Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1936 — Page 17

Washington

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER (Ernie Pyle, Page 19) VW ASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Nothing like the Gridiron Club's semi-annual dinners exists anywhere else in the world. other country does—or would—the head of

the state sit for hours in the presence of | ranking officials of his | walks of life to | and good-naturedly |

diplomatic government hear himself roasted by a

COPS, and leaders from all kidded, satirized, group of newspapermen. Last night, in Gridiron Club's winter dinner, President Roosevelt saw himself transparently disguised, riding in a huge chariot drawn by captive slaves, preceded by trumpeters, centurians, Roman senators and soldiers bearing banners inscribed “F. D. R. Imp.” He heard social security pensioners, in the old folks home in 1968, chatting about him, then in his tenth term at the age of 86, but “still the same oid Franklin,” who had just told Congress that he looked forward to the time when he could hope to begin to approach a balanced budget. So it went ror hours between dinner courses under the huge lighted gridiron which always hangs over the President's heed. Gov. Landon, Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas and Communist Candidate Earl Browder, leaders of all factions in American politics, industrialists, labor leaders, were represented in the guest list. Beth Roosevelt and Landon spoke in the spirit of the evening when differences of opinions, misiaxes, weakimphs and defeat are all run through the sieve of good humor and good fellowship. Even Chief Justice Hughes and some of his assoclate justices saw nine Santa Clauses deadlocked four to four over the constitutionality of acts of kindness and unable to render a decision.

Mr. Clapper

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Hard on Stuffed Shirts

YRIDIRON dinners are hard on stuffed shirts ¥ and those who take themselves too seriously. Imagine Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin, who build them-

selves up by forbidding criticism and tolerating only

praise, even permitting such a performance as this, much less attending it. Foreign diplomats, dinner, often are amazed at what seems to them impudence toward higher authorities. Gradually they discover that this free play is the essence of ‘he American spirit where, under true self-govern-ment, men and policies are exposed to every wind and must stand without the protection of suppression sind mumbo jumbo upon which dictators and royalty

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Must Be Funny

HE Gridiron Club is restricted by nothing except its own self-imposed requirements which are that everything be funny-—it is not our fault if we are not always as funny as we would like to be-— and that everything be above the belt. Subject to those limitations of our own, the rougher the better. Thus Gridiron dinners traditionally typify the spirit of American political life, which is to fight hard, accept the result with good sportsmanship, not to take it all too seriously, and to manage, in spite of differences of opinion, to work together in a great self-governing experiment, That such dinners can be held, with such eminent public men present as guests, tells a great deal about the political nature of the American people. For contrast you have only to look at the way political differences have worked themselves out in Spain.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

W ASHINGTON, Monday—I came to New York this morning and as usual found a crowd at the taxi stand in the Grand Central Station, but Juck was with me. A porter put a gentleman's bags into a taxi, looked around and said: “Where's my man?” and promptly took them out, so my porter shoved mine in and away I went, It the apartment I repacked, found the fruit cake which Katie, my daughter's colored cook, who was with us six vears before Anna was married, always makes for us at Christmas time. I got it into my bag and am praving that it won't be injured, for the whole family will be indignant if that cake is not en the table for Christmas. I am carrying some cartoons sent to me for the President. In fact there were s0 many parcels I had to have my maid meet me at the bus with all my luggage. I went uptown to try on two dresses and found my friend, Mrs William Sporborg, very busy at Arnold Constable, as this was the day that the City Federation of Women's Clubs was getting 10 per cent on all sales. The Federation supports a hotel for voung girls and young women making moderate salaries. During the depression they carried many a girl who otherwise would have been in desperate straits. I was afraid of being late for the bus to the airport but we had luck with the traffic, or perhaps my taxi men were especially good drivers, anyway we had 15 minutes to spare. All my taxi men today recognized me and asked after Franklin Jr. It is astounding how many people have had sinus. The world is such a friendly world, too. Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Emmet, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walker, Mrs. June Hamilton Rhodes and Miss Nancy Cook are all coming to stay today. A few of us are rehearsing a very impromptu stunt which is to be part of the entertainment at the “Gridiron Widows” party tonight. The husbands will all go to the Gridiron and we will have a less formal but, I hope, equally pleasant time at the White House. A book by Pauline Cleaver has just been sent to me. It is called “Make a Job for Yourself.” This is an idea which I believe should always be stressed with voung people, and now with older people who feel that they are being shoved aside. Here are examples of how jobs have been created. The book is convincing, practical and very ery helpful, I think.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

