Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1939 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939

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WESLACO, “The Valley,” Tex., Dec. 27—Before we » go on to other things, I insist on getting this grapefruit business squeezed dry. Tot vears I have heard of, have eaten, and have liked this pink Texas grapefruit, It seemed sweeter and juicier to me. So I supposed that down here they raised nothing but pink grapefruit. And of course 1 was wrong. They raise a dozen Kinds, and the leading variety is called white marsh seedless. It is exceptionally luscious. However, most of the new groves are being planted in pink grapefruit. It brings a premium at the market. In a few years the pink will undoubtedly be No. 1 in the Valley. And that seems to me wise, because this distinctive color is worth millions in promotion and advertising and trade-naming. The Valley has been rather lackadaisical in tooting its citrus horn. Whereas California has made a national institution of Sunkist Oranges, Texas has just let its grapefruit supremacy peg-leg along with very little of that good old American ballyhoo which makes millions of people shell out money for something they don't want, If the Valley will consider hiring me at $100,000 a vear, I will guarantee to have nine out of 10 Americans going around with pink grapefruit sticking out of their ears before it is over. We'll make it unpatriotic not to eat pink grapefruit. ” » ”

Don’t Be Too Inquisitive A grapefruit tree, exactly like an orange tree,

in case you don't know, looks In fact they look so much alike T can't tell them apart, And if you don't know what an orange tree looks like, I'm not going to bother with you The Valley raises a lot of oranges, hut thev don't attempt to set themselves up alongside California and Florida. Almost 3.000000 hoxes of aranges are grown here annually. but since the total U. 8. production is

Our Town

WHEN GEN. LEW WALLACE was Governor of New Mexico (1878-81), that territory was infested by a band of daring and murderous outlaws with “Billy the Kid" at their head.

No bandit excited more terror along the frontier or gave better ground for the dread in which he was held. He had perpetrated murder after murder and there were few crimes of which he was not guilty. Billy the Kid's gun carried 50 notches and he openly boasted that he enjoyed shooting down a man just for the “fun of seeing him kick.” Gen. Wallace was determined to put an end to the scourge and offered a big reward for the capture of the bandit. The offer proved to be a great sensation throughout the Territory and tempting bait for the sharpshooters and officers of the law. With the result that after .a most exciting chase, participated in by hundreds of law abiding citizens, Billy the Kid finally was cornered and compelled to surrender, at the point of 50 guns. It turned out, though, that Billv had plugged three of his pursuers before they got him, Every plug was good for another notch on his gun.

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» » » Threatens Gen. Wallace

Billy was taken to Lincoln County. a place wav up in the country, and locked up with two jailers to watch him. He was wildly enraged at having been trapped and swore that the moment he got out he'd pick up a pony, gallop clear across the Territory to Santa Fe, and get Governor Wallace. After that. he didn’t care whether they hanged him or not. said Biilyv. Gen. Wallace had reason to believe that the Kid meant what he said. and figured that it might be

Washington

WASHINGTON. Dee. 27.—In the political talk here the term “liberalism” is batted back and forth like the bird in a badminton game. the object being to keep it out of the other fellow's reach. In this game, Wendell Willkie calls himself a liberal—and no doubt sincerely, since he waz a campus Socialist in his college days. John Hamilton laid a wreath on Jefferson's tomb a vear or two ago to testify that the Republican Party believed in Jefferson's “liberalism.” Secretary Ickes thinks he is a liberal and that Paul McNutt is not. Mr. McNutt thinks he is a liberal, but some of the labor people cali him the Indiana Hitler. Senator Borah considers himself a liberal, Al Smith supported Governor Landon is defense of liberalism. At this late day I pay no attention to political labels although I confess to using them, partly because they handy word-savers and partly, of course, from mental laziness. ” ” ”

