Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1940 — Page 19
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1940
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Hoosier Vagabond
NEW YORK, Sept. 20—The luxury trip is over. Back to reality we must come, From now on who will turn down my bed of an evening? Who will hand me a tray of smoked eel before dinner? Who will come: running when I press fr button? Who ; will bow whed 1 come into the dining room? Who will bring me free ice cream at| 11 o'clock every morning? , The answer is—not a soul. And a very good thing that is; too. Give me one more week of luxury and I wouldn't nave enough character left to fill a tcy palleon. Ninety-nine per cent of our passengers are heartbroken that the trip is over. But me, I'm glad. I'm a strong character. I rub 3 nose in the ground every so of so I'll remember that dirt was made to| eat. Hand me some mud, my*good man, : So back to the mill for me, and it's with a ‘hey nonny that I go. I'm glad it all happened. I wouldn't have missed it for half the price. But you, can't dream forever, The 8.8. Washington is wonderful. Wonderful, too, are the United States Lines, and Capt. Manning, and the Pacific Ocean and the Hudson River, ‘They're all wonderful. Long may they wave. Long may I wave, too-—but I kinda hope I'll always have a patch on my elbow and a little fraying around my shirt collar. It's good for a hody.
"An Indescribable Thrill |
I wish everyone in the world could have the privi- - lege, sometime in his life, of sailing into New York from the sea. It's indescribable, so there’s no use in my trying to describe it. But I can say it is an almost overpowering experience,
We've come into New York several times before.
And each time I can't help but wonder what must have been the feeling—and what must be the feeling, even more so these days—of the millions of immigrants, and now refugees, when they get their first glimpse through the fog of that monster forest of uncanny spires that is the fabled Manhattan skyline. Our own disembarkation wasn't as perfect as it might have been. For one thing, I couldn't seem to
By Ernie Pyle
get our bags patted. I mean I couldn’t get everything in them. We didn’t have an ounce more than we brought aboard, and yet the bags just wouldn't hold everything. Guess it must have been the salt air. At any rate we had to call the steward and have him tie up the excess junk in two old pasteboard boxes. We did, ‘indeed, look like immigrants coming off that ship. The customs men- are wonderful. If-I had ever cut the string on those pasteboard boxes of ours, wouldn’t have got them tied up again for a week. “Skip it,” the customs man said," and then fold us a funny story.. It was all over in two minutes. You're always hearing people tell about what terrible trouble they've had with customs men. But I expect That Girl and I have been through customs 50 times, and with one single exception (in Puerto Rico) ‘we have yet to find a customs man who wasn’t perfectly kindly and reasonable, and usually they're humorous to boot.
Some Hurried Farewells The farewells are an important part of any trip.
We didn't say goodby the way we wanted to at all.
We rushed around the ship and the dick like a couple of goblins, and said weepy goodbys-to a lot of people we'd never seen until the last night aboard. But we never did say goodby at all to our favorite people—such as Admiral Franklin, and Purser Arnoult, who had dane so much for us, and Capt. Manning, and the Harveys and our own steward and stewardess. But that's the way with a luxury traveler. You get-so you can't do anything for yourself. Bo%_run say gooadby to Capt. Manning for me, That's right. Here's a $40 hill. Maybe we’ll see them all at an old seamen’s reunion some day. s And now in conclusion, my friends, I can only call to your attention the regrettable fact that day after - tomorrow, along about 10 in the evening, the Washington's old whistle is going to roar and biast away for about five solid minutes, and then the tugs
"will back her out into the dark stream, and she’ll
ease slowly down the river and head on out to sea for the blue Caribbean and green Pdnama and the faraway shores of California—and we can hear it all happen from our own hotel room, and boy, it’s gonna be tough. Yessir, it's gonna be hard to take. I just wish I had less character—and more money.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
LOREN FISHER, a student at the John Herron Art Schoo], won the Prix de Rome scholarship (worth about $4000) last year with a painting .of our City Market's chicken stand. But there's an interesting story in connection with that painting that you ought to know. Loren studied the Market, where the chickens are dressed New York style, .So, home one week-end at the family farm in Needham, Ind. he asked his mother to dress him a chicken New York style, which is simply a fcwl dressed with the head on. Farm style is head off. Mrs, Fisher gave grave consideration to the whole matter, finally decided she knew of no way to kill a chicken without chopping off its head. So she did just that, dressed the bird and sewed the. head back en. She did such a good job that Loren never knew the difference and used it as a, model and eventually won the prize, The story might never have come out if Mrs. Fisher hadn't confided her little duplicity to Mrs. J, W. Fesler, who, in turn, confided in Donald Mattison, director of the Herron Art School, who, in turn, has now confided in us. Come to think of it, how do you kill a chicken without chopping. off its head?
