Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1939 — Page 9
. Hoosier Vagabond
~ ZION NATIONAL, PARK, Utah; Aug. 21 ~—There is Hn ii ironic about Zion ‘Park. The vernment spent ‘a - million dollars to build .a road! so people could get in to see the Park, and the way it turned out the road-is more wonderful than the Park. The
road is so marvelous that the
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Park is anti-climax. | It took them, ‘if I remember, three years to build the road. - It goes through a tunnel more than a mile long, The tunnel slopes all the way, and it has curves in it, and that isn’t all. Every once in a while they've blasted out a big cave in the side of the tunnel, that leads out to outdoors, and you can pull your car over and “look right out into the great canyon where you're going. The AAA Bluebook lists this road as one of the finest engineering achievements in American highway building. Everybody talks about it. Everybody admires it. It is superb. : The road (ous Off scores of miles of driving, and allows you to enter the Park from the east side as well from the west. It also enables you to see Bryes Salven and. Zion Park and Grand Canyon a a day, instead of hanging around a while and : SPpEetialing them as you shou
Rock Supply Ample
There is one thing about Zion Park—it has relieved me of ‘a queer obsession. You know there are some scientists who spend all their time worrying about the world running out of oil. And others fret about the eventual exhaustion of all our coal. stewing over the day when our forests will all be gone. Well, I'm'like that. Only I have always worried about running out of rock. I've even caught myself . sitting straight, up in=bed at night, screaming “My God, we're out of rock!” _ But now my worries are over.
It Seems to Me
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 21—Carelessly I raised my right hand to light a cigaret and the auctioneer said, “The bid is 3500 for the filly.” “Whose bid is that?” inquired a prospective purchaser, and the - auctioneer motioned in my direction and answered, “The large young man in the | : fawn-colored dinner Jacket.” “All right,” muttered the. bidder sullenly and crooked his little finger. “I've got 36. Who’ll make it 37?” chanted the auctioneer. That put me off the hook. The filly isn’t coming to my farm. Naturally, I had no intention of bidding, but at a yearling sale in Saratoga one must be careful not to gesticulate or raise his eyebrows, since such slight signs * are taken as indications of a desie. to buy the current colt under the hammer. _As a matter of fact, if the loose change had been in my pocket I would have been vastly tempted to take a thoroughbred back to Stamford. Naturally, my operations would have been confined to the lower brackets. But, as it happened, there were two forlorn horses which went for a hundred dollars apiece. These were twins—which is a thing most unusual in breeding—and always loom up the possibility of selling them to a museum or a believe-it-or-not exhibition. And, again, there will be spring plowing to be done in the south meadow next year.
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Humans Do Pretty Well
I assume that family connections constitute the initial consideration among most of the bidders at a
Saratoga audtion. Planned production has gone on in
the breeding of race horses for at least a couple of centuries, and the ‘wise men are convinced that blood will tell. Moreover, that theory appeals sentimentally to many of the bidders who are themselves hereditary
American Roundup
(Fifth of a Series)
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—It is probably the only place in America where a stout gray-haired grandmother could put on a torn skirt and an old sweater, walk down the street barefooted, with her slip showing, eating an ear of corn-on-the-cob, without drawing a second glance from anyone. Coney Island is democracy with its shirt off. It is rowdy and untidy and incurably lowbrow. You can find all races and colors at Coney—and, on its incredibly congested sands, all shapes as well, from the sublime . to the ridiculous. It boasts of a dozen bath houses, 10 roller coasters, the world’s biggest ferris wheel and an average summer-Sunday consumption | of something like 800,000 hot dogs. On a holiday, like July 4, it draws more than a million visitors.
H abit and Curintity |
All of which merely states its rough outlines. Basically, Coney is two and one-half miles of | beach, fresh air, and sunlight. Some of its visitors come just because they have the habit, and some of them “the out-of-towners—come because they have heard about Coney all their lives and want to take one look at the place before they die. But most of Coney’s visitors—who, for this year, - are going to total close to 70,000,000 people—come because it is the only place they know of where they can buy sunlight, fresh air, and a little coolness for a nickel. And, if they can’t buy those things for a nickel, they. have to do without them. _ So much for Coney. Come along now to another American bathing beach a couple of hundred miles away—-Bailey’s Beach, at Newport, R1
My Day
" HYDE PARK, Sunday —I have just been sent a report which grew out of an investigation made in the state of Tennessee. Some of the ideas seem to be applicable everywhere in the country. I am going to give you a few of the thoughts which struck me most: “So, to get around to the bug that’s feating on me,’ and has been since the first week of
the review, it seems to me that:
“the WPA-hould have in its budget ‘somewhere a fund to cure itself and that this fund should provide a staff of experts— geologists, agriculturists, economists and engineers—whose business it. would be to examine all of the economic possibilities of each working area. If they should decide that a community - is as hopelessly inadequate to the needs of its population as I am afraid this country is, then the Government ‘ought to buy it up and plant it in forests. (“If on the other hand, they found some ways and x for a population’ to. remain in its habitat, 6 information should be put in the hands of the : er of ‘Commerce, or individuals who can afvelop the resources. . .. I would like, also, f trained psycholdgists and doctors do review of WPA kers to determine
And still others spend a lifetime -
For today we've .
