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Bill Boyd Works Only Six Months Out of the Year, but His Salary Is Twice That the President Gets.

HOLLYWOOD, March 12—For the first

* tine in my life I have found a man with a. job of which I am wholly, completely and 100 pe: cent envious.

The man is Bill Boyd. He is a cowboy star in Western pictures. He makes twice as

~ much as the President of the United States. He loafs

six morchs out of the year. He loves his work. His name isn’t so big that he’s continually imposed upon

the working' six months and the

loafing six months just in the busi-

ness of living happily. Bill Boyd ranks No. 2 among all Western film heroes. And, by a recent redrawing of contract, he is now the highest paid Western star in the movies. Boyd came to Hollywood in 1919, which is a long time ago as the crow flies. For 15 years he made a living in -the movies, played in - some big pictures, but never beMr. Pyle came a great name. Then three years ago a producer named Harry Sherman came to him with an idea for a series of Western pictures based on the Clarence Mulford books, whose hero was a character named Hopalong Cassidy. Boyd had never played in Westerns. He had. done fairly well in\movies, but had lived expensively. So ne decided to give the thing a try. When they made the first one, they didn’t know but that it might be the last. ; : But up till today they have made 18 of them, all with Boyd as the same character of Hopalong

“Cassidy, almost like a series of Alger books. Nobody

knows when the thing will end. Maybe it will never

Boyd lives to me what seems an ideal life. He makes six pictures a year—one a month for six months. : When the six are done, then he’s “Bill Boyd, Private, Kecp Out” as far as his workaday life is concerned. He can do what he pleases. Boyd has been living in’ a many-roomed apartment in the Hollywood foothills. But he was moving to a ren‘ed house, farther up the mountainside, the day after I saw him. He has three other homes. A small mansion on the beach at Malibu. A ranch with a grand Spanishtype house near Ventura, some 75 miles north of here. And another ranch at Lone Pine, in the mountains 220 miles from here.

’s Really Hopalong Cassidy ill Boyd has become so engrossed in his char-

» acterization of Hopalong Cassidy that it has changed ‘ the whol: structure of his life.

It has really given him ething big to live for. He’s more careful money now, and ‘his habits too.. He has

Boyd’s wife is Grace Bradley, who is also in the movies. She is blond, wears slacks and a belted jacket, and is as sweet as she can be. They have ‘been married only a few months. The Boyds don’t go out much in the Hollywood set. In fact, they have very few friends, Boyd says. About twice a year they go down to the Trocadero and dance. They gravitate from town to beach to ranch to ranch to a trip somewhere. Just living and enjoying themselves, and never worrying. What a life! - And the thing that burns me up is that this aristocrat of the cowboy roles can’t even roll a cigoret, and I've rolled millions of ‘em.

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady Visits One of 10 NYA

Community Centers in New Mexico.

L PASO, Tex. Friday.—The days are so crowded 3 that I find it difficult even to give you a glimpse of all my impressions. I visited a community center in Los Lunas, N..M., with Mr. Popejoy, the National Youth Administration director. It is one of 10 the NYA has built in the state. It is a charming building built around a central courtyard. On the right, as you go in, is a room used as a library to lend to the neighborhood. When we entered the community center, an orchestra, consisting mainly of mouthorgans with a guitar and another stringed instrument, was playing American and Spanish songs. These Spanish-American people preserve their folk songs and also learn songs in English, : . On the left, was a showroom in which boys and - girls exhibi® things they have learned to make in the center, in order that they build up sales for, articles made on their own time. Handwoven hangings, a beautifully carved chest and a well-made, handpegged tablz and chairs were already on exhibition.

Women Work in Sewing Rooms

Around the courtyard there are weaving and tanning shops. Tanning should be a most useful skill, for this is a cattle country where all kinds of hides may be obtained to be cured and made into any-. thing from rugs to slippers and jackets. Furniture making anc carving filled the other rooms. We drov: to Santa Fe to have luncheon with Mrs. -Pranklin K. Lane and her daughter, Nancy. I visited the sewing room in Santa Fe. I was interested in the type of women working in the sewing rooms in New Mexico. Since there are no factories, few of them will use the skill in sewing they learn on the projects for commercial purposes, but this new skill will make an enormous chang: in their home con-

ditions.

