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Ernie Learns About 'Snow White'

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And Finds Picture Is ‘Terrible.’

EJOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22.—All a guy can *-hear nowadays is Snow White... Snow"

White . . . Snow White. At first I didn’t know what they were talking about, having just arrived from Hawail. But my agents made a few discreet inquiries and came back with the report that if I

didn't know about Snow White I'd better quickly

find out. For Snow White, they reported, is a moom pitcher, its real name is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” it’s the first full-length animated cartoon and it is sweeping the country. - Well, no national mania is going to leave Old Pyle in the lurch: So here I am, right inside the Walt Disney studio where “Snow White” was born, ready at the drop of a hat to tell all. The hat is dropped. We're off. The most startling information I've picked up to date is this: That although the public is going crazy Mr. Pyle over “Snow White.” the men inside the Disney studio think it’s terrible! The high men in the Disney outfit are ashamed of .it. They say “Snow White” is riddled with mistakes, and weak spots, and technical impotencies. Walt Disney himself may never see the movie again, “Let’s forget about Snow White,” he tells his men. . And right there you have the most remarkable thing about| the Disney studio: A genuine dissatisfaction with what they've done. This public clamor over “Snow White” hasn’t turned their heads. It has made them feel: “Well, if you think that’s good, wait till we show you what we can really do. The next one will really be good.” The Disney studio is totally unlike a regular movie layout. It is small and compact; covers less than a square block. I had supposed that going into the Disney studio would be like going into Fairyland. But it isn’t. Everything is down to earth and workaday. Nobody seems whimsical. There is no evidence of living in a dream world. It’s a perfectly normal workshop of 700 people—except for the wonderful family spirit of the place. Of the 700 people working for Walt Disney, more than 400 are artists. That's a lot of temperament to corral into half a block of buildings. But Disney

* considers all 700 as artists, and treats them as such.

No Time-Clocks for Disney

He insists on “freedom for creation.” If an ani-

. mator doesn’t show up till 11 a. m., that’s all right

* with Disney. He won’t allow a time-clock in the place, even for- nonartists. The result is that his more worldly department heads have to hire two boys to go

_ around and check up.

There is handly a movement in any Disney film that Walt Disney hasn’t personally seen and a dis- _ cussed half a dozen times with his men. I knew, of course, that he had long ago stopped doing any of the actual drawings that appear on the screen. But I supposed that he still at least sketched out his ideas for a new character. But he doesn’t. But his spirit is still very much in every quack of Donald Duck and every squeak of Mickey Mouse. In fact, the voice of Mickey Mouse you hear is Disney’s voice. Nobody has ever voiced “Mickey” for the films, but Disney himself. They're trying to work him out of that role, his men tell me, because he shouldn’t waste his time on it. Sng anyhow, they say, his voice is no good for the part : 4

My Diary

“By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

President Enjoys Driving Own Car Through Heavy Snow at Hyde Park.

HE PARK, N. Y., Monday.—I woke this morning to a most dazzling world. The sun was shining brightly, the ‘evergreen boughs were weighted down with snow and the shadows beneath them created intricate patterns. ; The weather is much colder and everything is frozen, so I think our snow will last for a little while. However, the President drove his own car yesterday and broke out new paths even across the fields. Though I could see anxiety written on the faces of ‘some of those accompanying him, he had a glorious e. This morning he is out drivin round to show ~ Scheider and I have been busy with the mail and the daily routine of work. I expected two callers, but one of them is already 20 minutes late. I rather suspect that, because she lives on a farm a little farther up the river, she may be snowed in! The main roads are open, but even our own road through the woods is none too easy to navigate.

Impressed by Youths’ Achievements "I did not have space the:other day to tell you in

- detail about some of the citations which were read at

the master farmers’ dinner at Cornell. These citations are moving indeed, for they tell in brief form the history of a man and a woman’s achievement. The really thrilling thing is the accomplishments ot I was impressed above

_ everything lelse this year with the fact that in sev-

. eral cases the boys were commended for their wil-

lingness to accept responsibility. It was stated that when their fathers were away from home, they assumed the responsibility for the work on the farm and proved competent and reliable. One boy, with the help of a hired man, had, during his father’s absence, taken entire charge of a herd of 17 cows and

" at the same time carried on his school work and va-

rious personal interests.

