Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1939 — Page 19

Vagabon From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

~~ Schism Brings 2 Pilgrimages to Natchez and Between. Them They Do a $100,000 a Year Business.

NATCHEZ, Miss., March 16.—The first pilgrimage to old Natchez houses was put on in 1932 by the Natchez Garden Club. It was successful beyond all their dreams. Mrs. Balfour Miller was president of the

club that year. There is some dispute over whether Mrs. Miller actually thought of it, or whether it was an accident. _ From the best of my Sherlock Holmes deductions,

the first Pilgrimage does appear to have been a sort of accident. But all sides agree that Mrs. Miller did see the possibilities, and did boom the thing in the next few years into a nationally known institution. Then the , split came. The Natchez Garden Club was giving two-thirds of the take to the owners who allowed their homes to be shown, and putting the other third in the treasury for civic purposes. The home owners wanted more money. Finally about four-fifths of ‘them pulled out and set up a new ' organization, the Pilgrimage Garden Club. Mrs. Miller became its permanent director. : That, you might think, would leave the Natchez Garden Club in a hole. But they went right out and dug up a lot more old homes, and since 1936 there have been two Natchez Pilgrimages, . = | : When the Pilgrimage Club is showing, owners of the Natchez Club lock their gates, chain up their driveways, and put up “Not Open” signs. And vice versa. The split caused personal havoc in Natchez. People had to take sides. It has broken up friendships, completely reorganized social groups. There seems small hope of ever settling it. I've heard the stories of both sides. Each side is right, there’s no question about it. It’s just one of those things. : ' The businessmen (a little wary about meddling in this new prosperity their women have brought them) have made some overtures toward peace. Both sides even agree they’d like to get back together. But they can’t find any terms.

Mr. Pyle

The two sparkplugs of the two Pilgrimages this |

year are Mrs. Myrtie Byrne, president of the Natchez Garden Club, and Mrs. Miller, of the Pilgrimage Garden Club. Mrs. Byrne is young, straightforward, quiet-voiced. She took me all around in her new car. Her family is one of Natchez’ “firsts,” and she takes her work of restoring and showing Natchez seriously and proudly. Mrs, Miller is dynamic and sophisticated, a nat-ural-born doer-of-things. She is.a Southerner from generations back.

Each Shows 20 Homes

Each side is: quite willing to talk about the other, and point out its shortcomings. Their very frankness makes it inoffensive. As a matter of fact, the quarrel may have helped Natchez. It allows twice as many homes to be shown, and extends the Pilgrimage period from two weeks to a month. The Pilgrimage Garden Club is on first this year, from March 4 to 19. The Natchez Garden Club starts next day, March 20, and runs through till April 2. Each has about 20 homes to show. - As far as I ean learn, one tour is as good as the other. They both put on grand Confederate balls and receptions; they both give the Pilgrimage a spirit that takes you back "to the gracious South of gld.’ ; > Between them they've given Natchez practically a $100,000 business, hot counting what the Pilgrims spend for living while they're here. : If you are planning a trip a year from now, you must come and take a Natchez Pilgrimage. You might cut out the dates and paste them somewhere. Pilgrimage Garden Club Teur—March 2 through . March 17. : Natchez Garden Club Tour—March 24 through April 7. I don’t know why they left that one week’s gap in there. It was a bad mistake. For I am offering as follows: : : Pyle Garden Club Tour—March 18 through March 23, 1940. We will show Goat Castle, six squatters’ shacks, and a partly sunken tugboat. Proceeds will go toward the restoration of Poor Old Pyle.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Big Crowds No Longer Delay Her; Slips Through 'Eel-Like,' She Says.

