Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1938 — Page 13

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‘From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Ernie, in Slippers, Makes a Tour Of Scotty's Castle, a Nice Place

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SCOTTY'S CASTLE, Death Valley, Cal., March 31.—Death Valley Scotty's castle is just as elegant as you've always heard it was. And the surprising thing to me is that it’s i in good taste. .The castle is not actually in Death Valley. It is back up a wide canyon, about four miles from the valley proper. The castle itself is! not really immense. It has no great marble stairways, or vast ballrooms. You wouldn't get lost in it. There is| a sort of triple theme running through, the: house—Span-ish-Italian for one; desert life for two; and just plain house for three. Oddly enough, they don’t clash. There are lots of other buildings. A powerhouse, built like a county court house, with a big clock-face in each of the steeple’s four sides. -And a long, fine-looking building which Walter said was the “guest house.” It's my private opinion Mr. Pyle that Scotty and the Johnsons live in this “guest house.” I don’t see how they could live in the castle with 7000 people walking through it every year. “And there are stables, and a house for employees, and a big garage and machine shop, and a big glass mechanism on the hillside where water is heated by the sun, The castle has a staff of six people—Walter the head man, a guide, a bald-headed Chinese cook, a Filipino houseboy, and a couple of roustabouts. Walter, the cowboy, took us through the castle. Walter isn’t the regular guide, but he knows the spiel. A new man, who has just come up.from Los Angeles to be the guide, went along to learn the ropes.

First, we had to put on flannel slippers over our |

shoes. Then we went into Scotty’s bedroom—a corner room just off the living room. On the walls are pictures of Scotty when he was with Buffalo Bill's show. And other pictures, including his son, who is 22 now and in the Navy.

Facilitates Breakfast in Bed

Then we went upstairs into Mrs. Johnson's room. She has a low built-in bed, right against the wall. Walter showed us how she could swing out an iron bar, pull down a panel on hinges from the wall, let it rest on the bar, and have her breakfast in bed. The main living room is two stories high, and a balcony runs clear around it. The beams of the ceil.ing were carved right on the place. We went through the library (Walter opened small double doors above the fireplace mantel, and there were tinted pictures of Scotty and Mr. Johnson, side by side). We went into the sun parlor, or solarium, as Walter said. There was a sort of fountain there, with a background painted to represent the bottom of the ocean, and two. big enameled bullfrogs. Finally we crossed the second-story catwalk, took a wink at three or four beautifully furnished “overnight rooms,” as Walter called them ($80, hah!), and wound up in the big music room. This was the only place that looked like a museum. Some of the antique chairs had ribbon tied across so you couldn’t sit down. On one side was a big cold fireplace, on the other side a dark: little stage. In one corner was a pipe organ, hidden by a screen.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt With Mayor of Atlanta, First Lady Goes to See Unusual Georgia Home.

ARM SPRINGS, Ga., Wednesday.—When I wrote you yesterday my day was only half over, even though it was 3:30! Out of my bag, I hastily took a pair of shoes and stockings which looked a little. less utilitarian than those I had worn tramping around projects all morning. I barely had time to wash my face and tidy my hair, before Lucy Mason, whom I have known for a long while in New York, but who is now working on the labor situation in the South,

came to see me. L What endless ramifications there are to human

contacts and how edsy it is to see things only from the point of view of individual interests! The employer has his point of view and the employee his. The co-operative viewpoint necessary to the well-being of both sides sometimes seems far away. At 4 o'clock, the Mayor of Atlanta took Mrs. Scheider and me out to Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'Neely’s farm. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Palmer and. Mr. and Mrs. + Robin Wood, accompanied us. I was interested in the house because it was built by Henry Toombs, who built our cottage at Hyde Park, where Miss Cook and Miss Dickerman live. Mr. Toombs also built the memorial library in the village of Hyde Park for my mother-in-law, and the new buildings at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. He is an artist to his finger tips. The Neely house has some unique features. It fits into the landscdpe and, though you are living out of doors, you feel sheltered from rain and wind. This is accomplished by glass doors around three sides of a flagged court shaded by two big trees. You can let down the shades and draw the hangings and be indoors, but the moment you want to let in the out-of-doors, it is there for you to enjoy.

Rural, Urban Women Meet Mr. Neely is doing some interesting farm experimentation and has proved that the land in this-part of Georgia, Woen properly treated, can give its farmers

a good livin After a Gelightful tea attended by Governor and

* Mrs. Rivers and many other people whorh I had met

To Live in If You Like Deserts.

