Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1938 — Page 9

agabon From Indiana =CErnie Pyle"

Some Thoughts of a Wanderer on The Subject of Wandering, Which He Concludes Is Still Great Stuff.

ORFOLK, Va., Oct. 15.—0Once more we have come and gone from our home city —all in a flurry. Our visits to Washington seem almost like dreams. When people over the country ask us where we live, we say Washington, D. C. We carry District of Columbia. tags on our car. We put down Washington on hotel registers. Yet we really have no home at all.

We have friends all over the map. But it is in Washington that our friends are massed. And our visits to Washington are so infrequent and so brief that each one is like a daze that we swim through, and we always leave with a feeling of frustration. For out of the hurry and tenseness and excitement, our visits can’t be what we want them to be. We realize at the end that we have talked to lots of friends, yet individually we have talked to nobody. It isn’t our fault, nor our friends’ fault. We are prodigal sons, home for a brief moment, and if we are to see our friends at all we have to see them all at once. It isn’t successful. We feel the hurt in ourselves. But we also feel that our friends will gradually come to think we aren't worth bothering with. Always, after we leave Washington, we have a little talk to ourselves, and we see ourselves eventually - returning to Washington with nobody at all to speak to us. They put us on the boat last night at Washington, down along the fish wharf. It is just overnight to Norfolk, but we steamed away with flowers and gifts and a somewhat illegitimate rendering of Auld Lang Syne, as though we were off to Tibet. It is great for us. But our repetitious role reminds me of a story the captain of a Great Lakes passenger ship once told me about his stops at Houghton, Mich. Whenever anybody from Houghton takes the boat for Duluth the whole town comes down to see him off, and relatives for miles around drive in, and they all bring gifts and stand on the dock and weep and wail and kiss each other goodby—and the departee is just going around the bend to Duluth and will be back home tomorrow night. It is hardly that bad with us, for we do stay away longer than a couple of days. But if our friends could really sustain it, I'd like to move back to Washington, and take the boat every other night for Norfolk, for the rest of my life. :

Mr. Pyle

The ‘Escape’ Complex

In Washington, the question most frequently asked of us is, “Aren’t you getting awfully sick of traveling by now?”

The answer is an honest “No.” And I don’t say that braggingly for it isn’t impossible that some of these days we might come to hate the impermanency of constant travel.

But so far, we like it. I've tried to figure out myself why we haven't tired of it. And my conclusion is that our travel is an “escape” complex. In the end it sums up to the cowardly fact that we don’t have to stay and face anything out. If we don’t like a place, we can move on. If something happens that isn’t pleasant, we can leave, and settle it later by letter . .. or just let it go forever.

But just as important with us, I suspect, is the fact that we can’t stay long even in the places we love. I remember once, years ago, that we loved Arizona so much that, when we crossed the Colorado River for the last time, we could hardly talk for the lumps in our throats. We hardly dare go to-Albu-querque, we hate so badly to leave. And we still love all those places because, you see, we always had to leave before the sweet taste turns to vinegar. And also, you see, before they found out about us, and kicked us out.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Finds It Impossible to Walk Out on New Jungle Film.

HICAGO, En Route, Friday.—There is a very interesting movie starting on its travels around the country this week. I think you will find it unusual and enthralling if you are interested in strange people, strange places and strange animals. The people who took these pictures happen to be relatives of ours. At feast Mrs. Dennis was a Roosevelt. _ They say they enjoyed taking this movie which they have named “Dark Rapture.” However, as I looked at this young woman last night in her lovely brocade evening dress, and at her husband in immaculate evening clothes, it seemed a far cry from living four months with a savage African tribe to gain their confidence so as to be allowed to take pictures of a hitherto hidden ceremony.

