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From Indiana —Ernie Pyle

After Visit to Phillips’ Ranch He Offers No Argument to Claim It Is Showplace of Oklahoma.

BARTLESVILLE, Okla, May 2.—Okla-

R - homans say that the State’s No. 1 show213 place is the ranch of Frank Phillips, the oil

man. They can’t get any argument out of me on that. The ranch lies 14 miles from Bartlesville, inside. the Osage Indian reservation. It is 10,000 acres. Phillips bought it in 1925, and has lavished his millions on it until today it is in many ways a fairyland. I spent half a day there. It is 36 miles around the ranch. There are more than 100 miles of high, tight fences. There are 14 miles of roads, and half a dozen man-made lakes. You can easily get lost just driving around the place. Right within the ranch you can fight a forest fire, go motor-boating, shoot a buffalo or lounge in Park Ave. style. There is a nice home for the gate-keeper at the entrance, and, way off by itself, a little settlement Mr. Pyle of cottages for employees. It takes 30 people to keep the place going. Phillips’ private lodge is two miles from the gate. It makes you green with envy. And there is a separate museum which is the most important feature of the whole layout. The ranch contains one of the finest wild animal collections in the Southwest. There are 125 buffalo, hundreds of deer and such things as llamas, gebras and water buffalo. They range loose on 4800 of the ranch’s 10.000 acres. Mr. Phillips also has a town house in Bartlesville and a year-round apartment in the Ambassador Hotel in New York City. Phillips spends about 40 per cent of his time here. He travels mostly by air, in his own Boeing transport. Last vear alone he fiew about 20,000 miles. Mrs. Phillips flies, too. When they're in Bartlesville, they always come to the ranch for week-ends. Their lodge is large, rustic, comfortable and fascinating. It is built of logs. The main room is the kind you see in the movies. Scores of animal heads line the walls. Chairs and sofas are of rustic design. The piano has been completely covered with bark. The floors are thick with animal-skin rugs. Both the Lodge and Museum are named “Woolaroc.” The name comes merely from the words “woods, lake and rocks.” The Museum, a minute’s walk from the house, is of native stone and is immense. Inside, it is the warmest and most intriguing museum I have ever seen. Its exhibits are beyond estimation in actual money. Although it is fundamentally a museum of Oklahoma, there is everything in it.

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There are Inca relics that Phillips’ son brought from Peru; and the airplane (backed by Phillips) in which Art Goebel won the Dole race to Hawaii; and the rope Will Rogers used for lariat practice; and gem-studded saddles worth $10,000 each; and the machine gun that committed the Valentine Day massacre in Chicago; and a dinosaur egg 95,000,000 years old. All around the walls are great oil paintings— mostly Western scenes or portraits of Indians. Every picture is hung against a rug of animal skin, with the edges protruding a few inches. Every foreign animal on the ranch eventually becomes a rug. Furthermore, Phillips buys every prizewinning steer of ail the 4-H clubs in four states. He buys about 80 a year, pays better than market prices, gives the meat away, and makes the hides into rugs. The museum is dedicated to the Osage Indians. Mr. Phillips says now that he is building it for posterity. After his death it will become a public museunt. —Even now, he permits tourists through the whole ranch three afternoons a week.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Wears Dress Especially Designed For the Occasion on Visit to Fair.

YDE PARK, N. Y.,, Monday—We went by train yesterday and so had only a short drive through the Bronx to the Fair. I made rather futile attempts to stay as tidy as possible in the open car, and still be polite to the Mayor and Mr. Edward J. Flynn, who were riding with us. At the same time, I tried to wave occasionally at such kindly people along the way as were out to wave to the President. Once at the Federal Building, Mr. Grover Whalen greeted us and immediately discovered the fact that my dress had been designed especially for the Fair. My young niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, made the design, which was bought by a large department store that makes many of my clothes. The color was a perfect match for the interior decorations in the dining room of the Federal Building, so I was even more appropriately attired than I had originally imagined. The Federal Building is lovely. The exercises in the big court with the crowds in front were impressive, but a little longer than we expected, so our departure was hurried and our train was a little late in reaching Hyde Park.

