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ing a swell time on a boat trip, when the idea of spending your whole life at sea- would horrify © you. In these | days I've hopped all over this jungle with TACA's - chicle freighters. Over to Paso Caballos, where the field is full of rocks, and you'd better not 2 overshoot it, either. A! . And several times into Flores, RA the capital of Peten State. ‘Flores is a tin-roofed town which lls a tiny island out [in the lake, a quarter shore. Silliest looking thing you ever saw. -omehody will think to jnove it
comple Ely ; mile frof
with a I
he ook heed, and the heavy burlap sac
| The [fiying-mechanic and I just sat on| the = 3 o i] e y ground I read entirely through a copy of E ve, or something like that. First time I ever e in| my life. 3 was Biea, too. i
|] teresting “Talkfests ig flew, as ‘high as 11,300 feet, covered 1000 ‘miles her; hauled terrific loads, and dropped into lled out of jungle fields with such casualness hally you didn’t even look up when the wheels i if ou were in an exciting part of the detec-
~ To own IT| [EANT LISTENING to an artist, but even so, I was/determined to acquaint myself with the Gallery Group, the latest thing to turn up here. Theylll be ready, for business next Monday on -the second tioor of Adams, Inc. 50 S. Meridian St., a handy place to 1 look up | ‘after you've had your > : (lunch. | It| isn’t the easiest thing to ‘tell what is going on inside an artist’s head, but as) near, as 1 can | figure out, the Gallery Group. is not a formal organization with another plan top tell me what is good for me. Quite the contrary for which Heaven be praised. | As I understand it, this is a group of artists who felt there
in ‘Indianapolis for a series of exhibitions :
wanf; to live with in hag way of & oe a print or g piece of sculpture. Anyway, that was my innt's) way of putting /it. Reduced to simple eans that finally, at long last, the artists are | ‘goin to do something ‘to bust the rumor that they have n't any business sense. ® = »
Ab ut | Time, Too
1 was high time.- The way things were going, lartists had us-believing that it was beneath their nity to market their wares. They were creators,. not retailers, they said. Indeed, they fooled them0 believing that people would seek them “out and fight to get {their products—the old mouse=
‘do it.
, th Ry Group has Rm made up its to adopt the wicked ways of commerce, even if fit means sinking to the level of shopkeepers. It strikes me as a mighty good sign. Indeed, it may lead to {the discovery that artists are Tegular- fellers or, lat any rate, human beings. om to think of jt, Indiana artists have more
of Agriculture Wallace, hid by out of over certain important bureaus, is heat-
class fight within the Administration. The trouble centers, as usual, around the Forest Service, a large bureau which has remained highly efficient in spite of the fact that for years it has been a football of controversy. Gifford Pinchot blasted it out of the Interior Department in the Taft Administration, and ever since then each succeeding “Secretary of the Interior has been conniving to get it back, |And each Secretary of Agriculture has r gught tooth and nail to keep it. The issue has become g point of honor between the two departments.
