Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1939 — Page 21

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From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

Glenn McCarthy, Texas Oil Man, Got Rich in a Hurry, and at 31 Is Said to Be Worth 20 Million.

« LJOUSTON, Texas, March 31.—If 1 were in the oil business, I'd never sleep a wink. An oil man’‘can go broke quicker than a tour»ist at Monte Carlo. You may have 10 million today, and nothing tomorrow—nothing, that is, except the oil fever.

. who jumps in and skyrockets from ncthing to millions is a rare case. There are a few such ones In Houston. Glenn McCarthy is one. An oil man will never tell you how much he’s worth. (He's probably afraid hell be broke by the time he gets back to the office.) But he'll tell you how poor he used to be. Five vears ago Glenn McCarthy was down to $3. Today, his friends teil me, he is probably worth 20 million dollars. And he is only 31. It makes me feel ashamed. I'm past 35, and I don’t suppose I'm worth a cent over 10 million dollars. McCarthy has a $200,000 home . there, and a summer place on Galveston Bay. He has lots of autos, and a riding stable, and five children. He wears a diamond ring and a diamond tie pin the size of your thumbnail. «dresses handsomely, talks quietly, and chews gum. McCarthy was born in the famous Spindietop Oil Field near Beaumont. His father was an oil-field worker. Young McCarthy was brought up in the .2ame. After two vears in the Navy he went to school in Texas. He married as soon as he came out. He went to work as a distributor for a big oil company. He ran his salary from $1250 a week up to $250. He saved money too. But he was ruining his health. So he picked up a few leases he'd had his eves on, quit his job, and decided to take a whirl at the big time.

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By trading some leases for cash; trading part in- |

®terest in whatever he might find for more cash; getting some credit from the supply companies; borrowing here and there. McCarthy got together $125,000, That was six years ago, he ,was 25—and he drilled a “dry hole.” That broke him, and then some. The story of his financial maneuvering for the next vear and a half is something that cnly an oil man could understand. At one time he was $48,000 in debt. some good wells, but it took all he got to pay off. He kept drilling away, with rattletrap machinery, and his family helping.

, His Dream Comes True

But finally he hit it, and he hit it big. He jumped into the millionaire class. since then, but pulled out of it. ® He has drilled about vears. He has actually discovered five new fields. sold one of them for seven million dolars.

“his various fields.

McCarthy doesn’t have to wear overalls any more, and fight a drill all night. But the terrific responsi-

in his life.

You have to know these oil men te know it isn't | Maybe it is at first, but |

just the money they're after. once they've got it, then it’s “the fever.”

McCarthy says it’s his ambition to drill the deep-

¥ est oil well in the world. And he'll probably do it. too. He is tall, broad-shouldered and slender, a perfect physical specimen. If ever that 20 million slips out on him some night, he's equipped to go right back and put his own big shoulder to the drill for a fresh start. With five children and the “oil fever,” what else could a man do?

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

\EATTLE, Wash, Thursday.—I went to the home show vesterday afternoon which John's paper,

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has sponsored in con- |

: junction with the master builders of the city in the City Auditorium. have seen. other cities and the same firms buy space and exhibit their wares in many of them. I should think that it would stimulate building and the renovating of homes, one of the objects in holding these shows. Anything to do with new houses or the renovating of old ones creates employment. So any city should be interested. A model house forms the center of this show and it 13 easy to see how much interest people have in homes. for there is always a crowd waiting outside to J Enter this little house. the schools and kigh school

models and drawn floor plans for their models. The

prize winning plans and models are on exhibition and |

1 was fascinatgd by the ingenuity and taste shown by these young high school pupils.

Eyeglasses for the Poor

One booth, where they sold gadgets, drew me like , & magnet. gadgets which can be used in the kitchen and I came away the proud possessor of a little machine which peels evervthing. potatoes, carrots, celery, far better than any knife I ever wielded.

