Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1937 — Page 11

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Milk Costs 25 Cents a Quart, Daily Paper a Dime and Haircuts Are $I In Fairbanks, Alaska's Inland City.

AIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 4.—Some peo-

the best town in Alaska. Some say Anchorage, and some say Juneau. I can say this about Fairbanks—it's the least “Alaskan” looking of any of the towns I've been in. If I didn't know it was Alaska I'd swear it was seme Texas or Oklahoma oil town, Fairbanks fs Alaska’s only inland eity of importance. All the others are on big water. True, the Chena River runs through town. But it's really only a slough, which the Chamber of Commerce: calls a river. There is no heavy forest growth, but there is vegetation evervwhere. It's plenty hot here now. It has been above 90 degrees on three recent days, and vou ought to hear the people complain. It gets cool at night though, even if it is daylight all night. Fairbanks’ population is about 2500. You hardly ever see an Indian on the street. Many of the houses are of logs, but the new ones are residences such as you see in the States. People have decided to live here. at least locking buildings The downtown sidewalks are of concrete, but the streets aren't paved In a town of this size it's know everybody else town in that respect. Why, already, I can't walk half a block without seeing a dozen people I know.

Exists on Gold

Fairbanks exists mainly on gold. But the “diggings” are 10 miles see around town are the many trucks.

Mr. Pyle

should

Fairbanks, being the biggest thing in the center of |

Alaska, is a transportation center. The railroad comes up from Seward, on the coast way goes 370 miles south to the coast at Valdez. Yukon River Pacific Alaska Airlines runs from here to Nome once a week. g0 everywhere, dozens of times daily. Prices are high here, but not My hotel room is oldish Alaska Meals run a little higher than in the States. breakfast costs

- 3 . “ye here higher anywhere in

at home

dinner too. All the restaurants are good. But

the world, so vou needn't look for many fresh things. Candy Bars Still a Nickel

Chocolate bars are still a nickel up here. nickel magazines are a dime pack. The movie (there's one every night) is 60 cents. The daily paper (The News-Miner, and it's very good) costs a dime. Now up we go. Haircuts are a dollar cents a quart. You hardly ever see anybody drinking

a glass of milk, although there are two dairy farms |

just outside of town. A shoeshine is 25 cents. It costs $2.50 to get a suit cleaned and pressed. A fiber sunhat and black mosquito net set you back $2.25 People say rents are terrific. They tell me that on the whole living is about a third higher than in a this size in the States. But it is no higher than in cities like Washington and New York. Stamps, I am happy to report, are 3 cents apiece

town

By Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Outwits Thundershower | And Takes Pcol Plunge Before Rain.

EW YORK, Tuesday. —I so well vesterday that I didn't have to go into Poughkeepsie at all. Someone else took my column into the telegraph office, when she left for the train. So I sat in the sun for an hour in the afternoon. Then it looked as though a thunderstorm was about to break, and I jumped into the pool for a swim and out again.

planned my time

There is no reason why one shouldn't swim in the

rain. But in a thunderstorm most of us prefer to be indoors, or at least on a porch where we can watch the stort and feel that we are the audience and not part of the play When the storm finally broke it was nothing but a few minutes of hard rain and one or two rumbles in the distance. Then the sun came out again and by that time I was comfortably established on the poreh, reading the last proofs of my story for the magazine.

I think you could read a hundred times what you have |

written and still find mistakes and ways in which to change your manuscript! It is really most discouraging, for you never feel quite satisfied. I was glad to hear, yesterday, from a mutual friend that Dorothy Thompson is back in her home in Vermont and recuperating fast. had good health and that being an invalid is not easy, even for a short time. So I hope the restrictions that

weakness puts upon us all soon will give way in her |

case to her usual sense of well-being

Mrs. Scheider and I planned to board the train to |

New York City this morning and very nearly missed it. I think I must have looked at the time-table withe out my glasses. I ¢an see things well at a distance, but nearby they are not as distinct as thev used to be. Time-tables are things you must see cleariv. Anyway, I thought the train left at 7:57 a. my. and it really left at 7:50 a. m. We were among the last to get aboard and it pulled out immediately Once in New York City I started out to do a nume ber of errands, among them to go to the 63th St, which our oldest son James and his wife now have, and look over a number of articles I left there. Every time I go there, I am appalled by the things one accumulates in the course of a long life. I went to the trunk room to look in the blanket chest and found the room packed with trunks. I couldnt remember what was in any of them! I feel sure I could help to furnish several apartments, so I am going to start right in on my brother's. He is a nice person to furnish for, because the only direction he gave me was to look over the apartment I had suggested, get anything I thought he needed and not spend any money!

