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~ From Indiana — Ernie Pyle “He's Off! Pacific Ocean Is Blue, The Weather Calm, Hawaii Ahead; : ‘This Time He's a Vagabond de Luxe. A BOARD S. S. LURLINE (In the Pacific), "7 Dee. T.-—When we drove under the pier-

shed where the great white Lurline lay at her dock in San Francisco, the taxi driver

turned around and said, “Which gangway?

First class or cabin?”

. Now I am a man who takes things calmly and more tHan one insuit has rolled off my back as though it had never landed there. But some things . you just can’t ignore. Which gang- - way! I yelled back, “First class!” And first class it is. It’s rather an odd sensation. I've gone to sea before in foc-sl’'s and “glory holes” and crow’s nests and on freighters and in 'little crowded cabins, but this is my first time at sea on what they call a “luxury liner.” . You should see our stateroom. Big as a hotel room. All done ina light sea green. All except the beds . and chairs. The beds look like Mr. Pyle bamboo, but of course I had to : pound on them and find they were steel, painted to resemble bamboo. There are two - beds, real” beds. ~~ There are bed lights, and a rug on the floor, and a built-in dressing cabinet with mirrors and more trick drawers than you'd find in a magician’s box. Deck stewards, came along with baskets full of colored paper, tightly wound in rolls, and urged everybody to take all they wanted. And then the throwing began. We on deck would pick out our friend on the pier and, keeping the end of the strip in one hand, hurl the roll itself unfurlingly downward.. My first roll shot right down the side of the ship and into the water. The second one broke off in my hand, and the hard little’ roll went whamming like a baseball right into the crowd, and hit a woman in the middle of the forehead. - The third roll floated off into the crowd, far away from our friend I was aiming at, and was snatched by some woman I'd never seen before who grabbed it and started tugging at it, and yelling goodby and throwing kisses up at me.

Streamers Lace Ship to Shore

That serpentine-throwing custom is really something to see. Soon the air between deck and dock is so filled with tightly pulled, wildly colored strips of crinkly paper, all intertwined and spiderwebby, that you can see nothing but color, and the people on ths

+ dock become mere ghosts seen through harp strings.

Somewhere on the ship you hear the band playing. You hear “Under Hawaiian Skies,” and “Sweet Leilani” and “Aloha Oe” and all those beautiful pieces. And then the whistle blows, and very slowly the ship

starts to move.

And then the people on deck and on dock set up such a frantic last-minute crescendo of bedlamous

* yelling that you think the world is coming to an end,, _ and you feel the streamers in your hand grow taut,

and you feel tugs on them, like fish biting, and then

-suddenly the tension is gone, and the streamers have

broken, and go floating away down into the water. You can hardly believe you're moving at all, until the first thing you know youre a long way from the pier, and finally you quit waving, and leave the rail and walk around the decks uptil you're far out beyond the Golden Gate, and then'on and on out into the

" empty blue Pacific—with nothing ahead but Hawaii!

My Diary

By Mrs. .Eleanor Roosevelt

Sleigh Rides Through Snowy Woods Planned on. Winter Sports Program. EW YORK CITY, Monday.—I rode both morning and afternoon yesterday and tried out a new horse. I am so accustomed to “Dot’s” gait, size and behavior, that any new horse seems quite impossible. This one seemed so big I thought I never could get on him. Also, he started his trot with two or three par-’ By the end of the afternoon, after riding him through the woods three times, I liked his trot and canter and decided he was as gentle as any horse I had ever seen. I feel sure that when 'I am in Hyde Park I am going to like him, and what is even more important, everyone else who rides him will be safe with him. We have named him “Brownie.” Not long ago, I asked my aunt, Mrs. David Gray, if my old cutter was still in the Tivoli stable. She

. thld me it was ahd offered to let me have it. Now I

am sending for it to try it out with “Brownie” this ‘winter on the roads through the snowy woods. ‘I am told a particularly long and hard winter is predicted. Though Miss Cook groans at the thought of trying to keep the road open to the main highway, I rather hope that on the few occasions when I can get away from. Washington there will be snow so we ¢an try out all the winter sports, i

Visits. Pewter Exhibition

Miss Cook, Mrs. Scheider and I came to New York City today and I have just visited one of the Fifth Ave. shops where Miss Cook is exhibiting pewter made in our shop.. They have it well arranged and it looks very nice. I hope, not only for Miss Cook’s sake and mine, but for the sake of the young workmen who ‘are now our partners, that we will have some good Christmas sales. | : Yesterday I stopped in to see a man who is now making val-kil furniture on his own at Hyde Park, and was delighted to find that he had more work than he could handle. | Today I am going to have tea with py at. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, who just came back from England. Aside from seeing her, the surroundings in which we shall tea are unique and delightful. I know of no house with more perfect early Italian paintings, tapest and various kinds of decorations, including some really beautiful stained glass. The President returns this evening, so I will be on my wa, Washington at midnight. | :

