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'VE picked up a lot more about the early . lamplighters of Indianapolis, especially about Chris Bernloehr who used to watch: over the lights of Irish Hill. EL Mr. Bernloehr had two routes before he

tackled Irish Hill, and I might as well get that part straightened out first, becatse a lot of peo~_ ple around here seem to think that he began; his A career ‘on the Hill. Nothing of the sort. Trishf Hill represents the apothesis of Mr. Bernloehr’s career, / Mr. Bernfoghr was 8 years old when he began lighting lamp§. That was back in 1875. His first route started with the lamp back of | Stoughton Fletcher’s home at Alabama and Ohio Sts. and ended with the. ‘one at the State Ditch near the entrance of the old Fairgrounds. It's about where 19th St. is now. : Mr. Bernloehr says he sometimes skipped the last lamp because of the mean-looking tramps that used to hang around the old ditch. , It didn't do him any good, he says, because Jerry Graydon always called him for it. Mr. Graydon was Mr. Bernloehr’s boss at the time and used to co arourrd ina horse and buggy to inspect the work of the lamplighters. Nothing got by Mr. Graydon, says Mr. Bernloehr. 3 Mr. Bernloehr’sisecond route was down S. Meridian St. to Palmer St. and back up on Union St. After which came the great Irish Hill route. By that time: it was 1878. : The Irish Hill route started at State Ave, where the Deaf and Dumb School used to be, and ran west

Beauties Find Men Who on Washington St. south on Noble St. to Bates St. by which time the lamplighter was right in the heart

} : : ~~ 4 | Pose Are Too Smooth | of the Hill At this point Mr. Bernloehr turned hack > ¥53 2 : by : on Georgia St. to Noble St., and then out Meek St,

: ; | To Be Real. (ngw Maryland St.) to the last lamp at Bobbs’ big Babies - and Injured Hands ,Are Obstacles to LL mt

orchard, which was about where Shelby St. is now, Glamour but-Some Courageous Girls Find They me. vou crazy Kids, save the came

= = 2 me, you crazy kids, save the cam- WwW. C. Bobbs Born T here era.” We did it all right, but he

We ¢ t, bt " AAAYBE you. dent knew itbut that's wher | ful soaking. u e Dn Yoo | sure took an aw g M John C. Bobbs lived. hare more, that’s ou ve seen | a = = where W. C. Bobbs was born. Geographically, it was the hand at T was Marjorie Hothorn who | just outside Mr. Bernloehr’s bailiwick, ‘but temthe left gave away the secret about the peramentally it always was considered a part of often; it’s the | swanky hat boxes most of the

Irish Hill. | most widely models carry. She said suitcases

eae one way, Mr. ‘Bernloehr ’s “route was about 15 miles long, -counting the twe trips eve photographed | were heavy so the girls used the > ¥ hand in patent leather boxes instead.

night. Sure, Mr. Bernloehr had to make two trips% Ameriea, yet “You'd be surprised,” she_said,

.once to light the lamps and again to put them out. : Measured another way, the route consisted of 103 it’ babh “to know what all goes inte those isp ro. aoty boxes. There's plenty besides hats, the first >

staggered lamps. He got 15 cents a month for every es 3 let me tell you.” ~ time you've

lamp. The route was worth $15.45 a month. When appointments go wrong : seen the face.

= = ® | and photographers need a model | Worked on Moonlight Schedules Helen Ressler in a hurry they telephone one of : |

: . 4 R. BERNLOEHR says he worked on a moontiisee Digces iin Aine 2 light schedule. Sometimes he started lighting be there. These rendezvous are the | 12mPps-at 6 o'clock in the evening and sometimes not Junchroom at 247 Park Ave. the | until 2 -o’clock m, the morning. The astronomers soda shop at the Barbizon Hotel | down at the Gas Compangp worked out the schedule and the Stork Club. The Barbizon | for him. The behavior of the moon was sometimes is really a dormitory for the gor- | SO crazy back in these days, says Mr. Bernloeiir, that geous glamour girls. More & them | by the time he had the last lamp lit, he had to

| ERNIE PYLE a 0., May 3.—Governor Davey a

d 1 sed-too long. You just can't remember five hours of conversation.

