Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1938 — Page 13

| : Vagabond From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Some Tales Are Told Out of School, Including Twe on Your Columnist And One on a Couple of Policemen.

VV ASHINGTON, July 1.—While in Waghington I have gone out on the streets just as little as possible. For I have been obsessed with the fear that some old acquaintance would gay, “Oh hello there. Have you been away?” Fortunately the thing never actually happened It came awfully close once when a restaurant man said, “You've been on a trip, haven't you?” I just said yeah” and let it pass I feel positive that had anybody teally asked, “Have you been awav?” I could never have resumed the column, and would now be skulking at night around the alleys of Georgetown, But I made one slip like that on myself, Down at the airport I ran onto two friends of the old davs when I wrote an aviation column and spent every day at the airport. Those were really pioneer days in commercial fiving, and we who participated were a proud and sentimental family changed immensely now Many of dead I'he rest are scattered and ‘hina to Peru and back again The Thion Station 1al faces are left. Crowdet ww Pennsvivania-central

ylored porter at the

1d I =aid to Crowder tv fast. don't they? left out of the old davs here fist Wy Hillis and me occurred to me until two davs later what had =<aid That I wasn't there any more eithet hat it had been, in fact, six years, Only Crowder and Gillis left, really I forgot I'd "been awa thought I was still there

A Girl Reporter Tells Him Of

One of our visitors during our brief prodigal-son { Ted Richett, a motorevele old davs pal Joe Comiskey used to and hide their motorcycles case the lieutenant hap-

uld half-seriously berate pushing poor people stilmes even shooting people. great joke with them, and they 1 the most terrible tales about havarrested an old crippled woman who was 1d Ted would sa Joe, it was all right to down. but vou shouldn't have kicked her Laughing, and arto, and enjoving their policemen aren't bad

ngton Daily News lk to applicants I literally people I was in the editorial room irl reporter came up and “You wouldn't give me it after vou left, I got

Yah at me,

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

All Nations’ Educational Systems Must Co-operate to Bring Peace. N°. YORK, Thursda I le Hyde Park this A

morning at 7:15 and had a most beautiful drive 0 New York City York at an early h

t many people come to New hou 1d even on the express highe blocked many times, which is most surI stopped to do a few errands and reached

pnt “ ) "9 ent at avout

It always amuses me when children try to stop me on the street for autographs, but this morning 1 had a unique experience. As I dashed around the corner from the bank, two apparently grown men

The Indianapolis Times

Editor's Note—This is the fifth of a series of dispatches on Presfdential possibilities in 1940,

By Thomas L. Stokes Times Special Writer VW ASHINGTON, July 1, —A “stop Roosevelt” movement, pointed toward 1940, has been organized in the Senate. Its object is to prevent either the renomination of President Roosevelt or the naming of any candidate of strong New Deal persuagion. The Senate junta, in effect, would seize control of the party from the New Dealers and name a candidate of more conzervative mien, with the idea of moderating the party's course. Its chief funectionary is Vice President John Nance Garner, aided and abetted largely by A group of Southern colleagues These include “the three R's” Senators Railey (N. CC). Burke (Neb) and Byrd (Va), plus Senators George (Ga), Smith (8S, C.), Harrison (Miss) and Glass (Va), to name some of the more prominent and determined. More than a vear ago, on the heels of the Supreme Court fight which left the President more viilherable than he had been, Mr. Garner hYegan his under-cover

maneuvers to check or modify certain New Deal plans, $$ # 8 HE drive was directed, in general, at New Deal labor, taxation and spending policies. While the agitation started by the canny Vice President at afternoon sessions in what he calls “the Bureau of Education”—his office—reacted in lots of noise on the flooi, the victories of the junta have been negligible. President Roosevelt won on the Wage-Hour Rill, warded off revision of the Wagner Labor Act, maintained the principle (though scarcely more than that) of the undistributed profits tax, and triumphed on the

relief measure

It does not seem gical today that the junta can ceed at the 1940 convention, but Torecasts two

vears ahead are dangerous. The chief handicap of the Southern group is the majority rule for nominations, which was substituted at the 1936 convention for the ancient two-thirds rule The Southerners no longer have the veto power over nominations that used to be afforded by their one-third strength in conventions But the Vice President knows lots of tricks to gain his ends. [It ic never wise to count him out, for temporary setbacks do not deter him. His 30 vears' experience in Congress and in national politics have taught him to take the long view, Strange and unexpected situations arise in national conventions, and the smart strategists play for the breaks. » » »

AS the plot unfolds it involves an attempt by the Vice Pres-

convention crisis. The Vice Pres-

bunch of delegates to get what he wants in the of a candidate,

with some favor upon Senator Bennett Champ Clark (Mo),

Chaco Disput

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938

After Roosevelt, Who?

