Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1939 — Page 9

From Indiana=Ermie Pyle _, Chase Osborn Starts Day 3 A. M.

By Building a Fire; Keeps 3 Aids Busy in His Backwoods Cabin.

A JPOULAN, Ga., Feb. 22.—Chase S. Osborn, % once Governor of Michigan, giver-away ‘of fortunes, hunter of iron ore, dweller in * log cabins, is 79 now but he is a rocketful of energy. He keeps a strict office routine in his backwoods cabin.. He has three secretaries; a dozen callers 3 day. ; ‘At his hidden-away camp, which he calls “Possum Poke,” there are a main house and several cabins.

The main house is just an old-fash-ioned cracker farmhouse. The retired ex-Governor has lots of people around him. His daughter Stellanova, serves as secretary and collaborator on his writings. There are two assistant secretaries, seven servants and usually half a dozen relatives or guests, stuck around in lofts or cabins. Governor Osborn is a big man, well set up. He “carries himself well, and his actions are quick. He handles big firelogs with ease. His daily routine is inviolate. He is up every morning- at 3 o'clock. He doesn’t use an alarm clock, and never misses 3 -a. m. by more than one minute. : First, he builds the fire in his own room. Then " in the cook’s. Then in his daughter’s. He hires men to build fires, but does it himself. . His water has been heating, so now he shaves, / standing on one leg. He'd use an electric razor, but { *~there’s no place to plug it. There isn’t even a phone in the camp. After he’s shaved, he bathes.

Mr. Pyle

As soon as he’s

dressed, he straightens up his room and washes out |

his towels. He has a housekeeper and laundress on the payroll, but he does these things himself. “There are two things I really pride myself on,” he says, “That is that I'm a good janitor and a good woodsman. I believe I'm probably the best natural woodsman in the world. I don’t believe there is any place you could turn me loose where I couldn’t live off the woods.”

He calls his daughter at 5. They eat at 6. After |

breakfast he spends an hour cleaning his’ false teeth. He calls them “dunkeys,” because he says they make you look like a donkey when you grin. False teeth are one of his hobbies. He has given away 40 sets of false teeth to the crackers around here. If he had his way he'd pull everybody's teeth at 21, .

A Self-Educated Naturalist

At 7 o'clock he goes over to his “office cabin” and goes to work. The cabin is just plain lumber, sort of like a rustic lodge. His correspondence is terrific. The morning is spent in dictating, lending money, Seuling people’s troubles and working on his latest 00k. ~The book, incidentally, is to the effect that some th anada and the U. S. will merge and become the last stamping ground of the English-speaking race. Anybody from Henry Ford to a Negro boy wanting to borrow two-bits may drop in. After lunch, the Governor rests awhile. Then a couple hours’ more work.: Then, rain or shine, he

goes rambling through the woods for two hours by |

himself. : - He is a naturalist at heart, and a self-educated one. He knows every tree and weed and bush. Among the scores of weird things he has done is to trace the source of a firefly’s light. It took him 12 years, and he wrote a book on it. He gave me a copy.

Governor Osborn is deeply religious. He’s not the :

pious kind, but he is an absolute believer. He feels that the answer to everything, that all truth, is found in the Bible. He is also very dry. “You're not a fanatic cn it, are you?” I asked. . “Yes, I'm a fanatic on it.”

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt:

Attends Bok Award Ceremonies As Philadelphia Honors Quakers.

N= YORK. CITY, Tuesday—Miss Esther Lape and I left for Philadelphia yesterday on the 3 o'clock train. I neglected to inquire at what station I was to meet Mr. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, so, as

Miss Lape had arranged to meet her sister at the 30th St. Station, I calmly stayed om the train and got out there. "We found Miss Lape’s sister but no Mr. Cooke! I stepped into her car and had a short drive along the river and then they took me to the Barclay Hotel. There I found Mr. Cooke and made my apologies for being so careless, for he had gone to meet me at Broad St. I dressed in leisurely fashion and was all ready at 6:45 p. m. to go to the Cosmopolitan Club for dinner. This is a charming club, much more nomelike than the larger ones I am accustomed to in New York City. ’ Dr. Gates of the University of Pennsylvania sat beside me at dinner and was a most delightful companion, for his interest, like my own, centers in young people. At 7:30 we were at the Academy of Music. all prepared for the great event, the giving of the annual Bok Award. The Quakers are such modest people that it gave me special satisfaction to see two of them ‘honored last night and to have the work of the American Friends Service Committee eulogized as ‘having served Philadelphia in tie “larger sense.” °

