Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1938 — Page 19

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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

“Lima Is Sprucing Up for Big *" Pan-American Parley on Dec. 9;

40 U. S. Delegates Are Expected.

IMA, Peru, Nov. 11.—If the big PanAmerican Conference which is to be held in'Lima starting Dec. 9, should by any chance make history, we can share in the glory. "For my topcoat carries a big splotch of

green paint on the shoulder, and That Girl's hat has a permanent blob of yellow on the brim, as a direct result of the impending conference. We got the paint splotches from walking under ladders in Lima. You can’t walk anywhere in Lima today without walking under ladders. Paint is flying, hammers pounding, spades flashing, brooms sweeping—all over Lima. Why, this city is practicallybeing rebuilt, to stretch the point a little. The coming conference is the biggest event of 1938 in South America. The nations of two continents will be represented.. Thousands of people will pour in. The U. S. delegation will number 40. For weeks the press associations have been shifting their men all over South America, to bulwark spots in order to release men to cover the Lima conference. The preparations being made are astounding. New buildings are going up, new streets and avenues being cut through, whole block-square plazas being remodeled, old trees are coming down, new trees going up; parks being overhauled. : A new Government Palace is going up. And dozens of less important buildings. And a new race track. Dozens of public buildings are being remodeled. We could see only one wing of the famous Inca Museum here, because all the rest was under repair. We went into the Senate and House chambers of the National Legislature. Both were in the throes of reconstruction. Floors. being retiled; new seats put in; everything cleaned. _ “When does the Senate meet?” I asked the man who was with us. “The Senate doesn't meet,” he said. any Senate.” For a minute I stopped in bewilderment. And then I remembered that under a dictatorship you don’t have any Senate. They're just repairing it for the looks. : The Hotel Boliver is adding two new stories, which will bring it to six. They've been working for a year, and things are about finished. This will add 200 rooms and theyre all reserved.

Sure of a Good Time

The delegates will find Lima a moderately charming city. It is clean, the architecture is tasteful and there are broad avenues and huge plazas. It is a city of around 350,000. There are no really high buildings; the tallest, I believe, being six stories. They will find the people well clad and apparently happy. They won't see very many picturesque Indians in mountain ponchos. They'll find few beggars. but they’ll be pestered to death by children and old women selling lottery tickets. They won’t find much night-club life, but they can go out to the suburb of Miraflores and get themselves a hot dog at an American stand. They will find that Lima, although a huge city, is a small town at heart, and full of gossip. They will find Miraflores one of the most tastefully architectured suburbs they ever laid eyes on. They will see private homes that make your mouth water, they are so ‘beautiful. They probably will be entertained by the cold bluebloods of Lima. Than which, they tell me, there is no whichet. Not even in Boston. And above all, they will be here when the clouds lift and the sun comes on and there is no immediate danger of freezing to death. Whether the delegates accomplish anything or not, I am sure that Lima will show them an exceedingly good time.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Mr. Pyle

“There isn’t

Politics Confusing, but Voters Seem To Put Highest Value on Sincerity.

YDE PARK, N. Y., Thursday.—As the smoke of the political battle clears away, particularly in my own state, there are one or two things which gave | me a tremendous sense of thankfulness. Had the voters given Senator Wagner a grudging indorsement, I should have felt sad, for few people have more constructive legislation to their credit. Though you may want to change items here and there, it seems to me

.no matter which party you belong to, there must be a feeling that Senator Wagner served unselfishly the causes in which he believed. Mrs. O'Day had given, as far as it lay in her power as a new member of Congress, unselfish service of the same type, and it is gratifying to find that she is also appreciated.

It is difficult, though, to understand some of the things which happened. For instance, in California, the amendment for which Mr. Downey stood was voted down, but Mr. Downey was elected. In North

Dakota, the amendment for a $40 pension-was passed, |

but its aushor was defeated.

There are probably reasons which people on the spot could give for such apparent inconsistencies, but I confess at long range they are a bit difficult to understand. The longer I watch politics, the more convinced I am that in the long run it is sincerity of purpose which the voters feel and trust. There are times when this, of course, does not completely explain a situation—as when some prejudice holds sway temporarily over the people ahd a number of them act under the impulse of that prejudice rather than as a result of their true thinking. However, I feel this is, as a rule, only a temporary thing with us.

Prejudices Result of Fears

Prejudices are always the results of fears, and so far we usually have discovered that our fears were just a bogey in the dark which we dreaded as children and which faded away in the light of better understanding and knowledge.

