Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1938 — Page 9
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From oa Pyle
~ Wanderer's. First Night in Leper Settlement Is a Sleepless One; But Daylight Dispels Unreality.
Katavrara Island of Molokai, Hawaii, 7 Jan. 1.—My first afternoon and night i in the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement form a period of time which i is now almost a dream,
We sei in a new Chevrolet
sedan, smoked cigarets and talked about, things in. Honolulu. But’ my thoughts were not on Honolulu. I was peering ahead, filled .with an eager but fearful: anticipation. The first-thing I saw was symbolic... It was the rusted hulk of an ‘old -freighter, lying in the surf just off the rocky shore. It was twisted, and keeled half on its side. It went aground six years ago, and lies there today close to the other Gent, th th dead—li 1 ese—the other —lie alMr. Pyle most on the beach, on a rise a few feet above the rocky shoreline. There is ceme‘tery after cemetery. They adjoin, and they stretch on and on until they impinge upon your consciousness like the beating of a funeral drum. I could not even guess at the thousands buried there. We began to pass cottages along the beach. The . patients are not confined to the village—they can live or wander anywhere on the arrow-shaped peninsula they wish. : . Then we met cars. I felt ashamed to look, - but could not help it. Some of the occupants seemed : perfectly normal. But beside them would sit others horrible tolook upen. ~ We drove into the “staff compound, ” in the center “of the settlement, and carried my bags into my room. Zhen we went for our first trip- through the setement.
A Framed Masterpiece
. Through a gap in the flowering foliage, a hundred feet or so away out on the green grass of the lawn, at twilight, we saw an old man. His wide black t was on his head, his cane on his arm, his gray .beard a contrast against his Blagk clothing. He was standing there alone, absorbed and un- { aware of this world—an old priest, intently reading his Bible. We watched for a minute, and-then he closed * his Book and walked rapidly down the road. It seemed to me-there was contamination -everywhere. In the air, in everything you touched, in mere sight and thought. not even danger—but an invisible and innocent evil ‘ flowing everywhere. Bedtime came. The freshly laundered sheets smelled of disinfectant. I khew they had never been " seen or touched by leprous patients—but the odor: of precaution was there, remindful. ! I couldn’t sleep. . The darkness was terrifically still.
= ~ No sound was in the atmosphere but the roar of the
/ ocean on the rocks, and the oreasiorial crow of a ‘patient’s rooster. A whirl of maladjustment-was in my brain, and -. all night I tossed and rolled, sleeping as little as I have slept in many years. And still I was not afraid. ‘My night was a phantom of unreality, as though 1 had gone on to the world beyond. That is the way I felt the first night. Now, I do not feel that way at all. Today I am easily at home in a community of people who, like most of us, take things ds they come and are not extraordinarily un- . happy; and Eo, like all of us, are going to die some
By Ws Eleanor Roosevelt
. Old Year Could Recite Our a and Buoy ‘Our Hopes.
ASHINGTON, Friday.—An evening for jollification, .for gathering of friends and relatives— B New Year's Eve. Just at midnight we’ll toast the New i Perhaps we'll sing a verse ‘of “Auld Lang - Syne,” and then what? . . I seem to remember when one made resolutions for : the new year. Do you? That required some review of the Old Year. I wonder, if we sat down te interview this ancient, what he would have to say to us? Ee The conversation might run along like this:
| “Surely you looked about the world? You are at peace, aren’t you? I've known something they call a -~ business recession during the last few months, and some folks are much worried. But they still seem to ‘eat three meals a day. A great many people who are dependent on the worriers aren't faring as well, but still there is a feeling of hope in the land and that is something to be thankful for.” “Old Year, if we're beginning again, what resolu- * tions .would you want us to make?” “I'd want you to resolve to keep your hopes.: But aad to your resolve self-sacrifice, a determination to work hard, not always for personal gain. Above all, to preserve a sense of humor an of proportion in the ‘business of living.”
