Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1939 — Page 13

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939 |

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: . GLEN ELLEN, Cal, Oct. 18.—We had dinner tonight at Jack London’s table, here in the house where he died, It has been 23 years since the famous and erratic writer drew his last breath, but his things are still all around, everywhere. You have the feeling that he is just out walking - in the .moonlight, and will be back in a minute. It was here that Jack London spent the last eight years of his life. It isin a valley—they call jt: The Valley of the Moon—and somehow the moon does seem to give a peculiarly vivid light.The home that Jack dreamed about, and spent money on faster than he made it, was never © finished. It burned just as the last touches were being put on. Jack planned to start rebuilding the next spring, but he died before spring came. The great stone walls of the old place still stand high and silent, and make’ an eerie shape in the moonlight, among the trees. The house in which Jack ‘lived while waiting on his. dream home, was an old winery converted into comfortable living quarters. Here he wrote and. entertained and loved and fumed his heart out. Today it is- called the Jack London Guest Ranch. -You can come here and stay. It is still in the family’s hands. Jack’s nephew, Irving Shepard, runs it. * Irving’s mother is Eliza ‘London Shepard, Jack’s beloved sister. She is still living, right here in the ranch house, ‘but is not well. (Editor’s note: Eliza London died a few days after Ernie’s visit.) } 4 2 = = Peaceful Isolation " Charmian London, Jack’s widow, also lives on the ‘ranch, ina Dose of her own about half a mile from the old The ranch is nil 1200 acres in soothingly beau‘tiful country, 50 miles north of Sanh Francisco. - Life is very family style on the ranch. Guests eat ‘at a big table with Jack London's own nephew and

HEREWITH . ANOTHER disorganized list of items, all of Dutch origin this time. For all I know, they may, turn out to, be exactly what you have been looking for all your life. “A Dutchman fills his breakfast cup two-thirds full of coffee after which he pours in hot milk, leaving just enough room for a layer of cream. The cream is poured over a spoon held hollow side down over the cup. Treated this way the cream mixes better with the coffee. It makes the spoon taste better, too. 1 thought you ought to know. ‘ You can credit the Dutch, too, with licking the age-long problem of eating soft boiled eggs. They remove the top of the shell, using the nearest -tool ‘at hand, and then start- dunking out the egg with narrow slices of. bread. It's done in the best of homes—evén in places as spiffy as the Hotel des Indes at- The Hague.

The Breakfast ‘Snack’

The Dutch start the day off in a big way. "A Dutch breakfast, for instance, consists of a soft boiled egg, a big platter of assorted cold meats, a platter of cheese, a pot of coffee, butter, marmalade, and at least eight kinds of bread. Indeed, I've seen as many as’'a flozen kinds of bread, but ordinarily the ration is’ confined to eight, to-wit: two kinds of white bread (mixed with milk in- the one case, and water in the other), Holland rusks, toast, rye bread, zwieback, pumpernickel, and a honey bread perilously close to cake. The pumpernickel, made of barley in Holland. is used almost exclusively as a concomitant of cheese. It’s a natural if there ever was one. Other culinary naturals -the .Dutch have discovered for themselves are (1) that nothing peps up a consomme like the juice of a slice of lemon; (2) that stewed prunes are the best, in fact the only respectable thing. to eat

with roast duck; and (3) that a bottle of curacao.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The makings of a bad smelling mess are piling up through the State Department’s casual handling of registrations for mushroom organizations which want to collect funds for relief of European war victims. Under the law such moneyraising organizations must have the approval of the State Department. Promoters have been rushing in to obtain their certificates ‘in| such numbers that no real inyestigation is possible to determine whether they are 1esponsible or whether they are racketeers. Since Germany in--vaded Poland, the State Department has approved some 80 organizations for relief in Poland. In all, it has issued certificates to 128 organizations—22 of them within the last 10 days. If some bright boys do not take advantage of the situation to organize relief rackets, it will be a miracle. In the World War period, only about one out of 10 money-raising schemes was| found legitimate. Out of some 3000 money-raising | appeals, which involved upward of a - billion dollars, only 300 were found worthy. . }

