Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1939 — Page 9
\ | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1939
The Indianapolis Times
Hoosier Vagabond
IN THE CASCADES, Wash. Sept. 18.—It is possible now to ride horseback, on trails way up the mountains, all the way from Canada to Mexico, It has been done, I understand, in relays. But never by any one person. It wouldn't be an easy thing to do. It probably would take you three or four summers, and cost plenty of money. Why, it's 531 miles across Washington State alone, and that would take six weeks. You would get lost many times. Frequently you'd have to detour on old, dim trails. But the significant thing is that it could be done, and that the Government is making quite an issue of it, and ail the time the trail is being improved. The trail crosses Washington, Oregon and the whole length of California. It is called the Pacific Crest Trail System. They have green and white enameled markers, diamond-shaped, tacked to trees every mile or so. The Government, of course, isn’t spending all this money merely that some stray adventurer may leap on his spotted charger and gallop from Canada to Mexico just for the fun of it. The reason is sounder than that. First, it will be a wonderful main trail for forest fire fighters to use. And second, local people can get out on vacations and ride or walk short sections of the trail—maybe a trip of three or four days, or scmething like that, The trail, nearly all the way, is kept up high, near timberline, along the backbone of the mountain range. That is so riders can have magnificent scenery all the time, »
A Primitive Life Each summer, trail crews camp high in the Cascades and build miles of brand new Pacific Crest
Trail, linking up blank spots and eliminating long bad detours.
It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—During one of the blackest weeks in the last war, which was once called the great war, a bunch of American newspapermen were sitting in the parlor of the Hotel Providence in Neufchateau. At the moment the Germans were sweeping everything before them. The submarine campaign threatened to starve out Great Britain. Success was with the arms of the Reich on every front. And, more than that, Allied morale was beginning to crack. In Germany everything seemed serene. No dissenting voices were raised. The Kaiser was in his heaven and all was right in the German world. And one of the men from a New York paper spoke up between drinks and said, “Now, fellows, get me right. You know I'm as much against this regimented stuff as anybody here. But let's be sensible. Our side is licked. Maybe the top men beat 'em over the head to get it, but there's no point in denying that the Germans have achieved complete unity. We haven't. A lot of us have been down to the British front and watched the way the Australians first-name their generals and refuse to salute their colonels. And can you imagine the Germans having a paper run by enlisted men like The Stars and Stripes, which even dares to kid Pershing? ” 5 ”
A Dissenting Voice “I'm all for that. but it just doesn't work. Every time you shut the Germans off from something they find an ersatz which is just as good. I like democracy. That's the way I was brought up. but I'm afraid the Germans have found an ersatz for that, too. Much as I hate to say it, I'm afraid that destiny is in their favor. I won't like it, but right now it seems to me that it's in the cards that Germany is going to rule the world.”
Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—One disturbing bit of news is the appointment of 1200 “special and honorary deputy sheriffs” in the metropolitan area of Queens County, N. Y.. to report “any un-American gossip that might happen to be floating around Queens” to quote the New York Herald-Tribune news report. Thus far the country has kept a cool head and has taken the mad events in Eurcpe in stride. But if Queens is going to
By Ernie Pyle
The first night out on our pack-trip, we stayed | at one of these trail workers’ camps. About 15 young | men are up there now. They live in tents, and sleep | in sleeping-hags. thrown on folding canvas cots. They | use gasoline lanterns for light, and their drinking water comes trom a creek. It is always cold up there at night, and each tent | is heated by a tiny cone-shaped tin stove, without any bottom, which sits right on the ground. In one tent 1s a regular radio, which brings them music| and news of the world. In another is a short wave set, over which come rattling 24 hours a day the) multitudinous news and orders of the Forest Service itself. Grub and equipment is packed up to the boys on a string of six pack horses. The string makes round trips on two consecutive days, then doesn’t come again for three weeks. One man does all the cooking. He got married three days before he went up to camp, and hasn't had a chance to get out all summer to sees his new wife. - ” ” »
A Mountain Paradise
The boys work in a paradise of mountain ma jesty. They live simply, work hard, eat a lot, and two of them recently were chased by an angry mountain goat If I had a son I'd like nothing better than for him to work in one of these Forest Service trail camps for a few months. | The boys have built trail so fast this summer that they're now working nearly two miles from camp.| Which means they have to walk four miles a day. They take their lunches Every bit of the work is by hand. There are no horses. no scrapers, no engines to drill dynamite holes in rock. They just use axes, shovels and sledges. { If the going is easy, (hey can sometimes build a new trail at the rate of a mile a week. They aren't|
