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FROM INDIANA .By ERNIE PYLE :

(HADRON, Neb., Sept. 28.—While strolling down the street in Chadror one evening, just to pass the time away, the sound

of public speaking fell upon my ears. There being nothing else to do, and the

night being balmy and full of prairie stars, I thought I'd look in, The voices came from a park, full of grass and big trees, and there in gne corner, under dim electric vets was the speaking. was a political meeting. The crowd wasn't very big. maybe 500 people, sitting around in shirt sleeves and summer dresses. There was a chairman and two speakers, The chairman was a local banker. The first speaker was Rep. Harry Coffee, who lives in Chadron. The second and star orator was Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming. The Cofiees, I am told, are the leading family in this part of the Mr. Pyle state. They are cattlemen and bankers. They are very well-to-do. Harry Coffee has served one term in Congress. It was his first whirl into politics. He is up for re-elec-‘tion. He is still a fairly young man, ‘We sat through the whole meeting, and enjoyed it, much to our surprise. It was over by 9:30. It was one of the most reasonable political meetings 1 have ever heard. Exaggeration and vilification were not invited. The speakers sounded actually as though they

meant what they said. ” ” 2

Down Comes Tree-Sitter

HERE were big trees all around the audience, 1 trees were full of little boys. The biggest tree was right behind the speaker's platform. It was alive with children. They crawled from limb to limb. I knew something would happen. It did. One lad got top far out, and the limb broke with aygreat crack, and you could see the lad’s white shirt going swiftly down through the green leaves. The crowd caught its breath in a big unanimous gasp. But the kid was good. He grabbed another limb on the way down, and swayed till he got his leg up over it. Senator O'Mahoney never missed a phrase. A man in a white suit surged around and sent all the kids scurrying. Senator O'Mahoney made an excellent speech. He did not use notes, he did not hesitate.

His theme was that Nebraska is an agricultural state, and that for 12 years the Republican Admin-

. istration didn't have an agricultural policy, ang that

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Roosevelt is the first President since the war to do anything for the farmers. The audience cheered. He said that Roosevelt would be elected by a bigger majority than he had in 1932, Some Republicans sitting on top of a World War cannon in the corner of the park mumbled to themselves, and I heard one say, “When a man talks like that, it just shows . . .” » ” ”

Nice Social Evening

HEN it was over, the audience was invited up to meet the Senator. | About half of them went up. I. went up, ton. The Senator stared at me like he was seeing a ghost. , “You didn’t know you'd have a Washington reporter way out here, did you?” 1 said. “Well, where did you come from?” he asked. After the crowd had dwindled away, we got in a couple of cars and went down to Rep. Coffee’s house for some refreshments. It was a nice socidl evening—not a horse-and-buggy evening by any means. 1 suppose a political speaker would call it a “typical American evening.” I was glad it all happened the way it did.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

~ BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT YDE PARK, N. Y, Sunday.—We spent a part of Saturday morning in New York City having a quiet breakfast in our apartment. Then I sallied forth and in a brief two hours, I'think, ordered all my winter clothes. I hope so, for the next few months on my calendar look so busy that I know I shall find myself in the midst of winter like “Flora McFlimsey of Washington Square with nothing to wear”; figuratively speaking of course. The real trouble is that I must always have something new, which seems to me utterly unnecessary, but I suppose it is cne of the demands of White House life. After shopping, we took the train to Poughkeepsie and my youngest son met me at the station. Because we lunched on the train it never occurred to me that our arrival would interfere with his lunch, and 1 was horrified to learn that he had had nothing to eas. As usual there were many guests at the house, and 50 I said a hurried greeting to my husband and my mother-in-law and all the guests, n|order not to delay them any longer than Ene {I left them and went over to the cottage to get some of the mail, ed up. By 5 o'clock I was back with my mother-in-law

