Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1938 — Page 9

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From lpdiana =Ernie Pyle

+ You Eat Chicken With Your Fingers And Hear Some Funny Tales When You Visit New Mexico's Governor.

ww 5 ANTA FE, N. M., April 26.—The newspapers of New Mexico are astoundingly indifferent in their reporting of the news. I think I've read the society page of every paper in the state looking for a simple little

item which should have read: . “Governor. Clyde Tingley and Mrs. Tingley entertained at dinner in the mansion Saturday night for Mr. Ernest T. Pyle, the renowned roving reporter, : and Mrs. Pyle. Both dress and conversatio® were informal. A good time was had by all, observers close to the Governor reported.” But could you find any such item? No, you could not. So if the newspapers won't report it, I will. We drove up in front of the mansion at 6:45, nearly half an hour late. When we went in we said, “Will we get arrested for parking out front?” And the Governor said: “Haw haw haw! I hope you do. I sure hope you do. Then I can issue a pardon for you. Haw haw haw!” We all sat down and started puffing cigarets as though we were smoking a fox out of a hole. But the Governor went “Haw haw haw!” a few times, and what little ice there was quickly meited away. : We had fried chicken for dinner, and strawberry tarts for dessert. We ate the chicken with our fingers. The table was full of lighted candles, and flowers out of the Governor’s own garden.

All through dinner the Governor kept getting telephone calls. The colored maid would bring a French phone on a long wire over from the sideboard, and the Governor would talk there in front of all of us. He likes to tell how President Roosevelt phones him from Washington, and calls him “Clyde.” (Tip to Mr. Roosevelt—People who know the Governor better than you call him “Ting”; and Mrs. Tingley calls him “Bus.” Might remember that for your next call.) ‘ After we had finished dinner we just sat around the table and gabbed. The.Governor is loud and blunt, and_you enjoy listening to him. He likes to tell how he gets the best of his enemies. The Governor doesn’t get away with all the conversation though. Mrs. Tingley herself is quite a person, and says right out whatever she’s thinking. She says that sometimes when the Governor is making a political speech and gets to shooting off at the mouth too much, she kicks him if she’s sitting close enough.

Mrs. Tingley Is Well-Liked

Some people say Mrs. Tingley is the power behind the throne. But it is my impression that they're a double-barreled power, both heavily loaded, and quick on the draw. . ; Mrs. Tingley is one of the best-loved women in New Mexico. They say she does more charity work, both with her time and her money, than anybody in the state. : ] Mrs. Tingley is a saver of things. She has kept everything she ever had in her life. They say their Albuquerque home looks like a museum. And the mansion isn't ordinary by any means. You never saw a place so full of furniture. Not modernistic, nor yet antique, but just good old furniture and plenty of it, like a lot of beefsteak and mashed potatoes. : The Governor has a lot of fun out of life. For example, he went to Amarillo when the Cattlemen's Association had its annual convention. Some of the cattlemen got drunk and kept the Governor awake all night with their whooping and hollering. He didn’t complain. But hext morning he was up about 6 o'clock to catch a train, and he went all over the hofel kicking on doors and yelling, “The hotel's on fire. Get up.” :

Mp. Pyle

ments to “The Public Papers and Ad dresses of Franklin D

Article No. 30

On the Campaign of 1936

HE major opposition party was handicapped from the start by the impossible attempt at their Cleveland © Convention to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. They sought to write one paragraph in vaguely progressive terms in order that it might be stressed in the more liberal West, and in the next paragraph to repeat some ancient truism which would sound well in the stately mansions of the East.

I was but echoing the general public understanding of the Re-

publican platform and of ‘thé conduct of the Republican campaign, when in my speech in Denver I referred to the ancient Roman god Janus who had two faces, looking east and west at the same time. Furthermore, the financial and economic and social comments and suggestions on the Republican side of the campaign were so vague and so contradictory that they could not be termed even proposals or offers of definite legislation,

Again and again we stressed the need of developing and spreading the purchasing power of all economic groups in the nation through agricultural and wage legislation. Again and again, we promised continuation of the policy of checking the domination over national economics exercised by a few closely integrated financial and industrial interests, the continued safeguarding and proper use and planning of natural resources, continued efforts in behalf of human security.

