Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1938 — Page 9

From Indiana==Ernie Pyle

A Thin, Muscleless Milquetoast Braves the Waikiki Beach Crowd To Go Surf-Riding and Enjoys If.

JH ONOLULT, Feb. 8.—The midafternoon sun was hot on the beach at Waikiki. On the sands and under the umbrellas of the Outrigger Club there was a rich laziness. Men, deeply tanned, lay in the heat.

Women in bright bathing suits dug toes into the sand. Somewhere behind the palms Hawaiians were singing. But suddenly people sat up and stared. Look! What fantasy is this? What be this odd human contraption come into our exclusive midst? Four dark Hawaiians carried a yellow outrigger canoe toward the water. Behind them strode a huge Hawaiian—six feet and then some, great chest, muscled arms and legs, darkly brown. A figure as natural on. Waikiki as the surf itself. And behind this magnificent specimen minced an embarrassed, spindly ghost. A veritable Milquetoast of the beach. His skin was as Mr. Pyle white as writing paper. His knees didn’t come together, and his arms muscleless. The big Hawaiian was Duke Kahamamoku, the great swimmer. And the awful contrast trailing behind him was, as you may have guessed—me, in person. Me, wanting desperately to get under water and drown as quickly as possible. The canoe was built for four. Duke called to a beautiful girl on the beach, and she came running with a little child. They piled in, for ballast and the ride. I never did know who they were. He put me in the front seat, right in the nose. He sat in the stern.

We paddled out, against the surf and into the sun. Crossing the rollers, the prow of the canoe was left high, and would fall to the water with a smuek. We must have been half a mile out when finally Duke turned the canoe around.

“Now we'll wait for one,” he said. say paddle you paddle hard.”

We sat there for many minutes in the sun, talking idly. Suddenly Duke dug in excitedly and yelled “paddle!” We rowed and the canoe started to move. “Paddle! Paddle hard!” Duke yelled.

No Need for Oars

Then suddenly I could feel the stern lifted. The prow dug into the water with a showering splash and the little boat trembled all over. And then we were off, as though someone had pulled a trigger and shot us out of a gun. Going like the wind, riding shoreward on a roaring downhill of white water. No need for oars now.

The ride lasted maybe a minute, maybe less. Gradually we slowed. Duke hunched the canoe onward; you could feel the jerks when he humped forward. Finally the wave died and passed beneath us and the canoe floated quietly again, a hundred yards from shore. Duke turned the canoe, and we paddled seaward again.

Half a dozen times we made the round trip. Sometimes we'd have to wait five or ten minutes for the surf to break. Once all four of us got out of the canoe and played around in water over our heads. We hung onto the outrigger, for only Duke could swim. The girls and I were almost foolish with delight cver the thing. Duke seemed to enjoy our enthusiasm. “But the surf is poor today,” he said. “It’s no good in winter. I wish it were summer, so we'd get some big enough to turn us over”

“And when I

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

President's Friends From England Are Visitors at the White House.

ASHINGTON, Monday—I am back in Washington and find it even more springlike than the Hudson River country. The frost was coming out of the ground up there and in some places I sank in almost to the tops of my high walking boots. On these aays which are the forerunners of spring, it seems difficult to believe that we will again find ourselves in midwinter, probably with deep snow and cold winds. If I had been wise enough in my woodlore I would have picked some branches of dogwood yesterday and brought them into the house to blossom. Next year I think I shall tie little rags on the trees when they are in bloom. For I never seem to be able to learn how to identify them by their bark in the winter. I attendec a delightful concert this morning at which Miss Hilda Burke, of the Metropolitan Opera, and Mr. John Charles Thomas sang. We all enjoyed it and regretted this is the last of Mrs. Townsend's concerts for this year. She announced she would continue the Monday musicals next winter and I am very happy she is doing so. A very old friend of my husband's, Lady ArcherShee, iz staying with us, and Mr. and Mrs. John Cutter of Boston are also here. My husband's godchild and cousin, Mrs. C. Fellowes-Gordon, and her husband are arriving this afternoon. They now live in England, sc when they come over here, all the family vie with each other to see something of them.

