Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1937 — Page 9

* Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Colonists Say They Have Everything At Matanuska They Had in States; Even Complainants Fond of Alaska.

ALMER, Alaska, Sept. 4.—For two days I have driven around the Matanuska Valley in a borrowed car, stopping and talking to whomever I encountered. None of the farmers or their wives was

unwilling to talk. Most of them were pretty well satisfied with the colony. Almost every one had some criticism of the way things had been run. But most of them were optimistic, and sold on the idea that they could make a living in Matanuska, The first place I stopped was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Fredericks. It was 10 a. m. and Mr. Fredericks was asleep on the dsvenport. He had been up all night helping three other men with the fish nets at Knick Arm, the bay, about 20 miles off, where the colonists catch salmon canning. Mrs.

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“What “Nothing,” she said, “We didn’t have anything in the States.” I asked several other people what they had given up by living was the same—nothing. Every colonist I talked with. man, woman and child, liked Alaska, and said he had no feeling of lonesomeness or isolation. William Hynig can’t see how things are going to turn out. It looks mighty blue to him.

here

He had just had a letter from his father in Wis- |

consin. His father was feeding his milch cows $15 hay, and getting 38 cents for his butterfat. The son is feeding his cows $35 hay, and getting only 42 cents for his butterfat. When he was in the States, Mr. Hynig says, he always had some money in his pocket, even when he was on relief. Up here he never has any. He says living is twice as high up here. A sack of flour costs almost double. In the States he could buy overalls for 65 cents a pair. Here they're $1.50 and more. Everything's like that. And he has five children to feed and clothe. value in a year. But in spite of all the dark clouds, he says he’s crazy about Alaska and would hate to leave.

Immigrants Like Colony

Mrs. Marie Ising is a large and friendly woman, She and | They came |

and she has never been happier in her life. her husband were farmers in Germany. to the States about a dozen years ago, when things got so bad at home. Minnesota farms, but they never did much good. Today they are all set. of a bluff and they can valley of the Matanuska River, which flows less than a quarter mile away. Mrs. Ising proudly showed me all through the house, with the children Gertrude and Herbert trailing proudly along. They showed me the barn, and the new colt, and the little pigs, which Herbie said belonged to him. : “This is the finest home we have ever had,” Mrs. Ising said. “We have no complaints against the Government. We like it here better than any place we've ever been.”

My Diary

F.D.R. Beats Feat by Going to Sea; Son James Predicts Rough Weather

YDE PARK, N. Y,, Friday.—It was very warm on the dock yesterday afternoon when we saw the President board the Potomac. But he sat himself down on the upper deck and looked ®o blissful at getting off IT decided he wouldn't even notice the heat. Of course, when they got under way, there would be a breeze and the upper deck, which has no awning, would be a wonderful place from which to see the highlands of the Hudson. The President told Harry Hopkins that he would have to stay awake for that sight, as Mr. Hopkins had never seen the highlands from the water. Apparently much of Mr. Hopkins time on the boat is spent in sleeping, which I think is a good way to spend one’s time on a cruise. James cheerfully said they probably would have very rough weather, but everyone responded that they had no objections. They were prepared for any kind of cruising. My husband said, “All the plasters will be put on when we begin to roll,” an allusion to a former cruise when the poorer sailors tried this as a remedy against seasickness. I have often wished my husband and James were not such good sailors. I can remember the day when James was far from a good sailor, and so I know seasickness is something you can conquer and he has a perfect right to tease the rest of us. Mrs. Scheider and I had been shopping in Pough= keepsie, so we joined the procession down to the dock and had to wait for the President's party for a short while. All the neighborhood. at least all the youthful element, came to look at the car and wonder just what we were doing drawn up to the curb and chatting together. Finally, a policeman came along to tell us the other cars were going down another street and we followed him. Quite an excitement for the young fry. Of course, when we met the others, I had to turn around and I stalled my car and did ail the things vou don't want to do, but which vou always seem to do when anyone is watching. When everyone was on board, we came back and went in swimming and felt the only comfortable spot in the world was the pool. Somehow or other, as long as you are doing things, you can stand the heat, but the minute you stop and begin to think about it, it seems unbearable. I felt as though I had gone back to the Middle Ages when I saw a headline in the paper this morning that a parley had been called on “piracy.” We think we have gone so far away from the things that happened in the past, but one headline like this makes you feel we are all very much as we used to be.

