Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1938 — Page 9

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A Talk With a Diesel-Engine Man Leaves Our Wanderer With a Bad Case of Molecular Heebie-Jeebies.

LEVELAND, July 27.—This column is ‘being written under the most trying circumstances. Molecules are crashing into my face at 1000 miles an hour. They keep me constantly ducking, and

shutting my eyes, and slapping at them. How can & guy write with that going on? Of course, as I understand it now, they've been hit- ~ ting me like that all my life. But what you don’t . know doesn’t hurt you. I used to be happy. Now that I know about molecules, life is miserable. It’s all the fault of General Motors. -1 went out to their Diesel engine factory here today. One of the General Motors men casually dropped this remark about molecules. He didn’t mean amy harm.

They've known it so long they aren’t

bothered any more. In fact, they've captured and caged the molecule. : Everything is composed of mole- : a cules. You are made of molecules, Mr. Pyle and so am I As the General : Motors people say, molecules are the bricks Nature used in building the universe. And for some reason unknown to me, Nature keeps hurl-. ing these bricks around through space at 1000 iles' an hour. : : ! - Since they're everywhere, they keep getting in the “cylinders of engines. That's a break for the Diesel people. They just take and squeeze them in the cylinder. : That sho together. Hence they pound harder on the cylinder ‘wall. . ing makes heat. a You can squeeze air

ves all these molecules in_the air closer hit each other oftener, and Constant pound-

up to a 16th of its ordinary

= space, and its temperature will instantly jump from

normal to 1000 degrees, or about the heat of redThat's a little too fast for me to follow, but General Motors says it’s so. : : All right, at the top of a piston stroke in a Diesel, the air in the cylinder is 1000 degrees. Then a little oil is automatically squirted in. It flashes into fire, like grease in a skillet. That makes it so hot the molecules can’t contain themselves, so they pound on the piston head and force it back down. See? A Diesel doesn’t have to have spark plugs, because ‘the hot air ignites the fuel. In a gasoline engine the pressure is only 6 to 1, which doesn’t make enough ignite -the fuel, .so they have to apply a

rk. ope eral Motors has three Diesel plants. The one ‘here is a job shop, making odd-sized engines and experimenting. The one in Detroit turns out a small engine called a “package unit.” The one in Chicago makes the big engines ~ for streamlined trains.

Inventor Disappeared at Sea

I had always thought Diesel-engine making was a sort of monopoly, indulged in by only two or three companies. But not at all. Between 40 and 50 companies make Diesels in the.country today. They don’t pay royalties to anybody. The Diesel engine of course, got its name from a {man named Diesel—Rudolph Diesel. But you probably ‘never heard the story about him. It’s very mysterious. He was a German. He was highly educated in scientific research, and built his first Diesel engine in 1892. ‘He used coal dust instead of oil for fuel. But when demonstration time came he was afraid it couldn’t start, so he put a little gunpowder in the coal dust. The thing blew all to pieces. Diesel was severely hurt. But he went on developing the engine, and in 1897 made a successful one. It caught on rapidly in Eu-

* rope. Unlike many. inventors, Diesel became rich.

Then in 1913 something happened. Dr. Diesel was called to England for a meeting of manufacturers. He put his important papers in a satchel and boarded the night boat from Antwerp to Iiondon. He wasn’t aboard when the boat reached Landon. He was never seen

ain. No positive proof of what happened has ever been turned up.

‘My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Goes to* Philadelphia . To Visit Her Newest Grandchild.

HE PARK, N. Y. Tuesday—I am gradually accumulating a collection of pottery from different parts of the country. The tea set, presented to me in the pottery shop in Blacksville, W. Va, reached me safely a few days ago, and the shade of blue against our pine wood panelling is really lovely.

Another piece of pottery came to me from Ohio, a’

most spirited horse with some sweet little animals taking refuge around him. 1 haven't quite grasped yet why the package in which it arrived bore a label: “Wind in the Willows.” Whether this name refers to the color or the subject is still a mystery to me, but anyway I like it and it occupies a place of honor in my living room. : Two daughters of a friend of ours are staying with us. Their home is in California and I am afraid we teased them a great deal about the well-known: California habit of thinking their section of the country the only part of the United States where one can possibly live. It is a joy to play games with young people, and yesterday afternoon they all played a game in the pool which necessitated swimming under a whole line of legs. Great hilarity ensued all around, particularly when the larger people found it difficult to get through—and so upset the whole line. We were just sitting down to another game last evening when Capt. Reybold appeared. He starts for the West in a few days and it is a joy to see him again before he leaves.

