Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1938 — Page 9

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Vaga "From. Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Erdle Skips a Chance to Spend 3 Night in Scotty's Castle After] Learning It Would Cost Him $40.

8° ITTY’S CASTLE, Death Valley, Csl, March 80.—So Scotty’s in Los Angeles, and won't be back for a week! just dandy? 1t’s too late to go back over that same roac.. So I say to Walter, a cowboy who ‘has charge while Scotty is away: “Can you put us up for the night?”

*S ure,” says Walter, “we’ll put you up for $40 I don’t say anything. I!

apiece.” guess Walter thinks I'm going to pass out on him, for he goes on quickly: “We had ‘to put the price up

s0 high to keep people from stay- ’

ing. Last year so many people stayed that the hotels down in the valley got to complaining.”

“So you wont'let us stay all

‘night then?” “For $40 apiece,” says Walter. He was serious.

M Pyle I could. And I'm not going back over that road. Where can we stay?” “w n, there's a dirt road into Nevada that isn’t 50 ba ” Walter says. “It's 27 miles to pavement, and "miles to Beatty. There's a good hotel there,” “OVX.” I said. “At least now that we're here we can go through the castle, can’t. we?” “It' cost you $1.10 apiece,” says Walter. “0, X.” says I. “Let's go.” : Wa ‘er took us through the castle, but I'll wait till Yor orrow to tell you about that. Today I want to giveyou my impression (as the impersonators say) of the reasons behind this $2,000,000 castle stuck out here ir the desert sands. The public-at-large believes that Scotty is an eccenir'c desert rat who has some .mysterious and : unlimitd sources of money. Act ally, people tell me, Scotty isn’t eccentric at all. Most everybody in this sparsely settled desert knows him. They say he’s a good fellow who's got a a good thing, and they don’t begrudge it. ‘ Sco’iy’s money actually comes from a man named Albert “I. Johnson. As I get it, Johnson was in the West Scotty met him and invited him out to his desert saying it would cure Johnson's tuberculosis. We’. Johnson came and stayed a few months, and did be ome a new man. He returned to Chicago, and became ‘wealthy.

There's No Mystery About It

Alth ~ugh that story is known, it is usually accompanied by hazy concoctions about Johnson’s fanatical gratitude to Scott. * My impression is that there's no mystery about it all. I helieve Johnson built the castle for himsel, and not for Scotty. The Johnsons don’t live in Chicago any more. They live in Los Angeles, one day’s drive from here. Both Johnson and Mrs. Johnson spend a great deal of time up here. They Have their regular rooms in the castle. The castle was largely designed by Mrs. Johnson. It was furnished to her tastes. The ranch crest is J/S for (Johnson-Scott) in a circle, and it’s on practically everything. It’s on the dishes, and on tables, and on window hangings, and even on every fence: post. It ic my impression that this castle belongs to Johnson. and that Scotty is a fellow who happens to . be a good friend and just lives here, and probably gets plenty © ? spending money.

‘My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Has Only Two Visitors During an Unusually’ Quiet Day.

ATE Ga., Tuesday—Of course, it would not be possible to have two days as quiet as yesterday. Mrs. Scheider and I actually spent the whole afternoon in the little guest house we had arranged for ourselves and caught up on the mail with only two interruptions. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Toombs have a small boy who is the same age as Mrs. Scheider’s neice and we asked Mrs. Toombs to bring him to call. He is a very goodlooking youngter, but shyness overcame him and I had t¢ 2 give: him a bag of candy before I could lure him from behind a chair to speak to me. Our other visitor appeared at the gate and ‘sent word that, she was a cousin through my Bullock famjly. I have a feeling that most of Georgia could claim ‘some kind of kinship, so I ran up to the gate to shake hands with six new cousins. Aster supper, I sat down and read a book for the Junior Literary Guild entirely through without an interruption. Such a thing has not happened to me in nonths and I must say it seems remarkably plessant.

