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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Roving Reporter Has to Summon a Doctor in Alaska, and Former I. U. Classmate Responds to the Call.

ETERSBURG, Alaska, June 22. — The

only way I know to start this column is with the old saw+—“It’s a small world after all.” : To go back a ittle, I came over here from Wrangell on a cannery tender. It was

a small beat with a Diesel engine, and a 2-by-4 galley below, and a pilothouse above, and no

place to sit unless you sit in the rain on the edge of a spare rowboat or eck. A cannery tender carries fish the other 364 days of the year. 1 | It’s about 50 miles over here rom Wrangell, and takes five fe The ride jis oeautiful. You run close alongside wooded islands and up through the = Wrangell Narrows, with snowy mountains >.> pon each side. : gf % : ,- | Seems the Petersburg Eastern TREN cof tars had invited the Wrangell £ §€ L |Eastern Stars over for some spe#5 ae cial Saturday night lodge work, to oe climaxed with an all-night Mr. costume ball (everything in Alaska lasts all night). So the Eastern Stars got Frank Barnes, the cannery man, to bring them over in one of his tenders, and they let me come along. 0 " The least I could have done in return for such hospitality was to be sociable. But I couldn’t even be that, for I had|got sick in Wrangell, and was still sick on the way over. I spent most of the trip lying on the engineer’s bunk down by the noisy Diesel.

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Fate Steps In

Well, when we got here we all went to the Arctic Hotel, the<only one in town, and I had the clerk call a doctor. There are two doctors here, and 1 don’t know why the clerk called Dr. Benson instead of Dr. Rude. But he did, and after a while Dr. Benson carae down and made me take off my shirt, and listened to my heart and tickled my stomach and asked me where I was from, and here we get to the “small For it turned out that Doc Benson and I went to college together in Indiana 15 years ago! | People do scatter When they grow up, and Doc Benson scattered all the way up to this Alaskan fishing settlement nine years ago. He likes it here. After getting his medical degree from Indiana University he interned in Eastern hospitals and then in Seattle. That's what led him to Alaska. A doctor he knew, who had been practicing in Petersburg, decided to go back to the States. Which left an opening here for a brave young physician, and Doc Benson decided to try it. He sent for his college sweetheart, and they were married just before leaving Seattle. They are now the parents of twin boys. It all happened very suddenly one night four years ago, so suddenly that Dr. Rude couldn’t get there in time and Doc Benson

| had to bring his own twins into the world.

The Bensons live in an apartment over a store, and have a Dodge sedan, and lead about the same

| ‘life they would in a Midwestern town.

There is enough work here to keep two |doctors going. They are both surgeons, and do their oper-

ating in the local hospital. Dr. Benson did 22 major

operations last year. The only patients he sends

‘ “outside” are goiter cases.

Emergencies Just That

When you have an emergency up here it] really an emergency, and you have to step in an do it, Benson believes he’s learned more here “than he would have in the States. I asked if he felt that he had made mor here! than he would have made in a town

money his size have.” Meaning he has. | I asked him if a doctor got behind with the latest developments in medicine, being stuck way off up here. He said not if he reads the technical magazines, which contain all the new stuff even before it's put into practice. I asked him if he ever tried any ot the new stuff on patients, merely after reading about it. He said “Sure.” Since the depression, doctors have suffered much at the hands of people who simply don’t pay. Benson says there is less of that here than in the States.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Soviet Aviators’ Flight and Progress . Of Miss Earhart Thrill First Lady.

HE PARK, N. Y., Monday—The newspaper, from the point of view of flying news, is very interesting this morning. The Russian fliers have flown | over the pole and reached Vancouver; Wash. and Amelia Earhart has arrived in Java. I always get a thrill over any flying exploits. I was very sympathetic when it was reported Miss Earhart was told she might have to spend three months waiting for the storms to clear in India; and so she inquired for a boarding house! J In|the days of my youth, when I did not live on a schedule, I think I prokably would have been quite thrilled to have found myself somewhere in India and been told I might have to stay there for an indefinite length of time. - Now, with appointments made months ahead, I look upon a delay of even an hour as something really serious. In a column which I read today the following sentence occurs: “By hook or crook, through a democratic instrument, one gets a majority.” This is very interesting because the writer seems to think it unimportant how you get a majority. It seems to be very different whether you get a majority through the democratic instrument, which I surmise is by the vote, or whether you get a majority through coercion. I gather that in the eolumnist’'s mind either way is equally unimportant, that the only people who can think right are the minority composed of the intelligentsia and therefore majorities are of no importance whatsoever. In this, the columnist differs from our past. political philosophy, for we have always considered that ‘though the majority might be temporarily wrong. in the end, a majority which remained a majority over a period of years was usually right, and in our country, at least, we have been governed by the will of the majority. It has not meant, nor I surmise, does it mean in

. the present, the destruction of minorities, though the

minorities may not have been able to do what they wished to do so long as the opposition remained a majority. Neither has it meant, with us at least, “a modern technique of usurpation.” That is only true in the case of majorities achieved by cocrcion. Dictatorship, usurpation, anything may be done when coercion is the basis of majorities.

