Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1938 — Page 15
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Vagabond
From Indiana —Ernie Pyle
Last Night on Boat Is Enlivened By Impromptu Celebration Staged By New-Found Bolivian Friends.
N THE RIO PARAGUAY, Dec. 13.—It
was our last night aboard. The vast | - heart of South America lay wide and flat on
all sides of us, as far as the eye could see or the mind contemplate. We were a thousand years from home. Our two Bolivian friends, Senor Estenssor, our friend of the whole voyage, and Senor Guesman, one of his young oil engineers, sat talking to us. There is always a feeling of at-ease and comradeship on the last night on a boat, even a river boat. The night was absolutely beautiful. We felt good toward the whole world. Gradually the rest of Senor Estenssor’s two dozen young oil field technicians drifted along and stopped. We were in a circle, as though around a campfire. We all talked. And though little was understood, you could actually feel an enthusiasm and a great passing of friendship all through the group. Senor Estenssor showed us a : penheolder he carried in his pocket. It was covered with fine needlework, and his name
Mr. Pyle
was worked in it with yellow silk thread. He gave
it to us. : Then one of the boys ran down to his cabin, ‘and came back with a little hand-woven bag. In it were a dozen miniature rugs of Bolivian Indian weaving. “For you,” he said to the American girls. They protested. But no, it was for them. Other boys had to get in the swim. They gave us small Bolivian coins for souvenirs. And one was carried away and whipped out a peso note, and auto-
- graphed it for us.
We sought something to give in return, and could find nothing but a handful of American pennies. The boys seemed delighted. fs The .boys, full of youth, got to chinning themselves on the overhead steel-bar framework. Their strength was astounding, for none of them was big. Competition grew keen, and they finally reached the show-off stage. They.would run and grab one of the upright bars, and then see how many times they could hurtle around.it before slipping down to
the deck. One rounded it four times,
Anything to Please Even that wasn’t enough. Suddenly one of the
boys ran, grabbed one of the upright bars above the
ship's rail, and threw himself around it, right out Over the water. Then the others did. After awhile they settled, and gathered around us again. Somehow they got started singing. They all’ sang together, in nice harmony—real Bolivian songs, the first genuine native music we have heard in South America. They sang eagerly and proudly, and they enjoyed it. And then Senor Estenssor and one of the boys did a Bolivian dance, with much backing up and marching forward, and stomping and kerchief waving. At midnight we said goodby. The boys weren't going to bed. They were leaving the boat at a town called Formosa, around 2 a.-m. From there they would start the long train and auto trip to far La Paz. They stayed on deck. We shook hands all around. Four times 24 is 96— yes, 96 handshakes, all around, and many ‘hasta luegos” and “mucho gracias” and “you must come to the States some time.” Two hours later the whistle for Formosa wakened us. We and the Jencks, our American friends, slipped clothes on over our pajamas. And topcoats, too, for the night had chilled by now. One by one our boys, with their suitcases on their shoulders, pushed off from the lower deck, and through the packed-in crowd. We called to them, and they were delighted, and came to the rail and shook hands again across a couple of feet of Paraguay River. : And then we went on into the night, leaving them there, to go westward into the mountains and out of our lives forever.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding of Constitution Made Easy by Clever New Book.
ASHINGTON, Monday—It is interesting what a rearrangement of the same words will do to a well-known document. A short time ago, I was sent a small book in which the Constitution is rearranged so that you do not have to turn from one section to the other to know the final decision on some point, for all the sections dealing with one idea are grouped together. It seemed to me a most interesting and worthwhile presentation of a document which is sacred to us all, but which many of us really do not
understand. Dr. Charles ‘A. Beard says: “I think your idea is excellent,” in writing to Allen Robert Murray, who is responsible for this piece of literary editing. The lit= tle pamphlet is entitled: “What the Constitution Says,” and carries as a subtitle: “A new way to understand the Constitution.” I think many people will find it valuable. I had a ride yesterday morning, the first one in many weeks and even though the day was gray it was delightful to be out on the bridle path. It seemed to me that an extraordinary number of pianes kept flying north, and I decided that instéad of an hourly service, we were running a service every 15 minutes. This fact makes me rejoice that the work on a new airport in Washington is at least begun. Our very familiar blimp was sailing around
also, and I began to think that this particular lighter-‘than-air means of transportation must have more
hours in the air than any other similar ship.
