Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1938 — Page 13
'agabond From Indiana = Ernie Pyle
Fred Davis Makes a Nice Living Working but Eight Hours a Month; His Job Is to Photograph Quins.
CALLANDER, Ontario.—Almost any fore- > noon or afternoon or evening you can step into a certain cottage ‘on the shore of ‘Lake Nipissing, and a couple of guys in|. shorts will be whamming away at table ten‘nis across the big dining room table. One of them will be Fred Davis, the man who takes all the pictures of the Dionne Quintuplets. The other will be’ anybody Fred can get to play with him. Davis arrived in Callander the second day after the Quintuplets were born. With less than half a dozen exceptions, he has shot every still picture of the children ever made. During ‘ the winter, he ‘lives in a hotel in Toronto, and makes trips up. But in' summer, he stays heré He and Dr. Dafoe are, of course, good friends. 3 Sharing the cottage with him are Keith Munro, the Quins’ business manager (and old newspaper pal Mr. Pyle of Davis), and Mrs. Munro. Davis actually spends only about eight hours a month photographing the children. So ‘his life becomes one of active leisure. Before the war, Fred Davis was just. another youngster who could play hockey pretty well. He worked at common jobs in Toronto stores and rubber factories. He didn’t have to work hard, for he was on the payroll mainly to play on their “amateur” hockey teams. Davis served three years in the Canadian Army.
After the war, Davis found that three years was too long to be off skates, and he wasn't any good at hockey any more. He heard the Government was giving photographic cqurses to veierans. He took one. So, like many another, Fred Davis is what he is today because of the war. Except in his case, it_has made life good. His first newspaper photographer’s job in Toronto paid him $25 a week. His pay went up uncannily. He was making as high as $15,000 before the Quintuplets were born. His income is no less now than it used to be, you can be sure of that. Davis has taken around 6500 pictures of the * Quins: After he makes a batch, he drives the 220 miles to Toronto, develops his films at the Toronto Star, makes an extra set of prints for Dr. Dafoe, and then sends everything to NEA Service in Cleveland, which supplies trem to The Indianapolis Times.
He has not kept a complete set of his pictures. But Dr. Dafoe has. Davis says the children are much easier to photograph, now that they're bigger. They do what you tell them to, and don’t scamper all over the ‘place.
Directs Children in English
The hardest picture he ever took was for an advertising calendar. He had to get each child holding something different, each a certain way, and all five at once. It took him five days, the longest he has ever worked on one picture. : He does most of his shooting just after the children have breakfast. They're more alert then. He works only an hour a day with them, and an average of only eight days a month. The children call him Monsieur Davis, and if he doesn’t show up for a week or two, they inquire about him from the nurses.
Davis speaks only doughboy French, so he directs the children in English. They usually understand, too. But the nurses always help him with the pictures anyway. 1 asked Davis if the children hadn’t become pretty camera-conscious by now. “They certainly have,” he said. “As soon as they see ga‘ camera they start posing.” ah = 24 » Davis is very proud of the children, and very fond of them, too. But he isn’t foolishly doting over them. It’s a more deep concern for their welfare. He is a real force in all the planning and thinking that goes on in their behalf. He has ideas, and expresses them. He is even genuinely interested in the rather hopeless task of advising the Dionne family for their own good. . He and Oliva are on good terms. Mrs. Dionne, however, hates anybody who even knows Dr. Dafoe, so she barely speaks to Davis. There's nothing he or. anybody else can do about that.
My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Fitst Lady Can't Give Reporters An Angle on Father Divine Story.
