Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1938 — Page 11

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

In Her Childhood Natalie Scott Had a General Fear for Everything, But Today It's a Different Story.

Editor's Note—Ernie Pyle, after three years of traveling, is taking a vacation. Hence we are taking this opportunity to reprint some of his readers’ favorite columns, as indicated in their letters to him and to the editor,

TAXCO, Mexico, June 2.—Natalie Scott grew up to be afraid of everything. Her mother was afraid, so a fear grew in Natalie, too. She wasn’t afraid of anything specific; it was more a fear of everything in

general. She got over it all right. She got over it plenty. I'd hate to see anything she’s afraid of now, for it would certainly be an awful thing. I forget just how Natalie Scott got into the war. It had something to do with her ability to speak French. She served through the whole thing in French hospitals. When she went in, she would faint at the sight of blood. When she came out she had the Croix de Guerre, and no fear of anything that walks, flies, crawls or slinks through the night. Natalie Scott probably knows Mexico better than any of the 15,006 Americans who live in Mexico. In two years she has ridden on horseback, mostly alone, over a good many thousand miles of Mexico. She has ridden from Texas to Taxco—took six weeks. She has ridden all over primitive Oaxaca in the south—two months. She has ridden west to the coast, and down to Acapulco—three months. She travels light. She wears riding pants and boots, but takes one dress to put on in the evening if she's in a village. She's had some weird times.

Mr. Pyle

Once, down South,

she was met outside a village and taken before the |

town council—assembled barefooted on a dirt-floor hut. One by one the councilmen rose and made speeches in the Mixtec Indian dialect. understand-—but she suspected. Finally the town “secretary,” who always Knows Spanish, got up and said they had got along all right

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

Evidence of the violence which characterized the rebellion in Mexico of Gen, Saturnine Cedillo and his peasant followers is this train wreck near La Borreguita, Two railway employees were killed when a guerrilla rebel band dynamited the locomotive. President Lazare Cardenas declares the uprising has been stamped out by the

concentration of Federal troops in the State of San Luis Potosi,

She couldn't |

without any outsiders, and what was she doing there, |

but it didn’t matter anyhow for she wasn’t welcome, and to GET OUT.

A Crop Speech Saved Her She had to think fast. She thought of crops, the kev to any Indian's heart. It worked. She said: “See, you don’t know what they raise in Michoacan, and they don’t know what you raise here. That's what I came up for, to see your crops.” The first thing she knew they were producing special dishes of food for her. She stayed and talked all dav and all night. They begged her to stay longer,

but she had to go. Natalie Scott's house stands behind a maze of foliage, way up on the mountain. You can sit on her cool stone veranda and look down on Taxco. The rooms are full of weird Indian fiesta masks, and French books, and native art, and old, old furniture on a bare stone floor. Natalie Scott came to Mexico six years ago, because her vearly trip to Europe was too much for a depression income. She came to Taxco, and she stayed here because it was the first place for years where she could sleep at night. She will live here the rest of her life. ; She expects to take more horseback trips. She'd like to do an expedition for a museum. She has already mapped and stepped off several buried pyramids. “Are you going to make a book of your experiences?” I asked. “1d like to, but I'm too busy now,” she said. “Busy doing what?” She laughed. “Busy walking up and down these hills,” she said.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Deplores Scarcity of |

Libraries in Rural Communities.

TICA, N. Y., Wednesday—A most interesting letter has come to me describing the work of the Emergency Alivah. These young people, who have emigrated to Palestine, are heing helped to independence mainly in rural projects. They have a two-year training course which covers every department of rural work and the running of a home. Six months before this course ends, they begin to consider what they expect to do in the future and 75 per cent of them have thus far remained on the soil.

Committee of One Thousand for Youth |

Bp HLF , After followers of Cedil'® had blown up the train near La Borreguita, killing two trainmen, peasants of the region fled, taking with them their meager possessions, Here

a group of Mexican agrarians and children pushes a railway handcar, laden with household goods.

A movement such as this seems to give real hope |

for future security to children, many of whom have come from areas where life has been extremely precarious While T arranged my books up here this spring, it came over me how selfish I am. Not since I was very young have I really wanted a book and not been able to buy it. Yet one of my young neighbors, who helped me to dust and put my books back into place not long ago, remarked there were many books on my shelves which she would like to borrow. Dutchess County is a rural community and though there are libraries in many of the villages, they are not apen at all times. great number of people in rural areas and in urban areas also, have not found the habit of reading. It may be due to the fact that books are not always available. In 1935 the American Library Association

estimated that 40,000,000 rural and 5,500,000 urban |

people in the United States were without library service and that another third of the population had very inadequate library service.

