Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1939 — Page 13

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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Frank Phillips Is One Millionaire Who Really Has Enjoyed Money; Once Paid Indian Chief $14,000,000.

BARTLESVILLE, Okla.,, May 3.—It was my impression that Frank Phillips was in New York, and I had no expectations of seeing him. You wouldn't figure the richest man in Oklahoma would be easy to see, anyhow, But when we got to the ranch, there were Mr. and Mrs. Phillips sitting on the front porch—waiting lunch for us! I guess that's Oklahoma hospitality

or something. I'd finished breakfast about an hour before, and kept complaining because I had to cat. Mr. Phillips is on a diet, and kept complaining because he couldn't eat. We both ate, though. After lunch, they showed me their bedrooms upstairs. Mrs. Phillips is especially proud of hers. All four walls are absolutely solid with framed and autographed photos. Everybody pictured there has been to the ranch at some time or other. I'm afraid that Mr. Phillips had Mr, Pyle the idea I travel in higher society than I do. He'd point to a picture and say, “You know him, of course.” And Td say, “Yes, sure,” and it would turn out to be the president of the National City Bank or the New York Cen-

in my life. My home town of Dana, Ind, is represented. There is a picture of Roy B. White, president of Western Union. He came from Dana. Fine little town, Dana. Whenever there's a death in her photo gallery, Mrs. Phillips moves the picture out to a separate gallery in the hall. And when someone on her walls says or does something to Mr. Phillips that she doesn’t like, she takes the picture down and puts it in the attic. Frank Phillips was born in Nebraska, & poor He went te school in Iowa, and became a barber. I understand he wound up there by owning all the barber shops in town. Then he got into the banking business. He came to Bartlesville in 1903, when it was Indian Territory. He set up a bank, and he is still a banker today. His bank drew him unwillingly into oil. And the oil made him fabulously rich. It was Frank Phillips who made the Osage Indians the richest Indian tribe in the world. He points to a portrait of an Osage chief on the wall, and says: “I wrote out a check to him for $14,000,000. And I got it all back, too.”

Honored by Osage Tribe

He is the only white man who is a full-fledged member of the tribe, and he is very proud of it. | Phillips is tall and slender and looks younger than | his 60-odd years. He was dressed in immaculate brown riding habit, even to a violent brown shirt. He Jaughed and said to Mrs. Phillips, “My shirts are louder than Roy Howard's.” He says he's pretty tight about money. But I guess he’s like many other rich people—he’ll pinch on & subway ride, and then give $100.000 away without a thought. Phillips is generous with his ranch. His executives and many lesser emplovees come out regularly and ride his horses. He gives gigantic parties several times a year. I believe Frank Phillips is a man who genuinely enjoys his money. He has spent lavishly on this ranch, but his creation has been in delightful good taste. From the front porch of the lodge, you look down over & lake. At the far end is a dam. and a beautiful waterfall comes foaming down its side. We stood on the lodge porch and Frank Phillips said, “There's a perfect example of selfishness. To |

think that I built that whole lake and dam and water- | fall just so I ‘could sit here on thé porch and look | at t.» { And it was selfish, too. He should have given that money to me.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Danish Prince Does Real Job | Of Laying Postoffice Cornerstone. |

EW YORK, Tuesday.— Yesterday afternoon there | was a really interesting celebration in the: vil- | lage of Rhinebeck, N. Y. The new Postoffice has been | built not far from the old Beekman Arms Hotel on the Albany Post Road. It is of gray fieldstone and | a faithful replica of the old Beekman house, except | for an extension at the back which had to be added to accommodate the work that must be done there. It is a rare thing for any Postoffice to be dedicated with the President of the United States and two Cabinet officers in attendance but, on this occasion, the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General were on hand and, in addition. the young Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark, who were staying with us. The Crown Prince consented to lay the comerstone, which he did much more thoroughly than is usually the case. Most of us take a trowel in our hand and make believe, but he intended to prepare the space so that the stone would remain there permanently and he earmed his honorary membership in the stone mason’'s union! . The military band master was then brought up and introduced to the Crown Prince, for he had come to this country from Denmark. It was interesting to hear them talk in Danish. Some of the young women and children were dressed in Danish costume and presented all the ladies in the party with the most beautiful Rhinebeck violets. I am particularly fond of the white ones and was delichted to have a big bunch of them. I know no other place where violets are more successfully grown.

