Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1937 — Page 19
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FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
ULSA, Okla., Feb. 5.—1 was out at the home of Mrs. Walter Ferguson one evening when a couple of travelers from Daonver, a man and a woman, came to the door. The woman did most of the talking. She
had some rare Indian costumes for sale, and | had been told that Mrs. Ferguson had an Indian | collection and might buy something. She talked a while, and looked around the house | at the books and pictures, and then 3 suddenly it dawned on her. “Are & vou Mrs. Walter Ferguson, the |=% writer?” she said. “Oh, I'm so ex- | cited! I never dreamed 1 was coming to the home of Mrs. Ferguson the writer. Why I've read your column for years and have a scrapnook full of them. But I never thought of you living in Tulsa. 1 always supposed you lived in the
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A HANDY GROUP OF ‘ENGINEERS’ Quins Run Anything on Wheels and Tame Wild Hobby Horses, Too
Eagerly waiting their turn, the quins cluster around the scales as Dr. Dafoe adjusts the weights. Yvonne, on the platform, can’t wait, and tries to do a little adjusting herself as Marie (left) watches her clcsely. Cecile and Emilie in the center are just having themselves a chuckle, whereas Annette (right) is making sure that the doctor doesn’t make any mistakes in adjusting the weights. Each month a complete record of height, weight, teeth and diet is made, together with a note on all
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Our Town
By ANTON SCHERRER
ODAY I want to survey the snuff situa tion in Indianapolis. It's worse than you think. Back in 1929 when things were zooming (without my telling you) 40 million pounds of snuff were sold in America, which is just about eight times the amount sold in Germany, France or Sweden, the best snuff-snifting countries in Europe. It's reasonable to suppose that if that
amount was sold in America, it was consumed, too. All right. Using the law of averages and everything else connected with a
East.” And TI suppose a good many thousands of other people who read Mrs. Ferguson's “A Woman's View” never dreamed that she lived in Tulsa. But she does. I'll tell you about her. She has always lived in what is now Oklahoma. She was born in Indian Territory. You would judge her to be in her very early 40's.
Mr. Pyle
And yet she has a son 27 years old, and he has k
a baby, which makes her a grandmother. Mrs. Ferguson's first name is Lucia. She is a stately-looking woman, tall and erect. There is no grav in her hair. Her skin looks soft and smooth. She wears nose glasses, with a little silver chain to her ear. She walks with quick short steps. which give her a gait something like that of a professional mecdel. It is an eager, youthful walk. She talks
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2 on » Married Very Young RS. FERGUSON married when very young. Walter Ferguson was variously a newspaperman. oil man and banker. They worked together in the early days, running country papers. Walter Ferguson, whose father was Governor T. B. Ferguson when Oklahoma was still a territory, in the early 1900s, became one of the foremost authorities on dramatic Oklahoma history. His collection of early Oklahoma pictures is probably the finest in the state—has been catalogued by the Smithsonian Institution. It covers the entire third floor of the house. He was a hale fellow. widely known, and one of the real personalities of Oklahoma. Walter Ferguson died suddenly last March, still a voung man. One of the most beautiful columns Mrs. Ferguson ever wrote was done at that time. She had hundreds of letters of sympathy from people unknown to her. She says those letters helped almost more than anything else. u 2
Column Made Hit
RS. FERGUSON her column
started writing
nearly 14 years ago for The Oklahoma News. |
Annette’s a proud little girl as she shows you | how tall the quins are getting these days. The | periodic weighing-in is always good for | squeals of laughter, for each month means | perhaps another quarter inch in height, and | a pound or so in weight for the quintuplets.
