Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1938 — Page 9
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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle
Pass ; Falls Greater Than Niagara On Way to Beautiful Sao Paulo, The Coming City of South America.
qAo PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 17.—Flying be-
comes terribly routine. You almost hope something will happen to break the monotony. At the same time, you fervently hope nothing will.
It is about six hours in here from Paraguay. The monotony is broken once by the sight of
~ Iguasu Falls. ,You say. it “Eee-wah-sue.”
I'm quite sure that not one in 1000 of you ever
heard of Iguasu Falls. Yet they are bigger than Niagara—higher, wider, more water. They lie at a point where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil come together. Not that that means anything to you, but I guess a fellow can get technical once in a while. Our plane landed at a field called Iguasu—which is merely a strip hacked out of the jungle. It is on the Brazilian frontier, and there are big buildings there housing an Army outpost. A Brazilian officer. got aboard and rode to the next stop with us. [They say one always does that. I don’t know why, for he never looked at anybody.
Funny what mistaken ideas we get about places. I've heard of Sao Paulo, but I thought it was a very hot and jungly city—another tropical city without distinction. Well, Sac Paulo turns out to be THE coming city ci South America. Already it is 1,200,000, and people say that within 40 years it will pass Rio. Sao Paulo bustles. In a nice way. It is distinctly a commercial city. | The streets are interesting. The city is strictly clean. The buildings are beautiful. The people are nice. There is modernism everywhere. Yet it doesn’t go surrealistic, as some South American architecture. There are lovely green parks. And millionaires’ rows. . Sao Paulo is nearly 3000 feet above sea level. It lies in ‘a saucer, pn top of the mountains. It is not tropical; but itropical. It is warm, but high enough not to be steamy. . It's hard to know just what. causes Sao Paulo. Of “course it’s in the heart of a marvelously rich coffee and cotton country. But you’d think the metropolis would be Santos, the port, just 50 miles away on the ‘coast, |”
Mr. Pyle
A Sentimental People
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This is fertile country. You can plant a lead pencil and it will grow. And cotton is now coming in with a big rush. Scores of big American companies ‘have "branches here. There are 1000 Americans in Sao Paulo. "More than in Rio. There is so much business that the U. S. Consulate here has to have a staff of 14 people. I think it extremely likely that within our life time Sao Paulo may become the second biggest city in South America. The country is magnificent. Much like the hills of southern Ohio, only more beautiful. And always vividly green. . Sao Paulo is a striking city to 106k down upon from the air. Nearly every roof in town is of bright red tile. Most of the buildings are light in color. When you get such a vast splotch of red and white, onl a green background, you've got a picture. In Brazil they speak Portuguese. It drives me crazy. I had got so I could make just a little headway in Spanish. But this Portuguese puts me completely at sea. I can’t understand a word. Can’t even read the newspapers. Can’t tell from the papers whether a man has died, or just been born. But I like Brazil anyway. A Brazilian friend and I went to a movie this evening. It was “Three Comrades.” At the end of the picture two-thirds of the audience was crying. My Brazilian friend among them. I would have cried too, except I can’t stand Robert Taylor. I believe the Brazilians are 3 sentimental people. They are more like us, it seems to me, than in any Latin country we’ve seen. They are friendly and humorous. They love a good joke. They don’t stare at you. And they have feelings.
My Diary
- By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Children Bring Joy to White House As Dr. Gray and Family Pay Visit.
ASHINGTON, Friday—Having children in the house is certainly a great joy. Dr. Howard Gray, who operated on our son James last fall, is spending a few days here with his wife and two chil-
¢ren. With difficulty, the children managed to stay awake last night long enough to go downstairs before ihe diplomatic reception to have a glimpse at the rooms and some of the guests who were beginning to arrive. I stood at the foot of the big staircase which is now banked with red poinsettias which give a very jovely Christmas note, waiting for ‘the guests and then we went up ta the President’s study with the bther guests for the flag ceremony which precedes gvery reception. At lunch teday, the children were full of their experiences in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and now they are off visiting the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice. Luckily, there is nothing to prevent their going to bed early tonight, for I think they are acquiring so many new impres- : sions that it will take them a little while to rest up. I The Madeira School closes today and my young cousin, like all the other girls, is in a great -state of . excitement and is getting ready to go home late this afternoon. I wonder. if ever again in life one has the same feeling of excitement and anticipation as one lexperiences on leaving school to go home for the holi‘days?
Discusses Cabinet Changes
The diplomatic reception last night seemed to me a particularly pleasant evening and after the
president went upstairs, I had a chance to talk to a |
number of friends. The beautiful uniforms and ‘decorations are always an interesting sight, “but I still feel that the Hungarian group has a certain
dash which cannot be equaled by any of the other |
diplomatic uniforms. Every one in the house went over to the President’s press conference this morning. It was brief, but some of the questions and answers made us all smile, though I doubt if much really important ‘news was forthcoming. The Cabinet has remained unchanged for such a long time that to have two | members leaving seems strange and is news in itself. The late Secretary of the JrSaY Mr. Woodin, .. Dern, are our only two losses until now.
