gold are worth 184 of purchasing
power. The world wholesale price
index, stated in gold, is down to
1874, about the lowest point of the
entire depression. In other words,
the 8,763, 429 ounces of gold now
being used by the foreign debtors
to pay interest to American in
vestors will buy 81 per cent more
in the world markets today than
14,901,617 ounces would buy on
the average from 1919 to 1929.
The American investor has only
a so per cent advantage if he
spends his interest within Amer
lea; he has an "a per cent advan-
tage if he spends it abroad.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ,

A COSMIC ray travelling with enormous speed
y comes plunging into the earths atmosphere.
Because of its tremendous energy it goes through
thick lead plate Finally it codes with the nucleus
of an atom The atom is smashed in a terrific ex-
plosion. Fifteen POSITIONS and 10 electrons come
flying out of the nucleus with joint energy of
100000 volts.
BY an ingenious adaptation of the Wilson ray
track apparatus in which the paths of moving sub
atomic particles made luminous, it is possible
now to photograph such explosions Several such
photographs to be found among many other
highly interesting ones in Dr. r. A Nfillikans new
book
Twentieth century physics got its start with Prot.
Wilhelm Roentgens discovery of the X-ray in 1895.
This early period. during which radio-actvlty.
radium the nuclear structure of the atom, and the
electron were discovered. may be said to have
reached its climax in DR.. MIikans own work to
isolate and the electric charge of the cleo
For this work DR.. Nillikan received the Nobel
prize IN 1923.
THE tempo of research IN physics has been so
swift since 1880 that the last five years are often
compared to those stirring days from 1895 to 1910
DR.. Mlllikan has again played an important role IN
a period of accelerated progress.
His confirmation of the existence of the cosrnic
rays, his own researches in the field during the
last five years and the discovery of the poSitron,
made in his laboratory by Dr. Carl D Anderson have
all been important events.
The time was appropriate. therefore for DR.. Milli
kan to revise and extend his book. The Electron."
porates the earlier one in revised form in its OPEN
ing chapters, has Just been published by the Uni
verSity of Chicago Press at So so.
THE title. one regrets, is lengthy and awkward
and likely to brighten. rather than attract read
It is "Electrons plus and Minus, Protons,
Photons. Neutrons and CoSrnc Rays" Certainly the
title is explicit and complete. but one can't help
comparing II to the Sir Oliver Lodge used a few
years back. Atoms and Rays"
NTT-fTI Nr.fe Lat IL
willing 70 do a little concentrated reading-you can't
read this book IN one evening with the speed of a
detective story-you will find DR.. Milkans book
veritable education in modern atomic progress You
Will know the whole story of atomic research from
what Benjamin Franklin thought about electricity
70 The energy distribution in cosmic rays
There are chapters The Nature of Radiation >"
The Spinning ElectrCn.' Waves and Particles"
The Positron The Neutron." The Transmutation
of the Elements" and other important subjects
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tons Immediately will be in
creased SO per cent above the
present levels.
THE total owed the people of
l. this country by foreign ma
tions and corporations is $7,080,-
100000. The Indebtedness is in
the form of government and in
duStrial bonds, all containing the
gold clause which specifics that
the money borrowed must be paid
in gold of the weight and fineness
current when the debt was Gre
ated. The foreign debtors have
defaulted on about 81 1868, 1000, 900.
They are paying interest on about
$5,112,O0O,O00.
Now, this foreign debt may
seem small compared with the
$1O0,000,000,000 gold clause in
debtedness at stake within Amer
lea. The fact that 81 per cent of
it is in default is proof that it is
l1OG SIlld1A W GIlS 1ldUlO1lS WI1lCu
owe it.
There was imminent danger of
much more of it going into de-
fault up to the time the United
States deserted the gold standard
and subsequently devaluated the
dollar to 5906 per cent of its for
mer gold value. That, with the
congressional act abrogating the
gold clause, reduced the debt of
the foreign nations 40.94 per cent.
On the undefaulted loans it is
estimated American investors are
receiving about $3O6, 100000 inter-
est annually Before devaluation
of the dollar that was equivalent
to 14,901,617 ounces of gold. To-
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VXTHAT if the Supreme Court
w now rules that the gold
clause is still in effect? Foreign
debtors will again have to pay the
equivalent of 14,901,617 ounces of
gold interest, or SO per cent more
dollars. Instead of $306, 100000,
American investors will receive
$51a $4,000 each year. The dol
lar value of the total foreign debt
will increase from $7,080,000,000
to $11,955, 100000 and in purchas-
ing power, compared with the time
the money was lent, will be worth
$19,126,32O,O00.
Again, that is only part of the
story. The 14,901,617 ounces of
gold which the foreign debtors
would need for annual interest will
buy 40 per cent more than the
same amount of gold would buy at
the time the money was borrowed.
The foreign debtors would have to
pay $2.40 of purchasing power Or
every 81 they borrowed.
w. Ian Mack, Times Special
financial writer who has studied
the situation closely, sums up the
probable effects as follows:
80 exiguous are the gold re-
serves of most debtor countries
that demand by creditors for a
full pound of flesh might pre-
cipitate such widespread iquida-
ton of commodities to obtain the
bullion needed to discharge ex-
ternal obligations that the della
tionary impact would be felt
throughout the world.
frightened exchange restric-
tions, renewed deprecia ton of cur
rencies to moderate internal re-
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Thursday Frances Premier
Pierre Etienne, Flandin and For
eign Minister Pierre Laval will
arrive in Downing Street. And
there, about a green baize table,
they will sit with Sir John Simon,
British foreign secretary, and
others and discuss what to do
about Germany and Herr Hitler.
The question of stabilizing the
franc in relation to the pound,
and perhaps with the dollar, will
also come up. But Europe's life
or-death problem today is this:
Will Germany enter peace ar
rangement with the rest of Europe,
or must she be encircled by a
ring of bayonets?
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percussions, further curtailment
of imports from creditor countries
and a more pronounced tendency
toward economic isolation might
be among the eventualities.
MIR. MACK points out that de-
IVl probation of the dollar and
the pound sterling, the principal
currencieS in which world obliga-
lions are payable, together with
repeal of the gold clause, was re-
sponsible for the gradual improve
ment under way in most countries
during the last two years.
He adds:
"Only because of this factor
were the obligator countries, near
ly all of which had debased their
own currencleS, enabled to effect
some Semblance of equilibrium in
their all-important balances of in
ternational payments, thus pro-
noting the worldwide recovery
thus far achieved"
All of which is as important to
Great Britain and France as to
the United States. Neither coun-
try can plan for the future or do
termine what it shall do with its
own currency until it knows what
the United States Supreme Court
is going to do.
However, if the Supreme Court
does uphold the gold clause Con-
gress and the White House may
find another way to nullify or at
least to neutralize it. How the
other two branches of the govern
ment circumvented judicial SUI
premacy in a somewhat similar
case will be told tomorrow. s
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Indianapolis Tomorrow

