Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1939 — Page 9

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From p Indians Pyle

San Juan Offers Free Cocktails; ~ i iBeaity of West Indies Enchanting; |B

i edy of the Little White Goat.

4 5 $A JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 14 ~—When Sa sen into the ajrpory waiting room at |

tails 24 front “of you. Being a fa: 1atical dry, of the Carrie Nation strive,

1 took them, ‘me by one, and destroyed them.

Before you zet to San Juan, you have to fill out a baggage declaration, just as though i you were entering the United States. ‘Which you are, .of course, since

: Puerto Rico belongs to the United

States... You'd be surprised how many ‘Americans don’t know. that it" does. Puerto Rico has the kind of climate all winter long, day and night,

that Florida and California have

part of the time, and write their advertisements about. These West Indies enchant me. - Flying. up from = Trinidad, we dropped, down for a few minutes

Mr, Pyle each at Martinique and Guadalupe

‘(both French islands): Antigua (British), and St.

Thomas: (U. S..* And we flew ‘over ‘dozens of gemlike green islands without stopping: - .. Somehow, to me these: islands are more romantic and more pleasant to think about than all of South I'm speeding on toward Miami without writing much about the West Indies, because—I want

to save them as an excuse to come back another time.

I don’t know “whether I'm getting too chickenhearted to travel about-the -world by myself. A little white goat has made me wonder. Now, I have seen many men die. ‘T have seen’'an

electrocution; I've seen people burn ‘to death in air- |

plane crashes; I myself have helped pull people out of auto wrecks. These’ things were horrible to - ‘me, but still I could take them. Yet—

Today I was driving along the: ‘north coast of | . Puerto Rico with a friend. The road is a lovely one

—winding, banked with wild flowers, tree-arched as far as you want to drive. 3 We were rounding® a curve, behind another car. Suddenly alittle white goat dashed across the road: An oncoming car hit it and threw it into the air, In midair, the car ahead of us hit it.

He Hunts a Pickpocket

It was only -a second or so, but the little goat seemed to be oi back and forth, legs flailing, body breaking. * It dropped to the highway, and the cars sped on: As we passed, it lay flat in the road, bleating pitifully. 1 could see blood running from its nose. . My. friend pulled ahead and stopped. “Poor little thing, ” he said. “We'd better go back and- get it off the road, so nothing else will hit it.” He climbed out of the car. But I coukin’t go. I wanted ‘to cet out ard help ‘do something for the little-goat: - But 1 simply couldn't bear to touch anything that was hurt .so badly. That sad, plaintive bleat. almost made me sick. If: the goat had been:

' killed it wouldn't have affected me. But to have’ it s0

pitifully’ hurt. -. My friend wal Tked baék alone toward the goat, And just as he stooped ‘over it," the goat jumped up, and in four great bounds was through the fence and lost in the brush. You could have heard my sigh of Telief for half a block.

My only previous appearance in San Juan was on .New Years -Day of- 1924. : I- was working on a boat. My entire world! y .wealth at that time amounted to

$40. I had.it in my, hip. pocket, “Somebody picked my pocket. On this trip, I kept going up and down the street looking into people’s faces, to see ‘can find a guilty Ill fr i to.

look. Everybody looks guilty, so give it up. 2 And anyway, I I don’t really want the money. I've

. grown So rich in the last 15 years that $40 is the

merest piffie to me, I assure you. Why, I give $40 bills away to nearly everybody I see nowadays.

My Diary.

By Mrs. ‘Eleanor Roosevelt

" “Program Is Discussed for Parley

On Problems Facing Rural Youth.

ASHINGTON, Friday—Yesterday afternoon I talked with a group which is planning to hold

-8 conference here shortly to deal primarily with the

problems confronting rural youth which migrates to the cities. One night think that this means a fairly restricted subject. but it really covers, every problem

Es facing youth anywhere, because ‘conditions in -rural

areas which cause thigration must be understood as well as the conditions in urban areas where these

. young : people go to ‘find ‘work and live their lives.

