Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1937 — Page 11

- women on the subject of jury service.

Vagabond From Indiana— Ernie Pyle Fellow Passenger One Hour Late

In Reporting for Flight to Nome And Then, Goody! He Became Sick..

OME, Alaska, Sept. 15.—The air service in Fairbanks called up and said for me to be ready to go in 20 minutes. - Now 20 minutes is a pretty short time, but I'm the grandma who always has to get to the depot an hour ahead of time, so I just threw stuff in the bags, and tromped on it, and was ready to go in 15 minutes. So was my fellow-passenger, who turned out to be an old Alaskan friend—Mrs. Sarah Pritchett, editor of the weekly paper way back in Wrangell. Mrs. Pritchett has lived in Alaska 30 years, but this was her first trip to the westward, and her first long flight in an airplane. She was going to Unalakleet, way over here on Norton Sound, to see her daughter-in-law who is a Government nurse. She was carrying a watermelon for which she paid $4 in Fairbanks. Well, Mrs. Pritchett had hurried, Mr. Pyle too, and we were all ready to go, : but when we got to the airport it turned out we had another passenger, who wasn’t there yet. And he didn’t arrive, either, for one solid hour. During which time we stood under the wing and silently fumed, and damned all people who hold up other people who have made ready in 15 minutes. And when he finally did come, he didn’t say “How do vou do?” or “I'm sorry to have held you up,” or “What do you think of the Supreme Court?” He didn’t say a word, so I take it he had somehow done us a huge honor by allowing us to rush around and then ‘wait an hour for him, and I hate him.

Nothing: to the Trip

After that, we flew to Nome. Just like that. I'd like to work in a narrow escape, or at least a “mush” or two. But the truth is, it was one ‘of the safest and dullest airplane flights I've ever taken.

We had a tail wind, the air was smooth (despite which our tardy passenger got sick—goody), the day was beautiful, our plane was brand new and with every modern gadget for safe flying, and the country beneath just looked like country; in fact, we sped across Alaska so swiftly and peacefully that neither Mrs. Pritchett nor I could stand it and we both’ went to sleep. We made 600 miles in four hours and landed at Nome at 10 p. m. in broad daylight.

The Trip Was Costly

Then we drove into town and put my baggage ‘on the scales, and did I get a shock! It seems I owed them $22 for excess baggage. The fare from Fairbanks to Nome is $78, but it cost me an even $100 for the flight. Everything above 30 pounds costs 50 cents a pound. Tohight in my room I've been going through my baggage, marking down the new value of things. My extra pair of shoes have increased in value almost a dollar. That no-good $2 book I brought along is now worth a cursed $3. My typewriter must have set me back at least six dollars. But| the thing I'm fondest of is my box of salt. I always| carry a two-pound box of table salt wher-

- | ever I go, to rub in my hair when I get melancholy.

(That isn’t the real reason, but it’s none of your business). That box of salt cost originally, I believe, Slo cents. But now she’s worth $1.08. Some salt, eh id?

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Women Hear Judge Explain How | Jurors Are Drawn and About Pay.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Tuesday—Yesterday afternoon a|very patient judge lectured a room full of ) Outside the# rain came down in sheets, and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau | - Jr., Mrs. David Gray and I ran from our car to the door of the county Court House.

When the [judge finished giving the necessary information, he asked for questions and then it was discovered what a patient and courtly gentlemen he really (was. To him the questions probably seemed quite unnecessary, but every one of them bore on a point in which some woman was interested. We discovered for instance, that juries are drawn at different times in different counties. We also discovered that you must be on the assessor’s list to be drawn. One woman had a difficult time grasping the fact that property which you rented and did not own, . would not place you upon this list. Furthermore, we. found we would have to: make application to be placed on the list of jurors. : I discovered I had been laboring under a mistaken impression when I thought that people everywhere received only $3 for jury duty. I do not know now whether it varies in different places, but in Dutchess County one gets $5 a day and an extra $1.50 after 6 p. m. with] accommodations added if you stay all night. | |

Explains Excusing of Jurors

I had not attended the morning session when, under this same judge, the drawing of a jury took place. * He took great pains to explain that if at any time a lawyer excused them from service when they had not asked to be excused, they need not feel that this was in any way an insult. It simply meant that the lawyer did not think they would be impartial in the case. One woman promptly said she did nct think the attorney should have that privilege. New York State does not have a mandatory law, the law allowing women to serve on juries is a permissive law. ' " We had a jolly birthday dinner for one of the members of the household last evening. After it, the resident’s party left for Washington and the household seemed very small and very quiet. Today dawned clear and beautiful and I almost wish I had stuck to my original intention of motorihg to Atlantic City, but yesterday was so disagreeable that I decided to jour vy by train. Mrs. Scheider and I left Hyde Park at 7:30 a, m. today. We are in New York for an hour between trains and were to reach Atlantic City about 2 p. m.

