Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1936 — Page 17

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

(Ernle Pyle, Page 10) ASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—0n his eightjeth birthday Frank B. Kellogg, who wag Coolidge's Secretary of State, tells the world that the greatest thrill of his life was signing the Pact of Paris.

You remember the Pact of Paris. It was

Washington

signed long before the Ethiopian war, before Japan's | raid on China and before {he big powers swung into |

their big armament race and their campaign to pros vide a gas mask for every child. Back in Coolidge's day, Japan and everybody else put on

Italy, |

a solemn face one afternoon and |

promised upon their word of honor never strument of national policy. Secretary Kellogg may have had a great thrill out of it, but it must have been a mighty short one,

” ” ” Postmaster General Farley has the best post-mortem act of the winter season, of a smile he can stand up and tell you that he predicted Landon would carry only two states because he had a highly efficient intelligence service reporting from all parts of the country. What Jim doesn’t tell can't expect a magician to give away his tricks—is that for months, while he was refusing to concede Landon a single state, he was very much worried ahout certain ones. And that even in the last week campaign he was privately worried about Michigan for instance Jim did a good bluffing act. But he didn't know any more than Roosevelt did how big it would be. Roosevelt thought Landon would get 130 votes instead nf eight inside forecasters at national head-

Mr. Clapper

of the

Farley's quarter Kinds of 150 voles

samples, said Landon would get

» ” » More Surprised Than Landon HE man who was even more surprised at election than Landon was his closest adviser, Lacy Havnes of the Kansas City Star. Lacy didn't believe the Literary Digest could be wrong. He still thinks it was the election, not the Digest poll, which went wrong. Even a post-election trip to South America hasn't changed him.

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Administration Cheers Court Ruling HINGS certainly have changed since the election. A The Administration is now cheering a Supreme Court decision The court's neutrality decision, in which it recognized that the President must have broad discretionary powers in dealing with foreign affairs, is being used bv the Administration to bolster its reguest. for a change in neutrality legislation so that the President can pick and choose which side he will allow to have arms and munitions and which side he will trv to starve out. The present law requires that help be denied all belligerents. It is even intimated that the court has by implication told Congress that it can not compel the President to give both sides the same treatment. State Department experts naturally like the idea of being able to decide to which side the United States wants to feed arms. That practically would give them the power to declare a sub rosa war, without having to go to Congress about it,

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

to resort to war as an in- |

Without a flicker |

you—and of course you |

after eanvassing the country and taking all | more than |

the

was |

V ASHINGTON, Thursday—Dr. Louise Stanley of

the Department of Agriculture, brought a home economist teacher, Mrs. M. Hacatoni from to see me today. at Cornell. island where people have been very badly off during the last few years. Her specialty is diets, for so

Hawaii, | She is over here for a year’s study | Her field of work is at the end of a little |

much rice is eaten by the people that they have |

extremely poor teeth. Mrs, Hacatoni has been attempting to teach them to grow gardens of their own with a

green food. She told me she thought it was not

variety of |

entirely economic necessity which made them stick to |

rice, but a real preference, and that they had to learn to eat other things. to nutrition that they sent her to Cornell to study psychology and to take a course in family life, 1 asked her whether she felt she could adapt the things which she had learned here, and which are naturally keved to the needs of our own rural population, to the needs of her Hawaiian people. smiled and said that she felt sure it was going to be possible. Dr interest the report of the work which she did on her return to the islands The variety of populations which our government has great, but England for the British Empire spreads over even greater distances than we do. We have not vet learned, however, to train civil servants in the way that they do. That will probably come with age and, with the constant improvement in transportation, it should come fairly quickly.

She has devoted so much time |

She |

Stanley said that she would await with |

to deal with in this country seems to me very | when I think of what has been done in | I realize that our problems are very simple, |

Mr. John Ihlder came in to ask me to go to one | more Christmas tree tomorrow evening in the alley | which is named after Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, whose | persistent and untiring work started the removal of |

these slum spots in the city of Washington.

So one |

more Christmas celebration will be added to tomor- |

row’s quota. I was amused this morning to receive, Congressman, a letter from a little Western girl who shook hands with the President somewhere on his Western trip, I believe, and who has made up her mind that as she has had infantile paralysis, she wishes to go to Warm Springs. She wrote me last summer but my reply did not satisfy her, for I simply referred her letter to one of the committee in charge of birthday balls. That seems to her too long a time to wait, so she writes to the President now and tells him she knows that he will do what is necessary at once Such simpie faith and trust should be rewarded and I only hope that something can be done for her.