There are some fine |

natural that everybody It is typically small- |

out, and the only evidence of gold you |

The Richardson High- | The | Steese Highway goes north 162 miles to Circle, on the |

Some | Cigarets. are 20 cents a |

Milk is 23 |

I know she has always

| geographically.

house on |

(Last of a Series)

By LEO DAUGHERTY A NEW life has come to the hoy and girl on the Indiana farm!

Theirs is no longer a life of drudgery, oil lamps and “nothing to do” after the day’s work is done.

The REMC has brought them light, electricity and opportunity to use modern conveniences in their daily tasks. And the Indiana Farm Bureau, working in close co-operation with Purdue University, hag brought them pleasure and recreation.

There's more to life on the farm now than earning bread and trying to pool together enough cash to pav off the mortgage or to at least meet the interest.

For a good many vears the 4-H clubs have been providing recreational and competitive activity for the children, but when the boy or girl on the farm reached the age of 18 he was tossed out of the 4-H as an “adult” and there wasn't much for him to do. The 4-H Club conducts its activities on the five-year plan and is desighed to give practical, physical and religious guidance to the youth until he's 18. What then? The State Farm Bureau and Purdue asked that question, too, and decided to do something for these so-called “old folks.” They designed a progam for those between the ages of 18 and 30. Some, of course, could go to college, but lack of finances prevented the majority, “They need guidance,” said Cyrus I. Dyer, assistant educational director of the Farm Bureal. He was speaking in the absence of M. K. Derrick, director, who contends that field work is the important thing and for that reason can't spend a lot of time at his desk. “This firm’s organization,” continued Mr. Dyer, “will need lead-

‘ers 5 to 10 years from now and

we realize the need for deveioping them. Purdue feels the same way and for that reason we are working together to train leaders and give the farm boys and girls recreation that they never have had before.” ® 2 ® LUBS composed of youths in each county were the answer to the problem. The Farm Bureau called meetings and after eager response began organizing county co-opera-tive clubs. They assumed a variety of names. A typical name is “Hoosier Builders.” There were only 20 clubs last year, but after 10 camps were conducted the leaders began spreading word of their worth. Now there are young people's clubs in 64 Indiana counties. To bring about such an extensive organization, the Farm Bureau and Purdue selected the most promising young men and women to initiate meetings and explain to nonmembers just what the clubs were doing. Their efforts were rewarded. Ten camps were held last vear, but only five are to be held this vear. However, that does not mean a curtailment in activities.

§ & 4 HE Farm Bureau has divided the state into 10 districts, The state was “sliced” down the middle and then

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districts numbered “1° and “2” Across Co-operative club members from two districts are to attend each of this year’s camps. Membership is limited to six campers from each county, but if one county does not fill its quota another may send more members. Applications for this year’s camp exceed the quotas by far, according to Mr. Dyer. Camping periods are for one week, from Monday morning through breakfast the next Saturday morning. The first this year is to begin Aug. 2 at Taylor University at Upland. [It is to be for Districts 4 and 6. Others are to be at MeCormick's Creek Park for Districts 5, 7 and 9; Lake Wawbee for Districts 1 and 2; Camp Tecumseh, for Districts 3 an 5, and Versailles Camp for Districts 8 and 10. 8 2 ® HE camp programs include yearly program planning; discussions of leadership qualifi-

By Clark

The 4-H Clubs have their camps, ton. These pictures were snapped at the Boy Scout Reser vation camp for club members from Marion, Hamilton, Boone, Hanetek and Delaware Counties,

1. The young slugger awaiting the piteh is Donald Gudgell, MeCordsville. The cateher is Richard Muir, Valley Mills,

9. Stories are told as boys gather around the campfire at night.

3. Swinging on the grapevine is Joseph Reynolds of West Newton,

4’ Plaving mumbling - peg are Gene Kennedy (left), Greenfield, and James Rose, Valley Mills,

cations; practice for game leaders, dramatic leaders, music leaders and for officers in developing topics and projects There are discussed also the future of agriculture, nature appreciation, leadership and probe lems confronting each farm neighborhood. Bach camper furnishes his own clothing and accessories. One in-

| dividual from each county is sup=-

posed to arrange payment for all leaders from that county. The

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1087

Electricity, the 1937 Farm Hand

ple from “outside” consider Fairbanks |

Indiana Rural Youths, Given Time to Play by Science, Turn to Camps

plan saves time and confusion during registration. Camp lodging and meals cost $5 a person. oy 4 these farm eat at camp

DDLY enough, vouths do not the products they raise. Original Iv, each one brought something along as to a pienie, but the plan caused too Much eonfusion, Time

fl Tip for Labor Law in U.S. \ Seen in British Act

By E RR yy Sulla Aug. British Fair Trades

| made liable for damages suffered by 4.The | employers in the course of an illegal |

Dispute strike.

