Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1937 — Page 15

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ERNIE PYLE

ANTA FE, N. M., Jan. 28.—Any number of people in Santa Fe had urged me to do a column on Conrad, the chef at the La Fonda Hotel. “He is one of the main things ‘in Santa Fe,” they told me. ~~ But I was reluctant to bother with Confad, because I am not temperamentally equipped for the fullest appreciation of chefs, food or connoisseurs. I listened politely to my friends and swore to do noth- > ing about it. But— We were sitting in Tex Austin’s place late one evening when a man came in and came over to our table. He was a slender man of medium:

height with a gold tooth and a tiny - goatee. . My friends at the table jumped up “and started yelling ‘Conrad! Conrad!” and I knew Iwas lost. J Introductions were made. When it came to me, Conrad said: “Ah, I wanted to see you. I've $ read your column for a long time. Remember when you wrote about \paying 90-cents for breakfast at the La Fonda?” Sure, I remembered it. And I was sore when I wrote it, too. It had to do with me paying

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90 cents for a breakfast of orange juice, one egg, |

bacon, toast and milk. The La Fonda people, Conrad said, had seen the column. I supposed they would be sore. . : But do you know what happened? They sat right down and looked into the menu, and decided people shouldn’t be paying 90 cents for a breakfast like that, and they changed the menu! . : After Conrad told me that, we began to get along pretty wall, and after a while he said: “You've got’ to come over tomorrow and let me fix a special ® luncheon for you. You come and bring your friends.” So next day we arrived in the beautiful dining ° room of the La Fonda for our special lunciigen- :

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Tender Turkey » E had six kinds of hors d'oeuvres, and turkey ; so tender*you could cut it with a glance, and it had sauce and peanuts on top of it, and there were fancy vegetables and breads, and they wound it up with a handsome parfait. All of which was wonderful, except that I am what is known in some circles as an old steak-and-mashed-potato man. Food means absolutely nothing to me; ; 1 often forget to eat lunch; when I do eat it is merely to keep from getting weak. Meals are a task, like getting up in the morning. ~The Santa Fe girl with me said it was undoubtedly the finest ‘meal she had ever set tongue to, and that she knew food when she ate it. The meal was excellent, of course, but I've never eaten a whole plate of anything in my life. So I only did the best I could. : zn un ” In Kaiser's Kitchen 4 ONRAD is from Germany. He has been over here since 1922. He was in the Kaiser's kitchen for six months. He saw the Kaiser often, and liked him. Every morning when the cooks came te work, he said, they had to have a shower bath and a physical examination. He says any American can learn to cook just as well as a European. In fact, he thinks it would pe better to frsin American chefs. He has an idea all worked out that he hoped I'd mention and maybe Congress would see it. “We have all these boys going through college,” he says, “and when they get out nothing for them " to do. Why not put a bill through Congress and have young men apprenticed as cooks at big hotels and resorts all: over the country? “Rotate them around the country. Let them work in the South, and then New York, and New England, the Far West and the Southwest, so they can learn ‘all our national dishes. They'd have jobs, and after a while the U. S. would’ have the best cooks in the world.”

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Wednesday.—There is little else but floods can be thought or talked of at present. The Peruvian minister said.to me last night at dinner that we are a country of such magnificent size that even our disasters are overwhelming in their magnitude. I must say that we have been completely overwhelmed by the sufferings of people over such a vast area. z If you love your own home and can picture what it would mean to see it endangered, quite aside from any danger to yourself and your family, you feel that you must do something about it. | This feeling is widespread I sy re for I had a letter from a young man today o is a Government employee, saying he wished funds could be raised from Government employees in all the states not affected by the floods. He suggested that a certain percentage of everybody's salary over a period of about a month might be donated for relief. When young people feel as strongly as this, there must be widespread realization of the suffering among men, women and children. "I wish that we could trénslate this sympathy into an intelligent attack on the whole problem which is fundamentally one of conservation. There probably were floods when land was newly settled, but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious.

