Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1939 — Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1939

The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

SAN LORENZO, N. M.. Dec. 9.—Father Roger Aull, the Catholic priest who sought peace and solitude in a mountain hideout, has 1000 visitors a year—an average of three a dav. Visitors come even before breakfast. and stay anywhere from an hour to several weeks. Some come out of curiosity, but most come for counsel. Oddly enough, more Protestants than Catholics make the pilgrimage. The day before we came his visitors were a Mormon, a Jew and an agnostic. Once a scientist came for the sole purpose of arguing religion with him. Lots of girls, contemplating marriage, bring their sweeties out to see what Father Aull thinks of them. He tells them, too. He is always taking somebody in. A man came up the trail one day, carrying a suitcase, and with a revolver in his pocket. He was full of trouble and Vas going to kill himself. Father Aull put him to work, and he stayed 10 days and got out of the notion. A sick Catholic priest came and lived with him for two years, and died here. One day an old character Who never took a bath came over the hill with pneumonia. He put him to bed, and nursed him out of it. Last year he had a big run of girls wanting to commit suicide because they were in difficulties. He talks to them this way: Back in the days when few people could read and write there was a King. This King wanted to send 2 written message to the Pope.

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But he was just learning to write, and it was very difficult for him. Each letter was made with the greatest agony. It took him all night to write the precious message Finally at dawn he finished. Then he told his secretary to “sand” the parchment, But the sleepy

Our Town

MOTHER, I REMEMBER, alwavs started making her Christmas cakes on the Mondav following Thanksgiving, no matter whether it was wash day or not. To postpone the task wouldn't give the cakes time enough to age, she said. The baking lasted the better part of a week and all during that time the house was fragrant with a bouquet compounded of citron, anise, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla, allspice, raisins, molasses, honey and all kinds of nuts, the bitter-sweet odor of almonds dominating the rest. It was a heavenly smeil. Mother's repertoire consisted of at least a dozen different kinds of Christmas cakes and, year after vear, she played it in exactly the same way. She always started with the making of Springerle. I remember. To my way of thinking, Springerle were the least satisfactory of the Christmas cakes. which doesn’t mean, however, that they weren't good. Not at all. They just didn’t measure up to the rest which is more or less like saying that Mendelssohn's music, good as it is, isn’t quite as good as Schumann's, n n =

Mother Was Loyal

It wasn't mother’s fault. The fault was in the cake itself. For one thing, it was a hard cake which made it difficult to eat—much too difficult to fool with in Christmas week when we kids didn't have a minute to waste. Moreover, it was too stolid in appearance, and lacked the emotional content of other Christmas cakes, Compared with a Honey Lebkuchen, for instance, the Springerle was nothing short of impassive, For some reason, however, mother stuck by it believing that Christmas wasn’t worth celebrating without Springerie, an opinion which I have since learned was also shared by the mothers of George Kuhn, Kurt Vonnegut and Adolph Seidensticker. One reason why mother started her Christmas baking with Springerle was probably because it was the easiest to make. It was a good way to get her hand in again before she started the more complicated

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 —The third-term drive is

on again. The plot to force renomination of the President is unfolding. It should not be blamed on Mr. Roosevelt, except in that he does nothing to stop it when a word from him would be sufficient. The activity to organize a draft originates not with Democratic politicians but with a little group of officials here, headed by Tommy Corcoran, who desire to keep Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. A few days ago Senator George Norris issued a carefully timed statement in which he urged Mr. Roosevelt to refrain from saying anything about a third term. So long as the President keeps silent, the activity can go forward. The time js fast approaching when continued silence at the White House will contribute so much to the progress of the plot that the President will be placed in the role of a willing accessory before the fact. = =» 5

