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MONDAY. MAY 11. 1936. THE OHIO GANG AT WORK IN Ohio on Tuesday rank-and-file Republicans will go to the polls to participate in what Is called a presidential primary. But they will have no opportunity to vote for Landon of Kansas, or Hoover of California, or Knox of Illinois, or Dickinson of lowa, or Vandenberg of Michigan, or Steiwer of Oregon—all of whom are recognized throughout the country as being more or less active G. O P. presidential candidates. The ballot will limit Ohio Republicans to a choice of between: 1 A partial slate of delegates pledged to Senator Borah of Idaho, the only bona fide candidate entered in Ohio's Republican primary, or 2. A slate of delegates pledged nominally to Robert A. Taft, a “favorite son" stalking horse for a gang of Ohio politicians. The Taft delegates arc the hand-picked trusties of Republican State Chairman Ed Schorr, who grew up in the old Harding-Daugherty school of boss politics, and Republican National Committeeman Walter Brown, the Hoover Postmaster General of high-hat fame. If the Borah delegates go to the Cleveland convention, they will vote for Borah, and will strengthen the influence of Borah in drafting a liberal platform. If the Taft delegates go to the convention, they may vote for Landon, or Hoover, or Dickinson, or Knox, or anybody upon whom Messrs. Brown and Schorr decide. They may even waste their votes on Robert A. Taft. And they will strengthen the hands of Messrs. Brown and Schorr—which means the hands of their friend Hoover, their friend Boss Hilles of New York and their friend Boss Roraback of Connecticut—in drafting a reactionary platform. If some candidate—as Landon seems about to and too far ahead to be stopped, Messrs. Brown and Shorr will use the delegates to climb on to the winner's bandwagon. If the nomination is a contest, Messrs. Brown and Schorr, true to the traditions of Ohio gangs, will start smoking up another hotel room. So the choice of Ohio Republicans is narrowed down to voting for Borah and liberalism, or voting for the Ohio gang and Old Guard bossism. For those Ohio Republicans who have some regard for the sanctity of their ballots, there is no choice. They have to vote for Borah, or admit that they are pawns.

TRIBUTE TO MOTHER OTHER'S DAY was obseryed yesterday with flowers, greetings, homecomings, special dinners and other tokens of remembrance. Churches stressed the religious significance 3of the day with appropriate sermons and services. Mother, for one day in the year, was the nation's guest of honor. a a a A LL the affectionate acts and words toward mother are fine, but they do not seem to cover up these stark facts: Childbirth in America results in 15,000 maternal deaths yearly. Most of the country’s 500,000 delinquent children are motherless. An estimated 75 per cent of the maternal deaths are preventable. a a a r I ''HUS it is encouraging to see Mother’s Day this •*- year marked by the launching of an educational campaign to reduce the maternal death rate. The Indianapolis Medical Society maternal welfare committee, the Indianapolis Council of Women public health committee, city and county ParentTeacher Associations, the American Legion Auxiliary welfare division and city and county health departments are co-operating in the campaign. Medical authorities will speak to P.-T. A. groups, mothers’ clubs, groups of practicing physicians and perhaps to high school seniors. An effort will be made to reach every mother and prospective mother in the city. The city's six maternal clinics are a definite aid in this program. The drive here is to stress the objectives of the Maternity Center Association of New York: Medical examination early pregnancy, frequent prenatal medical supervision, an aseptic delivery under supervision of an obstetrician, prolonged and adequate carp after birth for both mother and baby. This effort to make motherhood safe for mothers is a real Mother’s Day tribute. GARDEN TOUR EXHIBITING ll of the city's most beautiful estates, the Park School Mothers’ Association yesterday completed its two-day annual garden tour. Coming in mid-May, when spring blossoms, new green foliage and leafy branches show Indianapolis in the full burst of spring, the garden tour was a marked success. Visitors had an unusual opportunity to see beautiful rock gardens, beds of early spring flowers and the best in modem lan':-coping at the private estates. The flower exhibition at Park School added to the value of the tour. Park School Mothers’ Association deserves much credit tor this enterprise. The garden tour not only helps the school, but it should inspire new interest in home and garden beautification. IT HAS BEEN WORSE CURRENT news from their capital might incline Americans to conclude that congressional probity and dignity have hit bottom. There is the story of Washington state’s playful Rep. Zioncheck, who pleaded guilty to speeding through the streets at 70 miles an hour, smacked a policeman and did a brief stretch in jail. And that one about California’s statesman, Rep. Hoeppel, convicted of trying to hawk an appointment to West Point. And the incessant blattings of Texas’ Blanton, the rash of silly bills, and other discouraging manifestations of the all-too-human among the gentlemen of the House. But it has been worse. Ernest Sutherland Bates records that in the early days of spittoons, billingsgate and rowdyism were routine, while sometimes members so forgot themselves as to black one another’s eyes. The present Congress can offer no auch diversion as that of the bewigged Mathew Lyon And Roger Griswold rolling on the House floor in

