Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1938 — Page 12
From Indiana =Ernie Pyle
And So We Demand That Mr. Pyle Give Her a Full Day's Pay and Perhaps Buy Her a New Notebook.
(Editor's Note—This will be denied officially, but The Indianapolis Times has definite proof that the following column was not written by Ernie Pyle, but by that Mysterious Girl Who Rides Along, We intend to see that he gives her a day’s pay, too, even i > have to take it to the highest court in the nd
IAMI, Oct. 21.—Whenever we start on
a long trip and have to put our car in cold storage, we completely unload it; which means that we take out not only every piece of luggage, but also every book, magazine, old newspaper and match cover. We did that yesterday— Piled up in one small hotel room, it presented an alarming prospect. I was all for going quietly out
and locking the door behind us. But that is the way of a coward. So That Man, who can face anything, took a swab at his brow and started sorting books. “What's this?” he wanted to know presently. “What does it say?” asked the Girl Who Rides Along. “It says ‘Notebook’.” “Then I guess that’s what it is,” . replied the G. W. R. A. “Whose is it?” said the Man. “It’s mine,” said the weary G. “Or I guess it is. I bought it.” Man: “Why in the world did you
Mr. Pyle
buy it?” Girl: “Why does anybody buy a notebook?” “You've got me there. I know why some people buy them, but I don’t know why you would buy one.” “I buy them for the same reason other people do. To write things in.” “Then why don’t you ever write anything in them? Where's that blue one you bought when we went to Mexico?” “I don’t know, but I suppose I filed it away in storage under ‘Notebooks.’ It was full.” “Full! You never wrote a word in it.” “How can you say that? I did too. tistics in it—among other things.” “What kind of statistics?” “Don’t you remember the day you had me write , down the number of American cars we saw between Monterey and . .. “Yes, but I "didn’t know you put them in the notebook.” “Well, I did. And moreover I kept count of the number of miles of crushed rock we had to drive over.” “Okay. But what else did you write about?” “After all! I counted 200 cars—and you remember the miles of crushed rock, I'm sure. What do you think a 5 cent notebook will hold?”
No Cars or Crushed Rock
The Man appeared defeated for a moment. his tired face soon lighted up. - “I guess you've forgotten that you're flying to South America, not driving,” he said. “There won't be any cars or crushed rock to count...’ “No,” said the Girl, “I haven't forgotten. This is
I kept sta-
But
going to be a different kind of record. This is going |"
to be about you. About the funny things you say.” “Funny things’ I say! When have I ever said anything funny?” ; “It was the night after we left Washington last week. One night when you were brushing your teeth. Don't you remember?” “Remember what?” “What you said You were talking about them telling us we shouldn't drink water in South America. And you said, ‘If you can’t drink it, how can you brush your teeth in it?” You said, ‘You get the germs in your mouth, and you have to swallow sometime, don't you?’ And I said I didn't know. And you said ‘They tell you to drink beer instead of water, but I'm not going to brush my teeth with beer.’ ” “Well, what was funny about that?” asked the Man. “I don’t know now,” said the Girl. “But it seemed funny at the time, and I thought I'd put it in my notebook.” “I never knew I was funny,” said the Man, and went on sorting books.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Collection of Lincoln Iterns in Chicago Museum Fascinates Her.
HICAGO, Thursday.—We had such a short time in Quincy, Ill, yesterday, that I saw very little of the city which has, I believe, some very interesting old houses and much early history that would be fascinating to study. We left Quincy in the evening and were back in Chicago this morning. The NYA director at Quincy came to tell me of a resident girls’ project which had just started, but I could not even see that. Mrs. Cotsworth and Mrs. Flynn kindly asked an extremely interesting woman, Miss Harriet Vittum, head of Northwestern University settlement, to have breakfast with us this morning. She brought me a letter from a group of one of her girls’ clubs which welcomed me to Chicago because of my interest in young girls. After she _left us, we drove up to the Chicago Historical Society. This, I am told, was started to preserve things of historical interest to Chicago, but has broadened into being a museum of American history. The exhibits are intriguingly arranged to show aifferent periods of our history. As is natural in Illinois, this museum has a wonderful collection of things which relate to Abraham Lincoln. The Healy portrait seemed to me particularly fine, and the directors of the museum told us that Robert Odd Lincoln considered it the best likeness of his father.
