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" Our friends who live here - Saturday night crowd they'd

as it could possibly be. .chestra and Mr. John Charles Thomas, who sang ‘several numbers with them, must have realized how

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Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

' Fame Comes to Ernie in the Guise Of an Autograph Hunter, but the Nature of His Fame Is a Bit Foggy.

4 EL PASO, Tex., April 7.—This afternoon "a bellboy knocked at my door, and said a - little girl who lives in the hotel wanted me to

sign her autograph book. Since I would chase. anybody a whole

block to give him my autograph, I said “Why

certainly, bring her in.” So she came in and I said “Hello” and she said

. “Hello” and put out her book. I blushed with false

modesty and said “I can’t imagine what in: the world you want MY autograph for?” and started writing before she could change her mind. In the book I could see a clipping of one of my columns out of The EI Paso Herald-Post, and I said to myself: “This little girl is a real dyed-in-the-wool fan. She probably thinks you're the greatest man in the world. You can see she’s ill at ease in your presence, - so you must be friendly and seem #4 interested in her, because Ihaps the - way you great men act toward your i ad public.” So, carrying out these in- * structions to myself, I asked her name and what grade she was in, and what her father did, and was all’ around just downright charming.

The little girl answered my questions shyly, 1ook- : ing at the floor most of the time.

And then just as I was running out of things to say, she screwed

"up her courage and looked straight at me and blurted

out: “What do you do? Write, or what?” I stared at her speechless, and then mumbled “Why, yes.” Whereupon the little girl turned and fled CA eel another word, carrying my precious autograph with her. . We went over to Juarez the other night to see ‘how the Mexicans are getting along with their hissing at Americans. " There wasn’t a hiss -in town, as far as we * could discover. The customs men at the bridge were * extraordinarily courteous. So was everybody else. ~Guess they were trying to make up for the recent ‘ hissing episode. But people in El Paso are plenty sore about it. Saturday night in Juarez-is made{up not so much of tourists as of El Paso people 0 go across- the

Small Crowd for Saturday Night

The crowds in the dance clubs were very small id it was the smallest en in 15 years. And actual bridge figures, since the incident, show a drop

of 20 per cent in American visitors.

The truth is, our El Paso friends say, that the

: rank and file of Juarez Mexicans hate all Americans.

They say Americans aren’t in any danger of getting: hurt in Juarez, but just the same the hate is there, _and when they hissed the other. day they weren't doing’ it just to sound like a steam-engine. El Paso civic bodies have started a move to have night clubs established in El Paso, so local people ~ won't have to go to Juarez. There is no regular eating-drinking-dancing-floor-show sort of place in El Paso. So they're thinking of

creating such places, to keep the Americans on this.

side, and then the Mexicans will have to go around hissing themselves: Mechanical Note: My second’ “roving” car is now ‘nearly two years old, and has 35,000 very rough miles

, on its speedometer.

Yet it went 300 miles on 14 gallons the other day —better than 21-miles to the gallon. And it wasn’t "downhill, either. What mileage! What a car! What a driver!

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

First Lady's Son Ignores Coin's Decision ahd Remains Overnight.

ASHINGTON, Wednesday.—A dinner was given last night te: celebrate the fifth birthday of the CCC camps and I went to-read a message from the

President. I was very happy to be able “to spend ‘a few minutes with the people who have made this nation-wide program possible, for I feel the work of “ the CCC camps has enriched many communities. Aside from the fact that it has taken boys who

; might have drifted into evil ways and kept them busy

during critical months, it has given them better health ahd a skill with which to face the world. Some day we will have fewer floods because of the trees which the CCC has planted, better soil because of the soil erosion program which they have helped to carry on, and innumerable improvements which can be seen everywhere throughout the country. After I left the dinner, I went to the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra concert, which was as beautiful I am sure that both the or-

much the audience enjoyed the. I have rarely heard a Washington audience applaud more warmly. I returned to find our son, Franklin Jr. had just arrived, He was talking to his father and had not decided whether he would stay the night and rise

. early to drive to Charlottesville, or whether he would

proceed at once. In my most organizing spirit, I started to make his plans for him. He looked at me with the funniest expression and said: “I don’t like being ‘organized. I'm going to flip a coin.”

