Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1937 — Page 26

Vagabond From Indiana— Ernie Pyle

Indiana Among 27 States Sending Students to University of Alaska, Whose Graduates Are Sure of Jobs.

JF AIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 9.—“There isn't one person out of a hundred in the States, I suppose, who knows there is a university in Alaska,” I said to Carl Franklin, the youthful registrar who was showing me

around. “One out of a hundred?” he said. “There isn't one in 10000. To tell the truth, I didn’t know it myself till I came up here.” But there is a University of Alaska, and it's no backwoods make-believe university, either. It does look different from most of our universities. But it goes about things in pretty much the same way. The university sits on a cleared hilltop about five miles out of Fairpanks. A gravel road runs past it. On clear days you can see Mt. McKinley from the grounds. And

there is a beautiful view far down I expect now |

and then vou could see a moose |

into Tanana Valley.

runhing through the low brush. There are half a dozen goodsized buildings on the Most of them are two-story straight-sided

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frame

buildings, painted battleship gray and resembling | But a couple of newer ones are of |

army barracks concrete, handsome and modern. : The university is 15 years old. Ever since founding, the president has been Dr. Charles Bunnell, of whom very high things are spoken up here.

Enrollment at 200

The coeducational, 200 students. their way through school.

pletely self-supporting. Just about all the work there is to be done around

the school is done by students. Students fire the heating piants. Students do all Kitchen and dining-room work. Students act as watchmen and snow shovelers. Students run the postoffice, and the college store. A student runs a barber shop. Two girl students and their mother do the laundry. Last year, in a dormitory of 60 girls, only two were not working. Board and room at the dormitories costs $45 a month. About 120 of the 200 students live at the school in the three dormitories. The 80 others get quarters in Fairbanks, and go back and forth by bus. The university runs an experimental farm nearby which produces meat, vegetables and milk for the students. I don’t know how that works out, for I'm sure that after anvone has lived a year out of tin cans in Alaska a drink of fresh milk would make him sick. Students pay no tuition. There are some small fees which seldom run over $20 a semester. Alaska Steamship Co. and the Alaska Railroad both

university is and has ‘about

More than half are com-

“campus.” |

its |

Better than 80 per cent of them work |

The |

give students round-trip tickets for the price of one |

way.

Seven Students Hoosiers

Oddly enough, nearly half the student body comes

directly from the States. Tt seems the main reason is that there is alwavs a job waiting for a University of Alaska graduate. ka So a voung fellow interested in mining, for m-

stance, hears about Alaska University, and knows the |

gold mines will be right under his nose and that the

chances are good he'll get a job in them when he |

graduates. There are seven students from Indiana, and nearly all of them are from around Terre Haute. i.ast vear 27 student Indians,

body. There were also a few Eskimos and but not many. My friend Hannah Yasuda,

the half-Eskimo half-Japanese girl from Beaver, is |

the university's star athlete.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Mrs. Roosevelt Wonders Whether | She Was Complimented on Driving. |

: | states and territories were represented in the |

HE PARK. N. VY. Sunday-—Motoring to New | York early vesterday, the world was pleasant to |

look at, even though the temperature was extremely warm. I had to stop once for gas and I chose a sta-

tion where IT thought I never had stopped before and,

therefore, would not be recognized. As I paid for the pas, however, the boy said to me: “You are traveling alone, Mrs. Roosevelt. usually have someone with you?” As 1 stopped at a traffic light on Riverside Drive, a young man in a car next to mine said: “You drive a car as well as Franklin Jv. fishes!” I had never thought of Franklin Jr. as an able fisherman, so I wasn't quite sure whether to accept that as a compliment or not. Once at the apartment, T changed my clothes and

went to Calvarv Church for the wedding of my young |

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cousin, 'W. Forbes Morgan, to Miss Marie Newsom of Oklahoma. She looked sweet in her white dress and floating tulle veil. But they both seemed rather alone, as they came in and stood before the altar. Two other voung cousins and their husbands were there and a few of Forbes’ and Marie's friends. Afterwards thev all came back to sur little apartment and had luncheon before the bridal couple sailed for Rermuda. I was glad to be able to be there and to have this little party, for while I belong to their generation, I am $0 much older that I always feel I belong to another generation. When vou are young, it is nice to believe that somewhere in the background there are older persons to whom you can turn. They are a kind of bulwark between vou and the future. After the newlyweds had gone, my brother and I visited together and then he went off to Washington. I got back into my country clothes, Before 1 left New York I had a most interesting talk with Miss Louise Yim. She is a most charming woman from Korea who for some time. has had & school there for voung girls. She told me that at one time free public education was making progress, but at present 80 per cent of the people are illiterate and girls, while they may do very beautiful handwork-— some specimens of which she brought me-—are not able to take business or professional positions because there is no way of receiving training. To give this training is her aim and she is over here hoping to get help from Americans interested in education, who also have an interest in the Far East. We have many who have been interested in schools in China and Japan, but I think few of us know much about Korea. entirely different from either Chinese or Japanese. She told me much of their history, which was inters esting and new to me. Her personality is arresting and I wish many could hear her speak about her people. Back at Hyde Park by 5:30, and my husband came over to the cottage for tea. He had had a peaceful day and in spite of the rain had seen a good deal of his woods. Today we are going to church, afterwards having a few persons in for lunch and supper. On the whole, the President is getting a £00d rest.

