Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1937 — Page 9

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_ Wanderer Turns Professor to Supply Informal (Very) History of Hawaii; Here's Sketch of a Thousand Years.

| FONOLULY, Dec. 18.—When 1 landed in Honolulu I didn’t know how long Hawaii had been a U. S. Territory, or how it came | about, or who the Hawaiians were. I sup- - pose I'd have lived just as long without ever

: knowing—but here goes: : To begin with, Hawaiians are Polynesians. I al-

I ways thought you didn’t get true Polynesians till you

| got down around Tahiti. But: Hawaiians are just as

Polynesian as the natives in “Mutiny on the Bounty.” . - Nobody knows when the Poly- . nesians first came to the Pacific islands. Maybe it was around the beginning of the Christian era. : But there were two or three separate migrations from Asia, centuries apart, and it is pretty well established that the last one was around 1100 or 1200 ‘A. D. Who is this romantic Polynesian? Well, he started out to.be a white man, in Caucasia, which is around the Black Sea some ‘place. But the Caucasians got sick of So they trickled eastward across Asia, and when they got to Singapore they went out to look up some people they had letters to from friends back home. . These people turned out to be Malayans, and they all married each other, and after that the Caucasians were part brown, and became Polynesians and very fine swimmers. But after a while they got sick of never being able

Mr. Pyle: Caucasia and decided to travel

| . to remember which is the Straits Settlements and

which is the Federated Malay States, so they got into their canoes and paddled thousands of miles out into the Pacific, and became South Sea Islanders. Of. course all this traveling didn’t happen. the way: you'd buy a steamship ticket from Cairo to Papeete. It all took centuries. : - Now for Hawaii itself. These islands are vol‘tanic. Once upon a time they didn’t even stick up above the water. But they. kept erupting, and laya kept flowing out and building up, until it raised the peaks far above the sea; i Story Begins Long Time Ago - . This building up, of course, began millions of years before I was born, even on the days when I feel the oldest. The hard lava rock was weathered into soil, :and seeds blew over from other paris of the world, and things started to grow, and by the time the {Polynesians arrived these - islands’ were . green and fresh and beautiful. wo lei . i "Phe modern history of the islands comes in with Capt. James Cook, the English navigator, who “dis‘covered” them in 1778. . Capt. Cook got killed for his trouble. : : The Hawaiians continued fighting among’ themselves until a strong man arose, captured all the islands and set himself up ‘as King. That was Kamehameha I. ; = Hawaii was a monarchy for:almost a century. In 1843 an English officer seized Hawaii, but in the same year another English officer gave it all, back. The ‘kingdom of Hawaii continued. ; But gradually Americans seeped in and set ‘up in business. In 1893 the foreigners (meaning the Amerjcans, I assume) banded together, dethroned Queen Liliuokalani and proclaimed a republic, with Sanford B. Dole as president. And then in 1898 the United States took over a form of control. And in 19000 Hawaii, at her own request (meaning, I suppose, the Americans again), became a Territory of the U. S. Only 5 per cent of the people in the islands today are pure Hawaiians. :

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Even Colonel and Captain Nervous At Annual Diplomatic Reception.

N= YORK, Friday—The most colorful reception : . of the year is the diplomatic reception. Usually -it is the gayest and most light-hearted. Perhaps it ‘was my own mood, but it seemed to me that one and all of the guests wore serious expressions on their faces and there was a certain tension in the air. The men’s uniforms and decorations were as gorgeous as ever, the women’s gowns and jewels were as beautiful, but as you heard the names called out you couldn’t help bup think of world events. ' »The President’s new naval aid, Capt. Woodson, had his first experience at a big reception last night, and I think he was nervous. At first he stood beside my husband, and Col. Watson, the military aid, stood opposite and “announced the names. - Then ‘they changed places and Capt. Woodson announced. There flashed through my mind an amusing story about Boom Boom, & clown, and I murmured to both gentlemen that they should change their names and titles and become -the Generals Boom. Boom! When the President went upstairs, Secretary Hull went with him and some of the newspaper people said to me: “How can you stay down here when anything as interesting as a conversation between the President and the Secretary of State is going on?”