Danish Royalty Greeted

On arrival, we drove as fast as we could to the Poughkeepsie dock to greet the young Danish Crown Prince and Princess, who had come up the Hudson River on the Potomac. Their royal highnesses bave completed their trip across the country and I think they have enjoyed it. They are interested in the people they have met and say they have been greeted everywhere with kindness. The Yosemite, with its old trees, seems to have made a great impression on them, as it always does on me. I was amused to have the Crown Prince tell me that the Redwood trees made him feel about an inch high and a very small cog in the universe. This is exactly the way they make me feel. After dinner last evening, we had a short musical program for their entertainment. Our singer was Miss Charlotte, a mezzo-soprano accompanied by Mr. Franz Mittler. Miss Charlotte has come to this country to make it her home, having had her musical training in Vienna and Salzburg. She is a concert singer and her voice has great sweetness, so that we all enjoyed her singing very much. During the intermission, a quartet of boys from Salem College, Salem, West Virginia, gave us some purely American music which was much appreciated also. Today is bright and clear and we are going up to the top of the hill for a picnic.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service O the children of an earlier generation spring meant sulphur and molasses but these days sulphur plays many another role whatever the season may be. Down in Texas, where some of the largest sulphur mines in the world are located, chemists are studying the ability of sulphur to make paving mixtures for highways which last longer and wear better. When used with saphalt as a binder for paving bricks the sulphur makes a superior adhesive agent. Under allweather conditions of service it was found that the sulphur-asphalt binder did not extrude from between the bricks, causing slippery pavements and loss of filler. In Alabama University, two new series of organic sulphur compounds have been created in the laboratory which have rubber-like properties similar to the synthetic rubber-like compound “thiokol” which is high in its sulphur content. Curious thing about the new sulphur compounds is

that they lose their rubber-like properties when in |

solution and regain it upon precipitation with an acid. This now-it-has-it, now-it-doesn’t ability offers the possibility that in these new sulphur compounds lies a way to impregnate cloth easily with rubber-like coat-

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By Leonard H. Engel

Science Service Staff Writer SOMEBODY ought to get an Atlantic blue riband for a ship now being built down at Newport News. It would nots be for speed or size because the vessel will not be the fastest or largest afloat. But it will be the safest, most comfortable, most scientific and most intelligently designed ocean liner that ever slid down a way on christening day. Its name will be the S. S.

America and it will be years ahead of its rivals when it starts ferrying passengers between the United States and Europe a year from now for the United States Lines as the queen of Uncle Sam’s new 500-vessel merchant fleet. It will not burn like the French line's S. S. Paris—the Morro Castle disaster and things learned on the S. S. Nantasket floating fire laboratory as a result guarantee that. It is being flush-riveted below the water line, just like the latest high speed airplanes—no projecting buttons to use up precious horsepower. Passengers on previous liners, who have been bothered by the noise of cargo handling as a result of close proximity to cargo holds, will be spared annoyance by a special acoustical ceiling on the deck below the holds—no noise will come through.

In these and in a hundred other ways, the 723-foot America is going to put its European rivals to shame. It may even pay its own way in time, though its $15,750,000 cost is being borne partly by the Government, because economy of operation has been engineered into it. It does not compare in size with Europe's Atlantic greyhounds—about 26,000 gross register tons as against about 80,000 for the Normandie and Queen Mary—but it will not compare in operating expense either.

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HE America is on one of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.'s 800-foot ways today. It will be in the water by the end of August and will be delivered to the U. S. Lines about March 1 next. Passengers are already being booked for May crossings a year hence. A ship grows from its keel ap. Following the keel, the stem, the steel structure which will support the bow, is built. Then come girders and finally deck and side plating. The America will be about 40 per cent complete when she is launched, though this can be varied within wide limits. One gaping hole is always left in the deck plating for the engines, put in place after the hull is nearly complete. Superstructure is built after the ship is afloat. In times like these, when every way is required for rush work, less work is done on the way and more after the vessel is floated.

