Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1936 — Page 9
FROM INDIANA
: By ERNIE PYLE JPORTLAN D, Ore., Nov. 3.—Do you know
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what Portland is? It’s Paradise on earth. | Per- | I never thought so, and I'll tell |
At least that's what people here say. sonally, you why. Ten years dgo I came through Portland driving a Model T Ford, wearing overalls, and with a tent and blanket-roll tied on to the fender. A young man seeing America. Well, I stopped at a roadside
stand in the suburbs to eat some watermelon, and I was eating along, minding my business, when up came an old codger and right out of a clear sky started bawling me out. He gave me a long lecture, and wouns up by yelling that if I didn’t sto{ smoking cigarets and eating watermelon on Sunday afternoon I wuld undoubtedly land in hell. I've never had any use for Portland since then. Of course, the incident/was on my mind as Portland drew near this time. But I said, “No, let's be fair. We'll start all over again with Portland and see what happens this time.” About that instant we came around a bend, and there staring us in the face was an expensive signboard, as big as the side of a house, saying in huge letters: “All Hath Sinned.” That's all it said. Now, I don’t know whether all hath sinned or not. But supposing all hath, why put up a signboard about it? After that, it took my friends five days to convince me that I was wrong about Portland. And incidentally, I've stumbled onto a fine formula for getting yourself taken in and treated like a visiting lion. Just say to somebody, “Describe to me the character of Portland, will you, $0 I can write a piece about it. You know, its personality, its spirit.” People started giving parties so I could hear about the spirit of Portland. And they'd run to the phons and say, “Come right over, quick! And on your way be thinking up how to describe the spirit of Portland.”
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| Everybody here is crazy about Portland. They rave |
about it. They don't talk like Chamber of Comrgrce
folders; they don't talk about their industries and |
their schools and their crops; they roar about what a woncerful piace Portland is just to live. People do live well in Portland. This whole Northwest country is beautiful, and the climate is pleasant, and existence is gentle, Nearly anything will grow.
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Temperate City ORTLAND has its millionaires, and its depression “shanty-town.” But the people insist it is not a , city of great wealth (by the New York standard), or ~ of great poverty (ditto standard). It is a city of temperateness, and not of extremes. It 1s, on the whole, a conservative place. There is absolutely no public night life in Portland. But there is a great deal of private night life. It is a city of homes—a place to raise vour children. .~ Portland was settled by “Down Easters,” who came around the Horn. They made the money and became . the backbone. They're still today the backbone, and the pace-setters of Portland thought. But they have
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" somehow mixed their New England soundness with a | capacity for living the freer, milder Northwest way, and it makes a pretty high-class’ combination.
Mrs Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
YDE PARK, N. Y. Mondayv.—Real November weather this day before election, a gray day not very ccld. In the first shop I visited in the village of
Hyde Park this morning, a woman came up to me and said: “Real Democratic weather, Mrs. Roosevelt!” Every one else smiled. It 1s a very Republican * spot, so I always smile rather tentatively at every one, but this morning they all smiled back. Even the Republican léader asked me how the President was. I imagine that secretly, even though they may vote against him, they will not really object if he is reelected. If he is defeated, they will feel kindly toward him. as vou always do when you win out against an adversary whom you do not really dislike, and who continues to be your good neighbor. An interesting thing about the mail these days is the number cf people whom we have never seen who write me, stating they are sure the President will be re-elected and they hooe he will do this or that in his next term. They show plainly that they want his reelection for very definite reasons, that they expect the next four years to bring some very definite achievements. I think this is a good omen, for the people _ really are thinking and beginning to realize that their "help is needed to accomplish any real forward steps. The President is off this afternoon to tour the eountryside, so we are lunching early. It is just as wel for me, since I have to leave for New York to be at the United Neighborhood Houses East Side Mothers’ dinner tonight at 7 p. m. And then as rapid a drive back as we can accomplish, for I want to be here to hear my husband broadcast at 11:30 p. m., that being dhe real end of the campaign.
