Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1939 — Page 10
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1939
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
BUTTE. Mont., Sept. 11.—-Butte is an odd city. It is copper, simply copper. Take copper away and there wouldn't be any Butte. Butte is the greatest copper-producing city on earth. With loyal spirit, its store windows are packed with copper souvenirs. They have postcards made of copper. Butte is built on the side of the “richest hill on earth.” From this hill has been taken two and a half billion dollars’ worth of metal, mostly copper. And there is no end in sight. Butte is so unusual that writers have been coming here for 60 years to write pieces about it. In these later days, they dwell mostly upon the city's seeming toughness; its wide-open gambling and its numerous saloons. If you're a writer, the local people always comment to you about these other writers who have come before you. The local people aren't exactly sore about the articles on Butte's toughness; they're just sick of seeing it in print so many times. Butte is pretty much live-and-let-live. It has a peculiar kind of democracy I haven't seen in any other city. An ordinary miner gets out of his car and argues with a bank president over a parking place, A millionaire gambles side by side with a man in overalls. =
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No Danger of Collapse Butte wears its badge right on its sleeve. It isn't ashamed. It simply does with intellectual honesty what other cities do sneakingly. Butte has been called the most undermined city on earth. In this hill on which Butte sits, there are between 2700 and 2000 miles of underground passageways. The whole ore-bearing area isn’t more than four miles long and three miles wide, in sort of an oval. Butte sits right in the center of it, You'd think the whole city would just cave in,
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-—There is one factor in the Reich-Soviet pact which should gag in the throats of all radicals outside of Russia. When the military mission came from Moscow its members were hustled Immediately into an audience with Hitler. The Communist commanders were driven in cars which carried both the swastika and the hammer and sickle. It has been the proud boast of the followers of Stalin that their cause was the direct antithesis of the objective set forth in Nazi philosophy. But they were obliged to receive and acknowledge genially the “Heils” of the Hitlerites. And even this does not complete the tally of circumstances which ought to have been hideously embarrassing. I think “embarrassing” is too mild a word. There is scriptural sanction which permits one to bow down in the House of Rimmon, but none, as far as I know, which sanctions getting shoe polish up your nose. These representatives from “the workers’ homeland” were coming to meet in amity the man who said that when he came into power the heads of radfcals would roll in the streets of Germany. And that Js me part of Der Fuehrer's word which he did not tray.
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Nor could it be argued that non-aggression was agreed upon only on the basis of a change of heart
By Ernie Pyle
But it doesn’t, and it won't. Because most of those 3000 miles of tunnels have been filled back up again. The miners dump back all the worthless rock they have to blast out to get to the ore veins.
Above ground, the town is a typical mining camp. You see many derelicts on the streets. You see foreign faces, and hear foreign tongues. Show windows are crammed with cheap merchandise. Buildings that were wonderful in 1880 are still standing. Once upon a time, Butte was a horrible stench. That was when they were “roasting” the ore in great piles right out on top of the ground. The haze of smoke was so dense that street lights were kept on all day. The odor was sickening, and people either got used to it or left. The gasses destroyed all things that grew, and Butte was bare and denuded and ugly.
