Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1938 — Page 11

~ From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

"The Country Doctor" Looks Like A City Doctor Now, Ernie Finds, But Inside He Has Changed Little.

(CALLANDER, Ontario.—Dr. Dafoe came to the door himself when I rang, and said “Where you been? We've been looking for you for a week.” : So I said, “Well you ought to know I'm "always a week late, and sometimes I never get any place.” : : So we sat down and talked. I was keen to see how much, and in what way, Dr. Dafoe had changed since I last saw him three years ago. At that time the north woods country doctor still wore a funny short-billed cap, a ‘sweater, old pants, and put his feet on the desk and just chatted away. He is still friendly, and full of sly humor and little jokes. He still smokes his pipe. He still talks fast, and quite a bit. But he has changed. It couldn't be otherwise. In appearance, he is now indistinguishable from a big city doc- © tor. His gray suit fits him, and ; he looks fine in it. He doesn’t look Mr. Pyle ‘‘dressed up”; he just looks well dressed. The change is not all in his clothes, either. He looks younger than he did three years ago. His face is more radiant. And somehow you can sense more sophistication in it. The change in his manner I hardly know how to describe.: It's a change that has to come to all . people who ride the hero’s wagon. You put up a little shell around yourself, to keep people from killing you. : - | But even this change is very slight. Inside, I don’t believe he’s changed at all. ‘1 asked him point blank if all the adoration and publicity and stream of hero-worshipers encroaching upon his life had soured him. He said: %] haven't let it. I just had to put up the bars. The way things are now I'm not bothered much. I've got as much time to read now as I ever had.” ; Then 1 asked: “Are you as happy as you were before this thing ever happened?” “ He said: “I believe I'm happier. You know I'd got interested in again. And enough money to put my boy through school the way I want to.”

Ex-Newspapermen Surround Him

Dr. Dafoe’s office and house have changed but little. ‘The two office rooms in the front have been * spruced -up. There's a new desk, and a French telephone. And on the wall are framed certificates of titles and degrees that have come to him. Just back of the office is the doctor’s library. It is a large comfortable room with deep davenports and chairs, plenty of light, and lined with - books. : Dr. Dafoe has always been a fiendish reader, and™ still is. He reads like lightning. He takes in a page in a few seconds. Dr. Dafoe has surrounded himself with ex-news-papermen. - Gordon Moffatt is his secretary. Keith Monro is the Quins’ business manager. Fred Davis is the official photographer. All came from the Toronto Star. : Dr. Dafoe still stutters some. And Keith Monro stutters a little, too. Fred Davis says that when the three of them get together they get him to stuttering so he can hardly talk. Oddly enough, Dr. Dafoe doesn’t stutter at all on the radio or before an audi-

ence. : Moffatt is the doctor's front man. Without him, the doctor would go crazy. He handles all the mail, phone calls and door callers. ~ . Moffatt personally answers every letter that comes to Dr. Dafoe or the Quintuplets. In two years he has written 15,000 letters on the typewriter. Dr. Dafoe is out to the Quintuplets Hospital every morning at 8:30. Later he drives to North Bay to see Monro. In the afternoon he fills whatever appointments Moffatt has made for him, and reads the rest of the time.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Reader Would Start Organization To Elect First Lady President.

YDE PARK, Tuesday—A most unusual letter came this morning from a lady who suggests that, of course, it is bad precedent to elect the same ' man to the Presidency for a third term, but that one can achieve the same results by electing his wife. This seems to me rather beating the devil around the bush. However, the lady suggests solemnly that she will start an organization to promote my election in 1940 and she assumed that I will have the help of both my . husband and my oldest son. : She kindly adds that if for any reason I do not feel that I can sacrifice myself for the good of the people of the country I can state my distaste for this ‘sacrifice in the agony column of her local newspaper and she will respect my wishes. I would like to suggest that it is a mistake ever to buy a pig in a poke. I am not fond of being a sacrificial lamb, for I rarely like martyrs, and I cannot quite bring myself to believe that there is any service beyond that of being as useful a private citizen as possible which I can render my country. Every morning starts with fog and every afternoon seems to end with a violent thunderstorm. My aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. David Gray, arrived here yesterday afternoon for a visit, just in time for all of us to go in swimming before the heavens opened. In spite of drops of rain and thunder and, finally, lightding, we enjoyed ourselves and cooled off, getting in before the worst of the storm broke.

