Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1939 — Page 9
MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939
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Hoosier Vagabond
. MONTICELLO, Utah, July 31.—You feel as though you're in a new country when you get to Monticello. I think it reminds me more of Alaska than anything else, Monticello is just a little piace. Very high. Seven thousand feet, on the slope up the Blue Mountain. People are nice here, in that great, warming way of people who are somewhat isolated, but not isolated into sourness. We went up on the mountain this morning. Blue Mountain rises to 11,000 feet, and a Forest Service road winds up through the heavy timber. I love it up there. It’s a wooded, fresh sparkling natural world.
Icy clear streams tumble down
little gorges. Flowers grow luxuriantly. The air is so pure you can actually feel the change. e and fresh and good for a man. There are deer and bear and mountain lions, but we didn’t see lany. And there is the deep, clean silence of the forest. We went up to see a man. He lives on the mountain top. His name is Roy Musselman. He is a hunter and trapper. From inquiring, I gathered that he is somewhat of a recluse. He comes down the mountain only occasionally for supplies. Nobody had seen him lately. We found his cabin all right. ‘But he wasn’t there. His old stove was piled with stuff. His wooden bunk had oil cans in it. My old Daniel Boone senses told
. me he had not been there for a least three weeks. BN
‘And as we came back down again onto the wide" ‘flat plains, we looked back up at the high forests, and the long ride, and said to ourselves: “He’s up there somewhere. Among the trees. Just living off the forest. We couldn't find him. But: he’s - all right. He lives the way nature lives.”
‘And Now About Parley Butt
One of the first settlers around Monticello was 2 Mormon named Parley Butt. He was one of the
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Our T own
What with all the loose talk about Mars last week, I don't see why I should keep the story of the Grover meteorite a secret any longer. The meteor used to be the prize item in the museum over at the State House. 3 As near as I recall, the story starts with a dispatch in the Indianapolis Journal (circa 1879) recording the death of Leonidas Grover of Fountain County who, .it appears, was killed while asleep by an aerolite .in its descent to earth. Seems that the aerolite tore right through the roof, then through Mr. Grover’s body, after which it buried itself five feet in the ground beneath. Prof. Elijah’ T. Cox was the state geologist at the time and soon as he read the item (it was at the breakfast table, I remember) he made up his mind that he had to have a piece of the meteor. At any’ rate, he stopped eating and rushed to see his neighbor, Maj. John J. Palmer. The two men were warm friends and especially interested in scientific matters due, more or less, to the fact that both were members of a literary club. What Prof. Cox had in mihd was to get Maj. Palmer to go to Fountain County and return with the meteor. In vain did Maj. Palmer plead business and lack of time, but Prof. Cox was insistent and the Major finally gave in. :
a Man-made Meteor : :
Maj. ‘Palmer reached Covington that same night. Soon as he arrived, he knew he was on a fool's errand. Nobody there had heard of a meteor falling. What's more, nobody had ever heard of Leonidas Grover, much less of Mr. Grover’s death. That settled it. Right then and there, Maj. Palmer conceived the idea of making a meteor. He was going to get even with Prof. Cox if-it was the last thing he did. He engaged a sleigh and drove to the northeast corner. of the county which was where the Journal said the meteor fell. Somewhere around the railroad station his eye fell upon a smooth boulder imbedded in the snow-soaked ground. He dug it up. It was six inches long, four or five inches thick, pear shaped and slick as glass. It wasn’t the right color, though, to suit him and so with the ‘help of the station agent, he washed the stone, painted it with red copying ink,
Washington
3 WASHINGTON, July 31.—Judging by President Roosevelt’s press conference discussion of the Hatch Bill to prohibit pernicious political activity, the President is under strong temptation to rise above prin-
ciple and veto the legislation. It does not seem possible that one who has made the fight for real democratic government that Mr. Roosevelt has made could stick the Presidential knife into this measure. Yet Mr. Roosevelt certainly seemed to be groping around to find objections to the bill. Significantly, it was only when a friendly correspondent brought up the question that Mr. Roosevelt said he was in favor of the objectives of the bill. That leading question gave the President ‘opportunity to cover himself. Otherwise his press conference remarks would have carried an entirely critical connotation. In ‘these questioning observations, Mr. Roosevelt sounded much more like a Liberty League lawyer quibbling over iffy questions, crossing bridges before he came to them, than the Roosevelt that I have
heard so often giving the benefit of the doubt to the
side of measures that would make our democracy work more equitably and with more justice.