I have lived through so many campaigns that I was |
amused when some one wrote me the other day and asked how I preserved my serenity. I am delighted to know I do as far as outward appearances go, and it is probably true that through the years I have gained a = great calm about all things that might be considered ~ 8s inevitable. : What happens tomorrow 3 The record of the past four years, the campaign that has been waged—ali are over. Whatever decision may be, one accepts it and builds as useful and pleasant a life as one can under whatever cir‘cumstances one has to live. You can not get unduly excited about the inevitable.
‘Daily New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
ONFERENCES; committees, large and small; unions; boards, and leagues, are familiar examples of discussion groups considered in a new book, - GROUP LEADERSHIP (Norton; $2.50), by Robert D. Leigh, president of Bennington College in Vermont. “In the introduction, he says. “We are concerned only discussion leading to action . . . where people must think together in order, possibly, to agree, but in ‘any case, to come to a decision.” Gatherings “where the end is primarily diversion, enlightenment, or the lopment of individual insight,” are specifically
Under thrée heads, “Individual Problem Solving,” all Group Deliberation”. .in which the panel is d, and “The Conduct of Large Meetings,” Dr. h discusses evolving an agreement, or a consenpon which action may be based. After presenting the methods and conditions most : in each set-up, he gives, under “Special Acor for E Special ” and tion.” exles and suggestions which should prove illuminat-
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story of SPRING STORM by Alvin Johnson
WHEN A KING LOVES . King ‘Carol I and Magda Lupescu
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(Sixth of a Sries)
BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent
F petticoat influence on kings and rulers seems a thing of the powdered and periwigged past, remember that within a matter of weeks, 500,000 angry people have paraded in protest against a royal favorite. The streets of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, were filled with a milling crowd of members of the Peasant Party shouting: “Lupescu must go!” And a redheaded woman was the cause of it all. Of her, former Premier Maniu said: “As long as Mme. Lupescu remains in Rumania, nobody will be able to accomplish anything good. Through her meddling in politics, 13 governments and four elections have followed on each other's heels. Mme. Lupescu is responsible for almost every evil in this country.” King Carol bears the distinction of having lost a crown, partly because of his attachment for Mme. Lupescu, and then of having regained it. If in response to protests against the red-haired favorite who rules his court, he should lose his crown again, then the all-time record will have
been broken. ” ” on
ME. LUPESCU was born simply Magda Wolff, daughter of a Jewish druz commission merchant. Magda has told of first meeting the Prince romantically when they both were children at a lawn party given by King Ferdinand. The actual beginning of romance between the young Crown Prince Carol and the bronzehaired beauty is not known definitely. It did not take place, however until after the dashing young Prince had sowed a considerable crop of royal wild oats over the Balkans. They included a -morganatic - marriage with Zizi Lambrino, who bore him a son. King Ferdinand and Queen Marie engineered an annullment of that one. Mme. Lupescu had heen married twice to army officers, but divorced the second of them when she resumed her childhood admiration for Carol, whom she had met at a military ball. It was then that she Rummicised her name of Wolff into Lupescue. The King and Queen were furious, and violent quarrels shook the court. Carol's marriage to Princess Helene of Greece, whom he did not love. Carol continued to take his fun where he found it.
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S a result of court bitterness, Carol left Rumania and sojourned for several years with Mme. Lupescu in France. It was announced that he had resigned his rights to the throne. Meanwhile, Ferdinand had died and Queen Marie (she who barnstormed the United States after the World War), was virtually ruling as regent, while Carol's young son Michael nominallv wore the crown. During this exile, Helene di-
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Magda Lupescu .. . storm center of Rumanian politics because of her influence in palace policies . . . for whom King: Carol often has
put his throne in jeopardy.
