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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Everything in Claremore, Site of His Memorial, Recalls Will Rogers and Yet Comedian Never Lived There!

(CLAREMORE, Okla.,, May 1—This town is practically all Will Rogers. Here * stands Oklahoma's beautiful membrial to | him. The hotel here is named Will Rogers. | The restaurants have “Will Rogers sand-

wiches.” In the Postoffice is a Will Rogers mural. The new city library is for Will Rogers. And yet Will Rogers never lived here in his life. But Claremore is authentic just the same, because Will Rogers chose to put it on the map. He bought land years ago at the edge of town, to live on whenever he retired. He always spoke of Claremore as his home, even though it wasn't. He was actually raised near Chelsea, about 20 miles north of here. When he came to visit in later years, he'd always send his daily newspaper telegram under a Claremore dateline, 3 The land Will had bought is on top of a knoll, just at the edge of Mr. Pyle Claremore. After his death, Mrs. Rogers deeded it to the Memorial Commission. The memorial stands on this hilltop. It is in the form of a ranch house, built of stone. It is large, and there is lots of space inside. Four immense rooms, in fact, and some smaller ones. In the lobby is a bigger than life bronze statue «wof Will, sculptured by his friend Jo Davidson. On the pedestal beneath it is inscribed one of Will's quo- |

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrec

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Schissel's Swimming School "in a House Built Over Canal One of Pleasant Memories of Childhood.

By Dr. George Gallup Director, American Institute of Public Opinion (Copyright, 1939) EW YORK, May 1.—For the first time since the devastating Republican defeat of 1936 a majority of Americans think that the G. 0. P. will win the Presidential election in 1940. That fact, which is revealed today in a nation-wide survey just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion, underscores one of the most remarkable shifts in the public's thinking ever registered in Institute tests. It helps to explain the new confidence of the Republican

3 OME time around the beginning of the NR Nineties when I was 12 years old, the \ horizon of Indianapolis visibly widened for me. My main activities ceased to be bounded

by my neighborhood. For one thing, I was

allowed to go up town alone. Not only that, but I went to Otto Schissel’s Swimming School all by myself. To get to Mr. Schissel's place at the southwest corner of West and Wabash Sts.» I had to go through a pretty exciting part of Indianapolis, past the Cyclo=

rama Building, for instance, and Fletcher Noes Curio Shop. On the other side of the State House, Mar= ket St. was even more exciting with the strangest sights turning up right before your eyes. Ladies with painted faces, for instance. For some reason, too, they wore enormously big hats decorated with ostrich feathers, a feminine fad which

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tations: “I mever met a man I didn’t like.” Two of the big rooms are still entirely bare, and the other two are formalized, and museum-like. Eventually, ene room will be given over to a diorama—a biography of Will Rogers in little scenes. Rigat now, about the only things here that Will actually used are a couple of saddles and a stuffed calf, on which he practiced roping at his California ranch house. : In glass cases are foreign saddles given him on his many trips about the world. The main room of the memorial is a semireplica of Will's own living room in his California ranch house. Right now, it would probably disappoint you. It resembles Will's own room in little but the dimensions. It, too, is formalwith saddles in glass cases. But gradually, year by year, this will become the real human Will Rogers room. His family will send on many things—manuscripts, photographs, even the suit he wore when he died.

Those Souvenir Seekers.

It may be 10 years before the memorial is what Oklahoma wants it to be, an informal memorial. with all the little trays, books, cushions and doodads that make up a room that Will actually lived in. But everything will have to be fastened down. or put in locked glass cases. Why, already the tourists have pulled so much wool out of a Mexican serape on the wall that it had to be put under glass! Many and many a tourist who comes to the memorial says proudly, “I helped build this.” But the tourists—unless theyre from Oklahoma— are mistaken. This memorial was built by direct SF oprisnon of $200,000 by the Oklahoma Legisature. What the tourists remember is that nation-wide campaign to collect money for a memorial. But that memonal, it was finally decided, would be in the form of “Will Rogers scholarships” in universities throughout the country. The curator is Mrs. Pauline McSpadden Love, Will Rogers’ niece. It was her mother who practically brought Will up.

The memorial was opened last Nov. 4. on Will's | Undoubtedly it will become, in a few | years, ane of the most-visited memorials in America. | But there is another memorial that few will ever { It stands lonesomely on the bleak, cold tundra | It marks the spot where two | § Oklahoma boys died together—Will Rogers and Wiley |

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My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Norwegian Prince and Princess Are Entertained at Hyde Park.

