Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1939 — Page 15

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From Indiana==Ernie Pyle

Night Lights of San Francisco's World Fair Are Enough to Make Even a Tough Guy Write Poetry.

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wAN FRANCISCO, May 18.-—When we were in San Francisco more than a year ago, officials of the Fair said: “We're not worrying about the New York Fair. This country is big enough to support two Fairs in one year. We wish the New York Fair

the best in the world, and were working together.” as I know,

Now that’s nice talk. And as far there's still good spirit between the two Fairs. “Which is the best?” Well, I don’t know, I haven't been to New York yet. And probably know after I get there. know that in San Francisco you'll get your money's worth. Not so many tourists have showed up here yet for the Fair. San Francisco isn’t crowded. But the hotels say they're 85 per cent reserved from now on, and June should bring the vacationers of America in a flood. The three-point theme of the Exposition (figured out by me, not them) is (1) the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding nations, (2) the Western States and (3) industry (of course). : Rev three, the least is industry. That's just as well with me. Our other fairs have been based on industry. I'm one of these soft souls who can accept the machine up to a certain point and then have to scream. 1 prefer trade winds, and coral shell, and campfires and mountain streams and South Sea lagoons and the mystic ways of China. vou'll like the San Francisco Fair. Beauty romance and travel are the tune out here. New York's Fair is obviously bigger. These few figures show that:

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San Francisco $50,000,000 400 350 33 13

New York

veeees. $155,000,000 1.200 1,500 680 33

Acreage Exhibitors .. Nations exhibiting States exhibiting ...... Amusement zone (acres) 280 40 Hoped-for attendance 60,000,000 20,000,000 All T can deduce from that, however, is that an elephant is awfully big. If you can’t really do the San Francisco Fair in a week, what can you do with

the New York Fair?

Most Things Are Free Since the Fair is on an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, you have to go either hy ferry or auto. Genera! admission is 50 cents. Once on the grounds most things are free except the Gayway. -" You get around the Fair on what they call “Elephant Trains.” These consist of a big tractor covered over to look like an elephant’s head, pulling three long cars behind it You sit facing out, ¢ ; who walks up and down an aisle in the middle. The trains run on various routes and are marked, just like streetcars. The high point of the entire Fair. I believe, is when the lights come on at night. On all Treasure Island. except for the Gayway, there is not a direct light showing. Everything is by indirect beam, cast against a surface. When that surface consists of Jjewelstudded walls, towers, temples, flower gardens, lagoons, fountains—you can see they have something. Colored arcs play in the air; silent Buddha-like statues take on deeper mystery in the shadows: foun-

tains spray wine and orange juice and flower petals: |

towers and temple roof-corners cast exotic reflections into darkening lakes. It is encugh to make a fellow like Bull Montana write poetry.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lauds Lafayette College Singers Interest High in Royal Couple.

YASHINGTON, Wednesday. —I don’t think I conV "veyed yesterday half the pleasure which the Lafavette College Choir, from Easton, Pa.. gave us all. This choir is primarily used for their church services, but they do take a number of trips and I am very glad that we were privileged to hear them I held a press conference this morning and I find that as the time approaches for the arrival of the King and Queen of England in the United States, there is very little else which seems to interest the ladies of the press. I wish it were possible for everyone who desires to see and to meet this royal couple to do so. but I don’t think that either space or time will permit it. Already pleas are being made for them to stand on the platform as their train goes through certain places and I am beginning to wonder if they will ever have a chance to sit down. If this is so in the United States, what must it be in Canada? Out of this trip there should come a great deal of real good will, and I hope very much that minor things will not affect people in their feelings toward this voung King and Queen. As far as one can judge, they seem to be friendly, interested and eager to see the world and people in general as they really are. I feel sure that, as a nation, we are going to welcome them in the same spirit.

Rural Women’s Conference

Miss Grace Frysinger of the Department of Agriculture came over to tell my press conference about the women who are going to London for the Conference of the Associa'ed Countrywomen of the World. They will all be at rural women’s day at the New York World's Fair on the 23d, before sailing on the Queen Mary on the 24th. There will be a broadcast on the 23d at the Fair from 12:30 to 1 o'clock, in which some real farm women will be interviewed by one of the announcers and then the afternoon program from 3 o'clock on will be broadcast over NBC and Mutual broadcasting systems. The stories of the various women who are going abroad are extremely interesting. About one hundred of them are women who actually live on farms. One

hundred and fifty more are going who represent pro- |

fessional women connected with rural communities

in one capacity or another.

