Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1940 — Page 9

| WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940

Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

NEW ORLEANS; Jan. 10.—Today we sail away on a United Fruit boat, down across the Gulf of Mexico, to Panama. : : And in Panama we will jump into an airplane, and fly from one Central American country to the other— flying slowly and with our heads out the window, not to miss anything. We are told we sail at 11 a. ‘m. The ticket office said we must be aboard by 10. Now I am a grandma about getting to trains or boats ahead of time. After all these years I'm still convinced theyre going to pull out early. Unless I'm there at ; least an hour before departure, I go through undescribable mental tortures. : : So we left the hotel at 9 a. m. We drove to a wharf, to leave the car for shipment to Miami. “It will stay there in a garage till we get back: This wharf was hard to find. When we did find it, there was lots of red tape about making out the waybill. Ten o'clock passed. The wharf man called a taxi for us. He said it would take about 15 minutes to get to the dock. ; : The taxi didn’t come. We called again. Time began to pick up terrific speed. It was 10:15. Then it was 10:30. No taxi in sight. What to do? Your correspondent, ordinarily as placid as a codfish, suddenly became a whirlpool of panic and despair. Help! Help! Can’t one of your men drive us to the dock? No, therg aren't any cars. Can't somebody drive our car, and then bring it back? No, there isn’t anybody we can spare. What will we do? Please, man, please! We're missing our boat. Consider our pitiful plight. ”

Samaritan to the Rescue

And then the spirit of New Orleans came to bat. A stranger walked up to us and said: “I see you're worried. I can take you as far as Canal St., and you can get a taxi there.” ; : © We felt like kissing him. We tossed the bags in his car, and piled in on top of them. And then as Our Town MASONIC HALL, the old building that used to stand on the southeast corner of Washington St. and Capitol Ave. had two street lamps out in front when the building was completed in 1850. They were supplied with gas made of grease and refuse in-a little building in the rear. The same private plant supplied the gas for the three ceiling fixtures of the big hall inside where most of the early public entertainments of Indianapolis were held. (Ole Bull's concert in 1853; Horace Greeley’s-lecture, “Henry Clay,” in 1853; Ralph Waldo " Emerson's lecture, “Clubs or Conversation,” in 1860). Each ceiling fixture, to return to my thesis, had seven or eight sprawling branches that looked exactly like the legs of monstrous black spiders. They scared me half to death. Sure, I remember them. Why shouldn’t I? The original fixtures were still in use when I was a kid back in the Eighties. In my day I used to do a lot of prowling around the old Masonic Hall because that’s where Father had his office at the time. The .old Masonic Hall, I guess, was the first ' building in Indianapolis to have gas. It was a private plant, however, and didn’t do anybody any good except the Masonic people. As for the rest of Indianapolis, it didn’t get gas until two years later—not until Jan. 10, 1852, which when you come to think of it was exactly 88 years ago today.

The First Telephone

A year later, in 1853, the Indianapolis Gaslight & Coke Co. had 116 customers distributed along 7700 feet of pipes, mostly along Pennsylvania and Washington Sts. To make that much gas it took 30 bushels of coal—every day, mind you. Which leaves me just enough room to record the birth of two other Indianapolis utilities. Cobb and Branham, I suspect, had the first telephone around here. As early as 1877, they had their office at Market and Delaware Sts. connected with their coalyards on Christian Ave. and on S.

Washingt EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 10.—Private enterprise certainly is not dead around here. In fact the backbone of industrial activity in Evansville lies in local industries born during the depression and built up into thriving businesses at the very time that the air was full of political clamor about

the destruction of private initiative.

