Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1938 — Page 12
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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle
_ Nineteen Lepers Were Cured; but
They Preferred to Remain’ With Their Loved Ones in Kalaupapa. |
KK ALAUPAPA, Island of "Molokai, Hawaii; Jan. 3.—The leper population of the Kalaupapa Settlement stands today at 414. In addition there are 91 well persons— ‘officials, nurses, gardeners, electricians, car-
penters and so on. And there is also a group in between—‘kokuas” and “parolers.” : A “Kokua” (the word means “helper”) is the husband or wife of a patient, who elects to come along in voluntary exile to ‘ Kalaupapa. It was the custom for a long time to permit this, but in recent years the practice has been done away with except in the rare cases where the “kokua” has nursing ability or can perform some useful task in the settlement. There are today 14 “kokuas” in Kalaupapa. As long as tests show them nonleprous, they can leave any time they wish. : A “paroler” is a person whose leprosy has been arrested to the Mr. Pyle point where it is safe for him to does not necessarily mean he is cured. Many of them relapse. But for the time being he is not considered hazardous to other people. There are about 140 parolers in Hawaii today. They have to reportevery so often for inspection. And strange as it may seem, there are 19 “parolers” in Kalaupapa Settlement—people who are free to go any time but prefer to stay here! The average life of a patient, after arriving. here, is eight years. Most of those who come to Kalaupapa have already had leprosy for many years. Some die right away. Others live for 50 years and more. There is no consistency about leprosy. Statistics on Kalaupapa vary from year to year Of course, buf a recent yearly average runs about like
Population (right now) 4s000c0ssnsscsscescnce 414 Deat $0000000000000008000080000000000RRRIILDS 60 _ Admissions $500000000000000000000000000000 000 50 . Paroled 15 to 25 So you see the population slightly but constantly
decreases. It is now only about. one-third of what
it was in 1890, the peak year. About half the patients in: Kalaupapa are pure Hawaiian, although the pure Hawaiians today account for only 5 per cent of the population of Hawaii. Part Hawaiians form another fourth of the seftlement population. Hawalians _seem especially sSusceptible to leprosy. The remaining fourth at Kalaupapa is made up of Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Puerto Rican and so on, in the order named.
Two Try to Escape
There. are six white people in the Settlement, five
men and a woman. The woman is. Spanish-Portu-
guese, and lives in the Bishop Home for Women. One | of the men is an old German sea captain. Only one |.
of the six whites was born on the U. S. mdinland. He was a soldier. The whites ‘take it: much harder than the Hawaiians, they say. There is almost no attempt at escape from here. The patients either want to stay because they like it, or else know it’s best and are resigned. ° There have been two escape attempts in the last
decade. One Hawaiian boy, a fine swimmer, but de- !
mented, started to swim to Honolulu, 40 miles away. Hours later the waves washed his body back onto the rocks of Kaldaupapa. Another one did escape by going up over the pali,
Fi but he was back the next day.
The truth is; few of Kalaupapa’s ‘patients die of
leprosy. Some other disease jumps in and, since:
they are already weakened by leprosy, it carries them
My Diaty
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady, Seeks Few Days of Rest Before Capital Social Rush Begins.
EW YORK, Sunday.—We had only a few of our children left with us at dinner on New Year's Eve. Those who were there were very loyal and, in spite of the attractions of outside parties, not only dined with us, but stayed with us until after midnight and then went off to have a final dance to usher in the New Year. My husband meant to work, but was induced to stay and see “Tovarich” as a movie. I had seen it as ‘a 2 play and had enjoyed it, and not having caught up accumulated mail, I decided to keep my impressions of the play. The President, however, so rarely -has an opportunity to go to the theater, that he enJoyed the movie very much. Before midnight, we adjourned to his study, turned the radio on and waited to wish each other a happy New Year of the stroke of midnight. Then éveryone Joined in singing “Auld Lang Syne.” I had put in a call for ‘Anna and John in "Seattle earlier in the day and it came through about two minutes after -mid-
t. When I answered the telephone, they could hear the last strains of “Auld Lang Syne” being sung and every member of the family then wished them a happy New Year.
Return to College hay Our party in Washington broke up yesterday. An
the young people went up to New York to see some friends and family there on their way back to
various colleges. I went up with them, but with: farm bill Congress has
quite a different purpose in view.
