Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1937 — Page 11

Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

If You Want to Go From Valdez |

Hugo L. Black: The Recor

To Anchorage, Here's Lowdown on Trip With a Few Extra Trimmings.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 17.—If you know your map, you may wonder how a fellow can get from Valdez to Anchorage in one hop, without stopping to write pieces along the way. Well, it was like this: Last day in Valdez—pronounced “Val(short a)-deeze; rhymes with sneeze—I went to see Judge Si Hellenthal, tall, handsome. gray-haired.

He was just back from a long cruise to westward |

isiands as judge on “floating court” . . . said court didn't do much any more but give divorces and naturalize people his Valdez courtroom nicest I've ever been in . . . rugs, potted plants, varnished desks. . . . Valdez nice little town only 250 people . . day I knew a couple of dozen,

and all 250 knew me, because I |

. . Lay down to nap walking up and

was a stranger. . take afternoon Bishop kept down hall in house though on shuffled . . . made me sore, but what could you do? . . . Boy finally came and said steamship was coming into harbor . . walked to dock . . . . . passengers probably thought it was that way all the time . . . dez for two days. . .

Gets Private Cabin

Went aboard boat, purser gave me cabin alone (thank you, Mr. Purser) . .. ship was S. S. Alaska . .. my sixth since leaving Seattle . .. went down to dinner .. very ashamed in old sweater with 6-inch holes in

both elbows . . . what will tourists think? . . . got out of habit of wearing good clothes . . . young lawbook salesman from St. Paul at same table . . . last name was Moe. Boat sailed at 7 . . . very cold out at sea . . . but sunshine on distant snow-covered mountains prettiest I've seen yet. ... Family on board from Washington, D. C, named Burgess . . . wanted to speak to them, but feared they'd think I was panhandling. . . . Went to bed about 11 . .. ship arrived Seward 4 a. m. . . . How do I know? . . . Because passengers were up on deck ohing and ahing and squealing at scenery. After breakfast Mr. Moe and I'went to Van Gilder Hotel. . . . Funny man runs hotel . . . Joe Badger, a little fellow who always wears golf knickers. Won't carry your bags, either . . . sort of a policy of his. Room keys fastened to piece of two-by-four, but doesn’t even give you one . . . nobody locks rooms up here. | .-.

Set Your Own Call

Two women tourists once asked Joe if he'd call them at 6 a. m. . . . Joe said “No I won't call you at 6 a. m. Here's an alarm clock. Set it for any time you want.” . . . He gave us an alarm clock, too. . . . And then asked if we'd wake the Bishop in the morn-

ing . . . the same one that walked me to death in Valdez! . . . Father Chaput, great jovial priest, drove me out the one road as far as it went—20 miles. . . . Father Leo Defoeur from Valdez went with us. . .. He had a 22-caliber target pistol . . . we stopped and shot for 20 minutes at target. . . . Want to know who won? I did . . . third time I've beaten Alaskans in shooting matches . . . Grrr... I'm tough. . . Alarm clock went off . . . when we got downstairs, there was Joe Badger up to collect . . . thought he didn’t get up that early. . . . Train left at 7:30 a. m. . . . Regular train on Alaskan Railroad. .. . Just like any other old train . .. brakeman best amateur guide in world .. . told thousands of things, but I can’t remember them. . . . Passed Spencer Glacier. . . . Pulled into Anchorage 12:30, right on time. . . . Hotel bus train. . . Bus had three uniformed employees, and only two passengers. . .. Just Mr. Moe and me . .. and that’s how I got from Valdez to Anchorage.

Mr. Pyle

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Column on Possible Budget Balance Declared Day's Only Cheery News.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Monday.—I hate the newspapers these days and yet I can’t wait to see

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937

Decade in Congress Is a Reservoir of His Views

In 1925... as Judge Hugo Black, he was mdking his uphill campaign for the Senate.

ad > In 1928 . . . the new Senator

from Alabama, fast learning the ropes in Washington.

(First of a Series)

By Ruth Finney

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Few presidents have had a a chance to examine the views of their Supreme Court appointees so fully as President Roosevelt has had

in the case of Hugo L. Black.

Senator Black’s attitude on almost every question of public importance in the last 10 years is spread on the

public record.

From the time he entered the Senate in 1927 he took

an active part in its deliberations.

The Congressional

Record contains hundreds of addresses made by him, as well as the chronicle of his votes. Mr. Black had been in the Senate only a few months when he began studying expenditures of the Shipping Board, criticizing its subsidies and calling attention to the large number of high-priced lawyers employed there. Thus began a study which was to make him an authority

on transportation subsidies.