Walter O'Keefe —

ENTIAL Jim Farley, the big stamp and handshake man, soon may quit his job and become head salesman for an automobile company up in Buffalo.

With Jim doing an “off to Buffalo,” it looks as if |

the Republicans have at long last got a reason for celebrating with a banquet. Mr. Farley's new bosses probably figure that with Jim working for them they'll be one corporation which won't have to buy those convention books &t $250 =u copy. If Jim is as successful an automobile salesman as he was selling Mr. Roosevelt to the country it looks as if Pord, Chrysler and the other lads will be able to, sell their ears only in Maine and Vermont. His friends say that Jim is quitting aus he Ad-

Don’t you |

| worker or some earnest physician | By EATH rates from diphtheria, | older age groups we have seen scarstuberculosis and typhoid | able, therefore, that public health

I did not realize they have a language

The Indianapolis

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1937

(Last of a Series)

By Gordon Turrentine NEA Service Special Writer

K INGSVILLE, Tex, Aug. 9.—The great King Ranch, which has withstood armed assault by riders from across the border, has also just withstood a legal assault on the unity of the fence-walled kingdom. There is little surprise in Texas at the failure of the first move in attempt to divide the almost feudal kingdom founded by Capt. Richard King in 1854. The people here would be no more amazed if the Lone Star State were cut in two than if the King Ranch dropped even one brushcovered county. Nations fall, the budget is unbalanced, and crises shake the four corners of the world, but this private empire which spills its acres over parts of all of eight counties goes right on its own— some say—autonomic way. » n 8 FEDERAL Court's denial to Fdwin and Ethel Atwood of an application to place the ranch in receivership was just one more sign to einch the fact that the empire raises a solid front against any dissolution. The Atwoods, who live in ‘Chicago, are grandchildren of the late Richard King and Mrs. Henrietta King, whose will they are attacking. Their suit for $40,000,000 accounting is still pending. The will provided that the Atwoods should receive one-eighth each of the combined 323,790-acre Novias Fast and Bl Sauz ranches, a subdivision, $0 to speak, of the entire King empire. ” ” 5 HBS division, however, and other family bequests, was to be preceded by a 10-year trusteeship during which the entire King holdings were to be administered by a board of trustees. Mrs. King died in 1925. The trusteeship Was to end in March, 1935, During those 10 years the Atwoods were to receive $250 monthly. Another Atwood, a brother of the two involved in the litigation, also was given one-eighth

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lives that are saved annually

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of El Sauz ranch and was to receive $300 monthly. The Atwood suit sought a receivership and an accounting of the $40,000,000 ranch properties. It charged that the trusteeship had clouded the title of the Atwood properties; that the trusteeship failed to dissolve in 1835 as provided in the will, but kept right on operating; that the Atwood property is the poorest of the empire, consisting of barren brushland over which “stocker” steers roam. on LJ] » HE trustees are Robert J. Kleberg Jr, ranch manager, and Representative Richard Kleberg, both King grandchildren; Caesar Kleberg, cousin of Robert: John D. Finnegan, Samuel G. Ragland, and Richard King Jr. They contend that the suit was the result of an old enmity be-

WHAT CHANCE PEACE?

Possibility that European war may be avert 2d is seen by William Philip Simms, Times Foreign editor, oh the basis months’ survey of the Continent. The first of his dispatches charting the sible path toward peace and appear oh this page tomorrow,

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An entirely new breed of beef evolved hy the Kleberg family in the famous King Ranch. The

tonghorns, top, which were the life of the Southwestern beef cattle business after the Civil were crossed with Brahmas, lower left, the curious

tween the late Mrs. Henrietta King and the Atwood family, and that the trusteeship continues in effect because it is the most effiefent way of handling the ranch’s far-flung affairs. Also brought out was a mortgage of $3,000,000 to pay inheritance taxes, and to provide working capital. This, the trustees say, does not cloud the Atwood title ih ease they should wish to sell There is an arrangement with the Humble Oil Co. which loaned the money and accepted oil and gas leases for 20 vears' interest. By paving $4 an acre to the estate as a whole, any section or part of the ranch properties may be cleared of the mortgage. The two Atwoods, with their two-

Of 800,000 Lives in U.S. Yearly

“During the past 35 years we have total of 4336 to 77.1 from 1900 to ASHINGTON, Aug. 9-—-The withessed a marked change ih the | 1035. In cases of the five diseases

medical health problems of the country,” Dr.| I have mentioned, we are now ex-

ah annual waving of

“The greatest advances ih life

cause some white-robed laboratory | causes has declined from 176 to 109. saving have been in diseases of

made a new discovery. Approximately

would have heen lost in 1900.

