Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1938 — Page 10

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From Indiana «==Ernie Pyle

Our Of Altitude and Then He Becomes Sentimental Over the Mississippi.

HANNIBAL, Mo., May 16.—I've recently been suffering from lack of altitude. You've heard of those people who can’t stand to go across the continental divide because of nosebleed, ringing in the ears, pounding heart and so on.

Well, there also are people affected by descending |

from high altitudes, and I'm one of them. I can hardly keep my eyes open nowadays, I'm so sleepy.

For more than two months this |

spring we ranged between 4000 and 10,000 feet. But this week, in one

day's driving, we dropped from a | mile-high altitude down to less than | imme- |

a thousand feet. And diately we became sluggish, like turtles. I was seized with an exaggerated case of spring fever. I can’t sleep at night, and can't stay awake in the daytime. I can’t eat. war in China, or whether Government employees pay income tax. Mr. Pyle When I do go to sleep, I dream I'm awake. But I've been through all this before, and I know that pretty soon I'll be acclimated again to dense air. Then I'll snap back once more into my normal semi-stupor. Oh, ves, Mark Twain. towns. To give full eredit, it is THE home town of all his home towns. If my statistics

something about

mavbe I'd better say

are right, Twain's works have

outsold everything in America except the Bible. Fig- |

ures show him the No, 1 author of this continent. Twain lived in Hannibal from the time he was 9 until manhood. It was here he learned to love the Mississippi River. All the scenes of Tow Sawyer and Huck Finn are laid here, taken from Twain's own memory of his boyhood play places.

Huck Finn's Cave Can Wait

The old Twain home is small. It is a well-pre-served frame house, a couple of blocks from Hannibal's main street. The city has built a becoming stone house next door to the Twain home, and it is called the Twain Museum. Admission is free. They have on display many of Twain's handwritten letters; the desk where he wrote one of his books; one of his favorite chairs; one of his old white coats with a big hole burned in the front of it; his old steamboat license; and many remarkable photographs. It is an authentic and tasteful museum. If you want, you can drive two miles out and see the cave where Tom and Huck played. I didn’t go. because I don't want to see everything while I'm still

SO young.

But more touching than anything, to me, is the |

view from the new high bridge that spans the Mississippi. Take it early in the morning, when the sun is hot and bright and the water lies calm and asleep. All up and down the river are greenly wooded islands, and small bluffs along the shores, and green hills rising back of them. ; You feel that it is all so exactly the way it was a hundred vears ago, when Tom and Huck and Nigger Jim inhabited those islands, that it almost makes

you weep.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Finds Homestead Near Charleston Named 'Eleanor,’ Not 'Red House.’

ASHINGTON. Sunday.—I did not have space on Saturday to tell you anything about my visit to the Government homestead near Charleston, W. Va. 1 had always called it “Red House,” but discovered that the postoffice is “Eleanor,” and noted with some amusement that the sign at the entrance to the homestead reads: “Eleanor unincorporated.” The Legion post met me and escorted me to the stand in the park which is being developed. The women's auxiliary of the post presented me with a lovely hand-woven runner which had been made in

the craft shop, a basket of flowers, and a bunch of | roses which one homessteader had picked in his own

garden.

Except for their home gardens, their agricultural | A tract with | an overhead watering system should produce some | A small nursery of trees |

ventures are run on a co-operative basis.

very good early vegetables. : has been planted and the purchase of a dairy farm at some little distance from the homestead looks as

though it would be profitable. They need an industry |

and are still in an unsettled condition because a visible means of permanent employment is not yet in sight. I visited several families and marvelled at the work they have done in their homes. The ingenuity and

loving care which has gone into the furnishing and arranging of these houses is rarely found among peo- |

ple who are not yet quite secure in their future. Tt

shows courage and good morale and I feel very proud of this group of people., They have had hard times |

and have met them with better courage than most

of us. ‘Garden Party’ Held Indoors

Tn the project's recently opened restaurant, the state administrator of the National Youth Administration lunched with us. He has a tree surgery project for the boys of the homestead and a weaving project for the girls. time to see much of the ‘work done by the Youth Administration, but Mr. Glenn S. Callahan, the director, is full of enthusiasm. Forty thousand young men and women between the ages of 16 and 25 have been on the program since 1t started and 8000 are at present participating in student aid and work programs. These young people, under expert guidance of course, have built a plant herbarium at Marshall College, water supply cisterns for rural schools, gymnasiums, community centers, vouth ‘work centers, school museum for Negro historical athletic fields and have engaged activities I can not begin to cover.

in many

After speaking at the dinner of the State Fed-

eration of Business ana Professional Women, 1 took the night train back to Washington and found a group of Todhunter graduates with Miss Dickerman

and Miss Goodwin, awaiting me at the White House. |

We had lunch for some high school graduates from Arthurdale, West Virginia, visited some of the old historic houses in Alexandria, Va., and held a “garden party” indoors because of the rain.

