Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1936 — Page 15

' Aa C og FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

ATTLE, Oct. 29.—At no time during the 20 years he spent in Northwest logging camps did Jegse Jackson ever conceive of the day when he might become a dictator. But it happened, and today he is the ruler

‘of 1500 people. Jesse Jackson is mayor of Hooverville. This is a shack-city on Seattle's water-

Yront. It is the makeshift home of depression

Hooverville: started about six years ago. Men without homes built huts of boxes and driftwood. The city said they weré a menace, and burned them out. They built again. Three times Seattle burned them out. Then a new mayor came in, and he let they stay— if they'd observe certain rules and behave themselves. A friend of mine who has paid close attention to Hooverville says its main claim to a place in history is the evolution of its government. At first, he says, they tried communism. One for all and all for one. That didn’t work. Then they tried democracy, with the men electing their rulers and having a continuous voice in’ their own government. That didn’t work either. And then they swung into a dictatorship, as the only thing left. Jesse Jackson is the dictator, and everything works fine now. Jesse is a thin man. He is in his 40s and getting a little bald. He wears overalls. He lives in a snug ; one-room shack, which he built himself and keeps as neat as a pin. He cooks his own meals. He was washing the luncheon dishes when I walked in. He sat at his kitchen table and I sat in the other chair.

: ss =» = .Big People OME big people have sat-there,” he said. tary Roper has sat right in that chair.” “Well?” I said. ~~ “Well, I just thought you'd like to know what hig people have sat there. So has Marion Zioncheck, and Senator Lewis Schwellenbach.” “What brought Secretary Roper down here?” 1 asked. “He was through here on his way to Alaska, and said he'd like to see a town named after a former Secretary of Commerce, so they brought him down. We had a long talk. " “These big men come down here and look around ‘Why, you're pioneering. You're living like But I say we ain't pioneering,

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and say: our forefathers did. we're jungling.”

Population 1500

the winter the population runs to 1500. In the

N I summer it gets down to.about 350. ‘The men go “over the ridge” to pick apples and do odd jobs. Most _ of them are single. ‘No children or:-young women are allowed to live in the town. } Last winter the inhabitants included practically nationality under the sun. - About a d were inos. They are the best-behaved of all, Jackson says. The Mexicans are the worst. They like to get jagged up on marijuana. There are several hundred oes. Mayor Jackson's biggest trouble is liquor. de doesn't tolerate rowdies. .# The men gather wood, and saw it up and sell it. They have trash concessions at the hotels and stores. They fish. One fellow builds boats. Some have parttime jobs outside. Even in the winter only a third of the men are on relief.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK, ,K Wednesday — Eight-thirty morning saw me in the President's car, starting for Bayonne, N. J. The drive in the open car was cold and windy, but the air was nice and the day clear and sunny. We went along quietly until we were almost at Bayonne, when a motorcycle policeman recognized me and started ahead blowing his . This immediately brought recognition and ie began to call out and wave to me. We reached the station and waited about 20 minutes before the train drew in. »-1 got on board and had a few hurried words with party. The crowd around the station was great. - The President, the Mayor, Dr. Dunnigan and I got into the car and stopped just long enough for a few of greeting. . We motored through a friendly, enthusiastic crowd on our way to the bridge leading to Staten Island, Where we met Gav. Lehman and Judge Freestone. J e drove across Staten Island to the Brooklyn we received another warm welcome. . Mayor La Guardia joined us as we landed in Brooklyn. Here we again passed through crowds of people until we reached the new buildings for Brooklyn College. It is amusing to watch the houses as one goes past, for people hang out of the windows expressing their enthusiasm in different ways. I looked at one window and saw a gentleman partly hidden by two Jaflies who had evidently ‘called to him to come at once, for his face was completely covered with lather. His shaving had been interrupted at a very awkward moment! ‘Mr. Ed Kelly, Democratic leader of Brooklyn, joined us in the car for the rest of our drive through I was interested to see the school in burg and the Williamsburg housing project, ugh we did not have time $o stop at either one. We drove straight ta the ferry for Governor's Island and there I left the party, being taken back luncheon engagement in the police commis's car. However, the police sign was taken off BS cheyed all the. ries ad. weed: 20 sire so I happ. We DR alnly traveled through enemy territory. on way to the ferry. While the streets were very pr there were many waves and cheers, there lack of boos, which amused me a good deal. think that kind of demonstration is an certain ways. After all, the whole world can’t feel alike!

