Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1938 — Page 13

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Only Millionaires Usually Welcome To Tour Van Sweringen Estate, but The Bankers Let Ernie in Anyway.

(CLEVELAND, July 22.— Nearly everybody in America has heard of the Van Sweringens. The two bachelor brothers who built up a great railroad empire and who died just as it was toppling around their heads. Their home a few miles east of Cleveland is one of this country’s most remarkable places. It is a 800-acre kingdom million dollars. It took scores of emplovees to keep it going. Relativeiy few people have seen the Van Sweringen estate It i= now in the hands of a hank. and unless you've cot at least a million dollars burning vour pockets the bank prohably won't let you in I visited the place. however. with the editor and managing editor of The Cleveland Press. We had to have a letter from the bank, and the caretaker had to check our letter with orders from the bank before he'd let us in I've got to be awful careful you know,” he said. But once he was satisfied. he certainly gave us the works. We were there two hours. The caretaker a Mr. Dow Jenkins, in overalls. He has been there 14 years, and is as nice a guy as you've ever onto. Just he and his wife and children live in this vast house The whole place is as it was when the Van Sweringens died Nothing has been changed or emoved—axcept several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of paintings and a voung city of telephones There was a3 portrait worth $£100.000. Jenkins mentioned others, the being £30.000 Az for the telephones running into the house big private switchboard mansion now That's a party line

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of Ay lowest there were 43 trunk lines and a corps of operators at There iz only one phone in the Mr. Jenkins, and he's on Just inside nd green

room. Wit

the front door are two ship's lights And to the right is the colossal livh a ship model on the mantel as big rowboat The rcom is so big I could hardly ball across it. The Van Sweringens called ship recom.”

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nake a tour of the bedrooms. There must hep Fresh linen on every bed. Heat turned winter. Bathrooms ready to use. Mr. Jenkins

turned on the water in one

Gee,” we said, “hot water, too Mr. Jenkins said. Sure, you gotta have hot water.” Mr Jenkins sleeps around here and there, wherever the fancy strikes him Gradually we got into the colossal-bedroom departmen I don’t believe there was a one less than 50 fe ual You never saw such space and luxury. But a dozen or more like this. It unbelievable. The Van Sweringens picked t almost the worst bedroom of the lot. Both the same room, in ordinary twin beds. We finally finished the bedrooms and went back to the first floor. Mr, Jenkins took us into a small library, bookish and leathery. with a double desk n the middle Heres where Mr. Jenkins, It wa T™ \ On

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(Continped Tomorrow)

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Workers Today Are More Interested Education, First Lady Thinks.

YDE PARK. N. Y., Thursday.—That was a most serious meeting yesterday. It could not be called a partv. Directors of workers’ education came from 28 cities and states, with Miss Hilda Smith and Dr. Alderman present. We sat down around the big table in Miss Cook's living room and one by one they told their experiences and problems in various local-

me ities There was a time when the difficulty of any proaram of this kind lay in getting pupils. I remember that vears ago I served on the educational committee nf the Women's Trade Union League and we used to discuss at length how to interest young people in education. Most prospective pupils have worked eight hours durinz the dav. They have traveled to and from work and still have to get home after their classes, which held in the evening In fact, the directors told me some of the steel workers have classes at 2:30 a m. when they come off the night shift! It takes more preparation and different technique of teaching to conduct these classes and the subjects, course, range over a wide field—English, parliamentary law, economics, and history. Findinz adequately trained teachers is always an !mportant part of the problem But the old difficulty of interesting pupils seems to have faded. because all the discussion yesterday centered around the ability to meet the demands of classes. There never was a time, I think, when people realized more fully the need for greater knowledge. It is not only because it has a bearing on their own economic situation, but because it makes a difference in their undersianding of general conditions in the world.

