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NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Yes, 1 can say : with the Midwesterners: “New York's

{fine to visit once in a while, but I wouldn’t et live there for anything.”

> True, all but a comparative handful ers are just people, without any special genius. But

For I have lived here, and I don’t want

to again. But I do love to come into New

» York. : : of New York-

those few who have done the big things here—boy, things aren’t done as well anywhere in the world. H You only have to look at the shop windows, the towering buildings, the electric signs of Times Square, to know that nothing can quite touch New York. The city itself does not frighten me. Nor the people in it, as a whole. But I do get stage fright from reading the Broadway col- _ umnists. . The familiar way they toss off

| Mr. Pyle big names.

striped shirt watching Billy Rose's floor show. . . .

Walter Wanger planes into town from the Coast . . .

_ went to Arline Judge's party . .. Sherman Billings-

ley graciously hosting over the week-end.”

How do they get into all these places? I will never know what the inside of the Stork Club looks like. Lunch at the Waldorf would floor me. I've . never attended a first night. The other: boys are ‘ just old pals with all the big shots, and I don’t

, know anybody.

Oh, I've met Billy Rose. Met him in New York and Texas too. But he wouldn't know me. I could work here 10 years and never get up courage to write a palsy-walsy line about him. He scares me. If I.wrote a Broadway column, all I could do would be to go up and down the street peeking in - store windows, and writing stuff like this: The shirt shop in the Astor Hotel has a lemon- _ colored sport shirt I'd like to have . . . but that's the shop where a smart clerk bawled me ouf once for asking him to step to the window and see the shirt . I. had in mind . . . so I'm afraid to go in again. . .. No less than half of the people you .see on the northwest corner of 45th and Broadway are eating chocolate ice-cream cones. You can tell the out- _ of-towners from the locals . . . the out-of-towners wouldn’t think of eating ice-cream cones on Broad-

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A New Yorker Will Look at Anything

The old gag about New Yorkers stopping to look at anything two or more other people are looking at, ‘isn’t a bit exaggerated. . . . When we came out of a restaurant last evening there was such a mob looking in the window we could hardly get out. . . . So we edged through and looked too. . . . They were looking at a guy frying chicken in the window. ... He was frying it the same way you fry it at home.... We edged through another crowd at a restaurant window on Seventh Ave. That window had a machine

automatically frying hot cakes. The dough is squirted

every so often onto a slowly revolving hot plate. A flipper turns the cakes at the right time. When they are finished, a steel arm pushes them off onto a plate. Another arm takes the plate away, and drops a new onekinto place. . . . It is a marvelous machine. We

. stood and watched it a long time. . . .

In the entrance to Lord & Taylor's store you're - practically bowled over with a rush of sweet odor.... It comes from two little fountains of constantly flow- : perfume, one on each side of the entrance. . . . . People go up and stick their fingers in it, and hold

a their handkerchiefs in the stream. .. . It’s Eau de

Cologne. '. . . : i Have just heard ahout an

} heal n unusual hotel service, ough they say it isn’t new. .

. . It's an overnight

“kit for guests who get caught in town and have to

“stay at a hotel without toilet articles. . provides pajamas, shaving kit, toothbrush, comb, house «slippers and what not, all done up in a pasteboard © box. . . . No charge. ... ‘© Last night I peeked into the door of Billy Rose’s : Casa Manana. ... There was Billy graciously hosting . away ‘in a striped sports shirt. . . . Whoa, what was . that? ... Do you suppose I'm getting the hang of it?

‘My Diary

.By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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For a Young Man Named Pegler.

YDE PARK, Tuesday.—An unknown correspond- > ent from Southbridge, Mass, has sent me a

* newspaper clipping which I fear will make one of

‘my fellow columnists weep. His column, and I take it for granted that it is written by a gentleman, has been printed under my heading. His style is

somewhat racier than mine and on this particular + day he wrote somewhat lighily about the pianist

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Whoever forwarded it to me apparently was not favorably impressed and the comment

* inclosed reads: “Oh, Mrs. Roosevelt, what an article ~~ this is!

