Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1939 — Page 9

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Cold Shoulder; |

Drivers of Cross-Country Trucks

Have Fliers' Dread of Head Winds. LYTHE, Cal.,

May 15.—The heat and the |

wind came upon us and made the desert |

crossing a loud and sizzling one. The drivers gave me the “sleeper” hour before we got to Prescott, Ariz. They were amazed that I could sleep soundly, not being used to it. In the afternoon, I took another hour's snooze.

for an

We came down through Arizona by way of Pres- |

cott and Wickenbursg. jestic descent. There aren't many grander sights in America than that far-off one when you come to the edge of the world, north of Wickenburg, and look down.

Wickenburg is the dude ranch

It is a ma=- |

capital of the world. But the dudes |

have all gone now. it was ironie miles of Wickenburg,

And I thought | that within a few | where the |

faney pretenders in their Western= |

movie outfits hang out, pass six of have ever seen. They were driving a huge herd cattle along the highway. All six of middle-aged men faces faces of Midwestern farmers. They and overalls. There wouldnt have been a

throb for a debutante in a whole c¢arloaq of

Mr, Pyle

of poor=looking cowbovs were Their were the Pig hats heart them As we drew closer to California, more hitehhikers on the road. “Do vou ever pick up hitehhikers?” I asked. It's the quickest way in the world to get fired on {his line,” was the answer. Six drivers were fired a few months ago for carryfriends and hitchhikers. Other lines are putin the same rules. The insurance companies are 1sisting on it. In faet, ission from the insurance company is trip The *'

there were more

no hitehhiking”

we should | the realest cowboys I |

wore |

they had to get sp=cial per=- | for me to make

rule is aimed largely at the |

tls who play the highways with the truck drivers. |

Thev sav it had grown into a menace. Drivers would

pick Sp a girl or two, fool along all night having a |

v time, and arvive hours late. I asked the drivers about robberies verv much of it any more. None of the trucks on line has ever been hijacked.

Steepy Heads and Dare-Devils

ro ad

y Blythe.

There isn't |

is long and dry and dull from WickenThe wind blew across the desert right |

A high wind makes even a bigger difference |

truck than it does to a passenger car. ‘In two years I've never made a trip | have a head-wind.”

ariver say n I didn't hine talk. And truckers, accidents other drivers have had, never expecting to have one themselves. bad truck drivers—“sleepy heads” The drivers

enjoy talking about the while of course There are and

like pilots,

two types of lare=devils. of them They were telling of one fellow who wrecked three (racks by falling asleep. And of another who couldnt make a five-hour drive without stopping for a nap. And as for the dare=devils. On some of this line's the rear-vision mirrors clear the truck bed by ast five inches. And there was a driver who broke three mirrors in two trips, just by running that close to trucks he was meeting. He is now working elsewhere, if at all As for myself, my become very gieat. Not caution: only twice has our have I heard a driver cuss under his breath at another motorist: never has our truck violated the slightest rule of safety or even courtesy of the road

LIUCKS

respect for truck drivers has once has a driver relaxed his horn been blown: never

I heard |

That's flyin’ |

I've known are contemptuous |

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INSTITUTE PUBLIC

MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939

Entered as Second-Class Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Oppose New War Loans

Americans Favor Aid but Only for Cash if War Comes

By Dr. George Gallup

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

EW YORK, May 15.—

One of the important questions in the wind as King George and Queen Elizabeth visit Washington shortly is whether this coun-

Question:

The

In case Germany and Italy go to war against England and France, should we lend money to England and France to buy airplanes and other war materials in this country?

try should ever again lend money to Britain and France for war purposes, as we did in the World War. That question would confront Americans almost immediately if a war should come in Europe in the next few months. While recent Institute surveys have shown that a majority of Americans now favor sends ing food supplies and war materials to England and France in case of war, the question remains — Should America make war loans again, or sell only for cash? I

A new survey just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows that the American people are more than 2 to 1 against any repetition of our World War loans. The Institute asked a representative cross-secs tion of men and women in all parts of the United States: “In case Germany and Italy

go to war against England and France, should we lend money to England and France to buy airplanes and other war materials in this country?” While it is impossible to say how the American people would answer that question upon the actual outbreak of fighting in Europe, today their answers are: Lend Money to England and France Do Not Lend Money... . : Only one person in 20, on the average, says that he is undecided or has no opinion,

This puts American public opinion stanchly behind the principle of the Johnson Act, which prohibits floating loans to countries which have defaulted in their debt payments. Under the Johnson Act, for instance, loans to England. France anc other countries would be prohibited, while loans to Finland, which pays its debt installments regus larly, would be allowed.

