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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1939

Hoosier Vagabond = By Ernie Pyle

IN NEW MEXICO, July 24.—Unabelle Pitt is a striking girl. She is only 10 years old. Yet she is already a cowhand who brings joy to her father’s heart, and a little slice of the West that would thro Hollywood into’ a lather of conferences. : : She lives 40° miles from pavement, and 150 miles from a city. She never went to school a day in her life until last year. Her mother taught her at home. She is now in-the sixth grade, and I suspect she knows more than all the rest of the class. She can sit in a room with

strangers and talk with as much _°

ease and graciousness as a debutante. | Her manners. are delightful. She is neither embarrassed nor childish. She rides the range with her father, helps at roundup, and herds in cattle that are poor with the milkweed sickness. She wedrs a blue: shirt and overalls and cowboy boots. ‘She has her own Navajo pony, and he doesn’t mind bucking and pitching when she forces him across a ceep wash. : Her hair frames her face in a long billowing bob, and her teeth are the whitest I’ve ever seen. She is strong and knows the way of the land. And she is downright pretty. : : It was quite by accident that we b e acquainted with: Unabelle. The Pitts didn’t know we were coming. In faet, neither did we. We just saw some trees and a windmill way off yonder across the desert, and after awhile a dirt lane, and on an impulse we turned up it. : EY Rancher Pitt came out of the house, and we said we were just wandering around and could we have a drink of water, so he invited us in to lunch. We

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The Wild, Wild West!

Twenty-one years he has been on this ranch. The West is full of ranchers like him, but they seldom get into the books or the movies. He looks more like a farmer than what we picture as a cattleman. He is riendly and without pretense. He works hard and raises his family and doesn’t [go around shooting

Our Town

I am scribbling today’s. piece in the hope that when the authoritative history of Indianapolis is written, somebody, possibly unborn as yet, will get around fo Mrs. John Candee Dean and “credit her with having invented the “rainy day skirt.” -| . ‘I bring up the subject because of a deplorable tendency on the part of amateur historians to credit Mrs. Jesson Miller of New “York with the invention. Believe me, Mrs. Miller had hothing to do with it, notwithstand-

ing the fact that she led a dress °

reform movement and used her magazine in 1895 to publish a picture of .a rainy day skirt. That's what started the his- . torians on the wrong track. They jumped to, the conclusion that Mrs. Miller had designed the costume when, as a matter of fact, the picture portrayed was that of Mrs. Dean’s skirt—a skirt which had been seen on the streets of Indianapolis in 1893, two whole years before Mrs. Miller got wind of it. . I'm absolutely sure of my facts and I know exactly what .moved, Mrs. Dean to design a rainy day skirt. She had been a victim of heavy colds caused by wet skirts which :soaked her ankles and sent her to bed. Try as she would, she couldn’t escape catching colds and finally, in sheer desperation, she looked about for a permanent remedy. When everything else failed, she made up her mind that in rainy weather the long skirt had to go. > : . 2 2 =

‘The Proper Length— |

You have no idea how scientifically Mrs. Dean

"approached her problem. Every length of skirt from

the ground to the knee was tried before she hit upon a distance to ‘suit her and preserve the foxtions 3 of

form. Not only that, but in her investigations. Mrs.. | Dean also discovered that two other lengths had to

be considered—the Igngth from the head io the waist, rand the length from the waist to the knee. In Mrs, Dean's case it was found that a skirt

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 24—The Hatch Bill to abolish political activity by rank and file Federal employees opens the way now to bring thousands of these jobs into permanent civil| service status where

Why should internal revenue - collectors and others handling taxes, or deputy marshals and other routine employees around the Federal courts, be in politics? There is every reason why they should not be. An internal

West.

people. And for the final Wild West “disillusionment —he wears tennis shoes! rt} The Pitt home is pleasant inside. There is a piano, and a radio and.easy chairs. On a table is a dictionary six inches thick. The floors are covered with beautiful Navajo rugs. There are bear skins on the chairs. Pitt has killed three bears on his ranch. And just this morning, after breakfast, he stood outside his back door and shot a coyote. Pitt runs about and has nobody to help him but his family. He leases his grazing land by the section—T70 sections ‘of it. Back in Indiana, that would make 400 separate farms. ’ ’ N : The ranch house sits 7500~feet high, and the wind blows and there's never that sultry heat of the valleys and low places. In the winter it can go to 30 below up here, and somefimes the snows are terrible. At shipping time they drive the cattle 40 miles to Thoreau—two and a half days of steady riding ‘and herding.

