Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1939 — Page 9

| Hoosier Vagabond

CAMERON, Ariz, Aug. 14—Well folks, heave a sandy! sigh of relief. ‘Today winds up the Navajo assert trip. I promise it won’t be mentioned again. At least not for a day or two. .. Maybe I've made too much of a to-do over this : trip. I don’t know. Anybody who wants to can take a jaunt through that country. There's nothing very difficult about it. But we fell for it so hard, 1 suppose, because so few. people actually do go through. It'll be a long time before that desert out there is spoiled, as we think of any spot being spoiled when it becomes a mecca for tourists. It is Indian reservation, and + the Government has no notion of % i putting in hard roads for sight- ; : seers. Ang 99 tourists out of 100, “when they see plain old dirt road on the map, go elsewhere. - Yet, despite my selfishness over this country, I wish you could see it. You'll find accommodations superb. You'll have coal oil lamps and a bowl and pitcher in many places, but where do you think you are? The beds are fine and everything is clean. : You'll eat right at the table with the folks you spend the night ‘with, and you'll discover human beings again, more than likely. =i ' You'll find yourself sleeping like a log and eating like a horse. And the grub they serve and the way they pile it on is second only to the hearty feeding you get in Alaska. : t 4 ® 8

Don’t Go if Yowre in a Hurry,

. It’s perfectly safe for anybody to go through that country, if he is prepared. It is not unusual for women to drive through alone. As one trader out there said, “It seems liks a couple of women [are often more capable of handling themselves than| we men are.” " And if you're a woman and want te keep on my good side, don’t drive through the Navajo deserts in shorts and halter. Wear slacks; you'll |be more comrortable. : fo~ - If you want, you can drive clear through in two

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—A friend who was actuated by politeness rather than curiosity asked me when I got ‘home what things were most exciting on the way from Connecticut to California. It was my first intention to mention meeting Myrna Loy, to give him a * brief description of the giant redwoods or the Golden Gate. But then I decided to be honest and admit that the thing which ¢ thrilled and scared me most of all was driving with Dr. Paul de Kruiff from Chicago to his home in Holland, Mich. . : You may remember the good doctor as the author of Men Against Death, but there were times when he was cutting in and out of traffic during which I wondered which side he was un. . I made it a practice not to look at the speedometer, but it is my distinct impression that we touched 90 on occasion and never loafed along at anything under 70. Fortunately we were not a hurry. “If youre anxious to get to the house in time for lunch,” he said, “I can open her up a bit.” I assured the doctor that I was not hungry and that we might as well crawl along comfortably as we were doing. : w. : 2 = = i He Needed a Little Something We were almost at our destination) when a young - man in an underslung racing. car caught the doctor unawares : and passed us. “There,” exclaimed de -Kruiff, “is a reckless driver,” and pursued him for five miles until we chased him up a side alley. Arrived at ‘the doctor's manor house, the big microbe fancier took -off his ‘specs and said in his hearty Dutch way, “I think I ought to have this clasp attended to. You know I can’t see two feet without these glasses.” However, he looked at me critically and said, “You haven’t got the color you ought to have by this time

Washington WASHINGTON Aug. 14.—Wage-Hour Administra-

‘tor Elmer Fi Andrews is wrestling with the problems

.of a schoolmaster these days. In its closing hours, Congress voted a deficiency appropriation: of $1,200,000 for the Wage-Hour Divi8 : sion, and it is all to be spent on law enforcement—the division now finding itself with 19,000 unanswered complaints of violations on its hands. : ; : With this money, Andrews . will be able to increase his force of inspectors to 500 and his liti-- . gation force to 40 lawyers. But one trouble is that an inspector

in this kind of work isn’t much

good until he has had some training, and Andrews is going to have to start his own schools i. to apply the training. There will 'be four of them—in New York, Chicago, .San Francisco, and Atlanta—and they'll be in operation by the first of September. New inspectors will spend. about 10 days on their schooling—listening to lectures and getting general instructions, with older inspectors as the teachers—before they go out on the

road, : #

Chosen From Civil Service List

The new inspectors are being chesen from the list at the Civil Service Commission offices, where the applicants took their examinations. It is no secret that the Wage-Hour Division feels mightily relieved over passage of the deficiency appro-

priation. It looked, for a time, as if the money would

be denied, and officers of the division predicted that the entire law would collapse of its own weight if the money were not forthcoming. The compliance record has not been good so far, and they were afraid that if

