Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1939 — Page 11

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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

He Learns That Fate of One Who Has Served Behind Grim Walls of Alcatraz Is Not Very Pleasant.

HOUSTON, Tex., March 29.—Any city ~~ which has among its population a man who has served in that grim and fabulous prison of Alcatraz has, indeed, a distinction.

Houston has such a man. I won't give |’

his name, because he isn’t a publicity seeker,

and I don’t want to do him any harm. But I assure

: you he'is not fictitious.: He came to my hotel room (at my invitation) early in the morning,’ and we talked till after noon. This man, a Texan, was sent up for transporting narcotics. ‘He says he knew what he was carrying. But the 15-day circumstances that led up to it, he says, were a frame. He served 22 months of a twoyear sentence; the last seven months in Alcatraz. - He came to Houston when he got out. He has ‘been here now for two years. My purpose in interviewing him was not to: write about penitentiaries, but to learn what happens to a man who comes back with the Alcatraz brand on him. I found out. He has been refused. job after job. ‘He has: been turned out of other jobs as soon as his identity became known. He has had nothing but picayunish . Jobs—ticket-taking, dance hall bouncing. Naturally, this man is known to the police. Some have been good to him. Others have gone out of their way to tattle when he had a job, and make . him lose it. To There are a dozen things this former convict

Mr. Pyle

_tould do. He is an experienced oil field worker, he ows steam boilers, he has done office work, he ; has done selling. He makes a good appearance, and there has never been anything of thievery in his record. ; ; But there has been .one Samaritan. He is a substantial businessman in Houston. He has seen that he has a hotel room to stay in, and I imagine has handed out a little money when the going got too tough.

Doesn't Smile Any More

This man from Alcatraz is tall and slim. His hair is black and he has a little mustache. He is in his early 30s, I would say, and is"physically powerful. His mouth is firm, and he almost never smiles. I commented on that. “Did you used to be cheerful and laughing a lot?” I asked. He smiled then. “Yes,” he said, “I used to laugh all the time. If I'm going out among people now, girls often ask me why I never smile. It burns me up to be asked that.” He said also that he used to dance a lot. But he’ doesn’t dance any more. He is one of a big family. None of them is able to help him any. I asked “What is your mother’s feeling toward you? He grinned again, and there seemed real pleasure in it. ; : “Well,” he said, “I guess she’s like a lot of mothers. I'm the black sheep of the family, and yet I guess she likes me almost best of all.” ; She is in Texas, and he goes about twice a year to see her. He says they joke and scuffle around. You can tell he is crazy about her. I don’t believe the time in the penitentiaries, as such, did anything to this man’s spirit. He is not cowed. But these two years as a “free man” have touched him. They've stopped his smiles. They've made him suspicious. What will happen eventually? Well, I don’t know, and neither does he. He has three irons in the fire for good jobs. Theysmay go the same way ‘as the others. In the end we may drive him back to Alcatraz, for want of a better deal. But by staying two years here in the same city, showing his hand and showing it clean, surely he has - pulled his end of the load.

‘My Day By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Mail Serves as a Barometer of Economic Conditions in U. S.

EATTLE, Wash., Tuesday.—Yesterday evening the Women’s University Club here gave a very delightful dinner which I much enjoyed. Afterward, I had an opportunity to tell them something about my White House mail. Every President's wife, of course, must have received a great many letters, but in 1933 conditions were so serious I think the urge to tell troubles to someone was almost uncontrollable and perhaps it served as a safety valve. In any case, today my mail is far less than it was in 1933. But it still is very valuable because it gives me a picture of the feeling which individuals have about conditions in their particular sections of the country. Sometimes this is vastly discouraging. Sometimes it is really heartening. The other day, for instance, from a place in Kansas, there came to me a seven-page longhand letter telling of the struggles of a farmer's family. First prosperity, which led to overconfidence, then the depth of despair, and finally the gradual climb back again. ‘The following paragraph seems to me particularly significant: : “The Government granted our loan and established us. Now the result. With peace of mind my husband’s health is restored and this is no more important than his restored courage. He has taken a new lease on life, making plans in a bigger, better way and, may I say here, I think the loan worth the price from no other standpoint than the fact that it installs a system of bookkeeping which is going to make a businessman of the farmer. We profit from its benefits each month and, instead of trying to destroy us, the Government loan seeks to aid us in every way. Not a day in my life I do not thank God.”