His interests in power dates equally far. Senator Norris of Nebraska was trying to pass his Muscle Shoals

measure when Mr. Black entered the Senate.

The Ala-

baman voted consistently with the dean of the liberals, and offered a number of amendments strengthening public-

power sections of the bill.

He was in the thick of the utility fight precipitated when the late Thomas J. Walsh (D. Mont.) asked for a Senate investigation of utility propaganda and utility

holding companies. He voted against the substitute offered by one of his Southern colleagues, Senator George of Georgia, which transferred the investigation to the Trade Commission.

In those days Mr. Black was a dry, and was ardent in his de-

fense of the 18th Amendment. One of his first Senate speeches was a reply to Senator Bruce (D. Md.).

a wet, who had accused Southern Democrats of hypocrisy in defending prohibition. ” ” ® “Y HAVE no apology to make for being from the ‘Confederate States’ as my colleague terms them,” said Mr. Black. “I am proud of the fact. . . . We elect officials who send out into the highways and byways to enforce the law as it is written, not as we would have it written.” Senator Black's Alabama colleague that year was Tom Heflin, who was in the midst of his fight

In 1934 . . . as he appeared to opponents during his fight for the 3C-hour labor law.

on the Catholic Church. Senator Black did not participate except to put material in the record occasionally for Senator Heflin. On one occasion he put in a letter commending former Senator Simmons of North Carolina for his fight against Al Smith. During the first year in the Senate Mr. Black voted to override President Coolidge's veto of a bill creating a Farm Board. He voted for the Merchant Marine Act of 1928. He favored withdrawal of American Marines from Nicaragua, and supported the Norris lame-duck amendment to the Constitution. a ” n E voted against seating Frank L. Smith and William S. Vare, sent by Illinois and Pennsylvania respectively to be Republican Senators. He supported a resolution advising the Supreme Court to hear Donald Richberg as amicus curiae in the O'Fallon case involving valuation of railroads. He introduced legislation to bar further immigration into this country, and in arguing for it he discussed a situation that has figured largely in his career—migration of Northern factories to cheap-labor areas of the South. He denounced the influx of Mexican labor into Texas, and said the jobs should go to Americans. Mr. Black was instrumental in doing away with closed sessions of the Senate while voting on confirmations. He was one of several Senators who introduced legislation tor open sessions following publication of a secret vote on ex-Senator Lenroot’s confirmation to a judgeship.

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E opposed unlimited publicity for income-tax returns but sponsored a provision permitting state officials, at the request of their Governor, to examine returns. Early in his : career Senator Black became concerned about freedom of press and radio. In

G. O.P. and Right-Wing Democratic Ties Forecast for 1938 Campaigns

By Raymond Clapper

Times Special Writer

C nayrasuaqus, N. Y., Aug. 17.— As I work my way around through the present political confu-

tions are, it can subsist upon them

for a long time and probably will. n E n

EPUBLICANS enter the organ-

prejudice the future of their organization or embarrass their local candidates by participating in a coalition as a party. But we are likely to see in the coming campaign vari-

In 1937 . . . Carrying the brunt of the fight for President Roosevelt's Court plan.

Senator Hugo LaFayette Black

an article published in 1930 he advocated a ban on ownership of radio stations by public utilities and said: “I believe a monopoly on supplying public information the most dangerous that can be imagined. Mature reflection of political philosophers has always led to the conclusion that freedom and ’ uncensored discussion of public men and events are inseparably united.” ” un n

N May, 1930, Senator Black offered a resolution charging that packers were violating their consent decree and calling on the Attorney General to enforce it. About the same time he made a radio address about disclosures from the Trade Commission's util-

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Today . . . nominated for the coveted post as Justice on the United States Supreme Court.

ity investigation in which he said: “Unfair and unjust profits in any line of business constitute an undue burden upon industry as a whole and must ultimately be paid for by exacting an unfair tax or tribute from those who toil. Excessive profits bring about ar unequal distribution of the fruits of labor and an undesirable concentration of wealth. . . . Monopoly stalks abroad in our land. Trusts, combines and mergers exact their unjust toil from machinists, farmers, clerks and toiling millions. Monopolies fix the price of the bread and meat we eat; the clothes we wear; the utensils used in the home and on the farm; even the money we borrow.”

