Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1938 — Page 21
agabon Front Indiana — Ernie Pyle
Lovely Parks and ‘Homes, Warm . Weather and Leisurely Life Make Asuncion an Alluring City Indeed.
SUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. 16.—There | are not more than 60 North Americans iin all of Paraguay. And hardly any at all in Asuncion. Just a few teachers and some engineers. Even the few American companies are largely managed by Europeans. The main trouble is that people from the States are ambitious, and this is no place to get big ideas about setting the world afire. There is a hice story about an American company that came down here to gin cotton. They set up a big mill in the interior, figured everything out on paper, and were all squared off to bring the 20th Century to Paraguay and make a nice thing out of it for themselves. But they forgot one thing. They forgot that instead of selling them his cotton, the Paraguayan Indian would rather load it up on his ox cart, ¢limb aboard, sit there for four days while the oxen plodded toward Asuncion, ‘and sell it there. . Why not? You can sit down on an ox cart. There’s nothing else to do anyhow. If | you sit there long enough you get to Asuncion. Then | you can see people and buy something. Then you get on and sit four days going back. Time means nothing. Why not? th I don’t mean to insinuate that Asuncion is really backward. They have electric lights and telephones and trolleys and running water. Electricity has come during this century. Telephones are fairly - recent. And it isn’t wise to drink tap water.
Asuncion, in fact, is a pretty city. Its public build- | ings are sightly. There are many plazas and parks, full of tices and flowers everywhere. Homes are beautiful. And everything is clean. : ¢ Considering everything, I would rather live in Asuncion than any other South American city we have been in. : Life would be fairly dull here, but deliciously dull. As an example of the life—all Government offices are open only from 6 to 11 a. m. No business at all in the afternoon. At noontime, an auto in downtown Asuncion is a freak. Everybody is home having a nap. 1 envy our Government representatives down here. Of course they have to work. But if they worked too hard, the country wouldn't like them. There are only two—Finley Howard is the Minister, Sherburne Dillingham the Consul. Mr. Howard is now in the States on leave, so Mr. Dillingham carries on alone. , He is a tall, handsome young. man who has served in Cuba, Peru, Brazil and Buenos Aires. He speaks Spanish faster, and presumably: better, than’ any other man from the States I have met.
Lace Among Chief Products
His wife is a lovely American girl born in Buenos | Aires. They have_a delightfully big old house, a | baby, several servants, three dogs; riding horses, and a terrace where you sit in the sun. They love ‘Asuncion. Who wouldn’t? ~ The U. S. Embassy is.a handsome big ‘building, with great high ceilings and a flowered patio in the back. The floor is tile, and you “just throw your cigarets on the floor. After awhile a servant in white comes and cleans them up. Mr. Dillingham says when he goes back to the States he’ll probably ' purn the house down. If you ever come to Paraguay, you must come with enough toney to buy some lace. It is one of Paraguay’s most famous products. | Tomorrow we must leave. In Asuncion I have been completely happy. It has been hot, .and quiet and easy. The world doesn’t seem to _matter. How unknowing some people are! In Buenos Aires they had told us that Asuncion was “picturesque” but very backward, and that two days of it would be all we could stand. ; We believed them, and arranged our schedule ac- | cordingly. Airplanes won't wait. So tomorrow we must say goodby. For the first time in South America, I've found a place where I want to stay and stay and stay. I shall always love the memory of
Asuncion.
My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Attends Christmas Carol Service After Visiting Navy's New Destroyer.
Mr. Pyle
ASHINGTON, Thursday—Yesterday afternoon,
at the Navy Yard, I saw one of our new de- ' stroyers, | James M. Helm. Mrs. ‘Helm christened it a year ago last spring and she was on board yesterday to teceive us when the officers showed us-over the ship. The living quarters seem so much more convenient than on the boats which I reniember in the days when the President was Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
which is named for the: late Rear Admiral
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Helen B. Metcalf is a well-known and widely traveled journalist who has lived in Tunisia and knows that country and its people intimately.
By Helen B. Metcalf
NEA Service Special Correspondent
WHAT is behind Italian demands for return of Tunisia? How do Mussolini’s underlings justify their diatribes against French control of that ancient African land?
