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- MEXICAN HAT, Utah, Aug. 3—The San Juan River Has a name for being had. It is picturesque—a " ‘wildly rushing stream in the very heart of the desert. It is crooked and bleak and full of treacherous rapids. It is so silt-laden that, if you fall in, your pockets fill with sand in a few minutes, and you sink. A ride on the San Juan River is a real experience. We had one. . Norman Nevills, one of the West's most noted swift-water men, took us. We were a little skittish about it the night before. We knew well of Nevills” reputation, and we knew that the river was like home to him. And we knew we could wear life belts. But still we were facing an Xperience. “I wonder if this guy can really row hoat?” my traveling friend asked. Before another 24 hours we knew he could row

- ‘a boat, and how!

We were up early. Nevills was up ahead of us, overalled and dirty, smearing black tar on the boat

bottom with his hands.

It was a 15-foot.plywood rowhoat, very thin, and built .to fold up like a cardboard box. Only Nevills had put on some cross-pieces and it didn’t fold any more. 2 We lifted the boat onto a trailer, and hooked it behind the car. We drove 20 miles! ack north, to wherc the road crosses Comb Wash. Then we headed the car right down the middle of the dry stream bed. At Jat we bumped up to the shore of the San Juan ver,

Riding the Rapids

We put the boat in the water and tied it to a bush We loaded aboard our water canteen, our lunch boxes. We two passengers putyon our life jackets. It was 9 a. m. By river, it is 1915 miles back tc Mexican Hat. , Nevills said we would make it in five to six hours, depending on the current. There are many odd things about boating en a river full of rapids. The very first is that you float:

e There is a tradition that the Tinsleys- never laugh. What's more; that they haven’t laughed for almost three centuries, which is to say that they stopped sometime in the reign of Cromwell. That's a long Long enough, anyway, to venture a belief that the Tinsleys are somewhat out of practice. Just so there won't be any misunderstanding about today’s piece, allow me to say that when I speak of a person laughing, I mean the funny and often uncalled for noise produced by a convulsive action of the diaphragm in the course of which the person draws a full breath and throws it out in interrupted, short and audible cachinnations. To be sure, modern civilizaticn has also produced the belly-laugh, but I'm not concerned with that today. The Tinsleys can’t even produce a diaphragm laugh, let alone a belly laugh. The lack | ef laughter on the part of the Tinsleys first came to light around here in the early Fifties

« when William Tinsley arrived in Indianapolis by way

of Clonmell, Ireland, with a stop-over in Cincinnati. He was the architect of lovely Christ Church on the Circle, also of Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University and buildings at Indiana University and Wabash College. | As Lee Burns has pointed out somewhere, he was the first architect ir Indiana to revere Gothic forms and use them with’ sympathy and understanding.

» ” 2 A Pretty Serious Matter Well, believe it or not, architect Tinsley was never known to laugh in all the 30 years he lived in Indianapolis. You can’t dismiss it with the wisecrack that the practice of architecture is no laughing matter. Certainly not when you know that the architect’s son, the Rev. Charles Tinsley, for many years

® * h i Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—It is just possible that Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar has bitten off a trifie more than he can comfortably chew in his drive purge the public payroll of J. Ross Eakin, superintendent ‘ of the Great Smoky Mountains National 8 Park. McKellar, who is popularly reputed to have put more people on the Government payroll than any other Senator now in Washington, went after Eakin’s scalp some time ago, charging that Eakin was a Republican and was in the habit of appointing Republicans to his staff. Secretary Ickes, Eakin’s boss, stood by Eakin, pointing out that the

down backwards—in other words, stern-to. so the oarsman can sit lacing forward and see Where he’s going. Also the boat takss it better.

My friend and I sat together in the stern, facing] -

It was hot and bright, Neville wore a He took off his shirt before we started.

downstream. sun helmet.

His arms and shoulders were a deep brown. He is a e

smallish man, but his muscles are powerful and steely. A The first thing I knew, we were floating sideways. And, although the waves were rippling a couple of feet Jughy we seemed to rock across them like a hlob of oil “In small waves, we always go sideways,” Nevills said. “That way we don’t smack the waves, and don't get so much water aboard. But, when they get bigger, we have to switch around stern-to, or the boat would swamp.” It was beautiful to watch Nevills handle the boat. Often we would go into a rapids stern-to, switch sideways in the middle, and come out into smooth water bow-to

Water oozed in through tie seams of the boat, and|

soon we were wet, and took off our shoes. Every 15 minutes or so one of us would bail wiih a tin can.