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If we go to the headwaters of our rivers we will find the cause of the results which follow in the wake . of man’s destructive ignorance. We should give generously to alleviate suffering during the emergency, but we must also keep alive the interest in conservation until we can educate our people to a concerted attack on its fundamental problems. Speaking of conservation, I think those who care to make a study of certain government activities will find that the homesteads under WPA and the Resettlement Administration are doing a good job in human conservation.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

HOSE who like their American history pure may be somewhat disturbed upon reading John C. Miller's SAM ADAMS: PIONEER IN PROPAGANDA (Little, Brown). For according to this biography, Adams (named Sam, if you please, and not Samuel) and his group of lusty patriots, through their skillful use of the gangs called Sons of Liberty and their artful propaganda, alternately drove and led the American colonies to their Declaration of Independence. An enthusiastic politician, Adams left his business to care for itself—which it did very badly—and devoted himself to the cause of keeping British interference out of the colcnies. areless of logic in his arguments, none too scrupulous as to his means, he was yet a Puritan, living frugally, and looking back with nostalgia upon the past century when the Puritan Fathers led a Spartan life undisturbed by government from across the seas, and unseduced by “lenglish fripperies.” = Sam Adams lived to see the Revolution, and to be Governor of Massachusetts. He lived to be, broken in health, “a grief and distress to his family, a weeping, helpless object of compassion.” Yet when the French Revolution came, he could still give it his blessing and wax indignant against the “Tyrant Kings” who sought to crush it.

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T is strange that in this age of skepticism and insistence on scientific knowledge in every field there should appear such a book as THE STORY OF PROPHECY, by James Forman (Farrar). Mr. Forman traces the history of prophecy and prophets from the days of the ancient Egyptians and the Biblical prophets to the present time. The book is, however, much more than a history. Some of the prophecy, particularly that relating to our own time, is food for speculation. The author quotes several prophecies which relate to events supposed to take place in 1937. Since we are on the threshold of the year it will be interesting to see how well the persons quoted have read the future.

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FLOODS MUST AND CAN BE TAMED

(First of a Series) By RUTH FINNEY

VV ASHIN GTON, Jan. 28. . . —Floods will end our kfe as a nation in less than 100 years unless we stop them at their source, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Rural Electrification Administrator, warned today. « Mr. Cooke is an engineer. He headed the Mississippi Valley Committee which made an exhaustive report on land and water problems in 1934. + “Floods and droughts are aspects of the same problem,” he said today. “Higher and higher flood qrests and lengthened periods of low water in our styeams both result from conditions brought about comparatively recently — denuded forest lands and the substitution of plowed fields for the grass cover which formerly protected oir soils.

“It is my personal opinion that as. matters now stand and with continuance of the manner in which the soil, the mainstay of individual and collective life, is now being squandered, this country has lef to it less than 100 years of virjle national existence.

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than 20 years in which to build up the techniques, to recruit the

Nation ‘May End in 100 Years if Rivers Aren't Controlled’

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difficult of all—to attitudes of millions of people who hold that ownership carries with it the right to mistreat and even to destroy their land, regardless of the effect on the total national estate. “The high-crest floods on our main streams are dramatic and bring untold distress to the urban

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population, but the greater damage takes place in-the back coun--try and upstream. “Based on data from the entire Mississippi Valley, flood losses have on the average been less than one-twentieth of the losses due to soil erosion. Flood losses for the most part are replaceable, but soil is built at the rate of an inch or so in a century. It is

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practically irreplaceable. This fact has been demonstrated in the death of nations and civilizations throughout recorded history. 2 2 a “YF the epic which began with Plymouth Rock and Jamestown is to continue, it will only be because the nation, sensing the fact that it is well gone in.this earth disease, girds itself for a master struggle. This must rise above Congressional districts and

state lines. Once again the nation is at grip with destiny.” Mr. Cooke's Mississippi Valley Committee recommended. a vast program: Channel improvement,

levees, floodways, reservoirs, pro=tection of top soils on public lands’ by planting and prohibition of grazing, and co-operation with states in reforestation and restoration of grass crops. He has repeatedly warned that more attention must be paid to stopping floods and soil erosion at the source.

