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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Happy Seamen Are Singing Aboard Ship as U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Ingham Approaches Its Home Port.

A BOARD CUTTER INGHAM, Oct, 8— Like a lifeline to a sinking reader, let me throw out this little piece of cork: Today ig the last. the final, the ultimate column from this pen on the subject of Alaska, Months ago, when I first came to Alaska, I wrote that I had started asking people about this Business we hear so much of in the States, that ¢ lage Ka is our last frontier and the great Jand of opportunity for our young men. With the States today, such a no-mans-land for many youne career-seekers just out of collvge, I wanted to find out whether Alaska was a place you could enthusiastically advise floundering acquaintances to ro to. I've asked, I imagine, about 20 people—merchants, big mining men, Government officials, prospectors up the creek. I asked them in a serious vein, and I got thoughtful answers. Without exception, the answer was opportunities are about the same

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Mr. Pyle ry as in the States: no more, maybe a little less. Hs true that Alaska isn't erowded. But it's also

jobs to be had in Alaska, are fishing and mming

true that there arent many Her two chief mdustries The majority of those who work in fish come up from the States each spring and Ro back i the fall Mining also is seasonal (with the exception of the Bie A-J mine at Junean). Most of the miners either come Into town, far the winter or spend their whole SUMMer’s wages going back to the States

Opportunities Call for Cash

They sav Alaska is full of opportunities Alaska is undeveloped They say there is gold still in Alaska than has ever been found All right. What of it? It takes hall a million dollars nowadavs to get any decent amount of gold out of the ground. Any of you young hopeful college graduates got half a million dollars? If you have, why are you looking for opportunities? When I talked with Governor Troy in Juneau he said, “Please don’t write anything that Will bring people up here looking for work, We can't handle

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them. There's been too much of that glowing stuf written. What we need is people with money to develop the country.” This is our last dav aboard ship. Were inside the Straits of Juan de Fuca now, and there is land close on both sides. Ever since we left Juneau you

could see the spirits on this ship rising, Just as clearly as though they were mercury rising in a thermometer, This morning even I was up at 4 to go on the Bridge and wateh us down the Seund. All over the ship you could hear men singe Were coming

home. These Coast Guardsmen have had enough But it is said that if a person has been In Alaska for only twa or three months, even though he be

glad to get home again, just wait till the next spring comes around and there will be a haunting, yearning feeling in his soul, pulling him back to Alaska.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Death of Young Mother, Her Work Unfinished, Tests Virtue of Faith,

VDE PARK. N. Y., Thursday --Yesterday was a

very quiet day for the President, no guests for either meal. He spent the evening looking at all the of the various entertainments which

photographs had been held for his mother while she was abroad and which she had brought back as souvenirs, he heard her tell of her doings over there This morning the telephone rang before 8 o'clock and Mr. Aubrey Williams wanted to talk to me. My heart sank. for I knew he might tell me that Murs Harry Hopkins had died. The sorrows of thiz nature which come to people are always hard, but it seems to me much more difficult to understand them when the person who goes is young and much needed Mrs. Hopkins has a voung child. She brought happiness to all those around her I have often watched her expression at formal and informal parties and have been amused by the humor which lurked in her eves. I realize what a help it must have been to her husband to have had someone like her to talk to when a hard day's work was done I am beginning to reach the age where, when things like this happen, I wonder why those of us who have finished our jobs more or less, or at least have reached points where others could do them as well, are not the ones to go ahead of youth with a real job still to be done. Perhaps this is what was meant when we were exhorted to have faith, Certainly faith is one of the most difficult of virtues.

Grand Coulee Impressive I em sony I missed seeing the Grand Coulee Dam with the President. My daughter wrote me it was really thrilling and it seems to have made the greatest impression from the point of view of Interest, I gather trom all T hear, however, that to many members of the party, the thing which will stand out longest in their minds is the discomfort which they enaured at Crescent Lake I have heard of cold cabins, beds on which water dripped, sheets which were not dry. I think they probably believe I knew this was lying in wait for them when I left them that afternoon! Lueck was evidently with me, though as a matter of fact, I probably would have minded less than many of the others for I have stood some very uncomfortable camping trips in the name of pleasure,

Public Library Presents— HAT happened to the British monarchy: what is the signification of the Coronation? Kings. ley Martin answers these queries with THE MAGIC

