Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1939 — Page 15

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939

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SECOND SECT ION

Hoosier Vagabond

LT LAKE CITY, Aug. 24—Today, as always when we are in Salt Lake City, I went over to the Mormon Temple grounds and made the tour of the buildings. If we were to come to Salt Lake City every year for the next half century, I would not leave until It is one of my year’s pleasantest hours. The Mormon Church has a museum and information building just inside the gate. Guides take tourist parties on a tour-of the grounds every half hour. I like the Temple grounds . because they are pretty and restful. And I will never cease being awed at the perfect job of building those harassed pioneers did out here in the desert nearly 100 years ago. ‘But the thing I like best about them is the way the guides tell you flatly and without batting an eye that the Mormons are God's personal representatives on Earth. If you know and admire the Mormon people as 1 do, or if you are indifferent, or even if you are merely courteous, you listen to this and say nothing. But now and then there is someone in the audience who has never seen a Mormon before, and who (without seeing the irony of it) thinks his own particular sect has the exclusive agency for God on Earth. And then you have an argument on your

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An Interesting History

.On one of these tours today, there was a seedylooking fellow in the audience who took it- upon him-

“self to dispute the Mormons’ claim. He had a big

§ chip on his shoulder, and got kind of nasty about it.

The Mormon lady did the best she could to stick to her claim and yet not get into a brawl. Finally the fellow, probably so mad he couldn't speak further,

"Just laughed scornfully.

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We were all pretty embarrassed by his rudeness. : There. are many peel: in America, even today,

I Seems to Me

' NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—In the main this column ds friendly to motion pictures, since it knows most of them by hearsay. Again, I am not inclined to twist the tail of the British lion, because my father was English. But just the same I wonder why so many ; films are built around the might ‘and majesty of the Empire. I'm getting a little sick of the stiff

upper lip and “Carry on” and.

the Rudyard Kipling stuff which seems to constitute the basic source material of Hollywood's inventive factories. “Here come the dervishes, lad, and don’t forget that your father never whimpered when he had his legs blown off in the Crimea.” At the beginning of one of the’ recent colossal creations called “Four Feathers” I was entranced, because I had reason to believe that I was going to see a satire on the Eton tie school of military melodrama. But, after kidding the regimental anecdotage for a few hundred feet, the film began to go completely straight in. its undivided admiration of the ancient British sport of knocking off the natives.

Too Many Vultures

And: this time the Fuzzy Wuzzies were not permitted to break the British square. It was all “Pip, pip,” and tawny port and thin, red line of heroes. The dervishes went down like duckpins under the

. barrage conducted by a few English gentlemen and

their cockney subalterns.

In this school of dramaturgy there is stern insistence upon the fact that every captain is a hero to his valet. Some day I hope that Hollywood will learn the art of understatement, but all the pictures I know insist on pointing. The theory seems to be) that unless

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Bolshevism and fascism embrace to break the power of democracy in Europe. Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, in Moscow! Standing figuratively, if not in the flesh, before the tomb of Lenin, father of Red Bolshevism. A Nazi foreign mission in Red Square. At the Kremlin. Hitler's anticomintern pact? Stalin’s war against fascism? Bygones. What's an ideology between friends when world pdwer is at stake? They have all but done it, all but shifted the balance of power decisively. France already a second-rate power. England next? Dictatorship advancing day after day. Democracy retreating day after day. Dictatorship succeeding. Democracy

failing. Possibly. before this week is over democracy will

have been virtually suspended in France and England.

For some time France has been operating under decreés. England may have to do the same, in reality if not in form. Such must be expected when a war emergency exists. The future is on an hour to hour basis. Whatever

: it holds is not likely to be favorable to the way of life

which has been evolving for some.centuries in the direction of larger self-government and individual freedom—that way of life which is broadly called democracy.