Daily New Books:

. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— “IVEN a hero with intentions for good, turn him P Joose in a country apathetic in the grip of a dictafor, let him get involved in intrigues, senseless brutalities, and machinations. over which he has no control—and, in this case, you have a kéen satire pom the hands of a master. Hillel Bernstein has written with sharp, quick phrases the story of Keets Wilbur, a wealthy American who develops a taste for

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A KING LOVES

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BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NELL GWYNN, born in an alley slum, won not only the love of her king, but the tolerant and kindly love of an entire nation.

The impudent little street urchin who sold oranges in the- pit ‘of the Drury Lane Theater before she was loved by King Charles 1I holds a special place in British hearts. For she was honest, and forthright and faithful, and she never let down the friends of her youth.

Nell Gwynn was truly a

child of the London streets. And the streets of Restoration

London were a rough school. The city was swept by gaiety and unrestrained reaction against the Puritanism that had repressed. it. Morals were lax and tongues were laxer, | ; Into a sophisticated world in which even the “fihe ladies” gam_bled,. cursed like troopers, and had the morals of alley cats, came Eleanor Gwynn, born in a cellar in the Coal Yard off Drury Lane, to a ‘'broken-down Welsh soldier and a drunken mother.

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HEN she was 10 years old Nell was a barmaid. Her job as ‘she put it, was to “fill strong water to the gentlemen.” Then she sold oranges in and about the Drury Lane Theater. Any one with any gift for repartee was bound te develop it there, . for exchanging broad jests with the orange-sellers was part of any gentleman’s evening out in those days. | Nell was a pert little thing, short of stature, but with a glorious mass of reddish-brown hair. She was piquant rather than pretty, reckless, high-spirited, goodtempered, witty, and straightforward. Totally uneducated, she was unable to write even her own name. - Hanging abeut ¥ 4H# theater distriet soon got her a chance on the stage. She became an actress. of :some talent.” Samuel ~ Pepys, the man-about-town whose diary out-gossipéd any Broadway columnist of today, makes many mentions of Nell. Once he noted:

“Mrs. Kneps brought to us Nelly, a most pretty. woman who acted the part of Celia today. very fine, and did it pretty well." I kissed her, and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.” He concludes the day's notes with a summary approving all that he had done during the 24 hours, “especially the kissing of Nell.” ® 5 = . HE actress soon became. the mistress of Lord Buckhurst, one of the most elegant courtiers of the day, and they maintained a merry house at . Lord Buckhurst pensioned her off with a small-alimony, and she returned to the stage. There she attracted the attention of “The Merry Monarch,” Charles .II, who was the first English king to go to. the theater instead of commanding the

players ‘to his palace.

Entertained by Nell’'s wit and merriment, and by the fact that she spoke bluntly to him and even -mimicked him. at . times;

Charles’ installed her as his mis~

tress. She bore "him two sons,

both of whom were made peers

of the real. But Nell asked no such distinctions for herself. The dissolute Charles had other mistresses, too, including one sent him from France, one Louise Re=: nee de Querouaille, a young wom-: an whose beauty exceeded her wit, but who had been planted in the court in a deliberate effort to increase French influence there. This was commonly known, and there was much popular discontent about it. But Nell, whose origins were well-known, remained popular with the people. One day when she was riding through . Oxford in one of the king's carriages,’ an angry crowd surrounded the equippage and be-

gan to hurl insults and threats of -

violence. Nell promptly :put her head out of the carriage and cried: “Good gentlemen, don’t hurt: me! | I'm the English. one, not the French!” . The ‘threats changed to laughter and cheers.

