Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1938 — Page 13

Vagabon From Indiana= Ernie Pyle

A $50-a-Day Hotel Bill Nearly Ruined Disney's Trip to Europe;

Profits Plowed : Back ‘Into Studio. .

HOLLYWOOD, March 3.—Walt: Disney

~~ lives on a terraced knoll in East Hollyi Wood, in a section not especially exclusive.

J 1There are neighbors all around him. His

home is big, but certainly no “estate.”

He lives three-quarters of a mile from his studio. Which, as distances go in Hollywood, is practically sleeping on the office steps. At one end of his lawn is the swimming pool. And

down the slope, at the bottom of a little valley, is a polo “crib.” ‘This is a shed where you sit on a wooden horse and practice batting polo balls against the wall. But Walt can’t use it; the neighbors complain about the noise. Walt’s main diversion is horses. Somehow he got started playing polo a few years ago, and he loves . it. He owns 14 polo ponies, which : he keeps at the club. - : But he hasn’t played for about ‘2 four months now. He hurt a : arm—a pinched nerve in the elbow Ms, Pyle —and it's getting worse. He says he can hardly pick up anything with his right hand. He goes often to the Santa Anita track. Brother Roy says: ide of his work, Walt’s main pleasure in life is betting on the horses. big. A $50 bet would scare him to death.” Yet, despite his betting, and his apparent disregard - for money spent on his pictures, Walt does have a sense of money, too. He was telling me what happened two years ago when he and Roy and their. wives went to Europe. Mickey Mouse is a great hero in Europe, so naturally his creator was a hero, too. When they arrived in London they were ushered into a suite in a fancy hotel. Shortly they found they were paying $50 a day for the suite. It nearly ruined their trip, and they didn’t have the nerve to move out. “It even hurt-us to sit down in a chair,” Walt says, “thinking about what we were paying for it.” He's wanting to go to Europe again. He says he conld afford it if they'd let him live the way he wants to live, but he supposes he'd get hooked for ‘another $50-a-day suite.

Brother Roy Watches Expenses

Brother Roy, the allegedly hard-headed business: manager, is not as easy to talk with as Walt. But he has an acute sense of humor, and I like him. He says he has no art in his soul, and the only ‘time pe ever ventures into the creative end of the studio is to ask them to quit spending so much money. Says Roy: “Walt and I have worked together for 17 years, and never had a quarrel except over the money he wants to spend on the studio. Walt hasn't the slightest conception of the value of money. It .doesn’t mean anything to him.” Says Walt: “You can only spend so much money personally. After that it’s just a question of where to invest it. Other people with money worry over where to put it. We've got a place to put ours. Right -here in this business.” Walt says making animated movies isn’t work, it's a hobby. He says it's a hobby with st of the key men around him. . And I believe that is true. It’s quit& apparent that Mr. Disney no great desire to pile up money. The . two Disne out a certain weekly salary (I didn’t have the nerve to ask how much) and plow the profits

} pack into the studio—for more talent, mechanical ex-

perimentation, better pictures, all-around progress. My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Students and Residents Fighting

To Keep Small Bard College Open.

EW YORK, Wednesday.—New things are pouring in on me these days. I find the young are getting more attention. A magazine called World Horizons, for adolescent young people, has come to my desk. The cover is colorful enough to attract any youngster and the material seems interesting to both

young and old. One article struck me particularly

because it was about a sculptor, with whose Indian statues I was very familiar, but whose name, Cyrus Dallin, meant nothing to me. After reading his story, so delightfully told, I came to the conclusion that just giving information of this kind would make a magazine worth while for young people as well as for me. Do you ever find that something you hear about today, puts you in close touch with some entirely unexpected person tomorrow? I walked into the Steinway Building the other morning and was taken up to "see the members of the firm and our friend Mr. Junge. After the first greetings, Mr. Steinway said to me: «I have a boy at Bard College near your home, and ‘we 8re so much interested in it because of his interest “and pleasure in his work there.” : Only last week, at Hyde Park, one of my country friends, Mrs. Hamm, who has a marvelous roadside stand on the Albany Post Road, came to see me and begged me to help them keep this small college open because it meant so much to their community. I confess I had never thought of it from the community. point of view.

