Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1940 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940|

Hoosier Vagabond |

‘ lantic flier, and from that day to this The Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 3.—A hundred years is too Yong. £0F a man to live. He withers and fades and his will wanders, and an unutterable weariness comes over him. But the ‘things that men create with their minds 5 can live forever. They consume men and their thoughts, and refresh themselves from the fleeting virility of humans, and stride on among the changing crowds as though time weren't there. It is one of these old but ageless things I have come to Memphis to write about. It is commonly called The Memphis Com-mercial-Appeal. It is 2 newspaper. It has lived a hundred years, and in that century it has z acquired a character that is - human: The Memphis Commercial-Appeal is the South’s greatest newspaper. It advertises itself that way, and bold indeed would be the paper to dispute it. No other paper touches it in circulation, wideness of distribution, or hold upon the people. It is a Southern Bible. And it is that because it has lived with the people; it -has shared their own. hardships and battles and despairs—and in the darkest days, it even out-shared them. It is like the boss who has the respect of his

workers because he has done everything he asks .

them to do. 8 = »

Wanderer During Civil War

For three and a half years, during the Civil War, The Memphis Appeal was a wandering newspaper—a bold and taunting vagrant. It was published in half a dozen Southern cities; time after time it fled from one side of town as the Yankees came in the other. But no matter where or how it was published, it never dropped the name of Memphis from its masthead. And when the war ended it came home on a Mississippi River packet—came home “riding the rods,” you might say, because the editgr didn’t even have money for, freight. - Its welcome home was like the welcome to an At-

Our Town

VERY FEW REALLY important things happen in the Second Presbyterian Church that I don’t hear about—eventually, anyway. Just now the place is . buzzing with excitement. Today, for example, Charles F. Hansen is celebrating the 73d anniversary of his birthday. And right on top of yesterday's anniversary, too. It was yesterday, 42 years ago, that Mr. Hansen came to the Second Presbyterian Church and played the organ for the first time. He’s been playing it ever since. It may enlighten you youngsters to know that Henry Ward Beecher’s younger brother, Charles, was the first organist of the church. The Beechers eould do anything. They were the most extraordinary and eccentrically original family America ever had, a discovery that inspired somebody fo say that the human race consists of “men, women, and Beechers.” After which it probably won’t surprise you to learn that Charles Beecher organized the first church choir around here. Sure, that of the Second Presbyterian Church. Up to that time non-ritualistic churches had what they called “congregational singing” led by some man with an approved voice who could be trusted to pick a good tune and, more or less, keep pitch. Time, too. Not infrequently, however, the song was started by a volunteer in the body of the church who just had to sing his pet tune or bust.

o * Appointed in 1898 ~ Mr. Beecher’s first choir consisted of 10 voices including those belonging to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ketcham, Dr. and Mrs. Ackley, A. G. Willard, Lawrence M. Vance, A. H. Davidson, Mrs. Graydon, Mrs. Merrill and a boy who answered to the name of Albert Willard. Charles Beecher, who ended up as a clergyman, kept up his music after he left Indianmpolis and is now remembered, and gratefully too, for his work in compiling the “Plymouth Collection” of hymns. The first organist in the present church was Robert A. Newland, an accomplished musician and composer. (I still remember how I wrestled with his Valse Ara-

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Additional recruiting for the Army, ordered by President Roosevelt when the European war began in September, is lagging and

Army officers feel that many unemployed youth are

Syesiooking a8 good bet. It had been hoped by Dec. 31 to bring the total Army enlistment up to 227,000. But as of Dec. 15, the figure actually reached was 210,340. In all corps areas, enlistments were below quota requirements.

Special appeals have gone out to unemployed youth, stressing the opportunities in the Army to learn trades and become motor mechanics, radio electricians or operators, or follow the older trades of bricklayer, carpenter, electrician, plumber and such. Army officers claim that opportunities for 30 or more Specialized vocations, at pay ranging from $21 a month up to a possible $157.50 in addition to food, clothing, lodging. and medical attention. Mechanization of the Army has altered considerably the nature of the private’s work and has enlarged his opportunities. Another opportunity also exists for unemployed: youth in the CCC which is now starting enrollment for replacements. Room for 60,000 to 70,000 exists. However inasmuch as 167,000 applications are on file, those who have not previously applied have little chance, although in some Eastern states quotas are not quite Alled.

