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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie's Father Is Getting to Be A Gadabout, Too, but He Had a Bit Of Trouble Traveling by Pullman.

ANA, Ind., May 19.—My father has got to be quite a man-about-the-country. In fact, you could almost class him as a gadabout. Last fall he rode clear to the Pacific Coast when my cousin brought my car out to Oregon. They came back on the train by way of the Canadian Rockies, and they still have a lot of jokes on themselves about that trip. Neither had been in a Pullman berth before, and their stories about not knowing what to do are good for several years of telling. My father calls them “booths,” and I guess they had quite a time with their undressing in such cramped quarters. And another thing, neither of them had ever had a pair of pajamas. Farmers just sieep in their shirts, you know. They saw other people in pajamas and bathrobes, 3 and they didn’t know what kind of Mr. faux pas they might be committing by sleeping in their shirts. But my father is now prepared for travel anywhere in the world, bv plane, train or boat. He has bought a pair of pajamas. And also a little brown zipper bag to carry them in. He has used them once already. He is the Worthy Patron of the local Eastern Star lodge, and recently he was a delegate to the annual convention in Indianapolis. He drove his car, full of women, the 75 miles to Indianapolis. He took his pajamas with him, had a nice hotel room for $1.50, and sneaked off and saw two movies. One of them was “In Old Chicago,” but he's forgotten what the other was. He says the Chicago one was a dandy, and showed the Chicago fire. My Aunt Mary savs, “Why Will, that must be an old picture. I saw that one in 1911.” Although I haven't vet seen “Ian Old Chicago,” I have a feeling it is not the same picture Aunt Mary is thinking about. In a few weeks mv father and another man will drive to Bloomington, Ill, to see the famous American Passion Plav. They have their tickets already. They plan to come home the same night, but I see no reason why the pajamas shouldn't be taken along anyway, just in case something turns up.

Scenery Didn't Impress Them

We are all very much disappointed in my father and my cousin as tourists. Last fall we urged them to come back by way of Canada so they could see Lake Louise, which I still consider the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. I noticed that he never said much about it in his letters. So when we reached home on this trip I asked him about Lake Louise. Had they seen it? Yes, they even walked clear to the other end and back. Was it a nice day? Yes, the weather was fine. And weren't they impressed by it, by that first breathtaking sight of the blue water and the great towering mountain and the white glacier at the far end? No, not especially. Well, what was the reason? No reason. just weren't impressed. The best thing they saw during their stay in the Canadian Rockies was when they got over to Banff and went to a movie!

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Sound of Train's Brakes Mistaken For New Way of Waking Travelers.

Vi AH HIBGTOR, Wednesdayv.—In spite of all my fears, I had a very pleasant time at the Amerjcan Booksellers Association dinner, enjoyed my neighbor, Mr. Traver, retiring president of the association. and Mr. Cass Canfield, the president of

Harper Brothers. Somewhere around midnight I boarded one oi those new. very modern trains. They have little single compartments with a curtain which zips across the door and a bed which lets down out of the wall ana hooks itself into place. "A friend came down with me, so we had a drawing room with more space than I have ever before encountered in one. Two very wide, comfortable beds ana plenty of space in which to dress make this a really luxurious way to travei, The porter’s bell is a musical affair, the air-brakes made a curious sound which my friend insisted was a new way the porter had of waking up the travelers. At 6:15 the brakes were applied and she was all for dressing and being ready to leave the train at a time long before the scheduled hour of arrival. Finally, we did get up and at 7:15 were ready to leave, but the train was standing still in the midst of a green countryside. I rang for the porter and was told that a car had broken down and we were some miles out of Baltimore and would be anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours late. We finally reached the Washington station at 8:30. My brother drove up with us and joined us at breakfast,

Garden Party Rained Out

This being the day scheduled for the veteran's garden party, I was not at all surprised to find it I cannot remember a year since we have when we have not worried about the weather. We have put off the party until tomorrow and may, if the weather reports are correct, have to put it off until next week! Instead of a ride along the Potomac, I spent an hour with the dentist, caught up on mail, had a few friends lunch with me, and am trying to receive a number of people this afternoon whom I expected to see tomorrow. A most interesting book has come to me, I have seen no reviews of it, but I cannot help feeling that it will be of great interest to many people. It is called: "The Greatest Show on Earth” by Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Spencer. It is an awkward book to read because the pictures take up so much space and it therefore needs very large pages, but this history of the economic cycle showing “what forces have moulded and conditioned our lives,” should he extremely interesting to anyone over 15 years of age.

