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Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.—You can rent a Hertz Drivurself car at any big city on the Pacific Coast, drive it through to another city, and turn it in there. About five cars a week are rented for trips from But only about three cars a week make the trip back up. So Hertz has to ship those two extra cars back by boat. You can’t rent a car here and turn it in at, say, Chicago. That's because, if they have to ship it back, the freight rates are too high. - (You could, of course, do it ou wanted to pay that shipping charge, but there wouldn’t be any sense in it.) People frequently rent cars for leng vacation trips. The longest this year was one of 4500 miles. Some local people drove down to Arizona, up to Denver and finally back home to San Francisco. The longest rental so far was for six months. They were people from the East who spent the whole summer touring the West. The car was fresh from the factory when they rented it, and when they finally turned it back in it was ready for trading on a new one; , The six months’ use of the car cost the people $750, and that included their gas and oil. ® t 4 2

Some Funny Incidents

When people in a rented car have a flat tire or any mechanical trouble, they get a garage to fix it. They get a receipt, and when they get back with the car Hertz reimburses them. When we were in Honolulu a couple of years ago, I rented a light sedan for $20 a week, under an ar-

rangement limiting the mileage to 200 a week. The same arrangement here would cost you $32.50.. How-

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I DOUBT WHETHER adequate analysis has yet been made of the Serpentine Dance and the part Loie Fuller played in putting it over. As near as I recall it was some time in the Nineties, in Dickson's Grand Opera House, that I saw her do it. For the life of me, I never could figure out why it was billed a Serpentine Dance. Certainly it wasn’t a dance, if by that artform we mean an exercise gf the legs. Miss Fuller didn’t Tove her feet by as much as an inch during the greater part of her performance, and I know what I'm talking about because I watched her like everything. She waved her arms around a lot though. As for the serpentine part of her act, it was a misnomer, too. Not by the widest stretch of the imagination did it have anything to do with snakes. Quite the contrary, It was headed in just the other direction—toward the clouds or, maybe, even Heaven. ® # =

Likened to Cigar Smoke

Indeed, now that I look back, it strikes me that Miss Fuller's performance of the Serpentine Dance ‘was the nearest thing I ever saw that looked like the piling up of clouds—anyway, like the action of smoke when it leaves the end of a Corona-Corona ($1.00). Which brings me to the point of today’s piece, namely the kind of dress Miss Fuller wore to get her ethereal effects. The dress was the mos{ important part of her act. So important, in fact, that had she tried to interpret her dance in tights, without the help of skirts, it would have made her look kind of silly.

BE —— ——— -t

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Now that the House is on record in favor of repeal of the arms embargo, the Neutrality Bill should be law within a few days—and about as good a law as can be expected in face of the uncertain and complex condition of the world today. But as Governor Landon emin a speech this week, we can’t just pass a law and have peace. He warns of “melodramatic over-emphasis of emotional incidents.” He sees the danger that once we have a new. Neutrality Law we will relax our vigilance. The sinking of a British freighter apparently by submarine attack within the lines of the new safety zone in the Atlantic causes some anxiety lest this newly pruclaimed protective belt involve us in difficulties. Governor Landon shares that view and says that enforcement of this provision, embodied in the Declaration of Panama, Bo full of dangerous possibilities and would - be the biggest job ever assumed by any nation. s 8 =.

Difficult to Enforce That is the way the Monroe Doctrine, when first proclaimed oy this weak, struggling young republic,

irst took wing. We had great difficulty in enforcing ry I indeed did not always attempt to do so ‘in the wih years. of the first to infringe was Great Britain.

HUTCHINSON, Kas, Thursday.—We reached my son’s house yesterday morning so early that the entire family had finished breakfast and felt that the day was already well advanced, when my small grandson : Gemayled that we go for a walk. We looked at our watches and found that it was just 8:30. We finally did take a walk in the warm sunshine, even though our clothes on this trip are not very well adapted to rough roads or fields. The weather was too lovely, however, to stay indoors. After an early lunch, we drove to Denton, where we ‘went directly to the Texas State College for Women. President Hubbard took us to a little chapel in the woods which they were dedicating. This is an NYA project, the chapel was built by NYA boys and the the decorations are being done by the art students in the college. One stained window is already finished. Each one of these windows is to show some form of service performed by women. The window over the altar is to glorify motherhood with the Madonna in the center, and the rose window above the door will contain Texas wild-

