Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1936 — Page 9

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, FROM INDIANA F By ERNIE PYLE

LACIER PARK, Sept. 14.—In case some = | reader doesn’t know (and I didn’t know until a couple of months ago), Glacier National Park is in the northwest corner of Montana. It’s about 30 miles long, north and south, and 50 miles wide, and runs to the Canadian line. In fact. it across the line and becomes Canada’s Waterton Park. The continental goes thFough the middle of it. For a number of decades I have hated national parks. It is true, I had never been in one. But a national park to me meant a touristy, resgrty sort of place—with nature labeled and set up for display like a two-headed calf. And with trailer | vacationists squatting tin-can suppers by the millions. So you can see that it was not of my own free will and volition that I got into the national-park-reporting business. But now The national parks have devourad me, I am a fan. For a national park is not the repulsive experience I thought it would be. Take Glacier. for Instance. It has not been spoiled, or even| deeply invaded. ? = a u Million Acres in Mountains LACIER PARK contains nearly a million acres F of mountains. - It has 60 glaciers and 200 lakes. And I'll bet that not one out of 100 park visitors ever gets closer than two miles to a glacier, ever sees more than six of the 200 lakes, ever gazes upon more than one side of the mountain peaks along the highwav.

goes

+ Mr. Pyle

All the rest is there. back behind the scenes—original, -

. genuine, beautiful, lonely.

And back there is'where the heart lies. There are |

several hundred miles of trails in Glacier Park, passahle only by horse or on foot.

* with only mountain goats and marmots and great silence of nature for company. . People have said that th? Canadian Rockies are more dramatic than the American.

that would Canada.

race nose-and-nose with anything

Glacier is laid out and run practically the same |

as Banff in Canada. The government owns it, and the Great Northern Railroad has adopted it, just as the Canadian Pacific has Banff Park. In fact, I am

not sure that the two railroads have not done as | and popularizing the parks |

much toward develqgping as the governments.

Wants to Walk 125 Miles

4) Bln Great Northern owns the four big hotels, and |

most all- the chalets and tent camps in Glacier. You can have the hotels. But the chalets are wonderful. : There are two things I wish some day to do. One is to start at the south end of Glacier Park, and walk clear to Canada... By trail it’s about 125 miles. It would take close tp two weeks, what with an occasional lazy lavover at some beautifully isolated chalet. t The other is to pass myself off as a college student and get a job as a busboy in one of the park's swank ote! dining rooms. . ‘hen, during the brief interval before I got fired. 1 would go around awkwardly pouring water into people’s laps, and saying to Mrs. DePeister, in a startled manner, “Madam, had you noticed that dead bug in your salad?” : Iiacidentally, these college kids who work as menials in the park during the summer are a swsll bunch. Most of them are from Minnesota, since thd Great Northern is headquartered there. You need pull to get a summer park job. . The girls aren't supposed to have cigarets, or use rouge. But they do. In somne of the hotels the help are allowed to dance with the guests. In some they are not, : ,

'Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT LBANY, N. Y. Sunday.—The weather is glori-

ous, with a real tinge of autumn in the air. |

After nearly 10 days entirely out of a big city, it makes one loathe 'wending one’s way baek to one. even for a short time. Tomorrow we must first go to New York and [then to Washington, and a busy round of formal living will begin again. Today, however, I want to continue a little on the subject I began in my last article. I am constantly being besidged by letters which ask that I do something to make domestic service an occupation as well considered as anv other kind of work by which a woman earns her living. It seems to me

that this can never be done overnight, for it requires | maid. |

the education of both the mistress and the The younger people will find it easier to fall into new ways. If we have maids on an eight-hour basis

and live up to cerfain rules and regulations, the new,

generation wil] not find it so hard. The older. people, on the other hand, many of them kindness itself, find it particularly difficult to - understand that kindness is not exactly what needed, but that every individual wishes an opportunity to live a life of his own for a certain number of hours out of every 24.

