Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1937 — Page 17
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Vagabond
From Indiana — Ernie Pyle
Sawtooth Range Riders Off at
Last for Farewells
East, With Ketchum's Ringing in Their Ears.
K ETCHUM, Ida., Oct. 22.—The Range Riders of the Sawtooth have at long last disappeared around the bend, and the hearts of Ketchum hang heavy. Ten-thirty in the morning was the hour
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set for the great departure—the two-year |
fabulous land Three cowboys,
Journey to that New Ycrk City. and a bull,
riding two horses
camp outfit, Ten-thirty was the hour, but it was 3:45 in the afternoon when they finally got away.
The Range Riders—Ted and
to the eastward, to |
with an old, black mule packing their |
Red and Vick—went down by the | creek around 11 o'clock, got the two
saddle horses and brought them up into town, and tied them in the yw yard of a cabin back of the filling . station. Then they went to breakfast. The day dragged on with fussing and standing and looking at things. People stopped, and stared, and went on. But finally around 2:30 o'clock vou could feel a trend toward & climax. Red began packing the mule—the last act. Then came the final lashing down.
The great |
white pack at last lay high and wide on the mule's |
back, and seemed like a caravan all in itself. All was The crowd was large now, and finally tense. The moment was near. And just then from the other side of town came the sound of a band playing. Everybody turned, ana everybody sensed what it was. One of the town's pranksters had got together an eight-piece band to serenade the boys out. of town, By now there must have been 200 people around
ready.
the little yard where the caravan stood, almost ready |
to go. everybody took pictures.
It Was a Touching Sendoff
There wasn't really any official start. The boys un-
The band arrived, playing and laughing, and
tied the bull from the telephone pole, and Vic got |
on him. The band started to play again, and marched off, with the Sawtooth Range Riders falling in behind.
The riders bowed from their saddles, and smiled, |
and waved their 10-gallon hats, Square Garden style, ‘Goodby Ketchum. Goodby for three vears. Good-
Jack. Goodby Slats. Goodby Idaho.”
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The band played exceptionally well, and it was all
in the spirit of fun, but there was a pull in it too
The musicians dropped to the side, and they played |
“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairecee” as the Range Riders passed. And then just as the weird little pilgrimage turned the bend, down behind the trees, the band stood still and erect in the middle of the road, and slowly and sweetly came the frail notes of “Farewell to Thee.” It was all a joke, but I'll be darned if people weren't crying Gone were the Range Riders of the Sawtooth. Gone on their two-year quest of the rainbow, to the fabulous land in the East. Gone with the goodbys and the soft notes and the chatter of dozens of fol lowing children in their ears. Gone from the wide= open West that we love so much. Gone maybe never to be seen again. Gone—two miles down the road, to pitch camp for the first night out!
My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Can the President Keep Us Out Of War? People Everywhere Ask.
\ 7 ASHINGTON, Thursday.—The rainstorm in '¥ which we left New York yesterday morning seemed to be prevalent throughout the state. Judging the papers this morning, it was fairly universal throughout the East. The South reported heavy rains and damage to crops, just as New York City reported damage to streets and windows. Our day on the train was fairly uneventful. Attor= ney General Bennett of New York State came into our drawing room just before we reached Albany for a little chat, but most of the day we worked. I only wish I could write longhand as successfully in a swaying train as Mrs. Scheider can typewrite. I suppose I should really practice my typing even more assidu=ously, but it is still slower for me than writing longhand. I only type when sheer necessity compels me to tap on those little keys. Speaking in Erie, Pa., last evening was interesting, for. at the end of the talk, a number of questions were sent up which showed an interest in education and, as vsual, great interest in the question of peace. Cne woman came up to me afterward and asked if she might ask a “fanatical” question. She then inquired whether or not, in our trips through the countrv, we were able to gauge the general sentiment of the people on the question of going to war. T told her that one of the questions most frequently asked by back-platform audiences was: “Mr. President, can vou keep us out of war?” This indicated ‘o me a widespread interest, for as a rule people only ask questions about such things as are uppermost in their minds—the cost of living, the possible price for the particular agricultural product which is grown in their neighborhood, the public works going on in their state, or some specific touches their daily lives.