YDE PARK, N. Y., Wednesday.—I had just filed my column yesterday and was waiting for a traffic light to change, when two men stood unexpectedly at my car window. In unison they spoke: “We represent two great metropolitan dailies and we want to know if you were disturbed by Father Divine and his followers on their arrival at their new home across the river from you?” I am staying at my cottage, which is some three miles back from the river, so I had to confess to having no knowledge of anything which had transpired some six miles away. A look of disappointment spread over my questioners’ faces. I felt sorry not to be able to give them some kind of a story, but one must be truthful, I have a request from an unknown correspondent who wishes me to state in my column why the Government is not dishonest in placing 3 per cent Government notes in the “Old-Age Reserve Account” instead of investing, as a private bank or business would, in an income producing bond or stock. She says she - would like to have domestic servants included in the Social Security Act if the Government did not spend the money paid into this fund for current expenses and, by so doing, give no future security such as a private individual or a firm would give, :
No Experts Consulted
The answer seems to me obvious, though I have consulted no financial experts and realize that I may be wrong. If you believe in the solvency of your country .and the ability of the people to pay the debts which the country incurs, then those Government notes are as good security for the future as you can have. In any investment you gamble on someone’s judgment. Many people know today that conservative investments made at one time may become valueless at some future time. However, there is one thing we can be sure of— if every country cannot pay its debts, then no private investment will have any value either. So I would take a chance on those Government notes, dear questioner; pay my taxes cheerfully and hope that Government help to business and individuals may not be needed to.so great an extent in the future. Then the Government debt may gradually. be reduced and a reduction in taxes will follow. Today has been a glorious day. I haven't wanted to ride for days, partly because the flies and the | mosquitoes in the woods were discouraging to horses and rider, and partly because the ‘og and damp heat made me wonder if anything was really worth doing. However, I feel today that I could enjoy even strenuous exercise.
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, Aug. 11.—You’d be surprised how many letters I get askin’ my advice about matrimony or what to do for gumboils or how to make a feather mattress. Down home, nobody ever regarded me as a fountain of wisdom and I always tried to keep out of other people's affairs. I've found folks can do a sight of harm in giving advice. I've seen it proved, time and again, right in my own family. Grandpa Snazzy met my Uncle Slug on tite street . one day and said, “Slug, you're just the man I've ‘been lookin’ for! I took your advice and told Grandma straight out that she couldn’t boss and henpeck me any more.” Uncle Slug slapped Grandpa on the back and said, “Good for you, Snazzy! Now you can
By Joe Collier
AN
miles in each direction. Although the directional radio landing beams, subject of much experiment at Municipal Airport here by Department of Com-
. merce scientists, guide the
pilots ‘by a series of code noises, it is not until there is a dead silence in the ear
that he is over the field. Although to the person idly
watching planes come and 80 ab the port it seems that it is effortless and that there is no pressing traffic problem, actually when Nish Dienhart, : port manager, drives his auto over the runways ta inspect them, he constantly scans the sky to be sure he will not he a incoming. plane. No plane can land or take off from Municipal | Airpor{ - against orders of Mr. .Dienhart or the
. person acting for him in his ab-
sence. That includes. transport planes : whose. lines rent office space in the Administration Building and who maintain their own
planes. “Suppose two planes of different lines show on the horizon at the
phones that the pilot knows
trafic hazard for an
two-way radio contact with their :
Ne ow that ih pansenge? transport planes are being’ built it is erititely possible that the lines using them will have to use Indianapolis as their port. of call, rather than Chicago where the field is too small, Nish Dienhart, airport superintendent, believes. The reason is graphically shown i in
airport is. a paradoxical thing. i v Although ‘planes fly in the free: air, the real fight’ me among all ports in the country for years, and especially now, is to build wide concrete roadways that would be the pride of most state highway departments. Although the air is free, there is a virtual dictatorship over a port like Municipal Airport, extending 15
same time. ~The control man, speaking for Mr. Dienhart, tells which one of them must land first and which must cruise until the other has landed. This in
spite of -the fact that minutes are:
precious: to an airline, and competition is razor edged: This also in spite. of the fact that pilots are expected to estimate pretty accurately’ the amount of gas
they will use on a given trip and
cruising costs ‘extra gas. . - 8 88
RANSPORT lines are not interested in taking chances with ‘their planes and ground
themselves when flying conditions
are unfavorable. But. Mr. Dienhart or his spokesman could rule them grounded if ‘necessary. : Mr. Dienhart frequently has ruled private planes grounded when the pilot or passengers ‘discounted the weather and. were about to take off anyway. * A ceiling of less than. 800 feet is _conside ered too
dangerous. . There is no appeal from ‘Mr.