That is why factory work is preferred by SO many |

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the worm has turned. |

You could walk for a | month over these trails. and probably never meet more | than 40 people. You would be alone among the peaks, J the

I thought so, too, but now I don't know. There are spectacles in Glacier |

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~The Indianapolis

Second Section

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at 'ostoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

[WAR GAMES AROUND THE WORLD

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Realism Is Grim Keynote of Widespread Military Maneuvers

BELGIUM —

Victims and gas-masked rescuers, in the streets of Bruges, realistically enact what happens in

an air raid. The demonstration was conducted by the West Flanders

Red Cross to test the skill of first aid detachments.

Uniformed nurses

keep back the crowd, eager to watch.

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| } i / . Gas-masked solITALY diers extinguish | a building fire during realistic defense maneuvers in Naples.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS | Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The outlook for meeting Hitler's demand for colonies without an appeal to force is, in the view of British, French and Rus-

sian statesmen, dark indeed. Three-fourths of the habitable globe already is in the hands of six nations. The other quarter is divided among the remaining 60odd countries. All told, there is only 57,000,000 square miles of territory, good, | bad and indifferent, scattered | ‘about the earth. Of that, the Brit- | ish Empire controis 13,172,000 | square miles, or approximately one quarter of all worth having. | The second largest landholder is | the Soviet Union, with 8,144,000 | square miles, about one-seventh of the total. France ranks third, with nearly 5,000,000 square miles, and China fourth with some four and a quarter million. Brazil comes | fifth, the United States last, each { with something like three million | Square miles.

GERMANY —

Veteran soldiers, 100,000 strong, loaded guns with blank cartridges to take part in military

maneuvers which had ali the realism of actual warfare at Kassel. Here are machine gunners with their modern mobile weapons, backed by a supporting detachment of infantrymen.

Armored

FRANCE — Arr and

tanks roar over Paris’ Champs

Elysees, parading before President

Lebrun.

celebration of Aviation Day.

Red planes demonstrate the effectiveSOVIET RUSSIA—72ed of aerial warfare, aiming bombs at a dummy railway station and blowing it to bits.

attack took place at, Tushinsky airdrome in Moscow as part of the

The practice air

EAVING China, Brazil and the / United States out of the picture, so far as Hitler's present plans are concerned, it would ap-

pear that if Germany is to find her place in the sun it must be at the expense of Britain, Russia and France. But none of these has any intention of turning over any territory to Germany. The Soviet Union has warned the world, again and again, that she is prepared to go to war rather than yield an inch. Ang she has built up the - world’s largest army to ‘back up her word. As to Britain and France, both take the position that it would not do them or the cause of peace a particle of good to yield to bellig= erent Germany's demands. “Were Britain to return the German colonies,” a high British | official told the writer in London

last May, “it would make- matters { worse rather than better. In | Germany's present mood she

Knowledge of

Discovery in India May Exiend

Ancient Culture

BY SCIENCE SERVICE Biaosroo England, Sept. 14. —A discovery expected to push | back the age of known human habi-

| @QTUDY of the fossil record of life t on the earth in past ages can | tell only half of the story of evolu- | tion—and the latter half at that.

voung people to work in domestic service. Yet there | tation in India and throw much | The first part of each chapter, that is a great field for rendering really helpful service, |light on its culture was reported | tells of origins, is always a blank.

and perhaps more opportunities for employment in this field than in any other at the present time. I think, perhaps, that one of the best things that could happen to us would be to go back to the practices of our great-great-grandmothers.

