Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1938 — Page 11

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Fron Indiana — Ernie Pyle

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'"oad Closed’ Sign and Finally . ch ‘Rescued by Some Desert Mirages.

EATi VALLEY, Cal, March 29.—The | sign said “Road Closed.” We sat and looked a it for a long time. Finally a truck came through, and we waved it down. - ...He s=id: “Well, two cars started through day before yesterday. They must have got through ‘or we haven't heard frem them. But they .|say the vashouts are pretty bad.” . T'told the driver I couldn’t bear the thoughts of . being within 25 miles of Scotty’s famous place and not getting up there to write a piece about him. “Well,” the driver said, “if I was you I'd tackle it. - But don’t _ get hung up on the bottom.” So we started over. the “closed” . road, on to Death Valley Scotty's. - It was a gravel road, and although it lay on the. open floor of the broad valley it had been terribly: washed out by the recent floods. When we figured we were within RE 16 miles I said: Mr. Pyle “Now let's - time ourselves, so we'll know how long before dark ‘we'll: he: eto start back. ‘It’s just 1 ‘o'clock now.” . = And “said further: “No matter how bad it is, we can sur-ly make 16 miles in an hour and a half.”

“We ‘vere an hour doing the: first thtee miles. We were th ee hours going the next 10 feet. After that, nothing mattered much ‘anyhow. I built that road with my own hands for three I heaved rocks, dug rocks, carried rocks. With ay bleeding fingers I dug out boulders big as hou =s and tossed them far into the desert. Incl: by inch we progressed over those three miles. It-was a stiff up-pull all the way. The radiator and I boile i alternately. While it cooled, I built roads. By the time the car was cool, I'd be boiling over. + Lik# all good desert travelers we had no shovel, no extra « il, and exactly one pint of water for the radia-

. Such is the sublime confidence of fools.

tor ard me. I drank the water and threw the bottle -

. at the radiator. -

Finally we ‘accomplished three miles. And then -we came to something you could distinguish from the Gran Canyon only by the fact that it was in Cali-

.- forni: instead of Arizona. >

Fin: lly Reach Goal

a ‘Me construction work here consumed nearly half

an hour. We made 1 e third of the way across. At that point sma the millions just surged up 2 ound us: and we Es buried to the axles. The thing was hopeless, and permanent. It looked Hke 3 night under the stars in Death Valley. The charces of anyone coming -along were a million to ‘one, for the road was ‘closed.” == And. then suddenly -we were aware ‘that two’ cars ‘had come’ out of gowhere and pulled up at ‘the brink of the washout, behind- us. Some men got out, but I refused to speak to i for I knew they were optical illusions. . But miragés’or not, the men pushed, @nd dug, and threw rocks under the wheels, and pushed some more, and in a little while we were out. And so finaliy, late in the afternoon, we reached our goal. .Oily, dusty, sweaty, bleeding and weary— we pulled up in front of Death Valley Scotty’s fabiilous desert castle. A Filipino housgboy came out. “Is Scotty around?” J asked. The Boy replied: “N8. Scotty’s in Los Angeles. He won't be back for a week!”

My D lary

| uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt.

By Mrs. Eleanor” Roosevelt ‘Life at Warm Springs Is Quite a Contrast After the: Western Trip.

ARM SPRINGS, Ga., Monday.—Well, here I am at Warm Springs, surrounded by trees and It is really quite a con-

2s olute. peace; ‘and quiet. = st to the last few days and, now that I have: time to think, I nyust: go back and tell you a little about

‘those-days.. = | The drive from Spokane, Wash., to Moscow, the {heme of the University of Idaho, was most interesting. ITY 2 palouse country was a revelation to me. for I {had no idea this part of the country was such a great | producer of wheat, nor did I know of their custom of using a field one year and letting it lie fallow the next. © These tremendous rolling fields are now showlrg signs of'soil erosion and it is a comfort to know (the Government is working with the farmers on this IB oblem, which should be tackled before it gets any worse. | The university has a lovely campus with a view | © Joe mountains. I planted a little pative tree which I hope will do as well as the one planted by my His tree has | grown strong and straight and is worthy. of his | ;iemary.

After: my speech, .I had an opportunity to meet | some of the faculty and the heads of the various

| i | I

“‘omen’s organizations. Then we motored back to pokane through a much more wooded part of the

country, ine chiefly in the state of Idaho. Presi-

lent and Mrs. Harrison Dale, my hosts, were more

‘han kind and I was happy to have this ‘opportunity

| of meeting them.

