Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1938 — Page 9
Vagabond
From Indiana = Ernie Pyle
Gaiety and Beauty Are Blended With Heartache as Our Wanderer Spends His Final Day in Hawaii.
Editor's Nate—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.
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H oXNorLt LU, June 23.
Hawaii was almost unbearably beauti-
Our last dav in
ful
i
As time grows shorter and shorter vou
count the davs with a reluctant disbelief. And then it comes down to hours. An exciting elima mitlds up inside vou, and beneath it Creek mn y yf heartache. You feel
desperate ve Hawail, You wake vou finished tle put-off erinlished bv 4 res the ecocktonight on
active 1 omorron Te
g must be
Go to the the libram few presJump
saving
"eal It's mow. Youre brain keeps ! them~lock comes home sits on the slope up and see the old
vou look down to the
men are in whites
in the women's
voice is pi achievemer of a ! n ‘ It's What You've Always Wanted
leave this it what vou've life it's what you'll always want and a fens
the motif
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
President Keeps First Family Up With One of His Rare Bridge Games.
NEY YORK, Wednesda: | v hridoe 2rd ay
My moth one chuckled vesterdav both the big dogs hev retreated
ed and darted
family had a picnic for my husband was represented him with the roceeds of last January's handed it back to the which will now do sciie paralysis, and assist
as of need
Kennedy Enjoys Strawberries
I returned from the h about 20
pefore lunch I had telephoned to have my char-
coal fire all ready for broiling, but forgot
1
that my fire, when it
hat particulai fire just glowing coals, but have worried. Kennedy with nissed the train fo Pniov our ghod ax is flavor as owl mich finer ftermoon In was feeling tan and 1
time for a
annther nerville nere swim hefore dinne A short visit to the hospital this morning befare taking the train where I have done a number of errands nust say cities have no real charm for me in the :
Bob Burns Says—
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OLLYWOOD, Ju:
here are going in more and more \
The picture producers out for realism, When they cast a picture now, they try to pick people who have actually lived the n Not long ago. when lookin’ for he part of a siren. they picked in Hollywood but she turned out to actress
were a girl the biggest be a very
fn play ive poo After the director
times he turned to the on
i taken one seene abot
and said, "Thix is a
nine very
1
simple scene-—the hav simply proposes to vou and vou refuze him Surely voiive heen proposed tn hefore!” The girl =avs "Oh, ves I've been proposed tn hundreds of times but I never refused any of them!” g (Copyright. 1238)
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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1938
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The Future Is Electric
Human Lives Depend on Accuracy of Delicate Instruments
(Fourth of a Series)
By David Dietz Times Science Editor RONZE wire, finer than a human hair, is flattened between powerful rollers and wound into delicate springs at the General Electric plant in West Lynn, Mass, Copper wire three times as fine that the human hardly it—is into tinv coils. Skilled operators, working with the aid of highpowered niicroscopes, grind and polish little steel pivots until their points are sharper than the sharpest needle. Other workmen, equally skilled, with tools of hardest known steel alloys, hollow bearings out of sapphires no larger than the
head of a pin. In dust-proof rooms, industry's men—and women-—in white, assemble these items into electrical measuring instruments of preciI'hey wear white jackets like those of a doctor or nurse because a bit of lint or magnetic dust from a coat sleeve would completely ruin the instrument being assembled.
20 fine eve can
see wound
sion.
These instruments
keep the els of modern civilization runhe aviator, flving a great pasnger plane above the clouds, is fepending upon the instruments the board in of him, to uvard his life and the
ine passengers.
front
lives of
x 5 FP HE physic patient's heart
diaghosing a aiiment with the aid of the electrocardiograph, is dependent upon instruments of precision to make a decision that may save the life of a patient. Everywhere in industry you find these y volt - meters, watty various other types of uments. In steel mills, in chemical factories, in plan of all sorts, vou will always find engineers watching the flickering needles of such instruments. General TWleciric engineers have perfected a spectrophotometer th f accurate than
hat is far more in matching colors,
the human eve hev have audio noise meters that i sounds bevond range of uman ear. realm, w color,
hether it he
temperature, lou piease, there are inits far more sensitive than Iman senses research
even
Of tate
Scientific the haope of the world of the would down without these instruments, If the instruments did not exist, practically all scientific work would have to stop until they were invented.