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No More ‘Roasting’
But “roasting” has long since ceased. The great mine workings are now run by electricity or compressed air. There is no pall of smoke today, and the air is fresh and crisp with the vigor that comes from a mile-high altitude. Trees grow again. And grass, where it has been planted. Butte is not a beautiful city. But it is no spectacular eye-sore, by any means. Its actual mountain setting is magnificent. The Continental Divide is only two miles east, and the view is long and sweeping. On the east edge of Butte is a queer little suburb called Meaderville. It is known from New York to San Francisco for its eating places. They are mostly Italian. They have bars and gambling tables. They are hot and noisy and not very elaborate. But the steaks vou get there—why, vou could almost wade knee-deep in one, they're so thick and tender. Visitors to Butte always go to Meaderville for the evening. Mine presidents and bankers and tourists and miners in rubber overshoes all mill around the steaks and the gambling tables. I personally milled to the tune of one huge steak and 50 cents winner in a blackjack game. Gambling is moral if you win, I always say,
By Heywood Broun
Many are already dead, but a few survive. Hitler found 1t not feasible to kill all radicals, and some few linger on under duress. They have been tortured and beaten for their beliefs, but at last account a number of stalwart spirits have refused to recant. According to rumor, there are German revolutionists who even now have not been whipped into raising their hands in greeting to Wotan's representative on earth. What were they doing when their supposed comrades were passing the time of day with the man who rode inic power by his promise to break Bolshevism and smash it in all parts of the world? Some one of the unrepentant captives may have been under the lash at the very moment that the leader of the Russian delegation bowed and said, “Your Excellency.” » = ¥
Be of Good Cheer, Comrade
After the preliminaries of negotiation have been completed it seems to me that some one of the Soviet's appointed delegates should take time to pay a benevolent visit to those who lie in captivity because they could not reconcile their views to the ways and moods of Adolf Hitler. Riding in some official car furnished by the Reich, it should be easv to pass through the gates into the inclosed places and mingle with the legions of the damned. And, naturally, he should bring chocolate and cigarets and a few kind words. And possibly the representative of Russia might preach a little sermon to the captive Communist and say, “Comrade, vour fault is that you are too ro-|
\ Gallup Says—
Sentiment For War
Poll Dips
By Dr. George Gallup
PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 11. — Rank - and - file American sentiment for a national referendum before Congress could draft men to fight overseas — the kernel of one of the most controversial issues of recent vears—has declined abruptly following the outbreak of war in Europe. The fact stands out today in the American Institute of Public Opinion’s nationwide tests of public opinion, completed since the beginning of hostilities 11 days ago.
Whereas 61 per cent of the voters favored such a referendum six months ago, only 51 per cent of those interviewed in the latest Institute survey say they would approve a national vote before sending men abroad—in this or any future war. Although there is no present question of the United States either entering the Second World War or sending American troops abroad, the idea of a national referendum on war has come before recent sessions of Congress repeatedly, and with Europe engaged in a life-and-death. struggle, the sponsors of the Ludlow war referendum resolution have announced they will bring their plan forward again if Congress meets in special session. In 1936 and 1937 the Institute found more than 70 per cent of the voters in favor of the Ludlow plan, which proposes a national vote before even a declaration of war by Congress. After widespread public discussion in which President Roosevelt * himself joined, however, the number favoring the plan began to dip.
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O measure American reactions at the outset of the present fighting, the Institute put the following question to a carefully selected cross-section of the U. S. electorate, including persons in all walks of life—farmers and steel workers, teachers, business-
A few weeks after the United States entered the World War in 1917, Americans such as those shown above were’
being drafted for service overseas.
In a nation-wide surv
ey completed since the outbreak of the new European war,
however, a majority of Americans say they would like to have a national vote of the people before Congress could draft
men for overseas fighting again,
The percentage favoring such a referendum has declined sharply.
men, clerks, persons on relief and others—in every state in the Union: “Should the Constitution be changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for war overseas?” The question itself is based on the proposal of Gen. Hugh SS. Johnson, newspaper commentator and former NRA head, and is identical with the question asked six months ago. The trend has been: For Against National National Vote Vote MARCH, 1939 . 61% 39% TODAY ...i0v000n 51 49
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women have idea of a war large majorities in previous Institute tests, and average nearly 3 to 2 for the proposition in the latest survey. A majority of men voters, on the other hand, are opposed to the plan:
For Against
National National
Vote 42%
56
Vote Women Voters ... 58%
Men Voters
This is one of the sharpest differences in the attitude of men and women voters recorded in Institute tests. In questions of politics, on every-day social issues, and even on questions of national defense little difference of opinion has usually been recorded between the sexes. Sectionally, the survey shows, the greatest support for the referendum idea comes from the states between the Ohio and the Rockies—the East and West Cen-
Sectional Vote
Shouid the Constitution be changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for war overseas?
