Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1939 — Page 11

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The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1939

Vagabond

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Our Town

He Visits the San Francisco Fair |

And Maps Program for Aunt Mary |

In Advance of Her Proposed = India na Disciples Mark Centennial

(This is the first of a series of articles on the San Fran- |

cisco Fair, after which Ernie Pyle is flying to New York to |

‘50 Preachers Represented 115 Churches at First State Meeting in 1839

see that city’s Fair.)

AN FRANCISCO, May 17.—I guess prac-

tically everybody will be out here this | 3

summer, so of course I have to stick my nose in too. Gotta see what's goin’ on. This first column really is written for my Aunt

Mary Bales in Indiana, but you may read it if you get permission from somebody. I'm writing it for Aunt Mary because she's figuring on coming out to the Fair this summer, and I want when she gets here. Aunt Mary must plan to stay here a week. It will take her four days at least to see the Fair, a couple of days to drive around the San Francisco Bay region, and one day to recuperate. And Aunt Mary isn't addicted to hangovers, either, She'll stay in a downtown hotel, and if my experience is typical she won't find the rates up very much. She'll find this a good city, and people will be nice to her. I'll advise her to go to the Fair one dav by taxi over the bridge, by ferry the next dav. and swim across on the third day. There's nothing like approaching a World Fair from every angle. : I'll advise Aunt Mary to carry a coat with her, even if it's the Fourth of July, because it gets chilly gut here in summer. I will tell Aunt Mary that $15 should be more than enough to carry her through four days at the 1. Fa Aunt Mary won't find an Indiana Building. But she will find an Illinois Building. And since she was born in Illinois I guess they'll let her sit down a while. If they won't, surely Missouri will. Missouri has a building too. : Those are the only two state buildings outside of the West. But there are 11 western state exhibits, and California itself has 10 separate buildings. If Aunt Mary sees them all (which she certainly should) she'll have to sit down and rest a few times.

Mr. Pyle

Aunt Mary will find many Palaces of Religion,

and cloisters and sanctuaries, where she may stop in peace and quiet and a familiar atmosphere.

Floral Display Magnificent

I will advise Aunt Mary, the minute she sets foot on Treasure Island, to buy an official program and map. And then get on an “Elephant Train” and take a slow 40-minute ride around the Fair Grounds and listen to the guide lecture. It costs 35 cents. She won't get very much detail from this trip, but it'll form a foundation for seeing the Fair. It shows you how big it is. ; After that, I'd advise Aunt Mary to hire one of

those roller coaster chairs ($1 an hour) and have the boys push her along the various courts radiating |

from the 400-foot Tower of the Sun. That way, she'll get the most beautiful asvects of the Exposition first, and she'll find a splendor of flower and plant and tree and water that she never knew could exist. wn The flowers of the San Francisco Exposition are wild and pure and holy in their magnificence, like young love. I'll bet New York can't touch this gargantuan flower bed out here. After that, Aunt Mary can plunge in for herself. I'm not going to make out her program clear through. I do think it would be wise for her not to go over

till after lunch on the second day, and then stay over | for the evening. One night at the Fair is mandatory. | She must be outdoors just at dark, and see the |

{turning on of the lights—probably the most powerful and breathtaking spectacle of the whole Fair. And | then around 8 o'clock, go to the gigantic outdoor play —"“The Cavalcade of the Golden West.” Then go | home.

go for a drive with friends around San Francisco and over the new bridges and up tc Twin Peaks. fourth day—oh., she can take care of herself, from now on I'll tell what I saw.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Weather Mars Outdoor Parties; President Still Fighting Hay Fever.

ASHINGTON, Tuesday.—We are having our usual experience with the month of May. We schedule garden parties for out of doors and then spend all the morning trying to decide whether everybody will freeze on the lawn! Hewever, the sun has come out today and, even though it is rather chilly, I think it is going to be fairly pleasant and I am looking forward very much to the program which is being given by the Lafayette chorus from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. . We reached Washington rather late last night and I found the President still struggling with hay fever. No amount of treatment seems to affect that particular ailment, so I am afraid he has it as a companion until he gets away from here and the particular plant or condi*ion which irritates his nose. I had asked a young friend of ours who grew up at Hyde Park, and who is now married and established in Buffalo, N. Y., to come with his wife and small boy of 3, to spend a couple of nights here. They had already gone to bed when I arrived last night, so I signed my mail and followed suit. This morning we all met at breakfast and I made the acquaintance of a very voung gentleman who is not very deeply impressed with the White House and its inmates and feels that he does not like so many strangers.