Has Little Time in Chicago We were a little late for the plane, but I caught

| it. In Salt Lake City I found that the sleeper plane. out of San Francisco, which I was fo take, was

-ven later, In Chicago, our old friend, Mr. Louis Ruppel, and 1s two small boys waited to greet me. Unfortunately, here was little time for conversation, for I had to zet my bags-rechecked, file my column and make - ay plane for Atlanta, Ga. Good weather stayed with is until -just before we reached Atlanta, where it égan to rain. We were on time, however, and I vas perfectly delighted to ‘see Mrs. Scheider and my rother at the gleyiont. : ‘I feel “very far away from my Seattle ‘family, >ut. it is nice. to think that in such a short time

"|.one can cover so many miles and that my husband

vas glad to have the latest news.

New Books Today

Public Library, Presents—

WAS in the year 1645 hat Toll. Maaticos and his band of wild Irish soldiers. fought in the Scot‘ish mountains and glens for the martyr vant,

Charles ‘I. THE DARK ROSE, by Maurice Walsh | (Stokes), ds a stirring tale of these wild ‘times, told vith all-the charm and poetry of the Gaelic people, nd laid against a background of rare natural beauty. | istory comes alive as we read of mighty battles | aged and won, now by the wild, lawless Irish ‘band,

Li: and mow by the clever Scotch defenders. High ro-

is: there, too, in of

On the War. on Crime

the child was found murdered.

from :one state into anoéther.*

carryin outlaws as Machine Gun Kelly.

go undetected and unpunished because of the inability of the respective states to cope with criminals who could travel and communicate from state to state with great speed. Perhaps the one crime which . aroused public opinion to a realization of the outworn Federal penal

kidnaping of the child of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. That incident ‘was responsible for the immediate passage of a bill then

before that had little chance of

- passage—a bill making it a Federal offense to transport a kidnaped person from one state to another. In the summer @f 1933 other gangster crimes served further to emphasize the need for reform in

tage of its. constitutional enact crime. legislation’ based on the interstate commerce clause, the tax clause and the implied right of the Federal Government to protect its various agencies and instrumentalities.

partment of Justice and submitted to the 73d Congress a com-

few exceptions, and which has helped’ the Federal Government in its war on crime.

New Crime Laws

Among the most important of these are: 1. Amendments to the Federal

the death penalty in the event of injury to the victim, and creating a presumption that, if the victim

days, the victim had been taken from one state to another. 2. An act punishing: the trans-

form ‘of interstate communication. Prior to this, only the mailing of extortion notes was punishable. 3. A statute making it a Federal offense for a person to flee

prosecution for certain major es or to avoid testifying in ony cases. wo 4. A statute punishing transportation and receipt of stolen.goods in interstate commerce

tal in breaking up some of the

gaged in shipping stolen merchandise from one state to another. 5. An act punishing robbery of ' national banks with the death

"banks, but to members

and . procedural statute was the

pending in the Congress, which

legislation. The Congress decided | that it would have to take advan- | power to

There was drafted in the De-

prehensive program of crime leg-: islation, which was adopted with

kidnaping statute to provide for was not returned within seven

mission of extortion threats in any

from one state to another to avoid:

the

where the value is $5000 or more. This statute has been insirumen-

larger gangs which had been en-

Arie No. 6

: (On March 1, 1932 one year before Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration; the wold was shocked by the kidnaping of the baby son of America’s popular hero, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Two: months later

An outraged Congress hastily passed the so-called Lindbergh Law, making it a Federal. offense to. transport a kignaped. person

Nevertheless a wave ‘of kidnapings, bank roblieris and other big-money crimes rapidly developed. The Lifidbergh case remained unsolved. The crime wave became worse ‘as app repeal of the 18th Amendment cut off illicit revenue from liquor and drove gangsters into other pursuits. ‘Repeal came just at the end of 1933. The Federal Government reorganized the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of - Justice, and the’ “G-Men” ‘began to emerge as a national symbol of law enforcement. + At first’ the Government ‘agents were handicapped by. limited authority and equipment, especially by the restriction against g firearms. - Nevertheless, they tracked down: such major Some agents were killed. Then, on May 18, 1934, the President signed a bill remedying restrictions on the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. He. commented that “its vigilance has spread fear in the underworld. With additional resources, I am confident that it: will make still greater inroads upon organized crime.” Following is the President's own account, never before published, of the Federal war upon the gangs.) ak

had become evident by. the beginning of my. -Administration. that the Federal legal and administrative! machinery for the detection, prosecution and punishment of crime required complete overhauling. Crime control had traditionally, with few exceptions, been left to the various states and localities. mentalities, however, such as the automobile, the airplane, the telephone and telegraph had enabled many crimes to

New instru-

penalty where any person-is killed during the. robbery. - The statute is applicable not only to national of the Federal Reserve System and to all banks whose funds are insured

by the Federal Deposit ‘Insurance .

