Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1939 — Page 12
Ev Vagabond
* AGNESS,. Ore., Oct. 11 —A confirmed fisherman = one of the world’s weirdest animals. ‘He is usually a businessman. He sits in an office | "50: weeks of the year. He has a secretary and a fam“lly. and a nice home. " Hé is comfortable and demands comfort. And then he comes up here —or a thousand places like this —+to fish for a week or two. From 8,in the evening till 9 the next morning, he is freezing to death. He drags himself out of a cold
"bed before daylight, and dresses:
by coal-oil light. He shivers into old damp clothes, and over them he pulls a great, cumbersome pair of “waders,” or highwaisted rubber pants. He walks sleepily for a mile or two, goes a mile or two in a boat, then steps out into the water and stands there in it, up to his waist, The water is ice-cold. “From daylight till noon he walks around out there on ‘the rocks, waist-deep in water. He bruises his tender feet on the stones;-his soft muscles grow ‘weary and constrict with pain; he monotonously casts out and reels in, casts out and reels in, like a robot. And when he comes in at noon he has had only one Jittle bite, and it got away. ’ 2 = »
And Then More of the Same
He repeats the performance in the afternoon, By the time he gets in at dark, it is cold again. He eats supper and listens a few minutes to the radio, then goes to bed to try to get warm. : The only comfortable thing about his whole experience is the marvelous food they serve at fishing camps. All the rest is chill, wet, weariness, monotony ‘and disappointment. Yet such is the philosophy of the fisherman that ‘he wouldn't trade it for a palace and two yachts. I ‘consider a fisherman a screwball, and a fisherman /considers me an ignorant fool. ‘The fishing guides tell horrible stories ahout ‘people
Our Ts own
Almost immediately affer landing in Rotterdam, Holland, on Aug. 22, I went in search of a newspaper ‘to learn how the’ next World War was getting along. You bet my eyes popped when I picked up a Paris Jpaper and read that “a rookie named John Niggeling blanked the Phils and went ! through the game perfectly calm.” It's a mighty small world as somebody before me had the perspicacity to observe. Two days later at The Hague —in ‘the Hotel des Indes where a fellow of my plebian tastes hasn't any business to be—I ran across the July number of Musical America. Believe it or not, there was a piece by Pauline Schellschmidt—something to the effect that Indianapolis had staged a National Competition in the éourse of which 5000 high school musicians had participated with Fabien Sevitzky as one of the judges. By this time I was kinda wondering whether I had crossed the ocean or not.
That same day, too, while loitering on the Kneu-.
terdijk at The Hague, I had the luck to pass Mensing : and Wisser's bookshop and there in the showwindow—displayed in a way that nobody could ‘miss it==was a copy of “Live Alone and Entertain,” by Marjorie Hillissand Bertina Folia, Sure, Bert and Louise Foltz’s little girl: % { CRE
A Tip for Blanche Stillson
Nor did it escape me that Blanche Stillson’s yard on N. Meridian St. lacked only a Dutch canal to make
it look exactly like the woods surrounding the Queen's .
Palace at The Hague, the onc whers the royal skating parties take place every winter. If Blanche will heed my advice, she'll start digging a Dutch ditch and go
"ashingt \ WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Talk pf President Roosewelt serving as mediator in the European war is mostly
talk and no immediate developments are expected in the best informed quarters,
This Government is not averse to mediating, but it will not do so until belligerents on both sides request it. Those requests have not been received. All that this Government has is a newspaper report from Berlin that Hitler wouid like to have the head of a great neutral power step in and end the war. Nothing ‘ has been received from Bérlin officially. Neither has any encouragement come from London, although that situation may change. Peace sentiment has grown there apparently, and : : ‘Lloyd George is leading a camFaien against the Government's insistence upon “war at any price.” Therefore, with nothing before our Government, it is not acting. There is a disposition-here to be skeptical of Berlin peace talk., Although some in Congress are advocating that we pick up the newspaper trial balloon from Berlin, the real slant here. is that Hitler has offered little basis for discussion, and seems primarily trying to demoralize the British and French into accepting prac tically a dictated peace on the strength of his Polish victory,
How Not to Mediate
* A mediafor must. watch his step in going’ nth such _a situation as exists in Europe today, for mediation Is quite different from a mere tender of “good offices.” When a nation offers its “good offices” it serves only as host or as a postoffice box, and does not participate in the negotiations. But a mediator goes a little further,
My Day
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—By dint of working on my mail until late at night the past two nights and using every minute on the trains and the planes yesterday, I think I am nearly caught up. Before I took the train yesterday morning, I had a few minutes in my own apartment in New York City to atténd to a little of my long distance housekeeping. Sometimes I wonder if anyone is as reckless as * 1 am about trusting other people to imagine what I want them to do. I have a maid who has been with me for a long while. She looked at me rather sadly yesterday and said: “Before you get too busy, could I talk to you for 10 minutes?” It occurred to
me that once in six months that.
