Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1939 — Page 12
| WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939
The Indianapolis Times
Hoosier Vagabond
WESLACO, “The Valley.” Tex., Dec. 27—Before we go on to other things, I insist on getting this grapefruit business squeezed dry. For vears I have heard of. have eaten. and have liked this pink Texas grapefruit, It seemed sweeter and Jjuicier te me, So I supposed that down here thev 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 Vallev. 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 horm. 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 ballvhoo 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 exactly like an orange tree,
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grapefruit tree, in case don’t know, looks
In fact they look so much alike I can't tell them apart. And if you don't knew what an orange tree looks like, I'm not going to bother with vou The Valley raises a lot of oranges, but thev don't attempt to set themselves up alongside California and Florida. Almost 3.000.000 boxes of aranges are grown here annually. but since the total U. 8. production is
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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 frontier or gave better 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 enjoved 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 capThe 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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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 acrdss the Territory to Santa Fe. and get Governor Wallace. After that. he didn't care whether they hanged him or not. said Biilv. Gen
neant
Wallace had reason to believe that the Kid what he said. and figured that it might be
Washington
WASHINGTON. Dec. 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 fellows reach. In this game, Wendell Willkie calls himself a lib-eral--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 1wo 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 Inaiana Hitler. Senator Borah considers himself a liberal. Al Smith supported Governor Landon is de-
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fense of liberalism. At day I pay no attention to political labels althouzh I confess to using them, partly because they handy word-savers and partly, of course, from mental laziness.
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By Ernie Pyle
75.000.000 boxes, vou 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 they have kumquats and calomondins 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 dve the oranges a deliciouslooking orange color. This isn’t as bad as it sounds. Because it is under state regulation. and before vou 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.
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.
By Anton Scherrer
well to be on the safe side. Accordingly. he bought 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 dav 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 Gein. Wallace began practicing like evervthing—as ‘a matter of fact, three hours every dav.
Weeks of Suspense
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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. however. 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 wearng 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 hands on his pistols and asked him his errand. “T 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 practicing three hours every dav. 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.
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 attitude 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 ax an underlving philosophy with deep spiritual 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.
New Dangers Ever Present
“While liberalism is always defending the same goal, it must change front from time to time in order to face new dangers,” Mr. Jackson says. In the Jeffersonian era the dangers were largely political — governmental dangers rather than economic. Hence the Bill of Rights. In time conservatives came to accept these principles. Under Andrew Jackson iiheralism began to acquire an economic aspect. Nearly every state had a property qualification to curb the
DQOKS are 4
‘Ferdinand’ Unexpectedly Brought Riches
(Second of a Series)
By Frederick Woltman Times Special Writer NEW 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 started to climb up and up beyond 150,000 at a dollar apiece—on a newspaper and magazine advertising outlay 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 juvenile 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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“TPOOKS are selling platers.” according to William Sloane. trade book editor of Henrv Holt & Co. "A plater is an unknown horse run in a selling race. With books as with horses vou 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 Teachers College, later studied art at the American Academy of Arts and once toured the road with “Polly of the Circus,” playing Dr. Hartlev, 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 lecture platform. Fer three years Mr. Carnegie worked over and rewrote his lec-
| tures 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 hook. Within two months sales leaped to 20.000 a week. At this point
BOARD IS ASKED FOR SCHOOL 48 NURSERY
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The Indianapolis Board of School | Commissioners today was considering a request for a day nursery at
‘School 48.
The nursery, which would be for children whose mothers are employed, was asked last night by the Rev. Clarence G. Baker, superinten-
“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 becok 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. ~
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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 lagegard 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 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 hall in the air for radio's “Information Please.” “And the New i=
York tone
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 call 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 mathematics,” said Miss derson. “But when I
to An-
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 “basket case’ victim of the war whose limbs and face have been shot away, is a current
of a last
dark horse.
It's hardy fare for every reader. for “Johnny” is able only to think and never can see or sp2ak With the dramatic impact of such a theme, the publishers, J. B. Lippincott &
or hear or move again.
Co.. naturally looked for a best seller markets. Strangely.
“Johnny Got
and Boston. ing for it. A historic dark horse Durant's “Story
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Will
read the hook I got excifed and called the publisher and said, ‘Hey, you've
in the sophisticated book
His Gun” is going much better in the smaller towns than in New York There's no account-
of Philosophy”
that sold more than a hall 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 crities. Little, Brown & Co. a canny Back Bay, Boston house, prudentlv published three, then one, then two thousand copies successively. The book started to run away after that and had seven. subsequent 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 years of struggle when he succeeded in getting a publisher. 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
Two Indianapolis organizations!enue, donations made for Finnish
working for Finnish relief today an-!charity may be deducted from in-
nounced they woulda increase their come tax payments.
efforts to help the war sufferers.
local Red Cross Chapter, appealed WIRE, made out to the Finnish Re-
for 200 women volunteers to knit lief Fund, Inc.
sweaters to be sent abroad.