The American people are saying to the British and French, in effect: "We would like to send you food and war supplies, in case war hreaks ont, but only for cash.”

Since no Congress wouid be likely to relax the pro-

Above an American-built warplane being

shipped to Great Britain.

Seventy per cent of the Republicans interviewed said they were opposed to such loans, as did 66 per cent of the Democrats. Upper income group voters were only slightly more in favor of a loan policy than middle and lower in come groups. The present survey does not, of course, raise the question of what would happen if Great Britain and France were to begin to pay something on what they already owe. This suggestion is current today with the visit of the King and Queen, who are scheduled to be in Washington on June 15, the day when Britain's semiannual war debt payment will again come due. » » =» UMANIA and Hungary have both offered to mence repayment of their debts on the basis of further scaling down, but Congress has thus far failed to

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voters to some degree today, the first two—keeping America out of war and solving unemployment—account for mentions. From the standpoint of practical politics the survey is indicative because it shows the weight that might be given to various issues if the 1940 Presidential race were being fought out at this time.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Phoenix Caze Recalls 1878 Court Action Here Involving a Boy Many Were Satisfied Was Charlie Ross.

SOMEWHAT behind in my reading I just | caught up with a newspaper item telling about a chap in Phoenix, Ariz., by the name of Gustav Blair, who has been identified as the long lost Charlie Ross

I can’t help wondering whether Mr. Blair is the little cash boy who, back in 1878, worked for the Trade Palace people. A lot of people at the time thought he was Charlie Ross. The cash boy

was known around here as Charlie Summer. He was the son of a Mrs. Hull by a former marriage. The Hulls lived with a Mrs. Barton on St. Mary's St. Also mixed up in the case was a Mrs. Hunt. She was a member of the Friends Church who aided the Hulls when in distress. Besides that, she took

In case of war itn Europe, American voters sou they would be willing to supply England and France with such planes and other war materials, but only for cash. They vote down, by a vote of more than two to one, the proposition that America should make war loans again.

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While all these issues are giving concern to American it is interesting to note that

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a fancy to Charlie. I wouldn't burden | you with all these details except for the fact that it sets the stage Mr for one of the prettiest court scenes | ever held in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Hull finally got jobs as book agents and left Indianapolis for Crawfordsville. Charlie was left with Mrs. Barton, a portion of his weekly earnings paying his board, Mrs. Hunt meanwhile kept an eye on Charlie and when Mrs, Barton was taken sick obtained permis= sion to keep him at her home. Gosh, I hope youre keeping up with me. When Mrs. Barton got well enough to be on her feet again, she went to see Mrs. Hunt to get Charlie back. Mrs. Hunt put her off, not once, but many times, and finally Mrs. Barton got mad enough to demand the boy. Nothing doing. Whereupon Mrs, Barton looked up a lawyer who advised her to notify the parents. (Hull was the name, in case you've lost track). . Meanwhile an exciting rumor was going round that Charlie wasn’t Mrs. Hull's son at all; that he was none other than Charlie Ross, and that he had the same marks on his hand and arm the kidnaped boy was supposed to have.

A Judicial Oversight

Well, Mr, and Mrs. Hull came to Indianapolis as fast as the train could bring them and went straight to a lawyer which in this case happened to be the firm of Harrison, Hines & Miller, That same day after supper, accompanied by Sheriff Reynolds and a writ, the party went to Mrs. Hunt's home and com= manded the body of one Charles Summer to be brought into Court the following morning. Judge Howe's court was jampacked the next morning. Mrs. Hunt, charged with detaining Charlie, said the child came to her “hungry and she fed him, | naked and she clothed him, homeless and she took | him in.” A Mrs. Seeley | reported that Mrs. house and prayed with

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shed some light, too, when she Hunt had frequently called at her her, asking God to enable her to tell the truth in regard to her knowledge of Charlie Ross, asking her if she didn’t know that the boy at Mrs. Barton's was the kidnaped boy. On another occasion, said Mrs. Seeley, Mrs. Hunt told about a vision she had in the course of which the Lord assured her that the boy staying with Mrs, Barton was Charlie Ross. Judge Howe said: “May God forbid that the laws of this State should ever be used to separate families, | and especially may they never be the instruments of taking a child from its parents because they are poor.” After which there wasn't anything to do but

