Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1939 — Page 9
Yaga From Indiana—Ernie Pyle
Warm Springs Didn't Like Those Photos of Its Gaiety Since Some Donors Seem Allergic to Fun.
ARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 4.—There : are just a couple more little items I want to get in. before finishing this series on Warm Springs. One is the brace shop. The Foundation has its own shop. . It makes
__8teel and leather jackets for the abdomen, foot plates for shoes, half-casts for permanent leg wear. and those full-leg braces, Jointed at the knees, with which you are familiar. These braces cost $120
a pair, Every one is a custom-built job, for a brace has to fit to the tiniest fraction of an inch. - It takes five fittings before one is completed. They are always working on little improvements. The -latest wrinkle is a round, instead of square, joint at the .knee. Thus, when you sit down and unlock your brace and pull up your legs, nobody can tell by any distortion in your pants that you have on a brace. The shop turns out ‘about 365 braces a year. Those who can af- ~ ford it buy them; those who can’t, get them free. It is possible that : Warm Springs may have become overrated in the minds of the American public. Not overrated as to ils efficiency and good work, but as to its capacity for real benefit to the afflicted. The average person, I believe, has a hazy idea that if you have “polio”
Mr. Pyle
all you have fo do is come to Warm Springs and
get fixed up. That is completely wrong. First, you don’t fix up the majority of “polio” cases. You can bring them back to a useful place - In spciety, but only infrequently to complete normalcy. And in the second place, it would take a hospital ‘twice as big as the city of Atlanta to handle all the
“polio” cases in America. Only about one out of 2000:
has a chance of getting into Warm Springs.
« Seek Those Recently Stricken
That has been the ground for some criticism of . Warm Springs, from people who couldn't get: their afflicted ones in. The Foundation tries to take, first ‘of all, recently stricken people. There is so much greater chance of
help if treatment starts early. .And it tries to select,
adults whose rehabilitation Would directly affect large families. The small criticism that has crept up over the country has made the officials touchy about publicity. Especially, I gather, the Foundation officials in New York, who have the responsibility of money-getting. . There is a little story that helps explain it. The magazine “Life” had a spread of pictures on Warm Springs, taken by Margaret Bourke-White. I thought it was a fine set of photos, and still do. But official Warm Springs didn’t care much for if. One picture showed a pre-Thanksgiving party in the home of a well-to-do. “polio” who owns his own home here, and pays his own way. Everybody was sitting around, smiling and gay, just like a party in New York. “Well, what’s the matter with that picture?” I asked. And here is what’s the matter:
Many people who donate money to such: places as Warm Springs don’t want the recipients of their charity to seem happy. “So that’s what we're giving cur money for, eh? People laughing and having a good time. So that’s the way our paralysis wards at Warm Springs act, eh? Smile and have fun, eh? All right we won't give any more money then, if they're not going ‘to have long faces.” That’s the reason Warm Springs didn’t like that -picture. It'll keep people from giving money. I was shocked by this revelation of human character. ‘Why, happiness is the best cure for almost any ailment. 1 think it’s a sad commentary on the so-called charitable spirit of you, and you, and of me. :
My Day
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Spends Busy Time in New York City: Visits With Friend - in Hospital.
"ASHINGTON, Friday.—There is no doubt about it, I should not stay too long in any one place. Things piled up so yesterday afternoon in New York City that I finally saw three people in a half hour to whom I had expected to given an hour and a half. As a result, I fear that nobody received just what they wanted, but at least I had enough of a picture to tell each one what I could do.
In one case I could do nothing except be appreciative of the lady’s ingenuity. She has invented a method of adding to a foundation dress, so that you can have almost any garment you desire with infinite variations. All I could do was to suggest that she see what other people are doing along the same lines,
for she expects to apply for a patent and patents are .
extremely hard to obtain on anything which is virtually a design. I visited a friend in the hospital, and at 5 o'clock ended up with a very cheerful tea party which I much enjoyed. It was a good prelude to a pleasant dinner and an excellent background to relieve a well acted but- extremely disagreeable play. I don’t think I ever spent an evening .with such disagreeable people as are pictured in “The Little Foxes.” Tallulah Bankhead gives a perfectly splendid impersonation of heartless and ambitious woman. It cen’t be a very pleasant part. The worst of it is. that the greed, avarice and cruelty which stalked naked before us in this play walk the world at all times. I fear, though, as a rule, they are rather more carefully disguised.
Tribute to Amelia Earhart .
I went to the night train and arrived here this morning to find a clear but cold winter day.
Yesterday I read the first article which Mr. George |
Palmer Putnam has written for a magazine about his wife, Amelia Earhart, and I think everyone will enjoy the picture he has painted. He begin8 with an unforgettable letter. She not only could not bear to be ‘caged herself, but she could not hear the thought of caging anyone else. So many people want honesty and freedom for themselves, but do not want to accord others the same privilege. Amelia would give just what she wanted to receive.
