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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939

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My old conviction that “all's well with the world” came over me again when I read the letter tucked under my door this morning. “Dear Mr. Scherrer.” it began. “May I seek refuge In your column to pay an anonymous tribute ta Miss Rousseau McClellan, the beloved Shortridge teacher who passed away last Sunday? Her infiuence today on literally thousands of men, women and children is quite incalculable. In what directions this influence took place is also as varied as were the numbers of these pupils whose rare privilege it was to learn and to be stimulated by her. “She was an amazingly buoyant and enthusiastic teacher who rarely seemed to grow weary or tired of her pupils or of the subject she taught. That subject, it seems to me, might appropriately have been named ‘Nature.’ “Doubtless we shall have expressions from those whose entire lives were radically influenced by her, and who today are among the eminent scientists in specialized branches of learning throughout this country. It is rather for me and as one of the ‘mine-run’ pupils that I would speak.

» ‘Saw Nature Everywhere “She saw nature everywhere and nothing in nature seemed to be foreign to her. Everything organic or inorganic on and under and above the earth’s surface was of tremendous significance and of vital interest to her. And this enthusiasm she was able to impart. Birds, bugs, bees, worms, flies, aphids, the wind. the clouds, the changing seasons, the stars, the whole earth as a planet and its place in the solar system and even in the astronomical universe were matters of exciting and positivelr dramatic interest.

(Ernie Pyle Is

It Seems to Me

EW YORK, July 6.—In the davs when John F. Hylan was Mayor of New York City he once made a speech in which he expressed his disapproval of “art artists.” Nobody knew exactly what John Faithful was talking about. but his words were interpreted to mean that Red Mike was a man of the people who would have no truck or patience with anyone who fashioned words or notes into cadences or sloshed around with paint. Until the spell was finally broken Mr. Hylan was 2 good rule of thumb psychologist, and in some curious way he managed to put over a popular belief that anybody who manifested an interest In old masters or young composers must secretly be a foe of the 5-cent fare. Personally, I always found Mr. Hylan an amiable man of great charm. As a matter of fact, even though I took many cracks at him in columns, we met upon a friendly basis, since we had an esthetic interest in common. When I first met John F. Hylan at the Empire City Race Track my hands were still stained with the vitriol which I had flung in his direction on the previous afternoon. And, as Mayor, I felt it was possible the piece had been called to his attention. Naturally, it seemed reasonable to expect that he would greet me acidly, but he was scrupulously polite and gave me a horse in the first race which paid 10 to one. =

His “Dumbness” Was Feigned

Later I reciprocated and gave him many tips which, through no design of mine, turned out to be stiffs. Very soon I learned that what Mr. Hylan said as Mayor and what he talked about in his own right as an individual could be entirely different. He presented himself as a dumb bunny, because he found that role politically expedient. Being an Irishman, he was actually a poet of sorts and a man moved in his own inner life by things -of beauty. And so it may be that the Congressmen who are now out to knife ail Federal support for national artistic aspirations are not quite the clucks they pretend

Washington

ASHINGTON, July 6.—In an article in the American Magazine, Herbert Hoover draws out of his memory a tragic picture of the horrors of the last war and lays it before the American people,

only one-third of whom, he says, are old enough to remember the World War well. He recalls the disillusionment that followed the war, the peace that brought no peace, the lineup now of the same old forces for a new struggle. Mr. Hoover does not believe we should sit in that game, either in the interest of the other democracies or in ours. We should stay out. Few will disagree with those general statements. But when we begin to think down into the details of how to stay out, questions arise. How do we stay out? By just staying out? Would it were that easy! Suppose Hitler pulls the trigger in the next few weeks. Rritain and France will want every airplane they can buy from the United States. They will need them—need them badly. Shall we sell them, or not?

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Shall We Sell to Allies?