Day in the Open Planned

Another beautiful day and we again are going to picnic out of doors and enjoy the sunshine. My .granddaughter has also requested 18 sandwiches, so evidently the younger generation is off on an outdoor party, too. One of the nice things in coming to my daughter’s house is not only the pleasure of seeing the family, but she has a Negro maid, Katie, who watches over them all and whose welcome I look forward to with great pleasure. Katie spent a good many years with me when Anna was a girl and has been with Anna ever since she first kept house. There would be a big gap if she were not here to welcome me. . :

¥ S ° Day-by-Day Science By Science Service D® you ever walk into a strange house and have the feeling that you had been there before? Or perhaps you have puzzled your mind over why a person you had never met before seemed familiar. Most people do*have experiences of this sort. Psychologists have a name for it—the phenomenon of deja vu (already seen). ' It is also termed paramnesia, meaning a perversion of memory in which a person believes that he remembers events or circumstances that never happened. The only explanation for the phenomenon, which is more apt to occur when you are tired or ill, is that some features of the new acquaintance were similar to those of a person you already know, or that some element in the new situation is one you have actually experienced before. : With an idea of finding out more about this phenomenon, H. Banister anid O. L. Zangwill, psychologists of Cambridge University, turned to hypnotism. On the first day of -their experiments, undergraduate students of psychology, ignorant of the purpose of the study, were shown colored postcards and given odorous substances to smell. ‘On the following day each of the undergraduates was hypnotized, shown more postal cards, and given more things to smell, and at the same time was told that he would forget all about these things and be totally unable to recognize them when he awoke. On the third day the student, wide awake again, looked at and smelled all the things of the first two days plus a few more of the same sort. The ones from the second day’s test all seemed familiar, but the student did not remember having

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Canada Will ‘Play It Safe’ With Elaborate System of Protection

Queen’ Elizabeth (Second of a Series) By Thomas Wayling . NEA Service Special Correspondent TTAWA, Canada, March 29.—The Canadian Government will “play it safe” when King George and Queen Elizabeth make their transcontinental tour of the Dominion: in May and June. : Many of the safety precautions being taken in connection “with

the visit are just those which any

nation makes for a traveling head of state. But others come under the heading of added precautions

and the reason for them, it is reported, is the fear that Irish terrorists might extend their recent British bombing activities to this country.’ Sag Dominion officials publicly. have not stressed the fact that any “unusual” steps are being taken, but a. recapitulation shows just how far they are going to insure the safety of the royal couple. The measures include: 1. A search by the Government for designs for armored motor cars for the King and Queen to use on their tour. 2. A picked body of Canadian war veterans to supplement the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Scotland ‘Yard in‘ guarding the party. : 3.' Canada’s immigration list, including . newcomers from the United States’ as well ‘as Europe, will be carefully checked from now until the King and Queen have finally said goodby to the Dominion. 4. Switches along the 6000-mile railroad journey will be spiked in place and special patrols will guard the. tracks. 5.. Every mile, a green or red light will shine, either to give the engineer the -“go. ahead” or to warn him to stop. 6. The special train will travel only during the day—except on the long gaps north of the Great Lakes—and only five times during the trip will Their Majesties leave their cars to sleep elsewhere at night. 7. The engineers on their train will have perfect vision of the track ahead, seeing it through the “speeding porthole,” a swiftly whirling disc of plate glass. “8. A pilot train will at all times run a short distance ahead of the royal special. 9. The H. M. S. Repulse, which is bringing the party here from England, will enter Canadjan wa‘ters south of Newfoundland to avoid ice and will proceed slowly nearing Canada as a precaution against possible fog. 10. To have a guard close to Their Majesties at all times, the Government has assigned four of its crack “Mounties” as personal orderlies to the sovereigns. They will maintain their famed vigilance 24 hours a day. 2 8 = HE Royal party will get its first glimpse of Canadian soil when they arise for breakfast on May 15. The Repulse, arriving off Father Point during the night,

