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The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

to watch 200 engines and time
them, before he could find one vio-
lation in 1885. He averaged work.
ing about cne and one half days
from violation to violation.
MIR. WELSH is Irish and likes
1V1 his job. On Sundays veteran
railroaders may find Mr.. Wlesh
cruising in his car after church
hours.
His $4,000 salary-he receives
$500 more from those upon whom
he reports violations than does the
city's combustion engineer-is
divided between the railroads on a
percentage of their traffic into
indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Union Rail-
way Co., with no violations in 1885,
topped the railroad list for the
year.
A violator is reported to the
roundhouse supervisor or road
foreman. The violation means the
engineer and fireman may be
called on the carpet to explain
why they're wasting fuel.
MANY railroad men live in IN
dianapolis and it's to their inter-
est to keep the city clean," Mr..
Welsh explains.
The enviable record of the In
dianapolis Union Railway is per-
feet "no-violation" year is said
to be due to j. j. Liddy, the yard
railways superintendent, who gives
free vacations without pay" to
habitual violators on his engines.
"The men for the most part al
ways co-operated with him and if
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
There Ought to BE a Gong

A ND so he tries to show them II ne Is gooo
N enough and lucky enough he may catch some
thing on the rebound and do three or four aoolVoal
exciting columns Unfortunately there IS an uh"IlV
te statute called the law of diminishing returns ana
if YOU milk the same COW for the tourteehIh VI 'io
fifteenth time there less butter fats
sneak as a cardinal offender. BY the mere 1acC
of permutations 1 have SIT down words on paper
which had the. good fortune to be properly tlnleo' %
BY the pricking of my thumbs couio Ve .lidO ,a
ros right and proper and also effective. But nave
never been smart enough to pick the precise spot at
which to stop One is tempted to labor his atutuue,
to torture his point of view, to tread agan upon VIC
In this error am allied with all MANKIND. we
live to gain satisfaction for the ego Ana, ike stage
performers we inclined to receive some passing
the part of the public.
We might as we'll realize the fact that even tne
best of us live in world in which eight minutes Is
sufficient even for good turn No matter wnat tne
skill of the craftsman, he is still a MEMBER OF al
amateur hour There ought to be a gong.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

since you know that most of the
outstanding high cards are going
to be in the South hand.
Next, if East does not have
hearts, you would like to find out
if he has spades. A double of
major suit asks partner, if pos
sible, to bid the other major.
Therefore, if East has good
four-card spade suit, he will bid
spades, in which case there is a
very good chance of game in that
suit.
East, however, happens to re-
spond with one no trump, show
ing the heart suit stopped. Now
West should not bid spades; he
has asked his partner to bid that
suit and partner has refused.
East has said he has hearts
stopped, SO now why not find out
if he has that suit well covered by
bidding two no trump?
East, having the heart suit well
stopped and holding some inter-
mediate strength besides, is JUS
titled in going to three no trump.
With South's opening lead of the
eight OF hearts, East easily makes
four odd, while game contract at
spades would have been defeated.
Copyright. 1886. by NEA Service. Inc)
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
It's Fred's Fault

TT requires novelist of very strong character to
i say There is no second helping. I've done my
turn, and that is all"
Generally speaking, pressure prevails The author
does second book entitled Fred in His Middle
Age" or Fired Grew Little Older" Whereupon the
unhappy creator is compelled to sit down and I'm"
provise upon theme which he has already COM
pleted.
AS have said, the rule applies to politics as well
as TO the arts. AL Smith, having made a oraVe
and gallant fight in 1928, should have been content
to hang his running shoes upon the wall ana leu
them remain there as mementos of happy war
fare 1t is tragic when an old competitor taxes down
his spiked footwear for no better purpose thah W
take walk.
have particularly in mind the errors OF tnac
group compelled to deliver daily newspaper stlnts
Even the Indifferent columnist comes now ana agaln
into q mood where he is hot. He writes column
which is tndeniably good. This is not just MS own
boast: it is supported by the opinion OF palpaole
number of readers. He sits back in a certain saCs
faction and says, "Slow, am 1? Ill show THESE mugs
who buy the paper"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

