Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1936 — Page 13

gabond FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

DRTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2.—Mr. F asso-

ciates only with people he likes. He can 30 that because, as he says, he is 78 years d and doesn’t give a damn. He happens to us. Most of you won't remember back that % but I wrote a column about Mr. F once before. is the man who retired at 51 because he had all She money he wanted, and has spent the last quarter

of a century (and then some) just going places. Mr. F is off on another trip around the world. I forget what this one is. Fifth or sixth. Mr. F always travels alone, By the very nature of traveling, he spends most of his life among strangers. That, plus his deafness (he is very deaf), gives him independence and freedom. He depends on no man. He isn't aloof. He likes people. But he likes to b do what he wants to do. . Mr. F has, it seems to me, more _ Mr. Pyle nearly approached perfection than any one I know. I have known pther men who had life whipped, but they had "whipped it b¥ centering upon themselves and excluddng all else. But Mr. ¥ has kept the door open; he * has invited everything in, and been host, and he is so ‘full and so great from it that he is greater than anySuny around him. - Mr. F is completely innocent of sham. For example, | hates stickers on traveling bags. “You can buy sticker in the world in a shop in New York,” says. He Cbg a superstition in the world. “I just wish could think of a superstition I was afraid of, so I would try it out,” he says. He doesn't like “joiners.” He describes “repartee” as the ability to answer right ‘pow what most people would think of two days later.

Believes in Higher Power

feels that any thinking man must believe there is some higher power that created the universe and keeps it running, but he has no idea what it is. "He says that after all these millions of years the most learned man in the world has no more idea what this power is g than the most ignorant man in the jungle. F is a few pounds overweight, and the insur- : mpany tells him to watch it, but he says he isn't hv to worry about his weight. He isn't going $0 worry about anything. He's as healthy as Joe Louis right now, and at least half as spry. Mr, F is not rich. He was once. But he gave most of it away. Kept just enough to assure himself a mild inco

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. Comfort Main Thing thinks comfort is the main thing in life to strive for. He doesn't like to stay at people's He likes freedom. He goes to such places as Kansas City (where he doesn’t know a soul) and stays two months because he finds a comfortable hotel. Mr, F takes only two smail handbags when he starts around the world. He is a beautiful sight as he makes his way along, taking his little steps, peering through his glasses, wearing an overcoat that comes almost to the ground, and carrying a rolled umbrella - on his arm He Tikes Colombo, in Ceylon, about as well as any

place in the world.

He has a family—wife and married daughters, in |

different parts of the United States—and they worship | him and try to get him to stay, but after a few weeks

be Just ups and away he goes.

Ars. Roosevelt's Day

*.. BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT YDE PARK, N. Y, Sunday—I am glad that I Lb. did not have to write a column on Saturday, from the moment I started out by subway to do few errands in the early morning until we got on

The President was to be at the Democratic Naphial Headquarters at 10:45 in the morning and I to meet him there. My daughter and I were, amused later when we m| il notes on our efforts to enter the Biltmore tel The escort surrounding the President's car was it sweeping down Vanderbilt-av and through 43d-st hen I started to cross the street at that particular At. All the nearby policemen looked at me very pubtfully. However, by dint of smiling and nodding sot through. Sometimes the mere assumption that have the right to go will get you there. My daughter had forgotten that her father was ‘be at the Biltmore and couldn't imagine why there S0 many policemen and people standing around. ¢ had to do quite a little explaining before she BE by; I wasn't quite sure in which room I was to Bt my husband and stepped in one of the offices to fk. Only two people were there and they were on . point of going to see the President. However, I d reach the proper spot on time. Afterwards Mrs. Lehman, Mrs. Henry G. Leach, William H. Good, Mrs. Caroline O'Day and I three luncheons. As we were getting out “the third, Mrs. Leach remarked: “I think we are well to be so near schedule time.” “With dry humor Mrs. Lehman replied: “I never ized before that being an hour and a half late is keeping up with one’s schedule.” Two more meetings and I went home, dressed and ied, had some tea and shepherded our first group uests into Madison Square Garden at about 7:45. took a rear seat on the platform, watched for mother-in-law and my children who were coming > and gazed at the great crowd of pecple. was an emotional group that Gov. Lehman, the candidates; and later, the President, faced. Even i we came out of the Garden the people in the its and those leaning out of the windows seemed } have caught some of the emotion over the radio, spite of the dark they recognized the President called out to him.

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WHEN A KING LOVES .

