Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1937 — Page 17

‘Vagabon From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Matanuska to Be Co-operative Community, According to Plan; Colony 1s Not to Be Extended.

ALMER, Alaska, Sept. 9.—There is one thing about Matanuska Colony that I' had not realized. That is that it’s to be a/] co-operative community, Although that was the intention from the

beginning, nothing was done about it during the first two years. But this summer the co-operative began to operate. From now on every colonist must sell, and buy, through the association. It seems to me a good thing. Otherwise the colonists soon would be cutting each

other’s throats dumping their products on the Anchorage market. With living costs the way they are in Alaska, the minute you cut your neighbbr’s throat you cut your own. A few of the colonists who have built up their own markets are balking at joining the co-op. But the Government says the products won’t just be lumped in and averaged up. If one man’s produce! brings a higher price than his neighbor’s, then he will receive the higher return. As the Government gradually steps out of the picture, the Government-owned enterprises in the town Palmer will be turned over to the co-op. Already the farmers themselves own the trading post, a general store. The huge school has been turned over to the Territorial Government. The hospital likely will follow.

Colonists ‘to Own Town

Two years from ‘now Palmer should be a town owned by the colonists themselves, except for the postoffice and a couple of small Government offices. It is a town they can be proud of, too. It didn’t exist before the colonists came. It is a Government-built town, put there in the center of the colony, for the colonists. It lies on two sides of the railroad track—a spur from the main line at Matanuska Junction, six miles away. On one side is the part built by the Government. It is neat and regimented, all a soft creamcolor. There is the immense schoolhouse, one of the finest in Alaska; a marvelous hospital, where colonists get special rates: the dormitory for teachers and Government employees; creamery, hatchery, machine shop, barber shop, garage, blacksmith shop and so on. Just across the tracks is the rest of town. It's about two blocks of near-shantytown, housing half a dozen stores and many cabins. These are the people who followed the colonists, the small merchants who came to pick up the crumbs. I don’t know what will happen to them. Counting both sides of the track, about 350 peopie live in Palmer.

No Extension for Colony

Matanuska Colony itself will not be extended. The 170 families now settled here will not be added to. But there are places in Alaska where you can homestead. In fact, there are many homesteaders mixed right in among the Matanuska' colonists. They are called “old settlers,” to distinguish them from “colonists.” Some of these “old settlers” resent the colonists, pecause they have been handed everything on a silver platter. Others are swallowing their contempt and

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taking advantage of the situation. The Government has given loans to many of these “old settlers” on the same basis as the colonists. An “old settler” can join ! the co-op, and some have. :

The colonist population of Matanuska Valley is

around 1000. The total population of the valley is figured at 2000. So you see the colonists aren't the whole thing.

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My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Meeting Her Son as Liner Docks Is No Small Task for First Lady.

EW YORK CITY, Wednesday—I. have just returned from meeting the S. S. Paris on which Johnny returned from Europe. Last night they reported her docking at 12, but one of the crew was ill and they were held at Quarantine. On telephoning at about 11 o'clock, I was told she would not dock until 2. 1 drove my own car to the pier a few minutes before 2 o'clock, though various and sundry gentlemen of my acquaintence seemed to feel that I probably would not arrive there safely and offered to drive down with me. However, the only moment of anxiety occurred as I turned into the pier and saw a sign which said, “No Left Turns Permitted.” I was about to go up several blocks, when a policeman recognized me and at once the New York police force took me in hand and efficiently told me where to go and what to do. Before I knew it, I was parked on the pier. Here I learned the boat would not dock for. at least another half hour. Kind gentlemen sprang from every side. 1 was first taken into a press room which was entirely empty and there I sat down. Then I was introduced to the officials of the line and taken into their rooms at the end of the pier to await the docking. In fact, I was so well looked after I felt a great many people must have been neglecting their usual occupations and was much relieved when I finally saw the ship coming up to the pier. I went out into a little enclosure reserved for the officials of the line and watched the Paris being pulled and pushed in by the tugs. Two small boys and their mother on the other ‘side of the paling attracted my attention, They were there meeting some friends, but in two weeks, the mother said, they would be meeting their father who was coming home from Spain where he had been for the North American Committee. Some of the baggage porters came: up to the paling and asked if I would ‘autograph their union cards, but I saw visions of what would happen if I once began in a crowd like that and decided that it

