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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
BY ERNIE PYLE

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-New
~ York is going crazy over ski
ing.
You can't ski on Broadway, of
course, so every weekend the
railroads run snow trains" to
New England, and to upper New
York state. And they're packed.
Snow trains" are an old thing
in Europe. But the idea came to
America only 10 or II years ago.
The first ones were in Canada.
About six years ago they started
running them out of Boston and
Albany to the mountains.
Last year few were run out
of New York as an experiment.
The idea caught on instantly. And
this winter a half dozen snow
trains run out of Grand Central
Station every weekend. Aboard
them are from 1000 to 5000 very
gay people who like to slide down
hill with boards on their feet.
On 8 recent weekend, for ex-
ample, two trains of nine cars
each left Grand Central just be-
fore midnight for the seven hour
run to North Greek, N. Y.
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THERE were hundreds of peo-
i pie in bright and foreign
looking skiing suits, with skis in
their arms, packs on their backs,
dark goggles for their eyes,
stocking caps, mittens. There
were Germans, with their short
leggings; men who had served in
German army ski regiments.
There were Norwegians, and Aus
TRANS. and Italians; there were
as many women as men. and
whole families, men as old as 20,
children as young as 8, all in their
ski outfits.
Each train carried five sleepers,
three day coaches, and an equip
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

The ground floor of York House
contained the offices of his staff
and his small and simple dining
room. The next floor contained
his own private quarters, consist
ing of two sitting rooms, a bed
room and a bathroom.
There was an absence of luxury
and pomp about his own quarters
that marked him out as being
more of soldier than Prince.
None of the rooms was luXu-
riously furnished nor over-bur-
dened with the souvenirs and gifts
that have been shoWered on him
in his world trips. Most of the
decorations were photographs of
his royal kinsmen and of close
personal friends.
NJ -
0NE of the sitting rooms was
" used as an informal reception
room here he received his close
friends and cabinet ministers. The
other sitting room, to which out
siders were rarely admitted, was
used as a workroom. It's chief
ornament was a big desk piled
with letters and reports upon
which he had to pass.
His bedroom was far simpler
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
Times Books

DY very miracle of timeliness new book by
- Lincoln Ellsworth reaches the public just as that
doughty explorer heads Rack toward civilization after
his rescue from the ice at the Bay 4 Whales.
This book-"Exploring Today" (Do~-, a.
Co., $l75)-s pleasant, unassuming little vo.Ime
addressed to all ambitioug young who would like
to become explorers themselves.
Such people, says Mr. Ellsworth. commonly ask
two questions: How become an explorer"
and What is there left to explorer"
Answering the first. he advises: Acquire one Of
the skills that essential expeditions Become
a good aviator, radio man, or geologist. or me-
teoroogist fit yourself for the job before you apply
FOR it, interest yourself in the work of your local
museum; in general make yourself the kind Of per-
son2Iwho would be useful on an exploratory expe
ticK.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Kensington district of London, all
matters in connection with his
property were carefully taken up
by him with his controller.
Early in his young manhood he
became interested in the abolition
of tenement slums. To that end
he set a good example by tearing
down a lot of his property in Ken
sington and putting up model flats
and houses for the working class.
Not only that, but he often rode
over the Thames to Kensington
personally to inspect his rebuilt
properties and to see how his ten
ants were. getting along.
One of his tenement flats in
Kensington. rented to working
people at very moderate sum, is
far more up-to-date and far bet
ter arranged than some of the fiat
buildings inhabited by Weather
classes on the more. fashionable
side Of London.
Monday: Edward VIII and his
bachelor state.
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across the veldt. When they
reached the town the Beers
wondered where the prince
was. They saw no auto
with the distinguished
guest.
Then somebody recognized him
as the young fellow whose face
vas covered with sweat and dust.
They went wild over him and
ever after that whenever he
visited a Boer settlement he had
to ride with the commando.
TIE also visited the war-like
l. l. native Negro tribes like the
zulus and Bantus. At one place
over 100000 were in line. They
danced their native dances. They
made him one of themselves by
their native decorations.
From South Africa he crossed
the Atlantic to visit Uruguay and
the Argentine. He delighted the
leading men of Buenos Aires by
making a little speech in Spanish.
1t was recognized he had done
lot of good for British business,
which was being crowded out by
the Americans. In 1927 he made
a trip to Spain and thence to
Canada.
Early in 1923 he started on his
last empire trip which was to
take him from Cairo, Egypt,
down through Kenya, Uganda,
and thence, back to South Africa
for Christmas.
He was accompanied by his
brother Henry, Duke of Glouces-
ter. AS the duke had never be-
fore crossed the equator, extern
sive preparations we're made duly
to shave ana duck him. The
prince entereA VII -heartedly
into the proceedings.
He himself was ma med as as
sistant barber and got himself up
in perhaps the funniest costume
that ever the heir to a great
throne was seen in.
He wore ragged trousers and
skirt and had a huge charcoal
mustache painted on his face. He
was so intent on shaving Henry
that he did not notice what was
going on behind him. At given
signal when Henry was tossed into
the ducking pond, huge sailor
grabbed Edward and threw him
in. too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
NNCE in equatorial Africa, the
~ Prince did all the things he

