Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1939 — Page 10

Vagabond

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

He'd Like to Be a Horse, Anyway This Particular Horse, an Heiress | With a Great Estate to Roam.

OUSTON, Texas, April 1.—Most of the

time, when I get to thinking about what | Mountain

I'd like to be if I could be something else, I wish I were a dog. But today I want to be a horse. Because I've just seen a horse whose owner bought an entire riding club for | her. Nobody ever bought a riding club for me. | We went ou: to talk to this horse. I didn’t get | much out of her. I'm all right with dogs, but in the presence of a horse I'm uncomfort- | able and don't know what to say. | So we just exchanged a few | pleasantries about how young she | looked. and the green grass, and if she were really happy. I got most of the dope for my story from her owner. His name is John E. Green. He | is general attorney for the Gulf Oil | Corp. and a man of means. He | has been in Houston since he was a baby. and has seen the town grow from 35,000 to nearly half a million. | He has never been a cowman, a | jockey, a polo player, or a blueribbon horse man. But he has ridden horses almost | since he was big enough to walk. So in 1925 when | they were forming the Houston Polo & Riding Club, John E. Green bought a horse for $400. Her name was Rosie. He stabled her at the Polo & Riding Club. He never plaved a game of polo in his life. He just rode around. He bought a horse for his wife, and two more for himself. The club has 27 acres of beautiful grounds at the | edge of town. It has a small clubhouse. and four huge | barns. and small houses for the horse handlers. It has some trees, and the lushly green polo field. But many of the members became indifferent, and the club got into financial difficulties, and finally a couple of | months ago it had to be sold at auction. John Green worried about moving his horses. | Especially Rosie, who had spent nearly all of her 16 vears right there. Suddenly it came to him—why | not buy it himself? ’ Auction dav arrived. The bidding started at $5000 for the whole works—27 acres, buildings and all. John | Green ran the bidding up to $22000 and took posses- | sion. The other horses started moving out. But | Rosie didn't have to move because now it belonged to her.

Rides Every Morning

Mr. Green has renamed the place “Green Pastures.” He says that if he hadn’t already built a magnificent place in town. with formal gardens and evervthing. hed build out here and be close to his horses. But hes out here every day anyhow. He rides every morning. He has entirely given up | o0lf. in favor of riding. He gets up at daylight, drives | out to “Green Pastures.” rides over the grounds and | out throuch the country for an hour and a half— seven or cight miles. Then he goes home, takes a shower. has breakfast. and is at the office by 9:30. On Sundays he rides as much as 20 miles. He alternates daily on his three horses. So he rides his beloved Rosie every third day. She's still as full of life as his youngest colt. She should be, being an heiress! - The story has a curious angle of coincidence. Mr. | Green didn't know about it when he bought the club. | But on going through the titles and so forth, he ran onto this strange? thing: Some years ago a man named Thomas Keenan owned some ground just outside of Houston. He too had a favorite horse, whose name was Pony. On Jan. 14, 1921, Mr. Keenan made his will. A few months later he died. The will was so worded that | Mr. Keenan's heirs, C. H. and J. H. Voss, did not get anvihing until after his beloved horse had died. | The horse Pony died in 1925. The brothers Voss | then inherited the Xeenan land, and subsequently sold it to the newly formed Polo & Riding Ciub. It was the very same land “that Mr. Green bought two months ago.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

A Welcome to the New Grandson; Acts Like a 'Litte Prizefighter.’

EATTLE, Wash, Fridav.—What a different point of view one can have on life in 24 hours. The night before last, John and Anna and I were still waiting for a babys arrival. and no one can tell me that is =ver an entirely carefree time. No matter how many times we have seen babies come safely into the world. we always think. before the event. of all the dreadful possibilities that surround all human ventures. | When, vesterdayv afternoon, Anna was safely back in her own room at the hospital and the baby was brought in for John and Anna to inspect together, the sun shone outside. But it would have made no dif- | ference, for the sun was certainly shining in our world as far as all the people who love Anna were concerned. I feel sure that the baby is going to grow up able | to take care of himself in life, for he began at once to make himself heard and move his arms and legs | like a little prizefighter. His shoulders are broad, too, like his father’s, so he ought to be able to cary burdens,

