Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1937 — Page 11

Vagabond

From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

Wanderer at Last Leaves Desert;

Meets With Strange Adventure as | He Dines in Japanese Restaurant.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.—After months in the high altitudes of the Western mountains a fellow feels the difference wher he comes down to sea level. We dropped from 9000 feet to nothing ii about five hours’ driving. You don't feel it right away but next day you wake up groggy and can hardly eat anything, and want to sleep all day. We came past Lake Tahoe on the way down here. Tahoe is only an hour's drive from Reno. Tahoe is one of America's beauty spots-——and famed also as the resort where the movie people build their

summer cottage-castles. although it's a long way from Hollywood.

The lake is big and blue and | is oval-shaped, 15 miles |

deep. It

long, and ringed with mountains |

and trees. It is 2000 feet deep, and

one of the darkest blues you ever

saw. It was cold when we were there, and most of the resorts and private homes were boarded up. In summer it must be wonderful. But still, I'll take Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies, which I contend is the most beautiful sight in America. You can read that Nevada is the most sparsely settled state in the Union. But it takes an example to make vou really feel it. Here is one: There is just one telephone hook for the whole state! Every phone in Nevada is listed in it, plus four counties of adjoining California. And the whole thing makes a thin little volume that you could stick in your topcoat pocket. Speaking of Reno and gambling, as we were not, 1 asked a dealer how many times he had seen the same number hit in succession on the roulette wheel. I've seen a number hit twice on several occasions, and a fellow told me he once saw one hit three times. But this dealer said he had seen the same number hit five times in a row. I don’t know what the odds are against such a thing happening, but it must be in the millions,

Has Strange Restaurant Experience

We beat the first heavy snows Sierras. But the road commission is all prepared. For miles there are slender orange-colored poles, about 12 feet high, planted about every 200 feet along each side of the winding highway. Four of us had dinner last night at a Japanese restaurant in Chinatown We ate in a little private bamboo room with chopsticks. and had “tempora,” which means Frenchfried shrimp. The floor had a bamboo mat, and a large table only a foot high. We sat on cushions on the floor while we ate. That was all right until we got up. and then all our joints were so creaky we could hardly get our knees straightened out But the funny thing was this: You have to take off vour shoes and leave them in the hall. just outside the door. before you go in to eat. When we came out our shoes were still there—but somebody had stolen my friend's hat from the checkroom.

Mr. Pyle

through the

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Family Reunion to Be Incomplete; Example Best Correction Method.

YDE PARK, Sunday.—I had the most beautiful drive along the river road yesterday and enjoyed every minute of it. Certainly these two days have been perfect early winter weather. I had tea with my mother-in-law at the big house and she and I sat before the fire and caught up on all the family news. She is planning to come to Washington for a long stay over the Christmas vacation and I hope Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt will come with her.

Since we can have only two of our grandchildren,

The Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1937

Creat Britain Leads in Television Broadcasts

Sara and Kate, who live in Washington, with us this |! vear. we must try to draw in as many of the older |

members of the family and friends as we can. President's mother asked me again: “Is there any chance that Anna and John and their children, and Eliott and Ruth and their children wiil be with us?” Seattle and Ft. Worth are far away and we cannot expect them very often. 1 could see that she hated to admit the family could not be gathered no matter where they were. She should be accustomed to this, however, for in her background there were vears and years which her father spent in China with and without his family.

Good Substitute for Hairbrush

I was very busy this morning organizing our Christmas party up here, as-1 can not get back here until the evening of Dec. 18, when the first celebration already will have begun. hustle and the bustle and mysterious wrapping up of packages which is the prelude of every Christmas and I am enjoying myself very much. I was amused by Doctor Tonsor's advice to parents in today's papers. He is the principal of a

