Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1938 — Page 17

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle Ly ‘California Girl Went fo Brazil in 1912 on Visit, Remained and Now | Runs Big Restaurant in Sao Paulo.

AO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 19.—In Peru, it’s [ia Bates. In Brazil, Frances.Prettyman. They are as different as day and night. But they are both North American women who ~ have made good in South America in a big way, : : Hoa Frances Rooney was a California girl. In 1012 ~.. she started on a three-cornered vacation cruise—from the States to South America, across to Europe and : back to the States. She expected to be gone about four months, She got as far as Rio. She never did get to Europe and it was 24 years before she made her first trip back to the United States! : Her ship hit Rio during a revolution. They were held up for a week or so. Frances Rooney met a man, fell in love, and got married. That’s ‘when her name changed to Preftyman. Fourteen years later they separated, and her husband went back to the States. But Frances stayed in Sao Paulo, and probably will always stay.

If you are in Sao Paulo as much as 2¢ hours, you SHe owns the Pan Americano Bar

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8 will meet Frances. ry & Restaurant. She knows every North American in Sao Paulo, for most of them eat there now and then. She knows, and counts among her close friends hundreds of Brazilians. They eat there, too. She employs 33 people, gets up about noon, smokes one English _ cigaret after another, is always being called by adoring customers to sit and chat awhile, and claims she constantly is on the verge of bankruptcy. She looks like Marie Dressler and has the reputation of being a soft guy. She's a sucker for a sob story. Nobody ever goes out of her place hungry. She's in the red for 50 ‘“contos” in loans, and she’ll- never see a dime of it. She knows she’s a sucker, but she can’t help it.

So seldom does anybody sons around to repay |

a loan that she almost cries when she tells one story. A ragged young fellow showed up one day and said he was hungry. So Frances fed him, and put him to work scrub‘bing walls. Hé was weak, but he scrubbed them. He worked there for several weeks. Frances helped him write a letter home to the States for money. She kept him in spending money. Finally he disappeared. She didn’t see him for weeks. And then one day a taxi pulled up in front. The waiters all ran to the window to see the sight. Here was the young fellow dressed up like ‘a millionaire. And he had a taxi entirely filled with flowers—for Frances!

Clark Gable a Visitor

Frances is the only one of her family who has done any roaming. She has two sisters, and several uncles, in California. None of the family can understand why she wants to live way off here in this South America. : . Frances went home in 1936—her first visit since she started on that cruise in 1912. She had a wonderful time. : 4 “But you wouldn’t want to live back there now, cy would you?” I asked. » § “You bet I would,” she said. + to stay if I had money enough.” But she wouldn't, of course. .. Prances has an apartment across the street from her restaurant. Rio de Janeiro is only a few hours

“I'd like to go back

away, but she has been there only three times in |

26 years. She has practically no-life at all outside the restaurant. She doesn’t want any. Life comes to her. What could be more interesting than staying here and meeting all these people, she asks. : Her greatest regret is that she hasn't kept a guest book. She'd have some wonderful names. Clark Gable ate there, and ‘told her to. be sure and look him up in Hollywood. | Frances is planning on another trip to the States next spring. She wants to see the San Francisco Exposition. But I'll bet the Ex tion, and all her uncles, or even Clark Gable, can’t keep her there. When you've lived in Sao Paulo 26 years, that’s

home. |

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Finds New Child's Book Absorbing; Dinner Dates Clash at White House.

ASHINGTON, Sunday.—Before I begin on the various happenings of the last few days, let me mention for the benefit of mothers who may be searching for books to amuse the very small fry, that I came across a book called “Margo, the Horse Who Wouldn’t Stay on the Merry-Go-Round.” I think any child will find it pure joy. It is illustrated by Sugar Poling and the story is written by Ginny Ryan, both from West Virginia. These two young.women are just breaking into this field ‘of children’s books, I believe, and I hope they continue with the same success, for I think many youngsters are going to enjoy them. Yesterday was an extraordinarily busy day. The Arthurdale, W. Va., advisory committee met with me in the morning and a group of Southern young people gathered together to tell me some of their plans. They are working on some of the questions brought up in the Birmingham conference on human welfare.

