Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1940 — Page 17

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. Bure, we were scared. = The silliest trivial incident in 100,000 miles of tour-

: dentally drop

- ‘hand door of our coupe. That was a year ago, and : the half dollar is still down there. It would cost more

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ON WITH THE summing up; let reminiscences be

* unconfined.

In these last five and a half years of traveling and writing for a living, we have worked up a whole new continent-wide list of intimate friends, and we con- > sequently keep up a personal correspondence with about 300 people. ~ In these years we have worn out two cars, three typewriters, and pretty soon I'm going to have to have a new pair of shoes. I love to drive, and never get tired of it. : _ The most serious predicament we've ever been in was when an airplane motor went dead as we were 10,000 feet over the Andes in southern Peru. But we flew for an hour on one motor, and it turned out just like all good short stories.

ing was when garage boy in Houston, Tex., acci-

a half dollar down inside the left-

= than 50 cents tg take the door apart to get it.

We think the best one-day National Park in Amer-

: lca is Carlsbad Caverns, in New Mexico; the best week- + long park is Glacier, in Montana. The most beautiful : city in the Western Hemisphere (just as you've al- . ways heard) is Rio de Janeiro.

_ Tribute to Chase Osborn

The American town with the most spectacular set-

- ting, we think, is Ouray, Colo., completely cupped by

- terrifically towering mountains.

*. new building is in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. ~ Is a combinatio

Our biggest disappointment in a city was Buenos Aires, which is just like Chicago, except the people speak Spanish. The most horrible architecture we've ever seen in It of Egyptian domed-mosques with modernistic stream-lining, all in Easter egg colors. In five years of meeting thousands of people, we . think former Governor: Chase Salmon Osborn of _ Michigan carries in his head the most knowledge about the most things. He is 80 now, and lives in a ¢ cabin in Georgia in the winters, and on an island in Lake Michigan in the summer.

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ESDAY, NOV. 6, 1940

By Ernie Pyle

Richmond, Ind., is where the kids used to hide on garage roofs and throw eggs down at passing tourists We know this from personal experience. Between Gila Bend and Ajo, Ariz. the gravel road was so full of nails on our last trip that they had to run a huge magnet over the road to collect them. The magnet doesn’t get them all, as I can testify. Yet in 100,000 miles, I've had to change only three tires. The store clerks in New Orleans, in that last crushed, destroying week before Christmas, are sweeter and kinder than it is possible for humans to be. The Nova Scotia people use “good night” as a greeting, as we use “good evening.”

Some Pleasant Recollections

The Ben Milam Hotel in Houston sends a bowl of fruit up to each new guest. The Alcazar in Miami brings up a huge glass of orange juice. The Franciscan in Albuquerque gives free breakfasts to guests. At the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a whitecoated Negro meets you with a tray of free Bacardi cocktails. The worst hotel atrocities in America are those slapboard antiques in eastern “watering places” where week-ending New Yorkers go for class, fire hazard, deep gloom and high prices. That Girl and I have each spent a birthday and a Christmas on ships at sea. We have met thousands of women in these last five years, but only two who rolled their own cigarets—“Klondike Kate” Rockwell of Dawson, Yukon Territory. and Mrs. Leslie Crowe of San Diego. Our biggest hotel room was in Tombstone, Ariz.—four beds and a coal stove! The most genuine gift we've ever had was one afternoon in a wooded hilltop park looking down on Rio de Janeiro. A little Negro boy darted smiling out of the brush, handed a great red rose to That Girl, and darted as quickly away into oblivion. The oddest idiosyncracy we've ever heard about is possessed by the man in Yuma, Ariz., who sleeps under four blankets in summer when the thermometer gets up to 110. : We've found that the best road maps to be Conoco. We've found all filling station maps better than those put out either by the regular map companies or the A.A. A. However, we've found the A. A. A, hotel book so accurate we can pick a hotel 200 miles away, and we're seldom wrong. But of course anybody as smart as we are doesn’t really need maps or hotel books.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

IT COMES TO OUR attention that Indiana can boast of one of the most remarkable safety records in the country, For five years, 6500 school busses have trundled 212,000 children every day to and from state schools—180,000 miles a day—without a single

serious accident and without a.

| single fatality to a child while in a school bus. Dr. Thurman B. Rice figured it all out for the Indiana Parent- | Teacher Association and his fig- | ures showed that the safety rec- | ord now stands at 3,200,000,000

| passenger miles without a fatal.

accident. : This is an astonishing record when you realize that the school busses are working through the worst: weather months of the year. It’s really something to cheer about.