Walter O'Keefe —

NLY Sunday Il Doochay did his balcony scene again in front of 60,000 mothers. I've just discovered why Benito always picks out a balcony for his speeches. That's so he can have enough room to throw out his chin without hurting somebody. : He wants more babies and, as a publisher, II Duce’s idea of the perfect newspaper would be a first page covered with pictures of himself and the rest of the paper just birth notices. " The mothers of Italy are so busy having babies hat they can hardly eat a plate of spaghetti without

. absent-mindedly knitting it into tiny garments.

In his drive for more babies Il Doochay is a great military strategist. Thousands of fathers pacing up and down hospital corridors will be in great condition for marching when war comes. I hear that some Italian storks are picketing for

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Second Section

Son of First Billionaire Donates

(First of a series)

By WILLIS THORNTON

NEA Staff Correspondent “Tr I only had the money!” The most popular form of day-dreaming is to speculate on the good one would do, the lavish benefactions one would make, ' the social improvements one ‘would launch—“if I only had the

money.”

There is one man to whom this is no day-dream. He has the money. From earliest youth he knew he would have the money. It is his career, his life, his destiny; no day-dream, perhaps sometimes a nightmare. He is John D. Rockefeller Jr. Eis father, who recently slipped out of life at 97, was the first billionaire. Coming to the business stage when a vast industry was about to be born, he largely built the oil industry along lines that still govern that collossus. He retired from business life at 57, with a fortune estimated at 200 million dollars distilled from coal oil. The rise of the automobile business was to boost that fortune later to a billion, and later still to an unheard of total of nearly two billions. - His son, mounting that golden throne, was literally in the position of the youthful Alexander. In business and finance there were no worlds for him to conquer. His task—and once he sighed, “I didn’t ask for this job”—was to administer, not to build. He set himself the task of giving, not getting.

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OW this “younger” Rockefeller is 63 years old. For more than 25 years he has been administering the affairs left behind by the old man who was slipping slowly down the declining years to be a legend and then to die. The son, the present Rockefeller, is a living example of what one intelligent, seriousminded, well-intentioned man really did “if I only had the money.” Vast philanthropies begun by the father after his Croesus-like business career had ended are still being carried on by the yqunger

TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1937

John D. Jr. Gives Away Millions

Rather Than Acquires Money

man, New ones, of a more varied and individual nature, have been added to them. The vast two-bil-lion-dollar fortune has been chipped away in a constant effort to distribute more than the annu-

"al income from it. Today the best

Labor Strife to Affect Politics, Clapper Says

By Raymond Clapper Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, June 22.—That current labor troubles are likely to have political repercus-

sions in next year’s general elections

is becoming evident.

The first direct development appears in Michigan. Following up the nation-wide publicity which he recently obtained by forcing the reopening of a steel plant with the aid of vigilantes who drove off strikers, Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs of Monroe has announced he will seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan next year. Obviously. C. I. O. forces will seek to defeat him in retaliation for his part in breaking their strike, and he will be supported with enthusiasm| by those who have opposed C. I. |O. activities.

In Pennsylvania a similarly sharp division is in prospect. Governor Earle cannot succeed himself and it is expected that his Lieutenant Governor, Thomas Kennedy, who has been a right-hand man for John L. Lewis, will seek. the Governorship on the Democratic ticket.

At least Lewis already has “nomi- |

nated” him publicly. Kennedy has served many years as -secretarytreasurer of the United Mine Workers. It is obvious what the lineup will be if laborite Kennedy runs. 2 =» 2 EVER before have labor trouI bles cut so deeply on so wide a front in the United States. Nor nas labor been so politically minded. While the A. F. of L. has always practiced its rule, which is to “reward your friends and punish your enemies,” it has never put into politics the énergy that Lewis has dis-

played. It has never, as did Lewis last year, throw half a million dollars of union funds into a-Presi-dential fight. Lewis has been the mainspring in “Labor’s Nonpartisan League,”

‘which actually was concerned en-

tirely with re-electing Roosevelt. How politically conscious: ‘he is, Lewis showed when, during the (General Motors strike, he warned President Roosevelt that labor had gone down the line for him and it expected him to go down the line for labor. ; Lewis misses no opportunity to emphasize that labor intends to exert its strefigth through both economic and political organization. For the time being he is working through the Democratic Party. It is probable that he will’ continue that policy through the 1938 campaign. After that, much depends upon developments. Whether he starts a third party may be determined by how much influence he 1s allowed in the Democratic Party under the candidate who will be selected in 1940.

