Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1938 — Page 17

Vagabond

From Indiana=— Ernie Pyle

Finds a Graveyard of Engineering Hopes, but an Incubator Ambition Among Needy Young Men.

UODDY VILLAGE, Me., Sept. 23.—Three vears ago I stood on a Maine hillside among fir trees, surrounded by stakes and lines and freshly turned earth. Lieut. Col. Philip B. Fleming of the Army Engineers stood with me and pointed around at the beautiful hills and bays and inlets—a panorama that is among the loveliest in beautiful Maine. In six weeks, he said, a modern village would stand

where we stood. And he said, “If

you come back in three years vou'll see the Passamaquoddy Dam project |

nearly finished.” So here I am again, three years later. Col. Fleming and his Army Engineers have long been gone. Congress killed Passamaquoddy after one year's work.

dead. Everything stopped. And the engineers departed. Two of the many dams they had on paper were finished. They are short ones, and the railroad which used to run on trestles now runs across the two dams. The railroad maintains them. And the village. It was finished in a hurry, as Col. Fleming promised. A beautifully white, tasteful, well-planned village of 165 buildings, for the Quoddy construction staff. The nearby town of Eastport (the farthest-east town in the United States) has settled back into slumber. The boom has blown up. But the deflated bag remains. What has happened since then, here at Passamaquoddy? Well, the $2.500.000 Quoddy Village is being maintained, spic and span. For what future end. nobody knows, There seems little likelihood that the power project will be revived and completed in the life span of this village. But vou can't citv. So the Government hit upon a plan to kill two birds with one stone—maintain the village, and put it to practical use. The plan finally

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The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

By Milton Bronner

NEA Service Staff Writer ONDON, Sept. 23.—John Citizen of Great Britain now can shop for air raid shelters just as he does for neckties or hats. There is not much choice in material, because the one mostly designated is Portland cement concrete, reinforced with steel bars. But John Citizen can have his choice of various kinds of air raid shelters for his own home. He can choose whether to have it in the basement of his home or along-

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in dealing with one of the depressions gravest prob- |

lems-

reached maturity in a jobless world. A Form of Schooling

Passamaquoddy Village today is occupied by 400 voung New England men from relief families. Thev are here under the hand of the National Youth Administration (NYA). They are going through a form of schooling, and at the same time xeeping the Village bright and neat. They are living in a sort of effete CCC camp. They and the staff occupy some 65 of the village's 165 builcdings. But they keep up the whole little city—painting, airing out empty houses, making repairs, renew-

what to do with the voung people who have |

ing sewer and steam lines—a thousand little things. |

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and augment their work.

it takes nearly 100 WPA workers to direct the |

This vouth experiment is called the Quoddy Work !

Experience Project.

What they are trying to do is |

difficult to explain. and sometimes difficult even “or |

the bovs to understand,

For this is not a trade school. It is, rather. an ex-

periment in reviving hope; an experiment in giving a | theoretical shove to the ambitions of young men who |

have no chance.

It is based on the primary theory that most young |

without advanced educations don't know to do in life

out. It is an “exploratory” school

men they posed _

want to find ie youn possible lines of work. There is no “made” Everything they do is useful class lv build and repair buildings. down the list, for

maintain a small city.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

And

actually

Universal Interest in Jimmy Touches; Even Taxi Driver Makes Inquiry.

of the hotel where we had luncheon yesterday, I

stepped into a taxi and remarked to the driver: “We |

are certainly having a deluge.” He grinned broadly,

turmed around to have a good look at me and said: |

“Why, vouTe Mrs. Roosevelt.” At the first red light he handed me his little book and pencil, saying: “Would it be too much to ask for an autograph?” Two minutes later he remarked: “How's vour son?” This universal kindliness and interest in Jimmy really has touched me very much. The waiter in ihe restaurant asked me how he was, the man at the

what | In this project thev are sup- |

side it, or out in the garden beneath the surface of the earth. If he is the owner of a big shop or of a factory he can buy bigger shelters to take care of employees. All this pother is due to the fact that responsible men in the government are convinced that, if Britain is ever involved in a war with a first class European power, large British cities will be targets for war from the air. Therefore, the dangers to civilians, against which protection must be afforded, are mainly from falling bombs. It is recognized that. particularly in dwelling houses, it would be almost an economic impossibility to provide complete protection from direct hits by huge bombs. But it is possible to have protection from Impact, explosion, air disturbance or blast, earth vibra-