Myr. Jackson's Definition

I'ne term defies sharp definition. If vou are a member of the Republican Party vou are a Republican, although vou may be Senator Borah or Herbert Hoover. If vou are a member of the Democratic Party. vou are a Democrat, although you may be Carter Glass or (since last year) Henry Wallace. Liberalism is not an official party label and so becomes a vague term which anyone can appropriate without having to register with the election officials Liberalism iz supposed to he a state of mind. Loose a: the term iz one of the hest description: of it came in 3 speech about a vear azn from Robert H Jackson, Solicitor General. who may be-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Fiurst of all I want to thank the many friends throughout the country, both known and unknown, who sent us telegrams and Christmas cards at this season. It will be impossible to thank all of them individually, so I want to tell

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general

By Ernie Pyle

75.000,000 boxes, see Texas isn't so much on

oranges. ; You can find every Kind of citrus fruit here you ever heard of, and many you haven't heard of. They have lemons—Ponderosa lemons—that are literally as big as footballs. "And thev have kumquats and calomondinz and citroquats. They have tangelos—a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit. And they have tangelolos —a mixture of tangerine, grapefruit and orange. I'll bet if they crossed up enough things they could even get a pumpkin. Most of the oranges down here are a disappointing lemon color. That has led to a process known as “color add.” They simply dye the oranges a deliciouslooking orange color. This isn't as bad as it sounds. Because it is under state regulation. and before you can “color add” an orange it must have a higher sugar content than the ordinary orange. So when you buy a ‘color added” orange it not only looks better, it is better.

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Scarcity Amid Plenty

It is hard to buy good grapefruit in the stores of| the Valley. That is not due to indifference, but to the| fact that everybody can get good grapefruit without | buying it. : You have to fight to get citrus fruit in restaurants. I had a little incident at the leading hotel in Brownsville. There wasn't any fruit at all on the menu. So! I asked the waitress if it would be possible, in this! Orchard of Eden, to get a fruit cocktail with my dinner. She seemed doubtful, but said she would inquire. In a little while she came back fairly beaming. and‘ said ves indeed I could have it. But when it came, it was a cocktail of canned fruit, the kind you'd get out of the same can in Chicago. I was so mad I threw it in my own face. Where does all this Texas citrus go? Well, most of | it goes to the Midwest, because that's where the natural flow of transportation leads. and where there's less competition from Florida and California. A great deal of canned grapefruit has been shipped to England the last couple of vears. Whole shiploads go to Boston and New York. And oddly enough. considerable is shipped around through the Canal to California for canning, |

‘Ferdinand’ Unexpectedly Brought Riches

(Second of a Series)

By Frederick Woltman Times Special Writer EW YORK, Dec. 27. For a dark horse book “Ferdinand the Bull” got off to a slow start. Thereafter the flower-loving bull with bovine manners ran

off with the race. Munro Leaf, at the time a publisher's publicity chief, conceived Ferdinand in a brief 40 minutes as a simple, kiddies’ fantasy. In blissful unanticipation Viking Press brought out the book in its juvenile department. When Ferdinand's sales passed 14,000 by the end of the Christmas season, everybody sat back grinning from ear to ear, acording to Marshall Best. a Viking director. For juvenile books at best are gambles that rarely touch 14,000. Then. phenomenally and to

| every editor's astonishment, sales

By Anton Scherrer

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well to be on the safe side. Accordingly. he hought a brace of pistols and began practicing an hour every day in the corral back of his home. Apparently, the Indianapolis Public School System didn't equip the | General with a knowledge of small firearms. Be that as it may, in a few weeks he got to be so good that he could hit the figure of a man marked on| the wall every time he tried—at 20 paces, I'm told. | Two months dragged along and one day news filtered through that Billy the Kid had murdered ! his two jailers and had started for Santa Fe with] the open threat “Now for the Governor!” Whereupon | Gen. Wallace began practicing like everything—as ‘a matter of fact, three hours every day.

