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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939

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SAN ANGELO, Tex, Dec. 20.—Before we get too far away, there is one more little story about the Ala-

mogordo White Sands I want-to tel.

The other day I wrote that nobodv had ever been lost on the vast blank sands. By that I meant permanently Jost. But there hava been a few people lost fora while. There was one spectacular case of a little girl. Two families were picnicking in different spots on the Sands. This little girl decided she would walk over to the other family, which was not far away but out of sight around high dunes. After she left, her own family packed up and went home. thinking the other family would bring her, But before she got to the other family, they had left, too. not knowing she was coming. It wasn't till 10 that night that the two families got together and realized the little girl was still out on oe Sands. Searching parties went out immediately Almost instantly they picked up her ‘racks. That's one thing about the Sands—if the wind isn't blow ing. a footprint stands out like a monumert All night the men followed the little girls track They were still following them at dawn. They never did catch up with her. At 10 a. m. she rescued herself hv coming to the road and hailing a car. She felt fine. execent that she was thirsty. She said she hadn't been scared. She had walked 21 miles! =

Colors Are Numbers

In El Paso we have a little gir] friend. 6 vears old, who thinks of colors in terms of numbers, For instance. a green tree goes through her mind as a No. 8 tree, and a red dress is a No. 3 dress. She has now learned the names of colors, and knows that what in her mind ix No. € is really vellow, But in her first consciousness. colors were onlv numbers to her. I had her make out a list for me. and here is the way colors strike her: Black is 1: vellow is 2: red is 3: blue is 4; white is 5; vellow is 6: red is 7: green is 8; brown is9. and white is 10. I hadn't noticed till I started conving this down that there is some duplication in her list. such as red being both No. 3 and No. 7. Maybe shes holding a

Our Town

I HAD HIGH HOPES that when I went to see the exhibit of old dolls, now on view in Block's auditorium, I could clear up another curious psychological phenomenon and explain why little girls hug and make-over something that. very often isn't anvthing more than a stick decorated with Tags, as if it were a real-for-sure baby. As for clearing up anything, my adventure was a flop. So much so that today's piece is nothing more than a review attempted by a bewildered male who, abashed by the delicacy of the task. breaks down and weakiv resorts to a handful of program notes. The - oldest doll the Block people have on exhibition is “Cita.” a specimen owned and submitted by Mrs. Ben Wilson of Rushville which also happens to be the hiding place of Jim Watson. Cita, it appears, was carved out of wood as far back as 1vu by Alexander Spottswood who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Virgima Colony in 1710. a Job whic h apparently left him with time on his hands The judges picked to appraise the Block dolls awarded Cita first prize. 3 decision which has this departments unqualified approval. notwithstandi ng the fact that we were demied the privilege of examining Citas body to see whether it was carved with the same skill as her head. The thing that stood in the way was the calico dress she now wears.

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A Dried Apple Dolly The second prize went to Mrs. A. W. Carl. 1933 Carroliton Ave. She submitted what the judges thought was the most unusual exhibit, O. K. with me. too. It consists of two 30-year-old colls made of dried apples. No fooling. To hear Mrs. Carl tell it. the apples were peeled and slowly dried near a stove. As they dried. the features were fashioned. Then came the body in the shape of a stick. Last of all the hair was applied. It's real human hair as I took pains to ascertain. Mrs. Carl's qolls have a kind of withered look "today.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. —-Manv others knew Hevwood Broun more intimately than I knew him and are better qualified to pay him tribute, vet he meant something to me. and I think to vou, whether you have read ‘his column every day or never read it. Within this amiable soul was wrapped a most passionate sense of outrage at the world’s injustices, large and small Broun was restless and troubled, and in this he reflected his time. for despite the brash confidence of the youthful Mr. D2swey, the world is out of joint and more than cooing optimism is to make it right. In his last months he sought the shelter of an ancient faith and tried to find in the Roman Catholic Church that anchorage which had eluded him throughout his tempestuous life. Heywood Broun was a follower of lost causes— or were they lost? Sometimes it seemed he was only being perverse. As he used to sav, he saved himself the hard labor of thinking by finding out first where Bishop Manning stood. and then taking the other side. There was more to Broun than that,