"1800 years for the answer, for Italian peoples have had no governmental control in or of Tunisia since 642 A. D. Legend says the Phoenician Queen Dido built the famous city of Carthage, almost on the exact site of which the present Tunis, capital of the country, is
situated. In the second century B. C, Carthage fell to Rome, and for all but a few of the next 800 years the whole North African province belonged either to the Western or the Eastern Roman Empire. In the Séventh Century it fell to the Mohammedan Arabs, and
Kairwan. (The present city of Kairwan is the second holiest of the Moslem world; the pilgrim
who cannot reach Mecca finds his satisfaction at Kairwan.)
under the domination of Sicily and Spain, and then in the 16th Century was conquered by Turkey, which allowed local autonomy. ” tJ ” INCE 1100 A. D., European interests have fought for possession of Tunisian natural resources. Her coral fisheties on the northern coast are about the finest in the world. Tunisia is the most fertile of the North African countries. Grain, grapes, citrus, grazing and special stud farms for horses and cattle are the large industries of the northern region, just above and below the Medjerda River. Along the eastern coast, the Sahel, there is extensive production of olives, and in the south, near the shotts, the dry salt lakes, about whose shores are the magnificently fertile oases, a great date country. - Tunisia also. is extremely rich in phosphates, has some iron, zinc, and lead, and her pink marble from Shemtu is world-famous. he European powers most concerned have been France, England and the Italian cities. In addition to concessions for exploitation of Tunisian resources, they sought telephone, telegraph, cable,
the local rulers, the Beys, over=taxed the people in order to live in unbelievable luxury, concessions to ‘foreign powers were granted happily as sources of additional income. When unification of the Italian city states into- the Kingdom of Italy took place in 1860, the situation became acute. Italy immediately wanted to restore old Roman glory. It became evident the Bey was favor-
One must go back about
was known as the Kingdom of
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Five Italian submarines bob
For brief periods Tunis came *
and railroad concessions. - Because -
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ing Italy and that Germany and
the government of the Protectorate. France wanted them Galli-
cized. : The problem grew more an nore complicated up until three years ago, when it was believed a final compromise had been: reached, od] Both school and nationality {isues were conceded to the Italians until 1965, when auto-
matic French nationalization of Italian Tunisians was to take place and when all schools were to become French.
Mussolini seemed satisfied ‘and
Loth parties contracted to submit any possible later issues to arbitration. | 8 88 T= powers allowed Italy ito
take Libya, next door to
Tunisia, in 1912, and ‘she helped herself to Ethiopia in 1936. Neither country is suited to colonization. Italy must expand or explode, because ‘of surplus population. She needs to supplement her food sup=ply and essential resources. The resulting] situation is this: Germany succeeded at Munich and hopes in time to get back her forfeited African colonies. She may be sympathetic with Italy, although the Franco-German pact may delay or obviate direct support. If Italy were in Tunisia, she ‘would have nearly complete conrol of the Mediterranean. Britain could not stand for that. i France has to protect her investment in Tunisia, as well as in Algeria, and Morocco. Her manpower in the event of a war must ve supplemented from her colonial possessions. The Tunisian harbor of Bizerta: and the powerful Karouba airbase are wartime essentials. i Tunisia is boiling—over a fire that has been burning 13 centuries. |
to the surface,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938
Tunisia Again Pawn of Europe
Italian Memories Go Back 13 Centuries for Claims on Rich Colony bi
firing deck guns at the rate of 1000 shots a minute
maneuvers in the Bay of Naples.
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40,000 ITALIAN TROOPS MASSE IN SPANISH PYRENEES, FRENCH | TROOPS ARE AT SPANISH BORDER AND IN SAVOY ABOVE ITALIAN BORDER BUT THEIR NUMBERS ARE
TUNISIA , A RICH AND FERTILE COUNTRY, CENTER OF ITALIAN~FRENCH DISPUTE FOR MANY YEARS » 100,000 FRENCH TROOPS IN TUNISIA FACE GARRISONS OF | UNKNOWN STRENGTH IN LIBYA. |
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ALGERIA (FRENCH)
PARIS TO ROME ARLINE 600 Mies
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Showing troop concentrations and airline distances between principal cities as Italy demands return of Tunisia and other one-time possessions now held by France.
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his biggest day of the week.