Dienhart’s decision in the matter and, since ‘he: is empowered. to rule in such cases’ by the Department of. Commerce, a pilot violating his orders would: be subject to losing his license. . Years ago—long before anyone ever planes and long before any airline thought of running. them regularly—the problems. that these
as’ Second-Class 2 Fostetivn, ne lanenous ind
TIC Ser r Town
the aerial photo. The dotted lines show the. additional runways that have been proposed. . Site of the proposed néw Federal aircraft radio experimental station is shown ‘marked off at the right of the present concrete runway system.
| with a letter to Mr. Longfellow. The poems
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an Indianapolis City ar ton.
booth
mentioned. ‘44-passenger -
‘new shige create were solved by
“One thousand: aid “10 acres of land were bouglit. for the port in a section that contained hundreds more flat acres that could pe bought for additions. Now that the 44-passenger land giants are being built, it is entirely possible that the, lines using them will have to use Indianapolis as a -pwri- of call for them, rather than Chicago, where the field is now t.0 small to handle them. Moreover, after’ tHoroughly surveying the ‘available facilities of practically every Middle Western port, the Department of Commerce chose Indianapolis for: its new experimental station, for which ¥ PWA funds are reporied forth‘coming.
R.DIENHART and other civic VA leaders confidently expect other aircraft = manufacturing plants to follow the Department of
Commerce here, and create a new
industrial: center for Indianapolis, and a new center of aerial indus-~ try or the nation.”
sons concerned agree -today that he did a wonderful job of picking. Mr. Dienhart said that, only two other ports in the nation have a greater acreage ‘than Municipal Airport here, and acreage is what the modern airport needs to take ‘the big. flying ships they are building now.. ;
“When we get our new #un-.
ways built,” Mr. Dienhart :siid, “we can handle any ship they can get into the air.” ‘Now, when the new. runways 8 are
built there will be ‘more than
eight miles of concrete ‘highways at the airport, 104 feet: wide. Cut
administra-
Charles A. ‘Lindbergh i picked out the site when ‘the City: of Indianapolis-decided to go into the airport business’ and all per--
down to average highway size, -
they would ave ‘a road from_here
to. N obles
The a ‘cross ‘and’ recross !
dike a problem in plane geometry, and, although they seem small from the sidelines or the air, they really are extraordinarily spacious when you drive Shem in an auto.
INCE 1822, records show,’ the southwest to northeast .winds
have blown 23.7 per cent of ‘the -
time over Indianapolis ‘and thus’ qualify as the Indianapolis ‘prevailing wind."
Airplanes: need speed: ‘and’ air to
“take off and land. Thus, one runway extends alorig the path of the prevailing. ‘wind and is the most
constantly used. Others ‘extend
along paths of other winds, persistent but not prevailing! ‘The Weather Bureau, established by the Government as fact finder for agriculture, now proe duces an abundance of information for the fliers. Day and night, men are on duty at the Airport station: of the Weather Bureau, checking the symptoms of nature and predicting its behavior so that the airlines will be safe. And over all this activity, and .many other phases of the flying industry, the airport manager is king, or dictator, or absolute’ authority for a distance of 15 miles.
Church Services Held for Jailed German Pastor
By NEA Services io : 1 oT ,. Aug. un a us pray for: Pastor. Niemoeller in : his solitary cell!” Those earnest’ ord; Hina
through historic ®: Bt Marti’s-in-the-Fields Church, show how the
cause of the German pastor im_prisoned by Hitler: al agitates
England. ‘This special intercession service is: typical of many. held in England by people of various faiths allied to Niemoeller’s ‘German’ ‘Evangelical beliefs. This continued interest in Niemoeller’s fate :has never
slackened ‘since the time, four years
ago, when ‘Nazi ‘authorities “began putting an -ever- * pressure on the’ famous and; outspoken
pastor. Ey time Nismoeller preached: “his church | A Dahlem,. ‘Nazi
agents took down his words. On
July 1, 1937, he was arrested.
For eight months Niemoeller lay in jail on flimsy charges. Then he was found guilty and sentenced to seven months’ detention in a fortress. Having already served ‘eight months, he was discharged. His wife and children were overjoyed. ‘But their joy was uickly stilled immediately seized by the secret police and carried off to the concentration camp
when Niemoeller w
at Sachsenhausen,
When Nazi authorities. attempted to: mold his preaching to conform Niemoeller - said
to their ideas, - simply:
“The: Lord: did: not tell me; ‘Go into the world and adapt My words to fit political conditions.’ He said, And that is what I am going to do, no’ matter
“Teach My words.’ what ‘may happen to me.”
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Everyday Movies—By Wartman
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which state has the nickname “Diamond State”? 2—What does pro tempore ‘mean? 3—Name the smallest of the Great Lakes. 4—What major league baseball club is managed by Del Baker? :
| 5—Name: the channel that wp :
arates ascar from the mainland of Africa.
