September 16, 1935
The Cubs defeated the Giants, 8-3, at Wrigley. Meanwhile, the Cardinals (behind the recuperated Paul Dean) shutout the Dodgers, 1-0, at home. This left the Cardinals two games out with fourteen games left to play.
The Senators continued their slide, losing to the White Sox, 9-1, at home. Their victory still left the White Sox twenty one games out of first place in the AL with a 69-70 record. "Sad" Sam Jones started for the Sox. The 1935 season was sad indeed for Jones who finished the year with an 8-7 record but was released in November by the Sox, ending his career. He was 229-217 lifetime. His best season was in 1923 with the Yankees. He was 21-8 that year and threw a no-hitter on September 4, 1923. It was the last no-hit performance with no strikeouts until Ken Holtzman duplicated the feat in 1969. Bump Hadley went for the Nats so the game featured a former Yankee hurler contending with a future Yankee. Unlike Hadley, Jones does not appear to have been involved in any savage beanings during his career.
Time's cover featured Dr. Alexis Carrel. Carrel had won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1912.Charles Lindbergh worked with Carrel, as a volunteer, at the Rockefeller Institute. As the cover story noted:
Long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel had some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep a piece of chicken heart living and growing through the years. Lately the name of Carrel has been whirled up to fresh fame because Bio-mechanic Lindbergh designed him an artificial heart with which to pump life into human hearts, kidneys, thyroids, ovaries and because the Press knew the newsworthiness of the name of Lindbergh, if not of Carrel.
According to Wikipedia:
Later in life, Carrel published a best-selling book titled Man The Unknown theorizing that the whole of mankind could better itself by following the guide of a restricted number of intellectual aristocrats, and by implementing a regime of selective reproduction as in vogue at the time in the field of eugenics. He went so far as to recommend gas chambers to 'dispose' of 'inappropriate individuals', especially praising Hitler's efforts in eliminating weak-minded, alienated and criminals in the 1936's German introduction of his book.
Lindbergh shared with Carrel a certain admiration, if not affection for the Hitler regime. Nothing appears to have come of Carrel/Lindbergh's "bio-mechanical" heart.
In another interesting item, Time reported on new artwork ordered for Ellis Island, still serving as immigration inspection facility at the time. The work was carried out by the PWA - a New Deal organization - and involved muralists Edward Laning and Hideo Noda. Here is a photo of Laning at work on Ellis Island. Their work was nonetheless subject to approval by Immigration Commissioner Rudolph Reimer:
No sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California.
The Laning mural, showing the building of the Pacific Railroad with Irish and Chinese labor (see cut), got by Commissioner Reimer last week only after the artist had made many a change of detail to bring the whole into accord with that official's idea of U. S. history. Pointing to the drawing, Commissioner Reimer said:
"You see that man, he should be wearing high boots. These are Federal Army uniforms. There were Civil War soldiers working on that railroad and every now & then even a Confederate uniform would turn up. . . . The engineering details at first were even worse. Laning had square-cut ties under the tracks which were never used until 25 or 30 years ago. The rail which the coolies were handling was at least an 80 or 90-lb. rail. I made him reduce the size of the rail. Rolling mills in those days couldn't produce anywhere near that size of rail. . . .
"You know coolie labor was imported to work on that railroad and they were almost the first Chinamen that came to America. Having invited them Congress passed a law granting them limited citizenship. . . ."
Meanwhile at the League of Nations, fascist Italy accused Ethiopia of being a haven for various barbaric rituals:
"Emasculation, not only of adults but of boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence of the ras. . . .
The Ethiopians replied through French Law Professor Gaston Jeze:
Wasting no breath to deny Baron Aloisi's undeniable facts on Ethiopian savagery, the Professor with great dexterity called Benito Mussolini a "Big Bully" without actually using those words. He neatly said that since nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident [an incident between Ethiopian and Italian forces at the Ethiopian/Eritrean border] no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared: "In France we have a proverb, 'When a man wants to drown his dog he first says it is mad.' Italy, having resolved to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling Ethiopia mad!"
Time speculated that a deal might be afoot to declare Ethiopia a "mandate" of Italy:
By common consent Premier Laval is now the No. 1 horse-trader for Peace. His entourage said, off the record, last week that they hoped Great Britain will raise no objection to a maneuver under which the League of Nations would designate Ethiopia afresh as "free and independent," entrusting her to Italy under much the same arrangement that free & independent Irak and free & independent Egypt are under London's thumbs.
Under this formula Italy's Armies could achieve some of the glory Benito Mussolini seems to want, for the savage Ethiopians would not take Civilization lying down. On the other hand this form of League "mandate" to Italy would cut off Ethiopia's Emperor from all help by the Great Powers and should, so Geneva statesmen said, "shorten the war." This they felt would be something gained, adding that the League would also have "localized the conflict outside of Europe."
Against a solution along these lines the chief forces this week were: 1) Anglo-Saxon public opinion that one must crack down on a "Big Bully"; 2) the Socialist and Trade Union movements on the continent and in Britain which ceaselessly petitioned the League to hurl "sanctions" against Boss Mussolini; and 3) Soviet Russia whose suave Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff unleased at Geneva a strong Red speech for Peace and against Fascist dreams of Empire.
Stay Tuned!
