Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1937 — Page 19

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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Trail of Sourdoughs From Skagway |

Revolt

Te White Horse Is Still Visible From Railway That Now Makes Trip Easy.

WHITE HORSE, Yukon Territory, July 9. —Today we came up across White Pass, over which thousands of gold-crazy sourdoughs toiled into the Klondike in 98, We came by train, and it was a thoroughly comfortable experience, but even in this day of modern convenience it was a thrilling and touching one. The mountain range lies just behind Skagway, and Yukon-bound goldseekers of the early days had to start climbing the minute they left the sea at Skagway. Their first route was over Chilcoot Pass. It was used until 98, when they discovered nearby White Pass, which is lower and a little easier. Chilcoot is better known because it has been more thoroughly dramatized by the bards. But it was White Pass that felt the feet of most of the Klondike stampeders. Our train out of Skagway was a surprise. It runs on harrowgauge tracks and is pulled by dinky locomotives. But instead of being a dinky train it is a 15-car affair, half passenger and half freight, and hoisted along not by one engine, or two, but by three. It took us three hours to make the first 30 miles. We started climbing right outside of town. The train rode as smoothiy as a standard-gauge. Within three miles we were looking ‘down into a river gorge that made me sick. On one side of the train was sheer rock wall; on the other it must have been an eighth of a mile straight down. And 1 mean straight down.

Not Even a Guard Rail

No guard rail or anything. I cringed and pulled away from the window. The rushing ‘white stream far below, and the stupendous bare bulk ‘of the opposite mountain, were sights to behold—if you had the stomach to behold them, We climbed and switch-backed and made sharp curves around ledges. We went under snow sheds, and through a patch cut in great snow-and-gravel slides across the track, We crept across spidery wooden bridges, and plowed darkly through one tunnel. Among our passengers were many prosperous=looking men who had climbed up that pass on their own feet in '98. They showed us things they remembered. We stopped at

Mr. Pyle

Glacier Station for water, our train making a letter “U”—the front engine headed one way and the last coach the other. We were getting high. Around the mountain peaks, not so far up, we could see dark swirling snowstorms.

We came to a valley, leading off from the main valley. Where the two meet, far down there, is & large level spot, probably half a mile square and covered with green grass.

Tent City Now Grass

“When I came through here in 98,” one of our veterans told us, ‘that was a tent city with 10,000 people in it. That was the last stopping place before the final climb over the pass. There were restgurants there in tents, and ‘hotels’ in tents.” Today nothing is stirring down there but the blades of grass. Our {rain sneaked along the side of a low gorge. “There it is! See it?” One of our sourdoughs pointed. and everybody jumped and looked. And there it was. Still distinct in the crumbly clay of the ravine's bare side. The trail to the Klondike, The trail taken by city softies, and adventurers, and slickers, and brave, strong men; the trail that led to ridiculous wealth for a few, and sadness and hardship and death for so many others. I can't describe the feeling it gives you to see that bitter path down there, still so plainly cut after all these 40 years. But it puts a lump in our throat. Not far past that we were over the hump. We came to the British Columbia line, where the two fiags fly on high poles side by side. We dropped two engines. From there on in it was an easy downhill ride-—80 miles into White Horse, flat country and flat emotions, after toiling in spirit with the Ninety-eighters over dreadful White Pass.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt Boy Scouts Win First Lady's Praise

At Jamboree Presidential Review.

ASHINGTON, Thursday—We had five nice young people dine with us last night. Three of them from Arthurdale, two of them down here for the Boy Scout Jamboree—one of these from New York, the other from California. After dinner I had a movie — "Wee Willie Winkie,” with Shirley Temple. It was very charming and no one could help but like “Private Winkie.” In the newsreel, which they showed us first, were the pictures of Franklin Junior's and Ethel's wedding. That young couple do take nice photographs, which is a blessing, I think, as long as they have to be photographed. 1 breakfasted alone on the porch this morning and attended to a few household things which had to be arranged before I really bid goodby to them for an extended period. Then at 10:20, the President and 1. with Commissioner Allen of the District of ‘Columbia, set out to pass through the line of Boy Scouts on Constitution Ave. It was really an impressive sight and I never saw a healthier looking group of men and boys. I was not surprised to have Dr. West tell me this afternoon that they had asked the Public Health Service for the health statistics of a number of cities of 25,000 for this period and the Boy Scout encampment ‘of 25,000 boys stands way above any city of that size. Twice in that long line I noticed Boy Scouts in chairs, evidently physically handicapped in some way, and vet they looked strong and well and were evidently accredited Scouts. After lunch 1 drove around the camp and ended up with a.visit to the Dutchess County, New York, Scouts, who brought and erected in their camp a replica of the front of my mother-in-law's home in Hvde Park. Tt is beautifully done and 1 think the boys deserve a great deal of credit. The League of Women Shoppers in New York, which is an organization to study working conditions in various industries and to try to improve them, has sent me a notice of a pamphlet called, “Oonsider the Laundry Workers,” which they are getting out on laundry workers in New York City. This pamphlet is a study of conditions in New York City, but they say that the same conditions prevail in many other places. It seems to me that by furnishing authentic. information this ‘organization is doing a service to industry, the public and to labor. As laundries are so closely connected with our homes, I imagine many people will read this pamphlet.

