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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-07
Today Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

VTILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, the famous Arctic
explorer is in good health today, seven years
after his startling experiment of living for year
upon an exclusive diet of meat.
A medical examination Of Mr.. Stefansson by DR.
Clarence w. Lieb of New York, is published in the
current issue of the American Journal of Digestive
Diseases and Nutrition DR.. Leb was a member of
the committee under whose auspices Stefansson
went on his meat-eating marathon at the Russell
Sage Foundation at Belleview Hospital He ex-
amned the explorer frequently during the year and
has examined him annually since.
CTEFANSSON became convinced of the possibility
~ OF an all-meat diet from his contacts with the
ESkmos during the II 4 years which he spent within
the Arctic Circle a member of various expeditions
During those years he frequently lived for days
at time upon nothing but meat. The grand total
of such days amounted to nine years. about rs per
cent Of the total time that he spent in the Far North
The longest period during which he lived upon an
all-meat diet nine months.
He reported that the exclusive meat diet worked
equally we'll when he was active inactive, and
equally we'll in hot cold weather.
Because of the interest in Stefanssons claims
the experiment set up at the Russell Sage
Foundation. Not only Stefansson, but another ex-
plorer, Anderson undertook to live on the same diet
DR.. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University was
chairman of the committee in charge.
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in themselves but it can almost be
said that as Ohio goes so goes the
nation.
From the turn of the century
its population has piled up in its
dozen cities, and in all Of them,
with possibly one or two eXcep-
tons, the industrial worker is the
predominating factor.
1t was his vote that carried the
state three years ago for Roose-
welt, and it will be his vote next
year that will swing Ohio one way
or another.
TTERE, in several of it's great
IL IL industrial cities during the
last two years, the half-century-
old smoldering war between cap
ital and labor has broken out
with violence and intense bitter
ness.
With the coming Of Sec. IA
of the MIRA, a drive was made
to organize labor in such great
industries as steel, automobile
parts and rubber.
In Toledo alone three desperate
disputes threw the whole COM
munity into confusion. Each in
turn was finally compromised and
arbitrated, and out of the very
need for peaceful adjustment grew
what has been known as the TO-
ledo plan" Of mediating labor
disputes.
The hard-driving, dynamic Ed
ward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec
rotary of Labor, is given most of
the credit for developing the
idea.
A board has been formed con-
sisting Of nine representatives of
labor and nine of industry, with
an impartial chairman. When
disputes arise the case is taken to
this board and compromise set
tlement reached and strike
averted.
If the plan stands the test of
time it might eventually be adopt
ed generally over America, but
there can be no minimizing the
bitterness that still persists on the
side OF both labor and industry.
A S a somewhat experienced war
L y correspondent I found myself
studying one Of the recent bat
tlefieldS Of this modern industrial
war. Three of us rode out from
the center of Canton in battered
old car. We finally drew up at
rather dingy gas station and
garage a stones throw from the
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man who said he was Edgar Pur-
year was on the phone. He said
he had heard of my writings, and
was very flattering about my
ability. He said he had heard CT
a position that I might get with
the Republican National Com
mittee.
Il suggested I had better meet
him personally. He replied that
he was too busy. l told him I
would have to see him or I would
not be interested.
Next day the same man called
again. He was more insistent. He
said he had the contract all writ
ten out, and spoke about the sal
airy and terms. He insisted I look
at it. Rather than argue, I said
All right and he said he would
send it around.
DOTH phone calls" he con-
ID tinued. were in the morning,
and during both of them I was
alone. When I got home the eve
ming of the second phone call I
found a letter in my mail box. It
had been delivered by messenger.
1t was typewriting on plain paper.
A note with it was signed in type
writer with a p
1T purported to offer me a Job
doing publicity work for the Re-
publican National Committee-an
article a week for $3.50 a month,
and beginning in 1886 full-time
work. I was also to Go work in
Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona
and Oklahoma.
Now here is the strange part.
Before mentioned anything
about contract Joe Martinez
said he understood I had been
offered a contract with the Re-
publicans. I was surprised, and
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Times Books