Warburg's Death Brings Loss
Many people who read of Felix Warburg's death found themselves thinking of some. occasion on which thev served with him on a committee or a hoard, either for business or philanthropic purposes. He was active in many things which affected public welfare and his passing will be felt, not only by those who were close to him in his circle of family and friends, but by the community in which he lived. We are now on our way to Washington. It warmed mv heart when the porter came in to bring us a table and said: “How is Miss Anna? She once did me a great favor.” It is a rather nice southern custom which preserves the “Miss” long after vou have married and have children of your own. Is there anvthing more pleasant than to find that someone vou love, who has stepped out of her usual environment for a time at least, is not forgotten?
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New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
O account of events in Spain, says Freda White, can pretend to be authentic; but she has included nothing in her little book WAR IN SPAIN
(Longmans), which has not been confirmed from sources independent of'prejudice. Honestly trying to keep an unbiased viewpoint she has recorded clearly and objectively the progress of the struggle and the efforts toward and against intervention. It has been said in connection with her book that the facts about the Spanish war are infinitely more important than highly emotional and one-sided personal accounts. For those of us who did not try, or who found it impossible, to keep up day by day with the earlier history of this civil war, Miss White's summary is valuable o ” » T the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine, on the lower edge of Long Island where Casco Bay widens into the Atlantic, Elizabeth Etnier and Stephen, her artist husband, bought 42 acres of land, with an old house on the tip that looked out upon “the tides and fogs, islands and lighthouses” and a plentiful supply of mosquitoes and an ex-gold mine in the y. Bu diary GILBERT HEAD (Little), records “sparkling hours” spent among the sea gulls and spruce trees, with her husband and later with the
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‘Junk Dealers Export 61 Millions Worth in 8 Months.
By Robert W. Horton
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. —The United States has exported enough scrap iron and steel in the past three years to build and equip 100 battleships of 33,000 tons each and more than 300 cruisers of 10,000 tons. A substantial amount of this scrap is believed to have been utilized for building naval vessels and other war material. The largest buyers—Japan, Great Britain, Germany and Italy—have all been engaged in vast preparations for war. The increase in these exports has kept pace with the increase in naval building and armament production, with the exception of a slight slump last year which was attributed principally to the high price of scrap. But current exports are at record-breaking figures both as to volume and price, with Japan taking the lion's share. The use of American scrap to build up foreign war machines has brought vigorous opposition from peace groups in this country, and the exportation of such large volumes of metal has aroused conservationists who view it as a serious drain on our iron resources, » » ” HE first eight months of 1937 . found the nation’s junk dealers, raised to affluence in recent years, sending more scrap iron and steel ou of the country than ever before. From Janu. 1 to the end of August, 3,079.003 tons valued at $61,-
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263,858 left the country, representing an increase of 110 per cent in quantity, and 239 per cent in value over the same period in 1936. Japan was far in the lead in purchases of scrap, with 1,736,596 tons in the first eight months of the year as compared to 791522 tons for the same period in 1936.
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tomers increased their purchases far in excess of what might be normally expected. Exports to Great Britain, embarked upon a $7,500,000,000 armament program, were stepped up to 535,265 tons, about 60 per cent over the previous year, Italy's buving rose from 188,428 tons to 241970 for the eight months of 1937; Germany more than tripled her or=-
However, all our leading cus- ders, taking 41,342 tons as against
inds lronin U. S. Scra Enough to Build 100 Battle
13,022. Poland, arming as rapidly as possible, showed the largest percentage of increase, jumping her purchases more than twelvefold to 170,808 tons.
n o ” UPPLIES of pig iron, which is . made from ore, have reached “famine” proportions in Japan, according to reports to the Com=merce Department. Contrary to common belief, China is not rich
Special Session of U. S. Congress Calls
Attention to Members’ Hours and Pay
‘By E.R. R.
| lengthy session next year extending
| ASHINGTON. Oct. 22.-The through the summer.”
