Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1937 — Page 13

Vagabond

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

VV ASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Today's column 1s the final flourish on this flailing and heaving summary we've been going through for several days. Today's is composed merely of odd stuff that comes popping into my head. I set it down quickly before it pops out again, Stuff like this: I've never been stopped, or even spoken to, by ® Cop in 45,000 miles of driving in the last two years. In fact, I don't believe I've seen | half a dozen motorcycle cops out- | side of the big cities, Several Washington policemen are close friends of mine, One of them was in the office a few days before I got back, inquiring when I would be in. He thought it would be funny to spot me coming across the bridge and arrest me. Fine sense of humor some of my friends have! I never get tired of driving. But sometimes, if I sit at the wheel for an unusually long day, the edge of the seat apparently impedes the circulation in my legs. And then at night they get what I call the “jumps,” and I can't 80 to sleep because of it, and if the rest of me wasn't there to hold them down, I'm sure my legs would jump clear out of bed. The thing I hate worst in life is to eat lunch. When I'm traveling, sometimes I can't even force myself to eat lunch, and just compromise on a chocolate bar and a cigaret. In this reporting business you have to talk with many people, But there are times when I waste an entire day piddling around and berating myself because I can't get up nerve enough to go see some stranger. The silly part of it is that people are almost invariably nice to me. And I'm all right as soon as we get started talking. I carry my money mostly in traveler's checks, load up with a fresh batch about every three months, and never pick up hitchhikers when I have a wad of

money,

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Never Steals From Hotels

NEVER steal anything out of a hotel room. 1 travel mostly by filling-station maps, and find them amazingly accurate. I haven't been lost by even half a mile for more than a year. My column is printed daily, but I don’t write every day. Sometimes I'll get three or four days ahead, and not write for several days—just gather information. Then I'll hole up in a hotel and write all day. One of my little literary idiosyncrasies, which almost convinces me I'm a great man, is that I've got so I can't write unless I'm sitting with my back to a wall, All my life I've been knocking out pieces for a deadline, at any typewriter I could find in the editorial room. But now I have to be sitting just right, with the light just right, and not too much noise. (8Shhhh! And even then I can't write half the time. I'm a genius, see?)

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Carries Many Press Cards

IY my pocketbook I carry press cards from the | White House, Congress, the District of Columbia | police, and so on. They tell me that White House card just knocks people over when you flash it out in the hinterlands. But I've never had an opportunity | to show it to anybody. I take it out and look at it myself once in a while though. The two most frequently asked questions concerning things I have already written about are: 1—"“Tell me, are the Dionne quintuplets really as cute as their pictures?” 2—"“Which stars in Hollywood are the ones they say are heels?” The answer to the first is “yes.” second—wait till I call my lawyer.

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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937

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Chief Interest

| does he go from there?

McNutt thinks, at least, House. The former Indiana Governor's hint in Washington that his tenure might be short was taken as confirmation of the!

long-standing report that he¢ plans to be a candidate for | Prosecutor, his mother the former i, {ne presidency of iss Ruth Neely, a school teacher. giydent John McNutt left Franklin | years later to become Law Librari at the State House.

: ec hiveal the Democratic nomination |M for President in 1940. |

PHILIPPINE HIGH CO

Will Appointment Bring Still F urther

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Victories for McNutt?

Paul V. McNutt

in About Its Implications.

HIEF interest in the Philippine appointment of Paul V.| McNutt centered today in its political implications. There was less discussion of his capacity as a High | Commissioner of the Islands than of the question: “Where |

It is assumed generally, and rarely

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| ganize the Drama Club and was | elected Senior Class president. | He was graduated in the Martinsville High School, Class of '09. | He entered Indiana that fall. His great-uncle, Cyrus McNutt, had been Law School dean, { and a cousin had been a faculty member. He soon became a campus political leader, heading the dominating extra-curricular organization of that day, “Strut and Fret.” He also participated in interfraternity activi-

ition Centers

He played leading roles in the school productions, “Quality Street” and “Babette.” He served as stage director in other plays.

disputed, that Mr.

