Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1939 — Page 9

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: From Indiana —Ernie Pyle

‘From India by Columbia University

* SANTIAGO ISLAND, Puerto Rico, Jan. 16. = - —7This is the only island in the Western ~ Hemisphere that is populated by monkeys. ~ This island never saw a monkey until two

«+ Months ago. These new monkeys are for-

eign ¢ might call them. * happier here than back home: : It is a strange ‘story. To get the full explanation, : : youll have to go back with me a

little. Scientists in the U. S. use between 20,000 and 50,000 monkeys

Thrive on Tiny Island Paradise.

—from faraway India. Colonists, you And like many immigrants, they are |

a year in various studies and experi-

ments.

Practically all these experimental’

monkeys come from India. By the time they are trapped, crated and

sent half way around the world on

the rolling deep, they're pretty well: used up, and full of germs, too. So scientists of Columbia University decided to create ‘a fresh i = - reservoir of monkeys closer to home. Mr, Pyle Last spring they bought this island, : know why, for it’s hard to imagine a more ideal place. : To get here ‘you drive east from San Juan for : You hire a sailboat, sail half a mile, row a hundred : yards, and then make the last 50 feet “piggy-back : on the shoulders of a Negro boy wading through the :. water. = : © 3 The island is just like the ones you read about in story books. © It is L-shaped and contains 36 acres of land. The tropical view of water and beach and "hills and palms that you look down upon from the porch of the: little hillside Solas is—well, it’s too monkey, that’s a can say. Sood tora 30 Columbia definitely closed the deal for this island last June, it started Dr. C. R. Carpenter on a monkey-gathering trip around the world. Dr. Carpenter went across the Pacific, picked up about

him four months. : ‘The monkeys were brought in cages, and a few. turned loose at a time. Anywhere on the island you walk now, you'll see monkeys. - Some are in trees, but

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are fairly tame. » : The, monkeys are all ages and sizes. Some as

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shepherd dogs. A few have died, but remarkably few. There are 350 left. :

They'll Divide Up Island Dr. Carpenter says that within a few weeks these. 350 monkeys will be squared off into about 30 family groups. . They'll allot ,theémselves various sections of the island, and if one tries to sneak into adjoining = territory, he’ll get the daylights beat out of him. = ‘That’s one trouble with iryine to raise monkeys. They ~ fight each other to death. {0 The monkeys eat shrubbery. Their favorite food in India is a certain type Fi fon. ; Bnd oddly enough, that very fern grows on s island. : 8 But Toi vont be enough wild food for them, so they'll have to be fed. The permanent caretaker - is Michael Tomilin, a White Russian who escaped = ‘during the revolution. oi o : ‘Caretaker Tomilin won't lead a Robinson Crusoe life. There will ‘be scientists here the year round. Their work falls into two classes—medical and psychological. : On the medical side, mokeys are used much like guinea pigs. <The greatest scientific role played, by monkeys is in experiments to whip infantile paralysis. - And as for the psychological end—I guess they're still trying to decide whether Darwin or Bryan was right. Personally, I'd rather not know.

My Diary i By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Takes Hef First Ski Lesson and Falls During Visit to Hyde Park.

YDE PARK, N. Y. Sunday—I reached Hyde H Park Friday in the late afternoon and there was no snow anywhere, which surprised me for I had left Washington in quite a snowstorm that had been going on most of the previous night. However, when 1 awoke Saturday morning, snow lay all about me. The evergreens were heavy with their burden and it looked as though we might have more during the day. The skies were gray and word from New York City through the radio said the streets were impassable. ] : : : I sat up late the first night, for I was all alone, and caught up on mail. It was a very ‘pleasant thing to look at an open fire and have the quiet of the .counrty all around me. : The mext morning I started to instruct a new maid, whom I brought up to leave in charge of the house here, and we spent the whole morning going: through closets and storerooms. In the afternoon, 1 went for a walk to the top of the hill to have a look at the President's cottage, I will have to be honest and say that, having spent most of the past year without taking much exercise, I found the climb in deep

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snow, pretty hard on my wind. I decided that I had.

better devote a little more to swimming in Wash- ~ . ington, even if I sit up an extra hour at night.

