Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1938 — Page 17

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From Indiana= Ernie Pyle

Yakima Canutt, Once the Greatest Of Cowboys, Now Makes a Living Risking Neck for Movie Thrills.

HOLLYWOOD, March 1. —Yakima Canutt has scars all over him. His arms show old burns. There must be a dozen white scar-lines on each hand. And there are little. ones on his face, but they aren’t

i unbecoming.

Yakima Canutt is lucky to have any face what-

| soaver, after what he’s been through. For he is Holly-

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r £12,000 to $15,000 a year.

1 “danger man” on horse stunts—or anytung else you want. From his wild name, and his type of work, you might think he’d be an ugly, rough-looking fellow. But he’s a fine-looking man, speaks ' gently, loves his home, and I've never seen anyone around the studio better liked or more respected than Yak. He is 42, he is tall and fairly

wend’s No.

slim, and he has an easy Western

look about him that is authentic. There probably isn’t a better rider in the movies than Yak Canutt. In his younger days he was cone Mr. Pyle of the greatest cowboys that ever lived. He held the world’s bronc pionship from 1917 to 1924, and was the he ms cowboy champion for five years. He conested in rodeos from 1612 to 1924. And then he came to the movies. "Yak was starred in Western pictures until sound came in. But his voice is so gentle and mellow that 5-is no good for sound. When sound drove him out, Yak turned to his -iding- ability and became a stunt man with horses. He makes\more money now than he ever did as the movie hero. And appears oftener on the screen, although usually anonymously as somebody’s double, He free-lances among all the studios, and has

more work than he can do. He says he averages {from He gets as high as $500

_ for a single stunt, such as blowing up a speeding

a

‘wagon full of dynamite. “Yak wrecks speeding autos, jumps 75 feet from cliffs into water, does terrific fisi-fighting. But the basis of his work is horse stunts. = He has probably fallen off horses at a dead run, been dragged by

k Borses, ridden horses over cliffs; more than any man

‘al ive,

$ sriously Injured Twice

Yak has been cut, bruised and skinned hundreds of ‘times, but seriously injured only twice. One was wi en a torch he was carrying exploded. He was in a hcspital three weeks. The other was when he was changing from a galloping horse to a “runaway” team hitched to a wagon. He fell between the horses; the wagon axle hit him in th: back, broke his shoulder blade and tore one shoulde: to pieces. He was sent to the hospital again. He go’ pneumonia that time and almost died. ’ak says he has never fainted, but a couple of tin 2s the pain was so terrible things went black and he would have fainted if they hadn’t thrown water on 4im. He has never broken an arm or leg. * asked Yak if he could get insurance. He said yes, anc without’ paying’ much extra. They investigated hin» thoroughly, and figured he knew his stuff so well ‘ft wasn't very dangerous.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Women on Amarillo Housing Project Equip Old Store as Practice House.

ANTA FE, N. M,, Thursday.—Yesterday “Amari

T saw a most unique project outside of Amarill

Tex. An old clubhouse, near a municipal golf course,

. had 2een taken over by a group of women and turned

: One woman was the moving spirit.

into a tuberculosis preventorium for small children. She started out

with a fund of 85 cents and today, with the help of ¢the "WPA, a new building has been built and 35 chil-

4 dren are being restored: ta health.

Amarillo’s housing project is also quite unique, in that the women on the project have taken an old store and equipped it as a practice house. The women put in the partitions, papered the walls, refinished the fioors and laid the floor coverings. They renovated old furniture and made new furniture out of packing cases and an’ old tool shed in the back yard. They have made a very satisfactory sewing rcom and . storeroom. They sodded the yard and laid a brick walk. In fact, they proved that, with proper guidance, a woman can do almost anything about a house. I must tell you one amusing story. Just before my

. lecture ‘last night, a little girl called our rooms at

_ the hotel and said to my secretary: * to Mrs. Roosevelt.

