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Meets a Great Disappointment Over Failure to Bag an Alligator; Dogs Get Cold Shoulder in Ecuador.

thought I might get me an alligator in Ecuador. on The tourist folders say you can hire a boat for a little trip on the Guayas River, take along a rifle, and in a few hours come back with an alligator or two. ty biggest wild game to date having been a rapbit, I had visions of myself standing on the shores of the Guayas, rifle in left elbow crook, right foot on dead alligator, while the cameras snapped all around. But it was not to be. I arrived a few years too late. They've shot them all. No matter what the tourist folders say, you cannot hire a boat and go out on the Guayas and shoot an alligator. If you want to make a two or three-day trip up the smaller rivers, you can, but that’s not for me. I'm a drawingroom alligator hunter. After my big disappointment, I went to a curio store where they had stuffed alligators hanging on the wall. You could buy a five-footer there for $6. But they had it painted red, and what would I do with a red, dead alligator? For 50 miles or so around Guayaquil, the jungle is full of banana and cacao plantations. Except they call them farms instead of plantations. : Most of them are owned by Ecuadoreans who live in town, and hire. managers to run them. Like the sugar plantations in Hawaii, the owners provide houses for their “Cholo” laborers. These houses are typically tropical. Built on stilts about six feet above the ground, walled with bamboo sticks, roofed with thatched grass or banana leaves. I asked an Ecuadorean why they built their houses

Mr. Pyle

He said it was largely because “Cholos” like to steal. and the houses are built up high so a family can get all its cows and pigs and chickens right under the floor, safe from thieves. And also, he said, because “Cholos” love the homey barnyard-odor as nearly in the dining room as they can get it. You know egret feathers. The long white plumes 4 that women used to wear on their hats. They are very expensive. Egrets are rare in the U. S., existing so far as I know only in the swampy Everglades jungles of Florida. _ But a couple of miles outside Guayaquil, you can see egrets by the hundreds. They sit in swampy clearings, or take wing in droves. They are snow white, and very graceful. It is also against the law here to kill them.

He Doesn’t Like the Dogs

The history of Mexico and South America fs similar. Both were conquered by Spanish conquistadors—Mexico by Cortez, the Andes by Pizarro. In both areas, the memory of the Conquistadors is hated. In all of Mexico (which loves its statues), there is not one single monument or statue to Cortez. But in Ecuador, there is a statue of Pizarro. A woman tourist saw it, and asked her Ecuadorean host why Ecuador had a statue to Pizarro, its conqueror. “Because,” he said, “our country even likes to honor-its own hypocrisy.” There is one thing in Ecuador that I don’t like. I've always had a deep respect for dogs; for their gallantry and pride. But I haven’t seen a single dog in Ecuador that appeared to have either of these qualities. The benighted packs that throng the streets give you a feeling somewhere between pity and loathing. They are thin and gaunt—and when you do see a fat one, it isn’t a healthy rotundity, but a bulging one, and you shrink and wonder upon what he has been feeding. He has an air of guilt.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Visits Son James in California; | Misses Grandchildren at Ft. Worth. |

7 N ROUTE TO WASHINGTON BY AIRLINE—I had a beautiful flight last Saturday from Seattle to San Francisco. It was sometimes cloudy with a soft white cushion of down under one wing of the plane, while on the other side pine covered mountains were plainly visible below us. Finally we had a clear view of Mt. Shasta snow capped and standing out alone far above the other peaks. I tried to forget how much I disliked saying goodby to my Seattle family and kept telling myself how lucky we are that we can keep see- | ing each other as often as we do. It is odd how hard it is to rationalize feeling. I was so concerned about the numerous appeals that came to me in Seattle that I forgot to mention that I received several letters which contained only kind messages. One inclosed a Christmas card, one a song for the President and others told of achievements which were good to hear about. In Portland, my friend, Congressman Nan Honeyman, came to the airport to see me. She is making a good fight in her district. In Admonton some delicious pears were brought to me and at another stop some flowers, so I felt very much spoiled by the kindly, cordial people of the West. It was about two hours drive from the San Francisco airport to the ranch where James is a guest. I was glad to find that his enforced holiday was doing him good, but he does not look or seem quite strong as yet. I arrived at the ranch after dark, and I must confess that it did not seem like any ranch I had ever seen before. A swimming pool forms the center of the | house, set in a garden court from which the rooms | open out. When I awoke in the morning, the sun was shining on the brown California hills, but all around the house was green surrounded by borders of flowers. I went out for a stroll before breakfast, was shown some adorable collie pups and discovered that, once away from the house, the place is a real cattle ranch run

