Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1936 — Page 11

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By ERNIE PYLE

ANCOUVER, B. C,, Oct. 27.—My time in ~ Vancouver was short. So in order to make as much hay as possible, I made a beeline for the office of the News-Herald. “So,” I said to the editor of the News-

Herald, “I've told you what I'm looking for, now think up something for me, quick.” The editor couldn't think of anything right off the bat. Just to make conversation and get him at

ease s0 he could think, 1 asked a few questions about the paper. That was about 4:30. When I left, it was 10 minutes till 1 the next morning. There was my story. Here it is: It is a story of backs-to-the-wall, and a lot of courage, and gobs of hard work, and it has a Horatio Alger tune to it. It is the only story of its kind on the North American continent, the boys at the paper say. Some four years ago, when the depression got to howling around Vancouver's doors, one of the three newspapers folded up, and left Vancouver without a morning sheet, It also left several scores of ex-employes practically on the breadline. But instead of going to the Gospel Mission for their meals, they decided to start a paper of their own. A co-op paper. That sounds easy, but if you realize that the equipment alone in a’metropolitan newspaper shop costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that many a publisher has sunk millions into a paper| without putting it over, you can see what a lot of crust these broke and out-of-job newspaper men had. There were 44 of them in the original band, I believe. A dozen were editorial men. The rest were ad men, bookkeepers, grinters, stereotypers, pressmen, circulators, and so on.

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N meeting, they elected a president and board of directors) and chose an editor from the group. They set a policy, and placed it in the editor’s hands. He runs the paper just like any editor. No employe, even though he is part owner, ever butts in. They managed to borrow $5000 among friends. They rented part of an old building. They rented ~ linotypes. They used kitchen tables for desks, and boxes for chairs. They borrowed each other's portable typewriters to write their stories. They had only one phone. They turned off the lights every time they left their desks, to save current. The opening salaries were $10 and $15 a week. That applied to the printers too. But since it was necessary to pay the union scale to the printers, the balance was made up in company stock. The editor-in-chief got $15 a week, same as the others.

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HEY bought a 40-year-old press for $1200. There wasn’t room for it in their building, so they put it in an old frame house a mile away. It was three and a half years ago that they started. Here's what the News-Herald is today: It employs 75 people, plus hundreds of carrier boys. It has moved to a bigger building, with everything under one roof. It has paid back the original $5000. It has bought nearly $750,000 worth of equipment. It has brought all salaries up to the regular Vancouver scale, It has no debts. It has the biggest morning paper circulation west of Toronto. It is doing a $300,000-a-year business. It hasn't paid dividends yet, but expects to soon.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT : EW YORK, Monday.—We came to New York last night in iime to have supper with my daughter

and her family. This morning I felt like an early bird ~

when I managed to get from way downtown to 80th-st in time for the opening exercises at Todhunter School. To my amusement Dr. Hendrik Van Loon’s disparaging words on the songs our youngsters know brought about a competition. Nine songs in his book were played and our youngsters found they knew six, which I think is not a bad record. They now have his songbook and he will be responsible for the songs they know in the future. From the Todhunter school I went to get a hat which can stand a whole day's driving in an open automobile without falling to pieces. I had with me another hat which I had ‘put through this ordeal and which needed some repairs. As I was making my choice the saleslady sgid to me: “One of the girls in the sewing room wants me to tell vou she wishes your husband luck on election day.” - I was the only customer for it was still early in the morning. A minute later the girl appeared and be- . fore I knew it I had five or six of- the office force

around me and we were discussing the Social Security,

Act! 1 went from there to a very large department store and the man who was selling me a chest of drawers remarked that they were able to have the price as low as it was because they could buy in such tremendous quantities, “Business is so good this year,” he said, as we walked along, “there isn't going to be any change anywhere, either” And then he added, “and business will continue being good.” From there I took a subway trip and my secretary looked gloomily at me before I started and said: “This ‘isn't the time for you to go into the subway, you'll be recognized and delayed.” ] “No,” said I, “I'll move too fast for that,” and disappeared down the steps. All went smoothly. One Zentleman gave me his seat, but he looked as if he ~ would have given it to any woman who was standing. I dig not lose a minute on my journey. =~ 1 have moments when I think that all men who go into public life should be bachelors, but then again I realize it adds greatly to our amusement for them tc have families. Without them what would some poor writers do?

Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— most stimulating philosopher of England : today,” is the characterization which Sherwood Eddy gives to John MacMurray, the author of CRE-

. You may say that there is no relation ship, and stop at that; but to Mr. MacMurray

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

ASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—If King Edward VIII dashes ahead and marries Mrs. Simpson, “cost what it may,”

the price. may be his throne.

There is a widespread notion in this country that the

British are worshipful of royalty.

The fact is that they

are less inclined to kowtow to a title than many Americans. v On the other hand, to the British, the King is an exceedingly useful institution. The Empire is bound together only by the most gossamer of ties, the slender threads of which converge about the Crown. This Crown—spelled with a capital C—the symbol of empire unity, is in the jealous keeping of the royal family of which the King is

head.

A President would hardly do as chief of such a worldwide association of nations as the British Empire. Imagine

the Empire going through an election such as that now on in the United States. Imagine Canada, South Africa, Australia and ‘other

states within it all putting up favorite sons of their own, then staging a knock-down-drag-out campaign to elect him President of the whole Empire. And repeating this every four years. It would spell almost certain’ dissolution. Unit} under a King, however, is a different matter. The King is not really English, Scottish, Canadian, Australian nor anything like that. He is British. e is nonpartisan. He is above party and above faction. He is the ‘Bersonification of the Empire, the wearer and the custodian of

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ITHOUT the institution of royaity, therefore, it is ex-

, tremely doubtful if the British

Empire, as now organized, could continue. Canada, for example, is really just as independent as the United States. It makes its own laws. It elects its own governors. True, there is a Governor General appointed by the King. But Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) can no more tell Canada what to do than President Roosevelt can tell her what to do. He is there

by Canada’s consent, as a dele-

gate of King and Crown. And if and when it pleases

| Canada to do so, she can sever

that silken thread now binding her to Britain and that will be that. _ To say, therefore, that«the King can do no wrong, so ‘far as the peoples of the British Empire are concerned, would be very wide of the mark. It used to be, of course, that an English King could, and sometimes did, literally get away with murder, But not in this day and time. In modern Britain it might be said with truth, not that the King can do no wrong but that if it is wrong it isn’t done by the King.

Which is something else again.

In Britain there are things which

simply aren’t done. And this is true even if you happen to be’ the wearer of the Crown. Indeed many British would amend this by saying, “especially if you happen to be the wearer of the Crown.

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NGLAND, of course, has gone “modern” along with the rest of the world. She is no longer Victorian, either in manners or morals. British standards of conduct have been “liberalized” in

all walks of life, from commoner

to King. Nevertheless, those in a position: to know British sentiment are agreed that they expect certain fundamentals of conduct, even of the royal house. One such fundamental is that the Crown must be kept high. It must be treated with reverence. Nothing must be done to bring it into popular disrespect. It is said, for instance, that the present King, as Prince of Wales, desired to yield the Crown to his brother, the Duke of York. Britain’s elder statesmen, so it is said, promptly vetoed the suggestion, In effect they reminded him that he did not have the right to discard the Crown. It was too sacred a thing, too important to the - Empire, to be treated like a football, What would the Dominions think, what would the colonies think, what would the hundreds of millions of restless colored subjects think, what would the world think, -if the royal family started passing the Crown about from one to another, like something nobody

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of King Edward's subjects, as human beings, would utter a “Bless you, David!” down in their hearts if he chucked everything for love. . But I should miss my guess if it failed to deal a terrific blow to the institutions of King, Empire and Crown. In any sizeup of this affair, one would make a mistake to overlook this important fact: The British still hold duty in very high esteem. A mighty lord goes to prison like any ordinary felon if he misrepresents his shares. A

, bura gets a ‘bare year ii jail when

it is<shown that his attempt on’ the life of the monarch was only the act of a crank. A mother of children may wring the hearts of her judges but they send her to the gallows just the same.

In America, takes the place of justice. Sometimes it strings innocent - people to a tree. Sometimes it lets off palpable murderers. Not so in England.

To the British, the King is the upholder of the Empire, guardian of the Crown and all it symbolizes. Britons do not genuflex before the King because they believe him a superman. They do. it because, to them, he is the embodiment of Empire. The color, the pageantry, the fanfare with which they surround their royalty, and on which they insist, are designed to keep the spirit of empire blazing, ‘not merely to exalt Mr. and Mrs, Windsor. :

Thus it is the King’s duty, as they see it, to play the part laid out: for him. That is his job.