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Joke Not Appreciated

“This boat can’t leak,” Nevills said, “but it’s sure doing a good job of going through the motions, isn't it?” On dry land, that would have heen a swell joke. The hours went on. We talked occasionally. It is very quiet on the river. The only sound is’'that of rushing water Tar ahead, when you're approaching a rapids. id river bEak rose gradually, and before long we were riding along between canyon walls a quarter of a mile high. We ate lunch on a rock ledge right in “The Narrows.” We were a little ‘apprehensive: and we kept our eyes on the boat. It was tied to a small jutting rock of the canyon wall. If that boat had broken loose, we would sure have been in a pickle. The ledge was absolutely isolated by canyon wall behind, and deep, rushing, narrow river in front. there for days.

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By Anton Scherrer

the pastor of Fletcher Place Church, was never known

to laugh either. When it came time for. the Rev. Tinsley to have children—like Dr. Frank Tinsley, for instance—they couldn’t laugh, either. By this time you ought to be impressed with the seriousness of today’s piece. : T’ll grant that the present generation of Tinsleys has been known to laugh a little, but you can spot it immediately as a cultivated laugh, like something achieved by long and constant practice. Or, maybe, the world has grown so cockeyed recently that even the Tinsleys have to laugh. Which brings me to the point of today’s piece, namely why the Tinsleys never laugh. Ii’s all because of an English ancestor of theirs who lived sometime around 1650 when Cromwell had everything his way. One day this Tinsley set out to witness the execution of a notorious thief who had entered the ancestral home of the Tinsleys and rifled it of most of its treasures. 2 »

And Here's the Explanation

When he arrived, he found gathered arcund the gallows a quite sizable crowd including a couple of constables, a hangman and a priest. The culprit’s hands were tied and the noose adjusted about his eck. He was swung into the air when, all of a dden, a laughing fit seized Mr. Tinsley. The more he tried to control himself the more his diaphragm acted ‘up. The face of the priest paled at the sound of the merriment. Then a heavy frown darkened his features and with arms uplifted he left the scaffold platform and walked: right over to Mr. Tinsley. Raising aloft his crucifix and gazing heavenward he thundered, “No Tinsley shall ever laugh again.” Well, that was the beginning. In the course of a vear the stork saw fit to pay Mr. Tinsley a visit. He left a baby boy who was never known to.laugh— not even to smile—and from that day to this the Tinsley diaphragm refuses to work like other peoples.

By Bruce Catton

into the matter of Eakin’s vote in the 1936 election. Eakin says he voted for Roosevelt. Tennessee election officials are said to have marked his ballot and to have charged afterward that he voted for Landon. The committee will dig into this proposition as well as Eakin’s record as a park superintendent. All in all, it won’t be in the least the sort of investigation Senator McKellar was originally shooting for. » » »

Labor-E'mployer Co-operation

Not all the labor news of Washington is a gloomy recital of fights and reprisals. The Maritime Commission reports an interésting case of boss-worker co-operation—and from the frequently stormy city of Seattle, at that, The Seattle-Tacoma. Shipbuilding Co., a subsidiary

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1. A buyer and a commission man look over a pen of cattle before

bargaining over prices.

Hogs and sheep are usually sold by the pen

at the Union Stockyards, while cattle, which vary in price more than the other two classes of livestock, usually are bargained for oy the

head.

2. Charles V. Renard, one of the large hog buyers. on the market, sorts some of the day’s purchases. for shipment.

3. The large bulletin board located in the . lobby of the Livestock Exchange Building is a popular place in the morning hours. © While trading goes on in the yards, prices are posted here so that farmers and traders in the building can be informed on the market trend.

(Second of a Series)

By Earl M. Hoff

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O a casual observer, the livestock business at Indianapolis’ Union Stockyards is a meaningless turmoil

of activity.