Plans Flight to New York

The coin decided that he would go, but he finally stayed. We had breakfast together this morning at 7 o'clock before he started for Charlottesville and : some law work. Miss Rachel M. Palmer, who’ has just flown to

Manila in five days and spent seven weeks in the

Philippines before flying back, came to see me this morning. She brought gifts from the Sultana of Sulu Jolo, Sulu, Philippine Islands. One of them is a very beautiful example of brass work, dug up not ‘ “long ago, which is at least three hundred years old.

: ~ Several old friends of mine are coming to lunch

and later this afternoon : am flying to New York City.

New Books Today

: Public Library Presents—

ALL it what you will, the Sunny South, the Cotton States,- the. Deep South or merely Down uth, the fact remains that this: section of the nited States is a “worn out agricultural empire,” xisting on a vicious system of tenant-farming and ear-peonage. Such is the alarming situation as © geen by Erskine Caldwell arid Margaret. Bourke-White during a recent intensive study of the rural South and described’ by them under the provocative title YOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACES (Viking). The con- _ cise text is enhanced by more than 60 full-page " photographic portraits showing white share-croppers

engaged in the hopeless task of attempting to wrest

an existence from land no longer capable of sustainakin to and Negroes living under conditions closely to slavery. The book is a pertinent contribution -to the Merature of sociology. :

GATHA CHRISTIE and Hercule Poirot, her little detective with the ptver-supply of “gray cells,” are at their best in t opus of the Nile. Cleopatra * herself could not have n more luxuriously housed than was this party of tourists sailing leisurely down

* the mysterious river on the good ship Karnak. Then

death struck. Only Poirot and his “gray cells” could straighten out the puzzle. Who shot the lovely Linnet Doyle in the middle

_ «of the night as she lay sleeping? Whose were the

running feet which sounded so plainly on fhe deck “in the still of the Egyptian night? And above all, ble for the “wrong doings” which next day? Hercules Poirot. satisfactorily answers everything s the reader convinced that Agatha Christie's

~ THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1988

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Second Section } PAGE 13

On the AAA (Il)

scribed in his own Nords)

“a level that would give agricultural commodities a * purchasing power, with respect to articles that farmers buy, equal to the purchasing power of all agricultural commodities in the

“base period.” The “base period” in the case of all agricultural commodities except tobacco was fixed as the prewar period, August, 1909-July, 1014. In the case of tobacco the base period was fixed as the postwar period, August, 1919-July, 1929. The tobacco-consuming habits of the entire world had so changed since the war that the prewar conditions of . production - and demand no longer represented accurately the 1933 conditions of the tobacco industry. This policy did not mean that farm prices Should be raised to the same level necessarily in dollars as they were before the war, but rather that a farmer selling a .certain volume ‘of farm products in 1933 should be able with the price he received for them,

ufactured goods that he was able to buy in the period 1909-1914. The aim was to place the farmer on the same comparable economic level with business and. industry as existed during the prewar period, to: return to him his normal fair share of the national income, and, incidentally, to nBke him as good a customer for nonagricultural business as he was before the war.

Sudden Adjustment

Avoided

The act also declared the policy approaching such equality of purchasing power by a gradual rather than a precipitous correction of the existing -inequalities, with due regard to current demand for consumption in domestic and foreign markets.

It was clear that no parity could be brought about in many of the commodities whose carry-

normal, until the huge surpluses had been reduced or eliminated. It was also evident that if the price of certain’ farm products were to be pushed up suddenly without adequate control of production, the result would only be to bring in new and additional production which would create further burdensome surpluses.

sumption of farm commodities to

more harm than good to the farmers. The act further declared the” policy of protecting consumers’ interests, by readjusting - farm production to such a level that the percentage of consumers’ retail expenditures received by the farmer would not be above the percentage he received in the prewar period. In this way the act sought to maintain for the consumer also the same proportionate price relationships as existed before the war. In order to effectuate these various policies and purposes, the Congress granted two principal groups of powers to the Secretary of Agriculture: One dealing with voluntary production adjustment through contracts and benefit payments te. farmers; and the other dealing with marketing agreements and licenses.