‘Cultural Influence Is Great

She explained that up as far as Hudson and down as far as Poughkeepsie, this college served the people - of the countryside. The professors made speeches at local club meetings. The people Bard College brought from the outside world for lectures or for music, created opportunities of interest to everyone. college gave work to people nearby and trade to the shops, but it was really the loss it would mean in cultural opportunities which stirred the whole rural community. One thing the college music department has done, for instance, is to draw numbers of people #) to sing in a neighborhood chorus. This has brought pleasure to the participants and an increased appreciation of music. It seems to me that when a small college means: enough to iis people and the countryside, for them to go out and raise money to keep it open, as Mr. Steinway tells me his boy and other pupils and people are doing, it is fulfilling its educational function so well it deserves. the interest of the public. I hope the college will also receive a measure of outside support.

Public Library Presents—

years ago, Bess Adams Garner and a group _ss=Mexican young people started the Mexican Playe.s in Padua Hills at Claremont, Cal, with the of giving to their audiences the folklore,

"and songs of Mexico. To this end, Mrs. Gar--ner has made many visits to Mexico, primarily to | gain for herself a deeper understanding of and ap-

for the cultural roots of her Mexican e of this understanding and appreto the reader in 2 oH: cameorlike descriptions which make: up CO; NOTES ON THE MARGIN (Houghton). Sometimes ber subject is a bit of art; sometimes a trivial, per_sonal incident; sometimes a simple tale of the peo- : ‘her subject, there are warmth and

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- a N extremely practical and matter-of-fact book A of etiquette is MANNERS FOR MILLIONS by Sophie C. Hadida (Doubleday). Differing from other books on conduct, this is not a manual on how ‘to one’s daughter into society or how to meet the "of the United States. Its purpose rather is , readers’ attention the many little social which we take for granted and which, less, often are neglected. The niceties of bevier. the courtesies and restraints which help to

make pleasant our associations with one another, are, |

the marks of a well-bred person,

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Ferry, Pa., ‘while boats were built for the journey ahead of them. Former soldiers of the

were the vanguard of a new civilization. ‘Their ultimate goal was the great Northwest, then a new frontier in the growth of America with vast areas of unsettled wilderness filled with hostile Indians and wild beasts. Today, 150 years after that first adventure, another band of “pioneers” has halted in: West Newton to build its galley,

barge and canoes just as the original travelers did. } This 1938 pilgrimage is a part of the Government sponsored project commemorating the passage of the renowned Ordinance of 1787 and the establishment of the Northgest Territory. Early this spring the pilgrimage will move downstream to Marietta, O. It will move into Indiana May 18 and proceed,

after visits to several Indiana

towns, into Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The pilgrimage will stop at Indianapolis on its return trip and will be at the State Fair Grounds from Sept. 4 to 9.

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HE beginnings of the first adventure can be traced to the ‘camps ‘of the Revolution where® discouraged, dissatisfied and disgusted with governmental conditions if the original colonies the weary soldiers longed for a new nation of freedom, peace and security.

They yearned for equal rights and a voice in the destinies of that nation. Around their campfires, awaiting the signing of the Treaty of Paris, they visioned such a land—and their visions centered in the western wilderness known as the Ohio country.

Faced with the loss of their meager fortunes ruined by years of struggles, the worthlessness of their pay certificates that weren’t “worth a continental” and the seeming ineffectiveness of government under the articles of Confederation, they expressed their hopes and aspirations in writing. This humble petition, set forth not only the desire for new lands in the West, but included an uncanny foresight of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” These principles of a new . government they claimed as fundamental - to their hopes, ambitions and aspirations. - . + 5 2 ” N short they wanted a “new deal” and a’ chance to live it to their heart’s content. :

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Second Pilgrimage Over

One hundred and fifty years ago a band of pioneers set out from Massachusetts to settle the territory, known then as the Northwest Territory, established -by the now-famous Ordinance of 1787. Territory included what is now Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and part of Minnesota. - To ‘commemorate this trek, another band of “pioneers” is now en route over the “trails.” ‘This Government-spon-sored memorial trip is duplicating in so far as possible the original The pilgrimage is to arrive in northern Indiana in May and, after touring Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, will stop at Indianapolis for a week in September on its return trip. Pageants are to be - presented at each town in which the pilgrimage stops. These articles give the background and story of the early tour and its nfodern coun-

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EST ‘NEWTON, Pa., March 3.—Through February and March, 1788, a small band of courageous pioneers NEN was quartered here in log huts at what was then Simerall’s * | \ SAN

The artist illustrates, upper right, the arrival of the Northwest settlers at Simerall’s Ferry, now West Newton, Pa. . From there they trav-

eled down the Youghiogheny and then to Marietta, O., their

iver in barges and canoes to the Ohio, rst settlement.

