Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1938 — Page 9

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From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

The Wakefields Who Cook "By Ear" Feed 1000 Daily at More Than $1 a Meal at Fabulous Toll House Inn.

HITMAN, Mass, Sept. 19.—We sat at breakfast with Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield in their phenomenal Toll House Inn. Everything was very quiet, for the Toll House does not open till noon, and our breakfast was a private one. Only a couple of gardeners on the back terrace, and a somber window-washer. made any stir. lishment that the Wakefields eight depression years have run from nothing into one of Amerfca’s finest eating places. (Even Duncan Hines, the transcontinental eater, says £0.)

The place rambles and stretches |

until it resembles the estate of a New England millionaire. year new sun rooms, garden rooms, cutdoor decks, dens, parking places. is room for 330 guests at one sitting. But the place has never lost

rooms, lawns,

Mr. Psle

the personality of a house; it has | never taken on a commercial look. Back behind the | Toll House is the Wakefields’ own home. It sits among | It is the |

trees, in a grassy little estate of nine acres of white, cozy New Engiandish place you in the magazines It makes vou mad to go it. evervthing is so nearly the wax it yourself.

see into

sort

We went

through

back in through

out the doors the waitresses use.

Every room, every table waz filled. At I couldn't

lunch eaters least 30 people were waiting in the lounge. believe it was really true. Where do thev all come from? many people find the place? Tne answer is that most of them are regular customers. Some 40 per cent come from around Providence, R. I, about 40 miles southwest. Another 40 come from the Boston area, 25 miles north. The rest are largely from right around here, with a smattering of travelers who have heard of the place.

How do that

Onion Soup Pays for Trip

More than 1000 people a day. And the cheapest meal they can get (even lunch) is $1. From there up to 8230. And they come in droves. It's colossal!

For 10 months of the vear the Wakefields’ whole | lives are in their work. Thev are on the job by 10 in the |

morning, and they stay on the job till 11 or so at night. Their social life is practically nil. They feel they deserve their grand winter vacations which for the most part have been trips to foreign countries. They usually leave right after New Year's. They come back from their travels looking like Santa Claus

ideas. Ruth Wakefield can cook “by ear.” Or by taste, I suppose vou'd call it. She can eat a strange dish, and

come home and recreace it with every ingredient in |

proporiuoen.

One winter in a Paris basement they picked up an | That onion soup alone made |

onion soup they liked. them enough money to pay for their next winter's trip to Europe. The Wakefields Th: greater House. travagance The

career

live well but

it continuous until thevre 83. Then thei now put their spare money!

they will live happily ever afterward

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

James Improves and First Lady

annuities (where they

Returns to Home at Hyde Park.

YDE PARK. N. Y. Sundayv.—Friday afternoon 1

Mavo Clinic and had an opportunity to see their system of filing records.

of the hospitals in two minutes. To an outsider it seems somewhat complicated. They assure me that, for their purposes, their system of filing is simple and

almost foolproof. If a doctor specializes in some particular kind of surgerv, he may, at a moment's notice, have the records covering a 30-vear period of ail the cases of particular interest to him who are actually in the clinic, of course, are, their doctors From the clinic IT went up t goodby to James room and the more open view from his windows. I left themselves seemed more than content with his improvement. John Sargeant of Boston. Jimmy's friend and partner. had come up to stay until Sunday

that James had enjoved a breakiast of greater variety than our own.

And Speaking of Newspapers

I was delighted to see an old friend as we stepped off the train in Chicago vesterdayv morning. He had been sent by his paper to meet us and I imagine the assignment was none too welcome at that hour in the morning, for we arrived at 7:15. I urged him to come to breakfast with us. and we all had great fun spite of our early rising. The train on which we came Fast did not leave 11 a. m. so we obtained a radio to listen to the President's speech. The first part of it came over very clearly and then all of a sudden we heard nothing more. I had to wait until I could read a newspaper later to make sure that I had heard it all Speaking of newspapers, there are two young columnists I find myself reading with increasing interest. Joe Alsop and Robert Kintner are writing on political subjects with a clarity of expression Which denotes clarity of thought. I dont always agree with them, but I always enjoy them, and I am glad to see political subjects handled by the two young men. It seems to me that one of our needs today is to have different points of view put before us cleariyv. For instance, what do we want our respective political parties to represent? Comparatively few of us stop to think either of what they now represent. or what we want them to represent. There is confusion on many subjects at home, but we can clarify our thinking on domestic questions if we will take the trouble. Perhaps it may help us to understand the situation abroad where affairs remain tense. While they continue to talk the situation over, however, at least war is temporarily postponed. *

