Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1939 — Page 15

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| a CAYENNE, French Guiana, Jan. 5.—The Je Eo a id gain Ee een ‘e900 convicts now serving in French) Amy Needs 238, 000 Men and More Weapons, Defense Expert Claims [By Anton Scherrer

Guiane are divided into three classes. Yes, : : ; ed 5 ge ere is [ : How big an army do we need fo protect America in a militaristic world? a 0 om J ny clas Sas even. among doomed men. The This en of the problems of rational agfense facing Congress . » . Here is pv. Young German in Short ridge Foun Fonsi Ses ollow : the third of six articles - written "exclusively for The - Indiarapolis Times by . ‘W. k P + T h § A hile 2 DEPORTES—The aristocracy of the con- George Fielding Eliot, former major and author of. “The Ramparts We Watch,” : -yyeor retry 1oug or while,

in p . ; ; o. o ® 5 victs. Mostly a higher type of man, sentenced for| briliant bode Which Sums Sine Ge gate, According to His Story in the Echo.

treason, or military condemnations from the World y Le . ie : ae War, Usually here for life—banished, like Napoleon. By George Fielding Eliot > . | UITE the nicest thing to come my way ; Jirmes Special Wekies Lo this week was the Christmas number

_ Those who are still in confine- ne i. us , thie nitiod an Ea b : ment are on Devil's Island, and HE futility of hoping that American intervention ever S ne of “Das Shortridge Echo, herausgegeben

‘there are only 18 of them. There NERS : : b Ct a RRL : : are some who are free to live any- can settle permanently. the guarrels.of tae Old World : L von Studenten der Deutschen Abteilung in

PAT Gan chr TA | ahou have become sparent sinc fhe Gres: War, iN Shorwidge High Shon” Perle” aiinne in Guiana for sev-| Europe and Asia have been ‘battlefields through all" . a a. I don’t want to brag, but I took time off " TRANSPORTES—These are

