Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1934 — Page 8

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IMMUNIZATION GIVEN 25.000 INI4COUNTIES Drive Against Diphtheria and Smallpox Shows Rapid Gains. A total of 25.550 children in fourteen Indiana counties have been immunized against diphtheria and smallpox in the state campaign to uipe out the diseases, it was revealed today. The campaign is being conducted by public health nurses and other workers in the employ of the state civil works service administration. The report on immunization was compiled by Miss Florence Kirlin. state director of CWA women’s Work. The immunization campaign is being conducted under auspices of the Indiana State Medical Association, and directed by health officers and county medical societies. Complete reports have been received on only fourteen counties. The summarized report shows that in those counties, which include Marion, 61,279 calls have been made at homes in the immunization program. In addition to the 26,500 immunized so far the parents have promised to have children immunized in 34,158 cases; there are 11,305 doubtful cases, mostly instances where the mother wished to consult the father before deciding, and 7.822 definite refusals. These latter are classed as due either to active opposition or merely to lack of interest. PETROLEUM DEALERS TO DISCUSS OIL CODE State Group Will Meet In City Feb. 27 and 28. The NR A oil code for the industry will be discussed at the spring convention of the Indiana Petroleum Association at the Severin Feb 27 and 28. Baird H. Markham of the American Petroleum Industries committee of New York; R. Earl Peters, candidate for the United States senate, and F. V. Martinek of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana will speak. SPEED DRIVER_TO TALK Kiwanis Club Luncheon Will Hear Cannonball Baker. Speaker at the Rlwanls Club luncheon at the Columbia Club tomorrow will be Erwin G. (Cannonball) Baker, famed speed driver, who will discuss some of his experiences.

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Old Controversy Revived by New Dickens’ Work • ___________ Illustrators Claimed Credit for Creation of Characters of Both Pickwick and Fagin.

WITH the prospect that a Dickens revival will sweep the two Americas and England, following publication of the Charles Dickens Life of Christ,” just released, interest is renewed in an old controversy over two questions; Who deserves credit for the creation of the character, Pickwick? Who deserves credit for the creation of Fagin, the tutor of thieves, in Oliver Twist? Robert Seymour, a caricature artist in London, illustrated the original Pickwick papers, which were published in serial form in a monthly magazine. He killed himself, for reasons unexplained, before publication was completed. His widow and son afterward presented a bill for compensation, charging that it was Seymour, not Dickens, who conceived Mr. Pickwick.

The reply by Dickens is printed in ' Charles Dickens, His Life and Works,” by Stephen Leacock, recently Issued from the press by Doubleday, Brown & Cos. “Mr. Seymour, the artist, never originated, suggested, or in any way had to do with, save as an illustrator of what I devised, an incident, a character 'except the sporting taste of Mr. Winkle), a name, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the Pickwick Papers. I never saw Mr. Seymour’s handw'riting in my life. I never saw Mr. Seymour but once in my life.” Commenting on this statement, Stephen Leacock writes: ‘This, from a man crowned with thirty years of unparalleled success, with honor, fortune and acclaim, sounds—sound just what it is; petty, ungenerous and unnecessary. The whole episode is of interest now only as it illustrates the smaller sides of a great man. The extension of human genius in one direction involves perhaps its contraction in another . . . The whole contention was ludicrous. Dickens owed nothing to Seymour except the accident of a start—from somewhere to anywhere . . . Seymour plan really had nothing to do with Dickens’ books.” a a a IT was George Cruikshank, a talented illustrator who executed the drawings for Oliver Twist, who insisted that he originated the character Fagin. Dickens was dead at the time that Cruikshank made this claim, in a pamphlet. Leacock writes: “Even the lion in the fable had its assistant mouse. A man does not ‘originate’ Oliver Twist by suggesting that a thieves’ den would be an interesting spot for a story. General Sherman did not ’originate’ Dante’s Inferno by saying that ‘war is hell.' . . . The story is not who can suggest a story but who can write it.” Only two claimants for another man's fame. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was called

