Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Base Is Maintained in Honolulu To Give the Navy a Running Start In Case of Trouble in the Orient.

ONOLULU, Jan. 31.—The war in the Orient has given a new significance to our fortifications in the Hawaiian Islands. The Island of Oahu is fortified like a Gibraltar. What the French would call a “ring of steel” surrounds Honolulu. Most of it is not visible to the passerby. You are hardly

aware of it at all. Most everyone knows that the Government considers Hawaii mighty important in case of war in the Pacific. We all know that a terrific lot of money has been spent over here. Few people on the mainland have any conception of just what these fortifications are like. So, being a man of a few thousand words. I will try to tell you in the next three or four days. First of all, you have to realize the simple primary theory of defense over here. And that was a surprise to me. For the Army and Mr. Pyle Navy are not here, fundamentally, to protect the islands as commercial investments, or to keep people from getting killed. The Navy is here because Hawaii gives it an operating base nearly half way across the Pacific; gives it a big running start in case anything bad happens in the Orient. And it also gives the U. S. sort of a naval barbed wire fence 2500 miles from our front porch of California. And the Army is here for the sole purpose of protecting the Navy's base. Even the Army men, poor proud things, have to admit they play second fiddle here. But they hold their heads up by having six times as many men here as the Navy. In war theory—the Navy is No. 1 out here because a Pacific war would have to be largely a naval war. Pearl Harbor—the Navy's base—is the very heart in the body of Pacific war planning. Pearl Harbor is where the fleet would refuel, and strike from, in case of war. If Pearl Harbor were captured, or damaged beyond use, the Navy would have to operate from California, a week's round-trip from here. A week might be too late.

Little Information Available

The Army and Navy (especially the Army) are very mum right now. The main thing the Army won't tell is how many men they have here. But civilians estimate about 20,000 Army fighters in Hawaii. The Navy has about 4500. The total of the two may run well above 25,000 today. The Army payroll alone here is more than $1,000,000 a month. Which makes the Honolulu merchants happy. Another thing the Army refuses to tell, is how many airplanes there are out here. But I have friends who claim to know, and the total isn’t as much as you'd think, The Army has only about 125, and the Navy around 80 now, although theyll have 100 before the year is out. This does seem like a rather small humber. And vet planes become obsolete so quickly that it would cost a ghastly sum to keep a thousand up-to-date planes out here. And they figure that in an emergency they can fly enough planes out here in less than 24 hours. _ Military theory in the Pacific seems to be swinging more and more to the airplane. Long range planes could spot an enemy fleet days before it reached Hawaii, It might even be possible for our planes to destroy a fleet before it got within a thousand miles. On the other hand, enemy planes might do the same thing in reverse. There has to be full preparation for fighting off an ae:ial attack here, and they

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My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the First Family Comes To Washington for Birthday Fete.

ASHINGTON, Sunday—I reached Washington WwW yesterday just in time to welcome my very large family, which had arrived for the President's birthday. All four boys are here, three daughters-in-law and one fiancee, and we all miss Anna and John and

feel they should be here too! lliott and Ruth have brought their two children. I must say that modern children either are much better behaved, or young mothers today know much more about bringing them up than we did! : After greeting my children, we went down in a body to welcome all the movie talent which had come to help out in the President's birthday balls down here. We had a very jolly, pleasant luncheon in the state dining room. As usual, my family seemed to make much more noise than any of the guests. : After our guests had met the President, our children took them on a tour of the offices and the White House. When they finally returned to my room we discovered that some of the history which had been related was not exactly accurate, but nevertheless,

they had enjoyed the trip. Then we had pictures |

taken and the party started off to prepare for the evening's work, Visits Birthday Balls The “Old Guard,” which dates back to the 1920

campaign, and the “New Guards,” which comprises |

more recent additions, all dined with us last night. I think the birthday dinner was as joliy a dinner

as we have ever had. An added feature this year was a double celebration, for Ethel, Franklin Jr.'s wife,

also was born on Jan. 30. A little after 10 o'clock, I started off with three

gentlemen escorts to visit each of the hotels where a ball was going on. At each place I greeted one of my luncheon guests, who was there to greet the crowd as I was. This year the crowds seemed to me larger and happier, as though they all rejoiced in being able to take part in this fight against infantile paralysis.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

i HE English people's opinion on foreign affairs

as reflected in their newspapers since Waterloo” |

is the subtitle of ENGLAND GOES TO PRESS, by Raymond Postgate and Aylmer Vallance (Bobbs-Mer=-rill). A new kind of history is here presented, a history of the varying opinions of the English people

