Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1939 — Page 9

Appearances From Local Bureau And Sets Forth His Qualifications.

EY WEST, Fla., Jan. 28.—A program “bureau in Indianapolis writes me as follows: . “We are interested in learning whether .or not you are available for personal appearances. If you are available, would you sup-ply-us with your terms of contract, type and length - of program, and tentative open, dates.” Am I open for personal appearances? Ill say I Sa am! I'm open for anything. Ill run you a sack race or swallow a snake. - Anything you folks say. But you-want specific details, no doubt, not just braggadocio on my part. So let's take up your inquiries ohe by one, and see if we can whip up something. : TERMS OF CONTRACT: I suppose by that you mean money. Well, I always blush when money is mentioned. I much prefer to do business by barter, or long-term loans. But if you insist on talking about money, I suppose as a public appearer. I'll have to face it sooner or later. All right, my terms are $1000 a minute, and I'm worth it, too. But if that is beyond your means, perhaps we can come to some agreeable figure without wrangling or haggling. I am not one to drive a hard bargain. But T’11 tell you this: I won’t under any circumstances appear for less than 25 cents an. hour. : ah TYPE OF PROGRAM: Anything you suggest. I'm versatile. I can bark like a dog,-go like a Wabash locomotive, or throw a ball with either hand. I can hang pictures, or row a boat. Almost anything you mention, I can do. I can write 50 words a minute on the typewriter, and I've mever had a lesson in my life, either. a : If you leave the subject matter to me, however, I would-prefer just to lie down on a sofa and let the audience look at me. ‘Some people say I look like Leslie Howard. Surely there are people in Indian--apolis willing to pay a couple of bucks to see a man who slightly resembles Leslie Howard. LENGTH OF PROGRAM: My time is more or less constricted by the fact that I have to write a column every day. Of course, writing the column is merely a hobby with me, as I don’t need the salary at all, but you know how we hobbyists are when we get wrapped .up in something. You can’t tear us away. ]

An All-Night Stand.

So, due to my column-writing, I would not like to tie myself up in a program lasting more than a week. I once raced a white mouse on a treadmill in a store window for 230 hours, which is almost 10 days. But that” was before I took up columning. The mouse

Mr. Pyle

° won, by the way. =

Suppose we make the program four days and nights. All day and all night.” And maybe if the crowd thins out a little around 3 or 4 in the morning, I could slip out and run over to Dana and see my folks for a few minutes. : ; : TENTATIVE OPEN DATES: I'll have to do a little figuring on that. Pardon me just a few moments. (Lapse of few moments.) Well, here they are—I find . that my date book is tentatively open, or permanently open for that matter, all the way from now till Jan. 3, 1953. ; That’s: the year I am to be inaugurated President of the United States, so will have to take one day off to move my suitcase into the White House and rearrange a few chairs. Otherwise, my time is yours. That about sums up my position. There is one thing, however, you forget to ask me. That is my experience in the world of public appearances. Slight and terrible! :

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

~ Harpist Stirs Childhood Memories; Suggestion Made to Youth Groups.

ASHINGTON, Friday.—Yesterday afternoon we - had a delightful concert. I particularly like the harp, and Mr. Salvatore Mario de Stefano played delightfully. One composition called “The Music Box,” which is his own, brought great applause. The reason was, I think, that most of us owned a music box in our childhood and, when we heard him play a .familiar tune and gradually let it die out, every one of us thought of a similar instrument which we had once owned and enjoyed. Henriette Bagger Plum, who has a sweet soprano voice, sang. Everyone seemed to enjoy the whole program. : In the evening I went to preside at a dinner given by the Alliance for the Guidance of Rural Youth, of which Dr. Orie Latham Hatcher is the president. Sine Capper and Dr. John Studebaker

made interesting speeches, but in the course of the discussion which followed, Dr. Homer Rainey, who is director of the American Youth @ommission, made one statement which took my breath away. He said there were more than 400 organizations serving youth in one ‘way or another, exclusive of the Government organizations. Most of them have national programs and are to be found in communities of more than 50,000, where they try to impose ‘their programs on the youth of the community.

