Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1937 — Page 9
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Traveler Finds Largest Ballroom Where 6000 Can Dance. Honest! And It's in Salt Lake City, Toe.
ALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 24.—If you've ever driven through Salt Lake City you have probably noticed, for 200 miles in either direction, billboards advertising the “largest ballroom in America.”
It sounded fishy to me, so I went down to see. It's the biggest, all right, They heard a couple of years ago there was a bigger one in Michigan or Minnesota, they've forgotten which. So they wrote and asked. The answer came back: “If yours is over 27,000 square feet, you've got a mighty big ballroom.” This one. is 60,000. It is owned by the Covey family —S. M. Covey and his sons Theoron and Stephen. They are Mormons, and Salt Lake natives. And the ballroom is only a sideline with them. Their holdings consist of great
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string of the finest and biggest Mr. Pyle apartment houses in" Salt Lake City; scores of filling stations, and the biggest ballroom in America. It was Stephen G. Covey's evening off, but he came down to show me the place. I said to him, “Why is the biggest ballroom in America in Salt Lake City, instead of New York or Chicago or San Francisco?” He said, “Well, I guess the main reason is that we just built it, and then advertised it till we got it filled up.” On the slimmest nights this ballroom has a thousand people dancing. On Saturday night there are 2000 and more. They have had as many as 5500 on holidays. The floor can accommodate 6000. I had thought of public dance halls as cheap and shoddy, But not this one. It's more like a colossal night club, without tables or drinking. It is beautiful inside,
Dancing Four Nights a Week
It is called the Coconut Grove, and it is done in the South Sea manner after the famous Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Everything is spotlessly clean and fresh. There is a lobby, bigger than a hotel lobby, for resting and smoking between dances. There is dancing four nights a week, 8 p. m. till midnight. Monday night is “Young People’s Night,” You won't find half a dozen couples there over 22. Tuesday night is “Married Couples’ ” or “Waltz Night.” There are couples of 75 years who never miss a Tuesday night. There is one old fellow who comes every Tuesday night and inquires at the door: “Has my girl friend showed up yet?” They have been courting a lifetime, and are still meeting at the dance hall, And there is a laundry driver who fills his dance book from his laundry route. He'll say to Mrs. So-and-So, “I want the fifth dance tonight.” And in the next block he'll arrange for the sixth with Mrs. Somebody Else. When he gets there he's all set. Thursday night is for the older and more sophisti« cated of the young people. And Saturday night is everybody's night.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Back From Long Tour, It's Big Job Catching Up on Routine of Home.
JASHINGTON, Tuesday—We arrived in Washington this morning. It was a Joy to see my daughter-in-law, Betsy, at the station, even though she brought news that the President was not going to Warm Springs for Thanksgiving. I am sorry, of course, because I know what a disappointment it will be to everyone there. Yet, since he has had such a miserable time with this tooth, I think he is wise to take a real rest, and the only way he can do that is to go to sea and stop at Warm Springs on the way home, My husband and I had lunch together and caught up on conversation, I went in to greet him before luncheon and found myself interrupting the Secretary of the Treasury-—something which is not done. Then Mrs. Morgenthau and I had a little chat together and went over some of our plans for the yearly gridiron widows party. After lunch, the regular routine had to be taken up again. First Mrs. Helm came with the accumulation of social things, then Mrs. Nesbitt with her household routine, and then Miss Le Hand with a number of special things which had come up in my absence. By this evening I am sure everything will be caught up. I am very happy we are going to remain here quietly for the next few days, as I have been jaunting around the country for so long a time. Yesterday, in Norris, was an exceptionally interesting day to me. This is the dam I have really seen from the beginning right through to the end,
Work Camp Becomes Town
I think it is the village of Norris which interests me most, They have made the transition from a work-camp to a town inhabited by the permanent staff at the dam and by people who work in Knoxville, Tenn,, but who live in Norris. a 30-minute drive by motor. Many things still remain to be worked out, but on the whole it is remarkable that this transition has been effected with so little dislocation in the real social idea which lay in back of the original conception of this town. The school is outstanding and one activity, the children’s co-operative, where they run their own lunch room, have their own bank and do their own buying, seems to me of great interest and an excellent preparation for their future life as citizens of the town. The laboratory, where they are hoping to prove that there is a possibility for a future ceramics industry in this locality, is a fascinating place. They already have an outstanding recreation park with camps overlooking the lake, picnic tables, outdoor fireplaces, ana a most delightful outdoor theater.
