Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1939 — Page 9

From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

a A Story of Contrasts—a Young Man ~~" Crying Because of Loneliness; and

“= Dick. Merrill Who Has Everything.

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 24.—Night fell and it ~~ ‘was pouring rain. Back from dinner, we parked the car out behind the little hotel where we stay, and made a dash for the

back door. As we rushed in, we butted into * a young man standing at the back door. He

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was the bell-boy and jack-of-all-trades. ‘We had seen him around quite a lot, carrying bags, painting floors, running errands. He was a nice-look-wok ing youth, with a pleasant face. He always smiled good-morning to us. © We made some usual remark "about the rain. didn’t answer. That made us 1 closely at him. And we saw that he was crying. We asked him what was the matter. He just shook his head. I asked if he had been fired. He said no. We said: “Come on, now; tell us what's the matter.” “Nothing. Nothing’s the matter.” : Finally his answer came, sobbed i out broken-héartedly: ‘Mr. Pyle “I'm just so lonesome.” We: took him up to the room with us. He couldn’t say anything for several minutes. He kept trying to get his tears stopped, : “Have. you had bad news from home?” I asked him. - “Is something wrong in your family?” 4I haven't any family,” he said. “My parents died when I was four, I lived with an old man in north Alabama until I was 15. He was good to me, ‘but I decided to make my own:way. I've been on my own

since I was 15.”

“How old are you now?” I asked. “Twenty-one.” i In the last six years he has worked all over Florida. Just small jobs, here.and there. When he left the, old man, he had gone only through the sixth grade. His lack of education is sort of a phobia with him. EE That’s what makes it so poignant. He is an intelligent boy, and he realizes so acutely how doomed he is without an education. He ‘is in the heart of Miami. He sees the gay palms, the long black cars, the expensive luggage. And not a soul ever speaks to him.

A Feeling of Helplessness

We talked with him for half an hour or so. Then he had to run; said he'd catch it for being off duty that long. We sat and talked about him for a long time; and felt like crying ourselves. : “What could we do? Giving him a few dollars wouldn’t’ help any. That wasn't. the point. What he had to have was a key to another world. A key to an existence in which he could go to school, make friends, lift himself into a better job, cause somebody somewhere to have an interest in him. Later Dick Merrill, the trans-Atlantic flier; came in on his regular Eastern Airlines run from New York. We have been friends fora decade, long before he ever hit the headlines. He came over and had breakfast with us this morning. In all my acquaintance, I don’t believe I know a person who is_ better off than Dick Merrill. His life is packed with interest. And he makes a good living by doing the thing he likes best in. all the world to do—fly. Sal He has friends by the thousand. He loves to hunt birds and play the ponies and know all the big names and eat at Lindy’s and take long trips about the world. And he is constantly doing every one of these things that he loves to do. Even the monotony of flying the big airliners back and forth over the same route nth after month is nectar to him. He said this rning: “Ernie, every time I start on my run, I'm starting on a joy ride. I love it. I've never gotten tired of flying.” { We sat and talked, in the same hotel where a young man without any friends=at-all was down on his knees, out in the hall, painting the floors,

‘My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

‘More Interest Being Taken in Young |

People, Series of Meetings Shows.

\ ASHINGTON, Monday.—There is no question ‘ about it, we are taking more interest in our

-- young people. I have never been asked to attend so

any meetings for the consideration of youth’s probems. : “Yesterday afternoon I went over to the Women’s City Club to ‘attend a tea for the Junior Guild and, before I went, the representatives of another important woman’s organization called ask me about a program of study for their young members, who range

dn age from 18 to 30 years.

While I listened, my mind went| back to my own early years and I remembered how long it took me to outgrow the idea that sitting en a d and occasion--ally visiting an institution really represented any kind of work. I will grant you that boards have to exist, money has to be raised and plans have to be made, but why not leave this work to older people who are past the need for education? As long as you are young and physically able, why not get out and learn something first-hand by having a few actual contacts and doing a little real work? <A newspaper headline this morning says that I disdike lectures. That. isn’t so. I like lectures which tell me something new, but I don’t want the whole of youth's activity to stop with a lecture or a study program.. Those things should serve only as a stimulus from which to spring into action,

Receives Books on Opera

1 lunched today with the Health Committee of the Washington Council of Social Agencies. The

chairman told me that their meetings were better | attended than ever before, which shows the realiza- |

tion of the importance of public health work. We are gradually coming to realize that the health of the community and interest in preventive medicine gan; mean much in- solving’ many “other social probems. : The Metropolitan Opera Guild in- New York City has just sent me two interesting publications. One, a slim volume entitled “Opera Cavalcade,” is the story

° of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The other, four

small books for children, containing the stories of

Carmen, Aida, Lohengrin, and Hansel and Gretel, are

all: [told in a way to capture the imagination: of children, These books ‘will add tremendously to the pleasure of seeing and hearing dn opera for the first time, whether you are young or old. .