Overwhelming Vote

The overwhelming popular and electoral vote followed the clearcut statement of our objectives in

our platform and in many of my

campaign speeches, especially in my Madison Square Garden speech where I made a definite promise that the fight for them would go on with unabated vigor. Looking back on the year 1936, I consider it a period in which the American people began to think

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Mr. Roosevelt as Governor of New York, 1931

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more than before in specific terms. In the three previous years, with

" the impelling desire for recovery

and reform, there was general acceptance of broad policies and broad legislation. We thought in terms of “business,” “agriculture,” “industry” and “labor.” In 1936, however, we commenced to discriminate in our public thinking, especially in regard to our continuing efforts to end specific evils or unwholesome practices in many fields. The public generally recognized this, and was

thus able to discriminate. between the good and the bad when the promises of 1936 came to be fulfilled in 1937 and 1938. For example, the public began fully to understand that the efforts of the Administration and the Congress to close loopholes in the tax laws which had been

President Roosevelt, 1932

President Roosevelt, 1936 Neighborly Agreements

I felt that the policy of the good °

neighbor had also been so widely approved = throughout the 21 American Republics that I consulted early in 1937 with the 20 other Presidents, looking toward

the holding of a special confer- ¢

ence—not merely to receive pledges of : good-will from each other but to devise 'consultative methods for the settlement of in-ter-Republic problems or disagreement, and through consul-

. tation to provide defense against

aggression spreading from other continents. In the foreign field, especially in Europe, there were unmistakable evidences of increased frequency among nations to disregard solemn treaty obligations—

' a precedent for an even more Se=

rious situation in 1937. The race of armaments was accelerated and

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Secretary of State and. the rep-.

-resentatives of all the American Republics subsequently drew up and approved with entire una-

nimity a series of agreements

which placed the Americas far in

the lead in the quest for inter-

national peace. Here was another great objec-

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Deal

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tive of our Government which the verdict of November, 1936, indie cated that The People Approve.

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Need Seen for Probes Into Handling of Relief Funds

By Raymond Clapper

‘Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, April 26.—The Administration’s decision to investigate the handling of WPA expenditures in Pennsylvania and Florida is a healthy development. It would be a good thing if the in-

quiry. could cover PWA as well.

T may not be practicable nor desirable for Federal agencies to assume complete control of all operations. But as huge sums of Federal money are poured into the

states, it does not seem sound prac-

tice either for the Federal Government to shut its eyes to abuse of

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Qur Town By Anton Scherrer Two Conscientious Critics Attemp¥

To Put Your Columnist Right on Marbles, Hopscotch and Baseball.

AST week, in this very space, remarks were passed which indicated that I was pretty well disgusted with modern kids— with the boys for not playing marbles at this time of year, and with the girls for not playing hopscotch. Well, it turns out I was wrong —Again. M. F. Moran was the first to set me right, Listen: “If you haven’t seen a game of marbles this spring or any girls playing hopscotch, you haven't been in the neighborhood of 550 N. Tacoma Ave. We have three boys and three girls, and nobody is more aware of marbles and hopscotch than the Missus and I. The knees of the boys’ knickers are completely gone from kneeling to ‘knuckle down,” and the soles of the girls’ shoes are sadly wrecked from ‘missing two and touching one.” To travel from one room to another at our house you would invariably move half the distance rolling on marbles, “I do not know how the sidewalks looked 50 years ago, but I do remember that 25 or 30 years ago it was always necessary to find a sidewalk consisting of solid earth—usually a spot in a brick sidewalk minus the bricks—to play marbles, the regular hard- - surfaced sidewalks causing the taw to roll too fast and too far. I think if you will search for vacant lots ° and alleys that are unsurfaced you will agree that the boys are hard at it just as they were 50 years . ago.” 4 i; All of which leaves me room to record the realistic remarks of an anonymous reader who took time off Easter Sunday to cudgel his memory and send me the result, to wit: “Have been reading your Saturday essay on early baseball and the names of ‘players comprising the team which was in the National League in 1887 to 1889. You are not batting your weight—well, anyhow, not over .600. Your infield is O. K., but heaven help your memory when it comes to the outfield. The real outfielders were Seery, McGeachey and Cahill--then Paul Hines replaced McGeachey and a big lug by the name of Polhemus appeared in rightfield. ]