Garner and Southern Group Seek Chance to Unseat New Dealers

Te ——"— AN A NY 0 0 0 SAN 0 AN No AN

Senator Bailey

son of the late Speaker of the House, as a rising young man whom he might be able to help along at the 1940 convention Friends of Senator Clark already are at work in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas He would not be the selection of the New Deal forces. Another mentioned from the more conservative group is Sena-

Entered es Second-Class Matter Indianapolls, Ind.

at Postoffice,

Senator Glass

Senator Ellison D. Smith

tor Harry PF. Byrd (Va), one of the anti-New Deal leaders. Though he denies it, Senator Burton K. Wheeler (Mont) is credited with White House ambitions. He fought the President bit« terly on the Supreme Court reform bill, and though he has a progressive record over a period of vears he is now looked upon with favor by interests that for-

Senator Wheeler

merly feared and opposed him. He has been friendly with the Vice President. Senator Wheeler might turn out to be a sort of bridge between progressive and conservatives, though it is no secret that the stanch New Deal crowd about the President will have none of him,

NEXT-—A Million for a Name!

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Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

Horse Isn't Only Herron Mystery; Many Questions About Statue in Cellar Still Should Be Answered,

HE horse in front of the Herron Art Ine stitute isn't the only mystery up there, There's another one down in the basement, It’s a life-size sandstone statue of the Virgin and Child with the inscription “Hoc op fecit Nicholaus Vincitinus” running around its base. If you must know, it's the Latin equivalent for “I, Nicholas of Vecenza, have made this work.” The statue has been at the Herron since the beginning of 1920. The mystery starts three months earlier, how=-ever-—-on Oct, 6, 1919, to be exact. On that day, Harold Haven Brown, who ran the place before the Peat pontificate, wrote a letter to a dis~ tinguished firm of foreign art dealers with a branch gallery in New York asking for the loan of something important-—preferably a piece of Gothic sculpture, if they had anything in that line Mr To stay on the alkaline side, 1 : shall from this point on refer to the distinguished firm of art dealers as the Blank Galleries, In ane swer to Mr. Brown's request, the Blank Galleries said they would like to defer the matter until their Mr, X. returned. He was scouring Europe at the time, they said, and no doubt would have just the thing Mr. Brown was looking for when he got back. Sure enough, that's the way it turned out, too. Three months later the mystery arrived. Along with it came a letter saying that the only thing like it was in the Museum dell Opera del Duomo in Florence. The price tag on the statue for $17,000 which Mr. X. said was dirt cheap considering that other museums were paying around $30,000 for similar pieces. After a month or so, Mr. Brown wanted to return the statue and get the loan of something else to startle the natives with. That's when Mr. X., speaking for the Blank Galleries, started his picturesque series of letters, in the course of which he pointed out what a calamity it would be were the Herron to lose the statue, Moreover, Mr. X. said he was going to do all he could to save the statue for the Herron. As a matter of fact, he said he was already at work and had sent letters to 67 Indianapolis mile lionaires to come to the rescue of the Herron, Apparently, the Indianapolis millionaires didn't come through, because a little later the correspondence reveals that Mr. X. was in touch with 100 millionaires in Indiana. For the same purpose, of course. At this point, Mr. Brown wrote another letter saying he could find no way of raising funds, and wouldn't Mr. X. please send him directions for shipping the statue back. No answer. And that's the way matters stood until the following year.

Enter a French Attorney

On July 23, 1921, Mr. Brown got a letter from a French attorney who said he was in America for the purpose of investigating some irregularities in the New York branch of the Blank Galleries. Mr. X.. he said, had been arrested in Europe for some daring thefts, and he wanted to make sure that the Herron Art people had the Virgin and Child by Nicholas of Vecenza. Mr. Brown submitted a complete history of the case, whereupon the French attorney said that at no time had the price of the statue heen more than $10,000. He asked the Herron Art, people to retain the statue until everything was ironed out. Another year passed. Then on Nov. 18 1922. tha Blank Galleries sent another letter, this time telling Mr. Brown of their decision to close the American branch of their establishment. Before they got to {hat point, however, they wanted to dispose of some of their most important pieces, and if the Herron Art people would accept the Virgin and Child they would be more than glad to make them a present of it, Goodness knows, it may yet turn out that the mys tery in the Herron's cellar is as important as Mr. X, said it was.

Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Lack of Nerve May Be Responsible For Melancholy, Jane Tells Woman,

EAR JANE JORDAN--I am near 40 and all my life I have been knocked around. I married at

ident to get control of delegations | lB approached we with pencil and paper and asked for | from his own State of Texas and | Host ties Dates Back to | Sth Centu ry an autograph. I was obliged to sav that I now made | from nearby states in the South | / not to stop in public places. One feels un- and Southwest—Louisiana, Missi- | By E.R. R ) colonies. No definite agreement on) were instrumental in his overthrow | States. Bolivia also wishes to subin doing s, but if you stop, people with | SIPPL Arkansas, Arizona, New sain | the boundary has ever been reached. | on July 13, 1937. Since that time | mit to renewed arbitration the owns nd papers i autograph books seem to | Mexico, Nevada WW ASHTON: July 1-—After | preaties with respect to the Chaco | Bolivia has been a dictatorship ~ This would give him an operat- three years of effort, the! were signed in 1879. 1887 and 1894, | under the rule of Lieut. Col. Gering nucleus, Chaco peace conference has failed | hut none of the three was ever rati- | man Busch, formerly Army Chief Sentiment for nomination of |to reach a settlement, and the fied. In 1007, Bolivia and Paraguay | of Staff. at the National Bde NT TEE sel Jas Qed | breakdown of negotiations may lead | reached an agreement to abide by| Col. Raphael Franco seized the | United States acted as arbiter in | 1 is held this afters pre TR en, hues to resumption of hostilities in the the status quo, still without defi- | Presidency of Paraguay on Feb. 17, ga s It is their inter- actialle Sees himself in the role near future, : nitely fixing the boundary. The|1936, with the promise of a leftheme i& built around the of ‘candidate or aims rather at ine Bolivia is a country with a popu- | dispute led to an outbreak of hos-| wing program. He was ousted in ucation do to bring us & more | fluencing the convention to nomi. | Aton of over three million, and an tilities in 1926 which continued in-| August, 1937. Paraguay is now a ¢ ; y op ue education deals with the | nate someone else of a conserva. | Area of over 500000 square miles. | termittently until the 1935 armistice. | dictatorship under provisional Presi- Nations as well as oy He mention ows has the greatest influ. tive stamp. has not vet been des Paraguay, outside the disputed Efforts to reach a permanent set- | dent Felix Paiva. conference, and at one time 2 coun- Ariswer="The first: thitre: to 40 is to: lind out: witat It must be a long-time veloped : : Chaco territory, occupies only about | tlement have been continually frus- | Both dictators have good reason | tries followed the League reco = CAUSES your melancholy if possible The only thing ath. case if : a generation or more to | In 1032, Mr. Garner operated 60.000 square miles and has a popu- | trated by the internal political sit- | to fear that their regimes would be mendation of an Arms embargo | oki a ie Ah Yr os i Wii oh) nn change the thinking of groups of people | successfully with the delegates of | ation of less than 1000000. How- | yations in the belligerent countries, | endangered by any substantial con- | against both (LITRE CT | 1 TORI G hat heart-breaking things are said to Texas and California to win him- | Ven when an armistice was signed | cession embodied in a peace set- | the League advisory committee rec | 5C1 am an : a Arle i 8 18 are § to Educators Should Travel self the Vice Presidential nomins- hetweea the two countries on June f 8 4 | tlement, Bolivia is determined to | ommended lifting the embargo | you, By whom? Your family or your employers: sre talking 1 taltny shat tion. The Roosevelt forces, on the | 15 1935, the Paraguayan forces | OF May 17, 1035, a military junta | resist any agreement which fails |against Bolivia, while keeping it in | Are these things founded upon truth or are they e talking here today aby point of cracking. had {> have |occupied a considerable pert of the forced President Sorzano of | to give her a navigable jort on the | force against Paraguay, on Jan, 16, | malicious inventions? If you have a disagreeable those delegates quick—and they | Chaco, the whole of which is actu- | Bolivia to resign and set up a pro- | Paraguay River. Bolivia's claim 10 a | 1835, Paraguay promptly resigned | Job, try lo change it. This can’t be: done Sveruistity hat : \ got them. along with the then | ally larger than Paraguay vincial government under Col. David | port has been accepted in the [from the League. However, the | bul make up your mind to find another if it takes a that counts but the | gqueaker of the House as running The original basis for the rival! Toro. who promised to establish a | boundary proposal prepared by the | terms of the June, 1935, armistice | year or more.