Sometimes they invited their friends to let them |&d an exploration for the Brussels |

teach their daughters how to keep house, or they’

took on girls from the neighborhood. They, paid |

‘them. but they worked with them. That would make a different thing of domestic service right away, vouldn't it? However, along with it would have to .go the obligation that no one worked too hard or too long, that no one was underpaid: and so I suppose there would have to be some Kind of checking.

up even on these home occupations. (Copyright, 193%, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

HE United States: has strict immigration laws. Those, however, who can not legally enter this country are often smuggled in: and it is over ‘the Mexican border that this “contraband” most often comes. : : : Karl Detzer, in CONTRABANDO (Bobbs-Merrill; £2), has written a/tale of this region and the efforts of the Border Patrol to control smuggling of all kinds. In it figure Joe Carrick of the Border Patrol, who has a private grudge to settle; the willful and beautiful Alice Layton; Tranquilino McCoy, the red-headed half-breed smuggler; and the anarchist, the wild Belita de-Taorriente, whp for a time possesses Tranquilino’s hears. : : Though the author is 8 Hoosier, his experience with the Army when it was. stationed at the Mexican border gave him the material for a story full of suspense, set against a background of the romance and squalor. : 2 & = Io SANFELICE, the lovely and gentle aristocrat, did not understand politics, least 'of all the Jacobin intrigues current in Naples in 1799. Yet, through her sickly and passionate lover. she found herself the heroine of the abortive revolution of that Fear; and when the inevitable and tragic end came, “she shared the fate of the revolutionaries. Vincent Sheehan, in SANFELICE (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50). tells the story of a revolution attempted without support or money for the sake of an ignorant Populace which did not want it. He tells of the sim-ple-minded Bourbon king and his strong-willed and debauched Austrian queen; and of the strange situation In which Emma; Lady Hamilton, born a blackSala S : the ess of the

| today to the British Association for | the Advancement of Science meet- | ing here by Mlle. Simone Corbiau, | Belgian archaeologist who conduct-

| Museum. Digging at a site that was supi posed to contain only remains of {the Greco-Buddhist times,® Mile. Corbiau found evidence of a .far more ancient civilization. Mile. Corbiau believes that a very | early stage of Indus Valley civilization has been discovered, which’ is | paralleled by finds in Sumerian : Mesopotamia of the Jemdet Nasr | period, protohistoric Aegean, and at the prehistoric site of Anan in Russian Turkestan.

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A SISTEY of making signs was { recommended at the meeting {by Sir Richard Paget as, the ideal { international language, that would { be natural to all races as well as | easy to learn and remember. | His study of sign language and | his conclusion that speech is simply { mouth : gestures expressing meaning (gave rise to Sir Richard's sugges- | tion. { The proposed world sign language | would be controlled from the start, | he suggested, by a warld commission | that would promulgate its decisions { by means of movies and television. { “Man is not primarily a tool-using animal,” Sir Richard said. “He is | rather a symbol-using animal. {| “Speech was born when separate | signs were evolved for separate i ideas. The: corresponding mouth | gestures were combined with the emotional - language of grunts,

[chuckles and cries, and ultimately |

| produced speech.

“Sign language could be logically | | developed so as to express the high- |

| est and. subtlest thoughts of man. | “Auditory | language use it required {did not need light or direct vision for its understanding. “The development of speech is re-

h superseded sign | less | { effort. It left man’s hands free, and |

| This was brought out by Prof. H. |L. Hawkins of the University of | Reading in his address delivered | here as president of the geology

| section of the British Association { for the Advancement of Science.

| “A paleontologist is more of an undertaker than a midwife,” said | Prof.- Hawkins. “Paleontology gives | no direct evidence as to the origin of groups, of whatever taxonomic | grade: its scope is limited to rec|ords of the later stages in the ca- | reers of groups already in existence. | “Again, fossil evidence can not | give convincing demonstration of

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{ the origin of structures in organ- | isms; its scope is restricted to ob- | servation of the fate of those | structures after they have appeared. There must always be a | theoretical quality in attempted ex- | planations of the development of | new characters; there are facts re- | cording what “happens to them in | course of time.” : :

would regard it as an act of surrender prompted by British fear of Nazi might. Hitler would immediately get the idea that he could scare anything else he might wish out of London if only he

kept increasing his armaments.

Eventually it would come to a showdown anyhow.”

