Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1939 — Page 10

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From Indiana —Ernie Pyle

'Unusual' California Weather Makes It Tough on Final Night; and Now He'll Take. Some Sleep.

| ANGELES, May 16.—We are in Los Angeles. But I will never know exactly when we arrived, or really how. I don’t know whether it was 2 a. m. when we got here, or 3, or 4. I only know that it hadn't turned davlight vet. Last evening (which seems 100 years back) we stopped at Blythe just after crossing into California There was something wrong with the motor.

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pulled into a garage, and ate sup- |

per while the mechanic on it. It was getting dark when we left Bivthe. The sign said “Los Angeles —225 miles.” ning better, but still didn't well. Capt. Don Kepler went bed As soon as we were out id town, the wind roared and howled

NE Lee Silger and I smoked one R 4

cigaret after the other Mr. Pyle

to

think. And the motor and the

Hour after hour we toiled The mountains in front

anvhow. across the California desert.

worked

The motor was run- | pull |

of | We didn't | talk much. for I was too sleepy to |

wind and the gears were too loud |

of us faded into the darkness. but before they went | thev clothed themselves with an ominous blue-black |

that made Lee and me say to each other, “There's bad weather ahead.” When the moon finally came out. it was fuzzy and faint with a hazy halo. We rolled at last into Indio. “I've got a drink of water.” Lee said. And so did I. Pyle the Great Nonwater Drinker. was practically blowing cotton out of his ears. We went to a filling station. and almost drowned ourselves. That desert in summer time,” Lee said. nearlv drink vourself to death.” Don never woke up. We bought apples and Hershev bars. And an extra one for Don. Except we ate them ourselves We ground out of town for Banning, 40 miles away, up over Whitewater. Scores. hundreds. thousands of times we shifted among our dozen forward speeds over that 40-mile torture up Whitewater. My noddings became more frequent When I heard the silence of the motor and reared we wer- in Banning. It was nearly midnight.

“You

up Even Driver Is Worn Out

A strange cold had come. There was stinging mist in the air. The wind had turned to a knife. felt itchy from no washing. We had coffee and doughnuts in a little stand “I'll take her on in,~ Don eagerly. He climbed into bed. iH you've never been in one of these nights of

said. Lee gave over

“unusual” Los Angeles weather, you don't know what | Rain: and mist; and drifting, blow=- |

tough driving is ine fog. If I had been at the wheel, I would have been in an agony of tension. But Don drove that thing through the storm with an ease that was almost birdlike. any longer, and almost asked Don to let some tourist camp. so I could go to bed

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Once or twice I thought I couldn't stand it | me out at |

But. at the end of some limitless time, we came into

Los Angeles, and to the garage where the trucks are kept. Don said. "That's the longest trip made from Prescott on into Los Angeles.” worn out himself

He was

I've ever |

He climbed up the side of the big trailer, unlocked the door to the tool compartment, and handed down | |

my bags on the wet tire, and he fell backward through five feet of thin air, and landed cruelly on the concrete, on the back of his head Our long-drawn,

exhausting, 1350-mile

And then. as he went to step down, his foot slipped |

trip came |

to an appropriate end in a cloud of good old-fashioned |

truck drivers’ language. Too weary to speak, I joined him in spirit. and stole away 1t is now just getting daylight. I am in a hotel fast asleep. Please don't ever wake me

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

A Pleasant Drive to Annapolis and Another Visit to the World's Fair. EW YORK, Mondayv.—I arrived at New York City rather late last night, having waited to have supper with my husband and guests in Washington. We had a very pleasant drive in the afternoon to Annapolis, my first glimpse of the academy this vear. The view from Bancroft Hall out to sea, with all the little sailing ships tacking back and forth, is a sight to be remembered. My husband used to say that these boys never had a chance to really learn to sail at the academy, but judging by the sight yesterday afternoon, they must be doing a great deal of sailing Admiral and Mrs. Brown gave us tea and let us have a glimpse of their garden. I hope the youngster who was with us will think more of John Paul Jones after seeing his final resting place in the crypt of the chapel, and that the flag with "Don’t give up the ship” on it will make that particular incident in our naval history an unforgettable one Today has been spent at the New York World's Fair. Mrs. Helm, Miss Lape. Miss Thompson and I got out there about Trvlon and went inside feel that. as vet, one saw World of Tomorrow,