New Books PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

HERE is a group of islands in the South Seas, belonging to Japan, that are seldom visited by

tourists since permission must be obtained from the |

Japanese government, Willard Price and his wife were granted this permission and visited these untraveled islands, namely Yap, Truk, Kusaie, Palu and others. The customs, existing conditions, and habits of the natives are reJated in a travel book entitied PACIFIC ADVENTURE (Revnal). Coal black teeth acquired by stains of betel chewing are fashionable, as are grass skirts and scarlet loin cloths. Stone is used as money, the larger the stone the greater its value—and some weigh as much as 200 pounds. Women do the work, and a man without wife or daughter is a nobody who eats food handed him by relatives, Kings are numerous, queens wear grass skirts, and princesses play with little pink pigs. Due to ignorance and to disease brought in by white people and Japanese, the inhabitants of Yap, the island the Prices studied closest, are known as a vanishing race. Very few children live and men and women die young. The population has shrunk to half its original size. ” ” »

AVING obtained permission from the Danish gov-

ernment to enter Greenland, the German Uni-

versal Dr. Franck expedition set out in the summer of 1932

via her

Sullivan Quotes ‘Obedience |

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Its two-fold purpose was to film the flords of |

Greenland with a view to the making of the picture | “8 O 8 Iceberg.’ and scientifically to examine flords |

and glaciers. Dr, Ermst Sorge, known for his scien-

tific work on the last Wegener expedition, has given

us an account of the perils of this photography in the

polar regions in WITH "PLANE, BOAT AND CAMERA |

IN GREENLAND (Appleton-Century). Two hundred photographs suppiement the text.

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THIRD CHRISTMAS QUINS GAYEST | O

making a bid for attention with a singing top. Next to her, under the spa ngled tree, Cecile is busy opening another present. Dr. Dafoe smilingly looks on while Marie, on his lap, inspects her new accordion. Emilie ignore s her dolls to try a toy like Yvonne's, but all this is lost to Annette, at right,

Now Cecile is having a turn at the accordion, and in spite of another toy in her lap, seems to be making some headway. Nurse Noel is ready, nevertheless, to lend a hand.

as she hunts out a tune on the baby piano.

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Inquisitive Yvonne, enthralled by the sparkling

globes on the little Christmas tree atop the mantel, has to stop playing and investigate. So Nurse Leroux gives her a lift for a closeup.

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To Unenforceable’ Speech

BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON. Dec. 25.—Sometime ago, writing about the obligations

domain there is no law which in-| exorably determines our course of upon King Edward, I action, and yet we feel that we are

alluded to a phrase, “obedience to | hot free to choose as we would. It the unenforceable.” I said I thought | is the domain of obedience to the

it originated with Lord Chief Jus- unenforceable. tice Hewart of Great Britain. I was mistaken. The author was the late Lord Moulton. It occurs to me to reprint some condensed extracts from Lord Moulton’s address, as having appropriateness to the Christmas season in | : a year in which the world is much | sphere of positive law. perturbed about the relation of the | individual to society:

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law.

everything.

actions are prescribed by laws binding upon us which must be obeyed. Next comes the domain of free choice, which includes all those actions as to which we claim and enjoy complete freedom.

te freedom. In that law nor absolute | response to that trust.

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

The Aircraft Owners’ Association has a port of 175 acres along W. 30th-st, beyond Kessler-bivd, with two hangars housing 15 ships, all privately owned and operated.

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| “In many countries—especially in the younger nations—there is a | tendency to make laws to regulate On the other hand, amining the three great domains | there is a growing tendency to treat of human action. First comes the | matters that are not regulated by domain of positive law, where our | positive law as being matters of absolute choice. Both these movements are encroachments on the middle land. And to my mind the real greatness of a nation, its true civilization, is measured by the extent of this land of obedience He w these two there is |the unenforceable, It measures the a a ee important domain | extent to which the nation trusts its

in which there rules neither positive eC neg = 8 ing ig L304 area

| “The tendency of modern legis- | lation is to extend the area ruled | by positive law, and to diminish action which is de{termined by the decision of the indread lest | we should hurriedly let positive law come in and check the | self-reliance, check the growth of | ‘the sense of personal duty, and lead people to feel that, if they obey the law, they have done all

” = ” " HE dangers that threaten this! domain arise from its situation between the region of absolute | choice and the region of positive There are countless supporte ‘ers of movements to enlarge the

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an area before the fireplace.

Frenzied Hours Follow Arrival of Santa Claus at Callander

So, assisted by Nurse Leroux, she starts in to play with jack-in-the-box, doll, piano and whirligig, all at once.

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Just how does it work? Dr. Dafoe seems to be in deep study (or is he hiding a smile?) as he and Marie delve into the mysteries of her new accordion. Marie has discovered that almost every time she touches the instrument it makes music.

ur Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER

I MIGHT as well face facts. Christmas isn't what it used: to be. It's deteriorating every vear and I don't know why, unless it's that in our ceaseless search for originality we've now ‘reached the point that we want

to improve Christmas, too. Time was when the celebration of Christmas had a conscious and highly formalized technique undere lying it. Analyzed more closely it consisted of &

number of stylistic devices, the perfect manipulation of which spelled success. As matters stand today, even the stylistic devices are missing—let alone their manipulation, For example, where is little Virginia O'Hanlon today? 1 can't conceive of a decent Christmas without the unutterable pleasure of reading, at least a dozen times in as many newspapers, The New York Sun's famous reply to the little girl who, almost 40 years ago, took her pen in hand and wrote: “Dear Editor—I am 8 years old. friends say there is no Santa Claus. you see it in The Sun it's so.’ Please tell me truth, is there a Santa Claus?” The editor's rep’y on that occasion was the best thing ever invented to keep Christmas going. Indeed, it was the thing that kept Christmas going—-until this year. Thus far this vear I haven't seen a sign of little Virginia—much less the letter she received— and you have no idea what a difference it's made in my Christmas. The fact of the matter is that I want my Christmas kept as sentimental and sticky as possible. I don't want anybody to deprive me of Virginia.

