Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1938 — Page 9

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

A Trip Down the Yukon River on a Wood-Burning Paddle-Wheel Boat Beats a Circus for Entertainment.

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.

— vs ray rYTYT”> r STEAMBOATIN DOWN THE YUKON, June 15.—Boy, this is going to be the boat trip of my life. This journey is a riot. Chings happen on this boat faster than Floyd Gibbons talks. We're a wood-burning, paddle-wheeling behemoth of the Far North. pilot, we're pushing a barge ahead of us, three horses and I don't know how many dogs down below, it's daylight all night, and WM miss something. We're less than 24 hours out of White Horse, but in that short time the following things have happened: We've been aground twice; we broke ribs plunging through ice: we've been crosswise of river half a dozen times; we were tied up to a tree tor two hours waiting for the wind to die; we've been swished clear around by the and headed back up river; rapids by the twice for wood, The captain has fall overboard by over.

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we've hot dozens,

Mr. Pyle

we've ind iust storm on if somebody ] throw

stopped board. doesn't ne he'll somebody | Yukon boat Up here if you sail yourself

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approaching line for mile over in the

Ss an art in a straight

ed half a

one woods The Yukon twisty and swift rocks, and the boat has get around We left White Horse at 11 last night. My lesson steamboatin’ came within five minutes We were headed upstream at the to go downstream. The river was t see how we'd turn around Well, the whistle blew and we started upstream. went a couple of hundred yards, then swung - against the bank, headed her nose slightly toward > and let the current swing us. we were in Lake LeBarge ) nt was rotten. wv backing up and plunging, but there

| mw'A niie youa

is a wicked river. She’s shallow and She's full of sandbars, double-S curves, some of them so short to stop and back up, like an auto, to ist after dock, s0

in iil

started.

but we had "

stream,

of hiss-hiss as we plowed through the blue | pres- |

learned later that the three ribs down below.

tuff, and 1 f the ice had broken She'll Be Comin’ 'Round the Bend isk when we went through the sun was up window. I

Sure o

It was a fairly heavy di

midnight, but by 2 a. m

he lake at cabin in the river again, with-

And con-

shining brightly in my

ut and we were back sundred feet of land ither side.

going round bends to a bend we We geed and

> we were at breakfast we came £ win :

se of the n an hou

make, becau nd there for half clear out of position and wound ream, so we gave up and tied her to a couple of hours the wind died down, 1d turned around and tried it again. In midafternoon we lay banks, and aphen the wind suddenly rose * broadside

llv we got

s till we were slammed right up The water was deep up to shore, were simply plastered ank like a postage stamp on a wall

und; we howled from the bank ripped We rushed to t it was too late dust

and dust the boat

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tomorrow he's going try

alter and do an outside loop

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Drives to New York as Mrs. Scheider Shows Improvement.

have discovered vou can i in a week, for when I left knew I would t gave me a feeling of bess. Mrs. Scheider hat I know

However

oon and

is still she will not having had a

ght for eight days, it is

1£

Iain lr ¥ sls ee kK of other things in

son-in-law I drove down fo

r the extension parkway immediI left them with my mother-in-law ouse and reached my own apartmen i friend. Earlier in the day Klin Jr. in which he said wherever we might be

and

al {ine' with us, though I

Of course, he teased lings were badly hurt. Howappetite. He explained that he fact that he had gone without his two dogs up to Hyde of the summer, mother-in-law has otherwise I unpleasant experiences.

he was driving spend the rest 16 one dog my on the place is a very old police dog,

1 nk we might have some vert

Tempted to Accept Dog re is Great

Though

Dane and Irish not ant dog

lice dog will he wise and accept

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that hh

together they do

can clean up on othet

in the country for a week one a longing to have a dog about one. If I know that next autumn would see me back Washington traveling around a good deal, I iid be sorely tempted to accept a puppy which has I leave the White House ast night, Anna, John and I saw the much about musical comedy “I Married an Angel.” Angel.” Vera Zorina, is charming and the play : 3 g as well as tuneful. I always have thought comedy could be successfully written on the quesling the truth Sg few of us like the truth, but it would be refreshing to hear it now and then. It would relieve one the necessity of figuring out what is true and

bein

~ ls

is curious how

“nt not

promised me when

what is false—and what a relief occasionally to say Y !

