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cam A, Peten, Guatemala, March 23.—This 1s the jungle. It is called The Peten. They say there is no worse jungle this side of Africa. | I came this morning in a T4cA Airlines freighter. That is the
Carmelita uo the name. of a place—but the place consists only + of a landing strip cut out of the jungle, a thatch-roofed chicle shed, and a | handful of brush huts scattered among the trees. _ There isn’t a| floor in the settle- - ment, nor a real chair nor ed, J nor a bathtub. This jungle comprises onethird of all Guatemala. It is as big as Massachusetts, Delaware and Connecticut combined. And it has only 7500 people. It is full of snakes and monkeys and
ot have any idea of what the real
nless you've been in it. A horrific ensity of trees springs up to a solid matted ceiling a undred feet above the earth. - through. . The rails are dark the year around.
To the stranger, i stands and stares ominously. You feel it closing n on you, all around. The relentlessness of nature's growth is almost sinister. It is like parallel walls, -alive, reaching down to engulf you. It creates a small terror, and some men cannot stand it, » ® »
Chewing Gum Country
There is only one industry in this part of the world —and that is chicle gathering. Chicle is the base for chewing gum. In fact, chicle is chewing gum, before it’s flavored. All the chicle in the world; they tell me, comes out of this one jungle area, which runs on across the invisible boundaries into Yucatan and British Honduras. Everybody who lives in this jungle makes his living by gathering chicle.
Chicle comes from the wild sapota tree. The sap from this tree is is “latex.” After it is boiled and
Our Town
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“hustled Miss The
"THE OTHER oar without being subpenaed, I went to Room 274, Federal Building, and had a heart-to-heart talk with Allan C. Garrigus, the postal
inspector whose business it is to investigate the abuses of the mails. Things like thefts, for -instance, and holdups, lotteries, schemes to defraud and the sending of obscene letters and literature. I came .away kind of convinced that crime doesn’t pay. It was high time I was getting around to see Mr. Garrigus. Had I waited another month I would | “not have found him in his office. | He's going to retire on March 31, | after having served 44 years in the postal service, most of which | time has been spent in trackwho monkey with the mails. % what he’s going to do after th ft.
he knows what threw ‘a couple
ss Solves Crime .
s ago, said Mr. Garrigus, The Times ociety page an! account of a party lig It was a swell one thing—the reporter got the he women wrong. (I wouldn't for entioned it except for the fact that oday’s plot.) all, the lady with the wrong address ymous obscene letter from Mississippi, Soon as Mr. Garrigus saw the letter he figured that) the writer had seen a copy of The Times. ‘It was even possible that he was a subscriber.
About four yes published i given by
Mississippi: Not letter written by
Now while all Fe was going on/ up here, somebody in Mississippi 7 giving a cer
Vissi, March 23—THe trouble with the speech for which James H. R. Cromwell, new young millionaire Minister to Canada, is being taken to task, is that this kind of talk from officials of the United States arouses false hopes in London and Paris. The allied peoples are apt to expect that we are about to go sailing across the Atlantic with ‘another ‘army. When that doesn’t happen, and it isn’t likely, to~ happen, they are going |to think we have let them down. | Young Cromwell idealized the Allied cause somewhat but. he substantially tude of this Administration and of # large is Country of the peo-
. ple of this “made it plain that he preferred be ways of | the English and ch to those of the Hitler re egime, | It is idealizing the case to say that the Allies are “fighting for the perpetuation of. individual liberty and freedom.” The Allies are fighting for their lives. They are not fighting for Czechoslovakia, for Poland, for Finland. They are fighting for England and France.
Our Sympathies With Allies They went to war when all othe Austria, and Czechoslovakia, thinki
that he would stop only when he was prevented from going further. With that, England and France went in. It is a fight to. determine whe er Great Britain continues as top dog or whether rmany replaces
My Day
| WASHINGTON, Friday. — When I walked into oy sitting room in the White House at 1:30 today, a huge vase of odils greeted me and I felt my spirit, which had been somewhat low, rise like a rockst. My
low spirits were the result of a very high wind Which :
delayed us in our flight down to
‘Washington and gave us pretty
rough weather which finally 7 Dafiietic experience.
forced us to land at Bolling Field. |This meant that the cars at the regular airport had to drive ‘over. The wind almost blew us oft the ground when we stepped
out of the plane, so we all went,
back into it and waited.
