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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Inspired by Old Hat Collection at Block's, He Takes a Stand on the Debate Over Our First Milliner.

HAVE aligned myself on the side of the antiquarians led by Lee Burns who credit Mrs. Mathilda Sharpe with having been the first milliner in Indianapolis. Mrs. Sharpe arrived here on Oct. 12, 1827, and almost immediately advertised that she had opened a millinery establishment “at Mr. Sharpe's, Meridian St., north of the Governor's Circle.” What complicates the situation is the historical

fact that Miss Marietta Cobb arrived in Indianapolis four months EE RRR earlier and had cards printed an18 : Ra 7 nouncing her location “at the resi-

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the Presbyterian Church” where she proposed “to make and repair bonnets and dresses and to attend to most other kinds of needle work.” Mr. Burns is of the opinion that Miss Cobb's claim to priority is invalidated by the fact that she mixed millinery with dressmaking, an opinion I heartily indorse with all the means at my command. We both believe that the art of millinery is a craft in itself—a selfcontained art, if you please—and as such has no business monkeying with anything outside the pro= fession. Three cheers for Tilly Sharpe! I bring up the subject of the first milliner in In= dianapolis because of the collection of old hats now on exhibition at Block's. Boy, there hasn't been anything like it around here since the Park Theater's Dime Museum of Freaks back in the Eighties when Lizzie Sturgeon played “The Maidens Prayer” on the piano with her bare toes. The Block collection embraces 200 items, every one of which is an eyeful. Some of the hats look as if they might have come out of Tilly's workshop. Indeed, there's one that’s 150 years old. It's the brown taffeta Mrs. William H. Green's great-grandmother wore in 1789, the year Washington was inagurated President, By rights, it ought to be in New York along with the Perisphere, Trylon and Aquacade. Another museum piece is the brown taffeta, lace= trimmed bonnet worn by Hannah Moore, whose father came to Marion County in 1831. It's owned by Mrs. W. K. Miller. In the same (1800) class is the china silk Quaker shaped bonnet owned by Mrs. Fidelia Swain. Originally, it was part of the Sprenger fam= ily’s get up. And another breath-taking affair is the century-old jet bonnet submitted by Mrs. Robert Russell. It's no bigger than a bird's nest, and believe it or not, it weighs five pounds.

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girls all evening. And one of them was lying respect- | ably in the “iron lung” in the respectable Incubator Babies’ Palace . That's something you'll probably want to see, Incidentally. They've got about a dozen babies, lying in incubators behind glass windows. Although in the | final analysis theyre nothing but some more babies, still people like to stand around and look at the babies. | There are lots of funny things on the Gayway.

During the last two months, Vice President Garner has increased his popular lead for the Democratic Presidential nomination, according to the latest nation-wide Institute survey. Secretary of State Cordell Hull has im= proved his position somewhat, while James A. Farley has failed to gain and Hurry L. Hopkins has dropped. The Institute asked Democrats whom they would favor if President Roosevelt does not run.

Sally Rand Is Doing Very Well For Herself at Coast Fair, but GC } ! 11: INSTI ® » N d H » B k millions of dollars to present culture and | [renee HULL Also Gains, but McNutt an opkins Drop Bac industry and the arts and science of the pub- | Sally Rand was the gal who did it in Chicago. | EW YORK, May 22.— And Sally is right here on the job at the Golden | . : Vice President John N. You've read about it—“SALLY RAND'S NDUDE RANCH,” with a dency in 1940, and he has increased his lead somewhat thing that will mean success or failure for this Fair. Sally knows it, like for Sally's ranch to draw the news in a survey of rank crowds, but they're ashamed of | and file Democratic sentie girls are fully dressed, in Honiyweon, cogil style. are the men. The spieler is wonaeriul t . os This time last March Vice President Garner was the worked up. And then he throws down the bars and says let's all go in. It costs two-bits. I their voices through the The present survey shows jow. You can't even hear their VOICES 2 waa ; window tor maybe they can't talk, I don’t know). Garner with 50 per cent of the «it on the porch fixing their nails. A couple of others toss a basketball. Four are playing badminton | Wal of the Democratic National Convention 13 months from now-— and getting in there myself. The sight of men with nothing on but shoes would at least scare people. nomination speculation. Today's survey also shows the «ee her, for she's attending to her finances. Pox Sally herself dances at night at the Music Box cent Institute surveys: 1. Secretary of State Cordell We made the tour, and I saw only three beautiful taking much part in the party battle between New Dealers and

