Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1937 — Page 17

Vagabond

FROM INDIANA ERNIE PYLE

Mr. Pyle, who has been on vacation, returns today with a column on a flight to Indianapolis.)

N case you're contemplating a journey by air, | am prepared to offer, for the ask-

ing, a bit of eating-in-the-sky etiquette |

which might come in handy. It all boils down to the simple advice:

When dining aboard an air liner, look twice at your coffee before you put in cream and sugar. Might not, hurt even to smell of it. We were riding smoothly at 8000 feet over the

Alleghsnies, just before sunset, and the stewardess was so quiet about it all that I didn’t realize she was getting dinner ready tiil she put the tray across the arms of my seat. The dinners they serve howadays aboard the air liners arew’t the cold-sandwich and hard-boiled-egg affairs they used wo oc. They're practically full-course

dinners, hot, ang with salad and |

© £ t dessert and celery and everything. ¢ wv It does, however, all come on one Mr. Pyle tray, and you have to sort it out into courses yourself. Well, I drink my beverage (as they call it in Child's) right along with my meals, so the first thing I did was to dope up my coffee with cream and sugar. The coffee was in a tall pasteboard cup, and I dumped in the whole jigger of cream and three lumps of sugar,

Then I started on the fried chicken. It sure |

was good, too. Then I noticed the stewardess come

and take away the coffee from the fellow across the |

aisle, one seat back.

That seemed queer, although I didn’t puzzle much |

about it. It was his coffee, not mine. But I did

puzzle when she came along and took away my

coffee, too. “Hey!” 1 said. “What's the matter?” She looked at me the way a city girl looks at a country boy, and said: “That's bouillon.” un n n

Pretended It Was Funny LOOKED back at the other fellow, and he was

grinning sheepishly too. He had done the same | thing—put cream and sugar in his soup. I tried to | let on that it was funny, but I could tell that the

stewardess was very bored. The rest of the dinner went off all right. The air

was smooth, and when you started to take a bite it | landed in your mouth, instead of two feet above your |

head, as I've known bites to do in rough weather. The stewardess even got me another cup of “coffee.”

They wound it all up with finger bowls and tooth- |

picks. I rinsed my fingers but didn’t use the tooth-

picks, because I always carry my private quill, in a | holster around my neck. The quill is ivory, and has |

a diamond in the end of it. un n un

Passengers Are Aloof

HEN you read in the newspapers about a big air liner crashing, you have a mental picture | of 12 or 14 friendly souls going intimately to their |

doom. At least that's the way I picture it.

To me, the names in the casualty Jist had all | become close friends in the last few hours before |

the crash. They rode through the sky in jolly admiration of each other's adventurous spirit.

But a plane-load of travelers isn't that way at | all. Most of them never speak to each other, even | at the stops. Instead of an attachment born in | mutual adventure, each one seems to be aloof—as- | suming nonchalance. or standoffishness, maybe feel- | ing himself a little braver than the rest. It seems |

especially that way on a night flight. From Columbus on our plane was nearly full— 12 passengers, I believe. We showed no friendliness

for each other at all. Nobody talked to anybody |

else. If you had unloaded us all at Indianapolis,

and mixed us up with 12 other people, I doubt that | I could have picked out more than three who had

been on our plane.

I was the only passenger off at Indianapolis. No- |

body said goodby to me, to me, except the stewardess.

Mrs.Roosevelt'sDay |

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

HAWNEE, Okla., Wednesday .—Yesterday afternoon

I managed to squeeze in a visit to one WPA project in Tulsa. It is housed in a three-story building and covers a variety of activities. Women are learning bookbinding and are putting school books and books

that belong to libraries ‘back into shape. They are |

even retyping pages and doing new illustrations.

They are also doing extremely good weaving. Some | of their homespun material, which they make up in | the same building, was displayed in finished suits and | coats and promised good wear and comfort for any- | one fortunate enough to receive it. Very full layettes | and obstetrical boxes were being provided. All and all, |

that building seemed to be pretty busy. From there we went to one of the recreation centers run by the WPA. They were using an old school building and it was jammed with children. Boys and girls were under direction learning to make recreation useful as well as pleasant. Some of the girls were

