Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1936 — Page 17

FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

ALE LAKE CITY, Oct. 8. — Now that 2 we're in Salt Lake City, I suppose you've got to know all about the Mormons. In the first place 1 have found, much to my surprise, that Mormons are people. I

had innocently assumed that they were a

strange race you couldn't talk with—cold, blue-nosed, mystic and belligerent, Contrary to popular belief, the Mormons do not

control Salt Lake City. The city itself is now only 30 per cent Mormon. However, Utah as a whole is 70 per cent Mormon. The Mormons are important in the business of the city, but they do not dominate it. There are now more than 750,000 Mormons. They are growing slowly. They run in a north-and-south strip, from Arizona right up the mountains into Idaho and Canada. There are scattered churches elsewhere—in the East and a few foreign countries—but the bulk of the Mormons are here in the desert. They are mainly a farming people. The Mormons are conscientiously law-abiding. They are very proud of the fact.that they have never questioned any law of the land. They think more of the Constitution than most of us. When the Supreme Court ruled against polygamy nearly 50 years ago, the Mormons immediately abandoned it. And about that polygamy business. Many uninformed people think it is still a common practice. But it has been nearly half a century since the last “plural marriage.” And another thing. A learned Mormon historian told me that he went right back into the records and found that polygamy had never been practiced

by more than 3 per cent of the Mormons! 8 un

Mr. Pyle

Eager to Explain Church HE Mormons are eager to explain and justify their church. Sometimes it seems almost an organized eagerhess, as, though it were one .of their orders from God. : We were walking down the street on a Sunday afternoon, near the Temple Square. An elderly man came up alongside and pleasantly said, “Lot of outof -state tags, aren't there?” We said “yes,” and the conversation went on, and it wound up with him showing us all over the Temple grounds, taking us to the famous Mormon Choir recital in the Tabernacle, and then up to the top of the big Hotel Utah, just for a look over the city. He was a delightful man, and he told us a great deal about Mormonism, and the early history of the church. When we parted 1 asked him who he was. He was one of Salt Lake's leading bankers! I have a friend here who is a Mormon, and I asked him to tell me man to man just how Mormons in their personal and business lives differed from other peqple. And he said they don't differ at all.

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- Woman Afraid of Mormons

HIS friend was telling me a story that. flustrates how little the world knows about Mormons. He was coming back from the East on a train once. He _ got into a conversation with a woman from Chicago, bound for the West Coast. She knew he was from Salt Lake, but didn’t know he was a Mormon. She told him she wanted to get ‘off and see the city, but was afraid to go on account , of the Mormons. My friend assured her that he knew the city well, and that she would be perfectly safe. Then she said, “How can I tell a Mormon when I see one?” And he said “That's easy. Just look up under the . brims of their hats, and if you see a red spot above each eve where the horns have been pulled out, that will be a Mormon.” He said the woman. believed every. word of it.

Tomorrow—How Joseph Smith found the Jolden plates and founded Mormonism.

Mrs Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANUR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON. Wednesday.—My daughter, son-in-law and I had a long quiet evening together in my little apartment in New York last night. Just to give us a touch of excitement my husband called me from Washington about 8 p. m. to announce that ‘our itinerary had been changed and instead of leaving on Friday, we would leave Thursday at noon. It made me feel a little hurried because so many things had been arranged in Washington for Thursday. I was to receive some one from the District Social Welfare Commission who wanted to tell me about certain very undesirable conditions. The State _ Department had arranged two calls for the wives of ~ foreign representatives. Everything had to be changed " in a few minutes, but we have learned to adjust ourselves in sudden changes. We telephoned hurriedly this morning making as many of the Thursday appointments on Wednesday afternoon as possible. Mrs. Scheider ‘and I worked ¢ all the way down on the train and this afternoon all three of my Thursday appointments took place. I was particularly interested in Madame Wissa . from Egypt. She has just come from the peace meeting at Brussels which was called by Lord Robert . Cecil. She wishes to talk to the women of this country about Egypt, its -women, their efforts to change social conditions in their own country, and their in- . terest in the peace of the world. I only hope that she gets a chance to talk in many places throughout our nation. Her English is excellent and I think women everywhere will feel a sense of kinship in her interests and ideals. It is so important that we begin to realize the relationship between other women and oursglves throughout the world. Now I am trying to pack, to: arrange a hundred and one small details and to leave with a feeling of ‘ calm at noon tomorrow: I will be able to tell you in

tomorrow's column whether this has been achieved. {Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