We have all of us enjoyed this heautiful weather. My husband has driven every one of us to see what is now really a finished house. Of course, he will do no furnishing until spring, but most of us are singing little paeans of joy, because for once there are really a number of things which he will find useful a Christmas and birthday presents. My mother-in-law has had one or two old friends staying with her. Last evening, Countess Gleichen, whom she has known since she was a little girl, arrived for a visit. As a young woman, the Countess was for some years a lady-in-waiting at Buckingham Palace. She came over here to visit her friends, their excellencies, the Governor General of Canada and - Lady Tweedsmuir, ’ She tells me that in Canada the Women’s Institutes, which are the counterpart of our farm woman's organizations, are growing very much in strength and that they are making every effort to attend the con- - ference of the rural women of the world in London next spring.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 11.—I guess a lot of my friends : are still wonderin’ why I didn’t go to London on my vacation as I planned it at first. It's jest simply because somebody told me that I would be hittin’ London right in the middle of their foggy season and it cared me. I jest get plum lost in a fog. I guess’ it’s because we don’t have ’éem much down home. My Uncle Sanky was depot agent when the first big fog rolled in there and the second day, when the superintendent called him from St. Louis, and asked him if the trains were running through there all right, Uncle Sanky says, “Yes, but where they're comIn’ from and where they're going and what they're _doing-here, I'll be durned if I know!” Siar

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What Has H

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1938

appened to Us?

Dictators Chal lenge Democracies 20 Years After Armistice

(First of a Series)

By Willis Thornton

NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WENTY years ago a weary, bloody world was staggering to the close of four years of World War. People were told it was the end of an era, the begin-

ning of a brave New World.

And it was the end of an era.

But the new era that

began then was not the world visioned by the muddy,

bloody men in the trenches.

Three million victims of 20 wars rot. in their graves

since the War to End War.

The League of Nations,

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world order of reason and peace, drifts like a leaky and abandoned ship. Democracy is on the defensive in a world which was never less safe for it. Everywhere the haunting fear of insecurity sends men swarming after strange causes, economic and political. Children born since 1918 have never known, may:

never know, the independence of Americans who used to say “Shucks! I can get

a job anywhere!” Force has become the prime criterion, and might makes right in international affairs. In personal affairs, the idea tha} the end justifies the means is more and more generally accepted. Nevertheless, ir the since “Cease Firing” sounded across Flanders Fields, a new world has arisen. Every country would seem a strange land to a man who died in that war, if he could come back and see it. In 20 years, the population of nearly every country has increased by millions. What to do with surplus population is the acute problem of every government. The United States alone has 130,000,000 people to contrast to the war-time 100,000,000. But while population has been increasing, the world itself _has been shrunk by man’s inventive genius. One can pick up a telephone and talk to a person on board a ship in midocean, or to a friend in Europe. Transcontinental and transoceanic airplane service has reduced journeys that formerly took weeks, to days. From New York to Rio is a mere five-day flight. San Francisco to Hongkong can be made in eight days. London to Darwin, Australia, in the same time.

20 years

2 2 ” HOLE new industries have arisen. As industrial factors, these things did not exist before 1918: Radio receivers, electric refrigerators, airplanes, color and candid cameras, talkies, house insulation, plastics, electric razors, rayon, home movies, air conditioning apparatus, photoelectric eyes, auto trailers, cellophane, zippers, electric clocks, shatterproof and polaroid glass, thousands of new metal alloys and chemical products, light diesel engines, soy beans and their in-

dustrial quick - frozen foods. Women have come into their own during that 20-year period. Before the World War, a woman earning her living at anything but teaching school was almost a curiosity. Today there are nearly 11,000,000 women wage-earners .in

products,

‘the United States, more than one

woman in five. And they vote. Before ‘the war they did not. There are more old people, fewer young people. Before the World

War there were about 4,000,000

Americans over 65 years old. In 1936 there were 7,500,000, and by 1960 it is expected that there will be 15,000,000. Great strides made in public health and disease prevention are partly responsible. Despite depression years, the people are healthier this year than at any time in history. ” ” ®