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A Public Force

He was an inveterate joiner of commitiees and groups. Let twe or more persons approach With a grievance and he was ready to go on their committee. giving his name and often his time, to the cause Often he seemed to become entangled ‘in causes 1 think he led the American Newspaper Guild far outcide its legitimate field of wages and working conditions when it began indorsing the Spanish Loyalists,

My Day

HYDE PARK. Tuesday.—I did considerable walking yesterday. My last walk was from the cottage through the woods to the big house at about 5:30 in the afternoon. To my surprise, the moon was shining prightly and the stars were already out. It is only about two and a half miles from house to house. and the mysterious beauty of the woods with the moonlight clouds coming through, made part of the walk through the woods seem all too short. In the afternoon I went down to Poughkeepsie to buv one or two gifts which I had forgotten. I found myself in the elevator in Lucky-Platt’s, our big department store, going to tovland with quite a group of children. While I was making mv purchase. I watched with keen amusement one little girl of 2 or 3 shepherded bv her father. She was gazing at the dolls, but she did not demand to have them, just looking seemed quite sufficient. 1 often think that when children go to the shops and are surrounded by so many toys, they are really more d than interested.

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By Ernie Pyle

number or two in reserve. At any rate, she can’t explain how this weird conception came about, and neither can her mother. When vou come to think of it, maybe blue is 4, instead of blue. Can you prove it isn’t? = = We have another odd fiend in Albuquerque—a lady who recently set out to read the Encyclopedia Brittanica clear through, Since she is a writer bv profession. keeps house, raises three children, and also has lots of fun. you can see she reads only in spurts and jerks. At her rate. she figures it will take her seven vears. She finds the encyclopedia fascinating. The main thing she has got out of it so far is a swell curse to bestow an somebody you don't like. You can sav “Oh. go breath the air of Abdera.” The air of Abdera. it seems. induces stupidity in the breather. But such a retort would be utterly wasted on me For I can achieve 100 per cent stupidity by breathing plain old Albuquerque air. with a little sand in it.

The Old Yule Spirit

In that recent series about the chinchilla farms in California. I said there was only one chinchilla coat for sale in America. and that it was in Hollywood. That's what the chinchilla people told me, and they ought to know. But— Now comes a nice letter from Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Ave. saying they have a chinchilla coat, too. and inclosing a picture to prove it. It is for sale, and they say I can have this little number for $27.500. And in Joske's big store in San Antonio vesterday we saw in the jewelry department a 14°:-karat emerald ring, at the pickup price of $19.500. I'm going to give both the coat and the ring to That Girl for Christmas. With all that on her, maybe people won't notice that her shoes nesd half-soling again. » And speaking of Christmas. I guess now is as good a time as any to wish all of you Tiny Tims a very riotous holiday. and a New Year filled with as few regrets as possible, As for us, we have no idea where we will be on Christmas Day. Very probably in the same place as most other days—which is nowhere in particular. Just charging from some one place to some other place--hungry. cold, penniless and lonely, with. the Christmas spirit dragging from our rear bumper like the tin can on a dog's tail.

By Anton Scherrer

Thomas of Bridgeport carried off the third She submitted the oldest doll least signs of wear, In polite society it is sometimes | referred to as being “well-preserved.” The Thomas] doll is 125 years old and still wears her original | clothes. Rather quaint for a girl, I thought. Item 78 submitted by Miss Rene Chevrolet, 4062 N. Capitol Ave. is a doll more than 75 years old and every bit of 30 inches big. The size is the point of the story. The doll was brought from England and smuggled into this couniry as a baby to avoid paying duty on it.