over the golf course on this beautiful Sunday morning. In country like this, which is unencumbered by people, I always feel particularly grateful to the Almighty who made this world and who put us here to enjoy it for a time.

Misses Seeing Grandchildren

I flew out of San Francisco again about 6:30 p. m., had a smooth flight to Los Angeles and was | met there by a terrifying number of flashing bulbs | and wondered why I rated so much attention, until | I found out that Irene Rich was a fellow passenger | on her way to Washington to attend the unveiling | of her daughter’s beautiful monument to the nurses in the war. ’ A smooth flight to Ft. Worth, where my lessons in flexibility served me well. -Elliott and Ruth met me | and announced that if I expected to vote tomorrow, I must continue my flight straight through, for storms were on the way which would, in all probability, pre- ! vent my plane from flying through the night. I hated to give up seeing my grandchildren and Elliott’s radio studio and the addition to their ranch | house, but I must be home tomorrow if possible, so | here I am on the plane bound for Washington and a midnight train to New York. It is wonderful what | one can do with modern transportation facilities, | isn't it? I left last Wednesday morning from New

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OLLYWOOD, Nov. 8.—One of the most convincing books on crime I ever read was written by a criminal ‘who was doing a life term. I think the

perienced the evils of overindulgence, but I know a lot of people won’t agree with me. One day a lady walked into a newspaper office and told the editor she would love to speak to the beauty editor. The editor says, “Has she done you any good? Do you have confidence in her?” The lady says, “Oh, absolutely!” The editor says, “Well, then maybe you'd better not see her!” (Copyright, 1938) er

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Soldier of Company F, 116th Infantry, on Maneuvers,

(First of a Series)

By SUTHERLAND DENLINGER

Times Special Writer EW YORK, Nov. 8.—Almost any day now, in factories that have gone their more. or less placid way these many peacetime years, they will be setting up new lines

of production.

Plant managers will be poring over blue-

prints, orders for jigs and dies, for fixtures and gauges, will

go out to the tool companies.

A while longer and machine operators, schooled for the conversion, will watch unfamiliar objects emerge with each punch of the power press; there will be new products for shipping departments to expedite. Instead of

typewriters, a semiautomatic rifle; instead, perhaps, of printing presses, recoil mechanisms for anti-

aircraft guns. Manufacturers who never before filled a single peacetime military order will be devoting a part of their capacity to such production as ‘forging, 75 mm. shell; machining, 75 mm. shell; mask, gas;” and “searchlight, 60.” Such are the items on this year’s program, the first year's program, of what the War Department calls “educational orders.” None of these orders has yet gone out; despite stories to that effect; stories which had their basis in a confusion. Such orders as already have been given are. in the words of an amused officer. “about as educational as sending a bundle of washing to a Chinese laundryman.” Allocated to establishments already equipped for the work, they were a part of routine procurement, remarkable only as evidence that the Army, for once in funds, was trying to do something in a hurry about its great deficiency in antiaircraft equipment.

The “educational orders” which will be going out in a few weeks are quite another thing. To the layman the almost immediate prospects that a segment, even a small segment, . of American industry is beginning to turn plowshares into swords may be alarming, as alarming as it was to certain members of the House Military Affairs Committee, members from rural areas who were not too familiar with the problems

i of machine production.

