Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1938 — Page 13

: Faking Leave of Rio With; Regret Travelers Head North in’ Roomy Clipper With 13 Other Passengers.

ERT, Brazil, Dec. 29. — Ten

: in the air today, with but two stops. Our luck: still holds; the air was smooth and

flying pleasant. Rio was a peaeeful place _ when we left it. The sun was already bright

_ w and hot by 6 a. m. : There was hardly a car 3 i on the street as we said goodby to the sleepy ‘bellboy “and drove along the bay front to the airport. { We had breakfast in Panair’s beautiful terminal building—almost the equal of the famous international terminal at Miami. And then out over the long concrete ramp, Stairs and down into the inside of the Clipper. e took off toward the north. Not |a bank nor a turn. We never had |a “last look” at Rio. I'm sure it was just as well. It was hard enough to leave anyway. The Clipper. seats aren’t nearly " so comfortable as the Douglas land planes, but there is lots more room inside. There are four separate ro passenger compartments, and you ‘can’ “sit in | lone awhile and then in another. It takes ‘w.away that caged feeling. We have 15 passengers; the most we have ever had. And That Girl, once again, is the only woman / on ‘the plane. About, half the passengers are Brazil- ! ians, put they all speak English. As on a boat, pas- . sengers don’t start getting acquainted for a day or two. One “Brasiian is .air sick. ° You can smoke on the Clippers. In the forward 3 compartment only. Smoking isn’t allowed on Pan- © air’s land planes, nor on the big Clippers across the . .Pagific. +: The stops on these all-day flights are so brief that ~ they quickly disappear from your memory. We landed atl o'clock at Bahia, one of the larger cities of Brazil. . Yet this evening, -as I sat writing, I couldn't reI ‘member Bahia at all for several minutes.

Plane Docked Just Like Ship |

The Clipper is a boat. as you know, and’of course | we land in the water. Never right out in the ocean. | Always in 8 river, or inside a harbor. At eacb/place Panair has a dock running out into the ‘water, and a large float at the end of the dock. Already two dark-skinned men are on their way

out in a row boat. They hook a line to the tail, another to one pontoon. Men on the float pull us in. Thé plane jis tied upto the float, Just like a ship in port: Everybody leaves the plane at every stop. In fact, they don't |want you in it while they’re gassing. We walk up the dock and into a waiting room. In these hot countries the waiting room often has no doors, sometimes no sides. It ist always spic and. span, with tables and wicker chairs. We have been places: on this trip ‘where’ the Panair station is the only clean, presentable. and decent-looking thing for hundreds of miles _ in either direction.

Mr. Pyle

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The: following article outlining progress toward greater traffic safety in Indiana is reprinted from the magazine, Public Safety. It was written by Don F. Stiver, Indiana Director of Public Safety. ‘ 5

By Don F. Stiver

Indiana Director of Public Safety OR years Indiana ranked among the bloody states with a black traffic fatality record. Hundreds of persons were losing their lives | annually, and governmental agencies in the State seemed unable to cope with the situation, gigantic and pressing as it was. First deliberate steps for promoting safer driving were taken by former Governor McNutt when

he created the Department of Public Safety in 1933, enlarged and enhanced the activities of the State Police

and when he later organized the Governor’s Com - mittee on Public Safety. a Hone : 5 4 Sti civic - minded, Don F. Stiver far - mithted citizens on the Governor's Committee met with the Director of Public Safety and devised legislative proposals revolutionary in their influence upon traffic safety in Indiana.. Passed by the 1937 General Assembly, these laws

the State Police Department, gave greater powers in speed zoning

instituted a compulsory accident reporting system, established a drivers’ license ‘examination law with provisions for suspension and revocation, and several other pertinent measures. Governor Townsend took office in 1937 expressing his determina-

. Department,

the State Highway Commission -

and traffic regulations for safety,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1088

greatly enhanced the activities of i

Indiana Gives Se CE

Stiver Outlines Progress, in 'State’s Battle Against Traffic Hazards

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Our Town

[By Anton Scherrer

Recalling H w Butler Student With Two professor Scaled Mighty Matterhorn | ‘and Fought Disaster.

