Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1938 — Page 9

Vagabond

From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Ernie Believes Brother Ogelsby Ranks as America's No. | Father, Who Makes a Bid With 56 Children.

(COLUMBUS, 0. for our next text today the subject of fatherhood. I believe we have dug up America’s outstanding father. At least in volume. For Walter Ogelsby, a retired Negro preacher here, is the father of 56 children. to see Brother Ogelsby and we had a He is 73, but you'd never guess it. man—tall and barrel-chested. He

weighs 210. “I could crush every bone in your body,” he said. He could. too. His wrists are bigger than mv arm is at the shoulder.

I went out nice long chat.

He is a huge

The Rev. Ogelsby first became a |

father when he was 20. He has hardly missed a year since then. His oldest child is now 53, and he lost his youngest one at birth just last December. There are six kids in the house now.

over 200 pounds. girls weighs 218. Brother Ogelsby can’t keep up with all his children. some of them for years. went through Tuskegee Institute. He has one Nreaf one lawver, one doctor. Two of his daughrs are music teachers in New York. are Ogzelsbyv children in Columbus, a dozen in New York. 14 in Los Angeles, half a dozen or so in Georgia, and a few scattered ones. 15 of the 56 are dead. were 5 vears old. of his life In he was 23.

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One Sunday morning he was lying awake, just sunup. and a voice came out of the said: “Didn't I tell vou to go all over the world preach My Gospel?” And voung Ogelsby said “Yes, and dressed and made them let <ermon at church that morning. ordained minister in the African Methodist and preached until just a few years ago. ¢ 1vs, superannuated now. He has read the Bible through 55 times.

1 have Bible names.

after Lord, him preach He became an

ch rel his church carecr he had other He worked for one company in Atlanta for 25 vears. They gave him $150 when he left.

Wife Is Homesick for Atlanta

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money in his never stole a

penny of it.

He has made as high as $2000 a year, but it all had | He has nothing now except his |

to go to the Kids. home. “How do you get along?” I asked. “Well, just I can. Some white people downtown gives us clothes. We don't have much to

the best

cat.” The Rev. Mi: Indian, but he doesn’t show it. sick a day in his life He likes it vou better than down South. But the present Mrs. Ogelsby homesick to go back to Atlanta. They've been here 12 years. The Rev. Mr. Ogelsby went through his list of wives for me.

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Ogelsby is one-fourth Cherokee

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preduced 51 children just in one county, and had comlost track of all the others. But the Rev. Mr Ogelsby savs the number far surpassed his own puny

record of 56

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Fliers' Families Have Felt

They Were Forgotten at Landing. |

H™>® PARK, Friday.—It is extraordinary to think make a flight around the world and 19 hours. The people at Floyd Bennett Field evidently greeted Howard Hughes and his crew with great enthusiasm and I can well imagine the wild scene when the fliers were driven through New York. When one reads the account of the landing, one realizes that the families waiting for these men must have felt they were shoved aside, for a mass of people engulfed the fliers as soon as the plane came to a stop. TI suppose every new achievement in aviaseems to bring a greater thrill, because we feel forward new possibilities are

that one can

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tion hat with each step opened. At lunch vesterday, some friends came whose chief interest in life is the Spanish situation and its implithe rest of the world. There was a time, I a nation did concerned it past and now everybody

whatever happens to any

cations for when whatever but that time 1s repercussions from other nation The children listened to all the talk at table with a certain amount of interest, but they retired quite willingly for their rest period. When that was over, they around with that expectant expression which means, “There is something which we want to do and we wish you grownups would cease aiking about things which are not really important.” I knew that thev were longing to go in swimming, 0 I invited mv guests to join us. They, however, decided to leave and the rest of us played around the poo! until supper time,

Clothes Aid in Jobh-Hunting

WPA seems to have become one of the most important factors in the clothing industry. I am very glad that surplus stocks are being bought for distribution to relief families. Mr. Hopkins, I see, says that

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it will help the industry, but I know that it will also

help a great many people. Relief allowances in most cases barely cover rent

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July 16.—We shall take |

All but one of his boys weigh | And one of the |

He hasn't | Three of his

ceiling | and got up | the |

Church, | He is, as |

All his |

jobs

is very proud of a couple of old letters from He used to collect money for had $2014 of company |

He has never been |

here, because the white people treat

He has had |

His father lived to be 96, and before he died had

The Indianapolis

Imes

Second Section

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938

e Crooning Candidate of

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis.

at Postoffice,

Texas

Flour Dealer Gets Serious Over Gubernatorial Campaign Begun as Joke

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Here is W. Lee O'Daniel, the flour-selling, crooning candidate for

the Texas Governorship, in action.