- 0 » Her 'Nude Ranch' Is Pretty Awful. lic, and then almost invariably have to have | By Dr. George Gallup Gate Exposition. But now she’s an ; : e Garner is still out in front line drawn through the first “d” in in the last two months at the and the Fair people know it. inki rav. But let's take : Hitting Dil wa ment just completed by the He goes through a 10-minute harangue. He gets choice of 42 per cent of those It's the silliest thing I've ever seen. The scene Each girl wears cowboy boots, a revolver holster. | Democratic preference vote. slowly. Two are absentmindedly heckling a pingand not by popular vote—the Vice The Hindu Rope Trick trend of popular support for three Cafe inn San Francisco. She makes plenty out of that, Hull, who has been devoting conservatives, has increased in

From Indiana=Ernie Pyle Y MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939 «AN FRANCISCO, May 22.—It's a funny thing about World Fairs. They spend some naked gal come along and pull them | pirector, Institute of out of the hole | Public Opinion entrepreneur—in business for her- | self lar D ati among popular emocratic candidates for the Presi“ndude.” That's the way it's written out front. It's probably the expense of other candidates. The Fair people are a little That is the outstanding shocked by this knowledge. They'd a look ourselves. Two spielers and two pretty girls | <tand out on the front porch of Saily's “ranch.” The | American Institute of Public Opinion. a crowd. He says don’t get the idea they are giving Sunday School lessons inside. He gets everybody all | Democrats with definite conis fixed up like a ranchhouse yard. You stand be- victions about the 1940 race. hind a rail and look at the girls through a glass winand a scarf around the neck. . | Even though the nomination will There isn't a show or anything. Some girls just | Jo Joriqed in the political tug-of-pong table. There's a burro tied in the background. Why, it was so drab I felt like taking off my shitt | pont place in the race today makes him a powerful factor in all Sally is not in the ranch herself, She is usually at Treasure Island in the afternoon, but you won't other leading Democrats Who have trailed Vice President Garner in retoo. They tell me she is the smartest businesswoman in San Francisco. himself closely to the Administration’s foreign policy without popular strength since the last survey.

HE Vice President's position in the race today closely NE of the great imponderables is President Roosevelt

Two buildings now closed tight have big signs on | them saying “Hindu Rope Trick” and “Crooked Gambling Exposed.” The crooked-gambling exhibit was being put on by | the very people who make the crooked devices, which is certainly biting the hand that feeds you. They say the regular gamblers raised so much fuss about it the | sponsors finally closed up. The “Hindu Rope Trick” building was a concession

2. On the other hand, Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, who has been away from his desk on account of illness for a few weeks, has dropped lower in the race. Hopkins, often regarded as the White House favorite for 1940 and as a 100 per cent New Dealer, had shown signs of popular strength after becoming Secretary of Commerce a few months ago. 3. James A. Farley, now touring the country on a

compares with that of Thomas E. Dewey among Republican voters with choices for 1940. In the latest Institute survey of G. O. P. preferences, published last March, Dewey received 54 per cent of the vote, which put him well in front of such leaders as Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Taft of Ohio.

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himself. Because of the tradition against third terms because of the majority opposition to a third term Roosevelt at the present time, the Institute's question ased on the supposition that Roosevelt does not run

again in 1940.

