Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1938 — Page 9
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From Indiana Ernie Pyle Time Destroys Human Beauty, but It Makes Islands More Attractive; Ernie Finds Kona Coast Restful.
ONOLULU, Jan. 29.<~When you fly back over Honolulu after being in the outer islands, you are amazed at how much smaller the mountains around Honolulu look than when you left. It’s the contrast with what vou've been seeing, From the plane these seem almost silly, theyre so weathered and beaten down, The reason is that Oahu (Honolulu’s island) is one of the oldest of the group, and consequently more eroded. The oldest islands are at the northwest end of the string. And each one, as you travel southeast, is millions of years younger than the one before it. Doesn't seem possible, but it’s true. Originally, every one was formed by the eruptions of voleanoes, building flow upon flow until the whole thing stuck up above the sea. Then the lava stopped, and the years went to work, tearing the peaks down again. They say that Kauai, the one big island to the north, is the oldest of the group. And it is most beautiful of all, because it has eroded more spectacularly, and its vepetation is more tropically lush, They call it “The Garden Isle.” So vou see~vears destrov human multiply the loveliness of islands. Transportation service from Honolulu to the other islands is excellent, though rather high priced. You can fiv daily to five of the islands, Or vou ean go twice a week by boat The steamers are big fine things, biz as some ocean liners, and fixed up inside with all the latest doo-dads for luxury, The planes are 16-passenger Sikorsky amphibians for the express service, and little Sikorskys for the “local” service to the smaller islands, And although theyre all amphibians, they never land in the water except in emergencies. They land on wheels, at regular airports on every island. Between Honolulu and Hilo, farthest port away (about 200 miles) the one-way air fare is $30. or round trip $45. By steamer, the fare runs from $16.50 one way for first class, down as low as $4 for steerage.
Three Sheets Provided
Looking back over the outer«island trip-I believe | the Kona coast of Hawaii the most restful spot. In fact it was so restful I had to leave in order to get any work done, The much-advertised (at least over here) Kona Inn is a modern and beautiful (though not snooty) vacation place run by the Inter-Island Steamship Co. It is just a few feet from the black lava beach, and the surf booms so over the jagged rocks that you can't sleep at first. And the weather is perfec tion, The thing that impressed me most about Kona Inn is that they have three sheets on the bed. One under you, one over you, and a third one over the blanket, so it won't be scratching vour chin all night. How's that for putting on the dog?
My Diar
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady Still Wants to See | How Blind Landing Device Works. |
EW YORK, Friday—When I arrived in New York City today, my brother told me of his successful flight from Washington to Pittsburgh in an airliner testing out the new air track landing device installed at the Pittsburgh field. All of us, I imagine, are interested in this because it wil! mean safety in landing in a fog and will make flying more certain. We will not have to change our course when we hear the field we are heading for is enveloped in a groundfog, which now causes so many delays. With my brother on this flight, was Mr, King. who Was on the plane the other day which lost its way and finally landed in Hartford, Conn. He evidently is one of those confirmed fliers who take whatever happens as part of the day's work and feels as I do, that to give up doing something because of what may happen, is a little too limiting to one's existence. I hoped to be able to go with my brother when they made this flight. I still hope that some day 1 shall be able to see how this new device works. for one cannot help being deeply interested in anything which has possibilities of development,
Praises Kentucky Hams
I am still thinking about yesterday's experiences. Besides dedicating the high school, I visited a National Youth Administration project in Jackson, Ry., where the boys were learning to make furniture out of their native woods. One boy showed me how he could turn the leg of a chair by hand. The officials told me their problem is to give these boys the final expert training they need. I wonder if it would not be both profitable and helpful if craftsmen throughout the countrv who do hand-work took boys who showed an aptitude, and who had a limited training, as apprentices. They could give the boys nominal pay and board and lodging until they obtained the skill necessary to develop their own work in their own home localities. For lunch, we went to an experimental farm station, about three miles outside of Jackson. run by the University of Kentucky. Everything we had for lunch Was grown on the farm. Kentucky hams cured in Breathitt County compare favorably with those which I have been buying for many years from a friend in Petersburg, Ve.
