Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1939 — Page 13

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SAN DIEGO, Nov. ‘14. ~ Next to the climate, San ~ Diego Tikes its ‘mayor better than ‘anything else. At least; most of San Diego . does. Sod ‘ aThe politicians don’t ‘like ‘him,’ because he fst a

politician. The guys in the pay-off racket don’t like him, because he’s death oh the . pay-off. And the ‘society pzople don’t like him because he talks . like an’ Army sergeant: But everybody else likes him. And he is ‘a good mayor.. His name is Percy J. Benbough; and to live down a name like that you'd have to be good. He was born in England, and came over here before he was big enough to go to school. : He has never been back. He and the ocean don't mix ‘very. well socially. If he is ever to see E England again, theyll have to bring England over

‘He has lived for 50 years in San Diego. His “folks arrived here—eight of them, if I remember—with $20. They spent $15 the first day for rent. And then they went to work. Yes, times were hard in those days. * Percy:J. Benbough has plenty of money now. Some

folks say that's the reason he makes a good Mayor.

He dosbn’t- have to be - afraid of anybody, and ‘he doesn’t need any more money. . He is\by profession a mortician. - He owns a big undertaking establishment. He owns a big mausole-

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Greets All Comers

The :door of his office is always: open. Anybody can come in and talk. He doesn’t lecture people on morals. Talk.to ’em straight, mean. what you say, and do away with the leeches who prey upon sinners by blackmailing ' “protection” money ‘out ‘of them.

That's his ereed. . BS + Mayor Benbough likes people. He talks loud.and

--FIFTY YEARS AGO when Iwasa kid, the South Side had the .fanciest house in Indianapolis. ‘What's more, the only one of -its kind. around here. It was oi .octagon’ house with the cupola on top. belonging. ‘the Hildebrand family, - the penultimate part of , Hildebrand and Pugate who did ‘a right nice business selling hardware .on S. Meridian St. The house was situated ‘on Madison Ave. on the east : side of the street between South and Merrill Sts. where the Mooney-Mueller-Ward- people now do business. It dominated =. the landscape like a lighthouse not only because of its singular shape, but because back in those days the ground. on Madison Ave. was anywhere from 5 to 10 feet. above the street. I haven't the least idea when the house was built or whether ‘Mr. Hildebrand had anything’ to do with dictating its design. This much I know, however: It is quite possible. that the house was built as. early as 1854, the year following Amelia Bloomer’s visit to Indianapolis. : Or if that is a bad guess, maybe a book written by Orson Fowler in 1848 had something | to do with it. 3

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From Love: to Architecture

Mr. Fowler, the first white child to be. born in the little village of Cohocton, N. Y., was a genius In his way. For one thing, he made a fortune practicing phrenology. After which he started publishing a series of : books. on rather intimate subjects, in the course of which he thought up a number of nifties that sound as good today as the year (1844) they were uttered. “A man,” said Mr. Fowler in his monumental treatise on Matrimony, “should make his selection intellectually and love afterward. Let courting he done in the daytime—in your everyday clothes.” _ When he was 40 years old, Mr. Fowler stopped shepherding the lovesick. Apparently he ' had plumbed the bottom with nothing more to tell. That’s when he took up architecture. He was on a “lecture tour at the Hime when ‘somewhere around

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Washington

' WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—He’s down-in Uvalde and he’s not talking, but -Vice President Garner's

Presidential campaign goes on- just the same; indif- .

ferent alike to war truces and third terms. Even if Mr. Roosevelt becomes a candidate, Mr. Garner's name will go before the nominating ‘convention: for ‘a: showdown. That’s the word from: the Garner manager, E. B. Germany, chairman ‘of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee, who is’ conducting the most silent Presidential campaign: ‘of : the year from a hotel suite in Dallas. Not only will there be an open fight in the Democratic National Convention but the Garner floor strategist ‘already has been re--quisitioned from the Adminis- - tration. . Rep. Sam Rayburn: of Texas, now Administration leader in the House of Representatives, is to manage the Garner fight in the convention, returning to his 1932 role. Although committed to resisting a third-term candidacy if the issue is forced, the Garnér group is otherwise trying to get out from under the antiRoosevelt label. Spokesmen for Garner say they intend to support a platform which will. “pridefully © extol” President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner, .- and which will praise the accomplishments of this

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Farley's Aid Expected: Garner's managers have made it known that they expect and intend to have a voice in choosing the convention keynoter or temporary chairman, a select- " tion which traditionally would be in the hands of the President and his close advisers. In this the “chances are that Garner will have the co-operation of the Democratic Nationsl Chairman, James A. Farley, whose relations with the Garner. group ‘have been growing more —cordial as his