Warden Lawes Delayed

1 always expect the lights to go out and the telephone to cease functioning during these storms, but since Mrs. Gray and I were both brought up on the Hudson River, I felt nothing that a thunderstorm could do would disturb her. However, a dinner guest, Mr. Lewis Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison, was somewhat delayed, for he encountered the storm "as he drove up and had to stop while trees were re-

moved from the road. We all had a pleasant and amusing evening, for the group was one in which - stories of personal experiences were easily told and the experiences, particularly those the gentlemen told, were varied and interesting. Whatever harm the storm did, it certainly has left us cooler and we are all rejoicing in the change of weather. I am particularly glad of this change for Miss Jane Ellis is bringing Miss Kyllikki Pohjala from Finland to lunch today and I realize that her coun has a cooler climate than we have been indulging lately. : I also have Mrs. Eliza Keates Young, my neighbor from across the river, who is a member of the Home Bureau and very active in farm women’s organizations in this state, coming to us today. I think she will have a great interest in whatever Miss Pohjala has to tell us, for there is a growing interest in the farm groups in this country in learning all they can about co-operatives. The Scandinavian countries are along these lines. :

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 10.—There’s one thing that employers expect from people that work for ‘em and that’s cleanliness and neatness. I remember when my Aunt Pudy was workin’ for the rich Jones family, doing the cookin’. Mrs. Jones walked into the kitchen one’ day and got boiling mad and you couldn't blame her. She says, “My goodness, Pudy, all the pots and pans are dirty and this kitchen is a mess! It’ll take you all night to clean this up. What have you been doing?” And Aunt Pudy says, “Nothin’, Mrs. Jones, _ your daughter has been showin’ me how they boil a potato at her school :

indifferent. This has given me something to be |

By Harold Keen

NEA Service Special Cofrespondent

becoming a reality. : Almost 250 long-range

United States.

An enemy naval force planning ‘a military landing in the United States would probably have to base on either Alaska, Hawaii, or the Mexican coast near where President Roosevelt spent part of his fishing vacation on the cruiser Houston. 2 8 = ONSIDER a hypothetical situation of an enemy fleet moving toward Alaska to establish a base there. If it were not for the air force, such a fleet might stealthily draw so near the coast that it would be too late for the American fleet to intercept them. But with the longrange bombers on patrol, the situation is different. A squadron stationed at the new air base at. Sitka, Alaska, would undoubtedly, while on a routine patrol flight, note the strange war craft below. The alarm would be broadcast imme-

diately. Every unit of the U. S. fleet would spring immediately to action. From the Sand Point Naval Air Station at Seattle, and from the North Island base in San Diego harbor, more patrol bombers would dash north to aid the re-

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1938

uard in the Paci Long-Range Bombers Permit Active Patrol of U.S. Firs

GAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 10.—With daily crises in-the Far East drawing attention to the Pacific, aerial patrol of America’s “first line of defense” in that area is rapidly

Naval bombing planes will be at their stations by the end of the year. The U. S. Navy for the first time is in position to guard the long sea-lanes that mean so much to defense of the vital West Coast area. Mass flights of bombing planes in the course of routine delivery to Hawaii and Panama—distances of from 2500 to 3000 miles—show that Navy fliers would be able to pick out any attacking force approaching the United States from the west long before it neared continental

_ Stationed in Hawaii, in the Canal Zone, Alaska, San Diego, Seattle, and other strategit points, these giant air cruisers with a range of 4000 miles could maintain a continuous patrol if necessary. ; 7 -

connaissance. Within a few hours, the fleet commander-in-chief would have before him information on the number, types, armament, and strength of the enemy vessels, their direction, probable speed, and apparent destination.

Decks cleared for action, head-

ing for a known area where it . could meet the enemy, the U. 8.

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Navy's bombers in the Pacific ‘defense area does not mean that the East Coast is-left helpless against a: possible attack from that quarter. Three times during the last year, a demilitarized plane of the exact type the Navy is now using has been flown by private citizens from San Diego to New York or Miami, crossing without a hitch the 3000 miles of terrain where a Naval plane could find few landings.

