Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1938 — Page 9

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle Dr. Jaggar Is Hawaii's No. | Man;

He Is the 'Paul Revere' Who Sends |

Out Warnings Before Earthquakes. |

An Ex-King Is Going ‘Home

KILAUEA, Island of Hawaii, Jan. 25.— The No. 1 man of the big Island of Hawaii is Thomas A. Jaggar. I'm not sure he isn’t the No. 1 man of the whole Hawaiian Islands.

Dr. Jaggar is not rich. He is not a politician. He owns no sugar-cane plantations. He is not descended from Hawaiian royalty. But he is a living example of how knowledge, used without thought for personal gain, can elevate a man among his felJows. For Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar knows more about volcanoes than anybody else in Hawaii—perhaps in the world. He is a scientist known and respected thoughout the islands. People always say of him, “Dr. Jaggar is a wonderful man.” And they all, except the extremely superstitious, will tell you: “If Dr. Jaggar says it’s so, then it's s0.” Dr. Jaggar is a New Yorker origMr. Pyle inally, of English descent. He studjed at Harvard and M. I. T, and has taught in both schools. But for the last 25 vears he has lived here, on the rim of one of Hawaii's most active volcanoes. He has lived here so long he feels that his two volcanoes—4000-foot Kilauea and 14,000-foot Mauna Loa—are part of the family. He believes a scientist should live with his subject. His home is a tropical cottage literally inside the crater of Kilauea. You go down crooked stone steps to get to the porch, and from the window you can look down and across the crater floor, with its hundreds of wisps of rising steam. The observatory, on the crater rim, is a few steps away. Dr. Jaggar is contemptuous of scientists who try to study the earth from a fancy New York laboratory. Although originally a geologist. he has become one of the few men in the world known as “volcanologjsts”® Tt is hard to put into words his enthusiasm for his volcano study. or his “feeling” for the earth, which verges on affection. His science goes beyond the mere gazing at instruments and compiling of figures. He sees a definite purpose in volcanology. In an average year 100.000 lives and $300.000000 in property are lost through voleanie eruptions, earthquakes and floods. Dr. Jaggar considers this unnecessary.

Often Warns Fishermen

Volcanologists have learned that volcanic eruptions are predictable. This is because the gaseous molten interior of the earth pulsates, at regular intervals, as a tea-kettle pulsates. Volcanoes erupt in cycles. Dr. Jagger feels that his work should be prace tical, to serve the people, and he makes it so. Every body in Hawaii who takes the trouble to listen or read. knows when an eruption is coming, and also knows how the scientists know it. Dr. Jaggar tells them, Very frequently he sends word down to Hilo for the fishermen to get their boats out of the water. For he has just clocked a big earthquake somewhere on the floor of the Pacific, and he figures a tidal wave will be along in seven hours. Dr. Jaggar not only acquaints the public, but is working them in on his studies. For instance, he has a small new seismograph which registers the intensity

of an earthquake by electrically dropping down a |

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1938

imes

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Faustin Wirkus, Who Ruled 10,000 in Haiti, Expects Trouble

number (ike a hotel belibov’s chart) from one up |

to six. chosen switchboards.

to be placed in ranch houses and cane plantations, His motto might alfost be “a seismograph in every home." ? ?

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Usual Winter Pneumonia Epidemic

Recalls the Importance of Nursing

LBANY. N. Y.. Monday.—I wonder tf you have been thinking as much as I have these past ‘few weeks about the usual winter epidemic of deaths from preumonia? When I was a child I remember hearing aver and over again, that one of the most important factors in pneumonia was the nursing care which the patient received.

tically hopeless. But the old saying still holds good. pursing in pneumonia and ali other diseases is of great importance to the patient. In the course of my life I have seen a great deal of nursing and it has been my good fortune to have been associated with many excellent nurses. One, Miss Blanche Spring, was for many years a constant help in time of trouble, a friend and, for me, a great equcational factor. I liked the work in a sick room,

be done until Miss Spring came to me, Standards Were High

Her standards were high and she taught me a great deal. ‘The best thing I learned was the difference between a really well-trained nurse and one whose training was inadequate or whose temperament was unfitted to the work she had to do. I am glad that in many states we are at last realizing the fact that an eight-hour day is long enough for any trained nurse in charge of a patient who is critically ill. I am glad also that we are beginning to realize the necessity of registering in a manner which will clearly indicate the training and capacity of those who care for the sick.

