Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1938 — Page 15

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Beauty 'and Gaiety Is Blended With Heartache as Wanderer Spends Last Day in Hawaii Before He Sails. HONOLULU, Feb, 11.—Our last day in Hawaii was almost unbearably beauti-

ful. As time grows shorter and shorter you count the days with a reluctant disbelief.

And then it comes down to hours. Reality impinges—you're actually going—and those million chaotic last-minute things must be done. An exciting climax builds up inside you, and be-

neath it is a wrecking sense of heartache, You feel desperately that you cannot leave Hawaii. You wake up, nervously active, Tomorrow you sail. Everything must be finished today. A week's little put-off errands must be accomplished by 4 this afternoon, for there's the party. You rush downtown. bank. Take books to the library. Pay off little bills. Get a few presents. Return rented car. Jump from building to %uilding saying goodby. : Fach finished errand whispers louder and louder in your ear: “It's over. You go tomorrow, You're pau.” Only the keyed-up chaos of vour brain keeps sadness from overwhelming you. Duties shed themselves from your list, and 4 o'clock comes, . . . Earl Thacker's beautiful home sits on the slope of Diamond Head. You look up and see the old crater rim against the sky, and you look down to the far sea. . The lawn is freshly green. The men are in whites and light grays, and there is color in the women's dresses. White-coated Filipinos serve from an outdoor bar. And farther along sits a little hand of Hawaiian musicians, all men, their faces dark and royal between the snowiness of their coats and the silver of their hair. The crowd grows. The big people of Honolulu are there. Governor Poindexter, And Gen. Moses. And Admiral Murfin. And Sam . Goldwyn from Hollywood. Hawaii surrounds them. Faint music and loveliness. The sun becomes a red ball, poised for its sudden plunge into the sea. Diamond Head behind us grows darker, The lawn is thick with arrivals. Chairs are scattered around. The music stays faint and soft, like the glow after sunset,

Music Grows Louder

But listen! The players. They've been playing a long time, sprinkling faint notes for our background. But it's louder now, like a storm coming. Listen. “Song of the Islands.” Most powerfully sweeping of all the great Hawaiian songs. Where is that voice? Far away, high, mellow; the song of a woman. Where is it? Then slowly she comes, a vision in the dusk. Walking alone, in soft lilac satin . .. smiling and strolling and singing. The guitars rise. in crescendo and fall off. But the voice is projected in a high, haunting echo; the nerves of her creamy throat tremble in the dusk fromthe achievement of a slender note. The tension breaks, and it's gay. The music quickens, and here is the hula. Two dark, purcHawaiian gilis. Yes. Grass skirts and leis and all, Just as we. picture them at home, You cannot leave this . . . it's what you've wanted all your life . . . it’s what you'll always want , . . music and graciousness and a faint perfume. She's singing again . .. and Now new ones are dancing on the grass in bare feet . . . beauty blurs out the be-tween-acts, and a sense of all that is perfect in Paradise becomes the motif, as in a drawnout dream,

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Underlying Truths Hard to Miss In a Play With an Amusing Plot.

ASHINGTON, Thursday-—Last evening, for the second time this winter, I went to the theater in Washington. This time I saw “Save Me the Waltz,” produced by Mr. Max Gordon. It is a comedy by Miss Katharine Dayton, and those who have enjoved her humor in her other writings, will find it again in the lines of this play. Evervone in our party keenly enjoyed the clever lines and the amusing and appealing situations. There is just enough unreality about the whole “Prisoner of Zenda” story to camouflage the truths which are driven home. Most of us hate to be lectured; that is why propaganda books and propaganda plays make so little headway and do so little to promote the cause for which they are written. However, when a play is amusing with an improbable yet amusing story, which may be as old as the hills, the underlying truths are hard to miss. The casting is good and the acting is excellent from top to bottom. There is nothing deeply stirring in the play. You will not come away starry-eyed or moved to the depths of your soul, but you will come away with a sense of relaxation and entertainment and a few very pertinent things to think about. At 10 o'clock this morning, Dr. Thomas Parran, the Surgeon General, and I went to visit Freedman's Hospital. This hospital is a Government hospital under the Department of the Interior. It is one of the two important training centers for colored nurses and Howard University Medical School uses it for the trairing of student doctors. Unlike some of the hospitals in the District of Columbia, its significance is greater than its usefulness here in Washington. The opportunities for the Negro being very meager in other institutions, the rest of the country has a particular interest in the work of this institution.