This morning has been busy and I have attended the District of Columbia League of Women Voters luncheon where the skits, as usual, were very cleverly put on. This year they represented all the, different phases of government which are of interest to the
“' women in the district.
I am off now for the United States Naval Air Station in Anacostia for the christening nf the PanAmerican Airways “Yankee Clipper.”
Day-by-Day Science
By Science Service
SOLEMN warning has been issued to New England by Conrad Taeuber, population expert of the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The Land of the Pilgrim Fathers faces new and very serious problems because the rate of her population growth ‘is declining. Business in New England as in all the United States has always been organized to meet the demands of a rapidly growing population. Expansion has been the rule. Booms have been taken for granted. How will business adjust itself to the fact that the future will bring declining numbers of buyers? Fewer marriages will mean fewer homes to build and outfit. Baby foods, play suits, and school books will meet a slow market. Along with the slowing down of population growth, New England is going to be bothered by the fact that migration to the city has slowed down tremendously. The city does not attract the farm boy, because industry has moved away. ‘Mr, Taeuber has found that the number of active spindles in Rhode Island and Massachusetts Swindled about 60 per cent in the 10 years from 1925 to 1935 e are problems never faced in America before. Yet New England may well be a proving ground for the rest of th tion, for the difficulties being
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7 Second Section
SATURDAY, ‘MARCH 4, 1989
The Story of the atican
Entered as Second+Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.
at Postoffice,
Papal City Grew in Beauty and Power Despite Turbulent History
Across venerable and famous gardens are visible the ‘towers of the Vatican’s modern and powerful radio station.
(Second and Last of a Series) :
By PAUL ROSS
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
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HE Vatican, capital of the Catholic: world tonk: its name from the old hill atop of which it sits—Mons
Vaticanus.
Just what the Romans used Mons Vaticanus for, and
how 1
came 10 be so called, is lost in the mists’ of time.
But therch ances are it all had something to. do with the Latin word “vaticinia,” meaning prophecies or oracles. - The Romans didn't like the spot. Tacitus said its air was unhea'thful and Martial reported that “if -you drink Vatican wine “you drink poison.”
The early Christians certainly found it an unhealthful
spot. In a circus built there, Romans were regaled with
sporting games in which tortured ‘Christians ‘were the
main event, It came to pass that St. Peter was executed and buried on Mons Vaticaaus. . This accident led, eventually, to the situation of the Catholic capital on the hill.
To devout Christians, the burial place of St. Feter was an altraction. As the decades wore on and the Christian faith entrenched itself, more and more pilgrims jour-
neyed to pray on-Mons Vaticanus. 8 A oD
project is Bernhard Hauff, whose skill -in the beautiful, life-patterned slate sheets has gaired him a world reputation. He maintains a the new preserve, where some of his finest specimens are kept, Visitors may also see the digging where the fossils are taken. The Jurassic represents the middle period of the Age of Dinosaurs.
Set Aside Fossil ‘Game Preserve’
By Science Service
ERLIN, March 4-—A preserve” for| fossils, compris-
ing about 30 square miles, has been set aside in the Jura Mountains of Wuerttemberg, near the city of Teck. The ares is of high interest to geologists everywhere, for one of the great time earth’s history ceives its name from these fossilrich mountains.
divisions of the the Jurassic, re-
promoter - of the new local
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fossil technician, “quarrying” and @ mounting
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It became necessary ° to house them, feed them, hospitalize them. Buildings and a basilica grew up around the spot, then monasteries. All this time the Popes were not living at the Vatican. Their home
+ was the beautiful old Roman Pal-
ace of the Lateran. But they were constantly adding to the growing Vatican site, enlarging it, beautifying it. Innocent III (1198-1216) was the one who put walls and gate towers around it -as protection against riots and vandals. 2.8 8 : ICHOLAS IIT = (1277-1280) conceived the Vatican as we know it in its historic form. But he wasn't Pope long enough ‘to carry out his designs and in 1308 the misfortune of the “Babylonian captivity” befell the Popes, for the French kings carried them off to Avignon. Soon after this occurrence the Lateran Palace burned down. ; * After a 70-year ‘exile the Popes returned to Rome and found the Vatican’ an ideal . place. to. live. It was gated, it was walled, it had sanitary arrangements, it was. a city in itself. They moved in— never to leave again, except for one more period. They built with an eye for defense, put tunnels under it, made a fortress of it. With Nicholas V (1447-1455) opens the glorious period of the Vatican. This Pope began to preserve the wonderful buildings and gardens which had come down from ancient times. he put up new buildings of his own and brought in artists to decorate them. Subsequent Popes followed his example until the Vatican became one of the most beautiful residences on-earth. From the middle of . the 17th
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The greatest event in the recent history of the Vatican was the siping of the Lateran treaties Betweeh: Pictured above is the ratification ceremony at the Vatican on June 11. 1929.
the Papal State and Italy.