You scarcely land in town before some one mentions L. A. Ruthenberg. It is not a big nationally known business name, but simply the name of a comparatively young energetic business man here who came up out of the factory, took hold of the Servel refrigerator works and in EF 4 10 years has made 'it.a highly * ~ successful enterprise. He has in- . troduced a steady, year-round schedule, piling up his refrigerators in off seasons. Even during the 1937 recession Ruthenberg kept his plant going, storing his refrigerators in vacant garages around town. When business picked up he was able to move them. He had avoided closing his plant. Three-fourths of his employees didn’t lose any working time. He has whipped the unions, put .in bonus systems, paid vacations, welfare supervision and wage increases and the men have a plant union. He is a Roosevelt hater, and determined to keep C. I. O. out. But he has installed a progressive labof policy that is working, and bringing steady revenue to his business, to his 4000 employees and to the community,

Open Shop Towns

Two or three other businessmen of the same type have developed here, bringing up new businesses out of the depression by hard-driving enterprise. The Sunbeam Electric Co. which makes special brand refrigerators, is a recent development and employs

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Yesterday afternoon I spent a delightful hour with Miss Elizabeth Searcy in her studio on DuPont Circle. She has painted a’ great deal in Newport, R. I, New York City and the - South. It is evident in looking at her work that she . has a great feeling for her home city, Memphis. There are five interiors of rooms which she painted at the Roosevelt house in New York City some years ago, and which seemed to me to . belong together in some museum. They are beautifully executed and correct in detail and should, of course, be kept together, preferably where people who are not apt to visit and yet want to know the looks of the house where Theodore Roosevelt was born and spent the early years of his life. Some of Miss Searcy’s etchings are exquisite, but her water colors of gardens were to me the loveliest of all. I hope that she will have an opportunity while here to paint some of our beautiful gardens. The Jackson Day dinner, which we all attended last night, I need hardly tell you about, for you may have listened on the radio. If you did not, the newspapers have told you more than I could about this party function which each year collects the where-

.greener pastures.

he threw the car in gear, the taxi came. So we transferred everything, thanked the man a million times. It had started to rain. The taxi whirled down off the wharf at a delightfully insane speed. We went two blocks—and then came to a standstill. We were caught in traffic, in the rain, on a narrow, packed, choked, one-way street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. As far as you could see, cars were standing still. It was 20 minutes till 11 ; we.never moved more than three feet at a time.

For three solid blocks

pushed on the bask of the driver's seat. I cranked |’

the window up and down. One by one the strings around my heart snapped and fell away. :

thal 88 Mn the Nick of Time "I wanted to get out and run. My neck jerked and

my hands shook. We didn’t dare miss that boat, and yet we were missing it every second that passed.

Never in my life have'I felt so exhausted. Through | E

my mind the thought kept running, “This can’t be, :

yet here it is.” : At 10 minutes till 11 we broke out into a wider street, and that taxi driver went to town. The only reason we weren't arrested was that the cops couldn’t

even see us pass. ‘We literally skidded through the |

door of the dock. The gangplank was still out. We had made it! Inside our cabin—safe and barely able to believe it—we were overwhelmed with a gigantic letdown. Now we were inside, and the door shut. It was all over. Everything was behind us; and everything ahead. The relief and sense of completion was in itself so intense it was almost an agony. We were sickeningly tired—and happy. : - s ” ” ANTICLIMAX DEPARTMENT-—It is now a quartill 1. meeting on the afterdeck. One fellow is haranguing them. :

They want more waiters forthe dining room.’

There are only five for 74 passengers. The ship won't sail till one side or the other gives in. : But it doesn’t make any difference to me. I died trying to catch this boat two hour§ ago. I'm not going to settle this waiter business for them. Once is enough for any man to die for the United Fruit Co.

By Anton Scherrer

Delaware St. This was only a year or so after Alexander Bell (not Don Ameche as some of you youngsters seem to think) had invented the thing and thought he had it going right.

It remained for E. W. Gleason, however, to organ- |

ize the Indiana District Telephone Co. In 1878 he asked the City for permission to string wires in the streets and alleys. The Council wouldn't listen to him. The next year, however, the Council thought it would be kind of nice to have the 22 fire engine houses connected. Seems that even as far back as then, the firemen led the same. lonely lives they do now. Mr.

