Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1938 — Page 9

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle Our Harassed Tourist Is Having

His Woes With a New Money-Belt; He Can't Sleep or Pay His Bills.

IAMI, Oct. 22.—I think I'd better tell you about my new money belt, before somebody takes it away from me. I am very funny about money. Although notorious for my caution in spending a dime,

I have always carried and handled money with considerable aplomb, not to say downright carelessness. And, with one exception, I've never lost any. My one concession to the armored-car philosophy of finance is that I do always put my pocketbook under the pillow at night. But even this probably, is bad, for if a thief really wanted my money, he would not only get it but would undoubtedly kill me in the process. But; regardless of all this, I was inveigled into buying a money-belt in Washington the other day. We are starting a very long trip, and even though my money is in travelers’ checks, a friend convinced me I should take more precautions. The belt is a pouch about 10 inches long, with a strap on each end to go around your waist. The pouch has a zipper, is wide enough to hold checks, and there are two little button pockets on each side. In order to get used to this harness-like affair, I have been experimenting with it all down the coast. The net result is that I have eliminated all possible positions in which the thing can be worn, ani 2m now faced with the problem of what to do wi t. ~ The first day, I put the pouch part behind, across the small of my back. That would have been all right, except that driving all day wore all the skin off my third and fourth vertebrae, or whichever ones those are on me that stick out so. - It hurt so badly I had to put moose grease on it. The second chapter came that night. This friend said I must sleep with it on, because there's no sense of having a money-belt if you leave it on the bureau top. : My sleeping habits brought immediate difficulties. I don't know why, but it seems that I always go to sleep lying on my stomach, and then, just as I doze off, sort of subconsciously turn over on my back. Well, IT put the bulky part of the belt behind, so I could lie comfortably on my stomach. But then every time I'd doze and sleepily roll over, that strange bundle on my back would wake me up. After several unsuccessful tries, I switched the pouch part around front. But that way it was like lying on the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and I couldn’t even get drowsy. The money-belt sleeping experiments were concluded around 11 o’clock that night, and hereafter I shall either hang the belt on the bathroom wall or throw it on the floor at night.

Weather Brings Complications

The second morning, I decided to wear the fat part of the belt in front, so I wouldn't have to lean against it all day. I put it over my undershirt, slung it low, and buckled my trousers belt above it. d That seemed to work all right. It wouldn't on some men, but it did on me. Because, where other men have stomachs, I have only a large cavity, and all this bulge of currency merely brought my front out to a point where it was straight up and down with the rest of me. But I should never have tried to pay my hotel bill at all. For suddenly I realized that I had no money in my pockets. It was all in the money-belt. So I had to sneak back upstairs to the room, take off my pants and extract a $10 travelers check. The rest of the trip down the coast has been just one experiment after another. I've tried the thing on each hip, over my shoulders and around my chest. The latter might have some possibilities were I only built differently. A money belt keeps slipping ~ off a bookkeeper’s chest like mine. The weather has brought further complications. This belt is made of soft suede leather. And along about noon-time, when the thermometer hits 90, you might as well be wearing a mustard poultice. I'd give the thing away right now, except it cost two dol-

Mr. Pyle

lars and I'm awfully cautious about money matters.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

She Wanted to Call State Police, But Found There Was None to Call.

HICAGO, Friday.—Something new is always happening to us. Last night, as I came off the stage in Green Bay, Wis., I noticed a distinct flurry of excitement among the ladies and that one of them had burst into tear. On inquiry I found that two men, who had been working in the box office with them all day, and who had claimed to be teachers from somewhere in the county who were there.to help out, had taken the time when I had begun to speak and everyone had gone to the doors to listen, tc clean out the

box office rec€ipts and skip. - As far as I know, this particular thing has never happened to me before. Fortunately the major part of the cash had been removed earlier in the day, but still it gave-one a slightly uncomfortable feeling. I thought at once of teletyping the state police, but was told that Wisconsin considered itself so immune from the need of protection that they did not have state police. To counteract this rather unpleasant episode, I must record the real thrill which came to me when I was introduced to the writer, Zona Gale. She tells me we have very nearly met on one other occasion and I can only register my regret at not knowing her sooner, I told you that I would report on my traveling wardrobe, but I only brought the evening part of it with me, having decided that the day clothes would be better suited for a colder season. I must say, however, that my evening dress has so far proved a great comfort and can easily be adapted to any type of entertainment. :

Those Pesky Zippers I find that its zipper always works, which is not always true of the pesky little things. The other day, on another dress, owing to my own rather harsh treatment, I had to have myself sewn into it and only Miss Thompson's clever fingers succeeded in returning the zipper to its proper function. In my mail I find a letter reminding me of the fact that in this country we are given to the celebration of special days and they are multiplying year by year. - Many of them are conceived for very worthy causes and here is one which sounds most helpful— Cleveland, O., has launched a national campaign which they call “Sweetest Day,” and tomorrow all over the United States these committees will ask the public to observe once again a day which features “remembering the forgotten” by giving a gift or saying a kind word or doing a kind deed for some shutin or lonely person.