The

I love all the |

New York City high school and he advises mothers |

who want to make their sons stop smoking, to stop '

smoking themselves. Back of that lies a very good principle, teach by example and not by precept and don’t expect others to do what you don't do yourself. I think that if his first precept is carried out by all mothers and fathers, there will be very little use for a hairbrush as a method of discipline. we grown-ups were always well obedient, our children would be more apt to submit to our authority. Since we must learn to dis-

cipline ourselves sooner or later, it seems to me it |

is well to begin young.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

UDDENLY transplant an unsophisticated, atJ tractive young English girl who had been reared in an unemotional Post-Victorian household (the period is 1905) into the midst of a hotheaded., amorous. absolutely uninhibited Italian family gathered together for the summer in their ancestral home in

the foothills of the Italian Alps and the result is | k Such, indeed, is the case | in Ann Bridge's delightful new novel ENCHANTER’S | NIGHTSHADE (Little) which affords the author a

bound to be interesting.

marvelous opportunity to show her ability as =a

novelist, her worldly wisdom in her presentation of | contrasting standards of life, and her penetrating :

vision into the hearts and minds of her many memorable characters.

Notable among them is the doughty old Marchesa di Vill’ Alta who, approaching her 100th birthday, was still the ruler of her family, shrewd, and in her experienced, cynical way, benevolent, wise and tolerant of the inherent weakness of her beautiful. unscrupulous daughter-in-law, yet appreciative of the innocence and impetuosity of youth. “Enchanter’s Nightshade” is certainly a book to be remembered and enjoyed long after it is read. - = = =

[Avan a ranch in Oregon to find peace and |

security in Alaska sounds like a paradox. Yet

If | disciplined and |

the two young Forrests gave up the attempt to wrest |

a living from the desert and accepted a Govern-

ment teaching position in Wainwright in the most |

northern part of Alaska. the happiest years of their lives.

In DAYLIGHT MOON (Stokes), Elizabeth Forrest !

tells of the many difficulties they met and overcame in a land where the sun seldom shines and the temperature sometimes slides to 57 degrees below zero. Their task wus not only to help the Eskimos learn simple Eng" and arithmetic in order that they might b- ! own with the traders, but also to be judge, docu. a spiritual adviser.

They spent here three of

By Norman Siegel

(Fifth of a Series)

ELEVISION has been added to the peanut, popcorn, pretzels and other trappings of cocktail lounges in London, for Great Britain has invited the public to sit in as Judges in its experiments with sight broadcasting. England is doing in public what America is doing in private with respect to the new entertainment medium of

television.

For the past year the British Broadcasting

Corp. has been operating a daily schedule of sound and

sight programs.

And nearly every cocktail lounge in the British capital 1s equipped with a television receiver to serve sight programs with its drinks during the two hours of the day that

the BBC transmitter is on Subsidized by the Government British television, despite its public showing, is no further advanced than the American laboratory brand, according to observers who have seen both

systems. The British are using the Marconi E. M. I. television system. It 1s based on the same principles as the RCA system first developed here. Programs are broadcast from studios in Alexandria Palace in London and can be picked up only in London and its immediate vicinity. as the range of the transmitter is but 40 miles. n " = LL radio in England is government controlled and operated. It is supported by the public through taxation—about $2.50 a year per set. It is out of this general radio tax that England is operating its public television system. But, already listeners in the rural areas and cities outside of the range of the London television transmitter are complaining that they are helping to support a system of which they can't avail themselves. Despite this protest, observers state that it will probably be two vears before another television transmitter is erected outside of London. Although television is a reality in England, only about 2000 sight receivers have been sold during the past year, and only about onehalf of that number are actually in the hands of the public. This may be due to lack of public interest in television programs available today, cost of receiving sets, or conservative sales methods on the part of British manufacturers. Tt also is reported that the leading set makers are always on the verge of bringing out new sets and the public may be holding back for that reason. At present, the British television

the air.