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journment,

mental ills could not be

cured by treating merely”

one of many difficulties. The intervening years have proved that it did serve

various useful purposes. It has led to a better mutual understanding of the nature of the individual economic and financial problems which beset the respective nations at this critical period in world affairs. It has clarified the interdependent measures necessary to an adequate program for dealing with them. It has strengthened the wish of nearly every country to seek the lowering of foreign trade restrictions as quickly as national and international circumstances permit. It has served. to make clear the necessity of molding the action of each country to the actions of other countries, so far as interna-

cerned. It was an outstanding education in method.

Disarmament Conference

(Editor’s Note—A year later, on May 18, 1934, the President sent the Senate a message urging its support of an investigation of the munitions traffic, and its ratification [of the Geneva Arms Conveniion of 1925, still before it)... | This message ‘expressed my hope that the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, which had been holding periodic sessions for two years: prior to this date, and which was to assemble on May 29, 1934, would be able to arrive at an international agreement for ‘the supervision and control of the traffic in arms.

Mr. Norman Davis, the American delegate, read to the Conference excerpts from my message. And, during the summer, the American delegation, working with the State, War and Navy Departments, prepared a draft of a thorough-going convehtion for the regulation and control of the manufacture and trade in arms. This proposed convention provided for (1) the registration and. licensing of all manufacturers of arms; (2) the publication of all

ceived by registered establishments; (3) the annual publication of the quantities of arms to be required by each country and the proposed expenditures{for national

licensing of all exports and imports of arms, and the publication of statistics in regard to such ex- , ports: and imports; and (5) the

ment commission to exercise supervision and control in the territory of each of the high contracting parties. Due to disagreement on certain fundamental ; points, . the American proposal was not &pproved and no further action has been taken upon: it since that date.

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licenses issued to manufacturers: and of all orders for arms re-.

defense during that year; (4) the

creation of a permanent disarma--

On Disarmament and Peace (1)

(In yesterday's installment of the President’s hitherto unpublished notes to his “Public Papers,” it was narrated that the London Economic Conference of 1933 concentrated “exclusively,” in Mr. opinion, upon the isolated: question of stabilization of rates. of exchange among the principal currencies. On July 3, 1933, the President sent a strong radio message direct to the Conference. The wireless insisted that, if the Conference were to proceed, it should consider and act on the agenda as a rounded ‘whole and not on the monetary section alone. It ended: ference was called to better and perhaps to cure fundamental economic ills, It must not be diverted from that effort.” Following is the Fresident’s own account in’ his books of - this dramatic message and its consequences.)

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T is true that my radio message to the London Conference fell upon it like a bombshell. This was because the message was realistic at a time when the gold bloc nations were seeking a purely limited objective, and were unwilling to go to the root of national and international problems.: The immediate result was a somewhat petulant outcry that I had wrecked the Conference. Secretary of State Hull by virtue of his fine practical idealism, however, Succeeded J in preventing immediate ad-

Although the Conference failed in its major objectives, it did a real service by showing to the world that funda-

‘Arms Traffic

The nexf year, on June 6, 1935, the United States Senate gave,

its. advice and consent to the

ratification ‘of the Geneva. Arms

" Traffic. Convention of 1925. How-

ever, it made a reservation. that the Convention should not become effective so far as 'the United States was concerned until it should have . become effective in ‘respect to a number of other specified arms-producing nations. Since several of these ‘nations have not ratified the Convention, it has not yet taken effect.’ In the meantime, however, we have enacted domestic legislation establishing a definite system of

national control of the traffic in”

arms, similar to that contem-

plated by the American proposal .

at the Disarmament Conference in 1934. This was the Neutrality Resolution of Congress approved Aug. 31, 1935. 7t

World Court

(Editor's Note—The genesis of

the present foreign policy of the

Roosevelt Administration may be seen in many acts and speeches during the first two years of the New Deal. In December, 1933, for example, the President’ addressed the Woodn Foundation, striking his keynofe in the closing phrase: yn now on war by governshall be changed to peace

: by peoples.”

In the speech was this significant sentence: “The blame for the danger to world peace lies ‘not in the world population but in the political leaders of that population.” . Ten per cent of the world's people, the President continued,

Roosevelt's

'Hands Off’ rly I Local Fights Upheld

A Comment of President Roosevelt From His Forthcoming Books

(Editor’s Note—A White House statement in March, 1934, “categorically denied” any part in fight against leader John F. Curry within New York City’s Tammany Hall.) I have consistently adhered to the policy of keep- : ing “hands off” in all local political party contests. The only exceptions I have made to this rule -since March 4, 1933, have been. to urge the re-election of Senator George Nqrris of Nebraska, and to comment occasionally upon candidates in my own town, county and state.