I went to the ‘Governor's mansion on a Sunday afternoon, about 2:30. 1 expected

at most to be there half an hour. : But when we walked to the door it was a quarter after 7, and getting dark. All that time we had sat alone in the sunroom. : We drank two pitchers of ice ’ water and smoked a pack and a half of cigarets. The Governor told me his life story, from the time his family came to this country right down to today. I don’t know why he did it. A Governor is a busy man. I am afraid maybe there was calculation in his donating five hours to a reporter. The papers I write for in Ohio are extremely critical of Governor Davey. They call him names. He says maybe they wouldn't be so . harsh if they were acquainted . with him. Maybe he was using an afternoon to make himself acquainted. ; I think we both enjoved the afternoon. But for him, I fear it was wasted. Because I have nothing to do with the editorial policy of these papers. All I do is go around writing that Governors smoke cigarets and drink ice water. Governor Davey, as you may know, is from the famous Davey tree surgeon family. Apparently I had him confused with his father, whose picture we used to see in the the tree-surgery ads. For I had expected him to be rather oldish. and sort of countrylooking. . Instead, he is young for his 52 years, and handsome, and meticulously dressed.

Mr. Pyle

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. = a Lillian Fox, whom an oil comz : : pany monopelized for a year. Mayor for Three Terms

ARTIN DAVEY served three terms as Mayor of Kent, O. He served nine years in: Congress. He built his father's tree-surgery firm to a $3,000,000 business. He is now on his second term as Governor of Ohio. He is a success. And yet he is not liked. The newspapers of Ohio are almost unanimously against him. He has many enemies. : . Somewhere there is an answer to this. Maybe Governor Davey himself knows, and maybe he doesn’t. But he told me a story of his childhood: John Davey, the Governor's father, was a horti"cultural genius—and like most geniuses, a poor busi- . nessman. The Daveys were poor. Not just medium poor.’ Absolutely downright poor. One- whole winter the entire family was supported by youps Martin's | horse-radish route. 3 ) The elder Davey was not only poor, but a criticizer of the community's governmental life. And hence, extremely unpopular. People weren't nice to the Davey Kids.

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Mary Oakes, who went to Hollywood:

Are Not Insuperable in Seeking Career. 3

(Last of a Series)

By ALLAN KELLER

Times Special Writer K, May 3.—Life handed Mary Oakes the hot end of 5 poker, and she laughed. Twice she - was burned, and it took a lot of courage but she laughed. Is still laughing, in fact. : : When she was just out of her teens down in Texas her parents persuaded her to marry a man she did not love. It didn’t work out. She came to New York, succeeded as a model and earned enough to get a divorce. Then she married her old childhood sweetheart—an Army flier. She forgot the past, disregarded the present and lived a roseate future. A little ¢ girl named Suzy came along | to go on another train than the

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Thought Contempt Was Normal

4 OVERNOR DAVEY says he never knew, until | after he was a young man and went out into | the world, that it wast normal to be looked down | upon. But when prospective typewriter clients in Cleveand, and such tycoons as the Archibalds and Rocke- | fellers in New York, were nice to him, he suddenly woke up. And it aroused a terrific resentment in him against his home town. Then and there he took a | vow to go back home and show ‘em. And he did.

the nearest doctor,” said Miss Ressler. “I nearly bled to death. When the physician cauterized the wounds, leaving great burned holes that looked like Jolcanos, I thought I was all washed up as a

ly earnings take them far into the taxable income brackets are many voungsters who climb to the top in less than a year. One of these is Miriam Tilden, niece of Big Bill

(Tomorrow—-How it feels to be Governer.) one with the other girls. They

: / Mrs. Roosevelt's Day By ELEANOR-ROOSEVELT

EATTLE, Sunday—Ftiday was glorious in San. | “Francisco. My friend, Miss Chaney, and I started out to stroll through |Chinatown. Mayor Rossi met us. and we drove to [the entrance of the Golden Gate bridge. : All the engineering glans on that bridge have been checked by an architect with the result that even the structural steel looks as if it had been designed for beauty as well as use. e view in both directions was very lovely. I suppose to some people it is hard to become accustomed to having a bridge at that par- ® ticular spot; still it is a great achievement and a thing of real beauty. . I remember how we felt when our view down the Hudson .from my mother-in-law’s house was first changed by the mid-Hudson bridge. Now I would

and everything seemed fine, and then Mary got the hot end of the poker again. A plane crashed and little Suzy was left without a

father.

