Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1939 — Page 17

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939 |

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"Hoosier Vagabond

¢ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.—Since I'am myself a rather tenacious traveler, I decided to go around to “the San Francisco’ branch of Traveler's Aid. to see if I could get some aid. £ Sine I wasn’t: out of money, didn't need a job, : : hadn’t run away from home and could speak. passable - English, there wasn’t much they could do for me. : But I hung around ° long enough to ask them what they did for other people, and what I found out was plenty. There are 10 people on the downtown staff and six over at the Exposition. ‘They speak half a dozen languages and meet every overland train and. bus arriving “here. ~ However, the bewildered ‘peopie they: pick up at the stations are only a small percentage of the total. . The bulk comes directly to them. Nine times out of 10 they are out of money and have no place to go. : Traveler's Aid puts them up for a night, or several nights. .They stay at nearby hotels and mustn't pay over a dollar. In many cases Traveler's Aid sends them back home, on al Tare.

The Runaway Children

Runaway children form a good bloc of the Traveler’s Aid clients. The age of runaways will almost span a century. They get children hardly big enough for kindergarten. And their oldest runaway was & man of 102. He was a funny case. He lives in Illinois. He got tired staying around home, so he ran away. When he showed up here he said he had a pal who came out to the gold rush in ’49, and he had never heard of him since, and thought he'd come out and look him up. Did the Traveler’s Aid happen to know his pal? No, they didn’t. - They sent the. old gentleman back home.

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Our Town

IF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH to remember, you'll recall in 1890 or thereabouts, Jacob Riis wrote a series of articles for The Century labeled “How the Other Half Lives,” a study of the slums of New York. It opened the eyes of America. With that out of the way, he went to work to learn what was the matter. with the public schools. America blinked again. And no wonder, because this time Mr. Riis discovered that of all the schools of the country those of Indianapolis stood on top. Henrietta (Polly) Colgan, then principal of School 10—the one at 13th St. and Ashland Ave. (now Carrollton) —made a matter of fact entry of Mr. Riis’ discovery in her diary at the time. So matter of fact, indeed, that only those on the inside knew of her pride and the part she played—along with others—in bringing the Indianapolis school system ‘to a point of perfection where it attracted the attention of representatives not only of this country, but of all parts of the world. 5.

Diary Is Found

Miss Colgan’s diary came to light in 1930, too late to be used by Evans Woollen Sr. on Dec. 3, 1913, the day School 10 and, indeed, the whole city turned out to express their appreciation of Miss Colgan. It was the -day she retired after 50 years of continuous service as an Indianapolis school teacher. -Mr. Woollen was picked to make a speech because, of all the kids turned out by No. 10, he was as good a sample as any. Maybe you don’t know it, but Mr. Woollen is a graduate of Julia Ashley’s No. 10 Baby Room. She lives to tell the tale. Far be it from me to disparage Mr. Woollen’s speech, but the fact remains that he didn’t know about Miss Colgan’s diary—a defect I am prepared to remedy today. The diary turned up in an old trunk sent to Miss Colgan’s cousin, Mary, then living at Saranac Lake, N. Y. As far as I know nobody around here, except maybe Miss Eppert, the present principal of No. 10, knows anything of! its contents. Miss Colgan’s diary begins with 1864 when she started her second year of teaching. She was 20 at

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct 26.—Those who would have preferred to repeal all neutrality legislation and “go back to international law” have a stern- object: lesson in the seizing of the City of Flint. This incident could not have occurred had the pending neutrality bill been in effect, because neither the City of Flint nor any other American

ship could have been sailing for

an English port What is international law? It is actually whatever you can get away with, whatever A. you can make stick. .Under international law the City of Flint had a full right to carry contraband. Under international law the Germans had a full right to ize her. " All you get out of international law under such circumstances are inflammatory headlines like Ahis: “U. S. Upholds Seized Ship; . Declares Freighter Sailed Legally.” And the average reader naturally jumps to the conclusion that we have been outraged by Germany. Only by reading down in the fine type does he discover that Germany seized the ship legally and that, ‘as a matter of fact,.the British have been Seizing our ships and at this moment actually hold “three or four,” according to the U. S. Maritime Commission. Only when the British do it our officials scarcely bat an eye and the incident goes down in the small type, while when the Germans do it, officials issue firm statements and you get box-car headlines. y . » 2 » Yidernationnl Law Again