"The traffic series, “They Die by the Thou-

sands,” will be resumed on this page soon. ;

Roosevelt Hits Sloan and Utilities, Clapper Declares

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

ASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The era of good. feeling seems to have come to the early end which many predicted. President Roosevelt has struck at economic royalists in two directions and has registered plainly his disapproval of

their tactics.

In one case he hit at the attitude

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automobile strike situation, saying he thought it unfortunate that Alfred P. Sloan Jr., had refused an invitation by Secretary of ‘ Labor Perkins to attend a conference here with strike leaders. . The President considers Miss Perkins as his representative and regards a refusal of

her invitation as equivalent to refusing an invitation from the White House. Only last week the - President seemed hopeful that if everyone held his tongue and refrained from making statements and headlines, a settlement might: be possible. : He went to the extent .of permitting himself to be directly . quoted in cautioning against carrying on the strike controversy in the press. That was done after John L. Lewis had said that inasmuch as labor had supported the President in the last campaign, the President should come to labor's support in the strike. But it was evident that when Mr. Sloan rejected the invitation from Miss Perkins the President believed the time had passed when soothing syrup would help, and disregarding his own injunction against statements, he cracked down on Mr: Sioan,

HE other instance concerned the utilities which have obtained a strait-jacket injunction against TVA. The President announced that in

view of this injunction all negotiations with them for pooling private and public facilities were off. He said the injunction completely altered the situation and made it impossible for TVA to proceed with the contemplated arrangements. Thus the President supports Senator George W. Norris and David Lilienthal, a member of TVA, against Chairman Arthur Morgan of TVA, who recently went to the public with a long argument in favor of making peace with the private utilities. It looks like war now. EJ ” ”.

T beats all how the war debt question refuses to bob up. Wal-

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sions, said no one had been bold fenough to ask him about them. Mr. Roosevelt says they discussed everything from the North Pole to the South Pole and from zero longitude clear around the world.

counter war debts. anywhere in those . conversational travels?” the

President was asked. ™X

They didn't. KNOW YOUR ) INDIANAPOLIS

One of every five persons in Indianapolis has his own -telephone. Telephone offices handle an average of 431,000 calls daily.

Took on Charm Constantly

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Our Town

ANOTHER disturbing sign of the times is Max Eastman’s serious attempt to explain the nature of jokes. Mr. Eastman has written a big (335 pp.) book about it, but he might have written a bigger one, because when I finished it, it occurred to me that maybe he left a thing or two unsaid. He forgot to say, for instance, that a sense of

humor is usually an attribute of direct people. Or

to put it another way, humor is something that diplomats and policemen = haven't got. Which

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lomats and the like aren’t funny. Goodness knows, they are. ! This invites an inquiry and leads to the suswicion that maybe there is a difference between being funny and having a sense of humor. I bring up the subject because when I was a boy nearly everybody here, with the possible exception of policemen, had a sense of humor. I guess it was because we used to have more normal people. As any rate, they were more natural people, because once you dig into this thing the way I have, you'll dis= cover that humor is a complete solvent to affectation. After that, it's just a step to the realization that humor is an exquisite perception of the normal in framan affairs,/as somebody said before I got around . Be that as it may, I'm sure we had more people with a sense of humor when I was a kid. I'm positive of it, because 50 years ago we had better and bigger humorists. - If this means anything at all, it means that the demand for humor was bigger than it is now. ’

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THINK I know why. It’s because old-time humore ists, unlike their modern kind, were able to project their fun in the shape of three-dimensipnal characters instead of two-dimensional wisecracks the way they do now. Which, of course, is another way of saying that humor in my day wasn’t as flat as it is now. I can explain that, too. One of the reasons why humor is flat today is that too many humorists dramatize their own personalities. Back in my day, only ‘the very poor ones did that. The better ones created comic characters who became” individualized for the purpose—like Godfrey Leland’s Hans Breitmann, for instance, and Charles Follen Adams’ Yawcoob Strauss, and Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and, of course, the immortals of W. S. Gilbert.