They both speak with enthusiasm of the pigmy

With his wife Mr, Taft is pictured receiving returns from the Ohio primary in which he received the nomination as Senatorial candidate. present Mr. Taft as a Presidential candidate, his

Times Special

~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938

A New Taft Rises in Ohio

Late President’s Son Robert Seen as Presidential Possibility

managers seek Anxious to low with a nice

(COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 15.—Every time a politicdlly ambitious citizen sticks his head above the run-of-mine politicians in this politically minded state and captures the Governor's office or Senatorship, Ohioans immediately see in him a Presidential possibility. :

It is a habit of mind in a state which has sent five men to the White House, and which in 1920 provided both Republican and Demo-

- cratic yominees.

National Republican leaders also have the Ohio habit, it being a key state and carrying a Presidential rabbit's foot in its hip pocket. They are especially Ohio-conscious this year, what with the dearth of new names and

‘fresh figures, and the possibility

that the state may use the brass

knucks on the New Deal. They have a distinguished name this year—Taft. : Accordingly, Robert A. Taft, son of the late President and Chief Justice, who is running for the Senate against the Democratic incumbent, Robert J. Bulkley, becomes a man of consequence. His managers aré seekifg to humanize his previous reputation as an austere sort of fellow with a background of family and fortune, a corporation lawyer with clients of the type President Roosevelt would describe as “economic royalists.” So a new Taft emerges, thanks

to some expert handlers — plain"

Bob Taft, a friendly fellow with

| a nice smile and a cordial hand- " shake; almost, but not quite, the

backslapping good fellow whe hobnobs easily with “the boys.” ” 8 2 LOSE friends say Mr. Taft was always this sort underneath, and that now the inner Taft has come into the open. His father, it is true, was a genial

fellow, with. a belly chuckle that

won friends. But heretofore there had been little resemblance between father and son. There are two Taft boys, sons of the ex-President, who have come into some prominence in Ohio. Outside the state, you heard more about the brother, Charles P. Taft, because of his part in the

suddenly become a liberal also, or at least that’s what they tell

you. 2 8 =

HEY dig into his record as a member of the House in

to humanize his previous reputation as an austere sort of fellow with a background of family and fortune. So a new Taft emerges—a fel-

smile and cordial handshake.

Ohio, of which he became Speaker, and the Senate, in the Twen-

ties and early Thirties. ! This record shows that Mr. Taft voted for ratification of the Child Labor Amendment, for investigations to study old-age pensions

and unemployment insurance, for

prevailing wages on state and local public works, for a bill outlawing “yellow dog” contracts for labor, for a bill authorizing credit unions, for investigation of telephone companies. He voted for a bill requiring the Ku-Klux Klan and other secret organizations to file lists of members with the Secretary of State, and against a Klan-backed bill requiring compulsory reading of ‘the "Bible in the public schools. Mr. Tait also supported, in a special session in 1932, most of the measures proposed for Ohio par-

"Charles P. Taft

ticipation in Federal relief funds and other measures to meet the depression. On the other hand, he strenuously opposed a bill which would have placed gas producing and distributing companies under regulation by the Public Utilities Commission, and supported a bill for changing the method of assessing the franchise tax against domestic corporations which Vic Donahey, then Governor,

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By Science Service ASHINGTON, Oct. 15—A warning against the danger of the narcotic drug habit being formed as a result of taking codeine prescribed for relief of coughs is issued by the U. S. Public Health Service here. Doctors have not generally recognized the fact that codeine can be habit-forming, it is said. The accepted dosage of codeine for treatment of cough is unnecessarily large, Dr. Lowrey F. Davenport, attending specialist at the

Federal Health Service’s Marine Hospital at Boston (Chelsea), Mass.,

Warning Is Issued Against Danger of Codeine Habit

«J)ECAUSE of the expense, the relative insolubility and the definitely weaker action of codeine, addicts to this form of drug are numerically few as compared with the number of heroin or morphine addicts,” Dr. Davenport points out. Many chronic morphine or heroin addicts, he believes, got their start from taking codeine. Because they then switched to the cheaper and more potent morphine or heroin, they appear in reports as morphine or heroin addicts and the role of codeine is not recognized. Dr. Davenport compares the situation to that of an alcoholic who got his first craving for alcohol from drink-

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at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Robert Taft, Republican candidate for U. S. Senator from Ohio is shown here (right) with Harry G. Hogan of Ft. Wayne, Republican policy committee chairman for Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia and Wisconsin. ;

Senator Bulkley

would have cut the taxes of corporations at least $1,500,000 a year. 3 : 2 » 8 N his present campaign, Mr.

