Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1939 — Page 9

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| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939

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Hoosier Vagabond

CLE ELUM, Wash., Sept. 16.—For a long time your correspondent has had it in his head he'd like to go on a horseback packing trip inte the mountains. The kind, you know, where you sleep on the ground under the bright, clean stars; and bathe in mountain streams; and learn to take care of your own horse; and bask in that delicious aroma of frying eggs-and-bacon on a crisp morning. Well, were just back from a four-day horse-packing trip into the high Cascade Mountains. Everything along the above mentioned line turned out all right except. . . . We forgot to take any eggs; the mountain streams were so cold I didn't even wash my face for four days, let alone bathe; I caught my death of cold sleeping on the ground; and as for the horses—well, horses have been repulsive to me since I was 6 years old, and they still are. _ But don't let me alarm you. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

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Guest of Uncle Sam

_ The reason I've waited so long to make a trip like this is that it's so expensive. If you take such a trip in the National Parks, or from one of the Western dude ranches, it will cost you about $15 a .day. So I just waited, and finally along came this nice trip for nothing. It was on the Government. Me and Uncle Sam are just like that, you know.

There were four of us on the trip: Gilbert Brown, supervisor of the Wenatchee National Forest: Bill MacDonald, the Forest's superintendent of construction; an old friend of mine named Rufus Woods, who Is publisher of The Wenatchee World, and myself. Supervisor Brown makes two or three of these Nps a year into his Forest, to see how things are locking. So he just rustled an extra horse, and took

It Seems to Me

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—“Could I have a mousetrap, please?” I asked. The old gentleman who was fussing around with a2 couple of wires and a hammer did not put his tools down upon the instant. This gave me a chance to wipe the blood off my face, which had been rather badly cut by the thorms and brambles of the wilderness. The master workman adjusted his specs and said, “I guess you found it rather heavy going getting here to my little place.” “Yes,” I answered, “I must have lost the path. There wasn't any sign of a road at all.” “Path,” chuckled the skilled artist mirthlessly: “there isn't even a cow track.” Naturally I was surprised, and instinctively IT quoted from Emerson, or whoever said it, “If a man can make a better mousetrap the world will beat a pathway to his door, even though it lie in the trackless forest”—or words to that effect. “It's stuff and nonsense,” he told me. “You're the first customer who's been here in 10 years. In fact, I don’t want ‘em. They interfere with my work.” “But,” I objected, “that is a mousetrap, isn't it?”

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Of Mice and Men

He fondled the model lovinglyland answered, “It is, indeed. That's the finest mousetrap in the world. It’s the best one I ever made.” “Maybe,” I suggested, “it was your lesser mousetraps that the public wanted. Perhaps 50 years ago they beat a pathway to your door.” This time he fairly snorted with petulance. “I told vou once already, stranger, that the pathway thing is just a lie. I've been a hermit all my life. Mousetraps don’t sell on merit. If you want to sell mousetraps you've got to buy machines to make ‘em. You can't pay any attention to the product yourself. To be a tycoon in the mousetrap field you've got to sit outside the tent and beat a drum and think

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Senator Borah has

outlined the ground upon which the fight will be ' mace

in Congress to prevent repeal of the arms embargo. To abandon the embargo as is desired by the Administration would, Senator Borah says, constitute intervention in the war. Thus he makes the issue one of intervention. The Senator refrained from mentioning nations by name, saving that the Administration wished to repeal the embargo to enable this Government to furnish arms to one side (Britain and France) and to withhold them from the other (Germany). “The proposal for repeal.” he said, “is based upon the program of taking sides in the furnishing of arms. . . . When we couple the repeal with the announced and declared program of furnishing arms and munitions to one side and withholding them from the other, such program will unquestionably constitute intervention in the present conflict in Europe.” This intervention to furnish arms might be followed by intervention in the form of troops, the Senator suggested. In short, the Administration is accused of proposing not neutrality but intervention that might