New Books Today

you lik= Proustian-type fiction, you should get your hands on the new Bobbs-Merrill novel THE DEATH OF MARK by R. E. Spencer. Here is an in-side-the-mird story with all the frills, but none of the excess verbiage. Four souls, mostly in torment, are revealec-—a man, a wife, a brother, a mother. They win through to some degree of balance in the

d. : = Mark, a dominant character, is made dependent by

an accident which paralyzes his body. His resent-

ment and feilure to adjust leads through insanity to "a change in character. That does not sound reasonable, but R. E. Spencer makes it real enough. The accompanying impact of Mark's on his wife is no less interes ~~

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‘Public Library Presents—

TT Association for the Cultivation of the Olive and the Vine, a Utopian colony which came to ‘Alabama Territory in 1817 and settled on the banks of the Tombigbee, included some of the very flower of Prench aristocracy. These emigres were officers

and grenadicrs in the service of Napoleon Bonaparte

—and were oroscribed by the Restoration. . The principles of the French Revolution—Liberty, Equality, Fra ernity—were still their watchwords, and now they cold see the realization of this dream in their brave new world. . Charming. cultivated, scholarly and gallant.as this colony was, i°5 ‘members belonged to drawing rooms, " pattlefields, te courts of kings. They were not made for 2 most sincere and idealistic of all of these of Fousseau and Condorcet was the agent

mankind, which was too wide a circle

: to make for ‘ie happiness of his wife, Ariadne, who

was not one of those persons who can always “logk outward.” A: far as she was concerned. their mar‘riage had be-n one of inclination, not merely the conventional “Trench marriage of convenience. The vital persona! problem of Charles and Ariadne as related | st the background of this romantic

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Chairman Morgan of TVA Is Combination of Dreamer and Man of Action

. SATURDAY, MARCH 12,1938

(First. of a Series)

By John T. Moutoux

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, March 12.—The storm over TVA revolves about three men of high repute who constitute the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors. Though the air and the news columns have been filled

with charges and counter-charges, thus far little concrete = |

evidence has been offered to suggest that even a minorleague scandal exists, let alone another Teapot Dome. Hence it may be helpful to know something of the personalities of the triumvirate who rule the Authority and who have caused all the commotion. First comes the board chairman, Arthur E. Morgan. And don’t call him “Doctor Morgan”; he doesn’t like that.

He didn’t go to college a day in his life, yet he became a college president. Mr. Morgan and his former close friend, Senator

Norris, whose friendship he has lost because of the present controversy, have one thing in common; they - both have sad faces. Maybe that comes from taking the world and its problems too-seriously.- At any rate, Chairman Morgan seldom and hardly ever laughs. ” ” ” E is a Puritan at heart, and that influence is reflected in the personnel and activities of the

Authority. In building up the TVA organization he asked ap‘plicants for key positions about their drinking habits. This same ascetic tone is in evidence at TVA construction camps. The history of such camps in this country is colored with wine and women. But in the TVA camps not even beer can be had, and the only women are the wives of some of the officials or workers. Yet, TVA enemies charged at one time that the TVA town of Norris, Tenn. was “a godless town” because it had no denominational church. The TVA chairman is a mixture of dreamer and man-of-ac-tion. He doesn’t want to be called an idealist, yet he has the Wilsonian habit of setting his standards high and refusing to compromise. He was a practical man first, and as such he was an outstanding engineer. He planned and superintended the ocenstruction of some 175 water-control projects. Dayton, O., for instance, will never again have a serious flood, thanks to the series of dams on the Miami River which Arthur E. Morgan built. 8 on RGAN the philosopher came later. That side of him is found in his writings, especially his Antioch Notes, which he wrote while president of Antioch College in Ohio, and in some of his books. Many of his speeches are philosophical essays. > He also is given credit for compliance with the provision in the TVA Act prohibiting patronage.

