Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1937 — Page 17

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\From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Dr (Bring ‘Em Back Dead) Buck's Career Prompts Wanderer to. Desire | New Trade—Butf Only After 40. |

ONOLULU, Dec. 21.—When I walked | into Peter Buck’s office he was sitting” at his desk in a short-sleeved blue sport shirt, without a tie, and was smoking a pipe. You wouldn’t have guessed he was one

of the most distinguished scientists in all the

‘Pacific. But! he is. He, is director of the Bishop Museum. y

Dr. Peter Buck ‘knows more about ancient Poly-

3 nesia than any man living. When “1 ’came in he was translating from Polynesian into English via French. = He is no relation to Frank (Bring = ‘Em Back Alive) Buck. Dr. Buck ~ brings ’em back dead. For his work is discovering old, old things about the earliest inhabitants of the Pacific islands—the - Polynesians. He looks more like an athlete than a professor. His skin is light brown, and his short hair is graying. At parties he frequently breaks Mr. Pyle into a strange chant, and when he’s through hell say “I was just telling you what I thought of you in Maori.” He is a cultured man. He speaks English that ripples and Sows, and drops in an occasional eddy of American ang. Dr. Buck is a self-made scientist. He never was schooled in the work he now follows. He was in other professions for 20 years before he go the ethnological bent.

“Served in New Zealand Parliament

“As 8 youth in New Zealand he studied ‘medicine, and was graduated into the Government's. health - service. Then he served six years in the Néw Zealand - Parliament, and could have had a political career. In the World War he served at Gallipolis and In France. ;

- Back in New Zealand, ‘he took up health ‘work

again, among the Maoris. But he found he could not |-

get their confidence, could not break down the superstitions against modern medicine unless he knew more about them than he did. + - So he set out to learn the history, the traditions, the psychology of the Maoris. He became an authority on the race. Then in 1925 Dr. Buck’s real scientific career started. The Bishop Museum had heard of him. They wrote, offering him a five-year job on a scientific expedition in the south Pacific. He took it. For five years he wandered among the fairy islands of the South Seas. At the end of five years Bishop’ Museum sent him to Yale as a visiting professor. After two years there he went on to Europe to study Polynesians in the Bfitish Museum. When he returned, the then director of the Bishop Museum was about to retire. There wasn’t anybody better than Peter Buck to take his place. He has been director now for more than a year. They love - him around the museuin. “That is the story of a man who saw 40 approach ing and changed his career. And Ill bet Dr. Pitkin never heard of him.

‘My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

There's Almost Shortage of Cake And Ice Cream at Christmas Party.

TEW YORK, Monday —We had a most sticcessful Christmas party at Hyde Park yesterday. They seem to grow bigger every year. This year we had one guest who really wanted to come, for she came on an errand and then inquired if she might stay. The children behaved very well and the Christmas carols were sung with spirit by everyone. When it came to ice cream and cake, I thought I had so much cake on hand that we could never eat it all but we served more than 100 people and when it was over I had no more ice cream and about a quarter of one layer cake left! One little girl amused me a great deal. She kept running in and out and stopped in front of some older person and held out her hand and said solemnly; “Merry Christmas to you.”

‘My mother-in-law, with whom I spent a half an |

hour after lunch, motored” down to Newburgh to greet her sister, Mrs. Forbes, who had just arrived from France on ner yearly visit. She is over 80.

Visits Harlem Art Center

‘With great reluctance I left the peace and quietness of the country this morning. It was a glorious day and I enjoyed looking out the window as we came down on the train. One gentleman from Rhinebeck stopped by my seat to give me a message for the President, then a strange lady came and sat beside me. Having introduced herself, she asked about Dr. Cushing, whom she adores, as he once saved her life. I visited the Harlem Community Art Center and was deeply interested in this WPA art project. They have a teachers’ institute, where teachers from the five boroughs of the city of New: York may come to improve their artistic education. Of course, this center is for the use of schooi children and 400 of them are already registered.