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T= characters became a permanent part of ourselves and the secret of their permanence lay in the fact that they took on charni the more we got to know them. . I didn’t mean to get so serious about this. It's probabty the result of reading Mr. Eastman’s book. Whatever it is, it terrifies me, because, brought up as I was to believe that everybody had a sense of humor, I never thought it possible that some day’ I would have to explain what humor is.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

T a disgrace to live with a person 'who violates the law,” said a Federal judge in a dry state to a bootlegger's wife.. “Such a person doesn’t deserve your love.” : . Tut, tut, Judge! This seems to me a dangerous doctrine to be handed down from the bench. What would be the effect of such dogma if it were practiced to the letter? For one thing, it would leave a great many psuedogentlemen in an unpleasant single state, for it implies that husbands should be loved fer their law-abiding qualities first. And things would be'in a pretty pickle if we women-once began to follow that kind of rule. I don’t know when the judicial department has made a more perilous pronouncement Here we've gone along for centuries committed to the belief that a wife's love ought to wear’ through thick and thin, Purough fame or disgrace, lasting out riches or pov= erty. Go wherever you will, ask whomever you like, the answer is always the same. The good wife must be loyal to her man, whatever happens. Such loyalty is as steadfast in our marriage creed as the Ten Commandments to Christian ethics. : The Judge, I'm afraid, doesn’t know much about women. We're the contrariest critters alive. And we've no more rules for staying in love than a bird has for remaining in the air—we’re either in or we're out, and not even the judiciary can do anything ahout it. What's more, we seem particularly attracted to the rascally portion of the male sex. Don’t ask me why. God just made us that way, I suppose. Anyway, no man is so lawless that he can’t count on some weak female falling for him, and if he’s reasonably good to her she’ll stick. Love and the law are as far apart as the poles—and it's a mighty good thing for men that this is so.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal

N the matter of infection, man is "his own worst enemy. The two main sources of communicable diseases are men and the lower animals. There are certain diseases which occur enly in human beings and which do not, in general, affect animals, although there may be diseases simliar to these which do affect animals, some of them not affecting human beings. For instance, typhoid fever, syphilis, leprosy, ma= laria, yellow fever,.scarlet fever, smallpox, mumps, measles, chickenpox, and infantile paralysis occur in men, but not in animals. True, it is possible to inoculate an animal with these diseases, as has been done on occasion with monkeys, rabbits, and dogs, but the diseases do not occur naturally in animals. One kind of disease transmitted from man to man is the respiratory type—the cough and the cold. Spread of such diseases is facilitated by the conditions of modern living. © Once it was recognized that diseases could be spread by water, soil, air and food, and control of these elements was considered all that was necessary to stop environmental factors satisfactorily. It is exceedingly difficult, however, to control human beings. As everyone now knows, many diseases ‘are communicated to man by the lower animals—sometimes

” because these diseases affect the lower animals exactly

as they affect human beings; ‘in other instances, because the ldwer. animal or .insect is a carrier of the disease. : Everyone knows that.it is possible to get hydrophobia after being bitten by a mad dog. It has been widely publicized that rats carry plague, and that hog meat may be infected ‘with trichina, : - Anthrax is a disease of cattle. Malta or undulant fever was first transmitted by the goat. Milk may be infected with tuberculosis germs from cattle, and all sorts of worms which infest the lower animals may 1 transmitted to human beings. Among diseases which are known to affect lower animals and which, in recent years, have caused considerable distress among human beings, are tularemia, which is spread ‘by eating or dressing the meat from an infected rabbit; psittacosis, which has been carried by parrots and canaries, as well as by lovebirds from the California coast; jaundice and e fe \Y