How could you be so rough and use such grammar. Phooey on such writing!” Poor Mr. Unknown Columnist, I am so sorry I brought this down upon your head, but I'm glad

> that I can share one of my really amusing comments

with you. I am sorry I did not read your column

originally, so I do not know which one of my fellow scribes actually wrote it.

- IT was so glad to return to the country yesterday ‘afternoon. I had a swim before dinner and felt decply sympathetic with my husband and all the others who had to return to Washington last night.

* I called him up this morning and he sounded most |

cheerful and as though returning to work was much . to be desired, whereas I feel delighted that it is still

< nearly a month off for me.

Broadway Column, and Maybe He Is - Right—but Let's Stroll With Him.

“Jed Harris in a:

. +.» The hotel:

If You Must Know That "Phooey" Is

i. Danny Roosevelt and I rode for a long time this * morning. Even though having his shoulder out of

+ joint makes swimming impossible, he can ride John’s

* Mexican pony and we enjoyed the exercise.

- Signs of Autumn Appear

The purple loose-strife becomes more beautiful every day and the swamp maples are turhing red.

" _ I am afraid I shall miss the most beautiful part

of the autumn coloring, for I will rot be here in

October. The frost will come early this year accord-

‘ ing to the katydids, so. we may have the best of the » gutumn coloring before we leave. Little Diana Hopkins has just arrived for a visit. ‘She came from camp and has just had a siege of mumps, so I hope we can give her a little. more country air and food before her winter in Washing- | ton begins. Now that it is cooler here I wish some of the grandchildren could be with us and I aope

= Betsy will bring~Sara and Kate before long.

We have been doing more writing of late and I

think, before long, Mrs. Schieder and I will be back

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in more vegular working habits. II we don’t do it gradually, we are going to find settling down to che usual routine in Washi n a most difficult

{ ordeal. What people do when they completely give +“ up responsibility for a period of time and then have © to pick it up again, I don’t know, for dropping part

"of my work makes me so lazy that I do less and

less every day.

Bob Burns Says—

& Jory voor. Aug. 31.—I've always found that

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when ‘two people leok a whole lot alike, they'll

‘prove to be a whole lot alike in other ways too. It’s:

pretty hard to judge a person’s character unless you Dappen ‘0 know somebody else that looks a whole lot ké ‘em. 3 2 hin ~The other day out here a fella sneaked up behind , woman and put his hands.over her eyes and when “she wheeled around, the man turned red in the face and says, “Oh, excuse me, lady, I thought you was my wife!—You look just like her.” SR The woman glared and says, “I'm glad I ain't your clumsy fool!” The man gulped and says, if you don’t talk like her tool” ; ££

That Is the

By Joe Collier

"look: at a traffic safety record; first, at what has been . accomplished - in the last ‘year, and, secondly, at what ‘has to be done next. Today Lieut. Lawrence

Accident Bureau, ‘looked over the

operation and smiled. He looked forward a year and frowned. : The Accident Prevention Bureau began functioning here last August. Up to that time Indianapolis was hellbent for: its most disgraceful traffic: year. Twenty-three more persons had been injured than: in 1936, and there had been

250 more accidents. At the end of ‘1937. 492 fewer persons had ‘been’ injured in traffic than were injured the pre-

fewer accidents... © Cg “S06 far this year there have been 2800 accidents of all kinds. Last year at this time there had been 3178. So far this year 43 have died in city traffic. Last year 65 had ‘died in the corresponding period. . So far this year 1240 persons have been reported injured in city traffic. Last year at this time 1724 were reported injured. ” ” 8 : O much for the figures, which have been written down on little yellow and green sheets of paper and filed in metal cabinets in the Bureau office. The figures show that something has reduced accidents and the strongest presumption is that it has been the work of the Accident Prevention Bureau. Now for the figures that will be written on green and yellow papers in the next 12 months and put into those same files. Lieut. MeCarty knows there will be such figures, hopes they will: be smaller than they were this year, and —here he believes is the essence of the: past year’s ‘work—knows why they will be there. “Ninety per cent of all accidents we have checked in the last year,” Lieut. McCarty said today,

ing laws and rules. “Not only thai,” he continued, “but most of those violations weve of rules and laws that seemed in-

ists prepare the most casual exguses when they come into court.”

