Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1939 — Page 9

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7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1939

! Fooueter Vagabond

KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 26.—I reckon there isn’t a sweeter man in all Wyoming than C. Watt Brandon. Of course this is out in country where you'd better either smile or duck when you call a man “sweet.”

But that’s what That Girl Who Rides With Me called Mr. Brandon, and she is very judicious ‘and sparing in her use of that word. So I guess he'd better be complimented.

A niece of Mr. Brandon’s who

reads this column had written

me a year or two ago to be sure to look him up if we ever came through Kemmerer. She said he owned The Weekly Gazette here, and was full of tales of the Old West. = -

Now C. Watt Brandon didn’t know us from Adam's off ox. But when we called, he hurried away from dinner with an old friend and came to meet us, happy and pleased. Mr. Brandon is the kind of man whose greatest worry is that he isn’t doing enough for you. For an hour or two we strolled around, learning about Kemmerer. It is a town of about 2300, a mining and cattle town, in semi-desert country. One of Kemmerer’s chief claims to fame is that J. C. Penney started his vast chain of stores here. The store on the corner has on its sign “No. 1 Penney Store—The Mother Store,” Mr. Penney comes back

+ here frequently.

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Lived in Log Building

Mr. Brandon has been in western Wyoming for 35 years. He has been a newspaperman all those 35 years, one of that storied breed of country editors who helped build the country. His first paper was in Pinedale, 115 miles north. He went in when Pinedale was founded. That was in 1904. His little press and stock of type cost $350. He freighted it in from Rock Springs by wagon. It was 110 miles, and took six days. He built a log building, with a dirt reof, and he and

It Seems to Me

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NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The masquerade is over. The dominoes are dropped, and it now becomes possible to look at the faces of the various ones who pre-

tend to be devoted to the maintenance of democracy.’

The leadership of Russian communism has been bitterly attacked by American liberals and progressives on the ground that. Stalin has contributed to the might and prestige of Hitler. To me that criticism seems just. Even if the pact scales down under later analysis there can be no cohzrent denial that, on account of the timing, the forces of fascism won a victory as momentous as any major naval or army eiagagement. Hitler can be stopped and by steps short of war, out 1ight

“now he is appreciably 1M to world leadership..I do

not see how the cause of the Communists can escape condemnation. But let us, for a moment, examine the spot in which anether large American group now ‘ finds itself. Only a few men in public life have openly hailed the Fuehrer, but there has been a great deal of undercover support for the dictator on the ground that he was the man who had set out to save the

world from Bolshevism, and it was his intent to wipe

- this theory of government off the face of the map. ” ” ®

‘World Revolution’ Called Off

Indeed, he said so himself in his speech in the Berlin Sports Pdlace before the Munich Pact. Now he has signed a treaty. Russia's acceptance of the agreement seems based upon the desire to go into its shell. It has gone isolationist, which may strengthen it at home. There has been very little talk of world revolution from Moscow for many months, and now I think there will be none at all. Any talk, for instance, of a Communist plot to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence is moonshine, and it has been just that for a long time.

~ Washington

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Unless there is some abrupt change for the better in Europe, it will be necessary for the American .people to brace them-, selves for a tense period here while public opinion’ works around to definite bearings concerning our + future course. Despite the numerous polls and letters and petitions to Senators and Representatives indicating strong and outspoken isolationist sentiment, the issue is far—very far indeed—from being settled. A poll, taken some time ago, showing that a majority of the people, a decisive majority, is opposed to entering the war, is, however honestly taken, an unreliable guide to what public sentiment may be after a few days of war. : Already civilians without important business in Paris are being asked to leave the city. At any moment London ang Paris may go under the rain of German hombers, and the effect of such a catastrophe upon American sentiment cannot be

foreseen. . » +

Emotional Tide Feared ’

Within the last 24 hours I have heard a group of newspapermen—not Washington correspondents, but men of another city—discussing the probabilities. Ten were present. All except one, without regard to their own wishes in the matter, gave it as their judgment that in event of war the United States would, sooner or later, become involved. You find that rather fatalistic attitude reflected in polls which at the same time record majority sentiment against such action. The point emphasized by my newspaper colleagues was that we are likely to be swept by an emotional

