Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1939 — Page 15

| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25,1939

The Indianapolis

SECOND SECTION.

Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.—We folks here at the

Hotel Californian are very proud these days. For one

of us walked clean away with first prize in the bedmaking contest during ‘“Hotel Day” over at the Exposition. By “one of us” I mean Minnie Moore, who is the room maid on the seventh floor. Minnie was up against maids from 10 other big San Francisco hotels. And it was a walk-away. Minnie made her bed in eight minutes. The nearest competitor was nearly five minutes behind her. The judging was on speed and neatness. So you see Minnie wasn’t merely fast; she had quality. We are especially proud .because the Californian isn’t one of the big “name” hotels in San Francisco. It’s a plenty nice hotel, but you don’t pay for a lot of dog. And there have been maids who used to work here,

and later got jobs at the Mark Hopkins or St. Fran--

cis or Fairmont, and whenever we'd see them they'd kind of look down on us and say, “Why, you girls couldn’t possibly do the work up where I am now.” 1. 80 now Minnie has gone and shown them up, and those girls up there must feel pretty cheap, and you bet we won’t have to hang our heads any more when they say we couldn’t do the work up at those other hotels. Minnie won $10 in the contest. She hasn’t spent it yet, and doesn’t know what she’ll spend it for. Her children keep after her to get it spent, but she’s hanging on to it awhile. 2

No Apologies for Her

Minnie Moore is in her early 40’s. She is medium tall and slender, and "her hair is graying. Her face is thin and sensitive. She has been a hotel maid only six years. She, like most hotel maids nowadays, has seen better days. But unlike many, she doesn’t apologize for being a maid. She is a native Californian, from up north along the coast. For years she and her

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ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after my sojourn in Holland I looked up the old! Yellow Bridge-—the one that spans the canal at Michigan St. and Indiana Ave. I just love to lean over the railing of a canal bridge and spit into the water below. And so do you if | you're honest with yourself and confess everything. The present bridge is a matter of fact iron structure built sometime in the early Seventies. It's not much to look at now. Before that, however, the bridge at this point was a wooden worme-eaten affair that in its earlier days had been plentifully and beautifully bedaubed with bright yellow paint. It soon became known as the | Yellow Bridge and its name descended to its successor. Back in those days we talked an honest dialect—at any rate, one that had no euphemisms. More than six decades have elapsed since this bridge was the rendezvous of some of the most desperate roughnecks that ever handled a sandbag or a piece of lead pipe. Most of them came from Bucktown, the territory lying beyond the bridge. They weren't “scared of anything—nof even a policeman. As a mattef of fact, it was a mighty good cop that lasted a week in Bucktown.

It Had Its Fagin,

In its way, teo, Bucktown had its literary associations. For one thing, it was exactly like Oliver Twist’s neighborhood “which for many reasons,” says Dickens, “it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning and to which I will assign no fictitious names.” Anyway, Bucktown had its Fagin| in the person of a shriveled up little man who kept a sort of junk shop near the Yellow Bridge. His place was a “fence” and his dealings were almost exclusively with young boys who found him ready to dispose of their plunder. He turned out more than one Artful Dodger. It was as a result of his association with the Yellow

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Some time ago a group of Government employees, who had family worries growing out of low pay and high doctor bills, formed a group health association here, Members paid in a small sum each month and the group set up a clinic and engaged a staff of doctors. By such thrifty foresight, they hoped that even though their salaries were low they could obtain adequate medical care without beating their doctor bills. But the standard medical societies flew into a rage. They blackballed doctors who worked with. the new .group, and pressured hospitals to bar the association’s doctors and patients. They behaved in a way that

drew considerable public crit- _

icism. In self-defense they had to work out some group medicine schemes of their own. Public sympathy was definitely with the struggling group health association’s effort to work out a method whereby the self-respecting low-paid person could have a doctor for his family and not have to cheat on his bills. But the Government made the mistake of swinging into the situation with an anti-trust suit, charging the medical societies with restraint of trade —as if they were a group of oil companies.

