Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1938 — Page 11

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle | Nobody Seems to Work Very Hard |

And There's No 'Discipline’ on a Canal Boat Hauling Water-White.

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Second Section

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

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panies, like scientists, think up hard names for easy |

subjects, Because of the rather erratic personality of our cargo, we are not allowed to smoke | on deck. We can, however, smoke in our cabins, or in the mess room. Although I get off at Oswego, the ship will go on across Lake Ontario, and then down the St. | Lawrence River to Clayton and Ogdensburg, N. Y. There all this stuff will be pumped out into big storage tanks, and eventually hauled out in trucks to filling stations in the | vicinity. The boat will come back filled with water, for ballast. The men on our ship are mod- | ern canalers. They bear no re- | semblance to the “Canawlers” of legend. Just before we sailed, I saw men in street clothes come aboard whom I assumed were young officials from the New York office. Later when I saw them at work in| overalls, I could hardly believe it. The boys say it gets pretty monotonous canal. Yet most of them like it better than going to sea. For you get a day at home pretty often, Nobody seems to work terribly hard Nobody wears a uniform, not even the captain. Everybody eats together, and there's no silly “discipline.” These canalers don't seem to have friends along the shore as many river men do. I've heen on river boats that whistled at every curve, to bring out some farmer or his wife and kids for a salute They might never have met in their lives, but over scores of vears had built up a ritual of greeting- | in-passing. I've seen none of that here. Likewise, people along the shore pay little atten- | tion to the boats, except where the locks are right in town. Then there is frequentiy an orgy of picture taking | When we meet another Standard Oil boat, the | men in the pilot house discuss who is on her now. And as we draw even, somebody will lean out and vell “Hiya, Bob! Did you have fog last night?” By the time he savs “ves,” distance has closed conversa-

tion.

Mr. Pyle

Barge ‘Tows' Go Ungreeted

Another Standard Oil boat is the only one we | gpeak to with the whistle in formal nautical greeting. We never even nod to anvbody on the barge “tows,” | nor they to us The barge “tows” form the real color of the canal. And most of the traffic too, for that matter, They | consist of a tug boat, pulling anywhere from one to | gix barges. | Each barge in the string has a man on it, to | handle the lines in the locks. Apparently that's all he has to do. Sometimes the man is alone—some- | times he has his family. | Every barge has a little flat house on it, of two rooms. Frequently the inhabitants fix up a porch roof, and then they sit there in a deck chair, in their | sock feet, gazing in splendid leisure out on their front lawn . . . of water, But on the whole, the houses looked ill-kept and miserable. They have only kerosene lamps, and the | people on board would hardly be mistaken for Wall Street royalists on a vacation | We passed one guy on a barge that had our crew | talking all day. He was tall and lean and stooped, | although a young fellow, He hadn't had a haircut or a shave for months He hadn't washed his face or hands for the same | period. I've never seen anybody so thoroughly dirty I would defend to the death anybody's right to be as dirty as he pleases. But I think anyone who is unsanitary by choice should enjoy it. This fellow | looked unhappy. Possibly the presence of so much | washing-water constantly around him was spoiling | his life, I would like to go on a barge sometime, and never wash. (Next—The Other End of the Canal)

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Press Is as Much Interested The Baby as in Unemployment Data.

WY SSRING TO, Monday.—The Charlottesville, Va. yesterday

on their brilliant colors |

to was very lovely. |

drive down

The trees have begun to put down there but, when we stood on the little lawn in front of Franklin and Ethel's house, it felt more like | a summer day. I'he baby behaved beautifully, no tears and a most friendly spirit. Of course, I know that a healthy baby is usually a placid one, but it certainly is a pleasure to | find a welcoming smile even when you know that at | the age of 12 weeks no real intention may lie back | Of 1t We were home in time for 7:30 dinner and, though | f was told that I would probably be able to drive the | distance in two hours, I found that it took me three hours each wav—which leads me tec believe that ri am a more conservative driver than my children, Today seems 10 be a busy day. I did get a very short ride this morning, but having the President join us at ) breakfast on his return from Hyde Park meant that | we talked much too long and therefore everything else was short. I was quite conscious of the fact that if the positions had been reversed and I had been my housekeeper this morning, I would have felt distinctly slighted, for I gave her about three minutes At 11 o'clock I held my press conference and found that the baby was of as much interest to the press as Mr. BRigger's report on unemployment.