lustrate what he meant with mi--nute descriptions -of several fatal

THERE are two ways. to :

bureau’s record of a year’s’

vious year, and there were 290

“were caused by violations of driv-

significant and for which motor-

Lieut. McCarty undertook to-il-

Task of Police

"* Workmen paint a stop sign. =

McCarty, head of the Police Prevention

ey Prevent

Mrs. Norma Amt files accident reports.

accidents that happened during

the last year in Indianapolis. Every Municipal Judge has heard someone charged with driv-

ing with: ‘faulty - lights make the’

excuse that he had intended to have them fixed and would, if the judge were lenient, immediately take his car to a garage. ‘8 8 = T° people died this year because someone didn’t get his lights fixed, Lieut. McCarty said. «A car. without lights pulled into a highway from.a-side road,” he said. “A driver approaching the

side road on the right side of the

highway saw the lightless car

only when he was too near to °

brake. x ie ; : He swerved his automobile to the left side of the road: to avoid hitting the car without lights. His car crashed headon with a car coming the other way, being driven legally on the proper: side of the road. The two men in that car were killed.” : ‘Almost any day in court you can hear this answer from someone charged with disregarding a highway sign: @ =. 0 of “Judge, I don’t deny the sign was there. But, really I didn't see it.” : La ~ In broad daylight, Lieut. MecCarty said, a motorist disobeyed an 18-inch square yellow and black sign on a highway hear Indianapolis. , “The violator’s. car struck the car of an old man who had obeyed all signs. The old man was killed.” Tht CW Re T= are some. “minor” in-

fractions for which police “It’s ‘too

rarely arrest drivers. hard to make a case in Court

“almost harmless. .Among these

would be that of making too wide a right turn. Yet, Lieut. McCarty said, one

of the 43 Indianapolis traffic dead

this year was the ‘victim .of a driver who, for some reason until now known. only to himself, swept past the middle of: the street on a right turn.’ The victim was a woman. pedestrian. ; “Judge, I couldn’t have been

_ going more than two or three

niles an hour faster than the Judge.” yA Lieut. McCarty told a story of a

- West Side shopkeeper who was

late in closing his store and. was in a hurry to get home. He was a careful driver, too, the Lieutenant said, and never before had had a violation charged against him.

“But he was going one or two miles an hour faster - than = the

knew it a young fellow ste into the street,” the i pped said. “The car struck the youth, the body was hurled against cars parked at the curb, and the youth was dead when the first-person reached him?” .

Lieut. McCarty returned the.

records to the cabinet. 3 pe Teg ol ap Fa * AT are we going to do ; about it? Well, we'can do

"this.- Our ‘district men used ‘to.

gather their: merits by the num-

ber of arrests .they made. Now they don’t. - When. a number of accidents occur at a given inter-

section ft is ‘their business’ to find ‘out why. : :

“If it is because of the viola-

tion of a certain law or several laws, they arrest: those violators.

; , Object: To cut down the accident and, besides, the violation seems: : Th H

rate. ¢ bbe) oR a wT _ “We feel we can afford to leave

I'm not a fast driver,

Times Photos.

An officer examines a wrecked car for mechanical failures.

' some stretches where no accidents occur, more ‘or less unpatrolled, even though we may feel certain that traffic laws are being vio-

"lated there. Our job is to make

:the streets safe and we concentrate on places where accidents occur. : “Thus, our district men now are rated for merits by the amount by which the accidents are cut down in their patrol areas, not by how many drivers they ar‘rest. } ui Reale - “The second part of the pro-

gram is one of education. We hope, eventually, to have all motorists in the city behave as gentlemen behind the wheel, respect-

ing the rights of others and real-

izing that it is to their advantage to.obey. laws that were made for their protection in the first place.” That, today, was Lieut. Lawrence McCarty’s appraisal of the accomplishments, and the problems of the Police Accident Pre‘vention Bureau, now a year old— the ‘publici;agency that tries to learn why they crash—and die.