The problems inciude education, vocational guidance,

. vocational ‘work; recreation, :housing, in fact every-

Wing which’ touch es the lives of young people everywhere. During the few minutes we spent together, I betame inereasingly grateful that I was being - asked to preside at a dinner held while this group is meeting here. Senator Capper and Dr. John Studebaker, commissioner of education; will be speakers. Both of them are fortunately far better able to give something really valuable from their own experience to the dis‘cussion of these problems. Just as this group was leaving; I was told my son, Franklin Jr., and his wife were about to depart for ‘Charlottesville, Va., with our youngest grandson, and so I ran out to say goodby. The baby has been here since before Christmas and I really hate to see him go.

Congressional Reception Held

‘It is curious how you come to feel a baby is an important factor in = household, even though you only spend a very short time every day with him. Nearly every morning, Franklin III, was brought down to my room and we went visiting together. First we saw his grandfather and then anyone else who might be. in the house. ‘He even sat’ in my lap and solemnly “listened” while I went ever the details of meals and household management: with the housekeeper, Mrs. Nesbitt. We think he acquired two teeth as the last achievement of his visit! , We know that his angelic

disposition won him many friends, for everyone ‘tells |

me they hope he will be back soon.’ "Ambassador and Mrs. Daniels’ were with us last night for dinner. I: is always a particular pleasure to welcome these old ‘friends. The Congressional reception took place last evening. * This reception has grown to such proportions that we’were- obliged to limit it this year to members of Congress and many people could not bring out-of-town guests. This seems’a rigid rule, but it is made as much, for the pleasure of the guests as for the benefit of the hosts. When these receptions grow too.large, ho one can en-

Joy dancing or even reach the table in the state din- “: ‘ing room for a little refreshment.

Today I am on ry way to New York City, where I

_ shall lunch with some of my family and then proceed 4. to the Country for a quiet week-end.

Day- by- Day Science

By Science Servic:

USHING pins inf 0 a map is a. fascinating activity.

and one that sometimes has’ very illuminating results.

In an “ecological” study of the city of Chicago, this:

sort of technique has been applied to a very new field

—that of mental disease. A link ‘was found between |: | the neighborhood you live in and the particular type} |:

of mental disease yoi: may later develop. . Cases of paranoic ‘schizophrenia are dotted close

3. in the rooming-house districts of the city, the study revealed

to Dr, Robert E. L. Faris, of. McGill Uni- .

versity, and Dr. H. Warren Dunham: of the Illinois’ State Psychopathic nstitute and the University of

Chicégo, who have published their findings in thei ‘book, - "Mental Disorders in Urban: “Areas” (Univer- :

_ with the mana gemel “decision was that

their families, which meant that’

: last: of a of » Series EL Since the last last section of track was laid on the eleva-

tion over S.. Meridian St,

‘the Belt. has done no further work on. the elevation program. That was in 1981; and not until the spring and early

summer of 1938 did the

"Works Board’ bring up any further mention of Dproceeding with the plan.. Then, with the prospect of obtaining PWA funds in the amount of 45 per cent of the entire cost of any work done, the Board called “upon. the Belt to proceed.

At the same time, the Board passed Resolution No. 20, requiring

. the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to elevate its tracks of the Louisville

division coming into the City from the south and crossing the tracks of the Belt at grade between “Madison Ave. and East St. The Pennsylvania Railroad filed a Temonstrance objecting to the -resolution, and when the Board confirmed it, the railroad appealed the Board’s action to the Marion County Superior Court.

That appeal is now pending, and nothing further can be done until

the court either confirms or

modifies the Board's action. 2.2 =» ITH the filing of this ap- * peal, the Works Board pro-

ceeded. with efforts to have the :

‘Belt elevate its tracks eastward

from S. Meridian St., the point

of elevation, over Madison Ave, East and Singleton Sts. ‘The: combined plan would cost $3,400,000. Elevation of the Belt tracks alone would have cost $1,400,000, according to City and

_ railroad engineers. ® Of this latter

amount, PWA funds totaling about. $610,000, could have been

- obtained, according to City offi“cals. Of the remaining '55 per + cent ‘or: $790,000, the Belt would have paid half, the City 34 and : the County 16 per cent.

