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Army Forts and Machine-Gun Nests |

Ring Oahu, and in lts Center Is a Whole Division of Mobile Troops.

HONOLULU, Feb. 2.-—The work of fortifying and defending the Island of Oahu from attack is in the hands of the Army. Even the guns at the entrance of the Navy's famous Pearl Harbor are Army guns. I doubt that any equal space under the American flag is as thoroughly fortified as this island. Forts are strung clear along the Honolulu waterfront for nearly 15 miles, even right under tine tourists’ noses. Ft. Ruger, behind Diamond Head. is in a residential district. Its big guns can cover the entrance to Honolulu on either side of Diamond Head, or shoot over the top if necessary. Ft. DeRussy is next, not more than two miles from Ft, Ruger. It is smack on the beach at Waikiki and right alongside our apartment. Ft. Armstrong is next. Tt 1s along the waterfront, too, practically in downtown Honolulu, about two miles from Ft. DeRussy. _ Py Ft. Kamehameha is the fourth. Mr, TYle There is a six-mile gap between 7. Armstrong and Ft. Kamehameha. tects the Honolulu side of the narrow entrance to Pearl Harbor. Tt has many men and big guns. Ft. Weaver is across the channel, protecting the other side of the harbor’s entrance. It is the newest of the forts, and has 16-inch guns, bigger than the others. These five forts sit right on the waterfront. But behind them. on a slight rise at the west outskirts of Honolulu and a few miles from the water, is Ft. Shafter. This beautiful camp is headquarters for the Army's whole Hawaiian Department. Those are the six forts around Honolulu. All are within 20 minutes’ drive of downtown. They are heavy artillery posts, with fixed guns, manned by more than 3000 men, around Honolulu. And vet thev don’t look like forts. They don't have walls around them. They have tropical cottages and green grass and are buried in trees.

Cover Entire Shoreline

Trese six are not all. bv no means, The biggest Army post in Hawaii lies halfway across the island, 20 miles back of Honolulu. In fact. it is the biggest Army post under the American flag. It is the famous Schofield Barracks. It is the job of the fighting men of Schofield to cover the entire island's shoreline. At Schofield is a full division of men. I suppose there’s hardly an acre of Oahu that the Schofield officers don’t know by heart. With so much ground to cover, they have to be able to move, and move fast. They are completely motorized. Civilians tell me the entire coastline, clear around the island, is a ring of hidden machine-gun nests. No= body outside the Army knows where, or how many. The island has, also, a spidery network of roads and trails up into the mountains. Most of these roads are purely military, and not open to the public. There

are spots high in the mountains where Schofield men |

can rush, in a very few minutes, portable guns that would cover both sides of the island,

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Series of Articles on

very well-behaved children yesterday noon.

an hour, I learned another lesson, and that is chil

dren do not consider they have received a present | unless it is wrapped up in paper and tied with ribbon. | I thought it |

Because the children were small, would be less confusing if I placed a small gift at each place around the SD table, One little girl held hers in her hand, turned around and demanded a present. It was not until her aunt put it into an envelope and tied it, that she was content and seemed to consider it a gift. This morning I took Chandler to her first day in nursery school. Though she was under perfect con= trol, I left her looking decidedly diffident and unhappy. She returned at noon very happy because she had had a very good morning. I have received a series of articles which are being sent out to various newspapers throughout the couns= try in the interests of traffic improvement and safety in automobile travel. I have read them through and there is certainly some good advice from which all of us can profit. I was pleased to learn that, while men up to 40 years of age are better drivers, women, once they attain a certain amount of efficiency, retain it longer than men. This is encouraging to those of us who are still driving, even though we may be on the downward path so far as age goes.

