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From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

There's an Air of 'Giddyap' Aboard Coast Guard Cutter as She Heads For Home After Summer Voyage.

ABOARD CUTTER INGHAM, Oct. 6.— They say not to trade horses in midstream. But I trade ships in midocean, just like that. ;

This is the eighth ship I've traveled on

since leaving Seattle last spring. And the finest one yet. She's less than a year old. Long and sleek, like a private yacht. And as white as snow. She's one of seven new ones built or being built for

the Coast Guard. There's an air of giddyap—for we're on our way home. The Ingham has been north since early April, and the boys are tugging at the bit to get back to Seattle. This time I'm not the only “passenger” aboard. There are three civilians. Dr. Les White, my friend who runs the Government hospital at Unalaska, is one of us. Going out for thé first time in three years. He'll be back in a month, though. He was telling me a story. PeoMr. Pyle ple think of Unalaska as being practically at the end of the world, and of course in many ways it is. But this spring some Navy ships-came to Unalaska, and a Navy doctor came ashore and visited the hospital. He got to telling Dr. White about a new anesthetic that had been introduced in the States within the last year. It’s called “evipal,” and they say it’s wonderful. It’s injected with a needle, just like a “shot in the arm.” It takes 20 seconds to get it all in, and before 10 seconds have gone by you are sound asleep. “It’s wonderful,” said the Navy doctor. “Yes, I know it is,” said Dr. White. “I've been using it for a year and a half.” : “Why, that’s impossible!” the Navy man said. “It just got to California six months ago.”

‘Trees, Trees, Trees I

Dr. White said he knew that, all right. And then he told the Navy doctor where he got his. The stuff originated in Germany. Nearly two years ago a German cruiser put in at Unalaska, and when the ship’s doctor came ashore he gave Dr. White a good supply of the new anesthetic. So, you see the far ends of the world are sometimes closer than the near ends. We have crossed the great Gulf of Alaska, and have passed Cape Spencer, the western gateway to all that beautiful part of Alaska known as “Southeastern.” Green mountains rise magnificently on all sides of us. We were eating breakfast when Dr. White rushed down from deck. “Trees, trees, trees!” he shouted. “Why Doc,” said one of the officers, “you act like a little child.” “I feel like a little child,” the doctor replied.. “Those are the first trees I've seen in three years.”

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

~~ Subway Maze Proves Too Intricate,

First Lady Gets Lost on Trains. EW YORK, Tuesday.—Yesterday was a busy day, for besides spending wnost of the morning at the Herald-Tribune Forum, Miss Dickerman and I had an interesting conference at luncheon with some college presidents. The question under discusssion was, “What is the real contribution which should be made by a small private® school for girls, and what do the colleges feel should be done during the high school years?” It seemed a most fruitful subject for discussion. I hope Miss Dickerman and I will learn a great deal by getting other people’s opinions and thoughts in formulating the aims and objects which should be paramount in framing the curriculum of a private

school for girls. In the afternoon I visited a friend in a Brooklyn hospital and spent considerable time making false starts in the subway and finding myself on wrong trains. The subway is becoming almost as interesting a place for making acquaintances as taxicabs. I think a very large number of the taxi drivers in New York are now my acquaintances. On the subway yesterday, I had a nice little talk with a young man who was carrying one of Selma Lagerlof’s books, and who was rather troubled by the fact he could not feel the heroine was real because she seemed too good for this world.

Visits Mothers’ Milk Bureau

I dined with a friend and we went: to the theater in the evening. It was my first play in months and I am glad that it was Maxwell Anderson's “The StarWagon.” There are some beautiful lines in it and some scenes both humorous and poetic. I think the choir rehearsal and the ensuing scene between the boy and the girl are delightful. Burgess Meredith does a wonderful piece of acting from beginning to end, and Miss Gish and Mr. Collins were outstanding, too. I think the play is one no one will want to miss. This morning I went to the Mothers’ Milk Bureau run by the Children’s Welfare Federation of New York City. I never before realized how much work this committee did. Like much of the other work for babies done in the city, it was started by Dr. Josephine Baker, and both Dr. Chapin and Dr. Wynne are interested in it. At the Milk Bureau they collect breast milk, which is used largely for premature babies or for those who are desperately ill. They have a freezing process which allows them to ship it, 'not only all over the city, but to far distant points. It can be kept a year and still be in good condition when melted for the baby’s use. The committee sets up standards for the care of children in camps and ‘baby shelters and guards the health of our-children in many other ways. It seems to me a fine work and surely is partly responsible for the lowering of infant mortality in this great city.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HE authors of “Nine Old Men,” Drew Pearson and 1 Robert S. Allen, now offer as a sequel to that volume a pamphlet entitled NINE OLD MEN AT THE CROSSROADS (Doubleday). In this they continue their sprightly and entirely undismayed revelation of the hidden springs governing the “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” Their narrative covers the history made by the Supreme Court’s decisions adverse to the Administration’s measures; tells of the personal animus entering into the decisions; gives the story of the efforts of Chief Justice Hughes, who felt that the continued conservatism of the Court was endangering its prestige, to avoid ‘decisions on important measures; tells of the effects of the President’s Court Reform Bill, and accounts for the indecision of Justice Roberts. Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, no doubt, take pleasure in disillusioning their readers; and their informing and slightly malicious book makes disillusionment, if not painless, at least entertaining.