allowed to make the trail steeper than 15 degrees,| except for very short stretches where it can't be] helped. We rode over some of this new trail on our pack trip. Ours were the first horses to go over it,
By Heywood Broun |
A small man in the corner from an obscure paper | in the Middle West said, "Let's wait a little while. 1 think there's something wrong in the German system. [ don't think there 1s any ersatz for democracy.” And within the month it happened. I don't think anybody has ever put sufficient stress upon the miracle which occurred. The tide wasn't really swung wholly by the Marines at Chateau-Thierry or by the entire impulse of American participation, important as that factor undoubtedly was. But overnight something smashed. It was not so much on the front as back home. It wasn't starvation, and I don't think it was the result of outside propaganda. But within 24 hours the German people sickened of having their thinking done for them. Men and women who had long been forbidden to say certain things became articulate as if .the gift of tongues
had been conferred upon them. ” ” ”
History May Repeat
It can and will happen again. Suppression carried on teo long breeds a counter-movement. It is like an elastic in a sling-shot. If the thing is stretched too tight it will no longer propel a missile at the will of the wielder. Instead it will snap in the middle or fly back in his face. And so it will be again in the case of the Siegfried line. My belief 1s that France and Great Britain will be foolish to fling their voung men against the concrete. Let them remember that when Siegfried was bathed in the magic stream of invulnerability he was not totally immersed. A spot remained between his shoulder blades untouched by the magic stream. It was the back door to his heart. And. sooner or later, those who bow down to Hitler not only as leader but as veritable god of the Reich will awake to a new concept and cry out, “Whatever are we fighting for?” German men and women are really just like other human beings. And no barrier or bomb or gun can stand against the nascent cry of, “Before all else I am a human being.”
By Raymond Clapper
it reduced to a system and the citizen knows where he is expected to stand. But find me 1200 persons —yes, 1200 “special and honorary deputy sheriffs” —who can agree as to what is “subversive” and “unAmerican” The neatest rule I have seen worked out is the one used by a character in “The Grapes of Wrath” who says that a radical is a fellow who asks for 30 cents an hour when the boss is paying 25 cents. There is just one redeeming feature about this setting up of a home-made OGPU in Queens. Its
Gallup Poll—
U.S. Is 44% J
For War if
Allies Losing
By Dr. George Gallup
PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 18.—The war brings the American public face-to-face with major national decisions. Where do the American people believe their interests lie? How have they reacted to the outbreak of fighting? Most important of all, possibly, how much active sentiment is there in America today for outright intervention with the Army and Navy on the side
| of the Allies?
What is the American blood pressure reading at the beginning of European hostilities? The answers to all these questions are to be found in a careful collecting and weighing of what ordinary Americans are saying today in all parts of the United States. Because public opinion will have a definite and perhaps final effect on the position of the United States, it is important to know what public opinion 1s. In the past fortnight the American Institute of Public Opinion has been conducting careful factfinding surveys in each of the 48 states. In the weeks and months ahead it will be the Institute's function to keep the public and the nation’s leaders apprised of new developments in war and neutrality sentiment, as well as of sentiment regarding domestic issues. = ” on ROBABLY the most significant finding in all the Institute’s studies since the outbreak of war, two weeks ago, is that the number of Americans who favor outright military intervention on the side of Britain, France and Poland is no larger than it was five months ago—when the war
was nothing more than a dark.
cloud on the aorizon. Five months ago, in order to measure the potential attitude of U. S. voters in case of war, the Institute asked a carefully selected cross-section of American voters in every state: “In case Germany and Italy go to war against England and France, should the United States send its army and navy abroad to fight Germany and Italy?” The actual outbreak of war necessitated only a slight change in the wording: “Should we send our army and navy abroad to fight against Germany?” In each case the nation-wide replies were the same: Favor sending army an navy “ad 18% Opposed to sending them. 84
Only about one person in 20 (6%) said he was undecided on
| the question or had no opinion.
» = " HILE these figures do not indicate the extent of sympathy for the Allies by any
In nation-wide tests since the outbreak of fighting in Europe the American Institute of Public Opinion has
measured the reactions of American voters in all walks of life.
