Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1936 — Page 17

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By ERNIE PYLE

| GALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1-1t seems to be a fad among people who travel, to come, home and rave about what a beautiful place Salt Lake City is. Now I know the reason. They've got the city mixed up with the

| girls. Salt Lake City isn’t by a long shot the

most beautiful place in the world, but it certainly has more beautiful girls per square foot than any city I've ever seen. 1 don't know whether it's the climate,

or religion, or just an unfair distribution of fair feminine features, but it sure is something. Salt Lake has got ’'em, About Salt Lake City itself. 1 guess I had heard too many praises ahead of time.. It isn't as beautiful as I expected. The setting is lovely. The cily stands 4300 feet above the sea. Mountain ridges make a “U” around it on three sides. The mountains are bare and.not awfully high. The ridge over to the west doesn’t look very far, but it must be about 20. miles. The valley There is room in this valley for Salt Lake to expand indefinitely. I had always supposed the city was on the shore of Salt Lake. But no. The lake is more than 20 miles to the west, in a break in the mountains. One thing I have against Salt Lake is the way vou come into it. I like a city, especially a desert

, city, that you can drive right up to and smack, you're

in it. But not Salt Lake. Arriving from the south,

¢ you're getting into it for 350 miles.

The valley extends far to the south, and it's all

_ irrigated, and has mines along the edges. The result

is a very prosperous valley, with a town practically

~ every 100 yards.

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Churches Like Others

HAD expected Salt Lake City to be a place of great domes and mosques and tolling bells and

* things mysteriously Mormon, and very, very white in

the sun.

{ Fourth of July. kinds,

It isn't that at all. The only dome is the state capitol. The Mormon churches mostly are like any other churches. Main-st has so many neon signs it looks like the There are dinky little shops of all

and, open-front vegetable markets, in the

- southern California manner.’

Traffic in Salt Lake City is a joy. The streets are

¢ 132 feet wide (laid out that way by Brigham Young

. nearly 90 years ago),

. from canyons back in the mountains,

and there's plenty of room. Despite the fact that the valley is pure desert, the city is full of trees. The Mormons get their water and, by irrigation and much sprinkling. they've made the city one

of trees and bright flowers.

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. Temple Square

HE great Temple Square of the Mormons is the thing around which Salt Lake gravitates. It is two blocks square, right downtown, and is. enclosed

1 by a high, thick adobe wall.

~ doesn't look like a temple.

Inside the wall is the huge Mormon Temple. It It looks like a cathedral. It cost $4,000,000, and took 40 years to build. It was

' finished in 1893.

° Mormon tabernacle. s curved roof, and will hold 10,000 people: - famous for its perfect acoustics.

Just a few paces from the temple is the famous It is oval-shaped, one story, high It is world The Mormon guides take visitors in there, and sit them at the back of

_ the building, and an attendant on the altar (half a

block away) drops a pin, and rubs his hands together.

thau and we went to Mr. Jesse Straus’ funeral.

and whispers “Can you hear me?” and you can hear it ail very plainly.

‘Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELY

EW YORK, N. Y., Tuesday.—This has been a full day! At 9:15 a. m. I picked up Mrs. MorgenFu-

+ nerals are sad for those who are left behind to live op

! without some one they

love.

One can not help being glad that Tennyson's “Crossing the Bar” was read at the services, because

s+ Mr. Straus’ life was so useful, so full of interest and

* achievement.

Emphasis was laid on the words: “And

« may there be no sadness of farewell when I em-

8 bark.” . said:

A fitting salute to one of whom it may be “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” . Later I paid a call on the National Progressive

* League for Roosevelt at their headquarters in the

: Hotel Roosevelt.

I lunched with the League of Pro-

. gressive Republican Women who have come together

to keep the present Administration in office because they feel it has done a service to the nation. From there I went down to the armory on 34th- st,

: where Col, Somervell met me to show me the WPA ~ exhibition. What interesting work ‘is being done for “health, for recreation and many other things in the

' public schools of this great city!