After repeated efforts by the City under the direction of Mayor

‘ Boetcher failed to secure the Belt’s

co-operation, the City offered to finance the Belt’s share by loaning it the money. to be repaid over a l0-year period. The City proposed to raise this loan by a bond issue. After repeated consultations 0_the, Belt's would “be unable to proceed, even under this arrangement. #8 "8 : HE City’s final answer to

this was. to file suit ‘to com-

pel the Belt to preceed.

Piled by Floyd Maittice, then City Corporation: Counsel, the suit contends that under the terms of the contract which the

| Belt entered into with the City in 1925, it has no alternative but

to proceed and to:render “specific. performance” as it agreed to in the contract. ‘This suit is also pending, and until such time as both it and the appeal of the Pennsylvania Railroad are decided elevation of the Belt is at a complete stalemate. ‘It ‘also has been pointed out by City officials, that the chances of again "obtaining the promise of the Government to aid in financing elevation are extremely slim. The promise for aid was withdrawn on decision of the Belt that it would not co-operate, and by the time court action is over, there may not be any Government funds available, officials say.

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HE pending suits involve the

Pennsylvania Railroad, which, with the New York Central Railroad, controls the Indianapolis Union Railway Co., which in turn holds a 99-year lease of the Bel} tracks from the Belt Railroad & Stockyards Co., owners of .the

system. The suit by the City against the Belt to compel it to proceed with

: Here is a picture of the Belt tracks near Madison Ave. showing the intersection with the ‘Louisville division of the Pennsylvania. This juncture presents one of the difficult engineering problems in the track elevation program. “Ordered to elevate its tracks at this point and at

‘Obtaining a promisé of PWA financial assistance an attempt was the Belt. Railroad spokesmen claim a lively subject during

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John J. Liddy, superintendent of

provement,

Times Photo.

other street intersections, the Pennsylvania filed a remonstrance with the Works Board which later ‘led to court action. ' resulted ‘in delay of work on the Belt portion of the proposed im-

This in turn has

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Track elevation is a familiar problem to Mayor Sullivan. It was

is first term and he now finds it bulking large

made under former Mayor Boetcher the company is unable to finance its among the items of unfinished business as he fegins another term in

to revive the elevation program.

elevation is in reality therefore a

suit against the New York Central

and the Pennsylvania. According to the plan as contemplated ir the original Resolution No. 19, the Belt tracks and the Louisville division which cuts through the Belt at a point east of Madison Ave. were to be elevated together, the tracks of both intersecting on the elevation.

appeal from this resolution, ,it stalemated operations on the Belt since the Belt cannot be elevated without causing some elevation to be done on the Louisville division

tracks crossing it, An alternative suggestion con-

- sidered by engineers is that of

running the Louisville ‘division

tracks underneath the Belt tracks. -

This could not be done, however, - without causing elevation of switch-in tracks from the Louisville tracks to the Belt tracks. This was not considered by the engineers to be as satisfactory a method as elevating both the

Belt and the Louisville tracks as

orginally proposed.

share of the cost.

| this appeal is successful, and

if the City’s suit to compel elevation of the Belt is successful, the net result will be that the Belt will have to try to proceed to elevate without elevating part of the Louisville tracks. This amounts to butting one’s head against a stone wall, from

- the engineers’ standpoint, spokes-

. men for the Belt claim. When the Pennsylvania. filed an

And the impasse will only be solved unless it were made possible to charge the cost of this elevation to the Belt, which would pay for the cost of elevating switch-ins from

the Louisville tracks: to the Belt. _ The problem would not exist if the Louisvilie : division did. not :

have to use the Belt tracks for its freight, therefore necessitating

the cut-in switches. : Although this problem undoubt- |

edly has its solution which. can be reached ultimately, there are other objections to be considered. One of these is that of the smaller industries adjoining the Belt “which claim they will not be able to afford elevation of their fac-