{ # @ | y oore McNutt was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, and the Order of the Coif, honorary

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While his critics charge him with

and professional organizations, and the Indiana Union. During his undergraduate days he an | was Bloomington correspondent for Paul spent his| an Indianapolis newspaper. He

two

ties as a member of Beta Theta Pi. |

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

TEACA, N. Y., Wednesday.—When Mrs. Morgenthau and I left yesterday afternoon the snow fell and the wind came up. Now and then the snow would

be blown across the road making it hard to see. It was slippery driving. I congratulated myself on deciding not to drive my own car. At least if we landed in a snowbank, which

being a “man on horseback,” many | of his friends regard him as a “man | of destiny.” The latter point to his [lucky life and hitherto charmed | political career, with the hope that | his luck will hold in the Philippines | and in the 1940 Democratic national | | convention. {

was enrolled

early boyhood in the neighborhood | graduated in 1913, the president of | of 12th St. and College Ave., Indian- | his Senior Class. apolis. Private practice called the elder During McNutt to Martinsville Young Paul second grade | Public School. There he received his |

He went East a few months later. the three years he 1899. | studied law at Harvard and worked in the |@s a United Press sports correBucktown | spondent. The Harvard

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did not seem entirely impossible, I would not he responsible. The going was slow but our driver was excellent. Frederick lay behind us and I asked Mrs. Morgenthau if she felt as I did, that Mrs. Hull's luncheon made a very light and very late supper desirable. Like the perfect companion she is, she answered that she was not at all hungry. feur was in just as obliging a mood, feeling, I imagine, that life would be pleasanter when driving was over for the day. { We went through to Harrisburg and stopped at the | Penn-Harris Hotel without a thought of what awaited | us. The moment I stepped into the lobby and saw the milling crowd of men my heart sank. I recognize conventions afar off and this was some kind of a convention. Would we get a room? Hesitatingly I asked at the desk, only to be told | politely that no hotel in the city had a room. At that moment a kind gentleman came up and offered me | the room of the Attorney General, who was away. At the same moment the clerk came back and said a room with a double bed just had been given up and did I want it? I accepted it with alacrity and we went up with our bags. But before we could settle down, our first kind friend was back with most of the hotel management behind him. In spite of protests we moved into the Attorney General's room which our | friend evidently shares with him. We are now in Ithaca after a fine run through | Jovely country over roads quite free from snow,

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

ERE is a book that may change the viewpoint | of those of us who are inclined to think that the real history of the New World began with the American Revolution. DRUMS IN THE FOREST (Macmillan), by Allan. Dwight, is an exciting tale of the struggle between the French and English for supremacy in America. The closing years of the 17th Century were full of dramatic events in America, particularly in Canada, where the French had settled and toward which the English were casting jealous eyes. The | English had obtained the support of the dreaded Iroquois and were a continuous menace to French traders. Frontenac, the able French Governor, had been recalled because of intrigue and jealousy in court circles. His return was being urged constantly by those who were loyal to France and her King. Into the midst of all this conspiracy was thrust an orphaned French boy, Denis de Lornay, who had come to the New World to seek fame and fortune. Denis, after landing at Quebec, was befriended by Perrot and was taught the life of a woodsman. Denis’ adventures—and they were many and often hair-raising— took him all around the Great Lakes region ana as far west as the Illinois territory. n n n

LD SALEM, the Salem of 1800 with its heritage of intolerance from the days of witchcraft, is the setting for a new play by Maxwell Anderson, THE WINGLESS VICTORY (Anderson House). | When, after a long absence, Capt. Nathaniel McQues- | ton returned to his native soil from Celebes in the | “Wingless Victory,” he brought with him not only | a fortune in spices, but also his wife Oparre and her two children. Great was the consternation of the | townsfolk when they discovered that Oparre was a Malay Princess—and so to their minds, a “black” woman. They succeeded in forcing Nathaniel and his wife apart, thus “saving his soul”; but the separation * cost Oparre .her life and Nathaniel his happiness. The play is written the same verse form as the suthor’s previous ess, “W » )

| been unusually rapid and direct.

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AUL was Mr. McNutt was born July 19, | 891, at Franklin, the only child of | ganee » and Mrs. John C. McNutt. |

came a co-founder of “The Nui- |

| bar. | him to Bachelor of Laws. That was in 1916. A few months later the Martins

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Martinsville High School | ville law firm of John C. McNutt | year book, which later became the | became the partnership offices of

His father was Johnson County | “Artesian Herald.” He helped to or- | McNutt & McNutt.