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HILE this situation points to labor continuing .on the side of the Democrats through the 1938 Congressional and state elections, it does not necessarily mean that the Republicans will take the opposite extreme. The tendency will be that way. Some influential members of the party—Ilike conservative Democrats—are severely critical of the influence which Lewis has achieved under the present Administration. They are privately discussing the possibility of making an issue of it. Some lessér Republicans already are talking up the Lewis issue.

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John D. Rockefeller Jr.

estimate is that about a half billien, or 500 millions, remain of what was once nearly two billions. The elder Rockefeller started the giving. Long before his death he had given away greater lumps of money than any man in the history of the world. Why? Most people believed, when Rockefeller began to shed his millions, that an old man had become conscierce-stricken and was frantically, almost aimlessly, trying to qualify for a Baptist heaven. That was less than just.

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HE elder John D. Rockefeller, when he was a penniless young man clerking in Cleveland for $3.50 a week, kept a “little ledger.” The Rockefellers always were, and still are, methodical to a fault. In the ledger the young clerk noted, “Sabbath School, .05; Missionary Cause, .10;” and so on. The little book reveals that the’ young man. living on $3.50 a week was giving almost a tenth of his income to charitable causes. That

Lines in Vote

By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, June 22.—The serious extent of the Senate revolt against White House policies last week was fully indicated by a judiciary committee report rejecting the President’s court reorganization proposal as a “needless, futile and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle,” and also by a bitter fight on the Administration’s $1,500,000,000 relief bill. Seven Democrats joined three ‘Republicans to defeat the court proposal in committee.. The Demccrats were Burke (Neb.), Connally (Tex.), Hatch (N. M.), King (Utah), McCarran (Nev.), O’'Mahoney (Wyo.) and VanNuys (Ind.). The Republicans were Austin (Vt.), Borah (Ida. and Steiwer (Ore.). The adverse report was not signed by the other seven Democrats on the committee, nor by Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.). The serious split in Democratic ranks on the relief issue was first

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shown by Senate Appropriations Committee amendments. Most important of these was the proposal by Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.) to require state ana local governments to furnish 40 per cent of the cost of WPA projects. A coalition of nine Democrats and four Republicans forced this proposal through the committee and precipitated a bitter fight on the Senate floor. Advocates of local participation in WPA costs were unexpectedly reinforced late in the week by Majority Leader Robinson (D. Ark.), who startled his colleagues by taking a stand in opposition to the expressed wishes of the White House.

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FTER hours of debate, House on June 11 voted to extend for another two years, the so-called “nuisance” taxes on gasoline, furs, cosmetics, etc., and also to extend the three-cent postage All these levies were first enacted in 1932 and already had been twice extended.

Members shouted down proposals to rescind the 3-cent postage rate, to eliminate the gasoline tax and to repeal or reduce other levies. A record vote was obtained on an amendment by Representative Flannery (D. Pa.), which would have raised from 10 to 25 cents per 100 pounds ‘ the tax on imported coal and coke, and the increased duty

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narrowly escaped enactment, the final vote being 152 ayes to 155 nays. Indiana Congressmen Split on party lines with Rep. Halleck (R.) ‘voting yea and his Democratic colleagues, Reps. Schulte, Petten-

little book throws a revealing light on the later benefactions of the Rockefellers, father and son. When he started to give away money, the elder Rockefeller went at it scientifically and thoroughly.