By Gordon Turrentine

Times Special Writer

OUSTON, Tex., July 16.—A crooning flour merchant with a hillbilly band and a promise to take care of the old folks has become the political sensation of Texas over-

night.

He is W. Lee O'Daniel of Ft. Worth, who entered the race for Governor as a joke and immediately became the most talked-about man in Texas. Three weeks ago, before he took to the road with his hillbilly band, he was a 100-to-1 shot in the field of 13 entrants for the Democratic nomination. Today he is an even bet to be in the run-off election in August between the two men highest in the July 23 pri-

mary.

Texas has never seen anything like it.

Perhaps the most astonished person of them all is Mr. O’'Daniel. But he has given up the idea that his candidacy is a joke and has gone to work tooth and toenail in a campaign which has dumfounded his adversaries. He's drawing the biggest crowds in Texas political history. » 5 ” E schedules only - speeches a day, but he winds up by making six or seven. The reason: Enthusiastic crowds along his route rope off the highway and force him to stop and put on his show. (He travels in a light sedan, his bandsmen in a bus.) The biggest question in Texas today is whether the huge crowds come out to hear his band and to be entertained, or whether they come to hear him lambaste the “professional politicians.” ' Whatever it is, Mr. O'Daniel is getting the crowds. His program opens with his crooning a song written by himself. “My Million-Dollar Smile,” the same opening which has marked his commercial radio program in Texas for 10 years. There are no formal introductions. He just gets up before the crowd, croons his opening bit, shouts and claps his hands as his hillbilly bandsmen swing into swing. Lady Texas Rose, a youngster with a broad smile and a fiddle, comes before the mike, warbles, yodels, swings and sings, “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart.”

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HE HILLBILLIES strike up “Beautiful Texas,” another O’'Daniel composition, and he in-

vites the listeners to join in the chorus. They do. And with no other formalities Mr. O'Daniel plunges into the first half of his speech, telling the folks how he hates “professional politicians” and how he's going to pay every Texan over 65 a $30 monthly pension. He gets the crowd laughing and cheering with his quips about the “gumshoeing inspectors” for the Old-Age Assistance Commission, who invade ‘“‘grandma’s and granpa's home, find a piece of fancy chewing gum stuck to the bedpost and cut their pension to $4.76.” His pension promises burn up the other candidates, who say it can’t be done, especially since Mr. O’Daniel has come out four-square against any new or higher taxes. But they're seething even worse over a stunt which is paying Mr. O’'Daniel’'s campaign expenses, and more. He climaxes his plea for the $30 pension by inviting contributions to his campaign. His bandsmen go among the crowd with barrels marked ‘flour —not pork.” Eager hands drop in nickels, dimes and quarters, the old folks scrambling all over themselves in their rush to contribute. » ” ” EASONED politicians figure it all out. “If we got on top of that bus and said and did the things that guy is doing, we'd be laughed down,” one commented sourly. After the collection Mr. O'Daniel discusses his plan to form an advisory council of businessmen to help him run the government, and his program to build *100 factories in Texas where there now is cne.” The new factories, he explains, will so increase revenue from taxation that the state will mere than be able to pay the ordinary

can't

Mr. O'Daniel croons a tune for the audience at one of his rallies as his sons, Pat Both boys also are members of the

accompany him.

