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Vagabond From Indiana =Ernie Pyle .

He Meets Tia Bates, "Aunt" to a Continent, an American, Who for 40 Years Has Made Her Own Way.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 25.—Tia Bates would love this comparison. But the two things I have most wanted to see in South America were a llama and Tia Bates. A Lama is the shy, tender, camel-like

animal used by the Indians in the high Andes. My wish to see one was fulfilled in Peru. £ven had my picture taken with one. Tia Bates, on the other hand, is a woman. Not

only a woman, but I've heard her called the best-known and best-. loved woman between Panama and the Straits of Magellan. But I missed Tia Bates. She lives in Arequipa, in southern Peru. And she wasn’t there when we came through Arequipa. I was still thinking about it today in the office of a friend here in Santiago who knows her. And as we talked, the door opened and who should walk in but—Tia Bates. She invited me out to the house where she is: visiting, and we sat and talked through half an after-. noon. It was an experience for which I am grateful. Ann Bates was an American girl, born at Bath-on-Hudson, in New York State. She was a little girl when she game to northern Chile with her father, who was a railroad builder, a long time ago. Tia Bates is around 70 now. . Most of her life has been spent in South America. She grew up here. She married here. She had her two children here. She was here when they died. Her husband was English. After his death, she hastened back to the States, just long enough to recapture her American citizenship. And then back to Peru, which is home to her. For years she lived in the mining camps of thes high, wild Bolivian Andes. She has been through Indian massacres. She has seen her men taken away and killed. What she has seen would make a book, and I hope that some day somebody writes it. For 35 years she has kept a pension—a hotel of sorts—in Arequipa. It is called La Quinta—‘the garden.” It is an institution. It covers a whole block. It doesn’t look like a building. It rambles and juts and turns corners—and all around are patios and sunny spots and flowers and nooks and easy places to sit and lie. People from the lowest to the highest consider it the privilege of a lifetime to stay there. People go to spend the night, and stay two months. Hard engineers from the isolation of the hills come in and call “Tia, Tia!” and give her a big hug. Noel Coward dropped by a few years ago, and stayed for three months. Here in Santiago she is visiting one of her ‘“children”—Stella Bush, wife of the vice-president-of the Grace Line. :

She's a Great-Grandmother

Tia Bates is a great-grandmother. She laughs when she tells you. You wouldn’t believe it yourself. Her hair is white, but she is robust, and very gay. For 40 years she has had to make her own way. And after a lifetime of it, there isn’t a hard grain in her soul. For many years she had promised herself a big fling—a long stay back in New York. Well, she has done it. Just returned three months ago. She was up there a year. She had the time of her life. Spent all her money, she said. She stayed for a long time with her granddaughter

She went into New She

her head set on all the time. York, and got herself an apartment, all alone. even did her own cooking, and loved it. If was at No. 10 Park Ave. The New York Sun ran an article about Tia Bates. When the paper came out, her friends bombarded her. More than 200 people who had stayed with her in Peru at some time or other called up. They kept her on the run—dinner parties, cocktail parties, everything. She ate it up. She had her fling. And now she’s glad to be home in South America.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Warm Springs Building Advanced; Cold Fails to Dull Holiday Spirit.

ARM SPRINGS, Ga. “Thursday.—The outside world looks rather cold and gloomy today, but

giving spirit, and so far I have met only cheerful faces. I had hoped to go for a swim and lie in the sun, but that is postponed in view of ‘the weather. Instead, Miss Thompson and I are working, looking

out of her window toward Georgia Hall across a fairly green lawn with a hedge and magnolia tree whose deep green would do credit to a summer day. A pleasant prospect, even under gray skies! Yesterday afternoon I drove over a good part of the Warm Springs property with my husband and was pleased to find the new school building had made great strides since I came to look at it earlier in the autumn. The medical building does not seem to be going quite as quickly, though that, too, is coming along. - . : As we were driving about, we noticed how many small houses there seem to be which are painted and which show an attempt at growing something attractive'in the yard. As yet, many people do not seem to grasp the value of tree planting around the house, but shrubs and vines are appearing instead of the baked earth look which used to greet you around almost

Commander Callaghan and Dr. McIntire and I had breakfast together this morning and found ourselves discussing the state of the world. When you sit down to discuss it dispassionately, I fear none can paint an encouraging picture. An album of pictures of Spanish children was sent me the other day. It began with such scenes as children in school and at play and being fed, and ended with little mangled bodies on streets and in hospitals.

What Is Civilization?

You could not help wondering about what the real meaning of civilization is, and this morning I can’t

one of our services, that I received any feeling of greater hope for the future. We are certainly not

to live. : Ada Jackson, young prize-winning English poetess, has written a poem called: “Twenty Years After,” which I wish could be handed to every Government official and every young citizen who comes of age today. These lines styuck me particularly: “Look well on victory— : Con defeat over! .

