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Peruvian City Calm and Quiet Now, But It Was Only Five Years Ago That 3500 Died There in Massacre.

: TRUJILLO, Peru, Nov. 10.—Every time we are left alone, we look frantically

“We leap from one English-speaking person to another. It isn’t easy to get by down

here without Spanish, as it is in Mexico. ‘Tonight we have no ordinary pick-me-up to do our Spanish speaking. He is Senor Gonzalo Valdumbide, _ Ecuador’s minister to Peru. Minister Zaldumbide is

modest and very quiet, and so gentle it soothes your nerves. Before dinner, he suggested we walk around town. It was just after dark. We walked up and down the narrow streets. Every now and then the Minister would stop somebody. He was asking what there was to see. He asked two well-dressed boys standing on a street corner, They walked up the street a block, took us through an archway, back into the patio of a beautiful home, and took us inside. It was an aristocratic old home, from the early Spanish days. The furniture was uncomfortable but very rich, and there was lots of it, like you see in an antique shop. Chandeliers of Intricate crystal hung from the ceiling. Great old pictures of grandees hung in gilded oval frames. There was room after room. We thanked the boys and left. — Another time we edged through a half-opened huge wooden door. We came out into an immense patio behind. Three figures approached in the semidarkness. The Minister spoke. The men stopped, and one of them talked at length. We were in, of all places, the patio of the District Supreme Court Building. It was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. The men stayed with us for 10 minutes, and had the patio lights turned on so we could see. “The people all seem so nice here, don't they?” said the Minister. Yes, they do. Never have I been in such a quiet city as Trujillo. Autos go easily and quietly. The people look well off. The sidewalks and the cobblestones are worn to a shiny surface. Everything is sleek and clean.

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So peaceful, so clean, so gentle and quiet. And yet you never can tell. For—it was right here in Trujillo, five years ago, that Peru had one of its worst massacres. Trujillo is headquarters for the Apristas, the leftwing political movement. I don’t know what hap-

pened, but there was slaughter, and 3500 corpses were

left to tell the tale. - Maybe that is the reason everything is so quiet now. : The hotel here is nice. But you would never know it is a hotel. It is built of stone, flush with the sidewalk, and there isn’t even a hotel sign. You go in through a long hall, and into a little room where there is a writing desk. There you sign up. There is no lobby; no hotel desk. “Quiero un caarto con dos camas y bano.” The Mini€ter doesn’t even have to order my room for me. Am I getting good! ] Our room has something I've never seen before. It’s sort of combination stand and tailor’s dummy at the foot of each bed. It sits on a square base. Just above the base are two forms, upon which you put your shoes. About hip-high is a triangular shelf, to lay your money and keys on. One side of the shelf has a slit in it, and here you hang your pants. And extending above the shelf is a wooden pair of form-fitting shoulders, over which you hang your coat. There is.not a sound in this whole city as we go to bed. . The room is cold, but there are plenty of blankets. It is an odd thing to be spending the night in a place called Trujillo, Peru. Sometimes I wonder what the world is coming to.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Republican Gains Good for Country; Welcome Awaits King and Queen.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Wednesday—I reached my destination on election day and, as we waited to hear the returns Tuesday night, I was increasingly glad that I had not stayed away. It was ‘a temptation, however, to stay with my children and trust to luck that I might be able to get through on Monday night. It is heartening to find that Senator Wagner with his very fine record, came through with such a good vote. It is impossible to analyze or to understand the reason why one person was elected here and another defeated there, so soon after the election, but I think it is a healthy thing not to have the country. represented too predominately by either party, for it puts both on their mettle. On the whole, I think it is as easy to put through a well thought out program when the two major parties are more nearly equally represented in Congress. The other big piece of news, which I know will interest people from one end of the country to the other is the fact that the King and Queen of England are coming to visit Canada and will include a visit to the United States in their trip. We may not like pomp and ceremony and we may approve of democracy in our government and in our everyday lives, but

‘ there is a glamour for us about royalty in other

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nations. We have always been happy to welcome representatives of other lands to our shores. There will be, I think, a particular interest in King George _ and Queen Elizabeth who are greatly admired by

Pride in Our Hospitality

The fact that we have a curiosity about the rulers , of other nations and that we enjoy seeing them,