“I want to speak My mother and daddy are going to the lecture, but I am not allowed to go, so I “want to ask Mrs. Roosevelt to broadcast her lecture so I can hear it.” We decided that Texas children will

.- get on in the world. Nothing seems to daunt them. - Sees First Indian Pueblo

* at 7:36

We zot off the train this morning in Belen, N. M,, and since no one was in sight to meet us, everyone in sight offered to drive us to Albuquerque. . We decided, however, that someone would call for us. Becaus: we had had no breakfast, we sat at the counter in the Harvey restaurant and otdered coffee and rolls. In a few minutes, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Calkins came for us and obligingly joined us at - breakfast. The frst glimpse of these mountains always thrills me. They lay ahead of us and to our right, snow- _ capped with marvelous shadows on the slopes. We drove through an Indian pueblo on the wuy to Al. _ buquerc ue, which: interested me very much because I

= - had nevar seen one.

{New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

NOV N to readers as Jay Franklin, John Carter, ‘K and “The Unofficial Observer” (political commentator) and as “Diplomat” (writer of mystery . stories) John Franklin Carter, an ex-embassy attache, now reminisces, pleasantly and amusingly, of his life 2s a member of THE RECTORY FAMILY (Coward-McCann) during the early 1900s. The children, six boys and one girl, lived in Williamstown, ‘Mass., wth their father, a most human Episcopalian clergyms 1, and the mother, who helped with the work and managed the large household without losin: her sense of humor. This book is the record of a happy prewar childHood in a college town, where good manners, good talk and good music were shared by ad family, young and older, and their friends. 8 #2 = 5 OHN, zon of Chavafambira, witch doctor and the Iz | and grandson of witch doctors, is the BLACK 1 T (London, Bles) of whom Dr. Wulf Sachs

orig: iy going to Johannesburg to make a study the r-oryous system of the native African, .Dr. psychoanalyist, by chance came into conJohn. and in. him found a unique opporlonged. analysis, of. the mind of a

, always treated as an inferior, ustice which functions for white Here he learns to evade

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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1988 !

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Entered as Sesond.crss Matter dianapolis, Ind.

as Postoffice,

Compensation Law Expected to Be of Most Aid to Seaso nal Workers

(Second of Two Articles)

NDIANA'S Unemploy“ment Compensation Law will prove of greatest benefit to persons employed in seasonal trades, observers believe. Often, such workers are

highly skilled, well paid at

intermittent periods. ecause they. are accustomed to a fair standard of living, they hesitate to accept relief. They represent a social problem that may be answered in part by the unemployment compensation program. Officials of the division recognize the unreasonableness of asking a skilled worker to accept a job in his trade at wages far below ordinary levels just beeause work has fallen off. Yef: many have been forced to do this. While the law demands the worker register for employment periodically during the time he receives benefits, provision has been made to protect the skilled worker ‘from accepting a job, simply because it is one, at wages below his usual earning power. 2 2 »

NHUS the seasonal worker, using the scale of 4 per cent of his wages during his highest earning quarter of the year, will be reasonably expected to draw the maximum weekly benefit of $15 during periods of unemployment. He will continue to receive that amount until he has drawn 16 per. cent of his total annual earn-

ings, during a maximum of 15 . weeks

But: while it is estimated that ‘benefits to the normal worker will continue for the full 15 weeks, the seasonal employee’s are expected to cease before then because he will have received the maximum benefits before expiration of the maximum period. With the view toward protecting one employer—who schedules his production so that layoffs are reduced to a minimum—from raids .upon compensation funds by another whose frequent seasonal production stoppages cause depletion of the fund, the major share of payments by individual concerns are credited to their personal accounts. 2 2 8

HUS the drain on compensa- . tion funds can be charted as to separate industries and indi“widual employers. The. company.

that exhausts;its own resources

must pay the penalty ih increased rates of contribution into the fund. To protect the employee against loss of benefit caused by exhaustion of his ‘employer’s benefit fund, only five-sixths of its contributions are credited to the individual company. The other sixth 15 placed in a Pooled Account from which benefits are paid if there is not enough money in a single employer’s account to meet payments to his employees. Authors of the compensation law placed a premium upon a guarantee of a regular work-week to workers. They permit payments into the fund by an employer to be halted when he demonstrates over the period that he has maintained a pledged work schedule, and has met certain other conditions. ” "” 8

T is hoped the law may encour-

age employers to level off the

ups-and-downs of his employment schedule since he: hardly can expect to build up sufficient reserve to cease paying into the unemployment compensation fund if his work is seasonal. To anticipate the maximum possible drain on the $27,500,000 unemployment compensation fund, when benefits become payable on April 1, officials of the division have charted seasonal employment. Heaviest drains upon the unemployment - compensation fund are e eds to come from the fields = employing the greatest number of workers, the iron and

