Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1938 — Page 9

agabond rom Indiana = Ernie Pyle

{ Flying Is Really Tough in Peru; One ey “ | Plane Hit Cow and Carried Animal «> | For 100 Miles on ls Landing Gear.

IMA, Peru, Nov. 14.—I've heard of a lot “of tough flying in the Biates, but I’ve never heard of anything that even ap- - proaches the almost outlandish feats of the planes of the Condor Peruana de Aviacion, run by Hughie Wells, an American. These Condors don’t just fly over the Andes. They ‘fly in them, among them, through them, and all around and about them. And they have a jungle run, too. They make landings and takeoffs at 14,000 feet high; they have fields where you land or take off in a circle. They have fields 10,000 feet high, yet pocketed by mountains rising another 10,000 {feet above them. They have a field that

the . pilot never sees until after he |.

has shut off his motors for the landing. They earry tigers, missionaries, gold, Indians, tractors, monkeys, soldiers and just plain people. They have flown, piece by piece, the entire equipment for new gold mines, ’ : into spots that could be reached in no other way, not even by mule. Naturally, there have been a good many crackups in the short career of Condor Peruana. Hardly any of the original structure of the planes that arrived here three and a half years ago remains. They look the same, but a constant rebuilding hd&s changed them until there is little of the original left. Time after time the planes have been rebuilt in some isolated mountain valley and flown out again six weeks after the crash. But nobody has been hurt. : . Just a few days ago, they had one of their weirdest accidents. It turned out happily, and is the talk of aviation people in Peru today. x At one field, a mile and a half high, the Condors have to take off up hill, go over a hump, and finish the take-off run downhill. Not only that, but they have to make an “L” turn in the middle. When the pilot starts his run, he can’t see the last half of the field. > _ Well, the other day when Pilot Abe Warner topped the hump, there were five cows and an Indian woman in front of him. ; . There was nothing he could do. Ye had too much speed to stop. He had 15 passengers aboard. He could only hope the animals would scatter at the last second.

25,000 Feet Up and No Oxygen

Four cows and the woman scattered. But the fifth cow didn’t. She went right through the propeller, and lodged on the landing gear strut, just back of the right wheel. Mr. Warner got the plane into the air It wasimpossible to go back and land there, as this is a field you have to slip up on from beneath. Sq he headed ‘far Moyobamba, 100 miles away. The cow went with them. They carried that cow, weighing 800 pounds, across 100 miles of Andes mountains. The cow fell off just as they were landing at Moyobamba. She fell right on the field. I have a picture of her in my pocketbook now, and an affidavit written on the back by the local prefect saying the incident is true. The Moyobambans later ate her. ; : I have talked with other pilots about the Condor flying, and they speak always with admiration. But they say that Mr. Wells and Mr. Warner are flying on borrowed -time. On the other hand, Mr. Wells says that their passenger flying is perfectly safe. Hs says they take chances with freight, but not with passengers. , Mr. Wells takes many of the trips himself, Mr. Warner the rest. On practically every flight, they have “fo go to at least 14,000 feet. Often they go to: 21,000 and 22,000 and Mr. Wells has been up to 25,000, and without oxygen, too. He doesn’t give the passengers oxygen. He says it burns your throat and lungs, and is bad for you. He says it’s better for the passengers just to pass out.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Weather Draws People Outdoors to Neglect of More Serious Matters.

LBANY, N. Y.,, Sunday.—The weather has been so glorieus I think everyone was delighted to

Mr. Pyle

have Armistice Day fall on Friday, so they could have |~

an extra day’s holiday. At the State College, where I spoke on Friday morning, I noticed that when the ‘announcement was made that there would be no - school that day, there was a general look of satisfaction on the faces of all the young people. A great many graduates had come back for the day and were standing at the back of the hall, and I could not help thinking that this spoke well for the relationship which had been established between the teachers and: : their pupils.

Afterward, in driving ever with the dean, Miss:

- Moreland, to Schenectady] I was impressed to have -her say quite naturally that she felt it was the natural

, “thing for young people to bring their troubles and

difficulties to their teachers after they had left school. It should be, but I doubt if it is! ’ We stopped at a very interesting crippled children’s hospital and school on/ the way to Union College, where I lunched with the New York State Deans Association. Dean Bradshaw of Chapel Hill, N. C,, gave a most interesting address stressing the point that education in this country must remain democratic. The president of the college recalled the . fact that my husband’s father had been one of the graduates of Union in the middle 1800s. Kk We left there about 3:30 and drove out to the county tuberculosis sanitarium so I could have a - glimpse of a young girl who has been there for some ~. time and who is gradually fighting her way back to © ‘health. Then we went to Albany for the closing hour - of the NYA conference of the advisory committee,