jearning to sew. Others were learning to use a jig- |

saw and hammer and nails. One of them proudly exhibited a tiny hanging shelf in the back of which was cut out the figure of a dog. The boys were playing table tennis and learning a variety of games. One room was preparing to produce a ‘play and in another folk dancing was taught. A few NYA youngsters were helping out the instructors. Then we spent a few minutes in the woman's ex--hange, which instead of being a private charity is a sivie enterprise here. Back at the hotel I received members of the Tulsa Town Club for whom I was giving my lectures. Before we knew it we had to get ready for the evening lecture and have something to eat before we were called for at 8 o'clock.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— HE story of Africa is one in which so-called civilization has little by little encroached upon the ancient domain occupied by the great mammals and the primitive natives. Today the white man dominates everywhere. Only in a few isolated areas in high mountain fastnesses or on the wide stretches of the bushveld is there a semblance of the life that was.” No one regrets the passing of the old Africa more than Mary L. Jobe Akeley, for years the companion of her husband, the late Carl Akeley, on his collecting expeditions in the Belgian Congo. In her latest book, RESTLESS JUNGLE (McBride), Mrs. Akeley describes her recent journey made for the purpose of observing and photographing the great game herds of South Africa. There has developed within the last two decades a movement toward reconstruction of the original Africa and conservation of the wild life which was rapidly becoming extinct. The Kruger National Park, established for this purpose, gave Mrs. Akeley a longed-for opportunity to obtain excellent photographs of the wild herds in their natural state. The author realized another of her childhood ambitions in her visit with the Swazi and Zulu tribes, which still retain many of the manners and customs of their aboriginal] ancestors. » = n HERE are 14 short stories in a new book by Bess Streeter Aldrich, entitled THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE WEATHER (Appleton-Century). Full of human interest, pathos and sentiment, these stories will bring smiles as well as tears to the reader. The characters range from 9-year-old children to old men and helpless women. The book takes its name from the first story. Old Mr. Parline’s life centered around the weather, his garden, and his wife, who was afraid of storms. He kept a record of the weather on his calendar, recording each day the direction of the wind, snow, rain, temperature, etc. But the last page on the calendar

was filled in by a neighbor. Death had come to Mr. ; ‘evidently .

Parline at the grave of his ey ‘hurrying

The Indianapolis

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Second Section

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Maier PAGE 17 nd.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

THE BEST HARBINGER OF SPRING

Circus Prepares to Quit Winter Camp for Trek Northward

ONE MIDDLE WESTERNER MAKES 1936 ALL-AMERICA BRIDGE TEAM

(Another Article, Page 14) By WILLIAM E. M'KENNEY

American Bridge League Secretary UR Easterners and a Midwesterner are my selection for the All-America contract bridge team for 1936. In choosing the team, I have been governed by records mace in all important tournament play, and master points gained, by bridge | stars. The players selected are: Oswald Jacoby, a New York star

now residing in Dallas, Tex.; Fred |

| four important first-place vic- |

| tories: The National Masters’ Team

| of Pour, the National Masters’ Pair | of the American Bridge League; the |

| team of four of the American Whist | League, and the open pairs of the | | U. S. Bridge Association. Becker, too, had an imposing record. He finished first on the] National Masters’ Team of Four, in|

in the team of four at the District | of Columbia tournament.

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APLAN, a Manhattan lawyer, von seven first places in 1936. These included the Maryland open pair, the ' Eastern team of four, the Long Island Bridge League open pairs, the National Men's pair of the American Bridge League, the Atlantic City team of four, the Vanderbilt team of four, and the U. S. Bridge Association team .of four. In all, he earned 85 master points, finishing fifth. Epstein I consider the “find” of 1936. Starting the year with no master points, he wound up in sixth place, with 79. Besides winning firsts in the Eastern team, Long Island Mixed Pair, Eastern Mixed team, and Vanderbilt team, he finished second in the National Masters’ Pair of the American | Bridge League—a notable achievement that, for the first time, Ep-

the contract bridge world.

first-place victories, three of them

: on SOR ? n 2 > % _ PRR .

the Open Pairs at Hershey, Pa., and |

—Acme Photos.

NDENIABLE evidence of the imminence of spring is the activity at the winter quarters of the Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus at Sarasota, Fla. Performers, animal trainers and sideshows are polishing up acts, preparatory to breaking up camp for the annual trek northward.