~ especially when they gepresent our English cousins,

- savors a little of the pride which a small boy feels in showing off his older brother. It sometimes seems to me that many of the European nations still look upon the United States as not quite grown up. We are grown up and in many ways we have outgrown our elders, just as the younger brother. frequently outdistances the elder whom he has admired and Jooked up to. He will still enjoy, however, saying, “Look at my older brother over there. He made the record for running the broad jump that stood for many years.” We have great pride in our hospitality in this country. We want to show what we have to offer

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nations and at hands in the spirit of lavish hospitality. We may not give gifts in quite the way which is customary in some other countries, but we do give an intangible outflow of cordiality to the guest who comes to us from foreign parts. We will be happy as a nation to receive this royal young couple. We may learn much from con- . tact with them, and many of us who do not feel " close to the problems of Europe may attain a better understanding and a more sympathetic attitude because of this visit. We will hope that the King and Queen will carry away with them a realization that the people of the United States have in their hearts

J good will and kindliness toward the rest of the world.

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Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 10.—Out here there is a H swanky golf course where most of the members are millionaires. It costs a young fortune to join it and you have to use a caddy. Right across the fence is another golf course where you pay $5 a month and carry your own bags. The rich men play silently with scowls on their faces and it’s easy to see that the boys across the fence are havin’ all the fun. I think Grandpa Snazzy hit the nail on the head

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tary, a butler, a laundress, a manager and a cook. A poor man jest gits married!” IL

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Second Section

(Last of a Series)

By Sutherland Denlinger Times Special Writer WW ASHIN GTON, Nov. 10. —America goes to war. The nature and circumstances of that war have been prearranged by a little group of officers in the Munitions Building here at Washington. There is, however, no occasion for alarm (at least not yet). This has been happening every year for a decade and a half, as the annual course of the Army Industrial College

nears its close. It is a war game, but a different sort of war game from those played at the better known War College. There the games are games of personnel, or mobilized manpower and its use in the field, of strategy and tactics. At the Industrial College, which occupies a wing in the sprawling Munitions Building, the problem involves mobilization and control of civilian industry, regimentation of the nation’s economic resources, creation, in so far as it is possible within the framework of democracy, and only “for the duration,” of a totalitarian state. That is the beginning. As the problem develops, according to its preconceived course, some twoscore officers, most from the supply branches, a few, indeed, from Navy and Marine Corps, steer the nation through the complexities incident to modern conflict. A student assumes the role of President. Another is Secretary of War. Others are allotted to various essential posts—executive and administrative. Labor, industry, fuel, power, transportation, food, prices, all must be regimented. America’s 140,000,000 must be forged into a single weapon, and that weapon, its cutting edge the armed forces, wielded, repaired, tempered, directed in such a manner as to assure victory. 2 2 ERE is a conflict, not of regiments, divisions, corps, armies, but a mimic struggle in which the pawns are raw materials and factory outputs, carloadings and ship tonnages. In this war a bill (there are a number of them, ready made, in the appendix to the existing industrial mobilization plan) may be as valuable as a billion bullets. Through legislation comes control, and control is vital.

In this war one might, for instance, score by curtailing the use of electric power for domestic purposes, by adding “lightless nights” to the last war’s meatiess days (the lightless nights may come for another reason, too, but that, in addition to being sadly obvious, is

Side Glances—By

Preparing to mobilize American industry i Above is a typical view of one of the college committees at work. This one, Maj. F. P. Shaw, Capt. D. W. Hauseman, Maj. G. D. Wahl, Comm. E. R. Photo top right shows a view of the college library. At top left,

lege. industry, includes, left to right:

Horning, U. S. N,, and Capt. J. A. Weeks. is an AA battery of the 62d Coast Artillery firing a 30-caliber Browning,

beside the question here). A measure, perhaps, contributing to the effective mobilization of public opinion on an issue arising out of the problem could be the equivalent of ground gained in a paper war of personnel. “It all ends up,” explained a member of the planning branch, who was himself a graduate of the college, “with a critique of the problem, just as all personnel war games end with a critique. : “There’s a general review of the problem. They discuss how well the, President played his part in the mobilization, and afterward they take up the decisions and analyze them; they go right down the line; attempt to determine the proper course of each individual - in each key position, under the terms of the assumed emergency.” . ” 8 8 : CTUAL classes deviate somewhat from the allotment. This year's class, for example,’ numbers - 48; contains only six naval officers. All instructors are graduates of the Industrial College; a number also are graduates

