Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1939 — Page 9

". think of Lee -Holtzman’s livery stable,

MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1939

Hoosier Vagabond

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah-Ariz., ‘Aug. 7—We went today down through Monument Valley, and on into the Valley of Tsay-Bege. Harry Goulding took us in his car with the big air wheels—the car he can

drive right ‘up over the top of sand dunes and not get stuck. Monument Valley lies smack across ‘the Utah-Arizona line, part in one state, part in the other. It is a vast. depression, . some 60 miles long and 30 miles ‘wide. It is all Navajo Indian reservation. It is called Monument Valley because in it stand hundreds of monumental stone formations. They grow in this valley like a weird crop. Nowhere else in America’ will you find them. They are not meticulous and emall works of art—they are unbelievably gigantic. What has happened, really, is that the centuries have eroded out this whole big valley; but, standing here and there, fiercely stolid and immovable, are the great masses of rock which resisted nature and would not be eroded. - They have taken fantastic forms and shapes. Name almost anything you want, and you'll find its likeness in Monument Valley. You can see a great medieval castle, or the U. S. Treasury, or a mule lying on its back with its feet up, or the profile of Joseph Smith the Mormon, or a figure of The Pioneer Woman, or a totem pole, or a pair of mittens. : 3 * 2 »

Other Marvels of Nature

_ Most extraordinary of all, to me, is the Totem - Pole, It is a solid shaft of rock, sticking straight up Qut the desert for more than 700 feet. It stands there all alone, fantastic, impossible, built. by nature, and 200 feet higher than the great Washington Monument. There are scores of great natural bridges and vast caves, where the Navajo shepherds: herd their flocks - for refuge. There are weird sanidspouts rising into the air. : : There gre crude ruins of Indian-homes a thou-

Our Town

I never pass the Shoemaker Building, the one just east of Hotel Harrison on Market St, but what I

the one " that used to be in the same neighborhood. Mr. Holtzman’s livery stable was the home of Coxey, a cinnamon-colored mule every bit of 40 years old, with one eye and a patch on each side of his body from which all the hair had been removed. I don’t know how true it is, buf it was said at the time that Mr. Holtzman leased the smooth shaven patches for bill board advertising. Originally, was Cairo. Some time around 1834, however, when Jacob. S. Coxey led 20,000. unemployed from the Middle West to Washington, D. C., Mr. Holtzman got a notion to re-christen his mule. He said ‘it had all the attributes of Coxey’s Army, and when people asked why he went on to explain that his mule could keep going by eating anything handy and at very irregular intervals, To say nothing of a chronic antipathy for work. ” ” »

o The Lost Is Found

Strangely enough, Mr. Shoemaker picked the precise pericd of Gen. Coxey’s march to pus up his building. As a matter of fact, it was nesging completion. The walls were up, the joists were it place and-the carpenters were just about ready to nail down the flooring when, one morning, Mr. Holtzman came to his barn and found all the stable men in mourning. Coxey was gone. Seems that some time during the night he had wandered into darkness. The police were notified and messages sent to all the neighboring towns to he on the watch fer a cinnamon-colored mule. Legend even has it that Mr. Holtzman, equipped with a telescope, went to the top of the Soldiers’ Monument. That same afternoon a goshawful noise startled the ‘workmen on the Shoemaker Building. It seemed to

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—You get a different set of “leaders” out of each session of Congress. Every year a certain number of men stand out as the ones who are most influential with their fel- . lows. The group which they compose is worth studying, because it may contain the ‘next President—or possibly the next - President - after-the-next. Certainly it contains the men who, for one reason or another, have been: most effective in shaping the country’s policies. Sometimes a man gets in this group by his eloquence. Sometimes he gets there by a plodding earnestness which makes him an acknowledged authority . on .some particular subject. Sometimes he gets there simply because his colleagues have come to Have. especial respect for his intelligence and his knowledge. Sometimes his rise is due to his political shrewdness; sometimes it is simply due to his Presi-dential-year ‘political “availability.” » » ”

"Among the Standouts

In any case, here is a sample list of the men who, in the session just ended, have risen to prominence in the “leader” class: Congressman Eugene Cox, Georgia Democrat, for his dominance of the all-powerful House Rules Committee and his effective opposition to all aspects of the New Deal's labor program. Linked with him in the same bracket -is Congressman Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat. Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Massachusetts Republican, the Minority Leader, who. gave his party

My Day HYDE PARK, Sunday—lLast night I took two young couples to dinner at the inn in Norrie State Park. It certainly is a lovely spot and the orchestra is so ‘everybody enjoyed dancing. I enjoyed the young man ‘who sang, for he has a very nice voice. I saw two of my neighbors and one, our Quaker Democratic county chairman, came up to me to announce with rather unQuakerish joy, that he had bet

all the members of his party that .