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Hull Memorandum Recalled

The Administration holds that the present law is unneutral and that true neutrality requires repeal of the embargo. The case was stated by Secretary Hull in a memorandum transmitted to Congress by President Roosevelt July 14. Secretary Hull argues that the arms embargo interposes an artificial barrier which alters the natural

My Day

GREENVILLE, 8. C., EN ROUTE, Fridav.—By the time we reached the train last night, we really had a fairly full day. After writing you yesterday, I went to the tea at Governor and Mrs. Dixon's and had the pleasure of greeting the members of the State Legislature who closed their session on Sept. 15. One of the interesting things about being m different parts of the country is the opportunity to read local newspapers. You soon discover what foreign or national news has an interest for the editors of these papers, but the really valuable education for the visitor lies in getting in touch with the local interests. For instance, Alabama has a new parole board on which they have a woman member. I was interested to meet her yesterday afternoon after reading about her in the paper. After the tea we went out to have an informal dinner with Col. and Mrs. Murfee, passing through fields of cotton where the pickers were busy. It is a pretty sight and I wish we could have spent more

SRE. Rae

By Ernie Pyle

me along. I weigh only 100 pounds and hardly ever eat anything, so it really didn't cost the Government much. We each had a horse to ride, and there were two extra pack horses carrying our grub and sleeping! bags. The horses had “U. S.” branded on their hips, and made us feel very official. We started our trip late in the afternoon and rode only seven miles the first day. We covered 14 miles the second day, 12 the third, and wound it up the fourth morning with a little seven-mile ride. Forty miles in all, which isn't much as the crow flies, but I am not a crow and do not wish to be one. We were, I assure you, in primitive country. For three days we were completely out of touch with the world and never saw a soul. We were in places where the deer collect the taxes, and a mountain goat thinks he's as good as a white man. Personally, I felt like the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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He Scared Himself

When we finished the trip, I was the dirtiest human being you ever laid your eyes on. I had been putting on a kind of salve to keep off mosquitoes. The dust that rose from the trail settled on this salve and made sort of a facial mud-pack. When I looked in the mirror at the end of the trip I was scared and yelled for help. On a packing trip each person has his little household duties to perform. Since there are any number of things I don't know how to do, my chores automatically fell into the list of things I could do, which turned out to be as follows: Unsaddle all the horses; gather firewood: unroll the sleeping bags: help wash the dishes, and toss | in an odd chore or two like peeling a potato or hunt- | ing for the can opener. { After four days of this, it is my conclusion that pack-tripping is a wonderful sport. but could be considerably improved upon by the addition of a furnace. a bathroom. a nice coffee shop and a couple of dependable hired men to do the work. This would only require about 100 extra pack horses, and would be money well spent, as I see it.

“Prices are immediately affected by war and will continue to be affected.”

The War and Your Pocketbook— Prices Rise at Start of Conflict

By John T. Flynn | (Written for NEA Service) { EW YORK, Sept. 16.—The European conflict will make jobs and profits in some places and reduce jobs | and profits in other places. So total employment in the | United States will not be increased by the war in the first six months and, perhaps, the first year. Prices, however, are immediately affected by war and will continue to be affected. The causes of the price rises are not at all complicated and rest on well-known human reactions. Take for instance, a commodity like hides.

Prices of hides at Chicago soared 100 points in | a day. Immediately tanners decided it would be unwise to sell at the current prices and promptly bottled up the supply. It is the most natural thing in the world for the hide trade, which has had plenty of trouble since the last war, now that it sees a hope of selling its product at higher prices, to hold on to its stocks until the prices get high enough. And the very act of holding on gives a further boost to the price. !

