Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1939 — Page 18
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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle
There's Romance and Good Fun, |
Sportsmanship and Fine Fellowship | On the Truck Routes, He Learns.
LBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 11.—While we wait for the truck for Los Angeles to finish loading, maybe I can answer a few wonderings you've had about truck drivers. For one thing, in our own touring about the country we've often listened to truck drivers and restaurant waitresses making wisecracks back and forth at each other. It always seemed to us that the drivers were forward and crude, and the waitresses just had te smile and act like they enjoyed it, because it was good business. But, after eating along the trucking route, I see it's different. The people who serve the truckers really enjoy them, and are fond of them. There is a mutual seeking for some gaiety in life between them. One of the truckers favorite spots is the Kiva Inn, at the south edge of Santa Fe, N. M. The woman who runs it—Mary Boyd-—caters especially to truckers. In fact, she's making it sort of a hobby, as well as a business She serves {ree coffee to all truckers. Many places do over the country, but hers is the only one on the Denver-Albuquerque run. She keeps a register book, and in it are 100 names of regular drivers from a dozen lines who go through Santa Fe. She knows every one by his first name, In fact, truckers always go by their first names. I copied down a few names out of Mary's book They always travel in teams of two, you know. Here are a few: Fuzz & Heck, Sonny & Al, Wimpy & Glen. Alabama & Floyd, Gruff & Dutch, Alex & Mutt, Quack & Gene, Bob & Bob, Big & Little Floyd. The truckers are. on the whole, a friendly lot. They have professional! antagonism for competing companies, of course. But it's a rule that they'll alwavs stop and help out another trucker when he's in trouble Truckers alwavs pull people out of ditches, or stop to help people in trouble
A Good Samaritan Rewarded The drivers see a great many accidents and have experiences with injured people. Driver Elmer Rook has a funny story. Two women, in a sedan, ran off the road and turned over right ahead of him The car stopped upside down Elmer the women out. and took the injured ne to a nearby house, and called a doctor. When he back. the other woman asked if he'd get the t-side-up for her After considerable work, he had the car right-side-up and back on the road. The woman said she wanted to pay him for all his trouble. Elmer said there wasn't any charge. But the woman absolutely insisted that she pay him, and after much fuss, she dug the money out of her pocketbock and handed it to him—30 cents! I was terrifically impressed by the way Elmer and Ernie drove. It seemed to me there was as much caution pride and skill in their driving as in the work of a locomotive engineer. They never went more than 45
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They never failed to dim their lights; they never once | took a turn alarmingly; they never for one second | relaxed the caution it takes to protect yourself from ] drivers on the road | the mileage they run up on these | Ss. The one I came down in had 150.000 | nd was considered practically new, One | > of a truck he drove on another line, | 1.000.000 miles. Elmer and Ernie are | the condition of their truck as if they'd he smselves Al 1d when it is necessary to send it out with some | ther driver on an emergency trip, the poor thing t safe to step into when it gets back, to hear them
My Day
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Spends Restful Day in Country; Cottage Made Ready for Summer.
Hx PARK, Wednesday. —I have nothing to tell you today except the things which happen to evervone who has a place in the country ana who only sees necessary work done in and out of doors occasionally, First of all, we changed some curtains in a room which we have decided to use this summer as a work m for an extra secretary and, only in a dire emergency, as a bedroom. I am putting in a daybed which may be none too comfortable, but the guests will know that they are only expected to remain on a temporary basis. It is funny how many little things need to be done even in a cottage, regardless of how little one may live in it. The robins look fat and prosperous, so that there must be plenty of work for them. As we drove in, I saw the loveliest black bird with red wings, and noted with sorrow that a number of Norway spruce trees which my husband had transplanted last fall, are apparently not going to live. The soil around this little cottage is very gravelly and everything needs constant watering. The lilacs are in bud, but not yet out, shall miss them, much to my sorrow, for I think are among the loveliest of spring flowers.