These men, when it came to consideration of H. R. 6246, the so-cailed Smith Bill, which made the educational orders program possible, grew grave. A subcommittee held a closed meeting, the

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2 F course,” said some of the conferces, in effect, “this means that we are going to war, and_immediately. But if you need it, you need it.” The educational orders program does not mean war, although it does mean that the War Department, quite properly, is concerned with the possibility of war and with preparedness for war.

The Assistant Secretary of War, under the terms of the National Defense Act, is charged specifically with responsibility of “adequate provision for the mobilization of material and industrial organizations essential to wartime needs.”

The present assistant, Louis Johnson, wasn't exaggerating when he remarked: “I have made it my conscientious duty to carry out this mandate.”

The Assistant Secretary, however, did not start from scratch. Already in existence was the “Industrial Mobilization Plan,” a comprehensive document approved jointly by the Army and the Navy. It set up a program of procurement planning and a scheme for the “control of economic resources and the mobilization of industry in the event of war,” a scheme which includes the mobilization of public opinion. There existed also the Army Industrial College, started in 1924 to develop officers as familiar with the problems of wartime procurement and industrial mobilization as were graduates of the older War College with the problems surrounding mobilization and use of man-power,

Many graduates of this school to the planning branch of the Assistant Secretary's office, where cross-indexed files list some 10,000 American manufacturers allocated to the various supply branches for wartime procurement.

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T= problems which made the War Department realize the necessity for educational orders do not affect the Navy. The Navy, first line of defense, always has steam up and is in a continual state of mobilization.

Not so the Army. “If war should come tomorrow,” said Mr. Johnson, “The United States could put into the field, ready for immediate action (there’s the ‘rub’) fewer than 500,000 men; fewer than Argentina, fewer than Portugal, fewer than Greece, fewer than Sweden, fewer than any first-rate power and fewer than most secondary powers. . “Contrast our strength and our readiness for immediate striking action with Russia's 19,000,000, Italy’s 6,000,000, France's 6,000,000, Japan’s 2,000,000, Germany's 2,000,000 and the millions of the British Empire, and it becomes obvious that we cannot depend upon our standing forces alone to protect us in an emergency.

“Moreover we cannot afford io rush our 500.000 men into action at one time.” The Army would hope to put into the field at once 300,000 men “capable of resisting the first shock.” A month later a force of 500,000. At the end of four months 1,230,000 men in uniform. That is mobilized manpower. When one considers the necessity for implementing this manpower with munitions, the prospect becomes infinitely less encouraging. What are munitions? To Lieut. Col. L. A. Codd, editor of Army Ordnance, they are “anything but an umbrella.” They are, in other words, anything. which helps a soldier in the attainment of his objective. The course of American history was changed at Gettysburg because of a need for shoes. Of munitions of that sort—shoes and uniforms and canned foods and so forth—we would have enough. Of all ordinary supplies, enough to take care of the Army for approximately six. months. But of ammunition and of weapons, especially of weapons developed and perfected since the World War, we have not enough to give us striking power for a few months. Our small standing army

still carries the 1903 model Springfield instead of a semiautomatic rifle; we lack antiaircraft and long range guns; we have insufficient stores of gas masks; we are short of many other complex accoutrements of today’s soldier.

” ” ” T is significant that the man who fathered the Army's educational orders bill speaks in the House of Representatives, for an industrial district. The branch of the New Haven Railroad which climbs up the Naugatuck Valley from the Sound which serves towns whose raison d’etre is their factories. The Naugatuck itself, dammed or by-passed at various points, works for industry; the valley people flourish, or are poor, according to the demand for boots, clocks, brass fittings, forgings, tools and other products of the machine. J. Joseph Smith’s office is down the street. Here come Syrians who, classed as enemy aliens after World War service with our army because of “Turkish nationality” (they enlisted in the A. E. F. because they hated the Turks), received discharges without honor and are barred from citizenship. Lacking citizenship, they can’t work on Army or Navy procurement orders, although they are skilled toolmakers. They want Congress to do something. Mr. Smith, civilian spearhead of the flight which won the Army a chance to spend $2,000,000 a year for five years on educational orders (title to “gauges, dies, jigs, tools, fixtures and other special aids and appliances” to remain with the Government), was a reserve officer until he became a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, when he resigned.

