Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1937 — Page 13

n Europe By Raymond Clapper

Russians Warned to Regard All Other Citizens as Possible Enemies: Rules Made to Counteract Spying.

MOSCOW, Oct. 26.—The spy mania in . the Soviet Union is directed not alone

agaist foreigners, but also against Soviet citizens themselves, each of whom is warned to beware of his fellows lest they be spies or enemies of the Stalin regime. each person is encour-

ious of his friends and neighbors is

The intensity with ‘which

to be suspic

You can get a faint comparison by recalling the Ku-Klux Klan outrages or our own prohibition days, when fanatics among the drys were urging people to tell the Government about violations of tg the prohibition laws by their neighbors. But in Russia the issue is nothing so trivial. It is a grave issue of the safety of the State, or so it is made to appear The character of this eampaign is indicated by a recent public warning issued by Andrei Vishprosecutor at the famous is the controlling prosecuting regime, and therefore Jovernment spokesmen for everv citiz>n King, recommending potential

Mr. Clapper

insky

\ Soviet powerful of behavior and ‘wret

1 riles of shying regard cvervone else 8s a of the peoble n n NOEPPAS 3 simply that it a rule to behave way that out to be his enemy to derive anvthing which rould serve

directed against

wrson should make

inv other person in such a

ther person turned be unable with vou

spving work

the same laintance

and

that evervone is here they assume shown to the con-

tead of

1erWise

assuming indicated a traitor until definition ol “military nformation about The newspaper 1sive strength of and on of industry, ‘mation about the the operation of the enemy in Union.”

espionage is extremely include much disposi-

secrets’ the size and Pravda the country conditions transport and agriinternal life of the organizations making his plan of

tance

SAVS! depends and

the present

Soviet

Soviet 4 N » iter in Izvestia exs about what he called panic-mon-were covering up in“should not an unforsuch a convenient and his own inactivity and

the newspaper that thoy he asked, 1imself

justi

writer was dismissed for dangerous conclusions.” for foiling spies include the chimneys where secret dociad, lest unburned scraps fall into the Officials urged to powder ashes nts lest a Spy read from the ash, Alko

1ssued

fireplace

are

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Goes on Hospital Duty; This Time Son John Is the Patient.

off the Boston little late, which is evidently quite me night whether I 6 o'clock regardless of the station or not AS usual iuctors all seemed much concerned va no one to meet me. hut we mansand reached the hotel a lit

1 (=

Mondayv—1 got train In

last

taxicab

and was glibly informed had had his wisdom teeth removed decided to have my breakfast and later. On arriving at the hospital, fiancee walting downstairs. We went ind him just returning from the operathad been given routine information and his teeth a little later than the telephone told me. Clark and I sat at the end of the hall, just

the hospital

ted with

~ The Indianapolis

This is the first of seven articles in which a veteran Washington correspondent tells what he found in a firsthand study of a “typical” Widwestern community,

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer (CENTRAL CITY, U. Ss. A, Oct. 26.— The dominant fiber in the average Middle Western small town is a hard-bitten streak of conservatism. It runs along Main Street among the businessmen and out through the owners and operators of the factories along the railroad tracks. It derives, partly, from the feudal cast which still colors the structure of the town, for political, economic and social power is still lodged in a rather closeknit group—in a few families whose fathers and grandfathers were pioneers in the founding of the community. This generalization comes from a study of this small town, which we shall keep anonymous. Tt is a town not far from America’s center of population, and it is typical mm many ways of most Midwest ern towns of 5000 and 6000 population. Tts opinions and its prejudices, its hopes and its fears—however founded—are important, for the small-town philosophy still has a significant bearing on the nation’s politics and its economic development, now in a state of ferment. u ” ” OLKS along Main Street's business district, with some exceptions, and the factory owners and operators with no exceptions, have nothing kindly to say about