My Day

- NEW YORK CITY, Monday ~How reluctantly 1 left the country this morning! It was another beautiful day and all the way down in the train I could

scarcely read the newspapers, it was so lovely out ' announces that he will tell ‘his son “all about women,”

‘then informs him promptly that there are cer-|

the window. There -are still enough leaves on the “~landscape, but I. think by next week 4t will probably be gone. ._ The end of November .is apt to be a dreary part of the year, but ‘even ‘then I love the sound of fallen“‘leaves as I ‘walk . through ‘the ‘woods, ‘and I can’t help scuffing just as children do:: There is a smell in the air ‘of ‘burned leaves and apples and cider which ;is very pleasant. I . haven't had any fresh cider this year and I must try to. get some FOES 1 the . next time I: ‘am in the : country.’ - T'apdved 4 ‘in New York City in time to do_several errands, go to ihe dentist and reach my apetment in time for ‘lunch. Tonigh: I go to Newark, N for a lecture. : When 1: was here ‘with our son, James, last Week, we went to see a most entertaining play. Anyone who has read Clarence Day's: “Lite With Father! + would

trees to’ give some color to the . and

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cusses and Dts His aim aToud you... He is generous, and: he is practical, and he. is tough. - He enjoys: being mayor. “He likes to greet. He had ‘to pay $1250" for, ‘a silk hat to. greet President Roosevelt, and has’ never had it on since. ‘If you come té town he offers” you a car, a.drjver, the use of his private inner office,-and

his refrigerator full «of fruit: juices. He doesn’t keep | liquor :in his refrigerator; but he'll’ take you out-and|

buy you a dozen drinks if you show any inclination. The Mayor has six pipes, always: full of tobacco. He uses half a dozen:

of cigarets. - And yet he ‘hasn't taken ‘a .puff- of

smoke int6 his mouth in 15 years. ‘He ‘never. lights 4

any of them. ; mre 3 The Great Turning Point. The Mayor collects small dogs. imitation dogs. He says he never could acd up figures. The only thing he can tell abou they're red or black.’ . But he to do the figuring. - ‘He has been one of San’ Diego's. Wusifiess successes. From the time he started out; he -always hated’ the ‘idea of working for somebody else. He hss always been a nut on fires. Even was. fire commissioner years ago. But he never wanted to.be

a fireman himself—that would be - working for |.

somebody else. .He was driven into public life by despair. . He. had

two fine sens. One of them now runs the undertaking : business for him. But the other crashed to his deith |.

in an airplane. ‘Today, years later, Mayor Beénbough can't mention it without choki g up. His whole. life ‘had been built around that boyN\ - ‘He didn’t care whether Busiass kent or not. “He looked for something ‘new to take his attention. - He got elected mayor. He couldn't accomplish much: the first four years, for the council was’against him. *. ‘But he eame up for re-election. and whipped the whole * political machine. * Now, ‘with the ‘backfield plunging ‘with him, he can do what he’ was. ‘And the ' people’ are for ‘him. -

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By Anton. Scherrer :

Janesville, Wis, he ran across a house So "as Goodrich’s Folly. Its walls . were made of Jime,

.small.stones and sand, all mixed together. with a

little water and called “gravel wall” or “grout.” Then god.» there , Mr.. Fowler got the idea ‘for’ an ‘octagon ouse Maybe ‘it didn’t happen as fast as I tell it because to get what he did Mr. Fowler had to start at the bottom and work up. The spherical form, he reasoned, is the most beautiful (page Grover Whalen), and not only that, but it incloses ‘the

rs a day, and half a. Jack 3 » Po Mm Aah if

Not: real dogs, but

figures is whether| ° ways hired: people :

most space in the least compass.. Ergo,.the octagonal we! =

being = the nearest practical spherical is by far the hest. The “gravel wall” in-

spired his discovery because it was just the material i

to lick’ the stubborn angle of an Setagon, » ” ”

A Thought for the Little Woman:

© When it came time to ‘write his ‘book, ‘Mr. Fowler emphasized the gain in sunlight obtained by having eight “outside surfaces. and . pointed out “that the corners of square rooms: are dark: and “useless “for furniture. . Moreover, he added, the distance traveled by “a weakly woman” in bringing up wood from’ the

cellar to the ‘parlor will be: in’a square house ‘nearly |

double that in an octagonal. In short, Orson Fowl. er's “A Home for All or the Gravel Wall and ‘Octagonal Mode ‘of: Building,” ' published exactly 90: years: ago, anticipated all the slick arguments of modern. architects.. So much so that it makes them look: nothing short of silly. Fowler's octagon house made a hit right: from the start. As for Amelia ‘Bloomer, she ‘may have * dropped

the idea when she appeared in Masonic Hall in the}:

building form . 40]