Opened Against Detroit

“You are bragging about your memory. Well, I will match it. The opening in ’87 was against Detroit: Brouthers, Richardson, Rowe, White, Thompson, Hanlon and Twitchell, with Baldwin and Bennett, the battery. Boyle and Myers handled the ball for In. “dianapolis. Score, 4 to 3, Detroit. Second game, Get oZeinsGanzel against Kirby-Hacket. Score, 10 to 8. Detroit. Third game, Weidman-Broirdy against Hegly-Arundel. Score, 14 to 12, Detroit.” 'hat wasn’t the worst, though. To hear my conscientious critic tell it, Indianapolis back in those days had an awful weak team, and didn’t do better than land in seventh or eighth place all the time they were in the National League. And to think I had everybody believing that Indianapolis had the grandest team in the country at the time.

Jane Jordan—

Tells Girl Not to Overemphasize The Importance of Winning a Man.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 18. I was married when 16 years old and it ended in

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divorce because I married out of spite. Recently I met a manJ0 years older than myself whom I love very much. e says he loves me too and only wishes he could marry me; but that is impossible because he would lose his Job. I wouldn't want that to happen even if I do have to step out of the picture. We have quarreled several times and he told me the only way he could get along with me is to marry me. I agreed to. that. He says he is going away in a few weeks and I want to go with him. HEART-BROKEN.

Answer—In the first place it is not clear to me why a man of 28 would lose his job if he married. If I were in your place an excuse like that would require a lot of explaining before I would believe it. In the second place, if he wants to get married and has a job which prevents it, why doesn’t he make an effort to get something else? I agree that jobs aren’t picked off of trees but he hasn’t even set a change of occupa= tion as his goal. This leads me to conclude that his desire to marry isn’t very strong if it exists at all. Now you've made one mistake because you acted on impulse and you don’t want to make another. There is no logic whatever in the man’s statement that the only way to get along with you is to live with you. The contrary, is truer. A girl who makes many failures in love must sus= pect herself of making poor choices. In’ many cases the importance of winning a man is so overemphasized in a woman’s mind that she takes about everything she can get. Since you're only 18, why not wait until you meet a man free to marry and able -to carry defending itself against the opposi-| the full social and financial responsibility of mar tion charge that the new proposed| riage? relief and recovery funds ave to be #® 2. > used for political purposes. . EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young girl 16 years Certainly if the Federal Govern old, a junior in high school and considered a senment is going to throw large chunks | sible girl. I go with a young man 19 years old. Every of money around over the country,| time I have dates my mother makes me be in at 11 and there will be a good deal of this| o'clock. I think this is a little early as the crowd for many years to come, then the| I run with doesn’t have to be in until 12 o'clock. only way to avoid demoralization of J. 8.

public standards will be to insist eh on rooting politics out of it Answer—Eleven o'clock doesn’t seem to be an un= —— : reasonably early hour. However, I should think your

mother could make exceptions to this rule on special T } S T YO U R occasions such as a party. It isn’t easy to leave a KNOWLEDGE

party before the fun is over. If your mother knows exactly where you are and when to expect you pers haps it will quiet her anxiety. JANE JORDAN. 1—Into what body of water does ‘the Volga River empty? - 2—From which state is Louis

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your problems in this column daily. : Ludlow a Representative in Congress? i

Bob Burns Says— 3—Name the sixth President of

: OLLYWOOD, April 26.—Now- that it's so easy to travel, I don’t see why in the world they ~ -the United States. don’t establish some universal system of measure4—What is hyperopia? ‘ment so a fella can tell distances. In foreign 5—Who is Joachim von Ribben- countries, they tell you in kilometers. Over here on trop? land, it’s miles, but when you travel on the ocean, 6—1Is it’s knots. : 18 rrro Marz scinally A fella. was traveling through the mountains down home one day and he ran across my uncle ienat birds are nicknamed | ong says, “I been tryin’ to find out how far it is to Mulberry.” 8. 8 My uncle says “Well, brother, I suppose I'm the Answers only man around here that can give you the exact : So distance.” He says “It’s right over that hill ahead 1—The Caspian Sea. of you, about two whoops, a holler and a hound’s bay.” 2—Indiana. . : -3—John Quincy Adams. er 4—-Far-sightedness, referring to: - normal vision.

