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Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pye

OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 20.—I thought there was only one 500-mile auto race in the world—the great Indianapolis Speedway classic. But there is another one. It is held here in Oakland.

It is an annual race, and they held the second one | just the other day. This race is . to Indianapolis what a stock -troupe is to the Broadway stage. But that doesn’t mean the #boys are just learning to pedal some kiddie cars. Not by a long shot. The fact that they got through those terrible 500 miles on a small, rough track at 100 miles an hour without Killing anybody shows there was plenty of skill at the wheel. The race is on a mile track, “ macadamized. They started 33 =~ - cars—the same number that start at Indianapolis on a two and a half-mile track =—S0 you can see the traffic was thick. | |In pre-race publicity they said many of the cars had raced at Indianapolis. But I saw only one that had, and it proved too heavy for this small track and had to quit. ° None of the drivers had raced .at Indianapolis. They were all from this Pacific Coast circuit. But out of that whole bunch of 33 there wasn’t a hick driver on the track. 2 EJ 8

He'll Try the Big Grind

‘A man named Tex Peterson won the race, driving the same car that won it last year. Peterson intends to enter at Indianapolis next year. As an old dyed-in-the-wool race expert, I would say that Peterson and half a “dozen of the other drivers here are perfectly capable of driving to victory at Indianapolis. . It took six hours and 20 minutes to run the race, and the average speed was 83 miles an hour. ' The cars actually were i around 100 on the track.

Our Town

SEVERAL YEARS ago, youll remember, there -Was considerable wondering in America why the Swedish Academy gave. Sinclair Lewis the Nobel .~ Prize. Well, I believe I can clear up everything. It’s something else I picked up in Holland. : America’s reaction at the time was just another example of our reluctance to accept anything at variance with the prevailing taste. Our crowd-mindedness creates - conventions. Conventions, in their turn, create the prevailing taste. Prevailing taste is responsible for standardization. A country governed by standardization, as America most certainly is, loses its gift : for detecting talent. Even to the point of not seeing a man of the stature of Sinclair Lewis. | For the past 40 years, the northern countries of Europe have sensed the difference between the socalled “artistic” as represented by a static prevailing taste, and real-for-sure art as represented by a dynamic creative force. This point of view accounts for the modern movement in the arts which, just beginning here, has been an accomplished fact in ‘Europe for at least three decades. 2 2 8

“Architecture of Holland

The fact that Sinclair Lewis pulled down the | Nobel Prize is no more amazing than the European’s | appreciation for the architectural work of Louis | sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright who, more than a | generation age, attempted to interpret a modern ‘world in terms of sticks and stones. “Scorned by the | prevailing taste of America—even to the point of | being ostracized professionally—the work of these two Chicago men made a deep and lasting impression on Europe. With the result that to this day their influence—not their manner, mind you—may be traced in almost every phase of modern archi- | tecture in Holland. . And modern architecture in Holland is something

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Officially, party politics

has been adjourned for the period of the neutrality debate and jt must be said that the Senators are heroically keeping the pledge. Republican Senators like Taft of Ohio and Austin of Vermont are working : for the Administration while Democrats like Wheeler of Montana, Holt of West Virginia and the two Clarks, of Missouri and Idaho, are working against it. But Senators find it difficult to break long-established habits. Thus -you find that the Democrats exclude the Republicans from conferences among members of the Foreign Relations Committee where the shipping section of the Neutrality Bill is being revised. The Administration group goes further. It is excluding one of the Democratic members of the committee, Bennett Clark of Missouri, because he is opposed to the Administration bill.

