Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1938 — Page 7
Vagabond
From Indiana == Ernie Pyle
Complete Composure Is the Boon Williamsburg, With Its Colonial Offers a Tired Traveler.
WW ILLIAMSBURG, Va, June 25.—The other night as we came through the little lobby of the Annex, we overheard a snatch of conversation among some elderly visitors.
Flaver,
A man, tall and distinguished and earnest |
looking, was saying to a woman, “We just happened to stop here overnight. I never khew there was such a place as this.” And the woman said, “You mean to say you didn't know liamsbuig?®” And the man said, didnt know a thing abeut it.” So despite all suppose there are others in
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country who also have never heard |
about Williamsburg.
know—there is nothing in America quite like town that
has purposely
Well, for those of vou who don't |
Williamsburg. It is a | been |
stepped back 200 years in appear- |
ance The Rockefeller Jr, and he did it preacher named Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin the idea of restoring this historic place looked before the Revolutionary War. been RockeThey
moe 3 - 3 cause a joca <nld him on to the was The work
spent
has going
upward of
on 11 vears. £15.000.000
feller has 1 working than 130 old buildings have
duplicated on the
Teen torn don n AMore
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id foundations building the
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see the old eapitol the old gaol Raleigh Tavern, house, and scores of residences built in tradition. Street lights are dim Signs are in Olde English so of the restored buildings are visitors Williamsburg women, dressed in costumes of 1730, act as gracious hostesses. Some have a Southern accent vou could cut with a knife. Some have a sense of humor. All have a sense of 10spitality. Each morning and evening you of horses’ hoofs, and down the street rolls a coach-and-four
(jail) the powder Colonial old-fashioned. Half
open to
the
a dozen or
hear
and beautiful seat Is a knee pants, His counterpart still. They deliver posts each morning,
and alert On the drivers proud Negio in long yowder-blue frock coat ornered black hat he back step, prouder hostesses to them at night will hear people sav around here—even naev think this whole pretty That it would be better not to dress up the hostesses, not have the coach-and-four, not to pretend we were back in 1730
stands on the cosume their and silect You fives—that th
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A Dissenting Opinion
{o me imagination and a deep understanding to accomplish something like becoming
The sentimentality seems
takes a powerful
But I disagree
werdone It
over or Rockefeller
fs have done a marvelous and restrained job of
this storation without slopping
It seems to me that the in-
We peaceful in an old way
like it here. It is vours, to do with no rah-rah
intrudes. The days are please. There is no blare Years ago, we fell in love with the state of Arizona. We wandered over it months, and on the last when we drove across the line homeward bound, there were tears in our eyes because we were leaving something we loved There will not be tears in our eves when we leave Williamsburg, for we have left too many places in the i Rut I know there will be tears in for Williamsburg has given us s=omesearchers find too seldom in vears later, and that is—complete
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My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Learns Mrs. Scheider Will Be Able
To Leave the Hospital by Tuesday.
YDE PARK, Friday.—We continue t% have beautiful days, and Mrs. Scheider is beginning to feel
as Ido, that it is a terrible deprivation to be cooped up |
room when you could sit outside and enjoy the country. I was delighted, therefore, to find that when she sat up yesterday, she felt quite well and when the doctor told her this morning that by Tuesday of next week I could surely bring her home She will be glad and I will be glad. In the first place, I miss her very much, and in the second place, when vou want to see a person fairly often, it takes up a
in a hospital
good deal of time to drive 20 minutes each way from |
So having her home, even with limit her activities, is
here to the hospital rules which for a time will going to be a great jov. All yesterday afternoon it looked as though we might have a thunderstorm. My grandchildren were 1ost anxious that I should go in swimming with them, they leave today on a short visit. They had one dip before I returned the hospital and were dressed and playing the piano, “Chopsticks” being a great favorite when they are together. But, as soon ac I came in. thev clamored for a second swim, so we all went in and had much fun together. Eleanor has learned to swim water and is very proud of this new accomplishment
Everyone Busy on Speech
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At the big evervone busy working on the President's speech for tonight. Typewriters were clicking evervwhere and pages were being brought for rereading. Just before dinner, my husband handed me a finished copy, so I had a chance to see it. I shall listen tonight with a great deal of interest. for I know only too well that there will be a great many changes between what I read last night and the actual talk over the air The measure which has just been adopted in Germany, whereby every able-bodied man and woman will be obligated for short-term service to the nation to accomplish nationally urgent tasks, is a very interesting departure in government. This has been, of course, an accepted duty during wartime periods in every nation. Except for the World War, as far as we are concerned, these duties have always been performed voluntarily, and even during the World War where civilians were concerned, they were performed bv our citizens on a voluntary basis. I would far rather see such service given on this basis, and I think in a democracy the actual active participation of any
vesterday was
citizen in the functions of his government could be | really considered a service rendered to the state. If | people give of their time conscientiously and perform |
tasks that benefit their communities, they are doing just what Germany has termed “nationally urgent
tasks.”
