Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1938 — Page 15

agabon From, Indiana = Ernie Pyle

: 21-Year-Old Olivia de Havilland's Beauty Nearly Floors Ernie, but He Manages to Get an Interview.

J OLLYWOOD, March 17.—When' I went to meet Olivia de Havilland at. Warner's studio late one afternoon, I was 25 minutes late getting there. But she was half an how late.

So when I walked into the room she said: “I'm sorry I. was late. How long have you been here?” And I said “Oh, just a couple of minutes.” Then she said: “Oh, so you were late, were. you? What do you mean by being late = and keeping me waiting like this? I've been Siting here waiting for hours.” I thought it was swell of her to break the ice and start off like that, and if I'd had any sense we could have gone on from there and had a witty conversation. But Olivia de Havilland is so beautiful I couldn't do anything but stand and stare ~¥: at her. : She: is only 21, and if you're pretty at all you can be awfully Mr. Pyle pretty at 21. She is alive and exuberant, and enjoys living. She had on a big fur coat and was bareheaded, with her keautiful reddish-brown hair flowing around. She seems to me more genuinely interested in things other than herself than most people in Hollywood. She apparently-reads a lot, for I discovered in our conversation that she Knew considerable about the early missionaries to Hawaii, ahd about the leper colony, too. And she has a good layman’s knowledge of archeology. . She never went beyond high school, either. I've found that very few of Hollywood’s real successes have gone beyond high school. Which makes me feel mighty good that I don’t have a college degree to hide: > the closet. Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, where her father was a businessman and still is. But Mrs. de

Hzvilland and her two baby girls came back to the

States when Olivia was 2%; ‘years old. Qlivia’s sister, younger than she, is in the movies, too, under the name of Joan Fontaine. I happened to me ot her on a previous visit to Hollywood, and mentioned it to Olivia. She looked dramatic-like at the ceiling, and closed her lips, and .then said: “We have a Solem pact never to mention each other's name in publie.”

Olivia In Movies First

= The point is that neither wants to lean an the success. of the cther. Olivia started in the movies first, and as far as I know she’s still ahead of Joan. The two girls live with their mother in a small eo age in Hollywood. “We have a lot of fun,” said Olivia. ~ She seldom goes out with men, although the columnists are always trying to give her a “real love” of some kind. 3 Ordinarily she goes with older people. The Basil Rathbones often take her with them. She is a sort of protege of theirs. Also, she goes to parties with a man and his wife in Warner's publicity department. She figures the “love” business like this, they tell If she had gone on through college she probwould not have married before she was 25. So, since she went into the movies instead, why should that make her marry any earlier? Personally I can’t think of gny reason, outside of myself, and I'm too old.

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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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College Should Aid Schoolchildren.

(Westbrook Pegler’s Column, Page 16)

CS ANGELES, Cal, Wednesday—At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the WPA State Administrator _ and various other officials called for me and we drove to the Fresno airport, which has been greatly improved by WPA labor. Under this program, some of the buildings have been moved and the administration building has been built. Then we drove through the park to see the artificial lake the WPA had constructed. Finally, we returned to the state college to see a projeét which had employed only a few people and which is now practically complete. It interested me greatly because I think it will mean much to the schoolchildren of this district. In a series of well-lighted cases running along a corridor, they have depicted a section of California from the coast, over the mountains and to the desert. In each, against backgrounds painted from actual scenes, the birds and animals of the region are shown. We reached the hotel about 6 p. m. and a number ‘of people came to call. After that I tried to write a few letters, but only succeeded in doing the absolutely necessary ones before it was time for dinner and the lecture.