_ But most of their journey was over hills and through dense forests, with oxen drawing the Conestoga wagons that held all their posses-

sions, as depicted in the drawing above. The document known as tae

“Army Plan” is held by historians as the nucleus of the world-famed

Ordinance of 1787 authorizing the migration of oppressed colonists to the Northwest. Although clamoring for Congressional approval to enter the new land advocates of the westward. movement were not easily satisfied with the Government's proposals and three ordinances were brought forward before the Ordinance of 1787 that included many of the fundamentals of the early Army plan. Chief instigator of the Northwest settlement was the Ohio Company of Associates, composed mostly of former Army officials. Less than five weeks after the land purchase from Congress was culminated the. trail blazers of the Ohio Company were ready to begin their invasion of the West. :

On Dec. 3, 1787, in the dead of a ‘New England winter the first party of pioneers set out from Ipswitch, Mass., now called Hemilton. Ahead of them were untold hardships—but beyond was the promised land of the Northwest.

On Jan. 23, 1788 history records they reached Simerall’s Ferry.

Here they built log huts to quar-

ter them while building boats that

- were to carry them by water for

the remainder. of ‘their journey. . Recreating as faithfully as possible the original trip the present day “pioneers,” college boy actors. set out from Hamilton, Mass., on Dec. 3, 1937. ‘ Dressed in buckskin suits, fur caps. and: clumsy boots their journey is financed by $25,000 of the $100,000 markec by

Side Glances—By Clark

"Go ask my wife it she will please stop bidding and give sorneone else a.chance to buy this junk.” = : :

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OLLOWING as nearly as possible the route of the trail blazers they crossed assa= chusetts, Connecticut, New York, entered Pennsylvania at the northeastern edge and reached West Newton on the banks of the Youghiogheny River. : Over miles of hard paved high way instead of nearly impassable, bottomless mountain trails, across concrete bridges ‘instead of icefilled creeks they have moved their antiquated equipment. But with all the improvements of today’s journey the long tramp hasn’t been a primrose path. # ” 8

IGHTFALL to Gen. Rufus Putman and. his cohorts meant rest in an inn and prepara- . tion for the next day's journey that had no “must” destination. Following a predetermined itinerary is much more difficult, it has been pointed out, than to proceed in a “travel as far as you can” manner ‘used by the pioneers. At each overnight stop the

modern hikers have staged a two- -

hour pageant depicting appropriate phases in American history. Sometime next fall, after. the Northwest has again been “settled,” they will come to the end ‘of their journey and the nation will have paid due homage to the stalwart men ‘that gave America its great Northwest. : :

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A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HAVE always suspected that a|.

mistake has been made about the

destination of that famous highway |.

through the male stomach. An excellent: meal makes an affable but not necessarily an affectionate man. We now have masculine opinion

to that effect. Mr. John Beeckman has. written a little book which. he calls “The Way to His -Heart” (Bobbs-Merrill), and never, once

does he hint that Je of food has to : falling in love. To be exact, it’s

almost the other way around. Hel

implies in several places that the lady who wears herself out prepar-

ing rich herbs and perfectly done|

steaks for her men friends is likeiy to be left with the kitchen stove as a consolation prize in the game of love. a “Love,” he says, “is something men have to be made to work for;

and the girl who simply lets herself | ‘be used as a combination of Miss Lonely Heart and the Waldorf’ Grill

is getting nowhere very rapidly.”

Plain ‘observation proved ‘that a|. 4 | long time ago. If there were the } | slightest truth in the adage which

we still quote so unctuously to the

11 girls, why woyldn’t more men elope

with their cooks? In answering the question “What isa man’s woman?” Mr. Beeckman makes it plain that the fundamental virtues ~appeal most to masculine

taste—generosity, sincerity and chas-

tity.” He says in short that all men, whatever their state of intelligence, ‘| have one idea about women in

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realize the significance of the Ordinance of 1787. ; In July of a century and a half ago, Congress then in session at New York, enacted an ordinance for the Government of ‘the territory northwest of the Ohio River. Passage of this notable document was among the last acts of Coness under the Articles of Conederation. Historians today claim the Ordinance one of the three great documents in American history. Passage of the ordinance wasn’t an “overnight” affair by any means. Congress dallled with the idea of westward expansion for more than four years before finally passing the measure au-< thorizing the move. From 1783,

* when the “Army” plan, embodying

the opinions of the Revolutionary soldiers, was presented to Congress until July, 1787, several “ordinances” were passed by the law- . makers, but none contained the fundamental principles so earnestly sought by the men of Lexington and Bunker Hill, Valley Forge and Yorktown.