We will have to decide that question if war comes. We are trying to decide it in the neutrality debate, but some Senators and Representatives are so determined to oppose Mr. Roosevelt, no matter where he stands, and others are so ready to play local politics with the question that Congressional debate tends to confuse rather than to clarify our thinking. Germany and Italy would be blockaded and thev couldn't get our airplanes if we wanted to sell to them. So the actual question is whether we shall

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By Anton Scherrer

“She taught us to observe every natural phenomenon with all of our senses and we became aware of the inexhaustibility of nature, From her we acquired, in so far as we were able, some idea of the scientific approach to a problem. She required us to make daily an accurate record of at least one observation. These records she required to be put into good English accompanied by drawings if such illustrations made the meaning clearer. These reports were then criticized and she made helnful suggestions. Usually we became aware of the fact that we had hardly scratched the surface Perhaps we had failed to state how an object smelled or what its reaction to touch might be.

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Possessed Great Tact

“I like to recall how she dealth with some pupils —naive fundamentalists—who occasionally were parturbed and genuinely bewildered when, for example, the subject of the age of this plant was discussed in terms of geologic periods. ‘Well, don’t you believe that God made the earth and everything in seven days?” “Such an inquiry was tactfully disposed of with the suggestion that it is also recorded in Scripture that a thousand years is but a day unto the Lord and that possibly ‘a thousand years’ might also be merely a delightful expression that belongs in the realm of poetry and certainly not in the field of modern scientific inquiry. “To Miss McClellan I owe at least a dim appreciation of what is understood and required today by the scientific approach to all natural phenomena. Between her and Mother Nature there seemed to be an uncanny sort of understanding. From her many of us first began to love and see heauty evervwhere in nature. She was an inspiration to those who wished to learn and grow in wisdom. Above all she was a lover of youth.” Rosemary—that's for remembrance.

On Vacation)

By Heywood Broun

to be. But this heightens rather than diminishes their treachery. It is a good thing in a world where propaganda is actually changing the map of the world that the greatest of ali democracies should allow the impression to prevail that our Government is not only indifferent but hostile to the effort to help and foster the theater and allied arts. The curtain was rung down and dozens of shows closed in various parts of the country when they were prospering nightly. Much of the Congressional strategy employed was to arouse the ancient prejudice of representatives of agricultural communities against New York. For this there was no justification whatsoever,

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Stage Should Belong to All

Broadway will persist in any case, but the road 1s likely to lanquish again now that the Federal touring companies have been shut down. And so, in effect, the knifing of the Theater Project is an announcement that the drama is to be a purely local thing and that all effort to give our theater national roots is to be abandoned.

The WPA brought plays to towns and communities which had not seen a living actor in a generation. With all respect for the New York stage and the many persons among both producers and players who have made the performances possible, I think that the stage should belong to the peopie as a whole. It ought to enlist the support of all Americans and not Just the city dwellers. A strong and vital theater cannot function successfully in « rock garden. And the same thing is true of the painters and the writers. The various guide books about cities and states helped to diffuse and discover talent throughout the country. The Yankees are the best ball team in the United States because they have sought far and wide for their players. They haven't taken the attitude, “Get to be a big leaguer first and then we'll pay some attention to you.” Some of the recruits dug up have been anywhere from two to three years away from the big show. A skilled scout is interested in talent in the bud. Now, why shouldn't the Government of the United States be just as enterprising and intelligent as an American League ball club?

By Raymond Clapper

sell to Britain and France. Suppose we refuse to sell any direct arms, ammunition and implements of war—as is provided in the automatic arms embargo now on the books. We saw in the last war that these supplies were essential. The Allies almost lost the war as -it was. before we got in. By withholding our planes and arms, we would leave Britain and France considerably weakened and possibly in danger of defeat.

Risk Can’t Be Avoided

Do we want to do that? Do we want to see the British Empire smashed in defeat as the German Empire was smashed at Versailles? Singapore turned over to the Germans? The whole British Navy turned over? It is not likely that Hitler, winning, would be any more merciful toward the British Empire than the British were to the German Empire at the end of the last war. Do we want to see our sources of rubber, tin and other essential materials in the Dutch East Indies and the British Far Eastern possessions go into the control of the Axis? If we sell, then there is the danger of the last war. Through heavy allied purchases here we built up a large investment in Allied victory and when that was endangered in 1917, rescue the stake, or to save the British Empire. If we don't sell, we risk the danger of seeing the world power of the German-Italian-Japanese combination replace that of Britain and France to our disadvantage. the war. Of the two. the latter risk seems the more practical one to take. have the control. The risk of defeat

By Richard Lewis

NE of these days they're going to build a lake at the

City Sanitation Plant.