Norwegian Display Impressive like to call ihe busses and progressed to the to spend a long time in On these visits. when 1 time, I am not trying Flynn was kind enough

the Perisphere. 1 did not

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Then we go with the musical Federal Building I want that building some day have a limited amount of really to see it. though Mi to ask us to come over. We did spend some Pavilion Thev have a round rug In the which. in color, is one of the most attractive things I have seen in a long time From there I went to the luncheon for Brooklyn Day. Mrs. William H. Good was in charge and had asked me to be one of her guests today, for this was Women's Day. Afterward we went to the National Advisory Committee Building, where four little girls in Dutch costume presented me with a particular variety of tulip named after me last year. Mr. Grover Whalen greeted me before an informal reception was held. Then to the British Pavilion for tea and to hear their very excellent Cold Stream Guards Band play “The Star-Spangled Banner’ and “God Save the King” in most inspiring fashion.

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Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service VERY nation in the world, favored by nature to produce some major agriculture crop, now finds this factor a handicap as well as an asset. America’s struggles with its surplus cotton are well known and Brazil has a comparable problem with its coffee. For coffee, however, chemical research has developed a new plastic material which should not only do something about the coffee surplus but should spur. incidentally, other industries which employ plastics, Invented and developed by the H. S. Polin Laboratory of Research in Physics, New York, the new coffee plastic is the Kind that Brazil has long needed. In manv ways the coffee-plastic manufacture is a self-contained industry because the coffee not only provides its own chemical plasticizers and catalysts

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but also because the by-products of the process are |

sufficiently valuable to defray much of the cost of |

production. Developed in both thermo-setting and thermoplastie types, the new material from coffee is no hard-brown, coffee-looking material. It can be produced in green, red, mahogany, brown, yellow and ebony Mack hues merely by the chemical development of its own coloring materials, in which the green coffee bean is unusually rich.

(This is the first of two articles on the origin of the Disciples of Christ in Indiana.)

By Sexson E. Humphreys AT the Central Christian Church here today the Indiana Disciples of Christ are holding their 100th annual convention. They might have celebrated their centennial 11 vears ago: they might have started counting from an 1828 conference at Edinburg. Some of the churches that now belong to the Disciples were founded before the War of 1812. The Stoney Creek Church in Clark Countv goes back to 1799 and is probably the oldest Protestant congregation in Indiana. A majority of its members left the Baptist fold in 1828. It was the largest church represented at the first state convention of the Disciples, with 215 members in 1839. The Blue River Church, another of the important early Christian churches, was organized in 1818. Elijah Goodwin was preaching in Bloomington in 1826. John McClung preached in Indianapolis in 1822 and there was a Christian Church established in Marion County near Clermont about 1825, another near Maywood only a few years later. Some of the earliest Christian churches of the state were founded by “New Light” or “Old Christian” disciples of Barton W. Stone, then preaching around Lexington, Ky. The Rev. Mr, Stone preached at Bloomington in 1826 and was present in 1839 at the first state Christian convention. A spiritual grandson of the leaders of the Great Awakening of Revolutionary days in Virginia, the Rev. Mr. Stone preached a religion that was as emotional as that of the Methodist and Baptist frontier evangelists, but was simpler and less based on fear of hellfire. The New Light churches originally were Presbyterian. Many of the other early Christian churches were Baptist congregations in which preachers or laymen had become disciples of Alexander Campbell through reading "The Christian Baptist.” Apparently the Rev. Mr. Campbell did not come to Indiana until the Constitutional Convention of 1850 ” on ” HEN found Indianapolis “one of the most convenient and beautiful infant cities in the West” and predicted that within half a century Indiana would be" the second or at least the third State in the Union for population and wealth.” The Rev. Mr. Campbell was a great debater and his sermons were full of doctrine. His chief aim in seeking to form a religious movement was to effect a unity of all Christians by abolishing all credal statements

and establishing the churches solely on the New Testament basis. Despite his goal, the result of his work was the formation of a new denomination, the Disciples of Christ. The nearest he came to effecting a church unity was*in the union of his followers with those of the Rev. Mr. Stone. This was accomplished in 1830 by means of a simple statement that there was no difference in belief between the Campbellite “Reformers” and the “New Lights.” Bv 1830, however, the two groups had already united in Indiana, and in that year there were at least 12 churches which had taken a definite stand for New Testament Christianity, as the Rev. C. W. Cauble savs in hus history of “The Disciples of Christ in Indiana.” The 12 he lists were at Favetteville, Crawfordsville. English and Bloomington and Blue River in Washington County, Silver Creek (Stoney Creek) in Clark County, Liberty in Orange County. Union in Marion County (near Clermont), Indian Creek at the Lawrence-Greene County line,

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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939

Indiana Disciples Mark Centennial

Some Churches Founded Before 1812 and One Goes Back to 1799

Leaders of the Indiana Disciples of Christ are shown here discussing the program for the 100th annual convention just before opening

of sessions in the Central Christian Church here.