It made such a hit that within six months it was in [§
all the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Mrs. Ferguson's “office” is on the sun porch, just off the living room. Above her desk hang half a dozen pictures of Scripps-Howard editors, her close friends. She gets down in the mouth about ‘her column. Thinks sometimes it isn’t worth while. She says that everything she writes is sincere, and sometimes she thinks that’s the trouble; that maybe she ought to write more drivel.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Thursday—When I was in Wash- \ ington in 1917 and 1918 we were all doing war work and I think we all felt we must work as hard, if not harder. than the women in other parts of the countrv. For, if we could not go overseas, at least we could see that a spirit of real co-operation in the Government’s program emanated from Washington. Now that I am back in Washington, it seeins to me more important each year that in our national capital we should have not only beautiful memorials, but in miniature a government running the model institutions of the nation. Here is where foreign countries are represented, where foreign visitors come. where big national conventions meet, where school children and tourists from every part of the country visit in great numbers. Here is the place to demonstrate what government at its best can do. The District of Columbia is the child of Congress as far as government is concerned. Here is our opportunity to produce a model for the rest of the country. Yet, for some strange reason, the District ‘of Columbia today seems to be in the position of a stepchild, and this is nothing new. I remember when the Navy sent its first group of men back overseas to St. Elizabeth's, the one Federal hospital for the insane in this country. At that time we discovered some very deplorable conditions produced by a lack of appropriations and perhaps of 'nterest on the part of certain offinrials, ‘Today St. Elizabeth's has attained a high standard of efficiency. The people actually running the institutions are not at fault. They do an excellent job with the tools they are given, but thev cannot do more than just so much. Yesterday afternoon I visited the House of Detention for Women located in an old precinct police station. Until agencies can arrange for their care, any indigent women are sent here. Space does not allow any segregation except race segregation, so a woman with a criminal record may sleep beside a little girl of 20 who has never been in prison before. If medical attention is needed, they are taken under guard to the Gallinger Hospital. Very little work for the inmates is possible under present, conditions and yet the personnel, as it now stands, is doing as good a job as can be done under the physical conditions and rules under which they have to work.
New Books
PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
ILLINGS, pulled teeth and drills aren't the only |
evils you may encounter in the dentist's office. In
LAUGHING GAS (Doubleday), P. G. Wodehouse has |
created a new terror. When Reginald, third Duke of Haverford, entered the dentist's waiting room, life was bright and cheertul. America pleased him, he lked Hollywood, and he loved and had every reason to believe he was bejoved by April June, a movie star and his “fragile little flowerlet.” The presence of Ann Bannister in Hollywood had been a trifie disconcerting. Ann, his former fiancee, had broken their engagement when he had absentmindedly kissed her with a lighted cigar in his mouth. In the dentist's waiting room Reggie encountered Joey Cooley, a child star, the “Idol of American Mothhood.” Joey’s greatest ambition was to get big enough to “poke a few people in the snoot,” among them April June. While Joey and Reggie were both under the gas somehow they got tangled up in the fourth dimension. Reggie came out of the gas and discovered to his consternation that he was occupying the gold-en-curled body of Joey Cooley—and Joey found that he was big enough to start snoot-poking.
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RMED with the term's supplies—a zinc water pail, a tin dipper, three erasers, a box of chalk, and a new broom, the young teacher comes dubiously to take her position at Canebrake, Ky., “a lost-like place in a bend uv Cumberland,” where people are “pore like hawgs in March.” In her first novel,
MOUNTAIN PATH (Covici), Harriette Simpson tells |
Louisa Sheridan's story.
Behind the busy, everyday affairs of life in the cabin where “teacher” is boarded is gradually revealed | to her & dread and sinister feud, inh which, against her | will, she finds herself deeply involved. Thus she is |
torn between the inherited, ingrained canons of right and wrong of the “outside,” and the standards, so diametrically opposed, of the people of these secluded mountain hollows,
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| Going places with the quins! Annette, all | smiles and ecstasy, prefers to ride off on a | dashing steel-spring hobby-horse.
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sure proper progress is being made,
Cecile, on the other hand, seems to get an There's equal kick out of a brightly painted kiddiecar, complete with a tinkling bell on the front. aboard her steel-spring hobby-horse.
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Chubby, first glance to be taking a “bathing girl” pose in this picture, but, if you'll 100k closer, you'll see that she’s just stepping off the scale after registering a new record all-time high for quintuplets.
