Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1938 — Page 10

..vagabon ; From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

South America Had Better Be Good To Make Up for Everything Ernie Has Gone Through Preparing to Go.

IAMI, Oct. 24.—I don’t know that you would be interested, but we're going to

South America tomorrow. Or did I mention that before?

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G.O.P.Gain in Congress Indicated Our Town umn | Vote Now Would Add at Least 53 Republican Seats, Poll Shows |By Anton Scherrer

: : : » : : Pushing all other questions aside for the next few You Don't Have to Believe This,

Yes, we're going by airplane. By this time tomorrow night we will have flown clear across the Caribbean Sea (I fervently hope) and will be sleeping in Barranquilla, Colombia. Yes, my wife is. going, too. No, she doesn’t get airsick. But I do of course. We will be gone two or three months and there’ll be a column back every day, unless I get stricken with “manana” or shot with a poisoned arrow, or both. A round trip air ticket around South America costs approximately $1000. Each person is allowed 55 pounds of baggage. A 300-pound guy can go for the same rate as a mere shadow like me, and gets just as much baggage. There has been a funny incident about our baggage. Three - months is a long time to live out of 110 pounds of luggage. We've been worried sick about it. So today we made a preliminary packing of our bags, just sort of cutting and trying. We figured we'd start with everything, and then whittle down to 110° pounds. So, with fear and trembling, we took the three bags downstairs and put them on the scales. And instead of running over 110 pounds, the whole shebang just barely made 72 pounds. I'm really ashamed to tell it, because it shows how poor and ill-clad we are. .The only reason I tell it is that, when Pan American Airways heard about it, they let out a shout and said that we were the first air passengers in all history to be under the baggage limit, In addition to our regular change of clothes, I am carrying such strange items as a bottle of highaltitude pills that a friend in Parkersburg sent us; a four-foot folding map of South America; a letter of ‘introduction to a murderer; my jar of Alaskan moose grease; my old mosquito net, a sketch of Old Black Joe in invisible ink, and that money belt. If any one of these things turns out to be of the slightest value, I'll send each of you a five-peso note. It may be fun to go to South America (I'll let you: know), but it’s certainly no fun getting ready. First, your passport. That costs $10. If you don’t have a birth certificate, you have to get a parent or the doctor to make out an affidavit.

Mr. Pyle

weeks is the question of the party complexion of the new Congress, which American voters will elect in nation-wide balloting Nov. 8. Will the New Deal hold the huge majorities it obtained in 1932, 1934 and 1936? Or will the Republicans cut into the big Democratic majority for the first time in years? Below, an exclusive national survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows what would happen if the election were today. . ® x =

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

sional race heads for a finish in hundreds of

the American Institute of Public Opinion shows

"became President. stitute survey shows, 47 per cent of all

cratic Congressional candidates

Republicans. While this would leave a majority of the Congressional vote for Democratic candidates, it repre- * sents the largest share of the total vote the Republicans have been able to roll up in any national election since the days of President

Dr. Gallup ‘Hoover.

Here is how the vote would compare with previous elections: Per Cent of Major Party Vote for

REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS 439% 57% . 43 57

1932 Congressional vote 1934 Congressional Vote 1936 Congressional Vote 41 59

individual contests Nov. 8, a semifinal survey by

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—As the 1938 Congres- B

that the Republican Party will cut into the Demo-, § cratic majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt |

If the election were today, the In- .

votes cast for Republican and Demo-

‘throughout the country would go to

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Will Republicans or Democrats ‘Gain Seats in | Congress Nov. 87]

But Here Are the Facts About thé Indianapolis Baby Born With Bangs.