The Wheel of Fortune

FOR SEVERAL WEEKS now Ziegler Dietz has been playing badminton with John O. Servaas at the Indianapolis Atbletic Club (and getting beaten, incidentally). In between games they have kept trying ‘to figure ouf where they had met before, but ‘it has been no go. -That is it was no go until the other afternoon when Mr. Dietz was driving into town. At the side of the road was a stranded car and Mr. Dietz suddenly remembered where he met Mr. Servaas. It was several months ago that his car had stalled on the roadside and the chap who had helped him

Washington

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—As this is written the election count is still incomplete. Yet the trend of returns is such as to indicate that President Roosevelt has been re-elected for a third term. On that assumption one ‘cannot but think ahead to: the ever-pressing needs of the hour. Above everything else the need ‘is for prompt sponging out of the bitterness and suspicion which has been engendered during the recent campaign. To this end mass meetipgs to promote national unity are being organized in many localities. The William Allen White Committee lis urging its chapters in 700 communities to stage public bonfires for the purpose of burning cam'paign literature as a gesture toward unity. The quicker the election is forgotten the better. » Well—not forgotten entirely. I want to be the last to suggest a restirring of suspicions of President Rosevelt. Yet many people must be wondering what to expect, even| though disposed to accept the verdict of the country with good sportsmanship. Therefore, it would seem especially desirable that President Roosevelt himself contribute, as he could with large effect, foward healing the division in the country. He can !begin doing it with words. But words will not be enough. |

‘Actions Needed Now

Actions will speak more emphatically and more effectively. What these actions should be it would be presumptuous to suggest. It does seem, however, as though some recognition should be made of the ‘ defeated candidate. : Each man embodies the hopes and aspirations ‘ahd the confidence of approximately half of the voting population. Of all times, this’ is.the worst to follow the old rule of winner take all.

3 ¢ HYDE PARK, Tuesday—This is Election Day and I have been told with great firmness to get my column in early because the telegraph wires inio New York City will soon be busy with election news.

Of course, nothing authentic in the way of election : returns can come in until the late

afternoon, but I suppose news-.

paper. correspondents will be filing stories all during the day about minor happenings here and there. Yesteraay was calm and peaceful. I met my husband in the morning, rode for a while through the woeds and the fields and enjoyed the blue sky and the warm sun. Then we had the picnic 1 told you about.

.* We all went with the President in the evening to "the meeting outside of the Nelson House in Poughkeepsie, and then returned to listen to the two hours of the Democratic broadcast. I found that the President, instead of closing the program, came somewhere in the middle of it. I liked the whole program.

_4Then we listened through the Republican hour

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which followed, and so went rather late to bed, for bind had mail to finish on my. desk. “In spite of being busy, the atmosphere was calm, day it is hot going to be quite so calm. I am

ab noon: my husbands and I,

out had laughed about the trouble saying simply “You help some other chap out some time.” The benefactor was John Servaas. - Still grinning in recollection of that first meeting, Mr. Dietz stopped to help out the stranded car. In it was Mr. Servaas. It just goes to show you.

