Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1938 — Page 13

From Indiana==Ernie Pyle

Our Wandering Boy Friend Defends The bazy Tourist and Says Waikiki Is Ideal if One Can Afford Ht.

HONOLULY, Feb. 10.—The more I travel the more tolerance I have for tourists. Take the subject of vacationing in Hawaii for instance. The average tourist doesn’t get any far-

ther into Hawaii than Honolulu, and possibly a conducted tour around this Island of Oahu. Frequently on the outer islands you hear the vacationers in Honolulu spoken of rather scornfully, because they go back to the mainland knowing so little about the real Hawaii.

Well, why should they know all about Hawaii? Most people come over here on a vacation, to have a time. They don't come to study, or delve, or write a thesis on the Sugar Production Methods of Kauai. They come to loaf and swim. Sure, if you've got lots of money and plenty of time, it's grand to go and see all you can. But somehow I can’t feel ‘contemptuous of the two weeks’ vacationer who spends all his time at ease instead. of rushing around the islands trying to learn something.

And as for learning about henest-to-goodness native life, it’s much more pleasant to observe “native life” as she is lived around Waikiki and go on home thinking that’s the way it is all over. For in Honolulu the brown-skinned ones are more beautiful and more colorful than elsewhere. The music around Waikiki is much lovelier than nine-tenths of the native music, which is full of jerks and yodels and usually tuneless, And a rehearsed and beautifully costumed “native Hawaiian performance” at Waikiki is just as fresh and much pleasanter to watch than a split-hickory show out in the bush leagues of the islands, even if it isn’t as “genuine.” And now, as for advice on whether to spend your vacation in Hawaii or not, my answer is—by all means yes! Personally I love the place.

Steamship Fares Are High

But you can’t make Hawaii on a song. It's a long way, and steamship fares are high. On the Matson Line's Lurline, which we came on, fares run from $85 each (one way) for an inside “cabin class” cabin, up to $145 each (one way) for'an outside cabin without bath, in first class. Of course you can get a cabin as high as $700 if you want, but I'm talking about “we, the people.” Our cabin was the $145 one. That makes $580 for the round trip for two, plus at least $20 in tips, running it over $600 If you're a vacationer you'll want to stay around Waikiki. If you're well-to-do you can stay at the Royal Hawaiian, the Moana or the Halekulani. If you aren't, youll t a room or an apartment. There are some nice ones, and some awful dumps. They run anywhere from $15 a week, for one dark room, on up. And in full season it’s hard to get even the worst rooms. : No matter where you live you can use the Beach at Waikiki, for it's public. As for total cost, I don’t see how two people, coming say from Chicago and traveling and living in moderate comfort, could make the trip and stay two weeks for less than $1000.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr, Pyle

Poem by Guest Missing Luncheon Assures Her Another Invitation.

ASHINGTON, Wednesday. —Last night we held the last state dinner of the season, given in honor of the Speaker of the House and Mrs. Bankhead. After it we had a delightful concert. ¥ particularly enjoyed Mr. Carl Friedberg's selections. He played Chopin's Nocturne in F Sharp and the Waltz in C Sharp Minor, both of which ‘gre favorites ‘of mine. The Drane sisters, who play the violin, and Miss Lois Bannerman, who plays the harp, are charm- | ing young artists and make & most pleasing picture on the stage. Our perfect spring weather continues. I spent an hour and a quarter riding along the Potomac this morning and returned to a large formal lumcheon. One or two of my guests were laid low by accidents or illness. One of them sent me a poem which I much enjoyed and read to the assembled company. I am quoting it here, not because it is great poetry, but because I think you will get as much amusement out of it as I did.

