Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1939 — Page 17
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1939
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
NEW YORK, June 2.—We're through writing about the Fair, but before we leave New York I wish vou could see Broadway as she is today. Of course Broadway has always been packed, but with all the Fair visitors it is double-packed now And the famous New York police are ready for us outlanders. They have an information hooth right in the middle of Times Square. And there's a cop on the sidewalk about every half block, standing there on the curb, facing the slowly moving throngs. New York cops are mighty good fellows. Some of them have “high blood pressure,” as the taxi drivers say, meaning theyre excitable and mean. But all m all, there probably aren't any cops in America who are nicer than the New York brand. It's hard to get They're putting Rates are up,
to strangers Hotel's in New York are packed. a good room without a reservation. extra beds in every available corner although not outlandishly A New York taxi driver never Never have I ridden in a New York taxi driver didn't have something good to say. Right now, they're talking a lot about the terrible jaywalking situation. And it is terrible. Twice in one day taxi drivers cussed the jayv-walking situation to me, and offered their own solutions. One said: “There's only one way to stop it. That's to put up a big glass case at every street commer and when a guyv jav-walks, grab him and stick him in there for an hour so all the other people can look at him.”
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The other said: “There's only one way to stop it They'll have to put up barbed-wire fences along the curbs. Just ordinary wire wouldn't do. They'd climb through it. You've got to have something that will tear their clothes.” You'll like New York taxi drivers 12 hours a dav, take a great deal of abuse. try lo raise their families on an average wage of from $15 to $20 a week, and remain fairly pleasant about it
They work about
Our Town
without my telling a 15-minute program
As vou probably know vou, the City Labrary people broadcast everv Tuesday night (9:30), in the course of which thev answer some of the many questions brought to them every week. It's hot stuff. Coming as it coes just before my bed time, 1t sends me to sleep with a strange exhilarating feeling that finaliy, at long last, something has been settled. Sufficiently, anyway, to shelve it for a while and think about something else Last Tuesday, for instance, the Library people settled the question whether the color red infuriates a bull (No), whether it is dangerous to stand ou: In front of an open window during a thunderstorm (No). They even got around to the number of baseballs the major leagues use a year (72.000). That one answer was worth staying up for. You have no idea how it comforted me to learn that America is still a place of plenty and plethora, notwithstanding the professional pessimists to the contraiy Up to that point the Library people appeared to be infallible. Strangely enough, however, the program ended on a sour note, almost a note approaching cdefeat Anyway, just before signing off, Miss Soilenberger, the oracle of the evening, broke down and admitted that the Library people had no way of finding out who iggented the safety pin, a question put to them severa®™weeks ago and which, it appears, thev have been wrestling with ever since » » »
Lowdown On the Safety Pin
Goodness knows T have enough to do without helpLuther L. «for Lester) Dickerson run his Library Inasmuch, however, as T happen to know something about the pin—at any rate. more than some people do—I don’t see why I shouldn't take time ofl
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Washington
WASHINGTON, June 2.--One would need to be a mind-reader to assert that President Roosevelt 15 planning his ferthcoming trip to the West Coast as a teaser third-term race. But one does not have to be overly suspicious to suspect that it will serve as such No one understands the mechanics of these barnstorming tours more intimately than Mr Roosevelt. He knows what will happen It began 10 wccur on his purge campaign tour last summer when some delegations appeared at train stops bearing banners and petitions calling upon the President to run in 1640. There will be more of that when he goes West this summer. If Mr. Roosevelt really wats to run, there will be no difficulty about arranging a call, and no lack of voices, sincere and expedient, urging him to “make the sacrifice.” Theodore Roosevelt worked it this wav: Tn November. 1911, a year before tne 1912 election. Theodore Roosevelt said he was ‘not a candidate” and that he had repeatedly discouraged suggestions of that character. That is more than his cousin has done to discourage third term talk. As Henry Pringle observed in his biography, T. R. discouraged the idea but he did not forbid it, and as weeks wore on, he “pondered the best means hy which he could anmmounce that he had agam bowed to the popular will.” N » »
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Tn January of election yéar, a group of T R's friends met with him to discuss how the demand for his candidacy should be staged. Tt was recalled that several Governors had offered their support and it
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thursday —1 found the President still bothered vesterday with sinus, a situation which should not exist when you g6 to the country in order to get rid of it as he did. However, it cleared up for a few days, only to return before he left Hyde Park. When I went over to the office to see him during his lunch hour yesterday, I began to wonder how he would enjoy greeting the many people who come to our newspaper dance every year. However, I hoped for the best and went back to keep a number of appointments. The last few davs have been very warm in Washington. Everyone enjovs the breeze which usually blows on the south porch and the view of the fountain at with the shining white Wash- ¢ Bent i the distance Atl 30 our guests nner and 1 found that severa CODIE ) the request retary Wallace had mad nh the matter of & cottem ev ess, h decid o follow suit, Mrs. Walisce, 1 though! better than anyone else, for her chess looked cool and comfortable. Mine
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By Ernie Pyle
New Yorkers are supposed to be smart and sophis-| ticated. But that's just the little upper crust we read about. The average New Yorker is just as big a greenhorn as vou or I, Remarks such as this, from a fat woman on a bus: “Let me off at Fords are.” And it may interest you te know have to go to the Fair to see nudes Nope, they're right back on Broadway. The same theaters that were closed two years ago are back in business again after two years of showing cheap movies.