As I walked around

. I kept thinking of Mayor La Guardia’'s remarks when

: he opened the exhibition last night.

He said that

i every good thing seen here represented one more + individual who had retained his independence and

§ supported himself and his family.

That was the ¢ first consideration. Then we come to what has been 5 accomplished by this work and here we find benefits

{ spreading out to hundreds of thousands of people.

Think of the children kept from possible wrong-

i doing by the programs in the play-streets and camps.

Of men, women and children helped by the tuberculosis project, which is perhaps bringing to light many cases of this disease which otherwise might have gone undetected and infected whole families. Of the clinics for social diseases which are beginning A much needed work. I went on to the WPA art exhibit at 11 W. 53d-st and was very much impressed by the work. Especially interesting is that exhibited by a group of children, some of which is to remain in the museum. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

I is not scenery and people as they appear to the casual traveller that concern Geoffrey Gorer in his new book. BALI AND ANGHOR (Little, Brown: $3). Rather is he interested in the physical features of a land as it has affected the natives in their religion, morality, costume, music, dancing, and architecture. In his account of a journey to the Malay Islands and French Indo-China, the author presents a stimulating and provocative discussion of Bali and Anghor with briefer treatment of Sumatra, Java and Siam. Because so much has been written about Bali, this traveller went there half-unwillingly but left

* wholly convinced that he had seen the nearest ap-

tion to general

proach ta Utopia. Although Anghor impressed him as a dead ruin of a vanished past, he found much to admire in Anghor Wat, “one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world.” Supplemented with hints for tourists and detailed photographs, this is a scholarly study of a people's art and religion, in addiobservations on their life. ‘ = = = i . HE inside story of European diplomacy for the past quarter sear is related in EUROPE AND EUROPEANS by one of the chief Piayers.-Ooun Carlo Sforza (Bobbs-Merrill; $2.75). account at characterized by his awareness of continental trends and by illuminating details of personalities and private conversations that do not find their way into official diplomatic annals.

econd Section

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapelis, Ind.

THE MODEL GIRLS ‘OF AMERICA Shortage of New Faces Insures Chance for All Qualified Posers.

(Last of Two Articles)

BY JOHN ROBERT POWEES (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc)

EW YORK, Oct. 7.— Modeling is a sure-fire opportunity for making a good income for any girl who can qualify. It is indead a model business, for it is one of the few in which there aren’t enough suitable workers to supply the demand, And that is true despite {he presence of scouts all over the country who are willing to interview any one who thinks she has the necessary qualifications. The field is wide open. y beginner who gets a fair st x has a more than even chance of a lucrative profession while becoming a headliner. While it lasts. But, lest I paint too rosy a picture, let me point out the catch in this seemingly perfect set-iip: A model's career is comparatively short-lived. The more successful she is, the shorter her career. A model doesn’t find herself out of the running because a gray hair appears or because she gets a wrinkle across her: forehead. Usually she is gone and her face forgotten years before she le-

gins to show a sign of age. A girl's picture can appear in

lic will tire of it, stop calling her.

Come-backs are unHeard of.

n o ” OWEVER, this situation doesn’t discourage the currently suceessful models. They realize that their profession is the gateway to a film career. But most of the girls: marry young and stop worrying about a career anyway. At the moment, we have gxactly 100 models on our list. If we could find the right sort of _hew faces (about 100 applicants ‘are turned away. every day) we would increase it—gladly. We need more natural redheads. You have little idea how difficult

Tho has the other qualifications, 00

usual fee a photographer or artist pays a model. Prices per hour range from $5 to $50, depending on her popularity. Ten per eent goes to her “agent. A large and varied personal

advertisements and on maga- | zine covers for just so long, then: | photographers, for fear the pub- |

it is to find a NATURAL redhead

Twenty-five dollars a day is the

Janice Jarratt . . . she can

hold that smile indefinitely.

wardrobe is a necessity. Only when 2 model is posing for fashion illustrations .are the clothes provided. - Otherwise, she must bring her own. These have to suit her own personality as well as the sit‘uation to be portrayed. You can se¢ how important it is for her to have a natural clothes-sense as well as regular features, good pos-

i ture and so on.

