Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1936 — Page 11

Washingt BY RAYMOND CLAPPER TASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—A most disturbing drift, of which we are largely unconscious, is heading us again toward entanglement in Europe's internal feuds. Revival of talk about paving the war one of the more obvious features of this drift. That is so transparently a move prompted bv the scramble of European countries to

grin here, and to borrow more money

with which to finance the heavy armaments which are draining their resources, that the gesture is easily seen for what it is. Less obvious, and

debts is only

fresh good-will

therefore

more dangerous because they are |

apt to trap us unawares, are other developments, These have offect of inching us gradually back toward 1 before we are aware of it.

One of these is the campaign |

in this country to raisesmoney for the Spanish Loyalists. A mass meeting was held here this week at which contribution plate, ‘the Belgium of 1936." It is one thing to have our own opinion about the conduct of Germany and Italy in assisting this Fascist attempt to destroy the Spanish republic. Tt is something else again for our citizens to undertake to help buv supplies for one side or the other, We in this countrv would resent any attempt to use America ground for Fascist troops. It would undesirable to attempt here to munition side, unless we are prepared to become man

Mr. Clapper

one speaker

called Spain

recruiting

a H seem equall the l«

the worl police

un u »

Like World War

NY URRENT propaganda activities C [ d to draw us into the first World War, first bv arousing our sympathies, then by soliciting weial aid, and finally our military help. tep is to establish your version of the the public mind as the true and Within a few weeks after the World War began, it was established in the American mind a ir of democracy against militaristic imperialwhat Wilson later called a war to make the world safe for democracy. Eventually we decided that it was up to us to make Europe democratic, An organization calling itself the “Friend of Europe” is sending literature over here from London. The current material consists of a number of attacks on Hitler made in the House of Commons a vear and a half ago. with headings such as “Germany again before the bar of history.”

controversy in

authentic legend

”n un o

Dictators Complain ITLER and Mussolini are complaining that “have nations are being starved by “have” nations Communists say we are facing a world between communism and fascism. French and British spokesmen, and their lecturers who came here, say it is a battle between democracy and dictatorship, a terminology which is particularly appealing in this country, so long as the presence of Stalin among the democrats is soft-pedaled. However vou describe it, the lineup is roughly a continuation of the World War division, except that Italy, which hesitated a long time and finally jumped to the Allies, thinks she did not get enough out of the victory and is now playing with the other side. Japan, technically with the Allies before, actually was, as now, fishing around pretty much on her own to pick up anvthing she could in the Far East.

the

not”

struggle

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK CITY, Friday—I have had two nights A flight between New York and Washington ih ‘the past few days, one in a giant Douglass and one in a similar plane. Both flights were smooth and, I think, more interesting than the day flights. As we left Washington, I noticed a young couple sitting behind me, and the young woman exclaimed at the beauty of the scene below us. It is almost as though the stars had dropped down in great numbers and covered the earth, except that you get a variety of color instead of a uniform gleaming white, Then, when vou fly over the less populous areas, it Is only here and there that you get the gleam of a lighted house and the stars above you seem your only guiding light. It gives me more sense of being Jost in space than any other thing. As a rule most nf the passengers put out their lights and gaze out into the night, which makes me think they too have AY sense of awe. As vou look down inside the plane you get a feeling of mystery about all vour fellow fliers, from

the two men hidden out front somewhere who direct | to the woman who sits across the aisle |

our course enveloped in a fur coat, her hat at a jaunty angle. Suddenly vou catch a look upon her face which would never be there if she did not feel lost in inlinite space and hidden from human eyes. Sometimes vou see a gentleman so inured to the beauties and strangeness of night flying, that he goes to sleep placidly and his occasional soft snore will cause you to smile. I am always sorry whan night flights come to an There is so much detachment that your imagination can have full play Home in my little apartment in New York I had a good night's rest and was served a cheerful breakfast this morning bv the open fire by my colored maid. who told me all the news. She has been with

end

me so many vears that she feels part of the family |

and looks after me and takes great interest in us, one and all I tried for half an hour to reach my nother-in-Jaw on the telephone but she was always busy, so I finally went out and did one or two errands. Later I stopped at her house to find out if she was going with me to the Christmas play, in which Sisty had a small part, given at Todhunter School Mama was ready and we arrived in ample time.

