Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1938 — Page 9

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

If You Think You Would Enjoy a |

Dinner in a Madhouse, Ernie Has Just the Place for You in Toledo.

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.

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"TOLEDO, O.., June 14.—In Toledo there is |!

a very queer restaurant. I had heard about it before I got here, and thought it would make a good column.

So I went around there with some fellows | for lunch, intending to look the place over |

quietly and then mavbe have a chat with the ager about it afterward. The restaurant is a big place, and there have been 150 eating lunch when we went in. A waiter with pad and pencil came up to take our orders. He

must

man-

men and women |

said to me, “What'll you have?” I |

didn't say anything for a couple of seconds of course, and then suddenly the waiter turned toward the

kitchen and yelled so loud you could |

hear him all over the place: “Hey, this rube won't Come here.” So waiters

order.

all over the

place |

threw down their dishes and came |

Mr. Pyle running, and those apes jerked me away from the table and dragged me clear across the restaurant, and Kicked open the front doors and whisshhh—there I was right on the sidewalk, thrown out of the place! Well. that's the wav things go in that restaurant all the time. The whole business (and a very prosperous business it is, too) has been built up on the policy of the customers.

nsultine msuiting

The waiters all wear galluses and keep their hats |

on and talk all the If vou're getting bald they call you “curly If you spill something, they'll bring a big baby-bib and tie it around your neck. If vou eat left-handed, as I do, a waiter will stop dead i s tracks and point at you and yell to the whole house, "Hey, look at this rube, he don't even know which hand to eat with. Haw! Haw! Haw! During our soup course the waiter and said solicitously: “Is there enough water in that soup, or would vou like me to put my thumb in it?”

time

came around |

Once in a while a waiter got up and walked on |

there pots

was a falling,

kitchen breaking, whistles

from the bedlam of dishes women screaming, bells and moans, shouts and thumpings When topcoat the came running from pockets and yelled, caught a thief!”

Ernie Shows 'Em

the tables. And

constant

rack, it was so heavy. everywhere They felt in the We've caught a thief! We've

+ irom

going off, |

we started to leave, I could hardly lift my | Waiters

And then they started unioading the pockets. They

forks to set took out salt and pepper and jars of and bottles of Kketsup. And all the time velling, “Boy, did he try to make a getaway!” Everybody in the place was howling. By that time I decided I might as well get in the spirit of the thing too, so when they were all finished I picked up a handful of knives and forks and pocket and at

two chocolate bars and Haw! Haw! Haw! Luke's.

knives and They

sugar,

enough staurant

took out whole re

halbrarc SNaxKers,

my and doo!

Bud &

put t 1 back In ok three cigars walked on out the front The place is known as by two named They restaurants in

hie ce QUSINESS

brothers

have two big Toledo now, and do a whale of a They started it

they

11 years ago. They were so busy

and had to cover up their poor service with a little Kidding The kidding seemed to take hold, now it grown into this colossal buffoonery. Bud (or maybe it was Luke) if anybody

gol sore

has I asked ever reall They the guy doesn't have it however for a ribbing and don't

always try to smcoth things over, warm up, then they really let him has ever got sore enough to fight, More people get sore because they come get

Nobody

ee e—————

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

It is run | Eugene and Glenn Fowler. |

couldn't do a decent job of waiting on people, |

and |

He said yes, once in a while. | but if |

it, than the other way |

up the |

the counter |

Warmer Weather Lures First Lady | To Swimming Pool for First Time. |

YDE PARK, Monday—Yesterday was a perfectly

delightful day

I had my first swim That, in

almost any day

In the first place, it was really | itself, I know nothing more |

1 the feel of nice, cool water and the | My daughter, son-in-law and I |

two hours this the countryside. After leaving big house for a reunion with my and the two children, I went over cottage to pick up some soup to take to Mrs. in the hospital. ! “

raditional that hospital food isn't good. I

arnestly we motored ti

the

fT - 101 rough them at

ito my

morning while |

he fact, I suppose, that so much of it is |

11 quantity.

Anyone who runs a large es- |

know the difficulty of having good food |

! great many people. In addition, the real trouble with hospital food is the lack of appetite on the part of the patients. practically on ice and water, Mrs. Scheider will look me and sa) really isn't hungry and can't : of anything she would like. My mother-in-law thinks her cook makes best chicken broth in the world, so that was first soup Mrs. Scheider had. Yesterday I took her beef soup and she was polite about it, but I didn’t see that of real hunger one likes to discover in a convalescent.