That means that in less than 20 hours after need was apparent, Naval bombers could leave their West Coast bases, cross the United States, swoop down in Eastern harbors, refuel and proceed out to sea on their mission of defense.

The Navy already has tested four-motored “air dreadnaughts” with such cruising ability that

Latest acquisition of the U. S. Navy for:its' Pa~cific ‘patrol is this “flying battleship” which hasan: operating radius of 5000 miles and can make better: This PBY-type ship carries thousands of pounds of bombs and can defend: Note the barely-visible' machine-gun turret in the tail of the ship, and the

than 200 miles an hour. itself from any direction.

-to Hawail, continue 1250 .miles

beyond in search of an approach- .

ing fleet, reconnoiter; drop bombs, and return to Pearl Harbor without a stop. : : 2 8 =» : . HE “defense frontier” of th United States in the Pacific is the longest in the world. Draw an imaginary arc from the Aleutian Islands off Alaska to Hawaii, then pointing west like a crooked finger through Midway, Wake, and Guam, and then slanting back southwest through Pago Pago, American Samoa and back to the Canal Zone. That is the front line of defense

which ‘ the development of ‘the

Navy's long-range bombers makes it possible to patrol. Without denying that the fleet remains the backbone of the defense, the cruising bombers give that fleet a nervous system and an extended

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Barber in Your Columnist's Youth ‘Wasn't Ashamed to_Horn In on the Lo ra ee Caf : Doctors and : Dentists’ = Business. FIFTY years ago when I was a boy, every, * barber shop in Indianapolis had a rack of shelves especially. designed to hold and display a collection of fancy shaving mugs, Inside each mug was a shaving brush. On the outside, every mug was decorated with a set of initials or a monogram, and sometimes even with a man’s full name. A good barber shop never had less than a dozen of these cups, and I remember that in some cases the collection . embraced as many as two dozen items, some of which were museum pieces. The cups didn’t belong to the barber. They were the property of fastidious customers who insisted . on being groomed with their own Sometimes, too, the particular patrons brought : their i hairbrushes is Some, pu at’s as far as they went. ey al ‘permitted the barber to furnish Mr. Scherrer the razor. One barber shop on McCarty St, I ree member, went a little bit farther. : : Besides having a collection of mugs reserved for fastidious customers, it had another rack of shelves designed to hold a collection of several dozen clears glass cups about. two inches high with mouth areas the size of a quarter. Unless you were smart enough to know what the sign in the window meant, there wasn’t any way of telling what the cups were good for. The sign said: “We do cupping.” “Cupping,” if you must know, was the next thing to “bleeding,” a technique practiced by the ancients to relieve people of their aches and pains. Sure, 50 years ago when 1 was a kid, the barbers of Indianapolis horned in on the doctors’ business like every= thing. Not only on the doctors but the dentists as well because I remember a lot of barbers who picked up easy money on the side pulling people’s teeth.

His Remedy for the Gout

Well, to get back to the cupping business, when the McCarty St. barber had a customer with a nice case of gout, he'd get out a dozen or so of his glass cups, ine vert them over a spirit lamp, and hold them there until the oxygen was exhausted. That. done, they were ready to be pressed against the patient’s skin. If it left a red mark, it was considered a successful oparation; the theory being that as the cups cooled off, the ‘mild vacuum created couldn’t help drawing the blood to the surface. : . win : . That's nothing, though. Not only was cupping ‘practiced in Indianapolis, but, once upon a time,

"| ‘bleeding people was all the style. Believe it or not, a

This map shows how the Navy can defend vast areas of the Pacific with huge bombers capable of maintaining constant aerial patrol

of the “defense line” connecting America’s far-flung possessi heavy black line encloses what is ordinarily considered the U. S.

