Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1937 — Page 15

“Vagabond : From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

You Won't Locate It in Dictionary, But This Word Helps Our Vagabond With His Fish Across the Rockies.

GDEN, Utah, Nov. 19.—Maybe you don’t

know it, but you can drive across the |

Rocky Mountains without ever seeing anything that looks much bigger than a hill. The top of the great mountain chain is

flattened out clear across Wyoming. vast plateau, 7000 feet high and almost as flat as Kansas, You drive for-hundreds of miles, and the vastness is appallingly empty. There is a dreariness and a monotony about it. If it hadn't been for a new word I learned in Denver, I doubt I could have stood the drive, The word is “amatopism.” That word keeps time with the tunes I hum to myself, and with the sound of the motor, and with the telephone poles as they go by. As the fellow in Denver explained it to me, amatopism is to space what anachronism is to time. An amatopism: “I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge into the Mississippi River.” An anachronism: “When 1 sailed with Columbus in 1492. I pulled out my electric the button. and there was America ahead of us.” See? and the Mississippi is 2000 miles away. jump that far. At least I couldn't. That's an amatopism. And on the other one, I couldn't have pulled out a flashlight, because they didn't That's time. That's an anachonism.

thought, I wasn't quite big ing ship in 1492, so I guess it’s a double anachronism.) (Editor's Note—We don’t know whether our roving reporter has been touched by altitude or what, but we've looked up “amatopism’ in SIX dictionaries and we can't find any such word.)

Acquires 35 Million-Year-Old Fish

seat in my car I'm carrying an object It's a fish that has been dead 35

Mr. Pyle

You couldn't That's space.

Back of the of excessive oddity. million years. Got it from an old fellow out on that mournful plateau in western wyoming. The rocky hillsides a few miles from the old man’s cabin constitute one of the greatest fossil beds in America. The story of these fossils is this: Between 35,000,000 and 50.000,000 years ago, southwestern Wyoming was a big lake. In fact it was warm up there then, and the shoreline was tropical, like Florida. Something happened. way the lake dried up, or ran out.

I don't know what. The animal life

was trapped and died. Then nature began piling stuff

on top of the dead things. ii She pilea and piled until today, these millions of

years later, the lake shore is covered with 35 feet of

solid rock. Under this rock lie the dead fish. They're not petrified; in fact they don’t have any substance at all. They're just impressions, like the footprints of movie stars in the Hollywood concrete. David Haddenham is the man who specimens to tourists. Surely he doesn’t sell many. He wears overalls, and needs a shave, and some of his teeth are out. He is getting old for such hard work. ‘Do vou make your living this way?” I asked. Ov er the years his voice must have acquired some of the quality of patient hopelessness that the wind sings. He said, “I try $6.”

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Great Personality of Jane Addams | House. |

Still Lingers Over Hull

URORA., Ill, Thursday.—We left Ft. Wayne early A this morning. I want to record for the infornfation of one of my most careful readers, that today I finished “the sweater.” so I am one up on Christmas presents. Miss Charlotte Carr, who left New York to take the position of the head of Hull House, met us at the station in Chicago and took us to the apartment formerly occupied by Miss Addams. Hull House 1S an old house and when parts of it, you feel a little as though you were in a rabbit warren. But there is an atmosphere about it which will seem entirely familiar to anyone who has ever been to Henry Street Settlement or Greenwich House in New York City. In each case, one great personality has created the atmosphere. The late Jane Addams in Hull House, Miss Lillian Wald in Henry Street and Mrs. Mary Simkhovitch in Greenwich House. In one way these intensely individual women are alike. Common to all is a spirit of self -abnegation, an ability to throw oneself completely into the work one is doing. I attended a luncheon at which I imagine many different points of view were presented. After the luncheon I talked to the head of two well-known unions, heard an eminent »rofessor express his point of view, and sat by 1’ . head of the United Charities. Then the heads of the various mothers clubs came to extend a welcome.

Pays Visit to Housing Project

Miss Addams must have had one taste in com=mon with Miss Lillian Wald, for I noticed a beautiful collection of brass and pewter in the dining room which can only be duplicated in Henry Street. We left Hull House to pay a flying visit to the Jane Addams housing project. This is in one of the worst slum sections in Chicago. Though the houses are complete, the rents are still under discussion so nobody as yet has been able to move in.

