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From Indiana==Ernie Pyle Angus McPhee's Roping Ability Won Him a Month's Stay in Hawaii, but He Never Got Around to Leaving.

ATA. Maui, Hawaii, 22.—In spite of his name, Angus McPhee was not born in Scotland, but on a ranch in Wyoming, north of Cheyenne. He is tall and big, bald as a bat, talks way down in his throat, laughs a lot, and rolls a cigaret with one hand, In fact he has only one hand. |

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“How long have vou been in Hawaii?” T asked | Angus McPhee, | “Thirty years,” he waid. And | then he suddenly remembered: “It

was a Friday the 13th.” “Has it been good luck or bad?” I said. Well, T guess you couldn't consider losing your arm such good luck. But outside of that I reckon it's been all right.” Angus McPhee is just one of the thousands who came over here on a “trip” and forgot to go back. He did a powerful lot of wandering before he wound up here, though. He started out when he was 17. Had a falling out with his father on the Wyoming ranch. Angus got it into his head in 92 that he was going to the Chicago World's Fair in "93.

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His father said nonsense, they couldn't afford it. So Angus got mad and left home He drifted into northern Montana and got work

as a cow hand. He worked all summer, and saved his wages for next year's trip to the World's Fair.

But he made one mistake. There was a prize fight in New Orleans that fall between John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett Young Angus McPhee put his whole summer's

wages on John L.'s nose. And when it was over John L. was no longer champion and Angus McPhee was flat broke He drifted back to Cheyenne. And there he ran onto Buffalo Bill, whom he had kndwn since he was | a baby. Buffalo Bill was rounding up performers for | his show, and young Angus already had some reputa- | tion as a trick roper, so Buffalo Bill hired him. And the next vear Angus McPhee not only saw the Chicago World's Fair but he was a part of it. But 1907 found him back on the Western ranches; cow-handling., plaving the rodeos. He went into the | roping contests in the great Cheyenne roundup that a double purpose-<to retain his champion= | to win a free trip to Hawaii, Which had up for the winner.

vear with ship, and been put

Manages Large Ranch

Well, he did both. He came to Hawaii for a | month. I think it was, and that month stretched into | 22 vears before he made his first trip back, Sure, he got homesick; vearned for the smell | of sagebrush and the long distances of Wyoming. | But Hawaii gets vou, and you don’t go back. When he did return for a visit, Wyoming was different from the old davs. He'll probably stay here always he's past 65 now Angus McPhee has been in the cattle business ever since he came to Hawaii. He's manager of the big | MA ranch here on Maui. They run thousands of head of cattle up on the slopes of the dld veleano Haleakala I asked “Well sir, 1

him how he lost his arm deserved to have it shot off, pulling such a childish stunt. I was on horseback, carrying a shotgun with the barrel sticking up, when any baby knows better than that. You know what hap-

pened. The hammer caught in the barbed-wire fence, the gun went off, and took my other hand | with it.”

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Regrets Missing Test | Flight of Department of Commerce. last

WwW: ASHINGTON, Friday. -=We had a concert

night after the dinner to the Chief Justice. | The artists came from our sister republics in the South. Senorita Bidu Sayao

had a most lovely soprano voice. Senor Carlo Morelli also delighted evervone and I wish I eould hear him sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. 1 particularly | enjoved Senor Armado Palacio's playing of the Chopin | waltz in "A" flat, because Chopin happens to be one of my favorite composers We are having stormy weather here today and my | brother and Mr. Franklin K. Lane Jr, with some of | the people from the Department of Commerce, flew off this morning to Pittsburgh to trv a new form of | landing. 1 was very sorry not to be able to go with | | i

| looked charming and |

them, but engagements here prevented me. If the weather in Pittsburgh is as gloomy as it is here they may prove the value of this new type of landing, but I fear they will not have much opportunity to see for themselves just what is going on | Every new thing which makes aviation safer fs | interesting to me. I can remember when we heralded every change in railroad operation or in ship transe | portation with the same kind of excitement with | which we now watch changes in airships. The first | these methods of travel is now so safe that when | they do have an accident we hardly notice it bes Cause it is so rare

Holds Speed Responsible

Governor Earle of Pennsylvania seems to b> puts ting a good deal of attention on making travel by automobile safer. His theory is that speed is largely responsible. T imagine this is so, though serious aceidents can also occur for other reasons. I have received a number of calendars from the Pine Mountain Settlement School. This school in Harlan County, Kentucky, is devoted to the education of mountain children. I am delighted with the linoleum cuts which have been used in making up this calendar. Mrs. Scheider and T are going away for the weeks end, so we have been trying to clean up our respective desks. My husband said to me rather severely this morning that he thought T must manage time very badly, because he had heard me moving around after 1 a. m., and one should not have to work as late as that!

