Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1936 — Page 9

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Vagabond FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

SEATTLE, Oct. 24.—All over the world you see statues. Statues of Benjamin Franklin. Statues of Abraham Lincoln. Statues of Bolivar the Liberator .and statues of County Commissioner Cyrus J. Brown. Statues to the first Indian agent at Cimarron, N. M, and a statue to a mining mule named “Prunes.” } All of which is perfectly all right with me. Except I want to know, since we are $0 prolific with our statues, why hasn’t somebody ever put up one to the guy who invented mail? | Now there was a fellow who really did something for the world. Mail is a wonderful instituti You don't know how wonderft mail 1s until you don’t get any. | Take me, for instance. The postman never rings twice at my door. He doesn’t ring at all. I haven't any door. I get mail at General Delivery, Miles City. And three weeks later at General Delivery, Mr, Pyle Salt Lake City. Nobody knows where I am in the meantime. The postman found me yesterday here in Seattle. And he had a wad of it. I took the whole afternoon off (with pay) to mull over my mail. It's pretty good mail, too. What do you think? . .. Prom Pearl Bjork, school teacher, who rode across Lake of Woods with me one night in a motor scooter: “I'm going to take your articles to school to show the children. They will get a thrill out of them ...” Prom M. E. M.: “What do you do for a vacation? Just set, or travel?” From Cavanaugh, a friend, of Los Angeles: “Been doing a lot of reading. Last week-end I read Boswell’s Johnson and Anthony Adverse, and this week-end I'm going to set both of them to music. How's your

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Avoids Age Query FROM Mrs. W.: “I enjoyed my trip with you (via

the paper) through Canada very much. Please tell me whether you are a young, middle-aged, or You're on the right track there, Mrs. W. . From Bunny, 10 months in the hospital in Denver: “Have started my correspondence course in accounting, and after the first five lessons still can’t tell the difference between a debit and a credit.” : From Eda, down in Texas, who is wonderful, but doesn’t know the difference between a pound andia barrel: “Roy says Well No. 1 which had rich sand is seeping at rate of four pounds, and new well makes

eight pounds; another seeping well good for about

four; may have 20 pounds per day. Roy is thrilled,

‘but I'm always wondering when theyll stop flowing.”

From the boss: “You're the darndest hot and cold

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How to Live in College

ROM Jack, in his first year in college at Indiana: “I've found a fellow has two ways of living down here. Having a good time and spending a lot of money, or geiting one’s lessons and having a moderate amount of fun.” . From my mother: “Papa had his bank book balanced and had $60 more in the bank than he thought he had. Frank went to the river and got me five nice catfish. I can eat fish if they are baked. Hope you don't go any place that is dangerous. Be careful about your driving. . ” ™ Come on Mr. Gutzon Borglum, how about a statue to the guy who invented mail?

ni cindion os Loe agin. foo Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

N 3 OUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Friday—These last two weeks have taught me how many different ways people have of expressing their feeling about ja candidate when they see him pass by. I have made a little mental list of the various ways in which the President has been addressed. ! It ran from “Hi, pal,” to, “Mr. President, Mr. President!” and in between is: “Hello, F. D.,” “Hello, Frankie,” “Rosy.” “Teddy,” and sometimes an imitation of the radio announcers: “Mr, President, hi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” | Yesterday ‘afternoon we were still a little behind schedule, but the people waited and I think we got through some rather difficult places without any one in the crowd being hurt. ; Sometimes it seems to me that the local authorities do not choose the easiest possible place for a meeting. But I am not as familiar with local conditions as they and a place which seems obvious fo me may really have drawbacks. I learned long ago that I had one very bad habit— I always want to rearrange everybody else’s arrangements, and I always think I can do it better. So trips of this kind are really excellent discipline for me, for I know that I can do absolutely nothing, and so I must be a silent passenger. | When we got back to the train in Stamford, Conn., the crowd clgsed in behind us so the cars ‘in the rear could not get through. I took one look at the packed mass of people and wondered if all of our party, particularly Miss LeHand and Mrs. Scheider, could get through to the train. Just a& I was about to send out a searching party, 1 saw the very tall figure of Fred Storm of the United Press, -and clinging to hii were the two last ladies. Somehow he managed to pull them throug the crowd and put them on the train. We did not get into New York until nearly 8 o'clock last night. I found that a friend of mine, whom I do not see very often, was still in the city so we decided to stay until this morning. } Of all the places we have visited recently, I can think of no lovelier country than the New England states in the month of , except, perhaps, my own New York State. The yellow and red mapies and the rust-colored oaks have not yet lost their leaves and the sun still shines warmly upon them. w a heavy rain or frost may strip the I am grateful beyond words for the of the country, which I love.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 18

DAYS!