New Books Today

STUDY of the WORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS. TRATION IN NEW YORK CITY (Social Science Research Council) by Dr. John D. Millett, 428 E. 43d St., Indianapolis, has wide interest because WPA problems have been similar over the nation. Rr. Millett found that to have employed the bulk of workers on construction jobs would have necessitated a larger supply of skilled labor than was available on relief rolls. He denies that there is a widespread reluctance among WPA workers to obtain other jobs, but directs attention to more basic conditions, such as higher standards in business and industry which WPA laborers cannot long meet. He also notes that WPA did not permit city governments to reduce budgets swollen by expansion in the 1920s, because of increased de=mand for city services during the depression. He pointed out further that the new parks and playgrounds built by WPA had to be maintained by the city and that they placed an additional burden on city budgets. ; The most important administrative lessons of the New York City WPA . experience, according to Dr. Millett, ‘have been the necessity of organizing much of the work ih the field to prevent clogged channels in the central office and the constant improvement made possible by the long continuous existence of the organization, compared with the CWA and the ERA —By S. E. H.

Public Library Presents—

ANDID camera enthusiasts are given an opportunity to increase the efficiency of their “shots” in a manual by Richard L. Simon entitled MINIATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, from one amateur to another (Simon). Addressed to beginners and to those more experienced who need information on films, exposures, filters, developing, enlarging, what to read, “gadgets” to buy, costs of the hobby and mechanism of the camera, this guide furnishes concise answers to hundreds of queries. Mr. Simon uses a Leica, but he generously admits that other kinds are equally as good, no doubt, and adds chapters written by experts on how the Contax and Rolleiflex cameras work. Likewise, though he prefers Panatomic film, he notes a wide divergence in “film tastes.” Although the author does not stress the esthetic phases of miniature photography, he includes some exquisitely done plates by such masters as Wolff,

Schwartz and Baumann, as well as other examples |

which illustrate “what not to do.” . “Boiled down,” says Laurence Stallings, a fellow addict, who contributes a pertinent introduction, “Mr, Bimon’s advice becomes an injunction to buy the best eamera; to shoot the works; to stay up all night deto keep a stiff

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They are the “ring of steel” |

Efficiency | Of Women Drivers Is Encouraging. |

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

By Willis Thornton

NEA Staff Writer

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1938

VV ASHINGTON, Fen. 2.—"I'm so old-fashioned they

think I'm a radical.”

The ability to make that half-humorous, half-plain-tive appraisal of his own position marks Robert Houghwout Jackson off from many another reformer. And when it comes over the huge desk of the New Deal's chief legal light, from a man currently credited with being the Roosevelt favorite as the Roosevelt successor, it is startling. Despite the vast paneled office, one size smaller than Grand Central Station, vou scarcely can imagine this man being

pontifical or stuffy. But Assistant Attorney General Jackson, recently nominated by the President for the position of Solicitor General, is very much in earnest. What he means by oldfashioned is simply this: Mr. Jackson is a believer in the Woodrow Wilson-Jus-tice Brandeis school of economic thought which reached its height 30 years ago. ” n u E believes that the Federal Government should not attempt detailed supervision and regulation of the details of busi~ ness as in NRA, but should simply keep clear the channels of compe= tition, which, if obstructed, will provide a self-regulation that is much better. “This is the lowest degree of Government control that business can expect,” is the way that Mr. Jackson puts it. Out of fashion in 1933, this school of thought is gaining again, and Mr, Jackson has led the van in the assaults on monopoly and concentration of wealth which now dominate in Washington as they did in the days of the first Roosevelt and of Wilson. The arrival, during those 30 vears, of modern technology with its trend toward “inevitable bigness,” has not changed Mr, Jackson’s essential view.

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b, HERE is no harm in bigness so long as it coincides with actual production efficiency,” Mr, Jackson says. “It is in the superstructure of finance erected on top of that bigness that has caused the trouble.” All this from a man who is a director of the telephone company in his home town of Jamestown, N. Y. But note this: it is a local telephone company, standing on its own legs free of control by the A. T. and T. He is director of the Bank of Jamestown, but it is a local bank, uninfiluenced by chain or holding company. There is the key to Mr. Jackson. He is not against business, but merely against local business being dominated by outside financial interests. In his law practice in Jamestown he has represented banks, utilities, labor unions and power companies. A good lawyer gets that assorted practice in a small town, and Jackson had the name of the best in Jamestown, population 45,000. » » » ORN in Spring Creek. Pa. not quite 46 years ago, Mr. Jatk= son inherited from his mother the

McKellar Amendment Is Seen as Latest of Congressional Attempts To Prevent Extension of Government Merit System

