Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1936 — Page 9
agabond FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE
EATTLE, Oct. 26.—Doc Good is a funny man. He owns a big house, but he never sleeps in it. He has a lot of money, but he
doesn’t dress up. You can find him any time of day aboard
his little black ketch Cheechako. In the summer he'll be in Alaskan waters; in the winter tet
up at the wharf here. He has been sailing his own small boats to Alaska, just for fun, for 20 years. He is an expert seaman, and he knows every island and cove from here to the Aled tians. Doc Good doesn’t do an except loll around his boat. used t0 be a dentist before he made money in real estate aml -Alaskan gold. The funny part about Doc Good living on this boat is that he’s so big and the boat so little, Oh, it's 42 feet long, and has three Mr. Pyle cabins, but you ought to see Do¢ Good.. He weighs 250, and looks It sounds uncanny, but he is a marvelous dancer. Goes to two or three dances a week here in the winter. Doc's boat is very homey inside. It has that rumpled towel and shaving-tube atmosphere of the bathroom of a large family. It contains, among thousands: of other things, three radios, an upright piano and a .dentist’s chair.
The chair is for Doc to put Alaskan natives into to work on their teeth when he goes into those isolated coves up there. “I don’t make enough out of it to buy oil,” he says. The piano is for Doc's daughter, Anna Helen. Bhe 1s 21, and beautiful, and studies voice and celestial navigation at the same time.
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ER mother and Doc are divorced, so Anna Helen spends half the year sailing the seas with hex dad and the other half at home with her mother, | Dr. W. F. Good is a smart man. He knows all about the gold standard, and why France devalued the franc, and what they're doing in Russia, and what the world is coming to.
. Not long ago he bought a trailer and spent three years touring the North American continent, just to talk to people. Another time he put a pack on his “back and walked clear.across the United States. : A couple of years ago he went all over Europe, just + to study things. He'can tell you plenty about Russia _ and Italy and Germany.
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Believes Nothing Will Work
E believes nothing will work. He'll talk about it for hours. Talks sense, too. He isn’t agai : Roosevelt, or Landon either, especially. He says doesn’t make any difference. Chaos is coming, on account of world conditions. . Doc Good says we're right on the verge of the worst revolution in history. I argued with him about that, and finally got it put off till 1941, but that’s the best I could do. He says the present pickup is a balloon and a bubble. He says we're starting the machines again, and we'll soon be manufacturing beyond our needs, and when the warehouses are full the machines will be stopped, and we’ll have a depression that'll make this one lobk.cheap. And then—the revolution. ) That's one reason Doc Good has this boat. He had this one built just two years ago, fixed up just the way he wanted it, and gave it to his daughter. When the revolution comes, theyll sail north and pick out /a cove where the fishing’s good and stay there. -
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HYDE PARK, N, Y, Sunday. Cynics take note as you come and go Youth has a dream and a ie who heeds it. Hark how the challenging echoes flow— ! Hold fast to your dream. America needs it.
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HE above lines were sent me the other day by Mrs. Armstrong Allen of Nashville, Ténn., and {hey strike a note of hope which I hope may prove Itself in fact. If young America can dream dreams and hold fast to them, then a great future lies before us. I still believe only the minority of youth thinks of material things and does not dream dreams for ths own future and that of the race. Christ in his sefond commandment: “Love thy neighbor as thyself” laid the basis for all successful dreaming. It is borne in on me more and more that only as our youth dreams in terms of living will world see much change in philosophy or action. For some time past friends have been sending me the National Parent-Teacher Magazine. It is Interesting even if you do not belong to the parentteachers organization, for all of us are interested in youth. Two lines of an editorial in the October issue "by Mrs. Langworthy may give parents food for thought. [She writes: “Why not enjoy life’s October for its precious beauty and brilliance as we do nature's October with no foreboding and with real anticipation?” It is a grand idea, but how can we do it unless we are sure that the youth of today is really dreaming dreams? Certainly we can not enjoy the October + of our lives with the fear hanging over us that history Is going to repeat itself. We have had two lovely days in the country and the four grandchildren seem to be thriving. An amusing request came in yesterday. It seenig that on our drive from Niagara to Buffalo the President's hat blew off and a little boy picked it up. He says the President thanked. him twice. On returning to his class, he and his classmates evidently * decided he should have kept the hat, so they and their teacher all wrote letters to the President. These letters came to me and really are most enterfaining. They want that hat. I think it will have to be cut into a good many pieces if each child is to have his or her share.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 18 DAYS!
