Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1937 — Page 11

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. From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

The 'Great Adventurer-Fisherman' Violates All Rules of Fair Play And Still Loses Battle to Trout.

UNALASKA, Oct. 4.—“Do you fish?” asked Capt. Zeusler. “Do fish!” said I. “Does a duck swim?” : : So we took: the Northland’s motor launch ‘and went up the bay six or eight miles to the mouth of a frothing little stream. A painfully cold wind blew down the canyons of the Aleutians, and it was trying to réin. But the stream was beautiful. It was steep and : tumbling and clear, and the rockiest thing you ever saw. The bank was high and jagged, so we had to walk upstream in our hip boots. That was all bluff about my knowing how to fish. I had never set foot in a trout stream. Couldn™ even put my own rod together. But I will say this: I didn't slip off a rock and fall in, like somebody I know. : On the other hand, my fishing partner caught 30 trout—and I caught none. There is something Mr. Pyle wrong with my fishing technique. Also, I always .want to go. home after half an hour. But I couldn’t go home, and I was getting numb with cold and awfully mad at the fish. So I went over behind a big rock, just to get out of the wind gnd pout awhile. While I was looking down, a nice trout about a foot long idled by. Something latent in me roused. +“Baby,” said I, “I'm gonna get you.”

He Was Just Thinking.

So I took about three feet of line and got down on my hands and knees. and dangled the bait in front of the fish's nose. It looked like a setup. There was the fish right there in front of me, just lazying around. It was warm there behind the rock, and Capt. Zeusler couldn't see whether I was fishing right or not. iid . Well, some day I'm going back to that stream with dynamite and kill that fish. I never got so exasperated in my-life. He'd sort of back off and loiter around down there, and then all of a sudden he'd dash past my hook, grabbing the salmon egg off as he went, and I couldn’t even feel a tug on the line. . And it was so undignified, too. What would Capt. Zeusler think of me, here beside one of the most sporting trout streams in the world, squatting behind a rock dangling three feet of line in front of a fish- I could see? ‘ I suppose I'd have been there yet, but after about an hour Capt. Zeusler missed me and thought I'd drowned and. éame’ looking .for me, and when he caught me there he said, “What are you doing?” I looked at him as innocently as I could and said, “Oh, just: thinking.”

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Returns to Hyde Park After Air Trip ‘Across Continent.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Sunday—I landed in Newark Friday night after a comfortable trip. across the continent, though I must.say all night and most of the day on a plane makes you feel rather pleased "to reach home afd a real bed for the night. ‘When we got{off at Salt Lake City at 4:50 a. m. I was greeted, as usual, by cameras with flashing bulbs and had a horrible feeling that my hair was untidy and that I looked sleepy. When we reached Denver at 8 o'clock, the ever-present cameras were still on hand and I felt even more squeamish as to what those pictures would look like. After we had.been in the air a short time, the man. who was sitting just ahead of me turned around and said: “This is my first flight and I'm 74 years old, but « it isn't going to be my last.” I liked that spirit and so we held conversation together. He told me his home was Warren, Pa., and that he had a son growing potatoes in»one of the valleys of the Southwest and had been out spending a month with him. The month had been full of thrills. Taos and the Indians in their pueBlos, Sante Fe, and a wedding he had seen in the patio of a very interesting inn there, stood out’ as highlights of his trip. Now, finally, there was this return journey by air. He thought he was traveling alone, but when he got on board his son came in with him and sat down in the seat across the aisle. The door closed and he said: “You better get: off, son.” discover his boy was going on to Chicago with him, where another son would meet him.

Thankful for Air Travel

In Chicago, Mayris Chaney joined me, which made the last part of the flight seem short. At Newark, to my surprise, my brother met me, so I had a real welcome back to the East. Each time I fly across the continent IT am more grateful for this new method of transportation which makes it possible to feel that your children, who settle far away from home, are within reach at 24 hours notice. I thought I would have an opportunity to take a sleeper plane on this trip, but that is still

an éxperience I must wait to try out at some future

time, .

