Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-11
GRANDFATHER
TT. WAYNE PIONEER.

TT WAYNE PIONEER.
Ny grandfather was one Of the pioneers
of the NOW thriving city which was once
an Indian village named Ke II On Ga.
and which later was named for Mad
Anthony Wayne. Ny grandmother was
one ~ those noble women who nursed the
Indians through a plague Of the small
pox.
Iii direct line came my father. prom
iuen, In the Board Of Commerce and
high official In masonry. In which he
took his thirty second degree. Ny mother
WAS one Of the band Of workers who
brought the public library TO sleepy
town which hadn't yet walked to The force
II the printed word.
Bat mother knew. Her vision and de
satien sent me through the high school
and en- 10 Smith College. Her under
standing helped me make something 81
the gift which first expressed itsNf IN
rhtld's verses. she made mo EHIua
III" promise II a llttla pamphlet 81
rhysueS published when I was about
,r4rs old. And II was mother wao
helped me with the first Fairfax rssISn-
ment which came % me. and who taught
ne that my youth WIS no handicap to
doing the work Of big sistering" all
who write for help.
because you're young enough to be
close TO the problems Of youth and ma
tGra enough TO look forward to the prob
lens Of age--you can stand of, out Of
the cyclone OF other folks emotion and
helped them find their solution" said my
wonderful mother.
And that Is what I've tried to do.
TO SoRTHAMPSoS
TO ENTER SMITH.
In the days when went OF TO North
,;.l e.. IL,
brought our family East and so my
first vacation was spent in Boston, a
terrlfytngly large and inpersonal place
10 the girl who was used to having all
tho neighbors call her LILLIAN" and
send over a batch Of preserves or cookies
or hot biscuits as casually as Boston
seemed 10 pass by unseeing.
But ! came to love the auStere kind
mass and the large opportunity Of Bos
ton, and II prepared me for the larger
veIw Of New York itself.
When ! was still cropping blindly for
my place in the worlds scheme of work,
my fathers boyhood chum invited us
TO visit him and his wife at Villa 0lym
pia. near Clayton. y, Y That visit to
the Thousand Islands determined my
course in life. For Nathan Straus and
his splendid wife, Lima Straus, intro
duced me to Arthur Brisbane and in
spired him with the feeling that there
was place just waiting for me on the
New York Evening Journal
Sometimes ] think the best | can ever
give to those who cry out 10 me in the
hundreds of letters I get daily, will re-
pay some part Of the kindness and in
terest Nathan and Lima Straus and
Arthur Brisbane showed a cropping, eager
girl. But in the ten years that have
passed since I visited Villa Olympia, l
have Just begun to pay my debt.
DESIRE TO GIVE
AN RESPIRATION. Il
But the loving desire to give ] saw
offered so simply then are still my in
spiration. And | read the cries for
help and understanding which come in
each days mail. never forget that what
learned from se!tess. generous interest
and aid Is the simple fact that we are
all brothers and sisters and need each
other all our days.
Several years ago, one of Americas
great theatrical producers told me that I
must find tremendous lot of dramatic
material in my days mail.
You ought to write great play based
on your letters" he said
But I shook my head. And l go on
shaking it. For the days mail is sacred
confidence. The problems brought to me
are as close to my heart as if they were
my own And one doesn't write with |
hearts blood!
But in the stories | am writing for |
Cosmopolitan under my own name, there |,
may be some of the insight and sympathy |
and understanding with which my cor
respondents so richly reward me for the
honest effort mako to be--their Big |
sister Beatrice Fairfax.