Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1937 — Page 16

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"Sights Sandwich: Isles in Time for |. -

Bite to Eat and Rest in Native Hut.

| Povo Dec. 14 —This day—with a slight salaam in the direction ‘of Capt. | Cook's ghost—1I have inserted in my journal tbe following : % “t “Dawn broke upon' a lifeless sea. The atmosphere was seamy, and breathless. I

& awoke parched. The water carafe was empty. The

flying fish were suspended motionless above the water, The universe stood still, under the heat. * “We were a painted ship upon a paintéd: ocean. I raised myself feebly, and made a mark on the calendar. No sight of land. There seemed but little hope. : “The ship’s stores were gone.

: Nothing was left for breakfast but

orange juice, bacon and eggs over well, buttered toast and coffee. “All was silent. Men lay sprawled in deck chairs’ at the sea. At last I forced myself to look.. You would: not believe what I saw. A miracle—land! ; “I crawled to where the mate was lying and whispered, in a parched voice, ‘Do you see land ahead?’ He said, ‘No, because I'm looking aft. But what you see is Koko Head. The Waialae golf course is just behind there. “So, on this, the 108th hour, we sighted land. We had found the long-sought Sandwich Islands of the Pacific. “At a distance, the island seemed to. be of earth

and rock. It was quite mountainous and green, like |

the mountains of Haiti, only not so mountainous, and not so green. “We made out little white habitations stuck on the mountainside. But apparently the natives had taken i! to the jungle, for we could see. no movement in ‘the village. We were, for one thing, still too far away. “A war canoe approachéd rapidly. belching smoke. Jt must have carried at least 200-savages. “I. could understand only a few words of their jargon, except occasionally some ‘phrase as ‘Hiya there, Harry. When dja git pack?’ 7 “And then they came swarming aboard. In a few seconds they were all over the decks. Each one picked _ gut his victim, and went running and yelling at him, * throwing ‘leis’. around. his neck, and subduing him.

Escape Torture for Time “A few were put through even more horrible tortures, yet the savages did not touch me. And this despite the fact that with remarkable bravery I . strode up and down the deck amidst the mob trying to sacrifice myself and intercept ‘leis’ aimed at my fellow explorers. “It began to look as though I might escape capture altogether when suddenly round the foc’s’le head loomed a great swarm of -two savages, named Jane and Charlie, who rushed at us and strangled us with their ‘leis’ and screamed ‘We've been looking all over for you’ And then all went black. " “When consciousness came again we had moved up to shore, where thousands of savages stood on : the high concrete bank eyeing us.. - <%At last we were permitted to go ashore, only to be set upon instantly by another crew of brown warriors with badges who kept saying ‘I take you for 75 cents.’ “Whereupon, thoroughly captured, we said ‘yes’ «and climbed into a green sedan, and were whisked along between rows of great six-story native stone huts, fringed with high coconut palms, to one of the - “-chief’s houses. “Here we registered, something was said about $8 a day, and then two of the chief’s servants, Nos. 9 and 17, took our gear up to a.large cell with wide _windows, and we lay down exhaled. “Thus - the day's Joumual

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Visit 40 Franklin Jr. Home Finds |

Couple Engrossed With New Pet,

ASHINGTON, Monday-—-Four of us drove to Charlottesville, W. Va., yesterday to see our son: © Franklin Jr, and Ethel .in their new home. This is - the first time I have seen their house, which is very attractive, It is wonderful how interested we all are in something which we create ourselves. -I think this creative instinct is what really makes it necessary for every young couple to build up their own surroundings. “They both were very much engrossed in a new gift, ia very large and somewhat gawky .7-months-old Great Dane. He looked a trifle thin to me, but they * said that was because I had not seen him on his arrival a few days before. Elliott and Ruth had sent him up. The trip had been a hard one and he was certainly half starved. He seemed, however, to be comfortably settled ‘in his new home’ and to: feel a real affection for his new master and mistress.

