Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1924 — Page 8

WINTER TO FIND ALL MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS READ! Only Fifteen Miles Under Contract Will Be Unfinished, As the close of the construction season draws near it appeal's that major building projects will be completed on schedule, according to the State highway commission's weekly traffic bulletin issued today by John D. Williams, director. Department engineers estimate that only about tifteen miles under contract will be unfinished, and this is solely due to failure to obtain right-of-way. This principally affects road No. 6 over relocation between Lebanon and Lafayette. Road conditions: Xo. 1 (Xew Albany. Indianapolis. South Bend. Michigan line!—Pavement from Indianapolis to seven miles north of Kokomo, but traffic should drive carefully over two roadside run-arounds at bridge projects near the Hamilton-Tipton County ilne Take marked detour seven miles north of Kokomo via Bunker Hill acvount construction between Kokomo and Peru. South of Indianapolis detour via Dud>ytown between Seymour and Crothersville account construction near upper Musoatatuek River. Detour account construction south of Scottsbur?. and between Perry and Seilorsbunr. Xo. 3 (Torre Haute. Indianapolis Richmond)—Exercise care at bridge in Cambridge City. One-way bridge at Putnamville. Xarrow grade at Glenn, three miles east of Terre Haute. Xo. 6 tMadison, Greensburg. Indianapo lis. Oxford!—By detouring at bridge at Flackvilie and at about three milts southeats of Lebanon, traffic may use nineteen miles of new pavemer" between Indianapolis and Lebanon. Cosed for paving from two and one-half miles southeast of Xew Bethel to Shelbyville detour via Acton. Xo. 11 (Greenfield. And .'son. Marlon Huntington. Michigan line)—Bridge out at one-half miles north of Road IT. Xo. 12 (Vincennes. Spencer. Martinsville. Indianapolis!—Drive slow at bridge nm-around at tour miles south of Freedom. Xo 15 flndianapolis. Loga-nsrort. Michigan line i—Due to Marion Countv paving, leave Indianapolis via N. Meridian St., cross canal on Illinois St. bridge proceeding on Springmill road to detour, thence wes, to Xo. 15. Detour two and one-half miles north of Marion County line around bridge construction. Closed for three miles south of Knox. Xo 22 (English. Paoli Mitehell. Bedford .Bloomington Martinsville. Indianapolis) —Through traffic ’.use Xo. 12 between Martinsville and Indianapolis as 22 Is being paved. Construction north of Bloomington. detour bad. Closed between Oolitic and Bedford account street paving, de.tour rough Construction south of Paoli. AVOID IF POSSIBLE. Bridge project south of Harrodsburg.

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rpTTOBERT SPARKS took a I drum and “beat it” at I Greertsburg, according to a writ of replevin filed by the Greertsburg Drum Corps, Charges are ho sold the drum to a relative, Fairmount can't get' ahead of Marion. A day after triplets were born at the former city, Mr, and Mrs. Pearl Wilson of Marlon were parents of three baby girls. Photographers of the State witl meet at Shelbyville, Oct. 13, 14 and 15, for the annual convention of the Daguerre Club of Indiana. Recruiting Sergeant John Delk of the United States Army at Portland, found a monkey-faced owl with a broken wing. He chloroformed It, removed the wing. The bird Is recovering and Delk will make a pet of it, G1 IVE a bull frog credit for brains as well as a voice. Henry Warner Jr., of Bluffton bated his line with one. cast, and walked away. Came back for his catch and found the bullfrog sitting on the bank with the hook in his mouth. “In My Canoe on the Wabash With You.” is the title of a sing, ltd McDaniel of Lebanon hopes will make a fortune for him. William Hemphill, employe of the Marion National Sanitarium says it Is an ‘Til wind that blows no good.” The recent storm wrecked his home, but it also wrecked plans of his friends to give him an uproarious charivari. Friends had a calf cart already to ride him around in. —7—l KOKOMO grocer. F. F. A Hunt, is looking for a taV rantula doctor. Caught the insect in a bunch of bananas and caged it in a bottle. Since, the thing has lost its health. “Has the heebie jeeteies,” Hunt fears. The Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate and Cloverleaf Railroads have agreed to_ install silent policemen at dangerous crossings at Kokomo, following the death of Luther Albright, killed when a train struck his auto. Every time A. G. Strasser comes to boulevard at Frankfort he stops his car and counts to six. He was fined that much for not stopping. Frankfort has a stop boulevard ordinance.

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Robert Foran. newspaper cnrrc‘■pondint. accompanies the Theodore Roosevelt expedition into Africa in They arrive at Mombassa, the gateway to British East Africa.'’ and then make the railroad journey to the first ramp on the name-crowded Kapiti I’lains With Colonel Roosevelt are his son. Hermit, and three seimtilie members of bis staff —Major Edgar A Meams. Edmund Heller and J. Allen Loring. After a wonderfully successful shooting trip in the Sotik country, the expedition camps for more hunting at a farm called Saiyai-Sai. Going next to Naivasha. the party meets with mere good sport. At Nairobi during race week Roosevelt is paid almost every conceivable honor. Now he is giving the main address at the Railroad Institute at Nairobi, expressing his opinion of the country and its future prospects. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Hi T seems to me that what is I 1 I most needed is plenty of L. mJ men who know the business of farming and have the flexibility of mind necessary to adapt themselves to and do well in anew country. The next need is for men who, although not farmers, will work until they become such. “Finally, let the scientific farmer from the old county and the pioneer who has actually spent his life in the new country—especially the pioneer, British or Dutch, from South Africa —remember that each is a very short-sighted person if he cannot learn something from the other and cannot recognize the good in the other. The pioneer can profit immensely from the government farms, from the experience of men who by the use of trained modern knowledge, and modern methods and instruments, make farming a paying success; and the scientific farmer from the Old World, with his highly specialized training, needs to remember that, in the harsh conditions under which much of the life of anew country is led, only the rugged men, who have actually grown up facing similar conditions, are fit to tame the country so that others can come in after them and dwell beside them. Each of the two tyroes has need of the other, and can profit greatly by working in hearty accord with one another. “I say again, stand by each other. Remember that time spent in backbiting is waste of time. Work all of you heartily together so that ou may soon do what you will ultimately