Dutch ancestry that he has in common with the President. He has also Scotch-Irish and German blood. The Jacksons have been Democrats ever since the opposition party was called Federalists. Mr. Jackson's legal success and political principles made him a “natural” for appointment to the Internal Revenue Bureau legal staff early in the New Deal. There he sued Andrew Mellon in an income tax case, on which the Government is expected to collect $750,000. Transferred to the. Justice Department, he drew up and filed the suit to force the giant holding company, Electric Bond & Share, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Transferred two years ago to become head of the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, he proceeded against the Aluminum Co. the oil companies in the case just won at Madison, Wis, and the finance companies affiliated with the largest auto com=panies. As a result, few men know more about the financial complications of “big business.” » » » E has been mentioned frequently as the President's choice for a post on the Supreme Court, should Mr. Roosevelt desire a fighter to fill any future vacancies on the high tribunal. For although Mr. Jackson is fond of being thought of as a small-town lawyer, he has had a meteoric career in Washington and now is the Administration's “Jack the Giant Killer.” Mr. Jackson believes that the antitrust laws must be modified because the fog of legal interpretation gathered around them in 30 vears has owvscured them so that “there is no stated or intelligible policy which differentiates pursuit of industrial efficiency from industrial empire building. I am interested in the establishment of a consistent national policy of monopoly control, intelligible both to those expected to comply with it and those expected to enforce it.” This is impossible, Mr. Jackson believes, under the present law as interpreted by the courts during the last 30 years. "No one can state authoritatively what our national policy can be under the attitude of the court,” is his com=-

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ACKSON'S real home remains Jamestown, where he has a roomy old colonial house in the outskirts, and a farm farther out. But he likes that way of living so well that he also leases a small farm near Washington where he rides horseback and putters in the garden with his 17-year-old daughter Mary Margaret. His 18-year-old son, William Eldred, is at Yale. Mr, Jackson's broad Dutch face

By E.R. R. ASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—Civil | his party. Early in 1987 he sent a service advocates are up jr} pea A to oligiens sel | arms against the McKellar Amend- | oh a YA amen | | ment. Offered by the senior Senator | j.p, a part of his plan for Govern from Tennessee to the pending in-!ment reorganization. Exceptions | | dependent offices hill, it would re-| gould be jobs in which Governmenquire that every new appointee re- | tal policy was determined. | ceiving a salary of $4000 or more The House responded by passing, | under the bill be confirmed by the without a roll call, thc Ramspeck | Senate, Senator McKellar intends | Bill to give civil service status to to offer the same amendment to | first, second and third class post- | every appropriation bill, so as to| masters. These would be appointed cover every important new Gov-|by the Postmaster General instead ernment job. 1% by the President. Their terms of The President's record against the | office would be unlimited. And

Side Glances—By Clark

spoils system is better than that of |

an ad

"Oh, Dr. Clink—look- what happened

| Committee on Postoftices,

{for us to he reminded that making |

I'm Old-Fashioned’

Robert H. Jackson Follows Economic Theories

of Wilson and Brandeis

ped A Second Class Matter a esoiioe. dignapolls, Ind.

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Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

After 6000 Years a Graduate of Shortridge Solved the Sphinx's Secret and Gave Pupils a Holiday. GUESS it was just about 25 years ago

when news trickled through from Cairo, Egypt, that George A. Reisner, an Indian-

. apolis boy, had solved the secret of the

i vinced that

Sphinx, The world had waited 6000 years for somebody to turn the trick. Shortridge High School, I remember, took a day off to celebrate the event, At that, the news of Mr. Reisner’s achievement didn't surprise the Shortridge

people as much as you'd think. Mrs. Hufford said she knew all along that when the Sphinx got ready to spill its secret, one of her pupils would be around to pick it up. Everybody knew whom she meant. because it wasn’t for nothing that Mrs, Hufford’s eyes sparkled at the mention of George Reisner’s name. Well, after George finished Shortridge (Indianapolis High School it was called at the time), he went to Harvard and so impressed his teachers that they dismissed him with a degree before he was old enough to vote. Besides the degree, he also had the honor—such as it was—of being the youngest graduate. His first connection with Egyptian research came when he won a two years’ scholarship in the University of Berlin. I don't know how it happened, but almost the first thing that attracted his attene tion over there were some Egyptian tablets, The more he looked at them, the moge he became cone they weren't cataloged right. Seems

Mr. Scherrer

| that up to the time of Mr. Reisner's arrival, the age | of the tablets had heen fixed by their Coloring sem

Robert Houghwout Jackson derives his devotion , Here he is ‘with Mrs. Jackson and their children,

to home-town control of industry from a home and family background solidly set in Jamestown, N, Y.