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
OBINSON DARE, a writer, lives alone in his cottage in the Cotswolds. His one passion is his love for England. He loves her fields and streams, her moors and valleys, her literature and the great men who have written her story; and he loves her history and her glorious past which has made her the England she is today. He is proud that he is an Englishman, and he wants only to write about his own land and tell other Englishmen what a wonderful country is theirs. For two weeks, he and his nephew and nieces explored the country-side, visiting places of interest both in the past and in the present? Robinson tells the story of each one, and the children learn much of Engiish history and English tradition, Such is the novel ROBINSON OF ENGLAND, by John Drinkwater (Macmillan). It is told with great simplicity and charm; and the reader, when he lays the book aside, finds himself in love with England, too, o ® » T= monograph brepared under the direction of T. J. Woofter, by the Division of Social Research of the WPA analyzes the situation of LANDLORD AND TENANT ON THE COTTON PLANTATION (U. 8. Govt). Recognized as a problem which, until solved, will prevent both a healthy agricultural economy and a sound economic condition in the South, the question of laborer, tenant and sharecropper in the Southern states has been considered at all the points where it touches upon the general welfare, Such a research as this, presenting as it does the facts and describing in detail the working of the tenant system, furnishes invaluable material at a time when this and related questions are to the fore ‘the public mind.
(Last of BY Wiliarn Crabb
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A Times survey in 1936,
increased consumption of coal, showed the smoke expense is borne by the home-
owner, real estate man,
merchant, department store owner, industrialist and hotel owner.
® "= ERY the yearly bill may be presented as follows: Extra laundering $1,000,000 Extra dry cleaning ...... 500,000 Exterior painting ....... 180,000 Curtain cleaning 220,000 Cleaning wholesale and retail stores Cleaning stores in business center Cleaning damage goods in department stores Cleaning office buildings Extra hotel operation expense Extra hospital expense . Precautions by stores to avoid loss of goods. ... Extra lighting of offices
750,000 500,000 110,000 35,000
15,000 38,000
400,000 350,000
Extra lighting of office buildings .. sry Loss in fuel and combustion Loss in sickness miscellaneous factors. .
28,000
1,100,000
on ” on ONCERTED action has made { headway on at least three major fronts in the war on smoke. Five years ago, hand-fired apartment house furnaces poured tons of soot and sulphur on the residential districts. George R. Popp Jr, then City Combustion Engineer and now Building Commissioner, pleaded with the owners to install up-to-date firing methods. “It would cost too much—the
depression has lowered rents and we can't afford new equipment,” they argued. Then, one day, Mr. Popp sold an owner of a number of build-
ings on the fact that proper firing would save him money in the long run. One month after the new equipment was installed, the fuel save ings indicated that the system would pay for itself in less than two years. The owner equipped the rest of his buildings.
8 ” n 3 HE goou word was passed on to other owners and the use of automatic equipment spread like wild-fire. Today, practically all large apartment houses are stoker or oil-burner equipped,” Mr. Popp said. Time also was when locomotives of eight railroads here were major violators oi the City’s Smoke Abatement Code. So the companies jointly hired a “smoke ¢0p.” ° He is Daniel J. Welsh, who was hired in 1930 at a salary of $3000— $800 more than that of the City Combustion Engineer. During the first five years, Mr. Welsh reduced the percentage of violations from 6.84 per cent of the observations made to .50 per cent, A violator is reported to the roundhouse ‘supervisor or road foreman. The violation means the engineer and fireman may be called on the “carpet” to explain why they are wasting fuel,
" ” ” HE railroads’ 1935 record as reported to the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League, follow: Observa- Violations tions 1,139 9 5,328 23 6,187 31 825 360 710 415
Baltimore & Ohio . Big Four ..... ove Pennsylvania MOOR. ..... ove Nickel Plate Peoria & Eastern.. Illinois Central ... Indianapolis .