Walter O'Keefe—

VER the week-end Franklin D. Roosevelt is eruising somewhere off Long Island, which is probably the safest body of water in the world today; but still he’s taking no chances. He's got the destroyer Selfridge along as a chaperon just in case some Chinese bombing planes drop by. Those Chinese have been making so many mistakes that it wouldn't be their planes off New Londen looking for Japan. It's amazing to learn that F. D. R. i going to witness some yacht races. You'd think he'd be tired of

slow-n:oving objects after that last session of Congress. | he plans to do some fishing, and after |

Of cour:ze, the events cf the past few months, he probably expects tie fish to veto the bait. The few Republicans now in Washingion are having their first happy week-end in years. . There isn’t a single Rogcsevelt in town.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1937

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Hamtramck, Mich., Solves Traffic Problem With School Court

By NEA SERVICE

ing traffic record in this city involving children of school

if found guilty are sentenced to yard duty or loss of certain privileges. Much of the credit for the success of the unique system is given to Neil Neuman, Hamtramck policeman and a favorite with school children.

NEW 'TERM' SET

Indianapolis’ own “court” for vouthful traffic offenders is to meet each Saturday, starting Sept. 11 for another “term,” Accident Prevention Bureau officials announced today. It was held three times during the summer The “court,” which is held in the Central Library Cropsey Auditorium, differs from the Hamtramck, Mich., plan in that police here make the “arrests” instead of the children themselves. When a child here is found playing in the street or riding a bicycle “double” he is ordered to appear on Saturday morning accompanied by his parents. Sergt. Albert Magenheimer gives safety instructions to the children.

With the co-operation of school authorities, he started the traffic court system almost six years ago. Each of the 12 jurisdictions, one for each public and parochial school, is presided over by a judge and an assistant, each a student

and member of the Junior Safety

Council. ”

CHOOL children are brought into court whenever a member of the school safety patrol makes a formal complaint against them.

Official summonses are issued. ’ Once in court, the laughter and

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H AMTRANMCK, Mich., Sept. 4.—School traffic courts run by children and sponsored by the Hamtramck Junior Safety Council are credited with establishing an outstand-

of 50,000—no traffic fatalities age in more than five years.

The courts are conducted much the same as regular police traffic courts. Students violating school traffic regulations are given “tickets,” tried before student judges and

fun of the playground are forgotten. Adult spectators are impressed with the seriousness with which the trials, held in classrooms, are carried on. Pupils accused of traffic violations, such as javwalking, disobedience, hitching on motor vehicles, and reckless walking appear a week after complaints against them are issued. Witnesses and spectators usually fill tbe room to capacity. The complaint is Then testimony is taken. ing that the accused is given a chance to make his plea. The judge then has a serious talk with the offender, impressing him with the possible consequences of carelessness, He next passes sentence.

read first, Follow-

/ » LJ ENALTIES are in the form of an added duty or withdrawal of a privilege. Students may be required to pick up trash from the school grounds for two weeks. Gymnasium and recreation privileges may be canoeled. Officer Neuman first interested children in the experiment by using his trained dog, Skippy. Instead of giving students a “dry” lecture, he impresses safety habits on them by asking Skippy questions. The dog answers by select~ ing the correct one from among

three colored balls. M. A. Kopka, superintendent of schools, believes the court system has materially increased efficiency of the schoolboy traffic patrols. “The good that comes from the plan is not limited to the schools or children of school ages,” he said. “The children are our future drivers. The spirit of caution and obedience to rules and regulations they acquire will abide with most of them in later vears, making them safe drivers and missionaries in a safaty cause that cannot have too many followers.”

opted in Eight States as Device

is Student Judge Arthur Hamtramck, Mich, school traffic court with same seriousness attending a court of law, School