once in equatorial Africa, the
~ Prince did all the things he
liked to do. He rode in several
races and won with his mounts.
Before that, while in Egypt, he
had done something that perhaps
nobody else in the world ever did.
He climbed to the top of the great
pyramid and drove a golf ball
into the desert, using the pyramid
as tee
At one famous golf course in
Uganda he played on grounds that
are often wandered across by
night by huge hippopotami. There
fore there is a club rule that if
anybody's golf ball falls into
hippopotamus' footprints he may
be- allowed to lift the ball out be-
fore taking the next shot.
Edward of Wales duly lodged
one in one of those impromptu
hippopotamus bunkers and also
duly availed himself of the priv
ilege of the rule.
At Kamapala, in Uganda, a lit
tie port on giant Lake Victoria,
he reviewed 10000 native war;
riors. They had their big corps
of native drummers with them
and the Prince delighted them by
melting the musicians to thunder
GUS efforts.
Then he went into jungle coun-
try, where he bagged a couple of
lions and a big bull elephant.
1t was while down there that
he got the news of his fathers
serious illness and fastened back
to the coast to return home. From
that time on concern for his
fathers health kept him close to
England.
ESPITE the tremendous
- wealth that was at his
command had he cared to us it,
Britain's new King lived simply
when he was Prince of Wales.
His quarters were comparable to
countless other young bachelors
of well-to-do circumstances, al
though his position necessitated a
large staff.
When Edward was 81 he set up
housekeeping on his own. One
wing in st. James's Palace, known
as York House, became his, and
he was given his own staff, con-
sisting of equerries, a controller
of his treasury and a clerical
force.
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than that of many a less impor-
tant and less well-to-do bachelor.
1t had something about it that by
its neatness and even severity re-
called that of an army officer
with none too much coin of the
realm.
The Prince was never nurse
maided by a personal valet. Ills
personal friend, Maj. Verney, a
few years ago in book about him
revealed the fact that he shaved
and dressed himself. He had no
man" hanging about him hand
ing him things. ?"
His personal mail was handled
by two private secretaries and
his business affairs by his con-
troller.
II 4 r
4 S Prince he was quite prop
"A erty owner, not only in his
duchy of Cornwall, but also in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Lofty Ideals
OU1ET-MANNERED W. Frank
X Persons, director of the
United States Employment Serv-
ice, is rapidly becoming one of the
most unpopular executives in the
New Deal. Two potent groups are
after his scalp, but SO far he has
persisted unyieldingly in his pol
icieS.
The cause of Persons disfavor
can be summed up in one word
patronage. Democratic politi-
cos are up in arms because he in
siSts on Civil Service appointeeS
in his bureau. Laborites are Bit
ter because he is loading up his
staff with college men.
The union leaders angrily con-
tend that practical men taken
from trade ranks would make
better employment directors than
college graduates who may know
little or nothing about working
mems jobs.
Persons, a former Russell Sage
Foundation researcher, can't see
the argument of either group. TO
the politicians he replies that the
only way to build up an efficient,
trustworthy service is to pick men
solely on the basis of merit and
give them permanence of tenure
To the laborites he retorts that
directing an employment Office
requires more background and
training than trade experience.
How long Persons will be allowed
to hew to the lofty line he has set
remains to be seen. With the 1886
campaign looming he may find
that the demands of politics are
more powerful than those of
principle.
Il
Big Trouble
TT TROUBLES Halle Flanagan
L that she can't put elephants
on relief.
Il have a friend who is first
class circus performer, but he can't
do his act without his elephants,
and We can't support the ele-
plants. I wish we could"
Halle Flanagan is blond,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