Today, however, has been a little more like our -

usual routine. Mr. Lassiter, state director of NYA, and his wife, with Miss Shepperson, of the WPA, picked up Mrs. Scheider at 9 a. m. and then stopped for me. Bag 2nd typewriter in hand, we started off to see what we could of NYA projects, with a few glimpses of WPA projects thrown in, °

Visits Quarry Project

Our first stop was at a camp which is being built in co-operation with the vocational education work for rural youth. There is a quarry on the property “and ihe boys have been getting out the stone, cutting it, and putting up buildings. On a number of projects in Ge orgia, with the co-operation of the labor unions, they are training. young people in definite skills and finding them jobs at the end of their training. We went to Monroe and stopped for a: minute at a nursery school run by WPA and where NYA girls.are used as assistants. Then we proceeded to a county agricultural high school which seemed to me to have the nest practical farm setup I have seen anywhere. Georzia is largely a rural state and there is so much poverty in certain areas which might be improved by bette: education, that one cannot help rejoicing that these young people are being given an opportunity to charze the agricultural life of their slate.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

NTERESTING especially for its Hungarian backgioupd, Jolan Foldes’ novel, I'M GETTING MARRIED Farrar) is an entertaining tale of youth, a gaye: story than the puis All-Nation prize-win-ping “Street-of the Fishing Ca Susy’s plans to open a g Cat. of interior decoration ‘with five other girls were upset when she received a writ ordering her to leave Hungary within two weeks. It sccmed that her father, driven from his native Czechoslovakia during the war, had not taken out his citizenship papers. In desperation Susy hired a young Hungarian architect to marry her so that she might ‘remein in Budapest, where she had spent most of her life. The results of this escapade are unexpected and amusing. : : | 2 = = TAD claims to German inheritance; 1 liked to : consider myself a poet; and there was no doubt abou’ my being a Jew.” Louis Untermeyer, justifying his elf -jdentification with the poet Heine and con- ' fessing to a “Heine complex,” 5 1ife of the great German lyricist, to which he adds anothe volume, the Poems. His excellent translation .enables the reader to see Heine and his work together.

- ‘Heine's entire biography, says one critic, lies in the a; in a Roman Catholic city during the period

fact * parerits, in a Roman Catholic city during the ‘of N:poleonic supremacy: on the one hand and,

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vaars ago, in a bad way with tuberculosis. ,

presents a significant

most powerful rulers.

end of eapnomic chaos.

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leaps and bounds. Trade between nations was con-

of newly imposed quotas and other trade barriers. Already in 1933 there existed, as there still exists today, an: amaz-. ing failure on the part of governments to recognize that increase of armaments and ‘increase of trade barriers go hand in hand with prevention of peace and economic rehabilitation. Armaments cannot be reduced unless trade barriers are reduced; and reciprocal trade increases cannot bring world stability without reduction and the vast amounts of money and labor tied up in the production of arms. My message of May .16, 1933, was Y intended to bring this important truth home to the European leaders, and I felt even then that if the Disarmament Conference failed in Geneya such failure would militate greatly against the success of .the coming Economic Conference in London.

Currency Discussion ‘Futile’ -In the same way, the evil economic factors of continued arming

made clear that in the Economic Conference a mere discussion of

eign exchange would be futile. Obviously the stabilization of currency and the relationship of these currencies to each other internationally depended, as they do ~today, on the stabilization of economics within each mation, which included diverting production from armaments into nonmilitary industry and, at the same time, lowering the international barriers raised against a : freer trade. For the first time, in this appeal to the nations, emphasis was placed on two fundamentals of the reduction of armaments; first, that weapons of offensive warfare should be gradually eliminated and, second, that invasion] should be banned during the disarmament period. The reasons behind these proposals are even stronger four years later than they were in 1933. (Editor’s Note—The President’s thesis that disarmament and general economic welfare are interlocking questions was also present in his treatment of the World War debts. Following the Hoover moratorium of 1931-32, pay-: ments became mere - “tokens” or outright defaults, vmtil in June, 1934, the President told -Congress that Finland was the only nation which had met all .. its obligations in full. He said: “The people of the debtor nadfious will , . . bear in mind the fact that the American people are certain

important role in the great drama of world dip His first lines in the play were spoken but two months after ‘taking office in Washington, on May 16, 1933, when he appealed to the nations of the world for peace by disarmament and for the His appeal was addressed directly to the reigning sovereigns or chief executives of 42 countries. “I was impelled to this action,” the President wrote to Congress, : “because, it has become increasingly evident that the assurance of world political and economic peace and stability is threatened by sel- . fish and short-sighted policies, actions and threats of actions.” In the following note, written by President Roosevelt for his books and never before published, he walls the reasons for and:

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- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1938

On Disarmament’ and Peace (1

(The authority vested in the Presidency of the United States makes its incumbent, during his elected term, one of the world’s As such, Mr. Roosevelt perforce played an

lomacy.

