Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1939 — Page 9
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ESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939
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Hoosier Vagabond
i Ariz, Nov. 22.—We have left California. But 50 long and so pleasantly did we wander in that
~- amous land that we cannot bear now just to rush
‘our leaving didn’t matter. pause here’ at the border, and look back for a little over our shoulder.. We must express to somebody, even if only to ourselves, that we go reluctantly. We have been many times to
California. But always we have
refused .to come right out and ‘admit that I liked California We would say yes, it might be all right if you could get back East once a year. Or we would make fun of their sunshine claims, for we: have seen California in flood. Or we would
join the intellectuals and hoot at
all the Towa farmers in Los Angeles. But maybe as we grow older we grow more honest with ourselves. Or Es we just. reach a stage where we aren’t ashamed of agreeing with the majority. Whatever it is, I am at last ready and willing to think California is wonderful. Sure, it has spots I don’t like. You couldn’t hire me to live in agricultural Bakersfield, nor in farnorth Eureka, nor in the sham of Hollywood. But you don’t have to live in those places. ere are hundreds of milés of startling seacoast, aching to be lived upon. There are thousands of magnificent little valleys; placidly waiting for man to come and despoil them with his enjoyment. There are deserts where those with a flair for sand and wind could find peace. And there are mountains for- the virile, and forests for the woods people, and fog for those who hate the sun. Yes, in full honesty, California does have everything. I want to keep on coming back and back again. = = o
Aunt Mary at the Fair
A number of people have written wanting to know if my Aunt Mary from Indiana ever made her trip Io the West Cousi and the San Francisco Fair this
Di she! I'll say she did. She was gone from
SOME ‘MEMORANDA set down for ‘the future use of whatever hardy creature may one day have the nerve to attempt a history of Indianapolis and not muff anything in the telling. Item 1: On April 2, 1931, Charles S. Brockman caught a 4% pound bass in Sugar Creek. When he opened up the fish, he found a full-grown nx Item 2: One Sunday during his salad days in Paris (circa 1894), Brandt Steele visited the Madeleine and pretty soon found himself sitting next to Cleo de Merode, the most beautiful woman of the century. At any rate, the King of Belgium thought so. During the services Mile. Merode’s rosary fell to the floor and in bending over to reach it, Mr. Steele caught a full whiff of her perfume. It was bergamot, says Mr. Steele. Item 3: On another occasion during the same salad days, Mr. Steele was delegated on behalf of the American Club in Paris to thank Loie Fuller for the hundred tickets she sent the boys to see her in the first performance of the Serpentine Dance. When he was admitted to her home, he discovered Miss Fuller practicing her steps. She was in green tights. Mr. Steele submits this item to clarify my recent piece on
tured the belief Shat Miss Puller hag 50 lest. ” The Son of a Sailor
Itém 4: On Aug. 16, 1887, Charlie Cramer a 17-year-old kid, climbed up the Court House steeple and perched himself in front of the east face of thé clock. Charlie came by his talents honestly enough. His father was a sailor. Item 5: When Adelina Patti brought the pitiful re-
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mains of a once glorious voice to Tomlinson Hall on
Washington
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—I hope those are ‘genuine
signatures, affixed after careful deliberation, which appear on the report of the American Youth Commission. If those signatures are genuine in spirit as well as in ink, then it is an event of constructive import for the future of America. ‘This report—and the ‘American Youth’ Commission is not a governmental ‘body —says the Government must provide employment for young people who cannot find jobs. in private industry. Among the signers are names you would expect to find, of edu~ cators and such. But those which arouse my interest are the names of Owen D. Young; now retiring as chairman of the board of General Electric; Robert E. : Wood, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Ralph Budd, president of tle Chicago, ‘Burlington & Quincy
It ad, a relief to turn from the attempted raids on Federal and state treasuries by organized groups of
old-age pensionites and find responsible businessmen.
‘frankly facing the problem of the rising generation, which is having a hard time finding work. x = =
Youth More Tolerant
This idle youth group, estimated at 3,500,000 to four million between the ages of 18 and 24 years, means “everything to the future of America. These are the victims of our failure to provide work for all in a land of groaning abundance. They are the ones who can properly Question whether democracy is worth. pre-
Don’t forget that those were youths out of work, disgusted with chaos and depression, who marched on Rome behind Mussolini and who-became the thugs of
WASHINGTON, ‘Tuesday—It was hteresting- yesterday at lunch to talk to Miss Cecile Hamilton about the problems of the wamlan aviator. Apparently, they
‘may spend a great deal of money learning how to fly and never get a
acy had ever Deon completed. Apparently; it is still in the indecisive stage.