800,000 American | [lives are saved each year now that let fever, | fever has declined from a combined should be

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diarrhea and enteritis,

[early age. Among diseases of the

creases in death rates. It is inevit-

with the cancer and

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| JUST look at this chart showing | the death rate per 100000 for [1000 and 1935, the most recent |'vear tabulated! This shows What | progress has been made by medi | eine, | Disease 1000 | Diphtheria 433 | Diarrhea and enteritis 1333 Searlet fever \ | Tuberculosis | Typhoid fever ” HE decrease ih smallpox, the disease which has been cone quered by the mass inoculation of | children and adults, is just as stars tling although it is oh a small seale., In 1000, 19 persons out of every 100000 estimated population died from smallpox; since 1932 the number of deaths from this disease

have been less than one-tenth of one per 100,000 Deaths from all forms of influ. ehza and pneumonia have been cut nearly ih half during the 35 years. [Th 1900, the rate was 2034 per 100,[000 whereas th 1915, the rate was | 104, ww Ww N the other side of the scales | of death, the disease of middle | and old age has been claiming ine creasingly larger humbers of vietims. Here are a few of the major

examples: Disease 1000 1035 830 1070

Cancer and other diseases ....... 1821 D131 HOR accidents wee 28.2

1935 3.1 141 2.1 B54 28

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humped breed that ix so valuable an asset of Thdia, The result, after long experimentation, has been a completely new breed, the Sahta Gertrudis, ohe of which is showh at lower right. The Klebergs believe their new breed will mean much to Ameri cah beefl-cattle raivers.

eighths of the lower ranch, inherited 80,948 acres. Presumably by paving something over $323,000 the Atwoods could clear their inheritance.

cattle has heeh their conduct of traditional Texas

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» » » HEIR request that the King ranch be thrown into receiv ership being denied, the Atwoaods still have a suit for an accounting of the trustee management for the period from 1925 to 1935. The trustees answer this request by saving they gave ah accounting ih 1935. Then, they say, the Atwoods did not answer requests for advice oh the division of the property, so will was followed. The Atwoods could sell to the King trustees, and probably will, observers believe, Somnus

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"Longest’ Cotton Road Near Completion

BY Netence Service give a good permanent bituminous G of the longest stretches of “pot | quantity of clay in the base. Reton road” ih the natioh fe almost [duction of the clay cuts down the completed near here and will be for- capillary action of the base that ‘mally opened ih ceremonies attend. draws up water; water that in cold od by Federal and State highway Weather freezes, expands and cracks officials this month, the overlying hard surfaces, Fourteen and one-half miles of Ootton roads have heen installed [trond between Faison and Olinton, (Oh alrport runways where traffic is IN. OC. comprize the experimental light and where there is need for a ‘stretch of highway which, during [smooth surface, the next three years, will tell high- Ee ES

way engineers what weight of cotton / fabric forts the best binding layer D J+ 3 V 4 B ‘DRIVERS

oh the erushed stone=bituminous By National Safety

| roadway, [ Various weights of cotton sheet[ing have been laid down ih short sections, but identical treatment of all other parts of the highway have been achieved. After three years of wear a comparative check of endurance will be possible,

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LA nD. Susy mix forms the base of the highway. After [saturation with a tar prifhing coat, | the cotton fabric is laid down. An | asphalt coating weals this cotton [fabric inh place and then erushed |stone first of one-inch and finally [five-eighths size fs rolled oh With the proper sealing by more asphalt,

Object of the eottoh roads fx to | prevent “washboard” ripples that (ehake car and driver alike, and to

Heard in Congress ALL TIRED OUT

Senator Smith D. ©. 8)- Nb; we Tires get tired of man's in[are sweet enough without that, | humanity to motor cars ahd blow | (Laughter) 1d ih Shaun yoy wil Ha | or Just 6 mud =e a aire | Nenator Ashurst (D. Ariz)-=One | ppg hen like humans, they exor two rentences that fell from the plode and leave you flat. You lips of the able Senator (Borah) i= | can't trust tires after they have | dicated that he thought I Was at. | jsnched the point of mileage sat tempting to array hit againet my- | ration for they become “old self, T did not nttempt any such | ymoothies” and old smoothies are | thing. Tt is my exclusive privilege | trioky, vou know. Don't walt for | here to array myself against myself | the fnevitable blowout, Tvs cheap wheh I see fit. (Laughter) er and safer to put oh new tires Senntor Borah (R. Tda)<-No; we | before the old ones are worh out, all share that honor with the Sena- | When it's tithe to retire=-why just tor, put ‘sm on,