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Important to Democracy

From my point of view this particular phase of adult education is most important to democracy. It develops an ability to read and to reason, to listen to other peoples viewpoints and to discuss questions hefore making deeisions. This is valuable enough in relations between individuals. but in employer and emplovee relations and in international understandings it will mean a great step toward reasonand peaceful zettlement of many disputes was =n much interested, the other dav. to three of our Junior Literarv Guild books ronsidered for Newbery medal this that one of them had won it “The White g.” by Kate Seredv was the winner. but Mabel Robinson's “Bright Island” and James Cloyd Bowwere first and second runners-up must give Miss Ferris, the editor-in-chief, great <pticfaction te know that the choices made for the cuild are conisdered so good by people outside our own board

see had

the vear

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 22.—I want'a tell writin’ business ain't as easy as I thought it was gonna be. Every once in a while I get a letter from a reader that got an entirely differnt meaning from my article from what I intended. You can't jest keep writin’ day in and day out without bein’ misunderstood by somebody. I knew a natural born poet who us’ta get out alone and find himself without any notebook or paper put when he got an inspiration, he jest had'ta write his poem down on somethin’. One dav he got a note from his washerwoman that said “My husband is very jealous and I'm gonna have'ta give up doing your washing if you don't gnit writin’ poems on your cuffs.” (Copvright, 1938)

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Second Section

Czechoslovakia—A Future Belg

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FRIDAY, JULY 1938

Entered. as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis

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at Postoffice

Potential Cockpit of Europe Is Republic Born in Pittsburgh

(First of a Series)

By Max Stern Times Spectal Writer 7 ASHINGTON, July —Ties of both szentiment and business, as well as concern at the possibilitv of bloodshed. are causing the U. S. A. to look with growing concern on events that are putting Czechoslovakia on the spot. Few Americans recall that this polyglot republic was founded in Pittsburgh, and that her Declaration of Independence was issued in Washington. It happened just 20 years ago. The late and revered Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, father and first president of Czechoslovakia. fugitive from Bohemia. which until the World War ended was part of old Austria-Hungary. He came to America. Russias and the Far East, to seek our indorsement of his dream of an independent nation of Czechs end Slovaks after three centuries of alien rule, It was frem the home of a compatriot in Pittsburgh that he negotiated the Czecho-Slovak unity agreement. Then he came !0 Washington to “sell” Woodrow Wilson on his dream. Locking himself in a hotel room for weeks. he read Wilson's writings and prepared his manifesto. When he finally presented the document to Wilson, the latter was impressed to read in it many citations from his own writings as justification for Dr. Masarvks claims to Czecho-Slovak freedom and national self-determination. He had little trouble getting Wilson's and later the Allies’ approval and our own recognition of the Czechoslo-

vak National Council as the de facto government.

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» » HE Czech Declaration of Independence of Oct. 18. 1918. breathed the same aspirations as our own Declaration. It pledged the new republic to give equa! rights to minorities, whose u terests were to be safeguarded by proportional representation It praised “the principles of Lincoln’ and promised that “the Czechoslovak state shall be a r2public in constant endeavor for progress.” Until Dr. Masaryk retired in 1935. and under his successor. President Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia has tried te live up to its pledges Under its rwo scholarly presidents Czechoslovakia has instituted land ieforms, built schocls for free education, kept its budg=t balanced and maintained a favorable balance of trade. It has a parliamentary form pf government. universal suffrage. a socialsecurity system, and, in spite of its many racial minorities. it has protected civil rights. It has had

Cites New Flood

you this

Control Methods

By Science Service

ALT LAKE CITY. July 22.—The West's problem of flood control and water conservation differs markedly from the problems of the East. it was reported to meetings of the American Society of Civil Engineers here. Popular solution of the flood problem in the East is to undertake extensive plantings on the watersheds of streams and thus ease the flow during flood periods. said Luther M. Winsor. U. 8. Agriculture Department engineer Water is so scarce in some parts of the West judgment to keep mountain tops The Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, said Mr. Winsor, has developed a system eof controlling floods in the West and making torrential streams drop their deposits

it up on the

of silt where they will do the most i

good.

that it would be poor.

| MuGE CEMENT BLOCKS STUD ROADS FROM GERMANY AND POLAND. NO TRUCKE OR TANKS COULD PAse,

GZECH "MAGINOT LINE, UNBROMEN UNDERGROUND CHAIN OF 1000 LmLe FORTS CONNECTED BY TUNNELS COULD HOUSE 250.000 SOLDERS,

LINES AGAINST GERMAN ATTACKS

HANGARS, AIRDROMES AT STRATEGIC POINTS

[ HIGH TENSION CHARGED

BVE-EOLD RARBED wile CHAIN ALONG ENTIRE FRONTIEQ.,

GREAT QUANTITIES OF FOOD, WAR MATERIALS STORED IN SUBTERRANEAN CASEMENT

Oo BUDAPEST

STEEL GATES SPRING FROM CROUND 10 BLOCK ENEMY APCROACH ise

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CAMOUFLAGED TANK TRAPS, PLANTED WITH MINES, AT 200-YARD INTERVALS .»