(Fourth of a Series)

BY H. R. EKINS Times Staff Writer

THIS is a very good world and the people in it are very good. That was impressed upon me scores of times before 1 took off from typhoon-swept Manila aboard the Pan-American Airways Hawaii Clipper on the long all-over-water jump across the Pacific Ocean. ‘In thumbing over my diary since:returning, I found

* I owed a debt of gratitude to many more persons than were

pilots and newspaper correspondents. May I thank them

here. They include:

William H. Van Oosten, head of the Batavia Petroleum

Co. at Balikpapan, Borneo. He was my host in Balikpapan,

a delightful spot which proved to be ultra-civilized when 1 had expec o find D yak head-hinters and

other wild men of ‘Bormed.

Further, Mr. Van Oosten arranged for his great oil works at Balikpapan to manufacture 100octane gasoline so that our flight to Manila via Zamboanga and across the Sulu Sea would have a minimum of hazard.

Mention of fuel reminds me that I should; tell you of our experience at Zamboanga in the southern Philippines where we landed in a typhoon which was laying | hemp plantations low and tearing immature coconuts from the trees. Capt. Van Bremer, with a cross-wind howlihg, landed us safely on a palm-fringed golfcourse fairway 110 feet wide. And the wingspread of our Douglas DC2 plane was 90 feet. Our first news in Zamboanga was that the little inter-island steamer | plying to Zamboanga from Cebu with our fuel was caught in the typhoon and would be delayed for hours, perhaps days. The situation was critical. The Hawaii Clipper was still held at Manila because of the storm but if I were grounded long in .Zamboanga—600 miles distant—it might well leave without me and the race iwould be lost. } 2 8 = , . RITZ WORCESTER, pioneer Mindanao planter and representative! of the Philippine Coconut Corp., took me into his home —a charming, spacious house built entirely of rare Philippine woods. The floor boards\were nearly 30 inches wide, of gleaming, highly polished mahogany, and beautiful armosolo! paintings decked the walls. With the winds abating a bit, old friends of earlier days in

the Philippines rallied around... 4.

Lieut. Col. Luther Rea Stevens of the Philippines constabulary— a splendid example of your true American colonial soldier — ap{I told him my troubles and he arranged to place at my disposal all the gasoline available to the constabulary. Unfortunately it was not enough. Then we were joined by Capt. Myrmn Joseph Conway of the United States Army. He had a fuel pump and soon it became mine. I will never forget the way the constabulary and the Army, tucked away in the Southern Seas just above the equator, came to my rescue.

Our real trouble began when the Dutch crew of my plane, cautious to the last detail, insisted upon knowing the quality of the gasoline. It was not marked on the tins. . Incidentally, the plane at Zamboanga had to be refuelled five gallons at a time. The “gas” Was poured into the tanks tin by tin. ” ” »

URNING patriotic and talke ing fast of the achievements of. the United States Army Air Corps we persuaded the worthy Hollanders that American military planes wquid not fly on lowgrade gasoline. We talked them into believing that it was" 80. octane at least.

Later, when we were in. the air and the typhoon was tossing us about as though the big Douglas were a leaf, I learned that the skeptical Dutchmen had radioed to Nichols Field, the United States Army airdrome at Manila, and when the reply came’ crackling through discovered thereby that the gasoline we had taken aboard at Zamboanga was octane 87. They became smiling as well as flying Dutchmen. I concluded that they had been spoiled by Mr. Oosten’s 100-octane fuel which we had exhausted on the 700-mile flight from Balikpapan to Zamboanga. It would take long to call in detail the roll of those who speeded your correspondent on: his way with" help and - encouragement. There was Don Manuel Quezon, president of the commonwealth of the Philippines, who was my host

at Malacanan Palage and to -

whom I delivered letters from President Roosevelt and Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York. President Quezon, as an adminis-

trator during the difficult initial 1

years of the commonwealth of the es, is proving himself as

“able, shrewd and conscientious. as

when he was campaigning for. Filipino independence.