seen enough rock to keep all the armies and contractors and little boys of the whole world in rock till the end of time. There are whole mountaiis of solid rock here. ‘I mean just bare, slick, clean, hard rock—as far as you can see, nothing at all but rock. The slopes and valleys and even the creek beds are solid rock.
. You drive for miles and you won’t see two bucketfuls
of dirt. All this fantastic rock business is on the east side of the tunnel before you get into Zion Canyon.
‘Once you get there, there isn’t much left to see.
There's a very pretty canyon, and the beautiful
stone dwellings of the park people, and the pretty:
Lodge of the Union Pacific. And Weeping Rock. The Rangers said I must leave the car and walk
‘up and see Weeping Rock. A dirt. trail winds up It’s only about two.
through weeds and bushes. blocks off the road. Well, I got within a few yards of the Rock, I guess. And then all of a sudden a snake stuck its head out of the weeds at me. I yelled, and jumped; and then composed myself and got three rocks, each about the size of my fist. . » 2 » t
Encounter With « Snake
- The first one I just tossed into the weeds where I thought the snake was; a sort of exploratory rock. It brought results. A head stuck up above the weeds. So I took a nice nervous aim, and whammed the second rock. It missed the head about two feet, and anyhow it turned out to be a lizard. But... That rock did rouse the real snake. And there all of a sudden I saw him coming through the weeds right at me. I suppose snake-lovers would say he was just curious, but I say he was full of criminal intent. His head was way up. I had one brief moment of catalepsy. Then I
opened my mouth about a foot, gave out one of
those banshee howls I sometimes use in nightmares, let the rock fly, and leaped 30 feet back down the trail. So that is the saga of my day in Zion. I'm afraid it doesn’t sound very good. But can ‘I help it if snakes chase me?
By Heywood Broun
owners of horseflesh. And yet the plans of breeders quite frequently go wrong. A colt of royal lineage may come to be no more than a plater in selling races. ‘It has happened. Great stallions and great statesmen have been known to father indifferent sons. To be sure, the dam cannot be left out of the picture, but horses are known best through the name and fame of the sire. I am puzzled by the fact that in spite of its long eugenical background, the scientific mating of horses does not improve the breed at any rapid rate. Human track athletes, whose parentage is more or less haphazard, have been smashing the life out of the mile record again and again within the last 10 years. The speed marks for horses have remained set, with few exceptions, within that same time.
Brittle but Exciting Toy
And so the man who wants to buy a horse considers first the family tree, but then observes the legs of the member of the younger generation. No matter what his tradition may be, no horse is better than his own immediate knees. : The thoroughbred, to my eye, is the most wonderously made of all animals. But certain esthetic gains have resulted in utilitarian retrogressions. of a racer quite properly might be the envy of any lady from the Follies or the Scandals, but the proportion is entirely out of line with any standard of safety. My reference is to the running horse: and not the dancing lady. The ankle (pastern) of a colt is so extremely fragile that it is hard to understand how he walks, much less gallops, with such slight underpinning. And when he breaks a leg he is destroyed. He is built upon the sands and not the rock, for structurally his speed and stamina may go for naught if some slight wishbone in a leg is sever Civilization has taken a scrubby but hardy animal and made him into a magnificent though brittle toy, but when he comes home in a lather and at odds of 10 to 1 he is, next to the Grand Canyon, about the most exciting thing upon the surface of this planet.
