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“Vagabond From Indiana = Ernie Pyle It Takes About 100 People to Run "Small Estancia," U. S. Visitors Learn;

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Roosevelt Gains in Dopularity | BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5.—The owners of | = : - in i = lw oo x Yy pont tania “Vila Maris? were not xt | WE Support Increased After Election, Gallup Poll Shows By DR. GEORGE GALLUP . le x

‘there only part of the time. For this little Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

5000-acre kingdom is only one of their drops : br. celedonia| IN EW’ YORK, Dec. 5.—President Roosevelt's

in a bucketful. The estancia is a family affair. ‘ iy . Pereda is the head of the family. It is an old and| personal popularity has increased in most rich one in the Argentine. Their holdings are so sections of the United States in the month folgresk that Bk tages BB Dice Saf | lowing the elections, a month marked by the handle ea President’s outspoken critcism of Nazi minority This estancia we visited is sort of | treatment and by the signing of the Anglo-Amer-a concentrate. Here they raise only | . Rec 1 T : de Treat : blue-blooded bulls and blue-blooded | 1Can heciprocal lrade 1reaty. ; rams. Their big estancia, where Although President Roosevelt is not as poputhey. produce cattle for the mar¥el | |, today as he was in the elections of 1932 and : 1936, he still holds the support

is’ far in the interior. It’s a little bigger—175,000 acres! And they of the majority of rank and file American voters. :

also have great timber lands in the north. Members of the family have Those two facts, which are revealed in the monthly Presidential

homes .in Buenos Aires. They travel a great deal. But some are liable to index of the American Institute of Public Opinion, are important factors

come to Villa Maria any day. in the political game that will be

; It takes more than 100 people to run the place. There are 80 men actually handling played in the United States in the next two years.

the cattle and sheep. And it takes another 30 or 40 - to staff the mansion and care for the 75 acres of parklike grounds. Our host at the estancia was the mayordomo, or superintendent, John Neal Dodds, a Scotsman. He As long as President Roosevelt remains popular with a majority of the voters; his word and his influence will be potent with the legislators and political strategists on Capitol Hill. But:

was born in Argentina, and has never been away. His should the President lose popularity from this point on, the

family came here more than 100 years ago. He speaks English and Spanish, but both with a burry decisions of the next Congress and probably even the choice of a candidate in 1940 would be made thore and more

Scottish accent. Mr. Dodds treated us as though we were his perwithout him. The Institute survey shows that as President

sonal guests. Before going out, to look at the stock, Roosevelt enters the last two years of his second term

By Anton Scherrer.

Three (3) Sun Dogs Can't Be Wrong So Button, Up, That Overcoat for It's Going to Be a-Tough-- Winter,

KEEP thinking about Thomas Jefferson Ford’s Thanksgiving adventure; can’t ge “it out of my head. Hi ny Ae On the afternoon of that day, Mr. Ford, who runs the barber shop in the State Life Building, happened to be out riding when all of a sudden he saw three sun dogs. Not one, mind you, but three at one and. the same time’ Soon as . | he saw them. he thought.of his grandmother and = what she used to say when she saw = °° 3 one sun dog. The sight of three sun dogs at one and the same:time would have paralyzed his grandmother, says Mr. Ford. .. - ig Anyway, Mr. Ford remembers his grandmother saying ‘that the sight of a sun dog.in November was an infallible sign of a hard winter. She had proof of it, too, says Mr, Ford, and used to cite the big blizzard of . 1884, to say nothing of the 21l3inch snowfall in December of 1895, EN a both of which followed the appearance of a sun dog | in Indianapolis. One (1) sun dog, mind you. Tie ‘Before going any farther, I guess I ought to tel you that a sun dog is a bright, luminous area seen on either side of the sun (or in the case of Mr. Ford, on all sides) and at the same altitude as the sun, Speaking astronomically. which is the. language of Mr. Ford, sun dogs are found at the points in which the solar halos cut the horizontal parhelic circle.

Mr. Pyle

Senn Pr opularity Mr. Scherrer

Dr. Gallup

Roosevelt

we had tea. It was served by the butler, Hans.

“Half a mile from the house there is a settlement, almost like a town. There are homes for the mar-

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ried workers; dormitories for the unmarried ones.

Most of the stock-handlers are Basques. The men took us past the stalls, and explained the fine points of each royal bull. Many of the men spoke English, and they beamed with pride in their bulls. The bulls were gentle, and seemed not to mind being petted. One bull had a lead weight on the end of each horn, put there to draw the horns down into a straight line. Like champion dogs and- cats, these buiis must look just right for the judges at the cattle shows.