Left to right are

the Rev. E. L. Day, member of the committee on program and ar-

rangements;

Union in Gibson County and

Bethel in Wayne County, ” ” ” HERE were 15 preachers pres= ent at Edinburg in 1828 when the union was accomplished. Eight important centers representing four religious bodies had united on the Bible as their rule of faith and practice. Absolem and John T. Littell, leaders of the Silver Creek (Stoney Creek) Association around Clark County, came from the Regular Baptists. John Wright in Washington County had brought the Blue River Church and the whole of the Free Will Baptist As« sociation with him. Joseph Hostetler of the Orange County Church was the leader of a group of Dunkards (German Baptists), The others, Beverly Vawter of the Liberty church, Elijah Martindale of the Bethel Church, Michael Combs of Crawfordsville and Elijah Goodwin from Bloomington, with his large following in 16 counties where he had preached. were all’ of the “New Light” group. Of the eight leaders, four were Campbell disciples and four Stone followers. One of the characteristics of the Campbell movement was the liberty of the individual churches. There are still some Disciples who believe in completely congregational church government without any conventions at all. The vear 1830, which 1s about the only date one can lay hands on as the one in which the denominaiion was established, was not only the vear in which the union with the Stone group was consummated. It was also the year in which, against Alexander Campbell's own judgment, his followers dissolved the Ohio Mahoning Association which had been the convention or Campbellite churches earlier This action turned the Rev. Mr. Campbell to a new line of thinking and practice, By 1842, church colleges. church conventions and missionary secieties, which he condemned so roundly in the 1820s. became a part of his program. The same spirit of independence that had forced the dissolution of the Mahoning Association, however, made it difficult for him to

obtain a national convention for

Side Glances—By Galbra i th :

BRS TSS

“| got a terrible clop on the head with an old shoe—! think your fatherdfossed it."

the Rev. Frank C. Huston, associate director of music

The Rev. William berger, pastor of Christian Church

A. Shullenthe Central

the church. The first one was not held until 1849. The Stone branch of the church had kept its Presbyterian synodical organization in Kentucky, and although that had not come into Indiana, the disciples of the Rev. Mr. Stone were generally favorable {o some sort of associa= tions or conventions. They were principally responsible for the 1839 state meeting of the church in Indianapolis and Barton W, Stone himself attended the meeting and addressed the largest session. It is this state meeting which is celebrated by this year's centennial, ” n ” who called the convention were very careful to phrase its agenda that it would not infringe upon any individual church. The call read: “The object of said meeting will be to promote the general prosperity of the good cause in Indiana—to endeavor by a free interchange of views, to bring the united energies of the Disciples to bear upon the accomplishment of the desirable objects; such as the procuring and sustaining of efficient and faithful evangelists; the promotion of the cause of education in general and of religious education in particular. In a word—to consult on any mat-

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Entered at Postoffice,

for assembling and training the convention choir; the Rev. Joel Lee Jones, program and arrangements committee member; Dr. G. I. Hoover, Indiana Christian editor and general secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Association, and the Rev. E. D. Lowe, convention president,

Mrs. Margueritte Harmon Bro of Chicago is scheduled to address the fellowship luncheon in the First United Brethren Church tomorrow at 12:15 p. m. She is secretary of the Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches of the United States.

for the entertainment of brethren irom a distance, so that none need be deterred from coming on account of the expense of boarding in such a town as this.”

to the general advancement of the truth.” This call. which was signed by Butler K. Smith, an Indianapolis blacksmith and preacher, included also the following promise: mn NEXT—The First Convention.

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Local Woman Runs Cemetery For Pets Near Cumberland and Her Work Has Won Many Admirers.

