Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1936 — Page 14
FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE
REATTLE, Oct. 30. — The oddest thing — keeps happening to Bill Weld. Every day he goes downtown to look for a job. And then the first thing he knows he is back out ‘at Lake Union, sitting on the docks with a bag of grapes in his hand, just watching the boats. Bill's body is in Seattle but his mind, I'm afraid, #8 at Tonga Reva. He's nuts about the South Seas.
Bill Weld is from Maine. He's 23, and he’s been roving the seas since he left high school five years
ago. He knows he ought to look ahead and be deciding on what he’s going to do in this life, but he just can’t seem to force himself to it. "Not that he's lazy. It's just that he loves boats so much. He can’t do anything else for thinking about boats. He probably can find a job if he half tries. For he has.a nice suit of clothes, and he has a fine face, Mr. Pyle and anybody can see he’s honest, Furthermore, he’s lucky. Just lis. tep to what he has done since he left high school: ¢ Spent two winters working in Florida; hitch-hiked across the continent; was lucky enough to get on an Alaskan fishing boat as soon as he hit Seattle; came back in the fall (that was 34) with enough money to take him by freighter to Hawaii; after six months there, got abecard a 32-foot ketch going to Tahiti, which took 40 days; at Papeete, hooked up with a couple of lads in another ketch and spent four months in the small islands off the beaten path; from Honolulu, caught a free ride back to Seattle on a schooner; made the Alaskan fishing grounds again this past summer; came back a week ago with his split from the season's catch; and here he is today, wondering what to do.
2 = SE Envied Each Other EYILL is now living, free of charge, on an idle
£3 ‘4 schooner tied up at the dock (it’s the one that
brought him from Hawaii, so he has pleasant memories around him). It was there I found him, and there we spent three hours gabbing and envying each other. I envy him for where he’s been, and he envies
. me because I'm leaving Seattle in a couple of days.
i “If I could just write!” he says. “I've sure run onto some characters. About two hours before Dwight Long and I were to shove off from Hawaii for Tahiti, an old man came down to the boat and said how about going with us? So Long took him aboard. a . 2 8 ‘= + Former Mail Carrier J HE old fellow was white-haired and about 70, 4 and couldn’t see very well. He had been a mail carrier in Minnesota all his life. A regular home man, with family afd everything, But when he retired he started out to see the world. He was a good scout too; his mind was young and he was curious about everything. Imagine sailing 40 days to Tahiti in a 32-foot sailboat with a couple of boys when you're 70! ~~ “Then down at Tonga Reva there was just one
American. He was from the Ozark mountains, and + he was a sketch. Smart fellow, too. We hadn't spoken anything but French and Polynesian for two months, and when this fellow stepped aboard and said ‘How the hell are you?’ it sure sounded good. “But there aren't a lot of Americans hibernating on isolated islands like you read about. We saw only two. The other one was a retired naval officer, and when he played ‘Anchors Aweigh’ on the phonograph you could see fears in his eyes. He played it over
~~ Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
EW YORK, Thursday.—I heard of a woman to- + X day who was complaining bitterly because she had to cut down on her charitable gifts. Said she: “There have always—been a million or more unemployed, and they have been taken care of somehow. Why should the government make such a fuss about them now? I am telling any one who asks me for help that my income is cut too much for me to be able to do anything for them. Besides, it’s the govament’s responsibility, and if they are not content they had better get together and march on Washington) to demand that we people who used to be able to help them be let alone in order that we may ~ be able to help them again.” ~ It sounds amusing, but it really isn't, because it theans a total lack of understanding of other people's situations. That is our great trouble today." Last night I went to a big Democratic women’s organization dinner in Brooklyn. The men present praised the women for the political work which they _ had done. But as I looked at the women’s faces I
thought the political organization work which they had accomplished means less than their coming into politics. They can not go from door to door without com"Ing Into direct contact with other people's lives. Their sympathy and understanding is bringing, I' believe, 8 new note into political life and is going to have a more far-reaching effect upon the policies of governments than any of us ‘The fact that so many young people are active in our political parties, that many of them are think‘ing for themselves and are trying hard to really get ; personal contacts which make evaluation of is- ~ sues possible, is one of the very encouraging signs in == year of grace, 1936. I hope the great adventure of living today is going to continue in politics, because these young people will then realize that in that way only can they control the circumstances surrounding their own daily lives.