The Norris Argument

Senator Norris pitched his plea on the argument that President Roosevelt was the ideal leader of the common man and that he alone “could unite the progressive people of America in a fight against a united reactionarv enemy.” The danger, he said, was that the party otherwise would nominate either a reactionary or a candidate who was progressive “only in spots.” Senator Norrie probably is right President Roosevelt is better able than anvone else to unite progressives. But Mr. Roosevelt will be able to speak for progressives with a greater appearance

My Day

NEW YORK, Friday. —My visit to the Bank Street School yesterday was a thrilling experience. Something fundamental is being done here in the preparation of teachers, They are learning to deal with young

people at every age level and to relate the children’s earliest education to the community in which they live. These teachers are going to be familiar with New York City and will learn a technique by which they can familiarize themselves with any community and transmit their knowledge in the classroom. This school was an old factory and even its disadvantages have been turned to useful ends. The fact that all the pipes were : left exposed has made it possible 8 a to paint them different colors, so that the children can learn how the various utilities are distributed through the building. Where does the water come from? How do vou safeguard the house against fire? Who makes the regulations? How do we obtain electricity? We should know all these things. These are the questions which little children ask, but which, sad to say, teachers who have graduated from our colleges, cannot always answer I would have liked to stay much longer than I did, to talk with these future teachers who were doing

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i | secretary reached out and, instead of getting the bottle of sand, got the bottle of ink, and threw it all| over the laboriously written message. { The secretary was beside himself. said: “Well, again.” And Father Aull says to the girls, “Let's just start over again.” He hasn't lost a case yet. Father Aull's mother is still living, in Cincinnati. She is 93. He was back to see her just last month, He intended to stay several weeks, but he started coughing again and had to cut his visit short. But as someone said, he is the poorest specimen of a “health-seeker” you ever saw. He is big and barrel-| chested, and looks as though he'd never had a sick day in his life.

But the King!

that one’s ruined. So let's start all over)

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Hardly a Hermit

He suffers from lumbago and neuritis, and sometimes the pain is awful. A doctor who knows him told me, “Father Aull would be all right if he'd quit heaving those rocks around out there.” But he won't quit, for he loves to be creating something. Father Aull doesn’t own the land where he has| built. It seems odd to be putting so much work on| someone else's land. “But it's mine as long as I'm] here,” he says, “and when I pass on I won't want it| anyhow.” The view from his house is marvelous. It is in the high mountains, all pinioned and junipered, and down! below is a dry river bed. Sometimes after the rains he can’t get out to the main dirt road for days. Despite his original hope for solitude, Father Aull is no hermit. He has a car and gets out frequently. He accepts requests to speak before children's groups and poor schools, although he won't go to the big places. And he really gets a big kick out of his visitors, His place is about 30 miles from Silver City, and four or five miles from this little pinpoint of a village known as San Lorenzo. It is hard to find, but people find it.

By Anton Scherrer

kinds. Certainly it required the minimum amount of materials—nothing more, as a matter of fact, than eggs (4), sugar (a pound), flour (about four cupfuls). and anise seed (anywhere from one to two teaspoonfuls). The reason I'm not more definite is because baking is a fine art and hot an exact science, as some people would have you believe, The amount of flour, for instance, had to be just enough to thicken the dough to give it the right consistency and, as for the amount of anise seed, that depended altogether on how well the baker knew her family.

A Family Affair

The actual making of Springerle was mostly a matter of correct stirring. Mother, I remember, always stirred in one direction starting with the eggs and sugar and then adding the flour gradually, stirring all the time and always in the same direction, mind vou. It took at least an hour of constant stirring to get it right, after which the dough was put away and let stand over night. Next morning bright and early— even before school took up—the dough was rolled out, about an eighth of an inch thick as I remember. Then. | but not until then, was everything ready for us kids | to contribute our part. { Now that I look back, it occurs to me that, maybe. mother continued making Springerle year after vear| just for the sake of giving us kids some fun. Anyway, | after the dough was rolled out it was our prerogative to handle the floured Springerle board and press down hard on the dough. No matter how many times we did it, our eyes always popped when the board was | lifted and we saw the extraordinary embossed designs | which identify Springerle the world over,