BUC lC SetIIlS IldIUIdI 10 sup
pose that some of the justices
regret being placed in position
which involves the court in deep
political controversy and aligns
it against the other coordinate
branches. 1t would not be sur
prising if even some of those who
have felt impelled to decide
against New Deal measures share
this view as matter of long
range judicial craftsmanship.
This is not to suggest that any
member would shirk a respon-
sibility. The thought is that in
the interest of preserving the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Cnllllng erect. 10 be sure, ne may
have some deep strategic plan.
Perhaps he sees himself standing
on Bunker Hill and reserves his
fire until the foe advances a little
further. But it is well to remem-
Der that, in spite of losses, the
British got the hill.
I must say that in my mind the
most valuable member of the Ad-
ministration forces is the very
man who has often been called
handicap by the Presidents more
timid counselors> Guy Rexford
Tugwell has always stressed the
positive achievements of the New
Deal. He has not apologized or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
BY MILTON BRONNER

r ONDON, Jan. 25.-( NEA)-In South Africa where Ed
ward VIII went after visiting India Canada and
other countries his tour of good will Brtains royal
drummer" his winning personality scored another tr
umph
Hardly had he arrived than he captured the old Boer
eenent-and he did it neatly by sudden inspiration.
His train was to be met at certain little way station
whence he to ride in auto to the town miles
away being escorted by mounted command of Beers
The prince took look and said he would like to ride
with the commando
horse was found for him and together they gaoped
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
EIZnough
BY
WESIBR0OK PEGLER

T ONDON, Jan. 25.-A dead King was drawn
IL through the streets of London, his coffin dragged
in the royal standard and surmounted by his imperial
crown.
There is touch of irony in the royal standard.
for 1t contains, among other devices, the harp OF
Erin, suggesting the royal authority of this most
aHectionate King over land where a dozen years
ago he diSSembed his love through the agency Of the
terrorists of the Black and Tan army who burned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

As Prince of Wales, Brit
AIMS neW monarch hunted
big game IN Africa and IN
di0 alike. This picture
shows him and q group of
companions a0ith q fine
Bengal tiger he had gust
shot. The Prince is IN the
center, aUith his helmet up-
der his arm. The sketch
shows hoaU the Prince Uds
ducked unceremoniously By
q big sailor aboard ship
aohile helping "initidte" his
royal brother at the eQua-
tor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
Sees Court Uneasy,
Weary Of Disputes
BY RAYMOND CLAPFER

N7AsH1NGToN, Jan. 25-1s it possible that
w some members of the Supreme Court, if not
a majority would welcome orderly and appropriate
action which would relieve that tribunal from re-
viewing such fundamental policies those en-
bodied in AAA and other recent legislation?
This writer can not say that he knows such an
attitude is entertained by any member of the court
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

HUuSCS anu SIIUL HlSIl III the nlghC.
Among the many expressions
of sympathy and sorrow Which
have been received from various
units of the British empire and
foreign lands that of the Irish
people has thus far eluded your
correspondent. And though the
English papers observe that the
mourning is universal. that coun-
try known in song as the most
distressful ever appears not to
have been heard from yet.
The London crowds which
lined the way from Kings Cross
to Westminster, where the King
xalaal ).
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
T. r. Put Up Battle