Bob Burns Says— OLLYWOOD, Oct. 22.—Hollywood is a place where pret near everybody dresses and looks the part they're playing. One glance’ll tell pretty closely what they are but once in a while a stranger comes to town and fools us. : The other day a quiet looking plain, reserved lady called on a doctor here and told him her nerves were bad. The doctor took one look at her and says, “What you need is a change.” The lady looked at the doctor demurely and said, “Well, for the past 18 months I have lived in five countries, had three husbands, four cars, 13 jéwel robberies, 11 alarm clocks and 47 land-

lords. What other changes could you suggest?” “ (Copyright, 1938) 3

By Milton Bronner

NEA Service Special Writer

official, married three times.

better than the masses, not Because he wanted the hoy to be an official, too, and Adolf wanted to be an artist, Hitler later stated he went on a scholastic sitdown strike and had to he

taken out of school. Actu-

ally, Hitler flunked his studies in secondary school, had to repeat and was withdrawn later. ” » 2 NE subject alone interested Adolf—History. He early came across his father’s only book, a Germanophile history of the Franco-Prussian war, then fell under the influence of a Germanophile history teacher. He absorbed the love of Germany and disgust with Austria-Hungary then fashionable among the middleclass Austrians. From this sprang his later concept of the Greater Germany. School-chums regarded Adolf dubiously because of his penchant for “preaching” to an audience or no audience at all, at the trees, if need be. Doubtless, this was the foundation of his subsequent career as an orator. Out of school, Adolf turned shiftless idler, learned no trade, listened to his first Wagnerian opera. At 18 or 20, his mother and father both dead, Hitler migrated to Vienna to study “art.” The Art Academy turned down his test drawing as below standard and twice refused him admission. He determined thereupon to be an architect. : 2 2 =» ELUDED Nazi followers like to believe—and Nazi bureaucrats and Hitler's book “Mein Kampf” point out—that Adolf was a worker himself during his Vienna days. Actually, he worked infrequently although odd jobs were easy to get, avoided his fellows, was offended by their “coarseness” and “cultural misery,” and because he instinctively disliked the workers he rejected their Socialist theories. He wound up in a Vienna flophouse, studied Germanophile newspapers instead of art or architecture, kept himself alive by copying and coloring pictures of Vienna's buildings, spent time in

the Parliament sessions where he °

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1938

The Fabulous Fuehrer

“The Fabulous Fuehrer” was born in this three-story building in the obscure town of Braunau, Austria, 49 years ago.

(Last of a Series)

“HEL SCHICKLGRUBER!” would be almost too big a mouthful even for the most ardent Nazis. Yet “Heil Schicklgruber!” it might be in Germany today if Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Schicklgruber, had not changed his name to Hitler before Adolf was born. From a peasant of mysterious parentage, Alois Schicklgruber-Hitler worked up to become a petty Austrian

Adolf was born of the third

wife on April 20, 1889, at Braunau, Austria. His father’s overbearing “official” attitude early infected Adolf, left in him the subconscious feeling of being

as good as the aristocrats.

learned to hate Parliamentarians, developed a taste for “politics,” disputed endlessly with his fellow flophouse dwellers and urged the formation of a new party among them. In 1913, he gratified his Germanophile longings and went to Munich, where he worked as a draftsman. Here he was happy. Then the war broke out. He fell on his knees and “wholeheartedy thanked Heaven,” enlisted in the 16th Bavarian Infantry. He served four years, rose to the rank of lance corporal, = was wounded, gassed and awarded the Iron Cross, first class. : 2 2 =»

