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From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

| Doctor and D ntist of U.S. Public

| Health Service Care for Eskimos | During Summer Cruise Into Arctic. BOARD CUTTER NORTHLAND, Bering Sea, Sept. 23.—There are two men on this ship who will be talking about this last summer for a long time. They are the doctor and the dentist. This

is their first voyage into the Arctic, and they're having experiences that most any doctor or dentist would give a lot for. They are Dr. Rolla R. Wolcott, and Dentist Hubert H. Martin. They work for the Public Health Service. These two doctors, while aboard ship, wear the uniform of a lieutenant, and have the same status as any other officer. Each has a cabin of his own, and each has an office, fully equipped for almost any kind of a dental or surgical operation. While the ship is under way, they have practically nothing to do, and while away the time by reading or playing cards. But they make up Mr 1 for it—because frequently when vilBYle lages visited .are close together, they'll up. all night for two nights in a row, in any Id kind of weather. : He have already visited two score Eskimo villages. |Dr. Martin has pulled a bucketful of Eskimo teeth. Dr. Wolcott has treated around 300 cases, including) one major operation aboard ship. Their old medical school friends would get big eyes if thev|could see them now, some night at midnight, dressed in hip boots and parka, sitting outside a walrus skin hut, listening to an Eskimo’s heart with a stethoscope, or yanking an Eskimo’s tooth. oh Both of these doctors are fine men. The captain likes them; he says they are conscientious and hard workers and sincere.

Eskimo Teeth Generally Good

Now, first, about Eskimo teeth. Dr. Martin says that on the whole their teeth are much better than ours. Especially the old people’s. He says you hardly ever find cavities in the teeth of an old Eskimo. Very frequently their front teeth will be worn off They are worn off because the Eskimos make their shoes (mukluks) out of walrus hide, and to shape the sole they chew on it till they get it chewed into the right shape. Dr. Martin says the Eskimos are mighty good about having [their teeth worked on. That is, they don’t set up a holler every time you hurt them a Tittle. : He has served in the tropics, and he says a Latin

Eskimo, even a little kid, just sits and takes it. ' ' Most of the dentistry work is done ashore in the village. | Very frequently Dr. Martin just: sets his patient down on the grass, pours out a pan of

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Family Packs Its Bags for Journey Across Nation to Coast.

YDE PARK, N. Y, Wednesday—When I first awoke this morning, the fog was Very heavy, but the sun came through and [another glorious day was ours. John, Anne and I went out for a long ride. I am delighted to go out West to see my children ut I regret leaving here at this beautiful season. | As I write, I look out on the ring of trees back of i di and the colors are turning red and gold against the dark green jof the pines. Today some dreaging work: has begun and my husband came over to watch the machines pulling out stumps. The machines seem almost alive, they respond so quickly to the manipulations of the man at the controls. The strong cables are placed far out around the stump of a tree by a Crew :of men, the engine starts and before you know it the cable is taut and the stump is moving. : : All Ee are putting last things into bags and I have heen giving final directions and saying goodby to a number of people. My sister-in-law, Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt, has been ill for a short time but she is very happy to be up again today so she can come

able to take care of a cand party tomorrow in my mother-in-law’s house. This party was promised 2a long while ago and must take ‘place before my mother-in-law comes home.

| { 2 President's Mother Has Birthday Yesterday was my mother-in-law’s birthday. The President did not tell me that she requested us not to send any word to her, as she wishes nobody to be aware of the fact that another year lies behind her. Not being told, I sent a cable from us both, with my husband’s knowledge, and only last evening did he tell me with a chuckle, of her desire for anonymity. He added that he thought she should be remembered whether she wishes to be or not. In any case, we all drank her health last evening and wished her many more happy years. : One of our boys has a birthday tomorrow which, in his| young days, he always celebrated with his grandmother. Now they have to celebrate it far apart. I am increasingly conscious of the plight in which men and women over 40, who need work, are finding themselves Quite frequently there are letters in the mail asking my advice as to what they can do. Yesterday, someone told me of| an occupation in which a man over 40 was actually preferred to one younger, and I heaved a sigh of relief. It seems to me ludicrous that this situation should | exist, for at 40 men or women should be at their best and have experience, poise and patience,