.' One of those small complications which occasional-

ly arise in families cccurred yesterday. Both my husband and I invited a complete luncheon party and so we had to use both dining rooms. There are moments when the added space in the White House is most useful. After lunch I had to make;a short transcript fop an infantile paralysis radio program and, as I weft out of the White House, I found a number of photog-

raphers standing in their usual places waiting for the

Vice President to come out from a conference with the “President. I went over to the studio and came back and they were still standing there. I could only think how grateful I was that my assignments: did not require so much standing around in the cold waiting - for those in high places. ; Enjoys Gridiron Skits a All the gentlemen in he, house oe on i the asi diron , Saturday ght a we held, as eg 2 par call the Gridiron Widows’ Party. 1 suppose one should not praise one’s own party, but 1 .think it is permissible to say that the entertainment provided by one's guests was really very en_tertaining. This year the newspaper girls carried the main burden and their skits were delightful, Vandy Cape and Miss Sydney Thompson, who came down as my guests, also gave us the benefit of their professional #alent. After supper I always call on certain of my guests to say a few words and last night they responded in a particularly witty and amusing way. Altogether, you will probably gather that I enjoyed my own party and I hope that everyone else had an equally good ime. ; ’ A ride this morning and a regretful goodby to all of our house guests. This afternoon I go to a ‘party for crippled children given by the Kiwanis Club

of Washington, and then to the Washington Sym-

phony Orchestra concert.

\ Day-by-Day Science

‘By Science Service yo ; IOLOGISTS the world over have been observing, B ‘during the current year, one of the most important anniversaries in the whole history of science: he. of the cell theory. It not until 1838 that the right eyes and the right yhinds were applied to the cellular problem. First came Matthias Jacob Schileiden, son of a Hamburg physician, who at the age of 34 brilliantly interpreted

these minute

living units. He described able accuracy the course of cell division, it, correctly, as the essential basis of

‘or more than one in every three, said “Yes.”

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subdivisions of the plants he studied as |

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What is the public’s verdict on the last five years of repeal? Are there any signs of a new dry wave? Which way is public opinion trending? These are some of the questions answered in the following exclusive survey of rank and file voters, conducted for The Indianapolis Times and other prominent American newspapers by the American Institute of Public Opinion. The survey is the Institute’s third successive study of wet and dry sentiment since repeal. :

: ® ® 8 By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

NEW YORK, Dec. '19.—After five years of repeal the American people are still over-: whelmingly opposed to national prohibitipn, but there are signs of growing dry sentiment across the country, especially among the farms and small towns where the last great dry wave began. As the national convention of the: once-powerful - Anti-Saloon

League ends its sessions in Columbus after mapping plans for a “second crusade” to make America dry, a nation-wide study by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows that the reaction against repeal is expressing itself in two principal ways:

1. By an increase in the number who would vote dry if national prohibition comes up again, and

2. By a demand in nearly every part of the United States for a stiffening of the liquor laws.

Taken together, these two facts help : to explain the dozens of communities . FT ESEE that have gone dry in “local option” a = | elections recently. Although the public in general—and the liquor industry in particular—have not missed the lesson : of these local verdicts, the Institute sur- 1 vey discloses the nation-wide extent of Ra the demand for stricter control for the first time. : The Institute put a series of questions on prohibition and drinking to a scientifically selected cross-section of the voting population in all parts of the United ‘States. In the first of these questions voters were asked: “If the - question of national prohibition should come up again, would you vote for it?” In reply, 36 per cent of the voters, Sixty-four

per cent said “No.” On “the surface, at least, this is a sharp verdict for repeal. If translated into millions of votes, on the basis of the 1936 election, the vote means about 16 million in favor of bringing back prohibition and nearly 29 million opposed. The wet majority in this case would bé even greater than President Roosevelt's majority two years ago. ” 8 ” UT repeal has not quite been holding its own. In the official State referenda which wiped the Eighteenth Amendment from the books five years ago, only 30 per cent of the voters were dry. Three years afterward the Institute found 33 per cent on the dry side, and by last February the number had risen to 34 per cent. ’ The trend is shown in the following figures: iE ] Voting Dry Voting Wet 30% 90% 33 67