I am going to put in a few days of rest, and then
two days in New York doing a few things that must be done before the January social rush Tush starts in: Washington on the sixth. “Our trip up on the train was gay, but was glad to reach my little apartment where my niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, is staying, and to have a- glimpse
of my brother and my nephew, Henry Roosevelt,
and dine quietly with two old friends.
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
zest for a good story, amusement at the in-
consistencies of mankind, ‘and a very special |
~~ It was not ols 1906, they ‘say, that it was discovered that “mere food” was not enough, and only more recently still that man must have minerals and
vitamins, and that the lack of these in various
amounts and combinations was related to disease, infections, and to tooth, mental and general health LT
In a special chapter entitled “Fill the Pantry” the
Problem of securing the “most health for your money” discussed, and there are ‘of food values, The whole is ' removed from the Soventional Pook on food and diet. It will ‘interest { person concerned with the problems - man’s living and destiny and will amuse him as well. EJ s 8 od
NY American who has lived in Prance will chuckle
pli ot 3 THE MOTT FAMILY IN E-by Donald :
go. out into the world again. That :
| estimates—especially “if su
us suggestive tables
By John T. Flynn
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Some time ago the U. S. Chamber of Cgm merce put out a public pronouneement in which it de clared that 20 per cent oj the national income in 1938
would go for taxes.
“That was indeed an alarmin statement. ‘If it meant any]
to pay at least $20 in taxes. to reduce it to figures as user "the chamber, out. of our expecte income ‘of 65 billion dollars 1938, $13,500,000,000 would have be used to pay taxes.
enough. It is full of serious i | plications. It ought, therefo
means that the facts and ng should be accurate. Now it is not a fact th cent of the national used up in taxes in 1938 ing that the national income W be 65 billion. »
gate of net income. of all ing viduals. The income of a bus
SeETesiic of net incomes.
it is no one knows as there-g no reliable figures on this SU ject. But when we come to consi taxes, they are of different k
case. pays out of his income of $3 the sum of $25,000 in taxes. tax load here must be compared with his gross income. The same is true of vast amounts of business taxes. Most income taxes and such sales taxes as are|assessed directly against consumers may. be compared with net] incomes. But. ‘to lump all taxes together and write them down as being paid out of net income is a downright piece of statistical jugglery for the purpose of making an.argument seem more effective. And it is all the more to be deplored since it is| not necessary. Taxes are serious enough without this exaggeration. The argument ‘ overlooks an-
INDEX NUMBERS
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The business year 1937 has been graphically set forth in five basic charts prepured for The Times by John T. Flynn, noted writer on economic topics. The reader who will follow these will see exactly what has happened to business, why it has happened and what may be expected in 1938. Explanations beneath the charts have been written by Mr. Flynn.
Building Contracts Awarded
Department Store Sales
“160
C110 — 150
Basic Index Figure 300
140, 130: 120 110 105
Is 1923-1925 Average
90. 80. 70 60. -§0
40.
1930 1931. 1932
1.
1933
This chart pictures retail sales. It shows two important facts. * (1) There has been a steady rise since 1933 in peaks and valleys; (2) Retail trade rose during 1937.. This shows that consumers,
1934 .1935° 1936. 41937
in spite of the business recession, kept up their Puying right up to the
end of November and that the recession did not
customers,
begin with the
140 130. 120.
Industrial Production
° Basic Index Figure. 100 Is 1923-1925 Average.
1930 1931 1932
1933
1934 1935 1936 1937
2 ‘This chart shows clearly that production started its upward » movement in 1933 and kept. on improving until May, 1937. The recession began in production in May, 1937. It has . declined + ever
since.’
The year ended below the Christmas level.
Bank Debits
70,
60
DOLLARS’
50
OF
40
SAAN NS
i
30] =
BITLI IONS
20
1930 1931 1932
This is an important measure of business activity.
1933
1937 Almost
1934 1935 1936
3. every business deal is- reflected at some point in a bank frans-
action
Bank debits—bank withdrawals—have been rising since 1933.
This chart reveals the singular fact that they began to fall off in April.
The January decline was natural. They have been dedtining ever since.