The two short plays given by the lower and upper

school were very well done, and carried & lesson for us all.

New Books PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

HERE are no multimillionaires Neither are there any slums or much real poverty tenant class

the |

the European maelstrom |

preparatory to passing the |

are reminiscent ol |

the |

the MacDowell Club by the |

in Denmark.

Only 5 per cent of the farmers come under the | (compare our 433 per cent in 1930). |

Second Section

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1936

Entercd ax Second. Class Matter Indfanapaiis,

at Postoffice,

ELIZABETH, BRITAIN'S NEW QUEEN Happy Childhood in Rural Scotland Rudely Interrupted by War

(Second of a Series)

BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ONDON, Dec. 19.—Lady Elizabeth was brought up in the best and happiest aspect of English country life. Except for a couple of brief terms at a London day-school, all her childhood was closely linked to the rural life of St. Paul's Waldenbury in Hertfordshire, tuned to grassy lawns, and the drone of bees over the clipped yew hedges. There were alluring woods thereabout, as there were

also at Glamis, where the ©

Earl and his family went

for a stay each vear. It was her youngest brother David who was Elizabeth's especial playmate in forays into barh lofts and haystacks, and in charades and games or recitations jn the evenings. The talent for entertaining developed young, and many visitors were much impressed by the facility with which the little lady of 3 or 4 managed to engage them in conversation at tea, Education was by private tutors at home, and progressed rapidly, with the typical continental course, which included foreign languages, music and dancing, Let it not be forgotten, however, that Lady Elizabeth, like the sons of the King himself, was a child of the war-time generation. It was on her 14th birthday, the dark fourth of August, 1914. that Elizabeth sat in a London theater with her mother and brothers and heard the news that war had been declared. ou " ” ITHIN a few days, her four older brothers, Patrick, John, Michael and Fergus, were all with the colors. Fergus died at Loos, and Michael was badly shot up, and was invalided home after a long stay in a German hospital. Immediately Glamis Castle was turned into a convalescent home for the healing of the broken bodies that began to stream back from the fields of France. Ward cots were installed in the dining room, and a soldiers’ mess maintained in the ancient crypt where armored figures suggesting Macbeth himself looked down on the weary and battle-torn soldiers. Elizabeth was, of course, too voung to do any actual nursing, but she knitted garments for the soldiers, talked with and entertained them with singing and music, helped them write their letters, and & thousand and one things that helped them through the weary weeks of convalescence, Once during this period, Glamis took fire, and Elizabeth was one of those who helped direct the inadequate fire brigade from nearby Forfar and Dundee. Though only 16 at the time, she took an active hand in removing art treasures

and other valuables from the threatened castle. It was not until mid-1919 that the last of the wounded soldiers, health restored, left the castle, and brother Michael was at last repatriated from Germany, his health incompletely restored by two years of confinement in a German hospital camp. u ” n HIS four-year experience served to sober somewhat the joyous little girl of the country frolics. And a formal “coming out” into society was “not done” in those days. Because her sister, Lady Rose, had married during the war, Lady Elizabeth became her mother's chief assistant in running the extensive domestic side of the Earl's affairs, Journeys to London now became more frequent, however, and the Porfarshire Girl Guides took a great deal of her attention. And when the Princess Mary visited in the neighborhood, her own interest in the Girl Guides formed a common link of interest. The Duke of York, he who is now King, was a guest at Glamis at that time. It was shortly after this that Elizabeth was one of the white-and-silver bridesmaids at the wedding of the Princess Royal in Westminster Abbey to Viscount Lascelles. Two short journeys to Paris were her only trips outside the British Isles. Her friendship with the royal family firmly established in the public mind, Lady Elizabeth was one of the popular objects of speculation when the British public took part in its chief recreation, that of suggesting a mate for the then Prince of Wales. But the Duke of York had a different view of the situation. One Sunday while he was again a visitor to St. Paul's Waldenbury, the young couple did not go to church, but walked instead in the woods where Elizabeth had so often played as a child. » ” ” HEN the Duke returned to London on Monday, he had news for his royal parents. It is generally believed in Britain that he had to ask three times for the hand of Lady Elizabeth before she was convinced that he really loved her and was not simply being driven by parental or public pressure. Hesitation 0