Invited on Tour of City

On Pennsylvania Ave. on either side of the White House, there stand two unofficial groups of guides ready to show people the city. I have always felt that I much prefer to lose my own way and wander at will wherever I may be, but I suppose other people feel differently. Washington is certainly not an easy place to find your way if you have never driven around it. Some of the men have a sense of humor and this morning one of them came up to the window of my car as I waited for the light to turn, and said: “We have a sight-seeing tour starting in five minutes. Would you like to go along Mrs. Roosevelt?” I think I probably would learn a great deal, but I decided my time was too short to start in on it today! I read two manuscripts last night on the way down on the train, both of them written to impress people with the horrors of war. One of them is really so horrible that I doubt if it would accomplish its purpose, for most people, I think, would stop reading it before they were half through.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service HE vitamin alphabet, that is, designation of the various vitamins by letter, is going out of style. For example, if you want to he really up-to-date, you must learn to say ascorbic acid instead of vitamin C when you are referring to the substance in orange juice (or other citrus fruits, tomatoes and other vegetables) which prevents and cures scurvy, This may be discouraging, especially if you pride vourself on having really learned the vitamin alphabet, or most of it. But the scientists who have most to say about vitamins, the nutritionists and biochemists, are trying their best to get the vitamins out of the

her to know some things |

The third day, I think she ought to rest. and just | |

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alphabet. They make the point that the letters did

very well for names in the early days of vitamin dis- |

coveries when only a few were known and not much was known about them. are about as many vitamins as letters of the alphabet, with half-a-dozen going under the name of B, it is confusing and even leads to inaccuracy to call these essential food factors by letter, Some of the vitamins have been identified chemically and even made synthetically. They have regular names, just as other chemicals have. ‘

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The Indianapolis church was founded in 1833 in this log cabin,

Illinois and Market Sts,

| the home of Benjamin Roberts, located at the northeast corner of

The Central Christian Church is the outgrowth of the “Church of Christ in Indianapolis,” organized with 20 charter members on

June 4, 1836. Kentucky Ave., near Capitol.

Here is shown the first church building, located on This was the scene of the first con-

vention 100 years ago as the church today is the scene of the 100th

meeting.

(Second of Two Articles)

By Sexson E. Humphreys LTHOUGH many of the international Disciples of Christ officials are attending the 100th state convention of the church at the Central Christian Church here today, Alexander Campbell, most influential early leader of the denomination, did not attend

the first state convention.

He had been invited to the meeting by J. M. Mathes, one of the state's outstanding pioneer preachers and the announcement of the meeting published in the Covington (Ky.) “Heretic Detector” of March, 1839, listed him as one of the “able champions of the faith” who was expected to be present. The Rev. Mr. Campbell approved of the meeting, however, and said of it in the August, 1839, issue of his Millennial Harbinger: “An annual meeting in some central point in each state of the union, conducted on similar nrinciples, exhibiting the statistics of the churches united in the primitive faith and manners, would in many ways, greatly promote the prosperity of our cause. Co-operation and combination of effort is the great secret of success, of which matters more in detail at a more convenient time.” Why he did not attend the meeting we are not told. Barton W. Stone, whose influence upon the early history of the Disciples was second only to that of the Rev. Mr. Campbell, was one of the speakers at the 1839 meeting. on ” » HE Indianapolis church, which was to be host to the first state convention as to the 100th, had been founded in 1833 in the log cabin home of Benjamin Roberts. There were some followers of the Rev. Mr. Stone at Indianapolis before the city received its name. the Roberts family among them. They had not organized a church but assembled in their cabins when

a preacher they had known in

One of the early organizers of the church in Indiana was the Rev. John O'Kane, missionary of the Little Flat Rock Church in Rush County.

Kentucky or Ohio came around. John McClung came to the vicinity in 1822 to settle and preached the first sermon, but he died within a week and was buried on Fall Creek. Jesse Frazier organized the church at Union in 1825, and some of the Indianapolis group occasionally attended there or at the Liberty Baptist Church near Maywood. In the year 1832 Dr. John H. Sanders of New Castle, Ky., came to Indianapolis and built a home on the site of the present interurban station. That fall he invited John O'Kane, missionary of the Little Flat Rock Church in Rush County, to come to Indianapolis and preach.

Services were held in the Court House on Saturday night and Sundays and through the week in small log cabins, mostly Mr. Roberts’. But Mr. O'Kane “did not like to baptize people and have no place to put them,” so he earnestly encouraged them to form a church. Twenty people enrolled their names as charter members of “The Church of Christ in Indianapolis,” now the Central Christian Church. On June 4, 1836, the Rev. Mr. O'Kane and Love H. Jameson began a revival meeting that was very successful. The first church was built on the south side of Kentucky Ave. be-

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This is the Central Christian Church today, a modern edifice located at Delaware and Walnut Sts.

with the Education Building at the rear. 709 Disciples Churches in Indiana is being held here.

