Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1939 — Page 8

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FOR 290,000 IN * STATE MONTHLY

Indiana Public Welfare it

Carrying Out Federal ® Surplus Program.

Foodstuff bought by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. is | distributed to an average of 290,000 Indiana persons each month, according to the State Public Welfare: Department, Although the food is purchased

by the Washington office of | the

Federal agency, it is distributed in

Py (Indiana by the Public Welfare De-

partment which assumed the work on April 1 from the Governor's Commission on Unemployment ReLief. | During a month a family of three or four receives 50 pounds of fresh fruits, 20 pounds of canned \grapefrat juice, three pounds of dried egumes, 25 pounds of fresh vegetables, 36 pounds of flour; six pounds of butter, six pounds of milk, six pounds of dried fruit and 10 Pots of wheat cereal.

Eleven Central Warehouses

| According to a survey made by L.| D. Thomas, assistant state commodity distribution director, 2,384,-

, 076 pounds of commodities valued

at $210,166.33 were distributed |in Indiana during May. This included navy beans, butter, cabbage, wheat flour, prunes, wheat cereal, grapefruit, canned grapefruit juice, canned’ apples, graham flour, oranges, lima beans, corn meal, fai-. sins, canned prunes, canned {lima beans and canned navy beans. There are 11 central warehouses in the state-where food is received in carload lots. It is then taken hy trucks to smaller warehouses in nearby counties and cities and distributed to families. The Department of Agriculture bulletin, “Stopping Waste in Farm Surpluses,” states, “Such distribution of surplus commodities for relief use by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. does much more than to dispose of surpluses imme= diately on hand. By stimulating interest and consumer demand, not only among people on relief ‘but also among those able to buy, sur-plus-removal programs help to increase normal sales to consumers, and, for certain products at least, definitely simplify the difficult problem of what to do with farm surpluses.” Financed Mostly by U. S. During the last five and one-half years 207,447,646 pounds of surplus commodities—enough to fill a freight train 30 miles long—has been dis-

“tributed in Indiana, the Welfare

Department . reports. During the first four years 2,765,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs were distributed to re-| lief clients through the country. Sixty-one per cent ‘of the program | is financed by Federal funds and 39 per cent by sponsors such as. the

township trustees. In Indiana WPA

employees with five:or more in their || family and direct relief clients are||

eligible for aid. During May 98.32 per cent of eligible persons were given aid.

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‘| “afflictions” of modern civilization, happily are absent from Mindoro in ;

the Philippine Islands. As a result, Mindoro natives are still making music on nose flutes

while shingled heads and sinus trouble flourish in the Western world. This heartening bit of information appears today, because Thomas Gardner, 1361 Carrollton Ave. has a brother, Maj. Fletcher Gardner, who has been a student of Philippine antiquities since his retirement from the Army medical service. Assigned to Islands -, Maj. Gardner, & native of Bed® ford, was assigned to the Philippines shortly after the Spanish-American War. During his years there, he made a study of tribal languages and culture. Since his retirement he has been an invalid, living in San Antonio, so his brother in Indianapolis is serving as a national clearing house for the bamboo examples! of Mindoran civilization. The instruments mentioned above are a part of Mr. Cardner’s collection, and although they are of modern construction they differ little from ancient examples. Nose-pow=-ered flutes are almost as old as noses. There is no authentic account of how this novel means of tone production came into being. But a reasonable guess might be that it was an emergency stroke of genius on the part of some toothless virtuoso. The Mindoran flute has five stops and probably produces music of a melliflugus and haunting quality. At this moment, however, it has refused to co-operate with the writer’s generous Occidental nose in any experiments in musical science. Guitar Styles Vary Philippine guitars come in assorted sizes and: colors. They are hollowed out of a single piece of wood neck, body and all. | The biggest and best are made of mahogany, and all are strung with hair of a prevailing

‘brunet shade.

Also in Mr. Gardner’s collection are some bamboo jewsharps, ingeniously carved from one piece of wood. They aren’t of the most primitive type, for the early examples were operated with strings. But they are much simpler than our metal ones and just as effective—if you care to call a jewsharp effective. In the extramusical line, Mr. Gardner has some bows and arrows and some bamboo “postcards,” written in an almost extinct alpha-

|bet. The bow (bamboo, of course)

is shorter than the arrow, but an amazingly tough and potent little instrument. The arrows are both ancient and modern, and the contemporary ones show the softening inroads of civil-

|Schnozzle Symphony's in the. When Mindora’s Swing Band Gives Out

Hoosier’s Filipino “Curios

and guitars strung with human hair,

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Thomas Gardner pulls a pensive Rew as he contemplates his

Philippine curio collection.

ization. These have long, smooth points of harder wood on the end of bamboo shafts. The older ones are barbed, and their appearance is suggestive of acute discomfort. When the ancient Mindorans wanted to send -a letter, they scratched their message on a piece of polished bamboo and sent a messenger scurrying with 1t through forests and over mountains. The alphabet itself is called Mangyan Indic, and resembles a cross between shorthand and an electrocardiograph. It is descended from the Sanskrit. By- 1750 these writings had disappeared except in two localities, and today there are only two brothers, both old men, who know the ancient learning.

