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: ‘From Indiana — Ernie Pyle Here's Wanderer's Success - Story: “From Rats to Lizards in 11 Years; How's Your Hawaiian Pronunciation?

JIONOLULU, Dec. 23.— The first night we “7 were in Honolulu we had a telephone call. It was from a girl we had known in New York 11 years ago. | She had seen our name in the papers and called all the hotels till she found us.” "She sald she didn’t really think we'd be at the big hotels unless we'd come up in the world a lo,

but she started there just as g sort of courtesy. ’ sie iv ~ When % knew her in New York,

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al we lived in a basement and there

were rats. Today we live "in ‘an apartment | half a story above ground, and little lizards scramble - all ‘around. From rats to lizards in 11 years. at's evolution. And here’s another “small world” jtem. The other morning Doc Adams, columnist on The Advertiser, wrote reminiscently of some of his boyhood doings back in Kansas. He told how he had aspired ; to be a great actor, and Low his Mr. Pyle young chum was going to bes a U. Ss. Supieme Cort Justice. Then he went on to tell how y he is a columnist way out here in. Honolulu and his old pal; Ed Dwyer, is a lawyer in Winnemucca, Nev. He said he hadn’t seen his old pal for more than 20 years. ~~ The funny part of it is—I haven’t met Doc Adams yet. but I spent Halloween night in Ed Dwyer’s house in Winnemucca. I must get around and tell Doc about Ed’s red silk smoking! jacke, and how he hates Democrats. <1 He lot of cities, such as Paris and Saigon (in French Indo-China). claim that if vou sit at their sidewalk cafes long enough, everybody you ever knew will ) ally come b | syontialy believe Sen American sitting in Honolulu would ‘encounter more people he knew than in any

other port in the world. | : of I know have just left here. Other people

J-know are on their way OVET. I've discovered four or five acquaintances right here now. And scads of “friends of friends.” |

Hawaiian Language ‘Too Simple

White people are always referred to in Hawali— :

even by themselves—as “haples.” That's the Hawaiian word: for whites. : “1 don’t believe I could ever learn the Hawaiian lange. AS one fellow who has lived here 15 years and

ant speak it says: “It’s just too simple. Everything 3 ” SO rly. 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet _=_ail the vowels, and the letters H, K,L,M N, PB; Ww. When. you make a whole | language out of iz letters, things are bound to sound pretty much alike. i For instance, up on the north side of the islan e other day, within a few miles of each other, were places named “Waialua,” “Waialee” and Haleiwa.” 1 just shut my eyes and drove on through. , The secret of learning to speak Hawaiian, they say. is learning not to accent anything. You Sonow pe Spanish pronunciation of lalk letters, and then just le her fly, without accenting a single syllable. hy “My only public boner so far. ran. as follows: 1 wanted to go to the corer of Waialae and Harding Sts. So I told the taxi He took me in what I knew was the right direction, and we hit Harding St. but couldn’ find Waialae. 1 had studied a city map and kneW it was one of the well-known streets. . Theh I figured maybe my pronunciation had thrown .. him off, so. I wrote it out, and showed it to him. : © Tough he said. “Wall lae St. He pronounced i

“Wy-ah-lle. ; a ne St” ‘But I had been pro- ¥ 5

yes,” sald I. nouncing it~ “Wah=ooley

‘We finally got there. |

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt : Stopover “in Philadelphia Starts "Reporter Begging for Reason Why. x 7ASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Aquitania

docked yesterday. As I drove to the pier I saw Her slowly coming up to the dock, looking very im-

| POSIPE 4 a Mitte chat with Kermit Roosevelt on the : or two other people EW. Piey 2 yd only a’ short time to wait and my brother was among the first people off the boat and ‘I had to run after him and cling to his coat tails to ‘keep him from getting through the customs and off the pier without me. | It was grand seeing him and I was glad I had this gpporiunity fo spend a little time with him immediately upon his‘arrival. Everyone is always so ‘much more ous to tell something of his impressions when he | first arrives. . Before leaving Ni York I called up a young friend of mine in Philadelphia to tell her I would stop. over for an hour and catch the next through train to Washington. | I thought that on such a brief visit I could get in and out without attracting any atténtion, but I was wrong. The photographers were at the station and as we hurried up the steps to find a taxi, a young reporter kept demanding to know why I. was in Philadelphia and what I was doing. He seemed incredulous when I insisted I had only stopped

off ‘to spend an hour before Christmas with a friend.