By Ernie Pyle

days. If you do, you might as well stay home. The only way to feel the country is to pa in it; sit on a rock and don’t worry about getting up; just lie around as long as there's anybody to talk to. You'll find after a few days that it’s possible: not even to wonder in the evening what happened in the rest of the world that day. : I'm not one of those isolationist-fanatics who thinks everything can be solved by seeing, hearing and knowing nothing. - But out there in the desert, it’s likely to occur to you that in our daily lives in the cities we see and hear and worry and:get nervous knots in our necks over a great many things that are of ‘no consequence. { :

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The Desert Gets You

| The friend who made this trip with me was E. H. Shaffer, editor of the Albuquerque Tribune. Although Albuquerque itself is in the heart of dry country, Mr. Shaffer had never seen anything like this before. | He fell in love with it. For the first time in 20 years he wasn’t worrying about the next edition, or what Hitler was doing, or what the world was coming to. : And when'we came back into so-called civilization, we were so mad we could have bitten all the tourists in two. Pavement never felt so unwelcome. You'd think that after nearly a thousand miles of rough,

. dusty road, we could welcome pavement with a great

sigh of relief. But it was, in fact, just the opposite. A few miles from Tuba City, we could see black smoke coming’ out of a big chimney. We were by that time pretending we were Indians. My friend pointed and- said, Ugh! White man smoke. Me no like. Ugh!” : \ fi : And when we drew up at the nice lodge and coffee shop here in Cameron (and Cameron, itself, is just a cross-roads) and saw all the cars with various state licenses, and all the smooth-road tourists in their fancy clothes, we were actually so smug and contemptuous that we could have been shot for our thoughts. Somehow to ourselves we seemed supermen in our overalls and our 1000 miles of recent past. We i and felt things these sissies couldn’t understand. e desert’ll get you if you don’t watch out. :

By Heywood Broun

in the summer. Maybe you need a stimulant.” I nodded to indicate that I was nothing loath. The 90-mile wind along the narrow road had left me still a little breathless. “Fine,” said de Kruiff. “Just slip your clothes off and we’ll climb down this dune and take a dip in Lake Michigan.” He studied the sky and added eagerly; “It’s a northwest wind. That means that well get snappy water in good old Michigan.” og ; The temperature of good old Michigan turned out to be precisely 48 degrees. 2 8 =

The Water Gets 'Em ch “Snappy” was hardly the mot juste. I will declare myself and say that from now on I would rather be bitten by a shark in the friendly Gulf Stream th be snapped at by the waters of Lake Michigan wh the wind is from tite northwest. I wouldn't even trust that lake if the breeze upon its back came directly from the South. But there was Paul de Kruiff plunging around and bellowing with pleasure whil icicles formed quickly on his blond mustache. His ancestors, hardy folk from the Netherlands, dug out this land from its snow covering three or four generations ago, and they persist. Indeed, they pros-

per and have about as much fun as the followers of} : To them the Michigan shore is| Paradise, hécause instead of dikes nature has-set.up}.

Calvin ever can.

dunes. Whenever a Dutchman gets to any spot where he stands 15 or 20 feet. above water level it goes to his head, and he begins to yodel as if he were an Alpine climber. It's nice country around the northerly sections of Michigan. Of course, the winter, like the water, is sometimes snappy. But Dr. de Kruif maintains that he has seldom seen it go much colder than 30 below. He has invited me to return in February,

but I don’t know whether that is for the fishing ‘or the swimming. i =

(Anton Scherrer is on vacation)

By Bruce Catton.

it got much .worse all chance of ever enforcing the!

law would be gone. 8 tJ o

The A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. are supposed to be vitally ' interested in the work of the Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Some time ago both organizations went on record in favor of continuance of its famous investigation into the activities of the Associated Farmers ‘in California. But neither outfit did anything in particular to help the committee when help was needed. ' - : ® ” 2

Cotton Ed Proves a Help

That was ‘in the closing days of the session, when the Schwellenbach reSolution to extend the committee’s life was about to come up for action. The resolution lay in the Senate’s audit and control subcommittee, headed by Senator Byrnes, who was not entirely sold on the proposition. Just when he got ready to give it a green light, John L. Lewis made his famous. “evil old man” outburst at Garner, and almost jarred Byrnes into killing the thing altogether. A week later, Byrnes’ committee brought the bill to the floor. The fate the bill would meet was very much in dou and Schwellenbach contacted A. F. of L. and C. I. Ol leaders and told them that now was

the time to speak up if they wanted the La Follette

investigation to continue. Neither organization bothered to say one word about it. The C. I. O. is in so bad around the Senate that its silence didn’t hurt much, but the A. F. of L. carries a lot of weight. The bill finally got through, but the labor organizations werep’t the ones who did the pushing. One thing that did help was Senator Cotton Ed Smith’s impassioned speech against the bill. Missouri’s Senator Clark announced that he had originally been pretty doubtful about the bill, but that after hearing Smith speak against it he was convinced that he ought to vote for it.