future
break
» = » NACH type of electrical measuring instruments is a probTiny springs, coils, bearings must be defor each instru-
lem in pivots sighed just ment. The problem is complicated by the fact that while for example, In one particular application the must be delicate the ten-thou-
itself, and
} rignt
instrument to measure ! part of an ampere of elec1t also be sturdy
construction to
ici must enough in its withstand the vibration in the cab WW a locomotive At the West Lynn plant, instruments and tested in special One has =a 4 degrees helow second has a temperature of 40 below zero. he other two are maintained at Aa temperature of 122 deorees. two having also This agl
tropical jun-
railroad
meters are four rooms. temperature of “ern The
degrees
with one of the 100 per cent humidity oom 1 a miniature gle dripping with moisture When instruments have withstood tests in these rooms, thev
are considered safe to put on an i
Side Glances—By Clark
airplane which may fiv the Atlantic or over the North Pole. measuring instrument calibrated, and to calibrate an instrument it must be compared against certain standards, These calibrating standards, including standard electric cells and standard resisting units, are locked in a vault at the general engineering laboratorv of General Electric, at Schenectady. Thev are guarded more carefully than if they were pure gold.
Every must be
» » =
HE sfandard cell iz the refervoltage. Tt eonsists of a sealed glass tube containing a chemical solution and carefully purified solid chemicals. At any given temperature, the +‘oltag= across the two terminals is constant It is the same day after day, vear after vear, providing that the temperature is the same. To insure this, the cell is mount-
ence for
%
wn ed in an oil-filled tank. Electric heaters raise the temperature of the oil to 77 degrees, Fahrenheit, and at the same time a motor- &F # driven stirrer insures even distribution of temperature An elaborate electric control circuit keeps the temperature constant If the temperature drops as little as a 1000th of a degree, it causes the deflection of a galvanometer in the control circuit. A spot of light reflected from a mirror on the moving galvann meter coils moves as a result. Tt strikes the sensitive surface of an electric eve or photo-electric tube This in turn operates electrical ple circuits which increase the The darkened amount of heat flowing through lishted by the oil a The standards of resistance are similarly maintained. Thev are made of carefully chosen allovs which are known tn maintain their permanence over a long period of time. They are checked
nation vault at the U.
ards at
Sometimes it is
lightning flash.
That
sky
The rolls and reverberates lightning flash electric energy at an enormously high rate—sufficient to light 50,000,000,000 ordinary house lamps for a fraction of a second.
periodically by means of a special resistance bridge capable of reading to one part in a million. 5
HE absolute standards for the are contained Bureau Standards in Washington. Periodically the General Electric standSchenectady are checked against Uncle Sam’s standards. The problem of measurement is not always to measure tiny forces, to measure tremendous forces. Strangely enough, delicate instruments do the trick. Let us take a spectacular examA thunderstorm is in progress is suddenly the menacing flare of thunder
released
Industry has its “women in white.” This white- jacketed operator is assembling a delicate electric instrument, working in a dustproof laboratory at the General Electric plant in West Lynn, Mass.
In the second that it struck it created » surge along a high tension transmission line that amounted to 120,000 amperes and a pressure of about 100.000 volts. The engineers had previously attached little evlinders about the size of small cartridge fuses to the transmission towers. When the lighthing struck, the heavy ecurrent magnetized these metal cyl inders. Back in the laboratory, the engineers need only measure the amount of magnetization, From it they calculate the current of the surge. NEX'T—America Fights Radio Propaganda,
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Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Aunt Lou McKenna Takes Advantage Of a Home-Coming to Spill Several Old Secrets About Mount Jackson.