Let no man deceive you. They are the same coin— |-

A two-headed penny with hell in its purchase, The two-headed penny that man has named war.” No hope of making those who are at war pay any attention, but even as we acknowledge the need for

force in a world where some people can understand no |

other language, we must keep reminding ourselves of

means to have it understood throughout the world. Unless we come to that understanding, where does the future lead the next generation?

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Nov. 25.—I use’ta look upoi college students as being pretty much alike, but since I got acquainted with ’em, I've found ’em about as different a bunch individually as I've ever seen. You can fill a big book jest tellin’ how some of ’em got to go to college. Some are there because their Maw and Paw wanted to get ’em. off of their hands. Some poor boys and girls have’ta work their ways through and one girl told me that she had’ta use strategy because her father was against college edu-

cation. I asked her how she did it and she says “Well, |

I told my father that if he didn’t send me to college,

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Percentage of South American Trade Held By Four Powers

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By John T. Flynn

Times Special Writer

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about South America that he thinks as he now summons America to become a great military and naval

power. ; Americans hardly realize what a prize South America is. It is larger than the United States and Canada put togethér. It has a population of 85,000,000 people. Its nations are known as the 10 sisters and they range from a diminutive state like Paraguay with 851,000 people to a huge state like Brazil with 45,000,000—more popilous than England or France. It is an almost fabulous storehouse of treasure—95 per cent of the world’s nitrate in Chile; Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Per: Bolivia, literally soaked in petroleum; the world’s largest copper mines in Peru, the second largest in Chile; gold, silver, tin, timker, fruits; the vast cattle ranges of Argentina; the inexhaustible coffee fields of Brazil; cotton, wool, sugar, cocoa---enticing to the point of passion’ to a famished world. ” ” 8

alarm suddenly sounded in this country about South America is what is called German and Italian “penetration” there. The word “penetration” has a sinister sound. What does it mean? Does it mean that the Germans and Italians—and perhaps the Japanese—are planning an attack in force upon some part of South America to establish colonies there? Does it mean that the Fascist powers are seeking to sell Fascist .philosophy to the South Americas, turning that continent ‘into a garden spot for the social order of Mussolini and Hitler in this hemisphere? Or does it mean, merely, that these nations are trying to get a bigger share

and buy the raw materials they need so desperately? Whatever their aims, let us first look at what has happened to trade in South America. Four powers do one-half the trade of South America—the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan. For years the United States and Great Britain had half

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of trade there, to sell their goods

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Uncle Sam, once the undisputed No. 1 foreign merchant in South America, now finds his commercial—and political—prestige threatened by Germany and This perhaps most vital topic of today is the subject of two articles written for The Indianapolis Times by John T. Fiynn, the best known writer-economist in America. The first article follows.

(Mr. Flynn's Regular Column, Page 18)

UDDENLY—almost overnight—the eyes of America are focused upon a neighbor—South America. Suddenly America becomes aware that the overcrowded world looks with a hungry eye upon that vast

Suddenly we see in the making there the coming struggle for trade, for space to breathe. And with this comes the fear that it will be a struggle between cultures, between class ideas, between economic schools. And, in the last few months, certain groups have sought to make us believe that it will be a struggle between armies. President Roosevelt said not long ago, “Let no man suppose that the Western Hemisphere will not be attacked.” He was referring to South America. It is

of the business for themselves. South America was their oyster. But now Germany has forged ahead. She has elbowed Great Britain out of second place. She has cut into our share. In 1929 we sold South America $36 out of every $100 of goods she bought abroad. In 1936 this had dropped to $29.40. That's a loss of $6.60 in the hundred. Most of that gain was picked up by Germany. England hasn't lost so much, but Germany’s increase has put the Nazi traders in second place. This is more striking if we look at the facts in particular countries. In Brazil and Chile the most effective drives for trade have been made by Germany. Back in 1929 out of every hundred dollars’ worth bought by Brazil, England sold $19, we sold $30 and Germany $12.50. In 1936, England sold $12.50, we sold $21 and Germany $24.50. There she had reduced us to second place. But in 1937 things changed & little. In the first nine months— the latest figure available — we sold twice as much as Germany did, though Germany still led England. Our share was $35 out of every hundred, Germany's $16. 2 8 =

S the United States has vast investments in the land of these 10 troubled sisters, how-

