Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1938 — Page 14

/agabond From Indiana = Ernie Pyle .-

Ernie Watches ‘Information Please’

ZE2FEE Holding the Key to Europe's |

Britain's Chamberlain Looked to for Answer in Present Crisis

About Fadiman, F. P. A. and Kieran.

ey NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Although I never ~~" put my ear to the radio (it gives me the hives), I do occasionally get my ear to . the ground. In that manner I keep slightly aware of what's going on. And what's going on is ‘this: The most talked-of thing in the radio world just now is the program “Information Please.” There’s a regular plague of question-and-answer programs on the air these days. One of the outstanding @ & A programs is the’ mysterious “Prof. Quiz” of the Columbia circuit. He has been going for several years. But right now NBC's “Information Please” has the crowd on its feet. ‘So I bummed a ticket and went to see the broadcast. I got the secret right away. On this program the questions are answered by experts. The charm lies in seeing (or hearing) the experts stumped. : Mr. Pyle It’s just plain old human nature, and u fellow named Dan Golenpaul

By Lee G. Miller

Times Speeial Writer

'VV/ASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —Beside Scotland's River Dee, at Balmoral Castle, King George is consulting today a troubled statesman toward whom the world looks for an answer to this question: “Will there be war?”

Neville Chamberlain, ' Prime Minister of England,

gave the dictators the inch that Anthony Eden had refused to yield; but now

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VV ASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Europe’s crisis is extremely serious and it only res mains for somebody to pull the trigger to \ set off the war which has been awaited with | such dread. ; But it is by no means certain that Hitler will pull the trigger. On the surface this situation looks extremely menacing. Yet there are strong pulls the other way. First of all it is suspected that Hitler

does not have the gasoline and vil, Hin for instance, to conduct a long BA i war. He has set up a powerful military machine, but such a machine, when it goes into action, consumes

_* ‘was smart enough to think the whole business up. - + ‘Before it’s over, Golenpaul will probably be repaid for . ©. his thinking by the elegant jingle of thousands in "his cash register, ii te ; ‘~~ “Information Please” is only three months old. © It’s a “sustaining feature”; in othgr words, no adver- .% tiser is paying for it yet. But the program is for i sale, I've heard they were asking $3000 a week for *.~ it not long ago. Theyre probably asking a great -% ‘deal more by now. :

unbelievable quantities of material. Hitler has been accumulating reserve supplies but it is a serious question whether these are sufficient. Of course he would be subjected at once to complete blockade. For that reason, some wellinformed judges of the situation here are inclined to believe that Hitler is applying to the full every

that Hitler is demanding yard after yard, Mr. Chamberlain is saying “No!” and warning of swift and calamitous consequences.

If Adolf Hitler is perMr. Clapper

“There are three men on the program regularly —Clifton Fadiman, master of ceremonies, and Frank"lin P. Adams and John Kieran, question answerers. They are abetted each week by two other people who

. ‘also know a lot of answers.

Fadiman is best known as book critic for the magazine New Yorker. He is one of New York’s young ¢. geniuses. They ‘say he’s remarkable at everything.

+ He came right out of college and became editor of fhe publishing house of Simon & Schuster, a job ‘he held for ten years. He has been on radio programs before, He writes for any number of magazines. He has given hundreds - of lectures. ; Franklin P. Adams, better known as “F. P. A.,” sits nearest Fadiman at the broadcasts. He is very browned, has receding black hair, cups his chin and looks gaunt and worried. 2

The Signal for a Pun

He plays with a handkerchief while he’s thinking up a pun. You never know what he’s going to say, and he never cracks a smile when he says it. It’s real entertainment to watch him at the broadcast.

John Kieran, the other permanent expert, is sports columnist on The New York Times. He wears a white + suit at the broadcast, his hair is silver, his face is * youngish, he holds his mouth open and studies the ceiling like a reciting pupil. * Golenpaul, the man behind it all, never appears before the microphone. He has two office suites in a Broadway hotel, and his wife and three or four other + people work there, sorting out questions that come in the mail. He has been in both the radio-program and phonograph businesses. He worried for months before the “Information Please” idea came to him. He knew something was there, but he eouldn’t make it jell. He finally came to it through a series of little happenings and events that sound like a psychiatrist's casebook. Kieran is one of Golenpaul’s discoveries, and he’s proud of him. Golenpaul almost passed out when he heard Kieran’s audition and realized what he had. As Golenpaul says, “The man thinks like a professor . and talks:like Tenth Ave. Jeez, it's terrific.” : For Kieran, a sports writer, is also a scholar. His father was a college dean and Kieran is educated up to the hilt. He had never been on the radio before, but was a natural from the start. That’s about all there is to “Information Please.” Just one guy’s floundering idea, and three other glibtongued guys to carry it out. It isn’t even any work for them. And before it’s over, they’li probably be as happy and as rich as Charlie McCarthy.

