Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1939 — Page 13

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23.—When we left Flagstaff, I abandoned the extra

supply of water we had

© ‘been carrying through the desert.. We figured we were

: off bad roads. for a while and wouldn't be needing.

water. Also Flagstaff is 7000 féet high and very cool, 3 and you forget how hot the desert can get in summertime, So we drove all day without a reserve supply of water. The desert [got terrifically hot, and our temperature gauge went to +. 200. But she didn’t boil, and we * didn’t need water. ° And then in late afternoon we saw a car ahead, its driver out in the road flagging us down. When we stopped he said hopeoi “I'm boiled dry and can’t move x .. an inch. Do you happen tefhave any water.” : - Now any other day in the past month I could have leaped lightly from the car, given a gay little bow, and cried: “Yes indeed my friend, six gallons full.” -But as.it was, there sat Old Traveler Pyle, the Man to. Fit the Emergency, without a drop of water to his

I started. to tell how we had always carried water before, but it seemed so nonsensical I just shut up and drove away, as though I were mad at the fellow. The next morning I bought a brand-new thermos Jug. And I'll. bet that in the next 40 years I'll never run onto another person who needs it. Spe . 8 8 Those Fireside Chats When you are touring around the Western parks, you usually hear some kind of fireside chat in the evening. ‘The rangers givé talks inside the parks; and the inns and camps outside park boundaries usually have evening entertainments, too. And nearly always, they wind up the program by giving the saddle-horse concessionaire a chance to say something. ’ These saddle-horse men are good talkers. They. use bad grammar and corral slang, which pleases the dudes. And they throw in a bit of rustic humor now and then, They say: “We've got any kind of a horse you want, and if

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, Aug. 23—The Pope has spoken eloquently for “peace in our time.” I see no reason

. why all peoples should not join in that appeal. In-

deed; I think that it ought to be a demand. That familiar phrase “National honor” will be flung out as 2 a barrier against negotiations. But can “National honor” be a thing sufficient to justify the slaughter of millions of men and ‘women in any quarter of the globe? Do the dead and the maimed and mutilated evet stand as witnesses to the dignity of the world in which we live?

No, and again no. War is a be- °

trayal of all the aspirations and ideals of humankind. It is a kind of co-operative treachery

against © the divinity done by:

« human race. Of. course, no good can be done by anybody who simply insists upon the repetition of the obvious. And yet it is international insanity if war is to come now in spite of the general recognition that no problems are settled by the appeal to arms, and that the price in blood and-terror and

~ misery always exceeds even the objectives of the most : optimistic. Now is the time to make good the truism

‘ that in all lands there are folk united, whether they

like it or not, into a fundamental kinship. The differences in language, custom and national ideas may seem very great, but these things are less than the

* fact that lungs and heart and blood and mind are

structurally the same no matter what lines may be drawn upon a map. Who wants war? Upon sober thought there is not a single community on the face of the globe ready to commit itself to such folly.

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Just a Bit of Ribbon

Even in those countries where a slavish devotion

to dictatorship has been imposed it must be mani-

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—Much optimism is required to see in the new Soviet-German trade agreement just signed at Berlin, and in the non-aggression pact which follows it, anything except the most severe blow to Great Britain and France as they head into the critical days of their “war of nerves” with Hitler. Without Soviet assistance, the British and French are outnumbered almost two to one in manpower by the Axis. That Moscow should, at such a moment as this, conclude a deal to supply Germany with badly needed petroleum and other raw materials, and to refrain from war with Germany, is little short of a stab in the back of England. It is the payoff, perhaps, for Chamberlain's snubbing of Russia during the Munich negotiations a year ago. He hoped to make a deal with Hitler that would leave Germany free to satisfy her appetite in the direction of Russia. These developments give color to many rumors that Stalin regards Hitler as rather a fellow of his own kind and that he is entirely content to devote himself to internal development of the Soviet Urfjon and remain aloof from the power struggle between the British Empire and the new German ambition to

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Foreign Business Ousted

business out of the Soviet Union. When the foreigne

bond By Ernie Pyie

pe ain’t got it we’ll git it. If you want a slow horse, e've got slow horses. If you want a fast horse, we've got fast horses. And if you ain't never rode a horse, we've got ‘horses that ain't never been rode.” We had another mild touring experience southern Utah. : 4 We came to a stalled car on a crooked and hilly road. It had tried to turn around in the road, and the front wheels got stuck in the ditch. The:engine was dead. £