Sees Flood Damage The gentleman who introduced me at the lecture had lost his house in the flood. He had built it only two years ago and I thought he accepted his loss very remarkably. Instead of bemoaning it, he said: “We regret the loss of things to which we had some sentimental attachment and which we cannot replace, but per ‘haps such things should happen to us lest we grow too soft.” Not many of us take our adversities in that spirit. 1 returned here on the first train to go through from Fresno to Los Angeles since the flood. We woke early this morning and saw we were going through an area which had evidently been hard hit. Steel bridges were destroyed as if they were made of paper and whole sections of the highway seemed to have been fundermitied.

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EF =r day the newspapermen in Washington— | |

special correspondents, columnists, representatives of press associations—send out news .of national affairs. Upon them the citizens of the United States depend for their facts about our government,

for interpretation of these facts, and, consequently, .

for their own reactions toward the complicated pat--tern of policies and legislation which have their source in Washington. LEO C. ROSTEN, emphasizing the importance of these newspapermen as molders of public’ opinion, has, in THE WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS (Harcourt), made a survey of this group. From their answers to two questionnaires and from repeated informal conferences, he has gathered data ‘concerning their professional attitudes, their economic and social status, their religious and’ political opinions, their relationship to their employers, their fellow workers, and he Washington politicians.

say Hans von Hertig, formerly

UNL HMENT, pum of penal law and criminology at the

Univers sy of Bonn-am-Rhein, is today still rooted in

the sup:rstitions from which it grew. And only, he | believes. when the theory of . punishment has ‘been .

rational’y examined and its methods evaluated, will db accor plish the ends which society has set for it. . PUNISHMENT; ITS ORIGIN, PURPOSE AND PSYCHOLOGY (London, Hodge) is one man’s‘ contributio: toward a sane approach to the problem of the offender against society. Tracing the evolution of the nov familiar forms of punishment, such as hanging, decapitation, imprisonment, fines, from the beliefs of primitive man concerning the world about . him and the world. beyond death, he points out how * muddlec the whole present day system has become. Now, he says, legal penalties serve neither to- protect society, to reform the criminal, nor to prevent crime. nea oi scientific consideration of . the criminal,” he will pave the way to a logical system of pen-

alties ancl their administration. His own conception

of @& rational System, of -courts and punishment in4 complete on. of the system and

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‘A Bill to Endanger Democracy’,

Military Committee Minority Flays May War Profits’ Measure

(Editorial, Page 16)

By Reps. Maury Maverick, C. A. Anderson and Paul Kvale

(D. Tex.)

(D. Mo.)

(F.-L. Minn.)

Members of House Military Affairs Committee in: their minority report on the “War Profits” Bill. | “HE so-called “War Profits” bill is unnecessary, full of pretense, a draft of human beings, and a serious danger to democracy. It does none of the things it says it does. © 1t takes absolutely no “profits out of war,” it “equalizes burdens of war” in no manner whatsoever; it does not

“promote peace.” things. :

Yet in its title.it claims to do all {hate

The bill is ‘in much worse form, and much more dangerous than any of the war-control bills heretofore pre-

sented. It is much more dangerous than the Shep-pard-Hill bill. / An honest title to this bill would be: “A bill to take the democracy out of

America upon the declara-

tion of war.” We fought one war to make this a land of democracy. We have fought five others.

” 2 2 HATEVER the -purpose of another war, it is evident the framers of this legislation believe the prosecution’ of it would be impossible except by setting up in advance a dictatorship unequaled in the history of the world. We call attention of our colleagues and the American people to the fact that in all-our previous wars, no such dictatorship was set up. Indeed, this is one of the most amazing bills ever conceived in Congress. It certainly 1s the most dangerqys. It is against the interests of business, of labor, and the veterans of all the wars America has fought. There is not a single phase of American life, a single endeavor —or a man, woman. or child in this nation who would not be directly affected immediately upon the operation of this proposed act. This bill: might be briefly analyzed as. having four principal features: (1) Excessive, unlimited arbitrary power vested in the President; (2) draft of all human beings at the will of the dictatorPresident; (3) no guarantee against profiteering; (4) no tax provisions whatever; therefore, no provisions that will remotely take the profits out of war. 2 8 = :