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday. —I talked to the President in Washington last night and, I suppose, like all women who like to keep the daily happenings on as even a keel as possible I casually inquired the hour of his arrival next Monday night, only to be told firmly that he would not arrive in any case until Tuesday morning and he might not arrive for months to come. The tone of his voice implied that arrivals apd departures are of no PDs now, in fact, nothing individual counts, perhaps the fate of civilization hangs in the ‘balance. What does it matter whether we eat or sleep or do any of the things which we thought important yesterday? My heart sank, for that was the old 1914 psychology. It is rather horrible to have a past experience of this kind to check against the present. We heard yesterday that my mother-in-law is re-

- turning to this country on the George Washington

with our son, John, and his wife, I must say that it

can't help thinking of my mother-in-law’s sister, Mrs. Forbes, over 90 years old, who stays ot in Paris with absolute calm. . It is true that as we erow older, we cali face all the ? emergencies, SOrrows and trials of life witif a greater

years. Their cabin housed the newspaper plant, the postoffice, & candy and stationery store, and their own living quarters.

Elk ran through the streets. Forty below zero was] nothing. There was only one doctor in the whole}

country. And no* preacher. Editor Brandon himself had to perform the last rites for a wrangler who was killed when a bronc threw him.

Today C. Watt Brandon is, I would guess, a few 5

jumps fore or aft of 70. But it’s any man’s guess; for he’s tall and straight and young in his head. He’s still the active editor, but he doesn’t work too hard any more. He has a big cream-colored Buick, he takes a hunting trip every fall, he has been to Washington to see President Roosevelt. . Politically he is one of Wyoming’s powerful editors. Five years ago Mrs. Brandon died, and he has been a lonesome editor since then. His only son is a newspaperman in Los Angeles. The high point of Editor Brandon’s year is his fall hunting trip to 9 tite mountains up north. »

Writes Up Hunting Trips

Friends of his come from Los Angeles and Denver|

and Rock Springs for this trip. Editor Brandon looks forward to the trip, and looks back upon it. After each trip he writes it up, and publishes the account in a neat booklet for his friends. Last year, coming home from the hunt, a car skidded and turned over three times. It was a brandnew Buick, and after the wreck it brought just $75. Editor Brandon was in the hospital for three weeks with a twisted back. He says he can’t go this fall. “But surély,” I said, “you can go along and sit around the camp and tell lies. ‘That's mainly what hunting parties are for anyhow, isn't it?” He smiled longingly. “Yes,” he said, “that’s what the boys want me to do. And I guess maybe I could do that. I guess I could stand that all right.” If ,all the people in Wyoming were as fine and hospitable as C. Watt Brandon, I suppose everybody would just move out here and live, and let the rest of America go to pot.

By Heywood Broun

Most of those who used the familiar phrase “I am against all isms” devoted the major part of -their attention to labeling liberals as “Communists” or “communistic” and then trying to sock them. William Randolph Hearst declared very frequently that he was against all dictatorships, but now that Hitler has sprung his coup it seems that Mr. Hearst is not actually against him at all. In a current editorial Mr. Hearst argues that only the-folly of Chamberlain’s liberal, labor and radical opposition prevented the formation of a four-power pagt among Germany, Italy, England and France. And commenting on this policy, which he ascribes to Chamberlain, Mr. Hearst's editorial writer says: “It united people of similar character and convictions. - “It made a reasonable and assimilable alliance. “It ended bitter feuds of the four chief European powers which- had been responsible for the tribal warfare of Europe for centuries. It united the sane and civilized and intelligently progressive nations of Europe against the destructively radical and revolutionary nations.” ® 8 =

What of Anti-Semitism?

In other words, although Mr. Hearst has pretended to be against naziism, although he has seemed to protest against the persecution of Jews and Catholics and Protestants in the Reich, he now hails the Germany of Hitler as “sane and civilized and intelligently progressive.” By elimination he has stigmatized

> Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and] .

Switzerland as among the destructive communities of Europe. Is Mr. Hearst prepared to say now that anti- + Semitism as practiced by Hitler in Germany and as “preached by his agents here is compatible with democratic theories of religious freedom and radical tolerance? Again and again the Hearst papers have attacked the New Deal and all its adherents as crackpots. No-

body whom he castigates may mind it very much any more, since Mr. Hearst has now defined what he

means by ‘sane and civilized and intelligently progressive.”

