Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1938 — Page 11

"Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie Visits a Champagne Maker,

Hears of the 'Hoirible Condition’ In the U. S. and Decides to Leave.

DDLE BASS ISLAND, Lake Erie, Aug. = 4=You- take a speedboat from Put-in-Bay~”over to:Middle Bass Island. It takes you about five minutes. You're going over on a professional visit to the Lonz Wineries, to find out how champagne is made. You hope Mr. Lonz will be affakle, and take a few minutes to explain things. You walk a few feet from the dock to the huge

castle-like winery. But all the doors. are locked. So you timidly

span the vast sloping lawn and ap- |

proach the swide-porched & Lonz DN home. And before you know it heré is George Lonz out greeting you with a great boom, looking about 40 of his 51 years, tall in white trousers ‘ and sports shirt. And before you've got in two words Mrs. Lonz has you sitting down to lunch on the screened veranda, and George is leaning back Mr. Pyle ~/ in his chair making big wise-cracks, and even the maid is hurt that you don’t. eat more. George was born on the island. His father had the winery before him. It was started in 1866, and is * the oldest and largest in the whole island group. It is a family institution. ‘The winery owns many acres of vineyard on the island, and buys all the other grapes grown on Middle Bass. They make around 50,000 gallons of wine a year. It appears to me that a big vintner like George Lonz, leads a mighty nice life. They live comfortably, go to Europe, seem not to be busy. But I suppose as in most successful lives, there’s plenty of worry and work and thinking back of the. scenes. The fall and winter is the wine-maker’s busgseason. Things slack off in the summer, although there is of course much expensive spraying and planting to do. But there is time also to relax, and that’s what you do when you go to Middle Bass Island on a summer afternoon ta find out how théy make champagne. George and Fannie Lonz lead you up the wide wooden steps outside the .winery, to the top floor. And then you step into something that is fictionally European—one of the loveliest rathskellers you ever saw. The room is large. There are long tables, and round tables, and benches in nooks. Everything is in . heavy dark wood. The great chandeliers are made from the hoops of wine casks. Rare old jugs and containers sit on the mantel over the huge fireplace. The windows are staihed glass of: vineyard and German scenes. The grillwork is from an old iron fence. - In such a setting the Lonzes entertain their guests and. their friends. They are of that rare type who make business a pleasure. They entertain often, and enjoy it like schoolchildren. In defense of my p.ofessional integrity as a thorough reporter, I wish to say that I strove with constant zeal all afternoon to find out just what cham-

pagne is. . Cork-Popping Demonstrations Fail

Mr. Lonz explained the whole thing to me several times, to no avail. He tried other complicated means of getting the point over. He even worked the corks out of champagne bottles and let them pop clear across the room in his demonstrations. But I never - did understand. You start with grapes, and you end with champagne. That’s all I ever could make out of it. After hours of such futility, Mr. Lonz ‘changed the subject, and spoke of the horrible condition that prevails in this country as regards champagne drinking. It seems we don’t drink enough. Now in Germany, Hitler has put on a great cham-pagne-drinking campaign. As a result, Germans ran

their champagne consumption from 4,500,000 bottles in |

1033, clear up to 20,000,000 bottles in 1937. And what do you think we did here in the United States? With a population double that of Germany, we fools drank only 1,200,000 bottles of champagne last year. Oh, the disgrace of it! I cannot stand such a country. So tonight I shall say farewell to the United States (for a couple of weeks).

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Finally Able to Score Triumph Over Portable Typewriter.

ATCHOGUE, N. Y. Wednesday.—We are having beautiful weather. Yesterday it was warm and sunny but there was enough breeze so that driving was pleasant and sitting on the sun-porch, where I do my mail and write this column every day, was cool and peaceful. We hear only the drowsy insects’ hum and the usual farm noises, punctuated now and then by the dog’s bark as an occasional car goes by. There is no telephone in this house to disturb us and I know that I should be taking advantage of such unusual - peace to think out some really important problem. But even if I could, who would care? No, I had ‘better vegetate and do my knitting and enjoy a rare opportunity to take part in some of the daily tasks which form the pattern of most women’s lives. Incidentally, I have achieved a personal triumph. 1 never could use my portable typewriter without producing practically unreadable copy because under my inept fingers spaces, which had no busines to be there, appeared in every word. Yesterday I “caught on” and, while I am still the world’s slowest typist, at least the result is readable. The mountaineer craftsmen, from West Virginia, have again sent Mrs. Maule out to exhibit and sell _ their wares. I have a special interest in them because their factory is in Arthurdale. I heard that they “would be at the Orchard Tearoom in Coram, Long Is-. land, for a few days, so I asked my hostess if she could arrange to see the sale. Yesterday noon we . drove to the middle country road and not only saw the sale going on but enjoyed an excellent lunch. The house is some 200 years old and therefore interesting in itself. The lady who runs the tearoom has been in business for years and is a good cook. Her orange layer cake melts in your mouth.