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, June 25.—I never saw anybody that looked anything at all like their own baby pictures, yet every time one of the poor little innocent things are born, all the friends and kinfolks gather around it and can definitely see that it has its mother’s eves, its father's nose and its grandpa “So and mouth.
sos”
I have an artist friend who became a proud papa |
not long ago and the other day a lady met him on the street and said “I just saw your wonderful baby and it has a complexion exactly like its mother.” The artist
been playin’ in my paints again!” (Copyright, 1838)
Two dapple gravs, two coal blacks—sleek
jabot and three- |
looked wild-eved and said | “Excuse me, but I better be gettin’ home—the babys |
| "We're paying extra for this view and you won't even look-at itl" |
stepper-back was John D. | be- |
are | More than 430 modern buildings have |
the Governor's |
ang |
the clatter
(Sixth and Last of a Series)
By David Dietz
Times Science Editor
NE hundred and seventy-five thousand American farms will go electric during 1938, G. R. Rietz, rural electrification expert of the General Electric Co, estimates. He savs there are now about 1,250,000 American farms connected to electric power lines, while another 350,000 farmers generate their own electricity with gas engine
units. Rural electrification,
My,
lietz says, is one of the
most significant developments in modern industry and
agriculture. industry, the farm is aiding in industrial recovery. But what is most important from the viewpoint of the farmer, electricity is becoming the most useful "hired hand” on the farm Surveys show the farms that are most completely electrified are making the most money, Mr. Rietz says. After the World War, there was a popular song the chorus of which inquired "How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?” The 1938 answer appears to be: With electricity The c¢ity dweller may find it hard to realize what electricity means to a farm. But the farmer realizes the difference. As a result of the demand for electric power on the farm, one power company in New York State extended its lines 1000 miles during 1937. In Texas, a single company built 2000 miles of power lines to reach new farm customers. ” = ”
AS is obvious, power lines bring A the comforts of city dwelling to the farm. Once the current is delivered to the farm house, the farmer can have electric lights. His wife can have an electric refrigerator and an electric range. She can substitiie a vacuum cleaner for the broom. City dwellers need only look around their own homes to check up the electrical items which the | farmers wife can now have: Elec- | tric washing machines, ironers, clocks, radios, ete.
By becoming a customer for the electrical
But electricity also gives the farmer a chance to solve many problems which are peculiariy his own. He can make profitable use of it in his business of farming A small pumping system, run by a little electric motor, will bring running water to all points on the farm The National Electrical Manufacturers Association pictures electricity as the new “handy man” on the farm. Addressing the farmer, it sums up the situation for him as follows: “Hello, Boss. I am the new handy man. I am moving out to the country to work. I have never been fired from a job in ny life. I'll hoist the hay, grind the feed, saw the wood, and irrigate the fields. I'll milk the cows and cool the milk, and I know new tricks in looking after poultry that will make them pay you well.” Mr. Rietz estimates there are more than 200 uses for clectricity on farms. = » URAL electrification, he says, has a four-fold aim as follows: LIBERATING the farm family from many of the back-breaking and time-consuming jobs by turning over those jobs to electricity. REMOVING many of the custly gambles, losses and uncertainties from farming by giving the operator better control of many factors. MAKING the farm less dependent on outside help every dav as well as during the rush seasons.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938
The Future Is Electric
Most Useful ‘Hired Hand’ Heralds New Eva on American Farms
MAKING it possible to get a higher price for farm products because of higher quality, or “hitting” the high price market, or further processing the product on the farm that it is ready for direct public consumption. “The farmer's best friend,” says Mr. Rietz, “is an electric motor. There are two types of motor installations, permanent and portable. Where there is a job that must be done frequently in a specified place, the permanent motor is the best one to have. “Many machines can be driven with small motors, such as pumps, clippers, grindstones, corn shellers, ete. Most of these require motors consuming only a fraction of a horsepower. There is no use equipping a machine with more power than it needs. After all, you wouldn't use a sledge hammer to drive a tack = = ~ " HERE are a great many farm duties of an intermittent or seasonal nature which do not justify the expense of installing a motor permanently. For all such applications, the portable farm motor can be used. It is mounted on a wheeled truck, together with suitable control switches, and can be moved to any point on the farm within the reach of a power outlet. “Most of the hand-operated equipment on a farm can be converted to motor usage by the simple addition of a pulley. “The widespread use of powerdriven milking machines to replace hand milking was first confined to the larger dairy farms, but with the spread of rural electrification, it is being demonstrated on thousands of farms that even with a few head of dairy cattle, the operation of milking can be accomplished by machine
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Entered a at Postoffice,
with a time saving of at least 45
per cent
“Records show that
be milked in
A small standard equipment to operate a
portable double milking unit. The cost of operating such a motor is so trifling that it may be almost
disregarded.” ” » »
T is on the peultry farm that many uses have been found for electricity, Mr. Rietz points out. and incubators and brooders are pracequipment on
Both electric incubators tically standard
modern poultry farms.