The setting of the chapel in a grove of trees on a little hill is very charming. An atmosphere of peace . surrounded it yesterday, in spite of the crowd of peodedication ceremony. The

ever, note you would have a bigger car, a newer one, and more thorough insurance coverage. Many funny things happen in the car rental business. There is a well-to-do and very able commercial man who comes to San Francisco frequently and rents a car. He's sort of a problem, because sometimes he’s

sober and sometimes he's drunk. And he’s one of |:

these freaks who can be so drunk they don’t know where they are and yet appear cold sober. Well, he came in one morning, looking fine, and rented a car. That afternoon w en a different man was on, he came in and rented another car. That night, from still. a different manager, he rented a third. Next morning, he was back for another. The manager looked at the records and saw he hadn’t re-

turned the first one. A little more digging revealed |

that he had rented three cars, and returned none of them. Then they figured it out. The fellow, although appearing sober, was as drunk as a, hoot owl. He had simply parked each of the three cars somewhere and forgotten all about them, - # # 2

He Needs Some Help

They sat him down and made him think hard. He finally did where he left the last one, and they

went and got it. But he could'nt remember about

the other two. So the police were: ‘notified, and they :

found them both within an hour There are 546 Hertz Drivurself stations in the United States. The outfit is now a part of General Motors. Passenger car rental is only a part of the Hertz business. They rent trucks, too. In fact, they rent 500 of them right here in this Bay area. It seems kind of silly to me. For instance, one big brewery here uses 72 trucks, They have their own advertising painted on them; they use them constantly; nobody else ever uses "them. Yet Hertz owns them, and merely rents them to the brewery. My poor brain can’t figure out how it could be a profitable arrangement to both sides, but you may be sure it 1s, or they wouldn’t be doing it.

By Anton Scherrer

Miss Fuller's dancing costume consisted of 100 yards of silk. No fooling. As a matter of fact, it was so big around the bottom that when a gust of wind came and blew it into what little girls called a “cheese,” it made a circle of 55 yards circumference. Which is the same as saying that it was possible to pull the dress 82 feet and 6 inches away from Miss

Fuller on either side of her without straining the silk.|

I haven't the time or space to explain it today. You just have to take my word for it, like you do Walter Lippmann’s column every once in a while. ; 8 = 8 ~~

The Orchestra Helps

Well, when Miss Fuller came on the stage dressed in her hundred yards of silk, she right away started waving her arms. I believe I mentioned that her legs didn’t have anything to do with it. To be sure, nobody saw her arms, but you knew they were there because she constantly kept’ throwing the voluminous (100 yards) looseness of her skirt around. In all directions, mind you, this way and that, until its fullness piled

up in soft cloud-like masses that rose and fell, reap-|

peared and disappeared, as smoke rolls up from a green wood fire. All this time, of course, the orchestra down in the pit under the direction of Reinhold Miller was fiddling away for dear life. The limelight man up in the gallery was doing his part, too, you bet. . He bathed Miss Fuller.in constantly changing colored lights. The effect was immense. The fleecy-like puffs of silk followed and chased one another incessantly. At times Miss Fuller actually seemed to be wrestling with the clouds. First she went after those around her feet; then she worked up higher; finally tackling those above her head. That finished, she looked like a goddess of the sky in command of everything she surveyed. At this precise moment, the lights went out as if she had turned indo vapor and blown away, | I

By Raymond Clapper

We made no protest, and to this day the islands have remained 4 British crown colony. Again in 1842 we

\ refrained from interference with a British blockade

of Buenos Aires. We saw the British seize Salvador’s port in 1851. Some years later Spanish warships bombarded the ports of Chile. During the Civil War we were of course helpless and Spain annexed part of San Domingo while the French, with British and Spanish collaboration, occupied Mexicq, In fact it was not until Cleveland’s time, when he was ready to go to war with Great Britain over Venezuela, that our supremacy in the Western Hemisphere became

decisive. 8 8 #

Many Bridges to Cross

Even in this century the Monroe Doctrine has been criticized, by such an authority, for instance, as the late Dr. Albert Bushneil Hart, because, among other things, it involved the United States in quarrels not its own with other countries, and because to maintain such a policy would require the United States to assume militaristic tendencies. These are exactly the grounds upon which the new Declaration of Panama, which seeks to throw out a front line of defense around the Monroe Doctrine, is criticized. By some it is said that literal enforcement of the doctrine will get us into all kinds of trouble. By others it is said the doctrine will fall of its own weight because nobody will observe it. This Government takes neither extreme position. Ultimately, we want to keep the backwash of European hostilities from our shores. That is the prirciple, the goal, the ideal. Literal enforcement at the moment may be impossible. Some incidents may occur which will violate the spirit of it but which are scarcely a cause for war. There will be many bridges Jo_ Sosy we shall have to cross them. one at a e,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