The British Outlook

From Italy, Japan and Germany we have a clear demonstration of the efficiency of ruthless economic and political dictatorship for a nation which is pushing along the road to conquest. These events, tragically battering down the things

which we have always regarded as right and best for |

peoples, are bound to disturb us deeply here in Amer-

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday—We came down to New York City from Hyde Park this morning to take part for the third time in the Hobby-Lobby Program. Miss Thompson, Mrs. Gray and I each had

certain errands which we Wished to do during the day and, in addition, I had a number of people to see, so the day has been very full. A clipping has been sent me from a Southern newspaper - which asks what I would consider an adequate standard of living and whether I would favor putting enough members of the same family on the payroll of state, municipality ‘or nation, until such standard of living has been reached. The question is evidently based on my statement that, while I did not believe in building up a family bureaucracy in Government service, I did not think a married woman should be barred from it simply because another member of the family was in Government service. - If their joint incomes do not exceed the sum which has been set as an adequate salary for the head of a family in that particular place, then two members of the same family are entitled to employment. A Seitoln Sym ean ve sst for ihe average family as an

for. Burope and. for oursel

By Ernie Pyle

who picture the Mormons as a freakish sect. But ey are nothing of the sort. Their religion doesn’t differ greatly from other Protestant religions. . | Mormons work hard, live modern lives, and produce some of the most beautiful girls on earth. The history of the little empire they set up here in the desert seems to me one of the most thrilling sagas of our American history. > If historians were more interested in the Mormons, 1 sincerely believe the records would acclaim Brig-

ham Young the greatest organizer America has ever

produced. F J » 8

Missionaries in Field

And here is something you may not have known. For nearly 100 years, the Mormons: have constantly kept about 2000 missionaries in the fleld, scattered throughout the world. Mostly they are young people. They don't kneel and shout for your soul. They are out to give information about. the Mormon Church. You probably have one or more in your own city. If you have, you can invite him (or her) to your house, and get in some friends, and the young Mormon will come and bring colored slides of the beautiful things in Utah, and. will answer your questions,

and tell you stories about the fascinating history of |

the Mormons.

These missionaries are. mostly from the wealthier |

Mormon families. They are not financed out of church funds, even though the Mormon Church is enormously rich. Their expenses are paid by their parents. At the end of two years of missionary travel, they come back and go into business or whatnot. The result of this missionary system is that the better-to-do people of the Mormon Church are prob-

ably as widely traveled, as skilled in languages, and as|

informed about the world as any single small group of people in this world. The upper group of Mormons are aristocrats. Either by birth or by wealth, they ‘are as bluestocking

as anything you find in Boston. The ZCMI store |

(Zion Commercial Mercantile Institution) is one of the finest stores west of Chicago. You won't see better-dressed women anywhere in the United States than around the ZCMI lunchroom at noontime.

By Heywood Broun

you underline a fact 10 times for the lip readers in the

loges they may fail to grasp what it is all about. “Four Feathers” goes in quite heavily for vultures. The audience gets the bird not once but voluminously. The shadow of the wings across the bodies on a battlefield is striking, but few directors seem to know that enough is a sufficiency. Moreover, it seems to me as if sadistic realisip enters far too largely into much of our present picture making. I would rather get one shot of the man blistered by the blazing sun or suffering prison torture, than be compelled to see the lash fall again and again or watch him stumble to the empty water hole a dozen times. It is not; I believe, sound showmanship to take an audience to a point where it is moved Jo Sciam, “Take that hero away, he is breaking my eart.”

Dr. Freud Undone

Once upon a time most sad films delighted to exhibit glycerin cascades upon the cheeks of all the more meritorious personages concerned in heartrending episodes. But now the Spartan technique has rushed in. When a heroine is informed—mendaciously, of course—that her beau has been cut to ribbons by the Kaffirs she makes no outcry at all but tears her lace handkerchief into tiny pieces. . In other words, Hollywood is busily engaged in undoing all the excellent pioneering of Dr. Freud in the matter of releasing inhibitions.

And’I do rot hesitate to make the surmise that ‘

the thousands and maybe millions of picture-goers are now the victims of rheumatism, asthma, sciatica and other ailments of potentially neurotic derivation because they have been taught by the films to “carry on” and make no outcry. I hope that the British fighjing forces are all that the pictures say. But, aftgf all, the worship of repression does not entirely fi¥ the best tradition. I could wish the Hollywood lads would sing of Nelson

for a change and let that stern, tough mug of Wellington alone.

