Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1938 — Page 9
29 times. sat on the lawn of the Blinkbonnie Inn in Ganano--
of charge on any one of 13 Government islands.
ADONC
! rom Indiana =—Ermie Pyle
Wanderer Finally: Abandons Idea Of Counting the Thousand Islands, But Finds They Sell at Low Figure.
GANANOQUE, Ontario, Aug. 15.—All my life I’ve been hearing about the wonderful Thousand Islands, but I never did know where they were, and I'll bet most of you | don’t either.
Well, I'll tell you—Lake Ontario is the farthest east of the five Great Lakes. At its east end it keeps on going, and becomes the St. Lawrence River. For about 50 miles after it leaves Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence is very wide, and seems more like a lake than a river. It is very full of islands, and this is what is called the
Thousand Islands. The boundary between Canada and the U. S. runs right down the middle of the river, so about half of the islands are Canadian and : half American. Those on the American side are in New York State. ; Of course there are not exactly 1000 islands.: One fellow told me. Mr. Pyle there are 1532. Ancther fellow : said 1692. I set out to correct this discrepancy by a personal count, but after about ‘three hours discovered I had counted one island So I just gave ‘up: ahd went back and:
que, which is ‘“Gananock-wee.” Outside of an airplane, the only way to see the Thousand Islands is by boat. Enclosed speed boats from Gananoque will take you on a three-hour, 45mile trip through the islands for $1.50. ‘Most of the Thousand Islands are beautifully wooded, and very green. They would make ideal summer homes, and in fact that’s exactly what most of them are. - The islands run all the way from rock shoals you could barely stand on with one foot on up to a great ivland 22 miles long, with farms and villages So everything. Both the Canadian and U. S. governments have set aside some of the islands as parks, open free to the public. On the Canadian side you can camp he ou have to: move to another island every two weeks to ‘keep you from becoming a squatter or homesteadar “or something. But even doing that, you could live for six months free on these islands. A lof of ‘people do. . You pass some amazing places on your boat trip. One. island is so small that the house built on it ‘covers the whole island. The boatman says it belongs to a Montreal man whose doctor ordered him .to take a long rest. So he bought this small island so he wouldn’t- have any place to walk even if. he wanted to. Some of the small islands have mere little two-by four shacks on them. Others, especially on the American side, have million-dollar castles that seem to me the ultimate in showing off your money with bad taste.
You pass two little islands, very close “together. 3 They're about the size of two city lots. On one is
a beautiful summer home, with lawn and boat-: house and summer chairs. The other is a colorful little flower park. A foot-bridge of about 40 feet
. connects them.
Your boatman says this is the shortest international bridge in the world. He says the Canada-U. S. line runs right between the little islands. ¢
It’s Still a Nice Story
But later a fellow on shore told me the whole thing was a myth, and got out a Government chart to prove it. south, which makes both islands Canadian, and the bridge isn’t international. It’s a nice story, though. - Since it is the ambition of most everybody to own an island somewhere, I asked a few questions about "island prices. It seems there are plenty left for sale, and very cheap, too. - There isn’t any red tape about an American owning a Canadian island. You don’t have in becume a citizen, you merely pay county land taxes, the customs men are nice to you. Of course you could buy an American island, but that wouldn’t be any fun You can get a small island big enough for a house and leg-siretching room, at anywhere from $85 up to $500, And if you want to get into the big island stuff, you can get one for a few thousand.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Rounding-Up Two Stray Horses in
Neighborhood Is H™E PARK, Sunday.—In spite of leading the gayest life socially since Mr. and Mrs. Gray have been with us, we manage to swim every day and I have an early morning ride. - Many people ‘have wanted to see Mr. and Mrs. Gray, so yesterday we went out both to lunch and tea. Olin Dows showed us the drawings which he is making for {he decorations in the new Rhinebeck postoffice and I think they are extremely interesting.