1798, while the other members gathered about to cheer. Or the din, so loud that the House had to adjourn, during a recount in Monroe’s Administration. Or the bludgeoning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks in the Senate. In morals as in manners, the good old days were not so good either. One of the first acts of the First Congress was to pass the Hamiltonian funding bill, by which members lined their pockets through the buying up of ex-Revolutionary soldiers’ pay certificates and cashing in on them at par. The revered Daniel Webster fought for the second Bank of the United States with greater eloquence because he was its attorney. Who doesn’t know of the cynical pork barrel era of Andrew Jackson, the Credit Mobilier railroad stock gifts of Grant's day, the western land grabs of the sixties and seventies, the open distribution of railroad passes, the despotic tyrannies of Speakers Tom Reed and Joe Cannon, or the flanking, junketeering, nepotism and other scandals of the near-past? No, Congress is far from perfect. It could well dispense with several members whose actions are heaping upon it ridicule and contempt. It could be more statesmanlike, more businesslike and more high-minded. But, in justice to the Seventy-fourth, we must admit that, with all its faults, it is an improvement on a lot of its predecessors. DISTRIBUTING THE BLAME T TERETOFORE those wicked New York bankers have had to take all of the blame for the nonredecmable, non-clippable Latin American bonds which lie uncoveted in the safe-deposit boxes of our land. Certainly the bankers were not blameless. The Pccora investigation revealed shameful exploits on the part of bankers’ representatives who, by bribery and other means, high-pressured certain South American republics into over-borrowing, and on the part of big city banks which forced small country banks to take the bonds. According to the latest statistics, there are outstanding $1,275,000,000 of those bonds, wholly or partially in default. But new light on the question of culpability is shed in the latest report of the Senate Munitions Committee. After describing how armament salesmen—encouraged by officials of our own War and Navy Departments—peddled fear and suspicion and guns and warships to the republics of South America, the report says: “The committee finds, from official documents which it has not entered into the record, that the sales of munitions to certain South American nations in excess of their normal capacity to pay, was one of the causes for the default on certain South American bonds, and that the sales of the munitions were, in effect, financed by the American bond purchasers, and the loss on the bonds was borne by the same people.” On the basis of this finding, American investors holding the bag are entitled to cuss the munitions makers as well as the bankers. VICTORY! nnHE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, proposing face- ■*- tiously a Pulitzer prize for propaganda headlines, nominates the following gleaned from the New York American: s MARYLAND VOTE HITS NEW DEAL Breckinridge Holds Roosevelt Lead to Only 6 to 1. Concerning which, one of our readers tells a story. ’ “This headline,” he writes, “reminds me of the chap who drifted into the saloon all beat to hell, and told about a big fight he had just been in, in which he licked the other guy within an inch of his life. He said: ‘First I hit him in the fist with my eye; then I got my hair in his hands; then I rammed my stomach into his knee; then I tripped him and pulled him down on top of me; then I got my fingers between his teeth, and started gouging his fingers with my eye. All in all I roughed him up till finally I got tired and quit.’ ”

