Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1938 — Page 19

". Bob Burns Says—

‘From Indiana =Ernie Pyle

Villagers Declare Holiday . While Party ‘Waits - for Rescue Plane After Safety Landing in Peru.

ARICA, Chile, Nov. 18.—When we came down to a “safety landing” outside the little town of Camana in Peru, the whole town was half way out to the field by the time we touched the ground.

They came in auto trucks. They came on burros and ponies, riding two or three to an animal, their arms flying and clothes whipping like Arabs. They came running on foot, in solid droves. Pilot Byron Rickards got out and looked the motor over. One of the cylinder heads had cracked completely off, and was pushed up an inch or so above the rest of the cylinder. Even before we knew there was trouble, the pilots had talked 300 miles back to Lima by radio, and 100 miles ahead to Arequipa. All up and down the Panagra airway, men on the ground knew what was Fo happening even before we did. A spare plane was on the field Mr. Pyle = continental run from Buenos Aires. They would send it for us as quickly as they could get ready. | Fre We were on the desert sands of Camana for two _hours and a half. The local prefect brought out a whole crate of oranges, and we ate them. You would have thought the kids had never seen a North American before, although of course they had, for Camana isn’t that isolated. They were especially entranced by the two women. They stood in flocks around them, felt of their clothes, admired their bracelets, pushed and shoved each other for standing PACs right up against them. Two little girls, who were among the first ones there, ran clear back to town a mile away and came back again wearing hats. You should have seen them beam when the women complimented their hats. The pol told us the training they go through for just such emergencies as this. They have to take

. tests on one-engined landings, and even dead-stick

landings. They go through one test where a motor is switched joff just after they leave the ground on the take-off. |

A Delightful Reunion

So they were thoroughly trained. to do what they did. But just the same, the responsibility was great, and we could see that Capt. Rickards was tired. Last night he ate dinner early and was in bed by 9 o'clock. | i At long last the kids began shouting, “Avion! Avion!” and pointing. It was the other plane coming to pick us up: The prefect started blowing his cop’s ‘whistle, and got the sand cleared of kids and ponies. And now an odd coincidence came up. The other woman aboard our plane was Mrs. Frank Havelick. Her husband is a Panagra pilot, and they live in Buenos Aires. She had left South America last June, and flown clear to Hawaii. Five months away, and now she was going home. She was eager to get there, and see her husband after all these months. vy And then it turned out that who should be flying the plane to pick us up but her own hushand! She learned it by radio, shortly before he came in sight. The Havelick’s five-month separation came to an end in the midst of a delighted audience of 500 people. Mr. Havelick had brought mechanics, and jhe stayed with the damaged plane. We trapsferred our baggage, and our same crew flew us on. Once more we sat in the sky and looked down upon Camansa and the long white line of the Pacific surf. And the odd reaction was this—that instead ‘of leaving -us- jittery, theshappy ending ‘of our fittle adventure made us feel’ so smug, and eur confidénce in the pilots soared to such heights that we {felt wonderfully at ease in the air again. - We flew for three more hours that afternoon, and I don’t believe, I've ever felt so comfortable or enjoyed flying so much in my life.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Woman Editor Lauded for Courage; Visits Friend's One-Man Art Show.

N ROUTE TO WASHINGTON, Thursday.—We arrived in New York City yesterday afternoon and I went at once to see Mrs. William Brown Meloney. Here is a woman, who, in spite of months of illness, has managed to keep her guiding hand on the production of a weekly magazine, has given her thought to the arrangements of one of the best known forums in the country, has worked on a book and talked to innumerable people. Her spirit has remained an: outgoing spirit in spite of all the limitations of pain and weakness. There is something very stimulating in talking with this gallant woman. Some friends came to dine, then two hours spent visiting another friend left me catching up on mail until a rather late hour in the night. Our son, James, who has flown back from California for a few days, came to breakfast with me and I will find him in Washington tomorrow ‘morning. Eleven-thirty found me at the Symons Galleries to look at a one-man exhibition of paintings by Mr. Karl Larsson, who years ago painted up on the coast of Maine near our summer home at the island of Campo Bello and who taught winters in the school which our boys attended in New York. Some years later his wife, who is also an artist, illustrated two books which my daughter wrote called: ‘“Scamper” and *“Scamper’s Christmas.” I have not seen any of Mr. Larsson’s work for several years, so it was like discovering a stranger when I went into the gallery this: morning. He has come a long way since those early Maine days. Except for one or two water colors of New England, most of these pictures were done in Mexico during a four months’ trip. He is experimenting with different kinds of technique.

