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i From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

He - Has ‘@ Tussle With Thirst /.=] Realizes How Convicts Suffer When They Are Deprived of Water.

(CAYENNE, French Guiana, Jan. 6.—In the books and the movies about Devil's Island it is related that one method of punishing unruly convicts ‘is ‘to refuse ‘them drinking water. . I don’t doubt that it is done here, and it must be a fiendish punishment. I had a mild tussle with it myself. : ds Ordinarily my lack of appetite for water is almost. freakish, But the other night I woke up about ‘ = 11:30 with a terrible craving for water. Now, you are warned not to drink unboiled water in South America, because of dysentery and typhoid germs and so on. I've followed the rule pretty: closely. Especially in Cayenne I would choose to follow it. So I didn't dare drink from the clay jug in my room. ; . The hotel was closed tight, and everybody was in bed. I didn’t have the nerve to waken the owner and have him get me a bottle of soda water. I said: to myself, “Oh, 80 back to sleep and forget about it.” to sleep. The thirst got worse and worse. The day-time breeze had died, the moon made the town almost as bright as day, mosquitoes buzzed in my ears, and the night was hot. I got up and ‘started walking back and forth,

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Mr. Pyle But T couldnt go back

I held out for two hours and a half. Finally I ‘decided I'd rather be sick tomorrow than crazy with thirst tonight. I walked straight to the jug, and gulped a whole glass of water. Within a minute I was asleep. Nothing has happened. But it was taking a big chance, and it shows in a small way how thirst can torture you in the tropics. The rainy season is just starting here. Last night it rained. It came down like the torrents in the old stage play “Rain” Straight down, colossally, falling with the determination of lead. . I sat on a chair in the corner of my room ‘from 92 a. m. till daylight. For it was raining almost as: hard in the room as it was outside. That happens in a hundred Cayenne homes when the rains start. The dry season has dried everything out, opened up the It takes a few good soakings before they'll + turn water. ; ’

Talks to Famous Prisoner

There is one movie house in Cayenne. Some of - these nights 200 people are going to be burned to death in it. The building is wood, you're two stories high, there is but one exit, and everybody ‘smokes during the show. I crowded in one night, and saw Myrna Loy and Cary Grant in dan old aviation picture. The dialog was in French. I couldn’t understand any of it. When everything turned out fine in the end, the crowd cheered and cheered. - © The famous Dreyfuss was the first man fo live alone on Devil's Island. Lieut. Benjamin Ulmo was the second. He is still alive, and here today. I have talked with him. He is the most prominent man of the 9000 convicts His was some kind of a naval treason mixup. himself, He has written a book, and the manuscript is now in New York being translated into English, before making the rounds .of the publishers. ‘ : . . Lieut. Ulmo is highly intellectual. He speaks quite - good English. He is small, thin, with a big mustache —sensitive, esthetic-looking. He. has been here 30 years. Nobody seems is. Apparently he France, in 1935.. created in France important job—in the port. ° 1 would like very much to read From what I gathered, they am nebulous philosophies that cam mind during his years of solitude.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

She Admires Exhibit of Sculpture Made by Jo Davidson in Spain.

ASHINGTON, Thursday.—A number of appointments yesterday afternoon and some guests for dinner, after which I went to the Whyte Galleries on H St. to see Jo Davidson’s exhibition of work which he did in Spain. I think all his work is interesting and 1 like the bust which he did of the President better than any of the other heads which have been done of him, but there is an additional | interest in this exhibition because of the variety of the types which are shown. 1-was particularly interested in the miner’s wife, whose two daughters I was told had died of starvation. There is tremendous strength in the head face, but instead of the bitterness which one might expect, I think there is an expression of great kindness and understanding, something unmistakably maternal about the woman. ‘ Great interest was being shown in the medium which he had used to do the head of the woman who

to know just what his official status is free. He spent nearly a year in His friends say the attention he drove him back here. He has an charge of all shipping papers for

his manuscript. rather spiritual, and went in his

asting as a medium, but so new to me. that I could not decide whether I liked it or not. A press conference this morning at which Miss ‘ Ratharine Lenroot: and Dr. Martha Elliott of the _ Children’s Bureau came to tell us something about the results of the maternity and infancy program under the Social Security Act. Mrs. Linda Littlejohn of Australia was also present and contributed some interesting facts on work done in Australia and New Zealand. An appointment afterward, and then a delightful luncheon given at the women’s National Democratic Club by Mrs. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy.

