Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1938 — Page 9
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From Indiana==Ernie Pyle It Was Somewhat Difficult for the New Orleans Waiter to Forget the
Milk When He Served the Coffee.
Editor's Note—Ernie Pyle, after three years of traveling, is taking a vacation. Hence we are taking this opportunity to reprint some of his readers’ favorite columns, as indicated in their letters to him and to the editor. The fourth of these follows:
NEW ORLEANS, June 1.—Two little |
scenes in New Orleans: A French restaurant, far back in the Vieux Carre (Old Quarter). Tourists don't go there. There's
no reason why anybody should, for that mat- |
ter, because it isn't a very good restaurant, and there's no “atmosphere.” and the food is just 50-50. But you get an awful lot of it for a quarter. You have ordered black coffee. Finally a startledlooking waiter arrives with it. He sets it down. He looks at the coffee, and then at you, and you look at him, and his mouth opens and he stands there like that, and finally he says: “Why, I put milk in it.” That's what has happened. put milk in it. So he tries again, and this time he comes back and sets the cup down, and looks at you, and then at the coffee, and then at you. and he seems to become sort of frightened at himself, and paralyzed. and finally picks up the cup and starts back with it, and says, “I guess I'll have to drink ft myself.” He has put milk in it again
You'll think it's a lie, but it isn't: He had milk in it when he came back the third time. He never said a word that time. He just set it down, looked at it. picked it up and started back again, as if he knew all the time he would find milk in it when he looked.
He made it on the fourth trip. But it was a demi tasse. He began explaining 10 feet away. “T've only got a half cup. I'm sorry, but this is all the coffee there is.”
; You don’t get mad at a guy like that. You might in Chicago, but not in the Vieux Carre. An old, old house in the Vieux Carre, behind the ancient Cathedral of St. Louis. In this house an old lady died the other day. She was a very old lady, a Creole of sentiment and strong biood and tenderness for the little things she loved. She died at 98. She was born there, she died there, and only three nights of her entire 98 vears had she slept outside of that house listened for the lovely soft bells of the Cathedral of St. Louis. She had never married,
Her Brother Was Not Sad
The night she died, two friends called to miserate with her brother, who lived with her offered restrained. sad words The old man them. He was not sad “Do not grieve, my dear friends.” death was a beautiful death.” “How can death ever be beautiful?" “Let me tell you,” he said. “At 5 minutes till 9. she called to me. ‘Francois, she said. ‘Francois. pour me a little glass of brandy “So I got a bottle of brandy 48 vears old. and 1 poured her a glass, and put one arm behind ana lifted her up, and held it for her. and she sipped it in slow sips, and rested a little between Sips. “And then at 9, the cathedral bells began ringing, and she sat up with my arms around her and listened to the bells, and just as they stopped, she smiled and lay back down and she was dead ‘My dear good friends, how could anything be more beautiful than that? brandy in her mouth, and the sound of the bells in her ears, and & smile on her face ... is that not beautiful?”
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My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Weather Still Too Chilly To Tempt | First Lady Into the Swimming Pool. |
H™: PARK, N. Y. Tuesday—~Three valiant gentlemen went into our swimming pool yesterday afternoon and assured me it was as warm as If it were already midsummer. I haven't screwed up my courage to take a swim and it will have to be warmer than it has been so far before I am really tempted. We were an amusing party last night, with everybody arranging at what hour each was going to leave. My husband left for the train at 10:30. Before that time, my brother insisted he was going to drive to New York early enough to miss the crowd and retired after setting his alarm clock for 4 a. m.! Another guest left at 7, which seemed a reasonable hour to rise, and breakfast. After he was off, IT explored some old paths in the woods on horseback. They are nearly overgrown, but there is a fascination in following 8 path vou are not entirely sure about. even if you have a faint idea where you are going to come out I returned in time to see our son James before he started for New York. Since then I have been unpacking and setting things to rights in the way every woman enjoys. I always think I must be quite a trial to my maid, because after she has everything unpacked and arranged on the shelves, I rearrange evervthing Mrs. Scheider and I have a certain amount of mail to answer. Much to the amusement of our guests, she demanded: “Where did you get all this?" as I sorted out mail that had come in West Virginia Somehow or other, I am determined this summer, that we will not spend quite so many hours with desks and typewriters before us. This, I suppose, means that I shall have to go out a great deal, for Mrs. Scheider always works twice as long as I do.
