Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1939 — Page 14
agabond From Indiana —Ernie Pyle % Chase Osborn Is - Native Hoosier
Who Went to Purdue for 2 Years; + Accomplishments Termed Marvelous.
POULAN, Ga., Feb. 23.—In the summer- " time, when ex-Governor Chase Osborn of Michigan is living on his island in the Great Lakes, he sleeps on a cot of balsam boughs, out under a tent, Often he cooks
his own meals out of doors. There is nothing mystic or psychic about him, yet he pulled. one that had me on the, floor all through our conversation. When I went in he said: : “Oh, a farm boy from Indiana,
I said “How did you know that?” He said “Oh, I can tell. Thought transference, maybe.” But I certainly wasn’t thinking about being a farm boy as I walked up to the door. I know that he ' had never heard of me in his life. I asked him about it two or three times during our talk, but I never found out how he could tell. It haunts me. But I got even with him. When the word “farther” happened to be used in the conversation, he looked at me sternly and said “Do you know the difference between ‘further’ and ‘farther’?” “Sure,” I said. “Farther is used in speaking of actual distance; further means delving on into something, in research for instance.” , “You're right,” he said. I almost fainted from" surprise. In a crisis I generally get things backward. “But I've got a better definition of ‘further’,” he said. “It’s an ‘extension of continuity.’ ” The Governor made some remark about my nose. I said yes, that my mother had always kidded me about my nose, saying it was exactly like hers. Governor Osborn said: “Don’t you worry about your nose. It’s a good nose.” I guess it’s all right at that. I can get air through it. : Chase Osborn is a native of Indiana himself. He is fond of Indiana, although he says he ought to hate it for being the mother of such dire poverty as he knew when a child.
Belongs to Everything
He went to Purdue University when it was in a barn. He quit two years before graduation. Two score years later, I believe it was, he studied and got his degree. He had been offered honorary degrees by the dozen, but wouldn’t take them until he could earn one.
He is a natural joiner. He says he belongs to everything—and never goes to a meeting. He’s a Sigma Chi and a 33d degree Mason. “I've joined everything I thought needed my help,” he says. He is a Republican, but he likes Mr. Roosevelt personally. ‘He has known all Presidents since Taft. He has made as high as 900 speeches a year. He says he has written 1000 books. That's an exaggeration, unless you want to count all. the pamphlets and speech reprints. Most of his books have been privately published for friends, and never put on. sale. , : He invited us to come and stay in one of his cabins. “But you can only stay a month,” he said. “I'd probably be tired of talking to you by then.” I don’t see how it is possible for one man, in a lifetime, to do all that Governor Osborn has done; to travel all those places; find all that ore; be such a public figure; make all that money; accumulate all that knowledge; and above all, achieve a sort of Utopian inner self that suits him and does the world good also. :
My Day *By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Murals in Children's Ward of Jewish Hospital Ease Suffering for Patients.
EW YORK CITY, Wednesday —Yesterday afternoon I went over to the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. The purpose of my visit was to see the ward in the pediatric department of the hospital where the walls have been decorated with charming paintings taken from the illustrations by Paul Bransom in Kenneth Graham’s book, “Wind in the Wil~ lows.” Albert Cugat was the mural painter and the decorations on this entire floor are the gift of one of the directors of the hospital, Mr. Louis M. Rabinowitz and his wife, It is thought that these paintings have a special influence on the children because they are educational and serve to take their minds off their ailments. Some of the children start to copy the pictures and develop quite a talent for drawing. Mr. Rabinowitz told me he had one or two copies in his office, which he liked almost as much as he did the original paintings. It was a delight to go through a hospital where there was nothing to criticize and where a real personal touch was evident throughout. This is brought ' about, I imagine, by the interest of /the women’s group connected with the hospital. In the evening I ‘went to the dinner given by the American Youth Congress, at which they announced a fellowship which they are going to give annually to some young person, who will travel abroad or in his own country and bring back his observations and the knowledge which he acquires to the members of the Youth Congress. ;
Represents G. O. P. Women