New Books Today

of the most interesting aspects of the Middle Ages is the part played by the Catholic Church in the lives of the people and in the development of the young European nations .which, - during that period were awkwardly fumbling their way into existencel | THE PAPACY AND WORLD AFFAIRS (University of (Chicago Press) devotes itself to the role which the church pldyed in secular politics. Upon the disintegration of the Roman Empire, the church, finding itself the one stable force in Western civilization, directed European politics, and the popes claimed authority| over the feudal society, refusing to see the church! and civil society as separate entities. Carl Conrad Eckhardt, after sketching this background, tells of the gradual growth of the sense of national interest, the rebellion of the rulers against what they often considered the self-seeking policies of the popes, and, finally, the Peace of Augsburg (1555), in which was included a clause definitely repudiating the right of the pope to protest against any of its provisions. 3 Since then, says the author, the church, at first Pelicans: and later voluntarily, has withdrawn from

secular politics. In this development he sees the opportunity for the church to stress its original purpose —*“religious, ethical and social leadership.” Ty # # | ” UGAR and spice and—there the jingle ends because everything is not so nice with those industries of the West Indies. In fact, they are now two of the several WHITE ELEPHANTS IN THE CARIBBEAN (McBride). However, changing economic conditions cannot dim the glamour and beauty of the islanés—a symphonic blending of many nations with the motif of Spain predominant and the beat of aborigine drums ever present. Henry Albert Phillips takes us to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and all the better known cruise ports, then on to the more remote parts of the Lesser Antilles. A brief historical sketch of each island makes) clear the diversity of the

West Indies and the people. The appendix furnishes “convenient pegs upon which to hang: your tourist purse, tags and itinerary.” ul: boi :

(Fourth of a Series)

By Stephen and Joan Raushenbush

NE of the most tragic

: chapters in the world’s history is the one in which a practical experiment in disarmament was tried for some years after 1919, and was allowed to fail. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey were disarmed, a population of over 100,000,000 people, comprising the nations which had been branded as “militarisms” and feared by the democracies of Europe. . Now they were disarmed. The way was open for the disarmament of the . rest of the world. Less than 20 years later these nations all were armed again and the other nations were arming against them. During the years of this experiment in disarmament the two great democracies, France and England, controlled the destinies of Europe and of the League of Nations. They were

democracies but they were also countries in which men interested in profits spoke so loudly that mere governments were often quiet. We, ourselves, also a democracy, were bound by a treaty which included observance by Germany of her commit-

ments under the Treaty of Versailles not to import or manufacture or export arms. Yet we too kept as quiet as if we had lost the war and had no right to say anything. There are historic ironies in the events. The French and English democracies, for strange reasons, preferred to grant no open changes to the mildly liberal and pacific governments of Germany during the postwar years, and by their continued and open refusal helped those forces of overthrow which finally turned Germany into a dictatorship. i

” " 4 i HEN they sat back and watched the dictatorship take all they had refused to give

Republican Germany—and more —as quietly as if they were not only the accomplices of’ the dictator, but were his willing and foresighted confederates. ~The price they may be:called upon to pay is not only war but loss of their democracy. . There is irony also in the way the American and Ehglish chemical companies used the threat of Germany's chemical factories— the menace of poison gas—immediately after the war. They did this to secure for themselves amazingly profitable tariffs on chemicals, on the ground of national defense. While millions of words about peace and disarmament were being rammed down people’s throats, there was a conspiracy of silence among businessmen and their governments about the actual rearmament of Germany. In October, 1926, the du Pont representative in Europe, Col. William N. Taylor, reported to Wilmington that a German powder firm, Koln-Rottweiler, had taken an order to manufacture 120 tons of rifle powder for Turkey. It was to be put into cartridges and assembled in Holland and shipped from there. This was clearly a violation of the ‘Treaty of Versailles. He also reported that Nobel in England (later Imperial Chemical Industries) were also manufacturing 400 tons of TNT for Turkey on an order from one of Nobel's Austrian affiliates.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937

War Madness and the United States

Rearmament of Germany Ignored in Face of Rich Munitions Profits

Black-shirted Italian Fascists and brown-shirted Nazis are shown marching side-hy-side on arrival at

Wie in Europe was powerful enough to stop this violation, which incidentally seemed to hurt the military powder business of certain American and British munitions companies? Col. Taylor reported opinion to the effect “that the German powder people felt that the only people that could do anything against

