Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1938 — Page 23

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

He Picnics on Equator, Stands in Two Hemispheres at Same Time and Is Surprised That, Nothing Happens.

(QYAMBARO, Ecuador, Nov. 4.—After a , man sits right a-straddle of the Equator and eats his lunch, I guess there isn’t much left in the world for him to do. : So today I am very bored with it all, and if it weren't so far I would go back to the} farm in Indiana and settle down among the corn stalks after this life of adventure. Yes sir, I have actually stood with one foot in-the hl Northern Hemisphere, and the other in the Southern. How did it feel? Well, it felt cold, and the wind was blowing sand in my eyes, and I was so mad at not bringing along a camera to record the historic event that I didn’t enjoy the event itself. Since it isn’t everybody that actually sits on the Equator, I think I'll just go right through the whole thing in detail. First I happen to know an Englishman in Quito by the very unEnglish name of Victor Von Rau. Well, Mr. Von Rau volunteed to take us out to the Equator. So we had the hotel fix us up three box lunches (30 sucres, or $2.10) and then we hired a car (35 sucres, or $2.45) and we started out. It is 15 miles from Quito to Oyambaro. It takes about an hour to drive it. Not far north of Quito the valley turns to desert dust, and there is almost no life at all upon the earth. Pretty soon you start to choke. When you get to Oysmbaro you wouldn’t know it. Just some adobe shacks along the road. But at Oyambaro you turn off the main road, and strike out across the bare desert over a sandy trail. You reach the Equator monument in about a mile.

So far as I know, this is the only monument in the .world marking the exact and scientific location of the Equator. It was put up two years ago by a French-Spanish geodetic commission. It is on a concrete base probably 30 feet square. ‘Above the base rises a stone shaft, probably 30 feet high, and pretty thick. On the top is a great stone ball representing the globe, with the continents faintly carved on it. Around it runs a bright metal strip, signifying the Equator. On the east side of the monument, a sidewalk runs out for about 50 feet. Down the center of this sidewalk is a groove. That is the exact line of the Equator. You stand on this sidewalk, and you stand in two hemispheres. The first thing I did when we got there was run and stand on the sidewalk. Nothing happened. Mr. Von Rau stood on the sidewalk, Nothing happened. Then we decided maybe the Equator needed the feminine touch. “Come stand on the Equator. and get the woman's angle,” we said to That Girl. She stood on the Equator. Nothing happened. So then we said to heck with it, let’s eat lunch. The driver brought our three box lunches. We sat down on the stone steps, right in line with the groove, so we would be on the Equator. We sat on the east side, trying to get out of the wind. We gave a dozen sandwiches to the driver. An Indian and his woman and kids went by, with a dozen pburros. Mr. Von Rau called “Oiya,” and the Indian came over and took several sandwiches.

The Wind Blew and Blew

The wind blew so we could hardly eat. It blew all the sandwich papers away. It blew sand onto our fried chicken and made our teeth grind. It got in pur eyes. We did work up a kind of Equator consciousness while eating lunch. ‘We concentrated on the uhusual=ness of our location, and finally induced in ourselves a sort of melodramatic far-away feeling. We finished. Our lunch boxes blew away. We walked around the monument for a last view. On | three sides were the words “France—Spain—Ecuador.” And what do you suppose was on the fourth side? It was “Rotary International.”

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Flying West, Further Improvements In Aviation Again Thrill First Lady.

EATTLE. Wash., Thursday—I never cease marveling at the airplane and its speed. I boarded the plane in Newark, N. J, at 8 a. m. yesterday morning and, as we taxied along for the take-off, I kept thinking of Anne Lindbergh's book and her description of their efforts at taking off in Bathurst, on the coast of Africa—“slap, slap, slap on the waves.” Nothing like that occurs in one of our great, commercial gransports; just a speeding up of the engine, one or two little bumps, and imperceptibly you are off the ground and going up into the air. We had marvelously quiet, smooth flying to Chicago. Much to my surprise, our friend, the Baron de La Grange, was on board as far as Buffalo. He was a flier during the World War, and like all the others I know is constantly impressed by our modern improvements. The ship was completely filled all the way to Chicago, where I filed my column and sent a wire to my daughter. I.think my excitement at actually being started made me forget the necessity of imparting to her on what airline I was traveling, so that I left it to her to find out which one would bring me to Seattle. Mr. C. R. Smith, with his usual thoughtfulness, met, me, and saw me off in Chicago for th= longest lap of my trip. It began to grow hazy and I had a few moments of anxiety when the weather report said that ships had not been getting through to Seattle. A nice man across the aisle from me was so elated over the results of a convention, which he had been attending in Detroit, that from there to Minneapolis he talked to me at intervals and I felt that I really knew him quite well when we reached Fargo, N. D,, where he lived. In the course of conversation he told me some of the methods which were used in his business to increase efficiency and to promote good will with the public. I could not help being impressed by the fact that what he thought of as “good business” was really the modern technique for success in a chang-’ ing world.