The American Youth Congress is a federation of a number of youth organizations. Last night they entertained many of the people in New York City who have stood for progress in the city and for devoted service in one line or another over a long period of years. Naturally, in an organization of this kind there must be no question of political partisanship, and so Mrs. Mildred Hollingsworth, one of the leaders of the Republican women, presented her party’s point of view. She looked very young and pretty. I thought it showed a fine spirit of cooperation for her to come to this dinner. Mr, Adolf Berle presided, Mr. Archibald MacLeish spoke with grace and feeling. Mr. Joseph Cadden ‘gave an interesting talk on the work which the Congress is undertaking, and the evening closed with a most amusing speech by Mr. John Kieran, I am much touched by the gesture which these young people have made in naming the scholarship after me. I hope that it will prove of real value in helping them to understand the problems which they have to meet. :
Mr. Pyle
Day-by-Day Science
" By Science Service
N the Middle West smallpox is rearing its head and |
according to reports a number of citizens are alarmed. In Indianapolis, for example, 97 cases were reporied in one week of January, and the city was
Second Section
NEW YORK'S BIC SHOW
Highways and
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Cities of
Tomorrow, ‘Interplanetary’ Trips and Television Among Features of Exposition
(Third s a Series)
By William Bloeth \
Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Feb. en you're one of the few fortunate persons who have seen every exposition in
this country and in foreign ones, you still have a lot to -
see at the New York World’s Fair that will add to your
experience.
For one thing, no other Fair has had such an expensive parade of exhibits. But what is more important, it has a new original theme—the future with its problems
and promise.
All Fairs, since the 1851 exposition in London started the Fair vogue, have been the same, a rgview of past accomplishments and a picture of life as it exists in the present. New York’s will show you life as it will be tomorrow—crested through the eyes and findings of the greatest alliance of experts and scientists ever gathered in a
common cause.
Highways of tomorrow, the City of Tomorrow, Food:
in the World of Tomorrow, television, the radio of the future; interplanetary trips in rocketships; fashions of the future—so go
the exhibits.
The basic industries are grouped together in six zones so you won’t have to hop from one section to another ‘to take in, for instance, the entire story of transportation. In each of the divisions the Fair has constructed a model of the scientific expectation for the future. These themes or, as the Fair calls them, focal exhibits, strike the keynote for the entire section. Largest buildings and exhibits are ‘in the transportation Zone. Its focal exhibit simulates the departure of a rocketship on an interplanetary flight. Everything is animated; passerigers are seen entering the rocket and, when all is ready, it is projected from a stubby gun in a burst of flame and smoke. i This is the most spectacular of the focal exhibit messages “of the future.” Others cover Food, Community Interests, Communications, Production and Distribution, and, .of course, the theme exhibit in the perisphere—the City of Tomorrow to show life in the future. : Industrial exhibits, in addition to institutional displays of the processes and services, tie in wi the World of Tomorrow theme by prophetic exhibits. 8 ” 2. > ISITORS will ride in automobiles up a gently ascending
ramp around the Ford building,
Side Glances
‘a, scenic ride of the “Road of To~
morrow,” on their: way to the interior. In General Motors’ build ing moving chairs transport them past progressively larger models of “Highways of Tomorrow” dioramas until they emerge on a futuristic full-size street intersection with its commercial, passenger and pedestrian traffic separated by different levels. Transportation area exhibits include the Aviation building with its huge transport plane suspended over the heads of visitors, seemingly in flight; the Maritime displays of superliners of the future and the Railroad building, largest individual one of the Fair, housing old-time and the latest streamline locomotives and trains as well as the best of foreign countries, including . Britain's famed Coronation Scot. : ¥ Another exhibit—that of the Goodrich Co.—features daredevil drivers putting autos through astounding tests on a proving ground and the Firestone Rubber Co.’s conception of the model
“farm of the future, fully mech-
nized. Mechanization ir the World of Tomorrow extends not only to transportation, but to even the milking of cows in the Food Zone. In Borden's Dairy World of Tomorrow 150 of the best-breed cows of the continent will be milked mechanically three times a day. The medium is a sort of milking merry-go-round, the Rotolactor, that bathes and dries the cows before each operation. The mechanical making and packaging of cheese and pasteurization and bottling of milk is demonstrated