Stanley Reed — Associate Justice in T oday Proved Mettle Defending New Deal

concerning their country's foreign policies from the |

vanquishing of Napoleon at Waterloo to the present day. chester Guardian, Daily Herald and Morning Post, are quoted. The authors point out that the proverbial

Articles from such papers as the Times, Man- |

conservatism of all English papers has been con- |

sistent throughout

the years and that the press |

publishes only what it thinks the English people ought |

to know. n 5 n

NE of a number of studies conducted under a research scheme promoted by the Institute of Public Relations has resulted in this report on BRITISH EXPERIMENTS IN PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL (Allen) prepared by Terence H. O’Brien of Harvard University. The British Broadcasting Corp., Passenger Transport Board and the Central Electricity Board are the corporations chosen for study. All

the London |

three have been placed under public ownership, not |

directly under Parliamentary control and Ministerial direction, but under the semi-independent boards which carrv on under definitely outlined regulations. Believing that public ownership in certain fields of

production inevitably will increase in the future, and . feeling that these independent bards of. control help to overcome inefficiencies of management and the |

interference of political influences, Mr. O’Brien examines these corporations to determine how and with what success they have solved such problems as financ-

ing, organization, personnel and public relations, {

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High Court Member Sworn

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Mr. Reed, clad in an Associate Justice's robes, is pictured before taking the oath as President Roosevelt's most recent Supreme Court appointee.

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Associate Justice Reed and Mrs. Reed in a recent pose.

By Herbert Little

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, Jan. 31. —Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, who took the oath today as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is a big, quiet man who looks like a corporation executive. He ranked as one of the best lawyers in recent Government service. He carried the brunt of defending the New Deal in the Supreme

Court for the last two years in his position as Solicitor General.

His Supreme Court arguments disclosed him to be a progressive and a liberal, and at the same time a good enough lawyer to insist that New Deal laws must fit within a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution.

1 R. REED proved he

could “take it.” He fainted in Supreme Court during argument of the famous Agricultural Adjustment case, but came back strong

in presentation of later cases, including the Wagner act cases recently. He is modest and not an advertiser. Not until long after the bank crisis of March, 1933, did it become generally known that he was the active legal expert in the handling of that emergency. He had been in Washington sev= eral vears as counsel for the Hoover Farm Board, and only three months before the New Deal started he moved over to the RFC as counsel. He presently drew into the RFC as his aids A, A. Berle Jr. of the President's original brain trust, and Jerome Frank, ousted AAA left-wing lawyer. ” ” »

E turned down a Kentucky judgeship to accept the Solicitor Generalship, which has

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at Postoffice,

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Stanley Reed, as United States Solicitor General, leaves the Supreme Court Building, Washington, for the last time as a lawyer. He returned to that tribunal today as Associ-

ate Justice Reed.

charge of all the Government's Supreme Court work. The job had heavy responsibilities, involving not only preparation of briefs and arguing of cases, but also decisions of policy as to which cases are worth taking to

é the Supreme Court for a fight.

He is 53, a native of Mason County, Kentucky, and lives here with his wife and children. His wife is prominent in the D. A. R. and other patriotic societies. He attended Kentucky Wesleyan, was a prize student at Yale, and studied law at Columbia and

Virginia Universities. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and, after practicing at Maysville, Ky., served as counsel for the Burley

Tobacco Growers’ Association. He is a Protestant, a Democrat and a World War Veteran.

New Jobless Insurance Not Expected To Cure All Unemployment Ills

By E.R. R.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—With | unemployment compensation

payments now being made in |22 states, and with seven other juris|dictions scheduled to pay such bene(fits before the end of 1938, public welfare experts are beginning to {warn officials and the public that jobless insurance cannot be expected to prove a sure-shot panacea for all the distresses of unemployment. Nor can the payment of these benefits result immediately in any substantial cut in local relief loads. If the present recession continues unchecked, it may be necessary, indeed, to broaden bases upon which relief is granted, to take up the “waiting-period” lag that will intervene between loss of job and the beginning of jobless benefits, and also to enable the jobless individual to carry on after his very limited benefits are exhausted. In the 22 jurisdictions where payments were scheduled to commence in January, administrators have been flooded already with applications

