Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1936 — Page 14
FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE
YOEUR D'ALENE, ldaho, Oct. 16.—It is a strange way for a man to spend his life—writing letters to newspapers, without
pay. ./ 1 askéd Charles Hooper, the letter-writer, of Coéur d’Alene, what was behind the whole thing in his case. He said that he had always been a crusader type—that this was merely his way of
crusading. Originally he planned to be a “minister, But then he decided he could reach a greater audience through the printed page than’ from the pulpit, : A man with the ego to believe publicly that he can help make the world better must have strong opinions. Charles Hooper is dogmatic in his letters. But in private he is not a bully with his, opinions. He ‘is still devotedly - religious «today, although in a thinking, liberal way, rather than in a fanatical sense. He feels that the Chris tian church is practically dead. He has not been in a church in many years. And yet he reads a psalm from the Bible before every meal. And on Sunday morning he holds his own little service alone in his cottage. Religion has not narrowed him. He smokes cigars, and chews tobacco all the time, and takes one or more drinks daily. His favorite liquors are Jamaica rum and Irish whisky. Hooper leades a regimented life. He is up at 7. He gets his own breakfast, reads a few lines in the Bible, then eats. He always reads while he is eating. He puts cotton in his ears when he types, for the typewriter hurts his ears.
Mr. Pyle
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Receives Many Letters
OOPER gets quite a few letters from people who have read his letters in the papers. He answers most of them. Now and then somebody writes in and says he should be strung to a tree, or have his ears cut off. He doesn’t answer these. He is not really a hermit, or anti-social. Everybody in Coeur d’Alene knows him, and although he has no close friends, he knows a great many people. He has written 12 books. The manuscripts lie dustily now under a table and in an old trunk. He has never tried to get any of them published, and probably never will. He considers them more in the light of practice and preparation for doing something great some day. ; He has also written much poetry. He has two long poems, written in the epic style, running more than 400 stanzas each.
” ” ” May Go to New York : OOPER is proud of his letters, and of the rather H odd fame they have brought him. He vowed once that he would never return to New York until he was rich. But richness is far from his mind now, ahd he swells a little over the fact that maybe th work he chose will bring him as much honor as hes would. re od that brings us to the odd climax in the story of this self-exiled writer of letters-to-the-editor— Charles Hooper is thinking of quitting his letter-writ-ing and of returning to New York. ; + A great change is about to take place in his life. I'm not sure what it is. It may be matrimony. 1f he does quit his letter writing, he will at last. after this long preparation, start on what he considers his great litérary work. It may be in the form of poetry. It is not hard for me to believe that he might
do something great. Vrs. Roosevelt's Day Mrs. Roosevelt s Day | BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ETROIT, Mich, | Thursday—L remember the “crowd in Chicago in 1952 and the torches whick nearly choked us when the fumes got'into the closed cars, making it difficult to breathe, ‘Last night we
re spared the torches, which was fortunate, because hho re many more peopie out to greet the Presi-
he Chicago and New York City: are three:
! Los Angeles, places which stand out in my mind as having the best-
ice horses, and I suppose that also means ey Last night, amidst a very enthusfastic crowd, some of those horses stood like statues, while others moved exactly as their riders directed with leg and rein. No signs of nervousness or excite- : visible. : He Scheider and I had planned to meet when we sot back to the train and go straight to a hotel for a path. But in some way the cars went to different sntrances at the station and I could not find her. Leaving word with every one possible as to where she would find me, I jumped into a taxi and made for the one ‘Hotel. Ble driver was quite willing to talk and rerked that it had been a wonderful turnout of people when the President spoke. I asked him if he remembered 1932 and if he thought the people last night were better dressed, better fed and happier looking—which was my own impression. He promptly agreed with me, and added that he himseli was making much better living than he had been able to make in 1932. This. was encouraging _ information, because he was, doubtless only one of many. Mrs. Scheider soon found me, and in a short lime other friends ferreted us out. Finally Mr, Freeman Gosden (Amos) drove us baek to. the train in his car. Having lost an hour last night, we were lazy this morning and did not go to the diner until 9. I got just what 1 deserved: It was 9:30 as the train drew into Grand Rapids, so all we had time for at breakfast was orange juice. I do not like to go without my coffee, but I did. We hurried off the train and drove around the city. The President made a short speech, so it was nearly 11 before we got back to the train and finished
breakfast. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Daily New Books
FLAIR for parody combined with a skill for rhyming and a gift for narrative has produced SIR GALAHAD AND OTHER RIMES, by Christopher Ward (Simon & Schuster, $2), a masterpiece of fun.