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N CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (Morrow), John Bakeless has brought together all that is really important in 350 years’ discussion of the writings and life of this Elizabethan poet and dramatist. For such a short life, only 28 years, Marlowe's was exciting and somewhat lawless. From the humblest possible birth he became associated with the highest and most powerful, as well as with some of the lowest and least important, in Elizabeth's London. Educated under the patronage of the Bishop of Canterbury, he reached the height of literary fame in six short years, The book, rich in historical data, presents the results of a very careful research into secant records. » » » HE branch of Hindu philosophy known as Yoga is a sarvant and not a rival of religion, asserts F. Yeats-Brown, famous journalist and traveler, in YOGA EXPLAINED (Viking Press). It is not a creed but the attainment of self knowledge and mastery through various methods of “physical and psychic cul ture.” The book is intended primarily to provide an instruction manual for the beginning student, and the author places heavy stress on simple diet and setting. up exercises, To the mental and physical discipline of | Yoga he gives all credit for his perfect health, serenity of mind and pr ofessional success. Readers of his previous books, notably “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” already are familiar with his philosophical beliefs. For thousands of years, he says, the teachings of Yopa have embodied the fundamental principles of psycholoRy which many of us consider modern revelations namely, that a thorough understanding of self aids in the casting aside of nervous fears ‘and prejudices and helps one to a richer and fuller life, 3

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‘Inside the C. 1. O!

Predicts Increasing C.

Editor's Note: Today, in the last of 12 articles on the C. 1. 0. Mr. Stolberg sums up and makes four forecasts. Of course Mr. Ntolberg's interpretations are his own, not those of The Times.

prophesy about the more distant future of the C. I. 0. is to indulge in star gazing. But what of its more immediate future? When we speak of this future, we can have only four things in mind. First, will the C. I. O. grow these next few years? Will it really organize the unorganized millions of our wage-earners ? Second, will the C, I. O. go in for independent political action? And if ves, in what way? Third, can there be peace between the C. I. O. and the A. F, of L.? Fourth, what of the forces within the structure of the C. 1. 0.?

HE C. I. O. 50 far has been the most successful organizing movement in the history of American labor, After existing a little more than two years it has some 3.400.000 members. And as we have seen In previous articles, it has done for them a lot. It is changing American labor from a primitive craft separatism to modern industrial unionism. It is here to stay. Only a reaction of fascist violence can break it up. But {or the moment the drive of the C. I. O. has undoubtedly slowed down. The loss in Little Steel, though by ho means as significant as the enemies of labor would have us think, could not but act as a brake. What is geally C. 1. O. just now, however, business recession, which is a depression in many indusiries, Dues, though not members, are falling off. Organizers have to be

hurting the is the

laid off. It is the better part of wisdom to retrench. And Joha Lewis is “taking in sail” skilfully,

The enmity of the A. F. of L. is hurting. Since the C. I. O. drive began the A. FP, of 1. has picked up almost 700.000 members, And it has done s0 sometimes by offering its “conservative” services to the employer. Time and again the A. FP. of IL. has signed a collective - bargaining agreement before the National Labor Relations Board had a chance to sue pervise an election. Finally, and particularly, Communist disruption has also hurt the C. I. O. These next six months the C. I. O. ix likely to remain stationary or to grow only slightly, But I believe that it will hold its own,

