Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1936 — Page 9
Yagabonc FROM INDIANA
By ERNIE PYLE
AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.—A newspaper friend of mine here named Bob Elliott (he’s a Hoosier, too, they're everywhere) was the first man ever to walk from San Francisco to Oakland. He was the first man to
walk across the new Oakland Bay Bridge. It took him all day. The bridge was then nothing but bare steel framework. In places he had to walk hundreds of feet on six-inch girders, 20 stories above the water. In places he had to walk on rounded cables, with only a thin wire guide-rope to hold to. In places he had to climb right up over the top of great steel arches, slick with fresh paint, with no hand holds at all. A hundred times he thought he would die. He wanted to quit and go back, but that was just as- bad as going on. He told me the story, and there wasn't any pretense in it. He: was terribly shaken. He couldn't sleep the night after he made the trip. It was three days before he became composed again. “That was last March. Last Thursday the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge was officially opened to traffic. I have had the privilege of being one of the few outsiders to cross the bridge before the opening. But it didn’t scare me any. No, sir. (P. S.—We rode across in an automobile.) It was all over but the finishing touches. The roadway was complete. We had to go through a few wooden gates, but they could all be removed in a day. Workmen were sweeping debris off the concrete. Painters in masks were putting on final
touches.
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Weird Kind of Bridge HE Bay bridge doesn’t approach the Golden Gate bridge in drama, although it’s just as fantastic in its way. The thing is eight miles long, including approaches. It is a weird, disconnected kind of bridge. It is really three bridges. The first part runs from San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island. This part is a suspension bridge. But it was too long for a continuous suspension cable. So they made two bridges out of it, connected in the center at a huge contrete tower. Yerba Buena Island is rather precipitous, so you drive across it through a tunnel. Only a block or two. Then you come on to the third bridge. This is a cantilever bridge, third biggest in the world (the second is at Quebec, the first in Scotland). It's a maze of steel structure, and it isn’t graceful or pretty like the suspension part. Finally this dwindles off, and your last mile or so over water is simply a roadway built up on concrete stilts. After a while you're in Oakland.
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Oakland Bridge Double-Decked
HE Oakland bridge is double-decked“&ll the way. On the top deck are six lanes for autos. On half the lower deck are three lanes for trucks. On the other half is a double-track railroad for commuters’ trains. People will never get to look over the edge of the bridge. The railing is solid, and you can’t see over it from a car. There is only a little three-foot sidewalk, and nobody will be allowed to walk across anyhow. It seemed to me a big mistake not to put on a nice sidewalk, but the bridge people say it's eight miles across and who'd be walking? A mile or so from the Oakland end is the toll gate. It's an elaborate affair with a glass-sided toll house for each lane of traffic, and automatic machines for counting cars-and making change and 80 on. To one side are the administration offices and a garage.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ANSAS CITY, Mo. Sunday—Yesterday I finished reading and signing some 200 letters which were forwarded td me here. They, with the telegrams and telephone messages which have come to us at every place where we have stopped, have served to accentuate my gradual understanding of the feeling many people have for the President. People call up just to ask me to thank the President, sometimes for something as intangible as the fact that he has given them their courage back. One woman had finally obtained a job after long months of hardship, during which her father and mother had gone to an old people's home. She was grateful for the fact that her job had come in time so that when her father died she could bear the expense of his burial. Now things are so improved that she, her sister and brother are at work, They have a little home again and their mother is with them. She just wanted the President to know that she was one of many people who had lost faith in their country in 1932 and had regained it in 1936. I wish that I could be in New York on Nov. 17. The public Education Association, in which I have long been interested, is to hold a luncheon on that day for the purpose of discussing: “The Schoolchild and His Health.” I can think of nothing more important, for without health no amount of education is of any value, and we still find so much ignorance concerning the proper care of children. Mrs. Scheider and I spent a quiet afternoon in the Allis hotel in Wichita, Kas., yesterday before my speech in the evening. . At 11:00 this morning, Miss Ann Laughlin, National Youth Administrator for the state of Kansas, came for me at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., and we drove to see a girls’ camp under the NYA. They have initiative and originality in this state and I think they are going to prove what I always contended, that there are work projects which girls can do in camps as well as boys. These girls looked well and happy and I was glad of the chance to see them.