» ® » Advisory Committee Urged Secretary of War Newton D. Baker set up an advisory board of prominent citizens, with long experience in philanthropy, and applications were investigated. Ninety per cent were found unworthy and were prevented from imposing upon the public. A group of citizens, some of whom had a part in that work, have appealed to Secretary Hull and other

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesdgy.—I had a ride this morning. At first the sky looked very threatening, but later it cleared and the clouds were very beautiful. The horses felt so full of fun that it was hard to hold them down. “Dot” may be old, but a summer's rest : makes her behave like a 2-year-old, and she can out-trot and out-canter the younger horse which 1 borrowed for the summer, I motored down to lunch tow day with a friend of mine who is the dietitian at a sanitarium below Beacon. If one has to go to one, I think of all the places of this kind I have seen, this one is the most attractive. The views of the river are lovely. Running an institution of this kind, from the standpoint of food and servfice, must be an art, but my young friend seems to find it easy and interesting. Back at my cottage, and it is so tempting out of doors that we are shortly going for a walk to get the view from the top of the hill. At sunset it is very lovely. Yesterday. morning ‘when 1 arose, 1 discovered that, - as sometimes happens in the autumn, the mice are beginning to come indoors and one had undertaken

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By Ernie Pyle

his family. “There is no museum effect about anything. Much of Jack’s stuff is right out where you can see it and touch it, just part of the ordinary furniture. The ranch has horses, for Jack loved horses, and there are miles and miles of riding paths. Jack even had a private lake, and guests can fish in it if they wish.

You have a feeling of peaceful isolation. © You

don’t see cars passing, or tourists nosing around. For}

the ranch is at the end of the road, a winding dirt road through the hills. Jack found the geographical spot for peace, but he never found it in his own heart.

The Shepards are easy people, and they enjoy talking about Jack London. They resent, as does all the family, the intimations that he committed suicide. Irving ,probably is around 40 now, so of course he remembers his Uncle Jack very well.

Jack's Workroom

In the dining room is a glass-doored bookcase containing a first edition of every one of the 50 books that Jack London wrote. Every one, that is, except one.

Once there was a large party here from a nationally known women writers’ organization. They looked and admired. After they left, one of the first editions was gone. Jack’s workroom had windows on three sides. His desk was set out from the wall, and there he sat every morning, for three hours, and wrote in long hand. Everything in the room is about as he left it, including a phonograph with a morning-glory horn. Up a little flight of wide stairs is Jack’s library. All his books have now been taken over to. Mrs. London's home. But the shelves are filed with pictures, old letters, mementos from friends and Polynesian nicknacks. On one group of shelves are scores of pasteboard boxes. In them are Jack’s notes for his writings. He wrote exclusively from notes. In fact, he made so many notes I don’t see how he ever got time to do any actual writing.

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By Anton Scherrer

liquor is the foundation of all decent desserts. Certainly not whipped cream as the rest .of the world would have us believe. Speaking of cheese, as I was ‘a moment ago, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to learn that the Dutch never use it in their cooking. It comes as a surprise because, next to water, cheese is the one thing the Dutch have the most of. The fact remains, however, that the Dutch like their cheese straight and in astonishingly small quantities. Somehow they feel the same way about flowers. . They have enough to

supply the world with, but for some reason they keep|

their flower gardens small. ” on ”

The East Indien Influence

Most amazing, too, is the way the East Indies have influenced Dutch cooking. For me it dramatized the geographical fact that Holland, a little country of only eight million people, "has a far-flung empire of 65 million more people distributed in colonies on the other side of the world. Anyway, you can get your fill of hot exotic food in Holland—certainly at Warwong Djawa, the great East Indien‘ restaurant at Scheveningen, the Dutch Atlantic City just outside of The Hague. Gosh, I didn't mean to devote all of. today’s column to -a ‘discussion’ of Dutch alimentary canals. I have some literary tricks up my sleeve, too. Anyway, ‘it won't hurt you to know how I caught ‘Walt Whitman

napping at The Hague. ; of Walt, you'll remember, once wrote a poem. “Salut

Au Monde,” in the course of which he cataloged all the wonders of the world including the ports where steamships “Wait at Liverpool. Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, The Hague, Copenhagen.” Well, believe it or not. The Hague hasn't got a harbor big enough to float a cat boat. I made the discovery while eating “satch,” an East Indien dish

compounded - of - small pieces of pork, roasted :on!

skewers over an open fire. You eat if, nonchalantly

using only your bare teeth to slide the slices down the stick.