Chats With Chinese Doctor
I spent an hour and a half yesterday afternoon |
talking to a most interesting woman. She was &
Chinese doctor who spoke English so remarkably well | that I asked her how long she had been in this !
country. I found her parents had been here for a
long time, so English was no new acquirement. I
always am surprised at the way in which foreigners learn so0 many more languages than the average American. We take it for granted when they talk
to us in our own language and yet they might quite |
easily expect us to talk their language to them. Prince Louis Ferdinand and his wife speak excellent English. When I asked her how it happened that she was so well equipped to enjoy her visit in an English-speaking country, she answered: “we have always talked English.” I imagine she could have said the same of French and, very likely, of Italian. It is very much easier to acquire languages when you live in close proximity to people who speak
them and that is one of the disadvantages we have !
in becoming linguists. In another way it is a great
advantage, but make a greater effort to speak several languages.
Bob Burns Says—
AN BUREN, Ark. June 1.—I guess it's only human , for all of us to be jest a little bit conceited. Here |
1 thought everybody in the world knew that I wanted a girl but the other day a fella came to see me and was tryin’ to console me because it wasn't a boy. He said the reason he was so proud that he had a son was because if it wasn't for his son, his family name would die out. I says, “By the way, what is your family name?” and he said “Smith.” (Copyright, 1938)
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The Indianapolis Times
Second Section
By Dr. Frank Thone
Neience Service Staff Writer VEGETABLES and flowers are now being grown without soil by two systems whose further development may bring sweeping changes in the techniques and economics of market gardening. In one, developed by Prof. John W, Shive of the New Jersey Experiment Station at New Brunswick, N. J,, the plants have their | roots in sterile white sand, while over them slowly trickles a solution containimg the necessary fertilizer salts, In the other, which is the brainchild of Prof. W. PF. Gericke of the University of California at Berkeley, Cal, not even the sand is used. The plants’ roots dangle in tanks of water in which the | salts are dissolved.
Prof. Gericke
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has given =a Greek-derived name to his sys- | tem: hydroponics. It englishes, | approximately, as “working the | Prof. Shive is satisfied to start with common English; he calls his system “sand culture,” and that's that,
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EITHER System is an absolutely brand-spang-new in= vention. Plant physiologists for years have been growing plants for experimental purposes, with their roots either in sterile sand or suspended in jars of water, But raising them with the expec- | tation of getting enough tomatoes or carnations for marketing at e [ profit something else again. That is the novel element in the present developments, Since both hydroponics and sand culture depend on the same principle of scientifically rationing out mineral fertilizers in a regular diet instead of letting the plants get them, catch as catch can, out of the ordinary soil. It is perfectly easy to set up “dirtless farms.” The chemical formulag needed are in any plant physiology textbook, and any druggist can mix them. But when it comes to getting paying crops that way, it's another story. That's where scientific training and skilled observa-
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Want to Try?
It's rather difficult for the beginner to make plants grow in a solution culture. But if you want to try your luck, here's how to go about it: Use an ordinary quart fruit jar. Tie across its mouth a piece of mosquito netting, letting it sag about half an inch at the center. (It's a good idea to dip the netting in melted paraffin first) Fill up with Shive solution (formula given below) until it just touches the netting. Put seeds on netting and cover with moist hlotting paper until they sprout; then remove paper. Have a rusty nail at the bottom of the jar, to supply the iron the plants need, To make the Shive solution: Have your druggist weigh out the following, very accurately: 24.50 grams potassium acid phosphate. 12.28 grams calcium nitrate. 36.98 grams magnesium sulphate. Dissolve each of these portions in half a liter of distilled water and keep in separate bottles. They are your stock solutions. Take five cubic centimeters of each stock solution, pour into the culture jar, and add plain water enough to fill. Then plant seeds on the netting, and hope for the best As (and if) the plants grow, keep adding diluted solution to hold water level to cover their roots.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938
Farming With Sand and Water
New Methods Promise Vast Changes in Garden Industry
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being grown on a commercial scale by Prof. Gericke's hydroponic or water culture method. Extreme care is one of the essential ingredients for successful exploitation of this method which, when used correctly,
gives astonishingly large yields,
tion of the temperamental little ways of growing plants come in. It is for this reason that Prof. Gericke insists on having all the hydroponic “farms” under his personal supervision. Almost unbelievable are the vields claimed for the system: 1200 pounds of tomatoes in a year from plants crowded on 100 square feet of tank surface; 1500 pounds of potatoes from a setup of a hundredth of an acre; sweetcorn, carrots, turnips, beets and other vegetables in comparable quantities, » ” » that Crops,
UT what vields
is this system such amazing and how is it worked? Simple enough. A hydroponic garden bed consists of a long, shallow tank, usually about 10 by 25 feet, and eight inches deep. It is filled with water in which the proper fertilizer salts are dissolved. Over it, supported in a hed of sawdust, excelsior, or peat moss spread on chicken wire, are the plants. Their roots dangle in 'he tank, sucking up water and mineral nutrients. The water is kept warmed to the best growth tem perature by submerged electric cables, The whole setup may be kept under glass or out of doors.