Mollie O'Daniel (left), the candidate's attractive daughter, passes the keg at a political meeting for contributions to help the campaign.

costs of government, plus the pensions, and will have so much money left over it'll have to cut the taxes of “the common folks.” His plan is to “make it and buy it in Texas.” And he's sure he can build the 100 factories “where there now is one” because the banks “are bulging with money crying for sound investment, and these people who have the money, knowing the people of Texas are behind me in this program, will be glad to build the factories and help build Texas industrially.” 2 ” n OR 10 years this Ohio-born Irishman has been entertaining Texas radio listeners with thrice-weekly programs plugging his flour. He came to Texas in 1925 as a salesman for Texas’ largest flour mill and rose'to its presidency. Three years ago he quit, formed his own company and began marketing “Hillbilly Flour,” which is manufactured for him by another firm. He sells his flour by radio. Some years ago, when his regular announcer quit, Mr. O’'Daniel was pressed into service. He

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(left) and Mike for 10 years.

This stunt,

a hit that his programs

he has ever

made such conducted since. He has built up a tremendous radio audience over the state with his hillbilly boys and his homely philosophy. The band includes two of his sons, Mike, 19, the banjoist, and Pat, 17, the violinist. In addition to his commercial program, he conducts a semi-

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hillbilly band. Composer as well as crooner of songs, Mr. O’Daniel has conducted his own radio program

which is included in each of Mr. O'Daniel's rallies, and which more than pays his expenses, is irking seasoned politicians in Texas.

religious program on Sunday. Hg writes poems about mother, quotes the Ten Commandments and sings sentimental pieces. His decision to run for Governor was prompted, he says, by the reaction when he asked his radio audience to let him know if he should run. He says 54,499 adults wrote him they wanted him to run.

Times Special

ASHINGTON, July 16.—Despite such performances as Howard Hughes’ flight and America’s outstanding air-transport oper= ation, the United States has a “very

sad” standing as far as world records are concerned, the National Aeronautic Association reports. Charles F. Horner, president of the N. A. A, points out that Italy, France and Russia have been busy of late establishing international aircraft records. He urges that American manufacturers similarly get busy. The N. A. A. believes that present U. 8. aircraft could probably make a clean sweep of the landplane and

U. S. Holds 19 Air Marks

seaplane performance Americans would go after them.

Of the 175 international records established, France now holds 52, Italy 33, the United States 19, Russia 18, Germany 17, Czechoslovakia 13, Great Britain 10, Poland 7, Bel-

gium 3, Austria 2, and Japan 1.

In the heavy landplane field, of importance to the air-transport business and to wartime bombing, there are 27 official records, of which the

United States holds none. In seaplanes,

only two records.

records, if

despite the performances of the American overseas | flying boats to South America and | the Orient, the United States holds |

Side Glances—By Clark

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asper—By Frank Owen

Copr. 1938 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which geologic era followed the Paleozoic?

2—What is myopia? 3—Which state of the U. 8. has the smallest population? 41s electricity visible? 5—What is an Hawaiian lei? 6—Which state is represented in

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Ind.

Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

It Takes a Patron's Personality, Not to Mention His Help, to Get An Architect to Perform His Best,

QUITE the nicest thing to come my way this week was the June number of Architecture and Design, every page of which was devoted to the work of Burns & James, Indianapolis architects.

Goodness knows, architecture is the subject I know least about, which is to say that I know even less about architecture than the little I know about other things. Even so, I'm going to have my

say. Chances are that what I have to say won't amount to much as far as architecture is concerned, but there is more than one way of skinning a cat. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about architecture, I'm going to discuss people--the people who live in houses designed by architects. Like as not, too, I'll get around to the clients of Burns & James. Indeed, I may even get to the point where there's nothing left to do but wonder whether B. & J.'s clients are as pleasant as the houses they live in, There's no telling where today’s piece will end. Ever since I've watched people and their ways I've wondered how they go about picking their architects, Indeed, I've pursued the subject to the point of won=dering whether an architect's client has anything to do with the success of the house he lives in. And by the same token I've wondered what, if anything, a client has to do with an architect's failure, Plenty I guess, but somehow I've never reached the point where I can be absolutely sure of it. The reason I can't make up my mind is probably due to the fact that if a house is an architectural success, sure as shooting, the client takes the credit for it, and if it doesn’t pan out the way it should, the architect gets the blame. I'm reasonably sure, though, that clients have something to do with the success of the houses they live in. For one thing, it takes a patron's personality, to say nothing of his help, to get an artist to do his best. If you don't believe it, try and figure out where Michelangelo would have landed without Julius II, or Raphael without Leo X. Or for that matter, where would Burns & James have landed without Mrs. Herbert Woollen projecting her personality into blue prints? I cite Mrs. Woollen because she lives in an Italian palazzo. It's a very nice palazzo, but that’s beside the point. The point is that Burns & James, having their choice of the world's architectural styles, picked just the right one to fit Mrs. Woollen.

