Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1930 — Page 8

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Gala Opening “Riley Swimming Pool” Greenfield, Ind., July 4

JADWIN HEADS NEW FEDERAL POWER BOARD Four Other SIO,OOO-a-Year Commissioners Will Be Named Soon. Hu U*U'4 Prr, WASHINGTON, July 2.—A retired army engineer whose name has been connected in the public mind for several years with Mississippi flood control, Major-General Edgar Jadwin, was named by President Hoover late Tuesday as head of the : reorganized, administration-spon-sored federal power commission. The power chairman, who with ! four other SIO,OOO-per-year cominis- ! sioners, shortly to be named, will control development of the nation's power resources, brings to his new job years of experience as chief of | the board of army engineers for rivers and harbors.

Years of Experience In his late position, from which he was retired last year, Jadwin reviewed and passed upon thousands of rivers and harbor projects. These ranged in extent and cost from the vast and highly complicated system of Mississippi flood control to minor schemes for bridging creeks and dredging small canals. Work on the Panama canal, though, as a minor official, was one of Jadwdn's first big engineering jobs. Later, in the World war, he served as director of light railways. Several years after the war closed he became chief of engineers. Reorganization of the pow'er commission will place the control of power sites in the hands of five fulltime commissioners. Since its creation in 1920 the commission has been officered by the secretaries of war, interior and commerce. Hurled “Trust” Charges Having little time to devote to the commission, these officials delegated many responsibilities to a paid executive secretary. This policy led to frequent charges on the senate floor that the

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ASSOCIATION SUES ON BOND OF TREASURER §25,000 asked in Alleged Shortage of Protective Groups Official. Suit to collect $25,000 bond on William P. Noffsinger, elderly retired minister and former secretary and treasurer of the Tri-County Mutual Protective Association of Muncie, was filed in ‘federal court

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Oh! the old swimmin’ hole wbare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby river that was layin’ half asleep. And the smrele of the worter round the drift just below ( Sounded like the laugh of something we onc’t ust to know. Before we could remember anything but the eyes Os Angels lookin’ out as we left Paradise; But the merry days of youth is beyond our controle. And it’s hard to part ferever with the old swimmin’ hoie. That is the song of the stubbed toe days that James Whitcomb Riley, the “Hoosier Poet,” sang in verse to the “Old Swimmin’ Hole” on Brandywine creek near Greenfield, Ind. That was his tribute to the sw’immin’ holes of the world with their “glad lilies, bullrushes, and cattails tall.” And now that poem sings best a requiem for the spot on Brandywine creek which Riley made famous, as the new $30,000 swimmin’ pool within a horseshoe toss of the “Old Un” bristles and gleams in its new concrete in readiness to take the “Old Un’s” place. Dedicatory exercises for the new pool—a pool with diving boards ’n other fancy things—will be held Friday in Riley park. Times Have Changed Sun-backed bathing suits in nobby stripes will take the place of nature’s suit. There’ll be no sandy silt to wrinkle your toes in and the “Skinnys” of today won’t have to worry about someone tying knots in their shirts as did Riley.

Bright nickled showers displace the first, “duckin’ ”. The old log where you baked and burned without being stylish about it and calling it “sun-tan” won’t be there. The “two-by-four” you used for a springboard is lost in a nifty board wrapped in rope matting. There’ll be no moonlight swims, with incandescents everywhere at the new pool. And as for playing hookey in the springtime, there’s not a chance, with life guards, swimming instructors, and pool managers near. "... the lost joys is past! Let your tears in sorrow roil Like the rain that ust to dapple up the oid swimmin’ hole.” But the new pool brings supervised swimming to the tads of Greenfield. Once Town’s Hangout In the barefoot days of Riley, from 1858 to 1865, the “Old Swimmin’ Hole” was the town’s hangout for boydom in the spring. Then Brandywine creek changed its course and left the “Old Swimmin Hole” high and dry, with naught to mark it but an old log stump. But the youth wasn’t to be denied and as the creek’s course changed, the “swimmin' hole” changed. It changed in attire, too. The Greenfield city council passed an ordinance forbidding ‘au natural” dives and the boys came in suits, homemade and the store kind. On Oct. 7, 1925, Riley Memorial park was dedicated formally. The heart of its environs was the “swimmin’ hole.” By day, youth, properly suited, swam there. By night—well—they do say that white ghosts of Riley’s dream worlds came back sometimes to do “jack-knife” dives. The late George A, Carr, former mayor of Greenfield, was one of Riley’s earliest chums. He visioned the new modern pool as a tribute to the “Old Swimmin’ Hole” and the man who made it r, saga of youth. Dedication Set for Friday The Greenfield park board and city officers fulfill that dream with the dedication Friday. The poem, “Old Swimmin’ Hole,” first was printed in the Indianap-