President Roosevelt. They just don’t like him, or his New Deal

Exceptions among merchants and storekeepers along Main Street and they are spottv—attribute their present prosperity to the President and his policies. Though they dislike some of the phases of the New Deal, the general economic life is paramount them. They have benefited from the various spending policies, principally WPA and the farm subsidies. Allegiance of workers is divided, with no unions to weld them into a common front. Those who have built, up a substance and own their homes are resentful of favors which thev say others have gotten under the New Deal without working for them Many workers do own their homes. and some were carried hy their bosses during the severest part of the depression Company loyalty is stronger in the small town where the boss lives closer to his emplovees People who have been assisted by relief are grateful to the Presi dent. » ” » HE town has its regular Democrats and regular Republic ans who cling to old party labels --with Republicans in the ascendency in this category——and it has also its quota of anti-New Deal “Jeffersonian” Democrats. Aside from the “uncertainty” of

with «

reasons

into the contest, chief among

Guardia,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1937

mes

Second Section

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nteced as 5 Fadtoftice.

‘Central City’ Reflects Nation's Life

'‘Hard-Bitten Conservatism Is Characteristic of Middle Western Town

“Main Street,” 1937—showing WPA workers engaged on a typical project. This, of course, is not the “Main Street” of “Central City.”

brary among the old shade irees, che learns that back in 1871, the vear of the great Chicago fire, two swift-working gangs laving railroad met here in the

prairie, one building an east-west line, the other a north-south line. A Jjunction—presto, a town!

rails rich

” ” n

HE one farmer who had had the prairie in this heighborhood to himself suddenly hecame the confused prey of speculators for the rival railroads who sought to buy up his land. Cannily. he sold one crowd land on the west

side of the railroad junction, and to the other he sold land on For a time there were Then they merged after one group of speculators had lost $25.000. The western wave of empire eddied for a time about the town, leaving its residue of land-hungiv folks from the Bast who liked this rich, rolling prairie. By 1874 there were 1000 inhabitants. Today there are slightly less than 6000. In the old davs it had its horses and buggies and farm wagons hitched along Main Street, espe-

the east fwo towns

cially of a Saturday. Saturdays today are the same, only there is row on row of automobiles. The influx of the automobile on a Saturday begins to take nn the aspects of a parade toward evening, when the lights begin to flicker along Main Street, Occasionally the caravan ‘must halt at the clang of a bell at the crossing, and the driver and his family wateh the passenger trains headed for Dixie thunder past at 60 miles an hour. The town’s hotel, standing hard bv the tracks, shakes from stem to stern as the hurricane of steel whips past.

Fate of Tammany Hall Considered Real Issue in New York Election Next Week

By Times Shecial Ort 26. The

W ASHINGTON New York City mavoralty

election a week from today has engaged national interest for more than one National political figures have in truded themselves, or been dragged, these General Farley,

being Postmaster

who is still New York State Demo{eratic chairman as well as national chairman

But the real isstie and the real in-

| terest are wrapped up in the fate of | Tammany [ shattered given

whether that badly organization is to De a knockout blow by the reMavor Republican-Fusion-Labor new lease on

election of

candidate, or a

Court Judge, the Democratic and

8. Copeland land

Fiorello La | 'set a precedent.

life | by the election of Jeremiah T. Mahoney, former New York Supreme |

But neither Dr. Copenor Al Smith could do it abod. Judge Mahoney won the Dem ocratic nomination. » » ” UDGE MAHONEY is

not. the

of Tammany candidate. But he has come up in politics along the Tam- |

many route, and the hope of Tam-

many is that if the Judee is elected the city

will be put back on some-

think like its old Tammanv-run

basis, where the political favors are [passed around among the boys.

Never has a fusion, reform admin-

istration such as that of Mayor La | Guardia lasted more than one term.