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! HERE was Mayor Juan Posa-

das of Manila. Despite a torrential rain blown in by the typhoon he met me at Nichols Field and with Maj. Natividad of President Quezon’s staff escorted me to Malacanan Palace and later to a Manila Gridiron Club dinner. Manila ‘was a riot of welcome." I was grounded there for three days by the typhoon and dodged an attack of the deep-dish jit-

ters only through. the courtesies

Ekins Thanks T. hose Who Helped on

A mid-Pacific pylon very appropriate for round-the-world air racers is this display of lights over famed Waikiki Beach in the harbor at Honolulu,

and devoted attention of Roy Bennett, editor of the Manila Daily Bulletin; Dr. Carlos Romulo, foremost Filipino journalist, Don Arseno Luz of the Philippines Ex-

position Corp., Don Felipe Buen- |

camino, a member of ‘the Philin pine National Assembly, and Tony Escoda, another crack rilipino newspaper man. He is privileged also to be the husband of ‘the lovely Josefa Escoda, leader of the women’s suffrage movement in the Philippines. : Manila was just about the halfway point in the journey. As I paused there I thought of others to whom I owed great: thanks. They included Chuang Miteja of the Siam Chronicle, Bangkok; H. Nieuwenhuis, general manager of the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways—better known as Knilm; Miss Gwen Dew, dubbed “world correspondent” by the Detroit News; G. A. Brown, general manager of the Rangoon /Times of Rangoon, Burma; and PF. Poulton of the Statesman, Calcutta. Cb TE AS we flew through the Neéthd erlands East Indies'I met as a fellow: passenger “Shorty” Elliott, head of American Standard Oil interests in the Indies. He was accompanied by his petite, pretty and gracjous Dutch wife. Long before I got to Borneo, where I heard the same thing again and again, I. heard that “Shorty” - Elliott was the mostbeloved of all Americans in that part of the Far East which lies below the ‘equator. Mr. Elliott stands about six feet three inches tall and has the weight and" muscle to go with his altitude. My scanning of the diary so

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Hawaii.. The photo, made at a recent army cele‘bration, shows the placid waters of the Pacific, with Honolulu puildings .in the background.

H. R. Ekins, globe-girdling reporter for The Indianapolis Times, and other Scrinps-Howard. newspapers, celebrated his return to American soil by taking part in a Hawaiian luau, or feast, in Honolulu. Here's

4 kh é:fast-traveling Mr. Ekins (right) eating Hawaiian. poi. At the ‘a : Jd i

is Stanley Kennedy, Hloiiaght mB AR aE far has brought .us as far as Manila. Much remains, but it must go over until tomorrow when I will tell of the flight across the Pacific Ocean with Pan-American ‘Airways and across the United States: with United ‘Airlines and T. W. A.—Transcontinental-West« ern Afrways. 3 . The more than 8000 miles flight: across the Pacific was probably the" most interesting part.of our journey around the world in little more than 18% days. It was over a route-on which Pan-

American. Airways has 3 accoms=

plished genuine pioneering in but. little more than 18 months. Wake and Midway Islands, desert sand spots in mid-ocean, have been transformed ‘into the farthest flung. outposts of - civilization. ‘Pan-American went into high adventure and won and erected a new and very great monument to the science of ‘aviation. The monu=‘ment stands under the American flag.