o ” » ¢ Weeks of Suspense

Pat Garrett was the Sheriff to whose charge the bandit had been entrusted. When he heard what! the Kid had done, he started in hot pursuit, you bet. | The Kid was 30 minutes ahead of the Sheriff. how- | ever. For weeks there was unbroken suspense. Everybody knew that both were crack shots and something | Just had to happen when the Sheriff caught up. ~ Finally one day, a travel-stained six-footer wear- | ing a big sombrero arrived at the Governor's Mansion. He got off his pony and came to the door. He didn't | even stop to tie up his pony. Gen. Wallace met him | on the front step with his nands on his pistols and | asked him his errand. “TI am Pat Garrett,” he said. “I have just shot! Billy the Kid out here at Ft. Sumner.” Pat, it appears, had come up with the desperado heading for Santa Fe, had got the drop on him, and | without another word shot him through the heart. After Billy was out of the way, Gen. Wallace kept right on with his pistol practice. With this minor difference, however: Instead of nracticing three hours every day. he reduced the time to something around 60 minutes. Which was why the General was known as one of the best pistol shots when he returned to make his home in Indiana.

started to climb up and up beyond 150,000 at a dollar apiece—on a newspaper and magazine advertising ouilay of less than $3000. Sales eventually topped 250.000 and Ferdinand paid the author and artist a neat $50,000. In international fame, extending from Bombay to Singapore to Oslo, Norway, Ferdinand, the fictional bull, easily outdistanced Taurus, the sign of the Zodiac for May. Some 71 manufacturers have bought Ferdinand as a trademark. The catch with “Ferdinand the Bull” from the publisher's point of view, was that, contrary to expectations, the grown-ups read it.

| They bought over four-fifths of

the copies intended for the ju-

| venile market.

It. is this unpredictability of

| public taste that helps give the

sedate business of book publishing a gambling flavor. And accounts for the “dark horses.” the term the trade applies to new books.

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“PDOOKS are selling platers,” according to William Sloane, trade book editor of Henry Holt & Co. "A plater is an unknown horse run in a selling race. With books as with horses you can't pick a winner in the paddock.” Another spectacular dark horse is “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” by Dale Carnegie, who used to win public speaking

| contests at Missouri State Teach-

ers College, later studied art at the American Academy of Arts and once toured the road with “Polly of the Circus,” playing Dr. Hartley, then taught public speaking at the New York Y. M.

| C. A. and finally turned over a

handsome income for himself by training executives from the lec-

“Ferdinand the Bull,” was a “dark horse” book that unexpectedly became a spectacular best seller,

Simon & Schuster splurged with a $10,000 full-page ad in a national Sunday magazine supplement, one of the largest single book advertising outlays. “How to Win Friends” has passed 1.035.000, a previously un-heard-of sales figure for nonfiction, and still sells around 3000 copies ‘weekly. To date more than 21,000 Australians have learned how to influence other Australians. The book also has been sold to 10,000 Finns, 15,000 Germans, 15.‘000 Englishmen, 1000 natives of India and 60,000 Japanese and Chinese. » ” »

HAT makes a dark horse a best seller is pretty much of a mystery. But once in a while an individual bookstore dealer can start a wave of interest which turns a laggard book into a best seller. The Misses Harriet Anderson and Carol Fleming are credited with making several best sellers. Former Vassar classmates, they worked together in the Children’s Bureau in Washington. the former as publicity director, the latter as assistant chief. After reading copy for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency for four years, they decided to go into bookselling and 15 years ago, opened the Channel Book Shop at 283 Park Ave. Nine years ago a publisher imported the sheets from England and bound them into 500 copies of Axel Munthe’s “The Story of San Michele.” selling for $6. Sales dragged for months. Large department store shops were ordering only two or three copies at a time, Suddenly the publisher discovered the Channel store was responsible for 50 per cent of all sales. Catering to a limousined clientele, it became the nucleus and started a wave for one of the outstanding best sellers in recent years. Some publishers ascribed “San Michele's” spurt—to more than

partly set by the smart people. The Channel shop might sell only 200 copies of a book, but it's all to the dinner-party people who talk about the book. “If “the "wave starts on Park Ave. it moves over to Central Park West, and eventually to the rest of the city. :Dinner-party advertising mares the publishers’ cheapest and most effective sales.”