A Complicated Personality
1 particularly liked the head done by Gutzon Borglum, a strong and massive head, with a mouth which always seems to me very sensitive. I am inclined fo think :that Massey's interpretation of Lincoln’s character in the new play: “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” is probably correct. It was a complicated personality, often at war with itself. 1 found the reproduction of the Lincoln parlor in Springfield and the reproduction of the room in which he died exceptionally interesting. We were told that the dimensions of the cabin in whi¢h he was born and the room in which he died were identical, so at the beginning and end of his life he was in touch with bare simplicity. I think this phase of life was never out of his mind, sven in his moments of greatest success and glory. We also saw Mrs. Thorne’s miniature rooms, a triumph of delicate art and most intefesting to the student of different periods of decoration and
furniture.
A prize-winning group from the sales force of a
company was going through the museum. pookin De por all over the country and I could not help thinking what a tremendous amount of history they would carry away after a morning spent in this environment. We are back on the train and leave shortly for
Green Bay, Wis.
Bob Burns Says—
Joop: Oct. 21.—There’s somethin’ about |’
the city that makes people cold and cruel. I
e that’s the reason why dramatic critics in the |. FZ = tear an artist to pieces if they don’t like | i
city can jest ai They're different in small towns.
Argus had been runnin’ .stories that her press agent had been sendin’ in, about the sacrifices she had made for her art. - All of the stories mentioned the fact that -she never ate before she sang. The night of her concert came and the next morning all the editor said was, “Heard Madam ‘So and So’ last night. She might
et.” ost a” well have right, 1998) /
bond
I remember when an operatic singer played Van ] Buren. All the week before, the editor of the Press- |
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The Fabulous Er
Hitler’s Diplomatic Coups Credited to Perfect ‘Timing*
(Second of a Series) By Milton Bronner
NEA Service Staff Writer THE ‘success story of Adolf Hitler, in tabloid, form, is this: He has always moved at the right psychological moment. Even his enemies concede the Fabulous Fuehrer's shrewdness as a tactician. Hitler, for ith, is the man who introduced the “Saturday surprise” as a regular practice of international diplomacy. On Saturdays, statesmen are out of their capitals, newspapers are marking time, people are away enjoying themselves. It is a good chance to spring something, show the world a “fait accompli.” The shock wears off over
the week-end. When, in 1933, Hitler decided
. Germany was to leave the League
of Nations, he chose Oct. 14, a Saturday. When he ordered the famous “blood purge” of - insurrectionist Nazis and others,r he chose Saturday, June 30, 1934. When he scrapped the Versailles Treaty and introduced universal
military conscription for Ger-' mans, it was March 16, 1935, a
Saturday. When Germany occupied the “demilitarized” Rhineland, it was March 7, 1938, a Saturday. It was Saturday, March 12, 1938, when he grabbed Austria.. May 21, when Czechoslovakia mobilized its army against expected German invasion, was. a Saturday. Finally, during his talks with Chamberlain, he fixed Oct. 1—a Saturday—ase the day of his invasion of Czechoslovakia. ” ” 2 ITLER is a diplomatic opportunist. In 1935, Mussolini began his war on Ethiopia. Britain forced through sanctions, and Italy found herself alone and friendless. At that moment—the psychological one—Hitler offered the dictator across the Alps friendship and material aid. Mussolini gratefully accepted and the “Rome-Berlin axis” was born, Germany had been forbidden to build anything like a real navy by the postwar treaties. England was the chief instigator of that, because she wanted no competition on the seas. Buf in 1935, Hitler let it bg known in Downing Street. that -he was ready to embark on a ndval race with ‘Britain that would rival the Kaiser's "famous naval race before the war. On June 14, 1935, England came to terms. Hitler was allowed 35 per cent of Britain's tonnage, 40 per cent of her submarines. A former Nazi confederate of Hitler's has told of Der Fuehrer’s international insight. They met in Berlin one day in 1932 to discuss the international situation that would result should Hitler re--ceive the Chancellorship.