.Plans Two Days in Ohio

§ While there, I saw several friends, among them “Mrs. Frederick Stuart Greene, who always attends everything of real interest which is going on here. She seems to me a very excellent example of the way in which a woman who does not hold public office, can make herself an influence in the com- £ munity. In the years that I have been working in . this state, 1 can think of nothing here in Albany really worth while where she has not been an important factor. rere f : Yesterday and today have been spent catching up - on mail. Miss Thompson and I have not been idle, though yesterday was. too enticing not to be drawn out of doors now and then. Today is gray and I think zain or snow may be with us before fong. One of the things which happens to me is that I sometimes start a book, am much interested | and then have to lay it aside to read things which are really necessary. This was the case with Irene Kuhn's “Assigned to Adventure,” which I am just finishing, My daughter told me that she had enjoyed every word of it and I have found it equally delightful. Tomorrow we are off for Cincinnati and spend two days in Ohio.

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an air of freedom and recklessness about it that I don’t believe any other city in the world has. © % that move in here from the Middle West don’t under0 stand it at first, but finally youll see ’em right in the swing with everybody else. I was talkin’ to a fella the other day and he said “Back home I wouldn't have thought of givin’ my 18-year-old daughter a key to the front |door, but here, we've only been here in Hollywood six this mornin’ I gave her a key of her

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 14.—Hollywood has a i of |

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daughter,” and he says, “Well, it ain’t that so much

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additional members of the House.

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE

PUBLIC’OPINION

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The No. 1 issue in the new “middle-of-the-ro. Congress is likely to be the drive to amend the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Where does the American voter stand on the question? Here are the exclusive results of a nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion. Using the same methods, the Institute forecast the dimensions of the Republic"an gains in Tuesday’s elections. :

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP (Director, American Institute of Public Opinion) EW YORK, Nov. 14—With sharp Republican gains in Tuesday’s Congressional elections and with Republicans capturing such important states as Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, political observers are forecast-

ing a knocR-down-and-drag-out fight in the

new Congress over the Wagner Labor Act. The fight is indicated despite the re-elec-tion of Senator Robert F. Wagner in New York, who is the author of the measure. Just before : the election, the American Institute of Public Opinion reported a survey in New York which showed that Senator Wagner was certain of re-elegfion but that a - majority of New York State voters ith opinions on the Wagner act.

thought it was faulty and should be

revised. Today, the results of a nationwide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion, the second in six months, show a growing belief among rank and file voters throughout the country that the Wagner act should be revised.

Advocates of changes say that the New Deal’s No. 1 labor act is “too one-sided,” that it “favors labor too much at the expense of business,” and that “it encouraged sit-down strikes too often.” The Institute gave a cross-section of voters in all parts of theccountry a chance to vote on the question:

“Do you think the Wagner Labor Act should be revised, repealed or left unchanged?”

While there have been various proposed amendments, 52 per cent of those with opinions believe that some sort of revisions should be made, while only 30 per cent said the act should be left unchanged. The remainder of ‘the voters, representing the groups most hostile to the New Deal’s labor legislation, want the act repealed enirely. : : The following figures show how opinion has shifted since the Institute’s survey of last May:

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. . Revise Repeal changed MAY INSTITUTE SURVEY ..43% 19% 38% TODAY'S SURVEY : 15 3 ? ” ” ” : HE survey is another indication of the dramatic conservative trend in American public opinion, first indicated in Institute surveys almost two years ago, at

the time of the sit-down strikes and the announcement

of the Supreme Court plan. :

Before the election the Institute's Congressional sur-

vey foreshadowed the way this conservative trend would

be reflected in the vote for Congressmen. The Institute reported the Republicans would make their first gains since 1930, polling approximately 46 per cent of the major party vote and making a likely gain of 75 additional seats in Congress. : Unofficial returns indicate that the Republicdns polled about 47 per cent of the vote and elected 81

|. While the Wagner act directly affects the lives of

+ millions of workingmen and their employers, guaran-

teeing among other things the right of labor to organize and setting up a list of “fair labor standards” for employers, millions of other American voters are not directly affected by the act and have had little interest in it for the three years of its existence.

"In the Institute survey of last May more than half of the voters interviewed were undecided on the act, especially in the South and Middle West.