Gives Up Skiing for Cutter : , Another session of intensive housekeeping this morning, but at 11 o'clock one of our Norwegian neighbors came over to give me my first skiing lesson. Anyone else ‘would catch on quickly, I think, but it wasn’t until I was on my way home that I even began to walk rhythmically. ‘I tried going down one small hill and to everyone’s amusement landed in a heap at the bottom. My instructor says we should go out again this afternoon, but I have acquired a cutter which belonged -to -me years ago and which stood for many years in my grandmother's stable in . Tivoli, N. Y. It has now been put back into condi- » : tion so that it resembles itself in. the days of my ® youth and we are all going sleigh riding. Nef I think it must be 10 years since I last drove in : a cutter. On that occasion my daughter was driving : and we had a string of sleds on behind. It is rare to have enough snow to have really pleasant sleighing and I love the sound of the bells. The only thing we haven't done is to coast and if T were going to stay here many more days, I should certainly do that also.

Fi ° t Day-by-Day Science By Science Service Coe o™ of the most important philosophical conse- * quences of the rise of science through the centuries. is the demolition of the man-centered universe. Copernicus dethroned the earth as the center of the universe. Darwin made man take his right- ’ ful ‘place ‘in the grand procession of natural evolution, : Ee Ego-centered man, so powerful in shaping the things of the earth to his own ends, needs to be reminded occasionally of his role in ‘space and time. The earth, so far-as we are sure the only oasis of = life in the myriad of stars and nebulae, is a minor satellite of a mediocre star, remarkablé only because we chance to be on it. ; Sa : And life is by no means a function of the whole : earth. Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institution biolo- * gist, has described the kind of world picture as in- : terpreted by the life sciences that he feels our schools :. should present. : ° “The drama of life”

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Dr. Riddle says, “4g per-

3 formed in & very restricted zone—quite near to the |. planet. Even bacteria are

= very surface of our small ~~ known to disappear in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, and other life extends downward only to the limits set by the ocean depths. At no earlier time in the earth’s history does been diffe

Hf ifferent. Fossil remains of living things are found

il and rock strata now some thousands ath the soil on which we walk, but ese veins were land su t

Nobody had ever lived on it.’ I don’t |

: 60 miles, to the very eastern tip of Puerto Rico. Then : : A i Lady” in the six years since

‘370 Macacque monkeys. in India, and came on around: the Cape of Good Hope with them. The trip took: most of them roam around. in the high grass. They

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By Dr. George Gallup ‘Director, American Institute of Public Opinion : lou (Copyright, 193) NEW YORK, Jan. -16.— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most active women who ever lived in the ‘White House, wins a strong vote of approval in a countrywide survey of public sentiment just completed by the American Institute of Public

Opinion. Asked whether they approved or disapproved of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has occupied the place of “First

her husband’s election, an average of two voters in every three vote in her favor,

Mrs. Roosevelt. is more pop-* ular with women than with men, and more popular with - low-income ‘and. middle-in-come voters than with the well-to-do. But. there are maJorities on her: side in all parts of the country and among all. classes of people, among Northerners and Southerners, in a cross-sec-tion that included oil workers in California and blue-bloods ‘in Massachusetts,

Their recurring comments give a =

| picture of what the public likes:

“She lives a useful life and keeps busy.” : : “She sets a good example by encouraging worthwhile things.”

Do You Approve Or Disapprove of ~ Mrs. Roosevelt?