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RENCH statesmen. share this:

view. They are convinced Hitler already is motivated by a superiority complex of the most

dangerous order. Having got away with coup after coup, they say, the Teutonic war lord now is convinced he has Europe on the run. Remains, therefore, a slice of Russia on which the Nazis may have their eyes. This would fit in with the Nazi edict that “Bolshevism must be annihilated.” Their price for the annihilation job pa‘tently would be of a territorial nature. It would also answer Hitler’s dream of expansion eastward.

ENGLAND—

Practice in the use of high explosives ‘was provided for England's Royal Engineers when they

blew up this old factory, condemned. The building’s smokestack looms

above the billowing clouds of smoke.

JAPAN—

Prince Mikasa (in foreground), youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, rides his horse into mid-stream,

along with officers and. members of the Fifteenth Cavalry Regiment. The picture was made during recent military exercises near Fokyo.

Sullivan Charges Partisanship in . ~ Revealing Contributions in Maine

(Mr. Sullivan Writes Thrice Weekly)

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Announcement last week that Gov. Landon would go to Maine to help the Republicans in‘ the state election was unexpected and made the Maine election conspicuous. Also it was. obvious that Gov. Landon’s visit would tend to make Republican victory more certain and larger. The following day came quick action from the Democratic side. Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures gave out a partial list of contributors to the Republican campaign fund in Maine. The list showed members of the du Pont family had contributed $22,600 and

The Broun, Pegler, Johnson and Merry-Go-Round columns have been moved from this page to the Editorial Page (Page 10).

that other wealthy persons had con- |

tributed $29,000 more. This incident needs some clarifi-

cation. The Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures is an official body. In composition it is nonpartisan, though, of course, the Democrats, being the party in power, have a majority of the committee and control its actions. This committee has access to the books of all campaign organizations of both parties. Ordinarily and logically, a nonpartisan and official body would give out the contributions of both parties at the same time, and would give them out complete and in the orderly manner that should be expected of an official committee. :

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HAT was done in this case was quite different. Democratic members of the committee selected and gave out the names of 13 contributors known as wealthy persons. and who had contributed, relatively, amounts to the Republican fund. They did not give any names of the hundred who had con-

tributed smaller amounts. As for |

contributors to the Democratic fund, the committee said that “Democratic contributions and expenditures” would be reported later.

building in the village.

sat almost the whole of one people come and go.

firmament. i of the immense structure.

gold . leaf.

and of celestial serenity.

was ‘only 3 Ip

N spite of religious dissension, still dominate the Mexican scene. small town has its church, and even though it be a humble one, it is always the most beautiful

In the great cathedral at Mexico City, said to be the largest and richest on the continent, and built so long ago it holds lingering memories of countless generations of worshipers, Ie

The ceiling was so far away it was like a Numerous altars lined both sides The floor was worn by the tread of millions of feet. were - unbelievably lavish: fine lace, exquisite embroidery, and what appeared to be miles of Candles burned, winking at the farthest end, a city block away. The statues dwindled to pigmy figures when seen from the opposite end of the building. One had a feeling of illimitable space, of immeasurable time 3 5

the cathedrals Every

day watching not know.

Decorations

read or write.

‘spect for the truth

"A Woman's Viewpoint--Mrs. Walter Ferguson

constant stream men and women went by moving shadows under the enormous arches, their feet making no sound in the vast proportions of that awe-inspiring temple. - crones, the sick, the wretched, mothers with babies in their arms, straight, stalwart soldiers, fine ladies and. ragged children, all were wrapped for a few moments in a mystic trance. How many millions of their kind have passed through those doors since the building was dedicated in 1667? How many broken hearts have here sought ease, how many tired souls found rest in this ancient sanctuary? We can

Aged

, Unspeakable poverty may be seen without the cathedral walls. But there is always beauty and richness to be had within. shut away from the sight of it. A great many natives who go there can