Walter O'Keefe —

OW that Al Smith is back home, some Republicans and a few Democrats want him to throw the brown derby into the ring for the New York mayoralty. It was his first trip abroad, but if you follow politics you know this isn't the first time he's gone over to ‘“‘the other side.” Al once said he was going to take a walk, Now they want t© have him run. While in Ttaly Al saw all the sights, includling those two volcanoes, Mussolini and the quieter one, Mt. Vesuvius. I'll bet these days it's Vesuvius that goes up to see Il Doochay erupt. Al satd some nice things in print about Mussolini, but they were written while he was still in Rome, We ought to know what Al really thinks of Benito

now that he’s back in this country and gh the 102d floor of the Empire State Building. Sua J

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Second Section

16,000 Tommies Face Task of Curbing Uprisings. (Editorial, Page 20)

By Milton Bronner NEA Service Writer

J ONDON, July 9.—John Bull, determined to settle the Palestine problem, is shipping troops to the Holy Land by the thousands—all to tell 750,000 Arabs that the proposed partition of Palestine is going to be

made peaceably.

The Palestine problem has been coming to a head for a long time, ever since the British troops during the World War whipped the Turks and drove them out of the Holy Land. With the making of peace treaties, Britain got the mandate for Palestine. At the time, it did not want it. British statesmen tried to get President Wilson to take it for America, but he declined. Now the British, despite all the present trouble, are glad they have their hands on Palestine. With its good harbors and its geographical position, ‘it is a fine link for the protection of the sea route through the Suez Canal and also a good stopping off place on all the air routes to India.

" = » UT there is always some bitter with the sweet and in later years there has been considerable more of the bitter. The British made certain promises to the Arab world. In the Balfour declaration they made even more specific promises to the Jews. They pleaded that Palestine should be a national home for the Jews, as it had been in Biblical times. The result was that Jewish emigration set in for Palestine. The world beheld a Jewish activity that astounded it—men and women going back to the land, draining marshes, irrigating dry plains, planting trees on bare hillsides, making the land to blossom with the orange, the olive and rich ripe grain. The Arab majority in Palestine viewed all this with hostile eyes. They feared the time when the Jews might outhumber them. There have been periodic outbreaks in which lives have been lost. But the worst one of all broke out last summer and continued for some time with increasing violence. It was charged that ‘German Nazi agitators with their anti-Semitic ‘propaganda were at work among the Arabs.

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937

in the Holy Land

Jews and Arabs Protest British Partition of Palestine as Troops Arrive

In Jast summer's outbreak of Palestine Arabs’ war against Jewish colonists, a train was overturned and wrecked near Lydda, where several hundred yards of track were torn up. British troops (right) are shown on guard over the overturned coaches.

T ‘was actually suspected that Italian troublemakers were at work because of Fascist wrath at Britain. Whatever it may have been, the oubreak of violence was the worst Palestine has ever known. Not only were Jews killed, their houses bombed and their orange groves cut down, but many British soldiers and police fell victims to Arab bullets, Into the Holy Land were rushed 12,600 British troops under the supreme command of Lieut. Gen. J. G. Dill. The British Tommies at once proceeded to show the Arabs they meant business, and the violence dropped off. The Royal Commission which this week made its findings known was named. The Arabs at once retorted that peace would be restored only when Jewish emigration was halted. The Government replied it would not be held up at pistol point and turned the guns of the 12,000 troops toward the Arabs. The Commission went ahead with its studies. There are now 16,000 soldiers in Palestine. Sixteen thousand soldiers is a large number of troops in a land that comprises only about 10,100 square miles, or about the combined area of the two little states of New Hampshire and Rhode Island. But there is ‘more to this problem than mere area. Much of Palestine is mountainous. Near every main road and every cultivated plain there are rocky, scrub-covered wild mountain regions which afford ample hiding places for guerilla bands. From their redoubts in these hills they can make quick sallies to the ter-