APROPOS of nothing save the eternal wonder of things in general, I'm going to take time off today to chronicle the birth of an Indianapolis baby girl back in the Eighties. Believe it or not, the baby was

born with bangs. At a time, too, when

bangs and bustles were all the rage. ~ Idon’t care whether you believe it or not, but here are the facts. The baby’s hair, as thick and glossy as that of her mother’s started on top of the kid's head and came down to within a fraction of an inch above the eyebrows, leaving very little of the forehead to be seen. At that point the hair terminated in a perfect. set of bangs with every blade squared off as if handled by a barber. Lily Langtry with all her years of experience couldn’t show a better set. Well, soon as the phenomenon . turned up everybody around here, Mr Bcherre : of course, tried to account for it. And that’s how I happen to remember something about the baby’s mother and the other members of the family which, as near as I recall, consisted of two little girls, one 8 years old, the other 5. And the father, of course, who doesn’t play any part in the story.

The mother was a very good looking woman and kept up with all the fashions—except one. She couldn’t abide bangs, and to show her disapproval of the prevailing fad she parted her hair in the middle and wore it coiled on the top of her head, That's the way she had it when the baby arrived. Indeed, she was so strongly opposed to bangs that she wouldn't let her little daughters wear them, sibnen Which probably accounts for what happened next. :

| The Work of an Amateur

- Anyway, this is what happened. One day some weeks before the baby was born, the two little girls with their hair brushed back and braided, went to spend the afternoon with a playmate. They came back with their hair banged. It was an amateur job,

If the Congressional elections were held today, the Republicans would gain a minimum of 53 additional seats in the House of Representatives, according to a semifinal Congressional survey of the American Institute of Public Opinion. T he Institute’s final survey will be published on the eve of the elections in The Indianapolis Times. :

of course, but it was enough to send the mother to bed. When asked for an explanation, the kids said: “A big girl was at Lettie’s house and she banged Lettie’s hair and asked us if we didn’t want our hair . bangeg too, and when we said we did, she went and one it.”

‘That wasn’t all, though. It turned out, too, that while waiting for her baby to come, the mother had read a newspaper article in the course of which a doc= tor had unburdened himself concerning the possible consequences of women wearing bangs. The doctor ended up with the dreadful prediction that in a few years children would be born without foreheads. The appearance of the banged baby with hardly a sign of a forehead upset Indianapolis completely and I don’t know where the thing would have ended if it hadn’t been for Charlie Dennis. When the news of the banged baby reached Mr. Dennis he said: “After this it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Indianapolis girls are born with natural bustles.”

TODAY'S SURVEY 47 53

"What effect would a shift of this size have on the number of seats held by Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives?

On the basis of shifts in each section of the country, the Institute estimates that the Republicans would seat about 157 Congressmen, while the Democrats would seat about 272 and the minor parties around 6. The. minimum gain for the Republicans. would be 53 additional seats if the election were today, the Institute estimates. Such a gain would still leave the Democrats in the majority, but it would be enough to convince many political observers that the Republican Party has turned You also have to write a letter “to whom it may the corner and was coming back from its disasters of 1932,

concern,” saying what you're going for, how long you'll 1934 and 1936. . stay and so forth. You also must prove that you've ® 8 =» ; Bos Sos By DC ao Duong tas you're | y3UBLIC opinion does not stand still, and the events and Questionnaires. You have to fill out and sign speeches of the rest of the campaign may alter the queer, many-paged documents in Spanish and Portu- | above picture. For that reason the Institute of Public guese, none of which you understand, and affix your | ouinion is continuing its Congressional survey up to the ao es keeps he hopping about the country, I eve of the actual election, and final reports will be published I couldn't stay in one place long enough to get all this | in The Indianapolis Times. ’ done. If it hadn't been for friends, and the boys of Although the Institute forecast the re-election of PresiPan oo nerioath LE i. and | dent Roosevelt in 1936 and has established its accuracy in two days last week, in Washington getting all the little | a series of state elections since then, including the prithings attended to. : maries in Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, and MaryThe trip will have to be mighty fine to make up for | janq, the Institute has never before attempted to forecast all this. I'm all worn out before We ever start. a Congressional election with its hundreds of local contests, local issues and personalities. Since it is manifestly impossible for the Institute to make comprehensive and continuous studies in every one

