Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1936 — Page 10

FROM INDIANA fod By ERNIE PYLE

GALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 12.—Mormons believe their church is the only one clothed with authority directly from God. Other;

churches are merely organizations, 1

They believe Joseph Smith, the founder, was the first person who had received a di- * rect commission from God since the last of the Twelve

Apostles. { It is hardly fair for me to say it just that way,

however. The church history does say it, and the fanatics in the church say it. ,But the gentler members hold that God is constantly sending messages to people everywhere, and that He did not allow 17 centuries to pass without getting in touch with somebody on earth. : : The Mormons don’t think that Adam’s original. sin was suth a great sin, and they believe that even if it was a sin, the rest of us aren’t going to be punished for it. The Mormons believe that everybody will eventually be “saved.” If youre not “saved” while ‘you're - alive, then you still have a chance after you die. _ They believe that every human being is a continuing personality—that each of us has lived somewhere Before, in the same body we are in now, and will continue to live somewhere else after we're dead. They

Mr. Pyle

don’t know where, .but it's a real,” material place, where people actually live, and not some ethereal place. : “They believe that this continuing personality is | constantly developing and being improved through the ages, and that some day it will reach a state of per- | fection wherein we will all be gods. That seems to me | a rather beautiful way of looking at us.

a ” ” U se Ordinary Bible

HE Book of Mormon is not, as some people believe, the Mormon Bible. They use the same Bible other churches do. The Book of Mormon is simply a supposedly divine history of the North Amerjcan Indian. It was written by Mormon, the father ‘of the Angel Moroni, who was the messenger between God and Joseoh Smith. I have tried to read the Book of Mormon, but I can’t make anything out of it. The Mormons have been considered (at least by all: the people I know) as terrible blue noses, because they're not supposed to drink or smoke or use rouge or eat too much meat and co on. They are not biue noses, taken as a whole. All these “don’t” rules are contained in what the Mormons call the “Word of Wisdom.” Although it came in one of God’s messages to Joseph Smith, it is considered less a religious ‘rule than just good common sense for keeping healthy.

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Half Observe ‘Word’ >

MORMON told me that the “Word of Wisdom” is A observed today by only 50 per cent of the Mormons. There has been quite a let-down in the last 15 years. The Mormons have a creed, called the Articles of Faith. The last and thirteenth seems to me worth * quoting as an example of the idealism of the Mormon faith. It says: ; “We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, we believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report.or praiseworthy, we seek after these

things.” :

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

HEYENNE, Wyo. Sunday.—These two busy days C have been filled with a variety of impressions. On these trips one never has time for any real sightseeing, but when the President spoke at the very beautiful Nebraska State Capitol, I was able to sit facing it and enjoy its beauty. In Lincoln we noticed already that clear western atmosphere which seems to bring everything so close. Today, in Cheyenne, the President pointed to some hills, very blue in the distance, and asked how far away they were. Gov. Miller responded: “Oh, about 25 miles.” At this the President gasped and said: “At home they would be about 12 miles off.” ; ~ From long habit I have gained a technique of observation on the move, so to speak, and since: railroads nearly always wend their way through the worst parts of cities, while automobiles drive through the business and residential parts, one gets a chance to see both sides of local life. : Have vou ever realized how much you can learn fron people's wash-lines? When I was small I used - to amuse myself on the trains entering New York City on the elevated trestle by looking at the windows lighted at night and making up stories about the people I glimpsed in passing. Now I try to gain some idea of how people live by catching a glimpse of their back yards or their front steps or their wash-Jines, by seeing the children playing in the street or the men and women who come out to wave at the passing train or car. : It is interesting, too, as ‘you ' go through this country, to think how different the farmer's life in Wyoming is from that of the farmer in New ‘York. I like this country for its sense of limitless space. But I suppose that having lived ‘all my life in a different kind of countryside, I should never be content entirely away from it. : i: <" There is something fascinating about a ‘lonely rider on a far horizon and the feeling of being alone with nature. The Wyoming sun is warm and the Wyoming wind blows steadily, and they tell me that in winter snow stays but a short time on the ground, because the wind blows it away. ro ’

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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN - NEA Service Staff Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 12.—If Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson kept a diary in the days when Baltimore was her home town and before she even ever had dreamed of the international spotlight now centering upon her, or of attending elite social functions in London and ~ Paris on the arm of a King, these dates must, surely, have been red-letterd in that diary: ] :

Dec. 7, 1914, when she was presented

the Bachelor’s. Cotillion.