IRON Joel Chandler Harris to Roark Bradford,
l. authors have been tapping the mine of Southern
Negro folk lore and getting rich returns. That the
vein is still workable is shown by MULES and Men"
by Fora Hurston Uippincott: So
Miss Hurston is young Negro woman who went
TO Florida from Columbia University to collect folk
t.les.
The Florida Negroes didn't understand what she
wanted at first: but when last they realized that
she just wanted them to sit around end tell dem
big les that they were so fond OF telling they
rallied round ard unhurdened themselves She has
set down in this book what she heard
Myths tall tales poetic fancies-they are here in
profusion. Brer Rabbit figures in these tales in
typical Uncle Remus styl~ John Henry also has his
innings. the devil stalk the earth to be outwitted
by simple colored folk and the profound religious
instinct Of the race voices itself in unpretentous
haunting poetry
Inc second part OF her book is complete ac-
count Of this strange combination of magic and re-
gicn which holds SO large part of colored America
In thrall tBy Bruce Catton)
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No System, He Charges

TIALF a dozen different departments engaged
Il l. in housing, at least five major departments in
finance an unprecedented scale and the statistic
al effort of the government is scattered all the
lot with no adequate result anywhere.
1t takes guide to do business with t. limitless
labyrinth and in many important matters you never
know if you have final answer
If you could line up, like company of infantry
these chiefs Of section welding unparalleled power
you would be instantly impressed by one overwhelm-
ing thought Who ever heard of 80 per cent of them
before? What did they ever do? What do they stand
for?
tcaly it has not so proved. There not ten of
these agencies OF which it be fairly said-"That
a good job we'll done"
The severest indictment of this Administration is
that it has proceeded without system. organization
competent leadership.
Copyright 1895 by Unite Feature Syndicate Inc)
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THRIVING in a taxi I had no.
IL ticed a long queue of men

THRIVING in a taxi had no
- ticed a long queue of men
and women stretching for block
and a half along a busy street.
I asked the driver what all the
excitement was. New depart
ment store opening up and they're
trying to get jobs" he answered
without turning his head.
I thought of what Mary lux,
the fiery leader of the womens
revolt against meat prices, had
told me of how hundreds of work.
ing men line up at the employ
ment gates of the motor works at
3 in the morning hoping to get
work at any price.
Doubtless there are many ma
lingerers and lazy-bones aplenty.
Many of them have found out
how to live on relief without
working. Some of them will
never work again.
But 1 am certain that 90 per
cent of the men who have been
on relief during the last two years
wanted more than anything else
the chance to work again. We
are restless, energetic, ambitious
people. We make poor loafers.
MO amount of time ever will
Il erase from my memory the
picture of the broken and hope
less unemployed men of the New
Castle country of England.
Here year ago 80 per cent of
the industries had been closed
down and sealed forever. On ev-
cry street corner were knots Of
understood boys and men with no
prospect of ever again getting
job
They could only wait patiently
to die. The machines and tariff
walls had permanently defeated
them.
But America is vastly different
from England. We are land
limitless in materials and re-
sources. Within our borders and
under our rich acres are all the
things it takes to make men COM
Portable and secure.
Some day unemployment may
be as old-fashioned and out of
date as poverty.
Tomorrow - How $4,000 coal
miners have changed the political
complexion of Pennsylvania.
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Cheap Insurance
BY RUTH FINNEY