EADERS who were interested in “A Time to R Remember,” which gave Leane Zugsmith a place among the “proletarian” writers, will look forward to her recently published volume-of short stories, HOME IS WHERE YOU HANG YOUR CHILDHOOD (Random House). Of these 10 stories, some return to the life which furnished material for her novel—the unemployed,

(Third of a Series) By Herbert Little

Times Special Writer VV ASHINGTON, Oct. 6. —The biggest thing about the New Deal to American working men is that the Government, for the first time, is interposing directly in their behalf. For the first time, the right to organize and bargain collectively’ is a legal, enforceable right. For the first time in a major U. S. economic crisis, the Government has said “no one shall starve,” and has carried out its promise. The Hoover dole policy appears dead as a doornail. The Government has, used its power to protect industrial wage earners from unemployment, from destitute old age, and from coercion and intimidation by employers. The historic laissez-faire attitude of government toward labor relations in industry, which most nations dropped years ago, finally has disappeared. u ” ®

"HE New ‘Deal’s labor and social security legislation do not go as far as that of other industrial countries which started earlier. The scope of accomplishment, however, is tremendous for a four-and-a-half-year period. The aim now is to adjust and amend—and extend in some places. Education must supplement unionization; workers must learn how to settle disputes, among themselves and with employers, without disrupting national economy. The Social Security Act must be - safeguarded against treasury raids, many of its friends believe. . 2 President Roosevelt has put into powerful offices many men who are actively sympathetic with . labor's demand for a larger share of the national income. The laws he has sponsored, and the administration thereof, have in effect moved labor from the 18th to the 20th Century—in four snd a half years. ; The major direct labor benefits have come from the Wagner Labor Relations Act, safeguarding and promoting unionization; from relief expenditures of upwards of seven billion dollars, and from the broad social security program. , STR

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8. 8 HE social security program illustrates the scope of the New Deal’s activities in improving labor’s status. Under this law, enacted in 1935, unemployment insurance coverage has been extended to 21 million workers through statutes passed by all 48 State Legislatures; 32 million are registered under the Federal oldage pension program, and 1,500,000 dependent children, blind, etc., are covered under supplementary programs. One state, Wisconsin, is already paying benefits to jobless, and 22 others will begin Jan. 1. In the field of direct labor legislation, the Administration was responsible ‘for NRA and its famous Section 7a, which when oytlawed was followed by the stop-

year and then in 1935 by the comprehensive Wagner act. Many prominent New Deal leaders have helped personally to avert destructive strikes, such as nearly always occur in a rising business

gap “Joint Resolution 44” for one:

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cycle. These have included the President himself, Secretary - of Labor Perkins, former NRA Administrators Johnson and Richberg, former Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McGrady, and Senator Robert F. Wagner. Impartial statistics show that American labor lost less time from 1930 to 1935 from strikes and lockouts than did workers in the. other major industrial countries (excluding dictatorships). : 2 2 » ABOR rights were advanced also in the two Guffey Coal Acts, the Air Mail Act, and the Byrnes Act forbidding interstate transportation of strike-breakers. The La Follette civil liberties investigation, which led to the Byrnes Act and may produce other legislation, is credited with having done more than any other recent action to lessen the activities of labor spies, private detectives and other antilabor agents. 7 New Dealers also claim credit for the 1937 Supreme Court decisions which have expanded beyond measure the field for labor and humanitarian legislation—the Social Security, Wagner Act, Wash-

ington minimum wage, and Milwaukee picketing decisions. It is

asserted that the halance of power

on the Court would never have swung to the liberal side except for the President’s onslaught against the “horse-and-buggy” rulings of 1935-36." Administration men give the New Deal’s economic and labor efforts credit for a steady increase in wages since the depression low point, coupled with a reduction in hours (halted by the Supreme Court’s NRA decision, but now apparently on its way back through the Wage-Hour Bill), which spreads work to absorb at least part of those who lose their jobs through the improvement of ma- . chines,

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“If that's another candidate with nothing but cigars, here's where he loses two votes."

