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all up~a valley, and there was no excitement about it.

over which we had just come was way down below us.

is like an immense letter “Z,” cut into the mountain-

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il Bus Over Andes in- Ecuador Backs Up to Go Forward and Gives The Traveler Hair-Raising Thrill

to Railroad, one of the most dramatic th America. The 300-mile™road took rs to build, cost thousands of lives in , and disease and is the single greatest mang in Ecuador. road is so steep that regular passenger trains take two days for the journey toQuito, the capital, and freight trains even longer. But once a week there is an express train that goes ‘through in one long day. This “train” is a gasoline-engined " bus on steel wheels, running on - rails. It is called an autocarril. It has a driver and a conductor-brake-man, both young Ecuadoreans. We start at 6:45 a. m. One of the railroad men went with us to explain things. He turned out pretty much cur own sort, and we had a swell time. His name is Irwin Jones, and although he is United States he has been in Eucador so long he looks like a Latin and thinks in Spanish.

For the first 50 miles, we ran through flat, almost land. Small villages were frequent. ean' who looks ike Alfalfa Bill Murray. He j station agent for 20 years before he made his first trip to the big city of Guayaquil—12 miles away! Af the 50-mile post we stopped in quite a little town.’ Here the regular trains are divided up into short ones of no more than five cars. For ahead, the pull into ‘the high Andes sometimes reaches 5! degrees, and it takes two engines to pull five cars. We climbed gradually, following the winding bank of a tumbling, rocky mountain stream. Our climb was

For weeks I had been hearing about the Devil's Nose - section of the railroad to Quito. People had told me it was immensely spectacular. But I had begun to doubt it, for already we had risen 6000 feet without even a mild scare. But I thought too soon. The autobus stopped, and the brakeman ran back and threw a switch. The driver put the bus in reverse. The brakeman jumped in, and we kept on going, ". backwards. And before I knew what was happening, the track

Suddenly I woke up and realized we were making the§witch-back right now, and then I got scared. It ‘seems that the canyon we were in became too steep to get out of. So they got over this mountain by blasting out an ever-rising-ledge along the solid rock wall and laying tracks on it. The switchback

side. The driver gave her the gun, and up and around we went. When you looked out the car window, you looked absolutely straight down. The thing wouldn’t have been so bad, except that the curve was on the outside, over toward the" abyss, and it seemed to me we went so fast no car could possibly stay on the rails.

"Somehow I endured the backward run around the mountainside. But then we did it all over again, this time ¢ going forward, only much higher. I don’t know how high’ it’ was. but it. seemed like seven miles to me. Once the wheels gave a crunching sound, the whole car sort; of jiggled, and I knew we were jumping the ‘In spite of myself, I leaped to the other side : e car, Then I looked sheepishly at Senor Jones, Wehad not, of course, jum ed the track. Jories latighed “and said that, contrary “to ices, this was really the safest part of the railroad. There have been a number of accidents in the past 30 years—but none of them on the Devil's Nose switchback. @only answer I could think of was the old one abeut I'd just as soon be killed as scared to death. But: by ‘then it was all over, and we were out on the level again, high in the Andes mountains.

My Diary

"By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

“Wishes She Could Have Spent More Time at Indian School in Kansas.

FASHINGTON, Monday—The weather here is glorious. Yesterday I spent an hour and a half on horseback along the Potomac River, which was & grand contrast to many hours on the train during the last two weeks. In going over the various things I have seen on this recent trip, I am impressed with a number of things I did not have space to mention in this column. I want to speak of one thing, even at this late date. ‘In Lawrence, Kas., there is an Indian school called Haskell Institute, which teaches trades as well as academic subjects. I was enormously interested by some “of the things they were developing and with ; the very practical training they were giving in their shops. = _ This group of young boys and girls was alert and intelligent looking and evidently were keeping up the traditions of their race for physical fitness and prowess. Some of them wore their native costumes and ‘they were beautiful to look at. I ‘still remember one young man’s feather headdress which was blowing in the wind. A girl presented me with a lovely beadwork headband. I wish ‘IT could have spent more time with the youngsters and had an opportunity te talk with them. As. long as we are on educational subjects. I wonder if any of you have seen a book which is now on ‘sale, called “They Still Draw Pictures”? The Dlctureg-were drawn by Spanish children and the hich interests me about them is the effect in a war torn country has had on these They have approximately the same urge themselves through this medium you would

e. drawings on the subjects which these young-

5 ; seems tragic that if we must have war it can ‘na loniger. be confined to adults, for it means that !