NYA Committee Meets

“I've lived for your luncheon date of late, Till I fell on the ice and cracked my pate, Now I'm bandaged up in Baltimore And I cannot keep the luncheon date. My Emily Post I need to read To know how to write about a feed, But Emily Post's in Washington; And her good precepts I cannot heed, If I give up my skating yen And leave the ice to the younger gen’ When I get back to Washington Please don't heed Emily, but invite me again.” You may be sure an invitation will be awaiting this particular guest on her recovery. : This afternoon the National Youth Administration advisory committee iss meeting here at 4 o'clock. After a cup of tea, we will go over to the President's office for the annual meeting with him. Here, committee members have an opportunity to bring up any questions which they think should come to his notice and he has an opportunity to ask any questiors which are on his ming.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HE rattling of family skeletons by Victoria Sack-ville-West (Mrs. Harold Nicolson) in the pages of PEPITA (Doubleday) is delightfully amusing. This portrait of her grandmother, the beautiful Andalusian mistress of the taciturn English diplomat, Lionel Sackville-West, shows an appreciation of her gaiety and exquisite charm, of the fantastic childhood which she spent with ‘her shrewd gypsy mother, Catalina, who lived with Manuel, “apparently matrimonially,” and of the whole set-up of 19th Century Spain. Pepita dances, romances, lies beautifully, and has six children before she leaves Victoria, her eldest daughter and her counterpart to carry on. The second half of the book is the vivid portrait of this Victoria who marries her cousin, the third Lord Sackville, invading his beautiful and historic estate, “Knole,” with her glamour and her tempestuous ways. Miss Sackville-West pictures these forebears of hers with warmth and without sentimentality. = = n TT pictures and personal belongings of John Wilkes Booth, treasured by little Izola Forrester's grandmother, made him a romantic figure to this child actress of the Eighties. She had been told ‘that he was her grandfather and that he had died during the Civil War, but she did not know then that he was Lincoln's slayer. Years later, her mother's younger brother, Harry, told her what he insisted was a true story of Booth's escape; he himself, born in 1870, was living proof of the story. Miss Forrester determined to solve the mysteries connected with her grandfather's life and death. In THIS ONE MAD ACT (Hale) she offers her solutions evolved through 40 years of research in old diaries and family papers, and culled from carefully sifted rumors and legends told to her by thousands of people. That Booth was secretly married and the father of a young daughter; that he belonged to a secret order which

book is rich in recollections of the author's delightful grandmother and beautiful young actress mother,

(Fourth of Five Articles) By Theodore Andrica

Times Special Writer HE Communist revolution in Russia abolished the “pale of settlement” in which the Jews were allowed to live under the old tsarist regime. Wiping out race prejudice was one of the accomplishments of the revolution. At the same time, however, the Soviets declassed the majority of the Jews in Russia because they were engaged mostly in trading, therefore they were considered “bourgeoise.”

» ” LJ HE Jews’ situation in Russia became desperate during and after the great famine of 1921. The American-Jewish Joint Distributing Committee co-operated with Hoover's American relief agencies to alleviate the suffer-

ing. Out of this activity developed the idea of establishing an agency to aid the Jews to learn trades and to settle on land. Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, a Russian-born naturalized American citizen, became the guiding genius of the AgroJoint, the organization intrusted with the colonization of Jews on land. In 1924 the Agro-Joint, supported by the American Jewish Distribution Committee and the Soviet Government, settled the first 1000 Jewish families on 50,000 acres in Ukraine.’ #2 =» HE success of the first attempt was so great that American philanthropists became interested in Jewish colonization. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago alone gave $4,000,000 toward the $8,000,000 raised for this purpose. Among the notables who have contributed were Felix M. Warburg, Paul Baerwald and John D, Rockefeller Jr. James N. Rosenberg of New York was chairman of the committee in charge of the fund-raising campaign. With all the ‘monetary and government support, the lot, of the first Jewish families who settled in Ukraine was not ‘easy. In spite of the Soviets insistence on racial equality, the Ukrainians and the Cossacks did not welcome the Jews with open arms. " ; In addition. to this difficulty came the physical aspect of toe new Jewish farm workers. For hundreds of years they lived in

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crowded ghettos without doing hard physical labor. The change from the ghetto to the open farms was not an easy one. Jewish colonization in Ukraine and Crimea is linked closely with the agricultural revolution in Soviet Russia, with the move to collectivize land. :