Roving McGees Like River

And Know No Depressions

By NEA Servi le AT PAUL, Minn. Aug. 31—“Guys

of nuggets, flakes or dust to prove it. They also carry all sorts of semi-.

»J) who live in one place have worries; ‘We never have any. Guys who have jobs often wonder how long they .will hold them. No one can ever take our job.” - -Dynamite McGee was’ explainNo Soap

precious stones with them-—rubies, garnets, topazes, .turquoises, agates and others native to. the United States. © When the McGees need money they polish up some of the stones and sell them. : “Depressions?” Dynamite grunts scornfully. “We never know what they mean. We eat: regular, ‘sleep comfortable, have no taxes to pay, no rent, to worry about; go where we want, leave when we're ready.” Dynamite is squatty and rotund. He says he probably has a wife somewhere. No Soap is taller. He is the housekeeper. Scorning white women, he says he may. marry a squaw some day. Man and boy, they keep paddling those rivers, swinging their oars from each side of the small deck of their odd craft. They don’t trust gasoline engines and they won’t use an outboard motor. That’s why Dynamite claims he has paddled more miles than any man now living. .

ing why he and his son live the. way they do. : Dynamite and No Soap have landed on;the upper reaches of the Mississippi near here to spend the rest: of the .summer, the fall and winter prospecting and trapping. Their present. home is a floating ‘cabin on pontoons and when the freeze comes they will throw together a shack on some island and hole up. ri : “Dynariite has roamed the rivers west of Chicago for nearly 50 years as a hunter of precious stones and a gold prospector; he believes he has paddled a boat more miles than any ‘living man. “Gold is everywhere,” Dynamite claims. And No Soap will reach in -a pocket and bring out a bottle full

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| KNOWLEDGE

TEST YOUR

1—In . which South American country is Lake Maracaibo? .2—Name the representative flower of Nevada. * : 3—What is the lightest gas, next to hydrogen? 4—-Name the largest and most popular of the West Indian islands. wii : 5—Who was the first Presiden to cross the borders of the

known

~ survive.

U. S. while in office? 6—What sport is nicknamed the “sport of kings”? ; 7—With what material is the IOS Indianapolis Speedway T Reh paved? ; Y (Saad 1 | 8—Name the largest country in ° MQ FRE) | Central America. >, ol > s 8 =

# a LL Eo) I~ : mo Answers 1—Venezuela.

ASK THE TIMES

: few hundred yards away. | its nocturnal -hunting.- The young longingly at his

ashington By Raymond Clapper Labor Leaders, He Says, Act Now Just as Industrialists- Once Did, And Mr. Public Again Is Victim, VV ASHINGTON , Aug. 31.—We are about

to be sprayed again with ‘the annual Labor Day oratory about the onward and

’

‘upward march of labor. It would go down

much better if the labor leaders who take credit for the advance.of labor were less intent on their factional vendettas. Lk Labor used to hold up its hands in holy: horro#

| when ruthless : industrialists told: the: public to be

damned. These industrialists rode’

‘high, wide and handsome but the

public finally caught up with them. President Roosevelt ' gave labor its chance. Yet labor leaders have taken advantage of that to wage guerrilla warfare among themselves. As the rugged industrialists did when they were swinging Washington around by the tail, labor leaders are taking advantage of Washington’s protection to let the public be damned. - Tacs of Jalor leaders have had k e effect ‘of dama, organized - labor’s activities in the estimation: Mr. Clapper of the public so that now, in many sections, C. I. O, political indorsements are regarded as a liability by

| candidates for office. A. F. of L. leaders are so intent

on knifing the C. I. O. that they have taken to supe porting all kinds of reactionary enemies of labor. A. F. of L. officers here indorsed for the ‘Senate in South Carolina Cotton Ed Smith, a reactionary who

fought the Wages-and-Hours Bill. It opposed Gow=-

ernor Johnston, a former millhand who is a real friend of labor. This was so raw that local labor groups in South Carolina protested, but the Wash< ington lobby . insisted upon its orders. The same is true in Georgia, where the A. F. of L. ordered a fight for Senator George, another conservative who- opposed wages-and-hours legislation. :