Analyzing the Durgers >

That is due to the fact that in industrial sections * where re-employment is occurring, young men figure that their best chance of landing a job lies in staying on the spot. Southern and Western states are in al-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday—My family has been

taking up so much of my thought the last few days,

that apparently it is on my mind even in my sleep. I had been asleep only about 15 minutes last night,

when the telephone rang. The operator told me that one of the children wanted to spedk to me. In my half-awak-ened state, instead of listening to what he was saying, I immediately replied: “Yes, I shall be there at once,” and dashed down the hall to Franklin, Jr.'s room, to find he was sound asleep. He was very much surprised at my appearance, but thought ‘of things he wanted and then turned over peacefully and went to sleep again, apparently thinki ing me a little mad. I decided “ that he must have called me in - his sleep and fwent back to my room to find the telephone still ringing madly. On taking off the receiver, I found that the child who really had wanted to talk to'me was waiting at the other end of the line. as fort I had to leave those at my press ( ] ot various cut while I went to see

various cuts A 7 had

. Who was the founder and principal of International

By Ernie Pyle

Appeal has never had to wander—or beg a ride. Memphis was laid out on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1819. Andrew Jackson was one of the three men who founded it. For eight years the new town had no newspaper. The first one was started in 1827, when the town had a population of 500. It would possibly be fair to ay that today’s Commercial-Appeal was born in ¥1827—for in those next 13 years papers mushroomed and swallowed each other and died until the record of them is almost lost. There were The Advocate, The Western Times, The Commercial-Advertiser, The Gazette, The Western World, The Memphis Banner of the Constitution. But the present owners of The Commercial-Appeal have chosen 1940 as its legitimate birthday, for it was in 1840 that the boiling and seething of the early papers ceased, and in one grand amalgamation The Memphis ‘Appeal was created. At that time there were men still living who had shaken hands with George Washington: Editorials were written with quill pens. You saw buckskin shirts and coonskin ii on the streets of Memphis.

How It Got Its Nome

The first Memphis Appeal was a four-volumn weekly. Its early issues campaigned for board sidewalks. One of its first issues was clothed in mourning for William Henry Harrison. | The Appeal was a fanatical supporter of Martin Van Buren.’ In fact, it was from this devotion to Van Buren that the paper got its name. Van Buren, after -his defeat, made this philosophical remark:

“The sober, second thought of the people is never |

wrong, and always efficient.” That was Van Buren’s “appeal” to the people, and the new Memphis paper named itself “The Appeal” and took the saying as its motto, and it still lives today as a fundamental part of the paper’s character. Col. Henry Van Pelt was The AppeaBs first editor. He turned it into a daily in 1849. If remained The Appeal until 1894, when it combined with the new and growing Commercial. And now, for 45 years, The Commercial-Appeal has been THE newspaper of the South.

NEXT—Civil War Wanderings.

By Anton Scherrer

besque on the piano). Mr. Newland served until 1893 when his health broke down. He was followed by Oliver Willard Pierce. On Jan. 2, 1898, Charles F. Hansen was appointed. Since then he has had to put up with three preachers: The Rev. Joseph A. Milburn (3 years), Rev. Owen Davies Odell (19 years), Rev. Jean S. Milner (19 years and still going good).

The reason it doesn’t quite add up to 42 years is be-

cause the Second Presbyterian people are pretty persnickety and take plenty of time to pick. thelr preachers. Mr, Hansen is a Lafayette boy. When he was 10, he came to Indianapolis and entered the School for the Blind where he received his education in literature, and music. He wanted to be a church organist right from the start and, as luck would have it, Robert Newland Was his first teacher. Mr. Hansen's first job was with the Fletcher Place Methodist Church. Here he played on a small reed organ. After which he went to the Mayflower Congregational Church, then to the Meridian Street Methodist Church where he spent 10 years, From there he went to his present position. = ” 2

Tributes in Verse

Some of the more articulate parishioners have tried to put into words what Mr. Hansen means to them. Once upon a time a woman of the congregation wrote: “Here from the organ loft comes strains of melody, Heaven-sweet, brought forth by hands unerring | Though guided not by sense of earthly sight.” On another occasion an Indianapolis paper had a 44-line poem addressed to Charles F. Hansen and written by “M. W.” (maybe, Mrs. Merl Watkins). It ended with: “He knew the good in everything, So much of hurt he would not see, My friend’s sad face, the robin's wing— He walked in light—though blind was he.” The latest tribute to Mr. Hansen is a jingle tossed off just the other day by Mrs. Edith Lanham Bokeloh: “Our Mr. Hansen, His fingers go prancin’ Up and down over the keys; Such music entrancin’ Like elfin-folk dancin’ No melodies sweeter than these.”