They'll stock it with fish

which will live and multiply in purified sewer water. That is the dream of Don E. Bloodgood, plant manager. He says it will prove

its purpose—turning fresh water back into White River, 98 per cent pure. In the spring of 1904. citizens were aroused over the pollution of White River. Health authorities couldn't stop the spread of disease. The river was described as a “huge, open sewer spreading contagion over the countryside.” Nobody did anything about it until 1917 when, at the demand of civic groups and merchants, the Legislature passed a bill en-

CITY MAINTENANCE

TANGLE UNSETTLED

A polite controversy

Works and Park Boards over maintenance of City property was still in the polite stage today, but unsettled.

It seems that several years ago

the Park Board agreed as a “favor” to maintain all City property which {more or less answered the descrip{tion of a park or boulevard. | Works Board was to keep up the "rest.

According to strict construction-

we found an excuse to go in to ists on the Works Board, Park | Board maintenance begins where‘ever the property has a few trees ‘and some grass growing on it.

Now the Park Board wants to

If we do sell, we risk being sucked into “give” the Works Board about 25 |esplanades. the lighting system and (road maintenance on Meridian St. It is one over which we ourselves north of 38th St. to City limits, Tt is within our power to stay out.|and several other tracts. for Britain and France in event budget time coming around. neither |

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we shut down on munitions is a risk that would be | board is anxious to shoulder any

out of our hands. happen.

We would have to sit and see it financial burdens.

The Legal Department is figuring

that the plant has fulfilled

abling the City to form the Sanitary District. In 1925, the $3.500.000 Sanitation Plant was built. It completed its first full year of operation in July, 19286. If the plant suddenly stopped, life in the City would become unbearable, engineers say. = » ”n

HE transformation of murky sewer water into clear, fresh water again is largely the work

FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS

GIVEN BY BUTLER U.|

Four more Indiana high school

graduates have been granted counbetween the ty scholarships for the 1938-4)

[school year at Butler University.

The awards, given on the basis of

scholastic rank, character and personality, LaVella Martin, Noblesville;

were presented to Miss Miss

| Martha Ann Spencer, Greencastle; {Miss Sara Jane Steinbaugh, Attica, land James Edward Guinnup, Sey-

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SCHRICKER TO TALK

T0 ORDER OF AHEPA

Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker is

[to be a guest speaker at the eighth annual 12th district convention of ithe Order of Ahepa meeting at the

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{planned for the opening day business sessions Monday and elec-

Claypool Hotel Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

Asoftball game and nicnic is with

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Times Photos.

1. Attractively-landscaped grounds surround this giant smokestack

at the City Sanitation Plant.

2. After passing through the primary treatment plant, sewage flows into these geometrically-arranged settling tanks and is purified.

3. These sacks of stock food were produced in the garbage reduction

plant. last year.

Byproducts of the plant brought the City more than $85,000

4. James McHargue, operating engineer, turns on a generator in

the plant's engine room.

of a billion microscopic organisms which work a 24-hour day at the plant. The process is one of continual

division until waste material is divided down to nothing, or as near to nothing as science can get without splitting atoms. The garbage reduction part of the plant was installed when the sewage disposal machinery was built. It is the harder on the olefactory senses, but it makes a nice annual profit for the City—$27,000 in 1937. Huge, steam, fireless cookers reduce the bacterial wastes. Remaining food value is extracted from the garbage by a vacuum process. It is ground up and sold as feed. Last year, the 795.1 tons of feed produced at the plant sold for $11,484.25,