OF MONARCHY (Knopf). His book is a discussion of the Englishman's idea

of royalty. In the 1870, after a series of reigns Ly disreputable kings, Queen Victoria ascended the throne. From that time until the present rovalty

has been placed upon a pedestal, presented with a halo, and worshiped with awe by its subjects According to Mr, Martin, the British Public thought Edward VIII too human; they adored the abracadabra of monarchy, while Edward did not: his personal life reflected smart society; he was a product of the new age, and Puritanical England was not ready to accept his modern views, Nor did the people desire a change of government. They had seen only too well what had happened when Germany and Russia dropped the “trappings of monarchy” only to have them picked up "by some gutter-snipe (or house painter with a commission). Thus the only alternative was the abdication of Edward VIII and the crowning of George VI, who would be a sensible and pliable king, fulfilling their ideal of royalty. In conclusion, the author asks the question which, no doubt, many of his readers have asked: Will the crown regain its former halo, or has Edward's abdication impressed upon the people the realization that royalty is only human and can no longer be defied? ” » » UT of the peasant earth from which he was to take his materials of marble, bronze and clay, Auguste Rodin himself arose, Anne Leslie has told the story of his life in RODIN, IMMORTAL PEAS. ANT (Prentice-Hall). Genius is rarely attuned to its environment and Rodin was no exception. His life was a struggle against poverty, against ideals his conception of art could not accept, against moral ideas by which his unruly nature could not be bound. Yet despite the struggle, his work brought him immortality in death and at least a measure of success during his life. Miss Leslie has not written for the student. She does not probe deeply into the man or his work but creates a living sketch for the layman, revealing essential qualities which can be grasped and retained. When he reaches the last page, the reader will have

acquired an unforgettable impression,

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The New Deal-An Itemized Inventory Our Town

Good Neighbor Policy Has Won U. S. Confidence of Nations

(Last of a Nerfex)

(Editorial, Page 16)

By William Philip Simms

Times Foreign Editor

ASHINGTON, Oct, 8-—DProbably nowhere has the New Deal scored a greater success than in the foreign field. Not since Woodrow Wilson has the prestige of the United States been quite so high abroad as it is today. In hig very first message to the people of the United States, President Roosevelt made it clear that he did not look upon thig country as an isolated nation which could live unto itself in peace and prosperity without other nations being peaceful and prosperous, too, “The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery,” he said, outlining his domestic plans in hig Inaugural Address of March 4; 1933, "is not narrow=

Iv nationalistic, «

“in the field of world policy | nation to the policy of the good neighbor

would dedicate this the neighbor

who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others——the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements

in a world of neighbors.”

Queh wag his first foreign commitment, made in the

first 15 minutes of hig Administration, Another in® itial act was the appoint. ment of the then Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee as hig Secretary of State. And these two acts, one the perfect complement of the other, have since proved to be among his happiest, Other American Presidents in other times have not been backward with fair speech on foreign

topics. ® But this time, befcre the usual skepticism abroad had time

to jell, President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull began to make their deeds fit their words

Cuba, it happened, was in ture moil. Revolution was soon breaks me about Dictator Machado's grisIv head. The usual demands for U. 8 imtervention began to be heard among prominent Cubans even more than among Americans Not only did Washington turn a deaf ear to the clamor, but as soon as the situation quieted a bit,

after Machado's fight, Roosevelt began to extend the New Deal to the Pearl of the Antilles » » » ITHOUT Congressional opposition. a new treaty was

signed with Cuba abandoning the long-hated Platt amendment, unsder which the United States had a right to intervene, Subsequently a new trade treaty was concluded, granting tariff reductions on scores of Cuban items, including sugar the island's lifeblood tobacco and mm At first skeptical, Latin America

now wholeheartedly applauded. At long last an American Presi. dent, the official spokesman for

the Colossus of the North, was ace tually practicing what he preached Then Mr. Roosevelt moved fore ward another step. War was on between Bolivia and Paraguay, And a number of revolts and near revolts were in progress in other republics of the New World, So the President called in their ambassadors and ministers. If and when “the orderly processes” break down in this hemisphere, he assured them, it may become “the joint concern of the whole continent.” But never again would it be the concern of this country alone. Thus from the very first, relations between the United States and the score of Latin Americar countries to the south have gone on improving. Last December, in Buenos Aires, they reached a new high. President Roosevelt journeyed in person to Buenos Aires to open the Inter-American Peace Conference, at which every one of the 21 republics was represented. And they unanimously adopted a collective security cone vention, a nonintervention protocol, a resolution calling for early ratification of the existing peace treaties and for obligatory consultation in case of a threat of war,