State Referenda, 1933-34 Tnsiffuie Survey, 1936....... a. Institute Survey, Feb. 1938.. 34 66 Institute Survey, Today 36 64

This does not mean that a new dry wave is rolling up in the United States that will take the country back to “the noble experiment.” The organized dry movement is no longer making a vast number of converts in the great cities and among the younger voters, and these voters would be needed if national prohibition were to come back. But it is significant that since 1933 there has been a dry trend averaging 1 per cent per year. Moreover, the Institute. survey shows that a substantial number of Americans believe drunkenness has been increasing since repeal. The Institute asked: “Do you think drunkenness is increasing or decreas_ing in this community?” : + “Increasing,” reported 40 per cent of the voters. Thirty-

six per cent thought drunkenness was “about the same,” and only 24 per cent thought it had been reduced. = # ® 1= greatest rise in intemperance was-noted by Middle Western voters, and the most frequent coraplaints were against drinking by automobile drivers and by young ‘people. In response to the Institute’s query, “Do ycu think young people would be ‘better off if we had national prohibition again?” 43 per cent voted “Yes.” : How far will the dry swing go? Is prohibition. to become -a natignal issue again?. Much depends on whether the public is satisfied with the way liquor is regulated, and the Institute survey -shows that a majority of voters are not satisfied with such regulation to ay. . The Institute asked: “Do you think liquor regulations here are too strict, not strict enough, or about right?” The answers show that only four voters in ‘every 100 think regulations are “too strict,” but that 53 thinkthey are “not

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Trend of “Dry”

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‘Wet’ and Dry" Survey

The following results are from a nationwide survey conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion on questions of prohibition and liquor regulation. ye “If the question of national prohibition should come up again, would you vote for it?”

YES 900000000000 0000000008000000000° 36% NO $983000090304080380049,0800300800800 64%

“Do you think drunkenness is increasing or de- | creasing in this community?” INCREASING DECREASING «.ccovecsccnvecconsss 24% ABOUT THE SAME.......cciivsee 36%

“Do; you think liquor regulations here are too strict, not strict enough, or about right?” TOO STRICT ...vevnvsussieivovess 4% % NOT STRICT ENOUGH. sescsvonse . 53% ABOUT RIGHT ...cccoocoocssecess 43%

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After five years of repeal, the American people are still against a return to national pyohibition, but there has been a slight increase in dry sentiment year by year, according to the surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion charted above.

unloading imported liquors after repeal and,

right, drinking at the bar in one of America’s large cities.

for the 15 States with monopoly systems is: “Too strict,” 6 per eent; “Not strict enough,” 48 per cent, and “About right,” 46 per cent. : In the 25 States using the license system the vote is: “Too strict,” 3 per cent; “Not strict enough,” 53 per cent, and “About right,” 44 per cent. The greatest strength of the dry movement is where it has always been—among farmers and town dwellers, especially in the South and Middle West, and among older persons rather than young persons. City voters and young persons alike average only 29 per cent in favor of g return to prohibition. : :

National Prohibition Still Favored by 4 Dry States

HE four States which still yemain legally closed to. ~ A liquor believe that it would be a:good thing for the young people of the United States if national prohibition

came back. .

‘And a majority of voters in the four States say they

would vote for prohibition if the subject should come up. The States are Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Mississippi. ; ‘The average votes of the four are: ; ) “Do you think young people would he better off if we had national prohibition again?” YES Centrebet inset avira 63%

NO s8es0s08ss80000s000ens0s0/s000000enedias 37% -

“If the question of national prohibition should come up again, would you vote for it?” : YES esesseesesesnesescssscasncanscsscncss 56% NO

$00000000000000000000000008000000000000 44%

NO $88sssasse000090000000a0dsd80000e 851%

the vote for States using the license system. The average

strict enough,” and the remainder say “about right.” The actual vote is: : Wd Too Strict 4% Not Strict Enough ...., «..c0v0viionee....53% About Right ..................