There must, however, be possibilities for women pilots .to be : helpful. . It seems to. me that it would be well to canvass the value
ity, I think our Indian artists always stand out. - A group of them is working on decorations in the my ii Department Bullding, ‘which I am looking
to admit that I
“Tom gave birth to half a dozen puppies."
chance at a job. I recalled that
ing for: more.
She had the most wonderful time anybody ever had, spent almost no money at all, and has made | | speeches about her trip to five women’s clubs since | |
her return. She went alone from Indiana to St. Paul.
There she was joined by Mrs. Myrta Siebolds, and the two of them ‘started out to tear: the continent ]
‘apart. $
“In Canada’ they struck up a train’ conversation i with a strange man :(tch tch), and he got” off the | |
train at Banfl and showed them all over the place.
He even introduced them to the housekeeper who
cared for the King and Queen on their visit there. Aunt Mary wrote that she thought maybe they’d better“go a little slow” about talking to strange men, but he was just so nice. And then when they started on for Lake Louise the strange man handed them his
card, and he turned out to be one of Canada’s Su-|
preme Court Justices. Were they proud!
i Sa a She Liked the Mountains In San Francisco the Exposition put on an Aunt Mary Day, and they made her Mayor of Treasure Island for a day. She had to be decorated, and speak on the radio, and judge contests and what not. It was all a surprise to her, and she almost died
and said she wouldn't go through with it. But they| {
made her do it anyhow, and she says she got tonguetied on the radio and botched everything up.
But when we trailed into Treasure Island a couple | Sl of months later we found everybody still mumbling |
sort of pleased-like over “Aunt Mary Day.” They went on to Los Angeles and spent a week with friends from Illinois. They toured Hollywood and went to Catalina Island. They stayed a day at Grand Canyon, :and from Denver they drove high into the Rockies’ with friends. -_ I think the mountains inipressed my Aunt Mary | most of all. ‘Time and again she has said in her let-| ters, “Oh, those wonderful, beautiful mountains. I will never see them again.” I wish she wouldn’t feel that way about it. That's a defeatist attitude. Why, she’s only 73. I see no reason why she shouldnt go out to Sun Valley this winter and learn to jump pn skis.
By Anton Scherrer]
March 2, 1904, she ended her concert with “The Last|
Farewell,” a ballad expressly composed for her by Charles K. Harris, the same ‘man who thought up “After the Ball.” Item 6: “Old Frank,” one of the grandest horses our Fire Department ever had, died of a broken heart. He was a jet black beauty and served nine years. Every new horse entering the department was trained by the side of Old Frank and the time of training was exceptionally short ‘as the teacher had a way of getting his” ideas geross. One day the Commissioners got the idea that Frank was getting too old for the job ahd sold him to a peddler. Frank rebelled like everything, but it didn’t do a bit of good. He was forced to take up with the
\ common horses of the street. And not only that, but
to pull, of all things, a wagon loaded with vegetables. He began to lose flesh, to say nothing of spirit, and one day—exactly one week after he left the hose house—he dropped in his harness never to rise again. 2 x 0»
The Fire Terrier
Item 7: “Tom,” the old fire dog that used to hang around headquarters, was something to brag about, too. Tom was really a female which goes to show how much firemen know about such things. She was half bull and half terrier, and was called the Fire Terrier. If a piece of paper was lit and thrown upon the floor,
Tom rightaway jum into the flame and put it out.}, The Se renin Dance tn the foutde of Which I vei Som. is 3 Jumped p
es that, she could jump a rope, catch: a ball, and play hide and seek with Cuba, a. cat that also made its home at headquarters. = One day during the administration’ of Chief Coots, (You bet, the firemen were surprised.) And every time after that when Tom = asked to do his tricks or put out a fire, Cuba watched over the puppies and mothered them like an' old hen. - Item 8: George Rhodius, whose mother. ran the Circle House, was the first man in Indianapolis to wear silk ‘underwear.
