Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1938 — Page 9
.v Yagabon P © From Indiana =Ernie Pyle
Ernie Learns the Quins Won't Be 'Over the Top' in Their Amazing Fight to Live: Until They Are 7.
ALLANDER, Ontario.—The Dionne Quintuplets have three nurses. In the wintertime, one of the three is also a qualified teacher. : The children are a great deal of fun to
the nurses, and they become very attached to them. But they mustn’t get “gone” on the kids to the: point of bdbying them; or they'll lose their jobs. All three nurses eat with the children, at one table. None of the children has a pet hate against any certain food. They’ aren’t taught table manners by instruction, but by example. All the children are imitators. .. 1 imagine one of the cutest things is to see them imitate Dr. Dafoe. Yvonne, of course, is the doctor. She'll act as though she had a flashlight, make the other children open their mouths while§ she looks inside, and will say “open wider” and make them go “aaahh.” Also,, Yvonne has become a Mr. Pyle ~ movie director. A group from Hollywood recently spent three weeks here, making the third Quintuplet picture. Ever since then, Yvonne imitates the director, calls cut “Quiet,” and claps her hand like the sound man for the start of the “take.” The children have never seen one of their own movies. They have seen one Mickey Mouse short; that is all. The five children sleep in one big room, with one nurse. They go to bed at 6:30. There is none of this “I wanna drinka water” business after the lights are out. They wouldn't get it if there were. The children run now from 35 to 40 pounds, and about three feet three inches high. Their legs are chubby, and they look like the healthiest of children. Yet, to my amazement, I learned they are not considered yet ‘over the top” in their phenomenal fight to live. It seems to be the concensus that not until they are T—nearly three years yet—can the be considered “in the clear.” They were, of course, premature babies. And although healthy now, they are easily broken. They * seem unusually susceptible to colds. And nobody ., can figure where they get them. All of them have diseased tonsils. That in itself is not especially alarming, as most children do have. Specialists say they don’t have fo come out right now anyhow. :
Getting Surgeon Will Be Difficult
But here is the strange thing. When the time comes, they'll have a hard time finding a really great surgeon in Canada to do the job. It’s this way: A surgeon with a reputation would have nothing to gain, and everything to lose in the tonsil operation. If everything were successful, he would merely get paid. But if something should happen-—well, he would be through as a surgeon. ‘ Marie is having a little treatment of her own these days. She’s wearing a patch over one eye. Her vision is all right in both eyes. But the muscles in one eye are weak, and let it “wander” a little. So the patch is over the good eye. Hence Marie will have to use her weak eye more, and strengthen the muscles, The first day the patch was on, the other children spent all forenoon sympathizing and commiserating with poor Marie. And Marie sat and cried all morning. ’ The Quins do know people are watching them while they play in their supervised playground. On bright days, they can’t see back through the screen and glass between them and the crowds. But on dark days, when the light on both sides of the glass is about equal, you can see through both ways. One day it started to rain during show hour. The sky got very dark. The children were taken into the little arbor out of the rain. And then either Emilie or. Yvonne, I forget which, stepped out, waved her hand at the people, and called: “Go on home, Messieurs and Mesdames! Don’t you know it’s raining?”
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
It's Unfortunate That We Think of
Politics as Something Unpleasant.
