Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1939 — Page 9
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How Grandma Saved Her Lard From The Yankees and Other. Sundry Notes Gathered in Atlapta, Ga.
TLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.—The Mayor of
" Atlanta and I are old buddies now. The ly we got to be buddies was that I'd heard
as Atlanta’s biggest bug on the Cyclo-
rama, which I wrote about yesterday. So
‘went up to see him, and he turned out to such a bug on it that he dropped everything, and € had fo go right back out and look:at the Cycloa again. The Mayor is a young man, nice-looking : and with a silver Georgia tongue. His name is William B. Hartsfield. He has been monkeying in Georgia politics ‘most of his life, and if you can hang onto the spark of life a few years longer you'll probably he hearing from him. | Mayor Hartsfield is full of Southern legend,’and says he has heard a lot of swell stories about the Civil War from his grandmother. One was how she saved her lard. . | The Union soldiers foraged off the country as they advanced. ih + When they came his grand‘mother’s Bouse they were very nice, but very firm— ‘and took everything she had. They even prodded with their bayonets into every
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patch of fresh earth to make sure nothing had been buried. Finally they started carryin; © ard out of the cellar. ~ + “You don’t want to take that,” the mother said. “I've got to have that to make soap out of next spring.” _ “Sgap?” the Union soldiers id ‘gonna use this good lard for soap | “Well, my hogs got sick and started dying, so I'm
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fraid to use the lard for anything but 'soap.” The So Grandmother Hartsfield, the
| fibber, saved her lard. : I» Out at the Cyclorama building there is a huge, enlarged photograph on each side of the main door.
.One is of Gen. John B. Hood, the
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nfederaté com‘mander in the Battle of Atlanta: the other is of Gen. William T. Sherman of the Union armies. The one of Gen. Sherman is very clear, and he «sure looks like a tough customer. I said to the Msyor, “I never knew before that Sherman was so tough “looking.” : ~~ Mayor Hartsfield, like the majority of Southern-
ers nowadays, can smile when he refights the Civil
~ ‘War. He has a sense of humor, too. He grinned, gave
“._on the wallpaper after you take down a picture. & the bottom lies a huge pile of blasted-off rock. It all
few miles from Atlanta. .Such a squabble with the local people that he quit the .work forever.
‘Well, it’s still here.
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‘me a confidential dig in the ribs, and said, “We picked the meanest picture of him we could find!”
‘That Stgne Mountain Memorial . ' You remember Stone Mountain and Gutzon
‘Borglum? How he was carving a great historical scene on the sheer north ‘face of Stone Mountain, a And how he finally got in
* Want to know what’s become of Stone Mountain? But Borglum’s carvings have been blasted off. Other mountain-sculptors came and
look a whack at it, but they had trouble too. As far
as I can learn, the thing is dead. : ~ It all appears now just as a big square indentation on the side of the mountain. Like the clean ‘spot At
looks very sad. | . People are courteous and friendly in the South, and" you can’t get around it. : The hotel porter who carries your baggage out will say “You all hurry back now, hear?”; and the waitress will show you the flowers they're fixing up for a banquet tonight, and give you one: and the girls in the department stores are likely to say “Thank
you sweetly.” b
‘My Day
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Weather Like Spring in Capital; Leaves Organization in Protest.
4 JASHINGTON, Sunday.—Here we are back in ¥Y Washington. I woke this morning to what ‘sounded like a real spring rain. The grass outside my window looks green and, though I suppose we will’ probably have a blizzard next week, at the moment I feel as though spring had really arrived. I have been debating in my mind for some time, a ‘question which I nave had to debate with myself once or twice before in my life. Usually I have decided differerntly from the way in which I am deciding now.
- The question is, if you belong to an organifation and
disapprove of an action which is typical of a policy, should you resign or is it better to work for a changed point of view within the organization? In the past,
. ‘when I was able to work actively in any organization
to which I belonged, I have usually stayed, in until I had at least made a fight and had been defeated. “Even then, I have, as a rule, accepted my defeal and decided I was wrong or, perhaps, a little too far ahead of the thinking of the majority at that time. I have found that the thing in which I was interested
“was done some years later. But, in this case, I belong
to an organization in which I can do no active work.