”2 2 ” . HE friend urged on Hitler an alliance with Soviet Russia. But Hitler rejected this and instead outlined the future lineup that would take place. Germany, he said, would become an ally of .Italy and Japan. France, Czechoslovakia and Russia would be al-
“lies. England would be neutral.
He had not yet achieved power, but fully six years before the showdown of 1938, he called the turn correctly. . The. friend has also revealed ‘that what Hitler feared most was a “preventive war” which would keep him from achieving his objectives ~ of arming Germany, seizing Austria and Czechoslovakia. “Will I be able to rearm Germany,” he said prophetically, “besfore they get on to me and strike at me with a preventive war? That depends largely, I suppose, on whether they have the leadership and courage to strike if they
Often Adolf Hitler (arrow) has
been able thus to appear before
his Reichstag to announce a successful diplomatic move.
can get the people to go to war again, and that I doubt.”
2 ” »
NSIDE the Reich, Hitler has shown the same knowledge of tactics and psychology. Witness : his handling of Germany’s middle class. This group, oppressed from the top by monopolies, banks and industrialists, frightened from below by the power of the organized
workers, flocked to Hitler's banner when he shrewdly promised
freedom from “interest bondage,” an end to one-price, chain and department store competition, or‘ganization of medieval-type craft uilds. It was a master stroke in litics. ~ With old-time craft guilds the'middle class could preserve itself ‘against the competition of the unskilled workers, with abolition of: large stores the
By. Anton sons
- Mr. Vonnegut Put Some Light on ~The. City's: Early Bookshops While Dickering With I. Us for RA Degree.
“PILGRIMS . PROGRESS” >and “Mother Goose Melodies” came to. Indianapolis sometime around 1826 by way of a Mr, Quipés, the nickname of a Tare character
Three years later, Addison’ s Spec two volumes) was sold over the counter of & Williams’ General Store: Jane Austen's
Bere tator” Mc
| novels and Mrs. Trolldpe’s “The Abbess” turned upin
1833 by way, of “Hithbard & Ed-" mand’s bookshop, and in 1837 Wil- ,
-liam Y. Wiley was selling just about .
rerything to, read, .including ~. Young = Mother”. by Dr. Alcott, Mashington Irving's '“Bracebridge Hall” and Disraeli’s “Venetia,” to say nothing of the “Casket of Phrenology” and “Rush.on’ the Mind.” “+1 guess you're ‘wondering how. a e. columnist . knows so much
i ro books. Well, it's because some-
3 sput me next to Theodore 'dnnegut and the thesis he submitted to Indiana Unfe ‘versity back in 1926. The big idea back of Mr. Von
T'risgut’s thesis was to get Indiana University to trade him a Master's Degree for it. Sure, they Jumped at
the chance, To hear Mr. Vonnegut tell it, the first sign of any
bookselling around here was back in 1825 when the | Gazette announced that on Jan. 13 a book auction 1 would take place “at the #oor of Washington Hall” at | which time “political, =f works?” would be sold. The ad wound up with the
historical and miscellaneous
“1 soundest kind of advice, namely that gentlemen who
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middle class could operate its small businesses, with freedom from “interest bondage,” credit would be easy and people could pay their debts. The middle class became Hitler's greatest single supporter. Then the Nazi “revolution” happened. Middle-class groups poured out into the streets, occupied large stores and banks, began the organization of craft
guilds. But Hitler “fad as had what he needed of the middle class. Orders were. issued makirig it treasonable to “interfere” with the. country’s: economic life, the middle-class ‘expropris. ators were forcibly clédred out of the banks and department. stores, their guilds were abandoned, That was that. 5
NEXT—The early arly years of i Fabulous Fuehrer.”