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“She has changed the public’s traditional idea of a ' Presidents wife, but it’s all to the good.” Although national elections and public opinion surveys give a clear pattern of President Roosevelt's own popularity, today’s Institute survey ; is probably the first indication on a nation-wide scale of what the average American thinks of the President’s wife, Surprisingly, perhaps, the survey reveals that she is even more popular than the President. The President reccived a little more than. 62 per cent of the major. party vote on election day, 1936. The vote was one of the most decisive victories in American history, and much of that election day popularity has been retained. This month an Institute survey showed 58 per cent of the voters approving him. . ‘ But the actual vote for Mrs. Roosevelt in today’s survey, which was conducted in the same way as the Presidential

survey, is sharply higher:

“Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has conducted herself as “First Lady”?

YES. .............;....... 67% NO ceees 33%

It is interesting to note that, on this basis, Mrs. Roosevelt ‘has the approval of about 30,000,000 voters, while the President polled 27,500,000 in 1936. : ” 2 B® AS Presidential majorities sometimes do, however, Mrs. Roosevelt’s backers favor her in principle but desert her on a specific piece of policy. And the issue is one which Mrs. Roosevelt made herself; . How much independence should the wife and family of the President of the United States have in choosing their own activities, in business and otherwise? The President’s ‘wife posed that question at a newspaper conference recently, after she had been criticized for accepting ‘a position as a director on the board of her son James’ insurance company, Roosevelt & : Sargent of Boston. Zw : The Institute asked the same voters as above:

“Do you think the President’s wife should engage: in any business activity which interests her, if she doesn’t do it for profit?” Almost three voters in four agreed that she should, the exact vote being 73 per - cent yes, 27 per cent no. : :

. In Boston itself a newspaperman put his opinion this way ’ :

“People ought to remember that her private life is really more important than her official position. One is temporary and the other is permanent. - Mrs. Roosevelt is doing the kinds of things she has always been interested in doing.” ; : : Some of ‘these interests have included writing newspaper columns and magazine articles, broadcasting talks and speeches over the radio and sponsoring handcraft work, model housing and terpsichore. : But many of the voters drew the line at the actual post ' Mrs. Roosevelt recently accepted—that of director in her son’s insyranc: company. The Institute questioned them as follows: ;

Mrs. Roosevelt ‘has taken a position on the ‘Board of Directors: in her.son’s insurance company. Do you approve or disapprove of this?”

Side Glances—By Clark.

What does the country think ‘of Mrs. Roosevel

Poll by Sections

Month-by-month for nearly four years the American Institute of Public Opinion has measured the popularity of President Roosevelt. The following figures show how the President’s popubarity in the most re-

Mrs. Roosevelt in today's survey: -

Vote in Institute Survey To CK — - President */" Roosevelt 58%

Roosevelt National Vote .............. 61% Sections New England States...... 66% Middle Atlantic States..... 72 East Central States West Central States ... Southern States ... ...,... 67

51% 57 55

. 56 . 68 64

comments indicated that

Western States ......... 66

The percentage of approval and disapproval are: APPROVE crresiresnscess i. 449, DISAPPROVE ............ .569%,

This time many of the voters objected that Mrs. Roosevelt was “taking part in something outright commercial,” that “Jimmy’s insurance business has already had too much

publicity” or that “profit is involved.” Not a few of the

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wife, ; . 8 nn 2 : : 1= Institute’s popularity survey shows that Mrs. Roosevelt is in highest favor. with women, in less favor. with men. On the question of general approval or disapproval of Mrs. Roosevelt as “First Lady” the vote is: — « Approve Disapprove oes 62% 38%

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MEN srecaesveseenseisense WOMEN ............

t? A nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion answers that question today after interviews with a cross-section of voters in all parts of the country. Above, Mrs. Roosevelt in a few of her activities as “First Lady.” : :

she also wins approval from a sizable bloc of Republicans:

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ower group; 79 pereom, Profit-Sha Tribute By Bruce Catton

NEA Staff Correspondent “Jy ASHiNGTON, Jan. 16.—It may sound like a pipe

- dustrial setup—you ought to have a talk with Senator

idea. The committee has been busy for months.

preparing a report which, when submitted, will lay before ‘the American people—not t _ simply a set of facts which, Senator Herring hopes, will

the insurance post is “a man’s and that what would be permissable for the President’s. son would somehow be “not quite right” for the President's.

