Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1928 — Page 16

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MINE OWNERS GIVE LITTLE AID IN STRIKE QUIZ Rockefeller, Mellon Plead Ignorance of Situation in Coal Regions. BY KENNETH CRAWFORD United Press StalT Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 24. Three of the country's wealthiest men have added their views on the ailing bituminous coal industry to the voluminous record of hearings ; before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Charles W. Schwab, John D. Rockefeller and R. B. Mellon, brother of Secretary of the Treas- ! ury Mellon, all large stockholders; in coal companies, testified Friday i before the committee and a room full of spectators. Schwab was jovial and fluent. He said the industry would have to work out its own difficulties by the natural economic laws of supply and demand, but might be helped by legislation to permit combinations. John D. Pleads Ignorance Rockefeller's attitude was friendly but dignified. He pleaded ignorance of the technical problems of cc?.l mining, but said he believed some legislation is necessary to j place the industry back on a sound | economic basis. Mellon seemed morose. He an- j swered questions reluctantly and J offered no solution for the coal j problem. “It seems to me that if this com- j mittee's efforts to solve the prob- j lem are to be successful, it must consult separately with representatives of all the interests involved —producers, distributors, transporters and workers,’’ Rockefeller said. Denies Contract Violation “I hardly see how anything is to be accomplished by bringing them all together at once.” Rockefeller refused to admit that ; the Consolidation Coal Company, in i which he is largely interested, violated its contract with the United Mine Workers. He told the committee he believed in collective bargaining. He offered to assist the committee in any way he could or participate in any conference it may call. Mellon admitted he voted as a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Coal Company for abrogation of the Jacksonville wage agreement. He said the step was necessary to continue operation. Mellon Forgets Motives Asked by Senator Wheeler how he justified his vote, Mellon said he could not remember. “Have you ever gone to your mine since the strike; to see how the people are living?” Wheeler asked him. “No, I trusted the men in charge to take care of them,” Mellon replied. “It would do you good to rim out there and see them,” said Wheeler. SUES WIFE’S PARENTS Terre Haute Man Asks SIO.OOO in Affection Case. By Time* Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March 24. •—Guy Barnes has filed suit for SIO,OOO damages here against his wife’s parents, Charles A. and Laura Deal, charging they alienated her affections. The couple was married in Indianapolis in 1916 and separated in 1926. Barnes says that after the pai'ents had induced their daughter to come to their home for a visit, she refused to live with him again. Watches Sunday Movies By Tim rs Special BEDFORD. Ind., March 24.—A Sunday movie battle is imminent here. A picture was shown last Sunday for charity, proceeds going to a fund for aiding children of destitute coal miners at Bicknell. Another show is announced for Sunday. Prosecutor Coulter M. Montgomery announces he will make no move to stop benefit shows, but will file charges if any performance is given for profit.

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THIS HAS HAPPENED SALLY FORD, who knows no other home but the State orphanage from the time she is t. goes to CLEM CARSON'S farm the summer she is J 6 to work for her “keep.” She meets DAVID NASH, handsome young: student of scientific farming: who is working: on the Carson farm. David likes Sally and shows that he prefers her to PEARL. Clem's gaudilvdressed daughter. This angers Pearl and she treats Sally with insulting disdain. Pearl determines to get rid of Sally and sneaks into her room and hides a diamond pin there. When she accuses Sally of theft. David confronts Pearl with the lie and tells her he saw her secrete the pin in Sally’s room. Carson warns Sally that Pearl and David are practically engaged. One afternoon David gets a moment with Sally and begs her to call on him if she ever needs him. Then he asks her to go for a walk with him that night. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX SALLY was eager as a child, when she joined David Nash in that j part of the lane that skirted the I orchard. Although it was nearly j 9 o'clock it was not yet dark; the sweet, throbbing peace of a June twilight, disturbed only by a faint breeze that whispered through the leaves of the fruit trees, brooded over the farm. “I hurried—as fast— as I could!” she gasped. ‘.‘Grandma Carson ripped up this dress for me this j afternoon and while you and J were washing dishes Mrs. Carson stitched up the seams. Wasn't that sweet of her? Do you like it. David? It! was awful dirty and I washed it in I gasoline this afternoon, while I was j doing Pearl's things.” She backed away from him. took the full skirt of the made-over dress between the thumb and forefinger of each hand, and made him a curtsey. “You look like a picture in it,” j David told her gravely. “When I j saw Pearl busting out of it I had no idea it was such a pretty dress.” j “I couldn't have kept it on to-; night if Pearl hadn't already leftj for the party at Willis's. Was she terribly mad at you because you wouldn't go?” David shrugged his broad shoulders, but there was a twinkle in his eyes. “Let's talk about something pleasant. Want a peach, Sally?” And Sally ate the peach he gave her, though she had peeled so many for canning those last few days that she had thought she never wanted to see another peach. But this was a special peach, for David had chosen it for her, had touched it with his own hands. They walked slowly down the fruit-scented lane together, Sally's shoulder sometime touching David's coatsleeve, her short legs striving to keep step with his long ones. She listened, or appeared to listen, drugged with content, her fatigue and the smarting of her gasolinc- | reddended hands completely forgotten. “We got a good stand of winter wheat and oats. There's the wheat. See how it ripples in the breeze? I Look! You can see where it's turning yellow. Pretty soon its jadeI green dress will be as yellow as gold, and along in August I'll cut it. | That’s oats, over there”; and he pointed to a distant field of foothigh grain. “It's so pretty—all of it,” Sally sighed blissfully. “You wouldn't think, just to look at a farm, that it makes people mean and cross and stingy and ugly, would you? Looks like growing things for people to eat ought to make us happy.” “Farmers don't see the pretty side; they're too busy. And too worried.” David told her gravely. “I'm different. I live in the city in the winter and I can hardly wait to get to the farm in the summer. But it’s not my worry if the summer is wet and the wheat rusts. I’ll be happy to own a piece of land some day, though, even if I shall .own all the worries, too. I’m going to be a scientific farmer, you know.” “I'd love to live on a farm,” Sally agreed, with entire innocence. "But every evening at twilight I’d go out and look at my growing things and see how pretty a picture they made, and try to forget all the backbreaking work I’d put in to make it so pretty.” They were walking single file now, in the soft, mealy loam of a field, David leading the way. She loved 'the way his tall, compact body moved —as gracefully and surely as a woman’s. She had the feeling that they were two children, who had slipped away from their elders. She had never known any one like David, but she felt as if she had known him all her life, as

