Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1936 — Page 9
* FROM INDIANA ERNIE PYLE
Los ANGELES, Cal, ov. 25.—My —. mother, out in Dana, ould rather i drive a team of horses in the field than cook 8 dinner. She has done very little of the . first, and too much of the latter, in her . lifetime. : ie 1 ving, ical tha Happiness 18 within yourself, because she has done nothing for a whole
long lifetime but work too hard, And yet 1'm sure
she has been happy. Bhe loves the farm. She * wouldn't think of moving to town,
as the other “retired” farmers do.
She would rather stay home and to the state
She is the best chicken raiser and cake baker in the neighborhood. She loves to raise chickens and hates to bake cakes. She and my father took a trip East, and saw Niagara Falls, after they had been married 30 years. She didn’t want to go, and was glad get home, but did admit she enjoyed the trip. The high-
"light of the journey (which included Washington
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and New York) was a night in a tourist cabin near Wheeling, W. Va. It was fixed so nicely inside, she
ol ~ sald, just like home. She talks about it yet.
My mother probably knows as little about world affairs as any woman in our neighborhood. Yet she is the broadest-minded and most liberal of the lot.
I don’t remember her ever telling me I couldnt do something. She always told me what she thought was right, and what was wrong, and then it was up to me.
When I was about 16 I forgot and left my corncob pipe lying on the windowsill one day when I wens tc school. When I got home that night, she handed me the pipe and said, “I see you're smoking now.” I said, “Yes.” And that was all there was to that.
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. Voted for Smith 4
M: mother is a devout Methodist and a prohibtionist. Yet she and my father voted for Al Smith in 1928, because they thought he was a better man than Hoover. Some of their ‘neighbors wouldn’t
speak to them for months because they voted for a-
Catholic and a wet. But they didn’t care.
My mother never-can get her big. words straight. She calls the quintuplets the “quintriplets.”
My mother has had only three real interests in her whole life—my father, myself, and her farm work.
Nothing else makes much difference to her. And yet, : left home 17 years ago, to be gone forever’
when I except for brief visits, she was content for me to go, because she kriew I was not happy on the farm.
2 2 .» Says What She Thinks
HE always tells people just what she thinks. A good many of our neighbors have deservedly felt
the whip of her tongue, and they pout over, it awhile,
but whenever they're in trouble they always thaw out and come asking for help. And of course get it.
I started driving a team of horses in the fields when I was 9. I remember that first day perfectly. My mother had gone to a club meeting, but she came home in the middle of the afternoon, and brought me a lunch of bread and butter and sugar out to the field. And also, I suppose, she wanted to make sure I hadn't been dragged to death under the harrow. My mother doesn’t realize it, but her life has been the life of a real prairie pioneer. You could use her ina book, or paint her picture, as one of the sturdy stack of the ages who have always done the carryingon when the going was tough
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
| | - BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT NEE YORK CITY, Tuesday--Yesterday I enjoyed
a
that rare thing for me, an evening of leisure. 1
on a little table in front of my fireplace, read | things my brief case contained that I had.
all bee: Ra to read for days, did some knitting thdb required a little bit of attention and could not be done automatically in the presence of ‘a group of people who were talking, wrote some letters, paid some bills, and enjoyed the company of a friend. This morning: realization was forced upon me that now and then we have to: take certain preventive keep ourselves in good condition. ‘So, most reluctantly, I weuded my way to the dentist. He treated me most kindly, however, until T was ready to eave ine
; he announced that I would have to have at-feast two more appointments, possibly three, wl "didn’t please me at nll as I want every minute ta;s d in Christmas preparations.’ My daughter, son-in-law and I had lunch at the Hotel Algonquin. As usual we had so many things to 2 about that after I left them I remembered half
- a dozen questions that I had not even asked. Well,
we will meet again on Thanksgiving Day at Hyde Park, and I imagine that will be time enough. Today two taxicab men told me that they were making a living, doing much better than a year aga One of them amused me very much—said he, “I think I am doing well when I can support my mother and look after myself.” I inquired if he were married; and his ‘ was, “No, I am happy. I live with my mother.” :* "Everybody seems to be in a very friendly frame of mind. It may be the Christmas spirit, but then again it may be just the fact that during the campaign all of us worked off all the animosity we had in us and
now we can let ourselves goand be really: Christian.
If any one in the world is entitled to a bad temper, I think it is a trafi¢ cop on Fifth-av. Neverthalass, as I was crossing 44th-st the policeman recognized ‘m and came over to speak to me as we waited for fhe lights to change. “I know the President well,” he said. “You tell
| bim I was asking after his health, He looks better
every time I see him.” With that the lights changed, and he piloted me . across the street, ‘saying as! the went along, “Don’t you
: be in such a hurry.