It’s a Plot, Green Says

Now after 20 years of bloody labor warfare in

Harlan County, Kentucky, the coal operators finally have made peace with the United Mine Workers. The public will be the big gainer if this union agreement sticks. But because it happens to be a C. I. O. union that had the heaviest representation in the field and therefore was selected by the employers as the group to make peace with, Green of the A. F. of L. is denouncing the agreement and trying to bust the d He says it’s a plot. You have equal indifference to the public interest in the labor war on the Pacific Coast. A. F. of L. teamsters refuse to handle lumber cut in C. I. O. saw=-

mills. Sawmill operators don’t care whether their

men belong to the C. I. O. or the A. F, of L. They

‘ only want to cut lumber and sell it. Purchasers don't

care whether the lumber is made up by C. 1. O. or A. F. of L. hands. But the A. F. of L. teamsters refuse to let the lumber move. - In the Pacific Coast shipping war A. F. of L. teamsters won’t handle goods to be loaded by C. I. O. longshoremen. Similar tactics are employed by C. 1. O. groups against the A. PF. of L. " That sort of thing has been going on for several years and the Pacific Coast is sick of it. In California, Oregon and Washington, legislation is being advanced by. popular. initiative to forbid such. tactics. Labor leaders are protesting that this legislation is designed -to -hamstring the unions. They don’t care to what inconvenience and loss the public is put by their guerrilla’ warfare but when the public objects, that is an outrage against labor. :

Jane Jordan—

Be Prepared to Lose, Jane Tells

Girl Seeking to Win Married Man,

EAR JANE JORDAN--The man I love is a mara ried man although he does not live with his wife, ‘He had been separated about four months before I knew him. Now he wants a divorce, but everyone who knows his wife tells me that she is a wonderful woman and wife. Well, I'm not so efficient because I've never kept house or cooked. I am afraid he will wake up some morning and find that he has lost something. Shall I leave him until he gets his divorce so that he will have time to think of what he is doing? I love him so much I don’t want to see him hurt. I told him I was going to do this and he said he couldn't stand to stay in the same town and not see me. He does sound true when he tells me he loves me. He says that he will never go back to his wife again. Is he saying that like a hurt child or not? He has a child also which some day may be another problem, Dlsase ?

tell me what to do. t J f J ” Answer—I think the wisest thing you can do is to keep away from the man until he gets his marital affairs settled. Perhaps he can’t get a divorce from his wife and she doesn’t want one. That would leave you for years in a frustrated position which would give you more pain when it was all added up than the quick sharp wrench of a break right now. Of course

. you shouldn't have exposed yourself to this danger in

the first place, but it is too late to talk about that now. : It is a smart girl who can look into the future and

foresee all the complications which might arise to .

spoil a relationship’ which has started out under a cloud. You even have the insight to See that the man’s whole association with you may be the childish method of revenge of one who has been hurt. Doubt= less you have been a great consolation to him, but you don’t know whether or not his feeling for his wife is dead.. Of course he thinks it is but he may be fooling himself. X If you remove yourself from the picture you sube ject your relationship to a test which it ay not You have to be prepared to lose. ‘as it is easy for the man to drift along, de=

you make it too torturing both you and his wife. A

ciding nothing,

mature person will settle the case one way or the -

other and if he hasn’t enough strength of character to do this, what happiness can you expect with him? - : JANE JORDAN. :

s——— m le! to e Jordan, who will a Tour Diorions a this Hop ily. d 1

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