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By Bruce Catton
You won't find a greater contrast in America. Bailey's Beach is the exclusive private beach of the Newport summer colony. It is a strip of sand perhaps 100 yards wide and half a mile long, nicely
fenced in, and buttressed on its landward side by a neat two-story brick administration building, a row of cabanas, a bar, a restaurant, and a dance pavilion. You join this club—its official name, by the way, is the Spouting Rock Beach Association—by invitation, and you pay $300 for three shares of stock. In addition, if you want a cabana, you pay $750 more. There are, of course, annual dues besides. On a week-end in July or August, or during that great gathering known as Tennis Week, the place will get a good-sized CroWd—as many as 500 people, sometimes. ; 2 ” ®
Bailey's Gives Privacy
Fundamentally, both of these beaches (Bailey’ s and Coney) sell the same wares—water, sand, fresh air, and sunlight. In a sense, they sell something else, too: At Bailey's a sense of belonging to the top flight —at Coney, a sense of being an inextricable part of a singularly tolerant, casual, non-class-conscious proletariat. Bailey's adds privacy, which Coney can’t provide. If you can get a 10 by 10 piece of sand for yourself and your family at Coney, you can count yourself lucky. 3 As I say, it's quite a contrast. It isn't brought up here to arouse class feeling or to point a moral. America is a free country, and each of these beaches gives full satisfaction to its patrons. But anyone who is interested in politics ought to take a look at both places. They represent two extremes in American life. The politician has to take both: extremes into consideration. Which group is he going to try to placate? I wouldn't know how to advise him . . . except to remark that when everything else has. been considered, there are just naturally an awful lot more Coney Islanders than Bailey's Beachers.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
“A lot of ‘erroneous ideas have sprung up concerning the type of men on WPA. . As a matter of fact, they are not much different from any other block of human being except in the matter of education and training. They did not seem to be alarmingly prolific, nor stupid, nor lazy and untrustworthy. I think their moral integrity, upon the whole, would compare favorably with that of any other group.” The reason this interested me so much lies in the fact that in some communities the self-help co-opera-tives have accomplished wonders. I saw something attributed to a Congressmen (I will not name him for fear of making a mistake) in which he criticized certain Government communities for giving people too much and felt that they had lost the power of working out their own difficulties as a result. He had evidently not followed the origins of these cominunities he was visiting and he did not know that people he was visiting today were far better able to cope with any situation than they ‘were five: years ago, What he was grieving about was’ the result of conditions from ’30 to '34 and not from ‘34 to ’39. There is still insecurity and many mistakes have been made, but he should have seen these people in the: homes they ‘left and, in addition, he should see people in similar circumstances today who have not been moved. He will find them even more insecure.
- Where, however, people can make,a new start in their own communities with Governmen Delp and self- |moved I think much: easi
help jea-operatives
By Ernie Pyle|
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Foresees
U.S. Entry Into War
By Dr. George Gallup PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 21.—As Europe heads for another tense September with the Danzig question still unsettled, the latest tests of American public opinion show growing pessimism throughout the United States regarding this country’s ability to stay neutral if another European war should come. Increasing sharply since the American Institute of Public Opinion first tested sentiment on the question two and a half years ago, the belief that America will take sides eventually In any fight involving the Axis and the “Allies” spreads through all classes in the country—in the small towns of the Mississippi Valley as well as in the cities of the Atlan-
‘ tic seaboard.
The present Institute study was not an investigation of what Americans are wishing for, but what they .feel they must count on. To learn their attitudes the Institute asked a scientifically selected cross-sec-tion of voters in all parts of the United States: “If England and France have a war with Germany and Italy, do you think the United States will be drawn
A second question, designed to see how far Americans think they would become involved was also asked: “If England and France go to war with Germany and Italy, what do you think our country will do?” In conducting
the survey the Institute used -
sampling methods which have been substantiated in numerous state and national elections. Three persons in four with opinions think that America will be “drawn in,” the survey shows:
Think U. S. would be drawn in carebserisss ni
Think U. S. would stay out.24%
Excluded from these figures was another group—25 per cent of those interviewed—who hag no definite opinion. un 8 2
NTERVIEWS with men and women; with farmers and city people, with Kansans, Californians and persons in the rest of the 48 states show nearly identical psychologies regarding chances of the United States involvement. The highest percentage of persons saying the United States wil
If troops march to war in Europe American-made airplanes and war supplies may be major factors in the result. ] Today an American Institute of Public Opinion survey shows that an increasing majority of Americans believe the : United States will not be neutral in case of another war—that the United, States will send war. supplies but not men to : the support of Britain and France.
be “drawn in”—178 per cent—occurs ‘in the Middle West. The lowest—69 per cent~—is found in New England. Men and women agree on the quéstion by the same margin—76 per cent. In millions of American homes there has been a significant shift.on the question since 1937, however. Continuous Institute surveys dating from January, 1937, show that American fears of being involved in a European war have mounted particularly sharply since the events of last September and October leading up to Munich.
The trend has heen as follows:
IN CASE OF EUROPEAN WAR— Think Think U. S. Would U.S. Would Be Drawn In Stay Out January, 37 .... 38% August «8 September, ’38 .
