Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1938 — Page 11

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From Indiana =Ernie Pyle

Our Southbound Mr. Pyle, It Seems, Hasn't Much Love for the Swamps; It's Raining but No One Hurries.

(ON DOWN THE ATLANTIC COAST, Oct. : 18.—In three states today. The coast road to Florida is seldom along the ocean. The land is too swampy, and the coastline is ragged. grt . The country is scrubbish, with a variety of pine tree. Slash pine, I think they call it. But I've never been able to learn trees. I can’t dis-

tinguish one variety of fir from another. The only

thing I'm sure of is a maple. Now and then we see a grove, with ‘the underbrush cleared out, and little troughs stuck onto the side of each tree, where the bark is slashed off. Those are turpentine camps. As you go farther south, the country becomes a swampish, almost frightening jungle. We visualize alligators and snakes, spiders - and insects by the millions. 2 I remember one of the mail pilots on this run telling me years Mr, Pyle ago that he carried a little vial of .poison “with him. If he ever went down in the southern Georgia swamp, he wouldn't wait to see what happened. He wasn’t a dramatic fellow either, and I believe him. He was a South-

. erner, and knew what swamps are.

It is pouring rain again today. Constant, steady They're lking singly and in droves up and down the road. No coats on. Not hurrying. : Lots of Negro women sitiing on the banks of little streams, fishing. They don’t seem to go in out of the rain either. Lois of them smoking pipes. Not corncobs, nor old-fashioned clay pipes, but regular briar pipes, like the men in Esquire. . We get to talking about the South. 1t is a hard

land for a Northerner to know, or to make decisions about. Things are fundamentally so different here.

The ‘South is ‘poor. No question about it. We

* wonder what the South would be like today if

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" there had never been a Civil War—if the South could have gone on under its feudal system of doing things. We wonder if it would be richer today than it is. There is no answer* of course, for even a Southerner can’t know for sure.

Shocked by a Span The high bridge as you come into Charleston from

. the north is one of the most shocking looking things

I've ever seen. I've crossed it several times before, but each time it looks higher and funnier. . When we stopped at the bridge toll station, the : tollkeeper was talking to the driver of a car ahead of “us. Cars are supposed to move right on through toll . gates. But there they stood, just having conversation. “I got impatient. Finally the tollkeeper stepped back into his little house, and we drove alongside. He said: “Man, I just : had to look at what that fellow had. Two of the most “beautiful bear skins you ever saw. He's an Army officer. In Alaska. What I wouldn't give for one of those!” And on fo Savannah, in the rain. I noticed the other day in Esquire a semifiction piece about the “Waving Girl” of the Savannah River. For 30 years and more she waved at every ship that came up or down the Savannah River—a towel by day, a lantern by night. They say it was an old love—that her man went away to sea, and never came back, but she kept on waving at every ship, hoping. I was interested in the story because of Esquire’s tardiness. Three years ago I had a long chat with the “Waving Girl,” and wrote a column about her. She was an aging woman then, and had already left the river. Even when I talked with her, three years ago, it had been many months since she had waved at a ship.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

She Is Greeted in Missouri by Some Friends of an Old Friend.

: HARLESTON, Ill, Monday.—We were in Joplin, 4A Mo., such a short time yesterday I had com- : paratively little opportunity to see anything of special interest in the city. I was struck, however, by the interested audience and the quality of the questions which were asked at the close of my lecture. The woman who runs the town hall series for which I spoke, told me that she has excellent support for two. series of mixed lectures and music every winter and that she brings many prominent artists to Joplin. I can well imagine that they would find it a pleasant engagement. : A group of young Democrats came to call on me at the hotel and, the world being a small place, I found some friends of my friends, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Gugler, of New York. The best tie I know of is a mutual admiration and affection for some individual and I felt that I had really found a friend because we had this bond. My whole connection with Joplin in the past is through Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, whom I have long known and admired. Her home was in Joplin and, of course, her friends greeted me on every hand. All about us there was a friendly interest which could not help but make us feel at home. For instance, Miss Thompson handed a telegram to one of the bellYoys and said she had expected a letter which had not arrived. A few minutes later he was back with the letter and the telegram saying: “I think this is the letter you are waiting for, so I didn’t send the wire.” We both thought that indicated real intelligence and a friendly interest.