Modern Industrial Products Not Wholly New, Study Shows

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Oct. 27—So you think the modern industrial products which make your life easier are wholly new and last-min-ute developments completely undreamed by your grandfather? Grandpa may never have been

able to use or buy them, but the chances are he had heard about them, it is disclosed by a study of industrial progress in the last century made by the Centennial Committee of the American Patent System in connection with the coming celebration here on Nov. 23..

The bread you eat today comes

-1834, and threshed by the mechani-

cal progeny of T. Howe's horsepowered “thrashing machine” of 1822. ”

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HEN you are in a hurty to

communicate wtih a distant friend, you use the telegraph, patented by Samuel Morse in 1840, or you reach for the telephone,

“hairpins” in these lamps were first

‘patented nearly 30 years ago.

HE movies, boon or bane of the modern age (as you like them —or don’t), are really the offspring of the “gay nineties,” for Edison’s first patent in this field was issued in 1893, and some of the first showings of films thrilled small-town audiences about the time of the Spanish-American War. Edison's pho ph patent is even older, dating Trom 1878. Child of the present century, true enough, is the airplane—but it is one of modernity’s eldest, for Langley’s ‘heartbreaking ‘failure and the Wrights’ thrilling success came be-

fore the twentieth century was

three years old.

Other modern inventions had earlier birth than is commonly sup-

‘posed: Air brakes, 1869; cash regis-

ter, 1883; typewriter, 1538; vacuum sweeper, 1869; sewing machine, 1846; synthetic plastics, 1870; barbed wire, 1874; electric fla

tiron, 1882; electric welding, 1886; safety razor.

sentiment often

That is what he and the royal family are paid millions of the taxpayers’ money annually to do. King Edward has a job to perform and, like it or not, the British people expect him to carry on. Whether King Edward will or

will not marry fe - fascinating American is' anybody’s guess.: He certainly can give himself the

Marriage to Mrs. Simpson Might Cost Edward Throne, Says Simms

necessary permission if he wants.

But a good opinion would be that if he does he may, at the same time, offer to give up the throne,

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An informal studio portrait of Mrs. Wallis Simpson,

and that this. time Britain's elder statesmen may let him do it. That is to say, they may possibly regard renunciation in favor of his more formal brother, the Duke of York, as the lesser of two evils. ¥

POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Before Gov. Landon was nominated, some of us who knew him thought, and considered that we had the best authority for so thinking, that he proposed not to scrap the New Deal but to save it—save it from its own excesses, from its waste, extravagance and mismanagement, save it from being

velt has begun, ¢ He 1s for social security. .

OV. LANDON ‘is for reciprocal But he would insist upon all trade agreements being by Congress or ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, he doesn’t seem sure.which. In either case any ‘onie who, has grade school knowledge of Congress knows that such procedure would mean. in practice the end of the reciprocal program. It sounds fine to talk about Congress approving these agreements, boon- |

tariffs.

On relief, Gov. Landon wants only to squeeze out waste and politics. So he proposes that Washington | ‘shall hand out lump sums of cash

brickbats will fall on your head.

attack a business tra-

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

Some: of the Mamas had

Americans from fire-lines' with gasoline, or to warn them that if they do so, they act at their own risk and must not expect the United States to avenge them by fighting a war. .

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we must. insist«upon our traditional neutral rights. Those are the rights that got us into the World War—in-

sistence upon the right to ship

arms and supplies to the Allies, upon the right of American citizens to ‘travel through .submarine-in-fested waters,

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HE essence of the Roosevelt neutrality policy is: to restrict through at least

This law expires next May. It

isn’t perfect, but it is a start to-

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By ANTON SCHERRER PTHE persistence with which distillers ad-

* vertise their products as “whiskey” and

the equal persistence with which newspaper men refer to it as “whisky” is something else

that needs straightening out. : I'm here to straighten it out. A survey on my part entailing the examination of goodness » knows how many bottles and labels discloses that only barley malt liquors and those lucky ecttough to

be charged with a peat-smoke flavor, have any right to be spelled “whisky” — more specifically, “Scotch whisky.” The rest can and should, as a’ matter of fact, be spelled “whiskey.” At any rate, that’s what the labels reveal. " The import of my finding is more far reaching than you think. Henceforth it will ‘not satisfy me to have a newspaper state that Irvin Cobb drinks “whisky” when I know for a fact that he drinks “whiskey”—good old Bourbon that : he is. Neither will it help my temper to learn thag Ramsay MacDonald drinks “whiskey” when I know that he sticks to Scotch. ‘ ‘ With that much Scotch flavor to start today's column, maybe it’s all right to tell another one. A couple of years ago, my doorbell rang and I admitted an Englishman. To hear him tell his story, ne had come all the way from London to sell me a print by Muirhead Bane, the great Scotch etcher. It was a very lovely print and its price tag ran into four “figures.

