Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1939 — Page 9

TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1939

Our Town

Cn June 17, 1822—Just about eight months after Indianapolis got its start—a meeting was held in John Hawkin’s tavern, “The Eagle,” to prepare for the first celebration of Fourth of July. It wasn't a bit too soon to get ready for the big event. The celebration took place on Military Ground, a vast wooded tract which embraced everything nor:h of Washington St. and west of West St., to the road along the edge of White River and Fall Creek bottoms. A handful of people turned out. At that, it was everybody in Indianapolis at the time. Parson John McClung, the “New Light” pioneer preacher, started off with a prayer on the text from Proverbs, “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Parson Robert Brenton delivered the benediction. Sandwiched in between was a speech by Judge Wick including a reading of the Declaration of the Independence. Squire Obed Foote read Washington's Inaugural Address and Tavernkeeper Hawkins handled the ¥Farewell Address by the same author. Both readers worked in some parenthetical remarks of their own.

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A barbecue followed. Bob Harding had killed a deer in the northwest part of town the evening before and Wilkes Reagen, who ran the butcher shop at the time, tended to its roasting. The feast, including two long after-dinner speeches by Dr. Mitchell and Major Redding, lasted all afternoon. after which everybody went to Mr. Crumbaugh's cabin and spent the night dancing. A good time was had by all. For the next five years, Indianapolis followed the same ritual. In 1928 however, James W. Blake suggested starting Fourth of July around here with a parade of Sunday School children, a practice which continued 30 years and more. Mr. Blake, mounted on a big white horse, headed every one of the 30 parades.

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It Seems to Me

NEW YORK. July 4 —Naturally, George Washington and Jefferson are menticned most of all in Fourth of July orations, and later Presidents are not neglected. But I'd like io hear an Independence Day speech which dealt with still another great American who never held any more imporiant public office than a minor job in the Department of the Interior, from which he was rather promptly fired. Later he was a clerk in the Treasury. But ihis man who was Known onlv slightly during his own long life left behind him the most searching and eloquent expressions of American ideals which our literature affords. And he knew the land in which he lived, because he was at various times printer's devil, compositor. carpenter. country school teacher, editorial writer, publisher, tramp, hospital orderly and recluse. Most of all he was a poet, and Walt Whitman was his name. Some portion of Independence Day belongs to the good gray poet, because he sang of America at work and of America at piay. This man who worked with extraordinary energy at many tasks was also wise enough to cultivate the ability to loaf. And, curiously enough, I imagine that Walt generally endures in the popular mind as an old fellow who spent most of his time sitting under a tree or on the deck .of the ferry to Brooklyn “inviting his soul.”

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He Was a Hard Worker

As a matter of fact, he must have put in a lot of hard work when he was publishing a little paper down in Huntington, L. I, and as editer of the Brooklyn Eagle and later of the Brooklyn Daily Times. Most cf his journeyman stuff has gone down the river like the work of all other newspapermen. There are several fat volumes, culled out of his editorial writing long after his death, and to my eye and ear it just seems like capable routine stuff. Whitman was still readying himself up for the role of America’s most eloquent interpreter.

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 4—Usually the Declaration of Independence is considered to mark the decisive beginning of this nation. But the point may well be made that the real beginning lay in the decision of the Canstitutional Convention a decade later to abolish state tariffs and vest in Con-

By Anton Scherrer

Early on the morning of the Fourth, the childien

of each Sunday School would meet at the church with banners and march, with their superintendent, to some point on the Circle where all would fall in and pro-

ceed to the State House Square, or if the weather was nice, to some convenient grove equipped with a

platform and seats, and there hear a prayer, a reading of the Declaration, and a patriotic speech by some young fellow picked for his oratorical gifts. Governor Porter, for instance, made his first hit with a Fourth of July speech. It was an extraordinary performance not only because of his speech, but because of the old Revolutionary soldier on the platform with him. Every once in a while, Mr. Porter would point to the old soldier to illustrate his remarks. It was the same trick Daniel Webster used when he delivered his Bunker Hill speech. Another remarkable address on a like occasion was that of Governor Wallace, when he surprised everybody by handing out buttered rolls at the end of his speech. It sent everybody home in a pleasant frame of mind. » ” a