(Copyright, 1938) 5—German Foreign Minister.

Walter O'Keefe— Werfel writes in HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE 6—No.

OLLYWOOD, April 26.—The mystery of that tele : f 84 \ : : 2 phone bell ringing d the President’s latest Ferien. ani escing tot te. poopie. to | | 3 \} A — : BT EE turn from their wickedness before it was too late, | ° ¥, x u- : ( ; — aX - - ES { House Weliied 0 prove %o Hie country that iis tele he accompanied King Jehoahaz into exile in Egypt, : ASK THE TIMES be me b ad not Sisconrieefed for NoNpeyment-of and later set his son Mattaniah upon the throne of Inclose a 3-cent stamp for Now nial Jim Farley reads the tea leav Judes; he. talked with Nebuchadnezzar, the great reply when addressing any - | says that recently rising. postal receipts im ig ply that ig of fhe Babylonians, id Ke gg lay waste question of fact or information | business is on the upgrade. James Aloysius may be. Rich as is the narrative with the life of Judea " eo Service es Hebi» his Fgh me Shanes A oy ne : ; e | : crease mail is due 1e le 1essmen nd Eevph, fhe author's sim, ang SeegLuplishment are 11s gr st., N. Wo Yashing. | who 50k stranded in Washington and had to write ; even before the time of his birth, and throughout his | ,,.... = ee al ing egiea) home for money. Fri es rx life the Lord's servant, grew at last to understand the Will somebody on: the nded research be - under

taken advantage of by a few rich men and corporations were nof an attack on all rich men and corporations; and, in the same way, that efforts to: end abuses perpetrated by some public utilities were not a campaign against successful private ownership of utilities. : ; Inevitably, enhanced thought on details began to bring with it certain natural forms of selfishness. Preferences and benefits were bound during such a period to be tinged with local or regional considerations or with the special aspects of particular occupations or businesses. This unfortunately necessitated a temporary clouding of the national point of view. It is perhaps an inevitable phase, :

But I believe most deeply that it is a phase preparatory to the final stage when, having learned the lesson.of the interdependence of all groups, the American pub-! lic will return more firmly than ever to the: understanding -that local or sectional or group interests cannot interfere with national action for national needs. ‘The’ good neighbor policy which ‘XY declared in my first Inaugural Address in' 1933, and all of its implications and expressions during my first term of office, including the Yeeiptocal brage 2Eses ments, were submitted to the elec- J torate for approval i He lsetion Ameritar Copyright Giion, of) of 1936. The overwhelming ver- } Anan, Di 2ogseyelt; diss. Sich at the polls encouraged me in Hibyed WY somied, Teas Syn: : at purpose. —

Pennsylvania. is a particularly good place to start. Thanks to the ‘quarrel over the loot which Democrats there are waging in their primary fight, there is enough evidence to warrant such an administrative inquiry. Secretary Ickes has admitted—it had to be dragged out of him—that Matt McCloskey, the Philadelphia contractor who has loaned money to Governor Earle and who has shared in the publicworks construction gravy, consulted with PWA officials over some of the work to be done. There have been charges, which do ‘not sound fantastic, that Senator - Guffey’s men have controlled the okays: for WPA relief jobs. Treat These charges do not reflect upon Federal officials. WPA policy is to take relief workers only when they have been certified by local relief authorities, the theory being ‘that the community relief agency is in the best position to check applicants for WPA jobs. Each locality sets its own standards. Some will send a man to WPA for a job | when. he has an automobile, on the ground that an automobile is a necessary means of transportation. In other localities the owning of an automobile is regarded as indulgence in luxury and no one. can get on WPA until he has cashed in his car. Likewise in some.communities - local relief authorities keep the politicians out. In other ‘| places the politicians take it over and decide who is sent over to WPA with the: correct credentials.