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It Worries the President
Under the Hatch Bill, a’ ‘Government employee could sit in a political meeting, in the audience. But could he sit on the platform? Mr. Roosevelt is n
My Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday.—Someone evidently reads my column. Early this morning the telegraph office called and in a perfectly normal manner delivered a message saying that a gentleman had missed his train and would arrive later in the morning, and then in a rater embarrassed fashion the office said: “We have ° a rather long and strange telegram. It is in paragraphs.” It turned out to be not only in paragraphs, but im rhyme and a comment on Saftirday’s: column .in which I made a confession that I was held up for speeding. I won't quote it all to you, but the following lines may amuse you: “Your car was stopped Oh shame, oh shame, You'll never live it down That cop should be the next President The Vigilantic hound.” : I think this is rather severe punishment for a. gentleman who kindly reproved a lady, who was
undoubtedly in.the wrong: Really, -good SRowels Blessed : Jgertay and
By Ernie Pyle
first into the town of Bluff, to the south, and into Dove Creek, back east. We met him yesterday in Dove Creek. He’s a character if I've ever seen one. He was in the Mormon scouting party that first penetrated southern Utah. He was a member .of the fated group that made Mormon history by their experiences at “The Hole in the Rock.” ~ That} party spent a whole year crossing the Colorado River, and many of fheir .members died. Parley Butt was in Bluff in ’78. He must be close to 80 now. He owned the first store in Dove Creek. He rents it out now. “I"Hon't rent it out,” he says. “My wife rents it out. She’s bigger than I am. I don’t even know what we get for it.” ” 2 &
A Lovable Old Rascal
Parley ‘Butt is a lovable rascal. Ugly as a mud fence (aw, don’t get nervous, he won't mind), with huge queer gold teeth in his lower jaw. He doddles around Dove Creek with ‘a fly swatter in his hand. He's got an ornery grin on his face. He has been very rich in his day. Was a great Mormon cattle man, and owned thousands" and thousands of acres of land. Probably the first citizen of southeastern Utah. He’s lost a great deal of that, but he’s doing all right, too. He has a good time. He ran for the Utah Legislature once. And got elected by one vote. He said if that was the best they could do, nuts to ’em. He refused to go to Salt Lake City. He served three terms as sheriff of San Juan County. They tell how he tracked three desperadoes into the desert, found them all asleep, took their guns, and then just sat quietly till they woke up, and laughed at them. The friend who is traveling with me chatted with Parley Butt at a different time than I did When my friend started to leave, Parley Butt said to him, “So long, kiddo.” And when I said goodby to him, he said, “Well, give my regards to all the good-looking people in the world.” - 1 kinda doubt if a guy like that will ever die.
By Anton Scherrer
and heated it on a hot fire. The stone was still warm when Maj. Palmer returned to Indianapolis. A crowd tak the station to meet him for Prof. Cox had told jof Maj. Palmer’s astronomical mission. at same night, Joe Bingham of the Sentinel tried to get a story for his paper, but the Major refused to be interviewed. He said he wanted first to prepare a paper and read it to the literary club.
” ” ” Nice Going by the Major On the following Saturday, the literary club listened to one of the richest papers ever delivered in Indianapolis. The Major said that about 10 days before the phenomenon occurred, a family had moved into Fountain County from North Carolina. family consisted of a young man by the name of Freud, his young wife and her father, Leonidas Grover. On a certain night, the young couple had gone to a temperance.lecture at a neighboring school and when they returned, they found the old man sitting up waiting for them. All retired for the night. Next morning while Freud was feeding the stock, he was startled by a:shriek. Upon investigation he found his father-in-law dead with a ghastly hole through his body. The young man thought he had been murdered and seizing an ax, ran hastily through the house looking for the murderer. In the cellar he found the meteor. Later, he found the hole in the roof. Maj. Palmer's story created no end of excitement. All Eastern papers: sent reporters and artists to write up the meteor. People flocked by the thousands to the Major's home to get a glimpse of the stone. Finally, it became unbearable and there's no telling what might have happened had not Joe Perry come forth with an offer to exhibit the meteor in his drug store at the corner of Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. The following year, John Collett succeeded Prof. Cox as state geologist. Right after taking office he wrote a letter to Maj. Palmer asking him to hunt up his fake meteor. He said peoplé from all over the country were driving him crazy asking to see the meteor that killed Leonidas Grover. Maj. Palmer found the stone in the cellar of Perry’s drug store pretty much the worse for wear. He gavé it another coat of paint—another firing, too—and sent it to the State House where for years—at any rate, all through Mr. Colleft’s administration—it found a place among the honest specimens preserved in the museum.