Naturally Mary went back to modeling, ajithough it hurt to smile sweetly for girls were pitked for the trip to Hollywood sheXwent along because there was a in quality in her face that set r apart. It was glamour, of a sort, born of courage. Mary Oakes must have chortled. though, when the time to go West came along. The outfiders for the. Walter Wanger and United Artists dragoons, afraid of soiling their pretty white pennons, decided Mary and little Suzy would have

were horrified at the thought that a glamour girl with a baby might wreck a fine publicity build-up. = 2 8 : NE of Miss kes’ friends earns her living in an odd way. She models with her hands only. Helen Ressler's hands are reputedly flawless. Their fine patrician symmetry is used to sell creams, lotions and jewelry. She makes as much money as most of the models in New Yok without the public ever seeing ‘her face. There's nothing wrong with her face, either. : Two or three years ago she got the fright of her life! A dog bit her hand while she was on vaca-: tion, out walking in the open fields. “It was miles to the village and

model. But I have to look hard now to see the scars.” She said she has never grown “snooty” because Providence has been good to her and she should take no credit for her success. Although she studied music at Ohio’ State University and a conservatory in Cleveland she will not touch the keys of a piano now for fear of spatulating her finger tips. = = 2

“¥’VE never insured my hands, although I ought to,” she admitted, “but I carry a muff early in the fall and late into the spring to protect the texture of my skin.

Oh, ves, I manicure my own nails

for fear some girl might damage them. It's my living and I can't afford to take a chance.” ‘Among the models whose week-

Tilden, the tennis player. A produet of the Philadelphia suburbs, Miss Tilden is a perfect type for subdebutante and collegiate fashion posing, although she does other more sophisticated jobs as well. Hollywood does not interest her. One of the things that gives Miriam a laugh is her fan mail Because the models work anonymously, the mail is sent to the magazines or the advertisers and then forwarded. She said she gets letters from cowboys in Arizona and ranchers in Wyoming, who tell how many bushels they get to the acre or how many head of cat-~ tle they own. ;

“They always end their letters,” she said, “by saying they are bored |

with the village girls.”

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live there than any other spot in town. Although the models are less active in the evening than the general public believes, those who do like to be seen in the hot spots gravitate to the Stork Club. After a while, they said, they will tire of it and go somewhere else.

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ALE models lead an unhappy life, the few that there are. The girls say that they never get excited about their fellow workers of the opposite sex. The consensus is that the men who pose are too smooth to be real. The girls who marry men in the modeling industry could be counted

il on the fingers of one hand. It’s . a very low score and one that

looks pretty dark for the handsome lads who model stiff collars

turn right around and put out the lights.

the president of the Gas Company.

called him info his office and said: the best lamplighter we ever had.” feel awful good, says Mr. Bernloehr.

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSO

son who expressed a finer conception of or seemed more anxious to deal fairly ponents.

Mr. Bernloehr never skipped a lamp on the route because by the time he was 12 years old, he wasn’t scared of anything—not even | Mr. Stacy, I guess his record got noised around, because one day Mr. Stacy “Chris, ‘you're It made him

A Woman's View

HE C. I. O. leader of the strikers in one Firestone plant at Akron is a man of remarkable sincerity. Whether you agree with him or not you must respect his belief in his cause. I have never talked to a pércial justice with his op-