Today the ladies of the Cabinet joined me in our |

annuai picnic given to the ladies of the Senate, and

1 enjoyed sitting in the sun and eating more food |

than I should ever eat at noon!

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service ITTSBURGH'S flood disaster of 1936—who remembers it? district itself.

troubles.

Yet Pittsburgh's troubles are reflected in the lives |

of all of us. So essential are the steel, glass and other industrial products of that smoky cornucopia that disaster to Pittsburgh is damaging to the whole nation. It is a matter for congratulation therefore that

effective measures have been taken to prevent any re- |

currence of the great deluge of 1936. Ten great dams

on the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers and their | tributaries will hold back the freshets of late winter | and early spring not only protecting the city but regu- |

lating the flow for navigation on the Ohio and also materially abating stream poliution. In the new issue of The Military Engineer, Lieut. - Col. W. E. R. Covell of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers tells of the work to date.

West Virginia and Maryland, the whole project has been taken out of state hands and made a Federal undertaking. The dams will stretch in a long line, in moantain valleys to the north and east, like fortifications against a raiding enemy. One dam has been completed for more than a vear, four more are nearing completion, three are ready to be undertaken as soon as funds are made available, and two await legislative clarification of status before work can be started.

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Few, probably, outside the Pittsburgh | We are so engrossed in our own con- | cerns that we are easily prone to forget our neighbors’ |

Because the Pitts | burgh watershed crosses state lines into New York, |

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PLAN FOR CITY POWER PLANT S ABANDONED

Officials Indicate Proposal May Be Shelved Jfor 10 Years.

A plan to build a municipal power | plant for public lighting purposes] as an alternative to signing a new | long-term contract with the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. has been abandoned, it was learned today. This means, officials indicated, |the power plant proposal may be [shelved for 10 years. The proposal was made two months ago during preliminary discussions between officials on the new contract. The new agrement with the light company would cover a five or 10-year | period. ER | Officials admitted privately that {a public power plant, to provide | electricity for street lights and pub- | dee: {lic buildings, “might be a good idea, * but not at this time.”

Refer to Water Plan 13 :

| It was explained that the possible: {purchase of the Indianapolis Water (Co. would preclude acquisition of {another utility for years to come. “What would we do with another utility if the City buys the water company, where would we get the money for it?,” one official asked. Meanwhile, City engineers would not reveal new specifications they are making as a basis for the new light contract. City Engineer M. G. | Johnson said he could not reveal de{tails of the plans until they are sub{mitted to the Works Board. He indicated, however, good deal of “give and take” be-

START ALLISON WORK TUESDAY

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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 193¢

|| Part in Region 3 Rivalry,

qd retary, pointed out as the session

tween the City and the company .. . | would be necessary before specifi-| Site Will Be Cleared for

cations are completed. He said] ‘much of the City's figures would be | {based on data to be submitted by| {company engineers. Specifications] (will be worked out by mutual agree- | ment, he said. Concerns Street Network ! The data concerns the vast, com= ‘pany-owned street lighting net- for the $7.000000 factory building (work, Mr. Johnson said. He said he additions to the Allison Engineering jcould not give out any further de- go, experimental plant, O. T.| tails on the City's specifications. . | Works Board members said that Kreusser, general manager, negotiations “were proceeding satis- nounced today. | factorily.” | Mr. Kreusser, said only the clear- | Officials would not disclose how ing of a few real estate titles was| the new specifications would differ | holding up plans for beginning the | from those prepared 14 years ago! huge expansion program which will] ‘when the City made a 10-year con-| treble the present size of the wartract with the company. The contract, under which the, The new buildings will be] | City leased lights, standards and “nearby” the present streamlined | lall other equipment from the com- experimental plant off Main St. | pany, expired in 1935. It has been! Kreusser said. It is believed that | renewed at six-month intervals the site is south of the present since. The last renewal, made April plant between W. 10th St. and Eagle 15, will expire Oct. 15. | Creek Paik. Based on Flat Rate U. S. Contracts for Motors