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When we returned from school in the afternoon, we | found the Springerle cut to their required designs and | laid on the table to dry. Mother wouldn't think of baking a Springerle until it had dried at least 10 hours which was why the baking never started until after supper. Just before they went into the oven, the! Springerle were sprinkled with anise seed. a ritual! which was handled entirely by father. Next mornins! —even before we kids left for school—mother had all! her materials collected to start the baking of pfeffer- | nuesse,

By Raymond Clapper

of sincerity if he makes no attempt to prolong his| tenure of office bevond the traditional two-term limit | which American opinion has throughout our history supported as a safeguard against undue self-perpetua-tion of a regime. | He has only to note the case of Herbert Hoover. | No man went out of office less auspiciously than My. | Hoover. Yet today many Republicans will tell vou | that Herbert Hoover has more influence in the Re-| publican Party than any other one man. | » ”

Knives Out for McNutt

i Mr. Roosevelt's influence as a former President would be exerted most effectively not in the furtive. closed-door way of Mr. Hoover but out in the open, in writing and speaking. Out of office by his own voluntary withdrawal from consideration, Mr. Roosevelt could do more for progressive government than he! could in another four years of office—perhaps more than he has done in office. In office he must assume the liabilities of failures, and these have accumuiated in the last eight years. Out oi office, he would have no unsuccessful experiments coming home to roost.

The second step in the unfolding of the thirds term plot comes with the press-conference statement of Secretary Ickes, who threw and then withdrew a brickbat at Paul McNutt. Secretary Ickes said he didn’t think President Roosevelt would select Paul McNutt as a successor. New Dealers are divided about Mr. McNutt. and the expression of Secretary Ickes is intended to discourage further accretions of New Dealers to the McNutt group. The game is to knock off anyone who might appear adequate as a candidate. Mr. McNutt has worked himself into a position where he is becoming an increasing embarrassment to those New Dealers who say no one is available except Mr. Roosevelt. Therefore the knives are out for him. Dirty work, but neat.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

actual work with various social agencies in the com: | munity and learning how people live. The first and most important thing for any child is to know how his! community functions, That will make him want to.

know how people lived in ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, or in any period of history which may later be; studied. The wars will not be so important, except in relation to conditions of life. We will have young peo- |

By Ernie Pyle i

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Times-Acme Photos.

The world long has heen made familiar with awesome pictures of the Red Army's mechanized equipment. Upon whether Russia's machinery of war is as strong as it is made to look by the camera, the future of Europe may hinge,

1. A giant Russian tank like those used in the invasion of Finland. 2. Bombers flying in formation. . Red Soldiers in maneuvers prior to the war on Finland. . Infantrymen rehearsing an advance with machine gun support. . Machine gunners trying out a new piece of equipment,

Hint Russian Designs On Britain's Ocean’

(The world now must reckon with Soviet Russia's military machine not as a defensive weapon but as an instrument of conquest. In the following article, Thomas M. Johnson, noted military writer, studies the strengths and weaknesses

of this cumbrous but awesome juggernaut and tells of the directions in which it may be headed ‘‘after Finland.”)

By®rhomas M. Johnson NEA Service Staff Correspondent T IS understandable to military strategists that Soviet Russia, in its real or imagined fear of being invaded through Finland some day by powerful nations of western Europe, should wish to become stronger in the Baltic. It is less understandable that the Russians should seize Finland's Arctic coast. That makes the future look threatening—as if Stalin were grabbing a sallyport into “Bri-

tain's ocean.” the northern Atlantic. Or going even beyond that—

or alone, southward upon the Dardanelles if, son, Turkey held out. needed may be that crushing air power which is showing itself in= creasingly peace or surrender,

securing his northern flank for a great swoop by his southern flank against Britain in Asia Minor or India, or against the Balkans. In the Balkans, Rumania would fall first. With Bulgarian and Hungarian aid she would be stripped of nearly half her 20,000,000 people. Then with Bulgaria,

DROPS WORRIES FOR SOUTH SEA

Chicagoan in City to Buy, Food for Scientific Expedition.