Daily New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— RAGIC and beautiful and terrible to those who
Lamps of China.” With infinite understanding Mrs. Hobart unrolls a'broad canvas of modern Chinese life against which she sets her story of Peter Fraser and his beautiful wife, Diana. : To the traditional quietude of the East, Peter, an
American doctor, brings his aggressive western idealte love for woman, the
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Local Merchants Confidently Expect Biggest Christmas Business in Years; Wholesale Houses First to Feel Rush.
BY LEO DAUGHERTY
ET’S suppose this is the
Indianapolis is shopping. Banks are cashing pay checks, shops and stores are
thronged with bundle-laden
haven't in at least a dozen Yuletide seasons. That’s just a vision—but it’s the vision of all the
merchants in that busy section revolving about the Circle.
Already it's a reality for the wholesaler, the jobber and the manufacturer . who do business out on the tips of the spokes emanating from that hub, doing his selling weeks ahead. Thanksgiving isn’t even here, yet, but some merchants are getting out the tinsel and colored lights for the most elaborate store decorations they have planned in years. And they're unpacking -more crates and boxes of Christmas merchandise—and they're at the wholesaler’s and manufacturer’s doors clamoring for more, even having a hard time getting it, some merchants say. There are reasons. for the merchants’ anticipation of a sixyear record Christmas business, starting the day after Thanksgiving. They are the same reasons why the buyer is awaiting the arrival of that day. # = = ORE men are working; more wages are being paid, and generous bonus checks have been promised. State employment agency figures place the number in private industry here now at between 85,000 and 90,000. Pay rolls have skyrocketed between 20 and 25 per cent froth what they were about the time nta Claus was’ due a year ago. - Banks are to distribute about $500,000 in Christmas savings to
shoppers. The WPA will mean Christmas
cheer, too. According to state office records approximately 11,000 WPA workers in the county will draw in the neighborhood of $1,320,000 next month. . The man in business here also expects those huge bonus payments py General Motors and Chrysler Corp. to be reflected in his business. An estimated 200 employes in the corporation's units here are
Sullival Studies
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BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Nov. .16—As the Republican Party begins to look to the future, and as the country watches what they do, there is one large fact of which all must
take notice. The new lineup and grouping of American politics is go-
ing to be a history-making process.
Not much of it can be r yet. What is said here merely deals with one point that happens to stand out as especially distinct and concrete. For almost 30 years there has been a group of voters described as “Western Progressive Republicans.” It was as clear-cut a section of the
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Jer’s will be a minimum of $50. Nine thousand at Anderson, 2000 at Muncie and nearly 1000 at Kokomo will share in that distribution. Chrysler's dividends will be paid to workers at Newcastle and Connersville. The Western Clock Co. at Peru is to distribute $120,000 among 3000 employes. Many recipients of that cash are expected to shop in Indianapolis.
. » 2 ” T’S not just toys for the kiddies or stockings for Sis or socks for Pa the 1936 Christmas shopper is expected to buy. The merchants will have everything from kiddie cars and toy trains to fur coats and jewels and a deluge of other gifts listed in the “luxury line” - George. S.- Olive, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president, expressed the consensus among retailers,
week before Christmas and
shoppers—shopping as they
to receive approximately $62,900 in bonus and the company’s pay raise is to add about $2190 to their weekly pay envelopes.
The General Motors bonus will
range from $35 to $65 and Chrys- “There are many indications,”
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Western Liberal Republicans
Heading for the bargain counters.
Group Called
A typical
KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS
One of the world’s most thrilling sporting events’is held here annually on May 30. ' It is the 500-mile automobile race over the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, attracting international interest.
They were a distinct group. To them was first applied the term “bloc” as used in American politics. These Senators were the leaders and symbols of the Western Progressive Republican voters. They were especially aggressive and in many cases able. Beginning in 1905 with such Senators as Dolliver of Iowa, the elder La Follette of Wis-
Nebraska, La Follette Jr. of Wis-
consin, and Beveridge of Indiana, followed a little later by Cummins of Towa and Borah of Idaho, this group of Western Progressive Republican Senators represented and expressed a majority of the Repub-
consin, Cutting of New Mexico. To these should be added, I think, the late Senator Couzens of Michi-
gan, for he was in large part iden-.
