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Second Section

The Indianapolis Times

Vagabond

From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

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Sun Valley Lodge, a Railroad's Promotion Project, Big Success, But Don't Go Unless You're Rich. TTCHUM, Oct. 23.==At last |

oe. have on intimate terms with the Sun Val

Ida \

Lodge people, and am now In a position

give vou the inside dope on this spectacu-

America.’ course, heard of Idaho's Sun in ski their like falling snow into being hecause Averill Ham chairman of the Union Paci was an enthusiast who want to Rurape sach year to ski One day he asked himself: Why not hunt up a good skiing grounds in this country, my own, my native land, in fact somewhere right along my own railroad? “Whereupon he hired a European Count Felix Schafigotseh, to come over and tour the Union Pacific system, including cow towns and branch lines Count looked all the Rockies and the Northwest tates and felt of the snow and put his roval finger Idaho sheep town ol

Switzerland of You have, of

alley, where rich folks come winter to anda

and showel money

Sun Valley came man

fic Railroad

nobleman,

Ko the ovel middle em st » hills, and finally centra 4d bhounght 2500 acres of sagebrush \ lodae. built a couple of sKi=lifts yvred six Austrian sKi experts Claudette Colbm and the

{rom Hollvwaod and put on a aay full has

mst Dee 21. the first room Was

evervthing

ISTMAS sve’

ouU~gonscious

Here's How Your Money Goes

came

sinkle person to the Lodge last

have more money than he Knew

Ana that 1t

stvihing they hought

Valley >» 0 breaking » high rates Rind of come to I'he American plan) You ¢ from a there are thev're $50 a

Sun cOSts £0 much

oven on actual eash

place that anly rates run rom to 856 a day tor an get the same mar grand $H-a=gay room thousands of people living in a tent un dav for a room people, In fact, to make a Lodge, Last winter, aur. ran 90 per cent full mid-January to late people were turned

who think [owed to pay xh such Valley the ana out

Lodge from and

ason avs

sold

full of Austrian Wouldn't in

10+-10-856~ noblemen, vou like the eves

rooms. like fun cocktails

and forty up PHOT for

Am. over then

aressed

to Roosevelt?

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Our First Lady Talks Shop With President—Then Conscience Hurts

Fridav--1 reached Washington

YASHING TON "1 WH i ry fternoon quiet Morgenthau Jr, my Betsy and 1 had a at 5:30. 1 felt a little auilty, have talked moI learned much, however,

inter usu;

and after a Mrs

apnpomt

Honry ments began President should

nd 1 did me

the

shop in

o'clock 1 to

dinner and at 9 for a few minutes dance, as she was leaving last engagement in New Orleans 10 o'clock three people who are the Southern BEducational 1 is working out a program for the vocarural vouth in collaboration with came to see me. This program is and I shall follow their meetwith a great deal of interest,

family the Earle Thoater haney next Ning at < nterested in >, whicl riidance of nizations mteresting in November

Praises Vocational Guidance Urban communities have proved vocational guidance In to voung people, but practically no vocasuidance is given to the youth of rural districts, is not always a question of settling these young ] p places where they have grown up, but it : seeing that their education fits them 1d of work they are suited to do and trythem opportunities somewhere which will 1 to somo constructive future for them The District of Columbia seems to have recognized ibilities in regard to free school lunches children and the members of the Citizens Committee now have on hand enouih cover their expenses for the next two

tional

respons

its need)

have to he a conto supply necessary funds vear, probably is excellent for the older people in the dishave an opportunity y see these for it brings home forcithe value of this particular piece of work. Every a survey to find out whethe:

make are in need of free lunches

wetivity, which will in order the school consciousness of 1 hope many people

ee these lunches served,

will

ity should

SChool chlaren

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

ELIEVING that the tax problem requires scientific BB. ionate study, the Twentieth Century a special committee on taxation data which the research

penlipn RB oil ed

interpret

Fund, to study and the stall red. FACING THE TAX PROBLEM has the double purpose of explaining the present system of taxation in the United States and making recommendations for a efficient and unified plan. Throughout the book committee has kept in mind the often con g aims of taxation—production of revenue, ial con recastribution of wealth, ease of adtion, justice in distribution—and has based pstions upon careful evaluation in these derms. resulting study brings forcefully to the reader ced for a thorough overhauling of the present em by men who are awake to the difficulties which B® way of equitable and adequate taxation alert to work out a system which may best the many conflicting claims upon it.

