Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1937 — Page 15

TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 1937

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle Decision Between Beauty Parlor

And Dead Fish Odors Quickly Made Before Rough Air Trip to Anchorage.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 30.—Over in Good News Bay, while we were waiting for the tide to come up and float our plane off the beach, Pilot Ralph Savory and I decided to kill time by doing a little shooting. So he got his emergency 22 rifle out of the plane, and we stood on the beach and threw tin

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Workmen Busy Restoring Harrison Home to Golden

cans in the water and shot at them. Not only shot |X

them. We hit them.

All this cannonading socn attracted all the Eskimo children in town. They came and stood behind us, wizardry with the flintlock much that they began throwing cans for us to shoot at. And we sank them so fast it

and they admired our | SO

kept the kids busy running after |

more tin cans. Every time

we'd |

look around there would be more |

Eskimo children loaded down with old tin cans.

Once, when it was Ralph's turn to shoot, 1 sat down on the beach to watch him. A friendly Eskimo dog came up and nosed and pawed all over me, and I petted him awhile. Then I happened to remember (or rather was startled into remembering), that Eskimo dogs live on dead fish— fish that are awfully dead.

Perfume to the Rescue

So I yelled “mush,” and the dog scrammed. But alas, it was too late. I had already become saturated with an odor which could scarcely “toujours l'amour,” whatever that means."

Mr. Pyle

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| Now I happen to be allergic to bad smells (finally | got in that word *“allergic”), and in a few minutes I realized that my condition had become intolerable,

not only to the community at large, but to myself.

So I beat it back te the roadhouse and hunted up | Frances Berg, who is a very beautiful girl and I was embarrassed to ask her, but did finally ask her if she |

had any perfume. all over my sweater, and did I smell good then! We finally got off from Good News Bay, flew for

She dug up a bottle and poured it |

four hours, stopped at McGrath for gas, and then |

took off on the last leg to Anchorage.

We had more than a full load, so Dave Strandberg

and I took turn about sitting on top of a pile of mail

sacks, riding backwards, without any safety belt or |

anything to hold us down.

Smooth Sailing—Until

In an hour we were among the mountain peaks, |

snaking through Rainey Pass. We were awfully high. but the jagged earth had come up to us and we rode only a few hundred feet above snow, and rock cliffs, and bare slopes of gravel. The air was smooth.

And then it hit us. In one tiny, startled instant

unearthly |

that plane was turned up and smacked clear over on |

its side.

1 took off from my pile of mail sacks and went |

arming-and-legging it through the air.

At that mo- |

ment I would have sold out completely fer two tax |

tokens and a dead fish.

I suppose I would have been |

flying through the air yet if I hadn't hit the side of | the plane, which the manufacturers put there for just |

such emergencies. We were all scramblingly bewildered—and then the engine stopped! It made me weak all over, and I had just strength enough to turn and look forward. I saw the pilot's hand on the throttle. and realized with a vast relief that he had merely cut the gun till we got through that rough air. Well. we all survived, and an hour later we landed in Anchorage.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Servant's Feeling of Possession, Reverence to President Is Shown.

YDE PARK, N. Y. Sunday.—What a difference H the sun makes. It was out vesterday morning in full force and everybody's spirits seemed to rise with it. Mrs. Scheider left early in the morning to visit her sister and little niece over the week-end. She is one of those people who do not seem to enjoy a holidav when they feel there is work to do. I understand that very well, for I have much the same attitude. but I think it is probably good for us all to get away from all responsibility now and then. The President decided he would like to be out of doors for luncheon. However, when we tried to persuade him to go into the pool, he told us firmly that it had not had time to warm up yet and, of course. he was right. Later in the afternoon some of us went in. for after lying in the sun a while it seemed as though one could stand a little cold water. My Mamie at the cottage has a way, when she is going to serve my husband, of talking about “My President.” which is really quite delightful. There is a feeling of reverence and yet possession in the tone of her voice—a kind of maternal quality in the possessiveness, which makes me forget for the moment that he is an individual. I think of him then as she does, more in the light of a symbol. This need of a symbol, something to look up to, to trust, to rely on, is a very deep need in human nature. In the past every theory of government has been built on it. Kings grew out of it, dictators grow out of it today. The real test of democracy is whether we can feel this way about our leaders and yet keep enough reliance in ourselves to preserve the individual responsibility that must exist in every citizen if democracies are to endure. A friend has sent me the advance proofs of Madame Curie's life by her daughter. It will be coming out shortly in one of our well-known magazines. I have read it with a great thrill. The simplicity and beauty of the stvle and the understanding and love for her mother are in themselves wonderiul. It must be lovely in French, but Mr. Vincent Sheehan's English translation is a wonderful bit of writing. It seems to have lost nothing in passing through his hands. The story of this life should give many people a new conception of what does make life worth while and what is true greatness.