Our Hockey Team

WE'RE GETTING OUR first real taste of big league hockey this season. Our Capitals played the Detroit Red Wings in an exhibition game a week ago and unfortunately won. It cost our team its firststring line to Detroit. Friday night our boys play the world’s champion New York Rangers. You can just see the shade difference between a big league hockey player and a youngster on the way up. Incidentally, our team certainly will go down as one of the fightingest outfits in the country. They're always scrapping. Buck Jones played the other night with a 102 fever and had to be put to bed as soon as the game was over. 7

A Sure Winner

DR. GEORGE J. GARCEAU is almost sure of coming out on the winning side of this season's football games. He got his B. A. degree at the University of Minnesota, his, medical degree at Northwestern and he- teaches at Indiana. . . . Another medical winner, in spite of herself, is Mrs. J. D. Hull, a registered nurse. She was overpaid $12 when she cashed her lasg, two checks downtown and turned the overpay back to the incredulous cashiers. . . . Fabien Sevitzky, maestro of the Indianapolis Symphony, is planning on a duck hunt as soon as the season’s first concert is over.

By Raymond Clapper

Our system does not make it easy for a defeated Presidential candidate to be given a place in the public scheme of things and perhaps ordinarily it does not matter much that this is the case. Today however it does matter, Mr. Willkie should be called into some place in the Washington scene. If that could be worked out, it would do more toward starting our nation off again as one united people than any single action that could be taken. Having observed the New Deal at close range and with a sympathetic eye, it does seem to me that a change of tone and on the part of some, a change of attitude, would be salutary. Not in the

, sense of weakening one whit on social reforms.

But in the sense of recognizing that business men, the operating industrialists, are more than ever indispensable key men in our productive system.

Country Has Spoken

It might be ‘well to assume, for a change, that the battle to establish the social reforms is over and to give these men, so important in our production system, recognition as something more than political whipping boys. Something will have to be done by the Roosevelthaters, too. For a third time the country has spoken. It would seem to be up to the professional Roosevelt haters to come back into the union. They are needed. They have opportunity to change pace now on the ground of patriotism. It is possibie, and some tentative moves have been made by intermediaries, that a group of business men will take the lead in a movement of this kind. If men like Lewis Douglas, a Willkie Democrat, and Thomas W. Lamont, should become rallying points for such a movement, and if the Roosevelt Administration would welcome such, the basis of en end of our seven years of civil war might be quickly reached. x It would be enormously to the advantage of the nation if that could come to pass.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

with his mother, will go up to vote and all the photographers and newspapermen will be on hand to record the process as they have done so often before. I shall feel quite calm, but no one thinks that you should be calm, so, willy-nilly, you find" yourself being urged into excitement. The telephones will ring and people will be rising from the table during meals to answer them. The President will have ‘to talk to. many and in spite of all one can do, election excitement will mount.

VICTORY PUTS GRAVE BURDEN ON PRESIDENT

Various Cries of Protest Must Be Considered, Stokes Says.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.— President Roosevelt’s re-election to become the first ‘President thrice chosen in the nation’s history means basically that ‘the Roosevelt Revolution” so-called — the peaceful uprising of the common folks has not yet run its course. Mr. Roosevelt shoulders a solemn and tremendous responsibility. For through the crescendo of approval from the rank and file there ran discordant sounds of protest from other and large elements of the population who voted against him. His obligation as President of ali the 7 people, particularly in these trying times, demands consideration for them in the days to come. While the President offered the world crisis as the reason for seeking to break the third-term tradition, and while his conduct of foreign affairs was paramount with a minority, it is doubtful that his foreign policy had as much to do with his victory as some might think. A Vote of Gratitude

Observation of the campaign, its issues, and the reaction among average voters would incline one to think that it was, fundamentaily, a vote of gratitude for benefits accruing from his domestic ‘program to the masses, who find it difficult to understand the nuances of foreign policy and are inclined to take that on faith. They took on faith his solemn pledge to keep this country out of foreign wars, which enhances his responsibility. It is undoubtedly true that the disturbed state of the world’s affairs was a factor with many in voting him a third term, and, to that degree, his re-election represents a vote of confidence for handling foreign affairs thus far without involving the United States in war.