I HE C. I. O. is not getting ready for independent polit=

ical action in 1940, The political arm of the C. I. O. ix Labor's Non-Partisan League, of which the various local and state-wide labor and farmer-labor parties are completely autonamous bodies, In the last city election in New York the American Labor Party polled 24 per cent of the vote and re-elected La Guardia. In Detroit the labor candidate for mavor polled 35 per cent of the vote, but was defeated. Roosevelt may not re-elected, as John L. Lewis ine dicated, by labor's differential vote. But Governors Earle and Murphy were demonstrably elected by organized labor, which is one of the reasons why they are sympathetic to labor in the steel and automobile areas. The C. 1. O. is, of course, for every state farmer-labor party, for all the left Republican organizations, for the Progressive Party in Wisconsin, and for the left wing of the Democracy. The ©. I. O. needs, especially during strikes, projubor or Sympathetic Bove

have been

The jutting jaw of John I. Lewis, photographed above as he mel his organizers in Washington. gave no hint of compromise in his union

battle with the A. F. of I. Talking with Lewis are Senator Berry, and Nidney Hillman (center). The peace meetings, held in the nation’s capital, collapsed with the rivals unable to find a common ground.

Drafting a counter peace proposal was President William Green of the A. F. of 1... Left to right, seated: W. Schoenberg, president of the United Cement Workers; President Green; H. A. Bradley, organizer, Standing: David Williams, president of the National Council of Aluminum Workers, and David Sigman, Wisconsin A. ¥. of 1. official.

ments in local and state power. It needs a progressive Congress And it will continue in this piecemeal nonpartisan political program until it feels that it has HOW ARE enough such pieces to cover the nation. Then it will be interested YOU MAKING OUT in a third party under its leader- WITH THe ship. Unfortunately in this po= ADMINISTRATION litical awakening of organized AND BUSINESS

labor the Stalinists are also gaining in influence—in Labor's Non= partisan League, in the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and in the American. Labor Party in New York City,

FTER two months, the effort to heal the breach between the A. F. of 1. and the C. 1. O. ended in failure last Dec. 21. Both sides “agreed to disagree.” They blamed each other for the failure, and exchanged Christmas greetings The conference began partly because of some pressure from the Roosevelt Administration; partly because some powerful leaders in both camps wanted peace, fearing the continued war was bound to increase in bitterness and danger; and partly because both the A PF. of L. and the C. I. O. wanted to satisfy the deep desire for unity of the masses in their organizations The C. I. O. proposed that all its organizafions should enter a special department, to be known as the C. I. O, in the A, F. of L., without prejudice to their character as industrial unions. The A. F. of L. proposed that the C. 1. O immediately disband, that its seven original unions return to the A. F. of L. fold under the old status, and that the new C. I. O unions be made the subject of { special conferences In short, the A. F. of IL. demanded that the C. I. O. commit oh \: suicide for the privilege of being Ww A buried in its mausoleum.

There will be no peace, becavsze

PRETTY PAIR, RIGHT NOW. HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH THE A.€O0FL. AND ™E C10. ?

there can be none—-at least under -— the present setup and for a long dai Zz. time to come. David Dubinsky = } has no intention whttever of >) eee withdrawing from the C. I. O. He B Heine ue tile ig A DROBUSe for industrial unionism More 3 r it. and : than half the state federations partly because he wants to keep { Iabor d v up the peace sentiment within : Chethe te th 0 oy i the ©. 1. ©. The A F of 1, PathetictotheC.1.0. oligarchy cannot afford to give Iv up their jobs by amalgamating all the crafts in each industry HE program of the C. I. O into one union. The C. 1. O. ean- is simple, progressive, his not afford to enter the craft- torically inevitable. Modern inJealous atmosphere of the A. FP dustrial labor must organize in of L., which would disrupt its industrial unions. There can be industrial=union structure. no factional disagreement about

The A. PF. of L. will no doubt this basic and essential program.

give the ©. 1. O. a great deal of Factiohalism in the ©. 1. O. is trouble these next few years. But confined to the tactics of the in time it is bound to shake down Communist “party line,” rigidly

to those highly skilled crafts whose followed by party members and

skill cannot be dissolved by im- its sympathizers. And the Come provement in machinery. And it munists, as we have seen, have no will no doubt keep the various program beyond the wish to rule building-trades unions or ruin. It is a completely un= The rest ‘of American labor is democratic, devious ahd totalita~

By Mrs. Walter Ferauson

"Poor Fred! He didn't even want to come beacause he was afraid someone would make him do the Big Apple.”