By Raymond Clapper

State Department officials to tighten up ‘their scrutiny of relief-drive applicatie™s before a national scandal develops. They have urged that he follow the precedent of Newton D. Baker and create an advisory committee to investigate the relief fund organizations and separate the legitimate ones from the rackets. The State Department is proceeding on the policy of giving the organizations the benefit of the doubt. with the right to revoke registration if anything irregular shows up later. Two objections are made to this policy. One is that, after an‘ organization is launched, it cannot be repudiated without inflicting considerable embarrassment, especially if, as usually is the case, it has enlisted the sponsorship of a few prominent and well- ~-meaning but gullible persons. The second objection is that, once money has been collected, it will take more than revocation of a State Department permit to restore the money to Woe: con-

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Confusion Is Feared

Some who are interested in relief for Jews in Europe fear that the multiplicity of organizations growing up will lead to confusion and ineffectiveness, aside from the funds which racketeers make away with under cover of the relief activities.. One highly reputable figure has pointed out that, in the present situation in Poland, it will be difficult to keep relief funds and supplies from falling into Nazi or Soviet hands and, until facilitig§ are arranged, the sending of relief to Poland is likely io prove futile.

Creation of an advisory board of review is desirable, not only to suppress racketeering, but also to maintain public confidence in those legitimate organizations which are entitled to and need full public support. Millions of dollars will be needed for European relief.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

to chew the wood by my closet and left a little trail of sawdust around the floor. We bought traps and set. them temptingly with cheese, but so far have no reward. I think having so many people in the house has scared the little mice out again temporarily, but I suspect that they will come back and I hope they will be caught.

I see in this morning’s paper that the -question|55

of credits in the Neutrality Bill, which has been so inexplicable to a great many people, has been taken out of the Administration’s bill. It would have been possible under the law as originally drawn, for the President to extend credit up to 90 days to belligerents making purchases in the United States and transporting goods in their own ships, whereas on.a straight cash and carry basis, the governments will have to pay immediately. This plan has now been substituted and it looks as though the Administration, though barring American ships from Europe’s danger. zones, will .allow free travel in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as in the South Atlantic. It is a curious thing how much we desire tn be kept out of war and yet, as soon as staying out entails a loss in some financial line, we immediately have to make concessions because whatever else happens some people are always sure to feel that their pockets must be saved, If these provisions pass, certain rights which would be ours under straight international Jaw are, of course, given un hy Americans.

By Richard Lewis NE day last March, Engineer W. A.. Bernauer pressed four red buttons on a. switchboard of the City Asphalt Plant. "The building shook as heavy machinery Hegan to move. Ten minutes later, hot, molten asphalt was pouring into a waiting Works Board truck.

“The loaded truck rumbled

north on South West St. and an empty one took its place beneath the mixer. The City’s 1939 street repair: program was under way. So every year since 1901 has the. City "begun to mix its asphalt at the end of winter for spring and. summer repairs. In 38 years, the plant “has grown, its machinery has: been modernized. The City's streets have reached out into open fields, farther each year. Keeping in constant repair a network of paved streets equivalent to a 30-foot highway from here to Boston is the job the

SCOUT TROOP PLANS ‘8TH OVERNIGHT HIKE

‘Mempers of Boy Scout Troop: 83, who feel. a little dubious about the weather but definitely optimistic about fishing conditions, are laying in extra supplies of blankets and fishing tackle for their eighth overnight hike of the season. The hike, on Saturday and Sun-

day, will take them to Brown County |’

State Park. There Charles De Turk, State Park ‘Department head, has arranged. for a camp site in the woods and close to a creek. The

Scouts will be quartered on cots in five large pyramid tents. Scoutmaster Arthur J. Williams will be. assisted in transportation and adult supervision duties Charles Emmons, Francis Graham and Malcolm Roberts, assistant scoutmasters, and by the following members of Hayward-Barcus Post , American Legion, which sponsors Scout Troop 83; Delbert O. Wilmeth, Paul Catterson, Howard

Sutherland, Claude McLean, J

Know, Prentice Cotton, John Smead and Arthur F. G. Gemmer. The hike will start from the troop’s headquarters at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and return fo Indianapolis Sunday evening.