‘the City Hall.

tory cut-in switches to the Belt when the tracks are elevated. City officials feel that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and

“the Belt will seek.a change in the State Track Elevation Law

which now compels them to split the cost of elevation on a 50-50 basis with the City. 1 J. J. Liddy, Belt Railroad super-

intendent and a member of the Belt’s legislative committee, has

declined to comment on this pos- - sibility

City ‘officials point’ out, however,

that the railroads would have

everything to gain and nothing to lose by attempting to cut down the cost ratio.

In New York state at the ~ _present time, the law compels the State to pay only 20 per cent of

the 'cost of track elevation, the remaining 80 being borne by City and County, according -to Floyd Maittice, City Corporation Cownsel under Mayor Boetcher. ® n= EANWHILE, the South Side Track Elevation Committee, an organization of representatives of the various South Side civic

clubs, is considering an aggressive campaign to urge further elevation of the Belt tracks. E. H. Wischmeyer, chairman, said proposals have been made that the committee be enlarged several times its present size in order to carry on an aggressive campaign.

oy. Antor Scherrer

"| monikers’ rather thoroughly. Sulls

This committee, formed in 1935

its contract with the City, has been constantly urging the City to use more aggressive measures. At the same ‘time, there has been a lesser though growing demand on the part of West Side residents for completion of clevation over the streets that intersect the Belt on the west loop. Up to this time, no elevation has been undertaken on the West Side. In views of the apparently complete impasse in the elevation picture to date, City officials who

have been closest to the question

during the last six months, feel that an amendment to the State Track Elevation Law in the present session of the Legislature is the only answer.

af the time the Belt entered into

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Side Glances—By Clark

Everyday Movies—By Wortman,

| 4—What does the stock

He 1— Perennials.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--What is the name for plants whose life is more than two .years?s ; 2--What body of ‘water, separates the Island of Madagascar from Africa?

3--What is the scheduled open-

ing date for the Golden Gate International Exposition? ex- : change: term “margin” mean? 5--On which: continent. Is¢ ‘the | Orinoco River? 6—-With what sport is the name of Harold (Jug) MeSpaden associated? ” » 8 Answers $<

2— Mozambique Chantel. 3 Feb, 18,1939. -

‘ 4-The partial payment ade.

by the, cusiomer on the Pa

| Indianapolis.

lJane Jordan—=

W's Time. Someons: Dockiid Once And for All Whether | ‘We Are

Indianapolisites ‘or Indigna politans.

Js high time somebody was, geting around to finding a word to designate | a citizen of The right word, if possible, As matters stand today, I don’t kiow wheths

‘{ er I'm an Indianapolisite or an Indianapolis

“tan. ‘when it comes right down to it.

And neither does Henry L. Mencken

I: drag Mr. Mencken into ‘today’s Secs. becaiuse, once upon a time, he covered the subject st mynicipal ciently, anyway, to reveal a practically every town in the oa { ed States, except Indianapolis, at

~one. time or another went to .the

trouble of finding the exact word with which to label its citizens. In-

:| deed, in:some cases the trouble the

citizens went to amounted to a fight. Like the one in.Camden, N..J., for justance: A ea gf ai piace J ile held out for “Camdenian” as the Mr. Scher or only right way to label its folks, but er the citizens fought for “Camdenite. » sure, the newspaper got licked. And except for Mr. Mencken I, for one, would still be in the dark regarding the fate of the two

| Richmonds—the one in Virginia; the other in Indiana.