1. A view of some of the hundreds of trucks shiny with new paint and ready to take to the road.

2. Apparentiy this orang-utan attempted to break camp alone, and the trainer is having a hard time restraining him.

3. This performing pachyderm is all set to enjoy a dinner of hay.

4. This pyramid is made up by members of the Loyal Repenski troupe and their broad-backed mounts.

5. These trapeze artists set up | their paraphernalia amid the trees for a final workout before entraining.

6. The chief wardrobe mistress putting the finishing touches on a gorgeous costume before a recent dress rehearsal.

7. With a background of tropical trees, these trapeze artists look, for all the world, like a troupe of Tarzans.

8. The daring and graceful young girls on the flying trapeze are, left to right: [Elsie Otaris, Cora Davis, Mildred Millette, Mickey Fledersdorff, Dolores Nimma.

1 Clapper Explains Why

Strikers Aren't Expelled

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

ETROIT, March 18.—The court,

strikers to evacuate the Chrysler, | Hudson and Dodge plants has gone into effect, but only theoretically.

the barricades which the strikers

| have thrown up against the plant | gates they locked on the outside | world.

Doubtless people in other com- |

| munities wonder why the strikers are not driven out, why Governor | Murphy doesn’t call out the National

Guard and drive the men by force

| out of the plants of which they have | taken possession.

You have only to take a look around those plants to understand

| why these men defy the evacuation | order and why nothing is done about | it.

| side the fence. Men were leaning | out of almost all the upper windows

| over the street, the day being mild

and sunny, and they were shouting

Not a man has budged from behind | 80d joking with comrades on the

| street below. Radio music floated

out from one third-floor window. Some of the men had on green St. Patrick’s Day paper hats. There

| was defiance in the air, yet without

sullenness; a rather cocky, confident defiance. They seemed to assume that the management would have to give in. ” n ” NE striker was talking through the fence when two elderly women, apparently living in the neighborhood, came up to ask how he was getting along.

“Fine,” he said with an accent. |

Several hours after the court or- “We eat regular. Chrysler won't

| der became effective I went out to

the main Chrysler plant on Jefferson Ave. The works extend for several blocks along both sides of Jefferson Ave. upon which the main employees’ gates open, Those gates were closed and locked with heavy chains. Behind the iron wire fences were banked huge iron bins filled with

| bolts, short lengths of pipe joints,

spare automobile parts about the size of hand grenades. Tons of this

n ” td

TRIKERS along the fence told

me that the south side defenses | | have to give him 600 deputies to

were comparatively weak. “Troops might get through here,”

some 25 sit-dow

| hold out long. We're going after | {Ford next. They don't pay us

enough. They pay their big shots as much as the President and the Supreme Court combined. 1 worked | nine months last year and I'm still | $200 in debt.”

“What's all of this for?” asked | one woman, pointing to the bins of | spare parts against which the strik- |

er was leaning.

side.” 5 n ”

T the Newton Packing Co. al hundred sit-downers are wait-

ing with meat cleavers and meat | hooks to receive anybody that tries |

to put them out. They are under

court order to vacate the property. | But when the order was given to |

the Sheriff, he said the Court would |

enforce the order. Everybody is stalling. There are

go up would find it coming down on | than the strikes and the seizure of

| his head. They just couldn't get up. The Big I ya Easterners and a Midwesterner—on William | They never could get us out of those |is a NY of no law and

floors. I don’t think [ody ng to try dt”

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

OU may have noticed that most women around Indianapolis wear silk stockings, but maybe you've never taken the trouble

to find out why. Well, I have. Like most of our other

blessings, it’s hitched up with the automobile, and don’t let anybody bluff you into believing that it has something to do with Calvin Coolidge’s Administration, because it hasn't. I happen to know

something about Mr. Coolidge. Enough, anyhow to know that silk stockings got their start—a feeble start, to be sure, but still a start—sometime around 1910, which was at least 10 years before Mr. Coolidge moved into the White House. I don’t think I'll ever forget that date, because it marks the year the ladies around here started elevating their skirts, revealing among other things, that they . wore cotton stockings. All right, Mr Scherrer just about this same time, the automobile self-starter was put on the market, and I'm here to tell you that the two things coming at the same time were more than a coincidence, no matter what anybody may say to the contrary. This is the way 1 figure it. Prior to the selfstarter automobiles had to be cranked by hand, which

v is by way of saying that they were nothing for

women. For that matter, they were nothing for men, either, but I can't go into that today, because I want to get to the silk stocking.

n ”n ” Automobile As Cause

O resume: With electric self-starters came the hunch that their market might be increased considerably by persuading women that they could now drive. The only thing that stood in the way was, of course, the skirt, which, despite the recent amputation, was still too long to allow manipulation of the pedals of the car. But where there's a woman, there's a way, and the way, apparently, was to shorten the skirts some more to meet the self-starter halfway. All of which still left the women out on a limb, because it didn't mak? the short skirt wearable, outside of an automobile. To make the short skirt wearable, silk stockings were in= vented. And there you are! Like every other manifestation of modern civiliza= tion, it was the same old vicious circle. Anyway, it was the automobile, and not Mr. Coolidge.