Sullivan Sees
Step Toward Revolution
ASHINGTON, Feb. 5—It is not merely that the | down” strike was illegal. attempt at, and a first step toward, | something which, in its ultimate | form, would be revolution. “Revolu[tion” is a frequently misused word, {but no other is adequate in this | connection, | The significance of the sit-down | strike can be understood only by | sharply differentiating it from the | ordinary, familar type of strike. | The distinguishing characteristic | Inariing off the sit-down type of | strike as an innovation is the as- | sertion of the right of workers to | seize and hold the property ‘of the | employer. That assertion denies the | right of property ownership which |is a cornerstone of the American | conception of law and society, The technique by which new | forms of society and government | have been brought about in Europe is understood by comparatively few Americans, Among these having the best understanding are the more | thoughtful labor leaders. Some of them understand it to sympathize with it. Others of them understand it to repel it strongly. The leaders of the long-standing American Federation of Labor repel it.
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HE A. F. of L, holding to the American tradition about strikes and labor organization, strongly disapproves the attempt of Mr. John L. Lewis to organize labor along the new lines of Mr. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, which sponsored the sit-down strike in Michigan. On the day the Michigan court declared the sitdown strike illegal, a high and exceptionally able A. F. of L. leader, Mr. John P. Prey, gave out a statement supporting the court's action | and calling on the some two million A. F. of L. members to repudiate and resist the sit-down technique wherever it appears. When | A. P. of L.'s Mr. Frey described the | sit-down technique as having a relation to the dictatorships of Italy, Germany and Russia, he was not | merely throwing epithets. He is a man of exceptional scholarship and
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Emilie is the one who sticks to Dr. Dafoe and a steady-going and sedate little babycarriage as her companions.
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| led him to see | Mr. Frey said: | “Workmen taking physical pos- | session of manufacturing plants in | Italy gave to Mussolini the opportunity of issuing those edicts which | destroyed the voluntary trade | unions of that country and led to the compulsery organizing of the Fascist unions controlled by the Government. The theory and prac- | tice of the so-called militant minor- | ity has the hall-mark of Moscow and was imported from Russia.”
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R. FREY is describing the sit5 down strategy merely as it affects labor unions. A broader consideration would describe the relation of this type of strike to society and government. Such an account would say that this technique began in Russia. There, in 1917, the first outbreak of revolution took, on the economic side, the form of workers asserting ownership of factories.
When this succeeded in Russia, the leaders of the revolution there conducted propaganda inciting the same thing in other nations. In Italy, as Mr. Frey points out, the Russian tactic was attempted. It did not. however, become sufficiently widespread to overthrow the old order. It did, however, lead to partial paralysis and chaos. It was in this condition that Mussolini emerged with fascism, which was designed as an offset and antidote to communism. Fascism preserved the principle of private property. The sit-down strike in Michigan did not avow communism or social= ism as its object, and communism or socialism in its final form may have been consciously in the minds of only a few of the leaders. But if the attempt in Michigan had succeeded, attempts to imitate it would have been made throughout the country. Somewhere, sooner lor later, property-owning and prop-
Among other things
erty-respecting classes would see how far the sit-down strike leads | toward negation of the principle of private ownership. At that point, the property-owning ‘classes, large and small, would have organized and set up a counter-movement.
liberal education, that means, if it means anything at all, that Indianapolis used 100,000 pounds of snuff back in 1929. It also means that Indianapolis used close to 100,000 pounds of snuff last year, . because, whether you know it or not, snuff is getting back on its feet. Please understand me! I'm not saying that Indianapolis did consume that much snuff. I'm merely saying that if there is anything in the law of averages, Indianapolis should have consumed that much. I guess I could find out how much snuff is used around here by consulting Edward Harris, who is supposed to have the situation well in hand. Mr, Harris, however, is such a busy man that I hesitate bothering him with it. Maybe you don't know it, but Mr. Harris has to find time every day to visit the hospitals to console his sick friends—this in addition to finding time to tend to his business. Last year, he averaged five such calls a day, and goodness only knows what it's going to amount to this year, Mr. Harris is too busy to be bothered with snuff problems.