of the Harvard Graduate School of Business "Administration or of the War College. : The course, divided into four parts (Business Administration, Procurement Plans, Industrial Mobilization plans, a thesis on “Utilization of War Resources”) is intensive and difficult. “When a man comes in here,” said one officer, “his wife says goodby to him. He does three year’s work in one.” The year begins in mid-Septem-ber with a review course in business economics — statistics, accounting. finance. Follows a study of basic industries—chemical, iron, steel, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, automotive, etc. Then a series of problems based upon this study, problems involving containers, construction, nonferrous metals, aeronautics, or whatever. And just before the Christmas holidays the class is passing from a historical review of World War experience to the organization of the Army and Navy for procurement. After CHristmas the officers, in the words of a graduate, “dig into committee problems. They take up war problems of the present, and price control, snd war contract procedure; ships, shipbuild-

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ing, and the control of production. : “Then they follow up with a test of the Protective Mobilization Plan. This is something brand new. It was turned over to the Industrial and War Colleges for test. Its purpose is to bring the mobilization of manpower into line with the requirements of industry. “It presupposes a three to six months period of ‘tooling up’ in the mass production industries, and hence assumes the need for a protective force highly equipped, to hold off the enemy until the ‘tooling up’ process is completed.” After the mass production industries examinations there is a Teusw of government organizaions.

“Including,” my informant re- °

marked (dispassionately, to be

sure) “the New Deal.” These times, bad for the world, are good for the Army. Gratified as the Army is, however, with such windfalls as che added appropriations which make possible the present antiaircraft program, it is ever aware of the need for continuity in preparedness. Rep. J. Joseph Smith, of the House Military Affairs Committee, expressed it this way: “A few years ago you could put nothing through (the Congress). Now you could put anything through (this was during the recent European crisis). But you must always, and in spite of fluctuating opinion, keep certain of your ability to produce in a time of emergency.” - It is the need for that certainty which creates the link between the Army and American industry.

t 4 8 2 “yg AST summer, if we had pooled { equipment of our 10 National Guard antiaircraft regiments (it is Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, speaking) we would not have had enough to equip completely one

of them for combat. We had only four regiments of antiaircraft artillery in the regular army. We need 24 mobile regiments, with necessery equipment.” The equipment is on its way, but it will take 20 months to provide for regiments. . “We couldn’t possibly get it—

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n case of war is the principal job of the Army Industrial Col-

studying the petroleum

even in the event of war—in less than eight or nine months under

any kind of system,” said Rep.

Smith. “We simply are not equipped to turn it out.” Of $7,258255 in procurement contracts let recently, a good part went to firms prepared to make such items as mounts for antiaircraft guns (among them a Pennsylvania safe and lock company) and height finders (a Rochester optical firm). Also on the educational orders program for this year, next in priority to the new semiautomatic rifle, are recoil mechanisms for the three-inch AAs (manufacturers of printing presses or sewing machines might make these, with a

minimum of conversion and “ed-

ucation”). There is every prospect that this process will continue, and reason to believe that the War Department may ask the next Congress for as much as $142,000,000 for the immediate purchase of mobilization supplies.

The new three-inch AAs are vastly efficient weapons as, for that matter, are the new 37 mm. antitank guns and the semiautomatic rifle. It is purely a matter of getting them ready for those troops who in the first six months of war and while the industrial machinery is getting under way, will bear the full weight of national defense (such is the plan). That the antiaircraft material is not available may not be altogether the fault of economyminded legislators. Rep. Smith, exposed to military knowledge by virtue of his position on the House Military Affairs Committee, hazarded as much. 2 2 2 “ FTER the war,” he remarked, “many military men could see no future in artillery defense against air attack because it had functioned so poorly in France. And so, though successful experiments continued, few units were equipped. Then came the Spanish conflict to prove that modern guns, with modern director equipment, were extraordinarily effective.” There are, as many experts have pointed out, certain advantages to be gained by the creation of prototypes, together with the ‘dies, jigs