Distrusted by Large Element

That there is a large element, however, who distrust his foreign policy is evident in the sizable vote against him in the Middle West and the North Central States. An undercurrent of fear noted in those areas, fear that the President might | lead the country to war, was re-! flected in the election. To that extent, therefore, he has been warned against - tendencies that some, including prominent leaders of his own party, have viewed with alarm. Likewise, millions of voters ex-| hibited distrust of his domestic program, the piling up of debt, the lack of consideration for some elements of the population in the New Deal’s administration of laws with which, in principle, so many of them agree—as did Wendell Willkie. All of this ran through the voting yesterday.

Wallace Influence Slight

Likewise, Mr. Willkie took a position alongside the President on help | to Great Britain and China in their | fight against European and Asiatic aggressors, but he struck a responsive chord when he criticized the President's stridency and voiced the suspicion. that Mr. Rossevelt had | not taken the American people into | his confidence sufficiently. Millions of voters spoke out on this subject yesterday. The basic trust in the President of the working men and women, who poured out their votes to keep him in office, was demonstrated in their refusal to follow John L. Lewis, whose eleventh-hour support of Mr. Willkie apparently had little effect. That there is discontent among the farmers with the Administration agricultural = program was manifest in the large vote for Mr. Willkie in the states most affected by the program. Henry A. Wallace, sponsor of the program as Secretary of Agriculture, seemed to lack the influence attributed to him wheh he was hand-picked by Mr. Roosevell| over the protest of the Chicago convention. He did not even carry his own home precinct in Des Moines. Some modifications would seem in order here as on other phases of the New Deal program in the coming Administration.

GARNER FAILS TO VOTE

UVALDE, Tex. Nov. 6 (U. P)— Election officials said today that Vice President John N. Garner did not vote yesterday. Mrs. Garner cast her vote early in the day. It was the firsi time in 44 years that residents of Uvalde did not cast a vote for Garner as

This battery of tabulators added the precinct votes as fast as they were phoned in to Democratic

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School News—

20TH EDUCATION WEEK AWAITED

School Officials to Meet Tomorrow to Map City’s Observance.

By EARL HOFF School officials tomorrcw will map plans for a city-wide observance of the 20th annual American Education Week which will open Monday. DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools, will be in charge of the meeting at 3:45 p. m. at Stuart Hall, Tech High School. All public school principals and representatives of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers will attend. Around a theme of “Education for the Common Defense,” school officials will shape pageants, dramatizations and displays of pupil work.

Open House Planned

Nearly every City school will hold open house during the week when parents and patrons will be: invited to visit. . . Through co-operation with the Americanism Committee of the 12th district of the American Legion, special programs will be held in schools on Armistice Day, Monday. Under sponsorship of the American Association of University Women. committees of public school teachers and principals will present 20 exhibits during the week in the annual “Book and Toy” exhibit in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium,

P.-T. A. Co-operates

Other organizations co-operating with the schools in the observance of the week are the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations and the Indianapolis Ministerial Association. Paul Seehausen, Shortridge High School history instructor, is chairman of the general committee of the Teachers Federation in charge of the week's activities.

PEDESTRIAN KILLED WHEN HIT BY AUTO

Charles Calvin, 75, of 331 N. Temple Ave. died last night at City Hospital of injuries received when he was struck by an auto at New York and Rural Sts. early yesterday. His death brought the City-Coun-ty traffic death toll for this year to 117 as against 77 for the same

candidate for public office.

period last year.

headquarters last night by party workers. ,

District [QUESTIONS SENT

Congress:

(Incomplete Returns) FIRST DISTRICT

William T. Schulte (D) M. Elliott Belshaw (R)

SECOND DISTRICT

James O. Cox (D) .......... Charles A. Halleck (R) ......

THIRD DISTRICT

!George R. Sands (D) Robert A. Grant (R)........