There is a loyalty among the workers that does not exist in the ranks of their enemies. This is proved by the fact that men and women’ employed in the Goodrich plants contributed a small sum | each week . out of their pay envelopes to help out their striking Firestone fellows. It is this spirit of co-operation, 3 money sharing,

miss it, particularly at night when it is outlined by hts. = Hg told me the Golden Gate bridge was the last link in the Canadian-Mexican highway, and I know that highway has some very beautiful stretches. I drove through the redwoods two summers ago, and I shall never forget emerging from the shade of those enormBus trees, through which the sun barely filters, to the open sea with the foam breaking on the rocks and the brilliance of reflected sunshine all about. 3¥e had a pleasani lunch and I saw a few people before driving to the airport. Five minutes after reaching there, the plane from Los Angeles came in sight and a few minutes later my daughter and son-in-law Ee from it. . : : The gay was perfect for the trip, everything clear, except for a few white clouds which seemed to add to the heights of the mountains. The peaks stood out, snow covered, absolutely: white in the sun, and one passenger said to me, “Look at Mt. Rainier,” and another pointing at the same mountain said, “Look at Mt. Tacoma.” a si ; This mountain is so beautiful that two cities claim the right to name it. As I have waited in many places for days before seeing the tops of surrounding mountains, T felt this part of the world was extending a particular welcome by greeting me so beautifully en val. . ny iden were down at the airport and thers was much excitement when we reached the house. All wanted to show their particular rooms at once.

Davis, whose girlish face and figure and ability to look nonchalant in beach costume without locking tough, have made her a favorite. She is another of the small group not interested in Hol-

and golf clubs. There are quite a few middle- | * aged men who pose for character ads, chiefly to eke out otherwise ~ insufficient incomes. Such a man lywood. is David A. Larkin, a retired. Fire “Not for me—the movies,” she ~. Department chief, who works for said. “I think it’s silly to think | Howard Thornton, one of the about the films just because youre |'~model agents, and who usually good looking. If you can really | gets double fees because his apact, nothing in the world can | parent satisfaction over a keep you off the stage or away | ‘of beer or a pipeful of Kentucky from Hollywood.” burley is so convincing. Lillian Fox, whom John Powers Mrs. Marianna Smillie, director and his girls call “Foxy.” is a trim of the Empire Manikin School, little bit of charm, who has gone | has built up her reputation on the a long way in a few months. So | theory that beautiful girls can be normal and wholesome did her | taught how to model. Mrs. Smillie, picture jobs turn out that the | Who is in the Social Register, also Quaker State Oil Co. signed her | imparts poise and grace to debs up to work on the entire year’s | and their mothers. She puts the program of ads. ; ladies from Park Ave. through the It was while she was doing one | same limbering-up routines that of them that she had a good | ‘he manikins suffer, and before Jaugh on Halleck Finley, the pho- | :’ither the manikins or the debs tographer. . or the former debs may get their “I was up in the country on lo-. | ineepskins they must be able to. cation near a little stream run- | ialk a straight line, head up, and ning into the Croton water sys- | bt looking down. tem,” she recalled. “A boy model | | Mrs. Smillie says there is one was supposed to carry me across nforgivable sin among manithe stream. Mr. Finley got set with ins—strutting with a hand on his camera and the boy picked me ae hip. > up and started across. His arms

REMEMBER, BABIES ARE PEOPLE; DON'T TRY TO TALK DOWN TO THEM

that in the end will win the struggle for labor, for it is not to be found with a fine-toothCcomb among the corporation heads -who are their foes. Personally, they may be men of the highest integrity, and the kindest hearts imaginable. Perhaps each would gladly open his purse to help a aeighbor. But did. you ever see one corporation dig down into its broadcloth to keep another corporation alive? Business, in the main, is engaged In cutting throats, in a battle that is ever deadly and never ending. The Big Guy merges with another Big Guy and the two of them succeed in putting a hundred little guys into the employee class. In the rubber factories alone during the days of their greatest pr ity there was a sickening cutting of prices, a hogging af ‘markets and such shenanigans as would have wrecked any industry that didn’t have . the world by the tail as they did at that time. The American worker may not be 100 per cent right in his attitude and certainly he is often selfish, unfair and greedy, but he has a righteous cause—the cause of the underdog. That struggle has been going: on forever and jt will never cease. For in| its high- | est aspects it répresents man's eternal longing for a perfect social order. Out of our present crisis, event , ually, something fine for humanity is bound to come,

