Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1938 — Page 10

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From Indiana =Ernie Pyle

O. O. Mcintyre's Home Town Is Like A Thousand Others Which City Folk Like to Recall but Don't Revisit.

(;ALLIPOLIS, 0., July 6.—This is 0. O. McIntyre's home town. I came here to visit because, since McIntyre's death in February, I've talked with hardly a person who hasn't mentioned his pressed some admiration for his writings. McIntyre made Gallipolis famous. He made it the ideal among America’s “home towns,” which mature men look back upon longingly through small boys’ eyes.

boyhood places.

Few of us would be comfortable |

now living in the manner of the “good old days.”

: again in our old home town. € » these things are not, in truth, what E> “2: we thought they were. ; cj {Gallipolis isn't. § Callipolis is all right. It's like a thousand other small cities—no Mr. Pyle better, no worse. I would not want > to live here, even though it was 0. 0. McIntyre’s dream town. in his heart he didn't want to either.

For Gallipolis is only one day's hard drive from |

almost overvisited his he left

New York City. You could make it night on the {rain. Yet McIntyre never home town, not even once. from the day here as a young man. He came back onl) He is buried here. Gallipolis is bigger is more than 7000. There are stores. Nothing looks verv modern The town lies right smack on the bank of Ohio River. It must stretch for easily a mile. all on flat land. The hills that McIntyre about are back of town. The town itself Is flat as Kansas. The two-story frame house where McIntyre with his grandmother is only a block and a from the business square, back from the river It is a double-house, painted gray, and sits with the sidewalk. I didn’t find out who lives Both sides are rented out. In front of the house, between the curb and walk, is a bronze plaque hung on a rod from a wooden pole. 0. 0. Mcintyre, famous of New York Dav-by-Day birth and death.

had several

imagined. It blocks

than I

half

flush there

newspaperman and author It gives the dates of his

Sees Mrs. Mcintyre's Home

silhouette in bronze, showing with his dog behind him

Above the plaque is a McIntyre at a typewriter

The typewriter is a full-sized one, whereas I've always | The dog is a big |

read that he wrote on a portable. one, nearly as The dogs which formed such an intimate part of McIntyre’s life, I alwats understood, were small bull terriers Just a block awav is the home McIntyre bought for his wife two years ago. It is a beautiful large brick house—not new, but certainly modern, spacious and lovely. Mrs. McIntyre will spend two months in it this summer. McIntyre is buried in Mound Hill Cemetery, less than a mile from town. The cemetery is a big one. MciIntyre's grave is not vet marked. Among all the others, I couldn't even find it. There was no attendant up there to ask. Quite a few tourists come through see the McIntyre landmarks. Not yet, such numbers as to be a problem. Yet Gallipolis is starting to learn, with a shock of bewilderment, the viciousness in the heart of the celebrity hunter. The night McIntyre died in New York, they caught some tourists trying to tear the shutters off Mrs. McIntyre’'s house here as souvenirs. Gallipolis may through personal experience, come to understand what drove its famous son almost a hermit.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady's Ride in the Woods Stopped by Flies and Mosquitoes.

YDE PARK, Tuesdav.—In this part of the world, the Fourth of July seems mind to be cool. I remember that last year we had a picnic and I planned to have all cold food, and was severely taken to task because it was a cool day and evervone would have liked something hot to eat. Certainly the weather the last few days has had almost a touch of autumn in the morning air. I felt so encouraged that I decided to try riding in the lower woods. only to find that the fiies and the mosquitoes swarmed about us. Rather than make the horses suffer. I turned around and cantered up the hill again and took to the open fields. As you cross the main roads, you notice the number of cars which are out over a holiday, but in spite of that I see that fewer people have been killed in the first five months of this year than last year. This must mean that people are learning certain things about driving. 'n talking to Mr. Grover Whalen the other day, I remarked that I felt it was going to be a very great advantage to have the San Francisco Fair, which <tresses the beginnings of our civilization and culture in this country, open the same year as the New York Fair, which will show what the world is like today and will suggest what we may look for tomorrow. I hope that many people who ordinarily go to Europe will see their own country because of the interest these fairs will have. It may be very beneficial to all modes of transportation if they co-operate to work out round-trips at reasonable rates which will attract people who might ordinarily not be able to afford as comprehensive a trip about the country.