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Othe or Transfers Hinted = |
| | Another reorganization plan is being put together, ‘and word is circulating that some of the functions
'of the Forest Service are to be taken from Secretary es ce and. given to Secretary Ickes. A transfer of
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ervice is supposed to have been included in a aft| reorganization order some weeks ‘ago, and the or to that effect was sufficient to set off an/ ex- | Epmor in Congress. If the transfer was planned, i was frustrated by the outcry. Now the word is | that the service will not be transferred but that it | will be wrecked by having some of its activities taken gway from it—about 30 per cent of its work, one
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The proposed changes, 8s now understood, would
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SEATTLE, Wash., Fridgy.—Strange to say, if you begin by being late you seem to be late all along the We started late on trip, were late in reaching Los Angeles and missed our connection Five of us
were bound for San Francisco, however, and so United Air courteously. sent another _ plane up and I made my connection at Oakland for Seattle, arriving at 7 p. m, which was still ‘an hour late. The trip was interesting because we went from sunshine to dense fog in such a short space of time that I would look out and see the snow-capped mountains, read for a few minutes, and be astonished to find, on looking out again, that I could see nothing but grey clouds all about us. At one point, we had the most beautiful ee in front and behind us. | We caught a glimpse of Mt. Rainier, but only of the i lower slopes, for its top was enveloped in clouds. As
far as San Francisco, a very charming gentleman ‘from New England was with us. There is a type which is quite unmistakable, most charming and cultivated, and at home all over the world. This type of gentleman grows best in the environment of 'Bos‘ton, and we, who sat near enough to chat with him, ‘had a pleasanter trip because of his
‘whether it’s
By Ernie Pyle
Those talks in be ‘late afternoon were the kind I like best. We sake of tropical peoples and where the white man’s place is with them; and we spoke of how unreal the average person’s mental picture of a jungle camp is; and of how impossible it would be 2 draw for him a true picture in words. We spoke of Alaska, where we've both been, and of Hawaii and Florida and the Orient. And we spoke of our ambitions, and why we were both here where % were, and gradually we got off into | the abstract, and then off onto romance, and what is romance, and where is it, and why is it? i # ” 2
Abstracting: the Abstract
'And we decided that right there, that very minute, we were the very subjects the tropical novelists write romances about, and then we came to a thought that had never come to either of us before:
We suddenly realized that there is no romance at]
all simply within one’s own self. Romance must have an audience, or it doesn’t exist. It is like the famous falling tree in the woods, when there’s nobody there to hear it.
‘Suppose you were to kill a tiger barehanded in the|
jungle. Would that be romantic to you if there was no one to see you do it, and if you knew that in.your entire lifetime there would never be anyone to tell it to? ~I think it would not. And that is the way Ed Robinson feels about himself. He has all the intelligence and sense of drama to make his present circumstances exceedingly romantic [to him.
And they are, in the sense that elsewhere he has certain people who are thinking of him and picturing him. But he himself, throughout the day, living right here with the road-scraper and the flabby tortillas and ‘the pidgin English and the macaw that is after all just a pretty chicken, knows that it isn’t romantic at all. You see, now, about the abstract? You don’t know what I'm talking about, do you? I'm just nuts enough that I can go off like this any old time. But I'll bet a few weeks in|the jungle with nobody to talk to, and nine-tenths| of you would just ‘abstract the old ned out of the I visitor that showed up.
By Anton Scherrer]
or less human qualities when you get to know them. which is to say that they are not unlike you and me. Up to a certain] I cite Edmund | G. Schildknecht’s amazing capacity for German pancakes, the kind that have a minimum diameter of 11|inches. Mr; Schildknecht, I'm told, can eat a dozen at a sitting and feel none the worse for it. Fact is,"he- can leave the table with his stomach full of pancakes and turn out pictures with /the clarity of color of the couple he's got in the show. The only way to explain it is to classify Eddie as a paradox. on ” ”
‘A Parador, a Paradox’
© The Gallery Group is full of paradoxes. You'd never suspect, for instance, that Charles M. West has spent the greater part of his private life collecting old wrought iron. He has a barnful, picked up goodness knows ‘where. Even more alarming is the fact that Mr. West plays the accordian. Surprising, too, is the discovery that David K. Rubins, an acclaimed ‘sculptor, spends his spare time turn-
ing out lovely lithographs—certainly a paradox when |
all these years I've been led to believe that sculptors can’t draw. Jessie Mayer submits a sensitive delicate flower piece-and rightaway, it's got you guessing how
: the same prikall hands can do a great big mural.