There is sow-much historical research necessary, . which, carried through from the founding of a small town to the present day, gives a sense of perspective
and shows the rapidity of change in our. civilization. .
Right from the landing of the first sailing ship which came up the river and started the little settlement, we come to the automobile with all the intermediate stages of transportation shown in the decoration. There was a little difference of opinion between Mr. Dows and his mother as to the identity of one of the old portraits in their sitting room and he dashed out to find some old books with pictures in them. I can - never decide who is who when I look at different portraits, for I don’t think the old painters were very good in obtaining likenesses. However, I. am inclined to believe that Mrs. Dows is: right in saying that the portrait which: hangs in her living room is the portrait of Chancellor Ligingston and the lady next to him is his mother.
Unable to Find Caretaker
On Friday afternoon we had one of those little excitements that occasionally enliven a quiet country afternoon.. The telephone rang and Mrs. Moses Smith, our neighbor across the main road, announced rather excitedly that two of our horses were cavorting on her lawn. They were much too wild for her to do anything with them. I ran to find the man who takes care of them, but could not locate him anywhere, In the meantime, Mrs. Smith telephoned again to say that her husband was in a hayfield far away and somebody must come at once. Finally I found my man and, after I had started
him over on foot, it occurred to me that I might hurry’ the process somewhat if I took him in my car, so I.
came back to get my car—but no key for the car! It wasn’t in any of the places where I leave the key or
anybody else is supposed to leave it. Then I found |.
my uncle, Mr. Gray, reading peacefully on the porch. I must have looked somewhat excited for he.asked if he could do anything for me. I responded: “If you could only find the key to my car!” He answered quietly: “I have the key in my pocket.” By the time I finally got over to Mrs. Smith's, the horses were caught and everything was calm.
Bob Burns Says—
JOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15.—Almost everybody's heard: |: |: about actors havin’ “yes men” out here in‘Holly- | * wood and I ain’t denyin’ they do have ‘em but actors |
have’ta pay for ’em and they can only have as many
as they can afford. When it comes to havin’ “yes | |
men” the director is the king of all of 'em. Everybody tries to do somethin’ for the director to attract his y raion to ‘em so he'll remember ’em on the next job. We were on location the other night and I was sitfin’ in a car over out of the way when suddenly a big blaze lit u up the sky. I sat up, thinkin’ the whole set: was going up in flames, when a fella next
to me says, “Don’t Woy ain’t Bptliing, The di-
The line actually runs ‘about 600 feet’
Exciting Task..
After lunch, Mr.
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938
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They Never Say No’
Messengers’ Duties Include Acting, Donating Blood and Tending Pets.
By Cecil Ross
O you think your work
is fascinating, eh? Then listen to what Postal Telegraph and Western Union messengers —whose offices never say “No” to a call—have to do. They rush oxygen tanks to the dying to save their lives—are sometimes called on to give blood transfusions; speed chilled watermelon to the bedside of a woman whose last request
was for a bite of the
Geongia fruit, tend dogs, monkeys and babies.
They fight traffic on their bicy- . | cles—those-on emergency runs use
automobiles—watch your - house while you're gone forthe weekend, take roles inthe cast of your community play if one of the actors turns up missing, escort your
child out to Grandmother's when -
you don't want to bother with the youngster and deliver mothers’ milk to babies who need it. j x 50» HE greatest tribute to these youngsters; who work night and day, and never say “No,” is this letter, written in cryptic telegraph office style: “Some time ago . .. a pharmacy called requesting that a messenger be/rushed . . . to get a tank of oxygen . . . and take it to a
(North Side) home because the"
gauge on the ‘tank there showed
Zero. “1 assigned Paul’ Ehlers, 33, of 1215 Polk St. tu. the run and he made it in record, time. ' “When he arrived with the tank and after carrying. it to the third floor apartment . .". ‘the woman was taking her. last breath out.of
* the old tank and ‘he assisted. the
physician in making connection with the new tank. “I understand the speed and
promptness on the part of Messenger 57 (Mr. Ehlers), saved: this
woman’s life. . . . ® » » Faves GALLAGHER, now manager of the S. Capitol Ave, branch of the Postal Telegraph Co. son of Police Sergt. Frank H. Gallagher, described how a call to his office for blood don-
ors led him to Methodist Hospital for a transfusion in an effort to
save a life. “When I was a messenger boy several years ago, a call came in for all boys that were willing to go to the hospital to be tested for the type of their blood,” Mr. Gallagher said. “I went to the hospital, was accepted after 30 others had been - rejected. After the transfusion, the patient revived, but died a few days later, “I received no thanks, no pay “for the blood donated, and lost two days’ work afterward because of weakness.” . Do the boys like their work? “We have more applications for work than we have jobs to. fill,” Sidney J. Haspel, Western Union delivery manager, said.
