Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1937 — Page 19

From Indiana —Ernie Pyle

Colorado Pedagogue Rides to Fame On Strange Hobby, Square Dances; But on Sly His Pupils Do Big Apple.

OLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 18.—I envy people who ride hobbies. They have a great consuming enthusiasm which we scat-ter-brains never can achieve. I sat in the office of a high school super-

intendent here in Colorado Springs. It was during school hours. Suddenly he started to sing, and sat there singing right at me, at the top of his voice, beating time with his hands and feet and head. He was riding a hobby. He is Dr. Lloyd Shaw, a fall, youngish man of middle age. He strides and booms, You can tell that the children like him. His hobby is square dancing. He isn't a nut hobbyist, He is a learned man, and he has built up the finest public school I have ever seen. But he is so wild about square dancing that he has become its “dean” in the West. He is writing a book on square dancing. Henry Ford sends him all his printed collections on the subject. He can correct old farmers on the subtle difference between the “Rattlesnake Twist” and the “Post-Hole Digger Twirl,” He studies squaredance history as Gibbon studied the course of the Roman Empire. He knows and can call 90 different squares. He knows—by heart—every intricate step of 60 European folk dances, 10 Mexican, and 30 early American dances. And furthermore, he could suddenly call for any one of these 180 difficult dances, and the youngsters of his high school could do nine out of 10 of them. Dr. Shaw is, of course, primarily an educator. But he doesn’t follow the set rules in education, His theory is to tread on grass that is untrampled, as he puts it. That's one reason he likes to resurrect square dancing for the children. He got interested in folk dancing 18 years ago. At that time regular dancing was sinful. Parents and the church wouldn't stand for it in the school.

Mr. Pyle

So Dr. Shaw dug up a bunch of European folk

dances, and put the kids in costume, and set them at it. That was all right. It was sort of fancy, and the boys couldn't hold the girls so closely.

Pupils Perform Far and Wide

Dr. Shaw has many honorary college degrees. But the greatest honor that ever came to him was when a bunch of old-time southern Colorado square dancers —farmers and the like—came and asked him to do the calling for them when they danced in the annual state competition. Dr. Shaw travels over the country digging up obscure square dance lore. He is out at least four nights a week, dancing or calling dances. His highschool kids have almost become troupers. They go all over Colorado putting on performances. Last spring they danced at Scripps and Pomona Colleges in California. This winter they will go to St. Louis. and it's likely they'll be invited to the big Eastern colleges. Dr. Shaw's high-school pupils are enthusiastic square dancers. They are professionally proud of being able to do something other youngsters can’t do. But I asked him what they danced at their own parties, just for the pleasure of it. And Dr. Shaw said, sort of resignedly, that they danced the Big Apple.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Ft. Wayne Friends Express Regret

Over the President's Sore Tooth.

T. WAYNE, Ind, Wednesday—Evervone I see is concerned about the President's tooth, I was also when James telephoned me about it last evening just before I went to my lecture. I hope all will soon be well, however, It is a coincidence that he and the Vice President have suffered similarly on the same day. We drove from Akron to Orrville this morning to catch a train. Congressman Thom had asked me to hold a reception for the Democratic women in Orrville. Our hostess threw her house open and I had the pleasure of meeting a number of Democratic women from nearby towns as well. Then we proceeded to the station, where the high school band played for us. The children were let out early from school and seemed to fill every inch of open space. Two freight trains went by while we were waiting and I prayed that the officers would succeed in keeping the children off the tracks. In Pt. Wayne, as I was saying goodby to the reporters this afternoon, a young man said to me: “This is my first experience interviewing someone of importance and I haven't dared ask the questions I wanted to ask.” TI assured him I was no person of importance and, if he had only known it, I felt most inadequate and humble about answering the questions he finally did ask.