Monticello Decorations Flease

We all went up to Monticello in the afternoon I was interested to see how many more things have been acquired for the house. There are drapes on Tay a directions in some old papers. They served the purpose of to the height of the window and made you Zan the windows on the second floor were on a level with the floor. . This is necessitated, I -- suppose, by the outside architectural effect. These windows are very cleverly concealed. From the lawn _ you can hardly tell that there is more in the building. Se the first floor and the dome. The second floor is practically invisible. : A committee of five—Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, Mr. oniiciopher Morle¥: Mr. Hany Clemons, Mr. Frederic + Melgher an Mr. Lewis Traver—representing authors ar who present the White House library with 200 books every other year, gathered in the Presi- . dent's office yesterday to make their presentation. I never see a collection of books,.that I don’t at once pick out the books I would like to have for myself. The President is much the same, with the result that both of us looked at these books with envious eyes and picked out what we would like to have for ourselves. Then I suddenly realized how foolish’ I was, - since my for reading are so few and far between nowadays.

New Books ha

Public Library Prosents—

new book of Geneyieve Fauconnfer entitled

; Ym, who grew. up i he Seucitionai ie of the French “child. Interwoven with the pages are the recorded details and thoughts of her wp ie Brg The whole portrays : us, 1a intelli § woinail fof Whom We foc) an afShang promises a acing way of ber ily a diswtisfactions. ; :

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Tragedy of Matador Forgo then in Glory of Bullring Victory

Afiecond of a Serim) ih

By Negley Farson

Author of “The Way os a Trang gressor”

SUNDAY. Cartagera was as dead as Tondoh. The British tourists had gone the round of the yellow walls that had been sacked by their compatriots, Drake and Morgan; they were tired of leiting the condor out of its cage to fight the palms in the hotel patio; their conscience had rebelled against again getting the monkey drunk. They decided to go to a bullfight. ’ This was at a village about 20 miles back in the country. The ring was made of bamboo, about 200 feet long by less than half of that wide. The bamboo stands kept crashing, coming down with a series of splitting pops throughout the four fights. The sunny side of the stands was white with barefooted peons and cowboys in white cotton and chin-strapped straw sombreros. In the “shade” was some silk-clad Ca rtagenan society.

The first matador was an old Spaniard who needed no civil war to drive him from the rings of Spain. You felt sorry for him when he ‘stood there, sweating in the sun, flourishing his cape so gallantly before the local mayor. You felt particularly -anxious for his safety when the first bull was shoved in. It was a Zebu bull; ‘with a large hump on its back (like the Indian sacred cattle) and aside from its ability to shed a sword with that sharp, ridgeshaped back, it’ didn’t play the game. Bullfighters are afraid ‘of them; most will refuse tc fight a Zebu bull. It made ‘matters more ironic

when we were told that ‘the first

three buils were not going to. be killed. The matadors were merely going to play with them. What did we expect for a peso? ‘What we got: was the sight of a matador gored within 20 feet of us. 2 8 =

\NE of the stock stunis of a hullfight is for the matador to walk up to the hull, flcurish his

cape, stamp his feet, shout “Hi!”

and make the bull back away. This establishes the, 1natador’s superiority. He then tirns his back contemptuously - on’ the bull and ‘walks across the ring to bow before the mayor, or s¢me local belle. This- always brings down the stands. * It did’ this time. . But if was not applause that crashed {he ‘ bam= boos; it was the antics of the crowd ‘trying to warn’ the ‘mata-

dor of hi danger; The bull was

charging! . At the last instant scmething in the faces he was walking toward made -the old matador look around. The bull was almost on top of -him. The matador tried to run for a barrier. The bull hit him. Three times the matador and his cerise cape spun around like a ball of colors in the late sun. The third time, as he came down, the sharp black horn of the hull went goldbraided jacket and picrced his lung. ss "9 HE matador squirnied like a freshly caught fish on the hot sand. A young man in his shirtsleeves rushed out from: a barrier

. and dragged him to safety. This

man was Ivarito, the other bullfighter, who was at that moment dressing for the next fight. In=stead, with the blood of: the other

_fighter still wet on him, Ivarito

went out and fought the Zebu buil. - He was unbelievable handsome. And I was glad to see taat he was

human enough to take ¢ stiff drink of rum before he left the barrier. He took several during the next two fights. Without the protection of his padded jacket, these Zebu bulls were doubly dangerous. Then came the final fight— the one where he was to kill the first bull, the one who had gored his . comrade. And | liere came

1 ‘fidsco.

