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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle Ernie Considers Sending a Catfish
“In a Bucket of Wabash River Water To California's 1939 Exposition.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.—Yesterday I
ate too many green apples and knocked out, for no reason I can think of now, a rascally piece on the theme of the 1939 San Francisco Fair. So if the combined 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition World's Fair of the West and Pageant of the Pacific will forgive me I'll try to tell What the Exposition is all about, and maybe redeem myself. We'll start back in 1931. place that it, like New York, can’t have an airport very close to downtown. Or rather, it thought it couldn't. But some young civie® leaders got to looking around, and had studies made, and discovered that the middle of San Francisco Bay would be a perfect spot for an Airport. The only trouble was that i it was about 25 feet under water. But a thing like that doesn’t = Mr, Pyle bother San Francisco. They got ? nearly $4,000,000 from: WPA, set the Army Engineers to work with 11 dredges, and in 8 year and a half had pumped up an island out there. This new island is more than a mile long, threequarters of a mile wide, and 13 feet above high tide. It is the biggest artificial island in the world. And right in the middle of an area of 2,000,000 people. It seemed a shame to climax an achievement like that with nothing miore than an airport opening, so they decided to have a great Exposition on the island. It will cost $50,000,000. They can break éven if they get 15,000,000 visitors, but they’ll consider themselves rotten guessers if they don’t get 20,000,000. As soon as the fair closes they’ll start tearing things down, and planes should be taking off from the island in the spring of "1940. 3 t Only three of the scores of Exposition buildings are permanent. These are the two great concrete hangars, and the immense U-shaped passenger terminal, which cost nearly a million dollars. Everything else is of
Six Weeks Ahead of Schedule
The three permanent buildings are finished today. And so, also, are many of the other major Exposition buildings. They're running six weeks ahead of schedule. . Right now the island is a mass of raw lumber stretching in weird shapes into the sky. But a year from now it will be, undoubtedly, one of the
~ most fascinating spots on earth.
They will move 4000 trees onto the island, and’ 70,000 shrubs, and ‘millions of flowers. There will be one spot of 25 acres completely blanketed with flowers. If the place isn’t beautiful it ought to be ashamed of itself. Many of the exhibits will be outdoors. Such as the Chinese rice and wheat fields, and the Oregon mountains where Indians will herd deer. There will be miniature rivers, and lakes, and lagoons. It will be an exotic sample case of everything wonderful between Cheyenne and Singapore. Practically every country bordering on the Pacific will exhibit. The South Seas, and the western countries of South America, and the nations of Central America, will all be there with displays of their native flavor. And just to make it completely cosmopolitan, I'm going to send them a bucketful of Wabash: River water with a catfish in it.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Small New York College for Girls + Receives Praise From First Lady.
THACA, N. Y., Thursday.—As usual, there are so many things I want to tell you about that I am at a loss to know where to begin. I was deeply interested yesterday, in Keuka College. It is a small college which takes approximately 200 girls. For that very reason, the girl who might not be able to obtain anything of value from a big college, may receive a real education: here and develop in a way which might ‘be out of the question if She did not have individual attention. The tuition and board are lower than in many colleges, opportunities are made for work, and they have a few scholarships. They draw largely from the State of New York and from the smaller tows, villages and rural districts. I talked for a time with the heads of the variohs college organizations. I was interested to find one bright looking girl, who edits the college publication, had been a victim of infantile paralysis and was still on crutches. She seemed entirely independent, however, and I learned she had earned a large part of her college expenses by work in the book shop.
; Returns to Cornell
Because the college is small, it can follow up its girls into whatever occupations they enter and bring them back to the college for discussion and: advice. Dr. Miller, head of the college, came here) from Bucknell and is a most interesting person whose influence on the girls is. excellent. ; The dean, Miss Chloe Owens, is a woman who has done so many .interesting things that I imagine she can fire the imagination of almost any youngster. I was back at Cornell in the afternoon and interesied in going the round of all the exhibits. I think this is my 11th yearly visit and still there is always something new to see. There is an international exhibit here this year with posters and publications from various countries. Also, a book fair with exhibits of printing from the early days up tc modern times, collections of old books, and two rcoms of modern books to browse in.
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N the minds 4: Mr. and Mrs. Avetage American the G-Men = : operatives of the Federal Bureau -of Investigation. ' Irvine Crump and Joan W. Newton in their book O¥R G-MEN (Dodd) use the term in
its first and com lete sense to mean all Government’
men charged wii 1 the enforcement of Federal laws. Fourteen diff cent law enforcement agencies are at, work for the’ ‘ederal Government. OUR G-MEN tells stories of the nm all. Their persons! requirements are given, their duties outlined, and the}: activities are described in pertinent cases. Work of | he Federal Bureau of Investigation agents is menticied most often because it has of necessity been more spectacular and of a larger. scope. Their duty is to ‘co-operate with the other G-Men of the remaining 1%‘agencies, some of whom, such as the Secret, Service mn or the Postal Inspectors, must operate secretly in order to make their efforts effective.