Difficult to Form Fair Opinion

This report, which baldly states that the increase in the gainful employment of women is out nf all proportion to their previous employment according to population, and yet gives no reason why increase has come about, will, I fear, have a prejudicial effect on the work of women, There are <0 manv angles to this question and so many things to be considered, that the publishing of figures of this kind makes its rather difficult for people to form a fair opinion. We had a wire this morning from my daughter which said that my mother-in-law is on her way home, in good health and good spirits after a grand | visit. She, herself, wrote that they were going up to Vancouver and Victoria; that she had done everything, including inspecting the newspaper office, and omitted only the making of speeches which she did not enjoy. I hope when I am her age, I will be able to be as enthusiastic about life as she is. A few people came to lunch. Our first tea this | afternoon for a large group is for the ladies who are accompanying the delegates to the 14th annual meeting of the American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 11.—You know I've been doin’ a let'a thinkin’ lately about the way these | Hollywood actors dress and I finally decided that the | reason thev dress that way is because if they didn't, | nobody could tell they was actors. The sama is true | of people in pretty near any profession. Musicians dress like musicians and firemen dress like firemen, When our chief of police down home started to go to the policemen’s convention at Kansas City, somebody asked him if he was gonna wear his police uniform, He says, “I should say I am—the last police convention we had at St. Louis, we all wore | civilian clothes and half of us was arrested as | suspicious characters!” (Copyright, 1038)

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The cameraman has “caught” the projectile of one of the

Army's

U. S. soldiers test the new semiautomatic rifles.

By Lee G. Miller

Times Special Writer

FJASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Early in the year the Presi-

dent

warned Congress that increased armaments

abroad had made our defenses “inadequate.” He accordingly asked for expansion of the Army and Navy.

Today, mindful of

Europe's

recent crisis, many

Americans are asking what steps have been taken to ree

pair the “inadequacy” of our own protections.

Others

dismiss the matter by saving, “Thank God for the Atlan tic Ocean!”, implying that we are safe from war. But as

the Army and Navy are given to pointing out, especially when asking for money: ' “Every American generation has been engaged in a major war.” The, Navy is our first line of defense. But in the words of Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the Army, “ultimate decision in war comes upon the land.” If the new generation of Americans indeed to engage in a major war, and if the decisive action is to occur on land rather than sea, will the Army be ready? The Army's manpower (including the National Guard) ranks 17th among the world’s armies, according to Gen. Craig, despite the fact that it Is getting more money than ever before in peacetime, Immediate manpower, however, is an imperfect gauge of the Army's preparedness, Manpower, in a national emer= gency, is readily available. The rub in a crisis, would be equip= ment, The Army's plan for “M Day.” or Mobilization Day, calls for throwing into the field almost

overnight an active force of 400,000 officers and men, raising

this to a million if necessary within a few weeks (after Congress had passed a draft bil), then to 1,550,000, and so on up as fast as necessity requires and facilities allow.

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HE first 400000—the &ocalled initial protective force —would include 100,000 from the regular Army, which is about all that the Army could muster for mobile use in the continental United States; 200,000 from the National Guard, and 100,000 drawn from the new enlisted reserve (created this year) and from recruits. The Army thinks will be enough to protect the country, in almost any situation it can visualize, until a larger force is ready. But it warns that it is short of what it calls “critical equipment” for even that many men. BY “critical” equipment is meant items which cannot be bought in the open market and which would take a dangerously long time to produce, To provide minimum reserves of such equipment for 400,000 men would cost $142.000.000, the Army says. Its annual budget estimates now being drawn up, will request funds to cover part of this defi ciency. Further, two million dol« lars are being spent this year in small “educational” orders so that private manufacturers will be pre= pared to start production of essential equipment in a hurry when an emergency arises.

400,000 men

Side Glances—By

JM U. 8. PAT. OFF,

"Mamma—Daddy has redti himself to sleep again!"

8-inch guns just

efenses for Emergency Our Town

Manpower Abundant, Adequate Equipment Problem, Army Leaders Say

‘By Anton Scherrer

It's Disappointing That This City Never Had a Ritz Hotel When It Had So Much to Offer Mr. Harris

S part of my program of good cheer, I am ready to report on the number of Ritz establishments in Indianapolis. Believe it or not, we have more than we had back in 1936, and it's something to bear in mind

when calamity howlers start shooting off statistics. As matters stand today, we have the Ritz Cafe, the Ritz Cleaners, the Ritz Sweet Shop and the Ritz Theater which is exactly one (1) more than we had two (2) years ago. Seems that while the professional pessimists were wringing their hands the Ritz Sweet Shop went right ahead and made the grade, With things gaining ground like that, I really haven't any business finding fault with the Ritz idea. Just the same, I can't help feeling

