Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1938 — Page 9
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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle
Ernie Decides to Test the Power Of His Readers to Remember and Offers His First Questionnaire.
ASHINGTON, May 24.—One ‘night a couple of weeks ago a whole family of us sat around all evening in Denver working one of these “intelligence quizzes” the magazines are printing these days. Most of us enjoyed it very much, although I would have enjoyed it more if I had come out ahead of all the others, which I didn’t. In my sleep that night I had an idea. Why not do the same thing in this column? We have now been roving for three years. During that time we have learned a lot of good stuff, a lot of bad stuff, and a lot of stuff we've forgotten and have to go look up. So let's see if you remember anything. For a few days this column will be a travel quiz. All questions will
be based on stuff we've picked up 3 #8 roaming around the country. Mr. Pyle ing out of me, I assure you. : the answers wrong myself, the best thing for you to do is to keep still about it. Start now: 1. Which of these is a marmot: (a)North Dakota field mouse: (h)Wyvoming prairie dog: (c) striped, rattish animal of the high Rockies; (d) pure yellow Mexican snake? 2. Do the silver-colored streamliners called “Zevhyrs” belong to the (a) Union Pacific; (b) Southern Pacific: (¢) New York Central; (d) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy? 3. Does the marmot—yeah, the same one as above — (a) bark; (b) hiss; (¢) cackle; (d) whistle? 4. In the heart of a city, two rivers flow together to form the Ohio. Is the city (a) Wheeling, W. Va.; (b) Pittsburgh; (b) Columbus, O.; (d) Youngstown, O.? 5. Is the Governor of Alaska (a) Samuel Parks; (b) Joe Crosson; (c) John Troy; (d) Yukon Jake? 6. Is the mileage from the Texas border to Mexico City over the new highway approximately (a) 750 miles: (b) 500 miles; (¢) 1000 miles; (d) 600 miles? 7. Was the Panama Canal finished in (a) 1913; (b) 1899; (c) 1902; (d) 1904? 8. Mt. Whitney is the highest mountain in the U. S. proper. Is it in (a) Colorado; (b) Wyoming; (c) Montana; (d) California? 9. If vou were going to Alaska this summer, would you go by a (a) auto; (b) train; (c) boat; (d) on the back of a whale? 10. Which of these great seaports is not near the ocean: (a) San Francisco; (b) Portland; (¢) Miami, (d) New York? The Answers
6. 750 miles, 7. 1913. 8. California. 9. Only by boat. 10. Portland (100 miles up Columbia River).
. Rattish animal of
. Pittsburgh. . John Troy.
First Lady Receives Copy of New |
Magazine by Connecticut Authors.
ASHINGTON, Monday.—And again the rain falls! I only hope it will clear up this afternoon, for the newspaper dance tonight is a large party and it adds tremendously to everybody's pleasure if people can wander about the terraces and the garden. The cool night air is welcome when they get tired and hot from dancing. I told you yesterday was a quiet day, but I don't believe I gave you an idea of how really peaceful it was. I ate my. breakfast entirely alone on the south porch, rode for two hours, lunched on a glass of milk and some crackers and then, for an hour and a half, read newspapers and various things which had been sent to me. Anything as leisurely as this hasn't fallen to my lot in many a long day, and how we appreciate things which we don't have all the time! I have just received the first copy of the Connectiut Nutmeg, an entirely unique magazine which numbers among its contributors many of the best known names in literature, and yet pays none of them. Its appeal will be many-sided—a column on nature notes bv Heywood Broun, one of men’s furnishings by John Erskine, Ursula Parrot on “This and That,” columns bv Elizabeth Hawes and George Bye, and letters from correspondents such as Rose Wilder Lane and others who are certain to keep one constantly interested. Even if some of the eminent writers insist on writing largely about Connecticut, we will have to put up with it and believe the places we live in are just as deserving of literary notice.