As for Marjorie Jones and her figurines, it’s got me kinda groping. I can't make up my mind paradox or an anomaly. Miss Jones, jolly as they make ’em—at any rate as jolly as girls come ne wadays—elects to do her work in a studio, the doors and windows of which are painted a melancholy blue. On the other hand, Ruth Schildknecht’s case is definitely a paradox. She submits a honey of a woodcut which looks as if she had all the time in the world to do it. The fact of the matter is that she had to find time to Sure. when she wasn’t occupied turning out her husbands pancakes. - SHucks, I thought I'd have enough space to expose the whole Gallery Group. There are 19 in all for “this first show, and I haven't done any more than scratch the surface. Maybe it’s encugh, though, to prove my thesis, namely that artists have more or less human qualities when you get to know them. For one thing, they have stomachs like you and me. .
By Raymond Clapper
include dephiving agriculture’s Forest Service of control over some 17,000,000 acres or more of forest lands
‘which are predominantly grazing. Large national-
forest wilderness areas would be transferred although most of these lands are entirely surrounded by national forests, which would remain under Agriculture Department control. Recreational activities in" the national forests would be transferred to Interior, as would all wildlife work. There 4 are reports that the Food and Drug Administration will be transferred to the Public Health Service, or in some other way be placed under the Federal Security Agency, and that the Rural Electrification Administration, placed under the Agriculture Department in the first reorganization-bill
plan, is to) be transferred to the Interior Department. 88 vs
Raising the Blood Pressure
None of this may mean much to you but there is an “exeoiive amount of stewing over it both in
the executive departments and in Congress, and among various outside groups interested in forestry. Senator Pittman, who in addition to being Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also represents the state of Nevada, took the trouble some time ago fo place President Roosevelt on record about transferring the Forest Service. Before he would vote for the original reorganization bill, Senator Pope, then representing Idaho, obhtained oral assurances from Mr. Roosevelt that the Forest Service would not be tampered with under the new powers. Other Senators, including Byrnes of South | Carolina, have held that the White House is under pledge to Congress not to give the Forest Service to Secretary Ickes.
It may not matter ‘a great deal to most people]
or to the forests whether Wallace or Ickes wins, but there isn’t any issue that will send up the blood pressure fin Waslungton faster than this one.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt f On the last lap of my journey, another gentleman
told me that he had known my husband and attended a meeting with him in Utica, N. Y., in 1928. He had
grown up in Syracuse, but for the last 11 years has been settled here in the Northwest, and though he still likes his native state, he is an ardent admirer of
this part of the country now. . At Portland, Ore., in spite of the drizzling rain, the Mayor and some Democratic ladies came down with a beautiful bunch of Portland roses which I brought on to my daughter. I was very glad to see Anna and John waiting for me at the airporf in Seattle. Even thought I was 12 hours late and criss-crossed the continent, to get to them, it was well worth it. We
talked till nearly midnight, and are not caught up yet.
The grandchildren always seem to me to change. Even in the few months since they left us in Washington, I find Eleahor thinner and taller, and Curtis ‘more grown up. Young Johnny has learned to crawl so fast around the room that nothing | is safe from his inquiring eyes and hands. The mail awaited me asking me to do more things than I could possibly do if I had weeks at my disposal, and I have just 40 hours. In addition, all up and down the coast people think I have so many unoccupied days I can just stop off for a day and address a. meeting. or visit with them in their homes. I wish that this was possible, and I appreciate deeply the many kind invitations, but, unfortunately, from the time Ileave here tomorrow aftemonn, all my time
point, anyway. In support of which|
“1 $6000 to be used to hire workers: to
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plane ever made in this counfry. bomber.
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By Maj. Al Williams
Times Special Writer
wide open to the Allies—and as our superior bomb-sight | more than they need planes
and engines.
- They need it because their own bomb-sights are not much good (unless their pilots are very poorly | trained), as shown by the fright- | ful demonstration by the British in their air raid on the German island of Sylt. In contrast to British reports of damage done | by their bombing, American news- | papermen testified that the ma- | jority of bombs missed the island | entirely. Some of the bombs fell in Denmark. Sylt is a narrow stretch of land | off the Danish coast, about 700 yards wide. The British, held | aloft to altitudes of an estimated 20,0600 to 30,000 feet, must be in| a bad way for bomb-sights to miss a target of that size. Without, boasting of our American secret bomb-sight, IT can tell you that our boys are not chalking results like that in target practice. 2 2 os ONEY, planes, engines, materials and manufacturing facilities are national assets, it's true; but they are, in a certain sense, expendable and can be duplicated. ‘
DRAINAGE HELD HEALTH THREAT
Ryan Asks Farmers’ Aid in Remedying Clogged Condition.