By Raymond Clapper
worried about that. Suppose a Government employee had a good friend running for office. Could he voluntarily send his candidate friend a check for $25. That worries Mr. Roosevelt. Remember, Mr. Roosevelt, when the Reorganization Bill fight was on and your enemies were saying that conceivably under the bill you could do this and could do that and be a dictator and wreck the Government? Or wnen the simple, humanitarian Child Labor Amendment was being labelled the “youth control” amendment and it was being said that this would make it possible to prosecute parents who paid their children for wiping the kitchen dishes? Or when the AAA was going to be used to curb the liberties of the farmer? When everything that was proposed to deal with our economic dislocations was termed a vehicle for revolution? ” ” ”
Remember Those Days, Mr. R.?
They said you would use the gold devaluation power to precipitate inflation. Every single propoasition was stretehed out by the Liberty League lawyers to the extreme fantastic degree. They solemnly declared the Wagner National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional, unfortunately without first consulting the Supreme Court. When they attacked the first Guffey Coal Act, while it was pending in House Committee, you wrote urging the committee “not -to permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legisaltion.” Those were the days when every reactionary, every lawyer who had a big business client, every stooge whose principal was in danger of having his wings cilpped, was howling about despotism and was seeing things under the bed. Who's seeing things under the bed now?
By Eleanor Roosevelt
today the sky is cloudy and gray and gives us the hope that we may have a really steady downpour. Two young people who are staying with me, rode with me yesterday morning and a number of other
guests came to luncheon. We swam and broiled our steaks out of doors and talked for long hours. : | ‘The newspapers fill me with foreboding these days. It would seem that we persist in doing all that we can to stir up the very forces around us, which we profess to want to allay. Instead of acting with kindness, we seem to do the very things which promote intolerance and hatred amongst races and religious groups, to say nothing of the way we treat each othey when we happen to be labelled workers or. employers. This is happening in the United States where there is really an opportunity for leadership to create better understanding and more kindly feeling between different types of peoples. My own great hope, in what seems to me a rather baffling world, is the attitude which young people, with all their difficulties, seem to preserve. There is always a note of optimism
“among the real leaders and an idealism which I mar-
vel at their being able to preserve: in the present situation. i
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Poll Shows
By Dr. George Gallup - Director, American Institute _of Public Opinion RINCETON, N. J., July 81.—New and striking evidence that public opinion on a third term for President Roosevelt has crystallized to a remarkable degree is shown in a'survey of voters just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion. The study, which used sampling methods which have been accurate within 3 to 4 per cent in state and national elections, sought to find the answers to several fundamental questions on the third term: How many people would vote for President Roosevelt no matter who the Republicans put up? How many would vote against Roosevelt regardless of the opposing candidate? How many say they want to wait and see who the G. O. P. nominee is? The survey indicates that at the present time—and the time factor
is important—more than threefourths of the voters have defi-
nitely made up their minds one /
way or the other on a third term for Roosevelt if he runs, while the remaining one-fourth are undecided, or say that their vote would depend on who ran against him. The issue put to the voters was as follows: “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term in 1940, will you vote for him or will you vote against him, no matter who the Republican candidate happens to be?” For Him ............ Against Him Don’t Know, Depends on Candidate 2 8 8 . VENTS and circumstances of the coming 12 months may write a different answer to this question; the survey results simply measure sentiment as it exists today. Projecting these figures against the total number who voted in the 1936 election (45 million) it would appear that approximately 35 million voters have made up their minds at the present time about the third term, while 10 million say they don’t know or that it depends on the Republican candidate. The 35 million with definite opinions are divided into two
camps of approximately equal
strength—17 million who say they would vote for Roosevelt no matter who the Republicans put up, and 18 million who say they would oppose a Roosevelt third term no matter what Republican runs—
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What Do Voters Think of the 3rd Term?