Visits Hospital Again

At about 1 o'clock, my brother and several guests were already in the swimming pool and when I returned from the hospital at 1:30, they were beginning to feel extremely hungry. After lunch they returned to the sun and the pool and were joined by Anna and John and the children. I paid another short visit to the hospital and then came back to join them. They left about 6 p. m.

she

the

Even after a week of being |

| |

the |

and Mrs. Somerville |

and I tried to go over the mail hastily but, before I | knew it, it was time for ine to pick up my mother-in- |

law and John and start for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau’s, where we were to have supper. Just as I was about to leare, the skies opened and

the rain came down in torrents.

at Mrs. Scheider. We must have made a ridiculous ure when we tried to gather our finery about us as we climbed in and out of the automobile,

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, June 14. —There are not very many thrills that can equal that of going back to your home town and seen’ your folks after vou've been away for a long time, but there's a whole lot of disillusionment connected with it, too I've got one aunt that I always bein’ verv devout. I thought she was jest about the most wonderful woman in the world because as long as I can remember she would always get up in the mornin’ and sing a hymn while she worked in the kitchen, When I reminded her of it on a recent trip I made back home, she said, “Yes, I still sing that hymn in the mornin’—that’s the hymn I boil eggs by—three verses for soft and five for hard.” (Copyright, 1938) {

We stopped at ‘he | hospital so that Anna and John could have a look |

looked on as |

The Indianapolis

imes

Second Section

(Eighth and Last of a Series) By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer

J ,OUISVILLE, Ky., June 14.—Kentucky's smiling 39-vear-old Governor, known by everybody in the state merely as Happy, has become the darling of those who dislike the New Deal and all its works. Governor Chandler, in other words, is a symbol of national significance. If he could defeat the 60-vear-old Senator Barkley, President Roosevelt's Senate leader and strong right arm on Capitol Hill, it would be a severe blow at the New Deal nationally, would encourage conservative Democrats who would like to edge the Democratic Party toward the right, and would be capitalized heavily by Republicans in the fall elections. Weighing everything, Happy decided to strike boldly now to advance his political career. He cannot run to succeed himself as Governor when his term expires in December next year. He could not try for the Senate again until 1942 when the term of Senator Logan (D.) expires. In the interim he would risk the chance of disappearing from the political picture. So it was almost a case of now or never. But, coming at this time and against Senator Barkley, his race has much deeper import than the average state contest and he finds

himself in a current that sweeps far beyond Kentucky.

ONSEQUENTLY forces bevond Kentucky are interesting themselves in the Aug. 6 primary. Kentucky political experts believe this outside interest will take the form of contributions to Happy's campaign from Republican and other anti-New Deal sources. Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of the Chase National Bank and one of the nation’s most influential financial figures, and Colby M. Chester, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers, were guests of the Governor at the Derby a few weeks ago. On his own behalf using all the forces at mand. Political henchmen in paign is being Happy's own employees. State Highway

Happy is his com-

activity by WPA the Barkley cammatched by machine of state Emplovees of the Department are particularly active. They are available for duty all over the state. Lieutenants in other state agencies also are active. The grass-clippers along the state highways, who blossom forth in political years in may be seen now at their tasks. Extra employees are being put on the Highway Department payroll and other payrolls to increase the Chandler voting strength. Locally influential persons are being given state jobs, just as is being done by Barkley campaign managers, in some instances, on the WPA payroll. 5 » ® TATE highway employees are chipping in contributions from their salaries at the 2 per cent rate which is also the rate exacted in neighboring Indiana by the Paul V. McNutt machine. The Chandler machine, one of the smoothest ever seen in Kentucky, is running in high gear. Plans are being made by the Chandler administration to add large numbers to the old-age pension rolls before July 1, which would provide checks for them just in advance of the Aug. 6 primary. The total incrcase in old age pension rolls may reach 15,000, according to reports A few months ago, when it appeared that pension funds would run out, the Governor stripped the old-age pensions rolls frem

Kentucky,

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938

The Relief-in-Politics Racket

Chandler's Bid for Barkley Seat Assumes Deep National Significance

Informal always, Governor Chandler likes to talk to visitors while sitting astride a chair in what plainly is not a stuffed shirt. His forcefulness and youthful enthusiasm are apparent in every move

and gesture,

TT TT rE ——— TAT k

Despite crowded days and a vigorous Senatorial campaign Governor Chandler has plenty of time to romp with the four children of whom he is extremely fond. With Mrs. Chandler, who works closely with him in fitting scores of appointments

42000 to 35,000. The appropria=tion for the fiscal year ending June 30 was $2.500,060. An appropriation of $3,000,000 was provided for the next fiscal year beginning July 1. It is assumed that if it was necesary to reduce the rolls iast year to keep within the $2,500,000 allowance it will be necessary to strip them again—after the election—because of the new increases in the next few weeks. For the $3,000,000 fund could not carry 50,000 pensioners for the whole year, since it also has to provide for child welfare and help for the blind.

to go along.