Constitution gives the Presi-
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| of the national Legislature “on ex- | traordinary occasions.” Acting un- | der this authority, President Roosevelt has summoned a special session of Congress for Nov. 15, The “extraordinary occasion” for the coming special session is not at once apparent, In his radio speech of Oct. 12, the President listed four pieces of legislation which _ “the American people immediately need” —to deal with crop surpluses, regional planning, Government reorganization, minimum wages and maximum hours—but each of these had been advanced by the President at the last session. n n ” HE chief reasons for the special session are to be found in (1), the meager record of accomplighment at the first session of the 75th Congress—its only measure of outstanding importance was the Wagner Housing Act—and (2) the eagerness of all members of Congress to reach an adjournment of the ensuing regular session on or before June 1, 1938, to make way for the 1938 Congressional campaign. The President, in announcing that he had called a special session, said he had done so “in order to give Congress an opportunity vo consider important legislation before the regular session in January and to enable
the Congress to avoid a |
” ” ” HE special session is expected to last six weeks and to adjourn
| just before the Christmas holidays.
Members are expected to be more diligent both at this session and at the ensuing regular session than they were at the session that adjourned in August, Although it ac~ complished little, that session was one of the longest since the World War. It lasted 229 days. Subtracting 32 Sundays during that period, there were 197 possible days of meeting, But the House met on only 154 of these days and the Senate on only 128. Sittings in the House averaged four and a half hours; in the Senate they averaged an hour less. » n » IME consumed by roll calls in the Senate during the session is calculated by Editorial Research Reports to have amounted to 44 hours and 10 minutes, which is the equivalent of 12':¢ legislative days of average length, In the House, roll calls took up 103 hours and 10 minutes—the equivalent of almost 23 legislative days. Nearly 10 per cent of the total number of hours the Senate was in session was devoted to calling the roll. In the House, the time consumed in roll calls was about 15 per cent of the total hours of work. An old slogan of the American Federation of Labor (dropped in 1930) taught that: “Whether you
work by the piece or work by the day, decreasing the hours increases the pay.” But with Congress it is different, Senators and Representatives are paid at flat $10,000 a year, without regard to the number of hours or the number of days they
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lating. ” ” » HE first 1937 session of the present Congress lasted about 33 weeks and the special session will last about six weeks. The rate of pay for these 39 weeks will be $256.40 a week, or about $42.75 for each working day. If the 1938 session, on the other hand, lasts only 22 weeks, as has been predicted, the rate of pay will be $454.55 a week, or $75.7 a day. During the firstquarter century of the Republic the rate of pay was $6 “for each day of personal attendance.” When Congress in 1816 substituted a $1500 annual payment for the $6 per diem rate, its action was denounced as a “salary grab” and at the next session the lump sum was replaced with a rate of $8 for each day of attendance, By 1873 members had got their salaries up to $5000 a year. Then, on the eve of the panic of "73, they raised them to $7500. Most of the members who voted for this “salary grab” were defeated in the next election. The $2500 raise was thereupon repealed and it was not until 1907 that Congressional salaries were again pushed up to the $7500 level.
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Side Glances—By Clark
“Why sure, Frank, just bring your wife in any time and I'll be glad to give her some cooking lessons,"
A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
AR talk mounts like a tidal wave, Some of the bestknown pacifists are crawfishing and we hear once again the disquieting rniews there may come
stand on world issues, Very well. When that moment comes it will be mighty embarrassing for a lot of people, for they will have to make up their minds whom they'll aid--the Communists or the Fascists.
