Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1939 — Page 13

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Registrar at Warm Springs Is. a 'Polig> Victim Cured of Self-Pity And Cynicism at F. D. R's Resort.

| | WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 2. Presi-

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dine or three times a year. Everybody here

loves him, and his visits are always high spots. His little settlement of private cot-

tages is about a mile from the hospital grounds, back through the woods. Neat sighs point to “The Little White House.” His own cottage is a spreading six-room house, ‘ -with two baths. It is on the slope of a hill, and is nearly hidden by pine trees. There is also a guest house, and a house for servants. When the President is not here, the houses are closed tight. Three

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watch in a little sentine front. They cover th hours. The Guardsman was pleasant and chatty. He said about 5000 cars a month come by to take a look. He said they didn’t have any trouble with people tearing off things for souvenirs. But down at the hospital they don’t have such an easy time with tourists. They used to let tourists go through the grounds, talk with the patients,

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“. and have a free hand. But you know how some tour-

“ sedan—is here all the time.

ists are. Some emotional old lady would go up to a “polio” and burst out: “Oh you poor pitiful thing! What terrible shape you are in! Oh isn’t it awful! Oh me, oh my!” And then start bawling. That was too much. Tourists are still allowed to look around, but that intimate impudence has been stopped. When the President is here he comes every day, about noon, to swim in the “polio” pool. -He doesn’t come until the other patients are about to leave. The President’s own car—a Ford V-8 convertible When the President is gone, he turns it over to Fred Botts, the registrar, who is himself a “polio.” : : Mr. Botts was one of the original polios here. He came in 1925, and lived with Franklin Roosevelt even ‘before he was Governor of New York. They have remained close friends.

Cars Operated by Hand : The President drives quite a bit around here.

_ Several of the other polios have cars too.

The clutch and brake are operated by one lever, on the lefthand side, in easy reach. If you press down so far, that releases the clutch. If you press

- still farther, that puts on the brake. You use a hand

throttle ‘under the steering wheel. That's all there is to it. The gear shift is the normal one. I spoke of Fred Botts, the Foundation’s registrar. He is the only “polio” cn the staff. He is a tall, sensi-tive-faced man, sincere and jovial, and I don’t blame the President for liking him. He was stricken in the “polio” epidemic of "1916.

It was Mr. Botts who so impressed me with the |

change that Warm Springs brings to the mental attitude of paralysis victims. And he should know. He says that for the first nine years of his helplessness he just lay around and pitied himself.

He got interested in Warm Springs from seeing. |

newspaper pictures of Franklin Roosevelt and Annette Kellerman swimming here. He was one of the very

* first to arrive, in 1925.

At that time Warm Springs was a resort for wealthy Georgians. It had been a resort even before

~ the Civil War.

When Mr. Roosevelt began to visualize what might be done here, back around 1926, he bought the whole resort. Then when the Foundation was formed, the land was turned over to it. Mr. Botts and one other man are the only two originals left here. He gets around in a wheel chair, and can walk on crutches with difficulty. To see him sitting down, you never know he was paralyzed. Warm Sprin sn’t cured him of his paralysis. But it has helped him, and it has cured his disposition. From a hopeless, sour; cynic, he has become once more a regular guy. !

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Enjoys Play, 'Mamba's Daughters; Attends Funeral of Thomas Lynch. EW YORK, Wednesday.—We had an uneventful

trip to New York City yesterday afternoon. On arrival, we went to dine at a French restaurant where

i crepe suzettes are done to perfection. It seems to be

the favorite dessert of the friends I had with me. Then we went to see “Mamba’s Daughters,” largely because

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staged this play, told me Ethel Waters really achieved & remarkable dramatic success in the character of “Hagar.” For me it was an unforgettable evening, so real that I could hardly believe that I was not actually on the plantation, or on the waterfront in Charleston, S. C.

' Poor defenseless people, betrayed often by their vir-

tues! It is to me an extraordinary, artistic success. I went first to see Mrs. Thomas Lynch this morning before her husband's ¢ after and I marvel at her selfcontrol. She felt that after seven years'of happiness, her world had fallen to pieces about her, for she and her husband and their little girl had seemed to live on a litéle island of intimacy. When you have been s

" happy, it is hard to be resigned.