Serving Humanity Big Business

Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who presented the awards to Mr. Rufus Jones and Mr. Clarence Pickett, re--marked, before he did so, that the award was being given to a big business and then he explained that it was not a business conducted for private gain, but the business of saving human beings from want and sorrow, one of the biggest businesses in the world today! The Philadelphia Orchestra played and Mr. Enesco conducted. They played for the most part his own compositions and I particularly enjoyed the aria in the first composition and the Rumanian. Rhapsody. We just cadght the 10:35 train for New York City so my goodbys were brief, but I feel that I would like to congratulate.here not only the two recipients of the award, but all the hundreds of workers who carry out the plans so carefully prepared in the office of the American Friends Service Committee. Then I would like to add a word of congratulation to Mrs. Edward Bok and her sons. They must be proud that Mr. Edward Bok had vision enough to establish an award of this kind which draws such a crowd and sends them

all home thinking of what it means to serve humanity | |

along a- hundred different lines,

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service

'ALESTER, Okla., Feb. 22.—The discovery of a M new venereal disease prophylactic which, if claims for it are justified, will furnish the national. - syphilis control program with a cheap and powerful preventive measure ,was announced here in the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. The two physicians and one chemist who presented the medical report said that the new prophylactic is . the first which will simultanequsly protect man and woman from both syphilis and gonorrhea. It was described as a harmless oil compound, called progonasyl. The physicians making the report are Drs. Horace H. Porter and Robert B. Witcher and the chemist, Cecil Knoblock, all of Tulsa. The actual inventor of the oil, however, is Frank Bickenheuser, 35, also of Tulsa. die id > Mr. Bickenheuser’s laboratory and clinical experiments, ranging over a period of eight years, were made under technical observation of the report’s coauthors. They said progonasyl is comprised of three oils—ani- " mal, vegetable and ' mineral—triethanolamine, an - alechol derivative; and organic iodine,

WASHINGTON, Feb: 22—Officials of the U. 8. Public Health Service here regard the new prophylactic as still in the experimental stage. They commented that the report is interesting but oat further

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Jump From ‘Parachute’

Among Lures Of Funland

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By William Bloeth

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—

Little Egypt started it. Since then what would a Fair be without its amusement section? Least of all the biggest one ever staged, the New York World’s Fair. As big and as new as, the rest of the show, the World of Tomorrow's playground is a section ‘apart, a mile-long carnival of thrills and fantasy across

a wide boulevard’ from the

main exhibits. If you’ve never made a parachute jump, you can

there. a Did you ever see a wood nymph, living and breathing and dancing with scintillating wings—but only 10 inches tall. She's there, : Or you can watch a bull fight, a man wrestle with vicious maneating sharks in a tank of water, or visit a fun house where anything can happen and most everything does; even the end is a surprise. You'll know when it is the ‘end. The seats collapse. Ev hing from the authentic and noisy Hopi Indian snake dance to surrealism has been turned to. account. All the old favorites are there, streamlined and enlarged. It is the gay spot of the Fair—and probably will be the most popular, After the success of Little Egypt and the Midway at the Columbian exposition, fairs began to offer the double appeal of industrial wonders and huge carnival attractions. The New York Fair officials followed suit, giving official recognition to their popularity by decreeing a 10 p. m. closing for the exhibits but a 2 a. m. curfew for the fun zone. In fact, Fair President Grover A. Whalen has taken a leaf from the pages of the master showman, Phineas T. Barnum, with a spectacular “This’ Way to the Egress” gag. Each night, coincident with the closing of the exhibits, a “World War” is, loosed for sheer entertainment, a fireworks display

that in the words of Mr. Whalen

“achieves the impossible in providing the nearest thing to absolute chaos that man can devise.” aa ow HIS spectacle is staged over the waters of Fountain Lake

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frolic annex. Fire, water, sound, ‘lights and smoke are blended for the inferno. It is to draw the crowds from the exhibits so they can be closed; but also it brings them to the playland. From there on it’s the job of the yammering barkers who—at a price—hawk the attractions of their masters’ assorted offerings. The assortment is complete.