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(Last of a Series; Edi Baitorial, Page 10)
"BY JOE E COLLIER LICE and traffic offi= cials in most cities in the country believe that police’ traffic divisions in every large city in- the country are undermanned. A poll of 103 cities revealed that the average traffic division, where there is one, is composed of from three to four trafic officers for every 10,000 persons. The traffic squad usually consists of less than 20 per cent of the entire force. The total effective traffic forces, including part-time officers, in 12 cities of from 12,000 to 50,000 population was found to average 13 men. In 35 cities of between 50,000 and 100,000 the average was - 23 men.’ : In 25 cities of between 100,000 and 250,000 the average was 43 men. The average of all 17 of the cities between 250,000 and 500,000 was 103 men. Indianapolis has but 80. The average of all 10 cities ‘between 500,000 and 1,000,000 was 272 men. The average of all cities larger than 1, 000,000 was
! 1282 men. ” s ”
N average for all
the 103 cities of percentages of traffic force assigned to various duties indicates that .3 per cent are part-time men assigned to parking, 12 per cent to part-time ‘ duty at schools, 2 per cent assist part-time at intersections, 10 per cent are on fuli-time beats for parking work.
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“The survey showed that police
are deployed about as : follows (population in thousands): 100-. 500- Above 250 1000 1000 3 ; At intersections Motorcycles, squad cars Mounted on horses. . Beats and patrols .e
eens 14 140
16 13 4
1 2 Other raffle” Lies” 1 13
Total ‘full-time men 38 231 Latest available figures that for each 10,000 persons, Indianapolis has approximately 2 traffic’ police; Milwaukee, 3; New York, 3.6; Philadelphia, 4.7; Baltimore, 3.4; San Francisco, 1.8; Boston, 6.7; ‘Detroit, 3.9; Buffalo, 2.6; Pittsburgh, 4.6; St. Louis, 2.7; Cleveland, 338; Chicago, 5, and Los Angeles, 4.1. »ig 8 VEN so, it has been discovered that in most population centers part of the work done by those police assigned to traffic 15 handiéspped by an apathetic
He wouldn't listen
~Photos by National Safety Council,
. Se this is what happened.
public. which sits by and does nothing. Drunken driving, for instance, is ‘on the increase in American cities, and police say that partly: responsible is: a tolerant attitude by the public. This indifference, the United States Conference of Mayors stated, “makes it necessary many
times to: reduce drunken driving
charges: .to reckless driving, or speeding, in order that some sort of punishment may be meted out. ” £ Cities have reported that -drunken driving has increased as much as 10 per cent since repeal.
- A minority of reporting cities had
noticed a decline and some reported the number to be neither more nor less than during prohibition. Second in importance only to the “public tolerance” is the need of a reliable’ examination provetiute for Suspects, pins a for-
Collechiviss Has Failed as a
War Preventive, Sullivan. .
BY ‘MARK SULLIVAN
ASHINGTON, © Nov, 25. President - Roosevelt in the address he is about to make at the Pan-American conference at Buenos Aires will deal with international peace. He may consider international peace as respects the American continents only, to be attained by some kind of Pan-American understanding. Whether ‘it would be practicable for the Western Hemi-
‘sphere to have a separate peace or-
ganization of its own is a question. It could: hardly be watertight, hardly be securely immune from war on the continent of Europe. Whatever is done, it will be neces-
{sary to consider international peace
with respect to the world as a whole,
Mr. Roosevelt, or any one else,
who looks this problem squarely ing
the face, must recognize one outstanding, inescapable fact: The attémpt at international peace begun by Woodrow Wilson 20 years ago
has not safeguarded the world | against war.
It has not worked. This is a landmark in history. Can we draw any inference from it? | Mussolini the other day said it vas necessary to clear the table of all “Wilsonian illusions.” Among these, Mussolini, with some Latin |
latitude, named three—I paraphrase
an epitome of Mussolini's speech
‘|by Mr. Walter Lippmann. Dis-
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fair.” And “If France and Britain had ot, trusted in the system of collective security, they would not have been so weak that Hitler was
able to tear up the Locarno Treaty
so easily.” 8 = 2 R. LIPPMANN says, with some justification, while the present condition exists “the only ‘hope of peace lies in the superior military power of the peaceable nations.” That was said before, by a former President and a former Roosevelt, Theodore: “Speak softly—but carry a big stick.” ‘That is clearly the path for America today. The wreck of Wilson's dream might, I think, be expressed in a generalization: = The collectivist system, as a form of: international organization, is not now practicable. Whether it may some day be practicable is too much to say. At the least, we know that Wilson was too far ahead of his time. If. the collectivist system among nations is impossible at present, what is the alternative? The alter-
native that the world has had since
time out of mind is individualism
among nations. For more than two
.centuries there was a leading indi-
vidual in the world of nations. It
‘was, Britain. She used her preeminence in the way that the ight
kind of leading individual man’ in|
any community: does. From her
{1 up in court.