| Under this agreement, the City's Construction of the new factory | [light bill last year totaled $335,408.91. “production line” buildings is ex- { The rate is based on a flat rate for [pected to he speeded to enable) each street light, varying with the officials to go into quantity prodegree of lumen (candlepower) used, | duction as soon as possible on 800 type of standard and rate of break-/12-cylinder “mystery” warplane enage on bulbs. For public buildings, |gines. the City pays a flat meter rate of 3| The War Department has con-| cents a kilowatt hour. | tracted for the new motors to fit] There have been indications from some of Uncle Sam's proposed new | unofficial sources that the meter air fighters, the P-40, a Curtis rates may be reduced in a new con- Wright Corp. creation. | | tract, but these have not been con- The new P-40 was designed spe- | firmed. Metered service represents cifically for the Allison power- | ‘a small percentage of the total bill. plants. The “engineering father” of | asst a" the new craft, Donald Berlin, chief engineer of the Curtiss Aeroplane Division of the parent corporation, {made an inspection trip to the ex-

TRIPLING OF COKE [355 = oy SALES 1S FORECAST "so

No details as to size of the new cs : building have been announced, but Officials Credit Increase to it : ‘ : sign and layout of the 2-year-old Reduction in Prices.

$7,000,000 Additions To Factory.

Workmen will break ground Tues-

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is expected they will follow deexperimental plant building. Several hundred men are to be emploved when production lines of

the projected new factories are ready for operation.

'BRANCH’S DEATH LAID

Coke sales this month probably will triple those of a year ago, as a result of the temporarily reduced prices, Citizens Gas & Coke Utility officials said today. The Utility reported sales of 5520 | tons in the first 16 days this month, | TO HEART AILMENT compaved to only 3800 tons for the entire month of May, 1938. The death of Elmer Branch, forThrough an arrangement between mer Indianapolis policeman, yester|the utility and local coal dealers.|day was caused by heart disease, Dr. the price was reduced for the | Hugh K. Thatcher, deputy coroner, month of May to $785 from the said today. Mr. Branch was 50. He previous price of $9.25. | died at a rooming house on E. MarOfficials of the utility said the ket St, 900 block, where he rented {price will be increased not later|a room yesterday. Police have been {than July 1, and possibly earlier. {unable to locate relatives.

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Times Photos, While his opponents looked on, Don Martin, Westfield drum major, (above) “strutted” for the photographer during the preliminaries of the National School Music Competition Festival here. It was “weighing in” time for the trombone contest (below) when Miss Martha Jane Miller of Shortridge High School, an official, inspected the instrument of Miss Dorcas Pellett, Lakeville High School entrant.

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Here to Blow Your Own Ho

COLUMBIA CLUB'S REVISION SNAGGED

Supreme Court Grants Writ

Ripping Fish Story About Governor

WORTHINGTON, Ind.. May 18 (U. P.)—Governor Townsend’s enthusiasm for fishing brings the same ignominious consequences to him as to any other angler, according to a story told here today. The Governor, it was reported, was fishing at Lake Eva near here yesterday with a party of friends. As he cast

Columbia Club reorganization plans in Superior Court Room 1, were temporarily halted today. An Indiana Supreme Court writ yesterday was granted a minority group of stockholders who seek to take the case out of the county. The minority group sought the : writ after Judge Joseph T. Markey his line into the water, the denied their request for a change hook became fouled in the of venue. The group includes] gubernatorial pants, inflicting holders of 3 per cent of class B pre- | an eight-inch tear. ferred stock and 87-10 per cent But Governor Townsend class A preferred. staged a comeback and caught Judge Markey said the balance of the limit of 10 t'sh. the class A and class B stockholders Lake Eva is privately owned and 100 per cent of the owners of and fishing by a few guests is common stock in the club were in permitted by dispensation of agreement on new organization the Conservation Department plans. in the off-season.

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at Postoffice,

AS PUPILS OPEN 3DAY FESTIVAL

Approximately 5000 Take

For High Honors.