" nn =» . LMOST all Jewish' colonists were settled on large tracts of land, set up in collectives. Modern machinery was put at their disposal and expert agricultural leaders directed farm labor. Today 75 per cent of farm work

on Jewish collective farms in Ukraine and Crimea is mechanized. The regions around Odessa, Kiev, Dniepropetrovsk, Kherson and Ekaterinoslav were given to Jewish colonists by. the Soviet Government. In Volhynia and Kahkovka . the new. settlers engaged in viticulture and in Podolia in tobacco cultivation. The © neighboring Ukrainians and Cossacks soon realized that the coming of Jewish settlers means improved machinery for the whole region. Slowly the prejudice against Jews faded away. Today we see, for instance, in the Novozlatopol district a friendly competition between Jewish collective farmers and delegates of Cossacks from the Tsimlyanski district on the Don River. The two groups compete each year for the best achievements in running their collective farms. There are now 250,000 Jews on collective farms in the Ukrainian Socialist Republic, cultivating almost 3,000,000 acres of land. From the small beginnings in the Ukraine, Jewish colonization quickly spread to Crimea. The first settlers arrived there in 1924. It is intevesting to note that until the

“Communist revolution Jews were

never allowed tv» enter the

Crimean peninsula.

Jewish Destiny

Collective Farms Settled in Crimea and Ukraine

Agro-Joint committee and the Soviet Government co-

operated in building huge artesian wells to irrigate a vast arid territory. Just recently electric power and light lines were strung across the peninsula and most of the Jewish collective farms have access to electricity. The prospective Jewish settlers

- to Crimea were selected with great

care, mostly from the congested districts of Ukraine. When they arrived on their new land, usually in spring, they found growing fields, new houses, a school and health station. Besides growing wheat the Jewish colonists have learned to grow vegetables and fruits and have become efficient in animal husband-

Ty. All the milk, cheese, butter and eggs consumed by the families are produced on the collective farms and also to a certain extent on the one-acre-and-a-half tract given to each household for the exclusive use of the family. More than 100,000 chickens are hatched yearly in incubators on the collective Jewish farms in Crimea. What is more interesting from the Jewish point of view is the breeding and raising of pigs. There are today about 50,000 Jewish colonists in Crimea, working on 100 collective farms. There are nearly 100 elementary schools, 14 high schools, several hospitals, 30 libraries and several small manufacturing plants in the Freidorf district.

IDDISH is the language of instruction in all the schools on the new Jewish colonies in Crimea and Ukraine. Paradoxical as it may sound, this brings certain hardships to the children because as a matter of daily habit they are mostly Russian. The hospitals in the Jewish colonies are not pretentious. They. are crude buildings shousing from 10 to 20 beds, reserved mostly for mothers and infants. The wheat produced in Crimea

by Jewish colonists goes mostly into making macaroni, due to its small grain. Argo-Joint, the agency responsible for the colonization of Jews in Crimea and Ukraine, is not restricting its activities to Jews, although its greatest efforts are in their behalf. Expert advice and machinery belonging to the Jewish settlers: are freely lent to fieighboring

Left—A Jewish peasant girl at work on one of the Jewish collective farms in the Soviet Ukraine.

Right Below—At a childdren’s theatrical performance in the Jewish Vanguard collective farm, Novozlatopol district.

Left Below—A cheese maker at a Jewish collective farm displaying his products,

villages made up of Russians, Germans or Tartars. This is especially true in the case of incubators. Thus two aims are reached—to develop the economic importance of the whole region and to reduce whatever racial prejudice may still exist among the nonJewish neighbors.

NEXT: The Jews in the Americas.

Midwestern Drivers Seen As Side-Road ‘Chargers’

By Henry McLemore United Press Staff Writer IAMI, Fla., Feb. 10. — The speedometer on my car read 15,437 when I started out today, and I propose to tell you of the various types of drivers I have encountered (literally, too) in accumulating that mileage during the last four months. My observations were made in more than 25 states and over a trail that wound haphazardly from New York to Georgia to Tennessee to Missouri to Nebraska to Colorado to Montana to Washington to Califor-

nia to Texas and finally to Florida.