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AA CMRLY large percentage of a. model's salary must go to the beauty shops. Her looks being her livelihood, she can not go around with hair that should have been washed the day before or with nails that aren’t manicured within an inch of their lives. Just any little hairdresser won't do over a period of months either. A model's head requires ultra-expert attention by a coiffure man who ~can ‘arrange her curls ‘and swirls: into new shapes and styles. The actual ‘work isn’t as simple

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

ASHINGTON, Oct. 7T—Science ‘has discovered = America’s brainiest man. He lived and died hundreds of years ago, and his immense skull has now come to light through archaeological digging in Alaska. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution reports the discovery as a notable one from his expedition to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, this summer. America’s greatest big-head, thus revealed as a man of the Aleutian Islands, had a skull shaped to hold a brain of fully 2005 cubic centimeters. The average human has no more than 1450 cubic centimeters of brain if he is a man. A woman averages less, about 1250 to 1300. Dr. Hrdlicka compares this bhigbrained American to other notable brains on record, Daniel Webster is credited with having the largest head of any American within historic times. But his massive brain was smaller than the Aleut’s, being about 2000 cubic centimeters. Bismarck's brain is estimated to have been about 1965; Beethoven's, 1750. The Russian poet Turgeniev, with a huge brain of 2030 cubic centi-

meters, still holds the entire world record in this respect, though the American discovery comes close. 2 . = r i= new-found American siull, only a trifle smaller ‘han Turgeniev's, is pronounced entirely normal by Dr. Hrdlicka. Examination convinces .the anthropologist that the man who carried the massive head on his shoulders wa: no sufferer from any such head-de-forming malady as water on the brain, or the thickened bones oi gigantism. He was not a person of great size or strength, judging by the moderate size of the bones for muscle attachments. He was, it is believed, a brainy ‘man in intelligence as well as in sheer quantity of brain matter. There is a rough but definite correlation between brain size and intelligence . in normal hurpan beings, Dr. Hrdlicka explains: Brain size, he points out, is the most essential physical difference between man and beast. In the National Museum's rare scientific collection of 16,000 skills, the largest such collection in the world, the smallest normal adult skull of a human being is capable of holding no ‘more than 910 cubic centimeters of brain. This is close to the edge of the gulf separating man from ape, so far as brain size is:

Preventives for Horse

| Plague Announced

Oct. T—T'wo : preventives: "for the hoarse

gentiémen around J oR “hee on the marke for sine

Dr. H. W. Schoening of ‘Bureau of Animal

dusts. Dnited

America’s ‘Brainiest’ Man Is Discovered by Expedition

periment stations of California and Nevada. The other is a vaccine, first worked out by the Bureau of Animal Industry. Both are now pro-

duced by private commercial labora-\

tories. The Bureau of Animal Industry has made some fairly extensive tests of both vaccine and serum, Dr. Schoening said, and has obtained fairly encouraging results. In spite of the similarity of name between the encephalomyelitis of horses and the encephalitis lethargica of human beings, commonly called Buropean sleeping sickness, the diseases are not related. Furthermore, reports that human beings have been infected with the horse disease are looked upon with considerable conservatism by Dr. Schoening and his associates, who feel that much more information will need to be obtained before sweeping assertions on this point can be made. Altho ugh heralded as a “new” disease, equine encephalomyelitis is not really that. Animal pathologists have known about it for many years, and have been conducting very: active researches on its cause and possible cure since it° began ° to spread rapidly, about six years ago.’