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I. HARVEY, Postal Telegraph . messenger supervisor, de-
- scribed the hazards and handicaps
facing the messengers today.
“Hoodlums may let the air out’
of your bicycle tires, automobiles may crash into you and you may find yourself on some dark, rainy
night going out on a false errand.” Here’s a messenger boy’s work,
assorted and wrapped up like a.
Christmas stocking: “Go to Apartment -- and. pick up a monkey. Take to Union Station and deliver to the ‘baggage map.” “Here, boy! Sit in Mr. — house until he returns. While they were away last week, somebody ran-
- from C
Here is one of the boys who never say “No.”
He is showing how
‘Messenger Paul Ehlers shouldered a tank of oxygen before Tushing _it to the bedside of an invalid, thereby saving a life.
sacked the place. You can play .
the radio and you'll find lunch
‘ laid out for you.”
” » "
E brought Daughter downtown to see Santa Claus.
‘She’s seen. him. and now, were : :
ready to do our: shopping. = Take
Daughfer out to her: grandmoth :
er’s.” “We need a messenger ny in our play.” .And thus it was that Gerald Lowry, 17, of 1531 E. Market St., won his nickname, “John Barrymore.” (Besides his pay, he got a box of chocolates.) “Carpenter is dying for-a walk. Send a boy! (Carpenter is a
Chow dog, resident of ‘an-apart-ment, who needs an hour’s trot.) ° But the messengér. boy's life
isn't all fun. Sometimes he’s face-to-face with tragedy. ora “My friend is dying... She's #sking for a piece of cold watermelon. Can you get it there? That's her last request?” : And again—
For six weeks—once each’ day—
a messenger rushed mothers’ milk.
homes: sustli of ailin fants.
Want your : dishes washed? ;
life mn a couple
Messenger hows never say “No.”
ospital to North Side.
Does he look like John Barrymore? No, but that’s what Gerald
Lowry’s messenger boy pals call him.
He once took a role in a com-
munity play when one of the actors turned up missing.
: Times Photos.
"Francis Gallagher of ‘Postal is shown answering a call which might well have been like one that came in when he was a messenger boy. It was a plea for blood donors, and he responded.
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Finds Canadians Live Longer
‘| By Science Service
ore ‘Canada, Aug." 15— J Canadian children stand a ‘better chance of reaching three score years and 10, than American children of the same age, according to findings of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics here. - Based on the 1931 census, the first time that deaths were ‘compared with the living population in order that prob-
-.| abilities of dying could be reckoned,
the survey, just released, shows that a ALA boy of 5 years can look forward to 62.30 years of life, while an English boy had only 60 years abead of him and the American boy 59.38 years. Tht Study of mortality in 15 countries shows that. only two have a lower male mortality from ages 25 ‘to 45 than Canada, these being Holland and Denmark. Chance of an
per cent greater than that for a Canadian boy, of a Japanese boy 169 per cent and of an East Indian Boy 637 per cent greater. There are far more people attaining the allotted span of life than ever before, but there are not appreciably more - centenarians than there were 100 years ago, the Bureau reports.