That was easy for him, for he has a strong - dislike for the pieseeking politician. He'd as soon offend one as not, regardless of the consequences. Early in his career as TVA board chairman he alienated Congressmen by the wholesale when he warned them in a Chicago speech to steer clear of TVA. \ Until the reorganization of TVA last year, whereby administration was placed in the hands of a general manager, the many phases of the TVA program were parceled out among the three directors. Chairman Morgan was in charge of dam-building, the part of the program that involved by far the greatest part of the expenditures. As key engineers he appointed men with whom he had worked when he headed the Morgan Engineering Co. There has never been any criticism of the Authority’s construction program. The consensus is that the engi-

- neers have done a good job. After

the board split, key men in the organization were labeled “Morgan men” qr “Lilienthal men.” Most of the engineers were known as Morgan men, and most of these are still with the Authority despite Mr. Morgan’s minority status in the board. However, several of them have resigned.

” » w HE present board fight dates

back, as far as the public -

knows, to the spring of 1936 when Chairman Morgan went to President Roosevelt and served notice that if Dave Lilienthal were reappointed he would resign. The reappointment was made, but Mr. Morgan didn’t resign. He remained quiet during the Presidential campaign and then issued his famous “state paper” of January, 1937, in which he called the TVA power yardstick dishonest. He also spoke of men with Napoleonic ambitions—an obvious thrust at Lilienthal. Things” rocked along until the hearing on Senator Berry's marble claims. At the last hour on the last day of the hearing Mr. Morgan appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom and asked to testify. TVA ccunsel declined to put him on as a witness for the Aur thority, but the Condemnation Commission told him to take the

stand. That was when Mr. Mor-

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indiana

Norris Dam, in eastern Tennessee, is one of the large projects completed under

TVA. This photo shows the huge lake that has been made from what was formerly the

narrow, winding Clinch River.

gan disclosed the long fight he waged against the Berry claims. The decision of the Condemnation Commission holding the Berry claims worthless was regarded by Mr. Morgan as a vindication, and the statements he has issued since are further evidence of his lack of confidence in the two board members, whom he accused of having attempted to reach a friendly settlement with Senator Berry. » » f

VEN Mr. Morgan's friends say that whatever he does, he wants to do in his own way. It's a part of the uncompromising quality of the man. As head of an engineering firm and later as head of a college, he was a oneman board: he ran the whole: show. When he went on the TVA board he soon found a different situation. His two colleagues had ideas of their own. The clash

that came was almost inevitable. -

Whether Mr. Morgan wins or loses this fight, he will take if in his philosophical stride. In his own mind he’s right, and that’s the main thing that counts: with him. And it’s a safe bet that, no matter how strong the pressure, he won’t resign from the TVA board—at least not before he’s had the investigation he demands.

TVA Developments

Fleet Commander Is Noted

For His Quick Thinking

ASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.).—Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, commander-in chief of the U. S. Fleet, will be the head arbiter in the annual spring war games in the Pacific.

‘.The son of an emigrant from the former German Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia), Admiral Bloch is 59 and reputed to be one of the hardest workers and quickest thinkers in the Navy. Men who have risen in the ranks with Admiral Bloch marvel at his ability to reach important decisions with a minimum of effort and time. “His ‘mind seems to work a fraction faster than any high naval officer I know,” Admiral J. O. Richardson, an old shipmate of Bloch’s in his early days, remarked. “And he's one of the most industrious men I know, too,” Richardson said. “There is never any wasted time with him.” Despite his rigid adherence to

Side Glances—By

duty, Admiral Bloch, in his leisure hours, spends his time much as anyone else might, Admiral Fechardson commented. ! He plays a fair game of bridge and is “quite pleased” if he “breaks a 100” at golf, Richardson said. He has a keen sense of humor, likes to dance ard mingle with people. In his early days, Bloch was one of the best informed men in the Navy on armor-piercing projectiles, it is said. At one time he was chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in the Navy Department with the rank of rear admiral. - In 1899 he served aboard vessels in the Asiatic Station and five years later was appointed lieutenant. He received. the rank of lieutenant commander in 1911. Admiral Bloch was named a commander in 1916. In 1918 he saw duty in transporting and escorting troop and supplies to European ports through the war Zzone.