what one really thought.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, June 15.—I don’t believe you can change a person's way by lecturin’ him. The best wav to get to him is to kinda speak up on his id paint him a word picture so he can

cide an gination and figger out the reward for

blinc use him I knew it wasn’t any use tryin’ to persuade an uncle of mine to send his boy to school so I started tellin’ about scholarship. When I got all through talkin’, my uncle savs. “Well, I know exactly how you feel. I felt the same way when my hog won a ribbon at the county

fair.” (Copyright, 1838) §

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By E. R. R. WW ASHINGTON, June 15. —Congress will be ready to adjourn as soon as final action is taken on the Relief-Recovery Bill and a flood control measure. The Wage-Hour Bill received final approval yesterday and was sent to the President. Since the Administration of Woodrow Wilson, there has not been so much bitterness between a President and the National Legislature as in the struggles between Mr. Roosevelt and the 75th Congress, nor have any of the fights in the intervening vears left such lasting scars. In the session now drawing to a close, the President suffered major defeats in the House on the Reorganization Bill, in the Senate and in conference committee on the tax bill. These defeats have deepened the breach which was opened by the Supreme Court Bill last year. In addition to disregarding the wishes of the President on reorganization and taxes, the 75th Congress has failed to act on a number of emphatic Presidential recommendations. Chief among these are: A “short and simple statute” to permit reciprocal taxation by the states and the Federal Government of the salaries of public employees, and of income from future issues of public securities. Authority for the President to veto individual items in an appropriation bill without vetoing the whole bill. Regional planning legislation— the “seven TVA's” bill. Regulation of bank holding companies and investment trusts. Federal assistance to states for public school education. Provision for mobilization of resources and special taxation in time of war. x = » N the other hand, the prestige of the President was heavily recouped by action on the Re-covery-Relief Bill in the form he asked. Both houses of Congress voted down amendments to limit his control over the funds. The conference committee has adjusted differences in the House and Senate bills and a measure generally satisfactory to the Administration probably will be passed. Congress also foliowed the wishes of the President in passing the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and the naval expansion bill authorizing a 20 per cent increase in the naval construction program. The new Agricultural ment Act affects cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and rice, with the express purpose of bringing about “parity prices"—to give the farmer the same proportion of the national income they received in 1910-13. It provides cash benefits for soil conservation; market controls in case of surplus; mandatory crop loans if prices fall below a certain point; crop insurance for wheat beginning in 1939, and parity payments to farmers “if and when appropriations are made” by Congress The Senate, while refusing to impose processing taxes to finance parity pavments, added to the elief-Recovery Bill the $212,000,000 farm benefit provision for paritv payments and $1000.000 rural electrification provisions. These items now await action in the House, which has accepted the rest of the bill. The Revenue Act of 1938 reduced the 20-point spread of the corporation income tax (7 per cent to 27 per cent depending upon the amount of profits retained) to a spread of 2'; points (1€!2 per cent to 19 per cent). This reduction of the penalty tax on undistributed profits, together with the modification of the capital gains tax, formed the basis for the President's attack on the bill, when he

Adjust-

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1938

500 3 ARIS,

One of the most bitter breaks between the Administration and this

Congress was caused by the Reorganization Bill. the House April 7 as members debated the measure. is Rep. John W. McCormack (D. Mass.).

Here is the scene in On the rostrum On the floor, with one hand

in his pocket and holding a paper with the other, is Rep. Lindsay C.

