Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1938 — Page 17

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From Indiana =Ernie Pyle Tired and Hot, Ernie Arrives at

Miami After. Having Some Waitress

Trouble Along. the Florida Coast.

IAMI, Oct. .20.—At last—Miami. Our

; speedometer made it 1075 miles from Norfolk.

That’s just a couple of days driving for

most people. For us it was four long, wear- | It seemed as though

ing, exhausting days. we would never get here.

For one thing, it rained constantly the last three That makes tense driving. And second, we've: it comes’

days. discovered that when to just lighting out and driving all: day long, days on end, we can’t take it.

~ Each evening we wind up weary; to the: point of not wishing to eat | We fall into bed. And in |

dinner. the. mornings I have a feeling that the Grim Reaper at last has drawn nigh. It takes me an hour 0 get out of bed. But were here now, and such constant “and studied driviLg is over for awhile. In a Florida coast town one evening, we had a iittle waitress trouble. we said we’d order dinner now, so she just walked off. After awhile she came back and said: “Do you want something to eat now?”

I said yes, indeed we did, and told her what we

Mr. Pe

wanted. After a few minutes she came back, and |

asked if we would like something to eat. I said we sure would, that she'd already taken the order once, and did she want me to write it down for her?

She said: “Yes, I wish you would.”

Well, you just can’t be impatient with anybody like that. So.I wrote it down, and she wandered away, going sort of here and there, until she hit the kitchen. The dinner eventually turned out all right. And then we got to talking with the girl. She was just a kid, not aver 16 I imagine. She was from some little place in Alabama, and I don’t think she’d ever been away from home before. She was as friendly as pie, and so simple it would have done your heart good. We practically fell in love with her. . When we came through St. Augustine in the rain, there was suddenly a great voice in the atmosphere, coming from a loud-speaker we never did locate. The voice said: “Hello there. We have a cottage for you.” Here in Miami, I was sitting in a restaurant eating a late bite, about 3 in the afternoon. There was no other customer, and the place was very quiet. The phone rang, and the proprietor answered. He didn’t say “hello.” He said: “Golden Fried Chicken.”

He Likes Their Frankness -

The famous east coast of Florida is not especially pretty. In fact, I think most of it is downright ugly. When it comes to Florida, I'll take California. But there is one thing I like about Floridians. And that is their frankness about prices.

So many seasonal places keep up their robbery prices out of season, or else try to convince you that

"they wouldn't think of Hacking up prices during the

season. But in Florida they say sure, the crowds come in the winter, and then our prices go way up. They don’t make any bones about it. Right now, prices in Florida are dirt cheap. But two months from now,

‘some of the prices will make you shiver.

Speaking of shivering, it’s hotter than the well known hinges here right now (it is, I mean, during the infrequent intervals between torrents of rain). It’s around 90, and this hothouse hound is suffering from the heat. For two years now we have avoided the real extremes of either heat or cold. And it has softened us... We have reached the stage where we ‘re uncomfortable below 70 or above 85. Gradually we expect

‘ .to .whittle that down and eventually reach a point of

durability somewhere between 76 and 77 degrees. Then we will hibernate, and the world will see us only for those brief: moments when the temperature, racing up and down the field, flashes between the 76th and 77th yard lines. That will be fine for the world.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Forums Suddenly Became Popular

This Year in Hammond, She Finds.

UINCY, Ill, Wednesday —It was rather pleasant to sleep in a hotel last night after having spent the previous five nights on trains, Strange to say, I rather missed the motion of the train, which shows how quickly we adapt ourselves to circumstances. When we drove up in a slight drizzling rain to the civic center in Hammond, Ind., where I lectured last

evening, it looked very big to me. But my hosts were so kind that I regained some composure before I went in to find a very delightful audience. I was told they had been running this forum for 15 years and at times had had a great deal of difficulty keeping it going, but this vear forums have suddenly become popular and the demand for season tickets is overwhelming. Funny how fashions will change, even in forums. We left Chicago this morning at 10:30. It was pleasant to find that Mrs. Cotsworth and Mrs. Flynn were to be our hostesses again and that Mr. Cotsworth was going with us as far as Keokuk, Iowa. The train waited over some time in Burlington, Iowa, so Mrs. Carl Pryor arranged to take us in a seven-passenger car for a very beautiful-drive which allowed us to rejoin the train in Keokuk, We stopped for one minute to see my daughter-in-law Ruth's aunt and uncle and I even enjoyed a glimpse of their beautiful home on the bluffs above the Mississippi River,