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Above (left to right)—The Old Swimmin’ Hole on Brandywine creek and the new ’ un,” with Donald Howard, 13, in the garb of yesteryear and the garb of today. Below Will Meek. 72, who swam “au natural” with James Whitcomb Riley. olis Journal, June 17, 1882, and signed under the Hoosier Poet’s pseudonym, “Benj. F. Johnson of Boone.” The part it played in Riley’s adolescence is told vividly by Will Meek, 72, of 1233 Grand avenue, Indianapolis. Meek, white-haired now and white-bearded, was a crony of Riley’s. His “roundabout” coat dangled on sycamore limbs with the poet’s. He held his nose to duck his head under water in the “Old Swimmin’ Hole,” just as Riley did, “Many a time we’d start undressing ‘bout the time we hit the National road. Jim would sneak off plugs of tobacco from his daddy and the rest of us smokes and we’d go down to the ‘Old Hole’ and bask in the shade and swim,” Meek explained.

Played Boyish Tricks “We’d stay away all day. We’d throw mud at eacn other, tie knots in the clothes of the fellow that was last gettin’ in. And Jim was just a real boy, like the rest of us. I ’spect he played hookey from school as much as any of us did,” and he paused. “So they're dedicating anew swimmin’ pool rre they? Hum-m.” The clatter and noise of 1930 broke in as a radio in the Meek home announced,” Battery for Cincinnati, Frey and Sukeforth.” The aged man looked far out the window, looked as if he saw a funeral procession passing by and a requiem being sung like this: Oh! the old swimmin’ hole! When I last saw the place. The scenes was alt changed, like the change in my face; The bridge of the railroad now crosses the spot. Where the old divin’-log lays sung and fergot. And I stray down the banks where the trees ust to be— But never again will theyr shade shelter me! And I wish in my sorrow I could strip to the soul, And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin’ hole. 11l from Carbide Dose Using carbide, left in a sack on the kitchen table by her son, to peper a mess of greens she ate, Mrs. Josephine Shane, 34, Negro, 3437 Rader street, was made ill Tuesday. A stomach pump was used at city hospital and the woman’s condition is not serious.

DEMURRER UPHELD Property Owners May Drop Fight on City. Demurrer of attorneys, representing the city, to suits brought by property owners objecting to paving issessrrents for the widening of Massachusetts avenue from New York to East streets, was sustained Tuesday by Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. Similar suits filed in two other superior courts by additional abutting property owners are up for ruling on the same grounds. Defendants are the city, Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer, and a firm of contractors completing the improvement. The demurrer was based on the contention that property owners did not file remonstrances to the widening within the time equired by law. Attorneys for the plaintiffs did not indicate whether the fight will be carried on by filing of amended complaints.

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JULY 2, 1930

ACTS TO LAY D. S. CLAIM TO ANTARCTIC LAND Senator’s Resolution May Pit Byrd’s Discoveries Against Britain's. Hu T nittrl Prrtt WASHINGTON, July 2.—A resolution which would pit the claims of the United States against those of Great Britain in the vast continent of Antarctica today awaited senate action. Senator Tydings < Deni., Md.) introduced the resolution which would direct President Hoover to "lay claim to areas in the Antarctic which have been discovered or explored by Americans.” State department officials said congressional action would not be necessary to make an American claim to Antarctic territory valid. Officials said Byrd hac made no report to the department regarding American claims. Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee to w-hich the resolution w’as referred, did not indicate he would bring the resolution up for early action. If adopted the resolution would precipitate a controversy which the state department carefully sidestepped last year w’hen it was decided to pigeon hole a vigorous draft note objecting to all-inclusive British claims in the area. GYPSY HELD IN THEFT Bakery Wagon Driver Says Woman Relieved Him of SlB. Charges of petit larceny w-ere filed today against Mrs. Anna Andrew, a gypsy, after E. R. Cobb. R. R. 12, Box 49, driver of a cake bakery wagon, complained $lB was abstracted by the woman from his roll of money when she “blessed” the money Tuesday afternoon.