“In the poultry house,” he conlighting during increases egg production. By means of a time-switch it is possible to make the operation of the lights Small automatic heaters keep poultry drinkice during
tinues, “electric
the winter months greatly
entirely automatic.
ing water free from winter months.”
Experiments are now under way the usefulness of
to test further A
Times Special
with a double-unit milker, two cows can the time formerly required to milk one cow by hand. 1i-horsepower motor is
Electricity has come {n the American farm home to herald a new era of farming, and relief of the farmer and his wife from primitive drudgery.
The lineman brings the current right to the door (upper left). a motor drives the hay chopper (upper right), and an electrically powered water system forces water in the kitchen sink to replace the old pump.
ultra-violet lamps or “sun lamps” in poultry houses. It is interesting to trace the growth of rural electrification in America since the organized movement is only 15 years old. In 1923 a few leaders of the electrical industry, including Owen D. Young, brought together various agricultural electrical and governmental groups to consider the advantages of bringing electric power to the farm. As a result, the National Committee on the Relation of Elec-
Becond-Class Indianapolis,
tricity to Agriculture was formed. ” ” ” PEAKING in 1923, Mr. Young, who is chairman of the board of the General Electric Co., said, “The farm can be and is being made the best of all places in the world to live. The business of farming must be made to yield profits commensurate with other business. “1 welcome that Monday morneing when the electrically driven milking machine shall have milked
the cows, the electrically driven separators shall have produced the cream, the electrically driven churn shall have made the butter. “At the same time, in the house, the electrically driven washing machine shall be automatically doing its work while breakfast goes on and we shall have sunny, bright and happy Mondays in place of the old blue ones.” Since 1927, General Electric has been co-operating with agricultural colleges, power coms= panies and machinery details of rural electrifications. During the last few years, farm power training conferences have been held at Cleveland, Schenectady, Atlanta and Dallas. More than 1000 rural electrification workers from 37 states have thus been trained.
Prayers of House Chaplain Printed for Congressmen
their leisure the prayers of the Rev.
ASHINGTON, June 25.—Each | james Shera Montgomery, D, D. member of the House of Rep-
resentatives soon will receive five |
Chaplain of the House.
Rep. Michener (R. Mich.) raised
| bound copies of a collection of more | the only question about the resolu-
| than 500 prayers delivered ut the | tion. He wanted to know how the | opening of House sessions during | books were to be distributed.
| the 74th and 75th Congresses.
|
| A privileged resolution providing | said Rep. Rankin
“We will be perfectly willing,”
(D. Miss.), “for
| for the printing was acted on with-| the members on the other (Repub- | out vote or ceremony as the recent | lican) side to have their quota of | the prayers, because we on this side Thus Congressmen may peruse at' heard them.”
| session neared its close.
Side Glances—By Clark
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| milk to make it worth while.
| ago Mr. Fogas got ready to retire. there was a depression—remember?
the drugstore.
Matter Ind.
ur Town
By Anton Scherrer
Maybe Druggist Fogas Did Wrap Up Stamps and Give Children Candy, But He Made Rent Money and More.