When the amie ‘door . was opened to admit the bull, all four bulls trotted in. T'wo of them still had the Janderillag sticking in

" their blood-streaked humps, and they were very peeved about it. Ivarito, casting all good form

' aside, picked up a piece of bro-

ken bamboo: stand and whacked the bulls over their rumps. From then on he and his two aids were as active as Swedish gymnasts. The: bamboo stands made natural ladders. When the bulls charged in: unison, : Ivarito- -and- his- aids went. up the stands like acrobats. When the bulls wandered off,

-'Ivarito raced across to try to-put

up the bamboo door leading out of the arena that one impetuous bull, not playing the game, had butted down. I don’t think any bullfighter ever had such a busy, versatile afternoon. = 8.8 8 INALLY, Ivarito and the original bull, the one who had gored the other matador, faced each other. It was ‘death now. - One or the other was. going to be killed. .- Handsome young Ivarito put his heels together, raised himself on his “ toes .and, taking aim down his curved sword, invited the bull to charge. The bull shot at him, Ivarito thrust, leaped aside. The sword

was still in ‘his hand. Then the bull gave a low, swinging motion and collapsed: on the ground. A man with a dagger ended its life. The ¢rowd broke what remained

. of the rest of the stands in the

wild rush to reach the bull. Everybody had forgotten about the _ other bullfighter—except, perhaps, Ivarito and the two surgeons who were operating on him underneath the stands in an attempt to save his life.

By E.R. R. ASHINGTON, Dec. 14—The. .¥: task of chronicling the “acchievements” of the current special session of the 75th Congress is, to date, easy. Its history could be recorded with an indeterminate string of ciphers, with a few .exclamation points to mark a so-called “mileage grab” in which the members of both ls voted themselves $222,000 to pay traveling expenses between Waskington and their homes over the Christmas holidays. The Senate approved the mileage allowance without =a ° dissenting voice, and ‘the House by a standing vote of 327 to 37. A record vote was refused so that the 37 hardy disSettlers must remain forever anony-

: This is the only piece. of “legislation” approved finally by both houses, and the special session already has lasted four weeks—with only eight additional days to go if it adjourns Dec. 22, as scheduled, N\ 2 = 8 NLY one: of the President's measures—the “Ever-Normal * Farm Bill—has been conrim to date, and the Senate has not even completed the reading of its version of the bill for amend-.

ment. The Senate did vote by a two-to-

one majority that whatever farm

: This street 3 scene in Demerara, British Guiana, typical of towns of the northern ‘coast of South

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Hoosier Democrats | in National Divide on Issues Involving Farm

legislation is enacted shall be of a

permanent and not of a temporary |

character. . Republican Leader McNary of Oregon offered several amendments, the effect of which would have been to limit operation of the measure to the three calendar years, 1938, 1939 and 1940. Republicans voted solidly for the McNary proposal, and he also was able to muster 11 votes from the conservative wing of the Democratic party. The proposal failed on a roll call vote, however, 25 yeas to 51 nays. Senator VanNuys “of Indiana : voted against the McNary proposal. ‘Senator Minton of Indiana was not recorded on the issue. First of two test votes came on a proposal by Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) to defer imposition of corn marketing quotas until the corn crop exceeded “normal supply” by 15. per cent. The:committee draft of the measure provided that quotas be invoked when the crop exceeded normal supply by 10 per cent. The 10 per cent provision, however, had the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 15 per cent substitute ‘was voted cown 37 yeas to 38 nays. sana Senators. divided on the. Senator ‘VanNuys voting losue, the substitute measure, and

Senator Minton against it.

America, near one of which, Cartagena, Colombia, Negley Farson describes a bullfight.

Bullfighting’ is one. of the historic sports of Latin American peop These photos wére taken in Spain when Sidney nklin, Brooklyn youth, was an ace matador. Left, Franklin is shown entering an arena near Madrid a few years ago. Above, the Amer-

| ican boy in action in the ring.