TODAY'S LOCAL PERSONALITY

By JACK MORANZ

SEQUED IN NAVAL AVIATION DURING THE WAR » HIS BOYHOOD AMBITION WAS To BE A SREET CAR CONDUCTOR BORN IN INDP(S.» EDUATED HERE IND AT PHILLIPS EXETER AGAD. AND VALE (7920) x MARRIED RUTH HUBBARD AND HAS 3 CHILDREN, — Fol JR. JOHN 4 AND Lugy =»,

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IS VICE PRES. oF WJ Hollibav ¢ AND vw oy MONARCH STEEL CO. , STEEL JOBRERS » DIRECTOR oF Bolu FIRMS AND OF AMER. STATES INS.€0. AND MERCHANTS NATL. BANK * AFTER FINISHING COLLEGE, RETURNED To INDPLS. on SUN. EVE. IN QUNE 920 AND ON FOLLOWING MORNING, STARTED Will HoLLIDAY &€0. AS OFFICE Boy WORKED IN ALL DEDTR. AND BECAME

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[daughter of a

( manufacturer. | They were married on April 20, | 1918. Soon after, he was promoted | [to major in the Field Artillery. Be- | fore the war ended, he was advanced | [ to colonel and acting brigadier gen- | | eral. He was placed in charge of the | demobilization of Camp Jackson, | [checking up Army accounts and | | tearing down the mushroom war | | school. { Mr. McNutt returned to Bloomington to become a member of | Burton Woolery Post, American | Legion. In February, 1920, the “flu” | epidemic reduced the weight of the six-foot-two professor from 205 to | 180 pounds. A year later Louise, the McNutts’ only child, was born. The same year, Mr. McNutt was named Bloomirigton American Legion commander.

Bloomington

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N 1925, he was appointed dean of |

the Law School. [post until 1933

He held this

Meanwhile, ‘his post-military ca- |

| reer progressed. He rose from

| lleutenant-colonel in the Field Ar- |

| tillery Reserve to commanding offi | cer of the 326th Field Artillery. He led his American Legion post | {in a successful membership cam- | paign following the war. He was elected National Commander of the | organization in 1928. He was | member of the Fifth Corps Area | Advisory Board and civilian aid to { the Secretary of War. | Under Commander McNutt’s lead(ership, the American Legion mem- ( bership increased 36,000 and in the year 1928-29 showed a net profit of | $71,000. He dedicated the American | Legion Building in Paris and repre- | sented the organization on a tour through Italy.

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E WAS active in Indiana University alumni work, serving on [the Alumni Council from 1924 to | 1930. He was chairman of the Indiana Law Journal Board of Editors 1926-33. He was elected to numerous scholastic and legal organizations, | including the American Association | of University Professors, the Ameri{can Law Institute, the American | Peace Society, the Indiana Bar Ase | sociation Committee on Legal Edu- | | cation, the Gorgas Memorial Insti- | tute, the Association of American | Law Schools, Acacia, Sigma Delia | | Chi, the Pulaski National Memorial | | Committee, the Legion D’Honneur | | and the Reserve Officers Association | { of the United States. | Politics and the 1930's came sim-

[1933 and 1935 regular sessions.

| 1935 Legislature

| istrative control

{on the House and a 38-to-12 ma-

ity in the Se ; 3% [JOrIY in he Senate | speare, who although somewhat outmoded in his liters

ultaneously for Paul McNutt. Rallies | displaced Legion meetings. He gave up lobbying for veterans to devote his time to making State Democratic

University | groom-to-be of Kathleen Timolat, | contacts.