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “npHE Captains and the Kings depart.” The A statement is true in quite another sense than Kipling gave the words. Haile Selassie, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, ran from his city during its hour of peril in a manner unbefitting a lion or a king. According to all laws of self-preservation and common sense he was justified in his flight. But how glorious for mankind had he chosen to remain! How magnificent for the kingly ideal! How inspiring for the common soldier who is called upon to die for kings; Kings who run away—in the truest sense these constitute the greatest menace in our world. Little Haile Selassie flying from strongholds they have vowed to defend, and important statesmen of great nations deserting principles and bartering ideals for power or gold or personal prestige, are equal cravens at heart. Today our country, for which many brave men have died and to which other brave men have given lives of service, is facing a different sort of sacking than that which has taken place in far away Addij Ababa; but a sacking it is, nevertheless. We too are in desperate need of patriots who will not run away. Barbarian hordes invade the United States, hordes of self-seeking men who run to Washington from every community demanding special favors for their states or cities, regardless of how much havoc the obtaining of such favors will visit upon the country as a whole. The veteran who individually offered his life for his country, collectively destroys it by periodical raids upon its treasury. To many statesmen and leaders while they speak feelingly of patriotism, are disclosed as self-seeking, greedy and unpatriotic individuals. In ancient days captains went down with their ships and kings died with their men. Is Haile Selassie a symbol of something decadent in our world? HEARD IN CONGRESS REP. BANKHEAD (D., Ala.): I think the names of those distinguished (Republican) brain trusters ought to be embalmed in the record for the benefit of posterity. (Applause and laughter). Rep. Maverick (D., Tex.): Embalmed is right. They are dead intellectually and need it. I understand they tried to get Jobs with the Democrats, but they were so inefficient and ignorant that we would not hire them. (Laughter). Rep. Bankhead: That is the common report. I do not know r whether that is true or not (Laughter). * a a REP. MAVERICK (D., Tex.): They (the Republicans) have w’hat they call a National Bungler, who is Mr. Fletcher, and he went out and hired this brain trust. Rep. Brooks Fletcher (D., O.): Mr. Chairman, will the gentlemen give the full name—Henry P. Fletcher—not Brooks Fletcher? Rep. Maverick: I shall be pleased to see that that is done. Our Democrat, Fletcher, is the opposite of the Republican one in every way.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Our Town By ANTON SCHERRER

r T'O hear Hugo Ranje tell it, he and Herman KirkhofT, the plumber, are the only two left of all the men who worked on the Statehouse. To be sure, it's almost 50 years since the Statehouse was finished but, even so, mused Mr. Ranje, you’d think there would bs more left tc talk over the old times. “Those were the days," says Mr. Ranje, “long hours, lots of fun and plenty to eat.” Mr. Ranje remembers best Grover Cleveland’s visit to the Statehouse on the occasion of Vice President Hendricks’ funeral. That was in 1885, or three years before the Statehouse was completed. Mr. Ranje figures everything that way. Mr. Cleveland was so huge, says Mr. Ranje, that it took the six biggest horses of C. F. Schmidt’s brewery to haul him to the Statehouse. Jack Willis tooled the coach that day and it was a grand sight to watch. Mr. Ranje hasn't seen Mr. Willis for a long Lime either. a a a AND Charles Martindale is one of the very few left who remembers the famous Negro, Blanche K. Bruce. Nobody knows why Mr. Bruce came to Indianapolis, but it is generally supposed that it was because of a hunch that something would happen to Benjamin Harrison pretty soon. Mr. Bruce had a lot of hunches in his time and generally knew what to do with them. A Virginian by birth, he moved to Missouri at an early age, stuck around Oberlin College two years and at the age of 27 started business as a Mississippi planter. Two years later, in 1868, he was ser-geant-at-arms of the Mississippi State Senate. After that, he had anew office every couple of years and the new office was always an improvement over the last one. In 1872 he had more money than he knew what to do with, which fitted him for the United States Senate. He served from 1875 to 1881. At the expiration of his term, President Garfield appointed Mr. Bruce Register of the Treasury,, a position he held for four years. After that, probably in 1887, he came to Indianapolis. On Nov. 6, 1888, Benjamin Harrison was elected twenty-third President of the United States. And sure enough, when he went to Washington the following spring he took Mr. Bruce with him to be Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia. Which is why Indianapolis didn’t see more of Mr. Bruce.