MIR. ROOSEVELT himself spoke with good deal
A'A of vigor at the opening of Congress- but he let
the Jackson Day dinner pass without selling the OPP
portunity to launch drive to curb the judicial oil
garchy. And more recently he paid tribute to the
memory Of his fifth cousin and never mentioned the
fact that T. r. something less than savsh in his
attitude toward the Supreme Court
1t seems to that the Presidents legal staff has
been great deal less than masterfu in its preSenta
ton of before the high court. Seldom has the
court been asked frankly and directly to establish
new precedentS in order to meet necessities The
Supreme Court should be pinned down specifically to
rule whether or not we are to have functioning ma
tional government or to go back to sort of
nomic succession. Justice Stone, in his dissenting
opinion argued the case for Triple A far more elo
quently than the governments attorneys.
Only recently I saw a Federal judge quoted in the
newspapers as saying that economics have no place
in law court.
They say that friend once said to venerable
member of the high BENCH you really ought to know
something about economics and he shipped the old
gentleman box of books The learned jurist turned
over the pages of one volume idly and then ordered
his servant, Take these down to the cellar!"
All Checks, No Balances
NOV, surely, instead of a government of checks
and balances, have government of balk
and haul. The legislative branch must deal with
economic necessity and the judicial branch seems
prepared to say that these matters of no conse
quence.
I have heard good many say, "The Supreme
Court will not be issue in the 1886 campaign.
President Roosevelt does not care to bring it up"
But election day is still good many weeks away,
and If Roosevelt and the Democratic Party refuse
to make this fight there is nothing to prevent
Farmer-Labor Party from taking up the battle to
make progressive and radical legislation possible
And even out of the ranks of the Presidents own
supporters there may come some who will say those
things they want to say.
Attackers can for little while move through
the wheat, but the moment comes when it is neces-
sary to stand up and rush the enemy This is the zero
hour!
Copyright, 1936)
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the temperature at IS, and the
snow is reported Is inches deep.
1t takes at least two inches on
smooth hills for skiing. But it
isn't really good unless there's
about six sinches.
A real ski man I talked with
said he doesn't think of the snow
necessary for skiing, but rather
for falling. When you take a
header into a hillside you need
a lot of snow,
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If Seems hM
BY
bR0UN

T WAS talking in Washington with second-string
player on the New Deal team, and he showed me a
rousing editorial from the Washington News That
fellow has said, he exclaimed "ust what I'd like to
say myself just what most Of would like to say,
we only had the chance"
When I asked him why he didn't make the chance
for himself he mentioned something called party
discipline" 1t seems to that the tactics of Frank
lin Roosevelt at the moment are having decidedly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
EDWARD VIII-BRITAIN'S NEW KING


this the Of new
MI. MA
closely.
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Papers Are Sentimental

MEN and women perched among the gargoyles
AVA along the route and hung out of windows
and others stood on the roofs of parked taxicabs
The store fronts were not festooned but the
window displays either dressed in black or
marked with a black painted plank running from
top to bottom through the middle.
Although the feelings of the British people are
sincerely solemn the position of the King and the
balyhoo sof the English press make it impossible
to conduct simple rite as the burial of dead
friend without exaggeration and exploitation
The papers pursue sentimental policy in the
best of times but with the death of the King they
have become hysterical, and the most commons
place trif1es in the life of who seems to have
had neither vanity nor personal motives have been
magnified into acts of sublime condescension, all
of which betrays again the ineradcable snobbish-
ness of the royal system and of those Englishmen
who constantly protest their own democracy.
Eight days will have elapsed between the death
and burial of the King And though the obseques
are much more tastefuly done and with glorious
pageantry, the purpose, after ALL is different
from that of the funeral orgies which attended the
burial of Abraham Lincoln and Warren G. Harding
under the auspices of the Republican National Com
mittee.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