Plating for six of the decks has already been laid—a fascinating process as half a dozen giant overhead bridge cranes swing along parallel rails as much as 125 feet apart, dropping huge steel plates neatly into place to be drilled, bolted up, aligned and finally rivited into place amid the deafening roar of bolting and riveting machines driven by compressed air. Engines developing a total of 4350 horsepower are at work continuously pumping 24,000 cubic feet of air at a pressure of 105 pounds to the square inch a minute.

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OU have to go up in the bucket of one of the cranes to get a view of the ship, there's so much scaffolding providing temporary support for girders and plates going into place and for 500 men at work on the vessel. But from the swing platform, which is like an elevator without an elevator shaft, the

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939

Biggest U.S. Ship Also Safest

S. S. America, Ready Next Spring, Years Ahead of Competitors

Riveting the America’s hull plates. Flush rivets are used below the waterline to save precious horsepower that would otherwise be wasted in dragging the projecting buttons of ordinary rivets,

ship’s 92-foot wide decks curve gently back to the stern. The air is charged with activity, for the America is not the only vessel under construction here. Nearly all the ways, connected by a maze of railroad tracks, are occupied, for Uncle Sam is in the midst of a great building program for his fleet and his merchant marine. An aircraft carrier will soon be laid down in the way adjoining the America’s berth. An experimental stateroom— one of about 400 which will carry the ship’s total of 1219 passengers —has been set up in one of the machine shops that constitute the “works” of a shipyard. And it reveals just what engineering science is doing to make this vessel the safest afloat. Backing the extremely thin wood veneer of the walls is a new material — marinite, asbestos bonded with a mineral, completely noncombustible and with high heat insulating value. It is the guarantee against a repetition of the Morro Castle holocaust. Seven-eighths of an inch of marinite back every stateroom panel. Ceilings are made of it. Corridors are lined with the new substance, its surface specially treated to give it a pleasing lineoleum-like finish in a spot where no such flammable material as wood is permitted.

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if a fire starts on one side of a cabin wall backed with it that fire will not start on the other side. Though marinite was developed primarily for use on ships, it is also being used ashore now—to protect the steelwork of cil refineries against melting flames, for example. Marinite is being used to isolate every part of the ship from every othier part—to confine fire to the point of origin, if it starts, where it may easily be put out. Two pairs of geared turbines will drive its twin screws; it will make the Atlantic crossing in seven days at a speed of about 23 knots. Comfort is being designed into the America by its designers, Gibbs & Cox, New York naval architects, every inch of the way. Staterooms are commodious and easily maintained in first class shape. Following the rules laid down by the Martime Commission, the crew has real quarters aboard the America. Public rooms will be air-conditioned, of course. Stateroom ventilating ducts, to provide heat or cool air as needed, are to be lined with sound absorbing material to eliminate an annoyance common to most ocean liners: noise and conversation coming from the neighbor's stateroom along with fresh air.

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Polishing one of America’s propellers. Two such giants, which must be handfinished, will be driven by geared turbines to take the ship across the Atlantic in a comfortable, economical seven days.

American's largest ship, appropriately named S. S. America, as it is now on the ways of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. and (inset) as it will be in May, 1940, when it will go into service between New York and Europe. The vessel, whose gross register tonnage will be 26,000 tons as compared with 80,000 for the Queen Mary and Normandie, will be comfortable and economical rather than flashy.

