Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1941 — Page 9
"MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1941
The
Hoosier Vagabond
WISCONSIN DELLS. Aug. 25—Wisconsin Dells for the benefit of the dumber portion of our readers is in the State of Wisconsin It ic labeled as the most famous scenic resort between Niagara Falls and the Rocky Mountains, I personally would not wish to be put on record as affirming this, although I assure you I can find no fault whatever with The Dells. In their descriptive pamphlet, the Dells Chamber of Commerce
quotes an anonymous but “well known” traveler as saying, “No one has seen America until they have seen The Dells.” Now that I have been here, and am struck both by the beauty of The Delis and the previous traveler's grammar, the Chamber of Commerce may quote me if it wishes, as fol's: “I have came, I seen it, and I like it awful
Being a Midwesterner, I have heard of The Dells all my life. Folks from my part of Indiana used to come up here on vacations, especially in hay-feve: season. But this is my first trip. and until today I never knew exactly what The Dells was. Or should I say were? At any rate it (or they) is a gorge cut into the rocky, roiling hills by the Wisconsin River for 12 miles. There are narrow dark gorges winding off from the river wall, and very odd rock formations left by the cutting powers of glacier waters.
The Boat Trip
More than 100,000 people come here every summer. Jdostly they are from the Midwest. The hotelkeepers say it isn't as good this year as in the past. but it's still good enough that the owners of sight-seeing launches aren't packing for the poorhouse. The main thing at Wisconsin Dells is the boat trip. To visit the “Upper Dells” you pay $1.50 and spend nearly three hours on a roofed launch which holds 40 people. There are 30 launches in this service, and on big days one leaves the pier every few minutes. By prairie standards The Dells are (is) quite astonishing. At one place the river runs darkly between
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
the book! Every summer at State Accounts Board sends counties and other taxing units estimates of how much State aid from various funds they can count on for the next year The notices went out as usual this year. One of the units receiving a notice was Spring Hills, an incorporated town located on Cold S»orings Road a few blocks north of 38th St. A couple of days ago, Otto K. Jensen. the new chief of the Accounts Board received a letter from Frank B. Flanner. Besides being president of Flanner & Buchanan, Mr. Flanner also is clerk treasurer of Spring Hills. Mr. Jensen gasped as he read the letter. Spring Hills, Mr. Flanner explained, is a very small town, comprised of oniy half a dozen estates When we have some little expense to meet” he wrote, “we just make it up out of our pockets and pay it. We have no expense. therefore we have no bank account and ask for no income. We return all checks that come to us through motor fuel tax and other fees.” We hear vet.
How About Paoli, Jim?
SECRETARY OF STATE James M. Tucker had a delicate problem on his hands today. Jim left for Los Angeles Friday noon on a vacation trip which is to include attendance at the Secretaries of State convention there. Shortly before his train left, Jim was asked by the Indianapolis Convention Bureau to invite the convention to come here next year. “Well,” Jim hesitated, “it would be a little awk-
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Dover Thoughts
DOVER. England. Aug. 25.—After driving through the remarkable defenses of Dover. two of us went to the hilltop spot from which newspaper correspondents for two years have watched the battles on and above the narrow straits From this height you look down over the most modern preparations for defending the English island. Along the same coast rise old stone towers, built a century and a quarter ago to defend the island against the invasion threatened by Napoleon. Always, it seems, someone has been standing across this Channel. looking with a designing eye toward England. Always, it seems, this island has had to stand on guard. Yet here on this hilltop near Dover today there was complete peace and quiet. You looked across to the French coast ana saw no sign of danger. There was no activity to suggest that this is the front over which two ways of life are fighting for the control of civilization. As we climbed the hill. three of the newspaper correSo 1dents stationed there were practicing cricket. The rack of their bats was the only sound heard.
Mr. Clapper
= = = ONE IS SURPRISED to see how much of Dover stands. More yet, one is surprised by the numof small children and babies on the streets, Local authorities are in a great stew about it. not knowing how to deal with stubborn parents who insist on bringing children back here where the danger of shells is constant. Everywhere in England—and especially here—one ic moved by the tenacious effort of people to keep living as before. to hold their families and homes together. Neither bombs nor gunfire can kill that instinct in the human race.