FOURTH DISTRICT Frank E. Corbett (D)........ Goerge W. Gillie (R)........ FIFTH DISTRICT George Wolf (D) |Forest Harness (R) SIXTH DISTRICT {Lenhardt Bauer (D)......... {Noble J. Johnson (R)........ SEVENTH DISTRICT Charles H. Bedwell (D)...... Gerald W. Landis (R) EIGHTH DISTRICT John W. Boehne Jr. (D)..... Charles F. Werner (R)...} NINTH DISTRICT {Eugene B. Crowe (D) Earl Wilson (R) 10TH DISTRICT Don C. Ward (D) Raymond S. Springer (R).... 11TH DISTRICT

William H. Larrabee (D).... Maurice G. Robinson (R)....

12TH DISTRICT

Bouis Ludlow (D) James A. Collins (R)

‘MANDATE OF PEOPLE, ~ COL. KNOX ASSERTS

CHICAGO, Nov.. 6 (U. P.).—The Chicago Daily News in an editorial today. attributed the defeat of Wendell L. Willkie to attempts by Republicans during the latter part of

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35,049 41,962

45,032 59,096

51,094 54,208

60,929 66,557

81,701 65,138

59,756 60,682

63,515 69,880

72,933 66,334

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WHAT'S AHEAD IN U. S. AFTER '40 ‘MANDATE ?

‘Will F. D. R. Give Blessing

To McNutt for 19447; What of Willkie?

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The big question has been answered, but others arose today in the wake of the election returns: Will the “mandate” of 1940 produce new Presidential thunderbolts ° on a par with the court plan of 1937? :

Will new and spectacular aid to England be forth-uming? Will flying fortresses be released, or the secret bomb sight? Will the Presi-

‘| dent advocate amending the John-

son Act and Neutrality Act to per=mit loans to England?

What happens to the Cabinet, the members of which will presumably submit their resignations before Inauguration Day? Will Frank Walker stay as Postmaster General, or make way for Ed Flynn. Since this office has customarily gone to the National Chairman of the winning party?

J Assuming there is to be no fourth term, will the President give an early blessing to anybody as his successor? Wallace? McNutt? An “unknown”? :

What happens to Wendell Willkie now? The presidency of Commonwealth & Southern, which he resigned, has been filled. Suggestions have been heard that the President, in the interest of national unity, make him chairman of the now leaderless Defense. Advisory Commission.

Will Mr. Willkie set his cap for renomination in 1944, or. will he emulate Alf M. Landon, who, after his defeat in ’36, Said he would not accept another nomination “in the remote contingency” of its being offered?

Does this third Republican defeat in a row presage an overhauling of the party's leadership?

DRAFTEES HERE

Boards Expect to Get 10 Class 1-A From Each | 50 Eligible.

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| By EARL RICHERT ¥ | Working on through all the elec | tion hub-bub, Marion County's local {draft boards today finished sending | questionnaires to approximately 750 draft registrants. ; The questionnaires were sent to

57 116 the holders of the low 50 order num77921 bers in each draft board area. “771 Among these 50, it is estimated that leach board will find 10 Class 1-A

men. Each board has been ordered as a precautionary measure to have 1 Class 1-A men classified before the the first draft call, Nov. 19 to" 25,

{although it is believed sthere will be

enough volunteers to fill the county's first quota of 53 men. The state quota.of 395 men also is expected to be filled by volunteers. Advised to See Principals Persons receiving questionnaires who are unable to fill them out are advised to go to their nearest high school principal for assistance. Some of the boards which mailed out questionnaires Monday night already have received a few back. The individual is allowed five days to fill out and return his questionnaire. i On the basis of information furnished in each questionnaire, the local draft board will classify the individual as fit for military: training: deferred because of occupation; deferred because of dependents or unfit for military service. Each individual classified will be otified of his classification by mail the draft board. Physical Exams Planned The local draft boards will complete the classification of the first group by next week: Those judged by the draft boards to be Class 1-A material will be ordered to report for a physical examination, and they