The Weather Grows Colder

He was teaching his employees that if they helped the people with whom they came in contact, if they co-operated with others to make life on the whole a bit pleasanter, business would prosper. Of course it will, but society will prosper if we jearn to help each other instead of fighting each other and co-operate instead of concentrating only on our own interests. In Fargo, a woman at the airport remembered my enforced stopover there last winter, and the little girl who let me use her restaurant table on which to type my column, smiled very kindly at me when I went in to speak to her. From there on, instead of a tailwind, we had a headwind for a time. It grew constantly colder, so that I began to think I should have brought a fur coati/and been prepared for winter weather. We went through banks of clouds, a few bumps, and saw some stormy looking skies. But, I'll tell you more of the trip tomorrow.

Mr. Pyle

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 4—I've often wondered what an awful lot of commotion it would make if merchants would listen to the market quotations and mark their prices up and down all through the day according to the quotations on textiles, wheat and steel in Wall Street. One day I was passing a little art store and I saw a little oil painting in the window priced at $4. The next day when I went back to buy it, it was priced at five and a quarter. When I asked the proprietor about it, he says, “Well, according to the

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Third Section

JE PITOR'S NOTE: The Indianapolis Times publishes herewith the campaign statements of Frederick VanNuys and Raymond E. Willis, major party rivals for United States Senator. During the past week, The Times has presented the statements of major party candidates for all Marion County judgeships, Prosecutor, Sheriff and the. two Congressional races affecting Marion County— the 11th and 12th District contests—and the statements of state leaders of the three minor parties on this year’s ballot, the Communist Party, Prohibition - Party and Socialist-Labor Party. The Times will conclude its series tomorrow with the publication of the statements by Reginald H. Sullivan and Herman C. Wolff, rival candidates for the Mayoralty.

FREDERICK VANNUYS

Democrat for U. S. Senator

(Born in Falmouth, Rush County, April 16, 1874; graduated from Lebanon High School in 1894, from Earlham College in 1898, and from the Indiana Law School in 1900; admitted to the bar at Shelbyville, he practiced at Summitville and Anderson; served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Madison County and was State Senater for the terms in 1913 to 1915, being president pro tem in the 1915 session; served as chair-’ man of the Democratic State Committee in 1918 and was appointed TU. 8. District Attorney by President Wilson late in 1918; keynote speaker at two state conventions; was the partner of the late Samuel M. Ralston in law practice at the time of Mr. Ralston’s death; elected to the U. S. Senate in 1932 he severed all connections with his Indianapolis law office.

~I\HERE is but one issue in this

campaign. It is age old, yet never new. election, and in the home of every citizen. between those who believe in the past against those who demand change in the future. conflict between saving what is good and important, but demanding advance and progress.

It appears at every

It is the constant battle

It is the

Specifically, in this campaign,

it is whether we will return to the old order and all that this

implies, or go forward. It is a

question which will be present in

all campaigns, until every .boy

and girl enters a world of equal

opportunity and every man and woman, who needs a job, is protected in his right to work and earn a living. I have served six stirring years in the Senate. I have served on important commissions of the Judiciary and the Foreign Relations Committees. Part of our: problems are world wide in scope. We are yet to settle the question, and the man you send to the Senate may decide whether we will settle them with bullets and cannon, or by reason, co-operation and the spirit of the good neighbor. My stand on that matter is plain. I have said, and I repeat, that no vote of mine shall send an American boy to the battlefields of Europe but that we shall be equipped to fight any invasion of this Western Hemisphere, by those who would destroy our form of governmént. I believe in Democracy as the hope of civilization itself. Here we have established a government of law and not of men. To the cause, I pledge my full and constant support. We are dedicated to the doctrine of a government under laws made by the people themselves. From this,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938

Frederick VanNuys

we will not waver. Only in this

. orderly fashion can we have a

government by law, not of the whims of dictators.

