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“rom Indiana— Ernie Pyle : “Ernie Stops for Lunch on the Rim / Of Death Valley and Finds a Pair
Of Well Educated Clif Dwellers.
"SATH VALLEY; Cal, March 24.—On Your California road maps you will see a plece called Cave Springs. Yet when you get there you find it is not a town. It is not even a country postoffice.
It i- justa private home, with two people in it. “t's on the.map because it’s the only house In a Ee! ‘ch ‘of 140 miles.” =~ /rs, Ira Sweetman and her cousin, Adrian Egbert, . live there. It is 60 ‘miles to a store in one direction, 80 miles in the other. Either way, it’s all desert. There are no phone poles, no cul--verts. Sometimes you can hardly tell where the dirt road is. Mrs. Sweetman and . Mr. Egbert live in this bare, out-of-the-way place completely by choice. They don’t have to raise anything, or scratch for a living. They are simply retired. : . They are getting along in years “(between 65 and 70, I'd say), but . Pyle theyre alive and enthusiastic, they’re well-to-do in a modest way, they have every comfort, and theyre on the desert: beceuse they like it. They live in a fascinating place. They're in a gap in the mountains, 3600 feet high. From their door you look down into fabulous Death Valley, below sea: level. At night you can see a campfire 55 miles away on the valley floor. Their home is perched on the south rim of Death Valley. And on the north'rim, 130 miles away, is the
. isolated castle of Death Valley Scotty.
The Sweetman-Egbert menage has none of the fame of Scotty’s castle. And yet it is just as isolated, and just as unusual,-t00. For while Scotty lives in an in congruously lavish balace, they live mostly in caves!’ I know, it will he hard: for. you to think of desert cave-ciwellers as being sane,-intelligent, educated peo-
. ple. Eut try to take my word for it, because it’s true.
You wouldn't know Mrs. Sweetman or Mr. Egbert from = couple of good Indiana neighbors. ’ - We drew up at Cave Spring just at noon, after the 60-milc pull from Barstow. I knocked at the door, and asked Mrs. Sweetman if she could furnish us a bite of lunch.
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“Why, yes,” she said. “Come right on in. This is Mr. Zgbert.” I look a sight. Sit down and make yourselves at home. We're just getting ready to have a bite ourselves.” - So they put on anotner can of chile con carne, and got oul a special bunch of celery, and pretty soon we were all around the kitchen table, eating sausages and yams and chile and coffee and a dish of figs, just like old times. We :tayed. three hours, and they showed us all through their amazing place, and got out old lstters and pictures, and we talked and talked. Mrs. Sweetman and Mr. Egbert have both been around. Mrs. Sweetman first saw daylight in Richmond, “a. But when she was 10 she migrated with her parcats to the Black Hills of South Dakota. Mrs. Sweetman has been a widow for 20 or 30 years. For several years she” was postmistress at Daggett, Cal., on ‘he Mojave Desert. She and her cousin came to Cave : Springs 14 years ago.
“Mv Diary
By M: s. Eleanor Roosevelt
Visits Seattle Woman: Who Has 44 Scrapbooks on the First Family.
EATT BE, Wednesday.—We spent a rather long luncheon hour yesterday at the practice house where, for the past month, the WPA and NYA have been conducting their training school for household workers. The luncheon was well cooked and well served. The house has about the average equipment of a home in this vicinity where one maid would be employec. Though they have only been operating a month, two girls have already been placed in domestic employment. I had the opportunity of ‘talking with the girls and they asked me questions which are probably very similar to those in the minds of many of the workers on these projects. Evidently, in this part of the country, most. people want their maids to live in the home where they are employed. One young girl told m= she had a father and a mother to support who were not very well and she had to be home at night. Therefore, did I think she would be able. to obtain employment? f course, there must be people’ here who have no maid’s room and still need the services of a maid for a part of the day. If, through her training, this girl can become so expert that in an eight-hour day she can do more than the average untrained girl, I feel sure that she will find employment. There is always room for work which is exceptionally good. A woman, who evidently has a family at home, asked about the possibility of obtaining work in some special lines. I think the same answer applies to her. If you clean well and quickly, or can fill in when the regular maid is out, you can build up work on an hourly basis.