From the remainder, the grease is removed by naphtha. In 1938, the plant sold $51,949.91 worth of garbage grease to a broker in Cincinnati. It was then sold in the drugstores and department stores of the nation transformed into highpriced, perfumed soaps. With the grease removed, the part that's left is sold as fertilizer tankage. Last year, 3113 tons of it brought the City $22,544.96. zn ” »

“¥T would seem to many people that a lot of fertilizer could be extracted from the sewage, too,” Mr. Bloodgood says. ‘But we figured that it would cost more to remove the fertilizer than we could sell it for.” Three main sewer interceptors, serving the areas roughly north and south of Fall Creek to Washington St. and the South and East Side empty the sewer water into the primary treatment plant. This is the first of three major operations in sewage treatment.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In troy weight, ounces are in a pound? 2—Which naval battle in the

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In following the process through, you walk across spacious lawns, iringed with well-kept shrubbery. Except for a slight odor (it's good for catarrh), the grounds - remind you of a park. The buiidings are modern, spotlessly clean, with bas-relief pictures of agriculture and industry in the stonework. Mr. Bloodgood’'s idea is that men work better in pleasant surroundings. The place where all the filth of the City eventually finds its way wouldn't dirty your white shoes.

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N the primary treatment plant, the sewage is run through revolving screens which separate the larger matter from the tiny particles. The water then passes into the settling tanks where there is another division, the heavy matter sinking to the bottom. The solids are lifted by six electro-centrif-ugal pumps about 20 feet to the activated treatment plant. Sewage solids are called sludge. Through artificial channels, the sludge swirls in an unending, muddy stream. This is where the City hires billions of bacteria to help it out. The invisible army goes to work and in eight hours by the clock it finishes the job of converting the poisonous sludge into a harmless material. This is one army of workers which rever loses out at a change of Administration. It's not even considered in the budget. But the City pumps air into the water where it works to help it grow.

After the biological process is °

completed, the sewage which is clearing up at this point is pumped back into secondary settling tanks. These look like a series of garden ponds, geometrically arranged.

HE purified sludgy mass sete tles to the 20-foot bottom of the tanks and clear water laps over the top, runs in little rivulets to a main pipe where it gushes back into the river south of the City—clean. But the story doesn't end yet for two years. The sludgy mass at the bottom of the tanks is pumped into a series of lagoons which lie like miniature swamplands south of the main plant. There it stays, with another army of bacteria working on it, year after year. Two years after the first batch of sludge was pumped into the lagoons, it disappears—just reduced into iis original elements. This is a different kind of biological process, Mr. Bloodgood says. He declined to give the scientific names of the two armies of organisms which really “run the Sanitation Plant. “I guess nobody's reaily decided what they are. They're just there, So we use them.” n »

HAT happens at the Sanitation Plant is the same in principle as the process which nature invented and which goes on in every body of water. But at the plant, the process con= centrated. . When the plant was built, it was designed to take care of a City of about 50,000. Now it takes care of an estimated 400,000. It was enlarged three years ago to accomodate the expanding population. Mr. Bloodgood, who has traveled about comparing his plant with others in the nation, says that the sewage strength here is unusually high. By strength, he means the amount of waste material per cubic foot. This is because of the industries which also use the plant facilities. If it weren't for the co-operation of local industry, the plant would be having a tougher time than it has cleaning things up, he said. “And its running at capacity now,” he added. “But wait until we build that lake. We'll invite everybody to come down and fish, I'm certain the fish will like it, When we get through with sewage, it's good water.”

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World War was most portant? 3—How many trips did President Wilson make to Europe during his administration? 4 Name the State flower of Florida. 5—Who was recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury? 6—Docs , freezing destroy nutritive value of foods? T—What is the correct pronunciation of the word nucleolus?