Corp. It has done much to reduce Be spiderie of bank robbery. A statute requiring registrahg of all machine guns and sawed-off shotguns and rifles. 7. An act making it a Federal offense to. assault or-kill Federal

: officers.

8. An act authorizing ‘agents of

the Department of Justice to .

carry firearms.

(Editor's Note—Dther statutes protected ‘certain industries against racketeering, ims proved criminal procedure in Federal courts, and permitted states to’ make crime prevention or law enforcement agreemenis among themselves. : Ea When these bills were signed, John Dillinger, America’s Public Enemy No. 1, was at large, having made his ail : break at Crown Point, Ind. the previous March. Under the new law the Federal agents got their guns, took them {to Chicago, and the

guns killed John Dillinger on -

the street in July, thus swiftly dramatizing the Govern--.ment’s new power. The Department of Justice also concentrated . on the Lindbergh case. In September, Jointly with New York City police and New Jersey State troopers, its agents captured Bruno : Richard Hauptmann,

( Contained i in an tlobized ilvidice , publication. of his. Hotes anil com- | ments to “The Public Papers and Ad drestes of Franklin’ D. Roosevelt” 3

A wave of Bajor crimes, beginning with thé kid-

naping of the. Lindbergh baby (inset) on March 1,

1932, Itd to passage of the so-called Lindbergh kid--naping law and reorganization of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation. By 1937 G-Men were so well Aargan=

ized that scores of notorious criminals had been wiped

" Lee Shaffer; ambushed in Bangor, Me., by G- Men, ? State and local police.

otit. Above, bodies of Al Brady, foreground, Indiana jewel robber and killer, and his lieutenant, Clarence

F. D. R. Sends Thanks, to Congress Annually

A Comment of President Roosevelt from His Forth-

(Editor's Note—The President wrote his enthusiastic thanks to the Speaker of he House of Representatives at the close of the session on Aug. 24, 1935, stating: “When a calm and fair review of the work of this Congress is made, it will be - called a historic session.” A similar letter was sent to the President of the Senate. It: carried out my annual custom of thanking the members or both Housés cof the Congress for their work during the year. . y : International Gopyelg ht Satan oi all HE ee nah (1910) “by Franklin. D. Roosevelt; Distrib- : uted by United Feature | yndi>

Side Glances—By Clark

RT a Ty

who was "executed for- the . crime the following year.)

Up-to-Date Machinery

In addition. to the legislative method of bringing the Federal Government's anticrime machin-

ery up to date, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been equipped with new facilities, men and funds, which have been used to make it as effective an instrumentality of crime detection and punishment as any of the similar in of the world." . The period of training for new agents was increased, and retraining courses for experienced agents ‘have. beeh conducted in order to keep them up to date on the developments' 2 crime. The fechnical laboratory of the Bureau has been expanded; the central fingerprint files have been developed and increased, as has the division devoted to the identification of eriminals. The other investigative units of the Government have also been developed and have served to help in the Government's war on crime—the Narcotic Unit, the Customs Unit, ‘the Secret Service

‘the Coast Guard, the Intelligence Unit of the Treasury Department,

the Immigration Border Pairol and the Postoffice Inspectors. Between 1934 and 1936 some of

the country’s most notorious crim--

inals were caught, and the major. gangs which had heen engaged in spectacular crimes of violence were dispersed and their ‘leaders

"were placed behind bars.

(Editor's Note—Among then: j were such men as Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, Two-Gun Crowley, Pretty Boy Floyd, and many others. Nearly 100 were accounted for: in 1935. alone.)