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Homeward Bound! Eins Recalls Thrills of Flight Over Pacific
(Last of a Series)
BY H. R. EKINS Times Staff Writer
HEN the four-motored Hawaii Clipper of PanAmerican Airways, beautifully handled by Capt. E. A. LaPorte, left the waters lapping the United States naval operating base at Cavite, 30 miles from Manila, I felt for the first time in two weeks that 1 was
really on the way home.
We still had 11,000 miles to go but it appeared actually certain that I would get to New York with a record for The Indianapolis Times and the Scripps-Howard newspapers and that I. would be the first non-aviator to have gone completely around the world in heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air ships. By the time we had soared past the green-clad, cloud-wrapped Mayon volcano—a crater still active—on the southeastern coast of the island of Luzon I felt perfectly at home on the Clipper. In addition to Capt. LaPorte and the six other members of his able and thoroughly experienced crew we were six in the the roomy and comfortable passenger - compartment. None was disturbed by the fact that on several legs of the long trans-Pacific journey there were 13, including passengers and crew, aboard the Clipper.
2 ” 2 I WAS the only newspaper man aboard. My companions were Charles Monteith, executive vice president of the Boeing Aircraft Corp.; Andre A. Priester, chief engineer of the Pan-American Airways system; Parker Mitchell, Pan-American shop superintendent at Alameda, and S. B. (Sandy) Kauffman, an assistant to Mr. Priester. At Guam we were joined by W. H. Clover, division meteor=ologist at Alameda, and at Honolulu William P. Roth, president of the Matson Navigation Co, came aboard. Meals aboard, although served from thermos jars and flasks, were excellent, Sleeping accommodations were perfect. And were they welcome? - When I erawled into my berth between Manila and Midway, found it soft and, more important, long enough, I was the happiest man in the whole Pacific basin. Capt. LaPorte, a Hoosier, whose parents live on Fletcher-av in Indianapolis, did a beautiful job flying us to Guam, Two hours out from Sumay, the Pan-American Airways port 15 miles from Agana, capital of Guam, the typhoon which had grounded me at Manila for three days caught up with us again. But the Clipper never faltered. She soared on at 150 miles an hour or better and there was never a moment of apprehensione aboard. That was something. For the typhoon, the second through which I had flown within a week, was sufficiently serious so that next day it turned back the China Clipper carrying a party of newspaper men to Manila. The overnight stop at Guam will remain one of the high spots of the journey. For at Sumay I got my first real look at what Pan-American Airways have accomplished in achieving the mighty task of building a skyway to Asia. And%“there was a delightful dinner at government house with Commander B. V. Mc-' Candlish, U., S. N., the Governor of Guam, tJ
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Hotel at Guam was on & par with those at Wake Island and: Midway Islands. In these hotels dotting the Pacific beside coralringed lagoons trans-ocean travelers now will find tastefully
furnished rooms, each with its own |
bathroom and shower. Each hotel accommodates 48 guests and provides excellent food at well-ap-pointed tables. Never in all of my travels have I encountered such consistent courtesy and consideration as on the part of PanAmerican Airways employes.
