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Vagabond From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

One of the World's Pest-Holes 20 Years Ago, Guayaquil Today Is a Safe City Bidding for Tourists.

(GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Oct. 31.—You

pronounce it Wy-uh-keel. I don’t know why. Guayaquil is old. Older than the. coming of Pizarro 400 years back. Yet up until

20 years ago you could have asked, “What

- is the pest-hole of the earth?” and the answer would

have been “Guayaquil.” At least it was one of them. It is in the tropics, not far from the Equator. It is on low, jungle land. The rainy season (in our winter) makes it a swamp. The Guayas River brings down the jungle trash—disease, vegetable rot, snakes. : Guayaquil has been a mosquifoey bed of bubonic plague and yellow fever and malaria. Foreigners who dared come here died by the dozens of yellow jack. So did the natives. Thomas Nast, the famous cartoonist, died here as American consul. Commanders of American men-of-war died right aboard ship in the river. Rats ran the muddy streets. Today, everything is changed. The city has an A-1 international sanitary rating, and I am no more afraid here than in New Orleans. The Rockefeller Foundation people did the trick. In 1918 they moved in here. What they did was so simple you wonder it wasn't done decades ago. Mosquitos carrying yellow fever germs breed, not in dirty. water, but in clean water. So the job was the simple one of covering up all the clean water in Guayaquil. Yellow fever disappeared just like that. Since then, Guayaquil has taken other steps for itself. It has paved nearly all its streets. Covered up the gutters. Installed a new water system. And best of all, Guayaquil is destroying its old self, and building a new city. They tell me that, right now, one-fifth of this city of 150,000 is under reconstruction. The old style of building was of bamboo. Throw up a skeleton framework, put on walls of bamboo sticks, and you had a house. A perfect nest for termites, rats and filth. But the new motif is concrete. They still use the bamboo for reinforcing, as we use steel. But it’s all covered over with concrete. Everything is being built solidly and tight.

Long Throttled by Politicians

Ecuador has great resources, but it is a poor country. It is poor because it has been throttled by politicians. But it is beginning to come alive now. Having made itself safe for tourists, it wants more tourists to come. But Ecuadorean leaders say: “How can we seek tourists when we have no place to put them? We have no good hotels for them to stay in.” Well, here in Guayaquil, I am sitting in the finest hotel room I have stayed in during the last 500 stops in my hotel career. The room must be at least 25 feet square, with 15-foot ceilings. The floor is colored tile. There are writing desks and odd tables and easy, modernistic chairs all over the vast floor. I feel like a millionaire in my “apartment,” at no more than you pay for an ordinary room in the States. There are just two things wrong. There is no hotwater faucet in the bathroom, and only the hotel manager and the head waiter speak English. This hot water situation will be remedied in the new Hotel Metropolitano, which will open in December. They've been two years building it, and even New York can offer nothing more modern, and not half as lovely. If tourists come, it is a shame they can see no more of Ecuador than Guayaquil. For this is a country of half a dozen different worlds—yet Guayaquil itself is not an especially interesting city. It is flat, very regular, and a tourist can “do it” in a couple

Mr. Pyle

..of -hours. . It has some beautiful buildings, but even

most of the new ones are of a spiceless architecture. The people just work. There are no great doings, or entertaining or scintillating life. Maybe Guayaquil was more exciting when there was yellow jack around every corner, and the sucre was worth half a dollar instead of seven cents, and somebody got shot once in a while.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

She Doubts the Prevailing Notion That Burning the Land Enriches It.

ASHINGTON, Sunday.—It rained yesterday when we awoke and I could not help thinking what a pity it is that we cannot make an arrangement with nature by which she could send rain to the spots which need it most. As we drove along in Georgia thé other night, the sky was reddened by a forest fire and I could see no reason why it should not extend through a vast area because everything was so dry. In spite of the dryness, however, they were burning grass along the sides of the road. An idea seems to persist that to burn the land enriches it. I believe this a fallacy, but even if it achieved the desired results, I cannot imagine anything more dangerous than to start a ground fire

which may spread into the neighboring woods at a |°

time when everything is dry. On Friday we came through land where, apparently, the same thing had happened, for all the lower branches of the pine trees were scorched and little trees were killed. These are signs of a wastefulness which makes one shudder in these days when every intelligent person realizes the need of tree conservation. The dining car yesterday morning was crowded with young men, evidently a football team on its way to a game in the afternoon. The papers predicted that the rain would stop, though it would be gray all day. For the players’ sake I hoped it would stop raining, for at their age a game is the most important thing in life. I was amused by three or four of the boys who had evidently decided to declare their independence of convention, and had come to breakfast with their shirts open at the collar and no neckties. They may, of course, have done it entirely without thinking, but they gave the impression of feeling very big and independent and above the ordinary amenities of dining car procedure.