2.) Pn Walter O'Keefe—

OHN ROOSEVELT |is the latest one of the President’s family to announce a marriage and it seems as if the kids were trying to use up the entire rice crop of America to help out their dad. The Roosevelt boys can certainly pick ’em. The Boston belle is a beauty, too, and you've got to admit that the girls who marry Roosevelts are pretty lucky. Their mother-in-law will only visit them between trains. Aside to tourists: The next time you're in Washington, if you see a parade of people swarming over the White House lawn don’t think it's a delegation marching in protest. It’s just the Roosevelts coming to dinner with grandpa. If his family gets any bigger, Franklin D. can be elected to office on their vote alone.

URGES PERSONNEL TESTS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Sept. 15 (U. P.).—Hospitals, despite their antiseptic sprays, soaps and white (gowns, may become a source of deadly infection for patients unless their personnel is constantly examined, physicians from Philadelphia's Germantown Dispensary and Hospital reported today. ~ Dr.| Philip S. Barba and Dr. John C. Williams presen a paper titled “The Nurse as a Factor in Cross Infection in Children’s Wards” to the American Hospital Association in convention here. They emized, however, that “the question really covers also the resident staff, visiting physicians, surgeons, maids, dietitians, cooks and artisans.”

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they are paying the subsidies.”

By John T. Flynn

discuss it here.

in ridiculous haste.

first class, man’s sized rebellion in Congress against ‘further Government borrowing will mark the new year. :

What we spend is a matter to be settled with a full understanding of all the vast. social obligations L-0f the Government. But what we spend we should raise by taxes

but easy policy of borrowing at _ the banks—a policy which has loaded us with a debt of 37 billions. ” ” ” IN the next place the Federal Government should put an end to all hidden taxes. This would mean abolishing existing liquor and tobacco and cosmetic and other commodity taxes.

There may be certain commodity taxes which are defensible for social or administrative reasons. For instance some liquor taxes might be permitted to defray the cost of supervising liquor production and, perhaps, to pay part of the expenses which flow from disorders attributable to liquor. But this would be a small sum beside the half a biliion now collected. Gasoline taxes might be tolerated in so far as the sums collected are used for road building and maintenance, ‘but for no other purpose. There is no reason under ‘heaven why a man should pay taxes for education or for relief or any other governmental purpose, merely because he owns an automobile or runs one in connection with his business.

| 2 2 ” FTVHERE is some excuse - for states and localities resorting to commodity and sales taxes

and make an end of the dangerous -

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937

“First one group and then another march to Washington demanding subsidies. | The people must be made conscious of the fact that

(Last of a Series.)

EW YORK, Sept. 15.—There are direct ways to eliminate most of the injustices and to correct the general evils of our present tax system. So far as the state and local taxes are concerned, the job belongs to so great a number of taxing authorities and the problem is so varied that there is no use trying to But the Federal Government would be able to do something about it without delay. When Congress assembles, it could have before it no more important or pressing subject than taxes. Administration, therefore, well might be ready with some comprehensive proposals and a tax bill that is not written

The

First of all we have got to make up our minds that we must raise the money to pay our bills by taxes and not by half taxes and borrowing. It is to be hoped that a

because their sources of taxes are limited. States soon find that if they use income and business taxes, taxpayers and indusiries move to other states. But the Federal Government is subject to no such handicaps. However, where, for any reason, commodity taxes are imposed, they should be imposed at the retail outlet and collected separately and not included in the purchase

price, so that the taxpayer knows .

precisely what he is paying. Thus, instead of easing $48 out of a man because he smokes cigarets and drinks a couple of glasses of beer a day, the $48 would be levied against his income and paid by him directly to a Government agent and not to a tavernkeeper, cigar, grocery or department store. . Senator La Follette has for several years at every session demanded the end of these hidden taxes and resort to an open, visible income tax on every citizen, no matter how small his income. This should be adopted. And along with this should go a reduction in the exemptions.