Although the South and the Middle West have been the geographical centers of the dry movement, the survey shows that voters in all parts of the country are concerned about liquor regulations they believe not strict enough. The vote by sections is: ;

About Right

Not Strict Enough

49% 41 53 65 ciiiividas sill 65 31 West civ 52 “

An interesting sidelight is the vote for those States. selling liquor under a State monopoly system as compared with

Too Strict

New England ..........5% Mid-Atlantic ....,,.... 6 East Central crereeness.d West Central

46% 53 43 32

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Stetson 110 Leading Science Stories

For 1938 Are Selected

By Science Service ; ASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The 10 leading science stories

of 1938 have been selected by Watson Davis, director of Science Service. For nearly a score of years Mr. Davis has edited Science Service's extensive specialized coverage of the progress of science. His selections: (1) The new synthetic fiber that promises to make stockinged legs free of Japanese silk. (2) The movement

‘| toward more adequate medical service for "all the people.

(3) New treatments of diseases, notably nicotinic acid for pellagra, sulfanilamide and related chemicals for an increasing variety of infectious diseases. (4) Use of the absolute altimeter and automatic direction finder to make flying safer. (5) The continued purge of intellectuals in dictator countries. (6) Independent statements of promi-

iient psychiatrists that in their judgment Hitler has dis-*

played the symptoms of violent mental disease. (7) ‘The (8). The fight against cancer. (9) Discovery that horse “sleeping sickness” can affect hu--man ‘beings. (10) Developments in the sub-atomic world: Probable discovery of neutrino and neutretto, radioactivity of X particle (mesotron)., : (rE

tered as Second-Class Matter Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

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KNOWLEDGE

1—For what labor organization do the initials 8S. W. O. C. stand? i 2—In which country is the seaport town of Arica? 3—How many grains are in an avoirdupois ounce? : 4—By whom was the “American’s Creed” written? 5—When are “Dog Days”? 6—Which river forms the eastern boundary of Arkansas? 7—What is the name of the native beer, the common stim_ulating drink of the Japanese? ©. La a . Answers

1—Steel Workers + “Committee

Organizing 7 3—4375. . hl] - 4—Willlam Tyler Page. |! 5=The hot, sultry season

of |. , mad Augus : 8 “Mississippi. ina ere : 1 ASK THE TIMES :.{| + Inclose a 3-cent stamp for | ‘reply when addressing

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Our Towr

By Anton Scherrer

Being Further Information Whic You Ought to Have on Mr. Frin - Who Helped Make Gatling G

NCE upon a time—It must have be ages ago—I ran a little piece about Dr

| Richard Gatling, in the course of which

pointed out that he married an Indianapolis{} girl (Jemima Sanders) ; that his residence} is still standing 821-828*Union St.) and that while living here he got the people at Washington to give him a patent (No. 36836) for the rapid-firing | gun bearing his name. -Tucked away in the article, I remember, was a little item to the -— effect that after the doctor got his patent he went to Otis Frink, a

machinist on the South Side, and together they made the first Gat-

gun. Well, today I know a little more about Mr. Prink, and I might as well share my knowledge with you. . He was born in-Maine in 1839, but moved to Brooklyn, N, Y., when he — In Brooklyn, his Mr. Scherrer for a while it looked as if Otis might go the same way. Anyway, at the age of 15 he went into his It was about: this time that the new invention of continuous gum work had become the .rage, and it was then and there that Otis showed signs of a mechanical genius. He carved out from a preparation made by his father a plate and a seb of teeth said to be unsurpassed for beauty of work

| anapolis bringing not only his father, but the famous

set of Brooklyn teeth, too. He continued work dentistry until 1862 when he commenced to learn t machine business. ‘His father bought him a plane and lathe and with these he went to work wherever he could rent the power. , gr