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HE journalist's biographical account, UNDER THE JAPANESE MASK by Miles W. Vaughn (Dickson, London) demands attention because of the importance and timeliness of the events which are “covered” for the world of print.
For nine years, beginning in 1925, Mr. Vaughn was | stationed in the Orient where he was manager for the Far East Division of the United Press with headquarters in Tokyo. True to his profession, he tells his story without bias, but with a desire to give an understanding of the situation leading to the events as related. The inclusion of many personal incidents and of many characteristic glimpses of these reading.
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Edgar Bergen By Alton Cook
New York Word Telegram Radio Fditer EW YORK, Jan, 29. The three-vear reign of Jack Benny's show as supreme in radio has been broken finally by the airwaves’ talented little block of wood, Charlie McCarthy, Voting in the seventh annual New York World. Telegram Radio Editors Poll, the editors put the Sunday evening program headed by Charlie ahead of the Benny show. The margin between the programs was not great—the vote was 277 to 245. Next in order among this season's favorite radio shows came the Bing Crosby hour, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee hour, Monday Radio Theater, the Toscanini concerts, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and March of Time. In addition to voting the McCarthy Sunday evening program the season's best, the editors also named Edgar Bergen's Charlie as the outstanding new star developed by radio in 1937. Although Charlie and his allies
| triumphed over Benny as a pro- | fram, Jack once more was voted
the season's best comedian. Charlis trailed him in that division.
| The other leaders were Fred Allen,
Fibber MoGee and Mbolly, Burns
| and Allen, Bob Burns, Rddie Can- | tor and Walter O'Keefe,
» » » OR the seventh year Guy Lombardo led all light orchestras in popularity. Benny Goodman came next and then, in order, AnWayne King, Horace Heidt, Hal Kemp, Tommy Dorsey and Paul Whiteman. Bing Crosby was chosen by over= whelming vote as the best male popular singer, his fifth vear of leadership. Nearest rivals were Kenny Baker, Lanny Ross, NelEddy, Dick Powell, Frank Parker and Rudy Vallee. Kate Smith and Frances Langford had a close race for first
| place among the girls who sing | popular songs, but Kate once more
won by a few votes. Following this
| pair came Connie Boswell, Dor-
othy Lamour, Alice Faye, Jane
| Froman and Harriet Hilliard.
The Revelers Quartet and Paul Taylor Chorus (of the Bing Crosby hour) were first and second among the voca. groups. The vote on dramatic programs
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1938
Bing Crosby
put the Monday ahead by a large margin. Behind that program were One Man's Family, First Nighter, March of Time, Big Town and CBS Workshop Theater, » » »
AWRENCE TIBBETT, after a year away from radio, regained his place at the head of classical singers, displacing Nelson Eddy, last year's winner. Lily Pons, Kirsten Flagstad, Richard Crooks and Jeanette MacDonald were the others who polled large totals. Arturo Toscanini was ahead of Leopold Stokowski among symphony conductors, Jose Tturbi, Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin Jed the instrumental soloists, Ted Husing again was voted the best sport announcer and Don Wilson the best program announcer. Boake Carter led the commentators, Irene Wicker's “Singing Lady" program was selected as the best broadeast for children The favored women's program was the Sunday afternoon Magazine of the Air, Outstanding broadcasts of the year were, in order, the Coronation of King George VI, the Hindenburg disaster and the Ohio River flood.
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Cloture F irst Applied in Senate as
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Result of Wartime Filibuster
Jan, 20.-The word “filibuster” originally signified a person rather than an act, and was synonymous with “buce caneer.” Tt was applied in the 17th Century to freebooters who raided In the 19th Century it was applied to those who fitted out armed expeditions from against nations with which the United States was ostensibly at peace,
Until 1917 the Senate of the United States had no rule limiting debate. Filibusters in the modem sense of the word accompanied the end of almost every short session. They were impossible in the House, which limited debate. The original Senate rules were influenced largely by the practice of the British House of Commons, which did not adopt cloture until 1881, when Irish members under Parnell wore filibustering to obtain Home Rule for Ireland, The Senate adopted cloture as a result of a filibuster of 12 Senators against the bill authorizing the arming of merchant ships against sub.