Walter O'Keefe—

HE Government has simplified the income tax blanks, but vou still have to sign your name and address. The tax form itself is smaller, while the payment is larger. This is going to complicate the unemployment situation, when you consider how many lawyers it will throw out of work. One troublesome feature has been eliminated. The blanks for millionaires contain a list of loopholes, so that they won't have to look for them. This will give every millionaire more time on his yacht. For smaller incomes the whole problem is easier. You go into a room at the Treasury, pay your income tax, and then go into the next room and collect your relief check. There's a special space at the side for figuring and computation, but nobody will ever use it. Who's going to let the collector know how you managed to beat it down to your figure?

FISHES PROVOKE STUDY

By Science Service EW YORK, Aug. 30.—Close kinship between South American and African fishes belonging to the group known as characins, demonstrated by Drs. William K. Gregory and G. Miles Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History here, has raised anew the question of an earlier land connection between the two continents. The fishes are and always have been fresh water forms, so the ancestors could not have swum across a wide gap oi ocean. Geologists have suggested that there was once a narrow peninsula connecting Brazil with West Africa. Others think the two continents were once a single land mass, that broke and drifted AP Whatever the solution, the closely related fishes now live far apart. It seems likely that the original home was South America, and that the emigration was in the direction of Africa. &

The old Benjamin Harrison home at 1320 N. Delaware St. being converted into a memorial to Indiana's only Presi-

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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1937

dent. Spacious lawns surround the house, once a center of Indianapolis’ social and political life.

(First of two articles)

By JOHN MARTIN VV ORKMEN delved into the memories of a half century today, restoring the old Benjamin Harrison home as a memorial to Indiana’s only President of the United States. Roofers, painters, floor sanders, carpenters and masons worked, while the ghosts of a glittering past seemed to look down from the high-ceilinged walls. They seemed to recall the Golden Age of Indianapolis —the age when men and women of national renown moved in more stately procession through a glamorous society. Born in North Bend, O., in 1833, Benjamin Harrison built the home at 1230 N. Delaware St. in 1872. And, except for the four years from 1888 toc 1892, when he was President, he lived here until his death in 1901. = ” 5 HOSE were the years when Indiana's reputation as the home of authors was built—wh=n writers like James Whitcomb Riley and Gen. Lew Wallace and Charles Major lived. America was expanding after the Civil War; and as the country entered the Gay Nineties, society became a thing of glitter and glamour and stateliness. Partly because Benjamin Harrison was President, Indianapolis became something of a center for that society. His magnificent home, with 14 rooms on the first two floors and a huge social room on the third, became a rendezvous for visiting notables and local “names.” In it he received word of his nomination and his election in 1888; and in it, he died 13 years later.

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O 1t came the nation’s notables and social leaders of Indianapolis. In the city’s early history, the wealthier residents first had settled on N. Capitol

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But soon the best residential center shifted to N. Delaware

In the house's front lawn stands this boulder with a memorial plate inscribed to Indiana's only Presi-

dent of the United States.

and N. Meridian Sts. between Monument, Circle and 16th St. The home is in the heart of several blocks of fine old mansions, many now in poor repair and serving as rooming houses. Indeed, for the last 20 years, that has been the use made of Mr. Harrison's home. It is to transform the residence from a rooming house into a memorisl that the Foundation now is working. ” n ”n T is a huge, solid house, surrounded by spacious lawns, with the Arthur Jordan Music Conservatory on the south side. Mr. Harrison built it for himself and his wife after they had lived in more humble quarters during the days when he was a rising young attorney. A bread porch, its roof supported by wooden pillars, around the front and south side. On the front door glass, whic faces east, is engraved the monogram “BH.” The door opens onto a reception hall. On the south side of the first floor are a pair of double parlors, each about 20 by 25 feet.

placed in the Harrison home.

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Henry Harrison.

Back of the parlors is the room which served as Mr. Harrison's library and study. On the north side, a spiral staircase winds up from the reception hall to the third floor. Behind it is the huge dining room. A hallway with arched doorways separates it from the parlors and the study. At the rear are a butler’s pantry, a spacious kitchen and finally a latticed back porch. A second staircase spirals from the rear of the hall to the top of the house.