I nervously wondered if Miss Thompsnn would feed my guests, who were already sitting in the ’ hic | White House. On arrival I found | | them still sitting unfed! I son down and poor Mrs. Holm greeted me with the news that she was suffering from sinus. Then I looked in on my husband, who said that he told ress yesterday that he had swamp fever, but today 3 decided it was jungle fever. However, he
! looked really better and Mr. Frank Walker, who. was
eerful too, so that raised my d the yellow daffodils did the rest. pads a
looked e point
with hi spirits
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, |
Vagabond
No sunlight gets
the jungle is like a silent villain’
feted the atti-
country, when he]
means of check-: ing the advance of Hitler failed. They let him have: : ng that he might: be content. When he went into Poland it was clear:
hardened it is known as chicle The men who gather it are called “chicleros.”- | I've been around with a good many of the chicleros, and they're nice people. Friendly and cheerful and accommodating. The chicleros are all mixed up between Indian and Spanish and Negro. And sometimes you see one who surely came, white blood and big mustache and all, straight froni the| Balkans. mot They live in thatched huts, with walls made of poles: stuck in the ground. There are no doors at the openings; no screens. They sleep in hammocks. They have no doctors when they are ill, and their children do not go to school. They dress about as we dress at home in aur old work clothes, except that they almost always wear Jeather puttees for snakes (even children wear them) and a red bandana around their heads, gypsy fashion. They speak Spanish, and some who have drifted over from British Honduras speak a little English. I» ” ”n They're Very Obliging a There are five chicle camps in this big jungle— Flores, Paso Caballos, Carmelita, Dos Lagunas and Uaxactun, Only Flores is genuinely a town. ‘The others are merely clearings. This outpost of Carmelita sent ot more chicle this season than any other camp, close to half a million pounds. The production of the entire Peten was about two million. It all went out by air. ‘There are probably 200 people scattered -around here now. In the “cutting” season about 300 chicleros, plus their families, work out of this base. In the entire jungle area about 1400 chicleros worked last season. I arrived here fust after the chicle season had closed. But most of the chicleros are still around, doing nothing. | On my first afternoon half a dozen of thém gathered around, and we were talking. One of them asked if I would like to see how they do it. And when I said sure, they got their ropes and foot spikes and we all trekked off into the jungle till
* we found a sapota tree, and then-Juan Ponce fixed
his ropes and got out his machete and went climbing and slashing his way clear to the fop, 60 feet up. How is that for being nice folks, without even asking them to do it? ’
By Anton Scherrer
there no end of trouble by “scribbling obscene messages on rural route delivery boxes, something Uncle Sam doesn’t especially like, When the tracing, made by Mr. Garrigus, arrived, it was evident ‘that the scribblings. were the ‘work of the same man/ who addressed the Indianapolis lady. They suspected who the guilty party was, but before they got ‘him a ghastly murder took: place, and nobody knew who did that, either. (Gosh, I hope you're following me.) Well, when the authorities finally got the man suspected of writing the obscene letter, they searched him and discovered on his person the watch of the murdered man. -With the result that he never was punished for writing the Indianapolis letter. He was hanged for murder instead. ” 2
Exposing a Racket
Less ' complicated is the’ story of the time Mr. Garrigus [was sent to southern Indiana to investigate a man suspected of stealing a letter containing money. Mr. Garrigus said he quizzed the man, but he couldn't get him to confess. All during the quizzing, however, Mr. Garrigus noticed that the suspected man kept looking at a picture on his wall. The picture wasn’t worth a second look, let alone a stare, which gave Mr. Garrigus the idea to examine the back of the picture to see whether it was more interesting than the front. Sure, there was the letter with the stolen money. A simple plot, to be sure, but not to be sneezed at when compared with some of Conan Doyle's. The worst pests around here at present, says Mr. Garrigus, are the thieves who steal letters out of house mail boxes around the first of the month. They go after the statements merchants send out to remind you of your obligations. Once they've got the statements, the thieves forge checks in excess of the| sums named, present them at the store with the statement, and profit by the change received. 3 thought you ought to know. Just now; too, an swindle is receiving more than
its share of Mexican swindle letters. The letters with the surprising news that you are an heir of a fabled estate, like as not of the ground in New York on which Trinity Church now stands, are still going good, too, says Mr. Garrigus. On the other hand, lotteries and chain letter rackets are letting up a little. There's no telling, though. when the chain letter racket will break out again. When it does, Mr. Garrigus will be fishing.
