Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1937 — Page 13

Vagabond

4 ~ From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

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| Teacher Tries to Change Marriage | Customs of Eskimos, So Captain

| Of Coast Guard Rules in Dispute.

((GAMBELL, St. Lawrence Island, Bering | Sea, Sept. 22.—On this island there has ‘recently arisen a small dispute. : It has to do with how the Eskimos shall get married. Recently a new schoclteacher

‘arrived, and he decided they had to get mar- | ried our way. | The Gambell Esikmo wouldn't give in to the school- | teacher’s demands. So when the cutter Northland arrived, the whole dispute was dumped into the captain’s lap. The involved ritual of courtship and marriage on St. Lawrence Island goes like this: : A young fellow will get his eye on a girl he likes. He then goes and tells his papa, and his papa goes to the girl's papa and says how about it? Then that papa asks his daughter how about it, and if she says she'll take a whirl at it, then it is arranged that the young man shall come and live with his prospective in-laws. :

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Well, the young man moves in with the other | family. They all live in one room, the boy on one | side, the girl on the other. The idea is for him, | through dignified advances, finally to get over and | live on the girl's side of the room. :

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Now I guess it’s sort of hard even for an Eskimo | to bill and coo with a Whole room full of people | staring at him. Often the young fellow is so bashful | it takes him months to get started. Also, it is possi- | ble for the girl to change her mind, and not have any- | thing to do with the young fellow.

But finally we’ll say the young fellow does get ac- | cepted by the girl, and things are now getting pretty | well along. But it isn’t over yet. The young man | now starts to build a house. And not until the day | he has it finished, and the young couple moves away | from the old folks and into their own home, are they | considered married. There isn’t any actual ceremony.

It is a long process. Sometimes the young man

may live with the girl's family for two years before he gets to the point. There is plenty of time for deliberation on both sides. But once it is done—it is done forever. 1 And that is what was put up to the captain of the Northland to decide—yes or no. Unfortunately I must stop the story there. The official report hasn’t been sent to Washington yet, and until it is I'm not permitted to say what the Coast Guard's decision was.

‘My Diary | By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady, on Trip to New York,

Refuses to Brave Legion Fanfare.

YDE PARK, N. Y,, Tuesday—I went down to New York City yesterday afternoon primarily to dine and spend the evening with a friend, but with the added intention of doing a few things this morning. I did not realize how much a city, as big as New York, could be taken over by the American Legion. As my taxi drove out of the station I noticed Legionnaires and their ladies in uniforms in great numbers on the streets. I said to my taxi cab driver: “The Legion has really taken possession of New York, hasn't it?” His answer was: “It's nothing in this part of the town, you should be around Times Square.” I loosened a real Niagara of conversation, for he proceeded to tell me many of the things which had been done during the past few days. I could not help . smiling for it sums itself up in this way—men, even men who fought in the World: Wat, are still little boys when they are off on a holiday. Their idea of a good time is a grand rough-house. Then I took up the evening paper and realized getting around New York today would be an absolute impossibility. One could not cross Fifth Ave. Certain streets were entirely closed. This morning I saw all the shops on Fifth Ave. were closed and their windows discreetly covered, I suppose to preserve them from the .crowds. I came home on the early morning train just before Fifth Ave. was shut off to all traffic.

Escapes Crush of Crowds

Again my taxi driver and I conversed and he remarked: ‘This parade is going to be a grand sight.” I agreed with him heartily, but thanked my lucky stars that I could escape to the country and would not have ‘to sit on a bench before the public library or stand on - the street watching endless marching men. I have a great admiration for the Legion, but perhaps my * memory of the war is still too vivid and it does not spell fun for me. I am very glad to see all the speeches have emphasized the work which the Legion can do for peace. ‘ With their organization and their énthusiasms, I hope "they will be able to do a great deal. On the train, I read all the way to Poughkeepsie. Just as we were arriving at the station, the trainman came along and offered to help me off with my bags. 1 had a little light hat-box with me in which I had taken a hat to leave in New York. When he picked "it up he looked completely mystified for, of course, it ‘ was like a feather in his hand. He probably wondered why I bothered to carry anything at all if it didn’t weigh any more than that. We are expecting a number of guests this afternoon and I hope to do a last bit of work on an article which should be finished before I leave.

