Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1938 — Page 9

Vagabond

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

Ernie Would Have Liked to Turn His Old Car Out to Pasture, but He Was Forced to Part With It.

Editor's Note—Ernie Pyle, after three vears 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.

‘VV ASHINGTON, June 7.—Goodbyv to vou, my little old car. In a few minutes 1 must go and drive vou away for the last time. I must be fickle to treat vou like that, just because vou're old and crippled. 1 don’t know whether 1 can do it or not. 1 feel like a dog. You look so sad and weak, sitting there ready to go away. I know; voure thinking

of the things |

we've been through together. You're |

really only a piece of machinery. But vou know that I've alwavs felt as if vou were human, treated you tnat way. I've always something a little psychic about you. And vou certainly were proud. never would let anvbody but know how badly vou hurt. Remember up there in Canada last fall, how some strange malady attacked vour steering gear. vou could hardly bear to turn a corner But esvery velling distance of a garage. you vou'd do? You'd pull yourself together, the mechanic would get in to test vou, you'd like a feather. You used to burn me up with that kind of stufl.

And vou to one side And T'd ston and

me

Mr. Pyle : we'd get within remember what and when

time

remember how vou used to lean over like a tired horse that shifts its weight? look at your springs and fuss around and worry and get mad, but there wasn’t anything wrong with you at all, except you'd be leaning over to one side, just for the fun of it, I suppose And that business of tightening up all over after a couple of hours on a hot day. You remember we took vou to a dozen hospitals, and you wouldn't tell the doctors what was wrong. and of course they never have any idea unless you tell them. And we never have found out what it was. 1 suppose you're laughing. You've been I don’t appreciate it. $000 miles in Canada, you recall ful beating up there, on those rough roads. stood it at all, I don't know. But vou did, and remember when we pulled up in front of the apartment that might, with the trip ended, and just as I turned off the switch your front spring broke right in two and let vour body down on the tires? You brought me home before you gave up, didn't vou? "And remember vour long ride on the boat?

good to me too. And don’t think That night we got home from You'd taken an awHow vou

I can

see vou now, sitting out there on top of that deckload

of lumber, covered with canvas. Proved Its Worth in Mexico

And do vou remember that time when the whole gearshift lever came vight out in my hand? And when 1 put it back in everything was mixed up, and

reverse was high gear, and low was second, and I had | to.call a garage to get you straightened out? Ill bet |

you chuckled a week over that

But vou know the thing I love you most for. The |

time we hit that hole in Mexico at 50 miles an hour. You showed what was in vou that day. You took it standing up. and you stayed up We've ridden so far and so long together, and we've been to such funny places, and we've been so terribly close to tragedy, and things have looked pretty dark for us. but somehow we always came home together, didn’t we? So there vou sit. waiting to go. It makes me sore to be feeling sorry for vou, but that's the wav 1 feel And sad. too. If I were rich I'd just turn you out to pasture, like a horse. But I'm not rich. I stand and look at vou. and I see back over our far 35000 miles together. We must go for the last ride. Goodby to

vou, my dear little car

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Trip to New York Is Postponed as | Mrs. Scheider Goes to Hospital.

YDE PARK. Monday—The unexpected is always what one should expect in life, but

member it until I am up against it. and I had planned to leave here by motor at 7:30 this

morning for New York, where we were to proceed to |

Washington by train. Yesterday she appeared to have a mild case of grippe but, suddenly, we found ourselves taking her to the hospital at 11 o'clock last night. various symptoms.

decided on J 1 think that out of my long experience, I must

know all the sensations that anvbody who waits in a hospital can experience. But as I sat this morning and wondered what the doctors would eventually come out of the operating room to tell me, I realized that in previous operations I had always known just exactly what was being done behind those ominous doors. For me. uncertainty is much more difficult than facinz some known difficulty or danger, so 1 was much relieved when the patien. was back in hed and the doctor finally told me what he had done. We will have two or three anxious days, but 1 feel sure that everything will come out right Some dav. perhaps. I shall know the luxury being a patient. I realize that if I were very ill and suffering great pain there would be very little luxury attached to it. But. instead of worrying about someone else, I want to enjoy having evervone worry about me. Of course, this would include many attentions—having all the people I liked best spend most of their time with me, having all the nicest books and being able to read them, having enough flowers and noi too many, and being able to eat the things 1 like, but none of the things I dislike. In addition. I should not want to take anv disagreeable medicine or have any painful treatments.