E have received the weil-edited and ably translated first volume of GUSTAV STRESSEMANN: HIS DIARIES, LETTERS AND PAPERS (Macmillan; $5). Another volume is to follow. Volume One contains an interesting preface by the editor and translator, Erie Sutton, in which he reviews the career of Stressemann, estimating his character and achievements. He shows Stressemann as a liberal in politics and a man of vision who stood for the wel--fare of the people as a Whole rather than for any one group or class, although he was himself from a substantial middle-class family. He was, therefore, often held suspect both by the extreme Rights and the extreme Lefts in. German party politics and both ‘ accused him of being an opportunist. . However, according to the editor, Stressemann’s principles were never sacrificed to expediency. Without passion or prejudice, he faced facts and acted accordingly. For the six years preceding his untimely death in 1929 : Stressemann was one of Germany's most : Jmportan: .. and influential leaders. ". » ” be N American mother and her college-weary A daughter, Babs, in-a little English car named Nicolette, go bumping and splashing through north- : Htaly. the Swiss Alps, and across France, having good time. SUSHINE AND DUST : Century $4), by Anne Bosworth Greene, ‘amusing comments on hoth the To ye } modern: disappointment in the height and y Angle of the leaning tower of Pisa, amazement .at the motor car races held, noi on a but on the open highway. All the vicissitudes were theirs with one addition, an inadeof Malian. They would spend one in a duke’s palace, the next in a definitely inSues they were _over-charged and

Second Section

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936

Rntered as Second- Class Matter

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at Postettice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Miss Talley Tells of Battle With

the Scales,

(First of a Series) BY ERNEST LENN N wings of song she rose from the sundrenched plains of Kansas: to the Metropolitan Opera Co. She won plaudits such ‘as had been received by no other singer since Caruso.

Then, after four sensa-

tional years at the “Met.” she jolted the world by - matter-of-factly announcing her retirement. At the age of 23, when most singers are just embarking on their careers, Marion Talley invested part of her fabulous earnings in a 1600-acre wheat ranch in Kansas and went there to live. She disappeared with the sudden- | ness and completeness of a | snuffed-out candle flame. Why? Marion Talley was tired, unhappy. At heart a country girl, she preferred rippling acres of grain—a sea of gold—to thunderous applause. She yearned to don | heavy shoes, to go walking alone, scuffing up tiny clouds of dust, and she couldn't do that on the hard pavements of Broadway. The adulation of the multitude, the spontaneous acclaim of music critics, the fawning of persons attempting to foist themselves on | her, bored her. Homesick, she hungered for the solitude of the farm, the earthy camaraderie of farmer folk, their nasal twang, their hearty good humor; =n ”n HEN, too, pudgily overweight, and thus self-conscious and shy, perhaps she felt she lived in a world apart, and didn't fit in with the glamorous, exquisitely gowned women who hovered about her. So, in 1929, the acclaim of the musical world still ringing in her ears, she retired to her Kansas wheat farm. That certain disillusionment, inevitable with success, had robbed the world of her golden voice — forever, it was thought. Then came the depression. Like a Midwest cyclone it swooped down on the Talley fortune, buffeted it, scattered it to the four winds. It left in its wake a more mature, wiser Marion Talley. She sought to recoup her fame, and its: attending fortune. She emerged | from retirement in 1932 to sing with the Chicago Opera Company. From then until 1935, when she went to Hollywood, she did concert work in America and Europe. Hollywood looked upon. her as an awkward, too-stout, doublechinned prima donna, as devoid of sex appeal as a phonograph, but with a thrilling voice. “I decided something had to be done about my appearance,” Miss Talley said. “I wanted, desperately, to get into piStures. I wanted to wear slinky gowns, after having worn nothing but over-sized ones. I wanted to go dancing in swanky night spots. But I was ashamed of my weight. Who'd want to tote a gal my size around a dance floor?