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By spring he will have these installed at | telephone switchboards all over the island. He has | because there's always some- | body there He is also working on another machine |

this manner of protes- |

| High Annual Wage Urged

By Helen Worden

Times Special Writer

EW YORK, Jan. 25.—Faustin E. Wirkus, a tow-headed

Pennsylvania farmer boy,

ran away from home when

he was 17 because his Polish father and mother thought he

ought to dig in the coal mines at duPont, and he

he ought to see the world. He added a year to his age and joined the Marines in Wilkes-Barre. On a hot August day in 1915, he and

5000 other marines were shipped to Haiti. Eager, young and slightly terrified Wirkus hung over the rail of the U. S. S. Tennessee as the battleship steamed into Haitian waters past menacing, dark La Gonave, the most primitive of the group. Ten years later Mr. Wirkus was appointed subdistrict commander of La Gonave. That same year— 1025—Queen Ti Mamenne, absoJute ruler of the island, crowned him king. Ten thousand blacks bowed willingly to his dictates. They looked up to him. He could build a house, fix a chimney, ride a horse, kill a barracuda and plant a field better than any of them. Under his rule, turbulent La Gonave became a black Eden. King Wirkus reigned—and ruled— six Vears. Today the white king of La Gonave lives in an apartment here at 28 E. 10th St. For six years he has made Greenwich Vil lage his home, avoiding public notice, seeking an everyday existence. His first home, a threeroom apartment at 47 W. 8th St., was above Alice McCallister’s tearoom. 2 = » AST March he married Mrs. Yula Fuller, a Virginia girl with pretty blond hair and neat pinc-nez glasses, who is in charge of the Bernarr Macfadden hotel decorating and purchasing department. After his marriage, Mr. Wirkus moved from his Eighth St. apartment to the larger one on 10th St. Nowadays King Wirkus wears conservative $75 gray suits, dark ties and a black topcoat. Every morning he boards 2a subway train at the Astor Place station, rides to Bowling Green and walks a block north to 39 Broadway. He is a customers’ man for F. A. Eberstadt & Co, investment brokers in that building. His customers are chiefly explorers and former Marines. He works OR a commission basis. When he isn't calling on them he sits at a small mahogany desk in the main office, studies stock reports and adds up figures in a careful hand. Now he’s going back to Haiti With square chin determinedly

| set, this quiet man who once ruled

10.000 Negroes, admitted today he expected to return to Haiti. 3 hope.” he said, “to go in February.”

thought

E says little about the trouble brewing between Haiti and Dominican Republic. “I have an idea the whole thing's going to bust open soon,” was the qualified statement. “Remember, I'm speaking as a private citizen.” Although still a member of the Marine Reserve Corps, it will be as a private citizen that Faustin Wirkus returns to brooding Haiti. But to the people of La Gonave, a department of Haiti, he always will be king. “When I go back to the island crowds will be down at the shore to welcome me, Queen Ti Memenne and Mama Julie will head the procession,” he said. If his plans materialize, instead of riding the subway every morning, he'll be riding the waves in his little sailboat, toward Anse, the capital of La Gonave. “I've always had the jdea T'd go back, even if only for a visit,” he said. When King Wirkus left in 1931, Queen Ti Memenne said “You will come again to La Gonave and you will be King over your children again.” Indirectly William Seabrook. who mentioned Mr. Wirkus and La Gonave in a book on Voodooism, was responsible for the change in the Marine's life.