Day-by-Day Science -

By Science Service 7 Smet sejence is having a profound and real effec on the world about us whether we wish it or not, there is need of knowing its possibilities and limitations. : : : No label of “science” upon the package of research

. ‘will make it a cureall. :

Scientific philosophers, like Pearson, Poincare an many others have discoursed upon the method of ‘science. To those who cry for action, this may-seem dry and unimportant stuff. But thought and knowl-

edge of method is always necessary that action may

be correct. : A British scientist, Dr. William H. George, in a notable current book, “The Scientist in Action,” ex-

“-plains that in its passionate and challenging devotion

to facts, science is distinguished from all other human activities, : : “Science neither has, nor desires, any protection whatever against statements of fact,” he observes. “A

passionate devotion to statement of fact outside of | Science ‘may alienate a man from his friends, if not

put him in a law court, prison, concentration camp, or -before a firing squad. In certain circumstances, statement of fact without comment is libel or slander. ‘Religion is protected by laws of blasphemy. . Even

militarism appears to be a delicate flower, nzeding ; le

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Reich Regains Armed Might Under Rule Of the Nazis’

(Nazi Germany observes the sixth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's assumption of power next Monday. Following is the second of dispatches prepared by members of the United Press staff in Berlin explaining developments in Germany since 1933 and clarifying the basis for future developments. This dispatch, by a correspondent who has watched the day-by-day development of Nazi Germany, concerns the Reich’s armed forees.)

By Edward W. Beattie

United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Jan. 24.—On the of

_sixth - anniversary

‘Nazi Germany, the Reich

leaders claim they could

send a fleet of more than 40

submarines into the North Sea, cloud 'Europe’s. skies with probably 10,000 war planes, and put about 1,900,000 trained - soldiers into the trenches. Six years of Nazi rule have brought a tremendous

"change in Germany’s armed

forces which were rendered impotent by the World War treaties but which today are one of the powerful factors in the shifting European picture. The German standing army of 1,000,000 men made possible the Nazi triumphs in Austria and the Sudetenland; is the backbone of today’s “March to the east” through Central Europe, and may be an ace card in any new struggle. x : The German navy, with 71 submarines built or planned, is projecting an underwater fleet of possibly 125 craft. Some experts believe 160 submarines may be built, including powerful - oceangoing craft such as the war-time U-boats. Only last week, Berlin officially advised Great Britain of Nazi plans to achieve equality with British submarine strength and to build five: new 10,000-

.ton cruisers with, 8-inch; guns.

The German air fleet, ranked by some experts as the greatest in the world and with excellent replacement facilities, is the big question mark of Europe's inter=national quarrels. But it remains a fact that the Nazi forces have not yet been fully tested. £0 ia 8. 8 HE Reich’s present armaments contrast greatly, how-

- ever, with the armed forces of the

vanished German republic. Germany was forced t8 burn her warplanes, scrap her fleet and limit her Army to 100,000 men under the Versailles Treaty.

Rearming began after Adolf Hitler came into power and determined to expand the small but excellently trained Reichswehr. In 1935, while England and France had their eyes on Ethiopia, Hitler re-established universal conscription, providing for an army of 700,000. A year later the Rhineland—demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty—was occupied by

German troops and work started

on the Western (French) frontier fortifications.

Hitler smashed conservative Army opposition to his | program by a purge of the high command, assuming the title of supreme commander himself. I The Army today consists of 39 divisions, including eight light divisions, four armored divisions and three mountain divisions. It is organized in 18 corps concentrated on the important frontiers. With trained reserVes, it probably totals 1,900,000 men. < Particular emphasis has ‘been placed on the ‘arms of infantry

units, which are supposed to have. a firing power greater than any

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‘Times-Acme Photos.

1. Adolf Hitler is shown here reviewing his Nazi Storm Troopers in Berlin accompanied by his newfound ally, Benito Mussolini, ~ Italy's dictatef,.

2. Here's a contingent of Germany’s new two-man tanks receiving a salute from the Fuehrer. They were part of a huge military procession which marked the dictator’s 47th birthday.