The uncertainty about Roosevelt's plans may be

one reason why out-and-out New Deal candidates

The Civil War period is represented by a chic little thing worn at Lincoln’s inaugural by Mrs. Nancy Reagan, wife of the doctor practicing in Plainfield. It's a straw braid jet trimmed with lace and flowers, Nothing escaped me. Mighty entertaining, too, is the hat, in its original box, designed for Miss Carrie Reid for her wedding to Dr. Marshall V. Wilson on Dec. 12, 1861. It's owned by Mrs. L. Reid Wilson. Mrs. W. B. Stewart (George Marott's sister) displays

Strength in preconvention surveys does not, of course, mean that a candidate will prove powerful on the floor of the convention itself. Nor does such strength necessarily mean that a candidate would run a strong race against his Republican or Democratic opponent. These are matters the Democratic and Republican delegates will have to weigh and decide a year from now.

her 75-year-old bonnet and a little calico shawl she wore with it. It's just too cute for words. Mrs. Ed Schmidt comes through with three knock=outs. One is her wedding hat (circa 1887) made of horse hair and tuscan braid with a 27-inch willow ostrich plume. Second item is a velvet faced gold brocade affair with four plumes, also part of her trousseau. Third item is the hat her husband bought for her in Paris, at Virot’s, 12 Rue de la Paix, while on their honeymoon. It's made of hatter’s plush with six skeleton ostrich feathers. Goodness only knows what it cost Mr. Schmidt. Most alarming exhibit is the hat Miss Ethel Milli= kan wore on the campus of DePauw University in 1909. I'll bet it's 33 inches in diameter with a polychromatic feather big enough to cover the entire roof, To anchor it, Miss Millikan wore a hat pin with a head so big that it served as a powder puff. I'm not fooling. "7 The little pancake hat with a black willow plums and lace ruffling lying close to the hair, owned by Mr: Walter Hubbard and worn 80 years ago, would woe right in style now, the Block people assured me, You've probably wondered where it all started,

Jane Jordan—

Parents Right in Showing Concern Over Companions, Girls Advised,

EAR JANE JORDAN.—As a group of 15-and-16= year-old girls, we appeal to you to help us with our problem. Although we are of age, our mothers protest against our going out on any dates unless they know the family history of the boys we go with and approve. This is embarrassing to us as we have gained a reputation of being ‘‘choosey” and the good times

the Fair people thought up themselves. But when they got all ready to open, they couldn't find anybody | who knew how to do the Hindu rope trick! (The | Fair has just phoned that they've actually found a man to do it. Allah! Allah!) Let's see. what else. Oh, a midget show, of course. And Buck Jones with his horse Silver. And Sally Rand owns another show called “Miss America,” where you go in and see just one girl. And there are various shooting galleries and scenic railways end crazy tossing-machines. Just about like a good country carnival.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

political scouting expedition, runs third and is in about the same position as he was in March. The Institute asked a carefully selected cross-section of Democratic voters in all states and all walks of life: “If Roosevelt is not a candidate, whom would you like to see elected President in 1940?” Since the Institute supplied no lists or other suggestions, the Democratic preferences reported here were spontaneous and voluntary. 8 » 5

such as Hopkins, Wallace, Murphy, Jackson and others have not developed greater popular support so far. At least it is a striking fact that more than two-thirds of all the preference votes in today’s survey were cast for conservative or “middle-of-the-road” Democrats. Vice President Garner is the leading choice of Democrats in all sections of the country today, the present survey shows, but his greatest strength is in the South and West. Here are the leaders, by sections, with the percentage naming Garner in each: NEW ENGLAND—Garner (319), Farley, Hull. MID-ATLANTIC—Garner (509), Farley, Hull. EAST CENTRAL—Garner (49%), McNutt, Hull, WEST CENTRAL—Garner (47%), Hull, Clark. SOUTH—Garner (529), Hull, Farley. WEST—Garner (52%), Hull, Hopkins.