No Day for Fun

For some reason, the Sunday School parades came to an end around 1858. When they were going good, they had as many as 2000 children. Which is to say that every kid in Indianapolis was in the Fourth of July parade. Mr. Blake saw to that, you bet. Indeed, this is the time and place to tell about the dozen kids who played hookey one Sunday to go swimming. Mr. Blake got wind of it, mounted his horse, and called his Negro servant to follow him. After capturing the kids and allowing them to dress, Mr. Blake started the servant ahead, kept the scared bovs together, and brought up the rear to prevent escapes. Thus the delinquent procession marched all the way up from Pogues Run to the old Presbyterian Church on N. Pennsylvania St. Tradition even has it that the stern old Puritan, situated as he was on his horse that morning, gave some of the kids an occasional flicking of the whip to remind them that Sunday is no day to have a good time.

On Vacation)

By Heywood Broun

He knew a composing room forward and backward, and there's a lot to be learned hanging around type, even though the metal was cold in Whitman's day. And he messed around the country, meeting all sorts and conditions of men. He was a great walker before the stroke which finally sent him to his safe harbor in Camden. When Whitman spoke of the open road and its joys he meant just that and no fooling. And in the heat of the day, he dipped his fingers in some wayside brook, but, of course, the printer's ink never did get washed away. The poetry was not dated. and it is particularly timely todav. Indeed, he wrote the philosophy of individual democratic dignity as opposed to Fascist slavery vears before the totalitarian theory had even) shown its head above the hills. ”n ”

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And Whitman was not posing in his lively expression of love for all humankind. Tolerance is better than hate, but it is too cool a word. Whitman was moved by much more than that. His curiosity about all men and brothers was inspired by a vital warmth. Here was, if vou like, the first of the inquiring reporters. And what he found he liked. The vision of Lincoln touched him deeply and captured his entire imagination. And his contacts with Emerson were good for both men, although I suspect that the New Englander must have found Walt a most curious kind of person. I don’t think they met, but they had some correspondence, and the somewhat prim sage of Concord was one of the first to recognize that in the person of Whitman there came marching a giant into the American scene. Their approach to what might be called today “Progressivism” was from wholly different quarters. Whitman knew by the pricking of his thumbs things which Ralph Waldo Emerson came to by cogitation and hard reading. I don’t know any American, living or dead, who contains within himself more of the spirit of the Fourth than Whitman. It wouldn't be a bad idea at all to follow the reading of the Declaration itself with Captain, My Captain, or When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd. It might be instructive for us to remind each other that some of the attitudes called visionary today are out of the very dreams of those great dead who have given democracy the solid rock basis of tradition.

By Raymond Clapper

world's greatest single free trade area, and President Roosevelt said not long ago that this country’s commercial importance has been due to the mobility of trade throughout all the states. This little holiday excursion back into school book history was suggested by the alarming tendency in

Vacationists from crowded cities like to go to crowded places.

The Vacation Industry

Swings Into High

| By Paul Ross

NEA Service Staff Correspondent

which— 1. Does an estimated $5.000,000,000 five" billion dollars) worth of business a year or more; 2. Has approximately 000,000 customers;

3. Probably shows niore volume than any other industry except steel or automobiles:

4 Creates thousands upon thousands of jobs and livelihoods;

5. Is. the most “democratic” of industries because no big, single units dominate it;

6. Has never been properly studied, analyzed or charted by anyone, including those in it; —well, Joe Doaks & family might say you were daffy with the heat and ought to take a vacation, as they were doing. Yet that is the situation with the travel and vacation industry. Joe Doaks, by the million, thinks of it as two-weeks-off-with-pay, hot dogs, five gallons of gas, seeing Valley Forge, swimming in the lake and getting a painful sunburn. In reality it is a gigantic economic force which, like other American phenomena, “just grew” without direction or guidance, and which might be used as a powerful factor for recovery. American travel is not confined to ocean voyages. These constitute only a minor part of the industry. Approximately 85 per cent of all American travel is done in automobiles and is confined to areas which can be visited in automobiles. The American Automobile As-

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EW YORK, July 4.—If you walked up to Joe Doaks & Family as they sat in their jaloppy in some tourist camp and told them that they were part of an industry

sociation has estimated that motoring Americans spent $4,500,000,« 000 in 1937, at an average daily expenditure of $7 per person. » n zn HAT this means economically was indicated by an nfficial ot the American Express Co.,, who estimated that every time a vacationist spends $5 he indirectly gives one day's work to one person. A New York publisher of travel magazines believes that vacationists create 250,000 jobs in the single field. of travel agencies, railroad and ship passenger departments and tourist services. Southern California travel experts say that 150,000 in that area gain their sole livelihood from tourists. Tourism is the only industry of Bermuda, the biggest industry of New England and Canada.

