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FIFTY MOUNTAIN TENT CAMP, GLACIER PARK, Mont, Sept. 2—When you are in the northern end of Glacier Park it is just like deing in Alaska. The weather it chilly. You are isolated. People are few. Evervbody knows evervbody else. ‘The ocoksional traveler is the only line of F Re ? communication between camps. L \ At one camp you discuss the people at other camps, and people on the trail shead of you. You know that Willie Bennett lost the bacon from his supply train; vou know who found it; you'll know the Franger party from San Francisco when you meet them; you know the dudes have had to help chop wood &t one camp; vou know Indian Joe is coming up the trail today, leading & horse. Fifty Mountain Tent Camp is the most isolated of all the camps in Glacier Park. When the supply pack train winds down over the pass on Sunday evenings on its weekly trip, the horses have already come 35 miles EJ » n

Meets Mother of Local Man

The “staff” at Fifty consists of three women and a voung man. The lone male is a young Montang medical student. Ray Howard, and he splits enough balsam firewood In one summer to melt the North Pole. The three women are from Minneapolis. Mrs. Effie Powell is the manager. She is & schoolteacher. She has two grown sons—one 8 lawver in southern Minnesota. the other, Richard, assistant manager of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra The cook is Viola Mart, a friend of the world, gay end jokev and full of little philosophies of the every-thing-will-turn-out-all-right school. She is an executive in the Minneapolis schools Bernice Peterson is the laundress. All jobs have nicknames out here. The laundress iz the “bundle queen.” This is Bernices first summer here, but al-

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, Sept. 2—-To me, consistency never has seemed the most precious of all jewels. This is not said in defense of dervishes who whirl continuously. But a man has a right to change his mind. He should also have a reason. Generally speaking, he ought to caucus with his own conscience. But if there are others who are interested in his conclusions for any cause he does owe them an explanation. I am making a distinction between the consistent career and the logical one. They may not be similar. New facts, new occurences, new emotions may cause a man to desert a previi ously prepared position. But 3 consistency in the sense of following some established line, come what may, Is surely less logical. - If anybody cared—and I doubt it—I believe I could go over past columns, speeches and proclamations of my own and prove that the fellow in question, who said one thing and then took it back, in whole or in part. had not sold out or done a somersault. In lawn tennis. at in life, a player is a sucker if he hasn't tried to develop a backhand as well as a forehand drive, » » Ny

He Should Make Up His Mind

But what 1 am chiefly interested in is the immunity enjoved up till now by Adolf Hitler. The head

easily 2: one dials an electric fan. Among all the statesmen of the world he is the most perfacily air conditioned For instance, 1 distinctly remember the tribute he paid to Poland and its leadership just before the Munich pact. At that time the Czechs were ruffians, wholly devoid of civilization. The Poles, on the other hand, were second in culture only to the Germans, Within & vear the Peclish people have become barbarians who must accept the protectorate of the enlichted Nazis Even greater has been the switch of the German

Washington

By Ernie Pyle

ready they know her up and down the trails as & “right” girl, who fits in. Back in Minneapolis, she is & secretary in the school offices. Ten months of the vear these three women are city people, educators, career women. But two months of the year they step into a world apart, a world of pioneering. They are the type who can do things. They can cook and scrub, they can chop wood or put up a stove, they csn walk 20 miles a day or shoo away & bear. = = »

Fortune in Coffee Grounds

As at Granite the night before, T was the lone guest at Fifty Mountain. Just me and Willie Bennett, the supply train cowboy. After supper we lit the gasoline lamp, and kept throwing wood in the tin stove in the main tent, and sat there talking till 11 o'clock. Viola Marti (everybody calls her Marti) tells fortunes with coffee grounds, just for fun. So we had a fortune-telling evening. She got pretty personal with Willie and me, too. She told me that I didn't take long hikes like this because I enjoved the physical sensation of walking, but because I liked to be out alone. And that is true She said that as I walked I did a great deal of dav-dreaming and picture-thinking. That is right also, I guess. For when I walk alone, I am quite & hero. 1 win auto races, anda come back from the wars very sad-looking and with one arm shot oft, and mv

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column runs in 700 papers and even the savages in darkest Ahern Pass there's not 8 soul to tell me I'm a liar,

Africa know who IT am. And out there on |

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And Marti said that, mainly, walking gave me a |

great sense of power, Perhaps | better word would be a sense of superiority.