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War Madness and the United States

ie Indianapolis

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937

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Virtual Dictatorship Planned for Nation if It Is Drawn Into Conflict

(Third of a Series)

By Stephen and Joan Raushenbush

WE ran the last war in such a way that we made thousands of millionaires at the same time that we took millions of men away from their jobs and families and put them into uniforms and paid them only a dollar or a dollar and a quarter a day.

Thousands of American

doughboys were killed and wounded fighting for their colintry at a dollar and a quarter a day. Few of the millionaires suffered any risks. The companies dealing in war materials made billions of dollars they would never have made without a war. Some people have thought that if the great industrialists and the bankers and others were warned ahead of time that they were going to be called on to pay for the war and suffer in it as the drafted men will,

they would be a little less eager to let a war happen. This demand for more equality of suffering in wartime has been known as the movement to draft capital as well as men,

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HE preceding chapter in this

series helps answer the question: “Will the munitions makers and others work for the Government for almost nothing?” The answer seems to be that they do not look at the Government in the

light of something for which every sacrifice, including life, is to be made. When the Government needs their services and there is a great amount of work for them, they even tell the Government frankly that they are going to put up. prices because of it. That worked all thirough the last war. There were relatively few drafted soldiers who refused -to fight for $1 or $1.25 a day, because they had been earning $6 a day. But many of the big war materials companies immediately went on strike for more than théir- usual income. The Munitions Committee called it “the strike of capital.” After citing the instance of the copper, steel and powder industries, it said, “The Government is

more at the mercy of such a strike

by capital or management than at the mercy of a strike by labor.” The minutes of the General Munitions Board in 1917 show that Bernard M. Baruch was opposing the steel companies’ demands for higher prices as “too high and unfair,” but that the steel conipanies were adamant. Later the minutes showed that “practically everything is held up because of . the unsettled , condition and the delay was seriously hampering the preparations for war.” Judge Gary spoke for the steel companies—“Manufacturers must have reasonable profits in order to do their duty.” » ® nw : HE Senate Munitions Committee seemed to be appalled at the high profits made during the war, and’ was inclined to doubt whether the price-fixing proposals offered for use in the next war would work any better than they did previously. ; ‘In spite of our experience in the last war, there is a general demand by the people to take the profits out of war. Therefore, if the. Government wants popular support for a war in which men are to be drafted to die overseas, it may find it necessary to do something about the demand for taking the precfits out of war. That does hot mean that, with the best intentions, the profits can be taken out of war. It means

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of war. The authors hold that everybody who thinks there can actually be ‘equality in wartime is terribly mistaken. It agrees with Army spokesmen who think that we will have to go on paying companies & good profit to get war materials. The plain fact is that once we are in a war it is too dangerous for the safety of the troops and the winning of the war for the Government to haggle over profits to munitions companies.

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AR never works to help democracy. It always works against it.- France and England probably will become operating dictatorships during the next war. We will do the same. The first price of our entering a major foreign war will be the loss of our democracy. Like France and England we will be lucky if we get it back at the end of the war. In 1937 the Chairman of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees introduced H1954-525 (Hill-Sheppard). Such an introduction usually means that it is an Administration measure. American Legion officials have indorsed it. The Nebraska Legislature, . under the impression that “it provides for a draft .of capital, industry, man-power . . . with equal service for all and special privilege for nong . . .” has memorialized Congr in its behalf. Those | who thought we were not again going) to draft men to die overseas ght to look at it. Those who want equality of burdens in wartime ought to study it,

"as well as those who want the

profit incentive taken out of war. And those who want us to stay out of the wars we get into because of our war trade also should examine it. La ” ” 2

T PROVIDES that immediately after Congress has declared

war the President, without any further legislation by Congress,

_can draft the several millions of

men between the ages of 21 and He can control business by licenses, priorities of shipments, price-fixing. and by | inducting managers into the service as civilians. He can appoint all the agencies he wants, to carry out his orders and rules, and the fine for disobedience of the rules is $100,000 or a year in jail. Lastly, there is a tax of 95 per cent “of all income above the previous three-year average.” In five short pages the President is given dictatorial powers which adequately meet Irenee du Pont’s dictume, “An absolute monarch is needed in wartime.” | Capital was not drafted during the last war. It cannot and will

only that the people will be told

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command an open field.

one. The War Department is not equipped to .do it, does not want to do it, and will not do it. The powers to put a company out of business (licensing and priorities) will not be used because the Government cannot afford to put a nonluxury company out of business. They will serve only to silence a hostile press.