From the crosswalks that run above the Vaidi he can see in every direction pens full of hogs, cattle and

sheep. to be to want to lie down or stand in one spot and to eat if there is anything

around to eat. On the other hand are a number of men who are constantly prodding the animals: out of comfort able spots, making them run around in their pens and then driving them down the alleyways across the scales and onto trucks or into railroad cars. The Stockyards also is not a place for a person with _a delicate nose or a queasy stomach, but if he remembers that here is one of the major businesses in the state, he keeps his interest alive and finds out that all this activity does have meaning. ’

L== the farmer in whose prdduct he deals, the livestock trader goes to work early. He gets there about 6:30 a. m. and starts in on the mysterious business of finding out what the “market” is going to be for the day. The market in this case meaning the price levels. To do this, he converses with his fellow traders to try to estimate the probable receipts for the day and the probable demand. Supply and demand at the stockyards, as at any trading center, is a paramount factor. Also, he tries to find out from whatever news sources are available what the supply and demand at other registered livestock centers will be. This is important, because their trading levels often determine those at his market. Meanwhile, starting in the wee hours, farmers have been driving

In them are livestock whose main desires, seem

their livestock to the yards to be sold. By the time the hog and calf departments open for trading at 8 a. m. and the sheep and cattle departments open at 8:30 o’clock, (8 o'clock in the summer), most of the day’s receipts have arrived, although they may come in as late as 11 o'clock when the normal day’s trading ends.

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IVESTOCK traders are divided into two classes—the buyers and the sellers. The buyers:are . - known as order buyers, packers or butchers’ representatives and’ trader-speculators according to their interest in the market. The order buyers, who make up the largest class, take orders by phone: or telegram from out-of-town firms. Packers’ and butchers’ representatives buy on the market for only their own firms, Trader-speculators buy for resale to other buyers. .On the selling side are the commission firms which employ trained men who take charge of the livestock the farmers bring to the market and obtain Iforthem the best prices available. * Theoretically anyone can trade in the market. A farm boy who has raised a calf can bring it in, haggle over the price and sell it. Or a city man who would like to buy an animal can deal with the commission men. But they both would have to be shrewd traders to deal with the men who are in the market every day. ” ” » HE trading day opens offi-

cially with the sound of a bell at scales at opposite ends of

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each division. At this time the buyers are clustered around long distance telephone booths and telegraph wires in the yards from which “they have received their ‘orders’ and information from other markets.

The commission men are ‘at their pens waiting for the buyers to make the first move.

Soon after the market opens, one or two of the buyers detach themselves from the group at the communication center and wander down: the alleys between ‘the pens. If it is the hog division, the buyer pauses before a pen of animals that suits one of his orders. He enters the pen and with the commission man proceeds to ex--amine the hogs. “Then the buyer asks the commission man his price. Using the preceding day’s price as a basis, he will get an answer like: “10 cents higher.” The buyer counters with an offer, usually lower than the preceding day's level, and on the basis of the estimated supply and demand they bargain until a compromise is reached. Immediately after the first sale is flashed around-among the traders and the market is said to be “made” or “established.”

It is seldom that prices will

vary from the level established in the first transactions. The thing

that keeps the rest of the day's

trading from becoming a cubp-and-dried affair is the price

spread in the various livestock

classes. After the opening transactions, the market moves swiftly. Most of the: trading is finished within the first hour of business.

The remarkable thing about the livestock market is that there are never any written contracts and there are no “Injun traders.” Once a commission man or buyer has winked, nodded his head or in some way approved another's offer, the deal is closed. The trading has ended. A trader who welches on such a contract soon finds he no longer is .in the livestock business. After a sale, the animals are still"in charge of the commission man until they are ‘driven onto scales, weighed and the weight stamped on a card by a stockyards employee. : Then they belong to the buyer.

» ” ” ‘EXT, the commission man makes a draft against the

buyer, wha meanwhile, is making out a check to the commission

man. When the latter obtains the

check, the books are closed and the trading is completed. Each

transaction is completed in the same day it started, and a check is sent on its way to the farmer who originally owned the hogs, sheep or cattle. |

Hog receipts at this time of year

range around 6000; cattle, 2500; calves, 1000, and sheep, 1500. Although at some other markets receipts often are held over until the next day, here each day’s total is cleared. ie ie Livestock trading is not strictly a one-way route. It does not represent a constant| flow of animals from the farm, through the trading yards to the packers and butchers. A portion of the sales. run in the other direction. Livestock which are sold to packers are known as slaughter animals. - In market terms they are “finished.” Animals which are not. “finished” are brought into the market for sale to the farmers who take them back to the country for fattening. . These, most of which come from states outside thé “Corn Belt,” are!

they do their part in consumin six out of seven bushels of corm produced in the state and wh they are fattened are ail marketed. :

. NEXT—The rules and rout ‘tions.