| ‘By Raymond Clapper
In that sense, it is fair to say that this is a war between one old-established imperialism against a rising pawer that constitutes a dangerous challenge. But it isiignoring the realities to end the statement of the case there. Ong must think of the kind of civiliz tion and the kind of life that are found in Great, Britain and France. Then one must think of nd of civilization and the kind of life that Germany| is establishing. And Russia goes in as part of that | picture. ich kind of a Europe would we rather see?
| Which kind of Europe would be more to our liking
and [to our advantage? A Europe in which the instincts, patterns and methods of. the British and Fre ch are dominant? Or one in which the instincts, patterns and methods of Hitler and Stalin are dominant? You don’t have to paint the British and French governments as lily white, nor the German and Russian regimes as totally black, to have a choice. ‘Thoge Americans who have spent, even a little time i e four countries have no doubt, as to which kind they prefer. 5
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Rivals but Friends N
n terms of imperialism, the British imperialism | and| ours have dovetailed. Our systems of trade and exchange have been similar. Some of our “sources of raw materials—rubber and tin—are der friendly British control. We compete at numerous points—but | it is a competition between kindred na=
set |of rules; There isn’t so much cricket in the way Hi er and Stalin play it. . at does not mean that Americans think the issue is sufficiently menacing to our national interest to require that we do much more than we are doing . If any larger expectations are raised abroad by eches like that of Minister Cromwell, Shey} will ve $ Hlustry,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
I enjoyed yesterday’s lunch with the foreign cor= respondents very much. Both of my neighbors of ‘the British and French press were .charming, and more than kind. I like questions so much better standing up and lecturing people who can’t wer back. ht Before I attended the luncheon I had a: rather The poor little co ple who run ha’s Lunch Box Service, felt
of the controversy with the lunch box boys. toff was voluble. Mr. Corbetoff was silent, but it was quite evident that they needed a mediator with plenty of time to verify the statements Made by all sides, to look over their business and give them nd advice and a liftle courage. He ‘must see too, that the| boys get a fair break, so they will have enough interest really to build up the business. 1 left them feeling sorry for everyone concerned and
read with relief in this morning’s papers that the|.
head of the mediation board has heard this little struggle and successfully concluded | it. After lunch I talked for a few minutes with Df. udolph Kagey and am deeply interested in his plans for a new type of educational exhibition at the New ork World's Fair this spring. Then I went home - meet some friends, and, last but ‘not least, to d an hour with my own oy 4
By Ernie Pyle
Student- Grad
LL the literary, theatrical and production efforts of weeks past will be climaxed by the appearance of Indiana University’s Jordan River
~ Wednesday at English’s.
The revue, an annual affair, already has played to packed houses at the Bloomington campus. Stars and personnel are University students. It represents a social as well as dramatic event at Indiana. "This will be the third year of revival [for Jordan River. It flourished for years. The 1927 and 1928 revues were written by Ivan: Boxell, brother of Paul Boxell, author of the present show. oagy Carmichael wrote some of the tunes in 1928. The revue was abandoned in the early 1930s but three years ago was resurrected by Paul Bozxell, who joined Dr. Lee Norvelle and George Blair of the University Theater, and Richard
WORKS BOARD
ll Reorganization of Platting Rules Is Submitted.