averaging 40 cases a week during the first weeks of v ;
this year. : Other Middle Western communities have had a high smallpox incidence for a number of years. In the nation as a whole there were 11,673 cases with 30 deaths in 1937. In 1938 there were 14,015 cases according to incomplete reports so far available to the U. S. Public Health Service, : { Fortunately, the cases are mild and perhaps that is’ why there is not more concern over the situation. The situation would not have to exist, however, because there is a sure way to avoid smallpox. That way is to be vaccinated. An outbreak, even a Small gukYusE, of infantile paralysis or influenza or scarlet fever or most any other communicable disease arouses a -great popular demand for protection. Physicians, medical ° researchers and health authorities are implored to find some way of “vaccinating” the population against the dreaded threat to health and life. Yet the very people who clamor for a “shot in the arm” of some potent, protective substance often refuse, for themselves and their children, the oldest and surest disease preventive of them all—smallpox vaccination, The medical scientists who are trying hard to find more such preventives of disease must surely be dis-
aged, when they consider the smallpox vaccination
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Exhibit buildings are “functional”; that is, they represent the product. The petroleum building
is a 200-foot equilateral triangle
representing an oil-refinery cooling tower, supported by what appears to be oil tanks. A working oil-driller stands nearby. For the Hall of Fashion, where women’s fashions are’ exhibited, the ornamentation .includes these two hairpin-like fins. :
in the National Dairy Products Co.'s building in the Food zone. The Continental Baking Co. has installed. a complete breadmaking kitchen and Standard Brands, too, will have a -model bakery. ‘A feature of the Standard Brands exhibit is the extraction of flavors and processing to make them visible. Swift & Co. in an odd-shaped building resem-
bling a huge frankfurter will
demonstrate the smoking of hams and manufacture of frankfurters. Two tobacco companies will exhibit in this section; American Tobacco with a full-size cigaret making machine and General Cigar with a similar display of cigar-making. Tomorrow's World, from the evidence, - will be strictly mechanized. 2 8 = NE of the largest zones is the Production and Distribution one, the focal exhibit a forecast of the increased ease of life through new devices. Electrical, chemical, mining and petroleum companies are in the section. A streamlined soda fountain features a Hall of Pharmacy, scenes of past days before electricity and of the future expectations through it are shown in the Electrical Utilities building. Westinghouse’s exhibit is built around a “time capsule” buried in the courtyard for 5000 years and visible to visitors. It contains a complete record of present civlization and will remain buried
until the year 6939; imside the
exhibit hall a fanciful conceptlon is given of ' the type of humans who will open it.
General Electric will - discharge-
10,000,000-volt lightning bolts for the visitors and show spectacular tricks through electricity. The Consolidated Edison Co. has built a three-block diorama to show how it serves New York City, the “City of Light.” Two of the most novel buildings of the Fair distinguish the Production and Distribution zone, U. S. Steel's stainless steel hemisphere with outside supporting girders, and a Petroleum building, an equilateral triangle 200
feet lohg supported by what ap-
pear to be oil tanks. Then, too, there’s Carrier AirConditioning Co.s igloo, a tall dome seemingly encrusted with snow. Inside a reproduction of the Aurora Borealis lights will be played on the ceiling. The spinning of glass fabrics - will be shown in the Glass building and the making of plastics in another. Mining of iron, copper and precious metals will be demonstrated irr the Metals hall with
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the middle name of Norman H. Davis, ] of the American Red Cross? 2—What is the proper name for the front of a boat?
- Congress who is author of a proposed constitutional
tional referendum on war. 4—In what sea is the island of Jamaica? = - 5—How many avoirdupois pounds .are in one long ton? : 6—For what part of Great
- cient name? 3 7—For . which state is “Golden State” a nickname? © 8 ” » Answers 1—Hezekiah. 2—Bow. 3—Rep. Louis Ludlow. _ 4—The Caribbean. ° 5—2240, 6—Wales. .1—California. ss 8 8
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an exhibit of diamond cutting. An observatory built . by the Elgin Watch Co. will ‘demonstrate the determination of time from the stars and’a Man’s Fashion building will trace fabric manufacture and show styles—the first exposition that a man’s fashion cen-
‘ter has been conducted.