IN CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS 30,000 MEN RUTH COMPLETION OF RAIL = ROAD EXTENDING THROUGH RUMANIA “TO FRIENDLY RUSSIA

HEAVY ARTILLERY AND RANGE FINDING GUNS OPERATED FQOM BENEATH SURFACE.

Here's the situation in Czechoslovakia as another major crisis seems imminent because of Sudeten German disapproval of the Government effort to compromise the “racial minorities” problem. There have been warnings that any effort to impose the plan would create a “dangerous situation”—meaning possible invasion of Czechoslovakia by Germany to “protect the rights” of Czechoslovakians of German extraction. The map shows how the hardy Czechs would meet any such invasion. The little republic's 2500 -mile frontier—touching hostile territory all the way areund except for 150 miles hordering friendly Ru-mania-—is heavily and cleverly fortified. Military experts believe that despite the comparatively small size

Crashing through barhed wire entanglements, Czech soldiers are pictured as they simuiate a wartime charge in the maneuvers at Eger. Thousands of troops were massed in the region.

no Communist uprisings and—so far—no revolutionary putsches. Dr. Masaryk. one of the greatest European statesmen to emerge from the "World War, was the son of a coachman and a cook and he began work as a blacksmith boy. He educated himself and eventually became a distinguished professor, since recognized as “the finest intellect of the century.” honest as Washington, democratic as Jackson, and humane as Lincoln. He married an American woman whom he met as a student in Leipzig. Last year he died, at 87. Economically. Czechoslovakia is closer to the United States than most of the other Balkan countries. We sell her cotton. copper, oil. fruit and machinery. We buy from her shoes. toys, beer, cotton fabrics. glassware. imitation jewelry. flax and hemp. In 1933 we exported $27.000.000 worth of goods to her and bought $25,000,000 worth. Only recently the State Department concluded a reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia.

NEXT—A Glimpse at Czechoslovakia Today.

of the Czechoslovakian Army, any invasion across the three defensive lines built by the Czechs would be made at heavy cost. If the border were crossed, the first defense stand would be made about 40 miles inside the border mountains in a lovely region of idyllic mountain meadows. The next stand would be made 100 miles farther inland. and the third line of defense runs still farther east, along the Vaag River in territory where the population is more purely Czech, The Czech Army, though comparatively small in manpower, is one of Europe's best-armed and equipped forces. with a splendid military tradition and a thorough training. Military experts agree that while it might be possible for Germany to overrun Czechoslovakia as it did Austria, a terrible price would have te be paid.

Lined up on the firing step of a trench at Eger, only fwo miles from the German border. Czech soldiers are pictured as they practice defense against Nazi invasion during army maneuvers.

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Ind

By Anton Scherrer

Here's Hoping Historians Remember Thursday, Aug. 9, 1900, a Great Day for the Men of Indianapolis.

[AM scribbling today’s piece in the hope that when the authoritative history of Indianapolis is written, somebody, possibly unborn as vet. will see fit to celebrate Thursday, Aug. 9, 1900. That was the frightfully hot day (F. 103 in front of Huder's Drug Store) that Robert (Bob) Martindale picked to peel his coat and walk through the streets of Indianapolis as unashamed and collected as Lady Godiva. 1% was a turning point in history not only because it marked the start of men going coatless around here, but because it put an end to the boiled bosom shirt. Mr. Martindale went forth that memorable morning dressed in a pink and white shirtwaist, his pants and a straw sailor hat. Besides that, he wore the baby-pink complexion with which he was born. It proved just the right shade to go with the outfit. Everybody turned his head to see the symphony in pink as Mr. Martine dale walked coolly and complacently from Ohio St. down Pennsylvania St., and west on Washington St. to Illinois St., where for some reason, the parade came to a dead stop. A lot of things happened, however, before Mr, Martindale reached that point. At Hurty's corner, for instance, Jimmy, the newsboy, hardly knowing whether to believe his eyes, took a chance and yelled: “Hully gee, pipe the fat guy with a pink shirt and no coat!” Mr. Martindale ignored the remark and went his way, secure in the belief that he was on the right track. He knew he was on the right track

Mr. Scherrer

| when a moment later two ladies, possibly mother and

daughter, passed him in front of the Denison. Said the daughter: “I Jove a brave man.” Said the mother: “If your father had half of that man’s gumption, maybe he'd amount to something.”