By JOE COLLIER

importance in the naval history of | Indiana is the unfortunate ship-|h

to Davy Jones Locker Jr.

Davy Jones Locker Jr,

. case, would have been the bottom | George Thomas Folster is golng| (Sp "oi River just off Tell City. |

to quit worrying about coal bills, tt js one of the lesser known his- | overcoats and overshoes. He's going torical facts about the state which to the South Seas with a scientific undoubtedly will be recalled by his-

ii ‘ ’ |torians here for the 21st annual expedition and he'll be gone at least meeting of the Indiana History Con- | two years.

He leaves New York | ference. Jan. k | It seems that on the night of May i y retired in his -. Folster resigned from the 8. 1824, Lafayette had re his | tol of Marshall Field & Co. at cabin on a river steamer after a| Chicago to take charge of public hard day writing letters to people relations of the expedition, spon-/in “all parts of the Union,” and to sored by Columbia University and dictating orders to the d the American Museum of Natural his farm at Lagrange. History. He was in Indianapolis o So He Went to Bed buy some of the 300 tons of food | His biographer, A. Levasseur, wayel®

i rill need. : jie ExPegivon wi at lunch- that he made known to the director |

Interviewed yesterday : 4 d ith his friend, W. M. McKin- | ‘changes which he wished effecte eon with his friend \ in his system of agriculture before

sey, research director of Wm. H. I a Block Co. Mr. Folster said the expe- nis re o Fr > : dition will collect six habitat groups| Anyway, he was tired S04 turned of birds for the Whitney Flying Bird in. One by one the other passengers

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looks properly 2,000,000. Additional with some training, 12,000,000. For these 14,500,000 men, equipment

Ever Hear of Lafayette And His Hoosier Thrill?

yable of the General's papers and Among the events of enormous! told him to come along.

wreck that nearly carried Lafayette M. Levasseur stated.

in this/think that in such a case we would (leave you for a single moment?”

pulled for the door, and the General {emiled at their anxiety. His smile

| fused to be led furtner, when, on the stairs, he discovered |today by Dr. Herman G. Morgad,

he had forgotten his snuff box. | | George Lafayette returned to get it.

Russia would sweep

after the Finnish object-les-All that is

the arbiter of war,

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what is this Red Army that carries communism where it goes?

Balancing varied estimates, it like this: Active soldiers trained and equipped, manpower

“But his toilet not being finished, e requested us to go before him,’

“What,” replied his son, “do you

They each grabbed a hand and

and he rehowever, |

isappeaied completely,

There Was Great Disorder When they arrived on deck, all]

the passengers were in great dis-] order, and the boat had a definite irector of leeward list. The darkness was absolute,

People began calling “Lafayette!

Lafayette!” but none could see him

nd he, personally, said nothing. As the ship began to list more and

9 . . in! more, and the crowd kept calling|to result in a marked decrease in| “Lafayette! Lafayette!” And Gen. bneumonia deaths this winter, Lafayette kept saying nothing and |said. ' nothing, M. Lavasseur shouted:

“Here is Gen. Lafayette!” The most profound silence suc-

Hall at the museum, will make did the same until there were OBIY | ceded the tumult. A free passage

aboriginal music| M. Lavasseur, another gentleman, division of | the pilot and two boatmen awake. Suddenly the ship received a vio-| lent shock and stopped. M. Lavas|seur recalled later in writing that | this was an “extraordinary oceurlance” and he inquired what had)

sound discs of for the anthropology | Columbia University, and will ex-| pose 100.000 feet of movie film. Part of the film will be in color. The expedition, headed oy Bruce heridan Fahnestock, will touch A islands in the Pacific not seen | happened. The fellow Haveilens joid by white men for a number of years, him that the ship probally, 1a d| Mr. Folster said. |struck a sand bar. This he Be | The expedition will take along a | believe but instead sought out t e| small airplane for communication | captain. : 8 '" ! between base camps and temporary A Snag! A Snag! camps. Ten wireless sets will be

(was opened before them. The way was cleared for the General and his | party to take to boats.