Worried by Foreign News
Sunday afternoon Miss Mayris Chaney and Miss Vandy Cape. who will help to entertain our guests this evening, arrived and joined me on the porch for tea. We saw the President and the rest of the family drive up in a grand cavalcade from the boat. They were all in high spirits for they had seen some really good races. The sun certainly had shone on them—they all had acquired the most vivid red complexions. A few friends for supper and then the President left us with a rather solemn expression, for the Secretarv of State wished to report on the latest news. I open the papers every morning now with dread and I hardly dare ask my husband what is happening in the world. TI feel I cannot face with equanimity the stories of any more horrors and bloodshed spread across the pages of our newspapers day by day. A few voung people came to luncheon today. They are the pupils of Miss Julia Parker, one of our Hyde Park neighbors. One or two appointments this afternoon, ending up with a visit to my daughter-in-law, Betsy. She is giving a goodby tea party, for, like the rest of us, she is preparing to fly to the country in a week or so and Jimmy is leaving tomorrow for a visit to the Mayo clinic.
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
ZERO morning and an old-fashioned New England winter cause Dorothy and Nils Hogner to bring their camping outfit from the attic, load up their faithful car, anc head for the warm sun and the American deserts. WESTWARD, HIGH,
LOW AND DRY (Dutton) is Dorothy Childs Hog- |
ner’s account of their trip.
Setting out to see a desert untouched by man, |
they are surprised to find industries, gardens, fields and fruit groves which man has made to flourish. Through Texas and Arizona they go, across Nevada to Boulder Dam, then on to the silent grandeur of the Grand Canyon and Estes Park. From there they wind down the precipitous highway to the Dust Bowl, where the birds crouch with wings spread, panting, waiting for the sun to set. Then they move eastward through rain and flood, until at last they are home again, picking cactus thorns out of the upholstery of the car. EJ n zn
HE seasoned traveler
preciates his own land when at last he returns to it.
R. H. Bruce Lockhart, in his own book. A SON OF | (Putnam), describes himself as such a | After his many years of wandering he has
SCOTLAND person. ) ] at last begun to discover his own country, and he expects it to be the greatest adventure of his life.
The book is really the story of his boyhood in Scot- | land, of his early environment there, and of the |
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influences which helped to determine his character. It is a glimpse of Scotland and Scottish home life of the past, seen through the eyes of the exile who, having visited many countries, returns to his vwn iand to find it the best of them all. 5
You can grade yourself if you want to. The winner will get noth- | And if I have some of |
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By John T. Flynn
NEA Staff Writer
workable program.
recovery?
A great factory breaks down.
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938
EW YORK, May 24.—Everybody wants recovery. Thousands offer plans. But how is any man to attempt a program of recovery unless he knows what is meant by
Millions cry out for some
An engineer is called
in. The owner tells him he wants the engineer to make the
plant go again.
organic defects in the machines.
“What do you mean by ‘making this plant go again’? This is a steam plant. Do you want this machinery ripped out and modern electrical machines installed? Or do vou want
to make this steam plant work? Do you wish me to take out all these defective parts and put in new and better ones and rearrange the machinery a little so that it can resume work at full effectiveness and continue to go? Or do you wish me to leave it as it is, but merely patch it up here and there to get it started, even though it may break down again before the season is over? I can do this job any way you want. But I must know what you want.” Now then, what about this great national economic machine of ours? Clearly the people do not wish to scrap it and put in a new plant—Communist, Fascist or Socialist. We want to use the existing machinery.
” on on UT how long do we want that machinery to continue to go? Do we want to rearrange it a little, take out old defective parts and put in new ones. make a real repair job so that when the machinery starts it will continue to run at highest effectiveness for an indefinite time? Or do we merely want to patch it. make a few adjustments and get it started even though it may break down in a year or two or three—break down worse than ever? In 1933 the Administration started its spending program. Any economist could have told it—and did tell it—that if this was kent
and the adventurer into many lands is often the person who most ap- |
up it would bring what would be called recovery. But any economist could and did warn it that it could not last more than three or four years, It lasted only three. | It 1s now possible to produce | that recovery again. The last one cost 16 or 17 billion dollars. Another such recovery can be produced for about the same sum. But it will not last quite as long as the last one. This is what the Administration is now preparing to give us. But I fear they are underestimating the cost. And that it will not be recovery any more than the last unhealthy upsurge was a recovery. Businessmen, irked bv Government taxes, spending, labor policies, regulation, want all this ended. Their theory is simple— let business alone, check the SEC, let Wall Street get busy, demobilize the NLRB, cut out capital gains taxes and undivided profits taxes and watch the nation recover.