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A Hamtramck school student found guilty of violating traffic rules is punished by being made A mem-

to pick up trash from the school grounds,

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children brought before him on such charges as jaywalking and hitching rides from motorists are lec-

tured and penalized.

mobiles,

ber of the traffic patrol is shown at right, “arresting” a fellow student for running between auto-

To Speed and Modernize Lawmaking Machinery

| predicts that by 1940 every state will | legislative councils in Towa and; the possibility of deadlocks between

By E.R. R.

| ASHINGTON, Sept. 4 —With|have set up a legislative council. | Oklahoma.

current, interest centering on | Nebraska's experiment with a sin-ste-ciramber Legislature, little atten=tion has been given to a less spec- | tacular device which many students | believe aims at modernizing the leg- | 1slative process in a much more | fundamental way than any such | structural change as the creation of a unicameral Legislature. This device, the legislative council, has been adopted in eight states within the last, six years. Usually composed of a small number of experienced legislators, and aided by expert advisers, these legislative councils meet between sessions to prepare comprehensive legislative programs for submission to the Legislatures. Councils are des= ignated primarily to provide respon=sible and informed legislative leadership, to promote continuity in the legislative process and to afford | greater opportunity for the expert | drafting of legislation. First established in Wisconsin in 1931, legislative councils were set up in Kansas and Michigan in 1932, [in Virginia and Kentucky in 1936, and in Connecticut, Illinois and Ne- | braska this year. Bills providing {for the creation of similar councils

| were brought forward in a number |

lof other states at this year's legislative sessions, but none received

| final approval. "

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| QINCE relatively little expense is involved, and since

| one observer,

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| "Of course father is helping us some. We have to “more then my husband makes."

! no con- | | stitutional amendment is necessary, |

| Mr. Gallagher believes that the | council device has “enormous future possibilities” for expediting lawmaking processes and improving the quality of the legislative output. Establishment of legislative councils has been advocated by numerous citizens’ organizations and expert groups in recent years. The Commonwealth Club of California has brought forward a plan for a council in that state, while the Cleveland Citizens League has advanced a governmental reorganization program for Ohio which involves the creation of both a legislative council and a unicameral Legislature. An Advisory Con=stitutional Revision Commission reported to the Governor of Washingtin in 1935 that “the Legislature is entitled to this service.” The commission declared that: “At present the members are confronted with a huge mass of unorganized material and bewildered by conflicting information from constituents and lobbyists. From this they are expected to develop =a logical and sound program of legislation. The Legislature is perfectly competent to determine state policy if the material upon which such policy rests is presented to it in proper form. But to turn legislators, [many of whom are inexperienced, | adrift with no aid or advice, except | that tendered by voluntary special | interests, is to expect the impossible.” The Brookings Institution has recommended the establishment of

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pay our butler

‘|beyond the limits of human flight

| houses, ” Ww Ww EGISLATIVE councils provide a | only through *

medium through which damaging effects of party rivalry on [ it

legislative programs may be reduced | goes along.” and an element of nonpartisan lead- |

cils uniformly includes representa-|some cases, to tives of different political parties and | of both houses of the Legislature, thus providing a medium through which agreement may be reached on

in Wisconsin

tion.

opposing parties each control one | sating controls.” house of the Legislature, diminishes |

| cil has power to enforce

Phillip La Follette a basic program for legislative ac-|such a council represented “an al- : ternative to the drift toward extendBipartisan sponsorship of such a ing arbitrary powers to the Gov= brogram enhances the likelihood of |ernor and the executive branch of impartial consideration and, where | government without some compens-

cogent,

in 1931,

While the legislative counits argumentathe | tion,” Arthur W., Bromage of the | University of Michigan, believes that, may accumulate prestige as it

views

Councils are designed also to preership established, some students be- | vent, deadlocks between the Govlieve. Membership in existing coun- | ernor and the Legislature and, in serve as continuing critics of administration, the creation of a legislative council Governor declared that