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zone of defense. The Navy's observation bombers have proved their : ability to fly regularly between any two Points on the line, or back

and forth to the big bases on the

By Herbert Little Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Aug. 10—A series of pitched legal battles over National Labor Relations Board - policies is assured for the Supreme Court term starting Oct. 3. | At least four different major phases of the Wagner act’s agministration, decided adversely to the NLRB by U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, will be brought before the Court, it was learned today. The Court has upheld the Board and the

act on 10 decisions in the last two annual terms. The NLRB has won 33 out of nearly 50 Circuit Court decisions so far this year, but among the cases decided against it there are half a dozen or more which are to be appealed to the highest court for final decision. In addition, some of the losing employers are ‘planning to appeal. Two of these, Ford and Consolidated Edison, have already taken their cases to the Supreme Court. The four ways in which the Cir-

scope of Labor Board decisions in the cases to be fought out are: 1. Rulings that employees who conduct sit-down strikes or otherwise act unlawfully have lost their standing as “employees” and the protection of the Wagner act

cuit Courts have cut down the’

they could speed from San Diego

against. ‘discharge. The Chicago

Circuit Court so: ruled, 2-to-1, in| NLRB

the celebrated Pansteel case setting aside a Board decision ordering reemployment of sitdowners. The same: question is already before the Court in the Columbia Stamping

Pennsylvania

and Enamel case, on appeal by the 2 ” ” RULINGS that some businesses are not in “interstate commerce” and. -hence not subject to the Wagner act. The Philadelphia

Row Worries

Democratic Congressmen

By Fred W. Perkins Times Special Writer 5 ARRISBURG, Pa. Aug. 10— “Innocent bystanders,” in position to get hurt in Pennsylvania’s heated row over charges of state administration wrongdoings, include 26 Democratic Congressmen for whose seats the Republican national command is actively gunning. Long before Democrats. made the original charges against other Democrats, and before Republicans’ began to follow through on them, national Republican leaders gave notice of looking toward Pennsylvania as their main hope for a starting point in rebuilding their weakened Congressional forces. Only a few Congresses ago this state was sending a solid delegation of 36 Republicans to the House of Representatives. Now. there are only seven. ; All the Democratic Congressmen

Side Glances—By Clark

—some of them here watching the Harrisburg proceedings—are worried lest the grand jury investigation, when and if made, prejudice

its head, Governor Earle. He is the nominee for the Senate and responsible for the compli-

vering that now indicate the public will not know, much before the November election, the charges are true. ; #8 8: : OME Democratic Congressmen are - thinking about declaring themselves free agents, so far as or-

whether

letting loose a. campaign of denun-

jury row. They would hope to benefit from a feeling, said to be prevalent among the rank and file of citizenry, that Republicans as well as Democrats are. responsible for the present. confusion.

the entire party ticket as well as

cated legal and legislative ‘maneu-

ganization politics is concerned, and |

ciation of both sides in the grand

Series of Pitched Legal Battles Over Labor Board Policies Is Assured During Coming Session of Supreme Court

Circuit Court, 2-to-1, overturned the Board's decision against Benjamin Feinblatt, Somerville, N. J., for “instance, on’ the ground that this small factory bought no goods

in other states and sold none. The

testimony was that the Feinblatt factory made up into garments goods purchased by Lee Sportswear Co., for sale by Lee Sportswear, without ever having title to the ma-

‘| terial. This decision was written

by retired Judge Buffington, many of whose decisions have been ' reversed by the Supreme Court in the last two years. In another case, the lower court held that mining of gold, salable only to the Government, did not constitute “interstate ccmmerce.” 3. Decisions of courts that - the NLRB had insufficient evidence to uphold its findings of Wagner act violation. There have been five or six of these, involving Sands Manufacturing Co. an aufo parts concern, Lion Shoe Co. and Bell Oil & Gas Co. In these the Circuit Court reviewed the evidence of -unfair labor practices and found it

unconvincing.. The: NLRB expects |

to appeal one or two of these cases to obtain a final and authoritative ruling on how far it can .go in de-

termining whether an employer in-

tended to discourage organization

‘in doing certain acts complained of

by unions. 4, Rulings attacking the NLRB’s

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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procedure, notably the July 29 Cherry Cotton Mills decision requiring the Board to answer ‘interrogatories” as to whether the Board members actually considered all the facts in the case.” A ‘similar point was raised in the Ford Motor: Co.

