Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1938 — Page 9

Second Section

‘imes

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

agabond From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

‘A Veritable Sherlock Holmes ls The Young Lady Acting as Hostess To Albuquerque's Health Seekers.

A LBUQUERQUE, N. M., April 25.—The city of Albuquerque (population 85,000; elevation 5008) is quite a haven for people who are sick and can’t get well at home. In fact, Albuquerque advertises for sick people. Out here you must always call them “health seekers.” Some 12,000 people write in every year wanting to know about the “Albuquerque cure.” All of these get the regular literature; and some 2000,

who have made specific inquiries, get personal letters. Out of the whole bunch, about 350 health seekers actually arrive. (Hundreds more who arent sick come for winter vacations.) Now I happen to know the young lady who is in charge of getting

PAGE 9!

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

MONDAY. APRILZ5 08.1 © lado

R's Own S of the New Deal F. D. R's Own Story of the New Dea (Contained in an authorized advance publication of his notes and com- ate ‘ments to “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt”) = ‘When Knighthood Was in Flower

Article No. 29 : ; 2 Grossed a Mere $12,000 buns On Social Security : The Week If Played at English's.

(“There is no tragedy in growing old,” said the President, “but . there is tragedy in growing old without means of support.” : SOON after the Bowen-Merrill people pub 5 He was adivesing the Advisory, Council of ihe Commitiee ou lished “When Knighthood was in Flow= conomic Security, a -in mid- e problem o ” / : ‘ government insurance for the aged, infirm and unemployed, Town- er, the postman brought Charles Major a sendites, Share-the-Wealthers and others were then clamoring so letter. It was from a prominent New: York loudly ha the President was sure the time was ripe for such manager pointing out the dramatic possibili«Organizations promoting fantastic schemes have aroused hopes ties of the story and asking for the right to. which cannot possibly be fulfilled,” he said, “Through their ac- produce it on the stage. While the letter was still fhese health Seekers 2 Some oy. Hvis they have increased the difficulties of getting sound legisla- under consideration, a messenger boy showed up. charge of them when they arrive. The group organized to study social security consisted of men The telegram was from Julia Marlowe, who, ap= Her job would drive me nuts, but and women drawn from departments of the Government and from parently had the same hunch. she eats it up. She is gay and | various private activities, including insurance actuaries, physicians, Mr. Major took the first train immensely interested in everything, | dentists and experts on hospitals, public health, child welfare and out of Shelbyville, made connections Mr. Pyle and being of such a temperament | unemployment relief. Chairman of the Advisory Council was Frank at Indianapolis for St. Louis, and 2 she undoubtedly has one of the most P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina. , answered Miss Marlowe's telegram interesting jobs in the city. My friend meets the "The report of this committee was the basis of the President's in person. He was a bit cagey at health seekers at the train. She has been in cor- message to Congress of Jan. 17. 1935, recommending a social security first, but that night Miss Marlowe respondence with them before they left home. She | 1,0 74 wag neatly timed in anticipation of the meetings of 44 state took him to see a performance of has told them what it will cost to live (anywhere legislatures. which was important because of the system of Federal- “As You Like It,” and so impressed from $60 a month on up). She has their number State collaboration contemplated in it. : : . him with her acting—to say nothing before she ever sees them. Echoes of the $50-a-week-at-age-60 plan of the Townsendites were of her beauty—that she had him Well, when the train pulls in, the fun starts. Ap- | still reverberating about legislative halls, which perhaps explained a eating out of her hand. So much parently most health seekers have never been away Presidential note of caution. “It is everwhelmingly important,” he so that she completély won him from home before. They have to have things done told Congress, “to avoid any danger of permanently discrediting the over. The following week Miss Marlowe moved to ‘for -them. My friend, who is a trained nurse, picks sound and necessary policy of Federal legislation for economic se- Cincinnati, and Mr. Major went down to see: her “out the house. She sees about the utilities. She curity by attempting to apply it on foo ambitious a scale...” again. This time they signed a contract. "does the shopping, and frequently cooks the first The act as finally passed, on\Aug. 14, 1935, was hailed by the The first performance of “When Knighthood Was : Bat doye \ in Flower” occurred on Nov. 27, 1900, and, strangely enough, in St. Louis at the Olympic Theater. Mr. - Major was present with his wife and sister, and so were Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ross. ;

Mr. Scherrer 5

‘ of the Social Security Board are, left to right, Arthur J. Altmeyer, John G. Winant, chairman, and Vincent Miles.