Nurses and Patients Want Autographs

It is now 3 o'clock. 1 have had a glass of milk and a sandwich for lunch Mrs. Scheider's brother has arrived and I am at the cottage telephoning pretty nearly all the world. it seems to me. When column is done I will return to the hospital, though I know there can be very little change for several hours. When I left the hospital at 1 a. m., I was amused to have one of the young nurses ask me to sign her year beok, which had just come out. a trifle incongruous to think about a hospital, but she was not the only one. After 1 returned from seeing Mrs. Scheider into the operating room this morning, three more sweet young things who had just graduated, appeared and asked for signatures in their books. Finally,

1 never re- | Mrs. Scheider |

A consultation revealed no definite reason for | This morning an operation was |

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Side Glances—By Clark

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It seemed | autographs in |

a patient |

walking down the hall asked me to sign her baby’s |

slips for Children but by mo

photograph and handed me two other patients who were not able to be about. are the usual collectors of autographs, means exclusively

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, June 7.—] think everybody should spend some time In a city jest to kinda complete their education and social training Everybody is so busy scratchin’ out a living that he doesn’t have time to even find out who his neighbors are, let alone what they are doing. One time one of them city fellas come down home

to live and due to his city training, he kept pretty |

much to himself. called on the chief of police and says, “we want you to keep an eye on that new fella that lives in our neighborhood—there’'s somethin’ mighty about the way he minds his own business,” : gd (Copyright, 1938) - »

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e Indianapolis Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938

ing Lincoln's Boyhood

Entered Bh. Begond-Dlass Mattar at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

Booklet Records Efforts to Mark Nancy Hanks’ Grave and Cabin Site

By Joe Collier “JT would be difficult for any of its members now to locate definitely the site of the church in which they sat in 1927, or to associate the present lovely scenes surrounding it with the unsightliness at the cabin site 10 years ago.” So reads a portion of the report of the Indiana Lincoln Union Executive Committee, published only recently in an 82-page booklet, which constitutes a permanent record of the efforts to mark suitably the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the scenes where Abraham Lincoln spent the formative vears of his boyhood. :

Nancy Hanks Lincoln died in 1818, Abraham Lincoln left Indi-

ana for Illinois in 1830. In 1879 8 newspaper reporter visited Lincoln City and asked the natives to point out the grave of Lincoln's mother, and they led him through thickets of brambles and underbrush to the summit of a knoll which they pointed to the unmarked grave, forgotten and neglected.

The story he wrote called attention to the neglect and probably set, off a series of attempts, some of them unsuccessful, to mark suitably the grave of one of America's greatest heroines. Not until 1927 was the Indiana Lincoln Union, whose membership included representatives of many of the state's first families, formed. x » ~ N all those years natives remembered the location of the grave. Through all that time a locally placed marker set out the site of the cabin, through whose chinks the rain came to ruin some books Lincoln had borrowed to read by fireplace light. They remembered so accurately that the Lincoln hearth stones were unearthed 18 feel below the surface of the ground.

And vet, so successful have been the efforts of the Union to obliterate structures, roads, ugly erosion that were alien to the Lincoln era in the recreation of the area, that in the relatively short span of 10 vears, members of the Committee who next to natives knew the territory best, confess they could not recall accurately where these places had been. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent. Thousands of yards of soil have been moved. Hundreds of thousands of trees have been planted to reforest the area and return it to approximately the natural state in which Lincoln knew it. The Civilian Conservation Corps has done work valued by the Union at $100,000. An artificial lake has been made for a sanitary water supply. Recreational facilities have been installed.

The Linceln cabin site and the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln have been impressively marked in stone and in landscaping. This new State Park, then, to which hundreds of thousands of persons annually make a pilgrimage, marks the Thomas Lincoln farm which is officially recorded as “a quarter section of land described as the southwest quarter, section 32, township four south, range five west, second principal meridian.” » » » E entered his claim Oct. 15, 1817. The State of Indiana now has entered its claim to the land as a shrine to Lincoln and the mother who bore him, and the book just published will preserve for all time just now that later claim was entered. Included in the book are illustrations of the shanties and tumbledowns that, as late as 1927, marked the site for an apparently inattentive nation. . “In 1926,” the newly published

Bronze logs and fireplace mark the site of the Thomas Lincoln

cabin in the State Park.