Lauds Mrs. Lindbergh’s Book

That is one of the things which always makes one smile rather tenderly about young people—they are so courageous about the totally unimportant things. They will break any convention which doesn’t matter, but only the exceptional ones among them will face the music when it comes to a fundamental thing where their fellow young people have real differences of opinion. I am half-way through Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book: “Listen, The Wind.” I think she has a remarkably simple and lucid style. She has the poet's eye for beauty and is a trained observer. Her prose has a quality which makes it akin to poetry. I can only describe it by saying that I feel as though I were looking at a picture with the light shining on it. I need hardly tell you that I am enjoying the book and that I would recommend that everyone read it. It is grand to be home again. The President looks well and enjoyed his time at Hyde Park and, while he is buried in work for the time being, he looks forward to another visit there in the near future.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Oct. 31.—The expression, “Hollywood styles” doesn’t just apply to clothes. Every so often the style changes in villains, comics, heroes and even cowboys. The other day, a tall, bronze, good looking young fella walked into a small studio out here where they were makin’ a Western and applied for a job. The producer looked at him and says, “Do you play a guitar?” The young fella says, “No, sir, but I can for anything that walks on four feet.” The producer

“Says, “Maybe you play an accordion?” The boy says, 0, but I've won nine ropin’ contests!” The producer says, “Well, do you sing?” The boy says, “No, I don’t sing or play any instruments!” The producer gave the boy a withering look and says, “Huh! And you call yourself a cowboy!” a ; _ - (Copyright, 1938)

e Indianapolis

Second Section

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938

Editor’s Note—The Indianapolis Times today publishes herewith the responses received from candidates for Juvenile Court Judge, Sheriff and Prosecutor. The Times already has published the campaign statements of all other Marion County judiciary candidates. Tomorrow there will appear the statements of state chairmen of the three minor parties.

JUVENILE COURT WILFRED BRADSHAW

Democrat, for Judge of Juvenile Court

(Born in Warrick County, Indiana, on Oct. 13, 1896; educated in schools of Southern Indiana, attended Central Normal College and Benjamin Harrison, Law School; practiced law in Indianapolis from 1926; deputy prosecutor, 1931 until 1933; became Judge of Municipal Court, Room 1, May 1, 1933; World War ‘veteran; married, has two sons.)

JHE first Juvenile Court in Indiana was established 35 years ago. This court and the law under which it exists has given us a new concept into the treatment of juvenile offenders. Before that time children, when they stood before the bar of justice to answer for a crime, faced the same judge, were tried under the same rules of proced-

.ure, and were punished for their

offenses the same as adults. No distinction was made between the trial and punishment of a hardened criminal and a boy or girl who perhaps had committed a first offense. The child was even thrown into the same jail with the man or woman who had graduated from the school of crime; and there, subjected to the evil influences of association with desperate characters, he or she learned the higher degrees of crime. Children under 12 years of age have been put to death for violation of the law. . The Juvenile Court movement grew out of the knowledge that this was wrong, that children of immature years should not be regarded as criminals, but as children who had become unadjusted; that the idea of punishment should not prevail in the handling of juvenile offenders but that treatment should be the method used to bring about the reformation of the individual and return him into the stream of society as a useful citizen. It was recognized that the child should be tried in a separate court and under different rules of procedure, and that the rigors of the common law of the rules of criminal procedure had no place in a court dealing

“with children. This, briefly, is the

philosophy which should govern the Juvenile Judge and the attaches of his court in the handling of cases, and I subscribe to that theory in dealing with the problem of juvenile delinquency. When I become your next Juvenile Judge, I shall devote myself to four years of the hardest work I have ever done in my life and I assure you I shall enjoy every minute of it. ;

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WILLIAM H. REMY

Republican, for Judge of Juvenile Court

(Born in Columbus, Ind, son of former Judge Charles F. Remy of Indiana Appellate Court; age, 45; came to Indianapolis in 1896; educated in Indianapolis public schools, graduated from Manual Training High School; attended DePauw and Indiana Universities, graduated from Indiana Law School; Prosecuting Attorney, 1923 to 1929, handled D. C. Stephenson case; in private law practice since 1929; member, First Baptist Church, American Legion, State and City Bar Associations; married, two children.)