Mississippi Isn't Muddy

Then we motored through the Iowa countryside to the little town of Nauvoo, Ill, which was a Mormon settlement, later French and then German, The thing which impressed me most is the amount of work which the Mormons accomplished in the short seven years of their occupancy. The photograph of Joseph Smith shows a very handsome young man, but he also must have been an extremely capable gentleman, for the mansion in which he spent the last year of his life, is still standing and is a house of real pretentions. There are enough old buildings standing to make the restoration of this little: town interesting and it is now planned to turn the part down by the river into a state park. From there we drove along the river into Keokuk. The drive is lovely and crossing the river gave me an excellent view of the dam which I had never seen before. We saw our train making its way down the other side of the river and if Mr. Cotsworth had not been with us I should have been very nervous, but I think they only held the train about two minutes for

us. The railroad follows the river and I am receiving a very pleasant surprise for I had always ‘supposed the Mississippi was a brown and extremely muddy stream, but today it looks clear and blue. I caught a

glimpse of stern. It looked extremely clumsy and made me think

' of an old lady with a bustle in the style of the 1890s.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 20.—I think the most kindhearted and tactful bunch of men I ever saw in my life are these directors out here in Hollywood. They've got a way of turning you down for a part and making you feel good about it. They'll tell a

man he’s too handsome for the part and they’ll tell |

a woman she’s too young. I use’ta think it was jest a part of their business, but now I believe they're naturally tactful.

The other day one of ‘em Was out huntin’ and he

mistook his friend for a rabbit ahd shot him. He used over and took his friend in his arms and Ta Spry mistook you for a Hobie stag ora

an old riverboat churning up water at the |

ne 1anapoli

Der Fuehrer is amused.

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lous Fuehrer.”

By Milton Bronner NEA Service Staff Writer

clean—and dull.

varian hills. He has a passionate devotion to the music of Wagner, and it is probable that he identifies himself with the strutting, posturing cardboard heroes in the

great Wagnerian operas. He regards himself as an authority on art. In the old days, he used to intersperse his speeches with attacks on “cubism” and “dadaism” to people who nad not even heard of them. “There is no such’ thing as Chinese or Egyptian art,” he once proclaimed. Moving pictures are one of his favorite relaxations. Sometimes he takes in two a day. If a movie appeals to him, he summons his underlings and shows it to them in his private theater. Der Fuehrer also enjoys Wild West *storiés.8 2 2 ODAY he is the awesome - Fuehrer, but even now woms=en—from matron to schoolgirl— dimple and smile sweetly when Adolf Hitler is near them, for he possesses a strange charm for Germany’s womanhood. There can be no doubt that his popularity with the ladies helped him to power. Countesses liked him first, chambermaids later, but to all he was: “Der Schoene Ade’— handsome Adolf. Still a bachelor, Hitler's name has been linked romantically with a number of women. There was “Geli,” the daughter of his halfsister. Geli committed suicide in 1930. There was Frau Winifred Wagner, widow of Richard Wagner’s son. Considered the best candidate for the honor of being Frau Hitler, Frau Wagner nowadays discusses music with Der Fuehrer. There was Pola Negri, Jenny Jugo, Renate Mueller, all movie actresses. There was: the beauteous Leni Riefenstahl, his friend for years. Fraulein Riefenstahl was once quoted as saying, “The Fuehrer does not love except platonically.” Nowadays, his name is linked with Unity Mitford’s, the blond lady Fascist from England. Hitler never forgets or forgives an insult or a betrayal. When he was making up the list of those to be “purged” on June 30, 1934, he included among the recalcitrant Nazis and Army men the name of one von Kahr, who had double-<crossed him 11 years before. In 1924, when Hitler went to jail, a young aristocrat objected to being under the same prison-

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938

Registering disbelief.

#8 & 8

Paragraphic flashes that light up the character.and personality of Hitler the man are contained in this first of a series about “The FabuIn this series Milton Bronner, drawing on his long experience as a reporter of the foreign scene, presents a revealing * study of the most-feared man in Europe.