Meets With Young People
In the afternoon and evening Mr, Charles Taussig and Mr. Aubrey Williams and I met with a group of young people to discuss, among other “little” subjects, the question of awakening our interest as a nation in the study of democracy, its real meaning to us as individuals and its practical application in our own citizenship. In the afternoon I also went to the Madeira School to see their Christmas play. - They give the same religious play each year, accompanied by the singing of certain well-known Christmas carols by one of their glee clubs. It was done with reverence and earnestness by the freshman high school group. Having told you how annoyed I was with the behavior of a zipper pn one of my dresses when I was
on my last lecture trip, I think I must tell you that my new traveling wardrobe, which depends almost
entirely on zippers for its usefulness, is proving moa’,
satisfactory. There is no doubt about it, if one is in a hurry, zippers which work are a great blessing. The perfection of ‘this particular make of fastener certainly should seem important to the busy woman.
Bob Burns Says—
LYJOLLYWOOD, Dec. 13.—Somehow I have the feeling that you people are my friends and I feel like I can pour my heart out to you sometimes, with-
- out you gettin’ the idea’ I'm squawkin’. Anyhow I
do get pretty blue sometimes when so many people come up to me with a handshake and always wind up by wantin’ somethin’ out of me. That's the reason I went home to my own people not long ago. The very first day Uncle Fud called me up and told me to come over because he had a new dog. When I saw the dog in the yard he looked so big and flerce that I stopped at the gate. Uncle Fud says “Come on in.” I says “Are you sure the dog won’t bite?” He says: “That's why I sent for you. I jest got the dog today and I want to see if i 4
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Peace and Trade
Chief Topics At Lima
A new Pan-American Conference is in session. at Lima, Peru. Headlines have screamed of the totalitarian menace at Uncle Sam's back door. Orators tell of markets lost in Latin America, minds undermined by Fascist propaganda. What fire burns beneath the smoke? Attempts to answer the questions are made in a series of articles of which this is the first.
By Peter Kihss
Times Special Writer VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 13. —A newspaper man’ typed a list of all the foreign ministers and delegation chiefs in town. A member of the United States delegation borrowed it five years ago at the last PanAmerican Conference ~ in Montevideo.
Cordell Hull, in ordinary street garb, made a series of precedentshattering informal visits to the Latin-American chiefs at their hotels. And James Clement Dunn, secretary general of the American delegation, penciled off each call on the newspaperman’s list.
That set of calls made Secretary Hull, the lank, plain mountaineer from Tennessee, the personification of the “good neighbor” slogan as far as Latin-America was concerned. And these days the silver-haired Secretary, already sponsor of 19 trade pacts with Latin-America, carries the good neighbor banner once again into the Pan-American Conference at Lima. Observers. here hold him a white .ope against the influence of totalitarian powers in Latin-America.
Pan-American history is on the side of the 67-year-old Tennessean. Inter-American co-opera-tion, as a thing apart from general international activity, has been growing since the first Pan-Amer-ican Conference in Washington in 1889. Indications here are that
the trend.
