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WENDNEONAY. MAV. 12 108

- Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

And Still Dana, Ind., Has Erected |

Britain's Press Baron’ Speaks

Lord Beaverbrook Predicts Liquidation of England's War Debt to U. S.

I can see events ahead. | (Also behind and sideways.) I can frequent- | lv deduce some very remarkable things, such | as a car being out of gas when the tank is |

No Memorial to E. Trocadero Pyle, Who Has Way of Judging Cities.

« PRINGFIELD, Ill, May 17.—In asupernatural cireles, it is a well-known fact that I am psychic.

empty. My psychic powers work with cities, too. I know

within five minutes after driving inte a town whether it's any good or not. If a town is |

no good, I put an “Xx” beside it in a little black book I carry, and thai means the town is cursed forever.

If you think cities don’t have |

personalities, youre crazy. Some cities are grouchy, some are indifferent and some are And

: people. Often it is just one little thing that molds your whole feeling for a city. But the little things are Mr. Pyle significant. found this to be true: In a city of 15,000 or more, if you can't buy dental tape, you will also find the hotel rooms ill-kept and exorbitantly high; waitresses indifferent about feeding you; garages indifferent about fixing your car; stores poorly stocked; na heat on cold days, and a general backwardness coupled with a know-it-all attitude which characterizes people with small souls. Why am I so violent about it? Oh, I just have a place in mind, that's all.

The place, incidentally, is not Springfield. For this

is a fine city. Springfield is on U. S. Highway 36, a transconti= nental road known as the Lincoln Highway. It might be called the road of great men's homes,

Why, practically every 50 miles from Kansas to

Ohio you pass through a tewn where some remarkable

figure was born or spent his youth. Just listen to this roster, Jesse James (St. Joe. Mo): J. C. Penney, chain-store man (Hamilton, Mo.); Gen. John I. Pershing (LaClede., Moa.); Mark Twain Ma); Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill): Burnette, of radio and movies (Tuscola, Ill), Trocadero Pvle (Dana, Ind.).

‘Reockville—15 Miles’

the

Smiley and E.

All of these great men are memorialized in some |

way or other by their home towns—all, that is, except the last one. At the crossroads where Highwav 36 cuts past Dana, there might be a large marker saying. “Three miles south is the house in which E. Pyle,

Indiana's great skunk-trapper, jelly-eater, horse-hater |

and snake-afraider-of, was born. “In his later years Mr. Pyle rose to a national mediocrity as a letter-writer, a hotels, a talker to obscure people, and a driver from town to town. “The old house is in a good state of preservation, although the same cannot be said for Mr. Pyle. His-

state of

torians say he has teen falling to pieces for years.” |

There should be such a sign, but there is not. All vou see is “Mex Tomey's Gasoline Station” on one side of the road, and “Rockville—15 Miles” on the other side.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Expects F. D. R. to Get Stamps Given Her by Postmaster.

W ASHINGTON, Monday. —Soon after we returned 'Y from our ride on Sunday morning, it began to rain in earnest and T hoped it was doing the same thing in Hyde Park where rain is badly needed. The Todhunter girls, with Miss Dickerman and Miss Goodwin, went with me to the airmail postoffice, temporarily set up on Pennsylvania Ave, between 14th and 15th Ste. There is a large sleeper plane cozily parked beside the postoffice. How they ever got it there is a marvel to me. I imagine many people will

examine the berths, food, service and the like, during |

this week. I was presented with a large sheet of stamps. Vincent Burke, the Postmaster for Columbia, seemed to think it was appropriate for me to receive them, but I know better. turned over to my husband, I am sure I will soon hear about it! Collectors never seem to have enough of whatever they collect and I really think one should

be thankful when it is stamps, because they take up |

comparatively little space. Receives Mexican Senator

The Todhunter girls left for New York City in | the afternoon and at 5 o'clock I received the ladies |

of the Texas Garden Clubs, who have been touring this vicinity.