Being an engineer, he sees there are great
He asks the owner:
If we do that the most we can hope for is a repetition of what happened between 1924 and 1929. If business’ hopes are realized there will be a boom—immense railroad equipment orders, utility expansion, commercial and home building, enormous industrial rehabilitation. But it is certain that will not last over four years. And then we will plunge into another depression far worse than this one. After all, Mr. Hoover let business pretty well alone for three years and matters grew steadily worse. To sum it all up, we know that the plan of the President will not produce more than a few years release and that the plan of business will produce only a few years “recovery.” Both plans call for the kind of recovery which the factory owner asks the engineer to produce by patching up the defective parts and getting the machinery moving for a season or two as the prolog tc another and worse breakdown. Between these two programs—the Government's spending program and the private business program —there is really not much to
choose. ” ” ”
ND yet it is a profoundly disturbing fact that what people now want is the patching process —they want to get the machinery started somehow. And what is more, they want this patched-up machinery to grind out immeasurable abundance. The public mind has been utterly poisoned by the promises of abundancy— from Hoover who would end poverty, to Roosevelt who promised the abundant life for all. There is no use, therefore, in urging an overhauling of the machinery. The people will not stand for it now. The mood for that was present in 1933; it was wasted; it is now gone. Therefore an ideal program is not possible. The causes of economic depression are deeply rooted in the economic system. Nothing could be more superficial than to say, for instance, that this is an inventory depression, This depression, like most depressions, is a perfectly natural phenomenon. If is part of the logical functioning of the economic system. It is certain what the people want is what is euphemistically called ‘“recovery’—another flight of better times. That, then, is the most that can be attempted now. o ” =
EPRESSIONS are due to a failure of adequate purchasing power. This in turn is due to the failure of long term credit
mechanisms in society. Why long- >
| By Maj. Al Williams
| Times Special Writer
life?
care of himself and as
nate his scratch. But
senses
the pilot of Flying a plane on an ever one thing, and { through the skies in every | ceivable position is another.
| ing out of dives and turning sharphigh} | health standard, keep the eyesight
{ly at super-speeds sets up
| centrifugal loads on the human { body that induce depressing fatigue. A young pilot can rebound from I hope!
Age, Youth Both Have Their Advantages in Flying
EW YORK, May 24—What is| 0% the length of a pilot's flying |, protect
As far as commercial flying is concerned, it's as long as he takes long as | his eyesight and ability to co-ordi- | ed. are kept up to comes only by continued practice
single-seater | to accommodate fighting planes is a different case. keel is banging around | commodating the body to these conPull- |
the physical disturbance of highspeed aerobatics. But at the time suffers more than the older pilot, who has learned certain ways himself while sharply { pulling out of a dive or making a (snap turn at high speeds. | Men have flown for hours invert-
And the capacity to do this
and by giving the body a chance itself. Humans | live at 18,000-foot altitudes and in | the deepest mines by gradually ac-
usual conditions. Give the body time to get set for {unusual flying strains, hold a high
| keen and sharp, and man can fly | as long as he pleases—I think, and
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The news photographer’s camera takes you on a rare visit to that once impenetrable sanctum, the Governor's Room of the New York Stock Exchange. When this picture was taken the Board of Governors was inaugurating both a young new chairman
term credit—or investment—declines may be the result of various causes. Generally it is due to (a) rising prices in capital goods industries, which check capital expansion, (b) rising prices of consumer goods which cut purchasing power, (c¢) rising debt burdens which limit credit of those who invest in capital industries and (d)- exhaustion of credit or investment opportunities. Here then are three loads which weigh an economic system down when it begins to crack—debt, prices, exhaustion of immediate credit opportunities. If this is so, and I think there can be no doubt of it, the worst possible course a government can take is any effort to preserve the debt structure or keep up prices. Mr. Hoover started the policy of trying to save debts. Mr. Roosevelt continued it on a vaster scale and used the most violent methods to put prices up. Both were actually taking measures to prolong the depression. The latest figure to achieve prominence in Washington is Mr, John W. Hanes, Wall Street broker, of the SEC. He has a plan to put the Government in the business of lending money to merchants and manufacturers to enable them to hold their excessive inventories in order to keep prices up. Seemingly the President likes Mr. Hanes sO much that he has made him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. At the end of so many years of failure of the policy of saving debts and prices, there is something tragic about this. " » on
HE first thing, therefore, in any plan of recovery is for the Government to withdraw at once and completely from all schemes to keep alive private debts of all sorts—bonds, stocks, mortgages. They should be allowed to go. Some will be hurt. Many will actually be helped by it. But the opposite policy is to hurt the whole nation. The second thing is to take the Government instantly out of every scheme for keeping prices up. And at the same time the Government itself should use every instrumentality it has to prohibit private groups, combinations, trade associations from entering agreements to hold up prices or to limit production, directly or indirectly. This means things like the Guffey Bituminous Coal Commission should be scrapped, the Sherman antitrust law and other trust laws like the Clayton act should be vigorously and impartially enforced. The same thing should be ap-
The Truth About Recovery’
Public Wants Economic Machine Patched, but Not Overhauled, Flynn Says
(First of Two Articles)
“How long do we want the machine to continue to go? . . . . we want to make a real repair job?