County Surveyor John C. Ryan said today there are between 20 and 25 miles of clogged drainage ditches in the County which may become a “serious health hazard in the next few weeks if they are not cleaned.” Farmers will have to take the initiative in cleaning these ditches. Mr, Ryan said, because the County does not have the funds to do the complete job. Mr. Ryan explained that there was available a revolving fund of
clean "the bad ditches but that this money would care for only about 10 miles. If the County uses the revolving fund, the farmers whose land is served by the ditches must pay the county back through a tax assessment. This method is‘almost twice as expensive to the farmer as if the owners co-operate to clean their own ditches, Mr. Ryan said. Mr. Ryan added that if farmers will take the initiative and clean the ditches he will use the revolving fund to force reluctant land owners to do their share. The chief danger in clogged drainage ditches is. from overflow into fields and through residential subdivisions, he said. Many septic tanks drain into the runoff ditches in built up areas and in event of heavy spring rains a serious health problem would be faced.
SENTENCE - DELAYED "FOR KRUSE REPORT
Capt. Adolph H. Kruse, Federal probation officer, today was investigating the case of Lawrence Douglas, confessed local counterfeiter of nickels and dimes, Douglas pleaded guilty before Judge Robert C. Baltzell yesterday. At the time of his ‘indictment, Douglas had pleadéd not guilty and asked a trial without jury. Judge Baltzell delayed sentence until Capt. Kruse can report.
WORK TO START oN TERRE HAUTE PRISON
Times Special WASHINGTON, March 30.—The William P. Jungclaus Co., Indian-q apolis, today "was ordered to proceed with construtcion of the farm buildings at the new Federal penitentiary at Terre , Haute, Federal Works Agency officials announced. ‘A $56,974 contract for construction of the towers and gatehouse
Times-Ac me Photos.
1. The new Lockheod P-38 interceptor pursuit plane. [ 2. The Curtis P-40, 400-miles per hour pursuit plang fo "3. The Bell Airacobra, said to be the fastest single-seater fighting
One explosive shell from the 37-
millimeter cannon in the plane’s nose is said to be enough to down a
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All three of these planes are among the latest American jevelobed fighting planes and have been made| available for sale to the Allies. All are Pe with Allison motors, made in Sadan oe
by Plan’
To Sell Air Secrefs
HERE'S an ugly row in Washington 5 between is Administration and those who do not warit to sell America’s Igtest air secrets to France and England. The Presi- - dent is working toward throwing our aviation facilities
the i need such devices
| tions, | soul of the wartime e | of our| own national-
Bom )-sights and such invenowever, the real heart and ectiveness fense machinery, cannot be duplicated. It is the responsibility of Congress to provide the nation with an adequate defense system, and any item |of machinery requisite for the efficient working of that system comes under the imme-
diate jurisdiction of Congress; °
especially is this true when the patents and design rights of such items have been purchased with public money and turned over: to one of our military services for development, use, and (safekeeping. It is within the legal functioning of Congress to call upon military and naval experts for- their technical advice as to the relative importance of military inventions and as to the expediency of - releasing them to foreign nations. Of course, such ad) ice can be pressured and forced to fit the demands: of a President who is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. My heart goes out to the officers of the Army and Navy who are religiously trying | serve the nation. To hold to may mean
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the heroic ruin of a career. To acquiesce: against their better judgment is moral suicide. Slowly we are being stripped of our military aeronautical secrets —chief and foremost among which is our bomb-sight, for which there is no substitute. I - ” ” ” Even the policy of permitting the Allies to buy our most advanced types of military and