DINBURG, Tex., Wednesday.—Yesterday evening in Houston I was a little afraid that it would be difficult to make our train, but I need not have worried. The hotel took charge of our bags, our coats and . hats, and they were on the train when we boarded it. Mrs. William Clayton, who introduced me at the lecture, took us to the station. It is a little confusing to find your way around backstage at their new, attractive auditorium. Mr. Clayton and I tried several doors which were locked, and finally .decided it would be easier to go to the front of the stage and out the main entrance. | hind us came Mrs. Clayton and Miss Thompson. I

heard murmurs to the effect that we would never get

through the crowd. During the last few years, however, I have acquired an eel-like quality and can slip

through almost anywhere, because people are kind {

enough to let me go by. Of course, when the state or * local police open up a passageway for me, there is a great deal more excitement entailed, but I can progress very quickly by myself. . When Mr. Clayton and I were outside, we realized that our two followers were lost to view. In a few minutes, Mrs. Clayton and Miss Thompscn appeare ‘saying: “You go right ahead and we will catch up,” so we found the car and were soon joined by them.

A Fruit Growing Region

Today, so far as vegetation goes, we might be in southern California or in Florida. Mayor Brown of Edinburg tells me that this town is only about 15 years old. They are particularly proud of their school system. A consolidated school uses 29 busses to bring in children from the valley round about. They are giving good vocational courses and the schoolboys themselves keep the busses in running order and thereby gain some practical training in mechanics. I do not think I have ever seen flowers more tastefully arranged than they are in our rooms today. One particular little attention is much appreciated. All the wild flowers are carefully labelled so that a stranger may know their names as well as admire their beauty. y At breakfast we had the most delicious grapefruit I have ever tasted, pale pink in color and sweet without the addition of sugar. They tell me that the valley is about 18 miles wide and 65 miles long. Their chief products are citrus fruits and vegetables. ;

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‘Spring lis here! Even though the Weather Man does insist that March 21 is the date. You might as vell get ready to perk up your spirits with the new Easter clothes. May we suggest:

1. From this elongated strap swings a black patent leather canteen bag. It will enliven a black spring coat or create a sophisticated ensemble when worn with a beige sheer wool dress and checked coat. For all its flatness the purse is very capacious and conveniently fitted with a safe and secure captive billfold and chained coin purse.

2. Cathe: as and studio routines will be forgotten in Hollywood on Easter Sunday while film

favorites join in the traditional devotions. Nancy Kelly and Arleen Whelan have chosen outfits especially for the occasion. Nancy, left, wears a tailored frock of printed silk, blue dots on fine black and white check, carries a blue coat collared in blue fox and wears a white hat trimmed in blue. A green, white and wine printed frock is worn by Arleen under a dark green coat.

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3. These smart handmade suede shoes, sans toes and heels, can be had in black or blue perforated patent leather. Shoes this season are what you will—toeless, with or without heels, studded soles, patent leather predominant and Dutch Boy the newest in style. :

4. The popular skirt and sweater is with us again this year. This outfit is topped by a bright colored striped suede jacket. The model wears saddle oxfords and ties a peasant scarf about her head. Note that the skirt is shorter and definitely flaring.

5. Another Easter study of Nancy Kelly, features simplicity and youthfulness. A plain citron frock is topped by a coat in citron and wine plaid. A stitched antelope hat and a large pouch bag, complete the picture. High style sportswear for spring is featuring the twotone woolen costumes. You may try any number of alliances for skirt and jacket and coat and

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Our Town By Anton Scherrer

Here's a New Version on Origin of 'Hoosier' and the Authority Quoted Is None Other Than the Poet Riley.

AYBE you remember my little piece about the origin of the word “Hoosier.” Well, it now turns out, there is still another version. Miss Charlotte Dunn, over in the State Library, was telling me about it the other day. Seems that her father, Jacob P. Dunn, was discussing the subject with a group of friends one evening when James Whitcomb Riley casually observed: “These stories commonly told about the origin of the word ‘Hoo- : i sier’ are all nonsense. The real origin is found in the pugnacious habits of the early settlers. They were very vicious fighters, and not only gouged and scratched, but frequently bit off noses and ears. This was so ordinary an affair that a settler coming into a barroom on a morning after a fight, and seeing an ear on the floor, would merely push it aside with his foot and carelessly ask, ‘Whose Ear’?” And apropos of my little piece about Heinrich Schliemann’s stay in Indianapolis, Miss Emma Byfield adds an oddly romantic footnote: “There is a vase some place in Indianapolis,” says Miss Byfield, ‘which was dug from the ruins of Troy by Mr. Schliemann. It should be in Butler University. My uncle, Luther Short, U. S. Consul to Turkey during the Cleveland = Administration, received the gift which looked like a lump of clay. After my uncle’s death, Mrs. Henry Schell, one of the heirs, took the vase with the object of finding a sale for it. Mrs. Schell died several years ago and willed the vase to her Alma Mater, Butler University. It’s a beauty.” : And while I'm in a sleuthing mood and tracking down treasures, I'd like to inquire whatever became of the old cannon of the German-American War Veterans’ Association, the one they used in the Court House yard to fire salutes on George Washington’s birthday. I'll bet it did duty for more than 30 years.

