Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1939 — Page 13

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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

Here's a Portrait of a Texas Parson; The Rev. Jim Airey Proves That Piety and Good Fellowship Will Mix.

OUSTON, Tex. April 4.—The Rev.

James W. E. Airey, M.A, B.S,, rector’ of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Hous- | ton, is a fellow you could say to: “Hey pal, | how’s about it?” The Rev. Jim (that’s what he calls himself) is not the kind of preacher who is a “good | fellow” just at the proper times and with the proper | piety. He's really regular. He loves people, and not | in any benign, forgiving way. He just likes everybody, and everybody likes him. The Rev. Jim is one of the whirlingest steam turbines in Houston. He has 10 fingers in every stew. He knows every civic leader in the city, and is one himself. He is a man of many abilities. He is a ventriloquist and a magician; a historian and a bug on the old Southwest; a Shriner and a pleasant social companion. You know he’s a preacher by his backward collar. Otherwise, he’s about 40 years old, has a black pompadour, goes bareheaded, drives like a taxi-driver, and half-way runs when he walks. He has two swell youngsters, and he hasn't scared them to death about God. Don’t get the idea from all this that the Rev. Jim is an exhibitionist or a one-horse preacher. Far from it. He is serious about church, but has no use for sepulchral tones. He has two college degrees, and can talk informatively about anything you mention. He has been in the ministry for 15 years. He's in it because he thinks he can do a lot of good that way. His parish is a poor one, and that’s the kind he likes, for it excites him. . Jim Airey started out life as a newspaperman in Louisiana. His first city editor, who is a friend of mine, recalls that “Jim was brilliant, but he was crazy. You couldn't send him out on a spot news story. He'd forget about it, and come back with | something more interesting.” ! The Rev. Jim also told me about his newspaper career. “I got fired every week,” he says. “Finally I stayed fired.” So then he went to college. He went to Suwanee in Tennessee, and Rollins in Florida. He paid his way through school by giving magic shows. The Rev. Jim's first parish was in an oil boom town. Accommodations were so scarce that he and his wife slept on the church floor. During the summers he ran a boy's camp near Taos, N. M.

Friend of the Frontiersmen His greatest interest right now, outside the church, is the National Frontiersmen’s Association. He says that, scattered from here to California, there are dozens of old boys living in actual poverty—men who faced the frontier and broke it open for the wealth that was to follow. He wishes that somehow they could be given comfort and decent living for their few remaining years. One night some friends borrowed the Rev. Jim's car, and stopped downtown to have a sandwich. It was after midnight, so they parked in a taxi zone. When they came out, they found the taxi drivers had driven one tire full of nails. Now here’s how the Rev. Jim works. He went to the taxi company, and asked the manager if he could speak to as many drivers as weren't working on Thursday night. The manager said all right. A good crowd of drivers showed up. The Rev. Jim didn't say a word about the tire incident. He also didn’t say a word about church. He spent his time | giving them advice on first aid in accidents, telling | them what to do for injured people in auto wrecks. Since then he has been invited to speak before five | other groups of drivers, and the taxi men are his | friends.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. Pyle

Lauds Chamberlain for His Courage; | i

Interesting Letter on Unionism. |

EATTLE, Wash, Monday.—To the casual reader it would seem as though a change had come over the foreign policy of some European nations. For a time, Great Britain seemed to be drifting along with no positive action of any kind recorded. In the last two days the headlines seem to indicate an entirely different trend. Great Britain is offering active assistance to two nations that have not. as yet, joined the central European powers. The Gentleman With the Umbrella, finding that “appeasement” does not work where ethics do not exist, has gone the whole way in the opposite direction. It takes courage to do that, if you are in politics, and it cannot be done, except in a democracy. I have had a number of letters which state interesting problems. One is from a man who is a skilled mechanic. He started to ply his trade as an independent operator and is much upset because the union is trying to interfere with the work he obtains. Two theories are in opposition to each other here. One is the old American theory that your first duty is to provide for yourself and your family, regardless of anybody else in the world. The other is the more modern union theory that the question is a group question, that people should belong to a union because it strengthens the group as a whole, thereby making it possible for each individual to better his situation as to hours and wages. The union feels that, even if you own your own business and are in the position of a struggling, small employer, you still must think first of the group as a whole—you must not employ nonunicn labor.

