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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

The other day A. M. Spencer, a
constituent in Santa Fe, sent
Dempsey a letter which he had re-
ceived from William T. Reed Jr.,
Washington lobbyist for the Ma
tional Association of Insurance
Agents.
Reed was stirring up opposition
against a provision in one of
Dempsey's bills which would per-
NIT the government to write it's
own insurance against hurricanes
in Puerto Rico.
Upon receipt of the letter,
Dempsey called Reed on the
phone.
did you write letter to A. M.
Spencer in Santa Fe," he said,
trying to stir up opposition to
my Puerto Rican Bill?"
A very weak affirmative came
over the wire.
well, 1 want you to know have
your letter, and the bill is going
to pass-unchanged."
1t did.
Copyright, 1885 by United Featur
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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house was completing the Niagara
project, Sir Charles Parsons, over
in Great Britain, was perfecting
the steam turbine. Hero, the
Greek philosopher, had built the
first steam turbine 1000 years be-
fore and nobody had done any,
thing with it during the 1000 years
after Hero. Parsons took it out of
the laboratory, where it was a
pretty toy and made it practical.
He built his. first successful turbine
in 1884 and obtained his patents
in 1885.
BY 1895 his turbines were awak-
ening worldwide interest. West
inghouse saw their value and took
out a license under the Parsons
patents.
Last year the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co.
completed the worlds most eff
Gent generator of great power.
It is a 10000 kilowatt turbo-gen-
orator, located in the Richmond
station of the Philadelphia Elec-
trio co. 1t is capable of furnish
ing light for 100000 homes.
NEXT-How Radio Came to
America.
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A Fleeing Glimpse

GRANVILLE took up the lead. I caught one
~ fleeing glimpse of him in the back stretch He
was leading and running easily. Not much was said
up to this point about Bold Venture And then on
the far turn heard the cry that Transporter was
making move, and also Jean Bart had begun to
charge up the leaders. "Its Granville and Trans
porter!" the with the glasses yelled. But the
brigade swung into the stretch there one which
came wide and full of running. That name was
mentioned for the first time. Without being able to
anything it quite possible to follow the duel
down the stretch. All the others were gone now and
the 10000 split into two factions Come on Gran
Wllei" Come on Bold Venture!"
Just by the at the finish you could tell it was
pretty close and up the board went the sign that
a photograph would be required. Borah and took
no interest in the picture. Bow and Arrow out
of it, gone to join the other vanishing Redmen in
the Happy Hunting Grounds The favorite had won
and there nothing left to do but accept the role
reserved for broken betors and defeated candidates.
took walk.
Copyright. 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

May 15-The President in press
conference explained that the ST.
500,000,000 WPA fund would be
used as pool from which money
would be allocated to Ickes and
TugWell.
May 8.-Mr. Buchanon: "Mr.
Chairman, if this bill passes in it's
present form, the President will
not have any authority or power
to allot one cent of this money.
The appropriation is made by
Congress to the Works Progress
Administration and not one iota
of authority is carried to the Pres
-ident or anybody else to allot any
of this money"
May 15-The President told his
press conference that he himself
would make the allotments. He
said he did not care who signed
the checks, but that the Ickes and
Tugwell agencies would get the
necessary funds.
q -
CONGRESSMAN JACK DEMP-
~ SEY Of New Mexico has way
of his own in handling lobbyists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