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HIS appeal to the heads of the governments of the world is of special importance in view of subsequent events. Two factors made it necessary in 1933. The first was the possibility that something might yet be saved from the. Disarmament Conference which - had been meeting in Geneva since 1932. The second was the impending Economic Conference to be held in Londdgn the following

International relationships in 2 Europd had been going from bad to worse for four years. Armaments, especially under nondemocratic governments, wete increasing by

to be swayed by the use which debtor countries make of their available resources— whether such resources would be applied for.the purposes of . recovery as well as for reasonable payments on the debt « « « or for purposes of unproductive nationalistic exPenditures. oa’ id

- Prepares For Conference

‘The platform of the National Democratic Party in 1932 advocated “an : international eco-

‘nomic conference designed to re-

store international Wade and facilitate exchange.” One of the first things which 1 undertook after inauguration was to lay the groundwork for such a conference through preliminary conversations and exchanges of points of view with the heads of other governments. Some preliminary work had already becn done. In August, 1932, the United States agreed to be represented upon a Preparatory

Committee of experts charged

with making a preliminary examination of matters to be submitted to the London: Economic Conference. : This Preparatory - Committee prepared agenda in which it summarized ‘the problems which had been facing the nations of the world, requiring “a broad solution by concerted action along the whole front.” A wide range of subjects— economic, financial, commercial and social—were ‘included in the original program of this Conference. (Editor's Note—On April 6, 1933, ‘the President invited | Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain to Washington to discuss the economic situation.) This invitation was one of many

which I extended to the govern- -

ing heads of other nations. During April and May we were honored by visits from the leading Government officials of Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany, Mexico, China, . Brazil, Japan and Chile. Our conversations related to many subjects over a wide ‘and varied field. Economic stability in its broad-

est sense was emphasized. In -

many of these: conferences, disarmament was also stressed. It:is a simple fact that stabilization of currencies by artificially pegging the foreign exchanges was only one of many subjects. of the conversations. Internal price levels within indi-

vidual countries, improvement of.

the general price level and especially removal: of obstacles. to international trade were considered at least of equal importance.

“We would have to learn by exper-

ience what were the natural rate

regions for the stabilization of the |

important currencies: This is recorded here in view of

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F.D. R's Own Story of t

(Contained in an authorized advance publication of his: notes and. comments to “The Public Papers and Ad dresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt” ). % Aricle:No. 7

‘Secretary of State Cordell Hull (left), heading the American delegation to the Monetary and Eco-

nomic Conference in London, is bidden goodby on

June 1; 1933 by ‘Dr.. Raymond G. Moley, then As- |

‘vada. (center) also was'one of the delegates. Dr.

Entered a» Summ

at Postoffice, . Indians,

sistant Secretary of State, as, the delegation was about to leave New York.. Senator Pittman of Ne-

. the subsequent effort at the Lon-

don Economic Conference to make everything depend upon its immediate. efforts to stabilization of exchange.

Conference Convenes The Monetary and . Economic Conference convened af London

on June 12, 1933. The American |

delegation to it was” headed by

Hon. Cordell Hull, Secretary of [2

State. It soon became evident that there were great obstacles, during those days of rapid economic change, in the way of immediate general agreement among the rep-

‘resentatives of the many different - countries, each of which had its . _ own peculiar domestic economic

circumstances and problems. The discussions among financial technicians, that had been:inaugurated outside of the Conference but simultanequsly with its beginning, began to indicate a determination and insistence by some of the countries upon some definite and immediate form of stabilization of the exchange rates, particularly between ‘ the dollar, the franc, and the pound. The concentration of attention in the early stages of the Conference upon this one question was grossly excessive, particularly in the light of well-known conditions which would have made any decisive action at this time pre-

mature. Rumors became so insistent that the so-called gold-bloc nations

were going 1 insist definitely

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No Seocy of Judges In New York Courts

A Comment of President Roosevelt From His Forth- * .coming Books.