Centralization of Government Will Be Checked When States Adequately Meet People’s Wants, Clapper Says
By Raymond Clapper Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The surest way to perpetuate and increase Federal spending is for local communities to fail to meet adequately the needs of their own underprivileged members. ' That is the argument which is be-
ing made by the Community Mobilization for - Human Needs. It goes also for the Red Cross: Failure of states and local communities to meet their own social and economic problems explains much of the socalled Federal encroachment which we have seen in the last few years. In fields involving interstate commerce only the Federal Government could act effectively. Quite apart from that, we have seen the Federal Government go into housing, milk control in New York State, and through WPA into school and playground building, and numerous educational activities which are properly local responsibilities. 2 ” 2
OST of these intrastate “invasions” by the Federal Government have resulted from the inability or unwiliingness of local communities to do these things. They
either could not aftord it or else they were unwilling to afford it. Consequently these needed local social services went unperformed. Into that vacuum the Federal Government was drawn, driven by the necessity
of seeing that human beings were not left in total neglect. In that situation lies the key to much of our political controversy and the alarms over growing centralization of the Federal Government. Part of that centralization is inevitable because of the tendency
of modern economic life to ignore state boundaries. But part of it can be checked or curtailed by revival of state responsibility in -attendihg to the wants of the people. Federal activities will never shrink until the states do their own jobs as Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for Governor in New York, pointed out in a recent speech. 2 = 8
URTHERMORE. those who complain about the Government invading the field of private charity and philanthropy will see no letup in this trend unless private charity and philanthropy prove equal to the task. In this field the Community Funds and the Red Cross now in the
midst of their annual efforts tol"
raise funds, are rendering Yalusble service. These privately s izations serve, collectively, three things: First, they provide much emergency assistance, particularly of a medical nature,’ that would not otherwise be available, even with all of the Government relief activity. Second, they provide, through their numerous organizations, persons competent through SXpeTisnee
supported organto do
and influence to exert the healthy pressure on state and Federal relief agencies in combating the infiltration of politics in relief. Time and again, representatives of these private institutions have been able to force greater efficiency and to ham-} string interfering politicians, public relief organizations. Third, these private institutions offer the means of bringing’ to the victims of unemployment, poverty and illness, a little of the milk of human kindness which in a desperate household may be needed second only to bread, 8 = S has toch stated, if an ables bodied man suffers from illness he becomes less employable. If members of his family become ill he
worries about them. He may become
entirely ‘discouraged. His ability to|
get hospital care or nursery. service
or to attend .a free clinic is very likely to depend upon the extent to which funds are contributed to support these services. And what of the children raised in these households? This country is full of youngsters now in their teens who can remember nothing but depression and unemployment, and their fathers hunting work day after day in vain. Intelligent and sympathetic work will have to be done to prevent that crop. of youngsters from growing up into rebels against a system that permitted such things to happen to them. There the work among children done by Community Fund institutions and the Red Cross
in
of Riverside Church in New York.
is of the utmost importance to the nation’s future. There are many things that Government relief cannot do which these private institutions can do, if- any have the necessary funds.
SO THEY SAY~
Rumors ‘seem to“ grow as: big in the famois California climate as naval. oranges. —Secretary of the Interior” Ickés, when told it was reported he had canceled ‘his California speeches.
Prime Minister Chatnieriain is returning to London for a vigorous;| complete, remorseless ‘and: urgent} survey of Britain's Shanged position! in the world.—8ir Simon, |’ Chancellor of the, Exchequer
A person is the. only’ eleinerit. in the universe that can consciously help to create and ‘organize itself. — Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor
The Brot cheer. was brought ‘Here from outside somewhere, “and for some inexplicable reason: was named for our borough. But we don’t use it up here.—James J.’ Lyons, Bronx borough president.
Wooed by the propénerits of various dogma, youth must be constantly on guard, must forget emotions, must think, must anaiyze, must do something.—Leonard Detweiller, president of the Peace Council of Templé University.
Side Glances—By Clark
Everyday Movies—By Wortman
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TEST YOUR. KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the name of that branch of the social sciences which deals with the organization and life of the state? 2—Which country suffered the heaviest -casualties - uring the World War? 3—Who won the men’s National Singles Tennis .Champion- . ; ship, Sovently ‘played at Forest Hills, N. Y.? - 4—What is a concertina? 5—Name the tallest of all mammals, 6—With what sport is the name Johnny -Revolta associated?