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In the car were three boys. They were just sitting] there, indifferently helpless, wearing out their starter.|

They were the three least ingenious boys I've ever seen. They had no ideas whatever about what to do, and didn’t seem concerned. It was just up to somebody to get them out. And there wasn’t anybody around but me. So I got out my tow-chain, and sent one of the boys around one curve to stop cars (because we were pulling crosswise of the road). . He went reluctantly, and I never did get one of the other boys to go around the opposite curve. Fortunately, no cars came whizzing by.

They'll Learn in Time

Well, we pulled and we pulled, and wore a few dollars’ worth of rubber off my tires, and did the clutch no good, and finally got them out. . ‘ They coasted away downhill while I was getting the chain back in the tool-box. We did: receive a casual “thank you” from one boy; from the driver and the third boy, nothing at all. L They didn’t: even help unhook the tow-chain. .I began a rather violent essay to the rocks and nearby trees on the general subject of “Ingratitude.” : -But That Girl, the gentle philosopher, understands young people better than I do.. She said it was all right, the way they’d acted. Maybe not:all right, but at least perfectly normal. She said you notice they're just about 18. Up till now, they’ve always had everything done for them. Their parents have been their Good Samaritans. Now they're emerging from that blissful state, but they don’t know it yet. Very soon they’ll have to begin helping themselves; and then they’ll learn that when somebody helps them out of a predicament, it’s just that much velvet, instead of a service the world owes them, : : oh

By Heywood Broun

fest that the ruler is still a person of limited powers. Call him Duce or Fuehrer or whatsoever, he still remains a human being who cannot bind up the wounds which his own word of command may cause. I do not agree with the economic philosophy of either Hitler or Mussolini, but even if I did I would not be cajoled into any notion that this authority could justify itself against the harsh and irrevocable facts of death and slaughter. For the son who is gone there may be given a decoration, a gold star, or whatsoever, but it is within the capacity of no living man to raise from the dead the dismembered lad who has been shattered by the shrapnel. Upon the wall one may hang the scroll or ribbon, .and look upon it in the late afternoons as the twilight falls. But this token is not a thing which can possibly take the place of either son or lover. There is: not in it the warmth of the human body.

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It Concerns Us All

We are men and brothers. Against that certain fact no boundary lines may be drawn. There is no patriotism which should animate us to the same extent as our loyalty to all’ humanity. And so the word of the world should be “No!” when the bugles blow. The action of the world should be a joint and common protest. : : Is it enough to a mother to be told that her son died for Danzig? We in American cannot stand out and take the position that it is none of our business what happens across the water. It is your business and it is mine. Now is the time for all to accept leadership and to enlist in the only true struggle which should command. our complete devotion. Let us all enlist to bring about, here and now, “Peace in our time.” If we fail we shall share the . guilt of opening the wounds of One Who died to save us. This will be again a crucifixion. We cannot wash our hands or our hearts. We, too, must give ourselves to the goal of mercy for mankind.

By Raymond Clapper

amount of raw materials which the Nazis need to feed their vast munitions machine. The deal makes mockery out of all of the Bolshevik bellowing about fascism. aE : Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party, whose columns have for years shrieked against fascism said of this deal with Hitler: “It may prove a substantial step for further improvement not only of economic but also of political relations between the Soviet Union and Germany.” And within a few hours, Berlin’s announcement of the non-aggression pact made it clear that improvement of “political relations” had been part of the same deal.

U. S. Moves Recalled ’

The move would seem ‘to be more - directly to Hitler's advantage, dividing his potential enemies,

neutralizing one of the most powerful of them, and|

obtaining needed materials. Even so it sits incongruously beside the tirades against Red Bolshevism which Hitler has made in the past, although significantly, not very recently. A year ago his attack on Czechoslovakia was geared to the cry that the Czechs were tools of Moscow and that he was exterminating bolshevism at his eastern door. ; ~The significance of this move is better appreciated perhaps. in the light of our own recent course. Although we have a strong isolationist) impulse,: the Administration has tried to take some. steps “short of war” to discourage aggressors. While unable to repeal we arms embargo as another step of this sort, by Administration action, penalty duties have been im-

