Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie Finds No Basis for Rumor That Dionne Quintuplets Are Dull; Yvonne and Emilie Are Outstanding.

YALLANDER, Ontario.—We who read “ about the Dionne Quintuplets think of them only as a unit. But after chatting with people close to the children, you begin to separate them. i . : The next two columns will tell something of the personalities of the children, and some of the cute things they do. And before we go any farther, we might as well frankly bring up that £7 ges question of the childrens’ mentality. It has been rumored they are not any. too smart. True, they have been. slow in learning to talk. But they're talking plenty now. I've heard them Of course I have not talked with them. No outsider gets in to mingle with them. But I've become fairly chummy with several people “who have ‘spent months and years Vip them, and if the children are dull, these people are putting on 8 gne of the Vorlly Most convincing > “acts” in concealing it. Me Pyle Yvonne and Emilie are outstanding over the others Yvonne is the leader. She directs, the others follow. i Emilie is the imaginative one. -She is probably the greatest joy to the nurses. Fantastic things go ‘ on in her mind. She makes up stories and tells them as the truth. ; She is a tom-boy, and also one of the most girlish. Her pockets are always full of dirt and worms and nails (the nurses can’t figure where she finds. nails, but she does). And on the other hand she is affectionate. Annette is the singer. In fact, they all have remarkable ability for carrying tunes. But Annette . sings best; and loves music most. Her favorite song- + stress is Lily Pons. Frequently Annette asks to hear “Mlle. Pons” on the phonograph. Marie is the prettiest one, as well as the tiniest. She knows she’s pretty, and plays on it. When she

has been bad and gets sentenced to “solitary,” she

rolls her big eyes up at the nurses, and it takes all . they’ve got to do their duty. - I didn’t hear much about Cecile. I remember only that her favorite form of amusement is taking the ice cubes out of the water glasses at meals, and putting them in her pocket. Of course they melt, and then Cecile can’t understand why she’s all wet. All of the children seem to have a definite knack for fantasy. They pretend a great deal. They always try to confuse a new nurse, by pretending they're one of their sisters. Also, when one does something bad, shell deny it and say she is one of the others. But apparently she isn’t serious, for after a little shell grin, and the secret’s out. :

Misdemeanors Bring “Solitary”

The children have a mania for putting things in the nurses’ pockets. One is liable to come running at any time and bestow upon the nurse a horrible looking . worm or beetle. The nurse grits her teeth and says, “Oh, thank you so much Marie. But we must be-careful not to hurt. it, so we'll just lay it down here on the grass.” The nurse doesn’t let on that the worm gives her the creeps, for in the childrens’ teaching there is a definite effort not to instill fear into them. : The children have never been whipped. But they are punished. A bad deed Sends one to “solitary” in a little room. That is punishment, for they do like to be together. : The children address their nurses as “Mlle. So-and-So.” Except once in a while, when they get real chummy, they call them “Mlle. Sissie.” They address Dr. Dafoe as “doctaire.” There is nothing in their training that simulates actual work, outside of always cleaning up their playroom when they're through. They enjoy doing it, and “do a good job. : Bis The Quins tried their first “skip rope” the day this was written. They were terrible at it. It will take them several days to pick up the rhythm of “skipe ping.”

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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Youth Needs Praise and Counsel More Than the Blame It Often Gets.

H™ PARK, N. Y., Sunday—At last there is some relief from this warm weather which has made so many people uncomfortable! Having taken iced coffee for supper Friday night, I was able to read late in bed and feel the delicious change in the atmosphere which came toward early morning. When I went into Poughkeepsie yesterday morning to have some of the salt I had accumulated washed out of my hair, the first thing my hairdresser said . was: “How glad I am that my vacation begins this evening! The heat has made me feel I simply cannot move.” : The ‘privileged ones among us, who vacation all the time, at least to the extent that all we do we do from choice, miss a good deal probably in not planning and anticipating the time when we choose our own occupations. It was fun running around yesterday morning doing the household buying. I stopped for a second to speak io a crippled man who sits in a chair selling papers on the corner of a Poughkeepsie street. He sits there winter and summer and I have come to count on his cheerful smile and pleasant greeting. What courage it must take! Yesterday, he and a little colored newsboy were busy solving some problem and I imagine he does many helpful things for these youngsters. Most of us would feel that our ability to help anyone else had reached the vanishing point if we were in his shoes.

