Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1936 — Page 14

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By ERNIE PYLE

(CHADRON, Neb., Sept. 29.—This sounds like an exaggeration, but it is true that

_ a tenderfoof can get just as completely”lost

on the rolling prairies as he can in a thick forest. You only have to try it to be convineed.

Which is merely to preface a little story about Paul McDill's enthusiasm. McDill is the manager of the Resettlement Administration’s “Land Use Project” in the northwest : corner of Nebraska. That is an immense zig-zaggy stretch of land some 50 miles long and 18 miles wide. i It is the worst land in Nebraska =parched by drought, bare. of trees, gouged by erosion, lonesome, rolling, . barren. Once great cattle country, now it is sad and brown. The government has bought up 108,000 acres of it, and is building a multitude of small dams, and throwing the prairies all back into grass, and is in fact trying to make a perfect example of the. theory that drought land can be restored. Paul McDill is tremend‘dously proud and enthusiastic about this immense plece of business. So, when Administrator Tugwell -and his drought committee from Washington blew in hére a few weeks ago, it was only natural that McDill should want them to see all They started out in cars. Unfortunately, their schedule allowed them only an hour to tour the project. Now you couldn't even -see the edge of it in an hour. |. But Manager McDill was determined. So he drove out over the prairies, from one dam to another, and in 10 minutes the whole party was lost and had to keep following him, and he kept them. out there two hours longer before taking them back to town. It was 6 o'clock in the morning when Paul McDill and I ate breakfast in a little Chadron restaurant, and then climbed in his rattley sedan and started out. We drove till after noon. We covered 97 miles.

A large part of the time we were on no road at all.

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Employed Every Man Who Would Work

HIS project was started a year ago last spring. It’s the only one in Nebraska. It employs from

"500 to 1000 men. There has been a job, they say, for

every man around here who would work. : There are 22 dams now. When it's finished, there’ll be about 90. Thcy are solely to hold water for

cattle to drink. Some of them are a quarter of a mile

long, and will make lakes of 20 acres. All farming will be stopped in this area. The government will lease the grass lands out to cattlemen on a grazing fee. The farmers will move off, and the government will help them relocate. Some people will stay, under a rental arrangement, : ” ” ” HIS prairie land, covered with dams, is just half the project. The other half is forest. It is a long high ridge, rising as high as 1000 {feet above the prairie, and covered with ponderosa pine. It is the only forest in Nebraska. In the forest, McDiil has men at work with saws and axes, cutting and thinning. Pine Ridge behind the workers looks like a park; ahead of them it is

butchered and wasted; jagged stumps stand high. brush is left lying to smother the grass. 1t is the difference between dissipation and system.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

“BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ~ YDE PARK, N. Y., Monday—Just as I expected yesterday afternoon, there was a Procession of visitors. Most of them wanted to see the President. The poor things had to spend a considerable amount of time seeing his family while they waited to see: him. Franklin Jr. arrived rather late in the evening and we at once launched into preparations for getting him off to college. Isn't it an extraordinary thing that, until they actually start to pack, it never occurs to boys to remember where they left their blankets or linen from the year before? When I finally saw them start off this morning they had Just. enough linen to last the first week. I gave them strict orders to investigate and wire me, immediately what was needed. Like’ all boys they blithely remarked that two sheets could last them more than

a week. When these packing times come, I try to see ‘that

nothing is forgotten. I also try to extract such things as I know they have outgrown or outworn, and give

them away, instead of letting them continue to . clutter up drawers and closets. I think, however, that

the boys have a little of their father in them, for they always look lovingly at anything old and say:

i "You know that might be useful mother, some time.” Woe is me if I assume that nobody will ever know

: the difference, and take anything which hasn’t been

given me. They always know sooner or later. Breakfast started this morning at 7:15 and our first departures were at 7:30. The boys were delayed a little because they had to see their nieces and nephews ride. Sara, aged four, has a pony about the size of a police dog. She has acquired complete confidence with him, but she has to have constant admiration. In the midst of packing we would dash down to the front door and say: “Darling how well you are doing!” and then dash back. Eleanor has to leave this afternoon, for her school

~ opens tomorrow. She”went out this morning for her

last ride on John's big hunter which she is now jumping over the two-foot jumps. Eleanor sees no reason for going back to school—life is so much pleasanter in the country. All we can do is to console her with the thought that she will be up every week-end. Curtis will have to go to school next week. “This morning he rode out on gny horse without a leading rein, showing that in spite of a fall a few days ago he

has no fears. -(Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

° Daily New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— ‘WO valuable contributions recently have been made to the study of the American Negro and’ - racial problems. Ina C: Brown, graduate student in

social anthropology at the University of Chicago, writes THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO

(Friendship Press; $1). It is an authoritative survey of African backgrounds (she and a woman companion recently traveled alone from the mouth of the Congo on 'the west coast to Mombassa on the east): the American slave system and its aftermath, and the educational, social and religious progress of Negroes

_ since emancipation.