Side Glonces—By Clark

It was a sort of Pan-American accolade for the New Deal, » » » UT the good neighbor policy did not stop there. It did not exclude the neighbor to the north, Canada is not a republic, It ic still bound to Britain in a vague but nevertheless real way, Hence she was not present at Buenos Aires. But morally she wag not shut out Visits were exchanged between the Governor General (Lord Tweedsmuir) and Premier Mackenzie King, on the one hand. and President Roosevelt on the other. And a mutuals Iv beneficial trade treaty shortly followed. Friendlier feeling on both sides of the border is plainly discernible. The New Deal however, did not get away to such a good start with Europe Largely sponsored by President Roosevelt—following widely her alded visits to this country by Britain's Premier Ramsay MaeDonald. France's Edouard Herriot and other European leaders—a World Monetary and Economie Conference opened in London in June, 1933 The conference was a flaseo Even while Secretary Hull was in mid-Atlantic, the President dectded that monetary stabilization was out of the question until the domestic situations in the vari. ous countries — including the United States became more stabilized of fruitless bickering, the cone ference was blown completely out of the water by the President's now famous message of July 3 “It would be a catastrophe amounting to a world tragedy,” he cabled, “if the great conference of nations should allow itself to be diverted by the proposal of a purely artificial and temporary experiment affecting the monetary exchange of a few na. tions only.” » » » NLY Secretary Hull came out

of the conference with an enhanced reputation. The Presi dent was criticized for having

gone off half-cocked, but his Sec-

retary of State, then new to Euro-

peans, won the admiration of all by his quiet dignity and statesmanship. He seized the occasion to press for an all-round lowering of tariff barriers as a first step toward world trade revival, peace and prosperity. The fatlure of London was soon forgotten. The world was moving

too fast to remember, The one thing that survived the confers ence was the Hull idea. This he has never ceased to press and elaborate. It has now become a permanent fixture of the New

Deal, an integral part of the doctrine of the good neighbor as applied to the world as a whole, Last July he invited all nations to subscribe to his peace ideal. He urged that if the world is to avoid war, there must be national and international self-restraint, noninterference in the internal affairs of others, the use of peaceful methods to adjust differences. the

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"| been workin' with this shovel 10 years, lady, and you're tellin’ me it's noisyl"

So. after three weeks .

War “contagion” threatens to spread to the United States, according to President

Roosevelt,

The Sino-Japanese conflict tests the Neutrality Act and the “Good Neigh-

bor” stand, kevnotes of New Deal foreign policy, and brings worried looks to the faces of Secretary of State Cordell Hull (left) and Norman H. Davis, Ambassador-at-large, shown as they called at the White House,

faithful observance of treaties, the modification of such treaties, when essential, by mutal agreement, the reduction and limitation of armaments and co-operation and inters change in the economic field

In other words, he asked the world to practice the implications of the Briand-Kellogg Pact of Paris, which all had signed. to

forswear war as an instrument of national policy and take steps to revive world trade and prosperity Every nation replied, most of them without equivocation, Only a few, like Germany, Japan and Portugal, made reservations,

» » » EANWHILE, since the Lone don conference, Mr. Hull has put through almost a score of reciprocal trade treaties between

the United States and the leading countries of this hemisphere and Europe Britain has not yet come into line, but Foreign Minister Eden has indicated a deal may be expected. American exports have been increased by these moves In furtherance of the good

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| . . ‘Bison Dwindle {| By Nvienece Service | BERLIN, Oct. 8 — In striking contrast to the now seemingly assured survival of American buflalo,

or bison, is the still precarious status of the European bison, or wisent, There are only 84 head of

pure-blooded animals left, a summarizing study of the International Society for the Preservation of Wisent shows. Before the World War there used to be a large herd in the Russian

Caucasus and another in Poland. During the war and the confused period afterward, these animals

were all killed by distressed populations needing food at any terms, The small herd now re-established in the U. 8. 8. R. does not seem to be pureblooded. In England also the only lhierd. on the estate of the Duke of | Bedford, is hopelessly hybridized.

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UCH as we may sympathize | with the Denver mother whose [baby son finally was returned to [her after a two-month absence, it is impossible not to feel great pity also for the abductor, who says she stole the child because he resembled her own dead boy. Few hungers are more powerful than the yearning for motherhood, and I am convinced that a part of the restlessness, the complaints and the misbehavior of modern women comes from its suppression, Speaking the language of psychiatrists, this is sex frustration at its worst, since they insist that a part of every woman's sexual satisfaction is the process of gestation. You don't have to be as learned as they to understand how true this is. One look into the face of an old woman who has borne many children is enough. Beside her serenity the nervousness of the modern unencumbered matron takes on the proportions of a palsy. It is a hard matter to decide which person actually suffers more, the woman who bears too many children or the one who has none. Society has occupied itself for some time with the tribulations of the prolific type, but very little has been done for the one who is sterile by nature or circumstance, Little by little our obstacles against motherhood have been set up. We build beautiful cities with yvardless apartment houses where baby culture is discouraged; we pursue an exotic night-club existence, and gear our economic system to high speed. And all this is a curse upon women, whom it pretends to