Side Glances—By Clark
"My bankers
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A WOMAN'S VIEW
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson N the way to Wichita to attend a meeting of the Kansas Press Association we drove through the spacious Osage country. I love that drive, After leaving Pawhuska, where the Old Agency stands as sturdily as ever on its high bluff, fitting symbol of the White Father's watchfulness over his wards, vou find yourself in territory which is unchanged, except for the road, from what it was before our race set foot in these parts. Funny how much romance creeps into our thinking about Indians and how unromantic the Indians themselves are. Skimming through this wild bit of countryside you are reminded that part of the Osage clan has lived here since 1802 and that it was ceded to them for good in 1825 by a treaty with the United States when it was promised that no persons other than Osages would ever be allowed to use this territory, Yet you know, if you are familiar with the place, that very soon you will arrive at rich cities, part of whose enormous wealth has been drained from these very ridges. A great deal of trash has been written about the Indians, Osages and others; few white men really understand them because the white man’s attitude is either too sentimental or too greedy. The Red Man is not noble, although he has certainly been abused. The greatest crime against him is not that his land and resources have been taken from him and his buffaloes destroyed, but that he has been made
a thoroughly dependent creature. It
marine attacks. (Merchant ships were then armed without Congressional sanction.) When the 64th Congress adjourned on March 3, 1917, President Wilson declared publicly : “The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A ttle group of wilful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible, The remedy? There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act,”
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HE new Senate thereupon met in special session and changed its rules on March 8, 1817, to allow for application of cloture. Under the new rule, a motion signed by 16 Senators to close the debate upon any pending measure must be presented to the Senate without debate on the second following calendar day. If two-thirds of the Senators present support the motion, the
Jasper—By Frank Owen
pending measure becomes the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed of. No Senator may there« after speak for more than one hour, No new amendments may be introduced except by unanimous con= sent, No dilatory motions or amendments and no nongermane amendments are in order. And all points of order and appeals from the chair must be decided without debate. It will be seen that one more than one-third of the Senate can still allow a filibuster to run its course, In fact, cloture has been applied only four times since 1917: In November, 1919, on the treaty of Ver sailles; in January, 1926, on mem= bership in the World Court; in Feb ruary, 1927, on the McFadden banking bill and on the bill creating the Bureau of Prohibition. On eight other occasions motions to adopt cloture have failed to receive the necessary two-thirds support, the most recent taking place this week in an effort to break the antilynching bill filibuster,
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Windows of Governor Townsend's Garage Still Have No Curtains; Many Milk Bottles Out of Service.
ASES without comment: The policeman wearing badge No. 456 is ticklish , . Dr. (philosophy) Walter Bonns uses a pair of forceps to plunge live lobsters into boiling
| water; to extract them, too .. . Dr. (meds=
icine) James C. Carter attended the St, Louis Symphony concert, and came away with an alarming list of vital statistics. He counted seven bull fiddlers, he says; five wore glasses, one was bald,
and one had side~burns, His diag= nosis also disclosed four red heads in the orchestra, . , . Dr. (philos=ophy) Ohristopher Coleman la ments that the map of Indiana is practically obsolete today because of the number of man-made lakes springing up everywhere, The much vaunted Freeman's Lake somewhere up-state is something entirely outsige Nature's plan, And nobody to this day has offered a plausible reazon why Alfred Grin
Mr. Scherrer
| dle’s self=dug pond at Treviac, Brown County, should
continue to hold water, John Singer Sargent, when he painted James Whitcomb Riley's portrait (the one in the Herron), put a wedding ring on the bachelor’s finger Mrs, Sarah Pratt, 82 years old, recalls that it was nothing unusual in the Seventies to serve 20 different kinds of cake at a party, At Julia Merriam's wedding there were 22 Kinds, she says, The escalators at Block's and Ayres’ rate of 90 feet a minute. Those in the Soviet run at the rate of 180 feet p. m. Sure, it's as fast, The windows of Governor Townsend's garage are still without curtains. When Paul MeNutt ran thes place, all the garage windows had lace curtains, One of them missed the window sill by four inches, I remember,
Second Haircut Free