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VER a third of a century has passed since the Victorian era, and through the perspective which time has given us, we see the great Queen as the interesting, wilful and lovable character she undoubteclv was. The success of last season's “Victoria Regina’ testifies to the amused interest which the Queen though dead for many years, still arouses. This vear Laurence Housman follows his “Victoria Regina” with THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN (Scribner) which he calls a “Victorian Omnibus.” The first half of the book consists of seven short plays in which figure such famous people as Parnell, Gladstone, Carlyle, Joseph Chamberlain and Oscar Wilde; the second half is an addition to “Victoria Regina,” giving 12 short scenes in the life of the Queen. Mr. Housman is expert in capturing the inimitable flavor of the Victorian era, and his “Golden Sovereign” is a delightful person.

Conner House Is Historic

Landmark

arian County Home Restored by Lillys Is Rich in State Pioneer Love

By Virginia Moorhead Mannon

COONSKIN fringed leather hanging just reveal to Conner

hat and jacket mside the those who House that stepped back 150 years in Indiana history,

door enter they nearh

have

the last restoration

For

the

WO Vears

of Conner

an absorb ing mterest of Mr. and Mrs. El Lilly, upon whose farm on the Noblesville Road the building is located. In addition to restoring the house along its original lines. uncovering old fireplaces and stairs cases, and eollecting antique furniture typical of the period, Mr and Mrs. Lillv have built a museum at the rear of the house in Which to keep other characteristic relies

House has been

» » » N the spring of 1936 the Society of Indiana Pioncers prosented a pageant at Conner House com selection Indian apolis as the State Capital William Conner, the in Hamilton County, extended “as fm the eve can see,” established a fur trading post in 1801 on the Conner House Site. Conner was Indian agent for the Delawares and interpreter and scout for Gen. Willinm Hany. Harrison in the War of 1812. In 1820, Governor Jennings and his commissioners met in this first brick house in central Indiana to choose a State Capital. Conners first wife was a Miami Indian princess. the daughter of Chief Anderson. Legend has it that when the Indians were sent back to Indian territory, Conner's wife wished to take with her their three little boys and baby. Unwilling to give up his entire family, Conner paid her to let him keep the baby. The morning after the princess and the three boys had departed. Conner founda the money he had given for the baby Iving in the erib. The baby Was pone

memorating ol

frst whose

settler land

» » » HE built Conner House Elizabeth C h a P man, his second wife During its construction they lived in a two-room log cabin. They had a large family, and many of their descendants are living in this area. Recently Mr. and Mrs. Lilly reStored the old distillery. The still, Which contains some of the bricks of the original one, is located in a log cabin brought from Brown County and placed at the foot of a hill. Old-timers claimed Conner traded liquor to the Indians for furs The pale blue whitewsshed walls of the interior of the house Are a concession to Conners known

for

I. Conner House-=as it appears today after restoration by Mr.

Mrs. El Lilly,

2. The kitchen, the most

Times Photos

and

fascinating room in the historic house,

With its great fireplace and Duteh oven.

3. Furnishings typical years ago-=fill the house. susan

of Indiana's This is a cherry dining table with its lan

formative periods=nearly 150

4. A crossestitched sampler hangs aver the fireplace in the north hedroom where, according to tradition, Conner kept his money.

aversion for dead white walls. This delicate coloring was achieved by placing copper sulphate in white wash, Tradition ton Irving J. Fenimore at the house in the entrance hall grandchildren owned graphed by Cooper,

has it that Washing John Jacob Astor and Cooper were visitors Their pictures hang The Conner a book auto

n » » Pauses the most fascinating room is the Kitchen, with its great fireplace in which hangs a huge iron Kettle, flatiron holder and coffee pot, Beside the fireplace is an old Duteh oven, which constitutes the back of a beehive on the outside of the house, A! one side of the Kitchen is a spring wagon seat, which was placed in the wagon on Sundays for the women when they rode to church. A dough mixer, an intricatelyoperated apple=peeler, a footwarmer for the sleigh, and a oul let mold and kettle for melting lead give the Kitchen its pioneer atmosphere, With the exception of the horsehair sofa in the sitting room, which belonged to Conner, Mr. and Mrs. Lilly have collected pieces which were typical of early Indiana and give the “feel” of the period. The wavy, rolled glass in the windows adds to the feeling.