‘They knew what they w were patient and finally got it. They wanted the chance fo" start life anew in the great Northwest. 'And they wanted red blooded government dedicated to the “rights of men.” i ® 5 » : N addition to a number of important pyovisions the Ordinance of 1787 contained six arti!cles of compact, four of which are outstanding. It not only fixed the character of immigration but determined the social, political, educational, religious and industrial | program of the territory. | The First Article provided that

' “no person, demeaning himself in.

a peaceful and orderly manner shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments in said territory.” Article Two read: in part: “The inhabitants of the said

territory shall always be entitled

' to the benefits of the writ of . habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury . . . 2ll fines shall be moderate and no cruel jor unusual punishments shall be inflicted . . . no law ought ever be made or have. force in said territory, that shall in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private ‘contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud, previously performed.” » » »

OMING more than 75 years before the Civil War the provisions of Article Six is most surprising to the readers of the Ordinance today. “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the

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said territory, otherwise in the punishment of crime.” “ The Ordinance further set the boundaries of the Northwest Territory and provided that “not less than three nor more than five states” ever should be carved from the territory. These are but a few of the outstanding provisions of the document that threw open the gates for the westward movement. For nearly a century, authorship of the bill was a matter of dispute and there still remains the uncertainty as who if any one man was responsible for the document. 2 » 8 UT William Frederick Poole holds up as the hero of the Ordinance, as the one man who had more individual pressure than

minister. and former Chaplain in the Revolution—Manasseh Butler. , Cutler was one of the cofounders of the Ohio Co. of Associates, which late in 1787 purchased land in the Northwest Territory from Congress and backed the original trek of New Englanders to the land beyond the Ohio; .. Acting as agents forthe Ohio Company, Cutler went to New York in July, 1787, and so won the esteem of the members of Congress that he practically rewrote the proposed Ordinance to govern the Northwest. After cleverly engineering passage of the Ordinance Cutler remained in New York long enough to effect a purchase of the lands he was sent out to buy. Cutler contracted to purchase for the Ohio Company a million and a half acres at $1 an acre, less than one-third of a dollar for bad lands and the expenses of surveying. ‘Because the public securities with which payment was made was worth only 12 cents on the dollar the actual price of the land was ridiculously low looking, at the transaction from today’s viewpoint. = Cutler paid an actual price of eight or nine cents an acre. Congress was satisfied though and ordered the Board of Treasury to “take order and close the contract.” : That was late in July of 1787. On Oct. 27, the same year, proprietors of the Ohio Company approved the contract and it was executed. . So eager were the colonists “get going” to their new home sites beyond the mountains that they lost no time on preparations and set out from Ipswitch, Mass., Dec. 3, 1787. Ahead of them lay they knew not what—but they were willing to take a chance in the name of American posterity.

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By Anton Scherrer

The City's Reception. Committee Finally Decided a 21-Gun Salute

Was Suitable for Prince. Pu Lun, ROSE PAULY'’S singing of “Der Lenz ist

da” on the Ford hour the other night

reminded me of the time Prince Pu Lun and

his entourage showed up.in Indianapolis. If must have been more than 30 years ago. The Prince, I recall, arrived at the Union Depot and got a salute of 21 guns.” I'm sure it was that- many because I still remember the trouble the . reception committee had to figure the exact number

of shots suitable for a Chinese prince. It was finally decided that a s#lute good ‘enough for the President of the United States was good enough for a Chinese prince, too. For the life of me I can’t recall what brought Prince Pu Lun to Indianapolis, but whatever it was, it took three days to do it. In that time, - he just about got to see everything. Anyway, I remember : that the ° reception committee my, Scherrer stopped at ‘nothing to be nice to him. They gave him a parade, a banquet, a recep= tion at the State House, another one at the Propylaeum, and even took him out to 16th St. and Capitol Ave. to show him Gentry’s dog and pony show. For some reason, too, they took him. to see all the girls’ schools in Indianapolis—schools like Mrs. Sewall’s Girls’ Classical School, for instance, and Knickerbock« oe Hall and Tudor Hall. Search me, I don’t know why. Besides all these public functions, there were any number of private affairs, too.. Alfred F. Potts, for instance, had the Prince out to his house a couple of times for breakfast, and Mrs. May Wright Sewall staged a big dinner for him. Mrs. Sewall even went to the trouble of serving her ice ¢ream in the shape of yellow lilies and red roses (the Chinese colors), and it made such. a hit with the Prince that he asked for two helpings. : Got ‘em, too. The Potts’ menage didn’t have Mrs. Sewall’s luck, because, try as they would, they couldn’t’ get the Prince to take anything more than a cup of tea for breakfast.