JTS time you foo comeing about Charlie

Gilbert, the 22-y back in 1881 climbe terhorn. though.

"Charlie came to | tndinsiapelis by way of Rockford, Ill., and picked - Butler as the place to get his education. That was back in the days when David Starr Jordan was professor of biology and Mele ville Best Anderson taught English. . I mention their names because they went with Charlie to | tackle the Matterhorn. Everybody said the Butler men were crazy when they heard what they were up to. Not only that, but they reminded them of Edward Whymper and the horrible thing that happened to him. Seems that Mr. Whymper, a Briton by birth and a wood engraver by profession, was sent to Switzerland in 1861 to make some engravings ‘of the Alps, and while working on ‘the job fell in love with the mountains. After make ing some brilliant be in’ the French Alps, he

ar-eld Bufle: boy, who to the top of the Mate The conting down wasn’t so good,

Mr. Scherrer ?

decided to attempt. the Matterhorn which up to that time had not been conquered. After six attempts in almost as many years, he got to the top in 1865. So did his four companions and two guides. In the descent, however, one of the party slipped, the rope broke, and everybody except Mr. Whymper and one guide was hurled to the glacier 4000 feet below. They lie buried in the churchyard of Zermatt, the village at the foot of the mountain. Well, that scared everybody with the result that for many years after that, mountain climbers let the Matterhorn alone. All except those in and around Butler University. .They went to Zermatt, engaged guides, and at 1 o'clock on the morning of Aug. 13, 1881," started out to duplicate Mr, Whymper’s feat, What actually happened is contained in a letter ree ceived by. Mrs. Anderson who stayed behind. in Indie anapolis—in Irvington, as a matter of fact—while her husband and his buddies were flirting: with the Matterhorn.

The Professor's Story

“We finally reached the summit,” wrote Prof Ane derson, “It is only a yard or two wide and 60° or 70 feet long with a sheer descent of something like a mile and a half in all directions, We did not stay there long as the wind was blowing a gale; it was bite ter cold and the snow began to fall. It was soon after we started down that the accident to Gilbert happened. A fragment of rock bounding down the mountain side struck him just above the eyes. For

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tion to make Indiana one of the nation’s safest states. By creating his Governor's Co-ordinating Safety Committee, he brought together the Superintendent of Pub-

a moment he was thought to be dead. “With barely guides enough, two had to be taken to care for Gilbert and it was three hours’ scramble from where he was hurt to the first cabin, Gilbert

And always there is a table full of little cups, and Fi a big thermos of hot coffee. We always drink coffee, W. no matter how hot the day. And the silly part is C; that although we have been sitting down for four

ie ba ; National Safety Council Photo. Was it worth while? This picture tells its own story. | :

{ hours, the minute we get ashore we sit down in the | wicker chairs and sit there till the plane is ready. | We laugh at each other, but we all do it. ol We are usually down about 15 or 20 minutes. We n all smoke two cigarets while were ashore. It's a | hurried habit from the days when we couldn't smoke £ | in the air. | And I might add that they always taste

ings." Thats for the crew to go aboard. {Then two bells. That’s for us. pasted. Before we know it, we are on our way for r hours. 3 ah

Diary

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dance for Niece Great Success:

Lambeth Walk Seems Doomed.

permost. in my mind, the dance given last night my ‘young niece, Miss Eleanor Roosevelt II. We S0 many cousins from different sides of the ily dine with us, that my brother and I, who not seen some of them since they were small dren, spent our time trying to pick out the differones around the table by their resemblance to parents. We found ourselves entirely success- = for Col. Theodore Roosevelt's son looks like him 2% 94 there was an unmistakable look of Ethel and Dick by in their daughter, Sarah Alden. Little Joan ond has more of a Livingston look, I think. But mother-in-law, who always searches for Delano racteristics, could probably have picked them out. As far as I could see, the dance was a great suc‘even though a little crowded. ‘I begin to see the j It is not quite exciting ugh when played as a walk to hold Young AmerI don’t see why they don’t play a i My brother ceeded in getting Virginia Reel sets all over the m: toward the end of the party. Many of the . peop.e seemed to know how to dance it, which a surprise. I noticed that with the vogue for p skirts| certain of the old-fashioned dances have There were far more waltzes played by 6 orchestra and far more people knew how to ance them than I have seen in a ballroom for some