é Gentlemen, every man of them. I would ‘like $0 name them all, but space does not permit. I wish there were some adequate way of letting them know of my gratitude. Guam was hard to leave. The natives—Chamd®ros—are splendid people. And the little colony of Navy and Marine Corps personnel constituted a group of charming gentlemen and lovely ladies. The Navy at Guam is doing a job of colonial administration which might well be taken as a model the world over. Fifteen minutes before we aboard the Hawaii Clipper skimmed into the air for Wake Island the China Clipper took off for Manila. But while we kept going so high in the clouds that we could not see the ocean 10,000 feet below™us the China Clipper was forced by the typhoon to turn back to Guam. We landed at Wake in darkness, but the Pan-American ground crew did a swell job of securing the ship—the same sort- of job Capt. LaPorte did in navigating through two hours of night to the merest speck of a coral atoll in the ocean. A year and a half ago Wake was inhabited only by birds. Now it has a hotel, power house, wireless station, machine shop, weather bureau and a veritable village for housing the Pan‘American personnel. We were all dead tired at Wake and turned in early. ® 8 = HERE is little rest for a re- - porter traveling around the world in record time. Pilots seemed anxious to be off the ground as much as possible. Late evening landings were followed all too soon by calls for breakfast, usually at 4 a. m,, but frequently at 3:30 a. m. It was, of course, possible to relax aboard the planes. These days, you know, noise and vibration in the air have been reduced to a minimum. And with pilots having - years of operating experience behind them and with crack ground organizations maintained constantly at top efficiency by all the airlines there never is worry for the passengers.
While aboard the Hawaii Clip-
Hawaii Clipper Lands H. R. Ekins at Alameda.
per we could not smoke. New Clippers, however, now being built for
" Pan-American Airways, will have
insulated smoking rooms. It was interesting, as we flew from Wake . to Midway, to chat with Mr. Priester and Mr. Monteith of the tremendous strides in aviation to come in the next few years. The Clippers soon will be replaced by ships capable of carrying from 40 to 60 passengers. Speeds of 250 miles an hour are imminent. The airplanes of the future will mean that the records I established on my journey for the Indianapolis Times and the other Scripps-Howard newspapers can not stand for very long. Our arrival at Midway Island was an event. For we had movies —talkies—aboard. After dinner all hands, inclucling the personnel of the Commercial Pacific Cable Co.’s station at Midway, sat in comfortable wicker chairs in a nough workshop. Kegs of nails, stacks of pipe and assorted pieces of lumber lined the walls. But we were as gay and comfortable as I have ever been in any ornate palace of the . cinema anywhere. It was a stag party. There was not a woman within 1000 miles. The party was refreshing. Grown men, hard men who have built civilization on desert islands, laughed uproariously at the silly antics of the screen players. There was no
boredom and nothing of the ar- | tificial about our party. !
o FJ ” MUST go back to Midway to stay as long as possible. The climate is delightful. Soft trade winds temper the usual heat of the subtropics. Life can be lived
at one’s own tempo. And the fish. Huge, delicious ulua. They throw them back unless they weigh 150 pounds. If you don’t believe it, fly to Midway and fish. The flight from Midway to Honolulu was interesting. We had landmarks—tiny islands or coral reefs most of the way. . The monotony of the ocean was broken. It seemed to me that all Honolulu had motored out to the PanAmerican station at Pearl City to welcome us. Old friends of eight years ago when I lived in Hawaii
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and cut my eye teeth in aviation are real pluggers for Pan-Amer-ican. The Clippers have brought Hawaii within 24 hours of the mainland. The people of the Islands have lost their feeling of isolation forever. The stay in Honolulu was all too short—less than 20 hours. I could have spent days chatting with Raymond Coll, editor of the Honolulu Advertiser; Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commander of the Hawaiian Department, U. S. A.; Gen. Barton K. Yount, commander of the Eighteenth Composite Wing, G. H. Q. Air Forge at Fort Shafter, and a host of friends. Gen. Drum is interested especially in the development of commercial aviation in the dni
" He envisages th " lines radiating fr ne a . make it possible for all who now
merely dream of exotic islands of
. the South Seas to visit them and
make dreams come true. On our flight from’ Honolulu to
Alameda we .spanned 2410 miles, -| -the longest open water stretch in