S TMETHING ought to be done to restrain Mr. Dale Carnegie. We | grant him the right to preach his success methods to men but we must protest when he steps boldly into feminine fields as he has lately done in his eolumn, "Help Yourself,” which was addressed in this instance to wallflowers, "How could she attract partners for the dance? That is what she wanted to know.

Saturday night swept into Haw- | thorne Tnn arrayed in a gown of brilliant orange red. All eyes were on her. Men clustered about her. She never missed a dance night, still 1s wearnig evening gowns of | brillant orange red.” 0. K, but what we women want to know is whether she ever got her a man. That I believe is the main point, Mr, Carnegie ends his cheerful | little essay on this general note: “Almost all men love red dresses and brilliant yellow gowns, Remember that, girls, the Bn time you | I) shopping, »

| Whose last book has sold | hundred thousand copies, 1 think | Mr. Carnegie sticks his neck out | too far when he horns inte the | women's-page territory. Let him stay with his stuffed shirts and leave feminine fashions to the dames, who aren't any too smart but who learned a long time ago that it's not the red dress but what's inside it that counts when it comes to making the men cluster, ‘

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A WOMAN'S VIEW Jasper—By Frank Owen

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realized the enormous attention. getting value of red. 8o she put | all her somber-colored evening | gowns

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rian strategy. directed from afar. recent =teel workers’ conference for reasons whieh have nothing to in Pittsburgh. The ©. 1. O. had to do with American labor, lay off in its retrenchment pros The Stalinist bureaucracy gram nearly 300 organizers, among wants to control international whom a disproportionately large labor for reasons of its own number were Communist follows foreign policy, especially at this ers

The rank-and-file worker is also begintiing to see through the dis= ruptive tactics of Communist faces tionalism. In the United Autos mobile Workers the “party line”

moment when it is trying tc have all labor subscribe to itz program of “collective security.” The ©. 1. O. is in constant danger of disruption from this influence. Of course no

worker must be excluded from a is waning union for political or religious And the daily dispatches from reasons, be he a Communist or a Russia make it ever clearer to Bahaizt, But the ©. I. O. must American labor that Stalinism is get rid of Communist=led officials, neither red nor revolutionary nor staff members, and organizers, labor; and that the effort to get The top leadership of the © rid of it ix not a matter of "red-

baiting” but is an essential duty in the ouilding of a strong and progressive unionism.

THE END,

I. O, including John L. Lewis, are gradually beginning to realize this danger. Phil Murray “gave the Communists nothing” at the

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“Blow louder next time, Jasper, and call up a bigger. moose for

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| * *» +» +» +» byBenjamin Stolberg Our Town C. I. O. Ascendancy, Peace With A. F. of L. Improbable gy Anton Scherrer

Showing of First Directoire Gowh Here Nearly Precipitated Panie Before Police Put End to Display,

OTHING rocked the foundations of Indie anapolis quite as much as the appears ance of the Directoire gown, sometimes also called the sheath gown. It turned up fi :t in the women’s suit department of the old New York Store, in charge of Edward Lambeth at the time. That was back in 1208. I'll never

forget the date because it was the same vear Frederick second

Charles Merkle made his bone-head play at

base. Mr. Lambeth certainly had his hands full that day, but before I get to that part of my piece, I'd better tell the voungsters what the Directoire gown was. It was a tight fitting dress which was =o snug that it necessitated elitting the left side of the =kirt to enable a woman to

walk. The slit ran up a matter of four inches above the top of =a woman's shee, and =howed just about that much of har stocking Mr. Noherier It wasn't worth the desizner's effort The implications of the Directoire gown Wein something else, however For one thing, it rang the knell of the rustling petticoat; for another. it

moved a poet to =a "Katie Keith. =he wears a With very little underneath All of which, of course, was more thah enough ta get the women excited. The men. too The New York Store people. fully aware of thaiy adverticed the arvival of the Directoira gown, and set up a time schedule for its display. Tha gown was on view in Mr, Lambeth's department from 0:30 in the morning until noon. Somewhere around 11 o'clock there was a 15-minute intermission. at which time a beautiful woman wearing the gown was put on display in the show window The sidewalk crowd was =o den=e the firzt dav that it spilled over into the middle of Washington Bt. and foir a time it looked ar if the show window might cave in. Indeed, it almost precipitated a panic, becausa right in the midst of the excitement some hysterical