“Keep to the Right”

Berea, the Churchill Weavers, the Brassknocker School and other places have sent some of their wares out with those of ‘the mountaineer craftmen, so there is" a variety of furniture, pewter, copper, tin and ironwork, together with woven and knitted goods from which to choose. We returned in time to write a few letters before going to dine with some friends. This is a big island and our friends live some distance away, but we enjoyed ourselves. Even though my hostess had been up since 6 a. m. she hated to tear herself away. Homeward bound, I dozed until she announced: “You had better talk to me or I shall go to sleep at the wheel.” I talked inanely, as one does when commanded to converse. Suddenly I had to say sternly: “If you don't keep to the right we will run into those trucks.” As it was, we gave them none too much room. A few minutes later she remarked calmly: “Funny, nearly hitting those trucks didn’t wake me up.” However, we reached home without further excitement.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 4.—If I can’t say somethin’ nice about a person, I usually keep my mouth ' shut. Some folks, though, jest won't let you keep quiet. They keep fishin’ for a compliment until a fella hasta say somethin’ to be polite. Did’ja ever get caught in a situation like that and say somethin’ you thought was nice only to have it bounce back and skin your own knuckles? For instance, my aunt was fishin’ around and said to Uncle Slug, “I'm pretty tired of hearin’ you complain aboiit my relations. Can’t you think of anything nice to say about them?” Uncle Slug Hovghss ih ; te and said, “Well—yes one thing

VV ASHIN GTON, Aug. 4. : —The recommenda‘tion made at the recent

meeting that the Federal Social Security Act be amended ‘is the latest of numerous proposals to overhaul the statute. A committee of the bar

“ineptly . drawn” and re-

ation of the act seems de-

sirable.”

“The most important respect in which it should be amended,” the committee reported, “is. by the elimination or the present socalled old-age\reserve account, the substitution of a pay-as-you-go policy, and the requirement that sums- collected under the act. be earmarked and set aside solely for the purpose of the act.”

Broadening of the scope of the

health insurance and ‘wide expansion of the public health services already provided under the act were recommended ‘in a plan submitted to the National Health Conference here July 18 by a technical .committee on medical .care composed of Government officials. The committee’s program called for an outlay of $850,000,000 a year

ernments for 10 years.

the program would be devoted largely to expansion of general public ‘health services, expansion of hospital facilities, and provision of medical care for the indigent. 8 =» f J E proposed health insurance system would cover self-

“involve chiefly a revision of present methods of making certain expenditures, rather than increase in these expenditures.” Such a system would provide insurance against the cost of medical care and against loss of wages during sickness. Medical care insurance would be financed through taxation, through specific contributions from potential beneficiaries of the insurance system, or through both methods. Wage - loss insurance would be tied in with existing unemployment and old-age insurance systems. . Josephine Roche, chairman of the health conference, said that the technical committee's program would be submitted .fo Congress at the next session. public a telegram from Senator

the Social Security Act, pledging his support. In a statement last February, Senator Wagner said that “social insurance against the ‘hazards of sickness is the next logical and I believe, inevitable step for this country in its program of security for the people.” When he signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935, Presi-

“cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete.” No changes have been made in the act during the last three years, but the Administration is now preparing a comprehensive schedule of amendments to be proposed to the next Congress. President Roosevelt opened the way for thorough overhauling of the act when he wrote to Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board last April that “we should be constantly seeking to perfect and strengthen it in the light of our accumulating experience and growing appreciation of social needs.” Suggesting several specific changes; President Roosevelt asked the Board to study the problem of revising the law and submit its recommendations before the new Congress meets if January. # f 2 2

Security Board to give particular attention to the “development of a sound plan for liberaliz-

Accordingly, the Board is studying the possibility of extending the coverage of the system, pay-

American Bar Association .

association said the act is

ported that a “reconsider-- ;

Social Security Act to embrace

by Federal, State and local gov:

Expenditures contemplated under

supporting groups only and would

She made Wagner (D. N. Y.), coauthor of .

dent {Roosevelt described it as the ’

HE President asked the Social

ing the old-age insurance system.”

