Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1939 — Page 15
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Hoosier Vagabond
ON THE TRAIL, GLACIER PARK, Mont., Sept. 1. —When you are walking in the mountains there are a few odd little things that happen to you. For one thing, your fingers swell." My fingers are half again as big as they ordinarily are. I suppose that is due both to the altitude and to the fact that my hands are unaccustomedly hanging straight down for hour after hour. Another thing, you smoke very little. Although most of this trail runs between 6000 and 7000 feet, the altitude doesn't seem to affect my wind at all. Possibly it’s because I have been in high altitudes all summer and have got used to it. Today I crossed another snowbank sprawled slantingly down across a valley. When I walked up to its edge I suddenly realized with a little horror that there was no trail across it. The regular trail just seemed to stop at the edge of the snow. There were no footprints across it. And no horse tracks. Yet I knew positively that a string of horses had come this way within the last few hours. Finally IT ventured out, testing each step, and felt my way across. It was all right—except that at the far bank the snow had melted, leaving a gully about six feet deep and three or four feet wide, between snowbank and solid earth. I took a little run and Jumped across. Half a mile farther on I sa% where riders had detoured, and gone far down into the valley, clear around the snowbank.
He Wades a Stream
For an hour or more, I had been seeing ahead of me a roaring silvery white stream tumbling down the mountainside. When I finally came to it, it was booming and leaping. It was probably 15 feet wide. There was a narrow level space where horses could wade through. I studied it awhile, and then for 10 minutes I carried huge rocks, and threw them into the stream. But it was too wide and too deep. The stones settled beneath the surface. So at last I took off my shoes, rolled my overalls
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Japan may be something less than the friend of all the world and of America in particular, but the recent upheaval has at least led to one friendly gesture. Gen. Abe is forming the new Cabinet in Tokvo. The views of Abe upon the international affairs are not known to me. He may be Honest Abe or a weak, silent man. Or even yet the greatest jingo of the nation which has raised a pretty fair crop of sword brandishers in recemt years. It is enough for me that he replaces Baron Kichiro Hiranuma. Hiranuma was hardly the headline writer's friend. Long wave Abe, who represents exactly a count of three in letters and spaces! To be sure, the general has a first name. It is Noboyuki. But this will not be long remembered around any American copy desk. It will be “Abe” who falls or cracks gown. One can even get “Abe Abdicates” into a top ine, Of course, there still remains the difficulty of Manchukuo. And the reference is not to the strange impromptu war which proceeds along its border. It is the spelling and the pronunciation which I have in mind. Outer Mongolia is easier, but it remains a space grabber. Possibly the vague reports which come from the troubled border can be explained because of the fact that it has not been made accessible to correspondents of foreign countries. = ” on
Too Hard to Handle
One reads the assertion of the Russians that 300 Japanese planes have been shot down, and then the Nipponese counter with a claim that 400 Soviet machines have been destroyed, with loss of only 10 aircraft upon the part of the Japanese forces. The puzzled reader adds both totals, divides by two and then sprinkles the net result heavily with salt. It may be
Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Dark as Europe looks, the very oppressiveness of this crisis gives hope that the times will soon be ready for a new effort by the nations to introduce a saner order into their affairs, an effort in which the United States is likely to take an important part. This Administration regards as acutely desirable the re-estab-lishment of international law and of peaceful methods of adjusting differences, and the ending of current blackmail tactics. There will never be a time when nations will not be having differences. This Government is not so much interested in what the differences may be as in seeing them adjusted by some less devastating methods than we see being employed in Europe today. The crisis appears to be on the way toward solution. At last the determination of Great Britain and France to stand their ground, even if war was necessary, evidently is having its effect in breaking the drive of Hitler. He begins to look like a man who has trapped himself. First he encountered the unexpected steadfastness of Great Britain and France and has been unable to budge them with either guile or threats of force. Second, the war of nerves also may be going on against him on his home front.