Peace and trade constitute the chief interests of the gathering. In peace the Americas alrsady have 10 pacts looking to peaceful settlement of disputes—by investigation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, study of possible future causes trouble, consultation. Presented to the Lima delegates now is a Colombian proposal for an association of American nations, analogous to the League of Nations at Geneva. The leagu=, degenerated . into a European forum, has lost 10 Latin-Ameri-can members in the last few years. The United States never was a member. 2 ” 2 = HE proposed American association, in what might almost be a declaration of principle against totalitarian tactics, describes the Pan-American nations as already a “moral union,” based: oir ; «, , . on the judicial equality of all the states of the New World; on the mutual respect for the rights inherent in their complete independence; on a firm will to maintain peace, not only among themselves but also with all other nations; on the condemnation of war as a means for the settlement of international conflicts and of intervention of one state in the internal or external affairs of any other state or states; on the strict fulfillment of all public treaties; on the proscription of force as the creator of rights, and on the nonrecognition of the theory of the fait accompli , . .” Recent activities in Europe lend additional point to the proposals for defining aggressors and invoking sanctions made in the League project and projects by Mexico, Brazil and Bolivia. The Leagtie proposal defines an aggressor as one whose armed forces cross the frontier of another state, who intervenes in a unilateral manner in another state’s affairs or who refuses to comply with an arbitral or court
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award. Crossing of borders specifically covers “irregular bands organized within or without its
- territory and which have received
direct or indirect support. The League project would provide graduated . sanction, beginning with withdrawal of Ministers. Next would come rupture of diplomatic relations, rupture of consular relations, rupture of communications, stopping of trade, prohibition of market deals, embargo of all ships and cargoes. Mexico, citing the “deplorable events” in Spain and China, is sponsor of a proposed treaty to prohibit aerial bombardment of civilians, cultural and educational institutions and medical establishments. > 2 ” 2 N peace, it is simply a question of how far the American nations will bind themselves against each other. For, in the opinion of observers here, there is little likelihood that any American nation would make a stand in behalf of totalitarian doctrine,
~ tangible or intangible.
Trade, however, is another question. While Montevideo recorded itself in favor of diminution of trade barriers, the last five years have seen considerable restrictive innovations. .
At one ‘time Latin-American tariffs were based generally on revenue. These days inereasing industrialization - has generated novel trade regulations.
“ One exporter recalled a cereal shipment to Brazil on which he was apprised. he would have to mark burlap bags in indelible ink
Chamber of the House of Députies where plenary sessions are
ROPOSALS for uniform shipping regulations by the ad-
on both sides, letters six inches
high. “The manufacturer in Brazil made us require that,” a consular official told him, “The people take the bags for making pants. But if the bags are marked up with ink the manufacturers think they will buy Brazilian textiles" instead.” One recent development has been use of multiple tariffs in Latin America, whereby countries which do not buy as much as they sell are struck by double tariff rates. While this has been mostly aimed at Japan, it is believed here the United States will oppose this trend as not in keeping with the freer trade spirit. : In the economic field, other proposals include study of a formula of regional trade preferences in the Americas; assignment of eco-
nomic investigations to the Pan- -
American Union; completion of the Pan-American Highway, now marked by great zaps in Central America, Peru and Bolivia, and the Pan-American Railway, with 2990 miles to go between New York and Buenos Aires via the West Coast.
vance Committee of Experts go into minute detail. One proposed regulation: — “Smoking is forbidden absolutely in and about the holds of vessels.” Immigration, more pressing than ever with new refugees from the totalitarian states, comes up at Lima only to find a growing feeling against new settlers. In answer to a questionaire by the Pan-American Union, only three nations—Ecuador, Salvador and Bolivia—replied with discussions of possible immigration. Salvador said its population density drastically would cut the possibilities of new colonization. Ecuador said it could receive only agricultural colonists—it had 494,000 acres open for 6000 immigrants. Indian welfare, particularly important in Latin America, where Mexico alone has 5,000,000 purebloods, comes up under many proposals. One, submitted by the last American Scientific Congress, urges each country to invoke its penal laws against promotion of Indian drunkenness:— : “. . . especially when: committed by exploiters who, instead of wages, pay the Ihdians in aguar~diente, intoxicating drinks of ‘any type, and drugs. ...” On the long-time Pan-American program to codify international law, the Committee of Experts set up by the Montevideo conference
has submitted a scathing report urging slashing of present red tape. 2 ” ” HE United States has drawn up 10 proposals on interAmerican communications. These would ease maritime regulations, adopt more uniform procedures, encourage tourists and promote further Pan-American short-wave broadcasts for “the promotion of peace and the avoidance of international misunderstandings.” A detailed program to increase intellectual co-operation has been submitted \by the Pan-American Union, ranging from peace education and exchange of students to revision of textbooks to give “unprejudiced account of the history, political organization, social progress and economic life of the American republics.” Other proposals look to equal political and civil rights for women, drawn up by the vigorously lobbying Inter-American Commission of Women. Advance at Lima, as in all conferences, depends on personalities.