” o # "HE recently developed “human voice” machine, the Voder, will answer visitors’ questions in the Bell Telephone build-
ing in the Communications zone.
Too, visitors will be able to make long distance calls free of charge and test their hearing and voices. In this section will be R. C. As first public showing of television sending and receptian under actual operation. Television units
will televise scenes around the
fairgrounds to the receivers. The Home reigns supreme in the Community Interests section. Not only is the area dotted with home-furnishings. and homebuilding exhibits, but as an added attraction a Town of Tomorrow with 15 full-size model homes is there, emphasizing the actual use
" of the materials.
Latest developments in modern materials are shown in the demonstration houses that range the!oretically from $3000 to $20,000 in price. Visitors will be.given the plans, specifications and the approximate variations in cost in different localities, Next to Tomorrow Town is an ~electric farm, with buildings and live animals, sponsored by a group of utility companies to demonstrate how utilties “have brought the city to the farmer.” Another house of the future is sponsored by the American Gas Association as part of the Gas Exhibits building. It is free standing, modern and has all-gas operated appliances. a ~ Commercial. exhibits deal with home ‘furnishings and home products. ; hy Linked to the home interests is ‘the garden place of the Fair, Gardens on Parade, a collection of 50 garden arrangements with rare and unusual shrubs and. blooms collected from all parts of the
world. ‘For horticulturists” it is
a treasure store. nw .LSO under the heading . of community interests are a contemporary art display, the
future.
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largest of its kind ever assembled; a house of jewels where the city’s leading jewelers will show their percious stories and intricate jewelry; a Hall of Fashion for women’s clothing displays and fash-
"ion shows and a Cosmetics build“ing where the art of keeping
beautiful with the help of science is to be shown. - The cosmetics manufacturers, too, have an eye toward the In the building’s cornerstone are rare perfumes and toilet accessories which, after the Fair, are to be deposited in a “beauty shrine” in Arizona for the belles of the year 2939. Arizona was chosen because’ its cli-
mate is most like that of Egypt
where the art found its beginning. The sixth division in the zoning . plan is for governmental pavilions of foreign nations and
states of the Union. These, like
the commercial exhibits, are presented with an eye for the future, particularly since the Fair’s theme early in the project was enlarged to take in a future of peace be-
tween nations -through sympa-:
thetic: understanding. That part of the theme is perhaps the hardest to realize in the light of today.
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F curiosities, mg vels of science and strange amusements make a Fair, then the New York World's Fair already is “made.” For more odd wonders are gathered within the gates of the: exposition in Flushing Meadows. than have ever been assembled in one place before. : Just consider some of them! The lightning laboratory, for instance. No stuffy pictures and lengthy explanations. No less than the real thing—bolts of 10 million volts that leap 30 feet with a deafening roar. If precautions weren't taken you would not hear well for several hours afterward. Then there's the exhibition of face-lifting and similar beauty operations. Unless plans miscarry, actual operations along these lines
- will be carried ouv in full sight of hundreds of spectators at the Fair.
As for medicine, the Medical Aid Health Display will offer the visitor a startling experience. The visitor enters a huge eye and looks through a gigantic “pupil” at the
surroundings just as a smaller eye
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Our Town By Anton Scherrer az
Relating How a Watchmaker Solved Problem of Keeping Coins in Place In Floor of Old Silver Dollar Cafe.