‘them in this matter were the

English, and that their relations

with Nobel were so good that No--

bel would take no steps to stop them.” In other words, du Pont officials writing to each other confidentially on matters very vital to them, offered an answer. It looked as though Nobel was the determining factor in the British Government’s policy. And it looked as though Nobel had been bought off by .commercial arrangenmients for Jther business with the German chemical companies. Here was a crisis. “The manufacturers of military material should immediately ‘develop a common policy on that matter.” But—afterthought—what would this mean to du Ponts’ interest? Du Ponts themselves had close connections with the German chemical companies dating long before the World War. “I. think it will be a great shame if our industrial relations with the German explosive industry were of such a type that we would wink at their violation of the treaties or permit them to enter the military export business,” wrote Col. Taylor from Europe. ” » ” 5 HAT does du Pont in Wilmington think? Du Pont also thinks that the German companies cannot get away with this violation of the treaty unless they have “the support of some European powder or ammunition manufacturer.” That was. all that was needed to evade the treaty, apparently. “We believe Nobel could actually prevent KolnRottweiler or other German concerns from entering the military powder business, providing they saw fit to bring pressure to bear through English Government channels,” replied Maj. Casey from Wilmington. This was in 1926.

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The British Government had been informed about this beginning of the rearmament of Germany and our attaches abroad had seen a British report on it. As early as 1925, Mr. Allen W. Dulles, chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs in our Department of State, was, according to American munitions people, telling them that the Department was perfectly aware that Germany was exporting munitions. He offered, they reported, the entertaining idea that the great powers were too poor to prevent it. The sale of munitions increased the reparations = payments. Apparently the great powers needed the money more than they needed disarmament. At the conference in.the Department of Commerce in. 1925 on the arms trade convention, the munitions makers wanted Germany to be part of any arms traffic control agreement. Mr. Dulles was quoted in minutes kept by the du Pont Co. as pointing out that “nothwithstanding the fact that it was known that Germany was exporting arms and munitions it was not possible from a diplomatic standpoint to mention Germany or any of the Central Powers. ” ” os

2 ND what would Nobel do?” du Pont asked. Col. Taylor was to try to find out. But

this would prove difficult “because certain things which have developed. in connection with prospective business in Argentina lead us to believe that the -activities of Klon-Rottweiler have the approval of the Nobel Co.” And what was the mysterious business in Argentina which would cause the English (Nobel) to allow Germany to rearm? Du Ponts reported that Nobel's man had come down from New York to explain that “Nobel was quite anxious to kill all competition in Argentina and therefore make sure of getting the contract” for building a powder plant for the Argentine Government. Du Ponts had been interested in that proposition for years. There had been some European competition “indirectly from Koln-Rottweiler.” Nobel had, in

_ fact, just written du Ponts ask-

ing whether du Ponts had any objection to Nobel getting the

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

> women there is something |

sinister in the news that a brand new office has been opened in Washington where lonely girls may rent‘a date ‘for the evening. This innovation augurs an unhappy state of affairs when women so outnumber men that such schemes for male distribution are necessary. : Washington is not the only city where we seem to be in the majority. The war which in Europe destroyed the cream of an entire generation of males is held responsible. : Whatever may be the cause, statistics point to a gradual increase of

women over men in most civilized

countries. Knowing this to be true, one would think we’d have sense enough to encourage natural ways of bringing men and women together, and that home-making

| would be furthered by making mar-

riage easier. ; ad, for the last decade in the

Uni States every obstacle possi-

ble has been set up ‘before young |

people to prevent their union. -In every state and city a tremendous

hue and cry arose that girls who |

took husbands must be. fired from offices and schools. There are still widespread efforts made to prevent the most intelligent and aggressive of the rising generation from lead-

ing a normal existence.

Any social system that strives to prevent marriage of women who actively contribute to its welf our schoolteachers and workers do —is stupidly shortsighted, deserving the evil results that will, certainly a course,

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German company to go in with.

them. Nobel could ‘see no objection, one of its advantages being the elimination of one competitor, leaving only Bofors® Nobelkrut in the field against us.” What did du Ponts think of that creation of an almost complete powder trust for the purpose of confronting the Argentine Government? They didn't think it was necessary. What use to share profits with the Germans? Nobel's reward for letting the treaty be broken was to share in European business with: the old German chemical concerns. , It would be profitable before Germany was allowed to rearm, which the powder companies

thought would come in the course

of time,

» » »