J TOOK time off the other day to check up on John T. Fogas, one of the old-time druggists around here. When I got to his place of business at Meridian and Morris Sts., I found him running a hardware store, I'll clear up everything if you give me time, Mr, Fogas came to Indianapolis by way of Posey County and the Chicago School of Pharmacy. That was back in the early Nineties. After getting his
bearings, he bought George Orf's old drugstore at the corner of Capitol Ave. and Morris St. A week after he got going, some wise guy went to Mr. Fogas' landlord and whispered that the new druggist was giving candy to kids of the neighborhood That wasn't the worst, though. He also reported having seen a woman ask for postage stamps, and that Mr. Fogas had wrapped them up for her. Anybody having that kind of a business head. said the wise guy, foun possibly pay his vent, let alone run a druge store. Well, Mr. Fogas fooled everybody. He stayed 10 years on that corner paying his rent on the first of every month. What's more, in that time he made enough money to buy a home on Union St. and a business property on the northeast corner of Meridian and Morris Sts. Besides that, he had $4000 tied up in the things that go to make up a drugstore, Sure, the next thing he did was to move. He built a storeroom on his newly acquired property and moved his stock into it. And for the next 25 years he had a good part of the South Side beating a path to his new door. Back in those days Mr. Fogas did a landoffice busi= ness selling patent medicines and “chill” tonics due to the fact that that part of town had more of its share of bottom-land. It was on the tip of my tongue to ask Mr. Fogas whether that was the reason he picked that part of Indianapolis to do business, but I didn’t have the nerve to. I did, however, ask him about his prescription business. He said he filled 119,000 in the 25 years he was on that corner. Sometimes he filled as many as 30 a day, and you should have seen his eyes light up when he mentioned Drs. Durham, Witt, Pink, Burck= hardt, Peachee and Cunningham. They knew their business, he said, and prescribed in big figures—sometimes as big as a pint, and hardly ever less than half a pint. Today a druggist is lucky to fill a two-ounce prescription, said Mr. Fogas.
Closed for the Winter
Mr. Fogas' business had its lighter side, too—his soda fountain, for instance. It always opened for business on Easter Sunday and closed right after Thanksgiving. Nothing doing during the winter months. Milk shake was the best seller. It consisted of a quarter teaspoonful of syrup (usually vanilla), the white of an egg to hold ihe foam, and enough It cost a nickle, Now for the hardware business: About five years He had heard Besides, he was getting old (71), he said and tired of the business—
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Mr. Scherrer
| long hours and everything—and so he sold out to the | Haag people,
That left him with a lot of time on his hands. Too much, as a matter of fact, so he started a hardware business in the building across the street.
| He said he just happened to see a vacant room and
didn't want to see it go to waste. Believe it or not,
| the building housing the Fogas hardware store be-
longs to him, too. He bought it out of the profits of
Jane Jordan—
Wife May Stop Husband's Drinking By Aiding Him in Facing Problems.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a married woman 27 years old. I have been married six years and we have one child. My husband is a wonder= ful man except when he drinks. I love him and think
he cares quite a bit for me. We have a modern little home which we both adore. When he is drinking, which is frequently, he abuses me. He promises to quit but always goes back for a drink as long as he can get the money. I hate to have him leave. It is his home as well as mine, but he is ruining it. I wouldn't care for his drinking so much if he didn't abuse me, UNFORTUNATE POLLY.
n ” ” Answer—Your hushand drinks in order to have an excuse not to control himself. It is a hard job to be an adult person adequate, armed against dise aster, able to cope with disappointment and dise
couragement. Most people find it exhausting at times, Some find it so unbearable that the child within them, unprepared for the rigors of reality, bursts forth in rebellion. A decent person, like your husband, is ashamed to behave as a child. He wants to hit back and strike out at the heavy responsibilities which he has assumed, but such behavior wars with his ego ideal. His conscience tells him that a grown man doesnt act like & child. Eventually the conflict between these two forces wears him out and in his blind search for relief, he drinks. The effect of a drink is very deceptive. At first courage returns; worry disappears; one is free from care. For fear of losing the effect, one takes another drink. It is the subsequent drinks which do the dam=age, for the drinker begins to regress to the various stages of his childhood. The man whom we label a drunkard is one who is not content to stop in retracing his steps until he reaches the completely helpless, completely dependent stage of infancy. He expects to receive everye thing he needs simply by howling for it. He may func tion well until severe strains appear, when the yearning to be on the receiving or passive end of the line again overcomes him and he flies back to childhood by the alcoholic route. Help your husband to see these facts and aid him in facing his problems. Show him that when he learns to bear up under hardship and take punishment from life without crying, he will not need to escape to complete or partial oblivion. JANE JORDAN.
Jordan, who will
Put vour problems in a letter to Jane 4
answer vour questions in this column daily
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
“ O reflect fascism in American terms, but as Itale fans know and understand it” is the purpose of GOVERNMENT IN FASCIST ITALY (McGraw-Hill) says the author, H. Arthur Steiner, assistant profese sor of political science at the University of California. Confessing in his preface that he is “unable to divert himself of his affection for democratic and liberal ideas,” he yet writes objectively and understandingly of the fascism familiar to him from study and
, observation during residence in Italy during 1935-1936.
The author follows a lucid review of the rise of fascism and Mussolini with an analysis of the organization and trends of the present government, pare ticularly in its international relations. He closes his treatise with the hope that democratic governments of this century will learn from the examples of medieval authoritarian systems like fascism how to organize a democracy which will be compatible with the spirit of the times and preserve the blessings of true democracy. \
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