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TWENTY-SIX-YEAR old -capfain, his crew of two, a jolly colored cook, and two stray cats
ven willing! The spirit lifts to the adventures. of this gallant as she fights the sirocco, staggers in smashing
| dissolute ‘young Prince, especially
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936
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BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Writer
ARIA ANNE SMYTHE WELD FITZHERBERT didn’t want to marry the fat and miserable Prince who was
to become George IV of England. he wrote her 37-page love letters, groveled 7 and moorféd and cried, and wound up by. . | making her think he had stabbed himself because of her obduracy, Mrs. Fitzherbert
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This famous beauty had been born
daughter of a whaling cap-
She married a clerk named Robin-
son, and when his fortunes were shattered, she went to debtors’ prison with him.
King George IV
On her release, however, she became
an actress at the same Drury Lane Theater which had started Nell Gwynn on her career. She played Juliet, and
Perdita in. Shakespeare’s “Winter's Tale,” and it was while playing that role that the 18-year-old Prince of Wales happened to see her.
Having just reached his majority after a childhood of restraint and discipline, young George launched immediately into a life of complete debauchery. The startling beauty of Perdita inspired him to write her a series of love letters which he signed “Florizel,” and which made the beautiful. Perdita his mistress. But when he tired of her, he threw her down shamelessly. And Mary, her acting career wrecked by public hostility to her position, had to throw herself back on the writing of poetry and memoirs. She was also able to sell profitably to the King some : of his son's more amorous letters, » ” s LL that was well known to Mrs. Fitzherbert when the ill-balanced young Prince began paying her ardent court. Mrs. Fitzherbert, twice a widow, was a commoner, . but_.she. was rich, young;-and-muech-courted and admired, - She wanted none of the
as she was a Roman Catholic and any marriage would not be politically recognized. For a time she avoided his ardent suit, and then one night there arrived breathlessly at her house the royal surgeon. George had stabbed himself for love of her, the surgeon reported. She rushed to Carlton House, the Prince's residence, to find him pale and blood-spattered. Nothing would induce him to live, he said, unless she would marry him. She promised, but the next day grew frightened, and fled abroad.
| - During the year she was away, the distracted Prince wept by the hour, rolled on the floor and tore his hair, wrote; her a continuous stream of ardent love letters, and threatened to forgo the crown. Finally Mrs. Fitzherbert yielded, and the Prince met her at the dock with a clergyman. They were married,’ and for several years lived together as man and wife, mostly af Brighton. Contrary to the geperal impression of the life of princes, they were soon very poor, for George, with reckless extravagance, ran through his allowance, and was forced to appeal to afi. unsympathetic. Parliament for money. The Prince even once sold his horses and houses in an effort to rouse popular sympathy. ¢But people only laughed. ; Mrs. ‘Fitzherbert was a ‘womanof high character and did much to keep the bibulous Prince mote or less sober, and to restrain his prodigal throwing-about of money. x = = ; UT two things curdled the romance:after nine years. One was a transfer of Georges affections “40 “Lady - Jersey, and the other was his necessity to make an official marriage so as to get money. So he married Princess Caroline of Brunswick, appointing Lady Jersey as her lady-in-waiting. = Lady Jersey obligingly contrived to have the guileless bride very badly dressed at the wedding, but it made little difference, for Prince George showed, up blind drunk anyway. The marriage was a tragedy from the first meeting of the pair. Soon enough George’s thoughts began to return to Mrs: Fitzherbert, whose gracious manner and calm
wisdom were the more rememsbered when absent. He drew far-
Middle of Earth Extremely Hot But Plastic, Not Molten
BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The middle of the earth is hotter than even Dante thought it. was. And it has cooled very little in the two billion years or so of the plan-, et’s existence. These were among the facts presented in a lecture here by Dr. L. H. Adams of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Yet in spite of its terrifically high temperature (well over 5000 degrees Fahrenheit) the middle of the earth is not molten, as men once thought it was, It is prevented from melting because of the tremendous pressure, which at the center mounts to the unimaginable figure of 47,000,000 pounds to the square inch. The earth is made up of three concentric parts, like a baseball, Dr. Adams indicated. At the center, corresponding to the rubber core of the baseball, is a core having the density of iron, and probably actually composed of iron or ironnickel. This enormous mass of metal is plastic rather than rigid, and it is non-magnetic, so that it has no influence on terrestrial magnetic fields. | = # 8
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distant seismographs. The rate at which they came through the earth, and the apparent paths they take, permit legitimate inferences regarding the kinds of material they traverse and the physical states in which these materials exist. - » ” 2
Homicides and Suicides
Show Decrease , EW YORK, Oct. 30.—Homicides and suicides both show a decline so far this year, the latest figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.’s experience with industrial policyholders show. “Suicide tends to vary inversely with business conditions,” Dr. Louis I. Dublin, third vice president and statistician commented. “Whether the present decline in the suicide rate is to be viewed in this light, it is too soon to judge. But the fact is that the suicide rate is back at its 1929 level for the first nine months of the year.”