» » »

RS. LILLY'S attention to detail reaches its zenith In a small woman's trmnk, in the north bedroom, which bears the Initials “E. C.” The trunk was found in Tennessee and doubtless

Side Glances—By Clark

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NER SERWCE WC BRO U5 MT OFF,

"What will the doctor think? Other little boys just love to have their tonsils out,"

| pointments

| eral

did not belong to Mrs, Conner, but the initials could have stood for Flizabeth Chapman or Blizabeth Conner In this same bedroom at the foot of the trundle bed is a chest on top of which lie a white fur cover and a gun. The story is that Conner Kept his money, thus guarded, in this chest. Be.

side a lovely old chest of drawers

is a saddle bag, and a glimpse inside the closet reveals a dainty lady's bonnet and a carpet bag Behind the washstand is a hand spun linen “splashy done in Cross stiteh A ¢ross stitched sampler hangs the fireplace In the south bedroom lead up to a bed covered “Hed canopy In a Knitting bowl beside a bit of unfinished Knitting last stitches on which were by Mrs. Ruth Perry in Warming pans stand in the

ove steps with a wooden chair is a the takon 1843 fire«

Fourth of U. S. Judges Are New Deal Appointees

ASHINGTON, Aal.-PJ.

More than one-fourth of "

in Federal appointees, Justice Departrecords revealed today

judges Deal ment

President Roosevelt has appointed | 66 of the 241 judges now serving un- |

der life tenures.

The President made 25 of his apin the last session of | Congress, during which he [posed a reorganization of the FedJudiciary,

At the close of the session, there

| were but two vacancies in the Fed- |

| eral the Roosevelt was caused by the creation of : | trict [of the session, but it has

[Judge Samuel

during one hn disthe final date | been filled.

Judiciary-~the fewest Administration

judgeship on

At (the Seventh Circuit Court of Ap- | peals caused by the retirement of Allschuler and | District of Columbia Court of Appeals caused by the resignation of

courts are New |

pro- |

present there are vacancies of |

the |

conference of Chie! Charles Evans Hughes and Cirenit Court judges last month recommended appointment of [16 additional judges, including 12 | District Judges and four Oirouil Judges, to relieve congestion in the { Federal judiciary Attorney General Cummings [seribed the recommendation a [ pitulation” to the rogram, and immediately nounced he would recommend Congress the appointment of | additional judges Only three judgeships ated during the last | gress. They included one [the Southern District of [two for the Ninth Circuit Court, Mr. Roosevelt has appointed only

The annua! Justice

{ Senior

deoa

the

were

President's Court ans |

ore- | session of Con- | judge for | Ohio and |

| one Associate Justice to the Supreme |

Court, Hugo L. Black | He has appointed 17 or 18 judges [now serving in the Circuit of Appeals and 47 of the 165 Dis[trict Judges. He also has appointed | one judge of the United States Cus

| Chief Justice _George Ewing Martin | toms Court.