Indianapolis has 1,500,000 sequestered milk bottles, This means that every family in Indianapolis has 14 bottles that belong to somebody else, A syme pathetic study of some of the outstanding idiosyne oracles of the average citizen around here reveals, too, that he spends 85 cents per capita per annum for gold fish . . , 656 cents p. ¢. p. a. for fake paintings «+ 45 cents p. ¢. p. a. to hire private detectives to get the goods on somebody , and just about the same amount p. ¢. p. a. to have his fortune told There was a time, too, when “Ptomaines Joe® ran a restaurant on the Fast Side, and a barber shop on the South Side advertised that if vou didn't like your haircut, you could have another for the asking, The best we can do today is the sign on 8. Illinois St, to-wit: “Shoes shined on the inside.” And finally, there isn’t a bit of truth in the rumor that the girl in Morrow's Nut House will greet you with “Nuts” when vou call her up on the telephone,
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Jane Jordan—
Mother Wanting All of Son's Love Usually Wins Only His Contempt,
EAR JANE JORDAN--My boy friend and I are in the midst of an affair that is almost unfathoms able to us. I am 17 and he is nearly 18, We have been poing together nearly two vears. The first vear his mother was very nice to me and invited me to their home several times. Hix mother and IT would go swimming or for rides and on errands and be very contented. She is a very nice woman and I know she
likes me for she is cordial when we meat and speaks well of me. But for some reason she now objects to our going together, She told him once she was just Jealous, She is afraid I will take him away from her, We plan to be married in about five years, but I want her blessing, His father has absolutely no objections, We both go to high school and expect to go to college, We would be very happy if only she would change her mind. I hold nothing against her and would be the happiest girl alive if we could only be as we were, For a long time we saw each other secretly and then des cided to tell her the truth. It took a great deal of courage for she is not in good health and we believe that our affair has a great deal to do with it. She did hot see things our way and refused to let her son have all the privileges he once had. She loves him so much thal she can’t bear to have him loving a girl, Tt hurts my boy friend to go against his mother's will, but she herself said it was only jealousy and that she couldn't help it. Please tell us what to do, JEAN AND JIMMY. ” o i Answer-Tn my opinion you should go together whether your boy friend's mother likes il or not, It she wants to get sick and withdraw privileges, you will have to put up with it unless the father eomes to the rescue and takes your part. You can be as friendly and kind as possible under the eircumsiancos but on one point you should remain adamant. Since neither of you have given offense, neglected your school work, or made plans to marry before you are of age, you should be allowed to see each other and are quite within your rights in refusing to conform to an edict which is unjust, unreasonable and dead wrong, One thing can be said in this mother's favor. She ts forthright and honest, Most mothers who interfers with the natural and normal emotional development of their sons refuse to recognize the green-eved monster at work. Usually they find fault with the girl or othei'wise rationalize their jealousy. At least you know what you have to fight. A good mother recognizes that sooner or later her son must transfer the love he feels for her to some other woman, Adolescence is the normal period for him to make the first attempt to love outside the family. This mother should regard her son's attache ment for you as a sign of his emotional health and give nim all the encouragement she can. I do not know whether your affair is permanent and will lead to marriage or not, It should make no difference in the mother's attitude, The fact is that you have the right to find out for yourselves without being made miserable by maternal jealousy. Parents who hang on to their children too long, Interfering with any one of their major adjustments to life, simply forfeit the love of their children in the end. The devouring mother, intent upon keep= ing all of her son's love for herself, wins only his contempt instead. JANE JORDAN,
Put your questions in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer them eolumn each day.
/ Walter O'Keete— OLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 20.--One of the greatest social disputes in history found the principals in a happy ending yesterday when the British royal famfly kissed and made up with ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. It was Bill's 7th birthday, and he got a telegram from London signed “Bertie, May and Elizabeth.” It's 20 years since they've called each other by their first name, and during that time some of the names they did call each other wouldn't bear repeating, For many years Bill has been wood-chopping in Holland waiting for this Hitler thing to blow over, Twenty years has healed the scar. Maybe Wallies
Simpson should be encouraged by the settlement of the
feud, In 1958 Wallie may be able to crash the