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New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HEN Dr. M. Edward Martin speaks, we may do well to listen. For he is Deputy Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, and lecturer on criminological medicine at the New York Police Academy. In THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT MURDER, (Doubleday) Dr, Martin, with the aid of the pen of Norman Cross, begins with a chapter on the origin of the office of coroner, calls for a widespread change in the coroner system in the United States, then launches on a discussion of the duties and methods of the Medical Examiners system in New York. Bizarre and unusual crimes are discussed in his chapters on the detection of crime. Dr. Martin says in his introduction: “To some readers there will be pages that may seem shocking, perhaps unnecessarily so. Murder, after all is no pleasant subject, and in writing of it much that is sordid and disagreeable must be set down. Though this is in no sense a technical book I have not hesitated at times to give a spade its proper name, for to have done otherwise would have been to minimize the tragic importance of crime in modern civilization.” ” » » INCE the fundamenfal characteristic of our country is motion, we should naturally be the leaders in the field of motion pictures, says Gilbert Seldes, who for many years has been connected with the theater and the moving picture world. His new book, THE MOVIES COME FROM AMERICA (Scribner), serves to bear out both his assumption and his conclusion. Here he discusses the movies from many angles. He analyzes our enjoyment of the movies, tells their history, how they are made, the choice of subjects and plots, the work of producers and directors. He describes how stars are made and tells stories of noted Hollywood actors and their most popular pictures. In short, he has given us an unusual book of the industry as a whole.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938

The Jewish Temple, 975 N. Delaware St. (Last of Five Articles)

By Theodore Andrica

Times Special Writer

NE day after the Jews were expelled from Spain, on Aug. 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed on the voyage which resulted in the discovery of the New Wprld. According to account books still preserved in the “Archive De Indie” in Seville, Spain, Columbus’ enterprise was financed through a loan advanced by Louis De San-

tangel, a Jew. Partly to express his gratitude to Queen Isabella for sparing his life after several members of the Santangel family were killed and partly because he believed in Columbus, San-: tangel advanced 17,000 florins toward the new ven-

ture. When Columbus’ crew sighted land on Oct. 12, 1492, among the first men who left the ship to pariey with the natives was Louis De Torres, a Jew who shortly before sailing with Columbus became a Christian. He was, according to Jewish historians, the first Jewish immigrant to the Americas.

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ODAY the Jews number 4,500,000 in the United States, 170,000 in Canada, 230,000 in Argentina, 45,000 in Brazil, 2200 in Chile, 8000 in Cuba, 600 in Curacao, 1800 in British Guiana, 150 in Haiti, 350 in Hawaii, 1400 in Jamaica, 16,000 in Mexico, 800 in Panama, 30 in the Panama Canal Zone, 400 in Paraguay, 300 in Peru. 500 in the Philippines, 200 in Puerto Rico, 5000 in Uruguay. 900 in Venezuela and 75 on the Virgin Islands. The beginning of trade with Espanola, as the newly discovered West Indies were known was effected by a Jew, Juan Sanchez of Saragossa, Spain, whose father was burned at the stake during the Inquisition. In 1502 Sanchez sailed for the New World with barley, wheat, horses and household goods necessary to the new Spanish colonists. After Sanchez more Jews trickled into the West ‘Indies and from there to Peru, Mexico and Brazil. Into the latter country they came following the Portuguese Inquisition from which thousands of Jews fled in all directions of Europe and even to the New World. Records show that there were Jews in Brazil as early as 1548. The long hand of the Inquisition reached the Jews even in the New World, although the sufferers were not only Jews but also recently converted Indians who in secret still practiced paganism. " 8 =» CCORDING to records be4 tween the years 1528 and 1603 in the city of Mexico almost 100 persons were condemned as heretics. The majority were Jews, When the Dutch West India Co. was organized in Amsterdam in

