Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1939 — Page 9

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

WPA Expands Battle of , Atlanta’

‘Painting and Georgian City Gets a ~ Cyclorama Rated Tops as Spectacle. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 25.—Just as twothirds of the people in Washington have

never been up in the Washington Monument, So nine-tenths of Atlanta’s population has

"never seen the city’s outstanding spectacle,

the Cyclorama. : You don’t know what a Cyclorama is? Well, it's a - panorama in a circle. Guess that explains everything. Atlanta’s Cyclorama is an immense painting of the Battle of Atlanta. ' This battle was fought on July 22, 1864, just a mile east of where the great painting now hangs. : There were 150,000 men in the all-day battle, 5000 were killed, and neither side won, which seems to be the way with wars. = The picture is 50 feet high 600 feet around. It hangs from a

biggest = world is one of the World War in the Pantheon at Paris. This one is second biggest. It weighs 18,000 pounds. Atlanta hung the picture in 1898 in an open shed, and offered it to the public sort of indifferently for more than 25 But in 1934 they decided to

Hake Sometnne big out, of it. So WPA stepped in and made of Atlanta’s Cyclorama one of the most impressive under-roof

spectacles I've ever >= : : As the picture originally shown, it simply stopped at the bottom of the canvas. But the WPA extended the picture, with actual objects, out over the foreground and right up fo the central platform

. +* where you stand.

They created trees, bushes, gullies, railroad tracks, abandoned muskets, broken wagon wheels, cottonbale . breastworks, dead horses, soldiers running, kneeling, firing and slain. And they did such a magnificent job you cannot tell where foreground stops and upright painting » begins. I went down into this creation and almost walked through the canvas.

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. If you ever come to Atlanta, go see the Cyclorama. It costs 50 cents. And here are a few weird things you might remember as youre looking: > Painted into the picture are some 14,000 soldiers. There are 8000 pounds of paint on it. In the foreground are about 175 plaster figures of soldiers. These men, although they appear lifesize, are actually pygmies. They vary according to the distance from you. The tallest one is 44 inches high, the shortest 14 inches. . The soldier figures§hre not finished on the side u. If you could get back behind, you'd are only, half-men, and hollow. All the § bs and bushes are made of plaster. iny leaves. The trees and stufnps, how-

of the bales of cotton, standing up, ' is an old n with a rifle. This is the only figure in the Tecrealed foreground that was modeled from a living He was Atlantan ‘named Henderson. He was on some other front in the War Between the States, and didn’t t in the Battle of Atlanta, but always

wished he d. living when they did this work in 34

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"" The man with the mustache who will sell you your ticket is the man wholly responsible for the magnificent foreground. His name is Weis Snell, and he sculptured every one of the 175 figures. After HIS werk was finished, he stayed on to be near the picture,

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Visits to Dentist, Voice Lessons And Theater Take Most of Her Time.

YORK CITY, Friday.—At least for part of my time on this holiday visit I am disciplining myself. Every morning I go to the dentist and every morning I have a voice lesson. Yesterday I submitted to innumerable photographs being taken during my lesson, partly because I realized that I would probably make more effort really to do as I was told if I knew everything I did was being recorded. Funny how hard it is to do even such a simple thing as to stand or hum if you are learning to do it in a new wa,

y. . ~ In the evenings I am having a real orgy of theaters. I went again to see “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” and took two of my friends who had not seen it before. It gave me more of a thrill than the first time I saw it in Washington, and I think Mr. Raymond Massey is giving an “even more remarkable performance, fine as I thought it was when I saw the play the first time. I feel now as though he really was Lincoln, and all my sympathy went out to the man who did not want respousibility -and yet carried so much. I was reminded of a sentence in a letter the other day—quite' a remarkable description of the i premier, Mr. Negrin. My correspondent said: “What a strange world it is, when a man who certainly never ° wanted to be Premier of anything, who was gay and carefree and loved the cheerful things in life, had this responsibility forced upon ‘him and has had to carry through so magnificently.”