liiness Prevents Lehman Visit

We are very much disappointed because we had toped to have Governor and Mis. Herbert Lehman with-us tonight at dinner and the judicial reception, held in New York City by colds. I was

Governor’s inauguration, are to have the: pleasure of Judge and Mrs. Irving Lehman’s company. We hope the colds which have kept the Governor and Mrs. Lehman away will not confine them to bed for long. We all know ‘what it means to be laid up at this season with the knowledge that work is piling up and must at some time be done. ‘The feeling that you are laying up long hours of work for yourself makes it very difficult to retain the frame of mind which is conducive to a rapid recovery. The appointments to the Supreme Court and fo the Board of the Tennessee made today. I.imagine that both appointments will be praised and attacked as all appointments must be, for, of course, some peaple are always disappointed while others are pleased. I think, however, few people will doubt the ability of either of the men to do the work which will be required of them, and after all that is the most important thing to be considered.

‘By Science Service J vesvon has heard of level but did you HY ever hear of see-levels? bably not, for the term is one of the newest in the science of illumination and human seeing. | Pn In a report to the Illuminating Engineering Society Drs. Matthew Luckiesh and Frank K. Moss of the Lighting Res land, descibe the four thresholds of visibility and two supra-thresholds involving performance and ease in . geeing: These are the see-levels Highest level is known as maximal ease of seeing. It represents seeing with the least wear and

tear on human eyesight, to express it in everyday

Day-by-Day Science

the level of maximal

in growing agony. | ia

tions—others were weirdly fanciful.

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By George Fielding Eliot Times Special Writer “rTHE recent panic

The antidote lies

Maj. Eliot

science is advancing by leaps and lete tomorrow. But for the present we may safely say that the air

plane, able extent, has not produced

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NAHE United States is making great progress in the devel-

expected that American ingenuity and pioneer spirit will continue to keep this country in of air progress. In other fields, too, contributing

science is

the United States is not lagging behind. :

At Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, our Chemical Warfare Service labors to develop not only military gases, but means of protection against them. It conducts research in other chemical agencies such as smoke, the tactical use of which will be of great im‘portance in tomorrow's battles. *, All units down to the infantry company will -have some means of laying down the smoke screens. These may, in the swift moving battles of the future, be the sole means immediately available to small units for masking a sudden attack by armored troops. In the field. of communications, the Signal Corps Laboratories are working constantly to improve the vast web of radio, wire and visual _signals which represent informa“tion for the commander and his means of control over his farflung units in battle, The military uses of photography are also constantly expanding, and tomorrow Wwe may find generals observing the progress of their troops: by means of television, | :

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Wise aircraft continues to develop, means for defense against it also receive the contributions of science. Perhaps in no arm has post-war development been so marked as in antiaircraft artillery. There is little indeed in common between the “Archie” of the World War and the antiaircraft battery of today, with its sound-ranging devices, its height finders, its automatic director which transforms data based on the speed of sound waves inte electrically controlled adjustments at the guns. New detecting devices operatec.

ama by the heat of airplane motors,

infra-red searchlights which illumine the target without hetraying the source of the light, new fuses and shells of increasingly destructive qualities, and automatic guns small explosive projectiles, are other antiaircraft developments

use. ; All these, and many other tac=

ute to the god of battles. There is, however, need for a word of caution. Gunpowder, which eventually abolished the armored kright’s domination of the battlefield, accomplished this only after a ‘lapse of centuries. So, even today, with far more €x= tensive facilities for research, experiment and communications,

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we cannot expect any far-reacii=

Uncle Sam U.S. Army Has Kept

. Millions of words have been written about the" revolutionary ‘changes made in warfare by science. Some merely overestimated

of six articles written for The Indianapolis Times, author of “The’ Ramparts We

broadcast describing an Martian hosts is a danger signal to ignore. : ; ’ in a clear public understanding of the means and methods which science to the modern soldier—and those which it has not made | ———— science’s two greatest contri- : butions to warfare probably have been the invention of gunpowder and the invention of the airplane. But it is well to note that neither of these,

| remarkable as their effects proved and are proving, revolutionized warfare in a day. :