Under a Democratic Administra-

tion, we have made great progress. .

We have given social security to the workers. Workers have the right to jobs. They have been protected against the hazards that come from new inventions and changing habits and customs. No longer is the worker at the mercy of his master. We have given him the right to collective bargaining, not as a gift but as one of his inevitable rights. In the modern world the right of life means the right to work. We are protecting him in that right. We met the problem firmly by the Public Works Administration, and when this was too slow because of the necessary planning, we established the Works Progress Administration, which took man from the humiliation of charity and gave to him the right to labor and maintain his family. We established credit for the farm and the small home owner. We stopped the foreclosures which drove men from their dwellings and their farms. We established credit for business. Instead of being an enemy to business, we have passed the wage and hour bill, which will raise the standard of living; we offer assistance to business, for only by a larger purchasing power can the modern luxuries, all products of the machine, be sold. Business cannot produce automobiles and radios or new homes or clothing for those reduced to the level of pauperism. We have fixed the lowest level at which any one can live in this bountiful land. We have recognized the right of the aged and established the Old-Age Pension system on a national basis. For years the demand of the people and pitiful situation of those whose only crime was to grow old had demanded such a law. Our opponents had been deaf to this call and are still unhearing to its cry of need.

We made banks safe. We have protected investors against the manipulation of stock markets. Every move has been one step forward toward equality in the sharing of the comforts of life. We have protected youth from despair and inequality of education. In our CCC camps, in our assistance to youth in high schools and colleges, we have opened the doors for a more prosperous and s happier future. In the employment of women in our Works Progress Administration planning, we have saved homes. We have heard the cry of the distressed and the defenseless. This Administration is the era of humanitarianism. It will go into history as the era of greatest accomplishment for the common

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man, just as it is known as the era of the greatest victory for labor in its battle for human rights. Each one of these humanitarian measures received my support. To this our party and our party platforms have pledged themselves. I will support, if returned to the Senate, every humanitarian measure proposed to reduce human suffering. There must be no hungry men and women and children. All these things I saw and a part of them I was.

I have been invited to tell why

the people should vote for me. I have told you why you should vote for yourselves. If your interests lie with the privileged few, you will not vote for me. If they are linked with the great masses, you will vote for the candidates

who pledge themselves to the pol-.

icy of progress, who will take no backward steps, who will discard none of the rights of human .beings to live as human beings. It needs but a brief look back, with its great tragedies, its degradation of families, its misery of women and children, to find the answer. For, in this election, no suggestion has been made that the opposition candidate would do otherwise than support the policies of the past. Intelligent selfishness dictates such a ballot.

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. RAYMOND E. WILLIS ,

Republican, for U. S. Senator

(Born in Waterloo, DeKalb County, the son of Frank W. Willis, a Civil War veteran and former member of the Indiana Legislature; graduated from Widterloo High School and Wabash College; entered the newspaper business in Angola in 1898 and is now editor of the Steuben Republican; served as postmaster of Angola from 1910 to 1913; served as chairman of the Steuben County Council of Defense during the World War; member of the Legislature during the session of 1919-1921, being Republican floor leader in the special session of 1921; district gover- * nor of the Rotary Clubs of the Indiana area during 1934-35; member and officer of the First Congregational Church of Angola, and of the Angola Masonic Lodge and the Ft. Wayne Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons; married Miss Mary Taylor of Angola in 1902.)

HE Four Horsemen of the New Apocalypse—Debt, Doubt, Depression and Dictatorship—are on their way out. Everywhere in Indiana people are tired of six years of governmental poli¢ies which have sapped the economic and spiritual life of the

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‘Why You Should Vote for Me’

