Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1937 — Page 18

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£3 Homecoming Is Bigger Ordeal Than Leave-Taking Among Maori People; Here's How a Professor Does It.

: So HeoNoLuLy, Dec. 22.—Dr. Peter Buck ia told me a touching story as we sat in his" office in the Bishop Museum, the-story of what happens when he goes back to F*- home town. |

You must remember that Dr. Buck is a man of the world. He is as 20th Century as a Broadway first-nighter, and as human as a golfer. And his knowledge is immense. For 20 years he has been 2 wandering -among the great countries of the earth. He has had the advantages of high education... He speaks many languages. He is equally at home in New York and London and Honolulu and Wellingn.

But when Dr. Peter Buck goes back to the:-little Maori village in New Zealand where he was born, all the above is as naught. He must go back home as his people have gone for centuries. ; Dr. Buck would not dare go back to New Zealand. and simply drive up to his old home in a car, and get out and shake hands and say “How you all been?” Ne. He must send some relative a cable, telling just when he will arrive. This word is then spread about the countryside. “Several hundred relatives and old community friends get the word that he is arriving. : * Fe - He is met, and escorted to his home town. All the villagers have taken the day off, and are assembled in the old community hall. Dr. Buck has to make a sort

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of state entrance into the midst of this silent throng.’

He has not yet dared say “hello” to anybody. Now the homecoming ceremony starts. First, they weep for those who have died since Dr. Buck was home last. They weep literally, publicly, liquidly and out loud. Peter Buck is modern now, and he can’t turn it on and off the way his ancestors could. But he says there is an emotionalism about it that does carry you away. -« Var :

At Last He Says Hello

The weeping done, there comes a series of speeches

in which tribute is paid to the dead. Half a dozen {

men speak. They call over, by name, the people who. have died since Dr. Buck’s last visit. Dr. Buck stands and listens solemnly. Zig : Finally the last one is through and there is an awful silence, and everybédy Tooks toward Dr. Buck. Now he must speak. And ‘in Maork ef course. The very first thing, he, too, must grest the dead. Personally’ greet the.dead, and by name, as though they were standing there in front of him. He must

- speak in phrases that flower with rhythm and soft-

ness. . The hardest part is that Dr. Buck has been away so long he never even knew half the people who have died So he has to pay such close attention to the first speakers that he can remember the name of every individual who has passed on, and actually greet that person by name and wish him happiness in his new home of death. Dr. Buck can do it. Finally: the ceremony is done, ‘and then, at long last, Dr. Buck is greeted by his family and all his friends and everybody else. And how he is greeted! For the Maoris, still today, greet by rubbing noses! A great line forms and then Dr. Peter Buck, a Yale professor, the director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, stands there and rubs noses with some 300 people who file past.

Dr. Buck says it is very funny. But he doesn’t say

"it in a disrespectful way. And I am sure it is no

funnier than some of the things we must do when we go back home, or our children will have to do when they, in turn, come home to us in future years. even eo ——————

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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Magician Delights Children While Parents Eye Gold Coins Wistfully.

EW YORK, Tuesday—A little girl with black . LN curly hair was standing up with the magician who was doing some trick when I reached the Women’s Trade Union League yesterday. Whatever it was, it seemed to delight the children, for peals of

laughter rang out. A little later, the, magician col-

lected gold | pieces from the youngsters ears, noses,

collars and sleeves, and again they were overjoyed. I thought I saw a gleam of wistful desire on the faces of some of the mothers as these gold pieces dropped with a clink into the metal container. None of the grown-ups had seen so much gold in many a long year and I looked around apprehensively for the Secretary of the Treasury or one of his representatives.