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Maria Fitzherbert (above) so captivated King George IV that he
turned to her afier every escapade. George discarded after a hectic affair, and knowl-
inson (right), whom
Less fortunate was Perdita Rob-
edge of his shameless conduct made Mrs. Fitzherbert ignore his wooing. But she rushed to his bedside, as sketched, when he pretended to have
slashed his wrists for love of her.
ther and farther away from Queen Caroline, though she received much popular sympathy as “the injured Queen.” One night at ‘the opera some one made so bold as to shout out at the royal box. “Where’s your Queen, Georgie?” The regent was freely booed in public places, and a similar partisanship arose to cheer the deserted Queen when she appeared by herself. But George repeated his frenzied courtship of Mrs. Fitzherbert, and friends of the King urged her to accept George once more as her husband, as her marriage was
binding in church if not in civil law, » 2.2 O outstanding was the character of Mrs. Fitzherbert that she was enthusiastically received in all London society. The regent himself, despite his nickname of “The First Gentleman of Europe,” and his correct, waistcoats, was very unpopular, They were reconciled, and an intimate friend of Mrs. Fitzherbert recalled her saying at this time that “we were extremely
poor, but as merry as crickets.” It was their happiest time to-
gether. While Mrs. Fitzherbert seldom advised on political matters and George still less often took her excellent advice, it is notable that toward the end of his reign irksome restrictions on the political rights of Catholics were
relaxed by passage of the Catholic’
Relief Bill. King George III had always been known as a bit eccentric ‘and not too bright. But when he started shaking hands with oak trees and shouting out “TallyHo!” during family prayers, some= thing really had to be done. Prince George was made regent, and on the old King’s death, assumed the crown. He showed his contempt for the estranged Queen Caroline at that time by having her barred at the very door when she came to see his coronation.
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HERE were wild popular demonstrations in favor of the “injured Queen,” and the very spicy testimo was on every tongue in England when the King later tried to divorce her, The courts failed to sustain the royal ‘plea. 7 Tr But the restive George allowed his affections to wander still farther, and when he came to announce to. Mrs, Fitzherbert their final separation, her only comment was: “Very well, sir > She lived then in quiet retirement, silent alike on public and private affairs, bearing quietly the fact that many people of the time did not understand that her marriage to George had the complete sanction of church law. The King had never acknowledged it. . When George came to his last illness, Mrs. Fitzherbert sent him a touching letter offering her services: as a dutiful wife, and the King died with - her miniature picture fastened about his neck on a silver chain. ; :
NEXT—The little milliner’s apprentice whose romance with a King heaped coals upon the revolutionary fire that confumed French royalty,
"POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES-IT
BY MARK SULLIVAN
ASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Presi- : dent Roosevelt on Monday spoke at the dedication of a new
building at a leading institute for Negro students, Howard University. It was one of those presidential addresses which are designated as “nonpolitical,” occasions when Mr.
Roosevelt is just the President—and is not running for re-election at all. To t serviceable assumption Mr. Roosevelt lived up. His speech was not political—Mr. Roosevelt would hardly commit any such violatioh of subtlety. It was the sort of speech, in complete propriety, which any President might make at any Negro institution. Mr. Roosevelt did not ask the Negro folks to vote for him —details, of the campaign are in the hands of Mr. Farley. The one personal allusion he made was to the effect that his Administration had followed a policy that “there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.” But the President had with him, as an additional speaker, his Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Harold
PWA that the funds for the build-
ling came. And PWA had func-|be tioned (in this case) with such hap-
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T was all good, clean politics. Yet one felt that Mr. Roosevelt's laudable sentiment about “no for-
convincing. It would have helped if his running mate had been on the stage with hint and had joined in this assurance to the colored audience. And one felt that the colored folks now about to vote for Mr. Roosevelt might be disquieted if they were to remember that in voting for President Roosevelt they are also voting for Vice President Garner. After all, in the course of nature, if the Democratic ticket wins, it is conceivable that Mr. Garner might possibly become President some time during the next four years — it is for this contingency
Congress. It has issued a pamphlet reciting some actions by Mr. Garner
tions the Congressional Record made by Negro National Coun cil have not been checked by
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only about one Negro in a thousand
is permitted to vote. And Senator James F. Byrnes, in whose state of South Carolina only about 1000 Negroes vote in a total Negro population of about 900,000. Mr. Roosevelt, in one of his campaign speeches, spoke of the Republican leadership in this campaign ¥s
being “Janus-faced,” presenting one
face fo the East, another to the
his presidency. But let that pass. The Mr. Roosevelt of today, the Mr.