Warren (D. N. C.). allowed it to become law without his sighature. n x x Recoverv-Relief Bill, the Administration's greatest success in the 75th Congress has been passage of the Fair Labor Standards Bill—the wages and hours measure which was passed by the House after being brought out of committee once by petition, recommitted and apparently killed, and then brought to the floor again through the sighature of a majority of the members to a second discharge petition. The bill had encountered somewhat less difficulty in the Senate, and an agreement was reached in the conference committee. The measure as it stands probably is satisfactory to the Administration. Other acts or important amendments to bills passed in the current session include: Authorization of $350,000,000 for highways during 1940 and 1941 in addition to amounts previously appropriated Authorization of $£1.500000,000 loans to business by RFC Liberalization of Federal Housing Act. Authorization for Federal Trade Commission to deal with deceptive advertising. Extension for two Frazier-Lemke debt act. Liberalization of pensions for disabled veterans. Provision for 20 additional Federal judgeships. Assistance to states of syphilis. Limit for publicity on porate salaries raised from 000 to $75,000. Rivers and harbors tion—$220,987.000. Some nuisance taxes repealed. Conference reports of the following bills have been accepted by both houses and sent to the White House: Food and drug act amendments Provisioitn for Civil Aviation Authority Amendments Marine Act. Water pollution bill Civil service classification Presidential postmasters

EXT to the

years of moratorium

in control

cor-

$15,-

authoriza-

to Merchant

for

Questioning Rep. Warren on the left, with right

no Presidential important bills during no rejection by the Senate of any imPresidential appointment requiring confirmation. The House has passed a number of bills which probably will be lost in the rush to adjourn. The most important of these would: Repeal long and short haul provisions of Interstate Commerce Act. This bill was introduced by Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill (D Ind) Modernize bankruptcy laws. Regulate corporate reorganization, The antilvnching bill, passed by the House during the first session, was finally abandoned by its sponsors after a six-week filibuster by Southern Senators. The $375,000.000 flood control authorization bill has been approved by a HouseSenate conference committee and now is in debate in the Senate.

have been vetoes of

HERE

this session and

portant

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EASURES passed by the Senate upon which House action is doubtful include: Bill to prohibit block booking of movies. Limitation of length to 70 cars. Bill to strengthen the breaker act of 1936. Regulation of over-counter dealings in securities. Amendments to Walsh-Healey Government Contracts Bill regulating labor standards may be brought to the House floor in spite of contrary action by the Rules Committee. The Senate also passed a child labor bill, but this will not be considered in the House because the Wages and Hours Bill contains even stronger provisions against child labor. Congress has instructed committees or set up special committees to study a number of subjects and if necessary recommend legislation to the next Congress. The subjects, together with those for which study had been previously authorized, are as follows: Tennessee Valley Authority “Incentive tax reduction” profit-sharing plans. Un-American activities.

freight train

strike-

for

Side Glances=By Clark

Cor 1818 WEA SERVCE RC. RES US PAT oFB.

"Can't | have just one quick lock at that diploma?

I'm the fellow

who has been P29 for it all these years."

PTR 08 a

hand upraised, is Rep. William M. Whittington (D. Miss.).

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice,

Congress Has Accomplished

Sessions Marked by Bitterness Between Legislators and President

Times-Acme Photo, The man

in the center of the doorway at the left is Rep. John J. O'Connor

(D. N. Y.), chairman of the House Rules Committee. vote the bill survived an attempt to kill

By a 22-margin

it in the House. It was

shelved, however, in the Senate after its opponents had conducted a

six-week filibuster.

Railroad financing. National Economic Council. Civil Liberties. Phosphates A joint resolution for an investigation of monopolies awaits the President's signature. The Senate Audit Committee approved continue Senator Minton's investigation. Congress has taken no action on the President's recommendation for a study of tax exemption of securities and public salaries. » ” ”

and Control $12500 to lobby

OTH houses have authorized the usual election-year cominvestigate campaign The Tydings resolution an investigation of alleged politics in relief has been changed by the Senate Audit Committee to make such an inquiry part of the duties of the Campaign Expenditures Committee In spite of public pressure, the 75th Congress has taken no action to amend the Social Security Act or the National Labor Relations Act. Railroad legislation probably will be left for further study in spite of urgent demands for immediate action. All of the regular appropriation bills have been passed except the relief-recovery appropriation. The second deficiency bill has been passed by the House and sent to the Senate. The chief appropriation bills, together with amounts and the corresponding amounts last year, are: Bill

mittees to expenditures

for

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Total appropriations by Congress in 1938 will exceed $12,000,000,000, of which approximately $1,100,000,000 is for Army and Navy, and $1,000,000,000 for subsidies to farmers. There are permanent appropriations of $2,718,772,257, reappropriations of $882,473375, and miscellaneous appropriations of $92650,000 in addition to the figures given above. The total amount appropriated by Congress in 1937, according to a statement by the acting chairman of the House Appropriations Committee at the close of the ses= sion, was $9.355,595,892.