JHEN “a local girl makes good,” it is news. Our heroine of the moment is Jeannette Covert Nolan (Mrs. Val Nolan), whose new book, NEW DAYS, NEW WAYS (Green Circle Books), has recently been published. Two vears ago Mrs. Nolan's “Young Doug16s, An Historical Story for Young Folks,” was widely acclaimed and a choice of the Junior Literary Guild. Now she has written a novel, set in a small Midwestern college town which seems very Indiana-ish, The story of Margery Blakely's devotion to her mother, Lynn—who is in reality her foster mother— is truly heartwarming. Lynn's cousin, Berta Van Buren, Margery's real mother, only succeeds in cluttering up the family affairs, but she does bring a Prince Charming to town. He gaily causes unexpected and tragic complications. With her facile gift of narration and her deft characterizations, Mrs. Nolan has written an inter esting novel of satisfying romance.

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“O wad some Power the giftie gie us “To see oursels as ithers see us!”

T you, if you are a woman (and many of us are), this gift has been vouchsafed—and so cleverly that one comes up gasping—by Sally Benson in her PEOPLE ARE FASCINATING (Covici-Friede). Brilliant and amusing, the caustic wit of these human vignettes probes straight te the heart of our petty follies and little sins and holds them up quivering for all the world to see. And with our faces red and our right hands in air, we swear that whether it is cheating friend husband on the household money, continuing to play safe in our nice tight little flirtation system, going our “Inner Life,” or maybe just bridge—we'll never, never be guilty hear a loud Be

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

CAMERAMAN FOR THE QUINS Babies Come Fi rel, Prized Photos Second With Fred Davis

Callander miracle” harassed schooled in the meaning of public

death, was in charge of a chaotic

city press, in the form of a crew of reporters and cameramen from

| crew was Davis, and a lucky thing attending their first Gridiron |

since reveled in Davis’ pictures.

with him, stowed in his car, some $175 worth of desperately needed medical supplies. He had rushed to Dr. Dafoe's Toronto brother, William Dafoe, noted baby specialist, and gotten a list of what might be needed. Then, without

out, filled the bill, the supplies for the trip. were a vital help in Dr. Dafoe’s fight.

overflowing every rentable roomi In all the confusion, the desperate rivalry for pictures, noted that one fellow seemed always ready to help, even at the expense of his immediate chances for a picture. That was Davis.

got his pictures, in the inged little kitchen of the Dionne home—Dr. Dafoe with a group of the babies, Mrs. Dionne with the others.

missed his big picture chance because he was driving Nurse.Cloutier through the show to Bonfieid to get some badly needed baby clothes.

made the pictures, but because Davis had been serving the children, he was allowed to make a duplicate.

babies’ lives.

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ALLANDER, Ont., Dec. 22.—Christmas comes a third time for the quintuplets, and one of the most honored guests at their festal board is bound to be Fred Davis, the man whose unexcelled camera has portrayed the chil:

dren for an eager world.

Many people wonder just why Davis has had this exclusive privilege—what justice there was in giving exclusively this cream of all camera assignments to just

one man.

The answer, to any one who knows well the Dionne story, is that anything less would be rank injustice. For

Davis has been a great deal © more than photographer to

the Dionne babies. Let's go back to that cold morning in May of 1934 when “the took place. A country doctor, uninterest in an unique event, distracted by his grim battle against

neighborhood. At 9 o'clock that night, the big-

the Toronto Star, the nearest really metropolitan paper, descended on Callander. One of the

it was, for the quins, for Dr. Dafoe, and for the millions who have

First in importance, Davis had

further instructions, he had dashed and packed Thay:

Y the fourth day, the newspaper crowd at Callander was

Dr. Dafoe

On the fourth morning Davis low-ceil-

On the next day, Davis almost

When he got back, others had

When those first pictures began to appear, help quickly material ized for the babies, On the seventh day, Davis, making a hurried trip to Toronto picked up three incubators shipped from Chicago. Davis ripped the rumble seat out of his car, packed the incubators, and immediately started again for North Bay. At 10 o'clock at night he arrived at Dr. Dafoe’s house, his car three-parts a wreck. The next morning the incubators were delivered at the Dionne house. 1hey were a big factor in saving the

On the tenth day, Davis figured out a new one. To avoid any disturbance of the babies and

those inside the Dionne home, he made a splendid picture of the babies through the window of the hcuse. n ” ” E helped thaw out frozen milk for the distracted nurses, ran errands without number to North Bay drug or clothing stores, ferried back and forth to Toronto or Bonfield with nurses and supplies, cotton, and cod liver oil. In everything he did, it was “the babies first, the pictures second.” Davis’ co-operativeness and care impressed Dr. Dafoe. And when a contract was signed awarding exclusive rights to the babies’ pictures, it would have been less than justice to pick any one but Davis.