A Government Setback

The U. S. District Court set the Government back by refusing to class doctors as merchants, insisting that they were engaged not in trade but in the practice of a profession. Now the Supreme Court has refused -to give the case a rush review for the Government and it must go on up through the regular appeal route. There isn't too much hope that the Government will win the case. And it doesn’t matter much

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—Dr. Gilmore of Iowa State University gave a most interesting speech at the Parents’ Magazine annual luncheon yesterday. It was a difficult thing to do, for he had to make it in two parts since only half of it could be on the air. . He gave everybody present much food for thought. I felt deeply honored that the committee had chosen me to receive their award this year. The child's head on the medal I received is really a lovely thing which I shall enjoy. Of course, I realize that it is because of my good fortune in being associated with so many groups who are doing good work for the children of our country that I have been given this recognition and I wish all _of them could have been honored with me. Between all my engagements yesterday, I did a little Christmas shopping. Among other things, I spent some very pleasant moments picking out books which I thought would be enjoyed later on by some of my friends. At 4 o'clock I was finding my way to the Women’s City Club, which is now in Rockefeller Center. I had not been to the club since it moved and there were so many people there that it was difficult to picture what it would be like under normal cir-

. fish than eat.

night.

“that any more.

By Ernie Pyle

husband ran a vacation and fishing camp on the Eel River. The depression blew that up. Minnie’s greatest love was fishing. She'd rather But she hasn’t touched a rod for six years. The work is hard, but she doesn’t creak and groan under it. " Minnie’s husband works in a garage. Her oldest child is a daughter, 21, married. The youngest boy is 13. The middle boy is in the University of San Fran-+ cisco, a Catholic school. He is a star football player, one of the best in the whole city. He is studying for business. »

n ” Some Guests Careless

Minnie hasn't had any real exciting episodes in her six years as a hotel maid. She doesn’t have any trouble with guests. If they're disagreeable, she just lets it go. It's awful the way people treat hotel rooms. They do things they wouldn’t think of. doing at home, apparently just to get their money's worth. They’ll even take an ash try, and dump. it behind the radiator. “If they'd dump it in the middle of the floor I wouldn't care,” Minnie says. . Hotel maids’ pay, governed by a union scale, is $3.40 a day. The maids work six days a week, which makes $20.40. But in the winter when business is light, some of them are sent home ay noon and get only half a day’s pay. At the Californian, there are 18 rooms and 17 baths to a floor. That gives the maids less than 15 minutes to a room when the hotel is full. So you see they have to keep. on the go. The maids here honestly seem to have a great pride in their work. Almost nobody ever quits. The hotel gives them a room to eat lunch in, and serves them hot coffee. Her hobby is stamp collecting. She has been doing it for a long time, but being a hotel maid worked right in with it, stamps from guests. Minnie has two favorite newspaper columnists, and she wouldn't think of missing either one of them. One is Damon Runyan, and the other a fellow named —aw gee, I can’t come right out and say it. You'll just have to guess.

By Anton Scherrer

Bridge Gang that a certain Indianapelis boy, whose name might just as well have been Bill Sikes, started is career of crime. From being a petty thief he blossomed out into a full fledged burglar and through his daring and reckless escapades became one of the most notorious and resourceful criminals within the confines of Indianapolis. Or, for that matter, any place in the country. On one occasion he escaped from the Jeffersonville penitentiary to which he had been sent after fleecing a citizen of his gold watch and chain. In broad daylight, too. He had put many miles between himself and the prison and was foot sore and hungry. Coming across a farm house just after nightfall an idea suddenly struck him. Walking into the yard he knocked at the door and when the farmer opened it, “Bill” informed him that he was an escaped convict. Then he got down to business and made a proposition, namely that if the farmer would give him his supper and a good bed for the night he might take him back in the uorning and claim the reward.

Good Luck and Bad ”

It was a bargain, said the farmer, and after “Bill” had eaten a hearty meal he retired. He took off

his clothes to show his good faith. The farmer and his hired man seated themselves at his bedside with guns across their knees to watch him through the Sure, toward morning they fell asleep. Quick as a flash, Bill jumped out of bed, knocked the guns out of their hands, took the pants right off the farmer’s legs (honest) and made a clean getaway. All the farmer had to show for it was “Bill’s” Hseorded convict garb. , ~ “Bill's” luck went back on him, however. He was recaptured and stuck into jail again. When he got out, the career that began on the old Yellow Bridge was cut short by a bullet. Seems that Bill was caught plundering an Indianapolis home at the time. The Yellow Bridge isn’t good for any stories like It’s a. dandy place, though, to lean over the railing and spit into the water below.