New York Is Gray and Gloomy

If anything of a confidential nature is going on, I would rather not be aware of it, because then you ‘cannot be blamed for any information which may leak out. 2 "I took the midnight train to New. York and a most sray and gloomy day greeted me here this morning. .~ A few personal appointments this morning and junch at the Algonquin Hotel with our son, Elliott, and his wife, who are in New York City for a few ‘days on business. They brought me my Christmas present, two enchanting photographs of Chandler and Elliott Jr. I am glad to have them now when I can really take time to enjoy them, rather than ‘later when the rush completely over-

New Books Today

Public Library Presents— ~RANCE, of the early 19th Century, during Napo-

' leon’s reign, is the background. for this new his-"

torical tale, SO GREAT A MAN (Harper); by David The little Emperor is at the height of his career and: is chiefly concerned with his campaign in Spain, where he is striving to, secure the Spanish throne for his brother, Joseph. . got arin At this time, also, he is in love with Maria Waleska, the Polish Rose, and he has brought her to Paris as a hint to Russia that he intends to strike for Talleyrand and Fouche, his clever and crafty , are deep in a plot to place Caroline, NapoJeon’s sister, and her husband, Murat, on the French throne, if Napoleon fails to win in Spain. ‘The story is rich in historical detail and presents one more memorable picture of that great, little man,

the Emperor Napoleon.

: ORDON MILLER was a producer with an option

\F on a “sure-fire hif,” but he had no- backer, no theater and no money with which to pay sai-' aries. So what could be more natural than that

and his entire cast should move in with

: ‘brother-in-law Joe Gribble, who was the manager of

A backer finally secured, the onto the stage in five days, harassed Miller came the un-

the White-Way Hotel! when to the ears of the

depended, had “bounced.” . How the play was presented in spite of such discouragements, how the White-Way Hotel became, perhaps: “the fest hotel to win. a Pulitzer Prize,” the ] in

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welcome news that the check, upon which everything

ohn Murray and Allen Borets

(Last of a Series) By Negley Farson

Author of “The Way of a Transgressor”

French convict, an escaper from Devil's Island, Cayenne, in the back room of Dutch’s Place in Colon. He was so shot to bits with ‘fever and what he had been through that he looked like a mummy. ‘He is the only survivor of the original seven convicts who made the break. It was his fifth attempt and they had him down in those open pits where the bars are overhead, with a sentry walking back and forth looking down into the cells. He got out of that. That was eight months ago, All he could say when I asked him about his

- Darien country among the 'Indians—was: “Je suis libre! I am free! I am free!”

. Eight-months ago; and he can't believe it. yet! : He is a long way from being free. Where he is living among the Darien Indians, ‘he is just about as far as a white man can get without getting a fish arrow shot into him. The banana buyer who brought us together 'grubstaked him to go up there and start a small. trading business, as he thought that was a place

from some accident that might land him back in Cayenne. And if the Frenchman got on well with the Indians, then they both might open up some new territory together.

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“ he Indians up there are funny people,” said the banana buyer. “They won’t hurt you at first. But if they think you have gone far enough up into their country, they will stop you, very gently turn your need

If you've got any sense, you'll go.” The banana buyer said that had happened to him. “The only way you can get into their country is by making friends with them,” he said. “There is a whole area in that Darien Indian country that has never been seen by a white man —not even by the Conquistadores. “1 spent weeks flirting with gn old chief; trying to get him to

| let me go on up his river. 1 don’t

know what particular thing I must have said one night, but next morning when I woke up I saw -all my stuff down on the beach by my canoe. My two mén were standing by it, scared to death. The chief took my arm and led me down. Then he pointed to me and pointed back down the river. And let me tell you, I went.” . 2 8 8 'e O fish arrows for me,” continued the banana buyer, a hard-bitten, - usually taciturn American who had spent 15 years with the Indians. “I'll tell you something more about the place this Frenchman’s in. I'm not asking you to believe in black magic, but there’s two American deserters from the United States Army nowhere near as far up as this Frenchman goes, and their Indian girls can make them get down on their hands and knees and go about like dogs. “There was . an Englishman here who wouldn't believe that. So he went up: He was back jus’ as quick as he could get back. He says he saw them that way. But after

anything looks like heaven to him. He’s got piles of guts. When he first turned up in the Zone, he looked like a toothpick.” The Frenchman, who knew he was ‘being talked about, grinned through most of this and lapped up his beer. He had ventured into the Zone to buy a supply of trinkets to take back to. trade

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what this. fellow’s been through, -

where he "would be safe—safe °

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This jungle scene taken near Devil's Island, French Guiana, shows

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the type of country which fugitives from the penal colony are forced

with. And he was anxious to get back again to the comparative safety of the jungle. The first Frenchman of the

seven died from exhaustion when they were making their way along the. coast of Dutch Guiana. Two more were lost when the boat they had been outfitted with by the sporting Englishmen at Georgetown upset off the Dutch Island of Aruba. Four of them got past the coast of Venezuela and past Cartagena 'in- Colombia. There they lost their boat. In the mangrove swamps coming up to Panama, the four nearly died. One of the men lagged behind and the man with the

(Editor’s Note — Gerald W. Johnson, editorial writer and columnist on The Baltimore Evening Sun, has been one of the country’s stanchest journalistic supporters of President Roosevelt, and of the New Deal since its inception. In the 1936 campaign he defied the policy of his newspaper, and wrote a ringing declaration entitled: “I’m for Roosevelt,” which became one of the Democrats most cherished campaign documents. The following article was published in The Baltimore Evening Sun, Dec. 9).

