Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1939 — Page 9

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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

He Opens Pile of Mail and Finds Only Two That Had Unkind Things To Say About What He Had Written.

IAMI, Fla. Jan. 23.—A fellow who writes a daily column naturally gets mail from readers. We had quite a stack of

it when we returned from South America. |

The first night and day back in Miami, 1

_ did nothing but read mail. I love mail. Most

of the letters are exceptionally nice. Now and then there is a sourpuss letter, but not often. In this whole big batch, there were only two bad ones.

One was from a garage man in El Paso. He called me a few assorted names because I had written that somebody had stolen a tire

from my car, and had ventured the”

conjecture that a garage mechanic did it. : : I didn’t mind the El Pasoan’s letter so much, for there was some justice in it, since I can't actually prove where the tire was stolen. But the other letter—boy, it was a honey! It was brought on by the column a few months ago on Barranquilla, Colombia. The writer, a man from New York City, was lathering so hard he got his facts all mixed up.

He called me a liar eight times—and he did a 100 per cent job of being wrong. The letter-writer said flatly that we Panair passengers were NOT called at 3:30 a. m., as I had said in the column. Well, we WERE, and any Panair ticket office can look up their schedule and verify it. He said I lied also in stating that the airport was 16 miles from town. He claimed it is one mile. But he happened to be thinking of the seaplane base, not the airport. . And on and on, for eight frenzied strike-outs. His mark for the day was zero, which I believe is hardly a passing grade in any country. He wound up his letter by calling my column “filthy slander” and saying my “putrid ambition” should be curbed. Tsk! Tsk! Such language. - He generously sent copies of his letter to the editor of The New York World-Telegram, to Mayor La Guardia, to the Colombian consul, to La Prensa In New York, and La Prensa in Barranquilla. Looks like maybe I've arrived, when people start writing letters to Mayor Laj Guardia about me. That’s big-time stuff. And as for the Colombians, I wish I'd been there

Mr. Pyle

* when they opened their copy of the letter. We all

could have laughed together. They undoubtedly know how far their airport is from town.

The Others Were Nicer

But there were other and saner letters. : From Shizuo Harada, the leper in Hawaii's Kalaupapa Settlement, about whom & wrote when there a year ago: “Life has been kind since last you saw me. I am better in health, and better ‘looking,’ for I have had a couple of ‘reactions’ and they have turned out for the best. It has been one of my. happiest moments, for having met and become one of your friends.” One paragraph like that can erase the squawkings of a dozen fanatics. ’ From Sunset Cox, over in Shanghai: “Still wartorn China, but we haven't lost our nerve yet.” From the mother of Claire, aged 4, the little Parkersburg girl on whom I have a frantic case of calf-love: “Claire fell off her tricycle and broke her. arm, and badly, tco.” My poor, beautiful Claire. Don’t you cry; I'll ,come and fix it for you. From Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield, who run the remarkable Toll House Inn at Whitman, Mass: : “We're leaving Saturday by boat for Rio de Janeiro, and taking your columns with us as a guide. We're so dead tired we're going to suspend animation for a week after we get aboard. From Rio we plan to fly to Buenos Aires, then across and up the west coast, reversing your trip.” : 5

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Deplores Need of Guarding Elman On Concert Tour in Aid of Refugees.

ASHINGTON, Sunday.—What a curious thing it is when a great musician like Mischa Elman offers the proceeds from a concert trip throughout the country to the fund for refugees, that he has to be guarded on the way to and from his first concert. "What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunates from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand-fold by what they have brought us. It may be that some of these very refugees may make discoveries which will bring us increased employment. Many of them represent the best brains of the countries from which they come. They are not all of one race or religion and the wherswithal to keep. them alive and get them started is being provided by such generous spirits as Mischa Elman. Must his wife and children tremble for his safety because of this gesture? He is giving concerts for the Committee for Nonsectarian Refugee Aid. Wherever he goes I hope he will be enthusiastically supported, not only because people enjoy his music, but because they admire the extraordinary generosity which he is showing. Friday afternoon I had a tea here in the White House at 4 o'clock, and at 5 o'clock Mrs. Henry Morgenthau and I were on the plane going to New York City! We had been asked ‘to attend a benefit performance of a play for the Nzighborhood Playhouse. I had seen the play here, but felt that if flying weather made it possible, I would like to go. I was delighted to have a few minutes talk with Katharine Cornell who is just beginning to rehearse in a new