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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt High School Graduates

OR Democratic voters, for instance. the problem of making more jobs for American workmen is still the No. 1 problem, with keeping America out of war a close second. Other groups which consider unemployment the No. 1 problem are the lower income voters and persons on relief. But Republicans and the upper and middle income

approve either proposal. In an Institute survey two years ago voters were asked whether they would approve further loans to England and France in case they resumed payments on their World War debts. Public opinion at that time was almost seven to one against the proposal. There are three main views as to what should be done

a wholesale change in the British and

visions of the Johnson Act without public opinion, any wartime purchases French Would make in this country would have to be financed by existing British and French holdings here, variously estimated at from two to four billion dollars.

hand the boy back to Mrs. Hull. As for the marks on Charlie Summer's body—the ones supposed to be exactly like those of Charlie Ross—the Court never thought to inquire.

Guests; Admired.

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New Lincoln Portrait Sunday.—Luncheon yesterday

W- SHINGTON, was given up to two groups of young people,

igh school graduates from Arthurdaie, W. Va, and a group of history students brought over by Miss Julia Parker. a friend from Hyde Park, who is teaching in a Baltimore school Every time we enter the state dining room now I feel I must explain about the new Lincoln portrait. I don’t have to draw dominates 1 your at The expression is different from any other portrait of President Lincoln which I Know, I'wo appointments in the afternoon, before a small administration council for Crippled Children. Thirty

tea for the Society for represented, you realize juntary basis

tional Women's

that this work is done entirely Later,

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people's attention to it, for it | he whole room and is so well lighted that | tention focuses at once on the beautiful head. |

We gathered together some old newspaper friends

night at dinner, for Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown of Albany, N. Y., with their two boys, Who are spendmg the week-end with us, After dinner they had a movie, “Juarez” which sounded most exciting, but Miss Thompson made me work on an article, which we managed to more or less finish with the sound of a movie in the distance,

A Visit to Annapolis

afternoon 1 I think

A grand ride this morning, and this m taking my guests over to Annapolis, for alwavs enjoy seeing the Naval Academy. ur horses discovered a new hazard on the bridle the other day The airport has an enormous > through which the sand is being sucked out and heard for some distance. I thought horses would be seriously troubled. Instead, they looked with interest and walkea on. This | morning, however, there was NO Noise, No men work | no places where water was spouting out and | looked with real suspicion at the change | and I think were really more curious than when eve ervthing was in action. I'his is Mother's Day and I have received a numsber of telegrams. Among other things, I have been asked to draw your attention to the American Mother's Declaration. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is extremely interested in getting American mothers to sign this pledge In order to present the signatures to the court of Peace at the World's Fair. I am sure that anything that Mrs. Catt believes in will prove valuable to the women of this country and I am happy to have this day mean more in a civic way.

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Day- Lye Day Science

By Science Service

TS survive, a civilization make certain mistakes, are, can be inferred from civilizations that have failed. This is the warning of a British Stanley Casson of Oxford University.

apparently must not What those mistakes the sad experience of

He draws

archeologist, |

yovisional conclusions from the downfall of “aston- |

ingly gifted” Crete; from the brief day in sun of Mycenae's from the humane, but uninfiuential Hittites; and the superficially dominant Romans, Summed up, here are three lessons Casson expounded recently in Roval Institution of Great Britain: I'o survive a civilization must be fully defended, t stands any chance of being challenged by entirely different brands of culture. Cretans and Hittites i, and were attacked disastrously. Militarism can be dispensed with only where civilizations are of equal development and status: nd never in history have neighbor powers been thus delicately balanced except possibly in the case of Babylonia and Egypt.

Heroes;

which Mr.

Galilee

the | “too confident and too stupid” |

a lecture before the |

And most important of all, if a civilization is to |

last, it just have enough spiritual vitality and enough survival value to transform less civilized peoples who intrude into it.

HE comments of men and women in all walks of life show that there are four main reasons why Ameri cans do not wish to make war loans again:

1. Belief that they would not be repaid. Americans have been disillusioned by the failure of England and France to continue payments on their World War debts. even after the original sums were sharply scaled down.