YDE PARK, Sunday.—The President and I drove down to the dock at Poughkeepsie on Friday afternoon to greet the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess and their suite. They had come up the Hudson River on the Potomac and I fear the weather was not pleasant enough for them really to enjoy what would ordinarily have been a very beautiful trip. As we drove back through the streets of Poughkeepsie with our royal visitors, everyone greeted them in a most friendly fashion. They are young and attractive and full of zest about all they see. The Crown Princess told me, however, that they had not even been given time to get over the feeling that they were still on a slightly rolling ship, before they began on a day so full that they couldn't even remember how many things they had done. Only a few neighbors came to dinner and after dinner the Vassar girls choir sang for us. Everyone enjoyed them, they looked so sweet and sang so well. Their leader, Mr. E. Harold Geer, is justified in being very proud of them. People always say that the Hudson River is the Rhine of America. For that reason. my two youngest Vs, on their first trip to Europe, insisted that I take them up the Rhine. They were much disappointed, for, beautiful as the Rhine is, it has. of course, very little resemblance to the Hudson River.

Off to the World's Fair

I have always wondered why we have to make comparisons. Why dont we content ourselves by saying that we enjoy this or that. and realize the main reason for travel is to see something different, and enjoy it because it is different. After dinner Friday night, the President told the Crown Prince and Princess that spots along the Hudson were said to look like Norwegian fjords, and both of thas. Jooked faintly amused. Never having been to XN. , I can only judge by pictures, but I know very few points on the river which look in the least like any of the pictures of Norway I have ever seen. Our picnic on Saturday night went off very well. The Norwegian Folk Dance Society of New York. which had volunteered its services to entertain after lunch, was a great pleasure. Miss Gudrun Ekeland, Miss Wenche A. Bull and Mr. Reinald Matheson gave us some delightful singing. A quiet dinner in the evening and this morning we are going by train to the New York World's Fair.

. Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service

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creative art. But to see what our face painting might be, if really done in the creative spirit, visit the Seri Indians of West Coast Mexico. When a Seri girl attempts what she calls Pretty Face, she paints on nose and cheeks designs in color out of her own imagination. She may get ideas from flowers and seed pods, baskets, birds and snakes, the sun and moon. Investigating this old American art is an achievement of two students of Indian culture, Dane Coolidge and May Roberts Coolidge, who spent six lively weeks near the wild Seris and put the experience into a new book, “The Last of the Seris” (Dutton). Face painting is a Seri girl's only aesthetic expression, the Coolidges say. The tribe is poor and ragged,

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fishing, but still appreciative of prettiness. Girls design Pretty Face to attract sweethearts. But they also put face paint to other uses. The Seris, who are vanishing, have a striking Jiterature of songs and traditions. They tell strange tales of white men with blue eyes and yellow hair, who came to 3 Shem long ago. The Came-From-Afar were whalers. The Coolidges believe they may have been Norsemen. v

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leadership and the pessimism of many members of the New Deal Administration at the present time. In today’s survey the Institute asked a carefully se-

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voting population in all states: “Which party to you think will win the Presidential election in 1940?" The vote of the country as a whole is:

Expecting Republicans te Win

Expecting Democrats to Win 48% According to the man in the street, therefore, Democratic Chairman Jim Farley was not being overly pessimistic the other day when he forecast that 1940 wowd be a hard fight and said that Democrats should not “delude” themselves into thinking another landslide was assured. Two years ago, even a considerable number of Republicans believed that a Republican victory in 1940 would be a miracle, Institute surveys show. In a nation-wide survey conducted in January, 1937, just 60 days after Roosevelt's smashing Democratic vietory, only 30 per cent of the voters said they thought the Republicans would be able to win in 1940. Even in succeeding months, while the Democrats in Congress were battling among themselves over the Supreme Court Reorganization Bill, Republican optimism was at a low ebb. Some leading Republican figures expressed the opinion that Republicans might have to form & new party, with conservative Democrats, if they hoped to pull out of their slump. So low were G. O. P. hopes that politicians were seriously asking themselves, “Is the Republican Party dead?” = = =

UT the Institute's continuous surveys show that Re. publican hopes began to imurove with the fight over the Supreme Court, that they improved still more after the business slump of 1937-38 and after the Democratic Party “purges” of last fall. By last November, with the substantial comeback ot Republican candidates in state and Congressional elections, almost precisely as forecast in Institute surveys, 50 per cent of the public expected the Democrats to win in 1940 and 50 per cent thought the G. O. P. would win.