I love to he able to do things that my friends can- |

not do. And there are not many among &ll my | friends who could walk a8 dozen miles & day over these rocky trails and keep on doing it for two days and | three days and four days. | Yes, I guess Marti is right, Tt gives the little man 8 sense of bigness. Isn't it too bad T don't just keep | on walking, forever, out here where I'm King?

By Heywood Broun

press in regard to certain individuals. Chamberlain, on & Tuesday morning, may be a brutal representative of Perfidious Albion and in the final seven-star edition a British philosopher of distinguished attainments and one of the most humane prime ministers on the face of the globe. Mussolini is great and good, and he has had a magnificent press in Germany. But if his foot slips off the Axis for no more than a split second it will be interesting to see what the writers of the Reich will do to Benito. Up till now Adolf has been singularly successful in making the minds of his subjects move in goosestep. But I hope that he has introduced an idea which in the long run may overthrow him. When

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Nearing the Saturation Point

Upon the surface it would seem that his hold over | the German people remained profound. But, after] all, they have taken a lot of training in the art of} accepting the fact that “The old gray mare—she |

ain't what she used to be.” |

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switched completely around once, twice and even | thrice. But there is a saturation point where the] dancing mice grow a little dizzy and begin to seek | straight lines. In the long run humankind will find the shortest distance between two points. A multitude can be taught to cheer for peace one day and the next day for war, but when the steps become too intricate there is a disposition to say, | “What does this Hitler think we're made of?” A leader may change his arm band or the color] of his plume on numerous occasions, but there comes a time when his devoted followers will insist that he keep his shirt on. Adolf cannot continue to play all sides against | the middle. Sooner or later—and sooner would be

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meme wenn 81,29 Civil City Tax Rate Assured in 1940 Budget

By Raymond Clapper

hl | Animals, Too | Roscoe Turner Seeking

London Zoo Destroys All Poison Snakes

Flying School Site Here

A 1940 Civil City tax of $1.29, one cent below the $1.30 rate proposed but is glued where it should be, to practical, | 27 the Administration and the current rate, will be formally approved | hard-headed consideration of our own best inter- | °Y City Council Monday night. ests. By that standard, as ‘We shake down the situ-| Adoption of the rate was assured last night when Council slashed ation, we ‘come to the conclusion that while it is a | $10,399.03 from the $8,040,691.51 requested by the Administration. Added better world for us if the British Empire Yemains | to a $40,628 saving in public lighting costs anticipated next year, Couni _icil's reduction would make possible | |

Col. Roscoe Turner's proposal for how much money would be in | the establishment of a private fly- volved in the proposed project or ne ue ol of ron what financial basis Col. Turner "seeks to deal with the City. How= DOT vas under consideration by the ever, it also was reported that his Works Board today. (proposal includes a retuest to sell

Col. Turner, nationally known] li nd other plane engine luspeed pilot, made the proposal to the JE aa0 Sl Yer pis 8

Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. | Board ‘members examined the The Works Board recently SN oontrast under which the Central aside more than 50 acres of the ssrsnautical Corp., is now operat-1000-acre field for future industrial | jo at the airport, and expressed sites, |unofficial opinion that the corporaIn addition, according to the ijon has exclusive rights for the plans submitted to Myron Green, C. sale of gasoline to transient planes of C. industrial secretary, Col. gnq servicing of craft other than

Turner seeks permission to set up & those operated by scheduled aire | plane service agency. [14

lines, Board members favored industrial| rhe Central Aeronsutical cone expansion at the airport, but re- tract expires March 1, 1940.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 —Unfortunately, those That policy is neither cowardly nor Messianic! who a few months ago said the Administration was drumming up a European war scare to take .this country’s mind off of the failures of the New Deal, and that Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Hull were unnecessarily alarmed as to the chances of war in Europe, have their answer now. However, no useful purpose is served. Indeed the reverse, by raking up that better-to-be-for-

And Spiders.

ONDON, Sept. 2 (U. P).—All venemous snakes, black widow spiders, bird-cating spiders, scorpions and other dangerous in=sects of the London Zoo fell victims to war today. They were destroyed during the night, and it was planned, if Britain went to war today, to destroy all non-venomous snakes, The only inmates of the Reptile House given the chance to live, if bombs did not get them, were George, the centenarian alligator;

on top, the necessity of preserving that situation is! ; . not sufficiently pressing to warrant heavy expendi-| > net saving of $51,027.03 or 1 cent tact as were the requests for the