YES NO
National Total ...... 51% 49%
Sectional Vote 49 50 43 4 63 53
New England Mid Atlantic ..... East Central ...... West Central .... South
Those opposed to a national vote before another draft argue (1) that such a vote would consume valuable time in a period of crisis, or that it would indicate disunity to watchful foreign nations (2) that Congress is more capable of deciding such questions than the public, and (3) that the plan would weaken the President and Congress. Those who approve the idea of referendum reply that those who do the fighting and dying should have a voice in the decision, that a national vote would prevent hasty or ill-considered decisions, or that “we wouldn't have so many wars if the people were doing the voting.” The present Institute survey was not in any sense, of course, a vote on whether American troops should be sent overseas today. The American public went on record last spring as being more than 6 to 1 against sending U. S. troops abroad in case England and France should be at war with Germany. In new tests now being con=ducted the Institute will meas=ure the effect of the present war upon this specific attitude.
tral states. Southern voters are most strongly opposed: For New England .... 51% Mid-Atlantic 50 East Central .... 57 West Central ... 56 South 3 63 West wovevavnsnes #7 53 Interestingly enough, only eight persons in every hundred interviewed said they were undecided g or could not give an opinion. # #
ONG and bitter has been the fight over the war referendum issue in recent sessions of Congress, and if popular support for the pian is translated into Congressional support the next session may see a new struggle between the so-called “isolationist” group and the Administration. Only the personal intervention of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull kept the House from passing the Ludlow resolution a year ago, Washington observers believe. The survey shows the main arguments of rank-and-file voters on either side.
Against 49% 50 43 44
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mantic and sentimental. You were taught to hate! Fascism and all its works. Upon that inspiration you acted, and that is why vou are here now. The line has changed. It's just your own tough luck that you were in the front one and failed to get the benefits of later revision. Sleep well. I may be around again in the future. Keep up vour hopes. Next time I may bring you Stalin's latest explanation and a trick cigar,” >
upon the part of Hitler. The meeting between the military mission and Germany's head man was of such an urgent nature that there was no time for any side trip on the way from the aviation field. An excursion might have been interesting. The men from Soviet Russia quite possibly would have heen entertained by a tour around a concentration camp where the captives who followed Communist ideology lie festering.
WANDERING SOLDIER URGES NEUTRALITY
Sergt. L. B. Loewenstein, the “Wandering Legionnaire” who has been hiking over the country since the last war preaching American« ism, thinks the United States should
stay out of this war. The bearded ex-soldier, who has visited every state and 12 foreign “Some of them admitted they [countries since 1919, stopped here were getting married so they |over the week-end to visit a few would not be first to go in case |“buddies.” He is on his way to the America enters,” he said. | National Legion Convention in Chi=
GARY MILL TO HAVE “4 think there is only one ‘ism 1000-TON FURNACE
worthwhile. That is Americanism. And we should keep it by minding GARY, Ind. Sept. 11 (U. P)—A new blast furnace with a 1000-ton
our own business,” he declared. daily capacity will be blown in at
Y. M. C. A. TO HOLD STUDENT SESSIONS the Gary works of the CarnegieIllinois Steel Co.
Plans for a series of student as« semblies at, which programs covers The new furnace will be the seventh in operation and will
: ing scholastic subjects will be pre in-| Sw . crease the daily capacity of the sented were being manped today by plant to 4875 tons a day.
Cupid Uses War As Latest Guide
ICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 11 (U. P.—Another result of the European war was discovered today by County Clerk Russell Robbins. He blamed it for a sudden
increase in marriage licenses and said his office was running 50 per cent above normal for September.