Two Philosophies in Conflict

The letter, as it sets forth in this particular case, seems to imply that, where a man can just support himself and his family, he cannot afford to belong to a union. In addition, if he can employ a helper, it is better for that man to have some work, than none at all, even if he cannot be paid union wages. This man would probably tell you that were he in a position to do so, he would be more than willing to pay union wages, but that this is unfair to ask until he is really on his feet. I believe so strongly in unions and their value as a protection to the workers, and yet, in these individual cases, I have a sympathy, too, for the man who is caught at the point of change between two philosophies. The pioneer philosophy, and the phil osophy of machine civilization. I wish that something could be done in these individual cases to tide over their difficulties in a period of change. The least we can do is to recognize their plight and try to solve our problems by better co-operation in every community between the leaders of labor, the employers, and the citizens as a whole.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service N THE LIGHT of present international upheavals, ancient European struggles seem more vivid. A British archeologist, Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler, has found in France new evidence from the time when Caesar's Roman legions were invading that region and finding the Veneti a stubbornly resistant tribe. Dr. Wheeler thinks that when Caesar did vanquish the troublesome Veneti in their homeland in northwest France, now southern Brittany, a remnant escaped to settle in Britain. But within a century, a colony of these refugees themselves had to face Roman arrows and sling-stones when Vespasian invaded Britain and attacked Maiden Castle in 43 A. D. It was to seek the origin of the immigrants who so fiercely defended Maiden Castle that Dr. Wheeler recently went to France. He had just finished ex-

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(Generalissimo Francisco Franco emerges tn Spain as the newest of the world’s dictators. What manner of man ts he? How close will he be to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini? Will he fight on the side of Germany, Italy and Japan of these “aggressor” powers come to war with a nonaggressor combination led by Britain and France? These and other questions are answered in a series by Everett R. Holles, United Press cable editor, who covered the Spanish civil war on the spot.)

By Everett R. Holles

| United Press Cable Editor *

ENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO Y BAHAMONDE, a piump little Spaniard with a red sash and a ready smile, became Europe's newest

dictator by accident.

Unimaginative and stubbornly loyal to his duty as a professional soldier, Gen. Franco was always confident of his ability to win the long civil war in Spain. But the tasks that face him now —the reconstruction of a ravaged country, brewing internal political troubles and Spain's part in the international struggle — are strange to the 46-year-old dictator. His evasiveness in describing what the “New Spain” will be is characteristic of this enigmatic generalissimo who is as much a man of mystery in his own country as he is abroad. On a July morning in 1936 when he came out of “exile” in Morocco aboard a military plane and dropped down at Seville to take command of the Rebels’ Southern Army, he could not have dreamed that one day he would rule as dictator over Spain. Francisco Franco was merely one of a group of generals who had publicly declared that their country was headed for a soviet regime and that another of

| Spain’s revolutions was necessary.

Gen. Franco's own publicists admit that it was doubtful in those the Army leaders had any idea of establishing a Nazi or Fascist State. They were confident—and Gen.

| Franco most of all—that the war

would be over in two or three months. A purely Spanish affair. What they wanted was to smash the Popular Front Lefist regime that had come into power five

months before.