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By Heywood Broun

up advertising slogans such as ‘The Pied Piper was | a sucker; he didn't have a Malcolm. It satisfies | everybody but the mouse.” And then you've got to! take newspaper advertising and go on the air with a | jazz band, a blues singer and two comics. I hate | radio and jazz and comics. I like mousetraps. That's! why I never sell any.” He took the model and placed it on the floor near | the window. For the first time I noticed that every | strand of wire was of a different color. “Look,” said the old man. ‘See haw the sun plays | on it. And look at the shape of it, round as a hill and just as much alive as any river.” “But in a cellar,” I protested, “there isn't much | sunlight. And maybe the mice don’t care about the | architectural perfection, It's the cheese theyre after.” | “Sure.” he said, ‘it’s just the same with mice and men. They want the golden stuff which satisfies | the belly. My traps are made for the satisfaction of | my soul.”

LJ u » An Appreciative Audience |

This time I proffered money. head. “My traps are not for sale,” he explained. “I make them for posterity. If a man makes a better | mousetrap the world will stay away from his door | in droves, but they will beat a pathway to his grave. | After I'm gone these traps of mine will stand as | ornaments on every mantel. I don’t want to hurry | b you. young feilow, but I must get on with my work. | 3 3 y = 8 Tomorrow I may make an even better mousetrap.” | : HE war immediately affected the prices of w ai o Di ak ] found ‘that the Felt things like copper, hides, leather, woolen and “Really.” I exclaimed, I had no idea the thorns worsted goods, burlap, woodpulp, chemicals and { and brambles were quite as thick as all that in the | drugs—and for various reasons. Some were affected because foreign forest.” : supplies were cut off. Some were affected because of rising demand He laughed in high good humor. “Not brambles Wi foreign Oe doubtless, steel, manufactured metal » 3 . oF \ : } | products, etc., wi e affected. rn ap a. THe See, Stranger. The Farmers think they can hold their wheat for the big European

house is full of 'em. Theyre my audience. They're : ’ the ones that have beat the pathway to my door demand and the same is true of hogs and other meats and some foods. A n All prices, of course, are not

through the trackless forest. They take things on : : faith without listening fo the radio, and that’s why Se) But so Hafuns a price I sit all day and build ‘em little palaces.” TNE 3 JS Jrrurrse m eeérwin articles is more or less infectious

| and prices have tended to move | up all along the line. They should, except in certain articles, adjust themselves.

By Raymond Clapper in

But he shock his

Mr. Flynn

the whole economic system from these price rises. Likewise business should exercise some self-re-straint. Another serious matter is the danger that the war and the war scares—added by the foolish propaganda for the proposition that | “we are bound to get in"—will further cripple our building industry. In the face of the threat of war, men will be chary about investment or long term commitments of any sort. The best service that could be done to business now— and to every man who works for wages or profits—would be a ringing declaration from the Government that the United States is going to stay out of this war. |

HIS is a matter of grave importance to the ordinary citizen. A general boost in prices is equivalent to a corresponding reduction in his wages. And in this way the war in these first two weeks has reached into the pecket of every citizen. But this has a more serious aspect. If the price rise is not curbed, it will do to us what it did in 1936 when foolish manufacturers and dealers put up prices and choked off the small recovery that was then under way. The Government

positions of the present belligerents. His point is that Britain and France, by controlling ! the seas, have a natural advantage in obtaining arms| and supplies over Germany. If we have no embargo, ! then we have no responsibility for that difference in| advantage between the two sides. But when we apply | an embargo which equalizes that difference, then “the responsibility of this country for the creation of the condition is direct and clear,” says Secretary Hull.| That is unneutral interference with the natural ad-| vantage which one side possesses. | So, in the name of neutrality, we have Secretary! Hull and Senator Borah advocating opposing courses

with regard to the embargo. NEXT—The war and curren-

must protect cies.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tary. |

.... U.S. to Check on State’s

ponents.