ture of American lives. That was exactly the situation OO the City’s estimated valuation. finance departments. in the previous war, but we became swept by emo- | Eight cuts were made as Coun-| The actual amount to be raised tion, over-estimated the importance of what was at|Cilmen spea through the budget, by the $1.29 levy, as approved by gotten episode. Nothing is to Stake and leaped in. (completing their work after seven Council, is $6,678,740.27, compared to be accomplished by citing Re- | If the foregoing outline of our national position | nights of deliberations. Largest $6,669,139.30 requested by the Ad- | publicans and anti-Admistration 5 kept firmly in mind during the coming days it Was the elimination of a $5000 re- ministration. None of the gas tax Democrats for their refusal to Should help not only in better understanding the sig- quest in the City Hospital budget items was touched. repeal the arms embargo, as Dificance of Washington's moves, but it ought to help for maintenance of a smallpox bar- | Mr. Roosevelt did the other dav keep us from losing our balance. racks.

————————— | : 3 Eo Just because the Administration decides to haze | | A DED 10 FACULTY when Re SE He i ulietion the Germans by imposing a red-tape iaspection of | Ottis RETucHoNS A1i%e | ; Boas the Bremen to delay her departure, just because Mr.| A Works Board request for a |

present tragic state of affairs across the Atlantic. : Those differences were better buried now in a common effort, first to keep the United States out of the conflict, and second, to cushion, as effectively as possible, the impact of the struggle upon our life and economy. .

Roosevelt makes a gesture of disapproval in Ger-

gins, no one is warranted in concluding that we are getting ready to go inte war. utterance at his press conference, within a few hours

mechanic to service 30 new trucks | many's direction by accepting the resignation of Was eliminated, saving $1820; the Hugh R. Wilson, our ambassador tc Germany, with- Municipal Garage gasoline request in a few hours after Hitler's assault on Poland be- Was cut $525; $100 was lopped off

the Street Commisisoner's requested | A staff of 69, including seven new

Shelby St.

Mr. Roosevelt's first $250 for power and light at the barns;

was cut

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members, will comprise the faculty |

Chinese alligators, Kodo dragons and the Zoo's two biggest pythons, which already have been securely packed in stout wooden boxes. Numerous rare animals have

fused to commit themselves on this | {Dr Spotl until they learned more de BRITISH CONVICTS FREED { The Board requested that Mr. | Green ask Col. Turner to come to] | Indianapolis for discussion of his proposal. I. J. Dienhart, airport

LONDON, Sept. 2 (U. P)—Nu~ merous short-term prisoners were released from Pentonville Prison to-

This Government's position iz plain. Time and been evacuated to Whipsnade Zoo | . . . ah + (superintendent, who is in Cleveland in the country, where every effort | “oiiang the National Air Races, is made to put animals in an ap- said before leaving vesterday that proximation of their natural he would see Col. Turner there. | habitat. |

Mr.

. S B after hostilities began, was an expression of his de- from the request for a new truck, of the Indiana University extension | again it has been outlined here and it is, by all in- termination to do everything possible to keep us out at the Dog Pound; the Health De- center here during the coming term, dications, an accurate reflection of the real instincts of war. |partmeni’s request for $1384.03 for Miss Mary B. Orvis, executive secre- | of the American people. » ® wn la rat elimination expert was : . . 8 vi ova » eliminated: $100 was ‘cut from the tary, announced today. Let's Stick to Facts : : \

Consider Our Own Best Interests |Child Hygiene division's printing) New members wil linclude Dr. At that press conference. Mr. Roosevelt expressed

day because of the likelihood of war, Plans were completed to evacuate long-term prisoners from | Pentonville to prisons outside Lon=Green would not disclose don.

and smaintenance expenses, and Sunder Joshi, University of Chicago That position. is brief, regards Hitler as an in-

ternational bandit, is sympathetic to Great Britain end France, recognizes that the long-range interests of the British Empire run parallel in important respects with our own national interests, favors giving the breaks to Britain and France and against Germany wherever possible, and is determined at the same time to keep out of war.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday—At 5 o'clock this morning our telephone rang and it was the President in Washington to tell me the sad news that Germany had invaded Poland and that her planes were bombing Polish cities. He told me that Hitler was about to address the Reichstag. so we turned on the radio and listened until 6 o'clock. Curiously enough, I had received a letter on my return last evening from a German friend who roomed with me in school in England. In this letter she said that when hate was rampant in the world, it was easy to beileve harm of any nation, that she knew all the nations believed things that were not true about Germany, did not understand her position, and therefore hated her. She begged that we try to ee Germany's point of view and not to judge her arshly.