Historic Events in Capital

1 loved two pertraits of Mexican boys and a landscape with litte white Mexican burros coming down a winding road attracted me because of its decorative qualities. I have a feeling that anyone who buys one of his paintings today will have something they will enjoy living with, and I should not be surprised to see him develop further because his ability has increased so much these past few years. I had appointments with several people, a hasty lunch, packed my bags and was off on the 2:30 train fag=Wilmington, Del. Tonight I have a lecture in West Chester, Pa., and take the midnight train on to Washington. Historic things are happening in Washington this afternoon. Mr. Mackenzie King is spending the night at the White House and, since I have the pleasantest recollections of his last visit when I was at home, I am glad that I shall be there tomorrow to see him. I am also glad that these trade treaties are gradually going through and I hope that they will prove really helpful to all the countries involved. It is.true that people’s interests follow their financial investments and

* 0, perhaps these trade treaties with various countries

in the world will bring us all returns which are not “pxclusively economic. 3

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 18.—At almost any party you go to out here, you'll hear the people discussing the servant problem. Their greatest trouble seems to be in getting servants who are loyal. I never bothered about that myself because I always figgered that pret’ near anybody you get will be loyal to somebody. The other day an actress called her cook in and ys “Ella, I saw that grocery boy kiss you yesterday : I don’t want that to happen again!” The cook says “Oh, don’t blame that grocery boy—it Rin't his

“fault! The ice man set him a bad example!”

(Copyright, 1938)

at Arequipa, just mn from its trans- |:

‘Will Flare

In Congress

(First, of a Series) By David Dietz

Times Science Editor . HE long-smoldering bat- > tle over socialized medicine will flare to a whitehot climax when the U. S. Congress convenes in Janu-. ary. At that time the nation’s law givers will, undoubtedly, be asked to deal with the problem of national health and medical care. The fight will begin when Congress is asked to put into legislative form some portion—or all—of the report made by the Technical

Committee on Medical Care

to the National Health Conference held in Washington in July. This conference was called at the suggestion of President Roosevelt by Miss Josephine Roche, chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee to Co-ordinate Health and Welfare Activities. ” ” o The technical committee referred to is a subcommittee of -Miss Roche’s group and itsireport went to President Roosevelt be-

. fore it was made. public at the

Washington conference in July.

In its report, the committee made five recommendations, pointing out that any number desired could be, acted upon. The first thrée would extend Government activities in the medical field to the tune of $850,000,000 a year. The fourth, if adopted in its entirety, would change the form of medical practice so that every citizen would pay his medical bills through taxes, medical insurance, or a combination of the two. The fifth would set up an insurance scheme to protect every citizen from loss of wages through sickness. s ” =» # HE bitterness of the battle will depend upon how many of these proposals Congress is asked to act upon. The first will awaken least opposition. It will grow with the second and third, reaching its maximum in the - case of - the fourth. The fifth may encounter less opposition than the fourth. Lined up on one side of the battle will be the weight and prestige of the New Deal. On the other will be those forces generally opposed to the expansion of Government spending and to some extent the American Medical Association. Just how strong the opposition of the A. M. A. will be depends largely upon the form of the proposals put before Congress. At a meeting of ‘the House of Delegates, governing body of the A. M. A, in Chicago on Sept. 16-