I am again impressed with the fact that in all |

these housing projects a woman should be employed to go over the plans with an eye to placing furniture so that they can be made livable.

power to visualize the room when lived in seems to be left out of them. Mrs. Dorothy Draper in New York, has been giving just this kind of service in the planning of more expensive apartments and homes, but it is much more needed in the low-cost projects and should certainly be a woman's profession.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

PENING with a record of the Graf Zeppelin’s arrival at revolutionary-torn Recife, including a forced experiment in taking provisions from a moving chip, ZEPPELIN (Longmans) is a painstaking history of the rigid airship’s development, and a careful narrative of its trials, set-backs and triumphs from pio-

neer days up to the fateful spring of 1937. The book, | written by Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann before his death

in the dirigible crash, is illustrated with photographs

ranging from that of the first zeppelin in flight, to the |

burning Hindenburg at Lakehurst, and interspersed with human interest stories. The book was unfinished when Capt. Lehmann died of injuries received in the Lakehurst tragedy, but C. E. Rosendahl adds his account of the disaster, with a tribute to the commander of the fated ship. = 2 2 | § pin China, Japa and all of the Far East the attention of the world is focused at this moment, for there lies the immediate danger zone for peace. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PACIFIC by Gregory Bienstock (London, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.) 1s therefore a timely and important book for those who seek an understanding of a most complicated situation.

The development of the Pacific nations, the expan-

sion of the yellow races, the rivalries of the western nations for control of “spheres of influence,” and the

various plans and military strategies now being perfected by all the powers in preparation for war are |

the major topics discussed. The book is not a series of predictions.

It is a |

flashlight and pressed |

The Golden Gate Bridge is in San Francisco, |

have flashlights in 1492. | (And on second enough to work on a sail- |

Any- |

sells these |

you begin to see the different |

the | No | matter how good the architects are, this particular |

Side Glances—By Clark

It is his-

The Indianapolis Tim

(First of a Series)

By William Crabb (GIVIC-MINDED Aristotle sniffed the Athenjan atmosphere and observed: “Animals collapse from harmful odors, as man gets a severe headache and often dies through charcoal vapors.” Smoke was a nuisance in 350 B. C. Today it is the despoiler of $6,500,000 worth of Indianapolis property annually. It is largely responsible for a 63 per cent increase in pneumonia deaths during the last five years. Health authorities list it a major factor in the alarming parallel of birth and death rates. In the last four years the death rate has crept from 12.7 per thousand to 14.9, while the birth rate has remained at 15.9 per thousand of population.

It has harmed grazing stock on suburban farms. It has affected the beauty of the City’s parks. It deprives residents of nearly one-third their normal sunlight during winter months. Thirteenth Century London did something about it. There were no industrial chimneys then, but England did have thousands of sooty chimney pots.

* ® ® O an ordinance passed in 1273 forbade the use of coal within the city limits. And Edward I returped from the hunt coughing and sneezing to proclaim royally against the use of coal, because of the “sulferous

smoke and savour of the firing.” Records show that one recalcitrant Londoner was “hanged by the neck until dead” for violating the edict. That was in 1306. In the course of several centuries, official and public opinion came to consider coal an industrial and domestic necessity and smoke an evil to be endured. This view was prevalent until the latter part of the 19th Century, when science established smoke as an unnecessary evil about which something could and would be done. Indianapolis’ other major problems have been, or are being, met one by one. The smoke problem, however, can be compared to Mark Twain's weather—much has been said, but very little done about it.

live-

» 8 n HRONOLOGICALLY the City’s efforts to combat the smoke menace are these: 1808—First smoke abatement ordinance passed, providing for neither enforcement officers nor penalties for violation.

1904—Ordinance revised and made part of the Building Code. One smoke inspector hired. 1926—Smoke Abatement Division of Building Department cre-

| ated.

1929 — Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League formed. Feb. 26, 1937—WPA project provided 10 smoke inspectors for year's survey. Sept. 16, 1937—J. W. Clinehens, combustion engineer, warns 25 firms to change combustion equipment or type of coal. Sept. 21, 1937—City Council defeats amendment designed to strengthen antismoke law. Sept. 31, 1937—Survey showed nearly 500 tons of soot fell on the city during September. Nov. 10, 1937—-City chokes as smoke blanket forms shortly atter midnight and continues until noon. Nov. 12, 1937—Officials forecast

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937

Smoke~City's Public Enemy No. 1

Since 1898 It Has Been a Growing Menace in Indianapolis

Smoke gets in your eyes—and lungs.

R. HERMAN MORGAN, Health Board secretary, says Indianapolis residents are undergoing a process of slow suffocation.

“Polluted atmosphere, indoors and out, does not permit city dwellers to get one breath of really fresh air,” he said. Indianapolis burns in excess of a million tons of coal annually. More than 18,000 tons of sulphur settle on the city as the result, he added. Next month, 21,000 pounds of soot will fall on the mile square. Wage earners will lose an estimated $204,000 and 40,800 working days this winter because of the common cold and other respiratory diseases, aggravated by smoke.