yterian Celebration } efforts have been made in these days to

‘wherever we find more emphasis placed on for democracy, I think we can be en-

byterian Church celebrated yesterday the ersary of the founding of the general that denomination. They are inaugurating to help their various colleges and they fhe place which religion holds in the individual ‘student and the effect that this should have p in a democracy. § to me that the development of responsifoward any of the really important things of valuable to all of us in our citizenship,

OD, Nov. 1.—-Did you ever notice the the restaurant, the more things they’ll off the menu that they're out of? That's p cook’s new, too, and hasn't got on to the

old established restaurant out here that ort of anything until the old cook took “The minute they got a new cook, they * short of cold chicken. They put a job and he found that the new,

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER. 1, 1938

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Leaders of Three Minor Parties Issue Statements

Editor's Note: The Indianapolis Times presents herewith the campaign statements by the state leaders of the three minor parties on this year’s ballot — the Communist Party, Prohibition Party and Socialist-Labor Party. The Times has previously published the statements of major party candidates for all the Marion County judgeships and for Prosecutor and Sheriff. Tomorrow there will appear the statements of Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress from the

11th District.

COMMUNIST PARTY

BY PHILIP BART State Secretary, Communist Party

HIS year’s election is being fought around fundamental issues which are rapidly bringing about new political alignments in

our country. On one side there:

are gathering progressive forces while on the other side there is ithe merging of reactionary groups. We were able to observe this most clearly in the recent primaries where "Tory Republicans and antiDemocrats joined hands. Among the progressive groups, of which the Communist Party is a part. co-operation was extended in support of the New Deal. 1t would be ridiculous to consider the New Deal communistic, in spite of the efforts of the Dies Committee to smear it “red.” The voters are not faced with making a decision whether or not to introduce Communism in the United States... The Communists state frankly that their ultimate objective is to convince the people of the need of transforming existing capitalistic ownership of industries to a socialist society where production for use will prevail. Such a change will come only when a majority of the people decide in its favor. The need of the hour is 0 unite the people of our State to defeat reaction. This is a problem facing all of us. It is a struggle of the majority of those: who work for a living, whether in the shop or on the farm, in an office or the owner of a small business, against the small group of 60 families who want to maintain their hoarded wealth at the expense of the majority. In the last session of Congress they showed violent opposition to Government responsibility to its people. This Congressional group, composed of Republicans and Tory Democrats, obstructed legislation for increased appropriations for WPA, Federal housing, subsidies to farmers and similar measures. They opposed the Wagner Act and already threaten the new Wage and Hour Law. We witnessed the most- shameful spectacle of filibustering used in

‘the Senate to defeat the “anti-

lynching bill. ‘Under these circumstances the Communist Party puts forward a number of plans for a progressive program. Briefly, these planks are: 1. Jobs and security for all by extending WPA, slum clearance and similar legislation in the interests of the people. We oppose

the 15 per cent wage cut for rail-

road workers as well as any other attempts to cut wages. 2. Enactment of a State labor relations act and minimum wage and hour law. 3. Continued support to needy farmers and Government fixing of minimurg prices, based on cost of production. 4. Enactment of laws protecting the Negro people from all forms of discrimination. 5. Special legislation for the protection of women and young people. 6. Uniform pension veterans. 7. Full guarantee of our civil liberties and no interference with workers’ rights to organize. These planks, as well as others which arise out of the people's needs, form a political program to unite us all. Such unity can be assured by close co-operation of the C. 1. O., A. PF. of 1. amd Railroad Brotherhoods, Labor's Nonpartisan League, Catholics and Protestants and people of all denominations and political opin1ons, farmers, workers, as well as small businessmen. Such a movement will be a genuine people's movement. We appeal to you to vote for the Communist candidates: For U. S. Senator, Miles Blansett, and for Secretary of State, Wenzell

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Stocker. Strengthening the Communist Party will help in strengthening the entire progressive movement. Above all, vote and elect progressives to Congress, to the State Legislature as well as to city councils and your township offices. Elect men and women who will continue to lead our country on the road to progress. ” ” 3