These present day leaders of the Disciples church have a part in the 100th anniversary sessions. Left to right are Dr. Ross J. Griffeth of the Butler College of Religion; Dr. Bruce L. Kershner: Dr. George W, Buckner, World Call editor, and Dean Frederick D. Kershner of the Butler College of Religion.

tween Capitol and Senate, It was completed in 1838. ” on » T was in this new church that the first state meeting was held beginning on Friday, June 7, 1839. The Indianapolis church then had 80 members; its pastor was Chauncy Butler.

About 50 preachers attended the meeting and 115 churches were represented. There are 709 churches in the 1939 convention. A total membership of more than 7000 was reported in 1839. Rush County had the largest number of Disciples, with Owen County second and Clark County third. Putnam County was fourth although Greencastle was called “the stronghold of Methodism” by Alexander Campbell. Crawfordsville was the farthest north of any of the larger churches at that time, although there was already a church of 30 members at Yourtown in Delaware County. The meeting generally filled the little Christian chapel to overflowing and when the Rev. Mr. Stone spoke, the Methodist Church, largest meeting house in the city, was filled.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of Egypt, throughout mostvof its early history. 2—What is a micrometer? 3—Does an alien man become an American citizen by marrying a woman citizen of the United States? 4—What is the correct pronunciation of the word disputative? 5—Name the Premier of The Netherlands. 6—Under the Constitution of the U. S., where is the power to declare war vested? T7—What is the name for the science of the phenomena of sound? o ” - Answers 1—Memphis. 2—Instrument for measuring

minute angles and distances. 3—No.

4—Dis-pu’-ta-tiv; not dis-pu-ta’- |

tiv. 5—Hendrikus Colijn. 6—Solely in Congress. T—Acoustics. = » ”

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Education was the one subject that was most easily agreed upon because it was less likely to infringe upon the independence of local churches. Three of the six resolutions adopted at the first convention pertained to education. They provided: “That the young preachers among us, and such brethren as are likely to become preachers, endeavor to obtain an education as extensive as they can and that the churches assist them so to do. “That they encourage a spirit of general education that their children may be enlightened as extensively as possible both in religion and science. “That they patronize the Indiana State University at Bloomington as far as convenient in the education of their youth.” (The other colleges of the state were Methodist or Presbyterian; Butler was not founded until 1855.)

» ” " HEY were also able to agree “That they should send out faithful and intelligent brethren to labor as evangelists in this State” and to recommend “that

The 100th anniversary meeting of delegates representing the

they (the churches) make arrangements which may be relied upon with certainty for the support of the brethren thus sent to labor.” But no church was willing to take a binding pledge to do this, as each congregation held itself an independent body. “Hence,” said Elijah Goodwin, “the resolutions did no one any harm or good.” When the time came to adjourn, there were many who felt that a mass meeting had no power to adjourn to another time or place and therefore opposed the invitation of the Crawfordsville church to be host the next year at the same time. It was finally decided to hold another mass meeting at Crawfordsville the next year and “all who might be disposed” could attend. Apparently most of the churches were willing to be represented, for the next year there were “200 horses turned loose on an 80-acre blue grass pasture just west of Wabash College.” There has been a state meeting every year since and this year's session is the 100th.

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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By Anton Scherrer

Former Cashier of Ladies’ Parlor In Schaffner's Recalls Glories of 'The Delmonico of Indianapolis.’

ERE I've been spending all my life in Indianapolis and not until the other day, so help me, did I learn that Henry K, Roberts, 3913 E. 10th St., is the man who, 50 and more years ago, was the cashier of Schaffner’s Restaurant, the one known as the Delmonico of Indianapolis at the time. John Schaffner, says Mr. Roberts, came to Indianapolis by way of Baltimore sometime around 1878. He brought his mother with him, and together they

set up housekeeping on Maryland St., across from where the jail now is. He was a small, heavy-set man with the rosiest pair of cheeks ever seen around here, just the kind a Boniface should have, but, for some reason, never does. At

| least, not nowadays.