Complicated machinery that controls old-age and unemployment benefits for-30,000,000 people is under the direction of the Social Security Board. Members

As to unemployment compensa-

supper. President. If Congress, he said, “had done nothing more than pass _ She stays with them anywhere from a few hours this bill. the session wouid be regarded ‘as historic for all time.” to three days. And after they've settled and maybe Nevertheless its terms did not provide as much insurance protection ‘begun to’ get well, ‘she still keeps track of them, ‘as he would have liked, as he reveals for the first time in the ollow-

“although they don’t always know it. She sends the . doctor to somebody who isn’t doing all right. She - scolds those who start burning their night-life candles too soon. i It delights ‘my. friend to meet one of her young . health seekers whom she hasn't seen for weeks, and ‘say to her: “Well, you were out dancing twice this .week with Joe, and once with Jim, and you better cut it out or I'll .be burying you one of these days.” The health seekers never know how my friend . finds out, and it gives them the creeps, so they behave for- a while. I suspect my friend of being an old busybody at heart. in

Don’t Get the Wrong Impression

My friend is also an expert in what to do when the . Grim Reaper comes. For with all due regard to Albuquerque's climate, some people do die after they get here. My friend is probably the most expert casket- : picker in New Mexico. She knows all the rates, rites . and rituals. She has mourned over paupers and millionaires. : I must not give you the impression that every health seeker who comes to Albuquerque dies. This city is now run by people who came out here to die. . They lived, and now they are successful and holding the commercial and civic reins. And the thing I like most about Albuquerque is that it doesn’t look like a health center at all. You can walk up and down the main street of Albuquerque all day, and the only person you'll see who looks as if he'd be dead within a week will be me, and I don’t count.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Praises Newspaperwomen Who Received Journalism Awards.

yy Saeion, Sunday—On Friday aiternoon, the children of the Todhunter School surprised me by giving a very creditable performance of James Barrie’s “Mary Rose.” . My brother and some friends had dinner with me and we went to see a play called “The Circle,” which I much enjoyed. Tallulah Bankhead and Grace George were both excellent in their parts, as were all the rest of the cast. Afterward I attended the New York Newspaper= women’s Club dance and was very happy to be able ito give the prizes in three different fields of journalism to Marion Young, Dorothy Dunbar Bromley and Eunice Barnard. | I admire all these women so much, who through sheer hard work and ability have climbed to success in their chosen profession. It was a great privilege to have an opportunity to share in their honors. I always wish I could stay on and really have some of the fun of those parties as well as the ceremonies. Even Miss Ida Tarbell, who was one of the judges, was still there when I was obliged to leave in order to get some sleep on the night train before I reached

Washington Saturday morning.

Joins President on Boat

Yesterday was a busy day. I started out by having a photograph taken with Mr. Stuart McDonald, which announced the competition to be held for architects by the Ladies Home Journal for the best plans for small and low-cost houses. This is the field in which the greatest amount of building should be done in the next few years. From my point of view, it is the most interesting field, so I am delighted to have the opportunity of seeing these plans and serving as 2 judge in the competition. Back at the White House, I received 450 members of the Children of the Revalution. At 12:30 I went over to greet the Pen Women at their luncheon, and then held the largest reception of the year for the Daughters of the American Revolution. = Today, at 9:30, a few Girl and Boy Scouts came in to be received. At noon we left for Quantico to join the President on board the U. S. S. Potomac and return with him to Washington.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

«rg~RUE lovers of the Victorian’ domestic traditior 1 are born rather than made—and not all bor in the reign of Good Queen Victoria either.” For these lovers of today E. M. Delafield (pseudonym for E. M.

