Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1932 — Page 7

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M.E. Women to Discu-ss Temperance ‘ The Present Temperance Situation in the State and in the Nation” ■will be the theme of the women's mass meeting to be held at 2 Tuesday at the Roberts Park Methodist church, under the auspices of the Indiana Methodist State Council. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of J)es Moines, la., vice-president of the National W. C. T. U., will speak on ‘ State's Rights.” Mrs. F. I. Jonjixon, chairman of the Womans Council of Foreign Missions of New York, will talk on "The Flag or the Flask?” A musical program, under the direction of Mrs. James M. Ogden, \ ill include numbers by the Technical high school chorus, directed by Mrs. Elizabeth Kallz Cochran; Earl Young, organist; Robert Gillespie, t umpet; Charles Gillespie, trom--1 .ne. and the Phyllis Wheatley Y. Y.\ C. A- quartet. Mrs. McWhirter, Chairman A devotional service will be led by Mrs. Charles E. Asbury, conference secretary of the. Women’s Fore.gu Missionary Society. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Mrs. Brandt C. Downey and Mrs. William C. Hartinger. The courtesy committee is composed of Mesrianies J. H. Smiley, Fred Hoke, M. L. Gipe, L. E. Schultz, J. W. Esterline and Miss Gertrude Taggart. Decorations will be planned bj Mesdames W. H. Day, D. E. Gudgel, Kate Condor and P. E. Powell; and Misses Myrtle Munson and Lucille Alexander. The reception committee, composed of Mesdames William Calvert Hartinger, Madison Swade ne r, Brandt C. Downey, John G. Benson and F. F. Hutchins, will he assisted by wives of Methodist ministers,in the Indianapolis district. Patronesses Are Named Ushers wil be: Mesdames Raymond Herath and Glenn Dragoo, and Misses Lucia Haston, Dorothy Kcnna, Margaret South, Thelma Spring, Julia Cooper, Dorothy Jane Hollister, Esther Hollister and Minnie Koelliker. The pages will be Mrs. J. C. Myers and'the Misses Laura Marie Kcnna, Betty Benson, Luo Frances MeWhlrter, Miriam Stuart and Etta Jean Myers. Patronesses will Include conference presidents, secretaries of the Women’s Home and Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies, district presidents of the two societies and wives of district superintendents of the Methodist state council. LUNCHEON IS HELD BY WELFARE CLUB Mrs. W. R. Hatton was hostess Monday at a luncheon meeting of the Welfare Club at her country home, near Fortville. She was assisted by Mrs. Olin Hatton. Spdßial guests were: Mrs. Joel Wilmoth, honorary president, and her mother, Mrs. Emma Avery; Miss Sarah Birk, Mrs. J. W. McLean, the hostess’ mother, and four generations of the Hatton family, J. M. Hatton, Olin Hatton Sr., Olin Hatton Jr., and Richard Hatton. Coxcombs, cosmos and other garden flowers were arranged in the house. Small serving tables were centered with black bowls of lavender and white petunias, carrying out the club colors. ALUMNAE CROUP WILL HOLD TEA Mrs. G. W. Seaton, 2015 North Capitol avenue, assisted by Mrs. Ed B. Hall, will entertain the Indianapolis Alumnae of Lambda Delta Phi sorority at a tea Saturday. Mrs. Charles B. Crist, past state president, will pour. Mrs. Bert Combs, local president, will present plans for the state convention'to be lirld Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Lincoln. FIFTY TABLES OF BRIDGE PLANNED Reservations for approximately fifty tables of bridge were made for the luncheon bridge, opening the women's social activities of the Indianapolis Athletic Club today. Mrs. R. C. Fox is chairman.

Daily Recipe TOMATO AXI) MACARONI NEAPOLITAN 2 cups cooked macaroni 1 cup milk 1 table spoon flour 2 tablespoons butter 1-2 cup prated cheese or 3 tomatoes Dried bread crumbs Salt Pepper Melt butter, stir in flour and slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Bring to the boiling point and stir* in grated cheese. Remove from heat and add macaroni. Mix thoroughly and spread in a buttered shallow baking dish. Peel tomatoes and cut in halves. Lay these over the top, cut side up, pressing them in'o the macaroni mixture. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge dried bread crumbs over all. Dot with bits of butter, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in a hot oven until the tomatoes are soft, but not broken, and the top is a rich brown. Serve from baking dish.