“and my husband, for we had about 10 people come

in between 5 and 6 just to “say a few words” to the President. Mr. and Mrs. Basil O'Connor spent the night, and some other friends who had come up for dinner did not know just where they wanted to stay. I took them over to my weaving rooms for there I have two extra guest rooms. Nelly Johansen is always ready to look after any one who wishes to occupy them, so they decided they preferred these accommodations to any hotel, After dinner they went over, and I found them very happily esconced tnis morning when I stopped in to look at them to make sure they were comfortable. My mother-in-law has four great-grandchildren staying at the house, two grandsons, and my daughter and her husband. So even a big house is fairly full. This morning the President and his mother went to church, but I decided that a little fresh air was probably wise for me, particularly as the number of peopl» coming for lunch seemed to change every few minutes. I think the final number of guests will be 16. I may, however, be mistaken, for I have been over at the cottage for a short while and when I ieturn to the house I may find that several more have been added. When the President is home guests spring out of th: ground! (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Book | 1897 Prince von Bulow said, “We do not want; to put any one in the shade, but we demand a place for ourselves in the sun.” The phrase A PLACE IN THE SUN, which Grover Clark has taken for the title of his book (Macmillan; $2.50), became famous, but the struggle for colonies had been going on long before the phrase was coined. It is this struggle, with its mixture of international deceit, mistreatment of natives and patriotic slogans, sich the author describes in the first part of his

The greater part, however, is devoted to examining and reviewing the familiar claims that colonies are

necessary to provide for expanding populations and to furnish raw materials and markets. Instead, he says, they | have Proved to be liabilities only.

” 2 8 . the question of the Constitution and its

tation is to the fore, THE STORY OF

- oun CONSTITUTION (Dodd, Mead; $2) is a book

% which will interest many voters.

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lated if something happened to him, preferably the

worst.

And yet it did not seem to me that any excess safeguards had been set up to thwart a possible attack on . his person. Anybody armed with no more than the usual passport credentials may enter Germany at any time No questions a s to race, politi~ cal philosophy or taste in wines. All during ‘'t h e Olympic Games . Hitler s a t himself squarely in the middle of the stand of honor in full view of everybody in the stadium, presenting as conspicuous a target as any marksman—I almost wrote Marxist—would want. Day after day he. rode through crowded streets in an open motor car, wav= ing sweetly to the boys and girls. And at intervals he appeared on the balcony of the chancellery to utter a few stock phrases to the massed hundreds in the square across the street.

True enough, Hitler was usually well surrounded by members of

Mr. Williams

Leaders Believe in ‘Divine Protection’ for Hitler Against Attacks, Joe Williams Reports:

(Last of a Series) BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer (OUTSIDE Naziland Adolf Hitler is scarcely the most be- . loved figure in world history. cient evidence before the Court to justify a vague, fluttery suspicion that a few people would not be completely deso-

Indeed, there is suffi-

the black uniformed special guard (they wear Der Fuehrer’s signature stitched in silver on their cuffs by way of proclaiming their

loyalty), but the number was not

impressive nor the display formidable. AS 5 matter of fact, Mr. Jimmy Walker used to arrive at the prize fights in his mayoralty days . accompanied by a. much more ambitious show of power, his private soldiery consisting of some 50 large, arrogant policemen,

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N those days it would haye been considerably more difficult for a crackpot came to.break through Mr. Walker's bodyguard and bounce a wet smack off his kisser than it was in Berlin when a curiously indiscriminating lady from California—it would have to be a screwhall American, wouldii’t it?—did just that to Hitler. Perhaps it’s as Reichminister Rudolph Xess says: “Hitler has nothing to fear. God is always at his side.” . Or perhaps it’s true that he has half a dozen doubles who do the Nazi straight-arm for the populace while their boss watches from the sidelines behind dark ‘glasses and a man’s size mustache. + The equestrian events filled the program on the last day of the Olympics, with army officers from all over the world in stirring exhibitions of graduate horseman-

* Bradstreet’s any way.

ship. Between events a squad of some 40 German -women, all dressed alike in gray cotton robes, waddled out on the field and pounded the scarred turf into a smooth velvety - carpet. They worked at this from early in the forenoon till the moon came up, and the last jumps were executed under the glare of arc lights. In a slightly exaggerated sense this was symbolic of womanhood in the Third Reich. Women are supposed to work and make certain sacrifices—and I can name you more than one American husband who will applaud this program rapturously, especially around the first. of the month when the bills start to. come in. Hitler scorns woman’s rights as “a product of decadent Jewish. intellectualism.” Moreover, he’s going to take the vote. away from them. As a compromise he promises every woman of. i age a husband, © aa 2 2 8 TT presumption is this applies only to native German frauleins, Hitler has other compelling devices at hand to stimulate the foreign feminine tourist business, such as cheap marks, camera bargains and Wagnerian festivals. ‘It is pleasing and refreshing to know no American woman would ‘ever consent to exchange her previous rights for a mere husband—not without first looking him up in Dun & Of course if he looked like Robert Taylor +'« «. and in a great many instances, even if he looked like be different.