High Weather I Bureau Station Set Up

SHEVILLE, N. C., Oct. 7.—Nearer the sky than any other weather observatory in the Eastern United States, a new Weather Bureau station has been set up on the summit of Mount Mitchell, near here. 7¢ is in charge of Ed Wilson, forest warden, and Warren Jones.

The two men will spend their entire time on this peak, loftiest mountain

east of the Rockies. Every six hours they will send reports by telephone and telegraph to the Weather Bureau Observatory at Atlanta. These “sky-high” meteorological observations are expected to be of particular value in connection with commercial aviation in ‘the East and Southeast.

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as it sounds or as a finished picture looks. One has to be able to strike the proper pose and to hold it for hours if necessary. You may be sure that the girl who has to stand half-way up a ladder for three hours honestly earns her $15. If you doubt that modeling can be tedious, try posing on the edge of a diving board for half a day. Or wearing a heavy fur coat for an hour on a sultry August afternoon. Or a chiffon dress on a penhouse roof in midwinter. The idea that all professional models wear sables and live in

the once-popular myth that all chorus girls" drove 16-cylinder roadsters. The majority of our girls live with their mothers, work long hours and have practically no social lives. You can’t get up, clear eyed and fresh-looking, ready to take a

"pose and hold ‘it for hours and

hours, if you have been nightclubbing the night before. Unless you are willing to work, take criticism and make the sac-

Park-av penthouses is as silly as

rifices necessary to preserving your assets of face and figure,

‘there’s no use in thinking about

. Betty McLaughlin . . . wearing clothes smartly pays her well.»

modeling. If you are—remember we're’ always” looking for new

faces.

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN

SEES ‘IT

BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON, Oct. T7.—Yesterday was exactly four weeks before the election. It sounds trite to say, but it is probably true, that not in any election within recent memory have so few observers, or so few politicians, been confident about the outcome. There are Democrats who believe their party will win largely, there are Democrats who believe their party will win by a narrow margin. There are Democrats who believe their party will lose. And there are Republicans having the corresponding shades of belief. The most formidable straw vote on a national scale, that of the Literary Digest, points strongly toward Republican victory, and every one bears in mind that in previous elections the Digest parometer has turned out to have been uncannily accurate. At the same time some straw votes covering single states or smaller areas, as thorough within their fields as the Literary Digest is on a national scale, point toward Democratic victory. One aspect of -the Literary Digest poll is alone sufficient to account for current mystification and to’ justify this is an extraordinary campaign.. The Di-

"gest inquires -of those to whom it

sends straw ballots how they voted in 1932. The result of this part of the Digest compilation is itself unique. = It turns out that apparently about 28 per cent of those who in 1932 voted Democratic will this year vote Republican. And it turns out that about 12 per cent of those who in 1932 voted Republican will this year vote Democratic.

2 8 » BZ let us omit any inference bearing on the outcome in November.. Let us consider the Simple phenomenon that apparently 28

of the other are this year shifting their allegiance. That is an extraordinary condition. It alone is enough to make this election

per cent of one party and 12 per cent

unique. There have been occasions

when large numbers of one party shifted. In 1932, for example, a large percentage of the Republican Party shifted, away from Mr. Hoover. In 1928; a large percentage of the Democratic Party shifted, away from Al Smith. But never before, I think, has it happened that large percentages of both parties shifted their allegiance. This one condition is sufficient to make the outcome of November’s election confusing to predicters and estimaters. The prevailing mystification about the outcome can be accounted for in part by some other developments whi are new in this campaign. It is frequently stated that for the first time in America, or at least to a greater degree than ever before, the division of voters in this election is horizontal. That is, that persons in the middle and: upper economic levels are prevailingly for the Republican candidate, while persons in the lower economic levels, especially : those on relief rolls, are prevailingly for Mr. Roosevelt. Ts In this assumption there is probably some substance. But it is subject to some ‘decidedly important qualifications. Many of the persons on relief, or otherwise in the lower economic levels, are inhabitants of the densely populated ‘parts of large cities. As such, they have in the past habitually been led in their voting by the city pelitical machines. Some of the machines, as in New York, are Democratic. It follows that in New York most of these who this year will vote Democratic because they