In my speech of acceptance (of the nomination _for Governor of New York) on Oct. 9, 1928, I pointed out that. the administration of. justice had become too cost= . ly, too. slow and too complex, and that a study of the: problem should be made not - only by members of the bar, but by. laymen. It will be noted that: the problem of delayed. justice .in the State of New York was not caused by a scarcity of judges, whereas delays in the Federal Courts in 1937 were due in many districts .and ‘circuits, in large part, to an insufficient number of Copyright 1038; cop ao under

Franklin _D. velt: tributed. by United Peature Syndicate, Inc.

Britain's Prime Minister ‘Ramsay MacDonald and his dnvghter, Ishbel, are shown as they prepared to return to England after. conference on the economic situation with President

MacDonald’s Roosevelt in 1933.

upén exchange. stabilization that the Secretary of the Treasury found it necessary to issue a statement on June 15 denying London rumors of an agreement. . The newspaper reports which his statement denied were with-

out question “suggested” by the

so-called gold-bloc) ngtions. They were: wholly contrary to the po-

' sition taken by.the Secretary. of

State and the other American delegates. :

No Dissension With Delegation

It is a simple fact that throughout the London Monetary and Economic Conference : the . President and the: etary -of State worked personally in. complete -accord. Those who are in possession of ‘all. the: facts know that press stories, and: other reports referring to: divergency of views

in London or in Washington, were

caused principally :by the overenthusiasm or unwarranted assumption of authority on the part of some who took part in the work of the ‘American delegates, but were not themselves members of the delegation. at It became more ‘and more clear that - thé gold-bloc nations were seeking only to .bring about a

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temporary and experimental stabilization between their moneys and the moneys of Great ‘Britain and the United States, neither. of which was at that time on a free gold basis. This attitude involved, in effect, an ultimatum, that if the United - States did not enter the proposed narrow agreement the gold-bloc " nations would nof discuss: the "other matters on the agenda, but would merely study them and defer decision until some postponed meeting of the conference. For two reasons, the United States could not yield to this demand: First, it would have terminated our national pricelevel incredse which at thaf moment was restoring our own economic activity more nearly to the predepression level; and second, action on reducing trade barriers. and on other important matters on the agenda had to be taken: up simultaneously with the question of ‘exchange arrangements if the conference expected to accomplish bermanent results. :

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A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

VERY now and then jaded New | York society goes rural ‘and |. there follows a great. hullaballoo over the clever innovations. ft The latest wrinkle,’ according to press notices, is ‘a new form of Sun-

the: Smart Set to its toes. Mrs. awrence Copley Thaw: thought. up: idea. ‘She asked each guest to

to cook one in _ her The affair was a

early enough to

‘When I was a little girl and the Ladies’ d met at our, house we called it a Covered Dish Dinner. It’s be a hit in the corn ‘and swheat Theres since pioneering days. those Sajeciable mouth didn’t water

per. by. ah soutle with a. rich lobster swimming in ay and

—then: a sweetbreads dish, a mixed

a, 1 as. if? give-one dinby the. Ladies’ ‘Aid

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Ind.

ur - Town

By Anton Scherrer

A Fow ‘Definite: Answers Clarify Several Items of Recent Columns That Had Your Scrivener Baffled.

you may total my bewilderment of March

up now.

their eldest son after the father... Further, my name. happens to have been given to me just as I use it, by my parents. I was not named after my father in the first instance, but after my mother’s father, Maurice Mayerstein.” That wasng the only thing ta be cleared up for me. On March 9, I devoted a column to Stephen D. Tomlinson, in the course of which I said: “It’s possible that the “D.” in his name stood for Daniel, but if it did he képt it a secret all the time he was here.” That brought a delightful Jetter from William George Sullivan, and another one, just as delightful, from George E. Stewart. Said Mr. Sullivan: “You've guessed it—the ‘D.’ stood for Decatur. Mr. Tomlin= ‘son was born Aug. 17, 1815,. just about two months after Commodore Stephen Decatur had dictated the treaty of peace between the United States and Algiers. Evidently, he was named for the Commodore, just as we have ‘Deweys’ and ‘Bryans’ today.” Mr. Stewart confirms everything Mr. Sullivan says. It turns out, too, that Mr. Stewart's great-grandmother was Stephen D. Tomlinson’s sister. As for Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Tomlinson was his father’s unclé. It wouldn’t surprise me fo jaca ‘that Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Stewart are rea ;

On March 18,'I dedicated a column to Caleb B. Smith, in the course of which I lamented that nobody to this day knows where he is buried. “I have very