tion, flying fragments or splinters falling building material, fire, gas, chemicals and bacteria. For home it is suggested that an air raid shelter should comprise a mam room, an ante-chamber to form an airlock to prevent free passage of air from the outside, a smaller toilet room and a small storeroom. The best place for this 1s In the basement. The Home Office has stated that in determining accommodation of an unventilated air raid shelter, 753 square feet of surface area, including floors, ceiling and walls, is to be allowed to a person for a period not exceeding six hours. Therefore a room nine feet by nine and eight feet high is ade-

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A simple type of bombproof refuge to shelter Britons is this backyard concrete tube, entered through a manhole,

Said to be proof even against direct hits are shelters made by inserting tubes into a specially built gallery in a hillside.

quate for six persons. If there were an air filter, this accommodation would suffice for longer than six hours at a stretch. The storeroom would be fitted up with first-aid outfits, rugs, tinned foods, water and other necessary supplies. It is estimated that such a shelter could be constructed for as little as $600. . Of course, the government is not relying upon people as a whole doing this for themselves, Therefore it is arranging for public shelters in case of war. Many big shops and factories are contracting for their own air raid shelters. These, accommodating many employees, will, of course, cost considerable sums of money. The Cement and Concrete ASssociation has drawn up ready-made plans for these, based not only on their own calculations, but from knowledge of what the French and the Germans are doing in the same line.

‘I'M NOT BRAVE!

AST ORANGE, N. J., Thursday—On coming out |

door who held an umbrella over my head, and every |

person who has waited on me in a shop, all have inquired. It certainly is a kindly world. In the afternoon I picked up my cousin, Mr. Henry Parish, in my car at the Holland Tunnel and

one

we drove out to his home at Llewellyn Park, Orange, |

N. J. I am staying with Mr. and Mrs. Parish and find their quiet, well-ordered home a very restful place. I have planned to be with them several times since early last spring, but each time something kept me from coming. This is such a peaceful life in comparison to what mine is, as a rule, that for the time being it gives me a sense of being out of the tension of living.

By ROBERT JOHNSON

Times Special Writer

EMPHIS, Sept. 23.—Im

pictures of everything over there, big guns and fellows charging, with :

the bayonets fixed and all. It wasn't

guy they were talking about at tj) 1 was a little older that I found out how brave these fellows really They wouldn't know me, but I'm were though.

Berchtesgaden.

the guy. Me and the Sudetens. I'm him ail right,

young and healthy. It's

because I'm a funny

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Built into the ground floor is ordinarily part of the home.

Another type of ‘family size” concrete tube refuge is this built under a garden, Shrubbery and stones

T was during the miniature golf gs

craze. A disabled veteran had a

thing, but you have to be healthy piniature course, and they told me } before theyll let you go and be shot go down there and play because

at.

Il develop flat feet, or maybe I'll needed the money. So I went down hide in the mountains somewhere (here to play.

till it's over.

You see. I'm yellow. I don't want right. He didn't have any face. No | |to fight for ideals, especially some- face at all.

Nobody has eves and nose and mouth should be, terested in them stepped on our toes yet, and this , Neitlier was the last

else's ideals.

isn't our war. one.

This fellow was a brave man, all

and two eves that looked like dirty |

clay marbles peering out of holes. Prince says, “Let's go in here.”

It was very brave of all those fel- Im not that brave. I'm a coward.

Tows who went over last time.

One time there was a story in the

| was only four when the Armistice paper about the Duke of Windsor,

{much about it.

In many ways they have been the kindest and |

closest relatives and friends I have had since childhood. but I find very often that, in spite of valiant efforts, one does not always see even one’s relatives as much as one would like,

Primary Results Ironical There is something ironical in the results of the

down the street.

Side Glances—B

New York City primaries which bring out a Demo-

crat in the lead in the Republican primary.

Yesterday moming I read with interest of the |

exhibition of photographs in the Museum of the City

of New York, at Fifth Ave. and 104th St, ‘entitled: |

“Faces of New York.”