By Raymond Clapper

most every case offering more applicants than can be accepted. There has been some discussion among Congressmen interested in military affairs over the lagging

“recruiting for the Army. At first thought it might be

put down to lack of enthusiasm for getting into first line position with even the remote possibility existing of our getting into war. Talk of militarizing CCC has caused parents to discourage their sons in some instances, from going into these camps.

Yet there is no real evidence that such considerations have anything to do with the matter. CCC work is full of danger. Firefighting is almost as dangerous as a front line trench in war-time. CCC has awarded 27 medals for valor to CCC boys who have risked their lives beyond the requirements of duty.

Navy More Popular

And if there is going to be any danger out of the European war, it will hit the Navy first and the Navy is having .no trouble in recruiting up to its additional strength. Its goal is 145,000. enlisted men by June 30 and its strength now is 127,000. Recruits are coming in at a rate which will fill the quota unless there should be a lag. One reason for the Army's difficulty may be that the Navy has the edge in pay. ‘Secretary of War Woodring has been trying to induce. Congress to equalize it. Another is that it has the glamor of seeing the world. However the Army offers service in Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone. I have heard some Congressmen who are interested in all of this suggest that it would be an excellent thing if the House and Senate Military: Committees looked into this sifuation with the idea of seeing what might be done to publicize more fully the opportunities in the Army and actually to improve those opportunities.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

sustained in his accident. Of course, I was not in the least needed, but the habit of feeling that you must be on hand to watch whatever is being done to your family, persists even when you are simply a useless observer.

We are trying to make Eleanor and Curtis do some | | sightseeing while they are here, for they are really] .

old enough now to get something besides mere enjoyment out of this trip. I started to tell -you ‘of books yesterday which have come to my notice, and I think there is one which I must not forget to mention. It is called: “Denmark, a Social Laboratory,” by Peter Manniche,

People’s College at Elsinore. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has considered this work sufficiently important to order a certain number of copies for distribution to universities in this country and Canada. It 1s of great interest to. us because if describes the co-operative farming community which has grown up in this little country, together with folk high schools and accompanying social legislation. It is

true that Denmark is so much smaller than the| United States that it is difficult to compare the two|

countries, ‘but there are parts of our country where

TWP. TRUSTEES CALL U.S. FOOD

Nine Marion County Aids To Discuss Possibility of Adopting Plan.

Trustees of the nine Marion County townships will meet tomorrow to discuss the possibility of adding Indianapolis to the list of U. S. cities included in the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. food stamp plan. The meeting will be held at 2 p. m. in the office of Edward Bren-

examiner. The surplus food stamp plan, if put into effect here, would allow surplus foods, now distributed through a central office, to be Sleared through regular trade channels. Present Plan Is Barrier

The main block now in the path of negotiations for the stamp plan in Indianapolis is the present township relief plan which provides a list of preferred stores where relief recipients must trade. If the trustees should abandon this preferential system, the way would be cleared for the stamp plan in Indianapolis, according to Carl Dortch of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, which has sought to get the stamp plan for the City. Mr. Dortch and William H. Book will represent the Chamber of Com-

|merce at the meeting. It is expect-

ed that Governor M. Clifford Townsend also will have an observer pres-

‘| ent. Provides Central Office Mr. Dortch said the Government

plan, and would only consider adding the city to the list after requests had been made by relief groups, WPA, business organizations, wholesale grocers and banking: interests. If the plan was brought to the City, it would provide a central office for the sale and distribution of surplus food stamps. Township trustees, upon issuing food orders to relief recipients, would certify to the stamp office the name of the recipients, who then would be given half that amount in blue stamps which could be exchanged at any grocery store for any conunodity listed as a surplus foodstuff.

Springfield System) Surveyed

mothers’ pensions could purchase orange stamps in the amount of their food budget. These stamps would be honored at grocery stores for any foodstuff and would be redeemed by the Government. With the orange stamps, the purchaser also would receive free in addition half as many blue stamps, good for surplus commodities. The meeting of the trustees tomorrow is the outgrowth of a survey of the stamp plan in operation in Springfield, Ill, made last month by five Indianapolis persons. Those who made the trip were Otto Jensen, chief deputy examiner of the State Board of Accounts; Ted Vanve, field examiner of the accounts board; Henry Mueller, Center Township Trustee; Charles Dawson, Washington Township Trustee, and Mr. Dortch.