De La Pasture) has written LADIES AND GENTLE-

MEN IN VICTORIAN FICTION (Harper) in which she brings back all the “quaint horrors and devastating virtues of polite manners and hierarchical relationships.” The author quotes lavishly from the pages of Charlotte Yonge, Mrs. Henry Wood, Elizabeth 8S. Phelps and Rhoda Broughton. She restores the Victorian “Papa and Mamma” and their despotic emi‘nence; the poor creature whose destiny it was to be known as “only the governess”; the melancholy art of “enjoying ill health”; and that act which brought tears, blushes or swoons to the genteel ladies—the «declaration of feeling” by the young man who could «hot contain his sudden joy, but spoke incoherent words, and well-nigh wept over her” when she replied

he must speak to Papa. first. = 8 : HERE is a real distinction in the te and the T beautitu wood engravings of H. E. Bates’ ‘DOWN THE RIVER (Holt), in which the author re-creates in leisurely and pleasant fashion the atmosphere of rural England. When Bates was just a lad, he and his father spent many an afternoon wandering along the banks of the Nene, a prosaic, flowerless, navigated river, watering what was often a very ugly valley, or along the Ouse, which had all the soft charm which the other lacked. The two rivers fascinated him then, and they have continued to do so. Surviving, alone, the many catastrophic changes which the years have brought, they symbolize to him the indestructible.

‘Anyone Who is interested in contemplating the ways ‘'of man and nature, whether he be farmer, fishTI low spending

ER IOV

yyeler, or na

8 #8 8

Purposes of Act

der state laws.”

to see, it is a definite beginning along the proper road. It is a step which should have been taken in America a generation ago as it has been taken in other countries.

velt from .His Forthcoming Books.

II the preparation of campaign speeches as well as speeches on other occasions I have called on many different people for advice and assistance. This was also my custom during my term as Governor of New York. On various subjects I have received drafts and memoranda from different people, varying from shore suggestions as to a sentence here and there, to long memoranda of factual material and, in some cases complete addresses.

In addition to such suggestions I make it a practice to keep a “subject file.” This file is kept by Miss Marguerite A. LeHand, who has been my personal secretary for almost 20 years and who is my personal secretary in the White House. She has renderzd invaluable, loyal service to me during my terms as Governor and as President, in relieving me of innumerable details and in giving sound, common-sense suggestions. Whenever anything catches my eye, either in the mail or in the press or in the course of reading articles, memoranda, or books, which I think will,be of value in the preparation of a speech, I ask her to put it away in the speech file. A large part of this material passes through her hands regularly because there is brought to her every day my personal mail as well as mail which the Executive Office Staff believes I should see personally. Much of this mail she handles herself, bringing the rest to my personal attention. I

While the amounts provided the amount of insurance and protection which I should like

A Comment of Franklin D. Roose-

ing hitherto unpublished note to be included in his “Public Papers.”)

HE Social Security Act was primarily designed to provide 'the.average worker with some assurance that when cycles of unemployment come or when his working days are over, he will have enough money to live decently. The Democratic National Platform of 1932 stated : “We advocate unemployment and old-age insurance un-

in the act do not give

. The Act also relates to the following problems, in addition to unemployment compensation and old-age security: aid to’ dependent children, maternal and child welfare services, aid to the blind, extension of public health services, vocational rehabilitation.

Roosevelt Explains Method Of Preparing Speeches

go over this mail with her and many, of the replies she dictates herself. For those that require personal dictation by we, replies are dictated to Miss Grace Tully, who acts as my personal stenographer and as general assistant to Miss LeHand.

“Assembling: Material In preparing a speech I take the various drafts and suggestions and also the material which has been accumulated in the speech file on various subjects, read them, have them revised and then dictate my own draft, usually to Miss Tully. Naturally, the final speech will contain some of the thoughts and even some of the sentences which appeared in some of the drafts submitted. :

I suppose it is human that two or three of the many persons with

- whom I have consulted in the

preparation of speeches should seek to give the impression that they have been responsible for the writing of the speeches, and that one or two of them should claim authorship or should state that some other individual was the author. Such assertions, however, are not accurate. . On some of my speeches I have prepared as many as five or six successive drafts myself after reading drafts and suggestions submitted by other people; and I have changed drafts from time to time after ‘consulting with other people either personally or by telephone. :

tion, the plan of the Act: is to establish a co-operative FederalState system. The Act levies a Federal tax on total payrolls of all

employers (with certain excep-

tions) equal to 1 per cent in 19836, 2 per cent in 1937, and 3:per cent thereafter. It allows, however, to

employers a credit of 90 per cent’

against such tax for any contributions made by them to any state unemployment insurance fund approved by the Social Security Board which administers the Act. The purpose of this is to in-

" sure substantial uniformity of un-. -plans

employment insurance among the various states and invite all the respective states, to legislate in this field. In: order further to encourage the states to co-operate, the Act provides