If the Major is re-elected, he will

President hands off in

has kept York elec-

Roosevelt, the New

| with Mayor La any | O'Brien | repeatedly

| Governor

Guardia and the candidate, John P Mr. McKee was rebuffed when he tried to drag President Roosevelt into the race as his supporter, a lesson which Judge Mahoney apparently learned well The McKee campaigh was also inept in other wavs ” » » UT this year Mr. Farley and his candidate have heen able to pet

Tammany

[help from surprising sources. Both and Senator |

Lehman

Wagner indorsed Judge Mahoney

[Senator Wagner's action surprised |

his labor and progressive friends, for he and Mayer La Guardia have campaigned side by side on major

tion, but it is suspected that, per- | economic and social issues. His in-

sonally, he would favor Mayor La Guardia. He has co-operated with

dorsement probably was due to personal reasons, The Judge formerly

UBUES of town folks and country folks wait mm line ouside the city's two moving pic ture theaters—where vou can always count on a “Western” on Saturday--and others wander in and out of the stores. The bar in the poolroom does a rushing business on Saturday night. In front stand voung men and middle-aged men and old men, some slicked up, some in overalls, who shift from one foot to another. The voungsters wisecrack at giggling girls who wander arm in arm up and down the sidewalks Greeks run the poolroom and the fee cream, softdrink and lunch parlor across the street Outwardly the small town does not seem to change much with the vears. It remains, on the surface, a calm refuge where life moves slowly and easily. A nostalgia grips the returned visitor as, leaving the two husiness blocks along Main Street, he strolls through the quiet residential section. Meautiful old trees form an arch over head. Comfortable homes sit placidly back of nice lawns. Burn ing leaves scent the air. From afar comes a sizzling sound like water from a hose. Coming nearer one discovers the flocks of jabbering starlings in the treetops. » ® Ww IGHT or nine blocks from the Bo of town, in any direction, lies the open prairie where grows the sweet corn which is the principal support of this town Tts industry is largely the canning of rorn and the manufacture of cans and canning machinery. Calm as is the outward surface, there are coutrents of change working underneath.

Second-Class Indiananolis

Our Town

PAGE 13

Matter Ina

By Anton Scherrer

Mount Jackson Home of Gulleys, Converted From School Building, One of Area's Oldest Landmarks.

KNOW a lot more about the old-timers of Mount Jackson since I brought up the subject recently. Forty-two years ago today, for instance, Mr. and Mrs. Alva W., Gulley, 3232 W. Wash ington St., moved into their present home, and from the way things look today that's Where they're going to celebrate their golden wedding annte versary, too. Thal's five years from now. The Gulley home is one of the oldest landmarks in Mount Jackson. Originally it ‘was the old schoolhouse that used to stand a block south of Washington St. on Busch’s Alley. Doras Baker. who awned and developed the land west of Tibbs Ave. on the north side of Washington St. bought the school building and moved it to its present location in 1877 The structure was turned =o that the rear of the original build ing is now the front Except a summer-Kitchen which ing looks just the wav it did when it was a house more than 80 Vears ago Fact is, if von amine the jambs of the old front, door veu'll se marks of jack-knives made by forme: grandchildren now pass there daily In 1895, when Mr. and Mrs Gulley they now live, there were only three houses on Wash= megton St. west. of Tibbs Ave -Doras Baker's hone at the corner of Tibbs and Washington. ¥d COnnaT= roes “old red house.” and that of the Chullevs At that time, savs Mrs Gulley, Washington St was just a country road. a wagon frack in whieh the dust lay six inches deep in summer, and the mud twice that deep in winter Mr. Gulley uged to mon the RTAsS from his property line to the whee! track and up Tibbs Ave. Mr. Baker mowed the other halt

Rabbit Hunting Good

The old “Bonanza.” a two-story building once a hoarding house, stood across the street Eventually it became a hangout fo tramps and was condemned and torn down after Mount Jackson was annexed to the ‘city. Bill Kissel's roagdhouse burned about 1802 and the next vear the present sanitarium was built ER ruins. Mr. Gulley used fo go hunting on the 8 arium property " s he ‘Ww a I and got all the rabbits he wanted After the old frame schoolhouse brick building replaced it. My term of school there in 1891-2, Indianapolis attorney, It turns out, too, Mrs. Gulley are became engaged tral Hospital for the Insane Mabel Seiders, went, to work at Mr. Gulley turned up in 1890 were married. Three vears afte home thev've living in todav. used to click around here