¥ x wasn't a Sreat geal of time to / 1 ‘uhaing. even a. small apartment. Life is Jopend, an coincidences. On the train to New Haven 1 sat-next to a lady who told me that she'came from Rhinebeck, N. Y., and knew well a lady whose family ‘had lived for years in Hyde Park. People who live on "the Hudson River always have - ‘a sense of knowing ‘each other. “+ That* s me that if you have not seen the the Hudson River in “Life,” you still
. good fish stories to tell.
hy Ernie. Pyle
getting hooks imbedded in their flesh. There are several cases every year at every fishing camp.
One fellow got a hook deep in his upper lip, right|
under ‘his nos. Nae guide took the fellow’s face in one hand, and of pliers in the other—and yanked! Another man told how he got a hook through the end of his finger, down under the nail. Up here you're very far from a doctor. get the hook out all alone. -
“I took my old barlow knife, and just sawed \
down through about half an inch of flesh,” he said. “I didn’t think I could do it at first, but I did. It was uncomfortable.” » #” 8
Story of a Fish Hook
Another fellow got a fish hook right through his eye-iid. It was too delicate a job for ‘the guides to monkey with. So they put him on a boat and ‘rushed him out to Gold Beach. The doctor filed off
the hook part, and pulled the rest out backwards. |
Larry Lucas, who runs the fishing’ camp here, and takes out parties almost daily, gets whanged with a hook every so often. He got one right between the shoulder blades the other day. He: said it felt like a bullet, Personally, I do not like’ to fish, so I have no But I do have a good fish-hook story that actually happened to me. = One day when I was around 20 years old T was sitting on the bottom of the Mississippi River, about 10 miles below. Memphis. Suddenly there was a great commotion over to my right, and I saw a big bully of a fish-hook attacking an old crippled catfish. The cat-fish had been a friend of our family for years, so naturally I went to his rescue. The fish-hook was'really no match for me, and after a brief grapple -I disengaged it from my old friend, and sent the thing on its way with . a few well-placed kicks. : . Unfortunately, on one’ kick, part of the hook broke off in my foot. It took root there, and: started to grow. During the years since, it has grown: right up through my body, and today there is a fish-hook sticking out of the top of my head. You can see it if you drop by some afternoon about 5 o'clock.