I think, that
- week-end and found tl
mula to make the ses stand
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CIENTIFIC examination, lately widely urged, at present plays only a minor role in eradicating the drunken driver. | Most cities still place chief reliance on “observation” by officers and wit nesses. Even among cities requiring a physician's opinion, most such examinations are by “obser-’ vation” rather than! by clinical
Another conitributi g factor to accidents that is pretiy generally overlooked is glaring lights. Most states have laws against them, but seldom is an offender srrested and prosecuted. Moreover, especially in the Middle West, drivers are exceedingly lax in courtesy dinming. Capt. Lewis Johnson, Indianapo‘lis police traffic chief, Analyzed the causes of accidents a recent t five were
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KNOW YOUR “INDIANAPOLIS : There are. more, than 810. || miles of streets in Indianapo- , ls and more than §0 miles of " boulevards. They are being increased and improved every year.
z » A x had chaos. We did not know whether the world was going to be organized on the collectivist system of Wilson’s dream, or whether it was going to go back to national individualism. And assuming that individualism was to continue to be the world order, we did not know which nation would be the leading
citizen. In the order of nature the
United States could have stepped into the position—we had the equipment for it, the financial strength, the commercial sgtre naval strength we chose to.
the posi aimed to take it, a her Senception of
detail ‘what is to quite surely that €O; Sider of nations hae g passed, that hoe individualism 5 be the world order. fh:
| eral old-age benefits. ; of the Treasury |
caused. directly or indirectly by light glare. He started an immediate drive on violators. : Safety experts say that the most -effective recently developed traffic control measure is an accident investigation squad. #2 8 = Ee HESE first were organized by ‘police departments of Detroit and Cleveland and in those cities the squads investigate only fatal accidents. Since then such squads have been established in- at least eight other -cities—Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, - Minneapolis,
Philadelphia, St. Paul, Washing-
ton, D. C. and Wichita. Accident “investigation squads represent. the application of detective methods to auto accidents. The squad cars carry cameras, typewriters, steel tape and first aid kits. Investigators attempt :o track down every clew that might lead. to evidence of law violation.
_Prineipais and Witnesses are ques-
re
rin of a: Series)
HE Social ‘Security Act helo. up
in the Treasury of the United
States an “old-age reserve account.” The Secretary of the Treasury has.
the responsibility of estimating the amount. of annual appropriations required for the account, of investing and liquidating the funds, and
.of reporting annually on the actu-
arial status of the account.
Congress is authorized to ap- | propriate for each fiscal year, be-
ginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, an amount sufficient as an’ annual premium to provide for the payments required for Fed-
The Secretary submits annually to the bureau of
tthe budget an estimate of the apP: | propriations 1 be made to te oldage reserve. account. :
meee A ® : 3 ECOGNIZING that the Federal old-age benefits would impose an additional expense on the
“u 5 Doctors Should Prepare
tioned, skid marks measured, cars photographed and their - equip~
ment tested, ‘and a complete ve=-
port is written.. In Indidnapoiis, the trend since 1932 -has been to a smaller and smaller traffic force. In 1932 there were 90 on the Joree as compared to 80 now.
: THE END.
Can the Americas Avoid the Next War? A William Philip Simms series on the Buenos: Aires - ~~ Peace Conference, -stars tomorrow in
THE INDIANAPOLIS TvES
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[Frasury: to Contrel | dnd; | *ijecurity; Account Is Created!
Social’ & Security Act ‘certain new
taxes, which are to be turned into |
the: general revenue fund of the
These ‘taxes. .are an income fax!
on employes engaged in certain occupations and an excise tax on
employers who have in their employ
persons engaged in certain occupations... The rate on employer and employe is identical. 2 Beginning on Jan. 1, 1937, the ems=
ployers’ tax and the ‘employes’ fax
is 1 per cent on the pay roll of the
former and 1 per cent on the wages
of the latter. This rate ‘applies for the next three years, when it increases by % of 1 per cent, and increases by the
‘same - amount thereafter for each ‘three-year period until 1949, when the tax on the employer and em-.