CITY BOOSTS BONDS MARGIN $521,671

The City general bonding margin today was $1,506,307, an increase of $521,671 over a year ago, records of City Controller James E., Deery showed today. The margin increased because the City Administration did not float new bond issues, but did retire outstanding bonds, Mr. Deery said. Under law, the bonded indebtedness in the City general fund cannot exceed 2 per cent of the City’s assessed property valuation. On the basis of the estimated 1939 valuation of $510,669,880, the City is allowed a bonded debt of $10,213,3917.60. With the payment of $341,500 in principal and interest on bond maturities yesterday, the City general bonded debt as of today stood at

$8,707,090. Last year at this time, it was $9,228,761.

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STAMP PARLEY

nan, State Board of Accounts chief |

would not take the initiative for the

Persons on WPA, old age or||

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The Gallup Pall Shows—

How Democrats vote in a nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion. Above, President Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt; below, Vice President Garner and Secretary of State Cordell

Hull.

Garner in Second Pls and McNutt, With 4 Per Cent of Votes, Is 3d Choice

. By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public

PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 3.—As Congress comes back to Washington amid an electric political: atmo-

sphere and with: the third-term mystery still unsettled, a nationwide survey of rank-and-file Democrats shows two salient facts about Democratic Party sentiment throughout the United States: First, despite a slight decline in . the number of Democrats who name him for 1940, President Roosevelt is still by all odds the leading popular choice of his party’s voters

iNsrigoTe PUBLIC/OPINION tial nomination. Nearly four Democrats in every five with opinions on the question (78%) say they would like to see the coming Democratic national convention endorse Roosevelt again. Second, if President Roosevelt is not a candidate, the leading Democratic choice is bushy-browed John N. Garner, who threw his hat squarely into the political ring a fortnight ago with the statement: “I will accept the nomination for President.” Since the survey was partially begun before the Garner announcement, the full effect of the Vice President’s move cannot ‘yet be determined. But the survey shows that Mr. Garner’s popular standing has increased somewhat since

for the Presiden-|

dent Roosevelt’s has dropped proportionately. Finally the survey shows that— next to Mr. Garner—the leading

popular Democratic choices in case h

the President refuses to run are Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Postmaster General Jim Farley and Attorney General Frank Murphy. The survey also reveals the names of some two dozen other Democratic figures who have popular support of lesser dimensions at this time. In the first two questions the Institute asked a cross-section of Democratic voters in all parts of the United States: “Whom would you like to see elected President in 1940?” The following figures show how voters answered the question as compared with two months ago: TODAY 1—Roosevelt ....

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Don’t Get Peeved by Census QrisTions: U. S. Will Keep Your Answers Secret

When a census taker comes to your place of business during. the next three months to “ask a lot of questions about things you might think are none of his business,” don’t get angry. Remember he is carrying out the orders of the Congress of the United States, under a law passed in 1929. And then, after April 2, when a census taker comes to your home to ask a lot more questions about your private life, keep your temper. Remember he is carrying out the orders of the gentlemen who drew up the Constitution of the United States that the population of this country be enumerated every 10 years. This is the plea of W. A. Knight, census manager of the Sixth, Seventh, Eleventh and Twelfth Congressional districts of Indiana, whose duty it is to see that the census is

taken.

gomery, How Many .

would you like to see elected?”

“Don’t worry for one minute about some outsider finding out what you tell the census taker,” Mr. Knight said. “The reports are kept in absolute secrecy and after they get to Washington, they are identi filed for tabulation purposes by numbers and not names.

A lot of businessmen are afraid that the census reports are used for income tax purposes. But that is a wholly baseless fear. The income tax is the job of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and the census is our job—-they don’t mix. No one but a sworn employee of the Census Bureau can see the reports,” Mr. Knight. stated. Eighteen enumerators started taking. the business census yesterday in Marion County. The questions they ask are designed to show the total amount ot business done, the number of persons employed and the cost of do-

i 1939 business only.

| sales, sales tax, sales for resale and

ing business. ‘There are no questions about profits. The questions cover the descriptions of the. establishment, including the name or names of the owners, the kind of business, the type of operation and group affiliation (chain store, market, mail-order; independent, etc.), net sales, total employment. and pay roll, stocks on hand and accounts receivable, employment and payroll during a typical week and analysis of sales by commodities. The businessman in his report on net sales must report his total net

credit sales. He must report on his total pay roll to full-time and parttime employees and on his inventory of merchandise on hand as of Dec. 31 and accounts and notes receivable from customers. The analysis of sales by commodities in a business establishment dealing in foods, for an example, requires a listing of the amount of meats, fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, dairy products, bread and bakery goods, packaged goods, bottled or canned goods and soft drinks, candy and nuts. A business establishment of the apparel group must report. on the

| And it has so. proved,” Mr. Knight

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sales of the various types of clothing. : The census questions pertain to