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Y ARs of teaching beginning classes of prospec- : tive citizens who were_preparing for naturaliza- * tion had cated in Mr. Parkhil

1 an admirable spirit of patient forbearance. Not until Hyman Kaplan entered beginning English class was this spirit

in danger of collapse. Hyman’s commendable enthusiasm and eagerness to orate on any and all occasions | made the situation more difficult. His belligerent de-

fense of “Shaksbeer” versus “Tante” left Mr. Parkhill in a pitifully weakened condition. His eulogism ot Lincohen, -chopper and rail-splinter” was a masterpiece in itself. " The stories in THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN K APL AN (Harcourt) by Leo Calvin Rosten were published in the “New Yorker.” We recommend evening of hilarious entertainment.

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‘Second Section

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Television

Limited In

By Norman Siegel TELEVISION is‘ sight telegraphy. Its piectures are sent over the air in much the manner that

code message. The television’ picture, however, is transmitted with a speed comparable to a telegrapher transmitting the voluminous “Gone With the Wind” in 80 seconds.) To transmit sight and sound six times as much of the ‘sound spectrum is needed for one station as all sound radio stations now use. Until the very recent extension of the airwave frontier by the Federal Communications Com- - mission, there was room on the sound band for only six television stations in

this country. In the most

far-reaching allocation of radio frequencies since the original FCC shakeup in 1928," the Commission has now opened the ethereal spectrum ‘up to 300,000 kilocycles, making room for 19 different television channels.

In extending the spectrum 10 times as far as at present, in which operations are being car= ried on from 10 to 30,000 kilocycles, the Commission: has answered one of the technical problems that has been holding back the launching of sight and sound broadcasting in this country. : Television operates in the ultra short wave channels.’ Unlike the long waves used for transmission of sound radio, these tiny radio offshoots are only practical up to the visual horizon. Therefore, the higher the television tower the longer its range. At present this range, using the NBC-RCA transmitter on top of Manhattan's highest skyscraper—the Empire State Building—is but 40 miles.

= on 2 HE late Guglielmo Marconi, who was regarded as the

the ultra short wave field at the time of his death and undoubtedly would have made contributions to the final solution of the television: problem.

dicate that the present television range will be increased. An amateur operator in Capetown, South Africa, has picked ‘up the picture signals of the BBC station in London. For 10 days last spring the RCA short wave station on Long Island also caught these ‘signals. Baltimore and Camden, N. J., have been able to get the pictures broadcast -from ‘the Empire State transmitter. However, 40 miles is still the limit for good, clear reception. Through the use of a coaxial cable, television can be transmitted over unlimited areas by wire. The cable is composed of pencilsized hollow tubes, each one of which has a tiny copper wire in the exact center. The cable actually encloses a portion of isolated ether through which a mil-lion-cycle band of waves can travel without interference. . The coaxial cable is capable of carrying about 240 telephone or telegraph ‘messages simultaneously, each on a separate Wavelength. However, when used for television, it can’t carry anything else due to the interference ‘that might be set up. At present it costs $5000 a mile to lay this cable. ;The cost includes booster stations at five to seven-mile intervals. NBC

alone now uses 21,000: miles of

wires to link its vast networks. If that were a coaxial cable system it would cost 125 million dol-

we believe, cable television is a thing of the very distant future. As a result, when television does arrive in this country, it will be confined to population areas of

Distance

a telegrapher taps out his

“father of radio,” was working in .

Tests now being. conducted in- °

lars to install. So for the present,”

more than 100,000, which means that nearly 95 per cent of the country won't have television, unless a system of rural feeder stations can be perfected.

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HE present-day television®re-

ceiving set, used both in this country and England, looks much like the sound set. In addition to the sound equipment the set includes eight extra tubes and a synchronizing apparatus. The synchronizer also is used.to keep the brightness of the picture even. The “kinescope” picks up the image, is placed horizontally in the set. It is about two feet long and in shape resembles a bouquet of flowers. The picture is picked up ord the face of the tube and reflected to the “viewer” through a mirror opened at an angle in the top of the set. At present the “kinescope” tube is capable of conveying an 8 by 10-

+ inch picture.