Day- by-Day Science
| By Science Service
: TVS you will recall, amazed his followers by
striking a rock and having water gush forth. More amazed would his followers have been if Moses “had then snatched some light from a sunbeam and | made it turn the water into a flame that would burn as long as there was water to feed it.
Substitute Mohr for Moses in this sequel:to the}
Bible tale and you can bring the story up to date : {Copyright J 1938) for at Concord, Cal.,, Otto H sunlight and water to ‘produce a flame. No miracle or stunt is inventor Mohr’s device. He passes’ electricity through water, decomposes it into hydrogen and oxygen gas, and then burns the hydro‘gen. sunlight on thermocouple junctions. The “hot” junctions of the thermo elements are inclosed in a vacuum while the “cold” junctions have | little vanes attached to them so that they can radiate ' heat to the air. Thus, no matter what the tempera-
: | ure 55, is, there is always the necessary heat difference
po: jufeiins produce ectricity by iw
Second Section
Times Special
Wednesday night a well, described as the largest
brought in on the John C. Cooper farm near here. It was of gusher proportions and experienced oil men have predicted it will pro-
barrels a day. Already preparations are being made to drill four more wells, and oil men predicted that within 90 days the whole area will brisue with wells, tappin what may turn out to be one of the richest fields of the entire Indiana-Illinois= Kentucky area. Griffin’ citizens were talking to-
, Mohr is really using :
His electricity Mr. Mohr obtains by focusing |
By E.R.R. The mysteries of proportional representation can be reduced to simple terms. Members of the student council from . the seventh and eighth grades of one of New York City’s public schools are elected by P. R. At a recent election seven candidates ran for three places on the council. The candidates took positions in the room, and the pupils were told to rally around’ the candidates of their choice. The candidates having the smallest number of votes withdrew, and his supporters indicated their second choice by going over to other candidates. This process was repeated until four candidates and the three remaining were declared elected.
ever drilled in Indiana, was |
duce from 3000 to 5000
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"SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1938
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Griffin’s main street as it is today.
RIFFIN, Ind., Dec. 17.—All but a memory collector's interest in the tragedy that happened to this town 13 years ago was wiped out today as the town's Jewest business—oil—prospered mightily.
day about expansions of business,
and building a hotel, and a bak-
ery gnd a drug store. They were welcoming. with wide smiles and genial outlooks their new prosperity. Thirteen years ago the town
was reduced to kindling wood in .
three minutes by a tornado that struck savagely. More than .50 of its citizens were found dead in the debris. The entire, nation focused its attention on the tragedy. . 2 » ED CROSS trains bearing
medicine, food, clothing and
- shelter came to the town. State
and private agencies went to: the rescue. Griffin faced the most horrible episode in its -history—
5 an episcde far more horrible than
‘P. R. Made Easy
most communities ever are called upon to face. Eventually the town was rebuilt. And after a time the citizens, oc= cupied with their ‘fishing and agricultural tasks, began to forget. Two years ago there was some stir when oil operators began leas= ing territory and then, until about a month ago when drilling operations actually .began there was ‘anather lull. Every one in the town hoped, of course, that the well would bring in oil.. But no one, not even the drillers, were prepared for the gusher that came when it, was tapped. It is another development in the tristate oil fields, hailed hy some oil men as another Texas Panhandle. This Griffin well was financed by independent operators. Only one major company has a lease in the. vicinity. No other
' producing well is within 25 miles
of it.
Disaster to Derricks!
Griffin, Ind., Once Levelled by Tornado,
This week an oil well (structure in background) was brought in near there that promises boom days to the rebuilt town. Persons connected with the operation are on
“the structure,
When the well’ came in at 8: :30 p. m. *. Wednesday, a ream of oil seven inches: in: diameter shot 140 feet into the air and spattered over all near it. This car was covered with
crude oil.
In three minutes on the dftbinoon of March 18, 1925, a a tornado reduced the town of Griffin, Ind, to this mass of rubbish, killing more than 50 and nearly ending its history.
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By ‘Anton Scherrer,
He Recalls = Visits of Old-Time Corn Doctor Who Shed Wisdom and Banished Pain All for Moderate Fee.