By Raymond Clapper

tide. We start with a strong emotional attitude, against Germany, which is, even before war starts, advanced almost as far as it was after more than two years of the previous European war. It was the opinion of this group that Hitler's deal with Stalin was likely to intensify emotions here, with’ Europe's two chief remaining democracies standing alone against fascism and Communis; backstabbing. ” s

Self-Control N geded

Those who think newspapers are war-mongers, and that they look forward with relish to war news because it sells newspapers, may be surprised to know that in this particular group of newspapermen who foresee the likelihood of our being drawn into war if it continues long, several said that they dreaded the prospect. One said that the thought 6f it made him want to get into some other activity, because of the things he would have to do under pressure of violent public war hysteria. In war time, ‘public sentiment becomes so inflamed that all fairness, reason and sense of proportion are submerged. These to these newspapermen, and no doubt to most of my craft, are the things which make war abhorrent in prospect—the temporary debasing of human nature that is inevitable under such stress. There are few newspapermen, or newspaper publishers, who want war just because it sells newspapers. Most of them are more reluctant about it than the average person who is less conscious of the devastating effects of war fever upon the communities in which they live. Whether this fever will take hold of America, only time and events will tell. We can only hope that in “this country we shall be able to retain our selfcontrol long enough to consider the circumstances coolly and make the intelligent decision, on the basis of our own national self-interest.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

calm than we could in youth. " Some people say this is due to the fact that age slows up our reactions to everything. I prefere to think that it is due to the fact that with age comes wisdom and ability to accept whatever comes with more philosophy and stoicism. Experience should count for something in our ability to meet the vicissitudes of life. In Mrs. Forbes’ case, her mind is so alert and she is so interested in everything going on in the world, that I know it is not indifference which makes her calmly stay on in her Paris home. ; After the World War, I saw her going through a Paris hospital bringing the men some comforts and pleasures, and I feel quite sure that even now she would try to fulfill some of the obligations which she feels are a part of the life of every human being. The American embassies in all European countries are asking our citizens abroad to return to their own country as rapidly as possible. In the meantime, both the Pope and the President have issued pleas in the attempt to preserve European peace. Negotiation, mediation or arbitrgtion are just words, but any one of them if put into practice now by people who really want to keep peace, might mean life instead of death to hundreds of thousands of young men. It is not only the young men whom we need to consider, for when the first airplane flies over a foreign country and drops its bombs, then women, children and all men are in equal danger.

By Ernie Pyle|

Mrs. Brandon lived under that dirt roof for four

‘Office and Railway Mail Laborers,

pared for much-feared air raids.

western frontier facing France..

Free City of Danzig.

1. Some of the naval reservists who will bring Britain’s mighty fleet up to full fighting strength are shown boarding trains in London. This photo was radioed from London to New York as all London pre-

2. Interior of one of the dugouts’ ‘in the Siegfried Line, Germany's answer to the French Maginot Line. Germany's underground stronghold is fully manned and ready to resist attack as war draws closer. 3. David Lloyd-George, England’s World War Prime Minister, arriving for the emergency session of Paliament Aug. 24 which voted Premier Neville Chamberlain dictatorial powers in the crisis. the excavations for anti-aircraft defense. 4. An air raid shelter built to house 2000 people on Germany’s

Note

5. Nazi troops lined up before a row of mobile field pieces in the

‘Conventions Visitors to

to bring the attendance to 2500. The National Association of Post

also meeting through Friday, are expected” to attract 250 persons. An attendance of 50 is predicted for the conference of the Retail Hardware Dealers Associaticn secretaries, here Monday through Friday.