the world. It was done in 19 hours and 36 minutes with absolute comfort. I suffered only from wanting a smoke and not being allowed to have it. : 8 ” 8 AYOR ANGELO ROSSI of San Francisco headed the delegation which met us back on mainland America. I handed him a flag of the Netherlands and a flag’ of the Philippine commonwealth for the forthcoming Golden Gate exposition. And he kindly gave me a gold nugget mounted on ribbons of blue and gold. California state police provided an escort, for the ride to the Oakland Airport—one of the fastest I have ever had. There we boarded a waiting United States Airlines plane and were whisked over to San Francisco before taking off for Los Angeles. I owe much to United Airlines. An hour out of San Francisco we ran into thick soup. Visibility was nil and so we “sat” down at Bakersfield for fuel in case it would be necessary to circle a long time when we got over Los Angeles. For a time at Bak-
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ersfield things looked gloomy. I feared we would be grounded. Weather reports were not encouraging. It was proposed that we motor to Burbank Field, Los - Angeles, where the TWA Skychief was waiting. The distance was 80 miles but I refused. William N. Burkhardt, editor the San Francisco " News—a Scripps-Howard news.paper—was with me. . He agreed “that having flown around the world entirely by air and without using surface transportation of any kind we should not board an automobile on the last leg. And then United Airlines came through and put us down at Burbank Field, although it was a tough job. The fog was thick and there was Lil: rain—y. in Los Angeles ¥Y ¥ 3 DELI Lg T Los Angeles a HS plane was ready. The stop at Bakersfield had added only 2 hours and 20 minutes to my elapsed time. In a big Douglas: DC-Two we flew to Kansas City where I transferred to another TWA Douglas flown by D.: W. “Tommy” Tomlinson — who handles. the “flying laboratories” with which TWA is working day and night for further strides in aviation under the enthusiastic direction of Jack Frye, TWA president. “Tommy” took us into Newark ahead of schedule. Between Pitts burgh and Newark we averaged 240 miles an hour. We went out of our way to circle Lakehurst, N. J., where the flight aboard the Hindenburg had started less than three weeks before. I was glad to get home. I was glad to have a record. My only regret now is that there remain’ S80 many people to be thanked and I can find no way of thanking them adequately. The Misses Reva Baker and Frances Wilkins, TWA hostesses; Linton and Fay Wells in Los Angeles; C. W. Dayhoff of TWA; Dick Richardson of Sumay, Guam; Richard D. McMillan and Ferdinand Jahn of Vienna; Athens, and Edward W. Beattie Jr. of Berlin. There are scores of others and I can not list them all. For that I am sorry.
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Abdominal Surgery Advance Reported to Surgeons’ Group
BY SCIENCE SERVICE Oct. 26.—New
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POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT
BY MARK SULLIVAN
ASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Let it}
be reported, as the’ ‘experi-
body - is eager for light on the out-
1904 and 1908, Maryland gave a popular majority to the Republicans, as
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Watch Your Health
By ANTON SCHERRER
BUT for John Eldred Armstrong, who runs the book stall over at Block’s, I wouldn'é be able to tell you about the town’s newest author. It just happens that he is t town’s youngest author, too, and it’s a nice thing to know should the question ever come
up. » His name is De Von McMurray and he lives at 5344 Broadway: Which is to say’ that be lives there when he isn’t traveling. Author urray spends a lot of time tra When he was . 5 years old he went to Mexico, but that was so long ago that he doesn’t remember much about it. At any rate, not enough to write a book about it. Last year his father took him up North and he took enough notes to write his first book, “A Hoosier Schoolboy on Hudson Bay.” It's a dandy little (122 pp.) book and car~ ries the! imprimatur of Little, Brown & Co. publishers. It wouldn't surprise me if Block's have it on sale. * This year Author McMurray went to Alaska and has enough notes to write another book. He'll probe ably get around to it after the football season, This year, too, Author McMurray was 12 years old.
Next year, Author McMurray éxpects to go to Japan, although the outcome of that, he suspects, will: depend a little on the way the election goes Nov..3, Author McMurray’s daddy, if you haven't already guessed it, is Floyd McMurray, Superintendent of Public Instruction over in the Statehouse. Anyway, if the election goes right Author McMurray expects to write a book about Japan next da That's as far as he cares to look ahead.