~ ” ments.

to buy the same volume of man-

over stocks were several times

A precipitous increase of price - might even cause reduced con- °

a degree which would result in:

's Own Story of the New Deal

(Editor's Note—The plight of the farmer in 1933 and the drafting of emergency legislation for farm relief were narrated yesterday. In the following note, never before published, from President Roosevelt's forthcoming books, the nature and workings of this first AAA are de-

TITLE 1 of the statute of May 12, 1933, 0 rescue agriculture had to do with farm crop adjustment and the raising of agricultural purchasing power, and is known as the “Agricultural Adjustment Act.” with easing the farm mortgage burden of farmers, and is known as the “Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933.” The policy of Title I of the Act was to establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of farm commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as would re-establish prices‘to farmers at

Title II dealt

The first group 'of powers en=

abled the United States Government to help farmers adjust their production in a way which would have been impossible for them acting as individuals without Government assistance. The Secretary of Agriculture, functioning through the Agricultural Adjustment ‘Administration, was authorized to give financial assistance by means of rental and benefit payments, by agreement or by any other voluntary. method, to those

farmers who would eonsent to ad-

just the amount of their crops. The methods to be used were to be voluntary and not otherwise. Only the farmers who agreed voluntarily to adjust their production , would receive the benefit payIn this way the none co-operative farmer, who had ale ways been the obstacle to attempts by farmers in the past to control the am unt of their total crops, was prevented from obfaining any advantage from refusal to co-operate.

Seven Basic Rommodiies

The act originally provided for benefit payments for only seven basic agricultural Wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, rice, tobacco and milk and its products. These products were selected because the United States pro-

duced an exportable surplus of

nearly all of them, and also because changes in their price strongly influence all commodities. 5 Another ‘reason for choosing these products was that each of them goes through some form of manufacturing process before it is ready for human consumption, with the result that their production and distribution could be more easily regulated during the course of processing than could those products which do not go through such ja process. (Editor's Note — Nine = other basic commodities were added later by amendments to the AAA-—cattle, sugar beets and cane, peanuts, rye, flax, bar-. ley, grain sorghums and potatoes.)

The second group of powers’

enumerated in. the Agricultura: Adjustment Act, permitting the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into marketing agreements with processors, farmers’ ~ associations, and others engaged in the handling of farm products, was alsd directed toward giving the farmer a more equal share of the national income. Marketing agreements were permitted for all agricultural products, and not merely for the seven basic ones; and the agreements were exempted

from the provisions of the anti-

trust laws of the United States. They were intended not only te bring about a better price for the farmer but to assist the various branches of the farming industry in general to increase their efficiency in production, precess-

ing, and marketing, so that better

prices for the farmer would mean only a relatively small increase of cost to the consumer, ~

Licenses and Taxes

To make effective the terms of marketing agreements, the act authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to grant licenses to proces-

sors ‘and distributors and others:

handling agricultural products or any competing commodities,” and to revoke such licenses in the .event of violation of the terms of the licenses.

commodities: -

( Cone in an authorized advance publication of his notes and comments to “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt”) Article No. 14.

Here is an Indiana farmer, typical of those the AAA was intended to aid. The aim of the AAA, according to President Roosevelt, . was to place the farmer on the same comparable economic level with

Times Photo.

“business. and ' industry as existed before the World - War. It was hoped the AAA-would give the farmer : a fair share of the national income and increase his

purchasing power.

Many conferefives were held with farmers Here, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace ad-

throughout the United States to obtain their viewpoints and instruct them in the workings of the AAA.

pay benefits to the farmers who co-operated in adjusting. the size

steps were taken because the 1933 crop had already been planted

dresses a conference of Northeastern farmers, in New York City.

. levying of a tax on the first processing to the particular product

of their Crops, the act provided for processing taxes to be levied upon the first domestic processing

of the product.

The rate of the -processing tax was to be fixed by the ‘Secretary of Agriculture at the difference between the current average farm price for the particular commodity and the fair exchange value of the commodity. To prevent the tax being so high, however, as to cause reduced consumption of the commodity which would bring further surpluses, the Secretary was given discretion, after, in-

vestigation and an opportunity for

hearing, to fix the tax at a lower

and special emergency measures were necessary. With respect to

' the other basic commodities, plans

were also adopted as quickly as

.. possible by the Secretary of Agri- , culture after conference with farm

leaders and others, to carry out

the purposes of the act.

