Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1938 — Page 12

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From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

Perhaps the Person in New Mexico Least -Like Billy the Kid Is Jim Terry, but Jim Is an Honest Man.

J. STANCIA, N. M., April 21.—There ~~ could not be, I suppose, in all of New Mexico a career less like Billy the Kid’s than that of Jim Terry of Estancia. Jim Terry is not even a “character.” He

is. simply a man who started with nothing .and now in middle age is a comfortably well-off mer-

chan{ in a small town, who is trusted by people for.

miles around.

Jim Terry was born on a farm in south Texas. When he was 21 he chose to take a crack at the world. He got on a train headed for California. By the time he got to El Paso, he found that everybody else on the train was going to California, so Jim shied off into New Mexico. That was 35 years ago. Somehow he got a note to a division superintendent of the Santa Fe Railroad. The superintendent said: “Sure, I'll give you a job. Can you Mr. Pyle work on the section?” ; Terry, being a farm boy, didn’t even know what the section was. But he said sure, he could work on the section.

They built the railroad southward from Santa Fe, for 70 miles down the middle of Estancia Valley, to a blank spot on the desert which they decided to call Estancia. Ca) Then a man opened a store in Estancia and offered Jim Terry a job as clerk. Terry took it. : After a time, the store was sold. The new owner offered Terry a job, plus some ownership in the company. ? 3 Terry was to sign a note for $2000, then pay for the rest of his stock out of the dividends. But the store went broke. Jim Terry was left without a job, and with a $2000 note to pay. But he soon got a job, saved his money, and in +three years had $2000. Then he went to Santa Fe and nded it to the wealthy man who held- his note. The man was amazed. Terry was the only one of the many who had owed him money who had made any effort to pay it back. He said, “If you ever need money, come to me.” So, in a few months, Terry got a chance to buy a store in Estancia, stock and all, for $9000. He went to the man in Santa Fe and said “I need $9000.” : His old boss looked startled, and said, “Well, $9000 is a lot of money.” But as he spoke he pulled out a: pad ‘of blank notes, wrote out one for $9000, and handed it to Terry to sign. Terry had the money paid back within three years.

Government Made Him Quit.

Then another opportunity came to buy nearly half a block on the best corner in town. Again he went to his Santa Fe friend for money. Again he got it. Again he had it paid back in a short while. That was many years ago, and was the last time he had to borrow. Estancia is only 900 people, which is the same size as my home town in Indiana. And although

there are plenty of honest men in my home town, -

none of them has had the same opportunity to prove it that Jim Terry had. For in 1924 Estancia Valley was struck by a minor depression. The two banks went broke. So people started bringing their money. into Jim Terry's stqre and asking him to keep it for them. He did so, just to be accommodating. © For eight years Jim Terry kept the people’s money for them. I suppose he would be keeping it yet, except that the Government finally found out about it. “The Government sent around bank examiners, who: told Terry he’d have to quit; it was “against the law or something.

My Diaty

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Game 6f Finding Time for Work and

Entertainment Prevents Boredom.

ILLIAMSBURG, Va. Wednesday.—Last night we held the last of the big dinners of the year. Senator Hale of Maine took me in to dinner and remarked: “Don’t you get terribly tired of all this?” "As a matter of fact, everybody gets tired of any one occupation, whether it is work or entertainment. - Whoever wrote the ancient saying, “Variety .is the spice of life,” knew the nature of human beings quite well. Merely going to work at the same hour every day, even if the nature of the task you perform is varied, is eventually tiresome. : I have often wondered how it was possible for actors and actresses to throw themselves completely

into their parts night after night. I imagine their

salvation is an ability to live the part as though it re a new thing each night. i Wor was a ova lecturer, I am told, who covered this country from coast to coast and gave the same lecture over and over again in exactly the same words with the same voice intonations and gestures. Apparently, he was always able to draw crowds and hold them, so he couldn't have been bored himself. But to me that is entirely inexplicable. I can talkon the same subject if I am getting a new slant on it from other people, or am able to draw something new out of my own head about it. “However, I know quite well that I haven't the gift which makes it possible to rform that repetition stunt and keep it fresh and interesting to others as well as to myself.