‘Editorial Offers Lesson
This conversation behind us, we'd turn to meet the baby New Years We'd give him our hand, our promise to co-operate, and each one of us would start out to discover the first step in fulfillment of that
~ promise. I'A- few of us might take to heart a paragraph I found in a magazine editorial. It reads: “Our wealthy “eitizens paid the relief bill. ‘They furnished the ‘wherewiths’ necessary to keep people from suffering. : They were the donors of the dole on those occasions.” If. this were a continued custom, how happy we would be. Taxes could come down, the budget would i balanced. Dear Mr. Writer, the New Year would perfect.’ As‘ a practical woman, however, this seems to me to bé putting a huge burden on a comparatively small 3 gd of individuals. This New Year business is up 3 of us. Suppose we resolve to do whatever we ‘do with the best that is in us, to consider the other fellow’s job @s well as our own and to ask for.a. fair deal all d, with special privileges to none. The baby New ear might. not understand, at first, just: what he was getting, But the results would soon be apparent so we could go to bed on New Year's Eve, ‘sleep dreamJessly, and awake to say with truth: to all and sundry, “A hapoy New Year to you. The world is a mew
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E q=. JOSHUA CLUNK didn’t believe in letting anything intefere with his plans. . The fact the man he was inyestigating was. found murd was interesting but of little importance. ScotYard, however, became unreasonably concerned . the movements of the hymn-singing criminal
Not uncleanliness, not foulness,
“Old Year, have we anything to be thankful for?”
~ fearing Italy’s rise in the Mediter-
Second Section
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1938
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Presents a Deadly Parallel With Situation Just Before Wor
By ‘Milton Brotner
~ ONDON, Jan. 1 rine antars the new’ year. with a sickening realization that its situation has’ deadly parallels to: that which preceded the ‘World War, . On New Year of 1919, just 19 years ‘ago, the bells
over.
_ pealed loud with hope, for the terrible four-year war was
Ideals, largely American-born, gave hope ‘that the
holocaust would justify itself by ending war, by making a world safe for democracy, and by creating a League of - Nations which would settle peacefully those disputes which
had in the past brought war. Today all those bright hopes seem a monstrous irony. The League of Nations is becoming .a mere" hulk. The United States never. joined. Japan, Italy and Germany have
left it, and only three great powers, Great Britain, France
and Russia, remain. It has set- -
tled some wars and troubles in small countries. But it could not stop Italy from conquering its feliow member, Abyssinia, nor Japan from devastating its fellow member, China.
Nothing Democratic There T no: time in modern history
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has the world been so un- -
safe for democracy. Germany,
Italy and Portugal are: Fascist 3
totalitarian states; Russia is a Communist totalitarian’ state.
There is nothing in the “strong”
_ regimes - of ' ‘Austria, Bulgaria, Esthonia, Greece, Hungary, Lat‘via, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania or Yugoslavia that an American
or Canadian‘ would recognize as democratic. The totalitarian states, proclaiming the right to have any kind of government they want, announce at the same breaththeir right and determination to interfere in the affairs of other states. The horror of a possible new world war that all agree wculd make the world. unsafe for civilization, hangs over Europe. The parallels between the present and ‘the period of 25 years ago that ushered in the first World War, are many and sinister.
~The Race to Arms
N the five years before. 1914,
Kaiserist Germany, proclaim- ° ing /its fear of being encircled by,
hostile. powers, had its ‘Triple Alwith Austro-Hungary and Ttaly. ‘Today Nazi Germany; proclaiming its fear of encirclement, has another “triple alilance, : this. time with Italy and Japan. Opposite. to . it stands. close agreement between France and Britain; and ‘between France and Soviet Russia, just as in" those days stood the Triple Entente of Britain, France and Russia. In the years before 1914 there was a terrific armament race. Today’s arms race makes it look small by comparison. Italy, ‘once. the weak sister in alliances, has an enormous army a powerful air force, and a great fleet. Germany, rushing to arms at great speed, may soon have an army as great as that. of the Kaiser, is building a modern fleet, and has an tmmensely strong air force. Russia, on paper at least, is one of the heaviest-armed nations in the world, with a far more powerful, efficient; and self-support-ing army than that of the Tsar. France is spending $700,000,000
in 1938 to improve an. already
strong army, navy, and air force. | ;,/' toouards of the antitrust laws, | Hoov
“| but Le held that they still stood “lagainst monopolies . that restrained
Great Britain, fearing Germany's resurgent demand for lost colonies,
ranean, worried by Japanes: threats to her position in:the Far
East, is cooly planning to spend seven and a half billions” cu a
See This Page Monday: for ‘John T. Flynn Charts The Trade Year!
Side’ Glances—By Clark .