A Memorable Event

"The last time it went off was back in 1911. On that day 30 grizzled veterans and a young lady dressed all in white fired 27 salutes in less than 50 minutes. It was the fastest firing ever seen around here. The first 21 salutes were fired commemorating the name Washington. The next four went for former Governors Oliver P. Morton and Alvin P. Hovey and, I bee lieve, Gen. Willich and Peter Lieber. Following them, a salute was fired for the members of the G. A. R. who had passed away. And finally —Gosh, I'll never forget it—the Girl in White stepped up end fired the last salute to honor the man who had presented the old gun to the society back in 1881. She was Miss Lillian Truemper, a granddaughter of John Stumph, the donor. After the firing, Capt. J. L. Bieler, I remember, made quite a speech and presented the cannon to Co. A of the Pythian Guards, expressing a hope that they would continue to fire salutes until funds were raised for the erection of a monument to preserve the cannon. I know what I'm talking about because I was in the audience and heard the terms of agreement. And, anyway, you don’t suppose I'd ever for= get seeing a girl fire a real-for-sure cannon. And except for Mrs. Charlotte Harmening, I wouldn't be able to tell you that her. great-grand-father, Christian Renner, posed for a statue on the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument. Mr. Renner was the picturesque old blacksmith who practiced his trade on the South Side when I was a kid. On the Monument, he is the bearded old man sitting on top of the plow (west side). Mrs. Harmening recalls that when she was a little girl in school, she told her teacher that her great-grandfather was on the Monument, Teacher said: “Sit down.” x

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Parental Meddling in Couple's Church Problem Termed Unfair.

DE" JANE JORDAN—A very good friend of mine is engaged to a very fine fellow and wants to be married soon. He is a Catholic. Now I don’t hold a thing against Catholics. Some of my best friends are Catholics. But the trouble is that my girl friend is very devoted to her church (Methodist), while he is just as devoted to his church. She would have to consent to have the children raised as Catholics. She will have to be married by a priest, and to that her parents are opposed. My friend says that she loves the man enough to make sacrifices, but it will just about “kill her pare ents,” and my girl friend is afraid that in the years to come their religion might cause them trouble. Will it finally pull both of them from their churches? Our friends say that one of them should change, but that is very hard to do. How would you look at it if you were the mother of a girl like that? d A FRIEND. hE Answer—To a person of liberal views, this is no problem at all. What difference can it make whether a person goes to the Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, or to no church at all? All that matters is the character of the individual. : I am not a Catholic but I would not raise the slightest objection if one of my children wished to marry. a Catholic. The compulsion to send the chile dren to one particular church is irksome, but no more irksome than many of the other compulsions we encounter in life. Why can’t these young people bring up their children to think for themselves? Let the mother present her views and the father present his while the chil dren make up their own minds. Suppose the children did remain Catholics after they were old enough to make a choice. Is there anything ruinous in this? Catholics make very good citizens, as any check of successful persons will prove, and you have discovered for yourself that they make very good friends. I believe that these young people would come to a satisfactory agreement if their parents would let them alone. For parents to take the attitude that it would “kill them” for a Protestant daughter to marry a Catholic is unfair and unnecessarily prejudiced. To my mind young people old enough to: marry should not be required to build a life which satisfies their parents. It is more important that they be satisfied themselves, and that the: parents give up their desire

to control. ~ JANE JORDAN.

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

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