In the raeantime, attention Was:

being given to the development of the Federal prison system. New

peniftengiafios, a new classification improvements ‘in "the

system, parole system, extension ‘of the probation system, education and

improvement of personnel in the prisons and penitentiaries, ‘ang . elimination of all special privi-

leges: haVe brought the Iederal penal and correctional system in line with up-to-date standards,

Conference On Crime

While the Federal ‘machinery

for investigation, “prosecution ancl punishment of crime was being

- improved, it still remained obvious

that the problem of crime re. mained for the most part one with which’ the individual states must’ continue ‘to cope. About 90 per cent of all crimes, even now, come within . the jurisdiction of state and local authorities rather than within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. Realising, Jioweyer, : that the.

5 ‘ment, the Attorney. General,

F. D.R. Comments Aimed at Posterity, Editor Says

‘agencies whose activities had a . . definite relation. to the crime ! problem.

Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation looks on as the President signs the law. permitting interstate op-

; eration of G-Men, May 18, 1934.

Federal Government: can play an important part: in ctime control . through example and encouragein

. were invited 600 representatives’

' than any other one thing: in cen-

: tional} Copy ght

December, 1934, called a National Conference on Crime, to which

of Federal, state, territorial and local governments, as well as more than 75 . quasi-public and private .

(Editor's Note—In his address to the Crime Conference the President asked for “a structure which will tie together every crime-prevent-ing, law-enforcing agency” in America, and for an effort to interpret the problem of crime to the people. He said: “At one moment popviar resentment and anger may be roused by an outbreak of some . particular form of crime, such « « . as widespread bgnditry; or at another moment, of appalling kidnapings; or at another, of widespread drugpeddling; or at. another, of horrifying lynchings. . . . If is your positive duty to keep before the country the facts in resard to crime as a whole 9»

se 0 a

The conference lasted four days; and: while the tangible results can never be measured, ‘it did more

(1910 v Franklin Eh giro ed By nian” nD. Bn dtagan

NEXT—Disarmament and Peace.

' (The Indianapolis Times’ series of articles, “F. D. Rs Own Story of the New Deal,” is derived from

the ' Presidential notes ‘to official

documents published in the forth coming five-volume - “collection, “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” The purpose of these notes is revealed in the following extract from ‘the foreword to the books, written by Samuel I. Rosenman, who edited “and collated his Papers for publication.) :

By Samue] I. Resonman

~HE various documents included

in these volumes have been selected with the object of presenting the more significant written and oral utterances of the Chief Executive during this period—one of {ihe most impottant JAn American.

The Notes were prepared chiefly during fhe summer and fall of 1937,

J asper—By Frank Owen.

|A woman's view : By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

f land read that if men and women 1 | would only treat the home folks with

Pleasure cruise on a smooth ses of bliss.

| |T believe they know what they're {talking about. woman fight, physically or

tion,” is the verdict of one who has

‘| monial disputes. “It’s when they're {cold and indifferent and studiously ‘| polite to each other that I throw up : my hands and admit defeat.”

and the accomplishments are in most instances detailed: down to that period only. - It has been the desire to present within the limits of these volumes a chronological story, by Presidential utterances #nd by Presidential notes, of the more important events during these critical four years— years which will h as great effect upon the future history of America as any similar period of time. It is hoped that these books in the years to come will be a source of historical data about this significant period in history. If some of the notes seem to deal with subjects well known to read-

ers of today, it should be remem-.

bered that they are written not only for the present, but for those who in the future may seek to interpret the policies of President Roosevelt from his public utterances and acts, and from his comments with respect to them.

“HERE exists a popular theory : that politeness in the home is |, the best preservative of love and | harmony.” Day after day we hear

the same courtesy they show friends and strangers, marriage would be a

. Several judges say otherwise, and “AS. ong as a man and verbally, there's hope for reconcilia- |

spent many years settling’ matri-

Deesn’t common sense approve

every way. A woman with a good disposition

who may behave beautifully to al

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

State Library Gets Another Good Collection in the ‘Reproductions "of the Drawings Made by Lesueur,

I DON'T know whether you know it or not, but the folks over in the ‘State Library “keep right on making good investments—at a time, too, when everybody else is losing his shirt. ‘The latest thing they’ ve picked up, and salted away in the vault of the William Henry Smith Memorial, is a collection of 50 reproductions of draw“ings made by Charles Alexandre Lesueur during his stay. in America (1816-37). It’s the

