Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1939 — Page 20

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 1

i Hoosier Vagabond ~~ By Ernie Pyle

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‘SAN DIEGO, Nov. 17.—There is a club in San Diego known as the Bottom-Scratchers Club. The only way you can get into it is to bring up three abalones from the bottom of the ocean in 30 feet of water, and then bring in a live shark by the tail with your bare hands. » The club requirements are so tough that only five men have been able to make it. One of the five has had. to retire because of busted eardrums. Another is practically emeritus, because he turns blue in cold water. The club’s president goes under the title of Chief Walrus. The club is about five years old, and the first Chief Walrus is still Chief Walrus. His name is Glenn Orr. Glenn is a friendly, well- : built man of 31, who runs a crane for the City of San Diego. He works six days a week. And then on Sunday, regardless of wind, snow, sleet or mail carriers, he is out in.the water diving and crawling around the bottom of the ocean.. . Orr's feet are cut up from walking on the bottom, his shoulders are scratched and scarred from scraping

against barnacles on under-water ledges. And in the,

small of his back is a big scar where a sea lion bit & couple of months ago. : = s ®

Some Narrow Escapes

He was down on the bottom prying loose abalones when this sea lion came plunging down from above. Glenn never saw it coming. It hit him like a ton of brick and took a big hunk out of his back, right over his spine. He had to go to the hospital for that one. This bottom-scratching is done purely for sport. For the same reason that other men play golf—because they enjoy it. , oho They don’t use diving helmets. They just go down

Our Town

ONCE UPON a time most of the real estate in In-

dianapolis was owned by outside interests, and the

only way to explain it is to start at the beginning.

For all practical purposes—certainly for the purposes of today’s piece—the story of real estate, considered purely as an investment, starts with 1860. By that time it was pretty well established that Indianapolis . was cut out for a manufacturing center. At any rate, something more than an agricultural community. Its geographical location, the new lines of communications opened by the locomotive, and its proximity to a coal field of nearly 8000 square miles—enough to last till doomsday—all contributed to the

discovery. The Civil War did its part, too. The war °

brought a largely increased population to the city and during the decade from 1860 to 1870 the popula-. tion increased from 18,000 to more than 48,000—practically 300 per cent—a record, the like of which probably will never be seen again. Right then and there capitalists got the idea that Indianapolis was destined to be a big city, even though there were no public improvements to speak of, = Strangely enough most of the capitalists who had Shei eyes peeled on Indianapolis lived outside the

The Boom Period i rs

The period from 1868 to 1870 was es with "70, however, there were signs of a bo

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in 1875—practically 700 per cent in 15 years—another

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—In outlining his: basic political philosophy in the Lakeland, Fla. speech, Presidential candidate Paul McNutt stated, as I pointed out yesterday, that American democracy must use fts Government to establish an economic floor below which no American citizen can fall. - That means, for instance, so-clal-security legislation, wagesand hours protection, and probably some kind of health program. When men are faced by unemployment, illness‘ and oldage insecurity, when they are goaded by terrifying fears for their families, they do not listen to the voices of moderate men. They fall prey to demagogs and

under the New Deal? 2 ” 8

Challenge to Capitalism

Mr. McNutt dimisses completely the idea of a soclety here organized upon the principle of “production for use and not for profit”—which is the phrase commonly used to disguise the stark words “socialism” and “communism.” He says the initiative, energy and fulness of the American people will never

sanction the abolition of private property and of the -

ty for individual enterprise. : It is not, as Mr. McNutt sees it, the living organism of our capitalistic structure that causes our trouble. Those extreme fluctuations in the business cycle, ‘recurring unemployment, and the inadequacies of. our distribution techniques are not the necessary and un-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday—When we arrived in Bluefield, W. Va., yesterday we had had no lunch, so we crossed the street to a little restaurant to have a sandwich and a glass of milk.’ In a minute the pro-

prietor was.at Miss Thompson's elbow, saying that if : he had time he would go home to find his letters from the Presi= dent and, in view of his friend-

ship, would I go on the radioand

talk to the people of two counSince we had a long drive before us and several engagements, any further delay seemed out of the question, but before we left a few interested specta tors had gathered to find out just “what we were doing in Bluefield. The drive through the mountains to Logan was very beauti-

ful. I never the ease and rapidity with which those accustomed to mountain driving cover thé miles over those rather A press conference in Logan was interesting because of the youth of the press. They brought me copies the local paper, which was very well printed and up. It was evident that these young reporters re really deeply interested in their jobs.

