Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1936 — Page 9

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By ERNIE PYLE

ARMEL, Cal, N¢ ov. 23.—Ella Winter is, you might say, three things. She is the idow of Lincoln Steffens; she is Ella Winwi a personality inl her own right; and she is the storm center of Carmel. You aren't on ‘the fence about Ella

s either for her or against that most of Carmel is

Winter in Carmel.® You

her. I am sorry to repo

‘is supposed to be a Commun st, you see, and supposed to be bringing her child up wrong, and s to be corrupting other children with her ideas, and supposed to be the fence between

strikers. She is rather slight. Her face is long and thin. She doesn’t talk over your head. She is Jewish, born fin Australia, raised in England. | She and Steffens were married in London 13 years ago. She lacks the insulting, boring- . in quplity possessed by so many | peoplé burning with the fire of radicalism. She has the| quality of alertness, and of seeming interest in whati the other fellow is saying. Even a bloated old capitalist like me feels at home with her. | Ella Winter is still a-ypung woman. She was many, many years Steffens’ junior. They came to Carmel to live 10 years ago. Before Stefly died, Ell radical movement. Club here. speeches. People started to complain and whisper.. A spy came to town, trying to get something on her. He 1s here eight months, but he went away empty. handed.

Winter was very active in he organized a John Reed

\LLA WINTER says she is not a member of the Communist Party. er leanings are that way and she admits it. But she says a real member must

' ‘give it 24 hours a day, and she didn’t have 24 hours

a day. Sure, she is a friend | of the Russian consul in San Francisco. So are lot of people. Sure, she knows Bridges, the Austrdlian longshoreman’s leader. What of it? Bure, she teaches her oy modern ideas. So did Steffy. Maybe it isn’t the thing to do, but Pete is as nice a 12-year-old as I've ever run into. -At the peak of the stmel hatred of Ella Winter,

just before Steffey’s death, probably no more than half

a dozen people in town '|dared call themselves her

* friends.

"takes . public hatred serio

Steffy laughed everything off, but Ella Winter sly, and sometimes she is

: frightened.

. » ” * Edits Pacific Weekly

LLA WINTER spends| her days now editing a soliton called Pacific Weekly, It is the “New Republic” of the West Coast. They don’t like it in

‘ Carmel; only a few people read it and only two news-

stands dare sell it. It has things about communism

An at.

The niagazine isn’t Hasire for itself. Five thou-

* sand a year would subsidize it, but nobody offers the ' $501 . Bo it will probably die, and very soon. Ella

- great stacks of them already, piled on a table.

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Winter has other things to do.

She is busy collecting Steffens’ letters. She has She will |edit and arrange them, and get them ready for publication some time next year. lla Winter will probably go to New York, Pete with her. And then, after the Steffens’ letters are published, a busy new life will demand her. The fire that makes her live is the radical fire, and (the life of a professional social crusader is- an" Intense one, "

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

E PARK, N., Y, Sunday—After my speech’ in River Forest, a suburb of Chicago, last Friday morning, I drove back to the Hotel Stevens and spent a few minutes at lunch with the members of the Fashion Guild. I have long been a

_ member of this group in New York City, but in the

past wey Years I have had few opportunities to ihe with them. It. was interesting to see women who are responsible for style and fashion -advice in such firms an ars Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. There were many women writers present from Chicago papers and when I left saying, I had to write a column, it seemed to me that quite a chorus said: “So ° we. ” rs. Scheider and I got off at 5:30 and on the train I started in at once to sign a large bundle of Jet which had reached us in Chicago. he conductor came in, gave one look at the table, and exclaimed: “You two ladies seem to work pretty hard.” The letters are worth getting and worth answering, though. Somehow I feel very close to many of my correspondents, e trip was all too short to do all we had planned on doing. It is nice to come back to one's state and see the familiar scenes of the stations.

+ As we came through Syracuse I looked out of, the

window and saw “The Onondaga” in’ large letters over the hotel which so many Democratic state convet®ions have made familiar to me. me time ago I told you I had begun Fannie Hurst's new book, “Great Laughter,” and was much

impressed by the central character, a remarkable ‘|

The Legion [broke that up. She made

ySnny 2% ‘Where in the above gis do r you EA ogee Hi cone 1

(First of a Series). BY JOE COLLIER Cur an ear over a women’s bridge party and . you hear that they simply .can not allow the children to play outside. Traffic

you know!