Meets Alexander Woollcott

When T took the train .o Washington from the Pennsylvania Station in New York City, I heard someone say “Good evening, Mrs. Roosevelt. I am Alexander Woollcott.” Of course, I would have known him without this identification, but I couldn't help thinking of the numbers of people whom I have met at receptions in different parts of the country, who say: “I wonder if you remember me?” Mr. Woollcott was on his way to Boston, and he tells me he has gone on the stage and is opening there tonight in a Theater Guild play. 1 gathered he is having a thoroughly good time.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

ELDOM in books on the technique of aeting have actors themselves commented on their profession. In answer, however, to the public's eternal question, “How do you do it?” Morton Eustis has attempted to translate the ideas and opinions of a few contemporary theater people on their methods of work and perfocrmance. PLAYERS AT WORK (Theater Arts) includes chapters on Helen Hayes, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Nazimova, Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Burgess Meredith, Fred Astaire, and the opera singer, Lotte Lehmann, in which each endeavors to explain how he judges a play and how he creates and plays his own part in it.

OROUS tales of all sections of the United |

States are included in ‘the new book by Carl Carmer, author o: “Stars Fell on Alabama” and ‘“Listen for a Lonesome Drum.” THE HURRICANES CHILDREN (Farrar) tells remarkable stories of men of prowess who could do the impossible. Americans, the author says, are the only people who have never been interested in describing fairies, “the little people.” Their fun, at the end of a hard day of doing big jobs has been in creating strong men who could accomplish feats beyond their own powers. In simple style and language, with homely wit, Carl Carmer has gathered stories of unbelievable dimensions which have been handed down throughout the years by word of mouth of the educated bulldog of Indiana, Pecos Bill of New Mexico, Johnny Appleseed of Pennsylvania, and Old Stormalong of Cape Cod—the sum total being tall tales that

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1938

Jewish Destiny

Zionists Pin Hopes for Salvation on Palestine

(Second of Five Articles)

By Theodore Andrica

Times Special Writer

S the pressure on the Jews in eastern Europe grows

daily the search for a permanent Jewish homeland becomes not only a Jewish problem but to a certain extent

a world problem.

The situation of the Jews in Russia, Poland and the

old Rumanian kingdom, was never an enviable one, but the latest developments bring desperation to the millions of Jews living in eastern Europe.

The western European

countries have closed their doors to the Jews and Jewry's greatest hope, the United States, virtually stopped immigration 16 years ago. Thus the attention of the world is sharply focused on Palestine, which Zionist leaders offer as Jewry’s only hope of today. “Zionism aims at establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine.” This was the principal tenet adopted by the first Zionist congress held in Basel, Switzerland, in August, 1897. The prime mover of the idea at the congress was Theodore Herzl of Budapest, Hungary, who in 1895 published his famous treatise on the subject, “The Jewish State.”

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HAT the Jew is secure against oppression only in a state in which he does not live as a foreigner and in minority but a state of his own, is the argument put forth by supporters of the “Pales~ tine Jews” movement. Search for such a home prompted Baron Moritz Hirsch to donate 160,000,000 marks toward the work of the Jewish Colonization Association which started its work in 1891. This organization directed the migration of Russian Jews to the Americas, particularly Are gentina. This attempt was not particularly successful because Argentina did not prove a sufficient attraction to the majority of Jews, although it offered a life free from oppression. “Of two modes of life the Jew will always choose the worst, if other Jews happen to be close at hand to share it with him, thereby providing him with a possibility of forming a community,” a well-known Jewish writer said. ” = =

Anne was chosen by Baron Hirsch for a permanent land for the Jews because the Turkish Government, then reigning in Palestine, had refused to permit mass migration of Jews into Palestine for the purpose of establishing a free Jewish colony. But even before Hirsch, other sporadic efforts were made to make Palestine the ultimate aim of the Jews who sought a haven from the eastern European oppression.

One such effort was that of a

group of young Russian Jews who in 1882 founded a society in Khar=kow for the purpose of opening agricultural colonies in Palestine. Members of this group were followed by smaller groups of Rumanian Jews shortly after 1882. These pioneers were greatly aided by the well known financier, Baron Edmond De Rothschild, who has donated 50,000,000 francs

to the Jewish colonization in Palestine.