HE rush of oeople from farms to the cities has practically reversed itself in the United States. By 1935, for instance, 2,600,000 more people were farmers than in 1930. The growth of great cities, formerly taken as inevitable, has been checked. Faster transportation is causing such cities to spread out and spill over into suburbs and rural sections. The era of the great skyscrapers came to its peak, and many believe it has passed. But more important, the country has “grown up” mentally. People are bright and hard instead of mellow and sentimental. This course is traced by the transit from the Hesitation Waltz to the Shag, from May Irwin to Dwight Fiske. from “Way Down East” to “It Happened One Night.” from Romberg to Gershwin, from Puck to Ballyhoo, from O. Henry to Ernest Hemingway. The war left spiritual scars unhealed long after the physical wounds had knit. A great moral letdown swept across the world. In the United States it became apparent in the scandals of the Harding Administration. It was seen in 10 years of prohibition

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and the - violent corruption and cynical law avoidance. The racket era sprung from this root. It was seen in the Ku Klux Klan's bid for a secret, unofficial, terroristic Government, The day before Woodrow Wilson was to go before Congress in 1917 and ask that it declare a state of. war with Germany, he talked long and earnestly with Frank Cobb, editorial writer for the New York World.

In the agony of his decision, -

Mr. Wilson said these words, reported later by Mr. Cobb: “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a. thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the Courts, the policeman on the beat, the rman in the street.” The. thing President Wilson foresaw even as he made his decision for war has happened, not only to his own country, but to the world, 2 & =

HE men in khaki who grounded

their rifles at 11 o’clock in the ° ‘morning of a November day in

1918 knew pretty well what they had been fighting for. They were not schooled and glib of tongue. But they knew. A force of violence and oppression was loose in the world. It must be stopped by force. That was what they were doing, over there in the mud. Mr. Wilson had said, as he asked Congress to declare that war: - “But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy ...” Now 20 years have passed, and how fares democracy? Four days before the Armistice was signed, the brief Russian experiment in democracy was going up the spout. The Provisional Government, in overturning the Czar, had set up an effort at democracy. But it wobbled and fell into the outstretched hands of the Bolsheviks. Fighting armed invaders, wrestling internal strife and want, the Bolshevik Government won out in the face of adverse predictions. For 20 years it has developed along its own lines. Today opinion differs as to what it has become, but on one thing all agree: It is not Democracy as Americans use the term. Instead, it developed along a line which few before the World War had foreseen, a new idea of government. Germany and Italy were to.strike out similarly into the new idea of “totalitarianism.” In 1921 Italy seemed to be responding to the call of Russian Bolshevism for a socialist revolution. The country was rotten with corruption and inefficiency, badly bled by the war. Something had to happen. Russian emissaries

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tried to lead the Italian revolution down Bolshvik paths. But Benito Mussolini, long an agitator for international social-

ism and editor of the radical

“Avanti,” suddenly turned. Old radical associates say he took money from rich men and French agents. Mussolini always said he was saving Italy from the hands of alien Bolsheviks. At any rate, he changed. » » ”» RGANIZING his Fascist Party, he sent it on an armed march to Rome, seized control of the Government, and began a rule by his Fascist Party. He left the monarchy theoretically intact, but practically a figurehead. A similar thing was happening in Germany, though it took longer. There a republic also rose from the wreckage of the Hohenzollern monarchy. It suppressed the Communist “Spartacist” rebellion with stern force. It put down monarchist putsches. It struggled on for 15 years amid the deepening gloom of chronic depression, money inflation and internal division. Then Adolf Hitler, Austrian war veteran, who had been slowly building his National Socialist Party, suddenly got his chance. With the country divided into a dozen discordant parties, his

united group, while not a majority,

was still the largest and best-knit faction. And power passed to him and his Nazis almost without a struggle. :

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democracy, and the beginning of “totalitarianism” there. Portugal and Japan have taken the same road. Democratic republics had no better luck. Poland has practically abandoned popular government in the American sense. The Austrian republic, split by internal dissension, fell . into dictatorial ways and slid with a sigh into the hands of Hitler. Czechoslovakia was dismembered, reduced to a satellite of Germany. The Spanish republic split from within and was reduced to a practice ground for future wars. The Chinese republic, never well-in-tegrated, is on the ropes before the Japanese invaders. Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, never really democratic, now incline toward the totalitarian system. Twenty years after the World War, “totalitarianism” has democracy on the defensive. And the democracies are faced with the problem of how to adjust their economic affairs so that all may eat and be secure, without sacrificing the freedom, the personal dignity, the individual living of their citizens. : So, 20 years after the Armistice, the world boils and surges with those conflicts within countries, and between countries.

