Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1936 — Page 13
agabo FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE poCATELL, Idaho, Oct. 13. — Mizzo0 -
Townsend, even at 70, claims he’s the |
champion poker player of Idaho. For years he had .a sign on the front door of his gambling place which said: 2
“I'll play any man from any land, any |
game he can name, for any amount he can count.”s That's sort of challenging the world, I would call it, t,; but Mizs00 says it was more of a joke than any.
thing else. Traveling salesmen used to come through and take him up, and sometimes they'd win, but usually he would. If somebody had come in with a lot of dough. Mizzoo would have had to swallow his words. For he never had any really big dough. " Mizzoo Townsend has been a gambler in Pocatello for 47 years. They say he’s one of the very few of the Old West gamblers ; still alive. He says he guesses n 50 too. 2 Mr. Pyle He came out about 1885, from Missouri. That's why they call him Mizzoo. His real name is John. He tarried four years on a ranch in Wyoming. The rancher ran a saloon and gambling house for the cowboys and wagon freighters. That's where Mizzoo learned fo gamble. He rambled into Pocatello in 1889. Pocatello has never been a perfect gambling town. It is a railroad town. There was never big boom money here, like in the gold camps.
” » F J Always a Humorist
M200 ran gambling houses, when gambling was legal in the state. And afterward, too. He's ;been arrested and fined several times, but never went to jail, He ran saloons, and even second-hand shops. Being the house owner, he always came out a little “ahead. I guess he made about the same financial progress over the years as a grocery store keeper would, Mizzoo was always a humorist. He used to have a blackboard out in front of his gambling house, Every morning he'd write’ something new on it. People would stand around waiting to see what today’s sign would: be. It would he something like this: “For rent—Four-room house. Plenty of ventilation. Windows all out. No extra charge for the bedbugs. 1 think I can beat any ‘man in the state playing poker.”
Mizzoo accumulated a lot of worh-out real estate. He owns houses that nobody lives in, and they're piled full of dust and old -junk. His own house is a small frame ane, east of the tracks, with no grass around it. His son and daughter-in-law live with him.
“He is running a lottery game now. It doesn’t amount to much, he says, but he's trying to build it he go he can’ leave his son a little business when e es. ‘
: #2 x = Gambling Isw't What It Was
M200 says he never forgets anything. He can read a name or a date in the newspaper, and it’s just like it was carved in his head. He never had much education, but he has read, quite a bit. He doesn't talk much about old-men things. He likes to talk about current events,
He says gambling isn’t what it used to be. People spend their money on other things now, he says. There are some little games in Pocatello now, he says, but nothing important. I asked Mizzoo what was the most interesting thing that ever happened to him. He said it was when he went back through Wyoming a few years ago, past the ranch where he worked in the ‘eighties. It’s just filthy with oll wells now. He said that was the + most interesting thing—seeing all that wealth; and he didn’t have sense enough to know it was there.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
UEBLO, Colo.,, Monday—Last night, officials of the Union Pacific Railroad sent me a birthday cake. It was good -to look at, good to eat and large enough, not only for our own party, but for every one else on the train to share in.
5 It was a gracious, thoughtful thing to do and I deeply appreciated it. Looking out of the train window at breakfast this morning, we could see snow-capped mountains rising in jagged peaks apparently quite near us. I had not been in Greeley, Colo.—our first stop—since 1820 and as we stepped out on the platform I took a deep breath of this pure mountain air, saying to myself: #They are right, this is God's country.” Denver is a very beautiful city with its tree-shaded streets and lovely homes. I think the thing I like best about it is the many, many small homes inthe outlying district. Fw It was a stimulating setting for a speech and I think any man, feeling the weight of responsibility heavy. on his shoulders, would have been encouraged by the audience this morning. The people were so . very attentive and responsive as the President spoke. There was no question that they heard and understood what was said. After the speech we drove out to Fitzsimmons Hospital, where I paid a hurried visit to Miss Anna Herendeen, a New York newspaper woman. She was delighted. to hear something. of her old friends in New. York. She says she is getting well after a successful operation. Her cheerfulness made me think of the boy I noticed in the crowd as we were driving through the streets. He was on crutches, and as he stood in the front row leaning on these crutches, he waved at us with both arms. His face shone with good humor and cheerfulness. It is the climate here that gives people so mich courage, or is it the meeting and overcoming diffi culties gives them backbone enough to smile at their troubles?