Senator ‘Wagner (D. N. Y.), author of the bill by which the U. S. Government first intervened for the workingman, talks with an Indianapolis worker

OTH the relief and reform phases of the New Deal have

included measures of wide importance to industrial labor. At the start FERA spent billions for direct relief. Then CWA put four million jobless on the Federal payroll for the critical first winter. Then. CWA was junked and replaced by WPA, which sought to provide more useful work. Around 25 million persons were dependent on WPA at its peak. CCC, started at the outset of

A WOMAN'S VIEW

| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HEN I was a little girl the

history teacher made us gog-gle-eyed with her tales of the hideous red man and his methods of warfare. We were brought up to believe that the Indian who sneaked up on the noble white man who was stealing his land, and shot him in the back with a poisoned arrow, was a cewardly barbarian. Well, we’ve come a long way from such a naive state of mind. It was the white man who later invented and used the submarine in his wars, and the submarine goes sneaking through ocean waters killing not cnly the enemy but hordes of noncombatants. It was also the courageous Anglo-Saxon who conceived the lovely idea of utilizing airplanes for

dropping bombs and carrying ma-

chine guns. : And we call that progress! From this point it’s going to take a lot of tall talking to convince the boys there is any particular glory in belonging to the Dawn Patrol or a Lost Battalion. War as it is being carried on today in the Far East--between nations who haven't the manliness tq, declare a state of conflict because that would mean a flat repudiation of their signed treaties — is the lowest, most inglorious enterprise a devil in good practice could think up. In thinking over these facts we are also reminded that for many years Japan has been extolled as the most progressive of Oriental countries. The smart Japanese, they said, will leave their ancient customs and take to progressive ways. Their leaders seem to have made the grade. Taking over all the worst aspects of our system it looks as if old Nippon may become one of the most civilized of nations. <

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the New Deal, has taken from 300,000 to 600,000 out of the labor market to carry on conservation

work. Housing and slum clearance isa New Deal aim which is vital to the building trades workers. These unions were 75 per cent or

more unemployed because of the

depression collapse of construction. But the housing program developed slowly, and in four years only 51 projects have been put under way by PWA. The FHA'S

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The New Deal-An Itemized Inventory

Roosevelt Brings Government Intervention in Behalf of Working man

Below is the Board created by the Wagner act: (Left to right) Edwin S. Smith, chairman, J. Warren Madden and Donald Wakefield Smith.

insured loans and the HOLC’s rescue of distressed mortgagors also helped, however: : Congress under an executive spur has just enacted a law for a three-year, 5 26 -million -dollar housing program, oh Practically all the labor measures, including the Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, specifically include only "industrial and urban workers, excluding | farm laborers from their benefits.

NEXT—Taxation.

Jasper—By Frank Owen

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“Nine hundred and «eight, nine hundred and nine . .". . O. K., Jasper,

- come up: now—you win the bet!"

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE STARS?

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Mr. Weber Left His Impression— He Was the Man Who Sold Milk, With No Extra Charge for Flies.

CAN remember our first milkman all right, but for the life of me I can’t recall his first name. “ His last name .was Weber. I'm sure of that. Just as sure as 1 am that he had his dairy somewhere around what is now Garfield Park. Tl never forget it, because I recall how it ime pressed me at the time that a horse and wagon could come all that distance and arrive at our house

at exactly 8 o'clock every morning.

Now that I think about it, I wonder why a man of Mr. Weber's punctilious habits had to have a bell to announce his presence. I guess it was just Mr. Weber's way of dramatizing his visits. It was a mighty good veh too, because of all the bells I remember as a kid, I really believe Mr. Weber's was the best to start the day right. Certainly, it was the best to .get things going. It brought everybody to the gutter—mothers, children ‘and ali the dogs of the neighborhood. All the flies; too. ; ; In the midst of all this excitement sat Mr. Weber dispensing his milk with a nonchalance that you don’t see ncwadays. At any rate, I never run across it now, except maybe in the case of a few artists who still hang around Indianapolis. I remember, too, how well-equipped Mr. Weber was to do business. He went around in a covered wagon with two sliding doors, one on each side, which he had a way of manipulating to admit the crock or pitcher brought to him. The milk was poured into our pitchers by way of a spigot. The pitcher, I remember, was placed on the floor of the wagon just far enough away from the spigot to put a head on the milk. You have no idea how beautifully milk foams when handled Mr. Weber's way.