By Gerald W. Johnson

OR the last five years supporters of President Roosevelt have had one stock answer to all the efforts to classify him with Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler. The answer was this: He may have interfered with men’s liberty of buying and selling, but where, and when, and how has he ‘mterfered with any man’s ‘liberty of thinking and speaking? ; It was a sufficient answer. The right to buy and sell according to the dictates of one’s fancy is not an inalienable right. When dictators have interefered with it, they have done no more than has been ‘done by every other ment in the world, inclu democracies. What marks the dictator and sets him apart from all other rulers, what is most revolting to freemen, is not the fact that he dictates what his subjects shall buy and sell, but also what they shall say and hear and read and learn and, as far as is possible, what they shall think. This is interference with those rights which belong to a man, not as a member of society, complex or simple, but by virtue of his exist-

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wooden leg offered to stay behind . and help him. yi After a while the woodenlegged man showed up without the other one. To the questions of the other two he replied: “Oh, leave him. alone—he's going to die. And he wants to die in peace.” bl :

® 8 8 HE other two said they couldn’t do that, as every man was needed—they were coming to the Indian country of Panama, through which there are no trails known to the white man, . and they wanted to be as strong a body as they could. y When the wooden-legged man: refused to go back, the other two

NDER the - American theory, / government: did not grant the rights of freedom of thought and speech, therefore the very .instrument through which government was founded, the Constitution of the United States, forbids government to interfere with them. ' They are rights specifically reserved to the people, rights clear outside the field in which government operates. There is no denying that the New Deal has interfered with the economic life of this nation to an extent hiterto unknown in its history. Perhaps this interference was jus-

tified, perhaps not. But, regardless of ‘its justification, as long as its powers were exerted exclusively on political and economic matters, it was operating in a field that has been regarded from time immemorrial as lying within the jurisdiction of the state. Therefore as long as the New Deal confined its innovations: to matters involved in the production and distribution of material goods, it differed sharply and clearly from a dictatorskip.

» 2 2 HE difference was the essential difference between a . blacksnake and a cobra—only naturalists care much about differences in coloration and conformation; what interests the average man is that one

is poisonous and the other is not. ‘The poison of a dictatorship is its | denial of the right of a ‘man to think what he pleases and to say what he thinks. As long as it lacked this deadly venom, the New Deal, no matter in

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson SN'T is surprising that amid the floods of books telling us how to get along with ‘people -and stay in the good graces of ‘the opposite sex, there should at the same time be so many volumes purporting to

assuring ‘us we will like it? -- Marjorie Hillis started the sinister fad, addressing her remarks to

in a world where gentiemen were

in spite of her first book’s impudent

lure the unwary males.

of this type: shout aloud our: social tragedy.

As a matter of fact, men and women can’t. live without each other

that ‘we

|less household, when we

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cheer us up about living alone and|’

city women, who found themselves | hard to get and harder to hold. Yet

title, its contents were made up of | . plans for teaching such women to| Ji

And now comes Alexander Wright, with fingers visibly crossed, telling | his kind “How to Live Without a | B Woman.” But what he really tells them is how to get along ‘without | taking any responsibility for a woman. = vr Sant ok Clever, sophisticated, smart books eir words swagger, their |

phrases strut, but peeping out be- |: tween, the lines we see frustration:

‘jand none of them wants to. It is odd | t ‘we should kid ourselves about | | the delights of a manless or woman- |

5 * aa - 5 Pig to cross to reach safety.

This particular piece of jungle lies on -the

line of ‘flight northward, as described by Negley Farson.

became suspicious.” They retraced their steps and found “the body.

The wooden-legged man had mur-

dered: him, probably for ' some money. he must have ‘had on him. THen "the two : stalked the .wooden-legged man, and they killed him. They made a fire of .