" » = othér book, A PREFACE TO RACIAL UNDERSTANDING (Friendship Press; $1), is by Charles 8S. Johnson, Ph. B, Litt. D., author, former investigator for the Carnegie Foundation and the

_ League of Nations, and now the distinguished direc-

tor of the department of social science in Fisk Uni-

| versily. He invites and implores an increased knowl-

edge of the Negro, his history, his education, his needs, in the hope that such knowlpractical opportunities for construc.

area,

Second Secti

Entered as Second-Class Matter at iostoffice, Ingtianapolis, 1nd.

i More than 600 bicycles parked the traffic problem the rebirth of

seems to be here to stay.

a major traffic hazard.

liam A. Evans, chairman, _considers that cyclists provide one of the mostdifli-

cult problems in safety.

The Indianapolis Park Board set aside a lane, from 30th-st south along the west side of White River for riders. More than 1200 used it in one .week, Mrs. Louis Markun, cycling sponsor, reported.

Similar lanes in Chicago, Washington, Providence and Oklahoma City are being constructed. Minneapolis allows bicycles on the sidewalks. High schools have special racks for parking bicycles. More than 600 riders daily park their “wheels” at Technical High School and the other high schools in town are similarly crowded. = » 2

pero thefts provide steady employment for two city detectives, Andrew Jacobs and John Sullivan, who report they have recovered approximately 60 per cent of the annual toll of more than 1000 stolen bicycles.

Way back when grandpa niounted his wrapped his muffier around a wind-burned neck and startled all the giggling girls in the neighborhood, the bicycle was It still is. With enough school children in Indianapolis to popu- ~ late a town the size of Terre Haute, and when an estimated 15 per cent of them ride bicycles, the Educational Safety Council, according to Wil- |

at Technical High School indicate

the “bike” brought to city safety | leaders. Similar situations exist at other Indianapolis schools.

BY JERRY SHERIDAN HE bicycle, somewhat like the four-d: Ay week-end,

high wheeler,

Recovered bicycles are stored in the police department basement where Sergt. John Field: helps saddened youngsters find their

~ missing property. There are more

than 150 in the basement now. Unless claimed in six months the wheels are sold at auction for benefit of the Police Pension fund. More than 830 bicycles have been stolen to date this year, police report.

A bicycle licensing law similar to that for automobiles would make recovery easier, police officials believe. It would include a bill of sale, title certificate and identification tag or each bicycle sold. Spokane, Wash. requires a license, and Califoraia has a state law forbidding unlighted bicycles at night.© In Berkeley, where the problem is acute, the confiscation of bicycles for violation of safety laws is%eing considered.

s 8 ” DULT riders here are re-

quired to purchase a city license for tielr bicycles.

“Please come and claim your bicycles,” Chief Morrissey has pleaded. Here are some of the more than 1000 stolen and recovered during the year by

at auction.

the police department. where they are kept for six months before being sold

They crowd the basement

‘More than 165 have been sold this year. The rebirth of the “bike” started about 1919. Reports show in 1929 about 325,000 were sold but demand dropped to around 300,000 a year during the depression. Approximately a million bicycles will be sold this year, it is estimated,

and more than 400,000 of these are women’s models. With the increase, the bicycle is fast becoming a traffic problem, city safety authorities say. Capt. Lewis Johnson, Chief Morrissey, Mayor Kern and the Park Board met last week to survey the Needs of the cyclists,

Lanes may be built ‘elsewhere in the city, boulevards. may be painted to provide special space for riders or parks may be opened more completely to cyclists, but whatever is done, the city knows the bicycle is here for a while and something must be done about it.

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—A

urban - Washington has struck the

lost graveyard of the old Indian town of Nacotchtank. This is the belief of archaeologists at the Smithsonian Institution, who are now studying the bundles of bones found arranged in an old Indian fashion. The custom, common among southern Algonquin Indians, was to collect a bundle of skulls, another bundle of leg bones,

into graves. Several barrels full of the bones have so far been recovered. The discovery adds to knowladge of an historic Indian town pictur-

and . their .- houses, dances,

be the capital of the United States. 2 =o =»

within the District of Columbia

greatest. It has been described as sort of fashion center.’ The town's place in Indian fashion trade is inferred from the fact that chief were powdered graphite and ocher, which served ‘as face and body paints to adorn Indians of Mary-

tank in a‘ Latinized form.

steam shovel burrowing up| earth at an Army flying field in sub- |

and so on, and to pile sorted types

quel described by Captain John Smith. An artist who accompanied | * . Smith drew pictures of the natives|'" Aquarius and | occupations, thus recording the =arly | appearance of what was destined to

EVERAL Indian villages stood but Nacotchtank ‘was: the an important trading town, and a.

stands today on this Indian ground, | bears the old Indian name Nacotch- |

This corner of the District of Co- |

Steam Shovel Digs Up Indian ~ Graveyard Near Washington

and out from ville ton radiated land trails to the Susquehanna River znd on westward.