' New Books Today’

Public Library Presents—

“HERE is always a man to work for the dlofy” said Big “ohn Stacy, Boss of the Fourth, Fifth and Eighth wards, “but it don’t buy. him kraut for the sausages.” The novel SOME FOR THE GLORY (Bobbs-Mer-#ill) by Louis Zara, is the story of one for whom Kraut and sausages were not enough, and who longed for recognition and fame. Michael Hawks, scantily reared in an orphanage, - apprenticed later to a printer, began his political career by passing out campaign leaflets. Under ‘the watchful and encouraging eye of Big John, his idol, . hie became in turn precinct captain, alderman, state senator, mayor and governor of the state. “Genuinely enjoying the give and take of the pofitical game, realistically accepting the existence of the political machine, taking advantage, as a matter of course, of the material rewards which came to the . politician wh; lined up with the machine, he was not without social conscience and honestly tried to serve ~ the ‘public as well as circumstances permitted. : “Along with the story of the likable Michael, Zara's long novel presents a detailed picture of politics— of the interchange of political favors, of the functioning of the machine, of methods, both direct and devious, by which the machine works its will upon a _ guileless public. I is a social document in the form - of fiction. : "The author: Bas dedicated the book to Ms. Miriam Lyman; 3015 N. Pennsylvania St. hos ele

ICATING his biography to the “brave, the |

shrewd the kindly spirit” of the American peoe. who he hopes may not consider it presumptuous, Harman writes a fresh and engrossing tale in KING CHANCES (Farrer). Bored no end by his sed career in the family silver shop in London, America. ‘Here he has the most amazy into trouble and gracefully or , escaping the consequences. He

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937

lo in L Lewis. in $ Social ; Pinchot Dinner and Guffey Tea Seen as Bid for C I 0. Favor :

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(Editorial, Page 18) By Fred W. Perkins

Times Special Writer

VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 21. —John L. Lewis of the organ voice and mustache eyebrows, is being wooed with wafers and hors d’oeuvres. Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot gave a dinner party last week in honor of the visiting Lady Ribblesdale, widow of John Jacob Astor. The British - Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Lady Lindsay, ranking guests, and Mr. and

Mrs. Lewis were ranked next.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis - were. honor guests at a tea given by Senator Guffey (D: Penn.) and his sister, Miss Guffey, a few days later. Tke invitations read, “to meet Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lewis.” The propinquity of these social affairs has suggested to some that maybe a race is on for Mr. Lewis’ ~ favor in Pennsylvania politics. Mr. Pinchot is suspected of wanting to be Governor again, or perhaps Senator. Mrs. Pinchot might run for something if her husband doesn’t. There have been rumors that Mr, Pinchot would like to enter an alliance with the C. I. O. forces in Pennsylvania—he to deliver the farmer vote, Mr. Lewis to provide the labor support. Mr. Pinchot, these reports say, would run for either Gavernor or Senator—leaving the choice to Mr. Lewis, who already has “nominated” for Governor his urion lieutenant, Thomas Kennedy. This might mean a third party.

retain the Democratic Party's grip on the state, apparently is ready to match the Pinchots bor. bon for bonbon. Senator Guffey is in a tight cpot, so far as Pennsylvania politics and

UT Senator Guffey, anxious to

Ex-Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania (left) who with Mrs. Pinchot was host to C. I. O. Chieftain John L. Lewis and Mrs. Lewis at a dinner: party last week. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone (right) was outranked at the Pinchot dinner by the labor leader. The party was seen as a bid by the Pinchots for C. I. O. political favor. :

Mr. Lewis are concerned. He does not laugh off the assertions of Mr. Lewis’ aids that without C. 1. O. support the Democratic Party can get nowhere in the state. Senator Guffey is known to be willing to go to great lengths to retain Démocratic supremacy in Pennsylvania— even to the extent of running for Governor himself and letting Mr. Kennedy be Senator. The Pinchot party included Supreme Court Justice Stone, Senators Hale (R. Me.) and Green (D. R. 1.), 1 Alice Roosevelt Longworth, David ‘| Lawrence and Frank Kent. =

"How Hoosier Representa ; tives Voted in Congress, Page 2.

| the farmer in conversation.

Side Glances—By

Heard in Cong ress=

Senator Lee. (D. Okla.): where two state institutions are located—the State University and the State Asylum for the Insane. The difference between the two'is. this: It is absolutely necessary to show some mental improvement in ‘order to get out of the asylum. (Laughter). When farmers were breaking their backs picking: cotton at '5 cents a pound, a farmer started home, and his road led past the asylum for the insane, around the grounds of which is a woven wire fence. The farmer pulled his car up beside the fence to do some work on ‘the car. One of the imates "He seid: to the fence and began to engage e said: “What do yoy do?” . “Oh, I am a farmer over here.” . “Were you ever crazy?” - The farmer replied, “No; I never was.” ’ “The inmate said, “It beats farming.” Maughter. ‘When a man is trying to raise cotton without aid from the Government to equalize the injustice brought about by the tariff, 1 can fully sympathize with that statement.

