Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana == Ernie Pyle

Our Wanderer Tells a Story of A Young lowa Attorney Whe Found Religion Through a Faithful Bride.

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.

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‘VV ESTERVILLE, 0., June 13.—One night 55 years ago, in Corning, Jowa, a young lawyer was burning the midnight oil preparing a defense in a murder case. His name was Howard Russell. His father had been an Episcopal preacher, but Howard didn't want any preaching in his life. He wasn't wild, and he wasn't bad. But he professed no formal religion. Howard Russell had married the daughter of the man who fathered him into the law business. Her name was Lillian, Lillian by no means shared her husband's apathy toward religion. And her mind was made up. Howard was going to become a Christian. : She had mentioned it to him a number of times. He knew some conversational German, and his reply to Lillian’s excursions into the realm of conversion was always Das is verboten’—don't talk about And she would stop. this certain night

Mr. Pyle

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me pray

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<he persisted you

and let for vou? That was too much word. He put on his vest, and his coat, and his hat. and he { and walked out the door and down the steps. and he went to a hotel and got a room and went to bed. And he slept, too Next morning he went to his office. He worked ail dav. without going home to see his young wife. That night, after his work was done he went back

ther

hom The light burning in the upper bay window. She was waiting for him, He began to feel a little badly. After all, it wouldn't hurt anything to let her pray for him. If she asked him again, he'd say go ahead. He went into the house Lillian rose from the window seat and came tov3 hi

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Rut night, and Howard, let me pray “Why I reckon,

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and for you?”

said Howard, thinking it

yes wor do any Wife Began to Pray

And so they knelt. And Lillian started to pray She and her was a listed series of indictments against his character Howard Russell listened. And suddenly he felt thorns around him, binding his arms stifling him thorny fetters, and then and on. he became conscious that And then he was free Iv to Lillian. “I am giving up <a i Giving up what?” she asked And he houted back “I am piving up sin! I am free! And that the <cepe in a little town in Towa one nicht 33 vears ago. The simple little scene that brought God and man together into a driving force that pave America the Anti-Saloon League, the 18th and 14 vears of prohibition. Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, LL.D founder of the Anti-Saloon League, ‘he of prohibition. chokes up and his voice

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My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Enjoys Seeing Mothers and Babies On Her Visits to the Hospital.

(Editorial, Page 19)

vYDE PARK, Sunday—I finished reading “The Citadel” the night before last, and I wonder what really was Andrew Manson's citadel. The ideal

of what his work should be, which for a time he so

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been in better health |

kneel down |

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| the cost of the dams it has built.

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938

at Postoffice,

Entered as Second-Clase Matter Indianapolis,

Ind.

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The Relief-in-Politics Racket

Barkley and Chandler Factions Seek G. O. P. Vote in Eastern Kentucky

(Seventh of a Series)

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer

IKESVILLE, Ky., June 13.—The woods and hills and valleys in this Eastern Kentucky region are still thick with Republicans whose allegiance, like that of their cousing in the hills of Eastern Tennessee, stems from Civil

War days.

Their forefathers, tilling their mountainside acres without benefit of slave labor, lacked any sympathy or common interest with the slaveholding aristocracy of the lowlands, and the Republican tradition of Abraham Lincoln passed down to their sons and their sons’ sons.

Today these Republican mountaineers constitute a political prize which is being fought over by both sides in the hectic Democratic Senatorial campaign now heginning to sizzle and

crackle between the forces of Senator Barklev, President Roosevelt's Senate leader, and the 39-vear-old Governor Chandler, who aspires to the Barklev seat. The trick is to get Republicans to reregister as Democrats in order to vote for one or the other of the Senatorial candidates, and the movement to the county clerk's office is in full swing This strategv may be nullified, at least to a degree, bv a recent ruling of the State Attorney General that only those who were registered as Democrats for the countv elections last year can vote in the Democratic Senatorial primary, and that those who have changed their party designation since can't vote. (This does not apply, of course to voters who have come of age since the last

