Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1937 — Page 15

Vagabond

From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Bigger. and Better Being | Built, but Ernie Steam Rail Equipment Here to Stay.

Streamliners

of railroading, typified by the streamliners and the tourist trains that you find in the West, seems to me a significant thing. Railroads went along pretty much in

their old conservative rut for several decades, but now they are having ideas. “Will the day come, say 20 years from now, when all trains are stre:mliners?” I asked. i The answer from railroad men i was, “Probably: not.” There will always have ‘to be local service. |'And there’s no sense in putting a { 125-mile-an-hour train on a i branch line with stops to pick up i milk cans at every other house. ~ : “Will Diesel power eventually iireplace all steam trains?” Again il the answer, “Probably not.” The {Diesels . on these ‘streamliners ‘aren’t 100 per cent successful yet. ’ i Many'’s the time the proud streami liner has come rolling into its i terminal behind a. dirty steam locomotive. The Union Pa ific has not abandoned steam. It is now building a| steam-turbine locomotive. So far as I know the steim turbine has not heretofore been tried jon trains. | The ysame setup will be used as in the Diesel locomot{ives! The steam turbine will drive a generator toj create eleciricity, and the electricity will ka the trdin.. “Will Soins trains eventually be made of lighter stuffi and pulled by streamlined engines?” Again the answer, “Protably not.”

Freight Cars Tost Money

There are tent and tens of thousands of freight cars in this countiy. They cost a lot of money, She last, a long time. | A streamlined passenger train costs nearly a million dollars. You just can’t throw away old trains right and left| andl replace them with million- dolar Yr trains. ‘ But they are going ahead just the same, buile ing them bigger znd faster. The Union [Pacific will have two new ones ready in the fall. They will run from Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco, supplementing the present once-a-week streamliner runs. The new ones are to be immense, powerful elabarate affairs—a |quarter of a mile long, 17 cars, wit 5400| horsepower :inder their bonnets. |

Mr, Pyle

Atf least two rozds running to the Ccast have not yet !

put on streamline’s. Trainmen on the Burlington and Union Pacific—nci officials, just plain workmen—say they | figure these other roads are just letting sore body} else do the experimental work.

Ser i ice Pepp:d Up

far as I krow, no other road has put on a } veal all-tourist train. | But every road has had to pep up its rvige| for the poor man. i I guess there isn’t a line running from the Midwest ta the Coast noir which still has the uncomfortable i ad all carry modern, comfortable { trains. And they have low prices. hey’re all &rving inexpensive meals on some of their| trains. Thesy had to do it. Without ques ion, the tourist trains have brought back| some of tliz bus riders. And the streamliners have|brought back some of the airplane riders. But _ also. [the streaniliners have taken passengers away © from the regulai trains, So you hardly know wherza you gre.

rs.Roosevelt’'s Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Deinocratic Women's Gathering Is {Impressive to First Lady.

EW YORK CITY, Wednesday—In Syracuse last evening, tilere was a remarkable gathering of Democratic worien from all over the State of New York, and in addition there were some men! These gentlemen came¢ from Syracuse or had brought their wives by motor ‘rom different parts of the State. One lady told me she brought me greetings from California.

When I thirk back to the early days of the organization of women which Miss Harriet May Mills began and Mrs. Daniel G'Day continued. a meeting such as the one last night seems almost incredible. These women :re spending two days listening to speeches and discussing programs of work. Miss Mills, good organization Democrat as she was, and feminist before everythirz else, would indéed have been pleased to hear Mr. Farley give credit last night to Miss Dolly Dewson, his associate on thé National Democratic Committee, and to the women all over the State for the work which: they have learned to do so well. That they take it seriously, no one who watched their faces during the speeches will doubt. Mrs. O'Day and Postmaster General Farley spoke and they were given keen attention.

Another lady stopped me in the hall to tell me she had hati to bring her little girl with her, a drive of 200 miles. The child could not neglect her school work, so she had spent the entire afternoon in their hotel room keeping up with what was happening in school. A child whose mother takes her Democratic work so seriously is certainly growing up in an atmosphere where citizenship is active, not passive, and _ where responsibilities are takeh seriously. Mrs. Scheider and I got up rather early this morning, for Syracuse is on standard time and New York ‘City and Hyde Park are on daylight’ time. We left Syracuse according to their time at 5 a. m. We had the road practically to ourselves with the country looking as fresh and lovely as it always does on a sunny day in June. We cut across from Syracuse to Catskill and for the first time I came over the Rip . Van Winkle Bridge. What a very modern structure to recall the stories we were all told in our childhood about the Cafskill Mountains, Henry Hudson, his bowl-playing companions and old Rip Van Winkle. The whole trip took us only four hours and a half. We have spent. two busy hours at Hyde Park and are starting shortly for the train and New York City. I always manage to have some errands to do in New York and soon after 6 we will have to be at the broadcasting sfation.