naval planes is 100 per cent wrong, in my opinion. (This policy is not designated for America’s interests first. Saying that it is a tooling-up program is a quickie excuse. Air machinery is not. like rifles, bayonets and cannon. Those items hold to type for an appreciable length of time, ‘while aircraft change in design and type, month by month. Each new airplane is first submitted to a rigorous service test by experts in governmental testing centers. Then it is turned over to a service squadron where it is tested in daily operations, according to existing
THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY
tactics, while the mechanical force is trained in maintaining and servicing the new job from engine to plane proper and gadgets. In 1917 we had more orders for air machinery and parts than we knew what do with. When we plunged into the war, we went without a suitable motor or a suitable plane or anything like the manpower needed 6 for the cockpits or for service. We built the Liberty -engine overnight—a motor practically worthless so far as reliability was concerned. © The. best American, plane we built—in a hurry, after three years of making money building . according to foreign specifications—earned and deserved the name of the “Flying Coffin”; i. e., the DeHavilland. freind Balt ; S I understand it, the Army Air Corps has ordered 540 of the P-40 single-seater fighters, with liquid-cooled Allison engines. For about 10 years the mechanics of the Army and Navy have been specializing on servicing aircooled engines. That force can-.
By Hendrik Willem van Loon
(ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)
CHAPTER 18
T= recuperative power of the human race seems to be unlimited. No sooner had the roads once more become safe for travel than that we can observe a return of commercial activities which had been absent for some 20 generations. This did not me trade in the moder word, for in an ag peror’s family traveled in bullock carts, the exchange of goods was still so insignificant that peddlers
iiernational sense of the
with packs on their backs could’
easily take care of all the people’s needs.
But after this jlong, period of hibernation, any return to a normal form of existence meant an enormous step forward, and at this point it is necessary to give the devil his due ind say a good word for an institution which in our modern America is usually regarded with profound disapproval. I refer to that interesting form of suverhment known as feudalism.
It is true that rom the point of view of the year 1940 feudalism as an institution has very little to recommend it. But if we want to be fair, we should remember that
it was something absolutely un-
avoidable. » | Feudalism during the early Middle Ages was system of the sprang up all over the Far West during the earliest days of its development, and as self-appointed policemen these [feudal lords performed a most valuable service. Once more merchant could move from pl the constant f of losing not only his ions but also his life. le 8 = = HE feudal lord of course did nothing for nothing. But- as the -reco d man of violence, "he promptly | eradicated the smaller fry and no sooner had a modicum of ety returned to a much plagued world than behold! commerce and | trade once more made their triumphant among the people of Europe. Here and there such energetic individuals ded together, and amidst the of ancient Roman towns they re-established themselves as [citizens of a free community. | ! Soon their creased by ose - former serfs who by me of their extraordinary ability |at some particular craft had been able to buy their personal liberty. And then came the twelfth century when a combination of e¢ircumstances suddenly rushed to their assistance in a most expected fashion, The primitive agricultural methods of ~ completely ed Soon there we
austed the soil.
Was awarded Milton Pillinger, |
ta feed the
| when the em-.
It. is necessary to give the Devil his due and say a good word for Feudalism.
ecessary as the igilantes which
to place without
entry .
umbers were in--
e Dark Ages had 5 Jick Jana enough tudes. And at
n tie East of the Mohammedans a? {placed the holy shrines of Christendom at the mercies of an. unbelieving sultan. 2 2 os HE church began to preach those crusades which were to deliver the Holy Land from the yoke of the infidel and soon it was
practically impossible for any self- .
respecting country squire not to take part in at least one oi these great migrations. He was of course obliged to travel in state and with a considergble retinue of soldiers and servants. For that purpose he needed ready money, for the shipping companies of Venice and Genoa did not believe in cradit. This money he obtained by borrowing cash from the only people who had chants.