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ERE are recent TVA developments: ba March 1—A three-man board appointed by a Federal judge held that marble leases owned by Senator Berry (D. Tenn.) in the Norris Dam reservoir had no coms mercial value. Mr. Berry's attorneys had valued the leases at $5,000,000. : : March 2—Chairman A. E. Morgan of TVA, who had said all along that the Berry leases were worthless, issued a long statement charging the two other board members with “an attitude of conspiracy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic manipulation,” and renewing his suggestion of last December for an inquiry by Con-

gress. : ; March 3—Senators Bridges (R.

N. H) and. King (D. Utah) in-

troduced a resolution for a Sen-

ate investigation; Rep. Maverick (D. Tex) introduced a resolution for a joint House-Senate investigation. : March . 4—President Roosevelt released a memorandum; dated Jan. 19, in which Directors H. A. Morgan and David. E. Lilienthal charged Chairman Morgan with a number of “not permissible” acts, including alleged collusion

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: Chairman Arthur E. Morgan with" utility men in the prepara-

tion of statements opposing ac-

tions of the majority of the board.

» ® 8. ARCH 5—Mr. Lilienthal announced a TVA proposal for

"acquisition by cities, TVA and

other public agencies of properties of all private power companies in the Tennessee Valley. March 6—Chairman- Morgan made public a “confidentisl letter” he had written to Rep. Maverick charging the two other directors with: “conspirgey,” “eva~ sion,” “intrigue” and ‘sharp strategy.” : 4 March T7—Newspaper: headlines: “$5,000,000 spent by TVA illegally,

'U. 8. audit hints.” Rep. Snell of

New York, Republican leader in the House, demanded an investigation of TVA. : March 8—The total of suspected illegal expenditures by TVA was raised to $15,000,000 with $5,000,000 of it explained by TVA, ac-

Jasper—By Frank Owen

y when we realize, as we must, that ‘| they too will be riddled by bombs

the movement is gaining headway

1{ be ridding the pets of other people,

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cording to the Controller deneral’s office. Senator Norris charged that A. E. Morgan’s attack on Mr. Lilienthal was due to - jealousy. President Roosevelt announced that he had summoned all three directors to be in his office et 11 a. m. yesterday, “to give facts, not opinions.” March 9—Senator Bridges again attacked TVA. A group of Democratic Senators charged the Controller General with violating the law in publicizing alleged illegal expenditures before giving TVA a chance to explain and before the audit was completed. March 11—President Roosevelt informed the TVA directors that there must be an end to their personal attacks or a resignation ‘from the directorate. He told them their dissension has reached a point where successful administration of the project is imperiled. : : Chairman Morgan repeated his plea for a Congressional investiga tion. :

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OGS are being trained for war service, we read. One authority reports in a current magazine that

in ‘most countries and that dogs have, in fact, played a part in past wars<—if not so splendidly as horses, at least with as much courage. It ‘occurred to. me that here we might have a new incentive for peace agitation. When it becomes widely known that Rover and Fido and Pooch may be trained and used to carry messages at the front, and

and that our soldiers will in turn

I-wonder how America will react the news. ; Eo With a wild surge of rebellion, I daresay. Our present state of mind, which is overwhelmingly cog-

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ment. Millions of men and omen

stunned, horrified at the ide

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

* Your Columnist Notices That the Fellow Who Maintains Money Isn't Everything Usually Has Lots of If.

(CONFIDENTIALLY! ‘Stanley Brooks will go out of his way to/avoid a lunatic with a knife. . .. mper McComb hates to have anyon hit him in the stomach. . « « Mrs, Talitha Peat will never, if she can

avoid it, write with a broken pen. . . . Neil Campbell sees red when anybody tickles him in the k of the neck. ... Mrs. Frederick Polley will posi tively not have an onion around the kitchen when she

fixes stewed chicken. .'. . I've noticed, too, that the fellow who assures us that money isn't everyusually has a lot of it. \ Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht’s son spells his first name “Maurice.” . ++ Organist Charles Hansen always rubs his left palm with his left. thumb when he crosses a street. . « » A Negro laundress practicing in /'Woodruff Place always carries two bones of the hind leg of a dog around with her, and places them in the pattern of a Greek cross on the door sill of her ‘client’s house before she starts washing. . . , Grocer Lon Stambough is one of the very few around here who.will say a good word for & Mexican hairless puppy. Mrs. Robert Elliott reinforces her oyster loaf with ‘sausage meat; one pound of meat to every quart of oysters. . . . Illiteracy in Indianapolis is 1.2 compared with 1.1 up in St. Paul. On the other hand, the circulation of Indianapolis library books is 8.19 per capita compared with 4.85 in St. Paul, thus proving that the reading of books hasn’t anything to do with it, no matter what Luther Dickerson may say. . . . When Mr. Dickerson runs across this, the chances are that he will be listening to Rudy Vallee.