BOY SCOUT HONORS

SUPPORT IS REQUESTED

NEW RIVIERA UNIT

Italy Sticks by Axis But Her People Oppose War

(Ninth of a Series) ;

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor ROME, Aug. 3.—Any idea of breaking Italy away from the Axis can now be dismissed, at least for the present. Inside sources say Neville Chamberlain still hopes and believes such

National Park Service is under civil service rules and that its employees’ political affiliations,

CONFERRED ON 100

More than 100 awards were presented at an informal city-wide court of honor held by the Indianapolis -Boy Scouts last night - at Cropsy Auditorium. Those receiving Star Scout rank were: ‘Randall Bradford, Richard Vestal, Richard Wheaton, Rudolph Kyler, Keith Brodway, Charles Brosey, William Lawson, Orville

A : q 1 A telegram urging. Senators Sher- T0 BE READY OCT. 1 man Minton and Frederick Van-| Nuys to secure. passage of a bill The ‘new $10, "610000 Riviera Clb creating a . Benjamin Harrison|winter recreation. building is to ‘he Memorial Commission: before Con- completed by Oct. 1, James gress adjourns ‘was dispatchéd! Makin, club manager, said today,’ today by the Indianapolis Junior Located just south and west of Chamber of Commerce. . the present Riviera building, the The bill creating a ‘Commissioninew recreation center will utah was passed last week by the House.|a swimming pool, gymnasi Tt would empower a Commission to handball court, billiards, bowlix investigate to determine the most|and badminton courts. : suitable . memorial . ‘to President ma building is being’ constructes

of the Todd Corp. wanted to submit bids for construction of cargo ships to the Maritime Commission. Like all prospective bidders, it wanted to quote the lowest possible price. Consultations between management and labor were held. As a result, the Seattle Metal Trades Council signed a wage agreement with the company accepting a rate of 10 cents below the prevailing scale and making the agreement run for the duration of any con-|. tract the company might get with the commission. Ordinarily such contracts run for a‘ year only; the knowledge that they must be renewed in the midst

"if any, don’t matter. McKellar then charged mismanagement in Eakifi’s conduct of his office. Ickes retorted that the only irregularities he could find were minor bookkeeping errors. McKellar followed by demanding a Senate investigation of Eakin's record.

Not W hat He Bargained For

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ferent form than he contemplated. Instead of handing the job to a special committee, which under procedure McKellar would have headed, the Senate referred it to the Public Lands Committee. This committee’s chairman, Senator Adams of Colorado, is considered a good friend of the Interior Department; other members include such stout New Dealers as Senators Wagner, Murray, Lee, Smathers and Hatch. Furthermole, the committee is instructed to look

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday. —Miss Grace Reavy

‘of the New York State Civil Service Commission,

and Mrs. Edward Couger, our local Democratic com~ mitteewoman, lunched with me yesterday. Mrs. Conger is planning a day’s institute on a non-partisan basis, for the .discussion of various phases of government. This type of educational work always interests me, for I think that we women need to know the facts before we feel-sure of our ground in talking with the gentlemen. After lunch, Miss Thompson, Miss Dow and I motored down to the New York World's Fair. I

had an engagement to meet Sec- .

retary and Mrs. Morgenthau and their party for dinner at 7:45, but we arrived in time to do a good many things before that. I called Miss Hickok and she and Commander Flanagan met us in the Danish Pavilion. I have wanted to see this exhibit for some time and I was much interested in their pewter and silver, as well as in their

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to the restaurant to get ourselves for you may have noticed that yes> terday was one of the hottest days we have had here this summer. I don't imagine that iced coffee is ist, but their coffee is very good t vith i his

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of construction activities usually forces a shipbuilder to keep his bid high, so he can have leeway for a possible wage boost when the job is only half done. Because of this unusual wage agreement, the company was able to shave ‘its bid considerably under the level it would otherwise have taken. . Contracts have not yet been awarded—but in this instance, at least, capital and labor were able to work together for their mutual advantage.