. My niece looked very attractive in a white dress ith a hoop skirt and a little old-fashioned bouquet jhich her mother sent her. i As couple after couple came up to speak to me last | ht, T was impressed: by the fact that it is life and 2 telligence shining out of faces which really attracts Thitention. ‘A girl may be very pretty and yet appear

There isn’t .any time |

ent of the Indiana State Police who is also the Director of Pub-

Motor Vehicles and the Chairman of the State Highway Commission. At monthly meetings these officials integrated ‘the various activities in the safety field to reinforce each other and better serve the public. State troopers were assigned to examine all school busses with a view to their safer operation, and to enforcement of the State law prohibiting motorists from - passing a school bus which is children. ” 2

| ining new drivers

| State Police officers as examiners. AAsET NGTON, Wednesday—I might as well be-

gin py talking about the thing which is still |

HE motor vehicle commissioner set up a system for examand enlisted

The * State Police Department, through its accident prevention bureau, supplies the Motor Vehicle Bureau with the names of all persons arrested for traffic violations or involved in traffic accidents reported to the department. As its contribution to the coordinating safety setup, the Sate Highway Commission created a bureau of traffic for the sqle purpose of making traffic studies upon which engineering practices conducive to greater safety could be instituted. Center lanes and no passing zones were set ‘up on state highway intersections, and curves with bad accident records - were: analyzed and engineering defects corrected. . All accident data upon which these activities were based were secured from the State Police. Every State department concerned with traffic safety was kept advised of each other’s activities and rendered ‘invaluable assistance in sharing data and facilities of mutual benefit. Recently the Co-ordinating Committee : began the process of recodifying Indi- » ana’s traffic code to clarify every

statute and bring it in accord with

lic Instruction, the Superintend-

lic Safety, the Commissioner of

loading or unloading |

the most modern recommendations for safety legislation. As an energizer for traffic safety itnprovement and a clearing house for every agency seeking to bring about a betterment of the record,

the Co-ordinating Committee has.

been exceptionally successful.

To obtain public .co-operation.

through the press, the Co-ordinat= ing Committee was fortunate in getting the C. I. T. Safety Foundation of New York to hold a seminar for representatives of all daily newspapers in the State. First of its kind to be conducted in a specific state, the seminar brought in nationally known safety experts to acquaint working newspapermen with the traffic accident problem and to familiarize them with what the press could do

: to stimulate action toward the so-

lution of the problem. Helpful guidance and ‘personal attention to Indiana’s needs have been obtained by the various agencies of the Co-ordinating Committee from the: Field Service of the National Safety Council. The latest approved practices were installed by the National Safety Council's field representatives. x 2.2 : ; TN VERY officer of the State Police Department received a week of intensive training in traffic control and accident investigation in the summer of 1938 from a staff member of the Safety

Division of the International As-_

sociation of Chiefs of Police, At the same time a personnel of com-

manding officers with duties de-*

voted solely to traffic was established to carry out the program of selective enforcement installed by thie Police Chiefs’ Association.