upon to defend hundreds of suits brought by those who said that they thought of the telephone first. Darius Green thought of the flying machine, but the Wright brothers invented it. Seymour and Cruikshank may have thought of Dickens’ characters, but it was Dickens who made them live in the pages of books. Dickens’ Life of Christ will start in The Indianapolis Times on March 5. RESUME HUNT FOR BODY Negro Boy, 8, Fell Through Creek Ice Sunday. Search for the body of Cecil Carter, 8. Negro, who was drowned Sunday when he broke through ice in Fall Creek near Twenty-fourth street, was resumed today, after being halted last night because of darkness and ice forming on the water. WOMAN BITTEN BY DOG Victim's Ankle Injured by Canine; Police Notified. Miss Nellie Stannell, 1428 West Twenty-fifth street, was bitten on the ankle by a dog owned by Mrs. Edward Wise. 1505 Burdsal parkway, police were notified last night.

Indianapolis Tomorrow

Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Lions Club, luncheon, Washington. Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon. Severin. Twelfth District Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade. Mutual Insurance Association, luncheon, Columbia Club. Francis Vigo Memorial Association, dinner, Indianapolis Athletic Club. Coat Accountants, luncheon, Washington.

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CASH WAGES TO SUPPLANT POOR RELIEFjASKETS State Unemployment Chief Forecasts New Public Works Program. The poor relief basket days for the impoverished have ended. This was forecast last night when William H. Book, director of the unemployment relief commission of Indiana, spoke before the Indianapolis Council of Social Service Agencies. Mr. Book said that cash wages would supplant the relief basket

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when the CWA was demobilized as a federal agency. He explained that it was probable that wages would be paid for work on public projects. He emphasized that he had not been informed of this plan of handling relief but “that it is my guess that something of this nature will come sooner or later.” Mr. Book was praised for his work as administrator of CWA by David Liggett, executive secretary of the Community Fund. Other speakers were Miss Nadia Deem, Mr. Book's assistant, Miss Florence Kirltlin, director of women’s work for CWA and Virgil Sheppard, an assistant to Mr. Book. GROTTO TO HOLD PARTY Washington Celebration Will Be Tomorrow at Lincoln. Sahara Grotto will hold its George Washington party tomorrow night at 8:30 in the Travertine room of the Lincoln. Yesterday's announcement that the event would be held Friday was erroneous.

$250,000 GIVEN STATE CWA FOR NEW MATERIALS Funds to Be Used on Projects Already Under Way, Book Says. Allotment of $250,000 for construction materials on civil works j administration projects has been allower for Indiana from the total of $30,605,000 now being distributed, it was announced today. William H. Book, state CWA director, said the funds will be used on projects already under way. Howard O. Hunter, CWA field

director, has gone to Washington for a conference with Harry L. Hopkins, national director. He will return Friday for a mid-western states directors’ conference in Mr. Book's office, it was announced. State directors from Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia. Michigan. Wisconsin, Illinois and Kentucky will attend. WAYNE TOWNSHIP SUED 29 Residents Seek 550.000 for Services Rendered Needy. Oscar Hang and twenty-eight other residents of Wayne township have filed suit in superior courtroom 2 against Wayne township seeking to collect $50,000 damages which it is alleged were incurred in services given needy families last December. The complaint alleges that township officials declared that no funds were available to pay for the services when bills were presented. The plaintiffs allege they hold vouchers from the township.

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DELTA UPSILON INSTALLSJSLATE Officers Elected Saturday Are Seated by City Fraternity. Installation of officers of the Indianapolis Delta Upsilon Club took ; place yesterday at. the luncheon of the club in the Board of Trade. The new officers ere Charles Shafer, president; Dr. Russell J. Spivey, vice-president; Walter Wichperman, secretary-treasurer. The two directors elected are Edward R. Grissell and Harry D. Hooley. The officers were elected Saturday night at the fraternity banquet at the Athenaeum.