” ” = WAS an overweight Cinderella sitting forlornly by the ash heap and dirty pots and pans. of despair. - I decided to be my own fairy godmother. Instead of a magic wand, I used will power to goad myself to diet and exercise. And within a few short months I had shrunk 41 pounds. It was like becoming another person!” Marion Talley, the overstuffed country girl, is no more. Instead, there is a new, slender Marion Talley, poised and graceful. Only the golden voice remains. Hollywood hails her as a vivid personality, acclaiming her performance in Republic Pictures’ “Follow Your Heart,” her first movie. How Miss Talley rid herself of |

| committee to send her

| Again Kansas City

MISS TALLEY—1936

Hollywood likes her this WAY ‘105 pounds.

her -avoirdupois.as easily as she'd slip off a gown is as'intriguing as her career, and in subsequent articles she will tell you how she did it. The daughter of a railway telegrapher, she was born in a prairie cabin. She studied voice and violin in Kansas City public schools. Before she was 10 she sang regularly in the First Christian = Church there, and began studying with the Cranston Opera Co. when she was 12. Minna K. Powell, a Kansas City music critic, thrilled to Marion's voice, arranged a meeting with Galli-Curci, the opera star, when the latter visited Kansas City. Galli-Curci decidedly was impressed after hearing the girl trill two arias. “This child”’—she waggled her head approvingly. “—this child must go to Chicago, to New York,

to Europe. She must study under -

good teachers. this «child has!”

” ” ” ARION became -a sensation 2 in Kansas = City. Business men rallied about her, formed a to New York. A civic concert, with prices

Ah, such a gift

| ranging from $1 to $100, was sug- | gested. Marion sang to a packed

hall. The concert raised $10,000, started her on her way. to New

| York. She studied with Frank | La Porge, was finally given a Met-

ropolitan audition. But they told her her voice though remarkable, was imma-

i ture, and suggested further study.

civic pride

T. B. Termed Most Important Disease Problem in Industry

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ATANTe CITY, N. J, Oct. ey) Tuberculosis is the most im-

does not know he is sick. These are the cases in which the disease may have partially healed spontan-

portant disease problem in all in- | | eously, but there is always danger dustry, from the standpoint of both | of its breaking out in severe form

workers and employers.

This as- | if the worker becomes overtired or

sessment of the tuberculosis problem | works in a dusty atmosphere.

was made by Dr. B. L. Vosburgh of | | the General Electric Co. Sche- | nectady, N. Y., at the meeting here | this morning of the American Association of Industrial Physicians | and Surgeons. In'spite of enormous strides made | in the control of tuberculosis it is | still a serious disease, Dr. Vosburgh | explained, because it continues to} take a heavy toll, particularly in the. age groups from 20 to 40 when man’s productivity is at its peak. | “From both an economic and a! public health standpoint it outranks |

every other contagious disease with |

the Possible exception of syphilis,’ Le sai The Shi side of the piditie] appeared when Dr. Vosburgh' told | how the worker who has contractsd | tuberculosis can be protected from | the most’ disastrous effects of the | disease and can be kept in good | enough health to go on working at his job.

HE important thie tte diel

Preventing illness and injury among the workers is now the chief i job of the industrial physician, Dr. C. D. Shelby, medical consultant for the General Motors Corp., Detroit,

| declared.

2

The former Shy songbird of opera now a slender, beautiful star in motion pictures.

came to her aid. More benefit concerts were. given, and, $13,000 raised. Marion went to Italy. for

POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT

a year, and while there was signed by the “Met.” . Her debut, when she was 19, was

‘MISS TALLEY—1935

“But couldn’t use her this way 146 pounds.

one of the most spectacular the “Met” had ever seen. Hundreds of admirers came from Kansas City on a special train. Lines of people seeking to gain just standing room began forming .at: noon for the evening performance. After the first big aria she took = 11 curtain calls, and at the end of the opera, with her Kansas City fans whooping and whistling, responded to 20. She has been married twice. Her first marriage, fo Michael Raucheisen, a German pianist, in June, 1932, was. annulled in .January, 1933. She married her sec-

ond husband, Adolf Eckstrom, a Swedish musician, in March, 1935.