Law Limits Hours of Labor
‘The State of Washington has passed a law limiting ‘the hours o! household workers: to 60 hours a week. On these projects, therefore, they have something
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- definite to do in trying to work out a satisfactory + schedule of hours for the ordinary household. -
On the s7ay home we stopped to see Mrs. Usher, who calls herself “The Scrapbook Lady.” She ‘certainly has 2 passion for collecting and I know my husband would sympathize with her. She lives in an -- apartment. with her five boys and I wonder what is going. to happen if she keeps on collecting. Forty-four scrapbooks, filled with clippings-and pictures of the Roosevelts, are already completed and I think the day
will come when it will be a question of the scrap-
books filling the apartment or the Usher family moving out, I have often feli-the same way about my . husband’s naval collection, so perhaps 1 am: unduly apprehensive.
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Article No, 2
On the Meetings With Hoover
Editor’s Introductory Note
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, , was elected President of the United States on Nov. 8, 1932,:but under the law did not take office until Inauguration Day, March 4, 1933.
ernor and became legally a private citizen. During that interim the great depression, already at its most intense stage, plunged with fearful rapidity toward complete collapse and national disaster.
Hoover addressed a long telegram to President-elect ‘Rogsevelt at Albany. In this message, he reported the requests of foreign’ governments for suspension of their war debt payments, ‘the first: to come due since the Hoover moratorium. Congress had refused to consider any
debts. Mr. Hoover described the relationship of this. question®to the forthcoming world economic and disarmament conferences, and said: “Any negatiation , .", is limited by the resolution of the Congress, and if therq is to be any change in the attit will be greatly affected by the views
{of those members ‘Who recognize you
as their leader: ....’I am loath to proceed with recommendations to the Congress until I an have an
sonally. ...”
He invited the President-elect with “any of ‘the .Demoeratic Congressional leaders” to visit the White House the next week. we Roosevelt accepted on Nov. suggesting that they “make this em wholly informal and personal,” and remarking, *, in the last analysis, the immediate question raised by the British, French and other notes creates ga responsibility which rests upon those now vested with executive and legislative authority.”
The meeting took place. Anqther month elapsed, during which the war debt matter . was. temporarily settled on the date, .- Dec. 15. Then, on Dec. 17, President Hoover addressed another telegram to Governor Roosevelt. In this he expressed the; view that “the economic situation inkforeign countries is one of the dominant depressants of prices and employment in the United States,” and that the World Economic Conference should assemble as soon as possible because of its “possible great helpfulness to employment and agricultural prices and general restoration of conficence.” Citing the “urgency of the situation,” he asked the Presidentelect to join with him in selecting a delegation to the conference.
In reply, on Dec. 19, Mr. Roosevelt expressed agreement with Mr. Hoover's objectives, but declined to Join in ‘the naming. of delegates. He said: “I think you will recognize that it would be-unwise for me to accept an apparent joint responsibility with” you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority.”
On Dec. 20 Mr. Hcover again addressed Mr. Roosevelt, reiterating his request for joint action in setting up machinery to deal with the three international problems of debts, disarmament and the eco-
nomic conference. . This time he
| suggested the designation of Owen
D. Xoung, Col, House, “or any other men of your party possessed of your views and your confidence” to sit in during the discussions.
sponsibility, stating that" such action “might well be construed by the debtor or. other nations . . . as a commitment—moral even though not legal, as- to policies and course of action.” He offered, however, to consult with the President freely and expressed the wish that he be kept advised of the progress of the preliminary discussions regarding the ‘World Economic Conference.
Other President and President-elect followed. Meanwhile the crisis of the depression was reached, striking first at tie nation’s banks. An at-
On. Dec. 31, 1932, he compléted his term as Gov-
On Nov. 12, President Herbert
cancellation or ‘reduction of the
e- of ‘the Congress it
opportunity to confer with you per-.
‘pally in relation to the
In his reply, dated Dec. of Mr. Roosevelt. again” declined joint re-
meetings between the
Above—President-elect Roosevelt shows. anziety. and riet. as’ he!