F Finds Mother-in-Law at Church

1 had not expected to see my mother-in-law in the

' church, but I was hardly seated when she came up the

aisle, and so I went home with her afterward and sat for a while and talked with the three sisters—Mrs. Forbes, my mother-in-law and Mrs. Price Collier. Mrs. Collier is, of course, much younger, but as I looked at them all I thought what a wonderful trio they are—so full of vitality. Even Mrs. Forbes is still beautiful, with features and spirit which age apparently cannot touch. i While there, I looked down and discovered I had a run, clear up my stocking and decided I would have to’ go oul at once to buy another pair. ' But my mother-in-law came to my rescue and insisted she could provide me with an entirely new pair. I put them on.and

wore them out of the house, warning her that they |.

probably would never be returned! - An hour with the dentist and then to lunch with my aunt, Mrs. Stanley Mortimer. By 3 o'clock I was

back at my apartment.

; § Day-by-Day ‘Science y-Dy-Uay ocieénce By Science Service : UTRITION and the chemistry of the body seem to’ get ‘more complex with every new fact discovered by scientists. Take the maternal instinct as an example. Poets for ages past have sung-its praises under the name of mother love, and psychiatrists have had their say about it too, not all of it laudatory. From the psychiatric viewpoint, mother love often gets out of hand or is used as a mask for other: less desirable emotions, with disastrous results. : Reducing mother love to a matter of chemistry seemed simple but apparently is not. One group of

| scientists has found that a small gland in the brain,

the pituitary, produces a chemical called a hormone which, among other things, stimulates maternal instinct or mother love in laboratory animals. Another group of scientists found that mother love was tied up with the amount of a mineral, manganese, in diet. Manganese is considered an essential part of the diet, although only very tiny amounts of it are

§ needed. No one needs to worry about not getting i enough manganese, apparently, because these scien- . tists had a difficult time preparing a diet that did not contain a small trace of manganese. :

. When they finally made up such a diet, in order to learn whether, and if so why, manganese was a dietary essential, they found that rats deprived of it failed velop the maternal instinet.

Japan's Side in

‘We Are a Race Destined to Expand,’ T okyo Editor Says

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There follows the second and concluding installment of excerpts from a letter to Roy W. Howard, of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, from Shingoru Takaishi, director of the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi and Osaka Mainichi, . newspapers with. the widest circulation in Japan. Mr. Takaishi, who writes to Mr. Howard with the frankness of old friendship, gave permission for the reproduction of his .version of the Japanese viewpoint. ” ” 2

By Shingoru Takaishi : \A/E have often been praised as a determined, progressive and expanding nation and, frankly, we firmly believe we are a race destined to expand in the light of our proud history and our religious loyalty to the throne. It is this racial faith in bur des- , tiny which brought on the Sino - Japanese War and later the Russo-Japanese War. -

What do you find in China compared with Japan? - Today China’s politico-social structure and culture—her racial or national stamina or will-power=—are much lower than those of Japan. If there is such a thing as fate, what do you think the future of the two nations should be?

Times-Acme Photos.

1. A Japanese tank corps and infantry battalion entering the walled city of Hsuchow. 2. Japanese destroyer sailing up Whangpoo past the burning city of Shanghai. 3. Invading machine gunners atop freight car fire on Chinese snipers at Tientsin. 4. Japanese troops disembarking in North China. 5. Nippon troops advancing across a human bridge in Shantung Province. .

There is China, lower in national efficiency, less energetic, and lacking in spiritual strength. It possesses an immense territory. What is more, China lacks fhe essential qualities to compete independently among modern na-

tions. While as for Japan, we are

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next to China gevWe are spiritually energetic. We are determined fighters. Yet we are confined tp a group of small islands. It is true we created Manchukuo, with - which we enjoy special relations. It is true we previously came into possession of Formosa and annexed Korea. But all these failed to give elbow room to the ever-increasing population and permit us to fulfill our expanding economic needs. It seems to one natural that our effort to seek national economic heeds should be directed toward China. Anyhow, as if to keep the ball of fate rolling, along came China's

positive anti-Japanism to block

Japan’s continental aspirations.

Japan either had to bow to China

or give up her hope of peaceful expansion on the continent altogether. Needless to say, it was unthinkable for a proud nation like Japan to bow to China. So the inevitable war came.