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William, H. Chitwood. “On. Nov. 7, 1935, we visited the old city cemetery in Connersville. Before leaving, we met Mr. Charles Rieman who has been superintendent; there for many years, and he volunteered to show us Caleb B. Smith’s grave. A relative, old Mr. Wotton, shortly before his death had shown him this grave,

turns out, too, that Mr. Chitwood’s great-grandf: married Caleb Smith’s sister.) B gr Sher It may interest Mr. Chitwood to know that Caroline Du firms h story. _

Corrected on School Flags

On March 17, I said that old No. 7 had the first flag of any school around here. “Nothing of the sort,” said Timothy P. Sexton, “it was St. Patrick’s’ School on Woodlawn Ave.”

On March 22, I wrote something about the glamour of Billy Tron’s grand place on the Levee, and right away came a letter from the Rev. Emperor Jones. Listen: “You have, no doubt, heard of me and my great work in the cause of temperance. For several years I have been traveling about the country, appearing on the lecture platform. Perhaps you are familiar with some of. my better talks, such as ‘Down With the Drink Evil,’ and ‘Rum and Rebellion.’ ‘For the past three years I have had as my constant companion and true friend, one Herman Fortescue, who used to sit with me on the platform. ‘I would poing him out to the audience as an example of the ravage of drink. Unfortunately, during the last summer, dear Herman passed away. A mutual friend has given me your name, and I wonder whether you would consent to accompany me on my spring tour to take poor Herman’ s place.”

Jane Jordan

Aiding an Undeserving Husband.

EAR’ JANE JORDAN—I have been married for three years, but am now separated from my husband. I was brought up in a good home and was very true to my husband. : No other man ever entered my thoughts; yet I couldn’t go to see my mother or friends but what he accused me of being with men, Soon after my marriage he let me know he wanted me to work and T have for three years. ‘He wouldn’t support me and I haven’t a thing which he bought me during our married life. Before long I found that he was a drunkard. He is so bad that he has to have a drink in the morning before he can get up. I am not , & nagger; it just isn’t my way. I just suffer inside. I found him out with another woman; he got drunk and told me about it. I always have hated to see marriages broken up, but I began to hate him. Anyway three months ago I left him. I feel so free it seems like a big weight off my mind. I am happier just being away from him. I've searched my feelings and I find I don’t even miss him or want him; but he won't: let me alone, He comes where I work and threatens me. He’s been living on some friends since I left and works at odd jobs. Last week he had a couple of dollars and instead of getting something he needed he spent it on whisky. His friends are tired of it. Now he wants me to come back to him, work

he won't change and I don’t love him, I feel I could start life over and be happier without him for I've made new friends. I've even gained weight since L left him. I am 22 years old; he is 27 and looks old already. Should I spend the rest of my life with him? He always finds me. ' © WORRIED LORRAINE.

Answer—Your husband is so obviously unfit for the responsibilities of married life that it is surprising you have to ask anyone whether you should live with him or not. The wonder is that you stuck it out as long as you did. You do not: love him; you do not want him; he isn’t worth ‘the grief that he causes, Why then do you feel this nagging fear that perhaps you ought to take him pack?

It is because you have an overgrown conscience which makes unreasonable and inexorable demands on. you. The conscience is a very excellent thing and all responsible people have one; but it also can become a monster which drives us to make the most insane self-sacrifices.

Your husband is an immature person who is trying to get somebody else to take the res bility for him. By his very weakness he tries to appeal to your strength and make you feel that you I to save him. It is neither wise nor kind for you to carry his - weight. Let him find a way to geti-along without help. A wise conscience will direct: you to thdraw help and support from a man who doesn’t rate it. Only a warped conscience will insist fia you sacrifice yourself. I ‘believe that when are completely determined to do nothing for ‘that he will feel your decision and let you alone. not, get a job out of town Where he gui find you. ae JORDAN.

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Put your problems 15. 5 Jeter fo *lasawer your questions in this column ily,

12. On that day I submitted, without comment, a tiny item to the effect that the | son of Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht spells his | first name “Maurice.” Well, that’s all cleared Says Mr. Maurice Feuerlicht: “It is a time honored custom among Jews not to name |

good proof that he is buried in Connersville,” writes

saying he was positive Smith was buried there.” (It

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