Recommends County Libraries

It seems to me that the answer to this situation is the county library, but to be successful the county library must have the support of all the people in the county. The tax on individuals need not be great, but, if in any given county, it is more than the county can carry alone, one or more counties could consolidate and a regional library with automobile distribution could serve them all 1 think few people know that a few years ago the United States Congress established the Library Service Division in the Office of Education with a staff of three trained librarians who began its work on Jan. 3, 1938. Their work is to assist the state, regional and county libraries by furnishing them with national statistics and by keeping them in touch with what is going on throughout the country. WPA has been able to do a great deal to help people wishing to organize rural libraries. It is to be hoped that more communities will avail themselves of the awakening interest of the government and the people, in order that one of the vital factors in real education may be made available to all. We left Hyde Park very early this morning, stopped at Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson's at Mohawk for lunch, called on a friend and ended up in Utica, N. Y., where I am speaking tonight at a meeting of the Women’s Division of the Democratic State Committee.

Bob Burns Says—

¢ AN BUREN, Ark, June 2.—I believe when you |

study anything too closely vou take all the mvstery and interest out of it. Aunt Dutty use'ta get pret near anything she wanted out of Uncle Hod—jest by cryin’, but her life has been spoiled since he took up science. The other day when she burst into tears again, he said, “Dutty, them tears don't affect me anvmore—my chemistry book tells me that tears are made up of a small percentage of phosphorus salt, a little sodium chloride and all the rest, water.” (Copyright, 1938)

For one reason or another, a |

President Lazaro Cardenas (slouch hat and mustache) is shown as he visited San Luis Potosi while directing measures for the suppression of the revolt. The uprising | caused heavy property damage and considerable loss of life, but President Cardenas to-

day says it has been put down.

Side Glances—By Clarl

Jasper—By Frank Owen

THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938

Rebellion Below the Rio Grande

Codilio s Uprising Marked by Fierce Fighting and Heavy Damage

Federal cavalrymen, part of the more than 12,000 troops who were engaged in fighting the guerrilla bands of Gen. Cedillo, are pictured here on their way to Santa Maria del Rin to engage a large group of Cedillo’s rebels, Although Cedillo is still at large, President Cardenas declares that only small groups of rebels remain in the hills of Central Mexico and they ‘constitute no military problem for the Government.”

Small groups of San Luis agrarians, who were supposed to be stanch supporters of Gen, Cedillo, are shown here delivering their arms to Federal troops. Although the peasants’ fighting equipment was poor, the fighting was intense in the clashes between Government and rebel troops.

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Times-Acme Photos,

The San Luis Potosi State Deputy, Juan Soria Urias (left), talks with Gen. Genovevo Rivas Guillen, in President Cardenas’ home, where Urias called to ask for a passport to San Luis Potosi to be able to join Cedillo, his close friend. Much to everyone's astonishment, President Cardenas granted his request.

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"| copied down that list of answers you slipped me, but I'm not sure | put them under the right questions.”

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KNOWLEDGE

1-—-What is a pulmotor? 2—Name the three largest fresh water lakes in the world 3--What is the name for the science of the study of sea shells? 4—Are passports required when flying to foreign countries? 5—What is the political affiliafion of Senator William H King »f Utah? 6—In American history, who were called Tories? on n on

Answers

1—A mechanism for restoring suspended respiration. 2—Lake Superior, Lake Victoria (Africa), and Lake Huron. 3—Conchology. 4—The requirements are the same for air passengers as those who travel by other means. 5—Democrat. 6—Those who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolutionary War, ” n n

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

‘An Injustice’ Is the Term Used By a Butler Professor to Describe Article on Literary Club Dinner,

HAT this column needs, 1've discovered, is a Department of Correction or Ame plification or something to carry on from where 1 left off, or indeed, to start all over again if the occasion calls for it. To start such a department, 1 can’t think of anything more to the point than Exhibit A, submitted by Prof, John S. Harrison of the Department of English, Bute ler University “If T were a stranger in Indianapolis,” says Prof, Harrison, “and had come upon your article in today's Times (Our Town May 25). I should judge that the Indianapolis

i Literary Club was quite unworthy

of its name. But being a member of that club and knowing that you, too, are such I am amazed to learn that no one could guess that it really was a literary club unless one should dig into its constitution! If one Mr.