In urging

Creation of legislative councils to

Balloon to Earth

(Copyright, 1937, by Science Service) ASHINGTON, Sept. star feil on tobacco row at a farm near the little town of Aquas- |

of the roads,

| co, Md., some 30 miles from Wash- |

ington. Moreover, an airplane| Quickly they

| chased the star to earth. Or at least | Naval Air station and soon the Gibbons farm, where Mr, Gib- | striction, and the

Plane Trails Stratosphere

concrete,

[to the farm by motor.

raced back

macadam 4.—A and mud, and their various turns [the pilots believed they could return

coming down from the sky into his | the chicken yard there and it went

nearby cornfield. The “star” was a radio balloon | sent aloft by Dr. L. F. Curtiss of | the National Bureau of Standards, Which ascended some 17 miles and | transmitted, back to earth, cosmic | ray data. The zooming airplane was from the U. S. Naval Air Sta- | tion, flown by W. B. Fuller, radio- | man first class, and O. T, Cooper, | chief radioman. They noted the | shining bag of the radio balloon falling at the rate of about 150 miles an hour at an altitude of 8000 feet and dove to follow it to its | | landing.

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ne | INY radio transmitting sets | carried aloft in small, unmanned balloons are reaching far

in either airplanes or balloons. The particular “star” which farmer Gibbons recovered had gone up nearly 90,000 feet. Other and similar instruments sent up by Dr. Curtiss have reached altitudes of 25 miles or about 132,000 feet. Tobacco-hoeing Mr. Gibbons thus described the landing: “It sure fell fast and IT ran down the valley and around the woods after it. That airplane was so close that it scared the children. It carried two men: I could see them, it was so close. The balloon stopped in the cornfield just two corn rows from the woods. You sure was lucky it didn’t go farther.” The Navy plane overhead circled | the farm until Mr. Gibbons could be | seen clearing a barbed wire fence | with the balloon and its precious instrument held high over his head | | and approaching his home. Then the Navy pilots started to figure out where they were,

T= little “town of Aquasco appeared on the aerial maps they and then by noting the color

| off like a cannon.”

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improve the work of state Legislatures was proposed by the National Municipal League as early as 1921, The model state constitution draft ed by the league in that year provided for a council to be composed of the Governor and seven members of a proposed unicameral Legislature, The council was to be empowered: (1) to collect information; (2) to consider and report on proposed aws submitted to it by the Legisla« ture; and (3) to submit to the Legis« lature such legislation “as in its opinion the welfare of the state may require.” The council was to be supplied with a staff agency equipped for investigation and research. ” »

HE legislative councils thus far set up in the states generally follow these recommendations. Experience with the Wisconsin council has disappointed proponents of the scheme, but the council established in Kansas in 1933 has been highly successful. This council i. composed of 27 members—15 Representatives

and 10 Senators appointed by the presiding officers of each house, who are ex officio members. Under the Kansas Constitution, | regular sessions of the State Legis (lature are limited to two months

to the | every two years. The “pressure and were at | confusion” engendered by this re-

“apparent lack of | any legislative planning in advance

“It’s all right except for the bal- [of the session” constituted the priI tied it to a post near | mary reasons for the establishment

of the council, according to F. H. Guild, its research director.

National Safety Council,

The accident records tell tragic stories of motorists who have made fatal mistakes in backing. All too often they fail to look and to be absolutely certain that the way is clear before starting in reverse. It may take a second longer to insure safety, but it is time well spent. Look on both sides of the car, sound your horn, sure the way is clear, back very slowly.

and then, when you are

Y Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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No Child Auto Deaths in Five Years Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

It Was Little Kathleen Dauch Who Had More Nerve Than Indianapolis Boys and Got Liberty Bell Flower,

T was little Kathleen Dauch, 1 remember, who first gave me the uneasy feeling that Indianapolis boys were going to seed. At any rate, on Nov. 18, 1904, it became pretty apparent around here that Kathleen had usurped the prerogative of Indianapolis boys. What's more, it was pretty plain by this time that if the boys didn’t do something about it, hences forth the girls would take things into their own

hands and have everything their own way, As far as T know, Indianapolis boys never did do anything about it, with the result, of course, that ever since the day of Kathleen's big bluff, things haven't been what they ought to be around here The occasion of Kathleen's big blufl wns the day the Liberty Bell was! brought to Indianapolis, The bovs, T remember, were up before sunrise to see the old relic brought in on a flat ca: I recall that they followed the flat car all railroad tracks to the Traction Terminal where the bell came to rest for evervhody By that time it was 7 o'clock in the morning.