Daily New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
18 the New Deal socialism, as the conservatives. : “charge? Is it fascism, as some of the radicals |_ charge? It is- neither, says Norman Thomas in his latest book, AFTER THE NEW DEAL, WHAT? (Macmillan; $2). In his opinion it is a courageous attempt
at ‘reformed capitalism,” a bold experiment at a planned economy under capitalism. Several of our ablest economists have shown statistically that an economy of abundance is possible in America due to our highly efficient industrial machine. Mr. Thomas argues, however, that capitalism is by its nature an economy of scarcity and can give us neither abundance nor security. He asserts that only a change. to a collective Society—which our power-driven-produc-
ascism,” IF any, Tasciem. at cobain can continue » live” He the task of socialism is to
i TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13; 1936
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
‘WHO IS THIS MRS.
Friend, of King T races Lineage to Knight in , Novman Tiroasion
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SIMPSON?
Second of a Series
BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 13. — A pale, boyishlooking English officer, newly arrived in the north of France war zone, sighed a letter to his mother, sealed it and handed it to an,
orderly who saluted smartly, recognizing H. R. M,, the Prince of Wales. Three thousand miles away newspaper headlines screamed, “GERMAN CRUISER FLEET DESTROYED — THREE SHIPS SUNK — ADMIRAL AND 2000 MEN LOST”... President. Wilson . consulted with Ambassador Herome from France .. . Assistant Secretary F. D. Roosevelt appeared before a congressional committee to testify on the strength of the navy . . . Women suffragists paraded in Chicago . . The Supreme Court. was considering the case of Harry Thaw . . , Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle were dancing at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York ... ..Thirty-
- five carloads of food were stowed
on ships to be transported from - the United States to homeless Belgians. . . . And in Baltimore, Md., a ‘slender, @ark-haired, i8- year-old girl smiled and bowed prettily, attend“ing her first real party. It was war-riddled December, 1914, when Wallis Warfield—today Mrs. Ernest Simpson .of London — made her debut at the Bachelor's Cotillion, famous in Baltimore traditions. Today Mrs. Simpson's shopping trips, the parties she gives and those to which she gbes are of world-wide interest. Mrs. Simpson’s name, appearing in the British Court Circular, exclusive journal ‘of the most exclusive society in the world, starts ripples of excitement reaching from London to Shanghai and Sidney, - » “os » - » OW different from that night, Dec. 7, 1914! « Baltimore's Lyric = Theater, banked with palms and - potted plants, had become, according to a newspaper report, “a bower of beauty, where light and color mingled to form almost a tropical atmosphere of warmth and fullness of life.” Forty-nine. debutantes were there to make their bows. Forty-nine young girls, .each’ wearing a new dress and carrying flowers, tried to look serene and calm, aware the event was the most important, to date, of their brief lives. . The band struck up a popular new number, “I Want to Be Back in Michigan.” Miss Wallis Warfield, resplendant in white satin, - chiffon and pearl embroidery, was whirled into the dance on the arm of Her uncle, Maj. Gen. George Barnett of the United States Marine Corps. It must have been a night to stir girlish hearts—particularly the heart of Wallis Warfield. She hadn’t had the long list of entertainments in her honor that most of the others debutante had had. She had gone to some of the affairs—not nearly as many as some of the others. When Wallis Warfield, along with: 33 other debutantes, signed : an agreement to “refrain from extravagance in entertaining,” due to the war conditions abroad,
there had been Vhoss to sniff |
In 1914 there was no inkling that the paths of King Edward . VIII and Mrs. Ernest Simpson, pictured together - (right) during a Mediterranean cruise, would * cross. King Edward ‘was in uniform (flower) = with the British army in Flanders; she was debutante Wallis » Warfield (right). Note the hair net. :
knowingly and hint that Wallis had more than .one reason forsigning such a pledge. After all her mother had kept that boarding house on Biddle-st!