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: recorded history. ‘If ‘peace is to reign on those continents, - | ee one evening to read it—every German word of it—and mainly the one-crime men. The it will not be because we have imposed it by force: of arms, - : ; hile picking my way through the labyrinth of verbs ; murderers, robbers, Lords, svin- | Jot, because the people who live there come at last to see we E sais asonve o wie 3 i 70s cpu 43 Bio class. The “transportes” are severely the futility and the terrible waste of war. Until they do, ; : SE uanb AS 5 By of Mr. Pyle punished. Their sentences call for | 7% we in the New World can only ‘Hope to preserve our : — SE i fact, it’s so timely that I went to the a A BGUE Ss These are the Ge own peace, to guard our shores and to remain 3 Hounle of transisiine B® a jst 3 . worst of all, the habitual, incorrigible criminals. They dominant upon our scas. =a bh 5m TIS it’s a It os are here for life, because France wants to purge itself |: . For that purpose, we. do not need. a great ; 5 ie. some idea of what’s going on 2 of ie, They td that even the transportes | § civilian army, capable of being rapidly expanded = gs. : : Shortridge right now. Listen! Now, as or time ney hero No man comes for Iie. forts of milling orgie men, Such 8 is oo a oo as ob gs ’ 0 : : i fa 4 : : . a wan uce myseii. y & a sentence of less than five years. But when youve | EZ envisaged by the National Defense Act of 1920. : : name is Herbert Gurewitseh and I J served five years, you're just half finished. You're What we do need is a highly trained, completely } Sa 3 8 come from Vienna. I have been in Mr. Scherrer turned out of prison, but you must serve five more | & equipped force of professional soldiers, adequate Shortridge five weeks. years as a “libere,” shifting for yourself, unable to : in numbers to guard our outlying positions (and Xi “Tc put yourself in my position you must imagine leave French Guiana. ] : notably those of Panama and Hawaii), to garrison SR : yourself stuck intb a strange school in a foreign land _ This rule applies to sentences between five and |. 4 our harbor defenses, to provide some measure of : 3 Su 3 without knowing a word of the language. Soon as 1 eight years. But if your sentence is for more than "2 antiaircraft defense for our cities and naval bases, S | arrived in Indianapolis my uncle took me to Shorteight years, then you serve your sentence in the i to train our National Guard anc other “civilian & ridge and introduced me to Mr. Buck. He was as nice penitentiary, and the rest of your life as a libere Fal components, to maintain internal ‘order, and to y : Ee as he could be, but I didn’t understand a word he in French Guiana. You die here. provide a Josepye LoL mobile troops within the con- : : | said. Unele and Mr. Buk did 2 the talking and So the least a convict can serve is 10 years. Both : tani tl : i : | when they got done, I learned that I was assigned to deportes and relegues may become liberes and leave Maj. Elio ic “This Taobile Teserve Shonjd te sumciertly stfong 0 : classes English 2, English 6, and German 7-8, whatprison, but only the transportes can ever leave these h fleck ea hh yo a - Sernp 1 i Yas ona ind : ever that might be. : : shores, free. case where our fleet mig ave been defeated. - ould: a Bas ERE ; i NE “Next thing I knew I couldn't find the classes I r t & ; tha so organized as to be able to provide small, ‘well-equipped expedi- wi 5 : : | was assigned to. The big building bewildered me. But oi a Hot sure of hese Aiures, bil T undersiand a tionary forces either to seize and hold advance bases for the fleet if Reportedly the finest military rifle in the world is the new. semiautomatic Garrand: (capable of firing I had luck. Mr. Buck remembered that a German of ne 9000 convicts here now, abou 000 are in peni- | necessary, or to send aid to some threatened point in the Western 60 shots a minute) adopted for use by the U. S. Infantry. Here three soldiers try out the new weapon. | boy, Werner Heinemann by name, had entered Short entiaries and work camps, and about 3000 are liberes. | Hemisphere. : | ye last year and found himself in the same fix He - The administration of French Guiana as a colony, : 2 # = Ca i i i + { ridge last ¥ ’ . and of the penitentiary system, are two absolutely O be fully adequate to all : . separate things. The local colonial government has C S t WwW '. "nothing whatever to do with the penitentiaries. They T these responsibilities, our ong ress on : pO : | t ) ; f | are administered b director. re ible directly t regular Army (which now consists y ; : | Shortridge. Vienna hasn’t got such big schools, They S y a director, responsible directly 10 | of about 180,000 officers and men) ; : are smaller over there, but they have more of them.

a Cabinet official in Paris. 4 : ~ ip IN « : , ie a a Democracy on Defensive uu fut Briss mene vas avi

.*.= 2 . 2 | sent for him, introduced us, and you have no idea how

”2 : | happy I was to find a pal speaking German. Without h | Werner I never would have found my way around

No Funeral for Convicts 000. Tt should be backed up by a Me National Guard of approximately : nice, though, and did her level best to make me catch

Almost daily I walk past the cemetery in Cayenne. | the same size, and the two forces : sn : Civilians are buried at one end, convicts and liberes | should be in every possible way : By Raymond Clapper Mr. Roosevelt they cluster arounc jy went to my ‘Home Room’ and was introduced to at the other. Every time I have passed, graves were | linked closely together, with em- Times. Special Writer Vice President Garner and seek his another teacher I didn’t understand. Finally I got ~ being dug in the convict end. On one morning, six | phasis on the point that they are : |x TASHINGTON, Jan. .5—Those guidance. Congress wants to go i: to go home. : . # were being dug at once. There is no funeral service | one army for the defense of one i sy: call, 0, : alone and it will be judged by its a . }. for the convict. He is carried over from the peni- | nation. 2 Senators in their undertaker’s| "oon py ih He Picks Up Courage _ 2 i tentiary in a box, covered up, and a wooden Cross put So far as possible the National soos clothés with flowers in their button-| > . . can a m . oh «Next day I got my first taste of the German # over his grave. | Guard should be freed of State : 1 holes. exchanging congratulations in ower has got out of hand ir no gnon as I saw the teacher I picked up enough 3 Pe 5 : p y g gr ge We in America think of all the convicts down here calls for strike and riot duty, its Ea ; their me id the ‘operini many countries. It is running wilé courage to ask her in English whether she could’ as being from France. But they arent. France sends | place being taken by properly elr merty reunion on e opening|. in Rome and Tokyo. P Er I I said: ‘You i 6 1h s trained and ized State Po- 0 i day, * and those Representatives in Berlin, e and Tokyo. Power, speak German. As near as I recall, I sald: 0 convicts here frébm all her colonies. bs Hel fom Organ ze. a5 ate ro : - NR Pe las ‘Bertrand Russell says, must ‘be koennen spell German? When she said she could Six years ago, France split up French Guiana info | 0, 1 "oc" of politics dig - | sitting under the Klelg lights in they "0 0 oc does not mean SPEAR Cer ne happiness knew no bounds and two parts. “The new part is called the Territory of uard out of. D 2 : a | House with their children on their] amec. : Bu meal 1" illed everything I knew. In German, of course.