By Raymond Clapper

because the medical societies—or at least a number of their more intelligent members—see that the profession is on indefensible ground when it attempts to break up the attempt of low-bracket families to finance their medical expense on principles no more revolutionary than those of an old-line life insurance company. Furthermore, the medical profession, by its hysterics over this common-sense movement, has only succeeded in attracting popular attention to the whole question of public health. It is unwittingly paving the way in the public mind for one of the major proposals to be pushed by the Administration in the next regular session of Congress Seiferal health bill.

Wagner Drafts Bill

Senator Wagner of New York has pending a measure which has been denounced by the medical societies —as socialistic or communistic or unethicai or something. Mr. Roosevelt is interested in this program.

Equally significant, Paul McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, is actively working in favor of some kind of a health program. Senator Wagner is interested only in a practicable, workable measure, and the way is open for conferences which will endeavor to find common ground all around. More than half of the 3000 counties of the United States, so Senator Wagner says, have no full- -time, trained public health officer. Hundreds of counties are without public health nurses. Only a few have maternal and child health personnel sufficient to meet their needs. ' Local preventive health measures are, Senator Wagner says, utterly inadequate to cope with basic health problems. Broadly the program is to offer Federal funds to states for expansion of health ser vices, hospitals and health centers—not to take profitable practice away

from doctors but to bring medical care to those unable to afford it.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

cumstances. I enjoyed seeing old friends and made up my mind I must try to go there more often. At 6 o’clock I took the train.to Philadelphia to attend the evening meeting of the National Girl Scout Executives. It was held in the convention hall and hundreds of girls filled the main floor. They were followed by the massed flags of the United States, accompanied by flags of other nations where girl scouting is being carried on. The scene was a thrilling one. I .think Mrs. Hoover, who has made the Girl Scouts one of her main interests, must have a great sense of satisfaction in looking at so many young girls together and realizing what this organization she has fostered has been able to do for them all over the country. Back at my apartment in New York, I could not help spending a little time glancing through two books which had been sent me. One has a most intriguing name. It 1s called “Do Adolescents Need Parents,” and is written by Katharine Whiteside Taylor, and published for the committee on human relations of the Progressive Education Association. There is much in it, I think, which parents and young people will find interesting and helpful. Then I turned to a book called “The Living Goya,” by Miss Mercedes C. Barbarrosa. This I found fascinating reading and the numerous illustrations of Goya's work add greatly to the book. He was one of Spain's great artists,

She gets lots of foreign

AGREE PRICE OF MILK TOO HIGH

But Distribution’ Practices Are To Blame, Say Officials Here.

Indiana milk administrators today agreed that a cut of several cents a quart could be accomplished in every American city “if distribution methods were eased.” “The consumers themselves are responsible in a great measure for the high cost of milk because of their demands for the best possible distribution service,” Leon C. Coller, Marion County milk agministrator, said. Charges that retail milk prices ivohghous the United States are too high were made in an article published in the current issue of Fortune Magazine. C. W. Humrickhouse, State Milk Control Board executive secretary, agreed with Mr. Coller,

Points to Complications

“Conditions entering into the milk price situation,” he said, “are almost too numerous and complicated to explain clearly to the average consumer.” Mr. Coller declared that 20 per cent of the consumers cause most

lof the extra distribution costs.

“For example,” he said, “families of high incomes demand expensive rear-door service and even some of them demand that their milk be delivered direct! into their ice boxes at inconvenient hours of the night. “Naturally competition forces the distributors’ to give that kind of service to keep the business. This extra distribution cost necessarily must be paid by all consumers.” -

Says Prices Could Be Cut

He said that if all consumers would be satisfied to get their milk from a ‘designated depot or neighborhood . ‘substation, retail milk prices could be: ‘reduced several cents a quart.” The present retail price of milk in Indianapolis is 11 cents a quart delivered and 10 cents at stores. Farmers now have a petition before the State Milk Board to increase the price paid to them by distributors. Action is being held up pending a new surplus survey. Distributors claim that if an increase is granted the farmers they will have to put the retail delivered price back up to 12 cents.