Bill

“HE next Senate roll. call was on 1 by Senator Bailey give small tobacco farmers special protection in the fixing of tobacco marketing quotas. Bailey pro d that farmers raising not more/ than 15,000 pounds of tobacco a ‘year should not have their quotas cut more than 10 per icent, and that the cut should not be more than 5 per cent if they raised less than 10,000 pounds. - The committee

draft of the measure exempted from

quota-reduction farmers producing only 3200 pounds of flue-cured tobacco or 2400 pounds of any other type of| tobacco. The committee provision was left intact and the Bailey proposal voted down, 34 to 36 nays. | + Indiana Si Senator Vai

rs again divided, uys voting to sustain the ey , drat, and Senator Minton voting against it.

The House{leadership. failed utter1y in. an effort to prevent adoption of an amendment by Rep. Boileau (P, wis.) designed to protect the dairying industry from. over-expan-sion .as a’ result of the conversion into pasturage of land withdrawn from cultivation 1 in. the acreage-cur-tailment ‘program The so-called “dairying amendment” prohibits - soil conservation payments—the only inducement held out to farmers for acreage reduction —if land removed from cultivation is used. for or legumes suit-

Lower left, Franklin at the hey-. dey of his fame. ficenes such as * ‘these ‘Negley’ Farson saw near voartagena. = ?

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House and Senate

able for dairy feed. The amendment was kept in the bill,.202. yeas to: 188 nays. Hoosiers voting to support the Boileau . amendment ‘were Reps Schulte, Boehne and Ludlow, all Democrats. Against were Indiana Reps. Halleck, Farley, Griswold, Jenckes, Greenwood, Crowe, Gray, Larrabee. Rep. Pettengill was not. recorded. » ” 8 FTER its defeat on the Boileau proposal, the House leadership barely saved -the laboriously prepared farm measure from a complete debacle on a motion to recommit. The motion failed of adoption by the margin ofi nine votes—196 yeas to 205 nays. - All Indiana = Representatives voted to recommit except Rep. Pettengill who ‘was not recorded. A vote to recommit, of course, was a vote against the farm bill. On final passage, however, about 70 of those who had been willing to recommit were unwilling to go on record as voting against the bill it-

measure—267 yeas to 130.nays. On this call all Hoosier Repre=~ sentatives vot for the bill except Rep. Hallecl§f (Rep.) and Rep.

Pettingill, wip’ was not recorded.

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|A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“WHEN Susie took a job as court clerk,” said Susie’s sister-in-law, “I was terribly. upset. I said to myself, ‘What will become, of the children?’ They're all going" to ‘school, but the thought of them cor

1 age Susie lived

schoo. ; | | at home with her mother, but, Susie + | was deterniined rk.” 1

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‘By Anton Scherer

Magazine Day Was Institution Here ‘When 'Trilby' Ran in Serial Version; Attics May Hold Forgotten Copies.

I WOULDN'T for the world have you believe that Luther Dickerson is- any. older than he looks, but facts are facts. The other, day, for instance, I learned that Mr. Dickerson owns the first copy of Harper's Magazine, published almost 85 years ago, and it

| got me to thinking that I've never said anything

about Magazine Day. Fifty years ago, Magazine Day had the significance of a holiday, almost of a saint's day.” To be sure, it didn’t have the secure and ‘fixed place in the calendar that a saint has, but it came . pretty close.to it, because if I remember correctly, Magazine Day always fell somewhere around the severith day of the month. That's when Harper's, the Century and St. Nicholas, the best sellers, arrived in Indianapolis. : ' For some strange reason, the Mr. Scherrer magazines - didn’t arrive at our homes. They were lefi at the booksellers, and it was:

up to us to get them. I always got mine (St. Nicholas) 5

at Cathcart and GCleland’s, and I still recall the line of carriages in front of the place. Even the horses sensed the significance of the day and made the mos} of it. ‘The people who didn't trade at Cathcart and Cleland’s: went. to the Bowen-Merrill shop or to Yohn Brothers. It didn’t make any difference;

the technique of selling the magazines was more or less the same in all places. There were always two

‘piles of each magazine, I remember. One pile cone

. tained. the standing orders, and represented the - class of citizens who were reckless ‘enough to buy a | book without looking into it. The other pile represented the cautious buyers who paid as they went.