2 s 4 FOw how does the draft bill work? : First, every man over 18 regis-

ters. Then men from 18 to 28, perhaps, are called into the Army

first. A few, working in munitions companies or other important industries, in skilled positions, are let go. A few with large families are let go. The rest are in camp, off to the war. That takes care of the ‘draft of trench labor for the moment. Second, the draft of industrial labor gets into operation. It is not called that. Mr. Bernard Baruch, whose ability is not above finding popular phrases for this plan, calls it the “work-fight-or-starve plan.” He believes it is. capable of im-

_ pense expansion...

A simple story will ‘illustrate what may come. Mr. Robertson of Middletown used to work at the same bench with Congressman ‘Jones in the Bolton mill by the railroad tracks. He became president of the machinists’ union there, and he helped elect Jones to Congress. He and Jones registered on the day set and made themselves subject to the draft. Mr. Jones, of course, got deferred status because he was a Congressman. Mr. Robertson had a family. He was 42. He was also very necessary to the work in the Bolton mill, which was now busy making fuses for shells. He wasn’t called. ; $ 2 8 =

NE day, after a few months of the war have passed, the union men in the mill go to the boss and say “The cost of living has been going up. With all these new men coming into town, rents are up. Our children

are going to school in rags. We ,

need more money. We're getting $28.80 a week, and it costs us 30 per cent more to live. We need $36 a week, at least.” The boss replies, “I can’t “do anything about that. Wages in this area have been fixed at 60 cents an hour for machinists and on a 3-shift basis I can’t give you more than 48 hours of work. Sorry, you have to go to the Government.” Mr. Robertson writes Congressman Jones about it: : Congressman Jones replies, don’t see why, but ‘the Government doesn’t seem to want the men to get high wages. It is

not be drafted during the next

Side Glances—By Clark

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A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OW is the time for all good. 'N naggers to come to the aid of’

their country. : The press carries each day increased criticism of our peace organizations and in some instances their leaders are spoken of as meddlers in what is none of their business. Why? Only because they are sitting right in there at Washington alongside the bought jingoists who

are alarmed over the loss of cor-|. poration property in the Orient, and |

the swivel chair defenders of our national honor. At such & time, it i# hinted, the pacifists ought ,to have the good manners to take a back seat and

pray. Let the propagandists, the|

diplomats and the generals who know so well what fo do in these unpleasant emergencies have the

right of way. They have never kept ‘| us out of war yet; but maybe they can turn the trick this time. By all means put a quietus on the chuckleheaded peacelovers who believe that

the best ‘way to preserve our real

rights. is to stay out of foreign wars. |-

If American women ever possessed their widely advertised ability to nag, now is the time for them to show it. Is our much-touted in-

fluence over men as potent as it has |

been said to be? Then let's prove it, by organizing nagging societies in

every community whose purpose to prod apath me

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using all the wage calculations made during the years of the WPA, and 60 cents an hour for machinists is what it established then. It figures also that. if it increased your wages 30 per cent, it would have to increase them all over and that would add about 15 billion dollars a year to the cost of the war. It hasn't got that much money.” : The next news is that the men at the Bolton mill are .out on strike, under the leadership of “one ‘ Robertson, alleged alien enemy and sabotager.” Robertson says he and his

family have been in America for -

over 100 years and all he wants is a fair deal. He adds. “Somebody is making a lot of money out of this war and it isn’t us.”