Popularity

‘Rises

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

PRIN CETON, N. J., Aug. ~ 14.—While Thomas E. Dewey's - popularity among Republican voters as a candidate for 1940 has 'remained virtually unchanged in the last month, with a slight drop, the popularity of Senator Arthur H. Van-’ denberg has risen. sharply, according to a survey among Republican voters conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion.

Senator Vandenberg’s -

rise coincides with a series of personal triumphs in

Congress, of which the lat-

est was the American denunciation of the Japanese commercial treaty—a step which the Michigan Sena-

tor had advocated. -

With the Republican nominating convention less than a year away, Dewey and Vandenberg are the two most popular choices among the rank and file Republican voters in the survey. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio is now in third place in a long list of

hopefuls. The survey was being -

completed when Senator Taft formally announced his candidacy 10 days ago and hence does not fully reflect any increase in Taft sentiment that may have come about’ since the announcement.

CROSS-SECTION of RepubA lican voters, i. e.,, those who cast - their ballots for Alfred M. Landon in 1936, were asked in the survey: “Whom would you like to see elected President in 1940?” The leading choices of those who expressed an opinion today as compared to a month ago in a similar survey follow:

LAST MONTH 1—Dewey .. 2—Vandenberg ..

2—Vandenberg 3—Taft ............. sees M 4—Hoover ...... Seaevess 8B 5—Landon .. .......... 3 6—Berah ............... 2 9—Bricker ............. 2* Others ............. 3

*Bricker, Governor of Ohio, recently announced that he was not a candidate for the Republican nomination.

Even though Dewey is clearly in the lead at the moment, there are many factors to indicate that Republican sentiment on candidates has by no means crystallized. In the first place, 44 per cent of

Va ndenberg

2 = =» RT this distance from

Thomas E. Dewey

of New York (left), Senator

Arthur H. Vandenberg: of Michigan and Senator Robert A.

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‘Taft are the leading choices for 1940 among Republican voters in a special G. O. P. survey conducted by the

American Institute of Public Opinion. |

those polled said they have not yet made up their minds on any candidate. , In the second place, there have been wide fluctuations in the popularity of individual Republican leaders in recent months. \ Only a little over a year ago, Vandenberg was the top choice of Republican voters surveyed by the Institute and Dewey was near the bottom of the list with a scant 3 per cent. Dewey rose ahead of Vandenberg last November after his campaign for the New York Governorship. But Dewey has himself suffered a setback in popularity since last spring when an Institute survey found him polling ‘64 per cent against 45 per cent today. $e

convention time, the position held by any candidate is not necessarily significant. At a nearly comparable time prior to the election of 1936, Senator Borah was the top choice of Republicans polled by the Institute, while ‘Governor Landon, who was destined to win the nominaticn, ranked 10th in popularity and did not take the lead in Institute polls unfil the late autumn of 1935. Thus it is clear that so far as Republican candidates are concerned, anything can happen in the next 10 months. | : Dewey’s candidacy appeals particularly to the younger voters of the party, the survey finds, and to Republican voters in the lower income level. Thus, whereas Dewey. is nnly slightly more popular than Vandenberg in the upper level ($45 a week or over) he is twice as papular as Vandenberg in the

and the lower group (below $18 a week). : Among Republicans of 50 years of age and over Dewey has only a slight edge over Vandenberg, but among those below 30 years of age he is three times as popular. The

Taft vote runs fairly uniformly at between 12 and 16 per cent in all age groups and income levels.

Dewey appeals to the younger

voters, the survey indicates, be-

cause they think he is progres- - sive and hard-hitting, while

G.OP. Rank ahd File Sentiment

Less than a year from today the Republican Party, which has elected 13 out of the last 17 Presidents, will pick a candidate for

the 1940 campaign.

While the actual nomination is made by

delegates, who do not always pick the most popular man, the

following survey results indicate

the leaders most popular today

with the rank and file of Republican voters.