Asparagus ‘Attracted’ Flies

Besides all this, Mr. Weber also had a little bunch of asparagus plant fastened to the ceiling of his wagon, and as far away from the spigots as he could get it. Somehow it was tied up with a theory current at that time that a fringe of asparagus plant would attract flies. Saloorikeepers used to put it over their free lunches, too, I remember. It didn’t work out so well in practice. Not in Mr. Weber’s wagon, anyway, because I remember that the flies, given their choice, always preferred playing around the milk spigots. The best part of Mr. Weber’s equipment, however, was his good humor. It was as dependable as his milk. .He was always jolly, I remember, except maybe for a short period every spring, af which -time his milk tasted differently, too. I don’t expect you to believe it, of course, but I know for a fact that Mr. Weber's humor had a lot to do with the quality of his milk. - : I couldn’t figure it out at the time. As a matter of fact, I didn’t catch on until I was old enough to read “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” and learn how it affected Mr. Hardy when Tess’ cows got into the onion patch. : :

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Jane Jordan— Wife Told Her Greatest Concern Should Be for Her Own Family.

DE JANE JORDAN—I have been married many years and have children. My husband and I have a mutual friend, a man who has a family, too. His wife does not believe in drinking and having a good time as people do in these days. She works hard around the house but won’t go to beer places to have any enjoyment. Her husband comes to our house and his wife doesn’t know about it. When he comes we go out to beer taverns and have a good time. My husband. doesn’t seem to care but what he doesn’t know is that I have stepped out with this man a few times. : * This man says he loves me and when he is drinking he says he is not going back to his family, but he . always does. Do you think it is fair to his family for him to come to our house for good times so much? I feel his wife may find it out and it may break up their home. Are we doing wrong to let him come? Nature and everything is changing and it seems that everybody is different nowdays, but I was just wondering if it is fair to his family. AN UNTRUE MATE. Answer—I am inclined to agree with your husband. If the man is leading a monotonous life at home and is spending the evening with a married couple for the sake of pleasant companionship, I see nothing to object to except the fact that he lies about it. But this is not the case. He is coming to see you and you know it. . He is taking unfair advantage of your husband's hospitality, and for this there is no excuse.

It is true that times have changed, but not nature. People are no longer afraid to laugh and drink and make merry in roadhouses and taverns. But times have not changed to the extent where a husband is willing to share his wife with an interloper. The question which should concern you most is not whether the man is being fair to his family, but are you being fair to yours? Apparently you worry more about his wife than you do about your husband. About the worst thing that could happen would be for you to lose his confidence for the sake of a few stolen hours which aren’t worth what you will have to pay for them eventually. : = . : 88 8 aad DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 22 eme ployed as a stenographer. About a year ago a young man came to work in the same office. I admired him from the first and we have gone places together a few times. He has been going with another girl for two years but is not sure he loves her. He feels it would be unjust to quit her when she is so fond of him. He still asks me to go places with him and we are happy together, but should I go when I feel that I am learning to care more every day? Would it be better to forget him? CAMILLE.

Answer—A girl who has an all-or-nothing attie

- tude deprives herself of a lot of fun. Think how une

reasonable you are to expect a young man who has been out with you a few times to sever all previous connections and devote himself to “you alone. If you feel your susceptible heart needs protection, nrsvide yourself with other boy friends so that you won't concentrate so hard on him. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan. who will answer your questions in this column daily. 2

Walter O'Keefe —

oT heaven the World Series is here. Now ~ As for a change the only judge in the news will

be Judge Landis. i The seats aren’t really so terribly expensive when you consider you can buy one for the same price as a seat on the Stock Exchange. = For the next few days Mussolini will be Italian

Would you like a transcontinental air trip to Hollywood? Would you like to meet your favorite stars face to face? Would you like to see them at work on the movie lot? :

the struggle for social justice, the growing class consciousness. Others, including the title story, direct briefly a searchlight upon those poignant, often forgotten, moments of childhood which constitute the unsuspected tragedies of the young. Still others re- . veal the irony of a life where people are caught up between circumstances and their own weaknesses. Not comparable with “A Time to Remember” for

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No. 2, while Joe DiMaggio takes over the headlines. - It’s a lucky thing for Joe that he doesn’t live in Italy. Long before this he'd have been farmed out to Ethiopia for taking the play away from the

_ Now that there's civil war in the Bronx, itll be | steange 1or.sce Hrig knock a homer sud then see | Manager McCarthy run over e dugout || with a note of of apology. Slants’ d

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