PROHIBITION PARTY

By EUGENE S. LEWIS State Chairman, Prohibition Party

. We challenge the validity ot the liquor licensing laws made by Congress and the Legislatures on the ground_that these laws are in conflict with the basic moral law and that the lawmaking power does not extend to bartering away the public health, peace or morals by licensing a traffic which destroys them. 2. We declare that the licensed liquor traffic is the greatest obstacle to national recovery. It destroys the physical, mental and moral resources of our citizens, and prevents a flow of purchasing power from reaching the industries which create our national wealth. + 3. We regard the liquor traffic as the deadly enemy of democracy, classing it with the illicit traffic in narcotics and the sale of adulterated foods. 4. We regard the liquor traffic as a major contributor to crime, poverty and disease. 5. We declare that the licensed traffic. robs our citizens of the fundamental rights to public safety, peace and health. : 6. We declare that repeal has failed to bring either prosperity, lower taxes or even the elimination of bootlegging. 7. We recognize - the need for sober, clear minded thinking as the first essential to make our democracy work in solving our economic and social problems.

MILES BLANSETT

Communist Party candidate for U. S. Senate (Born in Anderson, Ind, in 1902; worked as a tool and die maker in auto shops in Indiana and Michigan and was employed in Delco-Remy plant for 10 years; member of United Automobile Workers when it was affiliated with the A. F. of L.; married and lives in South Bend; also State Chairman of the Communist Party.)

insure the conservation of our na ral resources and the intelligent production and control of fuel, timber and agricultural products. 19. We propose governmental reorganization to make it more efficient in its administration and to make tax reduction possible. 20. We regard the Constitution and the democratic form of government adequate and flexible enough to insure a continuous expansion of our standards of living. 21. We declare the major parties as incompetent to rid us of the political patronage spoils system, and of the licensed traffic in alcoholic beverages, since they use these in maintaining their political machines. For these reasons we ask Indiana citizens to vote the Prohibition party ballot to give us a CLEAN DEAL in government.

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8. We propose a return to Na- SOCIALIST-LABOR PARTY

tional Prohibition with the party in power committed to prohibition as its first obligation. This we assume as a party. 9. We regard the two major parties as incompetent to deliver us from the devastating liquor traffic, since the Government has become the partner of the traffic under their administration of government. 10. We propose to use the administrative power of government to abolish the liquor traffic as we now prohibit robbing of the mails. 11. We regard the two major parties as incompetent to deal with the liquor traffic as an outlaw, since they have placed the stamp of respectability on it by licensing the traffic. 12. We oppose the Government engaging in the liquor business, producing and selling rum from its Virgin Islands distillery. 13. We propose to direct our productive resources into channels which increase our national wealth, so that poverty and the necessity for” relief expenditures may be eliminated. 14. We recognize the right of labor to collective bargaining and declare for adequate provision for the infirm and the aged from want. 15. We abhor the political patronage spoils. system in government. Both major parties foster the spoil system to perpetuate themselves in government, at the expense of good and efficient government. 16. We pledge the abolition of political patronage spoils system, to insure the return to constitutional government with a separation of the powers of government. 17. We declare for an adequate national defense and propose an international disarmament. conference, to stop the waste of human and material resources necessary for creating weapons to destroy life. \ 18. We recognize the necessity for a national land use policy to

Side Glances—By Clark

By CHARLES GINSBERG

State Secretary, Socialist-Labor Party

\HE struggle of humanity from -its ‘infancy has been to_solve the Prodlem of ‘feeding, ‘clothing: and sheltering the human race with little effort. This has been solved by the development of the machines and tools and production systems that can be made to produce enough by working a few hours a day, to give an abundance

to all. But the machines and tools &

are privately owned and used for production for profit only for a small part of the population.

In order to live the workers are required to sell themselves to the owners Qf the machines—the capitalists—for wages, which is only a part of what labor produces for having produced all. The development has reached a stage where the private ownership of the machines is no longer a lever of progress, but on the contrary a hindrance, and if progress is to continue they must be replaced by the collective ownership of all industries. Social systems are like all other organisms, in that they are born, grow strong, fulfill their mission in society, become outworn and are either thrown aside forcibly through revolution, or collapse and degenerate from old age, and cast society into convulsions and destruction, until a new social order has grown upon the ruins. Capitalism has reached this stage and is nearing final collapse. This is the cause of all the present disorder and general misery everywhere. Vainly the politicians have tried to keep the system alive nationally and locally, through emergency relief and spending, public works, etc.; reforms of all kinds have

‘been resorted to, to stave off the

impending social revolution. Social science knows that before

‘LOUIS B. ROEBUCK

Socialist-Labor Party candidate for U. S. Senate

(Born on a farm near Rockford, O., Sept. 11, 1867; attended rural schools and graduated from Tri-State Normal at Angola, Ind.; taught school for several years after finishing school; now a florist in Columbia, City, Ind.; a widower; has been a member of Socialist-Labor Party for several years.)