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German People Shocked
Introduction of food cards in Germany was a shock to the German people. Some circumstantial evidence points to rising disquiet in Germany which cannot be reassuring to the Nazi regime. Italy's reluctance to being drawn into a general war has been evident for some time. Such conditions would be expected, par-
My Day
N= YORK, Thursday—Two things I saw at the World's Fair yesterday impressed me greatly. If you haven't seen the little Danish Colony home, be sure to go there the next time you have a free minute at the Fair. Tt won't take you long, for the little house consists of a tiny kitchen, a good sized closet, four beds built like bunks in two tiers with an aicove which serves as a sitting room and dining room combined. Curtains can be drawn in front of the beds and there is also a little shower-bathroom. The whole house ‘could be scrubbed and cleaned in less than an hour, These little houses are a part of Denmark's co-operative scheme for summer holiday making. You lease your small plot of land for two dollars a year and obtain your lumber, seeds, etc., at cost. You Mave a combination vegetable and flower garden with a sandbox and playground for the children and a little lawn with a table. Then we went to take a look at the “Master-
By Ernie Pyle
above my knees (freezing to death all the while) and then walked in. Owww! Was that water cold? But I was across in a few seconds. I put on dry socks. And then sat there and ate my lunch. ” = EJ
Man of the Mountains
The afternoon’s pull was long and hard. The trail went above timberline, and led across the sides of vast gravel-like slopes, and among rocks bigger than twostory houses. I passed a lone tent. Smoke was coming out of the stove pipe, but I didn’t stop. Half'an hour on, I met a Swede. He stopped. “Are there any windfalls between Cattle Queen and my tent?” he asked. Well, I had no idea what a windfall was, what Cattle Queen was or where his tent was. But I'm a man of the mountains, and a man of the mountains can't act like a city fool. So I hedged around. “Was that your tent IT passed?” I asked. He said, yes, that he was a trail walker and lived there. “How far back is Cattle Queen?” I asked. “That's that last snowbank you crossed,” he said. “There was so much wind last night I thought maybe. . . .” I had it now. across the trail. “No, there's only one windfall between Cattle Queen and your tent, And it isn’t bad. Horses can step over it. You won't have to cut it out today. Old Windfall Pyle! I was looking down into a gigantic cup. Great peaks—some of bare and vicious rock, some wooded and green, some white snow—made a vast and perfect rim around the cup. And far down there in the hottom, on sort of a knoll, stood a dozen white tents. In half an hour I was down there. A supply train of pack horses, coming from the other direction, beat me in by a few minutes. A woman, smiling, stood in the door of the largest tent. “I know you're cold,” she said. “Wouldn't you like some hot tea?” I sure would. A cowboy came in the back door. We sat on a bench, close to the kitchen stove, there in a white tent so very remote from anywhere, and drank good hot tea and ate gingersnaps—the cowboy and me.
A windfall is a tree blown down
By Heywood Broun
that our ignorance is conditioned in part by the fact that the names of both warriors and places are too hot to handle in truncated cablegrams. Has anybody forgotten the difficulties presented by Przemysl, the Galician fortress which figured largely in the news of the late great war? Yes, Przemysl was hard to take. But if American readers fail to be informed on all phases of the life of Abe, the gangling bamboo splitter, it will indicate a lack of enterprise upon the part of our newspapers. In all fairness to the Japanese, it should be remembered that this is not the first copy desk kind deed which should be attributed to the Land of the Rising Sun. After all, the island empire gave us both Ito and Togo—though not at the same time, if memory serves me correctly. > wn %
The Whole World Needs It
It is a pity that Siam does not belong among the nerve centers of the world, for there the matter of names is made easiest of all. During four entire years, from 1906 to 1910, the vast catalog of Harvard University, with its various schools and subsidiaries, gave first place without struggle to a single man, He was a Siamese, and as the postman or the bill collector picked up the university address book his eye fell first upon Aab, Lodunster Hall. It wasn't B. K. Aab or Aab Jr, or anything of the sort. He was just plain Aab, and seemingly he had no other name with which to bless himself, I wonder whatever became of him. He is perhaps a prosperous prospector in white elephants or twins back in his native land. He does not seem in any serious way to have affected the course of history. More's the pity. But unless Mr. Aab, to give him a slightly longer base, burgeons into a world figure all copy readers should be content with Abe. It is enough. These are names to conjure with, since they represent little more than dots and dashes in eight-column streamers. Many men with longer names have done much less. The world stands in need of shorter names and greater humanity.