HE Juvenile Court, like schools and hospitals, should be entirely divorced from politics. There is no Republican or Democratic way to conduct a children’s court. The staff should be composed of men and women who understand and are sympathetic toward the difficulties which may arise. In each case, the first consideration should be what is best for the

child, and if elected, I shall ever keep in mind the welfare of the neglected or delinquent child; and with a view to the prevention of crime before it happens, rather than punishment afterward. So conducted, I believe the court will furnish a first line of defense against the lawlessness which is steadily increasing in this community, around which defense every social and civic organization can rally, with which organizations I shall co-operate to the fullest. The largest single‘item of expense in America is the annual cost of crime, which J. Edgar Hoover says amounts to $15,000,~

000,000. A Juvenile Court operating

in the community, without regard to politics, race or color, can save more lives, property and tax expense; and can salvage more human wreckage, than all the other courts put together.

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PROSECUTOR

EDWIN HAERLE Republican, for Prosecutor

(Born in Indianapolis; age, 31; graduate of Public School No. 32, Shortridge High School and Indiana University; in active practice of law since 1929; never has held public office; member, First Presbyterian Church, Pentalpha Lodge, F. & A. M.; Scottish Rite, Murat Temple, Gatling Gun Club, Lawyers Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, captain in Reserve Officers Corps; married, has three children.)

REGARD the office of Prosecutor of Marion County as a public trust, and I will exert every effort to maintain respect for law and order in Marion County by speedy, impartial and complete pursuance of law enforcement against those who are engaged in: crime and corrupt practices.

My platform consists of three pledges: Honesty, efficiency and economy. The office of Prosecutor should be far above petty misunderstandings and personal grudges, since many of the functions performed by the Prosecutor have a direct bearing on the welfare of the community. I intend to conduct the office as a business, keep regular hours and have fixed duties. Incompetency will not be permitted. I fully realize that every penny spent in this office comes from the taxpayers’ pockets and being conscious of this fact, I will endeavor to keep down expenses and give the taxpayer his money's worth. I will appoint, as my assistants, lawyers of integrity and ability who are thoroughly schooled in the law and practice of the courts in which they will be asked to serve. ; I have made no “deals” with any group or individual and I owe no allegiance to any political boss or party dictator. I am free to carry out my platform in the in-

"terest of all the people.

The prosecutor can do great good in the community by cooperating with the other branches of government. This I propose to do. I hope to have the opportunity

- of demonstrating the operation of

constructive, sound, legal principles combined with economy toward the end of making Marion County a better and cleaner place in which to live.

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' DAVID M. LEWIS

Democrat, for Prosecutor

{Born in Indianapolis; age, 29; received grade and high school education in EIndianapolis and Lawrence Township; graduated DePauw University, B.A. graduated Chi- - cago University Law School; served as Deputy Prosecutor, 1935-36; Democratic chairman of Lawrence Township for four years; now engaged in Jaw practice; member, In-

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"We've enjoyed so many of their parties, | feel we should invite them over here, some evening." ‘

Wilfred Bradshaw

Edward R. Kealing

dianapolis Bar and State Bar Associations; Lawyers’ Association; Delta Upsilon, Blue Key, Masonic, Scottish Rite, Murat Temple Shrine.)

S the Democratic candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the 19th Judicial Circuit, which comprises all of Marion County, I think it my duty to state my. conception of the duties and responsibilities of this most important office, and the character of service that it will receive at my hands. The Prosecuting Attorney of this Judicial District is the law enforcement officer of almost a half million people, and to meet with any measure of success there must at all times be a close co-

operation. with the Police Depart-

ment of the City of Indianapolis and Sheriff of Marion County. The prompt return of indictments and speedy trial in all major crimes is essential to the efficient discharge of the duties of the office of Prosecuting Attorney. I will appoint a staff of assiste ants whose training and experience will make for the orderly and efficient dispatch of all cases coming into the Criminal Courts of Marion County. : Insofar as power of the Prosecuting Attorney, indictments will never be returned to satisfy personal grievances. Indictments must be supported by evidence that will warrant conviction upon a fair and impartial trial. : There have been enacted laws in aid of first offenders and those who are classed as occasional offenders, and neither myself nor any of my deputies will insist upon imprisonment in either instance, when upon a full and fair investigation such cases warrant that mercy which is within the power of the court to grant. The Criminal Court to many of these unfortunates is their court of last resort, and with that in mind, the policy and practice of the Prosecutor's office will be to dispose of such cases as the humanities of the situation shall determine. 8 8 =

SHERIFF AL G. FEENEY ‘Democrat, for Sheriff

(Born in Indianapolis; age, 46; graduated Manual Training High School and Notre

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Al Feeney

David M. Leyis

Dame University; served as Indiana Director of Safety for two and a half years under Gov. McNutt; at present, president of Al Feeney, Inc.; member, American Legion, 40 & 8.)