Interviewed by Journalism Aspirants At my press conference yesterday in Akron, some sweet young girls sat on the floor and asked me naively what I thought of journalism as a career fou women. I wonder what are the attributes of a really successful woman newspaper reporter? These young people came from high school and college papers with questions which would fill a book if you answered them really comprehensively. To this day, with all my contacts with newspaper writers and writers of every kind, it would be difficult for me to say what I thought the ideal temperament was for such a job, or the ideal training, or the ideal way of handling the job when you have got it—and it isn’t so easy to get. These snap judgments which one must give on a hundred and one different questions from young people, are one of the things I think most difficult, for there is a great responsibility to be honest with youth and, as far as you are able, to give the best of your experience. In Ft. Wayne, I also met a woman who interviewed me in Evansville back in the campaign of 1920. She remarked that at that time I talked about my children who were playing with their sand piles somewhere on the coast of Maine. That seems a long while ago.

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The Indianapolis

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937

Roosevelt's ‘Toughest Congress

Relief Costs and Income Taxes Arve Budget Puzzle

(Last of a Series)

By Rodney Dutcher ASHINGTON, Nov. 18

(NEA).—The interrelated is-

sues of the budget, taxation relief and the general business situation will provide plenty of headaches on Capitol Hill—and perhaps elsewhere—in the next few months. Fiscal matters presumably won't come before Con-

gress until the regular session beginning

in January,

whereafter Mr. Roosevelt will indicate and Congress must decide how much money the Government shall spend in the 1938-39 fiscal year—and where the Government is going

to get it.

Meanwhile, expenditures, taxes and the slump

are on everybody's mind. A bird's-eye view follows:

Budget:

The Treasury now anticipates a $700,000,-

000 deficit for 1937-38, us compared with the $1,700,000,000 deficit of 1936-37. Secretary Morgenthau proposes

economies of $700,000,000 to be effected on appropriations for highways, public works, agriculture—and relief. Roosevelt is not as enthusiastic a budget-bal-ancer as Morgenthau, however, and Congress always finds it hard to economize.

Relief demands are likely to be larger than official calculations and some influential advisers believe in raising taxes and spending money rather than economizing, holding that a reduction of $2,500,000,000 in Federal outlay as compared with last year’s is largely responsible for the slump.

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ELIEF: If unemployment continues to increase there is likely to be a demand for at least half a million dollars in addition to the $1,500,000,000 appropriated for 1937-38 work relief. Roosevelt has been hoping to get tne 1938-39 appropriation down to a billion dollars. Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.) again will try to have cities and states compelled to contribute 25 per cent of work relief funds, which would mean wrecking the WPA program in some areas, since the average level of domestic contributions is 22 per cent and sections well below the average usually can't pay more than they do.

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AX REVISION: The Treasury has been working out a revision program and Mr. Morgenthau has said he favors reducing consumer or “hidden” taxes and increasing the number of income tax payers, There's much talk of increasing tax on incomes between $10,000—or $5000—and $50,000. : Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis.) will push his plan to broaden the base (reducing personal exemption from $2500 to $2000 for married persons and from $1000 to $800 for the unmarried) and raise surtaxes in middle brackets—a combination which he says would produce $350,000,000 a year. Chances of heavier taxes are still possible, but are not considered probable in view of Secretary Morgenthau’s recent statement that he saw no increase in taxes likely. = ” 2 NDISTRIBUTED CORPORATE TAX: Revision sure, but repeal unlikely. Congress may be more liberal, but the Administration now is willing to consent only to exemptions for small corporations, limited “rainy day” cushioning and relatively small exemption for expansion purposes. Principle of the tax must be retained, the Administration insists, with bulk of profit surplus subject to tax. CAPITAL GAINS TAX: (income tax rates applied to unearned profits, accruing mostly on stocks, bonds and real estate). No change likely unless Administration gets behind move to exempt from the tax profits made on new housing developments.

AX-EXEMPT SECURITIES: Income from Federal and other tax-exempt securities is likely to be made taxable, in effect, by taxing other income additionally in proportion to amount of tax-exempt income reported. SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES:

Much talk, leading tc eventual revision, but no immediate prospect for action. Amendments to the Federal Housing Administration Act, to make investment in new real estate developments more attractive,

are likely. Also other legislation designed to stimulate private enterprise if anyone can think of schemes the Administration will accept,

See this page tomorrow for

SMOKE—PUBLIC ENEMY

Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis. an active role in the present special

gress with his proposal for a wider income tax basis by reduction of the personal exemption limit.