This is the first of several articles on “Babies as People.” May 3-9 is National Baby Week. |

By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

ABY PATSY ‘goes to: Mrs. Smith's with her mother to call. Mrs. Smith claps her hands as the little procession moves. up her walk and beams, “Here her tums.” ; She runs out and stoops down to the little blue-clad figure. “My, my, what a booful coat. Wanta tiss—I does. A gweat big one, an’ a hug.” Patsy submits to both, but as soon | as she can struggle away, seeks her mother’s skirt, and stares at Mrs. Smith out of her grea! blue eyes. After the guests are settled, the kindly hostess, with the best intentions in the world, finds things for baby to play “wivv,” as she says. But each time she addresses Patsy

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~ORSAKING the dancing days of a Virginia debutante, Rosalie Slaughter, daughter of a long line

she changes her tone and distorts her words. a The denouement comes when the serious-eyed little girl looks up at her mother and says quite distinct-

shook so, I don't know whether it was fatigue or emotion, that I felt like a dish of jelly. “Just at that minute Mr. Finley. slipped on the mossy rocks

\" John Powers says he has little . access with trained models. He “refers to his diamonds in ¢ he rough. ThaMisn't an accurate

+ imile. A diamond—the scientists |

tidmit—is a freak of nature, and

Your Health |

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN |

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HE truth is that adults not accustomed to little children are afraid of them. They try to stoop to the baby’s level, literally and figuratively. : It is a form of patronizing, and children resent it. Maybe they can’t

and went smacko into the water, holding the camera up at arm’s

of medical forbears, constituted herself a minority of one, took a determined stand against a disapprov- | -ing family, and commenced the study of medicine at ‘a period when the woman doctor was entering the «transition period between the pioneer woman in medicine and tpe college girls of today.” A WOMAN SURGEON, by Rosali Slaughter Moron (Stokes) is a record of a life full of service to humanity, of broad scope and idealism, and of superb courage. - In accomplishing her aims—to give a picture of this transition period; to “accent the number .| of splendid medical women now practicing and some- | thing of the work they are achieving”; to depict life pehind the trenches in the World War, and to tell

“{ model—if you ‘tan beligve their ¢ gents—is an earth-haltered angel.

Clapper Hits Suppression talk too plainly themselves, but Of Neutrality Bill Speech

that's different. When someone ! 3 : : - else tries it, they never see any sense : By RAYMOND CLAPPER to it. Times Special Writer All through childhood this goes ASHINGTON, May 3.—If you, in the House, limitation of debate on. Parents do it occasionally, but should look at page 5246 of

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal HE patient with tuberculosis is usually undere weight when first found to have the active dise ease. For many years doctors have considere i in weight an important sign of progress in thi stage of the disease. It is not desirable, however, to force a rapid gain of weight any more than to force a rapid loss of weight in cases of obesity. | The uninformed are likely to reco feeding, with milk and eggs, even six to ei meals a day. Any type of diet or nutrition that puts too great a strain on the di ive apparatus [is liable to do as much harm as good. | } Most authorities recommend that patients have their usual three meals a day, with the princi

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| something of her experiences in Serbian war work © | and reconstruction—the author has succeeded . | eminently. | Into her book she has instilled an ardor for her | profession, a zeal for helpfulness, | dynamic energy which carried her to far-flung coun- "| tries. She struggled in India with bubonic plague, fought disease in tent hospitals behind the firing line, || traveled through the “Grenfell country” in Labrador, || studied in South Africa, gave of herself and: of her fortune in many causes. She has written not only | the record of the life of a successful physician, but \also that of a triumphant womanhood. i 2 s = 8 > | ~ |gPF you have ever thought that you could write a | I better movie with your eyes shut than the one you

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mostly it is relatives or strangers who are ill at ease with children. These youngsters like to be met on their own ground. They don't want people talking down to them.