Interior Not Yet Finished

After the speeches and the ceremony had come to an end, we went in to look at the interior which is

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Forecasting Indiana's Weather

My. Armington’s Bureau Does Its Best, but It’s Hard to Please Everyone

1 J. H. Armington, U. S. Chief Meteorologist in Indianapolis, takes all information about approaching storms and makes out a map which is printed and sent out each day. From this map amateur forecasters

predict their own weather.

2. Warren J. Rice, assistant U. S. Meteorologist, is oiling the windvane on the roof of the Federal Building.

3. Mr. Rice checks the amount | hour period in Indianapolis. In flood times this becomes a very im-

portant part of the Bureau's work.

By Roger Budrow

of rain which fell during a 24-

T least 75 times a day the telephone rings in the Indianapolis Weather Bureau office atop the Federal

Building. Most calls are sensible

requests for more detailed

information than that given in the regular weather reports. But many don’t come quite within that category. Some samples: “Will there be a full moon for our picnic

tomorrow night?” or

“Shall I take my umbrella downtown?” or, “Isn’t it going to rain before 3 o'clock ?” Others have asked when they should take their two

| weeks’ vacation in Florida,

when deer hunting will be best in Michigan, if there is enough wind on Lake Michi-

gan to sail from Milwaukee to Chicago in one day and how far above sea level certain parts of Indiana are situated. Weather Bureau officials stifle their laughs or count 10 to keep their tempers at some of the questions because, after all, it's their job to inform the public

about the weather. Anyway, most callers are grateful, but J. H. Armington, chief meteorologist here, recalls that he was onee told by an indignant lady that, “If the Government pays you anything, it’s far too much!” = 2 5

REDICTING the weather for Indiana is more difficult than for most States, according to F. W. Reichelderfer, U. S. Weather Bureau chief in Washington. “In the summer, storms sweep up from the Southwest and curve through Indiana on their way East,” Mr. Reichelderfer said. “In the winter, the cold waves form in Western Canada and circle southward into the U. S., roaring through Indiana on their way East. Indiana has a greater variety of weather than most States.” Then, too, there are such weather “freaks” as the 12 inches of snow that was dumped on a 20-foot square area on a farm near Wabash in 1924. And back in the 1880's residents near Vevay

were mystified when it began raining out of a clear sky—not a cloud in sight. It was a sizable shower, according to Weather Bureau records. It actually did rain fish at Rochester once when a strong wind scooped out part of a nearby lake and hundreds of its undoubtedly amazed denizens were dropped into fields six miles away. The task of predicting Indiana's weather falls not only upon Mr. Armington alone but upon 86 other Hoosiers who help gather information for the weather reports.

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HOSE who say. “Well, vou never can believe the weather man,” had best consider the latest “report card” of the Indianapolis Bureau. Mr. Armington and his staff forecast the weather accurately 87 times in 100 tries, according to the Washington office. And, they add, forecasts are improving each year. Not only does Indiana have 87 weather men but it also has, in vears of service, the oldest weather man in the country. He is Elwood Kirkwood, a farmer, who lives near Rushville. Every day since 1883 he has been recording the temperature, precipitation and other weather data. For more than 40 years Frank H. Park, a Scottsburg druggist, has been doing similar duty. Other Hoosier weather men are physicians, horticulturists, engineers, professors at Notre Dame, DePauw and other universities. Ten of them who send in daily wire reports during the corn and wheat season from April 1 to Oct.

not as yet quite finished. The murals done by Mr.

Olin Dows, which will tell the story of the town, are | not yet up. Placed in two cases on either side of | the door one can see a piece of the old stone used in ! the original Beekman mansion, and a piece of the | window glass which was rescued when the old louse |

burned down.

After dinner last night, our voung Danish guests left us to motor back to New York to have a little rest before a very busy official day at the New York |

World's Fair, ending with a gala opera performance and a supper party afterwards.

I am speaking at noon today before the Query |

Club and going from there to a meeting of the National Association for the Improvement of Colored People. When I return from there we are planning to have an entirely unofficial evening, which I shall tell you about tomorrow.