The Parade Grows

Treading air all the way, Mr. Martindale landed

| in front of the postoffice, then at Market and Penn-

i i | {

| Attorney Herod, and peeled his coat

svlvania Sts.. at which point he ran into Alvin Lockard and W. Pirtle Herod. “Gosh, that settles it,” said Mr. Lockard followed suit. The three coatless men (two of them carrying their coats over their arms) retraced their steps. entered the Denison bar, and celebrated their emancipation with mint juleps. Inside of 10 minutes Arthur Smith and Ed Bingham turned up. They peeled their coats, too. Hoisted a couple of mint juleps also. That made four converts, and by the time the parade got started again and arrived at the Bates House, Indianapolis had more than a dozen coatless men on its streets. Next day there were twice as many converts. That's when somebody noticed the vast difference between a man in shirt sleeves and Mr. Martindale's get-up, Mr. Martindale's shirt, for instance, didn't have a collar button showing in the back of his neck. More= over, he wore a turn-down collar which, like the cuffs, was an integral part of his shirt, showing that Mr, Martindale had given the subject of summer attire considerable more thought than anybody else around here. As a matter of fact, Mr. Martindale's historic shirt wasn’t a bit different than men wear now, except that nobody today has the courage or the complexion to wear Mr. Martindale's shade of pink.

Jane Jordan—

Wife Should Treat Mate With Bad

Temper as She Would Sulking Child.

D2" JANE JORDAN-—I have a husband who 13 fine as can be in every wav but one. I fear that

| if he allows this one fault to grow it will wreck our

| marriage.

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KNOWLEDGE

1—Which country lies north of Belgium? 2-—-What is an optophone? 3—1Is a fraction a number? 4—-What is irrigation? 5~—Name the pugilist who recently tried to regain the world’s heavyweight boxing championship 6-—In the U. 8. generally month? 7—What was the number of the Rainbow Division of the American U, 3, Army in the World War?

”n on oy Answers

1—The Netherlands. 2An instrument by means of which the blind can read ordinary printed matter. 3—No, it is part of a number. 4—The watering of land by artificial means to increase crop production. 5—=Max Schmeling. 6-—June. T—Forty-second Division.

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He has a vile temper excuse him because his employment been very unsteady for the past six months However, I haven't had such an easy time of it myself. He flies into a rage at nothing and pouts for several days. For instance, I dropped a plate of my best set of dishes the other day and broke it. “Why didn’t you hold on to it?” he yelled, “I could kick you!” I apologized, telling him that I didn’t do it on purpose. That was several days ago and he is still angry. I could relate other episodes, none of which worth quarreling over, If I tell him he owes me an apology he is sarcastio and says, “Oh well, if it will make you feel any better I'm sorry.” Although I love him it is a terrific strain for me to live with him, yet I do not believe in separation unless it is the only possible way out, especially since we have a 3-year-old son whom we both love. If you can give me any advice I certainly would appreciate it. HEARTBROKEN.

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Answer—What would you do if vour son lost his temper over trifles? If you were a wise woman vou would withdraw the light of your approval without losing your own temper, and you would not contribute to his comfort by doing the dozens of little extra things which he takes as a matter of course. In other words you would simply banish him from the warmth of the family circle until he proved bv his behavior that he was willing to co-operate At first he would sulk for hour: or perhaps days but you would take no notice of his gloom. You wouldn't respond by a corresponding gloom but would be cheerfully absorbed in your own business. At the first sign of returning sociability on his part you would encourage him by moticing that he was still alive and be generous about accepting him back into the family. You would never try to reason with him while his temper was up. When he was calm you wouldn't hesitate to tell him that everybody has to put up with the disagreeable without going to pieces. However, vou would not prod him by cutting remarks and you wouldn't insist on an apology, which has no value whatever unless spontaneously given. In due time the wayward child would learn that a lack of self-control inevitably brought certain une favorable results whereas civilized conduct just as inevitably brought quite favorable results. Every child likes attention and will go to great lengths to get it. It is a lucky child who learns in the nursery that good behavior gets him plenty of attention and that bad behavior gets him nothing whatever. It is always regrettable when a person has to learn this fact after he is an adult. Can you see any difference hetween your husband's temper tantrums and those of any 3-year-old child? JANE JORDAN.

Put vaur problems in a letter tn Jane Jordan, who will answer vour amestion: in this column daily. |

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| Mrs. Armstrong's warm support of the relief program,

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