Thus the haphazard traffic control methods of relatively uninformed police officers gave way to the most careful analysis of each accident by investigating officers and a far more effective approach to the driving public. Through studies of the'accident reports, the officers were assigned to accident

areas during the hours when enforcement was most needed and were instructed to look for violations known to be causing much of the difficulty. Drunken driving was attacked scientifically by the use of the drunkometer devised by Dr. Rollo

‘M. Harger, of the Indiana Univer-

sity School of Medicine. The

drunkometer is a breath tester

which gives immediate authentic

information of any arrested per-

son’s alcoholic condition. Courts are accepting the evidence of the drunkometer and, under revised statutes concerning drunken driving, are issuing lighter penalties for first offenses and far. more rigid onés’ for repetitions. ® 2 FIRM control of the driving privilege is recognized as a measure by the Motor Vehicte ureau. Physically unfit or incompetent drivers are refused permits or licenses, road tests are given to new drivers before licenses are issued. Experienced drivers are permitted to build their own records through the individual driver’s record file maintained by the bureau. All accidents, arrests or warnings for each driver are filed.

A special hearing ‘judge and his

“deputies in the bureau consider suspensions and revocations on’

the basis of these records. Ex-

7 perience to date «indicates that

persons who have been deprived .of their driving privilege for 10, 30 or 60 days rarely find their way again into a license hearing because of their increased attention to the business of driving properly. ' The Division of Traffic of the State. Highway Commission has enlightened every branch of that service as to its safety responsibility in the building and maintenance of roads. District traffic engineers supervise. the activities of this division in their local jurisdiction. This division received

. valuable assistance from the Yale

and actual:

University Bureau for Street Traffic Research. A uniform code of warning signs has heen put into operation, dozens of railroad grade crossing separations have been constructed, more than 200 flasher signals for railroad crossings have been in-

stalled, bridges have been wid~aed .

and roads straightened.

Dangerous curves and stretches

of road have been zoned for definite speeds, although Indiana has no speed -limit other than that consistent with safe and prudent driving at all other locations outside cities and towns. .. . Studies of the traffic flow by the Commission reveal the changing needs. and growing volume of

' truck and passenger traffic on the

enormous. network of improved

"highways in the State. Experi-

ments in dual lane roads, rural

highway lighting and other proj-

ects have been conducted.

Safety courses. are required in the: eighth grade. tor all public

school students. Some type of

credit course in safety ‘education will be required in all the high schools beginning with the 193940 school year. School safety patrols, sponsored

“by the Hoosier Motor Club, the

Chicago Motor Club and other motor clubs throughout the State, have been organized in every city of any size in Indiana and in many rural areas. The first safety camp for ‘the instruction of school safety offi-

cers was instituted in Indianapo- .

lis in the summer of 1937 and repeated in 1938 with striking results that gained nation-wide publicity. These camps financed by the Indianapolis Par-ent-Teacher Associations (public and parochial sehocls).’ 2 ® °n NASMUCH as Indiana operates one of the largest systems for transporting rural children from home to school and return, it is a

significant fact that not one child -

has been killed as an occupant of asschool bus in the last three years.. The school ‘busses . travel

were

more than! 25,000,000 miles annually. Both Purdue and Indiana Universities have conducted teacher training courses to enable teachers to instruct their pupils in traffic -safety. An Institute of ‘Public Safety has been established at Purdue and the university now plans the jonstruction of a driv= ing range for road testing of pu= pils in public schools near the ‘university. | State troopers have delivered hundreds of safety speeches in. classrooms throughout the State. In a recent effort to enlist the wholehearted support of ‘the Hoosier public, behind - the ' Indiana traffic safety program, the Governor created the Indiana Traffic Safety Council comprising leaders of the civic, business, professional, industrial and education interests of the state.

Mindful of the public approval which ie accompany all sue-

cessful official efforts to secure helpful legislation, more efficient

enforcement, more competent driv--

ing practices, greater newspaper co- operation and better general public support, the Governor has requested the Council to co-oper-

‘ate with official agenties in for-, ‘mulating activities such as the re-

codification of State traffic stat-

utes and in securing nonpartisan

and influential backing for all worthwhile [safety ventures. :

Headed by Paul G. Hoffman;

‘president of the Automotive Safety

Foundation and of the+Studebaker Corp. in ‘South Bend, the Council bids fair to become a potent factor in the improvement of Indiana’s record. Indiana has shared in the na-tion-wide reduction of traffic fa-

talities which began in November, 1937. Indiana traffic deaths are down 26 per cent for the first 10 months of 1938. 'No one claims that “the present comprehensive safety efforts are wholly respon-

_sible for these reductions, but it

cannot be denied that the Statewide program has been instrumental to 3 very large extent.