I would be dining there because | it was such a nice evening, so | they all had to pay up. This is the third time I have been there this summer, so I think he should thank lady luck. I wonder whether you hap- | pened to notice a rather amusing little item in the newspapers the other day. It hailed from London, but it is a criticism which might well be aimed at some of our own statesmen and not kept only for members of Parliament. A. P. Herbert, M. B, remarked that if Lord Nelson were alive now he would never say: “England expects every man to do his duty.” Instead, the phrase would : “England antic ipates that, as Tegards the current J Jace up: go ssues and

the mule’s name.

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By Ernie Pyle

sand years old. There are , sounds, and unearthly presences. Harry Goulding: can stand and shout a cowboy whoop, and it comes back many-voiced, from -all ‘sides, again and again, like a surrounding enemy. If you knew the countries of the world, you would visit many of them in Monument Valley. You would come around the rocky pinnacle- of a butte, and there under the cliff would be a wood-and-mud hut, and darting through the door a dark-skinned woman in vividly-colored dress, and all around would be sheep and goats grazing and bleating. The roaming, wandering, gypsy shepherds of Arabia —except theyre Navajo Indians. : 2 8 8

An Ideal Burial Place

Harry stops the car in a peaceful little valley-within-a-valley. We walk a hundred yards. We stop before: a pile of brush, “This man was a friend of mine,” Harry Goulding says. “He was a leader among the Indians. See what

There are the bones of a horse. “They knocked the horse in the head,”. Goulding says, “so its spirit could escape and go with the old man.” And there is a coffee pot, with a hole in the bottom. “They knocked the coffee pot in the head,” Goulding says. “And the saddle too. Everything was knocked in the head, so its spirit could go, with the old man.” Things were lying all around there in the sand, among the sage bushes. The old saddle, hacked with an ax. The horse bones. The coffee pot. A shovel, with its handle broken. Knocked in the head. “I don’t know of anything better than being buried out here,” said Harry Goulding. “I wouldn't mind if they’d put me right alongside the old man. I got

they sent with him.”

a few nice things to take along. We could join up|

when we got up there. We'd have a horse and saddle and coffee pot, and we'd knock my car in the head and take it along.” Harry Goulding is right. I've seen great mauso-, leums, and rows of white crosses by the thousand, and expensive marble shafts and cathedral crypts—but I've ‘never seen the grave of man more peacefully and gently done than that of the old Indian iying in his sandy little valley, rimmed by great rocks, dotted with sage, supplicant to the sun, his simple needs gatl:ered about him. It was beautiful.

By Anton Scherrer

come from somewhere in the basement. One of the bravest went down a ladder to see what was up (or down) when a moment later he yelled for help. When

picked up he could give no explanation except to say

that a monster had attacked him and hurled him into space. Sure, it was Lee Holtzman’s temperamental mule. When discovered, he was eating the mortar out of the stone walls in the cellar. 8 # "

Complications Ensue

Nobody could figure out how Coxey had done it. The only thing left to believe was that some time during the night the mule had tried to walk the joists and in his mad attempt had fallen 18 feet into the basement. There was only one place where the joists were set three feet apart—enough for a mule to fall through—but Coxey found it, you bet. The next thing to do was to figure out a way to get Coxey out. There wasn't any except to tear the joists from their moorings, lasso the beast, and pull him up with a derrick. The contractor let out an awful yell when he heard of -the plan because it meant a loss of time, a rather important factor in this case for the building contract called for the completion of the structure in a certain number of days. After which the contractor had to pay Mr. Shoemaker a stipulated sum as liquidated damages for every day the building remained uncompleted. Unless, said the contract, the delay was caused by an Act of God. Well, that raised the question whether God had anything fo do with the behavior of Mr. Holtzman’s It was too big a problem to settle that afternoon and so it came to pass that the mule was still in the basement when the carpenters knocked off work ‘for the day... The last thing Mr. Holtzman did before going home that evening was to poke some hay through the joists. Next morning when Mr. Holtzman arrived at hiy barn, believe it or not, there in his stall was Coxey, hale, hearty and kicking like everything. And to this day nobody knows how the mule got out of his dilemma. Nor was it ever settled whether God had anything to do with Coxey’s falling into Mr. Shoemaker's cellar,