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their jobs as a result of the recession or of seasonal slumps in one or another industry. These applicants seem to have a general misconception that because they are jobless they are entitled, per se, to receive benefits. Such, in fact, is not the case. Every state has specific “work record” requirements as prerequisites to the receipt of benefits. In the District of Columbia, for example, an individual must have been employed and have had taxes paid on his wages for at least 13 weeks in 1937 to collect benefits in 1938. Also, many of the newly unemployed are not eligible because their prior occupations were not covered by unemployment compensation laws. ” ” ”

HE reserve fund from which the states draw funds to pay unemployment benefits stood at approximately $437,000,000 for the 22 jurisdictions on Jan. 1. The simplest statistical analysis shows that this reserve, produced by the accumulation of two years of taxation, would be inadequate to

support for any great length of time even the 1,000,000 persons estimated to have lost their jobs within the last few months. Present indications are that thesc ranks of the newly jobless will be augmented during the winter. In the natural order of things, the first employees dropped from business and industrial payrolls will be those most recently added. This means that thousands will be caught without adequate cash reserves to maintain their families. Such persons, if they have & satisfactory record of prior employment, will be entitled to draw weekly sums ranging from a minimum of $5 to a maximum of $15, depending upon their prior wages and the provisions of the law in the state where they reside. These benefits will begin after a “waiting period” of several weeks. It may be fairly assumed that the unemployment compensation that will be paid in every case will probably exceed any sums the samc individual might expect to draw from established relief agencies. But the benefits will be, at best, a temporary carryover.

Side Glances—By Clark

"Dad, the governess asked me to use my influence to get her

g2 raise.”

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ITH due respect to our advanced thinkers, I believe marriage will not improve until we can breed more masterful men. | What this country needs right now, | even more than it needs a balanced budget, are husbands with starch in their backbones. Domestic confusion is general and why not, since the average man is putty in the hands of his women? Whether he just isn’t interested in domesticity or whether it’s easier to be putty than steel I haven't a guess, but the truth can’t be overlooked—the American male is losing prestige and power at his own fireside. Our courts are clogged with divorce and alimony cases, which is not surprising when we consider | how the average head of the house evades his responsibilities by delegating his authority to the judge. So while the psychologists encour= age marriage bureaus in the schools and columnists of my sort exhort and harangue the person who could really do something to restore harmony to the home, Mr. American Husband is on a sit-down strike and can’t be pried up with a crowbar. Now please don’t get me wrong. Not for a moment do I believe the modern woman would put up with cave-man stuff, but I know enough about my sex to declare that women prefer men who boss them to men they can boss. And the men who can boss them are mighty few and far between these days. As a consequence they soon get out of hand, romances are wrecked and marriages ruined. That's why I'm in favor of a special course for

boys on how to be masterful, though

Jasper—By Frank Owen

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"lf we both make withdrawals at once he's going to consider it a

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

When the Two Tramps Left Irish Hill They Apparently Took Along A Ghost and Some Hidden Treasure.

DON’T know Mrs. Johnson's first name. I don’t even know her address; I wish 1 did. All I know is that she took time off the other day to write me a nice, fat letter chockful of juicy source material concerning Irish Hill. :

Mrs. Johnson says she was born in the house ab the corner of what is now Maryland and Spruce Sts., and that’s why she knows so much about the

Bernloehr and Lagler families. The Bernloehr family, says Mrs. Johnson, had four boys, George, Chris, Johnnie and Charlie, and they wanted a girl so very much that they offered to trade their youngest son for Mr. and Mrs. Charley Lagler’s little daughter. The children were about 2 weeks old at the time. Charley Lagler was all for trading, says Mrs. Johnson, but in the last minute his good wife, Lena, backed out. She said she couldn't do it-——not even for the best of the Bernloehr boys. Mrs. Johnson says she has reason to believe that the Laglers never regretted keeping their little girl. You couldn’t guess why in a hundred years. Give up? All right—it’s bee cause Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of Charley and Lena Lagler, Sure, the one whom all the fuss was about. Mrs. Johnson also remembers a lot about Dr. John S. Bobbs’ old place, known as Bobbs' Orchards. The estate, just outside of Irish Hill, took in four city blocks, and embraced a large brick mansion, seve eral smaller houses and a flock of barns, one of which was very big. After Dr. Bobbs died, the place was occupied by the Du Chons, the Benetts, and the Meadows, all related. The Camerons also came in there somewhere, says Mrs, Johnson, and I guess she’s right, because if you dig into the private life of Dr. Bobbs, you'll discover that he married Catherine, sister of Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, who turned out to be Lincoln's first Secretary of War (1861).