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me a little book which can be read in half an hour anda which any lover of dogs should not miss. It is Peems,” the last thing which Rudyard Kipling wrote. He Had a genius for writing about animals and this > book is written in the first person, a dangerous \ ehicle to try unless you are an expert. There are no lack of things which I would like to do with my own two hands if I could stay to do them. t alas, this afternoon we must take the train back to Washington. There is no question there of having e to dig in the garden and, besides, it is not my own garden. One need never be idle in either place, however, Here my two hands could be constantly
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Day-by-Day Science
By Science Service IRD rookeries in this country are protected nowadays, almost as a matter of routine. We are becoming increasingly wildlife-conscious—and there is plenty of room, anyway. So why not give the birds a break?
Quite different is the situation in western Europe. | Large populations press close upon scant land; the Malthusian nightmare rides hard. So it comes to | pass that in some places bird rookeries must also be | used as pasture lands. Such a situation obtains on | the low flat coasts and on the islands of the North | and Baltic Seas. Recently a German ornithologist, Herbert Ringleben of the great bird observation and banding station of Rosistten, East Prussia, made a study of some of these pastured rookeries, where scores of thousands of gulls and terns have their nests. On some of the islands sheep are pastured, and cattle graze on others. Neither sheep nor cattle do the nesis and eggs much harm so long as they are left to graze in their own unhurried wav. Herr Ringleben discovered. But when the herdsmen and their dogs come to the pastures, rounding the animals up and driving them in | close herds, they would tramp wide swaths of destruction through the nesting grounds. Horses, pastured on some of the islands, do not need human stimulus to be troublesome on the rookThey are much more nervous than cattle and sheep, much more given to Ny her galloping and
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Second Section
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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1—What earliest country? 2—Does gravity in a vacuum? 3—Into what body of water does the Ganges River empty? 4—Is a child born in the U. S of alien parents an American citizen? 5—Name the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 6—What famous address contains the words: “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth"? 7—What is the correct pronun« ciation of the word demonstrative? 8—What is the name for the cavity at the mouth of a vole cano?
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1—Aborigines 2—-Yes 3—Bay of Bengal. 4—Yes, except children of diplomats, 5—Key Pittman of Nevada. 6—Lincoin’s Gettysburg address. 7—De-mon’-stra<tiv; not dem-on-stra’stiv, 8—Crater.
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Times-Acme Photos. Fearing a Nazi coup, Poland has mobilized part of its Army along the Polish Corridor and Danzig. Poland boasts an Army of 300,000 with a trained reserve of 2,000,000. In these exclusive pictures, taken with permission of the Polish Government, secrets of Poland’s military might and modern equipment are revealed for the first time. 1. Polish soldiers at work on a communications project near one of the frontiers. 2. One of the observation balloons Poland is using in the constant vigil on her Western frontier. In the background are two of the blimps used in a balloon barrage, recently adopted. 3. Cavalry dash down a steep bank during maneuvers at Konski, near the Cerridor. 4. Bombers, fighters and reconnaissance planes of the Warsaw Squadron are shown neatly aligned on a military flying field near Warsaw-—proof that Poland is seemingly well-equipped to defend her territory from possible German invasion, 5. Gunners erecting antiaireraft gun near the frontier. 6. These soldiers are drawn up for inspection at Sielce before leaving for border posts,
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Ind.