Ye Olde Beauty Shoppes
- WE'VE BEEN CHIDED for singling out the Ut‘most Beauty Shop. One beauty operator says there just aren't any more namesleft and, checking on it, we learn she's almost right. Thete’s an American Beau‘y Shop, an Avalon, a Beauticurl, Beautibob, uty Box, Beauty Mart, Betsy Ross, Blossom, BHie Bell, Blue Lantern, Blue Moon, Bob Ette, Bon-Ton, Bow-Knot and Bubbles. Continuing) with the alphabet we find: Cameo, Charm, Checker, Chic, College, Collegiate, Cottage,
. Courtesie, Coy, Cozy, Cozy Nook, Curle, Diane, Dixie,
Washington |
i | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—By two tests, the Willkie campaign falls so far short that grave doubts are raised, at least with me; about the kind of joh he would do as President, One test is! Willkie’s success as an organizer. The other test is to be found in the policies upon whicli he offers himself for the job. By neither test does Willkie seem to live up to earlier expectations of at least this one of his friends. At the time he was nominated, Willkie was a highly successful E lawyer and business executive. His published utterances, such as those in Fortune Magazine, give evidence of an grasp of national problems.© He was equally impressive in private conversations. In all, he seemed, as did Herbert Hoover in 1932, exceptionally well qualified to be President. . Public life is different from private life and Willkie is entitled to have time in which to hit his stride. But that time-must be about up.
Confusion in Campaign
The Willkie campaign has been notorious for disorganization. Seldom ‘has there been more chaos in a Presidential campaign. echo with stories of confusion, hurt feelings, unangwered telegrams and letters, crossed wires, and general demoralization. Willkie is carrying his campaign
in his hat. This condition is well-known and'is a subject of incessant discussion among politicians here and among newspaper correspondents on the Willkie train, which seems to operate with all the confusion of an amateur road-show.
There is always some confusion and friction in a
Presidential campaign. But this one is so loosejointed that it.indicates poor direction at the top. If the Willkie administration in the White House functioned with no more unity, co-ordination and effectiveness than the Willkie administration in the cam-
My Day
NEW YORK, Thursday.—Last night we attended the concert at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, in which the All-American Youth Orchestra gave a program of Bach which was completely enchanting. It was so beautifully conducted and . played, that I felt as though I were hearing this music for the first time. The second half of the program, Symphony No. 5, by Shostakovich, I had never heard before and, because .it was unfamiliar, I enjoyed certain parts more than I ‘ did others. But taken all in all, it was an unforgettable evening, and one in which you were proud of the achievements of young America in music.
They say no young country can produce great artists or great mu--gicians. Then we must be growing up, for we did hear a great All- American Symphony Orchestra last night. Yesterday morning I spent two-and-a-half hours in Washington with the National Recreation and Educational Council. They called upon all Government agencies touching the fields of education and recreation to give a report on their work in order that the - private agencies might better understand how all futlities could be integrated,
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Congressional cloakrooms’
Duchess, Elite, Erin, Exclusive, Fashion, Fireside, Flower, and Friendly. Keep going with us: Geneva, Good Luck, Green Comb, Grove, Hollywood, Ideal, Jack & Jill, Joe's Bu-Te, Keystone, Klip and Kurl, Kurly Kue, Lady Fair, Mayfair, Mi-Lady, Mi-Own, Modern, Modernistic. My Own, New York, Nicodemus, Fifty, NuVenus, O. K. Ole Rose, Pearlee, Petite, Polly Prim, Powder Box, Ritzy, Royal Blue, Smart Appearance, Smart Sister, Snitzie Bob, Sta-Curl, Sunshine, SureWave, Swan, Tip-Top, Tokio, Town Talk, Tulip, Vanity, Vanity Box, Venus and Vogue. The one we liked best, though, is the Poudre Puff Beaute Salon!