By Raymond Clapper
Hitler. American youths have shown greater tolerance Jr the Shorscomings of our system than have the old 0 Read what Owen Young and Ralph Budd and Henry Harriman have to say: “No good purpose can be served by blaming the young person who has not found a job for himself. . The facts of arithmetic cannot be wished away: . In the e country, a few thousand jobs probably are vacant because no competent applicant has appeared. Another few thousand chances probably exist for unusual young people to make their own jobs by starting new enterprises. But there are several million more young men and women who want to work than there are jobs available for them. The totals do not balance. The bright or the lucky get the jobs; but some will have to be left out. until their elders, who control economic conditions of the country, find some way to open the gates... The fact that the elder people own the property and control practically all the jobs lays upon them the major responsibility for making the opportunities match the number of yotith| they have brought into the world.” 3 "i ®
It’s Up to the Elders .
Until the elders who own the property and who have. the economic control can make the system work more effectively, something must be done in other ways. The American Youth Commission frankly says the Government wilt have 10 do the job, by providing public employment. Public works, expansion of CCC, enlargement of National Youth Administration operations in providing work through high schools, are the chief means at hand. . It will cost money. But not so much wm might be expected, the Young report; says. The work proposed is neither full time nor highly paid, and some assets will accrue—such as schoolroom equipment, and other things made in the shops. Contributions to youth also should somewhat reduce’ relief ‘needs of their. families.
qualified in time of need. Every woman would then know exactly what her job’ was, or what she could
volunteer to do. Just now, when we have so many|;.
unemployed young people, it would seem to me a great opportunity to" develop, them for the future and give them a feeling that' they are doing something in the way of service to. their country. 1 spent some time _ this morning: wandering through the exposition of painting and designed for Federal buildings and held. in Corcoran Arf Gallery. It will remain open until. Sunday. ' It is very different from the first WPA} show which was hung on these same walls. There is" a calmness and security in most of this ons though a greater consciousness of social conditions i shown in paintings like “Contemporary Justice a the Child,” by Symeon Schimin. For decorative aval: aan
to seeing. _ The winners of the contest for the ‘St. interesting design.
ens oy or sardinarily interesting. 4
of the 48 states held a state competition a the room in which the paintings by the winners of this Er. i exhibited woula be ell worth 8 ay seems. a shame to single any ual for men the whole extitbition is
By Ernie ¢ Pyle ;
home five weeks. She never got lost, wast. “robbed, : wasn’t sick, and wound up the five weeks’ grind yell- 3
sculpture |
neti go icken prioss
‘Louis, Mo. | tat oes, urals,; Edward Millman and. Mitchell resp
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By Joe Collier ®
might be made to either prove or disprove existing theories of the effect of
housing on publi¢ health. This unit of the social service system is housed in a single room in the Architects’ Building and consists almost exclusively of a card index file. To this office daily come the reports from 67 private
and . public. relief agencies. The reports are cleared there, marked on more than 400,000 cards, and: become permanent records. The purpose of the exchange is to: ’
1. Promote co-operation on the. part of community agencies which consult and work together. 2. Protect families. from dupiicate investigations and the tonfusion which resuits from lack of knowledge when several agencies; : are interested. 3. Bring about a better understanding of family problems and needs, through consultation with other agencies. i 4, Save money to the community by avoiding duplication of relief, avoiding duplication of time of agencies, and avoiding unnecessary investigation and visits. » 2 8
UPPOSE a transient applied today at the Salvation Army for help and the agency agreed to aid with prescribed regulations which the transient didn't like. Suppose then he applied to a
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- Miss Annie. T. Mock, executive “atioretary of the Social Service : Exchange, looks over ‘case histories of the. 1880's, : Tether nin iN
The Human Touch In Welfare Records
WHEN social service work grew up in Indianapolis and . became a pretty big business, along with it grew the Social Service Exchange which some day may prove to be a rich ming of sociological information, =~
Capably handled, the records, for instance, right now
"second ‘member agency.
* That agency would call the Social Serv‘ice Exchange to check the application. That agency would be told
' that the same individual had ap-
plied to the Salvation Army a short time before. The individual
would be sent back to the Salva=
tion Army. Through much more compli~ ‘cated situations, the Exchange helps keep the records of the many agencies clear, and helps them promote eflicienéy. Often . more than one agency is logically interested in one family. The exchange
helps them to define their separate @
spheres of activity.
- In addition to. the more than 400 ,000 family cards, there now are about 62,000 street cards. They are now being arranged by street numbers. Thus, the housing expert could tell at a glance all the relief a given house on “a given street. He could tell how long "it had been used by relief families, and what families. He could check out City Hospital records and see how ch illness had been treated in those families.