NEXT—How Mr. Black voted on other jurists’ nominations,

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer Irvington Fought Blackbirds and 50-Cents-a-Bushel Tomatoes Were A Drug on the Market 25 Years Ago,

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, tomatoes went

begging at 50 cents a bushel. Wild goose plums, what there were of them, went for $1.50 a bushel. Citizens Gas Co.'s oven coke sold for $6 a ton. Heiner & Hockene smith, the undertakers, advertised ‘our broadcloth silk-lined casket for $30.” The Ayres’ people tipped off everybody that “mourning millie nery reflects strongly the renaissance of crepe.” The thermometer in front of Henry Huder's drug store reached a maximum of 87 degrees at 3 p. m. It was the day, too, the citizens of East Irvington organized to drive the blackbirds out of Audubon Road. They chased them all right—six blocks, as a matter of fact—because by noon that day all the birds were down in the neighborhood of Butler Ave., where Samuel McGaughey and Edward Hecker lived. Which so enraged py. Messrs. Hecker and McGaughey that they went to work and organized the citizens of West Irvington. With the result that by night all the blackbirds were back in Audubon Road,

Twenty-five years ago today, too, Prof. Leon De Voux, a clairvoyant, advertised that he was on vae cation and wouldn't be back to resume his prace= tice until Sept. 1. It was the day, too, Miss Amelia Kroeckel (now Mrs. Arthur Monninger) left Indianapolis to study music in Germany. Ferdinand Schaefer went to French Lick for a fortnight. Speaking ex cathedra, T. E. Byrne, assistant manager of the Automobile Clearing Association, observed that “what Indianapolis needs more than anything is a car that sells for less than $500.” C. F. Rugenstein, 935 Union St., lost his pocketbook containing $43 in bills.

Voices Worried Women

It was the day, too, a group of Indianapolis women organized to soften the voices of its members. The sponsor said she was concerned like everything over the way Indianapolis women slur their “g's” at the end of sentences. Each member promised to call every other member over the telephone at least once a week to note improvement.

Hogs closed firm at $8.85 top for the best.

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ter carnival and regatta at Broad Ripple. The first vrize for the best decorated canoe, a thermos bottle, went to J. N. French. Milwaukee licked Indianapolis, 4 to 2. Charlie O'Leary smashed a finger before the game and had to see a doctor. It was the day, too, Charlie Dooin of the Phillies asked T. J. Lynch, presi= dent of the National League, to allow the use of dise infectants on balls and bats. He said Ad Brennan was in the hospital with diphtheria, all on account of the spitball.

Fifty Years Ago Today

Fifty years ago today, Charlie Cramer, a 17-year= old kid, climbed to the roof of the market house, and from there to the top of the flag-staff. Charlie had been up to something like that all week, because just the day before that, he climbed up the Court House steeple and perched in the east face of the clock. He said he couldn't help it, because it ran in the family. His father was a sailor, he said.

Aug. 17, 1887, was the day, too, Prof. Morris showed off his trained dogs and ponies at Dickson's Grand Opera House. Heavy packing hogs sold at $5.35. The thermometer in front of George Sloan's drug store registered 70 degrees at 2 p. m.

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Tourists in Old Wyoming Are Awed By Mountains and Giant Boulders

ORE VACATION NOTES: Have you: ever watched a long procession of tiny black ants marching down a worn path through the grass, or along a tree trunk? That's what we look like and what we should feel like—we and several thousand other tourists who speed along the slim highroad which runs across these Wyoming plains. Cur cars resemble ants, nosing each other aside, spurting forward, slowing, stopping, but keeping ever to the beaten track. Some of them go so fast the

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izing period for the 1938 general elections with only modest hopes. As only one-third of the Senatorial seats will be involved, it is mathematically impossible for che

is war news from China and Spain and difficulties here between employers and their employees.

The only really pleasant piece of news on the front page of the first paper I looked at this morning was a column on the possibility of balancing our own budget.