When the . Anderson-Fleming combination . get. excited about a book, they not only tell their customers, but cali up the publisher, too, with the idea of infusing him with enthusiasm. Another book they started moving was “Mathematics for the Millions,” hardly a, popular theme.

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'M a fool when it comes to mathematics,” said Miss Anderson. “But when I read the book I got excifed and called the publisher and said, ‘Hey, you've got an extraordinary book.'” Miss Fleming spotted the San Michele ' story, advised the publisher to issue a cheaper edition, which he did. “Johnny Got His Gun,” a powerful, .terrifying first-person story of a “basket case” victim of the last war whose limbs and face have beén shot away, is a current dark horse. . It's hardy fare for every read-

that sold more than a half a million and surprised everybody, including his publisher, who cautiously brought out a first printing of but 1500. Another current dark horse, this one unexpectedly successful, is “Black Narcissus,” by an unknown English authoress. whose first two books the American publishers turned down. British reviewers wrote enthusiastically of it. This carried little weight here because of the literary log-rolling among English critics. Little, Brown .& Co. a canny Back Bay, Boston house, prudently published three, then one, then two thousand copies successively. The book started to run away after that and had seven subse-

quent printings within four months,

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N part the publisher ascribes the unexpected sales to local reviews comparing “Black Narcissus” with “Lost Horizon,” conjuring up the glamour. of Tibet and the “Himalayas, which is known in the trade as the ‘‘escape theme'—always a draw in time of stress and war. "“Lost Horizon" itself was a bust at the beginning and sold only 2500 copies the first six months. James Hilton, ‘the author, was about to give up writing after vears of struggle when he succeeded in getting a publisher.

ture platform. For three years Mr. Carnegie worked over and rewrote his lectures into book form. Simon & Schuster brought it out without too much optimism or fanfare. For months sales drifted in casually. A $141.72 ad in a newspaper resulted in 192 sales. Pupils of the Carnegie executive-building system came to life after a magazine published a condensation of the book. Within two months sales leaped

By Raymond Clapper

come Attorney General shortly if Mr. Murphy is appointed to the Supreme Court. “Liberalism.” said Mr. Jackson, “is not a particular | measure or platform, but is rather an underlying atti- | tude towards all problems and platforms. It is a continuous attitude toward problems of government | rather than merely a fixed code of principles. But one fixed and unalterable purpose is the support of democracy. not as a mere form of government. but as >, ; ; an underlying philosophy with deep spiritual to 20.000 a week. At this point meaning.” Mr. Jackson says that the dangers from which democracy must be protected by liberals change from generation to generation. and that the direction

of activity must change as the enemies of democracy | take up different positions. SCHOOL 48 NURSERY

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New Dangers Ever Present | The Indianapolis Board of School

“While liberalism is always defending the same! tits 3 goal, it must change front from time to time in order Commissioners today was considerto face new dangers,” Mr. Jackson says. In the Jef- ing a request for a day nursery at fersonian era the dangers were largely political— School 48, governmental dangers rather than economic. Hence| mphe nursery, which would be for the Bill of Rights. In time conservatives came to! hildr hi h accept these principles. Under Andrew Jackson lib- © laren whose mot ers Bre =neralism began to acquire an economic aspect. Nearly Ployed, was asked last night by the every state had a property qualification to curb the Rev. Clarence G. Baker, superintenright to vote. The polls were open to a man only dent of Hawthorne Community when he had some property. Jacksonian liberals en- House : gaged in campaigns to end imprisonment for debt, ns i and were denounced as enemies of property. Speaking as a representative of Usually reforms fought for successfully by liberals West Side civic groups, the Rev. Mr. come eventually to be accepted by everyone. | Baker said the ‘proposed nursery “Then.” Mr. Jackson says, “the once drastic meas- would be for children in the 2-to-4-ures are no longer thought of as liberalism. but as vear age group and would be under Americanism. And the reactionaries adopt the names supervision of a WPA teacher. and slo2ans of deceased liberals in order to discredit South Side civic groups, repreliving ones. Meanwhile the liberals have to face NEW sented at the meeting by Miss fronts because the dangers come from another Kathryn McPherson, 1148 Spruce quarter. St., presented a petition asking that |old School 20 be converted into a [library and community center. The {board will confer with their legal - counsel before action will be taken. By Eleanor Roosevelt 'of School 11 at 13th St. and Capitol {Ave., to the Ball Park Wrecking Co. Thompson, who remarked, as we were surveying .he On the company’s low bid of $410. final preparation for the East Room Christmas party! They also approved a bid of 11.1 on Saturday afternoon: “How long it takes to prepare cents a gallon for gasoline delivered and how quickly everything comes to an end!” Christ-|to school tanks. The gasoline has a mas Day is over and now we can look forward only to|70-octane rating, according to A. B. birthdays until another year rolls around. | Good, schools business director.