Now for that third letter I was telling vou about ! It comes from Mrs. Arthur Terry of Short |

vesterday. Hills, N. J. She has been carrying on for a long time singlehanded, a unique charitv. She asks that e people send her their old eyeglasses, particularly the old frames. She sells the old gold and with the money buys the proper glasses for people who are in need. These glasses are those their own physicians or 3 clinic prescribe for them, ‘This charity has been self-sustaining because people have sent her enough cast-off frames to pay for the necessary glasses for hundreds of poor people who apply to her, not only in her own neighborhood but ®in other places throughout the country. Those living at a distance have to send her the prescription for the lenses and size of the frame needed. Of course, she is dependent on the amount of old material sent in. If you happen to have any old frames vou no longer use, send them to her.

.Day-by-Day Science

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(Last of a Series) By Bruce Catton

NEA Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 31.—“Not many more days until the visit of the King and Queen.” So reads every social calendar in this ultra-socially conscious city, and debs and dowagers alike already are twirling their lassoes trying to rope an invitation to one of the dazzling parties in honor of Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of

England.

There are plenty of other signs which—so say the society sleuths —forecast that the roval visit will give Washington the most glittering and exclusive three-day social whirl in its long top-hat-and-tiara history. Mrs. James M. Helm, While House social arbiter, is receiving a daily deluge of strangely related hints and some outright requests, and capital hostesses are calling at the British Embassy at the rate of 100 an afternoon.

The sharp increase in Mrs. Helm’s mail is caused by a flow of letters from women seeking to place a gold seal on their social careers by an invitation to a party for the royal visitors. Some only hint at the fact, but others break right out with uncamoufiaged requests. The British Embassy will share honors with the White House as a social center while Their Majesties are here. Perhaps that is the reason that Lady Lindsay, wifa of the British Ambassador, is receiv=-

He has had one setback | | When she returned from a recent

225 wells in these last six | He | His father | and brother work for him, in charge of production on |

ing so many calls these days.

trip to England, she found a stack of calling cards, two feet, three inches high, left during her absence. But the social climbers—and thev are legion here—are due for disappointment. During the three-

bility that is on him keeps his nose to the grindstone. | 92¥ royal visit everything will be

So his wealth hasn't brought any fabulous change |

run strictly according to precedence and supervised by the State Department and the British Embassy. ” » o HERE isn’t even a bare chance for any of them to “make the list’ for the glittering state dinner at the White House. The dining room there seats only 100. The East Room. scene of the musicales which traditionally follow high state affairs, accommodates 200 more. And when the social aspirants look at the long list of ranking officialdom, the prospect is disconcerting. Precedence will also cover the sightseeing tour on which the

It struck me as one of the best I | I have been to them, of course, in many |

They have had a contest in | children have made |

| President flanked by naval and miltary aids, will be out on the porch to

| King and Queen will be taken. | New Dealers no doubt would like

Seattle Home Show Makes a Hit; | She Buys a Time-Saving Gadget. |

to show them Greenbelt, the Gov-ernment-sponsored model community in nearby Maryland. But that is not according to the pattern of protocol, so Their Majesties will probably place a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington and have tea en the broad, green lawn at Mount vernon. 2 ” 2 HE roval special arrives at the Washington Union Station

| on the morning of June 8. Kindly, | white-thatched Secretary of State

Cordell Hull and plain, bushybrowed Vice President “Cactus Jack” Garner mayv head the wel-

| coming party of Government offi-

cials, soldiers, sailors, marines and several thousand unofficial—but nonetheless enthusiastic—greeters. Their Majesties will enter the huge barn-like station through the Presidential entrance, specialIv renovated for the occesion. As they walk through it along a corridor flanked by a picked guard

Like most women, I have a passion for | Of marines the Army band will

play “God Save the King” and the “Star-Spangled Banner.” A cavalry squadron will form the escort up historic Pennsylvania Ave. The King and Queen will live at the White House during their visit. | As they drive up to the entrance, and Mrs. Roosevelt,