With this chart, Clarence A. Jackson, Indiana Unemploym ent Compensation Division director, is able to show ‘how compensation benefits are computed. rar :

steel, building trades, wholesale and retail, utilities, automotive and miscellaneous manufacturing groups, Next month, when benefits become payable, division statisticians know they will have to look forward to applications from employees in food and meat packing industries and in coal

groups. 2 s »

N May, furniture, boots, paper box and manufacturing falls off. In June, employees from agricultural equipment manufacturers, confectionery and food preparation .groups will rely heavily on unemployment benefits. Thus, experts have been able to

shoes and

-chart- expectations: of an average . monthly total of 4000 persons

drawing total and 3500 receiving partial unemployment compensation. They believe the maximum drain on the fund will ‘he $210,000 a month at the same time it is growing at the rate. of $2,000,000 a month. The hot summer months and peak winter seasons are expected to be the heaviest withdrawal periods from the @ fund. It. is then that employment reaches a low point in most industries: Officials of the division are frank to admit they are uncertain as to the future of unemployment benefits in Indiana. There has been no state in which a comparable system has been employed ex-. cept Wisconsin, whose experience has been observed closely in fore-

casting effects of the program in

Indiana. » ” ” . WO potential © problems ofprocedure ‘loom as the most formidable ' stumbling blocks in

the path of the Uneniployment ;

Compensation Law.

Both have been recognized by,

officials of the division. No adequate solution is seen for either. Only actual ‘experience with" the problems will test the safeguards set up to meet them. They are: ADJUDICATION of benefit claims arising during labor disputes. « FEDERAL control of state agencles which receive administrative funds through the Social Security Administration. The law provides no benefits be paid to persons:directly interested

radio

or participating An “labor difficulties which result in work stoppages. ; 2 8 8 T likewise adds penalties of four weeks in excess of the: normal

two-week delay before eligibles -

may receive benefits if discharged for cause or misconduct. Officials point out that-an employer, vexed. at -employees who

- failed to apbear at work because

of a picket line around His plant by some other group of workers, may charge the former class with “participating in” the strike and take legal steps to prevent payment of compensation. Likewise an employee may withhold his ; services contendng -his safety wo be endangered if he attempted to go to work even .though this may not be the case, Yet he may claim benefits because

- he was not concerned in the dis-

pute. The arbiters of opposing views in such applications for claims are the Boards of Review and Appeal and finally the State coups;

2.8 au

S with the Natit) Labof ¢

Relations Board, the reviewing authorities expect to ‘find themselves in. “hot water” between the alternate fires of union and employer attacks, depending. upon who is loser in the Board's decision. .Only actual experience can: determine whether attacks upon this phase of the unemployment com=pensation law will undermine the effectiveness of the program.

Labor hasbeen granted many

concessions in the. writing of the

law, exempting applicants. for .

: benefits from being forced to ac-"

cept jobs in struck plants, forc-" ing acceptance of work at lower than .prevailing wages. for ‘the trade and, finally, by effecting scrutiny of job’ offerings from the standpoint of the “fitness” of: the applicant to fill .the post. The employment registry - can-

. not force an employee to: join an

organization where he would: have to. become a member of a company union or resign membership in a bona fide labor organization. 2 ” 2 :

the same time the law has protected . the employer. against “sympathy” strikes, withholding benefits to employees who join such a movement. Ep oa

Another possible” danger of dif-. ficulty lies in the fact that administrative practices rest with the Social Security Board of the Federal Government which pays administrative costs of the State Act. Some Federal rules are in conflict with State laws.and possible . dispute between the agencies as the correct practices-may involve the efficacy of the whole program, some fear. - : There is the Department of Labor, which through the United States Employment Service, operates employment offices in Indiana. Here is possible conflict. For the State law demands registration with the local bureau in “the: event of application dor bene-'

; Which’ furid shall” Pay’ for each separate service is likely ‘to -be a heated question with the two agencies duplicating work.

Danger of administrative con-

flict is apparent in the event the “State and Federal Governments

i should be of opposite political

fans, each espousing its own

method of operating the ‘unemployment compensation system.