Our Nickel Panic
THE TOWN IS right in the middle of a “nickle panic.” That's a fact. People are going around trading their old nickels for the new ones—those with the Jefferson home on them. Somehow, somebody started the rumor that the Government was going to recall all the new jilneys because the Monticello home has no flag showing, You know how things like that go once they're started. There must be scores of folks collecting new nickels. We tried to get one yesterday afternoon and just couldn't. Well, the Mint will grind ont another couple of million pretty soon and that will end that.
The Neighborhood Alarm Clock
AT SIX A. M. yesterday. morning, the neighborhood at 40th and Winthrop came awake to the bugle tall of “Reveille.” The family in question must have
been awakened because all the neighbors were, , . . A taxpaying customer just called to demand the teason for the “Roosevelt” sign on the back end of ne of the City’s orange tank trucks. We'told him his guess was as good as ours. . .. The Tax Adjustment Board, which has been harping on the fee system, keeps dropping gentle hints about a County oficial who is building himself a $25,000 house.
By Raymond Clapper
paign, then the Government would be almost paralyzed. - ‘The Presidency is more than a husiness office. It is a political office also, and I don't mean that in a trick sense, The art of herding an army of politicians and public officials and second-string prima donnas into effective handling of the enormously complicated publie business centered at Washington requires more than Willkie has shown in the management of his campaign, By the test of his policies, Willkie is falling short of the standard which he set for himself earlier,
The Argentine Thrust
His start was a brave one, in which he disregarded expediency and stood for essentials in foreign policy, |? which encouraged his friends. But he has dropped his standard and has now reached the point of making narrow-minded appeals to sectional interests. He is’ using the Argentine as a whipping post at a time when we are striving to keep that country from falling completely into the totalitarian orbit. His thrust at the Argentine Sanitary Convention was unnecessary, and if he carried his attitude into the White House our situation in Latin America would be done serious harm. Willkie also said, out in the cattle country, that one way to rehabilitate our domestic economy would be “to have the American Navy eat American beef instead of Argentine beef.” That was an attempt to reawaken the storm of indignation in the cattle country over the Navy's purchase of about $7500 worth of tinned Argentine beef a year or so ago. It was fishing for votes at the expense of our interest in Latin America, and it was needless; Willkie evidently didn’t know that Congress later passed a law forbidding the Navy to buy foreign beef. If that is the way to rehabilitate our domestic economy, as Willkie suggests, then it has already been done long ago. The irresponsibility of some of Willkie’s other recent talks already has been revealed by his own corrections. He seems to be suffering from a combination of misinformation and bad judgment. If that, coupled with the confusion which he seems unable to eliminate from his campaign organization, gives a fair sample of what Willkie would be as President, then it leaves much to be desired.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a good thing that we are seeking normal outlets for recreation for young and old. I think it is also a good sign that we are coming to consider education and recreation as being closely bound together. We need to go one step further and realize that
there is much to be done in the field of recreation which will develop our responsibilities as citizens. We talk so much of how to develop patriotism, and it seems to me fairly obvious that patriotism comes through a devotion to a way of life. That way of life may -be lived in a rural area, in a city or in a small town. Our heartstrings may he bound up with the scenery, soil or the house in which we live, but even this love of a particular piece of ground, or particular surroundings, will not give that passion of patriotism which makes people live and die for an ideal. That comes only through devotion to a way of life, something which you strive to achieve day in and day out, something which sets the standards by which you live. Before I left Washington, the President returned from Alabama. It was a sad trip for all of Speaker Bankhead's friends. This sad event, also, will make a great difference in the way things move in Congress this week and the President was uncertain as to his own plans. I will’ meet him, however, in Philadelphia on Friday. I am now leaving to attend a meeting of the U., 8. Committee for the care of European Childrens
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Gains in 46
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Ahead in 38
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can leaders point to Mr. Willkie’s astonishing feat in coming-from-behind in the nomination race last spring, and predict that Willkie’s present tour of the West is only the beginning of an intensive home-
stretch drive. Further nation-wide studies by the American Institute of Public Opinion will measure the effect f Mr. Willkie’'s present western ! including his speeches at Coffeeville, Kas, and elsewhere.
