Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1936 — Page 15

FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

yaNcouvER, B. C., Oct. 28.—The editor of the Vancouver News-Herald, the em-ploye-owned paper about which I wrote yesterday, is a very young man to be an editor. Just 35 now.

He is a fine-looking young man, quiet and

serious. There is no noise or bustle around him at all. The editor seemed to me a very well-bred young man indeed. You would guess off-hand that he had probably never been out of an a of culture. Editor Pat Kelly is from the Isle of Man, off the coast of England. He quit school when he was 13, and never went back. The war was just starting then. He worked a while in a munitions factory, and then got in the Royal Air Force. But at Liverpool they found out his age, and sent him home. At 16 Pat Kelly was in the British Navy. On a cruiser, meeting the convoys that came across Mr. Pyle from North America. He saw ships blown up, but his own yesset wae never torpedoed. Later he was on troop ships Australia, taking home wounded soldiers and prisoners. After the war he went out to India and worked for 18 months for a large shipping company. And then he really went to sea, seeing the world ‘on the bum. He played “association” football in South America. He was a seaman on one of Sir Hubert Wilkins’ early Antarctic expeditions. He has been around the Horn, and the Cape of Good Hope, many times. He has been far up the Plate, and the Amazon, too. In New York he lived for two months in a dump off Fulton-st while he looked vainly for work. In Rotterdam, going ashore one dark night, the small boat upset. Kelly swam to a buoy and clung there all night.’ It was the worst night he has ever spent. ”» = =

Couldn’t Stand Business R eight years he roamed the world. Then he went home, back to the Isle of Man. His father is an official of a ship line between the island and Liverpool. Pat thought he would learn the business. + But he couldn't stand it. He shut his eyes and stuck a pin in a map. Vancouver was the nearest place to the pin point. So he came over. That was in 1925. He worked as a fish packer. And as a freight handler on the docks. He waited in a restaurant. Then he was night watchman on a ship in port, because it was easy and gave him time to study. He:

took correspondence courses in English and literature.

Then, through a friend, he got on a local newspaper as financial editor. He got the job purely through bluff. He didn't know anything about business. He held the job four years, until the paper went

out of business.

Kelly Made Editor HEN the employes organized their own paper, as I told you yesterday. The bunch elected Kelly editor. He doesn’t know why. Certainly not because of experience. When he put in the first edition that night, it was the first time in his life he had ever made up a newspaper. Two years ago Editor Kelly married an American girl. She was working in Vancouver, making $40 a week. Editor-in-Chief Kelly was making $18.50. But the girl quit her job, and they were married on the editor's $18.50. _ Now, of course, theyre making much more than that. , They have a lovely apartment, and a dog. Kelly works from 4 in the afternoon until 2 in the morning. His wife keeps the same hours he does. He , always reads two or three hours after he gets home at night, He loves history and philosophy.

Th dein ist hel Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

YORK, Tuesday.—One of the most touching

N election stories that has come to me turned up _in the mail yesterday, and I am going to give it to you exactly as it is in the letter, “Up in the Bronx there is an aged man nearly 90 years old whose health is failing rapidly, and who has been told that death is very near. He is so old and ill that the prospect of death does not especially frighten him. Nevertheless he is hanging on to life with grim determination. Despite the remonstrances of his family he refuses to go to bed for fear that if he should once fall asleep he may never awaken. Instead he sits in a chair night and day fighting to . stay awake. When he drowses he soon shakes himself into wakefulness and in this way keeps going. He in“sists on doing this. Why? Because he is determined to vote for Mr. Roosevelt before he dies.” Such belief in another human being held by one near to leaving this world, puts a heavy load of responsibility on the man who inspired it. .The feeling of the weight of this load has been gradually growing on me ever since we started campaigning and I beto wateh the faces of masses of people. A very nice young newspaper woman was waiting for me at the entrance to. a shop I go to for clothes; * when I came out of it this morning. I looked a little surprised and wondered how on earth she knew I was “ there but was in too much of a hurry to ask. I simply said: “If you have anything you want to ask me, you will have to come right along, for I am in a hurry,” and we walked toward Sixth-av together at a pretty rapid pace. “My editor,” said she, “wants to know if you are going to do any Christmas shopping and what you are going to buy.” ‘I responded sadly that her edifor would have to go on wanting to know. Then she asked where I would be between the moment she saw me and three o'clock, when she knew I was to start for Staten.Island. I had to answer again that I could not possibly tell her, but that I would be home for lunch. More in sorrow than in anger she warned me: “x think all the papers will want to know, and you are going to be bothered a good deal in the next day or so.” Being an extremely nice person, however, she left me on the corner with this horrid threat hanging over me head. So far I have gone on my way unmolested.

