Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1942 — Page 7

MONDAY, JAN. 26, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

TACOMA. Wash. Jan. 26 —There are all kinds of records, but I've just talked with a man who certainly holds an odd one. He is a lawyer who has handled more cases than any other lawver in the world. Hi§ name is Oscar S. Galbreath. He is 95 and was in active practice right up to a vear and a half ago. Even now he has his license to practice for another year. He calls it his “dog license.” “I'm going to keep right on till I die.” he savs. Mr. Galbreath doesnt Know how manv cases he has handled. “I'm not very proud of it.” he says. But friends of his tried to figure it up roughly for me, and they said a round figure of 75.000 wouldn't be far wrong Mr. Galbreath's career at the bar has been divided 1fo three parts—13 years Nashville, Tenn., 30 in Durango, Colo., and 29 years in Tacoma. He has now been a lawyer for 74 years. He hung out his first shingle in Nashville when he was 21. The suit of clothes in which he tried his first case was made from cotton that he himself had ted. picked and carded. His mother made the and sewed it into a suit for him.

Filed Suits by Wholesale

HE STARTED his wholesale filing of suits—which eventually resulted in his odd record—in those early at Nashville. The county paid him $600 for collecting a 315 poll tax, whereupon he opened the sluice gates and poured thousands of poll tax suits into the courts Then at 38 he went west, to Colorado. They sav made the change because he had gambled away all his money and wanted to start in a new place. From that he was a bitter fighter against gambling. Mr. Galbreath can quote large Bible from memory. When he lived at Durango. he established the Southern Methodist Cnurch there.

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By Ernie Pyle

He never smoked nor drank. At Durango he had some historic- fights with the saloon interests. He was county judge there in the 80's. Twice he was challenged to duels. Both times he accepted, but friends interceded and the duels never came off. He was 68 when he moved from Durango to Tacoma—to start another career. It was here he put

the finishing touches on his unique distinction of suing people along mass-production lines. He worked for a collection agency—the National Association of Creditors. estimate he has handled more than 50,000 cases for this concern.

He Never Got Rich

From 1912 until today they] VY <What Is Germany's Weakness?

By DAVID M. NICHOL

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Current in Berlin last fall was the story of the opti-

ODDLY ENOUGH, Mr. Galbreath never made mist and the pessimist who met on the street.

much money out of his law practice. He worked on a straight retainer basis during these hectic years in! the West. He is in comfortable circumstances, but not rich. | He has five children living, now well along in vears. One of them is a millionaire. | Mr. Galbreath has made it a practice to go back to Tennessee once a vear. He was there last fall. | He lives in a ground-floor room of a residential would have been impossible. hotel. When we went to see him he had one shoe off, . : > taint : : inty. and was toasting his foot before an electric heater, of confidence, of cel tan! 5 although the room itsélf must have been at 80. He an incredibly short time. was doctoring a corn. | brushed as close to disaster His voice is high and frail. He isn't sick, but the ‘ doctor comes to see him frequently. Like everybody | ever come.

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“Well,” said the optimist, previously most cheerful about the prospects, “I'm afraid we're going to lose the

said the pessimist, “but when?” Sixteen months earlier, when I first arrived in the Third Reich’s capital the circulation of such an episode

There was an atmosphere

France had been defeated in

England, at Dunkirk, had as the British Empire has

Night after night the Luftwaffe was raining

else in America except me, he is taking vitamins. He down its terror on London and on every industrial cen-

listens constantly to an old-fashioned radio. Friends | brought him a modern one, but he didn't like it. If Mr Galbreath could live his life over. he would do one thing that he didn't do—and that is get in tne Civil War. He was 14 when the war broke out. He was a violent Confederate sympathizer. ! Time and again he ran away to join the Southern armies, but his plans always went amiss. Finally his horrors he would then father put him in school to keep him from joining up.! loose. But spring arrived, and ‘And although that was 80 years ago. he never got! the Nazi might turned south into over it. He says the question "Why weren't you in! Jugoslavia and Greece, leaped to the war?” has embarrassed him all his life. | Crete, and then began Its fear- | some march into Russia.