school marmish little woman of
"a, who left off being director of
dramatics at Vassar College to be-
come director of the biggest the
atrical producing organization in
the world. 1t is the WPA the
atrical project. She has so plays
in rehearsal at one time: employs
1851 actors and stagehands.
Half of these are men and
women who have been pounding
the sidewalks of Broadway. The
other half come chiefly from Los
Angeles, Boston and Chicago. But
by recent ruling, they can per-
form outside their own states.
Miss Flanagan says actors are
getting over the sense of shame
they had about being in a relief
troupe.
We've got some of the best
known actors in the country" she
boasts. And playwrights, too. But
they are working at research
projects"
Il
Writer'S Trick
TINE trick here is that if
i playwright writes a play on
Uncle Sans time, the play be-
comes the property of the govern
ment. So they do research
work" for their relief wage, and
creative work on the side.
Halle Flanagan. got a reputa-
ton for sternness when she once
reprimanded President McCracken
of Vassar for being late at a re-
hearsal. Fact is, however, she is
timid and preSs-shy.
Harry Hopkins drafted Miss
Flanagan, because he knew her at
Grinnell College, Iowa, where they
both studied. But Miss Flanagan
prefers to speak not of Grinnell,
but of Radcliffe and Vassar.
When her study of the Russian
theater is mentioned, she pre-
fers to stress that she studied
also in Greece and Africa.
Like Frances Perkins, Miss
Flanaganis Lucy Stoner," uses
her maiden name. In private life
she is Mrs. Philip H. Davis, wife
of Vassar's professor of Greek.
Copyright. 1895, by United Feature
Syndicate Incl
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The Kings COn,panies

Jour mounted men in black rode before the gun
carriage. A special guard from the Kings com.
pany OF the grenaders walked beside the conn
There are five regiments of guards. and each
regiment has Kings company composed of picked
men over six feet. The escort wore tall fuzzy bus
bies designed originally to exaggerate the height Of
the soldiers and intmidate men in little hats That
however, was before the day of gas and machine
guns.
Behind the gun carriage three civilians in formal
black mourning STROBE along, the new King in the
middle, his brothers the Duke of York and the Duke
OF gloucester beside him. Then there was 2o-yard
space and a party of intimate friends of the late
King and palace officials followed.
AT the entrance to the Savoy Hotel in the Strand
for an hour before the cortege passed gang of win
dow washers with tall ladders had been making a
few honest shilngs helping people to climb UP on
the stout concrete awnings which cover the side
walk, and Swiss matre d'hotel finally had issued
from the lobby in afury of oficious dignity to order
the customers down.
They told him to go on back inside and wash his
dishes and held their places although the window
washers disappeared with their ladders And the
problem of getting down had to be faced later They
may be up there yet.
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solemn Silent and reverent but Unconditional and thu
ooer simplicity OF the progress through the streets
was in dramatic contrast to the eaudv rites =,
ancient chivalry by which the Kings son had been
proclaimed Edward the Eighth "a hours before
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Real Artistry

AtCUC al CtCtI
nor real artistry in glad
IL handing Senator Jim Ham"
Lewis is in a class by himself.
While standing in a Washington
hotel lobby the magniloquent,
toupee-wearing Illinoisan was
greeted by an acquaintance, who
asked to present a friend.
The friend had never met Lewis
before, knew him only by reputa-
ton. But Jim Ham," ever the
canny politician, took no chances.
With great warmth he exclaimed:
my dear sir, so nice to see you
AGAIN"
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VXIASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-In-

XXTASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-In-
w side word among AL Smiths
close friends is that he is being
groomed by Tammany to be May
or Few York in 1887. AIS Liberty
League speech is the touch-off in
this drive.
Tammany leaders, bitter at
Roosevelt because of the way he
has played ball with Mayor La
Guardia in granting relief funds
and patronage, are reported to be
ready to gang up on the Presi-
dent.
It is not unlikely that the 1886
election will find the Democratic
machine in New York City throw
ing its weight against a Dem
, ocratic President and for the Re
publicans. If SO, Roosevelt will
lose New York State.
Certainly if AL Smith has his
way that will happen.