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THE WHITE cliffs of Dover there are large caves, dug many years ago. nobody knows exactly by whom. Bunks have been set up and nearly 400 persons go into these caves every night to sleep The caretaker, however, doesn't stay around at night “I spend all day here,” he says, “and at night I
My Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday.—I returned here before lunch yesterday and we are having a delightful time. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Kent. with his party are perfect guests. They enjoy riding and swimming and being in the country. I hope atter all their travels and the constant strain of life in England todav, this Sunday will be an island of peace in their memory.
Tenight we have to return to Washington and tomorrow promises to be a very busy day, so we have reveied in the leisure of these two days in the country. * I wonder if you know a little magazine called “Horizon,” a review of literature and art. It is an English publication and it was sent me the other day beeause of an article entitled: “Painting America,” written by John Rothenstein, who is the curator of the Tate Gallery in London. If you know the Tate Gallery, you will hope that its treasures are safely hidden awav during the present period of destruction. You will also be pleased that its curator is so appreciative of the development in art which has come about in the past few years in the United States. I want to quote some of the things which he
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By Ernie Pyle
walls only 32 feet apart, and the water at this iii is 150 feet deep. And great rocks along the shore have been eft! by the glacier waters in formations which look «if you | had your imagination well lubricated before starting) like zlligators and ships and Indians’ heads and so on. You stop three times on the trip, and take long walks up sub-gorges, along the bottom of which the] company has built nice wooden walks on steel beams. | At one stop there is a rock called “Stand Rock.” which is a nice piece of erosion in the form of a giant toadstool. The top edge of this toadstool is five feet from the main bluff, and stands 45 feet above the ground. For years every guide on every trip would | get up there and jump across those five perilous feet | to astound the tourists. But the insurance company | stopped it a couple of years ago.
‘He Likes the Lecturers
The best part of any “tour” to me is not so much | the scenic wonders as the lecturer himself, When a | tour lecturer really puts it on, I could sit fascinated and listen to him clear across the continent { Our lecturer was a young fellow just out of coilege. In his idle moments he came and sat with me, since there was only one vacant seat on the boat and that was next to mine. | From this young man I learned a few things. | Such as, for example, that the lecturers don't get | any pay. They make their wages by selling descrip- | tive booklets to the tourists. It's pretty cute the] way they do it. When the boat leaves, the lecturer passes these nice new booklets@round to everybody. and says you can identify each point we pass by looking in the book. | Which vou can. He points out the first three or four. | and vou look at them in the book. | Then he comes around and collects the books— provided vou don’t want to buy one. You feei sort of cheap not buying one. And the lecturer. I found out from my new friend, feeis just as cheap putting it up to you that way. But he has to make a living At these varicus stops the passengers walk along piers which do not all have guard-rails. Which led me to ask if anybody had fallen off into the river this summer | ‘es, one had, just a couple of weeks ago. And who do you suppose it was? Why. the captain of the | boat. who had been on the river for 30 years!
ward. You see I've already promised to do the same | thing for French Lick.” Finally, he decided he could present both requests to the convention—without recommending either town. That's diplomacy
Frankie and Dusty
COUNTY CLERK Charles R. Ettinger has a couple of dogs—Dusty, an 88-year-old Wirehaired. and Franklin Delano, a Doberman puppy. Frankie has a habit of wandering away s¢ Charlie devised the brilliant scheme of tying the two leashes together, figuring they wouldn't go far until the leashes caught on a tree. Well, he let the dogs out the other evening When he called them an hour or so later. they were gone. Charlie wandered over the East Side half the night whistling and shouting for them. It wasn't until 10:30 the next morning that a neighbor found and returned the dogs Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw is off on a vacation trip to Michigan Doctor's orders. we hear. He's been working pretty hard this summer Pat Cuddy. of the State C. of C.. has just started his vacation and you'd never guess where he’s going—to Camp Shelby. Just for a visit, though, with some of his former buddies. Pat used to be in the Guard. . . . Vincent Burke. manager of nglish’s Theater, is due to end his Wisconsin vacationin g In a week or so.