This is an extremely interest-

ing idea, for Mr. John Albok, who took them, is |

not a professional photographer. are not

Many of his subjects | posed but have been caught unawares in |

order to make a record depicting various phases of |

New York City life. should be interested in seeing this show and in the photographic exhibition by the United States Art Project at the Federal Art Gallery, 225 West 57th St. New York City. of the East Side slums, the markets, and various other general views of interest in the City.

It seems to me that all of us| also |

This shows large photographs |

A ‘quiet day here with books and much talk and an |

opportunity to reminisce about the past.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 23.—There’s a whole lot of

truth to the old saying that the grass looks green |

far away.

That's because you cant see the brown |

patch and the bare spots until you get right on top |

of ‘em.

I know a city boy who worked in an office and | he got so sick and tired of having te punch the time | clock every morning at 8 o'clock that he jest couldn't

stand it any more. He had always heard that they didn't have time clocks on a farm so one day he gave

up his job, packed his clothes and headed for the |

open spaces,

When he told an old farmer about havin’ to punch | this time clock every moming at 8 o'clock, the farmer |

took pity on the boy and says, “Well, vou come to work for me. son—I dont have neo time clock.” says, “Well, what time do 1 go to work?” says, “Tt don't make no difference as long as it ain't after haif past four.”

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The boy | The farmer |

was signed, so I ‘don't

cute little tyke, though.

remember only he was the Prince of Wales They say I was a then. This story was about how the

Prince of Wales went to a hospital | I'd get on my tricycle and ride for disabled veterans in England. |

“Bang, bang,” I'd He was shown all about,

and he

say, “there goes another German.” really helped a lot because all the | Then there were the war books, with | soldiers liked him and it made them’

lark

I'm going to fool them, though. pe was a disabled veteran and he :

Cheapest arrangement for large public splinterproof refuges is in groups such as these pictured

[hands and kissed it. I wonder | which was the braver, him or the other guy. I'm not brave like that.

® used to

They came to one door, and the

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say

“No,” they told him. “We better | just skip this part.” But sisted, and they took him inside. |

he in-| HEY in school,

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

of a house, this concrete-walled room In war, it’s an air-raid shelter,

piled on top afford concealment as well as protection for those menaced by bombs.

here. They are connected with passage tubes which contain airtight doors.

'—=And Here's Our Bomb-Proof Room’

British Householder Has Wide Choice of Shelters for War-Time Protection

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Ind.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Europe's Note of Reproach About The United States Not Doing Its Part Seems a Wee Bit Out of Line,

VW ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-—At home and abroad, during this surrender to Hitler, there creeps into the discussion a note of reproach toward the United States, a suggestion that Europe is in its present extrem-

ity because the United States did not do its part. We'll skip the small matter of having pitched in at the darkest hour to help drive Germany to coms=

plete defeat and surrender. We'll skip the American ‘lives and money that were sacrificed in behalf of England and France. It is said we have refused since the war to give our moral leadership to Europe. We pulled out and didn't tell Europe how it shculd handle its affairs. Certainly up to the time we abandoned the Versailles Treaty we were giving Europe plenty of advice. Ten weeks before we entered the war, Woodrow Wilson made a plea Mr. Clapper to both sides, urging a stalemate. What he said then has proven prophetic. “Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe,” he said. “It must be a peace without victory. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice; and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory—upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon a quicksand.” This advice was indignantly rejected by the Allies, Germany unloosed her ruthless unrestricted submarine warfare and we went into the war. Still we accompanied our fighting with advice and moral guidance. Wilson announced his Fourteen Points and elaborated them time and again. Late in September, 1918, Wilson was still pleading for a reasonable peace, for justice without discrimination “between those Yo whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just.” A month later Germany cracked and asked for peace. After consultation with the Allies, Wilson offered peace on the basis of the Fourteen Points minus the freedom-of-the-seas point, in short the offer of a reasonable peace, one which would be heavy but not unbearable. But what happened? Wilson's warning of the dangers of overdrastic terms was forgotten. An objective judgment, by an English authority, says that the German treaty appears when viewed as a whole “to have been crushing and severe to a high degree.” Probably no great treaty has ever been so quickly modified, and abandoned until scarcely a vestige is left at the end of two decades. The humiliated, resentful Germany that was left completely crushed now has all Europe cringing in fear. What Wilson predicted has come true. The Versailles Treaty planted the seeds of its own destruction. Probably you can’t blame peoples for hating each other. Such deep emotions, encouraged from infancy, are not subject to much rational control once they are firmly implanted. But it doesn’t seem reasonable, does it, to blame America for not having rooted out Europe's hates when Europe itself couldn't do it?