WASHINGTON Nov. IA new attempt to bring
adequate life insurance within the reach of all
persons of moderate income is in prospect for the
coming winter
Both Federal and state legislation will be pro-
posed.
seventeen states now have mutual savings banks
IN operation In these states legislation authorizing
SUCH banks to operate insurance departments would
result III establishment of systems similar to that now
operating in Massachusetts,. If laws were passed in
All IL states half the population of the country would
nave access TO inexpensive insurance
A second possibility is legislation by Congress
authorlzng savings departments of all national
banks to write insurance If this were done low
cost insurance would at be available in all
states.
Bills calling for duplication of the Massachusetts
system were introduced in New York and other leeis
iatureS last winter and will be introduced again when
legislatures meet either in regular special session
to consider social security laws. The states where
mutual savings bank insurance might be established
are, in addition to the entire New England group
Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York Penn
syvana, Indiana Minnesota Ohio Wisconsin Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington.
THE executive council of the American Federation
of Labor may decide to sponsor national legis-
aton. The whole matter of low-cost insurance was
referred to it for action after discussion at the an
nual convention
There is possibility that the Administration
would look with favor on such proposal. President
Roosevelt recommended last year that Congress in
include in the social security bill provision for esab-
lishment by the Federal government of a voluntary
system of old-age annuites for the benefit of work.
ers not covered by the compulsory old-age pension
system.
The proposal was rejected, but this compromise
plan, calling for cheap insurance by private institu-
tions, might be accepted instead.
In Massachusetts,. % mutual savings banks sell
insurance Of all kinds, including annuites, the
counter TO residents of the state Because the ex-
pense Of maintaining agents is eliminated costs
considerably lower than rates in private companies
although private company rates have been lowered
to meet competition.
New Workers backing similar legislation last
winter estimated that residents of their state might
have saved half their annual insurance bill year
ting had been able to buy savings bank insurance.
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separate and Independent agencies now report d-
rect to the President. No great human organization
ever functioned well wit han six principal
departments reporting to slne->- We.
They pursue contradictory policies and cancel out
each others efforts did MIRA and ETC, or the
Interior Department In retaining worthless land
and the Department of Agriculture in retiring it
from cultivation.
Some detest others and cut each others Threats
at every opportunity The country has never seen
more grotesque and absurd contest than the recent
between Hopkins and Ickes as to who should do
exactly the thing Ickes boys were stirring up
modern Geographic campaigns against Hopkins
efforts and the President had to take them both
away to prevent more open collision.
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a cynic. Labor is hard to do
much WITH he philosophical.
Most men don't think. All their
heads is for is a block to keep
their ears apart"
I asked him about Roosevelt.
"Say," he answered, "if the COM
mon man uses his head for any
thing but hat rack he'll have to
vote for Roosevelt"
DUT it was the third man pres
- ent who really interested me.
He was a tall, slender, thin-faced
man around as, with deep-set
black eyes, and the peculiar near
drawl of the Ohio River hill folk
He was one of the discarded
men of industry-a steel ROLLER"
who, except for single three
month period, had had no work
in five years. The advancing ma
chine had outdated him. At As
he was finished.
cts the automatic machines
that have ruined U.s." he went on
slowly. Il used to work in a mill
that had 30 rollers and each
roller had crew of 10 men or
more. They moderrized that mill
and today six rolls with a crew of
five each can do with machines the
same work; that's 80 men and
machines that have replaced 300
men.
And that's happening all over
the steel country Old mills en-
ploying up to 1000 hands are be-
ing closed up and dismantled.
Thousands and tens of thousands
of men are being sent into the
ranks of the permanently unem-
ployed."
r asked him for the answer.
l. "Well, first of ALL" he ex-
planned, 1--WE got to get down to a
30-hour week. Then people must
get out of the cities and dig part
OF their living from the land.
Then there must be great perma-
nent public works to employ the
men who simply can't find job"
I pondered at length over the
end of that final sentence of this
man whose life's work was over
at As. Did the men and women
unemployed and living on relief
today really want to find jobs?
That morning in the center of
Canton I had found at least a
partial answer to the question so
often asked-and so often an
swered in the negative by the
well-fed and secure.
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Why, Mexico, HOU Dare YOu9