“gy OWERED physical resistance from overwork, mental anxiety, loss of sleep and insufficient rest, together with a foggy sunless climate and smoky soot-laden air all conspire to help the cold get a start,” Dr. Morgan said. Meanwhile, eacn of 364,000 persons are taking 20 breaths a minute, inhaling and exhaling hourly 95 gallons of poisons, gases,

Dog-Lizard

| name that means | new genus of fossil reptiles is de- | scribed and pictured in the Journal | of Geology by Dr. Everett Claire

acids, reach bronchial tubes, sinuses, lungs and possibly intestines. And the Health Board estimates 2000 have died needlessly since 1932.

NEXT—What Are the Stakes?

sd SAE

By Science Service

ly doglike in its general appearance that it has been given a

Olson of the University of Chicago. The creature had “canine” teeth

of almost saber-tooth proportions.

The head of the reptile also was

| suggestive of a dog's, particularly in | the formation of the snout, Dr. Ol-

son reports. The skull studied by Dr. Olson

i was brought to Chicago from South

Africa, where it had been found in rocks known as the Karroo formation. These are exceedingly an-

| cient, antedating the age of dino- | saurs. | named Cyonosaurus.

The new genus has been

end of survey due to lack of funds.

COPR. 1937 NCA SERVICE INC, REG. U.S AT 0 EF

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A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson TRANGELY enough, when the need is most urgent, women become apathetic in their work for peace. Fear dominates them; their words, once so determined, fall

haltingly from their tongues; before the noise of far-off battles they be-

{come hesitant, silent, and all their | power seems spent.

Yet are not these the days when we who love peace should be most clamorous, most aggressive? The good soldier never shrinks when the zero hour arrives, but assembles all his forces to meet its dangers. The day for which he has spent months and years of preparation comes at last and knowing his little part will help in the general movement he musters his courage and would consider himself a coward if he turned yellow at the crucial moment. Yet we soldiers of peace turn yellow at the first faint echo of war drums from across the sea. The time to act most ardently for peace is when war is just around the corner. Such action may save our own from destruction; it may change the course of history and preserve civilization itself. The issue before us is clear. Now—today —this very hour—we must labor so that peace in the United States can be preserved. In Columbus, O., an érganization called “Peace Action for Franklin County” has been flourishing for a number of years. There is néed for such a, organ ization in every part of the na : A all, the time to strengthen

cinders and soot which 4 |

“dog-lizard,” a | operators.

Entered at Postoffice,

BSecond-Olass Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

Times Photo.

It's 8 a. m. in downtown Indianapolis.

HICAGO, Nov. 19.—So striking- |

Some Shipping Lines Face Subsidy Cuts

Times Special ASHINGTON, Nov.

Kennedy, before he quits at the end of the year, will hand out a parcel of headaches for various

Current subsidies will be whittled or drastically cut in some shipping lines, if anticipated recommendations based on commission's economic study of the shipping industry are carried out. About 185 ocean-going ships now enjoy Federal subsidies granted for six months in settlement of canceled ocean mail contracts, but Kennedy is trying to figure out how much of the money is justified from economic and military standpoints. Privately, it’s promised thet the day is over when ship operators they

what could abstract.

shipping officials and lines which poisoning

Jasper—=By Frank Owen

ship

the case of

the

rted in luxury are

Current temporary subsidies subsidy

possible annual revision.

Graded Lake

By Science Service

J, ENGR: Nov. 18. = Five well-defined layers dof water, each different from all the others, have been found in a lake on the Arctic island of Kildin, near the Murmansk coast. From surface downward the layers of water are: fresh, brackish, strongly salt, red, and sulphurous. dissolved in the bottom layer are deadly to almost ail forms of lite,

could | but the bacteria that give the fourth

reach into the public till and see layer its red color feed on Lhe sul

Some | phur and prevent any of it from |

the layers above.

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| sion around here in 1885

| escape the Indianapolis schools

| Butler,

; quite a bit older than I am,

| will

The sulphur gases |

Second Section

PAGE 15

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

How Miller's Son Turned Architect And Then Combined Both Businesses, Is Revealed in Search for Old Book.

OU may want to catch up on what's gos ing on at the State Library. The other day, for instance, Howard M. Rudeaux of Minneapolis showed up, and e2id he wanted to learn everything he could about one L. H,

Gibson, a Hoosier who wrole a book,

“Gradual Reduction Milling,” back in 1885. Mr. Rudeaux said the book is a classic in its field, and just as good as the day it was written. Indeed, he went so far as to say that it might pay some people to read it. Mr Rudeaux didn’t mention names, but 1 guess he knows what he's talking

| about, because he's connected with | the

Northwestern Miller, a that makes a business of trade secrets, Mr. Rudeaux's mission surprised the Library people no end, because Gibson they knew the architect who was practicing his profesThey know better now, Ine deed, by this time they know enough about L. H. Gib son, the miller, to know about his father, too His father, David Gibson, came to Indianapolis in 1862, and the first thing he did was to buy an interest

paper spilling

about was

pretty busy Mr. Scherrer

{ in the big mill near Washington and Blackford Sts

It was known as Souhl & Gibson's Mill, and did a right nice business producing flour for the Union Army in the Civil War. After the war, it was just as busy sending flour to Europe. Maybe vou don't know it, but at that time most of the big American flour mills sold their entire product abroad, local des mands being supplied by small mills Well, the Gibson Mill grew bigger and bigger after that, and sometime around 1881 it became the Acme Mill, later the Aeme-Evans Mill.