smoke nuisance is typical in any
attempt to trace the air pollution
blame.
"Buck-passing" is common,
smoke abatement experts say.
"One violator defends himself
by declaring his neighbor is just
as bad as he is, asserted one COM
bustion engineer.
A FEW chimneys that give
L n fair share of smoke to the
downtown area of Indianapolis,
according to Roy Johnson, Indi-
annapolis Smoke Abatement League
secretary-manager, and upon
whom educational efforts have
been conducted, are:
Columbia Club, Majestic Build
ing, Murphy Building, Washing
ton-st plant of the indianapolis
Power and Light Co., Roosevelt
Hotel. and Beveridge Paper Co.
Efforts have been made by the
managements of most of these
companies to correct firing diff
f1culties. according to city COM
bustion engineers. Equipment
troubles, and in some cases anti
quated heating appliances, add to
difficulty in correcting the fues, it
is said.
Daniel j. Welsh, smoke in
spector of Indianapolis railroads,
reported to The Times that on
one occasion he timed the stack
on the Majestic Building purvey-
ing illegal smoke for period of
IL minutes in an hour. The In
dianapolis Smoke Code permits
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
Washington Merry-Go-Round

When John, Harvard sopho-
more, knocks off from his studies
fo1 an evening of relaxation, he
always wears evening clothes.
Franklin, Harvard junior, prefers
lounge attire, usually a blue or
gray suit, with conspicuous white
breast-pocket handkerchief.
John usually goes to the Towne
Club; Franklin to the Theatrical
Club. Franklin is known as the
much better dancer.
TAMPAIGN advisers of Senator
~ Borah have been urging him
to turn his guns on Gov. Alf Lam
don.
Borah opens his fight for Ohio
delegates this week, and his coun-
selors are telling him that now is
the time for effective strafing of
his Kansas opponent, who ducked
a test of strength in the Buckeye
state.
Landon's apparent strategy of
avoiding contests with other can
dldates is hotly resented in the
Borah camp They charge him
with trying to sneak up on the
nomination"
This eluSiveness is not the only
thing that Borah personally holds
against Landon. He considers him
the stalking horse for Wall
Street" says that powerful busi-
ness and financial groups are sup
porting Landon's candidacy.
DORAH has crystallized two
- definite conclusions regarding
Landon:
One, that Landon Is his chief
contender for the nomination;
two, that Landon is as distasteful
to him as Hoover.
Senate colleagues of Borah, who
are in his confidence, say that if
Landon is nominated the Idahoan
will not support him. In his long
career, Borah has never bolted the
G. 0. P. traces. When this is
pointed out to his friends they
reply significantly: But Borah
never before has been an active
presidential candidate"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

XXTASHINGTON, March 49,
w Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas has been putting across
some extremely effective defender
speeches for the Administration
lately, and he has been getting
rewarded for it.
Last week he was able to hold
up a decision by the entire Cab
inet-including the President
without even being present.
The decision pertained to large
group of share-cropperS, evicted
from cotton plantations and camp
ing out IN tents and churches in
Arkansas. Organized into the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
feeling has become bitter between
them and the landowners, and
there have been shootings and
near riots.
Appeals to relieve the tenseness
of this situation have swamped
the White House and the Labor
and Agriculture Departments re-
Gently. Reports stated that the
Tenant Farmers Union included
both Negroes and whites, who
were largely disfranchised, had
been warned by landowners to
move on into another. state on
penalty of violence.
Finally the question came up at
Cabinet meeting. Secretary of
Labor Perkins proposed sending
an arbitrator to Arkansas to
smooth out differences between
landlords and tenants. Other
members of the Cabinet agreed,
including the President.
But Vice President Garner OBJ
jected.
ut would embarrass Joe Robin
son." he said. I'VE ought not to
do anything without taking it UP
with him. He's up for reelection
this fall, and that's a very delicate
situation in Arkansas"
So the Cabinet-including the
President-yielded.
TOHN and Franklin Roosevelt,
y two youngest sons of the
President, seldom go out together.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
"BrOther, Can You Spare Some Corn"