Sept. 16, 1916, when her engagement

to society at

to Lieut. E.

Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N., was announced. Nov. 8, 1916, when, for the first time, she be-

‘came a bride.

That wedding day, with the tall, slender, dark-haired, blue-eyed Wallis in a gown of white panne velvet, made with a “court” train, wearing a veil of tulle and carrying

white orchids, must have seemed a story-book ending for the girl who, until then, had had little, indeed, of the world’s good things.

” » ” HE was the daughter of a clerk and of a young wife who had beauty, impressive family connections—and practically no money. Before her third birthday, Bessie Wallis was fatherless. She grew up in the boarding house opérated by her mother; operated genteelly, but still a boarding house, As a young girl, she knew, if not poverty, the distinctly unpleasant status of a “poor relation” and the persistence of bill collectors. : Bessie Wallis Warfield married E. Winfield Spencer Jr. in fashjonable Christ Episcopal Church, amid palms and white crysanthemums and before a candle-lighted altar, but the young couple did not “live happily ever after.” Instead, the bride was’ destined to be labelled legally; a *‘deserted wife.” : She was to pass through the divorce courts, to know the scourge of gossiping tongues. ” » ® HE was, later, to remarry, to enter the gayest, most brilliant social circles of London, Paris, Biarritz, Cannes and St. Moritz, to be seen more and more frequently in the presence of royalty and, within the ‘last few weeks, to blossom forth as the most talked-of woman in the world. : ; An amazing story .. more unbelievable, more fantastic than an ancient Horatio Alger epic entitled, “From Rags to Riches,” is the present-day, real life drama of newspaper headlines, photographs ‘and European statecraft, “From Boarding House to Balmoral.” SE It all began 40 years ago—The T. Wallis Warfields’ daughter, a first and only child, was born at the home of her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Henry M. Warfield, in Baltimore. : The ‘parents—particularly the father—had wanted a boy. Refusing: to sacrifice . completely his dreams of a son to carry on his name, T. Wallis Warfield decided the baby should be named “Wallis” for himself and “Bessie” for her aunt, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merrvman of Washington, nee Bessie Montague. The child was so christened and, from that day to this, Bessie Wallis Simpson has had no stancher, closer friend than Mrs. Merryman. It was she who accompanied her niece on her first trip to Europe. It was she who ‘comforted Wallis after the death of her mother in 1929. It was ‘Mrs. Merryman who chaperoned Mrs. Simpson on many of the European holiday trips when she was among

the guests of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, now King Edward VIII of England. ~ 4 J ” ODAY Mrs. Merryman scouts rumors that Mr. and Mrs. Simpson are contemplating divorce, is “distressed” by newspaper notoriety attending her niece’s recent visit ati Balmoral Castle and her presence, with other guests, on the royal yacht Nahlin on the King’s recent Mediterranean holiday. “The talk of divorce,” Mrs. Mer- - ryman told me, “is nothing whatever but gossip, invented and spread by people who delight in’ scandal. It is simply not true. I feel that I can not stand to see another word of it—so unjust, so unkind—in print!” Mrs. Merryman’s attitude of concern ‘is quite in contrast” with that of the famous Mrs. Simpson herself when a fellow townsman of Baltimore called on her in London this summer. “How are you?” Mrs. inquired pleasantly. “All ‘right, Wallis. ing pretty well, too, aren’t you?” “Yes,” Mrs. Simpson laughed. “I-don’t think I've done badly at all, do you?” “Wally” likes to hear from her old friends and is always cordial. To another of them, in .a.telephone. conversation one day last summer, she recalled occasions when one of her chief concerns was a certain department store's bills. aon “I think,” she’ said, “that perhaps if I went back to Baltimore now, ——'s store might GIVE me a pair of shoes, don’t you?" ":, A far cry from shoe bills it is"

Simpson

to the current report that London’

furriers already are at work on &' wrap made of 18 silver fox skins: of extremely rare quality and ex-: tremely high price which Mrs. Simpson will wear at the coronation ‘ceremonies next year. ; ® 8 ” . HE King’s deep friendship for the boarding house keeper’s daughter is attested by a’ Baltimore Woman who: has known Mrs.

