Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1940 — Page 14
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940
The
Hoosier Vagabond
LOS ANGELES, July 16.—I have a friend in Los Angeles who has been out of work for several months. He has been telling me about it There are things about dreamed of until he told me,
unemployment I never Hidden things. Inside things. Psychological things My friend is an intelligent and capable man. He is a ¢ollege graduate, and has traveled a good deal. He is widely read. He has the capacity for appreciating leisure almost more than anyone I know. But he has found you must be master of your own leisure. Leisure is destroyed when Fate hands it to you, The morning after my friend lost his job, a new family moved into the house next door. For days thereafter my friend got up in the morning, got into his car and drove away in a great rush--so that these strangers next door would think he was going to work He would drive a few blocks, and then park the car and just sit there, having no place in this whole wide world to go. Sometimes he sat there for hours. And on the davs he did stay at home, he would keep inside the house, like a hunted criminal. He couldn't bear for the neighbors to see him at home in the daytime, and wonder why he wasn't at work. He would even hide when he saw the mailman coming.
Houschold Jobs Dull Now
My friend has a new home, and he used to get a deal of pleasure in his off-work hours watering and mowing his lawn, and puttering with flowers along the fence But now. when he has all the time in the world for his lawn, his capacity for pleasure in it has vanished. He used to enjoy straightening up the kitchen in a hurry before dashing off to work. Now he washes the spots off the dishes, and polishes the house until ‘ he has almost rubbed it down, but there's no delight in it. He's just using up useless time,
Our Town
TIME AGAIN to publish another edition of the Department of Amplification, Correction and Abuse On top of the pile is a letter postmarked Indianthe likely place to get word from the Listen
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out of the the spirit land, the author of the the THREE several proposals for the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, return to vour war-torn world for a brief season to protest the reflection which, in your column of July 9. 1940, vou cast on some of the work which I did while I, in the body. dwelt on earth. is that it is altogether too easy to imply from what you wrote in the article above mentioned that no such thing as MY proposed Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ever was thought by me Reference to the Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States (U. S. Dept. of State publication, vol. TI, pp. 452, 5186, 520) should convince vou of the honor due me, Tt is true,” continues the Spirit of "76 Thirteenth Amendment did not become a part of Constitution, but a perusal of pp. 454 to 515 of publication before referred to will reveal to you the that MY Thirteenth Amendment actually got to be adopted by 11 of the states, although four thereof.
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“These latter facts might be SOME ground, at least. for the inclusion of MY Thirteenth Amendment in the Indiana Revised Laws of 1824, the compilers of those laws perhaps believing-—news traveled slowly in those days and even when at last it arrived it was not alwavs accurate—that MY Amendment either HAD become or WOULD become part of the fundamental law the land “What now vou can do to right the cruel wrong done me, I do not know. Your cal-
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CHICAGO, July “Heroic morale work will have to be done in the Democratic Party organization if the damage caused by the mishandling of the thirdterrmn maneuver 1S overcome The damaged morale seemed especially evident in the opening session of the convention. The apathy and dispirit were a subject of wide comment
among delegates and in the press section, On the basis of the show thus far, several veteran correspondents are willing to bet on a Roosevelt defeat—men who called the turn in 1932 and in 1036. Here 1 put th my personal reservation to the effect that it is too early to judge ahout the campaign. All that I wold say now is that this start doesn't look too good. Perhaps it will get going later. It will have to, or there may be bad news ahead. First off, the giant third-term boom which Mayor Edward Kelly of Chicago tried to set off fizzled out in a weak puff. Tn his speech of welcome he built up to an intended draft climax, describing how President Roosevelt did not want to run, but insisting that the convention must put forward again ‘the kind of man that mankind needs Our beloved President, Franklin D. Roosevelt n
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The great organ in the gallery caught the cue and began to rumble. A man seized the New York standard and started a march around the hall But he marched alone! Not one single person joined in. Four large flags were held by Kelly workers, rolled up ready to be unfurled in the draft-Roosevelt parade. But when the parade didn't come off, the flags were put out of sight again.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday.—I am beginhing to think all the Chautauqua organizations have chosen charmeing spots for their settlements. We drove out to Chautauqua, O., straight from the train yesterday and, as we drove into this summer resort, we passed gay parties and boats on the Miami River. The big swimming pool and tennis courts were crowded with young people. The cottages looked unpretentious, but attractive and comfortable, I could
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not help that it was an ideal place for children and young people to spend a healthy, pleasant summer. The audience was large and most attentive and the questions showed real interest in the subject, though there were a few personal ones like: “Is the color on your hat Eleanor blue? 7 This made everybody laugh and lightened an otherwise rather solemn talk. We caught an earlier train than we had expected and arrived home at 9:30. This gave me a chance to say goodby to Mrs. George Huntington, who is leaving fr a short time, and to look over the mail and to take a ride. The ride was not very satisfactory because the flies bother the horses so much. I shall be glad when this particularly “buggy” season is over and we can use the woods again. .