Totals ...vvvvivs 15,774
Side Glances—By
The Indianapolis Times
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1937
Smoke—City's Public Enemy
Soot Plague Costs Indianapolis Six Million Dollars Yearly
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DIANAPOLIS gets a bill for $6,500,000 each year. That’s $17.85 per person, or $71.40 for a family of
The bill doesn’t come through the mail. It’s submitted
o the laundryman, the doctor,
the window-washer and the coal man. Indianapolis combats this scourge with an annual expenditure of only $2798.96. For the last eight months, this amount has been supplemented by a $9700 WPA project, which is to end shortly.
amended to conform with the
And working hand-in-hand with the railroads and apartment house owners are a large number of industrial concerns which realized that a cleaner city is a more economical place to live, “A number of factory owners have co-operated fully with this department and they have found their efforts well repaid,” Mr. Popp said,
” » » EANWHILE, home - owners, small apartment house custodians, garage managers and others continue to buy fuel at an “immediate” savings, losing millions of dollars over a lang period of time. And the city’s black Public Enemy No. 1 continues to pour forth each day from a hundred
thousand “inverted waste baskets” to spread disease and destruction. Indianapolis spends $135,000 to purify the water it drinks, Only 2 per cent of that amount is spent to purify the air in Indianapolis, The City of Smoke,
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ENGINEERED MURDER
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Leaders in the antismoke fight are the above members of the
. Smoke Abatement League. They
are, left to right, Miss Grace L. Brown, Roy O. Johnson, Dr, Herman G. Morgan, Albert Stump and Joe Rand Beckett, The League has launched a three-point educational campaign and is seeking cheaper prices for coke, “the smokeless fuel.” In the photo at right are shown Mayor Boetcher and his predecessor in office, John W. Kern, both of whom consider the smoke problem one for city action. City Council is expected to see introduced again soon an amendment to the smoke abatement code strengthening the present ordinance,
Stirs Capital
| | By Flora &. Orr
| Times Special Writer
| VY ASHINGTON, Nov. 24. —Group | medicine with all that the | term implies, has appeared on the | Washington horizon as a threat and a promise. | Thousands of Government employees are already signed up with Group Hospitalization, Inc, to which they pay 65 or 75 cents a month, and are entitled in return to 21 days of hospitalization in any year, Group hospitalization plans are flourishing in many cities today with the co-operation of physicians and hospitals. New York City has upwards of 150,000 subscribers to its group hospital plan. Similar plans in Cleveland and Washington are said to have about 40,000 members each, But the small clinic recently opened here under the sponsorship of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Home Owners Loan Corp., in which members of the new Group Health Association are to be treated for all minor ailments, has caused the District of Columbia Medical Association to organize its legal forces for a finish fight. Subscribers of the group, who are employees of the two Government agencies, pay $3.30 a month for family medical care, including hospitalization, * Ww Ww HE attitude of conservative medical associations is that illness is a personal problem. Doctors in the District of Colum bia who are fighting “socialized medicine” may find their best weapons in Congress. New Deal erities on Congressional appropriation committees may put the Federal Home Loan Bank Board on the spot for advancing $20,000 to launch the clinie. There are a number of co-opera-tive group medical plans of which the Ross-Loos Medical Group of Los Angeles is an outstanding example. At least 150 such clinics are said to be operating in the United States,
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with complete medical care offered at a fixed prepaid rate per month, In at least two cities there are
hospitals owned or wholly used by co-operative organizations of eciti-
zens, who, as stockholders, pay a | small amount yearly for any medical attention needed by the entire
family. In at least two. cities there are hospitals owned or wholly used by co-operative organizations, who, as stockholders, pay a small amount yearly for any medical attention needed by the entire family, One such hospital is Trinity, in Little Rock, Ark. This institution of 50 beds was built by a small association of doctors who had previously banded together to practice as a group. ” ” ” HEIR purpose was two-fold: To relieve patients and prospective patients from worry; and to relieve the doctor from worry, because doc tors have to eat and pay their bills as well as do other citizens. A similar hospital and clinic is co-operatively owned by members of the community in and around Elk City, Okla. Other group medical establishments include county health societies in Georgia, Oregon and Washington State, and a co-opera-tive clinic maintained by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union in New York City. Government intervention in matters of individual health is by no means unanimously opposed by medical men. Recently 460 physicians and surgeons signed a statement advocating a national health policy which the American Medical Association previously had turned down. Dr. Richard C. Cabot of Harvard Medical School is supporting the HOLC venture here. Dr. Henry E Sigerist of Johns Hopkins, a leading historian of medicine, says: “The fact is that the Government now is furnishing one-fourth of all medical service, It is not a question of whether the Government is going into medicine. The only thing left to be decided is how far it is to go.”