I TEACHING children to drama
l. tie life teaches them to lift
it from its sordid toll and study and
drudge into an imaginative
world of romance, color, dream and
beauty, to miss which is to miss all
that is worthwhile in human life.
- "a
= VERA CONNOLLY in Good
< Housekeeping gives the testi-
mony of one of the New York City
Supreme Court judges and of Or.
Fritz Wittels, psychoanalyst-both
with long experimental they
agree that in about eight cases out
of 10 people make the same failure
of the second marriage they made
of the first. This agrees with DR..
Hornell Hart in his book, per
sonality and the Family" invaluable
either for married people or those
contemplating marriage-who finds
two to three times as many failures
in marriage of divorced persons as
OF persons widowed by death and
fai more than Of those who marry
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horsepower.
The combined waters of
four of the Great Lakes
empty over the Falls. 1t is
the spillover for a basin 100000
square miles in area, half again
as large as the whole of France.
Each minute about 100000 gall
Ions of water crash over the Falls.
1t was eminently fitting that the
task of Harvesting the wild horses
of Niagara should have gone to
George Westinghouse.
His was the iron will to match
the ceaseless drive of the waters;
his was the mental energy to tame
their physical power.
The Era of Electric Power was
born when Westinghouse har-
messed Niagara. Every gigantic
hydro-electric project of the
Twentieth Century is the descend
ant of the Niagara conquest.
From that moment on, America
began to think in terms of gil
gantic power development. Elec-
trio generators began to grow in
size. The copper carriers of power,
the electric transmission lines, be-
gan to reach out across the coun-
tryside, bringing to cities and vii
lagos the energy to turn the wheels
of commerce and industry.
IMMEDIATE effect of the Nj
l. agara project was to bring new
industries to the city of Buffalo
and to initiate at Niagara Falls
the start of what was to be the
worlds greatest center of electro
chemical industries.
The first attempt to utilize the
energy of the Niagara River was
made in 1757 when Chabert JON
cair, French fur trader, dug a
semi-circular ditch. This ditch
led water out of the river and fed
it back again above the Falls.
He used the water, which flowed
swiftly through his ditch, to oper-
ate a waterwheel which, in turn,
ran a saw mill.
Nothing more was done with
Niagara until 1852 when a group
of courageous men dug what they
called the Hydraulic Canal, like
wise to operate a mill. But all it
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Restraint of Trade, No Doubt

TN all probability somewhat the emotions
stirred in the breast of Borah, the great foe of
monopolies. To him Bold Venture may have seemed
a combination in restraint of trade and fit sub
ject for the the Sherman Act.
For few brief seconds fate seemed to be with
the Senator and me. Bold Venture got away
too well. And who was that saw heading the pack
around the first turn? No one else but Bow and
Arrow AS matter of fact from where I stood the
first turn about the ony part of the track could
see. And yet was not much off than would
have been at home with the radio turned on, because
man only few feet away with glasses and
tage point calling them
His voice bore the bad news thu Bow and Arrow
had decided to chuck it, / should have known that
a horse like that would have chance in fercely
competitive machine age.
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to be ironed out between Westing-
house and the commission. West
inghouse wanted to generate cur
rent at 30 cycles but the types of
turbines already contracted for
made it necessary to go to Is
cycles. AS a result, current is still
generated at Niagara Falls at Is
cycles although experts today feel
that 80 cycles would have been
better.
Control of these gigantic gen.
erators-gigantic for the time at
which they were built-required
the design of new equipment, new
meters, new switching devices, new
cables, etc.
HERE is the true symbol of
l. l. the Machine Age. Man is
here the master of the machine,
not its slave.
With the successful building Of
the first Niagara power plant,
George Westinghouse and his en-
gineers saw thai the day of NAM
moth electric generators was
here.
During the years that Westing-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

One Of the arguments used as a
good reason for defeating the bill
was to cite Coughlin'S advocacy
and his dictatorial attitude.
When Coughlin got into a ver-
bal row recently with Chairman
John O'Connor of the Rules Com
mittee over the bill, many congress
men saw that O'Connor was fight
ing their battle, and syrpathized
with him rather than with
Coughlin.
Thus it is doubtful whether
Coughlin did his fellow initiation
lists more harm or good by back
ing the FraZier-Lemke Fill.
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BY DAVID DIETZ
Scripps-Howard Science Editor.

IMAGINE six million wild horses stampeding across
mountain plateau, converging upon pass rush
ing through it in veritable avalanche of energy the
ground shaking under their pounding hoos the clouds Of
dust swrlng up into the sky
You have the equivalent of that sight if you
have watched the mighty waters of the Niagara River
gathering momentum they approached the Falls flow
ing swfter until they plunged the edge in
shower of foam and cloud of mist The rushing waters
of Niagara have potential energy of about 100000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS

WHEN Lucia decides that she needs tremendous
w employment for her tremendous energies the
result is excitement for the quiet English village and
amusement verging upon hilarity for the reader of
Z. F. Bensons THE WORSHIPFUL LUCIA Double
day; $3.50. She and her rival contend in town poll
tics almost to the disruption of local society.
She eXcavateS in her garden for Roman remains,
t1nds tiles laid by modern plumber, and cleverly
turns Illumination to victory. But the fun of the
book is in the gay sharp picture of the village per-
sonages. Only reading it will suffice.
W7HEN Lafayette came to America to help the
W cause of the Revolution he gained Washing
tons affection because he was Freemason Benja-
min Franklin was for long the center of Freemasonry
in France and exerted his influence to bring France
to the aid of America At least says Bernard Fay
in REVOLUTION AND FREEMASONRY little:
so. Mobiles and burghers in France and England.
statesmen and prosperous merchants in the Amer
lean colonies-al found their spiritual haven in the
broad yet idealistc bosom of Freemasonry.
And it was they, again says Mr.. Fay, with their
ideals of progress, enlightenment freedom equality.
and the brotherhood of man, who fostered the hui
mantarian and revolutionary spirit of the times And
whether not he agrees the reader will enjoy this
slightly ironic picture OF an age not yet disusioned
VXTHAT tortuous steps lead to crime? What
w dramas are enacted within the gray prison
walls? What remorse do the prisoners feel-what
despair, what defiance, what passionate resentment
hopeless submission? What is the impact Of
prisoner upon prisoner? What do they suffer or
hope under their keepers?
Warden Lewis e. Lawes answers these questions
in CELL 202-SING SING (Farrar & Rinehart, So.
Here he tells the life stories of four fictitious men,
each convicted of murder, who successfully occupy
this cell His is human and moving tale of lives
caught is the meshes of stupidity, ignorance, and
brutality and at the same time plea for sounder
prison system.
A FIRST novel, and find. On of the
4 Channel Islands between England and France
live the du Frocq family. Papa, Mama and five
children, including lively Colin and plump, seraphic
Colette. Papa is not successful farmer, money is
scarce. Will they be forced to leave their dear
Bon Repos?
That theme forms the backbone of the story, but
one does not look too long at the backbone; there
are too many other things If you delighted in The
Garden" by Strong, Dew on the Grass" by Lewis.
Go not fail to give yourself the pleasure OF ISLAND
MAGIC, by Elizabeth Goudge (Coward-McCann.
$25G)s
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u dCh IIIo IItdIJ moves MN 70
string along with the insurgents.
At any rate, that's what hap
pened to me. Most of the horses
which came in first were 6 to or
even money, or Whereabouts, and
such investment steeds I scorn. I
go to the track to speculate and
not to deal in gilt-edge securities.
II Borah and I had been at
the Kentucky Derby Bold Venture
would have been precisely our type
of horse-neglected, unhonored
and unsung and 20 to l in the
mutuel machines. But he was
landed gentry by the time he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
II Seems hM
BY
BR0I|N

BALTIMORE, Nd, May Ex-senator
Borah and took in the Preakness and
in turn were taken. 1t is true that have
no complete and accurate report on what
horses the Senator backed but it just didn't
seem like his sort Of day. Bill Borah is very
vigorously engaged at the moment in trying to knock
down the favorite in the Republican pre-convention
campaign and assume that when he goes to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

provided a beautiful object lesson. Ohio was
watched as practical test of both the NUSJ and
the Townsend groups at the polls Both together
would average about strong in the state as any,
where in the country.
The political priest had chosen that citadel of his
organization to make personal appeal At Cleve-
land mass meeting just before the primary, he adj
dressed $4,000 listeners, and broadcast statewide
appeal for all his candidates by name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
Washington
BY
RODNEY BUTCHER
(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

WASHINGTON, May 0.-Congressmen
who have been getting cross-eyed from
keeping one eye on Father Coughlin's Ma
tional Union for Social Justice and the
other eye on Townsendites, got some COM
fort, but not much, from the Ohio pri-
maries.
They got more from the defeat of the Frazier
Lemke Bill which had Coughlin's unstinted backing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
by DIR. ALBERT EDWARD wIGGAM-

for the first time. Beyond question,
people who fail in marriage fail
chiefly because they are unprepared
not only for marriage but for life
itself.
= MANY people who have never
y thought five minutes on
given subject in their whole lives,
suddenly develop the most vigorous
convictions-not because they think
they are correct but because it
makes them feel important. Ask
any man today what he thinks of
the Supreme Court decisions and he
feels ashamed to have you think he
has not studied the matter pro-
foundry pro and con; so he in
stantly develops all the arguments
he can think Of on one side or the
other without asking himself at all
if he be correct.
NEXT-Are People Who Fail
at Marriage Different From Other
People?
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Washington MerryGo-Round