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| By Ernie Pyle
The wolf is not at my friend's door, so that isn't his worry. His worry is in waiting, wasting, sitting purposelessly, while other people about him work their heads off | If he knew that exactly two weeks from today he would start to work again, then he could enjoy these two weeks of idleness to the hilt | When my friend told me all this, 1 recalled a letter that another wise friend had written only a few weeks ago. So we got the letter out and read it over. This man was merely analyzing, he wasn't giving personal experiences. But he hit the nail so squarely on the head it was uncanny. In this letter he said: “I feel that the old individualism, which so many now see a chance of restoring by the election of a Republican President, is washed up. It will never be able to operate a complicated interdependent manner of life like ours, except occasionally, and by accident.
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Dissertation on ‘Just Waiting’
“Por one thing, it compels everyone, whether great or small, to spend most of his life waiting for something to happen; waiting to see what somebody else is going to do. “The little fellow goes to look for a job, and is told to come back in about 30 days. In 30 days time, more than likely, the same story over again. “Then the boss is waiting, too. He is waiting to find whether things will not be better ‘after the first of the vear.' He is waiting to find whether the prognostications of some high-paid business analyst] will work out. He is waiting to find whether ‘That Man’ will be re-elected or not. And s0 on and on. “And the point is that the time, the life, the human energy lost by waiting are gone forever.” And that's exactly what my friend has discovered through actual experience. THe days for him have become slow terrapins of progress, through nothing to nowhere. He hates to go to bed early at night, knowing he'll wake up that much earlier into a useless day of waiting. I have always said that 1 felt myself capable of doing nothing the rest of my life, and doing it with great gusto. My friend says maybe I could if I ordained it that way. But not if Fate handed it to me and said, “No choice, you've got to take it.”
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By Anton Scherrer
umny has had wide circulation and is beyond recall. I had to let you know, however, that you have dis turbed my rest and have made me most unhappy. “Yours sorrowfully, The Shade of the Author of the Forgotten First-Proposed Thirteenth Amendment.” Item II. a more lively—certainly, a less lugubrious affair was submitted by Dermot T. O'Malley, 1050 N. Delaware St. “You will pardon, I'm sure, an admirer of yours (blarney, b'gad) for questioning the authenticity of the letter vou published in your column of July 1. 1 question it and am sure you must, too, for any one or all of the following reasons: “1, The dateline, ‘Queenstown, Treiand, Dec. 21st, 1939." Queenstown is not Queenstown been since ‘the trouble’ Tt is Cobh. Cobh was the| ancient port of Cork and the name was changed to | Queenstown to honor Victoria, who had one or two| admirers in Ireland When the treaty was made | creating the Free State in 1922, the name was imme- | diately changed back to Cobh—Victoria's admirers having died in the interim ”
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Ireland Isn't Ireland’
Ireland was not Ireland in| more |
" Also the dateline: 1680. Tt is either Northern Ireland or Eire, or commonly Eire and ‘the six counties.’ «3. Surely no Trishman would send money all the| way to Ireland for masses, thus, by inference, bring-| ing some discredit on the efficacy of all the Trish] masses that have been read in St John's, St. Pat's| and St. Joe's right here. The money would have| been gent for some other purpose. “4. Cousin Hughie Doherty. Never heard of wi which is strange, because they still sing songs about Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, who killed a policeman | pack in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. i «5 The Orangemen are not going about the country killing everybody. They are nice people, but awfully bull headed. . . . “6. The Doherties are nto taking over any county nor any village nor anything. It just isn’t in the
Doherties.”
By Raymond Clapper
The second speaker, Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois candidate for Vice President, threw the name of Roosevelt at the delegates several times with even less result than Mavor Kelly had Friends of the Administration advanced several explanations for the failure of the Roosevelt demonstration to come off. It was too early in the convention. The delegates had week-end hangovers. They | thought the Mayor was making just the usual speech | of welcome and paid him no heed Whatever the reason, the show didn't come off. Also remarkable for restraint were the night -session | speeches by Chairman Farley and Speaker Bankhead, | the keynoter. Farley never used Roosevelt's name. | At the Philadelrhia convention four years ago he | mentioned Roosevelt three times and drew a half- | hour demonstration for Roosevelt!