Weather and Hitler and the

Winter hampered airplanes submarines alike. talked of spring,

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’ ° ’ fd #& & Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum ous sre crowing

CROWN HILL CEMETERY is a prettv big place You don't realize how large it really is—3540 acres— until vou learn the cemetery owns three autos, seven trucks and a passenger bus that haven't any license plates, They don't need licenses because thev never leave the grounds. Some other statistics that mav or mav not be of interest: The cemetery has 82 employees; had as high as 132. There are a few more than 102.000 graves, and room for another 100.000. The first burial was wav back 1364 Within

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the cemetery cemeterv—one few in the country. In it are buried soldiers of all our wars from the Revolutionary War down to World War 11 Crown Hill. with its 540 acres, is the third largest emieterv in the country. It has 81400000 laid aside for perpetual care. Free maps provided at office building enabling vou to find vour wav abou: the grounds those ! there are mam including James Whitcomb Rilev, PresiBenjamin Harrison, Vice Presidents Thomas A Charles W. Fairbanks and Thomas R to mention numerous Senators, gen A dignitaries S —There's still no grass on the grave of too many

Trouble

THE NEWSPAPERS are going to have trouble with Henrv E. Ostrom unless he finds some way of shortening his title. A bit of publicity from one of the unions starts out: contractor and civilian aid to the commanding genof the Fifth Armv Corps Area for the procureS. Army, etc, ete.”

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WASHINGTON. Jan f President Roosevell provised schemes. but tion between the A F sides play ball : Mr. Reosevelt’s plan is simple. proposes have both sides down with him at fairly frequent intervals to talk over anvthing that needs attention. Each side will have three representatives, who will be chosen bv President Green for the A. F. of L and by President Philip Murray for the C. I. O. That seems to he all there is to it But don't give the idea the brush-off just because it iz simple. We sometimes lean too heavilv on organization. Two or three men, if they have the authority and the will, can get more done in this kind of business than the most elaborate organization that a red-tape artist could work out on paper That's what I like about the new War Production Board. It isn’t anvthing very complicated.

F. D. R. Intercepts a Pass

SO MR. ROOSEVELT has brushed aside the scheme of John L. Lewis to merge or “accouple” the A F.of Land the C. I. O. The timing of Mr. Lewis was perfect. Action was needed. But his scheme aroused suspicions, and if he had a physical meer in mind there are practical obstacles to trving to do it in this emergency William Green and Philip Murrav can get together. On the whole thev are reasonable men Working directly with President Roosevelt. decisions can be made bv informal discussion whereas more

My Day

FORT WORTH, Tex. Sundav.—After preziding at the national defense forum of the General Federa-

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“Henry E. Ostrom. Indianapolis ,

“WE WIN wonderful victories,” . . . The Irvington Branch Library, according to Tom one German said, “but we haven't Hutchinson, is having trouble with “gunmen” at the, beaten England, and until we do Saturday story hour. Tom says so many of the boys | the war will not be ended.” were carrying tov guns to the story hour and banging A German officer described it away at imaginary villains that Mrs. Frances Killen,! even more colorfully. the librarian, had to deputize a couple of the boys! “We're like the caretakers in to meet patrons at the door and relieve them of, an orchard, chasing small boys their “gats.” | who've been stealing the apples.” " | he said. “We keep falling over the From R. H.

to H. R. | deck furniture, and every time we ¥ RURES. " come close to the English they RUDOLPH HAERLE, of Ayres’, is quite a collec- pull some new pieces in the way.’ tor of such items as stamps, war posters, guns, etc. This gnawing, growing doubt is He picked up an English publication ole Gay & couble a new development. It first began of months ago, read an editorial signed “H. R.” com- last spring. It has gained considmenting on the increasead interest in stamp collecting erably in the interval. Even Goebin England and regretting the shortage of stamps bels has been compelled to recogover there. Mr. Haerle became interested. bundled up| ise #. In November he wrote an some stamps and sent them to the magazine in care of "H. R.” Just the other day. much to his surprise,

article that electrified all of . : Europe. Not when, he said, but he received a cablegram from "H. R.” thanking him for the stamps.

how was Germany to win the war, "p wed hove Herve and There

remained the important question It accounts in part for the lack | of enthusiasm with which the anHUGH BARNHART, State Conservation Depart-| houncements of each new German : triumph are received. America’s ment chief, is wondering what to do with the sun- entrv into the war served only to dials in the garden at Spring Mill Park and at the make the picture darker The ate New Harmony project when we go on fast time titude has made the Third Reich's Feb. 9. Why not hire an interpreter. Hugh, to stand citizens skeptical of their governthere and give the correct readings? . . Still re-| ments claims. cuperating from his plane crash injuries of nearly] “Our fairy tales formerly began a vear ago, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker will spend! ‘once upon a time. ” the Germans most of the remainder of the winter in sunny Flor- told each other. “Now they start ida. . . . Duke Walton, WISH commentator, was get-| “The High Command anhounces:’.” ting ready for his sidewalk radio program in front Soldier jokes became so freof the Circle Thitael the Sua day. He stopped one quent and so loaded with politics woman, asked her co-operation, explained to her carefully and at great length that under Government! regulations she couldn’t give her name or sav a word | that wasn't on the script he handed her. The woman! shook her head. “"Hunh-unh.” she mumbled. “Why | not?” he asked. “Left my teeth at home,” she lisped.