Listen in on a back fence conversation between two housewives who have just finished hanging out the week's washing. They worry always about their children and they've preached and

preached about autos and acci-

dents, : Even so, 5-year-old Dickie Hopson .was recently by a truck. that was going no more than 15. miles an hour, according to witnesses. The same day another child missed death by a fraction under the wheels of a passenger car that was going even slower. Dickie Hopson’s death was especially dramatic because it was instantaneous, Many people linger for weeks and months between life and death in hospitals and finally die, long after the accident has happened. 2 8 = LREADY this year 142 persons have ‘died from injuries received in Marion County traffic. accidents. Before the year ends, several more will have met the same fate. Such'is the: accuracy: of average. In this civilized worlds in this modern city, it is possible today to make an almost certain prediction: That before 1938 ends, approximately 10 more persons, maybe‘ more, will die on Indianapolis. ‘streets before their time. - Yearly the toll grows. Even during the last five, which were de-

_ pression years and during which

the number of new cars sold was far under the peak established in 1929, the toll has’ grown: Despite safety councils, safety officers, safety conferences, safety laws, the toll has grown. The fatal accidents happen, it. seems, with equal regularity. = Contributing causes generally are listed .as weather, drunkenness, grade crossings, speeding, recklessness and double parking. These are not listed in ‘the order of their importance as accident-creators, be--cause no ‘one knows the. order. Last ‘week: a truck that was not speeding, was on no grade cross‘ing, was not driven recklessly, and was driven by a sober driver on a y, struck and killed a

HE pedestrian, Sou sayt Well, ‘the hoy’ was. He had’ been told by his ‘mother, warned repeatedly, to be- careful of traffic. But how much about traffic do

| its possibilities or its future.

Another life, another white cross. Indianapolis re cords another reminder for the reckless motorist.

you think you would have. known at 5? And how much of death should a 5-year-old know? And why should he believe that streets where people walk and people ride and which bound his. home and are a part of a happy surrounding and a pleasant life.are death traps of which: he should: be cunningly. aware?

Death, the word and the. meaning, are for people. older than 5 to understand and take into account. That's" why bridge parties and back fence conversations lead off with: “I. wonder. if my children are safe.” | Nobody knows much about traf-. fic safety, its rules, its regulations, If anyone did, the streets and highways: would be safer. But any. number of forces. are al: finding out. about “it.

Cher ginonsy 1s find a way, then millions of peoplé 1. today > “will breathe more easily.‘ If they: | pe

don’t,” it ‘will: be infinitely harder 10 years from now to qualify to. “drive an auto:

Because the best. minds in. the :

accident - prevention business today believe that accidents occur because of the temperament of ‘the driver: occur more frequently :and with more | regularity to certain drivers than others under all possible driving circumstances. : oC le F it turns out to be a matter of mere adaptability to the highly responsible and. complex business of piloting a car..through traffic and safely past oth cars . and other people, then those who are unfit legally. will: .be . prohibited from driving at all, it seems . reasonable to. suppose, - Many state,” munici foundation and professi ” ‘agencies now are probing in camest the jraftjc death situation. Much pi A y is: beings - have

9 ht ngs av bon der foey io to be. aceident after: it opgurs; ang. to’

‘warn other: poopie; that an. aceident has ‘occurred on this ‘very spot. White crosses, such as are painted on : streets where. fatal acci< dents have occurred in ' Indianapolis, are becoming increasingly popular as deterrents to recklessness. Ten years ago, former Gov. Vic Donahey of Ohio decreed that wooden white crosses. should be planted at scenes of fatal auto accidents—one for each victim. People derided him. They said it was political,’ spectacular and ' insincere. They. said it caused’ the horrors to remain needlessly long in the: memories. of people. Lo They said the state was, .sqito speak, wearing the SOITOW ; “of the suyivors on, bits slecyg, >

great #xpense, to straighten im1. psgibly crooked highways. THey

have forced the Jocal taxing units to assume their burden of grade crossing elimination. They vir-

tually have remade highways in many parts of the state,

But that ‘didn’t work. More people are killed today than then, although the ratio is not so high to the number of adtos on the road. One large t; King company took a survey. It found, not that there were more accidents on snowy and icy days’ among its drivers; but ‘fewer “not that more accidents occurred on bad pavements, but fewer; not that more accidents oc|/turred during the so-called unfavorable seasons (winter and fall), but fewer. Where does that bring one who is trying to discover the cause of traffic: accidents ' and how to prevents them? : ere is. a mass lated, 1 nga and unt

Next: What the figures fell’

about auto accidents.