And none is

Nevertheless, it is a memorable

experience to watch their faces in the temple of their God. - One is moved by a profound re- : their unfaltering trust. Probably if would be glad his

many a learned visitor

So far the only point of much public importance is one of preserving respect for government. An official Senate committee is not supposed to serve flagrantly the purposes of one political party. Immediately after publication of contributors to the Republican campaign in Maine, New Deal spokesmen emitted much vociferation about men of wealth, especially the du Ponts, making Republican campaign contributions. But the fact is the du Ponts, preceding the present campaign, contributed to Democratic funds, and: contributed extremely large amounts. In the 1932 campaign in which President Roosevelt was a candidate, and in the building up of the Democratic organization to elect Mr. Roosevelt, the du Ponts. contributed large amounts. I take .the facts from an obviously careful

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER |

(Pictures, Page 8)

NIELS JENSEN was pointing up the facade of the Michigan-st branch of the

Fletcher Trust Co. when 1 saw him one day :

| last week. He was doing a good job, too.

| Job.

Twenty years ago he had another good At that time he was a sailor on the

| British gas tanker Vitruvia plying between Chester,

compilation made by Senator Hast- i ings of Delaware in the Senate last |

April 20.

2 #” # i R. PIERRE DU PONT gave | $90.000 to the Democratic Na- | tional Committee from 1928 to 1932. |

Irenee du Pont gave large amounts |

—he gave 35000 April 4, 1933, one month after Mr. Roosevelt was in the White House. An important member of the du Pont company, ‘Mr. John J. Raskob, was the largest contributor any ‘American political party ever had. During four years he gave $375,000 in cash to the Democratic National Committee. He gave $25,000 on Oct. 21, 1932, to help in the election of Mr. Roosevelt, which took place two weeks later. : It would be quite within the accepted rules of political combat for any Republican spellbinder to say, as he could say truthfully, that President Roosevelt and Democratic National Chairman Farley did not discover that du Pont money was tainted until after they had ceas to be beneficiaries of it. f (In a dispatch a few weeks ago, dealing with the report of the Commission on Social Studies, I printed

{a partial list of the college teachers i who mainly composed tHe commis-

sion. In the list was the name of Charles E. Merriam, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. I now learn that Prof. Merriam did not sign the report. Dr. Merriam expressed his conclusions ina Sepasaie volume entitled “Civie

Del, U. 8S. A, and the Shetland Islands. It didn’t make much sense to deliver 5000 tons of gasoline cvery

28 days to an isolated place as tar off us the Shetland Islands, but Sailor Jensen asked no questions. He didn’t have to because he had a sailor's hunch that Admiral Jellicoe and his North Atlantic Fleet were somewhere in- the neighborhood. Probably, they could use all the gas Sailor Jensen could bring them. Anyway, that was Niels Jensen’s job from 1914 to 1419. : On the morning of ‘Wednesday, May 31, 1916. Sailor Jensen got up at sunygise and, right away, began : feeling funny. He told his buddy, the third mate, about it and, right away, the third mate said he had the same symptoms. It was a funny feeling around the gills, they agreed. and together they decided they'd

Mr. Scherrer

be lucky to get through the day alive.

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Calm Before Storm

HERE wasn't a sign of impendi¥g disaster any where around. On the east was the lovely coast of Denmark -and immediately ahead were the watery of Skagerrack. The sea was perfectly calm and not as much as a breeze was stirring. :

At 3 o'clock that afternoon, all of a sudden, Sailor Jensen saw a German destroyer come out of the horizon and make straight - for his boat. ' It gave the tanker the once-over and went ort its way. Immediately thereafter, coming from the same die reption, Sailor Jensen saw the German fleet and a Zeppelin approaching in battle formation. - Looking the other way, he saw the English Fleet and in less time than it takes to tell—such js the ‘working of the human mind—Niels Jensen realized that he was

caught in a naval battle with not a Chinaman’s -

chance of escape. Historians now refer to it as the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval encounter of all tims, . Sailor Jensen says the battle was horrible. And as for the fireworks, noise and smoke, there was never anything like it. Not even Paine’s Fire Works. Sailor Jensen says he went out to Butler Bowl last year to see Paine’s Fire Works because everybody: had been talking it /up so that he wanted to see for himself, Well, the Battle of Jutland had it licked. 5 Men and Ships Go Down