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Utility Power Clinched by Daring to Use Invention

e ' S Ho^VaVl*^ 0 A o 'cot{m.' laic president The late Charles A. Coffin, who Bp,. 1 “I said’Well, thenfyou had bet dared e hiS C tS‘e'x jfnmcnt wh P ?he'tu?l as P rpsidrnt of the General Elec- r ter go out as well.’ hmr, the dangerous circumstanc' , s of the trie C ompaii}’, assisted Mr. In- s|L He said. No, it is my duty t *I" M ""*• k be “? e s r £d ’“•l s lt the n Sing U going t Tv °f superpower in this country, ‘‘He replied, ‘No, I don’t thin

Above, Martin Instill, brother of Samuel Instill, before the background of a gigantic modern turbine, which has been developed from the primitive Curtis turbine first employed in 1903. The Installation, in 1903. of anew turho-Renrrator gave Samuel Insull the start, tn his subsequent control of superpower in the middle west. This device, know'll as tlie Curtis turbine, was the basis of the gigantic machinery that ribbed his empire, which in 1929 was estimate at 54,000,000,000. How Charles A. CofTin, late president of the General Electric Company, induced him to experiment with the turbine, the dangerous circumstances of the first Installation, the significance of the primitive machinery. Forrest Davis tells in the following article. BY FORREST DAVIS Times Staff Writer Copyright. 1932, by the New' York WorldCorporation) THE gods of Chicago’s epical period swiftly were passing. Gustavus Swift and Philip Armour, meat packers; George Pullman, pietistic king of the palace cars; Potter Palmer—these were dead. The ineffable Charles T. Yerkes, hero of Dreiser’s “The Titan,” had flown his unsavory traction network to dig London's underground. In all the roaring inland metropolis no half-god stirred himself so single-mindedly to rise into the light as Sam Insull. This was the year 1903. Insull, ten years in Chicago, a skilful, brusque utility operator, remained obscure. Unknown in the beSt clubs, not received in the vast and horribly turreted mansions along the Gold Coast, he existed partly in the half-world of common council polities incident to the business of selling uncertain electric lighting. There he might have remained, for all his English tenacity and Yankee assertiveness, except for the unrelated circumstances by which a, certain inventive Curtis evolved a powerful turbo-gen-erator. / tt a tt CURTIS, electrical engineer, working in a greasy machine shop in the east, developed a turbine which Trade possible a central station. Heretofore electrical energy could be produced only in puny volume; a costly, cumbersome plant was required for each mod-erate-sized community. The “juice” scarcely could be transmitted farther than around the corner. The beginnings of superpower were inherent in the Curtis gen-

WIENER ROAST IS TO FETE RUSHEES A wiener roast rush party will be held tonight by the Indiana Beta chapter of Delta Sigma sorority at the summer co.ttage of Mrs. Voss Mueller in Rocky ■ Ripple. Mrs. Mueller will be assisted by Mrs. Henry Hollenbeck and Miss Charlotte Kendrick. Guests will include Misses Madonna Campbell, Maybelle Smith, Maxine Steele, Elsa Reid, June Smith, Peggy Waggoner, Eunice Deckard and Mrs. William McCrorv. Pledges to be honored are Misses Augusta Bowerman, Dorothy Boyack and Emma McCord. HONOR OFFICERS WITH BANQUET New officers of Alpha chapter, Theta Mu Rho sorority, will be honored at a banquet tonight at the Antlers. Sorority colors of gold and blue will be carried out in the favors and decorations. Misses Doris Owens and Catherine Zimmerman are in charge of arrangements. A trio, composed of Misses La Vonne Clen and Kathleen Jeffries and Miss Owens, will provide entertainment. MISSIRISICARROLL WEDS F. ir. BRANDT Miss Iris M. Carroll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Carroll, 1829 Arrow avenue, and Fred W. Brandt were married at 11:30 Sunday at the Carroll home with the Rev. Homer Dale reading the ceremony. The couple left on a wedding trip to Canada. Set Business Meeting Young People's church class of the East Twenty-ninth street church will hold its monthly business meeting at 8 Friday at the home of Miss Alma Orme, 2508 Ashland avenue. Pledges to Entertain Pledges of the Dzan sorority entertained members Monday night at a dinner bridge party in the Lumley tearoom. The sorority colors of orchid and silver were used in the i appointments.