Mr. Scherrer

for

was added, the ald dwells shoots OX the pupils whose

moved to wheras

was moved, a Gulley taught his last John Wall, a former ,» Was principal at the time Just as I expected, that My one of the many couples who met while they were emploved at

and and Cen Mrs. Gulley, formerly the hospital in 1883. Two vears late thev that, they picked the That's the way things

Jane Jordan—

ft Is Easier to Cling to Dreams, But Reality Would Relieve Ache,

EAR JANE JORDAN Vou several dave agen a man than he is with har) am writing veu again somewhat hurt af

I am “Aloha” wha w rote te (she is more in

1 don't know Maybe it i:

love with ust, why 1 because 1 am your explicit ansgwe: Zot 5 admit that sve word Wo true You or a terest myself in someone who wants to be idealized and adored instead of wasting myself on someone wha wants to be left alone. 1 don’t know if I should laugh or cry or get angry at vou Another thing veu sald: “Your devotion mav have flattered him in a way. In another it was a nuisand ® for It placed responsibility on him w hich he didn't ask for ' Neither did T ask for it w hen I fell in love with him : I don’t care to interest myself in idealizing and adoring someone else. I'l] Just go on loving the memory of the one 1 love Eventually he may come back and if he doesn’t it is no one’s heartache but mine Sure I love him and he knows it. I don't care if hn

The face of Main Street shows the marks of this ferment in the numerous chain stores which siphon profits back to big cities. Three of the town's major industrial plants are branches of big corporations which extend into several states. And out on the North Side, in cottages now dingy from the lack of paint, live families still on relief. Once this town took care of its own. Now the Federal Gove ernment and the State have reached in with a helping hand which grows increasingly harder to withdraw, The town, even though pProsperous, does not seem able to provide jobs for everyvhody This {s where the machine has come in.

nany-back idate. ro on ig 4 the Mayor in humerous projects for | Was his law partner and they are New York City, and the New Deal | friends of long standing. After one AMMANY has long been a Na- has been lavish with aid of all kinds. | SPeech, the Senator withdrew from tional issue. Since its early | > Ww Ww | participation in the campaign. days under Aaron Burr it has been a N° by even the slightest nod Mayor La Guardia is running on

does. I'd rather po on idealizing and adoring his memory than to idealize and adore all the other men in the world. After all, the saddest words pen ever wrote are “it might have bean ” Anyhow the moon got in my eves and everybody else looks haz What do you think, readers and Jane Jordan? ALOHA

Answer--Most people hate the truth if it involves making the slightest change in themselves. If only they could realize how much more satisfactory their lives would be if the change could be made. thev wouldn't resist so much: but apparently their imagienations will not stretch that far. Take yourself, for example. To vou it seams easier to cling to a dream than to accept reality, Although vou admit reality by confessing that what 1 have said is true, vou refuse to conform when ven say, “I'd rather go on idealizing and adoring his mem ory than to idealize and adore all the other men in the world.” Doesn't this riean that ven prefer the dream to reality? Yet memory is a poor substitute for experience and vou'd be much happier with a man who returned vour love May I point out one flaw in vour logic? your devotion was a nuisance because if placed a Yew sponsibility on the young man which he didn’t ask for. You reply that you didn't ask for it when von fell in love with him. The difference here i that he in ho Way placed responsibility on vou, but for vears made it clear that all he wanted was a casual friend ship. He presented you with nmething Which vou did not want. He did not intrude Where he Was hot wale come. Th other words, his trouble came [Fom the Otits side and he withdrew In the contrary, vou did intrude veuy feelings on him. With no encouragement from him fell in love. Your trouble comes from (he inside and ven can’t withdraw. Because it, comes from the inside it ia your responsibility and it is unfair to blame anvene else for what vou feel 1 have no wish to hurt vou. I'm trving to help ven Of course vou aren't repulsive to the man, but vou will be if vou hang on ton long, calling him on the phona and frying to win him back. Either aceept him on his terms or find somebody else. It is nov half as hard as you think to transfer Jove to another, All vou need is an available and acceptable man to prove that to you. JANE JORDAN