Legionnaires and law school friends combined to inaugurate the “McNutt for Governor” boom. By | 1932 it had gained such momentum that he was nominated and he car- | ried the State by a landslide ma- | jority. n n ” N Inauguration Day, 1933, Governor McNuit told members ot the 78th General Assembly of a plan | to relieve a State suffering from the effects of the depression. He was favored with near-record | majorities in both houses during the | The | 1933 Assembly passed 292 acts and whipped through | 352 acts and resolutions. The keystone of his administration was the State Government Reorganization Act passed by the 1933 Assembly. It centralized the admin- | in the Governor and reduced the number of depart- | ments from 169 to eight. Indiana became the first State to | | co-operate with Federal agencies in | | the establishment of new projects. | un n ” | WAVE of bank robberies swept | the state following the Dillin- | | ger gang escape in 1933. Governor | | McNutt discharged several prison | officials. | He used troops in controlling | | labor disturbances during his ad- | | ministration. | A section of Vigo County was | under martial law when he took | office. He issued his first call for | troops on Oct. 9, 1933. Later he sent | | them to Terre Haute and Floyd and | | Clark counties. Under Governor McNutt's direc- | tion, the General Assembly passed | the Gross Income Tax Act and the | Liquor Control Act. Both proved to be controversial measures. In 1936, he outlined a social se- | curity program and charged the | General Assembly to enact it.in a | special session. Bills providing for | unemployment compensation and | pensions for the blind, aged and | dependent were rushed through the | Legislature in 14 days. f He was backed in his legislative | program by a House majority of | 91 to 9 and a Senate majority of | 43 to 7 in the 1933 session. In 1935 | the Democrats held a 65-t0-35 grip

With the close of his term Jan. 11, 1937, Paul McNutt received his first taste of “private life.” It was shortlived. |

Next: Rules—"

“The Court, Therefore,

Court Plan Would Not Set Bad Precedent, Clapper Says

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By RAYMOND CLAPPER

| ASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—One |

widely expressed fear about the | Roosevelt Supreme Court plan is |

| that it would set a dangerous prec- | edent that might make it easier | for some future President of vicious |

and ruthless nature similarly to remake the Court and exterminate our liberties under the Bill of Rights, thus becoming a dictator. That is what Senator Wheeler (Mont.), a progressive Democrat, had in mind when he said: “If this Administration can increase the Court to make it subservient to its wishes, another Harding Administration can do the same thing.” It is natural for Senator Wheeler to raise that question. He was framed by the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice, soon after President Coolidge succeeded President Harding. That was an act of retaliation against Senator Wheeler for his investigation of Mr. Daugherty’s regime. But a jury acquitted Senator Wheeler in 10 minutes, after which the District Court

here threw out anhother indictment

UT Senator Wheeler does not | really fear another Harding in this sense. His vindication came easily and Daugherty was driven out of office soon afterward. It isn’t the Hardings that any of us really fear. Nor the Coolidges. Nor even the Hoovers. They are not ruthless enough to be dangerous in this respect. On the contrary, the complaint against this type of President is thet he is not bold enough in dealing with economic and social problems, that he lets things drift too much. n n 2 0, it is not the Hardings that | "we really fear. It is the Huey Longs. We fear the rise here of one of those ruthless, strong-arm tyrants who have seized power in other countries. Long was the nearest threat of that kind we have had. He was far from being a real threat, but he had the possibilities. Had he lived and had economic conditions grown worse—who knows? He the kind of man for whom we are

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

XCEPT for a few short weeks, during which time I was down with the measles, it seems to me that I spent most of my forme ative years going to school. The results aren't very apparent, I ade

| mit, and maybe 1 shouldn't have brought up

the subject, but I might as well tell everything, even If it does entail a personal risk. Anyway, it's high time for everybody to know that I am a high school

graduate, no matter whether the Emmerich Manual Training High School people have spent 50 years trying to suppress the fact, 1 am going to come clean. Fortytwo years ago today, the Charles E. Emmerich Manual Training High School got its start, and whether you believe it or not, I was in on the start. My, my, how time flies, The fact of the matter is that I was right in the middle of it, because, the way things turned out, I was part of the gang brought over from High School No. 2, which, at that time occupied an eight-room building on Virginia Ave. near Merrill St. I landed in the 10-B class of the new school, I remember, As 1 recall, we brought our teachers with us. as gallant and patient a band of martyrs as ever sufe fered around here. And this being true. it occurs to me that the least I can do today is to review their

Mr. Scherrer

| names and memories,

There was Violet Demree, T remember, whose eyes were just like the flower and whose speech was $0 meticulous that she always said: “When you shall have