Crowds at the Stations

Someone had evidently sent word ahead that we were on the train going to Joplin, for quite a number ‘of people gathered at various stations and I had an opportunity to shake hands with men, women and children. My only anxiety was that the train would start suddenly and someone would get hurt. This morning we changed trains in the station in St. Louis a little after 8 o'clock. It seemed to bring me very near the Hudson River to find myself back on the New York Central Lines with a time-table indicating the beauties of the Mohawk and Hudson River valleys. The porters who carried our bags from one train to the other reappeared after a short interval armed with autograph books and I learned of children who were collecting them and the fact that they succeeded in having a number of interesting people write in their books. Two young people from the press and two photographers were also up at that hour, but by 8:30 Miss Thompson and I were free.We are now in Charleston, Ill. The country we have been coming through is flat but evidently good agricultural land. We are staying at the Eastern Tllinois State Teachers College and after lunch expect tc have an opportunity to see several points of interest. :

Bob Burns Says—

J TOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18.—I've gotten a lot of letters from people askin' me if I read my speeches off or if I jest get up and gab. I never write a speech down. I jest get up and trust to luck and while I make a lot of mistakes, the worst thing you can say

_ about it is that it was bad. 7-1 never wrote but one speech in my life and that

was my first one. The next day the papers said, «There were three things wrong with it. In the first place it was read; in the second place it wasn’t well third place it wasn’t worth readin’.”

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By Paul Harrison

NEA Service Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18.— In their third motion picture, “Five of a Kind,” the Dionne Quintuplets will make their first bows as real actresses. It’s not quite the sort of acting other child stars consciously do, explained Director Leeds, because the quins portray themselves and thus behave naturally. “But they behaved according to orders,” he said, “and handled their roles exactly as we hoped they could. “Never having seen a movie, except some animated cartoons, they

didn’t understand the real reason

.they were acting. I'd work out little pieces of business and tell them what I wanted done and sometimes rehearse them in action.” They took direction for two reasons: because they're such obliging kids, without a bit of contrariness in them, and because they thought it was a game.” Jean Hersholt and other veterans of 20th-Fox’s two previous expeditions to Callander, Ontario, give credit to the 28-year-old director for the fact that about four times as much usable film was obtained for this picture, and in record time despite bad weather. » 2 2

“Y EEDS speaks French,” said Hersholt, who is ‘Doctor Luke,” “and he found the little girls had a French vocabulary of about 300 words. They know some English, and they even sing a song in English in ‘Five of a Kind’ but they think in French. “Leeds made everything a game for the quins. When they balked at something he would say, ‘If you don’t play the game with us, we will have to go home.’ And then they'd do whatever he asked them. “Leeds would not do anything to hurt their confidence in us. I remember what a timé there was about the puppies. Five little cocker spaniels were sent up from Toronto for the babies to play with in the picture, and themurses had told the babies about them. But the dogs. could be photo-

First lessons in how to pick up two puppies at a time are being learned by Cecile (left) and that’s Yvonne has been more successful, and the deep content evident in the dog as he pushes his muzzle up to her shoulder is

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No dogs were ever so thoroughly sprayed, scrubbed, generally degermed as the 6-week-old cockers who came to belong to the Dionne QuintupWithin two minutes they had become an inseparable part of the household. .

How five famous little girls reacted when they saw their first real, live puppies, is recorded above by the camera. Mr. Hersholt brought the little red cocker spaniels to the nursery in a big basket. The Quins,

graphed only outdoors, and day after day it was cloudy and we had to work inside. “We were making the sequence where the quintuplets undress their dolls and put them to bed. All of a sudden they went on strike and just wouldn’t play with their dolls. Yvonne said, ‘Mlle. Corriveau promised the puppies! We want the puppies!’ . “Leeds pleaded with them, an Marie asked if they could play with the puppies the next day. But Leeds wouldn’t promise because he knew the next day might be cloudy too, and he wouldn't risk having to double-cross them. “So Yvonne stiil refused to kiss her doll and put it to bed, and we didn’t do any more work that day.” :