My Day

MUNCIE, Ind., Wednesday.—1 spent from 1:45 until 4:30 at the Herald-Tribune Forum in New Y ‘City yesterday afternoon. ‘The keynote speech - given by Dr. Conant of Harvard, and then there were a great many able, clever speakers, all pointing up the central theme, “The Challenge to Our Democracy.” The speech which seemed-to me the most sane and sensible far this particular period was made by .Mr. John Lord O’Brien. . He stressed the fact that in the World War there had been much hysteria and that in many ways we had found ourselves unprepared to meet the. demands. of the war situation, but stated that at present our laws and. our administrative set-ups. were quite capable of meeting our. present situation. He felt we needed to remain calm and go about our daily business unafraid.

I was sorry to have to leave without hearing the concluding speakers, particularly Mrs. William Brown Meloney, but I was taking an evening train and had a guest waiting for me at the apaitment, so I dashed

and spent. the next three hours very

‘By Ernie Pyle

| Runaways Stinitsh invariably lie at first. "Their excuses fail into three groups—trouble at home, just out for adventure or running away to keep from going to school.- Traveler's Aid says you'd be surprised how many boys run away. from home to keep from-taking music lessons. Can't say I blame them. One day three girls got off a bus here. They didn’t seem to know where to go. The girls said they came out here to get jobs. “What could they do?” Traveler's Aid asked. ' They giggled. and said they couldn’s do anything. The girls were aged 13,14 and 15 years. ‘Finally the true story came out. The 13-year-old was. the leader. She had stolen her stepfather’s savings from a tin can in.ihe chimney and induced the other girls to| come with her. 2. 2. =

Some- Sad Cases, Too Not everybody is broke who applies to Traveler’s

Ald for help. One woman, suddenly stricken with a slight mental derangement, had a round-the-world

steamship ticket and $2000 in cash in her pocketbook.|

' Another had a brand new Chrysler car, but not a dime to ‘her name.

an Englishwoman, had painted her skin and gone up into the Himalayas and lived with a native tribe, had Just got back from India, and the money she had expected wasn’t there. Traveler's Aid didn’t believe a , word ‘of it. But they cabled to England anyway, and back came money for the woman, and information not only verifying her story, but disclosing that she was a titled Englishwoman! ho to lost children, people | in trouble at the Fair are mostly those who've had their pockets picked. One

poor guy, laid off work for a month, took out his sav-!:

ings and drove out here from New York to see the Fair. The very first day his pocket was picked of $130, every cent he had.

| Traveler's Aid arranged a logn on his. oir, and he |g

started sadly home next morning.

By Anton Scherrer

the time. The entries in her little accounts which she kept so carefully show that she received $80 every three months and $10 extra on the first of June, making her salary for the year somewhere around

$250. ne Colgan family, including Henrietta and her sister, Mary, not yet old enough to teach, lived on the other side of the tracks on what is now E. 11th St. They rose about half- -past four, did a good deal of housework and sometimes even wént skating before breakfast. After which Henrietta walked all the way to her first job, the First Ward School at the corner of Vermont and New Jersey Sts. Arriving there she had to sweep her schoolroom and build the fire ‘in the stove.