In these conferences, the “carry” section of the bill is being redrafted to ease the restrictions on American shipping. This is a vital section of the bill and the one which requires the most exacting attention. Powerful pressure has been brought to nullify the provision entirely, either outright or by joker, so that American ships can engage in war trade with belligerents. On the other hand, practically everyone recognizes that the original draft was too severe, and strong sentiment exists for exempting American shipping in the Pacific and other areas reasonably safe from danger. 2 8 =

Tactics Prolong Debate

ly Vv In part, these suggested changes constitute concessions to the isolationists. Yet one of the leading _isolationists, Hiram Johnson of California, is excluded

NEW YORK CITY, Thursday.—We went last night as Mr. John Golden’s guests to see Gertrude Lawrence in “Skylark.” As the play opened, Miss Thompson and I kept wondering if we had seen this play before, and then we both remembered we had read the story. Of course, it was very different, but it gave one an odd kind of familiarity with the people. The dialogue is excellent and Gertrude Lawrence makes the best of it. She is perfect in this type of play, I think, just as she was in “Susan and God.” Such little tpuches as the bachelor partner in the firm buying the * gift for Tony Kenyon to give his wife on their tenth wedding anniversary, are particularly amusing and subtle. The last act, it seemed to me, lets down a good

bit, but I enjoyed it all and think you will find it a pleasant evening’s entertainment.

- It seems to me that. this play has a special mes- -

‘%age for the men and women of this country. We have all made such a fetish of financial success and forgotten. frequently that success of any kind, when

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.But the track was so rough, and broke the cars up 9 Jas, they had to spend a great deal of time in the pits. ‘ It was such an exhausting race that the leading drivers became punch drunk. In fact, 75 miles from the end, they had to flag the leader in and put in a substitute driver. He was so groggy he was wobbling all over the track. ’ There were no bad accidents and nobody was hurt. One car went through the wall on the second lap, but it was able to return to the race. But tires and wheels were flying around the track all afternoon. In each case the driver held his car beautifully till it coasted to a stop. : One of: the accidents was a regular “Believe It or Not.” A car lost a left front wheel coming into the home stretch. The wheel ran on ahead of the car, down the track. It slid along the wall in front of the grandstand, missed the judge’s stand by an inch, jumped the low railing and smacked a hot-dog stand.

8 2 Some Narrow Escapes

If that hot-dog stand hadn't been there some people might have been killed. For the tire was headed right for the-crowd. But the story isn’t finished yet. All this time the driver was coasting his threewheeled car down the track toward the pits. Now the crazy wheel bounced off the hot-dog stand, jumped the rail again, and flew right across the ‘track. It missed the head of a speeding driver by not more than a foot. Then it hit the track, made a few wobbly turns, lost its speed and rolled up to its own home pit just as its three-wheeled owner arrived there. , Not only that; on its final exhausted turn that wheel fell right over on the very axle from which it had leaped half a minute before at the far end of the track! At Indianapolis, the great race always starts on time, to the minute. But the Oakland 500-miler was exactly one hour late in starting—and consequently finished after dark.

By Anton Scherrer

to talk about. Sure, it comes as a surprise when all your life you've thought of it as a country made up mostly of windmills, wooden shoes and Delft china. Anyway, I never saw anything more convincing and impressive than the modern architectural treatment of a match factory and that of a brewery in Amsterdam. And, believe it or not, Holland has licked the housing problem. Not only in a presentable way easy to look at, but in a way easy on the pocketbook. A Dutch workingman, for instance pays the equivalent of $3 a week for four or five rooms. Sometimes, indeed, he pays as'little as $2.50: for a house that’s good enough for anybody to live in. Those in the higher brackets of society, in the so-called “middle class,” pay around $22 a month for the privilege of being snooty. The houses are built in rows, two stories high, consisting of maybe as many as 30 units, each unit housing a family. The units are two rooms deep and there isn’t a sign of cheap or “ersatz” materials. Indeed, the houses look good enough to last till doomsday. Architecturally, they're little gems. . 2 # 2

Planning Is Appreciated The architecture isn’t the whole thing, though. Whoever, conceived the architectural scheme thought of it in the larger terms of city planning. With the result that there is some regard for the layout of streets, the orientation of rooms and the location of playgrounds, schools and gardens. Even the reflections in the canals play their part. Every family has its little garden—two in fact, one planted around the entrance of the home and the other in the rear. I never saw anything prettier in my life. I don’t know how the Dutch do it unless it’s a matter of Dutch vision. I don’t like the phrase particularly. For the reason that the word “Dutch” is nearly always used as a contemptuous adjective. You know “Dutch gold,” for -pinchbeck; “Dutch Myrtle,” for weed; “Dutch news,” for unreadable script; and finally “Dutch courage,” the biggest libel of them all as anybody who has ever read the history of Holland ought to know.