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Lode I and Lola Montez

(Fifth of a Series)

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

“HE wildest, weirdest, waywardest woman who ever cost a king his crown was certainly Lola Montez. She had three things: great beauty, love of living,

and crust.

They elevated her from an obscure soldier's daughter to be the mistress of a king, whose crown she certainly helped to topple off, and dropped her to an obscure grave in Brooklyn, N. Y.

It is quite true that the aging King Ludwig I of -Bavaria might have lost his crown any way in the uprisings of the chaotic year 1848 in Europe. But Lola certainly joggled it into the final tumble. «

There are so many dizzy stories about Lola Montez, many of the dizziest told by herself, that people begin to doubt even the true ones. As though the truth wasn't dizzy enough! Her story runs about like this: Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was born in Limerick, Ireland, irr 1818. Her father, a soldier, took the family to India on service, and there died of cholera. Dolores (Lola is the diminutive form) clashed with her half-Span-ish mother when the latter tried to marry her to an aged judge. The young girl impetuously married a young Lieut. Thomas James. Morals at the Indian station left something to be desired, and the young wife was soon estranged both from her husband and her mother. From the lieutenant she got a separation, from her mother a final disownment. 2 =n = ITH the settlement money she went to London, took from thin air the name Lola Montez and a fictitious Spanish ancestry, and prepared for the stage. Her debut as a Spanish dancer was a flop, partly because she couldn't dance much, partly because disappointed suitors recognized her and hissed the attempted deception. Other stage attempts were no more encouraging. That didn’t stop Lola. She told

at 10:45 that night, I scarcely had time to |

American Emotions Becoming

a friend: “I am sick of being told that I can't dance. I am going to carry out my original plan; that is, trying to hook a prince.” With the remains of her dwindling money she started on a tour of the continent, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, St. Petersburg. She accepted help from whatever gallant gentlemen were willing to give it in exchange for her favor, she put up a méagnificent front. At Dresden she engaged in a brief affair of the heart with Franz Liszt, the pianist and com-

Less Stable,

BY SCIENCE SERVICE HILADELPHIA, Nov. 2.—A suffocating fear, a cutting glance, or an arugment thrust home . . . such expressions in our daily speech are evidence that emotion

may have physical effects. Surgeons, accustomed to rather vigorous physical treatment of disease, also recognize that emotions can be made powerful allies to their skill. Before the American College of Surgeons meeting in Philadelphia, the emotional element in surgical disease was discussed by Dr. James S. McLester of Birmingham, Ala. Because of the increased tempo of their lives, or for other reasons, he believes the American people are losing much of the poise inherited from their pioneer ancestors; in their emotional attributes they are becoming constanly less stable.

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F shame will cause a delicate woman's face to turn a brilliant red.” Dr. McLester said, “if fear will make a child’s pupils dilate widely, if anxiety will cause a strong man’s mouth to become as dry as cotton, if disgust over a nauseating sight will cause a robust person's stomach to empty itself of its entire contents, then we must recognize that the emotions profoundly disturb the working of the inner organs. If homesickness will retard the recovery of the tuberculous patient, if the disquieting influence of visitors to the pneumonia patient will lead to higher fever and greater respiratory distress, if - anger will precipitate a fatal attack of angina pectoris, and if business worTy, as was abundantly evident in the financial crisis of 1929, will cause the old ulcer patient to return to his physician, then we must accept the additional faét that the emotions definitely influence the course of organic disease. But, these are crude examples. There are other, more subtle, more elusive evidences of the part played by the emotional element in the course of disease.

N surgery, as well as in medicine, diagnosis will be more accurate and treatment more effective if the patient's psychic and emotional reactions are given mature consideration. In every case, whatever the nature of disease, the symptoms are dependent to some extent, sometimes to a disturbing extent, upon such reactions. “The expression of the face, the intensity of pain, the acuteness of sensation, the promptness of tendon reactions, the tone and tension of the abdominal and other muscles, the behavior of the gastro-intes-tract, the color and feel of the the respiratory tempo, and the

poser, from which he fled shortly, leaving her locked in a room so she could not follow.