: » » 8 He Raises His Own Cowgirls

‘William Pitt raises his own cowboys, except they all turned out to be cowgirls. Three of them. The oldest is married now, and lives in Durango, Colo. Next is Audrey, and she is a student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.’ : : We missed seeing Audrey, because she has gone East on a little summer trip with a college friend. Her father doesn’t know how he'll get along without her this summer. = Audrey can ride and rope and shoot, and take off a rattlesnake’s head with the end of her bridle reins. strange and smoky and full of people. She loves her

So this summer the only cowgirl is Unabelle. She and her father are very close. You can tell he adores her, and when we walk about the place, she puts her

- arm in his. :

When you leave the Pitt ranch you feel good about ‘the world. You:have known people who are genuine and friendly and true. . And you have almost fallen in love with a little 10-year-old cowgirl. : For already she has in her heart so much of nature’s vastness that other girls will never learn about during -all their days. It is good to be born on a ranch,

By Anton Scherrer

which came three inches below the knee was the proper length. As for the waist length, she decided that the dress must be three inches shorter than the natural waist. For the material Mrs. Dean selected a watérproof serge which, because of its impervious quality, cost $3 a yard. The skirt around the knee was lined with a good grade of silk, on the theory that with so much knee action, a cheap lining would go to pieces mighty fast. At any rate, Mrs. Dean went on

record at the time that she wouldn't take any

chances. : : Mrs. Dean wasn't a woman to-stop with a skirt, however. She designed the whole rainy day costume. As near as I recall, it consisted of dark blue waterproof leggings extending to the knees, the feet being protected by Oxford shoes with heavy soles.

She Picked a Snowy Day

A tiny Tyrolean cloth hat, a shiriwaist, a veil, a dark blue silk umbrella and dark blue gloves completed the outfit. For warm days Mrs. Dean advised taking a short Eton jacket aleng, and a longer coat for .colder weather. The longer jacket, I remember, had five pockets. There was also a pocket in the belt

‘to hold the wateh. Mrs, Dean thought of everything.

Mrs. Dean picked a very snowy day in 1893 to make her debut. To her surprise nothing much happened.

The newsboys didn’t bat an eye nor did the window | -

blinds along Meridian St. fly up. Fact is, ‘the debut

might have been a fiasco had not Mrs. Dean met a}

gentleman who walked all the way home with her. Believe it or not, he took no notice of her abbreviated skirt. It was a very snowy day—remember? . A couple of days later, however, a paragraph ap-

‘peared in the paper about Mrs. Dean's dress and the

same gentleman told her he was very anxio her rainy day costume. Indeed, he expressed a hope that she would wear it downtown some day. You bet he looked cheap when he learned that he had had the honor of escorting the famous dress on its first trip out. og All of which leaves me just enough room to remark that Mrs. John Candee Dean never had another cold after she started wearing short skirts. L ]

By Raymond Clapper

fn a job, he leaves a dozen other aspirants disappoifited and disgruntled. ; Not long ago a Senator obtained a Federal judgeship for one of his political supporters. Unfortunately, the appointee died almost immediately. It was doubly unfortunate for the Senator because he had told a dozen others that they were second on his list and they were all on his neck the following day, each expecting to inherit the vacancy. If political appointees are to be barred from political activity as soon as they take Federal jobs, then their usefulness to the Senator or Representative or the party management ends. Under such

600 head of cattle on 45,000 acres,

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Embargo On Japan

By Dr. George Gallup

‘Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. Jd., July 24. — As the’war between Japan and China enters its third year, majority sentiment in the United States, as indicated ina survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion, favors taking positive action to protect American interests in ' China. Sg Only one-fourth of the voters in the survey think the United States Government should “do npthing” ‘about China. The remaining three-fourths favor three definite courses of action. One group—a small

States should fight Japan. A second slightly larger group is content to have the State Department merely lodge protests with the Japanese Government whenever American inter‘ests in China appear to be ‘molested. A third group, the believes that the proper course of action is to stop all shipment of American arms and war material to the Japanese forces.