tified with the group. :
lican voters in the West and Mid-
west. Now observe what has happen
to these nine Senators. Almost literally every one of them has departed from the Republican Party. In this month’s election, only of them ‘a
= = ” OW in the year in which Franklin D. Roosevelt first ran for the presidency, 1032, the principal Western Progressive Republican Senators were: Johnson of California, Frazier of
North Dakota, Borah of Idaho, Nye of North Dakota, Brookhart of Iowa,
Norbeck of South Dakota, Norris of ® | A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs.
he said, “that in the retail field the buying season will .equal or approach the good years just prior to the depression. The dammed up demand for goods seems to be. loosening. Buying is quite likely to be greatly improved in the field of higher cost household appli-* ances and so-called luxury field. There will be far less hand-to-mouth purchasing.” oe
The Yuletide song of represen=tatives of merchants—large and small—was the same. : The representative of one of the city’s largest stores said: “We join in the general feeling business will be the best since
1929.”
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HE spokesman for another
said: “There’s no question but what business will be up to 29. Why, we're even having some difficulty getting better grades of merchandise. The demand has increased
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[Dementia Praecox Research ‘Gives Hope of Early Solution
BY SCIENCE SERVICE EW YORK, Nov. 16.—Research on “perhaps the largest prob-
lem in our present-day society,” the {mental disease dementia praecox,
is now in progress in a way and on
}a scale that gives some hope for an
early solution of the problem. -. "This optimistic feeling appeared in the report read by Dr. Nolan D. C. Lewis, director of the New York
State Psychiatric Institute and Hos-
pital, at the twenty-seventh annual luncheon of the National Committee
for Mental Hygiene held here.
Dr. Lewis r the
for Mental
| the Social Security Act and that
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so that manufacturers were not prepared for it.” Still another added: “One of the best seasons . since 1929 is our anticipation. We're making more extensive . preparations than ever before.” A toy wholesaler here, reporting increased shipments, deplored the fact that manufacturers seemed to have had trouble in getting experienced hands to make the playthings which “make” Christmas. The jeweler has taken some hard raps the last few Christmas seasons, but he’s prepared to come back into his own this year with the expectation shoppers have the money for his gems. “Retailers and wholesalers bought much heavier this year,” a jewelry manufacturer here reported. » » 2
LD standbys such as cigars, cigarets and candy held their own in the lean years, but even the demand in that line is heavier this year, according to wholesalers and jobbers here. A carloading and distribution firm bore out the merchants’ re- . ports of a heavier influx of merchandise. “Preight has been much heavier this year,” one of them reported. Postmaster = Adolph Seidensticker has been too busy to get around to planning for the Christmas rush in store for him,
but “we’ll be ready for it,” he said,
The postmaster explained that right now business is very, very good with him. He explained about the increased work in handling applications in connection with in a day or two there will be placed in the mails here by the Secretary of State about 1,000,000 applications: for 1937 automobile license tags. They will be mailed at the rate of about 50,000 a day, he said. The total number, he said, may be about 1000,000 niore than a year ago—another better business barometer.
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R. SEIDENSTICKER said that he hopes there will be no deluge of applicants for the extra Christmas work at the postoffice. He said workers must be selected from civil service eligibility lists and that there are 623 hames on that list. One more holiday note—both Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s from a big poultry dealer: “The price hasn't been determined yet, but there’ll be plenty of turkeys. Plenty of Indiana turkeys, 00.” And probably at a cost of 10 to 20 per cent below last year.
strange mental world. The vastness of the problem, from an economic and every other consideration, may be seen from the fact that in a single year nearly 18,000 new patiently suffering from dementia praecox were admitted to hospitals for mental disease in this country.
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; program, Mr. Lewis reported,
was given over fo surveying and
sampling the research problems and
ideas in the hospitals and laboratories of this country. In the second year 14 research programs were organized by various individual Besides working ideas, the program must have ideals or ambitions, Dr. Lewis pointed out. He added that he bélieved these ideals “are so near to actual reality that it is quite possible they may be accomplished - during our own lifetime.”