election.) 2 =

HCY effective the ruling will be depends on local election officials. It is not unlikely, in view of the heat of this primary and the issues involved, that many Republicans theoretically banned bv anvway Lots of Republicans in this seetion are on relief. In numerous cases Barkley campaign managers, and sometimes WPA foremen, have been active in getting Republican WPA workers to change their registration A revealing letter was sent to WPA workers in Martin County, on the eastern border of Kentuckv, by Russell Williamson, Barkley campaign manager in the county. The letter, in which Barklev buttons were enclosed, follows: “Dear Voter “Under the

new Registration

Status of TVA Yardst

By John T. Moutoux

Times Special Writer

; JASHINGTON June 13.--The

Tennessee Valley Authority |

is expected to submit to Congress

The report will show how much of the cost of each dam should, in the TVA boards opinion, charged to navigation, to flood control, to electric power, and to na-

tional defense.

Director David E. Lilienthal

| promised a House subcommittee at la budget hearing last winter that

completely lost, or the woman who presery ed his ideal |

hrough the period of his defection? It seems as thotieh her love and the loyalty she preserved toward he finer things in life finally won through for him I hated to have her die just as happiness returned the author mav have felt that her work y life was over. once the man she loved was firmly st upon the path that her true nature destined him

for her, but or

nn profession goes, the hook proves doctors are human and unless their work of healing can keep them rather above the average human being, their profession will degenerate nto a business The thing me has that this profession, 0 many men, manage to keep their ideals and give more integrity and self-sacrifice to than is found in almost any other pro-

Ags far as the

not that

surprising for

alwave been mn and women a good deal

> work

too

their

fecsion

Hates Farewells

moved Mrs. Scheider to a quieter and

the allocation report would be submitted this spring. Word from TVA is that the report will be submitted any day. The Senate-and-House commit-

| tee investigating TVA is counting on

i the

{the investment

somfortable room on the top floor of the hos- |

It ig rather amusing to think of it scatise it happens to be on the obstetrical floor and naturally expect to hear the wail of babies, are better brought up these days ceem to wail anv more. TI receive real en-

we would they They don't

much

as quiet, |

iovment going up and down the corridor and having |

in occasional glimpse of a aby. Yesterday, T stopped to look at a bright little redseed black-haired boy, who showed every cing both healthy and full of character sew up. Late in the afternoon or evening, I often

young mother with her |

sign of | when he |

ce A voung man hurrying in with a little bunch of |

lowers in his hand, and I think this is ohe of the ights I like the best urries to see the two people he loves, This morning I met my daughter sand in Albany and, a breakfast friend, we drove down to Hyde Park

and her huswith an old I don’t know

ray LCi

I love. but oh, how I hate to see them off!

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, June 13-—-Of course youll find gentlemen in all parts of the country, but I've always been proud of the fact that Arkansas men treat their women jest a little bit better than anybody else Not long ago when my wife and I were touring through Arkansas, we saw a woman ridin’ along in a buggy and her husband was between the shaves pullin’ it down the road. 1 turned to my wife proudly and save, “Where else would you find a man showin’ his wife so much consideration?” My wife went over to the woman and said, “You're very fortunate in having such a wonderful, kind husband. There are very few husbands that would pull their wives along in a buggy like this” The woman save, “Well, we don't have no arguments about that—I ride in the mornin’ and he rides in the afternoon.” a (Copyright, 1938)

He works all day and then

f anvthing I like better than meeting people whom |

this report to help it materially in determining the honesty of the famed TVA yardstick Without this allocation it has been impossible for friend or foe of vardstick to state definitely whether TVA rates cover the investment cost for power has not been known Interest on investment is one of three main items that eritics of the vardstick have insisted are not covered in TVA power rates. The others are taxes and promotional expenses.

the ruling may vote

be |

since the amount of |

Law registration books are closed for 59 days before the primary. Accordingly, June 7 is the last day on which a person can register or reregister in order to vote in the primary on Aug. 6. This also applies to a transfer of registration from one precinct to another if the voter has moved into a different precinct from the one in which he was previously registered. If you are already properly registered. it is not necessary to register again. “A young Democrat who is not 21 by primary day but who will be 21 on or before Nov. 8 is entitled to vote in the primary and should register now,