Name Will Please Grandfather

This morning, after breakfast. I badé everybody goodby and started off for Philadelphia. I will get there in the early afternoon and I am quite excited at the thought of seeing this new grandchild and his mother and father. When I called up last evening to find ‘out if it would be convenient for me to come, Franklin Jr. said he was reading aloud, so I am going to pick out the most amusing book I have and take it

with me. There are certain things which are doubly

enjoyed when they are read aloud. : The real news, however, is that the baby is to be named Franklin D. Roosevelt III. That will certainly please his grandfather. : . In glancing through the newspapers yesterday I noticed a little item which seemed to me of great : ce. So many people have believed that from

‘+ importan the financial standpoint Puerto Rico had more prob-

; lems to solve than any other part of the United

° States. This item announces that the revenues last

‘ year in the island have risen to the highest point they ever had attained. I hope this means greater pros-

- -perity for the mass of the Puerto Rican people. Bet-

ter wages, better sanitation and better educatidh will sd much to the standard of living of the people as ~ & whole. : 3

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 27.—Tolerance is one of the finest traits a man can have but it jest seems like when a fella has it, everybody takes advantage of it and imposes on him until he finally loses it. : I knew an old fella down home that. I believe was one of the most tolerant men in the world. Every-

body. sorta kicked him around but he never would

condemn ‘em for it. aE, Finally one day I heard he’d been sent to prison and I went around to call on him. When he told me he was in for forgery, I says, “Well, you can’t

. write, can you?” And he says, “No, I can’t.” I says, couldn’t be guilty of forgery!” -"He says, £501 I thipk a “hum

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Second Section

Friends’ Church Center of Activity in Ho

(Second of Two Articles) By Joe Collier

Times Staff Writer ¥ : GQPICELAND, Ind., July 27.—Approximately 100 years ago, if you had lived in Spiceland, you would have attended the Friends’ Church meeting or else you would have been very careless about your social position. ' Supposing you had not been to the postoffice for some time and there was an accumulation of mail there for you—a letter or

so from the East. Well, this is what would happen: : You would know Driver Boone, who. was the town’s boot and shoe merchant, and its second postmaster and he, also, would be at the Friends’ Church meeting, wearing a tall, stovepipe beaver hat and looking for you. After services, he would pick up his hat, rummage through it, and bring forth your letter. Thus, he became the town’s first letter carrier. . In 1838, Thomas Cook wrote Washington and asked that a postoffice be awarded to Spiceland. His request was granted and he was named the first postmaster. In almost no time after that dignity had been awarded the little community, Solomon Sweet

erected a building on the north-

west corner of what is now the main intersection in the town and opened a grocery store. Clyde Smith now operates a drugstore there. :

s 2 ” = years later, the old Academy, attended by Charles A. Beard, America’s foremost hisotrian, when he was a Spicelander, was erected on the site of what is now the cool, sheltered campus of the grade and high schools.

But years before that, Levi But-

ler, a soldier in the War of 1812, and bound for an Indian camp on the site of what'is now Muncie, camped overnight near the Spice-

land site, drank the cool, pure °

mineral springs water and vowed that if he came through the war all right he would settle the place. Mr. Butler was of Quaker parentage but he had lost his Quaker birthright by wearing a cap instead of a hat, which at that time was an infraction of rules. Nevertheless, Mr. Butler did return in 1846, with a new wife and a love of the country, and built a home. They lived as squatters until governmental surveys were complete and the land was legally opened for settlers. Because there was no contestant claimant and because he had been: a U. S. Soldier, Mr. Butler easily acquired title to his land. All around the place were many evidences that the Indians once had found the section lush with game and fish. Many council and ceremonial mounds and a numbers of arrow heads were found there. Part of the centennial exhibition will be a collection of arrow heads ‘gathered in the vicinity.

N 1826, Isaac Hodson owned a barn in the Spiceland vicinity and when the leaders of the community were thinking of establishing a school, he offered them the use of the barn. Then he added that by holding the school in his barn “you could have a teacher to boot.” The deal was made and Mr. Hodson became the first teacher of the community. The next year, however, a school building was erected. It was a little larger than a ‘regular log cabin home, built of round logs. It seems pretty well established, Luther O. Draper wrote before his death, that Friends meetings were held in Greensboro as early as 1821. The meeting places were log, of course, and the heating plants consisted of a heap of earth inside, upon which a fire of charcoal was built. The fumes from the fire sometimes produced drowsiness fi the quietness, dangerously mear asphyxiation. In 1830, tradition says, the first

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ground owned by the church was bought from Thomas Bond. The land was about an acre large and it cost $2. At present the old graveyard and the parking ground occupy the site of this original purchase. - The ground upon which the church finally was built was one and one ‘half acres and was bought from Samuel Griffin .in the same year for $3, deeded to three church trustees at $1 a trustee. : 2° 8 = Ts EFORE and during the Civil 4) War, Friends were opposed to human “slavery and. they dd,

popularity contestant.