By Raymond Clapper :

formal means would become tangled in endless controversy. Perhaps after this has worked awhile, the wav toward merger of the two organizations—if that still seems desirable—will be easier than it would be now. Mr. Roosevelt 2o0t the idea apparently after Mr. Lewis made his spectacular move for labor unity a week ago. Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor the heads of the two labor organizations wanted Mr. Lewis to regain his former strategic position in the labor movement. All three were readv to form a united front to hold control Mr. Roosevelt becomes the key man instead of Mr. Lewis. It was the neatest intercepted! pass of the week.

No Time for Quibbling

THE CHIEF thing to be said against the arrangement is that the President is as usual trying to do, something that should be delegated to another—in| this case to the Secretary of Labor. Or if not to Miss! Perkins, then to Sidnev Hillman, head of the labor! division of the War Production Board. Gen. Von Brauchitsch . , . his He could not give the job to Miss Perkins because dismissal was no more than anof the feeling against her among the labor leaders | other logical step. And as vou know, Mr. Roosevelt does not displace his Cabinet officers. He either goes around them or takes on the work himself. Why he could not have given this job to Sidney Hillman is not clear. True, Mr. Hillman is loaded down with the job of organizing industrial manpower. But of course Mr. Roosevelt is loaded down. too. At any rate, instead of finding a Bevin and turning the job over to him, Mr. Roosevelt will handle it in person. You might almost sav that Mr. Roosevelt is setting up a new super-ministry of labor and Ppeservation is holding the portfolio himself. Again the only test is—does it work? So. pending time for an answer, there is little point in quibbling about the method chosen

STROM PLEADS

of System Important as Winning War, He Says.

| Preservation of the (wo-party system in America is equally as im- | portant as winning the war, Henry E. Ostrom. Indianapolis contractor, |

the patriotic rally of

By Eleanor Roosevelt

here. exactly as he has written it to me: | “Jim, the young man who used to sell me eggs. | told

ter of any importance. But England did not fall.

that the humorless high command issued an order to its censors to reject ideas “that do not take the great events of the present into consideration.” It said many that were submitted were “in bad taste and ancient,” and added that military humor was good only “if it precludes the possibility of transposition to civil circumstances.” ” ” =

New Victories, Less Meat

VICTORY COMMUNIQUES of-

ten are the sugar on the pills. A vear ago Germany should have reduced its meat rations sharply, but the police told the economic authorities they would not take responsibility for what might result. For a week after the assault on Jugoslavia there was no news of importance. Then on Sunday afternoon the loudspeakers blared the trumpet calls five times. Germany had again achieved the impossible. Two or three days later the Nazi public first learned that the veal chop and wurst quota would be cut 20 per cent. Since June, when every family in Germany has lost a relative or friend: since December, when the advance of the Russians had to be admitted, this civilian morale has dipped even more sharply. 1t is important. immensely important, but it is not in itself critical. Some outside agent, some additional irritant must be added before it becomes a positive factor. It remains a potential powder keg that requires only a spark, but it is typical of Germany's weaknesses. The Reich has numerous such ailments. Most of them are long term, chronic conditions. They involve such unknowns as the limits of human endurance and credulity, the steady disorganization of civil administration, the “palace” rivalries for power and prestige, the inexorably diminishing reserves of manpower and materials, the constant new strains on the social structure as a result of the little understood fact that the National Socialist Revolution, begun in 1933. is still continuing. Probably no single one of them is fatal.

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Still an Experiment

SHOULD HITLER WIN. shculd his; armies open new sources of human and material supplies, should success increase his prestice with the majority of the jerman people who still support him, and permit him to concentrate his attention on domestic affairs, the weaknesses may all he overcome. Time is the Fuehrer's most potent enemy. National Socialism has not vet demonstrated that it is a workable system. Tt is still in the process of being established, a process which exposes the emotionally and intellectually exhausted German to almost daily new jars and jolts. By its very nature Naziism can have no rivals for the interests or allegiance of the peo-

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“The Nazis have never been a unit.