case from Detroit, and decided

against the company, which. is bringing an early appeal for a‘ Supreme Court ruling on’ this procedural question. > ss.» 8 FIFTH important question, touching on A. F.of L-C. 1. O. rivalry, may be appealed by the Board. Plan In this case the New Orleans Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Labor Board ruling that Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Co. (Florida~tc-Havana) - violated the Wagner act in firing C: 1. .O.- workers and hiring new ‘crews from the A. F. of L.s International Seamen's Union, under a practically closedshop agreement with. the I. 8. U. . The crews, all under I. 8. U. contract, switched to the new C. I. O. maritime union, and their leaders demanded that the contract be transferred. The company refused, and hired an all-I. 8S. U. crew, which the Circuit: Court upheld as

justified “for the benefit of the public.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the name of the * great vulture of the Andes? 2—In astronomy, what is the . equinox. $ pat 3—What is the name of the plane. in which Howard Hughes flew ‘around the world? 4—Name the two largest sheep raising countries. : : 5—Why are jewels used in watches? : 6—Name the famous waterfalls in the Zambezi River, Africa. Y¥-Can wales have "a higher perature than its point? : Pulling > oo. = =

Answers

- 2—That ‘time of the year: when the day and night are equal. 3—New York World’s Fair 1939. 4—Australia and Russia. : S-~Bewuse of their hardness

ASK THE TIMES Inciose a 3-cent stamp for question of fact or information 8t, N. W., Washing-

quiet heroism. Da

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couple of German barbers had the bleeding business sewed up, too. -They operated in the basement of a

frame building on the southeast corner of Washing-

ton and Meridian Sts., what is now called the “Cross Roads of America.” That was about 80 years ago. These two barbers, besides having clientele of their own, furnished all.the doctors around here with real-for-sure, live leeches of the Macrobdella decora variety which were so mechanically perfect that every one was guaranteed to relieve a sufferer of three ounces of blood in 15 minutes, or your money returned

“with no questions asked.

Jane Jordan— Don't Show Too Great an Interest In a Man at the Start, Girl Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN~-My problem is that 1 am bored with life. At 26 years I should have a full life. I try to be a good sport. My greatest trouble . men is that I can’t keep them long enough. Please don’t tell me to join clubs and attend social gatherings because I have tried it so often and it doesn’t- work with me. I am at my wit's end as to what to do. I am timid and never forward. What role would you suggest that I play to get my ant

. %- 8. : : Answer—Possibly youre too timid. You don’t know how to sell yourself. People tend to accept us at our evaluation of ourselves, and if we do not think much of ourselves, we haven’t much chance to make others think much of us either. As I understand it you can attract men in the first place but can’t keep them. Perhaps at the outset you give a man the impression that you are more interested in him than you really are. Then when you show your true feelings he does not:come back. You will find that those girls successful in attract ing men don’t come right out and express their feele ings. Such an attitude really wounds a man’s pride, - Rather, they provide him good company and send him away feeling he is attractive and difficult to resist. Naturally: he enjoys this extremely pleasant impression of himself and comes back to enjoy it time ‘after time. : \ : The other day I heard a fisherman say that he fished all day without getting a single strike but that he had a dandy time nevertheless. The fish were just elusive enough to keep him interested. Although he made no catch he had a perfectly grand time. You go and do likewise. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems tier to J Jordan, : PRE. your questions 3 his te famn daily. who will J

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

HY many Americans know that the Homestead Act was passed in 1862 and repealed as recently as 1935? That the greatest period of homesteading was between 1913 and 1926? That in the 1930s homesteading was continuing at the same rate as in the 1860s? ; : : d So Rose Wilder Lane tells us in the preface to her novel FREE LAND (Longmans). - When

| David Beaton and his bride drove the two matched | Morgans from his father's Minnesota barnyard, head-

ing toward the new claim farther west, there literally and figuratively a “hard row ah most fertile land had already been gobbled up in speculators’ gambles. In spite of the inevitable drought and blizzard, solitude and illness, receding capital and climbing debt, the two young people showed a vid and Mary Beaton would not be licked. NE

Their story is simply and honestly written, an ppealing

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his native Kentucky mountains living was difficult to wrest from the At 17 he left home, traveled with a became a steel worker In BEYOND (Dutton) he narrates with beauty and own history, in the course of which he covery that he could never be content ; his own country and the hills which were

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