- ever, it is natural that both coun-

tries should feel apprehensive, But it is difficult to see how a mere rise in Germany’s share of that trade should provoke anything more than an awakening of American businessmen. In other words, Germany, Italy and Japan have as much right to sell to the South Americans as we have, if those people wish to buy from them. That’s not a problem to be dealt with by means of an Army and Navy. But another factor enters this ominous equation. It is conceded Shak the Pascist countries ore within their rights in seeking trade south of the equator. But it is said that it is not merely planes they sell, but philosophy; not’ just textiles and steel and gadgets, but ideas—in short, fascism. It is not merely that they make sales,

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it and the general attack upon democracy with which they accompany their sales campaigns. The Drummers of Democracy, we are warned, fall far behind the Factors of Fascism. That is the complaint. There can be no doubt that Germany, Italy and Japan—particularly Germany—have revealed a new and surprising energy in the pursuit of South American trade. And that American businessmen have reason to be alarmed. Much is made of the manner in which these nations are seeking and getting trade. They are using barter and dumping. In the recent convention of American ex‘porters in New York, one leader declared that we must make incessant war upon this Fascist method of barter. 8 un 8 ERMANY will not buy from any country unless that country will buy at least an equal amount of German goods. This is, of course, forced by Germany’s dwindling gold reserve. She must pay for what she buys abroad in either goods or gold. She hasn’t the gold. Therefore she compels her customers to accept payment in German goods. : Thus Krupp and the Rhine Metall Borsig have sold munitions all over South America and accepted foodstuffs in payment. Other countries, of course, do the same. The Japanese Mitsubi

Co. offered to sell Brazil 200,000,000 yen of warships to be paid

half down in coffee and the other half in cash over a period of years. Japan sold in 1932 some warships for a lot of guano. Germany, in order to insure reciprocal buying in Germany, pays for what she buys in South America with what are called ASTI marks. These are special marks which are permitted to be returned

to Germany only in payment of

German goods. Therefore when a Brazilian producer sells coffee to Germany, he gets paid in ASTI

marks. He cannot spend them for

any purpose save to buy goods from Germany. But he can, through his bank, dispose of them to a Brazilian merchant who ‘wishes to buy in Germany. . However, to make such a system work, it is necessary that some

central government or financial.

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ching the American liner Santa Lucia off Peru.

A four-motored clipper ship of the Pan-American Airways fakes off to establish a direct air route between Miami and Venezuela.

agency in each country manage the details of groups of buying and selling transactions in each country. Perhaps countries operated under a dictatorship which supervises and controls industry with an iron hand can do this sort of job better than a democratic country. But this may not be necessarily so. In this country we have a law, called the Webb-

Pomerene Act, under which cop-.

per producers are allowed to act together as a unit in their foreign sales. Such an organized group

can do this sort of thing.

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T has added greatly to German trade. Thus Chile wanted to buy 65 airplanes. American planes were recommended by the Army authorities as better. But Chile bought them in Germany and Italy because she. had a lot of blocked marks in the country. For the same reason the State railways bought $3,000,000 of railroad equipment and Junkers for the air transport service although American equipment was known to be preferable.

As a result, German and Italian goods are appearing in the stores. German radios, refrigerators, electrical goods, house furnishings are found in the shop windows. Most of the countries swarm with German salesmen and German Chambers of Commerce are -in-

.cessantly busy with the job of

promoting German trade. All sorts of inducements are offered. Heavy discounts are made. German and Japanese and Italian traders and shippers are

‘subsidized. The Italian Govern-

ment will supply Italian‘ pilots without cost to train aviators where the planes are bought from

Italy.” In certain countries Germany will not buy goods unless

“there is an agreement to ship

them in German bottoms. As a result in Ecuador, for instance, Germany gets 43 per cent of the shipping trade. 2

» ” LL this sounds formidable. But we have to remember that dumping is an old American custom. For years manufacturers here, heavily protected by high duties, sold at high prices in our markets and dumped their surpluses on European and other foreign markets. . At this very moment the United States Government is attempting to sell abroad a hundred million bushels of surplus wheat, on which she has paid American growers subsidies and which she is trying to dump abroad. As for barter, there is of course nothing immoral about it. Only a few weeks ago our Government suggested swapping = American wheat for Brazilian coffee. But Brazil has just announced she will have none of this. Argentina promptly protested against such a maneuver. Dumping is a twoedged sword. It can very well do more harm than good. The merchants and producers of the country where the dumping is done invariably protest indignantly. The Japanese dumped cotton goods in Peru and it brought a storm of wrathful protest from domestic producers. . But this widespread organized

‘ trade penetration is somehow inextricably connected with social

propaganda. It is called “Fascist” penetration. : > (Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Our Tow n By Anton Scherrer

Back in 1821 You Could Get Some Real Realty Bargains, Present Bank Sites Selling for as Little as $163.