- available. In history,

The airplane was development when the World War began in 1614. Originally used solely as a means - its possibilities as an offensive weapon ‘were only . beginning to be developed when the war came to an end. There followed 18 years of peacetime experi= § ment, until 1936 brought war in Spain. There, craft have been signally demonstrated. But its limitations, also, founding of those who had insisted that air war would make surface force obsolete. The end, of

have

“opment of aircraft, and it may be

the forefront

greatly .to man’s, methods of self-destruction. And .

firing a stream, of which tomorrow’s war will see in’

tors will represent science’s trib-

Tie

the effect of new inven

. What to believe? . . » In this, the’ fourth

George Fielding Eliot, exWatch,” clarifies the pictuge, 2 8 8

which swept America during a radio : ‘«invasion” of this planet by

which it would be foolish

has made available

in the earliest stages of its

of reconnaisance,

the outbreak of the civil the qualities of modern air-

been emphasized to the con-

Aeronautical

course, is not yet. Today’s miracle. is obso-.

bounds.

while it has changed. the character of ‘warfare to a remarkas yet: a “revolution.” Infantry still remains the decisive arm by land, and the battleship by sea.

Uncle, tifically equipped Army has supersensitive ears like these to detect from afar the approach of hostile planes.

ing changes to be accomplished save with the passage of time. There has never been, and itis: safe to say—on the basis of the record—that there never will be a weapon “which will of itself

revolutionize warfare in a day.

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ICTION thrillers to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no such thing as the muchtouted “death ray.” Not long before his death, the distinguished inventor Guglielmo Marconi was credited with having developed

Visitor Finds

By Bruce Catton

Times Special Writer : rASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Five hundred-odd men in business suits are a common enough sight, and not, as such, éspecially inspir-

ing. And yet the assembling of the first session of a new Congress is one of the mest exciting sights an American can look at. The House and Senate chambers aren't architecturally so impressive, and the hallways and corridors of the Capitol are less than awe-inspiring. And yet, somehow, the thing gets you. =." : io Maybe it is because .no. man can sit in the Senate galléry without reflecting that here, in one of its few surviving strongholds, the right of self-government, is still doing all right ‘for itself.. : : “Vice President John N. Garner whams the oak’ with ‘his gavel.

He is called “Cactus Jack,” and

Step With Mo

Sam’s modern, scien- :

where is little in‘common between the ‘Archie’ of the World War and the antiaireraft battery of tos

day” ; « « U. 8. troops, fire a modern mobile antiaircraft gun at “invaders” during night ‘maneuvers,

Smoke screens students operate smoke cylinders

such a horror. Questioned hy reporters, Marconi smilingly agreed

that He had indeed’ invented a death-ray .— whose greatest tri-: :

umph had been the slaying of a rat at the distance of three feet! Terrible predictions of bacillus warfare, in. which disease germs will be spread over enemy territory with frightful results, are so much moonshine. Nobody has yet found out how to control the spread of disease bacilli to. keep them from picking on the wrong

people, nor has any method for

Capitol Fever Ge Of Both Veteran and Novice

have left their mark. He sought the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1920, lost it to Mr. Harding, offer of the by a quirk of fate, carried the man who accepted it to the White House after all. : i

to those squinting slits. More Republicans, this time;

some way a measure of power ha come back to “the hill.” : . 5” coil

Glass for a minute. He with a proud

face, and he

South.

will be essential in

Texas . could have produced that complexion, or tightened ‘his eyes

perky, confident Republicans, too, taking their presence ‘here as an earnest of further changes to come. Unpurged Democrats who have their own notions about the Administration look on, not unapprovingly. There is an air of indépendence in this : chamber, ‘a feeling that in laway is the