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plied to agricultural prices. The Commodity Surplus Corp. should be demobilized and all attempts at pegging farm prices should be ended. The farm problem can be attacked from a different angle. On the question of exhaustion of investment opportunities, there is nothing the Goverment can do about that. That is a problem strictly for private business. It is supported to create those opportunities. If it does not, then cer= tain other adjustinents will be necessary later. ” EJ » OTHING could be more fatal than uncertainty in money
policy. No man can make more than a guess now whether we are
Jasper—By Frank Owen
ICOPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, |
© Copr. 1938 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine. _
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Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis. Ind.
at Postoffice,
(31-year-old William McChesney Martin Jr, at extreme right) and a new liberal note in the conduct of its affairs, Chairman Martin pledged “a safe market” as a means of helping to “restore prosperous conditions in America.”
Do Or do we merely want to patch
going to have deflation or inflation. We drift and all uncer=tainty arises out of that. The Government can remove this uncertainty. It can definitely decide upon a policy of inflation or deflation. It can announce it and announce its intention to adhere to that policy. It is not so important which policy it pursues as to have the policy settled on, adopted and ended. Drifting deflation, drift.ng inflation are the two most destructive of forces. This, I think, should be the cornerstone of any program of recovery.
NEXT—A Program for Business Recovery.
(Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Inc.)
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—-With what major league baseball club does Joe DiMaggio play? 2—-Which states are officially designated Commonwealths? 3—-Name the country known as the “Land of Chrysanthemums.” 4—Give the correct salutation on a letter addressed to two or more women, either single or married. 5—Into which river does the Ohio River flow? 6—What is a capstan? 7—How many Americans were killed in the naval battle of Manila Bay? ” ” ” Answers 1—New York Yankees. 2—Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. 3—Japan. 4—Mesdames. 5—Mississippi. 6—Ship machine for anchor, 7—None.
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Legend Has It That the Founder Of Notre Dame Once Was All Set To Open a School in Indianapolis.
(CHANCES are that you know, without my telling you, that Father Edward Sorin went to South Bend in 1842 and founded Notre Dame University. But maybe you don’t know that eight years later the same
Father Sorin turned up in Indianapolis to start a university here. Legend has it that he had it all fixed to call the new school Holy Cross. Less legendary is the documentary evidence that Father
Corin had a flawless title to 10 acres of ground right in the heart of Indianapolis to show that he meant business. I don't know what went wrong. Father Sorin's Indianapolis property came to him in 1850 as a gift from the Rt. Rev. Maurice de St. Palais, bishop of Vincennes Bishop de St. Palais had inherited it from Bishop Bazin who in turn had inherited from Bishop Celes tine Reni Laurent Guynemer de la Hailandiere, the original purchaser in 1847. (Parene thetically I might add that the original purchaser never went to the trouble I did—he signed his name “C. de la Hailandiere,” and let it g0 at that.)