Hoosier Senators in Thick Of Court Reform Fight

Times Special ASHINGTON, July 9.—Hoosier Senators are in the forefront of the Administration's court reform battle—one on each side. Senator Minton, who abandoned his own plan which would have required seven-judge decisions on constitutional questions, is one of the leaders urging the Administration compromise. Senator VanNuys, who sighed the scathing denunciation of the President's plan contained in the Judiciary ‘Committee report, is equally opposed to a compromise of any kind. He will take part in a filibuster or anything else deemed necessary to defeat the “court packing” plan, he said. His attitude has definitely jeopardized his chances for renomination by the Indiana Democrats, and he accepts that fact, Because he has done so he has won high praise from conservative forces here.

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July editorial column by Franklyn Waltman in The Washington Post.

Listing the Democratic leaders who have been inh the forefront of the court plan opposition, the writer chose Senators VanNuys and MecCarran (D. Nev.) for special praise. Mr. Waltman wrote: “Both VanNuys and McCarran must seek re-election next year. To each has been conveyed from on high, warnings that they cannot expect the support of the Administration in their campaigns. Indeed, it

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the Administration might be found | By E. T. LEECH

supporting their opponents. “From Indiana comes word that the McNutt ‘machine—headed bv a Roosevelt appointee—would oppose VanNuys in his effort to obtain again the party nomination.

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o EITHER VanNuys nor McCarran has faitered. As members of the Senate Judiciary Committee they participated in framing and signing the adverse report on the President's bill, Bach has made up his ‘mind that he does not particularly care what happens to him next year, so long as he retains his intellectual integrity and self-respect.”

Side Glances

By Clark

A view of Jerusalem, which would remain under British mandate in

the projected partition of Palestine ritory below and then back to hid-

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” » » HE Royal Air Force has been unable to detect all their lairs. To make the problem even more

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Arab villages. Sometimes

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At other ‘times, under threats, they supply the marauding Arabs with shelter and food. It is hard to tell the peaceful Arabs from the ones who are kill-

between Arabs and Jews,

ing and burning. The lawless bands have been carefully organized by a Syrian, Pawzi Koukdiji, who s0 far has been able to supply his followers with ample arms and munitions, To chase his men to their many mountain lairs, to run down where they conceal their extra arms supply, to find and arrest Fawzi and his lieutenants, to keep Palestine peaceful during deliberations on the partition proposal is going to give the 16,000 Tommies in Palestine a very busy summer and autumn.

ti Second -Class Matte on Fostofice. Indianapolis,

Near East Vital Link

In Empire Route To India.

By Robert W. Horton

Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, July 9 —Great Britain, in acting to partition the Holy Land, has a doublebarrelled mission—to Trestore peace in Palestine and to weld that last ‘overland link in the chain that swings from London to

Calcutta. Whatever the outcome of the controversy that has taken scores of lives since 1917, far more is involved than the purely local problem of Arab against Jew. The fact that Palestine is vital to Britain's defense of the Suez Canal, bottleneck on the sea road to India, plays a part in the controversy. The fact that Mussolini would like to break the Lon-don-Calcutta chain, and thus increase Italy’s strength in the Mediterannean, is another factor. For many months it has been reported a fine Italian hand was behind the revolt of Palestinian Arabs. It is not hard to arouse the Arabs’ temper, for they consider that Britain promised them control of Palestine as far back as 1915, ® B® ANY Jewish leaders have argued that Britain meant for them to rule Palestine, but it is said in reply that Balfour ‘did not propose they should get Palestine in its entirety. More than a year ago there was talk of war between Italy and Britain over British charges that Il Duce was instigating the Arab campaign of terror. As a result Britain sent a royal commission of inquiry to Palestine to study the causes of the riots and recommend a solution for the problem which has vexed Great Britain and brought much criticism upon her ever since she has held the Palestine mandate.