Ee G of that, your eye hunts up some of the old standbys. Let it rest .on Carter is little, and combative sort of could not conceivably

have come from anywhere but the just mention

- keeping, them alive under ‘the rough usagewol’ projectile -dispersion been discovered.. . ©... There are no new and terrible explosives more useful in the mil= itary sense may except: the liquid-air ‘bombs supposed to have been used at Barcelona by: German airmen, the qualities of which are. still unknown. Advances have certainly ‘been made in the development of incendiary . agents, however, _which will add a new horror to the next great conflict. A There are no new gases. Sci--

‘then turned down the Vice Presidency which,

There is Senator. Borah, who

fought as a liberal While conserva-

tism was in. power, saw liberalism overtake and pass him. Not far brand-new Ohio SenaTaft, who is a marked

tor, Robert

man from the start, because people

are already discussing him as a possible Presidential nominee in 1940. s a8 = to ITTING in the gallery your eye roams over the chamber, pick-

ing out man after man like those

ed. And although what

is actually happenirig is routine,

| There is Hiram Johnson, on whose | the net effect is, to repeat, exciting. f

{eapons

rch of Science in War, Expert Says

n the swift mov ing ‘battles of the future, at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. !

than T. N. T—if one :

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things have been done. have spoken their minds gelling The fates of empires, both

tion goes ing itself. It still does that job in the old, old way; the air of cocky independence - that

of A ‘Entered as tab Postotfice,

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Here chemical warfare

“ence has not yet given us = gas

;which is both persistent and leth-

al. And it may be doubted wieth--er gas warfare is any more hor-

_rible or destructive than other

forms of warfare. ‘YWhile recognizing, . therefore, the remarkable contrib utions which science has made 0 the

_ conduct of war, it is essential to

_avoid hysterical assumption: as to the. nature and extent of these

NEXT—How war

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Great men sat at these desks and under that ative and literal, have been decided here. And here, after all, is where the world’s strongest and luckiest naabout the job of govern-

pervaces “both Houses here is in a way a symbol of the impatience with restraint that is traditional to the republic. “The city of Washington itself does something to the newcomer, some-= thing that gives him a vague but perfectly real impulse to get up and give three cheers for your Uncle Sam. The mile on ‘mile of marble buildings, shimmering whitely under the winter sun, give you tae feeling that here is a place where history is somehow caught in goluiion and held 3 het you can taste it and feel it. ; : ; .

Second-Cle ss Matter Indians sols, ‘Ind.

JUST when I thought I.could take it easy

married Laetitia, the eldest daugh-

| they

i| came through handsomely after their appalling -ig- :| norance of Greek was

4| 1t was a pretty good way out of a dilemma; but it

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer -

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Indianapolis Was Named | 18 Years Ago Today and Mayor, Sullivan's Great-Grandfather Thought Up.

with nothing more to celebrate for awhile, 1 was reminded that 118 years ago ‘today the Legislature got around to giving our town a name. maT Believe it or not, the name “Indianapolis” was suggested by Judge Jeremiah Sullivan, the greatgrandfather of our present Mayor. This is how Reginald H. gets mixed up in it: Thomas L. Sullie van, the -eldest son of the Judge, : Bat

ter of Oliver H. Smith. When it. came time for them to have a son, complicated matters like everything by giving the. boy his father’s name. Right away there _ were two Thomas L's. Let me clear that up. It was the second Thomas 1. who was Reginald’s father. Not - only that, but like Reginald he, too, j was Mayqe of Indianapolis at one Mr. Scherrer | time. Whith brings everything up to : qi date, and to the rather happy thought that if you don’t like the name Indianapolis you can lay your | kick at the Mayor’s door because that's where it properly belongs. : es : 4 Well, as I started out to say, Judge Jeremiah Sule livan thought up the name of this fown.. Not withe out sore opposition, however. Gen. Marston Clark, for instance, wanted to name it “Tecumseh,” and some gentleman whose name is now: lost in the shufile held out for “Suwarrow.” . They didn’t get very far, though, because Judge ‘Sullivan -had his mind made up that what this town needed was a synthetic word to indicate its location. Which, of course, accounts for the Greek termination,

A Pair of Scholars ;