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(Co CRESaMAN JONES gets worried and talks to everybody in authority in Washington. He finds out that this new Administration doesn’t propose to let labor. start anything. But how about collective bargaining, guaranteed in various laws? Oh, that? Those laws were suspended under Section 12 of the Draft Law. The next news was that Labor Leader Robertson had been called by the President into the armed forces, under Section 8, and was being escorted by military police to Camp Upton. . : This made the Congressman’s blood boil. He knew the Robertson family, liked the four children. - He arose on the floor of the House and told the story. “What is this country coming to?” - he asked. ~ Five papers indiscreet enough to try to publish his remarks were censured. The editors were told that newsprint was a luxury, that there was a shortage of it, and it might be necessary to cut off their priorities’ in rail shipments of the newsprint from Canada. The Government had the power to put them out of business. The other papers attacked Jones as a traitor. Meanwhile, the men on strike at the Bolton mill were finding out a few things. The labor dictator, a prominent industrialist with the title of War Labor Administrator, ordered the men back to work immediately. They had all been registered and were, of course, subject to draft. \ TEL. : OME of the union lvaders went to the authorities at Washington and said: “This is bad busi-

ness. If you carry this through, there’ll be no more unions in this

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From behind their sandbag barricade the soldiers

country — or only company unions.” “You boys might have thought of that before we got into this war,” one official said. “It’s too late now.” But finally they succeeded in getting to the President. “Gentlemen, let us understand each other,” he said. “We have had new freedom and new deals in this country. Now we are going to have a new order. The accent will be on the order. We are all mainly concerned with" winning the war. Labor is lucky not to be in the trenches. It must do You have known what would be expected of labor in wartime since 1937. You raised no objections. Now, we cannot allow unions to interfere with the winning of the war.” “Industry is getting plenty of enormous Government orders and cleaning up lots of money,” re= marked one of the labor leaders. «It is not suffering any from the rise in the cost of living, as our people are. As soon as this war is over, you and your party will be buried forever by the resentment of the working people.” Ey ~«It will be a long time before the emergency is declared over,” the President replied. ~ «yes—when the emergency is over,” said another of the men thoughtfully. “The draft law (Section 3) holds everybody subject to the draft until six months afteryyou declare the emergency to belover, and it doesn’t tell you when+the emergency is over. The ar wasn’t officially declared until two years after the istice.” ” s " “ HAT'S right,” remarked the President. “Even when the war is ended, the emergency will still exist. Steps will have to be taken to protect the country from communistic influences = which seem to be spreading over Europe. Our troops over there will, unfortunately but inevitably become infected with Communist germs. Obviously we cannot. demohilize at once and leave unemployed milions of men infected by alien ideas of revolution.” The next day the strikers av the Bolton mill were put into uniform and sent back to their jobs, under guards. If the possibility of this suspension of our own democracy during a war” seems dangerous to the American public, it is now being given its opportunity to say so to Congress. That opportunity may not come again.

NEXT—Major powers play ostrich while Germany rearms.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Here's the Story to End Stories Explaining the Equestrian Statue in Front of Herron Art Institute.

CAN tell you a little about the Herron Art people, and how they have to meet emergencies—especially now that they have

a horse in front of their place. Ever since the horse has been up there everybody around town has been asking who the rider is. There’s a rumor abroad (and spreading like everything) that the man on horseback is Alexander the Great.

The other day, for instance, an irate taxpayer after giving the horse the once-over, walked right into the museum and told Miss Emily Schmuck that the statue was all wrong, because stirrups weren't invented until after Alexander’s time. Miss Marian Greene, who runs . the art library over there, has to listen to a lot, too. The other day she heard a group of nurses in a drug store exclaiming in horror at the size of the statue. No horse, they said, ever was that big. Miss Greene was just on the point of setting the nurses straight when a nice motherly-looking customer took it right out of her hands, and said: “Why yes, that’s the horse they had the war over. You know, it opened and people camie out.” « A little boy, too, the other day asked if that was Napoleon riding out there on the sidewalk. Other wild guesses have been' Agamemnon, Ulysses and Julius Caesar. ;

Here's the Real Story !