N the sccond floor, at the front northeast corner, is a room which Mr. Harrison's secretary used. Across the hall, at the southeast corner, are the quarters used by Mrs. Harrison—a bedroom and a dressing room. The south-center room was Mr. Harrison's bedroom--a huge room with heavy furniture. Their daughter had quarters on the north side of the third floor. At the rear are two spare bedrooms. Servants lived in the rear of the third floor. The front two-thirds

Benjamin Harrison, This portrait was a favorite with his family.

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By Anton Scherrer Madness in Method or Method in Madness Is Observed in the Work Of Indianapolis Street Christenerss HAVEN'T the least idea how our forefathers went to work choosing the street names in the Mile Square. I wish I did, because the way matters stand now, 1 don’t know whether there was method in their

x madness, or madness in their method.

the only Hoosier President.

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This cradle has been purchased by the Arthur Jordan Foundation and will be It belonged to Mr. Harrison's grandfather, William

of that floor is a huge room—today it would be called an attic, but then, before the radio invaded the parlor, it was a social room. Efforts are being made by the Arthur Jordan Foundation to restore the house, as nearly as possible, to the condition it was in when Mr. Harrison occupied it. A large barn behind the house, however, was found in such poor condition that restoration was impossible,

NEXT-—The Harrison home as the center of a Presidential cam-

paign.

‘Chemists Hold Key to Advance in Field Of Medicine, Nobel Prize Winner Says

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—Dr. George

in Medicine, believes that success in

four major fields of medicine will | vaccination, depend chiefly on the future ad- | viruses,

vances made by chemists. In the past, the practicing phywith a wealth of experience upon which to draw and the laboratory worker who mented with guinea pigs, rabbits, degs and monkeys have been the

| ones to make the startling discover-

jes that alleviated the suffering of

| the millions of humanity.

These four divisions of medical

H. Whipple, | to be done. joint winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize |

experi- |

| research are virus diseases, studies | of the ductless glands, chronic dis- |

| eases and studies of the physiology |

of the central nervous system, Dr. Whipple said in a statement resealed in advance of the American Chemical Society's meeting Rochester, N. Y., from Sept. 6 to 10.

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that problems in these difficult fields which can be attacked by

the chemists must be solved if a

great share of human suffering is to be eliminated. “Much work is being done throughout the world on problems combining the effects of the physiologist and the clinical investigator, but a large part of the success sought in these fields will be based on the research of biochemists and chemists,” Dr. Whipple said. “In fact, the chemist will of necessity do the most important work in many of these fields. “It is impossible to predict what laboratory discoveries in the future may develop important applications to disease states or even industrial precedures.” ”n » os

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| and Dentistry of the University of

| Rochester, pointed out that the

general study of viruses of diseases was being undertaken in laboratories all over the world. Much progress has already been made, he

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problems relating cultivation of immunity studies transmission to animals will worked out in the near future.

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“This group of problems also neglected,” Dr. Whipple said.

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He said that in all | which is receiving so much attento | tion and which needs to be studied

with great care, not only from the laboratory and experimental side, but particularly from the clinical side, which has been somewhat

National Safety Council

It hardly seems necessary to warn of the danger of too much speed in city driving, yet the traffic court records—and also the coroner’s records—testify most eloquently te the fact that a great many drivers

do hurry along much too fast in the urban districts. Much better to waste a minute and

pulse. Obey the speed laws.

Control that im-

save a life than to save a minute and lose a life,

| ern Indiana near Evansville.

To be sure, North, South, East and West Sts. make sense, and so does Meridian St., and maybe Market. As for the rest, the names appear to be

picked out of a hat. Come to think of it, I wouldn't even say they were picked out of a hat. For example, I've often wondered why Michigan, a state that didn't enter the Union until 1837, had the honor of having a street in Indianapolis named after it—right in the original Mile Square, too. Looks kind of queer, not to put too fine a point on it. It isn't the only thing that worries me. Why, for example, aren't the 13 original states represented in the Mile Square? They aren't, you know, t any rate, I've never heard of New Hampshire St., or Connecticut St., or even Rhode Island St. Not in the Mile Square, anyway,