Of Sir Lancelot du Lac, he says; “No other man was in his class. : His thews and sinews were of brass.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
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CONQUERING THE MIGHTY PACIFIC
First of a Series
BY PAUL FRIGGENS NEA Setvice Staff Correspondent QVER the mighty Pacific man has launched his final conquering charge by alr, Pan-American Airways has in.adgurated trans-Pacific air serve ice to Manila. Extension of service to Hongkong is forecast in the near future. v H. R; Ekins, globe-circling reporter for The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers, now is aboard the Hawaiianr Clipper bound for San Francisco, the first east-bound passenger carried in regular service. ; At Quam, first stop out of Manila, Ekins was met by a group of reporters making the trip in the China Clipper, first regularly carried .west-bound passengers. t 4 = 2 HE China Clipper was at Guam today, awaiting favorable weather to proceed to Manila, where Dorothy Kilgallen of the International News Serv-
American Newspaper Alliance were to board it and fly to the United States. So are crowned with triumph those pioneer days of trans-Pacific flying—the days of lonely battles against a treacherous, trackless waste, days of fuelless, failing motors and of wreck and. thirst, starvation, death—days of Rodgers, Hegenberger, Maitland, Kings- - ford-Smith, and the Dole Derby. Ended is the era of rudimentary experimentation. Across the western ocean’s vast expanse today three giant China Clipper ships—each 25 tons of graceful power and luxury—zoom their. way, speeding as far for each hour as their predecessors, the old “Yankee Clippers” of the China Seas, would have averaged in a day. San Francisco to Hongkong— more than 9000 miles of charted aerial route that promises. fo affect the course of world affairs, reducing from 28 days to slightly more than 60 hours the interval between the Western world and the Orient—that is the epic of Pan-American’s express and mail service andnow a regular passenger schedule across the Pacific. ” ” ”
IVE years ago three men sat i & around a desk in an office ‘high in a New York skyscraper. They were Col. Charles A. Lind«~Rergh, Juan T. Trippe, And A. As Priester, technical ‘adviSer, presi~ “dent, and chief engineer, respee“tively, ‘of the Pan-American Airways System. ‘These men planned that day ‘the .final .conquest of the Pacific. Logically they selected their route, California, Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila, partly because it was an all-American flag route. Next, they determined the specifications of the flying boats, their range, seaworthiness, speed. Into these specifications in succeeding weeks went the sum total of 32 years of American aviation and engineering experience. The final blueprint was of a trans-Pacific flying boat of sufficient size to carry mail, passen-
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At home in air or water, the Clipper ship, in top photo, skims along smoothly over These 25-ton airliners have accommodations for 18 passengers, cargo and crew of seven. Lower photo shows a cross-section of the ship and
the ocean surface for a takeoff.
its equipment.
gers, and express at reasonable ‘rates to yield a profit and at a cruising speed in excess of 150 miles an hour. Four of six aircraft manufacturers approached called the task impossible. Two others said it could be done. They were Igor Sikorsky and Glenn L. Martin. They did it, Sikorsky‘ building the 19-ton Pan-American Clipper to blaze the trans-Pacific trail and Martin building the China, the Philippine, and the Hawaiian Clippers to follow it up.
” ” 8 AN-AMERICAN spent $1,200,000 for the three Martin ships. It spent twice that amount setting up a chain of bases across the Pacific—stores, 45-room hotels, landing docks; in pre-training of flight crews, begun long: before the first planes was built; in perfecting radio-navigation = equipment that would insure absolutely accurate flight in fair .weather or foul, : y hi In. April, 1935, the fisst round trip flight, California to Honolulu, : was made with the routine exactness of a railroad schedule. In June‘it was repeated and extended to Midway Island, next to Guam. On Nov, 22 the China Clipper launched the first airmail service to the Orient. ’ : Since that date the three Clippers have flown more than 500,000 trans-Pacific miles between California and Manila. » » 2
HE Clipper service, in fact, has already become pretty much routine to its expert crews of seven. “What do you de when you're
. On the Clipper’s “bridge,” top photo, are the two pilots who handle the flight controls with the aid 4 of the navigator, lower photo, who sets the course. Capt. Edwin Musick, inset, is the ship’s chief.
This view is down the 50-foot main aisle of the passenger compartments of the Clipper ship. fortably equipped, and affording room for moving about and relaxation, it is similar to the interior
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of a railway Pullman car, even to the ice water container at right along the passageway. ) insulated to minimize the roar of the ship’s four 800-horsenower engines.
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not in the cockpit?” Captain Ede win C: Musick recently was asked. “Oh, I read a little, and I sleep a little, and that’s about all,” he replied. “At first I used to look
down every once in a while to he sure the Pacific was still there.