Legislative Witnesses

Criticize Milk Dealers

Charges that Indiana milk dealers are manipulating surplus supplies into lower price brackets to the disadvantage of farmers, were being

studied today by a joint legislative

committee investigating market contro! practices. The committee, headed by State Senator John Bright Webb (D. Indianapolis), was created by the last Legislature to conduct a {two-year survey of milk market conditions and make recommendations for legislative reforms in 1941. A dozen witnesses {testified yesterday, most of them charging that the farmers were not getting a fair price for their milk that is designated into surplus classes. Under the State Milk Control Act, committees set up in each county, composed of five farmers and five dealers, separate the milk supply int) retail and surplus classes with the latter bringing lower prices. “Several witnesses testified that the Indianapolis Committee has been holding the surplus back in order to place it into lower--rice bracket for sale fo manufacturers of butter,” Senator Webb said. Evidence that about 60 per cent of the milk delivered to distributors in Indianapolis is dumped into the surpl price classifications was being studied by the committee.

BREAKFAST IN JAIL

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 25 (U. B). -—H. C. Bacon was under one to three years prison sentence today

for burglarizing the offices of an 'egg concern,

1. Is everybody happy? At the Indianapolis Day Nursery, one of

37 agencies partially supported by for money now is nearing an end.

the Community Fund, whose drive

2. When a man's warm, and has good attention, he’s happy -and

he’ll grow up to do big things.

That's the general attitude of this chap,

one of the children at Suemma Coleman Home, another Fund project.

3. For riding purposes, a duck is as good as a horse, if you have a duck. These chaps, at St. Elizabeth's Home, another Fund unit, have

each and they're happy. 4. A sound camera shot of this

goos and gurgles that would be baby praise for the rattle.

also is at St. Elizabeth's Home.

would have. conte out in a series of This child

CITES PERIL IN RELIEF WASTE

C. of .C. Warns Funds for

Those in ‘Real Need Are Endangered.

Wastes in relief expenditures “shortly will endanger funds for those in, actual need,” according to executives of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. This warning was issued today by William H. Book, Chamber executive vice president, in a re-

port of the committee on taxation activities, at the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries convention at Chicago. He and Samuer Mueller; Chamber promotion and extension director, are attending. The report states that the growth of welfare and relief activities has been so rapid that after 10 years of depression, public spending for these purposes approximately equals the costs of all other activities of local governmeic.

“While none will propose reduc-|

tions that would endanger the welfare of any needy person, conditions have been found in some communities, indicating that many per-

sons are receiving public assistance

who are not in need of it. “Prices paid for relief supplies are too high. Business practices are conducive to waste, money spent is not adequately audited, and other plainly evident extravagances and wastes exist which, if permitted to go unchallenged, will shortly endanger the funds available for those who are in actual need.”

BUTLER TAKES PART IN AVIATION MOVIE

Forty students nts of ie the Butler University civilian pilots training course participated in the filming of scenes for “Wings Over Indianapolis” at Municipal Airport today. The motion picture is being made by local movie and ‘aviation enthusiasts. Dr. Seth E. Elliott, director of the training course given through the Civil Aeronautics auiheriy Sirecied the group.

Gunny Sacks Ignite Home

BEDFORD, IND. OCT. 25 (U. P.).—Mrs. William Hayes beat out a brush fire near her home with some gunny sacks. Believing they would be useful to beat out other fires, she tossed them in the smokehouse.

The sacks smouldered and set fire to the smokehouse. Sparks leaped to the Hayes residence and destroyed it.

3 EX-BLIND SCHOOL TEAGHERS HONORED

Three former members of .the Indiana Blind School faculty - were honored today at the school. They were Miss Nancy Crampton, former grade school teacher and dean of girls; Wilham T. Shannon, former music principal, and William Rhoades, former teacher of manual training and chief car-

penter of the school. A student committee which took part included Austin Harl, Genevieve Beamer, William Eugene Claspell and Alfred Zimmerman. Superintendent Robert Lambert spoke. Charles Hanson played an organ -solo. . Each teacher received a scroll. Frank Williams, head of the industrial department, presided.