greet them. The King and Queen, first | reigning heads of a foreign state

Side Glances

the human mind and the human body are given |

new emphasis bv an experiment in which color-blind-

ness was produced by suggestion in a hypnotic trance. |

When vou see red. it 1s because of certain physical signals to the retina of your eye. But the interpretaa tion of these signals as red—in fact the perception of them at all—depends upon your mental “set.” At Eloise Hospital, in Michigan, Dr. Milton H. Erickson hypnotized six persons with normal color vision and by suggestion deprived them of the ability "to see red, green, red-green, or any color at all. First, under hypnotism the subjects were made completely blind. When they awoke they were still blind and suffered from all the distress that you % would feel if you suddenly roused from sleep without the ability to see. This put them in a frame of mind to accept the restoration of sight upon any conditions set by the .¢ examiner. The condition was that they might see objects but not all colors. The suggestion of blindness for one color was carefully made so that the subject would lose all awareness of that color. A strange incident occurred to emphasize the ac- ‘ tual complexity of the relativély “simple” vision of color. One man who had in this manner lost his vision for red happened, more or less accidentally, to attempt to count his fingers. He was puzzled to come : out with the total eleven although he knew perfectly well that he had only 10 fingers and thumbs. It was soon evident to the examiner, but not to the subject that he had lost his knowledge of the number three —each time in counting he skipped it. The number three to this man meant red.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939

Here Come the King and Queen!

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By Anton Scherrer

All Irish Hill Turned Out for Cow Case in Which Young Lawyer Spaan Got a Valuable Lesson on Juries.

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ACK in the early Eighties almost every family on Irish Hill kept a cow. One of them, the most celebrated, is the subject of Not altogether, however,

8 because like as not Henry N. Spaan will

turn up, too.

: | One day, Mr. Spaan, then a young man fighting

to be recognized as a lawyer, sat in his little office in the Boston Block on Dogberry Row ' wondering | where he was going to get his next

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NE | case—and, incidentally, his next fee,

100 feet, The sec-

tion at the right is termed the Hall of Majesty. Broad veranda terraces overlook the hedges and flowers

of an old’ English garden.

A member of Britain's Parliament inspects the nickel-silver doors for the lavish British Pavilion at the Fair,

ever to sleep in the White House, wili each have a bedroom and bath suite at the eastern end of the second floor of the White House. For a sitting room they will share the Monroe Room, where the treaty with Spain was signed. ” n ” HE climactic moment of the visit comes when the royal guests and their hosts make their appearance for the state dinner.

With all the other guests gathered in the East Room, an aid announces: “The President of States and Mrs. Roosevelt, King and Queen of England!” The four make their entrance with pomp and ceremony, escorted by military and naval aids. Then the guests, in order of their rank, start circling by to be presented, one by one. That over, the “Big Four” lead the procession to dinner. After dinner, the ladies retire for coffee, the gentlemen stay for cigars. The musical, to which more guests are invited, completes the evening. Biggest social event, although not the most select, is expected to be the British Embassy tea in honor of Their Majesties. The beautiful Embassy garden is spacious enough that the guest list might include a thousand persons. The royal couple would take their tea on a white stone portico overlooking the garden. Distinguished guests. such as Chief .Justice and Mrs. Hughes or Secretary of State and Mrs. Cordell Hull, would be brought to their table for a few minutes’ chat. Should the King and Queen decide to entertain at dinner at the Embassy, the guest list would be limited to 30 or 40. all top-rank-ing officials and diplomats. Rules of international etiquet make it strictly permissible to say

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"We'd like some very different awnings. Something like the Martins’ next door.”

“How do you do?” and shake hands with Their Majesties. The question of American women curtseying to the British sovereigns is not worrying Embassy officials. They point out that a curtsey is a courtesy, but that a handshake will not be regarded as a discourtesy. After the Washington whirl the royal party will visit New York. The broad, gaily decorated grounds of the World's Fair will take precedence over the salons of ultra-select Manhattan hostesses when King George VI and his Queen Elizabeth visit that city. Social leaders of Park Avenue, Long Island and Westchester are publicly silent about their disappointment in not having occasion to haul out their best lace banquets sets and gold service. Tea table chit-chat, however, has it that they are doing plenty of private grumbling. The royal party will give Manhattan but a fleeting glance in its one-day stand. During that time their No. 1 host is certain to be Grover Whalen, ex-officio greeter and omnipresent guiding genius of the Fair. Sir Louis Beale, head of the British exhibit, also will be at His Majesty's elbow. : ” ” ”