Next—Eat and G Grow Thin.

Travel CutRate

BY ROBERT W. HORTON Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Oct, 8.—When J. P. Morgan went to Europe in 1933 he traveled cut-rate. Felix Frankfurter, _ confidant and adviser, did the same. The benefits of :cut-rate ocean travel were conferred impartially by United States and White Star lines upon “economic royalists,” Roosevelt New Dealers and just plain Congressmen and Senators. The two best bargains, however, @#id not fall either to Mr. Morgan or Mr. Frankfurter. They were made by T. V. O’Connor, former chairman of the JU. S. Shipping Board, and by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and his friend, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross head. Mr. O'Connor. and his wife made the “free list,” paying: no fare to U. S. Lines. Mr. Glass and Mr. Grayson got $1004 accommodations for $512 aboard the White Star Liner, Majestic. . ; A partial list of beneficiaries of fhe steamship companies’ generosity is published "in “Kicked In and Kicked Out of the President's Little Cabinet” by Ewing Y. Mitchell, former assistant Secretary. of Commerce. The list is drawn from transAtlantic passenger conference reports for the summer of 1933,

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

ASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Speculation as to what Mr. Roosevelt will do if re-elected is subject to considerable discount because he is an unpredictable President For instance, when John G. Winant asked to resign as chairman of the Social Security Board in order tobe free to reply to Republican attacks on the social security program, some of those closest to the: President ‘expected that he would reject the resignation. Instead, however,

the President accepted it.

. This highly ‘unpredictable quality in Roosevelt throws uncertainty over the judgment of his advisers as to which way he will go if he is returned for another fours years. Subject to that discount, some direction posts can be’ mentioned. They show, if nothing more, what some of his advisers hope and believe he will do. As to the most fundamental issue of all, that of Federal power under the Constitution, it is doubtful if Roosevelt will become resigned to the limitations.of Federal power as

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

I

GOT quite: a shock the other day. Flicking through magazine pages, 1 came upon the pic-

ture of a man, arms flung out over his desk. his face buried in them. The top of his head showed parte halr carefully combed behind a;bald spot.

the caption, Our laboratories will help you.”

“Do not: despair.

Do men’ really suffier pangs of regret: when their hair begins to fall out? I asked myself. They seem too intelligent for that form of weakness, and the idea that they could feel miserable as age on slow, noiseless feet overtook them was

_ incredible—a stunning discovery.

Women are the rightful victims of such

cover the disease before it has:

far enough to do irreparable damage. For this Dr. Vos- |

a

exami-| in-

And. glory be! I find they don’t: like getting

defined by the Supreme Court in, for instance, the Guffey Coal. Act opinion. These limitations as defined by the court thus far forecast the probability that there may be difficulty with the Wagner Labor Act, and possibly with: the Social Security Act, when these measures are reviewed by the Supreme Court.”

” ” ” IRST of all, there seems to be quite general agreement among many Administration ‘advisers that

the President will shun’ any trick method of dealing with the problem, such as packing the court by

presidential |

Our Town

SPENT some time the other day in the company of Mr. George M. Bailey, Master of Fox Hounds (M. F. H.) of the Traders Point Hunt (T. P. H.). I should have spent double the time on the job, because after I finished with Mr,

Bailev, I learned, somewhat to my dismay, that thers is still another Master of Fox Hounds. The other Master turns out to be Mrs. Bailey, who, believe {6 or not, is Mr. Bailey's wife. So you can see the fix I'm in to start out with. Well, come what may, let me report at once that Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the Joint Masters of the Hunt. Considered collectively and collaterally, that is their official title; considered individually, however, both are Masters in their own right. I hope that much is clear. The other officials of the hunt are the Huntsman and two Whip-pers-in. The Masters and the Huntsman blow horns, but, like syllabub and shandye gafl and a lot of other things fraught with romance, the horns aren't much to brag about. For one thing, they are only six inches long, which certainly can't do much good. And when you learn that they can be put into a vest pocket and what's more that they are actually kept there when not in use, you just have to make up your mind that nothing more can . be said for hunting horns. : The vest pocket, it is my duty to report, is an integral part of a robin's-egg-blue vest. That's be= cause robin’'s-egg-blue is one of the official colors of the local hunt. The other color is burgundy, which, if memory serves me right, had its origin. somewhere in France. Outside of that, however, everything else connected with a hunt was thought up in England, ” » ”