“They have taken an action which has been widely
talked of in the press. To remain as a member im- ~ plies approval of that action, and therefore I am re-
New Mexico to Celebrate
~~ I have just seen some people who are arranging for ‘the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Celebration in lew Mexico in 1940. All the plans for this celebra- , which will begin in May, 1940, sound interesting nd delightful. New Mexico has many historic spots. There is beauty and an almost foreign interest in this state which has so many ties with Spain and
the South and Central American countries. I hope
‘that 1940 will see a great awakening of interest in this part of our nation. More of our American gitizens than ever before should see this land of nshine and color. I, for one, will make every effort to make the rounds of all the exhibitions which will be available during the summer following the open3g of this celebration. : While we are speaking on interesting things in. the West, let me tell you that I have been sent a pamphlet by the “Save the Redwoods League” of Berkeley, Cal., which pictures commercial exploitation of these beautiful Redwood trees in the’ State of Anyone who has ever taken the drive up from the Yosemite to the State of Oregon, cannot to have an unforgetiable picture of these giants ‘the forest. They have stood thousands of years. ps some of them have reached. maturity, but ms to me a wicked thing to cut them down that time arrives. Can not either the state or nation take a hand in preserving these forests?
ay-by-Day Science
By Science Service A LL of us go about with.many questions we can’t answer or get others to answer for us. For most of us they have been so long unanswered that we have pecome accustomed to the situation. For adolescent boys and girls in school, youngsters from 14 to 18, some of the eternal question marks may pe more vivid. Dr. George Lawton of Columbia University and Evander Childs High School, New York C has made a study of questions these children find ble. The results are interesting. of all they have to do with love. Then God, ticism of people in general, life, the future, ter, religion, reincsrnation and the end of
are the questions of those aged 14, arranged of frequency of asking: . we born, what use is life? What makes nkind, selfish, etc? What is love, platonic love, 12 Is there a God? Is there such a thing as n? What happens to us (cur souls) after, hy should there be wars, and why do people Why does a new scene seem to have hapWhat makes the world rotate and Vhy mu ;
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By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, Americian Institute of Public Opinion oo] EW YORK, Feb. 27.—Ever since last November, when Congress felt the weight of the organized pension groups at the polls, official Washington has been searching for the facts about pension sentiment. Chairman Robert L. Doughton and the House Ways and Means Committee have been sifting: proposed changes in the Social Security Act this month and listening
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the United States. How much do the pension movements reflect*public opinion? How far does the Amer- § ican public want to go? How § far does it think it can go in paying old-age pensions?—These are some of the questions Congress eventually must decide,
A survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion, published today for ‘the first time, shows just how important the decisions of Congress will
be to the security of millions of elder-
ly Americans, to the prospects,of the Democrats and Republicans in 1940 and to the future of the leading pension schemes themselves. The Institute focused its survey on a cross-section of the voting population in all parts of the country— persons who can and will make their opinions felt at the ballet boxes. Their answers show three salient things about the present Social Security setup and about pension sentiment in America at this time:
1—The present Social Security.
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Act falls short of providing what the public considers an adequate old-age pension system at this time. 1 Unless Congress and the various states take steps to remedy the situation, a growth rather than a decline of glittering pension schemes probably can be expected. 2—Although few Americans completely accept the prorosals of Dr. Townsend and other pension leaders, or would be willing to pay taxes to make them effective, many voters say they are Subboring these plans because they icn.” ¢3<-Support for the Townsend Plan, the General Welfare Act, the California “Ham-and-Eggs-for-Every-body’ plan and other schemes comes primarily from, the botlom income ‘group—from men and women whose earnings are less than $20 a week. These are the. same volers whe have been most staunchly proRoosevelt and pro-Demaerali¢ in the last six years— the very foundation of the New Deals voting strength.
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EousLy, the persion issue holds the makings of | a red-hot, political issue of 1940—probably among the .
most important issues of all If the Democrats fail to satisfy the pension and security cravings of this bottom income group, many of
their votes may go to Republican and third-party candi-
dates, especially if these win the indorsement of the organized pension groups. The Institute’s survey, moreover; definitely establishes the fact that the average American does not consider present old-age pension payments adequate. The Institute asked, first of all, “Do you believe in gov= ernment old-age pensions?” The reply was an overwhelming “Yes”: v Believe in Pensions ...| ..... Viiseirrsavaslecioveresss DA Don't Believe in Pensions ..... . 6% Then the Institute asked, “About how much pension per month should be paid to a single person? To a mar-
ried couple?” The average figures—or what statisticians call the “medians”—named by those favoring pensions
' were:
For Single Persons .......e.c cee>e0....$40 a Month For (Couples cersesienset.. 560 a Month The voters indicated by a large majority (3 to 1) that such pensions should be paid only to old people actually In need, and not to all aged persons as provided by some of the grander pension pians. The present systém of old-age assistance, operated by the joint contributions of the State and Federal " Governments, averages far less than $40 a month for single persons and $60 for husband and wife. In the . fiscal year 1937-1938 it has been estimated that the greatest proportion of old folks received only $15 to $25 a month, and that in some cases the grants were less than $5 a month.