Day-by-Day Science

By Scienoe Service ANY reports are appearing these days on ways of treating arthritis or rheumatism as it used to be called. This is a reflection of increased activity on the part of medical scientists who are studying the problem. The number of different measures reported to have given good results may, however, be confusing. There is no doubt that progress is being made. Doctors no longer take a hopeless attitude about the condition, and all authorities on the subject urge arthritis sufferers to be optimistic. - Cultivating a cheerful attitude, freeing the mind of worry and anxiety, are in fact now considered an important part of the treatment. This part, of course, is pretty much up to the patient. Rest, both mental and physical, is very important. One authority, Dr. Walter Bauer of Harvard Medical School, says that rest is probably as important in the

, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis as in the treatmen of tuberculosis. Like tuberculosis patients, arthritis

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1 get $3 a month. The rest get nothing, During flood season, weather men living in river towns send in river stage readings several times a day if the river is above a certain stage or if it rains more than one inch during 24 hours. ” =z 5

ACH morning Mr. Armington draws the daily weather map from all this information. It is placed in such public buildings as the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Business branch of the Public Library and Federal Building. Other reports are mailed to Indiana schools. These are free. Private companies pay $240 a year for daily copies. These maps show approaching storm areas, whether or not they carry rain or snow, and their temperatures.

A summer storm approaching Indianapolis from the southwest will first reveal itself by a falling barometer and northwest winds,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Who laid the cornerstone of the main building in the group of Federal structures at the New York Worlds Fair? 2—Which river drains the Great Lakes into the Atlantic? 3—From whom did James J. Braddock win the world’s heavyweight boxing championship? 4—What is the largest inhabitant of the oceans? 5—In what country is the city of Poitiers? 6—What is the correct pronunciation of the word caramel? = 2 t

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1—President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 2—St. Lawrence. 3—Max Baer. 4—The whale. S5—France. 6—Kar’-a-mel; not kar-a-mel’ ” = =

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Mr. Armington said. As the wind veers to the south and southwest, clouds sail in, the barometer falls steadily and it may rain. The rapidity of the storm's approach and its intensity will be indicated by the rate of the barometers fall. When the wind blows from the south and southwest and the barometer falls steadily, a winter storm is approaching from the west or northwest and its center

will pass near or north of the observer within 12 to 24 hours with the wind shifting to northwest by way of southwest and west, Mr. Armington said.

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HE wind doesn’t blow as hard as it used to in Indianapolis —not officially. The windvane on the Weather Bureau's new headquarters is lower than on the tall Consolidated Building where the Bureau was located until last fall. The high buildings which cluster

near the Federal Building break the wind and consequently a slow= er speed wind is recorded than formerly. There is no way at present of compensating the difference, Mr. Armington said. Are winters getting milder? “I have found that in the 1890s the winters in Indianapolis were just as mild as the past few winters here,” Mr. Armington said. “They vary in severity from time to time but do not do so with any regularity. It is believed that heat from the sun—yes, intensity of the sun spots—has a great deal to do with it. Others believe that internal heat from the earth's core may have some influence. “But there is one thing we know definitely,” Mr. Armington said. “Spiders and beavers’ dams and muskrats’ houses and the like mean nothing in predicting the weather. They tell of the weather that has past, not of what is to come. That's my job—and that of 86 other Hoosiers.”

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

In and Out of the Red With Sam “—and: | wantcha to keep the machines going full force the

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

How Irvington Got lis Start; Julian and Johnson Not the First Settlers as Many Have Believed.

VY OU have been living in a fool's paradise if you think that Jacob Julian and Sylvester Johnson were the pioneers of Irving ton, that incredible part of Indianapolis sometimes referred to as a state of mind,

but which when you get to know it, isn’t that at all. It's the part of Indianapolis inhabited by pixies, Peter Pans and Parkers. The first man to find Irvington was John Wilson

who came to Marion County by way of Connersville in 1820 or thereabouts. Anyway, that’s what Vida Tibbott Cottman discovered when she dug into it. Mr. Wilson's home, said Mrs. Cottman, was a log cabin on the 80 acres lying west of what is now known as Hawthorne Lane, on the very ground Butler College bought in 1873. (By the way, you'll have to hurry if you want to have another look at the old Butler buildings. Last Saturday when I was out, they were wrecking the place and from the way things looked, it won't be long now until Irving= ton’s Butler is reduced to nothing more than a memory.) Mr. Wilson's home, to get back on the track, faced an Indian trail which connected Whitewater Valley with White River, the slickest place in the world to set up a tavern. And that's exactly what Mr. Wilson did. When he died in 1840, the 10-room tavern was taken over by his son-in-law, Aquilla Parker. In 1822, two years after Mr. Wilson settled in Ire vington, Joseph Sandusky came along, bought the ° land adjoining Mr. Wilson's over to Arlington Ave., and built his home on the lot where the old Lyman house now stands. Thirty-five years later, he rented part of his farm to John Ellenberger. Sure, the same man whose name now ornaments the pretty East Side

