Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1938 — Page 13

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From Indiana == Ernie Pyle

Ernie Comes 'Home' to a Warehouse And Finds His Friends Becoming More Serious as Their Youth Ebbs.

ASHINGTON, June 30.—We laugh and say to Mr. Curtis, who rung the big storage warehouse out in the suburbs:

“Well, we're home again, Mr. Curtis. |

trap

Have you kept our hearth fires burning, |

and all our tables and chairs dusted off? Your warehouse is the only home we have, you know." And Mr very fine shape. because theyre stacked in tiers with other people's chairs, and our rugs are somewhere in that great pile that reaches to the ceiling. So when we're in we have to farm ourselves out on friends, and become adopted children. Perhaps I should say “adapted,” because we adapt ourselves so quickly and thoroughly to our friends’ home that take the place over. We throw things

R b Mr. Pyle and the only time the poor owners : get in their own house is when we invite them home for dinne: The last time we came in from a year's trip, we were afraid. We had somehow got into our heads that people hated us. It turned out that they didn't; at least they said they didn't. But it was a strange and frightening reaction, and it left its mark on us. Hence, as we drove into Washington this time, we studied our emotions like a couple of psychology professors And imagine our surprise to discover that we no emotions. time,

That was

had

the entrance. Then things began to

Curtis says ves, he's kept our home in | » | Except we can’t sit in our chairs |

Washington |

we practically |

around and | demand things and ask visitors in, |

We weren't afraid this | Neither were we elated, excited or anticipatory. |

change swiftly. It dawned on us suddenly that we | were back home. Within two minutes I was on the |

telephone. We found our same things they last ing a sort of unnatural life.

the main, doing the when we saw them

friends. in were doing

And it seemed to us now that they were lead-

A narrowed life, encompassed and constricted— full of furious sticking to habit, dashing day after |

day to the same places, serious about the same old

things, gay in the same old way, wrapped in the |

same beguiling fiction that Washington is whole world. But then, as we grew accustomed to our homecoming, the little strangenesses wore off. And we ourselves slipped back into their ways, and lived through the days without realizing we were doing just as we used to do, and we decided that the

the |

Washington way of life was pretty good after all. |

No Cut in Prices

Of course we didn't, as it sounds, spend time summing up our old friends like so much beef on the hoof. and reports on them after they left. We tried to sum them up, and weigh them and wrap them, and put a new price tag on them

all our

But we did make our little observations |

And to me the most remarkable thing about this !

private inventory was that I can't remember a single one we had to lower the price on.

They were judging us too, no doubt. If I were a

cat I'd give eight of my lives to know what each one |

said about us on his way home.

But out of this mutual appraisal of one another

through the telescope of a year's absence, came this one melancholy fact old friends Little worries. New and unthrowable responsibilfties. Little physical aches and sad little pains of the emotions. It them And I do not sav that of them critically. Because I hold the world's championship in their weight and class. Footloose and fancy free I am. And yet, I can worry more and age faster in any given half hour than the whole bunch of them put together,

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Wonders Why Talking Is So Much Easier in the Middle of the Night.

YDE PARK, Wednesday. —Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I sat by the fire for an hour

and talked. meant to discuss during her stay. rel with modern life, it is that the leisure one is always looking for is never in the present, but always in the future, and the people one would like to sit with in an unhurried mood are always somewhere clse and rarely by your side, Anna, John and I had supper together and then I brought them to the train which took them to Detroit for the first part of their trip back to Seattle. Then I returned and spent an hour or so with Mrs. Scheider to celebrate her first evening at home, Back at the big house I found myself sitting down in Ethel and Franklin Jr.'s room, when I should have gone to bed. I think family discussions are very valuable, but I wonder why it is usually so much easier to talk in the middle of the night. I finally left them with the feeling that they would never wake up to catch their train this morning unless they had some sleep, though all of us were apparently quite ready to go on talking indefinitely. Once in bed, I started to read and suddenly realized that on June 28 I was actually cold, so I began prowling about the house and finally on a couch, found a homespun blanket which I took back to add to my summer bed covering. We certainly have the strangest climate in the world. Last week, out on my porch, a sheet seemed more than I could bear, and this week, indoors, one blanket isn't enough.