2D CHILD DIES OF BURNS

RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 18 (U. P)). —Frank Parr, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Parr of near Pennville, died yesterday from burns received ‘When a hot water heater in the. Parr home exploded. - His brother, Howard, 5, died Mongay

from similar burns. .

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1. To repair a network of streets equal to a highway from here to Boston, the City operates its own asphalt “patch” plant. * 2. Liquid asphalt is heated to high temperatures in ovens before it is mixed with other ingredients or aggregates.

‘3. Engineer W. A. Bernauer measures out sand and limestone dust

through complex automatic scales. bubbling, liquid asphalt.

These aggregates are mixed with

4. The finished product is poured inte a waiting Works Board

truck and hauled away to the street repair job.. The process takes

one minute when the machinery is moving full speed.

$40,000 asphalt. “patch” plant has to do. Most of the paving in City streets is more than 30 years old.

The City began to make its .

own asphalt in 1901 at a plant in the 900 block, E. New York St. As the City grew, the need for street repair materials increased. The plant was condemned in 1936 and a- new, modern patch plant was built on 20 acres of land reclaimed - from White River.

8 8 = ODAY, its capacity is 25 tons

of asphalt an hour. Average .

daily output 1s about 70 tons which

" takes care of the normal demand.

A high premium is put on mechanical efficiency. Complex mechanisms ‘measure and -weigh theingredients — called aggregates— which go into the making of asphalt. The aggregates are mixed automatically, and machines pour

the molten asphalt at the touch of a lever. It takes about 10 minutes from the time the machinery is started until the finished product can be poured. - Once the machinery is moving at full speed, the entire process—from the mixing to the pouring—takes one minute.

The present equipment is limited in capacity to patchwork asphalt. * The City buys virtually all of its asphalt for large street improvement jobs from private concerns. . If the City went into the asphalt business on a ‘scale large enough to supply all its needs, the size of the present plant would have to be doubled, according to engineers. About 10 tons of concrete for repairing sidewalks and some streets is also mixed at the plant daily, but there are no facilities for large

State Stores Are Urged

To Close Armistice Day

The: public of Indiana today was urged by Department Commander Raymond B. Townsley of the American Legion to keep Armistice Day, Nov.’11; as a legal hcliday, by closing places of business and enumerating

the blessings that America enjoys.

“The unsettled, conditions in ‘Europe today makes this Armistice Day one of thanksgiving for” Americans, for the peace, liberties and

CHILD, 4, DIES ON WAY T0 HOSPITAL

Four-year-old Shirley Louise Meyers was dead today, in spite of the best efforts of physicians and her family to keep her alive. Yesterday Shirley Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyers, Maywood, was having her tonsils out at Lebanon and during the operation she stopped breathing. Artificial respiration was applied and an ambulance was called to take her to City Hospital here to be put in the “iron lung.” Shirley Louise was dead on arrival at the

hospital.

ELECTION SET FOR CAN CO. WORKERS

A hearing to determine the bargaining agency for production and maintenance employees of the American Can Co. here. has. been postponed indefinitely. It was scheduled for tomorrow in the:Federal Building east court. Local 1699 of the Amalgamated Association . of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America, affiliated with the G. 1. O., petitioned the National

Labor Relations ‘Board May ‘2 that

it represents a ‘majority .of the

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benefits that this nation afford,” he said. Commander: Townsley pointed out,

that an official act of Congress ap-

proved by President Roosevelt May 13, 1938, sets forth that Armistice Day is a legal holiday. The Act states that it shall be observed “in the same manner as Jan, ‘1, Feb. 22, May 350, July 4, Labor Day and Christmas.” American Legion posts throughout the state have been asked by Commander Townsley to co-operate with all schools and civic groups obtain speakers and otherwise arranging wide observance

of Armistice Day.