A Pibture of Nation's Youth

I am reading a book written by Betty and Ernest Lindley called “A New Deal for Youth.” It was written as a report for the President on the activities of the National Youth Administration, but it is far more than a report. It is interestingly written and, in addition, it gives the picture of youth in this country as it appears to the eyes of trained observers who are seeing this side of the nation for the first time. The facts these two writers set forth simply corroborate the findings of the youth commission: The problem to deal with is here for us. The authors go on to show what the Government has been able to do for a very small percentage of those who need assistance. This is valuable chiefly because it stirs the imagination and makes one hope that this younger generation can work out mew problems in new ways. 1 find this book interesting and have gained much knowledge from it in spite of the fact that I have tried to follow this work rather closely, just-as I try to be familiar with much else that youth does along many lines. ; ~~ 1 hope people this book will not be content with reading alone, but.will find out what is going on in their communities and lend a helping hand. Youth needs the praise and counsel of older heads more than the blame and criticism which so often comes its way if it makes some mistake or indulges in some foolish adventure.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.—Sometimes my heart just H bleeds for those people who are always gettin’ their feelin’s hurt at the slightest little thing. Seems like -they oughta be able to cure themselves of such sensitiveness but maybe it’s just somethin’ they can’t help like freckles or hay ‘fever. I can sympathize "with people that “can’t take it” because my Uncle Tuck is one of the most sensitive men I ever saw. My aunt told him pne “day, “Tuck, I wish you'd stop boastin’ amd braggin’. You know Milton said - ‘for all his tediom: is but vain boastin.’” Uncle Tuck sat the for a couple of minutes and then and started out. My aunt

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By Richard Lewis

“And let them gather “all the food of those good years . . . and that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine.” (Gen. 41-85). by ”

» # i JOSEPHS advice to the Egyptian Pharoah 36 centuries ago remains the basic principle of Indiana’s front line of defense against the “lean yedrs”— the Unemployment Compensation Law. Since it began to pay benefits April 1, Hoosier unemployed have received $3,500,000. Indianapolis unemployed have received

ments. But unemployment compensation in Indiana has only begun to fight. ended. Shock troops against depression ‘are drawn up in a 26 million dollar trust fund from which compensation benefits are paid.

For two years prior to April 1, employers of eight or more persons in Indiana have contributed to the compensation fund until by March 30, 1938, a .balance of 26 millions had been established. During, four months of benefit payments, the trust fund balance has fluctuated from $26,000,000 April 1, to $27,152,641 July 15 to $26,500,000 July 25.

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HE reduction in the fund balance during July was a reflection of the industrial shutdowns last. spring. With current re-employment, the fund would gain. : Elimination of the $10 clause by the special session of the Legislature is expected to make an additional 50,000 persons eligible for compensation, their potential drawing power exceeding $7,500,0

00. While this will deplete the fund

the influx of new beneficiaries will be absorbed after the first few months .as beneficiaries now receiving compensation return to work. Already, they say, the compensation load is dropping. Weekly claims, which began to decline June 18, have hit new lows each succeeding week. Moreover, early beneficiaries are exhausting their benefit rights. More than 1000 already have done so. The mechanism of unemployment compensation, frequently cluttered by red tape, began to turn slowly. Benefit payments showed amazing increases every week as unemployed Hoosiers jammed division offices.