2 2 = , O wise an observer as Madame de Sevigne noted that while de Querouaill was selfishly feath-

BY SCIENCE SERVICE EW YORK, Oct. 20.—The number of bright “new stars” or novae that have been discovered in the heavens in the last few months is quite unprecedented in astronomical annals. Four stars, former nonentities among the millions, have since June flashed out of their obscurity and

telescopes. The famous Nova Herculis, which became one of the most prominent stars in the sky in December, 1934, .s still relatively bright, ‘being a little better han seventh magnitude. The mest recent nova is reported from Europe, the discovery of Nils Tamm at the Kvistaberg private observatory in Bro, Sweden, on Oct. 7.. Less than a month before, he found another nova so close to the

one now reported that it is in the same constellation, that of Aquila, the Eagle. Thus, there are two Novae Aquilae in the. sky. Harvard Observatory has found Tamm’s. new ‘nova on photographic plates made at its Oak Ridge observatory, and visual observations

show that it is eighth Whagnitude, |. compared with 75 when vered

And Harvard observations show that

coming brighter again, eighth magnitude. | « =n. 8 = ARVARD also contributes to the stellar fireworks by anexplosion in the distant heavens,

that has just been'found on a Harvard photograph of 8 southern

become ' easily visible with small’

Tamm’s first nova in Aquila is beexceeding

nouncing a supernova, a really large

Four Bright ‘New Stars’ or Novae Discovered Since June;

star to reach the earth, differ by

hundreds of Jars. ”

Venice Earthquake Not 'World-Shaker'

ASHINGTON,: Oct. 20.~~The earthquake that shook up Venice, Italy, Oct. 18, was not. of the “world-shaker” type; that is, it did not register its occurrence on distant seismographs. The sensitive instruments in the United States, Canada. and the Pacific area. that usudlly pick up a really severe disturbance anywhere, no matter how distant, showed no trace of it.

- However, “Venice could be severely damaged by even a minor local earthquake, for the city is a verita= ble “set-up” for. seismic.trouble. It stands on a group of low, sandy islands off the coast, and this kind of ‘shifting ground is exactly where an earthquake can play the most mischief. The constant additions to the sand and silt load on the sea bottom, brought - by the Po and the lesser rivers of the Venetian plain, are in themselves contributors to eventual earthquake disturbances. By lightening the load on the land, and increasing it on the sea bottom,

they set up Straitig oa in the end-

Brightness of New.

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! por yh Nell saved

: Téting her awn ‘ned 25 fast as she

‘could, Nell was: réally the favored one, . being “young, lively, careless, .indiscreet, wild .and witty.” Her saucy impuderics aivize

- wise without money. -

5 ' Out of, the alley inf which sHe.was. boin and into the tours. life of England stepped ‘pert Nell Gwynn, faverite of King Charles II. (lett), -romance with Louise de Querouaille of France . was * frowned by his. subjects, who also loved Nell. Sketched is the famous epifrom injury by a mob who surrounded her carriage when she ealled out: Pm the: English one, ‘not the French.”

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pleased the king, because he knew 4

|| her loyalty and faithfulness even :

in’ the face of. his: own flagrant infidelities. - : ‘Onceat a Gomeest when's A had ‘pleased the king, . Nell! sug-. gested-a ‘handsome tip. “The king

_ agreed; but found that he had no

money. Several other ;nébles in: the party found themselves likeMimicking the manner and favorite’ expletive of the king, Nell exclaimed . “Odd’s fish! What a company ‘have I got into!” -- Never wasteful of the king's. money, never disloyal to his interests, Nell was equally faithful to early friends and associates.

One: day-ah old soldier stopped :

her carriage and asked for money. Nell remembered ‘her own father, shattered by’ the wars. .-And "soon - she was brogching the idea before Charles of a home and refuge: for

war veterans, a revolutionary - idea

for those ‘days. She is still the idol .of the. pensioners who: sit :

about the Chelsea Home: and tell :

tales of the little" orange-girl ‘who 3 did net forget the soldiers. :

She was BEnSIoug with: ‘her

money; and in her later: years devoted ‘herself to many’ charities: The girl who started with nothing. hever lost her sympathy and kin“ship” with the others ‘who had « nothing, » 88

WE Charles, worn out ‘by. dissipation, and striken hy smallpox, lay. “an unconscionable ‘time a-dying,” his last words were of the little orange-girl who: had been s0 | faithful to him. ~ “Let not poor Nelly starve,” He ‘pleaded. And he died. Nelly didn’t steve. James II, the succeeding king, provided her ‘with . a, generous pension.’ But “only :two years remained to her, lived: out with discretion and de~ 1: corum, very quietly. . ‘Then she, too, died,” and ‘at Sher own request was buried in the: God’s-acre of St. Martin’ s-ifi=thes: | Fields, with, Dr. Tenison p

ing over her coffin. He “praised |

‘her much” a contemporary reports, a daring thing to do in view ‘of: all the Gircumsiances. ;

NEXT: King ‘George IV's fren“sled courtship of Mrs. Fitzherbert.