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ULLIVER'S| ‘idventures in Lilliputia: were no stranger {4s ‘an those of .Victor Wolfang Von Hagen among ft : Jivaro Indians of Ecuador. Tig the! ‘readiness to ‘seize machete, spear, How Dips 2nd. ance and cry OFF WITH THEIR S (Macm lan) they are, nevertheless, extrémely - cordial to the ‘shite explorers who venture into their primitive world. , The author, a termitologist, and his botanist wife lived among them’ for eight months and found much that was sane and sensible in their crude existence. They almost forgot, in fact, that their hosts were head-hunters until their own guide exterminated a foe and became principal celeprant at a gigantic festival. The Jivaros are not cannibals, and their Saifare is limited to their own tribes; no other person is in danger of molestation from them. Since polygamy ficurishes to the extent of sometimes five wives, domesHe Woes 2 Jealousy occasionally result in a luckless " Jivaro’s losing his is Bead Niéraly as well as figuratively—through love,
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McNutt—Indiana’s [3 ‘Ma
(First of Two _Two_ Articles) By/Daniel M. Kidney
Times Staff Writer
VV ASHINGTON, Feb. 18. —Is Paul V. McNutt Indiana’s * “Man of Destiny”? - Speculation on that question perhaps runs higher today than at any previous. time as Indiand’s former Governor returns to the United States on a visit from his post as High Commissioner to the Philippines. His return has heen marked with importance
at every stop. Although: President Roosevelt apparently sought to tame down the reports somewhat when he told a press conference that Mr. McNutt was returning because he had been away a. year and that a Philippines trade treaty was to be discussed here during his stay, it has had no effect on the Commissioner’s almost “triumphal” return. The Marines were out at Guam, Wake and Midway Islands when the China Clipper arrived. Some dispatches reported that airline officials considered the trip one of the most important commercial flights that had been made over the Pacific “because Mr. McNutt was bearing vital personal messages to the President.” » = 3 ND while receptions are being prepared for the High Commissioner both in Washington and Indianapolis, his friends study the political significance of the trip and see in it another step in Mr. McNutt’s attempted climb to the White House in 1940. They are disturbed somewhat, however, by new criticism by the Eastern press ridiculing the campaign. This week the New York Times jested that the Commissioner “shows his characteristic modesty by not having his reception on Feb. 22. He is not the man to rob another of his laurels. Equally satirical were the ‘Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times, which declared that Mr. McNutt “probably will not even get as much as a four-leaf clover from either the White House lawn or the little strip of greensward around the Postoffice Building where Chairman Farley spends most of his time.” On the other hand there are those who believe the former Governor’s Presidential chances are excellent. A leading Indiana Republican, on a recent visit here, said: “He has more points of availability for the Democratic nomination - for President in 1940 than anyone else in the piciute; »
IM FARLEY ics did like him and probably doesn’t today,” he went on to say. “But if Jim thought that he would take him out of the picture by putting him 6000 miles away as High Commissioner of the Philippines he just didn’t know that the irrepressible Paul travels with a horseshoe in his pocket. “It took a war in China for the people to forget that toasting incident which gave Paul a bad press. But there it is.”
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High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt is shown here receiving the first Red Cross membership in the Philippine Islands as the 1937 membership campaign opened. With the High Commissioner in: the picture
“Taking the record of his State Administration and his making good under trying conditions’ in the Orient and he has a legitimate bid for the nomination based on experience,” the G. O. P, politician declared. He added that Mr. McNutt already has laid a groundwork of national support by the fact that he is Past National Commander of the American Legion and is well known among teachers and educators. Observers repeatedly have. said that every McNutt move on the political chessboard has been directed toward the White House. Paul 'R. Leach, old-time Wash ington correspondent, writing in the Saturday Evening Post, quoted a Hoosier schoolmate of Mr. McNutt as saying: “Everyone knows that Paul has been running for President ever since he was able to get out of the bathtub alone.” ” 2 ” HEN President Roosevelt offered Mr. McNutt the Philippines . post, . the Governor asked for 24 hours to consider the matter. During that time he talked by phone with his wife and a few intimate friends. He returned to the White House the next day to accept. The thought uppermost in the minds of these friends was what the effect would be on the man whom they already were considering a future President. To refuse to accept the lucrative post would have given the Administration a perfect right to give no further consideration to Mr. McNutt in the future, they felt. On the other hand, being
Wagner to Launch Drive For Health Insurance
Times Special \ ASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — A movement to broaden -the Social Security. Act to embrace governmental sickness ' insurance will be launched in the Present Congress. Senator Wagner (D. N. Y) said today that he would soon introduce ‘a resolution calling for a thorough study of such insurance. “Social insurance against the hazards of sickness is the next logical, and I believe inevitable, step for this country in its program of security for the people,” Senavor Wagner said. “We have provided work-
Side Glances—By
men’s. compensation as a bulwark against the hazards of industrial accidents. We have old-age benefits and unemployment insurance. We have the Labor Relations Act to protect the right of collective bargaining. We have not provided against the hazards of sickness.” Senator Wagner emphasized that he would ask first only for a study of the subject, on the basis .of which an amendment to the Social Security Act might be drafted.in the next Congress. The inquiry would give particular atte; fon to the experience of other countries in this field.