They ended the year around tle Christmas, my Tevel,
other factor. Taxes themselves are, of course, taxes when they are being collected by the Government. But every dollar of taxes collected is paid out immediately by the Government. What is paid out becomes a dollar of ircome in the hands of the Gov-
eriument employee ‘who gets it. In other words the taxes themselves become in their second stage part of the nation’s income. All this is’ written not to minimize the seriousness of the tax load, but to keep the record Straight.
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 2 DOA =
600
BE
3
nN =4 <Q
3 ;
Y old
Ma
§ eivate Tivate
1930 1931 . 1932
This partly explains why preduction dropped before retail salos, | 8ro
1933
1934 1935° 1936 1937
4, This chart shows how building construction has failed to develop. It appeared to be improving since 1933. But: the improvement
was slight. .month., This is less than half of
periods. And most of this, you will see, was publie, not private build- : ~ Private building began a slight improvement in 1935. At the be-’
ing.
The highest point was. a liltle over $320,000,000 in one
the building volume of prosperous
ginning of 1937 it seemed headed for a burst of activity. But in April, : Just when it should have soared upward, it faltered, declined and ended the year below the level of last year. This struck a blow to production: in building material industries and generally sent a wave of fear
through other producing industries.
It frightened businessmen ‘znd
observers; but consumers, who ‘do’ not pay much attention to such Yungs, went on buying until the end of December.
900
Security Finaneing—Public and Private
fl
800]
3 oo =
S .
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS"
This chart should be studied carefully.
It tells the remai Ader
eo of the story. It is from the issue of new securities—government and corporation—that new funds flow into the business world. This chart shows the total of all state, local, Federal and private securities issued each month. The volume that had cach month and rose
to its peak in the: summer of 1936.
recovery might have continued. But a single gla
If that
ad ad continued to of to the th the
“lowing the dotted line that for 15 months the volume has declined, —
the decline has been heavy. Why?
The answer to this is the answer to’
the whole riddle. Look at the black spaces at the bottom of this chart.
They represent private corporate financing.
The rest indicate govern-
ment financing—government deficits—state and Federal, mostly Fed-
eral.
See how private financing has utterly failed. Before we can have
revival we must have a revival of financing. Either private business must start financing operations or: the Suvernment. must. There is no al-
ternative.
This is. the key a, she future,
Leaders in House Study Proposal to Give President
Selective Veto on Appropriation Measures
By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, Jan. 3—Faced with a threatened revolt in Congress against President Roose-
velt’s efforts, in an electi year, to curb Federal spending in| order to bring the budget into balahce by the fiscal year 1939, Administration leaders are studying a plan|under which the Executive would empowered to veto separate items in appropriation bills - without vetoing the entire measure. By its refusal to act dur g the special session - on evelt’s recommendations for sl high-way-aid appropriations, and| by its refusal to accede to his request that a * $500,000,000 limit be placed on annual expenditures under the new icated that it may withhold approval of other retrenchment proposals to be advanced by Roosevelt in January, when he submits his 1939 | budget pro-
| posals are viewed ‘by the member-
ship as having a depressing effect or. 1938 campaign prospects. If the President had power to veto individual items in spending bills, it would. be possible for him to cut the total appropriations voted. by Congress by the amounts necessary to bring about a balanced budget. Accordingly, Chairman Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee has offered a resolution proposing a constitutional amendmeant to authorize the Executive to exercise a partial-veto power on appropriation bills. Five resolutions’ to the same end were offered at the last session.
Since all of the selective. veto proposals now pending in Congress cintemplate amendment of . the Constitution, none of them could be adopted in time to provide President Foosevelt with a weapon for cutting appropriations voted by Congress at the session which convenes: Jan. 3. In the belief of Chairman Sumners of the House Julliciary Committee ro constitutional change is. neces-!
sary. Sumners holds that direct authorization by Congress is sufficient to permit the President to veto separate appropriation items. Section 7 of the Constitution provides that “every bill” passed by both Houses must be submitted to the President for approval and that vetoed bills must: be, repassed by two-thirds votes in each House in order to become law. Although the word “bill” is ambiguous, Rep. Sumners holds that any construction of that word which “compels . the President officially to approve that which’ he does not approve in ‘order to avoid striking down the whole bill” is contrary to the original plan of the Constitution, which contemplates that legislation approved ‘by both President and Congress shall become law “as soon as ther ‘minds meet.” 2 . . Sa HE principle of the selective veto first appeared in the Constitution adopted by the Confederate States in 1861. Power to veto sepa-
rate appropriation items was given to the Governors of Georgia and Texas under Constitutions ‘adopted
.|in 1868, and in subsequent years
selective veto provisions were incorporated in the Constitutions ‘of practically all of the new states admitted into the Union, as well as in those of many gr Ye older states.