Cottage Cellar Flooded .

Today the skies have cleared and the sun is out, but our brook has risen far beyond its usual banks and in consequence the cottage cellar is flooded. If any of you live in the country and have struggled with conditions of this kind, you will know how annoying it is to do everything you can to waterproof a cellar and then find that your pump doesn’t work and the other precautions you have taken seem just as useless. However, after reading the morning papers and seeing that this little storm we have been having has done four million dollars worth of damage to crops, homes and roads, I certainly should not complain about anything which has happened here. We have a fascinating little boy staying with us, and I can quite understand the story which his mother told me this morning. It appears that he does not like little girls. This ceme out when I suggested that he might play with one who lives nearby. On inquiring about this dislike at the early age of 2 and a few months, I was told that as soon as the little girls saw him, they took to kissing and hugging him, and he found that somewhat trying.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOQOD, June 30.—I suppose we all have'ta have some principles to follow and stick up for, but I imagine if you could get up high enough to get

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The Indianapolis Times

Editor's Note — In previous articles Mr. Stokes has examined the Presidential chances of various members of President Roosevelt's official family in Washington. Teday he discusses four other aspirants whose chances may be affected one way or the other in this year’s balloting.

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer VV ASHINGTON, June 300—Coming primaries, conventions and elections will have a bearing on the Presidential prospects of four Democrats who are active along the New Deal front in one capacity or another. Senator Alben W. Barkley, President Roosevelt's Senate leader, who has been discussed as a possible candidate in 1940, must weather the onslaughts of 39-year-old Governor Albert B. Chandler in Kentucky’s Aug. 6 primary if he is to continue in the

race. Paul V. McNutt, former Governor of Indiana and perhaps the most active and energetic angler for the 1940 Democratic nomination, is tending to his duties as High Commissioner of the Philippines in far-away Manila, but a state convention in Indiana July 11 and 12 and the fall election involve his continued control of the Democratic organization in that state. Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan must be re-elected in November if he is to continue as a 1940 possibility. Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, more prominently mentioned as Presidential timber some months ago than since the recent bitter primary, would drop from the picture if he failed of election to the Senate in November. » » »

ENATOR BARKLEY is envisaged by some political seers as a likely compromise candidate in 1940 should New Dealers and Conservatives get into a pitched battle at the convention—that is, if he is returned toc the Senate this year. i The Kentucky Senator has gone down the line for the New Deal as Senate leader, just as did his predecessor, the late Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas. Mr. Robinson was known to be skeptical privately of some of the measures he sponsored—but he was a loyal and stanch leader. Mr. Barkley, likewise, is thought to be somewhat more conservative than his leadership activity suggests. President Roosevelt and the New Deal are under obligations to the Senator, and if he continues to be Senate spokesman and fullback plunger the obligation will be increased by 1940. Therefore the Roosevelt forces might turn to the Kentuckian in event of a bitter struggle at the 1940 convention. The conservative elements would take him in preference to some others of the inside New Deal circle. That, at least, is the theory.

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ENATOR BARKLEY just now is concerned with getting reelected to the Senate, and whatever thought he may have about 1940 have been pushed way back in his head. But Paul McNutt has his Presidential thoughts very close to the front of his handsome head with its silver thatch, even though he sits a long way from the scene of action. His lieutenants are working actively in a number of states, using as nuclei old companions of American Legion association. Mr. McNutt has made speeches and built up contacts in every state. The McNutt band wagon is being greased. Though professing to be a New Dealer, Paul McNutt is not generally regarded as such. It looks now as if he may develop into a

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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938

After Roosevelt, Who?