- A Taft says he is for some of the

New Deal reforms, but makes a distinction between the early New Deal and that after the 1936 election which he says is definitely aimed at a planned economy that

” would bring regimentation of busi-

ness, industry and agriculture, and in time lead to a dictatorship. Some observers, however, question the extent of Mr, Taft’s “conversion.” They say that fundamentally he represents Republican tradition and would return, with some few exceptions, to the doctrine of minimum regulation of business and restoration of “the free competitive system.” They cite an excerpt from his speech in the opening debate with Senator Bulkley at Marietta, as follows: “Why not try the old methods once? The New Dealers haven't tried them. “They should recall business

regulation, and assure free and open competition, prevent pricefixing. That kind of regulation is a police regulation. a “We can let the farmer develop his own farm in the best manner. There are some very simple things you can do to put men back to work. : “You can put a tariff on pottery and put a tariff on glassware and put a good many thousands of men to work in Ohio today. You can put a tariff on foreign oil and put a good many men to work in the coal industry of the State.” ~The tariff references brought vociferous applause. “We should continue the measures which were adopted for humanitarian purposes and reform abuses; but the other measures, wholly regulatory, planned-econ-omy measures, seem to me to be a threat against the entire American system, utterly vain in its purposes, and certain to fail.”

Lewis’ Offer to Green Seen as Comic Relief

Times Special

ASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Get-

A. F. of L.’s Houston convention. A

ANOTHER thing I remember we kids

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By Anton Scherrer

' De You Recalf Fletcherism, Which +» ‘Required You to Take 100 Chews

To Reduce One Olive to a Pulp?

had "to put up with was Fletcherism. For the life of me, I can’t recall just when that

| was, but.I have a kind of hunch that it was lone” of the manifestations of the late

Nineties. At any rate, I'm pretty sure that Fletcherism made its appearance before we learned

"| about the Simple Life, and of course everybody knows 4 that the Simple Life was one of the issues of Theo-

dere Roosevelt's (1901-9).

Fletcherism was something thought up, not by.a Californian as you'd suppose, but by a Yankee named Fletcher. Honest. Somehow —don’t ask me how—he got the idea that the average human being did not masticate his food as thoroughly as he should, and so he set to Wore to Jearn What would happen if every mouthful were chewed errer TRtid 1 Taa-ben comple a TT Ben solved and reduced to a pulp. Like so many people who spend their whole time worrying about the world, Mr. Fletcher was pretty sure, even before he started, that it was a cure for all the ills of mankind.

It wouldn't have been so bad had Mr. Fletcher confined his labor to himself, but that wasn’t his idea. He had all us kids chewing for him, with the result that we spent so much time over our food that even our stamp collections suffered .on account of it, To tell the truth, I really believe it was the time

element that finally caused Mr. Fletcher to fold up. As near as I remember, it took all of a hundred mouth motions to reduce an olive to a pulp, and when you consider that nobody stops with one olive, you can see that Mr. Fletcher’s theory wasn’t everything it was cracked up to be. Of course, peanuts and the like were comparatively easy to reduce, but even so, when you got down to counting up everything, the result was something appalling—as a matter of fact, something like an average of 40 chews for every morsel to reduce it to the condition called for by Mr. Fletcher,