® ® ®

ERE was 2a blond, tough Pennsylvania farmer-miner boy in American Marine Corps uniform who lived an adventure comparable to that of Robinson Crusoe. The world went wild over

the story. Letters by the thousands began pouring in to Mr. Wirkus after Mr. Seabrook’s book came out. Many were inclined to think the publicity which followed Mr. Seabrook’'s mention of Mr. Wirkus was directly responsible for his removal from La Gonave. It was said that the Haitian President objected to open interest in a strange King who ruled an island that he governed. Mr. Wirkus resigned after his transfer to write a book, which, he explained, would answer the letters that were, still packing his mail. The book, “The White King of La Gonave,” was published in 1931. Few who met this quiet, soberly dressed man in New York realized they were seeing the White King of Gonave. Mr. Wirkus didn't want them to realize it. He only consented to talk today because he felt so strongly about the present situation in Haiti.

Ld ”

“ UmITions are extremely

serious.” he said. “Something must be done. As a member

Over Large Hour Pay

‘ I know, of course, that there are | types of this dread disease in which recovery is prac-

By E.R. R ASHINGTON., Jan. 25-In laying before President Roosevelt recently a program of action for recovery, the Business Advisory Council of the Commerce Department indorsed the stand taken by the President in recent conferences with business leaders in “urging on

| industry the regularization of em-

but I knew very little about the way in which it should | ployment.

The council, composed mainly of businessmen, financiers and industrialists, expressed firm belief “in the principle of viewing wages in industry from the standpoint of an-

nual income rather than hourly

| |

rates.” Wage rates in manufacturing industries, as measured by average hourly earnings, reached an alltime peak during the last months of 1937. although the business recession had set in several mouths before and although production, prices, employ

ment. and total payrolls were rapid- |

ly declining.

among economists holds last year's

rapid advance in labor costs to have |

been a primary cause of the recession. Although the Roosevelt Administration has consistently foljowed the “high wage doctrine” since 1933, there has been a noticeable change of emphasis in the Administration’s wage policy during recent weeks. President Roosevelt has several times expressed the belief that if wage rates could be reduced, the annual return to workers might be increased because of the larger market that would be made available by reduced prices. The Roosevelt Administration hoped through the NRA to stabilize production and thereby to regularize industrial employment and to assure labor of an adequate annual wage. It was believed that attainment of this objective would increase industrial efficiency and con-

| tribute greatly to the security of

A substantial body of opinion! the workers.

Side Glances—By

It was not carried on the Susan Con- |

gains new | touches a new frontier.” From |

Clark

‘QOPR. 1988 BY NEA SERVIOL. WNC. T. WM. REO. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

“I'm afraid we can't go after all. The baby won't: let. us.”

Haitian natives such as these were under the rule of Mr. Wirkus during his reign as the “White King of La Gonave.” The above scene is the market place

Rafael Trujillo, president of the Dominican Republic, is held largely responsible by Mr. Wirkus for the conflicts between Haiti and Santo Domingo.

of the Marine Corps, I don't like to see trouble in Haiti. But as long

as Trujillo is President of the Dominican Republic, there will be

~@& trouble.

“No Marine wants things to break up on the island. We all put in effort and time to avoid that.” He stared thoughtfully into space. “Trujillo entered in violence, | through a revolution, after a ter-

rific hurricane that practically

| destroyed Santo Domingo. His regime has been one of continuous bloodshed. I'm afraid he'll have to go out in violence.” Mr. Wirkus lays the killing of 8000 Haitian sugar workers in Santo Domingo to Trujillo. “Only his soldiers could have shot them,” he said. “No civilian is allowed to carry firearms. And certainly no commanding officer would kill natives unless he had orders. The whole thing points to Trujillo.” = = » UIET though his life has been in New York, Mr. Wirkus forgets neither Haiti nor Santo Domingo. His wife is in Miami this week, for the opening of the new Macfadden Hotel. : While she is away, he is filling in his time by calling on Santo | Domingan exiles. “I have many

|A WOMAN'S VIEW | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

| OO many men and too many |

women who have never had |

i { | children are trumpeting forth ad- | vice to mothers. We grant you that |

much of it is good and that their they're talking about.