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Pension Sums Favored
In today’s Institute survey on old-age pensions voters in the East and Far West set the highest sums, while Southern voters set the lowest.
And about how much pension per month should be paid to a single person? ' NATIONAL AVERAGE = (MEDIAN) ..........%40 AMONTH
. SECTIONAL FIGURES -« New England States ....$42 A MONTH Middle Atlantic States ...$43 ” » East Central States .....$40 ” » West Central States ....$36 > ” Southern States ........$31 ”# Western States ........$44 ” »
About how much pension per month should be paid to a married couple? NATIONAL AVERAGE
(MEDIAN) ........ $60 A MONTH
Even under the “payroll tax” insurance plan, which begins payments in 1942, a typical employee who earns $25 a week will have to work 20 years to be sure of a pension of about $30 a month when he turns 65 years old, and there will be no provision for his wife unless she has been a wage-earner and covered by the Social Security Aet too. It is little wonder, in view of the gap between the pub-
_lic’s standards and what old-age pensioners are actually receiving, that programs like the Townsend Plan, which
also promise to create national prosperity by increasing the turnover of dollars, have won g following. ' |
2° 8 2 Wouldn't Pay Extra Taxes
T= Institute found wide confusion as to just what the Townsend plan involves, probably a result of the split that has developed within the original Townsend movement itself, Of those who had heard of the
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$40 Monthly Pension Favore
Townsend Strongest With Democrats, Gallup Poll Shows
As ‘Congress studies the strength. of pension sentiment in the United States and considers changes in the New Deal's Social Security Act, a nation-wide Institute sampling shows (1) that the voting public favors $40 a month pensions and (2) that support for the grander pension schemes comes principally from Democrats.
plan at all, 53 per cent said they thought it meant paying $200 a month. The rest either didn’t know what the plan calls for or named a figure under $200. The survey underlines the fact that the Townsend movement and the other old-age pension plans are basically lower-income group crusades. The Institute foupd that almost one voter in every five was sympathetic toward the $200 a month Townsend plan, and that in five casés out of 10 this person was earning less than $1000 a year. Less than half of those who sympathize with a Townsend program of $200 a month are agreed that extra taxes would be necessary and would be willing to pay such taxes themselves. ! For $40 a month pensions, however, arid for $60 pen-
~ sions for husband and wife, it is a different story. The
Institute asked all those who had named a figure, “Would you be willing to pay a sales tax or an income tax in order
- to provide these pensions?” The vote was:
YES ©00000000000000000000000000000000600050000000 87%
NO ©00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 13%
Perforated Wings Add Speed to British Plane
By Science Service : 3 ONDON, Feb. 27.—Airplane wings are supposed to have solid surfaces, but that didn’t stop F. G. Miles, British aeronautical engineer, when he set out to try a new design incorporating some experimental ideas. A remodeled British plane whose wings are perforated so that blowers may suck away and: keep moving the dragproducing, speed-killing boundary layer of air right next to the wings, climbs more rapidly, is faster and gives
better gliding behavior as a result, he reports here.
Forty hours of test flights have thus far shown that his novel arrangement results in improved performance far beyond what might be gained by adding the power put into the blower to the engine. ? Believed to be the only time this method of controlling the boundary layer of air next to the plane—whose “stickiness” and inducement of turbulence are causing engineers more and more trouble—has been flight-tested, perforated wings have been under study for. three years. England’s rearmament program has, unfortunately, de-
layed the'research program. : Mr. Miles’ plane improved its climb by 29 per cent for an expenditure of eight horsepower to operate the blower that sucks the air away from the wing surface. An extra 17 horsepower for the engine would be needed to get an
equivalent improvement without resorting to the perforated wings. a
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Our Town By Anton Scherrer
You Must Know, Including Item on Charlie Kregelo's Hitching Post.