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formerly used for preparing meals is now slated for periods of study and discussion, Persons now are hired to prepare and fumish meals, Four Farm Bureau leaders ate tend each camp and supervise ace tivities. They include Mr. Derrick and Mr, Dyer, and Miss Andra Swift, recreational director, and Mise Ada Richards, assistant,

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Our Town

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By Anton Scherrer Sideshow Artist Who Played Piano With Her Toes Merely One of City's Talented Folks a Few Years Back.

HE dime museum, I remember, gave us the most for our money when I was a kid, It had everything the sideshow has, and then some, At any rate, I recall that the dime

museum at the corner of Washington St. and Capitol Ave. where the Park Theater used to stand, was never without a tattooed sailor, a bearded lady, a rubber man, a wildman from Borneo and a human skeleton. And once, as a special attraction, it had Miss Lizzie Sturgeon. All for a dime. Miss Sturgeon played the piano with her bare toes. I heard her play “The Maiden's Prayer” that way, and it impressed me so much that I stuck around the rest of the afternoon hoping that, maybe, she would tackie something with a faster tempo the next time she was scheduled to appear. She did, too. It was “Hearls and Flowers,” and you have no idea how it made her toes twinkle. I got home late for supper that night, and have reason to remember it,

Town Full of Eccentrics

If you knew your way around Indianapolis at the time, however, it wasn't necessary to spend a dime to see eccentric people. The town was full of them without going to a museum, Chris Bernloehe remembers, for instance, that in 1886 or thereabouts, a Dr. Lighthall from Texas came to Irish Hill, and set up his tent in the woods between the Pennsyle vania R. R, tracks and Cruse St. He stayed several weeks and pulled teeth for nothing. He said it wouldn't hurt, and so Mr. Bernloehr took his mother around one day. His mother said it hurt like everye thing. Pulling teeth painlessly wasn't the real reason, though, why Dr, Lighthall came to Irish Hill. His real business was to sell medicine, and to do it right, he dressed up like Buffalo Bill. Indeed, Dr. Lighte hall went Buffalo Bill one better, because he ale ways wore $10 gold pieces for buttons on his coat and vest,

Rolling in Money

Dr. Lighthall always gave the impression that he was rolling in money, says Mr. Bernloehr, because | even when business was slack, he dug into his pants’ | pocket and pulled out a handful of nickels ahd dimes which he threw into the crowd. For some reason, | the kids on Irish Hill always beat their parents to it,

| Dr. Lighthall claimed his medicine was good for | everything, and so one day Mr, Bernloehr bought a | basketfull. It cost exactly $25. Which wasn't | strange, because back in those days almost every | person thought he had something the matter with | him. You couldn't pick up an almanac, for ine | stance, or read a patent medicine ad without being the sickest man on earth, The advertisements of | the patent medicine people were especially good in diagnosing what was the matter with you, Well, Mr. Bernloehr's investment didn't do him a bit of good, he says, because as soon as Dr. Lighte hall left town, and he began reading the almanacs, again, he discovered that he was as bad off & ever.

Mr. Scherrer

A Woman's View

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Men Want Wives to Work, Writer Says, but Dislike Them to Be Paid.

T is hard to understand the attitude of certain mode ern men toward women. In the matter of worke ing wives, for example, Men have always been willing to accept the help of their women. There was never a time in history when the mother, wife, daughter, sister, grandmother and maiden aunt did not contribute hard labor to the upkeep of the family unit. We have yet to meet the husband who raises his voice in protest because his wife slaves her life away in his kitchen, Long before women could hold down paying jobs in the business world there were plenty of married ones who took in washings, or kept boarders, or eked out a pitiful sum doing home sewing. The male beneficiaries of such efforts did not act aggrieved, Neither did the pioneer fathers fuss when their mates died in their prime from work, hardship and childbearing. The modern man, however loudly he howls, is much the same, It isn't. the fact that his wife works that irks him; it's only that he wants to tell her what kind of work she can do. He likes to see her oce cupied, but at some task he has chosen, There is more than a fair argument on his side when he contends that a woman ought to keep his home for him if he is able to pay the bills, and tend the children herself when there are any, but if such is not the case he hasn't a leg to stand on when he declares that she has no business supples menting the family income with cash caring, Why not, pray? When he is willing to welcome the help of a wife at all his pride ought to bear up under the strain of having such help offered in the form of wages. Surely these men do not propose to have women live without working at all? Let's call a spade by its right name. their wives to work-they don't like get paid for their work, that's all,