the hope that the press would stick as closely as

ssible to facts. He said h i {tion department's request for repo 321d Fe hoped ‘Aliso ‘What the pair parts and general supplies.

public would do the same. That, it seems to me, is a timely reminder and one essential for all of us, in whatever walk of life, to keep steadily in mind. Too soon the flood of propaganda and emotions will be tugging at our sym-| pathies,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

group—not only Jews, but Christians, who have long been German citizens. Can one help but question his integrity? knowledge of history seems somewhat sketchy for, after all, Poland possessed Danzig many years | prior to the time that it ever belonged to Germany. And how can ycu say that you do not intend to make war on women and children and then send planes to bomb cities? No, I feel no bitterness against the German people. I am deeply sorry for them, as I am for the people of all other European nations facing this horrible crisis. But for the man who has taken this responsibility upon his shoulders I can feel little pity. It is hard to see how he can sleep at night and think of the people in many nations whom he may send to their deaths. I can hardly believe that I actually met the steamer “George Washington” yesterday morning, saw my mother-in-law and Johnny and Anne leafe

His |

$510 was snipped from the collec- jecturer; Dr. Clausin D. Hadley, as-

Council will adopt an amend-

sistant nrofessor of economics at I. |U.; Bernard W. Miller, instructor of

ment to the budget ordinance for physical education for men at I. U.; each slash and pass the legislation | Mrs. Bessie F. Swan, I. U. instructor

addition, it

jon to the Adjustment Board. request Mayor nursing; Henry H. Remak, instruc-

will

In and supervisor of

public

health

Reginald H. Sullivan to send a let- Itor in German; Frank S. Stafford,

ter to the Board explaining the

light reduction.

Dispute Minor Items The light reduction would be

made possible by Council’s accep- | tance of the bid of the Indianapolis

Ropkey,

budget was

budget

|save the City $40,628 annually. Left to their own devices by the too. absence of the Mayor and City Con- ' [troller James E. Deery, Councilmen wrangled over minor items. occasion Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, charged that Ernest C. chairman, denying him the right to speak. Mr. Campbell charged that the padded” cited the supplies requests in the garbage department as an example. “What we ought to have,” said Mr. Campbell, “is a Councilmanic investigation of these items. at that item for putty, for instance. Ten cents a pound for putty is ridiculous. The whole budget’s like that.”

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115 to be offered.

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Look | an enrollment of 1400.

New rules require

state bureau of health and physical education, and Dr. Robert G. Stephens, I. U. phi-

Eleven new courses will be among

TEACHERS’ COLLEGE TO START TOTH YEAR

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 2—A three-day orientation program for freshmen starting Sept. 11 will begin the 70th academic year at Indiana State Teachers’ College. Upperclassmen wiil register Sept. 14. Registrar Harry E. Elder expects

students to take courses in two Of the three Relds of philosophy, art and music

the boat and, with Mrs. John M. Franklin, who had| The proposed elimination of the | and at least two courses in social

been a passenger and who wanted to go to Newport $2500 Mayor's contingent fund Wwas| studies,

according to J. E. Grin-

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In architecture, what is a dormer? 2—What is a statoscope? 3—Name the rivers that join to form the Missouri River, 4 With what sport is the name of Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan associated? 5-—~Name the third President of the U. S. 6—In which states does the Governor not have the power of veto?

»n ” » Answers

1—A projection from a sloping roof, containing a window. 2—An instrument for detecting slight changes of altitude in an aircraft. 3—Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin. 4—Tennis. 5—Thomas Jefferson. 6—North Carolina is the only one,

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As 1 listened to Hitler's speech, this letter kept returning to my mind. How can you feel kindly toward a man who tells you that German minorities have been brutaily treated, first in Czechoslovakia and then in Danzig, but that never can Germany be accused of being unfair to a minority? 1 have seen evidence with my own eyes of whgt this same

News, Va., for the christening of the “S. S. America,” not approved. The budget was ap- |néll, dean &f instruction. took off at 9:15 in a plane for Neport News. We proved by departments by voice vote| Facully changes include the apreached there in ample time and the ceremonies and while minority members occa- | pointment of ‘Grover S. VanDuyn went off without a hitch. | sionally refrained from voting, they | former assistant state superintendI spent an hour and a half in Washington with did not oppose majority suggestions. ent of public: instruction, as busimy husband and reached Hyde Park again at 7:45 The entire Safety and Park De- ness manager to succeed George for dinner with my guests. Quile a full day. partment budgets were approved in- C, Cole,

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