By Raymond Clapper
ticularly when combined with the rock-like firmness of the British and French, to sap the resolution even of a Hitler. If this crisis serves, even in a small degree, to open the eyes of the German people, real gain may come from it, for once Hitler finds it expedient for internal reasons to ease off in his tactics, the way toward a more orderly state of affairs will be réasonably clear. That France and Great Britain are ready for it, once Hitler has been checked, is certain. They are ready to make many concessions in order to be relieved of this periodic blackmailing.
Hull Points the Way
Even without the co-operation of Germany, a
IVAN ERAN
State Fair Grounds.
his Hereford calf.
entrance.
fun section. 4, Grand Circuit racing again
Dillion a workout.
places.
“Bigger and better than ever,” today as Hoosierdom's 87th annual exposition got under way at the
3. There will be plenty of entertainment as usual.
; Times Photos. was the promise of fair officials
1. James Hiner, 13, son of Samuel Hiner, Greensboro, Ind, was pretty certain that he would take an award in the junior division with
2. A familiar sight to Fair goers. One of the big towers near the
A view of the
will be regular and welcome fare
for horse lovers. Bob Wright, Imperial, Pa, gives 5-year-old Joan 5. Drumming up business at one of the many convenient eating
6. Interior of the new coliseum which will be the scene of many exciting events during the eight days of the fair,
City Hospital Accepts 51 as Student Nurses
Fifty-one applications have been accepted for the fall nursing class
great deal can be done to create an international at the Indianapolis City Hospital, Miss Beatrice E. Gerrin, school prinsetting which ultimately Hitler would find it inex-|cipal, announced today. Registration will begin Sept. 5. In addition to this class, there are 16 affiliate students from other
pedient to ignore. The machinery but the governing principles are. lined by Secretary of State Cordell Hull sn July 16, 1937, in a carefully studied statement setting forth the principles to which this Government adheres in formulation of its foreign policy. These principles, essential to international order. call upon nations to refrain from the use of force In pursuit of policy and from interference in the internal affairs of other nations: to upheld the sanctity of treaties; to use orderly processes in mocifying treaties; to uphold international law: to lower trade barriers and accord equality of treatment to all nations; to progressively reduce armaments. Months ago, Secretary Hull said “the crucial issue is whether these principles will be vitalized and be firmly established as the foundation of an iniernational order, or whether international anarchy based on brute force will inundate the world and ultimateiy sweep away the very bases of civilization ang progress.” That still is the crucial issue.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
pieces of Art.” Many old “friends,” I was glad to see again, hung on the walls, Some of the early Italians are very satisfying, but I have an especially soft spot in my heart for the examples of Franz Hals, Rembrandt and Velasquez which are shown there. Franz Hals' portrait of an old lady with a beautiful white ruff around her neck and the exquisite details of the lace cuffs is one of the pictures one likes to see over and over again. By 7 o'clock a small group of us dined together on the porch of my apartment and talked of the world news. We listened to the radio and could hear nothing to give us much encouragement. A talk with Washington provided no final decisions of any kind on the future. Cur youngest son called me from the “S. 8. Washington” to make arrangements for landing today. I tried to decide whether I should take the train to Newport News last night, because the weather still looked somewhat uncertain, or whether I was safe to trust to weather reports which prophesied clear weather for this morning. The Coast Guard called me at 9 p. m. to say that all reports pointed to being able to fly, so I decided to meet the steamer on which my mother-in-law, Johnny and Anne were landing and then fly to Newport News,