New Books Today

(Other Books, Page 13)

HIGHLIGHT of the spectacular recent rise “of unionism was the Senate expose of industrial

espionage. A devious business in which paid spies reported on their fellow workers, gained confidences only to break them, wrecked unions and otherwise “protected the interests of their clients,” labor- spying has been dealt severe blows by Congressional and other investigations. When the 1935 A. F. of L. convention asked Federa! legislation against such undercover agencies, GT-99, the anonymous author of LABOR SPY ' (Bobbs Merrill), decided it was time to get out of the secret trade he entered as a young machinist during the prewar industrial boom. Retiring toa farm in Canada, he made use of his writing experience (an estimated six to 10. million words in “labor reports” over 20 years) to tell this story. It is told in a simple, narrative manner. It gives in detail the technique of the so-called labor spy. The rise of GT-99 from a routine plant job—making confidential nightly reports on the gossip, efficiency and plans of his coworkers—to a position of power among labor leaders where he not only heard labor’s plans but helped make them, runs the gamut of his mysterious vocation.

At the end, when union men awakened to the

menace of this secret enemy, the author concluded that “if thev had hired a smart detective and turned him loose on the spy companies he could have turned up so inany operators that a thousand employers would have lost théir nerve and canceled their contracts.” The story provides interesting background for some of the

American “bor front.—(By L. H)

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JOR a delightful, rambling account of the attractions of Britain's “Gem| of the Carribbean,” don’t fait to read BARBADOS [THE ENCHANTED ISEKE (Lippincott), by Raymond Savage. Although the author closes with a bit ¢f useful information concerning hotels, clubs and sports, the larger portion of the book is devoted to ~ tours” to the beauty spots ‘of the island. Mr. Savage speaks briefly \of the appalling poverty of the Negroes and the lethargy of the Legislature, and appeals to the younger generation to give of their best that the island may retain its representative government. Though he is not backward in his criticism, he has nothing but praise for Barbados itself, with its superior climate and restful quiet, where one may have all the joys of the tropics with none of their discomforts and menaces, :

Second Section

Only then did he-

reasnt conflicts and developments on the

trams

(First in a Series)

By Ruth Finney. Times Special Writer

VV ASHINGTON, Oct. 4. — When .President Roosevelt said ‘in Chicago last year that®his Administration .was for, not against, business, many of his opponents were honestly skeptical.: gn Yet today, after four and a half years of Roosevelt, business is prospering. Not to the extent of 1929 prosperity, though in a few sectors it has shot beyond that mark, but to a degree not experienced since that

year.

As to whether or not Mr. Roosevelt deserves credit for this condition the argument probably will rage for years. His friends say he is. His enemies say recovery would have come earlier without him. Business organizations oppose more of the Roosevelt measures than they favor. A majority of businessmen give their campaign contributions to the Republican Party rather. The Roosevelt insistence on collective bargaining still frightens many employers. Some of his tax policies are almost universally condemned by businessmen. His determination to scale down utility holding companies and regulate

what was ‘left provoked ." the °

bitterest fight of his first term,

and his policy of ' encouraging -

yardstick public power enterprises, with Government loans to public agencies, has sent most o: the utility companies in the country flying to the courts for help. And then he has regulated stock markets, security issues, transportation, communication and shipping, all bones of contention

with those on the receiving end.