By Bruce Catton

remarkably shrewd and effective generalship throughout the session. Congressman Clifton Woodrum, Virginia Democrat, who was more influential than any other man in Congress -on bills affecting the WPA. In the same connection, Congressman John Taher, New York Republican, can also be given credit for some highly effective work. Congressmen Carl Vinson of Georgia and Andrew J. May of Kentucky, both Democrats, who had charge of -the huge Navy and Army Appropriation Bills, respectively, and who piloted them through the House successfully. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, for consisien and intelligent opposition to New Deal ects, ranging all the way from revision of the Neutralitv Law to the Florida ship canal and extension of the Presidents Tonet ary powers. :

Byrnes Played Lomting g Role Senator Alva Adams, Colorado Democrat, for .a steady fight for economy. Senator Robert Taft, Ohio Republican, for a ' work-man-like job ‘ufider rather:trying circumstances. Senator James E. Byrnes of South Carolina, for a widened sphere of influence on many matters. Among other things, he put through the reorganization bill— and the bow for this can be shared by Congressmen

John J. Cochran of Missouri and Lindsay Warren of

North Carolina, Democrats, Senator Claude Repper, Florida Democrat, for steady pro-New Deal efforts plus a tireless, though unsuccessful, fight for the Townsend Plan. Senator Carl A. Hatch, New Mexico Democrat, for putting through the clean-politics bill ‘which bears name.

And, of course, you wouldn't ‘want to forget Vice President - John Garner.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

As I read Congressman Bruce Barton’s roitaris on the" housing bill, I was reminded of these two statements. What he really meant to say was “It's hot weather and we want to go home. We know there

ought to be money for housing and we will give it to you some other time.” As he phrased it, however, one

‘wondered when and how the perfect bill would ever

be written and, in addition, you surmised that he would have to make a special appeal to the Almighty to ‘provide him- with the perfect human beings who would then administer the. perfect housing bill. Barrett: H. Clark ‘has: written ‘me of a most nteresting undertaking. Under his general editorship, the Princeton University Press has joined with the Authors’. League of America, and the Dramatists Guild of America, in publishing America’s lost plays. So many plays which were popular and well known during the last 20 years of the 19th Century have disappeared from print. The American drama, which had been dominated by the English tradition, began at this time to develop a personality of its own. Since ‘plays are written primarily for the audiences. of their day, they frequently reflect more clearly than books, what the authors felt would appeal to the thought and feeling of the people. In reading over: the list of

publications, there are many authors and plays lust

I never heard of, bu

130 Hours For WPA

Indorsed

By Dr. George Gallup Direbtor, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N 3 ., Aug. 7.—The provision of the new relief law requiring all WPA workers to work gn average of 130 hours a month is indorsed by ma“jority public opinion throughout the nation as indicated in a survey by

the American Institute of

Public Opinion. Even among WPA workers: themselves, opinion is almost evenly divided, with a small majority actually in favor of the new law.

In conducting the survey, which was made by interviewers who are located throughout the nation, the Institute followed a new procedure. Although 80 persons in every 100 interviewed claimed to be familiar with the new relief law, each voter was given a statement of the facts regarding the hour provisions of the law. After reading these facts, he was asked to state in his own words what he thought of the law. The Institute interviewers then wrote down the answers verbatim. In order to record the intensity of opinion either for or against the hour provisions of the law, interviewers marked on the ballot whether the voter approved “strongly” or “mildly’”’ of the provisions, or disapproved “strongly” or “mildly.” This special measure of intensity or “quality” of opinion showed not (only that a: great majority favo) the law but that twice as many are strongly for it as strongly against it. The vote for the nation was:

Approve Strongly Approve Mildly

.. 19% . 14

Disapprove Strongly

Disapprove Mildly . —33%

» os »

NALYSIS of the thousands of verbatim statements of voters shows that those who approve the law give three main reasons. . The first is that since taxpayers’ money is being spent on WPA workers they should work for what they get. The most typical comment in this category is “130 hours a month are not too much for anybody to work.” ond reason is that WPA should

' require hard work so that going

on relief will not be “attractive” to any man who may be lazy. The third reason is that WPA workers should be willing to work any reasonable number of hours and be thankful for the job because “WPA is relief and not &

Station Changes Planned

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| Approve Mildly .

life work.” One typical comment in this category is: “If a man is out of work he ought to be thankful for what he gets till he can do better.” Those who disapprove of the law argue, on the other hand, that it is “unfair” to organized labor because it may “undermine wage scales in private industry,” and also that WPA skilled workers should receive more money if they work longer hours. A comment typical of many in the survey was: “I believe a skilled man should be paid according to his qualifications and ability. If he needs to turn to WPA, I see no

reason why he should: have to -

take inferior wages.” ” ” » \ SPECIALLY interesting is the contrast between the vote of persons on the WPA and the rest of the country. WPA WORKERS Approve Strongly ... 0 ’ 25 —33% Disapprove Strongly .. 31% Disapprove Mildly .... 16 —47%