When President Got | _ His Towns Mixed

A Comment of President Roosevelt From His Forthcoming Books (Editor’s Note—“My friends, I am glad to come to Bloomingburg . . .” said the Presi“dent, opening a campaign speech on Oct. 14, 1936. ‘But he was not in Bloomingburg, which is in New York; he was in Bloomington, Ill. The newspaper correspondents laughed. Although the slip is one of the sort that happens to touring public speakers innumerable times, the President has an explanation for it, and it is a sentimental one.) .It will be noticed that in my remarks at Bloomington, Ill, I referred to the city as Bloomingburg. The mistake caused much amusement among the members of the press and of my party on the campaign train. Sle The reason for the error was that I had received a telegram that very morning stating that by old friend, former Assemblyman John K. Evans of Bloomingburg, N.Y,, was very ill. In fact, he died in 1937. He was a former close associate of mine during the Senatorial contest in the 1911 Legislature in Albany. I was thinking of him.and our past association, as I proceeded to the rear platform of the train to speak. The “slip” was caused by the tenor of my thoughts at the time; and I did not realize the mistake until the train was again under way and it was laughingly brought to my attention.

by Frankl . - Roosevelt; tributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc

on July 19, 1936.

There is tragedy in growing old without means of support, Presi-

dent Roosevelt once asserted. That was what send, gray-haired Long Beach, Cal,. physician, thought toe, and he Revolving Pension movement.” He .is shawn

organized the Old-Age

Dr. Francis: E. Town-

(left) with Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota, Union Party

candidate . for President,

that grants ‘maybe made to the states to enable them to meet all proper administrative costs in providing unemployment insurance. Two Provisions :

‘As to old-age security, there

“are two separate provisions: (1) The Act provides for grants .of

money to states to help them meet the cost of old-age pensions allowed under state laws to old people in need of relief. The grants are to match the amount contributed by the state, With maximum Pederal contribution of $15 per month for each individual

plus a small amount for adminis"trative purposes.

(2) The statute also provides for a tax for old-age insurance to be levied in equal amounts upon all employers and employees (with a few exceptions) commencing at 1 per cent and gradually increasing to 3 per cent each. Out of these taxes the Federal Government will

pay a definite amount of money as a retirement pension commencing Jan. 1, 1942, ranging from a minium of $10 per month to $85 per month, depending upon the

number of working years during

which the employee has contributed, to retired individuals 65 years of age and over. :

at a meeting of Townsendites in Cleveland

The Act also authorizes grants

to the states to assist them in re=

lief. to dependent children and blind persons. To obtain this Federal assistance each state must submit a plan conforming to certain standards established by the

* Act; and the Board must approve

the plan. The grants for aid to the blind are on an equal matching basis with each state, but the Federal cost is not ‘to exceed $15

per month for each individual plus

a small amount for administrative purposes. Grants for dependent children are authorized on the basis of $1 Federal money for each $2 spent by the state. The Social Security Act has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of Helvering vs. Davis, and Steward Machine vs. Davis, (1937). It is the foundation upon which we hope in America to provide a real form of financial security for

. workers, so that the spectre of un-

employment and old-age destitution may be banished from the American home and farm.

opyright under Inter- © Unior

national Copyrigh served under Inter-American Copyright Union (1910) by Franklin.D. Roosevelt; distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Cc.

NEXT—The Campaign: of 1936.

: INC.TT, M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF

“Our new offi ° boy is so elegant that no or

Jasper—By Frank Owen

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Of which country: is Cairo the capital? ~ : 2—Name the instrument used in determining the specific gravity of liquids? 3—Where is the China Sea? 4—Who was President of the U. S. wien the first census was taken? 2 : 5—Name the planetoid that - approaches nearest to the ° earth? ; 6—Can the President pardon anyone who has been con- . victed of a crime? 2 7—Name the author of “Plain Tales From the Hills.” rr 8 = Answers 1—Egypt. : 2—Hydrometer. = : 3—Off the southeast coast of Asia. : le

. '4_George Washington.

6—He can only pardon persons who have been convicted of crimes under Federal laws.

| T—Rudyard Kipling.

” #8 =

ASK THE TIMES

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to. The Indianapolis Times

: Washington Service = Bureau,

1013 13th St, N. W., Washing-

_ ton, D. C. Legal and medical

advice cannot be given, nor can

. extended - research be _ under-.