” 8 ” ATRONAGE fights between the Federal officials who lay down the administrative rules and the State administrators who carry them out, are seen by.some as another potential sore spot. Several labor, social and civic groups have been exerting pres= sure upon Congress to bring dual control of unemployment compensation under one, inclusive authority, removed from possible political or bureaucratic conflict. This would require revision of Federal and State statutes. Thus far no plan has been de-

veloped to co-ordinate functions: of thé Pederal and State bureaus Tf

under .one organization. ‘While shortages in the compensation fund are: notanticipated, the solution in such a case is expected to be a reduction of weekly benefits, increases in waiting periods, raising the rate of contribution or eligibility requirements or requiring employees to _con-. tribute for a périod.

Insular Title Claims Recall

U. S.-British Disputes

By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, March’ 11. — : The United States has formally laid claim to two small Pacific islands which have been labeled on most maps as British. ; ‘The new islands claimed by the United States would seem to have value, if any, as defensive aids to Hawaii. It is hard to understand how they could be needed as offensive posts. They lie no nearer the mainland of Japan than , does Hawaii, and not so near as Guam and Wake Island. Nor are they so mear Australia and New Zealand as is Samoa. Another island in the mid-Pacific claimed by both Britain and the United States is Christmas Island. This lies nearer Hawaii than do the new islands claimed. Perhaps the British youlg: ‘be . willing to give up one claim if the other were @ac-

cepted. ht a Slope should now arise between London and Washington as oie Yespective Jisiiorial ‘rights, it

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J asper—By Frank Owen

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Side Glances—By Clark

NE

boundary of Maine,

when the United States bought the Louisiana Territory.

the War of 1812, the British demanded that the United States cede certain .territory all along the Canadian border. The American delegates, of course, were deaf to the demand. As the negotiations dragged on, the British forces were defeated at Baltimore, at Plattsburg, and at Pt. Erie; and the British delegates finally decided to forego demands for territory. -For a period the dispute with Great Britain on cwnership of the Oregon territory was serious. A system of joint occupancy was ‘worked out, but proved unsatisfactory. Under President Polk, the

latitude of 49 Gegrees | as the boundary. : :

A WOMAN’ S EW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

pass when a man’s interest in

| his wife is figured on a percentage ‘{hasis. And that’s what William |

Moulton Marston, the psychologist, has done. He is authority for the statement that there are 26 million

| wives in the United States and that

only one million of these are -gainfully employed. The other 25 million, he says, are in a terrible dither hecause their husbands pay them so little attention.

numbers and adds up to : 81

| per cent of wife-supporting hus-

| bands put 75 per cent of themselves

into their work, 17 per cent into

| their amusements and 3 per cent

into routine activities, which leaves

'{enly 5 per cent for loving the wife and children.

This, Dr. Marston warns, is a

; dangerous state of affairs and some-

thing drastic should .be done to

| bring ‘the nation back to normalcy. | | Twenty-five million women second {ame motion ie oe i ; e can’t le e matter drop}: "| however, until one point is cleared : ;

selves. older I get the less I can bring myself to believe that

will not be the first time. Almost as soon as the Revolution was over, the two countries disagreed on the

Boundaries were indefinite also

When peace was broached during

United States finally: accepted the:

HINGS have come to a pretty

« It’s all been figured out in round

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Time Has Brought a Change in Tour Columnist's Opinion of Artists As Well as His Definition of Art.

; J GUESS of all the people in Indianapolis I

am the one least qualified to say anything about the Indiana Artists’ Show now on view at the Herron Art Institute. For two rea-

“sons: (1) Because my definition of art is so

disgustingly simple, and (2) because my opinion of artists is even more so. : "+ I- suspect my definition of art is a sign of old age. As one grows older one simplifies everything, including even such a complicated thing as art. At any

| rate, I still remember that art was

a terribly. involved affair when 1

-was a kid, consisting mostly of my .

trying to keep up with - the connoisseurs and critics in the hope that, :maybe, I could Pattern. my

} ‘taste after theirs.

Well, I've gotten over that. As

| a matter of fact, I've now reached

the point where I haven't any use for the connoisseurs. In literature, in art, in life, I think the only con- np. Scherrer - own conclusions. If they fit in with those of the critics, so much the better for the critics. If they

‘clusions worth coming to are my

don’t, so much the better for me.