The merchants, not being under any particular obligation to do the fashionable thing, could stay peacefully at home. And when no interest was paid on their loans, they were able to insist upon certain substitutes in the form of all sorts of rights
and prerogatives that were to
increase the indépendence of their ‘little cities. And as this process continued for almost three centuries, th same cru-
sades were of the greatest im-
portance in helping the growth: “of Europe's moneyed middle ‘classes.
And since “city air sean {ree air,” the spirit of independence among the inhabitants: of the high-walled towns grew to a pecint where they felt themselves strong
‘enough to act independently of
any overlord. : 8 8 =
EAL, was the beginning of cS which
those city-re
and. which. were | almost exact ! racies, in regard to their political ' to the arts.
‘ know by the picturesque name of
any—from the mmer-
[HARNESS DEFENDS
thirteenth century (the Crusaders had lasted from 1096 until 1270)
replicas ‘of the old Greek democ-
structure and in their devotion
But none of those ever became a Democracy in our modern sense of the word. They were ruled by and for the well-to-do classes. The average man had no influence whatsoever upon the - Government. He worked, paid his taxes and obeyed.
His time was to come; but not until -he had been able to gain strength through organization— not until’ he had established those early unions which we
the Guilds.
NEXT—The rise and fall of the Guilds as a step toward Demstasy,
‘SALE OF U. S. PLANES
Times Special - WASHINGTON, March 30.—Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.) was-one of the members of the House Military: Affairs Committee to vote prompt approval of the sales of U. S. Army planes to the Allies. “I know of no better way te speed-up production for our own defense than to let England and France have the airplanes now available, but not immediately needed for our own armed forces,” Rep. Harness said. “Some of these ships already are obsolete, when compared with those newly designed, and in the business of air-defense we must always
have the latest and best planes possible.” : : ; WT
not be loaded down with liquid cooled engines and expected to service them overnight. No instruction book can substitute for field experience.
We have by no means oroved that we can equip our air services with a given number of planes and competently ‘trained pilot and mechanic forces. In short, we have no air force, no air power, no competent policy for the air defense of the country, and no competent aviation research pro-
gram.
Taking 500 of our most advanced fighting planes from. ‘the air expansion program and shipping them abroad is to toss’ a monkey wrench into our expansion program. Those 500 fighters, type-tested and ready to roll on production, apparently are -not destined for the Army Air Corps. Instead, they are for some foreign nation.| | I say what Lord Nuffield told the British Government when the British) air expansion program. bogged down in 1936; “God help: you in case of war.”
HAYON SYMPHONY RECORDS RELEASED
Hoosler today had the oppore tunity. of adding Haydn's Syme phony 2 lin E Flat Major to their
record co ections. The work is now .
being distributed at Music Appree« ciation Headquarters, 245 N. Penne sylvania St. |
The Haydn symphony is the seve .
enth in a series of 10 symphonies being distributed. It has been ace claimed, as one ‘of the composer's greatest works. Meanwhile, chairman of the Indiana division of the National Committee for Music Appreciation, said he has ree ceived enthusiastic indorsement of the . music campaign, especially from schools and colleges. Mr. Ball has been making a series of talks
on music appreciation throughout the State. ~~ *
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Which film player was named “Best. Actress of 1939” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? 2—What is the official title of Sumner Welles, whom President Roosevelt sent to Europe fo report on the war? 3—Of what country is Santiago the capital? 4—What famous musician was at one time Premier of a European ~ country? 5—What is the Great Divide? §=Naile the capital of New Zea
lan and nationality is the surname Verne? 8—The Moon has one-half, twoe thirds, or twice the diameter of the planet Mercury?
Answers’ 1—Vivieni Leigh. ~~ 2—Undersecretary of State. 3—The Republic of Chile.
4—Ignace Jan Paderewski of Poe land.
5—A high watershed, especially that
of the Roc fountains. phe Se 7—French. = | | §--TWo-Shirds. |
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