PHILIP BART State Secretary, Communist Party

‘Entered as Second. Class Matter - At. Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

H. L. SEEGER

Prohibition Party candidate for U. 8. Senate

(Born in Galena, Ill, educated in Dayton, O., schools; graduated in 1912 from Indianapolis College of Law;

practiced law for two years, has been in construction business here ever since; married, has one son, lives at 801 Bradford St.; candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in 1936.)

E. S. LEWIS ’ State Chairman, Prohibition Party

any social system dies it casts forth its successor—as a parent does its child. The embryo of the new social order is well dev€loped

. within the womb of capitalism— that embryo is socialism, the In-

“dustrial Republic of Labor.

The Socialist-Labor Party contends that capitalism has performed its historic mission, has worn out and broken down and must make way for the Industrial Republic. To this end the Social-ist-Labor - Party calls upon the

working class to rally under its banner on the political field and at the same time organize into a Socialist Industrial Union for the purpose of enforcing the fiat of the ballot and taking over and operating the industries for the benefit of all humanity, supplanting the political government by an industrial administration. Instead of production for profits, with its starvation and misery, production will be carried on for use only. There will be peace and plenty for all.

Action to Stop Oil Waste ‘Urged as Defense Measure

By Raymond Clapper Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—0i} is of increased national concern in connection with the defense program now being prepared to protect the Western Hemisphere. Not only is our internal life now dependent upon oil, since we are so highly motorized, but an enlarged Navy, an enlarged mechanized Army, a greatly increased Air Force all must have larger insured supplies of oil. It ranks along with manpower, ships and explosives. Yet this -precious 1esource, limited in supply, is being recklessly wasted. Conditions in the oil industry are chaotic and are not improving. An indispensible national resource is subjected to hog-trough anarchy, and is spawned out with little consideration for the national welfare. During several days in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, I found Federal control being debated. Some see it as the only means of saving our oil. Others are violently opposed to any interference with the freedom of a man to do what he pleases with

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property. Yet there was general agreement that unless the states and private enterprise co-operate and put & halter on the oil business, the Federal Government inevitably will step in to protect this resource. Several oil producing states have a compact intended to encourage restriction of production to actual market needs. But the compact carried no binding force and has broken down completely. The oil industry is suffering demoralizing price cuts, and the supply of gasoline is high while fuel oil stocks are at the all-time peak. Chairman Ernest O. Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission, has appealed to refiners to reduce their run to stills by 15 per cent. He had the whole situation up with Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde Park a few days ago. Geologists differ in their guesses but all agree that there is a limit to our oil, and that it ought to be conserved. One said we are living in a fool's paradise and fost it was time to wake up.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who was the first woman to become a member of a President’s cabinet in the U. S.? 2—Where did Cain flee to after he had killed his brother Abel?

+ 3—Into what body of water does the Volga River empty? 4—-Name the oldest of the stringed musical instruments. 5—Between which two cities was the first telegraph message sent? 6—Which boxing bout drew the largest gate receipts? 2 8 =

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1—Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson). 2—The Land of Nod. 3—The Caspian Sea. 4—The harp. 5—Washington, D. C., and Bal- : timore, Md. 6—The second fight between Tunney and Dempsey at Chicago in 1937. ® 2 »

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2 By Anton Scherrer

Homburg Left Us Indianapolis Folk Plenty of Reason for Having The Fear We All Have of Friday.