A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T= doctors seem to be having trouble in'their ranks. Social-
ized medicine is condemned by this
professional group. Theoretically speaking, this should be strange, singe doctors are supposed to be concerned with public health. Actually, of course, it isn’t surprising at all, Do you know the main reason Why a great many people think the Government can never protect the health of human beings as it protects the health of livestock and plants? Certainly you do. The answer is always the same. Politics! Socialized medicine, they say, won't work because of politicians. And it is a fact that we still trust our doctors more than we do our Government employees. We can't make up our minds yet to submit the lives of people to the sort of doctors we imagine would be most likely to hang around the statehouse for political favors. Why can't we ever set up idealistic schemes which we know would be beneficial for us all, schemes to help the old, the sick, the poor, and make them work so that those who pay the taxes would be satisfied with the results? Simply because among us there abides a profound disbelief in the
‘| integrity of public officeholders.
Many times such distrust is illfounded. Certainly all of our politiclans are not scoundrels. Never. theless the suspicion exists. In England, socialized medicine a success. That's because in Eng-
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Thanksgiving---
Finding circumstances for gratitude in the passing of
the depression, in the rehabilitation of the flooded areas, and in Indiana labor-employer relations, Governor Townsend today issued the annual Thanksgiving proclamation:
CP HE first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by the little colony of Plymouth in grateful thanks to the Lord for the abundance of the harvest. “Throughout our State of Indiana, in cities and on farms, we join our sister states in giving thanks to our Lord for the blessings of the year. There is no home, however humble, that has not been visited by some blessing and has not cause for thanksgiving. “The welfare of our people has been steadily improved and we have moved out of the shadow of the depression. We may thank God that the courage of our people and efficient relief and rehabilitation work prevented much misery and suffering during the disastrous floods, “We are grateful for the co-operation of labor and industry in settling their disputes peacefully and intelligently around the conference table. “Now, therefore, I, M. Clifford Townsend, Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of this state, do hereby proclaim Thursday, Nov. 25, 1937, as Thankskiving Day to be observed by giving thanks to Almighty God for the blessings He has bestowed upon us, by the renewal of family and social bords, and by the display of our flag. “In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Indiana, at the Capitol in the City of Indianapolis, this 23d day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1937.”
Jasper—By Frank Owen
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Charades Is Game That Can Stick You Clever Modern Puzzle Solvers; See How Mrs. Pratt Turned 'Em Out,
Y life would be a drab affair, indeed, were it not for the vivid material sent in by readers who know more about running a column than I do. Thus the other day I had occasion to men
tion Sarah S, Pratt and “The Women of
America to Paderewski,” a poem she wrote back in 1896. Believe it or not, it wasn't an hour after the newsboys got busy when somebody called up to say that Mrs. Pratt is still writing poetry, It's a fact, as I found out for myself. Mrs. Pratt has just finished and published “Guess This Word,” a collection of charades which are just about the slickest thing you ever saw, It's time you youngsters knew something about charades, They're syllable puzzles, an amusement which consists of dividing a word into its component parts or into its Mr. ‘Seherrer component letters, predicting somet hing of each. That's the beginning. It ends with reuniting the whole, and predicting something of that, too. After which it's up to the reader to guess the answer, For example: “My FIRST is just the same as sin, “My BECOND'S just as bad; “My TOTAL is the name Of a certain noted lad; He found a vale of diamonds As he walked out one day, And although his name was naughty His bankroll was O. XK.” That's No. 66 of Mrs, Pratt's collection Well, it's “Sinbad.” Pretty cute for an lady, if you ask me.