He had always given lavishly to the Baptist Church, whose various activities he aided with at least 20 million dollars. He was the principal founder .of the modern University of Chicago, with a 35-million-dollar gift. But that was only a start. He really began giving in 1901 with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which he started with 55 million dollars. Because of that gift, men in white are still bending over test-tubes in a dozen laboratories and hospitals, and we are nearer to mastery over pneumohnia, Bright's disease, rheumatic heart trouble, and other widespread disease than we ever were before. Under Dr. Herbert Gasser, the Institute supports a great hospital where it- treats the cases under study.

on ‘Nuisance’ Crowe, Gray and Larrabee voting nay. Reps. Jenckes, Greenwood .and ‘ Ludlow, all Democrats, did not vote. : 2 # = HEN the resolution continuing the taxes was called up for final passage it was adopted without difficulty—231 ayes to 73 nays. The continuing resolution was favorably reported to the Senate, June 15, and will be approved by the upper house, with or without amendment, whenever brought to a vote. On the final vote, Reps. Pettengill and Farley voted nay, Reps.. Schulte, Halleck, Boehne, Griswold, Crowe, Gray and Larrabee voted yea, while Reps. Jenckes and Ludlow were paired in favor of the bill. Again Rep. Greenwood did not vote. Consideration in the House of a District of Columbia tax bill de-

signed to provide about $6,000,000 in

Entered ‘as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

at Postoffice,

EXT came the General Education Board. It was begun

. with a whopping endowment of

127 million dollars and its principal job has been to make grants of money to deserving educational institutions. It has aided scholars with nearly a million dollars’ worth of fellowships to enable them to go on with work which lack of money might have hindered. It has sought to help illiterate farmers in the South to gain education and thus strike at the roots of their own poverty. It has spent 75 million dollars to improve medical schools. The six million dollar Palomar telescope in California is its latest child,

Under. the direction of Raymond B. Fosdick it has aided the publication of many reports and much knowledge on educational subjects. More than 200 colleges and schools have received its direct grants of money. But the greatest of the Rockefeller -benefactions is the Rocke= feller Foundation, which with the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund is now combined. The assets of this ‘gigantic trust have mounted as high as 250 million dollars. Its objectives are as broad as mankind: “To promote well-being throughout the world.”

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AST year this fund distributed more than 12 million dollars. Through its Division of Public Health, men like Dr. Alexis Carrel and Dr. Hideyo Noguchi have fought malaria and hookworm around the world. A valiant fight against’ yellow fever, and against Rocky Mountain spotted fever, has been waged. Menaces to public health have been attacked at their roots on a wide front from China to Georgia. Experimental work is going forward in developing better radio programs, and in establishing libraries of moving picture films for nonprofit showing by cultural institutions. On the boards of all these permanent -foundations today sits John D. Rockefeller Jr. And it is as “chairman of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation” that he lists himself in Who's Who, rather than stressing any of his widespread industrial or banking connections.

The present Rockefeller follows the operation of these trusts and their work with meticulous care. While he rigidly restricts himself to his single vote, his will nevertheless carries a tremendous influence. He works hard at the business of giving. Every proposal must be studied and its every effect estimated. The same careful circumspection, the same foresight, the same planning, the same canny shrewdness that marked the fortune’s accumulation by the father marks its distribution by the son.

NEXT—The benefactions of the present Rockefeller, while not yet so extensive as those of his father, show a more personal care and feeling, and a far wider range of interests.

Indiana’s Congressmen Split on Party

Taxes

revenue, resulted in placing the Congressmen on record as to their willingness to tax their own salaries. The bill would have levied an income tax applicable to the general public and also to Congressmen who reside in Washington for as long as three months in each year. ” ” z HE House voted 227 to 75 that , it would not consider the bill which, contained the income-tax provise. The income tax subsequently. was deleted and replaced by a heavy chain store tax and an increased property levy. The bill passed as amended on June 18 without a record vote. Four Indiana Congressmen, Reps. Schulte, Halleck, Jenckes and Boehne, voted to consider the bill in its original form, while Reps. Farley, Griswold and Gray voted against the motion. Other Indiana members, Reps. Pettengill, Greenwood, Crowe, Larrabee and Ludlow, were not recorded.

SPEAKING OF _ SAFE]

“ASLEEP IN THE DEEP" ~THATS MUSIC (OM, YEAH?)

BUT AasLEEP AT THE WHEEL — THAT'S SUICIDE!

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Poets of Washington High School Make a Hit With Volume of Verse, Some of Which Presents New Form,

Qu re the nicest thing to come my way, this week was a little volume of verse, published and edited by the Department of English of the George Washington High School. - Appropriately enough, it is labeled “Book of Verse,” and contains a collection of pupils’ poems that the English teachers have chanced to keep during this first decade of the school’s existence. It surprised me, too. I had no idea George Washington’s High School was that old. I don’t know how the rest of you feel about it, but poetry is something I never take on recommendation, not even on the recommendation of friends whose tastes I know and approve. Poetry is an intimate, personal affair that one must settle with oneself, like the picking of a pipe. > I guess it’s because I fight shy of new things. I know it’s foolish, because when you come to think of - it, everything was new once upon a time, include Ing even my best and oldest pipe. Certainly all forms of poetry were new once, and had to make their way against antagonism like mine.