- improved by the profit-sharing idea, © company’s profits reflected the improvement.

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Mrs. Roosevelt has not only the strong approval of Democrats (i.e, those who voted for F.D.R. in 1936) ,-but

Approve Disapprove DEMOCRATS “ees 0080000800 00s 81% 199% REPUBLICANS ..... .. ...... 43 8%

Like the President's, Mrs. Roosevelt’s popularity is greatest with persons at the bottom of the income scale. But unlike the President, Mrs. Roosevelt has the approval of a majority of voters even in the upper income group. The percentages in each group approving her are: Upper income group, 54 per cent; middle group, 65 per cent, and

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dream, but there is one spot in Washington where the rosiest kind of picture of employer-employee relationships is being painted. : : The painter is Senator Clyde L. Herring, Iowa Democrat who was Governor before he became Senator, businessman before - Governor, and farmer before that. If you have doubted that there is a bright side to the industrial picture in America—if sometimes charges and counter-charges before other committees here have made you wonder whether or not there is hope for anything but jungle law in the in-

Herring. Some time ago Senator Herring's Senate finance subcommittee was instructed to inquire into the profit-sharing

_..It studied some 625 profit-sharing plans, and now is a call for new legislation, but

help point the way toward industrial peace. . ia “It’s been like a breath of fresh air,” says Senator Herring. “We've listened to all kinds of people—men like du Pont, Ford, Sloan and their kind, smaller businessmen,

and any number of workers. We haven't heard any namecalling; instead we've heard businessmen telling how good their workers are, and workers telling how fair their bosses are. ; : : “We've found out that America has hundreds of thousands of satisfied workers, and hundreds of employers who don’t need legislation to make them treat men fairly. Our evidence showed industrial relations vastly and in each case the

“The thing isn’t a cureall. It can’t be applied" to all industries. But I should say that in 50 per cent of them it may be the answer to our troubles.” al \

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. 1-1Is there any silver in Ger- © © man silver? :@ a 2—What is a harmonium? -3—In baseball, how many bases can a runner take when a | | balk is called? La 4—Where, are the Laramie _ .. Mountains? : 5—What ships are exempt from paying tolls to pass through | ~~ .the Panama Canal? : 6—How is the date of Labor ; Day fixed? . = : 8 » » Answers ,

1—No; it is an alloy of copper, 4 . zine and nickel. Tn 2—A modern musical instru“ment which produces. ounds

one base. ; . 4—A Rocky Mountain range ‘which extends through Wy‘oming and Colorado. - | 5=U. 8. Government ships. _ 6—1t is fixed by law as the first. Monday in September.

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5 By Anton Scherrer

Pleasant Memory of J. K. Lilly ‘Boyhood Was How Tyler Mason Ran Hotel From Chair. on Porch EN J. K. Lilly was 14 years old, h ~ spent the summer working as an er:

; ‘rand boy for his father in the first Lilly | laboratory located on the south side of Pear]

St. where the Ayres people now have their annex. A bronze tablet, erected by Mr. Ayres marks the spot. : rh : % As luck would have it, the old Palmer House was still going good the summer Mr. Lilly went to work,

It stood on the southeast corner of Washington and Illinois Sts., right in the path of everybody's business. That's why the laboratory errand boy couldn’t help passing it several

| times a day. It’s the reason, too,

the memory of Tyler Mason still

| lurks in Mr. Lilly’s mind.