TODAY’S SCIENCE - -By Science Service———

THE wind-swept wastes of the Greenland icecap, the cloudwrapped summit of a sacred Chinese mountain, the rocky shores of desolate islands in the Atlantic, and the tropical forests of Central America were four of the regions visited by 15 scientific expeditions from the Smithsonian Institution during the last 12 months. The bones of dinosaurs which roamed Montana and Wyoming millions of years ago, new species of animals from the Florida keys, sulphur crystals from the world’s highest mine located 20,000 feet above sea level on the summit of Mount Auncan quilcha, Chile, giant Brazilian tree-toads, and microscopic forms of life from the Arctic Ocean, were among the treasures brought back by the Smithsonian savants. Dr. Charles W. Gilmore collected a total of two tons of dinosaur bones. These included the skeletons of several rare specimens. He also found a complete skeleton of the coryphodon, a prehistoric mammal which resembled the hippopotamus. Dr. Doris M. Cochrane ?ieaded a frog-collecting expedition to Brazil. Among her most interesting observations were those of the nests cf the giant Brazilian tree-toad. She reports: “The nest w r as most s irprising bit of architecture, fully Q foot long and four inches high, ma<’e of mud heaped up and hollowed out, crater fashion.” Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt visited the Peruvian “bird islands” and the Galapagos. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett made collections of plankton microscopic forms of life in the Artie Ocean. The Rev. David C. Graham headed the expedition which climbed Mount Omei, a sacred mountain in the province of Szechwan, China. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka continued his explorations on Kodiak Island, where he found relics of the ancestors of the American Indian who made their way from Asia to America by way of the islands off the Coast of Alaska. “OTHER OPINION On the Elections (James A. Parley) Thqre is not a single cloud on the Democratic horizon. Every straw that blows points to the .-e-election of President Roosevelt by a majority that will march in step with his election in 1932, and with the vote of applause and ratification that swelled out membership in the Senate and the House of Representatives in 1934. Some of you might think the description of a cloudless sky is an exaggeration, in view of the anvil chorus being sounded by the Republican press and orators; but that is not a cloud. It is merely a dust storm, unpleasant to experience for the moment, but having no bearing on the general state of the oolitical weather. PRELUDE BY MARY WARD Spring’s orchestra has a clarinet That pipes from dawm to dark. And none has captured its music yet— Notes of the meadow lark!

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The Hoosier Forum / disapprove of ivhat you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

iTirnes readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sioned. but names will be withheld on reouest.i tt tt K WARNS THAT 150,000 MURDERERS ARE AT LIBERTY By M. M. Consider your nlight as the average American citizen. There are 300,000 people now living who will be murdered. You may be one of them. There are 150,000 actual murderers roaming at large. One or more of these may be shadowing your personal safety. And, finally, you are inadequately protected under the law, even if “justice” is dispensed, because the average murderer serves only four years iff prison. These are the startling statistics of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. The figures are so threatening, he says, because America’s law enforcement agencies are “hampered, hamstrung, and strangled by the blood-caked hand of crime-affiliated politics.” Think it over. tt u tt SCIENCE GAINING GROUND IN CRIME DETECTION By K. N. If you follow the crime news of the day, you may observe that the role of science in the solution of

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FIS.HBEIN THE first three or four months produce the most remarkable progress in a child’s existence. In this early stage, almost every day marks some distinct growth or development in the baby. It is important, therefore, that mothers keep particularly strict watch on their newly born infants. The sense of cold and warmth is not well developed in little babies. For this reason, mothers should protect them against cold and warmth with the right kind of clothing. A baby one month old will look first at its mother. It will hold or grasp any object that is put into its hand. Its eyes will follow moving light. Occasionally, it will lift its head. Mothers sometimes th’.nk they see a tiny babe smile. Cynics say that this Is simply “gas on the stomach.” Investigators fir id that one baby out of 375 can smile when 1 month old. When it is 2 months old, the baby will smile if it has anything to smile at. By the age of 2 months, most babies make cooing noises or gurgles. They can cry real tears. They will also yawn, stretch and kick. The eyes of tne tiny baby must