“Senator Barklev has been a friend to us, furnishing vear-round jobs to the unemployed, and he has power in Washington to do things for us because he is majority floor leader, and a great friend of the President. Mr. Barkley doesn’t think we are ready to stop spending, because he knows many people would be out of employment were it not for work furnished by the Government. The coming priinary is a useless attack upon the President and his Administration. I believe you will do everything in your power to give Senator Barkley and President Roosevelt a favorable reply from Martin County.

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" ONT be satisfied with just seeing you are properly registered to vote for Mr. Barkley, but see that your tamily, neighbors and friends are. Make yourself a committee of one to see that everyone is properly registered and then see that he is at the polls to cast his vote for Senator Barkley on Aug. 6. “I accepted this position because vou asked me to act for you. and I am highly pleased to find so many of you properly registered and doing all yeu can, and I hope by June 7 to find the registration 100 per cent because after all it is vour fight. Don’t neglect registration and remember if vou

ORMER Chairman A. E. Morgan told the Congressional investigating committee that the yardstick is dishonest because the TVA

| wholesale rate does not include the soon its long-delaved allocation of |

money TVA has spent and is spend-

| ing to promote a greater use of

electricity among Tennessee Valley residents,

Mr. Lilienthal replied to the committee that Mr. Morgan was ‘“‘explicitly in error”; that the TVA includes $100,000 a year in its wholesale rates to cover promotional expenses.

The investigating committee, through its auditors, will ascertain whether Mr. Morgan or Mr. Lilienthal is right on that point.

The more common charges—that TVA rates do not include interest and taxes — have been made by private utilities and others unfriendly to the TVA power program almost from the day the TVA board announced its rates.

To these charges TVA has re-

| plied:

1. As to taxes: (a) while the TVA Act does not require the payment of taxes, it does require the Authority to pay to each state 5 per cent of the gross revenue derived from

| power produced at a TVA dam in | that

state. (b) In addition, rural co-operatives buying TVA power pay to the states, counties or cities

| | i |

| or | ties Commission granted the Tenin which they operate all the taxes | nessee Electric Power Co. a permit

~=0r Do are not properly registered by June 7 you cannot cast your vote for Senator Barkley. “The Senator is fighting our battles in Washington. Let us fight his here. Sincerely yours,

“RUSSELL WILLIAMSON, “Barkley Campaign Chairman.” How Mr. Williamson got hold of the list of WPA workers is not clear, for an order sent out to all WPA administrative and supervisorv employees on March 3 by George H. Goodman, state director, says on this point: “No employee of the WPA in Kentucky shall respond to any request for lists of names or other timekeeping information except that specifically permitted by rules and regulations established by this administration. The requests

ick Hinges on Report of Cost Allocation, Expected to Be Presented to Congress Soon

which a similar private corporation would pay. (ec) Each municipality distributing TVA power has set up an electricity department, and this department pays into the

the amount being determined by applying the city, county, and state ad-valorem taxes to the full pres ent value of the electric system. 2. As to interest: The municipalities and co-operatives pay not to

| exceed 6 per cent interest on funds

lent them in acquiring the distribution systems. TVA says it cannot charge interest on the money it uses in building transmission lines or power plants, but that this is provided for in its wholesale rates.

HESE items of taxes and interest, like that of promotional costs, are matters for the investigating committee's accountants to decide. Critics of the TVA yardstick have not always made plain whether they refer to the wholesale rates which TVA charges for its power or the retail rates which it requires municipalities and co-operatives to charge. If wholesale rates are meant, then TVA officials point out that a year more ago the Tennessee Utili-

city’s general fund a “tax equivalent,” |

& E

CITY a Aa 3 53 Fans:

e Have to Recognize Squatter’s Rights?

of those who are desirous of obtaining such information are to be referred to the state office.”