One has been the palace favorite for a while, only to he abruptly

supplanted. The struggle proceeds grimly and would flare into full view should anything happen to Hitler

—a potential weakness of vast importance.”

Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Nazi No. 2 Goering.

Here Hitler is shown with two of his would-be successors,

ple. It can brook no interference from any quarter. That is the picture in general terms. Specifically it explains the continued persecutions of the church which faces certain extinction if Hitler wins. It is the Key to the progressive liquidation of every organization outside the party scope. It is the clew to the “ailment” of the generals. Much has been written and spoken loosely about the “conflict” between the army and the party. The bulk of the army actually is the party, young men brought up and trained for years in the principles of National Socialism. To speak of any revolt of one against the other is a fallacy. The army's senior officers, however, are still largely drawn from the former Prussian circles, “‘conservative” according to the standards of revolution.

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Younger Men to Fore

BIT BY BIT THEIR places are being filled by younger men, by the military “radicals” with whom Hitler has surrounded himself. The dismissal of Von Brauchitsch was no more than another logical step in a process begun when Hitler took over the War Ministry and made himself supreme commander of the Reich's armed forces in 1938. The progressive “ailments’ of the generals do not necessarily indicate any crisis, but the liquidation of one more potential dissenting group. The retreat from Moscow may have provided the excuse, but it was hardlv the reason. It is conceivable, however, that there might be serious difficulties within the party itself. The Nazis have never h:en a unit. One has been the palace favorite for a while. only to be abruptly supplanted, often with little apparent reason. They have bickered and jockeyed continually for position. So long as Hitler gave some attention to civil affairs. he kept them in check, but Hitler has been completely preoccupied with his armed forces since tne moment the war began. In these circumstances three men have come to the fore. Goering is the officially designated No. 2 man with a private army in the air force which remains largely loyal to its rotund commander. Himmler has the SS and the Gestapo whose influence and power expand continually. They had already taken over disci-

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plinary powers for the army's non-commissioned and junior officers. It is likely they are playing a large part in any reorganization of the army staff.

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Himmler’s Star Rising

THE THIRD CROWN PRINCE is Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, trying desperately at the moment to achieve an alliance with the SA, the original Nazi stormtroopers whose aging ranks have been somewhat replaced through vigorous recruiting. My money for the moment goes on Himmler, but the struggie proceeds grimly and would flare into full view should anything happen to Hitler —a potential weakness of vast importance. Hitler's preoccupation has lef: the other Nazi ministers to make their own way so far as civil administration is concerned. and they have been taking a number of different directions. The last unifying agency was removed when Rudolph Hess climbed into a Messerschmitt in Augsberg last May and headed for Scotland. “Hitler doesn’t even know the economic circumstances of the Reich,” an official complained last spring. “He hasn't seen a responsible civil administrator, other than formally, since tne war began.” Diplomats having legitimate business with the German government often found themselves in impossible situations. “We can't locate anyone in the Reich who is the competent authority for many questions,” one of them said in November. This jumble has been aggravated by the demands of tne army for men and by the export of officials in technical capacities to the occupied areas and the restless allies. Even essential public services have been several times decimated.

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Berlin Lacks Police

NOTHING COMPARABLE to the A. R. P. exists for fighting fires, and Berlin's ordinary police have about one-tenth of the number they require, according to sound administrative practice. The day Matsuoka arrived it was impossible to find an officer anywhere in the city outside the Wilhelmstrasse and Under den Linden. Tne entire force was needed to police the line of his parade.

Civil efficiency is not aided by the growing disrespect among many Germans for their unsavory leaders. Walther Funk, the Mine ister of Economy, reputedly pos= sesses the most extensive library of . pornography in Germany. Almost all of them are building private fortunes out of loot and graft. The alcoholic habits of Robert Ley, head of the labor service, are so well known that they have been incorporated in a parody of a nursery rhyme in which a character who asks, “Does he still drink?” is whisked away fo a concentration camp. More columns than there are in this newspaper would be required to list. the jokes about Goebbels and his indiscretions. and the is would be seized by the postal aue thorities as salacious material Even popular trends are against Hitler. Aside from the loss of at least, 3.000,000 voung men. dead, wounded and prisoners, in the course of the fighting in Russia, there is a steady decrease in the age group which in the next 10 years must provide Germany its labor and its professional people. By 1950, it is estimated, there will be only half as many doctors, lawyers and teachers as the number of persons between 25 and 40 will be 2.7 million fewer.