: #0 8 N the other hand there are few businessmen . in the country- who would like to see Federal ‘Deposit Insurance done away with or the Federal Housing Administration and HOLC, with their. aid to the troubled real estate and mortgage markets. The Guffey Cpal Act does as much_for coal operators as for coal miners, and most of them concede : it. The "U. S. Chamber of Commerce is one of the most vocal admirers of the Roosevelt policy of - reciprocal tariff agreements. And the utilities, which have taken most of the governmental pounding in the past five years, seem far from ruin. In spite of the Holding Company Act, in spite of TVA and the threat of seven new “TVAs” blanketing the country, in spite of reduced rates, strict regulation, competition from public power plants and the Rural Electrification Administration, earnings for the industry in the 12 months ended June 30 totaled $2,134,371,000, a gain of per cent in the year. oi Electric powér production, one

of the first industrial indices to .

point upward out of the depression, reached the unprecedented total of 117,994,000,000 kilowatt hours in the past 12 months, a 14 per cent gain. Commonwealth & Southern, the utility most affected by TVA, reported 20 cents earned on its common stock in the year ended July 31, compared with 6 cents the previous year. ” ” 2 N’spite of all the dislike and distrust of. Roosevelt, the economic picture, for the country as a whole, is brighter than at any time since that glittering “New Era” sandwiched in between the

World War and the World De-.

pression. The national income was $39,500,000,000 in 1932. In 1936 it was $63,500,000,000, and the prediction’ for this year is $70,000,000,000. : In the first quarter of 1933 the index of profits stood at 4.6. In the first quarter of 1937 it stood’ at 95, and in the second quarter it went to 112. This is a fifth un-

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937

Although under the Stock Exchange (top) covery highs made last still high, according to period this year,

der the 1929 figure, but higher than 1926. . : : The volume of industrial production is just grazing the 1929 mark. Tt gained 19 per cent in the first six months of 1937, as compared to 1936. Employment and payroll indices are climbing with it, which, with rising farm income, promises a continued market for industry’s products. Farm income is 1 per cent ahead of last year’s, when “parity” was substantially attained. ” » 2 URAL retail sales, at the low point in the depression, fell to 35 per cent. of the 1929 figure. In the first quarter of 1937 they had gone hack up to 80 per cent. Department stores dropped to 41 per cent of 1929 and climbed back to 71 per cent. Chain groceries dropped to 72 per cent and went back to 95 per cent. Foreign trade dvindled to almost nothing during the depres-

year it was still 45 per cent below the 1929 position, though it

stress of New Deal regulation, the New York has recorded sharp declines from the respring, industry and construction figures are nation-wide reports cevering up to the fall

had gained 215 per cent over its low.

Steel production fell to 17.34 per cent of theoretical -capacity during the depression. Recently it has been up to 85 per cent, virtually its maximum practical capacity. The automobile boom is:

. vissile on any street or highway.

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The machine tool industry, one of the surest indicators of business activity, is prospering with a gain of 30 per cent over last year.

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Despite Businessmen ’s Fea rs, Recovery Is Fairly Uniform Over Nation

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The volume of industrial production is grazing the 1929 mark and

factories here show signs of activity as at left.

Building permits here

are ahove last year’s totals although still far behind the 1929 pace. Cranes like the one used in building the Federal Building annex

(right) have reappeared.

Building construction still lags, thouzh the value of residential construction contracts was: five times as great in one month this year as in the whole of 1932. 2 x =

N that last year before Roosevelt, 322 banks failed. Since the crisis of 1933 just seven have failed and depositors have not lost as a result of those failures. Commercial failures, taking place at the rate of 2100 in a "1932

Snowslide Writes Own

Signature Across Rock

By Scicncee Service GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont., Oct. 4.—“Signature” of a

| snowslide, graven in scratches on

the face of a rock over which it passed, will be described by Dr. J. J. Dyson of Cornell University, in

“sion. In the first quarter of this [the Journal of Geology.

The rock scratches. gouged by the

the snow, are on a limestone sur- |

face' left exposed by the ‘recent melting of a .glacier. There are glacial scratches on the rock also, but the snowslide scratches have the fresh-cut appearance that betrays newness. T!'3y' were apparently made by a snowslide that occurred less than a year before

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month, numbered 786 last April. Comparisons between 1936 and '1937 business records are not so striking as those between 1932 and 1937, but they show steady gains. For instance passenger car sales are up 8 per cent, commercial car sales 7 per cent, household refrigerator sales 18 per cent, life insurance sales 7 per cent, value of checks drawn

The recovery picture is fairly uniform through the country, though best figures .are found in the South Atlantic states from Delaware to Florida, in the Middle Atlantic, and the East South Central. Recovery is spotty in the Mountain States and the Mid-

"dle West.