Manufacturers are also experimenting with a smaller “kinescope” tube, which will pick up a bright picture two inches square and then through a series “of

. lenses project it on a large screen. This is the tube that was used in -

the recent RCA projection demonstration. The difficulty in this system -at present ‘is to: focus without getting a fuzzy picture. ." Since television in -this country will be operated on the same basis as sound radio, a large commercial ‘audience will have to be built up before advertisers will be

. attracted to the use of the new

medium. One television expert in New York estimates that it will take 15 years of steady manufacturing to make enough .sets to equal the number of sound ‘receivers in this country today. David Sarnoff, head of RCA, says he is not worried about the ability of manufacturers to fill this need in a much shorter space of time. o ” 2 HERE- is also the problem of man-power to operate a television system in‘this Country. At present only about 200 engineers are working on television and are far from enough to operate a system. There are only about a halfdozen set service men in the country. The RCA Institute has started classes to train men, but the num-" ber to date is small compared to that which will be necessary.

Man-made static also is a tele-

vision problem. This, of course, |

can be remedied when needed. At present theropedic instruments offer the greatest .amount of static. Static looks like snow in television. Heavy static shows up as a band of white light cutting across the picture. Lightning doesn’t affect the image. NBC's antenna on the Empire State Building has been struck a numher of times. | The only effect was a clicking in the sound receiver. From a technical point, the master of standards of operation is the most important problem today. The Radio Manufacturers’

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Side Glances—By Clark -

tube, which °

Associafion has a. working committee dealing with those standards. This is necessary so that when television is offered to the public sets will be able to pick up programs from all .transmitters in the area. As previously pointed out, light plays an important part in the

picking up of the television im-

age. Along this line a new white tube and projection lens have been developed within the past six months. The first television broadcasts produced an image with a green tinge. Today this has been eliminated and the pictures have a good black and white definition. : » ” ”

'NHE sensitivity of television pickup cameras are two to three times greater today than they were a year ago. The 12inch “kinescope” tube with an 8 by 10-inch image is believed to be adequate. The tubes developed so far have a life of 1000 hours, about: equal to that of sound radi tubes. - Philo T. Farnsworth, young scientific genius who is conducting television ' experiments in Philadelphia, has. developed a “cold light” tube which may be the answer to the problem.of light. This tube creates light by the disassociation of the mercury atom and generates little heat compared to present-day lamps. . . Farnsworth also has patented a a television screen made of Velvet dipped in a ‘solution of thorium and uranium. He claims that it will produce a clearer picture.’ England has discovered that it takes the “viewer” about two weeks to get used. to operating television sets. The sets, of course,

+ have more controls. There now

are seven—one "for tuning, three for sound and ‘three for sight. To this array two more controls for synchronization may be added. In these six articles we have tried to show you ‘the present status of television experimentation, the problems it has met and those it’ must solve before becoiging a part of our everyday life. Everything we have been able -to gather on the subject adds up to two conclusions: The chances of overnight solufion of television are extremely remote. And ‘when television is finally presented to the American public, it will be safe to assume that it will be the completed and perfected

system of sight and sound radio.

Rocks Beautified

By Science Service is

(ansEan, .N. Mex., Dec. 7T— ~ Rocks are given beauty treatments—to make them look older! Raw cuts in the landscape near here, made in constructing Walnut Canyon Highway, distressed Natignal Park Service officials, because the new surface stuck out like a

sore thumb against the soft and

beautiful weathering of the rest of the landscape. So, they have applied copperas to give a yellow tinge to

the fresh-cut rock, and sprayed road

oil over that. -

Now, it is said, the old-timers can’t -tell the old rocks from the | newly formed ones, and the tourists have nothing incongruous to com-

plain of.*

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PT HE need for trained volunteer . workers in the Young Women’s Christian - Association was stressed again by Miss Edith Sawyer, of the Y. W. C. A. general staff, at a recent group meeting. It is a need which applies to. every organization whose business is carried on by professionals. . Somehow there is often an intangible flaw in the bright structure

of such an organization, a line at |.

which the ordinary woman »salks. She has gone as far as she can go;

‘| gradually her interest wanes and

she becomes just another “pérson who used to work with the ¥,” or what have you. This is due, I believe, to the professional aura which hangs over so

many institutions. The staff, trained ! |

in specialized subjects, soon develops a language of its own, a sort of patter which goes on in most professions amd has even invaded the ranks of the schoolteachers. Not but what case workers. are necessary in our scheme of things. But in order to keep our, common

touch we must supplement them |. | | with. volunteers who will act as

interpreters for the specialists to the community. This is what Miss Sawyer means, I think, when she says the need for the trained volunteer is great.

| Now if you are fitted to do such

Ai | volunteer ‘work, remember in doing

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"Stop thinking only of yourselt and reinorabor that Fritzie doosn't he deli at as ogy ham." a : ;

|it you will be gerving yourself far | | better than the community or the

cause; for badly as organizations

need volunteers, women in every incentive ake th

community, housewives, alike, need the ton work fo make

Entered as Second-Class Matter ,8t Postoffice, Indianapolis,

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. Betty Goodwins pretty NBC broadcaster, upper left, is seen looking at the latest television set, with its seven controls and mirror top to .

reflect the picture to the “viewer.”