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Both were strangers. One was a baby of 22 months, the other a liitle girl of two and a half. They were extremely “good.” In each case I said, “How do you do?” politely, and then proceeded to let them alone, except to hand out some boxes with interesting lids

visited us on different days. |

Let-alone friendliness inspires baby to a more cheerful response than gushy ecstasy.

same, these. two babies, alone method.

2 2 2 HEY made the first overtures toward friendliness, began to

to the let-

the word?), they learn to distrust strangers.

When we try to talk to older children as though they were morons, instead of making them feel our

the Congressional Record for April 29 you would find there a blot which looks strangely out of place in the official chronicle of a Democratic CongresS. Above the report of a speech by a Representative from Minnesota appears this startling heading: “The speech I was not permitted to make—Most democratic country in the world suppresses elected representatives of the people—'Neutrality’ resolution jammed through by hush-hush method of dictatorship.” - Then follows the speech which

Is necessary. But upon this measure, which was held back and brought in at the last minute, just in me to get it passed and flown

| to the President for signature be-

fore the old law expired, not a single opponent was permitted to Speait. Only three or tour favoring the 1neasure were given the floor. } 2 =» = - ] EP. BERNARD wished to discuss the billhin the light of the {ipanish situation, which certainly is’ pertinent to the subject.

Ever. if the House leaders were.

at nodn rather than at night. Feeding betw is not wise if it: s the appetite for reg or impairs the ability of the person to digest

patients may require more frequent f small amounts of easily digested food. : A patient who is exercising will take mo than oné who is usually at rest.

many known as the Sauerbruch and He and Gerson diets. It was believed that, by of these diets, it was possible to change the which the germ grows.

ture rich in calcium. The diet also includ

not possible to give three regular meals daily, Such with

‘The essential feature of these diets is the eli - tion of table salt and the substitution of a salt mix-

equals, we sever all sympathetic contact at once. Sincerity should motivate us. And

once we get that idea fixed in our . s minds, we will no longer be afraid shove the revised neutrality bill

of those very normal people we call Snrgiigh both houses of Congress in “children,” these serious-minded time so the members hs da little folk who regard their world go e vely and e + to do the Japanese Embassy for tea in honor | democ acy. Sra xpect others of the Emperor's 4 This incident would fit better in

|lhave just witnessed, here is your chance to prove it. HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE, Arthur L. Gale (Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.) answers all the questions. Although Mr. Gale writes from the viewpoint of ‘the amateur, the methods expounded are those used in Hollywood. In a clear, concise way, with many {illustrations, he discusses continuity, cinema's tools, ~* short subjects, photoplay plots and scenarios, sound and color. He treats the writing of movies asa seri- _. ous but separate art with its own aims ja problems. i fo i oe : :

punishing Rep. Bernard for opposing the extension of the arms embargo to Spain some weeks ago, that still (loes not explain why they refuseil to permit any discussion of this revised neutrality measure from opponents. It is bad stuff ip a

I always keep.

Rep. John T. Bernard (F.-L.) was When they began to feel a bit at

prevented from making by Administration leaders who had decided to

ask me things and one even let me

home and started to explore the |tuck her into the chair beside me. house, I asked their worried moth- | All this time I addressed scarcely ers to “please let them alone.” la word to her. I had not prattled It wasn't 15 minutes until they | myself into a suspicious position or were friends with Mister, our dog, |made her think that I “acted and toddled over to me as natur- | funny.” : ally as though I had known them | If we pounce upon little children | Si 5 birthday. cident wo always. They roasted precisely the |and frighten - them (or is ‘iggust | (Coriont, 1097, NEA Service, Tne | Becaiise of the membersifip| Germany than here in’ Atnerica.

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amcunts of uncooked fresh vegetables and salads with added fruit juices. ; 1° The meats in the diet are cut down, as are also the sugars; the total amount of water taken is lessened, and fresh fruit and vegetable ‘juices are sub- | stituted for water. . Id These diets have seemed to be of value in many cases but they still are experimental so far as concerns any routine adoption of them even by leaders

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