» 2 L 2 HE Popular Front, aside from all the other so-called crimes charged to it by the Rightist

| army leaders, was shattering the

prestige and power of the military aristocracy. The army in Spain for years had two principal purposes: To put down internal rebellions and provide jobs for officers. Strictly a third-rate fighting force, it had 13,500 officers. The ratio was one officer to every 10 men of the ranks, the highest in Europe. Leaders of the revolution foresaw a swift victory—they had 90 per cent of the nation’s military brains on their side—and a military junta opening the way for a return to Rightist rule, perhaps another dictatorship like that of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Gen. Franco's own attitude, probably can best be shown by his

| statement at the time of former | King Alfonso’s abdication, when | he refused to join a military up-

rising with the statement that the army must “play no part in politics but remain loyal to Spain.” Never known to have had any party affiiliations. he said: “The conduct of soldiers should not be the subject of fluctuating politics.” He joined the revolt in July of 1936 not because of personal ambition but because he said he felt that bloodshed was unavoidable to “save” Spain. He was not an inspired zealot, but a soldier. It was accident and the cruelty

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939

Franco: The Newest Dictator Series of Accidents Makes Exiled General Master of Spain

Gen. Franco pictured during a lull in the recent fighting with his

pretty wife and young daughter,

Germany was on the Rebels’ side during

a 2 = the war and many now

expect Spain to become an active partner in the Rome-Berlin axis, Here is Gen. Franco in conference with Gen. Wilhelm Faupel, accredited by the Reich as ambassador to rebel Spain before the sur-

render of Madrid.

of war that lifted Francisco Franco. a boy from the tranquil green hills of Galicia, from the status of general and made him “El Caudillo”—the leader—of the Spanish dictatorship. EJ » EJ IS friend and fellow confidante of Alfonso XIII, 64-vear-old Gen. Jose Sanjuro, was to have been the Generalissimo of the revolution. Everything had been arranged secretly. Then, Jose Calvo Sotelo, =a Royalist reactionary, made a speech against the activities of the Popular Front before the Cortes and Dolores Irrubari, the woman Communist leader known as “La Pasionaria,” leaped to her feet shouting: “That man has spoken for the last time.”

The next morning Sotelo’s body with a bullet in the back of the neck was found in Madrid's east cemetery. The revolution that was to become a civil war started. Sanjuro, an exile since the abortive monarchist uprising of August, 1932, started for Spain from Lisbon, Portugal, to lead the army revolt. But his plane crashed in flames in Cascaes Bay outside Lisbon on July 20. It was generally believed that Gen. Manuel Goded, another Moroccan veteran like Gen. Franco and Sanjuro, would take over the supreme command. Then the Republicans caught Gen. Goded, executed him before a firing squad at Barcelona's ancient Montjuich fortress a few days later. No new leader asserted himself, But Gen. Franco and Gen. Emilio Mola—a better strategist than Gen. Franco—soon became the outstanding figures of the revolution. Gen. Mola later died in an airplane crash in the Cantabrian’ Mountains of northern Spain.

HE original plan to take Madrid by surprise miscarried and the Insurgents attacked the capital. Gen. Franco advanced from the south with his Moroccans and Foreign Legionnaires. Gen. Mola came from Pamplona in the north with his Galicians and Navarrese. It became evident soon that Madrid could not be taken without a long fight and that foreign aid already so eagerly offered in what to the Rightists had become a war against communism would be necessary. Foreign forces—at least 10,000 Germans and 50,000 Italians—joined the Rebels in the following months. On Sept. 30, 1936, Gen. Franco became the Generalissimo of the Rebel military junta. The “little world war” was under way and Gen. Franco was on his way to dictatorship. Born at El Ferrol just north of Portugal on Dec. 8, 1892, of a middle-class family, Gen. Franco's tranquil surroundings should have led to peaceful pursuits. His father was a chief engineer in the Navy and at 14 the young Franco went to the famous Alcazar Military School at Toledo. Later he was to rescue 1400 men, women and children from a 70-day siege in the Alcazar. He became a lieutenant at 17, a captain at 20, a major at 23 and a general at 32, the youngest Spaniard ever to wear the galons of that rank. He was sent to Morocco to fight against the Riffs, and there won a reputation for ruthlessness as well as bravery. The only time he ever clashed with Miguel Primo de Rivera, former Dictator of Spain, was when the latter asked him to use gentler methods. Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain of France, now Ambassador to Gen. Franco's government, cooperated with Gen. Franco in

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Heavily shelled throughout most of the fighting, Madrid suffered

staggering property damage.