About 5000 high school musicians today were blowing their own horns in hotels and public building assembly rooms as the National School Music Competition Festival of Region 3 opened a three-day meeting here. Promptly at 9 a. m. Mary Helen Munson, Morenci, Mich.,, public schools orchestra director, lifted her baton at Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, to sound the first competitive note in the session. Before 9:30 p. m. today, 19 or{chestras will have played for three [well-known judges—Fabien Sevitzky, | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conductor; Emil Heermann of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras land Louis Wersen, Tacoma, Wash, {public schools music director. |

| 2000 Soloists Compete | Two thousand soloists went into| competition before other famous)

l judges in Indianapolis hotels, the | Jordan Conservatory of Music, and

| [the Knights of Columbus Club

| House. C. V. Buttelman, Music Educators National Conference executive sec-

opened that the students who parti|cipate “are learning an appreciation lof music through performance that (will become a part of their later | {lives and bring them in contact with the lovely things of life.” “All who have been in contact 'with this movement since its incep[tion can appreciate the great value |of the experience afforded the thousands of participating music {students, and the substantial contribution to the cultural development of our country made by the city which entertains a national school {music competition,” Mr. Buttelman | said. Judges Are Listed

| Other judges here for the three|day competition are: Albert Andraud, Cincinnati Symphony; Forrest L. Buchtel, Vandercook School of Music of Chicago, Vincent Capasso, Cincinnati Symphony and Armco Band; Richard Czerwonky, DePaul University and the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra; Reinhardt Elston, Hammond, Ind.; Pattee Evenson, Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Rochester, N. Y

Alford Fenboque, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Armco Band; Ernest Glover, assistant director of Armco Band; Joseph E. Maddy, professor of Music of the University of Michigan and president of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. Forrest L. McAllister, director of the Joliet Junior Band and chairman of the National Twirling Committee; Ernst Michelis, Jordan Conof Music.

| servatory Hanson Arrives Today

H. E. Nutt, Vandercook School of Music, Chicago; Vincent Pezzi, Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra. Robert Sanders, Dean of School of Music of Indiana University; George Waln of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Clarence Warmelin, director of the Warmelin School of Music at Chicago, and Arthur L. Williams of Oberlin Conservatory. Howard Hanson, director of the | Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y., will arrive late today to begin his judging on Friday and Saturday.

LAFAYETTE TRANSIT ASKS TO USE BUSSES

The Lafayette Streetcar Co. today filed a petition with the Public Service Commission asking permission to abandon all rail transportation lines at Lafayette. In another petition the company proposes to substitute busses on all the present trolley routes. The petition stated that the growth of the city made bus lines necessary, because they are more flexible in meeting expansion.

| ———— — ' Side Glances—By Galbraith

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KNOWLEDGE

1—-In war, what is a conscientious objector? 2—Is the District of Columbia a state or a territory? 3—What is the correct pronunciation of the word dynamo? 4—Who was the first Admiral of the U. S. Navy? 5—With which sport is the name of Frank Strafaci associated? 6—Name the U. S. Secretary of the Interior. 7—Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America. » » »

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1—-One who on moral or religious grounds refuses to serve as a combatant. 2—Neither; it is a Federal district. 3—Di’-na-mo. 4.—David Farragut. 5—Golf. 6—Harold L. Ickes. 7—Lake Huron. 5 » n

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By Anton Scherrer

40 Years Ago, |4 Automobiles Were In Use Here and for Some Reason Were Made to Look Like Buggies.

N my eternal pursuit of peace of mind, it suddenly occurred to me that 40 years ago today—back in 1899—Indianapolis had exactly 14 automobiles in actual use. I remember, for instance, that the H. T, Hearsey Co., the Pennsylvania St. bicycle dealers first to see the handwriting on the wall, used a horseless carriage in their business. It was for the use of officers of the company and to show prospece tive customers how the thing worked. Charles E. Coffin, an enterprising realtor of the time, took his clients around in what was called a “runabout.” Dr. George D. Kahlo called on his patients in a mechanized vehicle known as the “Stanhope style,” a style which took its name from a horse-drawn, one-seated carriage much in vogue in the Nineties. As far as that goes, the designs of horse-drawn carriages furnished the inspiration for all early automobile bodies. The car designed in 1892 by Charles Duryea, for instance, supposed to be one of the first automobiles made in America, was known as the “Buggyant.” Honest. C. F. Smith, president of the Indiana Bicycle Co, used a Stanhope to ride around Indianapolis. L. S. Dow, secretary of the bicycle company, went in for a four-seated “trap.” Also connected with the bicycle company were three more men who owned and oper= ated automobiles. I've forgotten their names. Any= way, that brings the count up to eight. L. G. Deschler, the cigar man, had an automobile which served both as a delivery wagon on week days, and a pleasure “brake” or tally-ho on Sundays. J. A. Rink was one of the first owners of an auto= mobile around here, but for the life of me I can't remember what it looked like. The L. S. Ayres people had a large and handsome delivery wagon of a style known as “Merchandise.” Unlike Mr. Deschler’s rig, however, it was not cone vertible into a pleasure wagon. The New York Store had two (2) automobiles, if you please; one an electric, and the other a gasoline wagon. The gasoline wagon was very small, however, and could be used only as a parcel delivery vehicle.