M= WARFIELD, Bf time ‘Mrs. John ,Freean Rasin,, Jr., was no longer. taking “paying guests” in her home. She
_had, in 1908, married John Free-
man Rasin, Jr., who .died. two years later. Widowed a second time, "Mrs. Rasin continued her efforts to give her daughter the advantages which surely were due a girl who could. trace her ancestry back to Noble Knight Pagan de. Warfield, numbered “in the forces of Wil-
liam the Conqueror - when . he
crossed the Channel in 1066—to say nothing of being a cousin of the late Edward Warfield, governor of Maryland, and; on -her mother’s side of the family, related to Gov. Montague of Virginia. ‘It was Wallis’ wealthy uncle, the late S. Davies Warfield, press.
dent of the Seaboard Aizlipe, Rail road, who made it possible fr ) to attend Arundel. Si 5 hia longer in existence;
aristocratic Wallis went there
school, overlooked Vernon Place.
four years and, while she wasn’t:
particularly -interested in sports, did play on the basketball team.
One of her classmates was Mary
Kirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Henry C. Kirk Jr. Mary Kirk
made her bow in Society the same
night as Wallis Warfield. Later she was to be one of the brides-. maids at Wallis’ wedding. Today, as Mrs. Jacques Raffray of New York, she denies emphatically that, in the event of a divorce between Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, she (Mrs. Raffray) will march to the altar with Ernest Simpson.
2 8 8 ~HERE is not a word of truth. in it,” says Mrs. Raffray who returned only a few Says ago
effect the |
Visual Purple. Chemical of : Sight, Rebuilt in Experiment
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
EW YORK, Oct. 13.—Visual purple, a chemical Compound in the eye, necessary for seeing, has been made to rebuild itself in: a test tube under controlled experimental conditions in the laboratory of Prof. Selig Hecht of Columbia University. .This is the first time that the process has taken‘place under fully controlled conditions, which make its repetition possible. It is the first time since 1878 that visual purple has been regenerated at all, although many physiologists have
tried without success to repeat the
experiment of Dr. W. Kuhne of Heidelberg University, who in that year reported having accomplished this very exciting biochemical feat. Prof. Hecht's associates in his present research are Drs. Aurin M. Chase, Simon Shlaer and Charles Haig. A report giving the principal technical ' details of their: work is published in Science. » ” »
- ple pigment or dyestuff of in-
ISUAL purple is a pinkish-pur- |.
eves ‘by . appropriate chemical - ex-
traction processes. More exact physical and chemical measurements - than hitherto “have been possible in such: studies have enabled these investigators to find the comparatively narrow range of conditions under which results can be obtained. The method of extraction had to be carefully controlled
| and’ the solution had to be kept near
the neutral point chemically. Relatively slight deviations toward either the acid or the alkaline side prevented the regeneration of color in’ the bleached extrac. ® 2
Young Trout Clean »
Their Own Pond = ASHINGTON; : Oct. . 13.—An ingenious way. of Waking young trout clean house, that is to say sweep out the debris in their pond, has been: devised in a new type of trout rearing pond. .
this .
Mount“ |
+675.
from London where she ‘visited Mrs. Sim ? ot her Bryanston Square ap Point a - be ‘added’ to the rumor of & possible romance by ‘the fact that Mrs. Raffray is sep “arated from her husband, living at “780 Madison-av, while he ‘occupies ‘an apartment down the street at
* But there will be no: divarce, :
“says Mrs. Raffray, denying that
-1914, a page of
oi Ernest Simpson ion his way to
the United: States. -or has any intention of returning. : Back in the Baltimore days of allis Warfield’s diary (if there:had been a diary) would ‘have read “something like this: : MARI Monday—Lunhchetn at
‘ford for Augusta oan at fhe given _ by her mother, Mrs. W. Ry . Eareck-
Son. ‘Wednesday: Afternoon - on Oyster :
roast at 1 p,m. at, Albert, Graham
Ober’s country place in the Green. Spring Valley for his niece. . c Wednesday Night—Mr. and Mrs.
Prederick B. Beacham’s party for |
Priscilla at Le Hall.’
by: the Sootmiry Crab i Mary -
“her mother.