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Reserve officers of the First Division are shown training one of the 3-inch anti-

aircraft guns on imaginary enemy planes during recent U, 8S. Army maneuvers,

Gen, Malin Craig CRAIG warned that “three of the four regular Army antiaireraft regiments in the continental United States are at less than half of their authorized peace strength by reason of the lack of personnel.” Great strides are now being made toward remedying this de= fect, Congrass voted $26,000,000 this year for antiaircraft equip-

Rep. Maury Maverick One of the most crucial of the EN. “eritical” items is antiaircraft equipment, Our air forces have aroused the “admiration if not the envy” of other powers, according to Secretary of War Woodring, but we have lagged in ground de« fense against enemy aircraft. Rep. Maury Maverick (D. Tex.) of the House Military Af« fairs Committee complained a few months ago that “we have altos gether in this entire nation, the ment, and orders for the bulk of grand total of only 56 antiaircraft this have been placed. ’ The schedule calls for produce

Traffic Light Jitters New U.S. Mania, Doctor Says

By David Dietz T is the abruptness of the change Times Science Editor | from one color to another and O vou {ind vourself getting the the fact that the motorist has no jitters as you drive your auto: way of knowing when this change mobile through a succession of traf« jc ooing to take place that causes

fie lights 2 Do you ever catch YOUr=li}e trouble, Dr. Fabing claims, sell gripping the wheel with a con-

vulsive grasp, eves glued to the traf-| Suppose a motorist is approach-

down on the accelerator the very ing adds, instant it changed? [know whether to step on the ace The trouble, according to Dr. celerator or not. The light may go Howard D. Fabing of the physiolog- red before he reaches it, ical laboratory of the University of| It was such a confusion or ‘colCincinnati, is the design of the fa<|lision” of stimuli, as the psychologist miliar traffic signal, calls it, that produced the nervous However efficient they may be|breakdown in Paviov's dogs. from a mechanical point of view, he believes that they lead to the nervous exhaustion of drivers and | Dr. Fabing has a round face the production of a “pathological like a clock. It is divided into a

nervous state” He compares their) .... segment of green and a large effect to that of devices used by the egment of red, separated from each great Russian physiologist, Pavlov.|gther by smaller segments of yels to produce nervous breakdowns injow. : dogs.

The motorist does not

. A large single hand moves c.ockDr. Fabing would replace the i.s aoross the dial which is illumt= present traffic lights with their| 2..q4 from behind. The hand is abrupt change from one colored light | c miejently heavy to be easily visi to another, for a dial type of signal pie The timing of the sianal is in which a pointer goes across a|ggyerned by the rate at which the clock face, indicating the lapse of hand moves. time and the imminence of the] Approaching such a signal, the change from one color to another. driver can see from the position of Such lights have been patented by|the hand how soon it is going to a number of inventors. One is in change. Accordingly, the driver can use here at West and New York Sts.'adjust himself to it.

fic light, ready to slam your foot! ing a signal that is green, Dr. Fab=|

Secretary of War Woodring

tion within the next year of 333 three-inch antiaircraft or “AA” guns, fully equipped with listening and aiming apparatus. These guns, firing 20 to explosive shells a minute, are said to be effective against aircraft five miles up, and they are supplemented by machine guns with a vertical range of one mile,

Gen, Craig, in pleading success= fully with Congress for more AA equipment, said last winter: “In an emergency the demand for antiaireraft artillery for defense against hostile aviation will be immediate and enormous. Our present stocks of antiaircraft artillery are entirely inadequate. “Reports from our military attaches state that, in both Spain and China, where an area is protected by antiaircraft artillery, planes have been forced to avoid the area so protected.”

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er» HERE are today only four regular Army “AA regiments, plus:-10 National Guard regiments with meager equipment. The 333 new guns will bring the total to 32 regiments, and the War Department probably will ask the next Congress for two more.

Except for stationary equipment at such strategically vital spots as the Canal Zone, which has an even higher range, the AA equipment is all mobile and can be concentrated swiftly on whichever border is facing attack. The Army has not imitated the British experiment of protecting London with a vast network of cables dangled from balloons. London is so close to the air bases of potential enemies that its problem differs greatly from ours. This month, at Ft, Bragg, N. C,, the Army will try out both its Air Corps and its AA defenses in sham warfare. An “aircraft warning net,” consisting of 300 volun=teer civilian observers in a vast ring encircling Ft. Bragg and reaching to the Coast, will seek to warn the fort of the approach of “enemy” air raiders.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is crystallagrophy? 2—=What term is commonly used in zoology to denote all those animals not possessing a backbone? : 3—-Of which state is Olympia the capital? 4—Name the American Ambassador to France. 5—In what round did Joe Louis knock out Jim Braddock for the world's heavyweight title? 6—If an airplane flying 100 miles an hour encounters a head wind of 100 miles an hour, can it make any headway? T-—Where is the Aar River? een

Answers

1-—Science of the forms, properties and structure of crystals. 2—Invertebrates, 3-—Washington. 4—Willlam C. Bullitt. 5—Eightn, 6-—No. T—Switzeriand.