NE Republican worker in MeCreary County, Prince Bar= nett, told in an affidavit how a foreman, Carson Hamlin, had 15 or 20 Republican WPA workers hauled to the county clerk's office in a WPA truck to change their registration In Somerset, Pulaski County, one WPA foreman was reported to have been seen 13 times in one dav going into the county clerk's office to check on registrations. There have been some 300 changes of registration from Republican to Democratic in Pulaski County, of which about 75 per cent were WPA

workers, according to the county clerk. An open blowup over WPA fore= men for shirking their regular duties occurred recently in a ses sion of the fiscal court at Monti= cello in Wayne County. The fiscal court is the local county govern= ing body, comparable to county commissioners in other states. Two squires—the fiscal court of= ficials—got up in the meeting, in the presence of Russell Marshall, WPA area engineer, and demands= ed a reorganization of PWA in the three counties of Wayne, Mc= Creary and Clinton in southern Kentucky. One of them said two foremen in his district were paying no attention to their jobs, and another said that there was a ghirking foreman in his district,

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| to build a steam stand-by plant ai|engineers and accountants found | Nashville on the ground that the that the TVA yardstick included all (company had proved it could... 0c A E Morgan said that | manufacture steam power cheaper | viet | than it could buy hydro power from | this study would not stand “criti | | TVA at its standard wholesale rates. leal examination.” Here, again, | If retail rates are meant, then | there is work for the investigating [TVA officials point out that last | committee. | summer the Federal Power com- | Until the committee has concludmission completed a study of power | ed its work it will not be possible operations in three typical TVA | to say whether the TVA yardstick communities and reported that its|is long, short or just right.

Device Allows Radio Tuning From Any Room in House

invention since radio itself is about | to change all that. One of the]

leading radio companies is to mage | ket an instrument which will make | it possible to operate a radio set | from any room in the house—and | by wireless control. The “mystery control” is | called and it is a small unit) weighing only 2'4 pounds. You can | carry it around the house or out into the yard and change stations as you please. The face of the instrument looks like a telephone dial. There are 10 buttons, eight for different

By NEA Service HICAGO, June 13-—It happens all the time of course. Just as you get settled in the bathtub or just as you begin operations on a couple of pork chops or just as you get settled in an easy chair to read—just at that instant the soft sweet music you were listening to ceases and something discordant almost bursts your eardrums, Heretofore you could either sit there and take it or you could drag vourself over to the radio and change the program.

stations and two to control volume. There is also a start-stop button.

little radical

gadget radio

Now, however, a | hailed as the most

es—By Clark

“Remember, this is your $4.95 dress. If you're going to do any

falling down come in first and change."

e—

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

TEST YOUR

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KNOWLEDGE

1--Can the President order the coinage of U. S. money? 2-—-Name the capital of the Madeira Islands. 3—-With what baseball club does Jimmy Foxx play? 4--What is a meteorite? 5—1s the U, 8. a member of the League of Nations? 6-—-What is the nickname for the state of South Carolina? 7—Who wrote “Good Barth?" 8—State the official name for

Russia. ”

Answers

1-—Congress must enact coinage laws. 2-—Funchal. 3-—~Boston (Red Sox). 4A mass of matter from outer space, which has fallen upon the earth's surface. 5-No. 6—Palmetto State. T—Pearl Buck. 8—Union of Soclalist Soviet Republics. ® nw

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By Anton Scherrer

Debates on Points of Sectarian Theology Were All the Rage Among Local Ministers 100 Years Ago.