It provides Florida with more money than the citrus crop, brought «in 1937) nearly nine times the native population to New Mexico, left (in 1937) more thah 800 million dollars in New York State.

Federal authorities have estimated that tourists alone consumed approximately 25 per cent of the aluminum, .iron and steel, copper, petroleum, zinc, lumber, plate glass, tin, rubber, leather, lead, nickel, cotton, mohair, labor and insurance which the automobile manufacturing industry used up in 1935. The major part of the tourist dollar received is immediately spent locally for labor, supplies, taxes, rent and services. It is impossible to calculate the total good which the blood-stream of tourist money performs in the body of American economy. One can only

The vacation industry , . . going full tilt now.

say that millions, many of whom never realize it, are benefited. ” » ”

ET until recent years America did virtually nothing to encourage and expand this great industry. While European nations set up government bodies to draw in American travelers, a few American states promoted themselves and their attractions, travel firms as individuals pushed the business. Today, all that is changed. The Federal Government recently set up a United Travel Bureau with offices in Washington, New York and San Francisco, to encourage and guide the travel industry. Thirty American states now provide money and bureaus to push travel in their areas. With two fairs going simultaneously in the United States, 1939 promises to be the biggest travel year yet. Some travel authorities believe as much as one billion dollars in new business may accrue. The railroads, which reduced rates for the purpose, are looking forward to a 12 to 20 per cent increase in business. The ship lines expect about 15 per cent more in volume. The bus interests await an 8 to 15 per cent jump upwards. Air travel, of course, is constantly increasing. ” ” ” HERE do people from crowded cities like to go on vacaton? To crowded places! Where do small townsmen and villagers prefer to spend their two weeks off? At solitary forests and lakes! That is just one of the paradoxical facts about the American-on-pleasure-bent. Here are a few other business habits and “trends” as revealed by

travel agents whose business it is to cater to American vacationers: The people most difficult to arrange domestic itineraries for are schoolteachers. They have been everywhere before and have seen everything. Finland. a comparatively out-of= the-way spot and not a particularly exciting one, is a favorite objective of American pleasure travelers. Why? Because Finland paid its war-debt to the United States. Everybody likes Finland. Deluxe-Class travelers are chiselers. “Why not?” commented one travel expert, “that’s how they get the money to travel de luxe.” Well-to-do women travel in pairs and are very thrifty. They prefer fairly long ccean cruises to romantic spots. Women of the clerk - stenographer class travel alone in search of husbands, prefer short cruises or motor trips, spend two to three weeks vacationing. Sixty to 65 per cent of all trav elers are women. They have more leisure time and their men can give them the money to travel. Even when they pay for their own vacations they frequently spend all their savings. Men, on the other hand, hold on to savings for a “black day.” Well-to-do men go alone to big, isolated camps in the Canadian woods. Men of the clerk-stenog-rapher class go on motor trips, to the seashors, or boating. Eighty per cent of ocean travelers come from places within 1C0 miles of thé ocean, and most of them originate in five states: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Other leading places are Illinois and California. Women travel to show off, to “put on the dog,” as one travel

man phrased it. Consequently they prefer big, crowded resorts and ships. Men travel to see something or to get away from something. Consequently, they like the woods, boat trips, camping trips, where they won't have to shave, iN ” 2 EPTEMBER, formerly an “off” month, got such a big play from people anxious to avoid crowds that now Septembear schedules are crowded, too. People don't like to go away until after July 4. Ocean travel to West Indian and South American ports will jump this season because many Midwesterners who won't or can't pay fares to the coast, plus boat fares, will be coming to the World's Fair, anyway. When Hitler and Mussolini started cutting up on the Con tinent, Americans stayed away from European booking in such numbers that the big lines (including Italian and German coms panies) pulled vessels out of the European runs and put them into summer cruises. The result is that there are now three times as many short cruises planned as last year. There. is a definite correlation between news and travel. One travel expert explained that Americans are kept from traveling by: a. rumors of war; b. ace tions of politicians (domestic and foreign); c. “economic fear, not economic fact.” Americans have developed a “trend to South America.” But this will collapse as soon as such spots as the Mediterranean are “cleared up.” The average vacationer comes home more tired than when he started out. Otherwise he wouldn’t think he'd had a good time.