Because of Britain's vague policy in Palestine her enemies have made considerable progress among the Arabs, who have taken the attitude that if a major political disturbance were to face gland in Palestine she might withdraw,

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Ses Mussolini's ‘conquest of Ethiopia he has sought to strengthen his position ‘in Northern Africa and the Near Bast, and in both places has faced the opposition of both British and French. But his accord with Germany has made him increasingly bold. The current British proposal is not acceptable either to Arab or Jew, principally because both have contended for exclusive control of the Holy Land. The British plan would involve setting up an Arab state and a Jewish state, with John Bull on a mandated wedge in between,

Public Sentiment Against C. |. O. Rises, According to Poll

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Editor, The Pittsburgh Press S the United States in the midst of some great sweep of public sentiment, out of which may grow

ties middle-class citizens ‘have formed ‘vigilante’ groups and are taking a hand unofficially in skirmishes between strikers and sm-

| ployers, . . . A determined effort may | be expected in the immediate future

new labor legislation and which may | to enact Federal legislation hamper-

possibly produce po-

litical changes? That the answer is “yes” has been indicated by many recent developments; and this is confirmed by the latest ‘nation-wide poll of the American Institute of Public Opinion. This poll reveals public sentiment running strongly against John L. Lewis and his C. 1. O. Equally significant is a strong and growing public ‘demand for ‘Government regulation of labor unions and control of strikes, And yet the results do not present a nation which is either antiunion or “stand-pattish” in its attitude toward the broad question of collective bargaining. Seven out of every 10 citizens polled by the Institute ‘expressed themselves favoring labor unions.

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ALF of the persons who were polled said their attitude toward organized labor had changed during the last six months—and of those whe admitted such a change, 71 per cent said they had grown less favorable toward unionism. Eighty-nine per ‘cent of those polled declared that employers and workers should be compelled by law to try to settle their differences before strikes Tan be called. Even 67 per cent of the iower third of the population (the group which is always most favorable toward unionism and strike action) declared in favor of ‘Government regulation of unions. These statistics tell a single story

—growing public impatience with the wave of ‘strikes which has swept the country and rapidly increasing demand for legislation to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes and the observance of union contracts.

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ing the activities of trade unions.” Closer at home, correspondents of the New York Times write from the

strike areas—particularly Michigan —that the labor battle has become ‘®y struggle in which the middle class of retail merchants, white-collar workers, farmers and those workers who identify themselves with them have lined up against the frankly proletarian worker who has cast his lot with the C. 1. O.”

OW all these reports of growing unrest and increasing impatience toward strikes, supported as they are by returns in the na-tion-wide Gallup Poll, are both disquieting and highly significant. Labor cannot tolerate the outlaw and sympathetic strikes which have recently brought sharp changes in public sentiment and ‘which prompted President Knudsen of General Motors to demand effective insurance against wildcat strikes before he would renew negotiations under the union contract he recently signed. Nor can labor tolerate coercion, clubbings, dynamitings and other lawless actions as an instrument of strike warfare.

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Tom Glessing, Who Did Number of Murals Around Town, Was as Honest As Expert, Copy 'Deal' Proved.

F you remember yesterday's piece about the rose-clad cottage on W. New York St., you'll be surprised to learn that Christoe pher Coleman has a picture painted by, Thomas Glessing hanging in his office over

in the State Library. It doesn’t belong to Mr. ‘Coleman, though. It belongs to Miss Rose Holmes, 111 E. 16th St, who was good enough to let him have the loan of it. I don't know when Mr,

Coleman has to give it back. Miss Holmes says that her tather acquired the picture during Mr. Glessing’s stay in Indianapolis (1861-73), and that it used to hang on the wall of the Holmes’ country place near Clermont. The old ‘place is still standing, she says. It's the old-fashioned brick house with the cupola near the Girls’ School. That wasn't the only thing Mr. ‘Glessing had to do with the Holmes’ country place, however. He also decorated the drawing room with murals, and, believe it ‘or not, they're still intact today. Mr. Glessing, it turns out, did a number of murals around Indianapolis. For example, Miss Anna Hase selman, like Miss Holmes, was reared in a home decorated with Glessing’s murals, ‘and so were a

lot ‘of other Indianapolis irls whe Y i £ n you get righg

Had Other Jobs, Too

Mr. Glessing didn't stop with the decorating of homes, however. He decorated the interfor of the Odd Fellows Hall in 1866, and in 1873, when the first Indiana Exposition was held, he was engaged to paint a number of large canvases to illustrate the city's history, Mr. Glessing did all this in addie

tion to his regular Job as principal sceni at the Metropolitan Theater, 3 ® etuvst