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JOE, REMIND ME TO GET ALL NEW | TIRES IN THE SAMORNING |

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer Euphemist's Progress, Reflected In Fall Styles, Evokes Alarm From Columnist Who Favors Plain Speech,

HE way things look at present, 1 don't think I'm going to like the fall styles. Women this fall, I understand, are going to wear “asymmetric piped opera pumps of suede.” Jackets will be “brief and bulky.” Schiaparelli's newest perfume designed for the fall trade will be called “Shocking.” Hats are going to Be “upshooting” black antelope berets. Either that, or “duck bill” berets. And unless I miss my guess, all the “silk-and-acetate” dresses are going to be bunchy around the throat and the waist in spite of the alluring advertisements to the contrary that necklines, this fall, are going to look “like a boat.” I bring up the subject of fall styles, not because I want to, but because 1 want to warn you of the alarming progress of euphemism on the part of those who want to make this world a less cruel place to live in. Take the little item of “asymmetric piped opera pumps,” for instance 1 went into that rather thoroughly, and discovered that an “asymmetric piped opera pump” is just a hifalutin’ (and euphemistic) way of describing what used 18 look like an old-fashioned and worn-out house slipper,

Then There's Milk Gravy

It isn't the first time I've been fooled like that, For example, I remember as a youngster that 1 never There must have Been a lot of others like me, Because 1 distinetly reeall that somewhere along the line of my bring-up, somes pody who had our welfare at heart changed the nama of “milk gravy” into that of “white sauce.” That wasn't the end of it, however. 8till later I ran across “Bauce Bechamel,” and believe it or not, it was the pame old white sauce—the same milk gravy, too, After such an experience, vou can't blame me for fighting shy of euphemisms. To tell the truth, 1 never saw one that I didn't suspect Indeed, 1'va hardened myself to the point now that I ean smell a euphemism a mile off It doesn't fool me, for instance, to have a "Mors tician” (undertaker is the name I was brought up on) talk of a “casket,” a “funeral car,” or a " It’s just an undertakers new-fangled (and euphemiss tic) way of referring to a e¢offin, A hearse and a shroud. Ax far as I can see, it's not going to help

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| me a bit in the end

Listen to the Barbers

Nor does it fool me when a barber eéalls hin “chirotonsor,” or the shears he works with a “pair of forbici.,” I'm dead on to him. It's the same with “saloons,” too. When TI was a kid, the men who called them just that, Then we got a men who were just feeling their oats as

breed of

euphemists, and as a result we got a ¢rop of “samples

rooms, buffets, cafes and exchanges.” Now we have

| i “ a nothing but “taverns, cocktail rooms, American bars,

grills and stubes.” Come to think of it that ian't euphemistically=minded police call their nightsticks “batons.” degree,” too, has graduated into an test.” Well, that's enough to give you an idea, though goodness knows there are plenty of other examples, Anvway, it's enough for vou to share my concern over the latest fall perfume

there's hardly a trade today Why, even tha The old “third “intelligence

A Woman's View

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Story of "Hamburger Woman' Cited As Good Antidote for the Blues,

HEN 1 get sore at the world 1 nearly always run into some one like my hamburger woman ahd my faith th humankind is restored © Tn 1030 she lost her fob along With several million other folks, It was impossible to find another, One night she had hamburgers for supper=which was all the family cupboard afforded=-and while he them down her 0O-vear-old son sald “Cree, Mom, 1 think you make the best hamburgers of anybodv. 1 bet a lot of folks would like these, They're better'n Pete's down on Main Bt, and his are mighty good.” She kissed him and forgot registered the remark, After walking her shoes into holes hunting for work this woman, a widow with two small sons, felt desperate, “What shall 1 do? What shall 1 4 The question beat itself ceaselessly ih hei when, like a flash, the picture of a delicious hamburger eame into her mind Next day she went to Pete's place and asked him to pive her goods a trial. For 4 weary vears she mada hamburgers at Pete's on Main St luscious, savory,

But her subconscious

da? brain juicy

YOLDSBORO, N. C., Aug. §.—One | road which does not need =o large a | ‘Wonderful hamburgers

Now she owns the business, he for college, and she's an independent woman, 1 know this sounds like one of those impossible Horatisg Alger tales, but it's the truth, Because the quality of her courage never declined, her food remains superexcellent and she's a contented person for she's doing her job and doing it well When 1 feel an attack of blues eoming on 1 hurty out to see my friend who makes and sells hamburgers, For she is wise and sane and kind “Oh eome on, have a hamburger and forget about it.” she will say. “You need some onion juice ith voue blood.” But all the time I know it is not her onions 1 need so much as I need her strong faith and hep balanced judgment,

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