Roosevelt's Party Purge Has Almost Exact Parallel In Second Administration of Woodrow Wilson
By Thomas L. Stokes - Times Special Writer . ASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 15— President Roosevelt's party purge movement, catapulted into national interest again by his onslaught against Senators George of Georgia and Smith of South Carolina, has almost an exact parallel in the second administration of Woodrow Wilson.
President Wilson, both openly and covertly, sought the defeat in the 1918 primaries of - Democrats who had opposed. his war policies and the re-election of those who had stood by him. Of particular interést in connection with the present phase of the Roosevelt purge movement in Georgia and South Carolina is the fact that President Wilson fought
similar battles in both’ those states in 1918—and won. In a letter to thé late Clark Howell, Atlanta publisher and Democratic National Committeeman, he opposed Senator Tom Hardwick as
of my administration” and asked for the election of the Late William J. Harris. That, like the present contest, was a threecornered race, the other candidate being William Schley Howard. President Roosevelt’s opposition to Senator George and his plea for the election of Lawrence Camp came just 20 years to the day, Aug. 11, after publication of the Wilson letter opposing Senator Hardwick. Mr. Harris won handily and served in the Senate until his death in 1932. In South Carolina President Wil-
“g constant and active opponent
son opposed ex-Governor Cole E. Biease. The President indorsed Nathaniel B. Dial, who was elected but: lost out to. Mr. Blease six years later. The latter is a candidate for Governor this year. President Wilson also won his fight in Mississippi against Senator James K. Vardaman, who had fought United States entry into the World War. The Senator was opposed: by Rep. Pat Harrison, who got the Wilson blessing and began a Senate career that still continues. On the affirmative side, President Wilson induced Senator James
| Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who had
been a stout advocate of his war measure, to run in 1918, though the Senator had contemplated retirement. The Senator won renomina-
tion but was defeated in the election by Senator ‘Medill McCormick, Republican. Mr. Lewis is back in the Senate today.
Mr. Wilson did not stop with Senators. He interceded in the House primaries. When he asked for the defeat of Rep. James L. Sladen of Texas, the Congressman retired from the race. He was unsuccessful in seeking the defeat of Rep. George Huddleston of Alabama,
Nor did President Wilson wait until the 1918 primaries to act against those who had opposed his war policies. In the spring of 1917, when a Wisconsin Senator died, he openly fought Rep. Irvine Lenroof, then allied with the La Follette group in Wisconsin, and sought election of Joseph Davies, more recently a diplomat. But he lost there.
Side Glances—By Clark
Everyday Movies—By Wortman
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the name for the envelope of incandescent gases Which & SEOs the body of
: oa staté is Death Val= - ley? 3—Who won the recent 1938 . Chicago Open golf: cham,pionship? 4-"Name the science which describes and classifies the different kinds of mineral matter constituting the material of the earth’s crust. . 5—Of what plant is linseed oil a product? ° 6—In which part of the human body is the muscle known as the biceps? -M—What is the motto of ‘the State of New York? 2 = = Answers
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Was ington By Raymond Clapper
There Is No Talk About Dewey of New York, but This. Is Recognized As Another Meaningful Silence.
(Anton Scherrer Is on Vacation)
VW ASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 15.—Do not be de- ‘ ceived, trusting reader, by the silence’ regarding Dewey of New York. Important events often approach as if on rubber soles. - This young prosecutor is looked upon
with. eager eye by many a hungry Republican as the man who can lead the party back to public:
office: and prosperity. Just the man to draft as Re- . publican candidate for Governor.
Extensive silence about that now .is not to be ig- | nored but on the contrary to be recognized as one of the two most meaningful silences in. American politics at the moment, the other being Roose-
.velt’s on the third term. .