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

ETER KEENAGH, who with his cousin made an unscientific journey into the heart of Honduras, sets down in an unpretentious, chatty manner the story of his adventures in MOSQUITO COAST (Houghton). Amusingly the adventurer touches upon politics and conditions within this most turbulent of the five republics of Central America and recounts such good yarns as that of the scamp Calixto who sold a brother Honduran 12 sardine cans of United States treasury notes for five thousand good dollars only to fade out of the picture before the cans were opened to disclose the usual sardine can content. The author notes that the sparse population and rudimentary communication make it impossible for revolutionaries in outlying provinces to follow the results of their own efforts and keeps them usually several revolutions behind. From the scene at Coxxen Hole, the island upon which Capt. Morgan and his band of pirates settled, and upon which their descendants still live, to the description of the marriage, funeral, and Mafia ceremonies of the Mosquifia tribe, the story will test vour classroom Spanish as well as reveal the Honduras of today and yesterday, especially that portion of the seaboard, Mosquito Coast, so cailed because of the nightly raids of the insects,

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Traveler Suffers From Lack |

Mexico Wants to Be Good Neighbor Our Town

I don't care who wins the |

Hannibal, vou know. is one of his home |

The Indianapolis

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Second Section

MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938

President Cardenas Insists Nation Welcomes Outside Capital

By Willis Thornton

NEA Service Staft Correspondent

EXICO, D. F., May 16.—President Lazaro Cardenas to-

day gave definite assurance that Mexico has no

intention of shutting her doors entirely to foreign capital.

On the contrary, he declared that Mexico's doors are

wide open to new foreign capital “for productive purposes

without the aim of unduly exploiting Mexican workers.” In an exclusive statement, the leader of Mexico's “Super New Deal” declared that some of the conclusions

drawn from the expropriation of American oil properties in Mexico have been too broad.

The present wave of enthusiasm for “economic independence” will not go so far as to exclude foreign trade

or try to develop a self-sufficient economy, Cardenas said. He gave assurance that Mexico hopes for a more extensive commerce, realizing that many products can be manufactured to better advantage elsewhere and are needed in exchange for Mexico's abundant raw materials.

These and other vital clarifications of Mexican policy were made by President Cardenas in answering specific questions bearing on future MexicanAmerican relations. His vision of better and more mutually-satisfactory relations with the United States was revealed in the carefully - considered answers framed by the leader of the political forces which are trying to drag Mexico out of the Middle Ages by its bootstraps and push it into day after tomorrow.

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buildings, a | records, playgrounds, | more |

Cardenas’ obvious desire to retain the good will of the United States took on added significance because it was followed so quickly by his action in suspending diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Appreciation of the United States’ more sympathetic stand in the oil matter has been evident among all classes in Mexico, while resentment at the uncompromising tone of the repeated British notes has increased as weeks passed. Because President Cardenas is not fluent in English, personal interviews present difficulties and a chance of misunderstandings. Hence written questions were submitted and he answered in Spanish, over his own signature. The questions and the English translation of the president's answers, follow:

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u » ” UESTION -— What may Americans properly read in the oil expropriations as to the future of other American business interests in Mexico, present and future? Answer—The expropriation of the petroleum industry was due to the necessity of preventing the paralyzation of that industry and the consequences which such action would have brought about. That situation arose with the termination of the labor contracts, which was a last resort decided upon by the workers as the only solution to the unjustifiable refusal of the companies to comply with a decision of the Supreme Court of justice of Mexico whose decision, by the very nature of the Court, was final.

As has been said repeatedly, Mexico's doors are not closed to foreign capital coming for production purposes, and not with the aim of unduly exploiting the Mexican workers. Capital has guaranties in Mexico, providing it respects the country’s laws.