Mr. Jackson (left)

with wide-spaced eyes, reflects the determination, doggedness and @& courage that mark him out. His figure, neat in 8s conservative dark-green suit, at first fools you

their appointments would not require confirmation by the Senate. The Ramspeck Bill went to the

the Senate | service.

com-

Kellar, chairman of

confirming appointments, » » ” HE House suffered a change of heart after passing the Ramspeck Bill. In later measures creating ‘new Government jobs, the House provided that civil service should not apply. Or if the House

A WOMAN'S VIEW.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson T 40 Louisa May Alcott, who had sold enough stories to pay off her father’s debts and make the family independent, dedicated herself to a new cause. According to Katherine Anthony's current serial, | she wrote in her diary at the time: | “Begin a new task—making Mother's last years happy.” : It is a very good thing, I think, |

year,

a parent happy once was thought | to be a noble purpose. Now we | count it a psychological disability. | Whether the modern view is cor- | rect, I am not prepared to say. It seems reasonable from many angles. | It may bring satisfaction and fulfillment to the generation which has adopted it as a working code, although I dare say none will ever have so much unalloyed joy out of life as Louisa Alcott, who believed that we do not live for self alone. Whatever may be the sensible solution of this ever-recurring problem of Age vs. Youth, it surely is not good for the two generations to lose touch with each other or to grow apart in understanding and sympathy. The young need the companionship of the old quite as much as the old require contacts with the young. A new novel by Sinclair Lewis, “The Prodigal Parents,” presents very vividly the plight of the modern man and woman who in an effort to be tolerant, generous and kind to their children discover at last that they have brought up| greedy, selfish, inconsiderate indi- | viduals. It seems obvious that persons who have not been taught to feel a sense

of ‘duty and loyalty to parents will

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is shown with Postmaster General Farley at a recent luncheon given by Mr. | Mr. Jackson also has been mentioned as a possible Farley in New York opening the boom to make the | Presidential candidate in 1940, -

as to his age—you take him for “young businessman,” ‘type. Only closer study of the face reveals the more mature man of affairs and experience who stantly rejects a suggested legal

didn't so provide, the Senate did.) On June 2, 1937, the President president shall appoint all public sent a short message to Congress Senate Committee on Civil Service, | urging that alli except policy formwhere it lies buried. Senator Mec- | ing positions be placed under civil

On June 29, the President sent a plained that the bill deprived the | message to the Senate deploring one Senate of its constitutional right of | section in the independent offices appropriation act, just signed. This required that the. Senate confirm a'l appointments of experts to the Social Security Board at $5000 a vear or more, In 1934 and 1935 the Administration had fought in vain against a similar requirement in the relief bills of that

Jasper—By Frank Owen

"Well,. the: only other ‘way: he-.can -see - the: show . isto stand—.

Mary Margaret, 17, left, and William Eldred, 18, right,

Assistant Attorney General Governor of New York.

course that is technically perfect by saying “‘-~but it won't work!” He is a graduate of Albany Law School and prominent in bar associations. He is a Mason and an Episcopalian.

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The Constitution says that the officers by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Constitution provides otherwise, However, Congress at the same time is empowered to vest the appoin’ment of “inferior” officers in the Presiden’ alone, in the courts, or in the heads of departments. The theory was, of course, to prevent. a President from going .dictatorial.

But in practice Senate confirmation of minor appointees often has degenerated into the spoils ‘system.

which he had

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| the theory being that similar [colorings had somee

thing in common. Mr. Reisner proved that the colorings were the result of chemicals of the earth, and from that minute on, he was an Egyptologist in his own right.