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» n nN Only Name Has Changed They don't call them “Burlesque” any more. They advertise them in big lights as “Girlie” shows. The strip tease is exactly the same. There are the same jokes and suggestive sketches. The same “spielers” of dirty books and cheap candy during intermissions It was quite a coincidence the way I happened to find out about them. I was wandering around Times Square one evening, sort of absent-mindedly, and the first thing I knew I was inside a theater, sitting) right in the front row. I sat there for a couple of hours and never real- | ized what a terrible place I was in till the show was | all over and the lights came on. Just as soon as I realized it, I got up and left. I will say this for the new “Girlie” shows touched up with a tinsel and an artiness spots approaches musical comedy. And it's over, too The fleet The theater Well The two biggest hits of the show were a male dance team in a difficult tap-dancing act, and a moving tragi-comic skit in which the magnificent acting of a man and a girl completely overwhelmed the dirty lines thrown in by the author And the strip-teasers (plenty beautiful, too--) got, so little applause they could hardly get back on the stage to get off the last of their clothes You don't suppose America is getting you?
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By Anton Scherrer
and relieve the Library people of their misery The safety pin, my dears, was invented by Walter Hunt in 1849. Not only that, but Mr. Hunt aiso mvented the paper collar (1854). in many respects an even greater boon to humanity although, of course more limited in its use Father, 1 remember, always wore paper collars and on more than one occasion blessed the man who had the sense to think it up. Indeed, Father stuck to paper collars long after the celluloid collar came into style which, as near as I recall, was somewhere in the Nineties I drag Father's wardrobe into today's piece because a lot of people—for all I know, mavbe even the Library people—have a notion that the laundries ganged up and put the paper collar out of business Nothing of the sort. The paper collar went inte the discard because of the celluloid collar. That's as much as I am going to tell. I don't propose to reveal the name of the man who invented the celluloid collar After all, T have to leave something for Library people to find out for themselves n un
A Bachelor, No Doubt
Walter Hunt, born in Martinsburg, N. Y., in 1796, lived to be 63 years old and in that time had 20 mventions to his credit including patents for alarm gongs, stoves, improved nails and brads, to say nothing of the safety pin and the paper collar. In 1839 when he was 43 years old, he even invented a machine for sewing, stitching and seaming cloth. thus antedating by some 12 vears Howe's patent for the same thing. I don’t know what happened Whatever it was. they got it fixed up all right because in later years Mr. Hunt received an annuity for his invention of the sewing machine. There's just one thing I can't find out Hunt, and that is whether he was ever not. TI doubt it. Onlv a bachelor could up the safety pin, paper collar and
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By Raymond Clapper
was decided to have letter Roosevelt to run Three weeks later seven Governors met at Chicago and took the action. These Governors—Carey of Wyoming, Stubbs of Kansas, Oshorne of Michigan Hadley of Missouri, Aldrich of Nebraska, Bass of New Hampshire and Glasscock of West Virginia—recounted the history of the Progressive movement and declared that only Roosevelt could make an effective fight for it. A few days later, T. R. said, “Mv hat Is in the ring,” and made his opening spcech at Columbus—in which he advocated the recall of Judicial decisions. | At the rate third term talk is developing, it won't be necessary to stage-manage a call in the wav T. R. did. Young Democrats in Iowa have adopted resolutions favoring Mr. Roosevelt in 1940 as have a number of labor union conventions. Within the last few days numerous White House callers have exe pressed themselves favorably without mewering any Visible Presidential displeasure. ;
them sign a petitioning
n un n Hasn't Said No—*Positively’ Senator Wiley of Wisconsin is advocating a constitutional amendment restricting the Presidency to a single six-year term. Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, a Democrat, is dusting off the old antithird term resolution Which the Senate adopted In 1928 against Coolidge Democratic Majority Leader that resolution did Senator who is {or a third term for Mr opposed hy Republican leaders who, together with many stalwart party leaders outside of Senate including Charles E. Hughes wha was then in private life, strongly urged another four vears for Coolidge President Roosevelt has said he expects to retire to Hyde Park at the end of his present term. But he hasn't said “positively.” Until he does, the third term agitation is likely to grow