Gravely peering out from a firm stance in her-high-chair, this little Scotch lassie certainly had no jdea that she was one day to be a Queen,

accept the burden of the Duke's public responsibilities would be only natural. But three times or once, the engagement was announced in the Court Circular Jan. 16, 1923, The following week she motored to Sandringham to receive the royal blessing, which was gladly given, The wedding was held on the following April 26, with all the pomp of royalty, As she entered the Abbey, the bride paused for a moment to lay her bridal bouquet on the grave of the Unknown Warrior, Then she advanced down the dim aisle as the sun broke through the stained-glass windows of the historic Abbey. The Prince of Wales handed over the ring to his brother, Albert, and the Archbishop of Canterbury followed the vows with solemn words to “you yourselves as simple man and maid.” He consecrated the couple to the public service, and concluding, “Through all the changes and chances of this mortal life, may God's love overshadow you, His power protect you, His spirit guide you, His peace enfold you.”

NEXT—Rearng two daughters to be potential queens, the Duchess of York is herself given a queen's crown by “the changes and chances of this mortal life.”

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‘CORONATION BOOM’ BOOMERANG

Great Britain, still more than a little dazed by the swift substitution of one Xing for another, rises shakily and marches on. An NEA Service staff correspondent, in the following paragraphic sidelights from London, pictures England seeking to appraise “the damage” and to interpret the reasons for the empire-rocking events of recent days.

ONDON, Dec. 19.— English manufacturers and merchants who were rubbing their palms together in gleeful anticipation of a “coronation boom” have now discovered that it isn't a boom but a boomerang. Those manufacturers who were not insured against any change or postponement in the coronation

scheduled for next May, and insurance men who had insured other British manufacturers against this contingency, are still taking stock of their heavy losses resulting from King Edward's ab-dication-for-love, The moment it became known that a date had been filed for the King's coronation, manufacturers all over Britain began to get busy. Color printers were engaged in printing thousands upon thousands of souvenir postal cards,

TAFFORDSHIRE, the great pottery district of England, has been busily turning out tens of thousands of coronation day cups and mugs. In Birmingham, center of the manufacturing jewelry trade and of much of the cheap brass ornamental stuff called brummagem, thousands of coronation medals and other souvenir pieces of jewelry or metal work have been turned out for the expected market. All of these, of

course, have on them some reference to King Edward. Early in the game, some of the wiser manufacturers began insuring against loss in case the coronation was postponed. Then the rumors of what was being printed in America about the King and Mrs. Simpson began to reach here. Manufacturers got cold shivers. They could not only see a postponement of the coronation, but the final crowning of a different king entirely. They made haste to cover with more insurance and the rates went up and up until finally many insurance brokers refused to take any more insurance risks at any price, Now that King Edward has abdicated, the manufacturers find themselves with vast stocks of postal cards, mugs and cups, med-

salvaged. Only those which do not bear direct reference to Edward VIII can still be used when George VI is crowned.

4 ” » be able to be quite simply, humanly “Dave” to “Wally.” That is the real secret of the strange fascination, the undisguised joy King Edward VIII had in the companionship with Mrs. Ernest Simpson, according to the more charitable view expressed by some of the couple's intimates here. In her flat in Bryanston Square before she moved to the big house in Cumberland Terrace, Wally Simpson was able to give King Edward his first real taste of home—a place where he could spend a few

happy hours away from the gold-fish-in-a~bowl life led by monarchs. w, It seemed impossible for him to get down to an everyday basis with any young women. If they came from the aristocracy, though they tried to be comradely and felt they had a right to be, there was still that feeling inborn in them that he was the top of the social tree, the man born to be King. If on his trips he chatted or danced with girls of

| Lovely, long, dark hair was a | feature of the girlhood beauly of Elizabeth at 5, as in the {op picture, and in the years just before her marriage, lower photo,

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The big day in every woman's life, even a Queen's! Lady Elizaheth Bowes-Lyon leaves her father's house for her wedding in Westminster Abbey.