play. Sees ‘Outward Bound’ Revival

Saturday I spoke at a luncheon for the Ethical Culture schools presided over by Dr. John Elliott, and that night Mrs. Morgenthau and I went to see the revival of “Outward Bound,” in which a friend of mine is acting. I remembered this play as profoundly impressive when I saw it before, and it was no less moving last night. It is better than many a

sermon and I cannot imagine anyone not appreciating

the cast and the perfection of the whole performance. Back again this morning by air to Washington; and it made me wonder if any of you have seen one of ‘the latest advertisements of the airlines. In it were extolled all the precautions and advantages which are ours today in travelling by air. It was good to think about them as we fought a very strong wind and bumped about in a fashion which was highly undesirable to most of the passengers.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service

LL is not influenza that goes by that name, as’

even the layman may have begun to suspect. There has been a tendency in recent years, however, to label as influenza. almost any ‘attack of cough and cold with fever, especially if such attacks are prevalent in the community. :

Since the virus of influenza has been isolated,

the diagnosis in any particular case could be clinched by laboratory examination of material washed from the nose and throat of the patient. If the virus is found in this material, there is no doubt the patient really has influenza. Such procedures are not available to the majority of patients and their physicians, who must consequently still depend on clinical symptoms for making a diagnosis. :

The difficulty of Jistiguishing true influenza from: ilar symptoms has been &

other ailments with s problem not only for physicians treating patients but for the medical scientists seeking the cause and means of conquering intluenza. To simplify the matter, the British scientists who first isolated the influenza virus, Drs. W. Smith,{C. H. Andrewes and . P. B. Laidlaw, called in the aid of some practicing physicians, Drs. C. H. Stuart-Harris, D. K. M. Chalmers, E. G. H. Cowan and D. L. Hughes. Between them they have drawn up a table of signs that differentiate true influenza from what they call “febrile

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Second Section

1938 Cli Dramatic Of Reich

Entered as Second-Class Matter at DPostoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Adolf Hitler cat Germany six years

Since that date—Jan.

me into power in ago nexi Monday. 30, 1933—Ger-

many has gone through an unprece-

dented charge—a

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foundly has affected

that is still incomp the first of six di

world affairs and Following ‘is , by members

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of the Berlin staff ¢ explaining what has many and eclarifyi

yf the United Press happened in Gerng the status of

Greater Germany as a world power in 1939. !

By Frederick C. Oechsner

United Press Staff Cdrrespondent

TN ERLIN, Jan. 23.—Nazi :

Germany [will be six years old next Monday and, if you were a German returning home for the first time since 1933, you might fail to recognize the Fatherland. : Opponents of ‘ the Nazi regime at home and abroad emphasize many unfavorable developments as a discredit to the New Germany or as illustrating weaknesses of the Reich. Nazi leaders recite an impressive list of achievements.

But, in any event, there have been profound changes throughout the nation in the last six years and still eater changes may come in 1939 Since Fuelrer came into powe

Adolf Hitler strange new

words and terms have crept into

the German language to express the ideas and functions of the Nazi regime. On the new maps there are names of cities and mountains, lakes and rivers and forests, that never were on a German map before.

The population of Germany has been boosted fr 65,000,000 to 80,000,000. - The area of the country has increased from 181,000 square miles to| 225,000 square miles by expansion of the frontiers to include Austria and the Sucdletenland, There is a skilled labor shortage instead of the six million unemployed of 1933. Working hours have been increased in some industries although paradoxically probably a million men are still jobless because of seasonal and other factors. Factory chi ys that were smokeless six years ago now spout bleck plumes for| 24 hours every day. All plants the Reich are geared to a Nazi production boom despite shortage of some essential raw materials and financing difficulties.