Buz Solves the Problem

Sis and Buz came down to see the baby in the afternoon and were a little awed by anything which | looked to them so small, even though we told them what a big baby he is. However, at supper, the baby's future status was settled. In discussing the difficulty of adding to the “Johns” already in the family, Buz suddenly remembered that Robin Hood had a Little John who was his constant companion, | so he announced that he would be Robin Hood and the baby would be Little John. Anything the rest | of the family may think is of little importance, for to them the question is settled. This is one occasion when an event actually occurred in the family and was telephoned to the President before the press was aware of the news. | This so rarely happens that I could hardly believe | it was possible. Judging from my husband's tone of ! voice, it gave him great jov to hear it in Warm | Springs, Ga. a half an hour after the baby's arrival, |

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Mr. Pyle

and then to be able to announce it to the press. | When you love people very much. isn't it grand | Like every- |!

to be able to join in their happiness? thing else in the world, however, there is a price to | pay for love, for the more happiness we derive from | the existence and companionship of other human | beings. the more vulnerable we are when there is any cause for apprehension. It takes courage to love, but wain through love is the purifying fire whith those who live generously know,

Day-by-Day Science

By Melence Service TOW that scientists have discovered how to release a large share of the energy locked inside uranium stoms there is natural speculation on the use of atomic energy as a commercial source of power. Much quoted is the theoretically true statement that the energy locked within the atoms of a bucket of water would drive an ocean liner across the Atlantie. However, a bit of figuring on the costs involved shows that even uranium cannot compete with coal as a source of power in terms of cost per energy available. Scientists at Carnegie Institution of Washington who have actually been releasing uranium's energy in their experiments say that if coal costs $10 a ton. | uranium in its purest state would have to sell for the | ridiculousiyv low figure of $2.50 a gram to compete with it on an energy basis. Uranium at $2350 a gram | means several million dollars a ton As a matter of fact the term pure uranium has | little meaning for you cannot buy any pure uranium in the world at any price whatever. Uranium is as- | sociated with numerous isotopes that are most hes

cult to separate and the need for pure urgnium has yet been unimportant,

(Here is a backstage view of the Chinese war.

e Indianapolis Backstage in the C inese War

Highway Is Life Line on Which Defensive Hopes Rest

The

author is George A. Fiteh, who organized the War Area Service Corps for Ching’s Government and served as “mayor” of Nanking's safety zone during the siege of that city. Born in Soochow of American parents, Mr. Fitch has known Ching under the empire and the republic. A past president of the Shanghai's Rotary Club, he has been engaged in Chinese Y. M. C. A. work since 1910 and is wow stationed at Chungking, the Chinese capital.)

By George A. Fitch

NEA Service Swecial Correspondent

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HUNGKING, West China (By mail).—I have just traveled over a great part of the new life line road China has opened to the west. Part of it is the hazardous route Marco Polo followed centuries ago but today China is using it as a back-door highway to bring in desperately needed supplies and munitions .that the Japanese have cut off from the east. This road is an engineering marvel, winding and climbing more than 1400 miles through steep mountains, so rough that only pony caravans have crossed them be-

fore. It links this new Chinese capital, Chungking, with the Burmese border, Mandalay, and the port at

Rangoon, India. It was laid out, surveved and built entirely by native labor; constructed in less than a year. It was cut through ancient passes—some 8000 feet high— without a single piece of roadbuilding equipment, other than bullock carts to haul away vock and stone rollers to smooth the surface. Traveling from Kunming, Yunnan, to this city, I covered more than half of this new road. sit-

| ting on gasoline cases in a truck, with my

suitcase at my back.

Counting delays and stops in

| dingy hotéls, some where the rats

frisked about all night, it took nearly two weeks. We rode from 7:30 in the inorning to 8:20 at night one day. There were 28 consecutive hairpin turns at one stretch of the highway. Twice we were held up for hours by slippery ascents— once at a place where a truck had, only a few minutes before. skidded

| off the road and crashed down an

embankment. We covered only 113 miles in that interval. » » » ET over this road a fighting China expects to transport the supplies that she hopes may

| eventually turn the tide in her | struggle with Japan. These sup-

plies dre landed at the port of Rangoon. Burma, 2100 miles dis-

| tant, then trucked over the high-

way. as vet scarcely wide enough for two vehicles to pass in most

| places.