Walter O'Keefe —

HERE'S no truth in the rumor that President Roosevelt sent J. P. Morgan a pair of tickets for ‘the play, “You Can't Take It With You.”

J. P. had an enjoyable trip coming across on the"

Queen Mary-—a much better time than he’ll have “coming across” for the New Deal. A taxpayer today is in a tough spot. If he doesn’t find holes in the income tax laws, he'll find them in the soles of his shoes. 3

I know a fellow who’s got a yacht he calls “The.

S. S. Tax Evader.” Instead of a crew of sailors the

Predicts |

America's Footloose First

ORTLAND, Ore., June 10.—This new era |

The Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937

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(Fourth of a Series)

By Ruth Finney

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, June 10.—Mrs. Roosevelt got a letter the other day telling her that instead of being America’s First Lady she was America’s first nuisance, always sticking her nose into things. Another letter suggested that if Mrs. Roosevelt had stayed at home and attended to her housekeeping the writer would not have soiled her white kid gloves on the stair rail between the ground and main floors. * Mrs. Roosevelt laughed about the letters in one . of her radio talks and listed some of the things into which

she had been beseeched—in vain—to “stick her nose.” The white-kid-glove letter amused her particularly

because during the hours

when the public is admitted to the White House that particular brass rail is wiped every 15 minutes by White House servants. The most significant thing about the letters Mrs. Roosevelt didn't mention. It’s the fact that | letters of that sort are so rare nowadays. When she first moved into the White House there seemed tp be hundreds of thousands of people who’ didn’t® like her. Wherever two or more were gathered together she was discussed pro and con—and mostiy . con. Women rocked on resort porches and told each other how disgraceful it was for a President's wife to drive about the country, and to make speeches. Men were even more expressive in their dislike. They seemed to feel her a personal menace threatening the: foundations of their homes. Malicious stories were told and unkind jokes werc made. ; * s ” 7 HOUSANDS of words were written trying to explain this state of mind but a Washington taxi driver summed it up in one short sentence of which the printable portion. was, “A lot of lazy wives hate her.” He did not deal with the masculine aberration, but others analyzed it as rooted in a fear that all women might become too capable. , When it came time for the 1936 campaign, party strategists didn’t know whether it was a good idea for Mrs. Roosevelt to travel on her husband's campaign train. They were afraid that she was ‘definitely unpopular, that she might become an issue. It was finally decided that she should go but remain in the background. That program was followed— as far as ‘the train's first stop. Then it was discovered that the

crowds wanted ‘Mrs. Roosevelt. If she failed to appear on the platorm they shouted for her till & did appear, and they cheered her just ‘as heartily as her husband, sometimes more heartily. She smiled and waved but made no speeches. She never does when her husband is about.

Sometime between 1933 and 1936 -

the country had changed its mind about its President’s wife. Somewhere along the line it had learned that she was neither designing female politician, snooper, publicity hound, nor thrillseeker. It had learned that she sincerely cared about people and was sometimes able to help them out of their difficulties, that she never condescended or patronized, never arrogated power to herself.

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T learned that Mrs. Roosevelt was interested in a few specific things, with none of which it could quarrel: Improving the health, education and opportunities of children, advancing the cause of peace, raising standards of labor, particularly for women, increasing opportunities for work for jobless women, obtaining better housing, and improving conditions in institutions for the underprivileged.

To some extent the change in

sentiment was brought about by Mrs. Roosevelt's daily newspaper column on her life in the White House, in the opinion of at least one psychologist. Dr. Edward Safford Jones, of the University of Buffalo commented recently that the column, with its sincerity and frankness, “dispels all possible fear that she is lurking behind the political and social scenery, ready to poison with drug or malice.” He pointed out that no trace of egotism or boastfulness could be found in it. And; since 1933, millions of persons have seen Mrs. Roosevelt and many have talked with her, discovering for themselves her charm and her real and absorbing

Child Labor Opponents

Favor Wage-Hour Bill

Times Specinl ASHINGTON, June 10.—Lifelong opponents of child labor lined up solidly today in favor. of the methods of control provided in the Administration’s wage-hour bill as opposed to legislation just reported by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee.

