Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1938 — Page 11

Vagabond,

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie Finds His Convict Friend, | Serving Life Term, Is Rising at Last Above Despair at His Fate.

VV ASHINGTON, June 29.—Those who

have followed this column in the past

in the penitentiary. He is a middle-aged man. “eriminal.” But he did commit a erime— one of the very worst—and he is now reaping the whirlwind which he didn't realize he had sowed. A little more than a year with the bars

spend half a day had been behind nearly two years. He was a broken man. He had aged a decade. He was physically shattered, and his mind

then

an endless reaching for something, { a grasping, and a falling g | Now permitted me to see screens or guards in a room as we might sit in an had traveled far in the meantime—Alaska,

Mr. Pyle office. 1 Hawaii, Mexico. re than a visit was purely not irtended writing about it Wien a guard brought my main office and I I was startled. artled, because he hen I saw him inger than I ha a for at leg 8

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His face gray was gone,

hundred yards

But— friend over to

looked 10 last In known him,

vears fact, he

younger seemed d evel 10 years had a calmness about it The ashen and his color was good. The haunted look wasn't there. He was more like the man I used to know. I could hardly believe it. On previous with my friend I acutely aware of the drama in our talks But on this visit, I hardly realized we were penitentiary The awful pathos of my other was not in it. It did not seem dramatic. It did not seem so tragic. And the reason for that was that my friend, without knowing it, was beginning to get used to prison Only once did the in prison” come over me visits. That was when my he had had He dreamed he Was standing alone in the dark, 1g toward Wa gton. The whole city was dark pt for one ttle light That was the light in home.

visits

hopelessness of the words ‘life as they had on previous friend told of a dream

lookit

—EgXCe his own Realized Dream's Significance In his hands he held a long piece of waste; stuff machinists use to wipe grease off machinery, know. He put the waste under his foot, on it with both hands looked toward the one little light shining in Washington as he pulled. But he could not waste. Pull as he would he could not break it Even before he awakened, he knew what the dream \ 1 It signified the Ps impersonality and uselessness stretching out him. The dream showed his powerlessness to break this stream of waste, And

you

friend said, “within four we'd have to wait

do you know,” my the lawyer came and said new instead of anything through the cot There was just that one interlude of despair, then we talked again of other things. Of course my friend is not happy. To would be ridiculous He still talks of his nervousness, and his melancholy plunges into depths Yet despite this, him. Probably am a better judge than he isa vear and see the forest, every day among the trees.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

davs

four years

and

great the

he would deny it. But maybe I -because I come once

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Judge Florence Allen Is Recipient |

Of Sorority's Achievement Award.

HE PARK, Tuesday. —Yesterday was a busy day.

The rain continues and it was still coming

down with determination when I stepped off the train | I had to do |

at Poughkeepsie a little after 10 a. m some errands, give a number of orders in the house, have a bag packed, go down to the hospital to see Mrs. Scheider, have lunch, as possible for Lake George

I always think I am a fairly good executive, until |

get wound up doing little details around the house. hen han anyone else To add to our difficulties, he telephone wires to the big house were down nd all messages came to me and had to be sent Ver Hv car I did get off at 2:30 beautiful even under gray skies and, after we reached Albany, the rain stopped. Under ordinary circumstances, 1 would have driven myself, but I made up my mind to come back last punctur rd tire at pleasant if I were in one of the big cars and felt rather lonely and insignificant bouncing around in the back seat. The national achievement award, given by Omega every year, was presented this year at its national convention, which was held at the Sagamore Hotel at Lake George. Judge Florence Allen, the recipient, had hoped to take the night train for Ohio, but decided that it would not be possible because she did not think that I could get her to Albany by 1:30 a. m. As a matter of fact, through on my return trip about 12:45.

Mrs. Scheider Comes Home

There were about 300 girls besides some members of the committee, a few of Judge Allens friends present. Her sister, dean of women at University, was the only member of there. Dean Sommer, of New York University, Judge Allen studied, gave a most amusing address. It proved that many of the things we complain about today have been complained about unceasingly ever since we first settled this country. However, our punishments today are a little less harsh. We do not have disobedient sons put to death, duck scolding ladies three times in water. Judge Allen herself made a remarkable speech. I am sure it must have left not only an inspiration, but a determination in the hearts of many of the

I know

alone,

and

her

girls present to justify what had been done for them |

* in the past.