. One Question Unanswered

“He suggested that it would be more useful if the leaders of the community studied the needs of youth as they existed there, and then tried to find out

I can run, jump or stand still and scream. |

‘Dance That Others .

Riley Hospital and Roberts School to Be Ai

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‘SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1939

Paralysis Drive

Jr ~~ Enter:d as Second-Class Matter at: Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

‘ton, his stepson, to start the In-

Riley Hospital and the James E. Roberts School for Handicapped Children are to share in proceeds of the infantile paralysis campaign

ization, Marion County is certain to receive more than 50 per cent of funds collected locally. Children shown in the photos above are

sters enjoy a dip in the school pocl where they

get a type of exercise recognized as helpful in restoring strength to weakened limbs. (3) and

Second Section

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer

First Local Newspaper Started 117 Years Ago Today in Cabin by George Smith and Nathaniel Bolton.

DON'T care a whoop whether you think the event worth celebrating or not, the fact remains that 117 years ago today Indianapolis saw its first newspaper. : It took a lot of nerve to start it. More than anybody has today. The settlement was less than two years old. The town had been laid out only six months. There was no road to it, no ‘way out, no business. Certainly, nobody in a mood to advertise. Everybody had : : been down with the chills the summer before with the result that nobody had raised any crops to speak of. Starvation was held off only by supplies coming in occasionally on horseback, or by boats down the river. : : There was no mail, no postoffice. Heaven only knows what moved George Smith and Nathaniel BolMr. Scherrer dianapolis Gazette on Jan, 28, 1822. \ A printing press brought from Kentucky was set up in a corner of Mr. Smith's cabin on W. Maryland St. somewhere around where Kingans now do busie ness. A year later, the plant was moved to the northeast corner of State House Square. In the beginning, the ‘paper was published when the occa= sion called for it, usually at intervals of two weeks. When it came time to get out the sixth number (April 3), the paper was suspended for a month because the heavy rains made it impossible to get in or out of town. At that, the paper lasted eight years. In 1830, it was sold to Alexander F. Morrison and merged ‘with the Democrat, a paper he had started that same year. After that, the. Gazette lost its identity. ; ' During its life, the Gazette let in a world of light. In its issue of Aug. 15, 1825, for instance, it reported excessive heat in Indianapolis, but there was no thermometer in town to measure it. On Dec. 13, 1824, it advised the public that subscriptions could be paid in beeswax, rags, deerskins or produce. On June 5, 1828, it ran hog-wild and published the first column-long ad anywhere around here, that of Nicholas McCarty’s General Store. And two months later, somewhat cautiously to be sure, it reported that Indianapolis had 11 stores and “nearly” 1000 inhabitants.

Wore Cue Like Washington's

George Smith had the makings of a great editor. The eccentricities, too. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Observer in Lexington, Ky., and subsequently worked on Cincinnati papers, at a time when Charles Hammond, the noted editor, was in command. ; It would seem, however, that Mr. Smith started the Indianapolis Gazette for the sole purpose of getting his stepson established. At any rate, he let Mr. Bolton run it which left Mr.-Smith enough time to serve two terms as Associate Judge of the Circuit Court (1825-1836). : Even that didn’t take all his time, for there is a legend around here that Mr. Smith was the first man to open a real estate agency in Indianapolis, Just before he died, he bought and ran‘the big farm at Mount Jackson which now forms part of the grounds of the Insane Hospital. : As for his eccentricities, Mr. Smith wore a cue like George Washington all the time he was here. Which is to say to the day of his death. Tradition has it, too, that he was seized with a sneezing fit every morning after he dressed and stepped out of doors. The sneeze could be heard all over the mile square at exactly 6 o'clock every morning. It .was a lot more accurate than a clock or a rooster for starting the day. Mr. Smith didn’t live to learn what President Pierce thought of his stepson. ‘In 1853, Mr. Bolton was made U. S. Consul at Geneva and served until 1857, He died a few months later. The greatest thing Mr. Bolton ever did, though, was to marry Sarah T, Barrett of Madison. Sure, the lady who wrote “Paddle Your Own Canoe.”