) slates himself session of Con-

Sen-

' By Raymond Clapper | Times Special Writer 'r ONDON, Nov. 18.—The best investment that the Republican | Party in America could make right |now would be to send its projected | policy committee of 100 over here to | see how the British Conservative Party has managed to stay in power during a period of world-wide social unrest. This achievement of the British Conservatives is one of the most remarkable political feats of our period and demonstrates how political democracy when intelligently exercised, can meet the strain which the times place upon government. For American conservatives, whose party has been steadily disintegrating, there is a special lesson to be learmed here in England. Whereas Republicans ir the United States stood stubbornly against reforms which would make the capitalist system work more equitably, and thereby permitted Mr. Roosevelt to run away with the show, the British Conservatives realized that unless they did the job themselves the Labor Party would step in and go much farther—possibly to the Ox bet of dealing capitalism a fatal ow.

HE Conservative Party here embarked upon a program to | improve conditions. As a result it | has held the confidence of the country and has left the Labor Party without any effective issues | against it. Whereas our Republicans | closed their Presidential campaign | a year ago with an attack on social | security legislation, the Conserva- | tives here extended their social in- | surance to cover agriculture and | “plack-coated,” or what we call | white-collar, workers. First on the Conservative Party | program for this session of Parlia- | ment is a measure for “unification | of coal royalties,” a bill providing | for Government purchase—or nationalization—of coal.

Imagine the Republican Pagty in the United States proposing t na- | tionalize coal. The Guffey Coal Act | is but a regulatory measure, In England the Government is taking over coal. This is typical of how the Con- | servatives in England are tinkering | with the system. The Government set a commission | to work on the problem some time | ago and it reported the more eco- | nomic solution would be for the | Government to abolish the private | royalties and pay off the surface | ground owners in a lump sum, based on the estimated coal production of their lands for a 15-year period. It is upon this report that the present

President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (left), the two men whose fiscal program is expected to be the most important concern of the present Congress. Senator Byrnes of North Carolina (above), key figure in the U. S. relief program.

British Conservatives, Unlike G. O. P,, Sponsor Liberalized Industrial Laws

legislation is based. The peers in the

House of Lords protest that their property is being taken away from them—by the Conservatives.

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PrEsET legislation provides for

no more than the taking over

of the title to the coal deposits. Op-

erators will continue to work the mines. In time, everyone expects, the Government will move further and establish engineering supervision, dictating which veins are to be worked and which are to be abandoned. The Conservatives don’t consider this to be socialism, fascism or any other ism. They don’t get themselves into jitters over labels. They simply face practical problems and try to deal with them in the most practical way. The coal industry was suffering from insufficient production and excessive costs. The private royalty system was found by an expert commission to be one of the trouble-making causes. So out with it. Pay the owners a fair value and try to get on with coal mining. They are practical men, and they don’t waste so much time talking about saving democracy. I have talked with a number of the Conservative members of Parliament and they all tell me their program is more like Mr. Roosevelt's than like the Republicans.

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as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

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Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

Sunday School Recruiting Did Brisk Business Here About 100 Years Ago Despite Scare of the Red Coats.

NCE upon a time, 90 per cent of all the kids around here went to Sunday school, I wouldn’t have believed it, either, had not Arthur Brumfield told me about it. Mr. Brumfield crosses his heart, and hopes to die

| if it isn’t the truth. He says he came across

ator La Follette’s program is one of several suggested as an answer to that increasingly important question, “How can we balance the budget?” shown here in a typical “fighting Bob” forensic pose.