SHORT history of the bill follows: After the World War, veterans suggested the passage of a bill “to take the profits out of war.” Many hearings were held. Some of the big shots who favored the bill talked piously about it, but when confronted with a possibility of really eliminating war profits, they would oppose it, speaking of “initiative.” “Oh,” they would say, with a horzified look, “you can’t take all

the inducement to sell. war orders away from manufacturers : and producers”—and so .on.: The | McSwain bill ‘finally reached the floor of ' Congress. The draft provisions were beaten. The bill received vigorous opposition. all over the nation. defeat. : : FARA ® 2 . ” INALLY, to avert ‘defeat, a tax provision was included. It was not an effective one, biit at least it was in form where it could .be amended by the Senate. It never passed the Senate. Last year came the SheppardHill bill. It eliminated the draft of human beings, and it was somewhat softened in its features. In fact, the report of the SheppardHill bill claimed that it drafted no one, either for military or- civil service. But even with that claim, there were other features which in effect were believed to create a draft. It was considered a bad bill,

and never offered by the Military -

Affairs committee on the floor of Congress because of its obvious evils, and ‘because: of the serious opposition of the American people. This year came the war scare. The President, in his message to Congress, said a _ bill to take the . profits out of war should be enacted. But it might be here mentioned that this bill does not in any way follow .the President’s message, since it takes no profit out of war, : 8 ” o

N any event, a bill was introduced by Mr. May. Several amendments were made by the Committee, This bill, which is the second introduced by the chairman, is H. R. 9604, and is the final result. It is incomparably worse than the Sheppard-Hill bill. All of the very worst features taken out of the Sheppard-Hill bill, as well as the features soundly defeated and repudiated by Congress in the McSwain bill, are back in full force. If anything should) anger the American people, it is this bill. If there is such a thing as righteous wrath and indignation, the people should have it. This includes everyone—the veteran as well, who will’ be betrayed if such legislation is enacted.

Ten of Hoosier Delegation Of Revenue Bill ‘After Split

By E.R. R.

ASHINGTON, March 17. — Usually it is the U. S. Senate which really writes tax bills, notwithstanding the constitutional requirement that “all bills for raising revenues shall originate in the House of Representatives. Ordinarily, however, the lower house accepts without substantial change such revenue measures as are drafted by its Ways ‘and Means Committee, leaving the “rewrite” job to the Senate. And the upper house has not been loath to change, revise, delete and add. Upon one occasion, indeed, the Senate struck out all of a House revenue bill after the enacting clause and wrote its own measure, which the House subsequently accepted. The numerous roll call votes that marked House.passage of the Revenue Act of 1938 are of more than ordinary significance, because this year thé House has refused vo act simply as a rubber stamp‘ for the Ways and Means Committee, and has made important changes on its own account.

This does not mean, of course,

that the Senate will not . make

Side: Glances=Sy

further changes. Quite the reverse will be true, in all probability. » ” s HE two most important changes made in the revenue bill on the floor of the House were the elimination of the surtax on closely held corporations and an increase of 12% per .cent in the Federal tax on liquor, The surtax on closely-held corporations had been designed by the Administration to trap those who employ the corporate device to escape higher bracket surtaxation of their individual incomes. The. surtax would have been 20 per cent on such corporations earning more than $75,000 a year. The provision was deleted when it became parent that the surtax also suld apply to a great number of legitimate operating - corporations, the vote to eliminate showing the substantial majority of 234 yeas to 153 nays. Of the Hoosier delegation Reps. Schulte, Halleck, Farley, Griswold, Jenckes, Boehne, Gray, Larrabee and Ludlow voted for the amendment. Reps. Greenwood and

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As this report goes to press, cables from Tokyo show that. even the Japanese House of Representatives have mustered the.courage to rebel against a similar bill. The opposition in the Diet says that such legislation will suspend the rights of ‘the Representatives— and their duties to the people— and permit confiscation of private property.