Mr. Scherrer
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NYWAY, I know enough about snuff without consulting Mr. Harris. And so would anybody else if he hung around drug stores the way I do, Maybe you don't know it, but you can get anything at a drug store, including snuff. A well-appointed drug store carries at least a half-dozen brands, ine cluding Work Mate (flavored with oil of winters green), Maccoboy (attar of roses) and Team Mate (spearmint). For those who don't run to flavors, there are Railroad Sweet, Railroad Plain, Society and Ralph. Mechanics, ironworkers, professors and judges— among others—use it. To spill my secret all at once, many men who, [or some reason, can't smoke or spit at their jobs, use it. And so do a lot of women caught in a like dilemma. ” n n
.| People Here Don’t Sniff
HE funny part is that, with few exceptions, most of the people around here don't sniff their snuff the way Europeans do. They don't sniff at all. In Indianapolis most of the snuff addicts place a pinch in the mouth, inside the lower lip. The rest put it in the cheek like a quid of tobacco and hold it there anywhere from half an hour to two hours. depend« ing on how they feel about it. It's never chewed. Sometimes, but rarely, one sees an old-fashioned snuff snifter. I saw one on an Illinois streetcar just the other day. He took a pretty porcelain box from his vest pocket. dipped his thumb and forefinger into the contents and sniffed the snuff up his nos trils. I missed my destination by six blocks waiting for him to sneeze. but he didn’t. Since then I have learned that no good snuff snifter does,
A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
F the famous psychologist Dr. Alfred Adler comes your way, don’t fail to notice his hands. He is a short square man with eye-glasses that teeter-totter across his nose as he talks: baldish, and looking his age from a certain angle. But his hands are young, as young as his mind, I suspect. Smal, smooth, plump, graceful, they wave about as he talks. Every time your eyes go back to them vou are startled with their beauty. What a profoundly happy man Dr. Adler must be! It is easy to sce that he dwells contentedly within the many mansions of his own wonderful mind and finds there occupation enough to keep him busy for a mil« lion eons to come. The world is his clinic: humanity his patient. All undiscovered truth is his goal. Every time we see a person of his type, absorbed in the study of men and women, concerned about their happiness, and working to promote it, we wonder why so many of us deliberately set ourselves to miss the contentment which such a state of mind gives. Compared to those who fritter away their years in pursuit of purely material benefits, men like Dr. Adler seem monumental in their greatness, and enviable in their serenity. How alert they are, how ageless and how benevolent! And no person is so sure of per=petual youth as they, because their minds seek eagerly for new ideas. Such individuals, yu will find, never express either contempt for or petulance with the race. Instead they work to help and improve it. They teach mental balance. “Common sense,” says Dr. Adler, “is the highest form of human intelligence.” And they preach ancient doctrines by the use of new phrases. For modern psychology has circled right back to the old command “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” by prove ing beyond a doubt that the mentally fit, useful individual is he who doesn’t think too much of himself, As a recipe for keeping one's youth, no beauty shop can equal a mind that is interested in what goes on in other people’s lives and brains and hearts.
Your Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn, Journal
N the Middle Ages, people who arrived on ships from other ports were prevented from entering Italian cities until a period of 40 days had passed, whenever there was a case of plague or infection aboard the ship. The word “quarantine” word meaning 40. It has come to mean the detention of well people, who have been exposed to infection, long enough to make certain that they are not infected. The term “isolation” is used in connection with sick persons or disease carriers who are kept alone or isolated until well and free from germs. Besides isolating the person himself, however, it may be necessary frequently to practice what is called sanitary isolation, involving control of insects or other factors involved in spreading disease. For each of the infectious diseases there is a period of quarantine, definitely related to the so-called incubation period of the disease. Every state has special rules covering various infectious diseases. In infantile paralysis, for example, the period of isolation lasts at least two weeks. Children who have been in contact with the patient also are kept away from other chile dren for two weeks. Meningitis also demands two weeks isolation; scarlet fever tour weeks, and whooping cough three weeks. For chicken pox, diphtheria, German measles, measles, and mumps, the minimum time of isolation is one week from the time the rash, or first symptoms, appear. During the period of isolation and quarantine, cere tain procedures are necessary to make certain the disease will not be spread. Typhoid fever carriers need not be imprisoned, provided they know how to take care of their excretions. ‘On the other hand, if they are careless or igno= rant, they may be public menaces and it may be necessary to lock them up.
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