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these royal romances that Thornton, NEA Service staff correspond. ent, writes in a series of six articles, of which this is the first.

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ECAUSE a pair of laughing eyes looked in- “ those of a king, because a petulant mouth twisted down at a critical time, monarchies and ministries have fallerr, and the whole history of Europe is different from what if might have been. That is why the acknowledged fondness of King Edward VIII for Mrs. Wallis

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change the course of history. Similar relationships between | royalty and commoners in the past often have changed it. If Henry VIII had not fallen wildly in love with a mere girl of 19, England might be a Catholic country today, and the history of the Church of England might have been different. Army pensioners sit about at Chelsea in their comfortable old age and bless the name of Nell Gwynn, whose intercession with Charles II established the first home for war veterans. Had a little milliner’s - apprentice not

laughed carelessly with Louiv XV |

and murmured “After us, the del‘uge!” there might have been no | French Revolution. In such cases romance ‘and #istory walked hand in hand. In this and five succeeding stories, the dazzling careers of the Anne Boléyns, the Nell Gwynns, the Maria Fitzherberts, the Du Barrys and Montezes and Lupescus who have made history by their repyal attachments will be described.

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NNE BOLEYN, the first of Henry's six wives whom he married for love, probably swayed his reign more than all the others put together. She was the daughter of a minor courtier and climber, Sir Thomas Boleyn. Anne was not very pretty according to today’s standard, but she sang, danced, played the harp, was a leader of fashion, and had dazzling black eyes. When | the King first met her, in the gar- | den of her father’s home, he forgot the long years of his married

life with Katharine of Aragon, and, went to Cardinal Wolsey

! and. thus.leave them more

The friendship of King Edward and Mrs. Wallis Simpson writes a new glamordus page in English; History Fivaling that devoted

mumbling that Anne had the wit ,of an angel and was worthy of a crown,

But she was:not to have it for

a long time. Anne, though young, knew her way about. She had seen her sister become Henry's mistress, only. to be discarded: She herself would be no less than queen, she told Henry. And Henry already had a queen. Wolsey at first encouraged Henry's suit of Anne, hoping that it would distract the King’s attention further from public affairs

more to. the church. and, 10 sey himself. s os ” ; UT when he found that Anne was repulsing the King’s ardent wooing, and holding out for a queen’s crown, Wolsey grew: estranged. He and ‘Anne became enemies, each intriguing against the other. More and more Henry shoved Queen Katharine into the background, and attempted to arrange with Wolsey to have this marriage annulled. © Wolsey failed to make such arrangement with = Rome, and this, with the enmity of Anne, caused his fall. Cranmer -succeeded him, and Henry became clearer in his decision to break the church in England loose from Roman ties and . make it the Church of England. People began to talk of Henry's new fancy, and there was consid-

erable sympathy with ‘the aban-"'

doned Katharine. Crowds of riotous people paraded through the London streets shouting “Down with Nan Bullen!” “We

Metals’ X-Ray ‘Fingerprints’ Used to Forecast Failure

BY SCIENCE SERVICE LEVELAND, O., Oct. 28. — How science is studying the X-ray “fingerprints” of metals in the hope of being able to forecast the failure of airplane propellers and other metal structures was described at the meeting of the American .Society of Metals here by Dr. Charles S. Barrett of the department of metallurgy of Carnegie Institute of , Pittsburgh, Pa. Within some limits, explained Dr. Barrett, it is now possible to ex-

bend the X-rays into ‘a Baie UR Jane paitery wiles view famous European discoverer. pattern, characteristic for oe

metal, looks 1ike Sings OF Ming Spots)

to tell roughly how near another piece of similar metal—used in an airplane propeller — might be to fracture and failure. It is quite necessary, pointed. out Dr. Barrett, to have some: idea of the past history of the metal under examination. Bringing the X-ray scientist a piece of metal and asking, “How soon will this break?” is

Color of Crater Lake Explained

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romantic marriage to Henry

don’t want Nan Bullen for our queen!” The tumult grew when Henry established Anne in a mansion, Suffolk House, to which. he had private access through the palace of the cardinal. 2 = = HE public uproar was getting pretty ‘hot even for Henry. He created Anne a.peeress, with the title of Marchioness of Pembroke, and himself placed the robe of state and golden coronet upon her. Then, in 1533, when Anne was