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2: plied. 3¥ ‘| offered an amendment to the pend-.
program that is
five-year arms withous. parallel. ® »
Sinister Paragraphs JUST as Lord Haldane went to «J Germany in 1912 to talk about
. limiting ‘navies, so Lord Halifax
went recently to Germany to discuss colonies. Just as, in the years preceding 1914, statesmen scurried - about from country to eountry, and kaisers, emperors and kings met with great pomp ‘and ceremony, forming alliances ‘and seeking to checkmate others, so, in 1937, with: more grandiose ceremonies than any with which king ever met kaiser, Mussolini was received in a state visit to Hitler. : - So Goering of Germany, Ciano of Italy, Delbos of France, and. Stoyadinovitch "of © Yugoslavia have been circling about the map. In the Balkan wars of 1912, France and Germany saw their new war weapons tried out in actual combat. So today, Germany, Italy, France and ‘Russia watch their tanks, machine guns, airplanes and other arms tested in Spain and China. 2
Banding Together
VEN more than in the feverish pre-1914 years, the lesser nations are “trying frantically to arm znd band together to keep the war fire from their frontiers. Poland, armed to the teeth, tries to keep amicable with both menacing Germany and Russia on. either hand, while Lithuania, Latvia, and Esthonia, three weak lit-
tle Baltic states, band together .
a an alliance, seeing. their terri-
tory as a logical route between Germany and Russia. In the Balkans, a Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia, is tied together and attached to France in a shaky alliance. Germany, and Italy are busily at work in ‘an effort to break it up and attach fragments of it to their German-Italian-Japanese system. Even the peaceful and democratic countries of Norway, Swe=den and Denmark, alarmed at the chance of conflict in the North Sea between Britain and ®' Germany, or Germany and ‘Russia, are arming. Belgium and Holland have lost faith in alliances and treaties for defense, and are falling back on new. armament and defenses. : In all the larger countries, with a great part of the budget going into the arms race, there are higher taxes, and a feverish simulation of prosperity as the munifury. forges glow with ominous ury
Today, as in the Diy. divs ‘before the first World War, wings and potentates visit each other in state, and the relationships between whale ‘peoples are changed thereby. The: visit of Mussolini to Hitler (above) blossomed’ into quick alliance. but friendship failed to follow the visit of the late King Gevige: V.to his kinsman, ‘Wilhelm 11, in ‘Berlin before
the World War.
"President May Outline Trust Busting Program In Annual Message to Congress
By E.-R.R ASHINGTON, Jan. 1 Rumor | has it that the ent’s annual message to Congress will blame the business recession on monopolistic practices: ‘by business. The President may: outline a program to be: followed in attacking trusts, submitting actual, details. in a later message. Trial balloons. for such a program are believed to have been flown in the speeches of Assistant - Attorney General Jackson over -the radio last Sunday evening and before the ‘American Political Science Association on Wednesday, and by Secretary Ickes Thursday night. The national recovery-act of 1933 exempted - business © organizations from antitrust prosecution if they signed and lived up fo the NRA codes. Senator Borah was responsible for a section, accepted by the Administration, providing that the act should .not permit monopolies
‘| nor monopolistic. practices. : C igning the act, President | Taft
On s Roosevelt admitted that the. Government was “relaxing” some of
trade; “inordinate” profits and ‘unfairly high” prices. oe seeking ‘extension: of NRA in “fundamental principles of the antitrust’ laws be more adequately apWhen Senator Borah
ing: NRA bill to restore the antitrust laws to full effect immedi-
‘1 .| ately, it was opposed by the Admin-
istration. Nevertheless it mustered the votes of 18 Democratic Senators and was: defested only 1 votes.
the President asked that the
“HEN ‘ame the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court invalidating NRA. The Administration pointed out that thus business was automatically subjected ‘to the
antitrust ‘laws again. An act was passed to extend the -NRA for. 10 months in skeletonized form. It contained an’ amendment in- | serted by Mr. Borah allowing exemption from the antitrust laws only for voluntary agreements covering child labor, collective bargaining, hours, wages, or unfair or illegal trade practices. An amendment to. forbid any suspension of the antitrust laws at all, was defeated in the House by only 20 votes. No new flood of antitrust prosecution followed the invalidation of NRA. The comparative record of the Roosevelt Administration up to Dec. 1, 1937, on the number of antitrust suits follows: No. Anti- Aveiags
HAS ministration, Trust Suits. Per Fear. : ‘2
Roosevelt, PF. D. 43 Fifteen of the 43 cases filed under this Administration have been against unions accused of racisiest ing practices. » = ‘HE Adit ict ation did sot ac- ‘ tively support the RobinsonPatman antiprice discrimination act: of 1936, supposed to-hamper. monop-oly-fostering practices of*large busi-. nesses in.buying. President’ Roose-= velt did oppose -the Miller-Tydings resale price maintenance proposal. He declared it limited Federal prosecution of monopolistic price-fixing,
|A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson . *
YAPPY New Year! three cheering words will have
from a much loved book called “City of Bells”: “Every man, if he is to certain assertions as true ‘those assertions should, for the enrichment of always be creative ones. He may, as life goes on, modify his beliefs
It ‘may be difficult in the face of the problem of human suffering to. believe God, but if you destroy God you not solve your problem but mersly leave yourself alone with it.”