The late Charles A. Coffin, who as president of the General Electric assisted Mr. Insull in his early ventures. eratori Curtis became the father of superpower in this country, and in 1903, wffien Insull, battering down the hesitancies of his board of directors, installed the first Curtis turbo-generator, he became foster-father. Moreover, as the glamorous new machinery, capable of developing 5,000 kilowatts in steady flow', went into the Fish street station of the Commonw'ealth Electric Company an observer gifted with second sight could have perceived the shadowy outlines of the Insull Power Trust. On that occasion—respectfully marked by electrical engineers by a tablet affixed to the Fisk street station'walls —Insull took his first steps toward the glittering power throne, tt tt tt IN later years he realized the significance of that installation. Likewise, the General Electric Corporation, which recaptured the shell of the turbo-gen-erator and installed it in front of the offices at Schenectady, where it stands now, a sort of superpower shrine. “Mark that year 1903,” Insull solemnly recommended to a group of young utility men in 1928, “for it was the turning point in the electric public utility development of America.” The road to merger, combination, holding company, highpower transmission lines stalking from central station to central station across prairie and mountain; the road, in short, to interconnected Giant Pow'er lay out ahead of Insull. Within four years the colossally ambitious English clerk w-ould club his several competitors, including the Edison Company, which he came w'est to manage, into a merger on his terms. In 1907 the CommonwealthEdison, operating from economical. trustworthy, central stations.

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Miss Lew Ella Hickman Miss Lew Ella Hickman will be installed as president of the Beta chapter. Omega Phi Tau sorority at a founders’ day banquet to be held tonight at Helen's tea room, 4618 East Washington street. Miss Amy Herman is in charge of arrangements. Other officers are: Mrs. John Simpson, vice-president: Mrs. Jack Hill, recording secretary. Miss Betty Schneider, coresponriing secretary; Mrs. John M. White, treasurer; Miss Martha Spall, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Charles Lawrence, publicity; Mrs. George Dickinson, attorney-general and chaplain. and Mrs. Lawrence Gibson, historian.

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Chilled tomato juice, cereal, cream, sauted eggplant, muffins, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Club sandwich, cup calces with peaches, milk, tea. Dinner — Veal and ham pie, mixed vegetable salad, chocolate cream roll, milk, coffee.

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would serve every electrical need of the Chicago district. Insull would be boasting truthfully that it w'as the largest generator and purveyor of electrical energy in the w'orld. As time went on and Insull more and more grasped the exalted significance of his position he harked back repeatedly, I w r as assured by old acquaintances, to the bold step of 1903 which separated his career. He recalled how he had first overridden the late Charles A. Coffin, at that time president of General Electric, and then subdued his own directors. tt tt tt COFFIN sent him word that he had anew turbo-generator w'hich seemed to promise a practical’central station. The General Electric president suggested that Insull install a 1,000-kilowatt turbine as a starter to try it out. Insull went to Schenectady with engineers. They tested the Curtis models. “What size turbine will you guarantee?” the Chicagoan asked. Coffin suggested 1.000 kilow'atts. Insull peremptorily demanded more. They agreed, sharing the risk, to build and accept the 5,000kilowatt turbine. “After a long discussion ... we decided to construct and equip a turbine station,” Insull recalled. The day they unleashed the new giant in the Fisk Street station dwelt vividly in Insull’s memory. “When they turned on the steam,” he reminisced, “my fiiend Mr. Sargent (chief consulting engineer! told me that he thought I had better go back to the office in Adams street. •“The ‘iHnards’ of the turbine were scraping on the casing and making a terrible noise. I asked

WOMEN'S GOLFING CHAIRMAN NAMED Mrs. William Hutchinson was elected chairman of women's golfing activities of Avalon Country Club, .Tuesday, at the final tournament of the year. Mrs. Vance Oathout is retiring chairman. “Ringer” prizes were won by Mrs. E. William Lee and Mrs. Paul Whittemore. Mrs. R. A. Staudt won an award for reducing Tier handicap the most during the year. AMICAS TO MEET AT EGBERT HOME Mrs. Roy Egbert, 2601 Roosevelt avenue, will be hostess tonight at a meeting of the Arnica Club. Mrs. Bob Shank will lead the Bible study period, and Mesdames Earl Eberhart and Jack Salter will have charge of the social hour. Mrs. John Lee will give a paper and provide a musical program.