Men Wear ‘Pinks’

ESIDES a robin's-egg-blue vest, all the msn wear scarlet coats. For some reason, they are called “pinks.” For some reason, too, they are piped with the hunt colors and have brass buttons inscribed with T. P. H. 1 stress the point, because when we come to the women you'll learn that they have to put up with black buttons and like it. But we haven’t reached the women yet because to finish with the men we have to put them in white breeches, silk hats and black boots to Which brown cuffs are attached. Now for the women. The women wear a kind of worsted riding coat with monogrammed black buttons, pear! gray trousers, and black boots with brown cuffs. The coat is edged with the hunt colors. As for the children, they wear worsted coats, light trousers and black boots, but no cuffs. A girl wears a vest. A boy does not. I haven't the least idea why and never thought to ask.

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Hounds in Couples When brings me to the hounds and it’s high time, too, because that's what a reporter worth his salt would have started out with. The hounds come ‘in couples, which doesn’t mean what you think it means.. It merely means that hounds are trained in pairs and sort of keep up that relationship for life. It's another English notion. The T. P. H. pack has anywhere from 15 to 20 couples. When everything is ready for a hunt, the pack leads the procession with a Whipper-in on either side. The Huntsman follows and at some distance behind comes the Master. The field follows and these positions are maintained to the end. For anye = pass the master is simply poor taste. It just . one.

Mr. Scherrer

isn’

i asiThe end of the hunt is anywhere «from 10 to 13 ~~ “miles from the start, depending: on -the number of

“checks,” which are usually from two to three miles apart. A “check” means just what it says because'it’'s the place where the scent is checked. See? I really ought to tell you before it’s too late that this isn’t a real-for-sure fox hunt. It’s a drag hunt. Incidentally I learned that nothing is more proe pitious for holding a scent than a slightly southerly wind ‘and a cloudy sky. The kind of weather we've been having lately will hold it till Doomsday. The .only other things I know about fox hunting are that a real-for-sure hound never wags his tail He “waves his stern.” Neither does he bark. He “gives tongue.”

Hoosier Yesterdays

OCTOBER 8

‘HE career of John Hay as a Hoosier diplomat and author offers an early parallel to the lives of Indiana’s Claude Bowers, Ambassador to Spain, and Meredith Nicholson, Minister to Venezuela. : .Hay was born in a one-story brick building in Salem, Ind., Oct. 8, 1848.1 As a young lawyer -in Springfield, Ill.,, he attracted the attention of Abra ham Lincoln who took the Hoosier to Washington with him as his personal assistant, secretary. As a presidential secretary, young Hays received a thorough training in diplomacy. He became first secretary to the legations in Paris and M He was so enchanted with Spain that he wrote “Castilian Ways.” : Ambassador Bowers’ impressions of the Spanish scene, if he ever writes them, would be an interesting contrast to those of John Hay. Hay saw Spain under, the old Bourbon monarchy, and Mr. Bowers has seen it struggling with democracy and the subsequeng revolution. Other literary works of Hay include “Pike County Ballads” and the “Life of Abraham Lincoln,” written with Nicolay. Both Mr. Bowers and Mr. Nicholson were estabe lished authors before they became diplomats. Pere haps, as the record would indicate, there is an affinity between welling and Siplemacy. —By T. C.

Watch Your Health

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

T any season of the year, but particularly in sume mer, children may injure themselves with ar guns, slingshots or small rifles. These devices are especially dangerous to the eye, Medical literature contains numerous records of chile dren who have lost their eyes because of a blow by BB shot or because BB shot entered the eyeball. x By use of the X-ray, it is possible to learn whether any metal has entered the eye. If the foreign mae terial is clean, in the sense that it is free from germs, and if it is in a part of the eye in w it does not obstruct vision, it may be left there for a con siderable time without removal.