But the General wouldn't move. There followed a few moments of

mass persuasion and the General | reluctantly undertook to step from [the steamer to a row boat which required the services of some of the | ablest bodied men aboard.

In fect, M. Lavasseur writes, “I

| should probably have fallen into the | water with him if M. Thibeaudot, Together they opened the hold, formerly President of the Senate of

ple who finish school with an ability to understand |taken along and there'll be a num-| which was already half full of water Louisiana, had not been at my side their own environment and its relation to past history. | ber of broadeasts over the NBC net- ang the Captain cried: “A shag! Alto render his assistance.”

It seems to me that Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Jessie Stan- | ton and their associates are doing a work in the five!

work, Mr. Folster said.

snag!” Three ports selected as ports-of-| This cory was pretty generally |

Where Is George? The little boat was landed safely

Bank Street Schools that should be studied by schools call have been shut off from sup-| heard over the boat but Gen. Lafa-| ashore and the party counted noses.

and colleges all over the country. | I arrived at McMillin Theater, Columbia Univer-, sity, a few minutes before 5:30, and from then on the minutes seemed to fiv. I finished my lecture and) answered a few questions, dashed back to my apart-|

plies by the war, he said, but the yette did not hear it. He did, how-

expedition will stop there anyway.| ever, suspect something was wrong|

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Then, and then only, did Gen. Lafa-

ette discover that his son George

After two years, Mr. Folster said, pecause when M. Lavasseur entered was not among them.

the expedition will land in China. the cabin the General had “on the| From there, he doesn't know where aqvice of his son, allowed his faith-

“George, George!” he called. While others were building a shel-

ment, changed my clothes and had dinner and then hell go—"probably back to work.” ful Bastian to begin to dress him.” | ter for the General, and a fire, M.

back to Columbia for another lecture and question period. I was a bit awed to find Dr. Nicholas Murrav| Butler had come to introduce me in the evening, and when I found he was staying through my lecture, I was even more nervous, But my real eritic in the audience was Mr. W, Colston Leigh, my lecture manager. For after all, if he found fault with me, it would be his duty to tell me all my shortcomings! Today is windy but clear and I am just off to attend the annual sale for the blind and the sale held by the “Friends of the Near East.”

‘girls.

HONOR 317 AT MANUAL the General said: “Top Ten” honors have been! “What news?” awarded to 347 senior and junior] M. Lavasseur answered: high school students at Manual! “That we are going to sink, Gen-| Training accomplish Edward Schumann and Ione Colii-| lose.” gan for the second consecutive time | topped senior high school boys and then collected what they thought | were the most necessary and valu:

As M. Lavasseur entered the cabin, Lavasseur rowed back to the ship. He found George and other members of the party, who got into the boat. . ~

It was then discovered that the

igh School for the work eral, and if we wish to save our- damaged ship already was resting in the last six weeks. selves we have not a moment to on bottom.

Sixty of the 200 letters the Gen-

He and Lafayette's son, George, eral had dictated and prepared for the mails were saved. The others had to be done over,

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| this year compared with the same

vehicles, 8000, including 5000 or more tanks (of which some are very heavy). Airplanes, 10,000, including 4000 bombers capable of dropping simultaneously 4000 tons in bombs. In Spain Russian aircraft looked good; tanks, barring American Christies, somewhat less so. Rus= sia's great weakness is transport. Her advance into Poland is said to have attained in efficiency the standards of the American Civil War. Most supplies were horsedrawn; many trucks were ditched. Ditto, they say, in Estonia. Rail roads in Russia are relatively few,

REDUCE DEATHS BY PNEUMONIA

Two New Treatments Given Partial Credit for Cutting Toll in Half.