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YREATER Germany is on the ¥ march to the tune of Nazi piping. The Nazi. press emphasizes that it is a] forward march

regardless of the | fact that there

. are frequerit shortages of such

things as butter- and coffee and that substitute | materials are widely used. One way of expressing what has happened in Germany is to say that the theories of a political

Times-Acme Photos."

® ] Surrounded by army officers Herr Hitler, in photo above, is shown addressing the crowd that filled the famous Helden-Platz, in Vienna, as he proclaimed all of Austria part of the German Reich. This speech followed the uncontested entry of Nazi troops into Austria last year. The .Fuehrer and Marshal Hermann Goering, are shown (right) on a balcony of the chancellery in Berlin as Herr Hitler acknowledges the acclaim of more than a million followers who cheered him on his triumphal return after his Austrian coup.

leader who evoked

smiles a decade

ago now have become realities.

Herr Hitler has of dynamism on

made a religion the theory that

. a greater scale the dreaded U-boat

a nation that remains static must

die. "As the seventh year of Naziism begins, he has probably greater absolut¢ power than any man in German history. In general terms, that Is the Nazi version of what has happeried to Germany, a picture of industry and progress and triumphs, climaxed by the spectacular rise of the Reich in 1938 to dominance of eastern Europe to a place of equality in world councils that had been denied it since the World War. There is another side to the picture. It shows the price Germany has paid not only in many

billions of dollars spent but in less material terms such as loss of individual rights, radical intolerance, drastic suppression of political opposition, strict control of the press. Naziism has pursued an official anti-Semitic policy designed to bring about the economic ruin of 600,000 Jews and cause them to migrate from Germany. Naziism has brought the Protestant Church under party control and deprived the Catholic Church of all except purely religious functions. ¥ ” ” ”

"AZIISM has molded. the newspapers and magazines and radio—every method of influencing public opinion—into a single instrument for promoting the objectives of the state. Naziism has ended all political opposition and suppressed all other political organizations, throwing many of their leaders into concentration camps. Naziism has more than doubled taxes, yet also more than doubled the official public debt which is now officially put at 10 billion, but is privately estimated at about two or three times that figure. Thus, neutral experts seeking to estimate what has happened to Germany in the last six years are forced to balance many factors against such achievements as the Reich’s great new network of concrete highways, the army built up to a point where probably 1,900,000 trained men could be put in the field, the aerial fleet estimated at 10,000 fighting planes, and a a navy now planning to revive on

squadrons that came so close to starving England: during the World War. But most frequently of all the question asked by visitors to Germany is: “Are the Germans really behind Hitler? Are they happier than before he came into power?” : 2 oo” ” EITHER question can be answered definitely. But it can he said with reasonable accuracy that the people are behind Hitler in the sense that they prefer certainty to uncertainty. It can be said that even those who were not enthusiastic about Naziism are getting used to it;

and it can be said less positively that every day sees a decrease in the number who believe that a military dictatorship or a return to the republic or the monarchy would be a: preferable alternative. In other words, the average German has ‘come around” toward acceptance of the Nazi regime as a result of many factors, including ceaseless supervision by regular and secret police and constant propaganda from the Nazi .mouthpieces. One reason that a definite line cannot be drawn in regard to Hitler's support is that millions of Germans resent his church

policy, for example, but. approve

of other phases of his program. Other millions may disapprove of the Nazi foreign policy, but at

the same time they approve of the program which now enables their sons to serve in the army instead of being unemployed as they were in 1933. a

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'T is safe to say that an over-..

A whelming majority of Germans of all ranks disapprove or 'condemn the Nazi campaign of destruction directed against Jews, although many of those who: disapprove are sympathetic with the curtailment of Jewish power and influence.