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Samuel Insull, rare photograph taken in 1915. Sargent why he had told me I had better go back to the office. He said—‘Well, I don’t know exactly what is going to happen.’ “I said ’Well, then, you had better go out as well.’ “He said, ‘No, it is my duty to be here, and it is not yours.’ “I said, ’ls the thing going to blow up?’ “He replied, ‘No, I don’t think it is, but I don’t know.’ “I then said, ‘Well, Sargent, if it blows up, the company will blow up and I will blow up, too, so I might as well stay here and between us, we will finish the ■ job.’ ” That anecdote is related by Henry Justin Smith in his “Chicago; The History of a Reputation.” tt tt tt IN an interview published in the New York World in 1928. Insull characterized the installation in this fashion: “It was a bamble and w r e risked about $700,000 on it. Many utility men thought the venture very foolish and a waste of money. However, it looked like the logical next step, and we decided to haye one built. “We said to the General Electric Company, ‘Build for us the largest steam turbo-generator that you are willing to stand back of.” “So they built, and we installed the first 5,000-kilowatt steam turbo-generator in the history of the electrical business and it was ar immediate success” A second 5,000-kilowatt unit soon followed, nailing down for the Insull Commonwealth property the ascendancy in Chicago. Today turbo-genera tors developing 100,000 kilwatts, about 134,-000-horse power, are not uncommon. Within a few years, Insull, complacent, indefatigable and devoted to one cause —electricity— would consolidate independent plants in sixteen nearby Illinois counties, 200 cities and towns, 6.000 square miles into the first of his great holding companies, Public Service of Northern Illinois. tt tt . tt MEANWHILE, down in the river counties of Indiana, around New Albany and trenching over into Louisville, Martin Insull —tall, a mixer, thoroughly Americanized —busied himself developing electric light plants and interurban lines. Martin, who took refuge in the oddly-named refuge of Orilla, Ontario, last June, and who also is under indictment and facing extradition for his share in the Insull collapse, accomplished marvels of organization in his field. When Sam had finished welding the Chicago area into one electrical structure of central station and transmission wire, Martin came up to Chicago and they joined forces. In 1912, the Middle West Utilities two-billion dollar keystone of the Insull empire, had its birth. The House of Insull stood firmly rooted in that year. In tomorrow's article, the rise of Middle West Utilities until it served communities in thirty-two states, two Canadian provinces, and the northern states of Mexico will be related.

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TRUCK TRAFFIC I GAIN SEEN AS RECOVERY SIGN August lncreas£ Is Termed ‘Happy Augury’ by Highway Head. Depression dropped to its lowest depth in Indiana during July, took a sharp upward turn for August and is continuing to^limb. This interpretation wAs placed today on numerous charts and graphs of Indiana state highwaytravel prepared by .William F. Milner for the state highway department. Data for the work is assembled through the traffic count being ; taken throughout the state under direction of F. A. Henning of the state highway maintenance division, i The mass of figures, assembled by a staff of forty-five field and office men, is being translated daily into matter understandable to the general public by Milner' Unearth Many Facts Figures on gasoline sales, taken from the reports of the state gas tax collector, the general traffic count, number of passenger cars and trucks are charted for comparison. From this mass of data Milner has unearthed the following facts: Using May for the normal and calling it 100 per cent, general traffic increased 24.5 per cent in June; 17 per cent in July and 42 pter cent in August. Passenger car traffic increases on Hoosier highways was 26 per cent in June; 23 per cent in July, and 50 per cent in August. Truck traffic dropped 2.5 per cent in June; dropped 6 per cent in July but increased 10 per cent in August. Forms Basis of Hope This increase in truck traffic, after the previous slump, forms the basis of hope of recovery, Mitner said. That July was the low tide also is borne out by the gas tax figures, which were $44,600,000 for June, $37,100,000 for July and $41,800,000 for August. “Truck traffic means business. The normal year it increases from May to June, June to July and reaches the peak the latter part of August,” Milner said. ‘‘The marked drop in July traffic made things seem rather hopeless. But the rapid reoovery in August and the figures now being obtained for September might, at least, be termed a happy augury.” Crossing Crash Is Fatal By United Piets CLAYTON, Ind., Oct. 12.—A crossing crash on state road 30, near here, caused the death of Frank Bates, a farmer, whose automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train.

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HORN-RIMMED GLASSES HOOVER'S DEEP SECRET He Wear. Them in Pmaey of Study, But sevee In Public. By United Pres* WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 Although none of his published photographs show it, President Herbert Hoover wears horn-rimmed glasses in the privacy of his study and when he us reading in bed. He doesn't wear them at the exec-

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