Exclusive privileges did not dull Davis’ ardor for the babies. It was he who brought the first mos-quito-netting, and helped to nail it over the windows of the Dionne house when the June flies grew so dangerous. It was Davis who made a check at 6 every morning, without wakening the Dionne household, by driving past the house. If all was well, a nurse waved from the window. Returning, Davis passéd by Dr. Dafoe’s house. It was arranged that, should everything not be in good order, he would stop and awaken Dr. Dafoe. There were no telephones then. The arrangement helped Dr, Dafoe to get a little badly needed sleep before his own daily routine visits began. It was Davis who came slithering into Dr. Dafoe’s yard, and drove him back in record time to the Dionne home when the babies had a bad sinking spell at three months of age. And it was Davis “who drove Nurse De Kiriline to Bonfield for treatment when she was badly burned by the upsetting of an oil lamp. ” = » T was through Davis that Dr. Dafoe learned to appreciate the interest of the outside world in the Dionne babies, and learned also to handle the flood of newspaper, radio, and magazine inquiries and requests that came in. The doetor found that if he said “No pictures today,” or that's enough for now,” his words were law to Davis. In all the later stages, Davis’ vigilance for the quins’ welfare never relaxed. He was refused, any number of times, to make pictures, often for important people, when the pose asked, or the circumstances, might be injurious. Davis insisted on, and helped devise, the soft-filtered lights that have always been used to avoid possible eye-strain to the children from flashlights. Except for brief intervals, such as when he was detached to fly

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Before this creche, which portrays the Christ Child in the manger surrounded by the ancients who

witnessed the holy scene, five little girls kneel in reverent silence. the birth of Jesus and the real meaning of Christmas Day.

The quins are learning the story of It is an absorbing theme for the quins, and

they gaze raptly at the sacred tableau as they offer their prayers. Left to right are Emilie, Cecile, Yvonne,

Marie and Annette.

hurriedly to cover Nova Scotia's

dramatic. mine entombment of last year, -Davis has. devoted all his waking hours to picturing the quintuplets and to their welfare. To see his gentle, patient manner, you would not suspect that he fought all through the hell of Vimy Ridge and Amiens with the Canadian army, and came out with honorable wounds and a teacupful of medals. He did, but you have to find it ou from others. You would not suspect that he has long been an ace of Canadian press photographers, but he has, covering star assignments for years. For work in covering the Canadian tour of the former King Edward VIII while Prince of Wales, Davis won royal praise, When Fred Davis’ “Merny Christmas” rings through the Dionne nursery this noliday season, it will carry additional au-

thority from the fact that Davis,

as. much 2s anybody, helped to make it so.

SENATOR BURTON WHEELER'S RISE

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Ten or 11 years ago no one in Washington would have given a plugged nickel for Senator Burton K. Wheeler's chance of seeing his economic views written into law.

He was serving his first term in in the Senate, member of a party hopelessly in the minority, and much too radical for most members of that party. He was under indictment both in Montana and the District of Columbia as part of a remarkable effort of the Administration then in power to punish him for investigating the Justice Department. Today he is senior Senator from Montana and a power in his state. He is chairman of one of the most important committees in the Senate, and is currently presiding over an investigation of the nation's railroads which may have far-reaching consequences. The crusade he has carried on for years against “bigness” has been espoused, to a degree, by President Roosevelt, and at least two measures have been enacted into law designed to attack bigness—the. tax on undivided éarnings and the Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act. Senator Wheeler led the fight for the lat-

ter measure in the Senate and in conference committee, and triumphed after a bitter struggle. LJ = "

HEN Wheeler came to the Senate in 1922, a scrappy young westerner, his Montant colleague, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, was investigating Teapot Dome. Wheeler plunged into an investi gation of the Justice Department, then headed by Harry Daugherty. He had barely started when William J. Burns, then head of the Bureau of Investigation, sent out men to “get” something on the newcomer. But the man who was sent to Montana talked too freely about wanting to smear Wheeler, and one of the men to whom he talked testified about it. Burns and Daugherty were forced to resign as a result of Wheeler's disclosures, but they were able to have him indicted— by means, according to the same loquacious investigator, of bringing pressure on the Federal district attorney. They accused him of attempting to use his senatorial influence to further the interests of a legal client. = = 2