(copy that used to be in the collec:

tion of George S. Wickersham, the gentleman who served President Taft as Attorney General—the same gentleman, too, who wrote the Wickersham’ report which was sup‘posed to clear up prohibition. I don’t know what Mr. Wickersham knew about prohibition, but he certainly had a keen eye for a good book, ‘Charles Alexandre. Lesueur,. you may recall, was a vital part of the New Harmony exe periment. He was born in Le Havre, France, in 1778, just nine years after Napoleon. When he was 9 years old, he entered the Royal Military Academy, and stayed there until he was 19. Four years later, he joined a scientific’ expedition sent by order of the First Consul to explore the coast of Australia. :

Lesueur took the downfall ‘of Napoleon pretty hard. Hard enough, anyway, to welcome the. opportunity to become the traveling companion of William Ma‘clure, a wealthy philanthropist and amateur geologist “with whom he left France in_.1815. After a survey of the West Indies, they Jeachtn Ne New York in 1816, proceeded to Philadelphia, and alm immediately set out on’ a tour of the interior. t’s. when he started his collection of American sketches. . From 1817 to 1825, Lesueur was curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. In the meantime, Maclure had become interested in Robert Owen’s projected community in New Har mony, Ind, and in 1825 Lesueur yielded ta his persuasion and joined the venture. By the keel "boat Philanthropist from Pittsburgh, on which Thomas Say, Gerard Troost, Robert Owen, the founder, and his son Robert Dale Owen were fellow passengers, the two arrived in New Harmony in January, 1826. It was the famous ‘“Boatload of Knowledge.” ¥

Sketched During Vacations

. Lesueur spent the next 12 years teaching drawing in the community school. In vacation time he sketched everything he saw; as far south as New Orleans. uring his stay in New Harmony he also made the engravings for Say’s important works on conchology, and while I'm on the subject I can’t do better than recommend a first-rate article. “The American Conchology: A Venture in Backwoods - Book Printing,” by R. E. Banta of Crawfordsville. If appeared recently in-the:Colophon (New Series, No, 1, Vol. IID. ‘. In 1837, the gradual decline of the New Harmony “community, his loneliness since the death of Say in 1834, and a warning that ‘if he stayed away any longer he might lose his meager pension, decided Lesueur to return to France. He spent the next eight years in Paris working on manuscripts. In 1845, at / the age of 67, he was called to Havre to become direc tor of the newly founded Mussum of Natural History, and the last two years of his life were thus spent: in his native city. ‘ His death moved Agassiz to ‘say that, next to him= self, Lesueur was the best ichthyologist. : :

Jane Jordan—

Informality Should Characterize Announcement of Secret Marriage,

DE: JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 20. Two ; years ago I was married but my marriage has been kept a secret. Only my family and my hus- ' band’s family know about oun marriage. This sum.mer we would like to announce it. I would like to know if we should have a reception, or merely an« nounce it without a reception. PUZZLED. ’

Mr. Scherrer

rewer-1t you wish to announce your marriage at a party of your intimate friends, it is in perfectly good taste. A large reception or formal announcements two yeals ; after the event is something of an anticlimax. ce your wedding was so- informal, let your announcement be informal, too. - 3 s 8 EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been a widow for four years and am of a very lonesome disposition. I have had a few men friends, some of whom I liked very much. Recently I have met one who, 1 am sorry to say, is a married man; but he says that his wife is a constant nagger and that he won't stay with her. He is here in my home town and-she is in another. He pays me the highest respect a gentleman should, but says that we should not see each other very often. Still on Saturday nights or on the evenings of his pay day he is seen with another girl. If I happen to talk with him he always says he will see me soon but always makes excuses for the present time.. He says he enjoys my company very much. Would you just let things go on and make our evenings enjoyable, showing him that I think a great deal of him, or should I tell him that I know about the other girl and see if I can’t win him over. Of " course I am not thinking of marriage; but I figured " that as he goes with others, it might as well be me as.long as he treats me with respect. Surely no harm + could | come from our meetings, but please advise me, LONESOME ME,

Answer—If you thought you were worth a better man you could get one. Your whole attitude reveals that you do not expect a man to assume any responsibility where you are concerned. You ask only for ‘his Solany. to attract a dissatisfied married man. The: died that he has » wife absolves him from responsibility ‘Where another woman is concerned. It is not so easy to attract a man free to marry and able to assume both social and financial responsibility for a partnership. The woman discouraged about her own worth won't make the effort for such a man because she fears failure.

‘Note to Wondering, the “the girl who wants to finish er senior year in high school against her father’s es—Will you please send me your name and address? I have something encouraging to tell Jou which 3 1 de not wish to publis lish. . JANE JORDAN

ns in a letter to Jane Jordan, ‘whe will