Puppy Is Holidays ‘Guest 2 2 I arrived in Washington in time to have a chat with the President and to greet Franklin Jr. who arrived by car with a 7-mdnths-old puppy. The puppy, a Great Dane, is gong to spend his Christmas holidays with us, back and forth. ° | This morning I had to catch up on all the various hatisehold and social arrangements for Christmas Eve aud Christmas Day. I was glad to have Franklin Jr. here to settle last details on the party they are fo have on Dec. 30. :

“Then a press conference with two foreign corre-

spondents present, one from Holland and one from Finland. Both of them are attractive young women filled with a desire to write truthfully about the United States, and yet they find the picture’a somewhat confusing one. I think it must be a tremendously difficult thing to grasp political and social" sit-

uations at the present time with a somewhat limited

knowledge of this country.

S ew Books Today. |

Public Library Presents— ~~ FOHN OGILVIE had reached his. |. SOUTH WIND OF LOVE (

winds of love affect his hero, is a complete novel, bul cance for the reader who has

on a Mediterranean island. ime and he spent three years with

Service in the islands of the |

Bethlehem,

3 fs Willthe support of-tifg- Arabs, #4 British promised them an inde-

e Franklin and Ethel journey

és when THE ( ) started blowing: through his life. he Second kof the tetralogy |

Italy and Germa

- By William Philip Simms

Times Foreign Editor : 3

ASHINGTON, Dec. 23.

> —Shepherds tending

their flocks at night, high in the Judean hills, saw a great light in‘the sky above

Christ. foal S “Look, my son!” cried an old man to a youth at his side. ‘The star of Bethlehem! God again sends his miracle to remind us that this is the season of peace on earth and good will among men.” “Father,” said the young man, “your eyes are growing old. That which you see is not a star, nor the sym-

bol of the Prince of Peace.

It is the navigating light of a British warplane practicing night bombing.” And so it was. For today, while p2oples around the earth are celebrating the birth of Jesus, the very essence of whose teaching was “love thy neighbor.” His natal land is a center of strife, of bloodshed and of preparation for war. Not only are Arabs and Jews at daggers drawn, but also Arabs and the British, to whom the Holy Land has become a strategic base and a vital link in the chain of Empire defense. # 8 2

ATCHING are Italy and Germany, whose dictators are waiting for the slightest slip whicia will give them an advantage over Britain, and, by the same tokeri, over the rest of Europe. For whoever controls the land where Christ was born and crucified may also control the eastern Mediterranean and with it the all-impo:’-tant Suez Canal. Thus anger, hate and fear of

another Armageddon, rather than .

tranquillity, love and peace reign this day in the Holy Land. And the way it happened was this: Britain came into the picture as a result of the World War. Palestine belonged to Turkey. Turkey took sides with Germany. This mbye, menacing Suez, through which poured British soldiers and supplies from India, Australasia and the Far East, made it necsssary. to carry the ‘war to ihe Turks ‘in ‘that area. 7 Enter Lawrence, of ‘Arabia. To

pendent Palestine. To win the

. support of the Jews, Britain prom-

ised them a national home—also in Palestine. In effect, Brifain gave to two different peoplz a horse which she did not own.

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HE" result has been trouble. After the war, the Arabs started pouring in. So did the Jews. Jews in the Holy Land, 150,00 of them in a new capital of Zion, Tel-Aviv. The others settled on the land, growing fruit and other crops. The Arabs quickly increased to one million. They objzscted to the Jewish immigrants. There were bloody clashes and raids on Jewish orchards. Many were killed. And things got worse, instead of better, as time went on. Last year the British realized something would have to be done. They had been given the Palestine mandate at Versailles. They vere responsible for peace and Order. So a royal commission, headed by Lord Peel, went out to investigate and report. This year the commission reported. Palestine, the report suggested, should be partitioned. Abou: twothirds of it would zo to the Arabs. The rest, with exceptions, would be turned over to the Jews. The holy cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth would remain under British mandate with a corridor to the sea, at Jaffa.

8 8 8 NSTEAD of calming the situation, the report merely poured oil on the fire. One faction: of the

birthplace - of - |

Soon there were 400,000;

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1987 or hh be

War Clouds Darken Holy Land

In the land where Christ gave his message of peace to the world, today steel helmeted British police use shields when they engage in battles with Aah rioters. This picture was taken in the streets of Jaffa,

“which would fall heir to, and rule,

the Arab portion—accepted the plan. And one faction of world Jewry accepted. But the rest of the Arabs and Jews | strenuously objected, the Arabs to the extent of creating a reign of terror wherein many were killed, including British officials. The most recent outbreak of violence due to Arab anger o0ccurred this ‘week. Armed men attacked the village of Sharaban, near the Syrian frontier, Monciay, and one person was slain in the rioting. EE A Jew was wounded the same day when a Jewish bus was fired on at Tiberias. Another ‘Jewish policeman on guard near the Kfarhattan . Jewish Settlement near Tiberias disappeared. ‘abs charge that Great Britain Ihtends to turn over the whole: country to the Jews. : The British