I was fortunate, for that matter, to be making the trip to Chungking at all. For the transportation problem in this new frontier of China is staggering. Shoved back into this westernmost province, Szechwan, the Chinese literally are falling over themselves — refugees, soldiers, civilians. Busses to

from Kweivang

| Chungking are booked to July. | Planes make the trip frequently

but are delayed by air raids. Travelers are driven to extreme measures to get about—as in the case of an Englishman I saw in Kunming. Accompanied by two servants, he had come all the way from Rangoon, some 1500 miles, in an ordinary taxi. Fortunate for the

| taxi, there was another passenger | waiting to take it back!

Transporting freight is even

| more difficult. Everything must go

by truck—and trucks are scarce. American business representatives are finding it necessary to pay as much as $1200 in Chinese currency per ton of freight. This is because the Government needs every available facility. So serious has the problem become that one of the American oil companies operating in West China has arranged for 1000 ponies to carry gasoline along the

| route of the proposed new rail- | way from Kunming to Suifu, on | the Yangtz: River above Chung-

king. Each pony will carry two cases holding 20 gallons at a cost

of $30 a pony in Chinese money,

But even this Is preferable to plane transportation. Baggage by air costs 70 cents a pound and may be shot down en route. Still aviation business is so brisk that ships are scheduled a full month in advance.

UCH is the tempo these days in Western China, where the Government is settling down for a new defensive. Everything radiates

from Chungking, the new capital.

Together with Yunnan and Kweichow in the southwest, Szechwan until quite recently was considered too remote and inaceessible to command much attention. But there has béen a transformation. The new Burmese-Chungking road is being improved by thousands of coolies—safeguarded and widened. Fine cantilever bridges are swinging into places at some points. Engineers have just broken ground for two new railways, each more than T00 miles in length. One will connect Kunming, capital of Yunnan, with Suifu on the upper Yangtze. The other will go from Kunming te Lashio on the Burmese border, both to be completed with in two years. The Burma motor road and these railroads will shorten the distance from Europe and India to West China by more than 2000 miles. Finally, branch roads to other important parts are getting under way. Despite the war, China is building seven railroads in all. So opening of the West becomes China's newest concern. It may decide China's future, ® x =

HUNGKING is an amazing city. It is located at the head of the mighty Yangtze gorges and on the threshhold of China's rich= est, most populous and farthest western province, Szwechwan. It is protected by a continual haze which hangs like a pall over the city. It is further protected by many deep caves which have been blasted out of the solid rock on which the city stands. There are not enough yet for the population but the Government is spending at least $80,000 in American money on a subway, which will ulti mately provide room for all. Thus the Chinese carry on with a spirit which even the destruction of cities cannot kill. More constructive changes have been made in a year here than would have been made in a generation before. Consider the picture: Together with Yunnan and Kweichow in the southwest, Szechwan was until recently cone sidered by the Chinese too remote and unapproachable to be bothered with. To reach Chungking, for instance, it was necessary to brave the dangers of the trip up the gorges where lie the wrecks of many powerful steamships especially built for the hardships of this voyage, as well as of thousands of junks shattered on the rocks or sucked under by great whirlpools. 2 s HEN the new Yunnan-Burma road was constructed and extension begun to Chungking. At the same time other mountain roads were built, air service launched. West China was opened in a way never dreamed of five years ago. Over these roads have come tens of thousands of refugees from the Japanese occupied areas to the east—thousands on foot, thousands by truck or bus or motor car, some by sedan chair. With them have come not only government officials, but leaders of industry, technical experts, scientists, skilled artisans, educators, students.

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By Anton Scherrer

Epicures Seeking Something New Might Find Inspiration in Old Marble Collection at the Library.

On the above map, China's new backdoor highway from Chungking, the capital, to Burma, is indi-

cated by the heavy broken line.

Shaded area represents the extent of the Japanese occupation,

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On this spiraling, treacherous, narrow road, connecting Chungking with Burma, war supplies

brought into China through western “back door.”