fan has a choice of 15 different sets, retailing from $200 ta $500 each. A television parts kit for amateur set builders can also be purchased for a little more than $100. on ”n on HE programs that these sets pick up are very crude compared to those heard on reguiar radio sets or seen in the movies. The British are facinz the same problems in program production as NBC and Columbia have in this country. One of the chief obstacles at present is that of keeping the performers within the range of the television camera. Often an actor will disappear from the picture during a broadcast and one of the sports of the cocktail lounges in London is betting on which side of the screen he'll return. Recently, BBC televised its first full length drama, a sight broadcast of the celebrated war piayv “Journey's End.” Motion pictures were used for the war scenes. In one definite respect the British are way ahead of this country in television. They have broadcast three important outdoor events—the coronation, Wimbliedon tennis matches and Armistice Day services at the Cenotaph in London. The coronation broadcast was poor due to the overcast weather the day of the event. The tennis matches. however, were a television triumph. Television viewers could see the play clearly. Two cameras were used fo hroadcast the tennis matches. One was mounted on top of the royal box and picked up long distance shots of the entire scene. A second camera in front of the box equipped with a telephoto lens was used for close-ups. One of the thrilling moments of this broadcast was seeing the Queen arrive and take her seat in the box. » ” = HIS brings us to the question of why can England operate a television system and

Side Glances—By

Clotk®

"I got this umbrella for the Bixbys. Maybe it will remind them to return ours.”

Getting ready for the television lens—Grace and Eddie Albert, NBC radio team, are pictured applying their makup in a dressing room ad-

joining the studio, upper left.

The modern new television camera used by NBC, upper right, in contrast with the outmoded picture box used in first sight broadcast

experiments, center.

not this country? The answers given by those in charge of television experimentation in this country are many. The English system is subsidized by the Government and there 1s no competition. England needs only a few {transmitters to cover the entire country; American would need many. The British receiving set need be built for only one station; sets in this country will have to be able to get six or seven stations, the number predicted for a large metropolitan area. Sets sold today would be anti-

quated within a vear due to improvements in sight broadcasting that will be made in that time. And the cost of sets is still too high to sell enough to make a television system worthwhile in this country. While the television “Jack” is still very much in the “box” in this country, it has been very active. The RCA-NBC tests conducted during the past year have revealed many things and have contributed greatly toward the final solution of the problem. Columbia is spending $500,000 for a transmitter to be erected in the Chrysler Building. Programs

Banker's Bequest Aims

At Ennobled Race

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EW YORK, Dec. 6 (U Administration of the fifty million dollar foundation created by the late Charles Havden for the “moral, mental and physical” training of boys and young men will start soon after Jan. 1. Trustees named in the will of the bachelor banker, who died Jan. 1937, said they would embark

| upon their task as soon as the will

has been probated. The banker stated in his will that

| it was his desire to aid in the build- | ing of a “nobler race of men” by

| assisting needy boys and young men,

| aiding charitable and public educa-

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tional organizations in the development of youth, founding educational scholarships, providing and maintaining institutions for the advance-

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IS going to take some time to find out whether the woman who does nothing but bring up her children is a successful mother. We shall have to reserve judgment at least until the tots have become adults, when their characters will prove the point.

P.)— ment of learning, and building and and

equipping clubs, gymnasiums recreation centers. In addition, Mr the trustees to continue at

discretion contributions to

Havden directed | their these |

organizations which he aided during |

his lifetime: American Red Cross, Club of New Club of America,

the Boy Scout

the Boys’ | York and the Bovs'

Foundation of Greater New York, |

the Charity

Organization Society |

of the City of New York, the Chil- | dren’s Aid Society, Institute for the |

Crippled

ational

ty to Children, the Roosevelt Hospital and the Salvation Army.

and Disabled, Madison | Square Boys’ Club, Nationa! Recre- | Association, the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the New York Society for the Prevention uf Cruel-

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will be broadcast from studios in the Grand Central Terminal in New York. ww wm nw

HE network expects to start its tests by the first of the year to supplement those made in 1930 and 1931. NBC will start experiments on outdoor broadcasting, as soon as RCA delivers two mobile transmiiters. The Bell Laboratories, which staged the first big public demonstration in this country 10 vears ago, recently came out into the open again with a coaxial cable television demonstration, Motion pictures were breadcast from New York to Philadelphia over the cable. The pictures were reproduced on a screen 7 by 8 inches. There was a slight flicker in reproduced film due to the fact that the demonstration made use of only a 240-line reproduction instead of 441 lines, standard in other television broadcasts. Kinescope receiving tubes to pick up the televised image are being offered amateur sets builders by RCA. They are capable of reproducing a 3 by 4 and a 5'2 by Tis-inch picture and sell for 340 and $60. However, uniess the amateur lives in the vicinity of New York or Camden, N. J., where transmitters are in operation today, the tubes will be of little use to him. Transmitters also are located in Los Angeles and at Purdue University. However, they are not in operation today. The General Electric Co., early experimenter in the field, also has applied to the Federal Communciations Sys= tem for four television transmitter construction permits for sta tions at Albany, N. Y.; Easton, Conn., and Schenectady, N. Y.