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and hold their breath until they're back up again. Not one of them but has been caught by some circumstance, and held his breath almost to the dying _point, and come to the top roaring sick at his stomach. Each man always carries a long sharp knife when he dives to the bottom. Sometimes it’s strapped around a wrist, sometimes stuck in a sheath inside his trunks. Once a sea lion bit Glenn Orr’s under-water flashlight right out of his hand. Twice he got his knife caught in an underwater rock crevice. That wouldn't be so bad except that the knife was tied around his wrist, trapping him there. On each occasion he gave a big yank and broke the cord—a feat he probably couldn’t accomplish wére he doing it just for fun,

Not Afraid, of Sharks

The Bottom-Scratchers have big chests and can “hold their breath under water for three minutes. Glenn’s chest has expanded four inches since he has been ‘doing this stuff. -. , : . The Bottom-Scratchers do their diving just off _the breakwater at La Jolla, a hali-hour’s drive north “of San Diego. Lots of people watch them from shore on Sundays. Mainly they are after abalones. An abalone is a thing in a shell, sort of like a clam, only the shell is about as big as a plate. - ; The abalone has suction cups around the rim, afd it glues itself to the rocks on bottom. A man could no more pry one loose with his hands than he could fly. But if you slip a knife underneath, it comes off easily. , Glenn is not afraid of sharks. He says they are just a nuisance. They dart around you and get in the way when youre trying to pry abalones loose. He won't say a shark won't attack a.man, but he has never been attacked. i : Killing a shark is nothing at all in. his life. He couldn’t even estimate how many he has killed. Sometimes three and four in one Sunday. And other mild things like octopuses and sting-rays. ?

By Anton Scherrer

¢ ® record to shoot at.

And that was just about the time outside capitalists practically owned the whole of Indianapolis. Some was by way of direct investment and some by way of mortgages plastered on buildings. Indianapolis was enjoying a terrific real estate boom and having a mighty good time, you bet. While all this was going on, the great financial panic of 1873 was taking place in the East, It took nearly two years to reach here. Which explains why Hervey Bates and Michael Clune went right on blissfully building their magnificent residences unmindful of conditions in the East. To say nothing of Mr. Woodruff and his unheard-of development of an 80 acre self-contained town right outside of ‘Indianapolis. : 8 8 = A Lesson Remembered

Then came the bust. In 1875 more buildings were put up for sale in Indianapolis than in any year of its history, a fever having seized the investors to get out their money any way they could. The outside investors rushed to the scene and foreclosed on mortgages letting lots go for almost nothing. Then came the flat period of 1876 when real estate men nearly lost their heart and all progress stopped. This condition Msted about four years and it was the most discouraging period the city ever experienced. The popuion was no more in 1880 than it was in 1874, so hard had been the blow received. In 1880, however, things began to brighten. More and more the demand increased untii the city was _ once more on the road to recovery. There was no ~change in this steady growth until 1887 when natural 948 ‘was ‘introduced. ' Then there was an incipient ‘lasting two months. For a while it looked like a

. big boom might be developed, but the better sense of

-the people—at any rate, those with long memories— prevailed and the boom was nipped in the bud. By 1890 values were almost back to where they were when - the boom ‘collapsed in 1875. Since then real estate men haven't had any reason to complain. And what’s more to the point, most of the real estate held around here today is owned by Indianapolis citizens, : 2 \

By Raymond Clapper

- avoidable incidents of a capitalist economy. They are rather challenges to those who would make capitalism function more effectively. / Some say democracy cannot survive in a context of . capitalism. But Mr. McNutt is certain that democracy could not survive under any other system. Democracy, as Mr. McNutt understands it, must combine elements of both a free economic order and a planned economy. That is, there must be ample latitude for private enterprise and at the same time, as I would spell out his thought, there must be a measure of economic regulation say in use of natural resources, public utilities and standards of competition. » ” #