President Roosevelt conferring with his chief political aid, James A. Farley. As the nation speculates on the Presi- ' dent’s intentions regarding a third term, a national survey shows that the greatest majority of voters already have made up their minds either for or against a Roosevelt third term,
both sets of figures calculated on the basis of the 1936 vote. The balance of power between these two almost equal groups is held by the 10 million voters who say they don’t know or that they .want to have a look at the Republican candidate before deciding. In case Roosevelt did run, this group would determine the victor. The campaign effort and the millions of dollars spent in a. Presidential election would, in short, go to influence the opinions of less than one-fourth of the electorate, : ® 8 8 HO are these 10,000,000 voters? From what income groups do they come? What are their previous party affiliations? And—most important of all—what candidates do they, who say their attitude will depend on the Republican nominee, favor for 1940? A special analysis shows that they are predominantly middleaged voters in the middle income group—persons between the age of 30 and 49 earning somewhere between $18 and $45 a week, or the equivalent. They are predominantly Democratic, or were Democratic in 1936, for of those who voted in the Presidential election that year —and most of them did—the great majority (76 per cent) voted for Roosevelt. The specific data by age and by income groups follows: BALANCE-OF-POWER GROUP 15 per cent are in Upper Income Group (over $45 a week). 54 per cent are in Middle Income Group ($18 to $45 a week). 31 per cent are in Lower Income
Group (below $18 a week). 29 per cent are vnder 30 years of age. ' - 45 per cent are between 30 and
26 per cent are 50 and over, ” ” ” T is clearly indicated from these figures that if President Roosevelt decides to run again, both parties will face the problem of
how to appeal most effectively to the middle-aged, middle income voter. The Democrats may derive
some advantage from the fact that the voters in the group undecided about a third term at this * time were Democratic three years ago. ; iS But the Republicans also have a certain advantage in that the candidate most favored by this group is not a Democrat, but a Republican—Thomas E. Dewey. When all who said they were undecided about a third term or wanted to see who the Republican nominee is were asked: “Who would you like to see elected
Third Term Sentiment
Following are the results of a ‘national American Institute of Public Opinion survey on various aspects, of the third term issue:
“If Roosevelt runs for a third term in 1940, will you vote for him or will you vote against him, no matter who the Republican
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¢ 2 2 ” N 1936 approximately 27 million. persons cast their ballots for Pregtient Roosevelt when he ran against Governor Landon. Today's survey indicates that less than three-fifths of this group would definitely vote for him today for a third term, while the other two=fifths would either vote against him or say they are undecided or want to see the Republican can« didate. On the other hand, the voters of the country who voted for Mr, Landon in 1936 are overwhelmings ly against a Roosevelt third term, the great majority saying they would vote Republican no matter who the Republican candidate is, Their comments in the survey indicate that they do not of course .mean any Republican, but one who is prominent enough to stand a chance of being nominated by a convention. ! 1936 1936
Roosevelt Landon Voters Voters For Roosevelt.... 57% 4% Against Roosevelt 19 83 Don’t Know or Depends on - Candidate . ... 24 13
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South Side Parents Lead Way Children Given Place to Play
Mayor’s Committee Proud of Part in Project Which Didn’t Cost City Cent.
HIS is the story of how the parents of 1500 South Side youngsters wanted a playground, how they got it and how it hasn't cost the
City a cent.
The 1500 youngsters go to Public Schools 20, 21 and 39. The school. grounds were too small to hold all of them. They wanted to ride bikes, play softball. Some pre-season football practice was needed, too.
Glass-filled vacant lots, heavily traveled streets were jammed with boys. Parents were plenty worried. They started organiznig, ” ” ” EPRESENTATIVES of the .. Parent-Teacher Associations of the three schools contacted the Mayor's Recreation Advisory Committee, which was set up last -spring to solve just this kind of problem.. The Committee conierred with the Park Board and the Board conferred with the WPA. Through the efforts of Albert H. Gisler, Board member, and the School rd, 15 acres of land at the intersection of Keystone Ave. Pleasant Run Park-
way and Southeastern Ave, wer
“leased”’ to the City withou rental. The Park Department lent its equipment, the WPA its supervisors and the neighborhood boys went to work. They cleaned up the grounds, helped the WPA: build a quarter-mile bicycle track and a softball diamond.