was fairer to stick to my usual rule and do none at |-

all, though they wore such ingratiating smiles it was" hard to refuse. I saw no signs of Johnny until I went to the gang-plank and he was, as I thought he would be," among the first people to leave. I went aboard with the head of the line and the photographers pounced upon us. That being over, the kindly Customs officials took us in charge. The boys’ bags appeared, for John Drayton, who sailed with John, returned with him also. We went down to pack the cars, arranged for John Drayton's little car, which was still in the hold, to be turned over to my mother-in-law’s chauffeur, and all was done.

: / : Walter O'Keete— "HE Duke and Duchess of Kent didn't visit Wally and Edward in Austria and rumors say the snub was ordered by the British Government. The way the Cabinet is still ordering Eddie around, he might

just as well have stayed King. Any girl who has been high-hatted by her hus-

band’s relatives will understand Wally Simpson’s ‘plight, now that she’s having “in-law” trouble. ! Wally and the Duke don’t know how lucky they | are. You can really say that Edward “lives like a | king” when you consider that there aren’t any rela- | tives hanging around the house. Many a newlywed couple would like to get a deal | “like that. i Even over here the American royal family made | news. Some robbers entered the home of James | Roosevelt, the President’s son, and got away with a lot of valuables. It certainly is extraordinary to see anyone taking things away from a Roosevelt.

Second Section

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1087

inners : at State's Creptes Show

New Jersey State Police Use Planes to Direct

Traffic as Thousands of Autos Jam Roads

By E. R. R. OME any national holiday, and the northern section of New Jersey is converted into a veritable bottleneck for traffic. Cars by the tens of thousands—from New York, Pennsylvania and other states—pack the highways, as city dwellers fight for the tang of salt air at Atlantic beach resorts. On last July 4, State Police estimated that nearly a million cars were on the move in New Jersey. To handle the thickening holiday stream of motor cars, the Jersey State Police have placed in operation a comprehensive plan of observing traffic congestion from the air, and directing car movements through an aerial patrol, : using - ground crews and radiocasts. The new scheme got intensive workouts on July 4 and over the long Labor Day weekend.

Spearhead of the air “traffic patrol” is a scout plane carrying pilot, observer and a two-way radio. Over Labor Day, it was-in constant communication with. radio station WOR. Also feeding traffic information into the radio station were 23 State Police substations, which furnished hourly reports of changing traffic conditions in their jurisdictions. ” o 2 ROUND and plane reports were correlated at WOR’s central control room in Newark, and periodical broadcasts were made to the traveling public, featuring specific advice as to which routes to take to avoid traffic jams. These bulleiins also went on the state-wide police teletypes, enabling immediate policing of areas where congestion was most pronounced. Whereas the traffic broadcasts benefited the radio-owning motorist,

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co-ordination of the broadcast with the teletype also helped the nonowner of a radio. : State Police Supt. Mark O. Kimberling has been well pleased with the functioning of his “aerial police” during the holiday tests. It is especially pleasant to Supt. Kimberling to reflect that the whole arrangement. costs the state nothing. The plane flights were made by a state trooper who is in the National: Guard and who has to make a certain number of training flights yearly anyway. The radio station donated air time and technical assistance, 2 ” 8 HILE the Jersey experiment represents; one of the first large-scale uses of aircraft in traffic control, the idea is not new. British police have used blimps. for years in handling holiday congestion near London, and planes have been used in this country in- directing ground | traffic at all the National Alr Races since 1928. The Goodyear Co. purdly as a

publicity stunt, arranged : with a

Washington radio station (WJSV) for a one-time broadcast of rush-

hour. traffic snarls in the’ national {|

capital in 1934, and highway police in Chicago and New York made a

few experimental flights in: 1935,

* ].| using both blimps and planes.

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COPR. 1937 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T.M. RZ

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.