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ORK has been started on a transmitter at the Massachusetts Television Institute, It will operate on the present accepted standard of 441-line definition. At present the NBC transmitter is shut down, while engineers digest reports of broadcasts conducted during the summer. A number of changes are being made in studio equipment and on the transmitter. There are only about 100 experimental sets in the country today. They are in the hands of engineers and executives of companies testing television. The men we spoke to in the East don’t look for any large public demonstration of the new medium until the 1939 World's Fair in New York. And then it will be only a demonstration and not a launching.

NEXT — The television set, problems of standards, sight spectrum, and future of sight broadcasting.

as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Our Town

| cover so pieces will retain their shapes

I should say that the woman who | puts her entire supply of energy. | time and love into the rearing of |

her young never does a noticeably

good job, but is quite likely instead |

to turn out weaklings, snobs or

criminals. She overdoes the job. This was false, of course, when women did not count themselves as mothers in good standing unless thev had eight or 10 youngsters.

The old-fashioned mother, whose | praises have been sung around the |

world, did not spend much actual time “bringing up” her sons and daughters. She was busy cooking, mending, washing for them and so had little leisure to harry her soul about their reactions, complexes and what not. If Johnny showed up with a low I. Q. she considered it the will of God, and was a wee bit partial to Johnny from then on because she never hoped to better the Lord's handiwork. She was mistaken in a good many ways, but at one vital point she was clearly right. Children ought not to have too much attention.

Care, food, love, yes, in their proper | sequence, but the doting of adoring |

parents, constant notice, perpetual “bringing up”—no! That is, if we hope to develop a future generation that can stand on its own feet and use its own head. The modern baby crop is sadly mistreated. One half gets no care at all, the other more than is good for it.

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Jaspe r—By Frank Owen

| very miserable before.

a Copr. 1937 by United Feature Syndicate, ne.

"All right—heads | back up, tails you do!"

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PAGE 11

By Anton Scherrer

Philosophy of the Carnivorous as Expounded in "When Do We Eat’ (t's a Book) Gets Warm Welcome,

HAVE just finished a book from Kingan & Co. and bearing the title “When Do We Eat?” a problem which, no doubt, has been worrying you as much as it has me. It needn’t worry you any more. I've stopped worrying about it, too. Believe it or not, we are going to begin eating again, and right away, if Ann King knows what she is talking about, Indeed, to hear Miss King tell about it, we're going to begin with eating meat again, and Kingan's meat at that. Miss King is Home Economics Director for Kingan & Co. and wrote the introduction to the book The rest of the book, too, for all 1 know. She doesn’t mince words either, and comes right out and says what she thinks of vegetarians. She doesn’t like them Neither do I. Apparently, Miss King and I feel that there are certain experiences so deeply ingrained in American life and repeated so frequently by American characters (up until recently anvwav) that they may be said to represent our deepest folk existence. At any rate, Miss King convinced me that we ought to stop concerning ourselves with cosmic consciousness and get back to living in a three-dimen« sional world. I hope that's clear, If it isn’t, haven't Miss King's command of English, to say nothing of her literary style. 1 suppose what distinguishes Miss King from other modern writers is her cool, common sense, She is a carnivore, an econ= omist and an intellectual, On all three counts we should expect her to write a scorchingly, passionate antivegetarian book. That's just what she doesn’t do, “When Do We Eat?” is written with 18th Century restraint,

Borders on the Emotional

On Page 8, however, Miss King allows her feel= ings to run away with her. Under the chapter head-

Mr. Scherrer

it’s because I

| ing of “Breakfast Dishes Men Like,” she reduces Gen.