The survey was conducted among a cross-section of voters in every state on the question: “How far do you think the United States Government should go to protect American interests in China? Voters were given their choice of four policies which the Government might follow. (a) Fight Japan?, £ (b) Protest to Japan through the State Department? (c) Stop all shipments of war materials from this country to Japan? (d) Do nothing.

largest numerically,

one — thinks the United

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A national survey by the American I

The vote was as follows:

* Fight

Protest AE Stop Shipments ,....cs000...31 Do Nothing cree isnee dD

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SIMILAR survey was conducted in England by the British Institute of Public Opinion, affiliate of the American Institute. It found that British voters are evén more anxious to take definite action in China than American voters are. More than a fifth of British voters think Great Britain should go to war if necessary against Japan, while the rest favor stopping all trade between England and Japan, or supplying credits and munitions to China, or withdrawing the British Ambassador to Tokyo as a protest. Only a small group (15 per cent) think England should “do nothing.” The English survey was conducted with a slight variation in the wording, and the results were:

interests in China.

(d) Do nothing

FUNDS SOUGHT IN

Because 61 Japanese

Indianapolis this summer,

program.

WAR ON BEETLES

beetles, three times as many as were expected, already have been found in City

Frank A. Wallace, State entomologist, said that it appears now that

home of Richard Lindstaedt in Warren Township where show results of breeding thick-type

What Americans Say

Following are the results of a national survey of public opinion on the issue of what the United States. should do to protect her

“How far do you think the United States Government " should go to protect American interests in China?”

(a) Fight Japan .........ccccieinieiintiianiesinn, (b) Protest to Japan through the State Dept. ;

County 4-H Clubs to Tour Farms, Study

Members and leaders of the Marion County 4-H Pig Clubs will visit farm homes of 16 members Friday to discuss pig-raising problems. C. J. Murphy, Marion County assistant agricultural agent, said 125 would make the tour starting from the Warren Central School at 9 Council will be asked to finance a. m. R. W. Pifer of Purdue University’s animal husbandry depart-

part of a preventive soil treatment Ment will be in charge.

The first stop will be made at the he will

Fight, 22 per cent; stop all trade with Japan, 37 per cent; supply

China with arms, 17 per cent;

protest by withdrawing the British Ambassador, 9 per cent; do nothing, 15 per cent.

‘The survey results are significant on two counts. Japanese forces, according to reports from China, are sponsoring an anti-British campaign in an attempt to stir up Japanese feeling against England, but have thus far refrained from any organized anti-American campaign. Yet the Institute survey shows that Americans feel no more friendly toward Japan than the British do.

‘The American survey is also significant when compared to the sentiment .in the United States when the Sino-Japanese war began two years ago. At that time the Institute surveys found that, by and large, the country favored

a hands-off, “do nothing” policy -

and a withdrawal of American citizens and interests from China. The majority also opposed a Japa~nesé boycott. Today, however, sen= timent has veered around to the point of wishing to see action taken.

o 2 2 HE American survey revealed - a number of interesting differences of opinion by geographical sections, . I. The Far West, which includes the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, is the section most in favor of taking action to pro=tect American interests in China. The vote in favor of “doing nothing” was lower in the Far West

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How Far [ Should America - Go to Protect its Interests in China?

than anywhere else in the country, perhaps because that area is geographically the closest to Japan and most affected by events in the Pacific. : The vote by sections follows:

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nstitute of Public Opinion shows that a large majority of voters favor. positive action at this time te . protect American interests in China against Japanese aggression.

voter, a housewife in Troy, N. Y,

who said: “It we don’t belipve in war, why do we furnish the materials of war?” | ~ Others argued that since Japan

sr Bh > Fight ments Profest ;£ “cannot fight without supplies”

N. England. 7% y 15% 34% Mid Atlantic 4 20 21 E. Central.. 5 50 17 28 W. Central. 7 46 18 29 South 50 18 West 61 15 15% In explaining their attitude toward Japan, voters in the American survey gave a wide variety of reasons for favoring action. Those who favor the most: extreme course—fighting Japan — declared that the United States “will have to fight Japan sooner or later” and that we should help “stop the gangster nations.” 2 ” #

HOSE who favor an embargo

on war materials to Japan echoed the sentiment of one

the quickest way to clear up the issue of American rights in China

"would be to stop shipment of war

materials to Japan. - iy In the group who favor an ems bargo or merely a series of pro= tests through the State Departs ment were many who took the view that the American people should not be expected to fight for the protection of purely com= mercial interests in China. . As one voter pub it: : :

“Why should we go to war te :

‘protect a few industrialists ove there? ‘The businessmen—an

the missionaries — should remain

‘there at their own risk.”

‘What British Say

Followifig are the results of a survey conducted in England

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by the British Institute of Public. Opinion on the question of what England should do to protect her interests in China. |

“How far should Britain go at the present time fo defend

her interests in China?”