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New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HE trenchant pen of H. G. Wells again writes parable, cleaving through confusion to lay truth pare. Glowing redly in his pages is the destruction of The City; men in the embroilment of civil war clash with horrid noise. A dictator arises; the leader of the leftists is captured. Grotesquely the two men prove relationship. They are identical twins, for the first time since birth meeting across a world gone mad with war. Pure fantasy! True, but consider . . . Looking, acting, thinking alike, but from diametrically opposite directions, they have approached the same problem. “We serve the Common Fool,” mourns the Dictator. “And the world swarms with our undiscovered brothers,” agrees the Red Leader. As phantasmagoria dissolves, one finds one's sell looking, clear-eyed, through the common intelligence of two men into our own real world, where obliquely, blunderingly, our idealists and our common men fight against “the incalculable slants” of an irrational world in dilemma. THE BROTHERS (Viking press), a novel of power and significance, ends with hope lifting a faint voice, “It cannot end like this.” “No.” Catherine's mind recalls itself to tragic acceptance, as she bends over the bleeding body of her lover who had thought on Utopias. “We were just the first , . . just the beginning. It was a beginning . + "

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(Second of Two Articles) By Theodore Smith

Times Special Writer SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.—The spreading blanket of dusty white cotton fields brings scant cheer today to the farmer,

to the nomadic farm work- -

er and cotton picker, or to local health and educational

authorities of California. Cotton becomes an increasingly important crop in the San Joaquin Valley as farmers reduce their vineyards and curtail their dairies. In Kern County alone the cotton acreage has jumped 125 per cent in two years. The specter of death hovers over the cotton fields at the base of the snow-capped Sierras, and casts a threatening shadow across the slender shoulders and pasty faces of the farm workers’ children.

During the lean winter months, when heavy rains and damp fog prevented cotton picking for days at a time, the migratory agricultural workers lived on a diet consisting mainly of biscuits, beans, potatoes and gravy made of flour, water and a little grease. Few have meat more than twice a week. Practically no butter is used.

“Lots of the children of migratory workers get no milk at all,” public-health nurses say. “The lack of milk, cod-liver oil and soap is really the cause of sickness and death among these youngsters.” on ” »

GHASTLY toll is paid by these children, according to economists and medical experts. Of 30 children examined in a single baby clinic, 27 were found to be suffering from defects attributed to malnutritional diseases, said Dr. Omer Mills, FSA economist. A study of another ditch-bank camp revealed that 21 of 22 children were defective. Death haunts the footsteps of toddling youngsters in the cotton fields to such a degree that pub-lic-health nurses return with tales of older sisters nursing babies suffering from malnutrition.

“Housing” is an elastic term in the San Joaquin Valley. Many pitifully thin, weatherbeaten tents are raised under the protective roofs of abandoned cattle

barns. Health authorities reported as many as 10 families clustered under a single roof.

Gaps among the shingles mean nothing. California’s unusual weather was at least filtered before it struck the tattered tents. Efforts have been made by farmers to provide suitable quarters for their migratory workers.

But many of the box-like, single-room huts have not enough windows. Many ate

crowded and have scant facilities for sewage, garbage disposal and drainage. Pools of stagnant water, and swarms of flies inside dirt-floored tents used as cooking and eating places are obvious menaces to health, ” ” »

Ho=ne conditions in the rural area are much better today than a year ago,” said Dr. Stanford Farnsworth, of the California Department of Public Health. “However, much of the housing of migratory workers can be described as simply awful. “Fifty per cent of the housing for farm workers can be termed fairly adequate, 25 per cent poor and 25 per cent as no housing at all.” ‘The poverty-stricken share= cropper in the deep South is better off than these nomadic workers,” Dr. R. C. Williams of the U. S. Public Health Service said. “The sharecroppers are at least settled on their land and can shoot an occasional rabbit or squirrel.” Demonstrations of what can be done to improve living conditions among those who follow the crops are now being presented in a state-wide string of camps set up by the Farm Security Administra= tion. Ninety-six families find haven in a pioneer camp at Arvin, There they welcome the use of public washrooms, instead of having to