‘House Divided’ Is Hazard

Now this kind of economy, which combines free enterprise with use of governmental power at various points, requires delicate adjustment if it is to work. $ great hazard involved, says Mr. McNutt, “is * that of a house divided against itself, with the forces of government pulling in one direction and the forces of business and commerce pulling in another. To avoid such a result, farsighted statesmanship is necessary—a statesmanship which can successfully withstand the temptation to withdraw completely from the field of economic regulation and at the same time resist the to regiment and restrict the economic activities of the nation to a single pattern.” ‘That calls for expert administration and, more important even, for a co-operative relationship between government and private enterprise. ‘Perhaps Mr. McNutt would not say so, but much of Mr. Roosevelt's trouble has been a failure on the part of government and private enterprise to operate as of one whole. Mr. McNutt seems fo be trying to say that the essentials of the New Deal and of private capitalism are not conflicting but complementary and that both are necessary to modern democracy.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

others had left, she lingered to ask about her great ambition—a- chance for a few minutes’ private interview, which I fear will not be granted because so many ask. Then came a talk with a Quaker woman who ran, for a time, a clinic in Logan in which I was interested, and who is now trying to do a real job for the crippled children of the locality. Finally, two teachers brought in a little girl they discovered having real musical talent. : She is now 12 years old and they have been watching her ever since she was 6. Her parents are Hungarians and the father is a miner, so her opportunities to develop what talent she may have are limited. She played the piano for me in a manner which showed a real feeling for music. It would be wonderful if someone could send this child to a good music school where she could obtain some training in dramatics as well. I hate to confess knowing very little about the possibilities for this type of education, but-I am going to try to find out, not only what schools there are, but what chance there might be of obtaining a scholarship, for without it she can certainly never go beyond what she has already attained. . After the evening lecture, we were driven into

‘Huntington, W. Va., in time to make a 1:30 a. m. train.|

We saw a forest fire in the mountains as we drove along. In the dark it looked dramatic and beautiful, but I could not help thinking how dreary and sad those blackened hillsides would look by daylight. What

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‘Word Bullets’ Of Reich Failed .In World War

(Third of a Series) By George Britt

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—

during the first World War never attained the same acceptance in America as British propaganda, never made the grade socially, did " not succeed. As Ambassador von Bernstorff wrote in his memoirs, German publicity ‘never succeeded in

requirements.”

And yet rman war propaganda was neither silent nor short of funds. The battles fought in America on the propaganda front were contested fiercely.

From the start of the war probably the most active American citizen in efforts to make friends for Germany was George Sylvester Viereck. His weekly, The Fatherlang; with the slogan, “Fair play for Germany and Austria,” made its appearance on Aug. 10, just a week after hostilities began—and it attained a circulation of 75,000. “The first issue hailed the Kaiser as not a war lord but the “Pririce of- Peace.” ; 2 The German propagandists, however, suffered the handicap of being required to combat an adverse propaganda from two directions at once—the propaganda of the Allies and the anti-German propaganda emanating from Germany itself. The invasion of Belgium, regardless of military necessity, was a major blunder in propaganda. The sinking of the Lusitania, the incendiary sabotage of more than 40 American factories climaxing in the Black Tom explosion, a long succession of other incidents : which the British propagandists did not create and for which they were not responsible, needed but the slightest push in order to sink effectively into erican con- . sciousness. ? To these incidents must be added, on the eve of American entry into the war, the celebrated Zimmerman note, one of the most damaging bits of anti-German propaganda - which Berlin ever produced. This note, intercepted by the British, was from the Foreign Office in Berlin to the German Ambassador in Mexico. It instructed the Ambassador, in case the United States joined the Allies, to try to incite Mexico to a war alliance with Germany. “We shall give general financial support,” it said, “and, it is -understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.” Japan also