is not in sight] They were out-| hospitals who have registered for special courses. The preliminary stu-
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Elnora Marie Johnson, Bette Alice Metsker, Dorothy Elizabeth Payne, Emma Jane West, Anna Jane Reeve and LaVaughn Elizabeth Richey, all of Indianapolis; Norvetta Inez Allee, Greencastle; Doris Kathleen Bart, Noblesville; Jewell Ruth Bensinger, Terre Haute; Florence Ellen Bradway, Akron, Ind.; Cora Jean Burress, Linton; Edith Marie Chappel, Dunkirk; Caroline Adele Clark, | Seymour: Mildred Marie Clark, New Ross; Jeanne Elizabeth Collins, Pendleton; Grace Louise Conrad, Rochester; Phyllis Lorene Crockett, Logansport. . Wilma Cecelia Crook and Margaret Louise Johnston, Martinsville: Mary Frances Crouch, Danville; Lydia Imogene Embree, Marjon; Naomi May Foreman, Brookville; Helen Irene Forgey, Freetown: Ivalue Forkner, Racine, Wis. ; Margaret Eileen Gildehauss and Hazel Bernice Tatum, Crawfordsville: Mary Marie Goble, Jasonville; Myra Jane Williams, Mary Loretta Herd and Mary Jean Johnstone, Kewanna; Cleo Avis Hill, Orleans; Betty Jane Janney, Muncie; Evelyn Hope Jean, Worthington; Jessie Lehman, Wabash; Letitia Edith McClintick, Lapel. Olive Jean McCoy, Bloomfield; Almogene McEldowney, Hartford City; Mary Marie Marrs, Larwill; Victoria Gertrude Mitchell and Virginia Vernon Mitchell, Albany; Elizabeth Virginia Most and Kathryn Imogene Wright, Ft. Wayne; Alice Lucille Peter, Frankfort; Martha Margaret Platt, Butler; Evelyn Maxine Purdy, Morocco; Helen Louise Renner, Edinburg; Mildred Margaret Schooler, New Augusta; Thelma Maxine Shoemaker, Greensburg; Fleanor Sopko, Michigan City; Marjorie Catherine Staton, Noblesville; Edith Madeliene Stephenson, Pendleton. The affiliate students from other hospitals are: Bloomington Hospital—Sybil Lu-
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cille McDermott and Dale Berniece Megenity, Bloomington. t Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes—Mary Anne Bundy, Francisville, Ill.; Edna Bertha Campbell. Wheatland; Violet Louise Dinkens, Edwardsport; Ruth Ethel Fisch, Bridgeport, Ill.; Dorothy Ellen Harting, Vincennes; Eunice Mildred Onyett, Oakland City. St. Joseph's Hospital, Mishawaka —Mary Jane Heater, Star City; Lila Jeannette Mullet, South Bend; Jone Lillian Nelson, Grovertown; Marjorie Clair Rothkopf, Margaret Marie Smith and Anna Marie Wanner, South Bend; Katherine Stoeckinger, Mishawaka, and Norma Corinne Yoder, Middlebury.
CATHOLICS TO OPEN NEW READING ROOM
A new reading room and rental library operated by the Catholic Information Bureau at S. Capitol Ave. and Georgia St, will be opened to the public at 10 a. m. Sept. 5, church officials announced today. The reading room, known as Bishop Brute's reading room in honor of the first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, will be open to the public every day, except Sundays and holidays, from 10 a. m. to 9p m. The rental library, including sev< eral hundred books of every kind, fiction and non-fiction, will be supervised by Miss Josephine Murphy. A magazine and pamphlet rack will be available, Special assistance in research will be offered to study clubs and similar organizations, and occasional lec-
tures on religious subjects will be conducted in an adjoining room,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Name the President of States. 2—Which two countries in South America have no seacoast? 3—Who founded the “Share the Wealth” cubs? 4—-What is the popular name for the Treaty between Germany and the Allies that ended the World War? 5—On which race course is the famous Becher’s Brook jump? 6—What is the origin of the name for the month of January?
only bachelor the United
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1—James Buchanan. 2—Bolivia and Paraguay. 3—The late Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. 4__The Treaty of Versailles. 5—Aintree race course, in Engejand, where the Grand National Steeplechase is held. 6—January is named for Janus, a Roman god. ”
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