(a) Fight Japan if Necessary ..c....scoeeecicoccossasccssas.

22%

(b) Forbid all trade between Britain and Japan .............37

(d) Withdraw our ambassador as a protest ......cooieeeeeiee 9

'(e). Do nothing

SEEK MORE OFFIGE

SPACE IN CITY HALL

“There’s plenty of space at’ City Hall, but not enough of the right kind, City officials have decided. While large, airy corridors impress the visiting taxpayers, room is taken up which could be used for office spac?. And there’s not enough office space, officials say. A plan is gradually being worked out to use corridor space for offices,

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CHECK COMPLAINTS

OF CHICKEN BUYERS

City health inspectors today inves= tigated complaints - that diseased chickens have been sold by itinerant fowl peddlers.

A dozen complajnts have been Te=.

ceived by’ the Health Department and Weights and Measures Division, inspectors said. : Meanwhile, warrants will be

sought against two dealers charging

them with selling live fowl ‘by the head instead of by weight in viola~ tion: of the State law, City Weights and Measures inspectors said. | © Thomas E. Tarpey, chief inspector

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between 50 and 60 acres of soil willi animals. Dale Kitley will show his of the Weights and Measures De-

revenue collector who rakes over your tax returns has no business raising party funds, or even attending a national political convention as a delegate. The Hatch _ Bill undertakes to remove this type of employee from political machine activity. : 1f this measure is supported by public opinion, as it evidently is and should be, and if political managers are not permitted to bring about a violation of its spirit, one of the most significant strides toward divorcing politics and routine governmental administration will have occurred. * The Hatch Bill clears the way toward the next ‘step, which is the extension of civil service standards to these jobs. It tends to make that step easier because it takes away much of the political usefulness of this class of job holders. sR =

Let's Eliminate the Headache

Remember this—patronage cuts both ways. When a Senator or Representative places one of his heelers / : i

ARK, N. Y., Sunday. —The days continue X11 to be caol and beautiful, but the need of rain is ‘growing more and more apparent, Nothing grows and some things are beginning to wither. My huspand, after a tour of inspection of his young Christmas

trees, planted this spring, found

the percentage of loss appalling. They had tried to water them, but ‘with a rather primitive watering cart which takes about a week to water the area covered by| the young trees. - Of course, that is not. enough water for

them to survive. Someone asked °

me not long ago to pray daily for peace in the world and I am beginning to think that I shall

add a praygr for rain, and hope

“that many other people will do . 7a ~ |. the same. | Yesterday we had about 10 children romping in

1 and out of the pool from 12 o'clock on, and it is "fun to see children enjoy themselves. . George Ca

_enj Mr. and Mrs, “brought up their five children, my exander Grant, came with her father, 1 bringing a very lovely 18-year-

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circumstances, this kind of patronage becomes largely a liability instead of a machine-building asset. The headache might as well be eliminated completely by putting the appointments under civil service.

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What About the Jobholders?

Something is to be said also for the job-holders .

themselves. They want security the same as employees in private life. The only way a political jobholder can get security now is to get out at every election and hustle for his party, or for the man who obtained his appointment. The Hatch : Bill is intended to stop that. It therefore deprives the purely political appointee of the only means he has of trying to keep his job. So, in al] fairness, and for the improvement. of the public service, it seems highly desirable to follow through with the second step of extending the civil service to give these posts security of tenure based on merit. Then we would begin to approach thé nonpolitical administrative standard which has been so highly developed in England.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

medley of parents and children were added Mr. Alexander Woollcott and his secretary, Mrs. Francis Parkinson Keyes and our own guests with our cottage inhabitants and their friends. I was a little nervous for fear that Mr. Woollcott would not enjoy eating his meals out of doors, but 1 discovered that he prefers that to being indoors, and a more delightful story teller I have never had as a guest. His fund cof tales is endless and always varied ‘and interesting. . At 6 o'clock we drove down to Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau’s home for their annual clambake, given for the entire party which comes up here with the President. As usual, the setting was very beautiful, The lawn, ringed about by hills with the shadows growing deeper as the sun went down and finally with the moon shining out above us, is a really unforgettable scene. . : ; Three colored entertainers, headed by “Hughie,” Played and sang. Though there was less musical talent than usual in the company, we did get some general singing and were particularly fortunate in having Mrs. Archiblad McLeish, who arrived in the