Governor Murphy

conservative candidate with backing from financial and industrial interests—in other words, the man to be headed off and beaten by the New Deal contingent. ‘National Chairman Farley has no love whatever for the Philippine High Commissioner, and New Dealers will have Mr. Farley's earnest backing in the “stop MeNutt” movement. Developments in the July Democratic convention in Indiana and the November election may have something to do with Mr, MecNutt's availability, There has been talk recently that the MeNutt lieutenants, despite all their previous intentions, may decide to take . Senator VanNuys—foe of President Roosevelt's Supreme Court bill——as a candidate for reelection, in an attempt to keep harmony within Democratic ranks. The Senator was marked by the McNutt forces for defeat long ago, not because of the Supreme Court bill but because of differences with the McNutt machine

HE Senator has been threatening an independent campaign, if he does not win the convention nomination, and says a number of his Senate colleagues have agreed to go into Indiana and speak for him. But Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who has sworn vengeance upon Senator VanNuys, is backing Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker for the Senatorial nomination. Hitherto Governor Townsend has been an integral part of the McNutt machine. Postmaster General Farley is reported to be angling for Indiana's 1940 delegation himself, the bait being help for Governor Townsend as the Vice Presidential candidate. This is part of the National Chairman's campaign to cut under the MeNutt candidacy. If Indiana should return to the Republican column in November, through a D2omocratic split, this would weaken Mr. MeNutt's chances for the 1940 nomination. He has chosen to remain

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

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1938 Elections Crucial to Hopes of McNutt, Barkley, Murphy and Earle

Governor Earle

in the Philippines instead of mixing personally in the current Indiana controversy. In contrast with High Commissioner MeNutt, Governors Earle and Murphy are regarded as instinctive New Dealers.

» ” ” RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Governor Murphy have long been close friends. The Governor, appointed by the President in 1933 to the Philippine post now held by Mr. McNutt, was recalled to run for Governor in 1936 in order

to bolster Mr. Roosevelt's chances of carrying Michigan. He is now seeking re-election to keep the New Deal front in Michigan intact, if possible, The President also is grateful to Governor Murphy for his success in handling the delicate situation in Michigan growing out of sitdown strikes in the automobile industry, which for a time had explosive potentialities. Some think it is possibility that the

beyond President

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might select his Michigan friend to carry on the New Deal banner as 1940 candidate, under certain circumstances, though others seem to have prior call. Like Messrs. Farley and Joe Kennedy, Governor Murphy is.a Catholic. Governor possible 1940 candidate has gone down with the intraparty fight in Pennsylvania and the grand jury investigation which has been ordered into the Earle regime. He came out of the primary

battle with the C. I. O. hostile toward him, But he came out in command of a powerful state machine, Pennsylvania has 76 votes in the 1940 Democratic convention, and if Governer Earle can control them he will be in an excellent trading position, either on his own behalf or to advance or check the fortunes of others.

Next—Mr, Garner Bides His

Time.

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well. | this man. Earle’s stock as a '|

a bird's-eye view of the whole world, you'd find that |

some of us are pretty narrow.

I was over at a politician's house the other night

and he kept talkin’ about a certain fella bein’ a traitor «nd finally his little boy spoke up and says, “Papa, what is a traitor?” The politician says, “A traitor is 2 man who leaves our party and goes over to the other

ide.” : The son says, “Well, suppose & fella, leaves the other side and joins your party—is hefla traitor?” The says, “Oh, no, he's & conver \

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Ind.

Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

The Art of Winking, Our Columnist Realizes, Has Gone the Way of the Interrogation Point in Parenthesis.

DOUBT whether adequate analysis has yet been made of the interrogation point in parenthesis. Two generations ago it was a part of every writer's repertoire. Today it’s a mere memory. Still more remarkable

is the fact that the literary symbol (7?) conceived to express sarcasm, is used less in Indiane apolis today than anywhere else in the country. Reason: George C. Harding. Mr. Harding got after the interrogation point about 60 years ago when he ran the Indianapolis Saturday Herald. “Something ought to be done with the interrogation point,” said Mr. Harding. “It has

, become, if possible, more of a vag-

abond than the comma, and more of a nuisance than the apostrophe. As a medium for the expression of sarcasm the interrogation has lost its point. Used for that purpose in pp. parenthesis, it expresses but one thing, and that is the ignorance of the writer. A

Scherrer

| man of little learning and much spleen makes use of

the degraded point in this style on all occasions. He says ‘the gentlemanly (?) editor of the War Whoop,’ or ‘the honorable (?) M. C.’ and he fancies he has broken down his enemy with the most withering sarcasm, He can't manipulate words to help him

| out, but he can depend on the interrogation point.