Hopes Many Will See Both Fairs

to in

town however,

vet,

into the life of

Of course, Mr urge people who could not afford to see both fairs, to be sure to see the New York one

money to see both fairs. 1f one needed any proof that the teachers in the WPA adult education program are interested in what

they accomplish, the last report given out by Mr. |

Harry Hopkins makes this clea: In the face of economies which have cut the teachers’ salaries and reduced the teaching staff, the total enroliment in

the adult education classes reached 1,586,211, which | is a few hundred over the number enrolled last year. |

To me, this program has always been extraordinarily

important, because adult illiteracy tends to mean a | lower standard of living and less parental control in | This is especially true where the parents | are unable to talk and read and write in the language |

the home.

of the new country to which they have come.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 6.—There’s no question about |

it—the bigger a snowball gets, the more snow it picks up. As Grandpa Snazzy said

gets.” I went out to grandpa’s house one time, when I was a boy. and was surprised when he started showin’ me his war medals. I says “Grandpa, I didn’t know you had all those medals for bravery ~—how in the world did you get em?”

He pointed to the biggest one and says “Well, |

I got that big one by mistake and they gave me all these other medals because I had that one.” (Copyright, 1938) \

name and ex- |

But I'm afraid that, | as the years pass, we all increasing- | lv exaggerate the memories of our

Few of us who | have gone away could ever be happy | For |

I'm sure |

And I guess that down

in death. |

of the | It 1s | wrote | as |

lived

cide- |

It says, “This is the bovhood home of |

to have made up its |

Whalen had to say that he must |

I imagine the | head of the San Francisco Fair wouid do the same, | but for purposes of general education and pleasure | I hope many people will manage to save enough i

them as has— |

The Indianapolis

Second Section

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1938

at Postoffice.

After Roosevelt, Who?

Stokes Predicts No Third-Party Movement Can Go Far in 1940

Editor's Note—This is the last of nine dispatches by Mr. Stokes on

Presidential possibilities in 1940.

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, July 6.—As President Roosevelt per-

country.

sonally dominates the 1940 political scene at this stage, two years ahead of the national conventions, so is he the fountain source of the most important and significant movement for political change now going on in the

This is his now openly avowed attempt to shake up the two old parties, and bring about a new alignment along the fundamental cleavage of liberal-vs.-conservative, by active-

ly intervening in the primaries in an effort to nominate Democrats who support his basic objectives and to root out Democratic foes of his program.

Upon the success of this campaign, which he will evangelize from the stump this summer, depends the delineation of the political picture in 1940—the type of candidate to be nominated the Democrats: the course of the Republican Party in platform and candidate: whether there will be a third party. Because of the question whether this Roosevelt realignment campaign will succeed; because of the all-important question whether Mr. Roosevelt may seek a third term; because of the question whether, if he does not, he can dictate the nomination of his successor—because of all this realm of doubt, the 1940 situation is very hazv, and therefore very interesting.

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» = ® HIS is why the speculation as to candidates must naturally roam over a wide field, and why so many names have been included in this survey. Developments in the next two vears will gradually narrow the rield and bring some clarity to the picture. As to Republicans, some of them —notably Senator Vandenberg— are talking of a possible coalition in 1940 with conservative Democrats, a coalition which could be sealed by the nomination of a Democrat of that type as second man on the ticket. This is about the such talk. Also usual about this time every four years is speculation about a third party. It is much more pointed now than ordinarily, however, because of the launching of a third-party movement last April by Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; because of the political activity of the C. I. O. under Jchn L. Lewis, and because of the effectiveness of the “American Labor Party” in New York City, which weighed heavily in the re-election of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. Various third-party groups exist in a number of states, including the powerful Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota. = » x HETHER any third party can be an effective political factor in 1940 seems to most observers to depend almost entirely on the success of President Roosevelt in building a really New Deal Party out of the Democratic Parly and other elements, some of them now in the Republican Party, some in groups more to the left than the Democrats. Mr. Roosevelt's endeavor, it is known, is to so broaden his party's general objectives as to keep the La Follettes within the fold in 1940 and to have the support of labor, farmer-laborites and progressive Republicans, as he did in '36 Despite Phil La Follette’s attack on some of the Roosevelt policies, particularly on “scarcity economics.” and despite his activities looking toward organizing third-party units here and there, many believe that if ‘he President achieves his objective of creating a really liberal party—by his own definition of “liberal”— the Wisconsin Governor and his brother, Senator Bob, will be found alongside of the New Deal in 1940. The

season for

Senator has followed Mr.