EJ ” ” N W being completed are horseshoe and volley ball courts. Eventually, they hope to have a community house, a fullyplanned recreational program and all the play equipment they need. The boys are being organized into a Boys Town by Ben Scalfe, WPA recreation leader. The town: will be similar to that now operating in the Northeast Community Center. All ‘of the 15 acres have not been developed. They will be next year, out of the Park Depart‘ment’s budget. Park officials are watching the playground grow with pride and not a little amazement. Mem-. bers of the Mayor's Committee said it was “the best project:
we've helped with all summer.” ° the American’ Army:.of
4-H GIRLS TO MEET AT OAKLANDON HIGH
he Lawrence Township 4-H Girls Club will hold its annual achievement Day tomorrow at Oaklandon High School, opening with a 10 a. m. business meeting. . Demonstrations will include “almost everything from making muffins to manicuring fingernails,” club leaders said. A basket dinner will be served at noon. Miss Harriett Morris,- Lawrence High School home economics teacher, and Miss Louise Apple, Castleton and Oak-
landon home economics teacher, will be in charge. A style show and demonstrations of clothing, baking, canning and food preparation will be held in the afternoon. The program commit-
tee consists of the Misses Coral
Pugh, Mary Schmidt, Hazel Askren, Janie Garrison and Ruth Miller,
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REGIMENT TO TALK ‘OF SERVICE IN CUBA
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Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Spanish-American War memories will be revived here when the survivors of the 160th Indiana volunteer regiment meet Aug. 13.
e of the units will be of local;
men who saw active service in Cuba. They will be able to recall how they mobilized at Indianapolis in 1898, went first to Chickamauga, Tenn.; then to Newport News, Va.; Lexington, Ky.; Columbus, Ga., and
on: to Matanzas, Cuba, as: part of
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SUNNYSIDE PATIENT ~ BOOK COMPLETED
Times Special OAKLANDON, Ind. July 31 “The Curetaker’s Handbook, 2a compilation for patients at Sunnyside Sanatorium has just been completed by Morgan Brantlinger, former editor of the Lawrence, Ind. Ledger, and present editor of the Rainbow, Sanatorium newspaper.
In addition to 20 articles, the handbook contains a surgical appendix listing the latest methods used to combat tuberculosis.
Contributors to the magazine include Dr. Chesley Bush, Livermore, Cal; Dr. J. V. Pace, superintendent of the State Sanatorium at Rockville, Ind.; and Dr. Edwin R. Levine, of New York City.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Name the capital of the Belgian Congo. 2—What race of mankind -was in possession of the South Sea Islands when they were discovered? 3g-What is the Pater Noster? 4—What is the Scottish name for a lake? 5—Is it netessary to acknowledge in advance an invitation to a tea? 6—For what is Pitcairn Island famous? . 2.8 » Answers
1—Leopoldville. 2—Polynesians. 3—The Lord’s Prayer. * 4—Loch. ; ] 5—If unable to attend, calling cards should be mailed to reach the hostess on the day of the tea. 6—As the refuge of some of the Hutingers o fhe Bounty.
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MORGAN COUNTY 4-H: SHOW NEXT WEEK
Times Special
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, July | 31.—
The annual Morgan County 4-H livestock and garden products show will be held at the high school here Aug. 8-9. Pigs, lambs and poultry exhibits whl be shown the first day; beef, dairy calves and garden products the second day.
PLAN DISPOSAL, PLANT
Times Special NEW CASTLE, Hd. July 31—A new disposal - plant to be partially financed by WPA funds will cost $386,485, according to a revised estimate made by the Works Board. The actual construction cost will |F run $347,000, it is estimated.
Everyday Movies—By Wortman a A
PERU LIGHT PLANT BONDED DEBT PAID
Times Special PERU, Ind., July 31.—The Peru electric light plant, said to be one of the best equipped municipal electrie utilties in Indiana, now is free of bonded indebtedness, according to Floyd Kerns, utility manager. The final payment on an $85,000 bond issue was paid July 15.
GRANT G. O. P. TO MEET | Times Special = MARION, Ind. July 31 —Marion and Grant County Republicans will meet here next month to complete plans for sending a delegation to the G. O. P. barbecue at the State Fair Growds, Indianapolis, Sept, 22.
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