That will be pleasant news to some people, for many have wondered if an attempt was ever going to be made to do this. I have heard wails and groans over the fact that they could see no signs in this Administration of an interest in economy. Like almost every other woman I know of moderate means, I am always terribly nervous until all my bills are paid and I know I still have a balance in the bank. Anything borrowed hangs over my head like a cloud. I do hope, however, that in this budget balancing business we make our economies without making people suffer who are in need of help. There are wise and unwise economies, as every housewife knows and, figuratively speaking, the women of the country should be watching their husbands to see that the national budget is balanced wisely. I . Another glorious day and I got up early and went (and ill-housed. Meager as its raroaming after wild flowers along our brook. After a . hurried shopping trip to Poughkeepsie, for one must Side Glances eat, I picked up Miss Dickerman and we went to see Mr. and Mrs. Paul Garrigue’s little nursery school on ; ~~ the East Park Road. I have never been over the whole 1 : place before and I can imagine nothing more ideal for children. They have an orchard, a pasture, a wading | pool, a playground, sheep, goats, pigs, Kittens, not to speak of three ponies and a cow. The ages of the children range from 5 to 7 years. I was amused when told the 5-year-olds make their | own beds and wash their own socks. The beds looked | very straight and smooth and I suppose I looked a little unbelieving for Mrs. Garrigue added: “Of course, they have some help. But the parents seem to particularly like the fact that they wash their own socks.” Two days a week a young man, who has a riding academy just below Poughkeepsie, gives riding lessons. The ponies looked old and safe and the children were certainly having a good time on them. An older group practiced on home-made drums and learned to keep time quite well. One small boy seemed to have no interest in rhythm and beat in a manner which suited himself. But in time the pressure of the group wiil teach him he has an ear, I am sure.

Walter O'Keefe—

ELL, 72 more Russians were executed last week, and it certainly looks as if Joe Stalin's game js improving. Now he’s shooting in the lower 70's.

passengers must be too tense with apprehension to see what God has offered here for human eyes.

This is really old Wyoming. One or two hundred million years ago the dinosaurs and their relatives made theix beds hereabout for their last long sleep. It is the cemetery of prehistoric monsters.

They used good judgment in selecting it, too. Girded by giant mountains, with boulders bigger than themselves to keep vigil over their graves, and a land« scape so vast it is a fitting monument to their meme= ory, they settle down to rest—little dreaming that after a time a few puny bipeds would dig up their huge bones, string them on wires and set them up for gum-chewing, peanut-eating men, women and chile dren to gape at. These plains have yielded up the remains of all sorts of reptiles that existed on the planet long before man had appeared. Specimens now mounted in the New York Museum come from Wyoming fossil beds, It strains our credulity to believe that these plateaus were once swamps over which great beasts wallowed and fought. The Union Pacific Railroad, whose Odyssey Rex Beach has written in an early book, “The Iron Trail,® meanders and soars and tunnels through these ree gicns. Only by visiting the actual scenes can one realize what a gigantic feat its construction was. Such a country! Such distance, such visibility, such space! It's only plains and hills and sky—and God, Hurrying ants can’t stand the combination for long.

ous conservative side-organizations J / : comparable to the late Liberty D D M m League, financed in part by Repub- | og ays S ISNO e r, lican individuals, working on behalf | ’ . . Republicans to regain control of the |of anti-New Deal Democratic candi- Sc | en t | Sts Dec a re Senate. Practically speaking, it |dates. seems impossible also for them to 2 » wn

recapture the House. If they take 75 os 100 seats from the Bin INCE the battle cannot, for the time being, be carried on

they will have put on a good performance, but they will still be far through the Republicans with hope of success, it is apt to be shifted into

in the minority. Therefore, in national affairs, : the heart of the Democratic Party itself.

those who are interested in breaking This will retard the recovery of

the power of the Roosevelt New Deal are likely to concentrate, not on a hopeless task of returning the the Republican Party but will not Republicans to control next year, | gestroy it because I do not think but on helping conservative Demo- | ¢}a¢ conservative Democrats can capture the party while Mr. Roosevelt's influence continues. In 1940 it

crats gain control of the Democratic Party. Republicans are not likely to is probable that the Republican Party again will offer the alternative to

By Cla rk the New Deal, or what is left of it. i wa \ Some New Dealers are calling for

sion, I find myself leaning toward these general conclusions: The Republican Party, while not much better off than it was on the morning after the last election, is still alive. And while there's life there's hope. I think it will live. Whether it will be a permanent semi-invaiid or be restored to full vigor, I don’t know. It has less than one-fourth of the whole membership of Congress and only seven Governors among the entire 48. Yet it holds many state and local offices and has kept control of some state Legislatures throughout the New Deal era. These jobs enable the Republican Party to remain alive as part of that great one-third of the nation which we are told is ill-fed

a notification to prepare the fields for the annual spring floods of the Nile. To the Romans, dog days were somewhat later and it was in the days of the Caesars that the time of Sirius’ rising shifted over to the later period when the summer’s heat began to dry up vegetation along river banks and thus make it hard for animals to get the proper food and drink. Sirius is easily recognized as the brightest star in the heavens, astronomers said. It is only 51,000,000,000,000 miles away and so its brightness is due more to its position than its actual brightness, It is one of the nearest of the stars.