Arabs, refusing to believe or trust the British, are now up in arms, not so much against the Jewish population as against the “doublecrossing British.” = | Palestine - is virtually in a state of insurrection. The dissident Zionists hold that almost as many immigrants as can well be taken care of are already in Palestine. Yet throughout the world, particularly in central and

. eastern: Europe, are several mil-

lion more whose present is anything but bright and whose future is darker still. This faction asks for more territory. | : Of the 500 million inhabitants of the British Empire, more than 400 million belong to the darker races. Many of these are Moslems. If Britain ousted the Arabs from Palestine it would, play havoc throughout Islam. | Arabia is still the land of Mecca: : : a ; ATCHING . land waiting stand Mussolini and Hitler. Mussolini numbers many Moslems among. his own (followers. across the Mediterranean in Libya. Daily, from Bari, at the heel of the Italian boot, go forth wireless programs in Arabic—messages ‘of friendship the tenor of which is that the Duce is a protector of Islam. - If the British fumble in Palestine, it will prove costly. Egyptians, too, belong to the faithful, and Suez would find itself in the middle of an Islamic hornet’s nest. | : So today, as the eyes of the Christian world turn toward Bethlehem and talk of the Star which, 1937 years ago, led the Three Wise Men to the cradle of the infant

Jesus, all is turmoil there. The

Arab = population—the faction

-Holy Land has been caught in the

Side Glances—By Cla rk

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the “semphatiecally - deny: this. Bubithe "..

In Jerusalem this Christmas season. feeling runs’ froops guarding the Jewish section are shown - a‘recent outbreak of Arab-Jewish rioting.

high between Arabs and ' Jews.

dangerous swirl of international politics. LE Above the River Jordan, above Galilee, above Sidon and Tyre, | from Dan to Beersheba, the air is aquiver’ with wings. But not of angels bearing the Christmas message of peace and good will. - The wings are the wings. of war.And on them rides a message of conflict and death.

See this page tomorrow for—

SANTA CLAUS ON WAY TO QUINS

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE furniture. moving fever is a purely feminine ailment, -althdugh men often suffer consequences. It attacks at the most unand . inconvenient moments, probably when your plans for the day are all made and anly wait-

; { ling to be carried out. Perhaps you| |

walk casually into: a. bedroom on some trivial errand’ and Bing!—

how that would: look on the other

side of the room?” Wonder soon he-1{

the picture you work up te the bed and the dressing table and every

around until

Here >

comes action, and from changing] |

id Watch Britain’s Struggle in Palestine

Palestine, this year when five Jews were killed and 23 injured in attacks by Arabs on the Jewish quarters of the city: New clashes bziween

Jews and Arabs have occurred this week.

Entered as at Postoffice.

Times-Acme: Photos. : of the city during

cond-Class Matter BO iis Ind

Heard In Congress—

make to such an argument? ; : I'll tell you. Tony would say:

than notting. If yow can help one peepia, is Bernard, I no understand thata kind business.”

Rep. Bernard (F.-L. Minn.); I have a constituent back home who is a good American in spite of his Italian accent. If I told this old friend, “Tony, 1 opposed the plan to abolish child labor because it, only helps half a million people,” what answer do you think Tony would

_ “Mistre Bernard, whassa matter? You meana to tella me you not: vota for dissa bil because it joosta help halfuna million peepla? Whassa matter you no fixum up so help five milliona—ten milliona—peepla?

If you no’ can fixum up, atsa better to help halfuna milliona peepla | pully ‘good. Mistre |

Jasper—By Frank Owen.

other object in the room. You| RK) heave and push and haul the stuff] }§ il larol atil everything is in a ter-} { |rible mess, but you can’t stop. Your | | | bones ache, your feet are tired and | {is | [you're ready to drop, but no power |-. on ‘could

“date. She found it out and got mad at me.

|: Pat your problems in a . snswer vour questions in this column daily.

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‘Second Section

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Our By Anton Scherrer

Large Number of Local Bachelors Led to Boom In Building of Flats; Stork at Last Cheated Tradition.

you bet Indianapolis sat ‘up and took notice when Lew ‘Wallace announced he

was going to invest some of his “Ben Hur”

royalties in the building of a skyscraper flat at the corner of Meridian and Vermont Sts.

That was back in 1895.