Well, with everything: mixed up like that, it’s high time somebody was straightening things out. Accord= ing to Miss Greene, the man on horseback is Bare tolommeo Colleoni who fought in the Venetian Army and distinguished himself in the war against the Milanese. At his death in 1473, he left the greater part of his large estate to the republic with the request that a bronze equestrian statue be erected to his memory. y As a consequence, in 1472 the Venetians invited three sculptors, Verrocchio, Leopardi and Vellano td show what they could do. The choice of Verrocchio, a Florentine, so enraged the Venetians that they ganged up on him and succeeded in having the commission for the statue require that Verrocchio should provide the horse, while Vellano, a Venetian, should have the rider. That made Verrocchio awful mad, says Miss Greene. So much so that he broke up the model and returned home. - Now it was the Venetians’ turn to get mad. They countered with the threat that if Verrocchio ever turned up in Venice again they’d chop his head off. Whereupon Verrocchio sweetly replied that it wouldn't get them any place, because when they had his head cut off, it was not in their power to reunite it with another man, whereas he could replace the horse's head and make it even more beautiful than before. Somehow this seemed to make sense, because the next thing we know the Venetians ordered Verrocchio to return to Venice and get to work. Apparently, he did a mighty good job, because when it was done, everybody said it was the greatest equestrian statue ever turned out. Lie : Li dk

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Jane Jordan—

Give New Husband Chance to Win

Your Heart, Unhappy Mother Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a divorced woman of 21 years and have a little girl 3 years old. A week ago I got married for the second time. The first marriage was a very unhappy one for me as my husband and I couldn’t agree on anything. I. got a divorce and went to live with my mother. My mother and father were very good to me and my baby, yet my mother always was hinting about my getting married again, which hurt me. I have known my second husband several years but never had dates with him until. a few months ago. He is 15 years. older than I am.

One night when we were out and my mother was along he asked me when we were going to get married and I said “tomorrow” in a joke. The next morning he came by just as he said he would and I wasn’t even cleaned ‘ap. Mother said, “She’s not ready yet but it won’t take her a minute to get cleaned up.” I knew by the way she talked she wanted me to get married, and so we were. All the time I was going with this man I was also going with another fellow more my age. I love him, too. My husband is all mother said he would be to me and the baby. He is good and kind but I just can’t bear to have him - around me. I'm so unhappy and nervous that I'm grouchy with him and the baby, too. I'd like to know how to get out of this mess. : READER. ” : os ” ANSWER—It is never advisable for parents te choose a partner for either son or daughter because they have a genius for selecting someone who will not deprive them of their children’s love. A good, solid, dependable husband may look ever so desirable to a girl's mother who honestly believes that she has only her daughter’s welfare at heart, but if his virtues leave the daughter cold, no marriage) should take place. A matchmaking mother would be pained and astonished if we accused her of choosing someone unable to stir her daughter to the love which separates a girl from her parents and weakens their hold on her affections and affairs.

“That you are very much under your mother’s influence is made obvious by the fact that you allowed her to push you into an unwelcome marriage when you wanted to remain a girl at home. You may not recognize the wish to shift your own responsibilities on your parents, but it wouldn't surprise me if this is the case. You weren't devoid of responsibility when you married the second time. You were in your right mind, in full possession of your senses when ycu made your vows. Therefore, a week is too soon to give up what you have undertaken. Remember that the man is: the innocent victim of your mother’s wish to find someone to take care of you and your child without -threatening her position in your life. Your resente ment at being pushed out of your soft nest at home prevents your loving your husband at present. At least give your new husband a chance to win your heart on his own merits and live down the fearful handicap of being your mother’s idea. of a safe refuge for her daughter. ! Z JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. “ ———————————————————————

Walter O'Keefe—

ERMANY, anticipating the warfare of the future, is going through a sham defense against attack from the air and consequently they have turned out all the lights in Berlin. : These dark nights, the Germans are supposed to see ‘their way around the city by the light that glows in Hitler's eyes. The affair must have cost a lot of money and it was doubtless very impressive, but I'll bet any Nazi would gladly have traded the whole spectacle for a loaf of whole wheat bread and a pound of decent butter. NI This business of putting out the lights is reall

n- | nothing new in the

Reich. Ever since Hitler took e Nazis have been in ih