The various plans differed: in detail, but the essentials were the same, viz, (1) a voluntary agreement on the part of the farmer to adjust his production in accordance with individual nllotments, (2) payment: of benefits by the Government te those who: oss such agreements, (3) the

to raise funds for the payment of these benefits, (4) decentralization of administration, (5) determina-

. tion of the amounts to be alloted |.

to each eounty, locality, or indi-' 1 farmer to be made in cooperation. with : local, county or strict production control asso-

clations and local allotment com-= mittees.

tional op. nion; all rights re2 der 1 Ne

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D. Roosevelt; dtobuted 2 United, Featnite, § Syndicate.

NEXT—The Sup Supreme Court Stops the AAA.

‘in the program of adjusting pro-

rate.

Protecting 'Co-operating Majority’

With the funds derived from the tax, benefit payments could be made by the Government to farmers who were willing to co-operate

duction. In this way they received benefit payments plus the in-. creased market price, while the nonco-operators received: only the increased market price. The machinery of government was used to assist farmers who could not individually assist them=selves. The act sought to prevent the small nonco-operating minority from doing any harm to the. co-operating majority. The benefit payments made a direct and continuing contribution to the farmers’ income. It was a recognition of the principle that this large economic group, performing an essential function for

in the national income. With Yospers to cotton, special

By Science Service ALTIMORE, April 7-—High blood pressure is an experiment performed by Nature on human beings, Dr. Carl J. Wiggers of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O., told members of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Bio logy meeting here. : The greatest and perhaps the only hope of understanding and relieving high blood pressure, Dr. Wiggers said, rests on a “shuttling” of the problem between the clinics where patients are studied and the laboratories where animals are studied while under anesthetics. High blood pressure, Dr. Wiggers -said, is due to some unknown chem-* ical substance which is formed possociety, is entitled to a fair share, tuihly in the kidneys or perhaps by the nerves. This as yet-unidentified chemical causes & constriction of

Calls High Blood Pressure Experiment of Nature’

the tiny. arteries at the ends of large arteries which carry blood to the internal organs of the body.. It is this constriction of the smallest arteries, called arterioles, ‘which ‘raises the blood pressure.

The constriction must be of the tiny arteries in the internal organs, Dr. Wiggers emphasized.

When the tiny arteries are constricted the increased blood pressure makes the larger arteries, especially the aorta (which is the big artery: leading ‘from the heart) less elastic and less distensible. Dr. Wiggers does not agree with the opinion that hardening or loss of elasticity of large arteries is enough to cause high blood pressire. He described experiments by himself and his associates showing that constriction of the aorta and large blood vessels does not: necessarily affect the small arterioles and the blood pressure.

An order to obtain the funds to

Side Glances—By Clark

Jasper—By Frank Owen

TEST YOUR

KNOWLEDGE

2—Who was Frank Craig? 3—Near which city in India is the Taj Mahal? 4—What is ebullition? 5—Who wrote “The Autocrat of the Breakfast. Tahle?” - 6—What do the initials B. P. O. E. stand for? ” » 8

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1—A kind of sport in which hares are hunted by greyhounds, which follow the game by sight instead of by scent. 2—English artist. s—Agra. , 4—The bubbling up or agitationt which results from the action of heat on a liquid.

~ 5—Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Indianapolis Smokers Buy Their Pipes in Series Now, Attempting To Build Up a Collection of 365.

HERMAN C. WOLFF, who has his eye on the Mayor’s chair, was seen cutting the corner at Washington and Meridian Sts. last week. He was in a hurry to get across the street—as for Reginald Sullivan, he hasn’t

been downtown enough lately to cut corners, He’s too busy at home getting ready to move. Bee lieve it or not, the old Sullivan homestead, 503 N. Capitol Ave., one of the landmarks of Indianapolis, is going to be torn down next week to make-room for a parking lot. The Sullivan house, I guess, is close to 50 years old, and cost $9000 to build. It was a bargain at the time—20 rooms, I bet. Caleb Lodge, born 66 years ago near the corner of Pratt and Pennsylvania Sts., has never lived" more than three-quarters of a mile away from the Circle, and never more than a block away from Pennsyl- Mr. Scherrer vania St. . . . Charles S. Murphy has never had his office more than a block away from the Circle. It figures up to 50 years, too, I guess. . . . Last time Warren Munk wanted a cook he advertised for one who could make a Sauerbraten. It worked all right, Soon as .the weather starts getting warm (it won't be long now), Bob Dragstrom will wear his hair pompadour style again. He rubs it in alum to get the effect. And except for the Ayres people, I wouldn’t be able to tell you that the “page boy” style of hair cut is definitely done for in Indianapolis. To hear the Ayres people tell it, a woman’s hair to be in style is now brushed up from the neck.