A 58 per cent reduction in pneumonia deaths in Indianapolis for September, October and November

{hree months of 1938 was reported

City health officer. Dr. Morgan said the use of two new methods of pneumonia treat-| ment, the drug sulfapyridine and a |

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for only abaut one-third. Armored Red Army just may be broken upon the wheel.

n n ” HE Rusisan himself always ‘ has been thought to fight best not on attack but on defense. Have 22 years of propaganda instilled an offensive spirit that is irresiste ible? That has been the aim since Trotsky reorganized the Red Army. Its soldiers are picked some 800,000 yearly—from twice that number eligible. They are well fed, clothed, housed, looked up to by the nation and looked after by Communist Party come missars attached to every unit recently, when Stalin found the Red Army wasn't as red as he had hoped. Those Commissars, also, sit at the elbows of the officers, obtruds= ing political strategy upon mili tary, which must obfuscate some of the officers. For since Stalin's purges liquidated thousands of them (extreme estimate, 35,000), including some of the best leaders, the remainder averages in intelli gence and training something less than marvelous. Against the ill equipped Balkan armies they might prevail, but, against Bri« tain, France, Italy—? These are some of the reasons why the man who is perhaps the bast American authority on the Red Army lately told me: “They are big boys with lots of equip= ment, some of which is very good. The whole army may prove as good in actual combat—and then again it may not. Nobody knows

poor and of varying gauges. The -—not even Stalin.”

1 93 9 Auto Tags? Get Rid of 'Em!

The $10,000,000 sale of auto license plates begins Monday and if you buy yours now and fail to

destroy the 1939 plates, you won't be able to say you weren't warned, Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club, said today that persons who careless ly leave 1939 tags in a place ace cessible to criminals after ine stalling 1940 tags may have to explain their way out of crimes. “The 1939 tags are good until March of next year, and bandits would like nothing better, than to find a set of 1939 tags to use

| on their cars while committing

robberies,” he said.

new pneumonia serum, coupled with comparatively mild fall weather, ac|counted for the decrease.

Further Decrease Expected

This is the first year the new {methods of treatment have been in ‘general use and they are expected]

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| Pneumonia mortalities for the three-month period this year to-| taled 49, a decrease of 65 from the 114 deaths during the same [three months a year ago. | Dr. Morgan compared the three-| {month periods of both years because previous experience has shown that the pneumonia mortality rate rises in the fall and winter months, he said.

Respiratory Infections Drop

There were 15 deaths this September compared with 33 in September, 1938; 11 in October, 1939, |compared with 42 for October, 1938, and 23 in November, 1939, against 39 in November last year. Dr. Morgan said the mild weather was also accountable for reducing the prevalency of respiratory infections which are now at a low ebb period.

PUPILS AT MANUAL WAIT R. 0. T. C. RANKS

Cadet commissions are to be lawarded to R. O. T. C. unit members at Manual Training High) School by Sergt. Robert French | Wednesday in the school audi-| torium, Those who will receive awards are John Raikos, major; | Frank Hornaday, captain; Cari Eggert and David Bernhart, first

lieutenants, and Pete Holevas and

Ralph Hoot, second Tr i

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-How many lines should a limerick have? 2-—Name the famous pass between India and Afghanie stan. 3—Is the Byrd expedition traveling to the Arctic or Antarctic regions? 4 —~What is a chiromantist? 5—Are sweepstakes winnings subject to Federal income tax? 6-—-What is a pyrheliometer? T—In which mountain range ' are the Green Mountains? 8—Can Mexicans be naturalized in the United States? ” ” ~

Answers 1—Five. 2-—Khyber Pass. 3—Antarctic, 4—-One who tells fortunes from the palm of the hand. 5—Yes. 6-—An instrument for measure ing the intensity of the heat of the sun's rays. 7—The Appalachians. 8—Yes.

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