2 & 2 XX 7ITHIN 75 ye:rs after Smith's VV visit there was not an Indian left in the Potomac Valley. While Washington residents have made frequent discoveries of Indian implements and small objects from this early stage of ihe city’s history,

the knowledge of Algonquin tribes along the Atlantic coast is considered meager. J®incing a graveyard of early inhabitant: of the National Capital is giving :cientists a new

res at Washing-

{ opportunity to study these Indian | types.

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New Comet [iscovered

OPENHAGEN, Sept. 20—A new comet has been discovered in

| the constellation of Aquarius in the {southern evening

sity at the Union Observatory, Johsnesburg, South Afric: by Dr. Cyril Jackson.

POLITICS AS CLAPPER

SEES IT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

ASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Gov. ' Landon is in advance of his party in recognizing that the Federal government must play a larger rele in the affairs of its citizens than in the pre-depression past. Handicapped by a party which contains strong reactionary elements his effort to champion progressive ideas entitles him to much more credit than his critics have been inclined to extend. It is all the more disappointing, therefore, that in his Milwaukee speech on social security, Gov. Landon, who promised suggestions to make the Federal act workable, actually proposes to demolish it and substitute an old-age dole for the needy. The Administration ‘knows the present act is not perfect. Numerous amendments are awaiting introduction at the next session of Congress. Tinkering will be nécessary for years. Instead of assisting in this perfecting process, Gov. Landon proposes to throw the basic features of the act out of the window. «

8. 8..8 : rob? ORE regrettable, he makes a

political football of the government’s belated , attempt to, deal

"J HERE is soricthing sinister in the persistent

campaigns :painst “relatives”

try. In. it TB ete iar, It is partly

in this: counresponsible tion of the American family.

for

Some two deca cles ago the doctrine of individual

freeciom became fhe

free!om from irking matrimonial ties, but freedom as vicll from family connections. The most fortuns'e young couples, so it was said, were those who lived so far away from their families that visits

her

From many quarters it was

Were rare occurrences. Ihe mother-in-law 0. :

morn ut parents hou be put ino

tions where they would ith their

be happier

with a problem which long has re-

ceived the attention of every other modern nation. In administering any program of social security, the

government must keep records. For Gov. Landon to denounce this necessary accessory to ‘the task of staving off want among the unemployed and the aged as a species of Federal bureaucratic snooping is to incite ignorant fears and prejudices. It is playing. politics with human misery.

= ” » OV. LANDON proposes. repeal of the unemployment insurance title of the security act. This provision provides for a Federal pay roll tax 90 per cent of which is to be rebated when employers contribute to state unemployment systems. Gov. Landon proposes to turn the whole matter back to the states, so that they can experiment.. This amounts to abolishing ‘unemploy-

‘ment insurance.

In the first place, states have not shown the least tendency. to experiment in the absence: of Federal inducements, such’ as are provided by the present act. . only Wisconsin

and Ohio did anything on their own. In state after state, when unemployment insurance legislation came up, business men appeared iand ‘said the tax would be ruinous unless industry in other states also were put under similar taxation. They insist-

ed that unemployment insurance

must be applied in all states to avoid penalizing industries in any one state. In the second place, the Federal act leaves to states full latitude to experiment. They can set up any type of insurance they wish—and ‘of 14 states which have acted, no two systems are the same. The Federal government insists only upon certain administrative standards to prevent waste in overhead, and upon linking unemployment insurance with public employment offices to prevent cheating. In fact, some of Landon’s supporters denounce rhe plan, not for his reason that it prevents state laboratory experimentation, but because it does not require uniform Great Britain has had unemployment insurance for 25 years. It has a long history in many other countries. If we are not ready to ‘ry it ‘in. America now, when- will we

be?