The vast: record.insurang have to Act be sibility

‘enlarged should

ing initial benefits earlier than the scheduled date of Jan. 1, 1942, increasing monthly benefits above the present $10 minimum, provid-

ing .supplementary. benefits . for 5

dependents of insured workers, and several other ~ proposed changes. © A large part of the ‘country’s wage-earning population — ahout 38 millien persons—is already covered by the old-age insurance system. The Social Security Board is at present studying the possibility

of extending the system to include

nearly 17 million persons not now eligible for insurance accounts. Most, of the workers in this group originally were excluded because of anticipated ‘administrative difficulties.

The President recommended last December that seamen and ‘bank employees be brought into the system, and this Sesommentajion was reiterated by the Advisory Council on Social Security in February. Addition of these two groups. would increase the total coverage by about 600,000 persons. This proposal to bring seamen within the insurance system has. been approved by the United States Maritime Commission and by most of the maritime unions, while the proposal to include bank em-

- ployees-has been ‘approved by the:

American Bankers Association. Employees of national - banks, state-bank members of the Federal Reserve System, and members of. the Federal Home Loan Bank System are not now eligible for insurance because these institutions are technically Federal instrumentalities and the act doés not cover Government employees. ” » 2

XTENSION of old-age insur- “ ance to the 670,000 employees of nonprofit religious, charitable and educational institutions was recommended by the Advisory Council last April. In the Council’s belief, “there is no justification in social policy for the ex-

clusion of the employees. of such .

organizations,” since their inclusion. would present “no special administrative difficulties.”

Nonprofit organizations Warn or-

iginally excepted from the system because of the fear that ‘participation might jeopardize their privilege of tax exemption. Domestic: servants, agricultural laborers and self-employed workers represent the largest group not now eligible for old-age insurance.

The total number in these classi= _ fications is estimated at 15,500,000

persons, including : 2,100,000 . domestics, 2,800,000 agricultural la-

borers and 10,600,000 farmers and

other self-employed , workers.

The Advisory Council asked the

Social Sécurity Board to provide

' data by Sept. 15 on possible meth-,

ods of bringing under the system this group, originally excluded because of anticipated administrative difficulties. It is now believed that these difficulties could be minimized through the use of a stamp system such as is widely

keeping system : division of the Social Security. Administration probably would proposed amendments: to the opted. The Social a1. Security. ‘Board now. is studying the: posextending the system, which now covers. about 38. siliioh . persons, ‘to include nearly 17 million ‘more. It has been: recommended :

Revising the Social §

Hea Ith I nsurance. Provision and Change in » Financia

necessary. in’ the old-age

Social Security

‘Broadening of the scope of the Social Security Act to embrace health insurance and wide expansion. of - the public - health service has been ‘ pro-

300,000 annually,” for- which: inter- ;

fel. in European * ‘social ‘insurance plans. “The! most; “controversial feature

of the Federal old-age insui¥ance °

system and the one which drew the - bar’ associavion’s fire is the reserve fund device by which it is to be: financed: 8 88

NDEB. the present plan, taxes collected - for. old-age insur- °

ance are paid into the general

fund of the Treasury. Although J

not required by the Social Secur-

ity: Act, to- do So; Congress is e%:

pected ‘each year to appropriate amounts equivalent to - the - pro-

ceeds of these taxes for payment.

into an’ old-age. reserve account. The act. authorizes investment of ‘reserve; funds in special - Federal securities bearing 3 per cent inter-

est. The moneys: realized from

the issuance-of these speeial se-

curities to reserve account: are. to - be used by the: Treasury in the.

same manner: as moneys, realized

from the sale of: other Govern- .

ment securities. It is estimated that- the. reserve fund will amount to 47 billion dollars in 1980, The. interest-on the money accumulated is: expected to finance 40 per. cent. of the .oldage annuities, the remainder .being paid out of ‘current .rec@ipts from ° old-age taxes. Without taking into account future extensions of ‘the coverage of the’ system, it is estimated that annuities payable in 1980 will etal $3,511 ,-

: keep straight clients’ reco! . -ployees of the Svision. At the right is-one of the Supligtal 8 machines used in marking .

+ should be made‘ at: Council declared ‘that oh “mem- _ bers “are :of. the opinion: that. the, . present provisions ‘regarding the investment: of . the moneys in the

that seamen; bank ‘om ployees and self-employed workers be of the aisles of" “indexes cover 1

Shorea. as. Second-Class. Matter at ‘Postothice. Indisnspolls. Ind.

Our Town

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By Anton Scherrer

* Women Looking Worried Today Noh Because of Roosevelt ‘or Landon, But Because of These "Doll's Hats."