(To Be Continued)

200 New Plants Patented Since Passage of 1930 Law

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Despite the fact that over 200 plant patents have been granted by

' the United States Patent Office nere

since such patents on flowers, fruits and vegetables became legdl in 1930, the field of. patented plants is virtually untouched. Material prepared in; connection with the coming Centennial Celebration of ‘the American Patent System on Nov. 23, 1936, shows this fact as a logical conclusion. ‘ Here are some of the future possibilities of the effect of ‘plant patents on everyday life: 1. Forest trees as an annual crop, like oats and potatoes. 2. Oranges and bananas grown outdoors in Maine. 3. Apples and peaches six inches in diameter. Such apparent fantasies appear

remote at the present time, but much less so than the idea of the

radio or airplane seemed to the old |

patent examiners in 1836, when the present patent system was just bepa = = = UEEN ELIZABETH, it is disclosed, granted what were virtually the first plant patents—except in name—in the famous monopolies given to favored individuals for exclusive rights to flax, hemp, currants and medicinal and

New Types of Injury

Are Created “

EW YORK, Oct. 24 —New types of injury have been created by new means of transportation, and rare types have become common, Dr. John J. Moorhead of New York City reported at the second session of the Ninth Annual Graduate Fortnight of the New York Academy of Medicine. Nearly two-thirds of the injuries are due to vehicles, Dr. Moorhead said, while only one-fifth occur in industry. Because of increased use of the automobile and airplane in transportation, he went on, the doctor in the most remote hamlet may be called. upon at any time to treat grave injuries of some leading citizens of our country. “The initial care given to the injured may determine the entire outcome,” he pointed out. “Immediate treatment usually means easy treatment and early recovery.” In addition to early treatment, he advised that shock and hemorrhage should be immediately treated and. pain ould

ting injuries, according to Dr. Moorhead, “is in the.gadget of development, but complicated fancy apparatus is more of a than a benefit. Safety first is slogan in traumatic surgery; next speed and next simplicity.” -

POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT

. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

BOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL, Oct. 24—Two episodes during President Roosevelt’s campaign tour of New England tell a good .deal about the struggle for control at Washington. : A ‘crowd exceeding anything in the history of the city packed Boston Common to greet - Roosevelt. Possibly there has never been before such a mass of people assembled, in one spot for litical meeging. Some who saw the huge turnout for Al Smith in 1928 said it did Bop pate witly thi§ astounding sight. Yet, less than 10 minutes after President Roosevelt left Boston Common, he was in Cambridge, skirting Harvard's Yard. There he heard himself loudly booed by the young sons of the rich. These were the first boos which have fallen on

Roosevelt’s ears during this cam-|

paign—that is, the first ones directed at him. Ironically they from the students of his own mater, who took obvious delight in showering them on the second Roosevelt son of Harvard to reach the White House. 43 Thus, in 10 minutes, Roosevelt went from the of mass acclaim into cs are stronger

them, look upon Roosevelt as a

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a din of derision from his own kind. Econo

Messiah. But these falr young men of Harvard, just becoming voters,

heirs of ‘wealth and family influ-

ence, with opportunities for ‘fame,

fortune and power soon to open up for them look upon Roosevelt as a traitor to his class. : :

Fa contracting = incidents, spaced closely together in time, but as far apart as the poles socially, is revealed the deep cleavage which has grown up around Roosevelt. The thousands who stood on Boston Gommon to see. Roosevelt

N these

were not particularly interested in. what he had to say. Most of them |Pa¥

undoubtedly have only a vague idea of what he is doing; but they feel

that he holds wealth subject fo. the general right of the community to regulate its business use as the public welfare requires.” : 2 x = : T. Worcester, Roosevelt quoted ‘A Lincoln to the effect that “The

legitimate object of government is

to do for ‘the people what needs to be done but which they can not by individual effort do at all, or~do so well, for themselves.” It is on the'basis of this philosophy that he defends the New Deal and that he insists that “taxes shall be levied according to ability to : Beyond reiterating that he does not intend to increase taxes, Roosevelt has on this frip given no further indication as to his future pro-

gram. He is resting his case en-

tirely on the record and is at the

same time deriding his Republican

opposition, speaking of “well-uphol-hindsight critics” and of

Ind.