First Picnic Lunch

In the matter of entertaining or of work, I have never had such a complete dose of either one that 1 found myself getting really bored. Whatever work I am doing is interesting, because it is a game to find time enough to do it, and the same holds true for entertainment. hd We rode again this morning at 7 o'clock. A little after 9 five of us started off in two cars for Williamsburg, Va. We took Route 1 into Fredericksburg and then Route 17, which goes nearer the water and eventually brings you to Gloucester Point, from which one takes.the ferry to Yorktown. We have had our first picnic lunch in a pine grove. Mrs. Scheider is using the picnic basket as a typewriter desk. All our guests are asleep under different trees, but before long we wiil drive the last fqgw miles

to Gloucester.

New Books Today

HE juvenile court of the future will be a scientific a tribunal having little in common with the courts of today, according to Juvenile * Judge Malcolm Hatfield of Berrien County, Michigan. " The causes of juvenile delinquency and the shortcomings in the present method of dealing with the problem are outlined by Judge Hatfield in his book, CHILDREN IN COURT (Paebar). Judge Hatfield claims that government can be ‘blamed for much of the juvenile delinquency today. - He explains that conditions in government, due to red-tape, politics, prejudiced authorities, inadequate correctional institutions and economic legislation are the major causes not only for individuals becoming first offenders but for their subsequent pursuit of crime as a career. ; One serious fault of probation and parole, according to the author, is that parole boards have not stressed the fact that the individual is being treated and not his offense. He recommends that as a remedy every prisoner and his family be taken into the confidence of the probation officer so they can understand what is required of the offender. Judge Hatfield points out that the origin of much juvenile delinquency can be traced directly to the community, He urges the public to recognize the importance of supervised recreation for its youth. Judge Hatfield also cites the part churches, schools ‘and the home can play in curbing juvenile delinquency. “Family. church and the school must always remain united,” he says, “because they resist all attempts to undermine our present civilization.” The author illustrates his points with specific

cases

* Presidential

Second Section

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(Contained in an authorized advance publication of his notes and, com-

On the Good Neighbor Policy (II) -

(Yesterday the President's notes told of the beginning of the

Good Neighbor policy, and of the events in Cuba leading flight of President. Machado in August, 1933. -

The following account from

up to the the President’s books continues the

story of his Administration’s acts in Latin American affairs.)

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FTER the flight of Gen. Machado, a Provisional Gov-

ernment in Cuba was Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.

established, headed by Dr. This Provisional Government

was in turn overthrown on Sept. 5, 1933. Thereupon the military forces in Cuba assisted in the installation of a provisional regime composed of a committee of five civilians, respansive to the authorities of the Army, to the students of the University of Havana and

to a small group of agitat mental activity.

ors who had entered govern-

The new regime was not successful in obtaining any support from other bodies of public opinion in Cuba. The

governmental system was thereupon modified, and the system was again adopted. Dr. Ramon

- Grau San Martin, one of the-committee of five, was

selected Provisional

President. This regimé also endeavored to obtain the support of general public opinion. During this period our Government was unwilling to accord recognition to the Grau San Martin administration because of the lack of general support of public opinion in Cuba and also be=cause it seemed unable to maintain order or to carry out many other normal and necessary functions of government.

A’ statement was issued by me |

on Nov. 23, 1933, primarily to inform the general public, both in the United States and in the rest of the American continent as well as in Cuba, of the reasons for our failure to recognize the Grau San Martin regime. (Editor’s Note—It was felt, the statement said, “that no official action of the United States should at any time operate as an obstacle to the free and untrammeled determination by the Cuban people of their own destinies.”) On Jan. 18, 1934, Col. Carlos Mendieta was installed as Provisional President of Cuba, and promptly designated the Cabinet of the Provisional Government, The Government of Col. Mendieta was supported by all of the recognized political parties - in Cuba, and there were immediate evidences of: overwhelming popular support. Becauge of these facts and. ‘because of: the apparent ability of his Government to maintain public order, the United

| States extended recognition to the

Government of Cuba on Jan. 23, 1934.