It is to the rebuilding of this and other

cities damaged in the three-year war that Gen. Franco now has

turned. struction work,

Moors from Spanish Morocco surgent cause,

wiping out the Riffs and paid tribute to his military brilliancy. Gen. Lyautey, French commander in Morocco, described Gen. Franco as “one of the best strategists of the times.” “That young man will watching,” he said. Gen. Franco's name became more associated with stern measures when he brought African Moors to Spain—for the first time in modern history—to wipe out the Austurian Marxist revolution in Oviedo. His guns battered Oviedo’s ancient cathedral —the edifice in which he had married beautiful Carmen Polo, daughter of a merchant. ”n » EJ

EN. FRANCO was in and out of high posts until, after the Leftist election victory in February, 1936, he was “exiled” to the Canary Islands. It was from there that he flew to Morocco to launch the revolution with 9000 Moors and 13,000 Foreign Legionnaires. Then on to the Spanish mainland. Seemingly carefree and so obstinate that he often has dumbfounded his Italian and German advisers, Gen. Franco does not smoke and drinks very little. He is devoutly Catholic and at Burgos he often goes to the old

bear

It is planned to use captured Loyalist prisoners in the recon-

were effective fighters for the In-

Catholic cathedral to kneel at the altar. His wife and 10-year-old daughter, Carmencita, are kept in the background, secure from the publicity for which Gen. Franco himself has little desire. Neither dynamic as is Mussolini nor mystic as is Hitler, the Spanish “caudillo” seldom raises his voice. He is kindly in his attitude toward persons he meets. Only five foot three inches in height, Gen. Franco has a broad brow and a head slightly too large for his pudgy body. He works 12 or 15 hours a day, but never misses his afternoon siesta. His quick smile and easy chuckle seemed in sharp contrast with his reputation for stern dealing with his enemies. But he himself, without attempting to explain, has an answer for this contradiction. Civil wars are the worst of all wars, he says, because ideas poisoning Spain as a nation must be eliminated. And death is the only cure for such poisons, he adds in a voice so soft it is almost sweet.

NEXT—The roles of Italy and Germany in Spain: Prospects of Nazi-Fascist domination.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Bruce Rogers, 'Greatest Modern Book Designer,’ Ought to Be Good— He Got His Start in Indianapolis!

HE current number of Time has a piece about Bruce Rogers, “greatest modern book designer,” and it’s mighty good read ing as far as it goes. That's the trouble with it. It doesn’t go back far enough. Had

it been carried just a bit further to include the years Mr. Rogers spent in Indianapolis, it might have done much to explain the part Indianapolis played in shaping his career. Bruce Rogers came to Indianapolis in 1890 by way of Lafayette to be an illustrator on the News. He had graduated from Purdue that spring and had some extracurricular achievements to show for it. In his spare time he had designed covers for The Exponent, The Souvenir and Debris. Indeed, old-timers credit him with doing the cover of Purdue’s catalog. He came by these jobs honestly enough for it is no secret that he was one of the two males in the art class at Purdue, John T. McCutcheon was the other. George Ade and Booth Tarkington thought some of joining the class at one time, but they never got around to it. Just couldn’t make up their minds.

On the News, Mr. Rogers was given a low partie tioned cubicle next to that of Meredith Nicholson, but he didn’t stay long. It was too noisy, he said. He remained in Indianapolis long encugh, however, io ‘meet Joe M. Bowles who ran an art store at the time. The two men first met at the Portfolio Club which had its quarters in Henry Ward Beecher’s remodeled church on the northwest quadrant of the Circle. Tom Hibben, an articulate member of the club, used to say that Portfolio was “the headquarters for souls who have either artistic symptoms or sympathies.” Mr. Bowles lost track of the boy after that. The fact of the matter is that Rogers, driven away by the noise in the News, had gone back home, to Lafayette, to stay for good. For some reason, though, he was