Dewey was elected only last fall as District Attorney in New. York to follow through on his
. cleanup of Tammany racketeer-
ing. He not only has something like four score convictions under Ris Thels but he has peneng the ’ g : case , involving the ict- Mr. Cla ment of a Tammany insider, Mz. Clapper Jimmy Hines, on racketeering charges, the trial to start: today. Under such circumstances 1t would be inexpedient and : worse than thai for young Dewey to be taking time out to grab himself a bigger job at Albany and Republicans generally have had the consideration. to say as little as possible out loud about the matter, Last spring a group of young Republicans a* Albany
‘adopted resolutions urging Dewey for Governor but
he replied that he was busy with his job and was “not a candidate”—which of course left him silently but definitely in the field. Nobody ever is a “cane didate” for anything important. They let the office seek the man—as much as it will. . State Chairman Murray has been talking around auite sympathetically and favorably about Dewey ad the word is circulating. He’s such a natural that a draft will be hard to stop.. From that point on, you will find Republicans lapsing into rosy dreams. Dewey, if nominated, would have a good chaice of going to Albany, that powerful springboard
~ which has sent so- many men leaping toward the
White House, the last one of whom is there yet. Last fall, Dewey took the office of District Attore ney away. from Tammany which had held it ‘20 years. Democrats seem determined to nominate a Class B candidate for Governor. ‘Dewey can be elected if any Republican can.
A Fresh Face
‘What. makes him appealing as a national Repub
lican figure: is that first of all he is a fresh face, a live figure in a party of snoozing stuffed shirts. And along about 1940 there may te a demand for.somebody
who is expert in cleaning up rackets. Petty racketeer--:ing grows up in the best of organizations and the huge
New Deal agencies will be ripe for some heavy massaging in a couple years more. Buf it’s all an “if.” One of those decisive uifgm like the one which rose up exactly 10 years ago this fall when Franklin Roosevelt, then 46 years old, was in Georgia recovering from infantile paralysis, He
‘finally was talked into saying yes over the long dis-
tance telephone to Rochester, N. Y., where Democrats in state convention at once nominated him for Gove ernor. To say thai telephone call to Georgia made history is the ultimate in understatement. So, by chance, may another telephone call, from the coming Republican State Convention to Prosecutor Tom Dewey’s office in New York, open a new chapter in the political life of America.
Jane Jordan— Proposal of Boy Who Wants to Wed Immediately Puts Girl in Quandary.
\EAR JANE JORDAN—1 have lived in the » country all of my 25 years. I have just come . home from a dance and my boy friend, who is 30, proposed to me on the way home. Since I was an infant I have lived alone with my mother. Since I can remember she has stood by me in all my trials. At the present time she is very ill. Tonight when Herman proposed I explained the situation to nin and said I could not leave my mother now. He became angry and said he would not wait. What shall
I do? He Hi, .M. EF.
Answer—Perhaps he “wll | think Detter: of his decision tomorrow. If not, why break your heart over so thoughtless a man? If you had said that you would never leave your mother, he would have been right to take alarm, for every girl must learn to live without her mother some day. But if all you asked - him to do was to wait until she got well before you broke the news I think it very unfeeling of him to get so angry. Almost any many will resent it if he feels that a girl is under her mother’s thumb. Many times he has had enough of mother rule at home and doesn’t want more of the same in his married life. Are you sure you made it plain that the wait was only temporary and that you would leave your home for his as soon as your mather recovered? 2 8 = i pe JANE JORDAN-—1 have been married. & year and my husband doesn’t love me any more. I have a baby one month old. I love my hushang
and my baby. Please tell me what 1 can do.
PUZZLED GIRL.
Answer—Don’t be so sure sure your husband doesn’t love you any more. Perhaps he is just temporarily
fed up with marriage, and perhaps you haven't been
the easiest person in the world to live with yourself. Your cue is not to cry but simply to wait as pleasantly as possible until he gets over his feeling. Love is:so closely allied with hate that it doesn’t take much provocation’ sometimes to change the one into the other. Very often hate is nothing more than wounded, Jove. What have you done to wound your husband’s Pride? JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will : answer your Suestions in this column aay.
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