End of Platt Amendment

(Editor's Note—A new treaty with Cuba was ratified by the U. S. Senate on June 9, 1934.) This treaty abrogated the old treaty of 1903, which contained the

so-called Platt Amendment. Un-

der the latter, Cuba had agreed to consent to United States intervention in certain specified circumstances, and had likewise agreed not to make treaties with foreign powers which tended to impair its independence, and not to contract any public debt beyond its ability to service from ordinary revenues. : The: treaty of 1903, in the light of the situation existing a generation later, was an anachronism, and I early determined upon its replacement by a modern instrument responsive to changed conditions. The treaty of 1934, which constitutes the present basis for our relations with Cuba, abrogated all of the above mentioned provisions of the Treaty of Relations of 1903. This action on our part in relinquishing the special rights and the potential control which we had in the internal and external affairs of Cuba, not only strength-

ened the friendship between Cuba °

and the Uniied States, but very materially increased the good will and confidence with which we are

regarded by all the other American republics. Here ‘was additional definite proof that the United States was opposed to any further armed intervention in the American countries. (Editor’s Note — Since disturbances continued, on June 29 a proclamation prohibited export of munitions to Cuba. An old law of 1922 gave the President this authority when domestic violenée existed in “any American country.”)

Case of Panama Misunderstandings arising from

certain provisions of the treaty °

of 1903, between the United States and Panama, had become intensifled by the continued economic depression, which was being felt with considerable severity in Panama. There were several points of friction between the two Governments. Panama, for ‘example, considered the right which had been conferred upon the United States to maintain public order in the cities of Panama and Colon, de rogatory to its sovereignty and inconsistent with the policy of the United States of nonintervention in the affairs of American republics. President Arias of Panama sent word that he wished to come to Washington, to discuss with me the whole question of Panaman-' ian and American relations in the" Canal Zone. I suggested that he come. He arrived on Oct. 9, 1933, and. stayed at the White House until Oct. 11, during which time we had a very satisfactory opportunity to discuss pending gquestions between our two countries. . It was a very practical way to deal with problems arising: be“tween nations, a ‘On Oct” 19, 1933, we issued" a joint statement, reviewing the broad principles upon which we believed, after a completely frank discussion, a treaty between the two nations should be based. As ‘a result of these conversations, delegates of the Republic of Panama came to Washington to discuss formal agreements.

ments to “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt”)

Article No. 26

Promoting his good neighbor policy among South American nations, President Roosevelt sent Secretary of State Cordell Hull fo the Pan-American conference held at Montevideo, Uruguay, in December, 1933.

the signing of a series of agreements on March 2, 1936, defining the relations between the two countries.

Montevideo Parley

(Editor's Note—A White House statement on Nov. 9, 1933, announced completion of plans for a conference in Montevideo on Dec. 3. The President, it said, considered the meeting “of such importance” that he had directed Secretary of State Cordell Hull to attend in person.) : . This conference was the seventh International Conference of Amer= ican States. This was the first time, however, that the Secretary of State of the United States was personally present as a delegate. Not only did Secretary Hull attend this Conference, but on his trip to and from Montevideo, he took occasion to visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama. "This conference provided an excellent vehicle, not only for the proper application of the new good neighbor policy of the United States, but also to induce the other nations of Central and South America to adopt and follow a similar policy. I have already spoken of the attitude of mistrust and suspicion existing among the 21 republics in America before March 4, 1933. The first objective of. our delegates at this conference was to tear down what was left by this, time of the wall of : misunder~ standing ‘and préjudice between ourselves and the other republics and to eliminate entirely any traces of enmity and resentment by their people toward us. I believe that the attitude and acts of our delegates at Montevideo were successful in convincing the other nations of our sin- " cerity and determination to remain a good neighbor.

- + These negotiations culminated in

Times Special : ASHINGTON, April 21.— The Labor Department has suspended its 20-year-old policy of deporting all alien Communists, pending a Supreme Court fight in which the Government will defend the policy. Meantime, the Department's hearing on a deportation warrant against Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. chieftain and head of the Longshoremen’s Union, has been in-

definitely postponed. The hearing was scheduled to start next Monday .|in San Francisco. The Supreme Court fight will be rushed in an effort to get a decision before the Court adjourns in ] June. The Labor Department’s deci-

Bridges Hearing Delayed : By Deportation Ruling

sion to appeal a court ruling overturning its policy was announced Tuesday. The ruling was made at New Orleans by U. S. Circuit Judge Joseph Hutcheson, who reversed a deportation order because the Government had not proved that the Communist Party was currently advocating violent overthrow of the Government. In the Bridges case, the Government’s chief evidence purports to show that the unionist is or once was a member of the Communist Party. Mr. Bridges has denied he is a member. « The appeal will place Robert H. Jackson, liberal lawyer just installed as Solicitor General, in the embarrassing position of fighting a Supreme Court: battle against a

minority party.