He Thought He Was in Texas

We felt knowingly of the animals’ withers and thighs and what not, and I pulled the boner of calling ‘one of them a steer. These bulls have sold for $10,000. But this: year prices are way down. They can’t get more than $2000 for them now. We went to another barn. A dozen or so of these great, beefy bulls were tied closely to racks along the side of the shed. “We're about to feed them,” said one of the Basques. The bulls were well onto two years old, and would weigh three-quarters of a ton. And then what do you think happened? They brought up milk cows, and these stalwart bulls, the big sissies, turned to and had their dinner just like little calves. Each one drinks about 30 quarts of milk a ‘day. It takes two cr three cows just to feed one bull. Not only that, it takes a certain kind of cow to give the proper nourishment for a certain bull. The bulls are never turned out to graze. After two years, theyre fed a carefully mixed grain preparation. Once a day they are taken out for a little exercise, like a race horse. The rest of the time they spend in their stalls, knee deep in clean straw, gazing fondly at the medals and trophies of their forebears that hang from the rafters.

Later, we drove another half-mile to see the | sheep. They were wonderful too. One of the rams. was so great he had been immortalized on an Argentine postage stamp.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Tennessee Reforestation Defended: State Official Tells of Long Fight.

~N ROUTE TO NEW YORK, Sunday.—There is one phase of writing a column which I never thought about when I began it, namely, that it brings you all kinds of information. For instance, not long ago 1 happened to speak of the small amount of reforestation one noticed going through certain parts of Tennessee. In consequence, a few days ago, the State Forester, Mr. J. O. Hazzard, sent me a most interesting account of the work now being carried on in

It was begun in 1914 and, of course, the worst part of the land which was badly eroded in western Tennessee was planted first, and these first trees have since produced fence posts, telephone poles and similar products. In 1927, a substantial nursery was started and in 1935 he tells me that the CCC made possible a greatly increased program. Since that time, co-operation between the State Forestry Division, the TVA, the Resettlement Administration and the Soil Conservation Service has greatly increased the reforestation accomplishment. In addition to these agencies, the U. S. Forest Service and the U. S. Park Service have done considerable planting in Cherokee National Forest and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All in all, approximately 84 million trees have been planted in Tennessee, which means roughly 84,000 acres reclaimed. = Like all people who love their work, the State Forester does not feel that enough is being done, for he adds that two million acres of eroding land need reforestation. But at least a good beginning has been made. >

A Breakfast of Quail : -

I think it is interesting for us all over the country to know what the State of Tennessee has accomplished: through co-operation of the State and National agencies. Remember this is just one state and something similar is being done in every state in the Union. I imagine this is so, for I remember seeing a good deal of this work in Oregon not long ago and I realize only too well how little we see of the actual accomplishments when we travel through the country. I have done so much traveling lately and have now come to the end, I think, for this autumn, so that 1 feel I owe a word of thanks to all the kindly people who have taken so much trouble to make us feel at home in the various hotels. The last word in thoughtfulness was a breakfast which we had in Atlanta, Ga. when Mr. J. J. Page Jr., back from one of the first hunting trips of the season, sent us the most delicious quail, : I am beginning to think that Florida is one of the

states where you may come across a number of “suc- |.

cess stories,” which in these days is gratifying. One of my letters urged me to meet.a = been badly handicapped sever spite of having to come-to this ci : had refused to settle down and become a hurden to anyone. Instead, he has started a book shop in St. ° Petersburg and is making good. Perhaps His effort will encourage others. !

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Dec. 5—Maybe it’s a sure sign I'm a hick, but I always liked to watch the workings of sugar mills, automobile factories and canneries. It sure takes a genius to figure those things out. My uncle used to make sausage in his meat market down home and when he visited the Chicago stock yard and saw how they ran sheep, hogs and cattle through the packin’ plant, he thought he'd go in for mass production in his sausage business, One day he called all his workers together and said: “Boys, you're putting out a lot of sausage, but I've been gettin’ complaints that some of it is lumpy. Even if we have to slow up production a little bit, we oughta take time to take the bells off the cows!”

55.5 per cent of the major party vote is on his side. A month ago, on the eve of the Congressional elections, Mr. Roosevelt's figure stood at 54.4 on the Institute barometer, a figure which turned out to have a very close correlation with the vote actually polled

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by Democratic candidates for Congress a day or two

later.

In both: Presidential surveys the Institute used a staff of 700 field investigators to interview a scientific cross-sec-tion of the voting population, asking representative men and women in all walks of life: “In general, do you approve

or disapprove today of Roosevelt?” Several factors may account for the inerease in the President’s popularity since the elections. One is the recent Anglo-American trade treaty. American voters have been more than 3 to 1 in favor of a trade agreement with Britain in recent Institute surveys, and on Nov. 17 the long-

awaited treaty was

Another possible factor is President Roosevelt's outspoken condemnation of the Nazis after their outbreak against Jews and Catholics, and still another is the possibility that a period of good-feeling tends to replace the heat of national elections.