The results of all this have been startling, this impact of the trained, modern, progressive mass from the Bast on the conservative, undeveloped West.

In these three western provinces alone there is an area more than twice that of all Germany and a population of something like 85,000,000 people, a people industrious, hardy, inured to hard ship, loyal.

Keen businessmen are starting all kinds of enterprises today in Yunnan and Sgechwan. There is a large cotton mill for one thing. Silk experts have transported 100,000 mulberry seedlings from Chekiang in anticipation of producing the best grade of silk within two years, to capture the very important Burma and Indian trade. Nowhere is this work better demonstrated than in the activities of the health administration. It is laying plans to conquer the scourge of malaria, carrying on its program under insuperable difficulties, » » ”

HE Central Hospital, now in Kweiyang with Dr. James Shen as superintendent, is a great

contrast to what it was in Nanking. It was then one of the finest and best-equipped hospitals in the Far mast. It has had to move three times, but there is now the same splendid spirit and perfect organization. : The doctors sleep in crude

double-deck bunks, less comfort able quarters than the factory girls had in Kunming. They washed their hands over a trough by stepping on a treadle which released a shower from a Kkerosene can of water suspended over= head, for Kweiyang has no waler=works as yet and only very ine adequate electric supply. The same hardships and handicaps are being surmounted here by the medical school of Yale-in-China and the National Medical college where students have to reproduce some of their texts by mimeograph and work on packing boxes for tables. Likewise, mustard-seed oil is burned in their incubators because kero=sene is too expensive. But a new day is coming. The Bast is putting new life into the West and the West is using every resource, not the least of which is the chemically pure salt which

Also shown are railroads which will open new area in west China.

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Chinese doctors manufactured from the dirty Szechwan stuff to stem the tide of cholera last summer,

Here's a Tip for The Angler |

Ry Seience Service ST. ANDREWS, N. B, April 1.— Going fishing? If the water's cold, cut your bait into small pieces; if it's warm, larger chunks will do, is the advice of R. A. MacKenzie of the Canadian Fisheries Research Board. . Tests conducted at the Atlantic Biological Station here with captive codfish in tanks supplied with

running salt water show that the size of pieces of food eaten by the

fish varied with the water temper-|

ature. In general, the warmer the water, the larger the pieces of food gulped down. The fish did not eat at all below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, nor did they eat when the water temperature rose above 65 degrees.

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

T a time like this when the art of dining | is fast going to the hot dogs, it is news- | worthy to note that the Public Library—the

I | one run by Luther L (Lester) Dickerson—

has a collection of 26 very old, vellum-bound

cookbooks. They all bear the book plate of | Wright Marble. ‘ | On July 17, 1923, Mr. Marble was seized with | apoplexy at the corner of Washington and Penne

| sylvania Sts., and died almost im- | mediately. The newspapers duti-

fully recorded the fact, but that’s as | far as they got. Not a word about

1 | his ever having been the steward of

the old Bates House back in 1895, | and later of the Denison, directing its destiny from 1898 to and through { 1901. And, of course, not a word | about Mr. Marble’s priceless col- | action of 300 old cookbooks, con- | sidered by connoisseurs to be one of the finest in the country. Mr. Scherrer The 26 books in the City Library represent what is left of Mr. Marble’s original collection. The rest | were destroyed shortly after his death when a fire swept through Mrs. Marble’s attic and took almost | everything with it. Sure, the newspapers muffed | that one, too. The oldest item in the Marble collection, or what | remajns of it, is an old Latin cookbook containing | the. recipes of a Roman -epicure—one Apicius by name—who was celebrated for his luxurious table | and his acquirements in the art of cookery. The old book may be summed up as the ade

{ | ventures of a stomach, and is so comprehensive in

| its scope that it even treats of leftovers. “To make a | bad honey good (Ut mel malum bonum facies),” says the old Roman, “add double the amount of good honey to the bad and nobody will be the wiser.”