Various Stories Bobbed Up

Well, after all these people got done living in the old place, all sorts of stories about hidden treasure bobbed up, says Mrs. Johnson. One version had it that the treasure was hidden behind secret paneling; another, that it was tucked away under the fruit trees. The excitement was so great at one time, says Mrs. Johnson, that all the kids of Irish Hill, herself included, spent their time digging in the orchard for hidden treasure. They gave up finally when a rumor spread that Curly and Dusty had found it, pulled up stakes, and left for parts unknown. Curly and Dusty were two tramps who lived unmolested in the ruins of the Bobbs’ mansion for goodness knows how long. Mrs. Johnson says the kids of Irish Hill hated like everything to see the two hoboes leave, because they were the ones who knew about the woman ghost in the Bobbs’ house. She came every night at 12 o'clock and spent one hour wringing her hands and rummaging in the ruins. After which she'd let out a scream and disappear. Nobody saw the ghost after the tramps left, so I guess it's perfectly safe to assume that she was part of the treasure Curly and Dusty took with them when they left Irish Hill.

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

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Women Appreciate Rings and Like To Be Won in the Traditional Way.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am deeply in love with a woman of my age. She has two children whom I know I could love as if they were my own. I have done everything I know to show her my love, but she will not say she loves me, although she has shown me that she does. A few days ago she had a ring on her hand. I asked her where she got the ring and she said, “I am going to let you worry a little and then I will tell you.” I love her so much that I would do anything in the world for her. She said if I would get her a ring she would send back the one she has. She has another man friend who comes to see her sometimes, but she says that he is only a friend. She hates to see me go with anyone else. I am not a boy. I am a man, and afraid of losing her to someone else. Please tell me what you think I should do. A PAL.

Answer—It seems to me that you have received a broad hint that the lady would like an engagement ring. Perhaps you think a ring is not important as a symbol of your honorable intentions. If that is what you think you don’t understand women. They like to be wooed and won in the traditional manner with a ring to impress their envious friends. If marriage is not your goal you'd better give up, for doubtless the woman wants a husband. Present her with a ring and ask her to set a date for the wedding in the near future. Then if she says “no” she probably means it and your cue is to withdraw and let her alone. A woman never respects the suitor who hangs around after he has been rejected. Don’t get the idea that you will die of grief if you fail, for recovery is almost certain in time.

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DEAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a boy 15 years old and I have a girl friend of 14. Do you think it is possible that I am really in love with her? She is a good clean-cut girl but her father won't allow her to have a date. She has no mother but her sister likes me and thinks it is all right for us to go together. However, she won't slip out against her father’s wishes. Her relatives hate me and I am beginning to believe that they hate her, too. Should I slip over to her house when her father is not at home, or should I talk to her father and try to make him see my side? WAITING.

Answer—The girl's sister is vour best ally and can advise you better than I can. She will know whether or not the father would appreciate a talk with you or whether he simply would rebuff you. Perhaps she can influence him to relent and let you see the young lady occasionally. Of course you're in love with the girl—temporarily, It is a very nice feeling, isn’t it? You'll probably be mildly in love with several girls before you grow up, and the obstacle of a parent’s objection only serves to make the feeling keener. JANE JORDAN. ” » ”

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

Walter O'Keefe—

Hou y oop. Jan. 31.—Hitler and Mussolini—e the Katzenjammer Kids—are playing with their soldiers again. \ Adolf is coming down to Rome in May to pay his chum a visit, and Benito, in preparation for this, has been teaching his own troops how to do the military Big Apple, better known as the goose-step. You do it with your arms and legs. Naturally, you don’t have to use your head. Benito, the ballet master, got 20,000 stooges out on a parade ground two days ago, and as they goose-stepped past him he got so hysterical that he jumped off the reviewing stand and fell into step behind them, just to be sure the audience would give the boys a good hand. There’s no truth in the rumor that II Doochay is making his soldiers grow Hitler mustaches. He knows that Hitler is the low comedy star of the show and it would be bad to have everybody in the sup= him,

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