Baby Is Born in Father's Auto

‘NEW ALBANY, Ind, Oct. ‘18 (u. P) .—When William _ Alben and his wife, an expectant ‘mother, of near New Middleton, -arrived at Dr. E. W. Murphy's of-

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fice yesterday, the doctor was out. 3h

Alben. found Mrs. Murphy and another woman and brought them to the car to remain with Mrs. Al= ben. Then he began seeking Dr. Murphy. ; When he returned “with the physician, his wife had. gives birth

‘{ald Bradley, {Madden and Edward Lane.

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scale concrete mixing—T70 to 100 tons a-day. ” ” 2

HE theory of asphalt making is the elimination of holes until what engineers call “a voidless mass” is produced. Holes—or voids—in paving materials leave room for moisture to accumulate, freeze and wreck the pavement. First ingredient is gray sand, taken from the dry bed of the former White River channel. This is mixed with Cicotte sand, found in Lake Cicotte near Logansport. Cicotte sand is finer than gray sand. It fills in the holes which are present even when the gray sand is packed tightly. Limestone dust is then added to fill in the smaller holes in the combination. The three aggregates are bound together with bubbling hot, liquid asphalt. The principle here might be illustrated by piling rocks together. There are crevices in the pile because of the uneven edges of the rocks. "A finer ‘type of stone or gravel. will fill the holes. Like rocks, sand particles _ also have rough; uneven edges.

BRANT IS RENAMED “BY MERIDIAN HILLS

Walter :L. ‘Brant has been reelected president. of the Meridian Hills Country Club ‘following .the annual stockholders meeting. Mr. Brant is secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Oxygen Co. and president of the Hoosier Motor Club. Charlton N. Carter was re-elected vice president and Marshall G.*Knox was re-elected “secretary-treasurer. Mr.. Carter is a partner of Spradling '& Carter, accountants, and Mr. Knox is associated with George S. Olive & Co., accountants. Henry’ Holt as re-elected a director = for hree-year term. Arthur E. Krick and Paul R. Summers were elected the Board for like terms. ‘Other are Earl Beck, Ira Minnick, Howard R. Meeker and I. W. Sturgeon.

CASTLETON SHOW SCHEDULED FRIDAY

Times Special fo CASTLETON, Ind., Oct ~Casfleton High School’s annual minstrel uhder the direction of Charles A. Gairison, will: be presented in the Snot auditorium‘ at 8 p. m. Friay. - Participants will include Thomas Armstrong, - Margaret Craig Alyea, Alfred Leslie Benge,

CHRYSLER ‘CUTS HOURS NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 18 (U. PJ .—An order reducing working

+hours at. the Chrysler factory to four and one-half daily became ef-]

fective today as a result of a shuttlown of Chrysler plants at Detroit.

It was indicated, the order would

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UICK temperature changes make asphalt misbehave.

~ when the temperature rises sude

denly from cool to extreme heat, a pavement sometimes “explodes.” The asphalt expands quickly and is forced - upward—the only direction in which there is no counter pressure. Machines mix the asphalt, the “dirty work.” But a chemist must determine how to set the ma= City chemists analyze every finished load of asphalt, making frequent changes in the ratio of composition or adjustment to machines to improve the quality. The big 1 Machine are electrical= ly controlled. Switches scattered throughout the plant can stop or start any part of the continuous process - independently . of the others. The whole plant can be "shut off quickly. But nowhere are any written directions or warnings to be seen —except a sign over the door of the stone dust room which says in bold, red letters: VOTE FOR REGINALD H. SULLIVAN FOR MAYOR.

FIRE HITS FARM AREA

BOONVILLE, Ind. Oct. 18 - (U, P.).—A fire swept approximately 500 acres of farm land near here \| yesterday. The Boonville fire department and ‘approximately 200 hia fire fighters fought the blaze.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the river that drains the . five Great Lakes. 2—What is a pedologist? 8—Who wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo”? : 4—1s the Tropic of Cancer north or south ef the Equator? 5—Should a letter of introduction be sealed? * 6—What is a ranarium? ; , T—Name the principal tributary of the Rie Grande, 8-—~What is hyperopia? ” ” ” . ‘Answers

1—st. Lawrence. 2-One versed in the study of * children. :

- 3—Alexandre Dita pere.

4—North. 5—No. -6—A place for keeping’ or rearing frogs. 7—The Pecos River. 8—Far-sighteliness, abnormal vision.

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