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Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Veteran of Alaskan Aviation Has |

What Chance Has Peace in Europe? Our Town

ALDEZ, Alaska, Aug. 14.—Bob Reeve is |

U. S. Prestige in Europe Declared Highest Since Wilson Days

Made 2000 Landings on Glaciers; He's Adventurer Who Dares Death.

to me the most amazing of all of Alaska’s fliers. He is “The Glacier Pilot.”

Only two or three airmen in Alaska ever |

have landed on a glacier. But Bob Reeve

has made nearly 2000 landings on the snow and ice of glacier caps. He specializes in it.

He has been in Alaska, and landing on glaciers, for

five years. He has been back to the States only once;

missed 260 boats back home, and |

caught only one. It seems queer to thunk of him up here in this isolation. For he is a cosmopolitan type. One of the handsomest men I ever saw. A college graduate, sharp in his conversation; his face

voung, but hair graying along the |

sides. He has snapshots of himself in

the Chinese tropics, and in the | America’s |

flying togs of South route over the Andes, and in the Mr. Pyle capitals. Reeve is from Wisconsin. He is a friend of Gen. Hap Glassford and Senator La Follette. Is named Tillie. He's doing the most and he charges accordingiv—$100 an hour. never been hurt. Frequently he is marooned by a blizzard on some glacier for days. He has returned from one of his “missing” trips, freighting the Washburn mountain-climbing party of Harvard over to Walsh Glacier.

Plane Sinks in Slush

His landing on Walsh was the highest ever made in Arctic areas—8500 feet. But the weather turned

unusually warm, the snow melted, the plane sank & | He was there five days before |

vard deep in slush. he gambled and won on a hair-raising take-off. Mrs. Reeve doesn't worry. She won't let herself. She'd go crazy if she did.

—marooned four times, for a total of 17 days, out on glacier tops. Mrs. Reeve has made several flights onto the glaciers. She thinks that was a good idea,

for now she knows what it's like and won't imagine |

a lot of false stuff when he’s missing. Almast all of Reeve's flving is hauling gold-min-

ing machinery back into the ice-capped mountains. | He has flown more than a million pounds of it in |

five years.

Yep, he drops dynamite out of his plane into |

He has carried around 30,000 pounds of into the glacial mountains. It's in

the snow. dynamite

When it the dynamite sticks.

Comes Down With Dynamite

Once his had to make 8 forced landing dynamite riding behind him. This winter he dropped a big Diesel engine for a mine where he couldn't possibly land. They wrapped the engine in mattresses, and he dropped it with an ordinary parachute. They had it set up and running within two hours. He has never lost or broken anv machinery. has flown every pound of equipment for half a dozen new mines in this area. When he came here there was onlv one mine left. Now there Only bv plane can stufl be got up te them.

he of

quit and 16 boxes

motor with

He has carried dead men in his plane, and men |

who were frozen stiff. Once, around Nome, he had

a baby in & sleeping bag for three nights while they

were marooned at I forget how much below zero. He never takes off without a sleeping bag, a tent, and 10 days' food in the plane. Reeve savs he is now on his second million dollars. He gave up trving to make the first one.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Grayson's Words on Welfare of

Man Express Views of First Lady

H>™ PARK, N. Y, Friday—In spite of our extremely uncertain weather, which seems to bring us storms very suddenly, we managed to get in a swim yesterday afternoon. But no sun! In the evening we read aloud, finishing “The Countryman’s Year,” by David Grayson. I know it is all wrong to turn down the corners of pages in books. to find those pages again, to reread certain parts? This book has many pages turned down. One page expressed so well what I often want to say, but feel inadequate when I try to clothe it in words. I give it to you here from the book. “But one idea, one great and beautiful curative idea, I think I have seen growing through the years. I heard it expressed long ago by the Negro leader, Booker T. Washington. ‘You cannot keer the Negro in the gutter without staying there with him.” I have seen it clear in Henry Ford's admonition that the prosperity of industry rests not upon the exploitation of labor, but upon making labor itself prosperous— thus enabling the workman to buy the products of industry. “Science. above all, is shot through with it: For how leave plague spots of tuberculosis. or typhus, or hookworm in any part of the world without endangering our own children? If this idea, that men are inextricably bound together, that the welfare of each is the welfare of all—if only this idea can continue to grow, to become greater and stronger, many human ills will disappear.” Bravo, Mr. Grayson! 1 wish that doctrine the world over! This morning the sun shone and a breeze came in my windows. So off I went to ride and returned rather late to find Miss Julia Parker of Hyde Park waiting for me. Miss Parker was kind about it and sat looking quite ccmfortable in my little living room. If I had found her sitting on the edge of her chair, looking poised for flight, I should have felt very guilty. So I was grateful that she had her knitting and did not seem in any hurry. Miss Parker came to tell me of an island off the