Donald and Ronald
JIMMY CARVIN tells us that the peak hours of domestic electricity consumption are from 10 a. m | to 12 noon on Tuesdays. The reason? That's right—| everybody has an electric iron on. . . . Headline in| the New York World-Telegram: “Morrissey Re-| nounced as Leader by Sullivan.” Nothing about Indi-| anapolis in the story though. It was John P. Mor-| rissey, a Tammany leader and Tammany Chieftain | Christopher D. Sullivan. . Traffic through Ayres’| basement was blocked the other afternoon by shoppers | admiring 15-months-old twm boys in red overalls. | They were Donald and Ronald Maxwell.
; | By Raymond Clapper
want to go home and get a good night's sleep.” So. after all the cave-sleepers are tucked their bunks, he goes to the other end of town, his own unprotected bed.
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FOR TWO YEARS this place has been pounded You see some ruins. But here as in so many other places. the bombs seem to have struck mostly houses instead of the essential works at which they probably were aimed. The harbor is working. A movie theater close to the water's edge is open every night. The film there tonight is “Boom Town.” | Te newspapermen stationed here this was just another dull afternoon. To an American visitor the | hilltop seemed a strangely peaceful isiand above the battle. It didn’t seem possible that this could be the advanced line which England has held since Dunkirk. | Up here one feels a sense of futile rebellion against | what is going on, and at the realization that nothing but force will be able to restore peace and security. But it must be force backed by nore purpose than ever before. This world is no longer big enough to tolerate "the ghastly ruin of air war, which leaps all barriers and visits destruction mostly on non-com- | batants and their homes.
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AFTER TWO YEARS of war, seems long and hard and its How victory is to be won also is uncertain. and all | we know is that it must be won. But victory will] not be enough this time. There could be no more | complete victory than the one in 1918—yet it pro-| duced only another war. The new victory must result in more than the] defeat of Germany. It will be no use to defeat] Germany, only to have a new air force spring up and in a few years be ready to come across this! narrow channel again. The bombers of a few years hence probably would be able to raid the American coast as well. When you fly on an Atlantic Clipper vou realize that the possibility of an air bombardment of the American coast is bound to come within range soon The airplane must be brought under control. There | must be organized peace, backed by such military Strength as to make it impossible for any one power to bombard other people. That's what one gets to thinking about as one | stands on this Dover hilltop.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
Indianapolis Times
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aims and methods—to project existing Nazi policy into the future and describe what sort of world we shall have to live in if Hitler wins. What does Nazi Germany stand for? First for the principle of force instead of law. The individual has no basic civil rights now. German courts are instructed to decide cases not purely upon written law, but according to “healthy public opinion.” Since such opinion is not recorded anywhere, this means in practice the judges’ opinion at the time, and the judge is a Nazi functionary. No firm or individual has any rights which the government is bound to respect. Under this situation the distinction between capitalism and socialism disappears. There is no point in discussing whether Germany is socialistic because all capital is at the immediate disposal of the government. Hitler rightly believes that he has restored the “primacy of politics.” When a man’s life is a forfeit at the whim of government officials, it makes no difference whether he has title to his property or not. In this way the Nazis have extended their control over German economy without the necessity of creating a new body of rules or party dogmas. They move straight ahead, right to their objectives, without having to worry about maintaining the party line or conforming to any particular economic creed. The government does not need to confiscate the property of large industrial firms. An official needs only to suggest that a gift of a certain sum would be in order and the hint does not need to be made twice. Even such
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“The Nazis will be able to construct a scientific slave state in which they will retain for themselves . . . all control over important industrial operations ... and a complete monopoly of scientific and technical knowledge.”