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a little disappointed that Indianap- Mr has no Ritz Hotel. All the 4 more so when you consider that the Ritz idea really got its start by way of a hotel. It was the one started in Paris sometime around the turn of the century by one Cesare Ritz, a former | Swiss shepherd, who as manager of the Savoy in Lone don climbed to the top of his profession. Seems that somewhere along the line the Swiss shepherd got the idea that birds of a feather flock together which translated into hotel terms means that a certain set of people will pay almost anything not to be cone taminated by the hoi polloi.

Well, it appears that the Swiss shepherd guessed absolutely right, with the result that he turned his Paris hotel into such a success that a Mr, Harris called him back to London to start the Carleton. The Carleton prospered, too. So much, indeed, that Mr. Harris got hep to the idea that London had more birds that like to flock together than he had counted on, Sure, that inspired him to stake Mr. Ritz to another hotel—the one in Piccadilly bearing the master's name, After that Cesare Ritz retired to an insane asylum in Geneva where he died.

He Even Furnished Chefs

The death of Mr. Ritz didn't scare Mr. Harris at all. He went right ahead, formed a kind of develope ment company, and offered hotels all over the world the advantages of the Ritz name and its traditions, even to the point of furnishing them with chefs and chambermaids guaranteed to do what the Swiss shepherd had taught them. It worked out, of course, that almost every town in the world, big enough to have a social strata of its own, has a Ritz Hotel. That's why it gripes me to discover that Mr. Harris passed up Indianapolis. Gosh, I wish I had a chance to show Mr. Harris what Indianapolis has to offer in that line.

By this time, of course, the word “Ritz” came to be a symbol to enter the language as a connotation for any and everything very select. The adjective “ritzy” followed, of course. It couldn't be helped. It came to Indianapolis in 1937 by way of the Ritzy Beauty Shoppe.

I guess I ought to add, too, that in the course of my investigation I uncovered a Carl and a Harry Ritzi living on the East Side. Properly speaking, they don’t fit into today’s piece, for the reason that they | didn't have anything to do with perpetuating the | Ritz idea.

Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Find Cause of Your Three Divorces Before Remarrying, Woman Told

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am 30, refined, ambitious

and have good ideals. I have one great fault. It seems I married too many men and because of this the one I love and want condemns me, in spite of all my other qualifications. I married three times all before I was 25. I got all three divorces and I had to fight to get two of them because the men wanted me back. I went with them afterward and we ares good friends now; so could I have been so bad? After | five years to think it over, isn't it possible that I can | be a success with the one I love? He has been married, too, and I say I can't help it if I was always popular and could marry more than once. I am | older now and see my mistakes.

JUST ME.

Answer—To have been married and divorced three times before one is 25 is quite a record. Whether or not you can succeed in a fourth marriage depends upon whether you have discovered what it is in yourself that caused the three previous failures. Evie dently you expect something from marriage whi you aren't going to get simply by exchanging one parte ner for another, I notice that you say you can’t help it if you were popular, which indicates that you are proud of vour power to attract men instead of being ashamed of | your inability to adjust to them in marriage. Nate urally the men you divorced could not have been ens | tirely blameless, but again the responsibilit:r for choos ing weak partners reverts back to you. Why is your Judgment so poor? Whenever we discover ourselves making the same mistake again and again, we can be sure that something is wrong with our attack on life. We need to inquire into ourselves to understand the pattern which keeps repeating itself. I have no idea why you have made three failures, It may be that you do not value what you have but are perpetually attracted by what vou do not have. It may be that you want to occupy the first place and have no taste for the secondary position of wife. It may be that you have a secret grudge against men and enjoy their defeat. There are a number of things that might account for your inability to make a good wife. It is absolutely essential for you to know why you divorced three men before you can trust youre self not to do it again,

n n on | DE JANE JORDAN—I read with interest the recent letter by Cleve who has faithfully court=ed a woman more than two years and now because she wants a man who is not married, he uses the excuse that she is jealous and has been married three times. As for her three marriages, I envy her. She must have some fine points to get three men to choose her, Look at Wallis Simpson. She, too, had been married twice but a King gave up his throne to have her as his wife, and after over two years time who is there to say she isn't making him a good wife? SINGLE,

Answer—The English nation found nothing to ade mire in Mrs. Simpson's multiple marriages. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who wild answer your questions in this column daily.

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