_ sible economic measures against Tokyo. This reflects

posed on German imports and the trade treaty with For several years Stalin has been driving sen has been denounced to clear the way tor pos-

was not actually pushed out, every discouragement wa thrown in his way. Now Stalin enters an agreement to buy 80 million dollars’ worth of foreign machinery during the next two years—Fascist machinery at that. He agrees to supply Germany with almost the same

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—I have had so many interesting books sent me in the last few days that I would like to sit down and read without stopping. Some ‘of them really take only a few minutes to appreciate. Among these is a book called: “The Songs iin of San Francisco,”swhich I think anyone going to the exposition there will enjoy having as a reminder of the trip. Then there is George Palmer Putnam's “Soaring Wings,” the greater part of which I imagine I read in the articles which came out in a magazine. There may be more in the book, however, -and I am glad: in any case to havenjt in permanent form, for thi he record of a friend one can never forget in a book to be 54 : . treasured in one’s library. Then there are three new plays which I shall read through tonight sent me by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., which is publishing for young people a series of plays desling with freedom and democracy. There is a pamphlet which describes the Nova Scotia Co-Operatives and which is published by the Co-Operative League of the U. S. These co-oper-atives are modelled on the Swedish ones and there is

.much of real helpful information in the pamphlet.

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a determination by the Administration to give all possible encouragement to Britain and France and to throw obstacles in the way of the aggressive powers. Our relations with the Axis powers are gradually contracting while Moscow’s are now expanding,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

In the people’s library, a regional library containing 1200 books, which distributes to smaller libraries, cooperative stores and credit unions in the area adJacent to Aberdeen, Caledonia and Reserve Mines, there hangs a motto which seems to me worthy: of remembrance: ‘ : Noel “There are four sorts of men: ; “He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool—shun him. “ “He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is a child—teach him. . : “He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep—wake him. ro “He who knows and knows that he knows, is wise —follow him.” ; yo 2 © Then there- is a study ‘conducted in Rockland County, New York, on “Government at Work,” which shows the relationship between every governmental agency of the county to ‘the lives of the people and. is a real contribution to the understanding of democracy. In addition to all these, several interesting books have come in; but I am still reading a novel called: “Rebecca,” by Daphne du Maurier, which I find quite charming, so I cannot yetjtell .you about other Hooks, We expected some gu@sts from Maine last night, but they had motor trouble and difficulty finding the way, so they telephoned in utter discouragement about 8:30 p. m. that they would spend the night where they were and will not reach us until noon today. :

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1. Handling figures that total in the millions of dollars

Times Photos. and seeing

that they balance to the penny is the daily job of George C. Calvert

(left), secretary-manager of the Indianapolis Clearing House.

After

the daily clearings, it is also his responsibility to adjust cash differences

between member banks of the Clearing House,

2. Busy pencils make the only noise as settling clerks figure up their banks’ check totals for the day, observing the Clearing House rule

“no talking. while clearing.”

‘3. Bank messengers pass around the clearing table and deposit

large bundles of checks with the

clerks, who are seated in alpha-

betical order according to the name of their bank.

Clearing House Handles

$3,000,000 a Day

By Earl Hoff an HE Indianapolis Clearing House is in the business of

saving shoeleather for bank clerks and time and labor

for Indianapolis banks.

“In the remarkably short time of approximately onehalf hour every day, the association sees to it that checks you cash get back to the bank where they were issued. It functions smoothly, quietly and without dramatics. During a 15-minute period every morning a total of about three million dollars worth of checks are exchanged. In

a like period in the afternoon bad. checks are re-. turned for nonpayment. On an average day when three million dollars worth of checks were exchanged in the morning, only $5000 worth “bounced” in the

afternoon.