HS much of the President’s support would follow him if he elected to run for a third term? That is a question which will occupy the minds of many Administration leaders in the next year and a half. : The Institute has measured the strength of Roosevelt-third-term sentiment at regular intervals since the 1936 elections and has found consistent majorities opposed to a third term. Once, in July, 1937, the number of persons favoring a third term for Roosevelt rose to 37 per cent, but in the most recent survey only 31 per cent approved the idea. These tests indicate something of the strong prejudice President Roosevelt would have to overcome in order to be

elected again. Of

not necessarily indicate what Roosevelt would actually poll

if he runs.

S President Roosevelt and his advisers lay Administration plans for the next two years, the Institute’s Presidential index shows.that the New Deal's greatest losses have taken place in the Farm Belt. Here in eight States—Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebras= ka, Missouri, Wisconsin and the Dakotas—the vote for President Roosevelt averages only 51 per cent, whereas it

averaged about 59 cent last month.

These states—most of them Republican before 1932— joined the Roosevelt column six years ago, partly in protest against the low farm prices, and there have been abundant signs that they are drifting back toward their Republican allegiance again, with low farm prices once more a factor. First signs that the New Deal might be losing strength fn the farm belt occurred in 1936. In spite of the Roose-

velt landslide, the

been Democratic four years before and the voting population of the counties was 80 per cent rural. In the recent elections the Republicans added sharply to their Congressional representation from the farm belt and captured the governorships in Iowa, Kansas; Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. Here is the vote by sections in today’s Institute survey with last month’s vote for. comparison:

New England States .. Middle Atlantic States.

~ East Central

West Central States...

Persons on relief remain overwhelmingly for the President, the survey shows, in spite of the announcement from WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins that relief rolls will |

be reduced. The vey is:

Upper Income Group ...... . Middle Income Group Lower Income Group (Including Reliefers) Reliefers (Separately)

Side Glances—By Clark

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President Roosevelt enters ‘the last two years of his second term with a substantial majority of voters supporting him, the monthly Presidentiol index of the American ‘Institute of Public Opinion indicates. As the graph above shows, the President is at 55.5 per cent on the Institute

month, or slightly higher than he was a month ago, before the elections. In the photo

above the President is shown conferring with Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson.

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I remember when one pilot would not tell another how | he executed a difficult maneuver in the air. “Go up and | the Army ran into that awful catastrophe trying to carry

the enthusiastic fledgling. That stuck in my mind, and made me determined that | everything I knew of value about flying would be written ° for public information. I have adhered to that policy. It knocks the lurid

blather into a cocked hat. I knew that if I could fly so could any other healthy kid. And if I could understand | what must be done with the controls of an airplane so

That’s the hard background for insisting the public must be’ informed as soon as possible of the reasons and explanations for every airline crackup. No sane pilot will fly into a situation where other men have died without knowing what killed them—or why they died. Casualties can't be glossed over with a smear or romance or mystery. neglected air power development nor national

One big obstacle to getting the flying truth to the public is the fact that every plane and engine manufacturer maintains a crowd of press agents. these fellows to keep telling the public only the good news and finding clever ways to smooth over. the rough spots. Why should the man in the street have to approach

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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Public Should Have the Whole Truth And Nothing Else About Aviation, Expert Says

| By Al Williams : | Times Special Writer | NTEW YORK, Dec. 5.—The only way to sell aviation at Well as the good news about aviation. | home and abroad is to tell the truth about it and keep away from propaganda. Just because a transportation vehicle has wings. is no reason for thinking we must develop an entirely new sales program.

[a veteran pilot and ask him for the low-down on a recent | crack-up? The public wants to know the bad news as

f ” ” 2 A NOTHER factor for the public's confusion is that our own Government has been lukewarm all these years { in its attitude to commercial and military aviation. When

I did,” was the response of the veteran to | the airmail in military ships, the public's first reaction was to blame the Army. Later, after acquiring a perspective, . Mr. Public realized that the overnight and ill-considered | decision was the result of pressure exerted by his own | Government. Still later, he began to understand that his Government knew little about aviation, and less about its part or function. The Federal airways were built by the Government, it’s true—a grand job, and the envy, some years ago, of all foreign nations. But that job was never finished. The Goverament’s uncertain attitude toward military aviation and the part it should play in national defense is attested to by the current blather and uproar about suddenly expanding our air strength. Mr. Public sees these pictures from a hilltop. He wants to know why those fellows in Washington hadn’t been working on this job long ago. : details, but he recalls the long series of Congressional investigations on military and naval aviation during the 1920s. They left military aviation just about where they found it. : . ; “Why?” he asks—and no one can answer him. Beware of official enthusiasts who discover aviation overnight—as a first-rate headline getter.