Even a seven-pound New ZeaJand salmon trout knows his place when the Duchess of York goes a-fishing. It's at the end of a gaff. Note the informal garb,

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One of the Queen's last photos as Duchess of York, made as she went for a walk with Princess Margaret Rose (in light coat) and Princess Elizabeth,

\ Charles Dickens. to William (Dad) Yule, too, because it's hard

Amendment Only Possible

EDITOR'S NOTE-—Mr. Ansell, a prominent Washington lawyer, prepared the following article after reading proposals for curbing the Supreme Court by statute that have been advanced recently by Donald Richberg, Charlton Ogburn and others.

BY SAMUEL T. ANSELL LMOST daily columnists, cor= respondents, and editors pro- (| pose, and commit themselves to, | various devices whereby they claim that Congress may free itself from limitations placed upon it by Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and proceed to enact social and labor legislation which is said to be vital to the national welfare, All these devices purpose to reach this result, not by amending the Constitution, but by legislation for whose enactment power is drawn from that Constitution by some sort of legerdemain or by legislation that will present itself in such a correct constitutional guise that the court will have to approve it regardless of ulterior purpose and effect. One need not be a prophet, nor even a “constitutional lawyer” to be reasonably certain that the legislation now proposed will, if enacted, be detlared invalid and the effort expended upon it will be proved to

the |, te regulations affecting

Court Curb, Lawyer Says

jority court,

created a host of other evils.

. n ” ” T does seem necessary that the nation have the power to legislabor in products largely enter into and affect interThis means extending the Federal power of regulation, for that purpose and into factory and The Supreme Court has held consistently, though in some cases by 5-to-4 decisions, that the power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce does not permit Congress to enter mine and

those industries whose

state and foreign commerce,

to that extent, mine,

factory.

It is now proposed to release Congress from this limitation by incorporation law under which all corporations interstate commerce will get their franchises or licenses only upon the acceptance of condi-

enacting a Federal

engaging in

shall be the voice of the If it is declared that decisfons invalidating ‘Federal and state legislation shall have a concurrence of six or more or all of the justices, respect for constitutional processes requires us to establish so radical a departure by constitutional amendment. Also, we might pause to question, especially in respect of state legislation, whether by thus limiting the judicial power we had not

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ur Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER

ITH literary values dodging and twists ing about, I regard it as something of a duty to tell you everything I know about Like as not, I'll get around

Ind,

for me to think of Dickens without bringing

| ih the name of the man, than whom there was née

better, who used to teach metal forging at the Manual Training High School. Dad had more first-hand ifs formation about Dickens, and especially about Mr, Pickwick, than any mah I ever knew, or hope to know, and I attribute it largely to the fact that Dad had the pluck of pioneers. Which is by way of saying that when Dad wanted to know something he went in search of it. Anyway, he picked up something he knew about Mr. Pickwick right at the source, which, in this case, happened to be around Bath, England, Dad had two theories concerns ing the origin of the name "Pick. wick.” One was the geographical fact that there 8 a onesstreet hamlet on the Bath-London road by that name, and that maybe Dickens stumbled onto 1% during his stay at the White Hart Thn. The other theory concerned the White Hart Inn itself, becatise, according to Dad. it was just Dickens’ luck, when he stopped there, to have the place run by a man named Moses Piekwick, Dad ltked the second theory best, T remember, Hew cause, besides explaining how.Mr, Dickens found ths name, it also explains how Moses got the name of Pickwick to begin with,