Mr. Scherrer

cavatimg Maiden Castle, and finding the ruins and battered skelétons mute evidence of terrible battle. The defenders were not cld natives of Britain, | but foreigners recent enough to retain their own | striking plans for fortification. Their multiple ine of ramparts was defense against a new weapon— ed that

the sling, Sling-stones in quan howed

Side Glances

"All right, live in that thi

939 BY NEA BERVIGE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which country is the Mackenzie River? 2—What is the title of the wife of an Earl? 3—Name the capital of Ceylon. 4—Which American Ambassador represented the U. S. at the coronation of Pope Pius X11? 5—Name the chief river of Burma. 6—What is the plural of the word cheese? 7—In units of length, how many

rods are in one chain? 2 » EJ

Answers 1—Canada. 2—Countess. 3—Colombo. 4—Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to Great Britain. 5—Irawadi (or Irrawady). 6—Cheeses. T—Four.

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

back in 1893.

| The Return to Indianapolis

When Rogers returned to Indianapolis, Mr. Bowles was a salesman for the H. Lieber Co. with a secret enterprise on the side. Seems that during Rogers’ absence, Bowles had found time to start an art magazine. Somehow, he had persuaded Hollenbeck, the printer, to back him and together they put out a handsome illustrated quarterly called Modern Art which at that'time meant Whistler, Monet and Beardsley, as difficult to understand as Picasso and Klee are today. Rogers was probably in Lafayette when the first number was issued in January, 1893. At any rate, there were no contributions by him in that number, Beginning with the title page of the second number, however, Modern Art was full of Bruce Rogers’ work. Enough, anyway, for Louis Prang, the Boston publisher, to come all the way to Indianapolis and take Rogers back with him. When Modern Art, under Prang’s management, ceased publication in 1897, George Mifflin grabbed off Rogers for the Riverside Press. Which is a good place for me to stop because that's where Time begins its story. I might add this, however: To this day, the Portfolio Club of Indianapolis rates Bruce Rogers as one of its members, and an Honorary Member at that.

Jane Jordan

Friend Writes in Defense of Bride Denied Right to Visit Grandmother.

(Note—This letter is in defense of the young woman whose husband will not permit her to visit a sick grandmother in a neighboring state. I advised her not to make an issue of the matter.)

EAR JANE JORDAN-—This girl was left an cre phan at the age of 10 and sent to an orphans’ home. When the orphans’ home placed her in private homes to work, she ran away and married and later was divorced. Her grandmother then took her in and was the only one who showed her any love. She was married again and truly seems to love her second husband, and he seems crazy about her. She says her husband's people treat her better than her own ever did. When his people are sick she sees to it that he goes to see them. Now that she wants .to go home, why must he be so selfish? She is good and loves doing for others. She tried to get her husband to go home with her before they were married but he wouldn’t do it. Do you think it right for his people to sal, “You'll never find another husband as good as the one you now have?” Yes, his people got a laugh out of the curt answer you gave her. But I believe your next answer will be different and they will not laugh at a child who had no friend but a dear grandmother when she needed one. INTERESTED.

Answer—I did not say that the girl’s husband was right in refusing to go to see her people or to allow her to go alone. I said he was selfish. Nevertheless, I do not know of any way to make him over. Most women have to adjust themselves to their husbands as they are, and learn to manage their men by strategy ine stead of ultimatums, and so will your friend. I think it is folly for your friend to make an issue of whether she is to go to see a sick grandmother or not when there are other and more roundabout ways of bringing it about in time. Why not take a practical view of the situation? I take it that the girl would rather live with her husband than her grandmother. Therefore, it is more important to please him than to please her grande mother. Even when we grant that the old deserve care from the young, a woman’s relatives simply have to accept the fact that she is not free to give them attention each time they need it after she is married. It is better for the girl to explain that she cannot come at present but will come when she can. I am sorry that sound, hard, common sense sounds curt to you. I am sorry than in-laws are unfeeling enough to laugh. But I still say that it is smart to guard that which is most valuable to one. In a quarrel, the one who is in the right always can afford to be more generous than the one who is in the wrong. 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—

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