park. Enter Messrs. Johnson and Julian

All of which sets the stage for Sylvester Johnson and Jacob Julian who turned up in 1870 by way of Centerville which was a good enough place to live until Richmond took away the county seat of Wayne County. This scurvy trick on the part of Richmond made Julian and Johnson so dad-blamed mad that they decided to leave Wayne County for good, and start up something of their own. What they had in mind was a community something on the lines of Utopia with some of the good features of New Hare mony thrown in. It turned out to be Irvington, how= ever. . The reason it turned out to be Irvington was bee cause Mr. Julian happenéd to meet the Rev. T. A, Goodwin who, besides being a preacher, had a real estate business on the side. Mr. Julian, still mad at what they had done to him in Wayne County, told his troubles to the preacher. True to his profession, the preacher comforted Mr. Julian as best he could, and then told him about a tract of 305 acres five miles east of Indianapolis on high ground and, cere tainly, beautiful enough to show up Wayne County. Years later Mr. Julian discovered it was mostly clay soil. Mr. Julian had Mr. Johnson have a look at the place and together they bought it ($100 per acre) from Jacob Sandusky, probably an heir of the original owner. The original Mr. Sandusky, it appears, went about the country buying up cheap land and selling it at a pretty profit. Sandusky, O., is said to be named for him. Which is what might have happened around here, too, had not Julian and Johnson turned up in time to baptize Irvington. It was one of the narrow= est escapes Indianapolis ever had.

Jane Jordan—

Be More Aggressive, Take Pride in Fact Girl Is Popular, Youth Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a senior in high school and the girl is a junior. I have had as many dates with her as she will give me. At times she seems to think as much of me as I do of her, Then again she is indifferent. I don’t understand her at all. We go skating, dancing or to a party. When we get there she will find someone else and spend the evening with him, and I feel that she ignores me, Still, I brought her there and take her home. She is very popular and is good company. She doesn’t see anything wrong with her treate ment of me. She does not show anyone more atten tion than another, and seems to have no favorites, She treats me as though I were her Dad or her brother. Am I too old for her? Now I have other dates but I am sure she knows that there is no other girl for me. Is it because she wants- to have a good #sime and I am too serious or too old for her? She seems just young in her bee havior. B-WILDERED.

Mr. Scherrer

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Answer—How fortunate you are to have a popular girl! It adds to your prestige to have chosen a girl whom the other boys admire. If no one else wanted her the chances are that your interest would wane. Now all you have to do is to learn how to meet the competition without getting upset. To begin with there is nothing wrong with your girl's attitude. It is the task of youth to get ace quainted with the opposite sex. A girl should know as many boys as possible in order to have a better basis of comparison when the time comes for her to choose a husband. The same thing is trues of boys, Of course it. is inevitable that a girl should have a favorite. I know how you feel. You want to bé the favorite. But you can’t win first place in your girl's esteem by complaining about the competition. Your job is to outshine the others. You don’t have to drive the other boys off with a club, but at the same time you needn't curl up in a corner. An aggressive boy doesn’t ask for his share of a girl's attention. He takes it. And don’t forget that girls respond to competition also. So she treats you as if you were her father or her brother! I suppose that she keeps you at arm's length. Well, what is a girl to do? She knows she can’t fall in love and marry while in high school. She has seen girls who pet fall into disrepute with the crowd. She has heard boys speak lightly of girls who are easy to kiss. What can she do but treat them all impersonally and be as entertaining as possible? JANE JORDAN.

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

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D° you remember the fairy tale days of childhood, days filled with experiences conjured from the imagination, escapgs from dragons and giants, and hiding in favorite haunts to watch for the fairies? The Young Brontes, Charlotte, Emily, Bramwell and Anne, were no different from other children. Mary Louise Jarden has written THE YOUNG BRONTES (Viking Press), in which she portrays their distince tive personalities, ‘their ideals and dreams. In her “afterword” Miss Jarden writes, “This tale has been of the growing-up days of the four Bronte geniuses or Genii as they called themselves. , .. I have iried to show the Moor and Haworth not as an impediment to their genius, but as the holy place of its conception, for here they began to weave their web of words and the “making out of characters and tales which foreshadowed their poetry and finally led to the crea of Jane Eyre and ° i

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