'| Roosevelt who is now running for
re-election, is saved from any necessity of being dantis-faced. He is
saved by the happy fact that he is
running in two separate roles—as nominee of the De tic ty. and as head of the! ew Deal. :
By ANTON SCHERRER
)DAY is Robert S. Cochrane's last ¢ of active service in the Indianapo post office. He's going to spend the win in Florida. N 3 Mr. Cochrane, our oldest letter carrier in
years of service, started work 42 years ago
under Postmaster Albert Sahm. He's got the original letter of appointment to prove it. And he can prove; too, that he has averaged a load of 100 pounds of
mail a day. It takes 10 miles: of walking to distribute it and statisticians can carry it on from this point with my best wishes, * Mr. Cochrane spent the first six months of his career as a “sub” and then “fell heir,” as he puts it, to the “hotel route,” which included the Denison, Bates House, English’s, the Occidental, Grand, Stubbins and Spencer House. He made six trips a gay, a yas a “short run” he says. e became a regular and got the district bounded by Michi- or Scherrer gan and 1lth-sts, between Illinois-st and Capitol-av, That's the way he got to know Judge Sullivan, Tong Taggart, Charlie Bookwalter and Harry New. That's : also the way he got to know Great-Grandmother Crossland, who, unless I forget it, will turn up agains Twenty-one "years ago, Mr. Cochrane had a horse route from 38th-st to 42d-st, between Illinois-st and the Monon railroad. Meridian-st to 42d-st and & - little of Delaware-st and Washington-blvd were the only improved streets at the time. The rest were mud. College-av was impassable, says Mr. Cochrane, and the street car tracks stood 20 inches above the level of the street. Letters for College-av were des livered to the rear doors, says Mr. Cochrane. ;
” ” Serves Broad Ripple
F°® the last seven years Mr. Cochrane has been serving the Broad Ripple district. He lives in it at 6032 Central-av, which was handy for him. : In the beginning of his career, Mr. Cochrane was paid in gold. Not altogether in gold, you understand; but as'much as Uncle Sam could conveniently dispose of. For example, if the pay was $19, $15 of it would be handed out in gold, the rest in silver, Get the idea? It isn’t that way any more. | ! A lot of things aren’t the way they were when Mr, Cochrane started. For one thing, there is no back’ stamping of letters any more. Neither is canceling .done by hand. And today they have time clocks, which are something they didn’t have in the begine ning. What’s more, the postoffice isn’t kept open on Sundays the way it was when Albert Sahm ran it. Mr. Cochrane says the coldest winter he ever experienced was the last one, and I'll believe it,
8 8 8 : ‘Last Summer Hottest ‘
THE hottest summer was the last one, which isn’t news either. Once the postmasterishad to abandon the second trip because of cold and once because of snow. Otherwise things went on in the regular way all the time Mr. Cochrane was on the job. When Mr. Cochrane has the sniffles he takes & physic and goes to bed. It’s the only way, he says. But he doesn’t have many colds. People working outside aren’t subject to them the way “inside” people are, he says. Sounds reasonable enough. Oh yes, Great-Grandmother Crossland. She gets into the story because Mr. Cochrane served six gens erations of one family. It’s a fact. It started wi his delivering letters to Great-Grandmother. Cros land (1); then came her daughter, Grandmoth Browning (2); then came Mrs. Browning's daughtery who married Dick Gent (3); then came their son; J. B. Gent (4); then came his daughter, Jane, wh
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Well, on July 7 of this year, .little Dennis Gen Cain (6) turned up and the other day somebody sen the baby a letter. Mr. Cochrane (Carrier 341) des livered it. .
Hoosier Yesterdays
LL Indianapolis lovers of parks; and gardens, and especially South Side residents, rejoiced in: the opening of Garfield Park 20 years ago this week, More than 7000 persons attended in a single day, marveling at the beauty of the landscape as it had emerged from the hands of architect, mason and gardener. ’ Ts Of particular interest were the electrically lighted fountains in the lagoon of the sunken gardens. X6& was the first public park in the United States to have electric fountains, At night they gave kaleidoscopic color effect to the water, and comment about the new park was that “some £ new has been recorded in the evolution of munici parks in this country.” > There was almost an hour of speech making on the opening day. Addresses were made by members of the Park Board—Charles Coffin, Samuel Raul Fred C. Gardner and Henry Seyfried and May« Bell. Prominent South Sicers, including John FF, White, president of the Fountain Square ne Men’s Association; Robert R. Sloan, president 6 the South Side Improvement Association, and George J. Hardy, South Meridian Street Business Men Association president, also spoke, voicing the appres ciation of their community for the new park. A large American flag fluttered 75 feet above the park, suspended by a box kite. When the sw went down, a huge spotlight picked it out of night. The police band struck up “The Star-Spang Banner.” Crowds cheered, and the opening ceremonie for a new project in civic beautification were ended By PF. M. )
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