On the other hand. witnesses representing employers began suggesting to the Senate and House Labor Committees that child labor be handled in separate legislation, as the other committee proposes. The Interstate Commerce Committee bill would bar child-made goods in the way prison-made goods are now barred from states having laws against their sale in competition with goods made by free labor. It is. backed: by Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.). Witnesses from the National Child Labor Committee, the League of Women Voters and the National Consumers League opposed the pris-on-goods formula for combating child labor in their testimony befor the labor committees. Courtenay Dinwiddie. speaking for the National Child Labor Committee, said, the prison-goods law is not working properly because of difficulty in enforcing it. Even if 1t had worked perfectly, he said, he would not favor applying the same technique to child-made. goods. - “Such a plan,” he said, “calls for

the enactment by every state of new and approximately identical legislation, something never yet attained in any field. Persons would be forbidden to ship goods into states if they were made in violation of the laws of the receiving states. “With the 48 states having different laws and with wide variation as to detail, such as refer to ages, hours, night work and types of machinery on which/ children may or may not be employed, the vast com-

plexity of conditions, with which the hundreds of thousands of manufac-

turers of this country would be supposed to be familiar, reaches a de-

gree of absurdity which would, I

fear, made a joke of the law.”

Diet "Guilty"

(Copyright. 1937. by Science Service)

TLANTIC CITY, June 10.—For

the first time a product of veg-

etable origin is found guilty of causing cancer. Development of cancer in

white rats as a result of feeding them wheat germ oil was reported by Drs. Leonard Rowntree, George N. Dorrance and E. F. Cicone of Philadelphia at the meeting of the

American Medical Association here. This discovery means that scien-

tists must search more deeply into

the possibility of diet playing a part

in causing certain types of cancer.

Glances

By Clark

Politicians Discover Mrs. Roosevelt Is Asset

Lady

Mrs. Roosevelt is a much-loved daughter-in-law, wife and mother.

interest in others. No one in her vast audience has been able to find a harsh or unkind word in what she has said or has written, or a word that diminished, in any way, the dignity of her position. Those who have seen her have discovered that she is much better looking than her pictures; that her clothes are in excellent taste but that if necessary she subjects them to hard usage and is not too proud to arrive some-

place looking a little battered if |

that is the only way she can get there. z o 8 ER radio audience, inclined at first to think her voice affected, hears a different voice now, for she has patiently toiled and rehearsed under competent direction until the occasional high notes—probably due to a slight deafness—have been eliminated. The widespread knowledge that . what Mrs. Roosevelt earns from her talks and her writings is -devoted to charity has counted heavily in her favor. The country has learned in a hundred ways that Mrs. Roosevelt is a devoted and much-loved wife, mother, grandmother and daughter-in-law, and that her life is based on homely and wholesome rules of conduct even if she does fly by airplanes and care intensely about matters outside her home as well as inside it. She summed it all up herself once in terms with which even the most old-fashioned woman could hardly quarrel. “Woman’s place certainly is in the home,” she said, “but if she really cares about her home, that caring will take her far and wide. No home is an isolated object. Anyone who fully appreciates the value of home life must of neces- - Sity reach out in many directions in an effort to protect the home, which we know is our most valuable asset.”

NEXT—How Mrs. Mrs. Roosevelt got that way.

And a devoted grandmother,

Indiana 1937

By L. A.

HE early spring months of 1937 ~have introduced a slight ray of 0 Abe into the grisly picture pre“dented by statistics of traffic deaths

and injuries in the United States. For the first time in five years, the usual upward trend ot spring-time fatalities has been reversed, April showing a reduction of 4 per cent under March.

In Indiana, however, traffic deaths for the first quarter of this year totaled 17.4 per cent over the corresponding period of 1936, a state accident report showed.

This increase was reported despite

the fact that:25 counties maintained records of no traffic accident fatal-

ities. Total Indiana deaths for the first quarter was 285. : Largest decrease in fatalities was

58.8 per cent’in cities from 2000 to

Traffic Deaths Up, Although U. S. Rate Is Down

Complete reports as to rises in other states are not yet available, but earlier statistics covering the first quarter of 1937 showed appalling rises in motor death rates in some localities, aggregating 138 per cent over 1936 in Delaware, 136 per cent in Vermont, 102 per cent in Maryland and 100 per cent in New Hampshire. The estimated national toll of automobile fatalities for the first quarter of 1937 was 8500, an increase of 26 per cent over 1936. This increment may be discounted somewhat by increased motor travel as measured by gasoline consumption —up 6 per cent in January, an estimated 22 per cent in February and an estimated 8 per cent in March.