vorced Carol, and kept in touch with Rumanian affairs. Seizing an opportunity during the summer of 1930, Carol made a dramatic flight to Bucharest, and, aided by army officers loyal to him, seized the crown from the head of his own son, and the regency from his mother, Queen Marie. It was given out at that time that Carol had renounced the fiery-haired Lupescu, who was to remain an unconsolable exile in France or Switzerland. All went well for some months, with the Rumanian. peasantry convinced that the charmer! was gone from court life for good. But-lo and behold, suddenly Mme. Lupescu popped up in Bucharest again, and it became apparent that Carol's renunciation of love had been merely a ruse,
- EJ ” 2 MMEDIATELY, the *“Lupescu issue” began to develop, and has been growing more intense as the months pass. Demonstrators have not hesitated to parade before Mme. Lupescu's residence with banners warning her of the fate of Queen Draga of Serbia, who was slain with her husband, King Alexander, by their own officers in 1903. This opposition to “the redheaded witch” has mounted to the point where one effort has already been made on her life, and 10 men were imprisoned this summer. in a second alleged plot on the lives of both Carol and Lupescu. Student demonstrations against the ‘“Camarilla” or inner court circle, are frequent. Three groups; the students, the Iron Guard and the ‘““All for the Fatherland” organization, are sworn enemies of “the reign of Lupescu.” . The anti-Lupescu feeling has been. fed by rising Nazi propaganda in Rumania, and its antiJewish. planks have found fuel in Magda’s racial origins. Prince Michael is himself reported to be Nazist in sympathy and to be bitter against Mme. Lupescu. Ru-
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politics, swirling about the titian
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‘ BETWEEN 35 and 40 years. old,
Magda Lupescu is scarcely a great beauty today. * She is reticent, and few in Bucharest have ever set eyes on her. She lives
simply, especially in recent years
when she has been combating a tendency toward overweight. Her father removed from their native Jassy, and established himself in Bucharest near the royal: palace, and critics are not lack--ing to suggest that the way to lucrative contracts has not been made any tougher for him because of his daughter’s position. Magda herself is reputed to be wealthy, and to care for relatives scattered all over Rumania. King - Carol himself has repeatedly denied the story that he renounced his right to the throne because of Magda. He blames internal politics. And he has also made it plain that he has no idea of giving up the copperhaired siren. “The truth about my little friend,” he once said, “is that she is the other half of my being, the other half of my brain. She’ stood by me as nobody else ‘did. Her sympathy and understanding was a thing I was entirely unable to do without.” As it was in the days of Bluff King Hal, so it is today. = The pen may be mightier than the sword, but a pair of dark eyes or the ready understanding of a sympathetic woman = may _ be mightier still. . a
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SMASHING THE
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a new series, begins. tomorTOW.
. King Carol in uniform, and two of the women who have played important parts in his life. His second wife, the former Queen Helene
(above) and Mme. Lupescu. from him in July, 1928.
Helene was granted a Rumanian divorce
King Carol, who lost and regained his crown, and his son, Prince
Michael.
‘Aviation Science Influences
Hydraulic Engineering, Claim
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
NEY YORK, Nov. 3.—The rapid advance of . aviation science has been due to the lack of traditions and the urgent necessity to make airplanes light yet safe, declared Dr. Clark B. Millikan, associate professor of aeronautics at California Institute of Technology, before the meeting here of the five
founder societies of the American
Institute of Physics. Dr. Millikan is the son of Prof. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics. “An important feature of aeronautics,” said Dr. Millikan, “lies in the extreme narrowness of the margin between success and failure and
in the terribly serious consequences |. which may result from failure. This has placed a tremendous premium“ on exactitude and has greatly stim=~ ulated activity in research of : all
kinds.”
Facts now. known through aeronautical research are influencing other fields of science like hydraulic and civil engineering, Dr. Millikan pointed out. The early study of fluids—which is the province of hydraulics—he ex-
plained, was made by persons who
were both scientists and engineers. But then in the Eighteenth Century mathematicians took over much of the theoretical development and produced formal equations based on idealized conditions needed to Mois tain solutions. ‘For example, their favorite Simpiifisation was to ignore the drag which a fluid on a body moving in it.