ploye reaches 3 per cent for each. Under the law, this is the most anybody will ever ver pay,
NEXT—How Emp Employment. Rec ords ‘Are “Assembled. and Mont
to Serve i in Next War, Claim| ==
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
} oneress: set up in the|
of anxious mothers dreading
by ANTON SCHERRER
ng of a surprise to le that it's all of 55 years now that Geor; Wiegand has been distributing flowers in 0 midst. He looks so young to have such record. I can explain that, too. Mr. Wiega was 9 years old when he started in the b ‘ness, and if you're any good -at figures it Will eles
|. a lot about George's past. But not ‘all, | Wiegand's flower shop was going 2 years
George got into it. Which is to say that, come next Whitsuntide, it will be 78 years old. / It was started by Anthony Wiegand, father of George (and Homer, too) down in Kentucky-av around Missouri and: South-sts, near what was then known as the Greenlawn Cemetery. Father Wiegand started with raspberry bushes, tomato plants, geraniums and oleonders, but he always‘'man‘aged to grow a garden of posies on the side. :It eame in handy with a graveyard next door. Before going into business ‘for himself, Fathers - Wiegand tended the garden around Charles Mayer's home at the corner of Illinois and North-sts where the Masonic Temple now stands, and it kept jumping to: keep ahead of homes of Jacob Hildebrand and Henry Schnull. Father Wiegand was 18 years old then and had just come from Germany. I'm bursting with vital statistics today. Father Wiegand’s flower business began with fu.
| nerals and the way things look today, it's going to
end that way, too, says George. Father Wiegand lined the grave of Gov. Morton with flowers. It cost $500 and was the biggest funeral job up to 1872, George says he can remember three or four fune since then, however; that ran from $2000 to $3000 for flowers alone. Lew Shank was. ane.
. Weddings Pretty Cond ‘
YY Eoomos are pretty good, too, but nothing like funerals; At that, George says he can remem= ber two or three weddings around here that ran close to a thousand dollars apiece. I have the names of the brides in my dossier, but I'm not going to | give them away because I'm old enough to that Indianapolis brides are notoriously averse to having their names (and pictures) in’ public print. The best table decoration George can remember was the one Cliff Durant, race driver, ordered When he threw a dinner party for 14 men and 4 women at the Marott a couple of years ago. George says that, with the. exception of two bare strips each 18 inches wide to receive the plates, there wasn’t. any= thing else but flowers. It cost $250. Don’t let that scare you, though, because you can fix up youg table, and pretty nifty, too, for .$5, says George. George is very sensible that way. He would much rather see people .using fewer flowers but oftener, It would come the same to him in the end, but i would be better for business. )
| habit of wearing flowers. They once had the habit,
says George.
Riley Wore Boutonniere HIRTY-FIVE yedrs ago, for instance, Dr. E. | ! Hodges bought a fresh rosebud every day and wore it in his lapel. So did John P. Frenzel, exceph that it was a carnation, and Jim Riley was without a boutonniere. Today, you're lucky to see John W. Friday, the real estate man, h Weating a “carnation, : fore 2% George remembers a ak
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_ circumference {9 ‘times 3.1416. there's no telling how big they'd be Hg if fi hadn’t- been sidetracked by the popularity of -o and gardenias. George exploded a couple of my wife's theories to which she has clung ever since I can remember, “There's nothing to this business of keeping ‘fresh with aspirin, for instance. Nor with salts What's more, tobacco smoke “doesn’t hurt flowers.
Hoosier Yesterday
NOVEMBER 25 ANKSGIVING DAY, Nov. 25, 1915, the wome of Indiana begged President Woodrow Wilson | take steps toward ending the European war they feared might endanger the lives of their hus= bands and sons. = Jane Addams, ‘peace and social ‘worker, tel graphed Mrs. R. C. Bennett, chairman, India “division of the Women’s Peace Party, “For the s t their sons Do added 10 the 10000000. scents Ket on bon in the war, will you streng i: Soave “made by Ethel Snowden and Schwimmer
‘a conference of neutral nations to - settlement of this awful war.” ; The Women's Department Club of Indiana telegraphed that its 600 members hoped the P d
| would call the’ conference. .
: Mrs. Alvin T. Conte seit & message for the 1000 ‘members of the First Friends Church, and t ‘Mrs. David Ross, Research
were dispatched by | president, and Dr. ‘Amelia Keller
ETROIT, Nov. 25.— American physicians ‘and surgeons |:
should begin now to » prepate hem) :
flowed out to the world standards in many fields. She conferred on | the world such international law as | there was, for fundamentally, in- | ternational law is merely the concession which the Stongest naval nation makes to the less
armament, the doctrine that all nations have equal legal rights;
Daily New: Books. i THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS ga RATHER more practical than the average book on
infant care is Allan Roy Dafoe’s: GUIDEBOOK FOR MOTHERS (Messner; $1.50). ir
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