I bring Bishop de la Hailandiere, grand figure that he is, into today’s piece because he was really the one to get Father Sorin to come to America. Edward Sorin was a Frenchman and a brother of the Cone gregation of the Holy Cross. Accompanied by six brothers he arrived in New York in 1841, and imme« diately set out for Indiana, which was destined to be his field—the center, rather—of his activities for up=ward of half a century. He arrived in Vincennes in an ox cart. Immediately he got busy, founded any number of new parishes and in 1842. the year after he landed, began the foundation of Notre Dame du Lac. It started as an Indian missionary station and I guess I don't have to tell you what it developed into.
One Street Name Survives
Which brings me back to his property in Indiane apolis. What did he do with it? Well, I'l] tell you-—= he sold it. As a matter of fact, he laid it out in lots, and to this day the people in the Courthouse refer to it as the “Edward Sorin Addition.” What's more, Father Sorin baptized the streets surrounding his ade dition. To get the names he went straight to the Saints Calendar. He called the north boundary of his property St. Mary's St.; the south, St. Joseph's St, St. Mary's St. is now known as Tenth St. but St. Joseph St., thank goodness, still survives. I haven't taken the pains to look into the matter the way I should, but I'll bet a dime that the house now occupied by the Hisey-Titus people, to say nothing of the synagog at 975 N. Delaware St., is built on ground originally owned by Father Sorin. And neither would it surprise me to learn that, the money derived from the sale of Father Sorin's Indianapolis property went into making Notre Dame what it is.
Jane Jordan
Wife Is Told Not to Be Pathetic
In Awaiting Return of Her Husband. EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a wife with the old trouble . another woman. We have one child. My husband says he loves me and is coming back to me. This woman is trying her best to get him to get a divorce but so far she hasn't succeeded. He knows he can’t get a divorce because he hasn't any grounds. I have never caused any trouble over the situation yet; I have just waited to see if he would return. I never run around; I don't care to. It has been several months since he left and I sce him quite often. Do you think if I have a little more patience that he will come back? Please don’t tell me I am foolish for I do love him. HEARTBROKEN WIFE.
Mr. Scherrer
Answer—I think that it is more than likely that your husband will tire of his fling and come back, particularly since you have been smart enough not to widen the breach. In other words you've left the way open. Naturally your husband feels guilty over his behavior; if he can find a way to put the hlame on you, he will do so, but if you do not provide him with such opportunity, the chances are that he will try to atone for his conduct.
Whether or not you are foolish to wait depends upon the way you do your waiting. If you wait as a hurt dog waits, for another kick, that is what you may get. Don’t be pathetic. Don't use your plight te wring tears from your friends. You should not stay home and brood over vour wrongs. A job is perhaps the best filler for a lonely life. If you could succeed at something on your own, apart from your home and absent husband, you would gain a great deal in poise and independence. Fill your period of waiting with some useful occupation. It will do much to ease the tension, and
| for all you know the time may come when your huse | band is not so important to vou.
” » on EAR JANE JORDAN—WHen I was married the first time I made such a bad bargain that 1 felt But after three years of being single, I find that I am getting lonesome for a husband and a home of my own. Get= ting the right man doesn’t seem to be an easy matter, The men that I could care for are already attached,
I am beginning to wonder if my luck will ever change, LONELY.
Answer—It isn't so much your luck that chances as you yourself. Your job is to keep in circulation, Make as many friends as you can. Go as many places as you can. In this way you increase your opportunities of meeting men. JANE JORDAN,
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who wil answer your questions in this column daily,
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, May 24 —As usual there will be a lot of weddings this June and I think some of us married men should give a word of encouragement to the young men who are about to take that step and might be gettin’ a little bit shakey. In the first place it'll make your job more permanent. I know one man who won't hire an unmarried man. When I asked him “why?” He says “Well, I am pretty blunt and overbearing and I find that
married men don’t get so upset when I yell at 'em.” (Copyright, 1938) I
Walter O'Keefe—
OLLYWOOD, May 24.——Robert Raphael, a 4-yeare old New Yorker, has just been awarded a scholarship by New York University, where he enters
this fall. Entering at 4, Bobby should be out by the time he’s 8, unless he runs off with a coed and gets married. New York University must pe proud of its new stus= dent, and Jimmy Crowley, the Fordham football coach, is probably hoping this becomes a common occurrence, However, this new trend in college men will be tough on employers. You won't know whether you're doing the old alma mater a favor or violating the laws. '