Zwicker Replaces Zyzzle You ought to be told, too, that pipe smokers

[around here are buying pipes in series. The big idea

back of it is to have enough pipes so you don’t have to smoke ‘the same one every day. It starts, ofl course, with a collection of seven pipes, one for each day of the week, after which the collector goes in for 3l1—one for each day of the month. That -done, there’s nothing left to do but try for 365. You'll be surprised to learn the number of pipe smokers on the last lap. The Rev. E. Ainger Powell, rector of Christ Church, has over 300, I'm told. And my spies report that Charles Sommers and Adj. Gen. Straub have a hundred apiece. : All of which ieaves me room to review the new telephone directory. (I guess you. got yours, too.) It starts just the way it did last year (AAA American Red Ball Transit Co.), but it ends differently, Last year it closed with Aalie Zyzzle. The best it can do this year is to stop with Fred Zwicker. Last year, too, we had nine exterminators; this year only seven. Same way with the barbers—28 compared with 29 last year. Something is the matter with the corset business, too. Last year we had 19 corsetieres equipped with telephones; this year, it’s dwindled down to 15. It’s comforting, though, to know that

it takes only $26.25 to talk (3 minutes) with Vienna,

Last year it cost 75 cents more.

Jane Jordan—

. Disappointment Easier Met Among Friends Than in a Strange Place.

DER JANE JORDAN—I am writing you in regard

to one of my hest friends. She lives with us and thinks she is in love with a boy who works at the neighborhood drug store. She is 18 years old and he is 24. He does not pay much attention to her at the store, but when he comes over to the house to see her he tells her that he is crazy about her. She ‘says she will move just because of this boy. We don’t want her to leave us just because he won't pay any attention to her. She is so young and is all alone in the world.” She has a home here and is treated as one of the family. I think if you would give her some advice she would follow it. THANK YOU.

Answer—But why does she want to leave your house? Is it that she wants to get away from the boy so that she will not have to see him and be annoyed by his indifference? How foolish! No matter ghere one lives, one always meets annoying people who will not behave as we wish them to behave. Explain to the young lady that. a change of location is no guarantee that she will be able to control the people she meets. It is easier to meet disappointment in a good home surrounded by sympathetic friends than in a Sitangs place among strange people. 2 = 2

EAR JANE JORDAN—I was married: at 16 35a loved my husband very much. A girl came between us and after divorcing me he married her. I still love him and see him often at a distance. What shall I do to forget? I do want him to be happy. I . don’t care to go with anyone and feel that I never can, : Jo. -

Answer—Everybody has to to learn to forget his own past. Who is there among us who has not lost his heart's desire in some form or other at some time or other? To cling to this loss, rejecting all new exe periences, refusing to accept substitutes for lost sate - isfaction, is to perpetuate one’s own defeat. It is a sign of health to wipe the slate clean, to start over again, to compromise with life and find new compensations for old failures. The continuous chase after the past makes one run backward instead of forward. In yearning for your divorced husband who has married another, you are simply headed in the wrong direction. - Turn around. The wish to forget is the first step in your cure.

To a Divorcee—Your problem is almost identical with the one published above and the answer is the same. If vour divorced husband isn’t happy he has no one to thank but himself. [He is no longer your problem. Write him off as a bad investment. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this ai daily.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, April 7.—There’s nothin’ as small as a man blamin’ his short-comings on a woman, but it looks like if a man’s weak enough he’ll do it no matter how high a station he occupies. I read the other day of man who absconded with several million dollars and he said he did it to please a woman's vanity. In the same paper I read about a man bein’ arrested for petty larceny. The - judge ‘says “This is the fourth time you have broken into that dress shop and stolen a dress.” The man says “No, judge, I broke in once and stole a dress and then my wife made me take 5 back and

change it three times.” . (Copyright. 1938)

Walter oko OLLYWOOD, April 7.—Paul Revere rode through ‘town here today, was stopped by a red light and Sipally weunti up with @ Higke! for Parking le close to a fire hydrant.. hase ‘opposition to the Reorganization Bill out hére

has everyone in a lather and this afternoon the over started picketing Democratic head-

x For the last two weeks the telegraph companies money on this bill. And now with cleaning

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