Problem of Discipline

The discipline, she notes, was a great problem ‘and involved the whipping of boys larger than herself and almost as old. In the course of her diary, too, she shows the profoundest regard for "Mr. Shortridge’s opinion and fears that he will think her a failure because she had to report two. boys to him when the year before she settled all her troubles herself. Another time she says: “Mr. Shortridge examined my: school in spelling and I had a good cry after school because they averaged only 89 per cent.” On another occasion she writes: “I am so sleepy, but cannot go to bed until the new clock strikes eight. I do so love its musical -tone. While we were waiting Pa told us that When he was a boy, he used to go far out of his way to school every morning inorder to hear his Aunt’s ‘clock strike. It was a great novelty ang made him feel better all day.” Miss Colgan’s reference to her clock is particularly significant because we now know that she spent the better part of her first year’s salary to buy. it. Well, that was what I was coming to. Soon as you enter School 10 today the first thing you see is a beautiful clock with chimes, weights and everything. Just the kind that would have tickled Miss Colgan no end. It was given the school in 1930 a year after she’ died when old No. 10 was rededicated and named the Henrietta Colgan School. Even more whimsical is my discovery that Miss Eppert, who suggested a clock as perhaps the best thing to remember Miss Colgan by, had the idea before she knew anything about the touching entry in Miss Colgan’s diary.

By Raymond Clapper

And where does “international law” get us with]

Russia? The Hague Convention of 1907 says that a neutral power may allow prizes to enter its ports. But when the United States ratific d’ the convention|s it refused to accept that provision. What we. accept as international law in demanding that Russia surrender the City of Flint to us, may not be international law for those who want to follow "The Hague convention. So if devising neutrality legislation is not a simple thing, neither is “going back to international law.” Apparently the City of Flint affair. has .served the purpose of impressing legislators with the importance of prompt enactment of shipping restrictions. While Senators were arguing about the pro-British prayer which Mr. Roosevelt heard: at : church. last Sunday, and while Senator Minton, a graducte of Indiana’s “Two-Per Cent Clubs,” was taking Senator Nye to task for accepting speaking engagements on a fee basis, the statute books stood wide open for such American traffic to belligerent ports as the City of Flint was engaged in: ” ”® ”

It Could Have Been Avoided

Some time ago Senator Tobey of New Hampshire, recognizing the danger of delay, vainly sought to obtain action to plug up the shipping danger by delaying the arms embargo debate until later. Had Congress acted upgn his suggestion, the State Department would not now be attempting to enforce “international law” on Germany and Russia, and the City of Flint would not be. in foreign clutches. | Not even the most fanatical advocate of neutrality]. legislation believes that a law can automatically keep out of war. Much more than a law is necessary. | But a-law can minimize that risk. In this instance, it| would have eliminated the risk completely: And the fewer episodes of this kind we have, the less likely is public opinion to become inflamed. 4

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Rain greeted us in Muncie. I am: afraid 1 shall ‘not see a’ great deal of this city, which was made famous

- as the original “Middletown,” a book : very widely

read and which everyone with an interest in average American life: must have found an interesting study.

After a short press conference we started on our mail’ and the necessary unpacking for the evening. Shortly, Mr. Sterling, of the NYA, appeared to show me some photographs and to tell me something of their, work in this area. The NYA boys have done a great deal of construction work. The girls are doing largely clerical work in ‘schools and libraries. NYA seems. to have .done a good job of’ interesting the communities in their youth. ': When ‘we went ‘down to lunchean, Mr: f, Connor. a. regional supervisor of WPA, greeted 'me.- While Miss Thompson ‘and I ate our luneh, he brought four: other WPA officials to sit around our table and talk. to us. They have not yet started on their new program of workers’ education, which I talked over’ with Miss Kerr, Miss Hilda Smith ‘and various other. interested people, before I left Washington. I hope: before long, however, a real wdrkers service program will be under way. Adult education has suffered greatly frem the 18 months cut, bug I gather that everyone Sohcetned

Still another woman showed up|} without a penny. She had a weird story that she was |:

w a

The first order of business for the 17,000 Indiana school teachers here for a two-day This scene is at the Claypool desk. There were similar

convention was to obtain a room. jams at all hotels.

Baggage, baggage, baggage!

The hotel bellboys never saw so much of it at one time,

This pile was

stacked, in the Claypool lobby while teachers awaited room assignments.

- Jamestown;

BIRL, 16, TAKES PEN-OF-5 PRIZE

Jean Clark's Aberdeen: Angus Calves Rate Highest “At Steer Contest.