ODAY I'm going to break into praise of the old corn doctors who used to come to Indianapolis when I was a boy. I realizethe risk I'm taking, but even so, I'm going through with .it. The way I feel today, nothing can stop me—not even those readers who start biting their nails every time I bring up my boyhood. After all, who is running this column? ; I guess I. was about 8 years old when Dr. Ichabod Swain, the corn doctor I remember i best, began canvassing our neighborhood for business. At any rate, it was during the suzerainty of Amelia, the hired girl who came to I remem-~ ber Doc’s first visit as if it were yesterday because I have a very vivid recollection that as soon "as Amelia saw him she not only recognized him but called him by name. And then I recall that the two sat
‘down and had a long chat about Mr. Scherrer
| the most intimate affairs in and around Teutopolis, ;
On that particular day, Doc brought two items of news that still stick in my memory, (1) a reassuring report that Amelia’s little brother had recovered from a bad case of mumps, and (2) a rather alarming report that Amelia’s father and Mr. Holzajfel weren’t on speaking terms, all on account of some argument about the fences between their respective farms. Both items surprised Amelia like everything because nothing contained in the letters from home had mentioned
either subject. After that, Amelia always depended ck
on ‘Doc’s annuel - visits: for news from home, notwithe standing the fact that she was in weekly communi= cation with her: folks.
The reason Doc knew ‘so much about Teutopolis was because he came through there every spring. He started his annual pilgrimage somewhere on the Nae tional Road in Southern Iilinois and worked his way through Teutopolis and Terre Haute up to Indianapolis, scarifying and gouging whole townships in a single day. He never started his pilgrimage until ~ winter was over: because I remember his telling me once that he always waited until’ people got done wearing rubbers. A long winter with everybody wears
ing rubbers will produce a bumper crop of corns, i
he said.
Tight Shoes Afe Absolved
It was on the same occasion, too, that Doc en= lightened me, a kid of 8, on the subject of tight shoes. Speaking ex-cathedra that day, he said. it’s all
a mistake that tight shoes have anything to do with :
corns. ‘Just the reverse. A snug fitting or even tight shoe will not raise corns. nearly. so quickly as one| a size too big. Doc said that.was the cause of the fours inch case hardened corn he met up with between here and Terre Haute, He said it took him three hours to | pry it loose, and. goodness only knows how long it would have taken: had he: nog had his Mennenger knife with him..
I guess Amelia's shoes were oo ‘big, too. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to explain why she always had a couple of corns when Doc came around. Once, but only once, I saw Doc operate on Amelia. I guess I oughtn’t to mention it because:it’s one of those sacred things: between Amelia and myself, the sharing of which is nobody’s business. Ill say this, though, Doc handled the case very delicately. He charged her 25 cents a corn, I remember, The biggest business Doe ever did in Indianapolis, he once told me, was 13 corns on the feet of an old man jn Balweg’s. box factory. He
‘| charged him $2.75. Doc said you had to be liberal in
such cases. The only regret I have is that I couldn't ‘throw Doc any business. Try as I would, I never had a corn when he. turned up.
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“|Jane tordan: Still in Love With Divorced Mate,
Wife Teld to Bar Martyr Complex, :
EAR JANE JORDAN~I havea simple little probe iem that doesn’t amount to much but it is eating my heart out. I guess I'm; like a lot of other women, Weak. Almost a year agq my husband and I 'sepae rated, Last July-we were with that same woman who broke up our home. Now
that hurts; it is that our home is broken up. I just
| can’t forget him, no matter how I try. I've put mye self to a test by going out in crowds with different people. I met two. different men; one proposed to me
but I told him how I felt about my former husband, His reply was that I was a fool-and he only felt sorry for me. I work hard every day only to come home tired and blue with the same old feeling of loneliness and discouragement. I have no one to confide in. I read a lot and do a lot. of needlework to pass away the time but that doesn’t help. I hear he still cares for me but why. doesn’t he visit me or try to see me sometime. I would be so.happy just to see him or ta speak to him, Then all my hard work would be & pleasure. Tell me am I wrong or right about the way I feel. I wish I could get over it. LONESOME HOMEBODY.
Answer—Give yourself time. A major readjust= ment such as you have been obliged to make is not a simple little problem and it is not done easily. When ‘one’y life has been organized around another person, it is hard to go on alone. Your affections have been torn loose and left dangling in midair, so to speak,
with no object ‘upon which to center.
In an upheaval such as you have gone through, it is inevitable that you should have had many hostile | feelings toward the pair who interfered with your happiness. Many people are frightened when they feel anger and hatred, and in their effort to repress destructive feelings, they make martyrs of themselves, A melancholy person is always an angry person whose hostile feelings are turned back against himself rather. than outward against the factors in his life Which hurt him, This is what you have to guard against most. Don’t. “punish yourself for what has happened by pushing back your ability to enjoy life. You are on the right track when you force yourself to go out and mingle with others. Try to tear your thoughts loose from your own tragedy and interest yourself in the problems and perplexities of others. Nearly everyone has somes thing to contend with, and youll find that your own problem has been satisfactorily solved by many other women. Take heart from this fact. Your self. esteem has been badly damaged, but you'll live through it to establish a better life for yourselt in time if you have courage. JANE JORDAN. =
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