U ‘PONTS held their noses a little, as: far as one can in facing “the rather decent people” of Nobel, whom Irenee du Pont knew and vouched for, by saying “The Koln-Roftweiler-Nobel connection seems .a bit unwholesome to us.” : A little later it developed that Nobel and Koln-Rottweiler were apparently in the kind of partnership they had been in before the World War. In the matter of a Turkish powder factory Nobel (now Imperial Chemical Industries) “decided that in order to get the job they would have to take the Germans in,” and the prospect of having the Germans and English combine to supply powder factories to Bulgaria, Rumania, began to worry du Ponts. 8 8 8 UT more than this was involved. The British chemical people, even more than our own, have relied upon German chemical brains and “know-how” for advances in the chemical and dye industries. Here was involved the whole relationship between the young English chemical trust and the great German trust. After all, the British and American chemical interests had received a large forward thrust at the end of the World War, when the Allies made their grand attempt to destroy the old German chemical monépoly. But in spite of that the Germans were still masters in the field.

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T= Argentine business turned out un®holesomely. The Germans finally did put in a bid for the powder factory, and it cost Nobel and du Ponts some money to kill off the bid. Publication of

five cables about the connection of the company to the individual in the Argentine paid to kill the bid would, according to the admission of the du Ponts to the Senate Munitions Committee, have caused serious pulitical repercussions down there. Du Ponts and Nobel didn’t want to build the powder factory in the Argentine and didn’t want anybody else to build it. They wanted to sell their powder there instead. After the: rearmament had started, English and American aviation companies helped. Pratt & Whitney, an engine company, which started business wit oi... and the great and unusual gift of an immediate flood of Government orders, and in 8 years had a reiurn of $11,437,250 on its $1000 investment, helped Germany greatly, After selling Germany hundreds of engines for her military planes in 1933 and 1934, and licensing Bavarian Motor Works to manufacture them in Germany, they found themselves forced to give the German company a blanket license for $50,000 a year because the German company “did not want to reveal the number of ehgines manufactured.” Another of our firms, Sperry Gyroscope, was delivering to Germany large orders of automatic pilots and gyro compasses and other. aviation equip Germany's rapidly growing air fleet. A German company was licensed ‘to manufacture many of these in Germany. All this was going on long before Germany openly repudiated the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty. Our Government did

. nothing to stop the export of

these engines or pilots. The other governments were also silent. The great experiment in disarmament was over.

~~ : ‘Neft—When economic systems crack, war threatens.

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(The book. “War Madness.” from which these articles are taken.:is publisaed by the National Home Librarv Foundation. u Pont Circle Apartment Building, Washington, D. C.).

National Safety Council

The safe driver today may be able to carry on a conversation with his passengers while en route, but he makes it a rule to keep his eyes

on the road ahead at all times.

He does not permit distraction to

take his eyes from, the road and even though he may be talking, he keeps safe driving in mind. The motorist who keeps his eyes on the road, his hands on the steering wheel and his mind on his driving job

- doesn’t need. to worry much about,

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Second Section

PAGE 13

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

This City Had 100 Families in 1824; Census Was Taken by Enumerating Children Attending Sunday School.

THINGS everybody around here ought to to know: Indianapolis had 100 families in 1824. The census was the result of counting the kids who went to Sunday School in the spring of that year. In 1827, a more scientific, at any rate a less emotional, census ‘was taken, and the population amounted to 1066. In 1830, it was about 1500; in 1840, 4000; in 1850, 8034. It was during this period that Dr. Charles Parry's obstetrical practice averaged better than 80 cases

a year. Besides Dr. Parry at the - . time, there were 48 other physicians around here to handle the ‘business. In 1860, the population jumped to 18611: in 1870, to 48,244; in 1880, to 75,056. In 1890 optimists around here claimed 100,000 citizens for Indianapolis, of which one-sixth were foreign-born, mainly Germans and Irish. There were two Germans for every Irishman, but it had everybody fooled because by that time the Irish had complete control of the Police and Fire Departments, The City had no police until-1854. In September of that year it appointed 14 men to that office, with Jefferson Springsteen as captain. It didn’t last more than a year, however, for two reasons: (1) Because the citizens grumbled at the expense, and (2) because of a riot on E. Washington St. that ended in several Germans being wounded by pistol shots. The Germans, it appears, didn’t like the prohibitory liquor : act which went into effect at that time,