A Poor Treatment for Steak

But that wasn’t all. Some foods like beef steak, for instance, lost their taste all together when submitted to this treatment; and in other cases, solid pore tions of food like peas cooked with their pods, a delectable dish if made right, came to the front of the mouth of their own accord and could be swale lowed only with difficulty, if at all. Which, of course, was at strange variance with Fletcher's dictum that food would “swallow itself” if reduced to the proper pulp. It wouldn’t do anything of the sort, and I don’t

administration

| know why we failed Mr. Fletcher unless, perchance, it

was because Indianapolis people didn’t eat the kind of grub he did. Well, as I said in the beginning, after Fletcherism came the Simple Life to be followed by Dr. Emile Coue. Then, for some reason, we stopped worrying about our mental condition and got right back to food again—this time to vitamins,

Jane Jordan—

A Job Won't Replace a Husband, But Will Ease Feeling of Defeat.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a woman of 23. I have been married three years and have two children. I was in nursing training before my marriage. In the past year my husband has been rune ning around quite openly and says he has run around since the first month of our marriage. He gives no reason, only that he cannot settle down. I love him but I cannot stand this life any longer. I have been unable to obtain a position. I would like nursing in a doctor's or a dentist’s office but that field seems full. I try to look ahead and hold together until I find something to do, for if I leave him now I have no way at all to live. My husband has a good job in an office and we could have a nice home and I would be happy, but it seems he doesn’t want a home. Please tell me of some way I might get some happiness from life. ADRIENE,

Answer—There is no satisfactory answer to a probe lem such as yours if your husband is content with the life he leads and doesn’t want to change. If he would recognize his desire for constant change in women as a personality defect, much could be done to help him; but he doesn’t want help. It takes courage for a woman in your situation to stand by while her children are little and fill her life with other interests. You need to find some form of achievement to compensate for your feeling

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rather general feeling in Washington that Mr. Green has been made to appear ridiculous by an adroit Lewis thrust is not based on any dislike for Mr. Green.

Mr. Lewis may have improved his public relations, which badly need improvement. He hoped to’ embarrass the A. F. of L. by what would

charter government movement at Cincinnati, - his authorship of a rather liberal book, and his presence among the 1936 “brain trust” of Alf M. Landon—until he was shoved into the background when the Old Guard element took over. Charles Taft was usually known as the liberal of the family, Bob as the one who strung along with the organization. It was Bob who was put forward as Ohio’s favorite son for the Presidency in 1936, chiefly to give Ohio a trading point in the usual negotiations over a Presidential candidate. But now, presto, Bob Taft has

of loss of security in your husband. When the children are older, I suppose a job is the best answer, The fact that the field you are fitted for is full is no sign that it will remain full. Vacancies occur from time to time which you could fill if you have your application in enough places. A job will not take the place of a loving husband, but success in business will ease your feeling of de feat. Money of your own will make you feel safer. att & Tait offer 16 many rank and Establish yourself in some occupation before you

think of divorce. file union members. Much more may be heard, it is 2 ® = predicted, from President Dan Tobin EAR JANE JORDAN—About 15 years ago I was of the teamsters’ union, who has married to a sweet girl and we lived together been protesting the Houston con-| until four years ago when she died. I never cared vention’s vituperation of the C. I. O.| to remarry until a year ago when I met another girl much like my wife. She seems to care for me

ing vintage Burgundy but who ended as a gin addict. Studies with tuberculosis patients at the Middlesex County Sanatorium showed that the average tablet dose of codeine given for relief of cough is unnecessarily large. The average patient, it was found, will obtain relief from cough from a dose of one-sixth of a grain of codeine given every four hours as indicated. Besides reducing the danger of fostering the drug habit, the use of this smaller dose has saved the hospital hundreds of dollars, while at the same time keeping the patients as comfortable as formerly.

people. They evidently looked upon them somewhat the way we look on child prodigies and they insist they never had any fear of their treatment at the hands of any of these people. They must, however, have had some moments of anxiety in the jungle in contact with horrible looking snakes and other dangerous animals. The fire which closes the picture must have been an unforgettable experience.

- You can judge how interesting I found the picture, when I tell you that I had planned to be polite by watching for a short time and then slipping away in the dark to work at my desk until the time for saying goodnight came. Instead of that, I stayed to the end and had a mad scramble to finish what mail absolutely had to be signed and what could be left behind.