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“may go ‘along with a leadership

bors. . i If that 10 per cent of the world population can be persuaded by ‘the other 90 per cent to do their own and not. be led, we shall have . . , real peace throughout the world.” “Co-operating openly in the , fuller utilization of the: s? of Nations machinery” was the ‘policy then stated, and ‘a year" later, on Jan.: 16, 1935, came a recommendation tothe ‘Senate for adherence: to the World 7 Court. Protocols for this had been pending since 1930. Fol-.

(Contained in an. Ehoriant advance pisblisution o of his hr ands com- : = 2 ments to “The Public Papers and Ad dresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt” Article No. 8°

lowing is’ the President's own ~~.

comment on the: Senate's sub- : sequent action.) | Debate began in the Senate: ‘op Jan. 14, 1935, on the resolitionty, | of adherence by the United States to the World Court.. Numerous reservations began to be introduced. My message was sent in order to urge the Senate to adopt’ Bei a resolution of adherence, in-such’ a form “as not to defeat or tos delay ‘the objectives of adherence.” Unfortunately, the Senate voted” for it'by a vote of only 52 yeas to & 86 nays, which was not the res quired two-thirds majority neces « & sary for adoption.

‘Naval Building Policy bi

(Editor's Note—Because of the American position on disarma- . | ment, the President found. it | | necessary to accompany the ‘signing of the Vinson Navy Bill, on March 27, 1934, with a statement explaining’that it did not provide “for the construction of a single additional United - States warship.” The President expressed “hope that the Naval Conference . ... in 1935 will ex-: tend all existing limitations and agree fo further reduc- eh tions.” . 2 This ‘naval policy was reiterated in-1935 in a letter read to the - London ‘Naval Conference by Norman Davis, chairman of .. the United States delegation. Following is the President's: comment on his naval building policy.) . The Democratic national platform of 1932 stated: “We: advocate a Navy . . . adequate for national defense. 2 The- Vinson Navy Bill authorized the construction of vessels and aircraft to bring the Navy to the strength prescribed by the . Naval Treaty entered into at London in 1930, and to replace ships as they ‘became’ over age.” . The Act also removed the statutory maximum limitation of 1000 for the number of useful airplanes in the Navy which had been imposed by the Act of June 24, 1926; and it expressly author-. ized the President “to procure the necessary naval aircraft for vessels and other naval purposes in numbers commensurate with a treaty Navy.” In 1933 funds were ‘made available to commence construction of 37 vessels; in 1934, 24 vessels; in 1935. 24 vessels, and in 1936, 20 vessels. Thus, the total four-year program during the first term of my Administratiod consisted of 105 vessels. (Editor's Note—The Roosevelt Administration’s record on dis-

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: Outgrovwth. of the Washington Naval Conference and other aetiigs.. . aimed to bring about world disarmament was the Nine-Power Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, last fall. Above, Norman H, Davis, left, American delegate to many such parleys, chats with Capt.

Anthony °

_Eden, then British Foreign Secretary, in the Palais des Avadenties,

armament and world: peace was summarized in the President's speech at Chautauqua, N. Y,, on Aug. 14, 1936. “We co-oper-ated to the bitter end—and it was a bitter end” he: said, “in the work of the General Disarmament Conference. When it failed we sought a separate treaty to deal with the . . . international traffic in ‘arms. That proposal also came {to nothing. We participated— again to the bitter end—in a conference sto continue naval limitations. . . . ! ae “I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have. seen * blood - running. from the wounded. I have seen men

coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the §

mud. I have seen cities destroyed. . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and he. I hate war.”)

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NEXT Neutralty. .

Rep. Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.) was the author of the Navy Bn passed. in 1934.

LL proceeds” from the newspaper and magazine articles taken from the President's five forthcoming books on the New Deal, ‘The Public Papers and -Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, will be devoted to a useful public purpose under Government direction,” Stephen T. Early, President Roosevelt’s secretary, announced recently in. Washington. “Not one cent. of such net proceeds will go to either |. the President or his collaborator, Justice Samuel I Rosenman of New York. The introductions to the pooks

were sold for advance publication to a nationally circulated magazine and the notes and comments to the United Feature Syndicate.

“The material was compiled,” Mr.