He is

Housing Dispute Times Special ASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Proponents of Government stimulation of a private capital housing boom are piling up arguments. The unemployment census is expected to show that among skilled workers over 45 who can’t get jobs, by far the largest groups will be building trades workers. A huge house-building boom, unlike plant expansion which might eventually displace labor through mechanical improvements, would serve “a useful social purpose” and ameliorate a bad housing shortage. It would absorb the unemployed, both directly and indirectly, as in the steel and lumber industries. The Government has put a couple of hundred million dollars into housing, much of which must be charged off to experience—or experiment, The private housing industry is developed by large entrepreneurs who prefer quick turnover. It's proposed to limit the capital gains exemption to profits made within two years and it's hoped that enough building would be stimu-

lated to keep profits down to a |

“fair” level which might make many

of the properties purchasable by |

limited dividend corporations. iy YY W EANWHILE the atmosphere of “peace and co-operation” hetween Nathan Straus, administrator of the new U, S. Housing Authority, and Secretary Ickes, whose 135-million-dollar PWA housing program the USHA will take over in addition to its own new half-billion-dollar loan-subsidy program, is so surcharged that everyone expects some hot smoke if not actual flame. Secretary Ickes has “general supervision” over Mr. Straus, under the Wagner Housing Act, but Mr, Straus has the powers—appointment, approval and expenditure. Secretary Ickes insisted he wouldn't take Mr. Straus as administrator and thumped the tub for his own PWA housing director, Howard A. Gray. Senator Wagner insisted he wanted Mr. Straus. Senator Wagner was backed by many local housing officials and other experts who opposed what they knew would be complete Ickes control of the new program, Now Mr. Straus is acting with cocky independence, obviously intending to work out his own policies with his own advisers. .

Side Glances—By Clark

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Let him grow up to be a pub-

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ERHAPS you had not noticed it, but the beauty experts are | going spiritual for a change. Emphasis on the physical is gradually diminishing, and recently one had the courage to suggest that the ability to love is the best beautifier. I think she's got something there. For a very long time we have stressed beauty of face and form as a means of getting admiration and love, but have we said enough about love itself being the creator of beauty? Well, it is. Love transfigures the individual. It gives bloom to the skin, sparkle to the eve, a sweet- | er cadence to the voice and youth- | ful sprightliness to the whole being. | “All brides are beautiful,” wrote Thomas Bell in his fine novel by that name, and anyone who has seen an ordinary girl on her wedding day can understand what he means, Beautifying the feminine body has become a cult in'our land. ThouSands of individuals are engaged in an endless endeavor to improve the ugly duckling and gild the lily, and all this frantic effort is based on woman's desire to be loved. So ardent is that desire, and so intense | her quest, that she often seems to forget that to give love is the true secret of being lovely. A woman may have a hundred little outside fires at which to warm herself, but unless the flame burns within her own heart she will never von

possibilities for |

Jasper—=By Frank Owen

(sh Cope. 1987 by

Onitet Pesture Synttente, The.

"It's not a social call, Papa=he wants one of the boys here fo open

the item in an old (1873) document prepared by James Greene on the occasion of the semicentennial anniversary of the estblishment of Sunday schools in Indi-

anapolis. The first Sunday school, it appears, was organized on April 6, 1823, and started business in Caleb Scudder’s cabinet shop on the State House Square, Thirty pupils were enrolled in the beginning, the number increasing to 98 during the year It was a good enough start, to be sure, but certainly nothing to brag about, because as near as I can figure out, Indianapolis had at least 800 kids at the time. I happen to know that because the first census taken spring ‘of 1824 accounts for 100 families. For some reason, Sunday school attendance took a phenomenal turn for the better after that. In 1836, for instance, the Sunday school had 77 per cent of all the kids, and a few years later it reached, and maintained the amazing figure of 90 per cent, Mr. Brumfield can explain that, too. Contrary to general belief, it wasn’t because the kids wanted to go, to Sunday school, Not at all. It was because they were forced to. Mr. Brumfield is sure of it, because in 1836 the elders of Indianapolis set up a system which amounted to nothing short of conscription. At any rate, they inaugurated a system of thoroughly combing the town every month for likely looking prospects, after which, of course, there wasn't any way of escaping Sunday school.