“Whom would you like to see elected President in 19402” (Republican voters only) ‘NATIONAL VOTE

1—Thomas E. Dewey 2—Arthur Vandenberg ... 3—Robert A. Taft 4—Herbert Hoover

5—Alfred M. Landon ¢—William E. Borah.,..... 2 Y=—John Bricker

ECONOMIC GROUPS Middle

Vandenberg ...

Taft Taft

Vandenberg ...

AGE GROUPS

30-49 Years

55% ver 19

Dawey

Vandenberg ...

50 Years and Over

«rv 23 . 18

Vandenberg Tab .....vxs

URBAN-RURAL GROUPS

Farm vais 40%

44%, . 29

Dewey Vandenberg .. ft

Vandenberg

Small Town Dewey

vee 22 Vandenberg ..

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Vandenberg appeals to the older voters as a man of wide experience and training in statesmanship. : : : # 2 8

HE vote by geographical sec= tions finds that Dewey’s weake est spot is the Midwest and the East Central States, and his strongest area ‘New England and the Middle Atlantic States. In the East Central area—Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, the home state of both Dewey and Vandenberg—the two candidates run neck and neck in popularity, with 33 per cent apiece. Elsewhere D2wey is in the lead, though his margin over Vandenberg is smaller in the Midwest

, farm states than in other sec-

tions. . : i . Besides the leading | choices in today’s survey many other men are prominently Renicned by voters. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York each receive a substantial vote, although they are not among the leading seven today. Others include Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, Gove ernor Arthur James of Pennsyle vania, Henry Ford, John D. Rock= efeller Jr, Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Senator Hiram Johnson of California, Sen ator Gerald P. Nye of Nerth Dakota, Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York, Gov. George Aiken of Vermont, former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester and Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of General Motors Corp.

Here Are Facts on City Have Missed

Monument Cirele is easy to find, in case you're looking for it, if you follow these directions compiled by the City Engineer’s office: Take your sextant and maps and find latitude 39 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds; longitude 8'6 degrees 09 minutes and 45 seconds. :

You Might

Then if your magnetic variation on your compass reads 2 minutes, 35 seconds east and your map shows you're exactly 715.28 feet above sea level, look around you. > : You are standing on the curb of the Circle, probably looking north on Meridian St. ~ You are also within two blocks of the geographical center (the State House dome) of a City 12.66 miles long north and south 9.28 miles wide, east and west, and with an area of 53.12 square miles. : Perhaps you may want to make a tour of your immediate geographical location. You .can walk along 605.89 miles of improved streets and 66.46 miles of boulevards. If you feel up

or 131 miles of alleys. . At night, 8613 street. lamps

to it, you can hike through the dust of 242 miles of unimproved streets

middle group ($18 to $45 a week)

DRIVE PUSHED FOR

MILITARY U.S. 31

Continuing its efforts to modernize U. S. 31 in Indiana and Michigan and U. 8. 31W in Kentucky, the Lakes to Gulf Super-highway Association will meet at Mammoth Cave, Ky., tomorrow night, Todd Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secre-tary-manager, announced today. Mr. Stoops, who helped select a route for the highway, said delegates expected from Michigan, In-

diana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, will discuss plans

BRAZIL STREET FAIR PLAN GETS BACKING

Times Special 2 BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 14.—The Brazil Chamber of Commerce has voted to co-operate with the Clay County Fair Association to stage a street fair here in the .fall of 1940. The plan is to, enlarge the displays of the fair now held at Forest Park.

FLOWER SHOW IS FRIDAY

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Aug. 14— The Waldron Garden Club flower show will be presented Friday at the Waldron Community Hall. exhibit will open at 2 p. m. and continue through the evening. Slides picturing famous American gardens will be shown at 8 p. m. following a musical program.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where are the 1944 Olympic Games scheduled to be held? 2—Was Georgia one of the orig--inal 13 States? 3—What is the name of the cup or bowl from which Christ

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Corn Grows

Like Bananas

Times Special . LOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 14. —The corn crop is so good near here it’s growing in bunches —like bananas! | ; Walter F. Roll, Monroe County Fish and Game Club secretary, is showing something new and different in the sweet = It is an ear of Country Gentleman which was picked lon his Smithville Road farm. When he removed the husk from what appeared to |be an exira large ear of corn, Mr. Roll found one normal ear surrounded by six small ears, all growing out of the same stem. :

{off State Road 59.

line. .

METHODIST CAMP ~ MEETING ARRANGED Times Special : BRAZIL, Ind, Aug. 14.—The ane nual Wabash Conference Camp Meeting of the Free Methodist Church will begin Thursday and

continue for 10 days in a camping ground northeast of Clay City, just

FT. WAYNE BISHOP TO TALK Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind, Aug. 14—The Most Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of. the Ft. Wayne Diocese, will be one of the principal speakers at the 19th

annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women at San Francisco, Sept. 9-14.