. spent on relief.

Two weeks later on Dec. 17, 1200, the play opened at English’s. The Majors and the Rosses showed up again. So did everybody else. The boxoffice took in $12,000 that week, which was going some when you consider that the highest priced seat brought $1.50,

Hoosier Supply Sought Booth Tarkington didn’t get to see “When Knighte hood was in Flower” until the middle of the week. That’s because he was in New York when the play opened here. When he got back, he brought news that Richard Mansfield had bought the dramatic rights to “Monsieur Beaucaire.” Mr. Tarkington wouldn’t say anything more, but everybody knew that it was only a question of time now when impresarios would stop importing foreign plays and turn to Ine diana for their supply. ; It certainly looked like if, because thie samme day

.Mr. Tarkington spilled his news the Bowen-Merrill

people brought the Rev. Charles D. Goss up from Cincinnati to discuss the possibility of turning his literary success, “The Redemption of David Corson” (another B.-M. book), into a play with Julia Marlowe in the part of Pepeeta, the gypsy. The Rev. Mr, Goss, because of his profession, was somewhat loathe to have his book on the stage, but like Mr. Major he, too, submitted when Miss Marlowe got done talking to him.

Jane Jordan—

- Monotony May Cause Wife to Lose Sight of Marriage's Other Values.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am 26 and my husband is 40. We have been married eight years. He has a small business which he has had since we've been married. It is so confining that it takes seven days and nights a week. We have no money for any thing and haven’t accomplished anything in come parison to the time and work we have put in. We never have any time for recreation. Would I be justified in leaving my husband. : DISCOURAGED.

Answer—I don’t know. The fact that a man works night and day hardly constitutes grounds for divorce, and you mention no other complaint. If he has any claim on your loyalty and affection at all, it might make you pretty miserable to go away leaving him; but if he’s a cold, hard, selfish person, you would feel only a sense of release.

Could you earn a living for yourself without pute ting in long hours, or would you simply duplicate your present experience without a companion to share your discouragement? Have you a family whom you can visit for a while to see if you would miss your husband in spite of everything?

A dull, monotonous life, full of work with no time for play, may have warped your viewpoint until you have lost sight of certain valuable things in your marriage. Your husband, too, must have lost his courage. Perhaps there is something you can do to restore it. : » » ”

D*= JANE JORDAN-—I am a pretty girl of 14 and a freshman in high scheol. I met a boy of my age in my class. He has told several boys that he thinks I am pretty and that he likes me very much, Sometimes he notices me and other times he does not, My parents think I am too young to go with the boys. Do you think so? What makes this boy act this way? How can I make him know that I care for him? LO Y HEART.

Answer—It is natural for a girl of 14:to be intere ested in boys and nice for her to see them in her own home and at the homes of her friends. Perhaps all your parents object to is having you out late at night with a boy. Your boy friend doubtless is shy. Pere haps he thinks the same things about you. You don’t want to show a hoy that you care for him too much. Be pleasant, friendly and responsive when the opportunity presents itself. This is all you can do. JANE JORDAN.

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

‘Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, April 25.—The other day I heard 8 politician braggin’ about how many miles of good road he had put in and how much money he had It sounded awfully nice but I do tm he shoulda given the taxpayer a little credit or it. It's like my Aunt Dutty when she was proudly showin’ her new Easter bonnet the other day. She says “The beautiful part of it is that I earned all = the money to buy this new hat myself.” I says “Well,

' how didja earn the money?” and she says “By cuttin’

down on my husband’s lunch.” (Copyright, 1938) ‘ i |

‘Walter O’Keefe—

J Suizvoon April 25.—Baseball was 100 years

old last week, and it’s one American institution that everybody approves of. Nobody wants to make any change in it except the people who follow the St. Louis Browns. At the opening game in Washington, President Roosevelt threw the first ball. His act went over pbeautifully—much better | than two weeks ago when he tried to throw out the Controller General.

* This year it’s the businessmen who are peeking

“through a hole in the fence while the kids are inside.

The Japanese are the only other nation who are crazy about the game, but their season is starting late this year. Most of their boys are still training over in China. = = dn Baseball is‘very much like the game of - politics. The fellow in the stands can get as nasty as he wants