Y candidacy is based on a record of accomplishments rather than promises. My only pledge is this: I'll do an honest job and as efficient a one as I am capable of doing.

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EDWARD R. KEALING Republican, for Sheriff

(Born Jan, 18, 1882, at 4924 E. 10th St. resides now at same address; educated in Indianapolis schools; engaged in dairy business for 20 years; now a supervisor for the Indianapolis Railways, Inc.; Re- ~ publican member of City Council, 1934-38; member, Logan Lodge, F, & A. M,, Red Men; honorary member, Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach - Employees of America; married, two sons; member Methodist Church.)

HE upholding of the morals of our community stands out today as the paramount issue of this campaign. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to the people of this County to select, as their chief law-enforcement officer, a man whose principal aim will be to stamp out the evils which exist here, and I am firmly pledged to do this. As a life-long resident of this county of my birth and the father of two grown sons, I have uppermost in my mind and heart the proper protection of my fellow citizens. It shall be my immediate purpose, as your Sheriff, to inaug-

urate the following principles as:

my constant guide:

1. Enforce the laws of our State

or County without fear or favor; I wear no man’s collar. 2. Keep our children out of taverns and all places where intoxicating liquors may %e sold. 3.- Assist wherever possible and whens er needed in keeping our streets and County highways safe for our wives, mothers and children. 4. Install an adequate County road patrol, policing the cross

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‘Why You Should Vote for Me’

Juvenile Court, Prosecutor and Sheriff Candidates’ Statements

Edwin Haerle

William H. Remy roads as well as the main highe-

5. Establish safety patrols for the protection of our children attending county and township schools. 5. Immediately investigate any and all complaints of our fellow citizens that are called to my attention.

These are not empty promises— they are sincere pledges to properly operate the office of Sheriff of Marion County. As to my discharge of a public trust placed in me, I invite a thorough examination of my record as a City Councilman of Indianapolis the past four years, during all of which time I have constantly fought for these ideals of government.

|Holy Land Strife

Bars Art Quests

By EMILY C. DAVIS (Copyright, 1938. bv Science Service) ASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Civil war in Palestine has caused cancellation of plans for Holy Land excavation this year by leading American and European archeologists, . Science Service has learned. . Only the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, among the larger American archeological institutions is sticking to its program. The Institute still hopes to dig beside the palace and city of Megiddo, the Biblical Armageddon. Although a pitched battle was reported recently at this traditional site of many battles, Dr. John A. Wilson, the Institute's director, said its Megiddo staff is now preparing publications but expects to return to Palestine before the end of the year. . French, German and British scientists, as well as Americans, are all affected by the turmoil in the small country which has so increasingly yielded its buried evidence of the Biblical era. At the Johns Hopkins University in Balti more, Dr. W. F. Albright, vice president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, said the British are not expected to continue work at Lachish where lately they found important writings on potsherds— actual contemporary evidence for the period of Jeremiah. The director of the Lachish expedition, J." L. Starkey, was killed by armed Arabs in ambush, as he rode from Lachish

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Room 21 in the Old Bates House. Was a Mighty Exclusive Poker Den Until the Carpenters Showed Up.

N a conscientious effort to clean up everything I know about this town, I've now reached the point where there is nothing left to do but clear up the mystery of Room 21 in the old Bates House.