By Raymond Clapper

ica, bound to make us wonder whether democracy is a doomed way of life, unfitted by its essential characteristics to the struggle for survival, destined for extinction not only in Europe but everywhere as the slow-moving, sluggish dinosaur disappeared from the face of the earth, a victim of its own constitutional inadequacies. We grope for answers. We are almost compelled to recognize that Hitler has forged a state which, for his purposes, is more effective than democracy. It is a very real question now whether Britain can survive without devising a more absolutely controlled nation, at least for the time being. Employees of four of England's largest railroads have anounced they will strike on Saturday—during England’s darkest: week-end—unless a wage increase is granted. Survival #1 the Europe of today is extremely difficult under such conditions. ® 8

We Have Been Fortunate

We come to our own problem. God has helped us. Conditions of nature make it easier for us to hold on to demccracy. We have geographical protection. We have abundan!{ materials and do not have to ration food and manufacturing materials as Germany does. We have a going economy and are not faced with the internal economic. chaos that forced dictatorishp in Russia—and in Germany and Italy, for that matter. Those are the factors that help insure democracy for America. They may be sufficient to save it. But our margin of safety would be more comfortable if we did a little more than we are doing to supplement the protection nature has given us. You know what I mean. Some co-operation among the passengers in this boat—some realization a little more enlightened than that which prompted the recent raid against the Wages and Hours Law; for example. Less dirty pool. We can croon about democracy and freedom and let it rot: Or we can muster a sense of national unity, a sense of all being passengers in the life boat, and

in that case God already has fixed it so we’ll be saved. |:

By Eleanor Roosevelt

that the combined salaries of not more than two members of the family should reach that sum. There is a further paragraph, however, in this same clipping, which shows, I think, a lack of knowiedge about Government salaries. This is the para-

- graph: “It has been our opinion for quite a time, al-

though we have never got around to more than muttering in our lack of whiskers about it, that the families which the public payroll should be protected from most assiduously would be those families whose head or hindquarters. could not provide a living for the constituent members. Why try to make up for the mental or physical deficiencies of the original employee by cluttering up the governmental premises

‘with additional incompetence?”

A Government salary does not necessarily represent an incompetent individual. Salaries are low in|. Government circles. There are compensations. Increases in salary come at stated intervals where they are in Civil Service. They are more secure and they usually carry pensions. But, if you happen to be interested in some line of work which take you into Government service, don’t: expect to receive a salary commensurate with what you might expect for the same work in private industry. * This is the reason why at least two- members of every family in Government service usually work.|— The newspapers these days are most depressing to read. I hardly dare think of the implications both ves of the last few days’ Joc-

main outlet on the Baltic.

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| ~POLISH CORRIDOI Lifeline passageway which nation’s economic products are transported to ocean. |

’ BALTIC SEA.

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Textile and manufacturing center,

Coal reserves basin are third

pes plight as the trouble center of Europe has been intensified by the signing of a non-aggression treaty between Germany and Russia. Threatened with partition, the Polish spirit-has revived quickly from the effects of the first Warsaw again is breathing defiance in the direction of

“Berlin. with which it was announced, the

In his book, “Poland: Key to

sia were in alliance, with profit

Russia in event of an attack,

Observers now agree that, despite the suddenness was hardly in the realm of the unexpected.

months ago, Raymond Leslie Buell, former president of the Foreign Policy Association, had this to say: “ ... the whole of Central Europe today fears that sooner or later Germany and Russia will rea derstanding. Between 1802 and 1879, Prussia and Rus-

internal regimes of Russia and Germany are becoming more and more similar, and a strong element in each of the armies favors an agreement whereby Germany would have access to Russia's raw materials and provide Russia’s industries with badly needed technicians. Poland would be as vitally involved. in any such alliance as in a Russian-German war, since an alliance might well be followed by a new partition of Poland.” Though Poland had opposed direct assistance from

- would remain after the conflict and further the spread

in Silesian

largest on

continent. Krakow is heart _of re ion

low, and

Russian-German pact

Europe,” written some

an un-

to both parties. The

acquire.

Prussia.

for fear her armies

could Britain or France.

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Poland has shipping in this port taken from Germany rid War.

[POTATOES Produces: third |

largest crop in world.

Bialystok ® Bielsk®

Principal crops are wheat, ve, oats, barley. About 65 per cent of population engaged in

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TEXTILES | Greatest Polish | industry. Main products: cot-| ton, wool, silk] | - timberland. embroideries. dle Wool crop third: largest on the

| ‘TIMBER | Biclowieza forest is Eue rope’s largest. Nearly one-fourth of Poland is

of communism, she had hoped that in the event of a successful alliance with Great Britain and France in the “peace front,” that the Soviet would be a source of needed raw materials.