Garden Club to Mexico. Next year's annual meeting

of the Garden Clubs of America is to be held in | believe, and they are planning on this

Arkansas, I trip to Mexico as a side trip. Among other people, Mrs. J. Minister to Norway, had supper with us last night, 1 have never seen anvone more enthusiastic than she is about her experiences there.

them sympathetic. 1 left early this morning. While it

and very cool for this time of the year, it was nice to see the sun sparkling on the Potomac River,

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

OMETHING unusual in the way of detective stories

J is the new Crime Club selection, WARRANT FOR X. by Philip MacDonald (Doubleday).

secure little tea shop in a crowded neighborhood in London, overhears the plotting of a crime. he first takes his

murder, if necessary,

Scotland Yard.

with the solving of a crime after it has happened. Desperate, Garrett succeeds in interesting Col. Anthony Gethryn, The clues they have to follow are very meager—the sound of two women's voices, a glimpse of their backs, a lost glove and a bus ticket, These eventually, under the skilful guidance of Col. Gethryn, lead to the solution of the crime, which unfortunately they were unable to prevent,

—-and even apologizes to him! » » ” OCIETY, and not the criminal, is to blame for the alarming increase in a crime wave that employs only the most skilled workers. Could these men be given an employment that uses each one's particular talent, go many brilliant and skiiful young men would never feel the necessity of turning to unlawful means of making their living, Such is the opinion of Henry T. F. Rhodes. When forgery, kidnaping, drug rackets, murder and anther antisocial practices are conducted on wellnreanized, business-like, and paying lines, then society should realize that its own reform, rather than pune ishment of the individual eriminal, is its sharpest weapon against crime, Mr. Rhodes says that “we mass-produce crime’ just as we do everything from public opinion to motorcar bodies, and that then ‘society strikes back,” usually with severe punishment. which only incites the culprit to seek revenge, So the vicious circle goes on. He concludes with the statement, “We not only create, but perpetuate in our penal system, the kind of CRIMINALS WE DESERVE (Oxford University Press),

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stuck-up. | some are cheerful and neat | , and on their toes, just like some |

You may not believe it, but I've

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stayer in |

Mr. | the District of |

If they are not |

They brought with them Senator Als | berto Salinas Carranza of Mexico, who came to ex- | tend a personal invitation to me to accompany the |

Borden Harriman, |

The ladies who have | been envoys to Scandinavian countries seem to find |

was windy |

Side Glances—By Clark

Sheldon Gar- | rett, an American playwright, having tea in an ob- |

Convinced | that there is to be an attempted kidnaping and a | story to | Those hardened officers listen to | his tale with a smile, for their methods deal only

Scotland | Yard. however, gives credit to the anxious American |

Editor's Note — Lord Beaverbrook (borm Max Aiken in the village of Maple, Ontario, in 1879) is owner of the London Daily Express, which has a daily circulation of nearly two and three-quarter millions. His other two newspapers are the London Evening Standard and the Sunday Express.

By Webb Miller

United Press European News Manager

J EATHERHEAD, England, May 17.— Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the worlds biggest - selling daily newspaper, predicted today that Great Britain eventually would liquidate her $5,308,000,000 war debt to the United States, and urged that Great Britain and the United States draw closer together because of the unsettled state of Iurope. “We shall one day reach a point where we can wipe out the deficit on terms satisfactorv to American taxpavers,” the famous British “press baron” said in reply to one of several questions submitted to him by the United Press at his country

home here. “Public opinion in Great Britain never has been hostile to the United States or critical of that republic.” he said. "The war debt settlement strained our relations because of the opposition that sprang up in the press here against making the payments. That opposition was based on the knowledge, amounting to certainty, that we could not dis= charge the obligation. We knew we could not pay and we knew there was no use trying to pay.” Regarding the prospects of war, Lord Beaverbrook said he believed “war risk” was remote at present, and that war in Europe would not necessarily mean a world war. “It is true,” he said, “that Britain stands nearer to the danger zone. That is admitted. But submarines and airplanes are just as menacing to America today on account of the extension of their range of effectiveness as they were to Great Britain when the last war broke out.

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“YPRITAIN, of course, should do everything possible to get into closer relations with the United States. It must be obvious that the United States will be strengthened in relation to the same menace (war in Europe) if there are closer relations with Great Britain.” Replying to a question concerning the possibility of the United States becoming involved or aid-

ing with war materials in a con-

flict between the totalitarian and Democratic states of Europe, Lord Beaverbrook said: “I cannot answer that because I do not believe in war between totalitarian regimes and democra= cies. For instance, Russia, an ally of France, is a totalitarian state. There are no real signs of a clear cut division between the two philosophies of government. Besides, I hope that both the United States and Great Britain stay out of the next war. A war in Europe does not necessarily mean a world war.” Returning to the subject of the war debt, he observed that British public opinion was far more friendly to the United States to-

day than during the “Uncle Shy-

lock” phase when the question was stirring up bitterness. » » ¥

w HE debt had been contracted in an hour of peril, and Great Britain had lent far more to foreigners for which payment had been forgiven,” he said. “Our position was like that of

to meet its obligations, “We know that Americans have

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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938

Lord Beaverbrook

a better understanding of our troubles since the United States has been forced by circumstances to abrogate its gold clause.