Internal developments, the refusal of Turkey to make Palestine a Jewish colony and particularly the World War, checked the Zionists’ work during the first part of the 20th Century.

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UT right after the war they again resumed work in behalf of a Jewish Palestine and ever since they have contributed unceasing energy and much money to change the economic and political picture of Palestine.

Opponents of the Zionist idea that Palestine is the ultimate salvation of the Jewish people say that the real need for a permanent oppression-free land is felt almost exclusively by the eastern European Jews, of whom there are almost 10,000,000,

Palestine, they say, will never be able to absorb these suffering Jews because at its best Palestine will be able to maintain not more than 2,000,000 persons.

These opponents to the Zionist idea also point out that increased immigration of Jews to Palestine brings with it a corresponding increase in Arab resistance, resulting in riots, murder and destruction of Jewish property. Such riots occurred there in 1920, 1921, 1924, 1929, 1936 and 1937. It is true that Palestine is prove

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1 rusy organizations through= out the world have contributed enormous amounts of money to buy up Arab land for the Jewish colonists. During the three years of 1933, 1934 and 1935 more than $21,000,000 were paid by Jewish groups to Arabs for land now used by Jews. Equally large sums of moneys were spent making the arid land fertile, building roads, factories and cities.

Here it must be mentioned that of the 400,000 Jews now in Palestine not more than 80,000 work on farms. The majority follow their former calling, as tradesmen and industrial workers. Arab tribal leaders naturally fear that if the Jews will take dominant part in the country's economic life, their own hold over the nomad Bedouins and other uneducated Arabs will be short-lived.

HE situation is further com=plicated by religious friction. The “Wailing Wall,” claimed by the Jews to be a relic of Solomon’s Temple is the only holy place in Jerusalem where the Jews can worship. On the hill above the wall

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE military farce goes into its big second act. President Roosevelt asks Congress for huge expen=ditures for additional armaments, giving as his reason the fact that other countries are piling up additional armaments. “Adequate national defense,” he continues, “means that for the protection not only of our coasts but also of our communities far removed from the coast, we must keep any potential enemy away from our borders.” This is capable of almost any interpretation. What it probably means is that there is to be no limit to what we shall be asked to pay for armaments in the future.

It is interesting to note the effect of the President's message in Japan, which at the moment happens to be the potential enemy everybody talks about, Over there the message was given a gleeful welcome by the military powers. It justified their demand for more armaments. If the affair did not have such tragic implications, it would resemble the “I double dare you” antics of small boys. “Peace! Peace!” we cry. “But look! A potential enemy arms. Must we not also arm?” And every potential enemy in its turn shouts, “Look America arms. Must we not also increase our miliary budget?” This is no way to peace. If we had dared to be brave we could have soothed the fears of millions of warweary Japanese, Germans and Italians by declaring to the world: “You need feel no fear of us. Our arma-

Upper left—A camel train in modern Tel-Aviv, the all-Jewish city of Palestine. Upper right—The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, cause of much friction between Jews and Arabs.

Below—One-third of Palestine would form a Jewish state and the balance would go to the Arabs if the” recommendations of the British Royal Commission are accepted by both sides.

stands the Moslem Mosque of Omar. At the request of Arab religious leaders a gateway was built through the Wailing Wall to give Arabs another route to their favorite mosque. Once this gateway was opened there came a long series of clashes between Arabs and Jews. The changing attitude of the British government adds to the confusion. During the World War the British promised the Arab leaders freedom and independence if they cast their lot with the Allies against the Germans and Turks. To gain support from world Jewry, Lord Balfour on Nov. 2, 1917, promised the Jews “a national home in Palestine.” When the Palestine mandate was given England in 1922 the British gove ernment was faced with the serious problems of trying to satisfy both the Arabs and the Jews. ” s »

HE partition of Palestine, giving one-third of its territory to the Jews was recommended by a British royal commission in July, 1937. Publication of this report resulted in additional Arab demonstrations and uprisings. On their side the Zionists bite

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terly complain agains; the “short comings” of the report, particularly against the provision which limits the immigration of Jews to Palestine to 12,000 annually and gives preference to applicants possessing at least $5000 capital upon entering Palestine. Jerusalem would be under Brit ish mandate, according to the

commission's recommendations in order to exclude possibilities of

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tians, Jews and Arabs. The Jews claim 75,000 population out of a total of 110,000 in Jerusalem,

RITAIN fs vitally interested in the preservation of peace in Palestine and in creating an une derstanding between the Arabs and the Jews. Palestine is the very center of the air defense line linking the British west with east and a British-owned oil pipe line brings the precious liquid from Iraq through Palestine to Haifa.