2. The belief that war loans would be one of the quick est ways to involve the United States in war. 3. That we need all the money we have for domestic purposes. 4. That a war-time boom, based on loans, would not benefit America in the long run, A typical comment is that of an Indiana coal dealer who says, “We gave them gold in the last war and got brickbats in return, Why lend them money again when it would only drag us into a fight?” Those who do favor loans to England and France argue (1) that the United States should help its “natural allies”

and (2) that we should “do everything possible short of war” to help England and France, ” ” ” LL sections of the country, as well as members of all political parties, agree on the question in today's survey. Least in favor of new war loans are New England and the Middle West; most in favor is the South: War Loans to England ard France? Yes Ne New England ......v0000 . 18% 82% Mid-Atlantic ......... East Central , West Central South West

about the war debt, however, As indicated in an Institute survey in March, 1938, the largest single group (47%) held the view that the United States should try to collect the full amount of the debts outstanding. Another large group (42%) thought we should reduce the debts “to a point where at least something might be collected.” The third group (11%) thought the debts should be “canceled and

forgotten.” » » »

Peace Is Termed Most Important ‘39 Problem

By Institute of Public Opinion

EW YORK, May 15.—For the first time in more than three years the average American considers that the problem of keeping America out of war is the most immediate and critical problem before his country-—no less ime

groups rank the peace issue first, with unemployment next. Adolf Hitler's moves in Central Europe have been re= sponsible for the increased American interest in European affairs, Institute surveys show, in an Institute test last month said they expected a European war before the end of 1939, and a majority thought the United States would be drawn in eventually if war should come.

Some of the other problems nominated by the voters in today’s survey include “getting back to God,” “redistributing national wealth,” “preventing politics in relief,” “preventing communism and fascism” and “getting rid of the present Administration.” None of these issues was named by more than 1 per cent of those interviewed. however, Most typical of all comments were these:

“We need to stay out of war, whatever the rest of the world wants to do.” “Let's solve our own problem of unemployment first.”

More than half the voters

portant than the problem of unemployment. That is indicated in a new survey of public opinion just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion, in which a cross-section of the electorate in all sections of the country was asked

“What do you regard as the most important problem before the American people today?”

For three years in a row voters have named unemployment first in annual Institute tests, but since the quick moves of the dictators in Czechoslovakia and Albania and since the counter-moves of the British and French, Americans have become increasingly apprehensive of a new world war. The problems most frequently named in today's survey, with the percentage of persons naming each, are given below. The Institute offered voters no lists of issues or

THE BRITISH DIFFER

While most Americans think the war debts should either be paid in full or reduced and paid in part according to a 1938 Institute sur= vey, the British feel differently about the debts. A British Institute of Public Opinion survey, conducted last December, showed opinion among Britons dividing as follows:

For Cancelling .. For Reducing For paying in Fall. ...covereesvser 1S

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Husband Errs in Not Providing An Allowance, Wife Is Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—Please tell me how I can make my husband understand that I need a little cash along as well as he does. He keeps all the money. If I ask him even for a dime, he asks me what I want with it. When I tell him, if he thinks I can get along without it, he just says “No, you don't need it.” He says that his stepmother got all his Dad's money; so he doesn’t mean to let any woman get his. I wash on a board to save the laundry bills, cook economically and sew a lot. He does all the shopping. I tried earning some money but he didn’t like that. He doesn’t run around and blow the money. He just will not give me any to spend. I wonder if many women live like that. WORRIED WIFE.

Answer—Your husband is wrong. He has no right to usurp your department and do all the purchasing, He doesn’t like it when you infringe on his department and do part of the earning. If he doesn’t like you to work outside the home, then he must agree to give you a regular weekly allowance. It is unfair for him to punish you for his stepmother’'s faults. Just how you are to put your point across I do not know. Wheedling irks some men but works with others. You might succeed by asking the big strong man to teach the little woman how to buy. Sit at his feet until you learn his version of economy, and then ask him to let you see if you can make the same amount of money go as far as he does. Perhaps you could wear him down by gentle persistence If this doesn't work after a fair trial, you will have to make an issue and fight il out even if it means a row. You don't have to be noisy, just determined. Either you have a housekeeping allows ance from which you can save your spending money, | or you go to work.

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EAR JANE JORDAN—I think I am the wife whom someone is conversing about in print, If it is possible will you reprint the letter that appeared in your column Thanksgiving Day? DESPERATE.

Answer: I do not think it advisable to reprint letters. Besides I do not believe that you are the wife in question. The case which we have been dis« cussing has not reached the stage of open conflict between husband and wife. JANE JORDAN.

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

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