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” n ” Maybe They're Saving Up Keynoter Bankhead here in the Chicago convention mentioned Farley once and Hull once. He did not mention Mr. Roosevelt's name at all, omitting in delivery one reference that had been included in his advance manuscript. Four years ago Kevnoter Barkley mentioned the name of Roosevelt 10 times, | often bringing prolonged applause. At the end occurred a 15-minute demonstration. 1 don't know what it all means. Maybe they are saving up for something later Unquestionably the ill treatment which Chairman Farley has received has stirred much sympathy for| him around the convention. Most of the correspond- | ents are in his corner and consider that he is han- | dling himself with dignity and is enduring keen| humiliation with the bearing of a sportsman Because Farley has been the main contact of party workers, it isn’t setting well with many of them to see him getting the knife. The convention will vote | for Mr. Roosevelt—but there will be regret in many | hearts for some of the things that have happened.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The Democratic National Convention, which is opening today, is going to mean much more time | spent listening to the radio. But isn't it wonderful to | have the radio? Some years ago it would habe been | impossible to know what was happening from minute to minute. I turn on my radio for the foreigh news at intervals all the time, However, just as during the Republican convention, I don’t want to miss any of the colorful pageantry going on in the Democratic
one. I had a most interesting letter today from Frank J. Wilson, Chief of the Secret Service, telling me that during the past year the United States Secret Service has been trying to make the American public “counterfeit conscious,” and thereby to suppress the major crime of counterfeiting. They have used all the known ways to educate people through publicity and have succeeded in reducing the losses of the American peo-
ple through counterfeiting from $1,151,839 in 1936 to,
$197,381 for the fiscal year of 1940, The newest idea is the distribution of some colorful and attractive match folders bearing the “know your money” with a brief message from the Secret Service to the public. I hope to see a great many people carrying these match folders, for certainly this is an educational venture in which we should all be interested. I am grateful to the Secret Service for the work they have done to make us conscious of how we safeguard ourselves,
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Enthusiasm was high, but seats were vacant at the opening of th e Democratic National Convention in Chicago because Chalrman James A. Farley, arrow, called the assembly to order so promptly only about 300 delegates were present and only a scattersd crowd in the gallery,
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A closeup of the speaker's stand shows Chairman Farley rapping Bunting ix red, white and blue, the eagle, golden,
SEEK WAY OUT ‘No Third Term’
Plank Recalled
FOR JON LEWIS, rev
before a Garner-for-nnally.
The President's son, Elliott, left, caught President sign and longhorn head, with Texas’ Senator Tom Co
NEW DEALERS | Mrs. Vondenbers DO WORK WELL Democrat Guest
CHICAGO, July 16 (U P) Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, wife of | the Michigan Republican Senator Inngr Circle in Promotion of Third Term Hovering Over Convention,
and unsuccessful contender for the Republican Presidential nomination. attended last night's session of the Democratic convenstion “Don't ask me why I'm she said. “Everybody doe: By CHARLES 1. LUCEY Mrs Vandenberg's tickets Times Staff Writer presented to her personally CHICAGO, July 16-—Although it| Chairman James Farley. has no official connection with the] convention, the New Deal inner circle which long ago sowed the seeds of the third-term idea is all over the place. Since last week Harn Hopkins | has held the reins at his suite in the|
CANADA TO REGISTER wt os to re EVERYONE OVER 18
The 1'e~ Attorney General Robert H, Jack- of son is here, and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Solicitor General] Francis Biddle, Leon Henderson of | the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lowell Mellett, director of | the Office of Government Reports all of them close to President Roosevelt. Many lesser lights from Washington also are here, Among the delegates are additional third-term crusaders within the Government, men like Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of the Interior Ickes, and Alvin Witz, | Assistant Secretary of the Interior They gather in hotel corridors and rooms and move through the lobbies with an air of mystery There is no disputing that
Alva B. Adams (Colo), produced a 44-year-old Democratic a third
today declaration against for Presidents He found the plank in the 1806 party platform. He sald he was calling it to the attention of delegates “merely to point out that platforms are of little consequence, We don't care anything about them any more.” The plank, in the platform adopted by the convention that first nominated William Jennings Brvan, read: “We declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, estab lished by custom and usage of 100 vears and sanctioned by the examples of the greatest and wizent of thoze who founded and have maintained our Govern= | ment. that no man should eligible | for a third term of the Presiden | tial office.”