Board members approved the sale!

200,000 sales — after a year's inactivity to what George Stevens calls the “good looks sell themselves” or the “better mousetrap” theory. It actually started with the Anderson-Fleming impetus, he says in “Lincoln's Doctor's Dog,” a book on best sellers. “New York City sets the tone for most books,” says Clifton Fadiman, book critic for the New Yorker, who keeps the ball in the air for radio's “Information Please.” “And the

Another of those fortuitous events occurred which account for so many best sellers. A British magazine ordered a Christmas story from Mr. Hilton. paying $250 far all rights. It was ‘Goodby, Mr, Chips.” The British magazine turned back the American rights free and the Atlantic Monthly reprinted “Mr. Chips.” Thereafter Alexander Woollcott went “quietly mad” about -both “Mr. Chips” and "Lost Horizon" over the radio. The latter was reissued, sold 110,000

er. for “Johnny” is able only to think and never can see or spfak or hear or move again. With the dramatic impact of such a theme. the publishers, J. B. Lippincott & Co.. naturally looked for a best seller in the sophisticated book markets. Strangely. “Johnny Got His Gun” is going much better in the smaller towns than in New York and Boston. There's no accounting for it. A historic dark horse is Will f= Durant’s “Story of Philosophy”

New York tone

The Misses Harriet Anderson (above, left) and Carol Fleming (center), who have started several “dark horses” on the way to best sellers, talking to a customer in their Channel Book Shop, 283 Park Ave, New York,

copies and made a movie hit. “Goodby, Mr. Chips,” as a .movie, only recently was torn away by its fond producer from America's super-exhibition theater, the Astor, after a run of many months. Book clubs, naturally, account for many dark-horse best sellers. The Book-of-the-Month Club vir= tually guarantees 100,000 circula= tion. While book club sales never figure in best seller calculations, they ‘start an army of readers talking about a hook—the best publicity ‘any publisher hopes for. Newspaper columnists start books, too, A brief reference in Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day means . many sales.. Dorothy Thompson's plug for “The Revolution of Nihilism"” helped put it at the top of the non-fiction bestseller list. Returning to “Ferdinand the Bull,” juvenile books, it develops. are not only big gambles, but they're also about the hardest of all to write, according to Miss May Massee, dean of juvenile hook directors, who brought out “Ferdinand” for the Viking Press. And the author's pay. is comparatively slight, $1000 being a good return for a successful juvenile,

“In a juvenile,” says Miss Massee, ‘‘the author can't cover up with words as with a novel. He must be simple and straightforward. “He has to compete with one of the greatest bodies of literature ever produced. the folk tales, and he must have perfect form, a tang and a bite, “Very small children are particularly exacting. They can see right through a book that is just words.” After “Ferdinand,” she added. thousands of aspiring authors submitted manuscripts about every animal alive. The publishers got thoroughly fed up with animal books,

Next: “Made” best sellers.