Be-
Mr.
The Misses Harriet Anderson (above, left) and Carol Fleming (center), who have started several “dark horses” on the way ton 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 virtually guarantees 100,000 circula=tion. While hook 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 ‘hooks, 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 book 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.
City 's Finn Relief Groups JACKSON T0 ADDRESS Police Waiting Redouble Refugee Efforts STATE PROSECUTORS, For
Cinderella
County prosecuting attorneys from Zimes Special
throughout the State will meet at|
'6 o'clock tonight at the Claypool] | Mr. Beveridge asked that contri- Hotel for their annual meeting to| William Fortune, chairman of the butions be mailed to him at Station ear Omer Stokes Jackson, State | attorney general.
Fortune said many Indian-!
The meeting is required by State
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MUNCIE, Ind. Dec. 27.—Police here are looking forward to a visit from Cinderella. On the sergeants desk lies a tiny shoe, new, low-heeled and made for a slim, right fcot. It was found by a pedestrian, who turned it into the station,
ween 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 pysihess session at 10 a. m. tomor- | Yarn will be furnished by the Red 0 Finland. While he thanked the
: : row at which they will see demon-| Cross. doners for their generous motives, i..iions of a drunkometer and a lie
Both Mr.’ Fortune and Albert Ne pointed out that the local chap- jetector. They will hear Don F. Beveridge Jr. state head of the Fin. 'er does not have facilities to ren- o.: 0." giate Safety Director, and nish Relief Fund. Ine. declared no OVAte and clean the’ garments. Alfred F. Dowd, Indiana State Prisconcerted campaign for funds Ine local Red Cross Chapter al- = "oo a0," © would be made until January. The ready has forwarded approximately A luncheon will be held tomorrow main need of the Red Cross group 5000 articles of clothing to the Red is for workers = Cross warehouse in New York where . a toay : : thev were sent to Finland with contc evetled Yoluniary oon thou tributions from the rest of the 3700 trom Indianapolis residents. An U. S. chapters. Another local shipaccount has been opened by the ment i aa January l : Finnish Relief Pund, Inc. at the In 2adition to the supplies a ready Union Trust Co ' y shipped to Finland. the following
The main work of the Red Cross SUPPlies are reported now en route: RICHMOND TO SUE
" ‘ ; 8000 men’s sweaters. 4000 women's | War. will be to furnish clothing and med- sweaters, 4000 children’s sweaters. | FOR TAX REFUND 35 Which is the lightest metal? ical supplies to the Finns. | 6—Name the coach of the Washing-
i | The Fin- 4000 girls’ dresses, 4000 women's nish Relief Fund, Inc. will raise gresses, 300 layettes, 3500 pairs of | | ton Redskins football team. money to move destitute
Finns from men's socks, 650 mufflers, 700 caps,, RICHMOND. Ind. Dec. 27 (U. P.).|7_What is the correct pronuncia= tion of the word bayou?
No one has claimed it as yet,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
The 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. Tou a Democrat, althougihh you may be Carter Glass or (since last vear) Henry Wallace. Liberalism an official party label and so becomes a vague which anyone can appropriate without having with the election officials sm 15 supposed to be a tate of Loose a: the term iz. one of the hest deszcripit came in 2 speech about a vear ago from H Jackson, Solicitor General. who may be-
right to vote. The polls were open to a man only when he had some property. Jacksonian liberals engaged in campaigns to end imprisonment for debt, . : 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 bv 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 sloz2ans of deceased liberals in order to discredit South Side civie 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.
Board members approved the sale!