1622 for the purpose of conquering Brazil from the Portuguese, several of the most influential stockholders were Jews. After the successful Dutch conquest of Brazil in 1625, the Jews were given more rights. The City of Recife or Pernambuco ‘became principally a Jewish city. The Dutch lost Brazil to the Portuguese in 1654. The Jews were ordered to leave. From the city of Recife alone more than 5000 Jews were expelled. They sought refuge on Curacao, in Cayenne, British Guiana and finally New Amsterdam, the present New York. ” = » ACOB BAMSIMAN, a Jewish merchant who arrived from Holland on Aug. 22, 1654, is supposed to have been the first Jew to step on the soil of the present New York, A few weeks after his arrival 23 more Jews came from either Brazil or other New World colonies. Existing records do not specify their origin. Some Jews went to Jamaica under British rule. Here the first synagog was built in 1672. In 1664 the British captured New Amsterdam and renamed it New York. The position of the Jews under British rule remained practically unchanged. They were under certain restrictions but their lot was tolerable. In 1682 they rented an old house on Mill St. where they met for public worship, although the first synagog was erected only in 1685. From New York a certain number of Jews went to Newport, R. I, and later to the South and Pennsylvania. When the war of the Revolution broke out in the colonies there were about 2000 Jews scattered around. They were mostly of Spanish and Portuguese descent and were engaged in commerce. EJ ” » JCHAEL. FRANKS and Jacob Meyer were the two Jews in Washington's Virginia regiment. David Franks, another Jew, supplied George Washington for his Virginia expedition. There were 3000 Jews in the United States in 1812, 15,000 in 1840, 50.000 in 1848 and 150,000 during the Civil War. Jews came to the United States in masses after the wave of reactionary laws enacted following the 1848 rebellion in Europe, notably Germany and Austria-Hungary. Still larger numbers came after the Russian and Polish pogroms and riots of 1871 and 1881. The largest number of the Jewish merchants stayed right in New York, although a considerable part followed the westward trek, to Ken-

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tucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and toward the Pacific. Ninety-five per cent of the Jews in the United States live in cities of more than 10,000 population. They are prominent in the clothing industry, furniture manufacturing and retailing, radio and movies. ® x ” BOUT 80,000 Jews in United States live on farms, mostly in New York, Connecticut, Michigan and North Dakota. The Jews are prominent in the medical and legal professions wherever they live in larger numbers. In Canada the first Jews appeared at the start of the 18th Century. Today they are concentrated mostly in the larger cities of Montreal, Quebec and Toronto.

The Jewish colonists in Argentina present a different picture from those in other parts of the Americas. There they are not as heavily concentrated in the cities as is the case in the North. Colonization of Jews in Argentina in masses began when Baron Moritz Hirsch in 1891 donated 160,000,000 marks toward the work of the Jewish Colonization Association. Taking the Jews from the crowded ghettos of Russia to Argentina and settling them on land was the primary purpose of the association. Of the 230,000 Jews in Argentina about 35,000 are working on the land. ".8 =»

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South America and others came to the United States. In the Republic of Uruguay we find a thriving Jewish community. Most of them are engaged in commerce as is the case of the Jews in Peru. Here they are concentrated largely in the city of Lima. A small number of Jews emigrated from Chile to Colombia and Venezuela.

Although the first Jews coming to Mexico were of Spanish or Portuguese origin, the bulk of the 16,000 now residing in Mexico originates from the Levant and from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. The Jews of Cuba originate mostly from Turkey, Syria and the Balkan states.