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EXT, steps should be taken at once to bring to an end the vicious system of tax-ex-empt bonds. Billions of dollars eof property each year thus escape taxes. Along with this should go immediate steps to extend to all public officials the same tax rates that other citizens pay. There are many reforms needed in our corporation taxes, in our inheritance and excess-profits taxes. But these we need not

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Side Glances

By Clark

mo. T. M:BE0. U.S. PAT. OFF.

eg could change a $20 bill | wouldn't be selling hot tamales,"

Revised Income Levy and Repeal of Hidden Assessments Urg

THANK

GOODNESS THERE'S NO PIRATE SHIPS

bother about here. The one great point I am trying to bring out is that, in our effort to run away from taxes, to escape facing taxes squarely, we have run into two terrible fiscal evils—Government borrowing and hidden taxes. The great need of the time is an abandonment of both.

Klan Does Not Roosevelt Was

By Robert W. Horton Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — President Roosevelt once had a memorable personal experience with Ku Klux Klan members, it was recalled here today as discussion of the alleged affiliation of Justice Hugo Black with that organization continued unabated. On this occasion the President, then plain Franklin D. Roosevelt, found himself the guest of honor of Klansmen in a small Georgia community. It was a Chamber of Commerce banquet and several years later, when he was a newspaper columnist, he set down this experience as a kind of parable. He described the affair in his first column, written for the Beacon Standard, a little weekly in Dutchess County, N. Y., his home county, The column was written in August, 1928, while the Klan issue was being fought out in the Al Smith campaign. Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama, violent Catholic baiter, had made a speech in Dutchess County and this recalled to columnist Mr. Roosevelt, his previous contact with the Klan,

” "2 = “ HESE neighbors of mine in Dutchess County,” he wrote, “represent a cross section of the community and are made up of Republicans and Democrats and people who are not affiliated with any party. Therefore in talking politics,

I am keeping thaf fact in mind and J

have no intention of using the shopworn methods of condemning every-

GERMANY PREFERS ALUMINUM

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Significant as to the importance Germany places on the production of aluminum are the figures for German imports of bauxite ore for 1936, just made available by the Department of Commerce here. Bauxite is the raw mineral from which the light metal is made. In 1936 Germany bought over three times as much bauxite as it did in 1934, and nearly double the 1935 imports. The figures in tons run: 326,465 tons in 1934; 505,485 tons in 1935, and 981,162 tons in 1936. Even in 1935 Germany led the world in aluminum production with a total of 71,000 tons, approximately 30 per cent of the world production. Figures for 1936 should be still higher unless Germany is storing the material for future use. ;

TRACE ANCIENTS THROUGH TEETH

By Science Service BERLIN, Sept. 15.—Fossil teeth can tell a great deal about ancient

races of men and man-like apes, in |

the opinion of Prof. Paul Adloff of the University of Konigsberg, East Prussia. From studies of teeth, Prof. Adloff is convinced that distinct races existed among Neanderthal men, anl that the even more primitive Heidelberg jaw is distinct-

lly human.

You May Be Surprised! When the citizen sees what he is spending and knows what he is spending it for he will be more scrutinizing of Government spending policies. This is needed now as never before as first one group and-then another march to Washington demanding Government

subsidies. The people who pay the subsidies must be made conscious

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of the fact that they are paying them. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service. Inc.)

"They Make Huey Look Like a Piker—" will start on this page tomorrow.

Apply to People You Know, Told Back in 1928

thing on one side and praising on the other side of the political fence. : “The day has gone by when you can fool people into believing that the nation, or a state or county or a city is going to the dogs just because one political party happens to be in power in it. People are sick of the kind of editorial writing which sees only good in every measure and every man sponsored by one party and only bad on the other side. That is one reason why the bitterly partisan press is losing its influence in this country. The other reason is that there is more and better education everywhere and readers do not, as much as formerly, take the views and news of a onesided paper as gospel truth.”

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o AKE as an example,” Columnist Roosevelt continued, “this visit of Senator Heflin to make a speech in Dutchess County. The Senator had a legal right to speak and probably the large majority of his audience went to hear him out of sheer curiosity. Probably no man in the United States has done more to help the nomination of and increase the support for Governor Smith all over this country than Senator Heflin. “He has made the nation realize

‘that old-fashioned bigotry does ex-

ist a little in every section and a lot of it in some places, and that the time has come to prove definitely that it must not and cannot be a controlling factor in our national

Klux Klan that could almost be called a parable—but it is a true story and happened to me. |