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N April, 207 checks amounting to $1951 were mailed out. By the end of May, the division had put 42,986 checks totaling $481,718 through the mails. At the end of last month, 181,022 checks-amount-ing to $2,012,054.03 had. gone out to jobless Hoosiers. ' In the unemployment compensation. division, bookkeepers, comptometer operators and typists work two shifts computing, preparing and mailing benefit checks. The week ending July 16 saw 55,370 checks worth $632,735.96 go to beneficiaries. One day’s total— July 15--was 11,621 checks totaling $136,463. ; When Indiana’s Unemployment Compensation Law became effective in 1936, it announced three objectives. : ~The first primary purpose of fhe law was “to reduce hardships due to unemployment by providing weekly benefit checks to eligible unemployed persons.” This has been fulfilled to the extent of the law’s present operation, The second : objective was to

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In times of stress, Hoosiers seek the front-line defense against depression, the Unemployment Compensation Division.

help stabilize employment by providing a profit incentive to employers to keep their men in jobs, thus becoming entitled to lower contribution rates. While this provision of the law does not become ‘effective until’ 1940, experts predict it should have considerable weight in influencing employment stability. - TT = 8 =.= HE third : objective—to help the unemployed find a job— has been partially - successful. The Unemployment Compensation Division links with the State Employment Service. When applying for compensation, the ‘unemployed worker must first be interviewed by the Employment Service. If a job is nof found for him, he is eligible for payments

until ‘one is found or he finds one

back: to Biblical times, its appear-

ance .in the modern industrial scheme is- recent. - British trade unions had adopted “out-of-work”

benefits. as early as 1800, but it

was not until 1911 that England passed the first compulsory compensation law. At first an experimental measure covering only a few industries, it

. was amended repeatedly until now

it has greater coverage than any existing insurance legislation. Moreover, it operates at a profit.

Under :the British system, em-

ployers and the Government contribute equally to the fund from which benefits are drawn. The average cost to the worker is about 18 cents weekly, deducted - from his wages. The average benefit payment for the unemployed adult is $4.25 a week for 26 weeks.

Somewhat ‘similar in structure and-theory, the Indiana law differs

in its higher payments (averaging

$13) and shorter duration "of benefits. : In 1911, Italy passed a compulsory insurance law based large-

ly on the British experience.

Germany put unemployment insurance into effect in 1927, two years after Independent “Austria

"had passed its insurance act.

82: 82 8 : A T present, 19 foreign countries have - unemployment . insur-

ance covering 40 million workers.

Only in the Soviet Union has the vompensation law been repealed. The United States: was: back-

‘ward in passing unemployment

insurance because of the: reluctance of its separate states, with the exception of Wisconsin, to do so. : Some states feared that a ta levy for insurance would put their employers at a disadvantage in interstate competition. In spite

.of this general and ‘widespread

factor, Wisconsin passed the nation’s first compulsory law in 1932. Contribution under the Wisconsin system was made only by employers. Each employer had an individual reserve fund ’from which he paid benefits only to his unemployed workers. : . Agitation for Federal action began as early as 1916, was stifled during -the War, and renewed in 1928. After exhaustive study by Congressional committees, the law was passed as part of the Social Security: Act in’ 1935. It provided that individual states could enact their own insurance legislation conforming to the Social Security Act. Passage of the act in Indiana in 1936 enabled this state to build up its reserve fund and begin paying benefits one to two years before 23 other states. NEXT—How a Worker Obtains Benefits.

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1—Of. what country is Lisbon

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' 9_Where is Gatun Dam?

3—Where was dowager Queen Marie buried?

4—What are the three states of

matter? 5—In what country are the kings named Christian and Frederick, alternately? : 6—Under which President did William G. McAdoo serve as Secretary of the Treasury?

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albinism? 8—Where is the island of Trinidad?

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|Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

If You Like Stories That Carry a Message, You Should Get a Kick Out of This Sarah Bernhardt Tale.