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or in* formation to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst. N. W.. Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q.—What is the age and height of Clark Gable. A—He is 35 years old and six feet one inch tall. Q—What is a sidereal year? A—The interval during which the earth makes one absolute revolution around the sun is called a sidereal year, and consists of 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes and 9.6 seconds. Q—How can the whiteness of old and dirty plaster objects be restored? A—Take finely powdered starch, quite white, and make a thick paste with hot water. Apply a thick layer when still hot, with a flexible spatula or brush on the plaster object. Let it dry slowly, and when dry, the starch will split and scale off. All the soiled parts of the plaster will adhere and be drawn off with the starch. This method of cleaning does not detract from the fineness of the model. Q —What was the retail value of all alcoholic beverages sold in 1934 and in 1935? A—ln 1934 it was estimated at approximately $2,000,000,000; and in 1935, at $#>225,000,000.

crime has become increasingly important. The Titterton murder in New York is a case in point. There the murderer was traced through a single strand of twine. Science played a decided role, says Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. And, in Washington, J. Edgar Hoover tells us that his laboratory is the best detective he has in his department. His files offer adequate proof of the part that chemistry and scientific approach in general mean to law enforcement in America. It is a broad hint to every police department and sheriff’s office in the country to turn as much as possible to the use of scientific deduction. The day of the “dumb cop’’ of familiar memory is over. tt tt tt LAUDS MRS. FERGUSON FOR COMMON SENSE By R. L. Re-’s, Rushvilie Mrs. Walter Ferguson is the only American newspaper columnist that has attained the N-th degree of common sense. It takes a very intelligent person to write a sensible article on Communism. Mrs. Ferguson proved that she was the only educated American newspaper columnist when she wrote the ending sentences to her discourse on this controversy between the R. O. T. C. Association of the United States and the Communists. Here is what she said: “Just another case of one propogandist accusing another, you

be protected from strong light. At the age of 2 months, the baby will turn its eyes toward a bright light and learn to blink when the light is too strong. Babies of this age also will turn their heads in response to spoken voices, and sometimes be frightened by a voice that is too loud or too shrill. * a a AT 3 months of age, some babies laugh aloud. They also will learn to roll over, so that it is not safe to leave a baby unprotected in an open bed. At this age, the baby should always be guarded against falls. A 3-month-old baby will grunt or gurgle, and grasp objects in its vicinity. As the infant grows, it begins to observe nearby objects. For this reason, a 4-mqnth-old baby will study its hands and fingers, and want to play a great deal at feeding time. About this time, the mother may begin to be exasperated with the difficulty of keeping the child’s attention on its feeding. The baby will be able to hold its head steady, so that it will turn away and begin to demonstrate will power, occasionally in opposition J .o the mother’s idea of what it ought to do.

Q —When was the Saar Valley plebiscite held? A—ln January, 1935. Q —What is the name of the man who drove a large herd of reindeer from southern Alaska to the Mackenzie Delta, near the extreme northwestern corner of Canada? A—Andrew Bahr, a Laplander, led the herd. It required six years of fighting storms, privation and timber wolves to drive the herd across the Arctic Circle to the destination. Q —When was the Federal tax on gasoline first imposed? A—June 21, 1932. Q —How is the name Roosevelt correctly pronounced? A—With the long sound of o, as in “go,” “rose,” etc. The Holland Dutch double letters indicate the long sound. Q —Can legislation in Congress originate in either the House or the Senate, or must it first be introduced in the House and then go to the Senate? A—Bills lor raising revenue, under the Constitution, must originate in the House; any other legislation may originate in either the House or the Senate. Q—Where and when was the composer Franz Lehar born? , A—ln Komarom, Hungary, April 30, 1870.

see. We'd be wise to fight shy of both.” Only a straight and honestthinking person will make such a statement. If only one-tenth of our population was as well educated as Mrs. Ferguson we would not be reading and hearing over the radio the boasts or organizations saying that they have two, three, four, five or more million on their sucker lusts. Os course, they do not call them suckers to their faces. I hope those who desire to be educated will read Mrs. Ferguson’s column, because I have yet to find a tainted and biased article. tt it a BELIEVES IL DUCE MAY HAVE BLUNDERED By T. J. Premier Mussolini considers now that his Ethiopian campaign has been completed. But is victory really established? That is the question the best military observers still ponder. Guerrilla warfare may go on Indefinitely, they point out. Ethiopia has very little land suitable for extensive cultivation. Italy has owned Eritrea for 40 years and its colonization there has been negligible. Is it logical to assume now that Italy’s 400,000 overflow population can find an outlet in this barren, torrid country? II Duce may find the whole affair a ghastly mistake. it a tt JUST ONE DAY FOR MOTHER By G. Wade Ain’t it nice that “mother” has a day! One day outer 365 really set aside for her day! Such generosity, such tender thoughtfulness —sakes alive! I says it’s downright magnificent, not to say sweet. But a course she’s s’posed to play ball—go right on cookin’, cleanin’, lookin’ out for each and all. Radio programs all notice her—every advertisement, for any old thing, deigns to remember “mother” once a year! Ain’t it wonderful, I awsk you? Aint it grand. Aint it a swell four-flush to toss all this acclaim once a year to poor little, dear little, sweet little “mother”? DAILY THOUGHT And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.—Ephesians 5:18. WHEN the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.—Jane Porter.