;. My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

With the President Gone, Weather At Hyde Park Is Not So Pleasant.

YDE PARK, Wednesday—Today is gray and it is : quite evident that my husband’s departure carries with it his good luck as far as weather goes. While he was here we didn’t have a single gray or rainy day. ; I went- over to the big house at 9:30 to see my nephew, Danny, off for New York. Like all other young people. a sense of time seems to be left out of his makeup and I had a feeling that it would require my presence to see that he took the train he intended to take. If your own boys are grown and flown, it’s rather fun to have the loan of a young nephew for a little while, even if he is grown up. As I drove in to our avenue, I saw little Dianna "Hopkins riding the pony. She came into the house before I left and evidently had enjoyed her ride. She agreed that it was a little too cold for swimming this morning, so she is coming over to have lunch at the cottage. : Yesterday afternoon we all went up to the Dutchess County Fair. As we came out of the gate on our, way up, I noticed a most interesting looking old man walking towards Poughkeepsie. He caught sight of us and called out something about praying for us. Then, as we stopped and waited for a chance to cross the road, he came over and spoke to me and said that he read my column and wished us well. His eyes seemed to burn and there was something dig-

nified and arresting about his personality. Do you

ever wonder about people who just touch your life in some way for a minute? I have a feeling that an interesting story might lie back of this encounter, i

Horse Show Improving

My stay at the fair was brief, but the others spent some time. Diana told me it was her first county - fair. I was amused when I went in to say goodnight to her and found her sitting up in a very big bed . surrounded by knicknacks which she had bought. Her greatest concern was the loss of the key to the mechanical monkey who combed his hair, because ‘he remained with the comb held high in the air. The horse show at the fair seems to improve every year

and it is gradually becoming worth while for people 1

to. bring their horses from some distance. I told you the other day of a young girl who came to see me because she had been brought up in an orphan asylum and wanted to train herself in social work and have an opportunity to work for the establishment of homes where girls like herself could find shelter on leaving an institution, or foster home, to go out to work. I was interested, shortly after writing about her, to receive a note from a woman who wished to get'in touch with this girl, because she too wanted work of this kind. I feel sure that this ~~ means others will also be interested and will help this girl to succeed in her desire.

br Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.—I think one of the supest ways for a married couple to get along is to have a perfect understanding about the things they like to do. Sometimes a husband’ll go along for years makin’ sacrifices to make-her happy when all the time she’d heen much happier doing thé things he gave up for her, - One night Uncle Slug didn’t get in until 2 o'clock. Aunt Poody says, “It sure is late for you to be gettin’ in!” He says, “It’s late for you to be up, too!” She says, “I forced myself to stay awake until you got in,” and Uncle Slug says, “Well, I've _peen hangin’ around the pool hall four hours waitin’

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suaded that he is not bluffing the crisis over Czechoslovakia may-be permitted to peter out. Otherwise, the world had better hang on to its hat. As far as outward impressions g0, Mr, Chamberlain is a man in the drab tradition of his immediate predecessor, Stanley Baldwin.

He has none of the scintillating eloquence of Lloyd George or Dis raeli or Gladstone. He is a determined, steadfast ramrod of a person, austere and disciplined, alien to emotionalism. His dark, sunken eyes under heavy eyebrows, his aquile nose, his usually grim-set mouth, his rather thin voice command obe= dience more than affection. He is no handshaker, and has few intimates in a social way. He prefers fly-fishing and bird study and the company of his wife, with whom almost daily he slips out a garden gate of 10 Downing St. for a halfhour’s stroll before breakfast.