Heinrich Himmler . . . his power continues to expand.

MILK FOR WAR

‘Quartermaster Is Among

Speakers for State | Dairy Meeting.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Is a Japanese citizen of the United States permitted to vote? 2—What relation is T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China, now in the U. 8, to Chiang Kaie shek? 3—The symbol &, for and, is called an asterisk, amperzand or ams hergris?

Milk and its part in the war will 4—The source of linseed oil is cot= | form one of the chief topics of dis- | cussion during the 25th annual meeting of the Indiana Manufac- |

tonseed, flaxseed, or nempseed?

5—What is the term applied to a

college or university by its grade uates?

turers of Dairy Products which 6—One who makes barrels and

casks is a C==--r?

the | _ ow tomorrow the Claypool Hotel for a three-day session. Major Charles S. Robinson, Fifth Corps Quartermaster of the U. S. Army will be one of the featured speakers on the program. He will ‘ es S J. 8, ‘my baby—we just feel we can't afford it until we've got | 2nd cleatly SERIALS Cot fusion, med aa os and — maybe $1000 put away—then we can start buying STCiency and ineffectiveness. Rye a | ment Procedures.” defense stamps every week.’ Petty Politics Out ; =a | The convention will begin at 2 "And Jim isn't dumb by any means. He's a verv| “Of late we have been hearing a : |p. m. tomorrow With registration. intelligent young man. I wonder how many Ameri- | good deal about politics being ad- | A directors’ and wives’ dinner will | be held at 6 p. m. in the Empire

dropped in last evening and I asked him how he | Building Service Employees Union was making out in his new job at the tool factory. | & Castle Hall last night.

‘Fine,’ he said. In spite of the expense of the baby! Mr. Ostrom, who is treasurer of » > “(the Marion County Republican

| Committee, said that during the

T—The 1940 census of the United States was the fourteenth, fifteenth or sixteenth?

tion of Women's Clubs on Friday evening, I took a night plane for Fort Worth. I am delighted to find my daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, and the new grandson very well, and have had a wonderful time with her and the children. I am not, however, completely neglecting my work, for I have seen a number of people on guestions dealing with national defense while here. It is a good thing to be out in

he and his wife were saving money every week. “I said: ‘Of course, you're buying defense bonds i i + with it?’ ‘No; he said, ‘guess I ought to, but with [national emergency it is the duty of |

the baby to think of—such a responsibility, our first | SVELY citizen to “speak out loyally

Answers

1—Yes. 2—Brother-in-law, 3—Ampersand. 4—Flaxseed. 5—Alma Mater. 6—Cooper. T—Sixteenth.

the field and to find out what people are doing. After all. in the office of civilian defense in Washington, I sit in a nice little ivory tower and can make a great many

cans have the same understanding he had—thinking | journed,” he declared. “If by this that when they buy defense bonds or stamps, they we mean petty partisan politics, it are giving something, making a contribution? |is just all right with all of us. “I explained to Jim that defense bonds are the! “There is not one of us who safest investment in the world today—the best and! would put one thing in the way.

COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF.

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question

business session Wednesday morn-| of fact or information to The

plans. Tt is out in the community, however, that ing with an address. Governor Indianapolis Times Washington

people do the things which bring them a sense of confidence and ability to meet attack on every front. I am off again tonight and hope to 1each Washington in the morning by plane. Rex Stout has sent me a delightful story, for which his sister is responsible. I an to give it

“Hey! It's no use bombing Willie Turtle—he carries his own

safest way for people like him and his wife to save But if it means that we are to ston air-raid shelter!”

money.” our interest in politics, leave out Someone suggested to me that defense bonds ail thought of helpful suggestions, Schricker will address the group Service Bureau, 1013 13th St., N. might well be given a new name and come to be then we are wrong. | following the election of officers. W., Washington. D. C. Legal known as freedom bonds. for they will not only pave, “The man who can help with means to buy victory bonds and the Government which needs and A number of speakers are sched- | and medical advice cannot be the way for freedom now. but ghey may help us to suggestions and does nag is as un- does not. In each case he is with- must have if we arg, to successfully uled for the Wednesday aftexnoon given nor can extended research economic freedom in the poste period, patriotic as the man has the holding something valuable from conduct this war.’ and Thwsday sessions, : \ be undertaken, hy,

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