‘New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

“AOMEONE,” anz Kafka begins THE TRIAL (Knopf), “must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having ‘done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” Why he was arrested, K. never knew.’ Indignant at first and inclined to scoff at the whole affair, he at last took -it seriously enough; for though he not put in jail, more and more his thoughts revalved about his “case”—the case which never was eveived to trial, in which no charges ever were placed, and about which everyone seemed to know more than K. himself. © THE TRIAL comes to English readers with a _ freshness undimmed by -the fact that it was written sometime before 1924 and that, indeed, its author, a Czechoslovakian, died in that year. From the illfated moment when K. rang the bell for breakfast until the night, a year later, when two unknown men led him to the stone quarry and there apologetically murdered him, the narrative moves on the plane of ‘ fantasy which has the quality of = nightmare—a _ dream in which we follow in ble corridors, seeking endlessly a goal which we never reach. The satire, directed at a system of courts which places justice beyond the reach of the ordinary citizen, lends substance and sharpness to this narrative. : : 8: 2 8 = 2

4 VEE Et Carson, in the spring of 1842, conE tracted with his friend Senator Barton to lead

great wagon train across the 2000 miles of wilder2 from Missouri to Oregon, he little dreamed

"that the Senator had private reasons for wanting

the expedition to fail. Nor did Judy Barton guess

that the official edict from Washington prohibiting +: unmarried women ‘to accompany the wagon train

had been instigated by her father solely to prevent

: “ her going. How Judy achieved the status of mar-

riage by a hasty wedding to one of six convicts

‘convicts to serve as his - assistant scouts, a

truly distinguished .

execution, and how Kit Carson kidnaped |

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Kentucky's 'Happy'

Chandler to Make Bid for Barkley’s Post on His Reco

Times Special

FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. + 22. — Kentucky, the “dark and bloody ground,” is to be the scene of one of the hardest-fought. and most important political battles in the United States this year. Governor A. B. (Happy) Chandler intends to wrest from Alben W. Barkley the toga of senatorship. And the fight will inevitably in-. volve the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration. For Mr. Barkley is President Roosevelt's Majority Leader in the Senate. Friends of both Governor Chandler and Senator Barkley hoped at one time that the battle might be averted. An effort was made a few weeks ago, when Judge Charles W. Moorman of the Sixth U. S. Court of Appeals died, to arrange for the President to appoint the junior Senator from Kentucky, M. M. Logan, to the judgeship so that Governor Chandler might fill Senator Logan's

place. Friends of the President in Kentucky prevailed upon Governor Chandler to make an appointment with Mr. Roosevelt in Washington. On the morning of the Governor's White House visit, however, .- Senator = Logan an=nounced that he would not accept the judgeship because appointment under such -circum=stances would smack of a “deal.” Governor Chandler left the President's offices declaring that “they took me up on the high mountain and. showed me the promised land, and then told me I was too young.” He added later that “they invited me to come to Washington and then treated me mean.” Governor Chandler plans fo announce his candidacy for the Senate, probably tomorrow, .in a speech at Newport, Ky. From then until Aug. 6, when the pri.mary election will take place, the smoke of battle will roll over the Blue Grass State from Mills Point to.the Big Sandy. ” = » OVERNOR CHANDLER is 39, has completed half of his four-year term, and through the General Assembly’s recent approval of his biennial budget measure, he virtually has finished the program he laid down in his campaign in 1935. He is reputed to be the only Kentucky Governor in. 30 years to keep his promise and to give the State good government. When on Dec. 10, 1935, he delivered his inaugural address before 50,000 Kentuckians in Frankfort, he had forced into oblivion a spoils machine that had dominated the State for a quartercentury. In his address he set down the program on which he was to establish his record. And it is this record that he will take to the people this summer. Governor Chandler assailed the retail sales tax and promised its repeal. He denounced the conven=tion system of nominating party candidates and assured the people they would have “one old-fash-ioned primary.” The Governor came into office with the Commonwealth facing an outstanding. debt of about $26,000,000. To abolish the sales tax meant to cancel $20,000,000 of annual revenue, yet he promised to pay off the State’s debt. The new Governor also had promised “a complete reorganization of the State Government.” He had said the “parasites that are sucking the life blood from the State will be -cast out.”