Arrived Late at Concert

The banquet at the Claypool, however, was the big event of Prince Pu Lun’s visit. The most compli, cated, too, because the way things turned out, the banquet and Madam Schumann-Heink’s concert at English’s came on the same night. The reception committee was determined that the Prince should be in on both. As a result, the Prince didn’t show up at English’s until 10 o’clock that night. Madame Schumann-Heink, I remember, was just ready to start singing “Der Lenz ist da” when she saw the Prince led by William Fortune walk down the aisle to his box. She waited until he was seated, then gave her accompanist the sign to start the scheduled number. Instead of beginning her song with the prescribed words as she was supposed to do, she fooled everybody and sang “Der Prinz ist da!” She gave it everything her lungs were capable of. I don’t know whether she got a peacock feather for it or not, but she certainly deserved it. ;

Jane Jordan— Tells Critic Practical - Advice Often Sounds Cold and Unfeeling.

EAR JANE JORDAN—This morning for the first time I feel like scolding you. Your answer to the woman who signed her letter “Just Me” sounds cold and unfeeling. (The woman says that her chil. dren are ashamed of her, her husband lives with her only for their sakes, and her mother says she is oldfashioned and out of step.) This woman says she has been in failing health for 10 years, and in the hespital three times during that period. She must have been sick or she wouldn't have been there, or maybe she went only to await the arrival of three of the five children who now sit in judgment on her. She is probably one of those who hardly have vitality enough to arag one foot after the other, and even ff she didn’t have the handicap of partial.blindness and deafness, would hardly feel like drinking and smoking and making merry after a day of caring for a family. My advice would be to take the whole family, babies excepted, out in the back yard and have a policeman give them a good flogging. Then let them shift for themselves while the mother takes a long vacation out of sight and sound of the whole business. MRS. BURTON HOFFMAN,

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Answer—The difference between you and me is tha I give practical advice whereas yours is emotional, and practical advice often sounds cold and unfeeling, Of course you know without my telling you that it is impossible to get a policeman to flog the family and that if they were flogged they would react with hatred and malice instead of sympathy and understanding. Therefore such advice is valueless, isn’t it? It makes you feel better but does nobody else any good.

The first thing to do in considering any problem is to determine what the person has done to bring his troubles on himself. Here is a woman with seven people against Lher—her mother, her husband and five children. Unless her faults. were very marked at least one of this group would be on her side. The loss Of ‘an eye is a disaster which usually arouses great sympathy from others unless the loser has done something drastic to forfeit such sympathy. According to the doctor, the woman’s deafness was a nervous ailment and not caused from definite damage to the auditory neryes. This suggests that she found it convenient to Pe deaf in order to shut out the criticism of her family. - : The most normal and natural thing in the world is for children to love their mother. The tie of ‘a child to its mother is one of the most powerful things in the world. A woman really has to work hard to lose the love of her children. : I do not know how this woman has contrived to set the children against her. I only know she says they are ashamed of her and their opinion is backed up by her own mother’s, who says she is old-fashioned and out of step. We cannot escape the conviction that there is a reason for the solid disapproval of a whole family. : . If we wish to help this woman the only possible thing to do is urge her to search herself and see if there is not room for self-improvement. She need not drink or smoke or even make merry but simply let others do so without throwing a damper by citing her own ill health. The chances are that her health would be much better if she could win the approval of her family. Therefore, though she be both tired and sick, it is worth the extra effort, I believe. . JANE JORDAN .

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

HEARD IN CONGRESS—

Senator Barkley (D. Ky.): Does the Senator from

; 3 California approve the Republican Party platform of ‘1/1932 favoring the control of production?

Senator Johnson (R. Cal): The Senator is not going to involve me in a political discussion. I am not one of those hide-bound persons of either party, and T am not. going to enter into a discussion of party platforms. = * Senator Barkley: Then I assume the Senator is not

"| willing to discuss that feature?

‘Senator Johnson: T am not willing to discuss it, be-

: cause I do not give a tinker’s most profane word what

the platform of the Republican Party was in 1932, and

T know the Democrats feel the same way about the ;

they adopted in 1932.

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