Asa rule, it didn’t take more than a day to deplete

‘the pile of standing orders.

‘Trilby’ Installments Rare

I remember one time; though, when the cautious buyers beat the subscribers to the book shops. That was back in the days when Harper’s Magazine published the serial installments of “Trilby,” as good a story as I ever hope to read: ever if my father didn’t think so. The interminable wait between the serial nuinbers of Harper's back in ‘those: days was almost unbearable, I remember. > Speaking of “Trilby,” I am réminded of something Alezander Woollcott said two years agoon the occasion of the ‘Harper's celebration of the 1000th issue of their magazine. Mr. Woollcott, I recall, seized the opportunity to say that the old “Trilby” numbers were priceless because of a veiled but transparent description of James McNeill Whistler. It got Jimmy so mad at the time, said Mr. Woollcott, that he started a Jibel suit against the publishers, with the result that Harpers deleted everything about Mr. Whistler when the story appeared in book form. All of which

~maved Mr. Woollcott to say that the magaziné version

of “Trilby” is just about the rarest thing this side of the Gutenberg Bible. Well, I checked up on Mr. Woollcott at the time -I interviewed Will Forsyth (of blessed memory), Clif«

| ton: Wheelek, Lee Burns and Kurt Vonnegutt, not be-

cause 1 picked them out especially, but because they were the first to cross my path. Mr. Forsyth had the magazine version. So did Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Burns wasn’t quite sure, but it's dollars to doughnuts he has, because I never heard of anything that wasn’t in the Burns’ menage. Mr. Vonnegut was too young at the time to remember anything about “Trilby,” thus disqualifying himself ipso facto. Three out of four was pretty good picking, I

thought - At this rate, and with what .I know about

Indianapolis attics, there purgated “Trilby’s” around

Jane Jordan— : Avoid Creation of Jealousy With

Children, Jane Advises Young Wife.

] EAR JANE JORDAN-I wrote to you four years ’ ago about a problem which I haven't solved yet. I am now 20 years old and have two children, 2 and 4. I was 15 when I married and husband was 18. I've never loved him although he says he loves me. We separated once. He k the baby end the boy went with me. I tried working to

ust be over 10,000 unexe

support us, but I couldn’t stand to be away from . the ‘baby.

He came to see me often and tried to ‘get me to come back. After four months separation, we set up housekee again. I had many mis givings but decided to do my best. \ He always wanted me to sit at home but I like to get out and have a good time. He said if Td quit it and settle down we would get along better. Much to my amazement he hecame indifferent and talks to me very little. t In his own opinion he is a model husband, almost a saint. He doesn’t drink, dance or run around, 1 want to be fair to him for I do like him as & person though not as a husband. Should I continue trying to be like he wants me to be, or do as I like? Each of us has his favorite child which causes much MRS. 3

td » » 2 'Answer—Of course you should keep on frying. A woman who has two small children is obliged to stay at home with them most of the time. Your mistake

- was in marrying before you were ready ‘to accept the

sober responsibilities that go with the rearing of a family, but now that you have done it, you must adjust yourself to it. No miracle will occur which will suddenly lift your ‘burdens from you and make you a girl again. You've tried dividing the children and earning money to support yourself, and found that rearrangement no im= provement. You are fortunate in having a responsible husband whom you can still like as a person. His faults are not so bad but what they can be - If you do your part in keeping a nice house and looking after your children, then your husband ‘should provide some amusement for you. The most serious aspect. of your. problem is the fact that you have favorites among the children. This not only causes friction between parents, but it is fatal to the psychological health of the children, Even where the parents show no partiality -at all, children are inclined to be jealous of each other. You can do no more cruel or harmful thing than to let children know that one 13 mere beloved than the

. The chances are that your husband is jealous of

the boy and that you'are jealous of the baby

Soubx, is a girl, You do your son Harm 3 you | ther against, ‘him id loving. the child too JRuc. JANE J( Fae

ut youl potions tu STIS to Jai Barkan whe wil’ Same evs 1 Dl com Sa.

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Lorie, 14—Eight Germans have ust been