Indeed, Mr. Glessing found time easel pictures, and that brings ‘me ht — in Mr. Coleman's office. It's called “Cold Springs,” and gives you some idea of what Riverside Park looked like 70 years ago. Apparently, the water wasn't dammed at that time, because to look at Mr Glessing’s picture, White River was a lazy, leisurely little ‘creek invaded by cows and surrounded by hills, some ‘of which approach the size of mountains, The peak in the center of “Cold Springs” fs probably Pu. NR Jn At ‘any rate, that's what Mr, oug t ‘might be, a ! or less right. He ny is. RT gwen vs won

Attraction of Temperaments

The picture is as pretty as it ‘can be, and it doesn't surprise ‘me at all that a man of Joe Jefferson's poetis temperament should have had a liking for Tom Glessing. They used to trade plotures, Speaking of Mr, Jefferson, 1 am remindad thing 1 didn't tell yesterday. After Mr. Glessing's death, his widow and her sister, Kite Pletoher, cone tinued to live in the New York Si house. Whss

Fletcher, 1 guess, wag the greatest ? ever turned out. In her ime sho mInyed woh wn Booth, James O'Neill and Laurance ‘Barrett, and after she retired she used to tell a 10t of ood storie: One of them had to do with Tom Glessing's love modern” French painters, He couldn't afford them, and so he did the next best thing and made copies of them. Once he copied a Corot swned by Laurence Barrett, and when the twe pictures were framed, Mr. Barrett couldn’ pick Bis own. Mr. Glos ! ’ ye ir, ’ ye ough, and returned the original

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Women's Code of Honor Praised:

Emphasis on Item About Love.

A READER, Bessie G. Dahlstedt, who believes in her sex sends in the following “C Worms ng “Code of Honor for , on my sister's keeper : “I will praise and not condemn my sister's action 1 id he gallantry and respect of all ro ‘I'dcmand that men be as true nd upri expect me to be. . DYES, Ws Vit “I will never admit defeat my place in the world. “TI will be a go-getter, “T will never ridicule my own sex a t noble nor dignified. 5 ti, Tel “TI will try to ‘make this world a leasant Worl and children to live in. y ii - T will demand that women have a place in Gove RUHR to the extent of making a few laws in their vor. “TI will never infringe upon another woman's love i % 3 guilty of breaking up another's home. “I will Jaugh with my friends, but never ory or plain before them.” phi If we could get enough subscribers to this docu ment, women might really go places. For example, the little item about infringement upon another's love af= Tair is a mighty fine idea. When that one detail is worked out, so that the majority of women are willing to abide by it, this old habitat of ours will turn inte . some kind of Utopia. ; Women, I think, do need a code of honor. They are eager to reform the world, but a good many of them think very little about making over their own patterns of thought and behavior, No matter how liberated the modern feminist is, or how far she has progressed from the primitive, she can't seem to get rid of the idea that when it comes to love, flagrant thievery is permissible. Women who would never stoop to take a friend's handkerchief, or to lift a pair of hose from a hostess, will help themselves to husbands without apology and gel the applause of the sisterhood for being able to get away with grand larceny.

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Of SOMes

and will aim to achieve

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

Aloe the many volumes written upon the subs ject of Fascist Italy and Germany, FASCIST, HIS STATE AND HIS MIND (Morrow) by E. B. Ashton, 1s unique in that the author, in order to analyze and interpret, makes ‘a deliberate attempt to divest himself of the habitual assumption that a democracy is necessarily and always the best form of government and to examine fascism in the light of its own premises. The success of the Fascist form of collectivism he attributes, hot primarily to post-war conditions or the helplessness of oppressed masses, but to a national history and temperament which find in the submis= sion of the individual to the state their own natural expression and fulfillment. To Germany and Italy, he says, the premises upon Which fhdividualistie democracy is founded are alieh and unintelligible. In the latter part of the volume Mr. Ashton cons siders fascism fn relation to international affairs, and rticularly as to the probability of its growth in traSons lly democratic countries. His coholusions are y disc to those who still hops y's he YIOO%

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