Inside the parenthesis it always looks fresh and original to him. He knows he didn't invent it, but he thinks the public will believe he did. It is re= garded as a perfect battering ram by unsophisticated writers. Hurled at the enemy he is sure to tremble under the pressure, they imagine. It is the plummet

that marks a writer's ability and indexes his temper, It proves the one shallow and the other bad.”

Amending Mr. Harding's Article

Mr. Harding had a lot more to say along the same line—and just as mean, too—but I guess it's enough to show why his scared competitors stopped using the sarcastic symbol. It occurs to me, however, that Mr. Harding didn’t cover the whole subject. For one thing, the interrogation point in parenthesis wasn't always used to express sarcasm. Very often it was an author's way of winking at the reader, which brings me to the point of today’s piece, namely that the art of winking has gone the way of the interrogation point, too. Fifty years ago when I was a kid, winking was a highly developed art, especially on the part of the girls, I don't know what's happened in the mean= time, but girls nowadays can't bat their eyes the way they used to. Why, some girls were so good when I was a kid that they could wink with both eyes. They were the masters of the arf, of course. The rest had to be satisfied with winking the left eye. I'll say this though, for the handicapped girls: Some could say as much with their left eye as others could winking both eyes. I wish I could remember what some of the winks meant. There was a time when I knew them ag well as I did the language of flowers and the explanations in the dream book. Indeed, there was a time when 1 could interpret a girl's wink and tell immediately whether it meant taking her to a party, or whether it went further and included having more than one dance with her. It was as subtle as that. To save my life, though, I can't remember how a girl winked so that I could tell the difference, I guess it's a sign I'm getting old.

Jane Jordan—

Don't Try to Hide Friendship With One Suitor From Rival, Girl Told.

DEE JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 21 and head waitress in a coffee shop. For two and a half years I have been going with a man of my own age, We were planning to get married when he lost his Job. He works now as an extra but doesn't make enough to keep a home. Another nice man of 35 has been stopping here at the hotel for about a year, Five months ago he started asking me for dates. Finally I went out with him and have been seeing him for He wanted to meet my family My family likes him awfully My boy friend does not know that I go out with Both my mother and my new friend think that I should tell him, but I just can’t bring myself to do so. Mother says I can go with both of them but to do it openly—that is, let my boy friend know about it. My new friend has been married and is divorced from his wife who has remarried. He has two chil dren who live with his mother, My mother doesn't

and I took him home.

| know that he has been married and if she did she | wouldn't like it very well,

Both my friends treat me with respect and I want to go with both of them, but I really don't know what to do, PERPLEXED. is true that go With your

Answer—Tt you can't

| new suitor forever without vour boy friend discovering | the fact.

Wouldn't it be better for him to find it out from you than to be told by somebody else, or to see vou out with the other man? Two-timing makes a

| man angry when he feels that he has been deliberately deceived, but if you are honest about your movements,

he has less cause for anger, I do not know how deeply you care for your hoy friend. Are you afraid that you will lose him if you

| are truthful about your friendship with another? Or

is it simply that you are reluctant to hurt his feelings? If you value his love enough to guard it against all interruptions from the outside then it is folly for you to take these risks. But if you only dread to hurt his feelings you do him no Kindness to pretend to a loyalty which is nonexistent. Perhaps you're too young to make up your mind to stick to one suitor and want a few years of freedom to choose. If so, this is your privilege, but it is better to be open and honest about the way you feel, ” ” o

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 17 in love with a boy who is 19, Two months ago we

| stopped going together because of a disagreement. I

am not interested in any other boy and do not care to go out with others. Every dance I go to he is there and will sit on the side and look at me, but will not speak. Should I try to win him back? BETTY.

Answer—Be as pleasant and casual as if nothing ever had happened. The rest is up to him. Don’t give up your other boy friends, no matter how you feel. JANE JORDAN.

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

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