Y life seems to be just one encounter after another with surprising people. This week it's Mrs. Kathryn McGarvey, 717 W. 32d St., who, in spite of the fact that she has a husband, two children, and a lively puppy to look after, runs the Pet Rest Cemetery. It's the one out on 21st St., about a mile east of Cumberland. You can't miss it—not on Sun= days, anyway. All you have to do is to follow the

crowd. People from all parts of the world come to see it. Last Sunday, for instance, a man from Kansas City, of all places, stopped off to have a look. He said it was nicer than the one in Dayton, O. Mrs. McGarvey's cemetery embraces four acres ornamented witn poplars, firs, and privet hedges. Thus far this year, she has spent $210 planting up the place. Inside the four acres lie the bodies of 600 dogs and two horses. A few pet cals, too. Mayor Sullivan's setter, Mike, lies buried there. So does the cocker spaniel of Meredith Nicholson Jr., and John Hillman's chow. And there's hardly a Sunday, says Mrs. McGarvey, but what a half-dozen people ask to see the grave of Rex, the police dog who saved his master's life, a couple of years ago. Rex made the front page of all the papers at the time.

The Pet Rest Cemetery even has a legend—one to the effect that a pet opossum, a monkey, and a couple of canaries lie buried there. The legend came with the place when Mrs. McGarvey acquired it a year ago from Mrs. William Hirst, who thought up the idea back in 1930. In the time she's had it, Mrs. McGarvey has buried 40 dogs. One week, indeed, she had six burials. Most of the dogs in her cemetery are fox-terriers; Bostons come next, and Pekingese in third place. Surprising, too, are the number of spitzes. Mrs. McGarvey doesn’t know whether her discovery is of social significance or not. It's just one of the things she’s picked up by keeping her eyes open,

She Handles All Details

The cemetery is just a part—the last part—of Mrs. McGarvey's profession. She conducts the fue neral from beginning to end. First of all. she bathes and cleans the dog and puts it in its little coffin, The kind of coffin determines the price of services, Her standard price is based on the use of a wooden box painted inside and out with asphaltum. On the bottom is placed a bed of excelsior, and {hen the whole is lined with bleached muslin. Fancier line ings cost more, of course.

Higher in price, too, are the pastel-colored cement vaults and the galvanized iron coffins. Standard size of a single grave is 2 to 3 feet. The grave markers are 12 by 6 by 3 inches made of a composition consisting of granite and cement. Mrs. McGarvey hopes to see the day when all her clients use the sama style marker. It will make her cemetery look all the prettier, she says. Fluffy Myers, a 14':2-year-old poodle, received the most elaborate funeral of any dog around here, says Mrs. McGarvey. She died on April 27, but wasn't buried until May 3. That's because she lay in state a week, everybody in the neighborhood bringing her flowers. Fluffy was buried in a galvanized iron enameled coffin with pink pleated satin lining. Bew sides that, Fluffy was embalmed. Mrs. McGarvey doesn’t know of another embalmed dog around here,

Jane Jordan—

Recent Admirer of Column Lauds Her Reply to ‘Unjust’ Criticism,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—For many years I held to the conviction that the only people sillier than the ones who write to the “sob sister” of a newspaper are the ones who read these columns out of vulgar curiosity. However, I've had to revise my ideas some= what. I don't remember how it happened that I first glanced at one of your columns, but I wish to say that I believe you have an unusually keen understanding of the problems of married life. Your approach to the problems is invariably sound. As a result I believe people are writing you who would not ordinarily think of consulting the usual newspaper know-it-all love specialist. Why am T writing this to you? The other evening you printed a cruelly unjust criticism you had re= ceived. TI just want to say that the clear, courageous, and entirely just way in which you replied won my strongest admiration. ANONYMOUS.

Mr. Scherrer

Answer—This is high praise indeed and I anprecie ate it very much. If the column stirred up no dise senting opinions whatever, it would be a rather namby Pamby proposition. After all, an opinionated colum=nist sticks his neck out pretty far and shouldn't be surprised if somebody takes a whack at it.

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EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 22 and I have been going with a boy of 23 for almost two years. Lately we haven't been getting along at all. We seem to have lost something last summer and we can't find it again. He says he loves me and I love him, but we aren't getting anywhere. There is another young man of 24 who asked me to marry him. I like him and we have a lot of fun together when he comes over which isn't often. But I don’t think that fun is everything. He asked me sude= denly and wants an answer soon. He has been mare ried before but lost his wife about two years ago. IN DOUBT.

Answer—As long as you are in doubt IT do not think it smart to make a decision one way or the other. It looks to me as if your first love affair was on the wane, but that doesn't mean that you need to jump into marriage with somebody else before your attache ment to the first man has gasped its last. You have the advantage of knowing both men, You know more about the state of your feelings than I do. If you can't decide, how can I? Wait until you can see things more clearly and take no one's de= cision but your own. JANE JORDAN.

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

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