"The set is'next to tke large screen

NBC used for its recent television projection dmopnstration. -

The back of the television set showin

the upright position of the

“kinescope” tube. in its metal housing, upper right.

Gilbert Seldes, Columbia television program director, and Dr. Peter

Goldmark, the network’s. chief television engineer, are seen looking at television tubes for Columbia’s new transmitter, lower left.

By Raymond Clapper. Times Special Writer: ASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—When '¥. Congress came back to Washington it was roundly advised by sundry public-speaking private citizens to. pay no attention to Mr.

own. They told Congress to reassert its authority in no uncertain terms, to brush aside White House dictation and throw away that rubber stamp. » Well, Congress is reasserting itself and it is threatening to ignore Mr. Roosevelt's recommendations. And things have become all mixed up. It is Mr. Roosevelt who is urging economy, and Congress is balking. * The trouble developed when Mr. Roosevelt began to get down to cases. Congress was for economy in theory. But ‘when the President proposed that Congress begin right now in the special session by cutting down road-building spending, you could hear the yells of protest from the House and Senate 211 over Washington. . # » 8

T wasn’t a very large cub that was suggested. Instead of spending 200 million dollars on roads as scheduled for the coming year, Mr. Roosevelt proposed spreading it over two years. He also suggested that for some years to come, road-building expenditure by the Federal Government be cui down to 12 dollars a year, slightly above the average that prevailed before the

Roosevelt but to: strike out on its’

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Congress Shown to Be as Big a Spender as F. D. R.

| 1929 depression. In recent years the

total Federal road outlay has been almost 300 million dollars. Considering’ that most of the roads which are necessary at the moment have already been built, Mr. Roosevelt thought the Federal Government could well taper off now. One Mr. Cartwright of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Committee on Roads, asked indignantly why road construction should be made the f‘goat” for economy.. He wasn’t going to take this lying down. Senator Carl Hayden (D. Ariz) advanced reasons why this was the wrong place to lay the economy ax.

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T is a mean trick to play on those . who looked to Congress to show Mr. Roosevelt the way to a balanced budget. But they shouldn’t have taken those Congressional speeches on economy too seriously. Anyone who has observed state legislatures or Congress in action knows that to obtain effective economy, strong executive leadership is necessary. The reason it is so hard to economize nationally is that you ngt only have la spender in the White House but .you also have 531 of them in Congress. Te 2%

How Hoosiers Woted in Congress. See Page five.

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Jasper—By Frank Owen

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Dur Town By Anton Scherrer En | Diaper Dolls at Last Merit Praise

Of Once Startled Chronicler Who v Finds Reason for Their Popularity.

(FFHAN D I should say Indianapolis has 16,000 little girls ranging in age from 5 to 9 years. Of these, 100 will get diaper dolls this Christmas. The rest will have to put up with Dionne dolls and other dolls

bearing a strange resemblance to Shirley Temple. That's because there aren’t enough diaper dolls to go around. As a matter of fact, Indianapolis widl be lucky to get 100 of these dolls, because if I have

“my figures straight (and I have) Santa Claus has only 750,000 in” his bag this year. ' And, of course, he’s supposed. to cover the whole country. i { I guess it was three years ago when I first heard of diaper dolls, I dismissed them at the time as something incredible. This year, however, I can’t dismiss them. A chronicler like me has to cover , “everything that has caught up with Me. Scherrer the human race. Anyway, these dolls are old enough to have a past, and anything old ghiough to have a past is some= thing right up my alle 1 : All right. This type doll, it appears, was the invention of Mary Wit nn, ' an up-and-coming saleslady for the Effanbee Doll Co. of New- York, (Fleischaker & Baum—get it?) Well, one day she got ‘an idea that little girls needed something more realistic to instill mother love in their little hearts— bless ’em--and before anybody knew what Mary was up to, the diaper doll was born. It was born just in time to startle the 1933 Christmas trade. : The new doll made a hit right from the start, and seemed to fit in. with the plans of mothers who wanted their [darlings to absorb biological truths painlessly; and without too many questions on the part of the kids.