._.12ar of war and other factors may make the third-quarter figures less encouraging than those for the early half of the year, yet business journals continue to predict substantial increases in activity as the fall season gets under way.

NEXT—The New Deal and the Farmer. . :

Side Glances—By Clark

CofR.1937 NBA SERVICE INC. R25 I.E .PAT.

"I'm.going to bet next month's rent on Bluebonnet ta win this race.”

edges of boulders borne down by

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HE General Federation of Wom-

en’s Clubs has resolved upon a serious study of the crime: situation.

Some appalling facts will be disclosed when the subject is examined. This one, for example: -One million

major crimes were committed last year in the United States, of which |

20 per cent were the work of boys

{ under 21. ; Frankly I think women cannot do

anything to remedy the condition unless they go to the core of the problem. And the core is the difference between what we teach our children and theg examples we set them. Money-getting Is the basis of all

major crime. A competitive business |, system which produces for profit |

instead of for need has wrecked ethics in ‘this country. Unless clubwomen are willing to recognize their own part in the con-

.| dition that breeds crime, they can’t do much. People who live richly on

ill-gotten wealth, who profit’ from wage slavery, who compute progress in stock market terms instead of happier workers, and who refuse to believe that bad men are only good boys gone wrong, will be wasting time as aids to J. Edgar Hoover. Mothers in the home, however much they try to train their children “in a decent moral code, find their efforts frustrated by an opposing code that prevails outside the home. The one is based on giving, the other on grab. Is it any wonder the youth is confused? : The only sensible course for us

| now is to go back to Sunday School Jinetples, or ditch them altogether. :

Dr. Dyson made his study.

Jasper—By Frank Owen

“opr. 1931:dy United Feature Syndicate, Ine.

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but you really did strike

| love on a natural basis.

, PAGE 11

By Anton Scherret

Large School Classes of - Another Generation Didn't Seem to Bother

The Pupils, and Cost Less, Too.

GAIN 1 feel an urge to check up on people who flirt with figures. The other day, for instance, A. B. Good and DeWitt Morgan dumped another set into our laps. This time their figures reveal that conditions in Indianapolis now have reached the point where a teacher in the elementary grades has to put up with a class of 36.9 pupils. It’s supposed to scare us, because according to a state law, a teacher isn't

expected to have a class of more than 35. : Well, for some reason, it doesn’t scare me. Quite the contrary. It makes me want to laugh, Indeed, it moves me to inquire where they get this 35-to-a-class stuff.

. Back in the days when I went to school, a teacher would have sniffed at a class; of 35-as something beneath her mettle. I know whereof I speak because I remember how matters stood at old No. 6 when Mary Colgan, Alice Cullen, Mary Collier, Martha Griffith and Elizabeth Cotton, to name only a few, ran.classes that were something to brag about. _ Old No. 6, back in the Eighties was a 12-room school building with 683 single seats. They were full all the time, too. If this means anything, it is that a teache: in those days had 56 pupils in her class. - At least that. 'Probably she had more. . Nor was No. 6 a show-window example. School No, 4, at the corner of Blackford and Michigan Sts. had

Mr. Scherrer

- 700 pupils in 12 rooms, and No. 21, where Fanny Van-

dergrift recited her lessons when it was still No. 3, had 454 pupils in four rooms. :

Big Classes Didn't Seem to Matter.