“Many British holders of American bonds, including myself, con=tracted to purchase such bonds for repayment in gold. And we make no complaint now because repayment is made in American currency. “With an understanding of these trials on both sides of the ocean we shall one day reach a point where we can wipe out the deficit on terms satisfactory to American taxpayers.” He said he believed the war debt question had no bearing on Anglo-American relations. “It is, of course, sometimes disagreeable,” he said, “to hear deTunciations of our country on this score. We do not like to be called welchers., That is only natural.”

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ORD BEAVERBROOK then suggested that American airplane manufacturers should establish branch factories in Britain. “There are those manufacturers who will say that Britain is too near the storm-center for the in=vestment of American money in plant property,” he said. “But those who study the situation here agree with me that the risk of war is remote at present and for some time to come.

“The only danger to Great Britain lies in our European entanglements. And these are being steadily severed one by one until at last only a single tie with Furope remains, That is the understanding to defend France if, in our opinion, that country becomes the victim of an unprovoked aggression. It is a nebulous engagement and difficult to define in any hypothetical circumstances. Similar engagements by the French in Europe have proved to be ephemeral and of shadowy form. In truth, they have been without substance. “Tt is in any case a profoundly mistaken view te believe that war

Ten of Indiana D

‘By E.R. R.

| ASHINGTON, $5,330,000,000 tax bill and the $1,090,656,000 naval expansion bill | were sent to the President last week | and the House gave the stamp of its {approval to the $3,119,425,000 recov- | ery-relief bill now pending in the | Senate, The new tax bill is, in the main, |a codification of existing laws, with two significant changes: | (1) The undistributed profits tax is | the form desired by the Adminisvirtually repealed and (2) the capigains tax is severely modified | with a view to promoting the flow | |of capital into new business enter- | Administration during the first sev(prises. The Senate proposed to0/an months of the fiscal year 1030) | eliminate the undistributed Profits | apd (2) made a total of $1,165,000,- | | tax entirely, but conferees agreed to | 000 available for new loans and | | grants by the Public Works Admin-| publican members of the appropriaOnly one amendment of

May

| a compromise with the House which retains a mere shadow of the orig= | jetration. a bank in a crisis which is unable inal tax for the years 1938 and 1939. importance was attached to the bill] [on the floor of the House. cepted hy the Senate withont a | an amendment offered by Rep. Ran-'

The conference report was ac-

"I want you youngsters to read what this article says about all the necking that's going on nowadays."

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England immediately accepted the moratorium on war debts when it was proposed by President France, however, balked at the terms, but later signed an accord This photo, taken

Herbert Hoover on June 20, 1931.

with the United States at Paris,

in Europe must necessarily involve the world in war, That has not heen the experience of the past. Even a partial submergence of the world, as in 1914, is not likely to be repeated.” > 9 » EFERRING to the first 31 years of his life in Canada, Lord Beaverbrook said that he was still - “American in outlook and viewpoint.” “1 still accept the democratic faith of that continent and I =till cling to its institutions,” he said. “Perhaps on that account I may he allowed to say with sincerity

the Indiana delegations, Reps. Schulte, Farley, Griswold, Greenwood, Boehne, Crowe, Gray and Larrabee voted for approval Voting against the report were Reps. Halleck and Ludlow. Reps. Pettengill and Jenckes were not recorded.