The City Plan Commission's codi-
be approved by the Works Board Monday. The code, which gathers together all rules governing the submission of new development plats to the || Plan Commission, must be approved by the Works and Park Boards before taking effect. Works Board members, considering the code yesterday, referred it to Leo F. Welch, Board vice president. Mr. Welch said he would report on it Monday at which time the Board is expected to take final action. The ‘code represents one of the biggest teps the City has taken in 15 years to make municipal planning a reality, Mr. Welch said. Its purpose, he explained, is to set up standard requirements which developers raust meet in platting new developments. The requirements include certain improvements which the developer must make in order to have a subdivision approved for building purposes. “Requirements include proper drainage and sanitary facilities as well as street improvements in accordance with Works Board regulations,
CHAPTER TWELVE DERICLES did not over state his case when he pronounced. his famous funeral oration and summed
up the glories * of that Athenjan Derhocracy which could indedd stand as an example to all the other nations of Greece. For no other city had ever reached such a pinnacle of glory.
known to the rest of Greece? It was decried as the “tyrant city. » Its government was denounced as an ambitious imperial organization -which existed only to plunder its so-called allies for the pur-
pose of erecting those magnificent public buildings in' the town of Athens, which were of no behefit to anyone except the Athenians themselves, and to maintain those “universities (for every famous philosopher was really a one-man academy of learning) which only upset the simple faith of the an-
“jn the end must destroy the ideals of Greek civilization as they had handed down from the ancestors. * Were these accusations {rue or were they false? |
Revue |
STUDIES CODE
fication of. platting restrictions may |
: Miss. Thelma Farrington of Indianapolis has’ the leading role in Indiana University’s Jordan River Revue Wednesday at English's.
|. U. Revue Satirizes
Relations
Shore, Bloomington, School student.
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HE success of the current res |
The chorus includes Misses Pauline ‘Taylor. Colu Marion; Pearl [Gartarignt, Os
‘Bluffton; ‘Susie Harrold,
Music |
vue is reminiscent of some |. of its earlier appearances int Indi- |
ana.
apolis.
At Indianapolis next ‘Wednes:
day, Indiana alumni from all over
the state will converge at En- |
glish’s to see the show. Parties | are planned at homes throughout the city to precede and follow the, performance. . The performance?
here is sponsored by the Indiana | Thelma Farrmeton of Todians
Alumni Club of Indianapolis, which will hold a dance after the show at the Columbia Club, .
# .8 a : HE show is a satire on alumni-student. relations on
the campus and revolves around a magic flute.
Students are proud of its | “road trip, ” the tour bb Indian- |
| when
Paul Bozxell of Indianapolis . wrote the book.
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‘When a certain theme is played on the: flute any desired scene materializes. Complications in the “boy meets girl” theme arise a prominent alumnus returns to the campus to look over his Alma Mater. The leads are played by Miss
apolis and J. David Mann of
Nashville, Il.
Mi. Shores wrote the music. Songs include “‘Pologize,” The Stars and I” and “One Boy, One Girl, One Moon.” The revue will be presented for one night. only.
. Many Mail Debussy Orders
State-wide interest in the release of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun,” “Clouds” and “Festivals” was sho
today at Indiana Music Appreciar tion headquarters, 245 N. Pennsyl+ vania St. by an unusually heavy number of mail orders. The Debussy set is the sixth in the series of 10 classical masterpieces being made available through the Music Appreciation campaign. The set was released today. “Proof that a knowledge and familiarity of classical music leads to a love and appreciation of it is found in.the unusually heavy demand for the Debussy set.” one campaign executive said. “Many
persons, are familiar with Afternoon ¢f a Faun.’ Consequently, when they have this opportunity to obtain it at such a low price, they are quick to take advantage of the offer.” The Debussy compositions are re-
icortled on three double-faced 12-
inch discs and are made available at the price usually charged for one commercial symphonic record. The four sets to be released in the next few weeks before the campaign closes inctude Haydn's Symphony No. 99 in E Flat Major; Tschaikowsky’s Symphony No. 4 in PF Minor, Brahm’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major and Franck’s D Minor Symphony.