Mr. Scherrer

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Still Have Tiny Tim

O be sure, we still have Tiny Tim and Thackeray's “Rose and the Ring,” and Washington Irving's “Christmas Dinner,” and Victor Herbert's “March of the Toy Soldiers.” Shucks! Rolled into one, they can't compensate for the loss of Virginia. For one thing, they lack the dialectic values contained in Virginia's letter. For another, Christmas is not the time to pour new wine into old bottles. Christmas is the time to haul out the old stuff. The substitution of Mr. Herbert's tune, good as it may be for certain purposes, can’t ever take the place of Vir=ginia on Christmas Day. Neither can anything else thought up by the musicians. Christmas must he kept logical and literary and the best way is still the old way of keeping the kids impressed with The New York Sun’s wholly reasonable defense of Santa Claus.

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Christmas 0. K. Otherwise

THERWISE, Christmas this year turned out all right. Katrina Fertig, as usual, baked 26 dif« ferent kinds of cakes for the day. Fred Polley sent out 350 greetings, got 249 in return. Louis Brandt, member in perpetuum of the Board of Public Works, sat down to a Christmas dish composed of equal parts of chopped raw beef and onions. It’s an old Platt= deutsch custom. Oscar Wilde went into limp leather for the holiday trade. Judge Frank B. Ross and the Missus stuffed their Christmas duck with a dressing made of rye bread. Mrs. Amelia Fish trimmed the same tree she bought 35 years ago. Luther Dickerson got a copy of “Gone With the Wind.” Two days ago, he finished reading the “Anthony Adverse” he got last Christmas. Tomorrow by this time, most of the department stores will be wise to the fact that all Indianapolis women don’t wear size 915 stockings.

A Woman's View

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Al enraged correspondent accuses me of writing too much about the home woman. “Don't you know,” she rages, “that half the feminine population is out earning its bread in the business world?” None but a simpleton could be ignorant of the fact. I write about home women because I am one of them. I work at home and am therefore more closely associated with that group than any other. And in my opinion the housewife in this country badly needs a champion. We are the only group left today whose thinking is not dominated by business and which has leisure to change conditions. The housewife opens and closes the strings of the fattest American purse—that of the great middle class. Most advertising appeals are made to her. She is the real buyer of the nation— the force which keeps industry humming. According to a recent statement from an econe omist, 25 million home women earn no actual money, yet we produce in labor, in the conservation of goods, and by wise buying, the equivalent of 36 billion dol lars. The sum represents our actual value ti) a coun= try which is apt to ignore our economic and. political opinions, when we have any. We are worth much more of course as a social and moral force. With sufficient self-assurance we could remake the world. Why? Because right now we are on the outside of the whirling maelstrom of business—mentally and spiritually outside, I mean— engaged in the work of rearing children and keeping homes. Therefore we are in a position to see the difference between material advancement and moral progress. Those women already in industry are obliged to abide by the rules laid down for them by industry, The good worker has no time to worry about ethical standards or reforms. Like men, she is caught in the grip of a huge system she can not change. If the housewives were organized and could thus use their power to the best advantage, they could really dominate politics and direct the movements of the social order. As it is, the average individual bee longing to the group is ignorant of her strength. occupying herself with tea and bridge parties, or com-

| mittee meetings and club work designed to improve

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

Wy =x physicians speak of the throat, they refer to the interior of the neck. The throat is probably better known scientifically as the pharynx. It is a section into which open many other parts of the head and the body. For example. in the nasopharynx, which is the part back of the nose, there are two openings which come from the nose, two which come from the eustachian tubes, and one opening into that part of the pharynx which is below. The part of the pharynx below has three openings. One goes upward into the nose, one forward into the mouth, and the other downward into the voice box, or larynx, and the esophagus which is the opening that leads %o the stomach, An inflammation of the mucous membrane which lines the throat is frequently associated with redness, swelling, and an excessive discharge of fluid material. This tissue may become irritated by inflammation originating in the tonsils, adenoids, or nose, but also from the excessive use of tobacco, excessive exposure to dust, smoke and irritating fumes or excessive dryness. Because the throat has the multiple openings that have been mentioned, swelling and inflammation in the throat may be felt as pain in the ears, resulting from blocking of the eustachian tubes. Obviously, the first thing to know about any inflammation of the throat is its cause, since every irritation and infection must be treated according to the cause. In general, however, pain from an

inflamed throat is relieved by the use of an icefilled with cracked ice. vag