Squirrel Takes 6, 0, P, TO HONOR NS SOP "Dole in Hand | FRANK GANNETT
HE 350 oa a i The Irvington Republican Club's : ny nay 9 cay Ire [21st annual “watermelon feast” will USHA Assistant Is Principal Speaker at Council's
school keeps or not. But Chippy he held Friday night at the IrvingFirst Conclave.
wouldn't mind if classes were [ton Masonic Temple, with several held 12 months in the year. | state party leaders attending. Chippy, a squirrel with a lean | Principal speaker will be Frank and hungry lock, was hanging | BE. Gannett, Rochester, N. Y., newsaround waiting for the doors 0 |,,ner publisher, who will be given a
open when school took up last \birthday dinner and reception preweek. Remembering that School {ceding the feast. He will fly his 38 children had kept her in wal- own plane to Indianapolis Friday nuts all last winter, she was |and will be met by a committee eager to go on the dole again. |composed of Arch N. Bobbitt, ReBut everyone was too busy on | publican state chairman; Carl Vanopening day to think of Chippy’s |divier, Marion County G. O. P. diet. So next day Chippy took |chairman; Scott Ging, Irvington matters into her own hands. | Republican Club president, nd MuShe came through the windows |nicipal Court Judge Dan V. White.
sniffed out the location of the Chairmen of committees preparwalnut store, bit open the bag |i,0 for the event are Samuel G. and helped herself. Since then, |camphell, watermelon committee; the children have been leaving | Arthur Rennick, arrangements: EdChippy’s lunch on the window | a.q J. Hecker Sr. publicity; Judge sill. | White, finance and reception; Erle
BRADSHAW ELECTED |,/pyo poor wr
HAND HURT WHEN
WARRICK GLUB HEAD CAUGHT IN WRINGER
{ The right hand of Marjorie Court Judge Wilfred Weaver, 16, of 536 Drover St., was and Ernest W. Owens mangled yesterday when caught in | a washing machine wringer. She] | was treated at City Hospital. | desk yesterday.
TEST YOUR | Everyday Movies—By Wortman KNOWLEDGE RN }
1—How many time zones are there in the United States proper? 2—What body of water separates France and England? 3—What is entomology? 4—Name the Polish ambassador to the United States. 5—How many Presidential electors is the District of Columbia entitled to? 6—What is the full name of Joe Louis, the world's heavyweight boxing champion? T7T—What is the correct pronunciation of the word elixir? 8—Are seals fish? ” ” n
Answers
By Raymond Clapper
Exchange controls and other New Deal measures.| Jacob Crane, U. S. Housing Auso bitterly condemned over the last few years, ap-| thority assistant administrator, isto] pear to be exerting a steadying effect. Ibe principal speaker at the first an- | As for the “housewives panic” it is likely to pass nual conference of the Indiana | quickly because there are no conditions to keep it Council of Housing Authorities alive. The country is overloaded with all kinds of | Sept. 26 at Hotel Antlers. ’ foodstuffs. | The Indianapolis Citizens’ HousProfiteering questions will have to be faced but ing Committee is host to the con-| this action will develop gradually, and probably ference conducted by the National largely through co-operative agreements by trade Association of Housing Officials. | associations in a kind of unofficial NRA. | Kenneth Parmelee, Gary Housing| The most serious risk we face lies in the Spy | Authority executive director, is genhunt. The ‘Government has asked all local Police | oq) chairman of the meeting. Carl] Onienss. Shey ie: 2rd other law Shlorcement officers | yrenyy Monsees, field service chief | » urn over to F agents any informa fon obtained | the Nationa! Association of Housoy them relating to “espionage, counter espionage, !. Officials, will be conference disabotage, subversive activities and violations of the | IN€ ols W s
neutrality laws.” FOORON aa : y City officials, local housing au-
thorities members, labor, civic, fraternal and sccial organizations representatives are expected to at- | tend. Discussion will include legal |
Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Except for the “housewives panic” over food, this county seems to have gone through its first week of war shock on a remarkably even keel. That, I should say, is true both of the Government and of the American public. Even the sinking of the Athenia, a strikingly cruel tragedy lacking the faintest shred of military justification, has been received calmly by the American public, although there are signs of growing impatience at the delay in sending American flag ships to bring home the stranded Americans in Europe. Perhaps the thing that has given the American public its stability thus far is the decisiveness with which it has made up its mind. Opinion seems definitely fixed upon two points. First, Hitler's guilt for mulling the trigger. Second, resolution to stay out of this war. The latter is a resolution now of .ong standing, firmly rooted, and thoroughly braced against events mm Europe. Even the Red Cross is being besieged with pleas that it keep out of Europe this time. Many undoubtedly feel that the sending of ambulance corps and other relief units to the Allies front helped take us into the la.t war.