‘The Old Argument

It takes us back to the old argument of whether responsibility develops the necessary person to carry it, or the man is there ready for the circumstances. Most of us want to be happy and carefree. Few of as go out to seek difficult situations to conquer. The other outstanding play which I have seen is: “The White Steed,” by Paul Vincent I loved “Shadow and Substance” by the same author, last year, and I enjoyed this play just as much. Canon Matt Lavelle typifies the real wisdom which gives some people a hold over other men. There is little use in trying to-l te virtue in Ireland or anywhere else. The humor throughout the play and the spirit of the girl who would not have a man unless he could stand on his own legs, provides one with entertainment while one absorbs a deeper and.more subtle lesson.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service . . LL is not influenza that goes by that name, as even the layman may have begun to suspect. There has been a tendency in recent years, however, to label as influenza almost any attack of cough and cold with fever, especially if such attacks are prevalent in the community. : Since the virus of influenza has been isolated, the diagnosis in any particular case could be clinched by laboratory examination of material washed from the nosa and throat of the patient. If the virus is found jo this material there is no doubt the patient really . has influen®a. Such procedures are not available to i the majority of patients and their physicians, who ‘ .must consequently still depend on clinical symptoms for making a diagnosis. The difficulty of distinguishing trues influenza from other ailments with similar symptoms-has been a prebiem not only for physicians treating patients but for the medical scientists seeking the cause and means of conquering influenza. To simplify the matter, the Briti¢h scientists who first isolated the influenza virus,

Drs. W. Smith, C. A. Andrewes and P. P. Laidlaw, |

called in the aid of some practicing i

C physicians, Drs. = ©. H. Stuart-Harris, D. KE. M. Chalmers, E. G. H. |

and D. L. Hughes. : In influenza, the onset is sudden, constitutional

symptoms predominate, the cough is short and dry and |

New Yerk’s terminals will be busy places between April 30 and Oct. 30 whil: the Fair is in progress. Seme 12 million out-of-fowners are expected. Shown is the Grand Central Terminal as it locks en a

‘busy day. It expects many husy days during the Fair.

12 Million From Outside the Metropolitan Areq Expected; . Cost Likely to Be Less Than "For Any Other Big Exposition

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By William Bloeth

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Seventy million persons will \ pass through the turnstiles of the New York World's

Fair come summer. Seventy million tickets representing

25,000,000 individuals, the greatest attendance at any event ever held. All indications forecast it. More than half of the 25,000,000 persons will come from distances greater than 100 miles from New York. By train, airplane, steamship and bus, in limousines and jallopies they will pour into the city. From far off Texas a man and his wife are en route already by oxcart; two cowboys astride steers started even earlier. If they come with $25 or $2500 they will see the Fair.

And contrary to expectations, the cost will be as little—or slightly less, even— than any exposition. Where will these millions find lodging in the tour-ist-swollen city? How long will they stay? How much

will it cost on a minimym?

Of all the problems puziling prospective visitors the question of cost is, perhaps, the most vital Yet the cost will be lower than any normal trip to New York. All agencies are co-operating for in the flow of visitors they see the possible dawn of a lasting, more prosperous era. One indication is the transportation. - By train you can take advantage of the lowest rates to the city eve" offered. The further you live: from New York, the lower the rate. 1 Most novel and unprecedented of all for railroads—-is a flat rate circle of ‘both Fairs from any point in the country. The “grandcircle” rate is $90 coach or $135 first class. It is offered from April 28 to Oct. 28 and tickefs are good for two months; all stopovers and optional routes are available at these rates. On the average, railroad rates are about half normal, optional classes are 30-day, week-end and the Best accommodations you pay 3 cents a mile on the 30-day tickets. The base is 1 cent a mile the special excursions. The Fair rate from St. Louis, for example, is $25 to $28 depending on the route. Normally this rate is from $47 to $52. Meals, of se, are additional.

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ASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— An| antilynching ' bill, - sponsored by Senators Wagner, VanNuys and Capper, and another

bills, | many of them identical, are before the Judiciary Committee of the

The Roosevelt Administration is|

House in 1937 to make the Gavagan|it Antilynching Bill a special order of | ;

motion ed by vote of 283 to 107. and then the Gavagan bill iiself was passed,

Fight Renewed in Congress For Antilynching Legislation

Democrats. adopt-

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Jane Jordan— Possible Reasons Cited Why Father Is Hostile to Daughter's Suitor.

JANE JORDAN—I have a girl friend whose problem interests me. She is a senior in high

got a position with the Government. This boy comes from a good family, and for years he called at her home. Then the girl's father

3 3 fonlh thing. He forbade the

stances to give me much insight into the father’s mo tives. What incident or incidents led up to the father’s refusal of hospitality after the young man had been calling on his daughter for two years? The way you state the problem makes it appear

six, | that the father is jealous of his daughter’s suitor. If

the young man did nothing to merit dismissal, then we must look for the father’s secret reasons, concealed

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