no effort to establish more permanent ways toward peace sueceeded anywhere except on this continent. With the hope of helping. the fulfillment -of the great ideal of peace and the good neighbor for the American Continent, I visited Brazil, Argentine Republic and Uruguay late in the autumn: The

these funds, and to let local politi-. cians racketeer. The Social Security Board recently demonstrated the necessity of greater check on the fate which befalls Federal funds when they reach local authorities. Looking into the administration of old-age pensions in Oklahoma, the Board found inexcusable conditions—padding of the rolls, carrying of undeserving persons who had other means of support, nepotism, and general slackness in administration. It hauled the Oklahoma authorities -| here, confronted them with the evi-.|-dence, and cut off Federal payments until such time as it should obtain satisfactory assurances that the abuses would be stopped. That kind of checkup will be increasingly necessary if the vast amounts of Federal funds going out to the states are not to become a standing temptation to local racketeers. : Already conditions are such that the Administration has difficulty

On Its Own Powers

. : My Di 2 ry ol A Comment of President ; Roosevelt From His Forthcominz Books. By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Believes Modern Generation May Be Tall Because of Food It Consumes.

ASHINGTON, Monday.—We returned to the W White House yesterday afternoon a few minutes before 6 o'clock. The people on the streets seemed to be in a holiday mood with plenty of time to watch our cavalcade go by and to wave a friendly greeting to the President. Mrs. Frank Polk and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, with her niece, Miss Brand from England, came in to see us for a little while. Mrs. Gibson lives not far from Charlottesville and very kindly invited our law student son to have tea with her there. She recalled the days when my husband and the boys stopped to see her on the coast of Maine and, I gathered, practically ate her out of house and home! She remarked that the modern generation is growing so big that one never knows when enough food has been supplied. I remember that on that cruise, every friend who fed the boys ashore decided they did not have enough to eat at sea, and the officers on the destroyer thought they had hollow legs! Perhaps the reason why the modern generation is so tall is because of the amount of food it consumes. A large group of young people from the Dalton School in New York City asked to be received yesterday afternoon. After tea, I spent a few minutes with them before going into the pool with Mrs. Charles Fayerweather and my cousin, Elizabeth Henderson.

Opinions of the Supreme Court have stated that judicial power to declare un=constitutional acts of the Congress should be exercised only “in a very clear case”; “in a clear and urgent case”; “in no doubtful case”; “where its unconstitutionality is proved beyond all reasonable doubt,” or “beyond a rational doubt”; “under the clearest proof of its conflict with the funda=mental law.” ; The greatest justices have always recognized, as Mr. Justice Holmes has stated: “Great Constitutional provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that Legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the court.” This Las been repeated on innumerable occasions.

F. D. R.'s Definition of ‘Economic Royalist’

A Comment of President Roosevelt From His Forthcoming Books

Through speculative use of other people’s money, through the exploitation of labor which could not bars gain on equal terms, through unrestrained power to manipulate corporate securities, finances and devices, -a handful of mien had been able to build up economic empires for themselves; which not only controlled the labor, property and lives of thousands of their fellow citizens, but in some cases dominated the processes of Government itself. :

J International Copyright . Union; More on Bridle Path AheiEnss dosent Biden, SiS) Our only guest at supper was Mrs. Warren Rob- by pionklin, D. Roosevelt: Jisbins. When the President went ‘to his study to work, : . ~ dicate; Inc. we discussed her job, which should develop into a very useful service for the State Department. We are gradually building more and more embassies of our own in foreign countries and the diplomats who go from one place to another should be infopmed as to what/they will find in their new- quarters and what they/ will neéd to take with them. The description of the way the records are being kept interested me particularly.. Every piece of. furniture, every hanging, js listed in a book with a sample of the material, the place it was bought and the price, so that 10 years from now it will be possible to trace these furnishings with accuracy. I ride every morning now before breakfast and #find a number of other people have discovered how

Jasper—By Frank Owen

© pleasant the bridle pathiis in the early hours and how " delicious the air feels before the whole world surrounds you. Some people seem to ride even earlier than I do, for I met three people coming home as I ill 4 v Fi HE ; in X Bn was going out this morning. ae TF IA ’ ¥ 2 IE ori £4 " K

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