VEN in the world of physics there is no peace until objects are brought to their natural resting position. In the same way, I think a co-ordination or blending of Japan’s superiority and China’s inferiority is necessary before there is peace in East Asia. We are going through a political process akin to nafural evolution. Japan’s superiority in many fields ‘of human activities is flowing over into China. In this sense, China really is becoming the crucible or melting pot for the two racial potentialities. ’ ” 2 8

SUPPOSE one might say: If so, surely there could have been more peaceful ways for Japan to make China co-operate with her.” I say yes—provided Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues had not depended so much on foreign support and talked too big. In all probability I could have said yes, too, had Japan shrewd diplomats like Britain to score a diplomatic victory. There is no doubt that both sides miscalculated. But now it is too late to be criticizing. We may have miscalculated in the way we chose to attain our end, but there was no miscalculation © from the start about the end that we are seeking. We are not aspiring to conquer China. We are using force

because we think it imperative that (lose economic relations should be brought about between

‘the two countries even if it is

necessary to use our fists. We know better than to make territorial conquests. We know that ultimately China must be made China’s China.

Chiang Kai-shek has alienated himself from our people by his continued anti-Japanese policy. A peace with him might have been possible last year, but not any more. We are hoping to see a new regime in China. Of course a prolonged campaign will mean an enormous financial and economic burden on our people. But we are far from pessimistic. As for other material necessities, we can be supplied with many: of them from the present occupied area in China. | If we link China, Manchukuo and Japan there will be formed an adequate reservoir of necessary raw materials. And when it comes to toiling and enduring we are quite used to it, you know. Now I come to my conclusion. Japan is only trying to establish her right of national existence appropriate to the racial potentiality of our race. ‘To those powers which have enormous land -acquired in the era of colonia] conquest, the principle of status quo may be their golden rule. But

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what are they going to do for the rest of us who came in a bit too late? ; : ” ” ” OT all races progress at equal speed. As time goes on, there is bound to arise discrepancy between the existing ter=

ritorial distribution and the actual needs of the various races. The principle of status quo, therefore, it seems to me, is all wrong. There should be a redistribution of the earth’s surface every now and then to meet the changes in condition. There is no status quo in the world of nature. Of course, I don’t want to see changes among nations effected by force. Political changes should be effected peacefully as much as possible. But if required changes are thwarted by those who insist on maintaining the status quo, it seems to me that it is only natural that the struggle for readjustment should become so ine tense as to involve force. I am for peace just as much as you are. But lasting peace requires a flexible regulation in the matter of territorial distribution. And until some international law= enforcing body, such as the League of Nations, can satisfactorially redistribute the earth’s surface so as to harmonize with the growth and expansion of various races, there will always be some nation .ultimately resorting to arms to establish its right.

Finally, please believe me, the:

new order in no way will jeopard-

ize the legitimate business inter--

ests of foreigners in China.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the most common nickname for the State of Alabama? 2—Under which government department is the Bureau of the Census? : 3—Which State does Senator Gerald P. Nye represent in the U. S. Senate? 4—Name the saltiest body -of water in the world. 5—Which card in the ordinary. deck of playing cards is known among sailors as the “Devil’s bed-post”?

6—What is the correct pronun-

ciation of the word invalid, the adjective meaning ‘hot valid? ihe

Answers 1—The “Cotton State.” 2—Department of Commerce. 3—North Dakota. 4—The Dead Sea. 5—Four of clubs. 6—In-val’-id. % o #

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer Ey How Gen. Wallace Met Crisis as

Minister to Turkey When Sultan Made Him 'Present' of Harem Girl.

Sultan of Turkey has presented Gen. Lew Wallace, the American Minister, with a beautiful Circassians girl.” That’s all the Indianapolis papers said at

| the time. Later, however, the details leaked

out.

’ Seems that Mrs. Wallace was sitting at the front window of her Constantinople home when a cavalcade drew up before the door. A huge Nubian, clad in the Sultan’s livery, alighted and made his way toward the house. e was followed by two other Nubians, a size smaller, carrying a big-eyed and bejeweled girl. They deposited her on the inside door mat. Mrs. Wallace stared at the girl in amazement. : “What do you want?” she asked. ‘The girl shook her head. “Mustably! Mustably!” cried : Mrs. Wallace, “what on earth does Mr. Scherrer this mean?” ; Mustably, a bilingual servant in the Wallace menage, came running, gave one' look and said: “A-a-ah! It.is a present. His Royal Highness, the Sultan, has smiled upon my master and has given him the pick of his harem.” : : “And what is the pick of the harem going to do in my home,” said Mrs. Wallace with a withering look. “For one thing,” said Mustably, “she will bring my master’s coffee to him when he awakens in the morning.” >. . “She will, will she!” said Mrs. Wallace. Then she walked straight up to the beauty on the mat, pointed her finger to the door and said, “Go away.” The Sultan’s present stared at her stupidly, “Go away, I tell you, Youre a shameless hussy to come worming your way into a respectable Hoosier family.” The beauty made no move to go, and there's no telling what might have happened next, had not Gen. Wallace at the very moment entered the room.