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1938

Nomads of the Dust Bowl

bend over battered tubs propped over campfires to do the family wash. Showers and lavatories are theirs to use after a long day's work in the dusty fields. ” ” ” HEIR health is watched over by an efficient and sympathetic nurse. Recreation is not forgotten, either; there is an as- &

‘Usually Finds Itself in Majority Nowadays

| By Herbert Little Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, May 19.-—-The Supreme Court nears the end of its annual term-—May 31-—with its record studded with dissents. The dissents fall principally into two types. One is the spectacular one-man attack of Justice Hugo L. Black on venerable legal principles, in 10 cases of the approximately 170 decided so far this term; the other is the series of protests by Justices McReynolds and Butler against rulings by the ‘new majority” which overturned the older conservative doctrines of the Court.

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sembly hall for community activities. Adjoining the Arvin camp is a newer experiment of the FSA in attempting to give at least a part of the wandering horde of migra-

tory workers a chance to settle

" down in small, low-rental homes

with a plot of land around them. Twenty trimly painted, simply decorated adobe houses, each with

Justice McReynolds is the leading dissenter this term, with 27 “no” votes registered, and Justice Butler is second with 21.

Up until a year ago Justices MecReynolds and Butler, with former Justices Sutherland and Van De-

vanter, and with the support of Chief Justice Hughes or Justice Roberts, or both, dominated the Court's rulings on major policies. In those days Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo were the frequent dissenters, In the current term, Justice Brandeis has been in the minority only once, Justice Stone five times, and Justice Car= dozo four.

close to an acre of fertile land around it, cluster about the com= munity assembly hall and wash= ing facilities. The cabins and their plots of land for truck gardening rent for $8.20 a month, The tenants seek to find enough work within a radius of 30 miles to supplement the income from their own gardens. Meanwhile the California Pub-

HIEF JUSTICE HUGHES has voted with the majority in all cases, and Justice Roberts has dis sented twice, The McReynolds-Butler dissents are typified by their protests against two opinions read by Justice Brandeis. One of the Brandeis decisions

overruled the fd-year-old precedent by which Federal courts have been disregarding state court interpretations of common law, in favor of their own interpretations. The other upheld the principle of a 50 per cent penalty tax on corpora= tions which seek to avoid income

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Health of Migratory Workers’ Children Menaced by Unbalanced Diet

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lic Health Service keeps a close watch over the migratory workers. Doctors, nurses and dietitians are available to the areas which need aid. Together with the FSA, this field staff is moved about the floor of the great Central Valley in checkerboard jumps following the movements of field workers in their endless search for food, work and temporary haven.

Dissenting Team of Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone

tax on their stockholders by putting earnings in surplus instead of dividends. Such a penalty was imposed in the 1028 Revenue Act. Justice Black added another of his forceful lone dissents in favor of states’ rights the other day, in upholding the Indiana gross-in-come tax as applied to an Indiana

corporation's revenue from products sold in interstate commerce. He defended the local taxing power as having been validly used. Justice Reed, the newest member of the Court, has dissented twice in his four months of service.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

The Story About Edwin Patrick's Home ls Good, but It Doesn't Tell How He Keeps the Brass Shining.

HEN 1 was younger I had a habit of walking down Delaware St, just to have a look at the window shades in Henry M. Talbott’s house. 1 always lived in hope that maybe Mr. Talbott’s shades needed a little adjusting, but I never had any luck. The shades were always just so, Indeed, the distance from the window sill to the bottom of the shade never varied by as much as a milimeter—throughout the

house, mind you. After that, there wasn’t anything to do but applaud Mr. Talbott's good housekeeping. Since Mr. Talbott's departure, I've contracted the habit of walking down Pennsylvania St. just to have a look at the polished brass railings leading up to Edwin Patrick's front door. They shine like everything. For that matter, so does the rest of the house. As an example of good housekeeping, I guess it's every bit as good as Mr. Talbott's. Which is all the more remarkable when you consider that Me, Patrick lives right downtown hedged in among the skyscrapers. Mr. Patrick's home at 425 N. Pennsylvania St. has one of the prettiest stories of any house around here, To understand it, however, you've got to start at the beginning with the house at the southwest corner of Meridian and Michigan Sts.—the one wv» used to associate with the University Club. Maybe you don't know it, but some houses in Indianapolis have a rela= tionship as close as that of a father to his children. Back in the Sixties, the University Club Building was known as the Ferguson house. J. L. Ferguson made a pile of money as a pork packer, and to put some of it in circulation he got Architect Dietrich Bohlen (August's grandfather) to design the big three-story affair on Meridian St. Besides having a pile of money, Mr. Ferguson also had two daughs= ters—Frances and Clara-—who, strangely enough, fell in love at the same time. What's more, they got married at exactly the same time-—~the first double wedding ever to be held in the First Presbyterian Church,