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Huckster's Yell Lacks Authentic Tone and to Make Matters Worse Modern Kids Don't Have an Iron Pile,
| ANOTHER mortality is the vendor's cry,
Of all the picturesque peddlers, each with his identified voice, we now have only the newsboy and an occasional huckster or two. Considered both quantitatively and qualitatively, the newsboy’s cry was every bit as good as it is today—maybe better, because when you come to think of it, the old-time newsboy didn’t have
the advantage of big black headlines to help him sell his wares. Maybe, the modern huskster's ery is as good as the old-timer’s, but I doubt it. I certainly doubt it in the case of the old-time apple peddler, No modern apple vendor can cup his hand in the manner of the old-timer and produce the sound he did. To be sure, it didn’t “Apples,” but ing. Which is more than you can ir. Scherrer say for the modern huckster's cry. Some of the other my time also carried bells. Like the ragman, for instance, and the scissors grinder, the and the milkman. Indeed, our ragman carsried eight bells. He had them fastened to an ellip=tical arch attached to and extending over the horse's head, not unlike the pictures of the Russian horses in my copy of Jules Verne's “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Our ragman took no chances, however. In addi« tion to his set of bells, he also had his individual cry. It was delivered in the manner of a chant and went something like this, I remember: “Any rags, any bones, any bottles today?” Sometimes when in the mood, he elaborated his chant to include two more items—"‘any old iron” and “any old gum boots.” Which brings up another mortality, namely the old “iron pile,” the place next to the shed in the back yard where we kept our booty—the things we picked up in the street, like old horse shoes, for ine stance, and the cast-off things for which the rage man had a market. Once a year around house= cleaning time, we had to get rid of our iron pile. It was Mother's order. The most we ever got for it was 26 cents, I remember,
A Laugh on the Police
I thought it was pretty good until I heard Frank Keeter tell about his iron pile the other night. Sure, the same Mr. Keeter who traveled with the West End gang made up of Frank Fox and the Zollner boys. Once upon a time back in the Nineties, to hear Keeter tell it, his gang was fooling around Cali= fornia St., when all of a sudden, they ran across what looked like a manhole in back of one of the houses down there. With the help of one of Johnny Meadows’ ladders, swiped from Engine House 6 for the occasion, the gang got down into the hole and discovered that it was a cavern at least 25 feet high, and goodness only knows how big the other way, Mr. Keeter suspects that it was the cellar of an abandoned brewery, Well, from that day on the West End kids kept their booty in the cellar of the abandoned brewery, Mr. Keeter said they filled it with old iron, old bi« cycles and anything else lying lose in Indianapolis. And the funny part was, says Mr. Keeter, that no matter how much they sold the junkman, the cavern was always full of plunder, Mr. Keeter said he forgot all about the California St. cache until one day in 1915. By that time he was a grownup man of 30 years or better. That was the day he picked up an Indianapolis paper and read a sensational piece about the police having found a thieves’ den in California St. Mr. Keeter says it was the best laugh he ever had.
Jane Jordan—
Boy Friend Should Keep Date Made When at Odds With Her, Girl Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—It is nearing graduation time and I need some advice about graduation night. The boy I go steady with made a date about six weeks ago with another girl during one of our little arguments that lasted about a month. We don’t argue very often. Now the boy doesn't know whether he should take me or the other girl. I wouldn't have fun with anyone but him and he wouldn't have fun with anyone else either. Should I tell him to go ahead and take the other girl out even if we are in love and going steady, or should I go with him myself? GRADUATE.
Answer—The magnanimous thing for you to do is to advise the boy to keep the date he made when you were having a tiff. The courteous and ethical thing for him to do is to fulfill his appointment even if he never sees the girl again. After all, the other girl is not responsible for your squabbles. She has reserved an evening for the boy in good faith. What would you think of a young man who broke a date with you under the same circumstances? The only decent thing for you and your boy friend to do is to pay the price of your own folly without whining, unless the other girl takes it upon herself to break the date.
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EAR JANE JORDAN-I was graduated from high school last year and have been holding a responsible position ever since. T am almost 18. I have met a boy of 20 whom I like pretty well, and my par= ents allow me to go to the show with him once every They have no objections to him and seem to like him. I have another friend whom I have known for a long time who comes to the house occasionally. Usually he takes my mother and me to the show once The first boy asks to take me out every
going steady and think I would be going out too often, What do you think? J. B.
Answer—A once-a-weck date is not “going steady” provided you have other dates between times. You aren't a schoolgirl any more and are entitled to a speck more freedom in your good times. Do not throw out your parents’ advice entirely, for you may need it sometime, but try to persuade them around to your way of thinking. JANE JORDAN.
Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan whe will answer your questions in this column daily.
New Books Today
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ROBABLY no one is better qualified to write the biography of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe than is Frazier Hunt, who has been intimately associated with him for several years. In his book THE LITTLE DOC (8imon and Schuster) Mr. Hunt describes the background and youth of this most famous of country doctors, appropriately dedicating it to “that valiant and self-sacrificing band of death fighters, the country doctors of North America.” As a small boy Roy Dafoe, handicapped always by his stammering speech, kept himself aloof from other children. He found his greatest pleasure in the com=pany of older people, the village storekeeper, who told him tales of the Civil War; the old half-breed Indian, who took him fishing. It is an amazing fact that the young doctor who nervously attended his first obstetrical case without ever having seen a baby born was the same man who, years later, was to bring into the world the five most famous ever known—and was to stile medical
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