The relief-recovery bill

Its principal

provisions:

| (1) Appropriated $1,250,000,000 for| Yea. expenditure by the Works Progress| Ludlow voted against the amend-

tions

It was

and truth to the American people that they undervalue the friendship and admiration of the Brit ish as a race for the American people and their ideals.” Ax one step toward promoting a friendlier feeling on the part of Americans vigiting England, Beaverbrook’s newspapers have campaigned for abrogation of customs examination of American visitors. Lord Beaverbrook's career hegan as a bottle washer for a druggist in Canada. When he was 20 years old he had read iaw, and at 25 had amassed a fortune in the insurance business in Montreal, He

in Paris, shows, left to right, Pierre Flandin, French Minister of Finance; Avistide Briand, French Minister of Foreign Affairs; U. 8. Ambassador Walter E, Edge, Premier Pierre Laval and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, |

then went into banking and steel and launched a Canadian cement company capitalized at $37,500,000. At 31 he moved to England where he was elected to Parliament, knighted and later raised to the peerage. During the World War he acquired the London Daily Express, then a small, noninfluential newspaper. He is a small impish figure, often not gently portrayed in his own Evening Standard by the famous cartoonist, David Low, To save his eves Lord Beavers brook hax a staff make recordings of the contents of his newspapers, to which he listens and then dictates comments,

(Capvright, 1038 cr Tnited Press)

elegation in House Vote for Passage Of Relief Bill After Split on Motion to Recommit

record vote, In the House the re- | kin (D. Miss.) to make $100,000,000 the minority report were embodied port was approved, 242 to 80. Of |of RFC funds available for loans by | in a motion to recommit offered by | the Rural Electrification Adminis | tration during the fiscal year 1939. |

Rep. Bacon (R. N. Y.). was overwhelmingly rejected, but it | won the support of 10 Democrats in | | marry and keep your job as long as you can

This was in addition to $40,000,000 | addition to 70 Republicans.

already appropriated for loans. The Administration offered to coms

| promise on an additional $60,000,000,

but the House adopted the Rankin

[ amendment, 259 to 139. went, | through the House in substantially

rural-electrification Reps. Schulte, Halleck, Farley, Griswold, Jenckes, Greenwood, Crowe, Gray and Larrabee voted Reps. Pettengill, Boehne and

On the

ment, ® x» RINGING minority report on the relief-recovery hill by Re=

Committee had won wide applause as a sign of the revival of an effective opposition in Congress. The principal proposals of

Reps. Schulte, Farley, Jenckes, Greenwood, Crowe, Gray and Larrabee were recorded against ree committal. Those voting for the motion were Reps, Halleck, Pettengill, Griswold, Boehne and Ludlow,

On final passage of the relief-re- | covery bill, it was supported by 25 | Republicans, of whom 20 had pre- | viously voted to recommit, vote on the relief-recovery bill was | 320 to "0,

Recorded in favor of the hill on final passage were Reps. Schulte, Faley, Griswold, Jenckes, Greens wood, Boehne, Crowe, Gray, Larrabee and Ludlow. Reps. Halleck and Pettengill voted against passage.

Jasper—By Frank Owen

United ne.

"It's too windy up thers, children—yeu'd better play on the ledge today!"

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--Name the Speaker of the U, 8. House of Representatives, 2-~How is 2000 written in Ro« man numerals?

3—~Who are the Sudeten Ger mans? 4-How many world's boxing championghips did Mickey Walker hold? 5—~What is pomology? 6--What does NLRB stand for?

T1-—-Who was Francis Bret Harte? » n ”

Answers

1--William B. Bankhead of Alabama, 2--MM. 3—=Germans living in the Sude« ten mountain area of western Czechoslovakia, 4-Two, welterweight and middleweight, B—The science of fruit-culture, especially apple-culture, 8--The National Labor Relations Board. 7-—American novelist and poet, » » »

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Our Town:

By Anton Scherrer

The Oldest House in Indianapolis Was Worth All the Trouble That Its Builder Had With the Indians.

HE Childers family, mother and daugh-

ter, live in the oldest house in Indian apolig, all other claims--and there are other claims—to the contrary notwithstanding, I have investigated with my usual care, You have to have all your wits working

That's because nobody knows for The Childers believe they

Ave. The reason for the mixup is because the house faces neither street. It sets at an angle, and looks like the hypotenuse of a triangle, the other two sides being and Barth Ave. Once upon a time, though, the house didn’t look like a hypotenuse, That was back in 1822 when William

Sanders started building it. At that Mr. Soherres

| time the house faced the old Shelby

Road which, strangely enough, ran in a southwesterly direction, When a future generation came along and changed the direction of the old 8helby Road, it left the house looking like a hypotenuse, William Sanders, it appears, got the building fever right away. As early as 1821, anyway, because that's

| when he bought the 240 acres lying between Pleasant

Run and what is now Fountain Square. The very next He made the bricks right on the place with the Indians watching him on the side of the Run. Apparently, the Indians didn't like what he was doing, because one day they came and chased him away, Next year My, Sanders tried again, and again the Indians got after him, Later that same year, however, Mr. Sanders returned and

| finished what he started out to do.