Mr. Mason was the proprietor of the Palmer House at the time. Mr.

man weighing something around 350 Mr. Scherrer pounds. In fair weather, he ran the. hotel sitting in a chair on the sidewalk between

| the two doors at the northwest corner of the building

facing Illinois and Washington Sts. He remained seated here practically all day, having his meals served to him on a tray. Se : An arriving guest, says Mr. Lilly, would be told to go.in. The boy inside would take care of him, said Mr. Mason. If the guest reported that no one. was at the desk, Mr. Mason would tell him to help “himself to a key naming the number of a room. Having done that, the guest was told to make himself at home.

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The departure was just as exciting, says Mr. Lilly, The departing guest would come to Mr. Mason, seated in his split-bottom chair on the sidewalk, and ask for his bill. Mr. Mason would say, “Now, how long have you been here?” and the charge would be rendered generally on the basis of the guest’s reply. The money received went into Mr. Mason's pants’ pockets. Any memoranda necessary to the transaction would be penciled on Mr. Mason’s cuffs or on his shirt front, Mr. Mason was a grand fellow, says Mr. Lilly, not only because he was good to look at, but because he was a man of good nature, good sense and engaging personality. Just the sort to run a hotel. Naturally everyone knew him, says Mr. Lilly, and all day there would be from one to half a dozen persons around his chair swapping stories with him. On summer evenings, he was the center of a crowd. * Ei Tyler Mason, I guess, was the last proprietor of the old Palmer House. Anyway, when it came time for sidewalk, the hotel was rearranged, painted up like everything, and called the “Occidental.” - From that time on, it was run from the inside, By that time, Mr. Lilly had an: inside 0) glk 0 ” ~ Se . Hd :

Jane Jordan— Cites Own Case, Doubts 'Failure® After Two Unhappy Marriages.

DER JANE JORDAN~—You once said that & man

who -had been unhappily ‘married twice was a I believe there are exceptions in everything, ‘including marriage. I have been ‘married twice and am separated from my second wife. - My first marriage went along fine for about six years. We had ; one child. I worked some at: night and in time discovered that my wife went to dances in my absence. ' : Some of the men she met then came to my home when I wasn’t there. I can’t stand to be doublecrossed; so we were divorced and I'have the custody of the boy who doesn’t care for his mother. Last October 8 year ago I was married to a woman of 33 who said that she loved my boy more than anything. She was working at the time and did not want to quit. Last Juhe it came to me through friends she was causing trouble at the plant and was going to get fired. Well, I didn’t. care for I made good money, but one afterncon when she said she had to stay at the plant for a meeting, I found her coming: out of a tavern with another man. : She killed something in me Just as my boy's mother had done, A few weeks ago she left. - : LP vag She said that she never would get over my: get ting her fired from her job. She tried to ae with another company but ‘they have her on the blacklist as a trouble-maker, and again she blamed me, : ‘Marriage made a soft fool out of me and women n’t care for soft, easy-going men; so in one way part of it is my fault. - My friends were surprised that my marriage lasted as long as it did. Some day I will find the woman who can be a real sport to everybody and still be for me only. I say again there are exceptions in everything. Your answer got under my skin. : ei J. H L.

No wonder it gets under your skin. It would be more accurate to limit the Css failure by placing the word emotional before it, for apparently you are successful in business. - You get along well enough in the world of men, but your judg ment in regard to women is poor. : St 't it ever strike you as significant that you € lwo women with one trait in common; namely, ihe inability to be faithful in marriage? One might ‘attribute the first bad choice to youth and -inexperi- , but t disappointment of living with one unreliable woman, why did you turn around in your maturity and choose another with the same characteristic? It.is noteworthy that all your friends predicted a failure which you were unable to foresee. Why. were your. self-protective instincts so low? = I have no doubt but that your wife is a trouble maker, but I am sure that the evidence of it was there before you married her. She could not have deceived

she does not live up to them? What I mean to out is that you cannot escape the responsibility for having made the wrong choice twice, and this is what you need to look out for in the future, . Si a Ta JANE JORDAN. P : yd : ? 2 i 5 ah answer To Jviiams in Aleiter to imayd Urdan whe,

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