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Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 —Now that started, it might be a good idea to remind the

They bring eac’y one of the 37 employees | a present and of cours: they bring back dozens of |

All around us was the fabulous estab- | in |

Year by | rooms have gone on— | private | gar- i Today there |

youd like to do

the kitchen. and then And there in front of us was the entire place packed with |

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938

This year he toured Europe

N American airman flying over Europe finds many strange rules and many things held secret from him, and the fine touch of the military always is present. Camouflage, in a variety of forms, is worked over-

time.

In the first place, an American airman is puzzled/ by the lack of radio directional beams in Europe. For obvious reasons, the Germans and the French couldn't be expected to collaborate in establishing radio beams for

flights between Berlin and Paris.

This applies to all the

crowded neighborhoods of Europe. The airlines there rely upon cross-bearings taken on

established points by radio signals,

The radio in my ship

was tuned for American radio directional beams and was

of no use in Europe.

I flew by checking the ground below,

with its outstanding landmarks, against my map.

In every European country, there are a score or more of restricted areas over which no private pilot or airliner may fly. Violation is attended by arrest at your next landing, or the

quick presence of a single-seater fighting plane flying tight formation at your wing tip. You can’t go romping over the international borders, either. There are air corridors through which you must pass, and some of them are only about 1500 feet wide. » = = T also is necessary to announce vour destination and present vour log book for signature before departing from any airport. Your flight plan is in possession of the local government. I saw scores of airdromes with no identification marks on the fields or on the hangars. These, of course, were military airports, not altogether secret, because you can't help but see them. Almost all the airdromes, military and commercial, are grasscovered. This makes it still harder to detect them from a distance. The only runway airport of any size I saw in Europe was at Amsterdam. Holland, a great

| commercial airport.

not extravagantly. | art of their profits goes back into Toll |

They consider magazines their greatest ex- | k ; y : | it doesn’t take him long to under-

Thev feel that if thev invest their money in | it will go on blessing them with manna

will start working, and |

Naturally curious, any airman would wonder where the various airpower machinery is based and

stand that this information is not for him, or any foreigner. In fact ‘rifle medicine” so effective against spies that I don't believe anv nation knows much about the concentration points of foreign air powers. All hands told me this in their own inimitable wav.

» » 5 UT sharp eves aloft blanked out entirely striction. Hence those

are not by renations

| which have things to hide on the

| tracks spoke to a group of the women workers in the |

They have a marvelous mechan- | ical system of tubes through which they can send | the record of a case from a centrai office to any one |

| are deceiving.

ground are becoming fascinatingly ingenious at making an airport look like the intersection of highways, tilled lands or a stretch of level country occupied by railroad

ing military identity. Creative minds, skilled in the art of camouflage, scheme for new ideas to make a military airdrome look like anything else but a military airdrome. Three or four types of grass varying in color, planted in square sections, like ordinary farm lands, Tiny concrete

| troughs laid like railroad tracks

and containing an inch of water,

| will reflect moonbeams at night

The records of patients | until | thev leave, kept in an open file for the benefit of

the hospital to say | I found him in a new room and looking better. it seemed to me, because of the brighter |

Rochester feeling well satisfied, for the doctors |

and a wire | from Betsy to Chicago vesterday morning announced |

to completely allay the suspicions of prying eyes from aloft. These little troughs may well bs flush with the ground, and offer no obstruction to aircraft using the

| field. Certain nations would give any -

amount of treasure to know whether certain other countries have resorted to storing their air forces underground. I don’t know the answer to this one, and I

| didnt wart to find out, because

it’s loaded with dynamite. I won't admit, however, that I didn't peek over the side of the Gulfhawk now and then. = RELIEVE the air forces of each country are resorting to underground hangars at military

. . . deliberately withhold

airdromes, and each is afraid that the other fellow is doing the same thing. There's no sense in building air power and leaving it lying around in open view, such as using hangars above the ground, where it can be wiped out by fire and light bombs,

It's common knowledge that fighting craft are stored in forests where hangar roofs can be painted as part of the trees, to the complete distraction of an airman a few thousand feet overhead. Gravel, strewn across airdromes, can be made to look very much like a roadway, which branches from adjacent highways for use by military airplanes. Two such gravel paths complicate the situation for the peeping airman. But where two of these deception highways intersect on the middle of a hangar roof, with an airdrome planted in three or four kinds of grass of varying shades, laid out in section like an ordinary farm, an airman can realize that he’s looking at a masterpiece of camouflage if he is able to detect the visual key. If there are any military hane gars above ground which are not already painted to blend with surrounding trees, foliage, and ground, they are to be found in a country not aware of the dangers of air attack.

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HE camouflaging of war planes is showing the effects of constant, intensely ingenious efforts. The orthodox scheme is to paint the portions of planes which can be seen by the observer aloft in blotches of dirty, brown khaki, shoddy shades of brick red. along with enough green tints to complete the visual nightmare. I have seen bombers and singleseaters painted in this fashion, slide below the Guifhawk without being discovered by its pilot, except by chance. Movement, of course, attracts the eye, but where misshapen tints blend—bomber wing with ground colors—and the outline of an aircraft is obliterated, movement is difficult to discover.

I became so intrigued with this little game that in many instances I mistook sunlit patches of varying brilliance and cloud shadows on the ground for camouflaged wings, and from altitudes of only 4000 or 5000 feet.

But since the bomber with the surprise attack plan will seek to slide overhead unnoticed, the bottom portions of these ships are ingeniously treated with various shades of dull white to sky blue, in order that they won't disturb the color picture of the heavens. There's no general plan for the distribution of these shades, tints, and colors. »

HIS lack of uniformity again adds an unsettling element for the eyes of the ground observer to solve and decipher, and if the noise of a high-performing bomber could be entirely eliminated, unaided eyesight would be helpless and binoculars only fairly efficient. For night bombardment eraft, exhaust gas flames are strained

through cleverly designed screens.

These screens or mufflers for dampening the exhaust gas flames do not depreciate the noise of aircraft engines running wide-open or at cruising speed to any great extent. But the silent air raid scheme of attacking ground positions is apparently gaining headway. The possibilities for surprise and deception, which are open to air attack, barely have been scratched. The silent air raid is simple in conception. It means that bombers will shut off their engines at great altitudes and glide as flatly as possible with idling motors, for the last 40 or 50 miles. And the mufflers which could not hide the roar of cruising engines effective ly blot out the exhaust noise of idling engines. = ” ”

GAIN, geared down propellers where engines may be turning 1800 r. p. m. and the propellers at about 1200 r. p. m., the whistle and whine customary to a fast-moving propeller is com=pletely eliminated. With an idling engine, the geared down propeller turns so slowly that its noise values are negligible.

Simple though this plan is, it has been necessary to conduct extensive research in order to produce the necessary machinery. Like auto spark plugs, those used in aircraft are called upon to serve effectively and smoothly, through wide power and temperature ranges. The modern highpowered aircraft engine makes heavy demands upon a spark plug. A climb to 25 or 30 thousand feet with a war load necessitates almost full power operation. This means that cylinder temperatures will be blazing hot and that spark plugs must withstand these tem-

* ir War ® ®. 0 0 0 ® ® o. 0. 0 0 By Mai. Al Williams Camouflage Worked Overtime as Powers Guard Air Secrets

Famed for his flying and research as a Navy test pilot and American speed record holder, Maj. Al Williams is acknowledged as a leading aeronautical authority. in his own single-seater fighting ship, and this story is one of a series in which he interprets plans and planes for the air war— His appraisals concern aviation plans and machines only, not the nations nor their governments.

peratures, reducing engine opera tion to idling, for extended periods, chills to subnormal. For the ordinary spark plug this would mean fouling—sputtering—and missing, with a good chance of not being able to open the engines up again and run after the bombs have been dropped, » BOUT eight months concentrated effort in laboratory, on the test. stand and on the

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By E. R. R. HEN World War broke out in 1914, most Americans were too stunned to venture opinions or prophecies concerning it. The few who did make |statements were in most cases well informed. Army officers who would talk to reporters predicted that Germany would march through Belgium because the French frontier was well fortified. They explained also that full Russian mobilization would take many weeks. Historians hastened to explain in the press why Russia was involved when Servia was attacked. Why Germany could not countenance Russian mobilization on the German frontier. Why France was committed to Russia. Why Great Britain was committed to France.

However. some of the prophets did climb out on a precarious limb. Charles R. Crane, friend and adviser of President Wilson, stated categorically that the murderers of the Austrian Archduke were Anarchists, operating independently,

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ganization behind them. S. S. McClure, publisher, insisted (that the Kaiser was only bluffing. |"“An officer of the general staff” explained that modern wars were bound to be short. Victor L. Berger, (former Socialist member of the

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parents that the children will do a lot better work if |

the parents will take an interest in what they're doing. The other day I asked my boy how he was gettin’ along in school and he says, “Well, my history is pretty bad.” So I told him to go in and write his history ‘lesson 20 times and when he finished, I went in to check up on him and I says, "Now wait a minute—I

told you to write your history lesson 20 times and | And "| "They've lost weight on the trip. The judges don't know anything

about stock and you can't get a

you've only written it 12—what's the idea?” says, “Oh I forgot to tell you my arithmetic’s bad too.” (Copyright, 1938)

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field, was required to solve this spark plug problem of the silent raid aircraft engines. The liquid-cooled engine also comes into its own most effectively through the ability of the silent raid pilot to control temperatures. This can not be done with a radial air-cooled engine. Concentrated efforts on camouflage have been devoted to hiding the bulk storage plants where aviation fuel and lubricants are stored. Any nation of Europe will again pay gold for even the punctuation marks in the message as to where foreign fuel and lubricants are stored in quantity. These two liquids are the lifeblood of aviation.

TOMORROW

Aviation offers poor nations a last chance for world power.

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House of Representatives, prophe- | sied that 30,000.000 workers in Great | Britain. France and Italy would be called out on strike to prevent a war.

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FTER a conference at J. P. A Morgan & Co. on July 30 a spokesman explained that the Stock Exchange need not be closed, because there were still buyers. On that day General Motors and International Harvester each fell 19 points, Amalgamated Copper 9 points, Reading Railroad 14 points (from 154 to 140), while Canadian Pacific was still going down after having slipped from 175 to 156 two days before. The next day the Exchange shut its doors. A “high financial authority” in London told an American correspondent that if war did come, the cost might run as high as 5 billion dollars. A “diplomatist of the highest rank” assured the same correspondent: “The Great War will not be of our generation or the next.” And the prince of prophets, H. | G. Wells, predicted: “A Russian | raid is far more likely to threaten | Berlin than a German to reach | Paris. A shattered Germany | will be revolutionary. The way will | be open at last for all the Western | powers to organize peace.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Is there a law requiring Justices of the Supreme Court of the U, S. to be a lawyer? 2-—-What is snuff? 3—What is the scientific name for “white ants?” 4—_Name the state flower of Mississippi. —Who is Clarence V. Conlan? 6—Where is the region called Painted Desert? 7—Name the capital of Uruguay. 8—With what sport is the name Helen Jacobs associated?

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Answers 1—No. 2—Finely powdered and scent ed tobacco. 3—Termites. 4—-Magnolia. 5—Lieut., Commander of the U. S. gunboat Monocacy in the Yangtze River. 6—Northern central Arizona. T—Montevideo. 8—Tennis.

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

The G. O. P. Doesn't Seem fo Have Acquired the Knack of Winning Friends and Influencing People.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Republicans are also drawing their lessons from the series of clearcut defeats which Roosevelt has suffered in recent senatorial primaries, Republicans have been suffering from an inferiority complex. Whatever they might

say publicly, they have secretly regarded Roosevelt as a master politician. They have felt that it was difficult to beat “four billion dollars,” as Vice Presie dent Garner put it. They have felt that with Roosevelt carrying millions on relief, tossing bridges and dams freely around the country, it was impossible to beat him in a popular vote. In every fight since 1932 they have felt licked before they started. These primaries have shown that if the Republicans can't beat Roosevelt, at least the Democrats can. They have shown that Federal officeholders, reliefers, promises of bridges, and the magic of that radio voice do not add up to inevitable Mr. Clapper victories. They have shown that the reliefers ars not deliverable as a bloc. It isn't Roosevelt that gets the man and his family of two or three or five voters on relief. It is his local politician who in Maryland most likely was part of the Tydings machine, So when Democrats can stand up on their hind legs and beat their own President, Republicans are encouraged to throw off their inferiority complex and are made to realize that they, too, can learn how to win friends and influence people.

How to Alienate Friends

Thus the lesson for the Republicans is plain. can be done. But they will have to reacquire the knack of it. They lost it when they went out of office and ever since then they have been awkward and inept, saying the wrong things at the right time, True to form, just when the lessons of these pri= maries are being taken to heart, Republicans issue a campaign booklet called “Promise and Performance.” It is a thorough job, but too thorough in spots. For instance, the section entitled “Control of Business” consists of two pages. Two promises are quoted, one from Roosevelt's Commonwealth Club speech in San Francisco during his 1632 campaign, when he said Government regulation should be used only as a last resort when private initiative has failed, and the other from.his letter to Roy Howard in 1935 promising a breathing spell. Then, under “performance,” Republicans present a list of 37 laws “interfering with the economic functions and private management of American business.” In this klacklist the Republicans include the Securities Act, TVA, Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, Federal Alcohol Control, the Public Utility Act, the Civil Aeronautics Authority Act, and a number of such measures which are now commonly accepted as here to stay. Republicans probably have no idea of repealing all of them, or even most of them. But the average reader, looking at this list of 37 laws, would gather that the Republican Party proposes to sponge out the Federal statutes for the last six vears and not only to start with a clean slate but to keen it blank. On that basis the ‘party might win some friends, but it is not likely to influence enough people.

Jane Jordan—

An Existence Without Problems Is Apt to Be a Problem Itself.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 20 years old, six feet; tall and weigh 170 pounds. I have a good job, a new car, all the girl friends I want and everything, I have been all over the United States, Canada and Mexico. I go when I want to, where I want to, stay as long as I want to. I go to shows, dances, parties, picnics and every place I wish to go. I read, listen to the radio and have pets. The trouble is I get tired doing the same things over and over. May I have some suggestions? I do not want to get married either, WAITING FOR AN ANSWER.

Answer—Well, who doesn't get tired of doing the same things over and over? Most of us are reconciled to the fact that life is about three-fourths tedium and feel lucky if the other rourth is exciting. No one, not even the wildest adventurer, can arrange to live on the peaks all the time but must tread the plains and valleys, too. My impression of you is that you are trying to avoid emotional experience. You don’t want to be touched too deeply. By moving from girl to girl, from job to job, from country to country, aren’t you seeking to escape something besides ennui? Few people can skim over the surface of life, carefully avoiding all its pitfalls, without at-least a mild feeling of dissatisfaction. An existence without any problems becomes a problem in itself. I should say that you don't slive closely enough to other people. You cannot get identified with others. In your anxiety not to hecome involved, you are too detached from experience and the result is boredom. Try to interest yourself in other people and their pursuits. Perhaps life will cease to pall upon you. o ” ”

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have been going with a young man for 11 months. About two months after we started going steady he got a job working at night. I have been-content not to go any place during the week. We go out each Saturday night after I get off from work. On Sunday we are together only in the afternoons. We are pianning to get married. He bowls one night each week, I think if he can stay up and bowl he can take me out at least one night besides Saturday. Will you please advise me? I love him very much and he says that he loves me. MARY.

Answer—The trouble with you is that you want to be all and everything to the boy and are jealous of his other interests. You may as well learn now that he can be in love with you and still like to bowl. Why can’t you do something else on the one night that he gives to bowling? JANE JORDAN.

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

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