YDE PARK, N. Y., Monday.—I have just spent an interesting couple of hours with 14 members of the American Youth Congress. The head of the Congress, Mr. Hinckley, had made a statement in this morning’s press denying that the group is communistic, which seems to me rather unnecessary, for it is quite obvious that a group with such varied organizations in it could hardly be a branch of the Communist Party. However, I understand that one of the magazines not only accuses them of this, but adds certain little items as to my connection with the group. Perhaps the fact that there is no basis of truth in these statements makes me less credulous of all other statements. It is interesting to be in a position where you have the opportunify of knowing the truth about a few subjects, but it has its unfortunate side in that it makes you doubt the veracity of many things which you read and hear. Sometimes I think that people are so anxious to believe that certain things are true, that they state them as facts without waiting to substantiate them. I was given an uncomfortable hour the other evening by one gentleman who called on the telephone to state that a yacht on which some of my family were sailing had foundered and that everygne on board had been rescued and was being brought ashore. When we finally ran the story down, there were two entirely unrelated facts; one—some of my family had been sailing; swo—a ship had gone down with a somewhat similar name! . I had a most amusing letter in the morning mail from a lady who writes as follows: “You have had many answers, of course, but here is another. In ‘My Diary’ of Saturday, you write again about transplanting butterfly weed—wondering if it will come up. It will. I brought some up from Montauk, Mo., years ago and now I have all I want—it’s lovely. Everyone is so enthusiasti® about it. But this means no votes for your husband. I'm a Republican and stronger than ever.” Garden's Appeal Is Universal It seems that the appeal of the Garden is still universal and has nothing to do with politics. Another friend of mine wrote me the other day that he found - my column pleasant because it never dealt with politics. This feeling that politics must of necessity be unpleasant is somewhat unfortunate and yet it seems to run through everything we do, for people are constantly saying to me: “Oh well—you know that organization is difficult to work in because so much politics goes on.” So the word has connotations even outside of government. 1 can only say that I wish for the good of our democracy we could induce people to feel that politics is only unpleasant when the people as a whole do not take part in it amd do not keep it at the level where it should be. Bad methods of government, graft and poor public servants arise largely from the individual citizen’s lack of interest in politics. Itgis. refreshing to find an article, on the first page of one of our metropolitan ‘newspapers, telling about a national save-the-circus movement. The circus is certainly a -healthy interest. It keeps us all young and we should never lose our pleasure in it.
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, Aug. 8—It’s really surprisin’ how quick people are to help you when you come right out and tell 'em your troubles. My Uncle Mink, the contractor, would do anything in the world for a person when he understood -his problem. I remeqpiber the time he was buildin’ a house for young Jess Wilson. Jess eame to him: and says, “Can you tell me
when my house is Boia to be finished, Mink? You
(Second of Two Articles) By Richard Lewis THE Blank Automotive Parts, Anytown’s basic industry, has closed its
All as.soon as the house
doors. The hand-lettered sign: “Plant May Reopen Aug. 1” nailed to the machine shop door is vague enough. But for John Doe, employee of the concern for 15 years, it suggests an immediate course of action that will keep him and his family off relief. John Doe has insurance —has had it now for weeks. On April 30, he receives his separation report from his employer showing that no work is available for him. On the morning of May 3, he reports fo the local office of the State Employment Service where he registers for employment before going to the Unemployment Compensation Division. He then files his claim for unemployment compensation with the division. Since he is available and willing to accept any job that will feed him and his family, the State Employment Service tries to line one up for him. Meanwhile, the Unemployment Compensation Division collects data to determine his eligibility for benefits and the amount he can receive. At the end of the first week. May 9, he reports to the compensation division office and certifies that during the week he has had no earnings.. Again on May 15, he makes the same certification. Two weeks unemployed, John Doe has now completed his required waiting period and is eligible to receive his first check. Notices are sent his employers that
their reserve accounts are potentially chargeable.
# 8 ” HEN he reports again May 23, he signs a voucher for his first compensable week, the week ended May 21. He again certifies that he was available for work and had no earnings during the previous week. And he will repeat this procedure.every week
he receives benefits. Because of his previous high earnings, John Doe is entitled to a maximum benefit of $225, or 15 times his benefit rate of $15 a week. When he signs his first voucher for $15, it is sent to the central office, passed for payment and mailed to his home, It reaches him May 27, four Yom from the day he lost his ob. In the course of getting his first benefit check, John Doe runs into delays which frequently grow out of his or his employer's omissions. Sometimes checks are held
up. Difficulty in securing confirmation of earnings from employers, errors in Social Security account numbers, failures of applicants to report accurately their former employers or current .earnings and other irregularities are among the factors causing delays.