gress control over commerce among the states, a matter which has become urgent again. The colonies threw off the voke of England but failed to amalgamate. Under the Articles of Confederation, each colony continued to think of itself as a

the last few years toward erection of trade barriers between states, Many states have liquor laws penalizing outside beverages. Twentv-three dairy states levy punitive taxes against oleomargarine. Some states have imposed extremely high fees on ingoming trucks, reaching as much as $400 in certain Southern states. Long compilations of such restrictions on interstate trade separate enitity. Tariffs, embar- have been made by the Council of State Governgoes, trade wars raged between ments, with headquarters in Chicago. them. Imports from an adjoin- ® @

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the same footing as imports : from foreign nations. L The Governor's Conference, at its recent meeting This condition was described with apprehension jn Albany and at a previous meeting in Oklahoma by James Madison in his call for a Constitutional city. has discussed this growing trend. State exConvention, which was precipitated by an acute trade ecutives are in a number of instances becoming guarrel between Maryland and Virginia. acutely conscious of the dangers. Some have pledged » themselves to veto all such legislation. Numerous restrictive bills were defeated in legislatures meeting last winter. Governor Stark of Missouri, new chairman of the

STATE BUDGET UNIT TO MEET THURSDAY

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. July 4 (U. P.) —Indiana University enrolled Receipts at the Indianapolis Post. | 16.526 ident la te Yepuler - Members of a planning committee Fleet Safety Contest will be planned 000 State budget reduction Thurs- office were 2.05 per cent greater this | emio yeu. ¥ Sey {for a statewide series oi Republican | | tension division during 1938-39, ac-!forum meetings were announced to= tomorrow at the weekly luncheon of day. [June than during June last year, | S were an: B the Lions Club, according to Jerry

cording to the annual report filed | gay by Arch N. Bobbitt, G. O. P, The Committee will specify pe-- Postmaster Adolph Seidensiicker re- today with the American Associa- State chairman. Scher, club secretary. sonnel appropriations which are less ported today. tion of Collegiate Registrars. | The committee includes Miss Lile Reports of solicitations by mem- in nearly every department than in| There was a $4019 increase in ThE Snrasment ke Bie Han Schmidt, Crown Point, First bers of the club also will be re-|previous fiscal years. With the State stamp sales, $1582 gain in permit over ae previous your waen District vice chairman; R. H. Mce ported on. fiscal vear started last Saturday ad-|mail, $709 rise in periodical and BR iri. divi _{Murtrie, Huntingburg, Eighth Dis Fi ed in U justments in personnel and other newspaper postage, a small increase| Lhe extension division enroll-|trict chairman, and Ralph B. Gregg, t Cen rr - go expenses are expected to be made in|in box rents and excess on envelopes ments were: Calumet center, 1783; indianapolis, 12th District chairs est are: ams, Inc, Ajax Brew- ; rv divisi ) . land wrappers and a small decrease ery. Bulger's Grocery, Carolina Ex- nearly every division of State Gov bpe press Motor, Citizens Gas & Coke

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olis center, 3039, and all others,| Snodgrass, State vice chairman, will

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Looking back upon the work of the Constitutional Convention, James Fiske, writing many years later in his “Critical Period of American History,” regarded it as a fortunate and decisive achievement that the founding fathers should have arranged that “North America should be dominated by a single powerful

Governors’ Conference, says these new trade barriers constitute a “challenge to our national unity, national safety and national prosperity.” Governor Cochran of Nebraska, retiring chairman of this year's conference, says the trend toward multiplication of interstate trade barriers has been reversed

Co., Co-Operative Services, Inc, Dunn Beverage Co. Fashion Dry Cleaners, Citizens Carpet Co., Globe Cartage Co., Hamilton-Harris & Co., Hancock Truck Lines, Heidenreich Flower Shop, Hoosier Petroleum, In-