if she could say anything to him and he would understand. Oh, it was delicious to have a friend! “There’s the cornfield where I’ve been plowing,” David called back to her. “A fine crop. I've given it its last plowing this week. It's what farmers call ‘laid by.’ Nothing to do now but to let nature take her course.” It was so dark now that the corn looked like glistening black swords, curved by inivisible hands for a phantom combat. And the breeze rustled through them, bringing to the beauty-drunk little girl a cargo of mingled odors of earth, ripe fruit and greenness thrusting up from the moist embrace of the ground to the kiss of the sun. “Let’s sit here on the ground and watch the moon come up,” David suggested, his voice hushed with the wonder of the night and of the beauty that lay about them. “The earth is soft, and dry from the sun. It won’t soil your pretty dress.” Sally obeyed, locking her slender j knees with her hands and resting her chin upon them. “Tired. Sally? They work you too hard.” David said softly, as he seated himself at a little distance from her. “I suppose you’ll be glad to get back to the—Home in the fall.”. Sally’s dream-filled eyes, barely discernible in the dark, turned toward him, and her voice, hushed but determined, spoke the words that had been throbbing in her brain for four days: “I'm not going back to the Home —ever. I'm going to run away.” “Good for you!” David applauded. Then, with sudden seriousness: “But what will you do? A girl alone, like you? And won't they try to bring you back? Isn't there a law that will let them hunt you like a criminal?” “Oh. yes. The State's my legal guardian until I’m 18, and I'm only 16. In some States it's 21,” Sally i answered, fright creeping back into | her voice. “But I'm going to do it anyway. I'd rather die than go back to the orphanage for two more years. You don't know what it's like,” she added with sudden vehemence. and a sob-catch in her throat. I “Tell me. Sally,” David urged | gently. And Sally told him—in short. | gasping sentences, roughened sometimes by tears—of the life of orphaned girls. “We have enough to eat to keep from starving and they give us four new dresses a year,” Sally went on recklessly, her long-damnukl-up emotion released by his sympathy and understanding, though he said so little. “And they don't actually beat us, unless w’e've done something pretty bad; but oh, it's the knowing that w‘e're orphans and that the State takes care of us and that nobody cares whether we live or die that makes it so hard to bear! From

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the time we enter the orphange we are made to feel that everyone else is better than we are, and it’s not right for children, who will be men and women some day, wdth their livings to make, to feel that way!” “Yes, an inferiority complex is a pretty bad handicap,” David interrupted gently. “I know about inferiority complexes,” Sally took him up eagerly. “I’ve read a lot and studied a lot. We have a branch of the public library in the orphanage, but we're cnly allowed to take out one book a week. I’ll graduate from high school, next June—if Igo back! But I won't j go back!” she cried. “But. Sally, Sally, what could you i do?” David persisted. "You haven't j any money—” “No,” Sally acknowledged passionately. “I’ve never had more than a nickel at one time to call my own! Think of it, David! a| girl of 16. who has never had morej than a nickel of her own in her j life! And only a nickel given to j me by some soft-hearted, senti- j mental visitor! But I can work, and if I can't find anything to do, j I'd rather starve than go back.” David's hand, concealed by the darkness, was upon hers before she knew that it was cpming. “Poor Sally! Brave, high-hearted little Sally!” David said so gently that his words were like a caress, j “Charity hasn't broken your spirit vet, child. Just try to bo patient for a while longer. Promise me you won’t do anything without telling me first. I might be able to J help you—somehow.” “I—l can’t promise, David,” shej confessed in a strangled voice. “I might have to go away—suddenly —from here—” “What do you mean, Sally?” David's hand closed in a hurting grip over hers. “Has Pearl—Mr. Carson —? Tell me what you mean!" "When I promised io come walk- j I ing with you tonight I knew that j i Mr. Carson would try to take me : i back to the orphanage, if he found I I out. But—l—l wanted to come. And j ! I’m not sorry.” “Do you mean that he threatened | you?” David asked slowly, a mazeI ment dragging at his words. “Be- ; cause of Pearl—and me?” “Yes,” she whispered, hanging I her head with shafe. "I didn't PAY MOVING EXPENSES 371 I Graccland; t rmy; garage $23.71 MMB River A\e.. I rmv; in>. toilet 23.7.7 j 230.7 Masn. Avf.; 1 rms.: good 12.10 1 1112 Everett; t rms. cottage 12.00 ' I*2l \\. New York; 2 rms.; water in 00 } 1.123 Wilcox; 5 rms.; good . .... 12..',0 —Colored— J 8.12 Camp: t rms.; ins. toilet ... . 511.10 Hit Camn; 3 rms.: ins. toilet 1100 930 W. Vermont: 1 rms.; ins. toilet 21.00 i 2030 W. T-nth; Irm*.; good 12.10 N. L. SEARCY, 224 N. Del. Linrnln 1971

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