ALL OTHER VOTERS

Approve Strongly ..... 46%

Approve Mildly ....... 25 —71%

In Police Reorganiza Lion

By SAM TYNDALL “Since we can’t get a new building for police headquarters we have to keep changing this one to suit our needs.” Thus Chief. Morrissey explains the new budget he is proposing which calls for funds to modernize the police station. But the proposed station remod-

eling is only part of the Police

Department organization Chief Morrissey has undertaken. For some time, he has been shifting members of the department, trying to find the job for which

each is best suited. _ Special Training Required

He has been requiring the older men in the department as well as

-irecruits to take courses in first aid,

police work and markmanship. He even is requiring all of the younger men -to learn how to ride motorcycles. There have been several shifts in the personnel of the department and another is planned if the proposed budget’ is approved. It calls

for demotion of 30 detective sergeants or acting detective sergeants to a newly created rank of “investi-

gators.” Chief Morrissey said that he is making the changes” in the inter-

est of the efficiency of the depart-

ment.” Present plans call for reorganization of the detective department.

Better Service Is Aim The number of detective ser-

geants will be reduced from 55 to

25. Each sergeant will’ be placed in command of a staff of investigators for whose work the sergeant will be responsible to the lieutenant above him. Chief Morrissey said there is no doubt the proposed system would make for more thorough and efficient investigations. that “some of the men who must be investigators or some who may not even remain on the plain clothes side of the department, will be hurt.” “But,” he said, “I feel that it is a more efficient system.” The investigators will lose approximately $192 a year in salary.

Stresses Accident Prevention

Emphasis is. being placed on increasing the efficiency of the Acci~ dent Prevention Department. Posts of four corporals for that division has’ been created and requested in the budget. These are only a part of Chief Morrissey’s long-range moderniza-

tion and “weeding out” plan in store for the department. “1 would like to see the time, very soon, when there aren't any special accident prevention squads, or special anything, I would like to see every officer in a car or on foot |: qualified in every branch of police work,” he said. Asked what the department needed most, Chief Morrissey said “about 150 more policemen to put on foot to patrol beats.” “There is your prevention of crime, the beat man, who knows everyone on. his beat,” the Chief said.

MIAMI COUNTY FAIR WILL OPEN SEPT, 10

Times Special KOKOMO, Ind. Aug. 7.—The Miami County - Agricultural Association will hold its annual fair at Converse the week of Sept. 10. Association officers expect the attendarice record to be broken if the weather is fair. Thete will be three days of trotting races and livestock, grain, fruit and vegetable entries. Officers of the fair association are O. A. Reynolds, president; T. M. Warnock, : vice president; Kling, treasurer: D.

geparinent superintendent.

ROCHESTER BAND BILLED

Times Special . ROCHESTER, Ind, Aug.

Allen | Warnock, | secretary, and W. W. Tdcker, Speed,

7 — Thé Rochester High "School band will open’ the Prairie Farmer WLS

VINCENNES PLANS ~~ LABOR DAY PARADE

Time, Special,

for the greatest Labor Day parade and celebration in this city’s history were being made here today. A dozen or more floats already

and a Labor Day Queen contest will begin soon. Harrison Park, which

of the celebration. The cities of: Bicknell and Vin-

{cennes will’ join in’ the celebration.

TRIP TO STATE FAIR WON BY TWO GIRLS

Times Special * DECATUR, Ind. thea Frohnapfel of the Decatur 4-H Club and Wanda Neadstine of Blue Creek Township have been chosen as delegates to the State Fair 4-H Club home economics school to be

‘He admits |

VINCENNES, Ind. Aug. 7—Plans|

have been assigned for the parade|

seats 6000 persons, is'to be the scene

Aug. 7.—Doro-|

Disapprove Strongly .. 16% Disapprove Mildly eee 13 —29%

That sentiment among WPA workers is not more pronounced in opposition to the new hour provisions is undoubtedly explained by the fact that the law affects chiefly the skilled workers, who constitute a much smaller proportion than the unskilled. The unskilled have already been working many more hours for their security wage than the skilled, and thus would seem to have no reason to- object to longer hours

~ for the skilled.

» » HIS sentiment is of important political significance for 1940.