Cardinal Gasparri signs the documents while Premier Mussolini stands at his immediate right.
Michelangelo’s “Pieta” (above and “Discobolus” (below) carved by Myron are among the Vaumns art treasures. °
Century to the middle of. the 18th
very little was added to the build-
ings but the Popes began collecting the works of art fof which the Vatican is so famous. The 19th Century opened badly for the Vatican. Napoleon 'captured Pius VII and carried him to France. Next, a great agitation rose in Italy for cession of the remaining Papal States to the King. The Vatican refused to part with these rich provinces. Between 1859 and -1870, revolutions and wars broke out and on Sept. 20, 1870, in the face of an Italian Army, the Vatican supiendered its land. ” T= Kingdom of Italy passed the Laws of Guaranty of 1871, meant to settle relations between the Kingdom and the Vatican,
* but Pius IX stubbornly refused to
acknowledge them. He imposed a state of. incarceration on himself and stayed within the Vatican walls. : : Until 1929 the Popes were “the prisoners of the Vatican,” but the late Pope Pius XI put an end to all that. Through intermediaries, he negotiated the Lateran Treaty by which the Vatican gave up its claims to the Papal States and the government accorded the Vatican the status of an independent City-State. For almost 60 years Catholic
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Into- which sea does the Volga River empty? 2— For what government agency do the initials NYA stand? . 3—Name the rank in the U. 8. , Navy next below captain? 4—What is the name of the great vulture of the Andes? 5—Which large important city in Spain was recently captured by Franco's Insurgent forces? 6—What body of water separates France and England? 7—How many cubic inches are in one cubic foot? 8—What is the correct pronunciation of the word ablative? 2 2 ” Answers 1—Caspian Sea. > 2—National Youth Administration. 3—Commander. 4—Condor. 5—Barcelona. 6—The English Channel. 7—1728. 8—Ab’-la-tiv; not ab-1a’-tiv.
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"A view of the Vatican as it appeared in 1800.
‘When the progressive Pope Pius XI. (enthroned at left) inavgurated a thermo-electric station in Vatican - Gity.
publicists, in discussing the “Ro-
ran Question” —i. e.- how to pro-
.vide for the sovereignty. of the
Vatican—had demanded a narrow strip running to the sea as a way:
to guarantee the independence’ of .
movement of the Pope.. But the late Pontiff solved this knotty problem by writing into the Lateran Treaty a provision’ that the Vatican could keep airplanes and that the ‘government could not" fiy its: planes, over' the area. ‘As a- sovereign ‘state, the Viki can-has ‘the right to ‘issue stamps, money, passports, setid and receive ’ ambassadors, - establish -its own. police courts,” judiciary and jail, maintain telephone, telegraph’ and radio communications; all of Which it does. It does not collect customs ‘or taxes and receives food, water, gas
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and industrial products through (i
Italy. It is supported: by contribu- -
tions from the faithful. Italian is the official language
of the City-State but Latin is the
official language of the Holy See. The state is a neutral, may not be a member of the League of Na-
* tions ‘or -allow its territory to be
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ternational conflict. It may, however, use its mission
of peace to mediate at the request
of ‘warring powers.
st, Peter Penitent.” —by' Rembrandt.
Everyday Movies—By Wortman.
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Our own By Anton Scherrer :
Canine Contrasts: One a Church Goer, the Other a Beer Guzzler Who Paid Dearly for His Folly.
“ODAY I can tell you a little more about the Rev. Oscar McCulloch’s dog, Don. It came to me by way of a letter. Listen: “I note with much interest your paragraph of our brindle-colored St.. Bernard
dog, Doi.
“He had a deeply religious nature and liked to attend church on Sunday, much to the embarrassment of all concerned. Believing, however. that he would not appreciate the finer points of the Higher Criticism, it was our custom to lock him up on Sunday morning. “However, he. cannily circumvented this procedure by disappearing the evening before, keeping his dates straight by observing that the upstairs bathroom was lighted: on Saturday nights. aanen on Sunday he would wait un e service -was ‘well under ; way, meander down the aisle, jump Mr. Scharrer up on the rostrum and lie down to drink in the great truths being expounded. “This wasn’t so bad, except that when the organ started up, he felt 1t was his duty to participate in a vocal way. ‘It was then the humiliating duty of the undersigned to drag him back up the aisle in ihe face of the suppressed smiles of the congregation. : “Very sincerely yours, \ “CARLETON B. M’CULLOCH.” "Dr. McCulloch's letter moved me mightily. For two reasons: (1) Because here, finally, documenfary proof that, Oscar: McCulloch’s son saw the inside of his father’s famous church, and (2) heet Don, somehow, reminds me of Philip Zaprs og, D
A Tail ith a Moral
- Duk®, a Llewelyn setter, was as naughty in his way as the McCulloch dog was good. When Duke was only six weeks old, a friend of the Zapfs gave: him a little drink of beer, more or less to see if he
1 would like it. He did. To the surprise of everybody
he gulped it down and whined for more. Believe it or not, he lapped up seven glasses of beer that day. All at one sitting, mind you. And I hope I don’t have to remind you that back in the Nineties, beer glasses were bigger than they are today.