Deportation Bill May Bring Another Filibuster

Times Special ASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Weeks of antilynch bill filibustering in the Senate may be quickly succeeded by another siege of antiracial oratory, this time over the alien deportation bill. "The Dies Bill, supported by the Administration and already passed by the House, 176 to 33, will be brought out of the Senate Immigration Committee soon. It would laws by permitting the Labor Department to crack down on some 20,000 criminal aliens not now deportable, but would allow the rule of reason to be invoked for some 4000 law-abiding aliens now facing deportation on technical grounds, Lying in wait for the bill is Senator Reynolds (D. N. C.), whose filibuster Xilled a similar measure in 1936. He says he'll do the same to this one. Since 1933 the Administratidh has been trying to rationalize its deportation law. Its first bill was killed by the House. The 1936 Kerr-Coolidge bill was killed by Senator Reynolds.

The Dies measure is harsher than the Kerr-Coolidge bill, and for that reason has been opposed by certain social workers. But in spite of that the Allied Patriotic Societies and Veterans of Foreign Wars are against it. » ” ” EADING the fight for passage of the Dies hill will be a young Western lawyer and war veteran who is a strong Administration man, Senator Schwellenbach (D. Wash.). A former American Legion state commander, he argues that the bill would result in fewer and better aliens, less crime and more decency. “Since extremists are both attacking it.” he says, “I'm convinced it’s a good bill.” According to the Immigration Service, on Jan. 29 last there were 3982 aliens subject to deportation on technical grounds wlose cases might come under rev.ew. Their deportation would ‘leave here 9841 relatives, of whom 4050 are children and 5970 are dependents. Many of these would be forced on relief.

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A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE masculine world stops to listen when the successful man speaks about a career in which he has distinguished himself. For the same reason the feminine set should give heed when Fannie Hurst talks about marriage. She is one of the few famous women who have made a 2° of living with the same man for ore than two decades. Th re was a tremendous flurry of advel je publicity 22 years ago when Miss Hurst, announcing her marriage, said she intended to maintain an establishment separate from that of her husband. The skeptics (I was one of them) prophesied quick disaster to the romance. We laugh no longer, however, because Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Danielson have bobbed into the spotlight at intervals ever since, and always as the best of friends. Fannie Hurst is a remarkable woman. It is easy to guess why she has succeeded at an enterprise in which so many women fail. I can’t believe the separate establishment had very much to do with it except perhaps to make life easier on both husband and wife. T think Miss Hurst has stayed married for the same reason that she has retained her position as a noted writer of fiction; she had the will to succeed. Too many modern wives lack the necessary determination and make no plans for matrimonial careers. Misfortune is inevitable. “How to Hold a Husband” is related over and over by ladies who have done nothing but lose them. Marriage is in the dumps these days, largely because very few of us are trying to make it succeed.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

One Steamboat Managed to Come To Indianapolis in 1831, but the Trip Down the River Nearly Ruined It.

AYBE you know without my telling you that Congress once upon a time had everybody around here believing that the Wamecameca (White River to you) was a navigable stream. But maybe you don’t

know that Alexander Ralston, the man who

laid out Indianapolis, submitted a report in 1825 confirming the belief. Mr. Ralston said that a budget

of $1500 a year would be more than enough to make the stream navigable for three months every year. In justice to Mr. Ralston let it be said that White River looked a lot more navigable a hundred years ago than it does now. Originally it was a stream of considerable volume, averaging 400 feet in width and except for a few shoal spots, too deep to be fordable. Well, the substance of Mr, Rals~ ton’s report, got everybody excited, and as a result somebody around here offered a prize of $200 to the first steamboat captain 'to turn the trick and come all the way to Indianapolis. In 1830 one got as far as Spencer, and a year later, in the spring of 1831, the Robert Hanna

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actually steamed into town blowing her whistle. Sure, she got the $200. Immediately the price of water frontage (with went up like everything, and the town behaved like mad. Cannons were shot off, and Judge Blackford made a speech of welcome in the course of which he expressed ‘the realization of our most sanguine expectations.” The Robert Hanna remained several days in dock. After making a couple of little excursions up the river (just to show the stuff she was made of) she started back on the return voyage. It was a terrible trip. You couldn't believe it if you saw it in the movies today. The pilot-house and the chimneys got in the way of tree limbs, the bends were too short for her length. The bars too frequent and shallow,