Roosevelt loyally. A close understanding exists between them. = ~ = IS early 1936 Governor Phil was talking of starting a thirdparty movement, but this was abandoned—upon the advice of Senator Bob among others—because of the fear that it might draw enough support away from Mr. Roosevelt to elect a conservative, the last thing they wanted. They may find a similar situation in 1940. But if the conservatives should capture the Democratic convention in 40 and nominate a conservative, there seems no doubt that Phil and Bob would branch out on their own. They probably would be jcined by John L. Lewis and Mayor La Guardia. And it is not inconceivable that Mr. Roosevelt would go along with them. Phil's third-party movement thus far has made no noticeable splash. It has been coolly received. This, of itself, is a tribute to Mr. Roosevelt. John L. Lewis, for instance, has stayed hitched without even a friendly gesture toward Phil Mayor La Guardia gave him a friendly wave—from a distance— but has made no public commitments. Both Mr. Lewis and Mayor La Guardia and others of important caliber have too much at stake in the New Deal and are much too practical politicians to go chasing off after third parties at this stage. n = » N the offing, also, are beginning to appear Indications of the strategy which Mr. Roosevelt used effectively against Huey Long— that is, cutting away the program of a threatening political figure. He met Huey Long's “share-the-wealth” crusade by hastening a previously espoused and more practical program of social security and income-spreading taxation. A few days ago, in a spéech in Pennsylvania, Mordecai Ezekiel, Agriculture Department economist, suggested a program of abundant production in industry, with proposals for Government guarantee to take off surplus manufactures through a sort of ‘“‘evernormal granary” of industry similar to that provided for agriculture in the new AAA act. This matches the abundant-production philosophy of Phil La Follette. To most observers 1940 seems too early for a purely labor party

in this country, particularly since o

‘Remote Control’ Gadgets Take Work

John L. Lewis’ independent political operations with the C. 1. O. thus far have not met with great success anywhere. Some speak of Mr. Lewis as an aspirant for the 1940 Democratic nomination, but this ambition—if it exists at all— is not possible of realization in the opinion of the writer. Similarly, some have suggested that Mayor La Guardia might head the Republican ticket in 1940, but that party would have to undergo a revolution to accept the New York Mayor as its candidate. If conditions should produce a third party, the La Follettes, Mayor La Guardia and John L. Lewis undoubtedly would be the moving spirits—and no one could forecast exactly which one might head the ticket, though the betting probably would favor the La Follettes. » 5 5 F the writer, in concluding this series, might be permitted to assume the reckless role of seer, he would guess: That there is much more likeli-

Side Glances—By Clark

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The launching of Governor La Folletie's new party—the National Progressives of America—is pictured in this composite photograph. Follette, before a huge banner of blue hearing a circle of red with a blue cross on a field of white—the party

John L. Lewis

hood, as of today, that President Roosevelt will be a candidate for renomination, through the force of developing circumstances—including his attempt to remold the Democratic Party—than there was a year ago. That, if he does not, his influ-

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insignia—addresses the crowd of 5000 at Madison, Wis. The Governor is shown in a closeup at the right, and at left is Adolf A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, who attended as the official observer of Mayor La Guardia of New York City.

Governor La

Mayor La Guardia That there will be no effective third party. That Republicans will nominate a conservative and maintain their alliance with big business, and that there will be no active and open coalition with conservative Democrats.

ence in the 1940 convention will be sufficient to name a candidate satisfactory to him, though he may not be able to put over a simon-pure, 100 per cent New Dealer, because the conflict with the conservative wing may force a compromise.

Out of Operating Newest Radios

By NEA Service

39 line of radio sets, will go on sale this month, is a lazy

man’s delight. These up-to-the-minute receivers are veritable ro-

bots. responding to the mere flick |

of the dialer’s finger. They're to radio what the automatic player piano was to the pedal-pump variety. Tuning in the new sets has been so simplified for the operator that it nears the point of perfection.

Push-button tuning, which was | now a

introduced last season. is universal feature on the new sets. Where it was only available in the higher-priced models last year, it is

now offered in small table sets and |

automobile radios. The junior models contain a range of six sta-

, tions on the push-button control. EW YORK, July 6.—The 1938which |

the set without any wire connecThe buttons are set to the stations | tions. This remote control box is not most frequently dialed by the lis- | connected to the set by wire. It tener, who then only has to press | can be carried about the house by

the indicator button for a par- | the operator and has a working ticular station.

| range of 150 feet. One of the new models has a| The new time-tuning control piano keyboard arrangement of | makes it possible to set your radio push buttons along the upper front | tr any of five stations for 15-

edge of the cabinet. They can be | minute periods during the on-

| operated from either a sitting or | tire day at one operation. Once set,

the control turns your radio on ‘4 4 and off at the indicated periods. OWEVER, three different new | The control resembles a stock marH refinements prevail in the lat. | ket board. It is divided into two est models. They are Philco’s| 12-hour periods of quarter hours. “mystery control,” General Electric's | One operation and your entire day's time-tuning control and Philco’s | tuning problems are solved. repeating phonograph record player | The record repeater makes it in one of its combination sets. possible to play a recording over The “mystery control” is a small | and over again, without having to remote control unit that operates | reset the playing arm.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Queer-Acting Cows and a Youthful Prankster Were Responsible for a Witch Scare Here in Indianapolis.