HOLT WILL ASSUME KIWANIS CLUB POST

Arthur P. Holt, president of Capitol Dairies, Inc., will assume the presidency of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club the first week of Jan-

uary. - Mr. Holt, who was elected at the annual meeting and banquet in the Columbia Club this week, will succeed James T. Hamill, - ‘Others to be installed in January are Walter I. Hess, flirst vice president; Robert L. n, seconds vice president, and Hengy I. Raymond, treasurer. New directors are William L. Bridges, Robert C. Burnett and Howard E. Nyhart. Robert P. Oblinger remains the club’s secre-

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$50,000 DEMANDED FOR CRASH INJURIES

C. Dolly Gray, district manager of the American Aggregate Corp., and Peggy ‘Jane Gray, 15,, were named - defendants in two $50,000 damage suits filed in Superior Courts today. The suits, based .on injuries, received in an auto accident Feb. 8, 1939, were brought by Joe R. Chouden, Noblesville, Ind. . They charged that Peggy Jane Gray was driving a car owned by

one driven by Mr. Chouden at Keystone Ave. and the Millersville Road, seriously injuring him. Mr. Chouden alleged his injuries confined him to a hospital for four months. * ‘Mr. Gray lives at 6800 Westfield Road. He could not be reached for comment.

MURAT COMMITTEE PLANS PARTY TONIGHT

The membership committee of the! night at the Temple. ‘William A.

of Paul Middleton to be

fet, ® supper. per. Members

will other

German propaganda -

' Hindenburg, Ludendorft

Mr. Gray, which allegedly struck}

toward ter. living conditions.

Murat Temple will hold a party to-|

A floor show under the direction| Jollowsd 13 8 buf :

The masthead > of the Fatherland, a paper started in New York by German sympathizers - during the World War, is shown abpve.

adapting itself to American

The above cartoon from The Fatherland carried the following

caption: “England has summoned

the Mongol; France calls upon the

Moor; Russia sends her Cossacks to attack our German kinsmeén.

"WHERE ARE THE\SYMPATHIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?”

But today the Russians and Japanese are hailed as friends of Germany.

themselves to war propaganda and built up a voluminous literature to justify the theory. From this running start the Nazis went on to bigger things. It was propaganda in large part which actually placed Hitler in control, and propaganda was the vanguard of the attack on Austria, the Sudetenland, the remainder of Czechoslovakia and Poland. The possession of a monopoly of propaganda has 'preserved - the Nazi regime challenged at home, “Is not propaganda astwe understand it a kind of art,” proudly says Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Pub-

art of mass psychology which was

instrumental in saving the Reich from destruction?”

7" 'The organization that Dr. Goeb-

Count ‘von Bernstorft =

was to be brought in against America if possible. : But with the end of the war Germany. was by no means done with propaganda. . # ” #

HE word - propaganda itself has filled an enormous place in the German world outlook for 21 years, and the reason is simple—it provided a perfect escape from the homely truth that the German Army was defeated in 1918. ' Propaganda was the theme when d the other generals wrote their memoirs. Propaganda was the orthodox reason assigned why the soldiers’ cried “Kamerad!” And as ‘years passed research scholars in the German universities devoted

bels commands is — practically

. without - 8 rival—the most elabs

orately organized and far-reach-ing war machine ever devised for the purpose of fighting with words. According to the Institute for

Propaganda Analysis, its cost for .

operations throughout the world. has been .$100,000,000 every year since 11933, Its barrage now has been set going full blast; and if the Germans miss their victory this time they’ll certainly need

some other excuse besides propa-

ganda. ” Dr. Goebbels has shown himself too canny an operative even to consider linking America .into a military alliance with Adolf Hit-. ler. But the objectives which were possible he has hammered at with shrewdness and. ingenuity. From the start he had on his side the lasting bad taste of the last

war in American memory. And he .

has cultivated industriously every

Nothing for U.S. in War,

Unruh Warns Baptists

| The United: States has everything to lose and nothing to ‘gain

‘through participation in the European the Midwest Council on International Relations,