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1938

ditions in our penal and eleemosy=nary institutions” and. that he would give to the State $12 per capita State school aid. He pro= posed to accomplish these things by enacting a tax program ‘that “fairly distributes the burden.” The 1936 General Assembly ace complished a complete reorganiza« tion of the State Government,

eliminated useless bureaus by ‘the dozen, established commissionships to direct the several divisions of the Government, and |concentrat= ed all purchases and finance under a Commissioner of Finance and Business Control. Mr, Chand-

ler called to his aid:as Commissioner of Revenue an outstanding

tax expert, Dr. James W. Martin of the- University of Kentucky. Likewise he hired an able highway engineer and concentrated all highway activity under one head. A Department of Public Welfare was created to administer the State institutions, old-age pensions, industrial compensation for workmen, and similar functions. But the keystones of the Chandler reforms were" the Department of Finance and Business Control and the- Department of Revenue. The 1936 General Assembly passed tax laws, of course. Governor Chandler promised the Legislature that if it would approve his tax program he would come ‘before it in January, 1938, to ask that no new taxes be im-

‘posed. He insisted on repeal of .

the sales tax. The Legislature approved. If set up taxes on cigarets, liquor, various luxuries, soft drinks, candy, chewing gum and other articles and approved a state income tax which affects 10 per

cent of the population.

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EANTIME Commissioner of Revenue Martin was searching through the existing tax laws. He began to get the money, and how! ‘He found that the previous Laffoon Administration had ample laws to collect taxes and pay itself out of debt, but that it didn’t colléct—and when it did, it managed to do. everything but pay State bills and debts with the money. : > The het result has been that

Governor Chandler has paid off

$16,000,000 of the $26,000,000 State debt, and has gone before the

Side Glances—By Clark

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Kentucky’s Governor Chandler

22 © a probation system, however,: which has been. commended by’

Senator Barkley bar

~ Legislature in recent days to ask

for no more taxes. At a special session in 1937 he called for repeal of his omnibus -tax bill passed a year before, the one levying on. soft drinks, ice-cream, candy and cosmetics. During the two years the State has undertaken a, $2,000,000 program of building new hospitals for the insane‘and a new prison. The State has paid $12: per capita school aid for the first time in its history, and ‘it has met old-age benefit payments to match Federal grants. Fo Although the - State debt has

A WOMAN'S VIEW. By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ECAUSE women are the novel-

- been reduced by $16,000,000, only has ‘been: col- . lected through new taxes imposed

by .the Chandler Administration. - On the other hand, = almost

$6,000,000 more annually‘has. been collected : in. taxes,’ although tax -fleld agents were .reduced onethird in number—which suggests the efficiency ,of the tax collector, Mr. Martin. i When Mr. Chandler went into office, the $26,000,000 State. debt was in the form of tax warrants bearing 5 per cent interest. ‘The

new. administration refunded that:

- debt to pare the interest rate

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‘down -to 3 per scent and -thus save

about. $1,000,000 a year. The General Assembly is to enact at this session a constitutional amendment forbidding future administrations to contract State debts ‘beyond $500,000. : -All functions of the Kentucky government now are administered by 22 units. These replaced 119 departments, commissions and

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ENTUCKY’S first completely

organized State Police Department is in operation. Unemployment compensation, rural electrification and other modern undertakings are under way.