An advanced. state of intoxication was the result, of course. When the jag was over, Duke was a confirmea toper. After that, for the better part of 10 years, Philip Zapf’s dog was more or less stewed every day. Duke was funny about it, though. When he wanted beer, nothing else would satisfy him, but when he wanted a drink of water, he wouldn't ouch beer. Beer, however, was the only. intoxicant e used.
Even more alarming was Duke’s deplorable habit of leaving his Virginia Ave. home every morning and not returning until late at night. While he was away, he visited the 150 saloons in the downtown district. One day, however, he became drunk and lay down on a street car track to sleep ff. Sure, something happened. A veterinarian was called and 25 stitches were taken, but gangrene set in and Duke's tail ‘had to be amputated to save his life. After that, there was no mistaking Philip Zapt's dog, even when he was sober.
Jane Toro
Boy Lacks Car to Use on Dates; Draws Compliment for Thrift.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am an upperclassman in high school and I belong to several clubs, but I do not atiend their parties hecause I haven't a car to take 2 girl. I have sufficient money to buy a car but | avoid it because I want to accumulate enough to invest in something profitable. All my friends have cars. If I had one I would feel at liberty to ask a gir] to a party. I am not progressing in affairs where girls are concerned, and as with other boys, there is one girl who stands out from the rest. * Why should a car make such a Sidetence? : ) L.
. Answer—May I compliment you on your good sense in not ‘spending your money on a car while yoy are still in high school. You have a good business head, and in later life you will be able. to: do mere for a girl than many of these happy-go-lucky boys whose cars are such an attraction to the girls How. You show the ability to look :ahead, and are able to do without the desire of today in order to save money for a Hore satisfactory future. ! It is true that the average girl refers a boy who has a car at his disposal, but all girls aren’t average. There are some \ o like boys better than cars, and o/appreciate your point of view. Besides, there are 1 of ways around the situation. When you have dates you can double with a boy who has a car and do your share by buying gasoline. Ask any filling station ‘attendant and he will tell you that the fact that a person owns a car does. not always indicate that he has plenty of money to buy gasoline. If it is necessary for you to provide transportation to a dance when on a single date, you can lake a taxi. On all other occasions, what is the matter vith a streetcar? Sg Py » » . EAR JANE JORDAN—I went with Bill for two . years and all the time he was jealous of me and accused me of things I never dreamed of doing. Finally I grew tired of Bill's jealousy and started to go with Dave, a boy who moved next door to me. I felt that I liked him better than Bill. ill and I were engaged, ‘and when ‘we quit® going together he told me that he would never love anyone else. We have been separated for two months, and Dave and I plan to be married in June. Mother says Dave and _I will never be happy because he has been married and divorced and has a child two years old. His wife is married again and Dave has the child. I am 18. Dave is 21 and Bill is 20. I like them both but in entirely different ways. Should I keep Dave or should
Igo back to Bill? : CONNIE MARIE.
Answer—I cannot advise you. Even if I knew you and both boys well I could not hope to pick a husband for you and be right. I do think that when a girl wavers between two boys the way you are doing, that she should not marry éither until she has made up her
| mind which one she wants!
Your mother sees certain difficulties ahead .if ‘you marry a man'with a 2-year-old child. You see certain difficulties ahead if you marry a .boy whose unreasonable jealousy drives you mad. Could it be that neither of these boys quite fill the bill for you and that it would be well for. you to posppone the idea of marriage
1 | until you are older and have met other men? After
all you ¢ are wonly 15 18. JANE JORDAN,
Put your Sas in a letter fo Jane Jordan whe will: ‘answer your questions in this column daily.
New: Books Today
) ie small town of Darcey came Tony McNeill, | : fresh from an interneship in a St. Louis hospital, to become. the assistant resident surgeon of Westwood, a privately owned hospital the outskirts of the town. ' Because of his desire ta be a first-class surgeon and doctor and because the alth of the community was of vast importance to him, he was; soon caught in a web of disapproval sp ‘by the ‘docal moneyseeking and unethical practitioners. beth Seifert, in her’ $10,000 prize first novel YOUNG DOCTOR GALAHAD (Dodd), describes H . struggles, into