Canada’s Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, above, is George VI's permanent representative in the Dominion when the ‘King is not there. The coming visit of the King and Queen will be the first time that any Dominion Gov-ernor-General ‘has ‘been superseded by his royal principal.

Personal orderlies to the King and Queen during their Dominion visit will be these two Royal Canadian Mounted policemen. Above, Constable Robert Portelance; below, Constable Sylvio Langlois.

will be met by the Canadian destroyers, Skeena and Saguenay. But by morning the King and Queen will have the beautiful scenery of the St. Lawrence Valley on either hand—to the north the towering - Laurentian Mountains, blanketed with deep evergreens and dotted with the myriad

* colors of ‘spring. To the south the

narrow, fertile fields of the old Quebec settlers, each farm with its frontage on the river. Their Majesties will disembark at Quebec and from there on the journey is by train. They will use two. private cars, built for Lord Willingdon when he was Gover-nor-General. Other private cars will .be added to. the train to accommodate the Royal party, Scotland Yard and Canadian “Mounty” officers and various railroad officials. The Dominion Government alrexdy is deluged witn applications of Canadian, British and American newspapermen, photographers, newsreel cameramen and

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Quebec, where the royal party will disembark from H. M. S. Repulse will present to King George and Queén Elizabeth one of the most majestic sights in the picturesque St. Lawrence Valley. 3 :

“The miost crowded social on the lovely grounds of the Governor-General,

the party. Because of the limited space on the Royal Special, they will: travel on the pilot train which precedes it. In eastern Canada fhe locomoftives will be great coal burners with automatic stokers. Through the Rocky Mountains, oil burners will provide the power. On the westbound trip the King and Queen will travel over the Canadian : Pacific ‘Railway and return via the Canadian National.

: ‘ 2 n 8 ANCING high above the St. Lawrence ... . fishing in the cold clear waters of the Resti-

couche . . . playing tennis with foreign diplomats in Ottawa . . . riding horseback along the lofty trails of the snow-capped Rockies _. . golfing on the picturesque Vancouver Island on the Pacific Coast . . . receiving 5000 persons at an Ottawa garden party . . . colorful state dinners in half a dozen provincial capitals. When King George VI and Queen Elizabeth return to England, notations in the royal diary may remind them of some of the pleasures of their 6000-mile trek across the vast expanse of the Dominion. In keeping with the simplicity and sincerity of the royal couple, Prime Minister W. 1. Mackenzie King is planning a schedule of entertainment which will be to their liking. It will have touches of extreme formality, of course, bit not too many. There will be dancing, which Their Majesties

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“event of the Oftawa visit of the royal cou Government House. During their stay Their Majesties will reside in this home of

both enjoy, but only when the time permits. Outdoor = sports,

which take top position on. the

royal list of entertainment pref erences will occupy much of the time. Se eh 2 8 = Hike UT the King and Queen who are intensely interested in the people and countries over which they rule, will spend a major part ‘of their time meeting people and seeing the country. :

A state dinner. usually includes about 125 at the top of the list. A less exclusive function may take in the next hundred below. To an unofficial but important gathering those at the top of the Table of Precedence and a few of the ranking leaders in business and industry are invited. : The most crowded social event of the royal season will be the Garden Party at Government House in Ottawa. Anyone who calls at Government House and signs the register receives an in-

vitation to the annual garden.