.Girl shows abound, larger, more

colorful and more varied. At the largest marine amphitheater ever built Billy Rose will stage an “aquacade-pageant - extravaganza” with a cast of hundreds—Billy says thousands—of gorgeous girls. In the foreign villages they'll dance and singin native costume. In a Living Magazine Cover house, popular’ magazines will be reproduced on huge scale with the cover art formed by luscious beauties—a novel girl show. ‘

Even grotesqueness will have its part, in the Surrealist Eye, a 90Toot eye-shaped building where they’ll appear in surrealist mode for a comical display of the weird rend.

The mainstay of the gaudy fun area are the villages which reproduce the color and flavor of such localities as the South Sea Islands, Tyrol, Holland and the Orient. “Some of the villages represent investments of a third

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of a million doliars. Rather than , individual shows they are composites of several features. In the Cuban village, for instance, bull fights, a continual street fiesta in the best Mardi as style, a replica of the Morro Castle with its dungeons and diabolic torture inventions and several restaurants, each with typical entertainment, vie for the customers. EJ 2 ” HEN there's Old New York with a Brooklyn Bridge from which “Steve Brodie” will leap at frequent intervals, the naughty Can-Can will be danced in oldtime night clubs and more notorious spots of the gay Nine- . ties reproduced. Gas street lamps, horse cars and hansom cabs and helmeted policemen will. wind through old New York, past such bygone landmarks as Barnum's Museum : and Hitchcock's “Beef and Beans” emporium. Merrie England, another oldtime reproduction, shows “how England got her names of old and merrie.” If includes such taverns as the Jolly Mermaid, Shakes-

_peare’s house and the old Globe

Theater where condensed versions of the Bard of Avon’s works will

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1—Providence, R. I. 2—Gospel of John. 3—In the St. Lawrence River.

6—France. : 7—An’-ces-tor; not an-ces’-tor. 8—John Jay. : : ASK, THE TIMES

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Big amusements for New York’s Big Show: A ville + depicting Old New York with “Steve Brodie” jumping from the Brosglyn Bridge ' daily, and Billy Rose, who uses both large words and lize casts to attract customers. Billy is to conduct the biggest Aqui-ade of his

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be given — all.in the authentic Elizabethan motif. : Another is a Tyrolean village with ice-skating ponds, ski jumps and toboggan rides, an Alpine visit. Several times each day

snowstorms will be simulated.

Some freak villages are provided, a midget town peopled entirely by living midgets in miniature homes, theatres and churches that’ll make you feel gargantuan and grotesque. Another is an island town in ‘miniature but the 50 or more : inhabitants are penguins. Admiral Byrd, the sponsor, will shew equipment and scenes of his Antarctic expeditions. % . Even so staid an organization as the New York Zoological So-

ciety is represented in the welter .

of attractions. = Rare - mammals, fish, insects; electric eels that ring bells and Pandora, the giant panda; and the bathysphere in which Dr. William Beebe explored the ocean will be exhibited in an illusion of actually taking you to the ocean bottom. : »''s =» ‘RANK Buck’s Jungleland will have Malayan natives as guides and offers sea lions, a monkey: island, tropical birds, 40 cages ‘of

growling realistically through matted underbrush at you; and camels and elephants on which you can ride. If it’s a ride you want, you can

pick them wild or tame. A roller

coaster more than -half & mile long attains ‘ top speeds: of 80 miles an hour on breath-taking 60-degree dips; in another visitors guide their “airplanes” through dips and climbs, banks and turns will. Some of the rides are scenic, some exciting— all are attractive. The parachute jump takes passengers up 250 feet before they chute downward. Except for guide wires to keep stray winds from ‘scattering the chutes, the sensation is the same as though you jumped from a plane. Boats driven by visitors ply the waters of the Flushing River that winds through the area. A race track for midget, automobiles affords the thrill of racing in one of your own. More static but equally fascinating are the walk-throughs. One is the model of a famous Victoria Falls. in southern Rho-

desia; 150 feet across and pouring.