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KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the third letter of the Greek alphabet. 9--Was George Washington a member of the Masonic Order? Le 3—In which geographical division of the U. 8. is Delaz ware? 4—The eruption of which volcano- destroyed the city of * Pompeii in 73 A. D.? : 5—Who won the 1938 English public courses golf title? 6—Name the state flower of Wisconsin. 7—FProm which country did the U. S. obtain the land included in the Louisiana Purchase?

Answers 1—Gamma.

2—Yes. 3—South Atlantic. 4—Mt. Vesuvius. 5—K. G. Bugg. 6—Violet. : T—France.

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"A chaise longue is something I've always longed for. 1 know! I'll give it to,my husband for Christmas.” iro ia ny SRE ay oF ela a ay

He doesn’t remember the

They look for all the world like salvage-strips of I didn’t know it, either, until Mr. Ford

Here's Some Corroboration

I guess the regson I keep thinking about Mr. Ford's adventure is because he isn’t the first one this year to scare me with predictions of a hard wine ter. As far back as a month ago, Don Campbell told me about a trapper out at Broad Ripple who was worrying himself sick about the behavior of the musks rats on the river. Believe it or not, they started dige ging in around Halloween, and soon as the trapper saw that, he made it his business, you bet, to look

around for a winter overcoat notwithstanding the ak

fact that we were still in the lap of Indian summer at the time. ns FL AR And John Sohn, who lives on ‘the South Side and keeps abreast of everything going on dowh there, re= ports knowing an 80-year-old man whose beard acted up the day before Thanksgiving. The curls.in his beard straightened out, something that hadn’t haps pened to him since 1895. Sure, a’ month later we had more than 21 inches of snow in Indianapolis, All of which coming on top of the three sun dogs Mr, Ford saw ought to put us wise that: we are headed for a hard, tough winter. PE 3 A hard, tough winter, I don’t mind: saying, is the kind we had back in the season of 1895-96. In

that winter we had 468 inches of ‘snow, nearly 17. | I lug: in March be-

inches of which fell in March. cause of a popular notion around here that winter starts with December and ends with February. Nothe ing could be more fantastic. Why, I remember that the winter of 1906 di

| get started until March when we had ‘more than i inches of snow in that month alone.

It’s the mos snow Indianapolis ever had in one month, but if Mr; Ford's three (3) sun dogs count for anything this winter -is going to make all others look sick.

Jane Jordan— Woman Advised to Ignore Father's Unjust Complaint on Aiding Family.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am married and am very happy but the thing that annoys me is this: aT My father tells my mother several times a week that when I was home I didn’t spend anything. I worked at two positions for years and made very good money until the depression. My father made very good good money too but wouldn’t dress my mother. I bought her all the clothes she had except shoes. In 20 years

‘he only. bought her one winter coat. I always stayed oo 3

home and paid board. I bought a washing machines and electric irons and helped buy furniture and dress . a small sister and brother. I spent close to $6000. I was only without steady work for about a year and a. half when I did about all the housework to pay my way. My father drove me off then. My brothers and sisters never helped at all excepting one sister who helped some last year. Yet they say I didn’t do the things my mother says I did. My mother is so good

and sweet that I am glad I did what I did, but whem

I go to see her it hurts to hear her tell. me how my father and brother say I didn’t do anything. I would

! be better off if I didn’t have to go around them at all :

but I can’t stay away from my mother as she is getting old. MB : Answer—Let what your father and brother say go in one ear. and out the other. Your mother is the

_only one in the family whom you wish to piease and

she knows you did your part and more. She ought not to repeat these unpleasant things to you but I suppose that they worry her so much she can’t help it. : It often happens in a family that one person ase #2 sumes more responsibility: than the others and it seldom is appreciated. The shirkers feel guilty and seek to relieve their uneasy feelings by discounting what the chief contributor has done. This is what has happened in your family. i Your father and brothers and sisters are simply

‘jealous of your mother’s affection and regard for you.

After all it is easier for you to stay serene for you do L not have any guilty feelings to relieve.

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Note to C. B.—A young couple in your situation = should live alone at any sacrifice. You think you can= not afford to live by yourselves, but one room with privacy would be better than a whole house where there is no privacy. If you don’t have a job, get one and start now to plan for your own home no matter how humble it has to be. Try not to fall out with your mother-in-law but don’t live with her. She simply doesn’t realize that her son is not still sleeping

in the nursery. Move. JANE JORDAN.

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

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