OWEVER, a Montana jury acquitted Wheeler on the first ballot and the District of Co-

lumbia court promptly quashed its case. Meanwhile a Senatorial committee, headed by Senator Borah, a Republican, had investigated the charges against Wheeler and found them without foundation,

Wheeler is a member of an old Massachusetts family and was born in that state. He was educated at the University of Michigan because a relative living in Michigan offered to help him work his way through college. His political career started. in the state Senate and almost ended there because he voted to make Tom Walsh a United States Senator, a . vote which displeased Montana copper interests. Walsh later persuaded Woodrow Wilson that Wheeler would make a good United States attorney, and he

thade a fighting record in that office. ‘His first two campaigns for election to the United States Senate were hard fought affairs. The third time he ran, in 1934, his majority was overwhelming. Today, at 54, he is still a young man, and still believes in the principles he espoused at the start

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ing developments.

The magic of picture-making is investigated by the Dionne quintuplets while Photographer Davis tries to get them posed for an outAs Davis picks up Marie to place her for the picture, Cecile bends down for a hasty look into the camera. Annette, at right, is interested too. Yvonne, at left, and Emilie are standing by, await-

Member of Congress

N interesting discussion has been carried on in the newspapers between Donald R. Richberg and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson about the ‘relative merits of proposals to limit the power of the Supreme Court by act of Congress. First, by limiting the court's power to set aside an act of Congress unless by at least a 7-to-2 vote of the court, and secondly, by regulating. the entire jurisdiction of the inferior Federal courts and the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Having ‘introduced in the last Congress bills designed to carry out both of these ideas, and intending to re-introduce both in the coming session, I have been greatly interested in the opinions of these very able men, but for the life of me I can not see where either of them has an advantage over the other. I believe both are right, and that under our Constitution, and even the decisions of our Supreme Court, the great weight of legal authority authorizes Congress to proceed in either manner. The answer to these questions may be gathered from an examination of Article III of the Constition: Section 1, “The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and estab-

In all cases

Congress Can Curb High Court, Writer Believes

BY ROBERT L. RAMSAY

From West Virginia

. under such regulations as the Con=-

gress shall make, , )” ” ” ” HE case of Ex parte McCardle (1868) was one of the most extraordinary in the history of the court. In dismissing an appeal in habeas corpus for want of jurisdiction, because Congress had repealed a statute authorizing the appeal, the court said: “We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the Legislature. We can only examine into its power under the Constitution; and the power to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of the court is given by express words. . . .” I believe that, under the Constitution, Congress has power to prescribe the number of judges which shall concur before a statute shall be declared unconstitutional. From the earliest days of the republic, Congress has determined not only the number of justices, but also the number which shall constitute a quorum.

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

The Indianapolis stockyards are the largest east of Chicago and livestock business averages nearly $1,000,000 a day. The stockyards cover 189 acres and have a capacity of 50,000 head daily. Activities of this market afford Jegular smployment to

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ur Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER

HAT with everything going to the bow= wows, I think it's really up to me to tell you something about Mrs. Elva Witt Sixty-five years ago, Mrs. Hadley (then Elva Witt, of course) graduated from

the Indianapolis High School, class 1871. Today, at 82, she is in such a fine fettle that she can set her grandchildren straight on the ablative cases of Latin nouns. What's more, she does ii. Mrs,

Hadley doesn't try to explain her extraordinary powers except to say that as far back as she can remember, Indianapolis always had a fine lot of school teachers. William A. Bell, she recalls, was the principal of the high school (annual salary, $900) and taught chemistry, senior English, psychology and mental philosophy; Miss Cannell, who subsequently married Mr. Bell, taught Latin and English; Miss Emily Johnson, mathematics; Mr. Test, history; Mrs. Oren, physiology, and Miss Kelly, elocution. It was a grand lineup, Hadley. Principal Bell was strict in enforcement of dise cipline rules, says Mrs. Hadley, and he had his own system of punishment. If a pupil whispered or wrota a note, it was a “check”; if he turned to look behind or smiled, it was a “report.” Each evening just be= fore the close of school, Mr, Bell asked all those who had violated the rules to stand. Usually several, sometimes the majority of the school, rose and ree ported the number of “check” or “report” marks for the day. That was all there was to it, because Mr, Bell went on the general principle that acknowledge« ment of disobedience is sufficient punishment.