No Carolinas, Either

There isn't any North Carolina St. either, or a South Carolina St., for that matter. But don't let that worry vou. You don't have to, because, strange as it may appear, I have the answer. And it isn't because of postal prescriptions, either. It would be pretty awkward, I'll admit, to address a letter to N. North Carolina St., but that isn't the reason. The fact of the matter is that Indianapolis came mighty close to having a North Carolina St. A South Dural St., too, and it was all on account of Pogue's un. If you remember Pogue's Run, and goodness knows you ought to, you'll recall that it came from some= where in the northeast and wormed its way southe west until it hit South St. in the neighborhood of Meridian St. Well, our forefathers had the idea of building a grand street on the south side of Pogue's Run from Meridian and South Sts. diagonally to the corner of Georgia and East Sts. That was to be South Carolina St. A block and a half north of this on the north side of Pogue's Run, in other words—another street was to run parallel to South Carolina St. That was to be North Carolina St. Nothing came of it, of course, because by the time our forefathers got around to it, the railroads beat them to it.

More Names Thought Up

That didn’t keep our forefathers from thinking up new street names, however. Fact is, they thought them up so fast that they didn’t have enough streets to fit them. Anyway, this was the period our forefathers began giving old streets new names, Cumberland St., for example, became Pearl St.: Poe tomac St. was changed to Court St. and Choptank St. to Adelaide St. For the life of me, I don't see how it improved matters, but de questibus non dise putandum, as somebody before me said. After that, things were kind of quiet around here. At any rate until 1894, when Tennessee St. was changed to Capitol Ave. and Mississippi St., to Senate Ave. John Puryear, I guess, had more to do with that change than anybody else. Mr. Puryear, a well known and able Negro who represented the old Fourth Ward in the Council at the time, said he ‘Dated the word Mississippi,” and apparently that was enough, :

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Dyer Trial a Mockery of Justice,

Court Scene Spectator Declares. ACATION NOTES: While we were in Los Angeles the trial of Albert Dyer, charged with the mure der of three little Inglewood girls, was on. Throngs of men and women crowded into the courtroom, avidly waiting for sensational crumbs. Each day the newspapers carried pictures of the pare ticipants in the big show. Doctors. psychiatrists, ex« perts of all sorts were called in. One side contended that Dyer had the mentality of an illiterate 10-vear old. The other, with its authorities, swore he had unusual powers of observation and was not a patho= logical liar.

In short, Albert Dyer was riding on top of the publicity wave. He might be mad, but the manner of his trial put the public into the same general category. If he is a moron and a pervert as charged, it's a sorry sight to see him used as a football to demonstrate the cleverness of lawyers. All such trials are a mockery of justice. They have degenerated into a game of skill between opposing bodies of men, a Roman holiday for the populace. Horrible crimes have been committed in Los Angeles. As is usual with localities where the exe terior aspect is vivid and gaudy, there are rotten spots within. Sex rules here; consequently sex crimes are numerous. The showoff also thrives in the atmos phere of the studios. Hence the most absurd and ime possible pranks are daily events. Movie aspirants often go to any lengths to obtain the public notice which seems one of the best ways of crashing the producer's gate, For this reason exhibitionism is the accepted thing. Glamour rides high. The language of the press i8 as lush as the California vegetation. The place is overrun with straw-colored blonds, Shirley Tempie tots, and men with pomaded marcels and slumbrous eves. Added to them is a motley array of tourists. So far we haven't encountered a native-born individual, The real Californians must hide in the hills, Surely there are a few left.

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EITHER man nor cat was Talleyrand, for unlike either, he had five distinct and separate lives, He was priest, revolutionist, Bonapartist, legitimist, and Orleanist during his 50 years in the French court. He served each of his masters well, so Crane Brinton tells us in 300 pages devoted to the biography of the great diplomat. That Talleyrand was a master of his profession, there is no doubt. The feat of persuading Metternich, himself no amateur, and the rest of the allies to exact no indemnity from post-Napoleonie France is unparalleled in modern history. To most readers of THE LIVES OF TALLEYRAND (Norton) it will seem that the five lives were merely transitory in the one life of a canny politician, who, by means of his versatility, kept himself in the good graces of five different French Governments,

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STORY of the Civil War in which the hero 1s actuated more by love than patriotism is BOY IN BLUE, by Royce Brier (Appleton-Century), The events center around a rural district in southe They concern a simple country youth who understands very little of the meaning of war and enlists hoping to find a speedy death after his sweetheart rejects him. However, his exposure to enemy fire is delayed and he meets Ann, a Southern girl with Northern sympathies. The story of these two who became ardent lovers, and their long hard years through the dangers and havoes of theywar will engage your interest,

Mr. Scherrer