- I bring | Fanny into today's piece because she was. the girl who learned enough in Indianapolis

. schools to become the wife of Robert Louis Steven-

son. Thus proving, if further proof is necessary, that the kids of my day didn't suffer because of big classes. Come to think of it, old No. 6 wasn’t so bad, either.” It equipped the Efroymson boys, for ine stance, and the whole Wolf family, to say nothing of Louis Borinstein and Albert Goldstein. To say nothing, too. of the grand lot of policemen and politicians it turned out. I'll stack them against anything brought up in 35-pupil classes. Don’t get me wrong, however. T wouldn’t for the world have you believe that modern teachers are less efficient than the old-timers. Of course not. Inasmuch, however, as the School Board has invited me to get interested in figures, allow me to pursue the subject to the bitter end. ; The bitter end. reveals, of course, that we wouldn't need as many teachers if our schools were run the way they were when I was a boy. As a matter of fact, the staff of teachers would be reduced by something like 400. The budget, too. I worked it out, availing mye self of the kind of arithmetic I picked up in a 56pupil class. :

Jane Jordan—

Divorcee Advised She Is Playing

Game of Love Unfairly to Suitors.

I HAVE a letter from a young divorcee with one child who does not want her problem stated in a way that would identify her. It is an old story—she . danced with other men; her hushand was insanely jealous and started drinking. After the divorce she fell in love with a married man. Because he couldn't see her very often she filled in her time with a younger single man. Often she would see both in one evening, the younger man coming after the married man had left. Apparently she didn’t.like to be alone. Both men were in love with her. The married man wants to divorce his wife and marry her. The younger man knows this and has begun to show all the characteristics of the divorced husband, in that he is jealous and possessive and doubts her honesty. He is jealous of her child and accuses her of spoiling it with her constant care and attention. She feels i oe pores the married man, but doesn’t want e younger one b i o hut Soy ef y breaking off. She signs This is the way it looks to me: The failure of the young woman’s marriage was a severe disappointment. I do not know how much she may have been to blame. At any rate the divorce stirred up feelings of great anxiety and insecurity. She feared that she wasn't a lovable person and in order to reassure hersar on this Po she attracted two rival lovers. See no- evidence that she is in love with ei man, but feel that she simply is bent upon ft Ships affection for herself. There are women who, after a desertion, will not let themselves love another for fear of being hurt again, yet they must make sure that others love them. They are unhappy and uneasy

when alone and only feel secure w. i When 3 hen there is a man

It’s a Favorite Defense.

One of the favorite defenses of disappointed persons is to secure as much affection as possible without becoming involved themselves. Everybody wants afe fection, but not op the same terms or in the same degrees that persons disturbed about their relation to others want it. A normal person, for example, exe pects to give something in return for what he gets. If he plays one lover against the other he expects Jealous reactions. He does not ask for a blanket ace ceptance of himself with all his faults. But a person who has come to overvalue love as his only safeguard against tormenting fear asks for unconditional adoration no matter what he does. : . This young woman has relegated the young man to second place whenever the married man was available, yet she is grieved and fearful to find him jealous. The chances are that she actually is over attentive to her child, yet she is resentful of his criticism. I doubt not but that the young man also is too exacting in his demands, but her conduct is far from reassuring. She interprets her failure to break with him as evidence of her ,wish not to hurt him, but I believe she finds his discomfort a tribute to here self | The fact that she signs herself “Darling” sug gests an intense wish to be. desirable to men. The only advice I have to give is that the young lady try to estaolish her self-esteem by other means than annexing iove which she does not actually want, Women are more inclined than mep to look to love as their only means of getting what they want. Most men have been. trained to believe that they must achieve something in life besides the love of a woman.

. I believe if the young lady would ‘seek her security

in .some useful endeavor she would be more able to

JANE JORDAN.

“Jane Jordan will study your problems for you and answer your questions in this column daily.

A / a ‘alter eete— PEcAvsE of lack of a radio the other night Presi« dent Roosevelt didn’t hear Justice Black talk and he doubtless wishes that he never heard him talk last August. So now Justice Black takes his place on the Sue preme Court bench and his gown, which was ordered weeks ago, is ready. But it will probably need to be altered now. He must have lost a lot of weight during that running