Early said, “as ‘a response to a. large

number of requests for authentic data on the New Deal.” :

He added that the nature of the

public purpose could not yet be dis-~ closed since the plans which have

been in progress have not ‘been

fully consummated and since. they

will have to be ultimately-author- . | said.

ized by an act of Congress. ® a Ca

AR. EARLY recalled that President Roosevelt had ‘told White

House correspondents a year ago

that he intended to make available

.| to ther public in’ book form all his

official . papers, with his notes and comments on them, and that {rans-

cripts of ‘certain of his press con-

ferences would be included in the five volumes contemplated, but that the press conferences would: all be distributed to the press for free use

Earnings From F. D.R.s Story of New Deal Will Go to Useful ‘Public. Purpose’

by all the newspapers before they were published in the books.

* “The demand : is

only be adequately

tration is in office,” Mr. “No net proceeds from the newspaper syndication or magazine publication will ‘go into the pockets either of the President or Judge Rosenman, who did the work of arranging and compilation,” Mr. Early said. “By. net proceeds is meant this: The money that will be left after the payment of the arranged percentages to. thre book publishers and agent, the actual expenses incidental to the work of compilation, and all ‘Government and taxes.”

for ziuthentic material now and not later, especially authentic material which could 1 checked and. edited while the existing AdminisEarly

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How i The Time ho [Be iT inking + About Planting Your ! Liribd ngron Tulipifera, Dr. iopun] 2 dyises.

PRINGTIME redivivug being; thes jolly thing it is, the Block peoplé got: right

‘into the spirit of it last Monday and coined

the word “adoree,” meaning your best girl, I guess . . , Bock beer, too, made its appear‘ance. It -always'does. the week after Saint

‘Irish and Germans have. + Cigarets are sold by. the piece on Indiana Ave, ‘ee

| Dr. (medicine) H. W. Kunz's office

. larder always contains ‘a plentiful ‘supply of chocolate creams. He shares them with his patients. . . . Chances are, too, if you see Martin Hugg carrying a gayly, be-ribboned package, it’s a box of candy for the kennel of dogs out at his country place. . . . Lee Burns, of all people, ‘collected the Hoosier recipes conJainea 1 in Marion Harland’s monumen cook book. . . . Ruth Steb- | ‘bins Schildknecht’s picture, “Game Mu Scherrer of Solitaire,” acclaimed by almost everybody who ‘saw it at this year’s Indiana Artists’ Show, was the same picture last year’s jury rejected. Dr. (philosophy) Christopher Coleman says you “ought to be thinking right now about planting your

:| ‘Liriodendron . Tulipifera, otherwise known as the official State tree of Indiana. “Another name for it

is tulip tree, or just plain yellow poplar. You ought tobe told, too, about the decided trend ardund here for ‘the finer grains of briars. It's nip and tuck between: the pipe:smokers who go in for straight grains, and those who believe in Be and sunbursts. The champions of sunbursts are loudest in their claims. To listen to a burl booster, a good sunburst bowl has the property of breathing, with the result that it has the better radiation. | . The other day, too, Caleb Lodge urged me to drop everything, and get to the bottom of the sculptured portraits on Hotel English. Well, I did. |To the right ‘of the main entrance are the eps of the English family for five generations. the left are the heads of 15 of the early Governors of Indiana. The English family includes the portrait of the greats grandfather: of William H. and runs in a direct line to Mrs: Rosalind English Parsons, daughter of William E. ‘As. for Governors, they start (with Claude Matthews (the 23d): at the corner of the alley and Market St., and work apound the Circle to George Rogers Clark, first ‘militaby. Governor of the Northe west Territory. I'know all their names, but I wouldn't

Thinks About Bookkeepers

For some reason, too, I got to thinking about the early bookkeepers of Indianapolis who used to sit on their high stools and work over their big ledgers. A los of them used to sit right out in front in the show win« dows of the wholesale houses on S. ‘Meridian St. Any< way, that's where Martin Mann, Billy Konselman and Otto Levison, who kept the ks for Kipp Brothers, always sat. They impressed me like everything, I re member—in very much the same way as the accountants of South-Sea House impressed - Charles Lamb. With this difference, however: That Charles Lamb khew how to make them the subject of a’great essay, and I don’t. Some day, though, somebody will get around to our old bookkeepers, and when he does, depend on it hell start off with George Hoffman (Fahnley & McCrea), who always went to work wears ing a plug hat, a Prince Alpers coat, and a gold knob cane.