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and | 32 years old, the royal yongpiail Wol- Ji enly to . an i only a few formal wit- _ nesses, ‘he. married Henry and

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The sanulment of the former marriage to Katharine was easily procured through, Cranmer, and Anne Boleyn, daughter of a minor courtier, was Queen of England. The coronation ceremonies : soon followed, and Anne. was brought amid. fireworks and festival down the Thames from Greenwich to the Tower of London. And there, within three years, she was to die. ” 2 ®

LMOST immediately after the coronation the cry against Anne was resumed. Letters and petitions came to the King ' imploring him to “put away this Jezebel.” - Their first’ child was a girl, and Henry's petulant rage might not have .been assuaged even if he had known that the: child was later to be Queen Eliza~ beth, which he didn’t. The second child, a: boy, died at

birth, and sain Henry 1 was faced

with the prospect of no male"

heir. Court intrigues grew, and it is one of the blackest marks against Anne's growing arrogance that she helped persuade Henry to sentence to death Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor and a tried and faithful servant.

Yet, a convert to the Reformation, Anne used her influence with Henry to get his permission for the translation of the Bible. Anne never forgave Katharine, “the” Queen she had deposed, and a © Henry's express order,

appeared at the funeral” ‘of her

predecessor dressed ® ‘dn - violent yellow instead of mourning black. This appears to have been 4 Snal straw, for shortly a was forced to watch 1 transferring ‘his _ alle ' Jane Seymour, ‘who ¥ to be next in. his suee wives. : vo 8 » »

Charges of infidelity to Henty, whose exact truth it is impossible to determine, were then ‘made, and the Queen was arrested, making a last plaint as she. entered the forbidding Tower, “Shall I die without justice?” From “my doleful prison in the tower,” Anne wrote a desperate and pitiful appeal to Henry, saying “ « « » You have chosén me from a queen and companion, far beyond my desert or desires. . = + Try me,

good King, but let me have a law- |

ful trial . . . never prince had wife more loyal in all duty and in. all true affection. ...

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HERE are {wo opinions of Anne Boleyn in history. One is that she was a designing hussy who : deliberately traded on the

. King’s passion to get herself on

the throne and advance her own designs. The other is that she was a comparatively guileless girl who yielded to the King’s ardent wooing only after long pressure and with some misgiving. But both views unite in admitting that Anne was magnificent in death.

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Anne made a last pitiful plea to Henry which was .not- ‘delivered.

On the. fatal morning, she dis-

cussed her death with Kingston. - - lieutenant of the Tower, and joked

about the headsman of Calais who ‘had been imported from France to: do the deed. . “I have

heard say’ the executioner: is very. good,” ship Iai

ughed, “and I have a

Tittle neck”

On the scaffold she was ‘calm and dignified, and. in a last little speech she said, “I pray God to save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler and more merciful prince there was never. To me he was ever a good and gentle sovereign lord.” ’ And then, as a murmured prayer for her soul breathed from the lips -that. Henry "had so often kissed, the sword of the headsman flashed ‘downward. : :

NEXT: Born in an alley, a seller ‘of oranges in the pit of the theaters, Nell Gwynn won not. only a -king’s love, but a special and im-

sh mortal Blace fu the affections of i ‘a ‘people.

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN

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BY MARK SULLIVAN - ASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — To

arithmetic-minded persons, the

Literary Digest poll:is an. enchant~

ing lure. The: average person pays

attention only: to the figures at the

bottom of the tolumns, the number of ballots for Landon and Roosevelt

respectively. But the detailed tabu-

lation, as released to the newspapers ‘week by week, permits infinite ex-: ploration. It shows. the number of

coming from’ foriner supporters. of Mr. Roosevelt, and how: many. from the Republicans. All this constitutes a mine of data tempting to persons adept in. working out intricate percentages, -

New: ate writer; Mr. Jay Franklin, As against, this, many of

the analyses ‘made by professional statisticians - arrive at’ conclusions

“and | to the effect that Landon is even |

Seramges nan the surface of the | avon the only way to indiet

the Digest poll is by an assumption | | —by assuming that forisome reason |

'S the: :10,000,000 straw ballots sent out

PIER campaign careesis crasily to tia close. So sa crazily, indeed, that the voters are mare than a little tired of it. Political speeches are so numerous, the air is so thick with the clamor of can-

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Our Town

glass bricks used to fill the window openings in Wasson’s new eight-story, building cost $1.50 apiece. It's not a bit too much, when you learn, as I have, that they have a co-efficient of expansion under

[0000050 for each degree of temperature be tween 19 degrees and 350 degrees centigrade. : The news, no doubt, will tickle Indianapolis housewives, smart enough to know that their pet Pyrex

dishes have the same property. I can explain that, too. The glass in the Wasson windows and Pyrex are one and the same thing. As a matter of fact, they are called Pyrex Glass Construction ‘Units. Perhaps the advertising people are temperamentally unable to do the simple thing. Be that as it may, I'm going to go right on calling them “glass bricks.” I'm sure you'll under-

stand.