In Poland she repulsed the advances of the aged dictator Paskewich, started a small riot in which some 300 anti-Paskewichs and pro-Lolas were arrested, and was then run out of the country. For a time King Henry the sev-enty-second of Reuss ‘was her patron, but Lola’s independent ways offended him, and again she was run out of the country. She made a brief place for herself at the court of the Czar of Russia, and then returned westward to the Paris of Louis Philippe, of Dumas, George Sand and Gautier,

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HERE Lola came as near to falling in love as it is likely she ever did. She took up with Alexander Henri Dujarier, a young and handsome journalist. But Dujarier became involved in a quarrel with a rival journalist, and in a stupid duel he was killed. The restless Lola feverishly moved on to adventures in Spain, and thence to Germany. What she had heard of King Ludwig I, the aging “liberal King” who fancied himself a connoisseur of art and beauty, helped Lola to: decide. While courtiers argued over whether she ought to be admitted, Lola simply burst into the royal presence. One look at those lustrous eyes about whose color (blue or black?) no observers ever agreed, was enough for the King. A few days later he remarked helplessly, “I can’t understand it, but I am bewitched.” Once again the old story: Ludwig’s Queen had to take a back seat while workmen hammered at a new palace for Lola. Probably more by accident than by deep conviction, Lola became identified with the liberal anti-clerical party, and the cry of “St. Loyola versus St. Lola” was heard in violent argument in the streets. Under her advice, the King re-

Doctor Reports

Dr. McLester believes physicians should prescribe literature according to the convalescent patient's needs. The newer books are best, in his opinion, because they reawaken the patient’s interest in the trend of today’s thought and what people are talking about.

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Lost City to Vanish in Boulder Lake

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Ruins of Nevada's Lost City, which archeologists have been hastily exploring before Boulder Dam swallows them forever, are due to vanish soon under waters of the great lake behind the dam. Archeologists, however, have already salvaged much of the story buried in the sand, showing that prehistoric America once had a flourishing town where twentieth century America has raised a gigantic engineering projeci. National Park Service archeologists, aided by CCC men, have worked against time to uncover graves, adobe houses, and hidden relics of the ancient inhabitants. People of the Lost City are identifled as Pueblo Indians who lived about 1500 years ago. Their settlement in an oasis of the Nevada desert was so extensive that excavators have found ruins spreading along the Muddy River for nearly five miles. Whey the ancient people abandoned the city, sand dunes buried it so deeply that it lay forgotten until recent years, when it was discovered and exploration began. Relics from the Lost City include artistic pottery, shell and turquoise ornaments, broken clay dolls, paints, arrow and spear points. These are to be preserved in the museum at Overton, Nev.,, and in the Southwest Museum, which has directed much of the work at the site.

moved education from the direction of Jesuits, and dismissed a whole ministry. Then he named Lola Countess of Lansfelt, Baroness von Rosenthal, and canoness of the Order of St. Theresa, gave her an income of 20,000 florins a year, and installed her in the new palace.

2 ¥ 2 ITTERLY attacked by the

clerical party whose power she had taken away, Lola became

a perfect storm-center in the -

kingdom. Bodies of students, organized into pro and anti-Lola factions, wrote sly verses about her or stormed about her palace with rude serenades at night.

The rioting grew more serious, windows in her house were broken, and finally came flat petifions to the King that unless he removed the foreign dancer there

would be revolution. Ludwig swore

he would stick to his Lola until death. But he didn’t. Another stormy riot in which students broke down the doors of her palace, and Lola was out and over the back fence to Switzerland in boys’ clothing. And within a few weeks, the mob, forced Ludwig to abdicate his crown. Lola soon turned up in London and married George Trafford Heald, a young army officer, but the lack of a final divorce from James returned to plague her. Heald was drowned soon after. It was this tendency of men associated with Lola to come to violent ends that led Dumas to suggest that she had “the devil eye.” From time to time, Lola, who had always been on good terms. with journalists and newspaper men, embroidered the legends they had woven about her by writing extensive memoirs in serial form. Collected they made up about nine volumes.

” ” » UT in 1851 she opened a new

chapter in her own life. She came to America on the same ship

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT

While his courtiers were arguing over whether to admit her, Lola Montez (above) rushed into the presence of Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. After the informal introduction sketched at left, he told intimates he

was “bewitched.”

that brought Louis Kossuth, and launched on a new theatrical

career. She was introduced on the floor of the House of Representatives. But her theatrical career was checkered. More than one Bronxcheer greeted her dancing at various appearances. After adventures, now verging on the ridiculous, in New Orleans and other cities, she went to the Far West. Married briefly again to Patrick Purdy Hull in Sacramento, she gravitated to Grass Valley, a mining camp, but not until another admirer, one Adler, had shot himself. In Grass Valley, Lola was a sort of a “Queen of the Camp,” smoking long cigars and leading a bear 1

on a chain. Her home burned in

a sweeping fire, she decided to try anew in Australia, in the company of a young manager named Follet. He fell or jumped overboard, adding the final touch to the “evil eye” legend. After the Australian tour, Lola turned at last to spiritualism and _ finally, just before her death, to religion. She died in 1861 at the age of 43, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Over her grave they wrote a strange combination of her married and maiden names — “Mrs. Eliza Gilbert.” Such is fame. When the greatest adventuress of her age died, they couldn’t even remember her name COTTA. ©

Next—King “Carol and Magda Lupescu.