. Governor Chandler has gained

"strength with labor” through ‘the

recent enactment of a law to abolish employment of privately paid deputy sheriffs in ‘the eastern Kentucky coal fields. -Mr. Chandler has not issued a single pardon. He has inaugurated

many authorities on crime pre-

* vention.

<The Governor believes the time has come to apply some of the budget-balancing principles to national finance that have been employed in his own State. He has been an adherent and an admirer of President Roosevelt, but he has declared that “eventually something will have to be done about reorganization ‘of National Government to scale down ‘the debts or the country will go bankrupt.” “Happy” Chandler is a candidate who knows how to talk to the common man. He came up from poverty and worked his way through school. A wealthy Kentuckian gave him a check to pay his way at Harvard Law School, but he: managed to earn his way

~ through that institution, and after

receiving his degree he returned the ‘check to his would-be bene-factor-—uncashed. : He served as a State -Senator, then was elected Lieutenant Governor when Governor Ruby Lafe foon - became chief executive. ‘Shortly after his. election. he

. formed an alliance with several

nonconformists who had observed the wasteful, ineffective government under Mr. Laffoon. How he shattered the powerful Laffoon machine was a political sensation of 1935. :

Jasper—By: Frank Owen

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readers, most novels are ad- : %

dressed to women and deal with women’s problems. For that reason, too, the popular fiction writers of our age are: womgn. Josephine

Lawrence ranks near the-top and| turns out very .good.- stories about

very unpleasant people with .amazing regularity. Lh * Miss Lawrence has created some

| of the most despicable’ characters

in’ modern fiction... They. are so

altogether unlovable that they often refute her arguments, and certainly

‘we aren't bothered with what hap-| ‘| pens to them. A Ea | Her latest book, “Bow Down to ‘Wood and Stofie,” is: a sermon to

self-sacrificing females. With %er| §~

customary ruthlessness she proves|

that doing for others does not pay. ‘Three sisters’ - have the = “Noble

Woman” complex, which “is just

about the most destructive of all

- | poses. - One devotes her: life to a| ‘| husband’s career, another to her| | {four children, and the third -to her| ‘employers. All are left emptyhanded ‘in the lend. Their devotion, | asthe author presents it, is mever| tempered with: a grain of common sense ,

Miss Lawrence never quite makes

her point with me because she

writes. of wooden images instead of human ‘beings. And it’s al 3 easier to manipulate wooden images

than flesh-and-blood people. Some] day, I hope, she will do a book about |

| in'all my life.

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ir Town By Anton Scherrer oY

hen Dr. Renner Heard of Father amien's Death, He Went to Hawaii, it Found the Priest Still Alive.

| THIS is the story of Dr. J. G. E. Renner,

and in with yesterday’s fantastic tale of cDougal and his li e among the Patagonians. J isl an-born-and-bred Dr Renner. came ted States in the late Sixties, studied medi

I bring it up today because it sort

e manner, was good for : In no time at all he beating a path to his

|it was sometime in the

That’s another story. en was a Belgian-born-and-hred boy whose real name was Joseph de Veuster. In 1858, when 18 years old, he joined a : : religious order. Five years later, he went to the Pacific islands taking the place of his brother who had been prevented from going by illness. While stopping off at Honolulu he was struck with the sad condition of the lepers whom the Hawaiian Government deported to Molokai Island, He volun= teered to take spiritual charge of the colony; he ended up running everything, and managed by the labor of his own hands and by appeal to the Hawaiian Gove ernment to improve the water supply, the dwellings, and the diet of the lepers. He had the world wone dering how it was possible for any white man to live in such sordid surrounding, cut off from all human associations. Well, as I was saying, sometime in the Seventies word reached Dr. Renner of Father Damien’s death, Everybody else heard about it, too, for that matter, and again it had everybody wondering; except that this time everybody was guessing as to who would make the supreme sacrifice and offer fo take the priest’s place. " ; That’s when Dr. Renner spoke up. ‘Against the advice of his best friends he went to Molokai. There