~ By Raymond Clapper

from these discussions because he is a Republican, although as a California Senator he has the greatest interest in provisions made for shipping on the Pacific. At the same time his former fellow Senator, william G. McAdoo, has been working around town, from the White House on down, to obtain concessions for Pacific Coast shipping. Thus Senators, regardless of party, who do not happen to support the Administration on the arms embargo ‘are fenced out of the conferences. ‘These tactics are causing some feeling among isolationist Senators. Furthermore, they invite the antiAdministration side to prolong the debate. Some of the isolationists are looking for new legitimate excuses to continue the discussion. They have about shot their - bolt. Only two or three more Senators are scheduled to speak for the opposition, and they need a new lease on life. They don’t want to stage an open filibuster but they want to stretch out the debate. 2 2

Filibuster Is Charged

Senator Holt, in his long speech this week, paused frequently to recognize friendly Senators for inter‘ruptions. Once Senator Bennett Clark interrupted to ask for a quorum call which allowed Holt to sit down for a few minutes of rest. These are the old tricks of the concealed filibuster, and Senator Connally of Texas charges that it is a filibuster which is going on. Word is circulating that there is a real chance to kill the arms embargo repeal, not in the Senate, but in the House, if only a hard enough fight can be kept going. Therefore the amendments now being offered by the Administration as concessions to the isolationists offer fresh opportunities for debate, whereas it might have been possible, by bringing some of these opposition leaders into the revision conferences, to have produced compromises that would have been acceptable to both sides, leaving the arms embargo as the only object of further difference.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

it does not include success in one’s personal relationships, is bound in the end to leave both the man and the woman with very little real satisfaction. Of course, I often wonder how men can be sO stupid as to think they can give more thought to their careers than they do to home relationships, and still expect the women to develop with them, or to find satisfaction in their own interests and in the care of a house and children. So many men seem to live under the misapprehension that falling in love is a permanent state. Because you are attracted and passionately devoted to “Jim” or “Alice” today, doesn’t mean at all you are going to continue loving during the ensuing years if

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The young man ready fo be examined for the Lions Club Perfect Baby contest is John Rail, 2728 E. North St., held by Nurse Betty Foltz. John is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Rail

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SAFER BUSSES|

Warren Township Officers Act Following Protest By Parents.

‘By TIM TIPPETT Prompt action by Warren Township officials in relieving overcrowding of school busses has averted «direct action” with the State Tax Board and a threatened school strike. : A week ago Warren Township parents warned officials that they “no longer will put up with the overloaded and dangerous school busses.” A check disclosed that as many as 68 pupils were being crowded on a bus designed to seat 35. Meeting last night at Lowell School, Raymond St. and Hunters Road, the parents were told by E. C. Eash, Warren High School principal, who has charge of routing the 18 busses in the township, that “the situation will be solved 100 per cent within a week.”

Larger Busses Used

Larger busses already have been placed in use for the servicing of Lowell School and rerouting is expected to reduce bus loads by at least ‘10 pupils each. Parents reported that they were “satisfied with the efforts being made by Mr. Eash,” and that the problem was being solved. During the protest meeting last week Mr. Eash admitted that the busses were hazardous, but that the “overloading is a matter of not having enough money.” This year’s transportation appropriation is $1000 more than last year and the township is using one less bus. However, laws becoming effective next year will force the scrapping of almost half the busses in the township, Mr. Eash said. “Of our busses, 15 are seven years old or older and seven are of the wooden type,” he said. The 1940 laws will require all steel bodies and safety glass in each bus. We are going to try and comply with these laws and we must conserve as much as possible so that we may be financially able to do so.” Rerouting Planned