1. With reports indicating that

nieasures. :

road: ‘with Dutch ‘soldiers manning.

along the road in the background.

air bases in the Netherlands, the w force on Holland. And while the Nazis mass troops on the border of the ' two -.countries, Holland pours ‘all her resources into defensive : Here iis. a bridge leading toward the German border. the ‘foreground are tank .traps with a Dutch soldier on guard. . + 2..A; border town showing a trench built. in the center of the

4, Trenches along the harbor of Schemeningue, ‘have been flooded following the increased tension which arose over :a border clash with Nazi custom officials. . .5. A Dutch battle placement near the border.

Times-Acme Photos.

Germany is: demanding naval and _

‘of nerves has fallen with full

a machine gun.

Stategic, areas

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3. Soldiers dig trenches along the German frontier, marked by poles :

winter of 1853 to advocate the wearing of pantsonf i: «

the part of Indianapolis’ women. She was. pretty thick with Mr. Fowler, especially ‘with his brother Lorenzo who 'also- dabbled in phrenology. autobiography, for instance, she tells. of sitting: down to a vegetarian supper along with Horace Greeley, | Lucy Stone, Charles Dana and, ‘of course, the Fowler brothers. . Proud as Punch, she: wrote that all ‘the New York papers: recorded the event as a gathering of “all the reformers of every description in he city.

By Raymond Clapper determination’ rises to: extinguish both’ a ‘hisd term

and Paul McNutt. Within 60 days the ‘setting-up, of ‘Garner-for-President organizations in the various states will have

been completed. They intend to force-:the:. issue everywhere as between Garner and a ‘third term, taking’ .the line that Mr. Roosevelt, Teally ,has no? tention of; séeking ‘renomination, and. presenting: Garner as next in command. Pro-Garner pias will be. urged to go into all primaries and state con-

- ventions. eXcept in a few instances where first-string

favorite “sohs have squatier’s rights—as with ‘McNutt in Indigga and. Hulk: in ‘Tennessee. , a

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The Garner Character ah

~Mr. Garner is not expected to make any statement: His managers say:that he; has. “been made" atquainted with the work we are doing’ but has made-no ‘Sug-| gestions,” which will be believed by those who want to believe it. Actually, Mr. Garner doesn’t have to do anything except to stay out in. tlie Texas woods. hunting deer. - His friends have’ money and. brains with which to go after delegates, and the selling job on Mr. Garner personally has been done long ago. Whatever strength’ his candidacy develops. will arise—aside from that "which is accounted for by strictly organizational work—out of the: Garner character and personality. One of the. -most important elements in that is the- shrewd silence of the man. Should he hustle up ta the microphone and begin speaking on the current issues; he Would spoil the picture. - The managers. for Paul McNutt ‘are trying to erase the collar-ad look which his superbly handsome pho= tographs give. They are distributing a new photograph, presenting a more sober, workaday face withcut the ‘platinum halo. Old Man Garner doesn't have .to do any of .those things. He just looks out from under those bushy eyebrows and hopes that with the old-fashioned bustle back in vogue he. i going to be the type for. 1940.

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By Eleanor Rooseuelt

his‘ wife knew it," but he stuck to ber pretense’ as did the children. I' wonder how those children ever turned “out as well as they dit. The. perfect scene between “Father” and Clarence is one-where father |

tain subjécts ‘never. discussed between gentlemen. 1 suppose that appealed to me because, being | brought up by’ my grandmother; I remember ° ‘that atmosphere ‘between generations’ ‘very well. . There were certain subjects never’ discussed by gentlemen | old and young. ‘There were also certain subjects never discussed by ladies .of different ages and the “result

was ‘frequently very bewildered young: 4 when spital ate

they found themselves faced with life.

I was: very glad to see this’ i J a ‘com- | vigoro mittee had been sel. up again, with Dr. Henry: Mac * Cracken ertake 'refief| In If

‘chairman, which will: und work for thie Poles. At first it: will be

largely. among [eil. Polish refugees in other -countries, and - later. it -is loess

hoped work may. be done ‘in Poland. I<hope ‘that everyone. who can; will, help this: committee." - : 1 was glad to see by the papers the * that thought is Beng given i. the very difficult situation in which: our Am selves. Today I neted with in

terest the- efforts ‘which are being “made to ‘find ne

- outlets for our ship-|

ping, dificult us this woud seem to be, Perhaps the ‘will “i te ¥ Shipping in :

the

In her|.