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BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON, Nov. 2~—The commotion over the New Deal Social Security Act arises from the fact that workers have just learned about it two months before it takes effect, next Jan. 1. It is clear that many workers resent de-

tails of it, They resent especially

the compulsory feature of it, and the manner in which the tax on the workers is to be collected. If this resentment did not exist, the. New Deal speakers, including President Roosevelt, would have no occasion to get as irritated as they are. Obviously, it is the effect on votes that causes the excitement at this time.

The manner of collecting from workers is this: Every employer is required by the government to de-

duct 1 cent (later rising to 3 cents) |

out of every dollar on the pay of every worker earning less than $3000 a year. This deduction is taken irom the pay before the pay is given to the worker. The amount thus collected is delivered by the employer to the government. The whole process is compulsory. The amount deducted is a tax. There is no other word to describe it—though some New Dealers sometimes speak of it as a “contribution.” Use of soft ‘words to cam-

ouflage hard facts is a New Deal|

characteristic. There is an example in Mr. Roosevelt's denunciation this week of employers and Republicans who are calling attention to the social security tax. Mr. Roosevelt at Wilkes-Barre undertook to explain the system. He said:

“REcmNmG Jan. 1, for every dollar which the worker is asked to put into an old-age account for himself, employers are required under the Federal Act to contribute three dollars to protect the worker from both unemployment and old age. Three for one! There’s the rub.” I have some doubt whether the President is clear about his figures. But in any event his use of words is likely to give an incorrect im-

pression. He says “the worker is asked.” He says the “employers are required.” | It is evident that some workers afe surprised to find that they must pay half the cost of it—and that the other half, paid by the employer, must also come indirectly out of the worker’s wages, or else out of the consumer, probably most workers had heard that a social security system had been set up. A great majority assumed the system was voluntary—that they could take it or leave it. But “take it or leave it” is not inthe New Deal lexicon. “You gotta” is the New Deal’s mandatory slogan. » ” 2 RUE, in pension systems of many private corporations the worker is required to contribute. But when the worker goes to work for

a corporation having a pension plan,

Insurance Firms’

he expects this requirement: as part of his contract. He understands it, and in nearly all cases is satisfied with it. Under the social security plan, after the worker and the employer have come together on the basis of a given wage, an outsider, the government, comes in and arbitrarily requires that the employer take out some of the worker's wage and hand it over to the government for insurance. There is, in the present plan, another example of compulsion. Many private employers have for many years had pension systems, some of them more satisfactory than the

present government one. When the:

present bill was before Congress a Senator—I think it was Mr. Clark of Missouri—proposed that where private corporations had satisfactory pension plans, the government plan should not operate. But New Dealers took the attitude that there must be no such exception.

and Social

Security Annuities Compared

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—~The Republican National Committee today made a final attempt to turn workers agains; the Social Security Act.

On half a dozen fronts the battle over old-age benefits continued.

Frank Bane, executive director of the Social Security Board, investigated annuities for sale by private insurance companies and found that no company offers such protection for less than 9.6 per cent of the $20-a-week man’s income or a minimum premium of $100 a year. Under the government . plan the

worker pays 1 per cent of his in- |

come next year and affer 12. years pays 3 per cent, which is the maximum rate to be charged him.

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

eyes, a straight, slim body

and Did I say little girl? That was

UPPOSE,” Mr. Bane said, “for the purposes of comparison, we project ourselves 13 years into the future. In 1949 we will know the worst, since in that year the tax will have reached its maximum of 3 per cent. Now take an average man who is 35 years old and earning $20 a week. Beginning in 1949, for the next 30 years, until he is 65, ‘he is going to pay 3 per-cent of his wages as a-contribution under Title 8 of the Social Security Act. On his sixty-fifth birthday, provided he has continued to earn an average of $20 a week, he will be entitled to a Federal old-age benefit of $38.50. a ‘month. This represents approximately half pay for the rest of his “Now suppose the same 35-year-old, $20-a-week man had invested