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and this region into a great and prosperous White Man’s country.” CHAPTER XV Roosevelt’s Return to Naivasha On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 4, Colonel Roosevelt. Hermit. Dawson and myself left Nairobi for Naivasha. We traveled by special train, leaving at 9 o’clock in the morning, and were to stop en route at Kipabe, American mission. Colonel Roosevelt had promised to lay the foundation stone of the new European children’s school at the mission. There was a tremendous crowd at the Nairobi railroad depot to see Colonel Roosevtl leave. On the platform a number of the leading officials and settlers pressed around Roosevelt and thanked him very sincerely for what he had said in his speech at the banquet on the previous evening. "It will make a most enormous difference to the country’s future,” remarked Lord Delamere to Roosevelt. “Even the most optimistic had not dared to hope for such a splendid vindication of the possibilities of this tropical country from your lips.” How highly his speech was prized can be proved by the fact that the East African Colonists’ Association and the Nairobi Chamber of Commerce resolved, by an overwhelming majority, to print and distribute to members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords some 2,000 copies of the speech. This is surely a true indication of the trend of local popular opinion in regard to the subject matter of Colonel Roosevelt’s speech. On the way up to Kipabe, the Roosevelts occupied their usual seat in front of the engine, while Dawson and I occasionally rode beside them. The day was dull and threatening, but luckily the rain held off. However, the fact that the sun was shrouded by heavy clouds made the train journey delightfully cool. The Rev. Mr. Hulburt met Roosevelt on our arrival at Kijabe, and conducted him up the road from the railroad depot, through forest-clad hills, to the site of the new mission school A. large number of Ameri-

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can missionaries, their wives and children were already gathered around the site. The new building was to be constructed out of red bricks, which were made at the mis sion. The foundation stone, which Colonel Roosevelt was to lay In position was a handsome slab of white dressed stone. It was suspended above the foundation by a temporary derrick. No time was wasted over the ceremony, as Colonel Roosevelt was anxious to get back to Naivasha as quickly as possible, so as to hasten on the preparations for the elephant hunt to the Nyeri and Ft. Hall districts. Following the brief introductory remarks by Dr. Hulburt, Colonel

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Roosevelt performed the ceremony, and then made a brief address to the missionaries. “I am glad to have had the chance,” he said, “of being present today to assist in laying the foundation stone of a building which I believe will be associated with farreaching and permanent good to the people of East Africa. “Your primary work is among the natives, and I am particularly pleased that you have devoted yourselves so much to the industrial training which must necessarily be the basis of permanent ethical and spiritual uplift among tribes such as these by,which you are surrounded; hut, of course, there must be ultimately also a generally diffused rudimentary scholastic education. lam also glad that you are not frying to turn the African natives merely into imitation or make-believe whites, but are striving to fit them to go back among their own people and themselves act as leaders in the uplift cf their race. “However, I am particularly glad at what you have done with your schools for your own children and for the children of the white settlers around you. The missionary must

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remember his duty to the white nun, as well as to the black man. He should strive constantly for justice and fair treatment for the natives of Africa, and he should no less make it his constant endeavor to be of use and of service to the settler. “You can, of course, do most in this way through your schools; hut you can do much —and I am glad to say that you have done much — through medical work; and I hope also that, wherever the opportunity occurs, you will encourage the building of some little church or meeting house where the settlers, and especially their womenfolk —can at least occasionally go to hear divine service. 1 have heard more than one settler's wife express the earnest

hope for such an opportunity.” After partaking of tea with the missionaries, Colonel Roosevelt and his party rejoined the train and were soon on our way to Naivtasha; and we reached our destination shortly after 5 o'clock that evenng. On the way we passed two slver jackals which watched our passing train with the utmost indifference from 51 distance of less than twenty yards from the track. We also passed several large herds of zebra and a few ostriches. Just before we reached Naivasha we saw a mangy-looking lion feeding upon a zebra he had just killed less than fifty yards from the track. Mearns and Loring were on the platform at Naivasha, awaiting our return; and all the porters had lined up, with the native askaris (policemen) in front as a kind of guard of honor. As Colonel Roosevelt descended from the train, the askaris “presented arms” and the porters cheered lustily. "Pambo, Bvvana Mkubwa! Hail gangi, Kingi ya Tmerik?” (Hail, Great Chief! How are you, King of America?”) came the chorus. It had been at first arranged that

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Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit should occupy their tents in the encampment of the expedition, but as he found that Mearns and Loring had moved up to the Rift Valley hotel owing to all of the tents being filled with bird specimens and small mammals, they eventually decided to stay at the hotel also. The morning after our arrival was very wet and there was a continual downpour of rain. I spent the morning acting as secretary to Colonel RooseVelt, first of all writing answers to his very large and curious mail, and then in taking down his articles on the typewriter. It was an interesting morning, and the letters Colonel Roosevelt received were very quaint. He had letters from all over the world asking him to be kind enough to capture and send back various animate to the writers of the letters. The requests ranged from mice to baby elephants, and a suggestion

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