Jane Jordan— Do Not Regard Previous Marriage As Handicap, Jane Tells Widower,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a widower 36 years old. My wife died more than six years ago. I have a daughter 9 years old who lives with my wife's parents and probably never will be in my home again although I see her quite often. For some time after my loss I couldn't bring myself to the point of calling on young ladies. Finally I did make an acquaintance with an old friend and went with her irregularly for more than three years. Now she has not permitted me to call on her for some time. She says our affair is definitely over for she is madly in love with someone else. She says she is sure I am the better of the two men but he has never been married. Should I try to revive a friendship which has come to mean a lot to me or what should I do? Many people tell me that I should marry again since I am a man who loves home life. In this town there is little chance to meet anyone except at dances and I don’t care to dance. Should I take up dancing, and if so, without a partner? I have a fair income, more than when 1 was married and have been with my firm 15 years. But everyone whom I meet turns away when they learn I am a Widower. LONESOME AND BLUE.

‘Answer-—In Zanes, WhIOWars make the best huse bands. They are accustomed fo life on a partnership basis and, like you, feel lost when alone: The renunciation of gards with’ regret is no problem to the widower. Ac« customed to double harness, he isn’t so apt to run out; in the evening or spend his Sundays and holidays in the company of other men. - ' The widower appreciates a home. He isn’t astone ished and overwhelmed at such cataclysmic episodes as house cleaning. He's prepared for the eternal bills and unexpected expense which he takes in his stride instead of feeling that the high cost of living was de

Patrick's Day. It’s some. kind of an arrangement the

know what you'd do with them if I gave them to you.

freedom which the average bachelor res

|a woman's view If By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

~LUBWOMEN rap Naziism, » reads a headline. They'd better. Unless we rap it first Naziism is ‘likely to give us a’ blow from |: which we shall be ‘a long tinte re- ] | covering. There's this to be said ‘| for the Nazis, however—they let us Y {travel in distinguished company. Although “for some centuries in J | Western civilization we were classi- ; fled legally with children and idiots, | in modern Germany the motto is

signed as a sort of person persecution. The widower knows more about women. He has had more training in co-operation with another. He has felt the pangs of loneliness and learned to place a higher value on companionship. Definitely / your previous marriage is not a handicap to you, as a human being, but an asset. I think it wise of you to forget the young woman "who is madly in love with somebody else. She is not for you, but there are plenty of others... If you keep in circulation you will find the right roman, Tt is not important: for you to learn to dance unless you marry a woman who enjoys dancing 50 much that she would feel deprived if you didn’t... However, ‘dancing is'a social asset and an aid in getting acquainted. You | should have been taught to dance in your youth. ale though it is never too late to learn. SH I expect to be Se nsimed with ites from wome o en asking for your erhaps:I will spare them Suppress. women ‘and intellectuals a lot of trouble by -saying’ right; elo that addresses

first.” And that’s th it’ - | are not exchange An this column. s the way it’s done. Be- 2 JANE JORDAN,

5 Tore she Manrs and Einsteins are | =» ov rs | exiled, before the Jews are plun- Sf mne r dered and before’ the Niemoll Put: your shiems Wa letter to Jane Jordan, who wins to concentrati on ap e180 answer yous Jot this column any. ‘| of the land are:shorn of their brief| -§ | authority, barred from business and | §' od the professions. and reduced, So eco- : +r ra ts hay ever fd n ve: nn rps a women. ‘admire us only in 1 dur immemorial: roles of Jesvile

before, including our old friends Bishop’ Atwood and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ives, we dashed back to the hotel. I changed into evening clothes and went directly to the meeting held in the civic auditorium for the conference of rural and urban women. . Five thousand women were present. The urban women were asked to pay $1 each for their tickets’to carry the expense of the two-day meeting, but everything was free for the rural women. This was their party and I think it has set a pattern for similar conferences in other parts of the country.

Side Glances—By Clark Jasper—By Frank Owen

New Books Today

DITH ANN ULMER, a descendant of ‘Alexander | Hamilton, and former Indianapolis public schools { : English teacher, has had her second novel published. It is entitled BY BREAD ALONE and is the story of a grasping, domineering father of an American family | and ‘how, with his schemes and insatiable ambition, ‘he ruined the lives of most of the members of his ° | family. “The book’s plot is not particularly new and the | treatment is not very fresh. | But the author has drawn the character of Lee, eldest of the tyrannical father’s daughters, with con- | siderable finesse, making her stand out in the ‘boo as the most believable and enlisting the greates share of the reader’s sympathy for her. The charac ; “of her husband, a satyr, is written ‘with acid. |

8» =» | ~HOSE who fell under the spell. of “Green . Hell” have not forgotten Julian Duguid. Ever since that ce they have been reaching foreach new oa os by that young English word magician, This . loyal clan will not be disappointed in his latest . novel FATHER COLDSTREAM (Appleton-Century): © “Here he returns to his bewitching Green Hell. But this time it is Paraguay’s steaming jungle of the 18th ~ Century.

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