By Anton Scherrer
in for some ice skating. The sooner, the better. When I got to Haarlem, famed for flowers and Frans Hals, I put up at the Funckler, a hotel founded in 1830 and still going good. Soon as Mynheer Jacobi, the present proprietor. had a look at me he inquired about the welfare and whereabouts of William Chase, the American artist. It was a question right up my alley. At any rate, I made the most of it. Not only did I account for Mr. Chase’s present whereabouts (in Heaven, I thought), but I went even further and enlightened Mr. Jacobi concerning Mr. Chase’s birth and beginning; stressing the fact that he was a born and bred Hoosier who received his first drawing lessons in Indianapolis. Whereupon Mr. Jacobi told me that- 30 vears ago Mr. Chase brought a class to Haarlem to study the pictures of Frans Hals. . » wr Marching: Disturbs Reverie: ; . Right away I thought of Clifton Wheeler: of Mooresville and Hilah Drake of New York and wondered (out loud) whether they were with Mr, Chase at the time. Mr. Jacobi said it was so long ago that he couldn’t remember. Maybe it's just as well that his memory went back on him. Otherwise I might be spilling the secret of Clif and Hilah’s courtship. Somehow I seem to remember that it was on one of Mr. Chase’s pilgrimages that the iwo met, fell in love (maybe right here.n Haarlem), married ahd.settied in Indianapolis. : I never did get to the ottom of Clif aii Hilah’s courtship. ¢« For the reason that just at that moment I heard marching in the streets. When my curiosity got the better of me, I learned that Holland was mobilizing. It was the first intimation I had that something was doing in the way of another World War. Gradually it dawned on me that maybe we were stuck in Haarlem. What.of it, I thought. We! couldn't have picked a prettier place to be interned, -
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"By Raymond Clapper
in that he usually interjects his own ideas in the, form of suggestions and advice. One way not to mediate is the way Col. Hous the roving busy-body Ambassador of Woodrow W. Ison, tried it. In 1915, after the Lusitania was sunk, House decided that Germany must be defeated even if the United States had to go into the war and do the job. He proposed his neat little scheme to the British. Wilson was to offer Germany terms so severe that she would not be likely tc accept. Or if, contrary to all expectations,® she should accept them, then the Allies would have obtained their victory. If Germany refused the terms, House promised - that - the United States would go into the war on the Allied side.
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Those Selfish British! ie
Week after week, House begged the British to do this. They played him along. Kitchener was awfully nice about it. Kitchener said the Americans were valiant fighters and that “with American troops joined with the British, we will not need French troops on the west front, but can keep them as reserve.” But the British politicians held back. The reason was that they feared Wilson would not allow them to have as much out of Germany as they could. get by fighting it through. At that time they were still cocky. = "All of this was a dead secret. Congress and the public did not know that Wilson and /House were offering to go into the war. Indeed Wilson was. to be renominated on the boast that he kept us out of war! Well, Col. House continued to tell the British' we were ready to go into the war, but they finally turned him down. House was bitterly disappointed. He wrote to Wilson: “The more I see of the dealings of Governments among themselves, the more I am impressed with the utter selfishness of their outlook.” = Utter selfishness! They wouldnt even let us info their war. Now it ought to be our turn to be snooty.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
have a pleasure in store for you. I wish something like this could be done for all the beauty spots of our country. 1 joined my mother-in-law in the church in New Haven and she drove back to Hyde Park after the funeral service for Dr. Harvey Cushing. It. was an impressive service, but very simple. The people there indicated how many and how wide had been Dr. Cushing’s interests. For all his honors, which made him -an international personality, he always seemed such a simple persons. . You felt that he enjoyed talking to you, even if you were not one of the brilliant people of the world. I think he would have appreciated the tributes paid to him, but perhdps he would have read them with a little smile which would
imply} that he set his own standards and lived by ‘them, and
that, while he liked the praise of other people, praise nor blame was really important unless i from within his own conscience. One should never make rash ‘observations, but’ it
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had been borne in upon me as I traveled through the West that the preponderance of men on -planes On the train yesterday, there seemed to be many more ladies in the diner, and so I made died yesterday from injuries regives. Sunday in an. automobile ae Indiana Uni
was very great.
the casual remark that for some strange Jenson, 1 preferred planes and women preferred trains. we boarded the plane for Washington and the Then
of women was two to one in favor of the female of
the species, so generalities are always: dangerous.
This fellow had “to|
“By David Dietz
Seripps-Howard Science Editor
closely guarded plans long on
‘which majestic ‘battleships,
war, was faced with a fourfold task in which the navy played the major role. These were the things which Britain had to do: Bottle up the German battle fleet, and drive German shipping off the seas. Maintain control of the seas and keep the British lifelines open. | Prepare to meet a German air attack and get ready to launch an effective counter-attack.