Scherrer dinner a vear can destroy the liter-

| ary character of a club that meets twenty-odd times

a year for the reading and discussion of papers with no eating or dunking whatsoever, 1 wonder how it

| ever could come about that a symposium such as wn

know flourished in Greek times could ever have pros duced such a literary masterpiece as Plato has lel us under that name Really, T think vou do all of your fellow members an injustice when you write of our club as vou did in today's column.” Exhibit B was submitted bv Dr

Walter Bonns who wants to know more—a lot more

about the Liter

ary Club's banquet of 1886 when Louis Reibold of the

Bates House served a 12-course dinner with a different kind of wine for every course Seems that is what I said last week,

The Beans Were Slighted

: “That can’t be right,” savs Di Bonns, “for the simple reason that a gourmet of Mr Reibold's at« tainments was never known to serve wine with the salad course, We may have served 11 different kinds of wine, I'll grant you that,” says Dr. Bonns, “but certainly not 12.” Dr. Bonns wants the thing cleared up not only for the benefit of Mr. Reibold’s memory, but also for the gastronomical reputation of the Literary Club. Exhibit C was submitted anonymously--signed “Prosit Portfolio!"—and finds fault with me for saye ing that Luise Foltz's Portfolio Picnic beans are mixed with molasses and mustard, as if that was all there was to the trick. It turns out it's Just the beginning, as I have taken pains to learn. Besides molasses and mustard (and the beans, of course), Mrs. Foltz's pies nic dish also embraces bacon. catsup, vinegar, salt, pepper and onions, When Mrs. Foltz runs short of onions, she uses garlic

Jane Jordan—

Thinks Parents of Girl Victim in Suicide Pact May Have Felt Guilty,

EAR JANE JORDAN-I would like to know what you think of the recent case of the young man who killed his sweetheart in a suicide pact and lacked

| the nerve to complete the agreement by killing hime | self. What puzzles me is the fact that the girl's pare

ents defended the boy after he was acquitted on grounds of insanity, The prosecuting attorney ace cused the girl's parents of ‘selling their souls” and What I want to know is whether you agree with the prosecuting attorney in his view or whether you think these parents wel's inspired by nobler motives than the average person is capable of feeling MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER.

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Answer—You can't make statements about people

| whom you don't know and hope to come any where

near the truth. My guess is that the girl had been a great worry to her parents. It is possible that she

| had many neurotic traits, which made her a puzzle,

hard to understand and hard to handle. Many par ents have been so baffled and worried that at times they have secretly wished for release in some wav, These wishes are promptly denied because of love for the child, but even when pushed back they somee times generate a sense of guilt and defeat My guess—it is only that-—is that these parents* action in defending the boy possibly came from a feeling of guilt, as if they perhaps were the ones to be punished instead of the boy I do not know, of course, but I do not believe that normal child could bring himself to feel kindly toward the slaver of his child

| —no matter what the background

Note to “Almost Bankrupt'=I should think that a girl who lives at home and makes $15 a week, could pay $5 a week board to her parents without being asked for more. If she helps her mother, does her own laundry, and eats her lunch downtown she ought not to be considered an expense at home. I have known other working girls who found board and room away fron: the family in modest homes for this

{ amount, and there is no reason why you should pay | your parents more for living at home than it would | cost you to live elsewhere, unless they are struggling | with extraordinary difficulties.

JANE JORDAN,

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer your questions in this column daily.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

" AGIC ISLAND” and “Jungle Ways" were suce cessful books about far places; now William Seabrook has turned his attention to the home scene, and in THESE FOREIGNERS (Harcourt) looks with a reporter's eye upon the principal foreign groups in this country Starting from his own prerevolutionary Rheinbeck In eastern New York, where the best barber is an Italian; the tailor, a Russian, and the principal lunch wagon is run by a Greek, Mr. Seabrook travels from New York City to San Francisco trying to determine “what kind of people our fellow-Americans of foreign origin are today, what they contribute to our scene, how they live in this land of their adoption, how they are viewed and treated rere.” He tells with humor and candor of his reception and exe periences among the Scandinavian, Italian, German, Polish, and Russian groups, and is convinced that their contribution to the industrial and cultural life

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N the foreword to Dr. Andrea Majocchi's second book of memoirs we read: “The leit motif of this diary may be said to be the harrowing and constant struggle waged between science and sentiment. This fearful battle continually confronts the medical prac titioner, who daily finds himself brought face to face with the torments of the flesh, pain, anxiety, and misery.” Anecdotes from a life of incessant activity and varied experience as one of Italy's leading surgeons form the basis of MORE OF MY LIFE (Knight), the sequel of “Life and Death.” The sympathy and ree sourcefulness of the physician are revealed as Dr, Majocchi describes in detail and without dramatiza« tion the tragedy of appendicitis, the Swiss sanatoriums for tuberculosis, and war as seen by a physician, Using the career of his friend and colleague, Dr. Franco Forti, he develops a religious theme which concludes the hook.

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