Girls Were Late Thus far the boys had everything their own way, At any rate, the girls didn’t participate in the ree ception, let alone escorting the bell through the streets. Goodness knows what the girls were doing all this time, All I know is that they didn't show up until 9 o'clock, by which time the crowds were so dense around the Terminal Building that they extended all the way to Ohio St. For some reason, however, little Kathleen Dauch, who had come all the way from Agnes St, managed to be in the Terminal Building at the precise moment set for the ceremony. The ceremony, 1 remember, was a grand affair, On the car guarding the bell were four policemen brought all the way from Philadelphia. There were four more, too, supplied by Indianapolis, It wasn't a bit too much, because besides the bell there were a lot of flowers to watch-big bunches of chrysanthes mums, for instance, and wreaths and the like. Well, when the speeches were over, the Mayor, or somebody equally important, got it into his head to pick some of the flowers and distribute them to a chosen few-—-mostly Republicans as I remember,

Mr, Scherrer

from the Building 10 see.

the way

Boys Short on Nerve I don’t know whether this moved William Wile lilams to do what he did, but I distinctly recall that when the Mayor was done, Mr. Williams suggested that some Indianapolis kid be given a Liberty Bell flower to remember the occasion by. Mr, Williams besides being interested in kids, was also secretary of the Board of Public Works at the time, This, of course, was the big moment for some boy around here to speak up and show the stufl he was made of. Nothing of the sort happened. Believe it or not there wasn't a boy in Indianapolis with enough nerve that day to do what was expected of him. Ine stead, little Kathleen Dauch, a mere girl, stepped forward and claimed the prize. What made matters even worse was the fact that she had planned the thing for days ahead, because when she stepped fore ward everybody could see that she wore a red, white and blue dress.

A Woman's View By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Twilight in Hollywood Is Perfect; It's Strangely Quiet and lllusive.

ACATION NOTES-"Hollywood Nights” is =a phrase which conjures up a picture of crowded streets, dancing clubs and gay people. To me, however, it will always have a different meaning. I shall remember the magic of twilight hours in the wooded hills overlooking the city. It's astonishing how quickly the turmoil of the town is left behind and you come into the quiet countryside. It isn't the actual country, of course, because a short walk in any direction will fetch you up on a stranger’s doorstep, while the paved road leads soon to some center of roaring traffic, Nevertheless, the illusion of complete privacy is perfect. It's like step ping out of reality into a realm of dreams, First, you're in the midst of noise and hurrying feet: a few revolu. fons of your wheels and--presto!-you find yourself in’'a fairy woodland, The nights have a strangely different auality, a flavor created perhaps by the blending of the Teme perate into the Tropic Zone; some essence exhaled by pines and palms in juxtaposition. There are no words to describe the tenderness with which the evening light filters through the haze to touch the mountain tops, or the way the shadows creep into the valleys. A luminous glow, diffused from the last gleams of the departed sun, turns the mist to stare dust, No vagrant wind wanders through the serene hills. No harsh sound intrudes, Then the music I love best begins to penetrate the consciousness, It is the murmur of the crickets, a thin, sweetly melodious piping, as of inaumerable elfin Pans, However raucous the days may be in Hollywood,

| the nights are perfect,

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8 the son of the “black sheep” of the family, Bil} Adams, in the eyes of the spinsters who reared him, was a boy to be watched over and led into the right paths. His aunts wanted him to be a minister or a paymaster’s clerk in the Navy. But Bill loved the sea and he decided his own future when he signed up as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship

| Silberhorn.

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