Mr. Eash then said that he would reroute the busses so that fewer children would be required to ride in each bus and so that no child would be forced to walk more than a quarter of a mile to his home from each bus stop. During the heat of the campaign against =the overloaded busses, parents had acquired the services of an attorney and several discussions followed with Warren Township Trustee. H. M. Thomas and Mr. Eash. Several parents also threatened to keep their children at home in “a sort of ‘school strike,” unless the busses were operated more safely,

Parents Ask Safety

The parents last night passed a resolution to petition the State Police for “some rigid enforcement of safety laws,” on roads traveled by the busses. } The petition was to be drawn up and signed today. Because: of the large number of Beech Grove workers using Emerson and Troy Aves., bus stops on those streets is “extremely hazardous,” Mr. Each and parents said. The petition will include requests for additional safety signs and enforcement of speed, preferential and other signs in the affected area.

Business Stops For Baby Coos

ONE-YEAR-OLD Karen Mondragon became the subject of an uncfficial Works Board inquiry today when the infant's cooing distracted . members from routine business discussion. : Divided on whether the infant was a boy or a girl, members recessed to ask .the mother, Mrs. Frances Mondragon, 914 N. Pershing Ave., who had appeared for a public hearing on a street improvement. “Of course it’s a. girl,” Mrs. dragon said. Board members, satisfied, marched back into their chambers to resume business.

FIND WOMAN ON PILOT OF ENGINE

Body Noticed as Big Four Train Is Flagged Down At Beech Grove.

The body of a woman about 70 years old was found today on the pilot of the Big Four train bound for Indianapolis when a tower watchman flagged it down at Beech Grove. ’ Neither the engineer, Roy MecCannon, Cincinnati, nor the conductor, James Richard, Kankakee, Ill, knew the train had struck the woman, Police said the body was tentatively identified as that of “Mrs. Herman Meyers, R. R. 6, Box 548, and that persons in Five Points witnessed the accident. Trainmen said tl.e accident happened between Acton and Beech Grove since the body was not there at Acton. A

SLIPS IN TUB, LIES HELPLESS 4 WEEKS

BERLIN, Oct. 20 (U. P.).-—-The newspaper Hamburger Fremdenblatt said today that Praha police rescued Prof. Siegfried Schneidler from his bathtub where he had lain helpless for four weeks: with a back injury suffered when he fell while stepping into the tub. Prof. Schneidler’s neighbors, alarmed when he did not appear for four weeks, reported to police, who found him nearly starved. He was taken to a hospital where doctors said he probably would recover.

LOCAL ARTISTS SHOW PAINTINGS AT CULVER

Times Special CULVER, Ind., Oct. 20.—Four Indianapolis artists are showing oils and water colors in the art exhibit at Culver Military Academy. They are Mattie Lietz, Sara Bard, William Kaeser, and Floyd D. Hopper. Other Hoosier artists who have paintings on display include Edgar Forkner, Richmond; Adolph Shulz, Nashville; George Mock, Muncie, and C. Curry Bohm, Brown County.

430 MORE AMERICANS SAIL CORK, Ireland, Oct. 20 (U. P.). —The United States Liner St. John sailed for New York last night with 430 Americans fleeing the war zone. It was the third special sailing arranged by the United States Gov-

ernment to repatriate Americans.

GATCH WARNS U.S. SURGEONS

Fears Increasing Training Period May Do More Harm Than Good.

Times Special ; PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 20. —

The American College of Surgeons today was warned by Dr. W. D.

Medicine dean, against increasing the training period for surgeons. Dr. Gatch declared the 12-year schooling and interneship now required should be enough and suggested standards might be raised instead by more careful selection of students.