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Wwe the pups finally were brought to the play yard, and carried in by Mr. Hersholt, the camera was turning to record the quins’ first reactions to pets they previously had seen only in picture books. However, most of the sequences for “Five of a Kind” were rehearsed in advance; or at least there was some discussion about them. Mr. Leeds told about the time the 4-year-old stars were supposed to bring “Doctor Iuke” his breakfast, mostly coffee. One would race in with a cup, another with a spoon, a third with the cream, and so on. “They did it four times,” the director recalled, “and when I was hoping we'd get it right, the kids

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~ Jean Hersholt, a veteran movie actor, gives Marie practical instruction in how to hold a puppy, and now she’s anxious to try it herself. Mr. Hersholt, on his third visit to Dioneville to play his role of Dr. Luke in “Five of a Kind,” the Quins’ latest movie, has become a favorite with the girls, but the new puppies stole the limelight even from him.

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who had seen the fluffy little fellows only as pictures, made a rush for

the pups and gave them quite a mauling.

In the picture the Quins

are, left to right: Yvonne, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Marie.

stopped and went into a huddle. Whenever they were puzzled about something they'd settle it in a huddle, and a funny thing was that they seemed to be almost telepathic in the way they'd drop everything at the same time, and get together and start whispering. “Well, I found out they were worrying about why we were playing that game five times. Pretty soon they decided simply that ‘Dotta Lute’ must be a very hungry man that morning to want so many breakfasts. So they came back and whipped through the scene again and we got it just

.right.

“They have a swell sense of humor, and love to make other people laugh too.. There's a sequence where the kids are around

Everyday Movies—By Wortmaun

a microphone and are supposed to be on the air. I thought it would be amusing if they took the mike to pieces and carried it away. That didn’t take much coaching, because they’ll apart if you give them a chance.

Emilie is the most mechanicalminded and she did most of the

work, and then the other four grabbed the base and ran away

with it. It was really so funny.

that we all laughed out loud, even with the camera turning. The kids were so delighted to hear us laugh that on the second take they really wrecked that microphone and galloped off with the pieces. I guess it's the most enthusiastic scene in the whole picture.”

NEXT—Mr. Harrison reviews the Quins’ new picture.

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Our Town

|By Anton Scherrer

Information on the ‘City's ' Early Private Libraries Comes From the Data Dudu Fletcher's Father Left.

+ XCEPT for data left by the Rev. James Cooley Fletcher who turned up in yese terday’s piece as the father of Dudu, author of “Kismet,” I wouldn't be able to tell you about some of the early private libraries in Indianapolis. : Just as you'd expect, Julia .(Dudu) Fletcher's grandfather, Calvin Fletcher, stayed in of nights reading books. So did her grandmother. Indeed, her grandmother kept a record of the books she read. On the first day of December, 1821, for instance, Mrs. Calvin Fletcher made a note in her diary: “Today I have finished the ‘Vicar of Wakefield’ and commenced reading the ‘Life of Washington’.” And two years later, on Feb. 12, 1823, the very year her first baby was born (sure, the one who lived to she mentions reading “The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.” With apparent relish, too. In the meantime Mrs. Fletcher kept track of hep husband’s reading. Seems that while -Mrs. Fletcher was still eutting the leaves of the “Vicar of Wake= field,” her husband was busy -with -a novel. called “Emma.” He must have gobbled it up because by the 20th day of the same month he was reading “Duncan’s Logic.” For the second time, too, says Mrs. Fletcher. In December, 1821, Mr. Fletcher cleaned up two more books: “Travels of Mungo Park” (in the interior of Africa), and Robertson’s “History of America.” Calvin Fletcher, however, was not the first in ‘Indianapolis to have a library of his own. At any rate not if you believe the Rev. James Cooley Fletcher who took time off in 1879 to remember some things about his father. According to him “Col. Blake (James) was the first in Indianapolis to have a nonprofessional collection of miscellaneous works that might be called a library. My father and Mr. Merrill (Samuel) came next, Mr. Merrill's being the largest.”