Card-Indexing of Relief Points Way to Savings for Taxpayers, Is Claim

By Bruce Catton

ASHINGTON, May 2 (NEA). —A new system for stream-

lining and dovetailing the country’s innumerable velief systems, which may ultimately save the taxpayers millions of dollars a year, is now being worked out under the guidance of the National Emergency Council. This system, which is entirely separate from the pending regroup-

ing of relief and public works agencies, is the result of work done over a period of months by representatives from the Social Security Board, WPA, other Federal agencies and the different subdivisions of the Department of Public Assistance in the State of West Virginia, all working together under the guidance of the NEC.

It is being tried out now in West Virginia, whose state officials estimate that it will cause a saving in relief costs of $50,000 a month. The whole proposition is basically a card-index scheme. What it amounts to is a complete co-ordina-tion and interchange of information about every relief activity and every relief recipient in West Virginia. In an office, made available in the West Virginia Capitol there has been set up an indexing system which makes instantly available to any relief officer all the facts about every phase of relief work in the State.

For instance: Suppose a state

direct-relief official has before him a relief application from one Joe Doakes. He wants to know whether Joe Doakes is getting any other kind of assistance from any other organization. Up to now there has not been any effective way for him to get this information. In West Virginia, however, he simply goes to the central office and looks up Joe Doakes’ card. He may find on it the information that Joe has currently been drawing $22 a month in old-age benefits—in which case, of course, Joe's relief application is pretty likely to get rejected. ® » 8

Suppose, though, that Joe Doakes’ name is not found in the index, but that the relief official has a hunch ‘that somehow, somewhere, Joe is getting a public handout anyhow.

He then looks up Joe's street address—234 Blank St., Wheeling, let's say. On another card, every case in which any kind of relief has been extended to anyone living at 234 Blank St., Wheeling, is recorded. It may be that Joe's wife is getting a mother’s pension. Or perhaps Joe's son has a WPA job. Or some other member of the family may be getting a regular check from some other State or Federal agency. Whatever it is, it will be listed there. And the point is that all of this information will be available on a moment's notice. There are today about 18,000 dif-

ferent kinds of jobs in American industry—and for the first time they are all being tabulated, defined and cross-indexed in a bulky new Dictionary of Occupations. This dictionary will be out in the near future. It is the result of two years’ work by the Job Analysis Section of the U. S. Employment Service, which expects that the book will be invaluable to the nation’s state employment services. There are some amazingly specialized jobs in American industry, and some of them have some outlandishly unfamiliar names. (Do you, for instance, know what an aitchbone opener’s job consists of? Or can you define a bull-dozer operator?) . Along with the dictionary, there is being compiled a set of job description lists, which go into details about the different kinds of jobs in different industries, telling what the requirements are, what working cénditions are like, and so on. Equipped with all of this data, the employment services will be able to provide speedier and more accurate service to job hunters and employers alike. Oh, yes: an aitchbone opener is a slaughterhouse worker who cuts] through the flesh and bone of a) beef carcass pelvis, beginning the process of splitting the carcass into halves. And a bull-dozer operator runs one of those construction job tractors with a curved metal plate in front to push dirt around.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Parched Throat, Charley Horses, Crick in Back Among Mementos as Garden Planting Gets Under Way,

SHORT, but none the less conscientious, listing of Indianapolis gardeners who welcomed spring a little too enthusiastically last week: - Katrina Fertig got a crick in her back planting her zinnia seeds last Sunday. Too much stooping over. Blanche Stillson is down with a parched throat, She spent all last week welcoming the wild flowers in her backyard, cheering them on at the top of: her voice. Don Campbell got a charley horse oiling his lawne mower last Saturday. Mary Forsyth got the sniffles tending her bed of Waldmeister (woodruff to you). She grows the bifid kind which fogies of the Old School know as asperula odorata. It’s the only kind worth growing if you want to use it as the basis of what is, perhaps, the greatest aromatic drink ever invented. Anyway, it’s the only right way to celebrate the coming of spring. The drink is called May Bowl, or Maibowle, if you're a stickler for the source of things. To make it the orthodox way, put a handful of Wald« meister in a bowl, but be careful that you pluck the herb before the blossoms are out. Over this pour two bottles of Mosel wine, cover the bowl, and let it soak not longer than half an hour in a cool place. After which remove the Waldmeister. Be sure you do this, else you'll have the surprise of your life. Finally, sweeten with four or five ounces of sugar, stir well, and serve immediately. The sooner the better.