And he could check the interested -
agencies to see what the family problems had been. In this file are cards referring to correspondence on relief problems that have touched Turkey, all provinces of ‘Canada, China, Japan, all of: the 48 states and other places. The Marys of a single surname
“in the files number more than 200,
and some of the streets in Indian-
His Margaret Anne Vogel Leite) and Mrs. Alfred Barthel (standing) work at some of the more
than 400,000 cards now in the fil
apolis have enormous numbers of cards in their files. All information is strictly confidential, and anyone doing research in them must have the permission of the membership com= mittee. Indianapolis was one of the first cities of the Middle West to set up such a system, and now other communities are looking on it as a valuable Apel and moneysaver, There are approximately 175 “such exchanges in the United States and Canada, seven of which are in Indiana. Annie T.
Mock is director of the Indian-
: apolis exchange. - » FJ \QDAY'S terse,
» carefully in-
ly with the lengthy reports which tell the story of early social.service work in Indianapolis. - : The first records—in pen and - ink—were ‘begun in 1880 and included the strange case of Mr. S—— who for years had been go-. ing to an Indian doctor with a complaint) that got no bebters »i The case worker went: to the home of Mr. S—— and talked to Mrs. S——. She said that she knew her husband had been doctoring and that he was unable to work, and that was why they had
- ‘applied for relief. But she was
utterly unable ‘to give any clue to
the natures of the complaint, or the
identity of the doctor. That much the case worker wrote down. She returned several days later and asked Mrs. S— why she knew nothing of what her husband was doing ‘about this aliment. Mrs, S—— then told her, in mild
.. dexed records contrast sharp-
surprise, that she and her hus‘band ‘almost never spoke to each other. The social worker found out what she wanted to know when
- she asked Mr, §——
He said: “I have an Indian doc-
‘ tor but I don’t think he under-
stands my case.” She persuaded him to change doctors. He did and subsequently got well. 2 8 = HESE records now are a part of the archives of the Family Welfare Service, a unit in an Indianapolis social service system. Chatty and informal, the records then were considerably removed
. from the records now kept, but
they contained much essential material. There was, for instance, the case history of the man described by the case worker as “a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, and generally no good.” This man and his wife appealed for aid, especially for transporta-
“tion to an Illinois city. “The case worker said that investigation ° - ‘proved they had
been frequent applicants for such aid. In fact, she wrote, he used the passes to go on professiondl begging trips. Writing further of him she said: “He followed resurrecting bodies for medical purposes — furnished bodies to the Indiana Medical Col-
lege between the years 1870 and ~ 1875 except when he was in prison.”
And then she wrote: ~*“He lies along creek bottoms in the summer months.” Another time she wrote about a woman who applied for aid and
whom she visited. Not finding her home, she talked with a neighe bor and returned to write:
“MIS. o....., Who lives opposite
drinks beer « , ¢ also owns property. ”» ® 8 a F a man, described in detail as being lazy and unwilling to support his wife, this case worker wrote, in just a little as perity, it seemed: ‘He has a good sppetite, especially for meat “and ca bbages. » A family sought aid, even though. the husband was working. He was not making much money, apparently, . but . it would have been enough. if: “His wife's people used to swoop down on them in great numbers and eat up what little they had.” The case history goes on to show. that he finally left her and she. returned to her people, On another occasion the worker “visited ‘a home and found it a shambles. In fact, some of the bitterness at the situation, and of the case worker's sympathy for the woman concerned, crept into her words and action. ; : She wrote: “I gave orders for a general cleaning up and took Mrs, G——— for a much-needed ride.” Also from these records came the history: of one of the firsts in social history in this city. It read: “Mrs. P- came into the office today to pay $1 on a grocery order, as she had promised to do. | This payment is the fir<t instance of this kind on our records. She says perhaps she will need help again.”
That was July 31, 1880. .