Heard in Congress—

Rep. O'Connor (D. N. Y.)—If ever | office, |

I were defeated for it iT my solemn wish that I go down to defeat fighting the Communists, the enemies of our ernment and all religion. 1 have here a headline which says: “O'Con-

publie

nor First on the Blacklist of Com- | | munists in America.” | paid that compliment.

Few men are I contemplate using as my epitaph, “John O'Connor, public enemy No. 1 of the Communists.” ” ” ”

Senator Holt (D. W. Va.)—We need another WPA director. Of

course, I know that my word will |

not be heeded at the White House with respect to Hopkins’® dismissal. I am not being fooled into believing that just because I ask that Harry Hopkins go he will go.

in salary. (Laughter).

1937

1938

Agriculture Department .....voovvveee..S 630,381,208 $ 7457190,297

District of Columbia ....... Independent Offices Interior Department .. Legislative .....ccoi0iiis Navy Department . “eis

State, Justice, Com. and Labor Depts.... veeees 1,503,441,943

Treasury and Postoffice ...

War Department (military) .....coo00000 War Department (nonmilitary).....co000 Emergency Relief (relief-recovery)...... 1,500,000,000

EERE ERE REY

Supplemental Relief ........c0000.

First Deficiency .. Second Deficiency ... seein Third Deficiency ‘es *As passed by Senate. by House,

Sera satan

**Included in first deficiency,

sean

sara

45,915,641 957,738,963 132,732,499 24,085,736 516,258,808 126,127,387

47,255,155 1,423,098,240 129,678,460 21,663,783 546,866,494 130,589,795 1,403,683,526 459,401,254 196,962,867 *2,917,905,000 250,000,000 28,089,009 *¥¥277,628,000 (none) ¥¥¥As passed

415,263,154 194,536,063

048,975,869 81,737,540 7.622.700

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Jasper—By Fran

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"If you two will be good until quitting time, I'll take you with me to

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the charm school tonight!"

TEST YOUR

KNOWLEDGE -

1—Which is greater, the land or ocean area of the earth? 2—What is the purpose of a centre-board in a small sailing boat? 3—Who was the batting champion of the National League for 1937? 4 In which southwestern state is the Painted Desert? 5—What is the word for main cabin of a ship? 6—What is a foundling hospital? T—Where is the British crown colony of British Honduras? 8—For what state is “Panhandle

State” the nickname? ” ” =

Answers

the

1—Ocean, 2—It takes the place of a fixed keel. 3—Joe Medwick. 4—Arizona. 5—Saloon. 6—An institution for the care of children that have been abandoned by their parents. T—Central America. 8—West Virginia. =

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| By Anton Scherrer

The Statue of Col. Richard Owen In the State House Was Paid for By Confederate Prisoners of War,

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Indianapolis,

N impressive thing about the human mind is its power to reverse the order of human nature. For instance, there's Bella Kinney's statue of Col. Richard Owen over in the State House. Believe'it or not, it was put

there as a memorial to call to mind the kind«

ness with which the Commandant of Camp Morton treated the 4200 Confederate prisoners sent to Indian= apolis for safe keeping after the capture of Ft. Done elson by the Union forces. Even more remarkable is the fact that the statue was paid for out of the pockets of the prisoners, who were there when Col. Owen had charge of it. When Col. Owen of the 60th Indiana Regiment was assigned to the command of Camp Morton, he certainly had his hands full. For one thing, the bitterness of the war was at its height: for another, there was the pitiful condition of the prisoners. One out of every seven was ill. The dete perately sick were housed in improvised hospitals, some in the old Athenaeum Theater on S. Meridian St., where the Adams furniture people now do husiness, and some in Blackford's Block where the Merchants Bank now is. The rest were sent to Camp Morton, an area of ground bounded by what is now 19th St. on | the south, Delaware St. on the west, and Central Ave, on the east.