most moving part of this was a little speech given by one of the boys who worked on the chapel. I could not help thinking of the spirit of the master craftsmen of old who devoted years of their lives to building the beautiful cathedrals which we visit today in the countries across the water. Perhaps some of their spirit has descended upon our boys. A group of farm security people waited for me afterward to present me with a magazine which contains photographs of what they accomplished over a period of four years. I think this rehabilitation of farm people gives the county agents and the farm security representatives more satisfaction than any other type of Government work, because the benefits are so tangible in the families they serve. I had the pleasure of seeing a group which had come some 265 miles from Lockhart, Tex, . The girls who are taking the home economics course arranged the decorations and served dinner. I admired the charming table just as I had when I was here before. They do marvelous’ things with the butter, evolving a beautiful yellow rose ‘reposing on green leaves which one is alm®st loathe to eat. After the evening lecture, we left at once for the train and this morning encountered our first real de-. lay, arriving three-quarters of an hour late in Newton, Kas. Our hostess, who had driven over here from Hutchinson, had to wait for us. As there was no diner, we had to be content with someone’s kind thought in

putting on board for us some bottles of milk, Graham |

crackers and apples. I don’t think Miss Thompson thinks, cold milk takes the place of hot coffee so, as S00n 23 We arrived hers, our KUM) Hostess served ye coffee,

"By Ernie Pyle

arctica, The North Star (at right)

By Marshal D. Shulman -

Times Special Writer

arctic an official once-over.

sounds like a lark—but to the Government this expe-

dition is serious business. There are at least three ime portant reasons why, early this month, 125 men under the command of Rear Admiral Richard E. Bird will be on.their way to this mystery land of penguins and blizzards—to remain until the Spring of 1941. First of all, there's the matter of land-claiming.

The United States has never ‘recognized the claims of any other country to the Antarctic, nor has it ever made a claim on the basis of the previous trips of Lincoln Ellsworth and Admiral Byrd. Just in case the Antarctic might turn out to be valuable (as Alaska did, to almost everyone’s surprise) it seems to be a good idea to get in on the ground floor, And so the Expedition is going to set up a more-or-less temporary residence, on the basis of which the State Department in . Washington may Sulssguently assert a claim.

An earlier report that Little America, made familiar to Ameriicans by Admiral Byrd’s last trip, was to be given up has not been confirmed by Expedition leaders.

HE second purpose of the expedition is scientific. On the basis of its observations, the expedition hopes to shed some light on the mystery of weather. Expedition leaders are convinced that Antarctic observation posts will make it possible some day to forecast accurately weather in the

STATE C. I. 0, MAPS ORGANIZATION DRIVE

A state-wide organization campaign is to be started by regional C. I. O. directors, presidents of city and district industrial councils and organizers at the Auto Workers Hall at 9 a. m. Sunday. Jchn Bartee, Indiana State Industrial Union Council secretary, announced today. The drive is part of a nation-wide movement to bring the membership of the C. I. O. to 10 million workers. James Robb, regional C. I. O. director, will be chairman of the meeting. Tentative plans include the concentration of organizers of |C. I. O. affiliates in Indianapolis, Richmond, La Porte and Evansville. James Pascoe, Ft. Wayne, Indiana State Industrial Union Council president, will outline the organizational methods to the delegates.

WPA PROJECTS IN 5 COUNTIES APPROVED

The State. WPA Administration today approved projects in Whitley, Carroll, Shelby, Starke and Sullivan Counties for a total expenditure of $463,220. The projects include $87,698 for Whitley County road Improvement; $203,789 for Carroll County road improvement; $107,099 for construction of a grade and high school in Waldron, Shelby County; $52,345 for grade school construction in Knox, Starke County; $12,289 for index of deeds and morigages in Sullivan County.

STATE ORDERS CUT IN SHELBYVILLE TAXES

SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Nov. 3 (U. P.)—Tax levies of Shelby County, both the Civil City and the School|’ City of Shelbyville and the City of Morristown had been ordered cut today by The State Tax Commison. The Commission ordered a 5-cent slash in the Civil City levy and a T-cent cut in the School Levy, a 2cent cut in the County tax, and. al {10-cent cut in the Morristown tax.