War, E. J. Unruh, director of said at the Thursday

evening meeting of the First Baptist Church last night. : “Basically there are no high ideals involved in the European. quar-

rel,” he said. : “The defeat of Hitlerism, if it is a war aim, still remains mostly an European problem.” : The real issue over which all wars are fought, he said, is economic imperialism, an attempt to gain or maintain control over international financing and commerce. “The World War was strictly an European problem, primarily between the economic interests of Great Britain and Germany,” Mr. Unruh continued. “The United States joined in that war ignorantly or under false pretense and we sustained irreparable losses ‘with: no

gains. In fact, our help sustained

the real war, causing forces which again are the issue in the European war, ie fo “I am opposed to nsziism and every form of dictatorship, but 1 be-

lieve American prosperity cannot be

gained and ‘democracy cannot be strengthened by warfare. Warfare

destroys economic resources of na-|

tions, leaving the people impoverished and their industries idle—that is the road to dictatorship, not democracy.” . ° aT SNE He termed conflicts in other parts of the world as a menace to, this country because they produce protracted periods of uncertainty, dend obstruct national and ‘i

the - increase of peaceful economic activities leading to bet-

| by Chopin, Russell Terhune; “Song , |of Thanksgiving” by Allitsen, Wil-|W

Hoefgen, chairman,” and Ray J.| Sever, assistant chairman of the| He embership committee, will have] t

AERO CLUB TO FLY ~ TO DAYTON SUNDAY

Indianapolis Aero Club members will take off from the Municipal and Hoosier Airports at 8:15 a. m. ‘Sunday in 25 privately owned planes for a mass flight to Dayton, O.

converge into one flight fermation over Stout Field in the southwestern section of the county. : i From there the private pilots will cruise to Lewisburg, O., where they

Club. The two groups of planes will go to Dayton for a mass flight over the city and then land at the airpoft at Vandalia. 8 i The fliers will return Sunday eve-

WASHINGTON PUPILS "70 MARK HOLIDAY

rated at Washington High School

| Nov. : 22 with a double convocation ; to be presented by pupils

of Miss Etta Scherf and Mrs. Bess

will be “Piigrims Chorus” by Fletcher, Colonial Chorus; “Nocturne 1, Opus 9”

‘| Sanders Wright. | Included on the program

- with Germany.

une

The planes: from each airport. will |

will ‘join fliers ‘of the Daytoh Aero

opportunity to encourage distrust of the British, hatred of the Jews and antagonism to the New Deal —all steps to a common viewpoint

8 8 8 UCH have been the themes of his ‘direct propaganda, and if

he .could supply the material and. - get'it. repeated by Americans such

as Father Coughlin and the recent .Senatorial candidate, Gerald B. Winrod of Kansas, its efective--ness was all the greater, .. : Dr. Goebbeis has wasted no breath pleading for America to fight Germany’s war, but his radio announcer had a good eye for sore spots when he broadcast on the short waves recently: nin “American = taxpayers! Do you know whether you or the British taxpayers will have to pay the British war debt? You will have to pay it!” it 1 i “The Goebbels propaganda assault began operations long before there was anything but quiet on the Western Front. Former Ger--mans, to the third and fourth generations in America, were approached and wherever ible were organized according to their social class. Vast ‘mailing lists ‘were collected—of persons to re=ceive propaganda or to be called on for money or services or bombard Congress with letters. Every possible ally, however temporary, was ‘enlisted. ery means was utilized — lecturers, news dispatches, publicity ‘ handouts, papers, magazines, radio broadecasts—for putting Nazi Germany’s message across. " “propaganda is only another weapon,” Hitler said in Mein Kampf, and in ‘arming -Germany he did not overlook the: radio.

BATTALION ORDERED

' The last battalion of the 11th Infantry at Ft. Harrison received orders today to leave Thursday for the South, Col. G. H. Davidson, post executive officer, said today.