Seeing the World ESIDES, he isn't sure whether he wants to be an author. He'd much rather be a ship's surgeon and do some writing on the side. It’s the best way to see the world and have somebody, besides daddy, foot the bill, he says. De Von has very definite ideas for a 12-year-old, He likes Jack London's books best of all with Jack O'Brien’s a close second. He doesn’t think much of Dickens, but only a purist would bring that up. He likes geography, too, but “shop” is his favorite study, especially the way it’s taught at School 84. Football 4s his favorite sport and he picks Northwestern, Min nesota and Purdue to give a good accounting. He likes Janet Gaynor, too, but hasn't much use for men movie actors.
They get everything wrong, he says, in the movies, Take, for example, the Mounted Police. De Von says he went North expecting to see big sturdy men dressed up in scarlet uniforms and he had the biggest sure prise of his life. The mounties are small men, he says, They have to be to ride the horses the way they do, And as for uniforms, why, there’s aren’t any, except for parades. The mounties go around in plain clothes Just like the rest of us.
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The Biggest Thrill T= movies get everything wrong about Alaska, too. For one thing, they don’t use the right kind of trees in their pictures and they don’t seem to know that strawberries and sunflowers grow up there. Neith= er do Eskimos live in huts the way the movie people would have us believe. They live in wooden houses and use motor boats. De Von says he knows threa® Eskimos who ordered “ready cut” houses and they're probably on their way up- there now; One of De Voh'’s biggest. thrills up North was to spend a night in the house Charles Lindbergh and Anne occupied on their way to Alaska: De Von gave me a little story about Anne that didn’t get into his book. Seems the natives up there thought so much of Lindbergh and Anne that they gave them each a room to sleep in, Well, after they had retired, some on downstairs heard the queerest noise and, thinking tha something had happened to the distinguished guests, he hurried upstairs to see what was the matter. He found Anne hauling her bed into her husband’s room. “I'll tell you,” said Author MoMurey, "heyy human, fos like the rest of us.” 3
Mr. Scherrer
Hoosier Yotiardiys WoreEN in Indiana first began an active came paign during the 1840's to secure some measure
of political and legal self-protection. In the winter. of 1843 the subject was brought before the publie by a petition to the General Assembly. The lower house promptly rejected it, Blihough it only asked for the right of married women to retain property i oWned by them before marriage.
In 1846 married women were given .the right to j make wills, For several years after, however, little 3 was accomplished, toward woman suffrage.
However, in 1853 the agitation became’ more acute. The movement culminated in a state cons vention at Indianapolis 82 years ago this week, 1854. ' Mrs. Smith, of Dublin, Ind., presided, and Mrs, Frances Gage, of Ohio, was the principal speaker, The convention adopted resolutions protesting against all laws and social customs restricting women, | Delegates asked for full equality with men in a1 fields of honest endeavor, especially in education and’ politics. =~ Women were compared to sixteenth century peasants pleading for liberty. The attitude of the press, according to historians, was very cold’ to the movement. I A long time, a very long time later, the problem, was happily settled ‘by the nineteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution, which was proclaimed by the Secretary of State, Aug. 26, 1920.+By F. M.
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal | R headaches due to eye disturbances, certain pres ventive and relaxing measures are useful. Some= times relief is obtained by keeping the eyes closer ta.
ence of one commentator, that the |, persons who write letters about the'| to polls forecasting the election re-|] turns outnumber those who . write e about the issues of the samifeign, the Onc might infer that interest in how [as
H P hope for better treatment and speedier recovery from severe abd conditions, including obstructions ‘and peritonitis, is offered by reports made to the American . | College of Surgeons here. A method of treatment of acute intestinal obstruction devised by Dr. Owen H. 'Wangensteen of Minneapolis, Minn., is hailed here as.one’ of the greatest contributions to sur-
Average Woman's Life
12 Years Longer
ASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Eleven years have been added to the average man’s life and 12 years to the life of the average woman, it is revealed by life tables of the Bureau: of Census, United States Department of Commerce. At the beginning of the present | every century, the average length of life in the United States was 48 years for white men.
sult, in the separate votes for Mary's electors, the Republicans in got only one elector while the
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