T~HEY tuck themselves away in odd corners of
Il the masonry, puff out their feathers and go to
sleep rumbling and growing in their dreams until
some instinct tells them suckers are in sight with
little bags of cracked corn which sold by ped
dlers who to be in partnership with the pigeons
At that they come swooping down to COO the
pigeon talk equivalent of thee" and thou" and
"Hallelujah!' and fill themselves on handouts while
the sparrows and the starngs are out hustling for
their living.
Of course all successful beggars recognize certain
psychological rules and apply them. Your cores
pondent in his youth noted that the Salvation Army
girls going through the saloons in Chicago par
tal to customers who pretty well plastered and
careless and likely to lose spend the rest of their
money, anyway, before the night was out.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

crutches in the draughty tunnels of the subway
entrances earning an honest dollar by respectable
mooche-y At the signal from the missionary. the
mission SUMS would rouse themselves fall to their
knees on the dirty floor, sobbing and shaking in
their rags, and address themselves loudly to the
throne of mercy and charity bowling that their poor
1ralltles might be forgiven and incidentally that
Heaven somehow would provide. The signal from
the missionary synchronized with the appearance
at the street door of party of summers from up
town or out of town.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

spring of 1888, and that if war
continues for any length OF
time there will be only a re-
mote chance of the United States
keeping out of it under existing
neutrality legislation. Many will
question that judgment but it
is held by those who know most
about the situation. They believe
Hitler is rearming the Rhineland
not with the expectation of in
vading France but of resisting
the French while he drives east
to annex Czechoslovakia and
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

illegal smoke for but six minutes
during single hour of the day
unless boiler fires are being
cleaned and then some leniency is
extended.
The Majestic Building houses
the Public Health Nursing Asso-
citation.
TINE Columbia Club stack and
i other chimneys in the vi
cinity are reported by United
States Weather Bureau officials in
the Consolidated Building as not
only covering windows with SCOT
but causing weather instruments
atop the building to register
fraction of degree from normalcy.
Numerous smaller chimneys in
the same vicinity pour out large
quantities of SMOKE" charges Mr..
Johnson.
Mr.. johnson declares that in
duStry has cleaned UP at least Is
. per cent of its smoke pollution but
at the same time he says that
much remains to be done before
Indianapolis can attain a ranking
as clean city.
Firms praised by Mr.. Popp and
MIR. johnson for eradicating
smoke nuisance as much as possi-
BILE are:
Kingan & Co., Sunshine Clean
ers, Progress Laundry, Van Camp
Hardware and Iron Co., Kentucky
av plant of Indianapolis Power
and Light Co., Linden Hotel and
Meals Guaranty Restaurant.
ERED BUTLER, general super
IL intendent of Kingan & Co.,
admitted to The Times that the
packing concern had contributed
to the citys smoke nuisance in the
past, but said that the company
planned to take another step to-
ward cleaning up air pollution by
either re-equipping the plant, or
purchasing steam instead of max
ing it in the plants boilers.
II believe we'll be buying steam
by fall" Mr., Butler said.
The company spent an esti-
mated $4,000 for smoke con-
sumers in an effort to reduce the
black gusts from its stacks.
They were successful" said
Engineer Popp, ''in cutting. down
70 per cent of their former output
of smoke"
Officials of the Beveridge Pa
per Co. also are reported to be
considering the advisability of
purchasing steam instead of
manufacturing it to reduce their
own sootfall.
Mr.. Popp, as the city's only
guardian against air pollution
other than Mr.. Welsh, the railroad
inspector, aids factories, apart
.ments and home owners in solv-
ing the wastes Spewed from their
stacks on to the city.
y +
A GAS analyzer is used by Mr..
4 n Popp to test combustion and
help manufacturers and operators
of boilers to find combustion leaks
that result in faulty flows of
smoke and reduced power for their
plants.
The degree with which rail-
roads entering Indianapolis and
switching crews have turned off the
SCOT jet on the stacks of their en-
gines may be laid to the efficiency
with which Mr.. Welsh polices bis
beat.
Mr. Welsh is a smoke copper"
who is paid by his victims to find
violations.
He works solely on rail smoke
and since 1880 has reduced the
percentage of violations from 6.84
per cent of the number of obser-
vations made to so per cent in
1885.
In other words Mr.. Welsh had
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

anu PSyCIIOIOgy TtStIIlDIe LnOSe OF
the old-time Bowery mission stiff,
a type of moocher who was held in
contempt by the more enterprising
buns, who soaped their eyes to
make them weep and swathed
their heads in bandages stained
with red ink for tragic effect.
The mission stiff made a prac-
tice of hanging around the Lit
tie Hallelujah missions in the
evenings, browsing and grunting
like the pigeons of st. Marks,
st. PaufS and Westminster Abb
bey and soaking up heat from the
pot-bellied stove, while better
men were standing on their
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
BY ARCH STEINEL

" those who put up
magnificent buildings that
are repulsively begrimed be-
fore they are finished; who
can not see the dirt for the
size, and boast grandly of
their monuments while they
rain scot upon them :"
Booth Harrington in "The
World Do Move"
Booth Harrington, Hoosier au-
thor, might easily have dictated
those lines to his secretary in the
lee of the World War Memorial.
Unfinished, the memorial, the
obelisk, and its shrine gather SCOT
and CRIME from the smokestacks
of the city and especially from one
stack of the State of Indiana
builders of the war shrine.
The offending stack spraying
SCOT and fumes on the memorial,
on apartment houses, is that of
the Indiana National Guard Ar
mory on Pennsylvania-st.
If the Armory were an industry
its officials could be arrested for
violation of the indianapolis
Smoke Code.
TINE expenditure of between
l. $4,000 and $4,000 by the state
wou'. end pollution of a shrine for
the war dead, and set neighbor-
hood example as we'll as one to in
dustry, smoke abatement authori-
ties contend.
George R. Popp Jr., city smoke
combustion engineer, says efforts
have been made to correct the fir
ing troubles at the Armory, but
that only a change in heating
equipment, addition to the pres
ent equipment, or use of differ
ent type of fuel will end the pol
luton.
Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub ad-
mits the Armory's role in belch-
ing smoke but claims that some
of the complainants are as bad
as TIE Armory.
'We haven't money enough in
our budget to put in stokers this
year. What will be done in the
future, I do not know" he said.
TINE Armory, however, has been
l. a smoke problem for five
years.
Gen. Straub said that Benjamin
Harrison School 2, is one of the
complainants against the Arniory.
He said he had been informed by
the Armory's building manager
that on one day when the school
complained that it was found that
the schools own smokestack
whipped black dust into school
rooms.
Mr.. Popp bore him out by de-
claring that he received a call
protesting the Armory was causing
smoke nuisance and found the
schools stack to blame. The COM
bustion engineer, however, said
the school ordinarily was fired
properly.
The verbal tilt as to which unit
OF government is causing the
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
EhZnough
BY
WESIbROOk PEGLER

DARIS March 18.-Further observation of the
habits of church pigeons on the capitals of the
Old World confirms your correspondents earlier i'm
preston that the pigeon is panhandler by nature
congenital charity case lacking the jaunty inde-
pendence of the sparrow and the starlings driving
industry and sef-respect. The pigeon is partial to
cathedrals. but he also hangs around the lesser
churches to which the tourists come His tactics
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

well apply 10 politicians, singers,
actors and the guest who gets up
III your home after dinner pre-
pared to be the life of the party.
The problem is acute in the
case of a theatrical performer.
He tells a gag which doesn't go
so very well, and that obviously is
no fitting point at which to make
an exit. He tries again, and this
time the laughter and applause
is, in motion picture language,
colossal. Well, that's hard
place to stop. The hummer Is
torn between the fact that he can
not stop after a failure and
doesn't want to quit after con-
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
War in Two Years,
Washington Thinks
nv RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON March 18.-Princeton students
w have organized the veterans OF Future
wore" and Vassar students have formed the "As-
sociation of Gold Star Mothers of Veterans OF
Future Wars" 1t isn't funny On the contrary 1t
is what some of the best informed persons here
might logically suggest if they could take the pubic
into their confidence
Informed Judgment here about Europe is that
there will be no war now but that Hitler expects
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
spicuous success.


The same psychology enters into the life OF those
whose contact with an audience is more remote
Some of the most deporable novels ever written
have been seuues An author does stor. about
character named Fred. The reading public eats 1t
lip Fred is a huge success And SO cry rises up
from Maine to California, I'VE want more ABOUT
Fred"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
Haywood BR0UN

NEW YORK, March 18.-Nobody knows when to
' quit. Mussolini, Napoleon and newspaper col
OF the most useful courses for college for high
school could be series of lectures entitled How to
Get Off the Stage"
There is an old familiar saying among artists
that two men required to make painting
one to do the work and the other to hit him
the head wlicT. he is through The same rule might
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18