Q-—Is the oil case the forerunner of a conscious effort to begin a self-sufficient economy? A—Mexico does not believe an economy of national self-suffi-ciency is possible, in the sense that the country does not need international trade. On the contrary, Mexico hopes for a more extensive commerce which will permit the country to exchange its raw materials for manufactured products since its own industries cannot as yet fully sate isfy the demands of its consumers, nor would it be advisable for

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The jet black hair and heavy mustache which distinguish the face of President Lazaro Cardenas are strikingly depicted in this artist's sketch. Always immaculately dressed, Cardenas receives visitors in his paneled office in the National Palace, his small eyes peering alertly from a swarthy face, He is a tireless worker,

Mexico to attempt to produce as vet those goods which, because of special conditions, it is unable to manufacture economically,

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—IF the Supreme Court's decision as to constitutionality oi the expropriation of the oil properties should be adverse, would the Government be prepared to return the properties? A—The Executive Power respects the decisions of the Supreme Court. Within the division of powers established in the Mexican Constitution, each branch of government is independent of the other and all are mutually respectful of each others’ autonomy. Q—Does your administration plan to readjust tariff schedules to permit American trade ‘with Mexico to return to normal? A—The need for revising our tariffs on foreign imports is to be discussed by the Mexican Congress now in session, As was stated from the moment when the tariffs were raised, the measure was of transitory nature in order to meet an emergency situation. Q—How may better understanding between the United States and Mexico and Latin-American countries in general best be encouraged? A—All methods which help to develop understanding between peoples are useful for the purpose of bringing about a closer relationship in their dealings with one another. »n n » EXTICO gives every facility to tourists, not only for the commercial advantages which the tourist business has for a certain section of our people, but principally because Mexico believes that those who visit and traval freely about the country are naturally the best ambassadors of understanding and good-will when they return home.

Side Glances—=By Clark

Entered Second Class Matter at Postofhice, Indianapolis, na.

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President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico, who today is only 43, entered public life at 11. You see him in

the center picture above as a boy clerk in the fax office of his home town of Jiquilpan.

He joined the

revolution at 18, and is pictured at left as he appeared when he was a guerilla fighting against Huerta in

1913, manding a cavalry regiment.

Soon he won promotion to a captaincy, and at right is the way he looked a year later while comAlthough a full general today, he almost never wears a uniform, and re-

gards the turbulent military experiences of his youthful days asa phase which Mexico will never face again,

Notwithstanding the official formalism which at times makes cone tacts between peoples difficult, diplomatic relations, nonetheless, are indispensable between nations. Mexico maintains friendly relations with many peoples of the earth regardless of the idealogies of their governments, for Mexico believes that the policies of each government may be transitory, while relations among peoples, in their very nature, must be enduring. Q—To what extent has the “arming of the proletariat” been carried out, in what manner, and to what purpose? A-—-The farmers of Mexico are

organized as an auxiliary to the | {

National Army for the purpose of maintaining order and peace in the regions where they live Q--Do your plans insure vote for Mexican women in future? A-—=Congress is discussing this question during the present session, There is no real reason for denying the vote to women in a country where the laws have already accorded them economic liberty, the actual basis for political rights.

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—What are Mexico's chief problems? Educational? Economical? Social? Political? A—The problems of Mexico are all intimately related. One might best say that rather than various problems, it is a question of many aspects of a single problem. Quite as important as the economic is the educational, the social or the political, but at any given moment, any one of these may take on special importance. Thus, at the praesent time, the situation arising as the result of the oil expropriation gives special

significance to our economic prob-

lems. This temporary situation brings into clear relief the real nature of our economic organization. Up to the present time, the principal sources of the country’s wealth have been exploited with the sole aim of getting rich at any price. Because of this fact, the tendency has been to exploit men rather than natural resources. The educational problem is being cared for to the maximum of our economic possibilities, This problem is considered central in the life of the country, intimately reiated to all others,

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OR example, in solving the agrarian problem, it is necessary that the distribution of lands and the giving of credit to the collective farms be complemented by a technical, economic and social education that will enable

farmers not only to cultivate their lands intelligently but will give them a clear understanding of the relation of their own products to national and foreign markets. In the narrow sense of the word, there is no political problem in the country at the present time. Q—Do you propose to maintain complete civil and political liberty in Mexico for those not included in your party? Do you propose to maintain complete liberty to worship according to conscience? A—The Party of the Mexican Revolution (Partido de 1a Revolucion Mexicana) supports the present Government. However, this should not be taken to mean that other political parties in opposi-

F.D. R. Has Powers to Inject

tion to it may not legally and practically be organized. In Mexico, all citizens, in accordance with the Constitution as well as in actual practice, have the right to organize political parties, What happens is that in Mexico no party which does not have the confidence of the laboring masses can prosper, since the farmers and industrial workers are the deciding foree in our civic contests, Religious liberty in Mexico exfsts with the restrictions imposed by the Oonstitution relating to acts of extra-mural religious ceremonies. These restrictions ean in no way be considered as limiting liberty of conscience

Billions Into Money Stream

By E.R. R.