It is likely that the number of ultra-ultra-party members who whole-heartedly approve everything done by Hitler is small. But it must be remembered that

about 40 per cent of the entire German population is dependent: in one way or another on either the Government or the Nazi Party for existence. : Whether the German people are more contented under Hitler is a different question fromwhether they support the Nazi regime. For one thing, an essential part of the Nazi program has been to keep them so busy in a furious forward march that there is little time to think about personal happiness or unhappiness. : Another thing is that opposition to Naziism is treason.

NEXT—Germany rebuilds her armed strength.

Just 10 Years

By E. R. R. HE year 1939 will see the 10th anniversary of the economic decline and stock market crash from

| which the nation has not yet re-

covered, but in January, 1929, few persons could discern a cloud as small as a man‘s hand on the horizon. The Grand Old Party was jubilant at having carried 42 of the 48 states for President, and the Democrats had elected less than 40 per cent of the House of Representatives. Nevertheless Rep. Cordell Hull issued a call to fight Republican plans for a higher tariff. : President-elect Hoover was touring Latin America on a United States warship. In Albany, Alfred E. Smith turned over the Governor’s mansion to his good friend,

Ago! Fuehrer

Roosevelt Went to Albany

devoted admirer, and political pupil, Franklin D, Roosevelt.

Hoover was supposed to have spiked the clamor for repeal for the time being. New Year's Eve in most cities was decidedly. “wet,” and police and Federal agents raided night clubs and speakeasies.

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A . PARKER GILBERT, Agent General for Reparation Payments, stated that Germany had become so stabilized internally that she was paying reparations under the Dawes Plan without difficulty. The United States was receiving the war debt payment on schedule. Dispatches from I.ondon said that the British were breathing freely,

The defeat of Mr. Smith by Mr.

now that the Kellogg treaty _hading

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practically outlawed war as an instrument of national policy, New York City newspaper which gave the most space to foreign news did not carry during the year 1928 a single reference to a man named Adolf Hitler, . In the Far Eeast, Manchuria accepted the suzerainty of the Nanking Government, and all China was unified under one flag. Stalin had exiled Trotsky, and had purged leading Trotsky-ites. United States Marines were still in Nicaragua. At Chicago, wheat was selling at $1.12 and corn at 84 cents, while cotton at New Orleans was 19% cents; President Cooliglge prepared to consult with members of Congress on ways and means of alleviatagricultural - distress.

The

Side Glances—By Clark

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

SOPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. Mi. REQ U. §. PAT. OF.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer

Lola Montez, Adventuress, Was First Woman fo Smoke in Our Fair City (1860) and Was Snubbed for It.

"THERE are people in Indianapolis naive enough to believe that women took to smoking cigarets in public sometime around 1920. : Shucks! Indianapolis saw a woman smok-

ing a cigaret in 1860. In February of that year, to be exact. That was the day Lola Montez came to town and lit a cigaret in front of everybody in (the Bates House lobby. When word of it got around, nobody went to hear her lecture at Masonic Hall. It was Lola’s own fault. Her reputation as an adventuress might have pulled a big house, but when people heard that her unconventional behavior included the smoking of cigarets, they wouldn't have anything to do with her. - Lola was a card. She was an. Irish girl born in Limerick, and her real name was Elsie Gilbert. At the age of 15 she eloped with an English officer, went with him to India, rode up to Simla on an elephant, and in no time at all became a pet of Anglo-Indian society. Tiring of her husband, she returned to England, adopted dancing as a proe fession, and in the course of one of her Continene tal tours landed in Munich in 1846. King Ludwig I of Bavaria, a man 60 years old at the time, fell for her charms at once. He made a regular fool of himself. Not only that, he made her a Countess and gummed up the whole government, in the course of which Lola became a political power, She had to pay for it, though. With the outbreak of the Revolution in 1848, Lola was set adrift and right on top of that the King abdicated in favor of his son, without any explanation whatever. The retired King didn’t see much of Lola after that. She had other fish to fry. Returning to London, Lola married a guardsman, divorced him, and in 1851 set out to conquer the world. . By way of America. She toured the country with a play called “Lola Montez in Bavaria.” After that, she took to lecturing, and that was the reason A year after she lit her cigaret in the Bates House word reached Indianapolis that Lola had died. She was only 43 years old. The news didn’t surprise anybody around here. Everybody was agreed that a woman couldn’t smoke cigarets without paying the penalty. Indeed, somebody at the time capitalized the incident and called cigarets ‘coffin nails.”