HEREWITH a disorganized list of items each recording a treasure which ma
looking for all your life. Item 1: Charlie Kregelo’s old hitching
post is still part and parcel of the property at 1902 N. Illinois St. Except for wear and tear, it looks just the way it did 40 years ago. old carriage block. ‘Harris who, last week, petitioned edhoard of Public Works for a place to tie his nag. Item 2: Most of the silver dollars in circulation around here can be traced to the employees of Block’s store. Seems that when the Block people pay their help, they never use greenbacks of less than $5 denomination. Item 3: Back in the days when Booth and Barrett came to Indianapolis, Lawrence Barrett always
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o'clock in the morning and walk leisurely in a northeasterly direction. where he went. Scheilschmidt and a pal followed him one day and discovered that he went to Woodruff Place. He just walked around staring at the statues. It still left everybody guessing. Which reminds me (Item 4) .of the Rev. Oscar McCulloch’s dog, Don. Believe it or not, he did
at Pennsylvania and 13th Sts., trot all the way to
out there and return home by himself, mind you.
legious in Indianapolis to send anything but ‘white flowers to a funeral. : Item 6: Forty. years ago there were only three establishments in the whole United States where the rule of no mustaches for waiters was an absolute mandate. They were the Blue Ribbon Club of Chie cago, and the Bates House and Hotel English in Ine dianapolis, : Item 7: When the Bates House was going good,
The Bishop and the Songwriter
Item 8: When the Rev. Father Alerding the be= loved priest of St. Joseph’s parish, left Indianapolis: in 1900 to take up his duties as Bishop of Ft. Wayne, everybody was dumfounded to learn that he took a trunkful of popular sheet music with him. Songs like “I Love But You,” for instance, and “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me.” It turned out that the songs were all by Paul Dresser. Seems that when. Father Alerding was a/priest at Terre Haute in 1875, he used to run down and say mass at Sullivan, and that’s where he met Paul, the brightest kid he ever
as much of the priest because when he grew up, he sent Father Alerding a copy of every song he wrote. Item 9: Lockerbie St. was named after George Lockerbie, a Scotchman who came here in 1830. The name of the street appears in the directory of 1862. At first it was spelled Lockerbee, then for a few years Louckabie, and finally they got it right. - Item 10 has to do with Irvington where the most unbelievable things take place. Back in 1878, a lady
a needle beneath the skin of her right arm. A week later it was extracted by Dr. Krumrine. Then the lady remembered that back in 1839, she had swallowed
39 years.
Jane Jordan—
Perhaps Mate Is Too Kind, Young Wife, in Love With Another, Told.
You can figure it out for yourself.
have been married five years. My husband is He is deeply in love with me, and no girl could ask for a kinder, sweeter husband, but I do not love
pression that I do. : : About a year ago I fell in love with a fellow six
me to divorce my husband and marry hi I know that I will never be happy again unless do, but I haven't got the courage to do his as my husband is 50. good to me that I can’t stand to hurt| him. I have almost gone crazy trying to make a dee cision. What should I do? We haven't any children,
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r Answer—To save me I do not see how you can improve your situation any by divorcing a safe and sure husband of 27 for the uncertain devotion of an 18-year-old boy. To begin with it is a fairly usual thing for an adolescent boy to fall in love with an older woman first, and many times a married woman is his choice. | : But believe me it is a very unusual thing for
the question of marriage has a chance to come up. Even if this boy’s romantic interest in you should survive the social scorn and perhaps ridicule which such an unequal union would provoke, the success of your marriage would still be doubtful. For one thing you would have your own guilty feel= ings to contend with and you might be tempted to punish yourself, or you might take out your discome fori by finding fault with your immature husband, ° Six years may not be too great a distance to bridge: between a mature man and an older woman, but 24 is
might find that your young husband’s needs in love ‘had undergone a. profound change. I believe that the relationship between you and your husband would bedr analysis. Why don’t you love him, and why have you risked humiliating him by attacking yourself to a hoy with nine years less exe perience?
considerate, which may be another way of saying too passive? Would you prefer a man with stronger masculine characteristics? By your choice of a risky relationship instead of a stable one, you make one wonder if you aren’t unconsciously trying to get in a spot where you're threatened instead of secure. y : JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily. 1 i
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turn out to be exactly what you have been
So does his I thought it might tickle Ed
made it a practice to leave the Denison around 11.
It had everybody guessing Consumed with curiosity, Adolph *
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the same thing. Don would leave his master’s home
Woodruff Place, take a bath in one of the fountains greatly refreshed. All
Item 5: Up until 1898, it was considered sacri
knew, said Father Alerding. Apparently Paul thought
living with the family of Judge J. B: Julian noticed
a needle. Believe it or not, the needle was with her
Dt JANE JORDAN—I am 24 years old and: 27
him and never have, although he is under the im= 3
years younger than I am. He loves me and ‘wants :
such a love to be lasting. Usually it blows over before
still a long way from 18. In all too short a time you
Where has he failed? Is he perhaps too good, too .
HADES of Little Orphan Annie's goblins, the
it netted Louis Reibold $75,000 or better every year.
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