Clark A WOMAN'S View

By Mrs. Walter Femuson

TT looks as if the modern woman of has bitten off more than she | can chew. Especially if she hankers : for masculine companionship. The

the impossible yet, though she’s probably forming to "it; but the one who: hopes to q as a first rate wife Co tleds up against a staggering proposition. | It’s a foregone conclusion she will fail in several partic | In: the old days he woman just stayed home and : knitting:

boyish. it’s time to play the materves 2 giasmguL yo you

; when oe is bist a of Du Barry will there are occasio expect you to as Windsor or ev Stael pose. |. Then there’s the question of children—although it is fast bécoming a secondary consideration. Mothers

days, accor to _ psychologists, and it’s nS ay us: thing

neglect her husband in. order to look ok are ne by.

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I live in the little town of Norman; Okla, | .

woman+<who has trained herself to! { plive alone and like it doesn’t face.

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Times-Acme Photos. John L. Lewis, c. 1. O. head, is shown above in characteristic poses.

J. Mr. Lewis reading a report to the joint session of the House and

Senate Labor Committees studying wage-hour legislation. 2. The labor leader pictured on the occasion of his nation-wide broadcast from Washington last September when he criticized President

Roosevelt for his attitude on the steel strike and warned that labor -

would remember its friends at election time. 3. Mr. Lewis and his seldom photographed wife who were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot and later of Senator Guffey in what observers see was an attempt by Pennsylvania politicians to woo the favor of the C. I. O. 4. Mr, Lewis and Rep. William P. Connery @®. Mass.) discussing wage-hour legislation. 5. A striking photograph of Mr. Lewis as he testified before the Joint sessions of the House and Senate Labor Committees on the BlackConnery wage. and hour Proposal.

Serator- Guffey (leff) of Pennsylvania was also host at” a Teaent d The Senator is another Pennsyl» 0 is. reported to be bidding for C. I. O. sup-

tea in honor «f Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. vania political fi port at the coming _election, Sir Ronald Lindsay ight), British Ambassador. to he Fs 8. was the ranking guest ‘at. the Pinchot difiner party last. week, ‘Next to the British envoy: the C. L O. head and his wife were ranking. guests. Observers see a Pinchot-Lewis alliance in the making, the former governor carrying the farm bloc and the C. IL 0. head, swinging isbor interests back of a political ticket.

Jasper—By Frank Owen

{ “Taming of the

: stockings cestors must be whirling 1 their graves. i

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| By Anton Scherrer

Here's a Christmas’ Shopping List Complete With Names and Prices; But, Oh, He ‘Forgot to Include Us!

HEREWITH. comes a disorganized list of -

items that will be of interest to last minute shoppers. It includes things that have just popped up, with a few desperate cases that need attention Tight away, Are ' you ready? Mary Forsyth’s subscription’ to the Atlantic ‘has expired. Price $4. | Blanche Stillson would look stunning in ‘one of

those tulle numbers: shirred tight around tlre bust and waistline, and billowing forth layer after layer of something soft and frothy. One I ‘pink satin. foundation and a mauve and black tulle over it; another was made of black velvet with a tulle tent. to give it a fuchsia coloring, but with- - out shoulder straps. Better pick the one with the pink foundation for Miss Stillson. Priced somewhere around $39.98." Lee Burns hasn't read “Gone With the Wind." For that matter; he hasn't read “Anthony Adverse,” either! You can pick up both at any antiquarian’s uetuates from day to day. Better

Mr. Scherrer

hurry. Grace Speer has a pair of skis, but not the hat to go with it. You can’t ‘make a mistake picking the peaked knitted baby cap I saw with the Salzburg label in it. It comes high—$4.50,: as a matter of fact—bus if I'miany judge. it will stay in style longer than the skiing fad William George Sullivan smokes Old Gold. A cars

| ton is about his size. Price $1.20.