My Diary Y Y of the country’s 435 Congressional districts, the estimates

By Mrs. Heanor Roosevelt reported today aye based on the average shifts in sentiment

: . in each section. First ‘Lady, After Reading Book, This means that any particular candidate for Congress o E I Wi . could be elected in his own district, in spite of a trend Is Anxious to Explore ISCONSIN. | 3y4ay from his party in that section of the country. an t finished a book . The system of “average shifts,” however, if applied to on. ra Sioey 3 1isve fou Ramona Herd- the Congressional elections, since 1900, would have given man and I think everyone will find ‘this an interesting story. It is real life in many communities of the 2 2 =

a high degree of accuracy. United States. For example, only a day or two ago, VEN though the accuracy of the Institute’s Congresin Green Bay, Wis., the director of the NYA projects i tudi be : s brought § young boy to see me. -The boy carried three sional studies is yet to be tested in an official election, they give a good picture of where shifts are taking place

or four. carvings he had made and, while I am no | expert critic, one of his figures seemed very interest- a where the greatest Republican gains may be

ing. When I asked him what he wanted to do, his answer was unhesitating: “I want to go to art school.” But, how is he to get there? This, in a nutshell, is" the theme of “Five o’Clock

Bushels of Photographs

Passport photos. You have to have bushels of them. They say every country down there collects a handful as you go through. . Police certificates. A letter from your police chief saying you've been a good boy, or something like that. Health certificates. A doctor has to swear that you are practically another Johnny Weissmuller physically. Vaccination. You must prove you've been vaccinated for smallpox within a year. We had to be vaccinated again. It didn’t take. You den’t have to . have typhoid shots, but they advise it. Ours are still good, theoretically. . After the doctor O. K.’s you, then the Health Board has to O. K. the doctor. Nobody 0. K.’s the Health Board.

That fact, revealed in a new nation-wide survey of the American Institute. of Public Opinion, indicates one of the most important by-products of Adolf Hitler's marches into Austria and Czechoslovakia this year.

Whether the forebodings of a large section of the American public should prove correct or not, their feelings hold great significance for American national defense policy in the months to come and not a little significance for the . governments of the rest of the world—from Downing Street to Beriin and Tokyo—which are watching for indications of American public opinion.

~ Congressional - Survey

Estimated

Average Change Congressional Vote in Republican

1936 Today Seats Today

New England States.... 51% 58% Gain of 8 Seats Me, N. H,, Vt., ! Mass., R. 1I., Conn. Middle Atlantic States.. 43

N.Y. Pa. N. J, Del.,, Md., W. Va.

Ohio, Ind.; Il, Mich. West Central States.... 46 Kas., Neb., Mo., Iowa, Wis., Minn,, N. D,, S. D.

Southern States Va., Ky., Tenn, N. C,, S. C, Ga. Fla, Ala., Miss., Ark, La., Tex, Okla. : Western States ...... as Colo., Wyo., Mont, Idaho, Utah, Nev. Ariz, N. M., Calif., Ore., Wash.

* Includes estimate for districts in California where coalition candidates were elected, -

- Republican

Institute surveys in the recent crisis showed that a “sympathy bloc” exists between America and her World War allies, and that while the country desires to remain neutral we would favor England and France . over Germany and Italy, 20 to 1. Today’s survey adds one more link to the evidence of American sympathies with the democracies. ; :

49 Gain of 18 Seats

Jane Jordan—

A Family Quarrel and a Dinner Invitation Constitute a Problem,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have been married a / little more than five years and have one child, My parents both are dead. A little more than a year ago my husband and his ‘mother quarieled over me. She told him he had been blind for about four years. Then she sent birthday presents to the baby and my husband but not to me. Although I can forgive her I can’t forget what she said. Now she has invited us to dinner on my husband’s birthday. She wrote me a letter but made no apologies. Would you answer the letter? Would you accept the invitation? I don’t think I can get my husband to go as he hasn’t forgotten what she said. We have been much happier since she has let us alone. Understand I don’t keep him from seeing her. She is welcome here any time but I don’t think it is my place to make the first move. MRS. L. 8.