Courts |

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window sill is a

which was used

place and in the Ittle sewing bird to hold eloth for whipping or hemstitohing Braided wool rugs are used throughout the house. A larg» grandfather's elaek on the landing faeces a bhootiack and an old spinning wheel with its flax is In the upper nal

» ” J Pinas of Willlam and Elizabeth Conner over the cherry sideboard in the dining room look down upon a round cherry dining table with its lazy susan A "fy«shooer,” fashioned of peacock feathers stands in a corner. The china closet adjacent to the fireplace is filled with old blue china, typical of the period, One of Conner's granddaughters had some of the original rasp berry=flowered china. After cleans ing out a well, Mrs, Lilly found blite china fragments and these she has tried to mateh Lying beside the quill pens on a desk in the sitting room is a photostatic copy of a letter writs ten by Conner to Gen. Tipton, On the walls are prints of Herring's Farm Scenes depicting “Morning,” “Noon,” and “Night,” Herring was An artist popular in the late 1700's, As one's eve falls on the old squirrel rifle and powder horn beglide the front door, one would gladly sKip over the reputed vicissitudes of pioneer life for a chance to live a less complicated existence One leaves with the feeling that an air-conditioned and war-torn world would be well lost. for the quiet dignity of William Conner's rural retreat.

Sse this Page Monday, for

‘PRINCE AND THE MAN WITHOUT A SHIRT

| A WOMAN'S VIEW |Jasper—By Frank Owen

| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TREATED myself to an evening at the dog show. Jt was more

[than worth the price of admission

because it was the first time I had ever looked in on such an event.

| Seeing some of the cute little things |

| | | | | |

| selfish {and has

in surveying the different canned and packed made me feel that still soft even if we do ourselves with Killing each | other off in wars.

them,

most exactly alike to me. The vrize was carried off by the one I had | picked as scrubbiest, The strange animal, man, was the | most interesting exhibit at the dog | show. There is something moving |

in the devotion the owners show for

| their pets.

[is famous for her devotion Boston bull. Upon that

| because her heart is as hard as | flint to humans. She never misses [a chance to retail gossip that can | tear a reputation to shreds. She is and mean to her husband | made needless trouble |

| among her relatives. But watching |

| a tenderness into her face, such a |

her with her dog, there came such |

| softening of her whole being, I could | not help but feel that here was the

real woman as she might have been if something had not gone wrong with her life's processes. At least here was a glimpse of her possibilities for goodness, charity, tolerance.

their pink bassinettss, | bal- |

our |

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Dépr. 1037 by Onited Peature Syndtests, Te,

"He insists they're shin-guards, and there's nothing in the rule-book

that says they ain't]"

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Arthur Carr's Hobby af Chasing House-Wrackers Valued Asset, The Children's Museum Here Finds, N ease you've been wondering how Arthur B. Carr spends his 1 tell you: He follows the hougeswreckers around town find their

spare time, and picks up things that eventually way to the Children’s My. Can

front that

Mugeum. Ward

{00

Beocher's That when the houge=wreokers pounced

ured to be

Henry

mantelpiece

found

door way: his WAS

years Of Cours

on Mi

on the south side posite the entrance of Oadl érnacle. It was the place, too where Mr, Beecher raised the first cauliflower grown in Indianapolis Mi. Oar save he hung the Beecher place until the wreckers gave him what he just to rid him present, too, when they the Oliver PP. Morton Pennsvivania That time he the exenteheon that once decorated the Morton mantel, Mr, Carr Keeps the the Ant, Bul it's going Museum when the prope fey he, Beea use Museum Well, vou with the Beeches 180) en th

ago,

Beecher's old home==the ane that

of Ohio St, op

['ab

around house wanted He was

down

pel of {Oc Rox on

wa thi

My. Schevrer

bagged

ascutchean at home foe the Children's My. Carr. bet that time will

the Children's

land in time comes Know wWhn

pres 3)

Alre when

the

than anvbhody will

Re's man run Myr. Carr ha: A period room the Children’s Mus to get von to go through the old Beecher doorway Ix the slickest approach sinoas the Herron Art people thought of putting a horse in front of their place Once vou get through the Beeoher's ald mantelpiece, too find a lot of ather things, like Beacher sat in when he listened Second Presbyterian Chinen That's about as far as Mr. Beechey Mr. Carr's period room. The othe elsewhere The desk, Tor instane: Seegmiller family, the dows Hy John Carey There's a Mi somewhere around Greensburg. and ix a duleimer, Why, 1 tell the of Mr, Carr's room==a pail and a lady's woodensstay corset. Tt's all ver The thing that caught my though Franklin stove. Tt's a magnificent example, and to heat the Brown house, the one where the Post = office now is. Mavbe vou don’t know it, but old Ben Franklin fooled with stoves before he got around to making lightning rods The Franklin stove seum hy way of Mrs the Brown family Trust Co's vault, because, helieve it o1 where it was from the time the Brown torn down until the Children’s Museum wouldn't have believed it, either, had Golden told me, She helps Mr. Can dren's Museum