ST » -. through a grapevine system, Te i

word to southern Negroes that Spiceland was “a haven of rest, protection and substantial food to be given to those who escaped from their masters and sought freedom in flight.” There also was an underground station at. Harrison Township, Henry County, - and. another at Fountaine City from which the escaped slaves continued . their flight to Canada. :

Owners frequently would - follow the slaves into Spiceland and

hunt suspiciously around for days &

before leaving either the Harri-

son Township station or Foun--

taine City. Sie There is standing now in Spiceland a well-preserved home that residents say was.a link in the chain of underground stations

through which many slaves.

escaped. : - About 100 years ago the Friends, gathered in solemn monthly meeting, recorded that “James Babbit has neglected the attendance of our religious meetings and has departed from 'plainness in deportment and apparel.” es It is practically certain that the erratic behavior of Mr. Babbit drew some sort of punishment. But when the Spicelanders on the. evening of Aug. 13 dance.in the -public streets for the first time in 100 years, they will still get a collective A in deportment. Things have changed alittle in the last 100 years.

See This Page Tomorrow for ‘The ABC and Ds of Living?

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1988 -

On With the Dance, Spiceland!

osier Town 100 Years Ago

The present Friends’ Church.

Dawson : Liggett, publicity chairman.

Huge Trans-Atlantic Clippers Will Give

Avidtion Its Next Big Shot in Arm

By NEA Service : EATTLE, Wash, July 27.—Commercial conquest of the Atlantic is the next big thrill which aviati has to offer. :

The methodically prepared How-

ard Hughes flight and imprompt hop by Douglas Corrigan, have paved the Way further for establishment of regularly scheduled passenger flights over the Atlantic. The .conquest begins. late this summer. British and German planes. already have made test hops across the ocean. ent Here at Seattte the Boeing 314, world’s largest: airplane, is-in the midst of exacting tests to verify her fitness as the American. (Pan-Amer-ican) entry .in the race. Within a month the North -Atlantic will be a-buzz with wings. Mr. Hughes spent $200,000 on his plane, and put it ‘through the most careful tests “in California before

Although the testing

moving east for his takeoff. And Mr. Corrigan, with $900‘ worth of 9-year-old plane and the luck of the Irish, made no tests at all. : : J » ” 2 B% the testing of the clipper is something else again. A million dollars and three years of planning and dreaming have gone into this

bigger than some of the ocean ships

of early explorers. : of the clipper has been going on for weeks, the flying tests by her future crew will not be made until: August, and actual flights across the ocean not until later in the fall. Passengers: won't be carried until next year. Boeing and Pan-American officials are more interestéd in having the

_|:American ship as near perfection as ‘human: ability can make it, than in ‘being “first across.” $

“First the engines "were" tested.

Only two at a time could be run at this stage, for all four of the 1500horsepower engines at once would have yanked the clipper out of the water too soon. ” 2 2 \XTENSIVE taxiing tests followed, under all tide, water and wind conditions. Se Every square inch of the giant airliner has been measured to see that she comes up to exact specifications as to size and strength.

Every seam of the 4000 square feet

of surface has been put under the magnifying glass. Thirty days of factory testing are being followed by Department of Commerce inspection. And only in August will the regular Pan-Amer-ican pilots and crews take over to learn the ‘feel of their new charge. Pan-American can afford to take its time with this testing.

J asper—By Frank : Owen

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

.1—What are the regions surrounding the = South Pole called? . 2—_On which island of the Philippines is the city of Manila? $—Who won the 1938 men’s singles championship played at Wimbledon, England? 4—In electricity, what is an insulator? 5—What is taxidermy?

. 6—Which Tsar of Russia was

nicknamed “the Terrible?” * = = : Answers 1--Antarctic regions. ~ 3—-Donald’ Budge. 4--A ‘nonconducting : device, or material, used to separate. electric conductors. . 85—The art of skinning, preserve" ing.and stuffing skins of-ani-«8--Ivan IV. Ee s =

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer

Red-Haired Girls Outnumbered By Local White Horses, 3 to I, Before Grace Akass Got Started.