” » ” Descendant of Foundling OSES PICKWICK, said Dad, was the greate grandson of a foundling. A long time ago, A woman driving through the village of Wick, near Bath, saw a bundle lying on the side of the road and, believe it or not, it proved to be the start of the Picks wick family, She took the baby home, cared for him and christened him Eleazer Pickwick which, of course, was the equivalent for Eleazer picked up at Wick, Tt didn’t take any imagination to catch on to that, Dad used to say. In the course of time the foundling started a fame ily of his own which grew to mighty proportions, When Dickens arrived in Bath, the great-grandson of Eleazer was a man of wealth and position, because, besides running the White Hart Inn, he alse operated a livery stable, which included a chain of coaches, Even then, said Dad, the chain of coaches had his name inscribed over their doors—-a fact that Sam Weller noted with some suspicion, as you'll recall if

you know your stuff, ” » "

Expected to Be Funny

AD discovered a half-dozen Pickwicks in Bath the last time he was there, and he went to call oh one, he said, but the fellow wasn't very communicas tive. Dad said he didn’t blame him, because when you come to think of it, the bearing of the name Picks wick Isn't exactly in the line of an unmixed blessing, The present Mr. Pickwick told Dad that people, when they heard the name, always expected him to be funny, and he was getting mighty tired of it. His two brothers, he said, got so sick of it that they went to America to escape it. When they got to America, they discovered that people expected even more of them ih the way of wise-cracks. “We can't run away from oug troubles,” said the present Mr, Pickwick, Dad also entertained a notion that, maybe, Dickens picked up other material during his stay in Bath, Tha name of Wardle, for instance. In proof of which, Dad liked to tell the story of his last visit to Bath wWheh he found Mr. Wardle holding down ‘the job of town clerk. Sounds reasonable enough.

A Woman's View

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON A FIVE-YEAR-PLAN for the realm of our owWh minds is the suggestion of the brilliant Bnge lishman, Sir Esme Wingfield Stratford, It fs not a bad idea, considering our reluctunce to move forward mentally. If we kept abreast of new fdeas as eagerly as we accept the latest fashions, women could lead civilization's procession. A quotas tion from Sir Esme is especially thought-provoking: “Body training is indeed the foundation of mind training, but before we lay the first stone we have got to frame an answer to the questions. To what end are we striving to fashion our bodies? What is body training for? And the answer will be clear. The body fs to be valued, not for its own make, but for that of the spirit {t serves.” Wise words, these. The female of the species fs no more prone to evil than the male but she spends a great deal more time on body training, without exactly defining to herself the reasons for it. Her figure doesn’t fit the latest styles: hence she sets out to change her figure. When skirts are short she works to slim down her legs; when sleeves are taboo she does the same with her arms, and the battle with an enlarging torso fs always going on, We excuse and explain her behavior by pleading fear of losing a husband's or sweetheart's love. But this is exaggeration. For a woman exercises and diets and suffers largely because she can't bear sees ing the girls in her bridge club with neater waists than her own. The men, poor dears, are quite as befuddled on this subject. Their egoism feeds on the populae theory. But I can’t help but belfeve they would ba a great deal happier if they lived in a world where women at 40 ceased to thihk of themselves as desire able damsels,

Mr. Scherrer

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Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal HE many instances of men and women who have

h ay Rin despite the handicap of deafness should encourage those who are nni vi little difficulty of this kind. Vora W ave lt The great musician, Beethoven; the writers, Oliver Goldsmith, rge Meredith, and Lord Chesterfield; the inventor, Thomas Edison, and many other notables achieved success despite defective hearing. With modern advances in science and with the ald available for persons with progressive hardness of hearing, there is no reason, nowadays, for victims of deafness to become discouraged. In studying any case of hardness of hearing, it 18 first necessary to determine the nature of the deafs ness—that is, whether it is concerned with an infecs tion or whether it represents one of the hereditary types of otosclerosis. i Most serious is the early development, due to fhe fection, of hardness of hearing in children. The period in which severe deafness is most likely to develop in children is that before they are 3 vears old, when they may be seriously affected by one of the infectious diseases. There are instances of inherited deafness which | pass through three and four generations. Deafness is particularly trying for a school child because his father may think him inattentive, mother may feel that he is a dreamer, uninfo teachers will believe him stupid, and other boys Wi girls will not know how to treat him. Thus, the ch becomes shut in by this disease and tries to ¢¢ up his handicap by means of various deceits | devices which react to his disadvantage. Nowadays the child who is hard of hearing, ticularly if he lives in a city, can learn lip-reading | many schools. As the child grows older, he m provided with hearing aids which are more ip, and easier to carry than ‘they A