Inini, and it comprises most of the country. The real’ make easier the recruiting of Ff |knees—they and all of the mem- substituting indecision and inaction. Then I learned that Mr. Groth was to be my teacher

/ union labor—and skilled workmen Gi 2 : French Guiana is now only a small strip along the | o "0 503 py the mechanized : bers of the 76th Congress are the|If must be demonstrated—and the and the lesson began. It was wonderful. For the

. ‘coast. : . = ; i : : first time since arrival in Indianapolis was I able rmies of today. : 2% ; ; Po 3 3 first-line defenders of democrac American Congress is a good place I'S e since my al h anapo: w : a IRR France did this because the interior is potentially 8 ; - Sh na ; 2 y . to know what it was all about. I even participated The Army heeds more pay—es : ; ; now. Seldom has Congress met |to stage the demonstration—thas in the discussion. Nn.p P

very rich, and she wanted to keep it out of the hands | yo ially for the enlisted personnel. - : bp y P under the weight of such re- popular representative government. - «The next hour was English 2. I know I'm going

of the local politicians. | The average pay of the soldier is oe ¥ : This territory is sparsely populated, and absolutely | only a little more than half that : i : sponsibility as now rests upon it. {can function effectively through to get along all right in that subject because Werner undeveloped. To start this developing, France five | of the sailor. We cannot retain oa : "This Congress is on the spot for | legislative bodies. | Heinemann is helping me a lot. I don’t know how years ago shipped 500 convicts: from French Indo- | high-grade men in the service un- : . ; De Tocqueville ‘pointed out 100 T11 ever be able to repay that kid. English 6 was China. They are not common criminals, but Colonial | der such ‘conditions. ie two reasons. ; : : : ’ ghastly, though. The teacher tried awful hard to soldiers who had taken part in a revolt. They live| The chief need of the Army at | First, Herr Hitler, contemptuous years ago that democracy does nob ake me understand, but I couldn’t get a word of a life of comparative freedom. They do well for the | the moment, however, is not more 2 ? ; : | of democracy. and parliamentary have the skill of an adroit despot- | what she said. Finally I went to Mr. Buck and told climate is like their own. In two years only two of | men but more weapons and equip- ; : Sa : : So : g overnment, ‘has during the 1 .st|ism. But if does produce a spirit him he had to do something ‘about it. He transthe 500 have died. = i| ment, The new infantry rifle— ro 3 Zi Se 4“ sug [of activity and force and awakens ferred me to English 1. . .- . .; They live in camps that resemble villages. They | the semiautomatic M-1—is slowly a hE year out-maneuvered and Outs) lo cies which the’ most ‘skilfill “I'm catching on Mow. I passed all my ‘tests’ fish, farm, build roads, hunt for gold—most of this | being produced at Springfield : a f= bluffed the two big democracies of |despotisms are often unable f0| and got pretty good marks too. ‘Next year I hope: under penal direction. They are combination con-:{ Armory; we will have only some 2 fr Europe. With his swift-moving,| gwaken. : | to catch up with eve thing. : : victs and colonists. How it will work out nobody | 7500 by next June. It must be tightly controlled dictatorshib,|. congress must, therefore, witha “Well, those were my first days at Shortridge. knows. !| gotten into commercial produc- Clot tanks. : obliged to consult no one except|yoluntary application, industry and Looking back I can see that things are clearing up - tion. a rer : LL 2 himself, ‘he has made the de- restraint, accomplish what a dicta- | better every day. But you'll never know what I went . .{ The Army needs antitank guns, a : mocracies ‘appear cumbersome, CON: | iorship does by fiat. | through the first two weeks.” : il new carriages for the 75-mm. that the plants may acquire ex- fused, indecisive, inadequate. . 