CON. STITUTIONAL amendment -authorizing the Chief: Execu-
tive “to approve of so much of any.
measure passing the two houses of Congress as his judgment may dictate” was recommended by President Grant, in his annual message to Congress in 1873. Such an amendment, Mr. Grant believed, “would protect the public against the many abuses and waste of public moneys which creep into appropriation bills.” President Arthur made a similar recommendation in three successive messages to Congress, in 1882, 1883 and 1884. The principal argument in support of the seléctive veto is that it would enable the President to re-
duce extravegance in puble expenditures by eliminating ‘“porkbarrel” appropriations voted by Congress. It is contended also that the item veto would restore to the executive the right to make his veto power effective. "The principal objection to the proposal is that it would tend to weaken the responsibility of the legislative branch for the performance of one of its most important acts—the determination of how the Government’s money shall be spent: and how much of it shall be spent—and that the power of the Executive would be correspondingly increased. President Taft expressed the belief that: “While for some purpose it would be useful for the Executive to have the pow?r of partial veto, if we could always be sure of its wise ‘and conscientious exercise, I am not entirely sure that it would be a safe provision. It would greatly enlarge
the influence of the President, al-}
ready large enough from paironage and party loyalty and other. causes.”
Side Glances By
Clark
A ‘WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter: Ferguson
HAVE “Just “Feceived: Eleanor . Roosevelt's newest book, “This Troubled World, » in which for 47 large-print pages the “First Lady surveys: with dismay and sorrow the ‘mess man has madé ‘of his planet. That: ‘her ‘sorrow is ‘gen uine ho one. can doubt, although en
my opinion she is much too polite | | =
to the warmongers. Speaking firm-
Jasper—By Frank Owen
ly to pacifists, she points cut that 30
the United States must have more |
| | armaments or the enemy will get
| [omen
| |ihe various countries | 1 well together. They dont hate each Hs hs
us. and with infinite gentleness begs the militarists to promise never to use their arms when they get them. . Mrs. Roosevelt's main. thesis is
| | fine and idealistic. Families quarrel | JS |and neighbors. fight, she says, and}
wf IB ever. we also Bnow. that fans 4 fies, don’t slash each other with]: % ‘knives because they can't|{ | |always. get along, and that men and | “| | women seldom go gunning for the | | |neighbors when differences arise |among them.
As’a matter of fact, the 1 get
‘other. It’s only
| 'ments and aip
traders step in tl
ple. of Si
| (Laughter) I will say to the:
..vests as they are worn at present.
lo wy TF own
By Anton Scherrer Author Agree That Someone Has to Find a Substitute For Men's Suspenders and ‘Belts.
ALWAYS keep my eye peeled for some indication that some day somebody will
find a substitute for men’ s suspenders. And
I don’t mean belts, either. - Such signs are hard to find, but something the other day encouraged me a lot.
1 It was a book, “The Impo tance of Living,” by Lin
‘Yutang, and published: by 3eynal & Hitchcock. It's worth every cerft they ask for it. I guess Mr. Lin Yutang is a Chinese. If he is, : it’s another sign that the East and West aren’t as far apart as Mr. Kipling thought they were. I just , knew they'd get fogether some day.: The only reason they never got together is because nobody except Mr. Lin Yutang ever thought of suggesting the problem of holding up pants as a common meeting und. ; Mr. Scherrer
a point in his philosophy where something has to be:done about holding mar’s clothes together without the help of suspenders/or belts. If that can’t be done, life won't be worth living any more, no matter whethe=
Be that as it may, Mr. Lin Yu-
: Jans. like myself, has ‘now reached
“er it’s in the Occident or in the Orient.
Belts and suspenders, says Mr. Lin Yutang, can be easily eliminated by buttoning the shirts to ‘the pants. It’s as easy as that. If that is too drastic a change he suggests having “six little appendages, four in front and two behind, sewed on to the inside of the vest, with button Loles to fit into the buttons on the pants.”