there is always a margin of error involved in every sampling oper-
copducted—because of the size of the sample itself. In the present study the statistical probabilities e 95 in 100 that the average ror per state due to the size of the sample will not exceed plus or minus 4 per cent. Interpretation of the survey results, therefore, must take into account those states where the RooseveltWillkie percentages are between 54 and 46 per cent. ’
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HILE Mr. Willkie has been preparing his home-stretch efforts, the survey shows that President Roosevelt has made gains in all but. four states. In general, the President's biggest gains have come in the states east of the Mississippi—including such important pivotal states as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. Since most of these states were in the Willkie camp by only narrow margins a month ago, the shifts have put many of them in Mr. Roosevelt’s column today. The race in| many of these states is still close—as close as it was a month ago—but the advantage lies today with President Roosevelt instead of with Mr, Willkie,
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NALYSIS reveals that President Ropsevelf has captured 10 states from Willkie in the past four weeks, with a total of 206 electoral votes. The state-by-state picture as of Aug. 25 and today is as follows:
TODAY'S SURVEY
Roosevelt. Willkie No, of States.... 38 10 Electoral Votes .. 453
AUG. 25 SURVEY Roosevelt Willkie No. of States.... 28 20 Electoral Votes .. 247 284
Much of President ‘Roosevelt's current strength would be vulnerable on the basis of a 4 per cent shift to Mr. Willkie, however. The Institute survey shows that the President's lead is only four points or less in 11 states with a total of 210 electoral votes.
A four-point shift in the
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reduce Mr. Willkie's. electoral strength drastically and leave him with about the same number of electoral .votes Alfred M. Landon received in 1936,
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RESIDENT Roosevelt's share of the popular vote has risen in the past four weeks to 55 per cent, as compared with 51 per cent in August. While the popular vote is of very limited use as lan election indicator-—due to the fact that it is the state-by-state
MEXICAN PEACE
REIGN PLEDGED 1
President-Elect Declares He
Will Help Keep War From Americas. TEZIUTLAN, Mexico, Sept. 20 (U.
P.).—Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho, who is scheduled to become President Dec. 1, said in an interview at his farm today that his Government would “co-operate in all ways possible to keep the horrors of war away from the Americas.”
(Camacho, candidate of the ‘Prm
—Government party—in the July election, was declared elected by
Congress.
Prun, the opposition
party formed a rump Congress and
declared its candidate, Gen.
Juan
Andrew Almazan, elected. Almazan is in Baltimore, Md.)
“My government will pay full at-
tention to the problem of con-
tinental defense,” Camacho said.
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think that in the end the victory will be for the democracies and that is the way I want it.”
invitations
He said he had received several to visit the United
States in the capacity of Presidentelect, but he did not say who had
sent the invitations.
Washington
will be his: principal stop in the United States, he said, but he might also visit “several other important
American cities.”
It was under-
stood that he planned the trip in November,
He said his Administration would
try to consolidate rationally the gains of President Lazaro Cardenas’ regime, but that if labor “went too
far,”
it .would “kill the goose that
laid the. golden egg.”
The 43-year-old former Secretary
of War planned to leave his farm next week for Mexico City, to start choosing his Cabinet and§prepare for a six-year term as President
starting Dee. 1.
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electoral vote which counts—the President's gains in this department have averaged four points since August. This is still well below the 622
Our America
per cent which Roosevelt received in the election of 1936. Finally, it must be noted that .
approximately one person in nine ‘(11 per cent) says he is still un-
Let's Try to Be Americans Once Again
By ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN
AUTHOR OF “CAPTAIN ABBY AND CAPTAIN JOHN,” “LOST PARADISE,” “STRANGE
HOLINESS,” ETC.
(Eleventh of a series of articles by 24 authors)
The froubie with us Americans
lately is that we have imported too many ideas and fears from
Europe. We have allowed our intellectuals to bring overseas the words Capital and Labor and the great servitudes behind them and apply them to a universal hardworking people. The Yankee sea captain used to be the sailor who worked hardest of all the crew. The sea captain's wife used to be able to do a hig washing a n d ironing a n d mending a n d then put on silks and go to parties in the eve- ~_ Robert P. ning. She was Tristram Coffiny a new kind of lady in’ civiliza= tion. The children of that captain and his wife are still here. The vast majority of Americans still work their way, whatever estates they may inherit. Most Ameri-
-cans who go to college now work
their way through as surely as their fathers did whén they came driving their estate on the hoof, in a yoke of oxen, to the college door. And those who have tried to persuade us that there is one set of Americans who work and another who. sit back and live off the fat of the land and the sweat of others deserve to be hanged.
