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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1939

MESA VERDE PARK, Colo, June 24—Let me give you, in my wholly unscientific manner, a sort of history of the folks who used to live around here. To go way back, scientists figure there weren't any human beings at all in North or South America ‘ ; 20,000 years ago. (Other scienERT AAR tists will dispute that, but that's what my scientist says.) Well, the Indians started coming across that narrow strip of Bering Sea from Asia sometime between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago. Now, we usually think of this migration from Asia as one big sudden batch of people. But the truth is they kept coming for 10,000 years. Some went to the plains and became hunters. Others went toward the Atlantic, and became James Fennimore Cooper books. Still others went on down into Mexico and South America, and worked themselves up to a high point of civilization.

As far as the scientists can figure out, Indians didn't stop in the Mesa Verde neighborhood until around the time Christ was born. These were latecomers. And, for all I can see, they didn't have . much sense. Despite the high Indian civilization to the South, these people didn't have metals, their building was crude, they had no calendar or writing, and their only domesticated things were dogs and turkeys. And they wouldn't eat the turkeys. Now, these people are known to the scientists as “Basket Makers,” because they could make baskets. They were very small people. Not as littie as pyvgmies, but very short.

» x » An Ancient Mystery They were peaceful, and made their living by < farming. They were here from about the time of

Christ until 700 A. D. And then they disappeared. The scientists don't know what happened to them. They lived in houses not unlike some Eskimo houses today,

They dug a large pit in the ground, put up a pole at each corner, made a roof of boughs, and

Our Town

Joe Christian was President Lincoln's coachman before he came to Indianapolis and set up a barber shop on Massachusetts Ave. To save my life, I can't ‘ remember when Joe decided to settle here, but I seem to recall that he was going good in the late Nineties—not onlv as a barber, but as a raconteur of Lincoln. lore. Possibly the best story in Joe's repertoire was the one about the runaway. It happensd in 1881, said Jos, at a time when President Lincoln had his summer home in a cottage located in the park of the Soldiers’ Home, some four and one-half miles outside Washington. On this particular evening Joe had the job of driving Mrs. Lincoln to her summer home. Seems the President had to stay iu Washington because of an important meeting that promised to last far into the night. Everything went all right, said Joe, until a few miles out when a frightened goat chased by a dog came flying across the road directly in front of the team. The horses < reared, but Joe brought them to their feet with a sudden jerk on the lines. Right after that, however, the maddened beasts dashed away, their hoofs pounding the hard paved pike, and then and there ¢ Joe knew he had a real-for-sure runaway on his a hands. va Mrs. Lincoln screamed: “Joseph, have you forgotten yourself; stop driving in that manner; it's shamefully undignified.” (Joe said he always suspected that Mrs. Lincoln thought he was drunk, and laughed and laughed every time he told the story.)

Knew When They Were Licked

Joe said he didn't pay any attention to Mis. Lincoln. Seated there on the box with his coachman’s hat still straight on his head and his gloved hands grasping the lines. Joe Christian was as unmoved apparently as though he were driving a hack

Washington

® WASHINGTON, June 24. —In theory the new seven-year $3,860,000,000 self-liquidating loan program lust proposed to Congress by President Roosevelt is by far the soundest, in a fiscal sense, of any of € the re-employment experiments offered by this Administration. It will be denounced as another “spending program.” But

Hoosier Vagabond

By Ernie Pyle

then plastered it over with mud and rocks. There probably are 2500 of these in the park. And the baffling thing is, that every single one of these homes was burned. Not once have the scientists unearthed a Basket-Maker home that wasn't burned. The scientists don't know why. It was the custom then to burn the house after the owner died. It looks as though they'd find at least one house that hadn't been burned. The scientists are stumped. o Well, after the Basket Makers disappeared, the Mesa Verde Indians came. They were bigger and seemed to have a little more gumption. They were farmers, too. But the hunter Indians from the plains were always bothering them, so they took to the caves in the canyon walls, At first they just lived in the caves. And then gradually they started building houses in the caves. They really got pretty fancy about it. Some of the caves housed hundreds of people.