The other man turned back here and refused to go any farther. The Frenchman went on. When he reached the jungle of the Indian country, he saw that he couldn’t go through it. He retraced his steps and got back to the coast. Then he did the almost impossible thing of coming up to the Canal Zone along that

Editor's Subpena Marks First Dictatorship In U. S., Roosevelt Booster Declares

how many other respects it resembled a dictatorship, could not be the real thing. But recently, for -the- first time, an agency-of the New Deal exhibited a disposition to cross the deadline and invade a field which the American Government had no right to enter. : frat A man named Barclay wrote and published -an article criticizing the National Labor Relations Board and the board promptly issued a subpena ordering him to appear before it, bringing his records, to explain how and why he wrote the article. Now everybody knows" that the right of free speech does not mean the right to tell lies about anyone, not even a Government board. = ° If the man Barclay has uttered a libel, the law provides means : by which he may be punished, to wit, by an appeal to fhe courts. If the NLRB had sought to have this man indicted for criminal libel, it might still ‘have been wrong, but it could

|not. truthfully be called. dictatorial.

What it has done, though, is not to appeal to: the courts, but’ on: its own initiative to summon :the ‘man before it, commanding. him. to. explain to it, and not to a court, why he holds and .has expressed. certain opinions. .. | © eins eh i 2 =» AE T is the first open appearance in - the American situation: of. that tyranny over ‘the’ individual ‘which makes dictatorships hated and feared by all freemen. : re - True, the ‘National ‘Labor Relations Board is not the whole Administration, ani President Roose~ velt: cannot fairly be held responsible for the acts of all ‘his innumerable subordinates. If. he: should

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Jasper—By Frank Owen

' shore. He did it by stealing -In-

dian canoes from village to vilBee. : . ns “If determination counts for anything,” said the banana: buyer, “this Frenchman ought to make good. As: a ‘matter of fact, he thinks he’s making a new life now. And as long as he thinks sc that. is needed,

isn’t it?”

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promptly and emphatically disavow the course. of the NLRB in this case, the alarm of reasonable men would be dissipated. He was not in Washington when the thing was done and there is no evidence that he knew anything about it, much less that he directed it. - :

But he knows: about if now, end in the absence of clear evidence that the President disapproves of this sort -of thing, those of his supporters whe also believe in American liberty are bound to be disturbed and apprehensive. They have stuck to him so far through thick and thin. It has not always been easy, for most of them have seen many things they did not understand and many have seen things that they definjtely disliked. : : 2 8 8 UT all these things, ‘if they were errors, were errors made within the proper field of operation. of the Government. The extensions of the power of government, whether wise or unwise, were extensions within that field; but here is an effort to oxtend the:power of government into “territory which it is specifically and explicitly forbidden ‘to in.vade, +f : * "Even if the Supreme Court should strike. doyn the effort, the sense of shock would remain. It ought not to be left to the Supreme Court. Mr.

‘Roosevelt himself ought. to pus -an|

end to this sort of thing and, unless he does so, nothing can re-establish the confidence in him felt by those who for five years have steadfastly refused to entertain the: clamorous

‘assertions of his enemies. that his

real desire is to grasp for himself the same sort of power that is wielded by the three scourges of Europe. ;

| He ‘discussed

SATURDAY SEEN 15, 1987 : : : : y : : Tg Le Transgressor in the Tropics Jur Town Fugitive From Devil’s Island Endures Jungles for Freedom: By Anion Scherrer

~~ Spellbinder ingersoll Too Lenient | With Foes on Last Visit to City; But Earlier Talks Were Top Notch.

GUESS Robert: G. Ingersoll was about 62 years old when I, a boy of 16, heard him at English’s. It was in the nature of a swan song, because he died four years later. That was probably the reason he didn’t quite meet my expectations. Either he was t00.old, or too ripe. At any rate, I expected to meet a fire-eater. Instead, he turned out to be what looked like a smooth-shaven Santa Claus with the pinkest, most: baby-like complexion I've ever i seen on a man, or on a Santa Claus, for that matter. His voice was disappointing, too. It was:smooth . and soft like that of a woman's, and not at all the kind of ‘voice you'd expect of a man who could wither his enemies with words. What - alarmed me even more that ‘night was the fact that Mr. Ingersoll passed up an easy chance to show’ the stuff he was made of. “The Mistakes of Moses,” I remember, and he hadn’t gotten very far when somebody in the audience interrupted him with a minority report. As a cash customer I expected, of course, that Mr, Ingersoll would sail into his opponent with the fury of a tiger. He didn’t even display the fury of a Dutch Uncle. . All he did was to sidetrack his speech for a moment, and give the heckler a little spanking, It sounded for the world like a mother who makes: a couple of ‘passes, and winds up with “this hurts. me more than it does you.” I wouldn't want to leave the impression, however, that Mr. Ingersoll didn’t live up to his reputation in Indianapolis. As early as 1876, he showed up here and addressed the veterans of the Union Army. It was on that occasion that he told us why he was a Republican. : : ; . If was, said He, “Because the man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.” .