Appeals to Royalty, Too The Duchess of Kent bought one of these dolls as far back as 1934, or as soon as she-heard about it, and the next year Shirley Temple's sophisticated mother i. got around to it, too. By that time, the little daughter of Ibn-Saud already had one. If everything goes all .. right, she’s the girl who is going to rule Arabia some day. - Like as not it will be another victory for the Yizne? doll when the news reaches the Effanbee people. - > * Last Christmas, too, Ed Pierre over in the Architects Building bought a diaper doll for his little girl. It turns out, though, that the little Pierre girl didn’t get to play with her doll until Easter time. That's because Pere Pierre got so interested in the functioning of his daughter’s doll that he couldn’t think of parting with it until then. With the diaper doll having everything its own way the last four years, it was, of course, inevitable that boys should suffer. Compared with modern girls, the boys don’t know anything about biological truths. Well, that’s the reason. It just goes to show what can happen in a world like ours when the girls are given dolls like this and the boys are left to shift for them selves. | I'm glad to report, however, that something has been done for the boys this year. ere’s a toy hen, for instance, that lays convincing eggs, and a cow that can be filled with real milk, then made to return it realistically. ‘They're not as good as the dolls, by any means, but they're a step in the right direclion. a

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Ind.

Jane Jordan— Don't Quit Husband, Teach Him,

Jane's Advice on Clothes Problem.

EAR JANE JORDAN--I went with my husband a year before I married him and he would do almost anything to make me happy. I esked him if he would do as much after we were married and he said yes. I thought I would be the happiest woman in the world, but I hadn't been married six months until I saw that I.had married the wrong man. He ‘works and makes good money, pays, the rent and grocery bills, but he won't.get me any clothes. I have a little job, but don’t make enough to support myself. What I do for him is no more than I ought to do. | 'T am broken-hearted and dying for the love of a husband. I like married life. I am 27 and he is 28. Please tell me what to do. Shall I quit and start a new life? L. B. ” ” ” * ; | : Answer—The trouble is you expect too much from marriage ‘and were not prepared for the romantic slump. Any group of wives. chosen at dom in any locality to swap experiences could tell| you of husbands who pay the butcher and baker but refuse to make allowance for their wives’ dressmaker. Very few men understand what clothes mean to a woman. They haven't the faintest idea what a ‘woman's clothes cost or how many she needs: : While men aren’t so given to gossiping about their personal lives as women, the other day my husband told me of a group of men in his factory who were comparing notes. These men are good, devoted husbands, but they found themsglves completely baffled by their wives’ requirements. “My wife spends the day changing the furniture around and when I come home she is offended be-. cause I don’t notice it. How should I know anything about furniture?” “My wife expects me to admire every new dress she buys. What de I know about a female’s clothes?” I remember another group of men who discovered that their wives bought on an average of six new hats a year and the re sultant pain was equal to six appendectomies or worse. When a woman discovers these facts about her husband in the first six months of marriage to a good provider, it is not a sign she has married the wrong man at all, but simply a sign {hat she has married. an average man badly in need of education. A man’s education should begin with his mother, ‘put ‘the average mother educates her son only to expect ‘loving service without ‘the slightest return in ‘appreciation. What boy thanks his mother for a good dinner, clean clothes or an orderly house? He takes

} | these things as a matter of course.

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“No use knocking there—Jasper's moved to his winter home by, :

ove!”

Walter O'Keefe—

'| his breakfast 1200 miles away.

Since my boys have been old enough to notice I have shown them my clothes, told them what they cost and taught them to corament on them, I have explained how awkward and miserable I would feel in the wrong costume. With small success I have tried to interest them in matching their own ties, shirts and sox. Nevertheless, they are well prepared for the fact that women love clothes, and six hats per annum will not be news to them as husbands. There is good reliable material in your husband.

| All he needs is some. careful education. Don’t quit

him. Teach him. : ; i ‘JANE JORDAN. Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. builds

, Dec. T.—Yesterday morning I was trycep and I heard a terrific racket across Mussolini ordering “11 Duce is pouting at American newspapers because they: implied that underneath his black shirt there beats a black heart. Shooting his chin’ to an angle of 45 degrees so it ; yesterday

ing to _the Danube. It turned out to be

could clear the balcony, he asked Italians whether they want “guns or butter.” Wt The Italian people probably have forgotten what gun are,

‘butter 1s. Of course, they all know what

especially mothers of the boys who didn’t ret J 3 a A gi