neighbor the Roosevelt Administration tried prolong the life of the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty, But Japan finally destroyed all hope by denouncing the treaty and declare ing that hereafter she would build as big a navy and whatever kind of navy she pleased, Whereupon, the President indicated that while this country opposes a naval race, and will agree at any time to limit4 its fleet to the level of others, we must build if others do, United States naval policy, therefore, still envisages a navy second to none,

doctrine to

Recognition of Russian was an early move of the New Deal. A good neighbor does not concern

himself with the family affairs of others, their polities, religion or personal views, It was on. this basis that Roosevelt exchanged ambassadors with the Soviet Union The Neutrality Act, designed to guarantee peace for the United States, can hardly be called a New Deal measure, albeit passed by a New Deal Congress. The President and Secretary Hull con= tend that no matter how many laws we have peace ultimately must depend largely upon the unforeseen and the unforesees

able. Hence a too-mandatory law might endanger, rather than insure, peace, They pleaded, there«

fore, for more latitude. ” ” ” HE ink was hardly dry on the neutrality measure before an “unforeseen and unforeseeable.” Spanish situation required amendment, On the heels of that, the Sino-Japanese conflict again revealed the statute's awkwardness, For ils application there would heip Japan, patently the aggressor, and injure China, just as clearly the vietim. And the United States

is signatory to several treaties— like (the Kellogr Pact and the Nine-Power Treatv-—-which mor=-

ally forbid such treatment.

Jasper—By Frank Owen

It was tion that of his most

ments on foreign affairs,

the President dazzling pronounces It came

this general connecs

made one

in his Chicago speech advocating world guarantee against war, He

declared that

the United States

cannot hope to escape becoming a vietim of the world outlawry meres lv by isolation or by our own acts of neutrality. The remedy, he said, lies rather in co-operation other peace-loving nations to curb

the outlaws,

with

“The next day came the unpre= codented action of the State De-

partment in rebuking Japan, an action in which this Government followed the lead of the League Assembly.” The American agreement last vear with Britain and Franee to

co-cporate in the

prevention of

dangerously wide fluctuations of currencies was a material contribution to world recovery,

Among other

foreign

or overs

seas accomplishments of the New Deal were the freeing of the Phil ippines, to be completed in 1044; the establishment of regular air lines up and down the Americas,

ACIOSS

the Atlantic and Pacific;

application of the Neutrality Law to the Italian-Ethiopian War; the Reciprocal Tariff Act, co-opera=-

with of Nations,

tion League

the Council the promise

the

not to do anything to cripple the League's efforts for peace providsing we approved of the League's steps, relinquishment of U, 8, con= trol in Haiti; and so on, Failures were chalked up on the war debts, the projected entry into the World Court and the President's disarmament moves,

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By Anton Scherrer

Playwright Hoyt Showed Gratitude For Indianapolis Man's Service by Boquest of $10,000 and Royalties.

I BELIEVE it was near Thanksgiving, 1900, that we heard about Charles H. Hoyt's last will and testament, It had everybody guessing at firgt bes cause nobody around here could identify the “Elwood M. Dasher of Indianapolis” mens tioned in the will, Finally, it dawned on us that maybe Mr, Hoyt meant Burt everything cleared up. Enough, understand why Mr, Hovt made Burt the beneficiary of $10,000, Be sides the cash, Burt was to get 35

per cent of the profits of Mr Hovt's plays, and people who knew

Dasher, and after that for

anvhow, us to

about such things said the provision about the profits was the better part of the bequest, I guess they were right, because hack in the Nineties Mr, Hoylt's farces plaved to standing room only The titles always started Mr. Scherrer with a capital A, T remember, like “A Brass Monkey,” "A Bunch of Keys,” "A Texas Steer,” "A Contented Woman" and £0 on, I'm sure I saw most of them, and I still

recall the stock-rafser in said: “1 hate to talk about more about art than any the United States.” Well, to get back to Burt, He pot his start here under George Dickson, and worked himself up to be head usher of the Grand Opera House, He was a mighty good one, too, so it didn't surprise anybody to see Burt bossing the ushers the night W,. E, English opened his theater on the Olrele, That was in 1881, After that, Burt was theatrical agent for the Big Four people, and some time in 1884 or thereabout, Gus Williams signed him to go ahead of his show, "Oh What A Night" Burt was homesick all the time he was away from