Ci ty’s Finn Relief Groups JACKSON TO ADDRESS ~ Redouble Refugee Efforts STATE PROSECUTORS

| . ' . ti | d dons miade for Fintidh. County prosecuting attorneys from i Two Indianapolis organizations!enue, donations ( throughout the State will meet at|

working for Finnish relief today an- charity may he deducted from in- ’ : nounced they would increase their come tax payments. (6 o'clock tonight at the Claypool ‘efforts to help the war sufferers. | Mr. Beveridge asked that contri- Hotel for their annual meeting to |

| William Fortune, chairman of the butions be mailed to him at Station pe..r Omer Stokes Jackson, State | local Red Cross Chapter, appealed WIRE, made out to the Finnish Re-

’ v < knit lief Fund, Inc. | : X . | sweaters to be. sent abroad. Be. Mr. Fortune said many Indian-| The meeting is required by State tween 200 and 300 already are en- apolis persons have offered old law. The attorneys also will hold a | gaged in the work, he said. [clothing to the Red Cross to be sent busihess session at 10 a. m. tomorYarn will be furnished by the Red to Finland. While he thanked the! .w at which thev will see demon- | Cross. doners for their generous motives, i..iione of a drunkometer and a lie Both Mr. Fortune and Albert he pointed out that the local chap- detector. They will hear Don F. Beveridge Jr. state head of the Fin- '6r does not have facilities to ren- ie." state Safety Director, and nish Relief Fund. Inc, declared no Ovafe and clean the'garments. Alfred F. Dowd, Indiana State Prisconcerted campaign for funds Tne local Red Cross Chapter al- = "o.oo would be made until January. The [€2dy has forwarded approximately =, hoon will be held tomorrow ‘main need of the Red Cross group 2000 articles of clothing to the Red noon. is for workers. : Oross yareholist In Mew Yar: Where The State Association of Prosecu7 0 , TOU art pea ? ia s also wi Id its ann conTe rary eo or she oo 4 i rm i ll Pld 15 ena] or from Indianapolis residents. : An U. 8. chapters. Another local ship- meeting called by the attorney gen-| 4 BL => ia ment is planned in January . 5 SE : | account has been opened by the eral. New officers will he elected.

a 4 In addition to the supplies already i | Finnish Relief Fund, Inc.. at the shipped to Finland. the following — | "The main wor RICHMOND TO SUE

w Ho mai vag of the Rd Orc JB0URS are epord nan rue will be to furnish clothing and med- cweaters, 4000 children’s sweaters. | ical supplies to the Finns. The Fin-|4q09 girls’ dresses, 4000 women's | nish Relief Fund, Inc.. will raise dresses. 300 layettes. 3500 pairs of | ‘money to move destitute Finns from men's socks, 650 mufflers. 700 caps. the war-torn eastern part in- 12000 hospital bed sheets and 100,000 —City Attorney Henry U. Johnson! land to the western sect 'Red Cross surgical dressings. | Mr. Beveridge pointed out that in| Thousands of articles also have d would jan opinion furnished him by the been shipped to Poland and France, oo “ou

attorney general. . |

sue Wayne County | Treasurer Winfield Urban to regain

Police Waiting For Cinderella

Times Special

MUNCIE, Ind. Dec. 27.—Police here are looking forward to a visit from Cinderella. On the sergeant’s desk lies a tinv shoe, new, low-heeled and

| made for a slim, right foot.

It was found by a pedestrian, who turned it into the station, No one has claimed it as yet,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the world’s welterweight

boxing champion,

|2—To what species of animals ds

cats belong?

|3—How many square rods in one

acre?

|4—Name the two men who organized

the regiment of Rough Riders for service in the Spanish-American v :

FOR TAX REFUND | 5 Which is the lightest metal?

ame the coach of the Washing= ton Redskins football team.

RICHMOND, Ind., Dzc. 27 (U. PD. 7—What is the correct pronuncia=

tion of the word bayou?