‘afternoon With her husband to stay with us. At

Mr, Woollcott’s request she sang “Oh, Western Wind”

for us. 8 a the President, Maj. Henry H

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have to be treated in Indianapolis litter of Durocs, sired by the son of to kill larvae. The cost of treating New i Iwostime Bational chamthat much soil would be more than

$6000. That is more than the Dufoes {8 Be Shown State’s budget allows for the proj-| The group will then visit the home ect. Mr. Wallace plans to ask the|of Edwin Reisner to see methods Council to appropriate the differ- used by a first-year club member. Herschell Lowes, who has been a 4H Club member njne years, will show some of his 60 purebred Durocs. Two first-year members, Melvin McFarland and Robert Wiedman, will show their Hampshires and Durocs. Homemade feeding equipment will be the chief interest at the homes of Charles Cook and Elbert Wolcott. .

The noon- picnic will ‘be held in the Decatur Grade School lawn.

nce. : Beetles have been found this year at the Hawthorne Railroad ‘yard, south of Irvington; in Woodruff Place and around City Hospital. Five’ years ago some of the beetles were found on the North Side and the ground immediately was treated. | None has been found since in: the

area, Mr. Wallace said. Theodore Edwards will discuss

POSTAL REGEIPTS feeding methods he used for his Poland Chinas, reputed to be one of CITY SHOW GAIN the heaviest litters in Central In- ’ ’ diana. Tour members will inspect

the Chester Whites at the farm of

Receipts at the Indianapolis Post: gous. Jessup, and Poland Chinas 2

‘office during the fiscal year ended! - June 30 were $150,551 greater than| Bian » Speak 5 ; Gat Kenneth anc 0 oore show rey renoniod®®!" their Hampshires and Ted Blank, dolph Seidensticker reported $9- pester White State champion last day. : |< year, will talk to the group on During the past fiscal year re-| “Sportsmanship and Showmanship. i total 4,545; ot | Monroe and George nner are win 05295 the 846 as compated ing their Hampshire to Ted $4,395,205 the previous fiscal; pjank’s farm for a display of stunts. year, he said, a gain of 3.42 per cent.

gent. The committee in charge of arStamp sales led the divisions with |rangements includes Phil Anderson, $2,704,297 and permit mail was next| Pike Township; W. L. Mowrey, Warwith $1,667,746. Second class: re-

i ; : ren Township; William Adamson, ceipts were $163,278; miscellaneous| Decatur Township; E. G. Brown, receipts were $1141 and excess

. Franklin Township, and A. 8. stamped paper totaled $596. . Rent| Sproat, Wayne Township. from Postoffice boxes totaled $8795, ; -

WELLER iS ENROLLED 150 REGISTERED FOR IN FORESTRY CAMp| M. E. YOUTH CAMP

Times Special’ SANTA CLAUS, Ind. July 24 (U.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 22 (U,|P.).— Approximately 150 persons P.).—R. K. Weller, of 3360 N. Meri

Purdue University students enrolled in the forestry camp being t r

! ere registered today for the anHendricks of |

the Methodist Church. Clyde Lininger of La Porte.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the President of the Philippine Islands. 2—What is the motto of the U. 8. Marine Corps, and what does it mean? 3—In law, what is a party-wall? 4—Which is larger in area, Texas or Alaska? 5—Name the founder of the Smithsonian Institution. 6—What is the correct pronunciation of the word .psy- + chologic? ; : 7—What is a “bean ball” “duster” in baseball? ” J ” ; Answers 1—Manuel Quezon. 2—Semper Fidelis, meanin “Always faithful.” 3 3—The wall that separates two

ties. 4—Alaska. : 5—James Smithson. . 6—Si-ko-loj’-ik; not si-kol’-jik. ‘7—A throw by the pitcher aimed at the batsman’s head in an _effort to drive him away from the plate.

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BATTLE GROUND, Ind. July 24 (U. P)—More than 500 young men and women today were attending

the annual High School Age Institute at the assembly ground of the Northwest Indiana Conference of

relieving congestion in departments. The problem confronting the Works Board is what to do with the huge rotunda, which takes up one-fifth of indoor area at the Hall.

the possibilities ‘of moving typists

and secretaries into corridors by

The Institute is directed by Rev. * erecting partitions.

houses or adjoining proper=,

Bureau,

Legal and medical

Board members are investigating

terday swimming.

partment, said his men are working with health inspectors in checking complaints against diseased fowl. Sis

DROWNS IN LAKE = *

WARSAW, Ind. July 24 (U. P), —Charles Tidwell, 28, drowned yes~ in Winona Lake ‘while-

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