This is a tinued

capitalizing

is a vote for will seek to the issue. This is uphill fight

» ” ” APPY has a guarantee of discipline in his state machine For if he loses the Senatorial nomination he will remain as Governor for a vear and a half large part

ide Glances—By Clark

and will be in a position to apply the ax to anybody who has failed

While the Governor has become a fair-haired boy among the antiNew Deal element, he himself has recently begun to soft-pedal longer is heard from his lips the earlier criticism, to be sure, of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. recognition Roosevelt Kentucky. The Barkley forces are this slogan being “A vote for Barkley i Roosevelt.”

somewhat

make

to make it an the Governor. He will have the support of the conservative elements, including a of business,

going for

mansion,

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

A half hour's snappy workout precedes almost every executive day at Frankfort. Here the Governor gives a bicycle the absent treatment in the gym he had fitted out in the basement of the executive

into each 24 hours, the family is shown in the above group. The Governor holds Albert Benjamin Jr, and at left is Marcella. Shown on Governor Chandler's right are Mrs, Chandler, Joseph Daniel and Mildred.

business interests which felt the impact of special taxes he put on ice cream, candy, cosmetics and like luxuries are resentful. Even his foes concede that Happy has made a good Governor, and that he has attracted a large personal following.

veiled Ta 4 O win, he must break into the ranks of the farmers, who constitute 60 per cent of the state's voting strength and who have benefited from Federal bounties, and into the ranks of labor, who are grateful to the New Deal for the Wagner Labor Act and other measures.

John L. Lewis has come out for Senator Barkley. But one of the important leaders of the United Mine Workers in Kentucky, Bill Turnblazer, is supporting Governor Chandler because

of conpopularity in popularity, the They the President

but some

"Now, if Mrs. Gilley wants to read you any stories, you must not correct her English."

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

Cope. 1932 he United Peature Syndicate, Ine

"I wouldn't mind you throwing things at Papa if you'd

only look in them first!"

er a hard day's work. “Happy” Chandler, whn once sang songs while campaigning, still likes to sing in the spray.

of passage of the bill prohibiting employment of deputy sheriffs by the coal operators. At a recent celebration at Harlan over the enactment of this measure, Governor CGhandler was introduced and high#y praised by Mr. Turnblazer, who is president of the district about Harlan embracing half of Kentucky's coal miners. It is a question ‘whether Mr. Turnblazer can carry his workers for the Governor. A potent handicap to Happy's Senatorial aspirations is the WPA. Some of lis campaign managers say that lots of reliefers will support the Gowernor because of resentment over WPA political activity on behalf. of Senator Barkley. This is dghatahle. At this point in tthe campaign it looks as if Senalbor Barkley is out in front.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where are the IDry Tortugas Islands? j 2_During the firstd century B. C., which Ronman general conquered Gaul?) 3—What is static e¥ectricity? 4—_Name the jockey who rode Lawrin, winner df the Kentucky Derby. 5—Who discovered , the North Pole? 6—What is the officinl abbreviation for Pennsylwania? 7—Has an absolute wacuum ever been attained? 8—Is President

Mason? ” ” ”

Answers

1—Off the coast of (Florida, at the entrance of the: Gulf of Mexico. 2—Julius Caesar. 3—Electricity at rest 4—E, Arcaro, 5—Robert E. Peary. 6—Pa. 7—No. 8—Yes.

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Ind.