In the survey reported today the Institute finds that
only 16 per cent of the voters favor active military intervention on the side of the Allies, but that a larger number would favor intervention if, within a few months, the Allies seemed to be losing.
means, they do reveal —within the limits of sampling accuracy —the approximate size of what might be called the “war party” in the United States, as of the first weeks of September. The Institute survey found the greatest support for armed intervention among Southerners (277% favoring sending the army and navy), and the least support in the Middle Atlantic States, which include such populous states as New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey (12%). Men were noticeably more in favor of armed intervention (197) than women (12%). There was almost no difference in the verdicts of young people of “draft” age and their elders, the survey shows. But interestingly enough the well-to-do were clearly less in favor of sending troops abroad than the lower income groups. The vote at different income levels is: Send Army and Navy? Yes No Upper Income Group 12% 388% Middle Income Group 15 85 Lower Income Group (including persons on relief) Reliefers only
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O measure the maximum strength of the “war party.” however, the Institute asked the same voters what they thought they would be doing if—within the next tew months—England and France appeared to be losing: “If it looks within the next few months as if England and France might be defeated, should the United States declare war on Germany and send our troops abroad?” Of those with opinions, 44 persons in every hundred said “yes.” The remaining 56 said “no.” One persdn in 10, on the average (107) said he had no opinion.
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These figures can—and should —be looked at from both sides. They mean that 44 per cent of the voters think they would want to intervene in the European war if England and France appeared later on to be losing. On the other hand, 56 per cent of the voters say that even if England and France should seem to be losing they would oppose active intervention in Europe by the United States. = The division of opinion is remarkably similar to that which the Institute found 17 months ago, after the Nazi invasion of Austria. The Institute asked: “Do you think the United States will have to fight Germany again in your lifetime?” The vote was “yes"—46 per cent; “no’—54 per cent. ”
T is also necessary to look at the assumptions Americans are making at the present time— at what psychologists call the “frame of reference” of American voters. Do they expect England and France and Poland to be defeated, or do they expect them to subdue the Nazi forces?
The answer, from the same nation-wide survey of opinion 1s that thev think the Allies will win —without the aid of American troops and armed forces. Asked, “Which side do you think will win?” those with opinions replied as follows: Allies Germany No Opinion or Qualified... 11 Purely as a matter of interest, and not by any means as a forecast, the Institute asked: “About how long do you think the present war will last?” The replies show that almost half the voters expect a war of a year or less: One Year or Less More Than One Year
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Council to Hold Public
JR. C. OF C. BACKS
What Surveys Show—
The following figures show how American public opinion has ree acted to the outbreak of war in Europe, as based on the nation-wide surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion:
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
1—Which country or countries do you consider responsible for causing
the present war? Germany England and France .. Versailles Treaty Signers....
(Sept. 8)
Poland All Others .... No Opinion
2—Should the Constitution of the United States be changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for war overseas?
(Sept. 10) YES
ese enn
3—Should the United States allow American ships to carry goods any=-
where, or should our ships be kept out of war zones?
(Sept. 15)
KEEP SHIPS OUT OF WAR ZONES
OPPOSED .
4-—-Should the United States allow its citizens to travel on ships of
countries which are now at war? KEEP CITIZENS OFF NON-NEUTRAL SHIPS..........
OPPOSED
(Sept. 135) 82%
cena
REPORTED TODAY
5—Should we send our Army and Navy abroad to fight Germany?
6—If it looks within the next few months as if England and France
might be defeated, should the
United States declare war on Gere
many and send our troops abroad?
SEND TROOPS DO NOT SEND TROOPS
. 9%
7—Which side do you think will win?
ALLIES GERMANY .....
NO OPINION OR QUALIFIED
8—About how long do you think the present war will last?
ONE YEAR OR LESS MORE THAN ONE YEAR
Boomps-a-Daisy
1939 War Song
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CORNHUSKERS LOOK TO MEET ON OCT. 13
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MUNITIONS EMBARGO
show us the way, if our people are to be pestered with local squads of “honorary deputy sheriffs” listening for what they consider to be “un-American gossip,” then God help us! Are people in this country—as they go about their own business and mingle with their fiiends
and discuss the questions of the day as people should
Truck Hearing Tonight
City Council wiil hold a public hearing tonight on a proposed amendment to the truck traffic ordinance which would enable local delivery | trucks of any weight to use all North Side streets. North Side civic groups were ex-
3 ‘pected to oppose the amendment] NEW | U CLASS | which would virtually repeal pres- ! ! ! lent bans on trucks using 11 North
|Side streets. The present ordinance
orders are to report suspects to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At least the home-grown “honorary deputy sheriffs” are not to have the power to put their suspects away without recourse.