The Red-baiters, who aren't so fond of Mr. Hitler either, will be in a deuce of a fix, And many sincere souls who honestly believe that circumstances can arise which make it imperative for men to fight, will face the tremendous issue of deciding in which direction they wish to go-to the extreme left or the extreme right. There's never any sane middle ground when war arrives, We'd better bow our necks right now to stay out of that war because there'll be no democracy to be saved when it gets in ‘full swing. The American boy who is driven over to defend China against Japan or t» protect England from Mussolini or France from Hitler will, in truth, be defending communism from the Fascists. Oh yes, we'll cover up the fact with a lot of fine words, but basically that is what it will amount, to. And the only thing we will get for our pains will be dictatorship in one form or another, There is a principle of government in which we believe. It is democracy. The best way for us to defend and
preserve it is to keep our armies at home, ¥
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Scrap iron from one of four heavily-laden barges is loaded aboard the North German Lloyd Liner Berlin before the vessel sailed from New York recently. The cargo’s destination is unknown.. This is one of the shipments that is believed going into the world’s growing armaments,
in highgrade ores. Hence Japan has not been able to augment her supplies from that source sufficiently to meet the appetite of her booming munitions furs naces, The Mikado has had to depend primarily on the American market, though Japan has literally scoured the world for scrap. The race to acquire junk has boosted prices to all-time peaks, Current quotations are around $20 a ton, an increase of about 60 per cent in one year, But the demand continues,
Both the conservationists and the peace organizations plan to press Congress for a restriction on serap exports. There is already a limitation of tin exports, which must be made under license by the munitions control board of the State Department and under a quota for producers which is a secret figure that the Government declines to divulge.
Flying Fish
NN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. 22. Flying fish, like airplanes, prefer to take off into the wind rather than with it, studies by Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the University of Michi« gan have shown, In many observa tions by himself and his associates, flying fish of several species have been seen to take off almost always to windward when the wind was abeam of the ship that disturbed them. With either a head or a stern wind, the fish would take off to both port and starboard, The observations confirmed the opinion long held by seientists that flying fish do not really fly, but hold their long, plane-like fins rigid and glide through the air like sailplanes. The longest glides observed lasted about a quarter of a minute,
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‘CONNER HOUSE IS HISTORIC LANDMARK’
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Jasper—By Frank Owen
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“It's not that you're playing Pocahontas—you want fish today!"
Becond-Class Matter Indianapolis,
Second Section
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Ina.
Qur Town
By Anton Scherrer
Old Resident Predicted Weather With Help of the Trusty Bee— And They Called Him Weatherbee.
HE strangest thing about Mr. Weather Almost as strange predicting the
bee was his name. was his uncanny way weather, Fifty years ago, when 1 was a boy, Mr. Weatherbee lived alone on the rear of a lot on Madison Ave. His home was a converted shed, but as snug as anything you ever saw, It had only one room, and Weatherbee once said nobody needed more. Inside the room were a table, two chairs and a little shelf of books. They were very old books, like “Pilgrim's Progress,” and “Gulliver's Travels.” There wasn't any bed. Mr. Weatherbee slept in a hammock swung Across one corner ofl the room. He used to say it was better for thinks= ing. Mr. Weatherbee did most of his thinking out doors, however. Tor this purpose he had a little garden It was out of the ordinary, tno. Instead of growing tomatoes and cabbage the way other people did, Mr, Weatherbee cultivated “pulse.” 1 didn't know what it was, either, until years later when I came across a book named “Walden,” and learned that Henry Thoreau, hero in that story, spent most of his time doing the same thing, Mr, Thoreau and Mr. Weaths erbee had a lot in common, Besides his patch of pulse, Mr. Weatherbee also had a border of herbs growing next to his fence He called them “yarbs.,” It was here, too, he had his cluster of red raspberry bushes. Mr. Weatherbea grew red raspberries, not because he liked them espe= cially, but because his bees did. The bes hive was under Mr. Weatherbee's window overlooking the garden. That gave him a chance to watch the bees first thing in the morning, even before he had time to dress. He told me so.