Envious of the President

states in a -report issued by the Health Service on the abuse of codeine. “Codeine is the generally accepted sedative for the control of cough, but its addiction liability (habitforming propensity) has not been fully appreciated,” Dr. Davenport declares. Codeine addiction has become a grave problem in Cenada where until recently there have been no restrictions on its sale. The per capita consumption of the drug in Canada is three and one-half times that in the United States and 10 times that in Great Britain.

ting comment on the offer of

John IL. Lewis to quit the C. I. O. if William Green would resign the A. F. of L. presidency was rather difficult for newspapermen because the outstanding people in the field of labor and labor relations couldn’t discuss it for laughing. Friends of Mr. Lewis generally agreed with his foes that the C. I. O. leader never ‘suspected for a moment that Mr. Green would accept his offer. Yet those most desirous of labor peace feel something was done to ease the effect of the bitterness which had come from the

Until the last moment, I never remember that one needs a certain amount of money to pay for such necessities as food and tips when one travels around the country. While I dressed for dinner, it dawned upon me that I had neglected to cash a check, so I called downstairs and asked the usher if he knew some place in Washington where he could get it cashed at that hour in the evening. With the char- . acteristic cheerfulness of the White House staff, he answered: “I'll do my best, Mrs. Roosevelt.” By the time we finished dinner, he was ready to produce the cash I needed for the trip, which Miss Thompson and I started on last night at 11:40. When I said goodby to my husband, I thought I detected a distinct gleam of complacency and maline in his eye when he remarked: “Well, while you are touring the country, I shall leave here Sunday; pick up Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Murray in New York City, and have a delightful week at Hyde Park.”

I tried not to show it, but he certainly made me envious. United States and would not care to give them up. It is just another case of when you want to be two people at the same time. Last evening,'we talked to my mother-in-law, who is back from her trip to Seattle and settled at home "in Hyde Park, and saying: “I'm so glad I went.”

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 15.—A lot of people wonder why I never play the market and I'm gonna tell you. Whenever the sale of stocks fall off a couple of million dollars inn a day, those Wall Street fellas get panicky and say money is tight. They don’t know what scarce money is. One day I went into my uncle’s store down home and I found him turnin’ flip-flops and dancin’ on his counter and swingin’ on the chandelier and he kept it up until he fainted from exhaustion. When he finally “come to,” he said, “After this I'm gonna

try to control myself when somebody pays cash for

And yet I do like those trips around the |

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where is the British Island of Grenada? : 2—With what sport is the name Carl Hubbell associated? 3—Do ships have a lighter draft in salt water than in fresh water? i 4—For which state is “Pelican State” the nickname? 5—What is a “bean ball” or duster” in baseball? 6—What is the correct pronunciation for the word commandant? GI 2

s 8 = , | Answers 1—In the Windward Islands, West

2—Baseball. : — 3—Yes; because salt water has greater buoyancy. 4—Louisiana. 5—A throw by the pitcher aimed at the batsman’s head in an effort to drive him away from the plate. : 6—-Kom’-man-dant. = 3 8

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but she is so envious of my parents and me. My parents have been wonderful to me and do not know she is jealous of them. She does not like country life and tells me she won't live out of town althoush I can make a better living on the farm. We are engaged to be married in November. What would you advise me to do? : J. LH

been, your wife must come first. It is not clear to me whether or not you are asking her to live with your parents on a farm. If you are you are wrong. When a woman marries it is her duty to go where her husband can do the best. If she is unwilling to do this, she should not marry. Nevertheless, women do marry in the hope that they can get their husbands to change their occupation... You have .a trying situation before you and unless the two of you can come to a satisfactory agreement about where you are

“7 to live and what occupation you are to follow, you ’".| are simply courting failure by marrying each other,

JANE JORDAN.

ur problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer Your Ruestions in this column daily. “,

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Public Library Presents—

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A schoolship leaves port for several months with