Times Special FLORA, Ind. Sept. 18.—Indiana ‘high school cornhuskers will come pete for the state championship in a field of Hoosier hybrid corn on the Harley A. Mummert farm Oect. 13. Winners o: 24 district contests throughout the state will participate,
| ARIS, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—The | |
1939 counterpart of 1914's | “Tipperary” among British soldiers arriving in France is “Boomps-A-Daisy.” The modern Tommy, unlike his predecessor of the last war, appears to be more animated than his French colleagues. Reports from the Maginot Line say that
GARY, Ind. Sept. 183 (U.P.)— The Indiana State Junior Chamber of Commerce in convention yesterday adopted a resolution favoring retention of the present U. S. neutrality law, which includes an arms|
emyargo. A, Ernest
Time for Discussion
The FBI does know its stuff. It is under the control of an Attorney General, Frank Murphy. who knows the difference between sabotage and free- |
Owens of Evansville
in a democracv—to be hounded whenever one of these “honorary deputy sheriffs” thinks he hears something “un-American”? Is it going to be un-American to oppose President Roosevelt on repeal of the embargo? Or is it going to be un-American to support him? A lot of people have said the New Deal was un-American. Are they, or the supporters of the New Deal, to be reported as subversive persons by these “honorary deputy sheriffs”?
Deserve Better Fate
The people of this country deserve something better than to be turned in to the G-men for saying what they think. Under Hitler and under Stalin a person at least has fair warning. He is told what to think and if he deviates, he does it knowingly at his own peril. In Germany and Russia they have
My Day
WASHINGTON, Suncay.—Friday night in Danville, Va., we had only a very short time to get ready for my lecture, but Maj. Meade and his wife met us at the station and drove me straight to the hotel to change. They were both most kind. It was a great pleasure to see Gov. Price also at the meeting. The lect®re was sponsored by a group of young businessmen
doom of speech. The FBI knows what it is after —it is after spies and saboteurs. So it may be counted upon to throw in the wastebasket the in-| numerable complaints, arising out of spite, hysterical suspicion and just plain stupidity. It is unfortunate to have the phoney complaints go even that far, for a local witch hunt, is not con-! ducive to the independence of thought and discussion | which are more needed in this troubled hour than ever before. When a nation is at war, then necessarily there | is little use for general discussion. It is too late to} argue. The only concern then is to win the war and! discussion should rightly be restricted to ways and | means of accomplishing that, But we are a long way from war and this is the time when we can, by our national good fortune, con- | sider what is best for us to do.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
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there at the station was my brother, who had routed out of bed one or two other people to come with him to meet us. He had insisted on being there, not only when the train actually got in, but by his New York| watch—which meant that they had waited an extra hour. Nothing daunted, however, he agreed to wait another three quarters of an hour and bring his guests to breakfast on the White House porch, a pleasant beginning to a busy day.
OF 1300 INDUCTED
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Sept. 18. —In a formal induction ceremony at 8 a. m. this morning, the approximately 1900 new Indiana Uni-
versity students began their college |
careers on the Bloomington campus. Ringing of the chimes and a
‘said that =2
[forbids trucks of more than one land one-half tons on nine streets (and all trucking on four.
The amendment, introduced at
was named president to succeed wallace D. Howe of Vincennes. Other officers named were Richard McCracken of Gary, Wallace Hall
the request of fuel oil concerns and of Bedford, Edward Koenemann of
other commercial trucking interests, would require local delivery truckers
to pay a 30-cent license fee to make Of Ft.
deliveries on the panned streets. Delegation Expected
Council President Joseph G. Wood large delegation of
short concert by the University | Graceland Ave. residents would ap-
band preceded the ceremony hel in front of the Student Building. The scheduled program included the alma mater address by President Emeritus William Lowe Bryan; delivery of the oath of allegiance to the new students by President Herman B Wells; an address of welcome, prepared by Dr. Lee A. Norvelle, head of the speech division, and delivered by Miss Mary
|Susan Stoll of Bloomington, and {the singing of two Indiana songs
with Prof. D. D. Nye of the music school faculty directing.