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HESE Japanese further say it will mean the end of debate —and hence the people will know nothing of what is going on. The May military mobilization bill will

certainly mean just that. Debate

“Will no longer be necessary, for all power will be in the Execut ve. Reported out of committee only a few days, this bill already is receiving widespread condemnation ~ of the American press, liberal and conservative. The Philadelphia Record says with perfect accuracy “In Y ioe first place, the new bill,

Rep. Maury ‘Maverick

known as the May bill, doesiPs take the profits out of war. : “In’ the second place, after ducking the basic. issue, the bill goes on to reduce these United States to a dictatorship going far beyond anything we have ever tried or needed in our ‘greatest war emergencies.” The Record proceeds to tell us that the bill at least gives us an advance notion of the totalitarian conception—that the instructions for a future Congiess to tax are not binding, and merely constitute an evasion of duty. More, that without ‘any compensating features, it drafts men ‘for labor and waz. ” 2 »

HE Washington Post, a conservative Republican daily, refers to the fact that the Japanese Diet would not countenance such a law. This newspaper fur-

. ‘ther showed the similarities of the

two bills, the purposes being identical. The Scripps-Howard hewspapers

in House Vote in Favor on Amendments

Crowe voted against the amendment and Reb. Peftengil - was paired for it. A smashing majority—200 yeas to 96 nays—was recorded in favor of an additional tax on liquor. The new rate was fixed at $2.25 per proof gallon instead of $2. It is estimated that the higher tax will produce about $35,000,000 additional each year to make up for revenue lost through . elimination of. the “third basket” pr ion. Indiana Representatives voted as follows on the increased liquor levy: Reps. Schulte, Halleck, Farley, Griswold, Jenckes, Greenwood, Gray and Ludlow were recorded in favor of the additional tax. Reps. Boehne, Crowe and Larrabee voted against the measure, and Rep. Pettengill was not recorded.

” 2 8 : SHE last stand of those’ who op-

pose the pfinciple of taxing un-'

divided earnings at punitive rates

‘| was ‘made in a motion to recommit

the revenue bill: to the Ways: and Means Committee, with instructions to abandon the hotly opposed: levy

on undivided profils, and to substitute therefor the “normal-rate” system which prevailed prior to 1936. The motion to recommit was rejected, 94 yeas to 200 nays, and the bill

moved on to passage by almost precisely the same margin, 293 yeas to 97 nays.

; Boehne, Crowe, : Gray, and Ludlow voted “yea.” Rep. Halleck voted against the measure, and Rep. Pettengill was not re-. corded. Passage of - the pill in the House came almost exactly four months after the Ways and. Means Committee began to struggle with tax revision at the beginning of the! special session convened last Nov. 15. The bill still is far from final enactment. The Senate Finance Committee will begin to study it

‘next week, and if this: committee's

deliberations follow the customary course it will be several weeks at least before ‘the bill’ reaches the Senate floor. * And on the Senate floor anything can RSpper.

Josper=3y Frank: Owen

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refer to the bill as a “dangerous fraud,” saying that the bill will

. not prevent profiteering nor pro-

mote peace, and further that

“Congress is not justified In attempting to give such powers to Presidents not yet elected, to be used in wars not yet in sight, fought nobody knows where.” We can see no reason for this Congressional hari-kari, this selfstrangulation. The dangerous thing is the abandonment of duty by a legislative body, by an elected Congress. No court, Supreme or otherwise, can force Congress to do its duty. 8 2 8

T lies, then, in the conscience of

Congress to do its duty. It lies also in the conscience of the people to demand such obedience to duty. Nor should Congress be

guilty of enacting this tragic betrayal of the veteran, for surely

§ none of his hopes of taking the profits out of war are fulfilled.