Just as each section of the country has its own peculiarities in accent, behavior, and food, so does each section have its own type of

automobile driver. Take the South,

for example. The Southern driver is

of what I term the “historical” type. Put a Southerner back of the wheel

and the moment his foot touches the accelerator he imagines that he is Gen. Pickett at Gettysburg and

starts charging.

He is very closely allied in type to the Midwestern driver, the only difference being that the Southerner does his charging down the main highways while the Midwesterner prefers to gain momentum on the side roads and be at top speed

when he roars full tilt on to the

road that has the right of way.

‘where he is going,

Y knowledge of California driv-

ers is based chiefly on the habits of Hollywood automobile owners. The Hollywood driver relies on blind faith in his fellowman. When a Hollywoodian steps into his car he points the nose of his car in the general direction of releases the brake, slams the accelerator.to the floorboard, and then closes his eyes. What happens after that depends entirely on the behavior of the drivers of the cars coming toward him. The Hollywood traffic directors did not help to relieve this insane situation when they placed four stop signs at each intersection. The cars on the east, west, north and south sides all stop. Then everybody shifts into low gear and the cars from all four sides meet in the middle at the same time. This has a tendency to cause an accident directly in the middle of the street. I'll say one thing about Hollywbod drivers—they are very sporting. No true Hollywoodian would stop to grumble about the loss of such a trifle as a fender or a bumper. In fact, it is considered very bad form to take the name and address of the man who hit you as long as your car will roll and the horn will blow.

Side Glances—By Clark

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LTHOUGH it is often said women are not doing their

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part to advance economic or po-

litical progress, it is freely admitted they have played ‘a role of profound importance in the betterment of social conditions. And doesn’t ‘that alone justify our advent into the ‘arena of public affairs? Our representation in Congress is pitifully inadequate. Wonien in state legislatures are few and generally lacking in qualities of leadership. Strictly speaking, we have as yet no political power. We only vote for men, 3 Over and over we hear that we own 85 per cent of the national wealth, yet our economic power is practically nil. For although we own, we do not manage. Business and its regulation are almost wholly in the hands of men. In effect then we are exactly as much a minority sex as we have ever been, with ‘one ‘exception. We are social conditions and bettering social relations, and through our experience as workers in these fields we can some day, if we will, bring about a revolution in economic and political worlds. Do you ask why and how? Because women think of everything in terms of human beings, which is the only true wisdom. : We are mothers of the children and hence keepers of ‘the ngtional

Jasper—By Frank

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Frank Wood Recalls Gen. Sherman's Taking Him to the Capitol When Lincoln's Body Lay in State Here.

XCEPT for Frank Wood who celebrated his birthday (79) last Monday, I wouldn't be able to tell you about his father's six black horses. To be exact, there were two more—making eight in all—but only six

were used to pull the hearse on April 30, 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln's body was brought to Indianapolis to lie in state at the Capitol. I hope it surprises you as much as it did me, because I, too,

have spent all these years believing that the hearse was drawn by four white horses draped in black velvet. Mr. Wood was 6 years old at the time of the funeral and remembers every detail. Not only did his father own the horses, but was also the driver that day. What's more, it was he who médneuvered the magnificent turn at Illinois and Washington Sts. It wasn't the easiest thing to do, because the horses had to pass through two lines of bayonets. rained like everything that day which, made it awful hard on the driver. Tucked away, too, in Mr. Wood's mind is the meme ory of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Believe it or not, it was Gen. Sherman who took the little 6 year-old Frank Wood to the State House that day, Seems that Gen. Sherman was a great friend of Mrs, M. A. Daugherty who, as luck would have it, was Mr. Wood's “Aunt Phoebe.” Mr. Daugherty was a Cone gressman or Senator or something over in Ohio, and inasmuch as that was Gen. Sherman's bailiwick, too, it was the most natural thing in the world that the General should call on Mr. Wood's father when he came to Indianapolis on the sad occasion of Lincoln's funeral. It was the most natural thing, too, that Mr. Wood's father, John Meadow Wood, should be in a position to offer his horses (and services) that day. For one thing, he had the biggest livery stable in Indianapolis at the time. For another, he had the finest horses because he inherited his father’s gift for picking them.