Today there are slightly more than 1,000,000 people in Palestine; 400,000 Jews, the rest Arabs, Jews= ish work transformed the little suburb of Tel-Aviv near Jaffa from a village of 300 in 1901 to a modern city of 100,000 in 1937.

Jewish organizations from the United States invested at least $50,000,000 in Palestine, mostly in the establishment of citrus groves for Jewish colonists. Electricity has been made cheap by harnessing the Jordan River. Altogether more than 3000 new industries were established, employing more than 30,000 persons.

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'29 Predicted

Times Special ASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-—Amer-ica should be building homes by the latter half of this year at

the greatest rate since 1929, according to Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, whose big mortgage-insurance agency has swung into action following the signature of the new WagnerSteagall Housing Act. Mr. McDonald would make no definite forecast as to the number of Americans who will utilize in 1938 the liberalized lending features of the new act. The Government's goal, however, is construction of 450,000 family dwelling units—50 per cent more than in 1937—at a cost of some $2,000,000,000. “We are expecting no miracles,” he said. “But we do expect that many thousands of families of moderate means will avail themselves of these very liberal terms and build homes. We also look for a decided

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expansion of large neighborhood developments for sale or rental. “We would like to see more homes built on a wholesale basis, with safeguards against neighborhood deterioration and traffic hazards. We have the facilities, both technical and financial, to assist larger operators in undertaking such developments. “By building homes wholesale instead of retail we can get better, more attractive and cheaper homes, just as we get better and cheaper shoes by mass production. It would also help stabilize the industry-a builder, for instance, constructing 480 home units and starting 20 each month to keep his labor busy at steady work.” Mr. McDonald says the Housing Administration, now employing more than 1000 persons, is not an emergency service, but a going concern. He says FHA has done some $2,000.000,000 of business in the last two years.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Mr. Behrens Tells How a Reveler's Accident One New Year's Caused a Costly Fountain to Be Removed.

J SPENT the whole of last Tuesday after noon—the day’after the Russet Cafeteria opened--listening to Henry Behrens. And say, 1 got an earful! Mr. Behrens had a lot of time on his hands because he had just

finished decorating the Russet. It's a pretty job, you ought to see it for yourself. Well, as the afternoon wore on, and Mr. Behrens got more mellow and mellifluent, he got more remi=

niscent, too. As a matter of fact, he went back 30 years and told me what he had to do with the designing and decorating of the Atrium Cafe over in the Claypool. It sure prised me, too. I had no idea the Atrium had that much of a history. For that matter, I didn’t know Mr. Behrens was that old, either. The Atrium, says Mr. Behrens, looks just the way it did the day it opened, except that originally it pg, had a gorgeous fountain in the center of the room. It was about 10 by 18 feet, made of Rookwood pottery, and had the prettiest figure of Pan playing his pipes anywhere this side of Pompeii. It cost a pretty penny, you bet. As far as that goes, the room housing the Atrium cost $60,000 when 1b was built, says Mr. Behrens. Well, one New Year's night circa 1913, when things were pretty lively in the Atrium, a traveling salesman fell into the fountain. Sure, the fountain was full of water. So was the man when they fished him out. Besides being wet clean through, the man was awful mad, too. And no wonder, says Mr. Behrens, because when the waiter pulled him out, everybody saw that the man’s toupee had made a complete revolution under water, so that the back of his hair came to the front and hung like a fringe over his eyes. Seems that water affects the glue or whatever it is that holds down a man’s toupee.