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 rar-torn easter t of Fin- 7 on Saturday afternoon: “How long it takes to prepare cents a gallon for gasoline delivered he jar-tor Ropar 2060: niospital:bed: Shests slic 1000001 =:C1Ly Attorney, Hetty J: Johnson)
and how quickly everything comes to an end!” Christ-|to school tanks. The gasoline has a| 180d to the western section. ed Cross surgical dressings. 'siad today that the City of Rich- 8—Is the moon enveloped in at-
R M yori 3 2 mas Day is over and now we can look forward only to T0-octane rating, according to A. B.! I. Beveridge pointed out that in ‘Thousands of articles also have ond would sue Wayne County mosphere? |
: : + ‘lan opinion furnished him by the been shi ped to Poland and France. on birthdays until another year rolls around. | Good, schools business director. Department of Internal Rev-| Mt. D : ' Treasurer Winfield Urban to regain We had a movie last night taken from James Hil- | U.S: Dep : ‘Mr. Fortune reported. Answers
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|1—Name the world’s
The State Association of Prosecu-| boxing champion. tors also will hold its annual aR ee of animals de ference in connection with the] (3 on : ‘meeting called by the attorney gen- 3—How many square rods in one
. i { pore? £79]: New Ioficers Will be levis, | 4—Name the two men who organized
the regiment of Rough Riders for service in the Spanish-American rr
to register welterweight Liberal genera) ming tion: of
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My Day
WASHINGTON, Tusesday.—First of all. 1 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 IT want to tell them through this column how deeply both the President and I appreciate their kind thoughts and good wishes and how much they have added to the jov 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,
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Times Specinl PORTLAND, Ind, Dec. 217. Pupils in city schools here will re-
Plans were discussed for enlarge- 1$20,050 in taxes paid on the municitons book: “We Are Not Alone.” Paul Muni is very |ment of the cafeteria at Washington "1 good in it, but I am afraid it left us all rather sad. I High School and bids for the project He R eversed GETS COURT COSTS [oat Yn plant Nb a rE Sete Hany Among, kept wishing that the little boy could tell someone will be advertised for next week, Mr. State Supreme Court's ruling that |3—160. What he had done so that he would not have to go Good said. JUST 13 YEARS LATE ‘the City of Crawfordsville did not 4—Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard through life without his father and Lennie. | Es Usual Order Ie : 3 w— |have to pay 1938 taxes, collectible in| Wood. The routine of life has started again. After a very SPURN REQUEST FOR | Times Special {1939, on its light plant 5—Lithium. ghort ride this morning, because I did not like the en TIPTON. Ind, 27.—Better| Fe ———— ro pc—— 6—Ray Flaherty. worse which I was trying out, Anna and I went to Times Special late than never. { __Bi'-00: ba'lunch with Mrs. Ickes, the wife of the Secretary of TWO-WEEK VACATIO | AUBURN, Ind.. Dec. 27.—A man In 1926 the case of Guy watson WAR AFFECTS EVEN opioo; nov ba'syeo. the Interior. I am always envious when I get out in! —— | stepped up to the crank of his versus the Pennsylvania Railroad the country, so I was glad today that it had not automobile here. turned the en- was venued to Tipton Country from | HOLIDAY GREETINGS gine over a couple of times, and Howard County and again to Clin-| || — then gasped as he watched the [ton County. | Times Special
snowed, for I remember last vear how beautiful it was | with the snow on the ground and how difficult it was
therefore, to send them only to members of the family and close personal friends. When individuals are kind enough to write to sav how deeply they would appreciate one of our Christmas cards, it seems ungracious not to send one, but. when you cannot do it for everybody, vou have ‘o make a rule. If you break it for one person. there is no reason why you should not break it for other people. Therefore. we send out no Christmas cards. Now that Christmas is over, 1 agree with Miss
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to tear myself away. I particularly enjoved the party today. but 7 had to come home soon after lunch was over, for the first of the children’s parties takes place at 4 o'clock this aft-| ernoon and I wanted to be on hand to greet these voungest guests when they arrive. Thev will be shown a variety of movies, which I hopes will appeal to them as much as they co to my husband. He loves the
Mickey Mouse variety and alwavs insists that they it would interfere with the term |
are particularly entertaining movies, |
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port back to their classes as usual, Jan. 2, in spite of their protests. D. 8. Weller, senior high school
principal, said that the pupils had presented a petition asking for a| two-week vacation. The was not granted, he said. because
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car move backwards, gaining momentum down a hill. The car went driverless for two-and-one-half blocks, made a nearperfect turn onto another street, and came to rest against a tree, Result: A damaged front porch, a wrecked automobile, an overturned bird bath and several amazed onlookers
The costs, $36.20, have been re-| UNION CITY, Ind. Dec. 27.—A
ceived here by the County Clerk's West
office, 13 vears late,
ZELENY, EX-I U. AID, DIES
zoology faculty at Indiana Univerfrom 1004 tb 1908, died last me learn the map of Europe,
sity lweek at his home at Urbana. Il.
Side High School history
[teacher received a holiday greeting
from one of her former students,
{now in business in Indianapolis. In- {* BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 27.— | closed was a personal note which | Prof Charles Zeleny, member of the read:
You made Now
“1 demand a refund.
look at the darned thing!”
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