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their assistance, he has made transliterations and English translations of the ancient alphabet and writ-}| ings. At present Mr. Gardner ‘has bam~ boo tablets inscribed with this alphabet and mimeographed keys to the characters. By Sept. 1 he

a penny postcard to write the folks at home are going to lose a friend

July 31, when Gus Field retires after. 37 years duty in the Indianapolis PostofTice. 3

| | For 35 of those 37 years, Gus has

stood behind the General Delivery window, handing out letters: to transients, traveling men and just plain: wanderers, and in hundreds

of instances handing pennies from

his own pockets to persons who didn’t have the money to buy a postcard to write home. | His private philanthropies, small as they may seem, have amounted to a considerable sum during the 35 years at the General Delivery window, his friends say. Mr. Field commented there was nothing unusual in giving transients

pennies to buy post cards.

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§ ‘here@o it,” he said. ; Mr. Field entered the postal service as a substitute clerk in October, 1902, and became a regular clerk in 1903. He previously had studied pharmacy at Purdue University.

He was promoted to foreman in 1913 and was made a special clerk in 1936. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker declared that he was one of the best employees in the department. Now 63, Mr. Field intends to “just enjoy life.”. He said that he wants to fish at his cottage north of Noblesville and “not gst up at 5:30 a. m. as I have been doing for years.” He and Mrs. Field live at 648 E. St. Clair St. He will draw a pension of $100 a month.

BENDIX HOSPITAL PLAN ANNOUNCED

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind. July 28.— A group hospitalization benefit plan for employees of the Bendix Aviation Corp. will go into effect immediately, Bendix officials announced today.

The hospitalization plan will sup-

in operation among Bendix employees since 1931, E. R. Palmer, vice president, said. The company will assume a greater share of the cost of both the group insurance and the hospitalization program, he ‘said. “By adding hospitalization bene‘fits to the existing group life insurance, disability and health benefits at no increase in cost to the employees, the company believes it | is making a constructive contribution to the health, happiness and efficiency of all employes,”, Mr, Palmer stated. :

the second quarter of 1939 also announced following the directors meeting, were listed at $1,144,214.43 or 54 cents a share of outstanding stock. This compared with $55,641.54 or three cents a share in the same quarter of 1938

PROSPECTORS RUSH TO BIG GOLD STRIKE

EDMONTON, Alberta, July 28 (U.

of the richest gold strikes yet made in the Yellowknife, N. W. T., region has been received in Edmonton. Prospectors were reported rushing toward the new discovery, approximately 50 miles east of Yellowknife camp. Surface assays across the main vein ran as high at $2000 and $3000 per ton, reports said.

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hopes to have received from his brother translations of Indic literature, as well as a supply of Mindoran’ looms, ‘spindles, textiles and drums. Through sale of these curios, Mr. Gardner hopes to assist his brother in completition of an Indic atlas of writings, grammar and vocabulary.

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n ‘Ask Injune ; to Halt Deal; Follows Aotion : Council.

Times pecial junction. to prevent the purchase of the Elwood Water Co. by the city

on file in Madison Circuit Court today. ‘The suit also asks an injunetion against the issuance -of revenue bonds to pay for the water system. The court action is the result of the recent passage by City Council

chase of the plant for $475,000 and issuance of bonds to ‘provide the money. The plaintiff contends that the proposed bond issue, at 42 per cent interest over a 40-year period would mean the expenditure of $587,000. King Leeson, leader of hs Bim sition group, said that a bonding pe refused to identify fixed the purchase price at $450,000 with a 2% per cent interest rate. .

U.S. TO GET STATUE LIKE FAIR BANNED

WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P.). —A statue of Abraham Lincoln, exactly like the one remo from the Federal Building on. the New York World’s Fair Grounds by U. S. Commissioner Edward J. Flynn as

lan “atrocity,” will be installed in

the new Interior Building. The Treasury revealed that on June 15, a contract was signed with Louis Slobodkin, New York sculptor who executed the Lincoln Statue, calling for the same statue in the Interior Building here. Mr. Slobodkin will be paid $1600.

BUSY WITH NEEDLE AT 84 MADISON, Me., July 28 (U. P.).— Mrs. May A. Fish .is still very industrious at 84. Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 last year she completed 30 pairs of mittens, 63 handkerchiefs

and| a bedspread.

'ELWOOD, Ind, July 28—An in-|

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Woman, 70, Wants a Joo

NEW. YORK, July 28 28 (0. Pp) —Julie Kavanaugh; 70, had .a place: to’ stay today, but she still ‘wants a job that would pay her “at least'$6 a month.” Miss Kavanaugh said she doesn’t care how hard the work was—she can do “scrub- < bing, cleaning, ironing”—just so she gets a little cash besides her. board and room:

As“ for the furniture which the Sheriff’s men piled on the sidewalk - when they evicted “her-from her basement room, ° Miss * Kavanaugh said she didn’t “give a hoot what they do with it.”

Kavanaugh was wealthy, that: she had bank books which showed deposits totaling $10,000. But she refused to confirm, or definitely deny, that she was “rich.”

ST. ANTHONY HOST TO BERRY GROWERS

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 28— Approximately 500 berry growers from all .parts of Indiana . are to attend the third annual meeting of the Indiana Berry Growers’ Association at St. Anthony, Ind., Aug. 8. The Rev. Fr. A. E. Fischer of St. Anthony, shipping association president, will welcome the visitors. Paul Ullman, assistant State entomologist, will discuss methods to combat berry .plant diseases and insects. During the afternoon session problems: of the industry will be studied. Included -amofig the subjects up for discussion will be plant spacing, contour planting, soil building and use of the Hoosier “Seal of Quality.” St. Anthony, situated in Dubois County on State Route 64,:has become, in the last decade, one of the important strawberry producing

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