party. Thus there will be thou-

sands pouring through the Lodge

gates this year on the appointed May ‘afternoon. : Scarlet-coated “Mounties” will be on guard, but there will be no other restrictions. Guests will wander through the lovely grounds and the main floor of the hall unchecked. And there will be no order .of precedence. The Colonel's lady may find herself following Judy. O'Grady in curtseying to Their Majesties.

ple will be the great garden party

THE eyes of millions of Canadian women will follow the

gracious and lovely Queen Eliza-

beth wherever she goes. Another rather large social function, the dinner to the Privy Councilors, will include every living cabinet minister or ex-cab-inet minister. When a man becomes a member of a cabinet, he

‘is Privy Councilor for life. .So - the guest list for this dinner goes

as far back as 1896. Title-seekers are due for a disappointment. At the request of the Canadian Government the King will not pass out any honors on “his: tour. But the approaching visit of royalty has every debutante and dowager replenishing her : wardrobe with a glittering assortment of evening gowns, and laying plans to capture an invitation to a royal party. : The latter, however, is a difficult coup. Attendance and seating at the royal dinhers and receptions will be governed by the Table of Precedence, a Blue Book of rather inflexible nature. It starts with the Governor-General, then lists the Lieutenant-Gov-ernors, church dignitaries, the Prime Minister, the diplomatic corps, the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, Senators, members of Parliament, provincial legislators and so on. .

NEXT—The social event of the year in Washington, D. C.

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"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—~In which time zone is Switzerland? 2—What is the average distance of the sun from the earth? 3—What horse won the 1939 Widener Cup race at Hialeah Park, Fla.? : 4—Name the strait that connects the Adriatic with the Ionian Sea. :

5—1Is scissors singular or plural? |

6—What are half-castes?

7—Which state of the U. S. extends farthest north? ” 2 2

Answers

1—Central European Standar 2—92,900,000 miles. nt 3—Bull Lea.

4—Strait of Otranto. = 5—Plural. “Here are the sors” is correct. ; 6—Persons born of two distinct races; for example, the offspring of a Chinese white person. 7—Minnesota.

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer a

Great Literary Hoax of the Nineties Tricked Our Intelligentsia Into Belief Kipling Wrote David Harum.

Now that I look back, I really believe that the “B’gosh School of Fiction” did as much as anything to express the dreamy ideology of the late Nineties. Its prize example was “David Harum,” a story of a horsetrader whose wisecracks were on every-

body’s lips. “Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, an’ do it first,” was one of the

| juiciest I remember. It was always good for a stitch

in the side. es The flyleaf of “David Harum” credited Edward Noyes Westcott with having written the book. A

| number of Indianapolis highbrows

knew better, however. They said that Rudyard Kipling: was the author, and followed it up with the

-| brazen assertion that the name on

the flyleaf was nothing but a trick to throw you off the track. And that’s the point of today’s ' story—to explain, step by step, how Mr. ‘Scherrer the intelligentsia of Indianapolis fell for a hoax as pretty as any ever perpetrated. / Roswell M. Field of the Chicago Evening Post started it by announcing in the columns of his paper that Kipling had written “David Harum.” He went on to say that Edward Bok and Frank Doubleday had made a bet—Mr. Doubleday taking the affirmative— that Kipling’s books would sell as well under any other name as under that of Kipling. Kipling was communicated with, said Mr. Field, and for a consideration of five figures agreed to write a story of rural American life. The conspirators then cast about for an author's name to fool the public with. While they were doing so, Mr. Bok suddenly remembered that when he saw him last in London, Mr. Kipling was wearing a vest of a particularly boisterous British pattern. He suggested the name of Noyes E. Westcott, but the others thought this too transparent, so it was transposed to E. Noyes Westcott, and eventu= ally to Edward Noyes Westcott.