The Senators continued their slide, losing to the White Sox, 9-1, at home. Their victory still left the White Sox twenty one games out of first place in the AL with a 69-70 record. "Sad" Sam Jones started for the Sox. The 1935 season was sad indeed for Jones who finished the year with an 8-7 record but was released in November by the Sox, ending his career. He was 229-217 lifetime. His best season was in 1923 with the Yankees. He was 21-8 that year and threw a no-hitter on September 4, 1923. It was the last no-hit performance with no strikeouts until Ken Holtzman duplicated the feat in 1969. Bump Hadley went for the Nats so the game featured a former Yankee hurler contending with a future Yankee. Unlike Hadley, Jones does not appear to have been involved in any savage beanings during his career.
Time's cover featured Dr. Alexis Carrel. Carrel had won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1912.Charles Lindbergh worked with Carrel, as a volunteer, at the Rockefeller Institute. As the cover story noted:
Long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel had some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep a piece of chicken heart living and growing through the years. Lately the name of Carrel has been whirled up to fresh fame because Bio-mechanic Lindbergh designed him an artificial heart with which to pump life into human hearts, kidneys, thyroids, ovaries and because the Press knew the newsworthiness of the name of Lindbergh, if not of Carrel.
According to Wikipedia:
Later in life, Carrel published a best-selling book titled Man The Unknown theorizing that the whole of mankind could better itself by following the guide of a restricted number of intellectual aristocrats, and by implementing a regime of selective reproduction as in vogue at the time in the field of eugenics. He went so far as to recommend gas chambers to 'dispose' of 'inappropriate individuals', especially praising Hitler's efforts in eliminating weak-minded, alienated and criminals in the 1936's German introduction of his book.
Lindbergh shared with Carrel a certain admiration, if not affection for the Hitler regime. Nothing appears to have come of Carrel/Lindbergh's "bio-mechanical" heart.
In another interesting item, Time reported on new artwork ordered for Ellis Island, still serving as immigration inspection facility at the time. The work was carried out by the PWA - a New Deal organization - and involved muralists Edward Laning and Hideo Noda. Here is a photo of Laning at work on Ellis Island. Their work was nonetheless subject to approval by Immigration Commissioner Rudolph Reimer:
No sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California.
The Laning mural, showing the building of the Pacific Railroad with Irish and Chinese labor (see cut), got by Commissioner Reimer last week only after the artist had made many a change of detail to bring the whole into accord with that official's idea of U. S. history. Pointing to the drawing, Commissioner Reimer said:
"You see that man, he should be wearing high boots. These are Federal Army uniforms. There were Civil War soldiers working on that railroad and every now & then even a Confederate uniform would turn up. . . . The engineering details at first were even worse. Laning had square-cut ties under the tracks which were never used until 25 or 30 years ago. The rail which the coolies were handling was at least an 80 or 90-lb. rail. I made him reduce the size of the rail. Rolling mills in those days couldn't produce anywhere near that size of rail. . . .
"You know coolie labor was imported to work on that railroad and they were almost the first Chinamen that came to America. Having invited them Congress passed a law granting them limited citizenship. . . ."
Meanwhile at the League of Nations, fascist Italy accused Ethiopia of being a haven for various barbaric rituals:
Mostly the Italian exhibits showed Ethiopians snapped in acts every explorer of the Empire knows to be sanctified by savage custom, namely in the words of Baron Aloisi:
"Emasculation, not only of adults but of boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence of the ras. . . .
Such a country, declared Baron Aloisi, is unfit to belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next the Briton, last the Frenchman.
The Ethiopians replied through French Law Professor Gaston Jeze:
Wasting no breath to deny Baron Aloisi's undeniable facts on Ethiopian savagery, the Professor with great dexterity called Benito Mussolini a "Big Bully" without actually using those words. He neatly said that since nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident [an incident between Ethiopian and Italian forces at the Ethiopian/Eritrean border] no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared: "In France we have a proverb, 'When a man wants to drown his dog he first says it is mad.' Italy, having resolved to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling Ethiopia mad!"
Time speculated that a deal might be afoot to declare Ethiopia a "mandate" of Italy:
By common consent Premier Laval is now the No. 1 horse-trader for Peace. His entourage said, off the record, last week that they hoped Great Britain will raise no objection to a maneuver under which the League of Nations would designate Ethiopia afresh as "free and independent," entrusting her to Italy under much the same arrangement that free & independent Irak and free & independent Egypt are under London's thumbs.
Under this formula Italy's Armies could achieve some of the glory Benito Mussolini seems to want, for the savage Ethiopians would not take Civilization lying down. On the other hand this form of League "mandate" to Italy would cut off Ethiopia's Emperor from all help by the Great Powers and should, so Geneva statesmen said, "shorten the war." This they felt would be something gained, adding that the League would also have "localized the conflict outside of Europe."
Against a solution along these lines the chief forces this week were: 1) Anglo-Saxon public opinion that one must crack down on a "Big Bully"; 2) the Socialist and Trade Union movements on the continent and in Britain which ceaselessly petitioned the League to hurl "sanctions" against Boss Mussolini; and 3) Soviet Russia whose suave Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff unleased at Geneva a strong Red speech for Peace and against Fascist dreams of Empire.
Stay Tuned!
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