17, that body showed a marked shift from its previous stand. The A. M. A. is now ready to accept a considerable portion of the Government program, but it, still can be counted on to fight hard against any proposal which it considers “socialized medicine.” The suggested changes in medical practice are not dependent

upon the Néw Deal alone for their =

support: Not a few Republicans feel as do the New Dealers, as was evidenced in August when the social security round table of Dr. Glenn Frank’s Republican - program committee called on the A. M. A. to cease obstructing group-health plans. y ” os 8

OREOVER, only time will tell ‘how united is the front of the

A. M. A. in the battle. Opposing the previous stand of the A. M. A. was the so-called Committee of Physicians or Committee of 430, including ‘one Nobel prize winner and scores of distinguished American medical men in its membership. - . By its September action, the A. M. A. has come closer to the outspoken stand taken by this committee in its “declaration of medical independence” of Nevember, 1937, although there are still numerous important points of difference, A . i In addition, it is only fair to recall that this fight is older than the New Deal. It began with the formation, in 1927, of the Com-. mittee on the Costs of Medical Care. At the head of this committee was Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, himself a medical man and President Hoover's Interior Secretary. : After five years of study, during which time it published 26 technical studies, Dr. Wilbur's committee issued a report recommending a drastic reorganijzation of medical practice in America. Congress will be asked to deal with the subject at the coming session through the medium of a

series of amendments to the Social Security Act. It was originally intended, in 1935, to include some form of medical insurance in the act, but this provision was subsequently dropped. :

The five proposals of the Techni- :

cal Committee are as follows: $ awe

{ist Proposal — Expansion of ¢ Ygeneral public health services’ and maternal and child health

services. fia : In the field of general public health, the committee urges the expansion and strengthening of City and State health departments and the expansion of Government activities in the fields of tuberculosis, venereal : diseases, malaria, pneumonia, ‘cancer; mental hygiene and industrial hygiene. A maximum expenditure of $200,000,000 a year is predicated for 'this work. This amount would not be spent the first year but gradually over a period of six or seven years expenditures would be brought to this maximum. It is proposed that the Federal Government provide half the funds, State and local Governments the other half, In the case of maternal and child health, the committee recommends an expansion of services to include provisions for medical and nursing care of mothers and their new-born infants, medical care of children, services for crippled children, consultation services of specialists and more - adequate facilities for the post-graduate training of professional personnel. Expenditures in this field would increase annually until a maximum of $165,000,000 was reached, this again to be furnished half by the Federal Government and half by State and local Governments. ? ® 8 8 econd Proposal — Expansion of

hospital facilities. The committee feels that the United States

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that hospitals are not always located where needed, and that at

the present time there is often a

shortage of free beds. The committee recommends a 10-year program of expansion which would add 360,000 hospital beds to the United States. It also

“urges 500 health and diagnostic ers .in areas inaccessible to:

"The cost of this program would .. “be $146,050,000 a year. Again the _ Federal Government, it is sug-

gested, would assume half the ‘cost

These two proposals, while subject to cpposition on various grounds, nevertheless, do not lead into unexplored country. What is involved is an extension of services now under way. It is the last three proposals of the committee which are certain to cause the most fireworks.

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hird Proposal — Medical care for the medical needy. Under this, the Federal Government would be asked through grants-in-aid to the states to make it possible for the states to provide medical service for two broad groups of the population.

Included in the first group would be those on relief or those receiving aid through provisions of the Social Security Act. In the second group would be those sometimes referred to as the “medically indigent,” that is, those people whose | incomes. . are sufficient for food and shelter but not sufficient for the provision of medical service. Obviously, there will have to be some definition of

what is the maximum income

,Which a family can have and still be classed as medically indigent. One-half of this third proposal deals with a situation . which

. already is being met in one way

or another. The Technical Com-

mittee takes the stand that the

problem is not being dealt with adequately. Ld

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At The Top—New York's $40,000,000 Medical: Center, housing the Columbia University Medical School as well as a hospital and research laboratories. America needs more such buildings in the judgment of the New Deal's medical advisers.