(Raymond Clapper Is on Vacation)

By Eleanor Roosevelt

They have a wonderful cold table with hors d'oeuvres of every kind ,and we all agreed we would come back for lunch or dinner some day and sample all those dishes. They brought us a Danish dessert made of a variety of berries served with cream, which we could not resist tasting. I thought it very good for hot weather.

We then visited “Tomorrow Town” with a special eye to the little houses. I have always thought that if you had all the money in the world to spend, it would not be difficult to build a house and include in it all your desires. But to get the maximum out of your money in a little house is really a problem worthy of anyone's mettle. All the furniture in : little .brick house has been made by handicap people. The little wooden house with its varieties of wood interested me very much. I ended up in what is called a musical kitchen. where the old-fashioned

kitchen equipment talks itself right out of the kitchen|

and you see the whole kitchen transformed into a modern room equipped with all the latest electric gadgets. From there it is only a step to the electrified farm. In the farm kitchen, a charming looking girl was demonstrating the equipment, I was fascinated by the farm refrigerator and also interested in the farm freezing apparatus. I must find out whether a single small farm can afford this equipment, or whether it should be the property of a group of farmers to make it really pay. I )] t

a divorcement possible. But informed observers here are well-nigh unanimous in saying that it is now too late. They concede, at the same time, that the question of Italy marching blindly with Germany into a general

war is a different matter.

To put it another way, many here believe that if Britain and France play their cards properly and intelligently, Italy may yet save Europe from war by refusing to let Germany use Italian troops as mercenaries to satisfy Hitler’s Napoleonic aspirations. In short, while it is too late to break the Axis, a realistic handling of the situation might nullify or minimize its potentiality for harm. As the Italian people are unmistakably opposed to war, and as even the dictators must pay some attention to. public opinion, a straightforward and statesmanlike approach to the problems that are outstanding between Italy on the one side and France and Britain on the other probably would have a good chance of producing a pacific settlement even now. : - But. every passing day makes such a settlement more difficult. A prominent Italian told me that so much has happened in the last three years that it would be very hard to d| retrace steps. Sanctions, imposed during the Ethiopian ‘conquest, still rankle. The attitude of Britain and France, which have vastly increased their own territories in Africa but resisted when Italy did the same, is not forgotten. . Nor is the unfulfilled secret treaty wherein Britain and France pledged themselves to compensate Italy for any territorial additions they obtained in the dark continent forgotten. Now Italy has committed : herself as a formal ally of Germany. France has publicly gone on record against

friend did not necessarily mean territorial concessions. On the contrary, he specifically referred to Il Duce’s speech of last April, when he said that three “problems” remained between Italy and the Brit-ish-and’French, and that these were Djibouti, Suez and Tunisia.

Mussolini did not specify the ex-|- -

tent of these problems. He merely asked for a solution. “ut. neither France nor Britain has oi.#i ii any suggestion. There matters now

stand. Meanwhile, events have been ;

rapidly accelerating. Appeasement formulas are becoming increasingly hard to find. Even if Britain and France were now to take the initiative, their proffer ‘would have to be clear and unéquiv-

ocal if it were to have a chance.|.

Both sides are so thoroughly suspicious of each other that further vague. talk of a settlement of Europe's bit-

ter quarrels by “conference” ‘would

get nowhere. . Such is the Italian viewpoint. Moreover, many neutrals on the spot agree that Britain and France have blundered often and seriously. Mussolini started out in the FrancoBritish camp. He would have preferred to remain in that camp, realizing that Italy's geographical position was such that she had to be friends with Britain and France or else eventually fight them. Today few people dispute that

Italy was thrown into the arms of|

Germany for want of anywhere else

to go. And few deny that Britain, | France and Italy must find a way}.

Tolman and Charles Foley. Allan Means received a Life Scout rank.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Of which country is Bagdad the capital? 2— What is the name for a mass of compacted ice originating in a snow-fleld?

the minor planets? 4—With what counfries was Spain allied during the World War? 5—How long is a fathom? ~~ 6—In which country is the. “beautiful Loch Lomond? . 7=What is the ' correct pro‘nunciation of the -ethisrenl? :

» : ”» ” ~ Answers 1—Iragq. : 2—Glacier. : 3—Asteroids. 4-—Spain remained neutral.

5—8ix feet. i 6—Scotland.

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