The weather is still cold and the skies gray and

fires burn on our hearths, but we are happy today for Mrs. Scheider is home at last.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD June women have much

Once she has a definite any kind of a sacrifice to reach it.

Last winter I saw a friend of mine all bundled | up in a great big overcoat and I says,.“It don't seem |

fair to me that you are dressed so warm and I jest saw vour wife on the street in a little, worn, frayed, thin coat and she was actually blue and cold.” “Yes, I know—my wife is savin’ her money to buy her summer furs.” ¢

He is not a |

ago I wrote about my | friend, after I had been allowed to | him. He |

was a ; whirl of despair and bewilderment, |

once again the warden has | him—again | without the formality of time limit, We sat alone |

And in all that time he had moved a personal one, and I had

the | stepped up and shook hands with |

and I've known |

had been | |

in a | visits |

the |

and pulled | His head was up, and he |

break the |

waste in his life—the endless |

two before trying to do | say so

something good is happening in-

while he is with himself

and leave as near 2 p. m. |

I find I can spend more time doing nothing |

The run to Lake George is

night and decided that a | 2 in the morning would not be so | so I was driven up in state |

Chi |

I drove

Ohio State | family where |

I think |

nor do we | salt or fresh

The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

Editor's Note—This is the third of a series of dispatches on presidential timber for 1940.

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Speciat Writer ASHINGTON, June 29.—-Not so many months ago no one would have regarded Postmaster General James A. Farley in any other role than the political general of the New Deal, a hardboiled, practical politician. Recent developments require a revision of this estimate. “Big Jim” has become a candidate for the 1940 Democratic nomination— and very seriously.

He is one of a group of Administration insiders looking hopeful-

ly toward 1940 who are privately

more conservative than the four ardent New Deal builders and philosophers previously discussed —Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Solicitor General Jackson, WPA Administrator Hopkins and Secretary of the Interior Ickes, In the second group with Jim Farley are Secretary of State Cordell Hull; Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain and former chairman of the SEC and

| of the Maritime Commission, and

Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the RFC. In point of organization, Mr. Farley has a long lead on all candidates for 1940—unless, of course, President Roosevelt runs again— for at his command he has the political machine which he has built, generally conceded to be one of the most effective ever seen,

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E certainly will have something to say about the nominee, if he cannot win himself. Political generals in recent decades have been content to remain in the background and enjov their power and its prerogatives, with no serious thought of the highest office in the land. Some have accepted other political perquisites—Mark Hanna, for instance, going to the Senate. It is necessary to go far back, to Martin Van Buren, for a political boss who succeeded his chief in the Presidency. Andrew Jackson dictated that nomination. There has been no indication that President Roosevelt intends to do the same for the man who combed the highways and hedges for Roosevelt delegates in 1932, Jim Farley has supported the New Deal down the line. During several close fights in Congress it was he who slipped up to the Capitol and put on' the pressure. All he needed was orders from the boss. He has accepted his social and economic views ready-made from the President. Privately, it is doubted whether the political general is sympathetic with all the New Deal gospel. He is friendly, for instance, with some Senators who have been marked for slaughter by the President. He was against the fight on Senator Gillette in Iowa, and against the successful battle in Oregon to unseat Governor Martin. 8 ” o IM'S measure is the political standard. He refuses to join in attacks on those who helped him nominate Mr. Roosevelt in 1932. For those who are openly fighting the President all down the line, however, he has no mercy. His chief handicap is the fact that he has been the political master of the Administration and, as such, has become a target. He gets the blame—and has taken it on the chin, sometimes when he was only acting on orders from above. He is a Catholic, but he thinks that this is no longer the handicap in politics it once was. For the last few months, as he traveled up and down the country dedicating postoffices, Mr. Farley has been dropping hints about 1940, His objective is sec-ond-choice Plehges. This has

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938

After Roosevelt, Who?

Joseph P. Kennedy

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Postmaster General Farley

proved effective strategy before in a convention deadlock. The Postmaster General and National Chairman, who a few months ago was at the top of Democratic presidential choices in the Gallup poll, recently has vielded first place in that index of popular opinion to Secretary of State Hull, ” 8 on ESPITE his age—he is 66— Mr. Hull recently seems to have gained wide favor as a possible successor to President Roosevelt, particularly among people, friendly to the New Deal once but critical lately, who believe that Mr. Hull would adopt a more moderate course than Mr. Roosevelt,