ERE is the way the voters with opinions on 1940 rank leading Democratic eligibles today:

TODAY

1—John N. Garner .. 2—Cordell Hull 3—James A. Farley 4—Harry L. Hopkins 5—Paul V. McNutt . 6—Frank Murphy 7—Bennett Clark 8—Henry A. Wallace 9—Alben W. Barkley 10—Herbert H. Lehman All others

As the date of the Presidential nominating convention nears, the number of persons with opinions on the candidates is increasing. While only 40 Democrats in 100 had definite opinions about the nominee in March 46 per cent have opinions today. In March the Institute survey vote among those with opinions:

Will a ‘Dark Horse’ Come From These 25?

Following are the Democrats who rank just below the first 10 in today's Institute survey of 1940 favorites:

1—Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Britain. 2—Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. 3—Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri.

4—Se p \ fT nnsylvania. IrSennior He er 5 ASHINGTON, May 22—One result of the nation-

6—Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. wide campaign against venereal diseases conducted 7—Senator Vic Donahey of Ohio. |during the last three years under sponsorship of the

8—William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the |U. S. Public Health Service has been a marked tightening U. S. Supreme Court. | 9-—Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. of state marriage laws. Already this year, six states have enacted statutes

10—William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France. requiring premarital blood tests before licenses may be

11—Rep. William H. Bankhead, Speaker of the House. issued. Similar bills are pending in nine other legislatures.

12—Rep. Martin Dies of Texas. The roster of states which require such

Impressed by Progress Made at Experimental Farm at Beltsville.

yASHINGTON, Sunday.—Dr. Louise Stanley of W the Bureau of Home Economics, Department the members of my press conference. Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Morgenthau and me to visit Beltsville. Md.. vesterday. I was completely surprised to discover what had been done in four vears Beltsville is the experimental farm for the United States. Those in charge hope to make it a place similar to the one in England, where people irom all over the world interested in agriculture feel that they can | 00 to learn many important things. In fact, they feel their education is not quite complete unless they have been there | Beltsville is. of course, largely set up for research. |

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13—Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. 14—Governor Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina.

found the following fests now

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is primarily with the agricultural colleges and experiment stations set up by the states throughout the nation. These state units are busy answering oquestions which pertain to their own localities, so they have little time for the study of questicns which are applicable to the whole country. One of the first things we saw yesterday was 2 breeding experiment which resulted in the development of a small turkey. They have tried to produce a bird with as good flavor and as good meat as possible, but which weighs only about 8!: pounds. In the cities, where families are not so large, and apartment-house living has become almost universal, this will be a great convenience, for many people cannot get a 12 or 15-pound turkey into their ovens.

A Glimpse at the Bees

The studies at Beltsville are concerned with

TWO MONTHS AGO

I—John N. Garner 2—James A. Farley 3—Cordell Hull tenes 4—Harry L. Hopkins ......... 5—Paul V. McNutt

7—Bennett Clark 8—Alben W. Barkley ..... . 9—Joseph P. Kennedy 10—Frank Murphy

15—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. 16—Alfred E. Smith. 17—Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago. 18—Robert H. Jackson, Solicitor General. 19—Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. 20—Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa. or 21—Senator Sheridan Downey of California. and 22-—Rep. John J. Cochran of Missouri. 23—Senator Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. 24—Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. 25—Stanley Reed, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

includes: tucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Ken-

North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island,

Besides these 16 states, 10 others require certificates affidavits attesting freedom from venereal disease, four impyse penalties for marriage between infected

persons without requiring any premarital statement or examination.

It is not unusual for sharp declines in marriage rates

to follow immediately upon enactment of blood-test laws. Oregon made its new statute effective in December, and from Dec. 1 to Feb. 20, 1939, only 472 licenses were issued, against 1349 in the same period 12 months before.

heredity in animals, soil and nutrition. One thing which particularly interested me, was

being carried on primarily with dogs, for the repro- |

duction of the proper kind of temperament and intelligence. It is applicable to all animals. A steer,

for instance. which 1s not nervous will put on more |

meat than one which wears itself out on the range. | If this can be controlled by breeding, it will be val- | uable to many breeders. Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Morgenthau and I furnished our newspaper friends with amusement when we put hats with veils to look at the bees. This was no new sight to Mrs. Morgenthau and me, but I learned something I never knew before, namely, that the lack | of wild flowers is a great detriment to the bees’ diet. | At Beltsville, they have not as yet produced enough | fields of clover and wild flowers, so the bees are hungry and cross in consequence.