'HERE have been many embarrassments in the
construction of the palace but none more pain
tul than that which has been occasoned bv the
government of Mexico nominating Senior Diego
Rivera to decorate the great salon of the press in
the new building. All member nations were asked to
contribute something to the decoration and furnish
ing OF the new home of peace One nation contrib
uted furniture, another panels, another olive
branches, another a salad bowl and so forth The
occasion is something like wedding and it is not
the value of the gift that counts but the spirit in
which it is given
THAT'S just the trouble It's hard to see how
Mexico can have had the true spirit of peace in
nominating Diego Rivera to decorate the press
room. F
senior Rivera is the one who was invited by John
D. Rockefeller Jr. to paint some murals in Rookie
leller City and who not only snapped at the hand
That led him but almost chewed it off Rivera's
mural Tor Rockefeller City contained compliment
tary picture OF Nikola Lenin and was distinctly nm
KIND to everything Mr.. Rockefeller represents There
was great family conference of Rockefellers and
the art committee of Rockefeller City and Rivera's
painting was taken down. The Rockefeller family
were greatly relieved when the controversy died down
and 1t was their unanimous decision that Senior
RVeras art was offensive to right-thinking people,
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barred iron gate that led into the
high-walled Berger plant of the
Republic Steel Corp,
Across the street from the ga
rage was a two-story, rambling
frame house. It was this corner
that witnessed the bitterest fight
ing in this latest war.
On the steps of the frame
house an old Syrian had sat that
day, watching the surging, alarm
ing mob of pickets. But I'll let
his son, the proprietor of the gas
station, tell the story.
"They was firing gas shells
from near the gate there" he
told me in broken English. MY
fadder he sect on the step right
there when one of them hit heem.
He die in nine days and they
make out he die of heart trouble
I tell you that gas bomb he kill
heem."
The little, dark skinned Syrian
enigrant grew passionate. He
waved his arms and his voice be-
came high and strident. 1t was
all that I could do to understand
him.
Peoples is tired of being like
slaves" he went on. Nobody
care much now about little mems.
Reech mems get reecher all time
and poor mems get poorer. When
little mems die everybody try
cheat heem. 1t is bad to be little
mems"
I cautiously swung him over to
the safer field of politics. Mos
everybody here for Roosevelt" he
said. Who else car poor mems
be for? JUS answer me that,
meester."
THE three of us got in the bat
l. tered car and drove off to
another battle front. Here in
beer parlor opposite the main
gate of the mill we ate sand
wiches and talked of the state of
the nation.
My principal host was the young
ish business agent of the Mechan-
les Union. His name was Walter
Summers and he had a forceful
and picturesque way of phrasing
his ideas.
Prosperity is coming back sure
enough" he said. THE fat boys
are taking all the credit for them
selves. They got full of vinegar
as soon as they got the wrinkles
off their stomachs."
I'm afraid Walter was a bit of
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What q Situation!

RUT Mr.. Rockefeller contributed $20OOOOo of the
Rockefeller fortune earned, as everybody knows
by the strictly honest business methods of the senior
John, to the new Palace to Peace. And now comes
MEXICO donating Rivera to paint another of his
muras IN section of the building which represents
very dangerous temptation to an artist of his
known tendencies.
There is great nervous apprehension in the
League OF Nations After all, the press particularly
In Europe is not among the finest institutions in the
world Most Of the papers in Europe are censored bv
oictators and are devoted largely to propaganda
mostly warlke
ana the profession Of journalism in France has
oICen oeen compared to the Oldest profession of
nem ALL which is hardly fair to the oldest profession
VI them ALL which is not dishonest anyway
ana TINS Is quite aside from the problem of the
PINK marble from Italy which is required to finish
tne work IN the Palace Of Peace. The first of the
aroie was furnished when Italy was in good stand
ing, DuC 10 puy any more the League of Nations
would be compelled to violate its own boycott against
lay IN order to finish the great monument to peace
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BY FRAZIER HUNT