Today's survey shows that a large part of the public

* still remains apathetic or undecided, but that the num-

ber has dropped substantially since May. At the present time Republicans are slightly more “decided” than Democrats, upper income voters more ‘“decided” than middle and lower income voters, and so on. As the issue develops in Congress, however, the number of persons with opinions will undoubtedly rise still further. - # 8% a i INED up and ready to push for amendments when Congress ‘convenes next January are such business bodies#as the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. The American Federation of Labor, claiming the act works to the advantage of the C. I. O, is also calling for changes, while the New Deal's National Labor Relations Board and the C. I. O. are on record against any changes whatsoever. Throughout the United States the greatest demand for both revision and outright repeal comes from Republican voters. opinions today believe that the act needs to be amended. Many of them come from the South, with its conservative

views on labor, or reflect the official attitude of the A. F. of L, which is calling for procedural changes in

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938

One of the most bitter issues heading for discussion in the new Congress elected Tuesday is the question of amending the Wagner Labor Act. Business and employer groups, together with the American Federation of Labor, are calling for revisions in the act, while the New Deal’s Labor

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Wagner Act Revision Favored :

G. O. P. Gains Indicate Fight in Next Congress, Gallup Poll Shows

Board and the C. 1.0. have opposed revisions. A nation-wide Institute of Public Opinion survey : shows what the average American voter thinks about the act. : : y

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Times Readers Knew Result Prior to Poll

The following table shows how the election surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion, published in The Indianapolis Times, compare with the latest election results:

On Monday, Nov. 7 the e Institute Forecast— The first decline in the Democratic Congressional

vote since the mid-term elections of 1930 and the first: -increase for the Republicans, RESULT—Forecast confirmed. ® tJ 2 Democrats to receive 54 per cent of the total major party vote for Congressional candidates, Republicans to receive 46 per cent. v RESULT—Late figures indicate the Democrats received approximately 53 per cent, the Republicans about

47 per cent. 4 } 28 8

Republicans to gain at least 50 additional seats in

the House of Representatives, with the likeliest gain 75 seats. Taking the most likely Republican gain, the Institute estimated the new House would divide as follows: : : Democrats citeirnsnce oases 204 Republicans . ... 165 Third Parties ....... 6 RESULT—Republican gain of 81 seats with fol-

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“on State campaigns and that the Republicans stood

Chief Republican gains in Congressional seats to come in the industrial East and particularly in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and New Jersey. : : RESULT—Chief Republican Congressional gains in the East, especially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois and Indiana.

| That the Republican upturn would have an effect

to gain half a dozen of the most important ships at stake this year. ”

Also Before Election Institute Indicated—

| Governor Lehman leading Thomé4s E. Dewey for Governor of New York with 50.2 per cent of the vote. ! RESULT—Lehman elected with 50.7 per cent of the vote. : | Senator Wagner leading his Republican opponent. In final Institute tests Wagner received 55 per cent of the vote. TL | RESULT—Wagner elected with 55.4 per cent of the vote. “ ¥ New Dealer James M. Mead leading his Republican opponent for New York’s other Senate seat. ~ RESULT—Mead elected with 54.8 per cent of the vote. : :

governor-

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“Thirty-Dollars-Every-Thursday” losing by 2 to 1 in California.

RESULT—Plan’ defeated, 3 to 2.

pension plan’

follows: 7

Yet half of the Democratic voters who huve

the act without advocating any weakening of the law's general guarantees. The vote of Democrats and Republicans divide as

§ Leave Un- | Revise Repeal changed . Democrats .........:..50% 14% 36% Republicans ..58 30 12

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Members of labor unions interviewed throughout the °

country are almost evenly divided, the survey shows, between those who want the act revised and those who want it left unchanged.

N the East Central States—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan—which were the sgene of the automobile

In the Far West, scene of shipping and trucking tie-ups,

the vote averages 23 per cent: ! Leave Un-

Revise Repeal changed New England ..cceceee0 53% 19% 28% Middle Atlantic scessee. 52 17 31 East Central ..cceo00000 56 22 22 West Central ccecocesee 52 18 30 Southern ...ccoco0e000.0 61 ~~ 19 20 Western «.oceeecoscceses 53 23 24

| In the coming fight for changes in the Wagner act, well-to-do voters and those in the upper income group

‘generally will favor revisions or outright repeal, the sur-

vey shows. ; : x | Lower income groups, including persons on relief, will divide almost evenly between those who want some re-

visions and those who want none at all.

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer Lr

Second Presbyterian Church Gels Ready to Mark Centennial, So Henry Ward Beecher Offers Topic.

REGARD it as something of a duty to cor

{ Milner has left town. Nothing of the kind, | The reason you haven't seep much of him lately is because he’s pit busy getting. = ready for the hundredti anniversary of the founding of the Second Presbyterian Church.