Our Town By Anton Scherrer

While Most Talk of Hats Continues To Center About the Women, Your Columnist Probes the Men's Angle,

F' anything makes me tired, it's the perens nial rumor that the average New York male wears a bigger size hat than the man around here. There isn't a word of truth in it. The average head size in Indianapolis

is 714, and that’s the best New York can

do, too. I knpw what I'm talking about today because this time I went right to the bottom of things. The size of a man's head is determined by adding’ the length of his skull to the width and dividing by two. The results, are amazing. Thus, if a man wears an average hat, you can be reasonably sure that his head is somewhere around 773 inches long amd 6% inches across. It ought to be, anyway. If /it isn’t, and runs to width, you can put him down as a “square head.” On the other hand, if he has a streamlined skull, and runs to length, he's got what the trade calls a “long heady’ Ten per cent of the men in Indianapolis have streamlined heads; 5 per cent, square heads. It surprised me, too. I thought we had a lot more square heacls. As for the rest, the trade calls ‘em “regulars.” Hartley Sherwood, I guess, wears the biggest hat around here. It's a 77, a quarter of an inch bigger than the one the late J, P. Morgan wore. That ought to give you some idea of its size. It's not the record, however. Frank Farrell, once president of the New York Yankees, took a number 9. Not all at once, thomigh. When he started wearing a hat, he bought a ™i. But his head kept growing until he had to hawe a 9. Jake Ruppert who now runs the Yankees (in' second place and no telling where they'll be to= morrow) wears a T'i. Moses Marmalad, who lives down on Union St., wears the smallest hat in Indianapolis. It's a 6%, the same size the former king of Siam wore. You probably remember him as King Prajadhipok who abdicated in favor of his nephew, Anada Mahidol. It happened on March 3, 1935, if you're interested in men’s hats. I don't know the size of the present jking’s head,

'Now for Those in the Middle

Well, that takes care of the extremes. Now for the heads in between. Wilbur Peat comes through with the handsome score of 73, just an eighth of an inch under the record established by Mr. Sher= wood. On the other hand, Mr. Peat's head is define Jtely dolischocelphic (pear-shaped to you) which com« ipensates for any deficiency. Christy Mathewson and Jim Jeffries had that kind of head, and look where they landed. President Roosevelt has a pear-shaped head, too, but it's not developed the way Mr. Peat's is. Otto N. Frenzel wears a 73 hat. He’s hard to fit because he’s a square head. The world's record for square heads is held by Max Schmeling. I don't know why they're called squareheads, because if you examine them closely you'll notice that their heads are nearly round. Just another mad notion of the hatters, I guess. Well, that leaves men like Harry Miesse, Sidney Rice and Kurt Vonnegut. To look at them, you wouldn't think they were anything alike, but because they all wear 7's hats the mad hatters just lump them all together and call them “average men.”

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Father's Love for Child Should Be Constructive Rather Than a Burden.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 19, but I act and look older. I am the eldest of four chil= dren. My father idolizes me and doesn’t pay any ate tention to the other children. Here is my trouble: For a year and eight months I have been going with a fellow nine years older than myself. I am very much in love with him and have every reason to believe that he loves me. My father recently was trans= ferred to this small town about 70 miles from Indian= apolis. I had a job making enough to support myself, but had to quit and come with my family. My boy friend comes to see me once or twice a week. He has been married and has a small child. For this reason my father dislikes him very much and has told him never to come back. This is the first fellow I've gone with against my father's wishes and consequently we have trouble all the time. I can come back to Indianapolis and get my old job back any time I desire. Can my father do anything about it if I do? He said I couldn't leave home until I was 21. READY. n ” ”

Answer—Your father needs help more than you do. Someone ought to tell him how to manage the daughter he loves so well—how to make his love a construc= tive influence in her life instead of a burden which she must flee to unload. Wouldn't you have been more impressed if your father had said to you: “Your life is your own. You must live it as vou choose and not as I choose. If you are in love with this man, I shall not oppose the match. Nevertheless, I have lived longer than you and had more experience. I know that a young girl who has been loved by her father very much is likely to transfer the feeling she has for her father to an older man first. “Sometimes this adjustment works out very well, but it fails often enough to cause me concern for your happiness. Therefore I strongly advise you not to make your permanent choice for some time to come. For your own sake, see plenty of single men close to your own age. “Remember that competition for these young men is keen among girls. They are harder to win than the man who has been married and had a child. Perhaps you do not ' el equal to the task of holding a young man fast, “All T ask of you is mature deliberation and good judgment. I want to be sure that you make your decision on rational grounds and not because you want to escape from your home ties or to avoid the task of adjusting yourself to your own crowd. What« ever you do I will not desert you but will watch with interest the developments of your life.” Act as if your father had made such a speech. Af 18 vou can leave home and go to work if you wish, but it seems too bad that you have to break violently with your father in order to break at all. Since he doesn’t know how to handle you, see if you can’t learn to handle him. JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter {o Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.

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