” ” 2 «y MAY,” he commented, smiling, “have to try to get back in, one of these days.” A glance toward the window and he added: “This would be a bad place in time of war.” Rep. Smith said he was sorry the recent European crisis, if it had to come, had not arrived “a few years back.” It would have been easier to get legislation implementing the Army's procurement plans.

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“We're turning out 4000 to 5000 rifles a yéar up at Springfield Arsenal, and arranged additional procurement, but we need outside plants,” he said. “The machine tool lag,” Mr. Smith continued, “is the thing. That's the problem. The biggest difficulty with this type of legislation is to get Representatives from the farming districts to realize the time lag, the lapse of time between the order for special tools and the moment when they are delivered and you are ready to go to work with them. It was because American factories were tooled to produce the British Lee-Enfield rifle, you recalled, that American troops in France carried this piece into battle rather than the superior Springfield, a weapon to which

the Army returned after the war,:

when a suddenly dwarfed establishment made this move feasible. Representative Smith, continuing, surveyed the present: “Today,” he said, “an emergency would find us in appalling shape. There is a shortage of skilled toolmakers. It takes years to make a good toolmaker, and during the depression no apprentices were trained. Some of the men went to the Government arsenals at Springfield, Newport and Watertown. Waterbury used to make light artillery fuses, and brass casings for fixed ammunition, and primeis. They still make rotating bands for shells here, for the arsenals.” Mr. Smith thought, however, that the United States could produce far larger quantities of munitions in a new war than were produced during the last, and with the same number of men. The reason — vastly improved machines and improved shop practices. The educational orders will afford a partial test of this theory. The $2,000,000 a year authorized is not in Mr. Smith's opinion, enough, but, over the five-year period, may serve ‘tc make a start on some of the more critical items, get tools made and shop practices established.”

Next: Mobilizing Materials.

TEST YOUR ‘KNOWLEDGE

1—Of which country is “Rule Britannia” a national song? 9— Name the State flower of Iowa. : 3— With what sport is the name Marion Miley associated? 4—By whom was the Statue of Liberty presented to the United States?

5—-What is the name for the largest of the anthropoid apes? 5 6—Name the foreign Premier who recently was voted. full financial powers for his country to meet the emergency arising from the European crisis.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Hoosier Artists Improve Nature, Make Themselves Young and Purty = In Self-Portrait Exhibit at Herron,

0Y, you ought to go to the Herron Art Institute and have a look at the 30-odd (some very odd) paintings advertised as the “Indiana Artists’ Self-Portrait Exhibition.” It’s a scream, let alone its being an exhibi= tion. I've waited all my life for something like this to happen because I've always wondered what artists would do if left to themselves. Now I know. They try to make themselves look as : young and purty as possible. You won’t believe it, but take my word for it almost every artist on exhioition painted himself looking 10 years younger than he actually iS. At least that. ~ Take Simon Baus, for instance. Goodness knows Mr. Baus can’t hide his gray hairs any more, but notwithstanding he painted ‘himself wearing hair the color he had Mr, when he was a student of Otto ; Stark back in the old Manual Training High School, And don’t tell me I don’t know how long ago that was. I know better. It was every bit of 40 years ago, if you must know. : It was that way with almost every picture on the line. To look at Kurt Vonnegut’s portrait of hime self, you'd never guess he has a bald head, so cleverly did he use his brush to comb his hair. The truth of the matter is he hasn't any hair to comb. Harry Wood, to pick on another artist, ironed out all the wrinkles in his face. And except for the painted mustache he wears (which by the way is a big ime provement over the one he actually owns) his pice ture might pass for the one he had taken when he was a student at Pratt Institute or was it Cooper Union? It’s so long ago, I've forgotten. William Kaeser painted himself looking as young as the day he was married. Mrs. Kaeser doesn’t look a day older, either. I happen to know that because Mr. Kaeser was thoughtful enough to include his wife in the picture. He was the only one in the whole bunch who did, which is why I don’t know what the other artists think of their wives.