NE fateful day in 1920 still in the Army, he was sent to report the doings of a small crackpot group, “The German Work-

ers’ Party.” Sent in as an informer, he remained to become a member in what was to evolve into the National Socialist (Nazi) Party. With his speaking ability, his vehemence, his energy, he made himself propaganda leader of the party, the key post. The Party began to grow in Munich, in Bavaria. It attracted the interest and financial and organizational help of Hitler’s superiors who saw it as the instrument with which to crush the Social Democrat regime. Hitler became the darling of the local aristocrats whom he so envied. Enemies of the regime poured ‘in funds, from within Germany and from abroad. To his discouraged, hapless, disintegrated nation. Hitler preached German superiority, the beauties of brutality, condemned the Versailles Treaty, attacked the government, blamed the Jews for everything. Most of Germany laughed at him, but Bavaria listened eagerly. fe Y November, 1923, Bavarian reactionaries and Berlin Army leaders were getting ready for an insurrection similar to Franco's revolt in Spain. Hitler began to worry that he would be squeezed out by his superiors. So he upset the traces. With pistol in hand, his bullies held the Bavarian leaders of this movement in a beer-hall one night, while Hitler told them he would be

Here are two early pictures of

left you see him with Gen. von Ludendorff, his coconspirator in the early days of Nazidom, just after Ludendorff had been freed of charges of high trea-

Hitler. At the

son in connection with the historic putsch” in Munich. tually unnoticed through a crowd outside a concert hall during a visit to Berlin about 12 years ago.

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“beer cellar At the right he strides vir-

Hitler returns in triumph to Austria, his native land.

Economic Seers Look for Wave of Home-Building

Germany’s dictator if they succeeded. They agreed. The “putsch” was set for next day—Nov. 9, 1923. But they double-crossed him, ordered out the soldiery and put an inglorious end to the famous “beercellar” putsch of Munich. Sixteen Nazis died. Ludendorff, Hitler's coconspirator, was honorably arrested, Goering was wounded— but Hitler flopped on the ground when the soldiers fired and suffered nothing more than a wrenched arm. :

In 1924, he was tried for this putsch, imprisoned for five years, freed after six months. He spent the time dictating: part of his egocentric, blood-curdling “Mein Kampf.” Thereafter Hitler worked within the law. No more putsches. Now he concentrated on electing Nazi deputies to the Reichstag he despised so much. His representation grew tremendously. But in the 1932 elections, the Nazis suffered a severe loss. It looked as if Hitler was through, for Hindenburg had beaten him for the Presidency, too. : On Jan. 30, 1933, however, old Hindenburg called Hitler and offered him the Chancellorship. Hitler accepted power. The rest is history.

By Rodney Dutcher Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Economic dopesters who expect

something of a business boom this.

winter have been trying to figure out how people will spend their money when it comes. They conclude a; lot of money will be put into home-building and they think that’s fine. The fact that more houses have been built this year than last, despite the sharp recession, indicates a strong trend which presumably will make itself even more evident when business seems definitely on the upgrade. Money put into housing, the economists figure, not only provides a relatively large: amount of employment but is spread over a wider area and through a longer time period with the result that it contributes to sound recovery. Martin Taitel, head of Leon Henderson's administration, clearing house of economic information, prefers to be conservative in his estimates, but

suggests about 400,000 dwelling units may be built next year, compared with around 310,000 in 1938.

2 ® ” ECAUSE at least 10 per cent of the cost of a house has to be paid in cash and few care to draw on their savings in hard times, the state of the country’s savings has

an important bearing on housing prospects. Mr. Taitel says the savings just weren't there, roughly speaking, in 1933-34-35," that they were built up throygh 1937 and that the 1937-38 recession wiped out no large portion of them. People generally have built up personal -supplies of clothing, furniture and similar articles. A vacancy percentage of around 15 has gone down to 2 or 3 per cent and rents have decreased little in the last year. Building costs are relatively high, but the index figure on them is about 112 as compared with 117 a year ago. All these factors are considered encouraging.

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer

And That lls Why Mr. Bernloehe Never Bothers With an Umbrella Unless It's Raining Awfully Hard.

ANOTHER thing that always delights this department is the way things drop into its lap. For example: The other day I told about George J. Johnston's library and the way people around here stole his books back

in 1823. Well, right on top of that somebody told me about Chris Bernloehr's umbrellas. Seems that 30 years ago—it was prior to 1910 as you shall presently see—Mr. Bernloehr’s brother John

gave him a very fine silk umbrella. Mr, Bernloehr was so proud of it that he carried it around with him on all occasions, rain or shine. Fact is the umbrella came to be a part of him. So much so that Mr. Bernloehr didn’t look like himself without it. In which respect he was not unlike John P. Frenzel and his white carnation or Volney T. Malott and his nickel cigar. I don't know what possessed Ikko Matsumoto to do it—whether it was his habitual generosity or whether it was a’ fear that something might happen to Mr. Bernloehr’s umbrella—but one day Mr. Matsumoto made Mr, Bernloehr a present of a beautifully engraved gold plate to be fastened on.the head of the umbreila, The inscription read: “Chris Bernloehr, 2608 Suther land * Ave.,, Indianapolis, Indiana, U. S. A.” which made it mighty easy for anybody to return the ume brella in case he took it by mistake.