XTASHINGTON, May 90
w Prof. o. G.. Saxon, head of
the Republican brain trust, is in
the market for distinguished
authority on foreign affairs.
He has plenty of economists and
financial experts on his staff, but
in the realm of the international
there is a complete void and ne
wants to fill it.
So far Saxon has encountered
some difficulty in this.
1t was suggested to him by
a well-meaning friend that Henry
L. Stimson, Secretary of State in
the Hoover Cabinet, would make
an excellent foreign affairs adj
wiser. National committee mo-
guls, however, vetoed the idea on
the spot.
Stimson has indicated approval
of the Roosevelt-Hull reciprocal
trade policy-which runs directly
counter to the high-tarif theories
of Republican big-wigs.
Saxon then offered the Job to
faculty colleague, Prof. Edwin M.
BorcharG Of the Yale Law School.
Borchard is an ardent isolation
list, believes in the freedom of the
seas" and the old-fashioned main
tenance of neutral rights" in the
event of foreign war. In pacifist
circles Prof. Borchard is regarded
disapprovingly as a lingo"
The Yale academician, however,
turned down Saxon's offer. He
was willing to work on part-time
basis, but Saxon said he wanted
an expert who could devote full
time from July to about Sept. Is.
THIS probably will be denied,
L. but Sir Ronald Lindsay,
British ambassador, in recent
talks with the State Department,
has indicated as strongly as diplo-
matte language permits that war
between Great Britain and Italy
is unacceptable.
1t may be postponed several
months or for year or two, but
the British appear to believe it
only a matter of time.
HERE are some interesting
l. l. statements on the PWA ST.
500,000,000 relief bill made by
President Roosevelt and by one Of
his important leaders in the
House, Rep. Buchanon of Texas,
chairman Of the Appropriations
Committee.
May 8--Mr. Buchanon: II can
assure the House, want the
members to understand it, because
they must not be -led-that
every bit of this money Isl $780,
100000 for WPA) must be spent
under the guidance and direction
OF the Works-Progress admins
TRAITOR"
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betting suggested him as a certain winner. He
pranced out on the track and cut up captaistic
capers. And he lorded it over horses of meaner
degree on his way to the post grited my teeth and
bet on something called Transporter and also Bow
and Arrow.
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Count Is About EUen

N two Ohio districts, both candidates in November
will carry the Coughlin imprimatur Three in
cumbents were swept out largely by Coughlin opposi-
ton, Congressman Feisinger of Sandusky, Duffy Of
*Toledo and Harter of Akron
Twelve victories, six defeats in the Democratic
primary and three victories, II defeats in the Re-
publican, was the NUSJ box score.
Copyright. 1886. by NEA Service Inc1
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Amneraa lea
Goes
Iron Will of George Westinghouse Harnessed
the Wild Horses of Niagara, introduce
ing Age of Mammoth Power.


citing dramatic tale the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-12-31
Arthur Brisbane,
Editor, Dies at Il
Work Known to Millions;
Column Popular in This
Newspaper.

New York, N. with the
death of Arthur Brisbane Christ
mas morning, the world lost its
most widely known and most
widely read newspaper writer
and editor. The veteran COM
mentator, whose column This
Week" appeared regularly in
this newspaper, died OF heart
disease while he slept. He was
seventy-tWo.
True to the Brisbane tradition, he
kept up the terrific pace of his work
to the last. When he was stricken
late in the afternoon of Christmas
eve he had almost finished his col
umn, Today" which appeared in
many large daily newspapers, prin-
cipally those Of William Randolph
Hearst's string. He was forced to call
upon his son, Seward, q, to complete
it. It was the first time in his life
Arthur Brisbane had not finished
what he had set out to write.
Millions Of Readers.
It was only few hours afterward
MIR. Brisbane fell asleep in his Fifth
avenue apartment. At his bedside
were his physicians, DR.. Leopold
Stieglitz and DR.. Frederick Zeman,
and nurse. In the apartment his
entire family had gathered-his
wife, Mrs. Phoebe Brisbane, whom
he had married In 1912; his son,
Seward, and his four daughters, Mrs.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-12-31
SYNOPSIS