You have no idea what that means.

supper, for one thing (next Thursday) and a. big sermon (next Sunday). Curiously enough, neither next Thursday nor next Sunday has anything to do with the founding of Dr. Milner’s church. The Second Presbyterian Church will be a hundred years old next Saturday, and” not a day earlier. Not a day later, either. Search me, I don't know whether bath night or something else keeps the = Second Presbyterian people from going to church on Saturday. - Besides the supper and the ser- : mon, Dr. Milner also has his hands full writing a story of his church tracing its history back to Henry Ward Beecher, its first pastor (1839-1847). It may surprise Mr. Milner to know that I've been doing the same thing, without anybody missing me. My story is different, however, ‘because I've cone fined my research to matters too trivial for.Dr. Mile ner to mention. For example: Henry Ward Beecher helped his wife wash the dishes and diapers all the time he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church (Source: “Law of a Household” by Mrs. }. Beech). . . . He got $800 a year for doing what Dr, | Milner does, and maybe it was even less. 16a At any rate, Mrs.. Beecher complained all the time she was here that her husband’s salary was only :1 $600 which wouldn’t have been so bad, she said, had he got it (Source: “From Dawn to Daylight” by Mrs. Beecher). . .. To help out, the Beechers took in three gentlemen boarders all of whom in due time became elders of Mr. Beecher’s church. (Source: Records of the Second Presbyterian Church.)

His Rhubarb Wine the Best

I also discovered that the Rev. Mr, Beecher made’ the best rhubarb wine of anybody around here, and that his secret consisted of pouring a bottle of brandy into every five gallons of rhubarb juice (Source: A ‘Beecher recipe in Farmer and Gardener). . . . That he rented two lots from Calvin Fletcher, where among other things, he raised the first caulifiower seen in Ine dianapolis (Source: Calvin Fletcher's Diary). . . . ‘That he drove Elijah Alford’s fast horses, the fastest in town, and beat everybody who challenged him to race. Later, after he left Indianapolis, ‘the Rev. Mr, Beecher told the rest of the world how to do it, (Source: “Driving Fast Horses Fast.”) My digging also revealed that the Rev. Mr. Beecher let his whiskers grow to impress his congregation. The girls of the Second Presbyterian Church just wouldn’t be impressed and he took the hint. (Source: Town talk at the time). . . . Revealing, too, is the fact that after a three-year stay in Indianapolis, Mrs. Beecher’s hair turned gray. She dyed it jet black and not until two weeks later did her husband get hep to what she was up to. (Source: Ditto.) : . Shucks, I've just started.

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Jane Jordan—

+ Self-Supporting Sisters Told to Live Alone if Home Life Is Unpleasant.

I HAVE a letter from three sisters who do not want the details of their problem published. Two work = | and help to support the third who is frail. Their = | problem is caused by unsympathetic parents who do / |

ing girls, but constantly expect more. Home life is made unpleasant by their constant criticism and dis | like of the girls’ friends. In spite of it all the girls love their parents and have a strong sense of duty toward them. : :

an opportunity to escape the situation and live a:une, They want to know if they would be justified in doing so. These girls are all of age. ; 2 8 = : ee 3 Answer—Any self-supporting child who becomes of age has a right to live his own life in his own way. It is not fair for parents to lean too heavily on their children or hold them at home when the children have an opportunity to do better elsewhere. Even whan home life is easy and pleasant it is still an advantage for the young to leave the nest and have a fling at independence. : Wise parents know this all too well. Where they | have the means to do so they send their children ° away to school so that they can learn how to get along with others outside the family circle. It is the task of each child to break his financial and emo‘tional dependence on the family. Those who are un= able to do so are handicapped seriously in the business . of life. ; / : The parents in this case are not destitute. The father is working and has no legitimate claim on the * daughters’ earnings. There are younger children to educate but if these two young ladies take the re=sponsibility of nursing one sister back to health, they

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strikes, the vote for repeal of the act reaches 22 per cent.

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have done more than their share toward the supe. port of the family. he In case this particular opportunity to break away does not. materialize, another will come. When it does, grasp it with courage. Once the break is made you'll hear less weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. In the meantime it is useless to argue with people who have prejudiced views. They can be con=vinced of nothing against their wills. But you can stand up for your rights. The more quietly you do so the more effective your attitude will be. Even &. very domineering parent will weaken before a firm, steady stand taken by a child who is well within his rights and who has the fortitude to take an ime movable stand against unjust parental control. eh JANE JORDAN.

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