.| are on relief would in any election

vote, Democratic as followers of

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N some other large cities the most powerful machine is Republican. And in such cases ‘it may be that the Republican machine will be superior to the Democratic relief organization in ability to command

"A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE newspaper reporter has fallen into disPerhaps it's the ‘movie influ-.

repute of late.

his chief value,

ence. Whatever the cause, in many circles nowadays, he is spoken of as an inquisitive snooper, a

-hosy busybody. and a public pest.

. No doubt he does get into’ the hair of the prominent, ‘and he may annoy that larger group ‘of citizens who- maintain a box-seat under the : Spotlight in’ the theater of the world. But we eo Suit Says asainat him wher we consid

er what a of the humble,

‘he makes to the happiness

Not A Sosa hob satiatiig-uashalie ot promoting be-kind-to-the-poor weeks. His worth consists in the impartiality with which he donates space on his front pages. This is what really en-

‘titles ‘him to some kind of the

al Jobe ate Univeral discusstd: without inguisitiveness. of " .

But even these benevolences do not constitute

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the votes of persons on relief. In some cities, such as Pittsburgh, where once a Republican machine was dominant, a new. Democratic

machine now has the greater power. In cities where a Democratic machine is dominant and where also

the Democratic leaders have control of relief funds, the persons on relief will almost certainly vote prevailingly for Mr. Roosevelt. In the country as a whole it is doubtful whether the relief funds are an unqualified asset for Mr. Roosevelt. Many on relief are, for one reason or another, sullen against the party that is administering the relief. Either they feel that the relief is niggardly, or they hear that some are getting greater relief than others, or they lack heart for this kind of work. Or they resent the very existence of a relief tem, feeling that they would prefer normal jebs in private employment. Some on relief are sullen against the pressure which Democratic officials put upon them to support Mr. Roosevelt and in the secrecy of the election booths will vote their resentment. ; » yn IX one respect there is abundant testimony that the relief projects are a detriment to the Democrats. However the persons on relief may feel, the onlookers have a point of view .of their own.

They observe the waste and inefficiency which is probably inseparable from relief projects even’ if they were conducted in the best possible way. Wherever relief projects: exist, the neighbors and onlookers, the farmers and those engaged in private employment, tend to take a strongly critical attitude toward the relief fork and toward the party responsible for it. It is expected that during the remaining weeks of the campaign there will be exposures of Democratic management of relief work in at least one large state.

Best Sellers Ly Beripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance ‘The best-sellers for the week ending last Saturday in 23 cities as revealed by the Scripps-Howard book-

{of-the-week poll are: Fiction, : ” “White ‘Ban- 3

“Gone With the Along the Moha ners,” “I Am t 4 Gaza”; nonknown,” “Live Alone and Like n” “An American Doctor's “Jefferson in Power,” “Around the World in Eleven Years." FE a

Odyssey.” |

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Our Town

the course of my tireless search for roe mances around this town I ran across Mrs. Henry Runge the other day. Mrs. Runge was 82 years old last week and it was the cause for very much celebration. It was also the occasidn of Mrs. Runge's confession that James Whitcomb Riley had kissed d her any number of times. So many that she lost count, she ° said. Which, of course, calls for an explanation all around. It all goes back to Lockerbie Street and the fact that A Mrs. Runge and the Theodore Weiss’ who it turns out are her daughter and son-in-law, were Mr. Riley's most intimate neighbors. “From the beginning (1892) to the end (1916),” said Mrs. Runge. Mrs. Runge always made it a point to call on Mr. Riley every day and if, for any reason, che was late, he would say: “Dammit, where have you been keeping yourself?” Sometimes, she admits, shé was late just to hear him say it. Every Sunday morning, Mr. Riley would return the call, always bearing a bunch of flowers or a box of candy. He always came in the kitchen way and if they were at dinner and things smelled good, he would say: “Well, if I had some tools, I'd sit down. too.” Mr. Riley had reason enough to know about Mrs. Runge's cooking because for nigh on to a quarter of a century she brought him tid-bits from hep kitchen. He was passionately fond of sauerkraut and spare-ribs and German pot roast and Kartoffelkloesse, Indeed, it was after a sauer-kraut offering that Mrs, Runge got her first kiss. :