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Silk Stockings and Self-Starter

Y this time it was 1919. At that, Mr. Coolidge still had four years to go to get into the White House. That year the American women wore some 6,300,000 dozen pairs of full-fashioned stockings, which gives you some idea of the number of self-starters turned out. In 1925, the number of silk stockings was somewhere around 12,300,000 dozen and by 1929 it reached the staggering, astronomical figure of 26,900,000 dozen —322,800,000 pairs, if you're still interested. It works out around eight pairs for every female above 10 years of age that year. To be sure, that was back in the boom days, but the way things are picking up, anybody with half an eye can see that silk stockings are on their feet again, The annual bill for silk stockings today is some= where around $300,000,000. It works out close to a mil= lion dollars for Indianapolis alone, which probably won't surprise the men around here much,

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

E are skeptical about the possibility of women ever enslaving men, cven though there are signs pointing in that direction. One which we hope to see disappear soon is fostered largely by the moving-picture producers. We refer to the fad of face-slapping which has become a fashionable pastime in the pictures. You can depend upon the heroine giving the hero at least one resounding smack on the jaw before the end of the play, and if she is a regular cutie it may be half a dozen,

Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Kay Francis, Grace

| Moore, Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyck,

Jean Arthur, Madge Evans, Margaret Sullavan, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Farmer—we have a whole notebook of names which we have taken to the movies religious= ly for several months in order to verify our facts. The trick is a sure-fire hit. When the fine young man stands meekly while the sweet young thing lands him a sock on the chin, feminine hearts in the audi-

| ence almost burst their bodices, because that scene clubs ‘or ‘billies. They were the

injunction ordering sit-down patrols, assigned to keep order in- |

releases within them a flood of suppressed desires. Every woman at one time or another has wished to do physical hurt to some man.

It’s very interesting, too, to see how the news fangled fad differs from the old-fashioned idea.

When a woman swung her strong right arm and brought her open palm stingingly across the face of her swain in past theatrical productions, the audience knew at once that the blow was deserved and that the wretch so chastised was a coward and a cur. Nobody had any use for him after that. He was the villain of the piece, and a round of hisses greeted his every appearance. Also the damsel spurned his advances until the fall of the last curtain. The opposite is true today. When the heroine slaps a swain it's an almost sure sign she will marry him in the final scene. And the harder she hits the harder

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal “OUR important intestinal infections still attack F great numbers of human beings in the United States, but all now can be controlled. The gradual elimination of one of them, typhoid fever, is con= sidered one of the most notable achievements of mod= ern preventive medicine. The other three conditions are cholera, the dysenteries, and hookkorm disease. Of them all, typhoid fever once was by far the most important. Typhoid fever is an infection by a germ called

| the typhoid bacillus. The cases are of all grades of “We just got it here for anybody | that wants to come and get it,” he | said grinning. “There's more in-|

severity. Some are so mild that they hardly interfere with the victim's daily activities, while others may cause death. One of the former types is a condition called

| “walking typhoid.” In this disease the germ often

can be found in the blood and, in 80 per cent of all cases, may be found in great numbers in excretions from the bowel. Typhoid fever occurs all over the world—most often in warm weather, although epidemics occasionally appear even in winter. In most instances persons become infected by tak= ing contaminated water or food. Symptoms appear 13 to 19 days thereafter. Typhecid fever is not primarily a children’s disease

| such as measles, scarlet fever, or diphtheria, but

rather one which mostly concerns grown-ups, In 1900 typhoid fever was fourth among infectious diseases in the number of deaths that it caused, Today it is 12th. In fact, at least five persons die every year from automobile accidents to one who dies from typhoid fever. Although typhoid has been brought largely under control, it is not to be considered a vanishing disease. It will not disappear until all our commusnities have learned the value of real sanitation. From 60,000 to 65,000 people still get typhoid fever every year, and each year there are about 6500 deaths from i It is important, nevertheless, to a ‘member Me control has been established to Ah fete rorertvuY,

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