HE personal life of the Fabulous Fuehrer is neat, He does not smoke, uses neither beer nor wine, eats only vegetables although his household in Berlin boasts over a score of excellent cooks. Adolf Hitler never has been photographed swimming, playing ball or taking part in any sport. He has never been seen on horseback—in fact, he gave a gift horse with which the Nazis once honored him to an actress. He loves to take speedy spins in his big, expensive automobiles and enjoys going for slow walks in his Ba-

roof .with him. . After the Nazis seized power, the aristocrat paid for that. He was put into a concentration camp. With an intense inferiority complex which, until recently made him shy and uncommunicative in the presence of his “betters,” Hitler combines a staggering self love, perhaps as a compensation mechanism. “The wonder of this age,” he once told a Nazi congress, “is that you found me—an unknown man among millions.” He meant it, too. 2 "8 Nn ONVINCED that he has been divinely appointed to “save” Germany, he nevertheless hates to make up his mind. Goebbels

has revealed how Hitler debated with himself for 34 days in 1932 whether to run against Hinden-

burg. _ : All of Hitler's intellectual bag-'’ gage is borrowed, converted into.

his own. His anti-Semitism and racial theories he took over from an Englishman, Houston Stewart Chamberlin, who had - borrowed them from one Count Gobineau, a Frenchman. His “Socialism” he borrowed from one Gottfried Feder, an exponent of spurious Marxian theories. His pan-Ger-manism he borrowed from the people among whom he spent his childhood and youth. It is even said that he borrowed his powerful slogan, “Germany Awake!” from an unfrocked priest who used to preach it after the war. A former intimate of Hitler's quotes Ernst Roehm, one of Der Fuehrer’s first adherents, as saying, “Though he (Hitler) - often does what we advise, he laughs in our faces at the moment, and later does the very thing as if it were his own idea and: creation.”

8 » 4 HE poses as the friend of the people, but he speaks in his book of “people’s weakness and bestiality,” and believes the crowd is “the representative of stupidity and cowardice.” Yet he is the unequaled master of propaganda to this mass. “Propaganda,” he writes, “must restrict itself to ‘a small compact theme, and this it must everlastingly repeat.” From his convention-hall approach, Hitler carries this over to his personal life. There is no such thing as a conversation with him. The visitor sits still while Hitler pours oi1t words, more words, millions of words, but the sane old ideas.

- Hitler, despite his power of

“Der Schoene Ade,”

“The Fabulous Fuehrer” is seen above in one of * his most recent pictures and his most recent tri-

umph—as throngs saluted him at

speech, murders his own language. Educated people are amused br his use of German. It is said

that even today, school boys snhicker when they begin to study the required “Mein Kampf.” But Hit-

The Fabulous Fuechrer

Art of Propaganda Perfected by Hitler as He Wins Masses

The iron mask Europe fears.

Asch during his

ler, who must be aware of this failing, is indifferent to it. He is not interested ‘in “the esthetes,” the “blase little people.” His book asks, “To whom shall propa-. ganda appeal? To the scientific

victorious procession into the Sudetenland. Bronner points out that Hitler has a penchant for publie appearances in large and costly cars. :

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Second Class Matter

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Atemphing or Straighten out the ‘Mix-Up That Was: Brought About by, Mrs, ‘Barnes’ Arrest in Washington,

oO of the worst mix-ups ever to. occur

around here was back in 1917 ‘when ‘the police of Washington, -D..C., arrested Mrs, Charles W. Barnes of Indianapolis for. picks

| eting the ‘White House,

Believe it or not, Mrs. Barnes was put in the’ Black ‘Maria and hauled off to jail. When: she got there, she refused to: put -up- bail -($775), after ‘which, of course, there wasn't: anything: to do, but

keep her locked up. for the night. She wasn’t the only one ‘in the - ° same fix. There were 30 others, in- vid

{cluding Mrs. Agnes Morley, a’ “wealthy = ‘society woman of Boston,

Bl | ind Mrs. John Branan, daughter of

Charles A. Dana who used to run

"|The ‘New York Sun. I press the: "| point, not only ‘to show-the kind of

crowd Mrs. Barnes went with, but = =

I to give you some idea of the’ “forces

back of the woman's sufirage move- Mg, Scherrer: ment at the time. Except for Mrs. ? : Morley, maybe Mrs, Barnes wouldn't have landed in jail. It was Mrs. Morley, for instance, who headed

y | the line of picketers that day, and it ‘was she who

Milton

intelligentsia or to the tess du. cated masses?” :- Hitler's success i the answer to ins,