Diplomatic. Genius at Work > “Oh, Lewis,” cried his wife, “did you ever hear of

- such a thing?”

Gen. Wallace didn’t look as horrified as he might though he evidently was. Apparently he had heard of such things happening in the Orient for there was a quizzical look in his eyes. Finally, he said: “I don’t know, Maria, that I would put her in the street. She’s not to blame, you know. After all, she’s a present, and you can’t throw away a present, espe-

cially not if it comes from the Sultan. If we could

send it back with a note saying we had no use for it, or that we had one already, maybe it would be the best way.” a “Y-e-es,” said Mrs. Wallace with a suspicious sweetness in her voice. r “Come to think of it,” cohtinued Gen. Wallace, “I don’t really know if it would be safe to send the pres= ent back. You know these foreign powers’are mighty touchy, and I don’t know but if I was to send the present back and turn up my nose at it, it might make the Sultan mad enough to declare war on the United States right off, and massacre us all.” “You would, would you,” remarked Mrs. Wallace in ° a voice vibrant with emotion. “Afraid to send it back, are you! Afraid of international complications! Now Just understand this, sir, right now. If that present doesn’t go back to the old beast that sent it in less than 10 minutes I'll show you and the whole Orient the kind of women they raise around Indianapolis. I'll show you! ; Pink with pride, Gen. Wallace kissed his wife, called for a panoplied camel, and had the Circassian girl hauled back to her harem. Apparently the Sultan didn’t act up at all, and thus another international crisis was averted. :

Jane Jordan— Feels Like a ‘Prisoner’ at Home, Secret Bride Told to’ Rejoin Mate.

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I married at the age of 17, a boy of 19 whom I had known 10 days. My mother is dead and my stepmother and I despise each other. My husband left me penniless in a’ Western state, 2000 miles from home. I rode a freight train back to Indiana. "I would be disgraced forever if my family and friends knew it. My marriage was annulled. I was a nervous wreck. I answered an ad in the Chicago paper for show girls, and oh, how my. stepmother There were 12 girls in the show and we traveled from town to town. _ Our chauffeur was the son of the owner of the show, and we fell in love. Then my father was hurt in an accident and they sent for me. Edward and I were married before a Justice of the Peace before I went home. I have begn away from my husband one year and only see him once every three months. He writes every other day and wants to send for me, but I am afraid of my father and stepmother. My father likes a young man here in Indianapolis and wants me to marry him, but I love my husband very much, and if I do not run away from home and go to him, I must tell my secret. I am virtually a prisoner in my own home. Please advise me what to do. B. M. D. 8 ” ”

Answer—Are you economically dependent upon your parents? Ifyyou are then you must find a job and support yourself. You've done it before, you can do it again, . A girl who had the grit and resourcefulness to ride a freight train home when she was stranded 2000 miles away, should be able to extricate herself from other predicaments. Once you had the nerve to answer an ad in a Chicago paper for a show girl and get the job. The same sort of courage which came td you then is what you need now. ‘You are oppressed at home and you can’t lie about your marriage forever. What is there to prevent you from joining your husband? . 5 JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today | is now generally recognized that the by-products of Christian missions are sometimes more important than the number of converts. The spirit of une ° successful missionaries has often inspired other efe forts which meet with phenomenal success. The information recorded by the missionaries about people among whom mission stations are planted, remote from civilization, is not only of interest but of historical and scientific value. All this is true of the mission established 1801-1806, by the Moravians among the Indians of White River, about two miles east of the present site of Anderson. Soon after Indiana Territory was organized, John Peter Kluge, his wife, Anna Maria, and Abraham Luckenbach were sent from Bethlehem, Pa., the headquarters of the Moravian churches in the North, to the Delaware Indians and other tribes along the upper. west fork of White River. . The journey, the establishment of the little mission, the vicissitudes of nearly six years of earnest: work, and the abandonment of the mission, are re=: corded in German in the long “Diary of the little Indian congregation on White River.” This, with the autobiography of John Peter Kluge, has > translated, and with the autobiography of Abraham Luckenbach, has been edited by Dr. Lawrence Henry Gipson, head of the Department of History and, Government at Lehigh very, Bétnishem, J 11] publish by the Indiana ureau as y

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