I hope the| q-
to live at ERT all finely, must deliberately -adopt| |-eldcH
‘sake of ‘Human race, |
but he must never modify them on| - ‘| the side of destruction.
We need to invite God into: our hearts if ‘wel
and he expressed reluctance in sign--ing the District of. Columbia: ‘2appropriations bill with: the: Miller-Tyd-
ings proposal attached. as:a rider. On April‘ 27 last, Attorney General Cummings, reporting to the President on ‘identical: bids by: steel com-
paiitel said that the antitrust faws |
in their present form were inade-
quate. He. proposed a commission to report on necessary revisions. An Administration committeee has been making studies and formulating conclusions. :
ASHINGTON, Jan. 1 U.P). Uncle Sam may ‘follow the example of Mohammed in going. ‘to the mountain when the ‘peak itself won’t move. : The Government has under study. a series. of irrigation: projects to
| care for those forced to: abandon
their homes by recent droughts on the Great Plains.: Under this: plan,
created farms of ‘irrigated land where ‘water was plentiful because it was held back by Federally built
‘I dams.
During the 1993 and 1036 droughts —the ‘worst: two ‘in’ the nation’s his--tory—thousands of families were forced to abandon'their homes be-
devastated fields: which had ‘scarcey a blade ‘of grass left grow.ng. Commissioner : John C. Page of. the Bureau. of ‘Reclamation report ed that deficient rainfall over vast ‘Western phasized the need for new irriga‘tion projects. ‘Such construction work, he’ ‘explained, ‘would tend’ to stabilize farming, communities now without stored ‘water supplies and to provide . new, Shon. for
the farmers would be put on newly
cause of blinding dust storms and
areas. in’ recent; years .em- |
Government Studies Dust Bowl’ Program
those forced to give ‘up. their aroughy ridden farms. i J 8 = O back up his proposals of new irrigation projects as homelands for the drought refugees, Page said that 863,907 persons were supported on Federal irrigation projects
during the fiscal year ending June |.
30. He said that 210,466 persons were
on farm lands and that the remain- |
der lived in project cities and towns. Page said that although the summer of 1936 brought critical drought conditions to most of the farming communities of the Great Plains, only two Federal reclamation projects suffered serious water shortages. With 138 Federal irrigation
dams in operation, this meant a
failure of less than 2 per cent. The reclamation . commissioner said that crop results for the 1936 growing season established & new high record on some: of the projects and: that the total amounted to $136,502,480 - for .all | projects. This was. $29,721,186 ‘more than .in 1935.
The average return of ‘$110 for each .of the 2,901,919; acres ‘served ‘by.
‘Federal irrigation’ waters has been
11928. and 1929.
exceeded only three times—1n, 1919;
bo
Jasper Frank Owen
‘| a fresh meaning for you'and for me|-} - § in 1938. Let me.quote a sentence|
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By Anton Schkner La -, Anno Domini: 1937: Was Memorable 3 From Cider to the Irvington Hen; And It Left Much to Be Done, Too.
: MARGINAL notes; for an unborn: ‘histor.
an: In 1937, when -the human race. showed signs of petering out, a census was taken of the trees in Indianapolis. It was the year, too, Wade Millman displayed his home-ma de coffin: in Baker Brothe
{| ers show’ window.