First Walk Laid in 1837

Early in the following year, however, a second force of 10 policemen under Capt. Jesse Van Blaricum was created. The police have been with us ever since, as you probably know without my telling. you. But maybe you don’t know that we had public improvements in Indianapolis before we had police, The first public improvement in Indianapolis was the laying of a brick sidewalk in 1837. It wasn’t until 1841, “however, that James Wood designed a general plan of street improvements and drainage. The first thing Mr. . Wood did was to widen the sidewalks on Washington St. from the 15 feet of the original plat to 20 feet, and those of the other streets from the original 10 feet to 12 feet, and later to 15 feet. Back in those days, the pedestrian was a power to reckon with. In 1855, an attempt was made to number the houses on Washington St. It didn’t amount to much, however, until 1858, when A. C. Howard, on a Council order, numbered all the streets. Mr. Howard's system of numbering .went for naught, be= cause when he was done, somebody discovered that Mr. Howard hadn't done a thing about the vacant lots, which, of course, raised the deuce every time a new house went up. In 1864, Mr. Howard started all over again. This time he adopted the Philadelphia plan of giving every block 50 numbers. It wasn'g so hot, either. : :

‘Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Husband's Sudden Dislike for Girl

He Married Regarded as Warning.

EAR JANE JORDAN—Two months ago I met a man my age, 24, whom I knew six years ago. At that time we were just friends, but during the last two months we have had lovely times together. I fell in love, but he only liked me, admired me and said I was a help to him mentally and something good to hold on to for inspiration. He was.in love with a girl he had gone with for five years, buf I thought I could help him forget her. I tried. Oh! How I tried, but I guess I - did no good, for he married her. One day he came back without her and told me he couldn’t explain his actions for he didn’t love her because she was so shallow in her feeling for him and so childish. His parents think that I am the one for him and that he couldn’t have gotten her out of his system unless he married her. We both have thesams interests and love being with each other. He is not -’ living with his wife, and left for school a week ago. The first three days after he went away to school I nearly died, I was so unhappy. Then I got two

* lonely letters from him and I know he cares. Am I a

fool to go on caring? Do you think my love eventually will make us both happy? D. V. J,

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ANSWER—Doesn’t it seem strange to you that a young man of 24 who had five years to discover that a young lady’s love for him was shallow and childish, should be so slow to perceive it before marriage and so quick to comprehend afterward? Do you believe that any such sudden discovery is responsible for his change of heart? I don’t. I can’t explain his behavior any more than he can, but I can draw certain conclusions from the evidence you present. The young man appears to be in a state of conflict. He thinks he ought to prefer the type of girl which you represent, but.is dismayed to find that actually he vrefers quite a different type, You are the sort of girl whom his parents approve, the sort He has been taught to respect and admire, yet he married a girl of whom his parents disapprove. As soon as he had made this gesture of defiance he ran back to the parental ideal for sympathy and commiseration. In other words, his choice of a wife is opposed by his ego ideal and it makes him miserable. : . ® You've only known the young man well for two months. In this time you've discovered some unfavorable things about him. You know from his actions that his judgment isn’t good and that he vacillates between two desires. After he has assumed one set of respensibilities he doesn’t carry through, but wants to start something else. What more will you learn in four months? In eight? in a year? Some people are stimulated by hindrances whereas others lie down and quit. Isn’t the hindrance you have encountered more inflaming to your desire than the man himself? After all, what is there in this weak young man, apart from the fact that he couldn’t be pried loose from another girl, to put you in such a fever? Bring every particle of reason you have to bear on the situation and don’t try so hard to make him love you. Let him do some of the work. If he succeeds in untangling himself from an undesirable marriage, let him find you occupied with an attractive rival. Since he, too, reacts to hindrance with increased desire, why not present him with some ine stead of being so accessible? JANE JORDAN.

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

Waiter O'Keefe—

RATEFUL New York druggists, anxious to express their thanks, are considering erecting an aspirin tablet on Times Square commemorating the American Legion convention. : * Only one group in America could match the Legion turnout for size. That would be a parade of Demo-~ cratic jobholders. : ; Six men were discovered digging a ditch on 34th St. Tuesday. They weren't helping to build a subway. They were native New Yorkers digging a tunnel so that they could get across Fifth Avenue. One IDegionnaire wandered into the New York Public Library and asked for the reading room. He was promptly sent to the Bellevue psychopathic ward for observation.

Good luck, boys! Come again. Just give us a few years to rebuild the city.

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