As a Tennessean, he probably could attract the support of Southern leaders who have drawn away from the President and who would like to see the New Deal checked. There is one exception —and a powerful one. Vice President Garner and the Secretary of State have a long-standing feud, and the Vice President already is laying plans to make himself a factor in the 1940 convention. Secretary Hull has one outstanding advantage. As director of foreign policy he has kept out of the numerous domestic con-

troversies over New Deal reforms which have involved other prospective candidates, and thus has avoided making the enemies which others find now arrayed against them. Businessmen have been grateful for the new markets opened by his reciprocal-trade agreements, and recently he has been negotiating for the biggest plum of all in this respect—a trade agreement with the British Empire. Another figure who recently has sprung into the 1940 Presidential lists, Joe Kennedy, would reap some of the glory from a British trade agreement. He has worked on it at the London end. Joe has proved himself a handy man for the Administration in important jobs. 4. 4 #4

BE came into the limelight as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Many New Dealers looked with suspicion upon his appointment, since he had been a bigtime market operator, but he retired with plaudits all around. He was drafted again by the Administration to head the Maritime Commission, which was followed by his designation as Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

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Farley, Hull, Kennedy and Jones Looking Hopefully Toward 1940

know that I have a friend serving a life term |

Secrelary of State Hull

Jesse H. Jones

Mr. Kennedy is one of the few converts to the New Deal from big business and finance. He said he got sick of the way the boys on Wall Street were dealing the cards. He has been critical of some New Deal ventures, and before he left for London sought to get promise with the public utilities. A genial Irishman who wins friends quickly, Joe Kennedy would make an attractive candidate. He has a way of rolling up his sleeves and tearing into whatever job is assighed him, Another key Administration figure from the ranks of business and finance, a shrewd, practical and hardboiled banker, is among the most eager aspirants for the 1040 nomination. This is Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. who is much more conservative than the New Deal. He is 64. His attempt to capture the Texas delegation to the convention may be challenged Ly Vice President Garner, who recently thwarted the RFC chairman's plans for railroad legislation. They haven't seen eye to eye of late. Mr. Jones, a native of Tennessee, has many connections in the

phy, Earle. Bee the Administration to com-

financial world and has broadened his influence and acquaintance through his contacts as chairman of “the biggest bank in the world.”

Next—Barkley, ey, MeNutt, Mur-

Sees Week- End Polar Flights

By Science Service TTAWA, June 29.—Comfortable week-end cruises to the North

Pole or one-week cruises around the |

world in 100-ton flying boats within a few years were predicted here yesterday before the American Associa= tion for the Advancement of Sci ence by Igor I. Sikorsky, noted aeronautical engineer. These flying boats, which will bring Australia within three days of America, will appear like zep-

pelins with a wing on the upper |

surface, he declared. All these things are made possible by the telative efficiency of vhe large flying boat design. “It appears that above the sizes of 50 or 100 tons, the flying boat will become the most efficient type . of heavier-than-air machine,” Mr, Sikorsky said.

Side Glances—By ; Clark

20 —I always did say that | stronger character than men. |

goal to hit for, she will make |

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"That new gardener we hired won't.let me touch a thing."

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Do the same Constitutional restrictions as to age and citizenship apply to the Vice President, as to the President?

2-—Where is Cornell University?

3—1Is it proper for a mother to give a bridal shower for her daughter?

4—Give the correct spelling of the word meaning a native of the Philippine Islands. 5—What is the largest interior body of water in the world, that has no outlet? 6—Who is Prince Fumimaro Konoye? T—Name the planet. ;

second largest

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1—Yes. 2—Ithaca, N. Y. 3—No. Showers should be given by the bride's friends. 4—Filipino, 5—~Caspian Sea. 6—Premier of Japan. T~Saturn. ¥ & 8

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| member of the commission,

| lot of him.

Indianapolis,

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Has Anyone Seen the Official Flag Of Indianapolis—the One Designed By the Committee of Physicians? N these perplexing days when everybody is talking about the next war, it's kind of

| comforting to know that we, the citizens of

Indianapolis, have a flag of our own to bleed and die under, should it become necessary. Chances are that you don’t know that we have a flag of our own. Well, that's what I'm here for, Here are the facts: One day back in 1911, Lew Shank got to stewing about the two (2)

| flag staffs in front of the City Hall.