3. German seaplanes, a few of the units in the vast air armada Hitler has built up in the last few years.

4. The cruiser Nurnberg, part of

the German Navy, which has been greatly increased in- strength.

other Army. In addition to regular equipment, an infantry unit has 83 light machine guns, 42 heavy machine guns, six 75 mm. field gun howitzers, two 155 mm. field gun howitzers, 12 antitank guns of 37 mm., 27 light mortars and 18 heavy mortars.

i ” 8 ERMAN artillery is rated by experts as excellent, including new 155 mm. field guns howitzers which have been described as superior to the French 75's. An 11-inch field gun with a barrel 40 feet long has caused a sensa-

tion among foreign military experts.- It is drawn by five caterpillar trucks and has a 30=man crew. It fires more than 30 miles. The Army demands speed and mobility. Most tanks are light although some are mounted with heavy guns for smashing pill boxes. Many troop units are motorized. / : The new Rhineland fortifications opposite France's famous Maginot Line are still being perfected but Germans view them as impregnable. They are made up of a miles-deep ‘system of tank traps, barriers, trenches, prepared gun emplacements, pill boxes and larger. forts in contrast to the

solidity of the concrete Maginot .

Line.

. Seas.

Je German ‘Navy - is still

“doast bound” hut it is pushing. feelers out into the Atlantic

Ocean. Germany began the World War with 29 submarines. She now has 71 builf, commissioned or planned, ‘but they. are mostly of the 250-ton type suitable only for action in the North or Baltic It is considered unlikely that more of these will be built unless the treaty limiting the Reich to 100 per cent in submarine tonnage and 35 per cent in ‘other naval craft, as compared to Great Britain, is denounced. 5 Experts believe that the next step in rebuilding the German Navy will be construction of more 500 or 700-ton submarines which can operate in the high seas as did the war-time U-boats which sank many Allied warships and merchant vessels and journeyed across the Atlantic to America. The maximum number of under-

navy to: operate far from home. The flagship of the fleet .is ‘the '26,000-ton battleship Gneisenau, mounting nine 11-inch and 12 six-inch guns. The Scharnhorst, a sister ship, has been put into service within the last month; two 35,000-ton battleships are on the stocks and another of undisclosed tonnage is planned. Germany also has one aircraft carrier, ; the Graf Zeppelin, in service and another almost com-

pleted, each of 19,250 tons. But

_in general the Nazis have hesi-

tated to challenge British seapower and have been so busy with other arms of the service that the naval strength of Greater ‘Germany lags. i ; In contrast, the German aerial arm probably is the . world’s strongest. Construction of the air fleet began -officially in 1935 when

. Hitler permitted disclosure that

water craft projected is about

125, well-informed sources have indicated. Britain now has. 69 submarines, mostly big ones.

HE surface naval forces in-'

- 1 clude seven cruisers; eight more of 10,000 and 7,000tons are being built or are projected in order to permit the

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Germany, despite the Versailles treaty, had -a secret skeleton air force. From that time, the Reich devoted tremendous . efforts -to building warplanes and — even more important — to providing facilities for replacement at the rate of probably 1000 a month. Today the Messerschmitt 109'is the basic ‘pursuit plane. It is a single-motored craft which ‘does » with ease. ‘A special {Messerschmitt .does_ up to 37 M. P. H.. The two-motored

‘Messerschmitt 110 is a long-range bomber and reportedly carries two cannon in ‘addition to four machine guns. - The strength of the bombing fleet, however, is in the Heinkel 111, the Junkers 86 and the Dornier 17, all top-flight performers. : New schools are being established . to train more “men with wings.” .

NEXT — Hitler's program.

Measure Light Plants Absorb

By Science Service ASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Using an instrument hitherto employed by astronomers. fo measure the energy of light from 'distant stars, plant physiologists at the Smithsonian Institution are obtaining’ new, exact data on the amount of light absorbed by chlorophyll, the food-synthesizing compound found in green plants. * The instrument, known as a vacuum thermocouple, has been perfected for botanical use by. Dr. Earl S. Johnston of the division of radiation and organisms. Accuracy

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By Anton Scherrer

Things Not What They Used to Be And Frank lpes, Bartender Here 40 Years, Cites Some Examples.

PHE moody reflections about to follow “were induced the other day when Frank Ipes tossed off a remark to the effect that things aren’t what they used to be. pared with 40 years ago, let’s say. : Mr. Ipes is worth listening to for he’s the man who has spent 36 years of his life standing

back of Stegemeier’s bar. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Ipes was standing back of the bar before

| it belonged to the Stegemeiers.