And then there was Anna Griffith,

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She Fooled Him

ALWAYS felt sorry for Miss Thompson because I knew that she was crying for the moon. But she fooled me in the end and I lived to see the day the women got to vote. For some reason, women always have fooled me. And then there was Theodore Smith. who taught physics and chemistry and had the devil's own time teaching us Kids to keep our lamp chimneys clean. The other man was Paul Grumann, who, besides having an extraordinary gift for teaching Latin and German verbs, also had the good sense to do it dressed up in a Prince Albert suit. It lent dignity to his calling. So much so, that I remember some of the creases in his pants better than I do the moods and tenses of his lessons. Of course, the biggest thing we brought over from High School No. 2 was the “Big Chief,” which was what we called Charles E. Emmerich behind his back, although I don’t think we fooled him. Anyway, Mr. Emmerich was the principal of No. 2 and we brought him along to start the Industrial Training School, which was the name the school started with. Later, some precious souls around here got the idea that the name sounded too much like a penal institution. They had their way, too, which ace counts for the present name. n zn Native of Germany R. EMMERICH was 61 years old when he started the new school and had been in Indianapolis just 22 years before that. Born and bred in Ger= many, he came here by way of some place in the Wild West, which he said was too crude to suit Anyway, he said Indianapolis was more civilized. He got a job almost immediately as superintendent of German in the public schools, and in 1890 went to High Schocl No. 2 as its principal. He got away with it so well that they offered him the job of run= ning a brand new manual training high school, the

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| like of which had never been seen in America.

I don’t have to tell you what a name and reputa= tion he made for himself. What more to the point today is the possibility that maybe Mr. Em merich achieved his success because of the apprenticeship he served at No. I know it to be a fact, anyway, that he had the South Side boys eating out of his hand when it came time to open Manual,

Ee. A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HE film version of “Romeo and Juliet” finally made it to our town. As usual the honey of its words, its poignant mishaps, the tale of young love which ends in a tomb, gripped the hearts of the sentimental middle-aged. The old girls wept; the old boys sniffled. But what of the younger generation? I regret to report that they snickered audibly when the rope ladder came to view, snorted at some of the most moving passages, and behaved altogether as if romantic love were something that deserved the Bronx cheer. If one were to judge by appearances, they were consumed with mirth at the idea of any mortal getting serious, much less tragic, over frustrated love, When the young are concerned, however, it is never wise to judge by appearances. Their words and actions are deceptive, and serve to camouflage the softness of their sensibilities. The moving pictures, together with other educational forces, have done something dreadful to our children. The showing of “Romeo and Juliet” proves that. And it that

is indeed high time the producers

| turned their attention to such playwrights as Shakee

ary style, has certain home truths to speak which are

| as important today as they were in Elizabethan times.

The boys and girls who grew up with the wisecrack and have been educated in the flippant tradition,

| are so embarrassed by sincere emotion, sincerely exe pressed, that they literally writhe in their seats.

Bee ing accustomed to seeing a James Cagney hit his lady love in the jaw or a Clark Gable stretch audacity to insolence, and having watched hundreds of film heroines treat their sweeties with haughty disdain or saucy impertinence, a yielding Juliet and a gentle Romeo leave them uncomfortable, perplexed, bewildered. They resent the assault upon their heartstrings, which, try as they will, they find it hard to resist. Beneath their pose of ridicule one can sense their groping after certainties. By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, American Medical Assn, Journal LL the methods that have been mentioned in the previous columns relating to diphtheria are value able in controlling the spread of scarlet fever. If the disease is noted early and the victims promptly put to bed, if proper measures of disinfection are applied to discharges from the nose and throat and to contaminated materials, and if we apply all we know about specific prevention, it is quite pos= sible that scarlet fever may some day be eliminated as a threat to human beings. One thing is certain-—every person who has scarlet fever should be isolated and remain so until a physi= cian declares that it is safe for him to mingle with others. It is well to keep all children away from a scarlet fever victim. The Doctors Dick found not onlv that the germ called streptococci is responsible for scarlet fever, but also that it produces a poison or toxin, which can be found in the material in which the germs grow, If this toxin is injected into the skin of a person who has not previously had scarlet fever, a severe reaction occurs. In a person who is resistant to scarlet fever, either by having had a previous attack, by having obtained his resistance through his mother, or in other way, the reaction either does not occur @F is very mild.