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and so forth for their manufacture, rather than accumulating material which becomes rapidly obsolescent, or deteriorates with storage. The Navy, always on the alert, always mobilized, has no such choice; ' the proper answer would seem to be the compromise betweeri material on hand and preparedness for large-scale manufacture at which our Army seeks to arrive. In allocating the educational orders soon to go out, the War Department will circularize only a selected list of manufacturers. It is not obligated to accept the low bid. Should an arms manufacturing company, for example, bid on the semiautomatic rifle (which it probably would not, under the circumstances) the bid probably would be rejected for, perhaps, that of a firm customarily making typewriters. “It would be a waste to get bids from other firms than those we are interested in,” said an officer in the planning branch. Small though the educational order will be, it will be enough to set up a line of production in specific plants, train a nucleus of personnel and—of primary importance—bring into being the machine’ tools necessary to manufacture. ” ” ”

HE existing educational program, the Army frankly admits, is only a fraction of what is needed. w =o Ture “It is impossible,” I was told in the planning branch, “to estimate what would be enough for a real program until we see how ‘this

works out. As a test, it is adequate. In the meantime we have a good fat ordinary appropriation for the first time in years and— who knows?—what with wars and the rumors of wars, we may have more next year.” America, admittedly, is not prepared for war. The nation is so constituted that it is perhaps questionable whether, in the sense of immediate readiness for largescale conflict, she ever will be. The industrial mobilization plans are, fundamentally, an effort to prepare against that unpreparedness, to narrow the time gap between unreadiness and efficient striking power. Without question another war would bring regimentation on a scale never before known in these United States. And yet it must be remembered that wars always have imposed the sternest of discipline; it is different today only in that the discipfine—and the hazards—are not confined to the armies in the field. The hazards now are shared by the workers in the rear and also—grimmest truth of all—by the women and the children. The struggle against which we prepare, to quote again the words of Secretary of War Woodring, is «a struggle in which -each side strives to bring to bear against the enemy the co-ordinated power of every individual and every economic resource at its command. The conflict extends from the soldier in the most forward lines to the humblest citizen in the remotest hamlet in the rear.”

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1—In what year did the “Little Steel” strike occur? 9—Are pythons poisonous? 3—For what college degree does “Mus B” stand?

4—_For whom was the month of -

March named? 5—Near the entrance of which gulf is Cape Breton Island? 6—In dry measure, how many pints are in a peck? 7—Where is the Yser Canal? 8—Do both sexes of mosquitoes bite? 8 ® 8

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11937. 2—They have no poison fangs,

but are powerful constricting

snakes. ; 3—Bachelor of Music. 4—Mars, Roman god of war. 5—Gulf of St. Lawrence. 6—Sixteen. 7—Belgium. : ? 8—Only the female has a proboscis fitted for biting and bloodsucking.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Riley: Posed for Nine Portraits; Brandt Steele Knows Because His Father Did Five, the First in 1878.

OU’LL.be surprised to learn the number of times James Whitcomb Riley had his portrait painted. Brandt Steele, who has kept count, says he knows of nine portraits, five of which were done by his father, Theo-

dore C. Steele. Pere Steele painted his first portrait of Mr. Riley as far back as 1878. That was in the days when the Steele family lived on the upper floor of the building

now occupied by the Strauss people. Mr. Lyman S. Ayres ran a dry goods store on the ground floor at the time. Brandt remembers that Mr. Riley told stories for the benefit of the Steele kids all the time he had his picture painted, and that his father had to stop work every few minutes to participate in the laughter. The first portrait of Mr. Riley is still in existence, in the possession of the Riley family as a matter Mr, of fact. Mr. Steele’s second portrait of Mr. Riley was a crayon sketch, the whereabouts of which is unknown. Lost or mislaid are also the Riley portraits by John Love, Fred Hetherington and John Nocilai, all of which were made sometime around 1878. After that, Mr. Steele went to Europe taking the whole family with him which accounts for the fact that he didn’t get around to Mr. Riley again until 1893. The 1893 portrait is by all odds Mr. Steele's greatest picture of the poet. . Like his first two portraits, it, too, was a labor of love, and as such he presented it to

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} the Indianapolis Press Club. The Press Club spent

$40 for a frame and had the picture hanging on its walls until 1902 when the club disbanded: Sure, on account of financial difficulties. For safekeeping the picture was taken to the Journal office. Apparently, the picture was considered as part of the Journal's assets because when that paper was sold to the Star, the Riley portrait went along, too. In 1907, George C. Hitt talked the Star people into letting the Indianapolis Literary Club have it, and that’s where the picture is hanging today.