THEN 1 reviewed the life of Joseph Parisette the other day, I remember teliing you that back in 1852 he could have bought the southeast corner of Pennsyle vania and Market Sts. for $600 but turned it

down because it was out of the business center at the time. ~ * Since then, I have looked more carefully into the matter with the result that today I am able to sube mit a pretty exhaustive report. So exhaustive, in fact, that I am in a

. position to tell you that had Mr.

Parisette been present at the first sale of lots in Indianapolis on Oct. 11, 1821, he could have picked up that identical piece of property, the one where the American National Bank now does business, for $163. The one across the street where the Lemcke Building now stands could have been had for $142. Mr. Scherrer That day is now remembered as . one grand spending spree. The Merchants Bank corner at the Cross Roads of America was bid in Wasson’s corner went for $301, and ths corner where the Kahn. Building now stands brought $292. I don’t know what the Ayres corner brought and neither does anybody else, not even Mr. Ayres himself. It’s one of a few records lost. Outside of that, though, I can tell you everything. Between Meridian and Pennsylvania Sts., the lots on Washington St. brought fairly good prices. Only one was sold for less than $200. The northwest corner

| of Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. sold for $328,

The Odd Fellows’ corner across the street brought $300. The Indiana Trust corner went for $257 and where the Indiana National Bank now stands sold for $181. The Kresge corner brought $360.

Here’s a Surprise for You

The lots between Pennsylvania and Delaware Sts. went all right, too. The site of the Pembroke Arcade, for instance, brought $140. The northwest corner of Washington and Delaware Sts. was the biggest sur= prise, though. Believe it or not, it brought $560, the highest price offered for any single lot in Indianapolis, That was because it was opposite the Court House. The Alabama St. corner in the next block brought $304, but beyond that to East St. the prices fell, one Washington St. lot in this zone going for $20. On the other hand, all the Washington St. lots opposite the Court House sold for more than $200 apiece. The second highest price was $500 -offered for the northwest corner of Washington St. and Senate Ave, That was because it was opposite the State House Square. The lot opposite the same square at the corner of Capitol Ave. sold for $50 less. Search me, I don’t know why. : Which leaves me to appraise the property at the corner of Washington and Illinois St. Well, en Oct. 11, 1821, the Claypool corner sold for $243.75; the Line coln Hotel corner for $186; the Roosevelt corner for $141, and the Occidental corner for $325. These real estate values remained more or less static for the next 10 years. - At any rate, it is known that they were used for assessment purposes in 1829, - And while I'm at it, I might as well tell you that the assessment roll of that year showed that Center Township had 300 voters, 241 horses, 114 oxen, 10 brass clocks, two carriages, 14 silver watches and four of gold. For the life of me, I don’t know what you are guing lo do with all this material now that you ave if.

Jane Jordan

Propose if Serious About Girl Who ~ Lately Has Dated Another, Boy Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young man working for one of the largest companies in the world. I nave been going steady with a young lady of my own age for some three and one-half years. About the first part of October she decided that we should not have any more dates for at least a month.” Willing to let her say and do as she thought best, I consented to her plan and stayed away for one month. . The evening we had our first date after the month was up, she told me she was going out with another fellow the Well, a fellow couldn't com= plain if she had already made a date, but two weeks have passed and last evening I asked her to go to a dance and she told me that she was going to be busy. She also told me that she would consider no one else for her steady companion but me, yet she thinks it right to have dates with,this other fellow. Should I go on and keep company with this young lady, or should I stand pat and ask her to forget her- other boy friend? i JACK.

Answer—Everything depends on how you feel abou the young lady and this you haven’t told me. If you're serious and want to marry her, you'd better say so and chase the other boys away. But if all you want is a steady girl without the bother of competition, I imagine youre out of luck. Few girls will go steady with a boy for three and a half years with no prospect of marriage in sight. Most of them will do what your girl has done and have a look at some other men. 8 & = : bu EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a boy of 16 and have been going steady with a girl of about that age. Her parents whom I have only met once, are very strict and will not let her have dates. They are gone almost every night:and I have dates with Sometimes they come in the back way. unexpéctedly and I have to make a fast exit. I'm getting pretty tired of this, I like the girl very much but I'm not in love. She has three older sisters who were not allowed to hava dates until they were 20 years old. I cannot under~ stand why her parents should be so strict. Should I forget about her and look for someone else with more freedom or should I stick with her under these circumstances? : JIM,

Answer—The girl's parents are old-fashioned and think that the way to bring up a daughter safely is to hide her from men until she is old enough to cope with them. This notion is mistaken. The girl wh

| can handle men is the one who has had the most

practice. I believe thab a girl should have her first date in the cradle and see lots of boys in -school afd at home until she is married. : If you are tired of ducking out the front d when the parents come in the back and vice versa, it is your privilege to go with a girl - whose parents have a healthier attitude. ‘JANE JORDAN.

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

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