New Deal poiicies, about which much is heard in the East, businessmen and factory owners here complain principally of three things—the relief policy; the labor policy, including the WageHour Bill, and the undistributedprofits tax. They say the relief policy has created a class of people who won't work, a contention that is chal-

nd I sat last December. There was one difference, however—while this mav be unit 1s not dangerous and ‘will leave no anxiety, we hope the hotel at noon rk. We will spend most of

little

| the factor in national affairs of the his record of achievement, of good

has often | has the wg given ANY | City administration. He has the dashed the hopes of prospective | ASME 0 : & il Ee | support of diverse forces, including Presidential nominees, and it has | candidacy. Democrats will try ' | the well-organized American Labor {occasionally met its master—as in ang he mae ue " | Party, independent Democrats, much |the cdse of Franklin D. Roosevelt, | the speech al = N doe Mt wd ot business, both big and little Relenged to .some extent hy relief |who was hominated over its protest, ( Night on behalf of Judge Mahoney, | nunlisans directors. They don’t like labor | Under Mr. Roosevelt’sshort rations | but thal interpretation cannot Be | Many Republicans By no means unions, and there are none in this |in the way of patronage and Mayor | Justified. | friendly to the Mayor's views have town—only & few A. F. of L. craft Mr. Farley has a personal stake in | some to his support because a large

{La Guardia's starvation diet, the : : ; members in one canning-machin- {any Tiger has become as thin | this election. He wants to get con- | part of the ticket is Republican and

ery plant which is run on an epen [as an alley cat. But it has been thin | 10] of the city with a revamped | they hope by his re-election, to get | Shop basis. The undistributed-pro- |and scrawny before and has always Democratic machine to help his Wh la toe-hold again in the city. fits tax, they complgin, is a drag |become fat again. career, which is generally supposed They are plugging especially for! on small industry because it pe- | Tt's a badly battered Tiger now. to be pointed at least toward the | young Thomas Dewey, the racket nalizes plant expansion and the | After being kicked around by | Governorship, and some think to- | prosecutor, hopeful that his election | building up of reserves. Mayor La Gua. dia for nearly four ward the Presidency. | as District Attorney would open such | On consulting the very eulogistic |years, it failed miserably this vear He tried in vain four vears aR0, (a drive on Tammany rackets as history of the town and its lead- [when it tried to come back under when he put Joseph McKee (Holy [would knock the props from under | ers in the inevitable Carnegie li- |the ministrations of Senator Royal | Joe) into the three-cornered race | the Wigwam forever, |

Side Glances—By ‘A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

been through in this country F vour voung Son 15 having a which I do not Know very well, may : ; . birthday soon get him a cody of | hanged as much as the rest of the country, | 3 { — “Mapmakers,” a new thriller by | ton, I think, will sense a modified revolu- \ P Jossph Cottler and Haym Jaffe. Hon a i = VT | i Boys must have adventure; if not | he iw | the real thing then in a vicarious | form. And it's dished up to them | here in good substantial doses with | | the additional merit of sticking to facts, Beginning with the first | dreams of mapmaking by the) vouthful Greek, Herodotus, it fol | [lows the progress of the years. ! We set out with Marco Polo on

for lunch and a the afternoon at . Democratic Party. It

Book Recalls Childhood

iN AMUSE experience on the train just we reached Albany When one of the porters was poing to Boston on this particluar € came up to me and said: “IT know the bovs carried Johnnv and another young genfew weeks ago on the night train.” The i Was proprietary 1 most, appropriate book entitled “The«iate George Apley.,” by John 1 have not quite finished it, but it is cer12 to those of my generation because it ngs which existed in Boston and in

almost

in read in Bose

1” in other places. 's mother might almost have heen my I'he struggle he made to conform was a generation that is past and a period return 1 of View o in the changes that mav not be 50 Mh makes me conscious of what