Frederick VanNuys and Raymond Willis Issue Statements

Raymond E. Willis

nation. An increasing debt already far beyond past records, a lengthening roll of unemployment, stagnated ‘business, a farm program in chaos, have aroused the sane thinking people. No army of payrollers can stop the swing against the New Deal. Uppermost in the thoughts of the people is the desire for jobs— real jobs at decent American wages, not Government made jobs at subsistence pay, the cost of which is choking private enterprise. The Republican Party proposes to create jobs. 1. By abandoning the free trade policies of the present Administration, which brought three billion dollars worth of foreign manufactured and foreign grown farm products into this country in 19317 —we propose to keep American markets for goods produced by American farmers and American workmen paid the American standard of living. 2. By releasing business and industry from paralyzing restrictions imposed by New Deal experiments. 3. By lifting the burden of added taxation, now consuming money which normally enables industry to expand. 4. By bringing to farmers a constructive and continuing program. The Republican Party will provide graft-free emergency employment until private business can react to wise policies and provide jobs for the unemployed. The Republican Party will establish co-operation between labor and industry by impartial government agencies, and will promote the legitimate functions of labor organizations in their efforts to establish a proper division of the wealth created by labor and capital. The Republican Party will end the confusion in government which has shaken the confidence of the people as well as the confidénce of business. It will establish certainty in business to that the small investor, the businessman, and the laboring man will not be afraid to spend money for fear of taxes, for fear of unknown

- things that Congress may do, for

fear that he may lose his job. The Republican Party will develop a sound, social program in which the funds collected will be treated as a sacred trust for the unemployed, the unfortunate, and all aged people. The Republican Party proposes to keep this government as a government of the people, a balanced government in which the powers are vested in three distinct branches—the Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court. It will defend the liberties of the people against the encroachment by any branch upon the functions of either of the other two branches, and will require full responsibility from the Congress, as

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well as from the Executive and the Supreme Court. American liberties were bought at too precious a price to be surrendered by the treachery of insidious bribery. The people want’ no interfer ence by this nation in the affairs of governments across the sea. They do not want our Government to join the World Court; they do not want ‘collective security” or “controlled neutrality”; they want our nation to keep its nose out of other people’s business—and the Republican Party promises that. The Republican Party stands against the dictation of arrogant bosses of the Tammany influence which has stealthily moved westward, and is grasping the state of Indiana in its powerful claws. We stand . humiliated by the charges of graft and corruption in our public life, which have been made by men high in office, but

who now stand by supinely and -

do nothing about it.

The Republican Party will demand honesty and integrity in the discharge of every governmental function. It will “clean house” through-the medium of the courts of the country, not within political rings; it will drive the grafters from public life. The worst form of dictatorship is bossism by corrupt leaders. This cannot be tolerated in Indiana. The Republican Party will restore the government to the people to whom it belongs by true liberalism. Liberty is not promoted by an enactment of laws; liberty is developed by repeal of laws. There cannot be freedom in a strongly centralized government; only in a democratic government can there be freedom. The people are on their way back from a mad and merry dance toward national destruction. We are on our way home. We propose to keep this America as the “Land of Whosoever Will"—the land of limitless opportunity for all those who have the will to work, the incentive to save, and the wish to worship.

Flier Lauds U. S.

|Safety Aids

By Science Service BERLIN, Nov. 4—U. S. domestic airlines are helped by radio navigation aids and weather reporting facilities far superior to those on which European lines must rely,

Capt. D. W. Tomlinson of Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc,

told the Liilienthal - Gesellschaft,

German technical society, here. Attending the meeting of the Lillienthal Society, named after a pioneer German glider pilot, was Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.

| TEST YOUR:

KNOWLEDGE

1—Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world? : 3—Name the capital of Puerto Rico? 3—The President of which central European country recently resigned? 4—Correct the following sentence: “I haven't been nowhere today.” 5—Why was the Arc d’ Triomphe buily? : 6—How many nations were involved in the World War? » o »

Answers

1—Sir Francis Drake. 2—San Juan. 3—Eduard Benes of Czecho- . slovakia. 4—‘T haven't been anywhere today,” or “I have been nowhere today.” 5—1It was erected to commemorate the victories of Na-

poleon. 6—Twenty-eight. 8 » 2

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By Anton Scherrer

Neo History of City Is Complete Without Recording Role Played by: Young Tarkington as 'Jesse James’

| GOME memoranda set down in admiration

for the future use -of whatever hardy creature may one day attempt to write the story of Indianapolis and tell everything there is to tell, not forgetting what happened

in the barn back of Judge Tarkington's hom on the afternoon of Saturday, June 10, 1882: <x On that day a gang of kids, as precocious as Indis anapolis ever had, turned the Tarkington barn into &