Reduction of Farm Tenancy

Urgent Problem, blem, Sullivan says]

BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON.: Nov. 23.—President Roosevelt. just before he left for South America, appointed a commission, headed by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, to study farm tenancy with a view to reducing it. The main p BS

urpose outlined in the President's letter to

Mr. Wallace, is to facilitate ownership of farms by persons who are now: tenants. At the same time, the President seemed to: contemplate something about tenants who remain tenants. He spoke of ‘developing ‘a land tenure system which

will bring an increased measure of 1 security and well-being to the » gfeat

group of present and prospective farm tenants. What this means has not been explained. Whether anything will be done about this point can not be known. It is quite certain, however, hat something is going to be .done about the main point, enabling persons now tenants owners of farms.

tives should give whole-hearted sup-

port to this reform. Few truisms|

of social organization are ‘so widely accepted as that which says that the farmer who owns his land. pecially the ohe who has no gage—is a foundation stone talist society.

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pride hundred’ youths re-’ - give military Je there;

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time the government, agency - in

: one. charge of the operation would ‘de-

of ey ‘tracts from present owners and resale to persons now tenants, or to. others’ wishing to: become farm owners. But at some point those who conduct the operation will encounter a difficulty. It is that ancient . cofounder of altruists in every field, old human nature. Wwe can say it is desirable to turn: a tenant into a_ farm owner—but nature may. not. have designed him to be a farm owner. Many a lan@lord,

cide ‘whether the partitular tenant was “able and willing” to undertake purchase of ‘the farm, ‘and to conduct the farm after he purchases it. For five years the purchaser would be, so to speak, a “trial farmer.” ‘Then Prof. Tugwell’s plan had a feature designed to es the farmer on the land, once it “him there. Purchasers Would: be i years

ever, - would ‘decline 10 ‘receive ‘the last payment until after: the -completion of the 40 pose of this,

Zl [Worker Easily Can Compute

Annuity Under Security * Act|

(ryira of a Series)

5 article tells I how to compute . annuities under the old age pro-

: vision of the Federal plan; it’s Just fa matter of simple arithmetic for the

period” of. five years. During ghiat | .

“THe Amoniht of the Wage ‘earners

|annatty payments under the federal

‘old age benefits plan depends upon the amount he earns in some indus-.

trial or business job between Jan. 1,

1937, and his sixty-fifth ‘birthday. But how are they computed? ‘There {s a rule for it—a formula —which is given in the act: In effecs, it runs like this:

1. Add EE aTher's vases frou

Jan. ‘1, 1997-40 he day hedisies years old. . :

% of 1 per cent of $3000, or $15 a ‘month for ;

makes an average of $50 & week or $2600 a year for 30 years, his total wages - would be $78,000. Subtract $45,000 from $78,000 and take 1-24 | per cent of the remainder, $33,000. The result is $13.75. Adding this to the $50 due on total wages of $45,000 gives $63.75. This worker's retire‘ment benefit will, be §o3.15;: a month for life.

'NEXT—The benefits that wee payable Jan. 2, 1937. ;

Wanted: A New Goal

BY GEORGE MORRIS Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Nov. 23—The

departure of Dr. Tugwell raises, the question: Who will be

: $3000, his ‘viewed with alarm in his place? monthly retirement benefit will bs.

. For a time Dr. Tugwell was faced with strong competition for the post |

lof No. 1 New Deal goat. The lead

veered from Ickes to Farley to Tug-

unre- ofr .| statistics .on trafic accidents.

ity ANTON SCHERRER

PURSUANT to an invitation of Albert Zollar, who I understand has something to do swith the running of Charles Mayer & Co., 1 went down to his place to see

“the show of Old English Silver, “bear-

ing the hall-marks of such famous makers as Paul Lamerie, Paul Storr and Hester Bate= man.” You can do the same thing if you want to, because the show is scheduled for all week. I completely ignored Mr. Zol-