That was back in 1892 when Theodore Sander designed and built the 45-foot-long piece of furniture for Billy Tron’s saloon on the Levee. It was the longest bar in Indianapolis at the time. Two years later, in 1894, the Stegemeiers acquired it, which just about makes it the oldest = real-for-sure bar anywhere around here. Certainly the one with the slickest . top. ; % Well, that brings me to the point : of: today’s piece and the moody reflections I promised to deliver. I hope they don’t get you down the way they did me. It moved me deeply, for instance, to learn that 40 years ago: Indianapolis barkeepers had a line of fancy drinks, the mixing of which is a lost art today. rok Forty years ago, for instance, David T. Koontz mixed what was known in these parts as a ‘“celérine cocktail.” Heaven only -knows how it was put together. All that anybody remembers is the legend of its origin. One day just before the turn of the century, an English physician stopped at the Denise

dren were on their wedding trip. I can’t enlighten you why the old man was along: All I know is that while in Indianapolis, the children gave the old man the slip leaving him with a lot of time.on his hands, That’s how it happened that the old doctor spent most of his time at the Denison bar. During one of these ‘sessions he. showed Dave how to build a celerine cocktail. Before the party left Indianapolis,

make and sell the combination. In his day, Dave also stirred up a “snowball fizz" (gin and maraschhino with cream floating on top); also a “golden rod” containing the yolk of an egg, and a concoction called a “rose leaf” (the Scotch and maraschino made it smell like a rose leaf—see?),

The Henning Punch Is Born

There’s a legend, too, that one day Mat Henning, an Evansville politician, dropped into the Denison bar and called for a bottle of Bourbon, a lemon, some sugar, ice and seltzer. Phil McGuire waited on the customer and watched him build his drink. Quick to realize that he was sitting in on the birth of a work of art, Phil christened it the “Henning punch” and it went over big for years. ; While all this was going on at the Denison, Frank Calefan, a bartender over at Tron’s, was mixing a

“readjuster.” Frank also composed a drink he called “French beer” containing among other things, benedictine with whipped cream floating on top. Which leaves me just enough room to tell what I picked up concerning the origin of a “high ball.” It started at the .nifty Bradley-Martin ball (1897) on which occasion whisky and seltzer were poured into tall glasses along with some ice. New York bare

-Martin,”: but it didn’t take. Then some genius thought of “high ball” which had the merit of identifying the. fashionable party and saving a lot of syllables

‘the vicissitude of time.

Jane Jordan—

~ Surly Son May Be Jealous of His ~ Sisters, Worried Mother Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have a son who. is 18 and in the last year of high school. I have two girls who are younger and also in high school. We have a | good home, with plenty to eat and fairly good clothes. I have a wonderful husband who is good to me and the children. He works hard every day and his love for me has not changed since the day we were married 20 years ago. : : I have been sick for some time and have to go through an operation in about two weeks. My son is very hateful to me. If I ask him anything about his school or any of his boy friends, he curls his face when he answers me.. If I ask him to do anything special for won’t- do it, and he won’t go out with his sisters at all. They are dressy girls and neat with their clothes.

He won't bring any of his boy friends to the house and snaps me off every time I ask him anything. I have talked kihdly to him and shamed him. I have scolded, but it doesn’t do any good. Sometimes I feel as if I would have to leave my home for I cannot stand the way he looks at me. His dad scolds him about it, but that only lasts a short while. But my two girls are lovely to all of us. The neighbors talk about how nice out girls are. : . If IT am fo blame I want you to tell me where my trouble is and I will do everything I can to correct it, A WORRIED MOTHER.

Answer—I imagine that your boy is jealous of his sisters. After all he was your first child but his place in the sun lasted only a short time when two little

fancied. Almost every first child in the family reacts with jealousy to the succeeding children. Your son stands in a. difficult spot. He is trying to make the transition from boyhood to manhood, and some aggression against the family is inevitable, Moreover, he got off on the wrong foot somewhere during childhood and now he doesn't know how to attract the attention which he craves except by snarle ing. Two virtuous sisters who win approval easily by their dutiful attitudes only drive him further into the doghouse. Do not shame your son at any time.

the co-operation of your girls by awakening their sympathy for their brother’s problem. Never praise the girls in the brother’s presence nor criticize him within their hearing. If he must be rebuked, turn the task over to the father and let him talk to the boy kindly in private.

ever you can conscientiously do so. I suggest that you read any of Public Library on the problems of adolescents which

the books in the

I should be so glad to help you again if you will write, : 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 Annual Register of England in 1806 mentions. the “Green Man” about whom little is known, but ‘who becomes the central figure in Clemen

| Dane’s novel—-THE MOON 1S FEMININE (Double=

day), for which Brighton, a

seaside village near Lons don, provides a dramatic ig. &

~ Henry Cope, young and ‘rich falls in love wit Lady Molly Jessel. Obsessed with the idea that th is a land of the Green People somewhere in. the sea, struggles between his love for Lady Molly and lure of the sea’s mysteries. Symbolically, the rom of the two, who Rest meet in a storm, is ended

kes her out of his life.

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son ‘with his daughter and her husband. The chile’

drink ‘with an absinthe base which he called a,

tenders tried to promote the new drink as a “Bradley=_

besides. Thank goodness, the high ball has survived

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