Then It Became a Hobby
Mrs. Pratt says she got interested in charades about 40 years ago when she happened to be in Terre Haute, and picked up a book of 100 charades by Wile lam Bellamy, (Just to keep the record straight. Wile liam Bellamy was not the author of “Looking Backs ward.” That was his brother, Edward.) It didn’t take Mrs. Pratt anv time at all to solve Mr. Bellamy's riddles. After that she went looking for more. At this stage, she discovered that Mr. Bellamy had written four more books, each containing 100 charades, and she tackled them, too. Bhe guessed all of them except one, By this time, the whole Pratt family was crazy about charades, So much so that when it came time to send Mrs, Pratt's daughter, Mary, to Vassar, doge gone if Mary's mother didn't send a voiuime of Bele lamy's charades with her. I lug Mary Pratt into today's piece because she was the girl who guessed the one charade her mother couldn't get. It took her 30 years to do it, though, At that, it shows what Vassar is good for, Well, that's how Mrs, Pratt got started on charades. Having exhausted Mr, Bellamy's repertoire, she now thinks up her own. She thinks them up everywhere, even in her sleep, she says, As a matter of fact, she thought up, framed, and finished “Sinbad” in bed, at a time when the rest of you were shoring. That's what the 84-year-old Mrs. Pratt did, The rest of you ought to be ashamed of yourselves,
Jane Jordan— Snub Always Wrong Way to Bid for
Boy's Interest, Jane Advises Girl, EAR JANE JORDAN-=-I am 16 years old, I like a certain boy the same age. At times he acts like he likes me; then his attitude changes, One week { started snubbing him, thinking it would make him not 80 sure of me, He seemed to like me better, but later started going with another girl, This girl caused him to lose his job, but he still goes around with her, I kave an inferiority complex when I am with him. Is there anything I could do to get him interested inh me again, TONIA.,
Answer—If anything would work, the presence of a rival for your affections would be the most potent, In general snubbing is a very bad technique for arousing the interest of a boy, as you have seen. It is a rare boy who 1s stirred to make a conquest of the girl who snubs him. As a rule it simply discourages him or makes him dislike the girl, Do you like a person who snubs you? A person falls in love because of the vast increase of his own self-esteem and feeling of personal worth. Boy meets girl and girl's face lights up with pleasure. Boy sees he has found favor in her eyes and feels a bigger and better boy because of it. He loves her for appreciating him and shows his preference for her approval. In turn girl is flattered and feels a height« ened sense of her own importance, She tries harder to please boy because she enjoys his attention, Each puts his best foot foremost and so the little mutual admiration society progresses, fed by the self-love of its members, It is sometimes necessary for a girl to arouse a boy's fear that he is going to lose her. Bhe does this after she has made him thoroughly aware of her charms and devendent upon her approval. Bhe does not do it by rudely knocking his ears down, but by dividing her attention with other boys. The presence of competition makes him stir himself harder to eapture the treasure for himself, If you will study the methods of popular girls you will find that they do not snub either boys or girls, but treat them all with warm sincerity, They have the priceless knack of making everyone feel coms fortable in their presence. They have a genuine interest in the pursuits of others and how to lose themselves in outside interests. They never deliberately wound to increase their value in another's eyes, Ine stinctively they realize it has the opposite effect, " Ld ” Dear Jane Jordan—I counted upon taking my gir} to a party and didn’t ask for the date until the night before. She asked me to call her the next night and when I did she said she could not go. I stagged fit and to my surprise she was thefe with another fellow. It put me in an awful position. Several fellows in the crowd suggested that I either stand her up or call a date off at the last minute to avenge myself, I have a date for next Thursday but do not think this the right thing to do. I do not watt her to think she can run over me and that I will willingly come back for more, BOB.
Give up? 84-year-old
Answer=Perhaps your delay in asking her to the party made her suspect she was second choice and she retaliated by keeping you waiting so long you couldn't get a date at all. The best way to get even with such a girl is simply to stop dating her. Why bother with the silly methods your friends suggest ? If she is worth the trouble, talk it out with her and see if she feels like making an honest explanation, If she doesn’t cross her off your list. What of it? JANE JORDAN,
Put your problems In a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily, DN ——— CUE | SU
Walter O'Keefe—
ARIS, Nov. 24.~The Duchess went Shipping to. diy, so I took refuge from the CrOWds in = Turkish bath. Of course, you're considered a celeb. a if you're not a Jerrod king. You ean open a door in the hotel without knocking ‘over a former monarch, 1 should sue my alma mater, Notre Dame, for the h course they gave me '20 years ago. I still the French words to tell a barber to give over lightly. No wonder so many French. hedge on their chins, It's a
‘& hirsute m, Paris.