Some Dispute Over Bees
Mr. Weatherbee had every reason to watch the bees, because that's the way he predicted the weather, He had a notion that a bee would not leave its hive unless the weather was going to be fair. It worked, too, because I never knew a bee to fool Mr. Weather= bee. The bees also had a way of returning to their hives any time of the day if there was any sign of wind or rain in the air, which, of course. put Mr, Weatherbee in a position of knowing what was going on in this world hours before anybody else did. I lost track of Mr. Weatherbee after that. and it wasn’t until I went to high school that I thought of him again. That was the day we kids were given an essay to read. It was “Weather Wisdom” by John Burroughs, and that's where I came across a sentence something to this effect: ‘The truth about the bee is that she knows wind and rain when she sees them and feels them, and not till then.” That's how littla Mr, Burroughs khew about it, It may be a little late to bring this up, but I never had a chance until now to explain to those old teachers of mine why Mr, Burroughs didn't impress me at the time,
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Jane Jordan—
Visit of Girl to Fiance's Home May Be Trick to Break Up Match,
EAR JANE JORDAN. am 19 vears old and have been going with a boy of 21 for about four years. I love him and he says he loves me. We used to go out together and have a swell time, but lately we hardly go anywhere, 1 have been staying at his home for four months. He hardly takes me out at all. When I was staying at my home he came to see me every night, but now when he gets home from work he says he is tired and goes to bed. It seems that when I am at home he comes to see me to keep me from going out. When 1 am at his house he knows there is no place for me to go. I love him and would like to know what to do to keep from losing him. Please help me if you can. M. V.
Answer=-The obvious thing for vou to do is to go home. The young man is seeing too much of you. Now that he has you all to himself with all compe= tition nicely eliminated there is no need for him to make an effort. Isn't it a little unusual for a young lady to be visiting in her fiance's home for four months? It may be that you have worn out your wels come both with his parents and with him, One of the oldest tricks known to mothers who wish to cure their sons of an infatuation is to invite the girl to the house for a visit. After the young man has spent a few weeks in constant company with his girl friend, she no longer seems so desirable, Only this summer I saw the trick pulled on a young man who came home from a boys’ school so completely moonstruck he couldn't eat, His mother invited the girl who bewitched him for a two-week visit. She was a charmer if ever 1 saw one=pretty, lively and talkative—a girl who liked to be on the go every minute and who seemed to need no sleep at all, But, she wasn't easy to live with, Unaccustomed to waiting on herself, she soon had the whole family ex« hausted with doing things for her, including Johnny, When Johnny was upstairs she sent him downs stairs for her pocketbook. When he was downstairs she sent him upstairs for her powder puff. If he went on an errand without her, she pouted, For two weeks she was his shadow--and Johnny blew up! Now you may not present the problem that this young lady became, but you are a problem none the less. T am not sure that your boy friend's interest in you will revive when you go home, but I do feel that you ought to go. It is certain that you can’t win simply by hanging on after your flance's interest has cooled, but you might if you made him fear that he was going to lose you, » ” »
Dear Jane Jordan-How can I regain my flancee’s good will? Several days ago we quarreled over a slight matter and she has remained cool ever since. She is such a wonderful person; she has no bad habits, does not smoke, and has a kind disposition, How can [ get back into her good graces? PHIL,
Answer—If you have apologized sincerely, you have done all you can do, Console yourself with somebody else if her coolness continues, Dislike of losing you to a rival may make her less exacting JANE JORDAN, Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily, J
Walter O'Keefe —
LLIOT ROOSEVELT, one of the President's sons, is going on the radio twice a week as news coms mentator, No wonder the President knows so little about une employment, The only ones in the family who aren't worke ing are Sistie and Buzzie, You can expect the following announcement about 7 o'clock in the evening, “We will listen to four hours of Roosevelts.” Grandmother has made a couple of guest ape pearances, Mother had a commercial, Dad has his fireside chats and now, comes Elliot, The big family acts on the air are the Goldbergs, the O'Neills and the Roosevelts, The whole thing i3 ao conspiracy. ‘The Roosevelts ‘want to use up all the time on the air so a Republican can’t get. to the microphone,