HI-Y.CLUBS TO MARK © 20TH ANNIVERSARY

Times Speciat ~~

FT. WAYNE, 'Ind., ‘Oct. 25.—The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hi-Y. Clubs in Ft. Wayne will be celebrated here early in Decem-

ber.

Hi-Y and Torch Club: members will meet soon to make plans for a celebration, which will also mark the 50th anniversary of the Hi-Y movement in. the United States. Members of the first Hi-Y Club in Ft. Wayne, founded at Central High School. in 1919, will be guests of honor at the celebration.

County’s ‘Perfect Baby’ To Be Crowned Tonight

An estimated 2000 attendance will be present at the Butler Fieldhouse tonight when-the “perfect baby” of Marion County is crowned by Mayor Reginald Sullivan. £04 Crowning of the baby will be one of the features scheduled for the ‘Indianapolis Lions Club’s floor show and dance.

Two orchestras will be of

Lowe's Orchestra will play for danc-

ing. The Shortridge High School hand will open the program -at f1 p,m. R. J. Shultz will direct. The Butler] - University Band will be directed by Ellis Carrol. Professional éntertainers will be in the 20-act floor show. ; Proceeds will be given for the care nderprivileged children and th

ONE-NIGHT GOBLINS, who

Even Goblins Should Be Wary, Halloween- Bent Children Told

What Uncle Alf Did in ’90 May Bring You Trouble in ’39, Mor Tgan Advises Pups. 2

undertook years ago to celebrate

Halloween in a style long used by veteran ghosts, didn’t run the physi.

‘cal risks they would today.

There were no autos to strike them if they ran impetuously into

the street, and the whole motion of living was slower. Likewise, there were less chances of property damage.

roll a barrek into the street and be sure that some unsuspecting motorist wouldn’t strike it and yverhaps wreck his car and injure some one. This, in general, is the theme of a warning broadcast to Indi anapolis children by DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of public schools, and William Evans, director of ‘school safety.

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UNCLE ALF, they pointed out, can talk all he wants about what he used to do when Halloween came around, but chances are Uncle Alf lived on a farm or in a small town, where dangers to life and property were not so great as they are in Indianapolis today. Mr. Morgan suggested that teachers write notes to parents and’ try to interest them in promoting heighborhood parties and thus create “a sane and sensible Halloween celebration.” Police report they will arrest anyone found committing vandalism in the “spirit” of Halloween.

’39 RICHMOND FALL FESTIVAL IS OPENED

Times Special

RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 25.—The

1939 Richmond Fall Festival started | -

today with a farm and home economics exhibit. Judging of the exhibits will be tonight. A horse-pulling contest. will highlight tomorrow’s program. Fri-

‘| day will be given over to special activities for boys and girls with races|:

and a greased pig chase. The Pennsylvania Railroad soy. bean exhibit will be on display for the duration of the festival.

MARINE “BAND BOOKED

Times Special ANDERSON, Ind. Oct. 25.—The U. S. Marine Band, William F. Santelman conducting, will present a concert Friday evening at Anderson High auditorium. Concert proceeds will be used to develop

One conid

METHODIST SESSION SET,

Times Special GOSHEN, Ind, Oct. 25. — DF. Rollin H. Walker, Delaware, Q., former professor of religion at Wesleyan College, will be the prine cipal speaker at three meetings to be held here in the First Methodist

. | Episcopal Church, Nov. 19-22,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which state are the; Cate skill Mountains? 2—What ‘is excommunication? © 3—Name the President of Ture, key. ’ + What is the interest on ~ $1000 for one year at 4% per, cent? ‘5—Including 1939, how mas consecutive pennants : “have, i been won by the New * York ois Yankees baseball team? ~~; 6—What are the three states of ; matter? od 7—At the mouth of what. river. is the city of ad? 8—What is* the correct: pro nunciation of . the fantasy? J BN “Answers ‘1—New York. : ‘2—Exclusion trom religious pr: 1leges. , Ris 3—Gen. Tsmet Inonu. 3-Furty-Bve dollars.

6—solld, liquid. and gaseous.

: ‘Neva. : ~8—Fan’ riasys not fan-tas’

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