Soon Became an Expert : He soon became known as an expert with so

: much work to do that he got his father to assist

him in buying Louis.Kolb’s turning establishment

| on Georgia St. He then formed a partnership with

his father and his brother-in-law, H. A. Moore,

‘| under the name of 8. A. Frink & Co. (the old man’s

moniker). While they were at it, they also built a’ small foundry and believe it. or not, the first job that came in was what proved to be the famous Gatling

gun. : It was finished in six months, had a firing capacity .of 250- shots a minute, and worked as slick as a mouse trap. This was the gun which was taken to the Paris Exposition and created no end of excites ment. Soon as Napoleon III saw it, he wantéd to buy half a dozen right away. Thought that would be enough to scare the Germans with. | While the first Gatling gun was off on parade in Paris, the doctor and the Indianapolis machinist started making a second gun incorporating some of Mr. Frink's ideas. This was the gun used in the first trial at the Washington Arsenal in January, 1866 Mr. Frink made the trip, too, to see that the gun went off all right. It did. ] When Mr. Frink got back from Washington he found his desk so piled with business that he had

| to move, this time to St. Clair St. and the Canal.

He called his new place the Union Novelty Co. By this time, too, the Paris gun had come back. It was on exhibition in Mr. Frink's ‘office; all during the early Seventies. Wonder where it is now,

Jane Jordan— : Poetry-Minded Husband Gives Hi Side and Draws Further Criticism.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am the “poetry-minded! husband of Brown Eyes, who sen’ you her regrets on Dec. 6. After reading how “A Poetical Mind” dis-

.| agrees with your opinion of me as her no-account

dreamer-husband, I'm chipping in to side with you. You're not the first to call me a boy; and as for my basic weakness, no one is more aware of it than I I am ambitious and I always hope to be so. Last year I published a book of verse which got some good words from Burton Rascoe and Louis Untermeyer. I was ready for a second book when I landed a fat job. Immediately I cast about for a wife. Since then haven’t written a line of poetry. So much the bet= ter, maybe. I know poetry isn't everybody's dish. Take Brown Eyes: She can’t understand a word of it. But I have also done plenty of prose writing; and with that I might make the stipend I draw now look like chicken feed some day. However, I just.can't get in the mood; that stuff is way above Brown Eyes’ level. Not only that, but my. office friends are akove her level, too. As for her friends, they are trades people and laborers whom I don’t care for. She is an angel of sweetness, As she said, she tries, to please. .She puts me on a pedestal and worships me; and it makes me miserable to yap about her friends and

{| education. But somehow I can’t be satisfied with my

job, that's all. When I married her, I knew if I tried to go higher she couldn't keep step. Well, IT want to go higher. - ENDYMION.

Answer—I think you take my criticism too meekly, It would be healthier if you showed more spunk. After all I made a few guesses without knowing you or hearing your side of the story. You had ‘a right to be mad at me; vet you meekly agree. I wonder if you married Brown Eyes to provide yourself with an excuse for not writing. It is obvious that two oppos= ing forces war within you, one to rise higher, and the other to remain in an easy berth with an adoring mother in attendance. I write for a living and have more sympathy for your trouble than you think. It is hard to write when you don’t feel in’ the mood. All the writers I know complain of the old familiar difficulty of getting down to work. The writing profession harbors the greate est group of putter-offers I know. We'll do anything to put off the fatal moment when we must put psn to paper, even if it means working hard at some= thing else. No : Like many others of my ilk I have learned to write under pressure. I have written when my life was crashing down around my ears. I have written in the hospital before the fumes of ether quite cleared away. But still I'm afraid to cut loose from a routine job and try to write without a newspaper deadline to meet for fear 1'd never put a word on paper. Y see I share your weakness. % You belong to a lazy breed of cats. You'll simply have to give up your lame excuses for not writing and us blaming Brown Eyes because she doesn’t inspire you to flights of fancy. a keep you from writing but yourself. S g. 1 8 ey JANE JORDAN.

| Pat your vroblems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will a Your questions in this column daily.

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

WEN in the first paragraph of a novel the hi : is making e choice between two women, one wife, the situation immediately is intr Wo STRANGERS, by Claude Houghton Oldfield (M millan), this situation pertains to Hector Granth: artistic, attractive and successful; his wife Hilda extremely nice person whose whole life is wre up in their children, and Crystal Heatherly, a cious and beautiful girl who becomes his mistress. *- Mr. Oldfield develops his plot from the psy part of the lives and thoughts of his chara “Strangers” is a tense and disturbing story as a brilliant study of an introspective though he enter; so deeply into

| with wife, children

and lover, yet: feel