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Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service RIENDS of Vernon Kellogg have brought together words and memories into a beautiful book—a memorial he would have liked. Dr, Kellogg, a great biologist and a pioneer trustee of Science Service, lived 70 eventful years that ended two years ago. From the leaves of this volume, there comes pertinent comment on European affairs so pointed to today’s news that one realizes that while time passes philosophical ideas persist. Dr. Kellogg, during the World War in connection with Belgian relief, lived at German GHQ, the heart of the German army. His “Headquarters Nights” recorded his experiences. Are not these words of his, from his memorial volume’s excerpt from that record,

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comment on Germany today? “Theirs is a point of view that will never allow any land or people controlled by it to exist peacefully by | the side of a people governed by our point of view. | For their point of view does not permit of a live-and-let-live kind of carrying on . . . “The creed of the Alimacht of a natural selection | based on violent and fatal competitive struggle is the rospel of the German intellectuals; all else is illusion and anathema. .,." :

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1—Name the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America. 2—In astronomy, what is occultation? 3—From what country did the U. S. obtain the Louisiana Purchase? 4—How are race horses handicapped? 5—Does the Social Security Act require beneficiaries of the Federal old-age retirement system to be American citizens? 6—Who is Virginio Gayda? » = »

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1—Lake Huron. 2—The hiding of one celestial body by another passing in front of it. 3—France. 4—-By adjusting the weights the horses carry to equalize their chances of winning. 5—No. 6—Noted Italian journalist.

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we would like are passing us by. Do you think it is wise for us to glean a little happiness by sitting in cars, sneaking out nights, and taking walks. We have sense enough not to go too far. What else can we do? THE FIVE GIRLS OF MISERY. Answer—1t won't hurt you at all to have the repu« tation of being choosey. On the contrary it will make you more desirable. The most popular girls are not those who go out with every Tom, Dick and Harry who asks them, but those who are selective enough to require certain standards of the boys they go with. Show me an attractive girl who is not everybody's girl, and I'll guarantee that she will be a popular girl, To save me I cannot blame your parents for wanting to know something about the company you keep, although I do not think they should pick your friends for you. This should not be a hardship to you but a protection of which you should be justly proud. One man I know told me that when he was a boy he was allowed to go with anyone and everyone he chose, whereas other children in the neighborhood had more particular parents. He came to the conclusion that he

| was not loved as much as the other boys or his pare ents

would have been more careful about his companions. He envied the parental concern which is such a burden to you. Of course, if you aren't having any fun in life, that is wrong. I suggest that you talk it over with your parents. Accept their standards and plan a party or a picnic with the young people who meet the requirements and try to start a series of good times in your set. If you are having fun with plenty of boys and girls, you won't want to sneak off and in cars when your parents aren't looking. I do think that some parents do not take the social life of their children seriously enough. After all their adjustment to other people, and particularly to the other sex, is just as important as school work. It is only when a girl has no outlet for her social tendencies that she gets out of hand and demands more freedom than is good for her. JANE JORDAN.

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

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

RE you contemplating a divorce? Then hold everything! For you'll stop, think and listen before taking the fatal step if you read DIVORCE IF YOU MUST (Coward-McCann) written by Frances Slade and illustrated by that clever artist, Emery I, Gondor. If you liked “Live Alone and Like It” you'll enjoy this, as it is written in the same cleverly facetious manner. The author has many suggestions pro and con on the subject to make you think before you leap, She rushes to warn you that the result may not be all you'd planned.

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