To save his life, he couldn't figure out why there was more than one (1), and right then and there

| he got the idea that if the United

States could have a flag of its

| own, so could the City of Indian- | apolis. | about his idea, except Sarah, and

Lew didn't tell a soul

around here surprised when he came

that's why everybody was so

Mr. Scherrer

that he had appointed a flag commission to diagnose the case. Everybody saw the point of Lew's joke when it turned out that every member of the commission was a doctor. There wag Dr. William H. Johnson, for instance, who was a member of the City Council, and Dr. Henry Jameson, president of the Park Board, and Dr, Charles 8S.

| Woods, secretary of the Board of Health, The doctors | spent several months diagnosing the case, and finally

reported that an Indianapolis physician had submit ted the best design. It proved to be Dr. Johnson, a Dr. Johnson's design

was steeped in symbolism,

i Indeed it was not unlike the little sheet of paper

the doctor leaves with his patient, hoping to heaven that somebody will interp1®t the signs and symbols correctly. For example, in the upper left-hand core

| ner of the winning design was a big five-pointed

star. Dr, Johnson said it executive department, It after he explained it.

The Lawyers Weren't Forgotten

Beneath the big star in a southeasterly direction was a half-moon made up of nine little stars. The City Council is corhposed of nine members. Catch on? And over on the right hand side was the City's seal representing the legal department. Under the seal was a garland of laurel leaves, to make sure that the lawyers were getting everything that was coming to them. The stars, seal and garland were done in gold, The field of the flag was blue, just the kind of ate mosphere you'd expect the doctors to pick if left alone, Delighted with the doctor's prescription, Mayor Shank accepted the flag officially on June 7, 1011, and issued orders for its dedication on the following Fourth of July. Strangely enough however, nobody-— not even Mayor Shank—went to the City Hall to see the new flag, the reason being that William H. Taft blew into town that day. He brought the President's flag with him to fly with Old Glory. Goodness knows what's become of the City's flag. That's why I am publishing today’s piece in plenty of time for somebody to find the doctor's flag and let it fly next Monday. I, for one, should like to see it again.

represented the City's was plain as daylight

Jane Jordan

Girl, 19, Advised Not to Regard Broken Love Affair as a Tragedy.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 19 years. I have been in love and going with a fellow for about a year. He told me he loved me many times. We had a quarrel and I told him I thought it best for us not to see each other any more. He didn't take me out much for he was only a working boy. It has been about a month since we quit and since then I have met a fellow who claims to be crazy about me. He takes me any place my heart desires, but it seems that whatever he does for me I cannot love him for it. What shall I do? Shall I keep going with this fellow

and try to forget, or stay away from fellows altogether for a while? D. A M.

Answer—The last thing a girl who has suffered a disappointment should do is to stay away from other boys. Must you be madly in love with a boy in order to enjoy his society? You are only 19 and have years ahead in which to replace your sweetheart. Few girls marry their first love. As you grow older your requirements increase. The boy who pleased you at 19 may not be the one you want most in your 20s. Therefore, do not regard this broken love affair as a tragedy, but only as an experience, pleasant while it lasted. ” ” ”

EAR JANE JORDAN--<I am a girl of 15, now goe ing with a fellow 22. He is fairly good-looking, has no bad habits and works hard. I like him a great deal. My mother and the rest of my family think a He often has told me that he liked me a lot. Some people have told me that he is too old for me. Others have told me that since he was so nice to keep going with him. Do you think his age should interfere with our love affair? PEGGY,

Answer-Since you are not thinking of marriage at 15, I see no reason why you should not enjoy a casual friendship with the young man. You like him; your family likes him; he is apparently content to share the interests of a younger group. What harm could come of it if he does not wish to make you more mature than you are? I do not think he should be your only friend. I believe it would be wise for you to see more of younger boys than you see of him. If your association with him makes it necessary for you to adjust to older boys and girls it might make you wish to skip the pleasures of the teens: but if he likes your younger friends, I doubt if it is essential to your welfare to give him up. JANE JORDAN.

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

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The chief character in his story is one of the lead ers of the Labor Party, an idealist, who holds peace precious in a world lit by fires of coming war. He believes implicitly in the League of Nations as the only instrument working for peace. When England fails to support the League in enforcing sanctions against Italy in the Ethiopian affair, his faith is somewhat broken and he loses his influence with his party. His son is a Communist just down from Cam= bridge, and his daughter's lover is a member of the Conservative class, which believes that, if necessary, England should be ready to fight in order to maine tain peace. Although the argument wages furiously between them, none of their discussions serves to enlighten them or to bring order out of chaos; the characters typify all too truly those of us who are struggling to understand the cause of “the profound bewilderment of mind of millions of a aasant, prace-