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Answers ; 1—Political sclence,’ -- ©" 2—Russia. Bl bs 3—Donald Budge, sayy 4—A small musical: rete inti on he pringiple of; the ac-
1 Waverly.
-| wish to become politicians ought to attend the sale.
Four years later, McCarty & Williams put a book
'| shelf in their General Store on McCarty’s Corner at | Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. where the Kresge ‘1.people now do business. For‘all I know, Mr. McCarty
may have done the same at his branch stores in *La Porte, Greenfield," Covington, ‘Cumberland ‘and When it came to distribution, the Kresge people didn’t have a ‘thing on Nick McCarty. 2
‘Near the P.O.’ : > "It was not until 1833; however, that Indianapolis
“| had a real-for-sure bookstore; the one established by ".|/Hubbard, Edmands & Co., on ‘the north side of Wash«
‘ington St. “near the P. 0.” which’ at that time stood halfway between Meridian and Illinois Sts. It was
“1 known’ 48 the Indianapolis Book . Store: probably he : = ; ii a —— i a = “cause, it was a branch of the one run. by Hubbard & ‘ ADOLF HITLER—"“Will I be able to rearm Germany. before they ‘0 get on to me and strike at me. . 2”
| Bdmands in Cincinnati, W. E. Dunbar, a tall Yankee | who came to Indianapolis by way of Keene, N. H,, was put in charge. As a matter of fact, he was the “Co.”Our first bookshop didn’t last more. than a year, but believe it or not, in that short time Hubbard, Edmands ‘& Co. advertised the names. of more than 325 books in. the Indianapolis newspapers. Mr. Vonnegut took the trouble to catalog them. all in. “Indianapolis
.| Booksellers and Their Literary Background” which,
by the way, was the title of his thesis. Shows what it takes to do business with Indiana University nows
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Hans Jordan
Holds Parents Can Strike a Happy Medium in Instructing Children.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am worried about my 12-year-old boy. We lived in Indianapolis until he was 10 when we moved to a small town. In the two years we have been here he has learned all kinds ‘of things from little boys in his grade of school, things that only adults should know. He comes home asking us about such things and I find it so hard to explain them to him. Now what I want to know is should we go ahead and explain things to him? I really think
it is the parents’ place to explain these things to their children rather than’ let some stranger do it. Am I right? A WORRIED MOTHER.
Answer—I am in favor eater with children and see no reason for confiding the facts of life to them in shamed whispers. :It is absolutely impossible to keep .such knowledge from your boy, who will pick up aH sorts of garbled and twisted information from others, An article appeared ‘in one of our magazines res
x cently. written by a woman who regretted having been
candid ‘with her children. "She and her husband had
gone to extremes ‘in frankness. The result in’ her family ‘was that the children showed a most embarrassing lack of reserve when they grew up. The writer concluded that the Victorian method. of secrécy was the best after all.” While some of the points in this article were well taken, I still do not agreé with the conclusion. One can find just as bad or even worse results in the revolt of children brought up by rigid Puritanical stand= ards. Since I have observed no such results in my own children or the children of my friends who were brought up on candor, I believe that there is a happy medium between the two extremes in which informa= tion can be imparted. Whenever it is possible, I believe’ it is better for boys to be instructed by their fathers and girls by their mothers. Where the parent of the same sex is absent or incapable of presenting the facts properly,
-| there are dozens of books which come .to the rescue,
: -K v ® 8 8 , TEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a gitl of 16. I have & boy friend, but he doesn’t like me'as much as he does another girl. What can I. do. to make him like me? I have tried everything I know. . M. M...
Answer—Have ‘you ever over tried’ not trying? _Inters
1 est yourself in another hoy and don’t; let him catch
you trying to make him like you. It is fine 10 be cordial and pleasant, but when gl igs too hard to catch 8 boy, he runs. JORDAN. .
. Put. your file In & letter to Jame" Jordan, who wil > hd your questions in" this column sy; Ea 1 WE
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