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Driven Out by Drought

The Mesa Verdes built room upon- room, and kept extending to the side, until some of these large open-mouthed caves were filled clear to the roof with houses, like futuristic apartment buildings. These Mesa Verde Indians lived here from about. 700 A. D. to 1276. In that year, a terrific drought started. It lasted 24 years. There has never been a thing found in these cliff dwellings that would indicate they were occupied after the drought. Apparently they moved southward into New Mexico, along the Rio Grande. For it seems quite apparent that the Pueblo Indians of today are their

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descendants. Their abandoned houses stood there for 600 years. And then our cowboys, riding around the mesas, found them in the 1880's. Some of the cowboys made thousands of dollars out of the stuff they found in these caves. They sold mummies, and pottery, and weavings. They had made great inroads by the time the Government came along and took the place over in 1906. These ancient cliff dwellings are still here today. That's what you see when you come to Mesa Verde Park. The scientists estimate there are 375 caves in this area with houses in them. But only a few have been excavated and repaired for public presentation.

By Anton Scherrer

at a funeral. Next thing he saw was Mrs. Lincoln's parasol flying through the air. By this time Joe wasn't far trom the entrance to the Soldiers’ Home. The entrance was an oldfashioned one only wide enough for one team to pass between the high stone posts. Joe said he trembled a little when he thought of it. If he could send the beasts through that hole everything would be all right, he thought. And God help him if he couldn't. He looked back over his shoulder. Mrs. Lincoln had fainted and lay in a heap in the bottom of the carriage. It was now time to turn the trick. Joe snatched a long whip from its pocket, braced his feet against the iron rail, gave the right twist on the lines, and as the horses turned he brought the stinging whip down upon the horses like nobody's business. They were through the entrance and the worst was over. The horses knew they were licked and stopped. 8 L 4 8

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Praise From Mr. Lincoln As though nothing had happened, Joe opened the carriage coor and as the President's wife, who had recovered her consciousness, looked up he lifted his

hat and said respectfully: “Mrs. Lincoln, we are here. What aré your orders?” “Drive back to the city, Joseph,” she said, “inform the President I have been dreadfully hurt by the horses’ runaway and tell him that I desire his presence at my bedside.” , And so Joe had to ridc all the way back to Washington—this time by way of a horse and buggy—and bring the President to his wife's bedside. When it was all over, the President said: ‘‘Curly, do you know why you are my coachman? It's because U. S. Marshal Ward Lammon recommended you with these words: ‘Mr, Lincoln, I have found you a coachman who is not afraid of anything that is a horse.” I guess I forgot to say that Lincoln's nickname for Joe was “Curly.” Sure, because of his black curly hair. There wasn't a trace of it when he lived here, which makes me think that, maybe, Joe spent a good many years elsewhere before he came to Indianapolis.

By Raymond Clapper

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Army Air Corps to Offer Course to 17,000 Youths

| operating somewhat as agents for the investing public. | There is nothing novel about the proposal. It is in line with the recent testimony of numerous economists before the O'Mahoney TNEC, who said that a large field of useful public improvements should be worked to stimulate the heavy industries, but it avoids some of the more adventurous devices suggested, such as the Berle capital credit bank. The theory meets one real objection, namely that

x if examined, it proves to be— much public work expenditure lacks the continuing on paper—a proposal for usity dynamic force of private enterprise expenditure. If Government machinery as 2 you spend $1,000,000 on a bridge, you do, during the trustee agency for investment of construction, stimulate employment and industrial ‘ private funds in the construction production, but after the bridge is built, that is the

of waterworks, sewage disposal

By Maj. Al Williams

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 24 —For the! School, Boston, and Parks Air Colthousands of young men in this|jege, East St. Louis, Ill.