Even Democrats Wept at Quip

It went over big, and it was said at the time that Democrats, knowing what buncombe this was, sat weeping as openly as James A. Garfield who sat in the front row. With everybody's handkerchief wet, Mr. Ingersoll swung into one of the grandest speeches

Mr. Scherrer

' he ever made—the one beginning with:

-“T have but one sentiment for soldiers living and dead; cheers for the living, tears for the dead.” 1 wonder whether you ever knew that Mr. Inger= soll delivered-that speech in Indianapolis. .- Another auspicious occasion was the night (Feb. 8, 1886) at the Indianapolis Literary Club when Louis Howland delivered his paper, “Books,” and brought Mr. Ingersoll ‘along as’ his guest. ‘Old-timers say there was never anything like it around here. After the general discussion, Mr. Inger= soll was asked to give his views, and for two hours he held his audience spellbound. What amazed everybody was the extent and varied character of his reading. He seemed to be absolutely familiar with all the literary characters of ancient and modern times, and quoted freely and accurately from their productions. Jean Valjean and Sidney Carton were the two. chare acters he liked best. . . Referring to Shakespeare that night, Mr. Ingersoll said that when he was a youngster in Shawneetown, Ill, one day he saw an old-looking man at a hotel in the lobby reading a-book intently, and he overheard the man repeat some lines which were the strangest and most wonderful he had ever heard. He waited till the man went to supper when he picked up the book and found it was “King Lear.” On the fly-leaf was the name of Abraham Lincoln.

Jane Jordan— Stepmother Is Advised to Use Tact And Sympathy in Correcting Child.

NEAR JANE JORDAN—Recently I married a widower with a 12-year-old boy. Since-the death of the boy’s mother he has been brought up by his grandmother who indulged him in everything until she, too, died a year ago. The boy is the most selfish, demanding child I ever have known. He takes everything for granted and gives nothing in return for the attention he requires. For this reason he doésn’t get along well with other children.. I am not a traditional stepmother. I'like the boy and knew he was a probe

lem when I married his father. He likes me very much and is apparently unconscious of his selfishness. I am afraid to correct him for fear I will lose his affection and thereby cancel what influence I might gain with him. I feel I must do something, but what? Can you help me?’ J . STEPMOTHER.

Answer—You will. have to proceed gradually and avoid covering too much territory when first you show the boy how he appears to others. From the: brief glimpse you give me of him, I gather that the boy has an exaggerated opinion of his own importance, and too little consideration for the rights of others. The reduction ‘of his self-esteem must be made so tactfully that he does not lose all of it. ; Start with a relatively small circumstance and ask without ‘anger, “Don’t you think you were unkind to so and ‘so? How would you feel in his shoes?” Of, “Don’t you think you expected too much from so and so and that you are old enough now to take some responsibility on yourself?” Your disapproval will hurt his feelings, but if you are not angry you won't stir up hostile feelings in him. ; ; All’his faults cannot be covered by the first rebuke, yet it is unfair to the boy to let him remain unconscidus of his failings. Everyone must learn to bear privation and disappointment. ; A sympathetic attitude maintains a pleasant feel. ing of partnership which will be your greatest ‘ally fa working with him, Make use of his liking for you in every way you can. Ask him to do favors for you from time to time even as you do favors for him. Don't forget to praise his manly virtues more lavishly than you.ctiticize his selfish attributes. If he learns to think of you as an absolutely just person, I believe yoyr opinion will come to carry great weight. * 8 8 ; f EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am just an ordinary young. man who has managed to retain a few ideals about womanhood. Do all girls smoke cigarets now? ‘Every time I.go to a dance the first thing the girl does is borrow a cigaret and make herself look disgusting; Where have feminine good manners dee

parted to? Se Sr { ~ Answer—All girls do not smoke, but I imagine you overlook some very fine girls among those who do. ee he JANE JORDAN. Put your problems in s letter to Jane Jordan, who will

a1 suswor your questions in this column daily.

Walter O'Keete— ONDON, Dee. 18.~England- is a country rich in trae Ls ditions, and nothing is more permanent than the tradition of fog during the winter months. When u:speak of the sun here they don’t know what Jo: wonder the architects don’t build skyscrapers; only. see them about four months a year. . ° - cause. colds: in the head, ani “hots passed down from father to Britisher with a red nose it