Eats Cake and Paper Both

While we were talking, ice cream and cake were handed to the children. In the front row sat some very wee boys and girls. The .cakes were in paper containers and I suddenly saw the smallest child in front of me eat her cake, paper and all! I find you acquire new ideas every year as you give parties. This year the giving out, of presents was so well arranged by Miss Rose Schneiderman and the staff at the league, that everything went with absolute precision. ae ‘ "I spent a happy evening with a friend.’ We always try to get together for an evening sometime

. before: Christmas, but I find that these traditional

gatherings are not always ‘the happy occasions we look forward to. One of us may not be in just the mood for a pleasant dinner and an evening of conversation, and then the whole party is spoiled. But last night all went well and I felt the true spirit of Christmas reigned

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Revolt Clouds New Deal F

Congress’ Defeat of Wage-Hour Bill Blow at Roosevelt Program

By Thomas L. Stokes :

‘Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON,

Deal’s future the capital has -'I'wo glaring facts stand

tleground over New Deal obj

lowing, at least so far as A. a revolt of their forces in the

solidarity hitherto has been strength. | Thus both. the political and economic foundations of the party have been split in two. | Implicit in the wage-hour vote was a warnifg- to the Administration that a continued split in “labor's ranks may produce other ° unwelcome -political results, nat only legislatively but in next year's Congressional elections. eo One of the first results of the House reverse on this major Administration measure should ke renewed interest in peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. ss a : TEE _Wage-Hour Bill “will be “Lan issue in the 1938 Congressional elections,” declared a statement from Labor's Nonpartisan League, the political offshoot of C I O which was helpful to the President in last-November’s landslide. © Mir: President William: Green and the A. F. of L. are interested in another labor issue—amendment of the Wagner [.abor Act, which the A. F. of L. cdmplains has. been administered in a discriminating manner by. the National Labor Relations Board. It | is sponsoring amendments in both House and Senate. Undoubtedly the A. F of L. stccess in killing the Wage-Hour Bill will encourage 1t. to press this other move. Thus far the Administration has resisted any tampering with the Wagner act. : The A. P. of L. will exert its ‘nfluence in Congress in the coming regular session only on matters affecting its interests, but the Southern Democrats who have achieved their first successful revolt may exert themselves all along the’ legislative front. | Hostility to the’ New Deal is growing and has become vocal in the lobbies. The Southern Representatives. arg generally conservative, with ‘an exception here and there. Hitherto they have not been successful in translating their views into action. bi 2 8 8

UT on the Wage-Hour Bill they found themselves in a winning coalition with Republicans and some conservative -Democrats from other sections. |

' Now they have seen the Fresi-

dent take two decisive defeats in the course of a few months—the Senate defeat of the Supreme Court Bill and the House defeat of the wage-Hour Bill. a The scope of the Southern de- . sevtion of the Wage-Hour Bill was reflected in the vote on recommittal, in which only eight of 80 Democrats from the “Old South” stood by the Administration’s attempt to keep the bill before the House. To these eight, Texas. added seven, making a total of 15 from 11 Southern States which have 101 Members in the House. ‘These 15 included Speaker Bankhead (Ala) and Floor Leader Rayburn (Tex.), who have | lived through a veritable nightmare in recent days as they sought to rally their. forces .and finally found themselves unable to stem the tide when William Green entered the fray personally with telegrams to «

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WAR CLOUDS DARKEN HOLY LAND |

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1987

Dec. 22,—Speculating about the effect of the Wage-Hour Bill’s defeat on the New

nothing but gloomy forecasts. out:

1. The Southern wing of his party deserted Presi dent Roosevelt almost en bloc and celebrated the revolt so cockily, in a rebel yell and congratulatory gatherings, that the House henceforth promises to become a perpetual bat-

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- 9. The conservative wing of the President’s labor fol- . of L. leaders go, maneuvered

House, with a few notable ex-

ceptions, that bodes no good for the New Deal. Labor

a bulwark of the President’s

William Green, American Federation of Labor president, was largely responsible for the recommitting of the House Wage-Hour Bill to the Labor Committee. Mr. Green lobbied heavily against the much-amended House measure.

every member urging recommittal. i ” ” ” OT a single member from ; Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana or Arkansas stood by the Administration. Among other things, the Southerners began to talk of a movement to reinstate in 1940 the old two-thirds nominating rule for Democratic national conventions

whereby the South formerly had |

a veto un candidates. The Philadelphia convention repealed the rule last year. : Repeal of this rule has been a constant sore spot in recent months as Southerners began to realize that they had been shorn of power to move against Mr. Roosevelt, should he decide to seek a third term in 1940, or "against a Roosevelt choice of the New Deal type for the nomination. s : The Administration’s defeat on the Wage-Hour Bill revealed again the President’s inability to impress upon ‘ Congress the full impact of the voters who reelected him overwhelmingly last November.