Up to that time the only real flat we knew anything about was the three-story one built somewheira arobind 1885 at the corner of Delaware and Michigan Sts. evious to that time we had’ : what were known as “rows.” They were just that—long ‘rows of two or three-story houses, the unitsiof which were held together by a common wall, or a “party wall,” as it was called. Blackford’s Row, for instance, was on the site of the Merchants Bank Building, and Wilmot’'s Row was Wmewhere around Washington and es o 1 Oo They might just a3 well have MF Scherrer been called Bachelor Halls because it was that breed of men who, as a rule, occupied the floors above the storerooms. : As a matler of fact, I doubt whether the building of flats would have had its early start if it hadn't heen for the alarming number of bachelors around ere. s At any rate, the problem of housing bachelors be=came so acute at one time that there weren’t enough rows to take care of them. That's when they overflowed into the roosts of the Glenn Block (the old New York Store), and the Vance Block (the present Indiana Trust Building). Misogamists like Mayor Caven and Simo ‘Yandes, for instance, were forced to. live like that. v : I don’t know whether the inhibitions of bachelors | had anything to do with it or not, but it remains a | fact that when it came time to build the Blacherne a rumor spread around Indianapolis that Gen. Wallace wouldn't permit any children in his new building. I guess there was some truth in it, because as near as I remember, the Blacherne started off with its apartments filled with childless couples—and bachelors, of course. . Indeed, it wasn’t until 1905—10 years after the building was up—that anybody "heard about a kid in the Blacherne.

Chose Smart Way to Get In

You'll die when you hear how he got in. He was | born there. It was a great joke on Mr. Wallace, and |

|] it got everybody to wondering what his next move,

would-be. There wasn’t any moving at all, because the. way things worked out, Mr. Wallace treated the whole affair as if he hadn't heard about his new tenant. : : Immediately, the town split into two factions. One held that Gen. Wallace's good side got the better

of him. The other faction said it wasn’t anything of

the sort, and held that he saw the handwriting on the wall.

~~ To prove it, they cited the case of a landlord in

Chicago who just a week before had attracted na= tional attention and the commendation of Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt by opening an antiracesuicide flat. He called it “The Stork’s Nest,” and had his rentals graduatedion a sli Scale. The family having. three children didn’t $ave to "pay | as much as the one with only two, and. so on until the family with 20 kids didn’t have to pay any rent | at all. | I'm sure I don’t know which faction: was right. | All I know is that ever since the kid picked the Blacherne as his birthplace, things Have been dif-

{| ferent around here. ;

I'm told, however, that 5-year-old. boys stand a better chance of geiting into Indianapolis apartments than 15-year-olds, |

Jane Jordan—

Jane Warns Girls Against Taking Possessive Attitude Toward Men.

PER JANE JORDAN-—I am in love with a very nice young man and I think he cares a lot for me, but he is drifting back to his old girl friend. I am 16 and so is she; the man is 23. He has plenty of money, a fine car and relatives of whom I am very “tond. He won't tell me the reaspn for his going back fo the other girl and I don’t think he really knows himself. She is going with anéther boy but thinks more of mine than she does of her own. She says I am her best friend, but surely'I am not or she wouldn't treat nre as she does. What shall I do? Give up the only man I ever loved to my girl friend or try to get him to think more of me than he does of her? i r PF. R. B.

Answer—Your girl friend’s motto is “after me you come first.” That's the way it .is with most people,

. and if you're quite honest with yourself, I think you'll

find it is your attitude, too. We like our friends to give -up for us, but when the shoe is on the other foot we feel. the same reluctance to give up our ‘own desires tor our friends. When a man enters the picture it is every girl for herself. : | ‘. You have a perfect right to do your utmost to out-charm your girl friend in the eyes of your beau, but it is not very smart of you to show jealousy or ‘ask the man why he wants to see the other girl. Men dislike "inquiry into their personal feelings and motives, although women appear to dote on it. Most men have been ‘bossed to death by their mothers and when a girl gets possessive it sounds like more of the same to their ears and it’s irritating. By I imagine that you concentrate too hard on wine

- ning him. It is much more sensible to. interest your-

self in another boy even if he is second choice. A rival is a challenge to a man, who responds to competition more readily than to an easy conquest. Try not to be so transparent. atomistic Mea : 8 88 Rg ar Dear Jane Jordan—My best girl friend goes with ‘a boy named B. Saturday night B asked me for a next ed her ce she

Monday at school she wouldn't speak, I s what she was mad about and in a sarcastic

| said, “Why don’t you go with someone beside your

cousin?” ; Yar es My father’s cousin ‘married B's father.

"| my cousin, or even any relation at all? B Il | each other very much and want your advice

to do. Should we forget?

_ . Answer—Your relationship Is too remgte to worry

481 | about. Why let a jealous girl upset you

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JANE JORDAN. Bateau LE fits! letter to Jane Jordan, who

J ONDON, Dee 23.—One day last week King George + and Queen Elizabeth attended a matinee and they re EB aiie eve he

| audience looking up at thie: actors on the | . they probably were he

There could be no

greater cure for #h American put him back of the footiights