Most of these experiments, oy:

ever, have been little more than: {-

stunts, and many serious students, of traffic problems believe that aerial

control is not really practicable. | It is better, they think, to antici-| pate such special events as holidays. by special routings and the ‘use of Re:

extra policemen. 2 ” ®

‘WO serious practical difficulties have contributed to a limited Sonor hy of the idea of ait traffic. One is the difficulty of obtaining radio time from stations which have full schedules of commercial commitments; another is the lack of . planes, blimps or autogyros, | .

Private aircraft and radio con-

cerns do not always see that ad-{. vantage will accrue to themselves

from supplying such services free. to a city or state.

On the other hand, it is believed

by many that increased ownership of radios among motor car owners will be a vital factor in any future planning along these lines. A re-

‘cent, survey by the Columbia Broad- |

casting Co. showed some 3,000,000 automobile radios in use as of last Jan. 1. The company predicted that 5,000,000 would be in use by the end of the year. Columbia -

L from the clouds:

ered, moreover, that 90.6 per cent of automobile radio owners invariably tune in while driving in the evening, and that 60.1 per cent of all such automobile radios are in use more than 50 per cent of the time the cars are being operated. Should radios become, in, the future, & more or less standard moter car accessory, the value of radio traffic. broadcasts would be increased immeasurably. The time may not be far distant when a motorist may be startled by a voice “Pull over to the

curb—you!” or “What's your hurry, mister?”

"Gardeners' Dreams Come True" will appear on this page tomorrow. re

Entered as at Postoffice,

Times :Paotos.

1. The dog nearest the camera is tops in the novice class at the Indiana Siate Fair. The wire haired is shown by his owner, the Rev. M, D. Wilson of Arlington, Ind, and is named Arlington King Edward.

2. Four La Porte County boys who * won the livestock judging.

contest are shown grouped around the cup that went with the honor.

Vance Craft and Gordon Craft.

3. Kermit Sands, 17, is pointing with a cane to his Champion Barrow, “The Flame.”

4, Mildred Harper, Ligonier, and her pen of Shropshire lambs which won first prize in the Fair 4-H club show.

5. Man of War Progressor, champion Heistein bull, belongs to the Mayfag Dairy Farms, Newton, Ia. Born in 1933, the bull weighs 2900 pounds and was all American 3-year-old in 1936. Bedford,

6. Von Hayes, 4-H

Club boy is holding a box of his potatoes which won the Grand.

Sweepstakes prize in the B. & O. Railroad Potato Clubs Project, and receiving the check . for winning frem O. K. Quivey, B. & 0. agricultural agent. C. E. Hayes, his father, is between the two and on the extreme right is John F. Armstrong, Lawrence County agricultural agent,

7. Governor Townsend is shewn inspecting hybrid seed corn presented him by the Indiana Hybrid Corn Growers’ Association for

‘planting next year on his Black=-

ford and Grant County farms. C. E. Troyer, Lafontaine, is presenting the seed. Herman Miller, Bluffton, Indiana Corn Growers’

Second-Class - Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

. Left to right'they are. . Robert Schmidt, Lawrence Clark, |,

Association president, looks on.

oO" four-lane highways the general rule—and usually the law, too—. requires motorists to travel in the right hand lane nearest the edge “of the road, except when passing. This rule,

National Safety Council.

where followed, keeps the

_ slow driver from gumming up traffic and lessens the danger of accidents by making i; possible to pass always on the Jet side, rather than on the

dangerous and illegal right side.

" them and after his return

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O ur Ow n

By Anton Scherrer Dispute on Derivation of Hoosier

Splits Davis Clan, and Columns# Enters Fray | With - Explanation.

ELIEVE it or not, but every once in a while this department gets a call to settle family disputes. The latest to come is a

‘letter from Frank H. Davis, vice president

and secretary of Haight, Davis & Haight, consulting actuaries. | ‘Tt shows ‘who reads this column. ** The Davis family, it appears, is- hopelessly split, and from all I can gather will Stay. split until somee

body worth believing explains the derivation of the word “Hoosier.” Well, all I can say is that Mr.

. Davis couldn't have come to a

better place with his troubles.