Allison Gets Most

LEGION PREPARES

» n » Berlin Danger Source To add airplanes and military suppl shipments of copper and wheat does not seem a very | ° 7 | important additional step and no different at all in! I d { l principle. There seems nc logical reason then why the d n us r a repa ry eaness whole business should nct be placed on the same! footing—all on a cash and carry basis. - But logic does not always decide votes. The oppo- Times Special | sition will picture this as a step toward war and the WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—A report on Indiana's industrial preAdministration will try to demonstrate that it is not. paredness in the event the United States should become involved in On the relative plausibility of the opposing cases war, is to be made here Ozt. 9 by Maj. Fred M. Fogle of the Jeffersonpublic sentiment probably will take its position and ville Quartermaster Depot. Cahisiess will be moved by that, plus a good deal of | Maj. Fogle will be one of 50 such supply officers to make reports on underground pressure in behalf of allowing American | industrial preparedness. | manufacturers to enjoy the prosperity of war con-| According to the War Depart- Machine Co. Elkhart, screw ma- | tracts. Ce : 'ment industrial mobilization plan, 16 ‘chine, $6632.40; Logansport Ma- | As to the dange; of our being involved In war, Indiana plants will supply the Navy chine, Inc., Logansport, bench | Oe talen. Gener = a dalaiing but J Wiig and 268 the Army with material. |presses, $143390, and hydraulic| 3 3 : : Ss no indication ! cee : . " ri achi 431,779 nd | i . 3 Cap Fifty-six Indianapolis concerns shavings machine, $31,779, and French. That atitude is not HKG to be changeq eV WaT orders” but the names or Standard Dry Kiln Co. Tndianap- : i : {types of supplies will not be dis- olis, equipment, $6632.40. except by acts of Germany which would inflame! - American opinion to a sufficient extent. Berlin, | 0° wader War Deperyment. rules. jie: Joie SRyiins Ouhigrans does with respect to 10-Billion Budget NAME WALKER HEAD ® Ympare0, 1 Wie Source of Walken | An estimate of $315,000,000 in war | orders in Indiana is based on the | OF TOMATO GROUP state's share of a 10 billion-dollar | Stitt war budget of which seven billion | Samuel B. Walker, general com- | dollars will be spent for new manu- mittee chairman for the All-Indiana | factures. including those from the Tomato Show held here Aug. 29,| |284 plants in the state. ‘has been elected president of the Indiana products iisted by the|Indiana Tomato Tournament, Inc. | : : 5 Cis War Department in its industrial] Other officers elected yesterday Yon ne i the Yuideer A on his mobilization plan include automo- at a meeting in the Indianapolis a ha oS a me ey are i eT “fMive and airplane motors, ship- Chamber of Commerce offices are ie € 2 herd of Angus cattle an TOW building, common and barbed wire. Horace E. Abbott, Marion County a - (trucks, armored cars, field hospital | agricultural agent, vice president; i] ho Wii hd ine Jue non ner | furniture, stoves and ranges, uni-| Samuel Mueller, promotion and exI hor oy Ho : hw ure, a ry Pig R | forms, chemicals, tentage, machine tension director for the Chamber Nachman. Dread. Pn on a Pa " Oh it ' “tools, fire control apparatus, steel of Commerce, secretary-treasurer, Rr TN ices T oon ener ASSOCIA® and electrical products, combat and A. A. Irwin, assistant County | The flowers which are doar: in profusion we | Tages, Failtved Sars, a terics, (arieuitural- agent, assistant, seereevery Southern home make me rather envious. Ere SOOGs Wl SUIBUAIVOR cof This trip has reminded me of an article by Donald Culross Peattie, in the New York Times Magazine. To be sure he writes of the whole United States and With the exception of the 18 mil- | | urges us as we visit our world’s fairs at the opposite lion dollars’ worth of orders given), FOR 21ST CONCLAVE! ends of the nation to get some idea of what we could | Allison Engineering Corp., nein. | is see at all times—in New England, in the Middle West, 'apolis, for its high-speed liquid- | : : bn & y : ’| ; : | Fifteen members of the National in the Far West, in the North and in the South. cooled airplane motors, Indiana con- | 4 eadquarters staff of the American |