Now that I look back I can’t remember ever going to school with an auburnhaired gir], let alone a redhead. There were plenty of utiful blonds and a plethora of brunets, but, for some reason, the privilege of growing up with a red-haired girl was denied me when I went to Public School 6. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that Indianapolis didn’t have its quota of redheads. At that, they were rare. Almost as rare as white horses. - I know that to be a fact because when I was a kid, it was a part of every boy’s credo to believe that the sight of a white horse would be rewarded by the sight of a red-haired girl, if not immediately, certainly within the next half hour. Whenever that happened, it was a boy's privilege to make a wish. : Siw Jive much luck that way, = 4 either. ttle, in fact, that ve early in my career I made up ii Mr. Scherrer mind that the white horses in Indianapolis outnume bered the red-haired girls by 3 fo 1. You have no idea, though, what a change took place in the course of the next 20 years not only in Indianapolis, but all over the country. By the time 1900 came along, everywhere you went you saw nothing but red-haired girls; and it had everybody guessing where they all came from. Only those on the inside “Enew that Grace Akass had anything to do with it. Grace lived with her parents and her two sisters, Minnie and Lottie, in the 2200 block N. Meridian St. All the girls were gifted. Minnie had a talent for art; Lottie played the organ, and Grace had a fine contralto voice. Besides, Grace had red hair, a come bination of circumstances that didn’t escape anybody, least of all Prof. Ernestinoff who lived right across the street at the time. Prof. Ernestinoff whipped'the contralto voice into shape, and before anybody knew it, Grace had a paid position in a church choir. Prof.

Ernestinoff also uged her to solo parts at * nerchor pled Sing . Moen

Local Girl Makes Good

Sometime in the Nineties, Grace went to Chicago where John J. Murdock billed her in a concert at Masonic Temple which he was managing at the time. Grace made good because immediately after that Mr. Murdock built a vaudeville act around her. He called -it “The Girl With the Auburn Hair,” and to get people excited he wouldn't tell the name of the girl. As a matter of fact, the first pictures he sent out showed the back of the T's head. Right away, everybody started gu . >They guessed every redhead they could think of, including Anna Held, Leslie Carter, Amy Leslie and even the Princess Chimay. The-name of the act also fooled everybody into believing that Mr. Murdock was presenting a French dancer. That's why everybody was so surprised to discover that the act consisted of an ecclesiastical scene with Lottie playing the Drean, ii) ORe® singing church songs cluding “The Heave ht” especially composed for the occasion. y Le PoE The vogue of “The Girl with the Auburn Hair” was enormous and all over the country the women went to work to make their hair look like Grace's. Mr. Murdock played it for all ii was worth, and even advertised “Auburn Hair Matinees” which were limited “to women who had the luck to have the color of

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>| “Grace's hair. - By that time there were so many red-

heads that the doorkeeper ‘had to examine each one to see if there were any wigs among them. : I guess I ought to say, too, that eventually Mr. Murdock married Grace Akass. Thank goodness, some of my stories have a happy ending.

Jane Jordan— Don't Insist on Marriage Before Fiance Is Prepared, Girl Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl 18 years old and have been going with a fellow 22 years old for about a year. I love him dearly. My stepmother and I do not get al at all and since I have lost my job she has © my life miserable. I've tried to get another job but, as you know, that is hard to do. I told my boy friend that if he loved me he would marry me. But he comes from a refined family and believes in having a home and income before we marry. In that case we will have to work at least another year and a half. I realize that I can’t stay at home that long if I don’t find a job. Do you think I eam wise in asking him fo marry me now? Please give me your advice. HEARTBROKEN.

Answer—No, I do not think you are wise in insiste ing on an immediate marriage before your boy friend is prepared for its responsibilities. I have no doubt that your home situation is bad, but tough as it is you have to learn that you cannot be rescued by somebody else every time you are unhappy. The responsibility rests on you and you alone and it is up to you to get along by your own efforts for the next year and a half. You'll be a better wife for this practice in self-reliance. i . Yes, jobs are hard to get, but don’t let that stop you from trying. If you are diligent in your search you may find something. You do not mention your father. Doesn’t he play any part in your life at all? Have you written him off the books as friend and adviser because he married someone you do not like? What does he think of your rushing a boy into marriage because you want to get away from home? One of the hardest things for an immature person to do is to wait. The young want everything to happen immediately. To wait because you have some= thing to gain by waiting requires considerable selfe discipline but it often pays dividends. In the meantime see what you can do to improve the present. - Doubtless there is a way to get along with your step=mother. She isn’t the last difficult person you will meet in life. . Tackle the problem. Don't shift it to

2 » 2 » LB ps JANE JORDAN--I am a girl 16. I am not hard to look at but I am very quiet. I have gone with boys for about a year but when I say it sounds silly; so I just keep still. I run around with a girl who is always talking and acting silly. She has many boy friends while 1 have very few. Should I try to act like her? DOUBTFUL.

erat ns Answer—Act like yourself and not like your girl friend. The boys probably like her because she is

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