~ More than 1500 infantrymen have

evacuated Ft. Harrison in the last month and are now .eginning a four-months “field training program at military reservations in southern states. WE : = The 450 men who today received moving orders will be taken to Camp McClellan, Ala, to join other infantrymen from Ft. Harrison and other Midwest: Army posts in becoming a part of the new streamlined Fifth Division. ; After the last contingent leaves next week, only a ‘skeleton force will remain to guard the fort property. Families :of the transferred soldiers will remain at Ft. Harrison throughout the winter. anc ———————————

PROPAGANDA STUDY IS LAUNCHED: BY HI-Y

propaganda .and fact in reports on the European war will be studied by Hi-Y Clubs of Indianapolis and Marion County as their December project. No 4 : LIRR 2 Co - ‘The January study ‘program. will be how to acquire vocational information and seek employment. -

cil includes sponsors and. presidents of all Hi-Y Clubs in the county. - “C. E. Leichty, sponsor of the Southport club, was elected chair man, and William A.

70 LEAVE FOR SOUTH

Methods of distinguishing between | _

The programs were drafted by| the Marion County Hi-Y¥ Council at| a reorganization meeting. The coun-|

George Sylvester Viereck Ne :

Until now, radio propaganda has not been a principal contender in any great war. The radio weapon

- is newer than tanks or airplanes,

But the Berlin broadcasting station, greatest in Europe, has been a Big Bertha in this war. . ® 8 8

ACTS IN REVIEW, the bulletin F issued by the German Library of Information; lists the German . short-wave programs and urges, “Listen to both sides.” ‘And .there . are monthly program booklets,

which give the announcements in . English and German. :

News is announced three times each evening, amidst music and

entertainment, There is an effort by folk music and local references ‘to stimulate nostalgia among the German-born and re-enlist their

. freely mailed ' out from Berlin,

sympathies, while for foreigners

the attempt is to form “a bridge between nations.” The powerful short-wave station DJD and three others hammer ° “steadily at America, and when the weather is clear the propaganda flows in as merrily as Charlie McCarthy. : Powerful wireless beams carry the Goebbels programs to South America as well, to the European neutrals and, of course, work ‘on the nations opposing Germany. Oswald Garrison Villard-—certaine ly no bitter foe of Germany—ree ported recently from London,

“The German wireless continues -

to broadcast stories of the dread- .

ful conditions in London—children without milk, and despair and destruction on every side. Curiously "enough, I cannot seem to discover any of this. The Hitler liars would never dare to tell their people how calmly England continues to take the tremendous readjustment. .. > : In America a good many sma local stations carry extensive for=

eign-language programs, and Crer= '-

man propaganda has crept into - them. Individuals of Fascist and -

Nazi sympathy can buy time and

express their views at will, Thers have been instances in New York City, and in Los Angeles there is a :

sensational clergyman who fre-

quently broadcasts, “We need a :

Hitler in America.”

The German propaganda has - striven primarily to link up to : Hitler every possible American of German stock. And then it has :

A assiduously courted all persons - of Fascist sympathies—the oft- °

quoted estimate of “800 erganiza tions”—to set everyone alike to work at Germany’s bidding. Putting aside any natural indignation, the observer can only admire the skill of the performance.

' NEXT: Propaganda in ‘This War.

Even Sneezes

THE WAVE OF RESPIRA diseases now sweeping through the City broke over City Hall yester day, accompanied by a cacophony of sneezing in a variety of keys. City employees toook time out to commiserate,’ consoling each other with the prediction that “it won't last long, and it isn't serious.” z ’

Are Influenzal

Y :

Health Officer Herman G. Mor=

‘gan, who wasn’t sneezing, said this

is the first wave of winter colds of *

the influenzal type.

Mayor's Secretary Russell E.

Campbell blamed the colds on City Hall draughts. - He said he - would press his request now pend--

ing before the Works. Board for

installation of revolving doors.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Tn units ,of length, how manys

links are in one rod? 2—For which labor organization do the initials SWOC stand? fe 3—Where is Oneida Lake? 4—Name the President of _monwealth of the Philippines. 5—Where was the XI laid to rest? = | ;

Pp. ts. 7—With what sport is the

Ace Parker associated? -- "8-8 +. . Answers 1—Twenty-five. 2—Steel Workers.

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the Com=| Rody of Pope Pius | 6—Name the smallest of the nine |

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