AYBE you, too, - have noticed ‘the harassed and worried look of Indians

od .apolis, women in the last two years.

Well, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has

pe) nothing to do with\it, no matter what some

domestic servants, agrioultural laborers rought under the act. At the left is one ‘almost an acre of floor space ‘which . The- clerks are among ‘the

social ‘sect ity cards.

est payments on the. investment

“in the reserve. fund will ‘provide

$1,406,000,000. :

Proposals looking to. abandon- ;

ment of ‘the: reserve fund - device

' were offered at the last session of ~ Congress. Expressing’ his belief ©

that a’ reduction -in the: rate of existing old-age insurance” taxes

‘would provide a needed stimulus

to business,’ Senator Vandenburg

(R. Mich.) wrote to the Social’

Security Board requesting - a Te-. port from the:Advisory-Council on

the feasibility. of such tax retduc“I .do not- need to. reiterate -

tion.

my own view. that: the load.

‘can be safely lightened, still leaving the pension’ system on a sound ; * getuarial basis, if: we." frankly

abandon 'the: needless full reserve system ahd. ‘proceed on. a. pay-as-

you-go basis with a Senunging Tes:

serve only, ‘he’ said. ur . wl

T= Advisory, Courieil eid 7 the :opihion. that no. reduc-.. the - current tax. rate

tion in The

old-age. reserve: ‘account. do: not; in-

volve any misuse of these moneys or endanger : ithe safety’ of. these © funds.” ‘A survey: ‘of. the operation of’ the

unemployment, compensation sys-

fem set up under the Sacial Se-

acd, Such a tem it is rt out, “would provide insurance against the cost of operations, such as the’ one pletured here, and other medical: expenses.

curity Act was undertaken by: the Board late in June in order to lay

“the groundwork - for. revision .of-

stdte unemployment: insurance laws: and of state administrative . methods. Recommendations ‘based on. this study are scheduled tobe completed by September. understood, ‘however, ‘that no changes in the: basic structure-of the’ unemployment Sompensation system will be: propose - Although the Jose oii Administration has indicated no dis--satisfaction with the fundamental

“character of the unemployment

‘compensation system, many leading. students .of social .insurance “are-convinced that the systemiis unsound and must ultimately be revised. - These critics: favor abandonment of the tax-offset device (imder “which ‘employers . receive credit -up to 90: per cent-of their : Federal D for similar contribu- _ tions .paid under. a state unemployment insurance. law) and substitution either of a completely

Federal system of unemployment’.

insurance or of a Federal-State

system employing the grants-in-

aid device. It .is contended that the taxcredit plan’ increases ‘administrative = costs : by necessitating the

- duplication of the Federal payroll tax: in every. state, fails fo: set |

adequate standards for state legis-

lation; makes no provisien for ‘mi--

*gratory “workers, and. fails. to:

“equalize benefits in poor rand

wealthy states.

It is.

Side Glances—By

Everyday Movies—By- Wortman

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| 2—What

T EST YO u R KNOWLEDGE

1 What are the pigment prima: :

- ry col the state flower . of Ohio?

3—Name the European explorer

‘who discovered the mouth of ‘the Mississippi River.

4—What-is a monoplane?

5—Who won the 1938 British - Open golf championship?

"6—Which is the leading cattle-

raising state in the.U. S.?

t| 7—what Strait is at the south-

ern tip of South America?

| ln a naturalized American

citizen eligible for the U. S. Sena : wis 2 82.8

Answers: Hei

| 1—Yellow, blue and. od.

: Te An sirpane with o one. pale of : 3 Regina A Whitcombe. . Tosti of. Magellan.

‘men say. Indeed I'll go so far as to hazard a guess that even Mr. Landon couldn't have prevented the worried look of our women, provided, of course,

Mr. ‘Landon had been elected in the first place. 2 mention Mr. Landon rather than . ‘Mr. Hoover because the worried look of Indianapolis ‘women didn’t really make its appearance until Mr. Roosevelt’s second term. The worried look of Indianapolis women, if you've ever taken the pains to examine: it, leaves its imprint on two features of the face. Either it takes the shape of three Jee poricental ridges that run completely across a woman's brow, - ; or it leaves its mark in the form of Mr. Scherrer two deep vertical ridges planted squarely. above, the nose. In both cases it looks like the dickens and gives a woman a kind of scared look as if she were dodging something. The funny part about it is that a lot of women, who I have every reason to. believe aren't afraid of anything in this world, have that disturbing, worried look—a look which, for some reason, the men don’t seem to have. Not ‘even those men who, goodness knows, ought to be worrying about something. That, of course, exonerates the President because it stands to reason that if Mr. Roosevelt had anything to do with it, the men of Indianapolis couldn’t help having the same worried look the women have. I hope that’s clear. Which brings me to the point of