A Delicacy From Pigs’ Ears

More modern is “The Noble Book of Cookery” pube lished originally in 1467. To make a “Battalia Pye,” says the Noble Book, “take four small chickens. four squab pigeons, four sucking rabbits; cut them in pieces, season them with savoury spice, and lay 'em in the pye, with four sweetbreads sliced, and as many sheep tongues, two shivered palates, two pair of lambe

stones, 20 or 30 coxcombs, with savoury-balls and oysters. Lay on butter, and close the pye.” High time, if you ask me, Another mighty interesting item is the 1747 one contained in “The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy, which far Exceeds Every Thing of the Kind Ever Yet Published.” By whom, do you suppose? Bee lieve it or not, “By a Lady,” the first woman ever to write a cookbook. She turned out to be a Mrs. Grasse, wife of an attorney living in Carey St., London. To make “A Ragoo of Pigs’ Ears,” wrote Mrs, Grasse, “take a quantity of pigs’ ears and boil them in one-half wine and the other water; cui them in small pieces, then brown a little butter, and put them in, and a pretty deal of gravy, two anchovies, an eschalot or two, a little mustard, some slices of lemon, some salt, and nutmeg; stew all these together, and shake it up thick. Gernish the dish with barberries.” “It eats very well,” said Mrs. Grasse.

Jane Jordan—

Give Older Boy Responsibilities, Worried Mother of Two Sons Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have two children, one 3 and one 8. They are both boys. The older presents quite a problem. I am afraid that one reason I have so much trouble with him is that he and I are so much alike. It is hard enough to correct one's bad habits without seeing them in another. When I correct him for something, he does some= thing a little worse than the thing I punished him for. How can I help him gain his self-esteem which 1 have undoubtedly wrecked? His teacher seems to have the same trouble with him. He is irresponsible. WORRIED MOTHER. ” ” ” Answer—My guess is that keen rivalry exists bee tween the two boys and that the older one struggles to excell the younger one. When he feels that he has failed to do so, he asserts himself in disagreeable ways rather than not to assert himself at all. Doubtless he invites punishment because he feels guilty and secretly thinks he needs it. I do not think you should play into his pattern by punishing him when he asks for it by disagreeable behavior. A withdrawal of your approval is all that is necessary

{o show him that his methods of making you notice him are wrong. Help him find useful ways of attracte ing your attention by praising his manly virtues. If the boy is irresponsible it is because he has not been given responsibilities within his power to shoule der. I do not know what his interests are, but you can find out by offering him various opportunities. If he is fond of animals you can make him responsible for a pet. If he likes growing things, you can give him a shelf of plants or a little garden to care for, Find a hobby for him to pursue, such as construction, stamp collecting, music or any other little corner of life in which he can succeed without being driven, Since responsibility teward money is so important, why don't you give him some money of his own to handle? A small capital, a weekly allowance and an account book has awakened many a boy’s interest in saving and taught him to spend more carefully. A regular chore for which is scrupulously paid encourages a responsible attitude. Do you praise his brother in his presence or hold him up as an example to the older boy? Often the | older of two children is aggressive and the younger one | passive (though sometimes the case is reversed). If | your younger hoy strives for success by submissiveness, it may drive his brother to the opposite extreme. A submissive child is very pleasing to parents who overlook his irritating qualities where other children are concerned. Often the little angel unobtrusively stirs up trouble in order to place blame on a more inflammae ble brother. A close study of your two children will reveal plenty of hidden elements which you haven't seen clearly before. It is up to you to handle both boys with syme pathetic understanding of their needs, for they have no other means of ledrning what it is all about. ’ JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today

Public Library Presents— i

PT HE thoroughness with which the Nazi Governe ment is indoctrinating German youth with the National Socialist world-view is revealed in THB NAZI PRIMER: OFFICIAL HANDBOOK FOR SCHOOLING THE HITLER YOUTH (Harper) pree pared by Fritz Brennecke, and now translated inte English. This primer, designed to make loyal Nazis of the millions of German youth, presents a Nazi ine terpretation of the origin and subsequent history of | the German people, states Hitler's racial theories, showing the basis for his anti-Semitism, outlines his | plans for making Germany industrially self-sufficient, It also indicates his intention for German exe pansion and his colonial ambitions. The book should be read for the warning it affords of the nature of the highly effective Nazi propaganda, with its eme phasis: on anti-intellectualism, its teaching of blind

| obedience to iis leaders, and its exaltation of military

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