It was in this cabin that Abraham Lincoln

lived as a youth before moving to Illinois,

book reads in part, “the cahin site was in the center of the play vard in back of the schoolhouse of Lincoln City, A back-stop for school games was located directly left front, or a few feet southeast, of the site, and the marker was used as a home base fer games. The playground was muddy in wet weather and dusty in dry.” » ” » O correct this the following was done, as reported in the book : “In the cabin site area the mud streets and alleys were closed, regraded and seeded, the memorial tract proper comprising approximately 100 acres was entirely fenced and 22441 native forest trees and 15,218 native shrubs were transplanted in this area. “The service building was erected; the custodians’ house was repaired and modernized, the banks ‘of all roads were graded and landscaped, new trees were nursed through a dry summer of 1930, with only a 10 per cent loss;

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formal flower garden to perpetually keep flowers on the grave was built in the service area, which was otherwise screened from public view, all evidence of the old entrance was removed and the area planted in forest trees. “Through the co-operation of the State Highway Department, the bisecting ‘highway was relocated to the southern end of the area and the grading of the formal outer court and allee, calling for the moving of 17,000 yards of earth, was completed. “Thirty-six extra large matched red oaks and 40 large cedars and 428 special nursery stock trees were planted in the formal court area. “A complete drainage svstem underlays the entire court and allee, and a new water supply was established and piped for the care of the lawn and trees in this district. Walks were laid down and stone steps built. A flag shaft, 120 feet tall, with a great base, is being erected.”

a small,

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at Lincoln City,

The approach to the grave of Nancy Hanks is shown here,

Efforts

of the Indiana Linceln Union during the last 10 vears have been largely responsible for the establishment of this shrine,

The International Art Foundries used the facilities of its Munich, Germany, plant lo cast the bronze sill logs which now mark the exact site of the cabin, wu u » HE book continues: “In the grave site area there is also gratifying evidences of the foresight of the planners, All is quiet and peaceful here. Undergrowth and forest tree production has been allowed to assert itself in a normal and natural manner. The trails are informal and their surface with the soft, gravel of the

covered

warm red native vicinity “Here one feels the solemnity of which Mrs, Ann Studebaker Carlisle wrote, when she visited the grave vears ago “ ‘As we stood at her Z.ave among the friendly trees we had a deep sense of appreciation that we stood on hallowed ground. The

Jasper—By Frank Owen

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seemed to tell us of those when Abe Lincoln and the and girls of the neighborcame to this lovely spot to play, to dream and to sleep. To us they spoke of that day when Abe’s mother was brought up the hill and laid to rest among them. We felt that these friendly trees had once known Abe Lincoln and that they remembered seeing him when he came to visit the grave of his mother and to bid her goocdby when he left to seek a new home in Illinois,’ "” The total 1760 acres now

under State ownership in this development to mark for all time the scenes of Lincoln's early boyhood, The hook, tastefully done, contains also certain documents relative to the project, a rather full account of the activities of Lin coln when he was a Hoosier, and it is generously illustrated,

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

For the Fanciest and Best Clothes Babies and Brides of Indianapolis Always Came to the Dolan Sisters,

HE reason you have heard nothing about the layettes and trousseaux for which Indianapolis was famous 40 or 50 vears ago