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Prof. Shive's plants grow well and thrifty on this regimen of sand plus water plus a measured diet of mineral salts. So well did
they do under his strictly experimental conditions that a newcomer on the horticultural staff of the same institution, Dr. G. T. Nightingale, considered the system worth trying on a practical, semicommercial basis He tested it with a large numsber of plants, particularly flowers, such as carnations, azaleas, lilacs, etc, and got most astonishing results. Greenhousemen who saw the test plantings at New Brunswick hastened to try it out, and
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Our Town
' By Anton Scherrer
Prof. and Mrs. W, F. Gericke of Berkeley, Cal., inspect a few tank-
grown tomatoes. Four tanks, each
2'4 by 10 feet, with one plant to
every 1'; square feet of surface, averaged a yield of 306 pounds of
fruit per tank,
now sand has taken the place of black soil on a good many greenhouse benches. Prof. Nightingale has left the New Jersey station
engill Only Hoosiers
for a position in Honolulu, but his work goes on. And Prof. Shive continues the basic researches from which it all started.
To Oppose Wage-Hour Bill in House
By E. R. R. ASHINGTON, bandwagon
June 1
nearly broke
down from the rush to get aboard | petition, was
when the Wage-Hour Bill
taken up in the House last week. | voted against discharging the Rules
When “yeas” and “nays” finally were counted, it was found that the
Sand culture is exactly what its | Wage-Hour Bill had been passed by
name implies. Instead of growing the plants on a wire net with their roots dangling in a tank of water, the plants grow in pots of pure sand. That sounds much less exciting than the hydroponic idea, for we are used to seeing plants growing in soil, and even in the sand of seaside and lake shore. But there is as much excitement in sand culture as there is in hydroponics, when you once get the idea. Plants under natural conditions depend on their roots for two things: mechanical support, and the gathering of water and food materials from the soil, Now sand, pure sand, nothing but sand, can supply no good ma« terials. It is itself a rather simple chemical compound, almost insoluble in water and containing nothing that a plant can eat even if it could be dissolved. Sand can therefore furnish nothing for roots to hold on and support their plant in, but no nourishment.
» 5 n NLIKE Prof. Gericke, Prof. Shive is not directly inter=ested in the economic applications of his technique. He does not grow his plants in great masses in tanks, but singly in glazed pots. He supplies water and the dissolved fertilizer salts from inverted glass jars, through an ingenious tube arrangement that permits the solution to drip out slowly, just fast enough to keep the sand well moistened. Except that the roots are nestled among the sand grains, they might as well be floating free in water, so far as their nourishment-relations are concerned.
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"Now, listen, Harry—you gave your consent to this marriage months ago and nothing you say now is going to stop it."
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almost as large a majority as the $3,200,000,000 spending-lending relief bill. Up till last Monday, however, there was considerable doubt as to the ultimate fate of the WageHour Bill—whether or not it received the approval of the House. It was widely expected that the bill would languish and die in conference. But now the whole outlook for the bill has changed. The majorities by which it was brought to the floor and then passed by the House were so overwhelming as virtually to ensure enactment of some kind of a wage-hour bill at this session. The House that gave these majorities is the same House that recommitted the Wage-Hour Bill last December, and recommitted the Administration’s Reorganization Bill
on April 8. One week after the lat- |
ter action had been taken, the President came forward with his new spending-lending program, and three weeks later Senator Pepper, the Administration candidate, came through with a victory of surprising
proportions in the Florida primary. |
Both of these provided food for thought for the Democratic members of the House wishing Administration support in election campaigns next fall, » y y
was signed And
when the
up with a rush discharge motion
ried 322 to 73 All Indiana members, with the exception of Rep. Griswold, voted
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(debate in May the bill was passed
was | voted upon last Monday it was car- |
{ honeyed phrases and careless HE result was that when a new | petition to discharge the Rules | Committee from further considera- | tion ‘of the Wage-Hour Bill was filed, | with the President's indorsement. it |
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“yea” on the petition to discharge the Rules Committee and bring the Wage-Hour Bill to the floor, Rep. Griswold was paired for the Forty-eight members who had Committee last December voted that it be discharged in May, and only six changed their votes the other way.