‘Everyday Movies—By Wortman ;

1939 by Un'ted Feature 8: , ERR RG

i a a ’

(count them) would ‘light you on your way. You will:also notice 5984 fire hydrants, 1696 park lights. What you won't see is 622.49 miles of sewers, 658.90 miles of water mains and 825.16 miles of gas mains. One year later, about the time it

for making U. S. 31 a military highway. ! Association officials have sent ouy letters to civic organizations along the road urging united support for ‘the military highway proposal, he said.

drank at the Last Supper? 4—1Is the name of Gene Mako associated with golf, tennis or swimming? 5—In what country is the mausoleum, Taj Mahal, located? =

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My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—When I saw the President off yesterday morning, he said cheerfully: “I think I shall spend most of the first few days sleeping.” It

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Some of them came a little ahead of time and had a swim, and then we ate lunch under the trees and drove around the place before they left in the afternoon. :

"is curious that when the compulsion of “doing things” is taken from us; we think so quickly of our freedom in terms of being able to sleep as long as we want. Next, most of us think about what activities we may -engage in that have nothing to do with our usual work habits. Here, again, we rejoice that no one will interfere with us and bring us compulsory work. The last few minutes at the house yesterday morning were certainly busy. Mr. Hassett stood outside the President’s door with, some mail to sign, waiting while he talked long-distance with the “State Department. Miss Le Hand was talking on an‘other telephone. Finally, everyone was in the car ‘ “and I certainly hore that as they separated for their ~ yarious vacations, they all realized to the full that . gense of freedom which is the greatest joy of a va-

the President leaves, the big house becomes a empty place. There is one guard at the gate by the house, outside of that there is no vhere,.. I left prompfly for Tofeotiage where, ‘very pleasant group of people gathered. ? : : po Ein

Thanks to Miss Thompson, we had a dish I never tried here and which proved very popular. Often up

in Maine, on our picnics on various beaches, we

have built driftwood fires and stood our kettles on some stones and made a fish chowder of whatever fish we caught, or could buy from fishermen we passed. The favorite fish up there for this is pollock, but that seems to be an unknown fish in the markets here, so we bought halibut instead, and it certainly made a good chowder, even though we didn’t have Maine air tg sharpen our appetites. ; gi Just before the sun went down, I had a swim and we spent quiet evening reading and writing. I

have begun on my Christmas lists and so Miss Thomp--

son was busy making out lists of what must be ordered and what I must buy personally. I have decided to use the same type of Christmas card we have used the last few years. ’ The last thing, before I went. to bed, I listened to the 11- o'clock news over the radio. I can't say that the foreign news sounded very encouraging. How different. our situation is when the man at the head of the Government can leave on a vacation, instead of conferring in.a remote and fortified mountain spot and sending those with him away, looking serious and troubled. The fate of the wbrld seems to lie in the

hands of one man. 2

would take you to make an inspec-

only to find that the magnetic variation on your compass has changed 2 minutes and 54 seconds.

WORKERS WILL GET FREE BLOOD TESTS

Times Special

sons on relief who have obtained

blood tests without charge, Township Trustee Sam Welborn has announced. :

with a state law which is being en-

dX HA . Woe

reef fund will be used-

pdms iy I hr i pl

of the relief fund

tion trip around the city, you may return to Monument Circle again

‘| Times Special ELWOOD, Ind. Aug. 14—Per-

employment in canning factories and picking tomatoes will be given

This move was in co-operation

forced by local and state police and which requires the tests. Since many of the workers are not able to afford the tests, hg said, a parti:

The letter points out that the highway has been approved as one of three north-south four-lane military super-highways which the Fefletal Government | proposes to uild. : |

HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL DATES SET

4 NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Aug. 14— The first teachers’ institute of the new term will be held in the high school building Aug. 31, County Superintendent John Hussey has announced. ot The day following, rural schools will be open in Hamilton County, with the exception of those in Delaware, Clay and White River Townships and bus drivers’ contracts will

6—What is heliotherapy? 7—What is the correct pronunciation of the word rotary? 8 8 =» Answers

1—London, England. 2—Yes. 3—The Holy Grail. 4—Tennis. 5—India. 6—Treatment of disease by sun ‘rays. - T—Ro’-ta-ri; not ro-ta’-ri.

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