dicament of the modern mother, torn between her desire to follow the rules and the overpowering temptation to indulge her youngsters. Let's be specific by referring to the example usually cited by the opposition to illustrate its point; that don’t-deny-yourself-to-give-to-your-children stuff. This invariably goes over big with the childless and rich women, but the poor mother recognizes it at first glance as useless. When the moment for her decision comes and she must choose between replacing her three-year-old coat or buying a new one for her young daughter, shell do what mothers have always done since ‘coats were first worn—go without. : It seems strange that women have been so applauded for a gesture of generosity which is as instinctive as breathing, -— Yet this is one of the easiest maternal jobs, much easier in fact than | it would be to walk out of the house {3 a new coat while your sweet

intentions are of the best, but some | of them simply don’t know what |

Only those individuals with im- | aginations can understand the pre- |

| | | |

young daughter looked the worst- |

dressed girl in her crowd. It is literally true that we live again in our children. There fore, a large part of every woman's happi- | mess comes from seeing the reason-

ble desires of her family ted. A oF

v -

Port Au Prince

andise.

Faustin E. Wirkus, who once Gonave, today is a customer’s However, he expects to return

citizen.

friends among the Dominicans as well as the Haitians.” he said. His particular Haitian friend is Col. Maurice La Fontant. “The day I was married,” he said. “La Fontant came to town. After the wedding I dashed off to see him and didn’t get home until 2 the next morning. But my wife didn’t mind.” When asked if he had any souvenirs of his days on La Gonave,

city, where the natives come te

and is typical of Haiti's chief port buy and sell merch-

was ruler of 10,000 subjects of La

man for a New York investment house.

Haiti soon—this time as a private

Mr. Wirkus said, “Yes, there were plenty of them up in my old

apartment. But since I've been married my wife has tucked all my Haitian things away.”

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Ind.

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By Anton Scherrer

The Circle Nearly Became ‘Lily's Labyrinth’ After Miss Langtry's Escapade With Her Local Admirers,

ILY LANGTRY showed up in Indianapolis in the early part of 1883, just about a year after Oscar Wilde delivered his lecture, “English Renaissance,” at English’s Opera House. Her engagement here at the old “Met” (corner of Washington St. and Capitol Ave.) was good for two nights. She played Rosalind in “As You Like It” (in tights) the first night and followed it up with Tobin's “Honeymoon,” in

which play she took the fullyclothed part of Juliana. Both performances were flops. Strange as it may seem, however, nobody wanted his money back.

That was because nobody went with

the expectation of seeing a great actress. What they wanted to see was whether Miss Langtry was as good-looking as Mr. wilde said she was. She was—and then some. Old timers agree that she was a superbly profiled woman with a carriage and walk, the like of which had never been seen around here. She entered a drawing room sO majestically, said Mr. Wilde, that on one occasion Queen Victoria so far forgot herself that she stood up to see how Miss Langtry did it. It was the second morning of her stay in Indiane apolis that Miss Langtry ventured on the streets. Legend has it that she left the Denison Hotel that morning and turned south. At Market St. her admirers began collecting. Apparently aware that something was happening, and that she had to act quickly if she wanted to throw the crowd off the track, Miss Langtry turned west and landed in the

Circle. ’ Rescued by Old Gentleman

1t was the worst thing she could have done, because once she was inside the Circle she didn't know how to get out of it. She admitted as much after a gallant old gentleman wearing a silk hat rescued her, and escorted her back to the hotel. Some people said that was the reason her performance of “The Honey=moon” that night wasn’t any better than it was. After Miss Langtry left Indianapolis some wag around here wanted to call the circle the “Lily Labye rinth.” You couldn't blame him very well, because everything under the sun was named after her. A twisted piece of black velvet with a quill stuck through it was called a “Langtry hat.” “Langtry shoes,” too, became a standard style in the trade. Why, there was even a “Langtry bustle,” in the hope that it would make a woman look like Lily. It was made of blus tempered steel and had coil springs, I remember. It was a slick enough invention, but it couldn't make & woman look like Lily.