NEXT«<Men, Machines and Seasons,

T =aid this is one of the things have come, some

reading in this a bloodless

good

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

have

M——————— vol

New Books Today

Public Library Presents— 1887, Dr.

WwW HEN Dorothea Lynde Dix died in : ad Charles Nichols wrote: “Thus has died and | ; yd ° F been 1a ou

id to rest in the most quiet and unostentatious | his hazardous journey into far mo and distinguished woman that | Cathay, 80 with Christopher | vroquced.’ [ Columbus on his breathtaking dis- | iss Dix began her long career of service to man- | covery trip, travel alongside Vasco vhen in 182! she opened a Dame School in Da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, {he Boston home of her Grandmother | Henry Hudson, James Cook, Lewis,

IG /

w useini

America has Put vany prehlems in oa Totter to Yane Jordan whe will ANNWEr your questions in this ealumn daily,

nge Court,

Forced in give up teaching due to a nervous | Clark, Pike and Fremont. We trail lapse from overwork, vet never able tc content her If with inactivity, Miss Dix bacame interested in the deplorable prison conditions of that period. The record of her gallant fight in this country and in foreign countries before State Legislature, Congress foreign statesmen is given in DOROTHEA DIX: THE FORGOTTEN SAMARITAN (U. of N. C) Wy Helen E. Marshall,

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» ”» » HE many readers of “Life With Father” have another treet in store for them in a new collection, LIFE WITH MOTHER (Knopf), which was assembled after the death of the author, Clarence Day, from sincle chapters which had been published in 1 The inimitable wit, the joyfully realistic the lives of the four red-headsd Day boys, the vivid picture of tie domineering father and doting make delightful reading. Grandpa, too, adds is share to the fun. Although mother holds the title

7INog

incidents in

PRY PERCE Wi. wg U.S Pay oe

10-24

| Mungo Park, David Livingston and

Richard Burton into Africa and Arabia, accompany Roald Amundsen to the Pole and Alexander Humboldt into the Orinoco country, Into what regions will our explorers of tomorrow go? You are sure to ask yourself the question when vou close this book. For you be convinced that man can

verse. There are not

thousands of men and women probe into scientific wildernesses. Bach

| month some new discovery is made

many physical | places left for him to find. Today

ARR

Walter O'Kegle —

ESTERDAY morning when I checked into a Bubs falo hotel, who was there but the two foremost exponents of “the more abundant life.” Jim Marley and Dr. Dafoe, the quintuplets’ leading man By 10 a. m. Jim had already addressed 800 New Dealers at a breakfast pep rally. He wanted to talk to them before the market opened in Wall Street and showed the latest low of that same more abundant life You don’t read about Republicans breakfasting toe gether. It's not that they are too lazy to gat up at that hour, but they just haven't got the price of a meal. Jim was booked for a snack at Batavia, lunch at Rochester, tea at Auburn, dinner at Utiea, and a light bite at Johnstown before retiring. Greater love hath ho man than that he'd lay down

| public, and can we not then be al[most certain that tomorrow will see us bent upon researches into psychic F—

role, father again is the undeniable hero of the book. This couple—father and mother—have so endeared themselves to the readers that they will long be happily remembered.

hiz stomach for his President. bet Mrs. Roosevelt

Six towns in one day! I'll

"They know the traffic laws as well as vou do, officer. Some "If you promise not to break the egas, you can stay there till you envies him,

agree with—some they don'iy’ get over your chill," ® - ok ’ »

they