WASHINGTON, May 16.—In addition to proposing a new pumppriming program, the President has made use of various powers at his disposal to promote an expansion of credit as an aid to recovery from the present depression. And he still has available other powers of an inflationary nature which might be employed in an extreme emergency. Powers immediately at hand

[would enable him, without new leg-

| islation, to make available for in- | jection into the money stream more

than $10,000,600,000. This new money would thereupon find its way into the bank reserves and become the basis of potential credit expansion several times as great, If these vast powers were used by the President, they might therefore produce a tremendous inflation of prices in the United States. The principal currency powers at the President's disposal have to do with gold and silver. These metals he is empowered to revalue. Moreover there are large amounts of both metals still effectively sterilized in the Treasury and available to swell the nation's spending money, Also there still stands the %3,000,000,000 greenback power given the President in the so-called Thomas amendment, of 1933. Contrasted with these great inflationary powers over the currency, the Administration's powers to move in the opposite direction without. new legislation are very small. The government may accumulate new gold with borrowed money, as it did in 1937, and sterilize the metal, It may slow down its purchases of domestic and foreign silver. It may refrain from putting into circulation new currency based upon newlyacquired hullion. It may continue

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to adjure greenback inflation. But all these possibilities constitute merely the absence of inflationary effort, they are not its opposite.

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IN addition to its currency powers, the Government has other important instruments of influence over the money market and the economic situation One is the two billion dollar Stabilization Fund, Consisting mostly of gold, it is both a monetary and a credit since it may be used in open market purchases of securities. The Government's power to expand the public debt, to izsue one of security in preference to another, to buy securities in the open market for the account of its numerous trust funds, ete. —these are all important monetary powers, because public debt while not currency, are promises to pay currency.

ness,

Another vast influence over the | cost and supply of working capi- | tal results from the part played by |

the Government in the affairs of

the Federal Reserve System, This | great mechanism for credit control | is ih reality an arm of the Gov. |

ernment, for its principal officers in charge of policy are appointees of the President. The Adminis tration, therefore, is in position to influence if not ih effect to determine, such important as member-bank

operations, and the like. Th practice the policy-making officials of the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury, have worked out recent policies in close consultation, if not always in complete harmony of judgment,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--Name the first president of the American Red Cross. 2--Which is heavier, gold or platinum? 3—-Name the great Russian singer who recently died. 4—_Where is Harvard University? B—Are Chinese admitted to the U. 8. as immigrants? B—-What does “pro and con” mean? 7—What_ elective office John N. Garner hold? 8-—-Which state is nicknamed the Hawkeye State?

Answers

1—Clara Barton. 2—Platinum, 3—Feodor Chaliapin. 4—Cambridge, Mass, 5-=No. 8—Argument for and against. 7—Vice President of the United States, 8—-Iowa,

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PAGE 9

By Anton Scherrer

Untangling a Jam of Streetcars, Circus Wagons and Fire Engines Is Not Easy. Ask Officer Allison,

GUESS everybody ih town knows Forest Allison, the traffic cop (badge 472) sta tioned at Washington and Meridian Sts., the Cross Roads of America. Chances are, though, that unless you know him pretty well you've never heard about an experie ence he had back in 1923. He doesn’t tell everybody, As a matter of fact, he's trying to forget fit On that memorable day, Officer Allison wa: tioned at Washington and Tllinois Sts, and almost immediately—at 8 o'clock in the morning, to be exact—things began to pop. First of all, there was a little snarl in the streetear system, and before he got a chance to get the thing untangled, what do vou suppose turned up? You ean't guess in a hundred vears. Give up? All right the combined ecirevses of Bells Floto and Ringling Brother: To complicate matters still more mr and make it the ghastliest experience of OMeer Alte son's life, the Fire Department showed up, too, Of - cer Allison distinetly recalls that the firemen laid their lines of hose right under the camels’ and ele phants’ feet. The camels behaved all right. he says, but the elephants acted up like everything. Officer Allison has a theory (hat mavhe the eles phants erred in judgment and didn’t know the differ ence between an Indianapolis hose and a jungle shake, Of course, Officer Allison has had his dull days,

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| too, but not many when you consider that he's been | on the force now nearly 19 vears,

He's been a trae cop 13 years, To wateh him direct traffic at the Oross Roads of America, you'd never think he had to start at the bottom, but he did. The first two vears he spent with the emergency squad, and then he ran a district. Two years, too. That done, they gave

| him a horse—a brown one, Aliek by name—and you | probably remember Officer Allison as one of the dozen { mounted police we used to have,

‘Where You Going, Sassafras!’