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Our Town By Anton Scherrer oo
~ Nobody Worked on Sundays in Old Days Except Prof: Cestus, Who Was: + Forced to by Very Nature of Things. ITH the possible exception of Prof. Inigo Cestus, nobody worked on Sune
Sey when I was a boy." I can explain that, 00. i
Prof. Cestus came to Indianapolis by way
‘of London, England, and set up shop as an
“eye painter.” He was the first of his kind around here and to get his business started, he had to have cards printed to explain the nature of his art. A close reading of the cards revealed ? that his was the art of painting black ‘eyes or, as the cards went on to explain in ama print, “the art
| of remqving the éffe¢ts of fist fights
incidental (t Prof. Cest ated quite a st
every day life.” » I remember, creth his cards because _ to the time of his coming, the only way of curing a black eye as tue old method, namely the ; application of raw beef or holdin errer | the injured member to a lamp tas i Beh ES Nelther of hich was any good beyond removing the m oO scoloration and, maybe, : paimatitte 1 Te, eg tae Prof. Cestus changed all that, and with the help of a brush and his great skill, of course, got to er heart of the trouble and removed the discoloration in such a way as to defy detection. He left the ajey viation of pain to other specialists. : Which brings me to the Sundays of Prof. Cestus, v
‘Believe it or not, the Professor’s biggest day is explained by the simple fact that Sunday always fole lows Saturday night. When I was a boy, everybody saved his best fist fighting for Saturday nights with the result that when Sunday morning came, Prof. Cestus had anywhere from two to three dozen black
eyes waiting for him in the outer office. > He Wouldn't Be Fooled
It was too many to handle in one day without impairing his reputation, and that gave the Professor the idea of charging a Sunday rate. It was
$1 for every black eye which was exactly double the
price he charged ‘on week days. He made only one concession and that was in the case of men—women too—who came to him with both eyes in need of touching up. Professor Cestus couldn’t find it in his heart to charge them more than $1.50. : Well, when the people got hep to the profes« sional methods of Prof. Cetus, what do you suppose they did? Exactly—they stopped fighting on Saturday nights as much as they could, and
distributed their brawls over the week days with the result that the Professor's Sunday business fell
off like everything. : Soon as the Professor saw how the wind was blowing, he got out a new set of cards announcing
that he had added a side line to his black eye busi = =
ness and from now on was prepared to paint women’s cheeks to give them the permanent appearance of a baby. Charge, $1. It was more than enough to make up for the black eye business he had lost by
charging too much on Sundays. >
Jane Jordan— Girl Who Visits City and Ignores
Fiance Not in Love, Is Verdict.
EAR JANE JORDAN—For the last two years I have been going with a girl whom I love very much. Our feeling is mutual, in fact we are engaged to be married as soon as I am financially able. This girl lives out of town quite some distance away, and I can’t see her as often as I would like although I
drive over every chance I get. I haven’t been able to see her now for almost a month. She came up
here with some friends and spent the week-end with=
out my knowing it until later. She didn’t call me on the phone and didn’t even drop by to say “hello.” I
was very angry and told her so but her explanation 3 El
was that it was against her code of ethics and she = didn’t think it would be the right thing to do as it would look as if she were running after me.. Now was that any way for her to act? I have been ribbed by my friends and told to drop her if she didn’t think . any more of me than that. This is the second time = this has happened and I am plenty burnt up. What do you think of the situation? TWENTY-ONE.
England would not object. France stepped in and took Tunis. As a pretext she used the attacks of the Khroumirs, a marauding Algerian border tribe, but that was only a pretext to cloak. thinly the real
Even the crew seemed to be, comparatively speaking, comfortable. I asked whether in rough weather these | ships behaved any more quietly than the old ones and was told that the motion was still pretty vigorous. | These boats are quite evidently arranged for active
Answer—Well, the young lady certainly has & strange code of ethics. I can’t believe that'she isvery | deeply interested in you or her desire to see you would | have overrun her stiffi-necked attitude. To be in the same town with the young man you're engaged to
‘Bloodless War’ Is the New Diplomacy as Practiced in Europe, Observer Finds
| service, so when Capt. Talbot told me he got his exercise climbing up and down the ladders to the bridge, he was probably speaking the truth. There is very little space on board which is not utilized for some kind of necessary work.
I went from the man-of-war to the Madeira
School’s Christmas carol ceremony, which, you will
own, is going from one extreme to the other. At this sea-
son of the year, especially, it seems so irreconciliable
that we should sing about the birth of a baby who lived his life to bring’ greater happiness to man and . died a willing sacrifice to prove that the law ‘of love
could outlive the law of hate, and yet/ through all
the centuries, continue to emphasize in .our contacts
with each other the law of force and hate!
A Christmas Visitor
Since we are thinking of Christmas, I cannot help wondering if many of my friends know of a commit-
motives.
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: established in 1881. Immediately the French began extensive development and the need for ‘laborers was acute The Italians flocked in, for Sicily was only 100 sea miles from Tunis: The French took the role of employer, and the Italian of employee, in competition with the native Arab. Italy wanted to keep her sons and daughters Italian — have them speak Italian, go to Italian supported schools, and share in
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By Raymond Clapper | |
| | Times Special Writer HE French protectorate was,
ASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—No observer of what is going on in the world can deny the grim accuracy of what Anthony Eden said in his New York speech. “We know that we are destined in our land and in our generation to live in a period. of emergency of which none can see the end,” he said. “If throughout that testing period, however long or short it may be, we hold fast to our faith, cradle it in stone -and set steel fo
defend it, we can yet hand on our
‘|inheritance of freedom, intact to the generations that are to come.”