Gleason said he’d do the job for $251, provided the

City would pay $176 a year for rent of the instruments. The deal went through.

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Morse’s Debt to Indiana

After that Mr. Gleason succeeded in getting a few of the bigger business firms to connect their stores with their warehouses.’ They were called “renters,” not subscribers, and paid about $2 a month for the privilege. It wasn’t enough to pay Mr. Gleason's bed and board, and I believe he left town to seek Since then the telephone people have been doing right well, I'm told. The first telegraph line was constructed in the spring of 1848 from here to Dayton. The first operator was Isaac H. Kiersted who had his office on the second floor of the Hubbard Block on ground now occupied by the L. S. Ayres people. The first dispatch was sent from here to Richmond on May 12, 1848; the Jogi Piblished dispatch appeared in The Sentinel on ay 24. fe Indianapolis had reason to be interested in the telegraph because of David Wallace, the Congressman from this districi: Mr. Wallace’s name was.the last one on the roll of the committee to which had been referred the petitibn of Samuel Morse for $30,000 = an electric telegraph line (the first) from

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Washington to Baltimore. The vote on recommending such an appropriation was a tie when Mr. Walla e’s name was called. Which is why when you send a telegram today you can thank an Indianapolis man, because if it hadn't been for Mr. Wallace’s vote goodness only knows when Myr. Morse would have got his telegraph line going.

By Raymond Clapper

2080 persons. Other concerns making parts for these manufacturers have grown along with them. A new plastics business is already established. Outside capital it behind most of this activity—and local brains, a new type of executive, or rather the kind of executive who has learned something in the last 10° years. These medium-size cities have long been known as open shop towns, tough on labor. They still are relatively free of unions, except local company unions. But management is learning. These executives see that in these times, with labor on the march, a certain amount of labor trouble must be expected and figured into production cost. If by raising wages, providing bonuses and otherwise making the employees more contented, they can render the plant immune to outside organizers and strike agitation, then, so. these executives figure, they are actually cutting costs.

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No Major Labor Trouble

Evansville has had no major labor trouble. .The Chrysler assembly plant here is compelled to shut down at times when Detroit labor troubles cut off materials—and that hits about 3000 employees here. The only real strike occurred here some time ago in the Briggs Body Works when the employees ron out over election day because they wanted to work at the polls in a county election. They lost the election and were back at work the next day. There is unemployment in Evansville. Not every resident is revelling in milk and honey. The normal employment here is about 25,000. Probably less than 5000 able-bodied persons are unemployed with the number diminishing steadily. Conditions are improving here, the town is looking forward to still more expansion, and is out to get it. It is a normal, healthy community, with only 2 per. cent foreign-born and most of that German, and with business that, if not all enjoying spectacular earnings, have in some cases gone through the last decade without once falling into red ink. -

By Eleanor Roosevelt

withal to run the Democratic Party machine. I am hoping that the women some day will have as well established a day as the men have. They made a beginning last year, but it was only a beginning. I feel sure that they can be as successful as the men if they begin their plans far enough ahead. fi Today, with my voice teacher, Mrs, Elizabeth Von Hesse, I attended the Women’s National Press Club luncheon. Mrs. Von Hesse gave us all a delightful talk and a demonstration lesson in voice ‘control. Everyone seemed to have a good time and I am sure all of us learned something. Mrs. Von Hesse stresses developing our ability to hear. whi¢h reminds me that I have been wanting to tell you for a long time about a musical project here in the District of Columbia, which I think well worth while. (The National Committee for Music Appreciation sponsoring the establishment in the “public library of the district of a free circulating library of symphonic records. The nucleus will be 10 symphonies which a Washington newspaper recently distributed. Ten of these sets, covering the work of 10 great ‘composers, are being presented by the committee to the library, so that thousands of people who cannot afford to attend concerts or public performances, can hear this music in their homes. I hope this may be followed by a similar project in many other cities, for the things which we hear constantly and which become familiar to us are the things which we love. ; kr

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For Distinguished Servien'.

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Seven civic leaders received gold medals at the Chamber of Com-

merce’s annual Staff of Honor dinner last night. Shown here (left to

right) are C. D. Alexander, who.

explained the awards; Arthur R.

Baxter, who presented them, and Edgar H. Evans, one of the recipients.

‘cipal speaker.

STUDY MISSIONS WORK FOR MEN

Religious Leaders Outline Appeal in 1941 and - 1942 Programs.

If directors of the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, in session here, have their way, women soon. will lose their monopoly on missionary societies. The religious leaders today sought

to make their 1941 and 1942 programs more graphic in order to ap-

peal to men as well as to women. Study Men's Program

Dr. A. N. Sherman of Cincinnati, representing the Protestant Episcopal Church’s department of missions; J. L. Lobingier of Boston, representing the Congregational-Chris-tian Church, and H. W, Williams of Nashville, Tenn., representing the Methodist division of missionary education, were named yesterday to a committee to build a program for men. : Directors’ of the movement yesterday considered the | different schedules of men’s work and the different interests of men in church work. It was decided it would be necessary to “elementarize” missions 86 that men could quickly and graphically understand the trends. The committee was asked to call in laymen for advice as to the best methods to be used. /

Sessions End Today

Among prominent rhissionary leaders and authors consulting with the Movement’s directors here include Richard Baker of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, Dr. Arthur E. Holt of the Chicago Theological Seminary and Mrs. Florence Hayes of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. The Missionary Education Movement closes its meeting here today, with the themes for study in 194041 and 1941-42 decided. The 1940-41 foreign missions theme is to be China, and the home missions theme, “Shifting Populations,” The 1941-42, themes are “World Fellowship and World Order” | for the foreign study groups and “Christianity and Democracy” for the home missions societies.

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INDIANA PAID U, . {14 MILLIONS IN '39

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Indiana, with an estimated 2.68 per cent of the total population, paid 222 per cent of the internal revenue taxes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, the annual report of the Bureau of Internal Revenue stated today. . Total Federal tax collections in the state amounted to $114,874,365.91. They were divided as follows: Income taxes, including excess profits levies, $32,071,130.71, or 147 per cent of the income tax total: miscellaneous internal revenue collections, $71,676,043.85, or 3.17 per tent, and payroll taxes, including collections under the Social Security and Carriers Acts, $11,127,191.35, or 1.5 per cent.

SS SEND HORSE TO FINNS PARIS, Mo, Jan. 10 (U. P).— Monroe County doughboys who fought in the World War took a practical stand today. in their sympathy for the Finnish army. They sent the Finns a cavalry horse, a

gift from American Legion Post No. 221 ; Lh _. :

The records of H. C. Atkins (left) and Hugh McK Landon (standing) were praised by. Howard Coonley (right) of New York, the prinMur. Coonley, himself a former resident of Indianapolis, is chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Medals and Scrolls Given For Their Civic Activity

‘Five hundred business and civic leaders turned out last night to honor seven Indianapolis businessmen who haye devoted long years of service to the general welfare of the community. . The seven, all past 70, were presented gold medals, scrolls and citations making them members of the Staff of Honor of Indianapolis at

the 1940 award dinner at the Claypool Hotel. ! The men honored were Henry C. Atkins, president of E. C. Atkins & Co.; Stanley Coulter, Eli Lily Co. research adviser and Purdue University dean emeritus; Henry L. Dithmer, Polar Ice & Fuel Co. president; Edgar H. Evans, chairman of the board of Acme-Evans Co.; Fred Hoke, Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co. vice president and treasurer; Hugh McK Landon, vice chairman of the board of the Fletcher Trust Co. and Franklin Vonnegut, president of the Vonnegut Hardware Co. : The men were picked for membership on the Staff of Honor by a special honor committee in recognition of distinguished citizenship and distinguished service outside business or professional efforts. The Staff of Honor was established a year ago by representatives of civic organizations.

Baxter Makes Awards

The awards were made by Arthur R. Baxter, who paid the following tributes to each of the seven: EDGAR H. EVANS—“A fine civic spirit and an alert social consciousness have motivated the manifold

activities for the welfare of Indian-

apolis which stand to the credit of Mr. Evans. This city will ever be richer for his beneficent service to business progress, education, religion and social welfare.” HENRY C. ATKINS—“Mr. Atkins has always found time to devote to the service of the city which has been his home since boyhood. Throughout his life he has been moved by a deep sense of civic and social responsibility, and in the quiet way that is characteristic of him he has given generously of himself and of his means to advance the good HENRY L. DITHMER—“He has been an outstanding leader in the advancement of worthy causes. in Indianapolis more than 40 years. His forthright character, his alert interest in movements to promote community well-being and his energy and zeal in their service have won him a high place in the hearts of his fellow-townsmen.”

FRANKLIN VONNEGUT—"A native and life-long resident of Indianapolis, Mr. Vonnegut has been identified for more than half a century with the activities and agencies which have promoted the growth and prosperity of the city and the happiness and well-being of its

people.” ‘Left Deep Impress’

STANLEY COULTER—“In the 12 years he has made his home among us, Dr. Coulter has left the deep impress of his fine intellect; his great heart and his ardent spirit upon all the people of this community. Coming to Indianapolis from Purdue University where as professor and dean his inspiring influence touched the lives of thousands of students over a period of nearly 40 years, he plunged at once into activities for the welfare of his adopted city. This, despite the fact that he had already lived more than three score and ten years crowded full of usefulness and service.” 2 : HUGH McKENNAN LANDON— “The name of Mr. Landon has come to be synonymous in Indianapolis with disinterested service in, behalf of many good causes. ,

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Franklin Vonnegut (left) and Henry L. Dithmer also were among

those honored by the chamber.

Membership on the Staff of Honor is

conferred in recognition of distinguished service outside business or professional effort. Recipients must have passed their 70th birthday.

Ex-Hoosier Lauds Work . .. ... .Coulter and Hoke Cited

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The other {wo recipients of the were Stanley Coulter (left) and

Times Photos. gold medals and citations of honor Fred Hoke. Mr. Coulter lis dean

emeritus of Purdue University, and Eli Lilly & Ce. research advisor. Mr. Hoke is an official of the Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co.

of 40 years of residence here he has given unstintingly of time and means to advance the civic and social welfare of the community as a whole and especially of those of our people who need help to ease the burdens and handicaps which life has placed upon them.”

FRED HOKE-—“For many years the talents of Mr. Hoke have. been placed freely at the disposal of his fellow citizens of Indianapolis. The calls upon his services have been many and varied and he has never failed to respond with all his talents for leaclership and service.. His public spirit and his zeal for any good work .that benefits the community have become a byword. ~ C. D. Alexander, president of the Chamber of Commerce, explainec the symbolism of the gold medal: emblem of the Staff of Honor, anc introduced those present who were named: to the first Staff of Honor at a dinner last Feb. 3.

Honored Last Year

They were Arthur V. Brown, Hilton U. Brown, William H. Coleman James W Fesler, William Fortune, the Rev. Matthias L. Haines, D. D., Josiah K. Lilly, John F. White, Evans Woolen Sr., and posthumously, William J. Mooney Sr. : Howsrd Coonley, chairman ef the National Association of Manufacturers, was the principal speaker at the dinner. ga “1 am deeply impressed by what this meeting symbolizes in its pure quality of Americanism and in its. significant recognition of the ideal of the community family. “As I reviewed the records of the seven men who are honored here tonight, I was impressed most of all by one thing—how richly they have contributed to those things which make this community a better place in which to live. Throughout the careers of these citizens of Indianapolis there has been emphasis upon philanthropic activities, upon Community Fund work, upon activities in which the minds of youth are so shaped that the young people of today will become the good citizens of tomorrow.”

MARRIAGE LAW

DEADLINE NEAR

Enforcement of Exam Act To Begin March 1 for Marrying Couples.

The State Health Department today began preparations to enforce the new marriage health law which becomes effective March 1.

The law, sponsored by civic and medical groups and passed by the 1939 Legislature, will require that every person have a special physician’s certificate before obtaining an Indiana marriage license. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Director, said the certificates are to be distributed "to all physicians and laboratdries where examinations of prospective brides and bridegrooms will be made. - The certificates will ‘be issued to applicants after thorough examina. tions, especially as to syphilis or other veneral disease. “The certificates will contain no

will contain a statement of the examining physician’s that the applicant either does not have syphilis or that the disease is not in the contagious stage,” Dr. Harvey explained. : by Under the law, the certificates awill ‘be good for only 30 days and “if a couple fails to get married within that time they must be re-examined before applying for another marriage license. . “There will be no exceptions permitted in the administration of this law,” Dr. Harvey said. :

Y.M.C. A, TOOFFER ENGINEERING STUDY

A three-year engineering curriculum will be offered by the Y. M. C. A. evening school beginning Jan. 18, R. “Warren Fisher, educational director, announced today. . The new division will includ

Must Be Over 70 The invocation was given by the Very Rev. Msgr. Henry F. Dugan | and the benediction by Rabbi M.; M. Feuerlicht. | Chief requirements for membership on the Staff of Honor are that the recipient must have lived in Indianapolis for at least 10 years as a private citizen, he must have reached his 70th year and he must have served the city over and above his requirements of good citizenship and beyond his own chosen profession or business. :

AYRES’ TRAINING | "HEAD ON PROGRAM

“New Techniques for Training in scribed by Eunice M. Johnson, | training director of L. S. Ayres & | Co., at the 29th annual convention | of the National Retail Dry Goods; Association, Jan. 15-19. ened ‘The convention will be held at) the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York | City. Theme for the convention will be “Fortify for ’40.” .

tomorrow for John W: Craig, 59, Judge of Decatur Circuit Court, who died yesterday of a heart attack. Mr. Craig was a graduate of the Indiana Law School and a former prosecuting attorney. He became judge ‘of Decatur Circuit Court in 1919 when the County became the

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DECATUR JUDGE DIES |

GREENSBURG, Ind. Jan. 10 (U: P.) -~Funeral services will be held’

many technical subjects: previously offered individually, together with a number of additional courses providing a well-rounded course toward industrial, civil or mechanical engineering, he said. y All class work will he held at the Y. M..,C. A. building during evening hours, and all work will be conducted on a college level, Mr. Fisher said.

Subjects to be taught in the

opening semester will include beginning and advanced general engineering drawing,. machine . and tool design, theoretical and applied mechanics, heat treatment of metals, physics, time study, surveying, and various mathematics courses from algebra through calculus. :

FILM TOMORROW 0 PHOTO PROCESSING

“Highlights and Shadows,” a sound film showing steps in processing and developing photographic film, will be shown at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Indiana World War Memorial Building. 5 The film is sponsored by the Allison, Indianapolis and ¥. M. C. A. camera Clubs. Members of the three clubs and their friends’ have been invited to ‘attend.

WILLIAM FROELICH DEAD. Times Special : CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 10 —William Froelich, ; credited with developing the Gratone photographic ' process, died Monday at Culver Hospital. Mr. Froelich, who was 61, was a former. Evansville hardware dealer. 3

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BLOOMINGTON

‘ALL UPSET BY WATER BATTLE

Drill, Dam: or Pump Problem Faces I. U. Town; Taste Brings Protests.

Times Special ; BLOOMINGTON, Jan. 9.—Bloome ington’s 19,000 residents—and 5000 Indiana University students as well —looked apprehensively at their calendars today as city officials, civie

leaders and University geologists continued to debate the solution ta the city’s chronic nemesis — the water supply problem. ; There is no immediate water shortage threat, but the supply will last no longer than from 60 to 90 days in the event no rain falls, ace cording to Mayor Jack Bruner. The University, having exhausted its own reservoir, is placing an addi tional burden on the city supply now by purchasing all its water from the city. The Bloomington area has been drought-ridden since last July 1.

3 Opinions Given

Everyone—except, perhaps, some University students who foresee the possibility of an enforced vacation —agrees that the City Council should do something. But there are three distinct camps of opinion on just what course the Council should take. . A group of civic leaders,«headed* by Roy O. Pike, former Blooming ton Water Co. treasurer, is urging the construction of a two-foot dam across the channel of Bean Blossom Creek, east of the city, from which

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Griffey Creek basin. wn Some Want Wells JRL

Some City officials, along with drilling contractors now making a survey of the areas, advocate tha drilling of wells in the Bean Blos~

University geology : professors, say the one thing to do is to raise the present Griffey Creek dam. “This is no time to be quibbling over long-range permanent solue tions,” Mr. Pike said. “We are face ing an emergency which calls for an immedjate solution. The Bean Blossom dam would be the quickest, most feasible and least expensive way to take care’of the problem.” | The previous City Administration of A. H (Cotton) Berndt had favored the Bean Blossom plan and had laid pipe lines to that creek at, a cost of $35,000 before giving way! to the new administration, accorde ing to Mr. PiKe. : Need Pumping Station Installation now of a $5000 pump ing system would complete the proj ect and make it ready for use, he said. ; iL Representatives of the drilling concern, which has provided wells . for Martinsville, Linton and several other downstate towns, have promised the City Council a supply of 2,000,000 gallons of water daily ‘would be available through wells drilled in the Bean Blossom valley, The general daily consumption at present, excluding the University, is 1,900,000 gallons. . They estimate the cost would be between $35,000 and $50,000.

Go Easy, He Advises

University geologist Ralph Esarey, however, advised the council to “ga easy” on drilling considerations, con« tending the “lasting” solution is the raising of the Griffey Creek dam. “We know that by raising the level of the Griffey Creek dam,” he said, “we could increase the amount of water greatly, thereby providing an adequate margin of safety for any conceivable drought period. “Even though this might be quite expensive, the amount . of | water available will always be a known quantity, easily measured.” |

Agrees With Esarey & \

Prof. E. R. Cumings agreed with his colleague that “the best soMition is to raise the level of the dam.” As if the shortage threat were not worry enough, the couneil also is harassed by the complaint . of Sonsumeny that the water ‘{tastes bad.” 1 ' The Mayor has a special commit~’ tee working on both problems. The Chamber of Commerce also has named a water committee.

TEST YOUR "KNOWLEDGE

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; 1 1—Does placing an object In a vacuum decrease its weight? 2—From whom did Max Baer win the world’s heavyweight boxing championship? 3—What is_the correct pronuhciae tion of the word caramel? | 4—In which country is the city o Poitiers? 5—Why do meteors rarely strike the earth? : | 6-—~Name the famous columnist) and president of the American News paper Guild who recently died. T—Which letter of the English ale phabet is most used? 8—Which river drains the eat Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean? i

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1—No; it increases its weight. 2—Primo Carnera. 3—Kar’-a-mel; not kar-a-mel’. 4—France. 3 5—Because the friction of the |ate« mosphere heats them to |ine candescence and converts them into gases. 1 6—Heywood Broun, 1B» 8—St. Lawrence.

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