Jar’s “P. 8.” at the bottom of his

invitation which read something to the effect that his show is a nice opportunity for “Christmas gifts or for future anniversaries.” I hate future anniversaries.’ Anyway I ignored it and spent all my

| time ‘trying to get to the bottom

of this business of “hall-marks.” Maybe you've had the same rouble I've had, because ever ce 1 can remember I've never cherrer been able to dissociate olf siver TOO ; and hall-marks, any more than I have been able to untangle Rosencrantz and denstern, ham and eggs or the Marx brothers. Under the tuelage of Zollar, however, I made some progress and I'm more than eager e, tell you all I know. In the first place, the term “hall-mark” is the wrong place to start. This will come as a surprise to Mr. Zollar, when (and if) he reads it, because Mr. Zollar doesn’t know that I know that you have to know something about “plate marks” before you can know anything about “hall-marks.” Anyway, I'm going to start with plate marks bluff it through that way. Plate marks, as near as I | can gather, are authorized legal impressions ade t on articles of gold and silver at the various assay offices in Mrs. Simpson’s adoptéd country (still as the United Kingdom) for the purpgse of indicating to the public the true value and fineness of metal of

which they are composed. That's only one of four things they do. A y gE = 2

Series of Symbols

T= marks are a series of which the “hall-mark” is onie. The, others are the “maker's mark,” the. “standard mark,” the “duty mark” and the “date mark.” Sometimes, the “duty mark” is omitted, which still leaves four.

These four or five marks are stamped in an em= bossed style on the object and extend in a line of ‘about one-half to three quarters .of an inch wherever the smith felt like putting them.: They aren’t alway, on the bottom of the piece. All right, now for the spot-news. The “maker's mark” consists of ‘the initials of the maker's Chris tian name and surname, and has been used since . 1739. Thus, “P. 8.” means Paul Storr and not Post Scriptum, the way it’s used in Mr. Zollar’s invitation, The “standard mar sometimes called “His Majesty’s mark,” indicates the: silver content. Thus in England proper, a lion passant indicates a metal composed of 11 oz. 2 dwt. of fine silver to 18 dwt. of alloy. The figure Britannia stands for 11 oz. 10 dwt. fine silver to 10 dwt. alloy. In Scotland, the same standards are indicated by a thistle in the one case, by a lion rampant and Britannia in the other. I

hope that’s clear. ” ” ”

‘Hall-Mark’ Indicates Office : : HE ‘“hall-mark” indicates the ‘assay office. Thus,

London has a leopard’ "Herd; ‘Birmingham, an anchor; Chester, a dagger and three sheaves; Sheffield, a crown; Exeter, a castle with three towers;

Edinburgh, a castle and so on. It’s enough to give you the idea. The “duty mark” registers the head of the reigne ing sovereign, - It was discontinued in 1890, the same year the first electrocution took place in America, although it isn’t supposed the two have any con= nection. The “date mark” means what it says, except that it says it with letters of the alphabet instead of numer als. In London, for instance, the assay year begins on May 30 and is indicated by one of 20 letters, A to U, omitting the J. I don’t know. why. - Maybe, it will interest you to know that just about the time Paul Storr (P. 8.) fashioned his magnificent pieces on view at Mayer's, one Abraham Beasly, an Indianapolis tinker, advertised in the July 20, 1824 issue of the Gazette that he had “returned from Cincinnati with the necessary molds for casting pewter plates and spoons according to the latest fashions” and that he would “attend to mending old vessels in its various branches” at his shop on Washingion-st, "Nearly opposite the Statehouse square.”

Hoosier Yesterdays

NOVEMBER 23

OV. ALVIN PETERSON HOVEY, who died while in office Nov. 23, 1891, was one of the most versatile men in the history of Indiana; A school teacher at 19, he wrote a decision ine 5 validating part of a new law establishing the In diana public school. system when he was a Hoosier ‘Supreme Court justice. /

That decision earned him the hostility pt eduand

vent the p cators, who condemned him as “narrow minded. reactionary.”

any temptation to sell’ his equity. a] be forbidden to ries he F" ALLY, the.. . purchaser - during. the 40 years “would ‘be required

to operate the farm in accord with | ns 0.0 = Ee 2 0 quran of :

who would be glad to sell his farm, sell. it at a reasonable price and on easy payments, finds it difficult to find buyers who will have the qualities which would’ enable them to manage the farm successfully h to pay the cost of it. The existence of this impediment seems to have dawned on Prof: Tugwell. © He, while still Under-Secre tary of Agriculture, gave ouf about

: and dominating old woman. I finished the ‘book $ ated by the variety of personalities and types + that walk through its pages, There is enough ma- : ea for many novels, and I longed to follow many” of (the characters’ lives when the strong hand 6 oa Gregrannie” no longer held them in the fam- ! fi) and themselves.

: we : but: in the home stretch Tug- : "he the the race to himself. Ickes

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erence to the Senate as “an. aching void” was characteristic. The result as that Mr. Ickes was soon left sverely alone, except for an.occa5 ’ individuals

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