Jean Clark, 16-year-old Clarksville High School girl, ‘today was named champion in the pen-of-five. classification at the fourth annual Hoosier Fat Steer: Contest at the Union Stockyards. Although Miss Clark, a 4-H Club member for six years, has been a. consistent prize winner in ‘the lamb division at the International Livetock Sho®% at Chicago, this is the first year she has entered the steer show here. She displayed a pen of five '‘Aberdeen-Angus calves. She -is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Clark of Clarksville,

Others Wins Prize

Other’ winners in the pen-of-five.

classification were: Marion Drake, Frankton; Margaret Wiley, Jamestown; Chester Edwards, Frankville; Hugh. A. Harlow, Kempton; Melvin Young, * Greentown; Robert Etherington, Robert McLaughlin, and Herschel Drake,

Kokomo; Lebanon, Frankton. , Winners in the pen-of-three classification: were: Willard Bainbridge, Gréensburg, first; Glen Canfield, Frankton; Florence: . Paris,

. \Franktcn; Andrew Miner, Frankton;

Wayne. Perkins, Greenfield; Walter Merrill, | Elwood; Robert Carey, Pendleton; Kenneth Main, Selma; Melvin Smith, Lizton, and Frederick Copp. Kokomo. Judging aiso was to-be held today in the single classifications.

378 Animals Entered

The show was sponsored by the Agricultural Extension Department of Purdue. , Judges were Prof. Frank G. King, chief of animal husbandry at Purdue, and Charles Lamb, Indianapolis representative of- Swift & Co. A total of 378 animals were entered by 245 contestants in the show. Last year’s. show attracted 216 entries. ‘Pollowing the judging, the animals were to be auctioned this afternoon by Col. Mark Bottema, Indianapolis auctioneer,

THERE’S PLENTY OF COLDS TO GO AROUND

CHICAGO, Oct. 26 There’ll be more than enough colds to go around in the United States this winter, Robert Toubib, Washington, D. C, predicted today in the "health magazine, Hygzeia, He estimated that there would be about 200,000,000.

He said he did not believe that

a majority of colds are caught from others and based his estimate on the fact, that when it: comes to colds, vertently seems to have. a “share-the-cold” complex. - He theorized that certain persons carry the - infective agent of the cold and pass it on to others, having had a cold ;

John Wiley

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Times Photos".

Miss ° Marilyn McDonald, left, stage manager -for a production to be given the Association by St. Mary of the Woods students, talks over the entertainment plans with Mrs. Josephine Saunders, Muncie.

By Dr. Frank Thone

Science Service Staff Writer

famous long-range German guns in the St. Gobain for-

est, 75 miles away.

This is not a fanciful proposal, cribbed from.a thriller series .in what used to be called the comie section. It is the serious suggestion of an officer’ in the ordnance reserve of the U. S. Army, Maj.

published in Army Ordnance; the professional journal . which: you will find- on the desk of. every ordnance officer. Maj. Randolph makes a number of suggestions’ that could be_ put into effect in a relatively short time, needing perhaps only a few months of intensive engineering research to produce missiles suitable for present-day battle ranges. ‘8 ” s

points out, ers ‘which the infantry: now

‘carries into battle, .to blast out machine-gun nests and , other

‘after the" First- World War, enable’ the infantry to’ ‘conduct

forward ds rapidly. as ihe; ie Ifany rdinary h fighting

Rockets Seen as ~~ Future War Weapons

ASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Rocket-bombs, roaring sud- . denly out of a clear sky, may be the heralds of the third World War, just as air raids ushered in the present one, the second of the series. World War comes: to its armistice, long-range rockets may .be carrying TNT and poison gas to Europe’s beleaguered capitals, as in 1918 Paris was. harried by shells from ‘the

‘Indeed, even before today’s

James E. ‘Randolph, and it was

flight.