Heard in Congress—

Senator Thomas (D. Okla.): At one of the hearings a farmer of about 65 years of age came before us. He had on a pair of patched overalls. He had on a shirt that was not patched but was badly worn. He had no suspenders, no coat, no vest. He had on a pair of worn shoes, and-no socks. He testified he had raised cotton all his life. He testified that he had raised enough cotton so that if woven it would put a belt around the earth. Then he said, “These are the only clothes I have.” Another man testified that if they would take a blood test, his blood test would show 98 ‘per cent water gravy. That means that this man has to eat his flour stirred into water, and then warmed.

Low wage scales are reflected in slum housing conditions of the South, according to proponents of

the Wage-Hour Bill who argued

their legislation

Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama (left), leader of the

dministration fight for the Black-Connery Wage-Hour Bill in the House, was one of only 15 Southern Representatives who voted to

save the bill from recommitment.

. Entered as Second-Class Matte at ' Postoffice, Indianapolis.

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would help to abolish such living conditions as are . shown in this photograph and which are common ‘through many Southern states.

Majority Floor Leader Samuel Rayburn of Texas (above) helped

lead the Administration fight for

the Wage-Hour Bill.

Labor Relations Laws Enacted by Half of States in Last Year

By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Laws regulating some phase of em-ployer-employee relationship have been enacted. in more. than half of the states within the last year, the

legislative output in this field far

exceeding that of any previous 12month period both in volume and in importance. S . The preoccupation of state legislatures with the subject of labor relations is attributable primarily to: (1) the rapid growth of the labor movement during the upswing in the business cycle; (2) the increase in labor disputes by which this growth has been marked, and (3) the precedent created by the enactment of such Federal legislation as the Norris-La Guardia AntiInjunction Law and the Wagner Labor Relations Act. : Nearly all of the new state laborrelations legislation is favorable to organized labor and was placed on the statute books at its behest. Laws adopted in Massachusetts, Tennessee and Vermont outlawing sitdown strikes represented the only legislation restricting union activies. : Of outstanding importance to labor was the adoption in five states—Massachusetts, New York, ‘Pennsylvania, Utah and Wisconsin —of “little Wagner Acts” setting up state labor-relations boards with powers similar to those exercised by the Federal Board. = .

” 8 A LAW restricting the authority tions in labor disputes, modeled

of state courts to issue injuncafter the Norris-La Guardia Act,

was adopted in Pennsylvania, while

Utah and Wyoming enacted legisla-

tion proscribing the issuance of in-.

Junctions to restrain peaceful pick-

eting.

pute. : :

Pennsylvania adopted a measure regulating the appointment of deputy sheriffs, under which sheriffs are requested to file an affidavit, 10 days before appointing any deputy

‘sheriff, certifying that the appointee

is a citizen, has been a resident: of the county for two years, has never been convicted of ag crime, and has not been employed as a private detective or company guard during the previous two years. Utah enacted a law requiring registration of strikebreakers with the State Industrial Commission and a law prohibiting the deputizing as peace officers of employees ‘of an employer involved in ‘a labor dis-

a ” 2 2 AWS expressly legalizing combinations of workmen to improve conditions of employment constitute the earliest type of state legislation in the field of labor relations. Labor combinations had been held lawful in a decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, in 1842, but for several decades afterward. their activities had been successfully’ attacked through the invocation of conspiracy laws, which were on the statute books in every state. It was labor’s demand for repeal of the conspiracy laws which led to the enactment in a few states, in the late 1860's and the 1870s, of statutes giving explicit legal standing to unions. : Beginning with New York in 1887, 22 states’ enacted laws making it a criminal offense for employers to discharge or refuse to employ workmen for membership in labor unions, and an antidiscrimination provision was’ included in the Federal Railroad Conciliation Act of 1898. All of these laws were rendered inoperative after several were