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HERE was a time when it looked as if Mr. Chamberlain’s public career was to be short-lived. During the World War he was made Minister of National Service, and charged with the big job of organizing England’s manpower — determining who should stay at home to make munitions, ‘and who should go to the front. A House of Commons committee decided that he was not praducing satisfactory results, and. he was replaced. Today his task is to see to it that England will not again have to parcel out its men between front and factories. Mr. Chamberlain was born in 1869 at Birmingham, the son of Joseph Chamberlain; the great progressive. His mother died in childbirth when he was 6. While his elder half-brother Austen went into politics, Neville looked after the family business interests which their father had accumulated before entering public life. In the Nineties he spent seven years in the Bahamas supervising plantation properties. He was past 40 when his wife persuaded him to enter local politics. By 1915 he was Lord Mayor of Birmingham and was establishing the country’s first municipal bank. The ill-fated term in the wartime ministry followed. As Winston Churchill says, “One can hardly imagine a more stunning and crushing reverse for any man.” But he swallowed his chagrin and, in 1918, ran for Parliament,. He has been there ever since. » 2 ”

S Minister of Health under Premier Baldwin in the Twenties this “socialist tory” began to make a name for himszlf. He sponsored the construction of more than 900,000 homes in a great drive against slums. He reformed the midwife service, and dispensed public funds for maternity clinics. “I know how great is the injury to the family when the mother is taken away,” he said once in a speech.

In 1931 he became Chancellor

of the Exchequer, serving suc-

cessively under MacDonald and Baldwin until last year when he moved from 11 Downing St., home of the Chancellor, to the Prime Minister's residence next door—a pinnacle which neither his father nor his brother had attained. While in the Exchequer he restored the Government’s precarious finances to solid ground. He also—and bere he achieved a vital change for which his father had crusaded in vain—was a leading participant in the final scuttling

- of free trade and the establish-

ment of empire trade preferences. And three years ago, when the threat of German rearmament began to sink in, he put his shoulder to the costly task of re-establish-ing Great Britain's defenses and reinforcing her mastery of the sea. ” ” 8 .

HEN Mr. Baldwin accepted a peerage last year, Mr. Chamberlain - was = thoroughly ready to take over. He had been carrying an increasing share of the tiring Baldwin’s load. It was not long after he picked up the reins that he broke with Capt. Eden by insisting on the “realistic” policy of treating with the dictators, as against the Eden formula of resisting them at every turn, Today the test of his compromise policy appears to be at hand. And.if the continent escapes war, it can thank’ this lanky; harddriving man with the over-large

Prime Ministe r Chamberlain.

wing collar and the bleak face. It might also thank the blueeyed Annie Vere Chamberlain,

who plays the piano or reads Shakespeare to:the Prime Min-

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By Daniel M. Kidney

Times Staft Writer

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ASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—The possibility that Paul V. McNutt will be the candidate of the so-called “Jeffersonian Democrats” in their fight against President Roosevelt’s domination of the 1940 party convention is being discussed in cap-

This political development comes as the outgrowth of the announcement from French Lick that a Mc-Nutt-for-President campaign fund was to be raised in Indiana and that various state delegations already are being lined up for the Philippines

It is reported here that several of Vice President Garner's friends in the Senate — and particularly those from the deep South—are casting a favorable eye on Mr. McNutt’s candidacy. These Senators are reported to have been particularly impressed since the renomination of Senator VanNuys by the

Whether the High Commissioner

ister as he relaxes in his slippers, and of whom he said once: “She has guided me with her counsel, warned me of dangers, and never allowed me to forget

will take kindly to this support is not yet known. Up to the present, he has followed White House leadership with as much loyalty, if not as much enthusiasm, as Senator Minton. But those who would like to see him assume command of the forces whom the President looks upon with disfavor, count: on Mr. McNutt seeing the impossibility of obtaining New Deal blessing and thus striking out on his own. Already they have seen to it that he has been supplied with James A. Farley's ‘ autobiographical - remarks about him and they are continuing to send him other ammunition with which to pry him loose from the President’s side. SS : ha 8 2 ” T the Minton reception for Mr. McNutt here last winter, his campaign manager, Frank McHale, explained that Mr. McNutt would run for President in 1940 as ‘‘a mid-dle-of-the-road liberal.” That is where: the conservative Democrats, whom the President is

the humanity underlying all politics. “She has been privy to all my

secrets, and she has never divulged one.” ;

Anti-New Dealers Look Over McNutt ible ‘40 Candidate

seeking to defeat, all slaim to stand.

Rep. Pettengill (D. Ind.), who has.

been among. the most outspoken anti-New Dealers, describes the fight within the party as follows: “Judging from the present purging tactics of President Roosevelt, the fight in 1940 will be over the right to use the Democrat Party label. If the Jeffersonian Democrats win, there will be nothing for leftwing New Dealers to do but form or Join a third party. “Should this group dominate the convention and renominate' President Roosevelt for a third term, or permit him to name his successor and continue to run the show, oldline Democrats will have to leave their party and perhaps form a coalition with like-minded Republicans under another name.” On his last visit here, Senator Minton declared that he did nov think ‘that Mr. McNutt would ever join in any anti-Roosevelt fight. “My own opinion is that if the President is a third term candidate, Paul will withdraw,” he declared.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Can the “Queen Mary” pass through the Panama Canal? 2—What was the name of the eighth month of the old Roman year? . . 3—Name the founder of the State of Georgia. f

4—How many players comprise an outdoor polo team? . 5—What is the best conductor of electricity? 6—Must a veteran have an honorable discharge from World War service to be eligible for the Federal soldier bonus? 7—Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America.