Sabirday— p to Ni
{ to spend the land fi th’ Mrs. vals > Floyd Hughes; a due X
2 wee : ALLIS WARFIELD Was at |: the Lyric: Theater thé night a ‘fashionaple’ ‘audience, gathered .to see Anna Paviowsa dance, burst into “ahs” and he as: Harry Lehr, believed to :be in Paris,
“strolled down ‘the: “aisle, creating
more of a sensation: than the Russian ballerina on the stage. ‘After the holidays, the social ‘rush “died away. Wallis Warfield and six other girls‘planned a par.ty to break the dullness, Fhe in‘vitations issuedfofm the only unconventional note in the hitherto strictly conventional pattern of the debutante years,
if. B. Clark, 1118 NOME Chailes St.” - ‘There were other. cotillions, .|-
The invitations read: ‘“A hen committee requests the pleasure ‘of * your:-company at a hen dance to be given on the evening of Januar, #8 at 9'o'clock at the residence f an and Mrs. W.
other ‘parties. Durihg ‘the two years. following her debut, Wallis Warfield spent almost as much *
time in Washington and Phila~delphia as she did in Baltimore. ‘She ‘went to Annapolis to football" games and dances. Each year she attended the annual ball given by Maj. Gen. Barhett and Mrs. par meth at - - their. country estate ys Wakefield Manor, near Washington. Mrs. Barnett was Wallis’ mother's cousin. Sometimes Wal-¢ »:lis went to parties given -by ans ‘ other cousin of her mother, Mrs. “Alexander’ Brown: of Baltimore, .- ‘whose (daughter married T. Suf“fern: “Tailer. “Other girls who “came out” in 1914 announced engagements, sent out invitations for their weddings. Wallis remained “Miss Warfield.” And then, early in 1916, she went to Florida to visit’ Mrs. Henry Musteyn, whose husband was: in the naval service at Pensacola. There Wallis Warfield ‘met Lieut. - Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. of Chicago, handsome, indeed, in .the uniform of a naval aviator. - Wholeheartedly, ecstatically, Wallis fell in love! s
Next—Marriage an and divorce,
POLITICS AS CLAPPER SEES IT
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER "ASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—When Gov. Landon telegraphed the
Cleveland ' convention, thanking it for nominating him, he: asked. that
the’ Republican campaign go for-
ward in the spirit of Lincoln, “who always addressed the intelligence of men, never their prejudice, their passion or their ignorance.” That was the original - Landon. That was the Eandon. who approved of many emergency measures of the ‘Administration, and whose 'challenge ‘was not: to what Roosevelt was Aim Ue Mt Mga
‘| tency. He proposed to ake he
New Deal workable,
His speeches > now -are.. studded with appeals to prejudice, passion and ignorance. ‘His: cheese speech at Minneapolis massed all threé appeals into one dose. - He blamed the ‘Canadian ‘reciprocal’ treaty for. cutting the price of cheese, but neglected to mention that at’ the moment he spoke ‘the ‘price of cheese was higher than before the ‘treaty went into effect. He complained that the Brazillan: treaty put Babassu nuts on: the: free list. Ac- _ . the free
Landon’s nomination ‘poirited to al: =
New Deal within the Republican | Wi Party. The old guard was eut. New |
leadership would liberalize the Grand Old Party, scrap the dead past and look to the: future. There
was to be no issue between the two:
parties as to the necessity of government assuming new responsibil- | and ities imposed by new times. The lesson of 1920 had been learned: The depression had taught. us all.
owsver, oiloics Ei accumu-
going Around—so let that pass. Let pass also the dness of his .attack on the cal ; trade pro-
gram despite its So emen by|
or number of les Republican,
rar a | conserging what he now. fegards as “the real Be Campa. } pLLaIdon wae io ead. dhe vay Mele : 'pealing n prejudices, : ; dutelligerice) OF oe Yaters; 40 ie |
“issue “of
“We even cigior 13 di be.
tween: the American. system of gov- | charge samen aud oie thas is alien tof} [Svergthing this.country ever: before |
made the Republican Party the only possible - rallying point for those fighting the threats to our American system of government and of life—the New Deal has left us a few shreds of democracy. The people .of ‘this country still have the right to express themselves at the polls. They know that despite all the sapping away of their individual liberties that the New Deal has done, ‘the ‘secret ‘ballot still remains.” . Are those words addressed to the intelligence of men? Or to their prejudice, ‘their passion and their ignorance? Gov. Landon knows better than that. ‘ What has happened ' that the Hate Roosevelt-chorus has moved in on the Republican campaign and is now giving us a parad
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Our Town
By ANTON SCHERRER
‘of women, and especially Indianapolis women, I can’t help being alarmed about their latest whim. As you probably know, or should Know
taken to wearing “leg o' mutton” sleeyes. But that isn't all. Simultaneously with the ape pearance of “leg o' mutton” sleeves, the Directoire
‘gown ‘is with us again. Taken alone, each manifesta-
‘| “tion is bad enough in itself. , Con-
-sidered . together, and ‘coming on
+ | top .of an impending election, to
say nothing of our seasonal
: .megrims, the ‘two will be enough
to finish off the strongest of us. ~ I know whereof I speak because I have a very. vivid recollection of the time the Directoire gown made its first a ce, 30 years ago. Most of us old timers thought
it was its last appearance but, ap- ~~ Mr. Scherrer
"| parently, we were mistaken.