» Comes to Lockerbie Street

M&S RUNGE knows the inside story of how Mr, Riley came to live in Lockerbie Street. Seéma that early in the nineties, John Nickum, Major Hole stein and wife, and Mr. Riley were together in Mart« inisville when Mr. Nickum proposed that Riley come and live with them. “It's high time you were having a home,” said Mrs. Holstein, who was Mr. Nickum'’s daughter. Up to that time Mr. Riley had been living at the Denison. Mr. Riley agreed, provided the Nickum-Holsteins would allow him to contribute the amount he paid the Denfson people. They humored him, and that's how Mr. Rileyicame to live in the Nickum home in Lockerbie Street. That's also why Mr. Riley had such fine manners. “It was Mrs. Holstein’s beautiful indifference,” said Mrs. Runge. Riley had, of course, always loved Lockerbie Street because, as early as 1880, he wrote a, poem about if. Seems he took a walk one day. “As 1 walked back to the office,” he said, “I repeated every time my feet: went down—‘Lockerbie Street—Lockerbie Street— Lockerbie Street’—and I couldn't get the words out

Mr. Scherrer

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|- of my head. That night I wrote fhe poem and it

appeared in the morning paper. When I reached my desk that day I found it covered with flowers sent me by the people of Lockerbie Street who had read the verses that morning, > #8 8

Liked Christmas Trees

RS. RUNGE also likes to recall a certain Christe ,mas Eve long ago when Mr. Riley showed up.

“When he saws the. lighted tree he ‘was quite beside

himself. “Like a little boy,” said Mrs. Runge. After that the Runge-Weiss household always trimmed two trees and carried one to Mr. Riley on Christmas Eve. Toward the last they had to climb the stairs and put it beside his bed. ~The two households had a lot in common. Mr. . Riley, for instance, had a female Maltese terrier, “Lockerbie.” -Mrs. Runge had Lockerbie’s brother. Mrs. Runge also kept Mr. Riley's parrot, “Polly” after Mrs. Holstein’s death, for the reason -that Polly wouldn't eat after Mrs. Holstein was gone. The parrot perked up under Mrs. Runge’s care, but died finally at the age of 78. Mrs. Runge buried ‘‘Locker= bie” and “Polly” under Mr, Riley's bedroom windows— one under each window.

Hoosier Yesterdays

OCTOBER 7

S a vagabond drifting from community to come munity, James Whitcomb Riley, beloved Indiana

‘poet, born Oct. 7, 1849, in Greenfield, learned the

language and lore of people revealed in his verses, His mind full of the day-by-day routine of his native town, Riley roamed the country playing a violin for a show and writing signs for storekeepers. As he listened to the gossip of people on street corners and saw the pageant of life in the cities and the rolling prairies there was Stored in his mind a wealth of impressions. His poems retold the charm of youth and the joy that comes to boys in the country as they walk down dusty country roads or smell the brisk fragrance of Indian summer. Riley’s genius is that his writings strike deep to the memories of the people. He talks the universal language of the village storekeeper. Those who knew Riley intimately recall him as. a delightful companion. Although he never grappled with social problems, Rilev had the same feel of the

common man’s language and dreams as Walt White man and Carl Sandburg.—By T. Cc.

Watch Your Health

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