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After four days of debate in December the bill was recommitted to
the House Labor Committee by a vote of 216 to 198. After one day of
by the House 314 to 97. It is true that the second bill was somewhat different in that it omitted differentials for Southern industry, and thus was made more attractive to members from Northemn states. This goes some distance to explain why over half the Republicans supported the second bill, But it does not explain why four-fifths of the Democrats (81.9 per cent of those present and voting) supported the second bill whereas two-fifths of them (42.3 per cent) had cast their votes against the first bill. And certainly it does not explain the increase in support for the bill from the South. A geographical analysis shows that of the 29 New England Representatives 12 supported the WageHour Bill in December and 24 on its recent passage in the House, Fifty-five of the 93 Representa-
Heard in Congress—
Rep. Gifford (R. Mass.)—I would | ask my audience that their anxiety | and their fears be not allayed by ex planations. The anxious lady inquired of the captain, “What would happen if the steamer should hit an iceberg?” The captain answered in the most assuring manner, “Oh, the iceberg would go right along as if nothing had happened.” “Oh, captain,” she replied. “I do feel so much relieved.” Weigh carefully
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the words of the captain of the ship before expressing com- | plete reassurance.
tives of the Middle Atlantic states favored the measure in December, while 75 supported it on its passage. Of the 137 Congressmer from | North Central states 108 voted for 74 opposed mittal in December Sixteen of the 54 South Atlantic Representatives previously had supported the measure, and 26 voted in favor of it on its recent passage. The number from states favoring the jumped from 17 to 39. Fourteen of | the Mountain states’ delegations | gave recent support to the bill. | Previously only seven had backed | the measure. Of the 29 Congress=men from the Pacific Coast 17 supported the bill in December and 28 voted for it in May. ” " ”
O vote was cast against the | bill by the delegates of 21 | states, These included the eight Rocky Mountain and three Pacific Coast states, plus New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wiscon« sin, North Dakota, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Only one vote was cast against the bill by members of the delega~- | tions from New Jersey, Ohio, Min | nesota, Iowa, Missouri and South | Dakota, And only two votes against | it were cast by members from Illinois and Indiana. No state voted solidly against the | bill, but there were five Southern | states from which only one vote was | cast for it: Virginia, Georgia, Ala- | bama, Mississippi and Arkansas. The Indiana delegation was lined up as follows: Reps. Schulte, Farley, Jenckes, Greenwood, Boehne, Crowe, Gray, Larrabee and Ludlow voted for the bill, Those voting against it were Reps, Halleck and Pettengill. Rep. Griswold was paired for the bill. On the final roll call, 111 members who had voted to recommit the Wage-Hour Bill in December (72 Democrats and 39 Republicans) | voted to enact the bill brought to the floor in May. (Copyright, 1938)
Jasper—By Frank Owen
"Gosh, | thought you were mad at me—but you were just christen-
we
ing the ship that was in the bottle!"
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—For what government agency do the initials FAA stand? 2—Where is the island of Krk”? 3—What is the biggest possible hand in Straight Poker? 4—Name the Presidents of the United States who were assassinated. 5—What is orthography? 6—Which state of the U. 8. is the second largest in area? T—Name the owner of Lawrin, the winner of this year's Kentucky Derby. = n "
Answers’ 1—Federal Alcohol Administration. 2—In the Adriatic Sea. 3—Royal flush. 4—Lincoln, Garfield’ and MecKinley. 5—The art of writing correctly spelled words. 6—California. T—Herbert M. Woolf, 4d ” n
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Fireworks Were Shot Off Under a Police Permit When Stork Arrived At the Home of Pantelis Cafoures.