you could preach

coast of Maine where she had spent two weeks last |

summer, and again this summer. The Association of

Audubon Societies has established a sanctuary for |

wild life there and a camp where teachers and Girl Scout leaders and Camp Fire Girl leaders may receive instruction in nature study—with nature at its best on land and in the sea. Perhaps next summer, if I motor that way, I may have an opportunity to see the interesting work carried on there. I hope so.

Walter O'Keefe —

LASH . . . A bundle from heaven was brought to the Eight Old Men yesterday when the President delivered a bouncing baby brother of 51—Senator Black. A lot of people thought that Senator Lewis would have been a more fitting choice on account of that

magnificent landscape of whiskers that decorates his |

chin. It would be a wonderful thing to peek in on the

sessions of the Court. Senator Black is so young compared to the other Justices that you naturally wonder if he'll sit on the bench or on the lap of Chief Justice Hughes. Among themselves the other eight probably will call him “Junior.” Offhand you might think he was too youthful, but any Senator who's been in on this present session of Congress has aged tremendously. When Freshman Black joins his fraternity brothers on the bench they'll probably haze him for the

first 20 years.

quick and |

classy polo costumes of the Latin |

He smokes cigarets in a holder and his wife

dangerous flying in Alaska, | He has |

In the past year | he has failed to come home for supper four times |

with him

a | wooden box, and he puts a sack around the box. | hits, the box bursts and the sack catches |

He |

are 11.

But what should you do if you want | | nomination of Senator Black to the | Supreme Court, history is repeating It is as if the pages of time ( had been turned back 20 years to day when Woodrow Wilson

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

By William Philip Simms

Times Foreign Editor

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937

(Fifth of a Series)

ONDON, Aug. 14.—Only once before in nearly 30 years’

today.

That was at the end of the World War. Wilson was being hailed as a savior. candles to him at roadside shrines. war. He had laid the foundation for a just and durable He had taken men from the jaws of death and

peace.

returned them to their families. He had banished war forever, thought plain people everywhere. Probably no modern man ever stood quite so high

safe for democracy.

experience in this corner of the globe have 1 seen the prestige of the United States gs high in Europe as it is

President Peasants burned He had ended the

He had made the world So

with so many peoples in so many lands.

finding a savior.

Today things are not quite like that, but once more the name of America is increasingly heard in Europe. Still somewhat vaguely, perhaps, vet surely, eves are beginning to look toward the United States in the hope of

American recovery is regarded, at least popularly, as

a Tact.

Hemisphere has not passed unperceived.

And the “good neighbor” policy of the Western

The. words of

President Roosevelt are widely reported in the European

press and are searched both in and between the lines for signs that perhaps his interests will not be confined

to the New World.

From the lips of European statesmen I have heard the thought expressed again and again that if there is to be world appeasement, and world recovery, the chief hope lies in American initiative and American co-operation, » = HEN Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium sailed for the United States to talk with leaders there, the usually cynical press of the Old World reported his progress as it might have reported the voyage of Columbus or the flight of Noah's envoy from the Ark. Would Columbus discover land? Would the dove bring back the olive branch? Would the Belgian Premier return with the promise of American co-operation in the economic and political appeasement of Europe? When France's Ambassador Georges Bonnet was called back from the United States to become Premier Chautemps’ Minister of Finance, all France rode with him from the time he sped away from his embassy in Washington's Kalorama Heights until he dashed up to Matignon Palace in Paris, where the eager Cabinet was waiting to hear his report. n

”