No ‘Frozen Music’

It’s enlightening too, to see how Burns & James disposed of their other clients. Walter Marmon, for instance, got a Tudor house, and so did Oscar Jose,

Mr. Scherrer

| If you know anything about the two men, you know

immediately that Burns & James dramatized the virtues they have in common. As for the rest of their clientele, they housed them mostly in Colonial homes. But don't get the idea that they were lumped. Not at all. The Colonial style was combed for its nuances with the result that Mrs. Hathaway Simmons lives in a New England Colonial home, Mrs,

| Philip Mallory in a Southern Colonial home and Mrs. | Morris Brown in a house showing the impulse of the

Greek revival, Thus proving that whatever architecture is, it certainly isn't “frozen music.” It's something thought up by an architect in ccllaboration with a patron— usually a woman.

Jane Jordan—

Asking Boy Why He Hasn't Called

Is Poor Strategy, Girl Advised.

TEAR JANE JORDAN—I am 16 years old and have a rather perplexing problem. About three months ago I met a fellow of whom I was and am very fond. For about a month and a half we had a date every Saturday night and once in a while during the week. He seemed to like me very well and often told me he enjoyed being with me, but he stopped coming over very abruptly. I have seen him several times since and he speaks, although he isn't as friendly as he was before. I also have talked to him, but he refuses to give me a reason for his indifference. Please give me some advice. UP A STUMP.

Answer—Never question a boy whom you have known such a short time about his reasons for not coming to see you. It is not good tactics for after all you have no claim on him and besides the chances are he doesn't know himself. Perhaps another girl took his fancy or he got tired without knowing exactly why. You may have grown too possessive and he doesn't want to be possessed. The last thing he wants to do is to inquire into his own motives and reasons; it makes him uneasy. Let the boy alone and interest yourself in others. A rival is the best stimulus to indifference. ” ” o EAR JANE JORDAN--I think quite a bit of a girl with whom I went to school. I believe she likes me a little, too, from the way she talks to me on the telephone. The trouble is that she has been going steady with another fellow for about five years. We are both 18 and have just been graduated from high school. Can you advise me what to do about this? I hate to hurt another fellow’s feelings by cutting in on him, but I think quite a bit of her. BILL.

Answer—Let the other fellow look fo his own laurels. If he can't hold his own with the girl and drive you off the premises, that's his fault. Oftentimes when a young couple in their teens have gone together for five long years they're both ready for a change. o ” n EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 18 and have been going with a boy for about five months, We got along just fine until one Sunday night, when he said he wasn't coming over any more. However, he has been back every Sunday night since, Should I wait on him or go out with someone else when he doesn't come? D. MW.

Answer—Go with someone else by all means. Don’t

and food. In some places, necessary medical attention can be obtained, but only in emergencies. Such things as teeth and eyes, which do not need immediate attention but are very important to good health, go by the board both for adults and children. Clothes are important not only for the sake of modesty and protection in our variable climate, but also if one is looking for a job, and most of these people are. Work is not found so easily when a shirt is frayed, a | coat is threadbare and shoes are worn through. I haven't seen anything vet about shoes being a part of this rehabilitation program, but I am sure that industry needs assistance too. Shoes certainly are one of the things that nearly all people on relief find hard to buy.

show any concern when he says he isn't coming back, Your cue is to keep so busy and interested in the activities of your set that the vagaries of one boy aren't so important to you. As it is you worry about whether he is coming when he should worry about whether you have time for him. JANE JORDAN.

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