In 1910—I knew I'd get around to it—Mr. Berne loehr went to Europe and, of course, he took his umbrella with him. Anyway, somebody had told him about the rain and fog in London. As luck would have: it, he had nothing but sunshine in London, but he took no chances the day he went to Hyde Park. The self-appointed orators in Hyde Park proved so interesting that day that Mr. Bernloehr put his umbrella against a tree and when he went to look for it, sure enough, it was gone. He never got it back despite the fact that Mr. Matsumoto had gone i an awful lot of trouble to furnish the return ade ress. :

Mr. Scherrer

| A Changed Man

Well, when Mr. Bernloehr returned without his umbrella, he looked like a different man. Something had to be done about it, and as a matter of fact that’s just what happened. Brother John gave him another umbrella and, believe it or not, Mr, Matsumoto engraved another inscription to go on the head of it.

Then one night Mr. Bernloehr and his newly acquired umbrella went to church. Right in downe town Indianapolis, too. It was a business’ meeting of the pillars of the church, an important point co remember because visitors weren't allowed admittance that night. When it came time io adjourn and Mr, Bernloehr looked for his umbrella, it was gone. Mr, Bernloehr remembers that the pastor was terribly exercised about it. So much so that the very next Sunday he delivered a sermon from the pulpit using Exodus 20:15 for his text. It didn’t do a bit of good, After that, Brother John and Mr. Matsumoto lost interest, which is why you never see Mr. Berne Joep with an umbrella unless it's raining awfully ar :

Jane Jordan—

Don't Try to Follow Defeat Too Quickly With Marriage, She Warns,

De JANE JORDAN—I am 17 years old and I am in love with a man who is married and

has a baby. He says he loves me but he will not give up his baby. I went with this man while he was separated from his wife. Now they have gone back together. I have been trying to forget him by going with another boy. I know this boy is in love with me and I accepted an engagement ring from him. I like him more than any boy I ever went with except this married man. He knows that I love the married man and is willing to try to make me happy. Should I marry this boy? I know I will never be able to marry the one whom I love. UNHAPPY.

Answer—You are only 17 and suffering from your first defeat. Give yourself time to get over it before you jump into marriage. First of all it is important to have a goal in life. Set one that is in accord with If you want to make marriage your career, that is a legitimate goal for any girl; but don’t make things hard for yourself by considering a man already married. : It is not unusual for a young girl to select an older man for her first love. Although she doesn’t realize it, she is trying to replace her father instead of trying to find a mate. Always she has had to share her father’s devotion with her mother; theree - fore, in choosing a married man, what she really does is simply to duplicate the conditions of her childe hood with a new set of actors. It is not easy for her to see that the defeat of the wife is as important to her as the love of the man. Now you see you've started out on the wrong foot. Instead of growing out of your childhood you've tried to continue it. Set a new goal in which you wili only consider a partner free to accept responsibility, This young boy who loves you may be a great come fort to your wounded pride, but it is: hardly fair to marry him when you are emotionally involved with another man, even if he is willing to take the risk, That is why I suggest that you wait until you've. recovered from the sting of defeat before you jump into marriage. You aren’t old enough to marry. Wait until you've had more experience in judging people and in knowing yourself. ; 2 2 2

DR JANE JORDAN—I am a widow 22 years old and I have two childrens Some time ago an old boy friend whom I went with before I was married came to see me. He has been married, but is parted from his wife though not divorced. I understand from his relatives that he is lazy. He says he has always loved me and always will. I like him as a friend, but I have to have a man who will work if I should marry again. How do you think I should tell: him why I don’t and can’t treat him right? He is 28 years old. BLUE EYES.

Answer—Do you have to tell ‘him why when you turn him down? You only make enemies when you tell people unpleasant truths about themselves. How ever, if he won’t let you alone unless you tell him

that you aren't interested in a loafer, go to it. JANE JORDAN.

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

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