"A Trip to Chinatown” who myself, but I bet I know man as raises hogs in

Indianapolis, Anyway, at the close of the season when Mr. Williams asked him how he liked the business, Burt said: “I would rather be a lamp post in Indianapolis than a millionaire in New York." You've probably wondered who was the first to pull that nifty, Well, after two seasons with Gus Williams, Burt went with Hovt and Thomas. the first firm to pro= duce Mr, Hoyt's plavs, It started off, I remember, with "A Tin Soldier.” Piloted Him to Legislature After that, Burt never left Mr. Hoyt. They were

together even when Mr, Hoyt made his famous race for the Legislature at Charlestown, N. H. Mr. Hovt didn't know anything about politics when he entered the race, but he didn't have to worry long as he had Burt, an Inaianapolis boy, who remembered overything Harry New and Bill English had taught him Burt discovered right away that Mr. Hoyt didn't have a Chinaman's chance unless he introduced somn wet goods into the campaign, This was practically impossible because of the rigid temperance of New Hampshire, but that didn't faze Burt. He went to work and brought the stuff In across the border in a hearse, Sure, Mr, Hoyt won, If your memory is good, you'll remember that was the plot of Mr, Hoyt's, "A Temperance Town," Burt was also responsible for another of Mr. Hoyt's plots, Al any rate, Mr, Hoyt must have heard about the little joke played on Burt by Harry New and Walter Nichols when they went to Frank Flanner, the undertaker, and made all arrangements to have Burt embalmed and buried. That was the big idea back uf “A Milk White Flag.” Remember?

Jane Jordan—

Husband's Weakness for Lying Is Traced to Childhood Environment.

I EAR JANE JORDAN--I have a problem which worries me. My husband never tells the truth, even to a stranger, I hardly can talk to him without telling him I don't believe him, It is killing my hap piness. Our gon some day will realize that his father is untruthful. I have covered up his lies, as I hate for others to know, but he will be found out in time. For example, if come one admires a piece of furniture he will say he painted it, He drinks secretly and I never let on that I know, I have asked him if he wants someching to drink and he will say no, he doesn't care for it, and then turn right around and sneak it. He has no reason to do so that I know, for I am good=natured and modern in my viewpoint, I have tried admiring him but it made him worse. How can I help? PUZZLED.

Answer-It {eg Interesting to note how small an exagreration of perfectly normal traits will throw a person out of step with his fellows and make him dit= ficult to live with, All of us have fibbed slightly at some time or other about our accomplishments, and been tempted to take credit for something we didn't

do. All of us have indulged in fantasies that make us more important than we are in fact, The average person does not really believe in his own fibs and

fantasies but snaps out of it when confronted with a real problem Then occasionally we find a person like your huse band who doesn’t snap out of it, but who relies on fibs and fantasies to bolster his courage, What this means is that secretly he is convinced of his own worthless Ness This attitude toward life, or habit of thought, places the man in a dilemma. He wants to amount to something, to be proud of himself, but he is up against the stubborn conviction that he is nobody, and it is too painful to be horne, To relieve the pressure he lies to boost himself without believing his own lies. Hence the secret drink. When one is befuddled by liquor one can disbelieve actual evidence and ace cept fantastic evidence in a way that is impossible when one is cold sober, I cannot tell you how your husband got that way except to say that the demage was done long before he knew you. Usually such an attitude is caused hy the childhood set-up. Somebody somewhere stepped on him, discouraged him, made him feel insignificant. Some condition defeated him when he was young and impressionable. You tried admiring your husband, but were you sincere? Did you stretch the truth in your efforts to help? If so he saw straight through you and felt more inferior than ever. With a disposition like his he would doubt the truth itself if it were favorable. Therefore in giving the reassurance which he needs, you'll be obliged to be sternly honest with him, mixing praise with criticism, and approval with blame. JANE JORDAN.

—— dane Jordan will study your problems for you and answer your questions in this column daily,

Walter O'Keefe —

HE unemployed have been encouraged, exhorted, classified, discussed, and now they're going to ba counted. Pretty soon somebody may think of giving them » job. ’ Uncle Sam wants to know who's going to movie matinees, so the Postoffice Department has been asked to start up a correspondence with the guys who are out of work. This new survey may be just about as accurate am the last Literary Digest poll. If you're loafing, you receive a blank in your mail box. You're supposed to answer the questions and then the Government sends you your horoscope,