Come to think of it, it wasn't quite 30 veéars ago
+ |’ that the Directoire gown made its first appearance in
Indianapolis.. It /was only 28 years ago, because I dis tinctly remember that it was the same year that
“| Frederick Charles Merkle made his bone-head play ‘at second base. That was in 1908. Will I ever fore
get it? Well, as I was saving the Directoire gown made its first appearance in Indianapolis in 1908 and be- _ fore anybody was hep to what was going on, it was called a “sheath gown.” I remember it because I recall that was the charge placed by the police against the woman who wore the first one on the streets of Indianapolis. Twenty-eight years ago, the police were interested in other things besides watching autos mobiles, . » ” » It Got Into the Funny Papers T wasn't only the police that were interested in -the sheath gown at the ‘time because I distinctly remember that it kept the funny papers going, too. There was a chap on Punch, for instance, who
‘knew enough about the sheath gown to write: - re “A skirt whose meager gores necessitate The waddle of a Chinese lady’s gait A waist promoted half way up the back - --And not a shred that’s comfortably slack. - ‘A figure like & seal reared up oh end, ~ And poking forward with a studied bend.” And - Life, not to be outdone, celebrated the event with: 2? . “We don’t wish to insinuate That they were not real before; > But where, oh; where, are the hips that we: . Don’t ‘notice any more?” * am . He s Just Telling You Y that time, too, “somebody was slick enviigh} to observe that “the sheath gown” uncovers » multitude of shins.” After that, of course, the sheath own didn’t have a chance.’ But did it discourage our - couturieres? Not that anybody. could notice it. ‘To take the place of the sheath gown, they thought up theMerry Widow hat, designed to look like a nest full of dead birds, Im dusk Selling you, : .
Ea .
OCTOBER 13 HEN a teacher used the ferule too often dnd too harshly in the early 1800s, the pupils had a way of getting back at them. They would bar the teachers from We, class: Toons around Christe mas time. : oS “The schoolmaster wiually was ‘forced to surrender and “treat” his pupils. . There are records of masters “treating” these hardy pupils with whisky, The usual method of treating was to give candy or apples. If the “schoolmaster proved too stub born, the rebellious pupils ducked him in ice water, The life of the early teacher in Indians was 8 precarious one, Methods of pupil punishment were the ferule or rod, ‘dunce cap, fool's cap, standing on one foot or, shameful disgrace, sitting on the girls’ side. Another “neat device was the leather spectacles, which meant that Johnny had “sassed Veacher” or forgotten: his reading’ lesson. In 1840, one-seventh of the adults in Indiana could not read and teachers were paid $6 .to $8 a month and what they could: collect in - meals, lodgings :and produce. There were few women teachers, because practically no educated women were without Rushands. A wife’s place was in the home in those ys : A traveler could often tell ‘when he was approache ing a school by the noisy droning of the pupils as they studied aloud.—By T. C. :
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN «+... Editer, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal SI MMING, once a summer sport, is now a popue lar recreation throughout the year. Development of swimming pools in connection with schools, clubs, and summer and winter resorts has been tremendous. The swimmer should observe certain precautions:
3. Tt 1s not. wise to swim soon after a meal 3: Cramps of the muscles while swimming are a source of danger, but no nearly. so serious as is commonly thought. The danger comes not from the ‘cramp, but from the panic which causes the swimmer
‘muscles should be rubbed gently. : 4. If your teeth chatter and your skin turns blue,
1. He should not enter the water if he is overheated.
to flounder and sink, ‘Whenever a cramp occurs, the
AS enthusiastically as I admire the ways
by this time, Indianapolis women have again
Hoosier Yes terdays
.