1 . - So Y lary +] field guns; 75-mm. and 155-mm. perience in their production. ° Democratic government, as: ‘a nn» - ; , ; ' | howitzers, antiaircraft guns and yen So, ‘iliete sie Considers method; = ah gefensiv, Ll bas ICTATORS can co-ordinate] f . q in oo jel | | fire-control equipment, fixed guns 2 e gaps in the industrial set-up. been discar as unwor e by ‘r J J ; mt By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and equipment for harbor defenses It is estimated that it would take several of the larger powers. and impose unified policy. a ne or an ! 4 Deeb Me 4 by Spesch Though light machine guns, light automat- , eight mnths for pmstiosn indus In this situation, the American Demoaracs never Teele effective W ee ve \ | ic cannon for antiaircraft use. It try to begin producing m ons Congress, as the parliamentary body |co-ordination as oes now, ia : 1 1 : : py 9 y dpsse oug ‘| needs light and medium tanks, on a war scale, Better planning, of the world’s largest democracy, face of the threatening world situ-| riter Enjoys Work All Right, but Previously Aware of Its Contents. | armored cars, a new type of light closer co-ordination, wider dis-~ : has a special responsibility to re-| i... ; : Hardest Job Is in Getting Started. a" : : '| ammunition-carrier, grenade tribution of educational orders are : vitalize and instill new confidence in . bo olin ) : : : ln WAaaaon, Wednesday.—We have just re- | tubes, gas masks. = required. : : 4 popular representative government, National defense above everyth 18 | D J JANE JORDAN—I can’t understand why turned from Congress where the President read: . 2 a to demonstrate by example, that it else “needs the benefit of co-ordi- writers have such. trouble working up a desire "his annual message. It is curious how differently your, T should, however, be noted that i does work. nated treatment. Congress willl to write. I thought they would be overzealous in poursurroundings affect you. I had read the President's. Passes more than anything the complete regimentation of Ra _ Failure of Congress to acquit it-1 . .. pe able to ascertain our de- ing out their helpful ideas to all. I didn’t know they speech two nights ago, quietly and alone and in a else, the building up of an i qustry.’ commerce, labor and > self creditably in this session would | ~ ide for th had to be dragged to the post and worried to dig up critical mood. I had questioned some of the things, ammunition reserve is needful. transportation which would be re- do much to further discredit repre- fense needs and provide for therm | something to write, or starved into it. I know I had discussed them in a perfectly objective manner. The present stocks of World ,ireq for sending overseas a vast : sentative government and to under- [satisfactorily by working through | wouldn't be that way if I had the opportunity to Today we sat in crowded galleries with a solid block | War ammunition are dwindling, army to fight on foreign soil, or ; mine confidence in it. . |rival committees, each grabbing for| inflict upon the public a million or more thoughts of people beneath us who were opposed on general | and what remains is beginning 10 .onversely, for fighting a great de- ; ss a» ; ~|power and ruled by petty jealousies, bubbling ver for expresion. i My field is Busi ess g - i i ’ 5 © : : ‘la made a success of it, Y # grounds to anything which might be said by a repre- | deoriorile fensive war agrinst an enemy who 3 GECOND; within our own system each hoeing its own Tow in diste-| taxes, regulations and so on a raion

sentative of the opposite political party. In the strategy of an insular. ; > . I found myself analyzing, not so much the speech, | state, largely dependent upon a a 18 Congress has set itself a task. gard of any other committee. Such | Byt in the years before I was happy in my work and

put the reaction of the people sitting immediately be- | superior naval power, the army For many years the power of the 1 neath the executive galiery. I saw several of them | need not be large. But it must be naval war. ; years tte 2 defense can be studied intelligently | thought successful writers had their hearts in their

sit up straight at the point where it was pointed out | instantly yready for action, and It should, therefore, be the pri- executive as against the legislative only by a joint House and Sensic) work as I did. A PAST GENERATION.