Room 21, back in the late Seventies, was probably the finest poker playing joint this side of the Alleghenies. I can’t remember the name of the gambler who ran it, but whoever it was certainly had

the taste and good sense to think of everything necessary for the comfort and convenience of fastidious poker-playing patrons... The place was almost as stylish as Canfield’s in New York, and almost as select, too. At any rate, only gentlemen of social standing, education and refinement were admitted, and that’s probably why the common shufflers who didn’t know enough to play poker in a dress suit never got in. ; The common shufflers of Indianapolis counted themselves lucky, though, the day the carpenters showed up in 1880. That was the year they decided to make a bigger and better Bates House. You never saw such a mess. Old walls were torn down and new ones put up with the result that you couldn't recognize the place when they got it done. In the process Room 21 was turned wrong side out, too. When the carpenters ripped up the bottom of Room 21, first thing they found was an innocent little wire under the floor. It was thought to be nothing more than a bell wire, but when they ran it down they discovered two little pulleys both carefully wound with twine. It was figured out at the time that the twine contributed considerably to the noiselessness of the pulleys when in operation. Near the center of the room the carpenters found a steel rod connected with the pulleys and the wire. This rod, when inactive, lay just even with the level of the’ floor. When the wire was agitated, it extended a trifle, maybe an eighth of an inch, above the floor and under the carpet—just enough to touch the sole of the boot of the poker player sitting in that place. The one who was out to trim the other ones, of course.

Remodeling Worth Its Cost

That was just the beginning, though. The carpenters followed up the other end of the wire and found that it climbed a brick wall 24 inches thick. Sounding this wall, they discovered that about nine feet above the floor a hole had been cut in the wall more than 2 feet wide and 3 feet in length, ample space for an operator to sit in and telegraph to the trimmer what he saw in the customer’s cards. The opening in the wall was covered with a pin pricked panel of wall paper, of course. But wait, that wasn’t all. The last thing the carpenters found in the wall opening was a black mask and a pair of opera glasses. Hervey Bates who owned the building at- the time said it was worth every cent the remodeling cost to uncover the rascals. Well, the only thing left to tell is that when the carpenters were polled it was discovered that a majority of them, at one time or another, had tried to play poker in Room 21 and been denied admittance. The Rev. Myron Reed, when he heard about it, said it was a perfect case of Nemesis. ;

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Jane Jordan—

A Breadwinner Must Learn to Work Under Strain, Young Husband Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—My wife called me an old grandpa. Now I've seen plenty of life for my age which is 21 (she is 19) and I know it’s no bowl of cherries, but I still can’t see myself as an old grandpa. I dance, drink mildly, am the friendly type and want to get ahead. I would not croon into her ear, nor would I dance the shag nor any other jitter-. bug dances. Every man for his own taste, but that wasn't mine. We were married a little more than a year ago and we have about decided to. call it quits. My wife has had dates with the idea that if I don't like it there are others. She says I can't settle down to a job. I have quit four jobs because I couldn’t keep my mind on any work for worrying over her, Should I take it or quit worrying and get a divorce? INQUISITION.

Answer—Far from being a grandpa you still bear the earmarks of the cradle. For that matter, so does your wife. That is, neither of you have a mature attitude toward your marriage, but behave exactly like spoiled children with no sense of responsibility toward each other or your marriage. Both of you are to blame for your trouble, not just one. You've quit four jobs. That is four counts against you. Married men can’t afford to throw up their jobs when things go wrong. The head of a family learns to work under pressure. Death, illness or disaster doesn’t prevent him from earning a living. To be sure, it takes great self-control to keep your mind on" work when you're harried by domestic worries, but every man worth his salt has learned to do so. Where would you be if your father had quit every time some thing upset him? Your wife has no business to have dates as if she were a single girl without ties. She acts like a baby who won't play: unless she can have everything her way. She wants a playmate, a dancing partner, not’ a husband, and she shows no talent for co-operating with another. I imagine you'll get your divorce no matter what I say, for you are both too spoiled to work at your marriage. What you ought to do is to get a job and stick to it. What she ought to do is to take her job as wife seriously and stop acting like a high school girl whose chief interest is in dates. To throw up a marriage within .a year for such trivial reasons is to brand yourselves as a couple of quitters, completely unequipped to deal with the realities of life. ” 2 ” DAs JANE JORDAN-—I went with the same boy for about three years and only recently broke with him. T have met another boy who interests me very much but he thinks I am still in love with my former boy friend. He is very sensitive and has an inferiority complex. About a year ago, when I was going steady, I stood him up for a date. Now I want to prove to him that I am serious. I am old enough to get married and I feel that I care enough for him to marry him, How can I prove my mettle? TWENTY.

Answer—If your continued reliability doesn’t work, nothing will. - Perhaps he expresses doubts for the pleasure of hearing your. earnest reassurances. This may be all right in the beginning but it will grow wearing in time. JANE JORDAN,

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