6—What is a cygnet? : 7—Name the national flower of
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Matter
By Anton Scherrer
Riley Was All Set or a. ares As a Sign. Painter Until He Sent Some of His Poems to Longfellow.
THE story I am about to tell dates back to 1876, but, for some reason, James
| Whitcomb Riley waited 37 years before he
was ready to release it. By that time it was 1913 when Mr. Riley was at the height of his career. I haven't any way of knowing, ‘of course, why he waited so long to tell the story, but I have a hunch that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had something to do with it. At any rate, it looks as if Mr. Riley wanted : “<
to be absolutely sure that Mr. Longfellow knew i] he was: talking
i about.
Back in 1876, Mr. Riley. was sunk so low that he was just about ready to give up. His father wanted him to be a lawyer. As a matter of
fact, Riley. actually did read Black-
stone in his father’s law office at
| Greenfield. That is to say, he read
Blackstone when his father was ; Gate : around. When he was left to him- A Mf Scherrer self, Riley occupied his time writing original verses, using the copy of Blackstone to support his: notebooks Nobody around here cared much for his verses and that’s when Riley got the idea of becoming a sign painter, the only -other art he knew anything about, Before making up his mind about the sign painting business, however, he was seized ‘with the notion of collecting a batch of poems, and sending them represented his Blackstone period and included “If I Knew What a Poet Knows,” “The Dreamer,” “The Iron Horse,” and “In the Dark.” The last of these was written in a. melody reminiscent of Longfellow, and it goes to show how slick Riley was, as you
| shall presently see.
A Turning Point
The letter of encouragement which Riley received proved a turning point in his career. “I have read the ‘poems with great pleasure,” said Longfellow, “and think they show the true poetic faculty and insight. » The best part of the letter, though. was the inclosure. It consisted of the poems Mr. ‘Long=
fellow: had received. They were all there with the exception of “In the Dark,” written in fhe reminiscent Apparently Longfellow was so taken with -it that he kept it. After that, until Longfellow’s death, the two poets exchanged letters regularly. In 1882, just three months before Longfellow died, Riley - visited him, There’s a story connected with that, too. For weeks Longfellow had been confined to his bed and all visitors had been denied the privilege of seeing him. But. when Riley appeared, the doctors made an exe ception and allowed him to enter the sick room. After Longfellow’s death, Riley ‘made. several pile grimages to the poet's grave in Cambridge, and it was after such a visit that he wrote “At the Grave of Longfellow.” Some of the lines have been preserved in Riley’s poem now called “Longfeilow’s Love for the Children.” There .is a legend that Riley liked it about as well as anything he ever wrote.
Jane Jordan—
Dissatisfied MothemindLaw ® Neods To Find Outlet for Her Energies.
EAR JANE JORDAN-I am a young married man, faced with the problem of what to do with my wife’s mother. Although she has four children, hap
- pily married, she is not happy in any of their homes.
All are anxious to provide a- separate home for her,
{ but she only thinks of the time when they were small
and at home with her. Don’t you think that if they provide a comfortable home for her, she should try to. make herself satisfied and allow the others to lead their own lives, just as she dig when she was a young married an? Is it right for her to destroy the happiness of her children and their families through what I her selfishness? ; . : : WORRIED HUSBAND, y: 82» os
Answer—The {rouble with your mother-in-law is
that she is‘a woman out of a job. She's a member
of the unemplo Accustomed . to being busy, ace
- tive and needed, she now finds herself with nothing
to do for the first time in years. All the energies she once centered on her children are without outlet. The mistake she made was in not making a life for herself apart from her children as she went along. She should have.looked ahead to the time when the children would be grown and she had won honorable discharge from her duties. As it is she is fixated on a certain period of her life when her children were dependent upon her instead of vice versa. : .Well, it is not. too late for her to develop some new interests: I° once knew of an old lady who learned to play the piano and write on the typewriter after she was 65. She used her music for recreation and did typing for her son-in-law for pay. All you can do is establish your wife's mother ina home of her own and encourage her to find something to do to occupy her mind. e period of readjustment - is difficult: where one od made no mental preparation for change. If youll be kind but firm in giving her enough attention but not too much, I think she'll get used to the idea that she is no longer the busy mother of small children, and perhaps she will find some compensations. You're entirely right in. or eo that she has no right to destroy the happiness of her children, nor do I think she actually wants to do this. It is just that she doesn’t know how to get attention for here self in any other way except by stressing her joblesse ness. JANE JORDAN.
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