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| man in the front row velled, “It’s all off.” and this moved the crowd to surge forward. Thats when My, Lambeth got scared. It turned out, of cour=e, to ba

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because all the man wanted ta was that the show was over,

Called at Police Station

That wasn't all, however, because az =00n as the show wae over, a Mrs. Frances Yoder living somes where on E. New York 8t., called at the police ztation and protested against the goings=on at the New York Store. Bhe said the exhibition had insulted hey, What's more, she =aid she waz willing to swear out a warrant against the woman wearing the Directoiras gown 1 don't believe Mrs Yoder carried it that far, but she got the police interested all right, becavse the nexg day there was a little gigh saving that the Directoira woman wouldn't appear in the show window any mors, That, of course, drove evervbody up to Mr. Lambeth's department It’s a matter of history that Mi women milling through his department the nexs morning, and probably as many men, too. Anyway, Mr. Lambeth had his hands full when he brought the Directoire gown to Indianapolis

Lambeth had 3000

Jane Jordan—

Parents Should Recall That They Learned by Doing, Not by Advice,

JANE JORDAN=] am a voung girl 13 who haz a very nice homes. My mother and father treat me grand. but 1 cannot seem to appre ciate it I've been given nearly evervihing I want in the wav of clothes, but here is the trouble. 1 would like more freedom than 1 get. I am allowed to have dates. but they are few and far between MV parents do not think 1 ought to go out a lot. 1 fully agree with them. but once every twa months doesn't seem like much entertainment for me. If 1 get homa from high school any later than 3:30 pm they don't Eee any excuse for it They will not even let ma choose my own friends, saving that thev have had more experience and know more about it. The friends they choose do not appeal to me at all. Ts it fair to me? 1 especially dislike for them to choose my boy friends. There is a bov I have grown particularly fond of, but my parents and fries sav he is noe good, It might pay me to listen to what they say, but fsn't it better to judge people in rome cases by the way they treat you and not by the way they treat others? My is being spoiled by the way mv parents act about my friends. Is there not something I ean do about it? A READER

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Answer—Tt really isn't fair for veur parents ts pick vour friends for vou. Of course they have had more experience and are far better judges of chats acter than vou are. But how did they get their exs perience? By plunging inte the stream of life, by uring the trial and error method. They learned by actual doing, by suceesser and failures, by making their own decisions and facing the consequences of their own mistakes. They did not learn by doing what they were told to do by their elders. Expetis ance is not gathered simply by listening to instrues tion from others In their anxiety to protect their ehildren from uns happiness, parents often extend their control too far, They de not realize that nothing makes a child mors unhappy than the curtailment of its freedom. If left alone, boys and girls of 15 will ask advice from sympathetic parents of their own free will and accord and be influenced by their approval or disapproval, but they resent being told what to do and what not to do on all occasions You are lueky in that vou have kindly and inters ested parents who provide for you so generously. Tha attitude expressed in your letter sounds more reason» able than rebellious. Therefore vou sheild ba abla te strike a compromise with vour family, Regard yourself as vour awn attorney for the defense, Pres sent vour case with volite persistence, giving clear and logical reasons for every concession you ask fer, Explain that you need more practice in thinking for yourself, in making decisions, in picking people, in looking after your own interests, Point out that yon won't always have parents to decide everything for you and that you must learn to stand on vour sawn two feet, Few loving parents can resist a reasonabls child. By and by they will get used to the idea that you are growing up and not as dependent upon them as you used to be, JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your question § in this column ally.

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, Jan. 22-The Russian film version of “Treasure Island” has just been completed and they've kicked the director out of the country, When they don't ventilate the victim it's news, It seems this lad put too much sentimentality ints the story, and it wasn't the right kind. The only love scene in Russian movies that goes over with the Gove ernment ia one which shows the love that Stalin has for Stalin, Josef wants to control all the shooting in Russia even the pictures The Russian idea of a light, gay. sophisticated drawing room comedy 8 one ih which only the main characters are slain in the happy ending. The way they've been ‘pu 4 over thers you wonder why they even m ke movies, ih it nin