” " ” Skating Session

RS. HADLEY remembers, too, one very cold day when, at the close of school, Mr. Bell said: “The school will have a skating session tomorrow morning. All pupils, whose parents are willing, bring skates to school, and we'll all go over to the canal and have a good time.” Well, they had a good time, but don't get the wrong idea, because Mr. Bell always opened school with a Bible reading and prayer. Miss Cannell’s idea of school was stiffer, says Mrs, Hadley. So much so, that once she was taken to task for it but she countered with the plausible explanation that her pupils were equal to anything. And so they were. Mrs. Hadley got her stranglehold on the Latin nouns under Miss Cannell.

The class of "1 consisted of 13 pupils including Mrs. Hadley. Most of the pupils were in their 20s, which is explained by the fact that some of them had been drummer boys in the Civil War.

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Second City High School

RS. HADLEY graduated from the second high school building in Indianapolis. The first high school was a large room in the First Ward School= house at the southwest corner of Vermont and New Jersey-sts. In December, 1866, the School Board bought the Second Presbyterian Church at the northwest corner of Market and Circle-sts at a cost of $18,000. Mrs. Hadley is a bear for details like that. School opened in this building, September, 1867, and if you're any good at figures, you'll know by this time that Mrs, Hadley belonged to the third graduating class. The year following Mrs, Hadley's graduation, the School Board moved the high school to the northeast corner of Michigan and Pennsylvania-sts. High school sessions opened at 9 a. m., Mrs. Hadley recalls, and closed for lunch from 12 to 12:30, after which everybody went back to study until 3—some= times 3:30. The girls carried their lunches to school, The boys sneaked off to Thompson-Taggart's bakery in the Hubbard Building (Ayres’ corner),

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A Woman's View

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

F I were not an ardent movie fan these words would never be written. They may therefore be taken as friendly criticism. It's because I go regularly to the pictures that my anger mounts against the news cameramen and their

bosses. While the agility and courage of the former are to be commended, the regimentation of their minds would do credit to Mr. Hitler's minions. Their instinct is that of the herd; they appear to work ale ways in bunches, never singly. And the habit inflicts a lot of tiresome programs on their audiences. Perhaps I am merely ignorant about methods em= ployed for gathering what they advertise as “a coms plete news coverage of the world,” but when I go, as I have within the week, to four major theaters and in each see a Hollywood actor, dressed in cowboy togs, riding an inflated balloon horse strung on ropes over a swimming pool in Palm Springs, Cal, I am moved to protest. It's too “much of a muchness” as Alice's Duchess would say, and if it keeps on, I shall demand a part of my money back at the ticket offices. With the whole country to choose from, how is it possible for every camerman to make the same place at the same fime? It can't be chance; it must be in= tention. And what asinine intention! If, for instance, a battleship is to be launched—and not a boy has missed a launching since 1914—does even one of the brave lads march off in an opposite direction in an effort to get something different? I should say not! The whole kit and kadoodle will go to that launching or die, and we have to sit through half a dozen repeats of it during the season,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

OCTORS used to pay much more attention te the tongue than they now do. It once was cuse tomary for the doctor to look at a patient’s tongue and to pay a great deal of attention to the kind of coating it had upon it, or to its color. Scarlet fever victims frequently have what is called “strawberry tongue.” When the tongue is furred and coated, there is usually some disturbance of digese tion. - A fever, or any other condition which causes dryness of the mouth, will be reflected very promptly in the appearance of the tongue. The tissue of the tongue is fairly delicate, so that it responds promptly to irritations. Thus, the tongue may be suddenly inflamed by bites, burns, or by sec= ondary infections while a patient is suffering from scarlet fever, typhoid, or smallpox. Whenever the tongue is infected, the glands under fe jaw sh oa, ihe sides of the neck also become ected and swollen in the attempt to stop the spread of the infection. Occasionally the tissue which holds the tongue is too long at birth. This develops into some exceeds ingly unusual conditions. If the tissue is abnormally long, the tongue may fall back in the throat and be swallowed during sleep, asphyxiating the victim. This has happened % recorded cases, The tissue which holds the tongue also may be so short as to cause tongue-tie, and consequent dise turbance of speech. When the tongue is chronically inflamed and a digestive disturbance or sensitivity to various f may be responsible. In these cases there some is found a deficiency in the important vitamins, p ticularly of vitamin B. Teeth and tonsils should be studied for pre of any infection. It is customary to use some n alkaline mouthwash and to feed irritating through a straw. If the patient has rest and ordim these inflammations usally gens ) pA