KILLED BY CORNPICKER

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ANDERSON, Ind. Nov. 3 (U. P.). —John C. Smith, 63, of near Anderson, was killed yesterday when hel

is supply ship of the expedition, :

Land-Claiming Tops Byrd Objectives

BOSTON, Nov. 3.—A lot of people want to visit the South Pole, to judge by the flood of mail into the headquarters of .the Second U. S. Antarctic Expedition here, but not many people know why the United States, for the second time in a hundred years, is going to give the Ant-

To thousands of people of all ages, the trip apparently

South Pacific, area—a matter of tremendous importance to airlines and naval authorities. Biology, bacteriology, ology and geology are some of the sciences expected to benefit from the expedition. The clarity of the atmosphere will make possible a careful study of meteors. And . because cosmic rays bombard the earth with greater intensity in this area, they too will be in a favorable condition for study. Regular observations will be taken of the Aurora Australis, southern sister to the Aurora Borealis. In his last trip Admiral Byrd found quantities of coal which, though not commercially valuable, suggest that interesting fossils may be found, or such minerals as vanadium, iridium or radium. Apart from any commercial significance of such findings, they will be of interest as relics of a time when balmy weather may have ruled the Antarctic. The expedition will also carry on medical studies, testing the effect of extra low temperatures on the human body. Men seem to be much healthier in the Antarctic, although they recover from wounds and illness more slowly, perhaps because of the energy re= - quired to keep warm. : ® 8 8 HE third important purpose of this trip is tp solve the largest geographical question mark on the globe. There are a thousand miles of Antarctic coast-line still uncharted which, when mapped out, may form the basis of this country’s claim. This work will be done by dog sled teams, with the

City Schools

Indianapolis public schools will

The U. S. S. Bear (at left), sturdy veteran of the ice fields will carry the main Byrd “party to Ant-

meteor=

_ Admiral Richard E. Byrd “models” his Antarctic flying costume of reindeer skin,

possible help of airplanes or ships. -

There isn’t going to be any “Alone” this time, Admiral Byrd says, referring to his seven-month solitary stay at Advance Base during: the 1933-35 trip. However, there will be several observation posts with from two to four men each which will be cut off from. the main bases for long periods at a time.

. The two ships which are to -

carry the expeditions—the North Star and the Bear—are having the finishing touches put. on. =

to Mark

U. S. Education Week

participate in the annual nation-

wide observance of American Education Week which begins Sunday. Most schools here will hold open house, and education and safety movies are to be shown. Special exhibits will be on display.

Speeches

by school administrative officers are scheduled at nearly all schools.

students at Washington = High School at 10 a. m. Thursday on “The Importance of Education in Maintenance of American Democracy.” He also- will address open houses at Schools 44 and 45 Wednesday night. The American Association of University Women will conduct a forum on “The Public Schools and Their Contributiofts to Democratic Living” at the open house at School 9, 740 E. Vermont St. from 7-to 9 p. m. Wednesday. Among programs at other schools: O. B. Briedenbaught, of the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield, will speak at the open house Thursday evening at School 25, 400 E. Merrill St. Earl Buchanan, president of the School Board, will talk at an open house Friday night at School 31, 307 Lincoln St. “Education’ and . the American Way of Life” will be the topic discussed by Homer L. Chaillaux, national director of Americanism for the American Legion, ‘at the

George Winter, first professional artist in Indiana, lived and painted here when Indians roamed the territory and. when he had to send to Cincinnati for materials which cost a pretty gnny.. His : one-man show is now on view at the Herron Art Museum, and represents a considerable |

amount of attic prowling on the past: of Wilbur Peat, museum direc-

Oe collected 25 oils and 50 water colors and pencil sketches from ‘homes in and around Lafayette,

ter worked. Mr. Winter is not known to have had any other, source of income than his pictures, which sold for

aS ocauSHL, on # shall of a coms picker at his farm. Sod

DeWitt S. Morgan, Superintendent of public schools, will address

Wednesday evening open honse of Schqol 42, 1002. W. 25th St. Prof. John J. Haramy, of Indiana: -Central College, will talk on “Which Way America?” at an open house the same evening at School 43, 130 W. 40th St. Several schools plan special editions of thelr’ newspapers.