Mr. Murphy's Warning |
This work is necessary but unless handled care- | fully it can degenerate into suppression of free . . speech and into flagrant abuse. |SSpects of housing, Planning and Attorney General Murphy, whose ardent interest construction, local authority adminin preserving civil liberties has been a matter of ac-{istration and management, initia- Juvenil tive record for years, took note of this danger when, | ion and development of local pro-| Juvenile in asking for public co-operation in combatting Srams and rural housing needs in| Bradshaw
[the faculty of the Y. M. C. A. Eve= EE et ning High School. PURSE STOLEN AT DESK Principal Marvin J. Sipe said the Miss Madge Caldwell, registration | assemblies would take up current clerk at Methodist Hospital, re- | events, science, Latin, mathematics ported to police that her purse, and commercial training. Two as= containing 25 cents in change and semblies will be scheduled each a $10 check, was stolen from her month, according to tentative plans. No opening date has been set.
n ” 5 Financial Shock Absorbed
During the first few days, the Government has moved with decision, showing the results of advance preparation. Except for the confusion over rescuing Americans in Europe, contributed to partly by labor troubles in American ports, the machinery set up in advance has worked smoothly. The first financial shock has been well absorbed.
My Day
HYDE PARK, N. Y. Sundav.—I attended a luncheon which was held at the Good Housekeeping Magazine office on Friday for a group of brides who are going to meet once a month to discuss problems which come up in their daily living. These are practical problems of personality adJustment and home management where the girl is at work, besides all the varied circumstances which would be apt to occur in a cross-section of the lives of young married people throughout the country. From the questions which were asked me, I realize that many of us have the feeling that we face a world today in which there isn't much use of planning for the future. World conditions may upset at a moment’s notice any plan, so why not live from day to day? It seems to me that in this country we must try to fight this psychology. We must realize that what we did before was to lose sight of domestic problems, to shove aside things which were really vitally important to peace, because we were at war. We must not do that again. We are not at war and whatever happens, the world must eventually be reorganized for peace and let us pray that this time we will have strength and
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
1—Four. ‘ 2—English Channel. 3—The science which deals with insects. 4—Count Jerzy Potocki. 5—None. 6—Joseph Louis Barrow. T7—E-lik’'-ser; not el’-ik-ser. 8—No, they are mammals.