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
may have looked cool, and 1 devoutly hope it did, but it did not feel very much so After dinner, the President found that the doctor | considered it unwise for him to go down to receive | our guests at the dance, so he retired. I stood alone and tried to explain to everyone who asked why the |
President was not (0 be found. My brother joined me a little later on and I was glad to have at least one male member of my family to keep me company through the evening. | After supper, Joe Moss and his orchestra, which! always plays delightfully, gave us a waltz, so I had | a dance. Later, my brother and I decided that there were enough people who really wanted to dance the Virginia Reel to have two sets. The rest of the guests gathered around to watch and smile indulgently when | any of us made mistakes I hope everyone had a good time. I wandered out on the porches and terrace during the evening. and it | could not have been a more perfect night. The moon was full and the air outside at least was cool and lovely, T am afraid I can't say much in favor of the | atmosphere in the rooms where people were dancing. | There was aA time when 1 thought 1 would melt awav.| This morming I received a group of San Antonio high school pupils, who were dressed in cowboy attire and on their way to the New York Fair. where they will give exhibitions of roping.
1. Wilbur Shaw, two-time winner of the 500-mile race, likes to go
fast but he is a cautions and
careful driver.
Here he is (left) with
Charles W. Chase, Indianapolis Railwavs general manager, holding the plaque awarded the street car company in the Interfleet Safety Con-
test for 1958.
* 9. Mrs. Florence Geiger, Railways company employee, examines one of the slogans which the company finds effective in its safety cam-
paign.
3. Harry Payne, fleet captain, at the wheel, and M. 1. Werner, plant manager of the Kuhner Packing Co, winner of the grand award for
small fleets.
involved in a single accident.
By David Marshall
F the results of the first annual Interfleet can be taken as a criterion, safe driving important kills more than 30.000 persons and to Indianapolis where more than 100 persons die each year from ignorance or
That should be
lack of practice of safe driving principles.
In winning the 1938 Interfleet Contest grand awards, the Indianapolis Railways, Inc, and the Kuhner Packing Co. achieved their records by teaching their operators how to drive safely As Emest Small, an Indianapolis Railways satety caplalt supervising 172 operators, put it: “All we did to win the award was to study safe driving prac and put them to use. We became safety conscious.” Another safety Jochum, a bus driver, says “we considered safety the important ingredient of service we sell.” Company officials much harder for their dni win the award than other firms because their operators not only drove through the City's most congested traffic areas but aiso had to take care of passengers and collect fares Indianapolis Railwavs vehicles can as 100 people m a a bus
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often manyv as streetcar and 5 in » AACH month fin safely cap tain the Interfleet learned the safe driving—the do's and don'ts that separate the good drivel from the poor, and dangeyous one The safety tips were carried back to the nearly 600 operators who met in monthly plant meetings These were augmented by 12 safety letters during 1938 sent to cach driver's home The letters re-emphasized what the drivers had been taught and cautioned them about routine changes and seasonal hazards During the cold weather they were warned about icy streets, special caution was urged while Christmas and Memorial Day crowds were here; a letter was sent the week preceding the opening of school when the returning children plus the large number of State Fair visitors created an exceptionally heavy pedestrian trafiic. After a particularly heavy snowfall period colored paper memoranda were attached to the regular letter
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1 Was Washington married more than ‘once? 2—-What is the name for shooting stars? 3-What 15 nunciation grocery? 4—_Name the jockey who rode Johnstown in the 1939 Kentucky Derby. 5—~Whe is Constantine Oumansky? 6—Did President Roosevelt ever office under a Administration? 7—Who invented the Diesel engine?