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HE result was, Dr. Millikan said, that the hydraulic engineers who had to build dams and river levees and aid in the construction
the present century that this gap between analytical science and practical engineering ‘was lessened. The advent of aeronautics in subsequent years was an even greater factor in biending the two schools of thought into a harmonious whole. “Now the Scientist in aeronautics can no longer be trained solely in pure mathematics and abstract thecretical physics, but must Lave enough feeling and experience of the engineer's ‘problems te be: able to attack ‘them with some insight into the : relative . practical importance of the. various-elements-con-cerned,” declared Dr. Millikan. 8 "=n NLY fairly recently,” continued * Dr. Millikan, “has hydraulics begun to use at all widely the hy-dro-dynamical principles developed originally for aeronautical applications. Similarly. civil engineering in the last few years has begun to take advantage of the radical structural ideas which were conceived in connection with aeronautical problems.”
‘Madison Square Garden:
POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Victory for President Roosevelt appears: to be just around the corner. Even before the votes are counted, destiny seems poised to place new laurel upon his head. How will he receive his triumph? Obviously, the President looks forward to his re-election as a
‘mandate to carry on the New Deal.
He said so in his final major speech at Madison Square Garden. -He said the issue was the preservation of the victory of 1932. He listed objectives of his first four years. Those, he said, will continue to be his objectives. But in what spirit does he intend to carry on? Again we listen at “I assure you we can not go further ‘without | a struggle . . . the old enemies are unanimous in their hatred for me— and I welcome their hatred. . . . I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces have met their master. lot under some foreign flag in which i Giese R have just only begun to fight.”
IGHTING words. Yet he says the American people, above all other things, want peace—peace of mind for the individual, peace for the community, peace for the nation’ and peace with the world. Hatred in one breath, peace in the next.
Possibly President Roosevelt was overcome by the heat of a hitter
campaign. For months he has been
subjected to unbelieveable abuse, misrepresentation and hatred. It has been a dirty campaign. He is'incensed at the distortion of the social security program by the Republicans. It was under this hot temper apparently that he swung with such heavy impact. Politicians, intent on the knockout blow, are not concerned with pulling their punches. " ® ” 8g
UT tonight, after it'is all over,
tor. He has been accused of perpetrating a fraud upon the people in the guise of social security. Republicans are picturing this program 2s meaning that American citizens will’ be finger-printed, regimented
land mauled ground like subjects of
a European tyra The whole New al. Republicans charge, is a menace to the ‘American form of government. Landon, reduced in the last days of the campaign to a mere Sucuitiplece of this hate-Roosevelt hysteria, says the basis of ‘the New Deal is that the American. Constitution must go. = 2» VEN though they lose the election, Republicans have succeeded by these tactics in planting many seeds of popular distrust of
“| the New Deal. Everything Roosevelt
the situation will be something | presen
else again.
To tis. fo. 1ook:a8 if the. first
task of the new Administration will | the
be to repair the damage done by this campaign. It has been considerable. -Deép suspicions and hatreds
have been stirred by both sides. | backed J
Roosevelt has been accused by the |!
A Woman's Viewpoint Mrs. Walter Ferguson [85 : =
DO prefer so much the society of men to that Of Wen." Sal Ghie Uf ouE pacudaelnteflectual
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Our Town
By ANTON SCHERRER
UT for an Indianapolis hatter, whom 1 consider the maddest in town, I wouldn't be able to tell you why men around here wear
soft hats. z It all goes back to Lajos (Louis) Koss suth’s arrival here on Friday, Feb. 26, 1852. The Hungarian patriot, accompanied by a noisy and i troublesome entourage, spent four days here, dividing his time with the Governor, the Legislature and the
so-called “friends: of Hungary,” which, for some reason, included everybody who was anybody in Indianapolis. §- He also “delivered a lecture in Masonic Hall and found time to attend church in Roberts Chapel. He even got around to the Sunday schools in the afternoon. The adventure netted him $1000, more or less, all of which he took home . with him. The “bonds” he gave in return were treasured as curiosities long after his departure. Mr. Kossuth left Indianapolis without changing the Hungarian situation much, but he certainly left his mark on men’s fashions around here. At any rate, Indianapolis men were never the same after his visit because almost immediately after his departure they took to wearing the “Kossuth” soft hat. It spelled the doom of the plug hat. The soft hat has been in style ever since. Which doesn’t mean that I don’t know something about the
Mr. Scherrer |
‘hiatus when the derby threatened to supplant the
soft hat. Thanks tothe Mad Hatter, I know all about it and I might as well tell it because for a while % looked pretty bad for the soft hat.