The advantage of this organization to City banks is that it shortens into two operations necessary business transactions that might take all day. To chartists and business forecasters, the organization's daily figures are helpful in tabulating local business conditions. The association is 60 years old. Organized by city banks, it had as its: ‘first president William H. English, president of the First National Bank. W. W. Woollen of Woollen, Webb & Co. was the first secretary, and Jonathan Elliott the first manager. Today the organization is headed by Arthur V. Brown, president of the Indiana National Bank and the Union Trust Co. ohn P. Frenzel, head of the Merchants National Bank is vice president; Irving W. Lemaux, head of the Security Trust Co., is treasurer, and George C. Calvert is secre-tary-manager. a ’ = ” ”

HE Clearing House in action is a particularly impressive

sight. The transactions are almost ag The rule is no talking while clearing is going on and the only sounds are the almost inaudable ones of busy pencils. ; Eleven of the 16 banks .in the City belong to the association and each sends a settling clerk and a messenger to the organization's office on the ninth floor of the Merchants Bank Building. All are younger employees of the banks. The settling clerks take seats around a long table in alphabetical order according to their banks. The messengers unfasten large satchels they have brought with them and passing around the table derosit bundles of cancelled checks with the proper settling clerks. Their work done, the messengers take seats along the wall of the clearing roem. Each settling clerk brings with him a total of the checks his bank has sent for exchange. This is given to Mr. Calvert who is in charge of daily clearings. This figure is entered in a column alongside the bank’s name on a paper form.

After the clerk has received all the checks for the morning from the other ‘banks, he figures the difference and. tells Mr. Calvert whether his bank has received more or less in return than it

sent. If the settling clerk has received more checks than his bank

brought, the bank is listed in the debits’ balance column. If the

clerk brings to the daily clearing

more checks than the total he receives from all the other banks, his bank is listed as a creditor.

2B » VINCE, as Mr. Calvert explains,

the Clearing House starts .

every day with a total of nothing, it must end the daily transactions with the same amount. There-

“fore, he then makes out Clearing

House checks to creditor banks . against debtor banks. These checks, negotiable only between the two banks concerned, may be exchanged for cash; but the usual procedure is to charge them against the Federal Reserve funds of the debtor banks at Chicago.

With each bank having gotten rid of checks that do not belong to it and having collected its own, the daily clearing is ended. That's all there is to it. Like any efficient business organization, the Clearing House is punctual. To facilitate speedy transactions and keep to a daily schedule, fines are levied against

banks whose employees are tardy.

A $5 fine is assessed for any part of - the first five minutes a clerk or messenger is late, and $1 for every minute after that.

Buyt, you can almost set your watch by the clearing house. Fines, Mr. Calvert says, are few| and far between. : Business in the morning is always heavier than in ' the after< noon. In the morning banks exchange huge bundles of canceled checks, sometimes a foot thick and the clerks have to figure busily to

‘balance their accounts. | In the afternoon, the “rubber”

checks come back, but business is so light then there is hardly any need for this second meeting. Indianapolis people, it seems, are extremely honest in their business dealings. : tJ » ”

R. CALVERT explains that

it: is good business for Indianapolis to have a clearing house. Instead of a clerk from each bank spending a large part

- of the day trotting around be-

tween the other institutions, ond each bank making individual settlements, the leg work for clerks is almost dispensed with and paper work greatly reduced. With-

out a clearing house, exchanging .

checks would take most of the day

for banks instead: of only-about a °

half-hour. a : Two lines of small type on the

Times daily tell the story of the Clearing House. One, of course, is the clearings, or the total of all the checks exchanged during the day. The other is the debits or the total of all payments in the banks which are members of the Clearing House. Mr. Calvert cautions about trying to see a business trend for the City in a comparison of these figures from one day to another or. even from one week to another. Chartists and trend forecasters who know their business, he says, compare the figures for one pericd of one year with the same period for another. And then, they use the debits line instead of the daily clearings, for this is the more accurate measure of business in the City, he said. He relates what happened to the daily clearing figures when the Citizens Gas & Coke Co. was sold to the City several years ago. In one week the clearing figures bounded seven million dollars. That, he says, was very cone fusing to amateur trend foree casters who worked on a day-to-.day. basis.. .But, he says, it didn’t bother the professionals. They * just "worked the figures. in with their long period calculations and their results tallied with actual

financial page of The Indianapolis *

Odds and Ends

Purse ‘Greek’ to Sergeant

‘Everything’ in

Lost Pocketbooks Except Some Little Clue to Identity, Officer Moans.

in Woman's

OLICE SERGT. JACK O'NEILL opened a dainty black suede purse, pawed a moment in the interior and brought forth an astonish-

ing assortment of odds and ends and trifies. : “It’s like I say,” the sergeant remarked with a

wrinkled fore-

head, “women carry their purses everywhere they go and practically sit on ’em when they are not going somewhere.