BELIEVES PLUTOCRACY

BY THE NEW, YORK COREE.

SPONDENT OF THE LONDON

STAR KNEW Franklin D. “Roosevelt - long before he became President

of the. United States. “I believe that

story will. rank him as one of the six . greatest Presidents, the others being - Washington, Jefferson, Lin: coln, ‘Cleveland iand. Wilson. : If I were an: American. citizen; I

would riot -only. vote ‘for. Roosevelt;

but I would give my last penny and.

nearer 5,000,000 poids, It has been swollen by the contributions ‘of ‘ihe du. Ponts, ‘the: Rockefellers’ and’ ‘all

the other: ‘princes. ote the. Bey “pl

tocraey, § aig 0 ‘» Ye Ad rONEY dosiirt talk in Ader ‘ian elections, it shouts. The, -adroit: peso. :of “dollars Brat Ain

exert myself tothe last fiber: ‘of: my. fe

being to help: his Te-election.

But, all the same, I-believe he. il York ‘a

be beaten in next-month’s election. : “I believe he: will ‘be’ beaten hy ia coalition of human. and human: inertia, ‘and human: ‘hatred of the exceptional -man, and -human treachery, and ‘human susceptibility to the “snob: appeal” of High. ‘men and clever wo a man in capacity to to the: height great leadership. r #2 8 = HE English ‘newspapers take T Roosevelt's - re-election for. granted. They can not believe that any modern, gommocragy. would be so fatuous, - B01 Bek oo ul as : who had saved

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greatest ‘Democra ocratic: Presidents the back. =»

may be lf to. Trou. wud | i | una man w

10 determine who has ~_ his Jas saved should ‘be vituperated as a traitor. It is possibly ‘the anti-father com-

plex, which ‘has destroyed all great :

American Presidents. Having: lived ‘so Jong in America I have an almost superstitious rev-

erence for he yower ‘of great wealth.

: | Anti: Roosevelt

- | wit ‘and charm, that it can over-

=" | tongue ‘of: angels, that it canitake 0 to: ‘ftself. ‘the. glorious: orifiamme of in | freedom to conceal ifs predatory

'| that ar Vanity

that Franklin Roosevelt; the aristo- | erat who ‘abandoned. his. Slate So tol

“Pa Pers. are now ig ae vac | ng

had he not been

mercifully’ killed, e assassin’s bullet and that file, by. !

‘wrong.” And twenty-five million doi-

I KNOW. that: it can annihilate Justice. ‘and ‘mercy, that it can | redtice democracy to a hollow ‘farce, that it can conimandeer, brains ‘and

awe. the wretched and seduce ’ the idealist, that it can speak with a

purposes, that ‘it can. buy the best.

brains of lawyers and ists tor sale on the: booths of

It is Pie of this that: X fear

fight for the. common people, will be beaten. -

“The same: elements: which: drove | Geotge Washington neatly insane by their. treachery ‘and - in titude, that would Se ie ‘eru - Lincoln:

he Woodrow Wilson &o his death, are sharpening their knives for Franklin Roosevelt.

Through the length and] breadth |

of Anierica there is a saying current: “Ten million dollars can’t be

Hars, can’t lose an election! :

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OF all the beggars that used to come to our: house when I was a little boy, I

‘liked Mr. Vergoose best. That wasn’t his

real name, but we boys called him that bes cause he knew and talked so much about ‘Mrs. Vergoose. Mr. Vergoose, I remember, visited us every other Thursday and always timed his visits to get thert after we boys were home ftom school, ‘He did this year after year but so discreetly