“All right, that brings me to what I wanted to say

: in the first place, namely, that I have now reached

the station in life where one measures a work of art by the amount of pleasure it gives him.. By the same -token, my definition of art excludes anything (and everything) that doesn’t delight me. Indeed, I've ‘got it worked out now that my delight and my dis gust are the determining factors whether a thing is ga. Work of art or not. It’s as simple as that. opinion of artists’ is- even simpler. For one shiny I haven't the high opinion artists have of them« It’s another sign of my years, because the

the term “artist” * Delongs, only to those. practicing the

% so-called “fine” ‘Good Masons Are Artists

. It is an abnormal. condition of things wherels, we differentiate between ordinary workmen and artists. In a normal human society a good mason. is as much of an artist as a sculptor of ‘images, for instance. In’ a different way, of course, but none the less an artist. :Indeed, to my way of thinking even a photographer may be an artis. To tell the truth, I've seen a ‘lot of photographs lately that come a darn sight closer to being art than paintings I could mention, I don’t want to put too fine a point on all this, but I don’t want .to dismiss it without saying that the sooner we consider artists as workmen, with the responsibilities imposed upon workmen, the better it will be for everybody. concerned, including the artists themselves. Well, fortified with my opinion of artists and my definition of art..I went to have a look at the Ine diana Artists’ Show. It turned out to be pretty. good —better than I expected, as a matter of fact—leav~ ing me no alternative but to believe that the judges this year were pretty good, too. The only suggestion I have to offer is that it might have been a lot better

-show had the judges excluded the pictures that dis-

gusted me,

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Jane ' Jordan—

Sisfor Can't Expect to Hide You From Boys, Jane Tells Girl, 16.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 20 years old and en gaged to.a girl of 22. The difference in our ages is not a hindrance but an asset for it has proved to me the difference between love and infatuation. We have gone together a year and it seemed to me that our relationship had reached a fineness second only to heaven, but now everything is in a muddle. Shortly after we had started going together I went to a ban-

L.quet in another town with a group of men. -After the

banquet the group split up. One bunch had a wild evening. The other waited until they returned and we all came home together. A person whom I cone sidered a good friend of mine told my girl of this night, but included me with the ones who had had a wild time. She told me this on the condition that I would say nothing to my friend as she had promised not to tell me. I denied the story of course and asked her to trust me. She said she did trust me and did not believe the story, but she has changed. She is reserved and distant. This is like a plate-glass wine dow between us. We can see through it yet it separates us. I know she tries to believe me, but circume stances are against mé and she isn’t to blame whatever she thinks. I want her love and respect more than anything in the world. I want her for my wite if she will accept me. Please help me. DESPONDENT. Answer—The young lady = in the wrong—not you. There is no reason for you to feel so apologetic for something you didn’t do. When you patiently explained the circumstance to her and oifered to face your mis-chief-making friend with the facts, you cid all you could do. If she persists in brooding over the lies she has heard, your cue is to show indignation and anger, Don’t be.so humble, You can’t afford to let the young Tady get the upper hand in this manner. She'll lead you a dog's

+ life ‘with. her gullibility toward gossip and her .sus-

picious nature. She has made you fear you are going

1 to lose her. ‘ It is up to you to reverse the situation and let her fear that she is going to lose you because

of this injustice. Although you are two years younger than she, you must learn to gain the mastery over her or the young woman will forsake you for someone

who can. - Ww s

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 16 I met a boy several months ago at a relative’s house and later at another: place where I enjoy going. He has not been there for the-last few weeks. Meanwhile I met his boy friend who seemed to show a great deal of interest in me. He promised to meet me last week but did not show up. My girl friend and I would like“these boys to come over but they

_ would have to go to my friend’s house for I live with

my sister who forbids me to have dates. When we see them next time would it be all right to ask them

. to come over? Am I justified in doing this against

my sister’s wishes? . "MARGARET. Answer—Your sister can’t hide vou from boys.

“You're bound to meet them at: school and at the home of friends even if they can’t come to’

your house. However, I wo! ldn’t waste two minutes’ time on a boy who forgot f and didn’t care

enough to explain his absence. It indicates a very |

weak interest in you which you won't increase by trye ‘ing to make the dates yourself. : ™ JANE JORDAN.

Put, your problems in 4 Teller fa dane Jordan, who wil

". answer your uestions 1n this Soin 4