Pan Was Lost or Stolen

Mr. Lawrence, who ran the hotel at the time, was sort of glad the man fell into the fountain. Mr. Behrens is sure of it, because he remembered that long before the man fell into the water, Mr. Lawrence often lamented the fact that the fountain took up too much room. Mr. Lawrence had it all figured out, says Mr. Behrens, that except for the fountain he could put eight additional tables in the Atrium, which, of course, meant 32 additional chairs. A profit of a dollar a chair per day was the equivalent of $12,000 a year additional for the hotel. Well, with Mr. Lawrence's figuring and the man falling into the water, there wasn’t anything to de but tear out the fountain, Its remains were interred in the cellar. In some way, however, the little figure of Pan got lost—or stolen. Mr. Behrens won't coms= mit himself. Fortunately, however, somebody had the foresight to make a replica at the time of casting, and that's the little figure you see today on top of the Claypool's Illinois St. marquise leading to the Atrium, Here's the biggest surprise, though. You won't believe it, of course, but it's a fact that the little waiter working in the corner of the Atrium is the only one left of the original crew. His name is Ike Carter, and boy, does he know his stuff!

Jane Jordan—

Girl Advised Against Marrying Boy Untrained to Bear Disappointments.

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EAR JANE JORDAN-Am I unfair? I hate to think I have broken a promise, but when I was 15 I promised to marry, when I was older, a nice boy two years older than myself. He is good-looking with a good personality, and to know him is to feel sorry for him. I am past 18 now and have been to college. I almost live in the world of literature, love to have friends drop in evenings but he thinks that he should be all I want without other friends. He doesn’t read books, quit high school in the third year, but is hardworking, honest and clean in every way. He simply won't have any girl but me. I see my mistake now. I told him it was all over, that we are not suited to each other, but he refuses to let me go and wants to make me accept a ring. When I study with other boys and girls he gets into a rage and goes out and breaks up his car by wild driving. He purposely jumps from a high swing and bruises his body, just because I talk to other boys in my own home. His family can't make him stop. He worries my parents who are so good to me and him, too. Lots of fathers would have ordered him off the premises long ago. He threatens to run away and hobo or bring my name into the headlines. He knows I would feel bad because it is all my fault that he isn't happy. But I am afraid to trust such a man. Would you? MAE. ” ” ”

Answer—No, you're not unfair, The boy a girl chooses at 15 is seldom the one she wants at 18 and it is ridiculous for anyone to hold her to a promise to marry when she was a child. Definitely you are not to blame for this young man's behavior. The fault lies in his vpbringirg. He has not been trained to bear disappointment but expects his own way at all times. He is s*ill in the nursery stage of development where he thinks he can dominate others by smashing things. Particularly ine fantile is his attempt to make you accept him by ine juring himself, If the young man had never seen you or heard of you he still would behave in the same manner when crossed. You may be sure that this isn't the first outbreak he has had, but is the result of a lifetime of controlling situations by violence. He is not a suitable husband for any woman at present, for although he has the body of a man he has the emotions of a child. How fortunate it is that you found him out before marriage. Life simply isn’t worth living with a person so filled with rage and hatred against those who oppose him and who is so poorly equipped for self control. Certainly his behavior is not calculated to make any one love him and this is a fact he will have to face. The best thing you can do for him is to firmly ree fuse to be bothered by him at all. Let your father throw him out of the house if he wants to. The last thing you should do is to show any sympathy for him, When children discover that their tantrums have no influence they quite having them. If this young man gains nothing but contempt by his cowardly behavior he will give it up as a way of life. It would positively be unkind of you to let him believe for a minute that he can succeed by such unfair, unjust, infantile actions. JANE JORDAN.

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

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, Feb. 8.—Big business and little busie ness have paid visits to the White House and i% seems high time that “colossal business” went down there. There's no other way to describe Sonja Henie, the skating star. Sonja has conformed to the Government desire for a five-day week and she’s all set to gross $700,000 in a little over a month. Of course, she has her overhead. She has to keep her skates sharp and she's got to pay the iceman. Nevertheless she’ll come out with more than a quarter of a million for herself and the Government. This year her performance is one of sheer beauty. Next year it ought to be one of riotous comedy. It would be an ice ballet showing her trying to skats gracefully away from a pursing villain labeled income tax collector, That's one trick she can't do.