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

| YOV. LANDON aiso proposes to

Junk old-age insurance. In-its place he would substitute an old-age dole, so that every citizen over 65

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

"S all of four years ago that an American magazine published a poem entitled “A Forest” by Mary Roberts Rinehart Ii. : poem was pretty good, 1 remember, but what impressed me even more at the time was the

publisher’s parenthetical note that Mary was only 11 years old when she wrote it. This struck me as mighty smart on the part of somebody. Indeed, I thought so well of it at the time

that I entertained high hopes of its general adoption. I even worked for its general adoption, because I remember urging Wilbur Peat to try it out at the Herron. I point out that, with every artist’s age posted with his pictures, the public wouldn't be so likely to make the mistakes it now does, because with such an arrangement both the youngsters and the aged couldn’t help getting what was coming to them. Anyway, I felt that the general adoption of the Rinehart idea : would do a lot in the way of restoring everyoodys equanimity, to say nothing of calising everybodys temper. My own temper, for instance, would have taken an entirely different turn had I known irom the star that Aldous Huxley was only 35 years cld when he wrote “Music in the Night” and that Pirandello was all of 65 when he thought up “Horse in the Moon." And, certainly, I would never have thought the things I did about Arnold Schoenberg had somebody tipped me off in the beginning that he was only 26 when he started his “Gurrelieder.”

” ” His Championing Fails

ELL, like most things I champion, the Ringe hart idea didn’t get to first base. : _- Imagine my surprise the other day to note the Rinehart idea in actual operation in the Lyman Gallery and working es slick as a whistle, too. Life is like that. boo The occasion of my call on the Lymans was to see what Paul Beem’s students are doing. Appars ‘ently they are doing a plenty, because when I showed

Mr. Scherrer

‘up I found not merely a room full of pictures, but

also: a room full of vital statistics. Marjorie Dailey, for. instance,” supplements her picture labeled “Green Peppers” with the additional information that she is 12 years old, and Mary Henshaw has a parenthetical note beside her entry that she is. only 10 years old. Knowing which, you sort of wonder what the world is coming to with kids turning out such nice work. Le

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More Vital Statistics

HE other work is just as nice, even if it does appear ‘that the students are somewhat older. I'm led to believe they are older, anyway, because I didn’t see any more giving away their ages. Instead, the older. ones hit on a more subtle idea which may have been an easier way out for them but a greater strain on the spectator. Ruth Anderson, for instance, has an autobiographical note to the effect that she has been in the class “only eight weeks”; Helen McLandress “only 16 weeks,” leaving anybody to guess how old these girls are. Charles Morgan claims that he had “no previous. study” and Dr. C. M. Helmer swears that he had “no previous color training.” Dillon Huder submits his “first study gn the use of colors,” and Stuart Dean has three heads labeled respectively “First,” “Secon and “Third,” a cryptic connotation, to be sure, bE of sufficient significance to account for the last ; weeks of Mr. Dean’s life—in Mr. Beem’s class, at least} ‘ Mr. Beem’s show and adoption of the Rineharf idea promises much, I think. For my part, I dons think I'll ever enjoy another art show unless it hag its quota of vital statistics. I

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Hoosier Yesterdays

SEPTEMBER 29 NDIANA history being singularly lacking in signifia cant or exciting events this week, this column will discuss various odds and ends of early Indiana designed to amuse and improve the reader. For instance, there were the mails in the 1820" or, as like as not, there were not the mails, for des livery was both infrequent and irregular. Often mail carriers were delayed a few days by high water. Frequently one was drowned trying to swim his hors: across a- flooded river. More frequently, the pos masters took the newspapers from the bags a delayed them until the next trip, often a week, that they might have something to read in the lon pioneer nights. In 1827 the owners of the Indiana Journal complained that half their papers were sd detained. Often “franked” congressional documents coed

the mail to the exclusion of more important matter, Capt. Sample, Connersville postmaster in 1828, coms plained that he had a wagon load of this mate nearly all franked by T. P. Moore, Kentucky Con« gressman, to Jonathan McCarty. Jacksonian candida for Congressman in that district. Postal receipts for Indianapolis during 1828 w $379 and for the state, $7905. There were then 1 postoffices in the state, 37 of them established that year. In 1832 the South Bend North Western Pioneer announced with due pride that South Bend now had a twice-a-week mail from Piqua, O. Before that a a mail from Fort Wayne had been scheduled — By J. H. J.

Watch Your Health

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

J EENEVER the skin is opened, torn or puncs tured, the injury is called a wound. Wounds vary,- . therefore, from the kind of puncture caused by the open end of a safety pin or by the point of & needle to severe injuries which tear open seve inches of the skin and penetrate into the cavities the body. ; I have already discussed first-aid measures for wounds in regard to bieeding. Immediately after bleeding is controlled, the first important step is preven! infection. Be certain ihat your own hands are as -clean possible. Surgeons wash their hands thoroughly wi soap and water, then with antiseptics, and, that, wear .rubber gloves which have been by: steam under’ pressure,