American Legion, Twelfth dis
trict, luncheon, 1862 n. Delaware
ST.
Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia
Club.
Lambda Chi Alpha, luncheon,
RusSet cafeteria.
Lions Club, luncheon, Washing
ton.
Indiana Retail Hardware Asso-
citation, all day, Lincoln.
Maternal Health League, 8 p. m,
All Souls Unitarian Church.
Purdue Alumni Association,
luncheon, Stube.
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pdnelleu ONCE, Tor which he
thanks Herbert Hoover, is almost
nil.
All of which is getting to be one
OF the major inside scandals of
the Administration. 1t is not that
jim is doing anything shady. It is
the fact that as Postmaster Cen
eral. Jim is doing hardly anything
at all.
The result is that along with
the Justice Department, the Post
ONCE has won the reputation of
having the blacklist mark of anv
IN the entire New Deal.
THE funny thing about it is
- that Jim prides himself on
being a business man. To make a
record for himself as an efficient
postmaster is supposedly his
greatest aim.
Very clearly in his business ca
reer, jim tied his fate to gypsum.
an essential ingredient in making
plaster, and at one time was the
foremost gypsum salesman in New
York City.
In TACT, so successful was Jim
that he became manager of the
Universal Gypsum Co., then bios
somed forth with James A. FARLEY
ana Co., dealers in all forms of
building materials. and eventually
amalgamated seven other COM
panles into one of the most i'm
portant building supply compa-
MES in New York.
Whether Jim's phenomenal rise
IN the business world was due to
me fact that he was also a power
In New York politics and that
politics and contracting frequently
go hand-in-hand, is not recorded
on the books of his company.
THE important fact however
Il is that when Jim became
Postmaster General, he considered
himself a great business man and
set out to make a record as such.
To this end he pared costs to the
bone. He fired postal employees
right and left. He reduced serv-
ices He put into force policies
exactly the reverse of his chief in
the White House who was urging
private business to increase wages
and reduce hours.
Underneath an elaborate camou-
flags created by selling ornate
new stamp issues, Jim Farley's
PostotSce Department has reached
the lowest state of ineficiency in
years.
Complaints from business men
have swamped the Administra-
ton. Deliveries are sometimes
two or three days behind schedule.
Even in the city of Washington
letters have required two days to
go from one department to an
other.
What Jim .oIgnt was the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-29