~ But it always was, and so I don't
do that much any more.” - That is a far cry from the first
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blind flying that pioneered the conquest of the Pacific.
NEXT—Tragedy stalks the pioneers of the Pacific. -
Drunkenness Is
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
: EW YORK, Oct. 16.—Why does alcohol make the imbiber drunk? That is a question: which has puzzled physiologists for many vears. The answer is that it deprives the body of oxygen, Drs. R. A. McFarland of Columbia University and: A. L. Barach of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, conclude as a result of experiments reported in the American Joulfaai®of the Medical Sciences. They suggest treatment with combined oxygen and carbon dioxide. The symptoms of drunkenness are familiar enough. The “drunk” sways on his feet. He ‘lacks control over his movements. And, in addition, he may become irrational and lose his capacity for’ selfcriticism, - association, and memory. Physiologists have noticed a striking similarity between these symptoms and those of the mountain climber who suffers from altitude sickness and the flyer at high altitudes who is not getting enough “ ” ” ” WENTY-THREE students, all but two of them non-drinkers, volunteered to serve as subjects for . McFarland and Dr.
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of Oxygen, Scientists Hold
sands of pdtients now languishing hopelessly in ntental = disease hospitals appears in a report of European observations made by Dr. Bernard Glueck, medical director of Stony Lodge, Ossining, N. Y. Insulin is being used with apparcnt success in European hospitals to treat schizophrenia, Dr. Glueck reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association - published here. ; This mental disease fills one-fifth of all hospital beds, more than any other single disease, and its cost has been estimated at $1,000,000 daily. By giving daily doses of insulin, the sugar content of the patient's blood is reduced to its est possible limit short of endangering life. Of 118 patients treated ‘in Switzerland by this method, 68.2 per cent, over one-third, made full recoveries. If ‘these patients remain
No other form of psychiatric therapy requires as much care, skill and
taneous restorative effects if ‘much ‘in- | n
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POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT ~~ i
~ BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The immense advantage of the radio to Mr. Roosevelt lies in the persuasiveness of his voice. I mean the tones of his voice, the timbre, as distinguished from the meaning of his words. The hearer is moved emotionally by the tone, and thereby is lulled into a coma with respect to the meaning of the words. Then the listener, having heard the speech over the radio, does not read it in the newspapers. The result is that since the radio came, speeches are judged by the ear, rather than by the eye. And the speaker whose voice has the more charming appeal to the ear has a great advantage. # = FJ ET, I suspect the Republicans A could overcome Mr.: Roosevelt’s vocal persuasiveness, indeed might even turn it into a boomerang. This campaign could be turned into a real debate. Let the Republicans delegate competent debaters to take up each of the President's speeches, examine it with a cold
.| eye, analyze it from the point of
view of the intellect rather than the emotions, and present to the -emotion:
The President's recent appeal to |
farmers
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About the accuracy. .of these words there could be some debate. But let us ignore, as a ‘point irrelevant here, the assertion that “we have done what we said we would do.” Consider the inference conveyed by Mr. Roosevelt's persuasive tones. The inference is that the rise in prices of crops hetween 1932 and 1936 was due wholly. to the President's farm policy. This implies that but for Mr. Roosevelt, crop “prices ‘would still be ‘where they were in 1932. It amounts to. saying that Mr. Roosevelt brought about the recovery from depression.
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F that were true, then Mr. Roosevelt must have been responsible for the recovery that has taken place throughout the world. And if Mr. Roosevelt is the agency that brought about world recovery, then he is subject to a serious charge of lack of patriotism—for having discriminated America, for having brought about a greater recovery elsewhere than he brought
publicans, who happened to .be in|
power at a felicitous time. And ‘I suppose the Republicans are barred
from complaining’ when the fallacy | .