alights from his automobile at Jackson Hospital, Miami, Fla. to call
on dying Mayor Cermak, after the attempted assassination. ~~}
Upper right—President-elect Roosevelt, indicated by arrow, arfives’
in Washington Jan. 19; 1933, to confer with President Hoover. - Right—President-elect Roosevelt, right, riding with retiring Presi-
dent Hoover to the inaugural ceremonies in Washington March 4, 1933. were at that time in a position to
tempt was ade upon ‘Mr. Roosevelt’s life in Miami. On March 4, a Saturday, Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated and simultaneously Governor Lehman of New York closed the banks of that State. The zero hour for the country’s economic structure had been reached. A Following is President Roosevelt's own account of these dramatic events, written by himself for the forthcoming books, “The Public Papers and Addresses of Frankim D. Roosevelt.” :
First Conference
N Nov. 17, 1932, I telephoned President Hoover in response to his letter to me of Nov. 12 that: I would visit him at the White House on-Nov. 22 for the purpose mentioned’ in his letter. This conference took place on that -date. The President repeated to me in greater detail what he had already. written. Little discussion took place, as the principal objective of this meeting was ta put me in touch with the current international economic situation, partly in relation: to foreign government ‘debts owetl to.the United States Government, but - princi- : international monetary problem. Domestic matters were not discussed, and on the subject of foreign debts no tangible suggestion was : forthcoming. It will be remembered that the Congress had already: declined to authorize Executive negotiation of debt settlements and that the Congress
‘elected in ‘1930 was still in of-
fice. I remained in Warm Springs until Dec. 6, 1932, when I returned to Albany. Between Dec. 17 and Dec. 21, there was further correspondence between President Hoover and myself. It will ‘be seen from my letter of Dec. 19 that I.wholly agreed with President Hoover's policy toward disarmament; that I wholly approved preliminary conversations’' by the Chief: Executive to determine facts. and. explore possibilities relating to debts; and
» that in respect to the Economic Conference I felt that because the -
the Conference would not be held until long -after I came into of-
. fice, my hands should not be tied
by ‘preliminary limitations. Again, it will be noted that domestic matters form no part of the in- - terchange of letters in December. On Jan. 20, 1933, I again visited the White House, to confer with President Hoover. | At this meet
: ing the foreign debt situation was
again discussed. It seemed to be the thought of President Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Mills that a solution of the debt question would act as a principal cure for our domestic lls, that it ‘was: a necessary complement to the distant Economic Conference, ‘and that the debtor nations
make a substantial and: immediate settlement.
At no time did I discourage. the President from making the necessary. surveys and oO g practical proposals from other: hs. I. felt, however, that the world economic situation at that time would prevent any proposal to the United States which could possibly receive the approval of tHe Congress, and -that a wholly different line of action should be initiated placed on practical steps on a wide front at home, supplementing a broad domestic program with protection for the American
' dollar in -international exchange. ‘machinery
When the ' whole’ needed gveshauling, I felt it to be insufficient to two minor partS. i
Assassination Attempted
Thereafter I left for Warm , Springs and Muscle Shoals. On ° Peb. 4 I went on a vacation fishing trip, returning to Miami, Fla. " on Feb. 15. I there made a short informal talk, ‘This preceded the attempted. _ assassination, which resulted ' in - the fatal wounding of Mayor "Anton Cermak of Chicago. On Feb. 17 I returned to New York City and went to Hyde Park. i» On Feb, 21, Mr. william H. Woodin accepted the post of <Secretary of the Treasury in my Cabinet. Shortly thereafter he got in touch with Secretary of the ‘Treasury Ogden L. Mills and - was in daily contact with the Treasury and, through the Treas_ury, with the White House, every day thereafter until’ we both arrived in Washington on March 2.
Mr. Woodin telephoned to me .
several times each day, and we both concluded that the "banking situation throughout the nation was becoming so acute that only immediate and drastic measures could save the banks from having to close their own doors. Increasing lines of depositors were withdrawing their funds in gold or gold certificates.
A proposal was .made to give . authority to the Treasury to deposit Government funds directly in any bank—but the Treasury did not have sufficient funds to deposit.
Refuses Joint Statement
On my arrival in Washington on the evening of March-2,” Mr. ' Woodin told me of a suggestion: that the President and I should
join in a statement reiterating
confidence in the ‘fundamental
soundness -of American banks;
‘ and appealing’ to: depositors to stop withdrawing funds.
Many similar appeals and. state-
— the emphasis being :
repair. one or
* while I was who!
' however, on March 2; 1933, asked’ Mr. ‘Homer. 8. Cummings
FD. R's Own Story of # (rhe |
( Contained in an authorized. advance publication of his notes and comments to “The Public Papers and Addresses of Frontlin D. Roosevelt”)
ments—all to the effect that nothing was wrong with the country—had been made during pre-
ceding years. Again, I. felt that
strong, positive, definite action
8 should take the place of appeals.
" The following day, March 3, I visited the White’ House with my family to. pay official respects to
~ the President. After tea, a short
conference was held by me with President Hoover. Messages had been coming in all day, reporting that some banks had closed their
“doors, that some Governors were declaring moratoria, and «that . - more gold was being withdrawn.