LINTON OPENS WAR
ON FOES OF QUAIL
banned fom these streets.
Times Speciat
LINTON, Ind, Sept. 18 —Citizens
pear at the hearing to urge passage of the amendment. They contend, he said. that the present ordinance forces large trucks (o use narrow sidestreets, creating a traffic hazard.
Truckers protested that the ordi-
nance makes deliveries on the North
Nicholas Bertrand of
Ft. Wayne,
[New Albany and Francis Donahue |
Wayne.
the British spend what idle moments they have teaching the Poilus such latter day dance tunes as “Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree,” and indications were that the fiist furlough period would see the Lambeth Walk introduced to French cafes.
|A (otal of 577 schools have entered | the district coi tests, 98 more than | last year. | The cornfield is 40 rods wide and {140 rods long and is expected to {yield 75 to 80 bushels an acre. A [36-acre field nearby will be set aside for parking.
TEST YOUR | Everyday Movies—By Wortman
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Side highly complicated. To make |
a delivery on a banned street, un-|
der the ordinance, a truck must enter and leave by the nearest sidestreet. Controversy over the routing of heavy trucks over streets, a perennial Council problem,
flared up last spring when delega- | tions from Keystone and College]
Aves. demanded all trucking be
Discussed Belt Highway
North Side]
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Council at that time considered |
KNOWLEDGE
1—What is another name for sage hare? 9—How many acres are in one square mile? 3—Which son of the President is connected with the motion picture industry? 4—How many stripes are in the flag of Poland? 5—What term is applied to the decay of wood caused by va=rious kinds of fungi? 6—In what country is the peak Mt. Kamet? 7—Where is the U. S. Military Academy? ”
Answers
1—Jack rabbit. 2—640. 3—James Roosevelt,
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Little Diana Hopkins is staying with us and had here have declared a war of ex-| 5—Dry rot.
called the Exchange Club. They two small friends join us. Several appointments in termination against hawks, owls!
i - told me they put on one enter- eventual construction of a belt high- |
tainment a year for the benefit of an underprivileged children’s fund. They give clothing and assistance, thus enabling the children to go to school. The war has already touched Danville. The fall in sterling and the uncertainty about shipping caused British buyers to withdraw from the tobacco market and close it down. Danville is, of course, a tobacco center and many of the people are concerned. On the other hand, the cotton manufacturers are feeling encouraged that war will bring them additional orders. We reached Washington Saturday morning and
the afternoon and, after dinner, an hour and a half} a! the Woman's National Democratic Club. I hope) Mrs. McAilister, chairman of the women's division, will feel repaid for the work she has done, If women of other political faiths listened to the first part of the|
and oth and their eggs. tinue until Dec. 24, Residents who bring in the pests
or pests which destroy quail | The war will con-
way skirting the City for large over- |
land trucking. It passed the present ordinance .:s a compromise between banning truck: of more than one
{and one-half tons on all main thor- | |oughfares on the North Side and
broadcast, I feel sure that the facts given must have —dead-—or the feet of hawks and withdrawing all restrictions.
been of interest to them as well. he heat is not so great in Washington, and one
Community Conservation Club. A
owls will be given points by the! All trucks are now forbidden the {use of Maple Road, Meridian St.
of my daughters-in-laws exclaimed as we sat on the|pair of hawk's feet are worth 200 north of 16th St. Washington Blvd. points and one pair of ow's feet,|and Westfield Blvd. Trucks of more
porch at breakfast: “What a beautiful day!” For me, however, it was quickly clouded, for when
I went into the President’s room, he told me that at 5,|gun; second prize, a pair of hip|/banned on College, Central
and again at 6 o'clock, he had to be awakened to receive dispatches announcing Russia's entry into Poland. A curious way to aid the cause of peace! 1
100. First prize is a Model 37 shot-
than one and one-half tons are and
boots; third prize, a hunting coat,|Capitol Aves; Pennsylvania, Illiand fourth and fifth prizes, two!nois, Merrill and Adler Sts, Boule-
boxes of shotgun shells. v
lvard Pl. and Broadway.
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6—India. 7—West Point, N. Y.
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