Begin the movement of troops to the Western Front as rapidly as possible. Behind these initial tasks was Britain's necessity ‘to prepare for a long struggle. For, as now seems fairly apparent, the British and French plan is to fight a war of attrition, to ring in Germany until lack of food and necessary
INOLAN TO FIGHT HOLT
APPEAL IN WPA CASE
U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan will go to Chicago Oct. 30 to argue against an appeal being made by Olin R. Holt, former Kokomo mayor, convicted here last May on charges of ‘conspiring to defraud the Government by diverting WPA labor to private use. Holt, whose case will come before the U. S. Circuit Court: of Appeals, is at liberty under $5000 bond. He was sentenced by Federal Judge J. Leroy ‘Adair .to 15 months at the Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary and fined $5000. Four other former Kokomo City officials convicted with Holt are serving sentences of from 15 months to two years at the. Federal Penitentiary.
INDIANA BAPTISTS = “MEET IN SEYMOUR
Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind. Oct. 1 Mayor Stanley A. Switzer last night welcomed delegates and ministers to the Indiana Baptist Convention here. Others who greeted the ministers
the ‘host church, and the Rev. -Ken-
neth Murphy, St. Paul's Congregational Church pastor. and president] of the Seymour Ministerial Associaon.
convention vice president. The Rev. ew. H. Dillard, North Vernon, con-
Up Indiana Baptists.” +
INJURIES CAUSE DEATH
Mrs. ‘Glendora: Huber, 59, of Gaston,
t near here.
‘gotreadyto fight a war. Orice: again, as in 1914; Britain's life depended upon Britains: ‘warships. We cannot penetrate the wall of censorship bekind
‘were ‘the Rev. A. A. Cohn, pastor of
The response was. given by the Rev. I. C. Overman, Waynetown,
vention president, shake. on [Wake
MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 11 (U, PJ
The H. M. S. Rodney, one. 0 of- Great Britain's igitiost battleships, sets the echoes ringing with a blast from her big guns. Below is a map showing the British Empire and its "life-lines." -
Great Britain Has Four-Fold Task
(Third of
a Series)
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S diplomatic tension indredsed in the divs: before the German invasion of Poland, there came the brief, almost cryptic, announcement, “Warships of the British fleet have been ordered to their battle stations.” Thus the mighty ships. of England, according ‘to
file in the British Admiralty,
powerful cruisers, swift de--
stroyers and deadly submarines are now operating. ‘But’ we do know that Great Britain, upon her entry into the
supplies—or internal revolution—_ puts Germany out of the fight. .» » i ” : Toe ‘now to the first task: The. fact.is that-Great-
- Britain has successfully bottled
up the German war, fleet, with “the exception of the submarines. + This was not difficult, since: Germany. has virtually no high ‘seas -
t Great Britain ‘has a fleet of 15 battleshibs, with a combined tonnage of 474,000 tons. ships are sufficiently new and modern to meet the rating of “under age.” Heading : this fleet is the Hood," the world’s largest warship, with a Sislacement of 42,100 tons. To the British'fleet, we can, of course, for purposes of the pres-. ent war, add in the French fleet of seven battleships. | ; Opposing these is the German fleet of seven ships, three of: which are so-called “pocket bat-
‘The salvation of - human tights rests: with America, Louis’ ‘Adamie, the immigrant: boy who: has “outAmericaned” many. Americans, said
in an interview here today. * The author is in Indianapolis ~~ to i address the Wom- f= an’s Department : Club this - after= ‘ noon and fo gath er material for his forthcoming book. “America—A Nation’ of Nations.” § Mr. Adamic, who: gained in t ernational renown 10 years ago with
‘{ “The Native'’s Re-
turn,” declined to discuss the Bu. WES ropean situation. Louis Adamic He explained that’ he knew nothing: ‘about it but what | stoc he read in the newspapers, He was willing; however, A8 talk about America, the country to ‘which he came when’. 15. from!
SCHOOL PROJECTS. NEAR COMPLETION
Indiana’s- $21,000,000 school construction program under the 1939
of Region 2 announced today.