‘Scare’ Lasted 50 Years

Lola’s death scared the women like everything with the result that they let cigarets alone. At any rate, for a period of 50 years. Sometime in 1908, however, a San Francisco reporter passing Taits’ Cafe saw Mrs. Teresa Fair Oelrichs and Mrs. McCreery light their cigarets in front of everybody. He made the most of it, you bet. The news was flashed all over the country, including, of éourse, Indianapolis. The news kept our hotel keepers in a huddle for a week, I remember. They wondered what to do in case Indianapolis women ever took to smoking in public. Some of our innkeepers who knew a lot about hotel keeping, but mighty little about women, went on record that Mrs. Oelrichs and Mrs. McCreery could pick themselves up on the sidewalk if they ever tried their brazen tricks around. here. Others less courageous, but better -informed about women, suggested a laissez-faire policy. 'As a result, nothing was done about it at the time. And as far spl know, nothing has-been done about it since, either.» ; : :

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Mate Joking About Running Away, But Got Right Answer, Wife Told,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—The other night my huse band said to me, “What would you do if I ever ran away from you? Would you take me back? I'll bet you would.” I said I would not for he would have no cause to do such a thing as I am a good wife, He said, “What if I loved someone else?” I wouldn't answer at first and then I said, “Do you?” He replied, “I never said I did.” But he never said he didn't either. I asked him why he talked to me like that. He saw that I didn’t like it; so he said that I took things too seriously. Then he told me that he knew some man who had run away from his wife and was onl wondering what 1 would do if he ever did the same thing to me. He was sweet to me the next day, just as if nothing had ever been said to worry me. Maybe he does love someone else and would like to leave, but he told me he loved me. He has lots of chances to go out with other girls as he sometimes works at night. One day he said, “No one else would put up with me as you do.” So what do you think? Was he only talking or do you think he really would like to leave? He acts toward me as if he loves me except for what he said that night. WORRIED.

Answer—You would certainly he borrowing trouble to brood over your husband’s idle remark. His day= by-day treatment of you is a more accurate gauge of his feeling than his curiosity about what you would do if he were unfaithful. Jind Probably every man has been tempted to make love to another at some time or other. Those who are in love with their wives usually give up the idea” in order to protect a satisfactory relationship at home. : : You were wise to show that you did not like the idea, but to leave him in doubt as to exactly what you would do under such circumstances. Doubtless he would like to believe that you would forgive any folly as his mother before you would do, but it 1s just as well for him to feel uncertain about it. Even if what your husband suggested were true, your cue would be the same. Ignore the remark and put it out of your mind. He is still a loving husband

| and to keep him so is your greatest protection.

Answer; to Mary—It is always better for a young couple to wait until they can afford a home of their own before marrying. People with a realistic attitude toward their problems find postponement of present desires possible in order to found a more satisfactory future. : JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HE report made to the Conference on Jewish Ree L lations, written by Oscar Janowsky, has been pube lished under the title PEOPLE AT BAY; THE JEW. ISH PROBLEM IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE (Oxford University Press). ‘This organization, devoted to promoting the objective study and scientific understanding ‘ot the position of the Jew in the modern world, chose Dr. Janowsky to make this study because of his scholarly abilities and his previous -hand knowledge of the treatment of minority groups in those countries. The author analyzes dispassionately the causes of anti-Semitism, which he ascribes to the breakdown of the traditional economy, resulting employment dislocations and severe competition for jobs, also to the exploitation of minority groups for political reasons, which, in the case of the Jews, is due to their history of persecution. He also coffers suggestions toward alleviation of the Jewish problem, The book, a timely warning of the indirect menace ¢ all d cratic countries and lik

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