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industrial giants as Krupp and the United Steel Works readily acted on the suggestion that they turn over
some of their most valuable
coal mines and ore properties to the official Hermann Goering compensation except almost worthless stock,
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Pressure on U. S. Firms AN AMERICAN company oper-
| ated a large plant in the Rhein-
land. They told me that they had made heavy shipments of equipment from their German factories to Brazil. It so happened that Brazil. like Germany. had exchange restrictions in force so that money owed for these shipments was not allowed to be sent from Brazil to Germany. The American company, however, was rather pleased to have spread
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which, after the United
Germany into Brazil, all, was closer to States. One morning early I had an urgent telephone call from the firm. stating that their American officials were all on their way to Berlin by plane and wanted me to arrange an interview with the Consul-General immediately. When they arrived, we found that the German government had given them two weeks to get into the money covering their shipments to Brazil or else every one of the Americans in the firm would be put into jail After considerable negotiation, the parent company in the United States was forced to send a very large sum to Germany to cover these shipments and now has the money tied up in both Brazil and Germany. American firms in Germany which manufactured special equipment suitable for the army and the National Socialist Party have been practically taken over by the authorities to work on such
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A large American company owns a plant in Berlin which is now making such articles as tiny
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in ordinary telephone receivers and connected with the office of the Secret Police, and small portable television sending apparatus operated by foot pedals like a bicycle and suitable for operation
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says: “It is a melancholy fact that modern democracy, which has to its credit a long and brilliant succession of triumphs in so many spheres of human activity, has as a patron of art, shown less eniightenment, less generosity, less responsibility, than some of the darkest tyrannies of the past.” |
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New Spirit in America In speaking of the “Forty-Eight States Compe- ¢ tition,” held in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington | about two years ago, he has this to say: “Even the least study there, gave utterdnce, however faltering, to what the best so resoundingly proclaimed; that | there was a new spirit abroad in America, a spirit | by which artists were also moved and willingly | expressed in terms which all could understand. Every shade of the Anglo-Saxon spirit has been reflected in literature. always adequately, often with transcending splendor, but in painting and scuipture, now rarely and faiptly in comparison. He then names a number of painters he thinks are creating an American tradition and style. and | he ends with this interesting observation: “It seems likely that in the arts as in other spheres of creation. | the American genius, like the medieval genius. is | adapted rather to tremendous collective achieve- | ments than to studied expression of the individual | spirit.” ‘
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head of the Continental firm. Accordingly, when the American representative visited the German Ministry of Economics, he was told that his German subsidiary would be given no export subsidy or other official support, such as was enjoyed by his competitors. Finally, the officials became very frank and told him, “We think there are too many typewriter manufacturers in Germany. and vou had better get out of business. We are going to make regulations increasingly stiff for you until you fall into line. The sooner you close your plant, the better for you.” Nobody, however, mentioned any payment for the money invested by the Americans in their German enterprise Another important element In Nazi policy is the leadership principle. All power is inherent in the person of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. He may delegate a iimited power to sub-Fuehrers and so on do¥n the line. The affirmation or assent of the public is not necessary. o = »
Only One Policy
IN BUSINESS enterprises, ‘a leader is responsible for each undertaking. In the Labor Front, the one great government union, there is no such procedure as voting by members. All decisions are made by the leader, Dr. Ley. Hitler believes there is only one policy, the right policy, and that this is known to the leader and that any questioning or complaining from the followers amounts to treason and leads to anarchy. In the Nazi state. the individual is coming more and more to occupy a particular status in life which has been prepared for him. and he makes fewer independent decisions of his own. This is a return to the medieval conception of society. It virtually places the
"entire population in servitude,
As an illustration, take the
hereditary peasantry who make up the bulk of Germany's farmers. These farmers are tied to the land. They cannot leave it; they cannot mortgage their property and crops. The eldest son of the farmer must carry on with the farm. He must support the younger brothers and sisters as long as they continue to reside at home. A farm boy can only marry a farm girl and vice versa. There has already been considerable agitation for the introduction of hereditary artisans, so that a barber's son must always remain a barber and presumably marry a barber's daughter, but the development has not gone this far yet. Undoubtedly the tendency is toward an introduction of standardized living; for the regimentation of every class of society, = ” »
Caesars Are Here
HITLER TEACHES that animals obey their individual instincts and impulses; but that human beings form themselves into an ordered society, they must adopt common aims. As human society improves, it must become more ordered; and finally, if it is to be truly scientific, must subject itself to a single will—the will of the Fuehrer. He is always right. Hitler believes that in this way he can move eighty million Germans in a solid block, all marching in step—a tremendous maneuver, able to crash throueh the feeble resistance of ineffectual democracies who waste time in debate and whose absurd tolerance of individual wishes keeps them forever in a state of anarchy. National Socialism is really a reaction against modern civilization, which has become too complex for people with lazy minds. A German professor named Oswald Spengler wrote a book about this tendency, which he published in the year 1918 and called The Decline of the West. Spengler
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projecting above the top of the trench. When the president of the American company and other representatives visited Berlin, they were not even allowed to enter the plant which they were nominOf course, they had to keep on paying taxes, but this was about the limit of their connection with the enterprise.