Answer—The decent and generous thing to do is for you and your husband to accept his mother’s in vitation to a birthday dinner in his honor. It is her way of making amends for what she has said. Do not insist upon an apology for it would be insincere if forced, and don’t bring up the old argument. Let it drop. . I would not advise either of you to see too much of her if she is bent on causing trouble between you. Don’t ever. tell her any of your affairs. You are lucky that your husband is on your side.

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Gain of 27 Seats

Gain of 14 Seats The survey also casts a serious sidelight on the country’s preparations to celebrate Armistice Day Nov. 11, anniversary of Germany's surrender to Marshal Foch and the Allied forces which took place in a French railway coach back of

No Net Gain the Western Front just 20 years ago.

or Loss

In the Institute survey a cross-section of the voters in all States were asked: “Do you think the United States will have to fight Germany again in your lifetime?”

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Throughout the country the answers are:

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HIS means that American apprehension has increased A. somewhat since last April. At that time, following Hitler's quick thrust into Austria and the subsequent anschluss of Germany and Austria, an Institute survey showed that 46 per cent of the voters thought the United States might fight Germany again.

in the East and in the farm belt states east of the Missis--sippi, it is safe to say that the most important campaigning of the next two weeks will be in this area. State contests for Governorships and Senatorships will have. a. powerful influence on the whole ticket in several states—notably in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. :

Ohio will be particularly important from a strategic viewpoint, since there are more than a dozen Democratic Congressmen whose seats, according to the average expectancy, would fall to the Republicans in case of a State-wide shift of a few points.

New measurements of the public's attitude will be made from time to time to find out whether this apprehension grows or diminishes. Since public opinion changes with events, much may depend on

Here are the. prospects for each section. A list of the ? the policy of Germany itself in coming months. :

states in each section is given in the adjoining box:

Whistle.” The mother is no unusual heroine. There. are many of them in countless villages and towns who forget themselves in love and hope for their children. I am afraid I closed the book with a sigh, for it is true that there is much talent in the world, but comparatively little genius. I wonder if the girl who made her belated decision to stick to the boy, proved strong. enough to be the wife of a genius or the prop to a man who had to give up his hopes and change his career. In Green Bay, I was given a book called: “Alluring Wisconsin,” by Fred L. Holmes. It was a readable book made doubly interesting by the very delightful photographs. One has a desire to go to see all of its pretty spots and if ever I have the time I think I

New England—A 7 per cent shift to the Republicans since 1936 and an indicated net gain of eight seats in the House of Representatives.

Middle Atlantic States—A 6 per cent shift to the Republicans and an indicated gain of 18 seats in the House.

East Central States—A 6 per cent increase for the Republicans and a gain of 27 additional seats.

West Central States—A 9 per cent increase for

the G. O. P. and an indicated gain of 14 seats. South—No net gain or loss of seats.

West—A 4 per cent shift to the G. O. P. and the gain of one seat.

In New York State, for instance, there are only about four seats in similar jeopardy.

As in all Institute surveys on political subjects, today’s study is based on a carefully chosen cross-section of the voting population in all parts of the country. Democrats, Republicans and third party voters have been included in the survey in proportion to their numbers in the las! election, and correct proportions of farmers, city peopie and small town voters have been included, as well as persons in all income levels. 8 s 8

I" spite of “the overwhelming desire for peace that marks the American public, almost half the people of this

Will Hitler be satisfied with what he got at Munich?

Many Americans doubt it. Institute surveys in the last few weeks have shown that while America was glad to have peace, the majority of voters think the terms of the Munich agreement have merely created a deadlier possibility of war in the future.