Backed by Queen Victoria

In 1893, when he was 26 years old, Mr. Reisner undertook his first big research work. You won't believe it, but it’s a fact that Queen Victoria backed him, She was 74 years old at the time. The next venture was financed by Mrs. Leland Stanford. and later Mrs. Phoebe Hearst got interested, too, and for 10 years furnished money to carry on the work. After that, Harvard and the Boston Museum pooled their interests and agreed to finance the work. pro= vided Mr. Reisner would consent to drop his tools once every three years, return home, and give a course of lectures at Harvard. ; It was during this period that Mr. Reisner got next to the Sphinx, and discovered that it was a tomb designed to receive the body of Menes, the first of the Pharaohs. It certainly surprised us folks out in the sticks, because we were brought up to believe that Menes was the one who was eaten up by a hip= popotamus, That's about all T know about Mr. Reisner except that besides being Professor of Egyptology at Harvard today, and curator of the Egyptian department of the Boston Museum, he is also a Rotarian.

Jane Jordan—

Do Not Tie Entire Life to Your Husband, Jané Tells Troubled Wife.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am 23 years old and have been married six years to a man whom I love more than life itself, but he is not the emotional type; 80 he keeps me guessing as to whether he still loves me or not. I love him so much that I am desperately

Jealous of him and I can’t overcome that jealousy. There is a SUpDOsEg stele friend of mine who always is telling me that my Husband has other dates and I am just about frantic with the idea of leaving him free, Although I never have caught him stepping out on me, this other person tells me he has dates and makes it sound true by saying that my husband told him so. About a week ago my husband was gone all day when he was not working and when he came home he said he was going to a friend's house to help him fix something. I suspected something and said I would go along and then he wouldn't go. Just today this friend of mine told me that my husband had a date. Oh, please try to advise me what to do before I do something terrible, for I love him so I'm afraid to believe that all this is true, DISHEARTENED. » w ”

Answer—The first thing to do is to cut your so= called friend off your list. Does your husband know this tattling goes on? I am sure. he would not cone sider such a pe“son a friend of the family as indeed he is not. What is his motive in telling you these things? Is it that he wants to make love to you hime self, or is he just a natural-born mischief maker? Whatever it is the man is a nuisance and menace and not to be trusted. I do not know whether your husband is unfaithful to you or not, but I do know that I wouldn't take this man’s word for it. Don't discuss your husband with him at any time or act on any of his suggestions, There is nothing more unattractive than a nagging, crying, suspicious wife. A man cannot be made faith« ful by constant watching or hysterical accusations. You say you love your husband better than life itself. That's fine, but I hope you love many other things, too. I do not mean other men. I simply mean that you need other interests to keep you busy. It is a mistake for any woman to become so wrapped up in her husband that life becomes a dreary waste if she catches him in a single misstep. A husband seldom is pleased if his wife has an excessive love for him.. By excessive I mean the kind of love that demands his continuous presence and attention: the kind of love that is never satisfied uneless the loved one is near and sometimes not then: the kind that pursues a man to work and smothers him when he is home. Such love doesn’t carry its own weight in marriage but puts the full burden of responsibility for happiness upon the behavior of the other. Love is an important part of life, but it is not all of life and it is unwise to overvalue it to the point where the slightest adversity spells doom. The best advice I can give you is to keep busy, in« terested and useful. Don’t tie your entire life to your husband. Complete emotional dependence gives you a strangle hold on someone else which is invariably resented. Try not to invest your all in a husband who shows signs of restiveness. Gather other intere ests and occupations and let him have a rest. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will | answer your questions in this column daily, ' |

Walter O’'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, Feb. 2—I finally feel like a native Los Angeles resident. The other night I had my first automobile accident. Out here hundreds. of people handle their cars as though they were on furlough from a psychopathic ward. My mistake was that I was on the right side of the road. : Some college boys hit us. The college spirit out here is remarkable. They win a basketball games, get into their cars and then race out to tear down the lampposts. The car folded up into innumerable pleats. As & matter of fact, Phil Baker played “Bei Mir Bist Schoen” on it on his Sunday radio program. " ’ dak A wis v PERT - hy