14 and from then on it has been a sad life for me, Now I take spells of crying and cry for a day or a : : night at a time. When these spells come on me I ership of territory which Was | can't be pleasant. I don't want to be mean, but when awarded to Paraguay when Presi- | those spells come on me I don't want anyone to speak dent Rutherford B. Hayes of the | to me. They come mostly when I work hard. I work in a shop and at times the work is so hard that I could scream. I have had some very heart-breaking things said to me at those times. I am good-hearted, Attempts to settle the dispute | and everybody seems to like me. Could you call me have been made by the League of | mean? Please give me some advice as you did one time before. FAITHFUL.

of the ground and in no time you are sur-

there is no good reason for

~ rennag ix Q

can do to bring

realize that it is

* countries of the world Are you the sort of person who permits others to impose upon you? If you are this may account for your melancholy. A patient, passive person lacks the nerve to take his own part, but when pushed too far he is overcome with a sort of helpless rage. He still lacks the nerve to kick those who kicked him and takes his anger out on himself in gloom. If you will stand up and fight for yourself it will help to lessen your crying spells, I believe, , A curious fact about melancholy is that it doesn't always arise from external causes, Today we are cheerful; tomorrow we are gloomy; yet nothing in the environment has changed. All of us have problems but why is it that we can live with them peaceably one day and get all stirred up the next with no disturbing changes from the outside to account, for the change of mood? It takes an expert to une ravel these strange attacks. If vou cannot afford to engage the services of an expert to help you overcome your depressions, you can learn to live with them as one puts up with a toothache or any other nagging pain: Haven't you often worked all day with a dull headache? You didn't feel well but you went right ahead and did your work until presently the headache disappeared, So it is with melancholy. Treat it as an intruder, something foreign to your personality.

is h it seeme me so important for ou ucators to travel and to meet those who are teaching youth in The only way thal an see of eventually bringIng different ups together, is by having them grow up with als and standards. Only if our teachers know each other and the problems of their various nations, can this real foundation for future peace be achieved I see that Mayor Ia Guardia in his speech to the teachers, asked them to set uniform educational standards throughout this nation. There is no question in my mind that the teachers would be glad to do this; the difficulty lies with the people in certain parts of the country and their political leaders. Good education costs money. people do not like taxes, and sometimes the political leaders see no connection between education and future prosperity

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 1—In some ways, acting in | pictures is a whole lot like any other line of work. |

The bigger you get, the easier they make it for you. The big actor has his part written to fit him, but the little actor has'ta make himself fit the part. One time I got a part in a picture and I told the director to give me the script so I could study my lines. The director says, “That won't be necessary—you're playin’ the part of the woman's husband and you never do get a chance to say any-

thing.” ng (Copvright. 1218)

So They Say—

GOOD book can be written about anvthing —MarAare Aver Barnes, novelist

The WPA dollar is the fastest moving dollar in America —Harry L. Hopking, WPA Administrator.

The welfare of the forests is just as important as human lives, and both call for intelligent treatment — Dean Samuel Spring of the New York State College of Forestry The world is not going to smash. -—Roger W. Babson, business analyst, : .

mate for Mr. Roosevelt This shows what can he done with a batch of delegates in a

countries were Spanish

socialist state, Dissatisfaction with | mediation conference consisting of his socialistic policies, and with his | delegates from Argentina, Brazil, position on the peace negotiations | Peru, Uruguay and the United

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

Side Glances—By Clark %

"Now, I'll be the lifequard, and out in the street will be the deep water."

(Cope. 138 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.

"What—you haven't smelled them enough YET?"

provide that if the mediation conference fails to effect a settlement, the World Court.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the name of the Japanese art of self-defense?

2—Name the member of the President's cabinet recently married in Dublin, Ireland, 3— What is a pyrheliometer? 4—In which mountain range are the Green Mountains? 5—Are sweepstakes winnings subject to income tax? 6—Can Mexicans be naturalized in the United States? T—What is a chiromantist? 8—What is the name for the cashier or chief clerk on board oa passenger steamer?

1—Jujutsu. 2—Harold L. Ickes. 3—An instrument for measuring the intensity of the heat of the sun's rays. 4—-The Appalachians. 5—Yes, 6—Yes. T—One who tells fortunes from the palm of the hand, 8—Purser, ” ” .

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New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

ITHOUT reservations, Carleton Beals belongs to the “left wing intelligentsia.” His latest book, again mainly about Mexico, GLASS HOUSES! TEN YEARS OF FREELANCING (Lippincott), reflects this potition without inflicting it upon his readers. The 10 years began in Mexico, continued in Spain and Italy, where he absorbed art and literature—and watched the Fascists take over Rome. However, he returned to Mexico, where he felt at home, and where he could make a living teaching English in the schools and writing articles about the art, politics and social conditions of the country. His former books have been the result of observation; this is personal and is crowded with sketches of his friends, among them Diego Rivera, and pictures of political and revolu= tionary leaders, His contacts have been many, his accounts of them are lively and col

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