Operated Stage Coach to Madison

That brings us to Mr. Wood’s grandfather. Grandefather John Wood came to Indianapolis in 1834 by way of Maysville, Ky. He got to Maysville by way of Orange County, New York, his birthplace. While ree siding in Kentucky he took horses in large numbers— from 50 to 76 at a time—to the New Orleans market, Drove them all the way, mind you, and made it pay, He did the same thing after he came here. He also ran the stage coach between here and Madison—went, down in one day, and came back the next—and in 1858 brought Clemens Vonnegut to Indianapolis. It took four horses to bring Mr. V. After that, he opened a big livery and sales stable, It had its entrance on N. Pennsylvania St. (about where the Morrison trunk people now do business), and cxtended all the way around to the Circle. This ought to surprise you, too, because nearly everbody around here thinks you got into Wood's stable by way of the Circle. Well, you did, but that was years later. In 1840, Grandfather John Wood transferred the stable to his son, John Meadow Wood—the one who officiated at Lincoln's funeral. Still later, Horace FP, Wood, a son, succeeded to the business. (Sure, Horace was Frank's brother), By this time, the entrance to Wood's stable was on the Circle. As a matter of fact, 1h wat there until they got ready to put up the Circle eater.

Jane Jordan—

Normal Person Puts Errors Behind Him and Substitutes for His Losses.

Dx JANE JORDAN—What do you do when you are so hungry for someone that you cannot smile heartily or appreciate anything anyone else does for you? Twn years ago I was engaged to a girl and through my cwn selfish ideas it was broken. I have had other dates, but they do not interest me. My

job holds no real interest. Anyone would think that by this time I would have forgotten that girl's smile, her little tricks and ways. I always am watching the streetcars, etc, to see.if I might possibly get a glimpse of her. Every night I dream of her*and imagine her being interested in another person, her marriage and so on. I am in my late twenties: so I really ought to have some sense, don’t you think? But I can't forget her even though I have tried. It was because of my own selfishness and silliness that I lost her! I need help so badly.

” » ” Answer—Yqu do not make it clear whether or not the girl has married someone else or whether you add to your suffering by imagining that she is. If she is free I should advise you to go after her again. Tell her what you have told me and see if you can patch things up. If she is married, then your problem must

be attacked from another angle. Twice in your letter you emphasize the fact that you lost her through your own selfishness and silliness. A person on the losing end in life is seldom the victim of circumstances. Sometimes his foolhardy behavior is so marked that we are moved to wonder if he did not secretly intend to lose in order to impose the punishment of suffering upon himself, I know this sounds far fetched and perhaps it is, I have only a scrap of information to go on and may guess wrong. Nevertheless a person who has lost what he wants through his own ill-considered acts should face the fact that he may have had an obscure motive for losing. The fact that you are now obsessed by your loss so that it crowds out every other idea is another piece of evidence in favor of the theory that you felt you deserved defeat. You hug your misery to you and conjure up mental pictures to increase it. Why this self-punishment? The normal person puts his mis« takes behind him and substitutes other satisfactions for those which he has lost. Only the person low in self-esteem is willing to live with his woe continually, allowing himself no escape from self-condemnation. While these remarks may not apply to you, bee lieve me they are worthy of your earnest considera= tion. Do not cast them out as incredible because they sound untrue.

Mr. Scherrer

Besides, 1% of course,

Why have you punished yourself in this fashion? Why do you continue to suffer over the past? It is a mystery, I chological detective. Put your problems ‘in a Totter to June Jordan, who will wniswer your questions in this column daily. 2)