ONDON has read so much - about the unrestrainable enthusiasm of New York's celebrityworshiping millions that the King may put the royal foot down on a parade from the train to the Fair Grounds, A triumphant procession up lower Broadway through a canvon of ticker tape is definitely out, and reports now have it that the royal special may be taken direct to the Fair Grounds. This would be a terrific blow to Manhattan merchants, some of whom are ready to drape their buildings in regal red velvet. The World's Fair will have been

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What was the name of ancient ships that had both sails and oars? 2—How many gills are in a gallon? 3—Of * which state is Rouge the capital? 4—Who won the recent St. Petersburg Open Golf championship? 5—What are homophones? 6—For what labor organization do the initials U. A. W. stand? T—What is the astronomical name for the luminous surface of the sun? 8—Where are the White Mountains?

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” ” ” Answers 1—Galleys. 2—Thirty-two. 3—Louisiana. 4—Sam Snead. 5—Words that are alike in sound but unlike in sense. 6—United Automobile Workers. / —Photosphere. 8—New Hampshire.

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When the King and Queen descend from the royal special train at President Roosevelt's private entrance' to Washington's Union Station,

they will find it spic, span and sparkling.

Above, workmen are shown

renovating the President's private reception room in the station for the

royal party.

officially launched more than a month before the royal visit and should be showing at its best. There the King and Queen will find 1200 acres of reclaimed swampland which. at a cost of $125,000,000, have been turned into a spectacular “World of Tomorrow.” ” ” » HE Fair is divided into two sections, one for amusements, the other for a wide variety of exhibits. The latter is expected

to claim most of Their Majesties’ time, particularly the $2.000.000 British Empire pavilion and those sponsored by Canada and Eire. Great Britain has really extended itself for the New York exposition. The British exhibit cost more money and covers more space— 60.000 square feet—than any sponsored at any previous Fair. In it Their Majesties will find a succession of great halls devoted to—'"'Majesty,” “Luxury and Color,” “Metals,” “Democracy” and “Achievements.” Should the King and Queen be a bit homesick by the time they reach New York, the British exhibition will be a pleasant sight for them. It is constructed almost entirely of material imported from Britain. An area of 40.000 square feet is laid out in a colorful English garden, its walks made of stone taken from Whitehall Gar= dens in London. on 2 o

HE building features a series of shaded terraces where tea will be served, English style, and Sir Louis Beale hopes to have the Coldstream Guard band here for the occasion.

The roval party will enter the United States at Niagara Falls

and proceed direct to Washington. |

Their visit to New York will be on their way back to Canada. When the King and Queen have finished their tour of the Fair, they will return to their train and head for Hyde Park where they may spend the night at the summer home of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, After breakfast the next morning, they will resume their journey. re-entering Canada near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Two days through the eastern maritime province, and their visit to North America will be at an end. They sail from Halifax on June 15, reaching home on June 22.

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British Plan Fast Torpedo Boats

By Science Scyvica

ONDON. March 31 —England is |

too—when a heavy tread on the | stairs startled him from his reverie. He had scarcely time to collect himself when a fleshy, motherly looking Irish woman entered and asked if there was a lawyer to be had right quick. Mr. Spaan assured her that she was looking at one, and a mighty good one, too. The woman drew the only chair in the office close to the young Mr. Scherrer lawyer's table and poured out her tale of woe. From her disconnected story, Mr. Spaan gathered that she was one of the owners of the Irish Hill family cows; that through an accident, approximating an Act of God, the cow had found her way to a neighbor's yard; that the neighbor got mad enough to impound the beast and that the only way to get her pet back was to pay the neighbor $5, a sum which represented the loss of some rose bushes the cow had damaged. The woman said it was an outrage because the rose bushes weren't worth a nickel. Well, Mr. Spaan accepted a retainer fee of $2.50 with the promise of as much more if he won the suit, and in due course the case was called for trial in one of the J. P. Courts in Dogberry Row which was another name for the block on Delaware St. opposite the Court House.