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It would be unfair to report that women were used only for drudgery, sweaty weork-horse per=formances at the Olympics. There was an attractive exception. “Leni Rieffenstahl had charge of filming the games for the Nazi propaganda department. As I cabled from Berlin this will be the most tremendous thing of its kind in history¢ Fifty cameras from as many different angles took nearly two million feet of film. It will take at least. :18 months merely to cut, edit. and assemble the footage. Fraulein Rieffenstahl will be in complete charge. She used to be a movie cutie, the “Mary Pickford of Germany.” She's a director now, a small brunet with sharp features and ‘easy on the peepers. Of all the women in Germany she is said to have the fnost desirable job—and what “may or may hot be significant, ‘she is said to be closest to Der Fuehrer’s ear. Very carelessly I neglected to get a good look at . the Chancellor’s ear so I am unable to speculate just how fortunate the young charmer is.. There was always a camera in Der Fuehrer’s box and when Fraulein Rieffenstahl wasn’t

‘kugeltossers and the speerwurfers she was up in the honor stand recording with obvious feeling . the Big Guy's reactions, as reflected in the nervous, jiggley behavior of his ink spot mustache . +. It may be love.

” ” ” : HAVE devoted the best part of my life for the past several

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

fascism with a view to counseling

the young and the unwary, and I have about reached the con-

clusion via Hoboken, Perth Am-

boy and Manhattan Transfer that it won't do for us Americans. It is too exhausting. It would get us down. All the horrors of fascism have not been exposed. - Few people realize that in order to be a real good Fascist you must be able w sing all day and march all day. What's more you must like it. It is a mystery to me that the German Fascists ever get any work done. They are always marching through the streets singing songs to somebody or something. We have it pretty soft here in America. There is only one national hymn, and it is not considered a crime against the country if you don’t happen to know the words. (However, 1 never could understand why such ignor.ance was considéred amusing and sophisticated.) Anyway, in the Fascist countries there are always two patriotic hymns—one in memory of the old regime, the other in glorification of the present. At the Olmypics whenever an Italian or a German won an event the band would play two pieces. Thus it was possible to identify by ear the countries that had embraced fascism and those who retained the status quo. The Germans won with such regularity that in the end it became very tiring standing through the double musical salute. Everybody stood of course, and with heads bared, but only the Germans saluted. 2 =» ” HE Germans didn’t fool around with their national songs either! They tore right into them and belched the words out with a booming Siprey. They didn’t give them e mumblébumbles you and I do when we stand up to fake the Star Spangled Banner. They knew the words and seemed proud of the chance to holler ’em out in public. And somehow that didn’t seem altogether -barbaric either, although it did make me realize how, poorly

cept- fascism. We could never memorize: two of those things. What else now? (Oh, yes} Remember Putzy, who was around town giving the’ ‘Broadway hot spots a play a couple of years ago? Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, to give him his full tag. He was very palsy-walsy with Hitler at the time. The Dictator’s favorite piano player, no less, besides being the Nazi Party's contact had come te America to present a scholar-

m' whith he ‘was graduated in 1009, 'Hafvardl' declired.’ “As I recall, what Harvard’ needed’ most at the moment was a hardrunning back that could kick and pass. Anyway, ‘old Putzy is. just an-

versity,

these days. Either he has lost his touch at the piano or Der Fuehrer has switched to the bazooka. Putzy, the gross and clownish, who boasted of his power and position in the Nazi picture over the wine cup here, didnt éven have a ticket to the games. He wound up putting the bite on an American sports writer.

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BY SCIENCE SERVICE EW YORK, Sept. 28. — Death from falling out ‘of a window or in front of a speeding automobile may have every appearance oi

den dizziness caused by such a trif-

ling condition as an accumulation | of wax in the ear canal. Such a possibility was pointed out | by Dr. Marvin F. Jones at the opening session here this morning of the American Academy of Ophthal- | mology and Otolaryngology. This organization is made up of | over 2500 American and Canadian |

of eye and ear-nose-throat disorders. Applicants must be certified by national examining boards before they can become members. Besides listening to reports of scientific research, the members gathered for the annual meeting go to classes and clinics to learn more about various phases of their specialti Dizziness may also be a sign some serious ailment such as ‘a brain tumor er of bleeding within the complex internal ear mechanism, Dr. Jones said. This indicates the need for close co-operation be-