end. It provides convenience to the public but it no longer gives work or contributes toward industrial! production. But if you put $1,000,000 into & factory, | you not only have the employment and industrial! stimulation afforded by the construction of the] project but, when the job is done, then the factory employs men, uses materials, provides freight traffic | for the railroads and becomes a continuing multi- |

plants, bridges, hospitals, highspeed toll roads and city bypasses, railroad equipment {no be leased to carriers, rural electrification projects, and such enterprises. Some of these enterprises would pay for themselves by fees and charges as with waterworks and toll roads. Some would

country who “want to get into avia-| at these civilian schools only the

tion” the Army Air Corps has ¢ im : i plan that should ke regarded as Subject of airplane mechanics will manna from heaven. That is, of be taught. But the Air Corps]

course, if these young men are not schools, at Rantoul and Denver, will

afraid to work in exchange for, turn out aircraft machinists, welders knowledge. {and metal workers, parachute rigDepending upon appropriations’ gers, carburetor, instrument, electri- |

for the enlargement cof the Air cal and propeller specialists, radio |

be paid for by local taxation as in the case of sewage disposal plants. Past PWA projects of a non-Federal character have been financed through the Federal Governt ment making an outright gift of 43 per cent, the remaining 55 per cent being financed on the receiving end, either by borrowing from the Government or through bond issues. In the new program, the 45 per cent Government gift is eliminated and the whole affair becomes a straight loan proposition. »n n »

Proposal Nol New

Loans would be made. not by the Federal Treasury proper but by various agencies similar to the RFC, raising money in the market by selling notes and recovering the advances from the projeets over * varying periods of years, as Boulder Dam is heing paid for. These operations would go on outside of the regular budget, the various Government agencies

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday—In a speech made by Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, at the University of Western

Ontario, Canada, a short time ago, there occurs the following paragraph: “We have come to appreciate more keenly our system of free enterprise. At the same time, we have come to recognize that the continuity of that * vstem depends largely on the uiscipline which we impose upon ourselves. I am confident that democracy will survive. However, if it does not, it will be because we have failed to reconcile the demands of the individual initiative with the public in the conservation of our basic natural resources.” It is natural that anyone who has worked in the Tennessee Valley Authority should think primarily of the conservation of our basic natural resources in the public interest and I am glad to have that stressed. What has impressed me most. however, in all the variety of results which have been achieved by the TVA, is the benefit which the conservation work there has brought to individuals throughout the surrounding areas. Of course, Dr.

particularly hard to start in small places or in rural repair and maintenance:

risk, but so are many of the agricultural loans which cago; are made, and I sometimes think that character is not | School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, Okla.:

or may not bring to fruition,

plier of economic activity. J

Corps during the coming months, men, aircraft armorers, photogra-| % | the plan offers thorough training in phers (air and geo); and clerks | her y . : operation, repair and maintenance —administrative, supply, engineer-| n here the Danger Lies lof modern airplanes to more than ing and operation. In this sense, the greatest need now is not con- 17,000 qualified applicants. | Jobs Should Be Available | tinuation of public works activity but private activity This number will not be enlisted : os ery | which will exert continuing effect upon employment all at once, but in monthly incre- Young Americans, qualified in any and production. Not all public works lack this dy- ments of from one to three thou- of these subjects, will constitute the |

janie force but a considerable portion of them do. sand. a i rough oe heart of our coming air force. Ali . a , 3 'y RE % r J ; "¢ FE had : 1at, rather than the “spending” bogey, is the point Service, they wi ame 2 Pro cannot be pilots, but one trouble |

at which the Roosevelt program falls short. | lected civilian mechanic schoo ; i But if there is no private expansion in sight. if. at the two army technicai schools with our youth today is that they all

as businessmen are telling the Senate committee at Rantoul, Ill, and Denver, Colo. | want to strut about in helmets and |

considering the Mead hill, there is plenty of money | 3-Year Enlistment | goggles. for private business but no way to use it, then there | ‘ cies d { The qualifications for Air Corps is need of taking up the slack. | To get this training, which most ;5¢ t1aining are high-—as The danger .is in the practical application. If Certainly will equip the youngsters ¢jou1q4 he—so you youngsters who | the program is to be used to perpetrate a series of [OF service in civilian life later, the goo) there is no other career for you

Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing projects or Florida |2PPlicant is required to enlist in the i aviation, and who do not have| ship canals, then the scheme can come to no good | AIX Corps for three years. The age {pe Air Corps pilot requirements, | end. limitations are 18 to 35. Upon ac-| hai cast this ambition from your | ceptance, each man is paid $21 a minds at once, and prepare yourselves for the all-important task of

month, plus ‘board, uniforms, and | other clothing (except civilian peeping these pilots and planes in | the air—and safely, too. |

clothes). | And if you have done well in your

Assigned to an Air Corps Station,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

he is given basic training in the du- three-year enlistment, and want to we will not outgrow quickly enough the pioneer idea mechanical lines which appeal tO flying services, and aircraft maincome from ourselves and that is very much more | placed con the eligible list for the acgreat hope. There is a willingness among them to| If he does not care to remain in the we could also consiger some agency of the Government Civilian Schools on List annual International Cost Conferfrom $50 to $500. | schools have been selected by the | on "Distribution Costs and Differareas. Banks are loath to lend unless one has some| Curtiss-Wright Technical Insti- tional Association of Cost Ae‘counting and Industrial Pricing.”

Hes hod fn mg this, train { return to civilian life, I think you : Bis i ) Gor { ind a hearty welcome awaitin Morgan is pointing out that our danger today is that attend school in any of the aircraft hi py at TINE of each man for himself and the devil take the him most. Tests insure that he has tenance bases hindmost. : | the ability to pursue the course he Re Not living under a dictatorship, this discipline must | has selected, and on passing he all HERE T 0 ATTEND difficult to achieve, though it is the only way that|tual school training. can preserve for us our democratic freedom. After technical school, he is aiei- CONFER ENCE ON COST I must say that talking to young people gives me ple for promotion within the Army. | CEE think along co-operative lines, and a desire to act] service, at the end of the three-year | J. O. Waymire of Eli Lilly & Co. unselfishly which is heartening to their elders. | period, he may return to civil life as and J. C. Crim of U. S. Rubber I wish that in considering loans to small business, a competent technician, Products, Inc., are to attend the 20th which would lend small sums to individuals on a! ; ‘ character basis. I am coming across situations, where.| In addition to the two Army tech- | ence Monday through Friday at Atin order to get a new start, a person needs anywhere | nical schools, the following civilian lantic City, N. J. : Mr. Wavmire will speak Thursday Credit unions are the answer in many places, but Army Air Corps to train the new : they are not as yet sufficiently developed and are enlisted men in aircraft operation, ential Pricing.” Mr. Crim is a direc{tor on the national board of the Natangible assets which they can put into a safe deposit tute of Aeronautics, Glendale, Cal.; countants, box and sell if necessary. Of course, it would be a! Aeronautical University, Inc. Chi-! Four of the six sessions will be Roosevelt Field; Spartan devoted to the theme, “Cost Acany more of a risk than a crop which the Lord may Casey Jones School of Aeronautics. There will also be round-table dis- | Newark; New England Aircraftcussions and panel discussions, | °q ea tae : AER . . =

1. Unlike ordinary convention goers, Townsend delegates give their undivided attention to proceedings on the platform at Cadle Tabernacle. 2. Dr. Townsend examines a movie camera presented to him during sessions of the convention by He announced that recordings of the various addresses and photos of the speakers were being made and will be combined into sound “movies” for showing at club meetings. : 3. The delegates, from every state used all known modes of transportation in traveling to Indianapolis.

delegates from Ohio.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-Name the capital of the Dominion of Canada 2—Does bi-weekly mean twice a week or everv two weeks? 3—In law, what is a minor? 4—Who won the recent Metropolitan Open golf championship? 5—What is the name for the famous pass between Afghanistan and India? 6—Was Vermont ever an independent republic? T—How do the suits rank in the game of poker?

8—What is the correct pronunciation of the word lethargic? = ” ” Answers 1—Ottawa.

2—Every two weeks. 3—A person under age of legal capacity, either for any or all acts. 4—_Henry Picard. 5—Khyber Pass. 6—Yes, for 14 years. 7—They have no rank. 8—Le-thar'-jik; not leth’-ar-jik.

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This bus. 4. A delegate uses opera glasses to get a better view. 5. Many of the delegates, particularly those from the Western States, came attired in picturesque costumes. These two are from FIexas. : 6. Age and youth, alike, are represented in the thousands attending the convention. And the smiles on the fac:z of these two are typical of the goodnatured friendliness of the entire delegation.

Everyday Movies—By Wortman |

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Mopey Dick and the Duke

"That's no way to leave tha paper, Duke.

The way | was brought up, when | got through reading the papers | always had to pick-them up and fold: them neatly." : : hy