Men want to see them

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

HEN Hungry Bill Shoshone cried, “White ones coming” on Christmas day, 1849, Death Valley became a Mecca for adventurers, fugitives, prospecs tors and even tourists. In 1016 Dane Coolidge trave eled over the valley with guides, who always managed to get lost, and collected first-hand information, une til now unavailable to the reading public. Such famous characters as Smitty, who would kill

and Trade Unions Act of 1827 has | been offered as a clue to possible fu | conducted in such numbers or in

ture amendments in the Wagner [Such WHERE Sh I likely to |

This visit is a very unexpected one and I regretted coming to the city, for there is always so much to keep one busy in the country. But I had to make one or

for his burros or his dog, Oscar Denton, superine tendent for eight years of Furnas Creek Ranch, where the temperature has reached 134 degrees; John

intimidate Ee

two appointments this afternoon and see one or two friends. After an early supper we will motor back to Hyde Park, to the cool of green trees and green grass and the quiet which is disturbed only by the sounds of birds and insects

Walter O'Keefe —

LONGSIDE those immortal names of literature like Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Mitchell must now be listed the latest literary sensation in the best seller field—the Democratic National Committee. ast vear, at 230 bucks a copy, it sold over one million dollars worth, and famous booklovers like the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Co. went crazy trying to get first editions. The romantic interest was much move gripping than that of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, Jim Parlier woos and wins 48 states Now it looks as if it's going to run a continued story; beeauise it's bringing out another book at five pucks & copy And many a deserving Democrat ean spend his summer working his way through the electoral eollege.

| Labor Relations Act in | employers. | Washington following bitter denun-

behalf of The clues were given in

ciation of the National Labor Rela« tions Board. President Roosevelt has indicated he feels the Board is operating with reasonable fairness to all concerned. The British act was passed after the great general strike of 1026, which brought the nation lo the brink of widespread civil disorder.

AIN points: 1. The legislation prohibited general or sympathetic strikes by providing that a strike (or lockout) should be illegal if the object was other than in furtherance of a trade dispute in the industry in which the strikers were engaged, or if its ob jeet was to coerce the Government directly or by inflicting hardship on the community.

disturbance, ». ” ”

4 The act required trade unions |

to make separate accounting of po« litical contributions and fuels and

to report thereon to the Coverns- |

ment, 5. The law made it illegal for a

‘union to assess any member for

contributions to a union political fund unless he had previously noti« fled the union in writing of his willingness to contribute. 6. With certain minor exceptions, civil servants were forbidden to te members of any organization whose primary object was to influence wages or working conditions, unless such organization was composed solely of Crown employees and not affiliated with prohibited organi zations. 7. Penalties were provided for persons breaking a service contract

cause any | |

FELLOW: | WARN'Y WE

DESPICABLE PRACTICE BY their works ye shall know them. The roadhog cuts a wide swath all right and takes in much

more territory than the law and rules of courtesy permit, But just remember, it's dangerous to dispute his right to your part of the road. He just takes the whole street and lets other drivers take what they can get, He's a despicable, selfish poor, It's hard to pierce his cloak of egotism and about the only line

Lemoigne, the philosophical Frenchman who held his million dollar mine for 40 years; and Death Valley Scotty, whose recognition alone makes all who are fortunate enough to meet him almost equally fas mous, are resurrected in DEATH VALLEY PROS. PECTORS (Dutton), each one perhaps a little crazy, certainly suspicious, and always secretive. The photos graphs made by the author will add much to your enjoyment of this book.

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NE hundred years ago Alexander Pushkin died, The centennial of his death has brought forth several biographies of Russia's greatest poet, among them PUSHKIN, by Ernest J. Simmons (Harvard University Press), In following the life and thoughts of the poet, Mr. Simmons has created a human and vivid picture of the Russian genius, Born into the romantic era which swept across Europe, Pushkin struggled for the freedom of his soul and for the right to create as his talents dictated. In contrast to the Byronic quality of the poet's life, is the background of court intrigue, society scandal and secret police censorship which characterized the old regime Russia in all its terrify= ing glory. Readers who know little of Russian litera= tran

This new ohne is a stenographic report of the 1088 ‘ convention, and it sounds as and thrilling | | went without lunch i i ¢} 3 that

2. Penalties were provided for per- | with a public authority with reason

of talk that gets down beneath his thick ‘skin is when the

ture will still enjoy this biography, for genius judge | scends place, and in this book Pushkin lives

just to get that feeling

of suffering