Uppermost, too, in. the . minds of everyone was the Christmas luncheor. given by Mr. and Mrs, Cone
rad ‘Ruckelshaus in thuir ‘home at. Golden Hill for Louis !Maderra IV, Elliott Hess II, George Wharton Pepper III, Howard York III and Graeme Wood Jr. ‘ Equally diverting was the plight of Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. . A sample: Senator Shirman Minton wrote and addressel a letter to Gen. Arthur St. Clair. From another source Mr. Seidensticker got an inquiry concerning the whereabouts of Elmer Taflirger.. . Mr. Schattes It was a year of plenty of apples and a scarcity of good cider. . Important, too, was the discovery of Dr. Max Bahr and Dr. Walter I3ruetsch that insanity may be traced to ‘a certain -kind of rheumatism. It didn’t “surprise this department at all. What did surprise us was that it took tw» doctors to find it out. Among other things, too, the year revealed that Mr. Forest Fiers lives at 94 N.- Ritter Ave. * And ‘over in the: V/oodruff Place sector, a Pere sian gave birth to five kittens. They were chrise tened Thompson, Rab), Stevenson, Law and Order, ‘The Roberts Milk people equipped their horses with jingle bells on Christmas Da;
‘Rumors Were Frequent
1t was a memorable year for rumors, too. The persistent rumor, for instance, that Adolf - Hitler would ‘give up his present trivial job, and take care of the Indianapolis baiieball team. A memorable year, too, for Big Decisions. Luther Dickerson, for example, was married. The Ayres people, after thinking about it all year, on Dec. 28 came out with a statement that: “I'd rather be right in a bouffant . dress. » And George Calvert, at long last, got around to firding the: tobacco he liked. It turned out to: be “Revelation.” It was a year of misdirected energy, too. For exe ample, there was the diaper-service company with a wagon bearing a :picture of a stork which passed our window at exactly 312 o'clock every noon last yesr. There isn’t a bit of business, present or potential, in the block we live in.
It was a year of strange signs and portents, too. Chromium fans were seen spinning ‘in the sky, and a precocious Orchard School kid saw a flaming question mark in the West. Nor has anybody explained the Irvington hen that laid an egg last February bearing -the inscription: “Dec. 24,1937.” : The unfinished business of 1937 is simply appalling, And speaking of uafinished business, there is still the Jorse in front of the. Herron b Institute,
Jane Jordan—
Girls Advised Not to Grow Too Possessive in. Their Attitudes.
| Dion JANE JORDAN—I am a girl 15 years old, fond of a boy-a little older than I am. He is good looking, was his class president last year and at our last popularity contest he was voted the most popular boy in his'class. We used to go together last spring and then drifted apart during the summer, Now we have been gcing together again for three or four weeks. Of course we don’t go steady, but we usually “consult each other before having. a date with someone else. When we are alone or out with people we don’t know very well, he treats me wonderfully, but | when we are with ou: friends he pays almost no ate tention to me. He says that he énjoys being with ‘me and asks me out a lot. It isn’t that I wart him to devote all of his time to me when we're together but it hurts me when there are other boys and girls around and he practically ignores me, taking it for granted that I can el 4ain myself. Is this because he doesn't care fo or because he is afraid that he will lose: his in friends? I get terribly jealous when he has other .dates but I don’t let him know it. When I have other "dates he doesn’t like it. If we meét on the street and I am with one of my friends he barely speaks to me but lingers to talk to the one who is with me. As you can easily see by my letter, I am a very: jealous Person and I can’t tae this. Please ‘help me. WAITING. 2 t 4 ®
Answer boy in his ‘teens hates to show his emo-
‘tions before his frienis, He doesn’t like to be teased
about his. feelings toward . a girl and this is usually ‘what happens -if he: is too attentive to-her in their presence, Your boy friend’s: neglect of you in: the company: of friends riay be bad manners, but it also is ‘a defense against laughter. Besides, he has his reputation as -the most popular boy. in the class to maintain. Trying to please so many: people is a full= time job and he has to work at’ it constantly. Ask |
any | politician.’ fk &
. A girl likes noth:ng . “better. thE. to have a boy show his. feeling for her. before others. ‘She loves a
| conquest and wants the victim to acknowledge her -
power dver him. But he, poor fellow, pretends less than he faslg 8. ore io. ep His ead out of the noose. .Your cue is to assume the same smooth indifferénce in the presence of friends. Interest yourself in the other boys preseat for the time being. Nothing annoys a ‘boy more tian to have a girl grow too pose sessive in her attituie toward him, particularly bee fore others. ’ Your Jealousy springs paitly trom a lack ef selfs esteem and partly irom the desire to dominate a popular hoy. You're : afratd that some other girl will out-charm you and that youll .lose your ine fluence over him. 'This is a risk every ‘girl must - take. Whatever you do, don’t get eo San
5 Put your problems ns y letter to Jane Jordan, who. hia SnAWer your questions in tls belumn 4aly. Ne Ln
Noh O Keefe—
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 1—If. theres ‘Rose Bowl