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UT Russia, allied with Britain and France, could have been of great help militarily in the event of attack and could have rushed troops much faster than Now, with Russia seemingly turning her back. on European problems, Poland could be overrun with invaders before help could come from the democracies and the very hoplessness of the situation is being cited as a factor which might persuade Britain and France to withdraw promises of assist-

ance to Poland in event of an atback. But there is still the Polish will and spirit to- deal

with. The people are intensely patriotic. Years of struggle. for independence so recently won are cited in their behalf by those who believe that she will not surrender . that independence without a struggle. Though most of = | : her people are poor, she has som valuable industries

and farm and timber lands, as the map above shows, in addition to the Corridor which Germany would, like to '

Poland disappeared from the map of Europe in 1795 when is was partitioned among Russia, Austria and

Russia took the lion’ s share, almost two-thirds, lays : ing Western Galicia and Southern Masovia to Austria and Western. Masovia to Prussia.

OIL 1 Wealthy oil industry located in Carpathian mountains.

| Thereafter several changes were made in the status quo. Napoleon created the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, but the Congress of Vienna undid. his work, leaving only the Free City Republic of Cracow in central Poland. In 1848 Austria took Cracow into Galicia, ruling both up to the time the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Russia held the eastern two-thirds, including Warsaw, and Germany ruled so-called Great Poland, which included the cities of Posen and Danzig. ® 2 ”

"AODERN Poland was constituted out of Russia, Prussian and Austrian Poland in March, 1921, with the . new state receiving in addition 6.135 square miles of West Prussia, which became the Polish Corridor. An- . other 740 square miles was carved out of West Prussia to form the Free City of Danzig..

Since, the war, Poland has been the fastest growing country in Europe. In -15 years it is estimated her population would equal that of France. In her population of about 30 millions, she has 750,000 Germans, 3,300,000 Jews and five million Ukrainians. The Germans and Jews are widely distributed, but the Ukrainians are a’ compact group in. southern: Poland, and like the Ukrainians in Russia and Rumania, long have agitated for their freedom. The larger number of Ukrainians within - “borders might prove troublesome to Poland : in the event’ of war, observers say. /

Five Indianapolis children who

while playing yesterday. A frame playhouse which Rose: rear of her home, 818 Eugene St., was nearing completion when a board fell from the roof. It struck her on the head, inflicting a cut. Kelly Strange, 10, of 832 S. Pershing St., broke his left arm when he fell off a fence at his home. Five-year-old Robert Hendricks, 3108 English Ave. was cut on the left leg ‘When he fell from his scooter. : John Powers Williams, 13, has an injured toe .on his right foot because he stepped on a broken milk bottle. Helen Patterson, 13, of 733 Elm St., ran into a bench: While playing|: at ‘Riverside Park and cut her left

leg SE Womyear-old Betty Jean Shields, 1544 W. Washington St., injured at Rhodius Park Tuesday, remained in a serious condition at City Hospital. |; She was struck on the head by a = on which a: companion was g.

CRUSHED BY TRUCK

ICHMOND, Ind.; Aug. 24 (U.P). y Personette, 53, was in serious. condition in Reid Memorial H

5 Children Hurt at Play As Vacation Nears Close

had romped through most of the

summer vacation without mishap today nursed arms and legs injured

Marie Forey, 9, was building at the

SIX NEW COURSES ADDED AT BUTLER

The addition of six mew courses

University evening division for next term was announced toddy by Frof. George F. Leonard, director.

Whisler, and handicraft in special

Miss. Maria Ww. Hyde. ~ Library. agencies and their work, "| plane. trigonometry and differential calculus have been added to the liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Leland R. Smith, assistant aC IF ; of the State Library, will

pital today with a crushe chest fractures of both 1egs, =

to the curricillum of the Butler|

Courses ‘added in the college of| education include general super-|. ‘| vision, taught by Prof. Henry M.|

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-In which house of Contras: must all bills for raising revenue originate? 2—The entire northern boundary of which State is formed by the Ohio River? 3—What is meant by the stock exchange term “lamb”? 4—_What caused the Titanic to

sink? 5—Where is Bali Island?

6—How many units are in a " “baker’s dozen”?

7—What is the legal voting age

in each state? s 8» Answers

1—The House of Repesentatives. 2—Kentucky.

5—1In the Dutch East Indies. 6—Thirteen.

: F-~Twiniy-oue years in al. the y in{education and geography, taught by oo

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