Judge Sullivan, so runs the story, had gone to Corydon as the representative from Jefferson County = with the intention of proposing “Indianapolis” as . the name of our town. While waiting for the Legis» lature to convene, he ran across Samuel Merrill, who was not only the representative from Switzerland County, but a Greek scholar besides. Judge Sullivan let Mr. Merrill in on his secret. He caught on right o away, and together they went to Governor Jennings SR and told him what they were up to. ‘As luck would have it, the Governor was also a Greek scholar. The Legislature doubled up with laughter when they heard the name for the first time, but they

shown up. All except Gen. Clark and the man Swho held out for Suwarrow.. It took years to get used to the name Indiaiie There were so many syllables to be handled

For a long time everybody dropped the first half dozen syllables and called. it just: plain was a shabby way of treating Judge Sullivan who went to all the trouble of brushing up on his Greek to think up “Indianapolis.” { * Finally with the coming of the Yankees things took a turn for the better. It took a long time, thouzh. It took the greater part of a generation, for instance, to twist the “dia” of Indianapolis into the Yaniee “j” and make «Injenapolis” out of it. Since then,

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the largest country in South America. 3 ’ 2—-Who' discovered the Missis-- : sippi River? pt -.3—How many times was: Notre Dame’s football tear defeat= | ed during 19382. ©... 4—For what do the ixitials H.R. H. stand? = Ci 5—What proportion of -U. 8. Senators are. elecied’ every i two years? ERE 6—What is the correc! Brolin . ciation of the word gratis? - n—Are the top and bottom stripes of the flag of the U.. S. red, white, or red and white? Py

Ln ” i : ‘Answers 4--Brazll.. . car 9-Ferinando De Soto. . ,3—Once; by. Southern ‘Calle

: fornia. . ; || 4-His (or Her) Royel Highness.

.6—Gray’-tis; not grat’-is.. . |

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Jane Jordan— | Good Writing Laborious Process, ~~ Aspiring Young Author ls Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN—Your article on writing - hit me in such a way that I want your advice. I have tried writing, but I think so much faster than I can write that I leave out things that would explain more fully. I will have to admit that as for schooling I am one of the many who quit while in the grades to chop wood. In my dreams I have many times read page after page seemingly of my own writings, and I am sure if someone was with me to take it down in shorthand I could repeat every word when awake. I can and have, among fellow workers, taken the floor and held them with their tongues tied so that they .were afraid to ask questions whether I was right or wrong. I paint some, but do nothing outstanding. 1 would paint more if it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t want to paint scenery, but prefer portraiture. I will read anything I can get hold of except trash. Now don't be too hard on me. I have tried to explain, hoping that you will give me your honest opinion. : Can ‘ W.H. 8.

Answer—Of course the first requisite of a writer is that he have something to say. In order to have somet! to say. he must have a background of. experience, actual and ‘vicarious. Grant that hz has a certain gift for expression in addition to experience, and now: is so full of things to: say that he thinks faster than he can write. The task is only half begun! Next comes the task of organizing his material into intelligible form, and this is where the hard

work comes in. : : make their plan first. They staft by

Some writers nr jotting down copious notes on a subject and then write out an outline to guide them in handling the material they have gathered. Last of ‘all:comss the actual writing. Some work so meticulously that no revision is necessary, but most writers revise and rewrite ad infinitum before: submitting a maniscript for publication. .. i 3 Some write as fast as they can when the niood is upon them, writing down everything. just as it comes without regard for grammar, construction or restraint, the better to catch the first fine frenzy for expression. Then comes the laborious task of cutting the copy, polishing the English and whipping the whole thing into some sort of shape. : People who have not written for publication have the idea which you apparently hold. They think that writing pours forth easily onto paper and by itself takes the form which editors will buy.: Like you they dream of pages and pages of writing of which they are the author. But ‘this.is not the way that success is ‘achieved. . Writing entails -as much unwelcome drudgery as any other work. "A person like yourself who has an urge to write

ing and discipline which are essential for suacess in

these fields, should follow both as. avocations and

depend upon something else for bread and butter. ir } fc. =. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will . answer. your questifins in this ‘column. daily. wl

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TORIES of great North American disasiers—fire, ) famine, flood ahd pestilence—and how men met ‘and fought them”; the great Michigan forest fire, the famous floods of Johnstown and Galveston, the San Francisco earthquake, the Florida hurricanes, the dust : sxas school explosion and the

1935, the Texas