Dentist’s Proposal Newsworthy

Dentist Dr. Richard A. Misselhorn, who has his office opposite University Park, is thinking some of starting a “Starling Riddance Group.” Like the Smoke Abatement League, he says. Dr. Misselhorn’s proposal is newsworthy because at one time he was connected with the Field Museum to lecture the youngsters on the subject of ornithology. Alex Vonnegut is: memorizing “Richard II,” Act III, Scene 2. Nobody knows why. .. . Last Tuesday the Strauss people advertised “Eidelweiss flowers (50 cents),” and the Marott Hotel people keep right on calling their bill of fare a “Carte de Jour.” With in- ~ ternational relations being as jittery as. they are, it strikes me this is no time to take liberties with foreign languages. . . . Last week, too, a pawnshop on Indiana Ave. advertised: “The elephant got his trunk here.” . . . The frame house in the first block of Kentucky Ave, the home of the Lewis barber shop. is probably the last wooden house left in the skye scraper lieu.

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan— Pupil Who Desires to Quit Schoo!

Is "Advised to Consult Teachers. JANE JORDAN-—I am a gitl:'of 16 and 1

D have a very funny problem. 1 detest school. In

fact ‘I hate it and despise it. I've disliked it ever since I was in the first grade and now I am in the last part of my third year in high school. I don’t know whether to quit or not. Every morning when I . get up it just makes me sick to think of where I am going. What really hurts is when grades come out and I get flunks. . I do my lessons. I study hard, but I still get flunks. The teachers just:don’t seem to realize that I am doing the best I know how and no one can do better than that. I want to know if I should quit school. I hate to do this because I am too young to work and I hate to loaf around the house all day. Tell me what you would do if you were me, : : PERPLEXED.

Answer—You would do better to consult one of your teachers or the person at school who stands in an advisory capacity to the students. I don't know enough about you. to advise you intelligently. For example, I would like to know if you have the capacity to do the work and fail simply because it bores you, or whether you've been .pushed beyond your, ability and are discouraged. I would like to know whether or not there are conditions at home which keep you so emotionally disturbed that you can’t get: your mind on your les sons, Many young people who make failing grades at school do so because their home situation takes all their energies. Divorced parents, strong rivalry . between brothers and sisters, a feeling of not being loved or wanted—these things represent a few of the home problems which interfere with one’s ability to learn. Are you troubled by any of these or similar problems? I agree with you that you should not quit school until you find something else to occupy you. Perhaps youd be more interested in a ‘business college or a vocational school. Would you like to study shorthand, typewriting, filing, bookkeeping, dressmaking, home economics or interior decorating? ‘What are your interests in life? Make a list of the things you actually like to do so that you can set a desirable goal to work toward. Your letter is so well written that I cannot believe you are stupid. Your problem is to find out. what is interfering with your ability to learn. To gather knowledge is a thrilling thing. Why do you think it is dull? There is some definite reason for your attitude but I don’t know what it is. I feel sure your school teachers will” help you when they discover that you're really concerned about yourself and not just another indifferent student.

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EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 18 in love with a boy of 18. My father treats me so mean that I think I will leave and marry this boy. Do you think I am doing right by not staying at home with my father? He beats me and curses me. ’ or = ANXIOUS.

Answer—I do not blame you for not staying at home with a father who ts you, but. you're really too young to know whether you're in love. or not. Couldn’t you get a job and live away from home and postpone your marriage for a year or two? When you are older you may not want this boy at all. Your taste may have completely. The wish to leave home has pushed many a girl info a marriage which she lived to regret. After you have learned what it is like to support yourself and to live alone you will make a better wife. = : : : ~ JANE JORDAN.

* Put ‘your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will | answer you’ questions in this column daily, Fal a

Walter O'Keefe—

EW YORK, March 13—The TVA bays spent more