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being unconscious the greater part of the way. From. this cabin downward the journey was environed with peril. It was snowing and growing dark and the rocks over which we picked our way were wet and slippery. At 8 o'clock that night the chief guide announced that the last difficult place was passed and the lower hut was not far off. Late that night, the Iwo guides turned up with Gilbert more dead than alive.” - The best part of the story, though is that Charlie Gilbert lived to tell the tale. As a matter of fact, he lived 48 years after that and accounted for every minute of it. He achieved fame as an ichthyologist, got: to be professor of geology at Leland Stanford University -and with President Jordan of that instie tution wrote “Synopsis of the Fishes of North Amer= ica.” Sure, the same Jordan with whom he went up (and down) the Maperhom, ; $

Jane Jordan

Wedding Nears, Girl Now Doubts Whether She Really Wants to Marry.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I would like to know if all girls feel like I do just before their wedding. I am to be married Saturday morning and after spends ing three years of my life getting him ' to pop the question I am not sure I want to get married. I do . love the man and I wonder if I can make him happy. Is it only because I am |about to take the last step that scares me? Or do ali women feel this way two or three days before they are married? In the last two weeks I find myself thinking about another man. Do you think I am one of these silly young things who doesn’t know her own mind? The man I am to marry is wonderful but still only a man. CRAZY 23.

Answer—1I-do-not know whether your panic is real “or phoney. That is, has something oceurred to give you a real warning concerning the character of the man you have chosen, or have you picked a bunch of fanciful fears from thin air? This is the only test I know which you can apply to your feelings. * If you can find nothing real to account for your uncertainty, I should simply put it down to feminine flutters which sometimes precede a decisive step such as marriage. Yes, many girls are nervous and panicky just be-= fore they jump off the deep end. For all you know the bridegroom may be in the. same state of mind. After all marriage is a sort of milestone which ‘marks the end of irresponsible youth. The fact that you think about another man isn’t necessarily significant. Who doesn’t at some time or other? Perhaps it has just dawned on you that mare riage will mean the end of flirtations and new cone quests and you hate to renounce the fun of it all. All of these mild regrets are more or less normal and nothing to get in a stew about. : 8. ln =»

|B a JANE JORDAN-I am only 32 and have & father is dead. I work

tem ite dead if she lacks animation and interest. On cleve dgthér hand, .one youngster impressed me by her bigeser-abund ance of animation. I had a feeling that it put on and that she stcod aside and watched the Self perform as though she were on a stage. The bo¥iSeatest charm is naturalness, but, of course, that susp ssitates being something in yourself, otherwise line, natural person might be a bore. brief) T told you that I would say something about Mrs. mo hn Littlejohn, a leader of women’s movements in listralia. She has a quality which shines out. You +» it's &fy at once: “Here is an individual with something easy give.” In return you are inspired to do your best "* her. $he is talking over the radio, travelling | terial in this country and meeting people everywhere. | . CréPe/hink she is getting a real picture of the United batistytes to carry back to Australia. 1 was sorry to read of Zona Gale's death. When 10, limet her last autumn in Wisconsin 1 was imrequipssed by her fragility, but also by the fact that e retained her power to impress herself upon the SE i ! EB ) : 2 : €Tople around her. I feel sure she will be rie not | | AFL SOE An: X48 HEE [SSAC he Cg pA Ne hearth? o£ A public in general but by her neighbors. ; EE\ dE 1 ERAN { : | Answers

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every day and keep him nd my old father. I have been going with a. married man which I know .is wrong ‘but I don’t have {time to go out and meet anyone else, and I don’t} know where to meet men anyway. I. would like get. married again an have a home of my o once more for I am sO tired of .working all the time. I have brothers and sisters who could help mi with, my father but they never do. So you'see'I a

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