Hope of Human In America -Adamic Says
PWA was 45 per tent complete on} Oct. 1, Director D. R.. Kennicott |
tleships,” while two are small ships of about 13,000 tons each, both” “over age” and obsolete. . ~All three fleets, of course, con-. tain airplane carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, etc., in
_" addition to these capital ships.
The ‘total tonnage of the British navy is 1,500,000 tons; of the French navy, 550,000 tons; of the German navy, 219,000 tons. ; Of equal significance are the . battleships under construction. On Feb. 21 of this year, the British launched . the King George V, a 35,000-ton: capital ship of entirely new design. It is to be assumed that this ship is already in commission, or will be. shortly. It is
- the first of five sister ships now
under construction, vi ‘asiane King George V is special‘ly’ armored to withstand air
3 tack; and has hangars on either side of the fore funnel for cars:
Tying ‘airplanes. - Its main arma-. ment consists af 10 14-inch guns. The secondary battery consists of '16 5% -inch guns. There is addi“tional armament, including numerous. anti-aircraft guns. All told, Great Britain has, at
the present time, 700,000 tons: of °
"heavy: ships under construction; France has 280,000; Germany hs 282,000. As to German shipping, it has already been driven to cover. Hundreds of German ships were interned in neutral ports. German ships have disappeared from the seas, except for the Baltic. We come now to the second
task of the Britis Navy, that of :
keeping: Britain’s lifelines open. At. the present stage of affairs, this means meeting the menace
‘of German submarine warfare.
There was a stage in the first World War in which it looked as though the German subs were winning. But it didn’t last long. It looks to most neutral observers as though Brifain was winning: against the ‘subs from the start this time: ‘' The subs, of ‘course, have inflicted losses on British shipping. But the British fleet has sunk some submarines—
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Slovenia, then a province of Austria and now of Yugoslavia. - “There is entirely too much desire here now to want everyone to turn into a uniform pattern,” he said. “Everyone wants the other fellow: to be like himself: “Certain groups are’developing attitudes against other groups. We: have concentration camps without any fences around: them ‘and without any guards. “A democracy is a “unity of difference and we must preserve: those differences. We must save democracy ‘at home.”
a first-hand study of the: “families : 38,000,000 immigrants who ‘the U, 8. during - ‘the last|
Hels to try to determine what in- | fluence the children of these fammany of them entirely differ-|" Wes. git seam Y be original Anglo-Saxon “have on America... " He left his home in Milford, N. J., 1ast July. to tour the United: States and is not scheduled: 10 return until next April. . ig 3
Bread Aids in ‘Endurance Hop
MUNCIE, IND. OCT. 1 om, —Well-aimed pieces. of br today. were credited with: keeping
and Robert. McDapiels
The research for his book. ‘calls for |:
“the; plane of Kelvin Baxter of Richmond
the censors will not say how many
—and the British losses do not appear to be excessive to date. a a ET us ‘try to visualize the" meaning of Britain's lifelines. If you. visited the British Building at the New York World's Fair, the job will ‘be easier for you. There you looked down on a
_ gredt Telief map of the world.
Dotting its oceans were tiny models of ships, swarming over the map like ants upon-an ant hill. ‘These were British ships. only, and represented the. distribution of Britain's merchant marine at a given instant on a given date. Figures. of the British’ admiralty show that, on a: given day, there
are 1545 British vessels of more = °
‘than 3000 tons each, as well as humerous smaller vessels, at sea. To " keep going, ‘Great Britain must “draw’ upon this great em» pire and. neutral nations’ as well. ” ” s HE first great need is fodd. - Great Britain ‘is sufficient only in fish, milk and potatoes. It is particularly deficient ‘in cereals, sugars and fats. The next most serious shortages, from a military viewpoint, are iron ore and petroleum. ; Great Britain must import 50 per cent of its food, 25 per cent of its iron ore, and practically 100 per cent of its petroleum, But Great. Britain must also
import - many , of the so-called
“critical raw materials.” It must import 100 per cent of its copper, cotton, zinc, rubber, manganese, nickel, chromite, potash, ‘antimony, mercury and mica. Like=wise, it must import almost 100 per cent of its tin, and about 80 per cent of its wool, sulphur and phosphates. : The average annual imports of Great Britain during the last three years have been about 930,000,000 pounds sterling, that is, about $4,500,000,000. This sum has been divided, roughly, into 45 per cent for food, 30 per cent. for raw materials and 25 per cent for manufactured articles.