happens now to operate in favor of the Democrats.’ » » » . * ‘R. ROOSEVELT really thinks he did it. He .said once before that he and his policy brought
about .the rise in farm prices. He
said it under circumstances’ which showed how .deeply he ‘believed it. On May 31, 1935, Mr. Roosevelt devoted an hour and a quarter in.an
extraordinary press conference to
attacking the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating NRA. One of
his reasons for attacking the NRA,
decision, was, he said, that the same principle of law, if applied to Triple-A, would invalidate Triple-A also. Triple-A had not yet come beforé the court. And invalidation of Triple-A—I quote from an account of what Mr. Roosevelt , said as printed in the New York Times, June 1, 1935: “If we abandon crop control, wheat would immediately drop to 36 cents a bushel and cotton to 5 cents a pound.” 5
Our Town
BUT for a British-bred gentleman who claims he read (and reread) my noisy column about fox hunting, I wouldn't be in a position to pursue the dreamy ideology of the subject. At any rate, I wouldn't be able
to tell you about the etiquette of the hunt, which, whether you know it or not, it what I am up: to today. My informant grants that I touched on the etie .quette of the sport slightly by pointing out that it’s bad form for the field to pass the Master of Hounds, but it wasn’t enough to suit him. My informant insists that I start at the beginning. All right. First of all, a real-for-sure fox hunter takes off his hat to the Master at the start of the hunt. It’s a silk hat—remember? At the end of the hunt, he repeats the performance and, in addition, thanks the Master, even if he's had a rotten day. If he feels like it, he ; .can thank the huntsmen, too, but it’s. not obligatory, “It isn’t polite to shout—much less yell—except in the right place. There aren't many right places in a fox hunt and least likely are those when the hounds are around. It distracts the hounds with the result that they get more interested in you than in the foxy which isn’t the purpose of the game. 7 Neither is it polite to ride directly behind the hounds. There are good reasons for this--English rea< sons, anyway—because if you do, like as not, your horse in taking a fence will land on a straggler who has turned around to see how you are coming along. No matter how much you feel like killing a straggler, remember that British law and etiquette protect him,
Mr. Scherrer
When to Jump
EITHER is it polite to take a jump until the per son in front of you has landed safely. If, for any reason, your horse refuses—and goodness knows, there may be plenty of good reasons—let the rest of the field ‘have their way before you and your horse try it again, It makes sense because it may be just possible that your. horse doesn’t think as much of fox-hunting as you do. : If some one gets off his horse to open a gate for you, for Pete's sake; give him time to gét back on his horse. It’s only common decency and besides, if you. were to go right on, the other rider's horse might get moody and, maybe, impulsive and then there would be the devil to pay. 7 : © "At a check (which I explained, and successfully,
too, in a previous paper) be as quiet as possible. It's the only time the hounds can collect themselves, and, anyway, this is the proper place for a nip. A foxe hunt has its extra-curricular activities too. ~~ \
Reward Horse Finder
F you have a spill (and you needn't feel bad if you, tio, ‘because even kings have their falls), or if your. ‘horse runs away, have the decency to reward the Traders Point farm boy who has the honesty to bring it back to you. It’s worth two shillings in England “and there's no reason why it shouldn't be worth just as much in Indianapolis, says my informant. Any way, consider the present plight of the American farmer. ! My informant also wishes the matter of obligatory, dress gone into -a little more fully, especially that part where I said the women never wear pinks. It
turns out they do, provided they hunt their own hounds and. provided they ride astride. I hope 1%
surprises you as much as it did me.
Hoosie
r Yesterdays | OCTOBER 16 ah Joana was regarded by the outside world ad &
center of culture and liberalism as early as 1825 when Richard Owen, British manufacturer, took over: the colony . established by George and Frederick Scholars, artists and educators from all parts of the country and world came to the New Harmony settlement to disguss issues of the day. Piel gk ‘Por eccentricity and efficiency, the earlier Rappite colony has not been rivaled in Indiana. In the sume mer of 1314, the Harmonie Community of Ezonomy, Ps.. bought 17,000 acres in Pozey County, Ind. 2 The Rappites cleared the field, built large barns and established factories run by steam. .By 1817 the: industrious colonists had 200 acres of wheat, large vineyards, rye, barley, oats, pasture fields, 1500 sheep and abundant live stock. ens "In their factories the colonists made broadcloth, tinware, shoes, saddles, flour and beer. All the property was held in common and: the colonists shared alike in the harvest of their work. :
_Another colony which has deserved historical mention is that of a group from Canton Vaud, Switzerland, at Vevay, Ind.—By T. C. ‘ i
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN =~ Editor, Amet, Medical Assn. Journal Ri OST. of the deaths from inhaling carbon mone’ 4¥ A oxide are caused by illuminating gas in the home: or by gas from the exhaust of running automobiles in. closed garages. In certain industries, too, workersare, exposed to the deadly gas. "The hazard of carbon monoxide poisoning is much more serious in the winter than in the summer because more people try to warm up the car early in the morning before taking it out of the closed garage.. Warnings against this practice have been repeated year after year and yet every winter brings to light numerous instances of unnecessary deaths from this cause, 3 To guard against such danger at home or work, the following instructions are important: os 1./Keep windows open as much as possible. 2. Do not permit an engine fo run and discharge
member that carbon monoxide is odorless.