Mr, Sanders’ finished house wag worth all the trou= ble the Indians gave him, Even today with its long rangy roof and half-a-dozen reassuring chimneys, it's mighty good to look at. To be sure, the Childers made some changes—added a sun porch, for one thing--but

| on the whole, IT imagine, the house looks very much

the way it did in the beginning, with possibly the exception of the plaster coated brick walls, The Childers didn't have anything to do with the plasters ing the outside. That's the way it was when they bought it. Mrs. Childers has a theory that maybe Myr. Sanders’ bricks were too soft to begin with,

Walls Are 13 Inches Thick

On the inside, the old house looks even more aus thentic, Three of the six original fireplaces are still standing, and in the cellar you can see the old hick« ory beams, hand hewn and showing the marks of an adz. Most of the old cupboards, reaching way up to the ceiling, are still intact, too. The interior walls throughout the house are of brick, 13 inches thick. Mrs, Childers says she knows because she

| had one torn down to get the big living room they | now have,

It meant losing one room to gel the big living room, but Mrs. Childers said she didn't mind,

| because it still left 14 rooms to live in.

It's 256 years now that the Childers have lived in house in Indianapolis, It's a long time, there Is that, she doubts is ever going to

the old house. At

the mystery of her street address

be cleared up.

Jane Jordan—

Compromise With Mother, Girl Whe Wants Immediate Marriage Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am a girl of 12 and an assistant to a dentist, T have gone with a boy for two years, 1 am deeply in Jove with him and have been engaged for five months, We want ta be married this year and can if I keep working, but my mother gays she will not consent ta my marriage if I keep Of course I am of age and can marry without her consent, but I am afraid I will make her angry. 1 have gone with boys for about six vears and have also worked for about four years. The boy's job is not much right now but he is in a place where he can be advanced, Already he has been advanced once. What would you suggest? ; WAITING,

Answer-Compromise with your mother, Agres to wait until the boy has another advancement and the two of you have saved a little to start on. Then

I do not know what your mother's objections to vour working’ after marriage are, Very likely she has seen cases where it wasn't successful, Sometimes the young husband shifts too much of his responsibilities on his wife, Your husband ought to be able to provide for you in case of illness, accident or the loss of vour job, I think it is fine for a young wife to work and help her husband to get a start in life. It is just that, like your mother, I know it isn't safe to operatas on too narrow margin. Sooner or later emergencies arise and it takes more than love to meet them. hould ba After all you are only 19 desires of the

to meet them and should be able to postpone the

; moment in favor of a satisfactory future,

» ” » EAR JANE JORDAN-T am a girl of 17, hut 1 appear older than IT am. Four years ago 1 went, with a boy and we loved each other, Last vear we broke up and I started to go with someone else. 1

| know I love him, but 1 keep thinking about the other | boy.

and go E. D.

Should I quit my with the first one?

present boy friend

Answer—Does the first boy want to make up with vou? If so, give him a chance. But if he Is indifferent, put him out of your mind and don't wasts time pining after him,

answer your questions in this enlumn daily,

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, May 17-One of the first lessons vou have'ta learn in life is that no matter how

[ hard you try to do anything, there's gonna be somes

body that ain't gonna like it, I learned my lesson in jest two days when 1 was a boy while visiting my Aunt Puney. The first night I came in at 10 o'clock and went 46 my room in the ordinary way but the next morning Aunt Puney says, “When you come home in the middle of the night you don't have'ta make enough noise te wake everybody up.” Well, the next night T came home a little earlier and T went down the hall as quietly ax possible. But the next morning Aunt Puney says, “You didn't foo! me, young man--I heard you tryvin' to sneak in at 0:45 last night.”

(Convright, 1038) mv

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, May 17-The Army alr forces wound up their show at Farmingdale, L. T., last night, and after three days of sham war they'll prob ably have enough photographs to start a new pietordial magazine called Squint or Leer, This rehearsal for war cost more than $100,000, and it's one case where the producer is hoping and pray« ing that his show will never see an “opening night." For a finale an area 2% miles in radius was darkened for 30 minutes, and this is 4 whole lot better than.n Europe, where whole countries are kept in the