Passengers Jumped Overboard

She knocked off her pilot house, damaged hee wheel-house, and scared her passengers so badly that most of them jumped into the river. In some way, too, the captain's little daughter was drowned. Finally, the boat grounded on a bar, and stayed there until fall when a week of rain brought enough water to float her. This was the last navigation on White River, except by flat boats which worked a lot better. I wouldn't have thought of all this today had I not received a lively (and nautical) letter from Mrs, George Norwood Catterson who tells me that her grandfather, Thomas McQuat, was the “first and only white passenger to come up White River.” For some reason, however, Mrs. Catterson’s grande mother came on horseback. She was Janet Lockerbie McQuat. Sure, the same Lockerbie for whom Mr, Riley's “dear little street” was named. Seems that ° when Grandfather McQuat died, his wife inherited the 35 acres from Ohio to Vermont Sts. Grandma McQuat platted the property and named one of the streets for her father. As luck would have it, ton, Mrs. Catterson was born in the little house opposite Mr. Riley's. I even know when—it was Christmas Day, 1865.

Jane Jordan

Urges Girl, 14, Not to Be Angry

Over Learning What Seems Secret.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 14 years, My father is a traveling man. A year ago he was in a certain distant city. When he came home 1 immediately noticed a change in his attitude. He was unreasonably cross and grouchy. Then one day I found a picture in his desk at the office while I was getting a book for him. It was the picture of a very attractive woman. I said nothing, hoping that it was a mistake, but the other day I found three letters in his pocket, all from the city he was in a year ago. I opened the letters. They were love letters addressed to the office. Daddy always has seemed to love mother, ‘I have always loved my father very much and I have told no one about the picture or the letters, but I am very much upset. Should I tell Daddy I know about the picture and the letters, or should I try to forget them, or what? WORRIED. 2 8 Bn

Answer-—-You should not have opened your father's letters. When you are older and receive letters from hoys, how would you feel if your father opened them and read them? And if the letter was one which you had no right to receive, you'd feel worse than ever, wouldn't you? You've been a very wise child not to tell what you have discovered. Because you are only 14 you may find it burdensome to carry a secret around with you and feel an unbearable urge to confide in someone. If this happens, tell your father in preference to any=one else. If vou love him you will not put him in a bad light with others. It is your father’s story and if you must talk about it, talk to him, It is too bad that you have to be worried about something which may amount to nothing. ’ For your comfort let me say that persons who make .nistakes usually get over it, particulary if no one jumps on them and forces them to defend their conduct by pretending that it is more important than it is. If you feel impelled to tell your father what you know, try to be sympathetic instead of angry. Have confidence in his love for you and your mother and I do not believe that he will disappoint you. JANE JORDAN,

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

Walter O’'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, Feb. 11.—When a script is written for presentation on the radio today there is a veritable horde of termites who get busy with blue pencil and shears. The radio network is one group. The advertising agency another. The client, his lawyers, his sales manager, nis Aunt Minsie and grai.dchildien are another. If you were to band them all together there would be enough people present to watch a street parade go by. Now Senator Herring is yelling for Goverment censorship of radio. He wants Washington to stick its nose in another business and make a mess of it, He doesn’t like wise-cracking announcers and mise takes in grammar, and if that were all that America had to worry about today we'd be all right.

HEARD IN CONGRESS—

Rep. Hobbs (D. Ala.): It reminds me of the story of a gentleman who for the first time was riding on the elevated railway which leads through the stockyards of Chicago. This gentleman was not acquainted with the fact that the odor from the stockyards is justly infamous. A lady who occupied the seat in front of him and who worked in one of the large offices in the stockyards district had provided herself with a vial of smelling salts to repel the invasion of the coming odor, of which she was fully advised. As the first whiff ate tacked their nostrils, she opened her vial of smelling salts and held. it to her noise. The odor got worse and worse every minute. Finally the farmer could stand it no longer. He reached over and tapped the lady on the shoulder and said, “I beg your pardon. I do not want to interfere with the enjoyment of your pleasure, but if you would just close that thing up till I can get off I would

deeply appreciate the kindness.” (Laughter.)