Mr. Scherrer

” ” Tells Salesman Tale DON'T buy prints running into four figures and because I don’t, I had to send him back to Lone don. To assuage his pain, however, I sent him on his way with a precious little tale about Thomas Hibben—the same Irvington-born-and-bred Tom Hibe ben who, with Architect Robert Frost Daggett, left his imprint on our Butler buildings. This sounds & little as if Mr. Hibben were dead. He isn't. He's practicing in Washington, D. C,, as a cog in the Roosevelt machine, which is why we don't hear about him the way we should.

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Points Out Faults ELL, when Mr. Hibben wasn't tied down the the way he is now, he used to do a lot of sketching abroad. One day in Spain he found ane other chap sketching on the same locale, discovered, too, that he handled the English language. Tom got interested an the other fellow’s work and lost no time in pointing out its faults—in a nice and fatherly way, of course, because there's nothing Tom enjoys more than helping out the other fellow. : When it came time to part they exchanged cards. Tom drew a .card reading “Muirhead Bone.” Tom ene joys tell the story: : I enjoy telling the story today because last month the. Macmillan people (more Scotch flavor) got out a book entitled “Old Spain.” It’s by Muirhead and his sister Gertrude. It sells for $550 (five hundred and fifty, you heard me), but you'd better hurry because the edition is limited to 250 copies.

Hoosier Yesterdays

OCTOBER 27

ANET SCUDDER, internationally known sculptor and rated by many as one of the 10 greatest living Indianians, was born ‘in Terre Haute Oct. 27, 1873. .- She was educated in the Terre Haute schools after which she studied art in this: country and abroad. Her principal works are the “Frog Fountain” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; “Young Diana” and “Little Lady of the Sea,” both in the Paris Salon, and the “Fighting Boys” fountain in the Chicago Art Institute. She is represented:in several of the largest mu= seums of Europe and America. Some of her work may be seen in the John Herron Art Insitute in Indianapolis. Others are to be found in the Musee du Luxembourg, Paris; the Numismatic Museum, New York, and the Congressional Library in Washington. Among the many awards Miss Scudder has ree ceived are a bronze medal from the Chicago Exposi« tion of 1893; a medal from the St. Louis Exposition of 1904; honorable mention at the Paris Salon in

1904 and 1811; a silver medal from the San Francisco 5

Exposition of 1915, and. an Olympiade medal at the Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928, : Miss Scudder was honored by the French governe ment when she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor 'in 1925. Her autobiography, “Modeling My Life,” also appeared in that year, She resides in Paris,

—By F. M. ¢

Watch Your Health

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

reese disorders occasionally are associated with headaches. In fact, three types of head= ache are regularly concerned with disturbances of digestion, People who are constipated may insist that they always have a headache if they do not have an action of the bowels every 24 hours. Such people soonér or later become slaves to the cathartic habit. They should have competent medical attention, with come piete regulation of the hygiene of the bowels. Other people who are chronically tired and who suffer from indigestion have headaches following the eating of food. If their diets are regulated =o that they eat small quantities of food at frequent intervals; if thew take adequate rest, with mild and limited exere cise; and if they give suitable attention to the conditions of their digestion, they will improve in general health and their: headaches will disappear. A third type of headache associated with digestion is that which follows sensitivity to certain foods. If the sufferer can find out what food brings on the ats tack and eliminate it from his diet, the condition will .be brought under control. . One observer says that when a headache is due.to sensitivity to food, the pain begins in or near one eys and spreads over one side of the head. ¢ The onset of such headaches may be accompanied by confusion or forgetfulness, sweating or flushing of the tissues, and a feeling of numbness of tongue, lips, or nose. Occasionally, also, there may be a feeling of nausea, the eyelids may become puffy, and canker sores may break out in the mouth. Excessive fatigue, worry, and excitement may bring on the symptoms or 4 4 3

People who are regularly subject to sick headaches ‘should avoid substances to which they are sensitive, The foods most frequently associated with sick head«

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