HEN there was the story—told me by an octogenarian when I was a boy—of a woman, a Mrs. George Myers, who practiced witchcraft in Indianapolis. As I first heard the story, it began with

the woman’s husband, a potter by trade, who arrived in Indianapolis, in the fall of 1821, and set up shop at the corner of Maryland St. and Capitol Ave, where the Liberty Building now stands. To save my

life, I can’t remember whether his wife came with him, or whether he found her after he got here. It doesn't much matter. Today's little piece has nothing whatever to do with Mr. Myers’ courtship. Indeed, it has nothing to do with his life. Quite the contrary, today's story starts with Mr. Myers’ death. Seems that as soon as Mr. Myers died, the natives around here

got it into their heads that his

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| widow was a real-for-sure witch. It

came to light when the people in that part of town noticed that their cows were acting funny. The be witched cows either gave no milk or the milk would not churn to any purpose. The octogenarian who first told me the story said “the butter would not come.”

Well, as time went on and nobody did anything

| about it, the widow, of course, had everything her own

way, with the result that the persecuted cows were not. only short of milk, but also developed ‘‘hollow horn,” “tail worm,” and I don’t know what all. Ewen the calves looked funny with no future ahead of them, unless, perchance, it was that of a circus sideshow or a dime museum. In every case the seat of the troue ble could be traced to the Widow Myers. By this time, remedies were applied, consisting partly of incanta=tion and partly of medicine, but they didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Jail Sentence Wouldn't Help

Just about the time the cows were at their worst, a boy by the name of Catlin living at Alabama and Washington Sts. started acting just the way the cows did. All fingers pointed straight at Widow Myers. At this stage somebody suggested that we ought to have a witchcraft trial to get at the bottom of the trouble. He pointed out that if we had witches around here we certainly ought to get rid of them—maybe not by burning them at the stake, he went on to say, but by locking them up in jail. Which, of course, was an absurdity, as somebody else pointed out, because if Mrs. Myers living at Maryland St. and Capitol Ave, could bewitch a boy living at Alabama and Washinge ton Sts., she could do the same locked up in a jail. I don't know where the thing would have ended had not Dr. John L. Richmond, pastor of the Baptist Church, gone to see the Catlin boy and tricked him into a confession. The boy said he had been bluffing all the time, but it was a lot of fun while it lasted. On top of this, Mrs. Myers died. Then it turned out that the cows kept on acting just as funny as they did when Mrs. Myers was alive.

Jane Jordan—

Those Unable to Curb a Gambling Desire Lack Courage, Jane Holds.

EAR JANE JORDAN—My fiance has a group of boy friends whom he runs with on nights that he doesn't come to see me. He likes to play cards, He doesn’t play for much, but it could become a habit and get worse. I gave up something for him which I like very much and I think it only fair that he should give up something, too. He'll play cards and then won't have any money left that we could spend to go somewhere, Naturally we go out and have a very good time when he has money. He is so weak that he can’t resist the temptation, I guess. If I went to parties where there were other boys without dates, he would get angry and quit coming to see me. I hate to waste my young life sitting at home so he can play his eards. Please give me your advice. X. v.27 ” o N

Answer—Your objections to your fiance's behavior are perfectly legitimate. Not only is he losing money which could better be spent on your mutual entertainment but he shows no disposition to save something toward the home you hope to have together some day. A few card games may seem harmless enough to him, but the fact that he continues to play in the face of his losses indicates a fault in his personality which should give you pause. He who cannot curb his desire to gamble must be suspected of a childish belief in magic. He gambles in the vain hope of getting something for nothing, When he loses then he gambles again to recoup what he has lost. His expectations of winning something he doesn't work for are completely infantile. Back of these childish expectations live a shaky ego unsure of itself and low in self-esteem. A courageous person attacks the problem of earning a living on a realistio basis. He will work tirelessly for months and years at a task and see to it that he is adequately paid for his work. He expects no contributions from others, Only a childish personality leans on luck. I should say that your boy friend has a poor pre= paration for marriage. I do not know what you can do to reform him. However, you aren't obliged to sit at home and waste your young life, as you put it, while he gambles away his earnings. You can get up and go out with others whether he likes it or not. Your determination to do so either will bring him face to face with his inadequacies in a constructive way or it will estrange him from you. After all if you lose an incipient gambler, are you losing much? JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. 4

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