OON as I heard that James Cafouros was one of the beneficiaries ($5000) mentioned in Mrs. Adelaide Lawrence's will, it suddenly occurred to me that, maybe, he was the baby who, back in 1911, set Indianapolis
on its head. Sure enough, it turned out just the way I thought it would. As near as 1 recall, the story starts with Chief of Police Hyland and Billy Davis, chairman of the Board of Safety, sitting at the Police Station one sticky summer morning when Pantelis Cafouros, the genial Greek proprietor of the Devils’ Cafe, showed up to make arrangements for the arrival of his first, baby. He said he expected the stork in about a week, and wanted a permit. Chief Hyland looked kind of surprised and informed Mr Cafouros that a permit wasn't nec essary in Indianapolis—not vet, anyway--whereupon Mr. Cafouros said he didn't want a permit for a baby, but one to shoot off fireworks when his son arrived,
Mr, Davis pricked his ears at this, and wanted to know how in the dickens Mr. Cafouros knew it was going to be a boy, Whereupon Mr. Cafouros said he had a hunch, and was so sure of it that he had all the fireworks bought. What's more, he had the boy's name picked. He was going to name the baby Tele machus, he said, in honor of the illustrious son of Ulysses, Well, Mr, Cafouros had his wav Chief Hyland granted the request On two conditions, however: (1) That it had to be a boy, and (2) that headquar« ters had to be notified in plenty of time in order that the police could be present to regulate the affair. Telemachus Cafouros arrived in Indianapolis on Aug. 25, 1911, at 7:30 a. m., and that same night, at 8:30 to be exact, his father climbed to the roof of the Devils’ Cafe at 108 W Maryland St., and shot off the grandest display of fireworks ever seen in Indian« apolis. It lasted four hours. Frank Pappas who runs the Star Service Shop at Illinois and Maryland Sts, and who was present the night of the celebration says the show cost Mr. Cafouros $500, if it cost him a cent.
A Substitute for Telemachus
Five or six months after the fireworks came the boy's baptism, which in ite way was even more splen did. The baptism was celebrated in the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lawrence who, at that time, ran the Claypool Hotel and very well, too, 1 don’t mind saying, A great gathering was present, including a priest of the Greek Orthodox Church, and 1 have it on the best of authority that Mrs, Lawrence wore a white silk dress. especially mada for the occasion. 1 know for a fact, too, that she held the child all during the baptism. Strangely enough, though, the celebration never got around to bapzing the boy Telemachus. Instead of Telemachus, the baby was named James. in memory of the little Lawrence boy who had died Mrs. Lawrence's godmotherly interest in the Cafouros family is explained by the fact that Pantelis Cafouros, before he started the Devils’ Cafe, was for years a loyal servant of the Lawrences. As a matter of fact, he was one of the grandest headwaiters the Claypool ever had. Mrs, Lawrence never forgot his loyalty—not even when it came time to write her will,
Mr. Scherrer
Jane Jordan—
Husband Unhappy With Work May Be Disagreeable at Home, Jane Says.
EAR JANE JORDAN--I have been married for SIX years, but just can't get used to my husband's fussing over the least thing. I can't even fix up our bedroom to suit him, 1 work all of the time and this is my greatest pleasure, for then I don't have time to think. I have tried in several ways to get along with him, but I see there is no use. He will never change.
He nags until I am forced to go out and take a walk until he comes back to himself, We have no children but I have tried to cling to the place I call home. I keep things going when he is gone and then when he comes back in a few days it starts all over again. 1 will try to talk in a civil conversation, but it will end in a fuss. Nothing pleases him. I am nothing and know nothing, Can I ever get a happy home out of this mess? DOUBTFUL
uo » ny Answer—I don't know. If IT knew what vour huse band's complaints against vou are, 1 might do a better Job of guessing. If you could find out what you do that irritates him, we might have something to work on, but either you don't have the least idea or vou haven't told me. Is he also tired of bickering and
would he like to find a peaceable way of living with you, or does he enjoy these upheavals which upset you so much? You are a working woman and can support vours self. From your letter one would conclude that it is your home rather than the man to which you cling If you could have the home without him. would you be satisfied? These are questions which you must decide for yourself, for I do not know what goes on in your mind. With no more information than I have about, all T can do is sympathize with you or encourage vou to leave him to fuss by himself. If you are actually interested in getting along with your husband, try to find out what makes him angry. Is he unhappy in his job? Some men who have overbearing bosses are made to feel inferior while at work that they come home and take out their ill tempers on their families. Try to find out what it is that is making him unbearable and write another letter. JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, will answer your questions in this column daily.
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