- today’s - piece, nately that the reason women have

that worried look and men don’t is because men wear hats and women don’t, unless, of course, you let your imagination run wild and call a “doll’s hat” a legiti« ‘mate form of headgear. Believe_me, the newfangled “doll’s. hat” is. the reason women look so worried today. I know what I'm talking about because I was brought up in the Floradora Period (circa 1897) when all the happy ‘women wore big brimmed hats and all the unhappy ones wore bonnets with no brims at all. Sure, the brimless bonneted women had the same worried - look our women have today.

Battling About Bonnets

Gosh, those were the aays. I still remember the

| night back in the Floradora Period when the Hat . Ordinance was up for passage in the City Council.

. Councilman Montgomery, the author of the bill, made 8 ripsnorting, speech in the course of which he made it pretty plain that it was a crime to wear a hat—any

| kind of a hat—in a theater. Immediately, Councilman

Cooper came to the defense of the bonnet. He said he was a. friend of women who wanted to wear bone ‘nets and not. expose their heads. Whereupon Counci.« man O’Conner said he was a friend of the baldhead=d man and believed a little black skull cap would obs re no one’s view. It didn’t do a bit of good, though ‘ir, ‘Montgomery had everything his own way, and M -~or Taggart signed the bill. Maybe you don’t know it ut even to this day they can stick you in jail foo “0

hours if they catch you wearing ‘a skull cap iu a ; theater,

1 Jane lorden—

Tells Woman, 65, She Has Earned Right to Try for Peaceful Life,

PEAR JANE JORDAN--I am a woman 65 years old. In raising my 11 children I have had no time to think of my own. happiness. My husband was very selfish and cruel and it was a struggle to bring up my children. After 43 years I can stand it no longer. I've thought of leaving before, but I couldn’t because of the children. Now I have a chance for my own hap- ~ piness with an old sweetheart. My children resent it because it would mean divorcing their father. Do you think it would be worth it after all these years? ° : i MOTHER OF ELEVEN. ® 8 8 \

Answer—After 43 years spent in the service of 13 other people I should think you could sign your own declaration of independence if you chose. I can’ tell you whether it will be worth it or not. Surely you are too mature a ‘woman to be deceived by the blandishments of a man. At your age you've lost faith in a perfect relationship between two human beYou know by now that no two people live together without occasional tension... In fact all life is made up of alternate tensions and their release. If all you want is a peaceable life, you certainly have earned the right to try for it.

Your children are too old to be seriously damaged by divorce. I imagine that it strikes them as ridicue lous that: their mother wants to divorce their father and marry another man at 65. They object to the snickers of other people more than the actual separa= “tion ‘of their parents. Well, what have they to suge gest asia substitute for a mother in revolt? If your children think you are behaving, foolishly, and for all I know they may be right, let them inquire into the reasons for your wish to make a change yand_see that some of the provocation is removed. I . ‘can’t believe that you're madly in love or: that you feel life would be a dreary waste ‘without: this one man. Isn't it just that you're looking for a peaceful old age with a modicum of security between you and the wolf, and that you simply don’t see any other way ‘of getting it except by marrying he man who wants you? £ JANE JORDAN.

Put your blems 1 . Teller to Jane Jorda whe } answer ros vesbins tn © this Column daily. ny wn od

New Books Today

wo Indiana educators have written a book in am effort to demonstrate that the natural law of survival of the fittest in the multiple hazards of a mechanistic’ civilization can be tempered by at ing children into habits of safety. The book is BAFETY—YOUR' PROBLEM AND MINE (Lyons & Carnahan) by William A. Evans, Ine dianapolis Schools safety director, and. Mattie B. Fry, supervisor of - instruction for the Anderson publie schools. : Their theory is that a public school education must teach the child how to cope with the hazards of hisen< vironment as well as impart the fundamentals of the three “Rs. » t In the ‘simple, slmost naive style of Hendrik Wile lem Van Loon, they tell what causes the common accident and how to stay immune. Broad and ine clusive, their safety program: advocates positive: traine ing instead of “don’ts.” They confront you with. understandable tacts. In 1036, home accidents took more lives than traffie -gecidents. Twenty per cent of all school accidents occur in the ‘corridors and stairways.