NEXT—The new order in inter-

national diplomacy—“Power Politics.”

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in the development of a method to warn their pilots of approaching obstacles.

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tributions in years to safer flight— the absolute altimeter which ghows

height above the ground rather than height above sea level and thus warns a pilot of obstacles— kicked around inside the heads of scientists .and engineers for years because radio equipment that could make it work did not exist. The patent, No. 2,045,072, covering the absolute altimeter which, if it works as it gives promise of today, will do more for safe flying than any other single development under way today, was granted to Lloyd Espenscheid of Kew Gardens, L. I, on June 23, 1936. But the original application for a patent to protect the idea on which it is based was made more than eight years ago, on April 29, 1930, it was learned. The patent was assigned

to the American Telephone & Tele-

graph Co. :

Actual development work on the

device did not begin until January, 1937, when Peter C. Sandretto, communications engineer of United Air Lines, approached the telephone

AD the airlines had such a device, a survey of accidents during the last few years shows, more than half the disasters that have marred the record of American aviation would not have occurred. Reason for the delay—between

1930 and 1937—Ilies in the fact that the new altimeter uses ultra high frequency radio waves. Transmitting equipment for these-~ very short radio waves has been developed only recently, A 500-megacycle radio wave is transmitted from a small T-shaped antenna on the underside of the right wing. On this wave is impressed an 80-cycle audio frequency wave. This combined wave is sent earthward and is reflected by the earth back to the plane, where it is picked up by a similar antenna under the left wing. ? A portion of the transmitter’s output goes directly to the receiving antenna. The device essentially counts the number of 80-cycle beats occurring between the time the di-

the reflected wave is received.

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TEST YOUR" KNOWLEDGE

1—What majority is required when the Senate confirms the appointment of Justices to the U. S. Supreme Court?

2—What horse won "the 1938 Kentucky Derby?

3—Was Maine one of the original 13 States?

4—Name the capital of the French Colony of Algeria. 5—With what game is the shuttlecock generally associated? 6—Name the newly appointed French Minister to Italy. 7—In what country is the mausoleum, Taj Mahal, located? 8—How is 150 written in Roman numerals? é

» » » : Answers 1—A simple majority. 2—Lawrin, 3—No. . 4—Algiers. 5—Badminton. : 6—Andre Francois Poncet. 1—India. . 8—CL. - 8 » 8

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Have You Heard Latest Sevif A Story? Well, It Seems Some Oth Conductors Had Same Experiences

ASES without comment: Indianapolis has: a Venus Beauty Shoppe; what's more : ' Nu-Venus Beauty Salon. . . The Ayres. peo= ple are featuring “Shirred Eggs a Ja Geor Sand.” . . . There's a Book-A-Zine Shop 0! E. Washington St. . . . In the northeast part

of town three out of every dozen Negro babies, bl their little hearts, are baptized Shirley Temple. + & The reason the pavement at Pennsylvania and’ 21st Sts. won’t stay put is becapse the = ih old State. Ditch continues to run through that part of town; P. J. Ryan told me so. . .. Miss Sappho Zilch wears smoked glasses since she learned that a good bridge hand dilates the eye pupils... . : There’s the latest Sevitzky story, too. Chances are you've heard it, but even if you have you've only heard the beginning. The story: Wenn, Last year, for some reason or other, .Mr. Scherrer: Mr. Sevitzky had occasion to fire Te one of his musicians. That ended the rehearsal, Om his way out the discharged musician passed the dresse«. ing room where the conductor was sitting gloomily: hunched over a table. The musician stopped. “Nuts: to you, Sevitzky,” he bellowed. Mr. Sevitzky turned his tired head. “It’s too late to apologize,” he snapped, Well, as I said in the beginning, that’s only the start of the story. A month ago, on Oct.. 10, to. ba exact, Time ran a six-column feature article covering: every phase of the life and behavior of Sergei Kous=" sevitzky, and doggone if they didn't hang the same story on the conductor of the Boston Symphony. . Buf wait, there’s more to it. . iin g

Mr. Knopf Is Astonished "3

Last week Time ran a letter written by Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher. “I am astonished,” said ‘Mr, Knopf, “that Time should have fallen for an old and, I believe, authentic Toscanini story.” iE And certainly I would be ducking a duty to my’ readers if I failed to tell them about a book by Adrien: de Meeus I picked up in Paris last summer. It'S called “Amusante Amerique” and lives up to its Hie.