MORE FUNDS ASKED
FOR PEST RESEARCH
LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 23 (U. P). hee for additional Federal funds for research on measures and materials to" control household insect pests had been made today before the 19th. annual Ceniral States Entomologists Conference at Purdue University. Only $26,000 annually. is allotted for research, William E.\Buettner of Brocklyn, N. Y., secretary of the National Pest Control Operators’ Association, said. He gh creased Federal research and cons
tributions in addition to state agricultural experiment stations. i He said information was needed on pcisons, types of baits and
But by what name was Athens |
cestors and filled the minds of the youngsters with those dangerous radical and modern ideas which
fumigants as well as on 10 different types of pests, :
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THE STORY OF BEMOCRACY
tions playing the game with an essentially common|
ROBINSON TO LEAD 6. 0. P. RALLY HERE
Maurice (Red) Robinson of Anderson, Ind., will be principal speaker at a pep meeting of the Marion County Republican Veterans at 8 p. m. Tuesday at the Claypool Hotel.
A former athlete, Mr. Robinson is the Republican election commissioner of Madison County. He was one of the founders of the Young Republican. - organization, served as deputy prosecuting attorney of Madison County and is a former member of the Indiana State Board of Education. Among invited guests will be canates for the’ Republican’ nomination for state and county offices, including several candidates for the nomination for Governor, who will be or the speaking program. »\ .
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: Phyllis Toy, Huntington; Mary Ann Kunkle, o ‘Ark. and Phyllis Burge, Kokomo. og
Next 7 Easters To Be in April
For the next seven years, Easter Sunday will fall in April. Next year it will be April 14, the year after, April 5, and the year after that, April 25. It will not fall on March 24 again until the year 2391. There has been only one other Easter on March 24 since the adoption of the present Gregorian
| calendar more than 350 years ago,
and that Easter was in 1799, The date the resurrection of Jesus was Sunday, April 9, 30 A. D. ,
CITY MAPPING “SEWER PROJECT
$750,000 Program Will Begin as .Soon ‘as WPA Approves It.
City Engineer M. G. Johnson today began to draw plans for a $750,000 City-PWA sewer construction “and reconstruction program
| which the Works Board approved
yesterday. ‘The project, largest of its kind in the city’s history, will begin as soon as the WPA approves it. The city | will float. a $250,000 -bond issue to ‘| pay!’ -foriiits’ ‘share of the project while the WPA will provide about $500,000 in labor and materials. Mr. Johnson [told the Works Board yesterday [the program was designed to build needed new sewers and repair old ones. It was launched yesterd y after a survey made by the ineering Department on the condition of City sewers. Largest single job in the program is the proposed [$40,000 interceptor drain from Washington to New York Sts. along the east bank. of White River. A $35.000 sanitary interceptor for West Indianapolis also is included. When completed, the program will eliminate flooding by rains in many parts of |the City, Mr. Johnson said. The engineer predicted speedy approval of the project by the WPA. Under| the plan, new sewers will be: constructed lin E. Washington and E. Market Sts. east of Pogue's Run and in Michigan, E. 10th and Merrill Sts. ‘Local draining will be provided in Alabama St. Northern Ave. and mstrong Park. 2 Sewers in Washington St. which are more than 40 years old, will be repaired and rebuilt. Also reconstructed will be drains in Michigan, 10th, Adler and Morris Sts., Sherthan Drive and Westfield Blvd.
POSTMASTERS SPONSORED Times Special : WASHINGTON, D. C., Ma ch 23. —The following postmaster n ations for Indiana were sent to the Senate by President Roosevelt yesterday: Batesville, Clarence H. Andres; Bourbon, Lawrence M. Slough; Kokomo, William W. Workman; Rosedale, William H. Lauterbach;
ARTLY they were true. Athens had dealt in a very highhanded. manner “with her less capable neighbors, toward whom Pericles undoubtedly felt as Hit‘ler felt toward his easy-going and incompetent fellow Sluizens of Austria. But. on the other side of pict there were the posi ne oa rents of this brilliant
- mocracy which almost - overnight ;
Athens stood for the ideal of a state based on ovérseas commerce.