January, ’39 . =: 3
UST 25 years ago this month, while the Kaiser's troops were wheeling. across Belgium, President Woodrow Wilson urged his . fellow citizens to be neutral “in thought as well as in action.” But today's Institute survey of public - opinion .. shows that the
Prizes for Tomato Show To Be Given at Banquet
Cash prizes of $200 will be awarded to winners in the second all- ndiana Tomato Show opening here Wednesday. The awards will be made at a banquet Aug. 29 in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel where the show will be held, according to Samuel B. Walker, general committee chairman of the Indiana Tomato Tourna-
ment Inc, sponsor of the show. During the week the importance of tomato growing and processing as factors in Indiana agriculture and industry will be emphasized. Exhibits of canned tomatoes, tomato juice and other products of Indiana canners will be shown. They will be placed in downtown windows and neighborhood groceries. In addition to Mr, Walker, members of the general committee are: Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent; Herbert Eickhoff of Stokely Brothers & Co.; F. C. Gaylord, associate chief in horticulture at Purdue University; J. E. Dickerson, Federal-State supervising inspector of fruits and vegetables; A. A. Irwin, assistant Marion County agricultural agent; Edward J. Green and Doyle Zaring of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce; |
Robert E. Jackson, secretary of the Indiana Canners. Association; George Kingsbury of Kingsbury & Co., Inc.; Frank Langsenkamp Jr., of the F. H. Langsenkamp Co.; Robert E. McMillin of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc, and Samuel Mueller, director of promotion and extension of the Chamber of Commerce.
VISIONS CITY AS MUSICAL CENTER
Indianapolis may well become the center “of the extension of our musical frontiers within this generation,” Franklin Miner, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra manager, said yesterday at the concluding “Sym|phony at Sundown” concert. The concert was played before more than 700 persons by the Indianapolis Federal Orchestra at the Rauh Memorial Library gardens. It was a memorial program to the late Emma and Samuel Rauh, li-
brary donors. The guest of honor was their son, Charles S. Rauh, who prophesied continued development for Indianapolis’ ‘cultural community. :
FINAL SQUALUS LIFT NEAR
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. Aug. 21|
(U. P.) —By tomorrow night, Navy salvagers estimated today, the last ‘ha 3
PASTORS RETURNED 70.2 CITY CHURCHES
Times Special MARION, Ind. Aug. 21.—Indianapolis’ two churches of the former Methodist Protestant denomination had the same pastors today despite the merger of that denomination into a new, united Methodist church. The 100th and last Methodist Protestant Indiana Conference closed yesterday at the camp ground near here and its members today attended -an “acknowledgment of union” meeting of the new church today in the First Church here. Bishop James H. Straughn, Baltimore, making ministerial appoint- |" ments yesterday, returned the Rev. J. Ray Stanton to the Indianapolis Unity Church and the Rev. R. Gerald Skidmore to the Victory Memorial Church.
Times Special FAIRMOUNT, Ind., Aug. 21.—The Rev. E. A. Crim was returned to his pastorate at Indianapolis as the annual Indiana Conference of the:
Wesleyan Methodist Church closed L:
here yesterday.
YEARLY MEET OPENS FOR FRIENDS CHURCH
Times Special... PLAINFIELD, Ind. Aug. 21.— Advance reports by the 16 quarterly Quaker meetings in western’ Indiana and eastern ois and a sessicn on the min are to open the Western Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church here this afternoon. Frederic E. Carter, Plainfield, general secretary, will submit the annual report’ Thursday. Other speakers during the week-long session include the Rev. Donald ler of Carmel, Ind., Miss Jeannette Hadley of Richmond, Ind., Millard Jones of Minneapolis and ‘Dr. wil-
liam Cullen Dennis, Earlham Col- :
lege president.
BEACH REOPENED “The 26th St. bathing beach will
Public Feelings on War
If England and France have
a war with Germany and Italy,
do you think the United States will be drawn in?"
National Vote €000000000000000000000000 76%
Sectional Vote .
Yes No
24%
New England SIales. ice ivivreionss ne Middle Atlantic States ccooovveeees 74 “East Central States c..ccocoeeeesee 78 West Central States ..coccoveccccss 78 Southern States sessresesssnsesnse 15 Western States coovssesicvessissee 19
Party Vote Democrats Republicans Others
ceeiseessessrrsesscesnes 6%
aes dessus sessussonnes 78
[RR RR NY 11
resent generation of Americans have little faith in their ability to remain impartial. Asked why they thought the United States would be drawn in, those interviewed 'in the Institute
survey give three chief reasons for .
involvement:
1. American sympathies with Great Britain and France, and disapproval of the Nazi and Fascist regimes. American commercial ties with Britain and France. Fear of a defeat for “the democracies.”