Town By ANTON SCHERRER
NDER the leadership of an excited and insistent horseman, I got to attend the Eighth Annual Indianapolis Speed Sale at the State Fair Coliseum the other day. 1
certainly get around. Maybe it will surprise you to learn who ? all was there. It surprised me, becduse, like a good many others, I had been led to believe that the au= tomobile was having everything its own way. That's what comes from a too-close reading of the newspapers. You can’t believe everything you see in the newspapers. To judge by what I saw, the automobile isn’t going to have everything its own way, especially not if Horsemen Palin, Winings, Harrie Jones, Ed Lewis, Jack Karstedt and Oscar Jose have anything to say. They were all there and about 300 others, too. They were all smoking cigers too. And that settles anofiier important point, because for the last 10 years I've been wondering who in the world smokes all the cigars displayed in the dyugstore, Believe it or not, the horsemen do. I never saw s0O many men smoking cigars all at once, and it cone firms me in the belief that we haven't anything to worry about in the cigar business any more. With nothing more to worry about, I can now. proceed to tell you about George A. Bain, the auce tioneer. Mr. Bain hails from Lexington (Kentucky, of course) and makes his living running off speed sales. Or, maybe he does it for fun. Anyway, he's pretty good.
Mr. Scherrer
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He Looks the Part
THAT'S more, he looks the part. He isn't as tall as you'd expect a Kentucky auctioneer to be, but he makes up for it by his dignity. He's a lot more dignified than most bankers and has better eyes too. But why bring that up? Mr. Bain's eyes carry the wisdom of the ages. Indeed, they are the ‘best pair of eyes I ever saw—this side of an English admiral’s, of course. But what impressed me even more than his eyes was the fact that Mr. Bain was old enough to know how to husband his resources. I caught on to that as soon as I saw him use his whistle. Mr. Bain docs almost everything with a whistle. At any, rate, he toots until he has to talk, He starts the horses with a toot and stops them with a toot and he
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Prices From $65 to $1400
SAW him sell three dozen of the 200 horses. The prices ran from $65 to $1400, and I thought I detected a slight disposition on Mr, Bain’s part to accommodate his voice to the pedigree of the horses. Maybe not, I always imagine a lot of things when I'm in the company of fast horses. Miss Rose Dale was the horse that sold for $1400, and Mr. Bain couldn't say enough nice things about her. He said she was one grand gaited filly and sound as they make them. She worked in 2:09, and. quarter in :30, freelegged, without a boot on. And then he spilled everything—literally everything—he knew about the girl's past. Said she was a halfe
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knows what all. : After that, it didn’t surprise me at all that Miss Rose Dale brought $1400. I only hope she doesn’t let Mr. Bain down after all the nice things he said about her. Some girls do, you know. :
Hoosier Yesterdays:
NOVEMBER 16
theater-lovers were treated to one of the rarest pleasures of their lives. . At English’s Opera House. Sarah Bernhardt—the Divine Sarah—gave a farewell performance. Generally recognized as the world’s greatest actress, whose only living rival for the title was Eleanora Duse, Mme. Bernhardt was then 67 years old. But years had touched her lightly. In the 48 seasons that she had been on the stage she had grown, expanded,
never learned how to grow old. thusiasm had kept her spirit young. Instead of presenting a single entire play, Mme,
of her best pieces. They were the second act of Emile Moreau’s “Jeanne d’Arc,” depicting the Maid of Orleans’ famous heresy trial; two acts, including th death scene of Dumas Fils’ “Camille,” and the second act of Rostand’s “L’Aiglon.” In each of the scenes she was simple, direct and appealing, devoid of any of the histrionic gestures of lesser actresses. At the same time her choice of repertoire gave her full opportunity to portray singuse larly different characters. She was the unsophistie cated and shy Jeanne d’Arc, the cosmopolitan cour= tesan Camille, and the youthful boy “Eaglet,” son of Napoleon. In the latter character particularly there was never a moment when the illusion of the young boy was broken. She spoke, of course, éntirely in French, but the many who could not understand her words were made to feel the power of her acting.—By F. M.
Watch Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal TISSUE which lines the eyelids and runs out on to the eyeball is called the conjunctiva. Inflame mation of this tissue is known as conjunctivitis. Va= rious types of germs may attack the eye and cause this kind of inflammation. When the conjunctiva becomes inflamed, there is a formation of pis, and the eyelids burn, smart, and turn red. This infection may spread to the eye-
doesn’t stop tooting until he gets down to the actual
I enya years ago tonight Indianapolis
profited by experience and learned. But she had. Her ceaseless ene-
- Bernhardt presented the strongest scenes from three
sister to Miss Rose Guy II, 2:08%, and goodness