He writes of our marvelous scenery and the birds and cerns have not shared greatly in the : beasts which we (00 often take for granted. | preparedness program thus far. Foi gin i De Agia BR. Same); In every city where I have been, my attention has| Other Army contracts which have morrow for Chicago, where they will been drawn to the fact that this is National Retail been made in the state include: | make preparations for the national Demonstration week, and the retailers are certainly, Marmon - Harrington, Indianap- Legion convention opening Sept. 23. putting their best foot foremost. They are showing olis, trucks, $51,129092: Hall Optical| Ten members of the auxiliary | their confidence in the common sense of the con-!Co., Indianapolis, glass lenses, $8680; | staff will also temporarily move the sumers by giving them an opportunity to see new Meyers & Sons Manufacturing, Inc.,| national headquarters to Chicago styles and new goods at an early season, ° ‘Madison, leggings, $56,960; Foster| for the 21st annual convention,

“Farmers think they can hold their wheat for the big European demand.”

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ARMY SURVEYS

FLOOD PROJECT

White

Right of-Way in River Control Area Is Charted by Engineers.

Preliminary surveys on the $500,control | . | project on White River's east ven $5000 FIRE BLAMED

(are under way, it was announced today at headquariers of U. S. Army |

000 U. S. Army flood

engineers here, Engineers

week, he said.

are surveying rights {of way acquired by the Marion {County Flood Control Board, ac-| {cording to A. E. Allen, superin- 13-year-old boys on an overnight | |tendent of construction. The Army fishing trip apparently caused a fire |

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Electric Light

Burns

—— | ISS NORMA SCHUMACHER, | 831 Parker Ave., who tried to | turn off an eleciric light while | taking a bath, was in Methodist i Hospital

today urns.

She was given first aid by police | and her famiiy physician.

"WHITE WING AT ‘CIRCLE FAVORED

Suggested by Civic Pride | “Group as Means to Keep | Downtown Clean.

Bather

suffering from

The Works Board had under cone

|sideration today a number of suge gestions from the Civic Pride Come mittee on how to keep downtown streets free from rubbish. The suggestions were made in a

ON GARELESSNESS conference with Mayor Reginald H.

|Sullivan, who turned them over to |the Board for action. Among the

Careless use of matches by two Suggestions was the assignment of a

| will advertise for bids late next which destroyed three barns and] {several outbuildings early today on!

full-time “white wing” to the Circie and radiating streets. | The committee, made up of representatives from 13 large civic organ izations, pointed out that flushing

Plans for the project, designed tothe farm of J. F. Carter, at County) "ci eets would solve the problem

diana University Medical

Ave, he said.

tract, supervised by the Army. Meanwhile,

Flood Control Board considered |g to the ac-|

legal aspects incident

quisition of rights-of-way, at

meeting at City Hall yesterday. City

{ LAW SCHOOL LISTS

Engineer M. G. Johnson who

Flood Board president, said tha titles to several tracts of land in

protect the City Hospital and In-|Line Road and Wall St. Pike, Center |

{only partially and that they must be

The boys, found by State Police swept as well.

|area, are being checked at tem- near the Carter farm, said their| | porary headquarters at 845 Oliver

The committee also suggested that

flashlight had gone out and they “catchy” slogans directing the ate

\ : Construction Work [had struck matches to find a place tention of the public to trash boxes | will be done under private con- | to sleep in one of the barns, which might be painted on (was filled with frésh-cut oat straw.|The the Marion County |

the streets,

committee also ' asked that

State Police estimated the fire broken light columns on Meridian

amage at $5000. Trucks from In- | St. over Fall Creek be repaired and

|dianapolis, Speedway City and Dan- (called attention to<some still uncut

(ville answered the alarm.

the rights-of-way have yet to be

cleared through Circuit Court ac-

tion.

St., and widening of the channel.

JOINS ALLISON STAFF

Robert IL. Wilson, widely known civilian engineer advisor to the U. ward Kruse, S. Army Air Corps, will come here Mehrlich, Adrian Minnick, Samuel |

Monday from Dayton to accept a McWilliams, Joe Rautenberg, James

| position with the Allison Engineer-

ing Co.

post he has held for three years. Otto Kreusser,

capacity.