-} that it ‘wasn’t until a long time

after that I discovered that Thanksgiving and Mr. Vergoose always turned up on the same day. I don’t think that Mr. Vergoose had any ulterior motive in timing his visits the way he did because ‘ even on Thanksgiving he preferred ‘a dish of cold porridge to the cold’ turkey we had to offer. Mr. Vergoose always got a dish of cold porridge at. our house, probably because that’s the way the whole thing started. I remember exactly how it started. Mr. Vergoose came to our house for the first time looking pretty abject and asked for something to eat and because a dish of cold porridge was ‘the only thing handy at the time, that’s what he got. He dug into the dish, discovered its condition and pretended it was hot. It was a mighty good act the way he put it on, but that wasn't all. At the come . pletion of his meal, he pulled a little book from somee ‘where in his coat, turned quickly,to a page and withe out a moment’s hesitation, read: “The man in the South, he burned his mouth With eating cold plum porridge. . \ on." Point Out Absurdity : NE of us, thinking that Mr. Vergoose had gone. completely. daffy, pointed out the absurdity of anybody burning his mouth eating cold porridge, let alone getting it in print. Mr. Vergoose didn't like the reprimand, I remember, ‘because ‘as. soon as it was uttered, he turned in the direction of the smart ales and said: “The answer is in Xenophon's ‘Anabasis’; Mrs. Vergoose never gets anything wrong.” It was the first mention of Mrs. Vergoose. After that,: we learned a lot more about her. Indeed, we stuck. pretty close to home on Mr. Vergoose's Thurse days for fear of missing something important about Mrs. Vergoose. On July 5, 1892, I ‘remember, we heard the most, . Our beggar turned up that day, quite, excited, and reported that he had just celebrated the two-hune dredth anniversary of Mrs. Vergoose’s marriage. * was always saying something queer like that. : Arid then he went on to explain that exactly 200

~ Mr. Scherrer

' years ago, Miss Elizabeth Foster married Isaac Vere

‘goose of Boston. They were mighty lucky, he said, because it wasn’t long after that, that they had a lovely daughter. Lovely enough, anyway, for Thomas Fleet of. Pudding Lane, of all places, to come along

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; | 22 Rhymes Ready

ELL, when it came time for Mr. and ‘Mrs. Fleet ‘to have their first baby, so ran the beggar’s tale, Grandmother Vergoose had 22 jolly little rhymes of “her own’ invention ready for.the little one. She ended up with 154 melodies and I remember our beggar . saying that if you were any good at figures you would now. that: Mrs. Vergoose had seven grandchildren. . He said thgt he had every one of Mrs. Vergoose's les in ‘the little bo he; carried with him, 's more; he knew them all by hed?t; he said, and to prove his point he recited all of them that day, ending up, I remember, with: Bo

“Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse run up the clock; The clock struck one, and down he run, Hickory, dickory, dock.” He walked away after that but I distinctly remem ber his saying: ‘Time and doom that hold us all and end us all are written in these lines; Mrs, Vers goose never gets anything wrong,” I never saw our beggar friend after that but 1 remember a man saying that they took Mr. Vergoose away and put him into a cage Jike | a canary. bird.

Hoosier Y esterdays

ILLIAM COLLIER, who today has seen the twie light of his leng career as an actor, paid Ine dianapolis one of his frequent visits 36 years ago this week when he appeared for two nights at English’s Opera House, At that time a young farceur who was determined to conquer success in legitimate comedy, Mr. Collier appeared in a new. play of that type. entitled “On the Quiet,” by Augustus Thomas, ‘The play dealt with the tribulations of a young Yale student, Bob Ridgeway (Mr. Collier), who fool= ishly lent his services to the Duke of Carbondale in an effort to learn whether the latter's wife really loved her husband. The plan for testing a woman's fidelity involved inviting two high kicking music hall sirens to a fashionable breakfast, at which Ridgeway's mother and father and the family pastor were present, The amusing denouement afforded Mr. Collier ample opportunity to display his ability, which he, did with credit. He had won high praise in this play from audiences and critics in Eastern and other Midwestern cities, and his brief stay at English’'s was likewise very well received.’ He was assisted by a company of excellent players, including Brigham Royce, John G, Saville, Themas ‘Doyle, Cranley Douglass, Walter Craven, Louise Allen Collier, Laura Palmer, Helena Collier, Katherine Mulkins, May Fletcher and Ninette Thullen~By F. i

| Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journsl T is common for an individual suddenly to bend over double with a gri pain in his midriff, asething he ‘et’.” and © 4 y that he suffers from

‘his head