Jane Jordan—

Home Life Sometimes Is Too Cozy To Allow Child Outside Contacts.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am one of five daughters, ages ranging from 30 to 42. I have three brothers, the youngest being 25. The one and only member of our family married is a brother who is 43 years old. He is the happy father of four children. We all lead a happy home life with our parents who have been financially fortunate in giving us a good education and all the comforts of a beautiful home, We never have been deprived of anything we wanted. We have many friends, but it seems the men have no particular interest in my sisters or me any more. Even though we are attractive and well educated we have no special interest in life outside our own family and home. When we were younger we had nice chances to marry men who are now happily married and success= ful. too. We were blinded to their good points and ale ways looked for defects. My parents thought no one equal to our class. Don’t you think we were selfish and conceited in thinking no one was good enough to share our life? Now I am willing to overlook the little blemishes for I find that none of us is perfect and would gladly sacrifice all the ‘comforts of my fine home for someone whom I care for and a home to call my own. My parents insist that we are much better off than most of our girl friends who have married and had their share of troubles. Why do men bestow on girls less fortunate and attractive, the interest and attention we yearn for? Does the hand of fate deem that we be home together always and continue the humdrum of an empty life in our declining years when our parents are no longer with us? LONELY,

Mr. Scherrer

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Answer—The reason that less financially fortunate and physically attractive girls get the attention from men which you have come to yearn for is that they always have had more genuine interest in other people than you and your family have. You may as well have been brought up in a convent so far as contact with the outside world is concerned. You saw other people, to be sure, but you had no intimates outside the family group. Your training for cooperation with people outside the circle of home has been poor. Now. no one will brave the closely guarded portals. It often has been pointed out that animals are smarter than human beings in that they abandon their young as soon as they are able to rustle for themselves, Much has been written in warning to over-tender parents who create a situation in the family so cozy that it never can be duplicated in later life. The daughters never can find a’ man to marry as perfect as father: the sons can find no woman the equal of mother. It is not unusual to find one or even two children who cannot hteak loose from the moorings of home, but to find seven out of eight. still in emotional swaddling clothes is amazing. © It is hopeful that you see the situation. You are beginning ‘to dread the time when your parents are gone and to realize that you have provided no sub= stitute for their companionship. It is a little late to leave, but I believe you should do so. Get a job which will throw you into contact with others. If start a course of training for one whith will take you away from home into the outside world which you have avoided so long. Probably you will be eaten by homesickness at first, but you'd better stick it out. Remember it is not the hand of fate which decrees that you shall have an empty life. It is simply your own failure to fill it with outside interests. It is impossible to lead a happy, contented life simply by avoiding the pain of its major experiences. JANE JORDAN.

. Put your problems im a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. a

Walter O'Keefe—

15 Komik Jan. 25.—There’s hope for business, after all. Jim Braddock managed to make a comeback and he didn’t even go down fo Washington to get instructions from F. D. R. Now that Jim has managed to settle his business problem maybe Frank=iA D. will come up to see him and find out how he did it. Clem McCarthy put up a wonderful fight, too. Farr and Braddock only walloped each other in the ninth and tenth rounds, but Clem was in there fighting from the opening gong. There's no way of verifying it out here, but the rumor persists that Clem went on describing the fight {for two rounds after it was over. The hardest job a fighter has these days is trying to live up to Clem’s description of the bout. : Maybe the President should put Clem on during 8 fireside chat. Mr. McCarthy could even describe busie ness apd makes it sound as if it were going some place,

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