By ANTON SCHERRER

PROPOS of nothing at all, save the eters nal wonder of things in general, 1 gin today’s column with one eye on the diary “of Franklin P. Adams (F. P. A.) and the day (June 23, 1925) he visited Bernard Beren= son, who, if you don’t mind being told, is thé famous and infallible art critic now living in Flore ence, Italy. - ,

“So to B. Berenson’s for luncheon in the loveliest house ever I saw, with the grand-

.-est library and studies and gar-

dens that might be. And we ‘talked of this and that, and 1 spoke of the people who trudged about galleries and churches, admiring this and pretending to be impressed ky that, and while some of it was real I thought that much of it was done by persons who had no interest in painting or sculpture soever, and would not walk a block in New York to’ go to the Metropolitan Museum or to see a picture exhibition. ‘Lord,’ quoth 1, Pr Ha ‘a. New Yorker will come here and say of this or thal third-rate painting, ‘Is not that wonderful?’ and if I should say, ‘Was it not sad that George Bellows / | died?’ they will say, ‘Who was George Bellows?’ 2 “Well,” quoth Mr. Berenson, ‘who was George Bellows?’ ” te All of whieh is my circuitous way of getting around

. Mr. Scherrer

| to the time Dr. J. L. Thompson visited Vienna. Dfy

Thompson, if you don’t mind my telling you, ens joyed an enviable reputation around here as a great oculist, quite aside from the fact that he prescribed a pair of spectacles for me. oT

” ” o Got Something in Eye ELL, as I was saying, Dr. Thompson landed in # Vienna and, simultaneously with his landing, he got something in his eye. It irritated him mightily afid that’s why he arrived in the office of a famous

! oculist who at that time enjoyed an international

reputation and, for all I know, probably deserved it.

For some reason, probably because specialists didn't know as much about’ such things as they now do, Dr. Thompson didn’t have to make an appointment, . I stress the point at this time because I want it clearly understood before I proceed that Dr. Thompson ens tered the great man’s office as-an anonymous patient, the splinter in ompson told

Well, the Viennese oculist removed a jiffy and did it so cleverly that Dr. | him he was pretty good. ; “Yes,” said the Viennese doctor, “it's an American trick. I got it out of a book written by a Dr. J. Ls Thompson.” : jit #8 8 =

Odds and Ends 3

LL of which still leaves me time to Hispose of some odds and ends that have, up to now, made my desk look like a rat’s nest. To wit: | The man who sold me my umbrella the other day says that he does his best business on a day when rain falls from 9:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m, A rainy evening or Sunday is just a waste of water, | . Wilbur Peat wears a 7% hat; it falls down over the ears of the average head. | : Mrs. Mary Forsyth plays the strength and stride of a man. I : The nut man at Pennsylvania ro Market -sts

plano with the

never gives away more than two cashews at ‘a time, At that, it amount to 20 pounds a-day—25 on Sats urdays. ol ok 1s i Mrs. Meta Lieber likes her: pies full, deplores & modern technique that cultivates crust to the ex= clusion of everything else. 1 : i Mrs. Bertha Balke has a recipe for chicken cros quettes that is so elastic that she can veal, oysters or sweetbreads and it works just as well. 7

Hoosier Yesterdays OCTOBER 24 ITIZENS of Rushville turned out en masse 31 . years ago today to welcome the return of a favorite son and American diplomat. | He was John E Soway, whom fellow Hoosiers affectionately “Uncle ack.” Lf He Mr. Gowdy had returned to Rushville after years’ service as American consul general at He had come back to spend the remainder of I : among his boyhood friends. at] - The reception accorded him was enthusiastic and genuine. Five thousand persons crowded into the Rush County Courthouse at a “home-coming evening” to show their respect and affection. Enthusiasm was at a high pitch for the entire five hours of the meet= iB Citizens vied with each other in honoring “Uncle Jack.” | ve Many politicians were present, but politics did not enter into the demonstration for this Hoosier who won such high credit for himself ‘and. fame for state in the diplomatic service of his country. A Gov. Hanly was present, but it was James Watson, then Congressman Watson, himself a nati of Rushville, who gave the principal address welcome. : : As Mr. Watson introduced “Uncle Jack,” the a ence, which had listened to speeches and band m for four and a half hours with enthusiasm, but which after all had come to’ see and hear Mr. Gowdy, rose to a man and cheered. ' The band played the “Batti Hymn of the Republic” and “Auld Lang Syne.” Mr. Gowdy was quite visibly touched by this come, and declared that despite his wide travel “R ville and Rush County are good enough for me, ¢ expect to remain here the rest of my lf” He in 1918—(By F. M.)

‘Watch Your Healtt

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN