Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1938 — Page 14
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oy Repair Agencies Getting Ready ing of the Repainted Doll
i | Cincinnati city manager, called to-
For Wedd
Discarded Playthings
Live Again; They’ll Glad-
den Christmas Hearts.
Madam Alice will feel better when |3
she gets out of that oven. She'll
be even stronger when the sawdust || is in place again, her arms are: fastened on and that fuzzy feeling|:
gets out of her head.
Somehow, in a scandalous fight|:
during her dollhood, Madam Alice lost a good deal of hair and that
will have to be replanted. Then,|§
around Dec. 23, Madam Alive will |§ start life anew—the adopted doll |3
of an Indianapolis girl who's wanted one for a long, long time. The doll surgery—together with all manner of toy repair work—now is in progress at 102 S. Capitol Ave.
under the direction of the Indian- |;
apolis Council of Social Agencies. WPA workmen are borrowed help. {Be The greater number of outgrown tcys, in or out of repair, that are taken to 102 S. Capitol Ave. or to the nearest fire station, the more there will be when Christmas ‘rolls around and the toy shop is in order. This year, for the first time, mothers and fathers of children who might not otherwise have toys, will be invited to shop in the store and pick out the things their children - have been asking for all year. Seventeen WPA workers are now engaged in rehabilitating toys. Dolls, such as Madam Alice, are first sterilized in an oven, heated to specifications provided by the University School of Medicine. . Trains are put in good mechanical order. Games are repainted. Tricycles are retired, painted and the - wheels lined up. And ranged on the shelves, they look bright and new, ‘ready for their new owners. Even dolls that have had such harrowing experiences as Madam Alice can be made, through facials and hair-do, to look no more than their age. All of which goes back to the first time, 16 years ago, that anyone in Indianapolis thought of repairing out-grown toys for other children as a large operation. :
Extra-Curricular Idea
That man was Henry Rothermel, 2415 Shelby St., fireman at No. 3 Engine House, 1136 Prospect St., and he got the idea while he was working hard frying to put out an attic fire in a neighboring home. As he squirted water here and there he could not help but notice a large number of toys gathering dust through the neglect of a family that had outgrown them. “I thought it was too bad,” he said today, “that they should go to waste. The firemen at the station were taking around baskets of food on Christmas and I thought how nice it would be if we could stick in a few toys along with the meal. “So we got the word around that ‘we would put these neglected toys
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Indianapolis of firemen repairing
two years. ago.
to the fire station. Well, sir, before I was through with it, I was starting Christmas toy repair work in May and by Dec. 23 ‘I would have toys ready to go that cost between $2000 and $2500 new. “Then other firemen started the work and before long—in fact until the last two years—we worked practicalln all of our spare time at it.
Others Helping Now
“Then it was taken over, partly by school boys who needed the practice in their manual training classes, and now by the Social Agencies Council.” Mr. Rothermel took an old ledger from a desk in the station house. “Here are the names of the children we gave to the last year we handled it—200 of them. We usually tried to give each child four toys. That kept us humping.” He put the ledger back. “I hate to give it up, but in a way it’s best. ‘We won't be here forever, you know, and it’s good to know that the work is in the hands of someone who will carry it on. “It's hard for a kid to go without toys on Christmas, specially when he knows that’s what Christmas is
for. And they all do these days.” 5
Father Scans Christmas Toys, Forgets All About Our ‘Isms’
Scientific Gadgets Provide Training in Subjects That Are Foggy to Him Even Now.
By THOMAS MENKEL
HE City of Indianapolis is going to have to build itself an artificial lake, and a pretty big one too, if the latest trend in Christmas toys
is any indication.
And that isn’t even. half of it. Indianapolis is also going ito produce, within the next 10 years or so, enough Kochs, Pasteurs and Einsteins to
make a pretty fair name for itself. The colleges and universities of the land will be giving out so many Phi Beta Kappa keys to young men and women students from Indianapolis, the country may be forced to abandon the gold standard. : All of this may sound pretty fantastic, but you can take it from Master Peter, aged 10, and his bewildered father, born in the dim and distant year of 1910 or thereabouts, that it’s a pretty sound prophecy. After spending a whole day inspecting ‘all the toys displayed in - the City’s stores, Master Peter’s father says he is convinced that the country has a wonderful future, and that all the talk about ism this ‘and ism that is so much poppycock. “If they had given me toys like that when I was a boy,” he said, “I might have been a big shot in- ~ stead of just another name on a
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~ “As for Peter, his mother and I have given up the idea of having _him be President some day. He’s got a better future than that.” Taking up in detail the sightseeing tour that Master Peter and his father took, the first thing they saw was a model boat-build-ing kit. That's what led Master ‘Peter’s father to conclude that the City was going to have to build a big lake for itself one of these days. Never offered here before, these kits contain all the material and directions necessary to construct a complete gasoline-powered model speedboat, built to scale and capable of reaching speeds up to 35 miles an hour, # 2 2
“J)ETER doesn’t know it” his father said, “but he’s going to find one of those kits under the tree on Christmas. I don’t know where he'll run it after he gets
it built, but it’s the building of it that matters. We'll save it until the lake gets built.” ‘If Master Peter doesn’t take to boat-building, he’ll have his fling at railroads, too. Up until now, his father said, he’s just had a windup train. This year it’s going to be an electric outfit, complete with the latest gadget. This gadget is a transformer uple any
train is in motion, simply by pushing a button. Just to give Master Peter a wide field for developing his possibilitiesg he’s going to find one of the new microscope sets under the tree, along with the train and the boat kit. “Most remarkable thing I ever saw,” his father said. “It -has slides for all kinds of bugs, plants and a thousand other things I didn’t have time to look at. “If Peter wants to be a scientist, he’ll have his chance to start young, learning things I don’t know anything about—even now.” Master Peter's father said he also thought he could swing one of the new sleds just out. It's a single runner job with the runner fastened in the center.
” 2 28 “ HAT'LL teach him balance,” he said, “And of course there are a lot of other things I'd like to give him if he were younger.” These are the new progressive toys that provide learning and play for younger children at the same time. They get progressively harder, starting with different shaped pegs to be fitted into their respective holes, and winding up with a rack full of different coiored pegs to be whacked into holes marked with their respective colors. . The latest thing in dolls, which Master Peter’s father had no reason to consider, nevertheless caught his eye. “They’re washable and you can make a thousand dresses for them, if you want to. That ought to start a whole batch of dress designers growing up, right here in Indianapolis.” Master Peter’s father said he wasn’t through looking yet, but what he has seen so far has convinced him that the place to find out about future trends in the U. 8. A. is in the toy departments. : 2 8 8 3 “YPETER’S going to be a great man some day. These Christmas presents he’s going to get this year will pay big dividends.” He said about the only thing that hasn’t changed from year to year is the fat old man with the ‘white whiskers. i “That’s one fellow that doesn't need changing,” he said. “He's
that allows you to uncé car or any group of cars while the
fine—just the way he is and ale ways has been.” Ct :
in order if people would bring them
Henry Rothermel, Engine House 3 fireman, started the idea in
outgrown toys for other children
back in 1922, a practice which was continued at fire stations until
Dr. Frank, pastor of the Central Christian Church of Dallas, Tex., was a delegate representing the Christian © and Congregationalist Churches of America at the world conference. ? By. the formation of the World Council, he said, all . Christian Churches will, for the first time, have a united voice to solve world problems. Delegates representing 132 communions ‘attended ' the Council's initial meeting, he said.
Indianapolis Chapter in the Council to be held in 1942, at which there
JOB SEEKER TAKES POISON CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—Julia Chapman, 24, Hammond, Ind., who left her home to find work, was recovering at St. Luke’s Hospital today from an overdose of a sleep-inducing medicine. A waiter found her ‘unconscious in the rear of a “Loop” restaurant last night. A physician at St. Luke’s said her condition was “good.”
He urged the participation of anf
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1988
Times Photos.
Now it is a work under the sponsorship cf the Council of Social Agencies and is done at 102 S. Capital Ave. by WPA workers. Two of them are, left to right, James Holland, 850 S. Mount St, and John
Brinker, 4716 E. Washington St.
World Council Viewed as ‘United Christian Voice’
“A united voice for Christian peoples” is the result of the World Council of Churches formed at Utrecht, Holland, this year, Dr, Graham Frank told the Indianapolis Ministerial Association today.
are to be 450 delegates. Those delegates are to meet each five years, he added, and a central committee of 90 is to convene each year. For the past 26 years, Dr. Frank has been secretary of the international committee of the Disciples of Christ Church in America.
THREE CHARGED WITH SLAYING MERCHANT
CLINTON, N. C, Dec. 2 (U.P) — Three men were formally charged today with the ax slaying Thanksgiving Day of Nathan Reif, 48-year-old Harrisburg, Pa. merchant and ordered held without bond for the February term of Superior Court.
Mr. Reif, who operated stores in
his brothers, was killed when he accompanied some men to one of their homes after he was told one of their wives wanted to buy some blankets.
disclosed today. |
Two-Headed Infant Dies; Brain Saved
MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (U. P.).— Galena and Irina, a baby girl with two heads and four arms and an object of world-wide scientific interest died on Nov. 28 of pneumonia after living one year and 22 days, it was
Scientists believed that their study of Galena and Irina’ might poduce valuable medical information.
was that sleep was a nervous rather than a toxic state since Galena often slept while Irina
.was awake, although they had ‘a common bloodstream.
Scientists said that: Irina
; lived for 30 minutes after the Harrisburg and Philadelphia with]
death of Galena. The body was preserved and
‘the two brains were sent to
the Soviet Brain Institute.
{Clarence A. Dykstra, University of
One” ' theory evolved from the study’
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Dykstra Asks for Campaign To Save Democracy.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 2 (U. P)—
Wisconsin president and former
Postoffice. Indianapolis Ind.
EDUCATION CALLED [225-2 * DICTATOR NEMESIS
day for establishment of a national committee to unite schools, press,
signed to preserve democracy. Addressing the 44th annual National - Municipal League conference last night shortly after he was unanimously re-elected president, Mr. Dykstra said that education is the most effective weapon that can be marshaled against forces seeking overthrow of American democracy. He said that the rise of dictator-
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—Amos Burg, father of Amos Burg,
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