Jane Jordan—

Girl of 18 Is Urged to Study and Understand Her Fiance's Ideas.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am very much in love with a boy to whom I have been secretly engaged for several months. He is a very fine boy and comes from a fine family. He seems much older than.

§| three vears ago.

he really is, due to the fact that he has had to take care of his mother and sister since his father’s death Now here is my problem: He doesn’t | want to tell his people that we are planning to be

§ married although they seem to like me very much.

Ed G | . Just holes where his fee] heiter to know that he was in- | he took this poor face between his| anybody, I want to know? Not hav-

! His mother and sister now have enough money to take care of them for a lifetime yet he doesn’t want to tell them about us. He says he loves me as much as anyone could ever love another person and has wanted to elope several times, but I don't want to be married that way. When people come out and ask him if we are engaged he denies it. After all what is there to lie about? Why does he hesitate to tell of our engagement? He is nearly 21 and I am 18. PUZZLED.

Answer—Part of the fun of being engaged lies in acknowledging the fact to the world. A girl is never , so happy as when a man pridefully admits to family and friends that she is to be his future wife. Never= theless, the two of you are extremely young to be announcing your engagement and it may be just as well to delay it a while longer. Perhaps the young man’s instinctive feeling that

|ing ever had any actual experience| now js not the time to declare his intentions may be

| with war, the only way I can find | right.

He may know without saving so that things

a answer is in what I've read.| Will not go so well with him at home when his mother

| First, there was Stephen Crane and

| from Shakespeare or some- | Ambrose Bierce, but that was sort

! and sister realize that he is serious. The death of the

father makes a woman cling more closely to her son. | Without meaning to do so this mother could make life

This place was where they kept body, how the cowards die a thou- | of a puny war they wrote about. | very unhappy for her son by objecting to an early | Nothing like the one Remarque and engagement.

the ones that were really terribly sand deaths, the valiant only one. maimed, and one of them looked; Some of these valiants take a so bad it would make you feel hell of a long time about their faint and sick just to look into once, though. It would be a lot his face. better, maybe, if these brave men They thought the Prince would accomplished something. grow faint or something, but no...l What did the last war do for

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| it, though. Who does? Who wants war? That's what I want to know.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the name of the fruit, resembling a banana, that is cooked and eaten in the tropics? 2-——In which country is the city of Osaka? 3-—-Name the American Ambassador to Germany. 4—_PFrom what country did the U. S. purchase Alaska? 5—Are the members of the U. S. House of Representatives assigned to regular desks in the chamber? 6—Name the second largest of the six continents. 7T—With what sport is the name Lawson Little associated? ; 2 8 =

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It looks as if the boy felt that the safest course was to wait until he was able to marry and then do it in a hurry in order to avoid a long and harrowing break from the family. Try to gain his confidence and understand his motives so that you can pull together instead of apart. Evidently leaving home is not the | simple matter to him that it is to you.

2 = ” EAR JANE JORDAN—I went with a fellow but we split up about a month ago. Recently I met another and very conceited fellow. He wants his way in evervthing and if he doesn’t get it he threatens to commit suicide. He asked me to marry him and I didn't know what to say for I didn’t want to hurt his feelings. And because I waited a while to answer he pulled his hair and cried and said he would kill himself. He tells everyone we are going to be married and today he went to get our engagement ring. I don’t love him but I am scared to quit him. I am 18. What would you do? WORRIED.

Answer—I'd quit him without further delay. Ha won't commit sucide. He loves himself too well, Believe me, he is no boy to tie to. Imagine living with a man cowardly enough to terrorize his wife into obedience by threats of violence to himself! He reminds me of the crop of window jumpers we've had recently. Because they can’t control life and be the favorite child of humanity, they won't play and end it all on the pavement. Run for your lifel I don't believe he has the nerve to hurt himself.

Put your problems In a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer your questions in this column daily. 1

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