HE big question was whether he had brought with him the assurance that the United States would back him in his task of saving the franc and restoring the nation’s financial and economic equilibrium. And probably no single factor contributed more to easing the growing

anxiety in France than his reply that he did. And he added the remarkable statement that had it been otherwise he would not have accepted the job. By the foregoing I do not wish to convey the naive impression that, to Europeans, Uncle Sam has suddenly again become a sweet old gentleman beloved of all, Nor that Americans, when they land on these shores, will be met by brass bands and given the key to the city. I simply mean that our influence is growing—that the prestige of America abroad is on the rise. American goods, American automobiles, American movies, American ideas—like air-conditioning and so on—are more and more in evidence. Once the log-jam of quotas, prohibitive tariffs, exchange restrictions, fluctuating currencies and other barriers to commerce is cleared away, the stream of trade should quickly retain something like its predepression volume, n » »

HIS rebound of American

prestige should mean a lot. Tt places a steadily mounting weight of responsibility on the United States. More than ever the nation will have to watch its step. For while it must not allow itself to

be sucked into Europe's imbroglios, it certainly ought not to muff a genuine opportunity to aid world appeasement. America today can have the moral leadership of the world if she wants it. But she should not accept it unless she is prepared both to lead and to accept the responsibility of leadership. President Wilson lived to see his own glory dimmed and the prestige of his country lowered abroad because political differences at home prevented the carrying out of commitments to which he had put his name. America must not

Georges Bonnet the

disappoint world a second time, ” » HERE is a big job to be done A putting the worid back on the road to peace and prosperity. America has a big chance to help And she owes it as a duty tb her own citizens that she should. For their prosperity and world prosperity ultimately are in the same hoat. But she should make sure that her co-operation, if and when given, will contribute toward a general settlement and not to pulling from the fire the chestnuts of some other nation or nations. Speaking of the dangerous world uncertainty, President Roosevelt declared in mid-July: “It must be evident beyond

Black's Appointment to High Court

Found to Parallel Brandeis Case |

‘By Raymond Clapper | Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, the controversy

Aug. over

| itself.

| that

14. —In the (ment as an insult to members of “a

* ALL STREET,” says Mr. Lief, “was stunned.” The New York “press” regarded the appoint-

the Court—Mr. Brandeis was man of furious partisanship, of violent antagonisms, and of irreconcilable prejudices” which utterly disqualified him from acting in a judicial capacity. If Mr. Wilson did

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Senate would throw it out. The New York Tribune said: “It would be a misfortune if he carried to the Supreme Court the narrow, mistaken attitude toward the vital industry of transportation which he took when he was serving as adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commitee.”

| Side Glances

pee a 5 e

“Why, mother, you should be glad that I'm an attractive girl and rate a lot of dates.”

not withdraw the nomination, the |

him, 47 to 22.

| friends of Mr. Brandeis would claim | him to be judicially minded, and thet “it is as a controversialist | rather than as a dispassionate weigher of facts and arguments that he has achieved distinction,” and | that this was not the type of mind | which had proved most serviceable | on the Supreme Court. | n un ” | HE Boston Transcript regretted | that for political reasons Mr. | Wilson had attempted to “force upon the Supreme Court one whom | the Senate is reported to have been | unwilling to confirm as a member of the Cabinet.” Others said Mr. Wilson was paying off a political | debt. The Senate should stand be- | tween the country and “this prosti- | | tution of patronage to partisan-| (ship.” One man said: “It is cus-| | tomary to consign crooks to jail { and not to the bench.” | Newspaper polls showed 36 Sen(ators opposed to Mr. Brandeis and | a dozen doubtful. Several Demo- | cratic Senators were hostile. The | Senate Judiciary Committee held | oper: hearings.

Witnesses charged Mr. Brandeis with breach of faith, | unprofessional conduct, and a few | other things. One witness uttered a solemn warning: “If you gradu-| ally pack that tribunal with men possessing preconceived notions , , it is going to be very costly to the American people.” Another witness appeared with 10 galley proofs of prepared testimony. The appointment was an insult to | New England, but it would help [bury Mr. Wilson at the next elec- | | tion.

» ” n NOME college professors were for Mr, Brandeis (including a young Harvard fellow named Frankfurter). But most of the important men of affairs were alarmed over the appointment. Committee hearings went on for almost two months, the final thrust coming in the form of a brief manifesto signed by Willlam Howard Taft and several others. It said: “The undersigned feel it their painful duty to say to you that in their opinion, taking into view the reputation, character and professional career of Mr. Louis D. Brandeis, he is not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.” The charges were thrashed over again in the Senate. Five months after Mr. Brandeis had been nominated the Senate voted to confirm

Four days later Mr. Brandeis appeared in the Supreme Court robing room, took the oath and was welcomed into the company of our own American Olympians, to begin a career which already has made its place among the most distinguished

in our history.