Jane Jordan—

Spats After 4-Year Courtship Make Girl Doubtful on Marriage.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been going with a young man Ior about four years, although we - have parted a number of times. Each time we have both gone with someone else. Sometimes I think we will get married and then other times I have my doubts. He says we will, and that he wouldn’t marry anyone but me. . x I love him very much, yet when I go to his house, if I do something. his people do not like, I hear about it from him. He tells me that I try to be dif« ferent, but I don’t. I'm just like I've always been and I think he should know that by now. I've tried to be more sociable with everyone, but still I don’t suit them. How can I talk until I'm out of breath if they won’t help? The way he works we can’t have as many dates as we used to have. Once in a while he will go some place and not take me when he knows it is the only time we can have toe gether. | hi Does this mean that he doesn’t want to take me, that I am| just one big problem for him and he would

I've been away from

pupils of the Roberts School where advanced methods are employed to fit handicapped children for a life of usefulness.’ (1) Here is a happy group at the lunch hour. (2) Two young-

(4) illustrate types of occupational therapy available for the youngsters. ai

; i : li \ WAITING. - President Roosevelt visited Riley Hospital A I would ws ie , a : her. & (5) during his visit here in 1936. OULU TOG Care SOvise You el ler TS

marry or not to marry this young man. Even if I

hat th ld formulat ut | which reaches a climax here and throughout needs. oy could formulate to meet these | the nation Monday in a series of dances honorUnderlying all these meetings where people are ing President Roosevelt. Because grants for retrying to find an answer to some of the problems search are to be made by the national organ-

so long that it’s just. a ha

rather go alone? Don’t think that I've gone with him him enough to know it isn

Just that, at least not

of youth, it seems that the one fundamental question remains unanswered. :

+ The question is the tieup between the problems of youth and the general problems of the world and the nation. As long as these remain unsolved, it is impossible to solve the problems of youth.

What good does any preparation do if you cannot find a job and there is no promise that a job will be waiting when the education is through? It looks to me as though we cdnnot relax in the study of the general problems which face us all, for there is the nut which must be cracked.

Day-by-Day Science

T= sissy is nominated for psychological study by .- Dr. Joseph Chassell, psychiatrist at Sheppard and -Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md. No one really understands the sissy Dr. Chassell points out in Psychiatry, although.many an American boy is entirely preoccupied with the task of proving that he is not one. : ‘Just what is a‘sissy? The term is well understood even in a nursery school, and yet it would be hard to define it. a - -It does not mean “girlish,” for girls can be sissies, tot, or they can demonstrate that they are not. And

a boy may even be effeminate without rating as a :

sissy. : + Cries of “Sissy! Sissy!” accompanied by a gesture with the two forefingers familiar to all disdaining - juveniles, is alternated with the chant, “Just a little baby 12 . And yet mere youthidoes not make a sissy, either. It is a certain kind of immaturity. Boys may demonstrate while they are yet in rompers that sissihood is not ‘for them. And the most unsophisticated, innocent, naive lad may be far removed from the sissy class. = Even the mother’s darling with long curls, and Lord Fauntleroy collar, Dr. Chassell said, may be recognized by the brotherhood as-actually no sissy, No, it seems to be not so much any of these things

as an intangible feeling that théy do not belong in

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Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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knew, you both a great deal better, I would still refuse to commit myself because I do not know what the outcome would be. | It would be easy to say, ‘since you do not get along well during the favorable conditions of your engagement, how do you expect to get along when cone fronted with the day by day prablems of living together?” | % Yet every young married couple has had some ade justments to make, some differences of 6pinion to iron out. It is a common occurrence_for a young man to marry a girl because she is the opposite of his mother and then try to make her over closer to the maternal model. Lots of men are on pins and needles when their wives are in the bosom of the family, subjected to the criticism of the fond maternal eye. Plenty of discord in plenty of marriages arise over this very point. : = In an engagement. it is usual for a young couple to put their best foot forward and conceal from eagh other those traits which would. irritate. : JANE JORDAN.

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

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