» ” 2 “»g"HERE years ago I was the guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce banquet in a small city in Georgia. It was a commun-

ity of almost pure Scotch and English Protestant ancestry. I sat on the right of the Mayor of the town and on the other side of me sat the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, a young man born in Italy and a Roman Catholic. Just beyond sat a jew, who was a member of the executive committee. “I turned to the Mayor and asked him if the Ku Klux Klan was strong in the city. He said, ‘Yes, very.’ (It has since then nearly died: out.) Then I asked if most of the members of the Chamber belonged to the Klan and again he said, ‘Yes. “Then I said: ‘If that is so why is it that the secretary is a Catholic and that a Jew is on the executive committee?’ Di “He turned to me utterly surprised and answered: ‘Why, Mr. Roosevelt, we know those men. They are intimate friends of ours, we respect them and like them. You know this Klan business doesn’t apply to people yoir know.’ “I often wonder if those unfortunates who are working in open defiance of that article of the Constitution of the United States which guarar.tees religious liberty also are opposed to the great commandment, ‘Thou shaltelove thy neighbor as

thyself.’

“Think it over.”

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National Safets Council

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By Anton Scherrer State Fair Standaids for Bread Judging Reveal That the Flavor Isn't of Sole Importance at All. NOTHER point future historians will ponder is that flavor has practically nothing to do with our appreciation of bread. Taste, even less.

I bring up the subject at this time because it was the biggest surprise I had at

the State Fair. I had a kind of suspicion, of course,

that things weren’t what they ought to be, Hut I had no -idea that homemade bread had sunk to such an

all-ime low. I don’t want to alarm you unduly, “but inasmuch as Hiram Lackey and Dorothy Thompson and everybody else has his own explanation for the creaking civilization of ours, I see no reason why I can’t horn in with a general observation that bread is at the bottom of our troubles. What I'm getting at, of course, is that bread wadays doesn’t taste the way it did when I was a boy. ‘I can tell you why. Believe it or not, it’s because taste is the ‘last (and least) thing a woman strives for today. I'm sure of it, because that’s what the scorecards at the State Fair say. Ta You ought to know about the scorecards. Well, to start at the beginning, a perfect loaf of bread rates a hundred points, allocated as follows: (1) General appearance, 15 points; (2) lightness, 10; (3) crust, 10; (4) crumb, 40 (I hope it surprises you as much as it did me), and finally, (5) flavor, 25.

Proof-ls Not in the Eating

Which, of course, leaves me no alternative but to believe that the proof of a loaf of bread has precious little to do with the eating of it, no*matter what somebody said about the proof of a pudding. - As a matter of fact, the proof of a loaf of bread has so little to do with the eating of it that it doesn't amount to more than 25 per cent of our appreciation, that being the measly amount the State Fair crowd thinks flavor is worth. To tell t h, it doesn’t even amount to that much, because if you examine

Mr. Scherrer

J the scorecard closely, youll discover that flavor isn’t

altogether a matter of eating. Flavor, according to the State Fair crowd, consists of taste and odor, which, of course, complicates thie thing still more. Well, let’s be fair about that, too, and say that odor is just as important as taste. All right, in that case, it leaves us believing that if a loaf of bread tastes one-eighth es good as it used to,\it comes pretty close to being a prize performance today.

It’s the Looks That Count

By this time, no doubt, you're wondering what a loaf of bread consists of to make up for the lack of taste. Well I'll tell you. According to the scorecards out at the State Fair, modern bread is supposed ta have uniformity of cells and thinness of cell walls (15 points); softness and springiness (15 points); shape (5 points), smoothness of crust (5 points), and gocdness knows what else. Fact is, it has to have every= thing that appeals to the eye. Which, of course, raised the question whether a loaf of bread is something designed for the eye or the palate. Fifty years ago when I was a boy, we had no doubts about the matter,

A Woman's View

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

People Work Hard Looking for Fun, But Do They Really Find Pleasure?

” HERE are you going?” It seems to me I shout the question daily to the retreating form of the family Princess, as she rushes to join her gang, whose arrival is always announced with fearful din of auto horns. :

“No place in particular. Just out for a good time.”

Back to the typewriter I go, turning over the

phrase in my mind. “A good time.” 'I know just about what they will do. First, with a nerve shattering screeching of brakes theyll pull up at a drugstore to have refreshments. Then they’ll either swoop to the house of one of their number for music or cards, or conversation, or they’ll be off for a swim or to see a movie or to dance to some jazz orchestra on a platform open to the stars. And most, of them will go home with a curious feeling of dissatisfaction. And it isn’t only the youngsters who do the dancing dervish act. Most of their parents, practically all the adults in the country, in fact, are also occupied in this never-ending pursuit of pleasure. Yet how many of us really have a good time? Out of the noise, confusion, and artificially stimulated energy, do we get much actual pleasure? Not half so

much, I'm thinking, as comes to the fisherman who -

rambles by a stream all day with only his thoughts for company. : :

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