All right, the glass bricks in the Mr Scherrer

Wasson windows are just a fraction shorter than 12 inches square and four inches thick. They weigh 13 pounds apiece. Because they are subjected to severe and sudden changes of temperature, they have to be made every bit as good as cooking dishes. This characteristic also adapts them for illuminating purposes where intense heat and: cold may exist on opposite side of the glass. I'll bet you never thought of that. Glass bricks also have an insulating value because the seal obtained by adhesion of hot glass insures a hermetically sealed .block which prevents air from efilering the block. See?

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Grass bricks are smooth on the outside because they have to bé washed—theoretically, at least,

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‘On the inside, however, they are full of tricks.

Scientifically designed fluting on the inside face of the unit produces a high diffusion of light, obscures images, creates an ever-changing pattern and eliminates the possibility of lens effect. Nobody can ask for more. They may have therapeutic properties, too, for all I know, but if they have, the advertising people haven't got around to it. :

Viewed at close range, a Wasson glass brick is about the prettiest thing you ever saw. It ought to be when you learn, as I have, that America’s first industry was the manufacture of glass. In 1607, Capt. John Smith established a factory at Jamestown, Va. to supply beads and glass trinkets for barter With "the Indians. He got to know Poca hontas that way.

First important glass maker in United States history was Caspar Wister, who opened a factary . in 1739 in Salem County, New Jersey. Nobody ever beat the whisky bottle Caspar turned out. Most famed United States glassmaker was Henry (Baron) Stiegel, who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765. Collectors today are nuts about his glass but the Baron died broke.

Sandwich Glass

SANDWICH glass, familiar in blue dolphin candle= sticks and sitting hens obeying an ancient ime pulse, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the nineteenth century. Later still came Louis Tiffany and Frederick Carder. Carder came from England some 30 years ago to Corning, N.Y. and founded his own glass works, which he named

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"Steuben after the county. He made a glass so much

like the real Bohemian that it can fool anybody. In 1918 Steuben glass was gobbled up by the ‘Corning Glass Works, which is another name for ‘the Pyrex people. The last time the Corning people got ‘into print in a big way was when they turned out the 20-ton disc of glass which is to become the ‘mirror of a new: 200-inch telescope on top of Palomar Mountain, California. That’s about all I know about glass bricks for the present, except that they aren’t as new as some people think they are. I have a recollection of Kurt Von=negut- once telling me that when he went to school at Strasbourg, Germany, he used to Visit the Indianapolis Fauvre family who, for some reason, were also living there, and right in.the Fauvre family foyer was a wall built of glass bricks. That was 34 years ago.

Hoosier Yesterdays

LD FORT HARRISON, named after Gov. William Henry Harrison, and located at the present site of Terre Haute, was dedicated Oct. 28, 1811. The story ou its establishment is typical of the early. history of diana.

Gov. Harrison received orders from President Madison, early in 1811, to break up the rendezvous of the Indians on the Wabash River. Col. John P. Bovd was ordered to transfer the Fourth Reglmel United States troops from Pittsburgh to Louisville and report to Harrison for orders. Gov. Harrison assembled a small army of less than 1000 men at Vincennes with whom he intended to establish a fort higher up on the Wabash. Leaving Fort Knox Sept. 26, 1811, he reached the highlands at Terre Haute, Oct. 3. Here he began construction of a small fort with blockhouses at three of its angles. It covered only about an acre of ground, and stood on a bluff up the river from the old Wea Indian village, 30 or 40 feet above the water’s edge. The fort was completed just 125 years ago daz, and was dedicated by the eloquent Kentucky la Jo Daviess, who named it Fort Harrison. ary a year later, in September, 1812, the fort, under the: -command of Capt. Zachary Taylor--later President Teylor—was attacked by Todians and nearly destroyed, The blockhouses were burned, but through the heros ism of the soldiers and the galiant of Capt. Tori the barracks were saved and the Indians repulsed.

Fort Harrison continued as a about 1822, when it was nents oa and, Plecemeal, Sisappestod-+{By P.M)

Watch Your Health |

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN