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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 6.—Through 100 years of existence, The Commercial-Appeal has lived in drama. And somehow it has managed to be always out in the faotlights wrestling with progress, while remaining peculiarly dignified and solid. . It has heen printed with shoe polish, instead of ink. It has had a woman editor. It has advertised in its own columns for good dry firewood for the steam - boiler that ran its one-cylinder press. >

It has carried advertisemen:s from merchants denying they were mixing sand with their flour. It has advertised coffee at $3.75 a pound, and a “love of a bonnet” for $1000. . One of its windfalls in the first days was a contract to publish the “undelivered letter” list of Memphis. It has offered subscriptions in exchange for butter, milk and radishes. | It published the first telegraph message ever printed in Memphis—a story on the Democratic convention at Baltimore in 1848. It got its first big double-cylinder press in 1872, the same year the city fathers took steps to curb the hogs and cows wandering the streets of Memphis. When Dewey took Manila Bay, the CommercialAppeal scooped the entire South on it, and immediately got itself another bigger and better press. It printed the first Sunday comics in Memphis. The year was 1900, and the comics were “Happy Hooligan” and “The Katzenjammer Kids.” The Commercial-Appeal put on the first special train in the South to deliver its papers. It also puyblished the stories of a budding young author named Robert Louis Stevenson. : !

The Yellow Fever Epidemic

It has printed 10-column papers (two columns wider than the drdinary paper today), and it has printed little four-column single-sheets. Its editors have been challenged to duels, and an early |editor’s support of Polk so pleased a reader that he made a hickory rocking chair and sent it in as a gift. | . The famous wandering one-cylinder press of the Civil War days has been lost. But one of the editors has a daguerreotype of Ciyil War Editor McLanahan, and it's as clear as if taken yesterday.

Our Town

JIMMY FLINT used to turn up in Indianapolis just about the same time every year. Like as not, it was always a windy March day and I still remember that people of 50 years ago used to note his arrival as a harbinger of spring. To be sure, we had daffodils and tulips, too, but somehow they. weren't as dependable as Jimmy. At any rate, Jimmy always showed up at the beginning of the vernal equinox which was something the flowers didn’t always do. Nobody ever knew how Jimmy spent his winters. He never would tell. The most he ever said was that he spent the time “eating snowballs.” Soon as he { arrived in Indianapolis, however, he was the busiest man around here. In the spring, he hawked all kinds of novelties about the streets. In the summer he ran a huckster wagon. Usually he peddled potatoes. The autumn found him at the county fairs, after which he disappeared and wasn’t seen again until the following year. One autumn Jimmy had extraordinary luck at a county fair. He happened to be snooping around the side-shows when he came across a cane-rack unlike any-he had ever seen. This time one of the canes way in the back row had a ten-dollar bill ‘wrapped around it, the idea being that anybody smart enough to toss a ring around the wrapped cane could keep the bill. | Jimmy Flint turned the trick. It surprised him like everything to discover that the bill was genuine, .

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Forging a Friendship

The following spring Jimmy turned up in Indianapolis with a wonderful stock of cheap jewelry, the like of which had never been’ seen around here— collar buttons, breast pins and earrings—all of which had been bought with the ten-dollar bill he picked up at the county fair. Jimmy pitched his stand on

Washington

| { WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The Chicago speech of :Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, gives added ‘significance to Mr. Roosevelt's grim discussion in his -annual message of the implications which the Euro~pean war holds for America. | Lord Lothian said that all inai formation and all conditions point to the probability that Germany will attempt early in the spring to gain a decision

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a terrific totalitarian land, air and sea attack.

He says the real prize of the struggle now is not territory, but sea power. If -Germany can break British sea power, she will be on top of the world, opposition to her in Europe will dis2 : appear, most other nations will “scramble to board her bandwagon and she will be able i to dictate the basis upon which world politics shallabe ; If the German attack fails, then the ~ blockade will in time break her and the democracies . can then determine the kind of world in which we

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That is Lord Lothian’s analysis—meaning the 3 ‘British Government's. He emphasizes that thus far #. during the 20th century Great Britain and the United - States have maintained a kind of rudimentary world “i'police power by control of the sea. He recalls that <7 this arrangement originated in the policy formulated Y by Monroe and Lord Canning, namely that there “. should be no further political expansion by Europe in the Western Hemisphere. He says Great Britain provided the outer defense for this doctrine by con-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—Last night we held the judicial reception, and it was one of the smallest receptions of the year. It was good to see the Chief Justice in such good health and spirits. He told .me that he had begun to read Carl Sandburg’s four volumes on Lincoln and found them as fascinating as any fiction. I had set my volumes aside, thinking that I could not possibly begin reading them until summer, but I think I shall take the first volume and put it by my bed in the hope that by reading - a little at a time every night, 1 may find that I get through considerable reading. We sat around in the President’s study and talked after the

reception was over. We had three -

guests who are Hudson River neighbors staying in the house—Judge John Mack of Poughkeepsie, and Mr. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt of Staatsburgh. It amused me to see two story tellers vie with each other, for the President would tell a story which would remind the judge of a story. I think they would have kept on all night! They really make a grand team as story tellers.

. Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

Many of The Appeal’s employees went to fight in the Civil War, and there was an “Appeal Baitery” at Vicksburg. The “Appeal” marker stands on the battlefield today. And in the World War, 37 Commercial-Appeal employees went to the colors. Their names are on a brass plaque in the editorial room. Two of them were; killed in France. _ Next to its Civil War wanderings, The Commer-cial-Appeal’s most dramatic days were during the yellow fever epidemic in 1878. The fever took more thin 5000 lives; burials passed 200 a day; quarantined houses were guarded with shotguns. The paper never missed an issue. Of its 75 employees, 19 died, and there were but two whose families were not stricken. One of them was a printer, the other was Col. J. M. Keating, the editor. The columns consisted almost solely of death lists. These two men, alone, got out the paper for weeks. The Commercial-Appeal was the first paper in the South to install linotypes——in the early Nineties. In 1911.it paid Roland Garros $5000 for flying over Memphis. : : »

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Preached Farm Diversification

The Appeal was burned down twice, and sold innumerable times. Once it went for $5000, but I suspect $5,000,000 wouldn’t buy it today. Always The Appeal said what it thought. After Andrew Johnson’s impeachment The Appeal supported him so vigorously that the carpetbag courts sent the editor to jail. 2 The paper's greatest editor in its second halfcentury was Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney. He became managing editor in 1896, and died at his desk while writing an editorial in 1926—just 30 years later. Forty years ago Editor Mooney was preaching farm diversification to the South—an urgency that the South is just now beginning to comprehend. The Commercial-Appeal has carried his ideas on. The editors today consider this evangelism of diversification the greatest thing the paper has ever done for the South. The program goes by the name of “Plant to Prosper.” Thousands of farmers take part in the meetings. Thousands of farms are growing things they never thought of growing before. Some day “Plant to Prosper” may ring the gong of great prosperity once more for the South.

NEXT-—Conclusion,

By Anton Scherrer

Pennsylvania St. right across from where the Postoffice used to be, and in no time at all he had this part of the world beating a path to his door. One day Jimmy took time off to run across the street to inquire whether any letters had arrived for him. That’s how he met Capt. George Arthur, the man in charge of the general delivery window at the time. Cap took a shine to Jimmy right from the start which is saying a lot because Cap had his choice of the most interesting people in the world—tramps, travelers and adventurers, not to forget those of more sedentary habits who didn't want to parade their whereabouts. It always struek me as a kid that, next to the two policemen who patrolled the old Sixth Ward, the general delivery clerk had the best job in

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Tragedy of the Brass Cuff Links

Well, after the acquaintance of the two men had ripened into something more substantial, Jimmy talked Cap into buying a pair of brass cuff buttons. Cap took the buttons home. One .day Cap’s pet dog entered his bedroom, saw one of the buttons lying on the floor and swallowed 1t. ‘The dog rolled over dead. There was some doubt, I remember, whether he died | from choking to death, a defective digestion or blopd poisoning. It doesn’t much matter. The dog died which is enough for the purpose of today’s piece. To the second part of most stories there is usually a lapse of years. To this there is only a lapse of days. Three days after Cap’s dog died, Jimmy was at his old stand doing a whale of a business. He had had a big day and was hungry when, as luck would have it, a wienerwurst peddler approached. Jimmy hailed him, ordered two, and asked the man to put a lot of mustard on them. That same night Jimmy Flint died. The coroner insisted on an’ autopsy and found, of all things, a brass cuff button in Jimmy's stomach. One explanation offered at the time was tltat Jimmy had swallowed the button to prove that something else was responsible for the death of Caps dog. After that there wasn’t anything left except the daffodils and tulips to announce the arrival of spring.

By Raymond Clapper

trolling entrance into the Atlantic from Europe through the North Sea, English Channel, Gibraltar and Cape of Good Hope. So long as Britain had the navy which could hold those positions, no European power could get through into the Atlantic. This seapower, Lord Lothian says, must remain in the hands of the democracies. Our present safety today, he says, rests upon the fact that Britain controls the Atlantic and the United States the Pacific. “Neither we nor you, nor the overseas republics and dominions, would be so secure if either of us was left to act alone,” Lord Lothian said. “Having Spoken my piece, it is now for you and for you alone to decide whether or how far you agree with my analysis and what if anything you are going to do.” » ” »

Democracy at Stake Again

This address was delivered 24 hours after Mr. Roosevelt spoke with grim frankness about the issue which the war holds for our own future. The President said we face a set of world-wide forces of disintegration, vicious, ruthless, destructive of all the moral, religious and political standards which mankind after centuries of struggle has come to cherish most. Mr. Roosevelt and the British Ambassador see eye to eye as to what the issue is. The British and French expect the desperate stage of the war to begin in the spring. Mr. Roosevelt apparently wishes to begin preparing the American public for what it will have to face. | | The emotional wave which swept the United States after the Bolsheviks attacked Finland broke the ice of our rigid sense of emotional isolation and indifference which had existed from the start of this war. Finland now takes the place of the Belgium of 1914. Democracy is at stake again. Are we feeling around, psychologically, to find again the road to war?

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I had a delightful lunch today with Mrs. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, and have several appointments this afternoon. However, on the whole, these days are comparatively free, which is unusual at this season of the year. : Some of the family is returning today. John and Anna will be back for over the week-end, and Ethel is returning after a session with the dentist. I feel a little like a railroad junction at times when the family begins to come and go, but even a railroad junction has its advantages, for one can catch hours here and there with people while they linger between trains. For the new year I received two delightful gifts of poems. Miss Hilda Smith sent me some of her own verses and one of them, from a poem called: “Frontiers of Freedom.” I must quote to you. : “Misty the road, but secure the foundation Laid by those others who blazed the first trail, Let us rebuild now our pioneer nation Where living freedom for all shall prevail.” A nice thought to carry with us through 1940. Another friend sent me: “The True Ballad of the Glorious Harriet Tubman,” by Sarah N. Cleghorn. It should be read aloud, for it gives a wonderful picture

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Aviation—

AIR TRANSPORT REPORTS GAINS

Passenger Miles Up 40 Pct. Over 1938; Much More Express Carried. :

By SAM TYNDALL A glowing report of the progress and achievements of the scheduled air transportation business in the United States during 1939 was released today by Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association of America. |

Col. Gorrell, who now lives in Chicago but who was president of the old Stutz Motor Car Co. here in 1929, reported among other things that: Fhe U. S. airlines, domestic and international, flew 880,000,000 passengermiles last year— ® an increase of 40 per. cent over the distance record of 635,000,000 hung up in 1938. A total of 3,500,000 pounds more of express was carried by skyliners last year than in’ 1938. The 1939

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pounds. - Employment increased during the calendar year by 22 per cent. More than 60 per cent of the airlines’ revenue in the United States last year was from passenger traffic. This is remarkable when it is considered that five years ago the passenger reveniie amounted to only 30 per cent of total income. Domestic airlines on Dec. 31, 1939, completed 620,000,000 passengermiles or 67,000,000 plane-miles and the carriage of 1:;400,000 passengers without an injury to any person. This represents an increase in passenger-miles flown per passenger fatality of over 400 per cent. And this last calculation, Col. Gorrell said, “is the greatest increase in’ safe travel of any class of ‘bassenger service for any similar period in the history of transportation in the United States.” In looking ahead, Col. Gorrell sees shortened time for iravel and trade between any two points on the earth's surface and an increase in frequency of service across the

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_ Although progress in the production at the new Allison engine plant when it gets under way late this month will be practically impossible to report because of military secrecy surrounding such information, O.T. Kreusser, manager of the plant, has promised to let us in on important developments when information is available, The ‘new plant now is making parts for the liquid-cooled airplane motor and several departments now are running 16 hours a day. The first assembly of the motors is expected by Feb, 1. The only finished products now are being turned out slowly ‘at the experimental unit, Plant No. 2, while bugs in the

machinery in the new factory are being ironed out.

whether the new plant would go on a 24-hour basis’ to fill those 18 million dollars in War ment orders even if it would be practicable. The plant is designed, it is reported, to turn out 12 motors

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Mr. Kreusser could not say

Times-Acme Photos. 1. Lieut. Comm. G. C. Phillips, commander of the British sub that reportedly penetrated to the Mouth of the Elbe River and sunk a 6000-ton German warship converses with a fellow officer. 2. There’s no war yet for these English Tommies, but plenty of behind-the-line training for future combat. oo : 3. These Canadian soldiers were among the first Dominion troops to arrive in England. : 4. Premier Benito Mussolini emerges from an air raid. shelter in Rome. 5. Patricia Donnelly, Miss America from Detroit, sports the

ford, Alabama University footballer. | 6. Senate Republican leaders look over President Roosevelt's budget. They are (left to right): Senators Charles L. McNary (Ore.), Arthur H. Vandenberg

and Robert A. Taft (0.). 7. Senator Hattie Caraway (D. Ark.) missed the opening sessions of Congress. She was at Emergency Hospital at Washington and listened to the event over the radio.

CITY-WIDE SAFETY

Proposals for a city-wide safety program covering accident prevention on the street, in the home and at work will be discussed at a dinner meeting of the Indianapolis Accident Prevention Council in the Hotel Washington at 8 p. m; Monday. : : E. C. Forsythe, temporary chair man, said officers would be elected. Representatives of more than 100 Marion County firms which are members of the Council will take part in the business meeting. Fritz M. Ehling, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. personnel supervisor, chairman of the Councils program committee, will lead an

program of a local industry. Two National Safety CouncilTravelers Insurance Co. - films,

Your Life,” will be shown, |

school patrols will be ‘presented by Sergt. John Dora of the Marion County accident prevention staff. The: children will explain. their work. i

CARNERA IS FATHER “OF 11-POUND SON

UDINE, Italy, Jan. 6 (U. P.).—A son, weighing 11 pounds, was born today to Mr. and Mrs. Primo Carnera. Carnera is the former heavyweight champion of the world. Carnera, delighted, announced

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|EVENING SCHOOL AT "TECH OPENS MONDAY

The first classes of the second semester of evening high school will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday at Tech High School, Edward E. Green, vice president and director of the evening school, said today. Registration will be accepted Monday, Wednesday and Friday, he said. Evening high school, open to all persons over 16 years of age, will offer all regular high school and shop courses. “Special courses offered will be in dress making, commercial art, machine shop, electricity and welding.

REVEALS WAR CUT IN CUSTOMS HERE

Customs collections through the Port of Indianapolis dropped $1,-

European war, Charles E. Kemper,

\U. S. Customs Collector, announced

today. Christmas presents to Americans from relatives abroad. were about the same as last year regardless of

| submarine warfare which held down

other imports, he pdinted out. Duty collected in December, 1939, on mail parcels totaled $1228 against $1733 for the same month last year. Total - collections this December were $108,903 compared with $395,944 collected in December, 1938. “Practically gvery. country in the world sent presents to people in Indiana,” he said. of mail parcels, of course, passed into Indiana duty freed -

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INTERURBAN TO END TERRE HRUTE RUN

The last interurban oti the Indiana Railroad's Indianapolis-Terre Haute Line will travel over the tracks

Wednesday. Rail service will be

halted at midnight, Indiana Rail-|

road officials said today. Thursday, motor coach service

between the two points will be inaugurated by the transportation system. Eight 29-passenger busses will travel in each direction approximately every two hours. Through service from Indianapolis will be routed over U. S. Road 40 and then over the GreencastleStilesville Road to -Greencastle, from there back to Road 40 via the Manhattan Road and on Road 40 to Terre Haute. | In addition, a shuttle coach service will be provided over State Road 39 and county’ highways from Fillmore, Coatesville, Amo and Clayton to Bellville, where connections will be made to Indianapolis. All freight service by the Indiana Railroad between Indianapolis and Terre Haute will be by truck. ,

EMMERT WILL OPEN "CAMPAIGN THURSDAY

Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Jan. 6

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the largest of the contie nental divisions of the earth. 2—With what sport is Ralph Gul= dahl associated? : 3—What is the plural of four-ine hand? : 4—Which state has the smallest population? : 5—Who is Alexander. Kerensky? 6—Name the science that treats of plants. : —Where is the International Date Line? : : 8—What is a 10-point diamond 8 8 at)

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1—Asia. =. “© ; 2-—Golf., : | 3—Four-in-hands. 4—Nevada. ; | 5—Former Russian premier. 6—Botany. | 7—In the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180-degree meridian of longitude. Hy 8—Carats are divided into 100 points and a 10-point: diamond is onetenth of a carat. : . is

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