If It's Slippers, Here's the Thing

Herbert Foltz needs a pair of slippers with sufficient traction to permit him to _run. into the back yard. I saw just the: thing. They’ re made of calf skin in two tones of brown with a pair of foolproof laces that won’t let the insteps slip. Price $5.85. Ruth Pratt Bohbs, somehow, looks as if she ‘might

fall! for a flask of Patou’s Colony perfume—the one

with the bouquet of nuances. - It’s $10 to $60 a bottle, depending more or less on life's. expectancy, but, gosh,

. a little of it goes a long way.

George Calvert got a handsome set of brandy bal= loons last Christmas. This year it is just possible that

| he might appreciate something to put into them. An

1860 cognac comes to: somewhere around $20 a bottle, There are cheaper: ‘ones, of course, but they wouldn't live up to Mr. Calvert's set of glasses. = * Luther Dickerson has_ a’ repressed desire to own a. shaving smock. ‘I know: Just the thing. It's a sleeveless, collarless garment for lather spatterers to be worn over pajamas-or instead of a pajama jacket, and comes in hand-woven linen or a white terry cloth. I don’t care which kind you give him, but see to it that the haberdasher puts a big, bold monogram on Mr. Dickerson’s breast pocket. The initials are L. L, D. Honest. The middle letter stands for Lester. I'll bet you never knew that. Wilbur Peat might enjoy a trip to Bali, or a term in the penitentiary. Anything to get away from the horse in front of his place. Only four more: shopping days: until Chrismas,

{~That’s counting today; too.

Jane Jordan— Walk Out on Girl Who Indulges 1 in

Tantrums, Jane Suggests to Suitor.

D*= JANE JORDAN—I am a young man 22 years old and I have been keeping steady company with a girl for eight months. i love her very much and her feelings are the same. ' We have so many things in common and have ‘made some wonderful plans for our future although we can’t be married for two years. She comes of one of the most respectable

families and has helped me in many. ways I thought impossible. . But here is my problem: As she is the youngest nf the family ‘she has peen badly spoiled and is very stubborn. As long as she gets her own way everything is fine, but vice versa and war begins. She has a habit when in a fit of anger of always using her hands to slap, scratch or throw things. As for myself I very seldom get a , and if I do I just keep quiet and it wears off. . Ma ‘times 1 have been on the verge of putting her across my knees and giving her the sound spanking she sc well deserves, but I love her so very much I am afraid of hurting her, although I can’t’ recall how many times she. has hurt me. i Aside from this she is everything I could ask for, 1 wouldn’t give her up for anything in the world, but I do want to help her overcome these fits. of anger. She always is sorry afterward and says she can’t help herself. Please advise me how to go about helping hes for I do so want to. G. J ® » »

Answer Perhaps the spanking is just: what the doctor ordered. At least it is what the young lady has ordered. Any grown youtig- woman who behaves like a child expects and wants to be treated as'a child, She says she can’t help herself. You must be smart enough to see the “I won + beneath the “I can’t” and

“meet it with “you must.”

Of course these tantrums are 06 hew device, but a

“nursery hangover: which has served her well in: the

past. How did the family respond when she slapped, scratched and threw things? Were they terrified inte Submission, or did her father spank her? Whatever they did netted her considerable satisfaction or she wouldn't strive to repeat the experience in adult. life. 1t is difficult for parents to believe that some children like to be spanked, particularly when the spankings are followed by a great show of tenderness. Haven't you known people who provoke fights in order to ens joy the pleasures of making up? i Ba RS a: undignified 167 yous

| taste, try its equivalent in some other form of punish.

ment such as cold disapproval, or the absent treatment, Na'one has g tantrum without an audience to impress. If you walk out on her when she is angry, the chances are she will crawl back. It seems to me that her behavior is a bid for mas-

tery on your part. Some women like to be controlled

by a kind, but firm, hand and spend their lives trying tu incite mild husbands into: autocratic behayior. If you permit her to control:you instead, she will neither respect nor love you. . You might get some ideas by reading Shakespeare's Shrew.” =. JANE JORDAN.

Put your noite lh Iota 4a 36he: Jordan, who ‘will SBswer Your questions 1 this ssiums daly. pir vk a

when you 3 ) | tothe court of St. “James, Londen.

Joe has a sha iy afin be shoud snk magic cent in those. ee breeches: His Irish

After what he did in ‘Wall Street and Washington, the English had better watch out on that war debt settlement. Joe is one Jankee

Sipiouay who ests slvays perfér the misdle Of k into black. :

turning red ink ~ For peg