Simpson since. childhood, met ‘her: |

at Biarritz a year ago and had tea with her. King Edward VIII, then the Prince ‘of Wales, ‘also was present. : : “Whenever Wallis speaks,” says this traveler, “he seems to be simply enthalléed. He hangs on every word she says, roars at anything that is amusing—and Wallis is very amusing. His eyes and man--ner give the impression that there is no one else in the room.” These close friends who know Wallis Simpson well, who have visited her London apartment, chatted with her at Cannes and in Switzerland, take no stock whatever in rumors that Earnest Simpson will seek to sever the bonds of his marriage. : On the contrary, they insist that His Majesty, Edward VIII, has a real friendship for Mr. Simpson

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Mrs. Ernest Simpson posed for

this portrait when she was a young Baltimore’ society. belle.

and that, as a measure of his es-

teem, they look to see the Ameri-

can knighted. ; :

“That,” pointed out one. of Wally’s” friends,. with a toss of her head, “would make her Lady Simpson!”

Carter G. Osburn, a beau of her school days, who now is selling automobiles, considers this prospect, smiling. hs “Wallis wasn’t socially ambitious when she was a girl,” he says. “She was too independent for that. But I think she is superbly fitted for a career as ;an international hostess—clever, tactful, sympathetic. Of course, I always thought ° she was about perfect, and I'm sure she has become a completely charming woman.” ;

NOTHER loyal friend of Wallis Simpson is Mrs. John Sadler of Cockeysville. Distanfly related, they went to Arundel school together. Mrs. Sadler made her bow in society the

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT

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"In London, as the wife of Capt. Ernest Simpson, the King’s confi-

dante lives amidst e

frequently is hostess to King Edward.

same night as Mrs. Simpson: She -

was one of the bridesmaids when Wallis. married her first husband,Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. pha Proudly Mrs. Sadler displays the slender gold bracelet on her wrist—one of those the bride gave to each of her six bridesmaids. “I haven't seen Wallis in years,” ‘Mrs: Sadler ‘says, “but we've always been friends and I've always admired her. hr : “As long as I live I'll never for--get the dress she wore the night’ of the Bachelors’ Cotillion, the night we were presented. It was white satin with an overskirt- of

chiffon and wide bands of pearl

embroidery around the bottom. The rest of us wore simple little

things, but Wallis"" dress ‘was really ‘stunning. Wi oN

“I certainly wish I-still had my:

bridesmaid’s dress. Wallis’ designed her wedding gown and our dresses, - too. -She always wore clothes well and she had a lovely figure.”

As for beauty, Dr. Frederic |

Taylor, a friend of the family for years, says, “All of her features : are good, yet, put together, they do not make beauty. The effect

. ‘is rather that of a sparkling péer-

sonality “and ‘good nature—more intriguing than beauty. Wallis is like her mother in this respect.”

; Next: Wallis Warfield’s debutante days.

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BY MARK SULLIVAN

sive than any other national poll,

appointed, or those to whom it

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xquisite furnishings such as those’ shown above and .

women began to prepare themselves as teachers.

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; (Photo, Page 8) k MY life would be a drab thing, indeed, . were it not for the vivid material

which I receive from habitual readers who

know more about writing a column than 1 do. Thus, the other day 1 wrote a piece about

the Gatling gun, in the course of which [

took infinite pains to prove that Dr. Gatling not only lived in Indianapolis, but that he loved and practiced here as well. Indeed, I went so far as to prove tha he invented his gun here (Patent : No. 36836), and before I was done, : I distinctly remember lugging in the somewhat lugubrious fact that he was buried in Crown Hill. Apparently I didnt cover enough, because hardly had the news had time to get around when ' Mrs. Mary Hartman Messefsmith, | living at 822 Union-st, called ‘up to inform me that Mr. Gatling's house is still standing in Indianapolis. She said she ought to know beesise she has to look at it every ay. ; And so it came to pass, tween showers the other day, that : I not only saw the Gatling house, but Mrs. Messer= smith as well. I recognized her at once because as ‘soon as I saw her I realized that I had gone to school with her once upon a time. Indeed, I recognized her as the little girl who never once told a fib all the time she went to school, and I stress the fact today because I haven't any.reason to believe ‘that Mary has. changed or that she is trying to put over & fast one. :