States Supreme Court and a number of state supreme courts. 8 8 8 teh ‘A FTER passage in 1914 of . the A Clayton Act, which established. the legality of labor unions and enumerated acts: which should not be enjoined by the courts, labor was successful in obtaining enactment of similar legislation \in a number of states. Neither the Clayton Act nor the state laws modeled after proved, however, to be affective. Provisions allowing issuance of injunctions where necessary to prevent “irreparable injury” to property rights left wide loopholes. Labor’s efforts to obtain enactment of effective anti-injunction legislation finally were rewarded in 1932, with passage by Congress of the NorrisLa Guardia Act. Since passage of the Federal law, 16 states have enacted measures applying some or all of its provisions to labor disputes in intrastate commerce.

At the beginning of the depression only four states—Coloracic, Massa-

.chusetts;, New York and Pennsyl-

vania—were active in adjusting labor disputes, but within the last few years an increasing number of state governments have ' taken -a| hand in the settlement of labor controversies. At this year’s|legislative sessions, eight states either set up new machinery or strengthened existing conciliation, arbitration and mediation services. { : Bills providing for the ‘establishment of state labor relations boards, with power- to protect workers in free exercise of the right of self-or-ganization for the purpose of collective bargaining, were ofitred in 17 state legislatures this yest and were enacted in five states. = A measure approved by both houses of the Michigan Legislature, strongly opposed by orgahized labor,

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Side Glances—By

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1 “She's been horridk. 1 el her Santa won't bring, her a thing if | have eep binging out her presents now, fo get her fo eat."

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs.’ Walter Ferguson HE superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga., goes everybody one better by publicly declaring

that divorced persons should not be|

allowed to instruct the young. Mr. Sutton believes and announces hat those who have failed in the greatest adventure in life are not capable of guiding the. young. Now this strikes us as pretty drastic medicine. It would be as sensible to say that no divorced per-

son could be a good .parent—and|

we happen to know many who are. . We get the point, ‘of course. Example is better than- precept.” There is much truth in that trite saying. Unless family life can be based upon the ideal of the “until death do us part” theory, and teachers can be an inspiration to those they teach, we won't make much headway talking to the youngsters. They must be shown that a part of the good life rests upon certain fundamental principles of righteousness, the keeping of vows, the practice of loyalty and self-control and unselfishness. We ought to be able to show them that we are at least trying to set up positive values and

to abide by noble rules.” To put the burden of divorce upon the teacher, however, is to begin at the wrong end of » the problem. Children get their standards from the home, not from the Their parents are the responsible

individuals in this divorce busi- |

ness. unfashionable.

from unpleasant duty.

{ Divorce has become fashionable; | it must be made Why? Not for moral reasons alone but because divorce offers such an. easy way for the adult to run away

held unconstitutional by the United

Jasper—By. Frank Owen

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wr wi Cadi a : 5 j “Kick out some more books, Jasper—the pancakes are running low!"

was vetoed by Governor Murphy.

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ur Town By Anfon Scherrer

Story of the Enterprising Baker Proves Law of Supply and Demand; Even Mice Know Thair Economics.

ATE A. THOMPSON, who used toteach civics at Manual, took time off one day to dip into the field of political economy and explain the ancient law of supply and demand. Most of the kids caught on right

away, because they remembered what happened to the baker on Virginia Ave. He was a mighty good baker, at a time when we had a lot of good bakers around here, and he was very proud of his work. Es-- A pecially was this true around the end of the year when he had his show window piled high with Christmas cakes. : : ~ One year, however, his work almost went for naught. That was because it. was cold outside and warm witifin the bakery. This had