The appeal against such legislation -is not merely to labor—to no special group as’ pointed out in the preliminary statement of this report. True, human lives and human labor, which can be confiscated by the will of a single individual, are in much greater danger than property. That is in the nature of things. But business property, the economic life of the nation are also subject to grave dangers—and undoubtedly business and property

| interests still desire representative On final passage of the revenue | bill Reps. Schulte, Farley, Gris- | wold, Jenckes, Greenwood, |

Larrabee |.

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government. ® 2 =» 5 ROM the idealism of American constitutional: democracy — this bill should receive the fighting opposition of every class in

America. In fact, this is one time

when every class in America can. combine’ to defeat a common menace. Any person of ordinary sense can see the danger of supine surrender to executive power. It is not fair to the constituents who elect us to represent them. To the President is given liter- . ally gigantic, imperial, dictatorial power ofsthe most extreme ‘kind. With such executive power an election of Representatives ‘would be a farce. Of such stuff are Hit--lers made, and liberties - of free people lost.

A WOMAN'S: VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EN so many ‘men are’ engaged in the business of mak-

ing war it is Pleasant to, ‘realize |.

that .we have a peacemaker’ among us—Mr. Gene Howe of makers whose movement to reinstate the mother-in-law in the good graces of family and nation is Worth" some sort’ of monument.

If his effort does nothing. more than stop bad jokes on the a

{ | it will have served a noble purpose.

Certainly ‘no one can dispute the

fact that these two-edged bits of

wit ‘have ‘stirred up something besides laughter. They have kept alive ng that no mother-in-law. is fit to live with; which is propaganda of the most. ‘dangerous kind.

* Remember back as far as 1914?

All of a sudden there was let loose a wave of scurrilous talk against

| resident - ‘Germans. Multitudes of

kind-hearted, well-behaved men and

‘| women who had been born in Ger-

many and yet had lived happily and worked hard in the United States

| were “attacked as menaces to com- ' | munity welfare: : Well, the American mother-in-law | :

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etm of the same ution — en malevolent and certainly: -Detsistent, to family peace. In spite of the fact that many women get along |

| with their ‘husbands’ mothers and |. | | that many mothers love their sons’

ad,

wives, the jokes went on. “Then along came Gene Howe |

‘and Mr. Perrot, the. janitor.

1 think of it was the way most school

reasonable or selfish.

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|Our Town

By Anton Schoirel

- Home-coming and St. Patrick's Day Are Responsible for a Column on School 7 ‘and Its Famous: Alumni.

OR fear of incurring the wrath of those readers less interested in Irish Hill than I am I have abstained for several weeks from all mention of the subject, but today, if only to wind it up, I must tell you what’ little I know about old School 7." It’s my, way of celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day. Old No. 7 was the brick’ school building on Bates St., between Benton and Concordia Sts. ‘As far as that . goes, it’s: still there. If was built in 1872 and, I guess, is one of . the. oldest school ‘buildings left around here. ‘When it got going good in the Eighties it ‘had 644 pupils distribu in 12 rooms. It works out a little better than 50 kids to a teacher. : . Nelson Yoke was the principal, He lived in a little house right on the place, which when you come {0 Mr. Scherrer janitors lived 50 years-ago. It had its advantages, too, because you knew where to look for the janitor when you needed him. Next to the pair of policemen on the beat, the school janitor was the most important man in the ward when I was a kid. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that the teachers of old No. 7 weren't pretty good, too. Miss Marsee (daughter of the doctor) was the baby-room teacher, anc I'll lay a wager today that, except for her, it wouldn’t have been possible to run the Marion County Court House—not as smoothly as it nas the last 20 years, anyway. That goes for the Police and Fire De= partments, too. Well, the reason I bring up old No. 7 (aside from the fact that it’s. Saint Patrick’s Day) is because they had a “home-coming” at the old school the other night, Unfortunately I wasn’t there, but Mrs. Johnson was and she told me all about it. She says she never saw so many celebrities in all her life, all graduates of No. 7, mind you—men like Mike Morrissey, for ine stance, and Otto Ray, and Father Patrick Griffin.