¥ lation was 62.9 _ persons.

its formation to the late Dr. John

of its 25th anniversary, Indianapoe-

est'in the social and scientific sig-

"And here, accomplished: . The Marion’ County Tuberculosis Association, -which was the vehicle through which the: work ‘was 'ac”|comiplished, ‘gave special credit for

N. ‘Hurty, State Health Board ri)

retary; the late Dr. Theodore Poiter and. the lgte Dr. Alfred’ Henry. Circulars Distributed

As. early as 1897, says ‘a history. ‘| published: by ‘the County Tuberculosis ‘Association in commemoration

lis. was a center of national 'inter-

nificance, of tuberculosis.

: Dr... Hurty, in. 1900, caused . the. State Board of Health to print 10,000 circulars for distribution. in. homes which contained cases of {4 active. tuberculosis, telling how .other members -of the family could fj: protect themselves against the discase. > »

A year inter Dr. Hurty asked the State Legislature “to establish 2 state hospital for ' tuberculosis; 1905, ‘Governor: J. Frank: ‘Hanly _— pointed & commission: to study the subject; and two ' years: later ‘the first ‘appropriation was: made : for what .now is “ the State" ‘Hospital for Tuberculosis. at Rockville, ''It was opened’ in’ 1911. Fame uy Noip sy

“County Groups Formed.

However; in 1903, a 25-bed hospital. for. tuberculosis - was : opened in - Indianapolis on. the City Hos- } pital grounds... . The first free: clinic was - opened on the site ‘now occupied -by the Indianapolis Police Headquarters, with Dr. William" T. Si Dodds fa charge, < In "1912 the Marion County’ Society for the Study and. Prevention’ of Tuberculosis was formed through the efforts of James W. Lilly yand Dr. otter. Dr. Henry was first!

‘other day/|V

presig ,. Dr...Potter retary and on C.- Henry, treastyirer.’ MI was ‘not until 1913; however,

ket ‘St. In: ‘1914-an executive - see- : d and ‘act

The’ “society found the most. Bolg need. was for

lek up by: ‘the Assotiati

that the society found enough’ funds] _ to maintain ‘headquarters, ' which | were ‘set up then at 147°E. Mar-|

County T. B. Association

Years” Work

a Mi a) arks 25

“Twenty-five. years a%D; more than 224 persons per: 100,000 of Maridh | County's population died each year of tuberculosis Alarmed at th's, and ‘encouraged at the fight against the disease Soins: a group of citizens set about to do something. Fo: In’ 1938, the tuberculosis death: rate. per 100,009 of the coutity’s Fopu-

ade’ nationally,

“briefly, is how the reduction ‘was next year a demonstration fresh air school was erected on the Tech High School grounds with 25 children enrolled. . The Theodore Potter’ Fresh Air School. grew from that, with. accommodations for 150 children; and. in addition. there -are seven other fresh air schoolrooms; with ‘about 407 Children beneAting annually. In 1919: a, secorid free

@inic was vat Flan- | 28 ner. House for Negro patients. More free clinics were * established in 1920," until. today there are six where persons may ‘go who are unable to pay for diagnosis and treats ment. : “In: 1908 it was: tourid that 90° per cent: of persons ‘examined at ‘free clinics . were founa to’ have the disease in "an advanced stage. 43 per cent. of the ‘people who ap-.

‘pear ‘at: these: clinics thinking they in

have symptoms’ they have learned | ‘about * through the: Association’s

‘public. ‘education. Program, do not © il views -of ‘their hills and canyons in ii | winter than: during any: other part

have fi ‘atiall. ’ rs Children Get Camps - The next problem was preventive

work - among children during the |!

summer , months’ ‘when, they : were not in . .school. built a nutrition camp for sick chil-

“dren “oh “an ‘80-acre ‘tract’ near _ | Bridgepoit, in 1926. In 1934 a $50,-

000 anonymous gift made it possible to. erect a, modern, fireproof huilding on :the site. More" than 800

‘children * already have ‘ benefited | *

irom- this. - - .. All this has been done with fands from ‘only two sources, ofher than rial ‘tax levies—sale of Christmas seals and voluntary gifts. rhe seal‘ sale brought $4000 in 1913 and in 1938 it raised $42,310, ‘the, greatest’ volume in its history. Work of: the Association is under the - direction of . Miss Mary A. Meyers, R. N., { who was the first

Association; executive secretary and, {is Sty in that cepacity. Es

, W hone ys Job Is fo oing Little

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n seamen: find them-| *

‘| north.