IN Man and Superman" and possibly in Saint
Joan" I mean that an intellectual meodrama is
play in which definite philosophy is developed to
the accompaniment Of a vast and rapid pace Of
physical action.
Some people like shows which shots fly back
and forth and others prefer those entertainments in
which ideas alone exchanged. The Petrified
Forest" offers both to its potential patrons And why
not? barrage of bullets is very apt sharpen any,
bOdy's philosOphic perceptions. The late war for
instance compelled many mute Spinoza to think
aloud for the first time in MS life And among the
other attractions of the Sherwood show is the fact
that it has enlisted of the best casts have seen
in several seasons.
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and with malice aforethought. to speak II a sheet
of stamps came off the press lacking perforatons
without glue with the INK smeared, the custom
to destroy it. This sort of irregularity is the
distinguishing mark of the freak stamp. The out
andiSh values which placed freaks arise from
the fact that ordinarily they reach the public only
by accident In fact almost always the e1rst press
run of new design will produce mis-prints of one
kind another
Now Republican Congressman, Charles D. Mil
lard, doubtless destructive critic is planning to
call congressional investigation because it appears
that Mr.. Fareys gifts to Mr. Roosevelt himself and
others, considered philatelic rarites, have the
value OF fortune in each 1t is impossible to
estimate the actual value without knowing all the
factors. But stamp expert in New York has ex-
pressed the belief, with reservations that a whole
sheet of The freaks of the Mothers Day issue. for
example. would be worth from $50 to 5000 stamp.
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America Only Nation in World Where judiciary the Ruler
BY EARL Sparkling
Times Special Writer

ITO the outside world, Eu-
rope especially, the SUI
preme power the American
people have relinquished to
the elderly black robed
legalists of the Supreme
Court has been a continuing
mystery for 135 years. No
feature Of the American
government has awakened
such curiosity in the Amer
lean mind, said Lord Bryce,
nor caused so much discus
sion.
In England, expounds DR.. Will
liam Bennett Munro, of Harvard,
supremacy rests with Parliament.
which can do whatever it will so
long as it keeps within the bounds
of what is humanity possible. No
executive can veto the acts of Par
lament, no British court declare
them unconstitutional.
In the French Republic. al
though there is a written consti-
tuition, no court can set aside the
mandate of the Senate and the
Chamber Of Deputies when thev
act in accord. These two coun-
tries, Britain and France, have
accepted the doctrine of legislative
supremacy. But in the United
States, that is just what the franz
ers of the Constitution sought to
avoid.
Experience with repressive acts
OF the English Parliament in the
days before the Revolution had
impressed upon them the belief
that it is the habit of all legisla-
lures to become tyrannical.
Will HOW Jn6 OUTSIDE world
~ could be philosophical about
It, If America were satisfied to
rest the future of the republic
upon judicial supremacy, if nine
men hold the power to nullify anv
act of the Congress on grounds of
Il n on S tit u tionality, that was
Americas problem.
The rest of the world was in
terested only abstractly. But now
suddenly the shadow of the ST.
preme Court lengthens beyond
Americas borders and falls deep
upon many lands and many peo-
pies.
America, owed by nearly every
nation in the world (three in the
Far East. Is in Latin America.
Is In Europe), is the leading
creditor of civilization. The value
OF this external debt, the amount
the debtor nations must paw. de-
pends on how the nine jurists in
washington decide the gold clause
cases now before them.
If the court rules that the Con-
gress had no power to abrogate
the gold clause in debt contracts.
the burden upon the debtor ma
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY DreoO Pearson and Robert S. Alter