TRACK REPLACEMENT IS NEARLY FINISHED

The veplacemeit of three blocks of ‘Indianapolis Railways, Inc. tracks on W. 34th St. between 10linois Ct. and Boulevard Place will be completed next Tuesday. The new track is being laid ‘on the old roadbed, which has been in use since 1900. Other track repairs

have been made recently at Penn-

sylvania and Washington Sts.’ at Massachusetts Ave, bama St. :

paid Portal, and. at’ other times) be » ‘raffled his pictures,” -

He painted the only now. parse Slocum, the white

trait of Frances,

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Ronne Whitlam

Important to the success of Admiral Byrd’s forthcoming land« claiming expedition to Antarctica are Dr. Paul Syple of Erie, Pa., su. pervisor of supplies; Capt. Richard Cruzen, skipper of the U. 8B. 8. Béar; Finn Ronne, who will be in charge of all sled equipment and the expedition’s 190 Malemute, Siberian and Eskimo dogs; and Capt. 8. T. Ls Whitlam of Seattle, skipper of the supply ship North Star, ;

Originally scheduled to start tomorrow, the North Star may be. delayed due to the slow progress of the snow cruiser which ran into difficulties in the early stages of its trip from Chicago. The Bear was not scheduled to start for an- - other week. - Meantime they were completing the loading of some 70 tons of food, two army tanks, four airplanes (perhaps five), and 140 dogs, not to mention coal and clothing and _ pre-fabricated buildings. This expedition is "expected to be a more comfortable one than the last one. For one thing they won't have to eat bacon rind to keep warm, as did the last polar expedition ‘because their food lacked sufficient fat tontent. This time scientists have developed a pemmican mixture which contains about 20 ingredients and has al-

PRIZES AWARDED WINDOW SOAPERS

Times Special VINCENNES, Ind. Nov. 8\_Vincennes started something this Halloween that’s apt to grow-into something pretty big in the future. Prizes were given for artistic window soaping. In place of the hap-

hazard and often meaningless. win-|

dow soapings, the soapers were encouraged to pe creative. Thus, Rich-

ard McMillen was given the'grand

prize for a soap portrait of a Scotch terrier. The drawings were made on downtown windows. It is expected that more and better prizes will be offered next year by merchants who heretofore have regarded window soaping as a humorless feature of ‘| Halloween.

PARLEY SCHEDULED ON UNEMPLOYMENT

— j “The Psychological Effects of

Unemployment” will be the theme| of the fourth quarterly conference of the Indiana Chapter of International : Association of Public Employment Services at the Hotel Severin tomorrow.

Approximately 300 are expected o attend. Delegates from 30 ement offices will attend panel ons tomorrow afternoon. :

girl who was kidnapped by ona

Indians at the age of 3, grew upfh among the Indians, married an In-

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own people When they. Snally er

located her, The Slocum family

him to paint the portrait “hn th ma

refused to return. He also

‘Peru and Logansport, where Win- [are Tippecanoe

all the way from $15 to $200. Oc-| The was commissioned to|E

most a 50 per cent fat content. A second improvement will be the use of double floors in this ex«

..pedition’s Antarctic quarters; I

time, the crew complained tha

“ they couldn’t keep their feet war

Lastly, the giant snow-cruiser: may prove the greatest revolus: tion of all in down-under e: plora=+ tion. Built at a. cost of $150,000: by the Armour Institute of Teche: nology, the cruiser is exp to: reduce materially the hazards of: ice travel. But strangely, the expedition: i“ has no money with which to come: back. The $350,000 appropriated’ by Congress has been spent in: buying equipment and food. And’ since their return in 1941 will: come during a period over which’ the present Congress has cons , trol, the expedition will have to wait for another Congressional appropriation. Or else. i

Trouble Dogs Chicken Owner

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 3. The fact that there might be wild" animals roaming civilized Penh Township has cost Daniel Lexery

Mishawaka, $64.80 he hoped to collect from the township tor the loss of 72 chickens. Trustee Vernon J. Freed reject ed Mr. Lexer’s claim on the ground Mr. Lexer was unable to prove that dogs, and not wild ‘animals, had killed the chickens. Superior Court Judge J. Fred Bingham up= held the trustee’s contention. Under the ‘law, townships are financially responsible for chicks. ens which dogs kill, but not ed : those Slain, by wild: animals. .

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which State is Mt. National Park? 2—What is 3