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parison is one of .the truest measures of the effectiveness of traffic safety measures. The national death rate on this basis is '19.8 per 10,000,000 callons, affording at least an approximate gauge as to how individual states ‘measure up.” Firs, quarter ‘statistics for 326 cities above 10,000 population showed a curious anomaiy. Fatality totals increased sharply over 1936, but the average city death rate per 100.000 was below the national rate of 26.5 covering both cities and rural areas. For more than a decade, rural deaths have been mounting out of all proportion to urban fatalities. The statistics seemed to indicate a gradual lessening of this trend. In Indianapolis and Marion County 68 persons have been killed this year as compared with 66 during the same period in 1936. The following table shows the best

Our Town

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Vl Lessors

Ghosts

Formula

By Anton Scherrer

Extra-Curricular on the

Behavior = of Recalled: Spook-Meeting Clear,

GUESS I was in the 6B Sade when 1 leArned most about the belikvior of ghosts. I didn’t learn it in school, however. It came to me by way of an old egro who was known to us boys as ‘Mr. Friday.” Tm pretty sure, though, that wasn’t his real name. It couldn’ have been, because I distinct ly recall that Mr. Friday once cautioned us kids never to say anybody’s name out loud, lest the ghosts pick

it up. If the ghost learned your real name—especially in a grave yard—you’d die right away, said Mr. Friday. It was as sure as shooting, he said. Moreover, it was on the same occasion that Mr. Friday advised the use of pseudonyms to fool the ghosts. From which I gathered that he was smart enough to follow his own advice. Mr. Friday worked for the family in the big octagon house on the east side of Madison Ave. between. South and Merrill Sts. It’s gone now, like a lot of other things of 50 years ago. We boys always called it the “Round House,” and it certainly looked like that from a distance. On closer inspection, however, it turned out to be a house of eight equal" sides and as many equal angles.

Mr. Scherrer

Knowledge Was Natural

The house was so unlike anything around here that it seemed the most natural thing that Mr, Friday should be a part of it. At any rate, it was not unnatural that Mr. Friday should know some=

thing about the nature of ghosts.

For some reason, Mr. Friday never said much about ghosts during the winter months, but he made up for it in the summer time. I remember one |July evening in particular. The bats came awfully close to the ground that night, and the insects were lower than usual. There was something queer about the moon, too, because I remember that it had a sickly halo that evening. That was the night Mr. Friday picked to tell us kids that the best way to get along with - ghosts was to give them plenty of room to operate in,

Mr. Friday, I remember, was especially particular about doorways. He said we must always leave enough room for a ghost to pass without touching us, and the only way to be sure was to allow enough space for a human being to pass. If the ghost touched you in passing, you were doomed, said Mr. Friday. Your ‘head would swell to five times its normal size, and after that no doctor on earth could help you.

Table Manners Important

We had to be careful about our ‘table manners, too, said Mr. Friday. Especially about letting things lie on the floor after they dropped off our forks. It was always possible that a ghost liked food as well as we did, said Mr. Friday, And if we beat him to it, there was no telling what a ghost might do to get even with us,

Mr. Friday had a lot more to say, but he kept his spookiest observation for the last. I don’t think I'll ever forget it. He said anybody could meet a ghost if he wanted to. "All you had to do, he said, was to take a little of the fluid out of the eye of a white horse and put it into your own.

I got scared after that, because I remembered that the family in the “Round House” kept a white horse, and hat 1s was part of Mr. Friday’s business to take care of i

A Woman S View

‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

More Ceremony Might Improve Citizenship, in Writer's Opinion.

EF rysave young men lying before a Cardinal's throne, their faces in their hands. Prostrate in humility, having taken the vows of priesthood, they receive the blessing. Here is a picture we see but rarely because so few of our causes are considered sufficiently sacred to warrant any ceremony. The boy who enters the church begins his training early. He studies for years, dedicating himself to a noble work, and without such training he would never be accepted by his superiors,

No sacred or secular organization, no corporation or, business will hire workers who know nothing about their jobs. Nobody at all’ except Old Uncle Sam, who is the least particular of employers. He turns his affairs over to anybody who can show ballot-box credentials. American people seem to think their public business can be transacted by men without education for the task.