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29James Aloysiu Farley busy man
w these days His
arty as the rhythm of his
On Iuesay safe bet he will be town for the Cabinet
On TUESDAY night equally
night sleeper to New York On Friday Cabinet
meeting And Friday night he will be
extremely busy-n
Time ne spends at the expansive
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nuZnouAk
bu
WESIBROOK PEGLER

7 ANiES A. FARLEY might have to resort to infla-
ton of the postage stamps 10 solve the embar-
RAISING problem Of the little gifts which he has
been sending President Roosevelt, Louis McHenry
Howe, Harold L. IckeS and himself. Realizing that
the President was an old stamp collector, Mr.. Far
ley early in his reign Postmaster General, eStab
lshed pretty little custom OF producing freak
sheet of stamps of each memorial issue for Mr..
RooSevelt's private collection While he was at it,
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aNu 50 IdsL lN8NL I WtHL 20 SEE
play and next week I mean to read
a book Not having seen everything
the current theatrical season has to
offer 1t would be impertinent for me
to pick a best and yet 1 am pre-
pared to wager that no better play
than Robert E. Sherwood's The
Petrified Forest" is now on view.
This is a distinguished drama of the
school which I like best. The only
easy label which I can think of is
AN intellectual melodrama." Ham
let" has always seemed to me the
outstanding work in this field, but
Sha kespeare's closest rival, Mr..
Lea r,,ndo q cntnf hut i'm
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DEPORTATION is URGED
Junior Order of Mechanics Seeks
U. S. Action on Aliens.

Capitol City Council, No. IS,
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, has adopted resolutions
urging enactment of Federal legiS-
lation providing for deportation of
aliens residing in this country five
and oae-half years without becom-
ing natu1alized and for a 80 per cent
tax on all money sent from the
United States by aliens.
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he pIIlItu IItdk SLttIS lot MT.
Howe. the Presidents secretary. and
himself. He cut in Mr.. IckeS for a
similar sheet of each of the ten de-
signs in the national parks series.
This is 10 take no account of any
souvenir sheets of the routine COM
mercial issues regarding which your
correspondent. being not much of a
reporter, failed to ask any questions.
But there nave been II memorial
issues in the two years since corona
ton day whereas, in the past, it was
customary TO release only four such
issues a year. Never before in this
country was it customary to cause
accidents 10 hapnen hV Official order
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MATE ASKS DIVORCE
FROM WOMAN SLAYER
Custody of Son Also Is Asked BY
Claude Sandstrom.

N1ShOAJ VI sun 1AASO Is fAShCu w
Claude Sandstrom.
Mrs. Anna Sandstrom, convicted
on msnslaughter charge for the
killing OF Carl v. Thompson, In
dianapolis caSket salesman, and
now serving a sentence of from one
to 10 years, at Illinois State Prison.
Dwight, Ill, is named as defendant
by Claude o. Sdndstrom, 2o31
Broadway, in a divorce suit on file
today in Superior Court.
Mrs. Sandstrom SHOT and killed
Mr.. Thompson in a NATION CIll.)
hotel when he attempted to end a
clandestine love affair which had
lasted number of years. Custody
Of John Edward Sandstrom, Is
year-old son of the Sandstroms, is
asked,
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| COVER THE WORLD
By William Philip Simms

29-When
w in London this week. the issues they ugge will involve the
Hitlers
anniversary NaN dictator Under his leadership the Reich
hy arng for another bid her place the errory