(NCE upon a time I ran a little piece about the old Silver Dollar Saloon which used to do business on N. Pennsylvania St., just about where Keith’s Theater now is. It got its name, you’ll remember, because of its floor, which was paved with tiles and silver dollars.: The coins were placed at the four corners of every tile, thus forming what is known in higher architectural circles as a diaper pattern. Well, today I'm back in the old saloon to explain how the silver dollars were kept in place. You have no idea the number of inquiries I've had on the subject. Apparently it’s had everybody guessing. Indeed, some of my more analytical readers have even gone so far as to pooh-pooh the whole idea, pointing out that nothing in the word otuid keep the dollars own; tha would be the easiest : ng for instance, to kick up the Mr. Scherrer co after which there was nothing left to do but stoop over, pick up the dollars i a and make a quick That's exactly what happened in the b g. I don’t know how many dollars the old saloon lost that way, but it was plenty. There wasn’t anything to do about it, either, because when it came time to: replace a stolen dollar with a new one, there wasn’t a tile setter in all Indianapolis that could keep the second dollar down. Or the third or fourth one either, - : As a matter of fact, the old saloon kept right on losing money until the day Reinhold Miller opr along, sized up the situation,.and showed the Silver Dollar people how to keep their losses down. ;
Led Orchestras as Sideline
If you're old enough to remember Mr. Miller, you'll recall that he was the orchestra leader of the Grand, Park and English Theaters. All at one time, mind you. Besides that, he was a watchmaker by trade. It was Mr. Miller's mechanical genius, however, and not his musicianship, that kept the dollars down. In some miraculous way known only to himself, Mr. Miller wired each coin and screwed it into place, using spirals so small that only a watchmaker could handle them. The Silver Dollar people didn’t have a thing to worry about after Mr. Miller got done with his job. Anyway, that’s what Adolph Schellschmidt told me the other night. He says he knows what he’s talking about because he saw Mr. Miller do it. All of which leaves me just enough room to tell you that when the Silver Dollar Saloon was going good in the Nineties, it served what it called a Mar-
tinez Cocktail. Sure, it had all the makin modern Martini, and then some: 82 08 &
/ Listen: Fill mixing glass two-thirds full of fine ice, one small barspoonful sirup, two dashes Caroni or Angostura bitters, one-half jigger Old Tom gin, onehalf jigger Vermouth. Stir well, strain in cooled cocktail glass; squeeze oil from small piece lemon peel on top. That was more than 40 years ago, mind you. Come to think of it, we're not so smart today, unless putting an olive in a cocktail is a stroke of genius.
Jane Jordan— Neglected Wife Told Parents of
Husband May Have Been at Fault.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am married and have a
lovely home and two fine children. My husband and I love each other very much, but we can’t
| agree on one small subject. Then of course, when we
argue over one thing, it always leads to another. My husband has a position which takes him away from home almost three-fourths of the time.' Now
‘when he is home and could be with me and the chilfren, he is out playing poker or something with the ys. He says that I am unreasonable and that he never has any recreation, and that I expect him home all of the time when he isn’t working. . I only ask him .to stay home in the evenings or take me some place when he isn't working. Do you think that I am unreasonable? : LONELY.
Answer—No, you aren’t unreasonable. In a nore mally happy marriage, husband and wife should be able to take their recreation together. If your husband is unable to find most of his recreation in your society, but must look for it with his men friends instead, it is indicative of something wrong. : In order to determine ‘what this is, I believe we would have to turn back the pages and look into his childhood. First, we should study his relationship with his mother. Was she aggressive, domineering, nagging? Or did she coddle her son, smother him with love, and try to curb his freedom of action? Whether her attitude was quarrelsome and dictatorial, or overprotective and full of anxious love, the results are apt to be the same. She must have succeeded in thwarting her son in some of his deepest masculine wishes, and engendered in him a mistrust and fear of women, too strong to be overcome even by love and marriage. Men often have been criticized for their neglect of their wives, and for their inability to share their lives with the women they marry, or to be interssted in what interests women. It all harks back to attitudes ~ instilled in them by the parents. When a boy has been the vicitim of the aggression of his mother, or: his father, he is sure to seek'an outlet for his affections in the brotherly love of fraternities, lodges, clubs, poolrooms, poker parties, or any other organizations where masculine comradeship is offered. i : The wife, frustrated in her need for love, retaliates
! [ by reproaches, recriminations, tears, and attacks upon
masculine preferences, thus identifying herself with the interfering mother who preceded her. In unload-'
2% | ing her hostility, she drives her husband farther away #1 | and strengthens the bond between him and his more
comfortable, less critical, masculine friends. Rat The solution depends upon the success of psychiatrists, social workers, or educators, in getting married
people to see the problem. The wife must be per- “| suaded to let up in her attacks
; against the escaping husband. The husband must be encouraged to overcome his dread of intimacy with the woman whom he fears will swallow him or destroy his masculinity. know of no other way in which the
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will
AAS} | answer your questions in this column daily,