Below Left — Miss Josephine Roche, chairman of President Roosevelt's Interdepartmental Committee to Co-ordinate Health and Welfare Activities.

Below Right—Scene in a hospital nursery,

HE second half of this proposal brings the medical profession to a subject of much discussion. Many doctors are already

- carrying much of this load, simply

by reason of the fact that their bills remain unpaid. ! The Technical Committee believes that this field might. be entered © with an annual expenditure of $50,000,000 a year, gradually increasing. this maximum of $400,000,000. The

Federal Government would pro-"

vide half of this sum in the form

‘of grants-in-aid to the states.

HIS means that the form in which this medical aid was rendered would have to be worked out by the states, unless some general method was outlined by Congress. If the maximum sums suggested for the foregoing proposals are added, they total more than $850,000,000. However, the proposals overlap in certain respects. With these duplications cut out, says the Technical Committee, they represent a maximum expenditure of $850,000,000 a year.

YT rourth Proposal — This one A’ is likely to cause the most debate. It does not require any appropriation of new funds. But it is a suggestion that ‘all medical service in the United States be

organized upon such a basis that |

it be: paid for either through taxation or medical insurance. » » ®

~ifth Proposal — This sug-

gests that some form of in--

surance be set up to guarantee wage earners against loss of wages by reason of sickness.

In subsequent articles of this series, I will discuss these five proposals in greater detail, tell the situations which led up to them, and give the arguments of their advocates and their opponents, I shall .try to do this impartially.

» NEXT—The Relation of Sickness to Poverty.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the rivers of Oregon. : 2—From which country did the U. S. purchase the Virgin Islands? 3—Name the first Secretary of : the Treasury under the Constitution ef the U. S. : 4—What was the lowest denomination United States coin the Governmer.t ever minted? 5—Who was voted the most valuable player in the American League for 1938? 6—What name is given to that part of the earth’s surface surrounding the South Pole? T—What State borders Alabama on the north?

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1—Columbia and Snake rivers. 2—Denmark. » 3—Alexander Hamilton. 4—Half-cent. - 5—Jimmy Foxx. 6—Antarctic regions. T—Tennessee. ” 2 8

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By Anfon Scherrer If You, Too, Are Confused on . Christ Church Dates the Fact ls: Parish Was 100 Years Old in 1937,

"HE most alarming thing to come out of Indianapolis this week is the difference

| of opinion concerning the age of Christ

Church.

To listen to some people you'd think that

the founding of Christ Church. kind. Christ Church was a hundred years old ‘last year. Nor is there any truth ip the rumor that th building . housing the cpngregation HN of Christ Church is a hundred : years old, as some people would have us’ believe. Considered. purely as a building, Christ Church won't be a hundred years old until 1960 and from the way things look at present, especially across the water, there’s no telling what can happen between now and then. Let’s get to the bottom of things. On July 13, 1837, exactly 30 resident Episcopalians associated themselves : and organized the “Parish of Christ Church.” Qn Aug. 21, they elected officers. On May 7 of the fol lowing year, they started building the first Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. It was a frame structure with a steeple and a cornerstone, the first to be laid anywhere around here. Deposited in the corners stone were the first silver coins of the dime and halfe dime variety ever seen in Indianapolis. They wers donated by a Mr. Foster, a jeweler who had just returned from a business trip in the East. . -On Nov. 18, 1838, a hundred years ago today, Christ Church—the little wooden structure, mind you —was opened for worship. That’s what they're cele= brating on the Circle today, or should at any rate. .

when it was sold. to Bethel Church, a Negro cone gregation. They moved it to W. Georgia St. near the Canal. A few years later, it burned down and legend blames incendiary roughnecks. : The only reason for selling and moving was te make room for a bigger and better Christ Church, On the same site, of course, and it’s a point I want to press, because the Episcopalians are the only de= nomination in all Indianapolis who still worship on the site of their first church. ’