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Mr.: Hull is shown as guest of honor at a dinner At left is Dr. Alberto Mane, Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Terra, wife of the Uruguayan President.

Between them is Senora

Following the flight of President Machado in August, 1933, several

~ governments were set up succes-

sively in Cuba, none of which was. able toxgain support. Finally, on Jan--18,} 1934, Col. Carlos Mendieta (above) was installed as Provisional President of Cuba. His government was recognized by the United States on Jan. 23, 1934.

Conventions Adopted

Several instruments of international agreement were adopted at this conference to which the United States became a party;

for example: (1). Convention on Nationality of Women; (2) Con-

vention on Extradition; (3) Con-

- vention on Rights and Duties of

States; (4) Additional Protocol to the General Convention of Inter-American Conciliation of, 1929, : The cause of hemisphere was strengthened, not only by the signing of the Addi-

tional Protocol above mentioned,

but also by insistence at the conference that hostilities cease in the Chaco, and by the inauguration at the conference of steps leading to the termination of the war between Bolivia and Paraguay. \ A broad constructive economic program was presented by Secretary of State Hull, and adopted at the conference. It attacked the the destructive commercigl policies of artificial trade barriers and high protective tariffs. The

Governments subscribed to the

principles of reducing these tariffs and artificial barriers to trade, of the abolition of export and import prohibitions and restrictions, and of equality of treatment and the adoption of the most-favored-nation clause. : The Convention of the Rights and Duties of States contained an article to the effect that no state has the right to intervene in the affairs of another. I believe that the signing of this convention, after the positive refusal by the United States to intervene in Cuba in August, 1933, served ta convince the other countries of this hemisphere of the absolute sincerity

peace on this .

President Harmodio Arias of Panama is shown during his stay in Washington in October, 1933, when he and President Roosevelt discusssed pending questions petween the two countries.

of this new nonintervention policy on the part of the United Stapes. The outstanding achievements at Montevideo can bé sumimarized as (1) creation of a new spirit of friendship and confidence among the republics of America; (2) the beginning of a strong liberal trade policy; (3) steps toward the establishment of peace machinery; (4) steps in the improvement of inter - American communication and transportation; (5) collective adoption of the principle of nonintervention. On the whole it was responsible for improving and promoting a new era of permanent friendliness, understanding and economic and neighborly co-operation which exists throughout the Western Hemisphere.

NEXT — The Leticia Dispute; Chaco War; New Deal for Haiti.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Mr. Parry's Ghost Frightened Nof Only the Campers, but the Peacocks And a Professor From Yale as Well,

NEXT month, if all goes well (and I don’ see why it shouldn’t), the Contemporary Club will listen to Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale. If Dr. Phelps has any time left on his hands, the chances are he will look up the members of the D. M. Parry family. He always does. ei The friendship goes back to the time :the Parry boys—Max and Ad—went to Yale which was somee

time around 1908 when safety razors started coming in along with pajamas and men’s shirts that buttoned up the front. It was the period, too, when Mr. D. M. Parry elected to live the life of a country gentleman, and moved out to Golden Hill. Here he built a house big enough to take care of the Parry family (seven kids), and surrounded it with the decorative : features of a country place, in- pe Scherrer cluding a flock of peacocks. I men- : tion the peacocks because they're going to turn up later. : Well, it was in this house one summer Saturday night that Dr. Phelps had the experience of his life. As near as I recall the story, the family and their guest had retired for the night after an evening of great fun when about 3 o'clock that morning Mr. Parry was awakened by a goshawful noise. He knew right away what it was, picked up a loaded gun, stole out of the house in his nightshirt, and made for the bottoms between the river and the canal. Seems that ever since Mr. Parry had lived in Golden Hill, his Saturday nights were made miserable by a gang of -campers who picked his place to do their drinking and carousing. I don’t know whether Mr, Parry's solicitude for his guest had anything to do with it, or whether that particular night was more than Mr. Parry could stand. It really doesn’t matter. Of paramount interest is the historical fact that Mr. Parry picked the night of Dr. Phelps’ visit to clean out the campers and put an end to his troubles.