Within the compass of those two
brief sentences is stated the situation and the way in which it must be met. Primarily, Mr. Eden was speaking of England. The shoe also fits us. Not so tightly. But it fits. Europe is, as Mr. Eden said, living in a period of emergency. Europe is in the midst of a bloodless war. Not diplomatic fencing, but war. It is war minus only the human slaughter. .In diplomatic bargaining, the ob-
ject is to narrow down differences and reach a final agreement. Each side, of course, tries to obtain as much as it can, but the object is to reach an agreement, to find some common meeting ground which will be acceptable to both sides. Each. side is prepared to give and take. That is not the procedure in Europe today. Mr. Chamberlain goes to Munich and surrenders, hoping that his surrender will bring’ peace.. Under the old diplomacy that was a natural expectation. But his sacrifice was in vain. For he hardly had returned to ‘England before Herr
Hitler was making slurring remarks about him, and about. other British statesmen. Each day makes it more plain
nations. China had a comfortable, easy-going philosophy, but Japanese bayonets make it difficult for the
{Chinese to enjoy their philosophy.
We have a fine philosophy of human rights which rests on justice and respect for the individual, but to be sure of enjoying it, the Western hemisphere must be protected from
tions. Only one thing will cause our rights to be respected. Force.
that the pace is set by the war-like |
the encroachment of war-like na-
marry and refrain from letting him know for so trival a reason, is ridiculous. You already had indicated'a = profound interest in her by asking her to marry you.
Why should she be afraid to show you a like interest? x Was she punishing you for something? Did you _ever go to the town she lives in and fail to see her so
that she felt impelled to repay you in your own <oin? Or perhaps you're one of those suitors who never puts a pen. to paper and the girl doesn’t hear from you from one week-end to the other. Unless there is some explanation of the sort which?you haven’t told me, T am inclined to agree with your friends. The lady is not in love, : er J 2 2 2
JORDAN—I am a girl of 16 and T Fk a boy of 18. I met him a year
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EAR JANE am in love
ago at a party and have been foolish enough to go . “1
out with him any time he asked me. The last time he came back was about four weeks ago and I went
tee which has worked for 27 years to bring foreign ; » | students to the country and to make their time here ; Eve ryday Movies—By Wo rtman profitable? At this season, they ask that on Christmas . : —— trop BH my : Day those who can do so, to entertain some of these |. : 3 ot [1 ht i I 5 — : : . | students, or “unofficial ambassadors” in their homes. A 2 ““ Tt is lonely to be far away from your home at Christ- 3 mas time and so the gesture will be doubly appreciated. I hope it will be possible for many people to have someone with them who might otherwise not | know what a real home is like on this day. I am | afraid that we cannot, ourselves, entertain any for- | eign students, but one of my sons called me last night to ask if he might bring a fellow student from a dif- | ferent part of our own country. Though the house is | fairly full, I am sure We can find a bed for him somewhere. : \
running back as usual. He says he isn’t coming to see me because he has no money and can’t take me places that I have been used to going. He told '& friend that he liked me better than any girl he ever knew, but if he cares wouldn’t he come to see me whether he had any money or not? B.L. 8S. be
Answer—A boy without any money to spend fs afraid to ask a girl for dates before he knows what her attitude is. Few girls today are content to spend | the evening at home. ‘They want to go somewhere and | that takes money. A boy won't risk being embare rassed by ldck of funds. The next time you have date with him, suggest that you stay home instead of running out to a dance or a show. Perhaps he will take the hint that you like him for his own sake ine stead of the money he spends. If a tactful handling of the money problem doesn’t work, you will have reconcile yourself to the fact that he isn’t as infers ested in you as you are in him. JANE JORDAN. =
' Put youp problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will snswer your questions in this column daily. 5,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the name of the largest anthropoid apes? 2—-Who was nicknamed “The March King?” . 3—Name the earth's satellite. 4-—Name the German. Amphassador to the U. 8. is : 5—In which city is the U. S. Government Printing Office? 6—Which English queen granted a charter to the famous Har- - row School? . 7—How long does it take the light of the sun to reach the earth? 8—What is the official title of Charles Evans Hughes? 8 8 ”» Answers
1—Gorilla. : 2—John Philip Sousa.
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