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The Kuhner company seven vears and its six trucks went
casualty in being
hasn't had a traffic through last year without
Safety Contest
can be taught, to a nation which annually
The company also conducted a monthly slogan contest. Almost all drivers participated and winning slogans were posted at the various bams One of them— “Courtesy Promotes Safety’ — written by Theodore Fenwick, a bus driver, won the city-wide sloean contest and won for him a season's baseball pass to Perry Stadium. ” ” n
THER winning slogans were: It is better to be an unsknown hero who avoided an accident than to be famous for having caused one.” Drive with safety regardless of schedules at congested places,” by Leonard Butrum Just don't let accidents pen’ —John Jochum William Estes wrote: “Be sure vou are safe, then go ahead.” If in doubt when passing don’t” was written by Ermest Small At the
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Packing Co, which won the grand award for small fleets. they haven't had a traffic casualty m even vears and during 1038 their six trucks had not a single accident More than anvithing else, aecording te Harry Payne fleet safety captain, this record was set hv the drivers following a saving thev have around the plant Take vour time—and hurry.” Mr. Pavne attended the monthIv Interfleet meetings. Then the half dozen drivers met at the plant after hours to learn what he had been taught “Our drivers also turned in reports on the street conditions on their routes and possible traffic hazards,” he said “When a new driver was put on a route he had at his fingertips the exact conditions he would have to face. Our problem was even greater than perhaps some other companies because we cons stantly drive in a heavily congested area delivering meats to retail groceries and markets.” ” n ”
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low wanted the right of way worse than we did-—okay, let him have it.” they say. The six trucks traveled more than 120.000 miles in setting their perfect record. according to M. 1 Wemer, plant manager The nearly 600 operators of the Indianapolis Railways drove their vehicles a total of 14.729.993 miles, transported 66653.192 passengers, and reduced accidents 27 per cent A maior mcecentive inn winning the contest at both companies was the svstem of awards for drivers Henry C. Kuhner, our president, for severalgvears has had a unique method of awarding the safe driver,” Mr. Werner said ‘Im our three plants at Tt. Wayne, Muncie and Indianapolis we have 119 pieces of rolling stock. At ihe beginning of each year Mr. Kuhner sets aside $26 as a gift to each driver and sales= man “Damages from then deducted from that At the last Christmas every driver won his $26." Mr. Kuhner said the plan, although costing several thousand dollars, has paid big dividends 10 the company in reduced insurance rates and depreciation costs i" ” hn \ARLY last vear the Indianapolis Railways inaugurated a plan of giving trousers, jacket and caps to drivers for periods of driving without an accident, Caps were awarded for 1100 consecutive hours free from accidents, trousers and jackets for
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
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550 consecutive accidentless hours, Any broke the then had to Usually each uniform Complete uniforms were awards= ed to 146 operators for no accel dents and 370 operators at least the cap award ing uniforms not in need of replaced were given the equivalent of the clothing The grand award mm both and small fleet division awarded on a basis of 40 for accident reduction and cent for accident prevention work Thus ®even companies, while not winning the grand award, com pleted the year without an accident They were the Ajax Brewing Corp., Schoen Brothers, Stark & Wetzel, Ine, The Indianapolis Times, The Indianapolis Star, Acme-Bvans Co, and the Indian Refining Co Certificates were issued (6 coms= panies for having reduced the number of accidents during 1938 They were the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., Kingan & Co, the Polar Ice & Fuel Co, and the Pure Oil Co Awards also were made to fleet captains who attended all meetings during the vear and each driver in the rewarded fleets was given a safety card signed by Mayor Sullivan, Last year there were 78 separate fleet, entries representing more
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4 idea for the contest inated with Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, head of the Police Traflfic Department, in an effort to cut {he traffic toll By using the truck driveYs to s#t an example for other motorists Lieut. McCarty called representatives of majo; erator: After several and organization of plans a Ng committee was set up 10 operthe contest. It included J. €. Scher of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., Evan Walker of the Indianapolis Railways, Ine, N. K. Ramsay of Tonys Safety Coach Line, O. W. Nester of the Polar Ice & Fuel Co, C. V. Buchholz of Armour & Co, and Ralph Shinkle of Transfer & Storage Co This vear's contest, to begin July 1, will be co-sponsored by the Lions Club in co-operation with the Indianapolis Police Depart ment. The Club will handle the administrative end of the contest and is seeking to enroll five times the number of fleets entered in 1938 “Last vear accidents were re= duced 28 per cent by the 78 fleets” Lieut. McCarty said. "One come pany reduced accidents from 94 to 26. With the added effort of the Lions Club, a greate® entry list, and what we have accoms= plished this year, the 1939 contest should make grea! strides In make ing Indianapolis safer city
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