Mr. Schaffner’s first venture was at the couthwest corner of Delaware and Washington Sts. He stayed with it day < ; and night until he had it going Mr. Scherrer From there he went into a bigger place in the Aetna Trust Building on Pennsylvania St. Then he moved to S. Meridian St. on the site now occupied by the Ayres Annex. Here he branched out to include the selling of fruit, wholesale and retail. Back in those days, savs Mr. Roberts, a dozen bananas brought 75 cents, Lemons, the kind that now sell for $3.50 a box, brought $25. Retail, they sold a dollar a dozen. In 1884, Mr. Schaffner started his big venture, the Delmonico of Indianapolis, on Washington St., in the old Odd Fellow Building. Decorators were brought from the East, and Mr. Schaffner spent more than $5000 fixing up the place. The Ladies’ Parlor was upstairs. That was the department Mr. Roberts was cashier of. He was only a kid of 13 at the time and had to stand on a box in order to reach over the counter. From 1884 to 1889, Mr. Schafiner did a land office business. The day James B. Blaine was here, the restaurant took in $997, and not a cent for hard drinks. Mr. Schaff ner never sold liquor in his place.

Riley Among the Customers

Mr. Schaffner didn’t have to depend on red-letter days, however. He had his regular customers, hon vivants like Jim Riley, for instance, and Meredith Nicholson, John W. Kern, John B. Duncan, Judge Leathers and Joe Fanning. Mr. Roberts remembers, too, that Bill Nye and Eugene Field when in town to

visit Riley, always dropped in to taste Mr. Schaffner's superlative food. Mr. Schaffner, it appears, had a big night trade, too. That was because Indianapolis had five big down= town dancing halls at:the time. To say nothing of Tomlinson Hall. Back in those days, a dance ran until midnight when a one-hour intermission was called. After the intermission, the dance resumed and lasted until 3 o'clock. In the intermission every= body rushed to Schaftner’'s Restaurant for a plate of oysters on the half shell (25 cents). Quail on toast cost 50 cents, and not a cent more for a lobster or a Juicy steak. It ended up with Mr. Schaffner going broke and leaving Indianapolis.

Jane Jordan—

Young Mother Urged to Improve Appearance to Regain Mate's Love,

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young mother in my early twenties. I have been married seven years. My husband goes out every night. He never takes me or the children with him. If I mention going anywhere he always starts an argument and refuses to let me go. About once a week he comes home drunk and beats me. He always buys things for himself and never for me or the children. If I ask him to take me some= where he says, “wait until you get some clothes.” He is very handsome and dresses accordingly. He has a very good position, a bank account, and we own our home and a car. I left him once before only to come back for the children’s sake. They idolize him. I am a good cook, housekeeper and mother and he says he loves me but I doubt it. He likes girls with streamline figures and I am overweight. He always insults everyone who comes to our house or embarrasses me before them. He gives me the exact amount of money for our bills and always looks at the receipts to see if they really were paid. I am thinking about getting a divorce but I need advice. The thing he fusses about most is my weight, DESPERATE. ” ” un Answer—Your letter makes your husband sound like an extremely self-centered, inconsiderate person, If only I could hear what his complaints against you are, I would have a better chance to make helpful suggestions. It looks as if your husband had usurped your place as the social leader of the family. It is he who wears the pretty clothes and wins the friends. Instead of sharing these benefits with you, he keeps them all for himself, thereby wounding your vanity in its tender= est spot . . . your appearance. Now, instead of doing something to improve yours= self, such as establishing a diet which will control your weight, you take out your resentment in trying to lower your husband a peg or two. To make youre self as attractively physically as your husband, is cone structive, but to make him unattractive because you Shit you are lacking in physical appeal, is destruce ive. It would take a smart woman to divert his interest

| from himself to herself, but it could be done, I think, | Why don't you start by getting your figure down to | normal? In this you will need the advice of a physie

cian for starving is harmful but correct diet is not, JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today

MONG those single words the mention of which strikes a sharp note in man’s emotional makeup, “gold” still ranks high on the list. Few are the literary forms into which this luring metal has not been cast. An addition of the factual variety is

| MARCY AND THE GOLD SEEKERS (University

Press) by Grant Foreman. Having spent his retired life so far researching the 1800 pioneer era, Mr. Foreman is by no means initiating himself into the field. In his latest book he has taken the journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy and around it built an account of the '49 gold seekers’ emigration to California over the southernmost routes. In 1849 Capt. Marcy led a party of pioneers and adventurers over a new trail from Ft. Smith, Ark., to Santa Fe, N. M. Capt. Marcy's orders from the Army were: ‘To ascertain and establish the best route from this point (Ft. Smith) to New Mexico and California; to extend to such of our citizens as design leaving here (Ft. Smith again) . .. such facilities as... to insure them a safe and unmolested passage . + » and to conciliate . , . the different tribes of Indians .. .” Capt. Marcy's role, then, was rather the man who led the seekers to the fountain of riches without himself being able to take a drink. For apparently he went only as far as Santa Fe and then he blazed a new trail back to Ft. Smith along the southern U. S. border. What happens to Capt. Marcy in carrying out his, orders makes interesting reading.

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