Se JENSEN says the Battle of Jutland didn’t last nearly as long as most historians made out, It was mostly over by supper time, but it lasted long enough for him to see at, least a dozen dreadnaughts, cruisers and destroyers goto the bottom. He suspects the Germans lost about 13¢and the English about the same. - One combat he remembers in particular. ‘A Ger= man cruiser, slick as they make them, came crouch ing like a panther and made straight for an English ship, coming to actual grips with it. It gave it everything it had and tore its whole side .wide open, In two minutes, it was all over. In another half-hour,

he saw the victorious German cruiser sunk the same

way. At about 8 o'clock that night, after everybody thought the battle was over, Sailor Jensen saw the Pagship Queen Mary go down with 1300 men on oard. day. There is a legend, says Sailor Jensen, that one man escaped, but nobody has ever seen him. That same. night, under cover of darkness, Niels Jensen and his mates picked their way through the sickening debris and made their escape. By that time, too, the Germans were on their way home. So was Jellicoe. Which is why nobody, including Sailor Jensen, can figure out what all the horrible slaughter was about, So

It was the most terrifying spectacle of tha =

Hoosier Yesterdays

SEPTEMBER 14 -

BY JL HI N September, 1885, representatives of some local trade unions met in Indianapolis and organized the Indiana Federation of Trade and Labor Unions, later known as the State Federation of Labor. This organization is claimed to be the oldest state federation in the United States. Through its legislative council, the federation, as it still does, exerted pressure on the General Assembly and political parties for betterment of labor conditions generally. 5 Purpose of the organization is succinctly stated in the president's address at that first meeting: ; “We have met here, then, to exert our efforts

toward the amelioration of the conditions of all who

labor; to bring about something like an equitable distribution of the wealth produced by labor; to shorten the hours of labor; to protect not only our rights as citizens, but to protect ourselves in life and limb in the various occupations which we pursue.”

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

N connection with cathartics and laxatives there =

should be also some discussion on the enema, This has been greatly popularized in recent years, although ijt is one of the oldest methods of treats ment known to man. : An enema is a means of introducing fluid or drugs into the bowels from below, either te assure action of the drugs or action of the bowel, :

For very small babies, enemas qr injections ars

given with a- pear-shapéd soft rubber-tipped ear syringe. These are also made with hard rubber tips, but for little babies, the soft tip is better than the hard one. 1 : These syringes hold about a wine glass full of

fluid, which is about as nmoch as should” be injected

at any one time into the bowels of an infant. these injections, the bulb is Squeezed as slowly and gently as possible. . se

For grownups the ordinary fountain syringe is

used. The best. types are those of glass or tin, grad-

uated so that amount of the material and rate of the flow can be estimated. Enemas are given with material which is retained for the treatment of the bowel or with drugs which will be absorbed for the effects on the body generally. : RE There are nutrient enemas which contain food, given to people who can not take food in other ways. There are also enemas which are planned to fill the body with fluids. : 5 In place of laxatives or cathartics, one uses enemas of piain water, of soap and water, of glycerine and salts, of soapsuds and salts, or of other ; Strongly medicated enemas never should be used ex~ cept under the specific directions of g doctor. Enemas are especially useful when the UC: tion is in the lower part of the bowel. If the enema is planned merely to ‘empty the lower part of bowel a pint of fluid injected rapidly with patient sitting down will do the work. : If a complete cleaning of the bowel is the one or two quarts of water, preferably warm. in duced with the patient either his side or the knee-chest position, that is 3 the chest touching the bed, will do