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R. DOE continues to report weekly. He goes back to work for a week on June 13 and his benefits cease. When he again is unemployed, they resume and his checks continue where they left off. On July 11, he reports to the division that. he has found some part-time work which. pays him $5 a week. This amount is deducted from his weekly benefit check. When the part-time work ceases the following week, he again draws the full amount of $15. Then on Aug. 1, the plant reopens. : John Doe has gone back to work. He was unemployed 13 weeks, and partly employed one week. He has received 11 benefit checks for $15 and one for $10. To receive unemployment compensation again, he must work
Defense Agai
Job Insurance of Greatest Aid to Those Employed Steadily in Good Times
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Hundreds report daily to this white-walled room onthe ground floor of the State Employment Service to certify that they are eligible
another base period of five quarters—15 months—from which his future compensation can be computed. * Unemployment compensation serves - best workmen like John Doe—men who in good times
would work ‘steadily. Those de-
riving security from the law are generally ' the workers who have remained at least partially employed through most of the depression and recession. ; ; ” # 8 ; O the millions of unemployed who have been dislocated by technological changes in industry or whose jobs have disappeared with the industries which van-
ished into the chaos of 1929-33, Indiana’s Unemployment Compen-
sation Law does not extend a hand. : “But we are in the experimental
stage,” officials say. “You must.
learn to crawl before walking.” The base period—the five quarters an employee must - have worked immediatelf® preceding his application for benefits—limits the law’s coverage. Thousands of : unemployed in Indiana haven’t worked enough in the last two years to be able to establish. a base period. They are ineligible and will remain forever so unless the law is changed or they find employment, in which
case they won't need compensa-
tion. : ‘The’ Indiana - Unemployment Compensation Fund, stored in Federal vaults in Washington, is the security for the law’s continued operation. - Labor and capital alike watch that fund carefully for. indications. of sudden fluctuation. During the first ‘three and a half months compensation benefits were paid, the fund balance rose one and a’half: millions, de-
clining one million as the fourth -
month opéned.:. ” 2 8 HE fund gained at first be.cause employers’ contributions overbalanced withdrawals. It declined when withdrawals caught up to and surpassed contributions. Theoretically, the flow of funds
to and from the pot should equal-
ize over a period of years. Since: the repeal of the $10 clause, - observers ' are - wondering whether Indiana's compensation sétup will suffer the. deficit that
The factory—where the machinery. of unemployment compensation grinds out thousands of benefit
x
to receive benefits. ‘Men: going back to work have shortened :these
lines of waiting ‘applicants since last month.
ployed Hoosiers.
checks each week to unemployed and partially em- two shifts.
almost ruined the British system ©
in the early days of its operation. Business leaders feel that the lowering . of ‘requirements to include perennially unemployed work-
ers would wreck the system. It is
doubtful that the low ever will ‘extend further than it does now. If it. should, businessmen say, it would become .a dole. Indiana’s Unemployment Compensation Law is rated as a sound insurance system. Launched in
recession months it has proved: it~.
self thus far. . In spite of: its limited coverage, it ‘has operated: to prove that the best: way to live through the lean years is to store during the fat ones. : i nT ‘And it has further demonstrated that in 1938, tenure of employment is still-an insurable risk. °
‘Times Photos To mail checks on time, account-
ants, stenographers, comptometer operators work
Billion-Dollar
Toils to Keep
By NEA Service . NTEW YORK, Aug. the nation cooled off .is.a billion dollar ‘industry, and. it keeps hundreds of -thousands: of people busy throughout the year. The men who: tote ice through America’s back doors, for instance, could: fill and overflow New York's Yankee Stadium. | - ‘Thirty-five thousand ice cream makers Jabor in 3101 factories so that parties may be successful. Still further swelling the ranks of the antiheat brigades are the 50,000 men who toil in'fan factories to
9.—Keeping:
supply the nation with 20,000,000 electric zephyr mills a year. Then there are the engineers who draw- the plans for cool weather when it’s 110 in the shade. Fortyone thousand men and women are employed in making air-condition-ing units. . Somewhere amid a deafening roar of looms, 16,000 textile workers are
tolling away to make swimming suits for you and your beach com-
panions. :
And behind stands, 107,000 men and girls perspire, peddling soft drinks worth $160,000,000 to cool the people’s palates. »
Side Glances—By Clark
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which river drains. the Great Lakes into the Atlantic? .. .2—For what purpose is amber3—What game, played on horseback, mostly resembles ‘hockey? :
4—Who was recently. knocked |.
out by Al Hostak in a middleweight boxing contest? 5—What is*the term for the system’ whereby women have, multiple husbands? = 6—What is the name for ‘the satellite of any. planet? 1—What is the postage rate on post. cards from the: U.:8. to.’