The Montevideo conference adopt-
ed, as one of its major items, a convention that “no State shail intervene in the internal of external affairs of any other.” _ That was adopted larpely because Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Foreign Minister of Argentina, had a cold. A number of the larger powers, each for its own reason, had arranged a deal to
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shelve the proposal by referring it to a study committee, * Dr. Saavedra Lamas, selected as the finest and most influential orator among the cronies, got to the session late and hoarse, after being in bed for his cold. Before he arrived Herminio Portell Vila, a Cuban William Jennings Bryan, got the floor and touched off a train of savage Caribbean denunciation—and the intervention pact’s success had been assured.
NEXT — South American Trade
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Dental Health Plan Tested
By Science Service EW YORK, Dec. thousand New York families are going to have ¢ chance at health insurance for their teeth and mouths, if plans presented during the Greater New York = Dental meeting here go through. The idea is to learn something definite about costs of such insurance by conducting a one-year experimental study of dental health insurance among some members, at least, of those families which- are already clients of the Associated Hospitals Service of New York. Under the plan patients will pay
a certain premium to cover all their.
dental work for the year. They will be able to go to the dentist of their own choice. All dentists in New York City will take part.
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What does the word Ohio mean? 2—When the Joker is used as a wild card in a poker game, what is the highest possible hand? 3—Name the No. 1 U. S. Davis Cup tennis player, who recently turned professional. 4—_How many feet are in one rod? 5—Name the famous racing yachtsman who was awarded - a silver cup for being a good loser. 6—Who said: “If this be treason, make the most of it?”
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1—It is an Iroquois Indian word for “beautiful river.” 2—Five Aces. 3—Donald Budge. 4—Sixteen and one-half. 5—Sir Thomas Lipton. 6—Patrick Henry. 2 2 =»
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Qur Town
By Anton Scherrer
> Speaking of Fine Food Brings Up Subject of Ex-Mayor Caven Who Balked Riot by Feeding the Hungry.
ESIDES being famous for her handmade noodles, Mrs. Rhodius also made a name for herself with her goulash. Basically, it was more or less like any other good goulash,
but there was a world of difference between
hers and anybody else’s because somewhere
in the process Mrs. Rhodius had the good sense to slip in some sliced carrots, a vegetable which in her insidious way she did much to popularize. The cars rots not only gave her goulash a distinctive flavor, but added immeasurably to the color of the dish, with the result that when Mrs. Rhodius was at her best, the setting sun had all it could do to produce an effect as lovely as hers. happen to remember Mrs. Rhodius’ goulash because that’s what father and I were eating the day John Caven walked into the Circle House restaurant. Father told
Mr. Scherrer me to have a good look at him be-
cause I might never have another chance to see the :
like of him again. He was tall, six feet I should say, weighed over 200 pounds, and seemed to be somewhere around 60 years old. Otherwise, he had the details of a baby—a very pink complexion, blue eyes and the
sympathetic smile with which boys are born, but
seem to lose the day they go to school.
Mr. Caven also ordered some of Mrs. Rhodius®
goulash, and I distinctly recall that he cleaned his plate using several pieces of bread to soak up all the gravy. That done, he repeated the order, and fine ished that, too. He appeared to be hungry and when I remarked as much to father, he said that was exe actly what he wanted to tel me about. And then he told me the story of how Mr. Caven, when he was. Mayor back in the Seventies, put down the riots of Indianapolis without firing a shot.