A World War Army flier, Mr. Wilson has been connected with the grq

Air Corps as a civilian since 1922.

Cook Field, Dayton.

KNOWLEDGE

1—Where is the city of Guayaquil? 2—--Which country uses as national insignia a crossed hammer and sickle? 3—What is antimony? 4—In units of length, how many links are in one mile? 5—In which city is the Field Museum of Natural History? 6—Name the father of Alexander the Great, 7—In which city was the first U. S. mint established? 8—Where is the sting of a scorpion located?

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1—1It is a seaport of Ecuador. 2—Soviet Russia. 3—A metallic element. 4—8000

5—Chicago. 6—Philip of Macedon, 7—Philadelphia, Pa. 8—At the tip of the tail,

” 2 = ASK THE TIMES Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1613 13th St, N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor can extended research be wundertaken,

Allison manager, said Mr. Wilson will serve the local | | General Motors airplane motor unit | lin an administrative engineering!

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| The project includes construction | ! of a concrete retaining wall from versities have enrolled as new “= INDIANA TRUCKERS the end of the present wall 1500 feet northward, placing of earth levees from the wall to Michigan Students are from Indiana, Registrar Addison M. Dowling said. Indianapolis students newly reg- | istered at the school are Ross Barr, | Manuel Belle, man Brennan, Edward Boyle, Eu(gene Burns, Michael Cain, Robert Joseph Fisher,

U.S. AVIATION EXPERT

| Stoops, Symmes Jr. and Ora Willett.

Mr. Wilson resigned yesterday as | ntract administrator at the Army's! material base at Wright Field, a

NEW ENROLLEES

Graduates of 18 colleges and uni- |

weeds in vacant lots. Another appearance was promised (by the committee before the State |Tax Board in the interests of ree [storing to the City budget an item earmarked for the eradication of (rats.

dents at the Indiana Law School

Coates, | Fisher, | Hay, George Henry, Agnes Hinton, |C. Edward Hixon, Charles Kemper,

Indianapolis.

co Bartlow,

Norbert

| new |

‘TO GONVENE FRIDAY

Most of the

{ Approximately 175 representatives of Indiana’s trucking industry will convene at the Hotel Antlers Friday for a two-day convention of the Ine diana Motor Traffic Association. Governor M. Clifford Townsend is {scheduled to open the convention

Nor-

Raymond | Gladden, Gerald |

Perry Key, Bernard Korbly Ed- |2t noon. Divisional meetings will

Ross

Clara Pe held at 2:30 p. m. A convention (feature will he an open forum on safety, at 7:30 p. n. Friday.

Lyons,

Rocap Jr. Cletus Seibert, William | _H. H. Kelly, Chief of the Safety

PLAN RESURFACING |

Palmer

Frank Bureau of the Motor Carriers Bue [reau of the Interstate Commerce Commission, ‘is to be principal [speaker at the night meeting. State Safety Director Don Stiver is to participate in Saturday sese

Ward,

OF ENGLISH AVE. sions.

| Plans for the resurfacing of] English Ave. from Shelby to Spruce!

PARENTS WILL MEET

A meeting of new pupils of

| Sts. were being drawn by City en-|Shortridge High School and their

gineers today. : ered the improvement yester- Tuesday, at Caleb Mills Hall. engineer day.

| labor.

TEST YOUR | Everyday Movies—By Wortman

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The Works Board | parents is to be held at 7:45 p. m,

The

The street will be resurfaced | meeting is to be under sponsor= At that time he was a with asphalt, to be supplied by the ship of the planning engineer at the old Mc- WPA, who also will furnish

Shortridge Faculty the (Guidance Committee. Miss Ruth {Lewman is chairman.

istoresasn™ Wor fwan, World of Tomorrow "Let's hit all the hot spots first,"