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GAS COMPANY SUIT TO RESUME TUESDAY

Oral arguments in the Chase National Bank's suit to make the City accept a 26-year-old lease of Indianapolis Gas Co. properties to the former Citizens Gas Co., will be heard next Tuesday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The bank contends that when the City, through its Citizens Gas &

tion of officers and a tennis tournament Tuesday. A banquet in the Riley Room will conclude the convention Tuesday evening. Those expected to take part in the program are V. E. Chebithes, supreme president of the order; Frank M. McHale, Mayor Sullivan and the Rt. Rev. Bishop Kallistos of San Francisco, Cal. William Zilson is general chairman of the convention and is being assisted by William Pappas and Mrs. R. Zazas.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—Yesterday the President and I spent the day in 4 way which has become almost traditional in the past few years. We invite all those who are in his party to come up from Poughkeepsie, swim if they want to and picnic with us at nocn. Only a few of the Tro men swam yesterday. One of 3 \ them gave an exhibition of fancy

By Eleanor Roosevelt

lunch, among them President and Mrs. Henry MacCracken, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bickel, Mr. and Mrs. George Bye, Mr. and Mrs. MacKinlay Kantor and the Minister of Norway and Mrs. de Morgenstierne. The latter came up to say goodby, for they are leaving for their new post in Rome, I am glad that my husband has never been in the diplomatic service,

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diving and was a joy to watch. I grow horribly envious at the ease with which people seem to

for I feel very sad at having to make new friends so often and then going so far away from old ones. We all dined with my mother-in-law last night,

Coke Utility, took over the Citizens Gas Co. in 1935, it assumed the obligation to pay bondholders of the

SAFETY SKITS GIVEN

Answers 1—Twelve.

AT 2 PLAYGROUNDS

Safety skits were presented hy children at two playgrounds last night, 10th and Ketcham Sts., and Little Eagle Creek. The Little Eagle cast included Vivian Kretheotis, Ella Raney, Erma Raney, Betty Kelly, Betty Barnaby, Eva Jane Greenwood, Mary Lou Adams, Erma -Herald, Betty Wroten, Audrey Edwards, Jimmie and Ada Lee. Children in the 10th and Ketcham play were Rudolph Bayt, Victor Repse, Lavina Valant, Lavina Binishoff, Christina Binishoff, Loretta

2—Battle of Jutland. 3—Two. 4—The orange blossom. 5—Herbert E. Gaston. ¢ 6—No. 7—Nu-kle'-o0-lus; lus.

Indianapolis Gas Co. the nearly $600,000 a year rental specified in the lease. The bank filed the suit on behalf of I. G. Co. bondholders, for whom it is trustee. The suit was tried last March.

do these things when I find the plainest dive so difficult. There was a little breeze and under ihe trees on the picnic ground it was fairly cool. Miss Thompson and I were warm for a short time while we broiled “hot dogs,” but we cooled off quickly. This time we asked the butcher for a special brand because, when I was on a trip on the other side of the river the other day, the mayor of that city informed me that I should be familiar with products from neighboring places along the river. He said that

for she is going down to New York City today, preparatory to sailing tomorrow. I have just received a most interesting report prepared by a study group of fifteen in the School of Social Studies in San Francisco. It is called “Living Conditiens in Chinatown,” and I should think it

would make San Francisco officials anxious to ota WATER CONSUMERS RUSH TO PAY BILLS

a more detailed report and then take some action. I always enjoy my irips to Chinatown when I am in Cin San Francisco, but I have always been conscious, that ALEXANDRIA, Ind. July 68 (U. Just as In our own rather picturesque Chinese quarter P) —There was an unseasonable in New York City, there are undoubtedly dangers to rush at the office of City Clerkhis partiows: city haa a factorv which made the best ne Sole Tuy there because of poor housing ara div. Treasuer Marvin Nol ie dua To gg We had a fire in New York City's Chinatown the water bills. Moore, Christina Shaneff, Rhodna seemed to enjoy them yesterday ’ other day which resulted in the death of several peo-{ The city shut off the water sup-|Boshkoff, Janet Stephanoff, and body ) yes . ple, and I imagine this same thing might easily hap-|ply of 25 residents for {Mary Lochkovic. Miss Rosemary | = iE Bas shanty . {failure > pay... Ga ‘Whisler direct : : 4 taken, NER Sag Ld € 138 ue Ine gil

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In And Out of the Red With Sam "You say you won't buy them at any price?

I'm_telling - ya

Besides our own “entourage,” others joined us for pen in San

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