Eliminate Vest
“As the vest comes outside the pants,” says Mr. Lin Yutang, “there will bz no visible difference from Once the innovations are started and me: begin to think that their present dress’ designs are not coeternal with the unis verse, it will be possible to gradually modify and elim inate the vest itself, by having this combination gare ment so cut as to. be better looking than an overall, but still going on the same principle.” : ‘ That’s really the big idea back of Mr. Lin Yutang’s philosophy. He wants to do dway with ‘the vest altogether, and bring the shirt from its hiding place into the open where it belongs. To do this, he has to get rid of the suspenders, because when you come to think of it, the vest was invented for the sole purpose of hiding the suspenders. That's my contribution to Lin Yutang’s line of thinking. For some reason, it didn’t occur to him. It wasn’t the only thing Mr. Lin Yutang forgot to say. He didn’t say a word, for instance, about the grand period around here, circa 1885, when all the kids of Indianapolis, including myself, had their shirts buttoned to their pants. You bet life was worth living then.
Jane Jordan— Change of Scenery Is the Besf
Cure for a Love Disappointment.
EAR JANE JORDAN—My boy friend and I have been separated fcr six months. There were never two people more in love than we were when we were going together. He confessed his love for me to every one and told gie no matter what heppened I always would be the only one. We were to be married Christmas Eve. Plans were made in advance. You can imagine the kind of day I spent. Well, as things would have it, we parted and for months after our separation we never spoke at all. About Septem-= ber we began to go around in the same crowd. Once he took me home and 1iade a date which he broke. Recently he has been ~vorking. where I can go and see him. The first time [ went ne came to me and we talked and had a marve ous time. One time, however, he is wonderful to me and the next time he doesn’t speak. A few weeks ago he told my girl friend that he still cared but was tco stubborn to come back now. He has told many the same thing. I still love him
“better than ever and hsve spent a miserable summer
end winter crying myself to sleep and wishing for the best. What do you think runs through his mind and why does he act ike this? How should I approach him or should I let him know that I still
care? QUESTION MARK. 5 ¥ 8 = Answer—Don’t try 50 hard. Your anxiety only puts yourself and everyone else in a terrible strain and gives the boy a chance to hurt you. Don’t pursue the young man; it won't help your case any, An agonized girl trying to patch up a broken love affair is not attractive to a boy. Let him see that you ean live without !2im. If anything will revive the embers, this blow to his conceit will do it far better than throwing yourself at his head. You need a more philosophic attitude towsrd dise appointment. Nearly every girl has her heart broken once or twice before she marries and sometimes afterwards. You act as if love were an iricurable malady which it is not. Lots of people have been laid low by unrequited love and’ lived to laugh and wonder what in the world made them take it so hard. A change of scenery is an -aid in breaking intense concentration on an wiresponsive person. Can't you visit a girl friend or soine relatives, if only for a weekend? A few interest, new friends. new boolts, evén new clothes serve as-heirt balm to an unhappy woman. Anything = that diverts. the attention should be seized with avidity and worked/ to a frazale, - The greatest and raost powerful cure for a love disappointment is another and slightly superior parte ner. Of all the satisfactions, this is the most profound. A girl who has loved and lost sometimes ' clings to her marty:dom as self-defense against another failure. She uses undying love for the one
‘as an excuse for not risking the dangers of another.
This is folly and spells defeat. The old saying that “there are plenty of otaer in the sea” is irritating to a girl in your state of mind, but the truth: always is irritating. One thing that every love
1at time will impress upon you is air is a valuable addition to your
| | education. You learr so much about what not to
do. The next time you fall in love I feel sure you'll know better than to follow & young mar to his place of business. Let him follow you ard if he won't—forget him. JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems it. a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.
Heard in Congress—
ENATOR N (Ind. Neb.) : I never before knew - why it was that a cigaret would not go out when one threw it away. It is ail plain now.’ It is bec it has had mixed in it some Maryland tobacco, we ought to prohibit its use in I ihe United Sta that.we ought to encourage its peal pen ptogress, and impedirig the march of civilization.
: ‘| ought te give a bounty to those who export it
Japan, let us say. (Laughter) When we want:to it as an element in war with an enemy, all we ad og Ye of this American