A Bit Baffled

Item 158 is a “Josie Doll.” owned and played with originally by Minnie Carleton in Bedford. Mass. The dress on Josie is an exact copy of the one Minnie wore at her sister's wedding in 1878 when she was 8 vears old. It is now owned by Mrs. Gordon Gauld of Crawfordsville. The dress is a grav taffeta with a very full araped skirt and a basque waist. It has two ruffies with black velvet bands. a device also used to outline the yoke. Around: the neck are some red laced {rills. Red stockings and pumps complete the get-up. Sometimes I wonder what the women of Indianapolis would do without this column. Item 74 is "Lady Alice.” and 89-year-old doll which had the distinction of having her portrait painted with her present owner, Mrs. T. H. Montgomery of Seymour. Lady Alice is a Greiner doll. whatever that may be, and has the date 1858 tattooed on her back. According to Mrs. Montgomery. the doll's first owner. Alice Lell, was never permitted to play with it. notwithstanding the fact that it was a Christmas present. All she was allowed to do was to sneak into the parlor occasionally and have a look at her doll seated on a horse hair settee. Item 37 is a doll bought in 1839 by Nathaniel Carter for his 3-yvear-old daughter, Mary. Seems that Father Carter picked up the doll in Madison. at the time he drove a bunch of hogs on foot from his home in Mooresville to the Ohio River. The doll is owned by | Ed Carter of Mooresville, the only man, as far as I could see, who helped out Block's with an exhibit.

Max prize

By Raymond Clapper

IT never But then

the Roosevelt Administration, and WPA, joined the Guild, partly for that reason I never was much of a joiner. better off without entangling ailiances. Whether I agreed or disagreed with Hevwood Broun. I have always valued him as a public force. This country needs Hevwood Brouns because democracy needs dissenters. We don't need revolutionaries because we have a system that, with its faults. nations have tried. But why consider it perfect? It needs the goading of many Brouns. ~ » ~ An Answering Voice The Roosevelt Administration set out to improve ‘this system. I can see Mr. Roosevelt's mistakes and I can object to some of his methods. Day-by-day goading of the Brouns, and day-by-day efforts to make our system work more effectively, are the best insurance we have. when they are ineffective also is healthy. But the attack has gone beyond criticism of the methods. Ernest T Weir, one of the pillars of the steel industry and an angel of the Republican Party, is quoted as saving in a recent speech that the New Deal objectives are probably even worse than the methods. “Make no mistake about it.” he said. communism, naziism and New Dealism all out of the same box." Such utterances make the British Tories look like Red Communists. Conservatives in England saw long age that government had to do things that it formerly avoided. and the Tories set about to do it themselves rather than have the Socialist Laborites take charge When strong voices like Weir's are raised in behalf of turning the clock back a generation. answering voices are needed. Broun's was stilled too soon.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

the death of Mr. Heywood Broun. As president of the American Newspaper Guild, he has done a great service for many newspaper people. Even though Some people may not approve of everything for which t

Guild stands. or of every action it has taken in the|

past few years, I think there is no one who will not. agree that fundamentally the Guild has improved conditions for newspaper people as a whole. This, I feel sure, was the reason which made Mr. | Broun unselfishly give much of his time to this work

and many people will mourn him and feel a sense of |

personal loss in consequence. I have always felt thar, as one of the best known columnists, he set us all a! high standard in that he wrote what he really believed. ! No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

He was critical sometimes, but almost always there |

was something constructive about his criticisms. None of us resent being told our faults, for we know only too | well how many we have, but it is truly helpful when | somebody gives you new idsas and ideals which vou can strive for, even though vour own achievements are limited. I knew Mr. Broun only slightly, but I had a deep respect and genuine affection for him, and 1 sympathize greatly for the ‘oss which his death brings, hoi a hp (hue ut oly ite J + § othe: 1) rést of his far 3 g

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still | gives us a far better life than any other system that!

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Time: Square at night—the heart of New York's theatrical district.

Boom Year Lies Ahead Of the Nation's Cities With Tourist Appeal

(Last of a Series)

By Allan Keller

Times Special Writer

EW YORK, Dec. after the boulevards Piccadilly

20.—Even of Paris, and Oxford Circus or

if a tourist hankered a trip through a quiet beer in a

Viennese cafe, the Neutrality Act, nightly air raid black-

outs and the indigestion of dictators outings extremely hazardous.