That Sargent Portrait

‘The next portrait—the seventh, by the way—was the one the Bobbs-Merrill people commissioned Mr. Steele to paint. They still have it, and they're holding on to it mighty tight, you bet. After that came the famous portrait painted by John Singer Sargent. It’s quite a story, too. Seems that sometime around 1900 Mr. Riley gave a performance at English’s for the benefit of the John Herron Institute. After all expenses were paid, they had $1500 left. This amount was dangled in front of Mr. Sargent in the hope that he would bite. To the surprise of everybody that’s just what he did, despite the fact that Mr. Sargent was charging (and getting) $5000 for a portrait at the time. . : ; In the spring of 1903, Mr. Riley went East and sat for Mr. Sargent. Exhibited in Indianapolis in the fall of that year, the Sargent portrait split the town in two—one faction holding that it was a magnificent piece of work; the other, led by Louis Gibson, who pronounced it “a distinguished failure.” Which brings us to the last portrait, the one Mr. John C. Shaffer commissioned Mr. Steele to paint. By this time it was 1912, too late for Mr. Riley to pose. Mr. Steele got around il, however, and made a copy of the famous 1893 portrait, and that’s the one now .. banging in the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for C en. . :

Jane Jordan—

Discouraged Businessman Is Urged To Shake Gloom, Fight for Success.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young man ready to give up hope. I have had everything I cared to have all my life. I come from .a very respectable family. My father gave me a start in business when I was but 17. I have tried three different times and failed all but this. last time. But now I am beginning to slip. It all begins and ends with a girl. I want to get away from all girls but it seems useless. I keep telling myself that girls and business won't mix, but in the end I lose. What must I do? Your advice certainly will be appreciated. A SAP.

Answer—What do you mean when you say girls and business don’t mix? Thousands of men have made an adjustment to both. They are able to make themselves useful in business during business hours and to enjoy the companionship of women during their leisure hours. Neither interferes with the other. Your trouble lies in your approach to life. Some people make an attack and some beat a retreat. You are a retreater. When things don’t go to suit you you want to quit. When one girl upsets you, you want to get away from all of them. You are a giver-upper and that’s what's wrong with you. It is time for you to turn over a new leaf and accept the responsibilty for your own existence. » » ® NEAR JANE JORDAN—I am 26 and single. I love a married woman older than I am and she loves me. She hasn't left her husband because of her two small children. I have tried to forget her by going out with girls and avoiding seeing her but the unhappy feeling for her persists, and she is as unhappy as I am. What can I do to win her? I'm tired of waiting. A MAN IN LOVE.

Answer—I don’t know what you can do to win her nor whether you are able to carry the responsibilities - she represents if you did. After all the two children are more important than either you or she. She is considering their welfare whereas you are not. Have you faced what it means to bring up two children who have been torn from their father, or are you simply consumed by your own desires? i You say you have tried to forget her by going with single girls, but you didn’t give yourself time. A few dates are not sufficient to wipe out a strong emotional attachment to an unobtainable woman, but somewhere there is a girl whom you could love without all these complications. JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

N preparing MUSSOLINI IN THE MAKING (Houghton) Gaudens Megaro has at considerable risk to himself hunted out the suppressed Mussolini documents and from them and many personal inter=. views constructed the history of Mussolini the revo= lutionary Socialist, ignored in Fascist Italy. For the first time we have available the story of this man’s activities during the first 30 years of his life. We see him as a propagandist for socialism—not the «peformist” socialism, which he despised for its dependence upon parliamentary methods, but revolutionary socialism, which was prepared to meet vio= lence with violence and to gain power through force. A refugee from Italy in order to avoid compulsory military service, an advocate of internationalism as opposed to nationalism, a vituperative writer and speaker against religion, patriotism, capitalism—in this man it is difficult to see the present Fascist Du the great proponent of the State, of nationalism & militarism. The writer, however, discovers the con: tinuity of his career. In both phases of his life, he says, Mussolini has been the advocate of action, de spising democracy and democratic processes. And to him, both as Socialist’ and Fascigt, acting under compulsion of a “consuming ambition and lo power,” the tenets of the movements he has } Been mere * ie dh

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