Clayton Rand of the National Editorial Association advocates something new. He thinks we should change the Fourth of July from an oratorial to a dedicatory holiday. Young men and women in the community who have attained their coming of age could be given the honors of citizens by suitable cere= monies. He favors a ritual that would make them feel the franchise was a privilege and freedom a blessing. And it is true that our young men give themselves to many other causes with high resolve. Why can they not give themselves then to the cause of decent government? The husiness of the nation is in an upside-down state. Those who look after its details—men and women in civil service—generally do their work well. But their bosses—those who really direct our affairs— how much training do they get for that work? Not much, for often they bring to the business of government only an abysmal ignorance. . . Ceremonials for citizenship! Dedicating youth to the service of democracy! There's much to be said in favor of the thought. Even if we could get the boys to take their voting as seriously as they do their Boy Scouting, it would mean a lot.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

DMIRERS of the late John. Galivority a and his works will enjoy MEMORIES OF JOHN GALS WORTHY, by his sister, M. E. Reynolds (Robert Hale, London). The ‘first part of the hook, a very brief

OLLOWING are - the Safely Council’s estimates of motor deaths per 10,000,000 gallons of gasoline consumed in 39 States: Arizona, 16.9; California, 17.1; Colorado, 17.2; Connecticut, 15.9; Delaware, 17.4; District of Columbia, 17.9; | 13 Citie Florida 22.8; Georgia, 26.8; Idaho, | N 19.1; Illinois, 23.6; Indiana, 25.0; Iowa, 11.1; Kansas, 10.2; Maine, 13.4; Maryland, 24.1; Massachusetts, 14.1; Michigan, 13.7; Minnesota, 11.5; Missouri, 15.5; Nevada, 14.9; New | iio Hampshire, 21.1; New Jersey, 14.6; New Mexico, 22.2; New York, 18.3; North Carolina, 28.0; North Dakota, 3 6.1; Oklahoma, 21.5; Oregon, 16.0: Pennsylvania, 25.4; Rhode Island, | 25- RET: : 7 8.1; South Dakota, 7.3; Tennessee, SE Teter 3 28.0; Utah, 24.6; Vermont 24.7; Vir- ee, ginia, 24.4; Washington, 15.8; West Virginia, 22.2; Wisconsin, 17.3; Wyoming, 14.1. Some authorities maintain the “gasoline. consumption 5

biography, gives an intimate picture of his backe ground and family life, while the second part is come prised of selected letters, chosen for the most part because of the revealing pictures of the author’s character which they present. In both sections the reader will find much that is reminiscent of the Forsyle family, for Galsworthy was in many ways a Forsyte, and it was from personal knowledge that he created his magnificent and enduring panorama of middle class Victorian and postwar England.

2 x a RMAND JEAN, known to history as Richelieu, was | born in Paris on Sept 9, 1308. 3 JS Shen his sariy

5000 population, while the largest increase was 50 per cent in cities

and the worst city traffic death records, measured by death rates per 100,000, for cities in six population groups for the first quarter of 1937.

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boat is manned by a battery of lawyers and he’s got a retired Federal judge up-in the crow’s nest looking toward Washington for unfavorable winds. of less than 2000, the Indiana The way the Government is holding up the tax- . A ki : figures showed. payer it seems that we ought to Senge the Siaule of A" Xr ——eps 2 =~ : ea» Liberty. | It would be more suitable for her stan yy { \ mez A : NY encoiragement that may bs there with both hands, up in the air. A eT

* . : .| ment, however, should be seasoned On Co-operatives

with a liberal dash of salt, because ‘By NEA Service

traffic deaths for the first four months of 1937 numbered 11,360, a : 21 per cent increase over the same ASHINGTON, June 10.—There seems to be no period last year despite the favorimmediate prospect that the Administration able April showing. will officially promote consumer co-operatives, as Specifically, the National Safety some businessmen have feared. Council reports that an even dozen But hundreds of minor New Dealers have taken states—Alabama, A.1zona, Kansas, the matter into their own hands and established a Maine, Montana, Minnesota, Misseries of small "but growing co-operative se sot’, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode in the capital. This group includes ‘a considerable number of employees of the several Federal agencies, which in| one way or another have had contact with

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