to mee What dona Ho's loom

nave

ought relics third into iit

Axed up eirea of

eum, and

find Mr. that, vou'll chair My, of the

doorway, vou'll RBoride: the pulpit to the ehol

to furnish came from came from the the way of Mis Cary pieked up next to the hed vou what's inside ans 1'ealistie, the used

went pieces

ohest hod. too Can even

cloget of blue

ov Wa»

to the Children’s Thoma: Detroit

She got tit aut

came Mis a relative af the Indiana that's house Wan got il 1 Mrs. Grace run the Chills

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not

Jane Jordan—

Mother With Unfaithful Musband Urged to Seek Her Own Security.

be JANE JORDAN=<Y am writing for the bene [ a good fiend who is 22, married, and has a daughter 2 years old. One day her husband, like a bolt from the blue, shocked her by asking for a civoroee He had fallen madly in love with a single girl whom my friend had known all her life and who has the raputation of being a fast one. This husband has never supported his wife sxeept to buv about halt her food, During their married life thev have lived in an attic room in his parents’ home. She has worked at little odd jobs to keep up her insurance and buy little necessities, Most of her clothes and all of the baby's have been given to them However, he gets his shoes hand=made-to«-order and buvs three or four suits at a time They agreed to a short separation friend’s home and he with his parents baby part time, When the baby is nearly loses her mind until she pet: doesn’t eat or sleep and is losing weight, but he is gaining weight He told her that his love has been dying for a long time and the only reason he ever would go back to her was for the sake of the baby. then with the next braath he said he would always love her, Can you help me solve this puzzle? A FRIEND IN NEED.

H n

She is at a Each has the with him she her back. She

not a puzzle, in life. The two men and a

Answer=-What vou have related i: but one of the commonest occurrence: triangle of two women and a man oi woman forms the theme of countless novels and movies, and nearly all of us have seen the drama played in the home of a friend or relative over and over again, yet we are totally unprepared for the site uation when it happens to us Here is a voung man whose whole record proves his immaturity and inability to eope with adult probe lems. Although married, he is still dependent on his parents for a roof. He never has been able to feed and clothe his family. He has proved his selfishness by spending money on himself while his wife went without Why do you expect a responsible attitude toward love from such a character? Such a man has no confidence in his line supremacy. He has not taken any which would give him such confidence broken his dependence on his parents; to the support of his wife and child. His getting bet ter clothes than the rest of the family can afford points to considerable anxiety about his personal ap. pearance. About the only way he knows to prove his worth is to upset the women. However poor his cone quest of a gay girl may be, it is still a conquest reassuring to his doubtful ego, and he has the added pleasure of his wife's concern over the loss of his love Women often get their devotions mixed their desire for security, If someone else offered a better home for your friend and her child vou'd be surprised how fast she would fall out of love with her husband. Fear of the future for herself and her baby is doing her more harm than her broken heart, Other women in similar situations have discovered unsuspected resources in themselves and learned to get along without aid from an unwilling husband. Self. reliance brings a great deal of satisfaction and often a better solution of the love problem. Let vour friend try for it, JANE JORDAN,

Own masecirs of the steps He has not he is not equal

up with

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will

answer your question daily in this eoltimn,

————

Walter QO’ Keefe —

HE Duke and Duchess of Windsor have profited by Justice Black's troubles with reporters and have hired a press agent for their American visit The one in that family who really needs a press agent is his brother, King George Since the coronation the King has been sitting on the Cabinet's lap doing an English version of Charlie McCarthy's act. The reason for the press agent ig to keep the whole tour quiet, Wallie is embarrasséd bringing home a husband who hasn't got a job vet, He could make all the expenses for Wallie and himself if he'd repeat that abdication speech of his on the Rudy Vallee program some night,