By ANTON SCHERRER

"HE first mustache that appears of record in Indianapolis was the one worn by Nathaniel West. He sprouted one about 90 years ago and the reason I'm so sure about it ‘is because a certain literary lady rushed

into print with the news. ‘The import of her poem as chronicled by a Hewileh paper of the period was something like this: “For fear that they should i . kiss him He's raised a thorn-hedge | on his lip.” | Everybody in town knew: whom she meant, from which I gather that it couldn't have been anybody but Mr. West. Despite any-

“thing the young lady could do, Mr

West went right on wearing his mustache and gets his reward to-

day. The best-known wearer of the mustache, however, and “the most effective agent of its diffusion in respectable society,” as Berry £ulgrove once observed, was Charles W. Cady, one of the first insurance men around here. Mr. Cady achieved the best “buffalo horn” ever grown in Indianapolis, barring none. Considered his torically, the “buffalo horn” was the precursor of what is now known as the “handle-bar.” Considered aesthetically, however, there was no comparison be« cause the “handle-bar” never developed the promise of the "purtalo orn” Indeed, the less said about the “handle-bar,” better. Beards began to increase and multiply in acreage and number with the coming of the Civil War. By the time the war was over, we saw the end of slavery and shaving. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that we didn't have whiskers before the Civil War. We had lull but they weren't full beards, nor did oy inclu That's my Beis.

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, mustaches.

‘Cotelettes’ or ‘Burnsides’

HISKERS before the Civil War | ‘usually took the shape (and name) of “mutton chops” and “sideburns.” Barbers who knew their stuff called them “cotelettes.” During the civil War they were called “burnsides,” probably because of the general who gave them distinction. A “cotelette™ joined up with a mustache is known ih Austria a “Kaiser Franz Joset bart.” I might, as well Jou the worst. ! Sometimes, too, the pre-war whiskers were. > lowed to grow all over the face but never on: chin or upper lip. This was called the “Newgate fringe.” I haven't the least idea why, because when properly done it looked like a half-moon - tacked on to a bald face. | ; The “goatee” or “imperial,” which was the first sign of a mustache in connection with a beard, to Indianapolis some time around 1850. It couldn't help coming at that time because that was the year that Victor Emanuel II became King of Italy or something. The glory of his whiskers (and mustache) circled the world and it was hardly : dianapolis to escape.

‘Barbiche’ Arrives

1TH the coming of the Civil War, the iporiai® gave way to the “barbiche” which was a short beard covering the entire chin. It included a droop= ing mustache which had a way of meeting the beard an inch or so below the mouth. The !‘barbiche” is coming into style again, this time with the young Fascisti of Italy. At any rate, that’s What I picked up watching the Ethiopian war. You must not get the impression from anything I've said that whiskers, beards or mustaches ever got anywhere in Indianapolis. The fact of the matter is that wearers of them have always been held in low esteem. hes For example, there is the historic incident of Judge William W.- Wicks. Judge Wicks represent us in Congress and while th very respectable set of whiskers. When { he tried his best to make them fashionable in Ine’ dianapolis. He got laughed at for his trouble. fact, he got the same treatment Mr. West and h' mustache did. Some smart alec rushed to the new’ paper and accused him of: “Using ‘Columbia’s Balm’ to make his whiskers grow, As fotked as three W’s all standing in 3 row.” Ap

Hoosier Yesterdays

NOVEMBER 2

WENTY-TWO years ago today residents of Pets ersburg and surrounding country were raising: a storm of protest over the announcement that, after 107 years, the old fort on the farm of Wirt , half mile west of the city, was to be ras Despite objections, the dilapidated old structure was tor down, having been declared unsafe. Is history was interesting. The building nosed the first white inhabitants who came to Pike County. It was erected by Woolsey Pride, pioneer settler of that part of the state, at the White k .Sp which at that time was one of the principal stoppin points along the old Kaskaskia-Louisville trail. later became: one of the most noted watering oon of the state. | : The old Kaskaskia trail, long since obliterated, ex tended through Indiana from Vincennes to a point near Decker, across White River, thence by way of White Oak Springs, French Lick and Paoli to Lou isville. | Pride’s building was first used as a residence later as a tavern, but when the War of 1812 was de= clared and the early settlers gathered there, a stocks ade was built around the building. The, springs were inclosed. Portholes were cut in the upper story and the structure changed to a fort, becoming an outs post of Fort Vincennes. After the war it became the district Courthouse,

and was used in that capacity for many years.— —By F. M. I BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journa

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