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- are, left to right, Miss Mary Ella Cleveland, Mrs. Paulino Santos, 1 Mrs. W. Murray Crosby and Miss Mercedes Montilla, official workers in the
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Commissioner McNutt and President Quezon of the Philippines,
shipped 6000 miles away might mean the former Governor virtually would disappear from the front pages of American newspapers—a vital point for one seeking the Presidency. - But trouble was brewing in ‘the Far East in 1937 and the President himself said that a strong man was needed for the Philippine post. At the time of Mr. McNutt’s appointment as High Commissioner, President Quezon of the Philippines was visiting here. They were pictured fogether with Secretary of War Woodring as Mr. McNutt took his oath of office and received the commission. © - ‘ - 8 » w FTER conferences here. with War and State Department officials, in which the new Com-
A WOMAN'S VIEW. By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ABOR troubles continue to litter the front pages. They are spoken of as a major social prob-
lem. Yet fundamentally they are!
only a problem in bad manners.
” missioner was instructed in | his
- of ‘toasting, Woodring, a personal friend of Mr. McNutt, declined to state he :
work, Mr. McNutt, accompanied by his wife, daughter and personal staff, left for Manila. President Quezon had gone to Europe and came back to greet with a broad grin the first reports regarding the new 1 Commissioner. ‘They ‘were stories about how Mr. McNutt ‘had or- . dered all envoys in the Islands to
tgast President. Roosevelt. first, - himself ‘second and President °
Quezon third. Cartoonists and: columnists made the most of this report. Although the State Department pointed ‘out that this was the required order Secretary - of. ‘War
had ordered such action. ~ Westbrook ; Pegler was at
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French Lick at the time and wrote a piece about Tom Taggart’s Presidential horse-race entry fall-
ing on his face just coming out
of the barn onto the track..Hugh S.. Johnson also added his stinging sarcasm. But comment on the toasting incident soon died down. After President Quezon’s return to the Philippines, reports from Manila indicated that the President and the Commissioner were getting along satisfactorily. » 2 s y . R. M'NUTT returned .to the front page -after that, along with the war in China. Soon after the Japanese began shelling
~ Shanghai reports came ‘back that | the High Commissioner was = re-
ceiving high praise from refugees for his work in administering their evdcuation through Manila. Then came the announcement of plans. for his return to the United States, -preceded by his visit to Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Asiatic Fleet commander, at Shanghai. Although he himself sometimes has been mentioned as a New Deal candidate for the White House in 1940, as well as a possible pointee to the U. S. Supreme court, Senator Minton has continued his loyalty to what he calls “The Indiana plan to make Paul President.” As he left for Europe last year, Senator Minton told reporters that Mr. McNutt was “a natural for ©1940.” “He has everthing Senator Minton asserted. This statement was so timed as to discount talk of Governor Town-
. send being a possible Vite Presi-
dential candidate and Mr.- McNutt being Jhore or less dropped from the pic But ry ‘Governor * himself de‘clared that there was no plan afoot to undermine Mr.. McNutt and that he is assured of the entire Indiana delegation support. if the former Governor is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Observers have pointed out that selection of Frank McHale—the “man credited ' with ' making ‘McNutt national commander of the American Legion—as Democratic national committeeman to succeed Thomas Taggart supports Governor Townsend's sincerity.
' NEXT—The McNutt Administration in the State House.
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Our: Town
By Anton Scherrer
Disney Has Produced a Delightful Picture, but He Has No Idea How Bad Snow White's Stepmother Was.