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Sudden Dizziness May Cause. Apparent ‘Suicides, Doctor Says

up the running noses and stop the sneezes of hay fever and give the patient reli¥t but such treatment is | fraught with danger, Dr. Lee Ww. Dean of St. Louis warned. Dangerous dryness and scarring is

{Dean said, 10d the relief obtained {ise not lasting. The electrochemical | treatments scomplish their results by destroying the mucous lining of ithe nose an the nerves which cause sneezing an swelling when irritated by pollens. The next year after | treatment, however, the symptoms may return after the nerves have grown back. Dr. Dean advises careful search for the causes of nose sensitiveness and removal of as many of them as possible, bef:re resorting to electrical, chemicz! or serum treatment.

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Florida Le mon Trees

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A OSCOV/, Sept. 28.—Three thousand cuttings from Florida lemon trees are in the hothouse citrus plantation near here, where Soviet scientists are studying citrus cultvire. Other lemon trees have also been brought north from the Soviet :ib-tropics, and by 1937 ihe citrus In:m is expected to have

’ | 90,000 trees.

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN

SEES IT

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 28.— Real®, now, Mr. Roosevelt, what shall we think when the President on a Saturday publicy calls one of his critics “a certain notorious newspaper owner’—and on the following Wednesday makes a public denunciation of “rancor and temper,” of “exaggeration and

invective”, makes a public plea for

“serenity and logic,” for “tolerance of opinion.”

These strangely assouiated: utterances made within four days all had a relation to newspapers. The “certain notorious owner” referred to Mr. Hearst, whose newspapers- were about to print a charge that Mr. Roosevelt in this campaign is supported by Communists.. Mr. Roosevelt’'s plea the following Wednesday for “serenity” and “tolerance” was made in an address fo the New York Herald Tribune's forum on current problems. The fact that the President’s strangely contrasting utterances were both made in-connection with newspapers had no significance, except that it renders appropriate a remark about the attitude of newspapers toward the President. Of

‘all the President’s newspaper critics, | .

with the possible of Mr. Hearst and one other, none have used ‘any as- harsh as Mr. Roosevelt habitually uses, about divers classes of persons, on all Sons of occasions, 2h

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ERENITY and tolerance. Iquote below some phrases from just one speech of Mr. Roosevelt, only one. I forbear to survey Mr. Roosevelt’s other speeches, some of which were equally infused with angry spirit and provocativa epithet. I for-

bear to cite the occasions when Mr.

Roosevelt has varied ringing violencé with subtle insinuation, equal-' ly potent to stir class feeling—for example, his reference to Supreme Court decisions in a letter he wrote to a labor league Aug. 10: “It was not the wage earners who cheered when these laws were declared invalid.”

The speech of Mr. Roosevelt from which I shall extract a few phrases was one delivered under circumstances which ought ‘to have called on any President for urbanity and elevation. It was delivered as one of the most solemn ceremonials in American government, a ceremonial prescribed by the Constitution, the annual address of the President to the Congress on the state of the Union. This address was the one Mr. Roosevelt delivered last Jan. 3. From it I take be. Just a few examples tolerance”:

of “serenity and

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

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ITTLE wonder that one of Mr. Roosevelt’s own loyal supporters, Gen. Hugh Johnson, was shocked by the President’s violence on that occasion. Gen. Johnson, in a signed newspaper article, described that address to Congress as a “rabble rouser . . . deliberate appeal to passion . . . the joy of every advocate of class ‘hatred -here and in Russia . . . makes him chief of- the |. ‘factions of discontent.” Of all the disservices that. critics can charge against Mr. Roosevelt's presidency, to the country and to himself, the least explainable is his stirring up of group hostility, class tonsciousnes. He did not need to. ” ” # 3

HY, and how, did Mr. Roose- - velt forfeit this priceless a to himself and the country? ow did it come about that at the close of Mr. Roosevelt’s term the campaign for his re-election found the

These are questions which future scholars will answer and by their answers fix Mr, Roosevelt's place in .. No explanation can rest

on self-interest on Mr. Roosevelt's; part, for self-interest would have dictated that he keep. the popular

equipped: we Americans-are to ae- -

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other kraut-head in. Germany .