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By United Press ASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Government experts in two fields today brought in a verdict of acquittal for dogs on the charge that they run amuck during dog days. Dr. Robert Olesen, Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, reported that he had made a study of veported cases of dog bites in New York City and found that the peak month was June. This was well in advance of the arrival of dog days which start in July and extend well into August. Dr. W. J. Humphries, Weather Bureau expert and former editor of the Monthly Weather Review, said that it was a fallacy to believe, as many persons apparently do, that many dogs go mad in the summer. He e2id that the heat simply made the dons tired and their normal exertion made them show signs of sweating and frothing at the mouth.

R. OLESEN'S study of bites in New York City showed 1700 during May, 1900 during June and 1800 during July. In. August, the rate was even lower although the definite figures were not kept.

While Dr. Olesen did not have statistics for other communities, he said he believed his survey of New York City would be representative of any urban community in the country. Dr. Humphries pointed out that dog days occurred only in the northern hemisphere and were named after Sirius, the so-called dog star. Dog days are supposed to start when this star rises with the sun in the early morning hours.

a purge of the Democratic Party. I do not look for any. Mr. Roosevelt is more likely to do what Republican conservatives did when they were the dominant party—make the party as all-inclusive as possible numerically and then try to dictate its policies. Undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt will welcome the political extinction of conservative Democrats where it can be accomplished by state organizations. Informal aid and comfort is likely to be forthcoming from Washington in such cases. But where they cannot be exterminated, they will be tolerated. That aiternative is preferable to excommunicating whole state organizations.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

OST of us know very little about the U. S. Coast Guard, formerly the U. S. Revenue Cutter Serve ice, but Karl Baarslag, author of “SOS to the Rescue,” sums up the whole story in his latest book, COAST GUARD TO THE RESCUE (Farrar). This book is unique, for its field is the peace-time activities of Uncle Sam's “little navy,” from the work of its efficient “flying lifeboats” and its many Coast Guard stations to its famous beach patrol. The Coast Guard's main functions are to save life and to uphold America’s maritime laws. Storms, hurricanes, floods, shipwreck, disaster at sea—these are the oCe casions which call out the Guard. Mr. Baarslag relates in a series of dramatic epie sodes the saga of men whose slogan is “You have ta go out, but you don't have to come back.”

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N the process, the New Deal is likely of necessity to become more conservative. Not that Mr. Roosevelt will. But circumstances will make it increasingly difficult for him to Ho what he wants to do. He will more often have to be content with half a loaf. His difficulty with wages-and-hours legislation, and with the effort to reawaken in- 2 8 a

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The Soviet newspapers run a sports extra late in the afternoon giving you the box scores of the day's executions. : As you already know, Stalin is “the works” over there. He's the President, the Cabinet, the Suprente Court and if the shootings keep up at this rate he'll soon be the entire population, too. Of course 1; makes things much easier for the Russian census taker. He doesn’t have fo leave his office at all. Ie just sits there with his windows open, listens for the shets, and subtracts. + I hear that one of the most unusual exhibits at the Russian—

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terest in farm surplus control, illustrate what he is up against. With recovery the country is less interested in reform.

Thus far it is doubtful if Mr. Roosevelt's own personal strength has been affected seriously. There are indications of strong sentiment in favoring a third term, as shown in the surprising results of surveys in Iowa by the Des Moines Register

STRONOMERS at the Naval Observatory said that through the ages the rising of the star Sirius had shifted three seconds each year so that during the time of the Egyptians thousands of years ago, the equivalent of our dog days had been in the spring. Instead of being a bad omen as at present, the rising of Sirius in conjunction with the sun was a favorable time according to the ancients.

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UST a couple of pals who started out to enjoy the beauties of Mother Nature and ended up right in the old girl's lap. Some gents simply can’t see the forest for the trees—while others can't see the road for the scenery. This motorist had eyes for everything but the highway ahead. He saw many pretty sights--in fact he and his companion were simply by the scenery.

AY and light-hearted, but with a few sad incle dents and serious implications, is CONTACT, a story of the World War by Lieut. Charles Codman (Little). The young American flier belonged to the squadron stationed at Conflans, France, where they had “the daily opportunity of meeting face to face the crack pursuit groups of the Imperial German Air Force, the Flying Circuses.” The great St. Mihiel offensive opened Sept. 12, 1918. On Sept. 16 Mr. Codman’s plane was brought down, and he was sent as prisoner to Germany. An amus-

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ing account is given of the prison camps, Rastatt, and