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE— Thl* rortnj reporter Err The Timet joes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories jieut this and that. PUEBLA, Mexico, May 11.—There was no place to sit. I walked up and down the aisle of the firstclass coach three times, and there wasn’t a vacant seat. I had been riding on the locomotive of the Oaxaca-Puebla train for half the night. It was 1 a. m. when I went back to the day coach, to try to sleep. I was the only American in the car. Also, I was the only person who wasn't asleep. Now there's no point in walking up and down an aisle all night. So I just picked up a Mexican's legs, moved them over to another fellow’s lap, and sat down. For a long time I couldn’t sleep. The lights were dim, but I could see everybody in the car. All wore American clothes. There were lots of children. And you never saw so many baskets. They were on seats, between seats, on top of people, stacked in the end of the car, even in the aisle. One mother was traveling with five kids. Across the aisle from me, in a double seat, were a father and mother and five children, all in a heap. n t> n THERE were couples, and single men. and single women. The couples always slept with the man's head on the woman's shoulder. Most mouths were open. But sleep was fitful and short, and every few minutes someone would wake up, try to twist to a more comfortable position, stare around at the other sleepers, and then settle back and close his eyes. The head of the seven-person family across from me woke up. He looked like a Mexican Charlie Chaplin. He had one baby on his lap. and two in the seat beside him. He reached down into a basket, pulled out a big bottle, and took a drink. I thought it was water. After a while he took another drink. Finally he reached over and touched my arm, and offered me the bottle. It was tequila. I said “no, gracias,” and put my hand on my temple, to indicate that it would give me a headache (and also that it was the worst tequila I ever smelled). Papa Chaplin was a little drunk. He kept hacking away at his bottle. The baby would slide off his lap, and he’d grab it just in time. He wanted to talk. And he did talk. I have no idea what he was talking about. tt tt tt MY leg went to sleep. I had to get up and walk up and down the aisle, shaking it, pins and needles running through it. Papa Chaplin had a remedy for that. He acted it all out, in pantomime. He had just about killed the bottle. He was still talking. Suddenly, the madam woke up. She scowled, grabbed the bottle and rattled off some Spanish. Papa Chaplin looked over at me, winked and went to sleep. I was dead for sleep, but I couldn’t sleep. There wasn’t room to stretch my legs out. There warn't room even to lay my head over just a little. There wasn’t room to relax even one muscle. You had to sleep sitting straight up. stiff as A poker, or not at all. Finally, I did doze off. Every few minutes I’d wake up and squirm around. Other people were doing the same. tt tt n WHEN I awakened from my longest nap, we were coming into Tehuacan, just before daylight. It suddenly had become very cold. Every one was waking up, shivering, pulling up qoat collars. At Tehuacan a horde of Indians came aboard. There must have been 30 of them. They were cold. Ail wore big straw hats, like sombreros, and the white pajama costume, and sandals, and had serapes wrapped around them. They all stood in the aisle, at one end of the car. After the train started they got to talking, and didn’t look so grim. It was beginning to get daylight now. I was wide awake. By 5:30 everybody was awake. Indians admired the waking children, and smiled at them, and talked with the mothers. People got up, and stretched and pulled at their clothes, and sat down again. I felt a little dirty, but sort of rested, as though I had slept several hours instead of maybe just one. But was terribly cold. At 6 o’clock we stopped to take on water. So I went up to the engine and sat down in the fireman’s seat, close to the warm boiler, and there I stayed until we pulled into Puebla two hours later.

By George Clark