Who Will Win in 1940?

Following 1s the sectional vote in today's Institute survey, in which a crosssection of the voters in every state were asked: “Which party do you think will win the Presidential election in 19402” SAYING Democrats Republicans NATIONAL VOTE 48 % 52 % SECTIONAL VOTE

New England States Middle Atlantic States East Central States. West Central States. Southern States .... Western States

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After 193¢ Election (Jan. '3%)......... September, 1937 April, 1938 After 1938 Election (Nov. '38). ..... TODAY ..concnsssncnsiivsivaannnes 59

E is impossible to predict what will happen between now and 1940, and today's survey is chiefly important as an index of the morale of the wo chief parties. Here is the way Republican-Democratic morale has shifted since the first Institute survey, just after the 1936 election.

TWO YEARS AGO Democrats Expecting Democratic Party to Win. 90% Republicans Expecting Republican Party to Win, 65%

TODAY Democrats Expecting Democratic Parly to Win. 67% Republicans Expecting Republican Party to Win, 83%

It is also interesting to note that John Public proved just as good an election forecaste as Jim Farley in 1086. The Institute asked a cross-section of the voters in every state: “Regardless of how you yourself plan to vote, which party to you think will win the Presidential election?” The results proved to be the most accurate state-by-state election indication in history.

rr the public's forecasts could be credited with the same accuracy today, the present survey shows a wide area of Republican gains stretching from New England to the Rockies, and from Canada to the Ohio. Voters in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and the East . «d West Central States say they expect a Republican victory. Those in the South and West say they expect the Democrats to win again.

States in the areas expecting a Republican President in 1940 include New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Young people expect the Democrats to win (52 per cent) while their elders expect a Republican victory, the survey shows.

Institute tests show that there is considerable foundation for the present confidence of the Republicans, for a recent study has found 51 per cent of the voters on record as hoping the G. O. P. will win in 1940. In several trial heats conducted between outstanding Republican and Democratic candidates the Institute has found that Thomas E. Dewey and Senator Robert Taft would outpull various Democratic candidates at this time.

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Once regarded as a miracle, @ Republican victory in the Presidential elections of 1940 is now considered probable by a majority of American voters. Continuous Institute surveys show, above, how the trend of American thinking has shifted since immediately after the crushing Democratic landslide of 1936. Similar Institute surveys, chiefly important as a guide to the morale of the two parties, will be made between now and November, 1940.

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British Public Opposes Further Draft Principle

EW YORK, May 1—Great Britain broke with a tradition of centuries on Thursday with the House of Commons’ acceptance of the principle of peace-time compulsory military service, but there are unmistakable signs that even in their determination to stand up to the dictators the British people are not willing to abandon the principle of voluntary service altogether. A survey conducted among a cross-section of the people of Great Britain by the British Institute of Public Opinion, overseas affiliate of the American Institute, shows that almost six Britons in 10 oppose adopting the compulsory idea of the present recruiting drive for the regular army. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's announcement of conscription of youths of 20 to 21 for military training did not go so far as to include conscription to fill the present gaps in Britain's blueprint army. That will be left to the voluntary choice of Britain's young men—unless war should come. The British survey, which was begun a fortnight ago, before Chamberlain's announcement, put the following question to men and women in all walks of life:

“It has been decided to enlarge the British Army to 33 field divisions. Are you in favor of obtaining the necessary recruits on a planned and compulsory basis or by leaving it to individuals to enroll voluntarily?”

The vote of the national cross-section was:

Favor Compulsory System....oceeeeeccccesceeees 42% Favor Voluntary System.......ccveeeevncncceceees 58%

The survey helps to explain the reluctance of Prime Minister Chamberlain in announcing compulsory military training to the British people—something both he and his predecessor, Stanley Baldwin, had promised would not be introduced in peace-time during the life of the present Parliament. » n EJ

OTH Opposition voters and a substantial number of Government supporters are united in disapproval of the further step—compulsory recruiting—which the ministry might conceivably consider next. The vote by parties is:

COMPULSORY RECRUITING? For Against Government Supporiers .....coeeevaeees 51% 499% Opposition Voters ..cvovvverieirncscnnees 33 67

Throughout the country only one person in 12 expressed himself as having no opinion.

TEST YOUR

KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of Tahiti.

2—Is “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction? 3—Under which Government department is the National Bureau of Standards? 4—Who participated in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln? 5—Name the famous Negro singer who gave an open-air concert from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C.,, on Easter Sunday. 6—How many stories high is the R. C. A. Building in New York City?