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sabotage and espionage, he said: | Indiana. {were re-elected to serve their fourth ; rl IS one ume, if You want the work done in| Low-cost housing Project commit. | terms as president and secretary, S a responsible way, it must not turn ments in Indiana total $12,049.00.) 0 tively, of the Warrick County man.” {Muncie and Vincennes have had | Club of Indianapolis at the group's Mr. Murphy is right. We are not at war and|$3662,000 in long-term loans ap- | fourth annual reunion yesterday at our best course should be. It is only after we declare | Administrator Nath ar : . ic ove : ian Straus. An ejected vice president for the second war that the time for argument is over. The ny cata) $8.387.000 has been ear-| time. p think that anyone who disagrees with you is a SY, | moar Oy oe Proj di d m with Mf He may only be m i i . | Al idinner and a progra y S. only We oS akeligen) Wayne, Gary, Hammond. Marion, Ella Jarrett, Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher, principal speakers. Attendance was 3 CHILDREN BITTEN; larger than at any of the three preRECEIVE TREATMENT nvorted. —— | A new board of directors was . Three children were bitten by dogs iy : foresight enough to plan a more permanent way of!,, ’ ; oY GOS embers: William Fortune, chair[eSteraRy: according to police re-! Frank Wegener, Paul SteThere will be people in plenty to say this is a ; NBR {phens, Mrs. Eva Tyner, ! pipe-dream and cannot be done. | Hgnt-yearsola lhert Weber, 62 feries, Mrs. Margaret Frahlich, Mrs. want to try and I hope there will be many other |jart ear while plaving in the var : people who feel as I do. I should like to see an inter-| {jo home of Te ae The et at clem Doan and Dr. Weyerbacher. ! | The committee serving the dinner future peace. I should like to see our nation de-| pfelvin Johnson. 14, of 1014 N velop activities in the next few months which will aid Miley Ave. was bitten by a! dog | Mame Pace, Mrs. Paul Stephens, ¢ a | Mrs. Edith Middleton, Ed Pace, Mr. will create in us an awareness of what war means to gt. Tommy Vaughn, 6, of R. R. 1 | Wegener, the lives of all people. If we have a big enough group | pox 327. was treated at City Hospi- Doan. conscious of this and determined that this world shall], | be organized for peace in the future, we can be a eye: BAR WILL HONOR We reached home on Friday night in time to greet BAR HEAD T0 SPEAK SAMUEL D. MILLER the President on his arrival. In spite of the fact that late Hat nisnt Yesterday was a quiet day in which i F. Merrill Indi " | apolis Bar Association honoring the as much of the time as could be spared away from arence I. Merrill, Indianapolis i 4 B Bar Association president, will ad. | late Samuel D. Miller will be held new library. I drove over to see Mrs. William Brown Meloney Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis! eral Courtroom, James C. Jay, ason Quaker Hill. In the evening Miss Martha Gell- on “The Organized Bar” at noon | sociation secretary, announced tomembers of the family and their friends. Today it| The annual membership report| Mr. Miller was a leading lawyer is raining, but everyone is coming to my cottage for a |will be made at the meeting by | here for many years and was senior picnic lunch, even though we have to have it indoors. | Charles W. Holder, association sec- | member of the firm of Miller, Miller
into a witch hunt. We must do no wrong to any Delaware County, Gary, Kokomo.! every American has the right to argue as to what proved hy U. S. Housing Authority | Brookside Park. Philip Lutz Jr. was question then is how to win it. Until then, don't! The reunion included a fish fry or unpatriotic. ects at Anderson, East Chicago, Ft. New Albany and Richmond. Judge Bradshaw and Mr. Lutz as {vious gatherings, the secretary re'elected, which includes the following peace. | ports. nan Homer JefWell, I, for one,| y y ; tN. Tiolres Ave: es bien on the | po issell Sigler, Mrs. Ella Jarrett, national group meeting now continuously to plan for iv rsici D treated by a private physician. | ncinded Mrs. Audie Wegener, Mrs. humanity and civil populations everywhere and which | 41.; ” o while he was playing at 1820 W. 10th Mr. Stephens and Mr. in this country, particularly young people, Who are i.) for a dog bite beneath his left| great factor in the ultimate adjustment. ’ he needed badly to make up sleep, we talked until TO LAWYERS GROUP A memorial meetng of the Indianthe telephone, he spent thinking over plans for the 3 dress the regular meeting of the | at 11 a. m. tomorrow in the Fedhorn and I talked for a long time with the younger tomorrow at the Canary Cottage. |day. Tonight we return to Washington, retary. . and Bredell. He died Thursday. ¥ :
"Just lookit all them fellers goin’ by in their shirt-sleeves, and lemme see you figger what they're gonna want in overcoats next winter."
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