Engineers Will Meet

The Power Engineers’ convention will hold its opening session at the Indiana World War Memorial, after which regular meetings will take place at the Murat Theater. Headquarters: will. be” at the Claypool Hotel, ‘while the 38th annual Power Show and Mechanical Exposition, held in conjunction, will be quar=-}| tor€d at the Hotel Lincoln. Dan C. Hess, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. vice president in charge of operations, heads a committee of 50 local chapter members in arranging the convention. Jack R. Morris, of the light company’s Perry-K plant, is secretary.: . Mr. Hess will preside at the formal opening meeting, Tuesday at 10 a. m. in the War Memorial hall. Welcom~: ing addresses are to be delivered by Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and C. D. Alexander, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president.

r Wednesday Purdue Day

Wednesday has been designated “Purdue Day” at the convention, with speeches scheduled by Prof. H. T. Miller and Dean A. A. Potter. The Ipalco Band, made up of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. employees, will give a concert that night. ‘ Convention sessions will close Fri-

officers include Fred G=Laufketter, St. Louis; president; C. R. Daubenmire, Columbus, O., vice president; Fred W. Raven, Chicago, secretary, and. Edward J. Burke, Philadelphia, treasurer. Members of the convention executive 'committee, besides Mr. Hess and Mr. Morris, include Nellie Fowler, Robert Sands, Russell H +ich, Emmett G. Fowler, Henry J. ¥ ters, 1. Baldus and Henry T. Davis. The postal employees’ convention will have headquarters at the Hotel Severin. Willis Bohall, employed at} the S. Illinois St. postoffice branch,

An estimated 3000 visitors will ‘be in Indianapolis Monday to attend three conventions opening on that date. Largest of these is the 57th national convention of the National Association of Power Engineets, which will meet through Friday. Members and delegates, visitors and manufacturers’ representatives are expected

_|der of United American Mechanics

day with election of officers. Present |

Bring 3000 City Monday

clude Charles E. Gibson, Washington, president, and Alexander Hamill, Philadelphia, secretary. Rivers Peterson, 5216 Central Ave., is in charge of arrangements for the hardware dealers secretaries’ conference, which will hold its sessions at the Hotel Lincoln. Mr. Peterson is managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association.

MENDELL NAMED BY JUNIOR MEGHANIGS

Harold Mendell of Bright will head ‘the Indiana Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, for the ensuing year. Mrs. Delphia Muchmore of Marion will direct the affairs of the auxiliary, Daughters of America. Both were elected at yesterday’s closing convention sessions of the two organizations. Dennis DeHaven of Richmond ie state vice councilor of the Junior Or-

and Thomas Askew of Indianapolis is state treasurer. Eldon Smith of New Albany was elected state chap-

state conductor and Charles Segraves of Winchester state warden. Edmond Pound of Lawrenceburg was named state inside sentinel and Harry Blaisdel of Miamtown the state outside sentinel. For the Daughters of America, Mrs. Gertrude Ware of Portland was elected state associate councilor; Mrs. Ruth Erwin of Gary, state vice councilor; Mrs. Gertrude Englemann of New Albany, associate vice councilor, and Mrs. Louise Tegelar of Maywood, state conductor. Mrs. Tessie Miller of Kokomo. was elected state warden, Mrs. Maude Foxworthy of Indianapolis was chosen as state inside sentinel and Mrs. Maude Howard of Bloomington state outside sentinel. Mrs. Leah Shank of Muncie is retiring state councilor and becomes

Bloomington’s new airport.

lain, Clyde Clapper of Jonesboro|

PICKS BLOOMINGTON AIRPORT LOCATION

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 26.— A farm site owned by Alva Eller and Robert Curry has been recommendsed for purchase as the site of _ Purchase price would be about $14,000. It was recommended to City Council and Mayor Jack Bruner by J. H. DuBugque, districtairport engineer of the Civil Aerdhautic Authority, after. and aerial survey. of three sites.

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE. |r

1—What name is given to that part of the earth’s land sur- - face surrounding the South Pole? 2—What is the meaning of wo. "silver stars on the sleeve of a mail carrier’s uniform? ! 3—Which state borders Alabama on the north? |

4—Name the British War Minister. 5—Was Russia an ally of Ger- . - many during the World War? 6—What is the ‘birthstone for November? 7—On which of the Great Lakes is Cleveland, O.? 3 8—What is the monetary unit of «Poland? 8 8 =n

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1—Antarctica. 2—Thirty years of service. 3—Tennessee. % /4—Teslie Hore-Belisha. si 5—No; Russia was one of the ° Allied and Associated Powers.

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