“Today,

The Association |

for the: hosing. of relief clients.

| STATE PARKS

Will - Be - Available ‘Throughout Year.

Approgcn of winter does not mean at. Indiana residents cannot take antage of the State Parks.. ‘Five of the parks. will be open tHrpushout’ the winter. Because of the geographical. position = of the State they will offer everything from mild. walks, in the south, to ‘strenucus . winter sports’ in the

The Potawatomi Inh at Pokagon! State - Park, near the Michigan

park offers several good ‘ski ‘trails and facilities for Skating and Coast:

£. Spting “Milt Muscataiuck. and McCormick's Parks in the southern past of the State will offer: clearer

“lof the year. . Clifty Falls: Inn on:the Ohio. River ‘will be open all winter. ; ~The Duneside Inn in northern In-| diana will «close early in December |:

clase: some time this moni. : STATE’ HOUSING ‘MD T0 LEAD DISCUSSION

Walter 5 Stanton, midiana State ‘Housing “Board “executive secretary, twill lead a discussion on, the stetes’ role in public. low-rent. housing before .the: National. Association: of Housing - officials in New Orieans next; month. It will be the seventh annual meeting and: will be held Dee. 6108s 7 i, Outstanding new: : problems’ Ho be considered” are.;rural housing programs: and ;municipal rent. payment.

WILL STAY OPEN

Hikes an’ i Winter Sports|

OLD-TIME PRINTERS

border, will be open all winter. .The|:

and the ‘one at: Turkey Run: willl

a 70 Sor SO service for di em 00 kee Be type cio

School, for

PICK EDWARD BARRY |

Edward P.'B is. the new presi~ | dent .of the Old-Time Printers’ Association, an. organization & ers who have been membefs of Ty-| pographical Union Number 1 for 28 years or more, ©

Other officers elested. at’ a ropeiit meeting at Typographical Terrace are; Robert: E. Darnaby, vice presi-: dent; William A. Greene, secretary and treasurer, and Edgar A. Perkins] Sr., Christopher: Betz, . John ' Fi White, Charles E. Jones, Albert Small and John B Hampton, trustees. ; :

SCOUTS WILL. HIKE “OVERNIGHT TO PARK |

: Boy Scout Troop: 83, of . St. Paul's: Episcopal Church will, be taken on an overnight ‘hike to ‘McCormick's , | Creek. ‘State Park Saturday... ‘The boys; led by Scoutmaster. Arthur. J. Williams, will leave from the church: at 12:30 p. m. Saturday. They will break camp at a park shelter house about 4 p. m. Sunday. The troop is sponsored by Hay-ward-Barcus Post, Sn ‘American Legion: . °

| WORKS IN ANTHOEOGY |

Edna Jett Crosley ‘and: Friedonia & Berry, both of ‘Iridianapolis, will ‘be. Ispresemed, by original works: in “Christmas Lyrics of 1930." an an-| thology. . TAK - Gb X ew

Baitilamey pn attend

Which ng other arom

| Mra 10h B. Rehm, -|dean of girls; Miss

iss Grace’ Emery

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MLK STRIKE 0s;

19 DRIVERS RETURN

Nineteen striking Polk ik oo. drivers returned to: work Aoday.. The 11- “Rgeks-old strike with the signing - yesterday ‘of ‘an agreement’ between the’ “company ‘and. the’ Teamsters and’ Chauffeurs ‘Uniion, ‘Loci 138, 0 . Under; a+ ‘separate agreement with the polis Milk: ‘Foundation signed” ‘yesterday, ‘thie 1 union, is "pros chiling: a strike ‘and or cox 5:0f the Foun Fa ar v is contract alto: > Irichided. a ‘prc _— whereby’ {he Milk Foundation and. union :offizials agreed. to arbi trate all “labor disputes involving both parties ‘and: provided a minis

mum. wage scale for. all union drive ers of all Member; com les: ei

TEST You R' KNOWLEDGE |

: 1-Name. thie first’ Chief Justice- of

‘the. U. S. Supreme 2 Where is. bate 1 EE of Cannes? iy in the B. Sehwel.

try: is ‘Bernhard Rust, a of Education? I5—1n; ch. river, are the, Lachine

Rap 6—What does ‘statusiano’ mean? |1—Are_the three Guian An south erica’ ('s: ‘rept *

who now * teaches at, Tech J A

and