Each of the Brides Got a Home

Well sir, that made Mr. Ferguson so unspeakably happy that, in 1873, he called in Architect Bohlen again and commissioned him to design two houses exactly alike. I guess I don’t have to tell you that the Patrick house was one of them. It was the one Clara got. The one Frances got was the house at Pennsylvania and 11th Sts. (They tore it down a couple of years ago to make room for the Elpenn Garage.) This story might have been an idyl had Mr, Ferguson built the two houses closer together, but maybe he knew what he was doing. After Mr. Ferguson sold out to Kingan's, he packed up everything he had, including his two daughters (and their husbands), and moved to Chicago. Had it been possible, I guess he would have taken the two houses with him, too. Anyway, after he left, Latham Davis (Sinker & Davis) moved into Clara's house, and after him came Constantine Cones who also had a lovely daughter, Kathryn by name. She married Mr. Patrick, which brings everything up to date. It still leaves me wondering, though, what kind of polish Mr. Patrick uses to make his brass railings shine the way they do.

Jane Jordan

Advises Girl, 16, to Realize That Change of Heart Is Quite Possible.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am 16 years old. About a year ago I had my first dale with a certain boy of my age and we've been going steady ever since. I had had dates before, but he had not. Our parents do not approve of our going steady, and from your

column I gather that you would agree. But is it abs solutely impossible to know your own heart at the age of 162 We do not enjoy dating other people although we like to be with crowds of people as well as alone, We often have talked of marriage after we graduate from college. This feeling is not merely infatuation or it could not have met all the tests it has and grown so steadily. We never quarrel. Is it true that “a man who has loved only one woman has never loved any?” WANTING INFORMATION, " Ld ” Answer-—-No. It certainly is not true that a man who has loved only one woman has never loved any. H2 has loved one. Why twist the truth? The states ment is one of those glittering remarks made to justify one's love among many women, There is a very good reason for not going steady when you're 16, It is simply that you haven't met many people and have no basis of comparison, Your task is to get acquainted with many in order to widen your love choice. The boy who is completely, satis« fying at 16 may not look so glamorous at 18 or 20. However, if you're badly smitten I see no reason why you shouldn't have a whirl at going steady. It is not impossible to know your own heart at 16 if only you'll bear in mind that a change of heart is quite possikle. A sensible girl will not overestimate her first love affair or be completely shattered if it blows up. One of the disadvantages of going steady is that other boys let you alone and if your boy friend drifts away you may find yourself with nobody. Another disadvantage is that young people who have gone together since childhood sometimes get married because they're tied together by habit rather than because their love has endured. Even though you go steady, keep your eyes and ears open, You

might see someone else you prefer. JANE JORDAN.

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

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, May 19.—Every time I pick up a magazine, I see where some other woman is out for the title of “the best dressed woman in Holly« wood.” It's a nice title if you can get it but it's pretty hard on the husbands. The other day a husband came home from a party and he was telling his wife about how nice a certain lady looked at the party, and he said, “I couldn't help noticing how simply and modestly she was dressed.” The wife said, “Yes, that woman would do

anything to attract attention.” (Copyright, 1938)

Walter O'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, May 19.—F. D. R. is interested In a plan proposed to make election day a time of reckoning between the citizen and the Governe ment. The idea is to have Americans vote, pay their taxes and fill out a questionnaire-—all on the same day. That would start everyone in the country fighting like Pennsylvania Democrats during the first week of November, and only Armistice Day would stop them. Of course, if a guy had to pay his taxes then, there wouldn't be any reason for celebrating Thanks« giving and no dough for Christmas, In one respect the plan is cockeyed. If a fellow is willing to pay his taxes it should be his privilege to ask the Government to fill out a questionnaire explaining themselves before he made up his mind to cast his vote,