This situation will work a twofold benefit in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans In the first place, Americans shut off from Europe will spend some tens of millions of collars annually spent in Europ: in this country instead. and, in the second place, any European not needed in the war will seek relaxation here if he has the price Despite the sly digs taken at us by English writers and lecturers, we have been modest about our large cities, and for every poster or bit of advertising about one of our towns in Europe one could find 20 boosting London, Paris, Rome, the cathedral towns and other European resorts. Old Man Mars having intervened, it appears certain that American cities will have a boom year. Hotel men meeting here recently agreed that already theve has been a heavy increase in domestic travel because of the European war. G. E. R. Flynn, president of the Hotel Sales Managers Assn., predicted that traffic to the large cities would continue to grow as long as the war lasts. The continuation of the New

CONTRACT DELAYED PENDING PAY Quiz

Awarding of a contract for puba State monthly magazine, has been delayed indefinitely by the State Printing Board pending an investigation of wage scales being paid by the low bidder.

At a hearing before the Board yesterday, Printing Trades Council representatives protested awarding the contract to the Ft. Wayne Printing Co, low bidder, on the ground

{that the firm did not pay union

wages to its mailers,

The Ft. Wayne company's bid was $3657 a month for printing the Conservation Department magazine, $407 lower than the offer submitted by the Cornelius Printing Co. of Indianapolis; Board members said. Thomas H. Hutson, Commissioner, said his staff will investigate wage scales being paid by the Ft. Wayne firm and report findings to the Board. Pending the Labor Department

| report, Printing Board members said

the magazine would be printed by the Burford Printing Co.. Indianapolis, which had the contract for the last two ye two years.

FLETCHER TRUST CO. IS NAMED EXECUTOR

The Fletcher Trust Co. today

'qualified as executor of the estate

of C. C. Crumbaker, life underwrit-

Tenn. The Fletcher Trust Co. Is named trustee. Mr. Crumbaker was an associate | of the Northwestern Mutual Life

| Insurance Co. here,

SANTA CLAUS IS BUSY

SANTA CLAUS, Ind. Dec. 20 (U. |P.).—Tae postoffice here, usually employs one man, now has! the | 4-hur séfvice with ei ha plovess | working e!

Shift

would make such

York World's Fair next summer undoubtedly will lure the lion's share of the travel to this metropolis. If the San Francisco Fair reopens the transcontinental movement of tourists will boom travel to many cities along the route. To start with New York, what does any other city have to offer that outshines the theaters, the night clubs, the opera and the kaleidoscopic city life of this larg est city in the western hemisphere? » n » R. OTTO PREMINGER, the actor and director, foresees the eventual breakdown of the European theater as a source of cultural improvement if the war continues. But in New York the current season on Broadway has broken records of long standing, and successful plays are still coming in from the road. With Covent Garden, La Scala and L'Opera in Paris funéticning under wraps, the Metropolitan in New York will have most of the world-famous singers corralled for this season. Tourists from the hinterland or from abroad will

Here is the way Chinese children will celebrate the New Year in

San + Francisco's Chinatown.

find in the Opera and the symphony orchestras the answer to their dreams of great music. Broadway, 52d St. and the other lurid lanes of night life need not how to the Montmartre or Soho. The girls may wear a little more than they do in Paris, but the swing bands have no peers and the cuisine is. excellent. And before you let Uncle John go back home don’t forget to take him to Harlem, where sweet music is outlawed and no. holds are barred.

When summer comes the beaches, race tracks and oiher resorts. on Long Island make New York a mecea for the months of June to September. The city's museums, parks, zoos and harbor life are a never-static source of interest to the stranger, Europeans know more about New York than they do about any other American city, with the possible exception of Hollywood, a strange fungus that has shot out from the body of California and scattered its spores in every town and hamlet that has a cinema. Nowhere in the world has such an Arabian Nights city of brick and stone and tinsel and sham been nourished. ” ” ” HERE is only one Hollywood in the world. You may not

like it, but rest assured it has an appeal at home and abroad that will be transformed into a largescale hegira to southern California in the coming months.

Winter's

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Friday, Shortest Day of Year, Calls for Mathematics Here

s Entry Scheduled for 1 You Take Your Time From the Sun.

2:06 P. M., Unless

FRIDAY WILL BE the first day of winter and, agcording to all the arts and sciences of weather, the shortest day of the year. J. H. Armington, Indianapolis’ own weather expert, agrees that it will be the first day of winter but balks a little on agreeing that it will

be the shortest day.