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No Money Mentioned
AN AMERICAN typewriter company owns a subsidiary in Germany which manufactures office equipment. This firm has long been a competitor of the German-owned Continental Typewriter. The Ministry of Economics set up Commodity Committees to make restrictions in foreign trade and in production quotas. The chairman of the committee on office equipment jwas the
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says at the close of his hook, “The democratic nations must disappear, because they put their trust in illusions, more particularly the illusions of truth and justice. There is only one reality in the world—force. If you listen closely, you can already hear the tramp of of the Caesars who are coming to take over the world.” Now, in 1941, the Caesars are here. The names of some of them are Hitler and Mussolini. They believe in force alone. They repudiate the idea of truth for its own sake. To them, truth is what will help their cause, and it changes every ‘day according to their pleasure.
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From Beggary to Crime
THEY DO NOT believe in justice or fair dealing. In my office in Berlin, I used to keep framed on the wall a motto taken from an editorial in Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkischer Beobachter (Popular Observer), of Aug. 3, 1936, which read like this: “Justice and good nature should be limited to one's own people.” I used to look at this motto from time to time, just so as not to forget that the Nazis did not intend to treat us with justice; and it was useless to expect them to. The totalitarians do not believe in mercy or pity or humanitarianism. They are profoundly selfish, They regard British and Ameri-
can conventionalized standards of
conduct as pure hypocrisy, and they pride themselves on being realists who can face the facts. After several years’ experience of living in a realist atmosphere, I confess a preference for a little civilized hypocrisy once in a while, to conceal some of the ugliness of the world. If we cannot always act according to the highest standards of ethics, the least we can do is to be ashamed of ourselves and conceal our shortcomIns as much as possible, Such hypocrisy is much better than openly wallowing in evil and claiming that this is an honest and natural way to live. Naziism, as I see it, meant that the German people became tired of beggary and turned to crime on a world scale.
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BILLBOARD WORKS AS DEBT COLLECTOR
MONONGAHELA, Pa. (U.P). — Clem Pizzutelli's experie ment in the art of making dead [beats “pay up” was such a success that the veteran grocer said he had enough money to pay some of his own bills. Because some 700 customers who owed him approximately $20,000 ree fused tc pay off despite repeated requests, Mr. Pizzutelli, who once owned 19 stores and now has only one, decided a month ago to do something drastic. He went out and purchased an eight by 24-foot billboard and threatened to print the names of long-standing debtors thereon, where everyone could see, within 30 days unless they settled their old accounts. The reaction was astounding. The 30-day deadline is still almost a week off, but the scheme was more successful than the 56-year-old grocer had dared dream. Everyone whose name was due to be posted Aug. 28 — the first deadline — has paid up, and even some worrisome individuals who didn’t owe him anything came in and asked, “How much?” Others paid bills he had | forgotten. Pizzutelli cecllected $554, “It’s one of the best things that ever happened in the country,” said | Pizzutelli, saying he has received {more than 100 letters of congratue [lation from fellow merchants | throughout the county who indie cated they were going to try the same thing.
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can colonies; true or false?
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and dumb with their fingers. 3—No. 4—Boxing. 5—Flax. 6—Painter. T—False. 8—Sherman.
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