Learns While He Works

“A too long period of training may do a man more harm than good,” Dr. Gatch said. “Too often the surgical resident lives in a state of almost monastic isolation from the world of practical affairs. This leaves him tragically unfitted for leadership or responsibility either in private or institutional practice. “If we can not inspire him in three years, following his medical school and interneships, to go under his own power, we are failures as teachers. Advocates of longer training seem to assume that the surgeon’s education will cease when the institutional part of it is over.

Fears Effect on Placid

“There are excellent reasons for believing that a longer period of tutelage is positively harmful to most men. It is liable to institutionalize a man’ of placid disposition: to make him dread and never willing to face the world alone.” Dr. Gatch said that men suited for university positions should be given as much time for training as they desire, but: that they should be given this time -as full-salaried members of the staff. ’

SPEEDWAY JUNIORS PRESENT CLASS PLAY

" A three-act mystery-comedy, “Murdered Alive,” will be presented by the Speedway High School junjor class at 8 p. m. today. Cast members include Dorothy Moldthan, Robert Bland, Dorothy Gleason, Richard Jennings, Audrey Marshall, Mirian Dewar, Joan Heuser, John Ramsey, Marjorie Kelly, Freda Crawley, Albert Webb and John Ewing. A musical program by the school orchestra will precede the play. Accordian selections will be presented during the intermission by Betty Joan May, accompanied by Bettie Lesman. The Marcia Mann Sisters Trio will sing.

STUDENT AT BUTLER | LEADS “Y’ SESSIONS

Richard Dempsey, senior adviser

Cabinet, is discussion leader for the State Student Y. M. C. A. Fall Training Conference at Earlhdm College today and tomorrow. Clarence Elliott, Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. student secretary, will deliver the closing address tomorrow afternoon.

Improved Report Cards Soon To Go Out From City’s Schools|

They’ll Carry More Teacher-to-Parent Information; Citizenship Ratings Are Now Stressed.

Gatch, Indiana University School of |

of the Butler University ¥Y. M. C. A.| .

Township to End Overloading of Busses

you happen to marry during that first flush of attrac-|

tion. Real loving means work, thinking of each other day in and day out, unselfishness, and effort to under-

stand the growth of the soul and mind of the other:

individual, and to adjust and complement that other person day by day. . Keeping up romance, keeping up constant interes} in each other by a meticulous care for the little things which were important when you were in love, this is all part of loving. It sounds very simple, but as you look around you, I think you will discover that it is almost a miracle when it happens. It won’t hurt us, however, to think about an ideal! : ;

Lowell School children will ride in safety. E. C.-

right) Mrs, Harry Molntyre and Mrs. Lawrence Goddard, interes

“NO ONE YET HAS DEVISED a report card that is entirely satis factory.” DeWitt S. Morgan, Indianapolis public schools superintene-

dent said today.

Nevertheless, for the last two years a committee of principals has been at work on an improved report card and they are being filled out for the first time this week by all teachers. Parents soon will have

their first glimpse. The new cards do not differ radically, except in physical form, from the old ones, but they do include more information, intended to further integrate the school and the home. They allow for fuller explanations by teachers to parents and they allow space for notes from parents to teachers. s 8 8 MR. MORGAN SAID THAT some cities have no report cards at all for the first grades, but that the teachers write explanatory notes to parents. This is a compromise between the two

methods, he said. . Lately schools have been trying to give the parents, through reports, some idea of how their children are progressing in citizenship as well as scholarship. But grading, in that case, is not as easy as it is in scholarship. The old-fashioned report cards, used years ago, merely listed the subjects with room for grades, to which was added in most cases a space for deportment. ' It was considered - then, Mr. Morgan said, that deportment was

satisfactory if the pupil did not

chew gum, whisper or remain away from school too many days. “That conception of deportment has been discarded. Now. schools have a certain creed, to which the pupils aspire for good deportment. These creeds are printed on each of the new report cards and this constitutes the greatest: single difference between the new and the old cards.