Smithsonian Should Be Envious And finally, there was Charles Black, a machinist

living on Madison Ave. at the time. He operated & gasoline car. Not only that, but he made it himself, Mr. Black actually had a gasoline buggy of his own manufacture running on the streets of Indianapolis as early as 1891. At that time he ran a carriage shop on E. Maryland St. in the bailiwick of St. Mary's parish. It always struck me as mighty strange that a man who had spent his whole life making buggies for horses should all of a sudden get a notion that he could run buggies without horses, but you never can tell. Least of all, in the early Nineties. Mr. Black's contraption weighed 800 pounds, just about what an ordinary road horse weighed. The engine consisted of a single cylinder. The machine was steered by a small handle on a wheel, and the rear wheels had ordinary wagon brakes picked up in the carriage shop. The brakes were operated by hand. One night, Mr. Black picked up Tom Taggart at the Union Station and delivered him to his home at the corner of Capitol Ave. and St. Clair St. in 16 minutes flat. It figures out somewhere around 18 miles an hour, and I guess it's the best the old bus ever did. Mr. Black’s invention is still in existence. It's the one on exhibition in the Children's Museum, 1150 N, Meridian St. I'll bet the Smithsonian Institution would give its right hand to own it. The best the Washington people can show is the eight-mile-an-hour “Buggyant” built by Mr. Duryea in 1892 which is a whole year after Mr. Black had his buggy going.

Jane Jordan—

Girls Not 'Dumb,’ Nor 'Heavenly,' Just Human, Perplexed Youth Teld.,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I honestly believe that the young girls and women in this day and age are crazy, or just plain dumb. From experience I have found that they do not appreciate a good man and a gentleman when they see one. I try at all times to be a gentleman, to be decent and respectful with the girls I meet, but it isn’t getting me anywhere. I've had several girls give me the air and go out with other men who had but one object in mind. Women like being pawed and mauled over and they think that any man is a sissy (I guess) who doesn't start that right off the bat. I'm no prude. I'm all for fun and a good time, but there is a limit to everything. In my opinion woman is a heavenly creature and is to be treated with kindness, decency and respect. Am I behind the times? Old-fashioned? Or what? PERPLEXED 24.

Mr. Scherrer

un n n Answer—The trouble with you is that you are trying to create an unreal world peopled with unreal creatures. When you bump up against reality you are bruised and resentful, like a child when it first dis=covers that the outside world does not deal with it as tenderly as parents. You've had a false upbringing, or at 24 you wouldn't be clinging to the idea that women are heavenly creatures. How silly. You talk as if women weren't people at all, but ethereal beings exempt from the desires of the flesh, which isn’t true. If you expect to get along in the world you'll have to give up this fantasy and face facts. Women are no better and no worse than men, It is futile to expect them to live up to a higher set of standards. There was a time in human Durswung to the worshiped as whom men cherished at The first attitude is a burden and the second a bore. Neither has anything to do with reality. The modern attitude of treating women simply as human beings with fears, desires and aspirations similar to all other human beings holds the most promise for a workable rela-

the pendulum extreme and women are

fainting creatures

| tionship between the sexes.

Now because you're disappointed that your dream cannot be realized, you turn on women and make them worse than they are, hating where you cannot worship. All women do not like to be. pounced on and pawed at first sight. Neither do they like to be regarded as untouchables. At bottom you're afraid of women and elevate them to a pedestal in order to put comfortable distance between you and them. JANE JORDAN,

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

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