LOGANSPORT WOMAN | DEAD AFTER CRASH
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Murray and Kennedy Hope Party Platform Will Get | C. I. 0. Chief Off Limb.
By FRED W. PERKINS
Times Special Writer CHICAGO, July 16 Old-line leaders of the United Mine Workers are hopeful that Democratic platform will provide a ladder to get | from the antt- |
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Lewis down limb he is out on Mr. Lewis is alone among topflight ©. 1. O. leaders in his public opposition to a third term With Philip Murray, vice president of the Mine Workers and of [the C. 1. O, serving as spokesman (here for this branch of organized scheduled for Aug. 20 to 23 labor, and with Thomas Kennedy, The only adults exempted are mine worker | Secretary-treasurer, | cloistered nuns, inmates of asylums, jt ting on the platform committee, penitentiaries and other institutions | afrorts are being made to provide a desighated by the Chief Registrar. |gpaceful way out for Mr, Lewis For giving false information, |ihrough adoption of labor planks there is a fine of $200 and three (hat he could indorse as preferable] LOGANSPORT, Thd., July 16 (U.| months imprisonment Those 1e-lty those of the Republican platform. P,) Mrs, Rose Copsey, 54, of Log~ | fusing to answer registration ques-| Wy, Lewis, never willing to back ansport, died yesterday from in-| tions are liable to a fine of $100 water. would not be expected to sup- | jurfes suffered Sunday night when Failure to give notification of port Mr. Roosevelt personally even the car in which she was riding col- | change of address after marriage, if he indorsed the platform lided head-on with another machine | or refusal to answer subsequent After a two-day visit Mr. Lewis near here. Five others were in| questions concerning the registra- left late yesterday for Washington, | jured in the accident, four of them tion card, carries a fine of $50 where he said he had an important | geriously.
Upon “reasonable demand” al conference scheduled today. | PORTLAND na. J h 18 0. P ‘for their task we Canadian must show authorities his| The yrineipal planks sought by TL , Ind. July ( ), have performed their task well 1 I Kenneth Brosus, 30. of Jay County,
| ’ s | So well, indeed, has the job been | registration certificate at any public Messrs, Murray and Kennedy are a | X done with the collaboration of |assembly, public resort oi office, or strong declaration against involve- was killed late vesterday when light
posses like Mayor Kelly of Chicago, upon any means of transportation. |ment in the European war, [ning struck a free near him.
Mayor Hague of Jersey iy Seni | : Fo Se : whee pe "i Texas Tim Drives Chicago Wild in Campaign To Become Democratic Throttlebottom
whatever possibility there is of] pumping life into a dull convention and doffed his straw sombrero i “Your demonstrated ability as a| campaign manager can be of great
appears to lie solely in a fight over | the Vice Presidential place, There are signs that not all dele- | gates are eager for the renomina- | tion of Mr. Roosevelt, Some delegates are privately resentful of be- Cp : ing put in the position of merely the loop crowds. To one WOman (ue at this most momentous ratifying something that has al- who sought to board his wheezing | period of Mr. Timmons’ career, If ready been accomplished automobile, he said, “Vote for me, | he fails, vou are to blame. The rest | A Pennsylvania delegate summed (ine from his own drive for a first and I'll hire you a limousine.” |of us are doing our best, but a real) 0 But what ean tom as the Democratic Throttle-| “You've got a lot of brass there,” helping hand from a fellow With you do? | bottom. remarked RFC Chairman Jesse| your experience will mean a great They will vote for Mr. Roosevelt.| «yin O'Leary's cow ain't in it|Jones, another Texan, before he deal at this time.” There ‘were HEW TehOrS today of | with what I've started here)” said accepted a “Win With Tim” sign| House Majority Leader Sam RayPeter Jouliviers elt SHpe | Tim. land marched down Michigan Ave. burn, also of Texas, met Mr, TimOn > Neon x os. | Possibly formal ihtroductions are “By gosh, it takes a lot of brass| mons when his demonstration swept One of those whose position was | In order at this point. So meet |to *un this campaign,” Mr. Timmons through the Giarner headquarters, | questioned was William A. Julian | Bascom N. Timmons, Texas news| replied. and promised to “be in on the kill.” | rensurer of the United States ' | paper correspondent in Washing-| “Meed a loan?” Mr, Jones asked. Several minutes later, Mr. Timmons | “Wr. Julian is a dblegate “trom | ton who helped Jaunch the Prest«| Mr. Timmons flourished a $100 asked his sign-carriers, “now 1 Ohio. The Hatch Act exempts of. dential candidacy of John N Gar- bill which he said “some of my wonder what he meant by that?” ficials who are concerned with gov- | er. When Mr. Garner couldn't| admirers gave me,” and vowed “I'm| Tn the lobby of the headquarters ernmental policy-making, but as in make the grade for President, there flush with slush—T mean campaign hotel, Mr. Farley heard Mr. Tm. the case of Guy T Helvering, here Were those who felt the least that funds.” mons deliver a speech promising he as a delegate from Kansas, it was could be done was to try to get Tim| National Chairman James A.