'siad today that the City of Rich- 8—Is the moon enveloped in at-

mosphere? ” ” ”

them through this column how |U. 8. Department of Internal Rev-|Mr. Fortune reported.

deeply both the President and I appreciate their kind thoughts and good wishes and how much they have added to the joy of the season. In addition. I want to make a little explanation of our own custom so far as Christmas cards are concerned. On coming to Washington, we realized that it would be impossible to begin to send Christmas cards to all our friends and acquaintances. We decided, therefore, to send them only to members of the family and clese personal friends. When individuals are kind enough to write to say how deeply they would appreciate one of our Christmas cards, it seems ungracious not. io send one, but. when vou cannot do it for evervhody, vou have ‘o make a rule. If vou break it for one person, there is no reason why vou should not break it for other people. Therefore. we send out no Christmas cards. Now that Christmas is over, 1 agree with Miss

Answers 1—Henry Armstrong.

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We had a movie last night taken from James Hil- | Plans were discussed for enlarge-| ton’s book: “We Are Not Alone.” Paul Muni is very ment of the cafeteria at Washington good in it. but T am afraid it left us all rather sad. I High School and bids for the project He R eversed kept wishing that the little boy could tell someone will be advertised for next week, Mr. |State Supreme Court's ruling that 3—160 hat he had done so that he would not have to go| Good said. JUST 13 YEARS LATE Nr gt g Io rece : v : : ' : 80| | the City of Crawfordsville did not 4—Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard through life without his father and Lennie. | ee ttt tional t > ; ; — ; ! i | Us ual Order wo! : |have to pay 1938 taxes, collectible in| Wood. e routine of life has started again. After a very SPURN REQUEST FOR | Times Special 11939, on its light plant 5—Lithium. short ride this morning, because I did not like the | in | TIPTON, Ind, Dec. 27—Better ’ : : 6—Ray Flaherty. horse which I was trying out, Anna and I went to Times Special late than never. ! A RBi’-006" ba’ : TWO-WEEK VACATION ""{55rN, mma. Dec. 27—A man | In 1628 the case of Guy watson WAR AFFECTS EVEN | 7=Bi-co: not ba-yoo the Interior. I am always envious when I get out in — | ste up to the crank of his versus the Pennsylvania Railroad | the country, so I was glad today that it had not Times Special Siepped ub here. turned the en- was venued to Tipton Country from | HOLIDAY GREETINGS snowed, for I remember last year how beautiful it was| PORTLAND, Ind. Dec. 27. gine over a couple of times, and Howard County and again to Clin- | i i a y then gasped as he watched the on, County. Ssioaiihy 5 Jes Ned IY TC Decl A o tear myself away. | . ; | car move backwards. gaining mo- | e costs, 6.20, have been re-| , “ C. 21. — I particularly enjoved the party today. but J had to port back lo Wen classes as usual, ceived here hy the County Clerk's| West Side High School history come home soon after lunch was over; for the first of Jan. 2, in spite of their protests. The car went driverless for two- office, 13 years late, teacher received a holiday greeting and-one-half blocks, made a near- Te aT a y ernoon and I wanted to be on hand to greet these principal, said that the pupils had perfect turn onto another street, ZELENY, EX-L U. AID, DIES now in business in Indianapolis. Inyoungest guests when they arrive. They will be shown presented a petition asking for a| {* BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 27.— | closed was a personal note which a variety of movies, which I hope will appeal to them two-week vacation. The request, Result: A damaged front porch, | Prof Charles Zeleny, member of the read: a wrecked automobile, an over- | Mickey Mouse variety and alwavs insists that they it would interfere with the term | turned bird bath and several sity from 1904 to 1908, died last me learn the map of Europe. Now are particularly entertaining movies, week at his home at Urbana. Il. 'look at the darned thing!”

GETS COURT COSTS [Pest plant | The decision was a result of a|2—Felines. lunch with Mrs. Ickes, the wife of the Secretary of with the snow on the ground and how difficult it was pypils in City schools here will rementum down a hill. the children’s parties takes place at 4 o'clock this aft-| D. S. Weller, senior high school | from one of her former students, and came to rest against a tree, as much as they cdo to my husband. He loves the was not granted, he said. because | | zoology faculty at Indiana Univer-, “1 demand a refund. You made {program. | amazed onlookers

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