Began Career as Architect

While all this was going on, Louis Henry, was growing up the family arrived here.

Mr. Gibson's son, He was about 7 when For that reason, he couldn't Later he went to Christian University, now known as That done, he was apprenticed to an Indian« apolis architect, Peckham by name, and later went to Boston Tech from which he was graduated in architecture in 1874. On his return, he became a draftsman

Northwestern

| in the office of Edwin May, and later formed a parte

nership with Edwin H. Ketcham About 1880, David Gibson persuaded enter the milling business with

his son to

him He became

| superintendent of the plant, and for a while it looked | as if he might chuck architecture altogether and fol-

low in his father’s footsteps. At any rate, it was durs« ing this period that Louis H. Gibson, the architect,

| made an intensive study of flour milling, and became | a regular contributor to the Northwestern Miller | a matter of fact, it was in that publication that the

classic “Gradual Reduction Milling” first appeared

. serially, The book appeared in 1885.

At the sale of the Gibson Mill in 1883, L. H. Gibson

| returned to the practice of architecture, again with

Mr. Ketcham, and right off the bat they designed hospitals for the insane at Logansport, Richmond and Evansville, Mr. Gibson stayed with architecture after that.

s—

Jane Jordan—

Threesome at Game of Love Proves Unsatisfactory, Jane Tells Youth.

EAR JANE JORDAN-=I am a single man of 23. I have been going with a married women who is When we met she was separated from her husband, We kept going together for four months and the more we saw of each other the more she thought of me and I of her. Now she is back with her husband again. She asked him to come back, not because she cared for him, but because her finances were low and she could not make 1t She still tells me that she thinks more of me than of him. I have met him at their home a lot of times and he seems to like me, too. He knows that she goes with me to a dance twice a week and said it was all right because we nad been going together when they were separated. What I would like to know is whether I should keep on going with her or not Should I just wait and find out how things are going

to turn out between them or should I find some one else more my age? PUZZLED.

alone,

” ” ” Angwer—The answer, of course, is to find some one unmarried and nearer your age. A threesome in love is never satisfactory, for love is a game at which only two can play. Neither of you two men really love this woman or you wouldn't take such a passive attitude toward each other. No doubt she yearns for a strong man to claim her and protect her. As it is she has one to provide the home and the other to provide amusement. It is not a very happy situation and I doubt if she respects either of you very much. When a young man is attracted to an older married woman, usually it indicates his approach to single women of his own age is barred by some form of ankiety, For some reason he doubts his ability to win when he has to compete with the young men, and he is afraid of the responsibility which the gir! represents in case he does go to the trouble of winning her, When he courts an older married woman what Is {here in the situation to ease these anxieties? Forona thing the presence of the husband relieves him of the fear that he will have to get married, That is one responsibility he won't have to assume. An older woman is more experienced and knows how to put a man at his ease, She is more considerate of his comfort and has more regard for his purse. She doesn’t expect as much as an unattached girl. Her attitude toward him is tinged with the ma'terna® which renews the old, comfortable, receptive feeling he had for his mother. Because less is dee manded he feels more secure, Some men fall in love with a married woman because they enjoy the thrill of taking her away from her huspand. They must destroy another man to awaken deep feeling. If you have this desire, apparently it is very mild, On the contrary the fact that the husband ilkes you seems to please you, Perhaps you enjoy his society as much as you do his wife's. I repeat, neither of you really love this woman, JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will Answer your questions in (ais column daily.

Walter O'Keefe—

BOARD 8. 8. QUEEN MARY, Nov. 19.—~The weather outside is as sulky as Congress. The British staff on the boat is the last word in hospitality, but they certainly talk English with a peculiar accent. I hate to see them kick a vowel when f’s down. . The Marquis of Queensbury, whose ancestor estabe lished the rules of pugilistic mayhem, has the suite next door and, of course, the duchess wants to meet him. I don’t. If the duchess and I start fighting I don’t want anybody yelling for fair play. ) The Mary

tory—history krought up to the minute and showing all. too -clearly how. in the future “ar may

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