[UNMINDFUL of the fact that everybody else was celebrating Father's Day, R80 or more old residents of Mount Jackson got together last Sunday and had their annual home-coming in the big backvard of William C. (Clyde) Johnson, 2943 W. Washington
St. Thus proving again. if further proof iz necessary, that that part of Indianapolis is a law unto itself Sam McBroom, his wife Annie and their daughter Cleo came all the way from Moore's Hill to get in on the party. Sam said he was “plumb tuckered out.” but that the trip was worth the effort. Sadie Holsupple ran in from Woodruff Place. Alva Gulley, president of the home-coming and former schoolmaster of Mount Jackson. told about the old days when he and his father got $1.70 for 10 hours’ labor including that of their team of Mr horses. They thought it well worth : while to drive seven or eight miles extra each dav to avoid the 30-cent toll charge on the National Road, At that time there was a toll gate at West St., another at Belmont Ave, and a third which Grandpa Cheeley operated at the Central Hospital gate That got Mrs. Lulu McKenna started “Aunt Lou," as everybody calls her, is the daughter of Mr. Cheelev and, in the course of her remarks, she got around to spilling the secret that practically everybody present last Sunday had, at one time or another, swindled her father out of toll-gate monev. The nickel saved, said Aunt Lou, went to defray the cost of a ticket to the old “Musee” or “Cycolorama” in Indian - apolis. When Aunt Lou asked how many had paid toll at her father's gate. almost every old timer raised his hand, and when she asked how many had “Min't her father's gate without paying toll, the same hands went up
Scherrer
In Defense of the Youngsters
As a matter of fact. Aunt. Lou gave evervihing away. She said she believed the old timers were less well behaved than the youngsters now, and to prove her point she told about the kids of her day and how they behaved when the mule ears first came west of Belmont, Ave. The bovs and girls, herself included, said Aunt Lou, used to “hop” the cars and annov the drivers like evervithing. Aunt Lou also went on record that if the old timers had the automobiles and other means at the disposal of the present genera - tion they would have been much more wild, There were no dissenting opinions. The honors for being the oldest to attend (he home-coming were divided between Dave Sprinkie and J. H. Ingling. Both are 86, but they had to give way to Mrs. Mattie Webb Thompson, the oldest native resident present, She was born in 1861, a few feet from where the home-coming was held. She is a daughter of “Daddy” Webh, whose storv parallels that of Mount Jackson. Mrs, Thompson and Mr. Sprinkle had enough descendants with them last Sunday to represent three generations, and so did Mrs. WwW. lL. Brewer and William McNeelev To read all this, vou'd think 1 got all my material first hand, Well. T didn't Everything 1 know ahout, last Sunday is what 1 picked up listening to Joe Sullivan's emotional account of the party
Jane Jordan—
Wife Must Realize That Marriage
Will Net Fulfill All
EAR JANE JORDAN affair, and before 1
Her
This is rather a complicated begin let, me say that the majority of the blame should fall upon me. 1 am employed in an office and was engaged to a boy whom I thought I loved. Then I hecame acquainted With a young man whom 1 shall call X. Eventually 1 grew fond of him Right then was when this should have stopped for he was a married man I Suppose it rather pleased my vanity to have him shower attention on me. In the meantime the hov to whom 1 was engaged begged me to set our marriage date, Thinking it the only solution to the whole affair, I married him. Now don't get the wrong impression, I was and stili am fond of him. 1 thought if I mar-« ried him I would find peace and possibly forget X, But I find now that I can’t do this. I am unhappy and my husband senses this, although I try to make him happy. I see X every dav and every day I realize Just how much he means to me. What in the world is the solution te this situation? Mavhe I am selfish but I think everybodv has a right to love and be loved by the one whom the want X has told me that he loves me. What shall 1 do? UNHAPPY.
Dreams.
” n ”
Answer—The only thing 1 fo take a realistic view af vour situation When dreams are your dish there are few things more flavorless than reality and vou will resent, and resist every attempt to disengage your head from the clouds, Fortunately vou were and still are fond of vour husband. What you can't bear to face is that this is all you're going to get out of anv marriage in the end. There is nothing less permanent than the chills and fever of love although they last somewhat, longer under the stimulus of -frustration. In time they will pass no matter what the conditions of your life, If you go on as you are, the time will come when your lover does not look so desirable to you as now, You will begin to see faults in him. Cold facts will appear through the haze of dreams. Things that you hide from yourself now gradually will establish them = selves in your mind against your will, Eventually your hero will turn out to be a self-indulgent mortal whose first thought is not for you. If you proceed more ruthlessly with double divorce and remarriage, exactly the same thing will occur ex cept that romance will fade more rapidly. If too many strains occur during the rearrangement. love may turn to hate, its nearest relative, to the clash of snapping nerves, Or it may decline gradually to the same prosaic tolerance and affection upon which your present marriagl is founded. Then if vour craving for excitement is not satiated, you'll be obliged to find another hero to ignite it again, Your statement that everyone has a right to he loved by the one he wants is open to question, If two people love the same person, how can each come into his rights? Substitutes must he accepted if they ran he found and you are fortunate that vou have vours at hand, JANE JORDAN,
know for vou to de is
Put vour problems in a letier to Jane Jordan, who will Answer your nuestions in this column daily,
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