Recall Flag Dedication

They all made speeches, and Mrs. Johnson says she never felt so proud of anything in her life. The women did their part, too, she says. For example, there was Mrs. Frank Kattau looking as nice and young as ever,.and you never would have guessed that she is the mother of 12 children, every one of whom got the benefit of old No. 7. Well, with one thing and another, they got talking about old times, and nearly everybody recalled the day they dedicated the flag. Maybe you don’t know it, but No. 7 had the first flag of any school around here. They got it by way of a penny collection, and Mrs. Johnson remembers that on the day of the flag raising, Lillie Adam, as pretty a girl as the South Side ever had, sang the “Star-Spangled Banner.” When they heard her sing it that day, everybody on * Irish Hill knew that Miss Adam would end up as a great singer. Mrs. Johnson says the old building the. other night looked just the way it did when she went to school there. The only difference she noticed was that the

. north wall wasn’t grown over with ivy any more. The

big maples in the schoolyard were gone, too.

Jane. Jordan—

Believes Wife Has Right to Expect Home Away From Husband's Parents

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl in my late 20s and would like to ask you a few questions re<

garding marriage. Do you think a man should expect the girl he marries to live with his people and do you think he really cares for her if he refuses to marry her unless she lives with them? I have always firmly believed that every married couple would be happier and get along better if they lived away from their people. Am I wrong and selfish in thinking this? : WONDERING.

Answer—No. A man old enough to marry a girl in her late 20s is old enough to establish a home of his own. If he does not wish to do so.it indicates that he - either is financially inadequate or hasnt broken the emotional tie to his family. Either way ° he isn’t ready for marriage. Every woman who marries has a right to. expect a home of her own away from relatives on either side, : If her partaer is an adult, emotionally and financially responsible, he will not regard her expectations as un-

2 8 = EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a boy of 24 and am. going with a girl whom I love very much, I have a job where I work during the summer months only. She thought a lot of me all last summer and I didn’t show my love for her as I should have done. I stepped out on her a few times and have regretted it a thousand times since. Everyone thinks I am going to do her the same way when I get back to work this summer, but I know I won't. I would like to know what I can do or say to make her see that I really do love her. We have talked about getting married and I wonder if you think we know. enough about each other. We have had a few fights, but have never split up over them; so she surely thinks somee thing of me. Advise me the best you can. WORRIED.

Answer—Wait and see ee what the summer brings forth. On closer acquaintance you may change your mind. Any boy -in love with a girl instinctively knows what to do to please her. Fidelity is as convincing .as anything else. Promises to be faithful carry little weight. . When summer comes prove your sincerity by ‘your “behavior.

Note fo P. PF. F.—Never meddle with the affairs of others. You cannot stand between your friends and their experiences. No matter what follies your friend commits, it is still none of your business. Let him . alone, ‘His life is his own. He pays his own penalties, You ‘can’t save him. JANE JORDAN,

Put your problems in a letter fo Jane Jordan, who will

' answer your questions in this column daily.

/ Walter O'Keete— OLLYWOOD, March 17.—Uncle Sam has just been R. Selbraling national used car week, and as part the big didoes and doin’s he’s been making moune le piles of old cars and burning them up. Meane bi the New Deal is burning up the automobile ine American automobile owners would be much better. off right now if the finance companies would make a bonfire of those easy payment contracts. "Taxation ,on jie motorist works: out something like 35 Sone for the rst quartere

ails ary 5 cents for Sol tional quarter.

iene | Plan Artificial Geyer. By Science Service

AN FRANCISCO, March 17—A ihags: artiteint geyser, with a ites aber hallt to look like the po of Old: Faltafl ) in Yellowstone National Park, will be a feature of the ”» Golden