‘And it isn’t because I know the | right answer,

either. Quite the contrary. It’s because I know. enough answers to satisfy the whole family, provided, of course, the Davis family isn’t too big to handle. One thing is certain: The werd “Hoosier” was used around here as early as 1830, because {that was the year John Finley, of Wayne County, wrote a New Year's Ade

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‘dress for the Indianapolis Journal, in the course of

which he used the word at least a dozen times. Up to that year nobody had seen the word “Hoosier” in print. For that matter, nobody had ever seen the word “Hoosieroons” in print, either.

Suspects Poet Finley

I drag the word “Hoosieroons” into ‘today’s piece, because I strongly suspect that Poet Finley invented it.. I’m sure of it, because if you examine his poem, you'll discover that toward the end of it he’s pretty hard pressed to find a word to rhyme with “spoons,” to-wit: -

“Where half-a-dozen Hoosieroons White mush and milk, tin cups and spoons, With heads, bare feet and dirty faces Seemed much incliried to keep their places. »

Which of course raised the question whether a poep big enough to think up “Hoosieroons” might not have invented the word “Hoosier.” To be sure, he might have, but to say that is to fall into the trap of what the Romans used to call a nonsequitur. ‘Anyway, there are enough legends to believe that somebody handed the word to Mr. Finley. There's the story, for instance, of the fight at the time of the building of the canal at Louisville whén an Indi-ana-bred Irishman by the name of Short was set upon by a gang of Kentucky toughs. Single-handed, Shorty cleaned up the whole lot, dusted’ his hands, and exclaimed: “I'm a husher,” meaning, I suppgse that he

# | was a great comfort to his mother.

I never cared much for this version, and neither did Governor Wright (1849-53), because he once told somebody that the name originated in a habit of trav‘elers calling out “Who's here?” when they stopped at 3 Sebin to ask for:a night's lodging. That’s more ike i Another explanation is that Col. John Jacob Lehmanowshi, a Polish officer of the first Napoleon who lived ‘and lectured in Indiana for a while, started the name by his pronunciation of the word “Hussar.”

The Story to End Stories

I don’t like this version, either. At any rate, I don’t ! ‘think it’s as good as my own. I have a hunch that ‘Jerry Johnson started it. The way I have it figured out is that Jerry, the most inquisitive man of early Indianapolis, was around (when the first batch of mail came in. There were exactly five letters, one of them addressed to David Mallory, our first barber. Mr. Mallory’s failure to spill the contents of his ‘letter made Jerry so mad that he called Dave a . “husher.” Jerry's congenial gift for letting words drip out of the side of his mouth made it sound like “hoosher.” That's all there’s to it, and I hope it puts an end to the theories of historians. I hope, too, it reconciles the Davis family.

A Woman's View By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

California Indebted to Franciscan Padres Whose Work Was Priceless.

Vy 2oanoy NOTES—Midway between Los Angeles and San Diego is the Mission of San Juan Capistrano. Within its walls the past is recaptured and held, fixed like a jewel amid eternally blooming blossoms in everlasting sunshine. Never have I seen such marvelous flowers, or such guaniities of them. Much of the mission’ lis only ruins, but what magnificent ruins: The thick walls, the small dark rooms, the long cloisters where the monks once paced telling their rosaries, even the green bells which still peal forth the! (Angelus, are all as they used to be. California owes a great] deal to the Franciscan padres whose courageous venturings into the wilderness resulted in such amazingly rich material ree wards-=for somebody else. Wandering through these fruitful valleys, where new scenic beauties appear at every turning, you feel great pity for the dons of old Spain and the Indians from whom we, the people of the United States, took this. land without so much as a by-your-leave. It is in San Juan Capistrano that the annual ‘miracle of the swallows takes place. Long ago, so the legend goes, a pious padre gt the mission heard that the natives of. a. neighboring hamlet were ‘killing the birds. Angered, he journeyed to rescue / with: a few swallows he built a refuge for them near the monastery. From that day to this, they ve nested there. Each autumn they migrate, all| the flock together, and on the 19th of every March they return. Nobody can explain the phenomenon any more than white men have been able to explain why for more than 1000 years rain has fallen after the great Hopi dance. The homing swallows of San Juan Capistrano obey some instinct which calls them to their own place. I like to believe it is a part of the same instinct which pulls the human spirit back toward God, its source. ’

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