NOTHER point that future historians will ponder is the fear of Friday in Indianapolis. Maybe you don’t know it, but it’s worse around here than anywhere els in the country. To tell the truth, even~

I do frighten you, the fear of Friday has gote ten such a strangle-hold on us that we can’t shake it off, with the result that business comes to a stande still on that day. Contractors are scared to start new buildings on Friday; bankers are ~ afraid to make loans; and lawyers will resort to anything (within the bounds of ethics, of course) to get out of appearing in court on Friday. As for the doctors, it's got them scared stiff. It works out, of course, that Friday is a wasted day as far as it does business any good. It’s even worse than that because if you dig deeper, as I have, you'll discover my. that, Friday isn’t worth shucks as a holiday, either. At any rate, I yet have to meet any= body born and Bred in Indianapolis who isn’t scared to death to start a vacation on Friday. For all practical purposes, then, Friday might as well be done away with. Well, there’s a mighty good reason for our being scared. The fear of Friday came to Indianapolis in 1844 with the coming of Dr. Konradin Homburg, as good a doctor—as eccentric, too—as Indianapolis ever had. Dr. Homburg harbored a large number of little superstitions and one grand one, a horror of the sup= posed evil of Friday. He always predicted that his patients would suffer more on Friday than on any other day, and they always did. He even carried his fear to the point that he would not go to see a new patient on Friday if he could get out of it, declaring that his Friday patients always died: As a matter of fact, they did, and Dr. Homburg kept a record to prove it. In his own case, he said that every mise fortune that ever had come to him was in some way connected with Friday, and all his life he entertained a notion that when it came time for him to go, it would. be on Friday. And sure enough, that’s just what happened. X

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As for Dr. Homburg’s little superstitions, most of them, too, have left their mark on Indianapolis. - He never drank water, for instance. When in ordinary

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health, he drank wine; when sick, his drink was ale

ways beer. A week before he died he told Dr. Charles E. Wright that except for the evil influence of Friday, he never would have known the taste of beer. For years Dr. Homburg never slept in a bed, taking his four hours sleep in a chair. out eating and when he did get around to it, he never touched fruit. apples. That’s why it scared everybody when he

‘called for an apple the day Dr. Wright paid him a Ee professional visit.

When he finished the apple, he said it was the first one he had tasted since he was a l4-year-old boy in Germany. Next day Dr. Home burg was dead. When it came time to read his will in 1881, his friends were faced with the fact that he wanted ‘to be cremated. They knew he meant it, too. His body Was taken to Washington, Pa., and ‘delivered to the Lemoyne furnace there. As far as k-know nobody up to that time had written such a will.’

Jane Jordan— 'Wondering' Advised It Is Foolish to Be Jealous of Husband's First Wife,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been married four

years. My husband is nine years older than myse:f and has been married before. This I have never told my parents or friends as I come from ane other town. Do you think I should have told them? My husband is very kind and a good provider but

sometimes I wonder if he loves me. I've never seen his former wife’ and have heard very little about her. He used to get angry when I mentioned her, but once he started to tell me about her and I couldn’t bear to hear it. “Should I just ignore the fact and try to forget? My husband’s mother never comes about me and I have reason to believe that she preferred the other woman to me. I once heard some very unkind things she said about me and often long to let her know I heard them. Should I just ignore them? She never invites us to her home. Should we wait for her to come or just keep dropping in occasionally? Would it be all right for me to send our family .doctor and his wife a luncheon set for a Christmas gift although I've never met his wife, or should I just send a card? Should I tell my husband I wrote this letter? Sometimes he reads your column. WONDERING.

Answer—By all means do not mention your huss band’s first marriage if it would upset your family and friends. After all is it any of their business? Your jealousy of your husband's first wife is a little ridiculous. The wish to be the only woman he ever loved is simply a piece of vanity. As long as you are the one he loves now you hold all the winning cards, and you certainly are hard up for trouble to worry about what happened before he knew you. J You are lucky that your mother-in-law never bothers you. Many wives would give their eye teeth to be free from the demands of their husband's fame ily. What difference does it make whether she you or not as long as your husband does? If is n always smart for a wife to be hand in glove with her husband's mother. In some cases a man married to break the hold of his mother and if his wife is too. chummy with her he may get the idea that the two women have combined to control . Many wives are shrewd enough to see that it to their : vantage to let their husbands defend them against family objections. When a man marries in revolt against maternal domination, he will cleave to his wife in spite of, and perhaps because of, his mother’s criticism of het. However, it is well to keep the surface smooth by making dutiful calls now and then. 8 1 should think a card to your family doctor would be in better taste since you do not know his wifi Why mention the fact that you wrote for advice Your husband might resent it. “a

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who wit answer your auestions’in this column daily.

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