| i8n’t that there's a conspiracy of silence or

very much,

anything; it’s because 1 didn’t meet the

Dolan Sisters until the other day. Anna and Mary Dolan started making clothes for babies and brides as far back ax 1880. Thev started in their Capitol Ave, home but the business got to be 80 big that they had to leage a store. room in the English Block, They hardly got settled in their new place when the postman brought a foreign=looking letter. It turned out to be from Mrs. Willlam 8 Englizh who was then touring Europe, Mr English ordered the Dolan Sister: to drop everything and start work on her baby's lavette, The Dolan Sisters thought it was awful nies of Mrs. English, beoause she might Just ax well have bought the whole outfit in Europe. Asx a matter of fact, the only thing Mr, and Mrs, English brought back from Burepe was A White enameled baby earriage trimmed in solid gold, The Dolans got the fob of decorating the sab too. Tt was the sliokest thing ever turned Hit in Indianapolis=yards and varda of real Valenciennes lace (B56 vents a vard) and loads of pink silk ribbon The layette consisted of a dozen dresses and a dozen of everything else=—gowns, lace<sdged petticoats and a dozen embroidered flannel pettiodats. The bill wan $350, and Capt. English paid it without batting an eve After the baby arrived and was christened Rosalind, it was a common sight to see Capt. English pushing the Dolan-decorated cab around the Oirols every afternoon The Dolan 8isters also made the layette for Marie the youngest daughter of Hen Rauh, and believe me, It Was every bit as sweel as the one the English baby got. The Dolans can't get done talking about the Rauhs, and no wonder, because when Marie got old enough to gel married and take the name of King» don, doggone if her mother didn't go to the Dolans for Marie's trousgeau. too Marie's trousseaiu oost 8700 and included a dozen of evervthing, Some of the petticoats were decorated with 20 vards of real torehon lace

Three Generations Served

But listen, that wasn't all. When Mrs Kingdon had her baby, what do you suppose happened? Sure, the Dolans made the layette for her baby, Rven that wasn’t the end, Not long ago Mrs. Kingdon was made a grandmother, and, believe it or not, she came to the Dolan Sisters and ordered a christening outfit for her grandchild, If you've kept count, that makes three generations the Dolan Sisters have served. You'd never guess it to look at them The Dolan Sisters aren't in business The christening outfit they made for Mrs, Kingdon's grandohild was more a matter of sentiment than anything else, they said, As for going back into busts ness, there 18n't a ghost of a chance, What's the use, said the Dolan Sisters, women don't wear as many clothes any more

My, Seherver

any mora,

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Jane Jordan

Jane Attacks Anonymous Letters as Cowardly Weapons Usually Untrue.

EAR JANE JORDAN-About a week and a half ago I received a letter telling me that if 1 would open my eves I would find mv husband going with another woman We have been married for three years and have got along pretty well. 1 thought the letter was foolish and burned it up without saving anything about it to my husband. But I just get it out of my mind. It has left a doubt. The letter was unsigned. 1 have lots of friends and no enemies

that I know of. 1 won't spy on my husband and can’t very well ask him about it because he probably would want to see the letter and I have destroved it. I still want to believe tn my husband and I love him Please tell me what to do WORRIED

was

ean’t

Ld ” » Answer--0f all the cowardly forms of attack. the anonymous letter is the worst, Like a dart from an enemy in ambush it comes, poisoned with suspicion, ugly with the evil intent of its writer. to wound. to

disturb, fo plant doubt in the heart of an innocent person. Seldom true, always twisted, the anonymous letter gives no real evidence but simply hints at events which the author hopes are trie

In your case it has accomplished its purpose it has not turned you into a spv. it has crawled Into your mind to breed its mistrust Since vou eannot forge! it, perhaps you'd better talk about it. Tell vour husband as you have told me. nol as an accusation, but simply as a bad incident which has given vou a jar. Perhaps you should have shown the letter to him in the first place and given him a chance to clear the whole thing up Even If there 1s a grain of truth in the letter. which I doubt, the last thing vou should do is open vour eyes. In such cases it is smart of a woman to pretend to be a little blind. He wouldn't be the first husband to step aside temporarily. Those who do not get caught usually get over their little salltes In short ¢order. But thoge who are discoversd feel obliged to defend themselves by claiming more than they felt in the first place. Moreover they are Inclined to find faults in their wives which passed unnoticed before, in order to justify what was only a passing diversion, Whatever vou do, don't talk to vour women friends about vour state of mind. Never let anvone know that you doubt vour husband's integrity, least of all the man himsell. Don’t expose him to the gossip of your friends or you'll roll a molehill into a mountain. If you tell him about the letter, laugh it off. He will admire vour poise and Appreciate your confidence JANE JORDAN,

While

Put your nroblems In y letter ta Jane Jord J J an, wh will answer your questions Wm this column daily, n |

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