Yard engines outburn many
stationary boilers in coal con-
sumption in an eight-hour trick.
1t is estimated that one engine
burns three tons, of coal in an
eight-hollr trick without a smoke
violation While Mr.. Welsh says he
can roam in any section of In
dianapolis and point out indus
trial, apartment house, and resi-
dental violators by the scores who
do not burn in one day to two
months the quantity of coal con-
sumed by the one hand fired yard
engine.
Next-Smoke Versus Health.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18

they didn't, we'll" and the Irish
smoke inspector smiled.
4 u
CENERAL cooperation of all
~ railroads and their employees
is seen by Mr.. Welsh as reducing
the number of violations from as
high as 371 in 1880 to 79 in 1885.
Record of the railroads as COM
piled and reported to the Indian
apolis Smoke Abatement League
for 1885 follow:
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
Solution to Previous Contract
Problem
BY w. E. MKENNEY

Problem
BY w. E. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
nNE of the most perplexing
" problems to the beginner is
what to do with a strong hand
when the opponents open the bid
ding.
Take for example Vests hand
today. He holds two four-card
suits. South has opened the bid
ding with Vests weakest suit.
Should West overcall in spades,
to be able to bid clubs later?
Certainly not. The mistake most
players make with this type of
hand is that they forget their
partners.
They decide to do all the bid
ding themselves.
The proper thing to do with
hand of this kind is to double.
Why? You would like to find out
If your partner has hearts, so you
can play the hand at no trump,
The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-18
INDIANAPOLIS, THE CITY OF SMOKE
States Shrine to War Dead Begrmed by Nearby Chi,nney

Here is the third Of a series Of
articles by Arch Steinel. Times staff
writer, on smoke conditions Ia Indi-
annapolis and the causes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-25
OFFER SCHOLARSHIP
AT STATE COLLEGE
All Club Member With
Best Baby Beef Calf to
Be Winner in Fall

College Station, Raleigh, Feb. %
The North Carolina All club mem
Der who grows and exhibits the best
baby beef calf in 1886 will be award
ed a one-year scholarship to State
College, it was announced here to-
day.
This scholarship, said l.. r. Harrill,
All club leader at the college, is in
tended to promote interest in baby
beef work and in feeding balanced
rationS.
Any bona fide All club member is
eligible to compete for the award, he
said. The Animal must be shown at
the State Fair next fall.
In addition to the condition of the
animal the contestants record and
activities during the year will be
taken into consideration.
The winner must be able to enter
college on or before the opening of
the fall term following his receipt of
the award Otherwise, the scholar
ship will go to the first alternate or
revert to the scholarship fund.
The scholarship has been offered
by the North Carolina division of the
National Cottonseed Products Asso-
citation. The winner will be selected
by the All club department at State
College.
The scholarship may be applied on
a course in dairying or animal hus-
bandry.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-25

list takers, office employees, and 9TH
er interested officials.
The talks and discussions will CEN
ter around the laws and practices re-
lating to tax listing and assessing,
discoveries, and Permanent listing"
together with the two proposed con-
9titutional amendments which con-
Germ tax officials, homestead exemp-
ton and property classification.
Another feature will be the consld-
GRAFTON of suggestions for amend
ments to the Machinery Act to be sub
mitted to the 1887 Legislature. There
will also be an opportunity to discuss
any special problems or questions
raised at the meeting or sent in in
advance.
The tax supervisors have been ask
ed to send all such questions to Henry
Brands, Jr., Institute of Government
staff member at work in the field of
taxation, who recently brought out
Guidebook on Tax Collection and
Foreclosure and is now writing anoth-
er on Listing and Assessing.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-25

College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 25-
The N. G. State College poultry judg-
ing team, shown above, won the east
ern intercollegiate poultry judging
contest held February as a feature
of the 18th annual pountry industrial
exposition IN New York.
Members of the team are, left to
right: A. J. Harrell of Potecasi, alt
ornate; Alfred B. Raby, of Hickory;
T. C. Sawyer, Jr., of Belcross; w. A.
Corpening, of Horse Shoe; and N. w.
Williams, coach.
Scoring 2,08O out of a possible 2,400
points, State College was SO points
ahead of Cornell, which took second
place with 1888 points. The Univer-
sity of New Hampshire was third
with 1918.
Other competing colleges finished
in the following order: Rutgers Uni
lversity, Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Connecticut State College, Penn
State College, and Massachusetts
State College.
The highest scoring individual was