They Still Believe It

When this amazing literary revelation was made in the Post, C. W. Daggett, the venerable librarian of Chicago, wrote to the paper correcting what he supposed to be an error. Two days later, on Jan. 5, 1900, to be exact, Mr. Field answered, and among other things, he said: “I desire to thank you sincerely for your interest in me and for your kindly intended in- ° formation that Kipling did not write ‘David Harum.’ I am sorry you are not correct, for I think ‘David Harum’ a much duller work than Mr. Kipling’s other works, his ‘Fourteen Weeks in Physics’ or his ‘Manual of Prelacy and Elementary Trigonometry,’ for instance, in my opinion being vastly more carefully written.” . Roswell Field, if you haven't already guessed it, was a brother of Eugene, thus proving again, if further proof is necessary, that there is something to the Mendelian law of heredity after all. Well, that’s the way the whole thing started. Kipling’s admirers in Indianapolis, I remember, swallowed the story hook, line and sinker. Not only that, but they found “David Harum’ saturated with Kipling's manner of treatment; to a degree, indeed, that nobody but Kipling could possibly have written it. Of course Kipling didn’t have anything to do with it. You have no idea, though, how hard it was to

‘convince Kiplingites of the truth. As a matter of

fact, they don’t believe it yet. I know that to be a fact because just the other day I met a man who wanted to bet me a buck that Kipling wrote “David Harum.” I haven't any hopes of collecting the bet. :

Jane Jordan—

Bride Told Not to Anger Husband By Taking Trip to Visit Sick Kin,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been married about six months to a man whom I love more than life itself. Both of us have been married before. I am still in my early 20s and he is not much older, He seems to get a thrill out of hurting my feelings, We only went together a little over a month before we got married. He has never met any of my people and when I ask him to take me home he always finds a reason why we cannot go. His people live in Indianapolis, but mine live in a neighboring state. My parents are dead, but the other day I received word that one of my grandmothers was very sick, and even that did not make him take me home. I said I would go by myself, and he said if I did I could stay for he would not take me back again. I am good to his folks and do everything I can for them except get on my knees to them. He had a bad wife before I married him. Do you think he believes that I will go home and go out with somebody else while there? : : My nerves are cracking under this strain and I cannot stand it much longer. Should I go on and see my grandmother before something happens? She is past 70. Should I run a chance on his taking me back? A DAILY READER. t 4 a8 8 Answer—1I believe that you would have done better to take your husband to see your people before you were married when he was anxious to please. Then when you wanted to make a visit home he would not have felt that you were going off into the unknown. Doubtless it upsets his sense of security to have you willing to leave him. He is not able to understand why an aged grandmother should have more claim on you than he has. If you want to get along with your husband, wouldn't it be wiser not to make an issue of this matter? Do not say, “I am good to your people. Now you be good to mine.” Instead, put it on the basis that you are proud of him and want to show him off at home. : : It is not unusual for a man to be jealous of his wife’s relatives. In his selfishness he expects his family to take the place of yours, particularly since your parents are dead. : I am afraid to advise you to go against your husband’s wishes, because I do not know how he would take it. Some men would respect you for your courage in doing what you thought was right. But an unreasonable, emotional man might be so offended that you never would be able to bridge the gap, 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—

EAD PERRI (Bobbs) Felix Salten’s latest nature story. Scamper with the little red squirrel through the lanes of leafy green. : Crack nuts with her as she munches them contentedly with Porro, her playfellow. Thrill with her, as she exchanges confldences with 3-year-old Annerle, who, speaking no language of her own, understands -wood creatures. Share her alertness as she listens to her mother’s whispered warnings. : This is a simple story, touched with the profounde ness of the struggle for existence. There is the terror of falling prey to stronger animals. There is the hore ror of being a victim of the hunter. But all this is compensated by the lush beauty of the forest, the hap= piness of mating, the pleasure of just living. For Perri has taken the magpie’s advice, “You must learn th fun of living,” and waves her flag of a tail in an

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