‘NEXT — ‘The su success story. of Adolf Hitler. :

Young America Demands. Its Eggs Plein Likes Moderate Vegetable Helpings

By Science Service ASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—America’s youngest set—little Junior and Sister Susie—are heavy drinkers. Of milk. They demand their eggs plain. No souffles, thank you. . And there's a limit to how big a helping of nice vegetables can be, before Junior and Susie start a war. In short, there are facts, which may be learned, about how much food a healthy small girl or boy eats and needs to grow on. These facts are being investigated at the National Child Research Center here. The children whose eating habits ‘are being so closely watched are typical young Americans. They are 2 to 6 years old, and mostly they live in good homes. Two food economists have sumined up results of six years’ eating records, six years of observing this large assortment of Juniors and Susies. The points about healthy youngsters liking milk, and pre-

ferring plain dishes, and getting discouraged when faced by giantsized helpings are included in the evidence gathered. : 8 8 8 HE nutritionists, finding that the children keep healthy, have drawn the conclusion that it is wise to encourage servings as large as a child will readily take, and to balance the budget of nutritive elements by planning all meals carefully, .- The two scientists making the study are Dr. Helen N. Hann and Dr. Hazel K. Stiebeling. They have learned that 2-year-old children average from 1200 to 1350 calories in energygiving food a day. Three-year-olds consume 1300 to 1500 calories, 4-year-olds from. 1450 to" 1700, and 5-year-olds 1600 to 2000. Any child varies widely in the amount of energygiving food he eats from day to. day. .The two nutritionists believe this is due mainly to the activity of the child and fo the form in which food is served.

HILDREN of nursery school age get nearly half their calories at their noon meal and at the light lunches they eat in mi-moiing and mid-afternoon. The youngsters studied were found to be getting adéquate diets according to prevailing standards. But even more liberal supplies of essential food materials might be advisable as a reserve, the report suggests. Among the foods that the wellfed child might eat at home in greater quantity are these: lightly milled grain products rather than exclusive use of highly refined products; foods rich in iron, in place of some of the fish and muscle| meat, and molasses or cane or

sorghum syrups in place of some

of the refined sugar. More satisfactory standards Aor judging the nutritional well-being of children: are hoped for by: the séientists who made the study. > (Copyright. 1838)

Side Glances—By Clark

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In law, what is a party-wall?: |

2—What is an amulet? 5 3—How is 1777 written: in Ro-’ man numerals? .. ° 4—Name the recent. winter ‘of fhe women’s National * Golf -

rown. —— the leading. English as-. tronomical; observatory. 6—What is the unit of’ coinage” in Italy? 7—Which is larger, Alaska - ory: Texas? : 8—Name the founder of the” Smithsonian Institution. 8 8 2

Answers

_ 1—The wall that separates. two: houses or. adjoin proper-. des. e 2—Any object worn as a charm. to ‘ward off evil. 3—MDCCLXXVIIL. 4—Patty Berg. 5—Greenwich Chssrvaleny.. 6—The lira. T—Alaska. : 8—James Smithson. 8 ‘8 #

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carried the banner with the words: “The time has come to conquer or submit. For us there is but’ ane choice. We have made it.” The fighting phrases had a familiar sound because everybody who kept track -0f things back in those days knew right away that they were the exact words used by Woodrow Wilson in his war message. : Well, it seems that Mrs. Morley was walking up and down the pavement in front of the White House trying her level best to: impress Mr. Wilson with his own words when a roughneck grabbed her banner, As the man fled she made a frantic effort to hit him

‘| over the head with the pole left in her hand. - Next

thing there was a riot. By this time Mrs. Barnes of Indianapolis was right in -the -middle of it. Mrs, Barnes did everything she could to save her banner, but it wasn’t any use. A sailor on shore-leave—a very

i | dubious practice, I always thought—got Mrs. Barnes’

banner and ran like everything. ‘That's when the cops showed up and hauled the women oft » Jall,