Well, after all that experience, Officer Allison was made a traffic cop. He started out under an umbrella at Washington and Meridian Sts, just where he is today. Almost everything he knows about running OMeer Allison 1s

are naturally savs, tf vou

The other 2 per cent street hogs. They can be broken, he bawl them out and eall them “Sassafras” or “Haye foot.” Some of them get awful sore at the bawling out and rush to headquarters to report that they had their feelings hurt at the Oross Roads of Ametea. On the other hand, a 1ot whom Officer Allison has “Sassafras” have come around later and thanked him for calling their attention to it I also found ont, among odds and ends of Information, that Officer Allison believes in motorists using their horns. A toot of the horn, he savs. would have saved everyone of the 35000 killed last year, A moe torist should drive close to the car preceding him ton Nothing makes him madder than to see a slugeish driver, That's why Friday is Officer Allison's hardest, day. Bomehow, everybody slows up on Pridav. Por some reason, too, that's the day the farmers pick th come to Indianapolis,

Happy Marriages Between Persons

Of Different Ages Seen as Unusual,

I EAR JANE JORDAN but took to He about 21 or 22. 1 am with a 27-year-old man We have a grand tims when we are out together which is three or four times a week, I am a rather quiet, backward type while he fs a big cut-up, very popular and has more friends than anyone 1 have ever knowh I am of a very jealous disposition and sometimes feel very hurt and angry when he is a little too friendly to others, He likes to drink but never became {titoxicated ih my company until a few weeks ago. 1 was really hurt and disappointed although he did seen to be sorry, We Were out on a party and 1 suppose he had too many friends, 1 can't forget about this incident and I don't feel the same about him as before. Ts this a sigh that 1 do not really love him? Have you found that a girl resents her husband's

girl going

1 am an 18-year-old

| Being 80 much older thah she after they have bean

married 10 or 12 years? If I really feel this way, don't you think I should leave him right away ne that he may find another friend? Why is it that when a girl starts going with a fellow one or {wh nights a week that no one else asks her for a date? EIGHTEEN » » ” Answer-—=Some girls are happy with older meh and some are not It depends upon the individual and hix requirements, All surveys taken of mare riages show that when people are happy ih spite of a marked difference fh ages it is the exception rather than the rule. Tn your case all sighs point to tha fact that you would not be happy married to this young man, not only becatse of the difference in your ages but alto because of other factors which are not favorable For one thing vou both attention, although vou have not learned how it as well as he Then, too, vou had a revilsion of against him when vou saw him intoxicated. 1 take this ax a warning that there are thing: hin nature which vou cannot abide even though the only make their appearance under the influence of alcohol Don't worry about him. He will have no froublas in replacing you, Make your next chotce among bovs your own age and you'll have a better chance to settla yourself happily, Of course no one wants to dats a girl who spends three or four evenings a week with another man. The competition is too discouraging JANE JORDAN,

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Put your problems tn a fetter fo Jane anxwer vour questions In this column daily

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, May 18

Yordan., who will

«I think one of the mont unfair criticisms of the vounger generation 1a when people blame ‘em for not bein’ domestic. I think the whole fault belongs to the mothers I know one young wife who kept takin’ her husband's clothes to the tailor to be repaired. Pinally the tailor asked her why she brought her husband's clothes in to him when there was never anything wrong except a couple of buttons off The voung wife says, “Well, my husband married 80 young, he never learned to sew on a button.” Copyright, 1038)

Walter O'Keefe —

I OLLYWOOD, May 186.--The Government fs coms sidering the purchase and operation of a radi station. Mr. Hopkins now c¢ah go on the air billed as “Uncle Harry,” telling bed time stories to the taxs payers. This new plan is understandable, Mr. OCoolides wouldn't talk, Mr. Hoover didn't have anything to say and Mr, Roosevelt has a lot of explaining to do, Before long we'll hear the announcer say, “Tear off the tops ot 10 Congressmen and send them (nto Washes ington and get a shiny new fllustrated tax assessment by return mail.” In the interests of free speech opponents won't be denied the ears of the listeners. Republicans and La Pollettes can use the station between the hours

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