Minds Do Change

I still recall how I fought off Edgar Lee Masters “Spoon River Anthology” when it first appeared, Brought up as I was on the mellowness of Keats and Shelley, Mr. Masters’ poetry was pretty raw stufi—probably as puckery as Keats appeared to th generation of his time. * Indeed, I think often when I am about to cone demn a new poet how like a new persimmon wine John Keats must have tasted to Jeffrey with his fine old palate for Scotch well-aged, and how smoother than curds this same John Keats lingered on the tongues of the next generation.

Well, I had a similar experience with “Spoon River Anthology,” because the way things turned out, I not only put up with the author of it, but I got to like him mighty well. a *

What happened to me—and Mr. Jeffrey, too, for that matter—can happen to anybody, and usually does. What is poison for one generation is food for - the next. In support of which I cite “Book of Verse” —especially the last 12 pages which embrace a dozen or more poems under the caption of “Out of the Fog Over Spoon River.” It means just what it says. The Washington High poets have not only adopted Mr. Masters’ way of writing, but accepted it as an art form as well. Shows what has happened since I went to school.

Proof of Pudding

Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Robeft McMahon, for instance, submits a little piece entitled “Slick Crook.” Listen:

“I was the chief of the village gang. One night we were about ready to pull a job, When one of my men ran into a garbage can Lying in an alley. Well, I got mad and let the lead fly. I missed; The other fellow didn’t.”

And Pete Kretheotis handles Speedy Joe's epitaph something like this;

“I was a speedy race driver; I always wanted to pass Car 37. One hot May day In the big race, I passed 37 for the first time. On the-next curve I threw a tire So that sent me here to retire.” : Well, that’s all I wanted to prove. It never pays: to sell youngsters short.

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Behavior of Wives When Husbands Are Unfaithful Seen Meriting Study.

HERE are a few decisions in our lives that are vital to happiness. Perhaps the most important for a wife is the choice of a behavior pattern when and if she discovers that her husband has been unfaithful. Rare indeed is the individual who escapes such an event, or its imaginary possibilities. Anyway its a godg idea to think about the question as soon after the"honeymoon as our romance can stand the strain. We prepare ourselves to meet other emergencies. If the house should burst into flames we know what precious belonging would first be saved, We steel ourselves to bear illness and death, and fig ure to a penny the worth of our life-insurance money. All right, then, isn’t it just as sensible to count over the coins of our happiness insurance— the most important of which is good judgment? Any crisis of life must be met with sanity and courage... Grief in every form requires time for us to make a recovery, and without a partial recovery no sane decisions about the future are possible. When death comes into our home we pause so that we may learn how to accept his presence-there. Routines are broken for a while; habits change. Life is strangely, sadly different. And above all we realize that we must take time out for making readjustments, which may be momentous alterations for several people. It would be folly, we know, to make our decie ; sions during our time of deepest sorrow. Yet thousands of women behave in that way when they face the death of youthful romance. Without giving themselves so much as a week to reflect upon the issue, they fly in tears to divorce lawyers and sometimes destroy forever the very love they long to save. } If more wives thought less about personal pride and more about the future of themselves and their children; if they regarded their love as a treasure to be cherished through time of stress as they cherished it during times of joy, many more of our love stories would have a happy ending.

Mr. Scherrer

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New Boodks Toda

Public Library Presents—

N “Gerald: A Portrait,” Daphne du Maurier presented an affectionate and clear-sighted picture

"of her father, the talented English actor, playwright

and producer. THE DU MAURIERS (Doubleday, Doran), written with equal tenderness and insight, furnishes us with a complete story of this erratic and gifted family who, &s a result of the French Revolution, found themselves in a world in which they were ill equipped to win their way. * The pages of this book come alive with the vital, sometimes _lovable, sometimes ridiculous personalities.

"Louis-Maturin, his chestnut hair blowing in the wind,

sings and laughs his way irresponsibly through the many vicissitudes of his life. Ellen, his wife, daughter of the pretty, shrewd, and earthy mistress of a “Cer= tain Personage” of England, struggles in vain to bring order and respectability into the lives of people who, after all, are not too much impressed by these qualie ties. ‘ “Kicky” and “Gyggy,” their sons, struggle ims pecuniously toward their respective destinies of fame and obscurity. Pompous George, Ellen’s brother, succumbs to the blond charms of Georgina; and she, death throws in her frivoe