Braddock's favorite dish to print. Dispassionately enough, she calls it “Colonel Fried Bacon and Apples.” Listen: “8 pieces Kingan’s Reliable Sliced Bacon “1's quarts peeled, tart apples, cut in one-inch cubes “3 tablespoons sugar (scant). “Put the bacon in a cold, heavy skillet over mod= erate heat. Turn the bacon often until lightly browned, Remove it from the fat and keep it hot, Add the apples to the bacon fat. Drizzle them with sugar. Cover and cook slowly until tender. Remove Let them brown slightly. They should be almost transparent. Pile them lightly in a little hillock on a hot platter and arrange the bacon as a border.”

This is almost a perfect example of objective Write ing. It would have been perfect had not Miss King allowed her feelings to run away with her and “drizzle the apples with sugar.” Piling the apples “in a little hillock” is precariously near the danger line, too, Outside of that, there isn’t a thing in Miss King's book that I don't approve of.

Jane Jordi

J. B. P. Renews Criticism of Advice, But Others Indorse Jane's Ideas.

Dr JANE JORDAN--My letter to you (inquiring whether I was a scrubwoman’s daughter or a

truckdriver’s daughter) did not refer to any specific or individual “remark” of yours but to the general

trend of your loose advice in the number of answers

| I have read. In the first place most of those who come

to you for advice are muscle-headed mutts who do not,

| know the difference between right and wrong. Regard- | less of what they may say about it, many of them

are 14 to 22-year-old girls who are on the verge of going wild and who chafe at the restraint put upon them by sane, sensible, level-headed parents who hae

| but one aim in life, that of giving their youngsters | a clean, clear break and keeping them out of trouble. | Even the adults who come to you have a 14-vear-old

brain. and because they have seen your stuff in print,

| they look upon you as some sort of oracle who knows

all the answers. But do vou? J. BP

Answer-—Are vou the father of a girl from 14 to 22? And if so, do you find that she is sold on the sane,

i sensible and level-headed methods you use to keep her

out of trouble? If so you have nothing to worry about,

| for if your methods work, they are right--for your | family.

On the other hand I, too, have children, who have been brought up on loose advice. They, too. are well« behaved and very co-operative. They would not ree spond with obedience tn an autocratic attitude, but would fight back as the children of most autocratic parents do. I could not use your methods withotit jeopardizing the sympathetic relationship which I have with them. I do not find any children hard to control who are sure of their parents’ love and sympathy, and certain of a tolerant reception of their wishes. No, I do not know all the answers and never pre= tend to. ” ” » Dear Jane Jordan—I wonder what kind of person J. B. P. is who wrote you such a (nice) letter recently in The Times. Is it such a disgrace for one's mother to be a scrubwoman or one’s father to be a truckdrive er? If so there are many people in this city alone who must feel very ashamed of their parents 1 do not go to beer taverns but it is not because I'm so high-minded but because I don't care to. As for the “miserable advice” vou put out, I am sure you have made a lot of people happy by it who were More power to vou M.PB MP ” ” » Dear Jane Jordan—I read in The Times about the most insulting letter a person could write you, signed J. B. P. I always considered your advice to people who wrote you as grand and splendid. As for a scrubwoman or a truckdriver 1 will say both do

| honest work and the one who wrote vou that letter is,

to me, insulting a very nice and gentle woman and 8 kind mother to her children; one who tries to help all who write for advice. MRS. V. A. W,

Answer—Thank vou both very much. But surely J. B. P. has his sympathizers, too. If so, I will be glad to print their letters, JANE JORDAN.

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

Walter O'Keefe—

ARIS, Dec. 6.—Perhaps no nation has a deeper reverence for antiques and ruins than the French. They proved it here the other night when they une veiled Strangler Lewis, the wrestler, at the local Madi son Square Garden. The Strangler ruled the kingdom of grunt, groan and grimace back in the early days of the Republic. This aging gladiator is now more latitudinal than longitudinal, and looks like something stuffed out of Grand Rapids. The sports columnists built up his hard, rigorous training for the bout. And he wrestled. The scenario was beautifully written and his part gave him one out of three falls. This pantomime attracted 20,000 customers. Barnum should have lived in Frances,