Theodore Gatlin adopts baby. 'Pene-
lope," In an effort to solve his matri-
monIal troubles. But his VIE mas
never wanted her and their AFFAIRS emu
in the divorce court. At baseball
game a ball strikes ten-year-old Pc
nelope on the nose. Mrs. Gatlin spirits
the child to Europe. Gatlin wills re-
nelope all his money, and Is about TO
begin a search for her when motor
accident ends his life. Some ten years
later. In San Francisco. Stephen Burt.
rising young psyehiatrist. Is presented
nv Dan Mcnamara, chief of police. with
a new patient--Nance Belden, girl
with dual personality, for when her
saddle nose Is in part respohsipie'
Mcnamara does not think she Is
criminal and obtains Burts testimony
in court. Lanny, the doctor once
nurse Is also won over Nance GRIM
tnal record outweighs Doctor Burt
explanation OF her case and she IS sent
TO San Quentin penitentiary- Lanny
visits her and Nance persuades ner 70
smuggle out letter. which confed-
crate of Nance steals. Nance escapes,
although shot, and goes to Lanny
apartment. From one OF the men IN
fhe boat on which the girl escaped Nc
Namara learns that Nance's real name
ia Penelope Gatln. He also discovers
that Penelope Gatlin Is heiress 10
&7bo.o00.
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j. r. X. McCrary, %; Emily, Is;
Alice, IA, and Elinor, H. The great
editor never awakened.
{ Probably no one knows how many
millions OF persons read Mr.. Bris-
bane's verse, analytical comments
upon the news Of the day. 1t is esti-
mated that rs millions read his daily
column. Additional millions followed
with satisfaction the weekly column
syndicated by Western Newspaper
Union to this and many other lead
ing weekly newspapers.
MIR. Brisbane was wealthy. 1t Is
reported that his yearly salary at
the time of his death was $3.50, 600.
In addition, there was the return on
his extensive real estate holdings.
Arthur Brisbane was born in But
falo, N. Y, in 1864. He attended the
public schools and then, forsaking
college education, he became re-
porter on the old New York Sun at
| 10. Yet his rise to the position he
held in the world Of journalism at
the last was not the Horatio Ager
type OF success story, with glory
browning the hero after countless
tear-jerking tribulations. He was
good and he was successful from the
| start.
II was not long before he was the
Suns London correspondent. After
| five years, there was shake-up on
the paper and the management
cabled him to return. He said he
would if they made him managing
editor. Managing editor He was
Just %. They made him managing
editor. And SO well did he execute
his job, Joseph Pulitzer took him
over to the New York World, which,
| under the Brisbane dictatorship,
soon became the most influential
organ OF public opinion in America.
"Greatest Journalist Of Day"
When William Randolph Hearst
came from California and bought
the New York Journal he hired Mr..
Brisbane-at reduction in salary
of almost SO per cent. But there was
an agreement that as the circulation
increased, SO would his compensa-
ton. His earnings on the World
were multiplied in almost no time
The association with Hearst be
: came a lifelong friendship, and Mr.
: Brisbane soon became regarded a.
next to Mr.. Hearst in Importance II
. the chain OF newspapers. When h
, died, Mr.. Hearst said. II know tina
!, Arthur Brisbane was the creates
journalist OF his day"
II was Arthur Brisbane who wa
!, credited with bringing the trend Q
i newspaper style "downAto earth.
!. He believed that newspapers shoul'
e be written for the ordinary man, no
the intelligentsia. He wrote that wa.
. and his columns appealed to col
. lege professors as well as to mel
chants and farmers.
He dictated his 1000 to 1000 crisp
unwasted words daily in half an hou
"A to an hour. There was dictaphon
i beside him wherever he went. II
n would even wake up in Pullma
! berths and begin dictation at two G
three In the morning.