‘He Knew the Symptoms : Seems that back in 1877, the whole country was
involved in labor strikes and some time in June of that year Indianapolis got into it, too, with the result that one noon more than 500 angry men met in the State House yard and decided to turn Washington St. upside down. Mayor Caven went over to see what it was all about, and soon as he saw the men he realized that most of them hadn't tasted food for two days. Instead of making a speech, he magched the mob across the street to Simpson's bakery.
He commenced handing each hungry man rcix
loaves of bread and when Mr. Simpson’s stock was :
used up, he marched them to Taggart's Bakery, then to Parrott & Nickum’s bakery, and finally to Georgs Bryce’s shop on South St. In that way Mr. Caven collected more than 3000 loaves of bread. He dug into his own pocket to pay the bill, too. He did even more. With each armful of bread went a promise of work if the recipient would turn up at Beatty's farm the next morning.
Next morning Mr. Caven went to Beatty’s farm and there he found every man of the day before hard at work building the Belt Railroad. As a matter of fact, the way Father told the story the Belt Rail= road wouldn't have been finished as early as it was had it not been for the way Mr. Caven handled the bread riot of 1877. Of course, Father's story had a moral, too. It would. He said the reason Mr. Caven could recognize a hungry man was because, once upon
a time, he had been one himself. That was back in. the days when, as a young man, he had to earn his
living working in coal mines and the like. :
Jane Jordan—
Young Man Told to Get Job as First Step Toward Reunion With Bride.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am 19 years old, married
to a girl of 16. Everything went along fine as | long as I was employed. As soon as I lost my job my
wife left me after 14 months of married life. During
the 14 months I ran around for about three months. In
We have now heen separated for three months.
the meantime she has run around also. I tried to get her to come back to me but instead she has filed suit for divorce. I still love her and can get a job if she will come back to me, but her family has more influence over her than I have. have changed my ways and am willing to settle down, but she will not listen te me. She still says that I am her ideal. Would you forget her or try and get her to come back? E. D.
Answer—You say you can get a job if, your wife comes back. You put the cart before the horse. If she left you because you lost your job and couldn’t support her, the first thing you should have done was to get on your feet financially and show her you were equal to your responsibilities. This is still the only thing you can do. Ask her to delay the divorce until you have proved . yourself, Promises to get a job if she comes back will carry no weight with your wife or her parents. Even if the divorce goes through you still need a job. Go after it now. 2 on ” EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl 24 years old. I married a fellow 29. He has been married befors and has two boys by his first wife. We have the boys and I have been a real mother to them, I have been married to this man for one year. Now I learn that
he has no divorce from his first wife and she is trying to cause us trouble over the boys. I have met a young fellow 27 years old and I love him very much and he wants me to get a divorce and marry him. He is a very good fellow, and has a good job. He is not one to want to break up a home, but he knows how I have been treated. I feel that if my husband would tell me untrue things once he will again. I have been a good wife and I have never done him wrong until I found out. Now he has sued for divorce at last from his first wife and is still living with me, I feel very une happy. about it all. Please tell me what to do. BROWN EYES.
Answer—1If your husband failed to get a divorce be= fore he married you then your marriage isn’t legal and he isn’t your husband. After such a gross decepetion, you owe l®im nothing. The only thing you can do is to leave. I agree with you that it would be im= possible to trust such a man again. : ? JANE JORDAN,
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily, >
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
HOSE of us who have kept a special corner on A our library shelves for Clarence Day's Mother and Father will find that corner greatly brightened
by the presence of Bertha Damon’s GRANDMA CALLED IT CARNAL (Simon). This amusing, determined, original, autocratic old lady has been lifted bodily from real life into the pages of one small book, Few provincial New England villages have been more searchingly and pitilessly revealed in all its narrow ness and bigotry than has North Stonefield, Conn. Miss Damon is gifted with an irrepressible sense of ironic humor which has been directed against her relatives, her fellow townspeople and herself so freely that the reader cannot repress constant chortles of glee; but she has done more than write a funny book. She has painted a full-length portrait of a unique person and has described a philosophy of life (based on the teachings of Ruskin ‘and Thoreau) which one. age.
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