OCKETS might be used, ‘he instead « of the trench mortars. and light howitz- :

enemy strong points that hold-up - the advance. These light artillery pieces were evolved | during and

‘by advancing robe, they are stiil ‘rather’ heavy, for ‘they: must ‘be’

strong enough to stand the. firing charges that’ propel theit projectiles.

rocket through the first few feet of its flight. A rocket, unlike .a shell; starts slowly and develops its maximum velocity in ‘midA shell gets one push at the start; a rockat carries its own propellant charge and keeps right on pushing .until it hits something. he lightness. of , ‘rocket tubes

.would permit them to be carried by even the most advanced scout-. . ing” parties, operating on foot or

horseback in’ mountainous ‘country, or by eanne. on jungle rivers. » "

OCKET, - LAUNCHING, ap-

p: el advantage. .in sieg pesos. |,

for great numbers

some, of its own shellfire, instead | be a of having to. depend on :the a. ‘batteries of 73's, and heavier field -| guns in the rear that cannot move

‘Times Special

‘Rocket tubes, on the ether: - hand, canbe -the merest. paperthin shells of metal—+they. do not, ‘even: need to be: steel—because ‘their. enly job is to ; guide the

Ties ‘Special

; “Now where's that and how do I'get there?” was a common question of the visitors, . Mary Anne Russe (right) used a city map to show Mildred Hartman, Bluffton teacher, how to find her way around.

Among those here: for the annual sodomy were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph

Irons.

Mr. Irons, shown registering at the Claypool Hotel, is super=

intendent of Evansville public schools.

@ At breakfast before: the sessions began today were Miss Edith

Thomson, - left, muisic’ supervisor

of the Rochester schools, and

Miss Marguerite Mitchell, supervisor of art at Rochester,

Anti -Polish Propaganda Sent Businessmen Here

Indianapolis businessmen = and postal. officials’ were . both puzzled and amused today by receipt through the mails of literature directed against the former Polish nation. “ Bearihg the postmark of Graven‘hague, Netherlands, the literature, which was mailed to persons repre-

| senting business ‘and professional | “| life, contained’ two maps of ‘Poland

as.it existed ,hefore the war. Although there was no clue as to its; sender, :it “warned” of: Polish territorial demands on “the Whole of

100 TRUSTEES FROM 14 COUNTIES TO MEET

"LAFAYETTE, .Ind., :Oct. 26— More than 100 township trustees from 14 northwest Indiana counties are expected to ‘attend the First, and Second District Trustees.

Association meeting here Nov. 9:

The: “Tippecance County :Board of . Education and Purdue Uni--versity's: division of education and applied psychology will sponsor the meeting. 5 ‘Dr. R.'W. Fairchild, Tilinois State Normal University president, will speak on “The Trends in Rural Education,” and Dr. F. 'B. Knight, director of the Purdue division of

education and applied psychology, |

will discuss “The Township Trustee as a .School Administrator.” - Other speakers incldue Charles Russell of Brook, . Ing. oSSoetation president, and ‘Prof.’ at

MUNCIE WILL. HEAR + ADMIRAL STIRLING

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Hast Briss, futthormore. ine Prove

ince’ of Pomerania, the eastern part of Germany’s central province ins cluding Frankfort and practically the whole of Silesia.” © | One : map - shows. “German territory threatened by Polish expansion,” another in bright colors shows

“the distribution of minorities" in

Poland today.” - John H. ‘Rothert, stiperintendent of mails. said it “probably will be called . to the attention of ‘Washington" postal authorities.” The postmark did not show: the daté of maling, :

TEST YO U R KNOW )WLEDGE

1—What, is the | name for the scientific study of ‘crime and ; _criminals? 3d 2—In which State is Imperial Valley? 3-—-How long is a decade? - 4—0f which country is Christian : X the King? : * 5—What 'is the correct’ pronunciation of the ore floriferous? 6—What body of water is bordered ‘by India ‘and Burma? 7—Does ice: confain heat? -8—What- is intrastate commerce?

. » 2 F 4 » - Answers 1—Criminology. - 2—California. 3—Ten years." .4—Denmark. 5—-Flo-rit -er-Us; + orfer’sous. 6—Bay, of Bengal. (7—Yes. ' SCommerce within ai state. :

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