Mr. Scherrer

‘| to his utter amazement he discovered that Father

Damien wasn’t dead at all. Instead of coming home, . Dr. Renner stayed in Molokai more than a year working among the lepers. : :

His Stay Here Was Short

After that, he returned to Indianapolis; and hung out his shingle again. But not for long, because it was shortly after this that he heard about the yellow fever plague in Memphis, Tenn. He arrived in Meme phis in August, 1878, and started work immediately, A month later he was dead, a victim of the plague. His monument in Crown Hill carries the inscripe tion: “A victim in the cause of humanity.” Still more impressive are the lines under this inscription: “Erected by his fellow-members of the Second Prese byterian Church as a tribute to his Christian . heroism.” I wish Robert Louis Stevenson had heard about -the nice thing the Second Presbyterian people did. had, maypéthe wouldn't have said the mean things he did about a Presbyterian preacher when that gentleman cast some ill-considered imputations upon Father Da . On/the other hand, maybe it's just as well, becauss R. I. Sis “An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde” is one of the grandest things ever written. I guess I ought to say, too, that Father | Damien lived 15 years after the; newspapers had him

dead. /

Jane Jordan— Tactful Wife Makes Husband Feel He Plays Leading Role, Jane Says.

EAR JANE JORDAN—My sister has been mare ried for five years. She is very attractive, designs her own clothes and wears them quite well, She has a lovely home and is a good housekeeper, but her husband is attracted to everyone else but my sister. There is a girl who has pretended to be .a friend to my sister, and recently my brother-in-law told my sister that he was in love with this girl. He stated that when he was in her company he felt perfectly at ease. This girl is married and her husband is deeply in love with her, but. she only respects him. There has been no quarrel concerning this affair. My sister knows about it, but she still is friendly with Anne and acts as if nothing were wrong. My sister thought of leaving her husband but really hates to break up her home. My brother-in-law tells my sister that he doesn’t love her and this isn’t the first time this has happened. He resents my sister so and her ability. “There are no children. My brother-in-law is 43 and my sister is 35. Will you please advise my

sister? : / A SISTER. ; 2 2 = ‘Answer—I am sure that you realize it is impossible for me to advise someone whom I do.not know and whose problem is stated by another, -and possibly prejudiced, perso®. I have the merest scrap of evi= dence from which to form a conclusion. All I can do is to tell you what the evidence reveals and hope it will help you understand your sister's problem better. The first thing I noticed was your statement that your sister had thought of leaving her husband, but hated to break up her home. This sounds as if your sister was more interested in her home and her secur= ity than in the man himself. That is, she could do without. him more easily than the things he provides. He may have brought, this on himself by his behavior, or she may have antago him. by making him secondary to the home. I wondered when I read the ‘ remark if it indicated a secret sympathy with your Protnerin-lew which you crush out-of loyalty to your sister. The only other thing of significance in your letter is the statement that your brother-in-law resents your sister and her ability, but feels perfectly at ease with the other woman. This is another straw that points in the same direction. Apparently he feels secondary to your sister and no male puts up with this fi gladly. He wants to occupy the superior position, to be looked up to and admired, to be first in the eyes of his wife. / : [ci : Some women by their skill and tact have the gift of making men feel important. By their deference

excessively masculine, thereby inspiring a chivalrous, protective attitude toward themselves. No matter how adequate and capéblé such women may be, they never let their husbands feel inadequate by comparison. The husband may lean heavily on his wife's syme pathy and understanding, but at no time does he fee} that his wife is in competition with him for the lead ing role in the family. ‘She always occupies the secw ondary place and never lets him forget his honorable position as the head of the house. This is the 5 of that feeling of being perfectly at ease in the come pany of a woman, co . JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will : answer your guestions in this column daily: i

HEARD IN CONGRESS—

'p. Rich (R. Pa.): IT want to asso with you as individuals, because you are the finest bunch of fellows I have ever met in my life; but as a group, in the. spending of money, you are the most lav radical rascals for spending money I have ever a

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