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‘for a million juleps, is coming along nicely, too. The doctor says some people use it to pep up the taste of lamb. Equally tragic is the news that Cora Polley mufied planting her sweet peas on St. Patrick’s Day the first time in 30 years. She got them in the next day, though. Less tragic, but equally diverting, is the fact that Dan Zinn, living at 3902 N. Delaware St., is a grande son of the man for whom the zinnia was named.

Mrs. Christopher Coleman despises zinnias. Turns up her nose at them, anyway. I wouldn’t have brought up the subject except for the fact that her husband is the State Librarian who is forever reminding us that the tulip tree and the zinnia are something eme blematic of Indiana.

And Now for Some Trees

Park Ave. used to be known as Buckeye Lane, Sure, because of the trees.

in their buttonholes. Dr. E. F. Hodges bought a fresh rosebud every morning and wore it in his left lapel (because men haven't any hole in their right lapel), John P. Frenzel did the same thing with carnations, and Jim Riley was seldom without a boutonniere, Today John W. Friday, Elmer Scott and Ed Bingham are the only men left in Indianapolis who make a regular practice of wearing flowers. The fantastic trees on the rear of 1415 N. Meridian St., where Harry Pierce used to live, are gingkos, something thought up by the Japanese, it appears, The leaves are fan shaped, thick and coricaceous, marked with longitudinal nervures resembling maidenhair ferns, which is why some people of partisan feelings call them maidenhair trees. I thought you ought to know. ® The big trees, at 1121 N. Pennsylvania St. were planted by Mrs. Albert E. Fletcher whose husband built the house in 1873. It was a barren lot when he bought it. The sassafras, linden and buckeye trees surrounding the old Noble Butler home at Park Ave. and 12th Sts. were planted by John D. Morris when he built the house in 1363.

Termites are now up to 38th St., headed in all directions, and from messages I have received it looks as if bugs in general are going to have everything their way this summer.

Jane Jordan—

Interest in Work Essential to Proper Study, Student Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN—Would you please tell a boy the key to making good grades in school? Please tell what technique to use and give a brief summary of the best way to study, and to study for a test. Would you publish your address in your column? A SHORTRIDGE STUDENT.

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Answer—The most important factor in making good grades at school is an interest in the work. All people tend to dig into subjects which interest them and to remember what they learn. Your attitude toward school is important. If your curiosity is lively and you find it thrilling to know things, you'll get good grades no matter what method you use. Nevertheless, good grades do require a certain amount of self-discipline. There are so many distractions that it is easy to get side-tracked. There are the movies, the telephone and the girls. Perhaps the greatest enemy to good school work in existence is the radio. I wonder how many hours a day the average high school pupil spends in listening to the radio? Much of what they hear is trivial, whereas that which is instructive is seldom related to school work, The radio offers such constant, effortless entertaine ment that the addict is lured away from those pure suits which require a definite contribution on his part, I should say that the first requisite of good school work is a quiet room where one can work without being interrupted. Second, a desk or a table, with a good drop light, so that physical discomfort doesn't intrude upon concentration. Third, regular hours for study which are observed without fail. : If you're having trouble with your grades, you might try to keep note-books on your subjects. Make notes when you study. Make notes in class, and be systematic about it. Then when you have to review for a test, all you have to do is to go over your notes. This is very excellent training in organizing your material. I imagine that you will find one of your troubles lies in the difficulty of getting down to work. It is such a temptation to put off the evil hour when one must put forth an effort. If you learn to push by yeur first wall of resistance, you'll find that it isn’t as hard as you think. It is only the start which is hard. : If you don’t mind, I'd rather not publish my ade dress. JANE JORDAN.

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