Some observers have wondered whether the WPA controversy would hurt the prestige of the Demeécratic Party among the relief group. But; as today’s survey indicates, WPA workers are ‘By no means united in opposing the hour provision of the new law. In any case, previous Institute studies have shown that the Democratic Party is so overwhelmingly popular among reliefers and lowincome voters generally that a decline of as much as 10 or 15

~ per cent in pro-Democratic senti-

DUMPING TO GET

COUNCIL ACTION

Proposed Ordinance Would Establish $5 Fee and Rigid Supervision.

Action #0 regulate the use of dumping grounds in the City will be taken at tonight's meeting of City Council, members indicated today. :

Council is prepared to pass an ordinance which would put the use

of private dumping grounds under the eontrol of the Works Board. ' A

$5 license fee would be charged for the conversion of any piece of private property into a dump and all applications would be rigidly investigated. - Members indicated that passage of a measure to discourage future roller. derbies at Butler Fieldhouse was ‘doubtful. = The measure, requested. by North Side property owners, would. charge a. $500 daily license fee for any: “endurance ctontest” running more than five consecutive days.

Unless unforseen objections arise, | -

| How Many Hours Should WPA Workers Be Required to Work?

ment there would still leave the party with a large majority in the low income level. ? ‘While Republican and Democratic voters vehemently disagree about many aspects of the Roosevelt Administration, the 130-hour

relief law is one policy on which .

the rank-and-file of the two parties vote alike. The Republicans favor the law by a higher majority (79 per cent) than the Democrats, but even the Democrats are for it by the fair-sized majority of 62 per cent. Barring unforseen circumstances, it seems unlikely, therefore, that the issue will arouse widespread partisan feeling in the next election, even though the skilled workers on WPA may continue to . STUmble, 2 8 2

HE general public’s approval

of the provisions in the new relief law is directly in line ‘with other manifestations of sentiment found by the. Institute. A recent survey showed that a majority: of voters (74 per cent) were out of sympathy with the WPA strike which was called sev~ eral weeks ago in protest against the relief bill. Another survey made

Stork Breaks All Records

Times Special OGANSPORT, Ind. Aug. T— The. stork worked. overtime during July to bring this city the largest number of births ever recorded in a 30-day. period here. The 48 births almost doubled the 25 deaths, according to a report of the City health officer. The highest previous number of . births was 44, recorded in August,

MADISON JUDGING

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SCHEDULE - LISTED

Times Special i i ELWOOD, Ind., Aug. 7—The judging schedule for the Madison County 4-H Club Fair, _to be held Wednesday through Friday in Athletic Park at Anderson, was announced today. It is: Wednesday: Vegetables and poultry by Keith Elsbury. Livestock by Palmer Davis and Damon Catron.

Fuze. Dairy cattle by Mr. Catron. Beef cattle by Mr. LaFuze, Friday: Sheep ‘by Hal Royce. Colts by Everett Parker.

1935, *

Thursday: Hogs by Maurice La-

years ago, in February, found that a majority of voters : (55 per cent) were opposed to the : “prevailing wage” principle when’:

it was first discussed in connection

with work-relief wages. The public felt that relief workers should be paid at less than the .

hourly rate prevailing in private -

business for the same (ype of - work. : As for the total monthly WPA wage, as distinguished from the : hourly wage rate, the public takes : the attitude that workers -on ‘WPA should receive less than workers .in private industry. In a companion question in today’s survey the Institute asked: “In general, how much Money do you think WPA’ workers should be paid?”

The great majority thought the

total income of WPA workers should be less than the income of other employees, and those who felt this way argued that “it will prevent them from staying on the relief rolls forever.” . A summary of the vote follows: Less -than workers in private industry

' .About the same as workers

in private industry

More than workers in pri‘vate industry ..

SCHEDULE MEETING FORG. 0. P. EOToRs

Times Spec ROCHESTER, Ind, Aug. 7.—Republican editors of the first, second and third Congressional districts

‘Iwill meet at the Colonial Hotel on

Lake Manitou near here, Aug. 15. Raymond Willis of Angola, editor of the Steuben County Republican, and G. O. P. Senatorial candidate in 1938, will speak on “Relationship of the Press to the Organization.” Edwin O’Neel, Hagerstown Exponent editor ‘and Indiana Republican Editorial Association president, will

. | discuss the work of the organiza-

tion. Other speakers will be Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman; Neil McCallum, State: Committee secretary; Rep. - Robert A. Grant (R. Ind.) and Rep. Charles

Halleck (R. Ind.).

JOINS HOWE HIGH 16H STAFF

«| Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. " Aug. 7 Darrell Gooch, speech ‘department head at Bloomington High School for two years, has resigned to accepf a similar position at Howe High School, Indianapolis, it. was announced today by Superinniendent H. E. Binford.

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