The reason for his doubt is that “Indianapolis runs on artificial

time and is always either 15 min- | utes ahead or 15 minutes behind

the sun.’ The winter solstice, when the

sun stops its apparent southward |

journey and seems to start pack north, occurs at 12:06 p. m. dianapolis Time). according to the U. S. Naval Observatory at Washington. On this day, Friday. the sun has its lowest noon-time altitude of anv time in the year and shadows at noon are the longest. » » ”

AS WINTER BEGINS officially the year’s longest night arrives. There will be only nine hours and 26 minutes of sunshine. providing do not obscure the sun. Sunrise Friday is supposed to occur at 7:23 a.m. C. 8. T. and sunset at 4:49 p.m. C. 8. T. Net here, however, Mr. Armington says. He has different figures. He says that on Friday the sun will rise here at 7:04 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and will set at 4:23 p. m., giving Indianapolis only nine hours and 19 minutes of

| daylight on Dec. 22.

Admitting, just because of the official records, that Friday will be the shortest day, Mr. Armington says that the period measured will start at 12:06 p. m. Thursday. “But there ‘are other days just as short,” Mr. Armington argues. “Why on Dec. 28 and until Jan. 11 the sun doesn't get around to

rising in these parts until about.

7:07 a. m. And another thing, | starting about Dec. 1 the sun sets as early as 4:20 and continues to do so until about Dec. 14 when it ' sets later.”

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The tourist fleeing from the winter's storms will not pass up New Orleans, the stately city near the Mississippi's mouth. where the old world encroaches more deeply

than in any other city in the United States. Go to New Orleans when the Mardi Gras is on. Roll down the rails on fleet trains, fly in swift ease, drive in your own car or hest of all, take passage on one of the few remaining Mississippi River steamers. For this festival of the pre-lenten season the city throws off restraint, and gaiety .is the order of the day. The other cities beckon to the visitor with but little less effectiveness. Washington, the nation’s capital. with its beautiful buildings, landscaping™ and shrines; Boston, the acropolis of - learning and home of the back-laced Brahmin; Charleston, with its peaceful streets and beautiful homes—all these have their unique charms. San Francisco, hard by the Golden Gate, with its famous Chinatown, beckons from across the continent, and the traveler who stops at Detroit, Chicago or Denver will see at first hand the progress the nation has made since the industrial revolution. There is no city that does not have its own appeal, its own justification for inviting native and foreign tourists to stop at fine hotels, dine in outstanding restaurants and play in the resorts like White Sulphur Springs, Hot

$3,278,000 STATE

WPA PROJECT OK'D

John K. Jennings, state WPA administrator, announced today that

‘he had approved a $3,278,000 equip-

‘ment inventory project for Indiana

governmental units. Under the project, the State Planning Board, WPA

| workers ‘would make inventories of

sun acts and the kind of time we |

| have here, “We use 90th Meridian time,” he said. “As a matter of fact, we are 15 minutes faster than. that. About the sun? Why if you'd go by‘ the sun you'd be adjusting weather all the time. Sometimes the sun ‘operates about three ahead . of itself. The

variations in its movements are

| responsible for the discrepancy in

time.” 4 But getting mm line with all the weathermen and weather scientists, the local weatherman is will-

ing to admit that Priday will be

the shortest day and the reason is simply because the sun will be

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| the farthest arthest south uth of the the equator. |

DERBY SHIRE FILES

$2500 APPEAL BOND

Gurney G. Derbyshire, convicted | here early this month with his son-| in-law, Carl F. Kortepeter, of il-| legal diversion of WPA funds, was! free today on a $2500 appeal bond. |

| Brookside Lodge 720, F. &

| Dale R. Horning,

local equipment and would compile records of all equipment for governmental units. Other projects approved at state office which will be sent to

Washington for final approval in-|

clude: A $2294 school records proj-

ect at Knox; $3470 for a civil court index at Gary;

$5755 for construction - of - sanitary sewers at Ham$2526 for street at Newburgh: $31,745

improvements at Brookston,

ments street.