each minute 60,000 gallons of ‘water over a 22-foot brink in a cone Dank, tropical atmosphere pervadés the model and a fierce thunderstorm is in the dawn to night repertoire. It’s a trip to the wilds of Africa

that'll make the hurdy-gurdy of

the amusement area surprise you when you emerge. : The full fleets of two * warring nations lock in a:tumultuous battle of the high seas—on a miniature scale; an impression of a rocket trip to Venus; incubator babies and live, monstrous rep-

ferocious - animals chained instead of caged and

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‘A T one end is ar enchanted’ A forest with its live elves and dancing nymph—a striking illusion. « Near it is the Children’s World, a fair within a fair with a kiddies’ “trip round the world” collection of scénic rides, merry-go-rounds, a toyland, theater and playgrounds. Unlike the usual cul-de-sac amusement sections in previous fairs, the 280 acres of New York’s exposition provide for continuous circulation of crowds. Two broad highways will accomraodate 250,000 persons at one time with ease, half a million on-the¢e more busy days. . Its tempo will be: fast, its colors - gay and striking. . Tae Fair has announced the attrac'ions wil be “esthetic” but haven’t all advance announcements been similar?

External attractions—a cardinal tenet in showmanshiy'—are frivolous and. light and le:d from one to the other efforilessly. One house, for instance, Las two tall flagpoles up and c¢own which monkeys climb; it is visible from - far away. As you 1nove closer, you see next six ghost: dancing on the sides of the struciure. Again ‘you move closer ' to ‘wateh their antics “and find .a-. mechanical - ‘laughing man at the entrance— and the ticket booth. It is Laffland, a theater of fur: ‘and foolish ness that explodes at the end and plummets “bodies” anid the audience. : : . Every type of taste and pocket= book will be fitted in the section both in amusements and food. Hot dog stands and-beer zardens and restaurants of every nature.gre provided in picturescue settings. In comparison, it’ll bh a long day in the amusement se:tion—and a happy one.

NEXT — Some Extraordinary Exhibits.

Lighting Aided By New Paving

By Science Service EE HICAGO, Feb. 22.—Sponge-like pavement surfac:s which absorb and waste ‘large amounts of night illumination may be taboo on the highways of’ CITOW. : In their stead may be pavements such a new experimental surface —granite chips atop an ordinary macadam road. This was indicated here by C. A. B. Halvorson, General Electric egineer, befcre the Association of Asphalt ?aving Technologists. Gg in Experiments alt .ynn, Mass, showed that black :hbjects, visible all the time agains: ‘the treated pavement, could be szen only half the time against the nacadam, and that only when they were silhouetted against a light ipot. The new

By Anton Scherrer "Oscar Wilde Spent Washington's

Birthday Here in 1882, Lectured And Attended Governor's Party,

()SCAR Wilde, billed as “The Apostle of

Aestheticism,” blew into Indianapolis on George Washington’s birthday, 1882. His audience at English’s consisted of 500 people good for $350, of which Oscar got 75 per cent. The highest price paid by anybody was one dollar; the lowest, two bits. Col. Maynard of the Sentinel had a front seat. So did Morris Ross of The News, and Elijah Halford of The Journal. Charlie Kregelo, the undertaker said he was there to get pointers for’ the conduct of his business. Daniel Hanchette, who ran a dramatic school in Indianapolis at the time, stayed long -enough to pronounce Mr. Wilde a bad actor. Harry Pierce, everybody agreed, got his money’s worth and was the most interested man in the audience Hap nig, Charlie Dennis, editor 0 e Saturday Evening Review, Mr. Sch was the most disgusted. Mr. Den- Be aor

had no more symmetry than the same length of" garden hose,” he said. After his lecture, Mr. Wilde returned to the New Denison and went to bed. At any rate, that’s where Governor Porter's messenger found him. Seems that Governor Porter didn’t attend Oscar's lecture. He was busy at home throwing a party for the G. A. R. veterans, also for the so-called Greenbackers who had picked Washington’s birthday to stage a convention in Indianapolis. Governor Porter’s party, it appears, went to pieces around 10 o’clock. Anyway, just about that time, Billy Roberts, the Governor's clerk, noticed everybody yawning, and suggested bringing Oscar Wilde over to put some life into the party.