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Answers 1—Papeete. 2—Yes. 3—Department of Commerce. ; 4—Stephen A. Douglas. 5—Marian Anderson. 6—Seventy.

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

seemed to be confined to this part of town. The penetrating perfume : of patchouli was also part of them, Mr. Scherrer I remember. The women never spoke to us kids which always struck me as strange because in other parts of town—certainly on the South Side—women always went out of their way to be nice to us. Which is probably why I never gave the Market St. women another thought after I got to Mr. Schissel’s. Mr. Schissel’s school was the funniest looking house in Indianapolis. Believe it or not, it straddled the canal. Properly speaking, it wasn't a house at all, if by a house we mean something covered with a roof. To be sure, Mr. Schissel’s house had enough of a roof to cover the dressing rooms but, except for that, it was open to the sky. It wasn’t much to look at from the outside, but it was a peach of a place on the inside. The entrance was on Wabash St. as near West St. as Mr. Schissel could get it. The door opened on to a little vestibule which had another door leading to the pool. The only other architectural feature was a tiny hole in the wall, behind which sat the cashier, or in the absence of a casnier, Mr. Schissel himself.

Breast Stroke in 21 Days

Mr. Schissel was a short, squatty gentleman of no mean circumference. To tell the truth, he was fat and it was always in evidence because Mr. Schissel had to get along without wearing many clothes. His business called for it. Come to think of it, I believe Mr. Schissel was the first man I ever saw with prace tically all his clothes off. My horizons were widening, Mr. Schissel's method of teaching was his own invention. He had a stout pole and a system of pulleys at the end of which was a harness. Into this the Kid was strapped. To watch Mr. Schissel do it was not unlike seeing a fisherman bait a hook. After the hook was baited, Mr. Schissel pitched the pupil into the water and by word of mouth told him what to do next. It took Mr. Schissel 21 days to teach me the breast stroke. It cost father three dollars, I remember, After our swimming lessons, we always went home the same way we came. Which is to say that we always returned by way of Market St. It wasn't because of the painted ladies, their big hats and patchouli perfume. It was to have another look at Fletcher Noe’s Curio Shop with its comprehensive collection of postage stamps and arrowheads.

Jane Jordan—

Clearing Up a Misunderstanding On 'Dates' for 14-Year-Old Girls.

O the Editor—In Jane Jordan's answer, April 10, in regard to little girls of 14 and 15 years having dates, I feel that she is absolutely wrong and that all Christian mothers will agree with me. A little girl at that age is a mere child in mind

and could so easily be influenced in many, many ways that might lead to her sorrow. My idea is for boys and girls of that age to mingle together at parties, etc., but not to go out on dates. Sixteen years is ample time to start going out on dates. I am positive that if there wasn’t so many child marriages there would not*be so many divorces. I say this in all due respect to Jane Jordan or anyone else who advises little girls of 14 to go out on dates. Advice of that kind causes a child to reprove the mother and gives rise to general dis= satisfaction. C. K.

Answer—What do you mean by dates? I thought a party was a date, and a heavy date at that. I even thought that when boys had dinner with a girl at her own home, it was a date. I’ve heard of locker dates which mean no more than an agreement to meet in school at a certain locker at a certain time. I had nothing more in mind when I said that 14 and 15-year-old girls should be allowed tc have dates. Never in this column or elsewhere have I said or even thought that 14 and 15-year-old children should be turned loose to go where they would at night. I do not have girls, but my boys have had girls since they were in grade school. I always made myself responsible for the girls and provided transportation to and from the ‘“‘date” so that mothers knew exactly where their daughters were and when they were to get home. I have yet to hear any child object to this arrange= ment. On the contrary, both girls and boys have con=sidered it a favor when their parents went to the trou= ble of driving out late at nignt to fetch them home from the movies or a party. The parents whom I know take turns in seeing their children to and from their gatherings, but do not hang around to cramp the party. As the boys and girls grow older, the parental escort is not necessary, for the boys can get about by themselves and give the girls adequate protection. I do not see how early dates of this nature lead to early marriages. It seems to me that if children have ample outlet for their desire to be with the opposite sex, they aren’t so apt to become bottled up and make a foolish marriage to get out from under the parental thumb. Adolescents want to be treated as grownups and if their parents respect them, they are pretty sure to respect their parents. I expect that you agree with me in this. It is just that our ideas of what constituted a “date” did nog tally. JANE JORDAN.

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

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