NOTHER thing that always interests this

department is the behavior of our

is preachers. Believe it or not, their manners

are improving. Fifty years ago, for instance, it was a rare sermon that did not betray the sec tarian cast of the congregation, A hundred years ago, it was even worse. The religious tendency of those days was to sects and separations. It magnified dife ferences. It hunted more diligently than intelligently for Scriptural excuses for division. The best sermon was the one which made the best array of plausibilities for sectarian separation. The best preacher was he who could show the utter futility of his competitor's belief. And so it came to pass that among the extraordinary exhibitions of religious zeal in early Indianapolis were the public debates on points of sectarian theology. Challenges were issued by preachers and published as advertisements in the denominational papers. Ine deed, to pick up a religious paper of early Indian= apolis was not unlike reading the sporting section today. The first big debate of the kind was held in 1830 on the subject of “Eternal Punishment” between the Rev, Edwin Ray, a distinguished pioneer Meth odist, and the Rev. Jonathan Kidwell, a Universalist. The last debate of note occurred about 70 years ago between President Burgess of Butler University and the Rev. W. W. Curry, the one a Campbellite, the other a Universalist, In the 40 intervening years any nums ber of collisions took place, Near-collisions, too. It is related, for instance, that one day in 1840, the Rev, John O'Kane met Henry Ward Beecher on Hook's corner at Washington and Illinois Sts. and started talking shop. When the crowd collected and spilled over into the street, the Rev. Mr. O'Kane turned to Mr, Beecher and said: “Suppose we have a public debate on it.” “No.” said Mr. Beecher, “you'd use me up and I can't afford to be demolished so young.”

No Complaint Today

Today, of course, it's very different. The sermon preached in a Methodist Church might pass in any of our churches without raising a fuss. Indeed, Indie anapolis preachers have improved to the point of exe changing pulpits with no disturbance of religious complacency—a thing unheard of when I was a boy.

On the other hand, it was during my childhpod that preachers around here took a turn for the better, I didn’t realize it at the time, but now I do. I ree member, for instance, that 50 years ago it was a common sight to see the Rev, Oscar McCulloch, a Congregationalist, walking with Catholic Father Bes soniee, They even went on errands of mercy together, Certainly, that was the start of something new around here, After that, our preachers behaved better and better. Today I haven't any complaint to make,

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Girls Can Be Either Too Bold or Too Timid in Attempts to Meet Men.

EAR JANE JORDAN--I hold a job where I meet men of low and high social standing and ine telleet, Never have I found it necessary to be mora than casually friendly to either group. But of late 1 saw one man whom I wish I might meet and know better, Our social paths are apart, and since I am not a clever type, wise in the ways of my sex, should I forget it completely? I have one hope of meeting him. There is an elderly man whom I have known for years who was a friend of my father. Often he teases me about not being married at 28. I know that he belongs te the same club as the man I wish to meet. Should I ask this old gentleman just who So and So is and how I can meet him? Or would that be too brazen? Do you believe in scheming? SUZZIE. Answer—No one can get away from a certain amount of scheming in life, but you mustn't be too disappointed if your scheme falls flat, It is all right to express a wish to meet a certain man; it is flatters jng to him. But in case he doesn't rise to the bait, there is nothing more you can do about it. Talk it over with your father's friend. Perhaps he doesn’t know the man very well and wouldn't feel comfortable about dragging him out to meet a young woman, or even mentioning the fact that she would like to meet him. In that case, don't insist. You can be too bold or you can be too diffident in your attempts to meet men, One is as bad as the other. The best course is simply to be natural and friendly, and in case you receive a wound to your vanity, don’t fold up in despair. The girl who meets the greatest number of men is the one who has the greatest number of friends. She has a diversity of interests which puts her in touch with different groups.

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EAR JANE JORDAN--I am a young lady and % am in love with a man who has been married. 1 have been with him several times, but should L stop, or should I continue? He seems to love me. And do you think he would marry again? A FRIEND.

Answer=If the man is free and vou enjoy his society there is no reason why vou shouldn't go with him. I don't know why a former marriage should make him an unsuitable companion. I haven't the least idea whether or not he would marry again; most men do. Can't you enjoy his company without worrying about whether he will marry you or not? A girl can't marry every man she goes with nor can she be sure she is in love with a man whom she has been with only a few times. She should be able to enjoy many friendships with men which do not lead to marriage. One of the most common complaints that men make against women is that they cannot step in the front door without having a girl consider them as potential husbands: whereupon many of them take flight in fear. JANE JORDAN.

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

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