He Made Up for It, Though :

Gordon Mess went about it a little differently and didn’t try to fool me with the color of his hair, but : to make up for it, he gave himself a complexion more florid than the one he owns. It was pinker than a baby’s. Maybe that’s the purpose of an artist, to improve on nature. Search me, I don’t know. All I know is that it came as something of a surprise to learn that we had an artist among us who could improve en Mr. Mess’ complexion. : Even an artist as young as Connie Forsyth took things in her own hands and set the clock back a couple of years. I'll bet if I took the trouble to count the number of years the 30 artists deducted from their real ages it would amount to more than four centuries. The only artist who didn’t try to make himself look younger was Clifton Wheeler. He went to the other extreme and added 10 years to his load. As a matter of fact, to look at Mr. Wheeler's portrait of himself he looks old enough to be a grandfather,

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Jane Jordan—

Wife Must Make Own Decision on Whether to Return to Her Husband.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a married woman of 23. I have been married eight years and have a

parted six times and I haven’t lived with him for six: ; : months. Other women were the cause of our trouble,

My mother-in-law has the boy. My husband had a good job and made good money when we parted. Now he is working for $12 a week. After all this time he

any more. I have fallen in love with a boy two years younger than I am. I don’t think I can get along with my husband when I love someone else. My hus+ band has beaten me and caused me trouble all this summer. Now he says he will leave other women alone and make a home for me and the boy. This other man wants me to get a divorce and marry him, What would you do? . ' GOLDIE. ” » ” Answer—You are not describing the kind of recone ciliation between husband and wife which works. If both of you had found life apart fuller of problems than life together and were willing to consider your marriage a partnership to which each contributed something of value you might have a chance to make it work, but such is not the case. Not only would you return to the same old problems which six times resulted in a separation, but you have a new problem as well. Your heart is set upon another man. I doubt that you are capable of renouncing your own desires to make a home for your child, and your child is the only argument for perpetuating a marriage which is so obviously a mistake. A reconciliation under these circumstances would be of no benefit to anyone, not even te the boy. > I havé no idea whether or not your choice of & younger man will result in happiness for you or not, but as long as you think you're in love with him his image would stand between you and your husband as a continuous obstacle to success. Your husband would not keep his promise to leave other women alone if you were mooning over another man. I do not know what you should do. You will have to accept the respons sibility for your own decision.

” ”» ® | Dn JANE JORDAN—You had a column about an 18-year-old girl whose mother did not like her boy friend. Well, I am her boy friend. I don’t know why her mother dislikes me for I don’t go over to the house but-once a week. The girl cannot stay at home all her life and I don’t see why she can’ go out sometimes. The girl doesn’t argue with her 3 mother; in fact we do just as her mother wants us to do. I think her brother is the cause of it all. Now if you were in my shoes would you go ahead and go with the girl and keep on planning just as we have? JUST A BOY FRIEND. :

Answer: I can't answer because I don’t knew whether you consider the girl worth the trouble or not. If you do, go ahead. Are you the kind of boy who folds up under opposition, or do you redouble your efforts to overcome it? The young lady blamed her mother but said nothing about her brother. This throws new light on the problem. What is the matter with him? What has he to do with his mother's attitude? Tell me and perhaps I'll have some new

suggestions. : JANE JORDAN.

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

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