8: by tele- -
‘Later in the evenin, phone, I told the ‘Pr oily - agreeable to his closing all . the banks by proclamation, I could not. as a private citizen, join him in such
: proclamation.I told the. President, However, -
that I believed that he had such
' authority under the rasie ‘With
the Enemy Act. I. und 2 that, while some of.the: nts advisers had told him that he could. do this, others had told him that it would not be legal. I had already asked Senator Thomas J.- Walsh, : who was to have become my Attorney General, to give me a rt on such Presidential authori re
As Senator Walsh died suddenly, I had
to become Attorney . General and had requested him for an ‘opinion. On the evening of 4, 1 received the. verbal - Jopinion of ‘the new. Attorney* General on which
- I based the-Presidential proclama- + tion signed during the night of
March 5-6, closing all ‘banks. During the whole ‘of ‘the day’
and evening of ‘March 3, Mr." Woodin was in conference with
Secretary of the: and was in complete touch’ ‘with the situation as it developed in every part of the country.
1t is well to remember that dur-
; ing ‘the trying days of January,
February and the first three days of March, prior to my inauguration, I was a private citizen wholly ‘without authority, express or implied.
The betes’ of the United
' ‘States was Démocratic by a. nar
2 CE ue 2h
daily relations between the Exec--utive and the Congress would have been not only improper. but wholly useless. i : Furthermore, it was abundantly : clear to me then,’and has become abundantly clear to. the country since that time, that appeals for confidence and minor. legislative changes could not during that pe-
riod stop a downward spiral and turn its course upward.
For the President-elect to dabble with superficial remedies
. would have been to impair. or
destroy the efficacy of the drastic, far-reaching actions which ‘were put into effect in the One Hundred Days immediately Tollowing March 4.- 3 ‘To attack ohe symptom by ok methods would have impaired the broad attack on a score of fronts which came later. No participation by me as a private citizen would have prevented the crisis; _such participation in details would have - hampered thorough-going ‘action’ under my own responsibility as President.
NEXT-—Roosevelt and the Bank ‘Holiday,
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Syndicate, Inc. F. D..R. EDITORIAL NOTES SPECIALLY PREPARED
The editor’s notes for this series of President Roosevelt's own: comments on the New Deal have been specially prepared for newspaper ‘publication. ~ They are ‘intended briefly to: state the situation for which each of the President's comments was : intended, and to show the Telationship, between them. "These editor's’ notes are ‘not taken from the President's fivevolume work, “The Public Papers ‘and * Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” but are original in the newspaper series. They were prepared by the managing editor and editorial staff’ of the United Feature - Syndicate, which is° distributing the series throughout the world,
"The five volumes themselves were edited and collated by Sam-
uel'I. Rosenman, who took no part
in arranging the material as it Time appear in The Indianapolis mes.
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and mercy, spending effort to.
A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :
individuals of our age “have so. much for ‘the’ unforrotting and the downtrodden as did
| Clarence Darrow, the famous lat
yer who died the other day. Regardless of race, color or creed ‘he fought to: obtain: for them justice himself in an .alive..the sense of
ility to ‘his nesker
communities this was held
‘ many him, for it was said that he Pl | gave encouragement to criminals in | their wickedness and that t h
him ghey were able to escape’. the
1aw's punishment. -
‘He was, I suppose, a visionary and
: a. dreamer. But aa noble dreams
1H geil
got done, any number of automobiles stopped at their door to tell “them it looked exactly like Mae West. Mae came
our trade, maybe somebody else does.”
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Along With Spring Come Puppies In. Pajamas, Lawn Mower Repairs And a Woman Selling Sassafras.