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gesture of force to gain his way in Czechoslovakia, but hoping to stop short of a gene eral war. “Second, neither Great Britain nor France wants war. Yet both governments see a serious menace in permitting Hitler to swallow up Czechoslovakia as he did Austria. They are issuing warnings. But at the same time apparently they eare seeking dese perately for some formula which will satisfy Hitler without wiping Czechoslovakia off the map. Hitler = completely controls the policy of the 3,000,000 Germans who constitute the Czechoslovakian minority. The Czech Government is entirely dependent upon Great Britain and France. In reality the negotiations are in the hands of the principal powers, not of the Czech factions. sata ‘These negotiations are -extremely delicate and there seems to be no settled opinion as to whether they will result in an agreement or break up in a fight. The most practical tip is to watch these negotiations rather than military gestures.

U. S. in Different Position

If somebody pulls the trigger and starts the war, we in America will be faced at once with an extremely vital decision. We could not by any possibility escape having to make grave choices, because the Neutrality Act creates a situation which would pre cipitate the issue at once. :

An European war would break out this time with America in an entirely different mood from that of 1914, When Europe went to war before, America did not feel much concerned at first. American sentiment for a long time was divided between Ger= many and the Allies. It gradually shifted more strongly toward the Allied side. ; This time it is different. Deep antagonism toward Hitler already exists and likewise strong sympathy already exists for Great Britain and France. This will be accentuated shortly with the conclusion of the Anglo-American trade agreement. In view of that situation, a general war would raise questions at once concerning our Neutrality Act, which automatically requires us to withhold credit and arms and ammunition from belligerents, For other commodities we would be put on a cash= and-carry basis. Questions would be raised at once as to the desirability of our abandoning those restrice tions and throwing material resources in to aid Great Britain and France. Therefore, every development now taking place in the European crisis is of direct interest to all Americans. :

Jane Jordan—

Tells Girl Not to Make Jealous a Boy Insecure in Home Situation.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 14 and I come from what I call without bragging a lovely family. We have books and friends and all trustfully . so. There is a boy four years my senior whom until now I have secretly worshiped. I pretended to like another boy to make him jealous and he talked rudely about me to this other boy. I believe he was attempt= ing to tell all my faults to make the other boy shy of me. I wrote him a short but intelligent note telling him my mind. Not that I cared about the second boy; it was the cheapness of the principle. Time elapsed and one of the neighbors told me that he called my family “fishy.” I honestly don’t believe this boy is normal for he does the strangest things. He talks saucily to his elders and plays with children from 7 to 10. He is adopted but because of his rudeness his foster parents ‘have told him he could leave, but he hasn't. He stopped school and until late has been holding a steady job in an apartment house. Should I write him another note or should I speak to him in person or simply ignore him? S. N. » » ~

Answer—Now wait. This boy is adopted and his foster parents either do not care for him or else they haven't the slightest idea how to handle him. Otherwise they would never have told him he could leave. Think of the dreadful feeling of insecurity this boy must have! ! Not for him is this lovely family, books, and “all trustfully so” which is given to you! What has he to brag about? His own parents are lost to him; his foster parents let him think they would give him u Even the girl he fancied turned to another boy. Wil this background of insecurity, how could he know you were pretending? The average boy is stimulated by the presence of a rival, but not this boy. To him it was just another rejection. What does he do about it? He misbehaves to ree taliate, to call attention to himself, for even unfavore able attention is better than no attention at all. Of course he ought to redouble his efforts to be good and charming and irresistible. Who is there to teach him this? Nobody. Instead of guidance all he gets is ane other knock which results in more misconduct. What makes any child behave? Fear of losing its parents’ love, of course. But if there is nv love to lose, the incentive to control primitive impulses is missing. I do not say that this boy is your responsibility, He isn’t. But I do say that you can refrain from add ing to his list of rejections by not jumping on him for his mistakeri responses to experience. The next time you want to make a boy jealous, pick one secure in his home situation, but never add to the woes of an adopted boy. JANE JORDAN.

blems in a letter to Jane Jordan. am Ion a osiaame in this column daily.

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