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the campaign to depict themselves as a “peace party” and designate | the Democrats as the “war party.” | The News supported Mr. Willkie, in the campaign. Secretary of Navy' Frank Knox, publisher on leave of | the Daily News, said in a separate statement the re-election of President Roosevelt was “an unmistakable mandate, from the people to| their President, to continue a firm, | vigorous foreign policy in defense of American interests, and an accelerated program of national de-

fense.”

will be placed in Class 1-A only after they have passed the physical examination. The Class 1-A men will be called in order of their order numbers as needed to fill each quota. The Class 1-A men will be taken only after all the volunteers have been taken. Volunteers, estimated 'at about 200 in the county, also are being classified by the local boards. They will not be taken if they have dependents or jobs deemed by the local draft boards as essential to national defense.

By the time returns are really coming in, very| §

few of us will be left who are capable of comparing past votes with present figures and making any evaluation of what, is really going on. I remember what it was like the first time my husband ran for the New York State Senate. We

had no radio and no news service in the house then,|’ and if I remember rightly it was 32 years since a.

Democratic State Senator had gone from this district to Albany. The campaign had been an intensive one, and I doubt very much if he has ever worked harder since. I wanted him to win just because he was running, and because I felt he might do something of value for the district. From then on there have been campaigns for various offices. Some were lost and more were won, but I thing my feelings have always been much as they were the first time. I think I can say with

. honesty: “May what is best for the country happen

today, and may we all remember that whatever happens, this is just the beginning of some yeais

of useful work.”

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_.. The basement of G. O. P. county headquarters was a busy place last night. Among the workers were Harry O. Chamberlain (left), former State Senator, and George Agnew, ' :

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G. O. P. Headquarters Workers Tabulate Record Returns

Tirelessly these workers and dozens of others tabulated returns as

they came: in by telephone and courier. County's vote being the largest in history.

"It was a big job, Marion

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Will Congress dig out the facts about expenditures in campaign just ended? If outlays have been as great as rumored, can Hatch Act loopholes be plugged to prevent a repetition in ‘44?

Will the Justice Department now bear down in its heralded investigation of political corruption in Roose~ veltian Chicago?

Will Ambassador Joe Kennedy return to London? Will Tommy Corcoran, the Roosevelt troubleshooter ‘who quit his New Deal legal post in order to campaign for the third term, return to the New Deal or enter private law practice?

Where will the Republican leaders , in Congress turn in their search for new and more successful issues with | which to build toward 1944—or will they count on the old issues to defeat a less popular nominee than P.D. R2?

What happens to John L. Lewis? And to the C. I. O. whose predi- | dency he promised to resign if Mr. | Roosevelt were re-elected? Can another leader hold it together?

Is Jim Farley, who opposed a {third term and only out of party | regularity and loyalty endorsed the verdict of the Chicago convention, now out of national politics for good? .

Has a ‘death blow been dealt to such pension panaceas as that of old Dr. F. E. Townsend, who op-¥ posed Mr. Roosevelt's re-election?

Will the prestige of re-election enable Mr. Roosevelt to beat off drastic revision of the Wagner Labor Act? Will he now reappoint J. Warren Madden, ex-chairman of the Labor Board, whose term recently expired?

In his second term Mr. Roosevelt appointed five Supreme Court Justices. Will he become the first President to appoint all nine members of the court? (The four preRoosevelt members, Hughes, McReynolds, Stone and Roberts, are, respectively, 78, 78, 68 and 65 years of age). ‘

What other Roosevelt aides, in the next four years, will join the | “exiles” —Moley, Lew Douglas, George | Peek, Stanley High, John Hanes, . and their crowded company?

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who 1s called the Avon”? 2—Bottled-in-bond whisky is at least three, four or five years old? 3—Are Wake and Midway Islands under the jurisdiction of the War or Navy Department? 4—Who is the President of the American Red® Cross? 5—The Reconstruction Finance Corp. was established under the Administration of ? 6—Does hot water freeze more quickly than cold water?

Answers

1—-William Shakespeare. 2—Four, 3—Navy. 4—The President of States. 5—Herbert Hoover. 6—No.

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