Mr. Gregg Had 2700

I haven't any way of knowing, of course, how many books it took to make a library in Mr. Fletcher's judgment, but I suspect it was quite a lot. At any rate it is pretty well established that Harvey Gregg had a collection of 2700 books (maybe mostly law books) when he came to Indianapolis in 1821. His partner, George J. Johnston had a sizable collection, too. Mr. Johnston’s library came to light in 1323 when on Nov. 24 of that year, the Western Censor published the following ad: “Books Lost: Many of my books have been taken out of my office without leave or license.” And then followed a long list including among others Johnson's Works (2d and 12th vols.), Bingley’s “Useful Knowledge” (3d vol.), “Gil Blas” (1st vol.) and the first volume of “Universal Knowledge.” Mr. Johnston wound up with a lamentae tion that a broken set of books wasn’t of any use to him, or to anybody else for that matter. I haven't the least idea whether Mr. Johnston scared the borrowers into returning his books, Off« hand, I'd say he didn’t.

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|Jane Jordan—

~ One Who Makes Friends by Mail Apparently Fears Meeting People,

D> JANE JORDAN—Recently a letter appeared in your column’ concerning a man who wrote lete ters to women all over the continent. I wonder what you think of this: I was going with a man and he began to do the same thing. He said it was to collect snapshots, but the letters I saw were full of feeling. We had a quarrel and then made up. Without my asking it he said he had destroyed all his “fan mail” and all the letters I had written him in our years of

ture and most of his letters, but I do not find mine among them. He says he loves me and wants me

our troubles to some of these pen pals and asked their advice. He holds a pretty good position and I am afraid that such a pastime may have an influence on his job if it is discovered that he does this. JERRY

Answer—I cannot help but feel that a man who makes the majority of his friends by mail is trying to avoid actual human contacts. It is easier to put over a big idea of oneself in writing than it is to live up to that idea in the day by day contacts of life.

popular, that he wants many friends and admirers, but that he doubts his capacity to make them in the flesh. I believe that his letters to strangers are an ingenious method of dodging reality. . Unless you can help him to gain his self-esteem from actual achievement in the eyes of his associates, I doubt if you'll be happy together. f 4 » tJ EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am faced with a perplexe ing problem and I hope you can think of a solution. A girl I know has a mistaken idea that I like her very much. I have said or done nothing to make her draw this conclusion. The trouble is that various friends of hers keep telling her that I like her and this encourages her. subtle way to keep her friends from doing this? I don’t know them very well and am hesitant as to what I should do. : BAFFLED.

Answer—If you never call on her and never show her any attention, she will not be able to hold on to a false idea about you for long. What puzzles me is why you feel it necessary to protest so much. Are you sure you are not defending yourself against a secret attraction which you do not wish to admit? Perhaps not, but I can’t see why you find it so hard to discourage the young lady. Real indifference would leave you too cold to state the problem. | - JANE JORDAN.

— Sg Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who Will answer your questions in this column daily. I

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HE query WHAT ARE WE TO DO?" (Random House) is addressed by. John Strachey to those

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lieves, will inevitably move toward socialism, =~ =~ : A large part of Mr. Strachey’s book is devoted to an analysis of the mistakes made .by the “Socialists

have in his eyes resulted in a week compliance on their part to the will of the propertied and capitalist classes. This analysis he makes with a view to pointe ing out the direction which British labor must, take in order to avoid even greater weakness and to Warning American labor against falling into similar pitfalls. In the latter part of the volume he gives an answer

political parties have been loosely formed organiza= tions devoted chiefly to obtaining votes. These groups of Socialists and workers he would not destroy. But as the aggressive nucleus of the labor movement there should be a disciplined, active party, well versed in the “science of socialism,” which would serve to educate, lead, and inspire the great masses engaged in working toward ill defined and often contradi aims. Such a} in the American

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more than anything in the world. He has written of

" I believe that in his heart this man wishes to be

Can you tell me a,

of America and England who-.are concerned with the formation of a strong labor movement which will be able to gain and preserve:peace, democracy, and’ a high national standard of living, and which, ‘he bee.

and the labor movement in Great Britain, which

to the question put in the title, Hitherto, he says,