To hear Mr. Mencken tell it, a citizen: of Richmond, Va., is’ a Richmonder, but for some reason, a citizen of Richmond, Ind, wants to be known as a Rich- : mondite. 1 You'd think, .of course, that Taving roached’ Riche ot mond, Ind., Mr. Mencken wouldn't let a 1nere 70 miles stand in the way of pursuing the ‘subject still further, For some reason, however, Mr. Mencken hever got to Indianapolis, or if he did he never let anybody know about it. Certainly, he didn’t breathe a word ‘about it in his book, and the reason. he didn’t is probably because there wasn’t anything to br(athe about. Which brings me right back to where I started, namely that something just has to be done, and pretty soon, too, about finding the right word to (designate me,

Almost a Matter of Law

1 wouldn't ‘be surprised if in the: end rm. going: to turn out to be an Indianapolisite. A | good many things point that way. For one thing, there: is: Mr, Mencken’s discovery that the names of {pwns ending ind, f, g 1, mr and s almost invariably tack on the letters “ite” to label their citizens. As a matter . of fact, endugh ‘of them do it to make |t appear in the nature of a law. To be sure, there is the disturbing case of Richmond, Va., but to offset that there is the exemplary behavior of the Fichmondites of Indiana, a law abiding community i} there ever was one. There is the strange case of Annapolis, too. Te look at the termination of the town’s pame, you'd think, of course, that a citizen of Annapolis is an Annapolisite. Well, he isn’t. He's an Ar napolitan. - And so it goes. It may turn out that I'm an -Indianapolitan after all. To tell the triith, I don’t care whether I'm an Indianapolisite or an Ine dianapolitan but I do wish. somebody would . get around to settling the thing one way or the other,

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Young Wife Lives in Terror of Storms in New Home in: Country.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 24 years (ld and have

‘been married four and a half years. Iam very much in love with my husband and he is good to me: We built a new home last year. Here is my trouble. I am panic stricken at the sight of a. cloud I am desperately afraid. of storms, ‘especially wird. I don’t sleep at night and I have lost 10. pounds “since last year. I'm getting worse instead of better. Our house is situated on a hill in the country. I. don’t feel safe ‘up here. I have gone to a doctof and had a complete physical examination. There is nothing organically wrong with me; it’s just fear. My husband thought: if I went to a. psychologist he would be able to help me, but I understand it is very expensive and we couldn’t afford to spend a great deal of mopey. I have

‘not always had this extreme fear and I-an| not afraid

when I am around several people. I'm not the least afraid in the city. It’s just in the last tivo or threes years that I've been this way. I don’t know if I have impressed upon you how really down-right scared I am. I would appreciate it tremendously i! you could Suggest o something to cure me of this ie 3 .

8 sn + Answer—I can’t solve this problem to you as it ‘would take some time to unravel the chaiil of events which led up to your fear of storms or. liying in the country. If your anxiety is taking its toll from your

health, I should think if would pay you tc save your money until you had enough to pay a psychiatrist's fee. ‘That is what you would do if you vere facing a surgical operation or a stay in the hospital for physica: illness. Doubtless you. share the popular conviction that emotional and mental disturbances are subject to the will and that a person cin get well by himself if he tries. This: is incorrect. | In the meantime do what you can to allay your own fears. After all it may be some vay simple thing that is upsetting you. For example, when you were a child, it is possible that something very disagreeable or terrifying happened to you during a storm. Perhaps you pushed the experience (ut of your, consciousness because ‘it was painful to tliink about until you forgot it entirely. The trouble with such repressions is that they live on and becom active in the forgotten. portion of the mind along. with other puried memories. During a storm it may be that the same disagreeable fears which you once felt stir again and give rise to unreasonable. anxieties. That is to say, you forgot the experience but not the storm which reminds you of something you prefer to forget, This is only a guess, a suggestion to show you what I mean when 1 say your trouble may come irom some comparatively simple thing. Guesses are rarely accu rate, however, and if this does not fit your case, you'll have to get help from an.expert. My understanding of your case is too Hmited to enable me to help you, JANE JORDAN »

Fi “Pat: your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe. wil .. answer your questions in this column ally, Ga

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