. On Watch for the Indians

Well, the way things turned out, Mr. Parry didn’t have to do any shooting. Seems that when the campers saw the white apparition on the towpath, they fled for parts unknown leaving Mr. Parry no alternative but to go back to bed. It was on his way back to bed that Mr. Parry encountered the peacocks. When they saw the ghost, they let out an awful yell, and I hope I don’t have to tell you what a peacock sounds like when he’s scared. Next morning at breakfast first thing Mr. Parry did was to ask his guest what kind of a night hed had. Not so good, said Dr. Phelps. It started out all right when he hit the pillow, he said, but it turned into something ghastly later on. Toward morning, - said Dr. Phelps, he heard a series of awful noises— like that of a woman screaming—and when he went to the window to have a look, sure enough, there was a woman clad all in white. When Dr. Phelps heard the door of the Parry house open to let the woman in, he rushed back to bed and pulled the covers over his head. He said he didn’t sleep a wink after that waiting for the Indians to show up. : |

Jane Jordan— Jealousy Often Arises From Desire To Dominate, Jane Tells Husband.

EAR JANE JORDAN—Several weeks ago I! married a young lady. I love her with all my heart, but try as I may I can’t avoid being jealous. I have no reason at all for being jealous. Please help ‘me, I do want to make a success of my marriage

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” » ” - Answer—All that I know about you is contained in the 47 words printed above. Four facts emerge from those words. You are married, in love, jealous " without reason and want to make a success of your marriage. Since you provide me with not one clue to your trouble, how do you expect. me‘to help you?

Are you jealous of other men or of your wife's women friends? Are you jealous of her past or her present? Are you jealous of her mother, her attachment to her family or her personal success? Jealousy takes many forms, but I do not know which one torments you. ; . All I can do is offer a few generalities about jealousy which may shoot wide of the mark and probably do you no good. Sometimes jealousy arises not so much from overpowering love as from the over=powering desire to dominate. Some people have an insatiable thirst for the spotlight and cannot bear to share it with another. This comes from poor training in co-operation with others and means that you will have to learn after marriage what you should have learned in the nursery—namely consideration for others. : » Self-distrust is another common cause of jealousy. One does not believe in one’s own attractions and ° doesn’t feel worthy of love. Such a person is cone tinually expecting bad luck in love and often un= * consciously courts it by his own pessimistic attitude. Sometimes a man is so attached to his own men friends that he actually is jealous if they regard his wife with favor. He wants to be first with them and

- first with her, too, and it is hard for him to tell

which rouses his jealousy most—the fact that: they like her or the fact that she likes them. a «These are only a few of the roots from which jealousy springs. If none of them fit your case, perhaps you will be interested enough to write another more detail. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. 5

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, April 21.—It’s 4 wonderful thing te have a goal to hit for, but it would be ‘a lot. nicer if everybody could be happy after they reached their goal. . : I knew a fella whose family had always been poor and ‘it was his ambition to become a millionaire. He says “I'm gettin’ sick and tired of being looked down on by the millionaires.” He went to work earnestly and schemed and saved until finally I heard he had acquired a million dollars. Not long after that I met him and I says “Well, now, are you happy since you became a millionaire?" and he says “No, the multimillionaires snub me.” : (Copyright, 1938) 4

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, April 21.—Henry Ford who, due to 4 the recession, has become known as “a little businessman,” is going to visit Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. | = Nobody knows just what the purpose is, but ine siders figure that Hank wants to buy the New Deal for his museum of early American antiques at Dear

"Mr, Ford probably wants to sell Franklin D. so four-wheel brakes to slow down the Governmemt

8 2 : , : Only last week he and Mrs. Ford celebrated their . 50th wedding anniversary. -Now if ment and business can reconcile their lovers’ quarrel, the Ford

; proves how long and suc