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Her Father Told Her

RS. Messersmith got the facts about Dr. Gatling straight from her father, William Hartman, who spent his boyhood in the early fifties in Union-st bee tween McCarty and Ray-sts. -Byverything south of Ray-stt was a sugar grove at that time, says Mrs. Messersmith. o : . * Immediately north of the Hartman's, -in what is now 821-823 Union-st, lived the Gatling family.: Even today it is plain enough to see that it was a snug and cozy place, for the house still retains the architectural features that make for hospitality and comfort. :A long, low rangy roof, pierced by. a reassuring chimney, | snuggled down over the whole, just as it does now, and an inviting porch ran along its entire front. - Mrs. Messersmith’s father often sat on Dr: Gate ling’s porch and listened to his stories. He did even more, because when he was 8 years old, Dr. Gatling allowed him: to go driving with- him on: his professional visits, and it was little Willie’s part of the bare gain to watch the horse while Dr. Gatling was inside, tending to the patient. Little Willie Hartman had a lot of adventures that way, and when it came time to tell his little girl about them he. told aplenty, said Mrs. Messersmith, : -- = Flee > - : a » 2 ” © . eo

‘The Story Is Good, Anyway OR example, the story of the other woman in the Gatling household. Mrs. Messersmith can’t ree member whether it was Dr. Gatling’s sister or Mrs,’ Gatling’s sister or some other relative and it doesn’t matter much because the story is rich enough with= out delving too deep into family affairs. : This other woman, it turns out, had a great liking for little Willie Hartman and it was, more or less, reciprocal, for there wasn’t anything that little Willie

wouldn’t do for her. : Bo called little ‘Willie over,

~ One-rainy day the woman and asked him to help her take off her galoshés,

ih ttle 8-year-old Willie had Dyer before had such an

enture and so he laid h “to ‘do his level best. He gave a tremendous tug when he heard something snap and the next thing he knew he had the woman's whole leg in his pudgy little hand. 3 It didn’t minimize Willie’s adventure to learn that

5 | he had pulled off the womarss wooden leg,

{ OCTOBER 12 fh”, : LTHOUGH there is much political oratory these "days about the “economic revolution,” Indiana had an economic break wifh the past in the early part. of the nineteenth century. -. . « : As the soldiers straggiéd back from the Civil war, they found they had been:replaced with machinery. Household = manufacture was undermined by spread of the railroads, and farm machinery released both men and women frem the fields, : The railroads made it possible for farmers to ship wheat, corn and hogs to market rather than flour, whisky and pork. Old burr grist mills ems ploying a few men to grind -meal for the neighbore hood were -closed. .. , ; a “Released from their looms and farm work, many A sharp upturn the employment of women teachers was reported that time. The unemployed turned toward the West and settled by hundreds in the flat .plains of Iowa and Nebraska. There the march of progress had not yet brought the new machinery. - ~~. Today, the problem of : technological unemploye ment is still with us and there are no new lands in the West. When they spoke of the economic revoiu= tion after the Civil War, they apparently had no idea how long ‘man and machines would bs in economic combat.—By T. C. :

esterdays

A group of children were introduced to the President at lunch. One little girl had been' told she must curtsy to the President.. This worried her—so : much that she doubted if she could go through with | ; BY SCIENCE SERVICE the ordeal. But finally, after thinking ® over, she IAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Oct. 12.

said: “Well, I guess I'll risk it. . How the original esearch of old Sir Humphrey Davy back in 1800

and because of the tested accuracy of this poll in previous presidential elections, the common tendency is to accept the Digest’s present indication of a Republican victory. “If we accept the Digest’s past accuracy -as convincing, ‘if we accept.