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and pacific Federal nation instead of being parcelled out among 40 or 50 small communities, wasting their strength and lowering their morale by perpetual warfare like the states of Ancient Greece, or by perpetual preparation for warfare, like the nations of Modern Europe.” The United States has long been known as the

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—This column will come out on the Fourth of July and I feel moved to write a little about some of the dangers which surround the celebration of this day. Every year it seems to me, after the day is over,

we read of some children who have met with accidents through the improper use of firecrackers and fireworks. I remember very well the joy it used to be to

dian Refining Co., Indianapolis Power & Light Co., Indianapolis Railways and Peoples Motor Coach Co., International Harvester Co., Kroger Grocery Co., Kuhner Packing Co. Lanagan Furniture Co., Luebking Flower Shop; Marer Flower Shop, Mt. Jackson Tire & Battery Shop, Ohio Oil Co. Schwomeyer Flower Shop, Southport Lumber Co. 3tark & Wetzel Co., Swift & Co., Terminix Co. of Indiana, Universal Beverage Co.,, Wood Auto Livery Co. Wheeler’s, and Workman Citrus Products.

TWO INDIANA REMC UNITS TO GET $7000

Times Special WASHINGTON, July 4. — Approval of allotments totaling $7000 to two Indiana REMC units was

but that much needs to be done by way of eliminating barriers set up within the last few years. The Governor may be somewhat optimistic about the trend having been reversed. With states hard pressed for revenue, the temptation is to take the injurious short cut of soaking the “furriner” from across the state line.

The annual post-summer term of Butler University is to be conducted at Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall Aug. 7 to 26, it was announced today by Prof. George F. Leonard, director of the university's regular summer session. Meanwhile, field tours to several of the local libraries and library business houses are being schedued for 58 students and teachers enrolled in the library science courses of the summer session, Courses for the post-summer term

include botany, education, history, sociology, speech and remedial reading. The session is given to meet the needs of those students who wish to continue their regular work throughout the summer.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

mother's place on the Hudson River, and, in any case, being more or less alone, I would have been too timid to arouse anyone's wrath outside of my immediate family’s. They have to forgive you in the long run and every child knows that. I was carefully enough supervised, however, to escape any real accident. Today, as a member of the older generation, it is not the noise to which I object, for I have learned to think of that as a good outlet for youthful spirits, but I wish that we could sell only such firecrackers

celebrate this particular dav by making more noise than I was usually permitted to make on any other day in the year. I remember I used to try to awaken particularly early so as to break into my elders’ slumber with some loud and very terrifying outbreak of noise. I always justified this by tales which had been told to me bv my father of how he and his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, used to rise before dawn on the Fourth of July and terrify some of their neighbors because they set off their largest firecrackers under their bedroom windows. I lived tco far away from any neighbors in” my grand-

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as cannot possibly do any real harm, Where fireworks are concerned, they should be sold only to adults with restrictions as to the age when their setting off may be assisted by the younger members of the family. Then there is another sad item that appears in the papers after almost every holiday—someone adds up the number of people killed in motor accidents, and it is always higher than on other days. This seems to me totally unnecessary and I wish that I might emphasize two rules which should be strictly enforced on any holiday, as well as every other day. Nobody should drive a car faster than the legal speed limit, especially on roads which are crowded, and they should be careful not to pass another car unless they can see for at least half a mile ahead. Passing on a hill is a good way to court disaster,

announced today by the Rural | | Electrification Administration, {

| Allotments included $5000 to the | Southeastern Indiana REMC to be relent to individual members for [ plumbing, and $2000 to the Jackson

| County unit for the same purpose.

The REA farm equipment show will be brought to Marshall, Fulton and Kosciusko County REMC members July 6 and 7, it was announced today. The show will in-

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MIDGET GIVES BIRTH

TO NORMAL CHILD

DAYTON, O,, July 4 (U. P.) —Mrs. Dick Flagle, three-foot, 10-inch Dayton midget, gave birth to a normal six-ounce baby boy through a Caesarian operation at

Good Samaritan Hospital here. Both mother and child were ve-

cerning the origin of the world or universe.

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