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| ~ Answers
| 1—The St. Lawrence.
47 .2—To: make es. | ae Rertumes.
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Our Town
| By Anton Scherrer :
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Columnist Thinks Miss Wentz: Came As Near as Anybody to Guessing Just What Education Is Good for,
should want to obtrude my point of view
sons: First, the one handed down by Arthur Benson, that it helps our sense of balance and pros portion to know how other people are looking at
and what they do not find. Like Mr. Benson, I, too, have an intense curiosity about other people’s point of view, what they do when they are alone, what they think about, and it may just be possible that other people have the same curiosity about the little bit of experience which I call my life, which seems to me such a strange and often so bewildering a thing. The
Mr. Scherrer
today and leave myself out of it. Saturday Miss Wentz went to her reward, and, somehow, I couldn’ help thinking about the part she played in my life, That was back in 1885, her first year at Manual, when single-handed and unafraid, she took a group of us boys into the innermost recesses of the triangle ‘and made us like trigonometry. Not only that, but she had us coming back for more.
tinctly recall that she was among the first around here to show that the only education which amounts to anything is the kind the student acquires under his own steam, the function of the teacher being to put up the steam. I never did find out how Miss Wentz was able to get up enough steam to move us kids—that was her secret—but I seem to recall how her system worked after the steam was up. It worked like this: She made us kids do our own thinking, How He Did His Thinking I haven't any way of knowing how the other kids did their thinking, but in my case I remember that -it always started with a vague ambition to solve the problem Miss Wentz set before me. After that, if luck was with me, came a disposition to restrict all ideas that did not fit in with those of Miss Wentz, Then without warning, but usually after long incubation and as the result of some chance situation or some grouping of associative: ideas, a new ‘meaning, .maybe a happy thought was born. - With it came the strangest feeling imaginable. This feeling of strange= ness alternated with a feeling of satisfaction, of joy, sometimes of exaltation. I always fooled myself into believing that the feeling of exaltation was the result of divine inspiration experienced only by those who hand down the immortal things of this world. I know better now. The satisfaction, the joy, and even the exaltation I felt back in those days was merely a sign that Miss Wentz’ system was clicking on all cylinders, Well, that’s the only point I want to make today. Miss Wentz, when I come to think of it, came about as near as anybody to guessing what education is good for. The proof of it /lies in the fact that it was fun to go to her classes." | :
Jane Jordan—
Outside Interests ‘Will Overcome
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 15 years and a high school sophomore. My mother lacks will power and believes in astrology. Many times she will
doing it. She will be reading the paper or one of her astrology books. When I was younger I was shy and
didn’t make friends easily. As I grew older I learned ‘to do the housework myself and as a result I didn’t have time to learn to swim or play tennis or do any of the other things that girls of my age did. I never had a date and never have been asked to parties or anything. I have been told I am very pretty by. the neighbors but never by anybody who counts. I have two younger brothers and a 12-year-old sister. All of them have the worst manners possible, When I try to teach them better mother scolds me for trying to rear them. I have no love for my mother. We are always quarreling. For this reason I don’t want to go on a Western trip this summer with mother and the children. I know I can’t go with daddy as he is traveling. I have never confided anything that ever happens at school in mother or daddy. My problem is how to get happiness out of the wreck of my life. Should I continue to teach my brothers and sisters manners? : MARY LOU. - 8 » 8
Answer—First of all I believe youd be smart
dren. Since your mother resents your efforts to help them and they themselves aren't interested in learning good manners, why should you worry? Shed
your own interests. - Second, I think it fair enough if you help your
for yourself. Dig out if you don’t do anything better than go to one of the public playgrounds where other girls and boys congregate for a good time. Take a library book along and read until you see a chance
‘hard as it seems. By all means go on the trip unless you have some relatives you'd rather visit. You don't have to stick with your family every single second but can find things to do by yourself. Many another girl born into an uncongenial family has made a life for her self. if you make up your mind. Don’t quarrel with your mother. It's a waste of breath. Just quietly go about making friends and gathering interests aside from your home life. | JANE JORDAN.
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* I don’t know how Miss Wentz did it, but I dise
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