DEGLINE IS NOTED
Whooping cough cases here the first 20 days of August totaled 127, or 25 per cent below the number reported during the first 20 days of last month, Dr. Morgan, Health Board secretary, said today. The dissase caused no deaths this
‘month, but was responsible for
three in June. a He predicted that the disease would continue through September. Among children of pre-school age, he said, it is the most. dangerous of childhood diseases. Five cases of diphtheria were reported during the last two weeks, about the usual number for this time of year, but there have been no cases of smallpox for several months, :
BIKE TRIP PLANNED A bicycle trip to Greenfield, Ind., supervised by Floyd Wilson, of the Y. M. C. A. staff, is to be conducted Wednesday for Y. M. C. A. members here. A swim at the Greenfield Riley Pool and lunch followed by games is scheduled.
TEST YOU R KNOWLEDGE
1—Does a white object have greater visibility than a black object in total darkness? ; 2—Name the principal tributary of the Amazon River. 3—Who was recently “appointed U. S. High Commissioner to ‘ the ‘Philippines to succeed Paul V. McNutt? . 4—What is the national bird of Japan? 5—On what island in New York Bay is the Statue of Liberty? 6—Does a U. S. Senator receive a larger salary than a mem- . ber of the House of Repre-
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Answers ; 1—Neither is visible in total darkness. 2—Rio Negro. 3—Francis B. Sayre. 4—The crane. : 5—Bedloe’s Island. 6—They both receive $10,000.
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IN WHOOPING GOUGH
UT in spite of the general feel‘ing that American ‘“neutrality” would not last long—or that this country would be drawn in despite such a policy—the .Institute survey shows that only relatively few Americans think the United States would send troops Bulge the Aflantic as we did in Instead, the greatest number expect we would limit ourselves to sending supplies useful in war. In answer to the Institute’s second question—*“If England and France go to war with Germany and
Lad Rebukes His Rescuer
URORA, Ind, Aug. 21 (U. P)). —Three-year-old Bobby Roberts did not deny ‘today that he owed his life to Forrest Mangold, a neighbor who jumped into a 16foot cistern to keep him from | drowning in six feet of water Saturday, but he was indignant about the way the thing was handled. Mangold plunged into the cistern 15 minutés after Bobby had tumbled in and kept him above water until more “help arrived. ' Until then the plucky youngster had clung to a pipe himself. . As rescuers pulled them out, Bobby cast a reproachful glance at the bedraggled hero. “Me hold on tight,” he said, “but Mango (Mangold) ducked me when he jumped in.”
KILLED AS AUTO FALLS GOSHEN, Ind. Aug. 21 (U. PJ). —Charles Stanley Baer, 21, was killed Saturday when his automobile fell from jacks with which he had hoisted the front end to repair the brakes.
Italy, what do you think our: country will do?”—opinion divided as’ follows: : Believe U. S. would:
Send troops to Europe fo help England and France..25% Send war materials but no troops i The remaining 35 per cent with opinions . thought the United States would attempt—at least in the beginning—to take a neutral position, although a number of persons with ' this view held America would eventually be drawn in anyway. # = 2 REVIOUS Institute surveys on what Americans would like to see their country do have never shown more than 17 per cent in favor of sending troops abroad; so it must be emphasized that the above - opinions represent mot ° wishes but John Q. Citizen's best
. guesses of what would ‘actually
be done. : ; His guesses. will not be missed by the diplomats and military strategists of the world powers, for in spite of Congress's refusal to pass the Bloom bill authorizing shipment of munitions to England and France in wartime, nearly two-thirds of the public think America will be supporting the “Allies” with either guns or men if Europe goes to war.
CITY SEEKING 1940 ° A. F. L. CONVENTION
A campaign to bring the 1940 cone vention of the American Federation
|of Labor to Indianapolis was ane
nounced today by D. R. Barneclo, - Central Labor Union recording i retary. He said an invitation has been submitted to the A. F. of L. execu= tive council meeting in Atlantio City and that the campaign will be opened with the Labor Day observe ance at the Fair Grounds. William F. Green, A. F. of L. president, has been invited to speak at the observe ance, he said. Mr. Barneclo said that the fact that Indianapolis is the headquarters of five international A. F. of L. unions would be stressed in seeking the convention. Arrangements for the Labor ‘Day celebration were completed at a recent conference of State Fair Board officials with Charles Lutz, Mabel L, Lowe, Leon Worthall, Abe Hammers schlag and Mr. Barneclo, C. L. U,
program committee members.
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