Y only excuse for telling you another - story about Sarah Bernhardt is that this one seems to carry some kind of mes= sage. Maybe, even a moral. :

stopped off in Indianapolis on three different occasions. Maybe more, but if it was more I wasn't

made her Indianapolis debut in the 1880-81 seasony that she showed up again in 1891 for a two-night stand when she played “Fedora” and “La Tosca.” and that her farewell performance occurred in 1917 when she appeared in a program consisting of single acts selected from her most popular plays. = I remember, too, that she didn't do much moving around on the Sage ihe last Hime she as here & most of her acting sit A in a chair or lying on a couch Mr Scherrer (“La Dame aux Camelias’”). It wasn’t only because she was 72 years old. It was because of an accident

A she had suffered before coming to America. I'm not

in a position to reveal the nature of the accident, but

It was a pathetic story to the effect that Madama had to have one of her legs amputated which, of

artificial leg. I don’t know whether it was a press agent’s story or not, but I am reasonably sure

.dianapolis that night was a tribute not only to her acting, but to the courage she displayed under the to convey today. The lesson Sarah taught Indian= apolis came with her second visit in 1891. At that time she was 46 years old and at the height of ner career, So much so that Dickson and Talbott who brought her here, didn’t hesitate to charge $3 for a downstairs seat; $2 for one in the balcony, and $1 for one in the gallery. To make the $1 seats attrac tive, Dickson and Talbott had the gallery cleaned for the occasion. “

Scalpers Went to Work

Soon as the prices were announced, somebody

nrices there wouldn't be enough seats to go around, and so he went to work to corner the market. (I could give his name if I felt like it.) When the sale of seats started, he planted a dozen men at the head of the line with instructions to buy big blocks of tickets, the big idea being that the more tickets he

. prices. After that, the only -way to see Sarah was to pay the speculator his price. His price was $5 for a $3 ticket. : Well, when the people heard about it, they dee cided to let the speculator stew in his own juice. They wouldn’t buy—you just couldn't get them to—with the result that 10 minutes before Sarah started playing “Fedora” on the night of April 14, 1891, you could buy all the $3 tickets you wanted to for $2.50. A half hour later, the price of the hest seats dropped to $1.25. It was the worst trimming Big Business ever got in Indianapolis. : ;

Jane Jordan—

If He Is Told He Isn't Attractive.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am a girl 25 years old, What would you advise me to do about a man - a few years olde’ than If who won't leave me alone? He insists on presen me with costly gifts. Because I won't pay any attention te him he has caused me lots of trouble and lied about me to my superiors. I have worried so about it. All my life . I have lived what 1 thought other people expected of me, and now this! What shall I do? ANXIOUS.

- Answer—What do you want ta do? Did I detect a note of weariness in your tone when you said, “all my life I have lived what I thought other people expected of me?” Would you like for once to do as your please? | What's wrong with thjs man anyway? I do not see what difference a few years in age can make unless the man is married. In that case all you have to do is return his gifts and let him see that you do not find him attractive as a man. ' ~ow of nothing which cools a man’s ardor more y than to be told that while he may be quit. ght in other respects he just isn’t attractive. However it is difficult for me to pelieve that you find the man completely unattractive or you would have shown your repugnance before now. We can and do cover up repugnance with a polite demeanor, or hide a secret attraction with assumed repugnance, but it is usnally the real attitude which registers. More serious than your difference is ages is your belief that the man misrepresents you to others. If it is true, then he isn’t worthy of the slightest cone

cause it shows that you can’t make a clear distinction between reality and your own fancy. I have no way of knowing which is the case. ” 2 =n EAR JANE JORDAN—Why can’t our publie schools teach sex in the classroom? Many pare ents foolishly fail to tell their children what they,

cannot help her much for my parents have told me nothing either. Where are we to get advice? ‘We are not alone on the subject. Many others face the same problems. How can my girl friend find out what hee mother has neglected to fell her? H.H.

Answer—It is perhaps not wise to teach these sube jects in the public schols. It might do more harm than good. The library is full of good books. Le those who are uninformed read. JANE JORDAN. an 7005, SLSRIOER J, 8 Jpn fg Jang, fortes. whe wih |

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around to know about it. All I know is that Sarah

distinctly recall the story in circulation at the time. course necessitated getting around py way of sn

that the deafening applause Sarah received in In-

Sarah’s courage, however, isn’t the message I want

around here got the bright idea that even with those -

bought, the less other people could buy at regular

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