Taken together, these impressions go a long ways toward explaining the willingness of American men and women— traditionally in favor of small armies and anxious for naval disarmament—to authorize new increases in our Army and Navy. . The Institute reported in The Indianapolis Times last Monday that 65 per cent of the voters favor increases in the Army and 71 per cent increases in the Navy.

If he doesn’t want to go to the dinner, don’t urge him, but let him take the respoiisibility for refusing. Family quarrels are ugly things which can be avoided by keeping a suitable distance between the warring factors. If you and your husband will simply ignore the things his mother says and keep to yourselves ag much as possible, you can preserve the peace.

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EAR JANE JORDAN-=I have been going with a man almost two years. I really love him and he knows it. I sit at home and wait for him and cry half the time. He is a fine fellow. He did live in the same place I live in but he moved. I see him almost every day when he is not working. When he

was out of work he said I was a real friend to him but since he has gone back to work he doesn’t seem the same. He comes over but doesn’t stay long. 3 think he wants to quit me but doesn’t want to hurt me. Is there something I can say to him or ask him? +] WORRIED.

Answer—The trouble is that you are too devoted. You've left him nothing to strive for. Many men are afraid of such intense feeling in a girl. They'd much rathemrchase one who .is hard to win. You simply must snap out of it. Don’t question - him. Be friendly when you see him but not possessive. In the meantime, do interest yourself in somebody else. Don't say at home and cry. Let him find you away from home once in a while. When love becomes an obsession that crowds out associated? everything else, it is time to displace it with other 5—What is heliotherapy? interests. It can be done. Try. JANE JORDAN.

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the board of the Womens’ City Club, which sponsored Answers Public Library Presents—

the lecture, and a very delightful dinner with Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley. It is always a joy to see Senator Capper and Mr. and Mrs. William Allen 1—United States White, and we were glad to find Mrs. Huxman, wife Authority. : of the Governor of Kansas, there also. gg " aad dod mad in back to Ka i ght from the s ; i CT es chief a: oy oe dispersed by raindrops. ELEVISION! It is a magic word to most of us, autographs for my fellow passengers. The night train 4—Horse racing. Few of us, however, realize what lies behind that p e 5—Treatment of disease by sun | romantic conception. rays. Frank C. Walrop and. Joseph Borkin discuss this invention which, though familiar to most of us only as a word, has in reality outgrown its infancy and which, obviously to those who are interested in come munications, constitutes a major threat to all the

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elective offices are nominated. 7—It is one of the Hawaiian group. By The latter part of the title of this volume TELE VISION; A STRUGGLE FOR POWER (Morrow) sug+ gests one of the most interesting phases of this aCe count—the dramatic story of the fight which ‘is ale ready being waged by a few huge corporations ovep the control of this new and revolutionary means of communication, of “the piracy and plunder so spece tacular that at Ses ie siosy J takes on the excites 1013 13th St, N. W., Washing- | ment of a cop-and-robbers moyie.” = ton, D. C. Legal and medical | Says George Henry Payne, Federal Communi advice cannot be given nor can | tions Commission member: “Important .-. . is

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country think the United States will have to fight Germany

shall take a car and go exploring in Wisconsin, . again in ‘their lifetime. :

We had a little time in Chicago and dined very

Since the Republicans stand to make their biggest gains pleasantly with some friends before taking the train for Lawrence, Kas.

~ Art Students Have Laboratory Side Glances--By Clark

The University of Kansas offers its young art stu- ie 1 dents a laboratory which I think would be rather hard \ to -duplicate. The collections I had time to glance at in their museum were so beautiful and interesting I longed to spend hours there instead of a scant few minutes. We stopped for a few minutes at a girls’ dormitory run on a co-operative plan where $15 a month covers all living expenses and, at the same time, the girls receive excellent training in housekeeping. To remain in the house they must have better than a “B” average in their school work. This means that the

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