There Were Prizes, Too

The elders had other tricks up their sleeves, too. For example, the spelling of 10 words correctly, or committing one verse of scripture to memory, entitled a pupil to a reward of one cent payable in books. It looked like a slick scheme in the beginning, but it almost wrecked the Sunday school system in the end. Anyway it looked pretty bad for the system when somebody started a rumor, undoubtedly false, that the teachers got a rake-off on every book they gave away. It looked pretty bad, too, when some people wanted to know how so many men and women were willing to spend so much time rounding up the kids of Indianapolis. The worst scare around here, however, was when somebody started a rumor that the rolls of Indianapolis Sunday schools were sent from time to time to England, and everyone whose name was found thereon became a subject of the King of Great Britain Mr. Brumfield knows the answer to that, too, Some of the settlers, he says, still remembered the war of 1812 with the vividness wrought by actual participation in it, and believed that the Sunday school of Indianapolis was as good a place as any to look for traitors.

Jane Jordan—

Frustrated Interest Blamed as Girl

Grows More Interested in Boy Friend.

EAR JANE JORDAN--I went steady with a boy | until my mother objected because she didn't like the boy he chummed with. This chum had a questionable character. I told my boy friend of the way my mother felt about it all but he didn’t see anything wrong with his friend; so I was forced to give him up. At first it didn’t matter for I didn’ care much for him then, but now I have found that I do. We have had several dates since we quit, but there has been no mention of our ever going steady again. I do not care to go with anyone else and I do not care to run after him either. What must I do? Just sit around home all the time? BROKEN HEARTED. ” n n Answer—Have you ever wondered why you didn’t care much for this boy until your mother forced you to give him up? He is exactly the same boy, not one whit more attractive now than he was before, The only thing that has changed is that the boy has become forbidden and the forbidden is more desirable than the obtainable, Let me repeat. This is the same boy you didn't Hike s0 well at first, The real issue is between you and your mother. She has said, “You can’t” and you have responded with “I can, too.” The boy grows attractive or unattractive in proportion to your mother’s disapproval or approval. It doesn’t make sense, does it? It is just that a girl's love instincts are so tied up with her instinet for self-assertion that sometimes she can’t tell one from the other. If your mother had been very smart she wouldn't have prohibited your friendship with the boy but would have relied on your own indifference to cure the situation. If she had said, “This is what I think but you do as you please,” you might have considered her opinion. Be honest with yourself. (It's not easy.) Bee the boy as he is, Aren't you piqued because he wouldn't give up his friend for you? And don't vou secretly want to show your mother that you're a big girl now and can do as you please? If these observations are true there isn’t much love in your feeling after all.

Mr. Scherrer

in the

DEAR JANE JORDAN-—-The bov I want to care for me likes any attractive girl whom he has not met and he goes nutty over models. Must a girl be a manikin to get the one she wants? WManikins have 50 much experience showing off that they ean have any man they want, treat him terribly and still have him eating out of their hands. The nice girl has to sit and wait. I like to go out and have a good time. I am not opposed to smoking or drinking but always know where to draw the line. Please tell me how to make the one I am so fond of care for me. MARY ELIZABETH.

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Answer—If IT knew the answer I'd be a rich woman but I don’t. Manikins know how to dress and how to attract attention through their personal appearance. Anybody can learn the same tricks with a lit- . tle practice. It isn't true that they can get any man they want just because they're manikins. May I suggest that you've chosen a fairly frivoe lous young man who does not share your ideas of permanence? In trying to make him mettle down to the kind of life you want you're simply setting an impossible goal which always courts defeat. Circus late as much as vou ean and perhaps vou'll meet a more serious youth some day. JANE JORDAN,

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

Walter O'Keefe—

" T long last” I'm going abroad with “the womah I love.” By the time this reaches prin: the duchess and I will be at sea, bound for Europe. The Duke avoided any plan to sail on British boats for logical reasons. By the same token this tourist is avoiding German or Italian boats. After what has been written in this space about Mussolini and his chum, Hitler, it seems the better part of valor to avoid those lines. It fs doubtful if the column would Jook any better with a date line above reading “Cone

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