As far as I know the book hasn't been transla which is why I didn’t reach the chapter titled “In the Jungle of Marriage” until last night. If youll put up with the way I translate French, this is what Mr. Meeus says on page 203: is “The universities themselves attach the grea importance to the problem. One finds, for example, at Butler University a course on marriage designed. to solve the family problems of the married or to prepare people for marriage before their union. . The: professor in charge is Ch. R. Metzger, a one-time. lawyer, twice married, who has had a vast. expes’ rience in affairs of divorce.” A There's nothing like a trip to Paris to broade’s. a fellow, : sls

Jane Jordan—

Young Woman Urged Not to. Rush ~ Man Who Is Panicky on Marriage,

Dos JANE JORDAN—I am in my late twenti The man is older. Neither of us ever has bees: married but he had a tragic love affair years age and has a child whom he supports. The mother has married another man. Prior to our friendship he saw another girl every evening but they quarreled over me. About a year ago he told me that he loved me. When I mentioned the other girl who was de= voted to him, he told me that he was not in love with her and had tried to show her in a kind way that he didn’t want to see her. He said *he was afraid {6 see me often for fear he would be left hurt and. that I wouldn’t care for him. a I then told him that I cared for him, too. Since he told me that he loved me there have heen weeks when he would see me two or three times a wee and then for weeks I wouldn't see him at all. Occa=" sionally I have seen him with his former girl and. with other girls. He always seems glad to see me and enjoys each place we go, introduces me. to’ his. family and friends. He talks all around marriage but’ never says anything definite. If he does not intend to marry me I wish to quit seeing him and find’ somebody else. My friends say “rush” him for. a while but I have never done that before. It is -quite evident that he does not want to quit seeing -me, Shall I stop seeing him or let him see me occa= sionally with another man? He never has seen-me with anyone else and I am afraid since his faith. in women has been destroyed once he'd lose fajth in

me, too. Shall I call him often and sugges places. to go? NEEDING ADVICE. /~

Answer—My guess is that the man is panicky abouf marriage and wishes to avoid a deep emotional ex= perience which might lead to marriage. I think his record shows that he runs from the woman who he=. comes too much attached to him. His failure to marry the mother of his child and his efforts to rid himself of the girl he saw every evening at the time he met ou bear out this impression. = CNT y In view -of these facts, the last thing you should do is to “rush” him. If you did, I imagine he would. run. The most evasive bachelor will succumb at last to the woman who calms his fears about tying himself” down, but he seldom gives up without a struggle. : I cannot understand why you want to give up & pleasant friendship simply because the man Ww propose. I see no reason why you should give up all other men friénds for fear he might lose faith in ; You aren't responsible for his terrors about women -and should not appoint yourself as a committee of one to prove that some women can be faithful. You aren't bound to him by marriage or by betrothal. "Why shouldn’t you see other men? If you find someons who appeals to you more than he does, that :: bad luck. If he wishes fo ara such a loss, by signing on the do ne. ot Sooty un JANE JORDAN to Jane Jordan, who - ) amin J555 Ticelions in. Tals cofumtn duty ig

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

= Captaine discovered up a great river, 1 ing into the Maine . . . the beauty and goods. ness whereof I cannot-by relation sufficiently demons strate. . . . As we passed with a gentle wind up -witl§ our ship in this river, any man may conceive -with what admiration we all consented with joy....” Such was the enthusiasm of Cap. Waymouth’s scribe’ ai he recorded the discovery of the St. Georges River in June, 1605. - From this quotation Kenneth Reo (author of “Northwest Passage,” “Arundel,” etc.) gel

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MAINE (Little). And Mr. Roberts’ joy in Maine .eqt that of the scribe. Ea This grandson of Maine sea captains is steeped in‘ the state’s history and tradition. He takes you into & Maine kitchen, and, while you munch doughnuts the stove, he calls up old sea captains from the. who spin their yarns of sea serpents and meteor picked up hot in mandarins’ gardens. - You mare with Arnold’s starved and frozen army over the rou to Quebec in 1775. You view the millions upon of potatoes in Aroostook County. ‘You follow - No. 1, shutting your eyes to cheap billboards trailer camps; breathing deep of the pine scents see only the sequestered coves and unspoiled hark You view the deserted Passamaquoddy Tidal Project, and if you are inclined that way you add voice to the author's bitter indictment of the New: You go out with the oysterman in the gray his haul. And you join the auther of ty and common

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