[would “go away an embittered man” contended that his duties are strict. | the No. 2 spot [farley summoned Carlisle Bargeron, [if not nominated. ly prescribed by law and that he So the Timmons forces rolled Washington writer who publicized| "I shall limit all campaign conmakes ho decisions affecting policy. | through downtown Chicago yester-|the {ill-fated Republican nomina-| tributions to $5,000,000," he said. Senator Carl Hatch (D. N. M.) said (day in a 1906 Maxwell two-seater, tion campaign of Senator Styles H.|“T am ahead of the trend. Will Bridges (N. H) to help Mr. Tim-|somebody please bring me a baby over here? “My managers are authorized to
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16 UU. PD Government today announced ulations for the registration Canadians over the age of 16 The registration tentatively
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CHICAGO, July 16 (U. P).—Tim, Vice Presi- | dent, that Chicago was this
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‘he believed Mr. Helvering's attend- | advising gaping crowds by megalance as a delegate violated the law.|phone: “Wire your delegates collect | mons out, Drone everything. All I ask is if I'm nominated, I not
| A Midwestern postmistress, per- |to vote for Timmons.” “It all started In a spirit of levity “Ith here to save my Job.” but my wife,” stood in the "motified.”
haps the most frank person at the| The candidate, who remarked | and has reached huge yg convention, said: “This will be funny to everybody | Mr. oy telegraphed Mr, BarMaxwell x Tera tala A
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the gavel for the opening session,
LONG SESSION JUST GESTURE
Businessmen Want to Get Money Back; Meeting Is Prolonged.
WASHINGTON, July 16-Tha Democratic National Convention could complete its work and fold up today=-hut the city of Chicago, iia hotels, restaurants, night clubs and business establishments, wouldn't stand for it, The third-term President Roosevelt is conceded by virtually evervone, and the rest of the convention promises little excitement, But Chicagoans paid $150,000 to get the Democrats hera and they have inve#ed large addis tional sums in preparing for them, They must get it back, and many contracts-—-as for hotel rooms-—hava been written on a five-day basis Thus a dull convention that probs ably could be wound up in two days ix being stretched over a week The Presidential hopefuls Tun over hy the third=term steamroller aren't the only ones disappointed by the situation. The hotels are too, for it hurts their business In a wide-open convention, with many « active candidates plus ths usual lightning-may=strike brigads, there are elaborate headquarters in many hotels, There is much enters taining, and the cocktail parties and free bars get a big play. But President Roosevelt has 80 blanketed the field that there's little of this in Chicago, Vice President John Garner has headquarters inh the Sherman Hotel, Paul V. McNutt in the Stevens, and Senator Burs ton K. Wheeler in the Congress, but ih none are there any of the whoops it=up celebrations of many past cons ventions, Senator Wheeler, in fact, has only three ordinary hotel rooms,
nomination of
U. S.-OWNED PAPER IN SHANGHAI BOMBED
SHANGHAI July 18 (U, P,), == Twenty persons were wounded to day when terrorists bombed the American-owned Chinese language newspaper Shun Pao, less than 24 hours after the Japanese-domins ated Nanking “government” had “ordered” the expulsion from Shanghai of Norwood F., Allman, ity chief editor, and five other Ameri«
cans, The Nanking regime had "ors dered” the expulsion from the set tlement=-<over which it has ho jurisdiction==of Allman; Randall Gould, editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury and correspondent for the Christian Science Moni tor of Boston; C. V, Starr, presi dent of the Post-Mercury , and an insurance man, J. B, Powell, edi tor of the American-owned China Weekly Review; H. P. Milla, pub. lisher of the frequently-bombed Amerioan-owned wan.
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