New Harmony Was Represented

Col. Owen knew and understood the temperament of the Southerners. He had been a teacher in the Nashville Military Academy, and it stood him in good stead when it came time to run Camp Morton. He didn’t escape criticism, however. Human nature being what it is, his superiors couldn't understand his kind ness to the prisoners under his control. As a result, he was sent to the front. In October, 1862, he was cap= tured with his regiment at Munfordville, Ky. This time conditions were reversed, and he found himself a prisoner of war. When the general in command of the Confederate forces learned that Owen was a pris= oner, he rode up to him and said: “In consideration of your kindness to the prisoners at Camp Morton you are free to go at will. The men of the South will never hold you captive.” It wasn't until 40 years ago, however, that the Confederates got around to the statue in the State House, In 1898, so runs the story, S. A. Cunningham of Tennessee happened to be in Chicago and while there he noticed on the sign of a law firm the name of Ernest Dale Owen. It turned out to be a nephew of Col. Richard Owen. Then and there, Mr. Cun= ningham made up his mind that his old jail keeper should have a monument, It took him 15 years to work out the idea, and 23 years ago last Thursday—on June 9, 1913, to be exact — the memorial was unveiled. Mr. Cunningham was present, you bet, and so was a big delegation from New Harmony. Sure Col. Richard Owen was one of the New Harmony Owens—a brother of Robert Dale Owen, as a matter of fact,

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Problem of Love Can't Be Solved By Thinking About It, Girl Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am 18 years old and in love with a boy of 21 who is a foreigner and who has been married. My parents do not want me to go with foreigners or anyone who has been mare ried; so I haven't told them about him. One night he told me that we should quit going together because he thought I was much better than he. He said that he had to pay money for his wife and child and that we could never get married. There is another girl with whom he went. When she found out that I liked this boy, she made a play for him. At first { he didn’t like her, but now he has some dates with | her. One day I saw him after he said we were through and I asked him to take me home. He re= | fused. Why did he do this? Do you think he is too sure of me? How do you think the other girl i Do you think I could win him back? | PEGGY.

won him?

Answer—Love is one problem which cannot be helped by sitting down and thinking about it. To concentrate so intensely on'winning a man is to court an obsession which crowds out everything else and repels the man. Why don’t you simply accept the fact that young man hasn't a very strong interest in you? When he said that you were better than he, it may have been his way of ducking out without hurting your feelings; but if he meant it, herein lies your trouble, No man likes to feel inferior to a girl and will seek the woman who makes him feel important. Perhaps the other girl is more gifted in putting men at ease. Interest yourself in other boys. If anything will attract him to you, the wish to overcome a rival will do it. The busier you are the less time you will have for fretting over your defeats in love. The less you fret the more attractive you will be to the men vou meet, Don't fall into the error of making the advances. Let the boy do the asking.

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EAR JANE JORDAN--Recently much talk about whether or not ages make any difference in marriage. In my case it hasn't. I have been married twice before. Both marriages were faile ures, and I decided I would never he hurt again, Three vears ago I met a girl who was a lot younger than I but who fulfilled most of my ideals. I went with her several months but decided luck was against me because I had made two failures. One night I told her we were through. I was a long time going to sleep that night but finally fell into a troubled sleep only to wake in a panic. I wasn't yet 35. Was I willing to live the rest of my life alone? Needless to say 1 got the girl and we were married the next week. We now have two beautiful children. Although I am older than she, we are as much in love as ever, For tho sake of others who may be finding difficulty in make ing a choice because of age, please give your ideas on the subject.

this

there has been

Answer—I know of no hard and fast rules which guarantee a happy marriage. What has made you happy may not satisfy another. In general people make a better adjustment if they are near the same ages, because they are more apt to have the same interests, but there are many exceptions to this rule, Your case is one of the exceptions. JANE JORDAN,

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will aily.

answer vour questions in this column i

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