“They. have everything in them but the kitchen stove and maybe a bridge .lamp—look at that!”

Sergt. O'Neill allowed lipstick cartridges, keys, pencil stubs, eyebrow stuff and ‘all manner of make-up tackle to sift through his fingers like sand. “There’s . everything. — everything—in most women’s purses except ‘the identification of the owner. 2 ¥ » 8 “QO what happens? So when the women stop to look at something on a department store counter they put their purses

- down: and some one either finds

them later and turns them in intact, or someone steals them. “Then they find their way to the Police Station and the property room and we try to find out who they belong to and all we find is a handful of hardware that makes the purse so heavy a woman oughtn’t to be carrying it around anyway. They ought to get a red cap to help ‘em. “But almost never is there any name in them and almost never do the women report them lost or stolen. And we sit down here at headquarters on a flock of assorted -cosmetics, keys, change -

and purses and don’t know how

bo let the owners know they are ere.” : Sergt.. O'Neill began to gather

‘the gadgets and put them back

in the purse. It looked for a minute as though he would’t get them all back but some cagey planning made things come out even,

“YJ GOT a wife and some daughters and I know all about how ‘women take care of their purses. They. either guard them

with their- lives or let ‘em lie )

around. Maybe a single initial

engraved on the snapper or. something like that. And I've been preaching for women to identify their purses for years.” He put the little black purse back. 2 “Sergeant, do your womenfolk identify their purses?” The sergeant snapped a padlock and started to roll a cigaret. “Right now,” he said, “I'm pretty busy.”

4-H CLUBS HONOR ROSEMARY MILLER

A dress revue and tea will be held

at the Perry Township High School|

tomorrow afternoon in honor of Miss Rosemary Miller, twice Marion County 4-H Club dress revue champion, who lives in Perry Township. Miss Miller is to model the dress which captured the championship in the annual dress revue held recently at Ayres’ auditorium. Miss Miller also won the championship last year. Seventy-six other 4-H Club members are to model dresses they made this summer as part of their club work. Parents and friends are in-

|vited to the program, which will be {held between 2 and 4 p. m., spon-

sored by the East Edgewood, West

Edgewood and Southport Home-|

makers Clubs.

Mrs. Anthony Ackerman, West

| Edgewood Club president, is pro-| w,

gram chairman. She will be assisted by Mrs. Bertha Minnick, East Edgewood Club president, and Mrs. Robert McMillin, ‘Southport Club

BIDS RECEIVED ON HOWE SCHOOL WING

Contracts for building a new wing at Thomas Carr Howe High School are expected to be awarded at the School Board's next meeting Tuesday night. Bids were ‘opened at a special meeting yesterday noon and a

tion were $115,593 by the Service Construction Co.; $112911 by the William P. Jungclaus Co., and $129,750 by the J. L. Simmons Co. Bids also were received for heating and ventilating, plumbing and electrical installation.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-In what year was the Panama Canal officially opened for commerce? Ye 2—Name the softest and most malleable of the common metals. 3—Who was recently named by President Roosevelt to succeed Frank R. McNinch as a * member of the Federal Conimunications Commission? 4—What is the name of the. French barrier of forts against Germany? 5—Where is the Amu-Darya River? ; 6—What is the name of the. small reptile that can change its color? » # »

Answers 1—1914. 2—Lead

3—James L. Ely. 4—The Maginot Line. : 5—Central Asia. -. 6—=Chameleon.

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ETERSBURG,. Ind, Aug. .23

(U. P.)—John Killin, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Killion, was recovering today from an episode which’ probably

will make him wary of ‘buttons. °°

Spying what he .believed to ‘be. some buttons in his home yesterday, little John followed the tried and true baby custom of eating them. They turned out to be ant poison. His mother called a physician and antidotes relieved the child of all but the memory.

"The ‘1940 regional convéntion of the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle will be ‘held in - Indianapolis next spring, Mrs. May Beaver, state mane

turn from a regional committee meeting in Detroit, Mich. Approximately 1500 members are expected to attend from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, the states com= prising this region. The convention will last five days and national offie cers of the society will attend, Mrs, Beaver said. Dates of the convene tion are to be announced later.

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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is Mopey Duke yo "I"like summer: best, Theres nothin’ to occupy. your mind with

in the winter,"

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