Copyright. 1885 NEA Service, Incl
TT was noon and the cigar
store, opposite one of the
great tire factories in
Akron, was crowded with
rubber workers. The place
is a curious combination
store, restaurant, beer par
lor and hang-out, with a
busy pool hall in the rear.
Here you can rub elbows
with hundreds of Mr.. Aver
age Voters. In Akron that
means tire workers - al
most $4,000 of them.
Even at the risk of monoto-
nous repetition I'm going to take
hot from my notebook the bits
Of conversations and observations
l wrote on the spot that day as l
buttonholed one man after an
other.
Tall, good-looking youngish
man from shipping department of
factory: I'd say most Of the
boys I work with would vote for
Roosevelt. He's helped. The rub
Der code is still in force here. 1
get a dollar an hour for 36 hours
work a week. I sure amt kick
ing. suppose rs per cent of the
men in the factories are for
Roosevelt
On the next page find this:
Man with sleeves rolled up over
hairy arms. Works in experiment
tai shop. I'D say IS per cent of
factory people are for Roosevelt.
There is no doubt in my mind
about that.
THEN I find this on the same
Il page: We'll dressed young
fellow. I vot ID for Hoover but I
wouldn't give him another chance
I don't know nothing about
who the Republicans will run but
l doubt if I'll vote for him any
way. I amt made up my mind
yet"
The next note reads as follows:
Tall man about 40. Roosevelt
amt near as strong as he was.
I'd say about so per cent of the
people are with him. He's going
as fast as he can under the
present system. He'll carry Akron
all right
Apparently the next man fig
ured he might as we'll give me
both barrels at once and have it
over with.
Heavy set, deep voiced man
from mechanical department.
There's 700 in my department
and they're just about SO per cent
for Roosevelt. Lots of people who
voted against him in 80 will vote
for him next year."
Now for a woman and I'll cease
firing. Girl about 80 who works
among wives for a local union.
I'd say 80 per cent of women
working in factories are FOR
Roosevelt. Most of the wives Of
workers are bitter against the
high cost of living, but they don't
blame Roosevelt They think he
ought to have another term TO see
what he can do.
4 LII these blended together
IN make up what I truly believe
is the mighty voice of the indus
trial worker of the American
Ruhr.
From the busy ports on Lake
Erie south to the soft coal hills
that wet their feel in the beautiful
Ohio River, stretches this almost
continuous chain of factories and
mills and machine shops.
A hundred little Krupps turn
out their steel and tires and tools
and cars and airplanes and
gadgets of every kind and de-
scription. 1t is the work shop of
America.
And it is likewise the political
center of America. It's IS cleo
toral votes are not only important
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Fair Enouh
BY
WFSIBR00K PEGLER

GENEVA, Nov. 7-An persons with spark Of
- humanity in them will sympathize with the
fortunate officials of the League of Nations who take
charge of the construction OF the Palace Of
Peace which will be the permanent League home.
There are those who cynical enough to suggest
the new Palace of Peace will make excellent hos
pita for the next World War but that is a case of
rumor and anyway it's not at all certain the palace
will be completed in time for the next World War.
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BY MAX STERN
Times Special Writer

N q
w weird story of political in
trigue involving U. S. Senator
Dennis Chavez 3D., N. NJ was
told here today by a man describ-
ing himself as "dupe' in a pur-
ported plot to discredit Edgar
Puryear, secretary of the late
Senator Bronson Cutting (R.,
N. Nd and who now is personnel
director for PWA.
The affair has been investigated
by Secretary Harold l.. Ickes.
The 'dupe' is William Wight
man Phillips, young publicity man
and ghost writer. who came to the
capital from Florida two years
ago. Found living in a modest
basement room, he angrily ad-
mitted he had been used in what
looks like a small-town, tin-horn.
back-woods plot of political
SchemerS."
The plot" was apparently de-
signed to cast suspicion on Mr..
Puryear's loyalty to the Admin
istration by making it appear that
he had offered Mr. Phillips a pub
licity job with the Republican
National Committee.
6
uERE is Mr.. Phillips story:
L Il Last August my apartment
was robbed. and I was out of a
job. Right below me was an
apartment rented in the name of
Senator Chavez's son. Living
there were Joe Martinez. Senator
Chavez's secretary; Tho Chavez,
a relative. and several others.
They proposed that I move in
with them and share expenses. I
did.
Two weeks later was called
to the phone one morning, A