Fntered ns at Postoffice,

Cordell Hull

shadow of a doubt that an accen=tuation of this unsettled condition will bring disaster and human suffering bevond the mind of man to grasp.” And he called on leaders

Local Officials Awaiting

Woodrow Wilson

Paul Van Zeeland

in all countries to help avert “this threatened disaster.”

NEXT-—Roosevelt — peacemaker?

Housing Bill Passage

y to defray the whole cost of housing | projects. The Senate wrote in the | stipulation that 5 per cent of total | cost must be raised locally.

By L. A. NDIANAPOLIS and State officials have taken initial steps in setting up machinery for housing project authorities to take advantage of Federal funds to be available if the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act is passed by Congress. The House Banking and Currency Committee yesterday reported favorably on the Housing Bill, but slashed $200,000,000 off the $726,000,000 Senate-approved measure. Floor action is expected Thursday. Governor Townsend announced recently he is preparing to launch a State housing and slum clearance program under provisions of an act passed by the 1937 Legislature, designed to obtain Federal funds should the Federal bill become a law, At the same time, an ordinance asking that a local housing authority be set up here has been intro-

RIGINALLY,

n n

the National

Housing Authority was. .author- |

ized to lend-up to $25,000,000 yearly to privately-operated “limited-divi-dend” corporations (or co-opera-tives) for the building of low-rent projects, and to undertake on its own account the construction of “demonstration projects” for subsequent sale or lease to local communities in the sum of $25,000,000 yearly. Both these provisions were deleted by the Senate. The Senate also wrote in a stipulation that loans to local authorities, which will run for not more than 60 years, must yield a return of onehalf of 1 per cent in excess of the cost of the money to the Federal Government,

duced in the City Council, Mayor Kern has indicated he is anxious to set up the machinery that will open the door to slum clearance and low-rent, low-cost housing here.

made $26,for and

The Senate-approved bill an outright appropriation of 000,000 (originally $50,000,000) operating expenses, research, “annual grant,” or subsidies assist in keeping rents down to a maximum of about $5 a room. Such annual contributions may not exceed 3'2 per cent of the cost of the project, and the total of such payments may not exceed $20,000,000 annually,

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ROADLY speaking, the WagnerSteagall bill would appropriate $526,000,000 to establish under the guidance of locally constituted housing authorities a national pro- | gram of slum clearance and lowrent and low-cost housing construc- | tion. The Senate-approved bill calls for no more than 20 per cent of the total appropriation to be used in any one state; no family unit may cost more than $4000 (or $1000 per room), exclusive of land costs; local communities must post at least 5 per cent of total cost. Once these fundamental requirements are met, a local community borrows money from the Federal Government, and thereafter the local authority has complete responsibility for fixing policy, completing surveys and determining housing needs. The local authority selects sites, designs buildings, supervises construction, fixes rents, elects tenants, works out problems of management, But, before any of these steps are taken, the Federal Government must: be satisfied that an actual need exists and that the site is suitable; that new structures will be simple and economical and that the financing plan is sound; that the rent scale is sufficiently low to bring the new housing within reach of lowincome groups not adequately housed at the time the project is undertaken,

” n ” A aouoh financed ‘for three years, the bill plates that the National Housing Authority shall be permanent, and that it will formulate a long-range program of Federal assistance to state and local governments,

Ye i S

By National Safety Council

only

» » ” HE broad, general criterion for tenant families is that their total income may not exceed five times the rent of the unit they will occupy (or six times the rent if a family has three or more children). The entire program as sent to the House Committee contemplates the building of some 300,000 low-rent units within three years. The Senate approved financing by Federal bond issues in the following amounts: for this year, $200,000, 000; on and after July 1, 1938, $250,000,000; oh and after July 1, 1939, $250,000,000 — total, $700,000,000. eyes on the road, your hands on Originally, the bill provided that! the steering wheel and your mind communities might borrow enough | on the job of getting there safely,

WATCH THAT ROAD!