FESTIVAL OPENS AT MT. VERNON TONIGHT
Times PR ny : "MT. VERNON, Ind. Oct. 11. — The. seventh : annual ; .Fall Festival is to open here tonight and continue through” Saturday. . Mayor George A: Krug and William E Shrode, president ‘of: the |
Chamber of Commerce, will speak.
Tomorrow’s program will be Na-
tional Guard maneuvers; an.address |
by Col. L. L. Roberts, a concert by the High School band and a service parade in the evening. | The industrial parade Friday will precede . ‘the high school football game. The festival will end Saturday with a pet parade sponsored by the Kiwanis club.
150 ‘FIRE MARSHALS’ "ARE APPOINTED HERE
Appointment of 150 ' unofficial “fire marshals” to watch for fire| hazards -in business and industrial establishments for which they work, was. announced today in: connection
with the annual observance of Fire
Prevention” Week. R. D. MacDaniel, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce fire prevenfion and protection committee, safd “marshals” for additional firms will|
“1be named before the ‘close of ‘the
observance Saturday.
The unofficial “fire marshal” plan was Te out by the committee in}: co-operation with
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Depart-| urea: and
The French situation is better than the British in that there is no shortage of food or iron ore. But France can only supply about 60 per cent of its own needs for coal, and it must import 100, pexZ..
| cent of its supply. of petroleum.
Its lack of “critical raw materials” just about parallels that of Great Britain. When we turn to the financial field, however, we find Great Britain and France in an unusue ally strong position. The two nations have American investments alone of about $4,000,000,000 ‘which could be liquidated to pay for nécessary. purchases of food and raw materials.
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E come now to the question of war in the air, which is one of the questions of utmost importance. Unanswered, to date, _ 4 “thie “question of “how powerful’ German planes will prove against “the British fleet. On Sept. 27, Germany: claimed success in an
"air attack on British naval:-ves-
. Sels. England denied that the attack was successful. : According - to the best figures
‘available, before the start of the
war Germany had between 3500 . and 5000 “first+line planes, 3000 to - 4000 resérve planes, and an initial production capacity of 00 to 1000 planes a month. Great Britain had between 3000 and 4000 first-line planes, 2000 to 3000 reserve planes, and an initial capacity of 500. to 800." France had 1800. to 2500 first‘line planes, 1000 to 2000 reserve planes, and an intial production capacity of 100 to 200 a month, If these figures may be believed, Germany does not possess the much advertised superiority of which Field Marshal Goering has so frequently boasted. Regarding Great Britain's fourth great task, the moving of _ troops to the ‘Y/estern Front, we may conclude, from the cable dis-
- patches, it is- going forward suc- ~~
cessfully.
NEXT: Position.
Tribute i Paid To Gen. Pulaski
FLAGS ON PUBLIC buildings here were being flown today in hénor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American patriot 3 who aid‘ed the Colonies during the Revolutionary War. Pulaski ' County or was named In his
Getman y's Strategie’
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
© the city of Djibouti?
. from "tr he. South Pole to the North Pole? * 3—What is ‘moratorium? , A-Name 1 the. Prime Miinster of
5 What is is the correct pronounciation of the word‘ lamenta"able? 6—How is the date of Labor Day fixed? :
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» # : ” Answers 1—French Somaliland. a 2—About 12,410 miles. HE ‘3—An extension of time: for pave ment of debt. 4—Hubert. Pierlot. ; Lie Seam -ent-a<bl; not tomer ~ ta-b 8—1It is fixed by law as the first Monday in September.
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