had opened up new visions df progress, of which the world un-
til then had never dared
D dream. Why could not the jealous neighbors overlook a few shortcomings for the sake of their common goal? | Why in our own day and age could England and Germany not live in peace and harmony when they could so Y have to terms
Seymour, Walter H, Droege. : - ] : By Hendrik Willem van Loon
ULEUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)
Speciive spheres of influence— Germany being allowed tos dominate the European continent! while England took care of her maritime empire? I do not ow thé answer. I can only state the facts and observe the resulfs “and those | were exactly the same in the fifth century B. C. as they seem to be in the 20th eentury A A. D. ¢ :
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Ev sincé the beginning of te, there had been two conflicting theories of life and they had dominated the whole of Greek history. Sparta had always represerited ‘the interests’ of the landed ge try (of the Junkers, as we used to call them in Germany), | “whereas “Athens had | _steod for the ded) of a state based upon overseas' commerce. Once more we see how little our world changes in its true es--sentials. For always we seem fo have had
these twa conflicting philosophies °
of life with us—the man of the soil against thé man! of the sea— the conservative farmer, unwilling to accept any sudden changes (since Nature, with whom he
deals all his lifelong days is the Great Conservative) and the mer- |
chant and trader wh must ick
VETERANS HOME
10 ‘HARMONIZE’ I;
Recreatioh Hall | Hall Here wil ~ Blend With Hospital, Ludlow Is Told.
Times Special
WASHINGTON, March 23. —Rep,
Louis Ludlow _(D, Ind.), who:brought about a $146,000 appr opriation for a recreation building at the Indian= apolis U. S. Veterans Hospital, toe day received a detailed description
of the new building from’ the Veta
erans Administration, The description was contained in a letter to Rep. Ludlow from Colonel L. H. Tripp, director of construction, which reads in part: “With further reference to your interest in the proposed recreation building for our Indianapolis Facil« ity, you are advised that every gfe
fort has been made to designa .
building in harmony with the beauty and dignity of the existing main hospital building at Indianapolis,
Site is Prominent 4 “The building will occupy | 2
prominent site just to the south the main building. The Recreaf! bi:
Building will be connected to the - and to the"
main hospital building mess hall by an extension of the
existing connecting walkway system,
thereby affording ‘all | access from the either floorsth 't Building, “The lower | | tio of the Recrea= tion Building will be occupied by a large and {finely appointed lounge room, with a fireplace, and the balance of the space on this {floor dee voted to the ‘canteen, barber shop, etc. The upper or auditorium floor will be reached by an electric elee
atients easy patient s’ building to
vator and also by fireproof staire -
ways at both the east and west ends of the building d will also be reached by the u necting corridor system.
Auditorium to Be Modern
“The auditorium will be finely .
appointed and modern in every ree spect and will provide space for the showing of sound movies, ‘as well as other forms of entertainment and chapel exercises. It will be furnished with approximately 300 seats and with dressing rooms on both ends of the stage, special reserved
space within the auditorium for wheel chair patients, and spacious
rooms for men and women. “The building in appearance will be of the same Georgian style of architecture as the main building and will be constructed with brick walls, matching the other buildings and ornamented on the west end or on that side facing the street with a semi-spherical portico of Indiana
limestone and with this same stone -
used elsewhere on the building for general ornamentation.”
YOUNG DEMOCRAT CHOSEN | Times Special CHICAGO, March 23 ~—Clarence onovan, Bedford, Ind. has ‘been ppointed to the executive commit e of the Young Democratic Clubs f America. Pitt Tyson Maner, past resident of the national organizae ion, has been made honorary chaire an.
T EST YO UR KNOWLEDGE
1—Does a body weigh more when dead than when alive? 2—How many yards in a -mile? 3—Which State leads in the proe duction of whisky? 4—-How many - Roman Catholics signed the U. S. Constitution? 5—Name the capital of Nicaragua.
he ipo Recreation
r level of a cone.
6—The capital of Washington State
is Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma? T—What is Madagascar?
8—Name the Administrator of the National Youth Administration.
Answers 1—No. 1 ? 2—11760. 3 Kentucky, 4—-Two. 5—Managua. 6—Olympia. T—An island possession of France, off the west coast of Attica. 8—Aubrey Williams,
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