. Airplanes, Gasoline Possible

is estimated as a $50,000,000 a year: industry. : Combining aluminum, chromiu and tungsten with iron, copper and other base metals results in the new

‘seemed incredible. During the 1932 campaign, Republicans could not believe they would suffer such a dis‘astrous defeat as the Digest poll forecast. During the 1928 campaign, supporters of the Demo-

ASHINGTON, Oct. 12—The latest, installment of the Literary Digest poll gives Gov. Landon 713451 votes, and Mr. Roosevelt 485,392. In other words, it gives Gov.- Landon 56.9 per cent of the

‘Watch Your Health

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

Daily New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— HE pioneers did not think much about the distant + A future. Their time was occupied fighting death by starvation and eluding the Indian's scalping knife. Now. since the white man is master of the land, it is time, says David Cushman Coyle in WASTE (Bobbs Merrill; $.50), for us to protect our heritage. ; We are at the cross roads, and disaster awaits a false step. In Mr. Coyle's opinion, the next 20'years will decide our future. Floods, dust, erosion, disappearing forests and animal life, the diminishing supplies of coal, oil, and metals, and the waste of manpower through depression, constitute a perilous situation. Mr. Coyle is concerned with “the choice between the conservation of money and the conservation: of palth.” His plea is for the long view, the realization that our seemingly bountiful resources are in truth dangerously :

; i . ® = : 'N a literary period of many American historical ~~ 4& novels, there comes another from the pen of . Walter Edmonds, author of “Erie Waters,” and “Rome Haul,” called DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (Lit- _ tle; $250)». The story covers eight years, 1776-1784, in the history of! Mohawk Valley in northern New

commercial’ -séalé

has grown into a major industry of. the United States, and the largest

single user of electric power, was described before the meeting of the Electrochemical Society here. Sir Humphrey took one of the

then new-fangled electric batteries

made by Volta and tried -to create

an electric arc between two charcoal electrodes. He had little success,

but. the principle was the forerun-

ner of the modern electric furnace

without which modern civilization

‘might not have such things as cheap

LUMINUM is one metal whose uction in pure form on 2

‘hardness comparable with the diaindustry’

alloys which enter vitally into the construction of the modern airplanes. : EJ n J IVHROUGH the electric furnace are produced tungsten carbide and silica carbide which “have a

mond. Much of modern in s fuction depends I. pa on the use of such abrasive and

‘cutting tools to insure accurate fitting of .intricate parts. The cheap

‘total. ‘That would mean a rather

overwhelming ublican victory.

Three installments of. the Digest

poll are yet to appear. Conceivably, the final results might give a reduced majority to Mr. Landon, or even give a majority to Mr. Roosevelt. But the Digest ¢ with previous polls . that the present ‘indication of a Rs

“certainly that it

end of ‘the poll,

this poll as a barometer, then we

would be obliged to conclude that

the Republicans will’ win comfortably on Nov. 3.: There is no use arguing against the barometer, if we assume the barometer to be acwhether the Digest poll is an ac-

‘curate barometer. Even though it ‘has been dccurate in previous elec‘tions, is Ita :

accurate in this one. 2 8

automobile is one direct result.

ing escaped

| A Woman's Viewpoint-—-Mrs. Wy

cratic ‘ candidate, Al Smith, could not ‘believe- he would be beaten by

any such overwhelming proportion |

as the Digest poll indicated. Similarly, in the ' present campaign, nearly all Democrats strongly dis~

"pute thes Digest’s forecast of seri-

ous defeat for them. Some neutral ! “dispute either the fore-

‘cast of so great a Republican vic-

tory or the forecast of Republican

victory at all. : “|. Many other polls différ from the Digest

Pras from asphyxia strikes frequently without warning. It may be associated with drowning, electric sHock, poison gases, mechanical strangulation, or burning. Or it may appear almost immediately following birth in an infant who has been delivered with difficulty. : i Asphyxia results from lack of oxygen, which a human body must have if it is to live. When we breathe, we take in oxygen, When wé can not breathe because of any of the conditions that have been men< tioned, we suffer prompfly from oxygen want. The blood circulates constantly,