: MES: FREDERICK POLLEY remembered
to plant her sweet peas on St. Patrick’s Day. . . . Don Campbell tightened the bolts on his lawn mower last Sunday. .c. The
‘same day, too, with the temperature around
68 degrees F., the Washington Blvd: scene
revealed a pair of puppies wearing pajamas . . . And on Monday with the coming of spring, a woman sell ing sassafras roots invaded the Talbott St. zone which is where the Wilbur Peats now keep house .’. . Katrina Fertig got a crick in her back uncovering her peony plants last week. : Last Sunday, . too, Dr. (philosophy) Christopher Coleman unveiled Mae West. I'll have to explain that one a bit. The Colemans
have a mimosa tree in their garden,
and to protect it they wrapped it up in straw last winter. When they ; Mr. Scherrer
through the winter all right. I thought you ought to know. - Dr. (medicine) Frank Allen’s mint bed promises to be bigger and better (greener, too) than at any time since Calvin Coolidge’s death . . . And out in Irvington it looks as if Mary Forsyth’s crop of Waldmeister will be more than enough to make a hogshead of Maibowle. . . . Dr. (medicine) Daniel Layman spent the last three Sundays cataloging his fishing poles. Dr. (philosophy) Walter Bonns says the only way to get the water out of the plaster horse in front of the Herron is to fill it with alcohol. He says they won’t get anywhere waiting for a miracle to happen. . . . Harold Tolles says he has reason to believe that every year just about this time, a half dozen medicine companies start out from Indianapolis with their shows. All the properties, including the sevengallon Stetson hats, are bought right here, he says . Arthur L. Strauss, year in and year out, partakes of a vegetarian lunch composed of two legumes and a cut of pie. : Liver For Goldfish The other day, too, an automobile loaded with an out-of-town family parked in front of the War Memorial on the Michigan St. side. Pretty soon a cop canie along and told them to move on. “All right,” said the head of the family, “if this store don’t want A Central
Ave. butcher delivers an order of calf liver once a week to a lady living in the Marott Hotel. It's for
<the lady's goldfish. Digging still deeper I learned
that the fish are fed real for sure meat on Fridays. The Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch’s dog lies buried at his feet in Crown Hill. And a legend persists that a bet dog is buried in Dr. Sollis Runnel’s lot. . . . The tolling sound of Crown Hill's bell doesn’t come from the chapel as you have every reason to believe. It ‘comes from a bel on top of a high steel tower hidden in a grove of trees. . . . And speaking of bells, the one in the campanile of "Holy Rosary Church is inscribed with the names of its donors. Lew Shank used to say it was the most authoritative directory of
lochl statesmen ever published in Indianapolis.
Jane Jordan
An Automobile Is Not a Necessity For Courtship, Jane Advises Girl.
D® JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 16 going with a boy of 19. We both love each other, but the
' thing that worries me is his parents. I met this young
man at a friend’s house. I understand that his parents caused him and his previous sweetheart to split up because everywhere the young couple went the ‘parents tagged along, too, in the family car. Sunday is the only day I am allowed to go out. As a senior in high school my studies are so difficult that I am not allowed out on school nights. Sunday we would like to be alone instead of having his parents tagging along with us. I don't want to hurt their feelings or
feelings. What would you advise me to do? his felines 2 IN DISTRESS.
Answer—I wonder if the whole trouble doesn’t hinge on the car. Sunday is the only day you have for an outing together. Doubtless it is the only day the boy's parents have for an outing together. Neither of you can imagine a pleasurable day without an automobile. Neither wishes to deprive the other of the car. Therefore the obvious solution is for the four
of you to go together. In other words it -is love of the car that Holds the four of you fogether rather than any love of each other’s society. If the car belonged to the son you would have a right to complain at the presence of the parents each and every Sunday. But if the car belongs to the
T parents it would be pretty selfish of you to take it and
leave them sitting at Some, a Sato 2.0 joint ownership, every other Sun wo! Time was when a car wasn’t so important to courte . ship. Young people were content to take a walk in the country and even a streetcar ride was acceptable. Why don’t you plan a Sunday without’ the car? Perhaps your boy friend will be as reliev you are to be free from his parents for a day, put he has been led to believe that a boy -is persona non: grata to a girl without *a car. It is a problem to be frankly discussed between you. As long as you are fair to
the boy’s mother ‘and father you need not be afraid
to express your wish tobe alone with him sometimes. 2 aN
\EAR JANE JORDAN—Just how much. right does 3 Wothar have to sdviss bis sisies?) Raoaniiy Miriam has taken sm 5 EE terfer e 0. age; . 8 * WORRIED BROTHER,
Answer--No matter Tow 3 you “feel you aren't responsible for your sister, and so far as legal rights are concerned you: haven't a ieg to stand on. If you want to influence your sister you'll have to try more subtle means than the usual masculine ‘s of su-
* periority. The very fact “that you attempt to boss
your Sister ould le lead her to ely you: ‘and assert her own indepen Some gifls regard smoking an d drinking as a mark of maturity and feel that they Powerit to their prestige to do both, Most women respo to. flattery and affection ain her ‘to ios Jeet Help D yous Sister gain prestige ‘some. other way, don’t preach. .. JANE JORDAN.
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Walter O' Keefe:
: OLLYWOOD, gi March 24—The forgotten man