: t, both publi iv mary object of our military policy Ze | branch has increased and this ten- committee, embracing ranking —— . that our gross debt, both public 21d private, today is | completely trained and equipped Xe members of both parties from stanc - Answer—I did not mean to leave the impression

the same as in 1929. Several of them looked at each The very grave deficiencies in to: keep our navy at such = - JE Rati dency has accelerated under Presi- |€ ! : A other in a questioning way until one, evidently the | weapons oY be made up as soon strength as shall enable us to de- : vy . dent Roosevelt. Congress is in re- ing commigtess concerned with vari- fha wiliers go not enjoy their work. I believe they oldest and wisest, nodded his head as much as to say, | as possible, and what is just as fend ourselves upon the sea, ob- bellion and is attempting to escape ous aspect of Celense. al defense at fa istaction in it and would not be happy “That is true.” The fact was accepted that the Gov- | important, our industrial ma- - viating the possibility of ‘invasion : ! To manhandle national defense 75) doing anything else. What I referred to was thelr 2 from White House domination. this time, and to subject it to log- difficulty in getting down to work. Unless one has a *

on, but I wasn’t any good at it. When that was Over,

a complicated matter as national| anxious for the day to come to go on with it. I

rs re, oe nl is? ie ay aliens om 8 for: : u. §. Army machine gunners as | For a time congressional inde- rolling and. pork diy : = at hey A iii Br mately the same. of these arms and munitions in Given such a navy, and an army they turned powerful weapons of |pendence will be. popular but if would be monumental stupidity. | to put off. The ideas WoCh “Om: inspiration. 1s Men below us would almost applaud sentiments | case of war capable of assuring it freedom of enemy” planes during recent months go by. with ‘nothing but Oongres Tiepds to lock ab ihe #10 in es ae over; . buk : . i neuvers. io : : ¥ : oblem ed relation-| wander off “where the wo e eth.” with whieh Ty avery "This is the purpose of the edu- = action anywhere within the sea- iiss BEE : ‘bickering and stalling and Nonader- | his between Army, Navy, air pov-| Most people think that writing is easy, thet 1 agreemetis, ; cational order plan, which is areas which are vital to our se= peri] to our democratic ihstitu- |ing, there will be a cry for leader- er, neutrality legislation and ove:-| comes without effort, but it is not true. It is subject

' j in °t : ’ : ) \ ship again. ‘Actually ‘the members all general foreign policy. Only 2 | to keen competition, unwelcome regulations and other > the west imierenting yy ny vy of oA tion to various plants of small or- of the necessity of such central- Yous emma ee are so on “n need of joint committee can do justice fo discouragements, just like any other work, and like spe D ’ ’ ’ ders for military items, in order ized control in war as might be a NEXT: Scientific warfare. ‘leadership: that even as they drop|that task. > | any other work, necessity is the strongest incentive.

into emotions that lay back of the speaker’s words. The discussio NOLIO: Bb. arial ; n about writing arose in answer to the When it ended, I doubt if anyone in the room re- problem of the poet, Endymion, who has not written

mained entirely cold. : —Rv | ae = | i : ot i \] re ; 4 : a line since his marri Diplomatic Dinner Held Side Glances By Clark ik Lo ¥ Ev eryday Movies By Wortman : DE Vie inspire him. ze ho sien, Tes volume of ni vr