Irish. Architect Engaged

To build a bigger and better church, the Episco= palians, with the advice of Bishop Talbot, engaged the services of William Tinsley, an architect born and bred in Clonmel, Ireland, who came to Indianapolis in the early Fifties by way of Cincinnati. of the O'Connell Revolution, too. He came here bécause the trustees of Northwestern Christian (now

their new building, the one some of us still remember

as standing on College Ave. near Home Ave. (n 13th St.). ~N

English Gothic, the like of which had never been seen here. Indeed, as Lee Burns has pointed out, Mr. Tinsley was the first architect in Indiana to revive Gothic forms and use them with sympathy and un= derstanding. i Mr. Tinsley died in 1885 at the age of 81, and lies buried in. Crown Hill: - His epitaph reads: “He

add up, and I can’t account for it unless it mea that Mr. Tinsley was a 16-year-old boy when he ean : under the spell of Gothic architecture. a

Jane Jordan—

‘Wife, Told It's O. K. to Fight Mate's Gambling, Urged to Change Tactics.

: DE JANE JORDAN—My husband and I eloped = when we were kids in high school. Our 12 years and we adore our 7-yeare

2 maitiage have been ideal old daughter. My husband has been a steady worket and I have not minded living on a small ny ro there are so many things more important in life than money; but on four different occasions my huss

resulted disastrously with the authorities. On the third offense, I bared my teeth and fought his poker associates vehemently, nearly implicating myself in a

same old problem is evident again. .Shall-I bare m teeth and fight, or shall I compromise? Perhaps us | can point out to me where the fault lies. ‘Am I too blind to see, or is it that he can no more help his

going to school at night? May I add that his kind=

the credit for our happiness for I suspect that I an overbearing and bossy. "WORRIED.

Answer—I am glad that you are honest enough to admit that you are overbearing and bossy for. this admission gives me more insight into your problem. When your welfare is threatened you bare your teeth

less you overshadow your husband and make him feel inadequate. His attitude toward life is a great: deal more passive than yours. . !

and increase your equipment. His idea is to -get someting for nothing. His self-esteem is too low to believe that he can earn the luxuries of life that he wants for himself and his family. Therefore he re=: verts to the magical thinking of his childhood and hopes that they will drop in his lap by chance.” = = - -~Now--of -course your attitude is right and his is wrong, but there are other ways to fight than by baring the teeth. I believe that you would-do better to calm down on your bossiness and get a little more

“clinging vine into your makeup. I don’t mean that

you should give up on any front, but simply that you strengthen your husband by pushing him into the first position while you play the secondary role. Build him up by emphasizing his good qualities and softs Hold out against gambling as being unworthy of one of his strength. ; oF Help him to gain insight into the cause of his im

lack of self-confidence. . In pointing out these. things try not to make him feel more inferior than ever, bu assert your confidence in his ability to succeed through. his own efforts and admit your own emo= tional dependence upon him. When he feels abl not resort in desperation to wish-fulfillment by .the magical path of chance. a Wl JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe answer Your Inentions in this column daily. Tun, .

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today marks the hundredth anniversary of Nothing of the

Mr. Scherrer.’ ,

The little fgame church did business until 1857

Butler) University entrusted him with the design of °

Christ Church was completed and occupied in 1868] except that the spire was not added until 1869. Wher f done, it represented an exquisite example of early’ .

walked with God for 65 years.” Somehow, it doesn’t

band became involved in gambling which nearly x

serious mess with people far below our station. Thess experiences have paved the way for bitter intolerance on my part, and I realize what a bore I must be when I am on a tangent. In spite of promises, declarations = | of love and admissions of what it does to him, the

‘weakness than I can help wanting to improve by

ness and unusual tolerance deserve a great .deal of

and fight. In other words you make an attack, Doubt-

“Your idea of getting ahead is to go-to night school i

pulse to gamble. Admit your own contribution to his

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