CITY STOCKS UP
Housewives ° Buying. More ‘And Better (for Less), Grocers Report.
better food, and pay less for it, tomorrow than it has on any Thanks‘giving Day ih the last several years. | Groeers- scattered throughout: the city reported that housewives are loading their shopping baskets just a little heavier this year, and buying choicer foods, probably for “two reasons One is the general improvement | in business conditions, with’ tactory| and business payrolls on the rise. “The other reason is the fact that prices, on the whole, are as low as, and in”some instances lower than, {18st year ~and several ‘pregeding)
years. fr ‘ Turkey Is Down — A One of the grincipal reasons. for} the reduced cost of this - Thanksgiving dinner is the price of} pout try—be it turkey, duck, goose’or le en,s : key, i jhe symbol of Trianiksgiv={y
BE mea oe yom Boas
FOR BIG DINNER
“mond ‘are welcome to Thanksgiv-'
sdianapolis: “will eat : more .and 7
Shi the holiday, is ellie for abotit ar
By Eleanor Roosevelt §
H is Duck’s Duck —Now Pot Luck
Times Special. as ... HAMMOND, Ind, Nov. 22, Friends of Fred Emic. of, Ham-
ing dinner at his home tomorrow -—if they'll bring the ducks. Thieves stole two ducks he was fattening for the holiday. Angered, |.
‘Unable to | he sent out, the
the * missing find them, ““Wimpy” invitations.
GUNFIRE THWARTS
BURGLARY ATTEMPT,
Two ‘Indianapolis men: are in al
at New Castle and a third is in 2 hospital there, as the result of an alleged. ‘attempt to break into | al’ Knightstown store last night; according: to State Police. Teports.
“The: ‘burglary. attempt was hus:
# trated, police said, when a watch-
been|ley Smith, State Chmplasment : wea 3 he pi
he searched the neighborhood. for | ducks,
PURGE OF RELIEF| ROLLS PLANNED)
- [Fie Exchange to Eliminate) =
: jy Shiseling Is Goal of State Officials.
file, - designed ' to eliminate *
. |elers” from various relief’ folls, wi -
he ‘announced next month, State officials said today. ;
At a meeting of State, Federal and township officials at the State
‘House yesterday, all- approved the
“| “principle” of the plan and announced ' that steps to 'éstablish ‘the exchange the National Security Board makes its report -about Dec. 12.
mine whether the index ‘bureau
‘Iwill be operated on a state-wide
basis or by counties or. districts. - Officials ' attending the meeting
Relief ‘Commission
YR. Jennings, - “Shae
That Bird You Eat Tomorrow Is Really Quite Affectionate
|| And He Had to Be Taught How to Perch h Roost, According to Man Who Ought to Know.
Plans. for establishing a state-|
: wide sotial seryice exchange Index| two miles west of West Newton.
e would be taken after|
Officials, meanwhile, will deter-|
‘Some of the. Bon : dinner staples are the this Sear as last. Incl
De uble Mileage’ — ; , Informs Sheriffs +
“from
foes sransporta- | on ro
—
how. ‘to roost.
REGARDING THAT Trey you're planning to have tomorrow: He is (or was) temperamental, affectionate and
bag to be taught
“Those are some of the traits of the national dinner table bird, ree ‘vealed by L. H. Trotter, who runs the Trotter Turkey Farm, Road 67,
Raising turkeys is un arduous occupation, Mr. Trotter said. The eggs must be hatched in an jn-
_‘¢ubator. The young poults,’ as
the chicks: are called, then are transferred to the battery. room
‘where they are cared for in spe-
cial cages for five or six weeks.
In these special cages the poults
are furnished warm protection
with food: and light 24 ‘hours a
Lae
5 THE BATTERY. room
they were transferred to a roosting room, which is a sort of broodser.; The young birds. don’t know perch.
es included A.C. Ketchum, how fo orimad in the store opened fire with oi terday ‘Director: i,
The first few times they are,
e |. placed ona roost, they: lose their
ce and ‘tumble to the ground.
are Tn he roosting room they are pro-,
It's just ‘when hey, ose
temper that they sirut.
ois over he Su sate’ on op and gi
sesking to. collec on the
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the average man might lost all de= sire for Thanksgiving dinner. Or else he’d be so angry at bein, pushed around he'd get indiges tion trying to get even. !
TEST YO u R KNOWLEDGE
1-Is sluihinuis a conductor of alot tricty? 2—What college is located at Hane over, N. H.? - ’ 3—Name the 1936 National Open Golf champi on. 4—Who is Vyacheslaff Molotov? 5~In astronomy, what is the name of the path described in space by a heavenly body in its lution around another body?
|6—Which city is built on the
‘that once was Ft. Dearborn? 7—What is 2 he correct tion of the SE .
8—Name the a letter of Greek alphabet,