“The very thing,” exclaimed the Governor, and sent Mr. Roberts in search of Mr. Wilde. For the second time that day, Oscar donned his knee breeches and decorated himself with a lily. Before leaving his room, however, he offered Mr. Roberts .a drink of Spanish wine which he kept hidden in a goat’s skin under his bed. On the way. over, Mr. Wilde remarked, “I notice that the men shake hands a great deal over here. Do the ladies shake hands, too?” Mr. Roberts guessed they did. “Aw,” drawled Mr. Wilde, “I think I should like that. I believe I will— aw—familiarize myself with the custom tonight.”

He Didn't Like the House

Arriving at the Governor's Mansion on Tenne k St. Mr. Wilde immediately expressed great dissatis. faction with the architecture of Mr. Porter’s houses. He wanted to know whether the people of Indiana ° had given Mr. Porter the house, or whether by any chance, it was his by choice. Assured that the people had nothing to do with it, he remarked that it wasn’t any better than the Atlantic Ocean. “If as

‘| good,” he added. -

Which, of course, referred to his famous interview when he arrived in New York and lit into the Atlantic Ocean. Said it didn’t have any merit whatever as a work of art. It was his second observation after landing. He delivered the. first when he met the customs ° house inspector and said: “Sir, I have nothing to declare except my genius.” After the reception (I am back Mansion) Mr. Wilde was invited. to refreshments with Mr. Porter and his family. “Mr. Wilde,” reported the ubiquitous Mr. Dennis, “is not an animated feeder. He placed the small of his back in the seat of the chair and spooned in the ice cream with the 4anguor of a debilitated duck.” At the conclusion, he rose suddenly, solemnly shook hands with + all the ladies present, and strode sorrowfullv away. - “Perhaps,” concluded Mr. Dennis, “ice cream disagrees ‘with him.” :

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Jane Jordan— Friends’ Advice Poor, Girl Told

To Continue Dates With Youth, .

LB JANE JORDAN—I am 16 years old and in high school. I am an only child and always have - made my own decisions. People whom I meet always judge me to be about 20. I am very bored when I'm ° with young people my own age, especially the boys. They are so ignorant of human nature. I find older boys more interesting. Last spring I fell in love with a boy who was at that time a Junior in college. He pretended to be in love with me but before he went home for summer vacation he said : that it was only infatuation on his part. This hurt me terribly, and realizing this he tried in vain to return my love. Later he fell in love with a girl on the campus to whom he gave his frat pin. I still love him but realize how hopeless, the situation is. - Abovut Thanksgiving I started to have dates with a senior in college. A Now he says he loves me very much but realizes that he shouldn't because he won't be here rext year. I have told him that I love him, ‘too, but I do think it . is a sort of consolation love, because I wouldn't trade 90 dates with him for one with the first boy. My friends say that I should not go with him because he won't be here after this year and consequently there is no future in it. 4 We believe that since we are happy now that there . is nothing wrong in taking advantage of this happiness while it lasts, and that if we really are in love, some day we will again come together. Please tell me if we are making a mistake by taking advantage of

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what we. have now? WAITING. Answer—What do, your friends mean when they ° say there is no future to your friendship with this boy? Surely high school girls do not expect their affairs to end in marriage? A high school girl usually has a half dozen love affairs or more befoge she settles down to one. The idea of turning down a compan- - ionable boy because he won't be in finishes college! What nonsense!” . “How much more sensible is your own inclination to take advantage of the happiness of the present instead of turning down a pleasantl experience because it may not last forever. ‘When this boy is gone, you'll - be sure to meet another. Of ‘course, if your-interest in each other is strong enough to survive your first long separation, you will come together again some‘how, sometime. § Kd i Si .. 1 am afraid that you are inclined to take your love affairs too seriously. The way you have hung on

is not particularly attractive to! men. It is apt to arouse their anxieties and fear of being bound. ge JANE JORDAN.

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

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