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FRENCH school children are taught that Marshal Michel Ney, called “bravest of the brave” by Napoleon, was condemned to & traitor’s death after the Battle of Waterloo. And what’s even more to the point, that h

was taken into the garden of the Luxem= bourg Pajace at Paris and shot dead on Dec. 7, 1815. A fancy French monument in Paris’ Pere-Lachaise Cemetery proves it. 2 North Carolina (U. 8. A) school children are

taught that there isn't a word of truth in the French story. For two reasons: (1) Because of the arrival of one Peter Stuart Ney, a French fencing _ master, in Charleston, S. C., in January, 1816, and (2) because of a deathbed statement made by him in North Carolina in 1846. “I am Marshal

‘ Ney of France,” said Mr. Peter

Stuart Ney, simply and finally. Indiana school children will be believing the same story pretty soon if the documentary evidence keeps piling up the way it has this \ summer, for it now appears that Marshal Ney, ones time Duke of Elchingen and Prince of Moskowa, actus ally visited Knightstown, Ind. And if he got to Knightstown, what's to keep anys body from believing that he stopped off in Indiane apolis? Maybe at Tom Carter's “Rosebush Inn,” maye be at the “Eagle,” the tavern run by John Hawkins. #" = os

Letter Is Revelation

ISS CHRISTINE A. REISING of Louisville spilled . the news concerning Knightstown in a letter ‘to Time Magazine last week: She got it by way of her grandmother, Mrs. Nicholas Reising, who, it turns out, was John Jacob Lehmanowsky's daughter. This is going to be complicated, but it's worth your while i you'll sit tight. “One summer evening,” says ‘Miss Reising, “when my grandmother was in her early 'teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightse town, Ind. and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through the gate and was met by her father (Miss Reising’s great-grandfather, of course), who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the ‘sound of the stranger's voice.

“The two embraced and cried, talking in French, and giving every evidence of being friends long parted - who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night, and not until the gentleman had gone the next day, did the father tell certain members of the family that their guest was none other than Marshal Ney, but that the secret must not be ree vealed to any one,”

Mr. Scherrer

2 Derivation of ‘H asics

Wor gives particular punch to this story is the fact that the Indiana State Library has in its archives the extremely rare “Lifé of Napoleon Bona= parte,” by a Citizen of the United States. Published by Patrick and Booth (an ancestor of Booth Tarkington): in Salem, Ind. in 1818, it is one of the earliest vole umes printed in Indiana and, certainly one of the mosh remarkable.

The authorship today is pretty well established and ° Is attributed to Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, great= grandfather of Miss Reising.

Lehmanowsky fought under Napoleon as aide-de : camp to Marshal Ney in Egypt, Russia and Italy and was, with Ney, arrested and sentenced to death. He escaped, came to America, began lecturing and finally -married and lived in ‘Clark, Harrison and Henry Couns; ties. His book was a revelation and ‘with his lectures did ‘much to change the feeling we had aganst Napoleon at the time. Moreover, it was these lectures which were responsible for the name “Hoosier.” That's the legend, anyway. Lehmanowsky, it appears, had much to say about the bravery of the French Hussras, pronouncing -/he word as if spelled “Hoosiers.” The name *Hooster,! therefore, came to mean a galling fighter. There is still a legend around Lehmanowsky’s old home in southern Indiana that, at the time of the building of the Portland Canal, a Washington County native by the name of Short was set upon by a gang of Kentucky toughs. He put them all to flight and ever afterward was known as “Short the Hoosier.” -

Hoosier Yesterdays

SEPTEMBER 28

Fr the early fall of 1916, many Hoosiers will res member, some companies of the Indiana Nae tional Guard had been sent to the Mexican border to keep the rambunctious Pancho Villa from cons ducting raiding parties into the United States. On Sept. 28, a letter from a Hoosier guardsman stationed in a camp at Llano Grand, Tex. to hi parents in Indianapolis appeared in a local news: paper. After describing the beautiful Texas sunsets and the cool .nights so excellent for sleeping, tha trooper got down. Ia the real business of being a soldier. - . “We are feeding on quinine every day now,” he wrote, “liquid quinine by the tablespoonful. Need less to say, it is quite bitter.” = He went on to say that taking the quinine ene

“go down, down, down and coming up, up, up.” “The authorities advise us,” he concluded, “that after a week of these daily quinine administrations, all malarial germs in our blood will be killed. They should not have wasted the time telling us this, We know it better than any one else. The only ques tion is this—will we be alive to appreciate the f that we are absolutely malarial-germless?”—By J. H.

‘Watch Your Health

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