“The business census was started by President Herbert Hoover, who thought it would be a good thing for businessmen to have accurate figures on ' the: country’s business.

said. ; ‘The Marion County census-taking if a part of a nationwide task. The national survey will embrace approximately 1,700,000 retailers, 180,000 wholesalers, 750,000 - service businesses, 50,000 hotels and tourist camps, 50,000 places of amusement, 200,000 construction contractors, 2500 sales finance companies: and 170,000 manufacturing concerns. It will be the first complste business census taken since ‘Census officials expect to have the nation-wide report ready for

also counties, cities and towns.

CROWDS RUSH AJAX

crowds broke

polices lines loday a vain ‘effort

the German pocket battleship Jon coast.

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to board the British cruiser, Ajax,| W : Which | Doiticipated in the battle

WEATHER MAN

FDR Still First With Party Rank and File

WARMED UPTO CTYASOF')

Degrees Above Normal, Bureau Reports.

No matter how intemperate Jane

|uary turns out to be, December 1939 | |treated Indianapolis with considere

ably above the average respect as temperatures go, J. H. Armington, Weather Bureau chief, discovered today. The last month of 1933 went, out with a shiver, but the average teme perature for the month as a whole was 36 . degrees above the mormal for the month. In December, 1938, the temperature. averaged 1 dee gree a day above normal, whereas in December, 1939, it averaged 3.3 degrees above normal. The last day of the year was the coldest of the year, according to the Bureau. Sunday’s average temperae ture was 8 degrees and the minis mum official temperature was 1 above. The second coldest day of 1939 was Feb. 23, when the average temperature was 10. degrees. |

January, ’38, Coldest

January was the coldest month of the year, however, with 24 days having average temperatures - below freezing; the monthly average for January was 33.2 degrees. ‘There was only one clear day in January, The average temperature for the year was 55.4 degrees, the third highest since 1874. The only two warmer years were 1921, when the temperature averaged 56.4 and 1931 with an average of 56.2. Normal Ine dianapolis temperature is 52.7 dee grees, but this will be raised somes

what by the 1939 average.

July was the hottest month, but September had the most hot days; in September there were 10 days with temperatures above 90.

April Was a Freak

April was the freak month, with 18 days below average in temperature. September was the fifth warmest on record, and the records go back to 1871, the September ave erage was 72.4 degrees. Rainfall this year was approxie mately normal, with the total only 21 inch over the average of 40.9 inches. Mr. Arniington gave no reason for the unusually warm'year, but said that it was not excessive heat but the warmth of the “cold

.{months” which sent the average up,

LISTS 1634 DRY TOWNS IN STATE

Barnhart Cites Survey as Proof Home Rule Is In Operation.

A survey has shown that Indians has 1634 towns in which no kind of alcoholic beverages is sold, Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise Director, said today. “This shows that home rule in the sale of beverages is provided by the present Indiana liquor control law,” he said. “In many of these towns no appli cation has ever been made for an alcholic beverage permit while in others the State Commission has' refused to grant permits due to the

fact that the majority of the people

living there did not desire one.” - Of the 1734 towns, 17 have popu lations of 1000 or more. In unine corporated towns, the township trustee and a member of his advise ory board must sign the application before a permit can be given.

WATCH IS MURDER CLUE

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3 (U. P), —A missing $50 wrist watch reporte edly given to pretty Mary Vila, 23, for Christmas by one of her mare ried sweethearts was regarded by detectives today as an importang clue in the search for the black haired South American's sadistig slayer.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the name of the main mountain mass in Mexico? 2—What determines the boiling temperature of water?: 3—With which college team does George Cafego play football? 4—In which national park is old Faithful Geyser? 5—Name the Governor of Ohio. 6—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word carnivorous? =n _ astronomy, what is occulae { 8—“Mansard” is the name for kind se? roof, pavement or bridge

8 » Answers 1—Sierra Madre. 2—Pressure. 3—Tennessee. 4¢—Vellowstone National Park.

5—John W. Bricker. e-~Car-piv! -0-Tous; not car-ni-vo’e

7—The “hiding of one celestial body by another passing in i. of *

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