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Derby in 1900 HAT was back in 1900. The 1900 man when dressed up wore.a woolen suit of dark color, like as not of navy blue. The coat-had padded shoulders. The’ shirt was held together at the bosom with studs: and the collar and cuffs were stiffly laundered. The rest of the get-up_ consisted of toothpick shoes, fleece-lined underwear (in two pieces), heavy socks (held up, perhaps, with- garters, but in all probability not) and, of course, a derby hat. The derby hat. didn’t last long, however, because in 1915 it already showed signs of desuetude. In 19285, we were back to soft hats again. At least, 98 per cent of us were, says-the Mad Hatter, and that’s about where we stand today. : With the reign of the derby hat, a few Indians apolis men adventured into colors. For some strange reason, they took to wearing brown derbies but, de~ : spite its high and inspired origin, the practice never amounted to anything around here. It left its mark, however, because when soft hats came back again, the lid was off and we had everything from Corot grays to powder blues, including the whole gamut of
browns. We still have, ”n ”
Caps and Autos
HICH leaves me just enough time to tell you where we stand with respect to caps. Caps, ac= cording to the Mad Hatter, are somehow related to: automobiles—and rather mysteriously, too—because all signs indicate that the sale of caps increased in proportion to the spread. of automobiles. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that every one who wears a cap owns an automobile. Statistics are treacherous that way. The best way is not, to have anything to do with them. - nt That’s about all I know about men’s hats around here except that only 85 per cent of all Indianapolis men wore straw hats this summer—this, too, despite everything the Mad Hatter and the weather man could do.
Hoosier Yesterdays
NOVEMBER 3
ARY HANNAH KROUT, renowned mdiafia author and journalist, was born in Crawfords= ville Nov. 3, 1851. Although she won fame as a news= paper correspondent and writer of travel books, she is best known—at least to children and probably to most grownups—for her poem “The Little Brown Hands,” composed when she was a school girl. I was published in many school texts in the late niné~ teenth century. Following - graduation from Crawfordsville public schools she was a teacher in Montgomery County for 15 years, from 1872 to 1887. At the same time she was associate editor of the Crawfordsville Journal and for a while was editor of the Terre Haute Express, Subsequently she joined the staff of the old Chicago Inter-Ocean, serving that newspaper for 10 years. .She was its i correspondent in Hawaii in 1893 and 1894, and from 1895 to 1898 she was its London representative. Later she was on the staff of the Denver Times, and for a time wrote syndicate letters to the New York Tribune from China. Miss Krout was doing special syndicate work when the Boxer rebellion broke out in China. She mane= aged to get out of Peking only a few days before ths uprising there. She was in Australia at the time of the San Francisco earthquake and wrote a series of articles on that city for the editor of a Melbourne 3 newspaper. ; Miss Krout was the author of a number of books, including “Hawaii and -Revolution,”. “Alice in the Hawaiian Islands,” “A Looker-on in London,” “Two Girls in China,” “Memoirs of Lew Wallace,” “Picturesque Honolulu,” “The Eleventh Hour,” “The Coign of Vantage” and “Perry’s Expedition to Japan.” She died at her home in Crawfordsville on May 3, 1927—By F. M.
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN : Editor, Amer, Medical Assn. Journal #
MONG the peculiar notions which have dew veloped in recent years and which seem to persist because of constantly active propaganda is the theory that the aluminum from utensils in, some manner poisons the human being or promotes growth of cancer in the human body. CE Actually, there is not the slightest evidence fo
foods that are of neutral reaction. . Acid foods or foods to hich baking
soda ota as been added may dissolve small amounts of Fo