Last night the diplomatic dinner was held and : after it we hag tre of the most heanéifil programs : ny i : ——— din Gir a yy Dear Endymion—Your poetry has told me I can remember having here. Few violinists com- 3 A Rt EE is : = ——2= | E 2 2 _ | plenty about you which I did not know before. It . ‘pare with Mr. Mischa Elman and he gave us his best. > n a # mel aa A | 1- Who Sven the mimeo- | .vocic a rather strong mother-fixation, particularly Miss Helen Jepson sang beautifully and her encore, | | J es 4 nil : 2—Which is the oldest organized , “Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be,” was delight- £! : : 3 gt zr) | I Sikes sport in North America? and “Oh, Patient Thou.” pg, fu La Trianita danced some very lovely Spanish | |{; : “uy. EX || ETS | CER | ; I 9 Which is greatest, the references to, the tie that binds, either.in se Of 1 © Gunes Svevone seemed to nly the Senn | | | Be LE a i ci | SEE SE, Senin tov. Nine re Et went to. ses, with our tv g shou; the play |. : Ce : NN. FH ECR I | ERT | I > - cumference of the earth? | erences yearn for childhood or bewails its passing. 11 iit a a Bg El J 1: : 1 | EAR | === : pe — :1| 4-What are the colors of the | «mn the Days of Thy Youth” best because it is one o their wives on Monday evening in New York. It was \—- ¢ ¢ h EON BB . i. JF 4 ag 113 so ey - flag of The Netherlands? the few of your verses which accepts: ibe beautifully cast and beautifully acted, but the story | ls > ! AW WAP. | | : 5 or : 5—Name the new Premier of the ‘Well. most of us do resent maturity. with its gf Geos wide mum oh be he sory of Cos Wik \ el | a | a a 0 anyone else, but to me }i : yy & TAS \ AE 5 RE | a 2a ment. 5 oosing the name “Endymion” to his story is unpleasant and the end was tragic. One | | : AF BRR HIE SER »:8~| | g—On which continent is the Le. Bs ii i version Bn must recognize beauty when it exists and there is —— . . , : ; alate | : ER Nr : Plata River? accept: The one which credits Endy: mn Ww beauty in his soul, or he would not have written “The : fel 7 | NI awe] | #1 ro (UR % 7—What do the letters S. S. be- | ing an everlasting sleep in which he obged De a 5 ince > m not : : tl N BE APP ; . fore the name of a ship stanc. | youthful forever and thus. avoid gro up i oblig : vidual, would : : +3 li | cc? Bh / I. 2 << for? one which claims that Selene put him to sleep rather forget him and enjoy only what he has left : \if+ / Fe] oh hs S Ae 3 OSE | 8 How many degrees are nu Bie ph ety im 10 seep , us in literature, which can be enjoyed and leaves Fy Fy Py 118 4 Nan FON 7 TN x A i= right angle? : “the no bad taste behind. : on ‘RY EL A / 8 . r= i ; : Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan whe 1—Thomas A. Edison. : * answer your questions in this column daily.

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nsideration, in most parts of the world, than 4 : ERENT vO dL % > 91 6—South America. do wild human beings. Preserves and sanctuaries SEAN: | > : YY = { || 71—Steamship. : vi ISL See are arranged for our lesser cousins in fur, feathers or i 1 SEER. § = : LB § er |i 8—Ninety. - Public Library Presents— Seales, bus for jhe bor Brown brother there has long : cl : ; : iL Jo [ ; ; o Fim a 8 : ; NN thing n or extermination. - ; Hes dl Nr + {| ASK THE TIMES © IN MY TIME (Dutton). Sisley Huddl ~~ At last there are signs that some savage tribes are # HE 4 dd EN Sa oe <3 AS RB Ee ; journalist, author and observer of ¢ going to get at least as good a break as ducks or 2 > x J a : CHEE a IEP ER | | Inclose a 3-cent stamp for | “from the front stal's”” paints a dark gorillas. In several tropical colonial areas, what | | : : Rs : [7 : : A kA =f] reply when addressing anv | war-weary world in an intimate, might be called “savage sanctuaries” are being or : : : : : B | question of fact or information | tensely topical record of those 25 .~ planned. They will not be like our Indian reserva- A” ; - ; | to The Indianapolis Times. | which encompass, first the “ tions, which were places where the Redmen were : 5 COPR V9390¥ NEA SERVIGE "oe. TM ated. S.OAT ON. eS 1 — — —— ; ervice Bureau, \cie 3 penned to keep them from getting at the white men —— - i Ta Dolly and Dolores 2 Washin: Sho had lakh sh uniing glounds, Quite oppositely; | vais. Lia fo : : _ "Wanted: Secretary, attractive, refined, colle and.’medic hey ar : 5 w e white men can get at | "Give me back that quarter t My:husband is trying to act like ams eles a 3 8, 161ined, col

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