The Trial Is Interrupted

On the morning in question the little court room was packed to suffocation, all Irish Hill turning out to witness the battle. First thing the squire did was to order the constable to go out on the street and pick up a jury of six disinterested citizens to try the case. He bagged them in no time at all. The evidence being concluded, argument was opened by Mr. Spaan, a speech which is still remembered around here as one of dramatic force and passion, At the end of half an hour, Mr. Spaan noticed that he was making a marked impression on one of the six iurors, a man with big brown eyes not unlike those or the cow in the case. Tears started stealing down the juror’s cheeks, increasing in volume, until finally he broke down and wept as if his heart would break. Mr. Spaan knew right away that he had ons juror fixed and started working on the rest, when all of a sudden the trial was interrupted by the appear= ance of two men in uniform who beckoned to the constable. The constable whispered something in the squire’s ear, “Mr. Spaan,” sald the Justice, “will you suspend for a moment?” Mr. Spaan was only too glad to do so for he was thirsty as all get out. As he turned in the direction of the water pitcher on the table, the two officers in uniform entered the jury box and led Mr, Spaan’s juror out nf the court room. He was put in a wagon { and hauled back to the Central Hospital from which he had escaped that morning. All of which explains why Mr. Spaan always made | it a point thereafter to establish the mentality of jurors before proceeding with a trial.

Jane Jordan—

Son Prefers to Live With Aunts; Fault May Be Hers, Widow Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have a son whom I can’t understand. He is living with his aunts who | are old maids. He is 30 years old and has a real good job. His father died last fall and left me alone. I want to get an apartment and live with him, but he doesn’t seem to care whether he does anything for me or not. He doesn’t even bother to come to see me, We spent, a lot of money sending him to college, I have enough money to help pay our expenses. Do vou think his aunts have persuaded him not to live with me? I know they don’t like me. Do you think it is my son's place to make a home for me or to live | with his aunts? A LONELY MOTHER.

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Answer—I believe that if my son did not want

building a swarm of high speed | 0 live with me that I would not urge him to do so,

torpedo boats whose

top | I would ask myself what there had been in his up-

speed of 50 miles an hour is only | bringing to make him feel it was not desirable to one distinctive feature, specifica- [live with his mother, or even to come to see her.

tions of one type demonstrated here |

reveal.

Seventy feet long and powered | his mother.

Some mothers do not recognize the fact that it { is normal and natural for a boy to break away from During his adolescence, when he first

with three 1000 horsepower engines. | struggles for independence, she holds on to her aueach mosquito boat-has a rahge of | thority so hard that he has to put distance between a thousand sea miles at a cruising | them in order to live his own life.

speed of 20 to 22 knots.

At 30 a voung man should not cling to hiz mother,

Mounted on thes tiny gun plat- | or his aunts either, for that matter, but should be form of each boat are a pair of more interested in establishing a home and famiy

|21-inch torpedo tubes or four 18- of his own. inch tubes, as well as two 20-milli- | aunts in the first place? meter antiaircraft guns and a 25-| him turn his back on his own home?

Why did your son go to live with his What happened to make 1 feel sure

millimeter gun designed to take that if you had been sympathetic with the boy's care of opposition from not-too- | needs at that time you would have been able to

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keep on friendly terms with him, which is as much as any parent can hope for. Now I expect that the young man feels that you are more interested in what he can do for you than you are in him as an individual. The cause for cuch a feeling, if it exists, lies somewhere in the past. I know that a boy's tie to his mother is exceedingly strong. He does not become estranged from her un- | less she gives him cause, | ” ” ” EAR JANE JORDAN—What do you think of the young married women smoking so much when | their husbands can hardly make ends meet? They | will do without clothes to smoke. They will smoke | a package a day and sometimes more if they can rake up the 15 cents. And they get mad if their husbands mention that they are smoking too much. Just to | think of a mother smoking! Just to think of spending four dollars and a half for cigarets and doing | without clothes! JOHN.

| Answer—I think that perhaps they have too few satisfactions in their lives and lean too heavily upon | a poor substitute. JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who wiB answer vour guestions in this column daily,

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