IT gave me a bit of a turn to discover that Walt Disney took certain liberties with the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To be sure, the Hollywood aversion was recognizable, and as far as that goes,
thoroughly delightful. I think that was the trouble with it. It was too—too utterly delightful. To make it so, Mr. Disney resorted to ail sorts of tricks, some of them mighty suspicious, and so at variance with the story I was : : brought up on that it raises the question whether kids nowadays have the stomachs to stand what was required of us 50 years ago. Take for example the Disney detail of the hunitsman who was charged with the duty of killing - Snow White, and bringing back her little heart to the wicked stepmother. This is a palpable distortion of fact. In the version I was Mr. Scherrer brought up on (which I don’t mind saying was the 14th edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales published in Stuttgart- circa 1870),. the wicked stepmother orders the huntsman to kill Snow White and return, not her heart, but her lungs and liver, The huntsman spares Snow White, of course, and to make up for it kills a deer instead. Sure, he comes back with the deer’s lungs and liver, whereupon the wicked stepmother hands them to her cook and orders him to prepare them for dinner—with a little salt, says the orthodox edition. With that German thoroughness for which Grimm Brothers are noted (and which, apparently Mr. Dis« ney lacks), the original story goes on to say that the wicked stepmother sits down to dinner that night and has a very enjoyable meal. For some reason,—Mr. Disney muffed the whole episode. Indeed, after substituting a heart for a pair of lungs and a liver, he doesn’t even tell us what becomes of the heart.
Dwarfs Weren’t Slovenly Mr. Disney’s work is full of defects like that. In the book I was brought up on, Snow White certainly did not find the dwarfs’ house in disorder, as Mr. Disney would have us believe. Quite the contrary: It was painfully clean. Why, I still remember the exact wording in .the orthodox edition: “In dem Hauschen war alles Klein, aber so. zierlich und reinlich, dasz es nicht zu sagen ist.” Goodness only knows where Mr. Disney and his animators got the idea of the slovenly dwarfs. Mr. Disney would also have us believe that the wicked stepmother got rid of Snow White with a poisoned red apple. Shucks, anybody who knows the Grimm Brothers knows it wasn’t as easy as that. To be sure, a. poisoned apple had something to do with it, but that’s only the half of it. As a matter of fact, it’s only one-third, because in the . version I was brought up on, Snow White was killed three (3) times by her stepmother. Honest. The first time occurred when the stepmother, disguised as a peddler, sold Snow White a pair of corset strings (Schnuerriemen). While in the act of showing her unsuspecting customer how the strings worked, the wicked stepmother pulled them so tight that these smothered Show White. The second time, it was-a poisoned comb, and finally (but not until then) did the red apple turn up. I don’t believe Mr. Disney has any idea how mean Snow White's stepmother
really was.
Jane Jordan— Wife Is Advised Not to Sacrifice
Marriage to Repay Debts to Mother.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 28 years old, married nine years and have twe fine children. My husband is 39. At first we lived alone but mother who was 60 when we married, grieved until we moved in with my folks. The first year my boy arrived and with him the depression. My husband was out of work and mother took control of our son. Mother is the bossy type with a heart of gold for those whom she likes, but she never liked my husband. She worshiped my son. In 18 months my daughter was born. Then my half-sister and her husband began to feel the depression and had to come. They stayed four years and there was a lot: of quarreling. My ‘husband and I separated many times but loved each other and couldn’t stay apart. I was in bed one ~ whole summer with tuberculosis and my mother and sister took care of my children, Then my husband got work out of town and sent | for me. Mother stormed and forbade me to go. By leaving my son with her I finally got her consent to go and we were supremely -happy for four months, My husband was a changed man. He never left me alone. Then father got sick and mother wrote for us to come back. Now my husband is getting dis< gusted. We never have a minute to quiet down and be alone. Mother is quarrelsome and impatient with the children. My husband insists that I decide between my folks and him. Every time we mention leaving, mother cries and storms and raves. Since father’s illness he hasn’t enough money to live on. Is it my duty to separate from my husband and stay with my folks until they pass away, or should I
go ‘with my husband? DESPERATE. » » Et
. Answein Tt is your duty to go with your husband no matter what happens to your parents. You owe this to your children who are more important than your parents. However, your husband is deeply indebted to your parents for support during the years that he was out of work. I have not been able to print all of your letter because of [lack of space, but it -shows that your mdther always has kept you wholly or partly depends on her, which was a serious mistake on her part. left the two of you alone to shift for yourself when you first married. When trouble came she would have been wiser to help you keep your own establishment ho matter how humble. Instead she
; home for a few weeks to help, but you have returned to your own home and: both children with you. ‘In a
many years in you. She never gave your husband a chance to stand on his own feet and look after his own family. Nevertheless,| the. only thing you can do is to follow your musband and help your parents financially as much as ble, even if this means the sacrifice of everything but the barest necessities of life. You owe them help|in return for the many years they have helped you, but you do not owe them the sacrifice of your marriage or your right to peace of mind in a home of your own. JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter te Jane Jordan, who will answer your: questions in ia column daily. J
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fotch with whals happening on the mainland.