2 ” 82 THE CREED FOR THE FIRST grades as printed on the new cards is: : “In ‘our school we think we

«should:

“Come to school on time each day; be courteous and agreeable; do our part in keeping the room

clean; follow directions; take corrections cheerfully. “We think it is necessary to be well and strong; therefore, we try to: : “Have clean hands and faces; brush ‘our teeth every day; get plenty of sleep; sit and stand correctly; play in sunshine. ‘ “When working in groups we should: wi “Consider others; follow leadership; be fair in work and play. “When working at our desks we think we should: RE “Begin work promptly; work independently; avoid disturbing others; try to correct our mistakes; finish our work on time. “We are learning to: “Read; spell; write plainly; speak correctly; express our ideas through art, music and game activities; understand how the people in our homes and neighborhoods help each other.”

” 2 8 THE CREED FOR THE intermediate grades is: “The aim of our school is: “To help the child—to learn to live .and work with others; to

“learn as well as he can all the

subjects which he. studies; to form good work and health habits;

"to acquire an appreciation of the.

beautiful and to cultivate an in-

terest in music, art, literature and

outdoor life; to cultivate desirable character traits, and to establish good behavior habits.”

The creed for the Junior High ‘School is:

“To help the pupil—to discover what most interests him, and to

learn whether he has abilities to

succeed in his chosen line; to set high goals for himself in view of

“his interests and abilities and to

develop work habits that will enable him to reach his goals; to

- secure knowledge, to learn to think =i i ealth habits; to build chara ‘by developing his initiative, inde- | ‘| pendence, and leadership, and by | -| learning to appreciate the beautiful and the good; to understand

and practice good

and to meet his responsibilities to the groups to which he belongs;

LEGION DISTRICT DRIVES FOR DUES

Collections Are Arranged

During Annual 40 and 8

Roundup Sunday.

Members of the 12th District, American Legion, with unpaid 1940 dues, today were urged by Come mander Raymond Grider to cancel Sunday excursions and remain at home so that dues may be collected during the eighth annual 40 and 8 Roundup. Paid 1940 membership in Marion County already is over 2000, Fred Hasselbring, 12th District membership chairman said. The coming year’s membership goal is 4500, an increase of 400 over 1939. Officials of the 12th District hope to top the goal in Sunday’s collection drive. The annual Roundup will bring representatives of all the Indiana 40 and 8 Voitures to the Indianapolis 40 and 8 chateau, 119 E. Ohio St., which will become State Legion headquarters for Sunday only. Membership cards from all over the -

State will be brought to Indian-

apglis in the traditional 40 and 8 “engines” and “box cars” and deposited at the chateau. The state membership goal is “40,000 in ’40.” bership was approximately 36,000.

GROTTO WILL MARCH IN BEN DAVIS SHOW

‘The marching Sahara Grotto

Drum and Bugle Corps will open

the Ben Davis High School Burns’ Animal Circus at 8 p. m. today. Trained dogs, a performing pony, -

| monkeys, clowns, and local talent.

from the South Side Turners and other local groups will be included, - The one-ring show is being spone sored by the Ben Davis, P.-T. A, Mrs. Charles Reimer is chairman and J. Stephen Fuller is co-chaire -

man. # Concession stands will open at

6:30 p. m.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE

1—Which is larger, Lake Erie or Lake Ontario? a 9--Who commanded the Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville? i 3—Why are U. S. coins milled around the edges?’ 4—With what sport is the name of Ray Billows associated? 5—Can women vote in the U.. 8, at the age of 18?

" 6—What does perfidious mean?

7—On what river is the city of Berlin, Germany? 8—For what new government agency do the initials FWA 1—Lake Erie.

‘stand? Sf: 2—Gen. Joseph Hooker. \ 3—To prevent the coins from chipping and from being fraude ulently reduced in weight. 4—Golf. 5—No; the voting age for both males and ferhales is 21 years in all states. So : . 6—False-hearted; violating good ° faith. : T—The Spree. : 8—Federal Works Agency.

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