tions that will bring about in mine and factory these desired results. In other words, while Congress may not directly regulate factory and mine, it may do so indirectly by means of the power it can exert over Federal corporations. That Congress can provide for Federal corporations is not seriously questioned, but that Congress may annex conditions to the license which will give the results which are desired, but which it can not bring about directly by its legislation has, of course, always been seriously questioned. Indeed, the judicial fate that awaits such detouring legisiation has hitherto been so clearly foreseen as largely to contribute to abandonment of such projects,

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

Every 24 hours, 852 steam and interurban mail trains and trucks arrive in Indfanapolis. Mail deposited in ‘the Indianapolis postoffice before noon will reach any destination within 500 miles for first

aE

als and brass souvenirs which are

each with the picture of King Edjust soumuch junk, except for oc-

ward VIII. Publishing firms started the printing of souvenir casional sales to curiosity seekers. books about the King. There is very little that can be

———— — A TOS AAT. | {

The utilities are mostly government owned or directed. | A high standard of living prevails. Practical education and culture in good measure are almost universal. The ordinary citizen of this little state of 3,600,000 people, in population slightly larger than Indiana, | lives happily and with economic safety in an almost | Utopian social democracy. | The secret of this achievement lies, says Frederic C. | Howe in DENMARK, THE CO-OPERATIVE WAY Coward-McCann), in the rise of the co-operative movement, and in its practical application to almost all phases of Danish economic and cultural life. When mighty nations are floundering in a political | to be debatable, other than acaand economic slough of despond, the success of this NR : 1 Sa | demically. If the people believe | “unfettered people” in intelligent planning, unique o A RN a : 3 | that the Constitution does not in- | educational achievement, and in co-operative seif- Na Se ; | vest the court with this power, or government, might seem to hold out to other peoples | if they believe the court ought .1ot a veritable promise of hope. | to have this power, they should | take action in the constitutional | way rather than resort to legislative | remedies which are really nothing | but nostrums,

other “classes.” they got all into | 0° futile.

a dither at the honor that had E have the Supreme Court as

come to them. an essential part of our con- + ——————————— | stitutional system. The power to declare acts of Congress invalid because in conflict with the Federal Constitution, and acts of the several states invalid because fn conflict with the Federal Constitution | and Federal laws, has been t00 long | exercised as a part of our system

Some coronation souvenirs

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I his quiet, dignified style, the late originator of | og Brown tells what he thought about a number of things and people. AS I WAS SAYING The proposition that Co (Dodd), begins with “Mad Metaphors,” a chirm- h SAR - / hk ; : 1 HY J - curtall the judicial power pe ing essay in which G. K. Chesterton tells what | RX 2 \ i SX Lv u | the court, in the guise of regulating

books he might have written if he had not been in- its appellate jurisdiction, is hardly spired with a desire to protect his fellow creatures more than sheer Jesuitry. It conwho could endure no more. His opinions cover such flicts with established constitutional subjects as modern girls, political creeds, widows, the ‘doctrine; it is obstructive of practelephone, the film, blondes, royal weddings and | tical mmental requirements; it others, each beginning in an orderly manner and t with reason. ending unexpectedly. cdurt has the power to deThose who think the essay the best form of literary expression will welcome this little book with delight for its free-running comments, .its choice of words, and above All for its subject content. Others will be interested chiefly in Mr. Chesterton's unpredictable reactions.