For if they talk long enough,
there will arise bricklayers and farmers whose sons will remain
! bricklayers and farmers and not
‘as symbols, not to Russia.
go on to become Presidents and
doctors who will hreed sons good at laying brick and farming again. ‘}-
We have let foreign ideas about :
the stigma of labor come in. The’ hammer and sickle belong to us" “The beehive and the beaver belong on, our state papers instead of the Roman bird of prey that happens to be there. Our Great Seal ought to be an ear of Indian corn. For we have grown great by sweat and sweet toil in the furrows and shops. We ought to remember we are sons of shopkeepers, be proud of it, and work and grow tough in our muscles and minds once
- more.
We have allowed a few snobs to talk about racial superiority in a country built in its beginnings and through its history out of a score of different nationalities and strong with fhe strength of the best in them all. What we need to do is to recover our old selitude, -our old’ assurance, and great pride. We need to get back to our fathers” belief that any man who works hard and stands up straight and independent and bosses his own soul, no matter what race he comes from, is worth all the machines and kingdoms and theories of statecraft in the world. Faith in hard-working manhood is what we have grown by. If we keep that faith, Democracy will be safe from all the buzzards of Fascism and Naxiism and Communism on the {ace of the earth. For those buzzards feed on carrion, where the people are dead or marked for death. Where people are really alive they are never found. Let's be Americans again.
decided about his choice in the coming election. Also, the lnstitute’s studies of “opinion intensity” show that about a third of the voters on each side today:
FAVOR EARLY | THANKSGIVING
- troit will be # very busy man at the Indianapolis Athletic Club to-
30 Governors, 8 More Than
In ’39, to Note New Deal | Date.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (U. P).—
‘The “New Deal Thanksgiving” is gaining approval, a United Press {survey
indicated | today. Thirty of the 45 states whose gov-
ernors have indicated their choice will ~ observe the date picked by| President Roosevelt—Nov. ; compared with 22 last year. Fifteen states, eight fewer than last year, will observe the tradi-| tional last Thursday.
21—as
Longer Yule Period The President advanced the date
to lengthen the Christmas shopping period. for the first time last year, met considerable opposition.
The change, put in effect
This year 11 of the 15 states
refusing to go along with the earlier date have ‘Republican governors. They include the six New England states and Idaho, : Kansas, Pennsylvania and ‘South Dakota. The four others, (with Democratic Jl governors, are Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Iowa,
Of the 30 conforming states six
have Republican governors. The three states which have not’ yet decided between the two dates are may observe both, and Wisconsin.
Arkansas, Kentucky, which
One Changed -Back The states which changed over
to the earlier date are Alabama, Arizona, braska and New Mexico. tion, Colorado, Mississippi and Texas decided to celebrate the new date only instead did last year.
Florida, Minnesota, Ne-
In addi-
of both, as they One state, Pennsylvania, changed
back to the traditional date after ‘having tried the new one last yor,
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have no very firm convictions about how they will vote. Such voters, comparatively easy to sway, may hold the answer to the election next Nov. 5.
Chess-Checker Exhibition Set
NEWELL W. BANKS of De-
morrow evening. Starting at 7:30 o'clock he will give a simultaneour exhibition of playing chess checkers, taking on all challengers.
A similar exhibition will be, given at the club on Oct. 5 by George Koltanowski of Milwaukee. Both demonstrations are under the auspices of the Central Indiana Chess Association. The association, composed of 18 teams, will open its season Oct. 1. Matches will continue weekly through April.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Is Canada a self-governing Dominion of the British Common. wealth of Nations? 2—Do sea snakes have gills? 3—Is the baby born to 6-year-old Lina Medina of Peru a boy or a girl? 4—What is the minimum age for Representatives in Congtess? 5—Name the capital of Venezuela, 6—How long is a fortnight? T—Which is the penultimate sylla« ble of a word?
Answers
1—Yes. 2—No. s—Boy. 4—Twenty-five years. 5—Caracas. 6—Fourteen days. T—Next to the last.
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