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the effect of frosting his show win-

dow which, of course,- was -serious because it kept- his windows from contributing to the- Christmas spirit, to say nothing of keeping -the world from seeing what he had to sell. : The baker spent sleepless nights trying to figure out a way of licking nature, ‘and finally hit on a scheme of using an electric fan in his Christmas window to keep it from frosting over. It worked, but it cost’ more than he had figured on, and .set him to thinking some more. This time he figured that a mouse on a tread mill would do the same thing without costing him a cent for current. He set to work rigging up an .endless belt with a. baited cheese, and then dis covered that his shop was in such apple pie order that rr wasn’t a mouse anywhere around to run it. ai That’s when he put a sign in his window offering to pay a penny apiece for healthy able bodied mice who were willing:to work for their living. For some réason he didn’t get a nibble. : Higher Bid Brings the Mice Next day he changed the sign to read “a nickel apiece.” Almost immediately a kid showed up with 28 mice. Sure, he collected $1.45. Whereupon the baker geared the fan to the mice, and turned off the elec= tricity. You bet our eyes popped Jvhen we saw a colony of mice trapped in a baker’s show winruow filled with Christmas cakes. Well, the mice worked all day and half the night trying to reach the cheese. When they fell exhausted the fan stopped running, and the window began to frost over again. At this point, the baker said

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- he was willing to pay a dime for a mouse. Soon as the

kids heard the news, they turned up in swarms with enough mice to run a fan until doomsday. Immediately, the bottom fell out of the market with the result that the kids had most of the mice on their hands. It made the kids so mad that they didn’t even go to the trouble of taking the mice back to their original home. They just turned them loose. That raised cain, of course, and the next thing we saw was a sign in a butcher’s shop a block away of fering to pay 25 cents for a cat to rid his premises of the cast-off mice. } : Well, that brought forth a steady procession of small boys carrying cats, with the result that before the day was done the price of cats tumbled to nothing. I don't know where the thing would have ended if it hadn’t been for the short winter we had that .year. Anyway, before we knew it, spring was upon us, which, of course, did away with the problem of defrosting windows. .

Jane Jordan— Man Is Flattered When He Sees

Self Magnified in Woman's Eyes. EAR JANE JORDAN-—I was married when I was 17 and have a darling daughter of 8. I was divorced when I was 24. I realize now that if I had the same views then that I have now I could have made a go of it. I am nice looking, know how to wear clothes, have a good job and a nice home, but still there is just something wrong. I can’t gét interested in anybody for more than just a few dates. In the last three years I have only met one man who stands out. He was here recently from New York and I was introduced to him the last three days he was here. I saw him every night and he met me for lunch. He said that if he was here all the time that we would see a great deal of each other. He will be back here for one night in a couple of weeks and he has made arrangements to see me that night. How can I ime press him enough so that he won’t forget me? Even though I have had only a few dates with him, I know I could care a great deal about him. He is going back to New York from here; so it will-be a long time before I see him again, if ever. I would like for him to remember me as more than just a date in Indian apolis. : : X. X.

Answer—I do not know how men can be made remember. So much depends on the man, his likes and dislikes, aims and purposes, that a general answer is practically useless. Even if I knew the man and had a clear idea of what he would be most likely remember about a woman, I could not tell you h to be that woman. . A A general fact which may be of use to you is m preference for the woman who makes him most conscious of his own masculinity. When he looks into a woman’s eyes and sees his own image magnified to twice its natural size, he is not apt to forget what he sees there. In a world where competition is keen and sometimes hostile, & man gets his ears knocked down far too often for comfort. It is. exceptionally soothing to him to find one woman who believes in his superiority and power. Z

” 2 2 Dear Jane Jordan—I have a notion that you are kidding about Jasper; but if you aren't I will explain. The humor in that cartoon lies in the results of Jasper’s escapades which you imagine. For example: “Jasper is sitting on a roller skate ‘rolling over one fender after another in a string of cars. His mother tells him that the fifth car ahead has one fender missing. Can’t you see him making the nine fenders only to shoot out into space? Isn't it humorous to realize that his mother tells him about the fender instead of yelling “Jasper, don't do that?” : ¢ It-is the extraordinary things Jasper does: plus the unusual reaction of his folks to such an act, plus your own imagination of what the consequences will be that. create this subtle humor. © This reminds me of an attempt I once made to write an essay on the abstract judgment. ' G.ED

Answer—In other words Jasper is popular because ty? : JANE JORDAN.

. Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. #3 .

| Walter O'Keefe—

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