theater (the best ventilated playhouse at the time) and put on the thrilling, spectacular and original drama of “The James Brothers: or the Life and Death of Jesse James.” The first of its kind anywhere, mind you. Booth Tarkington, then a boy of 12, played the part of Jesse James, described more fully in the program Hotes a oe WL of fhe an” gend has it that the Tarkington . error ee ag Nae that afternoon, despite the fact that his audience cone sisted of a lot of soreheads who insisted he. grabbed the fat part for himself because he had write. ten the play. a The other roles were distributed among Frankie. Walker (“Frank James, the Bandit’s Brother”); Als" bert Goepper (“Mike O'Neil’); Page Chapman (“Bob Ford, the Assassin”); Willie Rhodes (“Charley Ford. the Assassin’s Brother”), and Malcolm Jameson who. played the part of “George, the Bartender.” The, “miners, bandits, sheriffs and travelers” turned out to" be the younger kids of the neighborhood who wers - doing their durndest to qualify as regular members of the gang. a The most remarkable thing, however, was not the acting, but the fact that it took the Tarkington kid - only two months to produce the play after the news ? papers had pronounced Jesse dead. According to the papers, it was the morning of April 3, 1882, just after breakfast, when Jesse walked into the sitting room where the Ford brothers, two new members of his band, were rocking. 3 He remarked it was going to be a hot day and took off his coat. -He removed his pistols, too. was a big. mistake because soon as the Ford boys saw what: Jesse had done, they covered him with their guns,

Quicker on the Draw

Bob was the quicker of the two and shot Jesse through the back of the head. Jesse swayed a moe ment, then fell full on the carpet. Whereupon the Ford brothers (Page Chapman and Willie Rhodes) ram into the yard when Mrs. James thrust her head: through the door and said: “Robert you done that.” ai Robert crossed his heart and said he didn’t do any= -thing of the kind. Charley, who didn’t think as fast as his brother did, opined that Bob’s gun had gone off accidentally. “Is that so,” snapped Mrs. James. i Well, that was the other remarkable thing about

it. Believe it or not, the Tarkington kid portrayed - the entire “Life and Death of Jesse James” without & single girl in the cast. er

Jane Jordan— ~Be-Sure ‘You Are in Love; Woman | Who Wants a Home Is Advised,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 20 years old and = have met a man whom I like very much and whom I am sure loves me greatly. Just the othei’ evening he asked me to marry him. I live.away fromi .

who would not be interested anyway as we had some trouble and I left home at the age of 17. Tam not = sure that I love this man enough to become his wife, ~ but I believe that it would be the best thing for me

give me advice as this is a very important matter in my life. : BEATRICE. |

Answer—I don’t believe that anyone can help you much in such a personal decision. I do not know what your goal in life is. If romance means a great deal. . to you and you marry only because you want to res ° tire from the struggle of earning a living, in later life you may feel that you've been gypped. , .- I receive many letters from unhappy women who, . say, “I married for a home. I was never in love with ‘my husband and now I have met someone else.” I know you want to avoid this situation, but I cannot look into the future and foretell whether it would | come to you or not. am On the other hand, some girls do not require chills and fever as a basis for marriage and can live quite happily with a man whom they like and respect even — though they were not madly in love in the beginning. Sometimes romance is more of a hindrance than an

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man she marries and her awakening is apt to be 5

painful. : ; Don't force yourself to marry because intellectually = it sounds like a good proposition. If you feel any instinctive recoil whatsoever you'd better respect ite To marry for support alone just isn’t a sufficient; rea~" son for a marriage. You must feel that you wouldenjoy living with the man and be prepared to make a

contribution to the marriage yourself. : ” 8

# YEAR JANE JCRDaN—Why don’t you advise girls‘, against marrying without being in love? Many. a woman is accused of being an iceberg when the’ truth is she can’t warm up to the man who picked her out, scared all competitors away, and whom she finally married because it seemed the right thing todo, Even if a woman does stick it out and make a goodie | wife and mother, this is one of the reasons why wontsgr en clutter up doctor's offices when they reach the ; of 35 or 40. They think they are sick; the doctor thinks they are neurotic, when all that is the matter

with them is that they are unhappy.

For the benefit of the public such women have to. - pretend that they are happy, pretend they are in lover. with their husbands (how I envy those who are). Some of the best actresses of today are the plain Mrs, Joneses and Mrs. Smiths pretending even to themselv that they are really sick when they are only hearts sick. A PRETENDER.

Answer—I have used a part of this letter for wha it may contain in the way of help for Beatrice.” JANE JORDAN. _ anal Jour wroblems in 3 Jstier to Jans Jordan, wie WAYS

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the Tarkington play. There wasn’t any Mrs, James ii * o

my home and so cannot ask the advice of my parents

as I do not have a very good job. Would you please :

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