ES, brother, you might as well fold up that road map and head for home. Your fun is over. You thought you could watch the map and the road at the same time. But you guessed wrong-— and like thousands of other motorists who let their minds and their eyes wander when driving, you ended up off the road. Mister, it's a fundamental of the safe driving code that you keep your

contem- |

Becond-Olass Indianapolis,

Matter Ind,

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By Anton Scherrer Ban on Zig-Zag Eating Suggested As a Common Sense Means to Aid in Conserving Energy in Hot Weather,

I" you follow the precise methods of Gelett Burgess, you are by this time familiar with his observation that “the fork, which changed Eating into Dining, did not come into popular use until the middle of the 18th Century.” I won't quarrel with Mr, Burgess about that, because, to tell the truth, I don’t know anything about it. All 1 know is that the fork didn't gome into popular use around here until a hundred years later, and as far as I can judge, we're still a century behind the people who got the early start. At least that long. because if vou dig into the gastronomic habits of people the way 1 have, vou'll learn, somewhat to your amazement, thal everybody in Indianapolis, no matter whether he is in Society or not, still persists in the practice of zig-zag eating. Zig-zag eating is turesque connotation for the fork from the left

Mr. Scherrer

the scientific and rather piethe continual shifting of hand to the right, and back again, You've probably noticed it yourself, now that your attention has been called to it, Chances are that you're a pretty good practitioner yourself, I know I am,

Here's How

For some reason, I grip my meal with the fork in the left hand and cut off a piece with the knife in my right hand, after which I transfer the fork in my left hand to my right, and enjoy the work I have accomplished up to that time. That done, I shift the fork from my right hand to my left, pick up the knife with the right hand and start all over again,

The number of shifts depends altogether on the size of the portion in my plate, and on the degree of fineness with which I do the carving. A single meal may entail as many as 100 shifts, and in no case can I get along with less than one, Even one shift is uncalled for, A European, for example, doesn’t do any zig-zagging at all. He places the fork in his left hand at the beginning of the meal, and it stays put. Likewise, he puts the knife in his right hand, and it stays there, too, There isn't any laying down or picking up of tools after he gets started and vou have no idea the amount of motion and time it, saves,

But the Energy Waste! In my own case, I'm not worried about the loss of time, because years of experience with the fork have

| given me the skill of a plumber and the speed of a

prestidigitator, and no doubt there are a lot more like

| me around here.

The matter of dissipated energy Is something else, however-—especially with the thermometer behaving the way it has recently, I didn't want to mention the weather today, but the more I thought about it, the

| madder I got about the way we were handling our

innit |

forks, Indeed, it burned me up to think how little we were doing about conserving the little energy we

| have,

| small | everybody else),

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to |

| streams of the gorgeous Grand Lake country.

It ended up, of course, with my wanting to do my part, along with the Board of Health (and and suggest still another way of keeping cool.

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Vacationers Pity Denverites, Who Can't Get Thrill of Visit to Rockies.

ACATION NOTES—Quite the nicest thing about going places is the people one bumps into uns expectedly. In Denver I made a beeline for the News office, as usual, to see again Mr. Aubrey Graves, the editor, and other acquaintances, And there sat Walter Morrow of Akron, genial, sunburned, wearing a vacation grin. He has newspapered all over the country but was making his first visit to the trout Missed seeing Alberta Pike and Lee Casey, but shook hands again with Anne New, who conducts a really intelli gent society page. The truckling tone of the average one irks me.

Fortunate Denverites., With so much beauty to live

| with, Tomboy was curious to know where they went

on ‘heir vacations, since they appeared to have at hand all the materials we travel so far to find, That's the one disadvantage I can see about living in the region of the Rockies. You'd never have the thrill ol anticipating a summer sojourn there. And even beauty such as this must become commonplace by and by, and perhaps unappreciated. I apologize to the Colorado Highway Department and all the other highway departments in the West for any disparaging remarks made in the past, The feat of building these roads will surely stand out

among the wonders of the wonderful 20th Century.

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What toil, what patience, what intelligent planning have pone into their making! Tt sounds romantie to trudge through the mountains or ride through forests on horseback, but it's far more comfortable to glide about in a well-oiled and perfectly behaving automobile. Having spent my childhood on an Indian reservation and the rest of my iife in dry Oklahoma, which (confidentially) has never been really arid, I've always been impressed with the remarks about how rarely one now sees drunken men in wet states. I used to be credulous enough to believe them. On a Denver main street a drunken man lurched out of a door, his clothes half off, his handsome head lolling, his young face bloated. His eyes were out of focus and his drooling mouth was twisted into a leering grin. Titters followed his weavings across the pavement. Somewhere no doubt a woman who loves him wept and waited his coming.

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